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Nigeria: Police shuts 'New PDP' office, deploys Armoured Personnel Carrier
*Action violates court order – Baraje faction
*We are protecting status quo – Tukur NWC
By Henry Umoru and Gbenga Olarinoye
The crisis rocking the People's Democratic Party (PDP) took a turn for the worse, yesterday, after the police sealed off the office of the Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje-led faction.
The police put the office, situated at Plot 3206A, No 4, Oyi River Crescent, Maitama, Abuja under lock and key, just as former President Olusegun Obasanjo was fingered as the brain behind the factionalisation of the ruling party.
The same Obasanjo led some elders of the PDP on a trouble shooting mission on Friday which ended in a deadlock.
A top leader of the ruling party described Obasanjo's involvement in the truce effort as pretentious.
The PDP broke into two penultimate Saturday after a group of members, led by former Vice President Atiku Abubakar and six governors namely, Sule Lamido (Jigawa), Adbdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara), Aliyu Babangida (Niger), Aliyu Magatakadar Wammako (Sokoto), Musa Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano) and Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), staged a walk out from the party's special national convention holding at the Eagle Square and, less than one hour later, announced the emergence of their own faction of the PDP and named some members as top officials of the party.
Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has since joined the group to make the `rebel' governors seven.
The Baraje faction, aka New PDP, yesterday, described the siege by the police to its office as a flagrant violation of a court order that stopped the Alhaji Bamangar Tukur-led PDP from interfering with its affairs.
It faulted the police action which it said was executed on the grounds of a non-existent court injunction which the Tukur-led National Working Committee (NWC) of the PDP claimed to have obtained on Friday.
But the Tukur NWC hailed the police action which, according to it, was in response to the court order which emphasised the retention of the status quo.
The sealed factional PDP secretariat was said to have been inspected by Baraje and Lamido on Friday ahead of its formal commissioning anytime this week.
When Sunday Vanguard visited the premises at about 3:44pm yesterday, an armoured personnel carrier APC, was positioned at the entrance of the street while armed policemen, numbering about 10, were seen around. Just as some of the policemen stayed around the APC, others were seated in a nearby restaurant.
'We are not leaving'
Efforts to get close to the gate of the PDP factional secretariat by journalists proved futile as the policemen, who had their eyes fixed on every move, sprang to their feet, threatening to punish them.
One of the policemen, who bragged, said, "We are not leaving here until we hear from the Presidency. We have taken over the place for now."
The property, as gathered, was the headquarters of the National Democratic Party, NDP, even as the gate of the building was painted in the red, white and green colours of the PDP, while the partially covered signpost on the building revealed an insignia similar to that of the PDP.
Yesterday's incident came barely twenty fours after Obasanjo led other elders of the party on the trouble shooting mission and met with the leaders of the PDP and aggrieved governors.
The Baraje-led 'New PDP', however, wondered why Tukur, who appeared before the elders meeting of the party, on Friday, in an atmosphere geared towards peace in the PDP, could, about 12 hours later, start what it termed a round of acts of impunity.
Though the Obasanjo led-meeting was deadlocked as the issues raised by the elders and the advice given did not go well with the Baraje-led faction as they stormed out, the former president said the meeting became imperative for them as elders to intervene and save the party from total collapse. The elders also met with some pro-Jonathan governors.
Both meetings were inconclusive, though there were assurances from the elders that the two factions will once again come together as one indivisible party members. Obasanjo disclosed that discussions and consultations would continue.
Also at the meeting were former Military President Ibrahim Babangida; Chairman, Board of Trustees of the PDP, BoT, Chief Tony Anenih; two former National Chairmen, Dr. Ahmadu Ali and Senator Barnabas Gemade; even as Obasanjo apologised on behalf of former Vice President Alex Ekwueme and Chief Solomon Lar who were not in the country, and said they were being carried along.
Sunday Vanguard also gathered that after the meetings, the elders went into a closed door meeting to harmonise opinions and issues raised by the groups.
The elders meetings with the groups lasted about five hours as the meetings started around 10am and ended 2.30 pm.
Tukur was accompanied to the meeting by the National Auditor, Adewale Adeyanju, the Acting National Secretary, Aderemi Akitoye; and Governors Henry Seriake-Dickson of Bayelsa State, Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State; Jonah Jang of Plateau; Liyel Imoke of Cross River; Idris Wada of Kogi; Theodore Orji of Abia; Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta; Ibrahim Shema of Katsina and Isa Yuguda of Bauchi while Baraje was accompanied by Lamido, Wamakko and Amaechi, the faction's Secretary, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola, the Deputy National Chairman, Dr. Sam Sam Jaja, Senator Bukola Saraki, Senator Abdullahi Adamu and Senator Danjuma Goje.
'Height of impunity'
Reacting to the closure of the secretariat of the Baraje-led PDP, yesterday, the faction's National Secretary, Oyinlola, who noted that they were not surprised by the action taken by the Tukur-led PDP, however, described it as the height of impunity, adding that security forces were mobilised to seal the office based on a non-existent court injunction which the Tukur NWC claimed to have obtained on Friday.
In a statement, Oyinlola said, " The whole world knows that Justice E. Chukwu of the Federal High Court, Abuja on Friday refused to grant Alhaji Bamanga Tukur's application for an ex parte injunction against our party's executive. The judge asked parties to maintain the status quo. His judgment was a reinforcement of an early order of the Lagos High Court which also asked parties to maintain the status quo. Now, should Nigerians conclude that Tukur's interpretation of status quo is this crude display of naked power and undisguised impunity?"
"The statement continued, we are not at all surprised at this occurrence given the fact that Tukur issued a statement on Friday evening deliberately seeking to mislead the media and the public that Justice Chukwu granted him an injunction against us. We are happy that the ever vigilant Nigerian press ignored him and his falsehood. Now, he is not only wilfully disobeying the various courts which have made pronouncements on this matter, he is spicing up his love for impunity with this reckless misuse of state power by misleading the police.
" We call for an immediate removal of the siege to our secretariat. We call on the Inspector General of police to order the immediate removal of his men from our office. Doing so, we believe, will serve the interest of justice, rule of law and democracy. Nigeria is a country ruled by law and not by might and force.
"We hasten to say that if this move is aimed at breaking our spirit, that goal is definitely off the mark. We are determined to rescue our party from the lawlessness and crass arrogance that have defined the character of the Tukur leadership since inception. Our party needs that deliverance, its members deserve the change we have brought into it."
We are protecting status quo – Tukur NWC
In a response, yesterday, the Tukur NWC hailed the closure of the Baraje PDP faction secretariat, stressing that in was in line with a court order.
In a statement by the PDP National Publicity Secretary, Chief Olisa Metuh, the NWC stressed that the injunction granted by the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, clearly affirmed the leadership of the party under the Chairmanship of Tukur.
According to the PDP, ordering that the parties in the dispute maintain status quo ante bellum until the determination of the case, "the court clearly granted the request of the PDP that the group led by Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje should not operate or be recognized by INEC".
Metuh continued: "The sealing of the secretariat opened by the Baraje group was in line with the order of the court which held that the splinter group should not operate or parade themselves as leaders of the PDP until the hearing of the suit before it.
"Our attention has been drawn to reports by a section of the media erroneously suggesting that the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja did not accede to our prayer that INEC should not recognize the so-called new PDP led by Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje.
"For the avoidance doubt, the position of the Federal High Court is clear. By ordering that the two parties maintain status quo ante bellum, the court has clearly ordered the Baraje group to stop all its activities including operating a secretariat while it affirmed the leadership of the PDP under Alhaji Bamanga Tukur.
"By the order of the court, no person is authorized by law to open a secretariat or operate under the name, colour and flag of the PDP other than the one led by Alhaji Bamanaga Tukur. The sealing off of the secretariat opened by the Baraje group under the name, colour and flag of the PDP is therefore in order and in line with the law."
'In defence of Oyinlola'
In the meantime, the Osun State leaders of the PDP loyal to Oyinlola have risen in his defence.
The defence is in reaction to the Elders Forum of the party in the state which on Thursday warned PDP members from associating with the former governor of the state for his role in the formation of the new PDP.
But a stakeholders forum of the party in Osun, in a statement in Osogbo yesterday, put its weight behind the factional National Secretary, describing the threat to sanction him by the state chapter of the PDP as empty.
The PDP stakeholders, under the aegis of Osun PDP Concerned Forum, also decried the leadership of the party in the state for taking sides in the current imbroglio within the PDP.
Solution to crisis lies with Jonathan – Fani-Kayode
Also, yesterday, a former aviation minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, said the solution to the PDP crisis resided with President Goodluck Jonathan listening to Obasanjo by dropping his rumoured intention to return to office in 2015.
"The only hope left for the PDP is if President Goodluck Jonathan listens to former President Olusegun Obasanjo and those behind him and drops his 2015 ambition. Failing that the fight in the PDP will never end", Fani-Kayode said in a statement. He went on: "The truth is that Obasanjo is one of the greatest political strategists that Nigeria has ever known and he is an extremely dangerous adversary. I know him well and his ways are deep. Ori Baba le ga ni. Go and find out what happened to all those that betrayed him or tried to kill him. Their end is never good. Those close to Jonathan would do well to advise him to get on his knees and beg his political mentor. Only Obasanjo, with the help and support of President Ibrahim Babangida and Vice President Abubakar Atiku, has the power, authority and moral gravitas within the PDP to call the dissidents to order and rally their support. Without that, President Goodluck Jonathan is finished and he should just wave goodbye to his 2015 re-election ambitions. The APC, with the support of the PDP dissidents, will form the next Federal Government of Nigeria. That is the way to go. PDP as we once knew her has gone forever. The ship has hit the rocks and she has sunk to the bottom of the sea. She is dead and buried and my prayer is that her soul rests in perfect peace".
`Elders truce terms for Jonathan'
In a related development, Sunday Vanguard learnt, late yesterday, that the Obasanjo-led Elders' Committee, which met with the feuding PDP groups on Friday, has listed some conditions that are expected to be tabled before Jonathan on Monday.
Some of the recommendations, it was gathered, include but are not limited to the following:
*That the Adamawa State chapter of the party be returned to Nyako – he was in control before the Tukur-led NWC started issuing conflicting statements, leading to the institution of a new state chapter EXCO;
*That the Rivers State Chapter Exco be returned to Amaechi;
*That there should be a review of some of the perceived anomalies at the Special National Convention, as observed by the aggrieved governors;
*That the suspension of Amaechi be lifted and in accordance with the party's constitution; and
*That the President should meet with Jang and Amaechi with a view to resolving the crisis in the Nigeria Governors Forum, NGF.
The elders are expected to present their recommendations to Jonathan tomorrow.
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Anne Charnock's first novel A Calculated Life (47North) is one of seven nominated works for the Philip K. Dick Award 2013. It was originally self-published. Anne's journalism has appeared in The Guardian, New Scientist, International Herald Tribune, and Geographical. She was educated at the University of East Anglia, where she studied environmental sciences, and at the Manchester School of Art. She travelled widely as a freelance foreign correspondent and spent a year overlanding through Egypt, Sudan and Kenya. In her fine art practice, she tried to answer the questions, What is it to be human? What is it to be a machine? Ultimately she decided to write fiction as another route to finding answers.
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Among the books I've read and films I've watched, I can pinpoint one dystopian encounter that set the course for much of my reading and writing life. I guess I was around 10 years old when I watched the film animation of George Orwell's satirical story, Animal Farm. I doubt I knew the word 'satire' at the time but my child's mind recognised this film as a story about bullying. And I was terrified!
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In this week's DVD column, there's a new set of Hammer films and a great animation collection.
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If you're a horror film fan than you've undoubtedly heard of Hammer Films, the British company that produced many great terror flicks from the late 1950s to the early 1980s. Their two lead stars, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee, became best known as Dr. Frankenstein and Dracula, respectively, although both actors performed many other roles.
And Hammer made many non- horror films and four of them are in this new collection from Sony Home Video. Two are pirate adventures, one is a thriller set in Hong Kong, while the other film deals with the Thugee cult in India.
Hammer was not a big budget outfit and one can only wonder if a writer came up with the titles "Pirates of Blood River" and "The Devil Ship Pirates" first and then worked backwards. The titles are classic B-movie titles promising fights at sea and other action that one expects of a pirate movie.
Well, "Pirates of Blood River" has plenty of pirates, but no boat and no ocean adventures. Lee stars as a pirate captain who is convinced a group of Huguenots who escaped religious persecution in France to set up their own society on a deserted island are guarding a treasure. It's much more of a siege movie than a pirate film.
The direction by John Gilling keeps the plot rolling right along and as a low-budget film it is quite acceptable. Lee is very good as the philosophical pirate and character actor Michael Ripper a mainstay in Hammer films almost steals the show as a member of Lee's crew.
"The Devil Ship Pirates" looks much more of a pirate film as at least there are a few opening scenes at sea. The pirate ship Diablo has been commissioned to be part of the legendary Spanish Armada that was defeated by the British and the captain again, Lee decides to bring his damaged ship in for repairs, tricking a remote British village into thinking that the Spanish won and they must do what he says.
Don Sharp makes the most of his cast and locations and at least has a boat although it can't sail!
"The Terror of the Tongs" is one of the worst Hammer films I've ever sat through largely because of its misuse of Lee as the leader of a murderous Chinese crime syndicate. All Lee does is sit and make announcements and stand and make announcements.
Most of the cast members who portray Chinese characters are British actors with really bad make-up. The political correctness of the film is pretty questionable in today's society. The film could easily be seen as racist.
The plot revolves around a strong and steady English boat captain whose daughter is murdered by the Tong. He's one of these heroes who goes into almost every situation unprepared and ill advised but he prevails.
"The Stranglers of Bombay" is not set in Bombay but in a smaller Indian community where the local British plantation and business owners are trying to figure out why their caravans of goods are going missing as well as dozens of people.
What they don't know is a cult worshipping the Hindu goddess Kali is murdering people as a way to show their devotion. Only one English army officer has discovered the answers, but no one is listening to him.
Based on history, "Stranglers" fascinated me as it has a very similar look and tone to the second Indiana Jones feature. I wondered as I watched this if George Lucas or Steven Spielberg had seen the 1959 film as children.
Three watchable films out of four isn't a bad score and the folks at Sony Home Video have added some bizarre extras that include an Andy Clyde two-reel comedy that has nothing to do with pirates, a color Scrappy cartoon which marginally has pirates and the first chapter of the 1951 serial "The Great Adventures of Captain Kidd," in which Kidd is a pirate and his "great" adventures include murder and pillage.
There are also commentaries from key Hammer personnel including director and writer Jimmy Sangster.
The Animation Show Volume 3
As regular readers might remember, I've loved animation since I was a kid and still do. In my role as an editor and co-owner of two animation magazines and as the author of "Escape! How Animation Broke in the Mainstream in the 1990s" available at all online booksellers I've had the privilege and pleasure of seeing the public warm up to the notion that cartoons just aren't for children.
This new collection of animated shorts put together by Mike Judge the creator of "King of the Hill" and independent animator Don Hertzfeldt underscores the diversity of animation styles and content.
Some shorts, such as "Rabbit," are surreal nightmares. "Collision" is a subtle political commentary. "One D" plays with the concept of a world with one dimension. "Game Over" by Pes is a brilliant homage to 1970s and '80s video games with a pizza and two fried eggs forming Pac Man.
There are also some very funny shorts such as "Versus" in which rival samurai armies compete for a tiny island.
There are two shorts from one of my favorite animators, Bill Plympton, and Hertzfeldt's own "Everything Will Be Okay" is simply amazing.
Anyone interested in animation needs to see this collection.
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|I bought a small Shangri La mulberry from Edible Landscaping last month. It's still in the quart pot in which it arrived -- I'd planned to move it to a larger pot in early spring. In the meantime, I've been keeping it outside except on nights when temps dip below 30 or so. Apparently, though, I've inadvertently woken it up, because the leaf buds are breaking open and greening up. Is there any chance that I can slow or stop the process by moving it under my house, where it's very dark and the temp stays in the 40s and 50s?
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|40s and 50s will slow but not stop growth. To stop growth you'd need low 30s. After it leafs out it will be pretty freeze sensitive.
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|You could just bring it into the house near a south facing window for them winter. Its not going to fruit for several years so the period of dormantcy isn't important yet anyways.
One a side note, I've found that to be a tough tree to grow in NC. The deer go for its leaves before anything else. Mine are down to their roots and if I can get them started again, I plan to leave them in pots on the screened porch until I can train them to a single stem about 5ft tall. Once they clear the deer's reach I'll put them back in ground.
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…comes the vile and thoroughly corrupt Wolfowitz, urging Obama to step up his efforts to stop Iran's nuclear programs.
With evidently intentional irony, Wolfowitz calls the kettle black: "Iran's rulers have shown that they care little if their people suffer," he whines, so sanctions might not work. But he nonetheless advocates the toughest sanctions possible because "circumstances in Iran are no longer normal."
Sometimes I wonder if the dialectical minds of the neo-left even listen to themselves (Descartes, call your office!). The slimy-smooth Wolfowitz obviously doesn't care if innocent Iranian civilians suffer either. Mathematically (and Descartes was first a mathematician) and logically, Wolfowitz has embraced the same squalid ethics which he imputes to Ahmadinejad. And then he cheerfully invites us to join hands with him in his moral malaise.
In Europe, the Financial Times is regarded much more than the WSJ these days. FT's editors are quite savvy. Here—with a sly wink—they have allowed Wolfowitz to declare to the world his utter and pompous degeneracy.
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I dont know how to do that, im totally new to linux and using these commands, but teh file /etc/pure-ftpd/conf/TLS contains "1" in the first line without the quotes.
I just found out that I can copy paste the commands from the tutorial via ssh (PuTTY)
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Ab′erdeen An′gus(n.)
one of a breed of hornless beef cattle having a smooth black coat, orig. raised in Scotland.
Category: Animal Husbandry
Ref: Also called Black Angus.
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Aberdeen Angus, Angus, black Angus(noun)
black hornless breed from Scotland
Aberdeen Angus(ProperNoun)
A breed of black hornless beef cattle originating in Scotland.
Aberdeen Angus(ProperNoun)
An animal of the Aberdeen Angus breed.
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ABC Sitcom (1986-1993) about naive immigrant Balki Bartokomous, from the fictional European country of Mypos, who comes to live with Larry Appleton, his American cousin whom he's never met. Started out as equal parts Fish out of Water and Odd Couple, took an odd turn when the Straight Man stopped being straight (comedically, that is) and started devising deranged schemes that would have made Lucille Ball dizzy. At that point, it became the personification of Idealism vs Cynicism, with Balki's wide-eyed idealism almost always (if not completely always) winning out over Larry's "real-word savvy" cynicism.Was always a strange blend of stale formula and Fawlty Towers-level anarchy; survived on the not inconsiderable talents of Bronson Pinchot and Mark Linn-Baker.Spawned the Spin-Off Family Matters. Not to be confused with the song by Deep Purple.
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A great Hollywood makeup artist can transform an actor into almost anything, but the legendary John Chambers was so good at his craft — he created Spock's pointy ears — that the CIA sought him out to help rescue American hostages. Now that's talent.
In Argo, John Goodman plays the role of Chambers, the special effects makeup artist who helps CIA agent Tony Mendez (played by Ben Affleck) devise the cover story for a high-stakes rescue mission during the Iran hostage crisis. "He was the first makeup artist to win the Academy Award and he had a side career. He had a hobby," Goodman said of his character — who moonlighted as a disguise expert for the CIA — during a recent appearance on Good Morning America. "I was very attracted to the whole double life aspect… You couldn't make [the story] up." READ FULL STORY


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- Oct. 17, 2012 : Dr. Etnier, a kinesiology professor in UNCG's School of Health and Human Sciences, has received a $275,000, two-year grant from the National Institutes of Health to study what preventive strategies may decrease the risk of dementia for a person who has a first-degree relative with Alzheimer's disease. Read more...
- Sept. 2012 : The Department of Kinesiology is conducting research to determine if a person's genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease predicts the benefits they experience from exercise. For further information and participation requirements visit The PAAD Study.
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Alice Cooper (born Vincent Damon Furnier, February 4, 1948) is an American rock singer, songwriter, and musician whose career spans five decades. With a stage show that features guillotines, electric chairs, fake blood, boa constrictors, baby dolls, crutch and dueling sword,...Wikipedia
Age: 66
Born: 4th February, 1948, Detroit, Michigan, USA
Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)
Nationality: American
Claim to Fame: `Schools Out`, `No More Mr. Nice Guy`
Alice Cooper is married to Sheryl Cooper.
Who can be romantically linked to Alice Cooper...and how closely?
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Along Came a Spider is Alice Cooper's 25th studio album, released in July 2008 by Steamhammer/SPV. It was Cooper's highest-charting album in the US since Hey Stoopid in 1991.
He wrote the song "He`s Back (The Man Behind the Mask)" for the movie "Jason Lives: Friday the 13th Part VI". He also appeared in "Freddy`s Dead: The Final Nightmare" uncredited as Freddy`s Father. This makes him the only person who has been involved with Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees almost years before the two fought each other in Freddy Vs. Jason in 2003.
His favorite songs are "19th Nervous Breakdown" by The Rolling Stones, "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors, "My Sharona" by The Knack, "Beds Are Burning" by Midnight Oil, "My Generation" by The Who, "Welcome To The Jungle" by Guns `N Roses, "Rebel Rebel" by David Bowie, "Over Under Sideways Down" by The Yardbirds, "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" by Jet and "A Hard Day`s Night" by The Beatles. (Source: BBC Radio 2 "Tracks of My Years").
Yet I was Marilyn Manson - times 10.
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(Asia 2012) Fourth stop: One night in Bangkok!
For those of you who have followed my previous posts from this vacation, you many recall that my last night in Chiang-Mai was less than ideal...
"And then, the weirdest thing, I suddenly started to feel really exhausted and weak. My throat began to tickle, and I had no choice but to excuse myself and go back up to the room. I took a hot shower, in the hopes that the warm water would alleviate my aching muscles. Alas, it was no resolve. I laid in bed and fell asleep for a bit, only to wake to my cousin and sister asking if I was ready for dinner. "Guys, I hate to stay behind, but I just feel too awful to move. And you know something's wrong when I decline a meal."
After they headed out for the evening, I phoned room service and ordered two glasses of orange juice before passing out around 8pm. What the hell was happening to me?"
11/26: Luckily, since I was living out of my suitcase, there wasn't a whole lot of packing to be done. So, I crawled in to bed at 8pm and, after a solid 9-hours of sleep, I awoke to my obnoxious alarm "ding" at 5am. Hey, I was feeling a bit better and wasn't about to miss the breakfast buffet before our 9:30am flight to Bangkok. Especially after learning that service began on weekdays at 6am! I figured, with a 5am wakeup call, I could finish packing *and* get ready for the day before the breakfast bell rang.
My sister and cousin took turns sighing when my alarm went off. "Listen up," I blurted in a loud whisper. "I may be sick, but I'm not about to miss another great meal. Did you know that I drank orange juice for dinner last night? Y'all are just gonna have to deal with me rummaging around the room until 6am."
After stuffing myself like a goddamn sausage, my sister and I grabbed our bags and bid Cousin Eric adieu. "Mr. P," our adorable/awesome driver from the previous day, picked us up in front of the hotel and drove us to the airport. We were capital-bound and quite eager to spend "one night in Bangkok." And to annoy the crap out of everyone whilst singing that one verse over. And over. And over again.
Go ahead and watch the video. Sing along, why don't you? You know you want to...
After a quick Air Asia flight (think 45-minutes), we landed in the capital city...
Like suckers, we paid extra to a) be driven to our hotel in a black Mercedes sedan, sans other passengers, and b) opt for the tollway. Time is money, honey. Apparently, traffic off the tollway is no joke and a total nightmare. And I just don't have time for that shit.
After approximately 30-minutes in the car, my sister and I finally arrived at our hotel, the Banyan Tree Bangkok. "Dude, I'm starting to feel like crap again," I mumbled whilst checking-in at the front desk. "I'm sorry, but your room is not yet ready." From the dramatic gasp I exhaled, the desk agent must have sensed that I was about to burst out crying. When what I really was about to do was curl up on the floor in the lobby and pass out hobo-style. Not a minute later, she exclaimed, "My apologies, your room is ready!" While I was going in for a bear hug, the desk agent quickly backed up and handed me the room keys. "You're welcome," she said, with an uneasy smile.
"Premier? This sure seems like a high floor for a 'standard' guest room," my sister quipped. Sure enough, as we opened the door to our room, we were shocked by what we saw...
"Where's the bed?" I asked. After walking inside, we quickly realized that we had been upgraded to a suite! That's right, folks, adjacent to the living area - complete with seating, a bar, a desk, and another television - was our bedroom. My sister and I jumped in the air - strummed the air guitar - and high-fived each other.
The bathroom contained a separate shower and tub and, perhaps my favorite detail of all, shampoo, conditioner, and shower gel in pump bottles! Now there's a green concept, America! #asiansdoitbetter
While my sister went out to explore Bangkok solo, I stayed behind to nurse my sick ass back to health. I decided that lounging in the sun could be relaxing and 'just what the doctor ordered.'
Next to each chaise lounge was a "service bell" that guests could ring if they needed anything from the staff. I so wanted to last longer than the 5-minutes I actually did so that I could have rang the bell and ordered a tropical beverage. Alas, my sickness got the best of me and I quickly retired to the room.
After a hot shower, I ordered a delicious room service lunch. Sick or not, a girl has to eat!
Feeling incredibly weak and coming to the realization that I would only experience Bangkok from my hotel room, I cried myself to sleep and awoke at 6pm. When my sister finally returned at 7pm, we walked down to the lobby to grab a drink (Oh, calm down. It was a "virgin" lime daiquiri, for god's sake.), snap photos, and take a quick walk outside, since I had not left the room all day.
For dinner, we decided to stay in and order room service so that we could pack for tomorrow's journey: Hong Kong!
"One Night in Bangkok" and the world's *not* my oyster...
Well, there you have it, folks. My "one night in Bangkok" absolutely sucked because I was not healthy enough to enjoy anything beyond my hotel room. I will say that I hope to return to Bangkok some day and make up for all that I missed.
Don't worry, I promise that my Hong Kong recap will be way more exciting!
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Many of us were deeply disappointed when Apple discontinued the MacBook Pro 17. While the Retina MacBook Pro 15 introduced at the same time offered higher resolution, sometimes there's just no substitute for physical screen size. Photographers and videographers in particular loved the combination of the sheer size and the option of a matte screen.
I loved mine enough to immediately sell the three-year-old one I owned at the time in order to replace it with the last model made, to maximize its useful life. I still love it enough that I've just laid out a thousand bucks on a 2.5-year-old machine to fit 2TB of SSDs, giving it the best of both worlds: lightning-fast performance combined with huge storage that allows me to have all my files with me when I travel.
There may not be too many others who'll follow my admittedly extravagant example, but I do think it's time for Apple to revisit its decision and bring back the mobile professional's workhorse …
I should say that I fully understand why Apple chose to discontinue the machine at the time. It had just introduced the shiny new Retina MacBook Pro machines in 13- and 15-inch sizes, and the cost of a 17-inch Retina screen would, at that time, have been prohibitive.
Retaining the non-Retina model would have been messy – where in the line-up do you position a machine which offers the largest screen size but not the highest resolution? Apple has always liked simple line-ups, not the mass of scarcely-distinguishable models put out by many PC manufacturers, so it took the easy way out and dropped the machine.
The argument many made at the time was that it was in any case a niche product, with some even suggesting that the MBP accounted for just one percent of MacBook sales. Given Apple's famed secrecy when it comes to sales breakdowns, I strongly suspect that figure was made-up, but it's undeniable that it was a product bought by a small minority of Apple's customers.
Some went further and suggested that with Apple now a mass-market consumer company, the business market was less important to the company, and the subset of audio-visual professionals who made up most of the 17-inch machine's user base was now effectively irrelevant.
That might have been a supportable argument at the time, but no longer. Defense exhibit A: the Mac Pro.
The Mac Pro is even more of a niche market than the MBP 17. The percentage of Apple's customer base even interested in the machine, let alone prepared to lay out between $3,000 and $10,000 on one, is miniscule.
Yet Apple not only launched a new Mac Pro, but did so with a great deal of fanfare. It put a huge amount of R&D into a revolutionary new desktop PC design. It made a machine unlike any other.
Even today, almost a year after it was first announced, Apple still makes a huge fuss about it. Just visit apple.com and click on any of the other Macs there: Air, Pro, iMac, Mini, it doesn't matter. You get Apple's standard white background site.
Now click on the Mac Pro. Apple has sufficient pride in this special machine that it created a whole new site design for it.
Apple launched a new Mac Pro not because the market for the machine was a large one, but because it was an important one. The earliest and most loyal customer base for Macs comprised creative professionals. Graphic designers, photographers, videographers, musicians, writers. These were the people who acted as Apple's unpaid evangelists in the very early days. It wouldn't be too great an exaggeration to say that these people helped build the company into what it is today.
In creating the new Mac Pro, Apple demonstrated that its commitment to this market remains alive and well.
Which is precisely the argument for launching a new MacBook Pro 17 today. The machine appeals to a very similar (and in many cases overlapping) market: creative professionals who want a high-end machine with decent screen size when mobile.
While yield rates on a 17-inch Retina screen would have been impractically low in 2012, that's no longer the case today. The niche demand is there. Apple's demonstrated commitment to supporting a core niche market is there. The manufacturing practicality is there. It's time.
And my machine demonstrates just how great it could be. With a 2.4GHz Core i7 processor, 16GB RAM and dual SSDs, the machine absolutely flies.
Upgrading the RAM was obviously trivial on the non-Retina machines, and something I did as soon as I bought it. I initially replaced the 750GB hard drive with two 1TB ones (one in the optical media bay with an OWC Data Doubler adapter), and have now replaced both chunks of spinning metal with shiny new Samsung EVO 840 SSDs.
2TB allows me to have all my files with me all the time no matter where I am in the world.
But that's two-year-old technology. The SSDs, for example, are fast:
Coming from hard drives, I couldn't be happier. But stick the latest quad-core i7 CPU in there and make the SSDs PCIe ones, and my machine would look like it was having trouble waking up in the morning.
And imagine the battery-life it would have with a Haswell processor and that massive battery! A MBP 17 with genuine all-day battery-life would be phenomenal.
So, please, Apple: let's have an all-new MacBook Pro 17. I'd even forgive you announcing it a few days after I've laid out a grand on SSDs for mine …
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Some users of Apple have been for long time, it means that 25 years after they are getting old. If they need/want a laptop, their best option eye-sight would be the 17″ MBP.
Yep. I'd buy one.
Yes please!… A retina/4k resolution and a Nvidia Quadro and I'll be happy.
As a graphic designer, and many of people working in the same area. We where very disappointing of the discontinued 17″. Me and several others have held on to ours 2009 MBP 17″, as of it still can handle all the software and run the latest OS without a problem.
I'd be more than happy to buy one. I miss the larger screen that I had to sacrifice for power.
I am stuck with a 3.5 year-old machine. I NEED 17″ screen for the type of work I do. I have been a faithful Apple customer for 25 years. I cannot believe I am stuck in this absolute debacle of bad business. I really don't care how much a 17″ Apple machine costs. They need to offer one to professional customers.
Great article. I've been holding out for a new 17″ for about 3 years now. I still use my old 17″ 2.4GHz Santa Rosa from 2007 with an SSD and 2nd HD (which was my 3rd 17″). It works fine but only having 4GB of RAM is getting very long in the tooth. I definitely need the extra screen real estate that comes with a 17″. My stock trading platform adjusts dynamically, so I'm able to have many more charts on there vs. a 15″. A 17″ is also very helpful since I'm always multitasking and need to have a lot of different windows open at the same time.
I'd love it if one were available.
YES!! I currently own a 2010 MacBook Pro 17″ and love it. It has a matte screen, an i7 processor and 8GB of RAM, with Mavericks installed. When the time comes for me to upgrade it, I want to be able to get another 17″ MBP and not a 15″. The extra screen real estate is vital to me when I'm traveling. I'm a graphic designer, so the more screen I have, the better off I am, especially for print design work. When in my office I use both a 20″ and 30″ Cinema Displays, so even the 17″ screen seems tiny when I can't use them. I hope Apple will eventually re-introduce the 17″ MBP (with a matte option). It took Apple several years to finally add anti-glare coatings to the iMac to get rid of 75% of the reflection, so it may be a while for them to get around to the 17″. Actually as I think about it, they could forget the 17″ and jump right up to a 19″ MacBook Pro. The physical size would only increase to 17″ x 11.5″ (approx) from the current 15.5″ x 10.5″, and I'd buy one in a heartbeat. Apple's current technology would mean it would probably even be lighter, or about the same weight of the current model. Make mine a 17″ or a 19″ and I'll take it with me everywhere!
A simple yes will not work, sure I want it back the awsume 17″ mbp.
But what I love about this machine is 2 HD your self to replace by upgrades.
My configuration is the latest mbp17″ early 2011 with 2 1tb SSD mounted.
Till today this 2th gen. 7i is not to be beaten by other hardware. My biggest problem is when it dies, what then? Where can I find a replacement for this 3 year old beast.
APPLE GET THE 17″ please back with all the good features a PRO needs.
The thing that comes close is a X•BOOK 17M59 – GTX860 this machine can handle 1 SSD and 2 msata.
It sound illegal but I am pressed against the wall and will find out if it can become a Hackintosh.
APPLE stop me and get that 17″ retina out for the Pro's amongst us.
Great post! We definitely need the new 17 inch workhorse. I think the matte coating of the current 17 inch MBP is fantastic – one of the best screens I have seen. As to get more power I have looked for rMBP, but the screen has horrible glare and the sharpness does not give you any additional screen real estate. I think there is a huge cluster of professionals waiting for the new 17 inch model to update their current system – mine is alredy 4 years old and counting…
I have an old 2007 MBP 17″ that needed fixing due to a Graphic Card failure, so when I heard the 17″ Inch model was going to be discontinued in 2011, I went for the highest spec MBP17 with antiglare and Maxed the RAM to 16GB and 1TB HD.Best Investment.
I still hope Apple comes up with a revamped MBP17 when this one dies. The Old MBP2007 still works like a champ with a 1TB drive and 6GB RAM after getting it fixed. To me the MBP17 is the Best Personal Computer ever made.
Right there with you. I just dropped off my 17″ 2011 Matte with SSDs for a Flat Rate repair of the all too common discrete graphics failure. I had to put the Optical Drive back for them to take it. If they offered a new 17 inch with matte display, then I might have upgraded. I won't buy a reflective screen 15″ I'll keep waiting…
I bought a 15″ Retina in Jan 2014 to replace my 17″ MBP. Had the 15″ Retina for 12 hours and took it back the next day. It's not the 17″ plain and simple. I want the extra screen real estate.
17 is Too SMALL we need a 20 inch Macbook PRO AIR!!!!!!!!!!!
seriously I am never going to buy the 15″ it feels like a toy, I love my 17″ 2SSD 8GB ram+DVDrw beast.
but, I've had it for 6 years now, maybe more, I need a new one with less weight!!
give it to me APPLE!!!!!!!
I bought my first Apple anything, a 17″ Mac Book Pro, five years ago and never looked back until they pulled the plug on the 17″ MBP. I have always opted for more screen real estate and the older I get the more important that becomes as the screen needs to be easier to read. I gave that five year old MBP to my wife and bought another in 2011. She definitely has trouble reading small print; so, she has to make the fonts larger to read them. My first laptop had a 320 horizontal pixel screen, it was usable but what a pain that was. These smaller screens help make the machines lighter, more portable, with longer battery life. There are many ways to display a lot of information but nothing beats having the real estate to have it in front of you. I certainly hope Apple does something about this before the time comes to replace this laptop. I still have a Windows desktop and was considering replacing that with a Mac Pro. I really don't want to go back to Windows.
I have 2 old ones, one with and one without Thunderbolt. It´s time to replace them. So get movie´Apple.
I would defiantly get a 17″ MBP and my son who is a videographer would too.


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Kansas bowhuntress re-prioritizes after the king is dead
By Carla Schartz
For 423 days, my husband Lance and I observed a whitetail buck we'd nicknamed Maxximus. Before our eyes, it transformed from a velvet-antlered buck with potential into a true Kansas giant.
This beast of a buck had over 230 inches of massive bone atop its head and too many points to count.
Lance and I are avid bowhunters and anticipated the epic celebration we knew would follow after one of us stuck the legendary buck.
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News travels fast in our world, and we were informed of Maxximus' demise a short time later.
At first, our minds were flooded with shock, anger and denial. This uncontrollable tidal wave of emotion made us question every action we'd made that season. All we could ask ourselves was "why?" and "what could we have done better?"
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After that, only one remedy remained to cure this type of anguish. We headed back to our sanctuary in the woods with bows in hand.
Hope for seeing another giant like Maxximus was all Lance and I had left, but we were exhausted and doubtful, and knew the odds of seeing another buck the size of Maxximus were slim.
2013 was turning from a season of anticipation into trying to salvage a season of failure!
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He made a fantastic 25-yard shot on a massive buck that was chasing a doe past his stand. Although one of its main beams was broken off, Lance couldn't be more proud of his 160-incher, which scores far less than Maxxiumus, and is a true trophy in his eyes.
After Lance's success, I was optimistic and took my turn in the shooter's seat a day later.
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With the sun shining through the trees, Lance pointed to the east where I caught a glimpse of a beautiful rack.
Reaching for my bow, with heart pounding and legs shaking, I watched the magnificent creature make its way down the trail toward me.
At the time I was unaware that I was tangled in my safety harness and unable to draw my bow when the buck was only 20 yards away.
Again, failure, I thought.
After I got untangled, re-nocked my arrow and truly settled back in, I found myself making the best 30 yard shot of my life. THWACK!
Adrenaline flooded my body when my arrow disappeared in the ten-ring.
My husband and I shared fist pumps, high fives and the feeling of accomplishment that soon followed the shot.
As I phoned our two little girls to share the news, every ounce of me was filled with excitement!We'd done it, and to top it off, Lance captured the entire hunt on film.
But wait ... were we successful? We hadn't taken Maxximus, so was this season a failure?
For days I'd been consumed by a number. A score. Those things were what I'd believed made a successful hunter and hunt.
For days I'd forgotten the real reasons why I hunt.
As I grabbed Lance's hand and we walked over to recover my buck that only scored in the mid-140s, I beamed with happiness!
I suppose I should thank Maxximus for teaching me a very valuable lesson.
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Author's Note: Lance and I would like to extend a special thanks to Mark and Matt Royer. www.royerhunts.com
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I missed seeing pics of everyone's babies while we were away. Her is Miss E at her first Philles game-we managed to catch them while we were in Atlanta. We went with a bunch of people from the wedding. Unfortunately, if anyone follows the Phills or the Braves, the game we were at the Phills lost in the bottom of the ninth by a walk off home run by Chipper Jones. The Phillies had been winning the entire game by a couple runs up to this point, but blew it...DH took this pretty hard and said E must be bad luck and banned her from future Phillies games
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KScheibe12:Braves fan here and that game was awesome! We almost turned it off before it was over because we figured there was no chance of them winning. I can't post pics from my phone so I never really participate in HDBD. I'll have to try to make time this evening...
Me too!!! I the Braves (and Chipper Jones especially!).
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At today's FTC summit, Robocalls: All the Rage, experts examined the problem and discussed a variety of potential solutions. Then Bureau of Consumer Protection Director David Vladeck threw down the gauntlet and issued the FTC Robocall Challenge. College students, doctoral candidates, engineers, business people, and entrepreneurs: Apply your creative spirit and expertise to craft a technological solution to the problem.
What's in it for you? For individuals, teams, or small companies (fewer than 10 people), a $50,000 prize — and National Hero status as the innovator who helped silence illegal (and annoying) robocalls. Organizations that employ more than 10 people won't be eligible for the cash, but will compete for the FTC's Technology Achievement Award, which as David noted, will still make you a National Hero.
The FTC Robocall Challenge is free and open to the public. The deadline for entries is January 17, 2013. The prize (either the money or the Achievement Award) will go to a person, team, or corporation if a solution is developed based on the following criteria:
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As part of the challenge, the FTC will give interested solvers access to de-identified complaint data regarding robocalls with periodic updates to help spot the latest trends. The data will include the date and approximate time of the call, the reported caller name, the first seven digits of reported caller phone number, and the consumer's area code.
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Under Submission Requirements,sec C para (iii) it is stated that "Any Solution that was publicly available prior to.....is not eligible....". I thought a solution was what was wanted. Silly me..I guess we are just playing games here.
The solution in place is a program called Terminating Call Manager. It completely stops all auto-dialed calls. It costs $2/month. It has a friends list and all other legitimate calls can get through also. FTC could encourage all phone companies to offer it.
It is my opinion that the easiest way to suppress robocalling is for Congress to enact an excise tax such that robocalling becomes uneconomical. The tax should be applied on all sources with no exemptions for charities or politicians. There is ample precedent for telecommunications companies to collect such taxes, and previously used infrastructure can be readily applied to such excise tax collection. The tax can then be billed to the robocall sources and if such taxes are not paid, the telecommunications server can withhold service.
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