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Missing N400m Trial:Gen Otiki Rejects Appointment Of Gen Adeosun As Court Martial Chairman
CKN NIGERIA Published: September 18, 2019
The Nigerian Army on Tuesday inaugurated a General Court Martial (GOC) in Abuja, to try former General Officer Commanding (GOC) 8 Division, Nigerian Army, Sokoto, Major General Hakeem Otiki, over N400 million allegedly stolen by soldiers under his command. Daily Trust cannot independently confirm whether Otiki was arraigned for prosecution or not.
It also cannot report if he pleaded guilty or not, as journalists were sent out of the court shortly after the defence counsel objected to the participation of the Presiding Officer, Lieutenant General Lamidi Adeosun. Otiki's counsel, Major Femi Oyebanjo (rtd) in response to a question by General Adeosun whether the defense accepted his headship of the court marshal, had rejected the Presiding Officer over an alleged long history of grudge borne against Otiki by Adeosun.
He said, "We have it on good authority that you bear grudge against our client. We have this deep feeling that he may not get a fair trial under your leadership. "The reasons are as follows: it is a known fact that General Otiki got into Nigerian Defence Academy on 10th January 1983 while you got in on 4th July 1983. He got in there before you. It is a fact that General Otiki actually pitied you, established and trained you", he said. He added that "we have this feeling that that grudge is still there. More so that General Otiki took over from you as the Corp Commander, Infantry.'
"We still believe that because this grudge has been there since then and because of this grudge, when you were promoted, Lt General, he sent you a text message to congratulate you but you did not respond." He said: "in addition to that sir, it is a fact that by the time we go into this trial proper, certain issues will certainly come up and these are issues that affect your office as Chief of Operations, Nigerian Army which you left before you got to where you are presently.
"What am I staying sir, it is a fact, sir, that General Otiki as the GOC commanding 8 Division of the Nigerian Army conducted Operation Sharan Daji. He also conducted Operation Harbin Kunama III." He noted that "these were offices directly under your command as Chief of Operation. And these are Operations that are going to come up in the course of this trial. So sir, you are actually an interested party.
"Finally sir, it is also a known fact, that as at the time General Otiki took over from you as the Corp Commander Infantry Brigade, he inherited your security personnel, your soldiers that formed the inner security's of General Otiki". "These are the same personnel that formed the reasons why we are here. They are actually your soldiers, your personal aides; the soldiers he took over from you, these soldiers are the basis why we are here today. "My Lord, we say on the basis of all these, you are going to be part and parcel of this trial, we are going to to be talking and referring to you.
"If you are going to do this job, there is no way you are not going to feature prominently. There is no way we will not talk about those soldiers, they were your aides, there is no way we will not talk about operations. "Sir, on that ground, for the sake of Justice, we are saying that you should excuse yourself from this trial," he said. The Defence counsel also pleaded with the court to allow the accused to sit in a wheelchair based on doctor's recommendation as Otiki appeared in court in a wheelchair.
The prosecuting counsel, Major Obot also asked for a medical opinion on the state of health of the accused based on the defence counsel's earlier submission. However, this position was countered by the judge advocate, who insisted that the court had not been formally inaugurated. General Otiki was held in a standing position by another soldier while the convening order was read.
All this was before journalists were asked to leave the court when the defence council started arguing that General Adeosun should excuse himself as the President of the Court-Martial. Earlier, General Adeosun, the Chief of Policy and Plans at Army Headquarters, read the convening order of the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai. Adeosun had cited Section 213 of the Armed Forces Act that conferred the powers on the Chief of Army Staff, Lt General Yusuf Buratai, to convene the general court-martial.
He gave the names of other members of the panel as: Major General A. Tarfa, Major General F.O Agbugor, Major General FA Nadu, Major General N Mohammed, Major General CT Olukotu, Major General C C Okonkwo. He also named Major A. Ahmed as the judge advocate, Captain A Ibrahim, Liason Officer, Major AA Onumo, Prosecuting Officer and Contact Officer, Captain A Liman. He said the charges against the accused would be served not less than 24 hours after they were read to the accused while witnesses would be called.
He gave the books of reference during the court-martial to include the 1999 Constitution, Armed Forces Act, Evidence Act 2011, Army Rules of Procedure 1973, the Holy Bible and the Koran. Otiki is to stand trial following the theft of N400 million allegedly by five soldiers attached to his office. The soldiers, who went missing with the money were allegedly instructed to deliver it to an important personality in Kaduna.
Source :Daily Trust
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Autumn de Wilde is known for her stylish visuals, with their intriguing use of colour and unusual angles to depict choreography in a new light.
A New York native, de Wilde is also known as a documentary photographer. She has shot portraits of numerous music stars, and has directed promos for artists including Elliott Smith, Rilo Kiley and Death Cab for Cutie.
There's a deeply personal story behind this powerful promo for the Decemberists' latest single 'Once in My Life'. Directed by Autumn de Wilde, the film stars her brother Jacob - who is over seven-foot tall and deals with an auditory processing disorder... on top of people's insensitive attitudes. The switch from documentary-style VO to a defiant dance sequence is a bold choice, as Jacob uses his misunderstood body for his own expression.


Christmas sale and bazaar are everywhere. Normally people go to different malls to shop for their Christmas presents but some prefer to shop at bazaars. At the bazaar, you can find different products and what I like most are the unique items that you can only find there. There are personalized items, good foodies and majority of the prices are really low.
Since I am near to Quezon City, I have search for the Christmas Bazaars in Quezon City.
Holy Spirit Drive Don Antonio Heights Commonwealth QC.
North Fairview Village, Fairview, Quezon City this November 27, 2011 (Sunday, 9:00am – 9:00pm).
The Acropolis Clubhouse, Atlas Street, Acropolis Subdivision, E. Rodriguez Jr. Ave. Quezon City on November 26 (Saturday) and 27 (Sunday), from 10:30AM to 7:30PM.
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The Biden administration claims that Russian has not only not dialed down its troop presence on the border of Ukraine, but that the number has grown by reinforcements in the low tens of thousands; photo by Alexey Kuznetsov, via stock.adobe.com.
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Witness to reckless escalation — summoning the power of our anti-war ancestry
A dizzying array of interpretations about what the crisis on the Russia/Ukraine border means, who's to blame, and what's at stake. Both Moscow and Washington are clouding the issues with propaganda and counter-propaganda. Certain voices in the mainstream media aren't helping clarify much.
Russian tank of the latest generation, T-14 Armata, on the training ground; photo by Mike Mareen, via stock.adobe.com.
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As an adult at the leading edge of Gen X, I can't tell you how ecstatic, I mean just truly overjoyed, I was on January 3 of this year. Earth's nuclear powers (excluding Israel, which doesn't officially have nukes) all signed an agreement on the futility of nuclear war. The People's Republic of China, the French Republic, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the United States of America wrote that they consider the avoidance of war between Nuclear-Weapon States and the reduction of strategic risks as their foremost responsibilities.
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"We affirm that a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought."
That was the very first line item. The biggest of bullet points for an '80s teen who still gets choked up over the refrain in "Russians" (sort the comments by date — it's pretty informative about where the public's stomach is on nuclear annihilation). Who still feels his chest tighten when I rewatch the scene where Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy desperately try to save the planet from the WOPR. Who was kinda disturbed by "The Day After," but had recurring nightmares because of "Threads."
So, a little over a month ago, uncharacteristically, I felt the stirrings of a little pride and patriotism at the thought that for once, someone here in the States was driving the bus away from the atomic cliff towards which we've been heading for seventy-plus years. (It's okay to feel patriotic that your country is going to stop doing stupid shit that threatens all life on the planet, isn't it?) It came as a shock, really, given how much President Joe Biden's first year in office was marked by militarism, and revealed that his presidency would likely extend a hawkish consistency with his predecessors. The mainstream press really didn't spend a lot of ink or airwaves on the document, and I guess I should have taken that as a sign not to let my optimism get the better of me.
I was even almost ready to try to explain away the fact that that in December, Congress not only replenished the Pentagon's purse — despite the U.S. withdrawl from Afghanistan and major draw-down in Iraq — but expanded the military budget an extra $24 billion more than was requested to a staggering $778 billion (Both Senator Ed Markey and Senator Elizabeth Warren voted against the legislation, though Rep. Richie Neal, predictably, voted in favor of it). National Public Radio described the Senate vote, 88 – 11 as a "show of strong bipartisan support," which never seems to raise eyebrows among the liberal media crowd. Legislators put on a show of fighting like cats and dogs the rest of the session, but always come hand in hand to the watering hole (feeding trough, rather) together to get the necessary work of Empire done. NPR even noted that, as if bowing to the inevitability of the ritual, "[the] annual defense policy measure, passed for the 61st year in a row, now heads to President Biden's desk." Like the pardoning of the Thanksgiving turkey or the White House Easter Egg Roll.
I should have known better. I really should have. The last five weeks have shown that no Peacetime Dividend would be forthcoming. American hawks are doubling down on old hatreds that have been motivating some very Cold War-esque scenarios over the last couple years. Combat scenarios, I'll admit, to which I haven't paid enough attention. From the Autumn 2020 joint naval exercises involving U.S., U.K., Norwegian and Danish ships off Russia's coast in the Barents Sea that vastly amplified Western claims on the Arctic, to U.S. military exercises in Ukraine, alongside Polish and Lithuanian troops last summer, to Operation Sea Breeze, which placed 32 vessels, 40 aircraft, and 5,000 troops representing 17 NATO allies and partners in the Black Sea — essentially Russia's backyard kiddie pool.
The list is a bit longer but you get the idea. Searching for all the ways the U.S. has poked its finger in Moscow's eye, especially over the last year, I'm forced into the awkward position of agreeing with Ted Galen Carpenter, who, writing for the Cato Institute suggests that Washington's recent posturing is rightfully interpreted as a "deliberate display of contempt."
All this is not to say that Russia is any sort of a good actor, nor ignore some genuinely inflammatory maneuvers. Russian President Vladimir Putin had sent tens of thousands of troops to Ukraine's border in April of 2021, but withdrew them, ostensibly, as a concession that would facilitate negotiations concerning, among other things, closing the door to new member states to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). For decades, the U.S. has maintained the stance that, any nation that met the criteria for membership could apply, and no threat from a third party would undermine that nation's self-determination. In fact, ever since President Bill Clinton welcomed Poland to NATO in 1999, Russia has felt the tightening squeeze of Western dominance, with North Macedonia, Montenegro, Albania, Croatia, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic, and Hungary all joining team Uncle Sam. At various points during the presidencies of Clinton and George W. Bush Putin intimated that if NATO were to evolve into a primarily political entity, even Russia might be interested in joining. The idea may seem absurd, given the reasons for NATO's existence in the first place, but some critics of Clinton's expansionist NATO aims thought the inclusion of the former lead antagonist of this century-old drama might actually quell some stubborn tensions.
Since well before last Spring, though, Russia has made no intimations that it wants to play house with the West. As reported in High North News in May of 2020, Admiral James G. Foggo III, Commander of the U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa, warned that Russia was making a play for the Arctic, equipping its ice-breakers with Kalibr cruise missiles. "Who puts missiles on icebreakers?" the Admiral is reported to have asked.
To any rational observer, Russia has stepped up its preparation for Belarus being a prime staging ground for an invasion of Ukraine. Suspecting this goal, the U.S. Defense Department has, for at least a decade, kept a close eye on the relationship between the two. Authoritarian leader of Belarus, Alyaksandr Lukashenka, had little respect or fondness for Russia for the first 15 or so years of his presidency, but now seems to have gotten in line with Putin's vision for the region. The Atlantic Council reported in September of last year that Putin called Lukashenka to wish him a happy 67th birthday. In both a phone call and a telegram (Who TF sends telegrams? Is this a real thing?) on August 30, the Kremlin leader cooed to the Belarusian dictator that he "can always count on Russia's support." And then they celebrated their love with a romantic week of yet more martial bliss, the Zapad-2021 military exercises, which involves 12,800 troops, including 2,500 from Russia, training in Belarus.
Not to be left out of the fun of the West's Operation Sea Breeze in the Black Sea, Newsweek reported that Russia decided to give it's own troops some exercise with air defense and anti-ship drills overlapping NATO's own games (can anyone say, "Excuse me, I think we reserved this conference room for 2 o'clock?") Not to miss the opportunity to rub the West's face in past appeasement fails, Russia staged the exercise to destroy a mock enemy surface ship in the Black Sea from Crimea, "annexed by Russia after an internationally disputed referendum held amid a political uprising in Ukraine in 2014."
Then, in June of 2021, Great Britain endured an embarrassing incident in which one of their destroyers sailed into Russian waters on the Black Sea, according to Moscow, and may or may not have had a shot or two fired across its bow. The Russian Defense Ministry's claims that one of its naval vessels fired warning shots at the destroyer near Crimea and that a Russian fighter jet had dropped bombs in the destroyer's path were immediately denied by Britain. Britain claimed that it believed the Russians were simply conducting exercises, coincidentally, and that "The Royal Navy ship is conducting innocent passage through Ukrainian territorial waters in accordance with international law," the New York Times reported Britain's Ministry of Defense as tweeting out. Except, of course, Russia asserts that section of Ukrainian waters was annexed along with Crimea during the Obama administration.
So, not exactly a he-said/she-said situation, but with so much saber rattling over just the last few of years (not to mention sanctions, poisoned spies, murdered journalists, alleged cyber attacks and hacking, and general insults and threats, both veiled and forthright), the West's relationship with Russia seems even less cozy than is generally discussed in the mainstream media on a daily basis. Taken as a whole, in fact, all these incidents and postures suggest that where we are right now, with 100,000 Russian troops on the Ukrainian border was a foregone conclusion. And yet, even as the United States has painted the situation as a Cuban Missile Crisis level of dire, Ukraine's own security council chief says there's no reason to panic.
As reported in the Russian News Agency, https://tass.com/world/1392497 Alexey Danilov, the council chief, urged, "I would like to ask you, friends, to turn down the heat. The situation we are in is absolutely clear and as of now there's no reason for us to panic."
The New York Times confirmed the country's official, low-key position reporting that Ukraine's defense minister, Oleksii Reznikov, assured allies that "Today, at this very moment, not a single strike group of the Russian armed forces has been established, which attests to the fact that tomorrow they are not going to invade." Mr. Reznikov added, "That is why I ask you to not spread panic."
Deutsche Welle, Germany's international broadcaster, quoted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as saying on January 27, "We don't need this panic. It cost Ukrainians dearly."
Indeed, despite the fact the United States, Great Britain, and Canada ordered non-essential staff of their respective embassies in Ukraine back home, neither the European Union nor the United Nations did the same for their staff in-country. It's as if the whole affair is a choose-your-own adventure outing, where the characters, motives, story arc, and ending are all up for interpretation by individual players. Melinda Haring, reporting for The National Interest (again, I'm sourcing information from groups that make my eyeballs feel sorta grimy and itchy) describes the mood in Kiev this week as a festive atmosphere that's "a mixture of fatalism and sangfroid." She explains that while Zelenskyy's administration doesn't necessarily disagree with U.S. assessment of Putin's goals, interpreting Russia's strategy requires a more refined lens. Haring suggests that Russia's first order of business is to sow unrest and instability in both Ukraine and externally. It can then take advantage of an unbalanced Ukraine and a potentially hamstrung NATO to force concessions on strategic and ballistic missiles, as well as closing the door to new NATO membership.
Biden has gone back and forth a bit on exactly how the United States is planning on responding to the build-up of troops at Ukraine's border, currently settling on the "provide military equipment and scads of money" as well as stationing a few thousand additional troops in the region and placing many thousands more on standby. In the last week or so, the White House has released information that it claims verifies Russia's intentions. The trouble is, officials won't release any of the hard evidence to back up their claims. The administration went so far as to claim that Putin had a movie shot showing the Ukrainians committing war crimes against ethnic Russians, which would provide Moscow with the justification to roll tanks across the border. The Biden camp claims that by exposing the "false-flag" operation, they have effectively stolen Putin's thunder.
The problem is, we've all seen that movie, and apparently a good number of Ukranians have, too. Russian-American journalist and staff writer at The New Yorker, Masha Gessen told Amy Goodman, of Democracy NOW! on February 7, "I don't think there was a single person who didn't use the phrase 'wag the dog' in describing what they were experiencing." That's the trouble when you have an administration staffed by 30-somethings; they honestly think that if they were too young to remember, the rest of the world must not be able to remember either.
Just such a 30-something in the person of the State Department's Ned Price tried to sell this tale to a room full of reporters on February 3 with mixed results. Veteran Associated Press reporter Matt Lee doggedly tried to educate Price about the difference between saying something is evidence and actually producing evidence.
"You just come out and say this and expect us just to believe it without you showing a shred of evidence that it's actually true," Lee drilled him. Price stood his ground, saying that his coming forward and informing the press that Russia had shot, or was planning to shoot, a fake video of atrocities committed by Ukraine was, in fact, the proof of the thing itself."Okay, well, where is it?" Lee demanded. "Where is this information?"
Exasperated, Lee, a gentleman in his mid-fifties, spat out, "I Remember WMDs in Iraq," which may have been the inspiration for so many people on social media attempting to count exactly how many times Americans have been lied into wars, conflicts, and police actions. Price was 19 years old when George W. started laying the groundwork for toppling Saddam Hussein, so theoretically, he might have been paying attention enough to pick up a trick or two.
Problem is, there are enough hawks in the liberal corners of Washington and the media who really seem okay with a massive escalation of hostilities. Some level of conflict is just a foregone conclusion with this crowd. Whether you listen to Edward Lucas, nonresident fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis and former editor at The Economist, when he says, "Don't listen to Russia. NATO needs to bolster, not downsize, its flimsy defenses." (NATO Is Dangerously Exposed in the Baltic) or Anne Applebaum, writing in The Atlantic, when she insists, "Putin is right about one thing: A free, prosperous, democratic neighbor is a threat to his autocratic regime." (The U.S. Is Naive About Russia. Ukraine Can't Afford to Be.)
Even Gessen, sounding weary with well-aged Russian fatalism, confided to Goodman:
"The whole western world is swirling around Russia trying to convince Vladimir Putin to step back. The danger here is that considering that Russia's demands will never be fully met, I don't think it's going to get a guarantee, even though again, it will change nothing in the real state of things because it's not going to get a complete guarantee and at a certain point, it's going to lose the world's attention. That's when I think the danger point comes because the purpose of this is not, you know, again, because we know this is a pretext, the purpose is to do something else. And what is this something else? A large part of it is creating a sense among Russians that that Russia matters, that Vladimir Putin is a world leader, that that he says something and the whole world gets moving and that he can command the world's attention. It is. It taps into feelings of resentment and and the sense of being left out in diminished that that Putin's politics consistently tap into. And when he loses that opportunity, I think that's that's when it becomes really risky. So I don't I don't think there's an imminent invasion, but I also don't see how in the long term, this game of brinksmanship can end with anything but a big war."
There are plenty of motives besides the fraying egos of old men to explain Washington's and Moscow's pissing contest. Actually, it's really only money, so I guess that would be just one motive.
Award winning journalist Greg Palast offers an analysis that will make your head spin concerning the different factions in this brawl, what they want, and how anyone only coming to this subject now (like me, pretty much, admittedly) can't begin to fathom how far back some of the dynamics go. Oil is the big driver at the moment, Palast explains, doing the math for us to show that just by putting the world on red alert, Putin has driven the price of oil through the roof, thereby creating dump trucks of money out of thin air for the Russian government, which owns a huge share of that country's oil industry.
Certainly, U.S. oil and natural gas concerns have gotten in on the action while assuring Europe that the potentiality of Russia shutting off the energy faucet can be met handily by a steady stream of tankers crossing the Pond. And although missing from the mainstream media is just what sort of markup domestic fuel supply is experiencing, the weapons manufacturers haven't been able to keep their enthusiasm contained. In the "Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud" department, Eli Clifton, writing for Responsible Statecraft, quotes various actors in the Military Industrial Complex expressing their optimism for ongoing destruction during quarterly earnings calls at the end of January. He reports that Raytheon CEO, Greg Hayes, said:
…[W]e are seeing, I would say, opportunities for international sales. We just have to look to last week where we saw the drone attack in the UAE, which have attacked some of their other facilities. And of course, the tensions in Eastern Europe, the tensions in the South China Sea, all of those things are putting pressure on some of the defense spending over there. So I fully expect we're going to see some benefit from it.
There were some other doozies, but that one sums up the almost palpable exuberance coursing through the veins of these dealers of death. The excitement, of course, is stoked by members of Congress and other Beltway critters who seem to want us back on a Cold War footing. Recklessly, they are prepared to turn the tension up to 11 without any sort of a warm-up — just straight to Cuban Missile Crisis levels of animus.
Writing a letter to the editor in The Guardian on February 8, Senator Bernie Sanders attempted to advise caution:
"I am extremely concerned when I hear the familiar drumbeats in Washington, the bellicose rhetoric that gets amplified before every war, demanding that we must "show strength", "get tough" and not engage in "appeasement". A simplistic refusal to recognize the complex roots of the tensions in the region undermines the ability of negotiators to reach a peaceful resolution."
Sanders is actually old enough to remember most of the Cold War's greatest hits. Having been smeared as everything from a Kremlin tool to a garden variety commie, Sanders likely isn't phased by new accusations of being soft on Moscow. He'd probably like to leave public office being able to say, "Hey, at least World War III didn't happen on my watch!"
The politicians championing a muscular stance regarding Ukraine overlook the myriad opportunities that exist for a single fuck-up on either (or any) side to trigger a chain reaction that pushes both 800-pound gorillas towards an altercation that becomes very difficult to back down from. This is exactly the fear of Hans Kristensen, a nuclear weapons expert at the Federation of American Scientists. Especially concerning are the blended defensive and offensive conventional and nuclear capabilities of both superpowers. Newsweek quotes Kristensen as saying, "This integration of nuclear and non-nuclear, and the focus on 'effects' rather than destruction erodes the firewall between conventional and nuclear warfare and creates more pathways to escalation."
The White House has gone to great lengths to assure the world that it has no plans to sent troops into Ukraine proper — just Poland and a bunch of other strategic locations in Russia's front and side yards. Beyond shipping military equipment to Ukraine, Biden threatens economic sanctions such as Putin has never seen. These sanctions are likely to have about the same effect as existing sanctions have had; Russia has learned to live a little leaner yet and to become yet more independent.
Since Biden assures the world that the United States would only engage with Russian aggression if a NATO ally were to be attacked, the situation would seem stable enough in its state of entropy. Except…
Writing for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation on January 26, Murray Brewster noted that "Canada will expand its military training mission in Ukraine and ship the embattled eastern European country non-lethal equipment to help it face down the threat of Russian invasion," according to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. So, even though Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said, "The solution to this tension should be diplomatic," according to the CBC, he's sending troops and equipment because, well, what the hell, right?
And what happens if the shooting and shelling starts while Canadian soldiers are stationed in a spontaneously combusted hot zone? What happens if our closest of NATO allies should lose any number of service members to Russian bombs or bullets? A thinking person might argue that such a tragedy would, in fact, justify striking back. And we wouldn't have to go big with any sort of troop movement. We now have more "usable" nukes at our disposable — smaller than the ICBMs that tormented my dreams in the '80s, but quite a bit more destructive than the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
I won't re-publish here what I went into detail with earlier, but to understand the threats posed to…well, all life on Earth by our "mini-nukes," I hope you'll read:
A matrix of deception and the rearmament of America
I've included a lovely map of the likely levels of carnage and destruction in Pittsfield, since the city, being home both to Raytheon and General Dynamics Mission Systems, is way, way up there on the list of targets. And though, when I wrote the piece, I laid a lot of blame for recent escalation at President Trump's feet, it really hasn't mattered who has occupied the Oval Office in the last seven decades. The war machine cranks out the goods, regardless.
People have stood up to the Pentagon from time to time. Both during the Vietnam War and during the first go-round in Iraq, anti-war demonstrations had measurable, if delayed, impacts on U.S. policy. The peace movement of the '60s/'70s retained enough of its mythos throughout the '80s that the domestic security apparatus labored furiously to make effective civil disobedience and chaotic, peaceful insurgency extremely difficult. The Patriot Act, written in large part by then Senator Joe Biden (by his own proud admission) revealed quite a bit about how the intelligence agencies planned to keep an eye on persons of interest here at home. Let's not forget that the spooks wanted our fucking LIBRARY records.
And then, of course, when Ed Snowden dropped the dime on the NSA, we learned that, as bad as the Patriot Act was, the real total information awareness threat was so ubiquitous as to seem inescapable. Admittedly, it's unsettling to think about engaging in acts of civil disobedience when you know that they know what you're going to do, where you're going to do it, and with whom before even you have all the details sorted out.
Is this why the peace movement has shriveled away to impotence? Fear? That's the most illogical reason not to protest and raise hell. The truth is that they have always known, since the time of the first autocrats, who the troublemakers are. Who the loudmouths are. And that's why it's so important to get even louder. No one should be more afraid of Big Brother than they are of nuclear missiles raining down on the Berkshires. Even if the U.S. and Russia hold to their agreement NOT to use nukes, where does that leave us? Looking down the barrel of a land war? Though none of us are old enough to remember, we've already sent our sons to die in the trenches of Ukraine and Poland and Belarus in the modern age. We can't repeat that waking nightmare.
We also can't repeat the error of using the sons and daughters of other nations as fodder in proxy wars that enrich the MIC, proportionate to the destruction of whole societies on both sides of the conflicts. Most Americans, hell, most members of Congress couldn't find Moldova on a map — why are we allowing corporate interests to jeopardize the security of this famously neutral country and its neighbors?
The complicity of most of the media in the U.S. military escalation over Ukraine MUST be answered by a vigorous anti-war response. Those of us who lived through the frantic arms race of the '70s and '80s, those of us who had our childhoods marred by Civil Defense drills in school, must lead the charge. I, personally, will not live through the fear of mutually assured destruction again. I won't let me children live through it. While I do not identify as a pacifist, I am a staunch anti-imperialist and anti-militarist. As such, I cannot abide the productive capacity of this nation and its people to be used as an ATM for the oligarchs who would risk the planet (let's not even get into the climate costs of wartime mobilization right now) for another couple decades of self-serving global economic manipulation and greasy opulence.
The Greylock Glass, therefore, humbly follows in the footsteps of the brave and the brash alternative news organizations that came before in condemning this looming war and all wars of aggression or conquest. We will attempt to spread this message far and wide, and hope that our coverage in the coming months serves to shed light on the truth that most Americans, even as we respect the service and sacrifice of the men and women in uniform, do not, in fact, support even the possibility of war in Ukraine. The latest polls do give me hope — either societal evolution or just plain laziness is proving more powerful than the steady drip of propaganda into our veins through our eyes and ears. The Glass will create opportunities to make our readers voices heard regularly. I hope you'll join me in lifting your voice in a resounding "NO" to this madness.
Jason Velázquez
Jason Velázquez has worked in print and digital journalism and publishing for two decades.
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My, how far Budget desktops have come. While Lenovo's orange-accented H330 is definitely "budget" - it starts at just £399.99 - it packs some impressive specs, including an i5 processor, a Blu-ray disc drive, and a 1TB hard drive. Plus, it performs like a lower-end non-budget desktop.
Our review model, which is priced at $799, sports an Intel Core i5-2500 processor, 8GB of RAM, and an AMD Radeon HD 6450 graphics card. It's also got a 1TB hard drive, which is impressive for a budget machine. There's no built-in Wi-Fi or Bluetooth (unsurprising, considering it's a budget tower), and it runs a 64-bit version of Windows 7 Home Premium. Our review model did ship with a Blu-ray disc player, which is surprising for a machine that's otherwise very budget-like.
In PCWorld's World Bench 6 benchmark tests, the H330 scored an impressive 158, which skyrockets it to the top of our budget desktop category. Our previous leader, the Micro Express MicroFlex 23B, scored 141. Of course, it's got a Core i3-2120 processor and half the RAM...not to mention a price tag that's $200 lower than the H330's. This is an excellent performance score for a sub-$800 machine.
Graphics performance is less-than-impressive, however. In our Unreal Tournament 3 tests, the H330 managed a frame rate of just 18.5 frames per second (high quality settings, 1920-by-1200 pixel resolution). Bumping the screen resolution down to 1680-by-1050 pixels helped a little (22.5 frames per second), but it's not until we go all the way down to 1024-by-768 pixels that we get a playable 46.4 fps. This isn't a gaming powerhouse, but this machine will still be able to perform basic multimedia tasks and stream video with few issues.
The Lenovo H330 is housed in a small, slim tower that is designed to stand upright or lie horizontally on its side. The tower is simple but attractive, with a shiny black finish on the front casing and orange accents. There are a few ports located on the front of the machine - two USB ports, headphone and microphone jacks, a couple of card reader slots that will accept multiple formats, and of course the tray-loading Blu-ray disc player. The rest of the ports (and there aren't a ton) are located on the back of the machine: two PS/2 ports for a mouse and keyboard, four USB ports, Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI, VGA, Line-In, and Line-Out.
As you might imagine, there's not a ton of room inside for tinkering. First of all, opening the chassis isn't exactly easy - not only will you need to break out the screwdriver, but taking off the side also removes half of the bottom of the machine (if you're not expecting this, you may end up knocking it over). Every extra nook is taken, but there is one PCIe slot (x1) open.
The H330 ships with a keyboard and a mouse, both of which feature orange accents, similar to the tower. Both are wired, but the keyboard is PS/2 while the mouse is USB.
The keyboard features flat, regular-style keys. It's fairly comfortable to type on, but there's not a lot of feedback and the keys are a little too soft. On the plus side, this means that the keyboard is extremely quiet - on the minus side, it means that you may end up making a lot of typos. There's also an orange LVT button on the keyboard, which lets users access Lenovo Vantage Technology (LVT), Lenovo's custom suite of utilities and recovery tools.
The USB-wired mouse is typical: lightweight and optical with two buttons and a scroll wheel. The scroll wheel is orange. There's nothing extraordinarily awesome or awful about this peripheral - it's just your run-of-the-mill optical mouse.
Lenovo's H330 may be a budget machine, but it does have a few tricks up its sleeve - namely impressive performance and a Blu-ray player. While I'm not sure you really need a Blu-ray player on a machine that has decent (at best) graphics quality, this desktop is good choice for people who are looking for general performance, mild multimedia usage, and a small footprint.


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Large and Small Animal Clinics Building Plans, 1962-1972
Brief Description: Large and Small Animal Clinics Building Plans includes building plans, statements, blueprints, memos, correspondence concerning building plans; equipment; architecture; funding; costs and designs.
Record Series Number: 17/1/14
Created by: University of Illinois at Urbana-Chamapaign. College of Veterinary Medicine
Acquired: 05/02/2018.
Biographical Note for University of Illinois at Urbana-Chamapaign. College of Veterinary Medicine :
The College of Veterinary Medicine, a professional college with four departments and a diagnostic service was established on June 1, 1944.1 A bill was introduced into the State legislature to establish the college in 1919, but no appropriations were made until 1944.2 The first course in Veterinary Medicine was taught in 1870.3 The Veterinary Infirmary opened January 9, 1871.4 In 1911 the Department of Veterinary Science was organized under the College of Agriculture.5 In 1917, the Department of Veterinary Science was incorporated into the Department of Animal Husbandry under the College of Agriculture.6 In 1941, the Trustees created the Department of Animal Pathology and Hygiene to carry out the instructional and research work formerly located in the Department of Animal Husbandry.7 In 1957, a graduate program in Veterinary Medical Science was begun replacing the existing program in Veterinary Pathology and Hygiene.8
This unit covers:
--Director of Laboratory Animal Care
--Veterinary Medical Research Farm
1. Board of Trustees Transactions, 42nd Report, June 1, 1944, p. 958.
2. Ibid., 30th Report, May 16, 1919, p. 333.
3. Ibid., 4th Report, March 7, 1871, p. 66.
4. Ibid., 4th Report, March 15, 1871, p. 101.
5. Ibid., 26th Report, July 8, 1911, p. 448.
6. Ibid., 29th Report, July 31, 1917, p. 461.
7. Ibid., 41st Report, August 5, 1941, p. 410-11.
8. Ibid., 49th Report, December 17, 1957, p. 1007.
Veterinary Medicine, College of


I've been thinking a lot about blanket forts lately (because regression) and then I came across a TreeHugger post by Kimberly about a particularly cold winter in South Korea a few years back and how people were using indoor tents to cut down on heating. Which led me to put two and two together to arrive at the idea that a blanket fort for grown-ups is a perfectly respectable activity to pursue presently. Right? There's a practical component to it – creating a warm enclave in an otherwise cold room. And better yet, after a day of hard work and the even harder work of reading the news, one can simply grab their book/sweetheart and some tea/wine and crawl into their cozy fairy-lights-lit rabbit hole and disappear for a while.
Now the truth is, most of us probably know how to build a blanket fort. Assemble furniture, gather sheets and blankets, pin 'em up, add pillows, and voila. But I was delighted to see very detailed instructions on WikiHow for some real engineering tips.
• Blankets, sheets, pillows, towels, shawls, drapery, sleeping bags, yoga mats, boxes, baskets.
• Dining chairs, easy chairs, couch, ottoman, large sections of cardboard or appliance boxes to help strengthen the structure and create other rooms.
• Safety pins, clothespins, binder clips, hair ties, rope.
• Fairy lights, flashlights, reading lamps, etc.
You can pretty much take it from there ... the more secluded you can make it, the better. Obviously be careful with candles (fire and asphyxia come to mind), but bring on the twinkle lights and for a few hours, forget the maddening world and be a kid again.
For the complete set of illustrations and more information, see How to Make a Blanket Fort.
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Yearbook classifieds for Middleburg High yearbooks are listed below. If you want to see if others from Middleburg, FL high schools want to make a trade for a yearbook, post your info below.
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Dynasty Season 2 is now casting soccer fans in Atlanta, Georgia.
The CW's Dynasty is looking for Mexicans or Hispanic men and women to play soccer fans. Filming will shoot on Friday, February 15th in Norcross, Georgia. Producers are looking for men and women 18 and older to work on the upcoming episode.
DYNASTY is looking for MEXICANS or Hispanic/LatinX men and women to play SOCCER FANS. Shooting an exterior scene on Friday, February 15th outside of our studios in Norcross, Ga. Expecting a late afternoon/evening calltime. Must be able to work 8hrs regardless of calltime.


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Diamond Bank's Managers to Lose Jobs over Access Bank Acquisition
Diamond Bank Plc's acquisition by Access Bank will come at a heavy cost to the Diamond Bank management team, especially on job security.
The management team is likely to be disbanded.
"You cannot have two managing directors of a bank, domestic and foreign operations and even chief financial officers in one bank. One has to give way and the Diamond Bank staff will be the casualties. The Diamond Bank management team should know that their jobs are gone," Richard Obire, a former chief at Diamond Bank said.
According to him, Access Bank is a very ambitious lender and that is one of the characteristics of its management team.
Obire said: "They want to be big, and perhaps, the biggest bank in Nigeria and that was presented to them on a platter of gold by the Diamond Bank opportunity. Diamond Bank is now a small bank compared to its peers. It is now a tier-3 bank. I do not know the terms of the transaction but they will lose their brand name.
"It is the reality of business. Diamond Bank has such a brilliant brand name and customer base and these are what Access Bank will inherit. The name Diamond Bank is gone forever and the next will be integration, which will lead to exit of the bank's management team."
An industry source told The Nation that Access Bank's decision to acquire Diamond followed a presentation made to it last week by its financial advisers in London, which showed huge strengths inherent in Diamond Bank.
The board of Diamond Bank Plc yesterday finally announced its merger with Access Bank Plc.
Both banks recently denied The Nation's exclusive report of November 12 on any merger plans.
In the report, this paper exclusively said: "It was gathered that both financial institutions have reached an agreement in broad terms on the acquisition. What is left is the valuation of assets, with a view to determining the level of compensation and systems' integration, the sources said, pleading not to be named because they are not allowed to talk to the media on the matter.
"It was learnt that the development leading to the impending acquisition was triggered by Diamond Bank directors who approached Access Bank for intervention in a bid to stave off a possible regulatory intervention that could lead to the withdrawal of the lender's operating licence in the light of the bank's depleting capital adequacy ratio on account of a huge Non Performing Loans (NPLs) portfolio put at over N150 billion."
Uzoma Dozie, Diamond Bank's chief executive officer said the potential merger of the two banks would create Nigeria and Africa's largest retail bank by customers.
He added that the transaction to be completed in the first half of 2019 was in the best interest of all stakeholders.
Dozie said the completion of the merger was subject to certain shareholder and regulatory approvals.
He said: "The proposed merger would involve Access Bank acquiring the entire issued share capital of Diamond Bank in exchange for a combination of cash and shares in Access Bank via a Scheme of Merger.
"Based on the agreement reached by the boards of the two financial institutions, Diamond Bank shareholders will receive a consideration of N3.13 per share, comprising N1 per share in cash."
Dozie also said the transaction would include the allotment of two new Access Bank ordinary shares for every seven Diamond Bank ordinary shares held as at the implementation date.
"The offer represents a premium of 260 per cent to the closing market price of 87k per share of Diamond Bank on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) as of Dec. 13, 2018, the date of the final binding offer," Dozie said.
He said the bank's shares would be absorbed into Access Bank at the completion of the merger and Diamond Bank would cease to exist under Nigerian law.
"The current listing of Diamond Bank's shares on the NSE and the listing of Diamond Bank's global depositary receipts on the London Stock Exchange will be cancelled, upon the merger becoming effective.
"The board of Diamond Bank believes that the proposed combination of the two operations provides an exciting prospect for all stakeholders in both businesses," he said.
Herbert Wigwe , Access Bank chief executive officer said: "Access Bank has a strong track record of acquisition and integration and has a clear growth strategy.
"Access Bank and Diamond Bank have complementary operations and similar values, and a merger with Diamond Bank with its leadership in digital and mobile-led retail banking.
"This could accelerate our strategy as a significant corporate and retail bank in Nigeria and a Pan-African financial services champion."
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African Development Bank (AfDB) Group has announced the debarment of Lutoyilex Construct Limited, a construction company registered in Nigeria and Mr. Bamidele Obiniyi (also known as Mr. Bamidele Abayomi), its managing director, for a period of 36 months.
An investigation conducted by the Bank's Office of Integrity and Anti-Corruption established that Lutoyilex Construct Limited engaged in fraudulent practice while bidding for a construction contract under the Agricultural Transformation Agenda Support Program Phase One in Nigeria (ATASP-1).
According to the AfDB, while participating in a tender for the construction of social infrastructure in Niger State of Nigeria, the company misrepresented its experience in conducting similar construction contracts.
The debarment renders the company and its Managing Director ineligible to participate in Bank-financed projects during the debarment period.
The debarment qualifies for cross-debarment by other multilateral development banks under the Agreement for Mutual Recognition of Debarment Decisions, including the Asian Development Bank, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank Group.
ATASP-1 is financed under the African Development Fund administered by the African Development Bank Group.
Man Allegedly Hacks into Wema Bank Account, Steals N4m
Nonso Okereke, a 29-year-old man has been being arraigned before an Igbosere Magistrates' Court in Lagos for allegedly hacking into a Wema Bank account and stealing N4 million.
Okereke, allegedly committed the offence in connivance with Emeka Onumba, 36-year-old man.
Inspector Ingobo Emby, the police prosecutor, who brought the suspects before Magistrate A.O. Alogba, claimed that the duo committed the offences sometime in January at Wema Bank headquarters, located at 54, Marina Street, Lagos Island.
He informed the court that the defendants hacked into an account of Wema Bank, fraudulently transferred N4 million into various accounts, and later withdrew the money and shared, which the prosecutor said contravened Sections 287 and 411 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State.
When the charges were read to them, the suspects pleaded not guilty, while the magistrate granted them bail in the sum of N400,000 each with two sureties each in like sum who must have N500,000 in their bank accounts, with the case adjourned till July 18 for trial.
But as a result of the fear created by this report last week, Wema Bank has emphasised that its system was never hacked by the suspects, assuring customers that their deposits were safe.
"Wema Bank remains committed to protecting the funds of their customers and offering safe and secure banking services," the financial institution said.
Explaining what happened, it was gathered after an investigation that the said sum was fraudulently withdrawn from the Wema Bank account of Maxwell Odoemenam without his consent by swapping the customer's SIM card through the telecom company.
The SIM card swapped was due to failed controls on the part of the telecoms firm who did not carry out due diligence before allowing the SIM card swap. This is beyond the control of the bank, as they do not issue SIM card to customers, we learned.
The investigation further reveals that the customer had initially visited our Lawanson branch on 20/12/2018 to request for the balance in his account and when he was availed his account balance, he discovered that there was a shortfall of N20,100.00 in his balance. Further review of his statement of account revealed that the sum of N19,000 was transferred from his account via USSD platform into the account of one Amadi Promise in Union Bank, while the balance of N1,100 was used to purchase airtime recharge for his mobile line.
He however claimed that he did not register for USSD or any online platform with the bank thus, the transactions were fraudulent and not at his instance.
Upon interrogation of the customer, he explained that he had earlier visited Airtel Office to complain of network downtime on his phone number (08121730557), which he registered with the bank and he was notified by a staff of Airtel Office that someone had tampered with his SIM card, hence, he visited our Lawanson branch to request that his phone number be changed to another.
The staff of Lawanson branch (Wema Bank) who attended to the customer claimed that he advised the customer to allow the bank to place a debit restriction on his account to avert further fraud on it but that the customer did not agree with her but rather requested for a change of telephone number on the account because it is his business account and that he did not want any restriction on it so as not to disrupt his business.
Hence, restriction was not placed on his account but his profile was deactivated on the USSD platform.
The customer however denied the assertion that he rejected the Officer's advice on placing a restriction on his account.
Unknown to the customer, after the initial N20,100 transactions, the fraudster(s) had already enrolled the customer on ALAT platform using the customer's telephone number and other BVN details.
The telephone number was fraudulently swapped at the Telecommunication company which gave them access to the customer's BVN details on NIBSS platform.
Upon the successful enrolment of the customer's account on the ALAT platform, funds totalling N4,056,500.00 were fraudulently transferred to Adanna Mary Opara (N210,000.00), Okeke Favour (N100,000.00), Onumba Peter (N3,646,500.00) and Anyanwu Chinonyerem (N100,000) in Access, Union and GTBank, respectively.
The bank has refunded the customer with the lost funds and got the fraudsters arrested through the instrumentality of the Police to ensure substantive justice on the matter.
Onumba Peter, one of the fraudsters apprehended by the Police claimed that one Nonso Okereke introduced the fraud to him.
SystemSpecs, NIBOX Ink Deal to Deepen Financial Inclusion
SystemSpecs, the Nigerian company with interests in financial technology, designs and development of human resource management, (HRM) solutions and NIBOX, a multi-platform payment solution provider, have entered a partnership to extend financial products and services to the banked, under-banked and unbanked in the country.
SystemSpecs in a statement, said it would leverage NIBOX's self-service payment terminals strategically located throughout Nigeria, and online through its innovative mobile platforms.
Through this partnership, it added that services such as federal and state governments' payments, electricity recharge token, airtime and data phone top-up, cinema tickets purchase, insurance premium payment, cash transfers and other utility bills would be accessible on NIBOX touch points.
It added NIBOX had deployed 55 terminals in Lagos and Abuja, with plans to deploy additional 500 terminals in Lagos and Abuja by the end of 2019.
"We are glad to be collaborating with SystemSpecs to deliver new services to customers. Indeed, the value proposition and attainments of the Remita brand are a boost for this partnership and would ultimately be to the advantage of the end-user, who would now have improved access to various services and products across Nigeria," Dr George Manuwuike, chief Executive officer/founder, NIBOX, said.
"This partnership is also in line with our aim of becoming the fastest and most convenient platform for cash payment for broad-based goods and services for public and private sectors," Manuwuike added.
Commenting on the development, Demola Igbalajobi, SystemSpecs' divisional head, Payment Gateway and Infrastructure, said, "At SystemSpecs, we understand that access to financial services is key to the development of a strong and efficient financial ecosystem, which facilitates economic growth. It is therefore a delight for us to partner with NIBOX to further bring Remita services closer to customers at their point of convenience using NIBOX touchpoints."
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My brother Dave and I drove my heavily loaded Suzuki Grand Vitara hauling our two Kawasaki KLR 650 Dual Sport motorcycles to the San Juan Mountains of SouthWest Colorado in July 2002. We set up base camp at 10,000 ft. elevation below Ophir Pass and made daily jaunts over all the passes in region via the extensive network of four wheel drive trails in the area. Wow, what a great time!
And in the beginning . . . A very heavily loaded down Zuki! Top o' the morning to y'all! Idyllic scene from our base camp at 10,000 ft. More base camp scenery. Begging Clark's Nutcracker.
A pristine new day. A look up at Ophir Pass from base camp. Ophir Pass trail panorama. Dave and I on top of Ophir Pass. Scene from the Million Dollar Highway. Just a really pretty picture . . .
Looking down the Falls at Box Canyon. Lower on Box Canyon. A nice waterfall from afar. Closer in on that pretty waterfall. Trail to Alta Lake. Alta Lake parking.
Another scene of Alta Lake. Beautiful meadow near treeline. Dave's KLR on the trail. The view from Cinnamon Pass. One of many cirque lakes. The crystal waters of Clear Lake.
The trail up to Engineer Pass. Me, cruising up Engineer Pass . . . The fearless duo at Engineer Pass. The panorama from the front of Engineer Pass. Engineer Pass backside panorama. . . . and then down from Engineer Pass.
The view down on the town of Ouray. The view down from Imogene Pass. An Imogene Pass trail panorama. 14'ers from the top of Imogene Pass. The famous silver mines at Red Mountain. Tomboy Mine boarding house.
Tomboy Mine remains. View from 12,000 ft near Tomboy Mine! The view down from Tomboy Mine. A darn pretty stream scene. Just a bit of the wonderful San Juans. The cause of the damage . . .
More damage assessment. So many peaks - who can remember the names.
Steve and Dave Thompson, July 2002, San Juan Mountains SouthWest Colorado.
This page created on a Macintosh using PhotoPage by John A. Vink and enhanced with Adobe GoLive.


A lot of my friends ask me what the most valuable vintage receiver is. It's actually a fairly difficult question to answer because there are so many variables that factor into market value. The Pioneer SX-1980 and the Sansui G-33000 are definitely two of the most valuable receivers but check out the latest sale of a Marantz 2600 pictured below.
Yes, you're seeing that right. $6100.00 for a Marantz 2600. A near mint Marantz 2500 just recently sold for $3500 and they routinely sell for $2500 to $3000 so perhaps over six grand for the 2600 is not out of line. There were 7 unique bidders over $3000, only four over the $4000 mark and only two bidders bid over $6k. Obviously those two buyers really wanted the 2600. That's understandable because you just don't see these receivers on the market very often.
This particular 2600 is in excellent condition and, according to the seller, was recently serviced and checked out fine. As you can see the sale also included the wood case. The original manual was included as well but not the original box.
Even the inside of the unit is very clean and you can see the massive toroidal power transformer that Marantz used in these monster receivers. And, a monster it is, weighing in at over 60 pounds and pumping out 300 watts per channel. The 2600 was produced from 1978 to 1980 and is the most powerful receiver Marantz has made. It also checks in tied at number two with the Sansui G-33000 on the all time most powerful receiver list. Allegedly Marantz only made about 1000 of the these receivers so they are very rare.
A pretty nice Pioneer SX-1980 just sold for $3500 and a Sansui G-22000 for over $2000 (9-28-2013). I haven't seen a G-33000 sale. So, for now it looks like the Marantz 2600 is the king of the hill when it comes to market value. Some might argue that its performance does not live up to the price but if you're a Marantz collector then this is the holy grail of receivers. I remember seeing one for sale in 2012 in "fully restored" condition for $12000 but I don't think it ever sold. I remember another sale on eBay for $4000 back in 2006. Nonetheless, we now know what the current market value of a 2600 is - and it's a lot.
Update: May 30, 2014. Another Marantz 2600 has sold and prices appear to still be on the rise. This one sold for $6995. It was in very nice working condition with the exception of an issue with FM stereo reception.


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Discussion in 'iMac' started by fatherom, Jul 20, 2017.
Please be patient with me, I'm a bit new to the world of Macs.
Today, I got an Oyen Digital MiniPro USB 3.1 enclosure. I put the drive in it, and reconnected it. Time Machine backup failed ("could not copy files").
I've tried several Erase operations. I connected the drive to my Windows PC and wiped it clean, including the EFI partition.
Basically, when I initialize the drive on the iMac, format it and then instantly run First Aid, it says "keys out of order" amongst other errors messages.
Is it possible the enclosure is corrupting something? I have another enclosure of the same type, and it seems to work fine.
Going to keep an eye on it, but I switched the drive to a different enclosure and it worked fine. Hmmm...going to call Oyen Digital tomorrow and tell them I suspect one of the enclosures I ordered is bad somehow.
"Oyen Digital MiniPro USB 3.1"
Hmmm... I have an earlier MiniPro (USB 3.0 only) that has never given me a bit of trouble, runs fine.
I'm wondering if it could be a controller issue with the "3.1" version of USB that was causing the conflict?
Or perhaps some conflict between the Samsung drive and the controller?
USB has never been "a perfect science", from time to time conflicts seem to arise.
If you have the drive in a different enclosure that is working fine, I'd say, "go with what works for you" and don't worry about it.
Before you return the MiniPro, do you have any other drives you could try with it?
BTW, I don't see an SSD as a really good use for backup.
But will it have enough room for the TM backup "to grow"?
Using and SSD for a Time Machine backup seems like a waste. How often are you restoring from backup?
It's an ssd that I had lying around that wasn't being used for anything. I didn't have any other drives to try in the "bad" enclosure unfortunately.
I vowed when I got this setup I would never buy a spinning disk for it. SSD all the way.
The time machine backup isn't something I hope to ever have to restore from. . That's the point of a backup...To use in some catastrophic event.
I know they grow, but time machine will delete old stuff to make room for new when the disk is full. It'd probably take me years to wear out the ssd anyway. It's more of a fun experiment than anything else.
Also the other enclosure that DID work is the exact same brand and model. Hence my feeling that the one particular enclosure had something funky in the circuit board. Called Oyen Digital and they agreed.
The enclosure likely caused changes the Mac perceived as corruption or was unable to compensate for. I'm not familiar with the enclosure but data could have been moved or rearranged or something. The keys are the pointers to directories, if they are manipulated from what the Mac is expecting you'll likely get this error.
I think you will be fine now.
You could do us all a favorite and try to replicate it again. Pull the SSD and use the SATA adapter see if it works, if it does do a back up, then swap it back in. Would be nice to know for future reference.
As long as the storage used on the Mac doesn't exceed your back up disk size you'll be fine. While a fun experiment I would also consider another back up btw. I use an SSD myself but keep only important files that I manually move too it, then keep it in a safe. My TM is a Synology NAS using WD Reds in mirrored RAID.
Yeah I don't anticipate my internal ssd ever getting more full than the size of this external drive. If it does, I'll get something bigger.
I can't do the experiment as I've already returned the bad enclosure.
If I put the drive in a good enclosure of the same brand and model, I could format the drive and run first aid and have no issues. Then I swapped the drive into the "bad" enclosure, run first aid, and get errors. Then I would format the drive again while still in the bad enclosure, instantly run first aid, and get errors. The enclosure was definitely gumming something up.
Oh and last night I did connect it to the Sata cable and formatted it and had no first aid errors. Put it back in the bad enclosure and instant first aid errors.
Ahh I didn't realize you had a bad enclosure.


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Q: Bootstrap carousel transition glitch I have a problem with bootstrap carousel. I added custom controls and I styled them according to design, but when I am clicking next slide the previous image disappears leaving white space in the middle.
I edited the bootstrap.css where I changed the .carousel-caption and I added some custom css for the buttons.
Here are the test page: http://valters.me/b/
And I managed to take a screenshot: http://d.pr/i/yGzY

A: I tried removing properties from .left and .right, but it didn't solve it for me. The solve I came up with was speeding up the transition. Bootstrap's default is .6s ease-in-out, .5 seemed to do the trick for me. Try adding this to your CSS:
.carousel-inner>.item{
   /*disables white flash*/
   -webkit-transition: -webkit-transform .5s ease-in-out;
   -o-transition: -o-transform .5s ease-in-out;
   transition: transform .5s ease-in-out;
}

Added this as a backup because white is waaaaay more noticable than black:
.carousel-inner{
/*just incase the flash (style above) comes back*/
   background: #000;
}

Hope this helps!

A: For bootstrap 4 this worked for me.
In your .css:
.carousel { overflow: hidden; }
.carousel-item { overflow: hidden; }

A: If you remove the transition css from the .carousel-control.left and .carousel-control.right that seems to fix the problem.
Tested in FF and Chrome.

A: In my case, someone previously had put a position: absolute on the img tag inside the carousel. Removing it did helped.

A: I tried this and it worked:
.carousel-inner > .item {
    -webkit-backface-visibility: visible;
            backface-visibility: visible;
}

Bootstrap Version: 3.3.7

A: i tried other solutions but only this worked on FF.
.carousel-item {backface-visibility: visible;}

A: I encountered this issue with bootstrap 5.0.2 and react-bootstrap 1.6.1.
I was able to come up with a solution by modifying the .css styles which are being applied.
Add this to your custom .css file to override default bootstrap.css
carousel-item-next{
  transition: transform 0s ease-in-out;
}

.carousel-item-prev{
    transition: transform 0s ease-in-out;
}
.carousel-item-left {
    transform: translateX(-100%);
}
.carousel-item-right {
    transform: translateX(100%);
}

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