MEYERSDALE — Luke Maurer and Luke Hostetler shared game-high honors with 10 points each to help Conemaugh Township defeat Meyersdale 45-16 in junior high boys basketball Monday.
Connor Christner led Meyersdale with seven points.
Meyersdale hosts Turkeyfoot in a season finale Friday.
MEYERSDALE — Jenna Glover poured in a game-high 18 points to pace Conemaugh Township's 38-32 victory over Meyersdale in junior high girls basketball Monday.
Meyersdale's Gina Walker scored 15 points and Katie Bolden added 10.
Meyersdale will host Turkeyfoot in a season finale Friday.
SOMERSET — The Somerset U-14 girls soccer team defeated Penn Trafford 1-0 on Sunday.
The lone goal was scored by Megan Law with an assist by Allison Baker.
Savannah Gross, Samantha Thompson, Emily Lloyd, Hannah Sembower and goalie CeCe Pritts helped Somerset post its second consecutive shutout.
SALISBURY — The Salisbury-Elklick Hunting Club will be holding its annual kids fishing derby from 1 to 4 p.m. May 1 on Tub Mill Run at West Salisbury.
The event will be open to kids up to the age of 12. A total of 400 trout will be stocked. The location of the event is from the club's Anderson Nursery upstream approximately one mile to the Wagner Bridge. All children must be accompanied by an adult.
The Casselman River Watershed Association has also planned a Kids Fishing Day from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on May 14.
The event will be held on Coxes Creek in Rockwood at the rear of 910 Main Street. The Watershed Association will be stocking 200 trout for this event.
Loaner equipment will be available along with volunteer fishing skills instructors.
SOMERSET — The team of Fred Gross, John Foust and Loretta Wilmoth toppled 1,915 pins to take first-place honors in a field of 43 senior bowlers on Friday at Terrace Lanes.
John Mostoller, Nene Lizambri and Devon Miller were second with 1,864 pins.
Ray Swank, Dee Fisher and Ed Shaffer took third with 1,840.
High series: Mostoller 680, Gross 587, Swank 586, Dave Faidley 543, Al Wheeler 536, Vic Wheeler 526, Nick Kingera 521, Linda Donia 516, Foust 515, Mickey Talley 513, Joe Slope 512, Betty Maurer 509, Bob Weigle 507.
High games: Mostoller 256-236, Swank 224-207, Clyde Gray 218, Al Wheeler 214, Gross 207, Vic Wheeler 203, Foust 201.
Boys 7/8 Grade League: Westmont (1) 42, Forest Hills 36; Richland 7th 33, Westmont (2) 31; Somerset 57, Mihalko's General Contracting 45.
HARNEDSVILLE — Nathan Bodes scored a game-high 23 points pacing Salisbury's 38-30 victory over Turkeyfoot in a junior high boys basketball game Monday.
Justin Parks led the hosting Rams with 17 points. Teammate Josh Metheny contributed eight points.
Turkeyfoot visits Berlin on Wednesday.
HARNEDSVILLE — Katie Ryan, Sadie Riskus and Emilie Wheatley combined for 30 points, and Shelby Conn pulled down a team-high 10 rebounds to highlight Turkeyfoot's 43-20 victory over Salisbury in junior high girls basketball Monday.
Salisbury's Brooke Gray, Kaylyn McKenzie and Kylee Short combined for 20 points.
Turkeyfoot (9-3) travels to Berlin on Wednesday.
SOMERSET — The Somerset Football Boosters will meet at 6:30 this evening in the senior high LGI room.
WINDBER — Windber swept Westmont Hilltop, 4-2 and 11-6, on Saturday in a JV girls softball doubleheader.
Jill Penatzer and Breanna Sheehan combined for the mound win in Game 1. Brooke Schreyer tripled and scored two runs.
In Game 2, Sheehan teamed up with Kayla Kormanik for the pitching victory. Kormanik and Kaitlin Koot each collected two hits.
EAST MCKEESPORT — Ty Collins fired in three goals and Garrett Peters scored two as Somerset's U-10 boys defeated East Allegheny 8-2 Sunday in Pa. West soccer action.
Kurt Pucci, Max Farner and Tyler Moon also found the back of the net. Collins, Peters and Jack Hostetler were credited with assists.
Henry Buss, Wes Tokar and Nash Frazier provided solid defense on the back line. Christopher Silka was the winning goal keeper.
KANTNER — North Star swept Somerset 25-9, 25-12 on Monday in girls junior high volleyball.
The Lady Cougars also prevailed in the JV match 25-2, 25-8.
SOMERSET — Somerset United played to a 1-1 draw against Hempfield Sunday in Pa. West soccer action.
Down 1-0 in the second half, Kody Williams took the ball down the heart of the defense and was fouled in the box. After beating two defenders, the third tripped Williams and a penalty kick was awarded. Zach Ferchalk converted the PK for the tie.
Williams and Sam Hayward were in goal for Somerset and made six saves. Somerset outshot Hempfield 11-6.
The Somerset/Berlin U-14 Pa. West soccer team opened it season with a 2-0 victory of over Loyalhanna on Sunday.
Both goals were scored by Emil Kiesnowski with assists from Kane McKenzie and Tanner Ferko. The defense posted their first shutout with strong play from Turner Paul, Scarlett Wagner, Adam Struky, Kane McKenzie and Teegan Jenner. Marshall Engleka was the winning goalkeeper.


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FAQ about Musicals and Concert halls
Where to listen to classical music in Moscow?
This is an article from a section FAQ about Moscow musicals and concert halls. Read in detail about Moscow musical theatres in the Moscow musical section and about Moscow concert halls at the Concert halls section.
More about Moscow concert halls
Moscow has always been famous as a great place for classical music lovers and the world's top performers love to give concerts here. To listen to classical music, some buy costly up-to-date equipment and others prefer vinyl records, but this does not quite convey an authentic concert atmosphere. Real classical music lovers prefer live symphonic performance and the inimitable acoustics of a concert hall.
Moscow State Academic Philharmonic
The first place goes to the Moscow State Academic Philharmonic, with a seating capacity of over 1,500 and beautifully preserved historical interiors. The Philharmonic's repertoire includes not only classical symphonies and folk music, but also jazz and other contemporary music genres.
Moscow Conservatory
The Moscow Conservatory is another major meeting place for classical music lovers. The big concert hall of the Moscow Conservatory boasts outstanding acoustics, which is greatly appreciated throughout the world, and both top modern musicians and the Conservatory students give concerts here. Interestingly, entrance to some performances is free of charge.
Moscow House of Music
The Moscow House of Music is among the top music performance venues across the world. The state-of-the-art technical equipment enables the House of Music to host the most sophisticated synthetic shows.
What concerts at the Moscow Conservatory are kid-friendly?
Are there any dress code requirements at the Moscow Conservatory?
How to buy tickets to folk song and dance performances in Moscow?
Best musicals in Moscow
Can I take my kids to folk song and dance performances ?
Are there any special performances in Moscow?
What kid-friendly musicals are there in Moscow?
Where to see musicals in Moscow?
How to buy a musical ticket in Moscow?

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function varargout = im2avi(ext, imDir, scale, frameRate, fileName, map)
% converts image sequenses to avi video
%
%   SYNTAX:
%   im2avi(ext, imDir, scale, frameRate, fileName, map)
%   mov = im2avi(ext, imDir, scale, frameRate, fileName, map)
%
%   INPUT:
%   imDir: image sequence directory
%   ext: the extension name of the image such as 'jpg', 'tif',
%   scale: image resize, like [320 400] or 0.9
%   frameRate: avi video frame rate
%   fileName: save avi as, full name
%   map: colormap want to use
%
%   OUTPUT:
%   mov, matlab movie variable. If you put nothing as output, the function will
%   just save the file without output movie variable.

%=============================================================
%   This function is based on im2avi (author: Zhe Wu @ Univ of
%   Rochester)
%
% This function is a modified version of im2avi downloaded from
% http://nw360.blogspot.com/2007/05/convert-images-to-avi-video.html
% modification of this version:
% 1. input filename is full path of the filename instead of filename without
% folder name as the original version.
% 2. there won't be figures show up for frame getting purposes.
% 3. the file names are sorted according to nature order using function
% sort_nat.
% 4. input playFlag was removed
%=============================================================
%
% by Weiguang (Gavin) Ding, April 2012

%% extract the images names with certain ext
% filesep stands for / in linux
fileArray = dir([imDir filesep '*' ext]);
fileNameArray = sort_nat({fileArray.name});

if numel(fileNameArray) == 0
    error('There is no file end with %s in path %s.', ext, imDir);
end

%% extract images from images files and make them matlab movie file
numIms = size(fileArray, 1);
I1 = imresize(imread([imDir filesep fileNameArray{1}]), scale);
D = zeros(size(I1, 1), size(I1, 2), 1, numIms);
for frameInd=1:numIms
    disp(sprintf('reading images... frameInd = %d', frameInd));
    imName = [imDir filesep fileNameArray{frameInd}];
    im = imread(imName) ;
    im = imresize(im, [size(D, 1), size(D, 2)]);
%     mv(frameInd) = struct('cdata', {ind2rgb(im, map)}, 'colormap', {[]});
    D(:, :, 1, frameInd) = im;
end

D = uint8(D);
mv = immovie(D,map);
%% write movie, output
% movie2avi(mv, fileName, 'fps', frameRate, 'compression', 'None', 'colormap',map);
movie2avi(mv, fileName, 'fps', frameRate, 'colormap',map);

if nargout >0
    varargout{1} =mv;
end

end

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In Memory Of Ken Block
Like so many people in the motorsport and sim racing communities, we're saddened by the news of the tragic loss of Ken Block. The American rally driver, X Games medalist, DC Shoes co-founder and Hoonigan Industries co-owner not only gained huge fame for his talent behind the wheel, but also had a sizeable impact on racing games.
Originally appearing as a driver in Colin McRae: Dirt 2, the success of his Gymkhana videos on Youtube led to him appearing as an instructor in Dirt 3. And that style of motorsport has appeared, along with Block and various iconic Hoonigan cars, in Dirt: Showdown, Need for Speed, Forza Motorsport, and Forza Horizon. Most recently, he'd partnered with CSR Racing 2.
There aren't many professional racing drivers who have been such an integral part of racing games, with appearances, cars and dedicated Gymkhana challenges being a part of player progression, especially in the DiRT and Forza Horizon series. This began with the Hoonigan DLC packs for Forza Horizon 3 and Forza Motorsport 7, and being featured launch cars in Forza Horizon 4 and 5.
While it's just part of a career including competing in the World Rally Championship, the Global Rallycross and European Rally Cross series, and the X Games, reaching a huge audience via YouTube and television appearances, and so many other achievements, my first thought upon learning of his untimely death was the fun I've had drifting and jumping virtual Hoonigan cars around on a computer screen.
When a run or challenge has gone well, it's hard not to imagine yourself co-starring in a new Ken Block video.
Ken Block had a big impact on racing games, as well as motorsport in general
Along with the entire community of motorsport and racing game fans, we'd like to extend our deepest sympathy to Ken Block's family and friends.
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Beranda Hot Highbrow Films Aimed at Winning Oscars Are Losing Audiences
Highbrow Films Aimed at Winning Oscars Are Losing Audiences
A year ago, Hollywood watched in despair as Oscar-oriented films like "Licorice Pizza" and "Nightmare Alley" flatlined at the box office. The day seemed to have finally arrived when prestige films were no longer viable in theaters and streaming had forever altered cinema.
But studios held out hope, deciding that November 2022 would give a more accurate reading of the marketplace. By then, the coronavirus would not be such a complicating factor. This fall would be a "last stand," as some put it, a chance to show that more than superheroes and sequels could succeed.
It has been carnage.
One after another, films for grown-ups have failed to find an audience big enough to justify their cost. "Armageddon Time" cost roughly $30 million to make and market and collected $1.9 million at the North American box office. "Tár" cost at least $35 million, including marketing; ticket sales total $5.3 million. Universal spent around $55 million to make and market "She Said," which also took in $5.3 million. "Devotion" cost well over $100 million and has generated $14 million in ticket sales.
Even a charmer from the box office king, Steven Spielberg, has gotten off to a humdrum start. "The Fabelmans," based on Mr. Spielberg's adolescence, has collected $5.7 million in four weeks of limited play. Its budget was $40 million, not including marketing.
The problem is not quality: Reviews have been exceptional. Rather, "people have grown comfortable watching these movies at home," said David A. Gross, a film consultant who publishes a newsletter on box office numbers.
Ever since Oscar-oriented films began showing up on streaming services in the late 2010s, Hollywood has worried that such movies would someday vanish from multiplexes. The diminishing importance of big screens was accentuated in March, when, for the first time, a streaming film, "CODA" from Apple TV+, won the Academy Award for best picture.
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This is about more than money: Hollywood sees the shift as an affront to its identity. Film power players have long clung to the fantasy that the cultural world revolves around them, as if it were 1940. But that delusion is hard to sustain when their lone measuring stick — bodies in seats — reveals that the masses can't be bothered to come watch the films that they prize most. Hollywood equates this with cultural irrelevancy.
Sure, a core crowd of cinephiles is still turning out. "Till," focused on Mamie Till-Mobley, whose son, Emmett Till, was murdered in Mississippi in 1955, has collected $8.9 million in the United States and Canada. That's not nothing for an emotionally challenging film. "The Banshees of Inisherin," a dark comedy with heavily accented dialogue, has also brought in $8 million, with overseas ticket buyers contributing an additional $20 million.
"While it is clear the theatrical specialty market hasn't fully rebounded, we've seen 'The Banshees of Inisherin' continue to perform strongly and drive conversation among moviegoers," Searchlight Pictures said in a statement. "We firmly believe there's a place in theaters for films that can offer audiences a broad range of cinematic experiences."
Still, crossover attention is almost always the goal, as underlined by how much film companies are spending on some of these productions. "Till," for instance, cost at least $33 million to make and market.
And remember: Theaters keep roughly half of any ticket revenue.
The hope is for results more in line with "The Woman King." Starring Viola Davis as the leader of an all-female group of African warriors, "The Woman King" collected nearly $70 million at domestic theaters ($92 million worldwide). It cost $50 million to produce and tens of millions more to market.
Oscar-oriented dramas rarely become blockbusters. Even so, these movies used to do quite well at the box office. The World War I film "1917" generated $159 million in North America in 2019 and $385 million worldwide. In 2010, "Black Swan," starring Natalie Portman as a demented ballerina, collected $107 million ($329 million worldwide).
Most studios either declined to comment for this article or provided anodyne statements about being proud of the prestige dramas they have recently released, regardless of ticket sales.
The unwillingness to engage publicly on the matter may reflect the annual awards race. Having a contender labeled a box office misfire is not great for vote gathering. (Oscar nominations will be announced on Jan. 24.) Or it may be because, behind the scenes, studios still seem to be grasping for answers.
Ask 10 different specialty film executives to explain the box office and you will get 10 different answers. There have been too many dramas in theaters lately, resulting in cannibalization; there have been too few, leaving audiences to look for options on streaming services. Everyone has been busy watching the World Cup on television. No, it's television dramas like "The Crown" that have undercut these films.
Some are still blaming the coronavirus. But that doesn't hold water. While initially reluctant to return to theaters, older audiences, for the most part, have come to see theaters as a virus-safe activity, according to box office analysts, citing surveys. Nearly 60 percent of "Woman King" ticket buyers were over the age of 35, according to Sony Pictures Entertainment.
Hollywood considers anyone over 35 to be "old," and this is who typically comes to see dramas.
Maybe it is more nuanced? Older audiences are back, one longtime studio executive suggested, but sophisticated older audiences are not — in part because some of their favorite art house theaters have closed and they don't want to mix with the multiplex masses. (He was serious. "Too many people, too likely to encounter a sticky floor.")
Others see a problem with the content. Most of the movies that are struggling at the box office are downbeat, coming at a time when audiences want escape. Consider the successful spring release of the rollicking "Everything, Everywhere All at Once," which collected $70 million in North America. Baz Luhrmann's bedazzled "Elvis" delivered $151 million in domestic ticket sales. .
"People like to call it 'escape,' but that's not actually what it is," Jeanine Basinger, the film scholar, said. "It's entertainment. It can be a serious topic, by the way. But when films are too introspective, as many of these Oscar ones now are, the audience gets forgotten about.
"Give us a laugh or two in there! When I think about going out to see misery and degradation and racism and all the other things that are wrong with our lives, I'm too depressed to put on my coat," continued Ms. Basinger, whose latest book, "Hollywood: The Oral History," co-written with Sam Wasson, arrived last month.
Some studio executives insist that box office totals are an outdated way of assessing whether a film will generate a financial return. Focus Features, for instance, has evolved its business model in the last two years. The company's films, which include "Tár" and "Armageddon Time," are now made available for video-on-demand rental — for a premium price — after as little as three weeks in theaters. (Before, theaters got an exclusive window of about 90 days.) The money generated by premium in-home rentals is substantial, Focus has said, although it has declined to provide financial information to support that assertion.
The worry in Hollywood is that such efforts will still fall short — that the conglomerates that own specialty film studios will decide there is not enough return on prestige films in theaters to continue releasing them that way. Disney owns Searchlight. Comcast owns Focus. Amazon owns United Artists. The chief executives of these companies like being invited to the Oscars. But they like profit even more.
"The good news is we've now got a very large streaming business that we can go ahead and redirect that content toward those channels," Bob Chapek, Disney's former chief executive, said at a public event on Nov. 8, referring to prestige films. (Robert A. Iger, who has since returned to run Disney, may feel differently.)
Others continue to advocate patience. Mr. Gross pointed out that "The Fabelmans" will roll into more theaters over the next month, hoping to capitalize on awards buzz — it is a front-runner for the 2023 best picture Oscar — and the end-of-year holidays. Damien Chazelle's "Babylon," a drug-and-sex induced fever dream about early Hollywood, is scheduled for wide release on Dec. 23.
"I think movies are going to come back," Mr. Spielberg recently told The New York Times. "I really do."


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When the Beat (known as the English Beat in the U.S. only) split in 1983, it came as a surprise to guitarist Dave Cox and bassist David Steele. The first time they realized that the group's vocalists, Ranking Roger and Dave Wakelin, had gone off to form a group without them was when their accountant phoned to finalize the divorce. While the defectors had formed General Public, Cox and Steele set about creating something new of their own. Apart from not wanting to repeat the mistakes the Beat made, and a vague notion of adding both jazz and soul to the Beat's ska roots (they also decided to feature a strong vocalist), there was no real master plan. The latter proved harder than they could have imagined. More than 500 potential singers auditioned, before, despairing of finding someone, they decided to seek out a singer whose band had once supported the Beat. They found Roland Gift singing with a barroom R&B band named the Bones, looking like Sidney Poitier but sounding like Otis Redding. He was everything they had remembered; he was their man. Gift had spent his teenage years in youth theatre, until the advent of punk made music his main passion. As punk gave way to the two-tone ska which gave rise to groups like Madness and, ultimately, the Beat, Gift took up saxophone and singing in a local band. Keeping live work down to just the occasional on-off date, the Fine Young Cannibals signed to London Records in early 1985. Their name came from an obscure 1960 film starring Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood. Resisting the record company's attempts to team them up with a producer determined to make the group a product of her sound rather than theirs, the Fine Young Cannibals released a demo version of "Johnny Come Home" as their first single. Its instant success allowed them to team up with a compatible producer, Robin Miller, for the first Fine Young Cannibals album, also containing the group's trademark overstated version of Elvis Presley's "Suspicious Minds." For the Johnathan Demme film Something Wild, they reached back into Gift's punk past with a version of the Buzzcocks' classic "Ever Fallen in Love." Five years later, a second album emerged, The Raw and the Cooked, the raw side made up mostly of songs the group had contributed to Barry Levinson's film Tin Men. The single "She Drives Me Crazy" was a worldwide number one hit. Since then, the Fine Young Cannibals have remained elusive. Cox and Steele continue to work together under various names, while Roland Gift's hoped-for film career never quite took off. The Fine Young Cannibals have never officially broken up, and rumors of reunions and recording sessions have persisted. Their 1996 greatest hits album, The Finest, featured the newly recorded track "Flame."
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When Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger split from the rest of the English Beat to form General Public, Andy Cox and Dave Steele originally advertised on MTV for a new lead singer for the Beat. When that didn't pan out (although it did work for Wall of Voodoo), Cox and Steele hooked up with the unique and soulful singer Roland Gift and formed the Fine Young Cannibals. Though the trio first hit the mass U.S. consciousness with 1989's electronic dance-pop The Raw and the Cooked, their 1985 debut was a soul-jazz pop charmer that's more low key but every bit as entertaining. Along the lines of early Everything But the Girl (the two groups share a producer, Robin Millar) with a heavier Motown influence, the songs on Fine Young Cannibals are uniformly strong. The singles "Johnny Come Home" (a plea to a runaway that sounds like the Beat's ska stripped down to its tense and obsessive essentials) and "Blue" (one of the more oblique and successful anti-Margaret Thatcher tracks of its era) are terrific, but album tracks like the casually devastating "Funny How Love Is" and the manic "Like a Stranger" (which incongruously ends with a female chorus shrieking "You've been too long in an institution!" repeatedly while Gift tries out his Otis Redding impression) are even better. The album's highlight, though, is a reworking of "Suspicious Minds" (with scarifying backing vocals by Jimmy Somerville) that, while it doesn't replace Elvis' version, certainly takes the song into an interesting new direction. Although often overlooked, especially in the U.S., in the wake of their massively successful follow-up, Fine Young Cannibals is a powerful and satisfying debut. The U.S. CD adds two extended remixes of "Johnny Come Home" and "Suspicious Minds." © Stewart Mason /TiVo
The Raw & The Cooked
Pop - Released January 1, 1988 | London Music Stream
One of the most exciting albums released during a decade of artifice and extravagance, in a mere ten songs and 35 minutes the Fine Young Cannibals created a masterpiece. Admittedly the trio had some help -- backing singers, guest musicians (including former Squeeze piano man Jools Holland and Talking Head's Jerry Harrison) -- but that doesn't take away the band's own accomplishment. Remaining true to the FYC's vision of tying past and present musical styles together into artful new pop packages, The Raw & the Cooked features a shopping list of genres. Mod, funk, Motown, British beat, R&B, punk, rock, and even disco are embedded within the songs, while the rhythms, many synthetically created, are equally diverse. In less delicate hands this would be nothing more than an everything including the kitchen sink motley mess, but FYC manage this mix with subtly and elan. Two-thirds of the record were released as U.K. singles, all were hits, and each one proudly boasted a distinctly different blend of styles. "Good Thing," for example, was the trio's tribute to the legendary all-night Northern soul parties of the '60s, but is much more than a mere meld of mod and Motown. It's actually built round a slinky R&B riff, fueled by a boogie-woogie piano, and slammed home with a cracking beat. "I'm Not the Man I Used to Be" is a torrid torch song, but fired by a futuristic jungle beat and an almost housey production. Then, of course, there's "She Drives Me Crazy," which features the most unique, and instantly identifiable, beat/riff combination of the decade. Even the four tracks that didn't make the singles cut could have, if MCA had the audacity to keep releasing them. "Tell Me What" perfectly re-creates the Tamla sound, with only the synth giving it a modern touch, but on the rest, FYC delve deeper into funk, disco, soul, and lovingly coax them into the modern era. Every one of Raw's tracks simmers with creativity, as the hooks, sharp melodies, and irrepressible beats are caressed by nuanced arrangements and sparkling production. Never has music's past, present, and future been more exceptionally combined. © Jo-Ann Greene /TiVo
The Raw & The Cooked (Remastered & Expanded)
Pop - Released February 1, 1989 | London Music Stream
Note: tracks 13, 15 and 18 are not available in 24-bit, you should download the album through your Qobuz application for PC / Mac. In the midst of Eighties synths there arises an atypical soul voice. At the head of the Fine Young Cannibals, Roland Gift is a crooner with a nasal but fascinating falsetto. Backed by two former members of the excellent Birmingham ska band The Beat (guitarist Andy Cox and bassist David Steele), this artist, who also made his debut in a ska band (Akrylykz), offers a kind of hybrid soul of silky pop, smooth jazz and elegant rock. 31 years after its release, The Raw & the Cooked, their second and no-less-classy album resurfaces in remastered form in 24bit Hi-Res augmented by B-sides, demos and remixes. Hard not to think of Prince as soon as the catchy She Drives Me Crazy opens the record, especially since this single was recorded at Paisley Park, the studio of the funkster of Minneapolis, and one of his acolytes, David Z, is on production. Tight and effective rock 'n' soul groove can be found on most other tracks. As with the self-titled debut album that Fine Young Cannibals had released four years earlier and reissued at the same time in impressive jackets, the very 80's rhythm – elastic drums and plastic drum box – is sometimes a bit outdated but never undermines the coherence of the record and the strength of the writing. The minimalist hip hop beat of I'm Not the Man I Used to Be shows that the trio also knows how to break the mould and even confound their fans' expectations, as on the surprising cover of the punk anthem Ever Fallen In Love by Buzzcocks re-done here for the dancefloor. To rediscover, urgently. © Marc Zisman/Qobuz
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Excessive sleepiness is a common medical condition nowadays. It is the result of such widespread sleeping disorders as shift-work disorder, sleep apnea and narcolepsy. ES is associated with some safety and health concerns in patients. There are many different inventions which make it possible to treat excessive sleepiness and its initial causes. Generic Armodafinil is one of the most effective ways of eliminating the symptoms of ES and enhancing a feeling of wakefulness. Armodafinil is considered to be an oral medication.
It is really a very strong wake-promoting drug. It is the R-isomer of that racemic initial Modafinil. Armodafinil and Modafinil have a lot of similar properties. Both medications are completely different form the rest traditional stimulants of the nervous system. How the medication works it is not yet found out, that's why the drug is of great interest for many experts and scientists. In comparison with Modafinil, the effects of Armodafinil appear later during a day. It is explained by the fact that Armodafinil can be a perfect treatment for those people who faced with persistent and constant ES.
Of course, in most cases too much sleep is explained by 3 main all above mentioned disorders. But there are some other reasons for it, which are not yet fully established. Excessive sleepiness is so widespread nowadays, because a lot of people have to work at night and they face with work shifts. Some work on several jobs at the same time which makes their working day longer. All this interferes with normal biological sleep and negatively influences on the overall condition of the organism.
According to the findings in the National Sleep Foundation 2008 Sleep it was found out that quite a big number of Americans suffered from sleep deprivation. 15% out of 1000 responders were diagnosed with sleep disorder. Besides, the poll stated that almost 29% of those who responded were sleepy and drowsy at work during the last month. 36% fell asleep while driving a car during the last year. Es can be also explained by insufficient sleep at night, due to the various behavioral issues, such as self-imposed lack of sleep which leads to poor hygiene of sleep. Also excessive sleep can be explained by some psychiatric disorders, usage of medications and other things.
Sleep hygiene is really very important in a life of each human. This thing contributes to normal and healthy living. Good biological sleep provides you with energy; you look better and live longer in comparison with those people who experienced lack of sleep during long periods of time. Sleep hygiene is something which is done make up environmental and mental state which is conducive to sleep. Regular sleep and avoidance of various stimulants, including coffee, nicotine very close to the bedtime, fresh and quiet rest will provide you with health and well-being.
The co-existence of different psychiatric disorders together with excessive sleep is really common nowadays. If you suffer from too much sleep during a day, you should better order Armodafinil and have the treatment with it. It is a safe medication which will improve the quality of your life which is characterized by ES. You will feel yourself considerably better after a pill of Armodafinil. It is better to avoid drinking coffee, alcohol and other harmful liquids while being treated with the medication.
Quantity and quality of sleep are two very important factors which ensure that a person feels fresh, rested and brisk for different activities. It is very important to lead a healthy lifestyle while taking Armodafinil, because it will contribute to the benefits of the medication. Don't think that eating everything and doing everything will not affect on your treatment with Armodafinil. Certainly, it will not bring any positive effects on the therapy, conversely it can negative influence on the medication. So, if you want to achieve the most of positive effects from Armodafinil you should lead a healthy lifestyle and follow good sleeping habits. Armodafinil is approved by FDA for the treatment of OSA, SWD and narcolepsy in United States.
One should understand that excessive sleepiness doesn't only affect on a patient health, but it has a negative effect on the ability to work, drive a car, be safety in the town and function normally everyday and enjoy life. There are many studies which reveal that a great number of workers sleep at work, or at least have naps which is directly noticed on the quality and productivity of their work. Naps at work can shorten a working day which results in less work done and in the far end in not fulfilled projects.
Many workers nowadays started to buy Armodafinil to stay awake and brisk during their working hours. Those who already tried the medication and didn't experience any of side effects called a drug a "wonder drug". It is a great option for various office workers who deal with boring and monotonous work, which must be done without any discussions. Excessive sleep is also associated with enhanced rates of cardiovascular mortality, congestive heart failure and myocardial infarction.
Those people who suffer from OSA and ES are at a great risk of getting ischemic heart disease in comparison with patients who faced with OSA in isolation. Those who experience excessive sleepiness have a big chance to face with diabetes than those who do not have ES. In average, a body mass index of patients with ES is higher as well. Diabetes and high body mass index (BMI) show about having a metabolic syndrome. The relation between ES, OSA and this metabolic syndrome is really very complicated. These factors interact with each other which can lead to further problems with health. ES can negatively influence on both memory and attention, that's why it should be properly treated.
Armodafinil is widely used for treating excessive sleepiness among adults. Besides, it received much popularity for being a "smart drug".


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COVID-19: NGO donates PPE to 11 states
By Franca Ofili
The Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption (RoLAC) Programme, an NGO, has provided Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARCs) in 11 states.
Mrs Lauratu Abdulsalam, the Communication and Media Engagement Adviser, RoLAC, made this known in a statement in Abuja.
She said the organisation was funded by the European Union (EU) and implemented by the British Council.
She listed the benefiting states as Adamawa, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Enugu, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Lagos, Niger, Sokoto and Yobe.
Abdulsalam said the equipment was also donated to other service providers working in the area of sexual and gender-based violence, including selected Family Support Units (FSUs) in Police stations.
Other places, she said, were the Police Clinic Abuja, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), Sexual and Gender Based Violence Response Teams.
"The PPE distributed to these beneficiaries are hand gloves, hand sanitiser, surgical face masks, disinfectants and disposal aprons, among others.
"The support also covers provision of telephone airtime to enable the SARCs offer telephone counselling and follow up with victims of sexual assault,'' she said.
Abdulsalam said that the aim of the intervention, according to Mr Danladi Plang, the National Programme Manager of RoLAC, was to ensure sustained service delivery to victims of sexual assault during the COVID-19 breakout.
She said that the current prevalence of COVID-19 had led to increase in cases of sexual and domestic violence.
According to her, service providers such as SARCs established by the British Council with support from the EU to provide support services including medical assistance, counselling and initial legal assistance to victims of sexual assault.
She said that according to experts, gender inequalities and violence against women and other vulnerable groups tend to increase during any type of crises or emergency situation.
"For instance, the lockdown order in many states, which restricts movements and enforces sit-at-home, meant that victims have been locked up with abusive partners.
"The increase in sexual and domestic violence is almost inevitable. The restriction has also meant that women and girls who are victims in this situation are limited from having access to support services.
"RoLAC is therefore implementing this intervention so that victims of sexual assault will continue to have access to the services of SARCs and other support services during the COVID-19 outbreak,'' she said.
Abdulsalam said that the Commissioner for Gender Affairs, Enugu State, Mrs Peace Nnaji, who received the equipment on behalf of the state expressed gratitude for the equipment to support the services of the Tamar Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Enugu.
She said that the commissioner's gratitude followed dozens of similar messages the programme had received over the past few days from SARC Centre's managers, in the acknowledgement of the COVID-19 response support RoLAC had provided to 16 SACRs centres.
Abdulsalam said that the programme was also being implemented by the British Council in five states, including Kano, Lagos, Anambra, Edo and Adamawa as well as at the federal level.
"The programme aims to enhance good governance in Nigeria by contributing to the strengthening of the rule of law, to curbing corruption and to reducing impunity; through support to criminal justice and anti-corruption reform.
"It will also support initiatives to enhance access to justice for women, children and persons with disabilities,'' she said. (NAN)
Lagos records 4 more COVID-19 related deaths
COVID-19: Nigeria hits 7,261 infections with 245 new cases Friday


In the lessons that have passed, we learned how to read Arabic script. In this one lesson, we will learn how to scribe words ourselves using the Arabic alphabet, Arabic vowel symbols, and other symbols which we have studied. There are two parts to this lesson; the general case which deals with normal letters, and the specific case which deals with letters which require further discussion.
The General Case: Firstly, it is important to note that all the letters in the alphabet do not have a small or capital form; they exist in one form. In English, we indicate the begin of a new sentence with capital letters, but in Arabic, the reader must understand when one sentence has finished and another has started. Furthermore, there is no punctuation in this language. The period, comma, colon, semi-colon, quotation, exclamation mark, question mark, and all other punctuation that exists in the English language is not considered in Arabic script. All of these grammatical purposes are fulfilled using other methods that involve the positioning of words and the inclusion of particles. Therefore, in order to learn how to write Arabic text, all we need to focus on is the letters.
When forming words in Arabic, letters are joined with one another. Each word is a combination of letters which are attached to each other. Spaces are placed between the words in order to differentiate between them. This style is comparable to that of cursive script in the English language where there are no spaces between letters, there are spaces only between words.
Although this is the general situation, there are several instances where, if a word is small enough, it is attached to the following or preceding word. Also, some words are broken down because they contain letters which do not allow connections to be made to their end. As for the former, this is only apparent when we study the meanings of the words. As for the latter where words are broken down due to letters that do not allow connection, one might assume that the current word has ended and the next word has started when in fact it is the same word. To avoid this confusion, we will learn about these types of letters.
Each letter of the alphabet looks different when it stands alone as a letter, when it is the first letter of a connected set of letters, when it is somewhere in the middle of a connection, and when it appears at the end of a set of connected letters. The table below describes each situation for all of the letters. Notice the letters that do not allow connections at their end. When we see these letters, we must be careful whether to assume that the word has ended or not. They are 6 letters (*). Remember, Arabic is written the way it sounds; there are only a handful of situations in the language where there are silent letters. These silent letters are denoted by being empty of all symbols.
If the 'hamza' is in the beginning of a word, it will be written atop or beneath an 'alif'. If it is maftooh or madhmoom, the 'hamza' will be written over the 'alif', and if it is maksoor, the 'hamza' will be written beneath the 'alif'. If the 'hamza' is in the middle of a word, it will be written on atop or beneath the long vowel appropriate to its short vowel. In the case that the 'hamza' is saakin, it will be written atop or beneath the long vowel appropriate to the short vowel on the preceding letter. Finally, if the 'hamza' is at the end of a word, it will be written by itself.
There are two letters in the Arabic language which are extensions of the existing letters. The first is the extension of the 'taa'. This letter occurs only at the end of words and it is used as an indication that a noun is feminine. The second extension is from the 'alif'. This letter also occurs only at the end of words. It is a non-dotted 'yaa' and is used to indicate femininity in nouns and base-letters in verbs.
The extension of the 'taa', if it is connected to a letter which allows connection, is called a 'taa marboota'. If it is part of a word whose last letter does not allow connection, it is called a 'taa mudawwana'. The extension of the 'alif' is known simply as the 'alif maksoora'.
We now understand how to join letters to make words and we have become acquainted with the details regarding Arabic script. Given each set of letters below, attach them in the given order to form a word.


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using UnityEngine;

namespace GeeoSdk
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Root class of the SDK. It is stateless and allows to perform basic operations with the SDK.
	/// </summary>
	public sealed class Geeo : MonoSingleton<Geeo>
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// Current Geeo SDK's version.
		/// </summary>
		public const string sdkVersion = "1.0.2";

		// Geeo SDK's debug messages logging level
		[SerializeField] private LogLevel logLevel = LogLevel.Verbose;

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		[SerializeField] private bool wsDisconnectOnApplicationPause = true;

		// If regular pings should be sent to check if WebSocket is still alive (should be used for debug purposes only)
		[SerializeField] private bool wsNetworkCheckPings = false;

		// Delay (in seconds) between two network check pings (5 seconds minimum, 30 seconds advised)
		[SerializeField] private float wsNetworkCheckDelaySeconds = 30f;

		#region Public
		/// <summary>
		/// The Geeo SDK's HTTP networking module instance.
		/// </summary>
		public GeeoHTTP http;

		/// <summary>
		/// The Geeo SDK's WebSocket networking module instance.
		/// </summary>
		public GeeoWS ws;
		#endregion

		#region Initializations
		/// <summary>
		/// Initialize SDK's debug messages logging level and networking modules at Awake.
		/// </summary>
		protected override void Awake()
		{
			base.Awake();

			// Set the logging level
			DebugLogs.logLevel = logLevel;

			// Instantiate networking modules
			http = new GeeoHTTP(serverHttpUrl);
			ws = new GeeoWS(serverWsUrl, wsDisconnectOnApplicationPause, wsNetworkCheckPings, wsNetworkCheckDelaySeconds);
		}
		#endregion

		#region MonoBehaviour Events
		/// <summary>
		/// Transmit the OnApplicationPause MonoBehaviour event to the WebSocket module.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="paused">If the application lost the focus.</param>
		private void OnApplicationPause(bool paused)
		{
			ws.OnApplicationPause(paused);
		}

		/// <summary>
		/// Transmit the OnApplicationQuit MonoBehaviour event to the WebSocket module.
		/// </summary>
		private void OnApplicationQuit()
		{
			ws.OnApplicationQuit();
		}
		#endregion
	}
}


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Home Projects Estate Management THE PROBLEM AND PROSPECTS OF HOUSING IN THE NEW STATE CAPITAL, ASABA...
THE PROBLEM AND PROSPECTS OF HOUSING IN THE NEW STATE CAPITAL, ASABA DELTA STATE
Housing has become one of the major problems in which individuals, private / public establishment are facing in the new state capital in Nigeria today.
Housing do not offer shelter only but also they are considered as a status social and a successful life. The research work will enable us to identity the problems, the impacts, the importance and the general effect of housing problem in the new state capital.
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1.1 Housing problem in Asaba
1.2 Historicla background of Asaba
1.3 Problem of land acquisition for housing
2.0 Situations of existing houses in Asaba
2.1 Lack of maintenance
2.2 Town planning regulations
3.0 Rehabilitation and conservation
3.1 Solution to the Housing problem
3.2 Effectiveness of property maintenance
4.0 Population density
4.1 Use of local building materials
4.2 Solution ot land acquisition problem
5.0 Summary, Recommendation and conclusion
5.1 Summary / Conclusion
5.2 Recommendation
Housing is one of the three basic necessities of life. He dignity of man is usually enhanced by his ownership of house. The greater population of the world population is housed, the population that is well housed is in the minority while dilapidated houses are accommodating the greater population of the world.
The concentration and rapid increase of population in the new state capitals is based on the few and inadequate social services in the town. The main pointer in the new state capital is the problem of a housing, houses to match the over-growing demand so as to produce rent which are reasonable to meet the community and which are equitable in terms of returns to investors in housing in the urban area and developing areas like Asaba-statistics have it that in Asaba, some areas, the home is too small to allow for decent family life and offers no more than a tiny abode to its members. Statistics also have it that urban dwelling are in general over-crowded and surrounded by a deplorable urban landscape situation. This most unsatisfactory situation is still setting hard due to the impact of population growth and urbanization, there has been a remarkable increase in recent years.
In the recent rate of growth of population together with a steady force of population from the rural area to the urban centres. Theres has been a rapid increase in the number of experts, administrative and technical personels as a result of improvement, changes and growth in development standard improvement in the general level of prosperity; income, living condition of people has led to people demanding more and better houses.
On the other hand, supply for number of reasons has not kept pace with this demand in the urban areas because of industries situated there, it has made it possible for people to migrate to these areas despite the quality of a problem in finding a means to have accommodation which is relatively cheap with the means of the rural folk and yet of sufficient high quality ot satisfy certain basic requirements.
Though these days, expert now live in the rural areas because of developments, it still takes time to construct dwelling house, while the buildings are under construction, they will have to accept the available ones. The housing problem out of necessity to be considered against the background of the social philosophy of the community. there are certain peculiarities associated with the economic of housings, particularly the fact that there is considerable inconsistency on both the demand and supply side of housing.
There is the unadulterated 'MARXIST' view that government should be totally committed and has a responsibility to provide accommodation at reasonable rents must be provided for every person and so on should be allowed, for instance to take advantage of his ownership of land or wealth to exploit the tenant group in society, having said all these, it will be proper to state the problem of housing in Asaba. It is very common to see that the acquisition of and is tough in the sense that land is expensive and counted in supply and in addition, it takes a rather long time to negotiate and come by good title to land even after land must have been acquired and building erected. It is not enough because it cannot accommodate the teeming population and this ten leads to overcrowding which is not good for healthy living. Buildings are overcrowded and human being also are too much due to large household size and shortage of housing.
One point should be understood and that is of good planning, if Asaba is well planned, then the problem of housing may not be much. But because of inadequate facility utilities and amenities not been provided for. It will then be worsen when the population is much or over crowded. Come to think of it rents are very high for the good enough buildings and this does not go down well for the low income earners and this makes for an unhealthy way of living but if the government could come and build low cost houses, then it will save these dwellers from their suffering.
Although dwellers who can afford decent houses ot live in, it makes for the high growth of tenement, because they now resort to live in place where there is not good ventilation and the house cluster. These houses are not permanent in the sense that if there is heavy wind or rain, the building collapses and life is lost, tough because they will have to provide another accommodation or they will have to rebuild.
Lack of planning is another problem because since these houses are built carelessly, it does make for good planning. They do not get the go ahead from the authorities concerned, these buildings have been developed and demolished when the planning authorities find out, so it is safer to get the go ahead from the authorities concerned even though it will take so much time ot acquire but it should be worthwhile in the long run.
Decent housing is one of the basic need of every individual, the family and community. in general a prerequisite to the survival of man. The housing as a unit of the environment has profound influence on the health, efficiency, social behaviour satisfaction and general welfare of the community it reflects the cultural, social and economic value of a society as it is the best physical and historical evidence of civilization in a town and country. The importance of providing adequate housing in any town cannot be over stated. It is a stimulant of the national economy.
Decent housing on the other had can be regarded as a right of every individuals, a great population of the population in Asaba live in sub-standard and poor housing and a deplorable, unsanitary rapid urbanization and economic growth have compounded the problem of acute population in Asaba.
There is therefore great shortage of housing especially for the low-income earners in Asaba. A household sample survey conducted one selected part of the town in October 1995 by the participants of this workshop revealed that about 84.46% of the housing units are flats while only 28.4% are tenement units. This has resulted in high room occupancy ration of more than five (5) persons per habitable room as recorded in parts of Umuaji, Umuezei, Egengbome in Asaba.
flat sharing or multiple occupation of apartment flats are measures used by those of low-income earner to redress. This often leads to the deterioration of the residential buildings and the environment. The causes of shortage of tenement house can be attributed to such factors as high cost of land by acquisition, lack of finance, high cost of building materials, and population trends, unwillingness of private developer to invest in tenement houses due largely to know returns from such development and the fact that planning schemes for some of the layout deliberately excluded tenement building eg Ezena Avenue.
Sitting of certain housing project (i.e portion of low cost housing) are some of the factors responsible for flooding in the city. Some draws in the Ezenei Avenue, low cost housing for example were constructed with utter disregard to the topography of the area so that water is expected to flow against the radiant. In general, the problem of housing in Asaba is more of shortage of appropriate housing units in form of tenement or rooming houses whose rents are affordable by people in the low income level than shortage of flat apartment many of which vacant due to high rentage.
Also flood wreaks in Asaba, make people lose property and also the lost of five's are encountered. These problems bring about rebuilding and displacement of occupants of the affected buildings.
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF ASABA
Asaba is located in the eastern part of delta state with sixteen (16) local government area. A rapid developing urban centre and the administrative headquarter of Delta state in Nigeria. Its historical roots is from both Kogi and Anambra state.
A woman named Diaba from Agbakuba village in Nteje, Anambra state, was said to have been impregnated by Onojobo, a prince and trader from Igala land, while she was residing in Eze Anyanwu's court as one of the court girls. She was said to have hailed from the royal line of Ezechima, the legendary ancestor of numerous settlements east of the Niger, including Onitsha. This explains why Benin, Asaba and Onitsha seem to share a common culture and tradition as in the area of festival regalia like traditional coral beads and hand-woven big flowing white gowns and traditional titles scuh as the Onowu Iyasele of Onitsha and the Iyase Onowu of Asaba. Asaba is one of the emerging urban centres of present date Nigeria. Before the creation of Delta and Ado state, Asaba was the headquarter of Oshimili south local government which has a limited political significance. After the creation of Delta state and Asaba as the headquarter continue to attract many governmental functionaries such as ministries and all types of government parastatals thereby swelling up in population increase, in working class people.
Today, Asaba is experiencing greater housing problems than ever before and it is feared that impact may take some time to subside.
1.3 PROBLEMS OF LAND ACQUISITION FOR HOUSING
Before the land use Act of 1978, ownership of land was rested on individuals and community which result to cumbersome and obstacles to individuals willing to acquire an interest in land. The land use Act stopped private owners and individuals from owning land rather having possession on it in perpetuity. It rested all land in the power of the governor of each state. Before a private individual acquires and interest in land from the state governor, he has to undergo series of protocol before he can be issued with a right of title or certificate of occupancy to use and enjoy the relevant piece of land usually evidence in certificate of occupancy (C OF O).
The system and process of securing title to land is unsatisfactory and cumbersome. As a first step towards this, the private individual has to buy a form which contains some questions to be completed and submitted before specified time. The authority concerned with the processing and insurance of this certificate of occupancy often make situations difficult for the developer who would otherwise which to make immediate development. this is because the certificate of occupancy consume a lot of time before it can be issued to a developer. The next stage after the processing of the form is that, those that have been approved are rent to the governor for endorsement and whereby governor is busy, he can then assign this duty of endorsement to the commissioner of lands, works and transport, who endorses his signature with a red wax to show its validity.
The successful applicant is then given a certificate of occupancy to use and enjoy the land subject to the conditions and covenants contained in the said certificate.
The logic being the issue of condition and covenants is that only authorized occupier can develop, enjoy or lease the land but subject of course to the zoning and planning laws and other regulations affecting land use, in relevant urban area. it is now clear from the foregoing that housing is militated against by the problem of land acquisition in Asaba.
The importance of housing cannot be over emphasized. Unfortunately, one of the greatest problems facing the administrative / commercial city in Delta state is that a large number of people have migrated into the town and since this rapid increase is not been met by increase in new dwelling units, the existing units are over used, as a result of lack of foresight. Some areas in Asaba were not well planned to make room for future development and this has given rise to overcrowding, inadequate housing and deteriorating condition of houses.
The general inadequacy of housing in Asaba urban are revealed in shocking data obtained from some filed surveys. For example house occupancy ranging from 3-5 persons per room had been recorded for many parts of cable point, Ezenei avenue and Ibuse road areas.
In the case of Ezenei avenue, Ogbeilo Umuanaji quarters and Ezeugbome, an overall average of 5-6 persons per room was obtained in a survey of tenement houses.
These data reveals the seriousness of overcrowding in this area. infact, due to unplanned reason, overcrowding can be seen as a high ration of occupancy per dwelling unit. This is observed that high room occupancy raising form 3-5 persons per room makes uncomfortable over crowding for disorderliness.
However, no matter how one defines them, they pose serious problems in our urban areas. Overcrowding has been described as a health hazard both physclaly and psychologically. Housing units are a treat to health safety. If they are physically inadequate and structurally unsound.
They are meant to shelter and when they fail to perform any of the above functions, they seize to be houses. Again, it has been observed that majority of inhabitant in Asaba live in discomfort house with over deteriorating neighbourhood. In any case, room occupancy ratio approach the straggering number of 6-7 person per room above the accepted standard of two persons per room.
Basic amenities such as kitchen, toilet, bathroom, are often not available ispite of all above, house rents keep rising and these are commonly found in areas like Oghogonogo, and Ogbello quarters. The provision of amenities in the dwellings are generally inadequate in Asaba.
In addition, some parts of the city are flooded after heavy rainfall, and these adversely affects many streets including Ogboni junction, cable point, Obodoachele and in fact so many other streets in Asaba. Poor drainage facilities, and bad setting of certain housing project (eg certain portion of Obodo-shale especially college junction by Onitsha road and cable point junction) are some of the factors responsible in flooding in the town. The residents of the affected parts are always in danger with regards to their lives and properties, whenever there is a heavy rainfall.
Residential accommodation has been described as the second class of user in urban land. But in Asaba, most residential area are assuming small scale business due to the existing nature of Asaba and this poses a problem on residential houses.
In real sense, accommodation problem can be seen in three main sense;
1) In the sense of an absolute shortage of accommodation.
2) In the sense that the majority of dwelling units fail to satisfy certain minimum standards of safety sanitation and density.
3) In the sense that there is a satisfactory house, but at a rent which adversely limits the family's ability to afford other amenities of life.
Lack of maintenance has caused a great defect to private buildings put by private individuals, corporate bodies like share holders, charity organization etc. A glance around any of the major cities in the country will show that the up keep of private properties and their continued maintenance has not been given the desired attention either in the past or at present. Maintenance of most properties in Asaba takes place only the facilities is damaged and this usually is after occupiers of the buildings must have complained persistently for a long period.
In Asaba, one can easily notice that most buildings have not been painted for a very long time. A building may be seen, which has stayed for over two or more decades without being repainted and the paint currently on it will be flaking off or would have completely flaked off. On entering most buildings, it was discovered that some of the doors have no handles or lock and that some of the windows have their louvers broken. In case of high rise buildings, it is doubtful if the foundation are strong enough to sustain them.
In most offices, the ceilings are warped or sagged entirely and often expose the roofing sheets. The toilets facilities are left in a poor state of dis-repair due to improper usage and poor installations while at the same time the necessary facilities for the proper functioning of those toilets are missing. Where water is available at all, it is noticeable on the floor due to burst pipes and broken sinks.
This is increasing nowadays, that property owners in urban centres do not maintain or seek the help of Estate firms for management of their property. In what interests then are the monthly rents paid by tenants if basic property maintenance needs are left to mercy of dilapidation? As these properties are left uncared for, the rate of deterioration increases with attendant fall in value which at the end may result in collapse, claming many lives and at the same time reducing the stock of property in the city.
Before securing land for any development purpose in an urban area, it is the duty of the town planning authoitry to map out an area of land that will be suitable for different types of development.
The influence of town planning control on property cannot be over-stressed. The power at the disposal of the town planning authority in creating land values decreasing them or shifting them form one area to another is very enormous for instance, a planning decision to gone a formally agricultural area unto residential gone or presidential area into industrial zone will increase the land values in such areas. Rezoning residential unto commercial will have a similar effect.
The diversion of a major road in a shopping centre will increase the values to the new road, whereas the value of properties adjoining the old road may fall.
With reference to Asaba, the city is not planned and as a result of this problem, the metropolis has what I may call overlapping; and usage at its highest order. This makes it impossible among the various properties or land uses in the city thereby aggravating the housing problems in the city.
But with effective town planning regulations, the areas for residential purpose will be kept for that purpose so also with industrial and commercial purpose.
With all these regulation, one can see that imposing a commercial property on residential land will be a difficult thing to do.
HOUSING PROBLEM IN ASABA
PROBLEMS OF LAND ACQUISITION FOR HOUSING
PROBLEMS OF LAND ACQUISITION FOR HOUSING IN NIGERIA
SITUATIONS OF EXISTING HOUSES IN ASABA
THE PROBLEM AND PROSPECTS OF HOUSING IN NIGERIA
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My freind has a boyfriend who got stabbed, so about how long would he be under watch or hopitalized?
Why would a guy like for his gf to sit on his lap like this? If ex husband hasn t paid child support and now applied for passport what happens? True or False: its true love when your partner licks your nose hairs for you? He blocked me he text me today saying he unblocked me And feel free to contact him we text now I'm calling no answer I'm blocked again why? Bf 3yrs told me to always be obedient and I'm not allowed to ques him and I have to keep him happy. He away in army should I brakeup wit him?


Jules Laforge (1860-1887) was a French poet born in Uruguay. He moved to France in 1866 to attend school. Beginning in 1881, he spent five years as French reader to the empress Augusta of Germany. He retired in 1886, returned to Paris and married, but soon after came down with tuberculosis and passed away in 1887.


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New report claims HTCAndroid Wear watch is still coming after all
Despite a recent rumor claiming that HTChad axed its watch plans, a new report claims its first Android Wear device is coming and will arrive to stores in early 2015.
The Apple Watch has been announced, there's plenty of Android Wear competition, there's the Pebble, there's the Gear line — it's all too much and so last week we learned HTChad reportedly canned its plans to enter the smartwatch game feeling it couldn't keep up with its competitors. Except, apparently, this report might not be so accurate after all.
Yet another report has surfaced citing "people familiar with the matter", this time coming to us from CNET. Considering both reports are unofficial, it's hard to say which is correct. If HTCis working on a watch and this latest rumor is right, however, we won't see it until shipped until early 2015 — likely around the same time as the Apple Watch's commercial launch.
LG G Watch and G Watch R represent some of the competition HTCwill face.
Supposedly HTC's first watch will aim to stand out from the crowd, likely including its own apps and watchfaces to help set it apart from other Android Wear devices. Keep in mind that HTCwon't be able to actually alter the UI, though, as Google doesn't allow this level of customization with its watch platform. Not suprisingly, HTCdeclined to comment on this report and so speculation is advised. That said, we wouldn't be that surprised if HTCeventually brings us a Wear device, but the question is when. And no, sources state that we wouldn't see a watch unveiling at HTC's upcoming October 8th event.
What do you think, excited to see what HTCmight bring to the table, if they are indeed still working on an Android Wear device? Hope for a square or circular design? Perhaps design is less important and you'd rather see a AW device with over a day's battery life?


Today is September 6th, 2018 and we're enclosing the newest Real Estate Listings in Holly Ridge North Carolina. Holly Ridge is located on Hwy 17 between Jacksonville and Wilmington and is just minutes from Topsail Island and the Camp Lejeune Marine Base. Independence Realty and its Real Estate agents are focused on our local neighborhoods with sales, listings, property management, rentals, and all of their home needs to live in this wonderful community.
Today is August 27th, 2018 and we're enclosing the newest Real Estate Listings in Holly Ridge North Carolina. Holly Ridge is located on Hwy 17 between Jacksonville and Wilmington and is just minutes from Topsail Island and the Camp Lejeune Marine Base. Independence Realty and its Real Estate agents are focused on our local neighborhoods with sales, listings, property management, rentals, and all of their home needs to live in this wonderful community.
Today is August 16th, 2018 and we're enclosing the newest Real Estate Listings in Holly Ridge North Carolina. Holly Ridge is located on Hwy 17 between Jacksonville and Wilmington and is just minutes from Topsail Island and the Camp Lejeune Marine Base. Independence Realty and its Real Estate agents are focused on our local neighborhoods with sales, listings, property management, rentals, and all of their home needs to live in this wonderful community.
Today is September 6th, 2017 and we're enclosing the newest Real Estate Listings in Holly Ridge North Carolina. Holly Ridge is located on Hwy 17 between Jacksonville and Wilmington and is just minutes from Topsail Island and the Camp Lejeune Marine Base. Exit Independence Realty and its Real Estate agents are focused on our local neighborhoods with sales, listings, property management, rentals, and all of their home needs to live in this wonderful community.
Today is February 9th, 2017 and we're enclosing the newest Real Estate Listings in Holly Ridge North Carolina. Holly Ridge is located on Hwy 17 between Jacksonville and Wilmington and is just minutes from Topsail Island and the Camp Lejeune Marine Base. Exit Independence Realty and its Real Estate agents are focused on our local neighborhoods with sales, listings, property management, rentals, and all of their home needs to live in this wonderful community.
Today is January 24th, 2017 and we're enclosing the newest Real Estate Listings in Holly Ridge North Carolina. Holly Ridge is located on Hwy 17 between Jacksonville and Wilmington and is just minutes from Topsail Island and the Camp Lejeune Marine Base. Exit Independence Realty and its Real Estate agents are focused on our local neighborhoods with sales, listings, property management, rentals, and all of their home needs to live in this wonderful community.
Today is January 9th, 2017 and we're enclosing the newest Real Estate Listings in Holly Ridge North Carolina. Holly Ridge is located on Hwy 17 between Jacksonville and Wilmington and is just minutes from Topsail Island and the Camp Lejeune Marine Base. Exit Independence Realty and its Real Estate agents are focused on our local neighborhoods with sales, listings, property management, rentals, and all of their home needs to live in this wonderful community.
Today is November 18th, 2016 and we're enclosing the newest Real Estate Listings in Holly Ridge North Carolina. Holly Ridge is located on Hwy 17 between Jacksonville and Wilmington and is just minutes from Topsail Island and the Camp Lejeune Marine Base. Exit Independence Realty and its Real Estate agents are focused on our local neighborhoods with sales, listings, property management, rentals, and all of their home needs to live in this wonderful community.


Jesús Garzón will manage the Spanish market in his position as Country Manager for Iberia.
Madrid, January 2018 – deister electronic, a German manufacturer of high-end solutions for building security and automation, starts operating in spain. They have joined the Spanish market as part of its expansion strategy in southern Europe. A new office has opened in Madrid led by Jesús Garzón as Country Manager for Spain and Portugal.


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[OPINION] Reminiscing over that Tinubu Chatham House pilgrimage - Tunde Olusunle
Signs that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu, will run a government by proxy if elected, emerged at his outing at Chatham House in London. Tinubu, who has made a tradition of avoiding public speaking events in the run-up to the February 2023 elections, jettisoned the Arise Television townhall meeting organised for the major presidential contenders on Sunday, December 4, 2022. It was the latest in Tinubu's non-appearance at similar engagements since he won the presidential ticket of his party last June.
Last August, Tinubu was conspicuously absent at the annual conference of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA). Presidential candidate of the Peoples' Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, and the candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, honoured the invite at the conference held in Lagos. Tinubu's running mate, Kashim Shettima, stood in for him. In September, Tinubu was again absent when presidential candidates of all the political parties endorsed the 2023 election peace pact. The National Peace Committee (NPC), organisers of the peace pact, is chaired by Abdulsalam Abubakar, a former military head of state. Tinubu was again represented at the event by his running mate, Shettima, at a process that the PDP presidential candidate, Atiku, also attended in person. Obi, the candidate of the Labour Party (LP) and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria Peoples' Party (NNPP), were also present.
In what has become his trademark, Tinubu shunned an earlier townhall meeting also convened by Arise Television in early November, where Atiku was represented by Arthur Ifeanyi Okowa, his running mate. On the eve of yesterday's second edition of the Arise Television, Tinubu jetted out to London, supposedly to headline an engagement on Nigeria's political process. This was by way of addressing the British Royal Institute. He was supposed to have focused on the 2023 general elections, with specific regards to national security, economic and foreign policy imperatives. Director, media and publicity of the APC-Tinubu/Shettima Campaign Organisation, Bayo Onanuga, had previously said his principal "would not be blackmailed into attending the event".
Atiku, Kwankwaso and Obi dutifully attended the interview programme, which was simultaneously transmitted to the world from both the Lagos and Abuja studios of the organisers, anchored by Charles Aniagolu and Adesuwa Omoruan. The attendees addressed issues related to poverty alleviation and the holistic re-engineering of critical education, healthcare and human capital development. In what was a temperate and convivial ambience, Atiku who is rigorously grounded in both the public and private sectors promised to remove red-tapism and block wastage in government if elected. "Overheads" and "recurrent expenditures" which are often blurry and opaque, constitute major drainages to public resources, emasculating appropriations for actual socio-economic growth.
The "question and answer" session which followed Tinubu's address, however, visibly exposed Tinubu's suspect capacity in one-on-one dialogue. In a visibly striking pattern which amplified this possibility, Tinubu severally called up members of his entourage to answer the questions posed to him. He had on his delegation the speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila; Kaduna state governor, Nasir el-Rufai and his Jigawa and Cross River counterparts, Abubakar Badaru, and Ben Ayade. Former Ekiti state chief executive, Kayode Fayemi, was also present.
There were also Dele Alake, a seasoned media practitioner and Wale Edun, a top player in the economic and financial sector. Both served as commissioners in Tinubu's state executive council, when he was governor of Lagos state between 1999 and 2007. Tinubu variously called out El Rufai, Ayade, Alake and Edun to answer questions directed at him. The outsourcing of the questions was a watershed in political engagements anywhere. The world has taken due cognisance of our leadership recruitment prototype, at the topmost echelons in Nigeria.
Back in 2015, Buhari, despite his well-established communicative deficiencies, never reassigned questions directed at him. How he has outsourced authority during his term in office will constitute another discussion. It would have indeed been more dignifying for Tinubu to have attended the Arise Television townhall meeting in Lagos. Any of the governors who travelled with him would have done a better job of the delivery of the address which was well written by the way. Tinubu and his party owe Nigeria and the international community profound apologies. The much-publicised Chatham House appearance was a massive disaster.
Tinubu's appearances on the soapbox across the country since the flag-off of campaigns have been characterised by concerning verbal gaffes and wobbly coordination. When he is not calling Delta state "Niger Delta state," he is offering prayers for the success of the main opposition party, PDP. While on a recent campaign visit to Bayelsa state, the APC flagbearer struggled to pronounce the words "recreate" and "technological". Out there at the *Chatham* outing, even when he had the dais all to himself, Tinubu stuttered in instances, including having difficulties with an expression as straightforward as "co-contestants". These serial blunderings have inspired several social media skits and videos highlighting the worrying cognitive challenges of the APC candidate.
The obvious plan of the APC is to paper up, cover up in glass, gloss and foist on Nigerians, a president with such worrying vitals. Or else, why the Tom and Jerry roulette about a man who intends to superintend over the lives and affairs of Africa's most populous country remain eternally shrouded in mystery? This is even though Nigeria is yet to recover from the long years of the locusts of the Muhammadu Buhari catastrophe, which has subsisted since 2015. A man who survives drowning is more circumspect when he sees a large body of water. Nigerians must be circumspect and resist the installation of another "royal president" who will oscillate between the comfy cocoon of the presidential villa and the world-class medical facilities of Europe and America. We cannot go to the Saturday, February 25, 2023 polls blindfolded, the way we did in 2015. We cannot afford another president who will be a serial medical tourist, logging 225 days of our collective life and existence. A very popular Yoruba adage tells us that even as we shed tears, our eyes are not blind to goings on around us.
Tinubu's managers and handlers owe Nigeria the obligation of allowing us to engage with the man who aspires to make presidential broadcasts to us, post-May 29, 2023. Nigerians must prevail on Tinubu to talk to us, face-to-face like Atiku, his principal challenger, who is ever enthusiastic to reassure Nigerians how we can collectively rebuild our crumbled national edifice. The title of the very incisive book: 'This House Has Fallen: Nigeria In Crisis' by the German author, Karl Maeir, cannot be more apposite. Nigeria doesn't need a masquerade as a leader. We need a tested Atiku Abubakar who can very ably provide full-steam leadership straight out of Eagle Square, Monday, May 29, 2023.


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The Monster Energy BMX Team is coming to Dominion Energy Riverrock!
They'll be doing backflips, tailwhips and numerous other BMX stunts. Performances are Saturday and Sunday prior to the Monster Energy Freestyle Bikes presented by Agee's competitions. They will also be giving away a limited number of Monster Energy t-shirts. Don't miss the Monster Energy BMX Team performing live!
Saturday, May 18 @ Noon, 1 p.m., 2 p.m., and 3 p.m.
Sunday, May 19 @ Noon, 1 p.m., and 2 p.m.


On arrival at Dabolim international airport / Railway station /bus stand in Goa, meet & assist by our local representative. You will be transferred to your hotel.
A welcome drink would be served on your arrival.
Rest of the day is at leisure. If time permits proceed for half day tour after lunch. Goa-It is also a land of great variety – with its many churches and temples and a deeply religious ambience which contrasts sharply with the highly hedonistic spirit prevalent on her beaches.


Oh my goodness...I love your dress and that clutch! You look amazing! What an honor, congrats girl!
Gorgeous dress - so perfect for you!
wow girl u look so incredible i love that dress!
Don't you look lovely? I'm digging that amazing necklace + embellished bodice of the dress. So pretty on you!
You look adorable! Such a perfect dress!
Very cool and congrats on presenting. I love your dress dear.
You looked stunning! Such a fab dress!


Silly jibberish yesterday. See what happens when I unfocused. Well that is about to change. Seems there is some confusion about my dad's snowbirding plans. My sister seems to think he is moving down for good. See, my dad can be rather vague and evasive. He likes people to know only just enough. He has asked if I wouldn't mind him spending more time here. Of course I said yes. He mentioned to my sister the same and then went on to say something about not going back to Michigan! Oh!
In that case, I have decided to move my someday project of moving the bedrooms around to now. Currently, the boys share a bedroom, my dad has a bedroom and the middle room is the playroom for the boys. I am going to move my dad into the boys' room (it's slightly bigger) and then split up the boys into their own rooms. Ryan says he doesn't want his own room (he doesn't like change) but he has been complaining when he is using his computer and Andy is using his own and is too loud.
I asked Ryan what color he wanted gis room painted and he said yellow! But that's Andy's favorite color. Ugh.
I walked around Lettuce Lake Park after my photo meet-up. There were 2 groups of school kids so I was slowed up a bit. I saw some big icky spiders. I tried to shoot them but it was breezy so they kept moving. The breeze felt good.
I got some paint samples. Mostly neutral greens and browns but some yellow. I think I will paint one wall yellow in each of the boys' rooms. I need something darker to hide the dirt.
Dad did return my email but he was vague and evasive. He said not to bother with the rooms but they really need the painting. I just wish I had started a couple of weeks ago. Three weeks should be enough time if I can stay away from Starbuck's. I did manage to stay away even though I drove by 4 of them today.


Britt shows you how to make a helmet template from a head form. The template is constructed of random packing supplies, plastic wrap, and tape. Build up the form you want and then cover the helmet in tape to trace and transfer your pattern.


MANALAPAN, N.J. — New Jersey residents who are entering their senior year in high school this fall and are planning a career in agriculture or science may apply for the New Jersey Agricultural Achievement Award. One winner will be selected and awarded a scholarship to honor their achievements.
The winner of the Agricultural Achievement Award must attend the Annual New Jersey Bred Equine Breeders Award Luncheon to be held on Sunday, Jan. 27, 2019 in Hamilton, N.J. and will read his or her essay to the attendees.