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Can I easily move ESET Remote Administrator (ERA) clients from one server to another? (4.x)KB Solution ID: SOLN884|Last Revised: September 11, 2012
ERA Server must be running on both servers to change the server your clients report to from OLD_SERVER to NEW_SERVER in ESET Remote Administrator (ERA).
You can direct all the clients under OLD_SERVER's control to start reporting to NEW_SERVER by following the steps below:
- From ERA Console, connect to OLD_SERVER.
- From the Clients tab, select all clients that currently connect to OLD_SERVER.
- Right-click the selected clients, and select New Task Configuration Task.
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- In the Configuration for Clients dialog box, click Create…
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- In the Configuration Editor, navigate to ESET Smart Security, ESET NOD32 Antivirus ESET Kernel Setup Remote administration.
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- Change the Server address to NEW_SERVER (no http://), or use the IP address of NEW_SERVER, in the form xxx.xxx.xx.x (again no http://).
- To configure the update server, navigate to Update module Profile Setup.
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- In the Update server parameter, enter the IP address of NEW_SERVER (http://xxx.xxx.x.x:xxxx).
- Close the Configuration Editor and click Yes when asked to save changes.
- Within a few minutes (according to the Interval between connections to server setting) the clients will pick up the configuration change and begin reporting to the new server.
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MONTREAL (May 28, 2012) – Montreal Canadiens executive vice president and general manager, Marc Bergevin, announced today the appointment of Scott Mellanby to the position of director of player personnel.
"We are extremely happy to have Scott Mellanby joining the Canadiens organization. Scott has an impressive background and a commanding knowledge of the league, having played for 21 seasons in the NHL before holding various management positions over the last four years. Scott is known for his character and his leadership, which made him a great team captain during six seasons with the Florida Panthers and the Atlanta Thrashers. He has extensive knowledge of the game, is well respected in the hockey circles and will become an important asset for our organization," said Canadiens general manager Marc Bergevin.
A native of Montreal, Scott Mellanby, enjoyed a successful 21-year career in the NHL with five different teams. Suiting up for 1,431 games in the National Hockey League, ranking him 23rd on the all-time list for most games played, he recorded 840 points (364 goals and 476 assists) and served 2,479 penalty minutes, also 23rd on the NHL all-time list. He played in 136 career playoff games, and totaled 53 points (24 goals, 29 assists).
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Mellanby retired as an active player after the 2006-07 season. Following his playing career, Mellanby joined the Vancouver Canucks organization, working as special advisor to general manager Mike Gillies (2008-09) and as a professional scout (2009-10). On June 1, 2010 he returned to St. Louis to take on the position of assistant coach over the last two seasons (2010-11 and 2011-12).
"This was an easy decision for me. It's an honor for me to get a chance to be a part of the Canadiens organization," said Mellanby via conference call from St. Paul, MN. "I was born in Montreal and I grew up idolizing the Canadiens – Guy Lafleur in particular. It's really a thrill for me to get this opportunity. Marc talked to [Blues GM] Doug [Armstrong] to get permission to talk to me and when he talked to me, it was automatic."
Signed as an unrestricted free agent by Atlanta in July 2004, Mellanby would go on to play two seasons as the Thrashers team captain (2005-06 and 2006-07). Prior to joining the Thrashers, he played with the St. Louis Blues from 2001 to 2004. He reached the postseason in each of his four seasons in St. Louis, reaching the Western Conference Final in 2001. Mellanby spent seven seasons with the Florida Panthers, including the last four, from 1997 to 2001, as the Panthers' captain, recording 157 goals and a total of 354 points. In 1996 he was selected to play in the NHL All-Star Game before leading his team to the Stanley Cup Final against the Colorado Avalanche that same year. Mellanby also donned the Oilers jersey from 1991 to 1993 playing 149 games and recording 82 points. Drafted in the second round, 27th overall, by the Philadelphia Flyers in 1984, Mellanby earned a spot on the Flyers roster in 1986-87 and would go on to spend five seasons in Philadelphia, where he registered 227 points in 353 career regular season games.
Now 45, Scott Mellanby played his junior hockey with Don Mills, in the Metro Toronto Hockey League, and the Henry Carr Crusaders of the Ontario Jr. B League before joining the Wisconsin University Badgers (WCHA) in 1984-1985. On the international level, he helped Canada capture the silver medal at the 1986 World Junior Championships, notching nine points (5 goals, 4 assists) in seven games.
Scott Mellanby and his wife Sue have three children, sons Carter and Nicholas and daughter Courtney.
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Press Release - Habs Hire Scott Mellanby as Director of Player Personnel
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I guess, cant hurt to hire him? I know dick all about his qualifications, other than your outline of his history.
What % of unemployed/available coachs are not good enough (only cause cant speak french) and are immediately eliminated; 75%, of higher?
So we get a tiny wading pool of canditates to pick from eh, which was my main objection to Martin hire; who was best of a tiny group.
@anon: I think Mellanby is actually a pretty well qualified individual.
I fully expect Bergevin's next hire to be Martin Lapointe, as he continues to round out his management team. What I like about the team he is putting together is that there is a nice blend of experience and (relative) youth.
People who think the game in the "new" way...not hold on to dinosauric philosophies like Gainey and Gauthier.
You're right that the Habs pool of candidates is small if speaking French is a requirement, but that doesn't mean the people who have been hired and no good.
Oh and on Martin, he was the GM of the Panthers at the time of him being hired by Montreal as coach. He wasn't even in the market!
Kamal, i do think the whole remix of managemnt group should be very interesting to see how meshes and no doubt will be quite different than Bob/Pierre.
But like i said i have zero feel for who would make a good Coach, GM, AGM (Carriere? what does he actually do? vs what Dudley will do as other AGM?).
I respected Mellanby and LaPoint as players, but know little about Dudley/Hartley/Crawford or even Bergevin; but have the pet peeve of stupid french-handcuffs in hiring policy, which can do nothing but hurt on-ice product.
But dosent mean wont hire good people, just unlikely to hire cream of crop is all. Wouldnt Sutter/Renney be a preferred choice to Hartley, most likely yes, but we will never know will we?
But I am always optimistic and Bergevin seems to have a good reputation, so hope for the best.
@Anon: Yep, I for sure see your point. The Habs are a little hamstrung when it comes to the pool or potential.
On Carriere, this guy is Uber-qualified! He's the guy who built and developed the Caps' player development program. He is a shrewd talent evaluator, has worked in all levels of management and knows how to run player dev...
...and that's a good thing too, since the Habs player development has been suspect for at least the last decade (although it's gotten better of late)...


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Also, when you steam it and add some eggs on top, it can be the base for a unique and photogenic breakfast.
This recipe is really simple so give it a try next time you have 20 minutes to try something new for breakfast! Or, come to think of it, this will work for any meal throughout the day.
Buttery, mustardy, there are eggs involved. I don't think this could get much better!
What will you need?
1 bunch of asparagus, washed and trimmed
2 eggs
1 tbsp dijon mustard
1 tbsp butter
1 tbsp white vinegar (for poaching the eggs)
Salt, garlic pepper
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In a large, deep skillet, bring 1 inch of water to a boil. Drop in a handful of asapragus in and cook until all of the water evaporates.
At the same time, bring 3 cups of water and vinegar to a boil in a medium saucepan. Crack your eggs (1 at a time) in a small bowl and gently place them into the simmering water. Reduce the heat and cook for about 5 minutes, plus a few minutes if you like the yolks completely cooked. Drain off the water, crack some pepper on top of the eggs and reserve on the side.
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Once all of the water has cooked off of the asparagus, reduce the heat to the lowest setting and drop in your butter and dijon mustard. Allow the heat to slowly melt the mixture over your perfectly steamed asparagus, making sure they get coated evenly.
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Scientists at Yale University have discovered a nearby super-Earth that is a "diamond planet" — a planet that has a mantle made of graphite and diamond.
The planet, called 55 Cancri e, is just 40 light years from Earth and orbits the binary star 55 Cancri, which is located in the constellation of Cancer. When the planet was first observed last year, it was originally thought to be a water planet, similar to Earth, but new information has allowed the scientists to infer that the planet is much more likely to be a diamond planet.
55 Cancri e (which desperately needs a nickname) is referred to as a super-Earth because it is larger than Earth, but not as large as the Solar System's gas giants. That's where 55 Cancri e's similarities to Earth end, though. 55 Cancri e has twice the radius of Earth, eight times the mass — and because it's the innermost planet in the 55 Cancri system, the planet has a surface temperature of 3,900 degrees Fahrenheit (2,150 Celsius), and its year lasts just 18 hours (as opposed to Earth's 365 days).
But why is 55 Cancri e made out of diamonds? Because the star system itself is primarily made up of carbon, iron, and silicon — and over millions of years of pressure and heat, the planet's carbon mantle has slowly turned into diamond. The Yale scientists estimate that as much as one third of 55 Cancri e's mass is made up of diamond — the same as three Earth masses, or roughly 18×1024kg. This is a few trillion times more diamond than has ever been mined on Earth.
Suffice it to say, the identification of just a single diamond-rich planet is massive news. In recent years we have identified hundreds of rocky, Earth-like planets — and until now, we had assumed they had similar make-ups. It is now fairly safe to assume that there are millions of diamond planets in the universe. There could be other planets out there with different chemistries, too — water planets, gold planets, uranium planets — and each are likely to have very different atmospheres, biologies, and geological/tectonic characteristics.
The idea of mining other planets and asteroids for valuable resources doesn't seem quite so crazy now, eh?
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https://twitter.com/xarinatan Alexander ypema
Offtopic: We should think of an alternative way to space ships; Instead of building ships refined from ground up we could 'tame' asteroids with engines and such, so that there's a large supply of raw material to continue building from as science and the journey towards somewhere or the unknown progresses. Additionally asteroids would act as both a hull as well as a thick, strong shield for space debris on its own.
..God I love pondering about spacetravel and technology.
Will Mills
The only problem with that idea is the amount of energy that would be require to create enough trust to move it would be much higher then any standard space craft we could create.
https://twitter.com/xarinatan Alexander ypema
Yes and no. Instead of directly trying to stop an asteroid, you could try steer it towards a large planet and use its gravity field to slingshot yourself in another direction. Additionally, rethink the way we perceive speeds; Speed/movement is relative, and relative to earth an asteroid is moving, but relative to that asteroid earth is moving..
Will Mills
Your right about the possibility yes they could sling shot it to somewhere. But your talking about a one way trip you would not be able to effectively stop it once its on its way. If we sent it to Titan or something relative or not smashing into Titan is smashing into Titan.
https://twitter.com/xarinatan Alexander ypema
Haha, Yea.. I started writing that comment with how we should completely rethink the way we do spacetravel, and after I wrote a paragraph or so I realized this wasn't really the place or time to rant about something like that, so I scrapped it all and rewrote it as the comment it is right now. I really meant it as a way to reach far stars and such; Imagine that instead of thinking of earth as a place to live and space as a place to explore, that both are equal, and you could colonize an asteroid headed for deep space just like one would a planet, as they're essentially the same, travel-wise.
Really what I meant is something to write in a scifi novel or something, but I know how it goes when I start a new project… :P
Will Mills
Aaah, that would be an interesting generational ship that's for sure. And would definitely be easier to make than a massive ship. With that concept in mind I would agree with you.
For the World is Hollow, and I Have Touched the Sky…
Will Mills
If they figured out how to effectively manipulate asteroids they would be using them as weapons before space craft. Ten times the power of a nuke with less radioactive fall out. Lets see an antimissile system stop that.
http://profile.yahoo.com/SCDWVYGRZXZ5ZVLMYETRKQYO5U Duane
That idea was proposed by Jerry Pournelle in the '50s.
Will Mills
YES! I was aware of his idea, I am not that creative to come up with an idea like that on my own :)
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EKNZKJ5LBTYYEUH4NCSPTGFGGE Eric
And you somehow think the raised debris in the air would not hurt the rest of the planet? Dufus….
You have posed so many things that sound fantastical, but you clearly have not thought of the repercussions.
This generational ship, how many doctors are there, and how many kinds of medicines for treating illnesses…. it'd be a tomb long before it got anywhere serious…
What happens if by altering it's trajectory an unseen asteroid hits it and destroys it?
Think man!
Dreaming is OK, but this article is about science having figured how to determine the makeup of worlds outside of our own system. (and they COULD be wrong)
Just because we have scooped soil and rocks from Mars and our moon does not mean we can "see" what other worlds are made of through the haze that is deep space radiation. We really won't know until we have done more research and actually verified longer distance planets.
Many theories have been dashed due to modern research… humans are not infallible.
I do hope they are right, but I won't hold my breath..
Will Mills
Dufus… really, you have to resort to name calling that is indeed sad. You we figured out how to manipulate asteroids you wouldn't send in one large one so it would affect other you would send down hundred of small ones. The debri raised into the air also depends on the type of asteroid (its density) and how fast it was traveling.
If we want to resort to name calling you are the Dufus…. for only having one very limit way of thinking and automatically assuming everything else is wrong….
http://profile.yahoo.com/SCDWVYGRZXZ5ZVLMYETRKQYO5U Duane
Check out this new company. They want to mine asteroids.
Here's what I would do. Let's go get that planet and bring it here. We can hollow it out, put a spin on it, then put soil, mountains and oceans on the inside wall. Attach laser powered solar sails and we have the coolest starship/planet around. We could tour galaxy in style. BTW, I'm totally serious. I have plans for moving Mars and Venus closer to Earth and then turning one into a manufacturing planet and the other into a farm planet.
https://twitter.com/xarinatan Alexander ypema
Amazing! Things like this really makes me think "The future is now", how many years are we really away from getting off this rock and going out into the vast unknown? It excites me to no end to see there's a lot of other people out there just as enthusiastic about it as I am!
You should try to get your hands on the Nat Geo(?) Documentary called Living on the Moon. I can't remember the plans laid out by NASA and company, but with the way technology advances these days maybe that time table can be sped up.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Paul-Farah/100000689749486 Paul Farah
you actually want the GOVERNMENT in charge of space exploration???
Wow way to pull something out of thin air. I never stated ANY personal preference. I was simply pointing out that the documentary lays out plans for the next X amount of years(something like 2-3 decades). Some of it relies on things that still need to be developed/built. I was saying that given the rate that technology evolves at, and given they have the budget, maybe that time table could be stepped up.
Since you mentioned it, I can't say I mind. It is probably one of the best uses of government money in this day and age, and so far nothing scream government corruption in terms of NASA.
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https://twitter.com/xarinatan Alexander ypema
I'm amazed how much that reminds me of mass effect, I had no idea they were inspired by that book, but it makes sense, especially when looking at the pictures!
that's what the orks in warhammer 40k and several heavy metal comics do why not sounds like fun
Will Mills
Very cool article but not all that surprising. With the universe being so infinitely huge there are chances for even nearly impossible things being statistically possible.
All we need to do is find an asteroid in our solar system with enough enticing materials to spark a space mining revolution.
John Nicholas
not so crazy … but 80 light years ….
http://www.facebook.com/nicerain Nesrine Al
No ! just 40…
Mike Stahl
You might like to return? Or does 3600 degrees beat Florida for a retirement spot?
Bill Gradwohl
Why would anyone take this article seriously?
No one KNOWS what the planet is made of. It's pure speculation. More astronomical gibberish from people that never outgrew their childhood minds.
Anyone interested in an alternative view of the cosmos should research "electric universe" or just go to thunderbolts.info for articles that make a whole lot more sense than the usual pieces about "black holes" and "dark matter".
Mainstream astronomy is a scam IMHO.
You can make educated guesses about what type of material is on an object from the type of light being reflected back into the camera. The light sensitive material inside the camera traps different wave lengths. So yes, to blow a hole in your post, scientist have a pretty good understanding. No one should believe and treat that a diamond planet is 100% factual, but you can't assume that it doesn't exist neither.
Will Mills
It is an educated guess yes. Anyone who is interested in these kinds of articles know that it is at best a guess. People like you who call the current main stream belief a scam is as closed minded as they are.
There are many views about many things completely disowning one and bashing it to promote another proves to invalidate the very thing you are trying to spread which is the freedom express your idea (or anyone's idea) with our ridicule or retaliation.
Unfortunately this world is becoming the very opposite every time someone disagrees with the views of another person name calling and mud slinging ensues. No one is capable of listening to a varying view without being overly sensitive and defensive.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EKNZKJ5LBTYYEUH4NCSPTGFGGE Eric
I actually voted this above comment up… all of the other ones that were off topic got voted down.
Thank you for writing a comment free from off topic fantasy.
I agree, we should be free to comment (about topics in these articles) without retaliation… though disagreeing is not retaliation, so feel free to disagree.
As to ideas, well, if they are off topic they belong in another forum where you, I , or others have started a relevant topic.
I am with the side that believes we don't even have our own system properly mapped and we are making claims that can't be proven or dis-proven any time soon. We keep adding trapped asteroids and planets, then reclassifying planets as other objects, and it never ends….
I believe the technology is a good idea, but may not be accurate at such distances as light bends, scatters, and is changes by space dust and radiations….
I could be wrong, but until we actually visit (even a robotic mission) any of these other star systems and their planets for verification, it's all a pipe dream full of theories.
No one knows for certain that the earth has a mantle. No one has actually drilled down there and taken a look. Does that mean we don't believe that the Earth has a mantle and a core?
No one knows for certain that the sun is a ball of hydrogen, etc, either.
Science is about continually putting for hypotheses and testing them until we have a reliable deduction. Some ideas will be thrown out all together. Others will be modified, and some are just spot on.
As far as this case is concerned, there's not a lot of question about it. The mass/size/density/makeup of this planet are all fairly reliable data. The idea that the mantle contains diamond is a pretty straightforward conclusion from the physical properties already listed. It might not be correct, but it probably is a reliable conclusion based on what we currently know.
xxx yyy
Do you have a clue about the observational basis for the authors' conclusions? In fact, to you have a clue about what they actually said? I doubt it.
You could *read* their paper, you know. It's here: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.2720.pdf
Then, perhaps, you might make an informed comment, although I doubt it.
This still wouldn't make my wife happy!
http://twitter.com/gameblaster64 Game Blaster 64
I volunteer that we call it Diamondus.
http://profile.yahoo.com/SCDWVYGRZXZ5ZVLMYETRKQYO5U Duane
How about Lucy. Sorry, the Beatles reference was too easy. I couldn't stop myself.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Paul-Farah/100000689749486 Paul Farah
We could call it "Forever" or "GirlsBestFriend"
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Now the USA government will defiantly help NASA with their budget.
mori bund
I'm curious: could this planet scratch a glass planet?
BTW: I see Scrooge McDuck already planning an expedition to this planet! ;-)
No, it would f**king crush it.
Paul Tiseo
"Oh noes!", screamed the De Beers Group.
xxx yyy
This result is being oversold. The authors themselves say:
"We show that the sum-total of available data, including the planetary mass and radius, and the stellar abundances, support the possibility of a carbon-rich interior
in 55 Cancri e."The planet could be 40% iron.
"The planet could be 40% iron."
…and still have a carbon rich interior…
Ann Blumenthal
A planet that large and dense would crush humans with its gravity. It could only be mined by robots. Even very sophisticated robots would probably need human supervision if only from orbit, and a human in orbit for the extended periods of time that would make it economic would develop severe problems. Not too practical. Fun though.
In this case, you're *barely* right. 55 Cancri E has 3 times the gravity of earth. Technically, an extremely fit person could survive at a very low productivity rate.
But of course you completely forgot that the biggest concern is the 3900 degree temperature.
gravity rarely scales linearly due to volume scaling and densities. However, in this case, the extreme density gives the planet a significant increase in gravity. This planet has more surface gravity than jupiter.
http://www.facebook.com/bdh.hall Brian Hall
I'm going to be "that guy" and point out that we already have more than enough diamonds on Earth to far exceed our general uses for them. An illegal cartel (in the US, and many other countries) controls the diamond trade and fixes the price at many multiples higher than diamond's value merits. Thanks mostly to massive bribery and sentimentalism of engagement rings (which is a deliteful story of mass manipulation to sell the result of slavery and torture – before the 1930s diamonds weren't "the norm" for such rings), no one does anything about it.
Best case scenario, we mine a huge ton of diamonds that De Beers can't control, flood the market with cheap diamonds, the price utterly crashes and diamonds take on their proper value of "dirt cheap", and then we wonder why the hell we bothered because its a total economic loss to mine outer-space diamonds past the first few minor shipments.
http://www.facebook.com/bdh.hall Brian Hall
Now "rare earth metals" used on high-power magnets and electronics, magnesium (which we need far more of if we are to transition from heavy steel and aluminum in engines…), etc – we could certainly stand to strip-mine a few of those types of planets ;)
as a couple of people have pointed out, diamonds only real use (not jewelry) is b/c of its hardness
so obvious inflation, prices shot and only use is for industry, which happens to have
http://news.discovery.com/earth/russia-claims-siberian-crater-full-of-diamonds-120919.html (dubious although motives for lying are slim)
this is cool and all, but if that planet was made of rare earths, it would be much more likely to mine
Sam Kleiner
Anyone else reminded of Dr Who episode Midnight?
Nope. It's still far-fetched. I will be nominated queen of England before any diamond quarrying gets under way FORTY light years away.
Curious news, but still far from what we need to hear about life on another planet. Methane, methane, methane is the measure of life. Go fetch!
Great!! Now if we can haul it back we can pay off the debt.
http://twitter.com/sprockcircuit Róque
Planet Marilyn. Or planet Shirley Bassey ('Diamonds are forever').
http://www.facebook.com/Jasper2.0 Jasper Walker
This isn't news….rappers are born on this planet. That's why they wear so much ice, they're home sick.
http://www.facebook.com/tomheth Tom Heth
Planet ZAZA ?
http://www.facebook.com/rex.labrador.56 Rex Labrador
Yes by all means let us Mine it, Loot it, Exploit it, Glorify our achievement, screw the Nature, and later when it doesn't seem like a bright idea to have done it in the first place then, Feel sorry, try to set it right, accept the impossibility of setting it right, regret it and forget it then find some other planet to – Mine it, Loot it, Exploit it……….. Wow ! i totally admire certain traits of the human brain, may the universe be saved from it v soon.
You loved 12 monkeys didnt you?
http://www.facebook.com/rex.labrador.56 Rex Labrador
Nah.. But i do prefer 'natural' to 'artificial' and find the human greed ugly and scary.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Paul-Farah/100000689749486 Paul Farah
I'm sure the wired looking blue people on the planet won't mind. You know, the ones who talk exactly like Sigourney Weaver??
http://www.facebook.com/rex.labrador.56 Rex Labrador
Yeah if you are so sure about what other people would mind/not mind why not?. Did I miss your becoming the leader of all the life-forms of our planet and other planets of the universe? I didn't check the news today, sorry… Congratulations Your Highness! anyways, now you do get to decide how anybody should feel, behave, talk.
http://profiles.google.com/niftyswell Chris Hall
Waiting for the beer planet discovery..if there are that many planets then what are the odds?
"The idea of mining other planets and asteroids for valuable resources doesn't seem quite so crazy now, eh?"
Yes, it's still pretty crazy. It only seems like a good idea if you're extremely short sighted and prone to flights of fantasy.
There is no shortage of diamonds on earth. De Beers has warehouses full of them. And we have the ability to manufacture all we need for far less than the cost of a trip into deep space.
The only real shortage on earth is clean energy. Given a good supply of *clean* energy, we can manufacture virtually anything we need.
If we found another planet with oceans made of petroleum, bringing it back to earth would still be a very bad idea.
Mike Stahl
"If we found another planet with oceans made of petroleum,"
There is one-Saturn's moon Titan literally has oceans, and rain, of liquid Methane. It is NOT 40 light-years away-and methane burns clean.
Nevermind that the Earth has an abundance of energy-most of the surface rises and falls by several FEET everyday for crying out loud….and that's just one example.
Are you sure DeBeers is the only one creating artificial scarcity?
How is 40 light years "nearby?
The Muss
we need quantum computers so we can simulate the missions. It'll be easier by my humble calculations
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jeremie-Fuson/100000924896496 Jeremie Fuson
They cant even find Jimmy Hoffa on earth but they know what a planets core is made of 40 light yrs away? give me a break.
http://www.facebook.com/menno.gouw Menno Gouw
I would not tell your wife if i where you :D
http://www.facebook.com/people/Charles-Hammond/100000630572623 Charles Hammond
They donk know if it is made of diamonds or not. Do you believe some idiot scientist can look that far into space and with any certainty determine what some planet is made of? If you do then you are fool gose bozo.
I'm having flashbacks of the old BBS game TradeWars :)
Ok.. let's talk reality for a second! It takes 5,000 men ten years to build the worlds largest skyscraper. An some of the sharpest minds to get us to the moon, and we fucked the last trip we made. So do the math 40 "lightyears" away + the largest star ship in history + a theoretical warp drive = Fucking Impossible!!!!…. There someone had to say it!
Diamonds that are closer than 40 light years away! Golden Star Diamonds
Amy Leto
Perhaps "Midnight" would be a good nickname
Its the planet Midnight, stay away!
Janae Zhang
We shall call it….
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We recently spoke with Worth Wollpert, senior business manager for Magic Online, and Mark Purvis, associate brand manager, both at Wizards of the Coast. The subject at hand was all things Duels of the Planeswalkers: there's some DLC on the way, and possibly other changes to the game -- but no deck customization (boo!). For now, the team is happy to let the game bring lapsed players back into the fold, and to introduce new players to the tapping and shuffling of Magic: The Gathering. Continue reading for the full interview.
%Gallery-30916% Magic has been around for a long time and spawned other computer versions, including Battlegrounds for the original Xbox, which wasn't very successful. What prompted you guys to develop a new adaptation for Xbox Live Arcade?
Worth: There is Magic Online that has been around since June of 2002, and that is really just a direct translation of the paper game. It is not arcadey at all. It is really just as if you and I were playing across the kitchen table or at "Friday Night Magic" or something like that.
There have been a couple other forums in the digital space for Magic. Battlegrounds, which was many years ago now on the original Xbox, and then Shandalar, which was the PC game that was back in the late 90s.
So what brought you back to the Xbox platform?
One of the reasons we got back into the space was that a lot of our market research had shown that we had a huge penetration crossover with Xbox 360 console owners and either Magic players proper or people who we thought fell into our demographic. We just figured it would be a great way to deliver them content in a relevant way. So that was kind of the genesis of it.
So that data led you to Xbox Live Arcade in lieu of creating another PC version or expanding onto the PlayStation Network?
Worth: Well one of the main aspects of Magic, and I am sure you know this because it sounds like you have played for a while, is that it is a multiplayer kind of community focused thing. We just like the ability that Xbox Live brought to connecting people and leveraging MS technology to connect Magic players all across the globe.
Duels of the Planeswalkers is very familiar to people who have played Magic for a long time. What was the development process like for deciding which sets and cards, etc. to include?
"We knew that a lot of people playing Planeswalkers would be new to Magic."
We really had kind of a breakthrough while we were focus testing with stuff. One of the tactics that we have taken for the demo in particular is that a lot of times before we focused on the nitty-gritty, like the untap, upkeep, draw a card. We sort of used the technology that Xbox provided and focused on taking some of the minutia out of it and just focus on the big picture and everything. You know, the fun part of Magic.
Mark, I don't know internally how you guys view Planeswalkers, but it's almost like a completely separate product. How did the two teams view it? Did they view it as a competitor, or just something that compliments the paper game?
Mark: This is definitely a compliment. It is yet another way for our players to enjoy Magic: The Gathering the brand overall. This is a really exciting time for Magic and it is a really great time to get into the brand, or if you are a previous player, return to the brand. And we know that this game is reaching a lot of those people that are familiar with Magic and maybe have played it in the past. This is getting them excited about it again.
One of the features of the game is that if you live in North America, there is a code you can use to redeem for a foil Planeswalker promo card. It is a very powerful and is a really good card. And our expectation is that a lot of people out there who have played in the past will get this card and get excited and reinvigorated about the paper game. When you get the promo card there is also information about how you can go to a local retailer and get some sample decks so that you can learn how to play the paper game if this is your first time playing it. So our expectation is that we are going to be growing the brand overall through this game and its success.
Does that go two ways? If you buy any of the new Magic card sets these days, are there any cards or any notifiers in the pack that tell people, "If you like this, try Duels of the Planeswalkers on Xbox Live"?
Mark: There is actually. In every one of our 15 card booster packs we have a 16th card which has tips and tricks or a token card with game functionality on it on one side and the marketing messages on the other. So one of those that has been in Magic booster packs for the last couple of sets has been talking about Duels of the Planeswalkers and how you can download it for free.
Are any of the cards in the game created specifically for the game, or are they all references to the real life cards?
Worth: They are all pickups from stuff we have done already.
There are a lot of familiar cards in Planeswalkers from different sets. Were there any specific sets that you used as the basis for this?
Worth: Not really. We took a smattering of a bunch of stuff like you said. We tried to focus on a lot of the core set stuff because we felt that was the simplest. Certainly the tutorial focuses on the simplest of the simple just so that people get the idea of creatures and spells, like a Ghost or a Grizzly Bear; that is about as simple as it gets. But once you get in the game there are certainly a lot more complicated cards. Some of our old cards, some of our brand new cards. There is a really wide spectrum.
We asked our readers, what they wanted to know about the game, and overwhelmingly the question that comes back is what sort of DLC is coming up? Are you going to be able to add new cards? Are players going to be able to build their own custom decks?
There are some obvious places where we throw a nod to the fact that DLC is coming.
With a game as complicated as Magic ... in fact, it is probably one of the more complicated games on Xbox Live Arcade ever. It is pretty reasonable with the success we have had with all of these thousands of players playing that they have found some bugs that we didn't find the first time around. Before we focus on releasing DLC additional content, we want to make sure that the folks who have paid for the original game and are enjoying that have a good experience and it is all fixed up.
With that said, I will say that there are some spots in the game right now that point to extra decks in the future. Certainly that is a plan. Like you said, there is a lot of crossover between the way Xbox Live's marketplace runs with DLC and the way the Magic business model works. So certainly we have plans to support the title with DLC long term, but nothing I can really officially announce right now.
There have been bugs, but it seems like your team is quick to address them and maintains a very active presence on the Xbox Live forums for the game. Is community support a key focus for your business?
Worth: It is funny. Community support is one of the things we do very well here. I have been pretty active in the Xbox forums and in our forums as well, although the Xbox forum is where most of the threads are. It was kind of interesting to see the reaction of the customers, because they really do appreciate the fact that we are there and listening. Like you said, most people don't do that. And it seemed to me like why wouldn't they? It is a great way to talk to customers. You can't run your business through the forums, but you can certainly take the pulse of your game through the forums. Like I said, community support here is one of the things we do really well, and it is really showing through.
One of the features that players really want in this game is the ability to build custom decks, especially since you unlock cards as you progress in the game. Why did you guys not include this feature? Is it going to be added in a future update?


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21 Mar 2013, 22:29
Enrique Sánchez (17 posts)
I'm having trouble understanding the solution of the Rite of Passage: Sorting exercise.
For example the following code:
Why is there a comma between
Or when defining the
Where are we defining
I'm just getting very confused by these little details…
25 Mar 2013, 17:27
Chris Pine (63 posts)
Ruby (and most languages) use a comma-separated list to pass multiple values to a method. If this were not Ruby, it was probably look more like
We aren't. Variables in Ruby are not typed.
Ruby knows they are arrays when you pass in arrays (and not a moment before). @:)@
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Enrique Sánchez (17 posts)
Hi Chris,
What happened is that I was so exited and eager to learn programming that didn't think that I have to take breaks from time to time, otherwise my brain will suffer from overload.
Took a break, came back to the code and everything was clearer.
Thank you for your help :)
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Ole Gunnar Solskjaer: Man City are like Man Utd's 'little brother'
Manchester United legend Ole Gunnar Solskjaer says Manchester City are like a "little brother" who will never take their "big brother's" place.
"Sunday's clash will be about so much more than the numbers game. City will want to make a statement about their status as champions while United will want to remind their neighbours that they do not intend to slip up this season."
Ambitious City have spent big in recent years to compete with their rivals, the 19-time English champions.
They pipped their neighbours to last season's Premier League title but United top the table ahead of Sunday's derby at Etihad Stadium.
"When you get disappointments, you bounce back," warned Solskjaer.
Speaking to Football Focus, Solskjaer, who scored 126 goals in 366 appearances in an 11-year career at Old Trafford, said: "It's always this thing about being the big brother and the little brother coming to try to overtake the big brother.
"That always happens in families and in clubs - the young player hoping to take the old player's position - and City are hoping to overtake United. I don't think they'll ever be able to."
City's £20m plus signings
Sergio Aguero (£38m, Atletico Madrid, August 2011).
Robinho (£32.5m, Real Madrid, September 2008).
Edin Dzeko (£27m, Wolfsburg, January 2011).
David Silva (£26m, Valencia, June 2010).
James Milner (£26m, Aston Villa, July 2010).
Carlos Tevez (£25.5m, July 2009).
Emmanuel Adebayor (£25m, Arsenal, July 2009).
Samir Nasri (£24m, Arsenal, August 2011).
Mario Balotelli (£24m, Inter Milan, July 2010).
Yaya Toure (£24m, Barcelona, July 2010).
Solskjaer, who now manages Norwegian champions Molde, exemplified his former side's will to win when scoring the injury-time goal that captured the 1999 Champions League crown for United in a 2-1 victory over Bayern Munich.
He said United would show that character again to stop City's resurgence, pointing to a solid start in the Premier League. "The start of this season has been good, not brilliant, but United are always improving throughout the season," he said.
"Man United have over the years - and through their history - won in dramatic fashion. In the club's history, you've had so many disappointments, like the [Munich air] disaster, and they have always stood up again and bounced back. It's just in the DNA."
United are three points clear from City at the top of the Premier League table after 15 games, although United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has said he is concerned with his side's recent defensive form.
City remain undefeated in the league so far this season but have been knocked out of European competition following a poor Champions League campaign.
Comment number 265. Posted by hardybarlowon 7 Dec 2012 11:20
@228....United Spend what they need to stay at the top, City have spent what they need to get there. It's both costs millions whatever way you look at it.
I object to lazy myths and comparisions that red mugs and the media in general perpetuate to be true so to use as a stick to beat us with.
Comment number 132. Posted by Twocupson 7 Dec 2012 09:52
Manchester City - champions of England.
Manchester United - ex-champions of England.
This is all that's relevant.
Comment number 35. Posted by Mr Boyon 7 Dec 2012 08:18
I am a younger brother. Whilst growing up I was always bullied upon by my brother and always came second to him. Now I am taller, have a better job and slightly better looking than my brother but at the end of the day, I am still the little brother :(
Comment number 26. Posted by Peter Outon 7 Dec 2012 07:57
United are a club run in the proper way. They have won things based on sound footballing principles in the traditional football way.
City, on the other hand can only think to buy anything that moves and throw them together in the hope that it gels. No tradition, no principles, no character, no soul. Don't you City fans realise that you have become the type of club that you have always hated.
Comment number 14. Posted by U14972306on 7 Dec 2012 07:35
Looks like Ole Gunner is practising his mind games for when he takes over from Fergie.
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- Wale Akin
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Truly, the real and proper Lagos is irretrievably of the past. Eko in her original and delectable complexity, yet innocent simplicity is gone and lost and can no longer be regained. For Lagos was complex in its multiciplity of peoples, ingenious access by various individuals to its economic possibilities, unique cultural potentialities but its social expressions made these various communities that defined Eko to find it easy to live, to enjoy life and to attain fulfilment of living virtually like nowhere else on this planet. We can only recollect and reminisce. Whenever we try to recall the Lagos we have lost, we are talking of Lagos Island, Eko. Anything beyond is either Oke Odo i.e. Iddo, Otto, Ijora, Oyingbo, Ebute Meta, Yaba, Idi-Oro (all these beyond Idunmota, after the Carter Bridge), Agege and all the way to Ilu Oke. As children in the forties, we crossed the Carter Bridge only once in a year, on Easter Monday to celebrate with cousins who lived at Oyingbo and whom we would not set our eyes upon until the next Easter Monday. Beyond the Five Cowries Bridge is Ikoyi where the colonialists lived and Obalende contiguous to the part of Ikoyi where we buried our dead; and of course, there is also Apapa, a place we did not know if any people lived there.
Eko was socially unique and totally self-sufficient. Those places beyond the lagoons (ikoja osa) were the suburbs that Lagos could very well and indeed did without. They were truly subordinate to Lagos for their very existence whilst we lived in Lagos as if they never existed. We lost Lagos with the advent of the independence of Nigeria from British rule. Funny enough, we were the only colony whilst the rest of the country was a protectorate of the British Crown. The peoples of the protectorate who by sheer numbers and nothing else dominated the political terrain of Nigeria pursued a pre-independence political programme of conspiracy of denial on us and claimed effectively to their possession and political control Lagos and permanently deprived the people of the glorious Island of any political and economic self-identity. Thus was lost gradually the social character and self-identity that was peculiar to the Island.
The Lagosians
Lagos Island was a truly metropolitan habitat for many and different peoples from the various continents of the world. The Lagosians were a cosmopolitan people, yet many Lagosians had never stepped beyond the island. It was a curious, unique and exciting mixture of opposites. Everybody, as it were, was there. And they all were comfortable to various degrees. No matter your economic plight in the course of living, you never came to Lagos and ever dream of returning home. Indeed, we have a saying, "Eko gb'ole, o gb'ole." It is very convenient to classify Lagosians into two groups:
- The Lagosians who do not have any other home or place to call their homes on this planet
- Contemporary migrants who earn their livelihood in Lagos but still go home to their places of origin annually at festival periods to their kith and kin.
The Lagosians in the first group are in four subgroups:
- The Aworis who live in Isale Eko; they are the majority population of Lagos.
- The Brazilian descendants who live in the Brazilian quarters
- The Saro descendants whose ancestors came from Freetown in Sierra Leone and live at Olowogbowo, Apongbon and Breadfruit area of the Island
- The children born in Lagos of migrants whether from the Nigerian hinterland (Ilu Oke) or the West African coastline countries of Dahomey, Gold Coast, Togoland, Liberia and Ivory Coast (Aganyins, Ajases and Kurumos). Their parents still went home periodically but these Lagos children did not have the opportunity to acquire any familiarity with the place of origin of their parents. Their first language is Yoruba Eko although they were also articulate in the mother tongue of their parents.
In the second group are peoples from various parts of the world, awon iru wa, ogiri wa. They live and work in Lagos, contribute immensely to the social life of the island, but they still go home at festival periods. They invariably return finally to their original homes at retirement.
A good percentage of this group is the parents of the children described above. They are:
┬Ę The Ara Oke people from the Nigerian hinterland, particularly Ilorin, Oyo, Ilesa and Ogbomoso. They live in areas of the island, Okepopo, Oko Awo and Oke Arin where they sell their merchandise, usually items of food, yam, plantain and vegetables from their home territories. Later, many of them switched to retail imported small building materials, which they buy from the European companies. There are also migrants from the lands of the Igbo people, Urhobo, Ijaw, and Nupe. They are mainly traders in food and other items of daily use that are invariably brought from their places of origin although the Igbos deal in imported European products.
┬Ę The Aganyins, Ajases and Kurumos had travelled into Lagos along the great and ancient road skirting the West African coastline and migrated from Ivory Coast, Liberia, Togoland, Gold Coast and Dahomey. The Aganyins and Ajases live mainly at Araromi and Lafiaji areas with a few of them spilling across the lagoon to the adjacent fringe of Obalende. They are traders and artisans including washer men and home helps. They are easily identified with their shiny black and beautiful skin as well as the decorative hair plaiting styles of their beautiful women.
┬Ę The Koras are the Syrians and Lebanese who with some sprinkling of Indians dominate the textile trade business. They live along Ereko and Victoria Streets stretching from Tinubu Square through Ereko to Idunmota. Their shops are situated on the street level floor of their residences. Although, they live a segregated life from the Eko people, their children invariably grow up speaking the Yoruba Eko.
┬Ę There were the British colonialists who only worked in the colonial civil service with offices at Onikan, Broad Street and Race Course. Some of their kith were the managers of British shops and businesses that dotted the Marina and Broad Street. They merely worked in Lagos, but they lived at Ikoyi.
┬Ę There were some young professionals of West Indian origin, engineers, technicians and nurses who worked in the colonial service, particularly in the electricity, public works and health departments. They occupied the middle grade posts of those departments. They lived in government quarters built in the premises of the various operational units of the departments.
Although, these many peoples live in well-designated parts of the island the compactness and smallness of the geography of Lagos and the speed of local dissemination of popular information and news ensured regular social interactions. The only fully and socially segregated peoples were the British colonialists, their private sector countrymen who all lived at Ikoyi, and to a lesser extent, the Koras, Syrians, Lebanese and Indians who live at Ereko and Idunmota. Otherwise, the Lagos people enjoyed frequent opportunities and occasions to mix socially.
Taking A Walk Through Lagos.
The streets were few and we were able to walk from one end of the island to the other. We should very conveniently commence our walk through Lagos from Ita Tinubu, otherwise called Tinubu Square. The dominant feature in this historic centre of Lagos is the Supreme Court that was demolished in 1959 to give way for the Central Bank of Nigeria in anticipation of the birth of the new and independent country of Nigeria. I was very much pleased to view a well-framed photograph of the Supreme Court displayed in the lobby of the Nigerian High Commission at Northumberland Avenue, Westminster, London when I visited on Thursday 18 May 2006. As coincidence would have it, five days later on Tuesday 23 May 2006, I was approached by the author of this book Wale Akin and requested to write this document on "The Lagos We Lost."
There was no fountain at Tinubu Square. The fountain is a present from the Kora community, the Syrians and Lebanese shopkeepers of Ereko and Victoria Streets to Nigeria at Independence in 1960. Before independence, Ita Tinubu was a small circular space that served as an intersection of four Lagos major roads: Bamgbose Street that runs in a north easterly direction from beside the Ola-Iya family house which is today preserved as a National monument to the Brazilian Quarters, Broad Street that passed from the Secretariat, a one storey colonial icon, headquarters of the Colonial Service of Nigeria that was the tallest building in Lagos and ipso facto Nigeria and the African Hospital and making a right angled loop to run westward from Tinubu Square towards Breadfruit, Olowogbowo and Apongbon, Victoria Street running from the square northwards to Ereko, Idunmota and Carter Bridge, and Alli Street that angles very acutely from Bamgbose Street to Ita Faji where we have an old market, Oja Ita Faji and the Massey Hospital, the first maternity in Nigeria. Important architectural landmarks on the outer margin of Ita Tinubu are the Supreme Court, Kirsten Hall that was the residence of Herbert Heelas Macaulay, a great icon of the struggle for Nigerian independence and the Central Police Station. These three and other less significant buildings were demolished to provide space for the Central Bank.
The Marina runs in a generally parallel alignment to Broad Street until we reach Olowogbowo where Broad Street impinges perpendicularly to end on the Marina. The Marina's main attraction to Eko people were the ships that come in from the sea to discharge and load at the Marina Quays situated at the Apongbon end of the Marina where there was also the Customs Department. There were no Apapa Quays then. The walkway of the Marina also provided the strolling venue in the breezy evenings for lovers. During the day, it was the home of the departmental stores. I recall the biggest of them all, Kingsway Stores that stretched all along Martins Street from the Marina to Broad Street. Kingsway boasted the first ever-mechanical escalator in Nigeria. It was a most fascinating attraction for children who accompanied the older ones to the shops on Saturdays. Later, UTC Stores at Apongbon and Leventis Stores on the Marina also installed their own escalators. This technology has disappeared from the Nigerian scene with the advent of Nigerianisation of commercial businesses in independent Nigeria. Other European owned commercial businesses in this commercial sector of Lagos included Gottshalck, Paterson Zochonis, G B Ollivant, specialised outfits such as Kingsway Chemists and of course the always mighty UAC, a creation of the Lever Brothers. Chellarams and J T Chanrai later joined these European outfits at the Marina. These are owned by Indian merchants and had their beginnings at Ereko Street and Victoria Street. At the point where the Marina changed name, Broad Street ended on it in a perpendicular fashion. And there, civilisation virtually stopped.
Contiguous northwards to this area of the major arteries of Lagos are Apongbon, Olowogbowo and Breadfruit, which serve as the residential area of the Saro descendants. They are mainly Christians of the Church of England denomination. Some of them are Methodists, some Baptists and a sprinkling are members of the Unitarian denomination. Many of them worked as clerks in the colonial service, shopkeepers and assistants in the departmental stores whilst the women were teachers. The Saro women were very strict disciplinarians. The fear of Mama Saro in her long gown was the beginning of wisdom for children who had them as neighbours.
We continue our walk along the Marina, which technically and nominally ends where Broad Street abuts perpendicularly on it. Still walking along the continuation of the street by the lagoon, we get into Ebute Ero, the market area for foodstuffs brought in from the hinterland, to Ebute Elefun the site of the traditional jetty for canoes that ply between Lagos and Ajase (Porto Novo), Agbadagiri (Badagry) and Ikorodu to arrive at Isale Eko, the home of the Aworis who are mainly fishermen. They go fishing on various sections of the lagoon. Lagosians prefer the lagoon fish (eja osa) for their soup to the fish from the sea (eja okun). Some of the Isale Eko people are of the Muslim faith but the majority belong to the faiths of indigenous religion such as Ifa, Awo Opa, and Egungun. Isale Eko is the most indigenous and least developed part of Lagos. It is the seat of the Eleko of Eko, his chiefs, and advisers constituting the sole traditional authority on Lagos Island. The British accessed Lagos from Kosoko 1861 in the course of a family struggle to the throne to create the Colony of Lagos as the only true colony in the area that became the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
Isale Eko, an area of narrow winding streets, in some places with open drains (gutters) running through living areas, very indigenous in essence and character gradually fades demographically, socially and culturally through Okepopo and Oshodi into the Brazilian Quarters. The Brazilian descendants occupy a well laid out territory with the main streets being Tokunbo, Bamgbose, Igbosere, Campbell, Odunlami, Kakawa and Catholic Mission Streets. Regular cross streets to provide a well-laid territory interlock these long streets. Mainly of the Roman Catholic faith, there is also a substantial Muslim population, all of them being descendants of migrants from Salvador and other parts of the State of Bahia in Brazil. The original returnees were expert artisans: builders, masons, carpenters, iron welders, painters who built the very unique architectural masterpieces that remain a part of the pride of Lagos today. Such buildings include the Holy Cross Cathedral, Mosalasi Shitta Bey, Water House the first place in Lagos to have potable water delivered mechanically by a pumping machine, and that is the home of Candido da Rocha a fabulously rich Brazilian immigrant. Many people in the community used to go to the Water House to buy water. I recall that we the children because of the whip he would carry and apply to us whenever we passed in front of the door of Water House feared Baba da Rocha. One of his daughters became my grand aunt by marriage. The Roman Catholic faith, which was built on the foundation of the immigrant Brazilians provides a common base for the Brazilian descendants on one side and the Aganyins, Ajases and Kurumos on the other who are the immediate neighbours of the Agudas as the Brazilians are referred to in Lagos parlance at Lafiaji where many Brazilian families also have their home.
........To be continued
Excerpts from my yet to be published book titled "THE LAGOS WE LOST"ŌĆ"ŌĆ"ŌĆ"..This Introduction is put together by "Uncle" Dr Abayomi Jorge Ferreira, a Presidential Aspirant on the platform of the Democratic Alternative during the 2003 presidential election and author of the book titled Savagery in Politics, the hindrance to national development
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Re: The Lagos We Lost - Part 1
Lumidii posted on 01-22-2009, 09:56:25 AM
At first, i got confused by the emboldened part above, cos i'd seen a Kangolised WaleAkin's pix - and he couldn't have been a child in the forties...until i got to the end of the article, and it finally made sense to me.
Thanks for the taster. Very well written. Its always a good idea to have one's history documented.
Re: The Lagos We Lost - Part 1
Olivio posted on 01-22-2009, 14:07:42 PM
dear wale
great stuff. great stuff, though i think the UAC overview requires some revision. i am excited and look forward to the book. this intro recognizes the fact that for a city to become legendary, there can be no separation of myth and history from place. think of bloomsbury square where brownlow in oliver twist lived, or highgate hill where dick whittington 'turned back', or the old bailey where charles darnay's charachter was hanged in a tale of two cities. places which we area familiar with today and which through story song, etc contribute to the myth of london, a rich and storied admixture of history and legend borne of such tellings as these. the 'real' backdrops ground and sustain the myth and draw in the curious, offering us a means of placing ourselves within the context of a greater narrative than our personal stories. we become actors in the greater story, even though the city remains the real star (sometimes a villainous one). bear in mind that much of london was quite hellish in those days, but when we look at these locations today, we rarely dwell on the bad times, or the fact that one would likely have met a brutish end at some of the same locations back in the day. no city becomes legend without such a narrative and some thread of continuity both tangibly (infrastructural vestiges) and in narrative (what was on this spot prior, what happened to it and why), be it new york, london, tokyo or lagos. the danger, chaos, mess and incoherence that largely characterizes today's lagos can (an will) also pass, and if history is a guide as it should be, efforts like this book will guide both physical and administrative planners in their efforts at shaping the city's future and managing its growth and evolution in a manner that sustains and nurtures this narrative. please contact me if you will at. email@example.com.
Re: The Lagos We Lost - Part 1
Eja posted on 01-22-2009, 15:01:48 PM
At last!!!!
Wale about time O. Well done!!
Re: The Lagos We Lost - Part 1
Nallanah posted on 01-22-2009, 15:58:04 PM
My Bro,
Well done oh! ..more grease to your elbow, abeg let us know when the book arrives.
Re: The Lagos We Lost - Part 1
Tola Odejayi posted on 01-22-2009, 17:19:33 PM
Wale, well done. It's great to see that you're in the process of documenting a soon-to-be-forgotten history for posterity. Keep it up.
Re: The Lagos We Lost - Part 1
Ewuro posted on 01-22-2009, 18:13:31 PM
Wale, this makes a very interesting reading to me. More so because I can relate easily to the story being born and bred in the island, Eko. Most of my mates never crossed the carter bridge to Iddo until they became real adults. Even then, in those days most people recognise one another and which home/area they reside. The people from calabar had the most prominent presence from the Eastern region more than the Igbos while we were growing up. They even had Ojuju calabar during easter and Xmas celebrations. Ojukwu's father was a prominent presence because he was bringing loads of rice, beans, onions with his Ojukwu transport service. I attended St Patrick's catholic primary school, Idumagbo, the same school that Ojukwu attended for his primary education though must be several years later. I shall follow up the series. Well done.
Re: The Lagos We Lost - Part 1
Tonsoyo posted on 01-22-2009, 19:10:26 PM
Good job Wale, we earnestly await the follow-up. I can relate to some of the history as it touches my own family already.
Re: The Lagos We Lost - Part 1
RAYNOSA posted on 01-22-2009, 19:54:31 PM
His Excellency Gov Raji Fashola Must read this.
Re: The Lagos We Lost - Part 1
Salstep posted on 01-22-2009, 20:47:58 PM
Hmmmm. Nice work. Look forward to the book.
Re: The Lagos We Lost - Part 1
Abijawara posted on 01-22-2009, 22:23:51 PM
Thanks so much for this write up, it remains me of the good departmental store like UTC, leventis
Kingsway and the shoe shops like Lenard's and Bata where we by the best school shoe in the world ''kotina''. My dad works with PZ and my grandma trade with the koras.


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