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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheaters#Controversy

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-261847.64.html#msg5176484

Inside Edition also did an 'expose' on the show.

Cheaters has been exposed as a fake show, so it could have been an act.

For more than a decade, 57-year-old roofer and writer Joseph Jenkins has been advocating that we flush our toilets down the drain and put a bucket in the bathroom instead. When a bucket in one of his five bathrooms is full, he empties it in the compost pile in his backyard in rural Pennsylvania. Eventually he takes the resulting soil and spreads it over his vegetable garden as fertilizer.

"It's an alternative sanitation system," says Jenkins, "where there is no waste." His 255-page Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure is in its third edition and has been translated into five languages, but it has only recently begun to catch on. His message? Human manure, when properly managed, is odorless. His audience? Ecologically committed city dwellers who are looking to do more for the earth than just sort their trash or ride a bike to work.
(See reusable toilet wipes as one of the top 10 odd environmental ideas.)

"It's one of those life-changing books," says Erik Knutzen, 44, an eco-blogger in Los Angeles. "You read it, and the lightbulb just goes on." Now he eschews his porcelain potty for a big bucket with a toilet seat. He "flushes" by tossing in a scoop of sawdust, which not only neutralizes smells but also helps speed the breakdown of material for compost. Like many back-to-basics sophisticates, he believes Jenkins' humanure system is more sanitary and more rational than the conventional alternative. "Human waste is a perfectly good source of an important resource, nitrogen," Knutzen observes. "Water is a valuable resource too. Why mix the two and turn all of it into a problem?"

Wastewater treatment is much more energy-intensive than composting, which needs little more than time (about a year) for complete decomposition and pathogen elimination. In Austin, Texas, a sustainably minded nonprofit called the Rhizome Collective succeeded this year in getting the city to approve what may be the first legal composting toilet in the U.S. "The hypocrisy is amazing," says Lauren Ross, 54, a civil engineer involved in Rhizome's four-year battle to get a permit. "The city will buy you a low-flow toilet, but they'll fight you all the way if you want to build one that uses no water at all."

It's an idea that you, dear reader, might be asked to take seriously. Not long ago, Nance Klehm, 44, a self-described radical ecologist in Chicago, invited her neighbors to stop using their toilets and start saving their poop. More than half of them — 22 of the 35 households — accepted her proposal. In three months she picked up 1,500 gal. (5,700 L) of excrement, which she'll give back to participants this spring after she and Mother Nature have transformed it into a rich bag of fertilizer. "I've sent a sample in for a coliform test," Klehm says. "There is zero detectable fecal bacteria."
(Read a brief history of toilets.)

At one point, Klehm invited her "nutrient loopers" to a potluck and was surprised to see who had agreed to participate. "It was the white collar people, not the ragtag anarchists. Mostly, they were delighted that they got this wacky proposal," she says. "They didn't know how to connect with the earth, but they could s___ in a bucket."

Meanwhile, over in California, the Marin Composting Portable Odorless Outhouse Project, a.k.a. MCPOOP, is doing Klehm one better. The goal of MCPOOP (which is pronounced the Irish way as opposed to the rap-star way) is to get the government into the night-soil business and put humanure toilets in county parks and town squares. The group is less than a month old but already has the support of the local environmental establishment and Marin County supervisor Steve Kinsey. "The whole thing is like a good acid flashback," says Kinsey. "We approved several experimental permits like this in the '70s." He estimates that a small-scale municipal demonstration project could be under way in less than a year.
(Read "Is It Time to Kill Off the Flush Toilet?"

MCPOOP was founded by a couple in their 50s. "We're on a mission to re–potty train America!" says John Wick, a rancher in the western part of the county. "We're going to start by replacing those nasty blue loos," says his wife Peggy Rathmann, referring to two chemical toilets on their town's main square. If that goes over well, they'll replace the chemical toilets around Tomales Bay that kayakers often use. And then, who knows? Wick and Rathmann don't see why every home in Marin County shouldn't be humanure equipped.

To Joe (Mr. Humanure) Jenkins, nothing could be better news. "On a small scale, my system works like a dream," he says. "But in order to do more research and development, I need to to collect humanure on a larger scale."



MCPOOP and other projects are eager to help on the supply side. "We're going to have plenty," predicts Rathmann. "Tons of tourists come to West Marin, and they all leave us their poop!"

This is an expanded version of an article that originally appeared in the Dec. 14, 2009, issue of TIME



Read more: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1945764,00.html#ixzz0aToZWaOa


http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1945764,00.html

I dont smoke, and my advice may or may not be helpful.

Try this methods. Pray about it. Prayers does wonders.

2. How many sticks of cigarettes do you smoke a day? Lets say you smoke 10. Gradually reduce it to nine sticks a day, then eight the following week, seven and so on and see if the craving would cease eventually.

I lived at Ibiam street while attending Uniuyo. Wonder how that place looked like. Wao, even then, they are charging phones at that place? Hmmm, development dey occur for Uyo.

Everybody on Nairaland treats their househelps well

biina:
The bible does set the standard, but it is only God and the individual that can determine truthfully, how far/close they are from/to that standard. Most often than not, we know where we stand deep in our hearts. The first time a child lies, it is not by the instruction of another. He simply decides within himself not to tell the truth (his reasons being secondary). Adam and eve ate the tree of knowledge, and thus within our hearts we can distinguish between good and evil. The problem is being able to choose correctly consistently.

In this case the standard is to be clothed with good deeds, but you cannot say being plainly dressed guarantees that one is clothed with good deeds, nor being expensively dressed makes certain that the person is not; the problem being that plainly, expensively, rich, poor, tall, short, etc are relative measures. Thus if asked what is plain or expensive, each would likely come up with his own definition.

The focus should be on the good deeds and not the dressing. The instructions as regards the dressing is to guide one towards the good deeds. If your deeds are not as expected, you should move more towards the plain side. Please note that it is not only the physical appearance per se that dictates the good deeds, but wherein your heart lies i.e. who is in charge: your saved soul or your unsaved flesh. The physical clothing just serves as another way of influencing who is in charge. Another example being fasting, as hunger is a need of the flesh, but by fasting i.e. denying what the flesh wants (and needs), we are subjecting the body to the will of the soul.

Even though the Holy Bible specifically advises women to adopt modest dressing

America's justice system is a joke! Unfortunately, it's blacks that are worse off. Imagine the high incarceration of blacks in the country and that should tell you that the system is not fair. Check out cases of paroled convicts thanks to DNA and most of them are blacks. Shame, Shame, Shame!

Woman abandoned in Fairfax as a baby finds her rescuers
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Finding those who found her
Twenty years ago, two teenagers found an abandoned baby on a doorstep in Fairfax County. Earlier this month, they received a message on Facebook from a college student Mia Fleming, looking to say thanks.


Christopher Astle and Emily Yanich were teenage pals strolling back from a 7-Eleven that afternoon in late summer -- two ordinary kids on an ordinary Wednesday after school -- when they found the abandoned baby.
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      A chance rescue 20 years ago, a fortuitous reunion today
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      20 years later, abandoned baby reunited with rescuers

It was Sept. 6, 1989. They discovered the newborn wrapped in towels at the front door of a townhouse in their Fairfax County complex and took the infant to Emily's, where her stepfather called police.

The whole thing was over pretty quickly. The authorities took the baby girl, who was later adopted. Chris and Emily, both 15, went on with their lives, although Emily often cried when she told people the story, and the two called each other every Sept. 6.

Twenty years passed.

Then, on Dec. 2, a college student named Mia Fleming sent them both a message via Facebook: Might they be the same Chris and Emily who had once found a baby left at a stranger's door?

If so, she just wanted to say thanks.

After all these years, the little girl they had found had found them.

The story of Mia, Chris and Emily, recounted by the three over the past few days, is a nativity narrative for modern times. There were no heavenly hosts that warm afternoon in 1989, just the distant ambulance sirens after the call to 911. But the event seemed blessed all the same.

Chris and Emily, both now 35, stayed close friends as they grew up, moved and married, bound by their rescue of the baby.

Mia, once she learned her story, never forgot them, and after numerous tries over several years managed at last, through the power of the Internet, to track them down. "I didn't know how they would feel," she said.

Emily said: "It's like a miracle. . . . My heart is filled now. There was always a little spot missing. "
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Chris said, "It's the best Christmas present I have ever gotten."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/12/16/ST2009121604383.html?sid=ST2009121604383

Fla. man exonerated after 35 years behind bars


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By MITCH STACY, Associated Press Writer Mitch Stacy, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 24 mins ago

BARTOW, Fla. – James Bain used a cell phone for the first time Thursday, calling his elderly mother to tell her he had been freed after 35 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit.

Mobile devices didn't exist in 1974, the year he was sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping a 9-year-old boy and despoiling him in a nearby field.

Neither did the sophisticated DNA testing that officials more recently used to determine he could not have been the rapist.

"Nothing can replace the years Jamie has lost," said Seth Miller, a lawyer for the Florida Innocence Project, which helped Bain win freedom. "Today is a day of renewal."

Bain spent more time in prison than any of the 246 inmates previously exonerated by DNA evidence nationwide, according to the project. The longest-serving before him was James Lee Woodard of Dallas, who was released last year after spending more than 27 years in prison for a murder he did not commit.

As Bain walked out of the Polk County courthouse Thursday, wearing a black T-shirt that said "not guilty," he spoke of his deep faith and said he does not harbor any anger.

"No, I'm not angry," he said. "Because I've got God."

The 54-year-old said he looks forward to eating fried turkey and drinking Dr Pepper. He said he also hopes to go back to school.

Friends and family surrounded him as he left the courthouse after Judge James Yancey ordered him freed. His 77-year-old mother, who is in poor health, preferred to wait for him at home. With a broad smile, he said he looks forward to spending time with her and the rest of his family.

"That's the most important thing in my life right now, besides God," he said.

Earlier, the courtroom erupted in applause after Yancey ruled.

"Mr. Bain, I'm now signing the order," Yancey said. "You're a free man. Congratulations."

Thursday's hearing was delayed 40 minutes because prosecutors were on the phone with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. DNA tests were expedited at the department's lab and ultimately proved Bain innocent. Prosecutors filed a motion to vacate the conviction and the sentence.

"He's just not connected to this particular incident," State Attorney Jerry Hill told the judge.

Attorneys from the Innocence Project of Florida got involved in Bain's case earlier this year after he had filed several previous petitions asking for DNA testing, all of which were thrown out.

A judge finally ordered the tests and the results from a respected private lab in Cincinnati came in last week, setting the wheels in motion for Thursday's hearing. The Innocence Project had called for Bain's release by Christmas.

He was convicted largely on the strength of the victim's eyewitness identification, though testing available at the time did not definitively link him to the crime. The boy said his attacker had bushy sideburns and a mustache. The boy's uncle, a former assistant principal at a high school, said it sounded like Bain, a former student.

The boy picked Bain out of a photo lineup, although there are lingering questions about whether detectives steered him.

The jury rejected Bain's story that he was home watching TV with his twin sister when the crime was committed, an alibi she repeated at a news conference last week. He was 19 when he was sentenced.

Ed Threadgill, who prosecuted the case originally, said he didn't recall all the specifics, but the conviction seemed right at the time.

"I wish we had had that evidence back when we were prosecuting cases. I'm ecstatic the man has been released," said Threadgill, now a 77-year-old retired appeals court judge. "The whole system is set up to keep that from happening. It failed."

Eric Ferrero, spokesman for the Innocence Project, said a DNA profile can be extracted from decades-old evidence if it has been preserved properly. That means sealed in a bag and stored in a climate-controlled place, which is how most evidence is handled as a matter of routine.

The project has a bigger problem with lost or destroyed evidence than getting usable DNA profiles from existing evidence, he said.

Florida last year passed a law that automatically grants former inmates found innocent $50,000 for each year they spent in prison. No legislative approval is needed. That means Bain is entitled to $1.75 million.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091217/ap_on_re_us/us_old_rape_dna

davidylan:
True . . . but the same bible has lots of examples of women with make up. Did they forget that verse?

That was Old Testament, what does it say in NT?

Lies, Lies, Lies.

Akwa Ibom man also in the house.

Proof that Jesus Christ is not ArchAngel Michael

Jude 1:9 (NIV) 9But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous accusation against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”

2 Pet 2:11 (NIV) 11yet even angels, although they are stronger and more powerful, do not bring slanderous accusations against such beings in the presence of the Lord.

Michael an angel, did the work of angels as outlined in 2 Peter, as he did not bring a slanderous accusation against the devil.

Jude does not identify the archangel Michael, as Christ.

http://www.truthorfables.com/Is_Michael_Christ.htm


Michael did not rebuke satan, but rather, said "The Lord rebuke you." If he was Christ, he would have rebuked the devil himself. Afterall, Jesus Christ in the New Testament rebuked the devil and his demons

http://allafrica.com/stories/200908260349.html

The writer cited my write-up/pseudonym in this online article.

dwonder:
According to the Bible, angels are spirits, just as God himself is a Spirit. (Psalm 104:4; John 4:24)

The angelic family is large, numbering into the millions. (Revelation 5:11)

And all of them are “mighty in power.” (Psalm 103:20)

Though angels are like humans in that they have personality and are given free will, they did not begin their lives as humans.

In fact, God created angels long before mankind’s appearance—even before the creation of planet Earth. When God “founded the earth,” says the Bible, “the morning stars [angels] joyfully cried out together, and all the sons of God began shouting in applause.” (Job 38:4, 7)

Since the angels are God’s creation, they are called the sons of God.


The angel foremost in power and authority—the chief angel—is named Michael the archangel. (Jude 9)
He is none other than Jesus Christ. (1 Thessalonians 4:16) Countless ages ago when Jehovah purposed to be a Creator, the very first of his creations was this angelic Son. (Revelation 3:14) Later, through this firstborn Son, Jehovah created all other spirit creatures. (Colossians 1:15-17)

Referring to these angelic creatures as his sons, Jehovah asked the patriarch Job: “Where did you happen to be when I founded the earth? Tell me, if you do know understanding. . . . Who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars joyfully cried out together, and all the sons of God began shouting in applause?” (Job 38:4, 6, 7) Clearly, the angels are God’s creation, and they came into existence long before humans.

Michael is an Archangel, but not Jesus Christ. That Biblical Verse that you cited as 'proof' that Michael is Jesus Christ only says "For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel . . ."

If they ban Ogogoro, they should also ban foreign wines and whisky. What's good for the goose . . .

Nice. I grew up in Calabar.

I dont think it's a bad idea to wear make-up. Or, should women rather not perm their hair in the name of modesty, wear nice clothes and look all frumpy, living in unhabitable residences all in the name of Christianity? Not at all.

One of my friends slept at work during his nightshift as a security guard. This was during the rolling electricity blackouts in California. And unfortunately for him, when he woke up, the stand-by generator was missing. His boss made good on his threats to deal with him and reported the case to the cops. After a thorough investigation, the cops revealed to my friend that while he was sleeping, his boss had snucked in and taken the generator. I still find the story amusing.

The houses are nice, would like to build like 4 or five of those four bedroom bungalows in an enclosed neighborhood and rent it out to tenants. Wonder how much that would cost.

I was cracking up at some of the postings. Drama occurs almost on a daily basis in Nigeria that sometimes, you cant be bored living in Lagos.

How much is it for a four bedroom bungalow? Interesting topic.

honeric01:
only in Lagos would nepa takes light and people start raining curses on them and at the same time shout up nepa in excitement as if super eagles won the world-cup once the light is restored.

Not peculiar in Lagos alone, but quite common elsewhere. In Calabar, where I grew up, there was always moans of anger and protest when Nepa took light and shouts of joy when light was restored.

A PR move?

Everybody is not meant to be an entrepreneur. There are some who are contented with a 9-5 hour job that pays the bills and afford them the opportunity to pursue other meaningful activities. As a businessman, you are stressed out daily on how to expand the biz, run the biz and deal directly with competitors. Not everybody is directly cut out for that. And there are some jobs that can pay you a higher salary even more than running your own biz. Money no be everything.

ufofop

faakay:
If you don't have any reasonable contribution to this thread, I will kindly advise you to keep shut 

But it's the truth now. Some, not most.

And he is touted as the best candidate for Anambra State gubernatorial election, with his manifesto to transform Anambra into another Dubai.