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The war within Charlie Wilson
Unless you've been lost in Oregon's Alvord Desert, you know that Tom Hanks' new flick, Charlie Wilson's War, is based on the wildest sumbitch ever to serve in the modern Congress and how the oddly lovable, cocaine-snorting, womanizing, Scotch-swilling swashbuckler from Lufkin, Texas, just about single-handedly got Congress to give the Mujahdeen modern weapons that drove the Russians out of Afghanistan in 1989, thus helping bring down the Soviet empire.
But the truth is far more extraordinary—and the upshot in Afghanistan far less successful—than the 97-minute confection created by Director Mike Nichols, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (The West Wing) and their heavyweight cast: Hanks (who plays Wilson), Julia Roberts (a Houston socialite/Soviet hater), and Philip Seymour Hoffman (a rogue CIA field man and Wilson co-conspirator who said what brought them together was "chasing pussy and killing Communists").
The movie's omissions turn it into a romantic adventure sprinkled with comedy, combat, and just enough fact to be believable. But it's worth a ticket if only to see Hoffman, who deserves his second Oscar in as many years for his portrayal of Gust Avrakotos, the CIA agent--a performance that makes Hanks scramble to remain the biggest man on the screen.
My problem, and I expected it, is that, working with a compelling true story, the movie blew an opportunity to delve into the yin and yang of good and evil inherent in both realpolitik and the mortals who inhabit it, let alone explore the tendency for seeds of failure to exist in "victory." (After our Mujahdeen "friends" defeated the Soviet Army, many of them became Osama bin Laden's ally and protector, the Taliban, with which the U.S. would be at war in 12 years.) Alas, paradox has never been a strong aspect of the Western mind, let alone the American mind. And Hollywood's mind? Don't get me started.
The real "Good Time Charlie" Wilson sat two chairs up from me on the House Defense Appropriations Committee for more than a decade. From that perch, I saw and (to an extent) helped him engineer what became the largest covert program in U.S. history—$1 billion—despite the initial timidity of the CIA and odd diffidence of the Reagan White House. And it was done entirely within the clandestine budget, with no publicly recorded vote ever taken.
I came to know and like the complex public and private Charlie Wilson, a man who was at once more disturbing and charming than either his movie incarnation or the figure described in the book that inspired the film (George Crile, Grove Press, 2003, ISBN 0802141242, 560 pp).
A long-legged, ramrod-straight Naval Academy graduate with a square jaw, wicked wit and booming basso profondo laugh, Charlie entertained elegantly in his Arlington, Virginia, condo overlooking the Iwo Jima Memorial, the Potomac River and the Capitol Mall beyond—affairs that I suspected but couldn't prove were funded by his friends in the defense lobby.
That he had so many such friends, and carried their mail so brazenly, was one of Charlie's many deep flaws. I recall him in committee, losing a debate on a dubious weapons system that even Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger didn't want (and that's saying something). Wilson held up the vote long enough to duck into the telephone booth and emerge with fresh talking points from the arms maker. I don't remember if he won or lost; the point is that Wilson was butt-naked complicit with the defense lobby and didn't give a damn.
Yet Charlie was a social and economic liberal who defied his Bible-thumping conservative district and its history of racial bigotry. He was a strong supporter of civil rights, minimum wage increases, Medicaid, and anti-poverty programs.
On women's issues, Charlie was a dependable "yes" vote. He supported abortion rights, parental leave and the Equal Rights Amendment. Yet the hedonist in him collected women like a boy might collect marbles. His office staff was exclusively female, drop-dead beautiful and full bosomed. Everybody called them "Charlie's Angels."
In the movie, a visiting constituent glances at those aides and asks Hanks (Wilson) why he hired gorgeous women. Hanks' reply is one I heard Charlie use in real life more than once: "You can always teach 'em to type, but you can't teach 'em to grow tits."
Aside from constituent service, stellar votes on social and economic issues, Charlie's individual legislative efforts were unremarkable for many years. However, in the late 1970s he engaged in an act of foreign policy hubris that, seen now, foretold his Afghanistan adventure.
Ever the Annapolis man, Charlie admired the Central American dictator, Anastasio Somoza, a West Point graduate, and threatened to wreak the Carter Administration's Panama Canal treaty if Carter didn't resume support for Somoza. Wilson's ardor was unaffected by the Nicaraguan leader's unsuccessful offer of a large cash bribe at their first meeting. Later Charlie arranged a meeting between Somoza and a high-ranking CIA official in a bid to save the dictator. But when Somoza fondled Tina Simons, Wilson's girlfriend at the time, Charlie dropped him like a dead armadillo. (Fascism was one thing; a man's woman was another!)
I've always believed that Charlie's single-minded support for the subjugated Afghans came in equal measure from a zest for danger, revulsion at Communism and empathy for a people who told him of daughters raped, children mutilated, sons and fathers decapitated, and pregnant women bayoneted in the stomach. Yet he always said they would fight the Russians with stones if necessary.
Wilson traveled frequently to the region as modern arms began to arrive and Afghans brought down Soviet helicopter warships and fixed wing aircraft with increasing skill. Inevitably, he would bring along a personal cache of booze and a beautiful woman on his arm. Sex, war, and alcohol were the trifecta in the hierarchy of Wilson's tastes.
Charlie stormed home from one such trip with blood in his eye. A U.S. Air Force colonel had banned his female companion from flying out of Pakistan with him on a government plane. Wilson and the officer almost came to blows before Charlie placed one call to the presidential palace in Islamabad. Soon General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq's personal jet arrived, picked up Wilson and his date and roared off, leaving the American colonel slack-jawed on the tarmac.
Charlie would get his revenge in the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. He passed an amendment (over my objection) to remove the officer's plane. And just to make sure the colonel and his superiors got the message, Wilson's measure reassigned the jet to the Texas Air National Guard.
In the larger sense, though, the Afghan issue brought out brilliant legislative skills few knew Charlie possessed. There's a scene in the movie—true to fact—in which he promises Midwest congressmen, in return for their support, to deliver the Black Caucus votes for the Farm Bill, a political act as unnatural as the physical act Charlie told the Air Force colonel to perform on himself.
Wilson retired from Congress in 1996, married Barbara Alberstadt, a former ballerina, and returned to Lufkin, Texas, his boyhood home. He had a heart transplant last fall and is recovering in Houston.
In June, he turned 74.
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By Les AuCoin
Matthew Sutton (unverified)
Jan 1, '08
Here's a better movie to go see: "The Great Debaters" starring Denzel Washington. Its an amazing film based upon a true story of a debate team from a small black college in Texas that went on to debate Harvard in the 1930's. Two thumbs way up.
Thank you, Les, for your review - and your recollections of Charlie Wilson. Great stuff.
What an interesting read. Thanks for the post!
I haven't seen the movie or read the book about Wilson, but I wouldn't mind hearing from Mr. AuCoin about how the stories there mesh with the initial decision by President Jimmy Carter and National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski to fund the Mujahadeen in July 1979, in a deliberate attempt to draw the Soviets into an invasion of what Brzezinski called "the Afghan trap". Was Wilson's effort coordinated with the existing operation or did it only begin after the Soviet invasion in December 1979?
Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan, people didn't believe them. However, there was a basis of truth. You don't regret anything today? B[rzezinski]: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire. Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic fundamentalism, having given arms and advice to future terrorists? B: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?
Congressman Aucoin,
I just saw the movie last weekend and reading your supplemental info hear is great! Bravo!
I can spell, too, I meant "here"
Jake Oken-Berg (unverified)
Really, really interesting read. Thank you for the first hand account.
Big Barton (unverified)
One of the most interesting posts I've read in a long time. Great stuff.
Bait T (unverified)
Ditto: thanks for the inside scoop.
As for the inevitable outcome of Taliban rule in Afghanistan (and the safe haven provided to UBL and Al Qaeda), it appears analagous to the outcome in Iraq: we won the war, but failed to adequately secure American security interests (aka "lost the peace").
To put it bluntly: Afghanistan was only important to us until the Soviets were defeated. The country (and her surviving population) were decimated and we did little to maintain our influence (aka "goodwill") in the region.
I would welcome Rep. AuCoin's critique of this view.
Thanks, Les! Mike and I just saw the film on Sunday evening and your insights have made it a much richer experience for me. I've owned that book for a couple of years and now I'm highly motivated to pick it up and, you know, actually read it.
Deane Funk (unverified)
It must've been about four years ago that I came upon Charlie Wilson being interviewed by Brian Lamb on C-SPAN, and his engaging account of the Afghanistan episode was so memorable I was desperate to find someone, anyone who had also seen it, just to confirm that I'd heard what I'd heard, and didn't make it up. His own words are even more compelling than either the book or the movie.
Katherine (unverified)
Congressman: I hope you post more topics that have a rich tapestry. Having your first hand account of this particular vignette during your tenure is a fun read.
Vignettes add richness to politics that sometimes the public doesn't see. I wish you would consider posting a once a month series "What really happened" or "Who so-and-so was really like" about different issues as they were debated in the political arena. Having your perspective, an insider, would be interesting. We know you're busy, but it doesn't hurt to ask!
Happy New Years Everybody!
Joe (unverified)
Minor nit-pick: Charlie Wilson's apartment overlooking the Iwo Jima memorial was in Rosslyn/Arlington rather than Alexandria.
Dave McTeague (unverified)
Apprediate your insights and sharing your experience with this. The book is good read too, although I don't remember the part about how Wilson supported funding for reconstruction efforts, so I'll have to give it another read. Thanks.
Good catch, Joe. Arlington, not Alexandria. Sue and I always lived in Washington and rarely spent time in Northern Virginia. Invariably, I turn the two cities around. Not that one can distinguish them in their sprawl.
(I fixed the error.)
When I was a kid I used to go up to a nearby pond with muddy areas around it and turn over rocks. Sometimes there'd be cool things like salamanders.
Once in a while there was something really gross and smelly.
Reading this post was like finding one of those rocks.
The lionizing of this guy and failure to take seriously what was wrong with the arrogant assumptions and irresponsible execution of the intervention in Afghanistan sucks. I guess the cultural work of making incompetent disasters borne of false assumptions and deep local ignorance appear to be victories, or at least amusing is important work for our times, though. Can't wait for the sequel about the Boys in the Project for a New American Century -- that'll be a laff riot for sure.
People's reactions here make me wonder if I'm in the right place at all or even have any real allies in mainstream Democratic politics when it comes to foreign policy.
It's a stupid reaction, I know: one former congressman who I don't know but whose record I respect as far as I know it, eight people, some of whom, maybe all of whom are responding mainly to the storytelling (& it is good storytelling).
But I just can't find much humor in arrogant imperialism executed without adequate thought to consequences and regardless of known inability to control them, especially when those consequences have had such disastrous results.
Of course, it does put Bob Packwood into context.
C. Coventry Malpense, Pfc Wet Blanket Brigade
Gil Johnson (unverified)
Chris--Well, Harrumph!!
Can't have politicians actually telling the truth on each other, can we? Can't abide by the fact that even members of Congress have human foibles?
By Les Aucoin's account, Charlie Wilson was a minor player in the House who had a couple of big roles and otherwise was more interesting for his vices than his virtues. As most of us are.
Lionizing Charlie Wilson. I don't think so. Humanizing Wilson and the entire political arena is more like it.
Look, my reaction is what it is. Part of what I'm trying to figure out is why it's as strong as it is. Les Aucoin isn't lionizing Wilson but the movie certainly is; my response doubtless is unfair to Mr. Aucoin because I'm responding to some sort of gestalt of it all for which I readily concede he is not responsible.
From what I can see about Charlie Wilson from this story "minor player with human foibles and interesting vices" is a euphemism -- corrupt incompetent with some degree of charm that enabled him in combination with power to abusively indulge his vices looks more like it to me. Even at that I probably wouldn't care except the guy was a major mover in a hugely f'd up policy process was bankrupt in any number of ways & paid multiple dividends of bloodshed and horror down the road.
After what I wrote before I realized that one reason I care is not directly about Afghanistan is because during the period in question I was studying African history in graduate school and watching horrified as my government was fomenting quasi-genocidal civil wars in Angola and Mozambique that killed millions of civilians in their long and bloody course. In aid of promoting the Angolan civil war the U.S. also made a devil's pact with General Mobutu of Zaire to run airbases for material aid to UNITA from the southeast of the country. Mobutu thoroughly looted the country and appropriated to himself huge loans from the IMF and World Bank for which the nation was responsible. The U.S. connived at this, having a largely dispositive influence in the IFIs.
Mobutu also pursued a policy of fomenting ethnic hatred by some other ethnic groups in eastern Zaire, now Democratic Republic of the Congo, against Tutsi who lived there. Some of those Tutsi families had been in the area two centuries. Others were refugees from Rwanda ca. 1960. After the 1994 genocide in Rwanda came a new influx of refugees, many of them Hutu (as the Tutsi-led RFP came to power), and among the Hutu, many ex-genocidaires. Meanwhile as many ten African nations intervened on different sides of a civil war in the DRC that emerged after Mobutu died, which, intermingled with the ethnic conflicts Mobutu had fomented, has resulted in persistent mass deaths on a scale much larger than the proto-genocide in Darfur, a situation nearly ignored in the U.S.
In Angola and Mozambique clearing minefields and manufacturing prosthetic limbs for the growing number of persons who have lost and continue to lose limbs to land mines are major economic activities. Our tax dollars bought lots of those mines.
So a bunch of my reaction wasn't about what Les Aucoin wrote, or even Afghanistan, but just to some implied answers to the basic question of how do we react to the arrogant idea that the U.S. has the right to go around invading other countries or promoting civil wars within them?
Today American foreign-policy talk among the punditry and the policy intellectuals is blithe in assumpting that if the U.S. feels like intervening in another country, changing its government form or leadership, inflicting collective punishments, well, that's all good. If it involves committing what is clearly aggression under the U.N. Charter and would be called aggression if committed by another country against the U.S. or one of our allies, well, we won't be too fussed and don't need to talk about it, except the details.
Charlie Wilson's War normalizes such assumptions in an interesting way. It suggests that promoting civil war in somebody else's country if so simple that even an otherwise corrupt and ineffectual if sometimes charming wastrel and carry it off, and make us laugh while doing so. It's the inverse of Our Man in Havana.
Here is a question I think Democrats need to face: If we get a new Democratic administration, should it be committed to obeying the rule of international law?
Unfortunately all three of our leading candidates have taken at least some positions that essentially say, "No, only when it suits our advantage." They won't be as bad as Bush, but they won't really challenge or reverse much of the damage he's done. Culture matters, and the film Charlie Wilson's War is going to make it easier for our elected officials to say one thing to us in campaigns and do other things in practice, as we've seen post 2006 elections.
Eric Chambers (unverified)
Congressman, thanks for the post. This was a really interesting read, and a nice supplement to the movie.
Grant Schott (unverified)
I was pleasently surprised in Les's rememberance to learn that Wilson was so liberal on many issues. Most Texas (and other SOuthern) Democrat lawmakers through the 80's were conservative or at least centrist Dixiecrats. FOr example, Phil GRamm was an ultra conservative Democrat in the House before being elected to the Senate in 1984, and he and other Dems helped pass the Reagan tax cut- Defecit growth bills in the early 80's. The late Lloyd Bentsen, a centrist D Senator from Texas, was probably liberal compared to many of the Texas Dems in the House at that time.
I would also add that Al Gore was a moderate-conservative Democrat congressman from Tennessee from 77-84, probabaly no less conservative than CHarlie Wilson. In fact, Les was quoted in a Gore bio (I think it was "The Prince of Tennessee") as being quite critical of Gore for his intense support fo the MX missle in the early 80's.
jefferson smith (unverified)
I agree...Great post. Fascinating stuff. Hope you will continue to share with us yungins good story.
Mack Daddy T (unverified)
You need to update your knowledge base. The arrogant imperialists were played by the 200,000 members of the armed forces of the U.S.S.R., WHO INVADED AFGHANISTAN!
When the Soviets were unable to prevail, they were forced to withdraw, leading (in no small part) to the decline of the communist regime. That's a good thing. Even for Democrats.
If you went to graduate school, you probably learned something about the cold war. It frequently boiled into a shooting war in many developing nations where both the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. engaged in war by proxy. And both sides were planting land mines.
Again, from the good news files: we won the Cold War! Yeah team! Why are progressives (like Chris Lowe) so angry about American Victory?
P. Daddy T (unverified)
If you went to graduate school, you probably learned something about the cold war. It frequently boiled over into a shooting war in developing nations where both the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. engaged in war by proxy. Both sides were planting land mines, and both sides were propping up unsavory militants. Both sides engaged in this behavior because they believed it to be in their national interest. At least one of them were wrong.
Again, from the good news files: the U.S. won the Cold War and the Soviet Empire disintegrated! Yeah team! Why be so angry about American Victory?
Mack P,
My sins are my own, the belong to me, as Patti Smith once said. Please don't hang them on a label and then pin that label on anyone else. Look at the thread. Am I singing in the chorus?
Underneath it all, what constitutes our national interest is probably a large part of what divides us on various points and branches of subsequent reasoning. I've already hijacked this thread too much & will leave it at that.
I think thanks go out to P Daddy T for making Chris Lowe's point for him about the lack of difference between the foreign policy of a lot of Democrats and Republicans.
American Victory! Hell, yeah! It's like making sausage.
I have to say that my reactions (more to the movie than to Les AuCoin's post) were very much like Chris's - all the more so when you see what's happening now in Pakistan.
For those who wonder why, I'd suggest reading Steve Coll's fabulous Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden.
What Coll shows in painful detail is how the execution of the war in Afghanistan played much more into Pakistani and Saudi interests than U.S. interests. If this was an "American Victory" it was a Pyrrhic one.
Robert G. Gourley (unverified)
I saw Charlie Wilson's War in a four day glut of movie going that included the Great Debaters, Golden Compass, and the National Treasure flicks (I wasn't the only one picking). Charlie's was tops, followed closely by the Debaters - and I wish I hadn't wasted my time with the Treasure flick.
I have the book on order, and can't wait for it to arrive. Les your account made it even better.
Afghanistan was only important to us until the Soviets were defeated. The country (and her surviving population) were decimated and we did little to maintain our influence (aka "goodwill") in the region.
The movie ended with this alleged quote from Charlie, "These things happened. They were glorious, and they changed the world. Then we f*-up the end game."
= expletive
Bill Bodden (unverified)
The potential tragedy of this movie is that its inherent mythology will become part of historical education for many Americans who will take it as fact and fail to check on its accuracy, or lack thereof. Americans are, for the most part, historically illiterate. They don't need to be fed more drivel, especially when around 30% still believe Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was involved in 9/11. Otherwise, I appreciated Les AuCoin's recollections of his time in Congress with his gunslinger colleague.
We didn't win the Cold War. The Soviets lost it. Big difference. According to Fall from Glory: The Men Who Sank the U.S. Navy by Gregory L. Vistica US Naval Intelligence people were concerned that Reagan's drive for a 600-ship fleet would bankrupt the United States. Fortunately for us, Gorbachev injected some degree of intelligence into the 30-plus years of cold war lunacy with perestroika and helped bring that nonsense to an end.
Interesting perspective from Les AuCoin, but I share Chris Lowe's discomfort with romanticizing cowboy geopolitics, as Charlie Wilson's War does. That attitude leads to disregard of statesmanship and international agreements, cooking intelligence, and preemptive aggression. Look where that gets us.
Yeah, and then there's always the value of demonizing someone versus humanizing - which is the most progressive?
That would sort of depend on whether the person was a demon, wouldn't it?
Anyone who dismisses justified criticism of someone's actions -- however nice of a guy they are -- as "demonizing" wouldn't seem to be particularly serious about accountability.
Robert G. Gourley,
Amen, Robert. I'm all for humanizing folks. Let's start with the thousands, no millions, who have been victimized by US foreign policy. Let's consider their humanity before dropping more bombs, destroying more economies, and subverting more governments in the name of US interests, spreading "democracy", and defeating the "evil doers."
Then we can work on humanizing ego-maniacal, on-the-take politicians with colorful private lives.
Robert G. Gourley wrote:
'The movie ended with this alleged quote from Charlie, "These things happened. They were glorious, and they changed the world. Then we f*-up the end game."'
The "f*-up the end game" was played on The Grand Chessboard, on which the people of Afghanistan do not rate even one pawn to represent their interests. Starving, tortured, and powerless people often provide a dandy excuse for the projection of power, but they are very rarely the reason for it.
It may seen simplistic to regard foreign policy as a tool of bankers, manufacturers, and resource extractors, but I fear that the truth of this matter is all too simple.
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows that the war is over Everybody knows the good guys lost Everybody knows the fight was fixed The poor stay poor, the rich get rich Thats how it goes Everybody knows
I don't read full posts very often on here, but yours usually draw me in, Les. Great story and well told. You stand out among all the Oregon ex-politicians for your ability and willingness to offer personal and authentic views of things past as well as your unvarnished approach to things present (your Cheney commentary comes to mind). Thank you. p.s. I can't wait for the day when you choose to regale us all with your reflections on our current senior U.S. Senator....
Bob Rees (unverified)
Great post Les! I think it's high time you wrote a autobiography!
I can't wait to see the movie and hopefully add more to this thread!
Best in '08- especially to "D's"
The US in Afghanistan: An Imperialist Comedy
Cheryl Scott (unverified)
I went into the movie last night with hopes this was a feel good movie about how the efforts of a few people could provide positive change for humanity as was evidenced in Amazing Grace, the epic of William Wilburforces et.al.'s success in ending slave trade. My opinion took a nose dive when Handel's Messiah whitewashed the absurdity of the increase of our military budget. I cannot help but think what stupendous timing has occurred for Charlie Wilson's Private War to coincide with Congresses approval of increasing our military budget over $70trillion? or what ever the fucking number is we now spend to kill women, children and men around the world. The inferences at the end spouted by the Houston benefactress asking Wilson has any other covert operation spent obtained this much funding....as if all of the other covert operations the US has funded (Panama, Philippines, Guatemala, to name a few) have been done in the name of helping humanity. I have found this movie to sadly glorify and justify Congresses continual funding of the War Machine. I left the movie appalled. I left the movie now wondering who is pulling the puppet strings for Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts? For god sake, we have to open our eyes and call the kettle black.
Mister Tee (unverified)
Cheryl thinks U.S. Foreign Policy is consistently anti-democratic, but fails to recognize there were two parties fighting the cold war, oftentimes via proxy armies in the third world. While that may not excuse all covert action, it certainly provides the necessary context: much of American Imperialism in the 1950's to 80's was in response to Soviet Imperialism. We won, they lost. Get over it.
Free and fair elections would eventually be achieved in Panama, the Philippines, Guatemala AND Iraq (not to mention Chile, Argentina, Nicaragua, and El Salvador). Probably would have turned out differently had the Soviet clients prevailed. To wit: Hugo Chavez.
Remember President John Kennedy? He was anti-communist too. Sadly, JFK probably couldn't win the Democratic Primary in 2008: he's much too conservative.
Cheryl also thinks Tom Hanks & Julia Roberts are tools of American Imperialism.
Which is clearly not possible: because Tom and Julia both drive a Prius. Use more tinfoil.
'Nuff said.
Anyone who dismisses justified criticism of someone's actions
Not me, I only asked which was the more progressive.
There is a major difference between humanizing and romanticizing. Any villain, even Adolf Hitler, might be humanized in a work of literature, but to romanticize his atrocities would be unforgivable, don't you think?
Mister Tee wrote:
"much of American Imperialism in the 1950's to 1980's was in response to Soviet Imperialism."
<h2>There we have it, folks, ironclad proof that human consciousness has not evolved one iota since the time of Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon.</h2>


You will come to realize that fall is my favorite time of year. The weather is perfect, it's tortilla soup season and there's nothing I love more than fall clothing.
This year, one of my goals is to say yes to new adventures and to seek these adventures out too. So I've created this bucket list of things that I am going to try and cross off before Thanksgiving.
Who's with me? Tag us in your bucket list accomplishments on instagram (@anniepoppinsshop) and use #apsbucketlist to let us know what you're doing!


Istanbul Policy Center organized the third meeting of Turkey's Climate Policies Roundtable Discussions titled "Climate Adaptation Policies in Turkey" on Monday, October 31 at Bilkent University in Ankara. The discussion was facilitated by IPC Climate Studies Coordinator Ümit Şahin.
The third gathering of Turkey's Climate Policies Round Table Discussions, organized by Sabancı University Istanbul Policy Center, took place in Ankara at Bilkent University on October 31, 2016 based on the theme Turkey's Policies on Adaptation to Climate Change. The meeting hosted numerous actors from different sectors who engage in Turkey's climate policies. The discussion was focused on the post-December 2015 Paris Climate Conference (COP21) developments in adaptation to climate change, the importance of adaptation policies for different sectors, and the issue of adaptation in action plans and in practice. The meeting, which was closed to the press, hosted 18 guests: representatives from Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning, Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs, State Hydraulic Works (DSI), General Directorate of Forestry (OGM), and Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD), as well as representatives from civil society organizations (TEMA Foundation, WWF Turkey, The Nature Conservation Centre, The Global Balance Association), a representative from the Delegation of the European Union to Turkey, experts from international organizations (UNIDO, UNDP), and academia from Hacettepe University, METU, Boğaziçi University, and Sabancı University. Ümit Şahin, Senior Scholar at the Istanbul Policy Center, organized and facilitated the meeting.
During the four hours of discussion, the participants shared their thoughts and questions concerning the issues of implementation of adaptation policies, awareness raising within state institutions and other sectors, the relationship between mitigation and adaptation policies, operational challenges to the projects managed by various actors, significance of ecosystem-based embedded policies, developments in adaptation following the Paris Climate Conference and the dialogue between the public, and private sectors as well as civil society and academia concerning Turkey's position in this, along with room for cooperation and negotiation. The round table discussions will continue to take place in more specific areas of policies.
The Istanbul Policy Center report on Mapping Turkish Actors in Climate Change Policies was published in late 2014 by Ümit Şahin, following the research conducted on improving the mechanisms for opportunities of negotiation and democratic decision-making on Turkey's climate policies, which paved the way for the Round Table Discussions.
Please click here for the report (in Turkish).


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Jahangir Hasanzade (en azéri : Cahangir Həsənzadə), né le  à Bakou en Azerbaïdjan, est un footballeur international azerbaïdjanais, qui évoluait au poste de gardien de but.

Biographie

Carrière de joueur

Jahangir Hasanzade dispute deux matchs en Ligue des champions, et 8 matchs en Coupe de l'UEFA.

Carrière internationale
Jahangir Hasanzade compte 34 sélections avec l'équipe d'Azerbaïdjan entre 1998 et 2007.

Il est convoqué pour la première fois par le sélectionneur national Vagif Sadygov pour un match amical contre l'Estonie le  (victoire 2-1). Il reçoit sa dernière sélection le  contre la Serbie (défaite 6-1).

Palmarès
 Avec le Neftchi Bakou
 Champion d'Azerbaïdjan en 2004 et 2005
 Vainqueur de la Coupe d'Azerbaïdjan en 1999, 2002 et 2004

 Avec le Qarabağ Ağdam
 Vainqueur de la Coupe d'Azerbaïdjan en 2006

 Avec l'Inter Bakou
 Champion d'Azerbaïdjan en 2008

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Joueur du Volyn Loutsk
Joueur du Tavria Simferopol
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Joueur du FK Inter Bakou
Joueur du FK Qabala
Joueur de l'AZAL Bakou
Joueur du FK Khazar Lankaran
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The Arizona State Sun Devils began their game at No. 10 Washington with a big turnover that led to a touchdown.
But the turnover itself wasn't what got the Internet buzzing Saturday night.
As more and more college football teams find ways to celebrate takeaways, ASU added a novelty of its own in Seattle. After Chase Lucas intercepted a Washington pass on the first play of the game -- a play that led to a Sun Devil touchdown -- he celebrated by getting in some bicep curls.
Weight training never stops for Herm Edwards' Sun Devils.
The prop is ASU's answer to the "turnover chain" -- a turnover celebration prop introduced by the Miami Hurricanes. A number of teams have since introduced their own turnover gimmicks, including Oregon State's "turnover chainsaw" featured in Saturday's game vs. Arizona.
At any rate, social media seemed to appreciate the latest "turnover" gimmick in college football.


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go away already. sick of these hoes.
Vixen Amber Rose is good with numbers. The pregnant model went to social media to treat the world to a new equation-based selfie. On Monday, Muva Rose low-key made her pitch for an early Woman Crush Wednesday crown.
The Kardashians are a very successful family, however no amount of money and fame can diffuse occasional feuds sisters have. On Sunday's episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Khloe and Kourtney were at odds while in Bali on vacation. It was Khloe's first big trip with daughter True Thompson.
Kendall Jenner appears to be taking a style cue from Kim Kardashian's oldest daughter, North West. While the 23-year-old reality TV star and model has access to the top stylists and designers in the industry, it looks like she's taking a page from her niece's fashion book.
Here's a question we didn't anticipate asking: Who wore it better, Kendall Jenner or North West? But it's a question we find ourselves asking after the supermodel and her niece were photographed in extremely similar Prada tops just a few days apart over the past week.
Kendall Jenner and Ben Simmons have allegedly broken up and it never takes her long to found a new guy. According to this report from Sports Gossip, she was all over French Montana during her sister's Kourtney 40th birthday party.
Is Kourtney Kardashian Getting Back Together With Younes Bendjima?
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Some fixes to the TLS support to gracefully degrade service.
The server wasn't correctly calculating the percentage of quota used when deciding whether or not to issue a warning.
Implemented single-instance store: deliver, when using LMTP, will only store one copy of a message per partition, and hard link it among multiple users. Sites with a large number of partitions could see a performance decrease.
Added STARTTLS support; requires OpenSSL.
The duplicate delivery database expiration (deliver -E) was deleting all entries; fixed.
imtest is now a little smarter about parsing the protocol to avoid synchronization errors prior to authentication.
timsieved's parser is now written in C; should be no noticeable changes, but should make compiling it much easier.
Fix to enclosed message parsing (thanks to John Myers).
When trying to skip over non-synchronizing literals during error recovery, the IMAP server never stopped eating. Fixed.
Added with-sasldir as a configure option.
Fixed a bug in cyradm when it got the CAPABILITY list.
Fixed bugs relating to the incomplete SASLfication of deliver.
Fixed bugs in deliver relating to duplicate delivery suppression and Sieve vacation functionality.
Fixed a memory leak in deliver.
When looking for SASL options, imapd wasn't defaulting to the option without the plugin name requesting it. This caused PLAIN authentications to incorrectly fail.
Changed the expiration time of pts entries to 3 hours; only affects sites using krb_pts as the authorization method.
Fixed some bugs in imclient; mostly affects cyradm.
Fixed a bug in the Sieve lexer and improved the usefulness of the Sieve test program.
An annoying memory management bug in imclient was fixed and it's efficiency was improved somewhat.
Added the sieve client (installsieve) and server (timsieved) for getting sieve scripts onto the server and managing them once they are there.
The default Sieve script layout has changed to sievedir/u/user/default; this supports multiple Sieve scripts per user with the ability to switch between them.
Fixed the kerberos-to-local-host bug (patch by Greg Hudson, ghudson@mit.edu).
Started changes to deliver to support LMTP AUTH.
Improved the error messages logged when authentication fails.
Fixed a bug dealing with argument processing in the arbitron program.
pop3d now correctly supports SASL AUTH.
imtest will no longer prompt for authentication or authorization names; instead, it defaults to the current Unix user. Override on the command line.
Likewise, cyradm will no longer prompt. It now accepts "-m" to specify what SASL mechanism to use, and the pwcommand option to authenticate should once again work when used non-interactively.
Changed the sieve option in the configure script to –disable-sieve.
Updated reconstruct and quota to check for hashed imap spool directories correctly.
deliver now will not use Sieve if duplicate delivery suppression is disabled. There was also a bug that caused the duplicate delivery database to be checked even if dupelim was disabled.
deliver now uses tm_gmtoff if available to check for the local timezone.
The dohash script now takes a "-i" option to run interactively and the "-f" option to issue warnings instead of fatal errors.
cyradm should now work with all mechanisms (it now handles empty challenges and responses).
COPY for non-existent sequence numbers returns NO; this contrasts to UID COPY, which always returns OK.
FETCH for non-existent sequence numbers returns NO; this contrasts to UID FETCH, which always returns OK.
Fixed a misleading BAD responses to commands that take sequences.
Added UIDNEXT untagged response to a SELECT (from draft-crispin-imapv-07.txt).
pop3d now correctly passes SASL configuration options to libsasl.
imtest now correctly flushes the server's output to the screen.
Added more hashing using a simple but stupid algorithm. Now whenever there is a mailbox access, quota access, or subscription access, it goes through a hash function. this is done to help reduce the number of files/directories in any given directory.
Added the binary mbpath. Given a mailbox name, this binary will print the filesystem path to that mailbox. This way if you have multiple partitions and hashing turned out, you don't have to spend as many mental cycles figuring out where the actual directory is.
deliver now checks sieveusehomedir and sievedir in the config file to determine where to look for sieve scripts.
ptloader now has a workaround for afs 3.5.
clarified an error message in message.c when an unexpected end of file is encountered.
fixed some random memory leaks in deliver.
fixed a fairly major bug in prot_fill. it was performing incorrectly when reading only a single character.
fixed a bug in how imtest looked for OK or NO.
fixed a memory leak in imapd.
imapd now allows any user (or member of a group) listed in "proxyservers" to proxy.
ANSI C is now required.
imtest's interface has changed, to allow for SASL authentication. Sorry, but it had to happen. It now also includes a timing test (-z) which we use to test the SASL layers.
imtest no longer uses a non-synchronizing literal with LOGIN, so it should work against all IMAP servers.
The prot layer now uses SASL for encryption and authentication. This changed a large amount of code, and some build procedures.
As a side effect of SASL, –enable-static-libraries now doesn't do anything. We are considering compiling cyrus with libtool to change this.
Two bugs fixed: UID FETCH's with no messages in range now return OK, not BAD. And an obscure bug in LIST case sensitivity is fixed.
Most of the charset.c code (and mkchartable.c code) has been replaced thanks to John Myers).
Bug fix in message.c to look up headers in the cache when they're in the cache correctly; thanks to Chris Newman for the fix.
Code cleanup here and there (thanks to Bruce Balden).
Annoying (and confusing) lines in syslog every time a message was delivered if deliver was compiled using dbm saying that deliver was "unable to fetch entry" have been removed.
The arbitron program now takes a mailbox pattern argument for the mailbox to run on. The manpage always said it did anyway.
Uninitialized variable fixed in imapd.c with the shutdown file code.
Minor tweaks to purify build config.
Fix minor memory leak in proc.c where procfname wasn't being free'd.
Fix brain fart in auth_krb_pts.c where a CLOSE() was done to a DB handle BEFORE we access the data read from the DB database. This means we were copying free'd memory into the groups list. Note this only affects people using DB, AFS and ptloader.
Committed minor syslog log level changes in ptloader and deliver.
make distclean now does what it's supposed to.
Possibly misnamed experimental –enable-static-libraries switch that tries to do a good job of building binaries with whatever static libraries are availible. If you use this, you do so at your own risk, and if it fails, we will disavow all knowledge of you and your team. Good luck, Jim.
Add optional third argument to imtest for it to take input from a file. This is a gross hack.
LIST now honors the reference argument.
Added –disable-server switch to optionally prevent compilation of server to help sites that just want client libraries (so cyradm and libcyrus can be compiled on remote systems without installing stuff into /usr/cyrus/bin, etc.) For now, the server is still configured in this case, and a Makefile is generated. This could change in future versions.
Fixed a mmap leak in index.c in index_search_evaluate that caused problems on complex searches. Thanks to Jeff Schiller for pointing this out. Fixed a potential leak in mboxlist.c that happened if a rename went awry. Thanks to Chris Newman for pointing this out.
Fixed a bug in LIST and LSUB code so that user.* mailboxes will be printed on every LIST instead of just the first one.
Implemented the POP3 Extension Mechanism, RFC 2449, in order to advertise the capabilities already supported.
More cleanup the ptloader/auth_krb_pts code. If you use Kerberos and IMSP, you MUST pick up cyrus-imspd-v1.5a6 (or newer).
Split out duplicate delivery elimination to multiple files. This should help reduce the lock contention that normally occurs with this file. To not clutter config_dir, the files will be located in a subdirectory named deliverdb, for example /var/imap/deliverdb. If you don't make this directory, nothing bad will happen (other than duplicate delivery elimination will not work).
The time value is now stored as an integer in native byte order as opposed to converting it to a string before it is stored in the database.
checkdelivered() now obtains a read lock instead of a write lock when trying to check for duplicates. Only markdelivered() grabs a write lock.
Added logic to cause cyradm to abort more cleanly if not given command line arguments in an interactive session. This gets rid of the dreaded application-specific intialization failed messages.
The CREATE command now ignores a trailing hierarchy delimiter instead of ignoring the CREATE command.
UIDPLUS is now always advertised in CAPABILITY and is always availible. The UIDPLUS extension is a set of optimizations using UID values instead of sequence numbers and is described in RFC 2359.
Cyrus no longer rejects messages with 8-bit characters in the headers. Rather than reject the message, characters with the 8th bit set are changed to 'X'. Internationalization in headers is supported by the mechanism specified in RFC 2047 (and RFC 1342).
If ENABLE_EXPERIMENT is set, the server no longer claims to support OPTIMIZE-1; instead, it claims to support UIDPLUS. The Getuids command has been removed since it is not in the UIDPLUS document (draft-myers-imap-optimize-03.txt).
The checks for com_err in configure are a little smarter and look to see if all the pieces are there before trying to use them.
Added support for the NAMESPACE extension (if –enable-experiment is supplied).
Added a "reject8bit" switch to imapd.conf. If set to "true", messages containing 8-bit-set characters in the headers are rejected (the previous behavior); if set to "false" or left to the default value, messages containing 8-bit-set characters have these characters changed to a constant character ('X').
Added the "fud" program. This is an interm hack designed to allow allow finger information to be retrieved for cyrus users. This is experimental and it is not recommend that services be built arround this feature, since it is likely to be removed in a future release of the IMAP server.
Bug fix: User defined flags now work properly.
Patches from John Myers, including more glob fixes.
Use the default hash function from DB. Note that this means that the existing delivered.db and ptscache.db is NOT compatible with this release. These files should be removed.
Provide two debugging programs that dump the databases: ptdump and dump_deliverdb.
The mailboxes file is now closed if it isn't likely to be referenced, hopefully preventing old mailboxes files from hanging around in memory as frequently.
Added a patch from Eric Hagberg to work around a possible deadlock condition in mboxlist.c where rename isn't atomic.
Patch from John Myers to get rid of cyrus.seen corruption in bsearch_mem.
Patch from John Myers and to allow ISO-8859-1 characters in mailbox names.
Makedepend still runs, and still generates warnings, but these are squirrled away in makedepend.log.
On mailbox delete, the server will no longer try and unlink ".." and "." as we got a report that it seriously breaks one file system (even as non-root).
Added some support for Netscape's very misleading "Administrate My Mail" menu option in Communicator. Allows for a URL to be set in imapd.conf for the page to refer users to; needs to be turned on with –enable-netscapehack at compile time to enable it.
Bug swap: imtest quotes password with a non-synchronizing literal in order to allow weird characters like ) in passwords. But it doesn't look to see if the server supports non-synchronizing literals.
If the file "msg/motd" exists, the first line is now sent to clients upon login.
Bug fix: Flags beginning with are system flags and users can only create the defined flags. The code to do this before was confused.
The configure scripts and makefiles have some random fixes.
Added a contrib directory for reasons of laziness in collecting patches, not all of which should be in the distribution.
ptloader can now renew its AFS authentication by reading from a srvtab file.
The configure script now looks for a libcom_err and can use an installed one if one exists.
Bug fix: auth_newstate now initializes its structures.
Bug fix: pop3d.c, a printf was changed to prot_printf.
Cyrus now sends X-NON-HIERARCHICAL-RENAME to alert clients that it is not handling RENAME in an IMAP4rev1 compliant manner. This will be fixed in a subsequent release.
Bug fix: imclient_autenticate now does resolution on the hostname before authenticating to it. This caused problems when authenticating to an address that was a CNAME.
Bug fix: LIST %.% (and other multiple hierarchy delimiter matches) works properly. Several other glob.c fixes are included as well.
Bug fix: a fetch of exclusively BODY[HEADER.FIELDS...] should now work properly.
Bug fix: reconstruct now considers a nonexistant INN news directory to be empty; this makes reconstruct fix the cyrus.* files in the imap news partition.
Added a manpage for imclient.
Implemented the "IMAP4rev1" protocol commands. (The hierarchical behavior of RENAME, which was added late to the IMAP4rev1 specification, is not implemented.) Changes the minor version number of the cyrus mailbox database format to 1. IMPORTANT: it is necessary to run the command "reconstruct -r" as the cyrus user after upgrading the Cyrus IMAP software from version 1.4 or earlier.
If the file "msg/shutdown" exits in the configuration directory, the IMAP server will issue the first line in the file in an untagged BYE message and shut down.
Permit SPACE in mailbox names.
Permit the "modified UTF-7" internationalized mailbox name convention.
"User opened mailbox" messages are now logged at the DEBUG level instead of the INFO level.
Added -q (ignore quota) switch to deliver.
New "krbck" program for diagnosing common kerberos problems.
auth_unix no longer requires users to be in the passwd file.
Make MAILBOX_BADFORMAT and MAILBOX_NOTSUPPORTED temporary errors.
Use "unspecified-domain" instead of server's hostname to fill out RFC 822 addresses without the "@domain" part.
Make "reconstruct -r" with no args reconstruct every mailbox.
The configure script now defaults to using unix_pwcheck instead of unix if the file /etc/shadow exists.
The location of the pwcheck socket directory now defaults to "/var/ptclient/". It is controlled by the "–with-statedir=DIR" option, which defaults to "/var".
Bug fix: by using an certain address form, one could deliver to a user's mailbox bypassing the ACL's.
Bug fix: un-fold header lines when parsing for the ENVELOPE.
Delete quota roots when deleting the last mailbox that uses them. Doesn't catch all cases, but should get over 99% of them.
Implement plaintextloginpause configuration option, imposes artificial delay on plaintext password logins.
Implement popminpoll configuration option, limits frequency of POP3 logins.
Implement AFS PT server group support.
Support the new ACL command set in the IMAP server.
Bug fix: Have to initialize reply to 0 in pop3d. Was causing POP3 server to occasionally drop the connection during authentication.
Bug fix: The COPY command wasn't issuing a [TRYCREATE] when appropriate for sub-mailboxes of INBOX.
Bug fix: Renaming a mailbox wasn't correctly changing its UIDVALIDITY.
Bug fix: Renaming a mailbox to itself, in order to move it to a different partition, was not working correctly.
Update the AUTH support in pop3d to conform to the latest draft specification.
Re-implement large sections of the netnews support. It no longer requires modifications to INN, as it now expunges the index entries for expired/canceled articles upon select of the newsgroup.
Implement newsspool configuration option, for separating the directories for the news spool and the various cyrus.* IMAP server index files.
Bug fix: deal with truncated Date: header values.
Bug fix: memory mapping code, deal better with 0-length maps, since mmap() appears to crap out on that boundary condition.
Portability fix: if no strerror, have to define NEED_SYS_ERRLIST.
Bug fix: used append instead of lappend in cyradmin, preventing use of any port other than IMAP.
When the client is streaming its commands, the IMAP server attempts to stream its tagged responses.
Modify zephyr support to compile without Kerberos support.
Add a bunch of prototype declararations to the code.
In deliver, change the MULT support to instead use the LMTP syntax.
imclient: support tagged intermediate replies and a default callback.
Implement some experimental protocol extensions for optimizing disconnected use resynchronization. Most extensions are disabled by default. Client authors should contact info-cyrus@andrew.cmu.edu if they wish to experiment with these.
In Makefiles, change $(AR) to ar – HPUX make is defective.
Bug fix: in imclient.c, don't free NULL pointers and don't call htons() on the output of getservbyname(). Have to abort sending the command if you get a tagged response when sending a literal.
The auth_xxx routines now create/take a state argument instead of maintaining internal static state.
Solaris mktime() is buggy in some releases. Create and use mkgmtime() for parsing date strings.
Message parsing routines now use memory mapping, though they still copy data around in line-sized buffers.
Implemented the "reconstruct -m" command, for reconstructing the mailboxes file. IMPORTANT: it is necessary to run the command "reconstruct -m" as the cyrus user after upgrading the Cyrus IMAP software from version 1.3 or earlier. We recommend you make a backup copy of the mailboxes file in the configuration directory before performing the conversion.
Mailbox names are now case sensitive, not case insensitive. "INBOX" is the exception, and is treated as being case-insensitive.
Personal mailboxes now appear to their owners as being under the "INBOX." hierarchy. For example, the mailbox "user.bovik.work" appears to the user "bovik" as "INBOX.work". The user may still refer to the mailbox with the name "user.bovik.work".
Previously, the code used "anybody" as the name of the group that all users are in, but the documentation used the name "anyone". Changed the code to match the documentation. The name "anybody" will be canonicalized to the name "anyone".
The install document now gives different recommended locations for the server databases. The recommended location of the configuration directory changed from "/usr/cyrus" to "/var/imap" and the recommended location of the default partition directory changed from "/usr/spool/cyrus" to "/var/spool/cyrus". It is NOT necessary to change the locations of these directories when upgrading from version 1.3 or earlier of the Cyrus IMAP server software. If you do wish to change the locations of these directories to match the new recommendations, simply rename the directories and change the appropriate values in your /etc/imapd.conf file.
Created a "make install" rule. See the installation document for all the new corresponding configure options. Note the recommended location of the "imapd", "pop3d", and "deliver" programs has changed, this change needs to be reflected in the "inetd.conf" and "sendmail.cf" files.
New "login_unix_pwcheck" module and "pwcheck" daemon, for improved shadow password support. See the "pwcheck/README.pwcheck" file in the distribution for details.
Renamed the "login_unix_shadow" module to "login_unix_getspnam".
Added a mail notification mechanism, using Zephyr.
Added a feature to automatically create user IMAP accounts. Controlled by the "autocreatequota" config option.
Added the "logtimestamps" config option, for putting timestamp information into protocol telemetry logs.
Beefed up the Kerberos checks in Configure to ensure the DES library routines exist.
On some systems, the "echo" command with no arguments emits a newline. Changed the installation document to instead use the "true" command to create the "mailboxes" file.
Store a redundant copy of a mailbox's ACL in the cyrus.header file, so "reconstruct -m" may later use it as a backup.
Had to remove the declaration of tcl_RcFileName for the latest version of Tcl.
Make much more extensive use of memory mapping. Replace the binary search module with one that searches a memory mapped area.
Replaced the yacc-based RFC822 address parser with a hand-coded one.
Replaced the et (error table) libary with a version that doesn't require lex or yacc. Remove the lex/yacc checking from Configure.
Safety feature: most programs now refuse to run as root.
Bug fix: Issue [TRYCREATE] tag on COPY command when appropriate.
Bug fix: The quoted-printable decoder wasn't ignoring trailing whitespace, as required by MIME.
Bug fix: Don't spew cascade errors if the server gets an EOF during/after reading an APPEND literal.
Bug fix: gmtmoff_gmtime.c was returning results with the wrong sign.
Bug fix: imclient_send was appending spaces to %d and %u and the response parser was not handling responses that did not contain a space after the keyword.
Bug fix: rmnews wasn't removing some (un-indexed) article files correctly.
Added workaround for the Linux mkdir() problem.
In collectnews, avoid O(n**2) behavior when processing articles that have already expired.
Bug fix: append_addseen() would screw up if no messages were previously seen.
Added the CMU-specific amssync and cmulocal directories.
Use memmove instead of bcopy.
Implemented the first pass of SMTP/MULT support in deliver.
Added cacheid parameter to auth_setid(), for AFS PT server support.
Fixed bug in character set code that broke text searches. Sites which care about searching headers need to reconstruct their existing mailboxes.
Add support for UIDVALIDITY special information token.
Add syncnews and arbitron programs.
Redo duplicate delivery elimination in deliver.
Bug fixed: Must re-read files after acquiring a lock. Cannot trust the mtime of a file to increment when writing the file–file could be written to multiple times in the same second.
Bug fixed: EXAMINE command should not affect Recent status.
Update the user's Recent high-water-mark when we report new messages.
Allow privacy to be turned off at compile-time with –disable-privacy configure switch.
Fix typo in cyradm preventing "all" from being recognized.
Include map_private.c memory mapping module for systems like HPUX which have half-working mmap() implementations.
Switch to using UTF-8 for internal search format. Sites which care about internationalized searching of headers need to reconstruct all their existing mailboxes.
Fix some errors in the iso-8859-* tables.
Add and correct a bunch of case-independence mappings in the character tables.
First pass at implementing the STATUS extension; disabled for release.
First pass at implementing IMAP/IMSP server integration. Not ready for general use.
Add new_cred and free_cred mechanisms to authentication modules.
Don't complain when doing "reconstruct -r foo" and foo isn't a mailbox.
Bug fix: In an error case of the ACL handling code, we have to restore tab before breaking out of loop.
Fix file descriptor leak in quota system.
Change a bunch of int variables to unsigned.
Better error reporting on reads that end up short.
Changed the syslog facility from "local4" to "local6".
Removed the renounce setuid check in "deliver". The "deliver" program must now be non-executable by other.
Redesigned the implementation of SEARCH CHARSET.
Sites that wish to search for non-ASCII characters in the headers of existing mailboxes must run reconstruct on all their mailboxes after upgrading to this version.
Added AUTH and KPOP support to the POP3 server.
Added search support for the ISO-2022-JP character set.
Replaced the search engine with a partial Boyer-Moore algorithm.
Special-case optimized searching US-ASCII text.
Fixed a bug which caused the message parser to spin-loop on a particular degenerate invalid-MIME case.
Fixed a performance bug in the message parser.
Tracked last-minute changes to the IMAP4 protocol.
Fixed a bug in UNSUBSCRIBE which caused too many subscriptions to be removed.
Added a bunch more "configure" options.
Fixed a bug in the LIST/LSUB Noselect code.
Fixed bug in the globbing code which caused the "*%" pattern to work incorrectly.
Client-side Kerberos support is now conditionalized on HAVE_ACTE_KRB, which is set by configure.
Fixed some invalid buffer-alignment assumptions in the Kerberos code.
Made the lexers compatible with flex. Configure now looks for and prefers to use flex and bison/byacc.
Made the IMAP server check for the existence of the mailboxes file upon startup, in order to give a more informative error message for this common configuration error.


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Kanadugathan : a dynamic center of Chettiar communal and economic life.
Walking about the narrow streets of Kanadukathan - one of 9 villages of the prominent Chettiar community of these parts - you could be forgiven for having fallen back in time to a past that still looms large and casts its shadow upon the daily lives of people here ; where majestic villas, imposing colonial-style bungalows and other stately ruins of a bygone era trying to impress onlookers with their stature and grandeur. The marketplace is abuzz with activities that have not changed in a long time - crafts, jewelry, sculpture and woodwork - all of which form the economic, social and cultural leitmotif of this dynamic and ingenious merchant community. Shoppers can make some great buys and bargains here! And for those of you drawn to religion and want to explore the sacred in the lives of these people, Kanadukathan abounds in many temples known for their unique history, most notably the ancient 1800 years old Pallayiar Patti temple a short ride away.
Chettinad is a cluster of 72 villages in Sivaganga district of Southern Tamilnadu, India.
Nearest Airport- Madurai, Trichy
Largest Town- Kaaraikkudy
Railway Station- Kanadugathan
Popular- Architecture, Cuisine, Crafts
Multi-faceted ChettinadThere are many facets to the Chettinad region. Like, the astute business community of Chettiars, distinct spicy cuisine, stunning ancient mansions and the artistic Athangudi floor tiles.
Timeless, spiritualThe timeless temples built centuries ago with intricate stone carvings and towering gopurams are still around. Even today, they adhere to the age-old religious customs and traditions.
Majestic mansionsKnown for their architectural splendor, around 11,000 of Chettinad's mansions still remain – it's about half the number that existed 100 years ago.
Magic spinnersThe art and craft of handloom weaving is kept alive in the villages of Kanadukathan as the artistic weavers spin the chakra the real way.
Lasting architectureThe famed mansions were built over 200 years ago by the Chettiars. The feature Italian marble, Burmese teak, chandeliers, ornate woodwork ceilings, stone pillars, all integrated to perfection.
Handloom heirs The art of handloom weaving is practiced in the villages of Karaidkudi, having beem passed down from one generation to the next. Also, the beautifully woven bed runners at Visalam, are from here.
Simplicity aroundThe Chettinad region's simplicity is what you'll be charmed by, instantly. You'll see the same reflect in the ancient mansions of Chettinad, which have simplistic grandeur as their hallmark.
Tastefully ChettinadIf you've ever tasted Chettinad cuisine, you're sure to fall in love with it. Enquire about the secret of its taste, and you'll hear, "its freshly ground masalas with aromatic spices!"
Restoring pastEach mansion in Chettinad is soaked in timelessness. But while some of them are aging with neglect, others find themselves restored as heritage hotels welcoming the world.


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8 autumn walks in Cambridgeshire where you can warm up in a café
Cambridgeshire nature lovers will enjoy these cosy cafes after a chilly country walk
Ella Pengelly
(Image: Peter Byrne/PA Wire)
As the days grow colder and shorter your first inclination might be to curl up on the sofa in front of a crackling fire, but that'd be a waste of the more than 30 impressive nature reserves right on our doorstep.
Autumn is a lovely time to round up the family for a day of exploring gems like Ouse Washes and Wicken Fen, which are just teeming with majestic birds and other wildlife.
After all of that exercising you're sure to be craving a steaming cup of tea, so we've found the best local walks that include a cafe.
1. Grafham Water
What will I see along the way?
Wild and windswept, the reservoir at Grafham Water is a dramatic place to visit in autumn and winter.
Nine miles of shoreline with around 170 species of bird recorded each year makes it one of the prime bird watching sites in the county, with rare and scarce birds such as osprey and the occasional Slavonian grebe alongside the more familiar resident mallards and greylag geese.
If you love wildlife, there is always something to see here.
Yes dogs are welcome but they must be on a lead at all times. Please keep them out of the water as blue green algae, which can develop along the margins, can be harmful if ingested.
What's the cafe like?
You'll have your pick of cafes here as there are two on site. The first is attached to the Grafham Visitor Centre situated by the Marlow car park. There is a wide selection of hot and cold snacks.
The second spot, the Harbour View Café Bar, offers lovely views from its balcony above the fishing lodge.
Cafe address: Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire PE28 0BX
Pay a visit to Wicken Fen (Image: Alan Batterbee)
2. Wicken Fen Nature Reserve, Cambridgeshire
Although Wicken Fen may not have vast amounts of woodland, it's still possible to see stunning autumn colours on a walk around the reserve. During this time of year the sedge turns a beautiful chestnut colour, which becomes golden in the evenings as the sun sets and lights up the leaves.
You are more than welcome to bring along a dog but they will need to be kept on a lead. There are several bins for you to dispose of your dog's waste beside footpaths.
The cafe at the nature reserve is The Docky Hut cafe. It is the perfect spot to relax and take in the sights and sounds of the Fen as you enjoy the tasty treats available inside.
The cafe staff ask customers to bring their own cups to cut down on waste but there are also bamboo EcoCups for sale if you need one. You'll get 25p off your cuppa if you bring your own cup.
In October 2019, a temporary cafe will be running as the existing cafe undergoes rennovations. Check here to see the revised opening times.
Cafe address: Unnamed Road, Wicken, Ely CB7 5XP
Milton Country Park (Image: Warren Gunn)
3. Milton Country Park
Milton Country Park is located just a few miles north of Cambridge's city centre.
Created from old gravel pits, the 95-acre site offers a varied natural habitat with woodland, lakes and grass.
There are also more than two miles of pathways, which are suitable for bicycles and wheelchairs.
We can tell this is going to be a hit with the locals (Image: Warren Gunn)
Migratory birds increase as they take up residence for winter, particularly on Dickerson's Pit lake. Look out for cormorants, tufted ducks, gadwall, widgeon and the noisy call of greylag geese as they swoop onto the water in flocks.
Yes you can walk your dog off-lead anywhere north of the 13th public drain, which runs the length of the park. Dogs must be on lead in all areas south of the drain.
The on site cafe called Grounds had a makeover last year complete with copper light fittings, white washed tables and chairs and even a cosy woodburner to warm you up after a chilly walk around the park.
Cafe address: Cambridge Road, Milton CB24 6AZ
Starling's can be seen at Fowlmere
4. Fowlmere
The nature reserve is an ideal place for a relaxing walk and bird watching. The reedbeds and pools are fed by natural chalk springs and a chalk stream runs through the reserve.
In the late afternoon, the reeds take on a golden glow. If you stay until dusk, you have a good chance of watching barn owls hunting.
Registered assistance dogs on leads are welcome at all times. Other dogs must be on leads only along the private track along the eastern reserve boundary.
There is no cafe on site but a short drive will bring you to The Chequers restaurant and cafe. It has a nice open fire, creating the perfect atmosphere to warm up after a brisk walk.
Cafe address: High St, Fowlmere, Royston SG8 7SR
5. Shepreth, Cambridgeshire
Starting at the train station, the nice circular walk takes you via Barrington and Harlton as you walk through the Upper Cam Valley.
You'll see a combination of scrub areas, a chalk stream and pollarded willows along the boundaries.
It's also near the Shepreth Wildlife Park where you can see all sorts of animals, including Egyptian fruit bats, tigers, otters and more.
A great stop off would be the Teacake at Shepreth. It's an adorable traditional tea room set in a 1660 thatched cottage where you can warm up with a cuppa and a filling scone.
Cafe address: 8 Meldreth Rd, Shepreth, Royston SG8 6PS
6. Lakenheath Fen, Suffolk
The RSPB transformed former carrot fields into a magical wetland home for kingfishers, cranes, otters and watervoles. The reserve comprises a mixture of wetland and woodland south of the Little Ouse in Suffolk.
Autumn is the best time to spot an elusive otter and you can also see barn owls hunting silently over the grassland at dusk.
Registered assistance dogs are welcome and other dogs should stick to the public footpath along the riverbank.
Bloomsberries farm cafe is the nearest place to warm up after you explore the nature park. The husband and wife owned eatery is located in a converted barn on the Christmas Hill farm which is a perfect setting for a relaxed lunch. All food is made from scratch and changes seasonally.
Cafe address: Christmas Hill Farm/Station Rd, Brandon IP27 9AB
Ouse washes
7. Ouse Washes
Ouse Washes, the largest area of washland in the UK, has nature trails of varying lengths for people of all ages and fitness levels.
The real action starts at the end of October with the return of migrating wildfowl, and the first of the Bewick's swans returning. Cranes are another regular autumn feature, most easily spotted late in the afternoon.
Registered assistance dogs are welcome. Other dogs must be under close control due to presence of cattle. Telephone prior to your visit for advice.
Hot drinks are available in the visitor centre and for a more extensive menu visit the Bridge House Cafe. You can enjoy everything from pancakes and bacon to a full afternoon tea.
Cafe address: 15 Bridge St, Chatteris PE16 6RJ
8. The Lodge nature reserve, Bedfordshire
You'll need to venture out of Cambridgeshire for this one, but it is less than an hour drive. The lovely nature reserve has woodland, heath and acid grassland to explore. Some of the most popular species of birds at the reserve are the great spotted woodpecker, the green woodpecker and the nuthatch.
Dogs are only allowed on the bridleway, strictly not on other paths due to the sensitive nature of wildlife.
After a rousing walk, relax with a cuppa at The Lodge coffee shop on site. It offers hot drinks (from a vending machine) and a range of delicious, locally produced sandwiches, wraps, salads and cakes.
Cafe address: The Lodge, Potton Rd, Sandy SG19 2DL


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Sri Azhagiya Singar Perumal Temple - Thiru Velukkai ,Kanchipuram (108 Divya desam ,Thondai Naadu)
About Temple:Tiruvelukkai located in Kanchipuram in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, is dedicated to the Hindu god Vishnu. Constructed in the Dravidian style of architecture, the temple is glorified in the Divya Prabandha, the early medieval Tamil canon of the Azhwar saints from the 6th–9th centuries AD. It is one of the 108 Divya desam dedicated to Vishnu, who is worshipped as Azhagiya Singar and his consort Lakshmi as Amruthavalli.
Moolavar: Sri Azhagiya Singar
Thaayar: Velukkai Valli (Amirtha Valli).
Pushkarani: Kanaga Saras,Hema Saras.
Vimanam: Kanaka Vimanam.
Location: Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu.
Sthalapuranam :
The name of the sthalam itself clearly says that the Perumal is there to help us. "Vel" means wish and "Irukkai" means satying there. Since the Perumal itslef wished to stay there to help his bhakthas, this sthalam is known as "Vellukkai".
Sri Narasimhar is found in Irundha Nilai and protect his bhakthas not being attacked by the asuraas. To ride away the Asuraas, he sits in Yoga position facing west direction as "Yoga Narasimar".
On his own wish, Sri Narasimhar is found here there by helping people from the Asuras.
Sri Vedantha Desikar in his "Kamaasi Ashtakam" explains about Sri Narasimhar and his wish to stay in this sthalam. (Kamaasi - Kama + Aasika - standing on his own wish).
?Vel means wish with pure affection (or) love. Sri Narasimhar who is found here on his affection, is found along with Velukka Valli. Because of this, this sthalam is called "Thiru Velukkai".
DAY 1 - Kanchipuram Sightseeing
Proceed towards Kanchipuram. Then transfer to Hotel. Hotel Check In. Then proceed to visit Kamakshi Amman Temple. Varadharaja Perumal Temple. Ekambaranatha Temple. Come back to Hotel. Overnight stay at Hotel.
Morning Breakfast at Hotel. Check out from Hotel. Then Proceed towards Kailasanathar Temple. Thiru Velukkai - Sri Azhagiya Singar Perumal Temple Golden Lizard Temple. Sri Jurahareswarar Temple. Finally drop at Railway Junction / Airport.
All Excluding Paid Activities.


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