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The low cost MultiSensor2 combines presence/absence detection with daylight measurement for DALI Open Standards intelligent lighting networks.
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elitedali MSensor 2 – DALI MultiSensor
The low cost MultiSensor2 combines presence/absence detection with daylight measurement for DALI Open Standards intelligent lighting networks.
elitedali MSensor 3 – DALI MultiSensor
The built-in intelligence of the DALI MSensor3 gives a DALI smart lighting system the ability to detect presence/absence and measure lighting levels.
This North American approved unit is available as a licensed option for elitedali for Niagara solution, version v2.0.6 and later.
The built-in intelligence of the DALI MSensor3 gives a DALI smart lighting system the ability to detect presence/absence and measure lighting levels.
This North American approved unit is available as a licensed option for elitedali for Niagara solution, version v2.0.6 and later.
The built-in intelligence of the DALI MSensor3 gives a DALI smart lighting system the ability to detect presence/absence and measure lighting levels.
This North American approved unit is available as a licensed option for elitedali for Niagara solution, version v2.0.6 and later.
Leidos Engineering now certified to deliver Niagara DALI® intelligent lighting solutions!
Leidos Engineering is now able to deliver world class DALI intelligent lighting control solutions based upon Tridium Inc's Niagara building management and automation platforms and Control Network Solutions (CNS) elitedali solution, to their blue chip global customers.
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The Niagara Framework combines with elitedali™ to bring innovation to lighting control in landmark SA project
The new Standard Bank office in the Rosebank business area of Johannesburg, South Africa, known as 30 Baker Street, is using technology based on the Niagara Framework® in an innovative approach to lighting control.
The Standard Bank office was designed to be highly efficient and low carbon. It has been awarded a 5-Star Greenstar Design Rating by the Green Building Council of South Africa – putting it into the top ten of the country's most sustainable buildings. The 65,000m2 office development has a nine-storey east wing and an eleven-storey west wing joined by a central atrium. The building will house 5,000 Standard Bank staff.
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Energy Efficiency's Effect on Building Valuation
Did you know that energy use is many times the largest single line item on an expense statement, according to Schneider Electric?
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As of July 1, 2014 all construction projects new and remodelled must have mandatory lighting controls in the State of California, verified by State registered Acceptance Test Technician!
Jack Yapp, VP National Lighting Contractors Association of America (NLCAA) a new non-profit organization explains – We are promoting hands on training along with classroom presentation on lighting control installation. We are in the process of having our curriculum accepted by the California Energy Commission to become Lighting Control Acceptance Test Technician Certified Provider. As of July 1, 2014 all construction projects, new and remodelled, must have mandatory lighting controls. They must have a State registered Acceptance Test Technician verify that the controls comply with the energy code standard.
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CNS adds additional language skill resource for 2014!
Teresa Pole Baker Gouveia has joined CNS to supports its growing business development in non English speaking regions. Teresa will initially be targeting our Latin American region providing local language communication, education, product and commercial support. More information…
The Great News is that the President's 2014 Budget Proposes to Extend, Enhance §179D Energy Efficient Commercial Building Deduction
The President has called for a new Better Buildings Initiative that would reduce energy usage in commercial buildings by 20 percent over 10 years. This initiative would catalyze private sector investment to upgrade the efficiency of commercial buildings. Enhancing the current deduction for energy efficient commercial building property –which is primarily used by taxpayers constructing new buildings –and allowing a new deduction based on the energy savings performance of commercial building property installed in existing buildings would encourage private sector investments in energy efficiency improvements. See more …..President's 2014 Budget Proposes to Extend, Enhance §179D Energy…
Sunday Times reports "Standard Bank's Rosebank building achieves top 10 Eco rating in South Africa"
elitedali Niagara™ for DALI® lighting solution is used to control, maintain, manage and visualise 4,500 DALI light fixtures and 2,500 DALI multisensors to provide efficient and highly effective fully integrated lighting. Tridium's Niagara web technology convergent BMS/BAS platforms are used to entirely commission both HVAC and lighting systems as well as control, maintain, manage, visualise and analyse both systems.
The entire Niagara DALI lighting solution and BMS was successfully delivered by Landis & Staefa, one of CNS's Certified elitedali Partners in the region. Landis & Staefa are one of a rapidly growing group of global Niagara System Integrators successfully delivering such DALI lighting solutions around the world, in addition to their traditional BMS/BAS products and services.
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To appreciate this project's business impact on the local Niagara SI Partner you should read this article
Is the advantage to having motorized exterior shades worth the cost of installation, integration and maintenance?
Is the advantage to having motorized exterior shades worth the cost of installation, integration and maintenance? Or further, is there definitely an advantage over "static" shades? Daren Whistler of Somfy, a worldwide supplier of automated exterior shade control solutions offers his thoughts to these questions. Read the full article here
The Tridium Revolution
Zachary Denning, Controlco Inc, CA – Explores The Tridium Revolution and how many building owners are gaining new control and flexibility over their automation systems through low capital costs.
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cns-enocean Energy Harvesting CO2, Temperature and Humidity Sensor
A world first, this easy to install CO2 sensor is powered via ambient indoor light making it totally maintenance free with no batteries required.
Supports the open EnOcean standard (ISO/IEC 14543-3-10) for seamless connection with Niagara BMS using using the cns-enocean Connectivity Kit.
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Global property owner Fujitsu on delivery and operations experience of Niagara™ Partner delivered smart DALI® lighting solution
The latest elitedali™ for Niagara® installation at a national data centre in Australia, Press Release Download and Case Study Download
Standard Bank Group showcases green-rated building
This shows what Niagara System Integrators are delivering today with native Niagara DALI solutions.
Niagara BMS project value 0.75M USD, Niagara DALI project value 1.2M USD!
Which part of the lighting controls business do you not want to participate in, today?
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65,000m2 building has been awarded a Five Star Greenstar Design Rating by the Green Building Council of South Africa
elitedali for Niagara DALI lighting solution delivered by one of South Africa's leading Niagara System Integrators secures Green Rating ahead of expectation.
The new 65,000m2 building at 30 Baker Street has been awarded a five-star design rating by the Green Building Council of South Africa. A four-star rating was targeted and Standard Bank Group is still on track to achieve this in terms of the final "As Built" certification. The Rosebank building is due for completion in May 2013, which is when the first of approximately 5,000 client-facing staff will start to occupy the premises in a phased-in relocation process.
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Gestion des réseaux DALI® elitedali™ pour Niagara™
Lighting control and Convergence considers their impact on the businesses delivering smart building controls and explores the myths surrounding smart lighting control
eNodeIV Lon/IP routers light up Renzo Piano's architectured Shard, EU's tallest building!
The Shard an 87 storey iconic building standing more than 309 metres tall officially opens today. It represents an £450M investment in the city of London creating a vertical city of multi-use space including hotel, restaurants, retail, office and apartments.
Delmatic, was chosen to deliver their lighting control solution to the main shell and core of the building which includes eNodeIV Lon/IP 852 Routers created by Adept Systems Inc and supplied by Control Network Solutions Ltd. These Lon/IP routers seamlessly create LonWorks® networks that extend across Ethernet infrastructure, offering maximum network performance in a very compact solution for the wide area networking of Delmatic's LonWorks lighting solution.
For more information on how your LonWorks installations can benefit from eNodeIV Lon/IP routers email or contact us directly.
The What, Why and How Convergence in building controls for Smart buildings
This Niagara Forum 2013 presentation demonstrates with hard fact how "Convergence" is making an immense difference to those System Integrators who understand the need to broaden their skills and offerings to meet their business objectives, deal with emerging new threats to their business and finally deliver what the End Clients have been asking for over two decades and failing to get, until now!
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What Exactly is "Network Integration"
Integrated Building Architecture
Presentation by Dimension Data from the Niagara Forum
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Evolution of Intelligent Building Systems
Presentation by William Rhodes, Senior Market Analyst at IHS Research; Building Technologies, Security & Fire
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CNS-Enocean™ – Native Niagara™ Driver for EnOcean® wireless networks
The CNS-Enocean Niagara driver enables Niagara System Integrator Partners to use their existing Niagara tools, skills and knowledge to:
- Use Niagara to discover and commission networks of EnOcean batteryless/wireless switches, sensors and their EnOcean Ethernet wireless transceivers
- No Third Party commissioning tools or processes required
- Automatic EnOcean batteryless/wireless device modelling in AX
- No data IO mapping and labelling required, reduced commissioning time and risk
- Use with any EnOcean product manufacturer's batteryless/wireless switches and sensors conforming to the EnOcean-Alliance profiles
Control Network Solutions announce CNS-Enocean for Niagara
CNS-Enocean for Niagara will be released at the upcoming Niagara Forum in London, 14 – 16 April 2013
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If you missed the "Convergence, is it good for business?" presentation, 16th April, 11:25AM Niagara Forum, Business Track, London, England
The world of smart building controls in terms of who delivers what and what it is they are delivering is changing fast. The world of convergent technology solutions will dominate and that convergence is driving business change from the End Clients to the Solution providers. Some will see this as a threat, others as an opportunity. The entrepreneurs in the System Integration industry will have a great opportunity to achieve what the IHS Report "Can you see the light" last year described as "Super Integrator status" creating significant growth in revenues and profits. Those that do not look above the parapet will be left chasing left over business with ever diminishing returns. Worth considering "Is Convergence Good for Business" article just last month. Further if the current System Integrators don't develop their skills fast then they may find that the world of Electrical Contracting and traditional Lighting controls companies have to become yet another major threat to the old order.
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BMS/BA Niagara native and converged Smart DALI lighting solution
elitedali Connectivity Kit
The elitedali Multidrop Connectivity Kit connects DALI networks directly to any suitable Niagara platform.
Each licensed kit, comprising software and interface module, enables the connection of a single DALI channel, circuit or network of up to 64 DALI devices.
Convergence is it good for business?
Could convergence be the alternative route to growing business and profits in a more manageable way? Download the document
elitedali.HPRS, DALI® Hi-Power Field Relay
This Hi-Power Relay (for North America) provides on/off control and DALI network connectivity to conserve energy and manage non intelligent lighting.
Manufactured by Coopers/Fifth Light Technology Inc., this addressable field relay is available for use with elitedali for Niagara, v2.0.6 and later.
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Energy Department Announces Webinar on High-Efficiency Lighting Technologies in Parking Facilities
Most parking lots, facilities, and garages are illuminated by older high-intensity discharge (HID) lighting technology without any energy-saving controls. When installed correctly, state-of-the-art energy efficient lighting technologies can last two to five times longer than traditional outdoor lights. These lighting systems also pay for themselves quickly by cutting energy costs up to 70% and maintenance costs up to 90% compared to the older lighting technologies they are replacing.
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elitedali.DALIREP, DALI® Network Repeater Unit
This DALI Network Repeater Unit enables a single DALI network of up to 64 devices to be extended from 300m (984ft) to 600m (1,968ft) in length.
This compact, DIN rail mounted unit is part of a range of DALI products for use with elitedali for Niagara, v2.0.6 and later.
Craig DiLouie considers that Lighting Rebates are Enjoying an Upswing!
Rebates and incentives offered by electric utilities and regional energy-efficiency organizations are currently enjoying a major upswing, providing a significant resource that can reduce the cost of investing in energy-efficient lighting.
According to the Consortium for Energy Efficiency (CEE), energy-efficiency rebate and incentive programs reached $6.8 billion in 2011, up 26% from 2010 ($5.4 billion) and 55% from 2009 ($4.4 billion). Utilities and other organizations now offer programs covering approximately 80% of the United States.
Article: Pushing for Returns
The Electrical Contractor Magazine: the Official Publication of the National Electrical Contractors Association.
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The future building management system will change and reinvent what currently is a lethargic industry
As we transition to more complex, higher performing, and energy efficient buildings, it is apparent that traditional building management systems are not up to the task of monitoring and managing today's building operations. What are the shortcomings of the legacy BMS? The list is quite long but the major items include limited integration capabilities, inadequate and elementary analytic tools, proprietary programming languages, a dearth of software applications and legacy user interfaces.
LED, Fluorescent, HID or Incandescent light source for public and commercial buildings, how do they compare today?
elitedali.PS2, DALI Power Supply Unit
This compact Power Supply Unit supplies a maximum of 250 mA at 16.0 DC to a single DALI network.
Manufactured by Tridonic AG, it is part of a range of DALI products suitable for use with elitedali for Niagara, v2.0.6 and later.
elitedali.H, DALI Power Supply Unit
This compact DALI Power Supply Unit supplies a maximum of 250 mA at 20 VDC to a single DALI network.
It is part of a range of DALI products suitable for use with elitedali for Niagara, v2.0.6 and later.
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elitedali.3-RM-C, 3 Channel DALI Relay Module
This 3-Channel DALI Relay Module is used to control relay switched loads such as non-intelligent lighting and other non-lighting loads.
Any number of these elitedali 3-Channel Relay Modules can be used in an elitedali for Niagara solution DALI network, v2.0.6 and later.
Owners, developers and managers of buildings … three important questions about intelligent DALI lighting
Are you looking for a non-proprietary, totally open, complete smart DALI lighting solution for Niagara platforms?
Do you want to be able to choose which open standard products that may be manufactured locally to you and will therefore help your own local economy?
Do you want the option not to be "locked in" to one lighting supplier for years?
If the answers are yes, please contact us for further information.
Discover a new, innovative concept for intelligent DALI lighting that can put you, the end client, in control.
CNS can now offer Thermokon Enocean wireless lighting control products directly to its Certified elitedali Partners
EasySens – wireless – no batteries – interoperable
Innovative wireless solar technology enables the harvesting of ambient light sources for lighting control in buildings
Time-consuming installation works such as wiring or cabling including chiselling become unnecessary
Low material costs and time saving enable reasonable priced system solutions
EasySens offers significantly more flexibility with regard to the sensor location
Innovative wireless solar technology enables the harvesting of ambient light sources for temperature and fan control in buildings
Time-consuming installation works such as wiring or cabling including chiselling become unnecessary
The impact of lighting quality on worker productivity and well being
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CNS Press Release regarding the $1.3M native Niagara DALI® Project


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EA's previous attempt at bringing The Godfather films to consoles culminated in a solid if unspectacular effort. A number of decent ideas clashed with poor and downright broken elements which ultimately left us with a title that was a long way from the quality of the first film.
The Godfather II, sadly, heads in much the same direction. Again there are a number of fantastic ideas, but also much more freedom than the previous title. But technically this is terrible for a major release and ultimately staggers way short of greatness long before its short storyline rounds up.
After a brief introduction and shoot out in Cuba, you find yourself in control of Dominic, who suddenly finds himself the leader of the Corleone family in New York. Unfortunately New York has fallen under the rule of a rival boss, and what could easily be considered a 2 hour tutorial plays out which displays all the various tools you have in your armoury.
One of the first things you're required to do is to help your "family" grow. Various characters are eager to join a fully fledged crew, each of which packs a specific skill which can come in handy as you attempt to take over. Everything from medics, to explosive experts and safe crackers are just waiting to be recruited and building your family attempts to be the main crux of the game.
Once you have a team of men, you can utilise the money that you extort and gain from the less legal sides of the business to upgrade their skills and weaponry. You can even promote them through your own ranks, until one member eventually acts as your consigliere.
But each character simply lacks personality. Though the first half dozen characters you chat to with regards to joining your crew will seem firmly unique, soon their chatter will repeat at an alarming rate, leaving your crew feeling much more expendable.
As you progress you'll be forced to utilise strong arm tactics. Thankfully you've a healthy amount of weaponry to choose from, with shotguns and handguns feeling particularly powerful and impressive. Automatic weapons however feel mysteriously underpowered, and it seems to take an unhealthy number of bullets to down an enemy. The targeting system locks you to one opponent, and you can tweak your aim to go for the immediate kill, but the lack of real cover system and the downright ease in which you'll slaughter rooms full of enemies make the on-foot sections feel mightily poor.
On the road however the action is far, far poorer. All vehicles are terribly slow, which can easily be explained away via the periodic setting. But that doesn't clarify why each car feels like you're driving a milk float on sheet ice.
What's most jarring however is the manner in which you discover just how to take out the main men of other families. To soften them up for the final assault, you can find out information about where your enemy hangs out, and just how they should be taken out in order for them to depart from the world entirely. But instead of this information being extracted from kidnapped soldiers from rival families, or infiltration of the gang, it instead comes from random members of the public. You simply approach a random character with the required icon above their heads, mention they seem like they need help, and you'll need to help them out in a small and easy manner for them to suddenly divulge all this sensitive information. It's downright ridiculous.
Thankfully taking over businesses does work. Once you find out just what you need to do to make the owner beg for mercy, you'll have yet another source of income. A large amount of cash will head back out with recruiting security to look after all these businesses, as rival families will happily attack and attempt to claim them as their own. Manage to bag a complete set of similarly themed areas of commerce and you're family will receive a boost. It could be brass knuckles, body armour, or many other variations. But each is handy enough to make you eager to claim the entire set.
Technically, The Godfather II is downright shocking. The various cities you'll venture into are consistently empty and lifeless, lacking any real character of visual clarity. Textures are average at best, with car headlights in particular looking akin to something you'd expect to find in a PS1 title. Enemy AI is almost non-existent, with each seemingly having no regard as to their own lives. They'll happily stand just waiting to be cut down.
While being in complete control of a family does feel Don-like, The Godfather II is a long way from top of the family. Technical flaws aplenty, a short story, and some of the poorest driving witnessed in modern gaming culminate in a title that simply doesn't deserve your time.
A shame as it does pack a few ideas that could work well in a better developed title.


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getpwnam, getpwnam_r, getpwent, getpwent_r, getpwuid, getpwuid_r, setpwent, endpwent, fgetpwent, fgetpwent_r - get password entry
#include <pwd.h> struct passwd *getpwnam(const char *name); struct passwd *getpwnam_r(const char *name, struct passwd *pwd, char *buffer, int buflen); struct passwd *getpwent(void); struct passwd *getpwent_r(struct passwd *pwd, char *buffer, int buflen); struct passwd *getpwuid(uid_t uid); struct passwd *getpwuid_r(uid_t uid, struct passwd *pwd, char *buffer, int buflen); void setpwent(void); void endpwent(void); struct passwd *fgetpwent(FILE *f); struct passwd *fgetpwent_r(FILE *f, struct passwd *pwd, char *buffer, int buflen); POSIX cc [ flag...] file... -D_POSIX_PTHREAD_SEMANTICS [ library... ] int getpwnam_r(const char *name, struct passwd *pwd, char *buffer, size_t bufsize, struct passwd **result); int getpwuid_r(uid_t uid, struct passwd *pwd, char *buffer, size_t bufsize, struct passwd **result);
These functions are used to obtain password entries. Entries can come from any of the sources for passwd specified in the /etc/nsswitch.conf file (see nsswitch.conf(4)). The getpwnam() function searches for a password entry with the login name specified by the character string parameter name. The getpwuid() function searches for a password entry with the (numeric) user ID specified by the parameter uid. The setpwent(), getpwent(), and endpwent() functions are used to enumerate password entries from the database. setpwent() sets (or resets) the enumeration to the beginning of the set of password entries. This function should be called before the first call to getpwent(). Calls to getpwnam() and getpwuid() leave the enumeration position in an indeterminate state. Successive calls to getpwent() return either successive entries or NULL, indicating the end of the enumeration. The endpwent() function may be called to indicate that the caller expects to do no further password retrieval opera- tions; the system may then close the password file, deallo- cate resources it was using, and so forth. It is still allowed, but possibly less efficient, for the process to call more password functions after calling endpwent(). The fgetpwent() function, unlike the other functions above, does not use nsswitch.conf; it reads and parses the next line from the stream f, which is assumed to have the format of the passwd file. See passwd(4). Reentrant Interfaces The functions getpwnam(), getpwuid(), getpwent(), and fgetpwent() use static storage that is reused in each call, making these routines unsafe for use in multithreaded appli- cations. The parallel functions getpwnam_r(), getpwuid_r(), getpwent_r(), and fgetpwent_r() provide reentrant interfaces for these operations. Each reentrant interface performs the same operation as its non-reentrant counterpart, named by removing the "_r" suf- fix. The reentrant interfaces, however, use buffers sup- plied by the caller to store returned results, and are safe for use in both single-threaded and multithreaded applica- tions. Each reentrant interface takes the same parameters as its non-reentrant counterpart, as well as the following addi- tional parameters. The parameter pwd must be a pointer to a struct passwd structure allocated by the caller. On suc- cessful completion, the function returns the password entry in this structure. The parameter buffer is a pointer to a buffer supplied by the caller, used as storage space for the password data. All of the pointers within the returned struct passwd pwd point to data stored within this buffer; see RETURN VALUES. The buffer must be large enough to hold all the data associated with the password entry. The param- eter buflen (or bufsize for the POSIX versions; see stan- dards(5)) should give the size in bytes of buffer. The POSIX versions place a pointer to the modified pwd structure in the result parameter, instead of returning a pointer to this structure. For enumeration in multithreaded applications, the position within the enumeration is a process-wide property shared by all threads. The setpwent() function may be used in a mul- tithreaded application but resets the enumeration position for all threads. If multiple threads interleave calls to getpwent_r(), the threads will enumerate disjoint subsets of the password database. Like their non-reentrant counterparts, getpwnam_r() and getpwuid_r() leave the enumeration position in an indeter- minate state.
Password entries are represented by the struct passwd struc- ture defined in <pwd.h>: struct passwd { char *pw_name; /* user's login name */ char *pw_passwd; /* no longer used */ uid_t pw_uid; /* user's uid */ gid_t pw_gid; /* user's gid */ char *pw_age; /* not used */ char *pw_comment; /* not used */ char *pw_gecos; /* typically user's full name */ char *pw_dir; /* user's home dir */ char *pw_shell; /* user's login shell */ }; The pw_passwd member should not be used as the encrypted password for the user; use getspnam() or getspnam_r() instead. See getspnam(3C). The getpwnam(), getpwnam_r(), getpwuid(), and getpwuid_r() functions each return a pointer to a struct passwd if they successfully locate the requested entry; otherwise they return NULL. Upon successful completion (including the case when the requested entry is not found), the POSIX functions getpwnam_r() and getpwuid_r() return 0. Otherwise, an error number is returned to indicate the error. The getpwent(), getpwent_r(), fgetpwent(), and fgetpwent_r() functions each return a pointer to a struct passwd if they successfully enumerate an entry; otherwise they return NULL, indicating the end of the enumeration. The getpwnam(), getpwuid(), getpwent(), and fgetpwent() functions use static storage, so returned data must be copied before a subsequent call to any of these functions if the data is to be saved. When the pointer returned by the reentrant functions getpwnam_r(), getpwuid_r(), getpwent_r(), and fgetpwent_r() is non-null, it is always equal to the pwd pointer that was supplied by the caller.
The reentrant functions getpwnam_r(), getpwuid_r(), getpwent_r(), and fgetpwent_r() will return NULL and set errno to ERANGE (or in the case of POSIX functions getpwnam_r() and getpwuid_r() return the ERANGE error) if the length of the buffer supplied by caller is not large enough to store the result. See Intro(2) for the proper usage and interpretation of errno in multithreaded applica- tions.
Applications that use the interfaces described on this manual page cannot be linked statically, since the implemen- tations of these functions employ dynamic loading and link- ing of shared objects at run time.
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How Man-Apes Became Men (Oct, 1931)
Unfortunately this article was written about twenty years before Piltdown Man was revealed to be a forgery.
How Man-Apes Became Men
A Startling Human Chapter in the Story of LIFE . . . The World's Greatest Mystery
DR. WILLIAM K. GREGORY famous scientist of the American Museum of Natural History, has explained the origin of the earth and of life; how we got our face and other bodily parts, and man's descent from apelike ancestors. When our earth was about one billion years old, life appeared as little specks of jelly in primeval puddles. Growing into cell-groups, then wormlike creatures, and later into air-breathing fishes that eventually crawled out onto land, these early life germs gave rise to all animals and at last man. Last month, Dr. Gregory traced man's descent from monkeylike forbears that lived in the trees more than ten million years ago, and explained why we are still monkeys.
MR. MOK: Dr. Gregory, you promised to tell me this time about our primitive human ancestors. There are a few things I have always wanted to know: Were they really the lowbrows they are made out to be? Is it true that they were forever clubbing each other over the head?
Dr. Gregory: Yes, clubbing was one of their favorite outdoor sports.
Mr. Mok: What made them so vicious? I suppose they inherited that trait from their gorilla grand-uncles?
Dr. Gregory: I don't think so. The manlike apes are models of innocence and without guile, for the simple reason that they haven't brains enough to be wicked.
Mr. Mok: You mean it's our brains that make us wicked?
Dr. Gregory: Certainly. We invented wickedness. The earliest men had just enough brains to be devilish. Wickedness and brutality are mostly the products of fear and greed. There is no reason to suppose that primitive people were less fearful and less greedy than our immediate ancestors, not to speak of such contemporaries as the gangster and the racketeer.
Mr. Mok: When did we start being good?
Dr. Gregory: About the same time. The brains that enabled early men to misbehave, also led them to discover the principles of social uprightness and service, at least in a groping, primitive way.
Mr. Mok: How do you know that?
Dr. Gregory: The Neanderthal men, who lived from 20,000 to 100,000 years ago, buried their dead, showing they had some sense of social obligation. I will tell you more about them after a while. The fact that several types of primitive men made weapons in profusion indicates that they fought alien races and tribes, as well as animals, to protect their own kind, just as we do. Besides, you can infer their probable social conduct from that of the primitive peoples of today, whose lives are full of service and loyalty.
MR. MOK: Then, wickedness on the one hand and a sense of social obligations on the other, marked the first men off from the apes?
Dr. Gregory: Those were among the things that distinguished them from their apelike ancestors. But the great dividing line is speech. That really is man's divine gift. It set him apart from the brutes." However, it is one of the laws of nature that we must pay a penalty for each * advance. Speech freed man from the mark of the beast, but it committed him to another form of slavery—conscience.
Mr. Mok: Cannot conscience exist apart from speech?
Dr. Gregory: I do not believe it can. Conscience is the accumulated memory of our mothers' scoldings.
Mr. Mok: As I understand it, man left the apes behind and became a real man when he began to talk?
Dr. Gregory: Exactly.
Mr. Mok: Who was this original orator?
Dr. Gregory: That is difficult to say. As I told you last month, the trouble in this business of the first men is that there are too many "missing links."
Mr. Mok: What do you mean by that?
Dr. Gregory: I mean that we now have so many different kinds of fossil men —that is, fossilized remains of pre-human types—that it is hard to determine their relationships to each other and to their ancestors. Paradoxically, there are too many and, at the same time, there are not quite enough of them. In other words, their present number is so large as to be confusing, but not sufficiently large to settle the question. Among these various specimens of skulls, jawbones, teeth, and thighs of his earliest human ancestors, the investigator must pick his way gingerly. Nature is full of booby traps to catch the unwary scientist.
Mr. Mok: Booby traps?
Dr. Gregory: Yes. Take, for example, the famous Java Ape Man, or, to give him his official name, Pithecanthropus Erectus, discovered in 1891 by a Dutch scientist, Professor Dubois. His remains—I mean the Ape Man's, of course—were not found nicely tied up in a package like an Egyptian mummy, with a gold name plate on the outside of the tomb giving his name and address. They were scattered along the ancient stream bed of the river Solo. First, the top of his head was found; then, his thigh bone; further on, three teeth; and, finally, a bit of the chin region.
Mr. Mok: What was wrong with that? I should think you scientists would have been delighted.
Dr. GREGORY: Not so you could notice it. Immediately, a big, worldwide fight started on this question: Did these fragments belong to one creature and had they been scattered by running water, or were they the remains of several creatures of different kinds?
Mr. Mok: What was the answer?
Dr. Gregory: I am coming to that in a minute. Another distressing feature of the situation was that the skull-top was so primitive that many experts did not believe it was human at all. Some said it simply was the toppiece of a giant gibbon. As a matter of fact it was extremely gibbonlike, for it indicated that its owner had jutting eyebrows, a low brain-case, and an excessively low forehead. So, at first, poor Pithecanthropus was banned from the sacred precincts of the human family.
Mr. Mok: When was he readmitted?
DR. GREGORY: Don't make me run ahead of my story. One circumstance that caused much doubt as to whether we were dealing with one or more creatures was the puzzling combination of his characteristics. The skull-top was extremely apelike. On the other hand, the thigh bone was entirely human. But the most baffling feature was the teeth. Two of the three were molars, and these presented a fine confusion of mixed resemblances. In some ways, they were like the molars of the orang-utan, and in others like those of living primitive humans, such as the Australian bushmen.
Mr. Mok: How will we laymen ever find out whether this creature was an ape or a man when you experts can't make up your minds?
Dr. Gregory: Our minds happen to be made up as far as Pithecanthropus is concerned. But the fact that experts can scarcely distinguish between the apelike and manlike features of fossils of this kind is due to the close relationship of ape and man. If it were not so close, there would be little difficulty. That is what I meant when I said that nature is full of booby traps. As for the Java Ape Man, the poor lowbrow for many years was the defenseless butt for the attacks of those who refused to believe that he was a man. However, after a Thirty-Years' War, the matter was finally settled. Mr. Mok: How?
Dr.. GREGORY: In 1921, Professor Dubois, the Ape Man's discoverer, came forward with a plaster cast of the inside of the skull. It gave a very close approximation of the shape of the brain, and showed to the complete satisfaction of the foremost brain experts that Pithecanthropus doubtless had been one of humanity's great pioneers.
Mr. Mok: What caused the thirty-year delay?
Dr. Gregory: It actually took Dubois that long to remove the rock that during thousands of centuries had accumulated inside the skull. He had to pick it out literally a needleful at a time. When he finally got it free, there was the imprint of the brain inside the skull, as it always is, and all he had to do then was to pour plaster of Paris into it.
Mr. Mok: Why did this brain cast remove the doubts as to the Ape Man's status?
Dr. Gregory: Because there is no living ape that can be compared with Pithecanthropus in the development of certain parts of the brain.
Mr. Mok: Does that mean that he could speak?
Dr. Gregory: Yes, it is the strongest possible evidence that he could.
Mr. Mok: What prevents you, then, from assuming that he was the missing link and the world's first possessor of the gift of gab?
Dr. Gregory: I am afraid your early training is responsible for your insistence that one definite individual must have been the first human being. You see, there are several of these fossil men of approximately the same age, one about as primitive as the other. Each one is a link in the chain that connects man with his apelike ancestors.
Mr. Mok: When did these old chaps walk the earth?
Dr. Gregory: There are various opinions as to their age. My view is that they lived about the beginning of the Great Ice Age—that is, in the neighborhood of 1,000,000 years ago. However, if by "missing link" you mean a specimen that seems to bridge the gap between the highest ape forms and the most primitive humans, then, in my opinion, the little South African fossil man-ape comes closest to filling the bill.
Mr. Mok: A man-ape?
DR. GREGORY: Yes. It is the most manlike ape ever discovered. This is the opinion of the majority of scientists who have studied the matter closely, though Dr. Raymond Dart, of South Africa, who discovered this remarkable skull and made his find public in 1925, holds the opposite view. He is convinced we have to do with a direct ancestor of man.
Mr. Mok: Why do you call it a little man-ape? Was it an especially small species?
Dr. Gregory: No, it was a young one, probably about three years old. The size of the head is that of a one-year-old human baby, but the forehead is less bulging. It is one of the finest and most helpful fossil specimens ever found, for three reasons. First, the bony structure of the face and the brain case both have been preserved. Second, the head exposes the skull on one side and the interior of the brain case on the other. Third, all the milk teeth are in place, as well as the first permanent molars on both sides, above and below. Through study of the teeth the approximate age of the creature was established.
MR. MOK: What makes you think that it wasn't just a young ape?
Dr. Gregory: The face is distinctly more like a human infant's than like an ape young's. The shape of the palate also is much more manlike than that of the highest apes, so that the tooth-line is rounded in the human fashion, instead of jutting out. On the other hand, these teeth, when studied individually, show an amazing mixture of human and ape characteristics. And mind you, this time they were not found scattered in a woods or along a stream, but in two neat rows right in the little fellow's head, so there is no doubt that they belong to the one individual. Finally, the brain is slightly but distinctly more advanced than it is in most chimpanzees and gorillas of the same tooth-age, and the brow-ridges do not project as much. Whatever this youngster's exact place on our family tree may be, he shows the first structural steps by which these humble creatures struggled out of the ape stage into the human. But certain features of the place where the skull was found convince me, even more than these structural characteristics, that we are dealing with one of the great intermediate stages between the apes and man.
Mr. Mok: Where was it found?
Dr. Gregory: At Taungs, in Bechuana-land, eighty miles north of Kimberley and 1,000 miles south of the nearest home of any known living ape. This would be remarkable enough in itself, but there is more. It is a region which is arid now and has been for long geological periods—a million years or more. Mr. Mok: What is so striking about that?
Dr. Gregory: The striking part is that it is in just such a semidesert, far away from any forest, that scientists look for the birthplace of humanity.
Mr. Mok: Why?
Dr. Gregory: Because many authorities believe that, if the forest had remained intact, there would have been no incentive for our apelike ancestors to come out on the plains, and you and I would still be living in the trees. But no matter where humanity arose, I feel confident that it was this kind of creature that heralded the advent of man.
Mr. Mok: Where do you believe this great event occurred?
DR. GREGORY: There are hosts of things I am not sure of, but of one thing I am absolutely certain. That is that man originated in the Old World; I mean in the Eastern Hemisphere, but not in Australia. There are two historic schools of opinion as to where in this wide region it may have happened. Darwin hinted that man might have emerged from the apes in Africa, but all other scientists, with few exceptions, look to Central Asia as man's most likely birthplace. As you know, the expedition of the American Museum of Natural History, now exploring Mongolia under the leadership of Roy Chapman Andrews, is constantly searching that country for clues of man's origin. Dr. Dart is one of the exceptions. He believes his little man-ape shows that Africa must have been the cradle of humanity.
Mr. Mok : How long ago did the African man-ape live?
Dr. Gregory: In any case, more than a million years ago; perhaps five or six million years.
Mr. Mok: Then the Java Man is more recent ?
Dr. Gregory: Very probably.
Mr. Mok : You told me there were several of these fossil men, all about the same age. What are some of the others?
DR. GREGORY: One of the most famous is the Piltdown Man, so called because he was found, about twenty years ago, on Piltdown Common, at Fletching, in Sussex, England. When I say "he," you must realize that all that was found at first was a number of skull fragments. A workman, digging in a gravel deposit, smashed the skull with his pickax, scattering pieces over the road. The fragments were gathered up by an English geologist, Charles Dawson, and taken to the British Museum. Immediately, another big scientific fight flared up. Mr. Mok: What was the trouble this time?
Dr. Gregory: The skull was restored, meaning that scientists, after careful measurements and calculations, reconstructed the head, much in the same way in which you can reconstruct a circle from one or more segments of the circumference. This was done independently by several experts. The results ranged all the way from the moron to the intellectual!
Mr. Mok : How did each man picture the old citizen?
Dr. Gregory: Sir Arthur Smith-Woodward, foremost English fossil expert, put the pieces together in such a way as to produce a very small brain-case, almost apelike in its restriction. Sir Arthur Keith, the eminent British scientist, went to the other extreme. His restoration showed a balloonlike head as large as that of many modern men. For a time, scientists, taking sides with either of these men, were at daggers' points. Then Professor Elliot Smith, of the University of London, and Professor J. H. McGregor, of Columbia University, New York, made restorations that struck a happy medium between the two. McGregor's reconstruction has been adopted officially by the American Museum. It gives the Piltdown Man a somewhat higher type of skull than that of the Java Man.
Mr. Mok: Did that satisfy everybody?
DR. GREGORY: Pretty well. Mean- while, a yard from the exact spot where one of the skull fragments had been picked up, part of the lower jaw was found, with two molar teeth in place. Still, all was fairly peaceful. But a couple of years later, the Rev. Teilhard de Chardin, a Jesuit priest, one of the world's greatest authorities on fossil men and mammals, found a single, long, apelike canine tooth in the same gravel deposit. This started the battle afresh.
Mr. Mok: What caused the new disagreement ?
Dr. Gregory : The canine tooth obviously belonged in the jaw, which was very apelike. Here, then, was a creature with a human skull, though primitive, and an apelike jaw and tooth, while the Java Man apparently shows these features more in reverse. As I told you, the Pithecanthropus skull outwardly is so apelike that many at first dismissed him as a gibbon. The contrast between the Piltdown skull on the one hand and the jaw and teeth on the other was so striking that Dr. Gerrit S. Miller, distinguished American authority on mammals, flatly declared that what we were dealing with were the remains of a primitive man and those of an extinct species of chimpanzeelike ape. As a matter of fact, the question isn't really settled yet, though the majority now agree that the Piltdown Man was actually one creature—a man with apelike jaws and teeth.
MR. MOK: Are the apelike teeth of the Piltdown Man another example of what you call "booby traps for scientists?"
Dr. Gregory: This certainly looked like one, and Dr. Miller still thinks it was. But I will tell you of a much more striking instance. Have you ever heard of the million-dollar pig-tooth mystery?
Mr. Mok : I have not.
Dr. Gregory: That is the worst booby trap case on record. I ought to know, for I was one of those caught in it. Some years ago, a Nebraska archeologist found a half-inch, badly worn down fossil molar tooth in a rock deposit which placed its age at several million years. Delighted with his find, he sent it on to Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn, president of the American Museum, who handed it over for study to his scientific assistants. After much research, all of them agreed that it was the tooth of a very ancient primitive man or of a manlike ape. Professor Osborn thereupon christened it Hesperopithecus, meaning the ape of the western world. But there were a number of scientists, both in this country and in England, who, when they got a look at the molar, didn't at all agree with this conclusion. That started the excitement.
Mr. Mok: What was their opinion?
Dr. Gregory : There were about as many opinions as there were experts. The poor little tooth was ascribed to a zooful of animals. One thought it belonged to a bear, a second said it was the milk tooth of a fossil horse, a third believed it was the middle-ear bone of an extinct giant mammal, and so on. In preparation for a response to these criticisms, Professor Osborn turned the tooth over, for further study, to some of his associates in the Museum, including myself.
Mr. Mok: What did you do with it?
Dr. Gregory: We worked on the thing for months. We compared it with the teeth of every known animal. We had X-ray photographs made of it from every angle, and also of the teeth we compared it with. Then we published two scientific papers, in which we completely endorsed Professor Osborn's view—that is, we decided it was the tooth of a high form of apelike creature, though we were not sure whether of an ape or of a man. Still, the criticisms continued.
Mr. Mok: What was the next step?
DR. GREGORY: The next step was a jump! I personally went to Nebraska, where I joined an expedition sent out by the Museum to gather corroborative material. We sifted tons upon tons of sand and fossil fragments, and found about a dozen similar teeth, some of which had the crowns preserved, which our specimen had not.
Mr. Mok : Did that settle it ?
Dr. Gregory: Indeed, it did. To our horror, we discovered in this way that our "treasure" was a molar of a fossil species of peccary, a remote relative of the ancient pig!
Mr. Mok : But why did you call it the "million-dollar" pig-tooth?
Dr. Gregory: When the X-ray photographs were about to be taken, I handed the tooth to the operator and jokingly told him: "Please be very careful with this; it is worth a million dollars." The poor fellow took me seriously and got so nervous that he promptly dropped it on the stone floor. It broke into a thousand tiny pieces, and a colleague of mine and I had a fine time picking up the pieces and putting them together again. Later on, I published a paper correcting our Hesperopithecus error, but still I often was reminded, sometimes far from gently, of the "value" I had placed on the tooth. Thus ended ignominiously the one hundred percent American ape. But science profits from its mistakes, for, had this been true, it would have cast serious doubt on one of Darwin's most important conclusions; namely, that man belongs to the Old World Division of the manlike apes, and did not cross to America until many centuries after he had reached man's estate.
Mr. Mok: Are there any other real fossil men?
DR. GREGORY: Several. The most recent find is the so-called Peking Man, and it is probably the most important so far. As a matter of fact, there are two. One skull was found in December, 1929, and a second only last year. The discoveries were made by a group of students exploring a cave thirty-seven miles southwest of Peking, China, under the direction of Dr. Davidson Black, professor of anatomy at Peking Union Medical College, who had just issued a great scientific book on the subject. There is a pretty little romance connected with these skulls.
Mr. Mok: A Chinese Ice Age romance?
Dr. Gregory: Yes. One of the skulls is that of a young man, and the other that of a woman.
Mr. Mok: Do you suppose they really were man and wife? Dr. Gregory: I rather like to think of them as the Chinese counterparts of Adam and Eve in their paradise. Originally, it was suggested that the skull that was found first was that of a young girl, but when a comparative study was made with the second one, it was believed more probable that the first was a young male and the second a female.
Mr. Mok: Why was this find so important?
Dr. Gregory: Because the structural characteristics of these thick and primitive but unmistakably human skulls absolutely vindicates the humanity of the Java Man, and tend to prove that the Piltdown Man really was one human creature. The brain-cases are more advanced than that of the Java man. The jaws still are apelike, but the teeth are decidedly more human than those of the Piltdown Man. The Peking Man, as the two skulls are collectively known, moreover shows an intermediate stage between the Java Man and the Piltdown Man on the one hand, and the Heidelberg Man and the Neanderthal Man on the other.
Mr. Mok: Who was the Heidelberg Man?
DR. GREGORY: He really is nothing but a huge lower jaw. The name derives from the fact that this remnant was found at Mauer, Germany, near Heidelberg. Though definitely in the manlike stage, he still is quite apelike in certain features. He was the first glacial man in Europe.
Mr. Mok: What do you mean by "the first glacial man?"
Dr. Gregory : I mean that he lived in the first interglacial period. There were four Ice Ages. Picture them as a great seasonal drama in four acts, played over a period of a million years. Four times bitter winter descended on the world, spreading a vast ice sheet over the entire north of Europe and driving south the animals, with the exception of a few hairy mammals. With each retreat of the great ice sheet, the animals surged back north. The Heidelberg Man came in the first "intermission," which means that he lived from 500,000 to 750,000 years ago. All authorities agree that he was an ancestor of the Neanderthal Man.
Mr. Mok : Were the Neanderthalers civilized?
DR. GREGORY: While they buried their dead and made fine stone implements, they still were very low in the scale of civilization. They were absolutely dependent on wild animals for food and clothing. The later Stone Age men, among them the Cro-Magnons, who lived about 20,000 years ago and left us mural paintings in the caves of southern France, were much more advanced. Civilization in our sense, however, did not really begin until people invented ways of storing up a food supply. In other words, it came in with agriculture and the domestication of cattle. These arts were perfected by three streams of invaders—one from the Mediterranean, one from the southeast, and one from the Baltic. These three races, roughly, are the direct ancestors of the modern white man, and you can recognize their definite characteristics in people today.
Mr. Mok : How is it possible for definite characteristics, such as those of the Mediterranean and Nordic races, to be preserved and handed down for such tremendous stretches of time?
Dr. Gregory: Now you are getting onto the subject of inheritance, and that is another story.


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Hi Al,
I thought I had posted something on this quite a while ago.
I have not tried the site you suggest but I have been using ExpatShield for over 2 years now, when I am in Canada.
It does not work on MAC's but seems to be OK on Windows XP and 7.
If you expand to the "Full screen" it gets rid of all the advertising (they do have to get their money from somewhere). Occasionally it also seems to launch another window but I just close that.


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The bulldozers came at dawn to this neighborhood of shanty homes and concrete buildings in Nigeria's largest city, followed by riot police carrying Kalashnikov assault rifles.
The police banged on doors, corralling the thousands who live in Ijora-Badia off to the side as the bulldozers' blades tore through scrap-lumber walls, their tracks grinding the possessions inside into the black murk of swamp underneath. Days later, children picked through the field of debris, their small hands dodging rusty nails to pull away anything of value left behind.
The demolition of this slum neighborhood follows others in Lagos, a city of some 17.5 million inhabitants where a dozen can sleep in a single room and more flock to every day from the countryside. While the city continues to grow, the government has started programs to improve roads and railways, but target poor neighborhoods for demolition and street traders for arrest.
Activists say Lagos' government continues to lay sod for parks to beautify a city long thought of as a nightmare of urban planning, but the facelifts often come at the expense of the poor without a thought about what will become of them.
"A megacity is not about its physical size or its beauty, but its people," said Felix Morka, executive director of the Social and Economic Rights Action Center, which is contesting the demolitions in court. "The poor also live here."
Poverty is difficult to escape from in Lagos, even on its islands, home to its political and business elite. Those missing limbs or with facial injuries approach cars idling at intersections to beg. People bathe naked alongside highways or use ditches for toilets. Even those considered as being in the middle class live in crowded tenements or in informal settlements that spring up in the corners of abandoned properties and even on stilts over the Lagos Lagoon.
Ijora-Badia, alongside a road leading to Lagos' main port and across from its major brewery, sits on marshy soil. The first settlers were moved here when the government started constructing the nearby National Theatre in the 1970s. In the time since, Ijora-Badia grew along the railroad tracks and is now home to thousands of people.
The bulldozers arrived there on Feb. 23, a Saturday morning, along with the police. They tore down the homes quickly, leaving most people to sleep outside afterward. Days later, they were crowded into a community hall, an open-air room covered by a thin tin roof. Others slept in a nearby church, their possessions gathered on top of benches under the watchful eyes of pictures of Jesus Christ near the altar.
A spokesman for Lagos state government did not respond to requests for comment about the demolition.
All the newly displaced people interviewed by The Associated Press described being taken by surprise, with some saying that a local chief may have given his blessing for the homes to be razed. Stella Omogbemi said the police chased her away without a chance to gather anything.
"I said: `I owe the government one bullet, you should shoot it now,'" Omogbemi said in the Yoruba language of southwest Nigeria.
On Thursday, days after the demolition, a single bulldozer continued to grind the remains into the ground. One man, who once ran a used oil shop in the neighborhood, stood barefoot in a swampy patch now completely turned black. With oil up his calves, he bent down with a rag to soak bits of it up, wringing it out into a nearby bucket.
The reason for the demolition is unclear. Some at the site said they believed the area would be converted into an upper-class housing estate, which seemed unlikely as it sits in an industrial area.
This is the latest of a string of demolitions to target slums in the city, most conducted without any prior warning. In July, police and state officials began razing homes in the waterfront slum of Makoko, an iconic neighborhood of Lagos where thousands live in shack homes rising out of the city's lagoon on stilts. The government stopped after a public outcry, but many fear officials could resume tearing homes down at any time. Similar demolitions have occurred elsewhere in the country, including Port Harcourt, where activists say some 25,000 families lost their homes.
The same fear permeates Ijora-Badia, where homes on the edge of the demolitions also saw their walls knocked down. Local activists say they'll challenge the government in court. However, justice from the courts can be incredibly slow in Nigeria. Others worry the same system that allows government corruption to flourish will affect the courts.
Friday Ogunyemi, a 21-year-old university student who lost all his admittance records and paperwork, said people can't expect the government to come to their aid, despite the nation abandoning military rule for democracy in 1999.
"They treated us like we are not Nigerians, like we are not existing," Ogunyemi said. "Our dividend of democracy is a bulldozer."
Associated Press writer Lekan Oyekanmi contributed to this report.
Jon Gambrell can be reached at www.twitter.com/jongambrellAP .


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(covers information from several alternate timelines)
The Martian colonies were one of the oldest colonies of Humankind. (e.g., TOS: "Court Martial"; DS9: "In the Cards"; VOY: "The 37's")
Having been completed in 2012, the Millennium Gate on Earth served as a model for the first colony on the red planet. It pioneered many new technologies and scientific principles like a coverage by highly-reflective solar panels and being constructed as a self-contained biosphere. (VOY: "11:59")
The Martian colonies were established in 2103, although settlements on Mars had already existed by 2069. (ENT: "Terra Nova"; VOY: "The 37's") Among the pioneers who settled the first colony were some of Jean-Luc Picard's ancestors. (Star Trek Generations) The Fundamental Declarations of the Martian colonies were an important step in the pursuit of individual rights. (TOS: "Court Martial") The flag of the first of the Martian colonies was inspired by a velvet painting of a matador, according to Quark. (DS9: "In the Cards")
In 2105, Redjac, an entity feeding off pain and fear, killed eight women of the Martian colonies. (TOS: "Wolf in the Fold")
In an alternate timeline, the Martian colonies were destroyed in a 2154 Xindi attack. (ENT: "Twilight")
In 2155, when a xenophobic faction of Humans known as Terra Prime took over the verteron array, Starfleet intended to destroy the array rather than let the terrorist organization carry out their attack on San Francisco. Destroying the array threatened to destroy a portion of Utopia Colony, an indication that the two were in close proximity to one another. The colony had at least one hospital as of 2155. (ENT: "Demons", "Terra Prime")
Known citizens include Lieutenant Mira Romaine, a crewmember of the USS Enterprise who was born at Martian Colony 3, and Simon Tarses and his brother, the former a crewmember of the USS Enterprise-D. (TOS: "The Lights of Zetar"; TNG: "The Drumhead")
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Although Harry Kim stated in VOY: "The 37's" that "Mars was colonized by people from Earth in 2103", ENT: "Terra Nova" establishes that Mars was colonized prior to 2069 with the building of Utopia Planitia. This seems to make more sense since 2103 is forty years after the warp drive was invented, and after deep-space expeditions like SS Valiant and Friendship 1 and after the Terra Nova colony was established in another star system. The 2103 date may refer to the formal incorporation of the colonies as one body, the year Humans were first able to colonize the planet on a long-term basis, or the beginning of the terraforming project seen in ENT: "Terra Prime".
The buildings representing the Martian colonies in episodes such as "Lifesigns" were built out of garbage cover plates, birdbaths, cat toys, and hair curlers by using the technique "kitbashing". Penny Juday gives some insight in the TNG Season 2 DVD special feature "Inside Starfleet Archives - Penny Juday, Star Trek Coordinator".
The Martian city seen in "Lifesigns" was not referred to in the first draft script. In the episode's final draft script, it was referred to as "a futuristic domed city." According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia (3rd ed., p. 538), it was located at Utopia Planetia. The encyclopedia also noted that it was realized as a matte painting by Dan Curry, based on designs by Anthony Fredrickson and Doug Drexler.
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- Confederated Martian Colonies at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works


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Former Charter Oak, Washington St. and NFL Super Bowl champion defensive back Jason David let me know he's got some workouts taking place at Charter Oak High on Sundays, so I decided to roll over there and check it out. As usual, David's workouts are pretty interesting stuff. To me, they're cutting edge, but then again I'm not a coach. Anyway, out there was former Charter Oak linebacker and current freshman All-American Keith Smith of San Jose St., former Tribune Player of the Year at Charter Oak and current San Diego St. RB Adam Muema, top Oregon recruit Devon Blackmon of Summit High, New Mexico St. DB Darien Johnson of Bishop Amat and current Charter Oak players Chris Gilchrist and Herman Atkins. I know I wrote about Atkins in my "Under the radar" segment on CO's spring practice, but wow, this guy is impressive. Clearly one of the top athletes in the area. Joining David for some instruction was former Los Altos and New Mexico WR Travis Brown, who is now an assistant at Damien under head coach Greg Gano.
Aram's take: David was wearing a t-shirt that said "No deposit, no return". I guess that's kind of the point of what they were doing out there on a Sunday. I mean, you can see why these guys are at the top of their game or trying to get there, because most people aren't out doing drills IN MAY ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON. That, and these guys are all football junkies. I am too, but in a fan kind of way. I don't know what it's like to be a football junkie as a player, but just think about this — David has won a Super Bowl and Smith is a frosh All-American and on a Sunday afternoon they're out at CO. Impressive!


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Few careful observers would still expect much in the way of journalistic professionalism from the publication that used to be Time Magazine, particularly when it comes to religion in general, and the Catholic Church in particular.
In its latest issue, Time proclaims its "Person of the Year", accompanied by a list of "People Who Matter on Our World". As one might expect, many of the people on the latter list are athletes, actors and singers who, I imagine, "matter" to the kind of people whose world consists of the office of a mainstream magazine and who live in the cultural cocoon of New York City. Hence the presence on the list of such giants as Ben Stiller and Justin Bieber.
At least they recognized that the Holy Father "matters". After all, he only heads the largest single religious group in the world, and his words are instantly transmitted to virtually every nation on earth and studied closely by people of all faiths.
But when you look at the inaccurate and tendentious profile they present of the Holy Father, it's hard even to get past the first sentence without a strong constitution. As the head of the child protection program of the Archdiocese, I was particularly astonished at the number of easily-proven falsehoods the story contained on that issue alone.
Let's look at what they have to say, as they present what they consider to be the "Highs" and "Lows" of the Holy Father, but which are actually a series of "lows" in journalistic professionalism. The text of Time's story is in italics, my analysis follows in bold:
Highs: While the Pope remains firm on his decree that ordaining women as priests is a grave crime (the same designation given to pedophilia),
Immediate Fail. It is strictly true that in a revision of some provisions of the Code of Canon, the crimes of invalid ordination and clerical sexual misconduct were both classified as "grave crimes". But does anyone with any sense at all think that they are considered to be on an equal plane of seriousness? After all, the United States Code classifies both assassinating the President and defacing coins as felonies — the civil equivalent of "grave crimes" — and nobody in their right mind would consider them to be on the same level.
What is most astonishing is that anyone would consider that decision to be significant enough to include as the first item among the "Highs". After all, there was only the little matter of the Pope's Apostolic Visit to the United Kingdom, which drew huge crowds and confounded the professional atheists. Or the new document he issued on how to read and interpret the Bible, which will influence theology for the next generation at least. Or the new book-length interview with a journalist — an unprecedented move for a Pope. Those don't even get mentioned.
he was willing to loosen up — albeit ever so slightly — on another firmly-held edict. But while headlines around the world claimed Pope Benedict XVI endorsed the use of condoms, what the Pope actually said was a bit different. He still strongly disapproves of condom use as contraception, and said only that a male prostitute may choose to use a condom to prevent the spread of the HIV infection.
This minor comment by the Holy Father in the book interview is far from the most significant thing he said this year, by any rational standard. And the characterization of the Pope's comment is so far off the mark that one can only conclude in charity that the reporter didn't read anything other than the wire reports about it.
The Holy Father said nothing remotely close to "a male prostitute may choose to use a condom to prevent the spread of the HIV infection". Instead, he was clear that condoms were never a "real or moral solution" to the problem of HIV, that a life of virtuous sexuality was the only real answer, and that the only thing to be said in favor of the use of a condom was that it might reflect the first glimmers of the awakening of a person's conscience.
As an attempt at journalism, this must set some kind of record: telling us that the media got the Holy Father wrong, and then going right ahead and getting it egregiously wrong anyway.
Lows: Accusations of sexual abuse first from Ireland and later mainland Europe smashed any remaining perception that predatory priests were an American anomaly and thrust the Vatican into its greatest crisis since the 2002 revelations of abuse in the U.S.
There is no doubt that sexual abuse and misconduct by clergy members were a personal low point for the Holy Father, who grieved for the victims and for the scandal caused to the Church. But this completely misses the most significant story about clerical sexual abuse in 2010, and the thing that "mattered" the most — the Holy Father's strong response to the crisis, particularly in Ireland. His Letter to the Catholics of Ireland is a masterpiece of leadership, containing moral clarity, genuine contrition, and a commitment to rooting out the problem.
But the Holy Father did even more — he ordered an independent review of Irish dioceses and seminaries, and undertook a review of procedures for dealing with clerical misconduct that would apply worldwide. Those are real, concrete, and significant steps that "matter", and will continue to "matter" for decades.
The scandal brought the church's standing to a new low among believers in Europe and, in March when allegations surfaced in Germany, turned the spotlight on the Pontiff himself. It seems 30 years ago, during a brief tenure in Munich, the Pope, then Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger, had transferred a known abusive priest to his own archdiocese, ostensibly for therapy. But just days after his arrival, the priest was allowed to serve among the flock and subsequent sexual assaults occurred.
This is really a new low for unprofessional and tendentious journalism. The case referred to was never more than a tissue of unproven accusations on the flimsiest of evidence. There has never been any evidence that the Holy Father (who was Archbishop of Munich at the time) participated in any way in the decision to transfer that priest to a new parish. It's just flat out false, as any review of the evidence would show.
Indeed, all the persons who were involved in the actual decision have stated unequivocally that the Pope was not involved. Even the New York Times, a consistent enemy of the Church that is always willing to cast Her in the worst possible light, couldn't uncover any evidence other than that the Pope was copied on a memo about the transfer. That's all.
While Benedict has done a number of substantial things to deal with the crisis, including meeting with abuse victims and accepting the resignation of high-ranking clerics, he remains silent on his time in Germany.
This grudging, backhanded concession that the Pope has done "a number of substantial things to deal with the crisis" is really, really rich. No man in the entire worldwide Church has done more to combat the stain of clerical abuse than the Holy Father. For years he worked to strengthen penalties and improve procedures on the handling of the cases. All parties recognize that he has been diligent and strong in the cases that he personally oversaw as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. He has met with a number of victims in his Apostolic Visits, and has issued statement after statement condemning the sin and asking for the forgiveness of the victims.
In fact, if anyone would like a lesson on the proper way to respond to the problem of clerical sexual abuse, the Holy Father is a good model.
A few mistakes in a story like this is understandable. But this many shows nothing short of a flagrant disregard of the truth that can only stem from hostility.
In this issue of Time Magazine, professionalism doesn't seem to "matter". But slandering the Holy Father — that seems to "matter" very much.


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There's a special garden I think you would really enjoy seeing on the 13th annual Point Roberts Garden Tour next weekend. It belongs to Jenny and Dave Stumpo and covers a gem of a strip of land with terrific ocean views at the bottom of Berry Lane.
Jenny (whose Chinese name is Zhen Zi) is an acupuncturist, originally from Beijing. Dave is a public transportation whiz, originally from Philadelphia. In the past nine years, they have transformed their handsome property into a lovely garden with pretty pictures in all directions.
Before choosing a style and plant palette for the garden, Jenny read a lot of gardening books and went on a few garden tours.
In the end, she opted to follow the advice of esteemed Dutch designer Piet Oudolf, famous for his freewheeling, naturalistic planting schemes. This is why you will find a superb meadow-like garden on the ocean side of the house, where assorted ornamental grasses, mostly Mexican feather grass and fountain grasses, have been artistically mixed with yarrow, bee balm, liatris and sea holly to create a delightfully soothing, restful landscape.
The flat, still, calm of the ocean provides a tranquil contrast to the wavy, breeze-blown patterns of grasses and perennials.
And the thin ribbon of shoreline on the other side of Boundary Bay provides the perfect frame to this heavenly picture. You could sit for hours and not get tired of the view.
The front garden is equally charming, but more formal with well-designed borders, elegant paving and refined use of flower and foliage colour.
Two years ago, the Stumpos completely renovated the garden, taking all the plants they had acquired and recycling them into a new, more artistic design.
"The goal was to focus attention on the front door," says Dave. "Hence the design today which makes the front entrance really stand out."
Jenny also consulted with a garden designer in Bellingham.
"We brainstormed and that's how we came up with the shape of borders and direction of paths," she says.
Tan-coloured stamped concrete was used to replace a gravel driveway, and other paving was installed to create a winding path which is edged with the silver-grey foliage of lamb's ear and leads past towering self-seeded verbascum, remnants of purple alliums and a border full of blue nepeta and yellow coreopsis to a small gazebo.
A circle of paving stones next to the gazebo has a matching round of boxwood, inside of which Jenny has placed a large stone urn overflowing with "Black Magic" pansies.
Closer to the house, a short stream quietly ripples through a lushly planted side border filled with phygelius and bee balm and ornamental grasses plus a lion's mane maple and the thornless "Zephirine Drouhin" rose.
The Stumpos love the Japanese forest grass (Hakonechloa) and have used it extensively, both the plain green and yellow varieties.
But the piece de resistance is the meadow-garden with its seductive ocean panorama. This is what I would love for you to experience. It's a reward that makes the journey worthwhile.
The lovely thing about going to Point Roberts for this garden tour is that the moment you step across the U.S. border out of Tsawwassen, you find yourself in holiday mode in a seaside/cottage-country culture that is irresistibly relaxing.
Hollyhocks seem to grow better in Point Roberts. Perhaps it's the clean maritime air, but they are everywhere and always look outstanding without any sign of rust.
The Stumpo garden is one of eight that will be open for the tour from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 20.
I managed to squeeze in visits to three other gardens, each one with its own unique personality.
At the garden of Maxine and Ron Clark on Whalen Drive, generous clumps of Mexican feather grass and Miscanthus "Yaku Jima" rub shoulders with clusters of pink Flower Carpet roses, the purple foliage of ninebark and cotinues with sedums, pink sea thrift and lady's mantle are used as a ground cover.
Close to the house, apricot hollyhocks share ground with nepeta, euphorbia, shasta daisies and a bank of stand-up-straight feather reed grass called Calamagrostis "Karl Foerster."
The Clarks have added quirky touches of whimsy throughout their garden. Glass dessert bowls have been attached to metal stems and these flowerlike creations have been dotted here and there. Antique milk cans have been painted red and placed next to white ceramic Dutch clogs.
Old wooden Coca-Cola crates have been stuffed with sweet peas. A blue rowboat has been filled with alliums and nasturtiums. And metal fan-shaped whirligigs have been positioned so they spin and turn in the breeze coming up off the ocean.
The Clarks also have a weakness for plant bargains. They snapped up five fig trees for $50, and find ninebark shrubs irresistible.
Orange is a colour you won't find in their garden. Pink, white, purple, yellow, red and blue get permission, but orange is out.
And the Clarks think planting gunnera was a mistake; they are giving it the heave-ho to make way for a new pergola.
Hydrangeas, however, are a favourite. The Clarks have collected "Vanilla Ice," "Double Delights Wedding Gown" and "Green Star."
Wisteria is also favoured and is being carefully trained along the underside of the deck. Room has also been found for lilies, dahlias and buddleia along with an assortment of dwarf conifers and popular shrubs like the burning bush. Summer evenings are spent lounging in blue Adirondack chairs around a fire pit. And grandchildren have their own play area.
At Wilf and Mille Schwabe's garden on Rex Drive, you'll find more than 200 roses in every colour, planted and labelled, on all sides of the house. A row of weeping spruce trees line the path at the entrance where a large windmill palm adds its own striking presence with roses blooming below.
In the back yard, there is a monkey-puzzle tree, an old barbecue filled with impatiens, and a giant redwood tree, planted by Wilf in 1979.
Visitors will enjoy the walk to the vegetable garden, past tubs of brazelberries and into rows of blueberry bushes, raspberry canes, beds of leeks and corn and hills of potatoes, enough fresh produce to feed a small village.
The last garden I visited belonged to yoga-teacher Kathleen McInnes and her husband, Chuck, a helicopter pilot.
Kathleen loves birds and tries to provide a habitat for them, including even hooking up a heated feeding station for hummingbirds in winter.
"We have been here for 16 years, but about six years ago I started to relax and decided to let the garden do its own thing," says Kathleen.
"I let things self-seed and now when they pop up unexpectedly I say, 'Welcome.' I like nature to do its own thing."
Chuck has a soft spot for bamboo and has collected at least 14 different species. He has also built a lily pond in which he has planted a swamp cypress.
Driftwood logs add to the seaside charm of the property which has a magnificent ocean view and it is an idyllic spot where the Clarks like to sit at night and watch the ocean and enjoy the night sky. Sounds blissful.
Why not gather up some friends and have a fun day trip seeing the gardens of Point Roberts. Slipping into the holiday spirit is what makes time in this across-the-line enclave so enjoyable.
July 20, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.| Point Roberts, Washington.
Tickets: $15 from Blue Heron Gallery and Neilson's Building Centre in Point Roberts or Harris Nursery in East Ladner. Ticket includes Tea in the Afternoon at Point Roberts Community Centre, 1487 Gulf Road from 1 to 4 p.m.
More information: www.pointrobertsgardenclub.org
Note: Don't forget your passport. Consider staying for supper to avoid border lineups between 4-5 p.m.


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Sikorsky has received the long-awaited type certificate for the S-76D from FAA. The manufacturer can now begin to address a backlog estimated at nearly $500 million related to the medium twin, which features Pratt & Whitney Canada PW210S engines, Thales TopDeck avionics, a health and usage monitoring system (HUMS) and all-composite main rotor blades. Also optional is a Rotor Ice Protection System (RIPS).
S-76D. Images courtesy of Sikorsky.
Sikorsky experienced a number of technical delays with the certification program for the S-76D, after the first prototype took flight in 2009. FAA issued the type certificate on Friday, Oct. 12. Deliveries are set to begin before the end of the year. According to Sikorsky, more than 800 S-76 variants have entered service since 1979.Related: Airframe News
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Probably has to do with Duke still being a puppy basically (he's only a year old), and Tyson is going on 9 years now. I'd like to get a second dog, but I know Tyson would not be happy with that. I'll probably wait until he passes on before getting a second dog (probably another Shepherd, because I love them too much).
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Day 12
Vampire territorialism. It had no sense of appropriate timing.
"Lucifer's bloody ball sack, I don't believe it."
Day 11
"Maybe in a few more centuries, you'll be able to outwit me, but not yet."
Day 10
"Cat, what are you doing here?"
Day 9
"My sincerest apologies, mistress, for my shameful disobedience."
Day 8
"If you're not too busy watching Hitman, I hear Dracula 2000 is a good movie."
Day 7
A brow arched. "That a dare, Kitten?"
"Don't you dare…I'd kill or die for that man, don't you ever think that I wouldn't."
Day 6
"I love your hands," he sighed. "You think I look like an angel? Well, Kitten, your hands are my heaven and your eyes are my home."
Day 5
One of the vampires gave me a hostile glare, "None of your business, Redhead".
You. Me. Exorcist.
Day 4
Tate muttered something like "I tried to warn you". . .
Day 3
"I am forever yours, Kitten, in this life or the next."
Day 2
"You owe me no apology," Each word was enunciated as though it were its own sentence. "By neither word nor deed have you ever exploited me for your own gain, and I cannot say the same about my actions with you."
Day 1
"Happens sometimes. Very embarrassing, I don't like to talk about it."
"You continue to stay silent and I'll cook your frank and beans next."