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Ticket #11625 (closed build error: fixed)
Build fails with libpng 1.4.x
Reported by: | vog | Owned by: | |
Priority: | blocker | Milestone: | |
Component: | build | Version: | oldstable-latest |
Keywords: | libpng libpng14 | Cc: | |
Blocked By: | Patch: | yes | |
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On a system with libpng 1.4.x, a "configure --with-libpng=sys" fails with:
checking for png.h > 0.90...
checking for png.h... yes
checking for png_check_sig in -lpng... no
configure: error: system png library not found or too old! Use --with-libpng=builtin to use built-in version
It checks for the deprecated function png_check_sig(). Since that function isn't used by wxWidgets anyway, checking instead for png_sig_cmp() solves the problem.
The attached patch does exactly that. Note that it changes just configure.ac, so the configure script needs to be recreated after applying the patch.
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I installed ideneb 10.5.5 on a hp pavilion dv5000z and I am stuck in a loop during boot. I get this error first:
then I getExtension "com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform" has immediate dependencies on both com.apple.kernel and com.apple.kpi components: use only one style
I have two ideas.still waiting for root device
1. use the ideneb disc, open terminal, and edit com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform
only problem, don't know where that is.
2.reinstall ideneb with one of your suggestions on what drivers and patches I should chose.
What failed
1.safe mode
2.single user boot
3.reinstall of my own knowledge with a mixture of educated guesses.
Anybody know where I can find com.apple.driver.AppleACPIPlatform or what I should pick or another idea? Thanks. Also, ideneb told me the installation was a complete success.

subset: commoncrawl


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[ Masterweb Reports: Dr. Peregrino Brimah reports ] – Only a thief will give an award to a thief. Giving an award to a thief is not only a national insult, it is treason. Our pledge is to defend the nation's honour. The nation has been dragged in the mud once again with this centenary abomination. What just happened in Nigeria is very serious. This is no longer an issue of ethnic groupings or religious differences. This is sheer limitless wickedness to the poor, the dead and dying. Nigeria has now been taken over by frank evil. This is a battle between good and the hopeful's and supporters of good and evil and the aspirants and workers for the grand commander of evil. The devil. If the awards to Nigeria's thieves of the past were given in error, open public apology and public and private repentance is urgently necessary. Stealing, and a thief is not defined by what is given, it is defined by what is taken. Abacha was a thief. Babangida was a thief. Obasanjo was a thief. There is no mincing these words. There is no room in our national honour rolls for these thieves. This is not an example to be given to our kids and an image to be broadcast of our nation. N300 million in foreign media propaganda will never redeem Nigeria from this abomination. This senseless political desperate patronage of the evil men of Nigeria's painful past.
The United States has already smashed their foot in our bloodied wounds by seizing this moment of national disgrace to seize another $458 billion of Abacha's loot. America has certified us as sub-human. This was the conversation across America this week. Children of thieves, like Sadiq have been given the gumption after years hiding to come out and open their 'gutters.'
The $3-6 billion dollars Abacha has been confirmed to have stolen was not his right. It was money of the poor masses. Whatever 'good' the Presidency publicized he did is not reason enough to celebrate a thief, now or ever. Today it is clear to Nigerians who the President and his team of rulers and friends see as a mentor--Abacha.
The Bible in 1 Corinthians 6:10 says: ...nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. In John 10:10 it says, "The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy..." And to those who partner with, defend, support and celebrate thieves, the Bible says in Proverbs 29:24 (KJV): "Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not."
Those northerners, the family of Abacha and southerners who defend Abacha are thieves. Those who defend this national insult by Jonathan are thieves. There is no dillydallying on this. Many of us are not saints, but we do not deserve honours if we are thieves. We steal and are quiet about it. Nigeria must never celebrate thieves. By stamping and accrediting thieves we have brought unmeasurable curse upon us if we have not had enough curse already. These awards must immediately be stripped. The nation deserves a national apology. Dear Nigerians, I am sorry. I am sorry for you, I am sorry for me, I am sorry for this nation.
Each penny stolen is amenities deprived and results in deaths. Each kobo stolen means no health care will be provided at some corner, some thief will be free, some road not built properly. They don't steal from the national cake. There is no national cake; on the contrary, they steal from the pauper's loaf. These government thieves are assassins. Killers of the poor. It is a sickness, they are compulsive thieves, this is why we see they steal more than they can ever use and eventually lose our national income to foreign nations. Hell will be filled with these.
For the Muslims who get carried away with thieves-in-power and denounce their creed in defense of such thieves, a story of the life of Hazrat Umar Bin Abdul Aziz, the celebrated Umayyad Caliph should hopefully juggle them up a bit. In the early days of Islam, Caliph Umar's empire stretched from the shores of the Atlantic to the highlands of Pamir (India). He commanded great territory and wealth of the early Muslim state. One day, according to the narration, the Caliph was sitting in his private chamber examining a pile of State documents. The dim light of the room was adding to the serenity and somberness of the place and the Caliph could scarcely feel the arrival of his wife, Fatima, till she addressed him, "Sire! Will you spare a few moments for me? I want to discuss a private matter with you." "Of course", replied the pious Caliph, raising his head from the papers, "But, please put off this State lamp and light your own, as I do not want to burn the State oil for private talk."[ Find ref online: http://www.renaissance.com.pk/novletfor95.html ]
For the pious leaders, more was at stake and more was expected. They slept hungry unless they were assured that all their subjects had eaten. This was because they knew they will be held to account for misappropriating the people's food if they ate while their subjects went to bed hungry. People used to run away and avoid positions of power for this very reason. Today we sign-up for executive suits and accommodation in hell by patronizing clear thieves, because they are 'of our clan,' or 'did something.' The only clan thieves and supporters of thieves belong to is the clan of the burning hell fire, be they government thieves or armed robbers. There is no honor here and nothing to defend, except among the thieves themselves. So if you defend a thief because you believe he is your 'brother' or 'clansman' then know what brotherly and clan relationship you share. The brotherhood of evil and clan of the doomed. It is a shame that thieves are now celebrated. Let them steal but cower in shame or hide away, but honour and awards for thieves only comes from thieves because today there is great honor among Nigeria's thieves.
These are now very evil times.
Dr. Peregrino Brimah (Email: firstname.lastname@example.com ) reports.
*Photo Caption - Late Sani Abacha
[ Masterweb Reports: Eddie Onuzuruike reports ] – It was Winston Churchill, the great British statesman who said, 'courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is what it takes to sit down and listen.
A lot of people today get involved in political activities in Nigeria for many odd reasons not necessarily bordering on ideology and philosophical principles which should be the potent factor. In most cases and probably due to the economic downturn, people are induced by hunger, an unquenchable love of money and unemployment of sorts, but there are still people who do so to provide genuine leadership and solve critical societal problems and in the process, endow the lacking needs to our people.
One of such men is Chief Onyema Ugochukwu: A renowned and accomplished Journalist. Chief Ugochukwu was the pioneer chairman of the NDDC and made news when he overcame all antics employed by the previous administration in Abia to deny him the exulted position. It was a case where surprisingly, the Abia senators were hoaxed into reluctance in supporting their constituent who had the rare privilege of being nominated to the celebrated chairmanship of the NDDC by President Obasanjo in the year 2000.
As the governorship candidate of PDP in Abia in 2006, except for the excesses of some overzealous followers, he ran a credible electioneering campaign, touring the cities and suburbs, making speeches and addressing issues. He engaged in a twisty aggressive legal battle against Chief T.A. Orji and the PPA party, over the results of the elections and the propriety of Chief T.A Orji's candidacy. When the legal chips were down, it did not need any soothsayer to tell him that the political and legal games were up.
Not a man to hoodwink people, Chief Ugochukwu, in an emotion laden voice addressed his followers and acquainted them with the truth which was that having tried everything possible, that it may not have been the wish of God for him to govern Abia.
This frankness did not go down well with many members who thought that if they can't win, that at least, they can subvert. But Chief Ugochukwu deftly ordered them to hold their fire and come out of their trenches. When the high-powered delegation led by the PDP Chairman, Mr. Okwesilieze Nwodo came to Abia 8in 2010, urging T.A. Orji to join PDP, Chief Onyema and the Governor made a genuine pact which was mutually adhered to. When we talk of exemplary and comprehensive peace process, the Abia state experience is of high repute and has provided a conflict resolution template at home and abroad. Every politically aware person in Abia knew the level of calumny and hatred where followers clashed in courts and engaged in name-calling and other unedifying acts. According to an Israeli statesman, General Moshe Dayan, 'if you want to make peace, you do not talk to your friends, you talk to your enemies.'
T.A Orji's courage and decision to cross the yawning chasm of opposition to initiate dialogue with Chief Onyema Ugochukwu watered the ground that encouraged other Abia leaders on both sides of the party divide to talk with each other, and Abia is enjoying a huge ambience of peace today because these leaders talked, agreed and have all kept their parts of the bargain.
From balanced deductions, much of these gains of Abia would not have cascaded down to the lowest party rung if Chief Onyema did not put his heart into it. He has granted interviews to the press and shocked most of his followers and admirers, who did not expect him to be brutally frank. In the Union weekly of December 1, 2013 page 10, Ugochukwu, the team player avowed, 'Abia State PDP has never been more united than it is now. It has also never been more peaceful than it is now. And a lot of that credit goes to the governor, Chief T A Orji, who has done so well in bringing Abians together.'
As Chairman of the Grand Civic Reception organized by The Ikwuano/Umuahia people, the mammoth crowd of February, 15, 2014, at defunct Umuahia Main Market, was thrilled when he acknowledged the efforts of the governor in changing Abia, especially the legacy projects. As he observed, the primary school in Umule his village, which has been transformed into a model School is a huge example.
For many of us who cry more than the bereaved on either side, he affirmed that Ochendo has done most of the things he wished for Abia and probably borne in his manifestos, so why should he antagonize? As is manifest from his speech, his genuine quest was to work and build Abia, not the ego-driven ambition of many whose only wish was to be addressed as His Excellency.
As a huge lesson to us, the peace process in Abia wouldn't have been encompassing if Chief Ugochukwu continued sulking and throwing spanners at work over his loses. In these days that duplicity has become a political virtue, Chief Ugochukwu placed all his political cards on the table and buried the hatchet with its handle. This further helped to douse the tension and acrimony which was simmering between the two inseparable clans of Ibeku and Ohuhu. Those who claim to be statesmen and those who are aspiring to be one should emulate this profuse liberalism.
Professionally, Chief Ugochukwu is an economist, trained in the famous UNN. Two years after a stint in the Central Bank of Nigeria, he abandoned a lucrative career in the apex bank as an Economic Research Assistant for his beloved journalism and made the best of it as he rose to the positions of chief Editor with West African magazine, Editor in Chief, The Daily Times and met over ten presidents like Clinton, Maggie Thatcher, Nelson Mandela, Fidel Castro, P J Patterson of Jamaica and many others.
Chief Ugochukwu having bagged the Commander of the Order of the Niger is qualified for the Nobel Peace Prize and other international honors. It should be noted that Peace at times becomes elusive like a moving target, unable to come into the shooting range: if in doubt ask the leaders of the State of Israel, Central African Republic, North and South Sudan, Mozambique and Syria.
From the above, those who arrogate to themselves to be the Master Strategists and scheme fruitlessly to sneak into the main lounge through the backdoor, when the front door is open, should consult chief
Ugochukwu or may as well sniff facts out of his modesty and humility Abia has been peaceful and instructively, many from the Ugochukwu camp who have been graciously appointed into the people-oriented administration of Ochendo Global have done their best in terms of service and delivery. Good leadership from the top is a tonic that catalyzes the masses. Let us not trivialize this political and social milestone in Abia. Peace is a two way thing between the leaders and followers and those involved should play fairly.
All these elucidations above fall in line with the prescription of Charles Keller, president, Rotary International who said, 'if we do not find the part to peace, whatever else we do will not make much
difference.' Ochendo sought the part to peace which has become a game changer in Abia.
Onuzuruike reports from Umuahia, Abia State.
*Photo Caption – Governor Chief Theodore Orji
[ Masterweb Reports ] – A 20-year-old Nigerian man identified as Malam Kamisu Baranda, was arrested for having sex with a goat in Baranda forest, in Dutse Local Government Area of Jigawa State, Nigeria. He was handed over to Jigawa State Police Command by his village head for the bestiality act of which he said he sought permission from the animal before engaging in.
Baranda was arraigned in court and the judge ordered him remanded in prison for two weeks while the case was investigated. The accused urged the court to set him free because the goat belonged to him and he sought the animal's consent before engaging in the act. He said he had engaged in sex with animals "over 10 times" because it "satisfied his demand", but had never previously been arrested. He said he took goats into the forest near his home to 'avoid embarrassment' and did not know it was an offence to have sex with them.
*Photo Caption – A goat.
[ Masterweb Reports: Chinedum Orji reports ] – Following last Saturday's 15th February 2014 tragic death of my beloved cousin, Mr. John Ndubuka, a section of the online media has been appropriated by mischief makers to prosecute a mindless hatchet job of casting aspersions on my humble self; with innuendos, jaundiced analysis and outright blackmail.
One would not have bothered to join issues with these faceless cowards at this period of emotional devastation, but it is pertinent at this juncture to put facts in proper perspective so that the unsuspecting public would not be hoodwinked.
On Friday 14th February 2014, I came back from a trip outside the State and while we are chatting at home, John informed me how the 9 clans in Ikwuano/Umuahia headed by Chief Onyema Ugochukwu, Chief Vin Ogbulafor, Chief Ukasanya, Senator Adighije, Col. Akobundu, Hon. Udo Ibeji Dr Mrs Uruakpa and host of others had prepared adequately to host Governor T. A. Orji at a Grand Civic Reception in Umuahia the following day being Saturday 15th February 2015.
On the D-day, John was visible at the event tying up loose ends. The event was relayed live on AIT and monitored by different news agencies. At the end of the Governor's speech at the reception, Late John helped me to locate my vehicle from the surging crowd while the driver waited to allow the Governor's convoy to move before us. John later reached me to ascertain the next direction for proper coordination. He left me to join one of the Hilux trucks. A few minutes later, I heard gunshots to which the shells fell on my car. I shouted into the two-way radio to ascertain who was firing those shots. My driver noticed that John was probably pushed down and alerted me. We discovered that John was clinging to his chest, his white shirt heavily blood-soaked.
I screamed when I saw the blood and instantly asked them to head to Federal Medical Centre, Umuahia. On my way, I called the Chief Medical Director, Dr. Aballi Chukwu and the Chief Medical Director of Abia State Specialist & Diagnostic Centre- Prof. A. U. Mbanaso who also is the Governor's personal physician. In fairness to the doctors, they did their best in trying to stabilize him. They cut open his thorax to drain blood from his lungs. Specialist surgeons were placed on alert in the theatre for instant surgery. Shockingly, it was discovered that his pulse fell from 70 downwards. At this point, I was joined by the Speaker of Abia State House of Assembly and the Deputy Majority Leader, Rt. Hon. Ude Oko Chukwu and Hon. P. C. Onyegbu respectively. Everything was done to save his life, including sourcing blood to resuscitate him. These efforts proved abortive, after one hour of tension-soaked efforts at the hospital. The Chief Medical Director, Dr. Aballi Chukwu later informed me of his death, and I was shaken to my bones to the extent that I needed support to my car as to get back to my house.
After the fruitless efforts to save John's life, I then enquired of what happened. An eyewitness told me that the trigger was accidentally pulled as one of the policemen on duty at the venue held his gun with one hand and was clearing the surging crowd with the other hand. All these happened in broad daylight and witnessed by thousands of people, predominantly youths who attended the occasion.
I am taking this time and pains to make this explanation because I am a politically exposed person. In previous situations, I had been embarrassed, being a character in many fabricated stories in the media.
In one of such situations, I was accused of challenging an Army captain in a supermarket in Umuahia, who rushed to the Army Barracks at Ohafia to mobilize soldiers who eventually mauled me to the point of death. A journey to Ohafia and back would take not less than two hours. Curiously, I waited for them to come back to brutalize me. Can you imagine that? I ignored these fallacies because they were insignificant ploys to set me back.
It is possible that due to my political exposure especially that of being the Governor's son, that I have by omission or commission, made enemies of my own or may have inherited those of my father. But this situation seems to be orchestrated assiduously from one direction. For instance, scarcely had the shooting incident happened, when an Igbere Facebook T.V page that operates online screened a headline that I directed the execution of my cousin. There are also strong speculations that I was the target but Mr. John Ndubuka was killed. Another one was that those who wanted him out of the way killed him.
Amid these flying stories, a false picture of the incident was posted on the Internet. The picture supposedly John Ndubuka's, was wearing a pair of jeans and canvass but everybody saw John at the occasion, dressed in the attire of Ikwuano/Umuahia people that day which was white shirt on top, black pair of trousers with a George Wrapper tied to his waist. The blood-soaked dresses are still in the custody of the FMC Umuahia. It is therefore curious that such a picture was instantly simulated and placed on the Internet, a few minutes after the incident.
From the foregoing, a few questions readily come to mind:
1) How did the Igbere T.V, a Facebook page come to the conclusion that I ordered the killing of John Ndubuka, and how come that nobody in the crowd heard it?
2) If somebody actually wanted John dead, why would he engage a police officer on duty in a public function to commit such a crime?
3) If I was the target as alleged, why didn't the assailant shoot me directly?
It is very unfortunate that this happened. So tragic that John is dead! Let me advise the mockers and those faceless, merciless and heartless criminals that death is no respecter of persons and no living creature can escape death. What happened to John could be anybody's lot but because of the person involved, people have thrown caution to the wind, capitalizing on a tragic incident to score cheap political points. The Holy Bible posits that whatever you sow, you will reap.
Whatever they do, whatever they write on the social media, they cannot dampen my spirit. They couldn't do it before.
John took it upon himself to assist the Governor of Abia State, Governor T. A. Orji to achieve his vision for the youths and women of Abia State. As people from the same hamlet, I have worked closely with him for over 8 years, moving from the informal to the formal. We are related. In truth, this unfortunate death of my cousin will spur me more in that direction. I am not violent. I will never be! My position as the Governor's son has never gotten into my head. Neither has it interfered in my personal relationship with people.
For any story to be the truth, it must have one version. In this case, there are more than 20 versions to it. In the process of trying to level all manner of things against me, they have inadvertently made mockery of themselves. They should leave me to mourn my brother in peace. Nothing, absolutely nothing, said on the social media, will dampen my spirit.
Let people be guided by their conscience, if they have any!
Chinedum Orji (B.Eng) FUTO reports.
*Photo Caption - Late John Ndubuka
[ Masterweb Reports ] - It was a day that has generated global uproar when on Thursday the 6th of February 2014, the Spanish local border police opened fire on some 200 sub-Sahara African immigrants who were calling for rescue as they were attempting to cross the high sea from Morocco into the Spanish border town of Ceuta. So far, reports show that not less than 14 bodies have been recovered from the water and each of them with bullet wounds. Describing the action as grave 'inhumanity', the Northern Observatory for Human Rights condemned the shooting as an action that ''violates the international........ Read More.
*Photo Caption - SOME OF THE RECOVERED DEAD BODIES OF THE AFRICAN IMMIGRANTS SHOT BY SPANISH POLICE AT THE SEA WHILE SWIMMING TO CROSS TO THE BORDER BETWEEN MOROCCO AND SPAIN.
[ Masterweb Reports: Charles Ajunwa reports ] – It is a measure of its indispensable role in democratic societies that the mass media has come to be regarded as the fourth estate of the realm. Over the centuries, the advanced democracies of the world have depended on the media to foster their political, economic and social development. At every stage of their advancement the media was always visible as a dependable partner in progress. That is why today, the mass media dominates every aspect of life in developed societies.
The influence is so much that many of such societies have turned into mass societies, a situation where the mass media has stripped the society of its diversity and dictates how everybody lives their lives. As if that is no enough the electronic media, especially television, has combined well with the information technology and successfully turned the world into the "global village" we have today. This phenomenon has shortened distances and literally erased national boundaries so much so that cultures and trends easily diffuse across frontiers while events in one country is followed instantly as it happens in other countries.
With this stark reality of the power and influence of the media it could be easily understood why corporate bodies, individuals and governments strive to have a voice of their own by establishing one form of media outfit or another. As the saying goes,' if you don't blow your trumpet no other person can do it for you'. Abia State after its creation has carved its own space in the media world by owning the three traditional organs of mass communication, namely radio, television and newspaper. But over the years, these powerful means of disseminating government programmes and policies had been allowed by successive governments to rot.
That unwritten policy of neglect worsened so much that the immediate past administration, without any compunction, converted equipment meant for the Abia State newspaper, the National Ambassador to set up a private newspaper. It could be recalled that in the 1990s the Abia newspaper was the best state government owned newspaper in the country by all standards. The state radio station broadcasting on 88.1 FM band was reaching the homes in a clear, crisp sound quality which stood it out among other radio stations. It must be pointed out that the unique tone of Abia State radio then was made possible by the local engineers! On its own part Abia State-owned television station was received in homes in and outside Abia with sharp, clear picture and sound that made it a must watch. Thankfully the prayers of Abians who longed for the return of glory days of Abia State-owned mass media have been answered.
It took the arrival of a media- friendly governor in the person of Chief T.A. Orji for things to start turning around for good of the state media organizations. In his characteristic fast paced efforts to strengthen all the critical institutions needed for the development of the state, Ochendo has directed his attention to the media. The turn-around revolution that has been going on silently at the Broadcasting Corporation of Abia State (BCA) under the Ochendo legacy movement was manifested on that beautiful day of February 6, 2014. On that historic day, the magnificent ultra modern office complex of BCA was unveiled to a resounding applause of the broadcasting community and the media confraternity in general by no mean a personality than the Honorable Minister of Information of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Mr. Labaran Maku. That day Governor T.A. Orji's works bore testimony to a man who has shunned the phony allure of making grandstanding a way of life in governance. Everybody at the occasion was astounded by the modern, well-equipped edifice of 48 offices standing before them in its imposing majesty. Mr. Maku in his usual frankness noted with delight the wind of positive change blowing in Abia which has impacted on the state-owned media institutions. Even at that BCA is not just about modern edifice. The staff morale has risen high with improved funding, welfare and staff training opportunities. Government has also set in motion the necessary machinery to ensure that the broadcast outfits are digitized to beat the January 2015 deadline set by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC). The Director General of BCA, Mr. Tito Ezemdi captured the general feelings of management and staff of the broadcast organizations when he declared, "Never in the 22 years history of BCA have we been so loved, practically loved and encouraged."
Ochendo did not limit his rescue mission of the state media to the BCA. The state newspaper which was gasping for breath at the turn of year 2000 and finally went under by 2003 has now received a life-saving shot in the arm. The National Ambassador is now not only a regular newspaper in the newsstands but also colourful. The newspaper, which was at the verge of extinction has now survived the debilitating effects of the locust years and bounced back to life. The leadership and members of the Abia State Council of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) are already in expectant mood following Ochendo's commitment to build a befitting secretariat for the union.
This ranks as a significant project more so as Abia remains the only state in the South-east where the NUJ operates in rented office. Unfortunately, none of the past administrations since the creation of Abia in 1991 deemed it necessary to execute this important project. But it is heart-warming that Ochendo has committed himself to break the 23-year-old jinx by including the NUJ secretariat among his legacy projects. The Information Minister was on hand on to lay the foundation stone of the N145 million edifice on that momentous day of February 6, 2014 at the fast changing Ogurube layout. The Abia State governor has equally created conducive environment for journalists and other media workers to ply their trade. It is a known fact that without adequate security, journalists cannot freely carry out their constitutionally recognized duties of holding government accountable to the people in addition to informing, educating and entertaining the society. And so the media professionals are great beneficiaries of the peace and security that Governor Orji has brought to God's Own State. This is a mark of a leader who sees the media as indispensible partner in progress.
Trade unions by their nature do not easily give commendations to employers. But Ochendo has meritoriously won the hearts of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) and the Radio, Television and Theatre Arts Workers Union (RATTAWU). Both the NUJ Chairman Abia State chapter, Comrade Hyacinth Okoli and the President of RATTAWU, Dr. Oluyemisi Bamgbose, were in unison affirming Governor T.A. Orji as a media friendly governor. Bamgbose was moved to declare that the BCA office complex "is the best administrative block of any broadcast organisation I've ever seen in Nigeria". He went ahead to acknowledge the man who made it possible, noting that Ochendo did not make the mistake of neglecting the state-owned media organisations like some governors would usually do. And taking into consideration all that the media friendly governor of Abia has done, the RATTAWU leader ranked him as "number one out of several" others. While the Abia State chapter of RATTAWU, crowned him "The Pillar of Electronic Media". In showing appreciation, Ochendo went further to donate a bran new Hummer bus to the state branch of RATTAWU and made available land for the building of its secretariat.
One pertinent question that bogs the mind is: why should Governor T.A. Orji have a positive disposition to the media after all. It is on record that Governor T.A. Orji has seen the bad side of the media when enemies of progress exploited the dysfunctional side of the media to paint God's Own State in bad light. It was a painful experience for not only the state governor but for all the good people of Abia as every bad thing was linked to Abia no matter its origin. But then it was the same media that changed the image of Abia for good, a feat that Governor Orji has continued to acknowledge and appreciate. In fact, he was to explain that he was duty bound to cultivate the friendship of the media for redeeming the image of the state. But it should be pointed out that the media cannot redeem the irredeemable hence it was the outstanding performance of Abia's hardworking governor that facilitated the media blitz that removed the tar on the face of Abia.
While the Legacy Governor is busy at work to build a new Abia, the media should be on guard to ward off the enemies of democracy who are bent on distracting him. The Information Minister rightly observed that anti-democratic elements have quietly taken over the media and are bent on running down every good work accomplished by the present administration in order to score cheap political points. During his recent visit to Abia, the Information Minister had cited both President Goodluck Jonathan and Governor T.A. Orji as examples of good performing leaders who have continued to be maligned by the anti-democratic, opposition elements, whose stock in trade is to peddle vicious rumours and paint every achievement of government in bad light. These enemies of progress not only use their newspapers to launch their diatribes at their target they have also found the social media as a veritable channel to castigate our good leaders. Should the media so loved by Ochendo be allowed to be used by the enemies of progress to discredit the good works going on in Abia State? Certainly not.
This, therefore, is a clarion call for the state media organizations to brace up to counter the brazen lies, distortion of facts and campaign of calumny being dished out by those who have vowed not to see any thing good in God's Own State. The state broadcast and print media organs should use facts already presented by the evidential performance of Ochendo to puncture the propagandists' balloons inflated with lies. The e-governance team on its part should be a major player in the social media platforms and educate the ignorant and gullible on the true position of things in Abia State. On their part, the Correspondents of print and broadcast organizations posted here in Abia should do their job professionally. It would serve nobody any good to indulge in sensationalism at the expense of developmental journalism. Indeed, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has been harping on development journalism as a veritable tool to drive development in developing countries. Abia needs such positive media coverage as the state moves in leaps and bounds to catch up with others after the drags of the locust years. As the Austrian writer, Karl Kraus (1874 – 1936) said: "It is the mission of the press to disseminate intellect and at the same time destroy the receptivity of it."
Ajunwa is the Chief Press Secretary to the Executive Governor of Abia State.
*Photo Caption - Governor Chief Theodore Orji
[ Masterweb Reports ] - The laws that created rooms for periodic elections into 1, 695 elective public offices in Nigeria, which the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is empowered to conduct, also allow rooms for Elections' Petition Tribunals (equivalent of high courts) to handle judicial petitions arising from the conduct of such polls, with a view to determining the authenticity or otherwise of such polls. Such petitions are filed by aggrieved parties. Where no judicial petition is filed at an Election Petition Tribunal within a stipulated time frame, the referenced poll is deemed validly conducted. Matters that are brought before polls' tribunals are matters that have to do with the conduct of the polls proper. Matters deemed "pre-election matters" such as nomination of candidates, are filed and handled by ordinary high courts, which stretch to the Apex (supreme) Court. In the Constitution of Nigeria 1999 as amended in 2011 and the Electoral Act of the Federation of 2010, governorship poll tribunal cases start at the tribunal (high court) and terminate at the Supreme Court (three steps). The presidential poll tribunal cases start........ Read More.
*Photo Caption - As seen.
[ Masterweb Reports ] - The attention of the leadership of International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law-Intersociety has been drawn to a statement credited to the Public Relations Officer of the Nigeria Police Force (FPRO), Barrister Emeka Frank Mba, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) over our recent three-volume letter to the President & Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. The three-volume letter was also jointly addressed to the Senate President, the Speaker of House of Reps, and the Executive Chairman of the Federal Character Commission and copied to the Inspector General of Police, the Chairman of the Police Service Commission and the Chairman of the Southeast Governors' Forum & Governor of Anambra State. In the letter under reference, dated 4th, 5th and 6th of February 2014 and referenced: Intersociety/SE/NG/02/014/FGN/ABJ/FRN, we exposed with incontrovertible pieces of........ Read More.
*Photo Caption - Nigeria Police
[ Masterweb Reports: Charles Ogbonnaya reports ] – It is quite unfortunate that the former Governor of Abia State, Chief Orji Uzor Kalu has pathetically returned to his old ways, which is, disturbing our people with his political hallucination. We all thought that Orji Kalu has learnt his lessons but the reverse is the case. From what he has been doing in the recent past, we can now conclude that the former Abia Governor has never learnt any lesson since his sojourn in the political wilderness in the last eight years.
We want to tell Orji Kalu that old things have passed away and that everything has begun a new. It is a new beginning in Abia and all of us – the professionals and politicians, the traders and artisans, market women, students and youth movements – are all aware that Abia is on the move. We do not know when Kalu visited Abia last; hence we want to bring it to his notice that the Abia he supervised as Governor is quite different from the Abia of today. To start with, unlike his era when our dear state used to be immersed in trouble with intra and inter party wrangling, personality clash among party chieftains, including "Mother Excellency's" overbearing influence on State matters, and other sorts of confusion and crises as the order of the day, our State is today one, if not the most peaceful State in the country.
As at the time Kalu was exiting from office, arson, armed robbery, kidnapping and other forms of vices used to becloud the State and these evil legacies were all inherited by the present Governor, Dr. T.A. Orji who braced all odds and fought assiduously to liberate the State from the clutches of servitude and near collapse. With well tailored vision anchored on people oriented programmes, Governor Orji, Ochendo Global, moved swiftly and the results have been quite tremendous and eye opening. First, Governor Orji restored security in Aba, Umuahia and all nooks and crannies of the State. In this way, some hardened criminals who tormented the State were shoved away. This courageous move brought more investors to the State and the people are the greatest beneficiaries. Let it also be proclaimed to the rooftops that the administration of T.A. Orji has carried out massive road construction and reconstruction in the State and the estimation in this regard is unprecedented. Never did we know that the Abia Government House was a personal property of an individual, in other words, Abia used to be administered from a rented apartment of an individual. But in a most sensational and applaudable manner, Governor T.A. Orji started the construction of a new Government House, new Secretariat, new International Conference Centre and also erected two new modern markets. It is on record that this administration has built and refurbished several general hospitals and teaching hospitals that were in a state of comatose before he came to office. To crown it all, he is building an airport, a project that was before thought impossible in the State, yet, former Governor Orji Uzor Kalu says Ochendo is not doing anything. This is indeed Orji Kalu's political hallucination at its most dramatic and irrational point!
Our message here is very clear. Let Kalu know it today that he is a past tense man as far as Abia politics is concerned. We have moved far away from him in the past seven years and he has to appreciate this fact. For instance, the 2011 elections in Abia State should have been a pointer to Orji Kalu that he was no longer the political magician and social strategist he thought he was. If not, he should explain to us why he lost the Abia North Senatorial election to Senator Uche Chukwumerije. His younger brother who was a seating House member lost his position in the same year's election just as his boys then who he anointed, never secured any seat either in the Abia House of Assembly or in the Federal House of Representatives.
In the last three years or thereabout, Kalu has been struggling to stage a comeback to the PDP fold but he has not made it. This is so because both the PDP chieftains in Umuahia and Abuja know very well that he has nothing to offer. Kalu can only promote intra party crises; he can only encourage discord among PDP members at both the Federal and State levels. Since he left the Party, the Abia PDP has been at peace and waxing stronger by the day. We have delivered all candidates who contested elections on the platform of the Party from the Local Government Areas to the Federal levels. The question now is: what will his return benefit the Party? The answer is – the PDP will be the worst for it.
Conclusively, let Kalu now know that he is no longer in control of political affairs in Abia State and no matter his gimmicks, he cannot influence any political change in Abia State and let him also appreciate the fact his successor, Governor T.A. Orji has carried out people-oriented projects that are affecting the masses positively but which he (Kalu) ought to have done but never did because of political myopism. This is the truth and the only truth.
Charles Ogbonnaya is the Deputy Chief of Staff, Abia State.
*Photo Caption – Chief Orji Uzor Kalu
[ Masterweb Reports: Dr. Peregrino Brimah reports ] – A few months ago, the federal government of Nigeria privatized major assets of the nations Power Holding Company of Nigeria, PHCN. Sold or rather, gifted to the cabal at 404 billion naira, the government had just refurbished the assets for 3.2 TRILLION naira! This was a gift of a whopping 2.6 TRILLION naira to the government's Transcorp boyfriends and other cabal co-conspirators.
Of course this was nothing less than a conspiracy to defraud the masses of their 2.6 trillion naira. One more in a depressing trend of privatizations which are orchestrated by the government in partnership with the usual suspect cabal that typically occurs first with purposeful sabotage of the public asset, then a phony exorbitant refurbishing of the asset, then a standards violating pseudo-private bid sale through the Bureau of Private Enterprise, BPE and National Council on Privatisation, NCP to these pre-selected cabal at one-tenth of the value.
But after the sale the real trouble and harrowing predicament for Nigeria's 168 million helpless masses actually begins. The final and eternal stage in cabalization of public assets is the unregulated, government enforced monopolist extortion of the masses in fines—not fees—for the service or utility.
The report in the Vanguard of February 7th, 2014, confirmed our predictions and worst fears. Once again the cabal vampires have fulfilled their duty to rape and plunder Nigeria's exposed masses.
The Vanguard article, captioned, "Nigerians protest electricity billing system, exorbitant bills" from a NAN report, relayed complaints by Nigerians of exorbitant PHCN electricity bills under the new cabal ownership. And this is just the beginning. If history is anything to go by, by the time the day is done, Nigerians will pay triple for their electricity usage.
The same happened with our mobile phones, the same happened with cement. When Nigeria privatizes, or rather cabalizes, there is no regulation, the government officials are shareholders in the cabal companies and together they poise themselves to extort and exploit Nigeria's vulnerable masses.
The mean price paid for cement in Nigeria today with the government enforced monopoly to certain cement producers to whom Nigeria's cement companies were privatized, leaves Nigerians paying close to 11 dollars per bag of cement, which compares to a mean global price of $4. Extortion and profiteering at triple the global rates.
Our mobile companies charge some of the tallest figures in the world; little surprise a popular manager of a mobile phone network company compared the profits to ritual money. We will, see it with the so-called car assembly plants; we will see it with literally everything. The government has the Midas touch, everything they touch turns to gold—for the cabal. Little wonder Nigeria is seriously attracting foreign investors. Who does not love money doubling from the pockets of mumuish masses?
Some question why those of us with interests of the millions of poor masses are anti privatization. We are not anti privatization; we are anti-cabalization, which is always the predictable result with our heartless, greedy, wicked and egregious political governments. This is why we say to our incompetent administrations; dare not sell any more of our assets, all we need is QC—Quality Control.
Privatization only works where the bidding process is open and transparent, where there is no prior exorbitant phony refurbishing, and where post sale competition is supported and privatized entities are regulated to not extort the masses with exorbitant charges.
All these controls are never available in Nigeria and as such, privatization is a criminal process.
Rather, the masses are continually ripped off as the cabal companies who purchase the assets are even given more billions in import waivers.
While the cabal who purchased the PHCN from the Jonathan administration had not yet found enough adventures to spend their gains of the masses trillions used to refurbish the assets, they again were given N234 billion in import waivers in the year 2013. Money upon money for the cabal and the government-shareholders in the cabal firms. More money for political sponsorship of the ruling parties in reward for these gifts of billions, and as thankyou, greater fines for the masses in exorbitant electricity, phone, cement and other bills for the products and utilities.
One only has to study the cash cycling between the Transcorp boys, Nigeria's oligopolist cement manufacturer and the like, and the ruling party to appreciate the way the money of the masses is used to destroy the masses. Literally we pay for the frivolities and excesses of these cabal who literally despise us.
In Bosnia today, anti-government riots are going on due to things as 'meager' as, unemployment. But Nigerian masses are sheep. We will suffer and smile, engage in tribalism and ethnic bickering, while the unified wealth-drowned cabal plunder us ruthlessly in harmony with our government.
But there is good news: what obtains today in terms of hikes in electricity prices is nothing yet. Peanuts. Wait till the president is re-elected to 'enjoy' the full effect of the cabalization.
Dr. Peregrino Brimah ( Email: email@example.com ) reports.
*Photo Caption – PHCN workers demonstrating in 2012, demanding 25 per cent severance package as against the 15 per cent government offered, as the inept company was in the process of privatization.


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David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell
The Monuments Men by Robert M. Edwel
An Experiment in Criticism by C. S. Lewis
Books Finished 2014 (r=reread)
Chess Story by Stefan Zweig
I Can't Complain by Elinor Lipman (Audiobook)
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
The Europeans by Henry James (Audiobook)
12 Years A Slave by Solomon Northup
Hector and the Search for Happiness by François Lelord
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy (Audiobook)
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert (Audiobook)
Longbourn by Jo Baker (Audiobook)
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
Books Finished 2013 (r=reread)
A Confession by Leo Tolstoy
Tiger Babies Strike Back by Kim Wong Keltner
The Woman Upstairs (Audiobook) by Claire Messud
August: Osage County by Tracy Letts
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
Quiet by Susan Cain
In Search of Lost Time Vol. II: Within A Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
Illegal Action by Stella Rimington (Audiobook)
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Sea by John Banville
The Rembrandt Affair by Daniel Silva (Audiobook)
The English Girl by Daniel Silva (Audiobook)
Who is Afraid of Postmodernism? by James K. A. Smith
Moscow Rules by Daniel Silva (Audiobook)
Kim's Convenience by Ins Choi
Flight Behavior by Barbara Kingsolver (Audiobook)
Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinson
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
Man's Search for Meaning by Victor E. Frankl
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
Downton Abbey: The Complete Scripts. Season One by Julian Fellowes
In Search of Lost Time, Vol. 1, Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (r)
Before I Go to Sleep by S. J. Watson
Suite Française by Irene Némirovsky
In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson
Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy by Eric Metaxas (2013 Read-Along)
The Lighthouse by Alison Moore
The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro
The Black Box by Michael Connelly
Books Finished 2012 (r=reread)
Surprised by Joy by C. S. Lewis
The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (Read-Along)
Travels With My Aunt by Graham Greene
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The Mistress of Nothing by Kate Pullinger (Audio book)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (revisit thru audiobook)
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (audiobook)
Pride and Prejudice (Revisit thru audiobook)
The Hundred-foot Journey by Richard C. Morais
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie (Read-Along)
Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh (Audiobook)
Goodbye to All That by Robert Graves
A Farewell to Arms by Earnest Hemingway (Audiobook)
Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey by The Countess of Carnarvon
The Graduate (Screenplay by Buck Henry)
Everything in This Country Must by Colum McCann
A Heart for Freedom by Chai Ling
Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos
Some Assembly Required by Anne Lamott (audiobook)
Half A Life by V. S. Naipaul
Life Itself by Roger Ebert (audiobook)
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson (audiobook)
The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
Death Comes To Pemberley by P. D. James
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
A Version of the Truth (audiobook) by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
Molly Fox's Birthday by Deirdre Madden
The Sound of the Mountain by Yasunari Kawabata
Books Read 2011 (r=Reread)
A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L'Engle
Walking On Water by Madeleine L'Engle
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes
The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (r)
A Good Man Is Hard To Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
The Lake by Banana Yoshimoto
In Praise of Doubt by Peter Berger and Anton Zijderveld
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Up At the Villa by Wm. S. Maugham (r)
Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
.The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway
Tender Is The Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair by Nina Sankovitch
A Jane Austen Education by William Deresiewicz
Breakfast At Tiffany's by Truman Capote
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
Let The Great World Spin by Colum McCann
The Archivist by Martha Cooley
Goodbye Columbus by Philip Roth
The Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos (r)
Alone Together by Sherry Turkle, Part 1 & Part 2.
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
'Adjustment Team' (short story) by Philip K. Dick
Room by Emma Donoghue
One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The King's Speech: How One Man Saved The British Monarchy by Mark Logue and Peter Conradi
Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata (Chinese translation)
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Books Read 2010 (r = reread)
Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata
I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections by Nora Ephron
The Music of Chance by Paul Auster
The Reversal by Michael Connelly
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (r)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
Brooklyn by Colm Toibin
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
A Very Private Gentleman (The American) by Martin Booth
Goldengrove by Francine Prose
Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age! by Kenzaburo Oe
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Somewhere Inside by Laura Ling & Lisa Ling
The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind by Mark Noll
The Prodigal God by Timothy Keller
The Diary of a Country Priest by Georges Bernanos
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Transcendental style in film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer by Paul Schrader
Beatrice & Virgil by Yann Martel
Reframing Theology and Film edited by Robert K. Johnston
But is it art? by Cynthia Freeland
Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls
Living By Fiction by Annie Dillard
Art for God's Sake by Philip Graham Ryken
Invisible by Paul Auster
What Is Stephen Harper Reading? By Yann Martel
Up At The Villa by W. Somerset Maugham
Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham
The Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
No Exit by Jean Paul Sartre
Arti's TBR Beast:
The Book of Negroes by Lawrence Hill
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Absence of Mind by Marilynne Robinson
The Death of Adam by Marilynne Robinson
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
Ozu and the Poetics of Cinema by David Bordwell (Online)
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
Virginia Woolf: An Inner Life by Julia Briggs
Little Children by Tom Perrotta
The Book Borrower by Alice Mattison
As If By Accident by Julie Johnston
The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, 1896-1904 by Anton Chekhov
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Day of Empire by Amy Chua
The Hero With A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell
My Latest Grievance by Elinor Lipman
Self by Yann Martel
Humble Apologetics by John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
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Books read 2009:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (iPhone Stanza)
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
The Irrational Season by Madeleine L'Engle
A Third Testament by Malcolm Muggeridge
The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (iPhone Stanza)
The Opposite of Fate: A Book of Musings by Amy Tan
Nine Dragons by Michael Connelly
Daisy Miller by Henry James
The Private Diary of Mr. Darcy by Maya Slater
Running In The Family by Michael Ondaatje
Gourmet Rhapsody by Muriel Barbery
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
Always Looking Up by Michael J. Fox
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Scarecrow by Michael Connelly
Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels
Reel Spirituality: theology and film in dialogue by Robert K. Johnston
Poets' Corner compiled by John Lithgow
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Associate by John Grisham
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks
The Pursuit of God by A. W. Tozer
Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
Away by Amy Bloom
Indignation by Philip Roth
Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
Books read 2008:
The Brass Verdict by Michael Connelly
The Bible and The New York Times by Fleming Rutledge
A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Two Guys Read Jane Austen by Steve Chandler and Terrence N. Hill
Jane Austen: A Life by Claire Tomalin
Jane Austen, A Penguin Life by Carol Shields
Cassandra & Jane: A Jane Austen Novel by Jill Pitkeathley
Literacy and Longing in L.A. by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack
Then She Found Me by Elinor Lipman
The Savior by Eugene Drucker
Up Till Now by William Shatner
Lady Killer by Lisa Scottoline
The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
And When Did You Last See Your Father? by Blake Morrison
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
Beijing Confidential by Jan Wong
A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
A Walk With Jane Austen by Lori Smith
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton
On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen


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Thanks, Peter. Mr. Barr was indeed a formidable figure. He was part of a transformative era for litigation.
When I was at CS&M he said: "Litigation is the process of maximizing your enemy's opportunity to make the worst mistake of his life and taking maximum advantage of it when he does…" Bit of a Marine..
Simple but good approach to litigation. Also, unfortunately, that's maybe why there are so few comments on this board …
Because of Cravath's lock-step Partner system, by virtue of being a senior partner, he was already delegating quite a bit, I am sure. So–no Cravath Partner has it breezy, but I am sure that as he got on in years, he could have had a significantly reduced workload. However, per some of the Cravath folks that I knew, he might have been too Type A to truly delegate–but the option was there.
I have met few lawyers who were "larger than life." TDB was one them. He was not quick witted the way many New York litigators are, but he was completely imposing in a group, large or small. He was just as effective representing a non-party witness as he was a Fortune 10 corporation. And he had an eye for spotting talent, even if the person was very unlike himself. A snob about Yale Law School, his alma mater.
Was Tom Barr ever time barred?
He is now, with all due respect. R.I.P.
I was assigned to Tom Barr as a summer associate at Cravath many years ago.
I am glad you chose a picture that captures his downward curving smile. Seeing it, I can almost hear him calling for Margaret, his assistant of many years, or one of his younger colleagues.
His enthusiasm for the practice of law–equalled professionally only by his affection for Cravath–is something no one fortunate enough to experience it first hand would ever forget.
The legal profession has lost one of its greatest assets.
I worked at Cravath as a clerk for many years. He was always Teddy Bear to us.
He sure looks old in that picture. I met him in passing around 20 years ago–no real basis for an opinion. But I do know that he WAS Cravath in his day. May he rest in peace.
Time Magazine was found guilty of printing false information and libeling Ariel Sharon. Although Barr may have won the financial victory for Time because Time was only required to pay $1 in damages, Sharon won the moral victory.
I was shocked to see today Tom Barr's passing– he seemed likely to live forever.
I worked as young economist on the DOJ side of US v IBM, and I can attest to his formidable talent, preparation and intimidation factor in court and in depositions of government witnesses. It always seemed strange that he could make his side seem to be the underdog, when from where I sat, CS& M and IBM had most of the resources and expensive talent.
He and his partner, David Boies, made such a huge impression on me. I'm not sure I have met any smarter or more capable people in my lifetime. I wish his family well in their grief.
I would like to thank everyone for all of the kind thoughts expressed for my father. His family is of course very sad, but that is tempered by the great pride we have for our father and the warm words of those who knew him.
Words can't adequately say what our special big brother meant to us. Marilyn, George and my self were the three youngest siblings of the family. We had an older sister Martha who filled as a mother and our older brother Tom. He was always the one who we went to for help and advice. As kids we always envisioned Tommy as our friendly and gentle giant. He was the one who helped us make the right decisions. We lived in a single family atmosphere with mother for most of our early childhood and Tom was a father figure and our mentor. Mom had to work all of the time and Tom was always there with lots of love and wisdom. He was always there for us to look up to. No one could ever replace him and we always thought that God had blesses us with such a special person.
Our youngest sister Marilyn departed this life in 1999 and Tom flew back to Kansas City immediately to share words of wisdom and comfort the rest of us siblings. "What a special person he was". He seemed to know just the right time to appear and what to say to us in such a tragic moment. He also did the very same thing in 2001 when mother passed away. We sisters and brother never knew exactly how to thank him for his understanding and support in enabling us to get through that very hard time of grief and sorrow.
Tom , over the years, has became a hero to many nieces and nephews. He was a special person to them and someone that they looked up to. Not necessarily for what he had accomplished in his life but more so for the person that he was. All of the nieces and nephews will miss the uncle Tom who was their hero as he was to all of us. I will always love my brother and will miss him so much.
Love and respect, Mary Margaret ( Barr ) Norris
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The censure this week of Rutgers School of Law at Camden has put a spotlight on the dreaded LSAT – the rite of passage for anyone who wants to attend law school.
The number of law school admission tests administered in October is down nearly 11% from the previous year, according to new data from the Law School Admission Council.
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Arbaaz believes it is important for the youth to take part in the democratic process.
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Five Potential Bargain Lefties For 2011
Teams are perpetually searching for effective left-handed relievers, so here are five southpaws who could become useful pieces at a bargain price next year. Some of the pitchers below are inching closer to 40, but Arthur Rhodes and Darren Oliver proved this year that there's no age limit for lefty specialists. The list focuses on pitchers who will likely sign for a couple million dollars at most, so I haven't included Hisanori Takahashi, Scott Downs and others:
- Randy Choate - The 35-year-old hits the open market as your prototypical 'left-handed one out guy.' He made 85 appearances in 2010, but logged just 44.3 innings. His numbers are strong (8.1 K/9, 3.4 BB/9, 4.23 ERA) and suggest he could play anywhere, but teams that play in homer-friendly parks such as the D'Backs, Rockies and Brewers may take note of Choate's ability to keep the ball on the ground. His 60% ground ball rate ranked 15th among big league relievers with at least 20 innings.
- Will Ohman - Ohman, 33, recovered from a poor 2009 season and posted a 3.21 ERA with 9.2 K/9 and 4.2 BB/9 between the O's and Marlins. He's going to walk hitters, but he can still get lefties out.
- Ron Mahay - Mahay turns 40 in June, but that didn't stop him from posting a 3.44 ERA this year and striking out three times as many batters as he walked. He's not in position to demand a multi-year deal, but he could help someone's bullpen in 2011.
- Taylor Tankersley - The 27-year-old is the least predictable of the options listed, but possibly the most intriguing. Tankersley, a former first rounder, has struck out nearly a batter per inning in his big league career and has held lefties to a .223/.313/.372 line. There are drawbacks - he missed the 2009 season with a stress fracture in his pitching elbow and has trouble against righties - but Tankersley would be a good fit for the Pirates, Mets or Mariners at the right price. Why those clubs? As a fly ball pitcher, he probably fits best in a park that limits home runs and as an unproven pitcher, he fits best on a non-contender. That makes Pittsburgh, New York and Seattle potential fits.
- Brian Tallet - Unlike the pitchers above, Tallet won't necessarily hit the free agent market, but the 33-year-old is a non-tender candidate so he may be available by early December. Tallet, another fly ball pitcher, limited lefties to a stellar .176/.228/.343 line this year with a 28/6 K/BB ratio.
Dennys Reyes' 2010 numbers look OK, but don't let that 3.55 ERA fool you. Reyes posted a 0.54 ERA through May and a 5.91 ERA afterwards. He can induce grounders, but he walks more than one batter per two innings pitched.
Cardinals Open To Another Spring Signing
MLB.com's Matthew Leach reports that St. Louis has between $6MM and $7MM worth of "wiggle room" in their payroll that may have to last the club through the rest of the season. But, as Leach notes, "the Cardinals aren't holding onto money for a midseason trade as much as they are for an acquisition during camp."
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Matt Holliday dominated the headlines in St. Louis over the winter, but aside from that major re-signing, the Cardinals were fairly quiet in the offseason; only Brad Penny and possibly Rich Hill could be considered major additions to the club. As Leach pointed out, however, the Cards have signed two free agents over the last two springs (Kyle Lohse and Dennys Reyes) and are still looking for backup outfielders, a left-handed pinch-hitting option and possibly another reliever or two.
Odds & Ends: Gload, Pierre, Beimel
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- The Dodgers designated Justin Orenduff for assignment to make room for Manny Ramirez, according to Tony Jackson.
- The A's contracts with Orlando Cabrera and Nomar Garciaparra are official.
- WEEI's Alex Speier talked to Marlins prospect Mike Stanton and manager Fredi Gonzalez about the near-acquisition of Manny last summer.
- In another column, Speier looks at the players the Red Sox and Yankees have battled for in recent years.
- Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch says a bunch of relievers are vying for one bullpen spot for the Cardinals, now that they've signed Dennys Reyes.
- Bob Dutton of the Kansas City Star suggests there's a chance the Royals release first baseman Ross Gload and eat the $1.9MM owed to him in 2009. Rany Jazayerli talks about Gload as well as the chances of the Royals competing this year.
- Tom Tango says Juan Pierre would have to defer his contract for 50 years to be worth acquiring.
- Tracy Ringolsby of Inside The Rockies says the Rox offered Joe Beimel more than $1MM but so far he's passed. Beimel's home run prevention trend might be challenged at Coors Field. Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle says the A's are in on Beimel but "have not yet have substantive talks" with his agent.
- Check out a Giants Spring Training preview from the guys behind El Lefty Malo and McCovey Chronicles.
Cardinals, Dennys Reyes Agree To Deal
8:50pm: Jeff Gordon of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch says the signing of Reyes was a really big piece for the Cards and GM John Mozeliak came up huge again with a March deal. It reminds Gordon of the Kyle Lohse signing a year ago.
4:21pm: According to the AP, Reyes gets a two-year deal worth $3MM.
3:12pm: According to ESPN.com's Buster Olney, the Cardinals have agreed to a deal with lefty reliever Dennys Reyes. Reyes, 32 in April, held lefties to a .202/.250/.287 line last year in 101 plate appearances.
Since Reyes was a Type B free agent offered arbitration, the Twins will receive a supplemental draft pick for their loss (#46 overall).
Cardinals Exploring Lefty Relief Options
THURSDAY: Joe Strauss of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch talks about the Cardinals' pursuit of a lefty reliever:
Internal support exists for pursuing Beimel, but [GM John] Mozeliak recently denied making contact with Beimel's agent, Joe Sroba.
Speaking of Beimel, Pirates president Frank Coonelly commented on him during an MLB.com chat yesterday:
He is someone who we have considered this offseason and have had discussions with his representative. To date, Joe has not been receptive to the type of contract we have discussed.
WEDNESDAY: According to Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports, the Cardinals are "exploring the remaining lefties on the free agent market." So far this offseason they've imported Trever Miller, Royce Ring, Charlie Manning, and Ian Ostlund. Perhaps they're attracted to the possibility of a bargain, with three solid southpaws remaining on the market.
Rosenthal notes that Dennys Reyes' agent Casey Close is telling teams his client is close to a decision. Furthermore, he won't be signing with Oakland. The A's could move on to Joe Beimel. Rosenthal adds that the Cardinals are interested in Reyes as well as Will Ohman.
A's Sign Orlando Cabrera
According to Yahoo's Tim Brown, the A's signed shortstop Orlando Cabrera to a one-year, $4MM deal. Since Cabrera was a Type A free agent offered arbitration, the White Sox will receive Oakland's second-round pick this June as well as a supplemental pick. The move leaves Bobby Crosby ($5.5MM) as a pricey backup infielder. ESPN's Buster Olney adds that the A's "have had substantial talks with Nomar Garciaparra in the last 48 hours." They also remain in talks for Dennys Reyes.
The A's have been flirting with Cabrera for a while now, and I didn't think they'd go as high as $4MM (which is still a bargain in general). Perhaps recent reported interest by the Blue Jays forced them to make a move.
Now seems like a good time to bust out some quotes from John Dewan's awesome new Fielding Bible Volume II. Here's his opinion on Cabrera's defense:
"Cabrera is a fundamentally sound shortstop who plays with a lot of energy and does everything well. He has above-average range and makes a lot of sliding plays, but he also led all shortstops in 2008 in defensive misplays (56)."
Baseball Blogs Weigh In: Yankees, Oil Can, Halladay, Mets
On this date 21 years ago, the Baltimore Orioles traded Ray Knight to the Tigers, only one year after signing the World Series hero as a free agent. The O's received Mark Thurmond, who would go 1-8 in 1988 with an 85 ERA+. Knight would only play 105 games for the Tigers before retiring. With spring training now in full swing, several veteran free agents are still without contracts or guaranteed jobs and may be on the verge of retirement. Let's take a look at what is being written in the Blogosphere...
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- 6 Pound 8 Ounce Baby Joba spoke with Yankees beat writer Bryan Hoch about a number of topics including what the will happen once the current contracts for Mariano Rivera and Derek Jeter expire.
- Sully Baseball makes a case for a team, any team, signing Oil Can Boyd.
- The Phrontiersman takes a look at the possibility of the Phillies trading for Roy Halladay at some point during the season.
- Megamets argues for the Mets adding Dennys Reyes, over the other available lefty relievers.
- The Sports Banter puts together their own list of off-season winners.
- Midwest Sports Fans project the Twins opening day roster.
Cork Gaines writes for RaysIndex.com. If you have a suggestion for this feature, Cork can be reached here.
Garciaparra Pondering Retirement?
12:56pm: Phillies GM Ruben Amaro Jr. has confirmed that his club is no longer interested in Garciaparra (courtesy of the Philadelphia Inquirer's David Murphy):
"I would not view him as someone who will be with us," Amaro said. Murphy doesn't expect the Phillies to add any more free agents before the start of the regular season.
9:47am: According to FOXSports.com's Ken Rosenthal, free agent infielder Nomar Garciaparra is deciding between retirement and a one-year contract with the A's.
The Phillies have apparently moved on. The A's are also currently working on deals for shortstop Orlando Cabrera and left-hander Dennys Reyes, and Rosenthal heard from a source that the club could "increase their pursuits" of those two players "due to their uncertainty over Garciaparra."
Garciaparra, 35, hit .264/.326/.466 with eight homers and 28 RBI in 163 at-bats last season. It sounds like he needs to make a career decision fairly soon.
Lefties May Be Lowering Contract Expectations
FOXSports.com's Ken Rosenthal reports that the agents for left-handers Joe Beimel and Will Ohman are prepared to offer more flexibility in contract negotiations with clubs.
"I would suggest any team holding back on some last-minute interest step forward and express it," Beimel's agent, Jeff Sroba said Wednesday. "Not that anything is imminent, but we are offering flexibility." Beimel, who turns 32 in April, has drawn interest primarily from the Dodgers this offseason. He went 5-1 with a 2.02 ERA for Los Angeles last season.
Ohman, 31, has deals on the table from the Pirates, Marlins and Padres, but is reportedly hoping the Phillies, Dodgers or Mets will come calling. He finished 4-1 with a 3.68 ERA last year for the Braves. "We're offering flexibility, too," said Ohman's agent, Page Odle. "We're hoping one of the playoff teams will want that shutdown lefty."
Dennys Reyes is another left-handed reliever without a job. He went 3-0 with a 2.33 ERA for the Twins last season.
Oakland Hot Stove: Garciaparra, Cabrera, Reyes
Susan Slusser of the San Francisco Chronicle reports that the Oakland Athletics and Nomar Garciaparra are "in serious talks" about a bench spot for the team. Slusser notes that the Phillies are likely competing for Nomar's services as well; I myself would also mention the Cubs as a team in need of a right-handed bench bat.
Additionally, Slusser points out that signing Garciaparra would not preclude the Athletics from also going after Orlando Cabrera. However, it seems as though the two parties continue to have difficulty in bridging the salary gap, despite Cabrera's reducing his salary demands from $9MM to roughly $5.5MM at this point.
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I. Media and Sports Introduction
A. John Wooden Quote
B. The tendencies of the media
THESIS: The media must take significant strides towards reforming the way they portray sports to change the current system of altering the ideals of athletes and diminishing the prestige of modern sports.
II. History of media in sports
III. Publication of shameful actions
A. Celebrations
B. Commercials
IV. Multimedia
A. Cable Networks
B. League and team-owned channels
C. Video Games
D. Fantasy sports
V. College and amateur athletics
A. Teenage phenoms
B. False views of success
C. Antitrust Law
D. BCS bowls
VI. Sex and media
A. Promotional Advertisements
B. Female reporters
C. Overemphasis of unrelated topics
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A. women's soccer
B. women's sports study
VIII. Racism in Media
A. Tony Romo and Michael Irvin
B. Rush Limbaugh
C. Stereotypical messages
IX. Athlete Portrayals
A. Book Publications
B. Shameful events
C. Disregard of good events
D. Media's twist of stories
X. Media in sports conclusion
A. Restate thesis
B. Restate Main Points
C. Relate back to Wooden's quote
"Sports do not build character… they reveal it." (John Wooden) These words of legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden describe modern athletics to perfection. Throughout history, sports have transformed from merely trivial contests into showcases of athletes' unrelenting desire, competitiveness, and overall character learned from the game. Millions of fans are also entertained and taught lessons through the actions of the players and the coverage of the game. As long as there have been organized sports there has been some kind of media coverage of the events. However, the media does anything but glorify the character of athletes or the accomplishments in the sporting world. The... [continues]
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Marunouchi Night
Yes, I've done it before and I'll probably do it again, here's even more photos of an evening's walk in Tokyo's Manhattan, the Marunouchi district. The magic blue hour is absolutely the best time to go out for a photo walk in this area! I could have taken so many more photos, but I was in a hurry so this is all I got this time around!
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O, the same area looks quite different at night!
Doesn't it? It's really gorgeous with the reddish yellow building lights and the deep blue evening sky! (^-^)
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I love a good evening's walk, and I am absolutely jealous that it's safe enough to take one. Not to mention the envy I feel when I see what gorgeous surroundings you have. But it's not an evil vibe, more that kind that makes me wish I could take one, but glad at least that you can enjoy it.
Absolutely! Safety is so under valued in our modern society, especially in the west. People who have never lived in an absolutely safe country like Japan has no idea how liberating it feels to be able to walk around freely and never worry anytime or anywhere!
I think we're so accustomed to crime and the ugly side of people. I was so surprised when my friend said that she left her wallet on the train, and came back to inquire about it and it was there waiting for her untouched. She got so used to that luxury that she forgets herself in other countries.
It's insane how we can "get used" to crime, but I know, it was the same for me before I came to Japan!
The sky doesn't even look real! It's so beautiful. I can see why Marunouchi is the best place to take these photos. The lights on the buildings make it even more spectacular. You are incredibly lucky to have so many places to take walks that have such a wonderful view : )
Thank you! Indeed, it looks unreal, but it actually really is blue just like that! The most amazing color! EVERY single time I visit Marunouchi I have to take these kind of pictures… (^-^)
I always prefer Tokyo at night!
I might agree with you! (^-^;)