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LiteratureRe: My Village Prince And I by felixawe(m): 9:01pm On Mar 13, 2019
Thank you
LiteratureRe: My First Love by felixawe(m): 8:39pm On Mar 13, 2019
Thanks
RomanceRe: My Girl Is In Love With My Friend by felixawe(m): 7:06am On Mar 13, 2019
Arent you and ur friend working, idlenes can make one lying on mat unusually. Keep ur result busy , girls needs money than u do not busy body. Dont force ur on any girl, u wil suffer
LiteratureRe: My First Love by felixawe(m): 5:14pm On Mar 12, 2019
No, he's not stupid it just shock of his life. tanx d update is too short
Christianity EtcRe: Answered: Can A Christian Lose His Salvation? by felixawe(m):
Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that
it may bring forth more fruit. John 15:2,
what does the above scripture signifies ?
After salvation should a man turn his back against GOD, would GOD still receive him unto Himself on the last day ?

LiteratureRe: My Village Prince And I by felixawe(m): 8:21am On Mar 08, 2019
Weldone op
LiteratureRe: My Village Prince And I by felixawe(m): 7:28pm On Mar 05, 2019
Thank you so much, please dont keep us waiting delay is killing it
AgricultureRe: Nigeria Overtakes Egypt As Largest Rice Producer In Africa’ by felixawe(m): 6:53am On Mar 05, 2019
Is Nigeria exporting rice ?
PoliticsRe: President Buhari Will Address Gap Between Rich And Poor – Aisha Buhari by felixawe(m): 9:23pm On Mar 03, 2019
op predict 20 sure odds for we to believe u. make it public
Christianity EtcRe: Pastor Mboro Prays For Couples With Sexual Problems, Prays For Condom by felixawe(m): 6:53am On Mar 02, 2019
God hates withdrawal method
RomanceRe: She Said No Kissing, Hugging, Talk More Of Sex, Just Communication Only by felixawe(m): 6:50am On Mar 02, 2019
She would have added no money or gift ! shocked shocked
PoliticsRe: President Buhari Watching INEC Results Announcement On NTA (Photos) by felixawe(m): 2:13am On Feb 27, 2019
24/7 he is on cap, na waoh
BusinessRe: Tomatoes The New Gold In Town: Nairalanders Becomes Tomato Importers by felixawe(m): 7:43am On Feb 25, 2019
Am using GTbank
Nsonaso:
It depends on your bank...

Zenith collect around 3000
GTB collect around 3000
First bank Around 2500
UBA around 2500
........
go to your bank for more info or call their customer service at back of your ATM card
PoliticsRe: PMB : Am Please To Spend Time In My Farm In Daura by felixawe(op): 10:12pm On Feb 24, 2019
Kennito6847:
Please read below it
Where is this betslip code ? cropping it seems fraudulent. May u predict 20 sure odd game against tomorrow b4 i can believe u !

Publish it for everyone to book !
PoliticsPMB : Am Please To Spend Time In My Farm In Daura by felixawe(op): 10:05pm On Feb 24, 2019
See tweet about our dear president M. Buhari regarding his passion for agriculture ! shocked

BusinessRe: Tomatoes The New Gold In Town: Nairalanders Becomes Tomato Importers by felixawe(m): 8:57am On Feb 24, 2019
albacete:
That is not correct. You can transfer as much as 5million a day with internet banking. Go and collect a token from the nearest branch.

BTW, this thread is highly educative.
What is the cost of a Hard-Token,is it issued instantly ? If a can have one 2mro.
PoliticsRe: Mbu Ordered Shoot At Electoral Offenders In Self Defence, APC Kicked (Throwback) by felixawe(m): 6:00pm On Feb 20, 2019
cleary:
Please my people, help a starving brother. I have been pleading for help since 2 days now. I'm a student who returned to school last week because of the prospects of exams starting on Monday and also because I was opportuned to enter a free ride. my family isn't bouyant enough and my dad has severe high BP that's why I had to find my way so as not to make him to start thinking about where to get money to give me. I haven't eaten a decent food since I got back and am starving.


I am soliciting for help from well meaning people who will be touched enough to hear my plight and have mercy. I am not asking for much, no matter how little, it will go a long way. God bless you all
You are suppose to put ur Bank account or Cryptocurrency details
PoliticsRe: Mbu Ordered Shoot At Electoral Offenders In Self Defence, APC Kicked (Throwback) by felixawe(m): 5:58pm On Feb 20, 2019
self defence is to defend oneself in this course who's to be defend ?
PoliticsReassurance: We Are going To Win This Election - Atiku Abubarka by felixawe(op):
See the tweet PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar that got people talking about his winning

Christianity EtcRe: Reasons For Eyes Closing While Praying by felixawe(op): 6:39am On Feb 20, 2019
[quote author=bloodofthelamb post=75906865][/quote]From ur point is to remain focus and not be distracted ! Very clear.
Christianity EtcReasons For Eyes Closing While Praying by felixawe(op): 9:03pm On Feb 19, 2019
Pls NL from immemorial people closes eyes while prayer is ongoing
why do one closed eyes while praying ?

FamilyRe: My Wife Is Not Interested In Sex Anymore by felixawe(m): 11:14am On Feb 19, 2019
Her problem might be psychological...sit her down and talk to her politely. Do you normally smack her ?
RomanceLady Recounts Turned On Marathon Romance Over Married Man by felixawe(op): 10:04am On Feb 19, 2019
Relationship adviser, Joro Olumofin has shared the story of a lady who lost control of herself after being celibate for 13 months.
According to her, she was masturbating on every object she sighted around her house until she hooked up with an old friend who had been trying to woo her.
Both of them have been involved in serious lovemaking which seems to have resulted in romantic feelings.
Read her story below:

https://www.tori.ng/news/116580/addicted-lady-recounts-steamy-marathon-romance-wit.html

PoliticsPostponement Of Election : Your Are On Your Way Out - FFK by felixawe(op): 9:47pm On Feb 16, 2019
See what Femi Fani-Kayode tweet about the postponed election that got people talking

PoliticsRe: BREAKING: INEC May Postpone Election Till Tuesday For Logistics Reasons by felixawe(m): 6:21am On Feb 16, 2019
Atiku should be declared the winner...this bubu na problem man, i travel to my state to vote out bubu, se what him & his cohort did, can someone explain what Inec mean by logistics ?
PoliticsVote - Who Will Win The Presidential Election : Opinion Pool by felixawe(op): 9:26am On Feb 15, 2019
We know that the major political parties amongs others is APC & PDP.
Who would you cast your vote for & Why your choose ?
If Buhari,state his name....PMB
If Atiku,state his name....Atiku
Why him ?
Vote wisely !
No insult pls

PoliticsIn 6 Days You Will Have The Opportunity To Decide - Atiku by felixawe(op): 5:18am On Feb 11, 2019
In 6 days you will have the opportunity to decide who rule the nation... check his tweet

FoodFood Soon Be Ready - Rabbit Killed By A Nairalander by felixawe(op): 10:29pm On Feb 10, 2019
This Rabbit was killed by my Nairalander wife close to my salon around 8:00PM.
Already making way for the roasting now .
Which kind dish will be best suited pls ? Your advice.
I need to make this meal sumptuous tonight

Nairaland GeneralBest Friend - Worse Enemy : Bob Marley by felixawe(op): 11:14pm On Feb 03, 2019
...You best friend could be your worse enemy and
your worse enemy could be your best friend.
They will eat and drink with you.
You best friend knows ur secret &
Its only him that reveals it...
Who the cap fits....

We have to be guided daily by the lyrics from Marley

FamilyWhy Women Still Have To Wait Longer For Bathrooms. Panic Is On The Agenda by felixawe(op): 2:02pm On Feb 03, 2019
In 1987, a man, a woman, and their daughter attended a Tchaikovsky concert at the Hollywood Bowl. The most notable thing about their outing, all these years later, is something that actually wasn’t the least bit unusual: The two women waited in an interminably long line for the bathroom, while the man did not.

What separates their uncomfortable experience from those of innumerable others is that the man in their party was a California state senator. After witnessing just how long his family members had to wait, he introduced legislation to guarantee the state’s women more toilets.

In the three decades since, dozens of cities and states have joined the cause of “potty parity,” the somewhat trivializing nickname for the goal of giving men and women equal access to public toilets. These legislative efforts, along with changes to plumbing codes that altered the ratio of men’s to women’s toilets, have certainly helped imbalances in wait times, but they haven’t come close to resolving them.

“It still remains a huge problem today, overall,” says Kathryn Anthony, an architecture professor at the University of Illinois who has studied the issue for more than a decade. The issue persists for many reasons: the exigencies of real estate, the building codes that govern construction, and, of course, sexism.
One would think that developers could neutralize this problem by simply building more toilets for women. And they could—there’s no rule or regulation that would stop them. They’re beholden to local or state plumbing codes, but those only stipulate the minimum number of toilets for men and women in a given building, based on occupancy numbers and use.

Anything that exceeds those prescribed minimums becomes a question of spending. “From an economic standpoint, it doesn’t make much sense to increase the number of toilet fixtures if that’s going to decrease the amount of rentable area in a building,” says Christopher Chwedyk, a building-code consultant at the firm Burnham Nationwide. In other words, toilets don’t make money (and are quite expensive to install), so developers don’t have a financial reason to go beyond what the code requires.

Chwedyk told me about the variety of ways in which building design does account for occupants’ time. Most urgently, developers bring in experts who estimate how long it takes to exit a building, in case of an emergency. Less life-threatening considerations get attention, too. There are traffic consultants who model the building’s contributions to nearby congestion, and even estimators of elevator wait times. But it’s rare for developers to undertake any sort of timing study for bathrooms, even though it’s not clear that waiting for a toilet is any less important than waiting for an elevator.
Meghan Dufresne, an architect at the nonprofit Institute for Human Centered Design, says it’s hard for potty-parity advocates like her to go up against the end goals of real-estate companies. “Nobody is paid for work in this area,” she says. “There’s no career for this, so I think it’s a hard sell to get people to provide extra restrooms.”
If most developers aren’t going to install more toilets than are required by local or state plumbing codes, then perhaps the solution is to change the requirements. Indeed, that strategy has produced a measure of progress in the past three decades.
To understand how much better regulations have gotten on the issue of wait times, it helps to understand just how horrendous they were. The customs of public-restroom construction began to coalesce in the 19th century. Then, “the main concern of the male city fathers was to provide toilets for men, whose role in public space was accepted and indeed regarded as important to the industrial economy,” writes Clara Greed, an urban-planning scholar in the United Kingdom, in her contribution to the 2010 academic anthology Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing. “From the outset,” she explained, “public toilet provision for women was seen as an extra, as a luxury, or as problematic in other respects.”
As plumbing codes took shape in the following century, they generally overlooked women’s needs. As Greed and others have noted, this was probably not a coincidence, given that architects, engineers, and code officials have historically been much more likely to be men.
John Banzhaf, a law professor at George Washington University, told me that when he started following the issue of potty parity closely three decades ago, it was common for men’s and women’s restrooms to be equal sizes. “Sometimes,” he told me, “they would in fact be built one on top of the other, exactly the same size. The men’s would be on the first floor, third floor, and fifth floor; the women’s on two, four, and six.” Of course, thanks to urinals’ compactness, more fixtures could be crammed into men’s bathrooms than women’s, so floor space was not a great proxy for equality.
As state legislators started tinkering with restroom laws in the late 1980s, they thought about fairness not in terms of square footage but in terms of the number of toilets. This was finally a recognition that women take longer to use the restroom—not just because they have to enter a stall to pee, but also because they menstruate. Many jurisdictions started apportioning more toilets in women’s rooms than in men’s; New York City, for instance, passed a bill in 2005 that required all new bars, arenas, and movie theaters to have a 2-to-1 ratio of women’s to men’s stalls. From 1987 to 2006, at least 21 states enacted potty-parity legislation.
These laws have no doubt helped, but there are many downsides to treating wait times as a matter of toilet ratios. For one, most potty-parity laws don’t apply retroactively, which means that even if the numbers are tweaked in favor of women, older structures will remain unchanged.
Another issue: The difference between men’s and women’s wait times is most pronounced at times when demand spikes, such as halftime at a sports game or intermission at a play. And plumbing codes, even when they account for what women need, aren’t calibrated to reduce wait times to zero during these extremes. “The ideal condition is that there’s always a facility open—whenever you walk into a toilet facility, you never stand in line, ever—and you can’t have that,” says Fred Grable, a senior staff engineer at the International Code Council (ICC), an organization whose model plumbing code has been adopted in a majority of U.S. states. “You’d have [to] double the toilet facilities in the building.”
Still, there seems to be a mismatch between women’s experiences and the code-development process. Grable, who administers the process through which the ICC’s plumbing code is updated, told me that “if there was a problem, that people were just really having an issue with, well, ‘We don’t have enough women’s facilities,’ then they would be coming to the process. Everybody knows by now that you’ve got to make proposals to the code and demonstrate [the problem] somehow, even if it’s just taking photographs of events where people are standing on line, or some sort of counting process.”
But regular old bathroom-goers are probably not keen on familiarizing themselves with the intricacies of plumbing-code development. “The average person wouldn’t understand these ratios and understand which codes apply, so they don’t really know where to complain—they’re just miserable,” says Dufresne, of the Institute for Human Centered Design.
The last objection to fixating on codes is a more philosophical one, about the limits of thinking numerically. As I spoke with architects, plumbing engineers, and design scholars for this piece, it became clear that building codes are looked to as a neutral, value-free lodestar, even though they have a strongly gendered history. As Greed has written, when it comes to restroom design, “an obsession with structural and technical issues predominates over social, ergonomic, health, equality, accessibility, and livability issues, with women’s needs peripheral.”
Reflecting on the progress that has and hasn’t been made, Dufresne said, “I think the ratios are a good try at improving things … but the main thing we’re looking to focus on is equal speed of access to the restrooms.” “Equal speed of access” is a standard of fairness that points to a solution that now, unfortunately, often leads to political flare-ups: gender-neutral bathrooms. That is, one way to guarantee that men and women wait the same amount of time for a toilet is to make them wait for the same toilets.
Potty parity is just one salutary outcome of gender-neutral bathrooms. As Joel Sanders, a New York City–based architect who teaches at the Yale School of Architecture, explained to me, they don’t force people into a gender binary and they are safer, particularly for trans women and trans women of color, who tend to suffer disproportionately from violence in bathrooms. Sanders favors an arrangement, common in Europe, in which rows of unisex stalls (partitioned more fully than standard American stalls, without all those “peekaboo cracks”) are accompanied by a bank of sinks for “communal grooming and washing.”

In buildings with lower occupancies, single-user gender-neutral bathrooms—lockable rooms open to anyone—would be similarly helpful. As Anthony, the Illinois professor, notes in her book Defined by Design, these bathrooms are particularly helpful to families. She writes of single fathers who “may have no choice but to bring their young daughters into the men’s room” and of an elderly woman who “worries about her husband who has Alzheimer’s disease” when he enters a larger men-only restroom. (The 2018 edition of the ICC’s plumbing code is the first to include guidelines for such single-user gender-neutral restrooms, and the 2021 code will establish standards for the layout Sanders likes.)

These approaches are promising, but they might be too expensive an undertaking for existing buildings. Banzhaf, the George Washington law professor, has a suggestion for when that’s the case. He told me about a campus building that recently converted a men’s room into an “all-gender room,” simply by changing the sign. Most of the time, he says, it functions as it used to, as a men’s room. But when demand surges—for instance, right after a mock-trial session ends—women are able to use the stalls there as well as those in the nearby women’s room, whose sign remains the same.
I was skeptical that this arrangement would fly—that women wouldn’t mind being in the presence of men using urinals, and that men wouldn’t mind women being there either. But Banzhaf says that he has heard few complaints from students. “Since most public buildings—especially theaters and sports venues where the potty-parity problem is most likely to occur—have paired men’s and women’s restrooms, the same simple approach to the potty-parity problem could be used anywhere at virtually no cost,” he says.
Of course, not every American bathroom user is likely to have the same sensibility as Banzhaf’s urban-dwelling law students, and men do not have a record of responding well when forced to cede facilities to women—see the irate male football fans in Nashville who in 1999 pushed for a potty-parity exemption when a new state law resulted in stadium-toilet ratios that had some of them waiting 15 to 20 minutes.
There are myriad ways to address potty parity, if the public would accept them and if builders would implement them. It’s easy enough to change a sign. Changing minds is harder.

Jobs/VacanciesDESTMA - Training & Orientation Camp by felixawe(op): 1:10pm On Jan 26, 2019
Delta State Traffic Management Authority has started training on the newly recruit, should you haven't been contacted for the exercise you may check DESTMA office Asaba to know if you are shortlisted for the training. Training has commenced.
Good luck

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