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European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) / Re: Nairaland Fantasy Premier League 2017/2018 by scorpidmo(m): 4:49pm On Sep 17, 2017
send to me
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Islam for Muslims / Re: Ramadan Starts Today June 28 2014 by scorpidmo(m): 5:17am On Jun 28, 2014
Ramadan Kareem to all!!!. Isn't it about time we start getting pictorial evidence to back up the moon sighting announcement. undecided
Technology Market / Re: Clean White Samsung Galaxys3 For URGENT Sale @40k by scorpidmo(m): 11:16am On Dec 11, 2013
OP, kindly upload more pictures so we can rightfully judge the state of the phone.
Literature / Re: What Are You Reading Right Now And What Page Are You? by scorpidmo(m): 10:35am On Nov 30, 2013
As anyone here read Neil Gaiman's Ocean at the end of the lane. Short and imaginative.
Science/Technology / Re: Samsung Galaxy S5 To Debut In January by scorpidmo(m): 4:53pm On Oct 16, 2013
I just hope Samsung's near monthly release of new smartphones wont result in its downfall
Religion / Re: Pope Benedict XVI Cured My Cancer by scorpidmo(m): 7:26am On Sep 06, 2013
A miracle is simply an unexplainable phenomenon that supersedes an individual's level of rational thinking. A cave man who saw fire for d first time or a red Indian that saw a train for the first time, both believed they witnessing sth extraordinary so it had to be a miracle. When it was sth so simple and explainable. FYI I do believe strange ish happens but labelling every and anything a miracle is just damn right stupidity. undecided
Literature / Re: Nairaland's "The Poet" Competition Season 2 by scorpidmo(m): 11:32pm On Aug 25, 2013
woo-hoo
Literature / Re: Nairaland's "The Poet" Competition Season 2 - Round 2 - Hot Topics by scorpidmo(m): 10:43am On Aug 19, 2013
Reserved for number 8

Female Circumcision

Designer: Lightheart

Why did you choose your Topic?

First and foremost, i was captivated by the titles on offer. Having just discovered the words of painting with words a few months back, i decided to stretch the envelope of my imagination with this poem. In this patriarchal world, where most men believe women are lower than a third class citizen, are of no more use when the strength to breed fades and little girls need to be circumcised to prevent them from deriving sexual pleasure when they get married. i felt their voice deserves to be heard.

What Unique experience did you derive from working with a designer?
Poetry as a form of writing offers the writer a chance to express himself with words, creating an image in the mind of the reader driving home the essence of the poem. But alas a picture/painting says more than a thousand words. He was able to bring the poem to life. Working with someone i had never met proved how far reaching and advanced technology has gotten, exchanging ideas through emails, sms and phone calls trying to meet deadlines. It was an exhilarating experience and would really love to explore it more.

What were the constraints involved in working in a team?
Surprisingly there weren't many bumps as one might expect considering we never met. The only constraint that actually came up was getting the work finished on time, apart from that it was all rosy on this side of the hill.

What is the Plot of the Poem
The poem tells the story of a girl struggling with different after undergoing a failed circumcision with resulted in serious damage to her clitoris. This left her with deep emotional scars changing her views on life, from a girl that dreams about fairies, princes and other things little girls dream of to a person who finds it hard to relate well with her baby sister because she reminds of her things she can't have. Even with her mixed feelings toward her sister, she still feels she shouldn't have to go through with what she did. But because of her status in society, she can't do anything other than pray it works out well for her sister.

The Design
The design is pretty simple and straightforward depicting the image of a little baby that's about to undergo a life changing procedure with the mother providing support and comfort.

Description of Terminologies used
The poem was designed to be an easy read with little/no idioms or complex words.
Wonderland - which is an imaginary world filled with bunnies,witches etc
Tristam and Iseult - a love filled with passion, betrayal, misery and an untimely death. They shared a bond that couldn't be broken with distance. It was used in this to poem express the strength of the familial bond she shared with her sister and the possibility of it ending in misery because of the forthcoming circumcision.

Message of the Poem
Female circumcision should be stopped, it is a barbaric custom that has nothing to do with religion and will only lead to disastrous complications both mentally and physically. Like a famous poet once said "Work while it's still called today for the night cometh wherein no man can work". Let's say no now while we still can.

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Literature / Re: Nairaland's "The Poet" Competition Season 2 - Round 2 - Hot Topics by scorpidmo(m): 10:23am On Aug 19, 2013
Reserved for number 8

Female Circumcision

a remnant of a dream long forgotten
shadows and demons persist in this reality
with delusions of a mind shattered
castles and princes forgotten

lately sleep's bossom
my wonderland
filled with terror and blades
dreaming about how it was, might and will be
nightmares filled with pools of red
a product of a mind tortured
by tales of mistakes of times past

mama coos and cuddles
as the babe sucks the ample bossom
in the curves of her arms
she rests gently in the beauty sleep of innocence

oh how i love her
a bond stronger than Tristam and Iseult we share
papa's dimple also
with her fat cheeks and innocent smile

sadly also feelings of hatred she stirs up
visions of a dream impossible
which i yearn sorrowfully for
oh how i love and hate her

traditions and responsibilities papa says
compass to our existence
a man once bold and mighty
now frail and frightened
with a mind lost in spirit
but the mind wanders to mistakes of times past
how could it feel so wrong doing the right thing
cos it has to be
regardless of what the world says

i remember it
like the memories of life ghosts long to grasp
a memory of a dream long forgotten
his icy cold stare as he got down to business
mama whispering songs and praises
dreams of babes in arm and a home to call mine
all i needed was to stay calm
because all is always fine when mama is there

but pain beyond imagining
grips me in a place i've never bled in
squirm i did
leaving the cut deep and searing

shut and tight it had to be
for the slice was beyond reason
leaving a future
garnered with bitterness and envy

Her cries brings me back to now
a baby with teeth not formed yet
a leg not strained yet
to face the same on the morrow
when the sun shines brightest

i feel old but i'm not that old
young but not that bold
should i save her from this cruelty
or watch her face it as i did
what can i do but pray
and hope i never get to say
what should i have done
but i'm naught but a woman of nine

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Literature / Re: Nairaland's "The Poet" Competition Season 2 - Submission Thread For Round 1 by scorpidmo(m): 6:43pm On Aug 16, 2013
Can we please get an extension, cos I'm having serious writers block.

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Literature / Re: Poetry by scorpidmo(m): 12:31pm On Aug 16, 2013
reserved for number 16
Literature / Re: Poetry by scorpidmo(m): 12:31pm On Aug 16, 2013
reserved for number 16
Foreign Affairs / Re: Mother Of Dead Cairo Reporter Publishes Gut-wrenching Final Text Messages by scorpidmo(m): 12:03pm On Aug 16, 2013
People need to think logically before making snide comments. U read and watch the news without bothering to know the hurdles journalists go through to get u d info. FYI, a sky news cameraman also died recently. Their blood are on your hands; Mansour, Obama, UN.
For you religious bigots, read a book for God sakes. Learn about others beliefs, then make factual argument. After all we are all humans first, except you believe u r a superior being to the rest of us; Shut up and pay ur respects.
Literature / Re: Nairaland's "The Poet" Competition Season 2 by scorpidmo(m): 8:44am On Aug 15, 2013
[quotet author=Cuddlemii]ROUND 2 INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION.

Step 1– Select a topic from the list for Round 2, and write about it (you had weeks to do this)
- Access the Official Thread For Round 2

Step 2- Click the “Reply” Button

Step 3- Create two posts, and put the word "reserved"
**The word reserved must be the content of the two posts**

Step 4- Click the “Submit” button

Step 5- Look at the post above yours, and take note of the number.
If the person above you is Number 0, it means you are Number 1.
If the person above you is number 1, it means you are Number 2.

Step 5ii-"Reserved for Number 1"
**which means you've book your slot for this round**


Step 5iii- Work with the designer assigned to you

**Warning**Do not submit any poem till you have concluded with your designer.
Leave your post as Reserved for Number 1,2,3........



Submission of Poem + Design:

Step 6- Your first post should look like this-->

Number 1

Title of your poem
………………………….
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……………………………..

Upload the coverpage as a jpg or png file.

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what's the official thread for round 2
Literature / Re: Nairaland's "The Poet" Competition Season 2 by scorpidmo(m): 6:43am On Aug 15, 2013
yessss.
Massster we made it,even though it was after the first aggregation.
To all other constestants, i'm a drown u so your fans never gonna know you ever existed. grin grin grin grin
Literature / Re: Thirty Things You Must Do Before You Are Thirty. by scorpidmo(m): 5:20pm On Aug 14, 2013
Why should I get the book.
Politics / Re: Lagbaja Responds To Okey Ndibe On “mumudom” by scorpidmo(m): 11:14am On Aug 06, 2013
"only ppl crazy enough to believe they can change tthe world can "
so we the 200 million mumu must PUSH BACK COS THE WALL IS CHAFING O
Food / Re: The £250,000 Hamburger In London! by scorpidmo(m): 4:59am On Aug 03, 2013
What a waste. Huge misuse of technology for a product that can't be commercially viable. Useless ppl, even with subsidy on farm produce they still serve horse meat. *spits*
Literature / Re: Nairaland's "The Poet" Competition Season 2 - Submission Thread For Round 1 by scorpidmo(m): 9:56pm On Aug 02, 2013
Number 27

PAIN

Hatred is all I feel when I get a glimpse of it.
It matters not in what form
My heart darkened by anger
Frustration of being able to see
It’s a curse
It has to be
My mind being able to imagine…
SHAPES, WORDS, IMAGES
…………………….
Listen he says
But I cant:
VOICES…
WHISPERS…
SCREAMS…
Pain pain pain
It hurts so much
IT HURTS
My beautiful fingers
Her skin; how I loved touching it
Rubbing those curls
Gazing into those brown eyes
Seeing passion, content
Now all I see is pity, regret
Two new moons
All it has been
………………..
There is no gain without pain
Albert says
Albert…
A friend for the end of the world
The end of this world
My world
I see it now; nirvana
She’s all yours
I have this
My love
Now and forever… art.

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Science/Technology / Re: The Chinese Finally Turned Human Urine To Tooth by scorpidmo(m): 10:34pm On Aug 01, 2013
Advantage Ladies, more teeth for you. Since you gals wee wee so much anyway. grin
Science/Technology / The Chinese Finally Turned Human Urine To Tooth by scorpidmo(m): 10:21pm On Aug 01, 2013
China known for her ingenuity in different spheres of life, with a population that exceeds a billion and a work environment that fosters growth. It isn't much of a surprise when something spectacular comes from her inhabitants.

Chinese researchers describe how stem cells derived from urine could be used to generate solid organs and tissues, including teeth. Their study is published this week in the open-access journal Cell Regeneration. The researchers hope the technique might one day help provide new, tailor-made teeth for dental patients

The Chinese researchers, led by Duanqing Pei and Jinglei Cai at the Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Regenerative Biology and Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, generated stem cells from kidney lining cells in human urine and grew them under special conditions into sheets of epithelial tissue — a type that includes skin and teeth.

The scientists mixed mouse cells and human cells to create the different types of cells that make up a human tooth: pulp, dentin and enamel. The little creations were physically and structurally “quite similar” to human teeth, the study says, though they are not as strong -- yet -- as natural human teeth.

The idea of growing something eerily similar to the human tooth in a mouse gives me the creeps but if the unlimited volume of urine each individual produces daily that will be good "recycling". Further research still needs to be done, the scientist acknowledges but replacing a tooth lost from a bar fight will just be as easy peeing into a cup.

http://ember365.com/e365/index.php/culture/item/the-chinese-finally-turned-human-urine-to-tooth

Nairaland / General / Re: Nairalanders E-protest Against Child Marriage: Sign your Petition Here Guys! by scorpidmo(m): 12:02am On Jul 21, 2013
Signed
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Contact me at styccs@gmail.com for ways to draw traffic to ur blog.

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Literature / Re: Nairaland's "The Poet" Competition Season 2 by scorpidmo(m): 12:17am On Jul 08, 2013
When is the deadline for submission for Round 1
Literature / Re: Nairaland's "The Poet" Competition Season 2 by scorpidmo(m): 8:44am On Jul 02, 2013
Challenge accepted

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Poems For Review / Re: Amberacious Poems by scorpidmo(m): 8:32pm On Jun 24, 2013
Nice poems
Science/Technology / Sixth Sense: Technology Anywhere, Anyhow by scorpidmo(m): 7:02am On Jun 18, 2013
Over the years, technologists have been providing easier means of interfacing the "normal" world with the digital world. We've seen bananas, stairs and so many other everyday items even running water from a tap producing music notes. With advancements in technology which resulted in miniaturisation of digital devices, we've never been able to link the digital devices and our interactions with the physical world. Information is confined traditionally on paper or digitally on a screen.

As humans we've evolved millions of years to sense the world around us. When we encounter something, someone or some place, we use our five natural senses to perceive information about it; that information helps us make decisions and chose the right actions to take. But arguably the most useful information that can help us make the right decision is not naturally perceivable with our five senses, namely the data, information and knowledge that mankind has accumulated about everything and which is increasingly all available online.

SixthSense bridges this gap, bringing intangible, digital information out into the tangible world, and allowing us to interact with this information via natural hand gestures. ‘SixthSense’ frees information from its confines by seamlessly integrating it with reality, and thus making the entire world your computer.

It was developed by Pranav Mistry, who comes from Palanpur, a small town of northern Gujarat, India. He graduated as Masters of Design from IIT Bombay and Masters of Media Arts and Sciences from MIT Media Lab. Before joining Media Lab, he worked with Microsoft as a UX Researcher. At present, he's a PhD student and Researcher at MIT Media Lab.

The device is pretty simple, comprising of a pocket projector, a mirror and a camera. The hardware components are coupled in a pendant like mobile wearable device. Both the projector and the camera are connected to the mobile computing device in the user’s pocket. The projector projects visual information enabling surfaces, walls and physical objects around us to be used as interfaces; while the camera recognizes and tracks user's hand gestures and physical objects using computer-vision based techniques. The software program processes the video stream data captured by the camera and tracks the locations of the colored markers (visual tracking fiducials) at the tip of the user’s fingers using simple computer-vision techniques. The movements and arrangements of these fiducials are interpreted into gestures that act as interaction instructions for the projected application interfaces. The maximum number of tracked fingers is only constrained by the number of unique fiducials, thus SixthSense also supports multi-touch and multi-user interaction.

The SixthSense prototype implements several applications that demonstrate the usefulness, viability and flexibility of the system. For example, a newspaper can show live video news or dynamic information can be provided on a regular piece of paper. The gesture of drawing a circle on the user’s wrist projects an analog watch.

http://ember365.com/e365/index.php/geek/item/sixth-sense-technology-anywhere-anyhow

Politics / Re: Student Arrested For Impersonating Uduaghan On Facebook by scorpidmo(m): 10:49am On Jun 15, 2013
For him to pull it off for so long, he must know the inner workings of the Governor's office. Which means he had inside help, cos no criminal will try sth this dangerous without backup.

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Family / Re: Father Of 22 Children By 14 Women by scorpidmo(m): 12:53pm On Jun 08, 2013
He must have been a IndecentStar. That's why he said he was young and AMBITIOUS.
Computers / Combining Different Internet Connections To Super Fast Connection by scorpidmo(m): 11:03pm On Jun 06, 2013
Some internet connections can be painfully slow, some free and while some are ridiculously expensive. Imagine being able to combine all these to create a super-fast, reliable connection. In this piece, we aim to present to you a way of increasing your productivity by speeding up your internet connection.
This is a sequel to Turning your pc into a hotspot. Dispatch comes installed with the connectify hotspot package. It allows you to do things that wouldn’t normally be possible on a slow, crowded, yet free network, while not running up a crazy bill on your expensive hotspot. Dispatch lets you set different priorities for certain networks, so you can set the airport WiFi or an Ethernet connection to “primary,” and your hotspot to “secondary.”

Connectify Dispatch gives you all of the bandwidth bonding capabilities of those multi-WAN hardware load balancing routers at a fraction of the cost. No need to waste time and money configuring and carrying around another hardware device. Dispatch is a software-based Internet load balancer that offers premium features like 3G and 4G link bonding, at-a-glance Internet speed testing (via the Dispatch Analytics Dashboard), and much more. One of the great advantages of Dispatch is that it load balances any Internet connection that you have working on your PC, whether they are built-in, USB devices, or Wi-Fi networks.

http://ember365.com/e365/index.php/geek/item/how-to-combine-internet-connections-using-conectify-dispatch

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