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& I took the first to comment position, although I also posted the topic. Beefers gonna be like: "This guy sha..."

I remember back in primary school when my class teacher told a classmate to stop writing "and" as & because it was "improper." Many people never knew that & was actually a letter and a word.

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The Barking Lions of China

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A Tibetan mastiff

Things went down south for a Chinese zoo in 2013 after it was caught parading a Tibetan mastiff dog as a lion.

"In China, owning a Tibetan mastiff is believed to be a sign of wealth*. Originally bred to protect sheep, Tibetan mastiffs are very much prized for their ferociousness. They are big, expensive and owned only by the rich. One even sold for a whopping $2 million back in 2014 (Some sources claim this price is exaggerated and the dog would have fetched a maximum of $250,000).

Just like lions, they have manes. And much unlike lions, they don’t roar. They bark."

The cat, or in this case, the dog, was let out of the bag after it barked, much to the dismay of Liu Wen and her son, who had been visiting. The whole lion-dog plot made it to Sina Weibo (China’s equivalent of Twitter) where posters mocked the zookeepers.



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A very rare White Tibetan mastiff. White Tibetan mastiffs are also called “Snow Lions.”

The privately-run zoo called the “People’s Park of Luohe” in Henan province, China, saved face by saying the real lion had been taken to a breeding facility and had only been replaced by the dog, which was friends with the lion and had been brought over for “safety reasons.”

The wolf’s cage was also occupied by another dog which according to zookeepers, had been placed there to mate with the wolf (which was absent) to make a wolf-dog hybrid. The leopard’s cage was also occupied by some foxes and some rats could be seen running around an empty glass cage meant for snakes.

Prior to this incident, many Chinese zoos had seen their finances drain after the government placed a ban on the running of zoos for profit and the use of animals for shows. People’s park zoo was only allowed to operate because its contract to run the zoo was yet to expire.

*Tibetan mastiff have been facing dwindling popularity in China. Their owners have been dumping them due to economic reasons, rising cases of attacks on humans (by the dogs) and the actions of unfaithful sellers who breed the dogs with other dog species and pass them off as purebreds. Most abandoned Tibetan mastiffs end up in the streets or in slaughter houses where they are sold for as low as $5. After slaughter, they are used to make food ingredients, hand gloves and leather.

Today, Tibetan mastiffs dogs which used to sell for around $250,000 can be gotten for as low as $2,000.

Source: Factshood

Sirme411:
Guys Please...I want to Get mine on Tuesday. But with All this Reviews + will Be my First Time Using An Android M a Blackberry Fan nd Again I'm Planning on Using A glo bis On it nd I guess I can't Do that without "Rooting" it nd For Gods Sake wat is "rooting".....Plz can Sum1 help wit answers

You don't need to root the phone before using Glo bis. Just download mtk engineering to change the imei; change your apn to BlackBerry.net and you're good to go.

XVIER:
Hello pls I have bb curve7 can I just buy the visa sim card and subscribe?

It depends. if the phone is a CDMA phone, it'll work. If it is a GSM phone, it would not work. Visafone, Multilinks, Reltel and the likes are CDMA. Glo, etisalat, mtn and airtel are GSM.

Jeffy1206:
if there's sim slot then it can be unlocked for other sim cards to work.

@scarr

It won't work with regular sim cards. Visafone is a CDMA and not a GSM. If it is ever going to work with any sim, it would have to be multilinks and any other CDMA around.

oluomad:
Pls what is chopper?

Chopper is another name for helicopter.

Ahmed0336:
Do choppers fly? How comes na from top e take enter d house abi na my eyes dey deceive me?

Chopper is another name for helicopter.

Raxxye:
Eyaa.
It's a lesson for us all. The only permanent thing is change!


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Does anyone know why pictures on Nairaland can't be saved? I mean why do they become some kinda virus? Seun, Lalasticlala. Does any of you have the answer?

I also face the same challenge. I guess you're using Android. Go to "file manager" and search for the file your downloads are saved. Look for the picture there and add .jpg to the name.

dre11:
Until the government decides to deregulate this sector and allow for market forces to fix the prices of petroleum products......



We still be having this problem
All what government needs to do is to protect the consumers and check the actions of the downstream sector and not fix prices


Because with the fall in oil prices.... The finances of the government have dwindles and the Economy can't sustain susbidy which is running to billions.

A fall in oil price should be equal to a fall in oil subsidy payment. The problem is not with deregulating the downstream sector, the problem is the corruption involved. With the current fall in oil price, subsidy payment should not even run into tens of bullion.

Fulaman198:
It can't be done. It is your ISP that can only increase your speeds. But it definitely can not be done on your end (DTE).

Noted. Thank you.

felixchip:
Na CorelDRAW X7.

You're good. I also use CorelDraw for my designs.

felixchip:
These are some of my Typography Designs

Please, what software do you use?

Fulaman198:
Ok, I need you to be more specific. When you say boost your signal.....are you saying increase your throughput (your speeds provided by your ISP)? Please clarify thanks! Because if that's the case, only your ISP can set clock rates/bandwidth.

Yes, the bolded is exactly what I mean.

Fulaman198:
If you are trying to boost Wi-Fi range, you will need a Wi-Fi range extender. What do you mean by boosting signal?

I mean the signal my modem receives from the telecommunication mast.

News proven to be false. http://m.snopes.com/russian-laboratory-black-skin/

How can I boost (increase) the signal my modem recieves? Any idea?

Fulaman198:
To answer your original question after the explanation I have given, Routers do no such thing. They do not boost or increase your service. What a Router does is forward Network Traffic to a different destination. Routers are known as Layer 3 devices under the OSI model (I don't think I should get anymore technical than that).

But do you know any way I can boost my signal?

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Good day! I am the one that contacted you on Whatsapp about the limited paypal account (Susan). My tablet's screen is broken and I wont be on Whatsapp for some time. But you can send me a PM whenever you find a solution. Thank you.

Olarewajub:
Wow thats good to know. But Tecno are still in the business of helping the average Nigerian in owning a smartphone. I'm looking out how i can purchase a 10.1 inch tablet with a detachable/bluetooth keyboard for less than 25k. Any suggestion?

Your best bet should be the innjoo Windows tab. It's 8 inches. Check jumia.

tucky200:
The wailing wailers !!
There is nothing buhari will do that will satisfy u guys......just keep wailing till 2019

What am I saying and what are you saying? Who are you calling wailing wailers? Please and please, if you're too immature to comprehend issues and/or view them from a discreet angle without adding politics, religion of tribe to it, then you have a problem; a big one.

Don't ever quote me on political matters again. I'm neither for GEJ nor Buhari.

I believe we all cannot just sit back and watch the Professor Dibu Oderinde-led JAMB destroy our lives and that of our children, siblings, neighbors, relatives, friends, friends of friends, friends of friends of friends, friends of friends of friends of friends and enemies. (The enemy part is open to dispute but let's pretend we're okay with it).

In the past, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) examination was divided into two: Universities Matriculation Examinations (UME), for admission into universities and the Monotechnics Polytechnics and Colleges of Education Matriculation Examinations (MPCE), for admission into polytechnics, monotechnics and colleges of education. Back then, students had the option of choosing three different universities in the UME. I don't know how many institutions one could choose in MPCE (popularly called poly-JAMB) but I guess it was between three and six. In other words, students had the opportunity of gaining admission into six or nine institutions, depending on the number of schools MPCE accepts.

In 2010, JAMB merged both examinations, claiming the move was necessary to streamline the process and remove the B.Sc-HND disparity. The result was the University Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) which allowed students choose six schools: two universities, two polytechnics/monotechnics and two colleges of education.

Last year, JAMB came up with a new policy allowing students to choose only four schools: one university, one polytechnic/monotechnic, one college of education and one computer school. As if limiting students admission prospects isn't enough, JAMB began reposting students to schools they did not choose just because the students did not meet the cutoff marks for their courses (according to them) and they did not want schools to start "exploiting" them (the students) by making them buy post-utme forms for courses they definitely won't be picked for.

Now, there are three issues here: the cutoff mark, the post UTME and the change of course/institution.

Firstly, the issue of cutoff mark is not a valid excuse to change a students' school. Many schools allow students to change their course if they did not meet the cutoff mark. Besides, most schools move students to another course if they did not fit into a particular course or if that course already has a maximum number of students. So this excuse is a no-brainer; for dummies only. Next!

Secondly, who is Professor Dibu and his scandalous and corruption filled JAMB to say he does not want schools exploiting students? In case he has forgotten, students paid 5,000 naira for the JAMB exam. For comparison, universities charge between 1,000 and 2,000 naira (including bank charges) for their posr-UTME exams.

Professor Dibu-led JAMB happily collected money for the UTME and now, that same Professor Dibu is claiming he does not want schools to exploit students; and the best way he can stop the "exploitation" is by forcing private institutions and maybe some other unknown or expensive state schools down people's throats? Wise people in the house, who's the thief? Who's exploiting who? And who's the mumu?

Thirdly, JAMB has traditionally allowed students to change their course and institution long after the JAMB exams, on why can't they leave students who are willing to change change by themselves? Why must they change for them?
Some schools also allow students write their post-JAMB even if the students did not choose them, so what are we saying?

If truly Prof Dibu is fighting for the students (as he wants to make us believe), why can't he allow students to do a change of course or institution free-off-charge? Or is that not a form of help?

Or has he been bribed by the private and state institutions? Was this his plan all along? From reducing the number of schools a student can apply to and then systematically posting (or reposting) them to other schools? Common! This isn't NYSC.

Mr Dibu should realize that students choose schools for particular reasons. Distance, school fees, school familiarity, prestige, tribe, dialect, popularity, standard of teaching, academic calendar and cost of living are few of the reasons. By the time students are taken to schools with unaffordable school fees, won't they still lose the admission? Or when they end up in schools in faraway places or with a terrible calendar, would they be happy? Most won't even go and even when they do, they see it as a stop-gap and they rewrite another JAMB exam just to leave.

Left to me, I believe Prof Dibu is playing a script for some private and little known institutions that need more students. JAMB itself really needs to be cleaned up. Prof Dibu had done enough. He should step down and give more competent people who know what they're doing the chance to perform. Apart from introducing Computer Based Tests and one nonsense Dibu Based Test he ironically named after himself, what other positive achievement does he have in JAMB? Someone needs to talk sense into his head. Students do not need his so called "help." He should leave them alone. 5,000 naira multiplied by more than one million students is no small amount. JAMB is an examination, not a lottery.

Last bullet: PROFESSOR DIBU ODERINDE, LET STUDENTS CHOOSE THEIR SCHOOLS

Cc: Ishilove Lalasticlala

Cool pics. That Gustav gun is crazy. High caliber but very impractical, even in its days. It was later captured by the allies.

Naira is still about 199.something to a dollar, so what are we saying?

Fulaman198:
Routers work by forwarding traffic to another network. In other words, A Router looks at a table for an IP address to another network and acts as a gateway to get you to that destination.

For example, (I don't want to make this complex for you) when you type in www.google.com in your browser, your DNS server converts the IP address to text for Google.com and your router looks in its routing table for the "google.com" entry and if it doesn't see that entry in its routing table, it forwards your entry to another router or hosted network that may have that google.com entry. All of this happens in a matter of milliseconds (dependant on your connection and ISP)

Please let me know if you need a further explanation. I did not want to get too technical because I'm not sure how technical you are as a person.

These were the exact things I was seeing online...

Fulaman198:
To answer your original question after the explanation I have given, Routers do no such thing. They do not boost or increase your service. What a Router does is forward Network Traffic to a different destination. Routers are known as Layer 3 devices under the OSI model (I don't think I should get anymore technical than that).

... and this's what I want to hear. Thank you.

hisenjos:
contact me on whatapp

Done

legalwealth:
Has this been done?

No not yet.