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safarigirl:
New kit picture found! Spot Kelechi

Cc joseph1013, thesupernerd, thegoodjoe, icon4s, confun, tbaba1234, lakesidepapa

TheGoodJoe:

If Mourinho wanted Giggs in his Coaching crew, Giggs would not receive the U21 Coaching Role. That was a demotion.

safarigirl:
@thegoodjoe and joseph1013, make Una drop that yeye United matter, if none of our players are in United, why are they a topic of discussion?


Anyway, Iheanacho got to model City's new kit.....i hear that's a major achievement...he was also given the podium to speak to City fans at their rally


Meanwhile, Kelechi has met Pep. Hopefully, this will be the start of something beautiful and great for both men. I know you can't see Pep, but I think he's smiling

Cc thesupernerd, icon4s, tbaba1234, confun, lakesidepapa, terzurum5, forgiveness

Chai...see my boyyyyyyyyyy

thegoodjoe, what's our plan for this guy (as per Citizens)? Where are we playing him?

Me I can see Pep and he is smiling

TheGoodJoe:

You are wrong here. Staying at Old Trafford is not the same as being part of Mourinho's coaching team. The U21 role offered to Giggs is not part of Mourinho's coaching crew.



Mourinho too wary of Giggs to have him as No 2


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Matt Hughes, Deputy Football Correspondent
June 17 2016, 12:01am, The Times

José Mourinho has vetoed Ryan Giggs staying at Manchester United as his assistant because of fears that the Welshman could become a potential managerial rival.

It is understood that Mourinho believes that Giggs distanced himself from Louis van Gaal and David Moyes at crucial times during their ill-fated spells in charge at Old Trafford, while the Portuguese is also wary of his close relationship with Paul Scholes, who was highly critical of United’s past two managers.

Mourinho demands unswerving loyalty and complete support in everything he does from his backroom team, and is uncomfortable about welcoming someone who has been…

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/mourinho-too-wary-of-giggs-to-have-him-as-no-2-0mcg3fn30


I never read Mourinho wanted Giggs as a member of his coaching crew. What you posted up there did not say anything like that. The news said U21 Coach which means Giggs will not be in Mourinho's locker room. It is as simple as that.

STAYING AT OLD TRAFFORD DOESN'T MEAN A MEMBER OF MOURINHO'S COACHING CREW.

TheGoodJoe:

What did I twist? You are the one twisting. Giggs is going because Mourinho wants him demoted. Simple. The report is out and Giggs is going. Just as I believed and expected. If Giggs was staying, that is a different case. He is not because he knows his services is not wanted.

Remember, it was not Mourinho that wanted Giggs to stay. It is the Manchester United execs.

[size=14pt]Religious children are meaner than their secular counterparts, study finds[/size]

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Children from religious families are less kind and more punitive than those from non-religious households, according to a new study.

Academics from seven universities across the world studied Christian, Muslim and non-religious children to test the relationship between religion and morality.

They found that religious belief is a negative influence on children’s altruism.

“Overall, our findings ... contradict the commonsense and popular assumption that children from religious households are more altruistic and kind towards others,” said the authors of The Negative Association Between Religiousness and Children’s Altruism Across the World, published this week in Current Biology.

“More generally, they call into question whether religion is vital for moral development, supporting the idea that secularisation of moral discourse will not reduce human kindness – in fact, it will do just the opposite.”

Almost 1,200 children, aged between five and 12, in the US, Canada, China, Jordan, Turkey and South Africa participated in the study. Almost 24% were Christian, 43% Muslim, and 27.6% non-religious. The numbers of Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, agnostic and other children were too small to be statistically valid.

They were asked to choose stickers and then told there were not enough to go round for all children in their school, to see if they would share. They were also shown film of children pushing and bumping one another to gauge their responses.

The findings “robustly demonstrate that children from households identifying as either of the two major world religions (Christianity and Islam) were less altruistic than children from non-religious households”.

Older children, usually those with a longer exposure to religion, “exhibit[ed] the greatest negative relations”.

The study also found that “religiosity affects children’s punitive tendencies”. Children from religious households “frequently appear to be more judgmental of others’ actions”, it said.

Muslim children judged “interpersonal harm as more mean” than children from Christian families, with non-religious children the least judgmental. Muslim children demanded harsher punishment than those from Christian or non-religious homes.

At the same time, the report said that religious parents were more likely than others to consider their children to be “more empathetic and more sensitive to the plight of others”.

The report pointed out that 5.8 billion humans, representing 84% of the worldwide population, identify as religious. “While it is generally accepted that religion contours people’s moral judgments and pro-social behaviour, the relation between religion and morality is a contentious one,” it said.

The report was “a welcome antidote to the presumption that religion is a prerequisite of morality”, said Keith Porteous Wood of the UK National Secular Society.

“It would be interesting to see further research in this area, but we hope this goes some way to undoing the idea that religious ethics are innately superior to the secular outlook. We suspect that people of all faiths and none share similar ethical principles in their day to day lives, albeit may express them differently depending on their worldview.”

According to the respected Pew Research Center, which examines attitudes toward and practices of faith, most people around the world think it is necessary to believe in God to be a moral person. In the US, 53% of adults think that faith in God is necessary to morality, a figure which rose to seven of 10 adults in the Middle East and three-quarters of adults in six African countries surveyed by Pew.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/06/religious-children-less-altruistic-secular-kids-study

TheGoodJoe:

I hope you heard Ryan Giggs is leaving Manchester United. I told you that keeping Ryan Giggs will prove difficult for Mourinho.

New manager Jose Mourinho is expected to bring in trusted lieutenant Rui Faria to take on the role, with Giggs unable to agree a new position.

It means he will depart Old Trafford after almost 30 years of service, having joined United's academy in 1987.

TheGoodJoe:

I do not need to be in Mourinho's mind to know that he would not need Ryan Giggs in his locker room.

I might be wrong but Giggs has so much power and respect in the locker room of Manchester United for Mourinho to feel comfortable with Giggs around.

TheGoodJoe:
Maybe the work permit rules apply to players coming from clubs or regions outside Europe.

Icon4s:
Same way Odion Ighalo was qualified to play in England before his senior international debute.

uken73:
I'm a software developer. We have a school management system (Prisec School Manager: https://www.nairaland.com/953571/nursery-primary-secondary-school-management). Recently a new client request that we include a biometric attendance functionality (which we've done) and a biometric identity card for staff and students. Finger print scanners are easy to come by (Courtesy JAMB registration) so we easily got to implement the biometric attendance feature to be used with DigitalPersona Fingerprint Scanner. It's the Biometric Identity Card implementation that is my concern.

Precisely, the concerns are?
1. Which Biometric Encoder/Reader is both easy to come by (would prefer to buy from Nigeria) and has an easy SDK/API for .NET
2. What is the best price and where can it be bought?

Note: We intend to incorporate the identity card system into the School Management Software.

It is urgent. You can reach me on my signature below.

Thanks.

TheSuperNerd:
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FIVE THINGS WE LEARNED FROM THE U-23s 3-4 LOSS TO THE U-20s


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For the second time in a space of one month plus (almost two months), the Flying Eagles of Nigeria defeated the U-23s in a friendly game meant to prepare both teams for various assignments.

The 4-3 victory of the U-20s exposed (further) some lapses in the Nigeria U-23s which Owngoalnigeria noticed during the game.

1. POOR FULL BACKS
The Samson Siasia lead U-23s were more often than not exposed by the tricks of the U-20s wingers in Samuel Chukwueze and Orji Okonkwo with Stanley Amuzie guilty of letting Orji in for his brace, while Chukwueze was a handful for Sincere Seth who couldn’t match his overlapping abilities with his primary aim of defending for his team.


2. LACK OF CREATIVITY IN THE MIDFIELD

The midfield was one area the U-20s had total control over in the game with crisp,neat passes from the trio of Kingsley Michael,Chukwudi Agor and captain Kelechi Nwakali while the U-23s chase shadows.

While the U-20s where quick in turning defence into attack same can’t be said about the U-23s who were guilty of playing sideways and backward passes without creating any clear cut chance to put the defence of the Flying Eagles under pressure.


3. LACK OF A REAL GOAL SCORER

With all due respect to the duo of Taiwo Awoniyi and Junior Ajayi the U-23s badly need an upgrade in the final third especially in the box although one will have to consider the poor services from the midfield before judging the duo.

Even though they were starve off service they on their part fail to create anything meaningful with balls that came their way unlike Osimhen who aside getting a goal used the balls that came his way to devastating effect.


4. CENTRAL DEFENCE STILL AN ISSUE

The one area of this team that has been a problem from the start is the defence and at the U-23 AFCON they relied heavily on the heroics of goalkepper Emmanuel Daniel to secure qualification for the Olympics.

This time around with Daniel badly exposed there was nothing he could do to stop the rampaging u-20s forwards with Osimhen making mincemeat of the central defence of the U-23s with fancy footwork and brilliant hold up play that resulted in the assist for one of the goals that gave the U-20s the 4-3 win.


5. TEAM COHESION IS VERY POOR

It’s clear to see from the way both teams played that while one played as a team (U-20s) the other played like a collection of talented players with no real cohesion to trouble the organised U-20s.

However this is one issue that can be remedied by the technical crew when they hit the United State of America for camping before their campaign at the Rio 2016 Olympics but judging by this game, the defence,midfield and attack all seems isolated from one another.


Source: http://owngoalnigeria.com/2016/06/25/five-things-we-learned-from-u-23s-3-4-loss-to-u-20s/

Mickael2:
Do you want a straight answer? Because we have gone through worse. We have qualified from impossible positions before, not to mention that the calibre of players on ground right now is just incredible,we still have months to put our house in order and you are already sounding the funeral bells right now? That is not how its done, if by september we are still in disarray then we will all join your funeral procession for the SE

Mickael2:
I swear I hate people like you. This isn't being realistic, this isn't even pessimism, this is outright stupidity and nonsense talk. So we can't beat thesame Cameroon that we hammered 3-0 recently with possibly our worse coach ever?! When was the last time we met Algeria? In the 2010 nations cup when we weren't so good yet we beat them. What of Zambia? Guy go and check yourself abeg