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Orangutan. Fri, 08/16/2013 - 8:13pm
New letters and article at the Journal of 9/11 Studies
from Kevin Ryan
We have two new letters and an article at the Journal of 9/11 Studies. http://www.journalof911studies.com/index.html
The article by Jérôme Gygax and Nancy Snow is titled "9/11 and the Advent of Total Diplomacy: Strategic Communication as a Primary Weapon of War."
Here's an excerpt.
"The
9/11
attacks
were
used
to
justify
an
institutional
revolution
meant
to
complete
a
process
of
integration
and
coordination
of
all
the
assets
of
US
national
power
through
a
strategic
communication
(SC)
campaign
deployed
on
a
global
scale.
The
'Global
War
on
Terror'
(GWOT)
nurtured
a
narrative
of
crisis
associated
with
this
unprecedented
public
education
effort.
In
order
to
sell
its
approaches,
the
United
States
government
relied
on
a
network
of
'experts':
military
veterans,
high‐ranking
officers
such
as
Admirals
as
well
as
professional
journalists
and
academics
who
contributed
to
forging
a
consensus,
or,
as
Michel
Foucault
would
call
it,
a
'regime
of
truth'
that
claims
a
certain
interpretation
to
be
right
and
true,
while
ignoring
or
discrediting
critics
and
dissenting
narratives."
One letter is from Paul Schreyer and is called "Update: Anomalies of the Air Defense on 9/11." Schreyer writes:
"Miles Kara insists that these were unrelated events. He says there is nothing on the tapes indicating a correlation and he points out that the Langley jets also made no attempt to change their altitude to get closer to the 'Doomsday plane' while flying southwest. So it´s possible that Kara is right here. However one still can only wonder about the series of anomalies in connection with the Langley scramble that all had just one effect: delaying the jets´ arrival over Washington."
The second letter, from me, accompanies the first. It is called "Political Warfare and the 9/11 Commission."
"When the 9/11 Commission Report was published in July 2004, it provided a completely new explanation for why the U.S. air defenses had failed to intercept any of the four hijacked planes on 9/11. Certain 9/11 Commission staff members had helped to produce that new story, and at least one of them was behind earlier explanations that were contradicted by the new account. That was Miles Kara, a retired U.S. Army intelligence officer. Kara has since been working via his blog and his personal contacts to persuade those questioning the official account that the unanswered questions of 9/11 are often just minor misunderstandings or are simply unimportant."
Tod Fletcher Fri, 05/03/2013 - 11:07am
New Articles at the Journal of 9/11 Studies
Jon Cole
Lance de-Haven Smith
Paul Schreyer
Timothy Eastman
http://journalof911studies.com
At the Journal of 9/11 Studies, we have published two new articles. The first is from Dr. Timothy Eastman and professional engineer Jonathan Cole. It is titled "WTC Destruction: An Analysis of Peer Reviewed Technical Literature." Here's the abstract:
"The importance of understanding the mechanisms of collapse for the three World Trade Center buildings on September 11, 2001 cannot be over-estimated, for these unusual collapses and their disputed causes raise questions regarding all future steel-frame building design. A literature review was conducted to identify the evolving trend in research results in this area, which have become increasingly diverse over time. Recommendations for further research are presented."
The second article is from German researcher Paul Schreyer. It is called "Radar loss on 9/11." Here's an excerpt:
"The radar coverage of the United States airspace is nearly complete. In particular the northeastern area, where all four hijackings took place on 9/11, has no "gaps" whatsoever in radar coverage. Nonetheless there was radar loss on 9/11 with respect to the third hijacked plane, American Airlines Flight 77, which was reported to have hit the Pentagon."
Orangutan. Sun, 02/10/2013 - 9:16pm
Forgetting Torture: Lee Hamilton, John Brennan, and Abu Zubaydah
Abu Zubaydah
Posted on February 10, 2013 by ultruth
The pervasive news surrounding the confirmation hearing of John Brennan, Obama's nominee for CIA director, is paralleled by another, related story that has been largely ignored by the U.S. media. That is the story of the man called Abu Zubaydah, whose alleged torture testimony, obtained by the CIA while Brennan was the head of the agency's Terrorist Threat Center, built the foundation for the official account of 9/11. This week I spoke to Lee Hamilton, former vice-chairman of the 9/11 Commission, about the serious problems that the government's new stance on Zubaydah creates for the 9/11 Commission Report.
As stated in my last article on the subject, Zubaydah is at the center of an unraveling of the official account of the 9/11 attacks.[1] His extensive torture at the hands of the CIA during Brennan's tenure, which included at least 83 water-boarding sessions, hanging the man naked from the ceiling, slamming him against a concrete wall, and other atrocious experimental techniques, was said to produce valuable evidence about al Qaeda. However, the government now claims that Zubaydah was never a member or associate of al Qaeda and therefore he could not have known any of the information that the 9/11 Commission attributed to him.
From the start of our conversation, Hamilton told me that he was having trouble remembering Zubaydah. That was odd considering that an article he and Thomas Kean wrote for the New York Times in 2008, describing how the CIA obstructed the 9/11 investigation, referred several times to Zubaydah specifically.[2] The article claimed that "Beginning in June 2003, we requested all reports of intelligence information on these broad topics that had been gleaned from the interrogations of 118 named individuals, including both Abu Zubaydah and Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri, two senior Qaeda operatives." Kean and Hamilton further wrote that, "in October 2003, we sent another wave of questions to the C.I.A.'s general counsel. One set posed dozens of specific questions about the reports, including those about Abu Zubaydah."
Orangutan. Tue, 01/01/2013 - 12:04pm
A new letter at the Journal of 9/11 Studies: Our Truth is a Command Toward Freedom Don Paul, December, 2012
At the Journal of 9/11 Studies we've published a new letter from author-activist Don Paul. The letter is titled -- Our Truth is a Command Toward Freedom: Connecting " '9/11' " to The " 'War on Terror,' " 1.4 Billion Rounds and 30,000 Drones.
http://www.journalof911studies.com/letters.html
A winner of Stanford University's Stegner Fellowship in creative writing, Don Paul is known for his groundbreaking books " '9/11' ": Facing Our Fascist State and Waking Up From Our Nightmare (with Jim Hoffman). Paul's use of double quotes around 9/11 and The War on Terror reflects the corporate government/media's intention to create an echo-effect or resonance of such terms in our public consciousness.
Here's an excerpt from the letter:
"We need to keep telling our truths. We need to keep pointing out holes in Official Stories. We need to keep confronting monsters. We need to keep seeing straight and raising our voices.
One reality we can continue to tell is that " '9/11'' " and the " 'War on Terror' " are both absurd but murderous pretexts. They're rotten root and rotten branch.
The " '9/11' " rotten root and the " 'War on Terror' " rotten branch run through both Republican and Democrat Administrations."
Happy New Year, Kevin
A new article and a new letter at the Journal of 9/11 Studies
Dr. Andre Rousseau
Dr. Tim Eastman
Graeme MacQueen
Tod Fletcher
At the Journal of 9/11 Studies, we have published a new article and a new letter. That makes 2012 as productive as our past three years at the journal combined.
This month's article is from Dr. Andre Rousseau and is titled "Were Explosives the Source of the Seismic Signals Emitted from New York on September 11, 2001?"
http://www.journalof911studies.com/resources/RousseauVol34November2012.pdf
The conclusion states: "Near the times of the planes' impacts into the Twin Towers and during their collapses, as well as during the collapse of WTC7, seismic waves were generated. To the degree that (1) seismic waves are created only by brief impulses and (2) low frequencies are associated with energy of a magnitude that is comparable to a seismic event, the waves recorded at Palisades and analyzed by LDEO undeniably have an explosive origin. Even if the planes' impacts and the fall of the debris from the Towers onto the ground could have generated seismic waves, their magnitude would have been insufficient to be recorded 34 km away and should have been very similar in the two cases to one another. As we have shown, they were not."
The letter is in response to an article that was previously published at the journal. It is from Tod Fletcher and Dr. Tim Eastman, and is called " The Pentagon Attack in Context: a Reply to John Wyndham."
http://www.journalof911studies.com/resources/2012NovemberFletcherEastman.pdf
Here is an excerpt: "A broad-based analysis is needed to understand the Pentagon events – an analysis that is based on the full range of available evidence and therefore cannot be exclusively scientific in a narrow sense. This is especially important due to the fact that physical, quantifiable evidence is extremely limited, while there are multiple related events and information that can contribute helpfully to addressing (and providing context for) the problem. Thus, we have emphasized the superiority of a systematic contextual approach that builds effectively on such related information, and the need to treat the limited available evidence within its associated context. Further, we have emphasized the need to leverage the best established results, including attention to the likely means, opportunities, and motives of perpetrators."
In December, we expect to have more to share.
Kevin Ryan and Graeme MacQueen
Orangutan. Mon, 11/05/2012 - 7:47pm
Two Oklahoma Airports: David Boren, KuwAm, and 9/11
Posted by Kevin Ryan on October 28, 2012
There are many connections between the events of 9/11 and Oklahoma City. Some of these connections revolve around the alleged 9/11 hijackers, the "20th hijacker" Zacarias Moussaoui, and a couple of airports around Oklahoma City. Looking closer at the airport connections reveals startling coincidences with regard to the people who ran World Trade Center (WTC) security company Stratesec, as well as CIA Director George Tenet's mentor, David Boren, who is currently the co-chairman of President Obama's Intelligence Advisory Board.
Independent investigators have shown that there are striking links between the 1995 bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City (OKC) and the events of 9/11.[1, 2] Recently, many 9/11 investigators have become more interested in learning the truth about the OKC bombing after being exposed to the excellent film A Noble Lie.[3]
The OKC investigations have revealed eyewitnesses accounts of the sighting in Oklahoma of Mohamed Atta and five other 9/11 hijacker suspects.[4] Last year, an article in the Oklahoma Gazette confirmed that records show Atta, Marwan Al-Shehhi, Nawaf Al-Hazmi and Zacarias Moussaoui all "either visited or lived in Oklahoma from July 2000 to August 2001."[5]
Between February and August of 2001, Zacarias Moussaoui lived in Norman, Oklahoma and attended Airman Flight School at Max Westheimer Airport, which is owned and operated by the University of Oklahoma. Moussaoui even lived in a university dormitory. According to Moussaoui's indictment, Atta and Al-Shehhi had visited the same flight school in July, 2000, but did not take classes there.
Abu Zubaydah Poses a Real Threat to al Qaeda
Abu Zubaydah, a man once called al-Qaeda's "chief of operations" appears to be at the center of an unraveling of the official myth behind al Qaeda. After his capture in early 2002, Zubaydah was the first "detainee" known to be tortured. The information allegedly obtained from his torture played a large part in the creation of the official account of 9/11 and in the justification for the continued use of such torture techniques. Yet in September, 2009, the U.S. government admitted that Zubaydah was never a member or associate of al Qaeda at all. These facts raise an alarming number of questions about the veracity of our knowledge about al Qaeda, and the true identity of the people who are said to be behind the 9/11 attacks.
Unlike other alleged al Qaeda leaders, including Khlaid Sheik Mohammed and Rasmi bin Alshibh, Zubaydah has never been charged with a crime. As these other leading suspects await their continually-postponed military trial, Zubaydah is instead being airbrushed out of history. Why would the U.S. government want us to forget Zubaydah, the first and most important al Qaeda operative captured after 9/11?
The USS Cole: Twelve years later, no justice or understanding
USS Cole
http://digwithin.net
Twelve years ago, the American warship USS Cole was the target of a successful terrorist attack when it made a brief stop in the port of Aden, Yemen. This was one of only four attacks attributed to al Qaeda prior to 9/11, according to a 2004 U.S. government report.[1] Like 9/11, there are numerous unanswered questions about the Cole bombing and, as with 9/11, little or no justice has been done. This article examines a few of the unanswered questions in an attempt to make sense of the background story that was later used to produce and justify the official account of 9/11.
The al Qaeda attack that was said to precede the bombing of the Cole was the August 1998 bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa. A year later, in 1999, the Washington Post described how people were not convinced by the case made by U.S. officials against al Qaeda.
"But for all its claims about a worldwide conspiracy to murder Americans, the government's case is, at present, largely circumstantial. The indictment never explains how bin Laden runs al Qaeda or how he may have masterminded the embassy bombings."[2]
Although the Washington Post and a U.S. government indictment could not, in 1999, convincingly explain how al Qaeda operated, today there is an enormous amount of historical "chatter" available to consider. Some of it is based on investigations into the year 2000 Cole bombing and details surrounding the al Qaeda "operations hub" in Yemen. Still, the government's account of the Cole attack remains unconvincing and problematic.
More anniversary letters at the Journal of 9/11 Studies
Ferdinando Imposimato
Lee McKenna
William Pepper
At the Journal of 9/11 Studies, we are sharing a set of 11th anniversary letters. There are now a total of nine such letters, from the contributors described below.
William Pepper is a U.S. attorney and British barrister who has represented governments and prominent people around the world. He was a friend of Martin Luther King and later represented the King family in a wrongful death civil trial. The jury took less than an hour to find in favor of the King family.
Michel Chossudovsky is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Ottawa and Director of the Centre for Research on Globalization. He has written books that highlight the historical relationship between the U.S. government and Al Qaeda.
Lee McKenna is a Canadian trainer and activist, preacher, musician and writer. She is principal of Partera International and works in war zones leading training in third-party non-violent intervention.
Ferdinando Imposimato is the Honorary President of the Supreme Court of Italy and a former Senator who served on the Anti-Mafia Commission. He is the author or co-author of seven books on international terrorism, state corruption, and related matters, and a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy.
Are Tall Buildings Safer As a Result of the NIST WTC Reports?
Posted on September 7, 2012 by Kevin Ryan
What changes have been made as a result of the World Trade Center (WTC) investigation conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)? Are tall buildings around the world safe from the risk of global collapse due to fire as described by the official explanations?
In 2008, NIST began claiming that its investigation would help ensure the safety of future buildings. NIST said that such buildings "should be increasingly resistant to fire, more easily evacuated in emergencies, and safer overall" as a result of the WTC investigation. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez, the Bush Administration cabinet member in charge of NIST at the time, said –
"The lessons learned from the tragic events of 9/11 have yielded stronger building and fire codes for a new generation of safer, more robust buildings across the nation." [1]
Is this true? If so, we should be able to see improvements being made to the design and construction processes for tall buildings around the world. We should also expect that existing buildings would be evaluated for design problems and retrofitted in an urgent manner to ensure that fires do not bring buildings crashing down as they did on 9/11, killing thousands of unsuspecting victims.
Unfortunately, there are no signs that such design evaluations and retrofit projects have occurred. This is a strong indication that the international building community has not taken the NIST WTC reports seriously.
Orangutan. Sat, 08/11/2012 - 11:22pm
Another Nineteen: Investigating Legitimate 9/11 Suspects
The Wall Street Journal recently commented on the upcoming military trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed (KSM). The article claimed that KSM and four other terrorists were somehow making a mockery of the U.S. justice system by trying to "use the open military trial to promote jihad and discredit American institutions, including the military system of justice."[1] Unsuspecting readers might think that an "open military trial" would actually be less reflective of American institutions than the (actually open) civil trial requested for KSM by many of the 9/11 victims' families. But the more important question is – are the right terrorists being brought to trial?
That question is not welcome in polite conversation.
For example, last August I was invited to appear on National Public Radio (NPR) to discuss the lasting phenomenon of 9/11 skepticism. The show's regular host was replaced by a woman who had clearly made up her mind about the subject. Ironically, throughout the show she made snide comments about "conspiracy theorists" when referring to the millions of people who don't believe the official conspiracy theory. Her other guests, from the Hearst Corporation and Canada's National Post, joined her in using some variation of this phrase every thirty seconds during the hour long show. As the sole representative of 9/11 skeptics, I was allowed five minutes to speak until it was clear the conversation was not going as intended.[2]
Orangutan. Thu, 06/14/2012 - 11:37pm
From renovation to revolution: Was the Pentagon attacked from within?
"I have no desire to attack the Pentagon; I want to liberate it. We need to save it from itself." Donald Rumsfeld, September 10, 2001
The official account of what happened at the Pentagon on 9/11 leaves many questions unanswered.[1] The work of independent investigators has also failed to address those questions. In an attempt to find answers, an alternative account of the Pentagon attack is considered.
An alternative account would be more compelling than the official account if it explained more of the evidence without adding unnecessary complications. Considering means, motive and opportunity might allow us to propose a possible "insider conspiracy" while maintaining much of the official account as well.
A few of the more compelling unanswered questions are as follows.
How could American Airlines Flight 77 have hit the building as it did, considering that the evidence shows the alleged hijacker pilot, Hani Hanjour, was a very poor pilot?[2]
Why did the aircraft make a 330-degree turn just minutes before hitting the building?
Why did the aircraft hit the least occupied one-fifth of the building that was the focus of a renovation plan and how was it that the construction in that exact spot just happened to be for the purpose of minimizing the damage from a terrorist explosion?[3]
Why was the company that performed the renovation work, just for that one-fifth of the building, immediately hired in a no bid contract to clean-up the damage and reconstruct that area of the building? (Note: The same company was also immediately hired to clean-up the WTC site within hours of the destruction there.)[4]
What can explain the damage to the building and the aircraft debris or lack thereof?
Why were the tapes from the surveillance videos in the area immediately confiscated by the FBI and never released?
These questions should be considered along with the fact that U.S military and "Homeland Security" expenditures since the 9/11 attacks have totaled approximately $8 trillion.[5] This paints a picture that calls for an in-depth investigation into the people running the Pentagon, to see if they might have had the motivation and ability to plan and execute the attack.
Orangutan. Thu, 05/31/2012 - 3:46pm
Do we need another 9/11 conspiracy theory?
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were a turning point in world history. We have been told that these attacks were planned and implemented by nineteen Arab Muslim hijackers under the direction of the leaders of al Qaeda. According to the official account, this criminal conspiracy received no help or funding from any government.
Unfortunately, this explanation fails to address a majority of the evidence and leaves most of the critical questions unanswered.[1] In fact, the reports that constitute the official account do so little to explain what happened that it is possible that, to this day, we know very little about who was behind the attacks. That fact is alarming to many people, given that so much war and unprecedented change has been driven by the official account.
On closer inspection, the 9/11 Commission Report provides only 90 pages of discussion about what actually happened on the day of 9/11, found in chapters 1 and 9 of the report. The remainder of the report is devoted to promoting a myth behind the organization called al Qaeda, and suggesting what to do about it.
Orangutan. Fri, 04/27/2012 - 10:09pm
Occupy Interview Radio with Kevin Ryan Occupy 9/11
Kevin is a chemistry laboratory manager with twenty-two years of professional experience. Through his work as Site Manager for the environmental testing division of Underwriters Laboratories (UL), he began to investigate the tragedy of September 11th, 2001. Ryan was fired by UL, in 2004, for publicly asking questions about UL's testing of the structural materials used to construct the World Trade Center (WTC) buildings as well as UL's involvement in the WTC investigation being conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Website: http://digwithin.net/
http://occupybuilding7.org/
9/11 as sequel to Iran-Contra: Armitage, Carlucci and friends
Frank Carlucci
Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld are among the leading suspects in the crimes of September 11, 2001. Reasons for this include that they were in the most powerful positions in the U.S. that day, that there is evidence they had foreknowledge of the attacks, and that they did not respond effectively. Other people who were closely associated with Dick and Don should also be investigated if they were in positions to be involved. Richard Armitage and Frank Carlucci are two such people. They both played important roles with respect to the events of September 11, 2001 and, prior to that, both had a colorful history of covert operations which intertwined and was aligned with the careers of Dick and Don. Armitage and Carlucci both also benefited from the War on Terror by way of profits made after the attacks.
For the twelve years prior to the attacks, Frank Carlucci ran the Carlyle Group, an investment firm with close ties to the most powerful members of the Reagan and Bush I administrations, and to the Saudi Arabian oil industry. The two major operating subsidiaries of that company were BDM international, for which Carlucci was chairman, and the Vinnell Corporation. Working for Carlucci at BDM from 1989 to 1996 was its vice president, Barry McDaniel, who left to become the Chief Operating Officer for a an alarmingly suspicious company. That was Stratesec, the security company that had contracts for so many of the facilities associated with the 9/11 attacks.
On September 11, 2001, Carlucci was meeting with Carlyle investors at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Washington, DC, along with the brother of Osama bin Laden.[1] Former president George H.W. Bush had been meeting with them the previous day. Today, McDaniel is business partners with one of Dick Cheney's closest former colleagues, Bruce Bradley, whose business partner Alan Woods is mentioned below.[2]


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Election 2019 Guide
The 2019 South African General Election is mere months away, and registered voters will again have the opportunity to put a cross next to a party of their choice (or the plural form in the event of split ballot voting) from the list of alphabet soup options.
This article is a relatively laissez faire approach to explaining the various options of note (there are too many to devote a paragraph to each one) that the South African voter faces. Individuals not native or familiar to South Africa, but pay attention to the happenings here, may find it a helpful guide in understanding the political eco-system.
African National Congress (ANC)
The ANC is the ruling party in a majority government formed between itself and the South African Communist Party, as well as the Congress of South African Trade Unions. The party has had uninterrupted governance of the Republic since 1994, and controls eight of the nine provinces.
The party is decidedly socialist in ideology with a heavy emphasis on big government and getting government involved in literally anything it can. Under the ANC, the size and scope of the state has ballooned astronomically, together with everything from crime and unemployment, to national debt.
The party has been a notorious enabler of corruption, with an atrocious track record of dealing with corruption despite repeated promises and numerous leaders and 'cadres' (political appointees) being implicated or outright orchestrating it. Supporters typically stay home on voting day rather than vote for another party to voice their displeasure.
Democratic Alliance (DA)
The DA is the largest opposition party with approximately 22% of the national vote as of the 2014 General Election. It has experienced uninterrupted growth since 1994, and controls one province with a majority. Its history is one of liberal ideology, but has since become increasingly diluted with social and popular influences in its latter years.
It has a good record of resisting and dealing with corruption, regularly scores highest in annual reports by the Auditor General, and boasts impressive employment figures despite the abysmally low rates in the remaining provinces.
The 2019 election does not bode well for the DA as it has lurched from crisis to crisis in the last few years, alienating its traditional voting base. In contrast to the ANC, supporters make great efforts to show up to vote, but this tendency may not play out as usual in 2019.
Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
The EFF is led by former ANC Youth League leaders. Despite championing itself as a corruption fighter in the years following 2014 when it was formed and contested its first election, the party is a magnet of controversy. It exhibits strong totalitarian and tyrannical characteristics with a clearly communist ideology, and has proven to be very susceptible to corruption, as the VBS Mutual Bank scandal showed. It is also profoundly racist.
The party has a cult following, and its leaders have track records of corruption from their days in the ANC. Of whom the leader, Julius Malema, bankrupted the ANC Youth League. While championing the fight of the poor, the leaders flaunt and live very opulent and luxurious lifestyles. The vast majority of members in the National Assembly after 2014, have been exiled from the party.
Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
The IFP is a Zulu nationalist party and while exhibiting a strong constitutionalist agenda of late, the party has a disappointing history. Post-1994 IFP lead governments were as prone to corruption and incompetence as the ANC, and reliably declined in vote share. 2014 showed a resurgence, but the permanence of this will be tested in 2019.
Congress of the People (COPE)
COPE is one of the smaller opposition parties and often forms part of DA coalition governments after municipal and provincial elections. It is a breakaway from the ANC and while promising in the beginning, the party all but imploded due to factionalism and infighting. It is a husk of the vote share it once commanded, fighting for its political survival in 2019, adopting a very constitutionalist approach in its reinvention to try and woo alienated DA and ANC voters alike.
United Democratic Movement (UDM)
The UDM is another ANC breakaway opposition party. It is very small, and also commonly forms part of DA coalition governments. The party has gained a poor reputation in the wake of a recent corruption scandal involving the Deputy Mayor of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro, in which it did not act, and later voted with the ANC to return control of the metro to the ANC. It has also endorsed property expropriation without compensation in the National Assembly.
Vryheids Front Plus (VF+)
The VF+ is a small niche party that focuses much of its energy on minority rights, but whose principles apply equally to the nation as a whole. Its voting base is typically Afrikaans and has conservative political values, being a faithful supporter of firearm rights. The party has not tried to appeal to a wider base beyond than what it currently has, and it faithfully fluctuates only slightly come election time, and routinely joins DA coalition governments.
African Christian Democratic Party (ACDP)
A true reflection of Christian conservatism, the ACDP is strong on issues such as abortion and firearms, and as a niche party like the VF+, it also fluctuates very little during election time.
CAPE PARTY
I include this party because of its unusual character for SA politics. It has only ever contested Cape Town Metro in local government elections, narrowly missing its first council seats in 2016. It is now contesting the Western Cape province for representation in Parliament's National Council of Provinces. The party is chiefly a Cape secessionist party in purpose, and despite much ridicule over the years, has managed to grow enough to seriously believe it can contest a provincial ballot. The party's ideology is decidedly libertarian, and is radically committed to decentralizing government at all levels, with a fondness for the Swiss canton system and direct democracy. It appears to target the DA's traditional base to woo over, many of whom are looking for a political home. The party remains an exciting one to watch in the counting phase. Unfortunately, the party is very misunderstood and unable to communicate effectively with voters at large.
The are numerous other small parties, many too small to even get beyond the ballot, and others that occupy one or two seats in the National Assembly. Many of these are facing political death in 2019. Of the Pan-Africanist parties, AZAPO for all intents and purposes died in 2014 after twenty years of decline from its already small base.
The Pan African Congress has become irrelevant in recent years due to the persona and presence of the EFF. The National Freedom Party which was a breakaway from the IFP is likely to join AZAPO; the party is plagued by gross incompetence and was unable to contest the 2016 Local Government Elections because the party 'forgot' to pay their deposit to the electoral commission. The party manages to only faithfully adhere to its radical anti-firearm stance.
AGANG remains the greatest political embarrassment and abortion post-1994, surpassing even COPE's notable problems. Its origins are detailed in Helen Zilles auto-biography, and despite being touted as a realistic alternative in 2014, the party crashed and burned spectacularly on voting day, right before collapsing into debt, infighting, chaos, and its leader packed up and left as if she had never been associated with the disaster that it was.
Democratic Alliance
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Cisco Cius is Implemented at Gas Station of the Future in Brazil
Cisco Cius at Gas Station of the Future in Brazil
Cisco Cius Screen for Gas Station of the Future
BRAZIL, SAO PAULO, January 20, 2012 - Cisco Cius, an enterprise mobile collaboration device in a tablet form-factor, is part of the Petrobras Gas Station of the Future technology portfolio launched by Petrobras Distribuidora, a subsidiary of Petrobras, and Intel, last month in Rio de Janeiro. In addition to the rich, integrated unified communications and collaboration features already provided on the Cius, Cisco has customized a number of applications for the project, allowing gas station visitors to benefit from a much greater level of engagement with the station and to understand and purchase services available to them.
The first Petrobras Gas Station of the Future is a collection of the latest interactive technologies, capable of providing a customized experience when refueling, shopping and enjoying other retail services at the gas stations. The Gas Station of the Future is unique in Brazil for its energy efficiency and environmental sustainability.
Consumers can approach a Cius in a kiosk of the gas station and talk to specialists from Petrobras Distribuidora, in real-time via mobile TelePresence. This allows the customer to obtain information on maintenance activities offered by the gas station, such as oil changes. Cius also offers users voice access to the Petrobras Distribuidora customer service center, permits use of the company loyalty card, allows users to obtain information on the store product catalog and monthly promotions, provides access to maps of specific addresses in the city and other services.
"The Cius platform offers mobility and a number of features simultaneously. I'm sure that this device will be a success in all Gas Stations of the Future," said Nelson Costa Cardoso, executive manager of Information Technology, Petrobras Distribuidora.
The Gas Station of the Future project demonstrates the role of technology in increasing service interactivity to create a new experience for consumers. By including mobile devices like the Cisco Cius in this project, Petrobras Distribuidora is consolidating its reputation as a Brazilian pioneer, mirroring other global market leaders which have adopted this type of equipment to provide their customers with faster, more secure and better quality services," said Rodrigo Abreu, CEO, Cisco in Brazil.
Ultraportable and weighing just 520 g, the Cius includes a host of Cisco collaboration applications on a highly secure mobile platform. In addition to full TelePresence interoperability, Cisco Cius also offers streaming HD video, conferencing with several participants, e-mail access, instant messaging, Internet browsing and the ability to produce, edit and share content stored locally or in the cloud.
Based on an Android operating system with enterprise-grade security from Cisco, Cius is an open communication and collaboration platform whose form factor and applications were designed to provide corporate users with more secure real-time connections and the ability to access and share content they need from any network location. A major point of differentiation of the device is the centralized corporate management platform, ensuring that the services used are more consistent and secure while offering a more flexible method of technology management.
In addition to the Cius, the Cisco project for the Gas Station of the Future also includes the entire data center and network infrastructure, needed to provide users with differentiated, robust and high quality services. The project also provides the gas station with sustainable environmental management.
"This gas station has put together some integrated and interactive technologies. Other solutions are being evaluating for testing here, where they are evaluated as a gas station-concept, working as a showroom of new technologies", explained Cardoso.
Petrobras Distribuidora
The largest company on the Brazilian market for distribution of oil and biofuel derivatives, Petrobras Distribuidora currently has over 7000 branded service stations throughout the country as well as around 10,000 clients in industries such as aviation, asphalt, chemical products, energy and transportation solutions, selling a wide range of products and services. For more information, visit www.br.com.br.
Follow Petrobras Distribuidora on Twitter at @postospetrobras.
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I read many personal finance, investing, fitness, and military related articles throughout the month. I learned everything I know about achieving financial independence from reading and learning from those who have done it all before. By sharing what I am reading with you, you can learn along with me.
My book, The Intelligent Military Investor, is now available as a PDF here or on Amazon! It currently has all 5 or 4 star reviews, with 82% reviews 5 stars. The Amazon price is a deep discount from the PDF version.
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It is a short read, taking most people 2-3 hours to get through it, but I think it may have a lasting impact on your life. Please let me know what you think or if you would like a coupon code.
Check out the White Coat Investor, who writes about how delaying purchases just a little bit gives your money more time to compound and set yourself up so you never have to wait to buy stuff again.
The NY Times has an article about NYC taxi medallions and the bubble they experienced only a few years ago. The prices went up quickly due to the false scarcity the city government imposed. But then Uber, Lyft, and a half dozen other "ride sharing" apps came long and completely disrupted the industry. Now Uber is a multi billion dollar company and medallion owners are going bankrupt in NYC.
I would say this is a good lesson in diversifying your assets as well as not investing in markets you don't completely understand. It also presents a good case for holding liquid assets, like stocks/bonds/cash that you can quickly sell, vs. real estate or physical gold that have tremendous transaction costs and much smaller markets.
Another post from The White Coat Investor on financial milestones. Personally I achieved #1-5 and I am working on the rest.
This is a fun and interactive guide to financial independence. Kind of a "choose your own adventure" type of post. It's fun to see how much of an effect on your FI date can be changed by small reductions in spending and small increases in income.


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Thanks to the friends who gave valuable advice during development.
You can use this code arbitrarily, but you must follow the BSD-3-Clause protocol, see LICENSE for details.


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A minimum wage victory for working families in FL could also...
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Advocates for higher wages for working families celebrated Tuesday night, as Florida voters narrowly approved Amendment 2 on the ballot to raise the state's...
What's at stake when it comes to changing the Florida Constitution?
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There are six proposed Constitutional Amendments on the ballot today. They are important to Floridians.If you haven't read much about them, or you are...
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Whether voting by mail or in person in the coming election, Floridians will see six proposed amendments to the state Constitution that they will...
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Attorneys for eight young Floridians who are trying to sue the state over energy policies they blame for climate change have filed an appeal...
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In Florida's state capital, Leon Circuit Judge Charles Dodson faces a daunting task.He's taking on a clash between the language of the Florida Constitution...
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Gov. Ron DeSantis has already remade the Florida Supreme Court in his own, conservative Republican, image.The question now is whether that court will allow...
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Federal appellate judges Barbara Lagoa and Robert Luck have refused to withdraw from an appeal involving voting rights for former Florida criminal offenders notwithstanding...
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Q: Searching recursively batch scripting I'm trying to utilize the if exist control statement to search the entire file system to find a file.
@echo off
echo Enter a file name......
set /P file=
set searchPath=C:\
set findit=%searchPath% and %file%

IF EXIST C:\*%%findit%% (
    echo file exist
  )else (
    echo file does not exist
  )

However, if I search for a file that does exist, I still get the same search results of file does not exist.
What am I doing wrong?

A: You could use Where /R "[dir]" /Q "Pattern"
This allows you to search a directory path and return all of the matching files.
IF Exist check can't check for a file glob
But you also need to address that this line findit=%searchPath% and %file% was setting %Findit% equal to the string "findit=C:\ and %file%"
Here is a cleaned up version which seems to be what you're looking for:
@echo off
echo
set /P "_File=Enter a file name......"
set "_SearchPath=C:\"

(
  Where /R "%_SearchPath%" /Q "%_File%" && (
    ECHO.File %_File% Exists!
  )
) || (
  ECHO.File %_File% Does Not Exist!
)

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Leaders drilled on Quebec secularism bill on campaign launch day
Sarah Turnbull CTVNews.ca Producer
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Published Wednesday, September 11, 2019 4:28PM EDT Last Updated Friday, September 13, 2019 12:54PM EDT
OTTAWA – Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau was repeatedly asked about his stance on Quebec's controversial secularism legislation on Wednesday, as he put forth his bid to serve a second term as Canada's prime minister.
Trudeau fielded questions about why his party has been hesitant to intervene on Bill 21, which the Quebec government has said will ensure religious neutrality across the province.
"I'm totally against Bill 21, I think in a free society we shouldn't legitimize or allow discrimination against anyone. I'm happy Quebecers themselves are going against this law," he said at a press conference outside Rideau Hall in Ottawa.
However, he said it would be "counterproductive" for a federal government to insert itself into a provincial dispute.
"We will continue to monitor closely and evaluate our position," he added.
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Trudeau has faced criticism for not taking a firm enough stance on the issue. Bill 21 bans public figures from donning religious symbols and clothing.
Some have speculated that the Liberal leader is staying more tight-lipped as the party seeks to pick up seats in Quebec.
Speaking to reporters in Trois-Rivieres, Que., Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer was also pressed on the bill.
"We do not have the intention of intervening in this case. We have made it clear that this is not something that we would do at the federal level, and that has been our position from the beginning," he said.
There are 40 days until election night on Oct. 21, and Quebec remains a key battleground, as it was in 2015. Recent polls show Liberals holding strong support in the region, while the Conservatives lag behind and the NDP trail even further.
In a campaign advertisement released last week, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh addressed the discrimination he would face as a turbaned Sikh in Quebec. Under the legislation, he would have to remove his turban to work as a police officer or school teacher.
"I think about all the people I've met in Montreal – the young women who I met who love science and teaching but can't because of the bill. It's a divisive law," said Singh in his campaign launch speech in London, Ont.
"We say don't discriminate someone by the way they look, there's a law that says we're allowed to. I'm hoping my presence in Quebec as someone who wears a turban is a way to show people that I believe in fighting for your identity."
Green Leader Elizabeth May was not asked about the bill as she kicked off her campaign in B.C.
When asked about the bill on CTV's Power Play, People's Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier said he, like Scheer, would not intervene in the matter.
"The Quebec government will have to be judged from Quebecers at the next election, so I won't interfere in that, it's in the constitution," he said. "It is not something that I can speak about because I'm respecting the constitution and I respect the decision from the Quebec government. They will have to live with it."
With files from CTVNews.ca Writer Ben Cousins
A man wears a yarmulke during a demonstration opposing the Quebec government's newly tabled Bill 21 in Montreal, Sunday, April 14, 2019. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graham Hughes
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Reading: Reading the newspaper, favorite book, a menu, or even food labels everyday helps people retain cognitive skills and abilities. Visual impairment and/or dementia may prevent individuals from participating in the full benefits of reading. Large print materials, focus on familiar words, and reading out loud together are good strategies.
Puzzles: Crossword and jigsaw puzzles can help keep the mind busy. Learning new words and their definitions can increase vocabulary and provide a sense of accomplishment. Those with cognitive declines can participate more comfortably using large print puzzles and/or jigsaws with simple color/subject (e.g., green tree, brown horse) and larger and fewer pieces.
Word games: Rhyming, Name Ten, Would You Rather, and word search games are excellent ways to exercise the brain. Simple, one-syllable rhyming words (e.g., all, ball, call, doll, fall…) can be fun and engaging. At Aspen, we display the alphabet to assist with building words. Ask the person to name ten items, such as colors or animals. Would you rather questions enhance thinking skills, as you ask would you rather have a dog or cat for a pet; be a bird or a fish; take a trip to Africa or Japan; meet Bing Crosby or Frank Sinatra; see a funny movie or love story; and/or visit the zoo or a museum. These games require nothing but your creative imagination! And large-print word search games stimulate spelling. If it is too difficult to find words try circling letters, such as all the Ds, then all the Ws. You can use different color pens/markers for each letter and be sure to count them together.
Guessing, Name that Tune, and matching games: Simple questions describing something the individual is familiar with (and/or can see while playing the game) can be enjoyed: What is soft, brown, and purrs (and is on your lap)–the cat. Another way to play is to combine guessing with music: sing the first few words of the song and allow the individual to finish the sentence. For example, "You are my____" (Sunshine)/ "The Sound of____" (Music). You can create or purchase matching games–we have our clients at Aspen help us color and cut out the games we use. Basic shapes, animal or nature pictures work well. Spread them out on a table and help the individual find matching pairs.
B-I-N-G-O!! We play bingo daily, as it encourages mental and social stimulation. We sing the Bingo song when each person gets a bingo. Simple cards can be printed for free from the computer or created with stickers, shapes, pictures.
Another, maybe more difficult game is Suduko. A person may become confused/frustrated if they are unfamiliar with the game. For those who enjoy it, Suduko stimulates the brain to problem-solve with numbers.
These simple, inexpensive activities can help build self-confidence and purpose, retain skills and knowledge, promote more laughter, be entertaining, redirect behavior from negative to positive/calm, relieve boredom, and reduce depression for both the individual with dementia and his/her caregivers.


Wall panels constructed with 1.5 inch rigid foil-backed insulation for strength and warmth.
Easy to install plumbing. Sample 28-foot yurt has Polywest water tank, Five Oceans 12v water pump, holding tank & low-water toilet, with full shower and sink. Hot water is supplied by a propane tankless water heater (see link on home page).
Easy to Wire. Using Princess Auto 12v wiring supplies, as well as a small inverter (for fans, etc), this unit was wired with 3 lights, sound system, two area fans. We used combination of solar and wind power with ten deep-cycle batteries.
Easy to heat. Because of the open, circular design with few impediments to air movement, we were able to heat the unit with a propane radiant heater mounted on a 20 pound tank. In minus 25C temperatures, the tank lasted six days. Our alternative heat was an outdoor wood furnace.


Back by popular demand, the Third New Jersey Regiment re-enactment group returns to Grasmere Park surrounding the Durand-Hedden house to set up a living history camp for visitors. The well-known reenactors will accurately demonstrate 18th century military and civilian life activities include tent building, military drills, musket firing, natural dyeing, and weaving. They will also offer the opportunity to examine military and domestic accoutrements and equipment.
The historic Third New Jersey Regiment, also called the "Jersey Blues" because its coats were blue with red lapels, was mustered during the American Revolution and has a claim to be part of the longest history of any U.S. military unit. Locally in 1780, during the War of Independence, the Regiment assumed defensive positions around Elizabethtown. In June of that year it was the first to engage the British and Hessian invasions from Staten Island. Joined by local militia and the rest of the Jersey Brigade, the Regiment fought a delaying action at Connecticut Farms (Union, NJ). A few days later, on June 23, it was engaged again and fought valiantly as a leading element in the Battle of Springfield, NJ. A year later the "Jersey Blues" also participated in the siege and victory at Yorktown.


This entry was posted in Beer, Colorado, Pizza, Scenic and tagged Beer, Black Canyon, Breweries, Brewery, Bus, Craft Beer, Delta, Food, Montrose, Motor Home, motorhome, Ouray, Paonia, Pizza, Ridgeway, RV, Scenic, Travel, VW Bus. Bookmark the permalink.
If not for winter, we could live here (year-round, that is).
Love Ouray and the drive to Telluride via Imogene, burgers look good, glad you found good pizza. Saw Black Canyon, didn't see City of Murals, I got a rainbow picture too! Colorado, yeah, you are getting closer to home!
Sharon, I don't recall your trip to Ouray and Telluride but then I think I do. Were you riding or driving the pass?
Yesterday and today there was lots of rain here and the mountains have a dusting of snow on their peaks!! Exciting! That is until we head to Denver/Golden on Saturday then I'll be hoping for no snow. The descent into Denver area is steep and long. Tough on the brakes especially a 33,000 + pound 40 foot vehicle towing a car.
We are heading toward home! Sometimes I really miss being in our house but then it passes.
I think the double rainbow takes the cake (or keg) in this posting. Can't wait for y'all to be home, it has me looking forward to fall.
That rainbow was awesome. We saw it complete from one end to the other but were so close to it I couldn't get the whole thing in one photo. It stayed around for a long time, too.


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    class << self
      # Posts a new xml request to the server, returning the response body
      def post_xml_request(xml)
        begin
          HostConnect.logger.debug "Request sent to server:\n" << xml

          req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(HostConnect.config.path)
          req['Content-Type'] = 'text/xml'
          req['Content-Length'] = xml.size.to_s
          response = http_connection.request(req, xml)

          HostConnect.logger.debug "Response:\n" << response.body
        rescue Exception
          error_description = "Error occured while sending data to HostConnect"
          HostConnect.logger.fatal "Exception thrown: " + error_description
          raise Exception, error_description
        ensure
          http_connection.finish if http_connection.started?
        end
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Fall is right around the corner here in America's Farm-to-Fork Capital, and September is a very busy time of year in Sacramento. It's the marking of the end of the harvest for the nation's largest producing agricultural region (there are 1.5 million acres of regional farmland and 8,000 acres of boutique farms within 90 miles of the city), and boy do we like to celebrate!
By far, the largest farm-to-fork celebration in the region is Sacramento's Farm-to-Fork Festival, a free family-oriented celebration taking place in downtown Sacramento right on Capitol Mall on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016. This year marks the fourth year of the rapidly growing festival. In 2015, the event drew upwards of 50,000 people. This year, organizers are expecting close to 75,000 attendees - people of all ages and walks of life, who will come together to enjoy the region's bounty, and it is being expanded by 50 percent to accommodate them all comfortably.
Vendors. There will be over 120 vendors ranging from food trucks to local farms to museums on Capital Mall between Third and Ninth streets. Look for special kids' educational activities at the following booths: Food Literacy Center, Soil Born Farm, and Slow Food Sacramento.
Kids Zone. This year's kids zone is sponsored by Sysco and Nationwide, who will both be offering education activities (like how to pick ripe fruit at the grocery store) and demos geared toward the little ones in your family. There will also be free face painting, giant mural painting, an educational animal display and giveaways all day long.
Entertainment. There will be family-friendly live entertainment all day long on the Toyota entertainment stage including Grammy Award-winning group, The Wallflowers. Other groups to entertain are local alternative/Indie rock band Skylar's Pool, led by news anchor Kitty O'Neal and restaurateur Kurt Spataro, reggae-influenced The J Band and soul-inspired Hans and the Hot Mess.
Demonstration Stages. Who doesn't want to learn something new? Three large culinary demonstration stages will be set up throughout the footprint of the festival that will feature cooking and educational demos that will be entertaining for everyone within earshot.
Food. Ah…food. Isn't this what the Farm-to-Fork Festival is all about? Well, you'll be able to sample plenty of Sacramento's bounty on this day. Over 20 food trucks will be on hand to serve you all day long, along with other food vendors such as Blue Diamond Growers, Nugget and Whole Foods markets, and restaurants Ambrosia Café and de Vere's Irish Pub.
Drink. And for the adults…there will be plenty of local wine and beer offerings throughout the day. The beer garden will offer varieties from 12 local breweries, and the wine pavilion will feature wines from 15 different regional wineries.
When: Saturday, Sept. 24 from 11:00 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Getting There: If you are going by car, there is plenty of street parking and/or parking garages and lots within a few blocks of Capitol Mall surrounding the festival footprint including Downtown, Old Town and even West Sacramento. Click here for information on City of Sacramento parking. Just be prepared for slow traffic coming off I-5 and J Street. If you are going by way of bike, the American River Parkway makes it rather convenient to bike into downtown from the North or from the East. A free bike valet will be located at Ninth Street. Entrances into the festival will be located at each end – Third Street and Ninth Street, and at Fifth Street and Sixth Street.


PAK works closely with the following Board Certified Allergists and their practices (listed in alphabetical order) to assist in community outreach and advocacy efforts. We are honored to work with these amazing doctors on updating local school policy, increasing school nurses, educating the community and EMT training for anaphylaxis.
If you or anyone in your family is in need of counseling, PAK works closely with the counselors below. Jon and Kim are parents of children with allergy.


Bordeaux has its fair share of prestigious, world-renowned wines, and on iDealwine you can find the finest bottles, in excellent, mature vintages. We are sure that the Haut-Brion 1945, Pavie 1921 and Doisy-Daëne 1953 will be making some lucky collectors happy. The same goes for the mythical wines in vintages of the century, such as 2000 (Caisse Carré d'As, Lafite Rothschild, Léoville Barton…), 1990 (Margaux, Angélus, Ausone, Lynch-Bages…) and 1989 (Haut-Brion, Clinet, Lafite Rothschild, Mouton Rothschild, Margaux…).
In Burgundy, the wines are often already rare when they leave the domain… You will nevertheless find the finest wines in Burgundy in ready-to-drink vintages, for instance, Montrachet 1986 from Ramonet, a Gevrey-Chambertin 1er Cru Clos Saint-Jacques 1985 from Armand Rousseau or a Meursault 1er Cru Les Perrières from Coche Dury (2004, 1997) or even a Vosne-Romanée 1er Cru Cros Parantoux 2008 from Emmanuel Rouget. Wines from domaine d'Auvenay, Leflaive and Leroy, in other words the cream of the crop of rare fine Burgundian wine.
In the Rhone valley, the rare names include Rayas, domaine du Pegaü (Cuvée Da Capo), Henri Bonneau, Guigal's LA-LA-LA (Côte-Rôtie), or even the Vieille Julienne (CDR), Jean-Louis Chave (Hermitage), Thierry Allemand and Auguste Clape (Cornas).
In the Loire valley, Clos Rougeard is evidently the best of the best, even more so for the excellent 1989 vintage. The cuvée Silex (2003) from Dagueneau will also be the object of many-a bidding war, as well as the region's finest sweet wines in the finest vintages: Vouvray Clos du Bourg 1ere trie 1989 and 2002 or the Haut-Lieu 1990 from domaine Huet, or the Montlouis moelleux 1989 from La Taille aux Loups.
In Champagne, Selosse is one of the most talked about signatures in Champagne; wine lovers will be delighted to find the cuvées Les Carelles as well as Mareuil sur Ay Sous le Mont. Several bottles of Bollinger Grande Année are also for sale.
Last but not least, in other regions, many mature vintages are included in the catalogue, for exemple wines from Overnoy, a signature which needs no introduction. Old Cognacs and Armagnacs are also for sale, with some bottles dating back to the 19th century, such as the Très vieille Grande Champagne Napoléon 4 A.E. DOR 1858.
We mustn't forget that iDealwine is not only the place to find prestigious, rare wines, but also that you'll have many opportunities to find wines at very competitive prices. The prices of wines such as Château de Carles 1989 (Fronsac), the Mâcon Chaintré Vieilles Vignes 2003 from Valette or the Château-bouscassé 1998 (Madiran) should stay low. More than 300 lots have a high estimation of under €30…perfect if you're on a budget!


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Q: Proper types for generic onChange handler in react HTML form implemented with react stateful component. I am trying to write some generic on change handler for form elements but don't succeed to get it typed properly.
Here is the code:
interface SignupState {
    username: string
    email: string
    password: string
    password_confirmation: string
}

class Signup extends React.Component<{}, SignupState> {
    ....
    onFieldUpdate: (k: keyof SignupState) => (e: React.ChangeEvent<HTMLInputElement>) => void = (k) => {
        return (e) => {
            this.setState({
                [k]: e.currentTarget.value
            });
        }
    };
}

I thought that this way I will be able to put something like <input onChange={this.onFieldUpdate('username')} /> but have following error on setState call:
Argument of type '{ [x: string]: string; }' is not assignable to parameter of type 'SignupState | ((prevState: Readonly<SignupState>, props: Readonly<{}>) => SignupState | Pick<SignupState, "username" | "email" | "password" | "password_confirmation"> | null) | Pick<...> | null'.
  Type '{ [x: string]: string; }' is missing the following properties from type 'Pick<SignupState, "username" | "email" | "password" | "password_confirmation">': username, email, password, password_confirmation  TS2345


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EDITOR'S COLUMN: The Great White Hope — To Make all Black People Disappear
D. Kevin McNeir – Senior Editor Follow on Twitter Send an email September 19, 2018
A person carrying a wreath of flowers walks through the parking lot at the Greenville Avenue Church of Christ for the funeral service for Botham Shem Jean on September 13, 2018 in Richardson, Texas. Jean was killed when a Dallas Police officer who accidentally went into Jean's apartment, thinking it was her own and shot him. (Photo by Stewart F. House/Getty Images)
The recent death of Botham Jean, a 26-year-old businessman and college graduate, shot and killed in his own apartment in the middle of the night by an off-duty Dallas police officer, Amber Guyger, smells hauntingly familiar — exuding the stench of a putrid concoction of racism, jealousy, ignorance, hatred, denial and, dare I say it, white superiority. Now, Jean, due to no fault of his own, joins that infinitesimal group of Black brothers (and sisters) who have been profiled, harassed, stalked, corralled, enslaved, or eliminated — in this case gunned down, because — well, because they're Black folk living in a world where their very existence evokes both envy and fear.
That fear, and of course envy, stem from an unfiltered history of the planet where Blacks once sat at the top of the human food chain. Long ago, our ancestors were the philosophers, the physicians, the theologians, the warriors, the agriculturalists, the architects, the teachers and the griots. But as white-skinned, former cave-dwelling humans realized the overall power, wealth and intelligence that rested in the hands of dark-skinned people, they began devising ways to take that which was not theirs. More than anything, they longed to become the world's new rulers, gatekeepers and lawmakers — the master sitting on his throne, comfortably ensconced in "the big house" — sharing with Blacks was not an option.
And so, first in subtle, then later in more obvious ways, whites began to employ any means they could muster to initiate and promote the "dehumanization" of Black people, stripping away all semblances of their former humanity until they were reconfigured — transformed into creatures that were only partially human and therefore obviously incapable of love, hope, pain or sorrow. With their plan well underway, whites accelerated along their ignoble pursuit for power, prestige and worldwide domination without fear of ever feeling guilty because of how they were and, in the future, would mistreat and abuse members of the Black race.
Ironically, or predictably, Jean, initially the victim, has since become the bad guy — the Black man who wants to rape white daughters, who walks in the wake of wanton violence and who'd rather hang out on the corner with a 40 and a blunt in his hand, than occupy a seat in the boardroom.
That's why officials searched the home of the victim, not the assailant, and came up with something useful—he was in possession of marijuana. The same thing happened to young Trayvon Martin who, after being murdered by a self-empowered, so-called "community watchman," faced ridicule from the grave because records indicated that he'd gotten into trouble several times in school. Trayvon was a "bad boy" they said. Botham Jean was a "bad man" they said — so both "deserved" what happened to them.
From time to time, I wake up shuddering, having had a nightmare so powerful that I cannot decide if I'm witnessing an imaginary vista or a true-to-life encounter. My brothers and sisters still lament over what we do not have, what we once had and why we have been kept from achieving that which we have the right to pursue and reclaim. To that I say, when Blacks, from Soweto to South Central LA, re-embrace the power of the collective which once served as the anchor and foundation for the world's Black community, then we will witness and celebrate that "great getting up morning" — a day when the only folks disappearing will be those still desperately clinging to the absurd noting that "I" matters more than "US."
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1650 Fuller Map of Jerusalem ( Israel, Palestine, Holy Land)
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Scarce imaginative 1650 plan of Jerusalem.
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1665 (undated) 11.5 x 15 in (29.21 x 38.1 cm)
An extremely rare and altogether fascinating 1650 map of Jerusalem by Thomas Fuller. Depicts the old walled city of Jerusalem during the reign of the Biblical King Solomon, ca. 961-922 BC. On the whole this is a highly imaginative map of the city and likely bears no significant resemblance to the Jerusalem of Solomon. Solomon's Temple appears at the right center with a tall bell tower and a highly Renaissance European design aesthetic. At the center, roughly where the Church of Holy Sepulture is located today, is Solomon's menagerie. The Baths of Bethesda, in which an angel swims, appear in the upper right, approximately where they are said to be today. Other sites of note include 'Domus David' near the modern day Jaffa Gate, the armory in the lower left, the Kings House at bottom center, Solomon's throne near the menagerie at center, the golden gate at right center, etc. Throughout the streets are arranged with an uncanny geometric precisions. Outside the walls Fuller identifies the Mount of Olives (Montis Oliueti), the Dragon Well, the Fullers Field, the King's Garden, and despite purportedly being a map of Solomon's Jerusalem, the Crucifixion on Calvary. A armorial crest and a dedication to Eduardo Montagu, or Edward Montagu, the First Earl of Sandwich, appears in the upper right quadrant. Engraved by John Williams for the 1650 first edition of Thomas Fuller's A Pisgah-sight of Palestine. This map is exceptionally rare and an important addition to any serious Israel - Palestine - Holy Land collection. We have found no record of it appearing on the market in the last 10 years.
Thomas Fuller (1608 - August, 16, 1661) was an English historian and Anglican clergyman. Fuller was born in Northamponshire, England and was educated at Queens College, Cambridge. A prodigal student, Fuller was describe by contemporary John Aubrey as "a boy of pregnant wit". He entered the Anglican clergy and became well known throughout England for his prodigious speaking skills, which kept him moving from town to town for much of his career. Fuller is also significant as he was one of the first Englishmen able to support himself solely through the publican and sale of his written works, which include The Worthies of England, The Historie of the Holy Warre, The Holy State and the Prophane State and his prominent geography of the Holy Land, A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Fuller's personality,
His power of fascinating posthumous as well as contemporary friends is easily explicable. His unfailing playfulness, the exuberant wit, often extravagant, rarely ineffective and always unforced, is combined with a kindliness and simplicity which never fails to charm. If not profound, he is invariably shrewd, sound-hearted, and sensible. He tells a story admirably, as Lamb observed, because with infectious enjoyment. His humour is childlike in its freedom from bitterness. His quick sense of the ridiculous, combined with a calm and cheerful temperament, made fanaticism impossible. It tempered his zeal instead of edging his animosities. Moderation was therefore his favourite virtue, or 'the silken chain running through the pearl-string of all the virtues
Following an illustrious career, Fuller contracted Typhus fever and died at his home in Covent Garden on the 16th of August, 1661. Fuller was survived by several children from his two marriages.
Fuller, Thomas, Pisgah-Sight Of Palestine And The Confines Thereof, With The History of the Old and New Testament acted thereon., 1650.
Very good condition. Original centerfold. Minor darkening lower left quadrant.
Laor, E., Maps of the Holy Land: Cartobibliography of Printed Maps, 1475 - 1900, 1024. The George Washington University, The Gelman Library, Special Collections Research Center, MAP0002.
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Off Topic Talk
By kjtocool, April 6, 2011 in Off Topic Talk
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For anyone with HBO, they have a new series called Game of Thrones starting on April 17th, it's going to be all kinds of awesome ... tune in!
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Other than Steven Erikson's epic Malazan series or Robert Jordan (RIP) WoT series, one of my favorite post-LOTR series of all time - can't wait to see the ensemble cast, with Sean Bean headlining.
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Agree RRF. The only other series I'd add on par with those three is The Book of the New Sun. Did you get to watch the preview?
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High praise! Never heard of Malazan but I'm hungry for the next (last?) installment of WoT. Just picked Game of Thrones up off Amazon.
Not to derail the thread - but you gotta pick up Eriksson's series. The most amazing series yet in the last 30+ years.
Looking forward to the mini-series - hopefully they don't butcher it like Sword of Truth (not an outstanding series by any means....but the dreck that came onto the small screen *shudder*).
On tonight!!!!!
After working through several chapters you can see why HBO would choose this series. It reads like a combo of Tolkien and their "Rome" series. Judging by their latest efforts on series, I wonder how edgy this will get/how true they'll be to the book.
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According to GRRM (author of the books), it's pretty damn faithful. They removed some characters, and obviously there are minor changes, but nothing egregious.
The series has received almost universal acclaim from early reviews, so I'm pumped. I just wish I knew more people who'd give the book a chance. It's hard selling the fantasy genre to those that don't already have an affinity for it. After all, a gritty, masochistic spade is still a spade.
Edit: Skoodog, how far in are you? The book really starts picking up about halfway through (when a certain character is "arrested," per se) and the rest of the series never lets down afterward.
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According to GRRM
Coincidentally "GRRM" is the sound I make when I'm constipated and...
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It is called the game of thrones.
Hard to say but according to the Kindle, about halfway. A certain character has been "arrested". Pretty much a political intrigue story so far...not as much of a fantasy epic as I had figured, but still very good. I stop reading stuff that sucks, so...it hasn't sucked yet, and the character development is very good, a la Jordan (early Jordan, not late Jordan where the women bitch and connive for books at a time).
hahahahahahahaha, you will NOT ditch the series. I'll bet you money on that. Stick with AGOT to the end and you'll understand why TIME dubbed Mr. Martin as the "American Tolkien."
Edit: The following two books are a lot more explosive, though you still get very healthy amounts of political machinations; this one sets everything in motion.
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Not one opinion about the show yet? Stop talking about these book things and fill me on Game of Thrones !!
Love the show, can't wait for tonight!
TIVO'd Ep #1, in-laws here & I was out of town last weekend, so going to run 3 hours straight this week - can't wait!
Oh wow. I'll likely re-watch #2 right before #3, loving it so far.
Watched #1 and #2 on not-HBO ( ) and really liked it - it's almost a transliteration of the book and nothing significant has been lost. Of course, the book is written episodically so it's the perfect series to transfer to film (unlike so many others).
Tyrion is probably my favorite character both in the book and in the show - good to see a role written for a little person that's not him getting shot out of a cannon or as a midget clone lackey. On the other hand, Jon Snow's character absolutely sucks - they should have gotten someone who wasn't void of emotion or acting skill to play such a prominent role. Haven't seen episode 3 though so I'll reserve all judgment til I see him in a more featured episode.
THis is my new favorite show, but is there a set number of episodes/seasons it's gonna last?
The show has been renewed for a second season due to the strong critical response, universal acclaim from the audience, and ever-rising Nielson ratings. In fact, the show has steadily risen in ratings every single week, and considering the strong point of the first book is the second half (and critics also agree that the second half of the season is much better), there should be no slowing down.
IIRC - and if HBO decides to follow the logical route, considering ACoK is much longer than AGoT- the second season will be 12 episodes of blood, sex and betrayal.
Also, Skoo, you ever finish the book?
10 Episodes this season, hopefully 11 or 12 next season.
Loving this show hard, but come on, MORE DIREWOLVES!
Yep, halfway through Clash of Kings right now. Making Martin the Executive Producer was smart - they definitely feature Theon Greyjoy way more in the eps than the first book did, which is important on setting up for Season 2 (assuming Clash of Kings is the second season).
They're gonna have to invest a little more on special effects for the second book! Can't wait to see how they do Viserion, Rhaegal and Drogon!
Yeah, I love how they're making emphasizing things that the books don't immediately cover.
I'm looking forward to seeing them at the end of the season. They'll probably be on screen for about 3 seconds, though, so it'll be hard to tell if they look cheesy or not.
I'd love to hear your thoughts - vague ones, if you don't wanna spoil it for anyone else - on Thrones' ending.
I think it will be harsh and depressing, tbh. But Hollywood likes that. Bottomline, the series CANNOT stop the first book - way too much conflict left up in the air, which I think will be a major hurdle for the series to overcome in getting a second season.
If this show ends up being 7 seasons long, one for each book, it will be the most epic series ever made!
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Frankly, when something glitters as beautifully as these bronze shoes from Deco, there is no need for gold.
I added some big statement rings from Miao and Donna Flora – that glitter in all sorts of ways. The ring on my right hand has a color-change touch script that lets it glitter an entire rainbow of color.
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Q: what language do I need to write macros in LIbre Office Calc? I've written a bunch of VBA code for various things in Excel.  I'm looking at migrating to libreOffice.  Under Tool->Macros->Organize Macros: the two choices are LibreOffice Basic and Python.
Should I learn one of those, both, or something else.  Am I wasting my time altogether?  Any suggestions appreciated.

A: Python's a great skill to learn - I use it for everything.  It's the glue language for virtually every tool out there (you can even use it with .Net).
Documentation for Python + LibreOffice is however a bit sketchy currently, although I don't have much experience with Calc.
There is some work-in-progress documentation at http://documenthacker.wordpress.com (or soon www.documenthacker.com).  It has examples for working with Writer, rather than Calc, but you might still find it useful.

A: Python is the way to go.
Start here: http://wiki.python.org/moin/BeginnersGuide
And no, you're not wasting time.
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