Ever since Gordo suffered his injury, we were not only down a man on our hockey team, we were down one in our eating crew. Consider the fact that many of the regulars do not play the Spring season, it leaves only Milhouse and myself to look for eats after the game. So gone are the grandiose plans for visiting a place with a large menu or an Asian restaurant that requires sharing of many plates. Hence, we didn't travel very far and checked out the newly-opened Tri-Bull Noodle located in the former Hot Luck.
We ended up ordering a couple of bevvies including a Milk Tea for myself and a Vancouver Sunset for Milhouse. Normally, I'm not a huge fan of milk tea, but I thought this was one had a good balance of milkiness and natural tea flavour. It wasn't overly sweet where I could taste the ingredients. Milhouse thought his drink was refreshing and light as well as easy on the sugar. In terms of eats, we shared the Crispy Salty Peppery Chicken to start. These were rather large in size which helped ensure there was juicy and moist chicken to be had. However, the exterior was not crispy at all. Although well-salted with a touch of spice, we didn't notice any other distinguishing flavours.
I got one more appie in the Marinated Platter consisting of beef shank, tripe and marinated tofu. This was fairly standard, but good at the same time. I found the shank to be tender and gelatinized with some hits of 5-spice. The tripe was toothsome while still cooked enough to be tender to chew. Firm and well-seasoned, the tofu was sliced thin. As for my soup noodle, I went for their signature House Special Beef Noodle and although the intent of the broth was to be clear and clean, it was far too mild for my tastes. I could barely detect any meat flavour or salt for all that mattered. On the positive side, the noodles were al dente while the thin strips of meat melted in my mouth.
Milhouse went for the Tomato Beef Noodle Soup and there was more impact than the one I had. Mind you, it was all relative since mine didn't have much flavour to begin with. With that being said, the tomato was definitely there is a light sweet manner. I would've preferred more tang and salt though. The chunks of fatty beef were super moist while the noodles were on point. In the end, I guess the ol' adage that food is subjective rings true. For us, the food was decent, but the broths are far too mild and lacking impact for our tastes.


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The term Whig is used to describe different groups in different times and places. The first Whigs were a political faction and then a political party in England between the 1680s and the 1850s. The American Revolutionaries were also known as Whigs, and later the Whigs were a political party that existed in the United States roughly between the 1830s and the 1850s. This blog takes its name from the American Revolutionaries, and specifically from a series of articles written in England under the title The Independent Whig by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, who later wrote Cato's Letters, and who were a major influence of American Revolutionary thought.
Whigs were British citizens in America who sought to protect their inherited rights and duties as Englishmen against an overzealous Crown they understood to be abridging those rights. The American Founders were Whigs. In the same sense, modern American conservatives, including the Tea Party, could also be considered Whigs.
Inventing Freedom: How the English-Speaking Peoples Made the Modern World, by Daniel Hannan. HarperCollins, 2013 , Kindle Edition.
As Churchill was to put it in his History of the English-Speaking Peoples, "The Declaration [of Independence] was in the main a restatement of the principles which had animated the Whig struggle against the later Stuarts and the English Revolution of 1688." Indeed it was, often in the most literal way: the right of petition, the prohibition of standing armies, the protection of common law and jury trials, the right to bear arms— all were copied from England's revolutionary settlement of 1689. Some of the clauses of England's 1689 Bill of Rights were reproduced without amendment. Here, for example, is the English Bill of Rights on criminal justice: "Excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." And here is the U.S. Constitution: "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." Both these clauses themselves looked back to Magna Carta. Both were understood by their authors not as the creation of a new privilege, but as the confirmation of an ancient one.
Indeed, the more we see of the commonalities between American and British constitutional documents, the more meaningless it is to talk of the one having copied the other. Both are expressions of an inherited folkright of constitutional freedoms— a folkright that was and is the common property of Anglosphere societies.
If Paul Revere's imagined cry [The British are coming!] was an invention of later writers [he actually cried "The regulars are out!" or, according to one source," the redcoats are out!", because the citizens of Massachusetts perceived themselves as British], what are we to make of the word patriot, in use in the American colonies long before anyone dreamed of a rupture with London?
During the second half of the eighteenth century, the word had the same connotations in America as in Great Britain. A Patriot was someone with a pronounced devotion to liberty and property; someone who stood for the interests of the nation as a whole, rather than those of its supposedly effete ruling class. Yet, before 1776, there was no American nation. An American's loyalty to his colony was contained within a wider sense of allegiance to the British imperium . To what, then, was he referring when he called himself a Patriot?
The answer is that he saw himself as a British patriot, standing up for his inherited freedoms against those seemingly bent on eroding them—namely an autocratic King and his fawning ministers. By patriotism, the American meant being loyal to the people around him. He meant sticking up for his community instead of fawning to the authorities. He meant being prepared to forgo the salaries, pensions, and sinecures that might have come his way had he been readier to ingratiate himself with his governor and the colonial administration.
It used to be fashionable to claim that Magna Carta was "revived" in the seventeenth century, that it was conscripted to serve in a wholly unrelated constitutional dispute of that era, and that we shouldn't see it as anything more than a deal between a cornered king and his mutinous nobles—a deal that was promptly broken the moment the King could get away with it. Plenty of historians still take this line, terrified of saying anything that might seem to endorse a self-congratulatory, anachronistic, or Whig view of history.
In February 1689, Parliament drafted a Declaration of Right— which later that year became a parliamentary statute, and so is now known as the Bill of Rights. Its form and content, to our eyes, closely anticipate the U.S. Declaration of Independence and Constitution— though the authors were not looking forward, but back at the various petitions of the 1640s and, ultimately, Magna Carta.
It cannot be stressed too strongly that the American Revolution was an internal argument followed by a civil war. Only after the French became involved in 1778 did it occur to anyone to treat the conflict as one between different states. American Tories emphasized their loyalty to British institutions , above all the Crown-in-Parliament; American Whigs, by contrast, were loyal to the British values upon which the legitimacy of those institutions rested, and which they believed the king himself was violating.
When we look at the great historical panoramas painted by nineteenth-century artists , or watch the versions of the war dreamed up in Hollywood studios, we see colonists marching under the stars-and-stripes. While Betsy Ross's famous flag was certainly displayed by some Patriots , their favored banner was one that Americans have now largely forgotten: the Grand Union Flag. Known also as the Congress Flag and the Continental Colors, it had the thirteen red and white stripes as they are today, but in the top left-hand quarter, instead of stars, it showed Britain's flag, made up of the St. George's Cross for England and the St. Andrew's Cross for Scotland.
"We need to remember that the quarrel was still seen by all sides as a family row. We must not think, anachronistically, of British radical sympathy with the American Patriots as being support for a foreign ally. Whigs formed a single faction within a single polity, and felt equally threatened by a ministry that seemed bent on returning to Stuart Toryism.
The Tory-Whig division, though its balance had varied from place to place, had existed throughout the Anglosphere. After 1776, however, the Whigs won more or less total political control of one part of the English-speaking world. What followed was the most perfect consummation of English Whig philosophy in the form of the U.S. Constitution and, most especially, the Bill of Rights. All states develop according to the DNA that was fixed at the moment of their conception . The United States of America was founded on a series of premises: that concentrated power corrupts; that jurisdiction should be dispersed; that decision makers should be accountable; that taxes should not be raised, nor laws passed, save by elected representatives; that the executive should be answerable to the legislature.
The men who met in the old courthouse at Philadelphia were determined to prevent a repetition of the abuses through which they had lived. In consequence, they came up with the most successful constitution on earth: one that, to this day, has served to keep the government under control and to aggrandize the citizen. The peculiarities of the American governmental model—states' rights, the direct election of almost every public official, an accountable judiciary, primaries, ballot initiatives, balanced budget rules, term limits— all are a working out of the Jeffersonian ideal of the maximum devolution of power.
If the Second Anglosphere Civil War was the genotype, they are the phenotype.
Yet again, we need to remind ourselves that the Founders saw themselves as conservatives, not innovators. In their own eyes, all they were doing was guaranteeing the liberties they had always assumed to be their heritage as Englishmen. Far from creating new rights, they were reasserting rights that they traced back through the Glorious Revolution, through the First Anglosphere Civil War, through Simon de Montfort's campaigns, through even the Great Charter itself to the folkright of Anglo-Saxon freedoms. (pp. 237-238).


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Vintage gumball machine from 1917 (as prop).
A unique sweater with distinctive accents deserve plainer accompaniments, like a pair of grey slacks or navy corduroy shorts. The composition of this outfit stemmed from a playful moment, to show the side of me that still refuses to grow up. But don't we all want to stay young-at-heart?
It was somewhat spontaneous but it was Ike who cajoled me into wearing a pair of plaid shorts and the long argyle socks for great contrast. He was right, this shot with his stylish edits packs a visual punch.
In a scale of 1 to 10, how pleased are you with this composition/outfit?
Extremely fun! But people might start suspecting I have a Peter Pan complex.
It's interesting how the abstract mohair white arrows seem to be pointing to the gumball machine like it was a main attraction. Navy and whites definitely play a major role here and showcased in different ways. It's hard to go wrong with the crispness of the two colors together.
It will be highly unlikely that I would wear shorts on the street with the argyle socks like that, with knickers yes but otherwise it is not really my style.
It's definitely one of those moments where both the photographer and subject collaborate naturally together with a terrific and whimsical end result. Now if only Ike has the magic power to turn back time too. People get criticized as they get older of dressing too young for their age etc. (or vice-versa) but you are as young as you feel, and should also dress how you feel, as long as it is not offensive or obscene.
On a side note, if you look closely on the glass of the gumball machine, there are interesting stickers with writing that includes: "WARNING: $5 reward to the arrest and conviction of any one damaging or putting slugs into this machine", "Buy War Bonds", "White Pennies Will Not Work" and "Remember Pearl Harbor".
Above, detail of the famous, legendary, if precious gumball machine, firmly secured in the grip-embrace of Voon's left hand.
So good! A definite summer evening look!


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Head north 19 miles from Buena Vista (or south from Leadville) on Hwy 24. Turn west at Twin Lakes onto CO 82. Continue 23 miles to Independence Pass. Colorado 82 is a paved road all the way to Aspen, but is closed during winter months.
Aspen is 20 miles beyond Independence Pass. We spent an hour in Aspen and discovered that gas was $1/gallon higher than the rest of the state. Need to go back when we have more time to stay there all day.


The ocean near Boston is warming at a faster rate than any other area in the U.S., so the city has been giving some serious thought to how climate change will change its waterfront developments.
One of the prime examples of how this reflection plays out is a recent development by Skanska, as CNBC reports, 121 Seaport, an elliptical office tower.
The conversation about how developers are planning for extreme weather is becoming more and more common under the leadership of the city's chief of environment, energy and open space, Austin Blackmon.
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DoD contracts: laser targeting and UAV imaging
Northrop Grumman lands a $690M contract to support the Laser Infrared Targeting and Navigating (LITENING) pod system.
The US Department of Defense (DoD) has awarded a number of new contracts and contract modifications for the development of optics and photonics components and systems in the past two months.
Here's our round-up of the latest photonics-related DoD funding activity, including Northrop Grumman's seven-year, $690 million contract to support the Laser Infrared Targeting and Navigating (LITENING) targeting pod (announced December 5) and a $514 million deal with FLIR Systems and Lockheed Martin's Gyrocam Systems division to supply nearly 1000 vehicle optical sensor systems to be used in Afghanistan (announced November 14):
Dec 30:
AAI Corp., Hunt Valley, Md., was awarded a $54,795,517 firm-fixed-price contract. The award will provide for the modification of an existing contract to procure laser designator retrofit kits for the Shadow unmanned aircraft system. Work will be performed in Hunt Valley, Md., with an estimated completion date of March 31, 2014. One bid was solicited, with one bid received. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity (W58RGZ-08-C-0023).
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, Orlando, Fla., was awarded a $7,789,759 firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The award will provide for the procurement of Modernized Laser Range Finder Designator Lot 1 kits and associated spares. Work will be performed in Orlando, Fla., with an estimated completion date of April 30, 2014. One bid was solicited, with one bid received. The U.S. Army Contracting Command, Redstone Arsenal, Ala., is the contracting activity (W58RGZ-11-C-0120).
Raytheon Co., Missile Systems, Tucson, Ariz., is being awarded a $68,867,065 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price, fixed-price-incentive-firm target contract (N00019-11-C-0001) for the Lot 12 low rate initial production of 115 AIM-9X Block II all up round tactical missiles for the Navy (49) and Air Force (66); 115 Block II active optical target detectors for the Navy (49) and Air Force (66); 29 Block II captive air training missiles for the Navy; and 42 containers for the Navy (24) and Air Force (18). Work is expected to be completed in January 2014. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract combines purchases for the Air Force ($36,044,608; 52.34 percent) and the Navy ($32,822,457; 47.66 percent). The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.
Raytheon Missile Systems, Tuscon, Ariz., is being awarded a $15,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract for the laser maverick missile production. The location of the performance is Tucson, Ariz. Work is expected to be completed Sept. 30, 2013. This was a sole-source acquisition. Therefore, one proposal was received. OO-ALC/GHGKA, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, is the contracting activity (FA8213-09-D-0008 0004).
Carestream Health, Inc., Rochester, N.Y., was issued a modification exercising the third option year on contract SPM2D1-09-D-8308/P00017. The award is a fixed-price with economic price adjustment contract with a maximum $63,159,127 for imaging systems, subsystems, and components. There are no other locations of performance. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. There were 43 responses to the Web solicitation. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2012/2013 Defense Working Capital Funds. The date of performance completion is Dec. 15, 2012. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity.
LITENING pod
Dec 5:
Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., Rolling Meadows, Ill., is being awarded a $690,090,000 firm-fixed-price, fixed-price-incentive-firm, cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-plus-incentive-firm, time-and-materials contract for the Laser Infrared Targeting and Navigating (LITENING) Targeting Pod System post-production support contract that will address supply requirements centered on hardware and software upgrades and associated host platform integration, initial spares, technical manual and technical orders, repair data, studies, spares recapitalization and support for the standup of organic depot repair requirements for the sustainment of the legacy LITENING pod fleet. The location of the performance is Rolling Meadows, Ill. Work is expected to be completed Sept. 18, 2018. This was a sole-source acquisition. Therefore, one proposal was received. ASC/WNQK, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8626-12-D-2137).
Nov 28:
Insitu, Inc., Bingen, Wash., is being awarded an $11,994,145 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N00019-11-C-0061) to exercise an option for operational and maintenance services in support of the ScanEagle Unmanned Aerial Systems. These services will provide electro-optical/infrared and mid-wave infrared imagery in support of Marine Corps operations in Operation Enduring Freedom to provide real-time imagery and data. Work will be performed in Bingen, Wash., and is expected to be completed in January 2012. Contract funds in the amount of $11,994,145 will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., is the contracting activity.
Lockheed Martin Gyrocam Systems, L.L.C., Sarasota, Fla. (M67854-12-D-5504), and FLIR Systems, Inc., North Billerica, Mass. (M67854-12-D-5503), are each being awarded a commercial, firm-fixed-priced, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, multiple award contract for up to a maximum quantity of 951 Vehicle Optic Sensor Systems (VOSS), including spare parts, maintenance/sustainment, training, and provisional technical data in Afghanistan and the continental United States. The maximum dollar value for both contracts combined, including the base year and four option years, is $513,697,547. FLIR Systems is being awarded delivery order 0001 at $1,985,226. Lockheed Martin Gyrocam Systems is being awarded delivery order 0001 at $251,500. The delivery order is for one VOSS unit and co-site integration. Work for these delivery orders is expected to be completed within 30 days from award. Work will be performed in Sarasota, Fla., and Billerica, Mass., and is expected to be completed November 2015. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. This contract was competitively procured via the Navy Electronic Commerce Online website, with three proposals received. These two contractors will compete for delivery orders under the terms and conditions of the awarded contract. Marine Corps Systems Command, Quantico, Va., is the contracting activity.
Korrect Optical*, Louisville, Ky. was issued a modification exercising the first option year on contract SPM2DE-11-D-7546/P00003. The award is a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery / indefinite-quantity contract with a maximum $23,738,582 for various optical lenses. There are no other locations of performance. Using services are Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. There were six solicitations made with three responses. Type of appropriation is fiscal 2011 Defense Capital Working Funds. The date of performance completion is Nov. 30, 2011. The Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support, Philadelphia, Pa., is the contracting activity.
Nov 4:
Teledyne Scientific and Imaging, L.L.C., Thousand Oaks, Calif., is being awarded a $20,400,000 firm-fixed-price contract for the production, testing, inspection, and delivery of 8,500 aircrew laser eye performance block two spectacles and 100 fitting frame sets. ASC/WNUK, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity (FA8902-06-C-1002 and modification P00028).
LITENING Advanced targeting System
DoD contracts: portable PV and membrane optics

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Is it me, or is this version that much harder than the original? Just finished a level3 - easy difficulty game and it took me 20 minutes to finish! The bat in this version seemed more of a menace than I recall in the original and there was no getting away from the dragons at all if bitten; i.e -none of that 'pause' after a bite that allows a second to try to get away. I'm not complaining, I think this version is awesome. Too bad some kind of agreement couldnt be made for this to see an official/approved release - it is that good (IMHO).
Thanks to Curt getting involved, he was able to create a working relationship between Ron and Atari, who wound up giving him guidelines (on content, etc.) that he had to follow for his version.
Yes, IIRC they didn't want *any* images from the original to appear in my 5200 Adventure II game. Very late in the game, I think Curt convinced them to allow me to use the bat. But I already had a nice troll and despite the nostalgia, I hate that bat. There were other rules.
But a bit of developer trivia, Adv II was originally going to have the entire map of Adventure 2600 hidden in it as the "fifth kingdom". I believe most or all were whipped up by Raccoon Lad at one point. In fact if you check out his site, you can see he had an isometric version of Adventure's map as well. Well anyway, those simple "Adventure 2600" blocky screens compressed down so small (from 960 bytes to 50 bytes IIRC) that they didn't take much memory. But Atari didn't approve, so that memory went into the nice tower & bridge screens and other uses. One of the reasons AdvII took so many years to finish is that I simply quit working on it during that year (2004 or 2005?). Then it took me that much longer to get back into the project.
Great job on Adventure II - I'd play it more if it wasn't for those damn controllers... I bought a 5200 just so I could play your game. It still amazes me that Atari would care that much about a game for an obsolete system. You must have had mixed emotions - mad that they would interfere but happy that they even noticed. I would think the "new Atari" would want to work with home-brewers rather than against them in order to keep interest in Atari's old titles alive.
Just curious - how many 5200 Adventure II cartridges have been sold?
Edited by Byte Knight, Mon Feb 15, 2010 11:23 PM.
You're mistaken on a few things.
OK, remember this with copyrights. If a copyright is not renewed within 29 years time it becomes public domain.
Since 1978: 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation whichever is shorter.
Between 1923-1963: 28 years if not renewed, 95 years from publication for works published, if renewed.
Coprights prior to 1923 are no longer valid.
Since they started doing this 6 months ago Atari is going to have a problem.
Started doing what 6 months ago? You misread that. They've used Adventure before that, including on several collections and the Flashback 2. Everything is up to date on trademark and copyrights. What Curt was stating was they moved to more heavily using and enforcing their classic IP in general.
They have a case with both for anything still a valid trademark, including Adventure.
Edited by wgungfu, Tue Feb 16, 2010 1:18 AM.
Also keep in mind that copyright varies from country to country. The things listed above are for the US. Additionally some of those time limits don't even start ticking down until the original creator is dead.
I'm the one who made this game. As far as what happened.. there wasn't actually a literal "cease and desist," rather, there was more of a friendly suggestion to take it down. I thought about it and decided it was in everyone's best interest to do so.
Virtually everything in the game was new; everything was built from the ground up. However, I've decided to change around the maps of the game to brand new designs, and I will be changing the title of the game to "Dragonduck Chronicles." Essentially, it will be an entirely new game, with a new title, new levels and everything. The only thing that will be akin to "Adventure" on the 2600 will be the unprotected underlying gameplay elements. I also coded a new engine which minimizes bugs and makes the bat less erratic.
All of the artistic and coding work that went into this won't go to waste. Heck even as a new game at least it'll provide some new challenges and content that players haven't seen before. It probably won't be released for a while, at least not until I finish the Xbox Live Indie game I'm working on.
Incidentally, the best way to go about doing "remakes" of other games is to get the copyright owner's permission before doing any work. It's simple and precludes any issues over copyrights and so forth. I recommend anyone doing so when they want to remake a game.
Edited by slash000, Tue Feb 16, 2010 11:04 AM.
Kudos to you. It sounds like you're making lemonade out of a lemon of a situation.
I played the reboot some time last year, but I didn't stick with it for long. I love Adventure, but I've been there and done that. Your planned new level designs make it a much more interesting proposition to me!
BTW, your XBL Indy game looks terrific!
Sounds great, looking forward to seeing the new version.
You know, I was thinking, if 'Adventure' could be considered a trademark/copyright, then shouldn't Don Woods and Willie Crowther be suing Atari for using 'Adventure,' when they wrote the first Adventure game?
Reread the thread. It's not "Adventure" that's trademarked or copyrighted.
Great name! It's a cleverly coded tribute to Adventure without using Adventure in the name. Can't wait to try it!
I'm looking forward to Dragonduck Chronicles as well.
Just D/L'ed it and tried it out...VERY COOL!
There - few hours in 1 word.
I'd like to know too, and how many boxed versions were made.
Does anyone still happen to have the zipped installer for this game (or anything that can be attached to an e-mail, for that matter)? The link above doesn't work, and probably hasn't for a long time -- I'm afraid I've found this thread rather late!
Psst! Hey, buddy! Over here, in this dark alley, in the shadows behind the dumpster! I got what you're looking for right here!
I didn't realise this was out!! I want. Please help!!
If someone tells me where it is I will publish up to my RS account.
At least the developer is continuing. Freecraft kinda died and then forked into several other projects. I say it's better to start defensive when remaking a classic. If you're not obedient consumers then you're a target for lawsuits you can't afford (even if you can win.) "IP on your creativity!" says the corporate giant.
I'm pretty good at coming up with humorous analogues to game titles. If anyone needs ideas just ask.
The current "Atari" has no connection to the original. They bought the legal rights to games, trademarks, and logos, but they never did the work creating all this stuff or producing any of it. It's someone's else's work. One of the many reasons they have no idea what they have or how to use it. Shutting down homebrew games that could infringe on their games profitability and cause money losses is like shooting a pistol at the moon. They alienate some of their market, and lose potential profit. If they were smart, they would work WITH the fans. A company can let others do work they are passionate about more or less for free, and rake in most of the profit. Let's face it, the fans and such know what they are doing much more than Infogrames/"Atari". The current "Atari" barely uses the property they bought, another huge potential money loss, and their weak quality/quantity efforts like the Flashback are insignificant to say the least. The mainstream audience has no time to look or even laugh at the flashback compared to Playstation 3 or Xbox.
"Atari" is alienating it's niche market of classic gamers, and their biggest potential target is not getting a quality product. The 30-45 or whatever old mainstream consumer that has some nostalgia and memory of Atari is not likely to be impressed with a machine that is inferior to one made in 1977. "Atari" would not continually feature paddle only games with a joystick if they had the slightest idea of what was going on. So far, most everything they have done is typical, predictable, and headed for going out of business. Plus, they don't want to give you anything. Hello, it's almost 2012 in this post. 40 games? Gimme a break. There should be a hundred games to sell something like this. Can't make a cartridge port, don't want people uploading via USB, emulation rather than running real games,etc. It seems like they won't let Kurt do the things he wants to do, namely make the Flashback better.
If you notice kids today playing browser games, a good guess of around 80% of the gameplay is Atari 2600, many have only slightly better graphics. "Atari" is totally snoozing on exploiting the phone games/browser games market. They could probably go for copyright infringement type of pursuits with many of the current games as a secondary thing to making games too, but you don't see them doing that. The current "Atari" is much more hopeless than in 1994, when the real Atari wasn't advertising, losing money, going down to black and white game manuals, but still making a quality product. The only good thing they have is Nolan. But he can't do it all by himself, evidenced by Uwink's not making it. I think without a lot of changes and help, without a lot of listening, they are doomed to failure.
"Yep! Zwackery hit the nail right on the head. Atari still makes money from Adventure through compilation discs and the Flashback machines. They can still prove they could potentially get physical losses from a little Flash game. They could also claim it is devaluing their brand -- the nicer graphics on "Reboot" makes one not want to play the version in the compilations, and therefore Atari loses out on some market share.
Atari has a vested interest in that, which is why that title specifically gets "picked on" -- they still produce it! "
I am against any modern remakes in general. I am a low res purist and don't want to see any HD! God bless the lawyers for taking this stuff down!
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Intel fans excited for upcoming Arc Alchemist GPU post-leak
February 7, 2022 June 2, 2022 Miguel La Torre 0 Comments Arc Alchemist, GPU, Intel, leaks, SKU
Fans of Intel's much-anticipated new mobile Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) series get an early glimpse after the specifications of the upcoming product have leaked online.
In a tweet by Twitter user HXL (@9550pro), a well-known leaker in the tech industry, an alleged chart revealed specifications of Intel's upcoming Discrete Graphics 2 (DG2) GPU line, dubbed the Arc Alchemist. The chart labeled "DG2 Graphics Memory Configuration," which was taken as a slide from a big presentation file by the looks of it, revealed five Stock Keeping Units (SKU) all featuring different memory specifications.
The five SKUs, which were named SKU1, SKU2, SKU3, SKU4, and SKU5, all fall beside the "DG2 NB SKU" label row, which confirms these are notebook (NB) processors. (Read: GUIDE: Should you overclock your GPU?)
The first GPU in line is SKU1. Equipped with 512 Executions Units (EU), it is based on the DG12-512 GPU and has eight 2 gigabytes (GB) of memory modules, totaling 16GB of video RAM timed at 16 gigabytes per second (Gbps). Laced with a 256-bit bus interface, the bandwidth can reach up to 512GB per second at the maximum with a 1.35V I/O voltage.
Second in the chart is SKU2. With 384 EU, this SKU is capable of carrying up to six 2GB of memory modules, handing out a memory capacity of 12GB. The I/O voltage carries the same amount as the SKU 1.35V and also has a 16 Gbps of memory data rate. The 192-bit memory bus, which is less than the first one, maximizes the bandwidth at 384GB/s.
In the middle line-up, the SKU3, which has 256 EU, has four 2GB memory modules (8GB) also running at 16Gbps. Like SKU2, the maximum bandwidth of 256 Gbps is also less because of a smaller 128-bit memory bus. However, like its first two bigger SKUs, the I/O voltage in this one is also set at 1.35V.
Lastly, the SKU4 (128 EU) and SKU5 (96 EU) SKUs share the same memory configuration. Both have two 2GB of memory modules (4GB in total) and are clocked at 14 Gbps. Using a 64-bit memory bus, they offer a maximum bandwidth of 112 GB/s. This time, their I/O voltages are set at a lower 1.25V, hence the lower memory speed, unlike the other SKUs.
Just days after the leak, two more pieces of information surfaced online about Intel's upcoming cards, this time for laptops. Specification of the A370M GPU, which was with a CrossMark benchmark through Bapco, was also released on Twitter by another well-known industry leaker, APISAK (@TUM_APISAK).
According to the image, the laptop, which was labeled "Intel Corporation AlderLake-P DDR5 RVP," has a 12th-generation Intel Core i7-12800H processor, 8GB of RAM, and a 500GB SSD. However, reports from VideoCardz highly suggest that it is merely an engineering sample rather than a production model.
Aside from the leaked specs, details about the models are still officially blurred.
Currently, there is no release date yet from Intel but it is expected to drop before the first quarter of 2022 ends.
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Home News Brief Is the Medellin Criminal Truce Fracturing in Colombia?
Is the Medellin Criminal Truce Fracturing in Colombia?
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Drug hits and gang shootouts are fueling fears the criminal pact that has lowered violence in Colombia's second city, Medellin, to historic levels could be expiring.
In recent weeks, there has been a string of firefights and assassinations in Medellin that have left several people dead in some of the most open criminal confrontations since the city's rival criminal organizations, the Oficina de Envigado and the Urabeños, agreed to a ceasefire last year.
The violence has been focused in Comunas (districts) 4 and 5 in the northern zone of the city, which are home to some of the most powerful local criminal organizations.
On June 12, assassins murdered Wílmar Alexis Metaute Zapata, alias "Pichi Calvo" a high ranking leader of the city's Oficina de Envigado mafia with ties to that part of the city.
Just days before, police captured another senior member of the Oficina de Envigado, Didier de Jesus Rios Lopez, alias "Tuto," in the same zone. Rios is believed to head "La Union," one of the mid-sized criminal organizations known as "oficinas de cobro" — debt collection offices — that together make up the Oficina de Envigado. Police say he played a central role in brokering the truce with the Urabeños.
Both men have also been connected to criminal activities in the southern Comuna 15 zone.
In 2013, the Oficina de Envigado and the Urabeños struck a deal to end their costly war for the city, agreeing to put a stop to hostilities, accept territorial boundaries and look to cooperate on criminal activities.
The impact was almost immediate, with the Medellin murder rate plummeting to lows not seen since the rise of Pablo Escobar.
SEE ALSO: Oficina de Envigado Profile
However, there have been growing signs the peace is not durable. The part of Medellin currently the focus of much of the violence was one of the first to see violations of the ceasefire and has been unstable since the start of the year.
Tensions are not limited to that area. Sources on the ground in other conflict hotspots in the city have told InSight Crime that the peace between the gangs has begun to break down and that residents in disputed territories are bracing themselves for renewed fighting.
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After yesterday's article I got an email from one of the readers asking if solving jigsaw puzzles will develop their eye muscles to enable them to see the bigger picture and to see the deeper picture.
So I started to ponder and spent my day pondering about the topic: seeing, creativity, innovation, cone of vision, and what is the difference between extraordinary people and ordinary people.
I have found that extraordinary people don't necessarily have more brain cells... but they habitually use more spiritual capacities that allows them to play with a fuller deck.
If you look at yourself, you almost always look for things where you know they are, or where you think they are.
In your mind, or when they belong, or where you normally put them.
So you stick to a defined area to look for them.
You have the box cover as people who play jigsaw puzzle have, so you know what the finished product will look like. You know what you are looking for.
You can solve a jigsaw puzzle using a penlight to find the fitting pieces. And if you have the piece, you'll find it.
This is one level of puzzle solving.
This is what "normal" police detectives do: they look for motive and opportunity, and they have their fitting piece, and they put that fitting piece to prison.
This is what "normal" medical doctors do: they look for symptoms, compare them with the "box cover" and then treat the disease the box cover says you have.
Their combined truth value is 7%. Which means: they are 93% wrong.
This is normally what you do: you make decisions from the information available to you, to fit your solution to the "box cover".
Now, not surprisingly, I am interested in you having a life that has a higher truth value than 1%.
My training of you, my coaching or you, my teaching of you, my energy products are designed to bring you up from your starting truth value to 7% and above.
What? you ask, and you are offended.
But truth be told, a normal person lives, makes decisions, works, eats, loves with a combined truth value of 1%.
The truth value is a comparative number. It compares what you know accurately with the truth that is available.
A PhD's truth value, in his chosen field, is 7%, while their truth value, across all areas of life, is 1%.
So I am not insulting you. In your chosen field, if you have one, you may have a higher truth value.
And when you are using your penlight size search light inside the area that you are searching, your average truth value remains the same.
His results, his accuracy, in diagnostics is 50%.
Her results, her accuracy of finding the perpetrator: 30%. If she left her staff do the work, they would have the standard 7% accuracy.
I am getting these numbers from muscle testing while I am connected to Source. So the answers don't come from my knowledge, because I only know what the shows show me... mighty little. But Source knows the cases I don't see as well.
Sherlock Holmes from British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: savvy, truth value in life: 1%. Accuracy in finding the perpetrator: 40%.
Now, the question on your mind should be: where does the discrepancy come from, the increased accuracy over the standard 7%?
The answer is: from left field.
Left field is an idiom. To originate from a surprising or strange place. ("Left field" is the metaphorical origin of something uncommon, unpopular, or otherwise strange.) That suggestion certainly came from left field! How did you come up with that one?
A question, statement, or event which comes from left field or comes out of left field is completely unexpected. The question came out of left field, but Mary Ann wasn't really surprised. This letter sort of came out of left field. Compare with left-field. Note: In baseball, left field is part of the outfield. A ball is said to come out of left field when the pitcher throws it in such a way that it seems to come out of nowhere.
the famous doctor, the famous detective, the famous inventors, famous painters, whose results don't match the expected results get a piece of the puzzle, an insight from outside the area a "normal", an average person searches for clues.
Same with any of the famous billionaires, famous inventors, famous writers, famous composers. They get their inspiration from outside of the "normal" playground, what we can call the "box cover" of the jigsaw puzzle.
So how do you get access to the "left field" from where the unexpected solutions come from?
Observing the people/characters who have access to the left field, you will notice that they don't jump into conclusions. They remain open. Their brain, their eyes, their ears remain open, unfocused. They cast their net without prejudice.
The clue can come from anyone, the clue can come from anywhere... they remain open.
This is, by the way, humility in action.
The more willing you are to be the bumbling idiot, the clueless klutz, the incompetent, the wider you can cast your net, the more willing you are to hear what will give you a clue.
They call this the "cocktail party effect", where you can hear, in the noise of a party, the piece you need, over the noise, spoken in the other end of the room.
This is what we try to activate in the "color exercise" that no one takes seriously after they find three objects with the exact color.
Why? Because it is a capacity, a spiritual capacity that is activated in people who dare to look outside of the box, outside of the nine dots, outside of the box cover.
0.6 percent of humanity has it. It is the needed capacity to have a life that worth writing home about.
In every program of mine, the human error, the misunderstanding, the failure to come from your inability, your incuriousness of what you don't know is causing your lack of success, not the program.
The lack of looking outside your tiny box.
You don't ask, and don't hear, that my energies are co-creative, so you have to DO something that is not your usual doing.
In the Playground we look to separate what happened, reality, the facts, stuff that can be measured, and has a beginning, a middle and an end, and the words that the "event", the "incident", the reality comes with or we would not know it happened.
Without words you don't know that something is happening, or like dogs, you would only know some things... like going to the vet, or dinner.
So there are always words, but they are not telling the truth, they are not part of what happened, they are placed on the top of them, like a wig on your head... they don't belong, they are an addition.
I write about the method that when fully utilized, when it is made instinctual, reliably raises your level of happiness, effectiveness, finances, relationships, life satisfaction by 60% in another article.
I had a conversation with a student today that opened my eyes to a bunch of reasons why you don't hear me, why you can't even use what I teach: no exception.
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The same things that keep you poor, unhealthy, unhappy, unfulfilled will also make you not hear some of the call... some of what is being said. Also no exceptions.
But the more you hear, the closer you get to be able to change some attitudes and some behavior that are preventing you from learning anything new. Learning to see new, learning to hear new, learning to do new.
Understanding is the booby prize... and you have a tendency to be satisfied with the booby prize... And of course it is your business, your life, who am I to tell you to not be satisfied.
But if you want a better life, you better not stop at understanding. Why? Because your understanding is worthless... and in addition, your understanding is more misunderstanding more of the time than you care to consider.
I measure that proportion in the Starting Point Measurements.
Measure #24. the percentage of input that gets through to you. This number is a combination of your awareness number and your coachability number. The higher that number is the more chance you have that you heard and understood accurately what was being said.
The average level of humanity is 1%. The average humility level of high achievers is 30%. The average level of my students, my paying students is 7%. Meaning that 93% goes way over your head... because you have no foundation to hear it.
But obviously students also started at 1%, and built enough foundation to raise their level to 7%.
I know I am the messenger, the bringer of bad news.
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thank you so much for alerting me. I guess other people don't care. I fixed it and tested it.
i tried to sign up for the "60% increase in happiness" too – got an error when i put my name into the name box, and email into the email box. Retried with email in both input boxes and then it worked.
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Ambassador Campbell's Curious Defense of Buhari's Corrupt Aso Rock Cabal
Twitter: @farooqkperogi
Dr. John Campbell, America's former ambassador to Nigeria from May 2004 to July 2007, wrote a June 24 opinion article titled "Nigerian Media's Unsubstantiated Claims that U.S. Agencies Investigating Corruption by Buhari's Inner Circle" for the Council on Foreign Relations (where he works as a Senior Fellow for Africa policy studies) that was basically a puzzlingly evidence-free whitewashing of Buhari and his corrupt cabal.
Campbell impeached the credibility of a Pointblanknews report that said the US State Department is probing Sabiu 'Tunde' Yusuf, Sarki Abba, Mamman Daura, Ismaila Isa Funtua (and his son Abubakar Funtua) for money laundering in the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom by claiming that it is "rare for the Department of State or the Department of Justice to say that there is an investigation underway, and neither has done so publicly."
Campbell is a veteran of the US Department of State, so I defer to his judgement on the credibility of the Pointblanknews report. But he went beyond questioning the authenticity of the money laundering report to doing outright image laundering for the cabal.
He said, "Sabiu 'Tunde' Yusuf is known to be very rich, and Nigerian money laundering in the Gulf and the United Kingdom is an old song. President Muhammadu Buhari appears to have little personal interest in money, lives simply, and is rarely accused of personal corruption. But that his inner circle is corrupt is a widely held trope in southern Nigeria."
That's a curiously tendentious assertion. First, Sabiu "Tunde" Yusuf was, until 2015, a poor recharge card seller. How did he become "known to be very rich" just five years after being a personal assistant to Buhari, his mother's uncle? Campbell left that part out and made it seem like Yusuf, who is only in his 30's, had always been rich.
Yusuf unquestionably became rich from serving in Buhari's government. Since his legitimate monthly earning is lower than 350,000 naira (which is less than $1,000), it is impossible for him to be "known to be very rich" through means other than corruption.
Second, it is inaccurate that Buhari has "little personal interest in money, lives simply, and is rarely accused of personal corruption." Campbell is merely regurgitating the pre-2015 propaganda Buhari's campaign caused to be circulated in Nigeria and abroad, but which is now the source of derision in Nigeria in light of what people now know of Buhari.
It's wholly untrue that Buhari lives simply. The first major project Buhari executed upon becoming president in 2015 was to build a multi-million-naira vanity helipad for his exclusive use in his hometown of Daura, which would be useless after his presidency. Not even Goodluck Jonathan who got a lot of hell from civil society groups for corruption built a helipad for himself in his hometown of Otueke.
Additionally, Buhari's penchant for going to London to treat even his littlest illnesses (including an ear infection that had already been treated in Nigeria), his high-priced sartorial excesses, and his fondness for extortionately elaborate red-carpet ceremonies each time he leaves the country and returns to it do not square with the profile of a person who "lives simply."
And contrary to Campbell's claim, Buhari has been accused of personal corruption since the 1970s. He was the subject of a popular song by the iconic Fela Anikulapo Kuti because he couldn't account for 2.8 billion naira of NNPC funds when he was petroleum minister in the 1970s. He was also accused of stealing billions of naira when he headed the Petroleum Trust Fund in the 1990s.
Of course, being accused of something isn't synonymous with being guilty of it. Nevertheless, although all of Nigeria's past presidents and heads of state have been accused of corruption, none has been convicted of it. Not even the late General Sani Abacha whom Buhari said never stole any money from Nigeria (but whose recovered "loot" is being perennially repatriated by foreign banks and governments to Nigerian governments, including to Buhari's regime) has been convicted of corruption.
Buhari also has a history of personally lying in his official capacity to defend the corruption of members of his inner circle. In January 2017, for instance, Buhari signed a letter in his name to the Senate committee that investigated former Secretary to the Government of the Federation Babachir David Lawal for fleecing defenseless people who were internally displaced by Boko Haram terrorists and exonerated him.
In the letter, Buhari told three demonstrably obvious and easily falsifiable lies to defend his appointee. In the midst of undeniable evidence against Lawal, Buhari was later forced to eat humble pie and fire Lawal. But, although he was fired, he hasn't been convicted to this day. He was, in fact, chairman of Buhari's reelection campaign in Adamawa State.
Buhari also recalled, reinstated, and promoted a man by the name of Abdulrasheed Maina who had been accused of embezzling billions of naira belonging to pensioners for which he fled the country. After news of this scandal caused national outrage, Buhari reversed it and pretended to be shocked by what had happened.
But a leaked memo to the late Abba Kyari, Chief of Staff to Buhari, by then Head of Service, Winifred Oyo-Ita, showed that Buhari was in on the fraud.
"I sought audience with His Excellency, Mr. President on Wednesday, 11th October, 2017 after the FEC meeting where I briefed His Excellency verbally on the wide-ranging implications of the reinstatement of Mr. A. A. Maina, especially the damaging impact on the anti-corruption stance of this administration," the HoS's memo said.
Finally, Campbell's claim that notions of the eyewatering corruption in Buhari's inner circle are shared only by people in "southern Nigeria" is both astonishingly mendacious and gratuitously divisive.
I am not a southern Nigerian, but I have called attention to the corruption in Buhari's inner circle in countless columns and social media posts. Buba Galadima, another northerner and former Buhari protégé, has made series of credible allegations of corruption against Buhari and his inner circle.
Junaid Mohammed, a well-regarded Second Republic federal legislator from Kano, has made numerous convincing accusations of corruption against the Buhari regime and its honchos.
Even former Emir of Kano Muhammad Sanusi II said in an August 24, 2016 lecture that the Buhari regime created a situation where influential people could sit in their "garden and make billions through forex market without sweat"—precisely the sort of charge being made against the Aso Rock cabal that Campbell has chosen to defend without counter facts.
A vast multitude of northerners on and off social media chatter endlessly about the stratospheric corruption currently taking place in the Buhari regime. So to suggest that accusations of corruption against members of Buhari's kitchen cabinet are animated only by unthinking southern regional animus against northerners is outrageous prevarication that is beneath contempt.
More than southerners, northerners see previously dirt-poor people from their region building glitzy mansions and living large after getting appointments in— or being closely aligned to people in— Buhari's inner circle. They know legitimate earnings from government jobs are not sufficient to fund and sustain the sybaritic lavishness of Buhari's appointees.
Campbell obviously knows very little about northern Nigeria. For instance, in a March 27, 2020 article for the CFR, he wrote that Abba Kyari was an "Islamic scholar" because the title "Mallam" is often prefixed to his name!
Campbell doesn't know enough about northern Nigeria to know that "Mallam" has evolved to a mere courtesy title for a man, any man, and functions as an alternative for "Mr." Perhaps, it is too much to expect a person who thinks people who prefix "Mallam" to their names are Islamic clerics to know that northern Nigerians also rail against the endemic corruption in Buhari's inner circle.
It is troubling that Campbell used the possible inauthenticity of the claim that members of Buhari's inner circle are being probed by the State Department to weaken or dismiss the credible allegations of corruption against Buhari and his cabal.
Labels: Ambassador John Campbell, Farooq Kperogi, Ismaila Isa Funtua, Muhammadu Buhari, Nigerian Tribune on Saturday, Pointblanknews.com, Sabiu Tunde Yusuf
Jacob Kwaga said...
Thanks for this interesting piece once more Dr Kperogi. So much for Campbell stance as an expert on Africa. I have sensed that he is "friend" of this administration. You have exposed his bias and poverty of knowledge on Nigerian affairs.
It is heartening that this illuminating countering-article is coming from a well-read northerner. Therefore, the likes of Mr Campbell with prejudicial Mindsets against the south should reconsider their stand and be honest to humanity. My regards to Dr. Farooq.
AD BEN said...
On the ball Prof.👍
This is a great piece as always, the current administration is always using lie to cover their corruption and incompetence, I won't be surprised to find out that Mr. Campbell was paid handsomely for this.
Buhari inner circle must have chosen Campbell as their lobbyist for image laundering. Mr lai, the APC propagandists must have recruited Campbell for the image lifting he was doing
Now that we are having more people like DR. Farooq from North who are demanding accountability from their leader, I can
say there is hope for Nigeria
Thank you Dr. Farooq for bringing into our memory some of Buhari's infractions over the years
Well done Prof.
Niyi said...
Many thanks for shedding light on what most elites who are in the know of this so called Saint Buhari of a President is all about. I personally never ever see him as a saint most people tend to portray him to be; especially, when Nigerians were hoodwinked into believing they have found a messiah in 2015. No matter how good you are in packaging, TIME, is always at hand to judge. He may have good intent but the same man called say Baba in 2015 is seriously biased, tribalistic, stylishly corrupt and religiously inclined in his decision making in governing the country.
The Americans/Europeans knew all these and only usually look elsewhere when some major contract or benefits is on the table for them. Campbell is just a mouthpiece for what we always knew about the West - two face if not two mouth! They used the same mouth and face in our creation/division as countries. To that, all those grammar and pretense shouldn't come as surprise to you, Dr.Farooq. The same Oyinbo that make pencil makes eraser when it comes to #Africa and they are not ready to release us until we wake up from our slumber.
For years, John Campbell has disingenuously propagated for Buhari and his cabal in this manner. He has returned to the misleading theme of Buhari's unimpeachable integrity, which he played a huge role in perpetuating in 2014 and 2015.
How can a person who has been an ambassador to Nigeria, earns a living at the Council on Foreign Relations as a fellow make such a mendacious claim that Buhari has "little personal interest in money, lives simply, and is rarely accused of personal corruption."? What Campbell has written in his piece is not normal. I regret to say that it sounds more like a PR job than informed analysis.
Campbell cannot possibly be ignorant of Buhari's personal greed and unusual tolerance of greed, of being the least transparent administration in Nigeria since the return to civil rule in 1999 (if not from independence in 1960), of all the examples given in this article, plus his asset declaration, immediately expanding the already bloated presidential aircraft fleet, zeroing down on his enemies in the name anti-corruption fight, while giving a free ride to members of his cabal and supporters, milking the state oil company to the extent of allowing his extremely corrupt now-late Chief of Staff to insert himself on its board, and hobnobbing with Governor Ganduje of Kano after he was caught multiple times on video accepting bribe money (USD).
What about the corrupt budget that Buhari presents year after year - the billions of dollars in maintaining the presidency, including food and drinks and a presidential clinic that often lacks in everything, even the cheapest and most common over-the-counter medicines while sucking funds greater than the ones allocated to the teaching hospitals?
You would expect Campbell, who was shouting himself hoarse about corruption in 2014-2014, to be outraged. The last thing those of us who agreed with him that the Jonathan administration was corrupt would expect from Campbell is to outrightly defend the perpetrator of a higher level of corruption than the one he railed against five-six years ago.
Professor Kperogi identified and succinctly demolished Campbel's heinous attempt to divide Northern and Southern Nigeria and to discount the widely perceived corrupt image of Buhari in his desperate effort to whitewash Buhari. Campell's intervention actually amounts to encouraging corruption in Nigeria because the notion that only biased southerners accuse Buhari of corruption gives false comfort to Buhari and his cabal. Kperogi is right in the mark to remark that this divisive attempt by Campell "is beneath contempt."
Zunzurutu said...
Dies Campbell really know anything about Nigeria? Does he really know northern Nigeria?
So any bloke who serves a a tour of duty as his country's ambassador in Nigeria automatically becomes an expert on Nigeria? The Council on Foreign Relations must have demonstrably low and shallow standards for appointing fellows. Sad.
Does Campbell really know anything about Nigeria? Does he really know northern Nigeria?
Tajuddeen said...
Mr Campbell exudes an ignorance of northern Nigeria unworthy of his fame as a former US ambassador to Nigeria. Obviously, he is engaged by the Buhari government for PR activities, otherwise there's no way to explain his whitewashing of the Buhari administration's corruption.
It's trite and acutely uninformed to continue peddling the narrative that it's only the south that's against Buhari administration's corruption because it is supposedly composed mainly of Muslims at the top of its hierarchy. In Kano, popular opinion has turned 360 degrees against this administration because it's seen as making life worse for the people. Its incompetence and cluelessness, after the emotional investment that the people have made in the government, violently disappoint the north. So why is Campbell still clinging to this outdated narrative?
Recently, Festus Keyamo refused to go into a private session with the legislators and he was highly praised in the north. This narrative of the north and south divide is outdated, and, coming from Mr Campbell, is gratuitously offensive.
Adeolu Awoyemi said...
The North and the South is divided, no matter what a foreigner may say. Please guys lets not forget the rhetoric leading up to 2015. For the Northerners it was a sense of entitlement but the language of corruption was deployed to mask that up. The notion was that it was our turn or that there was an interloper sitting on the throne of Nigeria trying to take it away from it's rightful owners. The North/South divide is live and kicking. Foreigners did not create it. It is a creation of our environment.
obedski said...
Campbell is what we call in Nigerian streetese a jobman
Nura Gambo said...
Well done prof, it is another educative piece/Article
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The discussion panel was quite diverse. The Russian opposition was represented by Boris Nemtsov, leader of the "Solidarity" political movement, and Evgeniya Chirikova, environmental activist and leader of the "Ecological Defense of Moscow Region" movement, as well as the unregistered "Movement for the Protection of Khimki Forest." The official point of view of the Russian authorities was articulated by Andranik Migranyan, director of the Institute of Democracy and Cooperation and a well-known Kremlin policy advocate. This polarized political setting turned into a heated discussion that bordered on scandal.
Chirikova was the first to speak. In her brief remarks, she gave an outline of her activities. Since 2007, she has been trying to raise public awareness about the construction of a federal Moscow-St. Petersburg highway through the Khimki district of Moscow. The path of the highway lies within a so-called "green zone" of the Khimki forest, which means that it is strictly forbidden by law to initiate any sort of construction activities in this area. Still, the highway is being built, thus destroying a unique ecological area and violating the law. As Chirikova noted, this is a corrupt project developed in the interests of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and of Arkady Rotenberg, Putin's personal friend and judo trainer, now a successful businessman.
To stop this devastating project, Chirikova initiated a local protest movement that soon garnered much civic support. Still, the protest was ignored by the authorities. Moreover, journalist Mikhail Beketov, who wrote an investigative article on the level of corruption involved in the project, was attacked and severely beaten. As a result, he became a disabled person. Many link the attack to the article he published.==Following the grim story of Khimki forest, Nemtsov took the floor. His remarks were no less sobering. Nemtsov had no shortage of facts to share regarding the government's actions against the political opposition in Russia.
Nemtsov also made a few remarks on the recent political scandal in the Right Cause party that had expelled Mikhail Prokhorov, a famous Russian billionaire and its leader for only three months.
Finally, Andranik Migranyan took the opportunity to try to contradict his political opponents. Describing himself as an independent political analyst, Migranyan failed to make a single constructive point. His comments turned into a series of personal attacks targeting his adversaries and their remarks. A mixture of common trivia, blatant lies and Kremlin-style propaganda, the speech simply did not deliver.
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Unfortunately, Migranyan's provocative remarks had the effect of raising the tempers of both of his opponents, who were impatient to fire back. The audience pitched in with sharp questions. By the end of the panel, Timothy Frye, director of the Harriman Institute and moderator, was doing his best to restrain the heated panelists.
Also, by the end of the discussion, it became once again clear that the political opposition in Russia will have little chance in the upcoming elections, because it has not been officially admitted to campaign. The only thing left to do is to continue its peaceful protest, to raise awareness and to involve more citizens in the movement.
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EAST LANSING - A Michigan State University landscape architecture class is designing 14 proposals from scratch for the Carriage Hills shopping center as their senior capstone project.
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Die Familie Moniligastridae, die gleichzeitig die Ordnung Moniligastrida bildet, ist ein Taxon regenwurmähnlicher, bodenbewohnender Wenigborster (Oligochaeta) in der Ringelwurm-Klasse der Gürtelwürmer (Clitellata) und umfasst etwa 200 Arten, die in Südasien und Südostasien verbreitet sind.

Merkmale
Im Gegensatz zu den Crassiclitellata, zu denen die Regenwürmer gehören, haben die Moniligastridae ein Clitellum, das nur aus einer Zellschicht besteht, und große, dotterreiche Eier, mit denen die sich entwickelnden Embryonen voll ernährt werden. Hierin ähneln die Moniligastridae den aquatischen Ringelwürmern der Familien Lumbriculidae und Haplotaxidae. Die Moniligastridae sind wie alle Gürtelwürmer Zwitter und haben ein bis zwei Paar Hoden, aufgehängt in Hodensäcken am hinteren Septum des 10. und/oder 11., seltener des 11. und/oder 12. Segments, während Bläschendrüsen fehlen. Sie haben ein Paar Eierstöcke im 11., 12. oder 13. Segment, stets hinter den Hoden. Die Samenleiter durchdringen ebenso wie die Eileiter nur eine Segmentscheidewand, so dass sie in dem Segment nach außen münden, das den zugehörigen Gonaden folgt. Deshalb befinden sich bei den Moniligastridae die männlichen vor den weiblichen Geschlechtsöffnungen – umgekehrt als bei den Crassiclitellata. Die Eierstöcke sitzen in Septenkammern. Die Prostata ist kapselförmig. Die Receptacula seminis haben jeweils einen Blindsack ohne Sperma. Das Prostomium ist abgesetzt. Am Darm sitzen dorsal enterosegmentale Organe.

Äußerlich ähneln die Moniligastridae den Crassiclitellata, mit denen sie die typischen ursprünglichen Merkmale der paraphyletischen Wenigborster teilen. So haben sie ein voll entwickeltes, nach Segmenten septiertes und als Hydroskelett wirkendes Coelom sowie ein primäres geschlossenes Blutgefäßsystem. Sie sind regelmäßig segmentiert und besitzen an jedem Segment vier Paar Borstensäcke, mit denen sich die Tiere im Boden verankern und die den notwendigen Halt bei der Fortbewegung geben. Anders als bei den Crassiclitellata ist allerdings bei den Moniligastridae außerhalb der Paarungszeit keinerlei Clitellum erkennbar, weshalb sie von Carl Claus 1880 als "gürtellose Erdwürmer" bezeichnet wurden.

Bei der Begattung heften sich zwei Tiere mit einem Sekret des Clitellums in Gegenrichtung aneinander und tauschen Spermien aus, die in die Receptacula seminis des Sexpartners aufgenommen werden. Eine getrennte Führung der Eizellen und Spermien verhindert Selbstbefruchtung. Durch ein Sekret des Clitellums wird ein Eikokon gebildet, in den der Gürtelwurm zunächst seine eigenen Eier und sodann aus seinen Receptacula seminis das Sperma seines Sexpartners abgibt und so die Befruchtung im Kokon ermöglicht. Hier entwickeln sich die Embryonen zu fertigen kleinen Würmern.

Verbreitung, Lebensraum und Lebensweise
Die Moniligastridae sind in Südasien und Südostasien vom südlichen Indien und Sri Lanka bis hin nach Mandschurei, Korea, Japan, Philippinen, Borneo und Sumatra heimisch. Eine noch größere Verbreitung haben wahrscheinlich durch Verschleppung durch den Menschen einige der etwa 113 Arten der Gattung Drawida gefunden.

Die Moniligastridae leben als Substratfresser im Erdboden und Humus, wo sie sich wie Regenwürmer von den Mikroorganismen und dem zerfallenden organischen Material im verschluckten Substrat ernähren.

Gattungen
Die über 200 Arten der Moniligastridae werden auf fünf Gattungen verteilt:
 Desmogaster Rosa, 1890
 Drawida Michaelsen, 1900
 Eupolygaster Michaelsen, 1900
 Hastirogaster Gates, 1930
 Moniligaster Perrier, 1872

Als erste Art wurde Moniligaster deshayesi aus Waldböden bei Konni in den West-Ghats von Kerala 1872 von Edmond Perrier beschrieben.

Literatur
 Barrie G. M. Jamieson (1977): On the phylogeny of the Moniligastridae, with description of a new species of Moniligaster (Oligochaeta, Annelida). Evolutionary Theory 2 (3), S. 95–113.
 Barrie G. M. Jamieson (1988): On the phylogeny and higher classification of the Oligochaeta. Cladistics 4, S. 367–410.
 Carl Claus: Grundzüge der Zoologie: Zum wissenschaftlichen Gebrauche, Band 1. N.G. Elwert, 1880. Moniligastridae, S. 480.

Wenigborster
Oligochaeta

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On Wednesday, a federal judge ordered the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to accelerate its reviews of e-cigs available in the market. The move reveals the support of fed judge for public health groups suing the FDA. In the statement, the district court declares that the agency had side-stepped its legal duty when it delayed analysing all U.S. vaping products from many years. As per the judge, the FDA has knowingly delayed analysing electronic cigarettes contributed to a severe oversight of duty.
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