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nnamdiokere45:
wat kinda xam r u goin for?

More of a numerical aptitude test

demmy0325:

No joke here o'.....if you know someone direct them here

House,

I have an exam scheduled and need a short term Maths Guru to tutor on Time Critical math assessments. This hire is for 3 weekends only, Saturdays & Sundays. I will pay N12,000 and there's a 50% bonus if I pass the exam.

Extras will include free lunch every tutoring session.

To certify you are fit to teach, I will set up an assessment and you will only be hired if you score 95% upwards.

Candidates must be articulate and must live within Yaba, Lagos. Send your CV to johnmaths122@gmail.com.

I will call shortlisted candidates this Saturday and be ready to start on Sunday.

Thanks.

A plant-covered twisting tower shaped like a DNA strand by Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut is under construction in Taipei, Taiwan

Agora Garden by Vincent Callebaut Architectures



Described by Vincent Callebaut as "neither single tower, nor twin towers", the 20-storey Agora Garden apartment block is designed with a double-helix structure that twists up around a fixed central core.

Agora Garden by Vincent Callebaut Architectures

"Different from the modern city built of concrete, glass and steel, the Agora Garden tower appears in an urban centre as a green twisted mountain," says the architect.

Agora Garden by Vincent Callebaut Architectures

Balconies on each floor will be filled with plants, vegetable gardens and fruit trees, creating a cascading layer of greenery across the exterior. These will enable residents to grow their own food and compost all their biodegradable waste.

Agora Garden by Vincent Callebaut Architectures

Between TWO and four apartments will be located on each floor of the building and will integrate a number of sustainable technologies, including rainwater-harvesting and solar energy.

Agora Garden by Vincent Callebaut Architectures

"The concept is to build a true fragment of vertical landscape with low energetic consumption," explains Callebaut. "The project represents a built ecosystem that repatriates the fauna and the flora in the heart of the city and generates a new box of subtropical biodiversity."

Agora Garden by Vincent Callebaut Architectures

Agora Garden is being constructed on ONE of the largest designated residential sites in the city and will be surrounded be a moat. As well as apartments, the building will also accommodate rooftop clubhouses, a swimming pool, gym facilities and car parking floors.

Agora Garden by Vincent Callebaut Architectures

Vincent Callebaut won a COMPETITION to design the building in 2010 and construction is set to complete in 2016.

The architect also recently unveiled a futuristic concept for "farmscrapers" made from piles of giant glass pebbles. See more architecture concepts by Vincent Callebaut.

HERE'S a detailed project description from the architect:

Agora Garden, An Ecologocal Residential Tower

Taipei, Taiwan, 2010-2016

In November 2010, Vincent Callebaut Architectures SARL was awarded as the successful tenderer for the construction of a new luxurious residential tower located at Taipei. The project is currently under construction and will be completed in 2016.

You will find below the conceptual design proposal PRESENTED during the competition phase in 2010 by Vincent Callebaut, design architect:

The Ecologic Philosophy of the Project

In the heart of the urban networks of Xinyin District in full development, the Agora Garden project PRESENTS a pioneer concept of sustainable residential eco-construction that aims at limiting the ecologic footprint of its inhabitants by researching the right symbiosis between the human being and nature.

On this site that is the last and only biggest parcel of land for residential use, the concept is to build a true fragment of vertical landscape with low energetic consumption. The building is thus eco-designed. It integrates not only the recycling of organic waste and used water but also all the renewable energies and other new state-of-the-art nanotechnologies (BIPV solar photovoltaic, rain water recycling, compost, etc.). The project targets thus the energetic performance so as to be officially approved by the Green Building Label, the norm for high environmental quality, delivered by the Home Affairs Ministry of Taipei.

Part of the concept of inhabited and cultivated vertical farm through its own inhabitants, this project of residential tower enables first to design by its avant-gardist architecture a new life style in accordance with the nature and the climate. Actually, the Agora Garden tower superimposes vertically wide planted balconies of true suspended orchards, organic vegetable gardens, aromatic gardens and other medicinal gardens.

Such as a living organism, the tower BECOMES metabolic! It overpasses its energy-consuming passive role (absorbing all the natural resources and rejecting only waste) to produce its own organic food. The architectural concept is thus to eco-design an energy self-sufficient building, whose energy is electric, thermal and also alimentary.

Therefore, the project answers directly to 4 main ecologic objectives of the After Copenhagen:

1. The reduction of the climatic global warming.
2. The protection of the nature and the biodiversity.
3. The protection of the environment and the quality of life.
4. The management of the natural resources and waste.

Finally, according to the Cradle to Cradle concept where nothing is lost, everything transforms itself; all the construction and furnishing materials will be SELECTED through recycled and/or recyclable labels. By imitating the processes of natural ecosystems, it deals thus with reinventing in Taiwan the industrial and architectural processes in order to produce clean solutions and to create industrial cycle where everything is reused, either back to the ground as non-toxic organic nutrients, or back to the industry as technical nutrients able to be indefinitely recycled. Biotechnological prototype, the Agora Garden project reveals thus the symbiosis of human actions and their positive impact on the nature.

Agora Garden by Vincent Callebaut Architectures

Above: north and south facades

The Morphologic Philosophy of the Project

Neither single tower, nor twin towers, the project arises towards the sky with TWO helicoidal towers gathering themselves around a central core. This architectural party offers a hyper-compacted core and a maximal flexibility of the housing storeys (with the possibility to unify TWOapartments units in one without any footbridge). It brings a reduction of view angles towards the urban landscape and a hyper-abundance of suspended gardens.

The Agora Garden tower is, as its name indicates it, directly inspired of the structure in double helix of the DNA (Deoxyribonucleic acid), source of life, dynamism and twinning. Every double helix is represented in the project by two housing units forming a full level.

Thus, from its base to the top, the 20 inhabited levels in double helix stretch themselves and twist themselves at 90 degrees. By metaphor, the obtained sinuosity corresponds to the universal musical symbol of harmonic revealing the notion of ultimate balance praised by the project.

» This twist of 90 degrees answers to four major objectives:

1. The first objective is to be perfectly integrated in the north/south pyramidal profile of the building volume. Actually, the morphology of the project changes according to its orientation. Its east/west elevations draw a rhomboidal pyramid whereas the north-south ONES represent a reverse pyramid.

2. The second objective is to generate a maximum of cascades of suspended open-air gardens, not part of the F.A.R. (floor area ratio). Thus, the planted balcony surface area can easily exceed the limit of the required 10 percents. The global framework of 40 percents of building coverage ratio, i.e. 3 264 M2 is thus totally respected.

3. The third objective is to offer to the inhabitants exceptional panoramic views on the skyline of Taipei by multiplying the transversal views, especially towards the very close Taipei 101 tower and the Central Business District in full emergence.

4. The fourth objective is to generate from a flexible standardized level a progressive geometry with corbels which assures the intimacy and the confidentiality of each apartment by avoiding the indiscreet vision axes.

Inspired from nature, the Agora Garden project is shaped with an organic fluid and dynamic geometry. From the simple and standardized element of the double helix of housing superimposed vertically and put in successive rotation of 4.5 degrees level by level, a multi-facial morphology appears all in convex and concave curves.

Actually, according to the point of view of the pedestrian from the surrounding streets, the Agora Garden tower changes of faces and proposes new profiles. Besides this moving geometry wearing a planted dress with sensual style, the project represents a built ecosystem that repatriates the fauna and the flora in the heart of the city and generates a new box of subtropical biodiversity. It is a new nest in the city!

Agora Garden by Vincent Callebaut Architectures

Got mine 5 days ago at Slot in V.I opposite coldstone Creamery. Receipts and P.O.S details to support date of purchase. Great phone, got it for 60k now selling it 49,999 only serious buyers. Phone is colored black. 07018081516. I work in V.I and i'm available for a pre-buy viewing.

Undoubtedly, this is the most exciting time in the world of politics as far as Nigeria is concerned. It is more hilarious to see many people who support GEJ dont seem to know why they are even supporting him.

If you dont stand for something, you will fall for anything.

If you want to know the impact of the falling naira, ask traders and importers

If you want to know the impact of Boko Haram in Nigeria, ask people who have lost their loved ones to these insurgents.

If you want to know the impact of a weak central government, ask pensioners who had their entitlement embezzled by one man and heaven never fell.

How much more can I say. When people say they want CHANGE they are not talking of individual or party, they are simply rising up to say Enough is Enough. Power must change hands. Nigerians will not vote for GEJ because he comes from Bayelsa or because he reads the bible, NO!

If Jonathan and his team are truly sure of their victory in this forthcoming election, Nigerians dare them to a FREE & FAIR ELECTION COME MARCH. LET THEM NOT SACK JEGA, LET THEM NOT BOYCOTT CARD READER, LET THEM NOT PRINT THEIR OWN PVCs, AND LET THEM NOT USE SOLDIERS TO BARRICADE POLLING UNITS!

My message to all those lying to GEJ over his victory is that; THERE IS MORE TO THIS LIFE THAN JUST FAKING UP REALITY.

If he likes let him sack all the Sure-Pocket's staff, Let all the kings point 200 sticks to him for prayers, let him spray dollar quoted with gold,, infact if he likes he can jog from Nigeria to Middle East.

OMO INYEN KO KAN WA O

29TH OF MARCH NI KOKO.

PDP will know

Eyepencil:
HEY! SHARAP MAKE I HEAR WORD

You funny tho...

Guy that your Igbo accent is so thick I can hear it when you type.

Harjibode:
And dis madman dey claim NEUTRAL.

Dude, if you ever disrespect my post again, I will find you.

I'm not one of them people you talk trash with here, okay.

Niqqa can never win.

I'm neutral on this, but people saying FeBuhari are just lost. You can never win an incumbent, how st*pid are you to think you can wrest power from an entire den of lions?

The only change you'll get is when you come off the bus you are typing your sh*tty comments from.

I just think that quality of service in this country is gradually going up.

We should start seeing the positives rather than dwelling on everything that is wrong.

This just happened before Ikate roundabout. Bus was on fire and 20 minutes later firefighters put the flames out. I'm impressed, it seems things really are changing.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epumkjg35-Q

It goes to show the benefits of well administered Public Private Partnerships.

Since in reality people can't really choose who to vote for, the least they can do is hold their leaders accountable by piling pressure when they don't deliver on their responsibilities.

A critical factor going for the people is social media as a platform allowing for cohesion in reasoning and singularity in action. Simply put, 10,000 re-tweets on an issue is enough to get attention and force a response from them.

This video shows a measure of the living standards we should start holding ourselves to.

Have this in mind when next you vote.

Happy Sunday.

Hello House,

Kindly contribute clicks in support of our own 'Rapsom' as he battles out in a beat contest for legendary producer DJ Premier with Royce Da 5'9'.

It entails a beat remake of a classic Royce Da 5'9' song and here's his remix:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rng3p29kxWc

Vote for him here:

http://bsta.rs/3244b


Show some love people, he has 25 votes and the highest ranking guy has 200+. We are 1,000,000 strong here, if only 5% vote he wins it.

Rapsom makes real HipHop beats not the watered down type you hear everyday, appreciate the art form of this Nairalander.

Thanks.

Oh, and for every vote he'll follow you here or on twitter, your choice.

cc: Rapsom

slex:
Making sense

True words.

ladyvan88:
You should try downloading the Stronglifts App from the play store. It's what I'm doing at the gym right now and my strength is increasing. I'm so excited.

Thanks. Surprised a woman replied, I was expecting feedback from men.

Nice form though.

Thanks. Surprised a woman replied, I was expecting feedback from men.

Nice form though.

Why do public figures like misleading their followers?

That's a special order casket called Promethean, it costs $24,000 with two weeks delivery.

He shouldn't go on social media claiming he made it.

san316:
So you were going to work and s still had time to video a drunk man just standing and feeling high.
Nawa oo. Nosy nigerians.

I have a feeling that was you.

Saw this drunk on my way to work. Apparently he slept/woke in a nearby gutter and still couldn't find his way home.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaXLvcZfZTw

But I thought a drunk always finds his way home?

Anyways, this is a reflection of how our society operates: just a bunch of misguided drunks running our affairs.

I hope ''they'' find their way home

BackDatAssUp:
The nigga in the back is the owner of the trolley.

White dudes doing a workout decided to give the trolley a try.

You are right on the money.

PapiWata:
Looks like they are making a documentary about life in Lagos. Hope they have a good security detail for that adventure.

Nope.

Guys,

I notice people come here every time talking about this aptitude test and that exam blah.
That is just the mainstream way of job hunting, think different and don't follow the crowd.

You don't have to wait for a company to advertise its vacancy before you apply, chances are there is a position within an organisation that could suit you.

I business develop a lot and this requires I go for conferences and such, I realized along the line that majority of the people I meet are already employed and hardly will you see graduates or job seekers. Sad, because this a great way to meet hiring managers that could have a look at your CV and even conduct an impromptu interview for you there.

Here's a few you could attend for free:

Nigerian Oil and Gas conference:
http://www.cwcnog.com/

Power Nigeria
http://www.nigeria-power.com/

West African Power Conference
http://www.wapicforum.com/

Go there with copies of your CV, they are very influential people there who are in the position to hire you on the spot.
All the major I.O.C's and indigenous Independent Oil companies always have their executives in attendance.

Being that it is a networking event you won't have any problem getting 5 minutes of their time which is more than enough for a presentation on why you should be considered for any of their openings.

I have attended all in an official capacity and noticed the absence of job seekers there. It really is a great way of getting access to a company and you have 30 - 55% chances of getting something out of it.


So please ditch conventional ways of job hunting and try something new this time.

Good luck.

I guess since Shale oil is now the in-crude, Americans have not only boycotted Nigerian Bonny Light but apparently they've started helping us sell here in Nigeria.

I happened on this guy a few minutes ago pushing his "wares" in V.I.

Romanciella:
I see why yr girlfrnd dumped yr a*ss

C'mon, I'm playful like that.

It's just my type of way, nothing serious.

Guys I wrote this piece for publishing with my current employer, I thought I should share it with you guys first.



1. Ask, but don’t demand

This is an important point to note, know your worth and do not hesitate in asking for it. Ideally, you can’t lose a job offer just by asking for it – however, the offer could be pulled because of the approach you used.
It is important that your request is within 10 – 15% of your ideal salary range, so avoid giving a specific number until the employer is ready to make you an offer. Remember to be enthusiastic, polite and professional during negotiations. If you’re too pushy, the employer may get the impression that you’re not that interested in the job (or only interested in the money) and withdraw the offer.
If you’re interviewing for a position, it is absolutely fine and expected to negotiate from the first offer. The hiring manager is prepared to negotiate from the starting figure, and will typically leave themselves some room from negotiation. So if you don’t ask, you will likely leave money on the table.

2. Make the request in line with future potential, not past performance

An organization will typically pay more because of your potential to deliver in the future.
Therefore when asking for a pay raise use your past performance as a reference and an indication of the future.
E.g. I previously delivered X within Y timeframe; given M, I am positive I can deliver Q going forward with your organization. Never make it about your personal situation or what others are getting paid in your position. Talk instead about what you can do, and what your future plans are for your position.

3. Sell Yourself

Going through the interview and negotiation process, it is important you remind the employer how they will benefit from your skills and experience and the value you will create for the company. Consider this example, the employer is offering N7.5m p.a, but you’re looking for minimum N8.6m p.a net salary. Explain how they’d benefit by increasing your compensation. For example:

“I understand you have a budget and salary cap to worry about. However, I believe that with the procurement and logistics skills and experience I bring to the position, you won’t have to outsource the logistics functions to a vendor or full time employee as I can easily take on both roles in my new work function. This alone will translate to more than N3m in savings per year.”

In other words, justify every additional kobo or benefit you request. The proper way to do it is by focusing on the employer’s needs, not yours.

4. Be Confident in your request

When making a salary request, it is vital you use confident body language with matching tones and speech patterns. Overstating a request and trying to justify it over and over will get you nowhere. Rather, keep the request short followed with a simple explanation of why that amount is fair.
A strategy you could use is to ask for a few benefits or perks you don’t really need, then you can “give in” and agree to take the job without those added benefits if the employer meets all of your other requests.
This is a win-win situation as both parties come off the table feeling that they got a fair deal. It is advisable your future employers have a sense of value for their money so that your working relationship begins on a positive and unpressured note.

5. Never threaten

This is an unspoken rule in pay negotiations. I am yet to see an employee who threatened his employer and got away with both an increase and his job intact. Always ask for the money based on what you can do for the company, and don’t make it a requirement of your employment. (This is applicable to both new hires and current employees.) Show your employer that you’re reasonable and ready to justify your raise in terms of performance.

6. Consider non-salary options

If your organization can’t raise your pay, it will be better to consider your compensation as a whole. This could see an increase in your benefits package, longer vacations and work time flexibility. An upward nudge on your current work title will satisfy your career progression requirements as that costs the company nothing.


7. Anticipate a refusal of your request

So long as the approach to your request was proper and your timing right, the worst you will get is a “no”.
Have that at the back of your mind and don’t let emotions run riot when it happens. Remember that a “no” isn’t forever. A good question to ask after a “no” is when to revisit the issue, and follow up. A “no” now can be a solid “yes” later. Most importantly you have pre-framed your employers mind and also laid the groundwork for any future request.

dammytosh:
The title of the thread should have been :


Frustrating and Idle life of a dumped Mofo.

My dog agrees with your comment.