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Ultimate Guide To Online Baccarat - Everything You Need To Know About Casino Baccarat
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Baccarat is a game offering one of the lowest house edges in the casino, typically around 1.06%, giving you a realistic chance of experiencing winning sessions. Made famous by James Bond and private high stakes rooms, this game can be somewhat of a mystery to many despite being spread in casinos all over the world. If you are unfamiliar with the game of baccarat this guide provides you with everything you need to know to step into the games.
To start with some of the game's history is explained, showing you how it has evolved into the popular Mini Baccarat common in both live casinos and online. You are then taken through a basic hand of baccarat to demonstrate how the game is played before the rules on drawing a third card is covered. As there are many different versions of the game available I have finished off by covering two common variations you may find – Chemin De Fleur and Baccarat Banque.
The History Of Baccarat
Baccarat is one of the oldest card games spread in the casino. While baccarats true origins may be lost in time, it is believed the game first originated In Italy in the 1400s. Soon after it was introduced to France in the 1490s by returning solders and gained favour amongst the French nobility. The first definite recorded reference to baccarat was not until 1847 when Charles Van-Tenac wrote a 13 page mathematical study of 'baccara'.
While there were stories of baccarat games being played in the US during the late 19th and early 20th century, no variants were mentioned on Nevada's 1931 casino gambling legislation. It was not until 1958 that a baccarat version 'Chemin de Fer' was seen in Las Vegas casinos. The Cuban variant Punto Banco followed the next year. This game became the recognisable modern version of baccarat although it could easily all been very different as in November 1959 the Sands lost $250,000 when they launched the first table.
Punto Banco or Mini Baccarat is a typically a smaller game, both in terms of number of players and stakes, than the traditional 'big table game'. There is only one dealer who controls the action and deals, where the larger game sees the players take it in turn to deal and you can find three casino employees handling bets and pay-outs. As a result mini baccarat is generally a quicker and more accessible game which you will find available in many online and live casinos.
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Despite the mystic surrounding baccarat among those unfamiliar with the game, it is actually very straight-forward to play. The game is typically dealt using 8 full decks of cards. Before the deal participants take it in turns to bet on one of two hands – the banker or the player. There is a third option of betting on a tie, although this typically pays out at 8/1 when the true odds are close to 11/1, making this is a bet to avoid. The aim is to choose which hand you think will get closest to the highest score of 9.
Once two cards for each hand are dealt onto the table, the value of the cards are added up. Face cards and 10s count as nothing and aces count as 1. If the total of the two cards exceeds 9 then 10 is deducted from the score, meaning a sum of 10 would be zero, 11 would be 1 and so on.
Should either hand total 8 or 9, then this is declared a 'natural', ending the action and giving the highest score the win. Should the totals on both hands be lower than 8 then the action follows set rules based on the player's hand.
Those who bet on the winning hand receive even money pay-outs, matching their original bets, although those with winning banker bets will have 5% commission deducted to the house.
Drawing The Third Card
If the player totals 6 or 7 then no further cards are drawn for the player and the banker's hand must stand on a 6 or 7 or draw on lower.
When the player's hand totals 5 or less a third card must be drawn. If this happens the banker has to stand on a 7 or is dealt a 3rd card based on the player's third card as follows:
If the banker hand equals 0 -2, a third card is drawn no matter what the player receives.
If the banker hand equals 3, a card is drawn unless the player receives an 8.
If the banker hand equals 4, a card is drawn unless the player receives a 0,1, 8 or 9.
If the banker hand equals 5, a card is drawn if the player receives a 4, 5, 6, 7.
If the banker hand equals 6, a card is drawn if the player receives a 6 or 7.
While it is useful to remember these it really only serves to spot mistakes as these actions should all be automatic for the dealer.
Once a third card has been drawn (or not) then no further cards are needed to make up the hand and the winning hand is declared.
Baccarat Variations
As noted earlier, despite being the most common form of baccarat found in casinos and online, Punto Banco or Mini Baccarat is a relatively new variant of the game. The typical big table game runs in a similar manner with betting against the house, although there are a total of 24 Baccarat variants approved by the Nevada Control Board as of 2008 which have significant differences. The two most common variations are covered here Chemin De Fer and Baccarat Banque.
Chemin De Fer – This French variant of the game is played like a big table game of baccarat, with players taking it in turn to deal. The main difference is in Chemin De Fer whichever player is dealing the cards becomes the banker and actively bets against the other players at the table. Here the player-banker has to bet on the banker hand and the other players have to bet on the player hand.
Before the deal commences the banker places his bet on the table. Depending on the casino rules this may be how much he is willing to risk in total or how high he is willing to go to match individual player bets. Starting with the player on the bankers left, each one then takes it in turn to place their bets, the highest bettor becoming the player's representative.
Cards are then dealt like most other baccarat games, with two cards for each of the players and bankers hands. As with other forms of baccarat if a natural 8 or 9 is dealt, the winner is declared. If not then the player and banker both have the choice whether or not to draw a thirds card. While there are no set drawing rules in Chemin De Fer, they will remain similar to a standard baccarat game as these have the highest mathematical expectation. The winner is then declared and bets are paid out, minus the 5% commission for winning banker bets. The banker remains the same until that player loses when the option to become the banker is offered to the player on his left.
Baccarat Banque – This game typically played with a three deck shoe which stays with one player deemed to be the banker. Unlike a lot of other baccarat games the dealer does not rotate, instead it is decided on at the start of the game by an auction or given to the first player on the game's list. In some casinos the banker may be funded by the house. The banker-player is positioned in the middle of the table.
Once the cards are sufficiently shuffled and cut by the casino dealer and players, the banker deals out three hands – a player hand to his right and left and one for the bank. The banker can only bet on the Banker hand and the players must bet on the Player hand on their side of the table. Should they wish, the players can bet on the other Player hand in addition, by placing a bet in the middle of the table.
The banker places the wager they wish to make to cover action from all the players. A single players bet may not exceed this nor may the total of all players bets. A player may solo challenge the dealer by declaring their intention to "go bank" and match the bankers wager on his side, or both Player hands. If the player wins the bet he becomes the banker although he fails to win on three consecutive tries he is unable to "go bank" again.
When all betting is finished the three hands follow the standard baccarat scoring and the winners are awarded their pay-out. The 5% commission is still paid on all banker bets.
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Since I'm hanging out at the Energy Solutions arena this morning collecting canned food for the Utah Food Bank, Revellie was gracious enough to step in and entertain you.
For my second blog, I thought I would start where Josh and I started...Chickens. Backyard chickens have been a recent hot topic for us hip urban convenience environmentalists (don't get upset…I am lumping myself in there too). This IS a good thing though on many levels (click on the links below for more information - that was the plan but then I found http://www.mypetchicken.com/backyard-chickens/chicken-care/chapter-1-why-chickens.aspx which pretty much summed it up for me).
• Chickens are pretty awesome and personable creatures.
• Happy eggs come from happy chickens.
• Stickin' it to the Man.
We started off with 4 chickens and a converted rabbit hutch (basically a rabbit hutch with the front panel cut out and 2 laying boxes attached). We were worried about them flying away and neighborhood cats getting wind of them so we locked them in the hutch at night. We actually did lose a one of our Leghorns one evening. Josh and I wanted to look in the neighbors back yards but did not know how to start that conversation with them. Later we found the chicken in a tree (something we still laugh about today).
Then we found a very inexpensive dog run on our local community ad site (similar to CraigsList). That became our chicken run. We put a piece of variegated metal (purchased at discount from a scrap metal yard) on the top of it for a roof. Ahhh… shelter for our chickens.
• Chickens need to eat every day. If they are hungry, feed them.
• Chickens need to be in a certain weight range before they start laying eggs.
Also, I learned that an egg is…well…an egg just like ours (females) but it gets released everyday not just once a month. So after laughing at ourselves for a few weeks for our naivety, our chickens started laying eggs. We were on cloud nine.
Here are a few other tidbits I have learned about chickens.
• When they get use to you, they really perk up when you come around. If you are not going to eat them, then they will make pretty cool pets. I have had one take something right out of my hand. We also had a bantam (tiny chicken breed) that sat on my shoes every time I came out to visit her.
• Chickens love dust baths and will dig a hole and just lie in it.
• Chickens love digging (they dug up all my strawberries!). We put them in our garden (after seeing what they did to my strawberries) and they prepped it for spring for me.
• Chickens love worms and snails. Throw them a snail and watch them chase each other around. We also watched one kill a mouse the other day.
I can see that this is getting quite long and I wanted to talk about ducks as well. I may have to do a part two so I can share with you about how we discovered ducks.
As I close, please know you do not have to get chickens. It's not a lot of work but it is still a commitment and if you can't make the commitment, please don't. If you want to make a difference, consider buying local farm fresh eggs. Not the "organic" eggs from the grocery store. We all know that "organic" and "free-range" are loosely defined for massed produced products (it doesn't take a genius to figure that one out). By buying farm fresh eggs you will also get awesome eggs, keep your dollars local, and your carbon footprint will be minimal (a semi-truck did not deliver your eggs).
If you can't wait to hear what I have to say about ducks, you can listen to The Goat Cast (thegoatcast.blogspot.com) for a more in depth approach and hear Josh interview Christy Brown from SunnyBrooke Farms (she has become our in-house expert on all things avian).
My boyfriend would definitely freak out if I started raising chickens...lol. I guess I will have to find a local egg source.
New GFC follower stopping by from follow us monday hop. If you get a chance please stop by my blog. have a great week!
Thanks for following. I am now following with GFC as Bonnie. What a great Chicken story. I am looking forward to reading more. I have been raising chickens for around 5 years now. I started with 25 laying hens. Now I only have a few left. I started traveling a lot and had to give them away.


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Clare Bryden. A hymn to bees. Third Way Magazine, March 2016. Available on Third Way website (paywall).
The well-ordered activity of the hive is in full swing now. There are resonances of the Body of Christ, with worker bees 'appointed' for service in caring, feeding, cleaning and fighting. But for all that bees are social insects, Laline Paull's novel "The Bees", depicting an alien totalitarian state, is a warning against drawing too close a parallel.
In the spring, the queen builds a 'honey pot' from wax to store honey. She collects pollen and mixes it with more honey to make a pile of 'bee bread'. Here she lays her eggs and nurtures developing bumblebees, while eating her stored honey. The first brood will be mostly workers, who can take over foraging while the queen continues to lay eggs.
The science is complicated by the glorious complexity of bee colonies and biodiversity in the field, and the divergence between lab studies and the 'real world', such as whether the dosages studied are representative of those applied in practice.
So for example, a critical analysis of research into the interactions between pesticide exposure and pathogen infection, published in July 2015, stated that these remain unclear. On the other hand, in what they claim was the first 'real world' experiment on the effects of neonicotinoids in bees, published in April 2015, scientists from Lund University in Sweden found reductions in wild bee density, solitary bee nesting, and bumblebee colony growth and reproduction. They found no effect on honeybees, which are at lower risk as they are able to metabolise neonicotinoids more quickly.
In England and Wales, according to the "State of Nature" report from the RSPB in 20134, the area of lowland meadow plummeted by 97% between the 1930s and 1984. Three-quarters of the bumblebees' preferred food plants have declined over the past 80 years.
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There is a contentment, perhaps the remembrance of a lost golden age or a sense of time slowing to a standstill: "yet / Stands the Church clock at ten to three? / And is there honey still for tea?" (Rupert Brooke, "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester").
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Just as importantly, insect pollination supports biodiversity and healthy ecosystems, helping plants to produce fruit and seeds for birds and animals. They are truly a wonder of God's created web of life. They have a priceless value as part of our natural world, of which we are also part, and as such they contribute to our well-being.
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// Copyright (c) The Perspex Project. All rights reserved.
// Licensed under the MIT license. See licence.md file in the project root for full license information.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Perspex.Platform;

namespace Perspex.Input
{
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    public enum StandardCursorType
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        Arrow,
        Ibeam,
        Wait,
        Cross,
        UpArrow,
        SizeWestEast,
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        AppStarting,
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        // Not available in GTK directly, see http://www.pixelbeat.org/programming/x_cursors/
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        // SizeNorthWestSouthEast,
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    public class Cursor
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        internal Cursor(IPlatformHandle platformCursor)
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One will lock the GPS, the other will not .. have read all the forums info, cleaned it up checked connections, etc. still will not lock?
Re: Bebop GPS Lock ?????
first GPS fix can literally take forever (15 min) how long did you wait?
So here are two screen caps from the two BBs.... see the difference?? How do I fix this??
GPS lock never took longer than 1 minute to me. But when I updated to the latest firmware (4.7.1, BB2) It started failing to get GPS and failing to magnetometer calibration. Several times magnetometer got uncalibrated during flight which led to the loss of GPS lock. Once it even fell down. Hard reset helped to solve the issue. Maybe you should do that. Press the power button for more than 8 seconds then wait until drone gets everything done. And reboot. Make sure you calibrate your done each time you plug a battery in.
Thank you for answering, but I still NEED a solution.
One of my Bebops locks right away, and the other does not at all. See previous post. This seems to be a common situation. I am hoping that Parrot may have a solution for this.
If anyone else HAS SOLVED this problem, PLEASE share a solution.
it happens exactly the same, to me I even lost it .
So the hard reset will solved it?
Because I found it, and it doesn't gets the GPS, and on the distance displays shows a ? .
No. There is NO SOLUTION.
Parrot suggested replacing the GPS module. Waiting for replacement. No THEY did not pay for it!
My Bebop 2 is not displaying distance, and elevation. The GPS icon never goes green. I did have it working until the V-4.7.1 update.
Parrot service says their engineers are working on it. Seems like this product is just not engineered to be very reliable.
I've had 2 replacements since I got it Christmas 2017. Each one has some kind of issue. I'm glad I didn't spend my money on it, but I feel bad for my gift giver.
Would it pay to back update to earlier version? When I got this current one, the Version was V-4.4.2 amd the distance, and elevation readouts were working.
Do you need an older firmware version to try it?
Imo it has nothing to do with the FW version, no member of the 'old' Parrot BB2 forum complained about that, in fact about anything on this FW.
You have no distance read out on display or GPS version in FFpro because you dont have a working GPS, so the suggestion done bij Parrot CS is not that strange. Your GPS module does not work, checked the flatcable connection under the GPS module?
Try swapping the GPS modules. It only takes a couple of minutes. Then set them outside and wait for a GPS lock. If the problem travels with the module, you have a bad GPS module. If the problem sticks with the same drone, you have a bad connector, or a problem with the motherboard.


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Movie Guide for TownMall in Carroll County, Aug. 5
"The Amazing Spider-Man" (PG-13). A radioactive spider bite gives Peter Parker super powers, and he also embarks on a quest to learn the truth about his parents. With Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Rhys Ifans, Sally Field and Martin Sheen. TownMall Cinemas (12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 10:00 p.m.)
"The Dark Knight Rises" (PG-13). Eight years after taking the fall for murders committed by Harvey Dent, Bruce Wayne must come out of a self-imposed retirement as The Batman to help Gotham face Bane, a terrorist who attacks the city, and also a cat burglar who seems to have mixed motives. With Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman. TownMall Cinemas (12:30, 1:30, 4:00, 5:00, 7:30, 9:20 p.m.)
"Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days" (PG). Greg (Zachary Gordon) is ready form summer, but all of his plans seem to go wrong. With Robert Capron, Devon Bostick. TownMall Cinemas (1:10, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 p.m.)
"Ice Age: Continental Drift" (PG). Manny and friends explore a new world when the continents split apart. With Ray Romano, John Leguizamo and Denis Leary. TownMall Cinemas (12:40, 3:30, 6:30, 9:40 p.m.)
"Step Up Revolution" (R). A young woman strives to be a professional dancer in Miami. With Ryan Guzman, Kathryn McCormick and Misha Gabriel. TownMall Cinemas (12:50*, 3:50, 6:50*, 9:50 p.m.)
"Ted" (R). A grown man (Mark Wahlberg) has a teddy bear (Seth MacFarlane) as his companion. With Mila Kunis, Giovanni Ribisi. TownMall Cinemas (1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:10 p.m.)
"Total Recall" (PG-13). In a future where people take escape reality by experiencing others' memories, a factory worker tries it out and begins to believe he's really a spy. With Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel. TownMall Cinemas (1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 10:30 p.m.)
"The Watch" (R). Four men working a neighborhood watch crew discover that aliens have infiltrated their town. With Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Jonah Hill, Richard Ayoade, Rosemarie DeWitt, Will Forte. TownMall Cinemas (1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:20 p.m.)
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A haptically enabled device includes a haptic output device used to control motion. The haptically enabled device determines a desired motion, and then generates a haptic effect on the haptic output device to cause the desired motion.


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The MP3 Trigger is a versatile, low-cost, low-power embedded audio unit that plays MP3 tracks directly from a FAT32 or FAT16 formatted microSD flash card to a stereo 1/8" (3.5mm) headphone output jack, supporting up to 192kbps stereo playback. The board has 18 external input pins that when pulled to ground, trigger pre-selected MP3 tracks, and a full-duplex serial control port that provides real-time volume control as well remote triggering for up to 255 tracks. There is also an on-board navigation switch for local access and playback of all MP3 tracks on the flash card.
To get started with your MP3 Trigger, you'll need a few items not included. To begin, you'll need an microSD card on which to store your .mp3 files. A simple way to power the MP3 Trigger while you're familiarizing yourself with it is to use a 9V wall adapter. If you intend on using your MP3 Trigger with another serial device, you need an FTDI Basic or other serial connection. Last, you will need something though which to play audio. You may use headphones, a 3.5mm-to-3.5mm audio cable to connect to an external audio source, or one of our 3.5mm Audio pigtails to wire your MP3 Trigger to the output you desire.
Note: The MP3 Trigger supports both SDSC (up to 2GB) and SDHC (up to 32GB) type microSD cards.
How to Solder - Soldering will be necessary to attach buttons and switches to the trigger inputs.
Working with Wire - You'll likely need to use some wire to attach those buttons and switches.
Switch Basics - Learn about the numerous buttons and switches you can use to trigger your audio files.
If you plan on using your MP3 Trigger with an Arduino or other microcontroller, you should have a good understanding of Serial Communication, Hexadecimal, ASCII, and Serial Terminals.
The following will highlight the various hardware sections found on the MP3 Trigger.
The MP3 Trigger is designed to be powered a few different ways.
The first and most obvious power scheme is to apply external power to the barrel jack connector (5.5x2.1mm center positive). As the silkscreen next to the connector reads, you may power the MP3 Trigger through this jack with 4.5-12V DC.
The solder jumper next to the barrel jack comes set to VBUS by default. Ensure that this jumper is always set to VBUS so long as you're powering the MP3 Trigger through that connector.
While power is applied to the barrel jack, you may use the USB/EXT switch as an ON/OFF switch to control the power to the MP3 Trigger. It should be powered while in the EXT position.
You can also solder power wires directly to the through-holes located on the backside of the board.
If you would like to integrate the MP3 Trigger into an existing system that uses 5V (like a USB port), you can power the MP3 Trigger through the FTDI header.
You can apply the regulated power source directly to the VCC and GND pins, or you can solder some right-angle headers to the FTDI port and power with the appropriate 5V FTDI Basic Breakout.
Once connected, flip the switch to the USB side to power the board.
If you intend on using the MP3 Trigger in conjunction with an Arduino or other microcontroller to communicate over the UART, you will do so through this port as well.
Why Use a 5V FTDI and Not a 3.3V FTDI?
You may not be able to power the MP3 Trigger with a 3.3V power source via the FTDI header despite it seeming logical that you could use a 3.3V FTDI on the "5V FTDI" header. The reasoning behind this is that certain versions of the 3.3V FTDI Basic uses the FTDI IC to regulate 5V down to 3.3V. If you are using this device to power the MP3 Trigger, you may exceed the current limitation of the 3.3V FTDI, leading to a potential brown-out on your device. Thus, we recommend using a 5V FTDI Basic.
Note: SparkFun released a High-Current 3.3V FTDI Basic, known as the Beefy 3. Using this 3.3V FTDI with the MP3 Trigger is acceptable as it can provide enough current for it to operate.
If you power the MP3 Trigger with a regulated 3.3V power source that is able to source enough current via FTDI header's VCC pin, you will need to clear the solder jumper and resolder it so that the 3.3V pad and center pad are connected before you can power the board.
Warning: Switching the jumper to the 3.3V side will bypass the voltage regulator. You may risk damaging the microSD card and the components on the board if the voltage is higher than 3.3V or not regulated.
Once connected with a regulated 3.3V power source on the FTDI header, flip the switch to the USB side to power the board.
Power is indicated by the red Power LED located in the upper-right corner.
The Trigger pins are what make the MP3 Trigger so easy to use. Each of the 18 triggers is broken out to a 0.1" through-hole. Next to each trigger pin is a ground pin. By shorting a trigger pin to ground, you are activating that trigger and thus playing the audio file associated with that particular trigger. More information can be found in the Using the Trigger Inputs section.
The MP3 Trigger has a 1/8" (3.5mm) audio jack to connect your project to an amplifier and speakers or to headphones.
You will only be able to have your MP3 Trigger configured to play audio as a line out or as headphones,** but not both at the same time**. By default, the MP3 Trigger comes configured to play over a line out to an external audio system. If you wish to use your MP3 Trigger with headphone instead, you'll need to clear the solder from all three audio solder jumpers and solder the center pads to the opposite pads.
A solder jumper cheat sheet is conveniently printed in the silkscreen on the back of the MP3 Trigger to help you in altering the audio configuration.
The navigation switch allows you to cycle through and play/stop all the tracks located on your microSD card. More information on its operation can be found in the Basic Operation Section.
The microSD socket is a simple push-to-insert/push-to-remove mechanism. The MP3 Trigger supports both SDSC (up to 2GB) and SDHC (up to 32GB) type microSD cards. More information on how the microSD card initializes can be found in the Basic Operation Section.
Simply drag and drop the desired MP3 files into the root directory of a FAT32 or FAT16 formatted microSD flash card using a PC.
The MP3 Trigger does not support hot-swapping of the microSD Card. While this won't damage anything, the microSD media is only initialized during power up. So whenever the card is changed or updated, be sure to power cycle the MP3 Trigger after installing the card.
1 long blink - No formatted microSD media found.
1 long blink, followed by 1 short blink - microSD media found, no MP3 files located.
Constant short blinks - Hardware problem with MP3 Decoder.
3 short blinks - microSD media found, at least 1 MP3 file located.
As soon as the MP3 Trigger powers up with 3 short blinks, the on-board navigation switch can be used to play all of the tracks on the card, regardless of the filenames.
The trigger inputs are active low and pulled high internally. Therefore, they can be activated either by digital outputs from another microcontroller (such as an Arduino) or by a simple contact closure (switch) to ground. The inputs support voltage levels of either 5V or 3.3V.
The trigger inputs are made available on the even-numbered pins of a dual row connector, and all the opposing (odd-numbered) pins are ground, making it easy to wire individual switches or contact closures directly to the MP3 Trigger board.
Installing a 36-pin dual-row header allows shunt jumpers to be installed on the trigger inputs to automatically sequence and loop tracks on power-up as follows.
When a triggered track reaches the end, the MP3 Trigger looks to see if any trigger inputs are active, and will automatically start another track if so. If only the same trigger is active, then that track will restart (loop). If other triggers are active, the MP3 Trigger will always start the next higher trigger track, wrapping back to 1 after 18.
For example, if you wanted track 9 to play on startup, you'd jumper trigger 9. If you wanted tracks 1 through 9 to play on startup, you have to have a jumper on all nine triggers.
Using the initialization file describe later in this document, triggers can be reprogrammed to start sequential or random tracks. For example, if a trigger is reprogrammed to be a random trigger, and that one trigger is shunted closed, then the MP3 Trigger will power up and continuously play tracks in a (pseudo) random order.
The MP3 Trigger can be placed into Quiet Mode using the serial control port. In this mode, the trigger inputs will not start tracks but instead will cause serial messages to be sent upon activation. (See "MP3 Trigger Outgoing Message Summary" below.) This allows the trigger inputs to be decoupled from specific tracks, so that a PC or microcontroller can monitor the trigger inputs and then start any track or sequence of tracks via the serial control port.
The MP3 Trigger comes with a full duplex 3.3-5V serial TTL interface that allows for control of all the MP3 tracks (up to 256) on the microSD card as well as volume, and for monitoring input trigger activity. You can use an FTDI Basic or connect to any serial interface that uses the format: 8-bits, 1-start, 1-stop, no parity, flow control = none. The serial port baud rate defaults to 38.4kbps (i.e. 38400 baud), but can be changed using the initialization file. All commands to the MP3 Trigger are 1 or 2 bytes in length.
1-byte commands are upper case ASCII characters. 2-byte commands start with an ASCII character. Those starting with an upper case character use an ASCII value ('0'–'9') as the second byte. (These commands can be typed on a keyboard.) 2-byte commands starting with a lower case character require a binary value (0 – 255) as the second byte.
Bytes sent to the MP3 Trigger are not echoed. If echoing is required, set your terminal program to echo locally.
Comments: This command performs the same function as pushing the on-board nav switch center position. If the current track is playing, it stops. If the current track is stopped, it will restart from the beginning.
Comments: This command performs the same function as pushing the on-board nav switch right position. The next MP3 track in the directory will be started.
Comments: This command performs the same function as pushing the on-board nav switch left position. The previous MP3 track in the directory will be started.
Comments: If it exists, the track with the filename "00Nxxxx.MP3" will be started, where N is the data byte. xxxx can be any valid filename characters of any length.
Comments: If it exists, the track with the filename "NNNxxxx.MP3" will be started, where NNN is the ASCII equivalent of the data byte 'n' with leading 0s. xxxx can be any valid filename characters of any length.
Comments: If it exists, the nth track in the directory will be played. The total number of available tracks in the directory can be retrieved using Status Request command below.
You decide to send the hex representation of the command byte and data byte. The Play command 'p' as 0x160 with data byte '1' as 0x1 are sent to the MP3 trigger. The MP3 trigger will begin playing in the order that it was saved to the microSD card. As opposed to playing the track number associated with the number 1, it will begin playing "009 SOMETHING.MP3". To play "001 SPARK.MP3", you would need to send the play command as 0x160 with data byte '3' as 0x3 since it was the 3rd track to be saved in the directory.
The Trigger command plays by the track based on the file name. Using the Trigger command 'T' as 0x124 with data byte '1' as 0x61, the board will play "001 SPARK.MP3". Remember, the upper case ASCII character requires an ASCII value between '1' through '9' as the second data byte. Using the Trigger command 't' as 0x160 with data byte '1' as 0x1, the board will play "001 SPARK.MP3". As noted earlier, the lower case ASCII character requires a binary value between 0 to 255 as the second data byte.
Comments: The VS1053 volume will be set to the value n. Per the VS1053 datasheet, maximum volume is 0x00, and values much above 0x40 are too low to be audible.
Comments: If N = '0', the MP3 Trigger will respond with a version string. If N = '1', the MP3 Trigger will respond with the total number of tracks on the installed microSD card, in ASCII. Both responses will be preceded by the '=' character.
Comments: If N='1', Quiet mode is turned on. If N='0', Quiet mode is turned off. Default state is off.
'X': When the currently playing track finishes.
'x': When the currently playing track is cancelled by a new command.
'E': When a requested track doesn't exist (error).
In response to a Status Request Command, data byte = '0', the MP3 Trigger sends an 18-byte version string: e.g. "=MP3 Trigger v2.50". In response to a Status Request Command, data byte = '1', the MP3 Trigger sends the number of MP3 tracks on the currently installed microSD card: e.g. "=14".
A value of 1 in a bit position indicates that the corresponding trigger input was activated.
This is a sample init file for the MP3 Trigger v2, firmware version 2.40.
MP3TRIGR.INI and be located in the root directory.
occurrence of the '*' character is treated as the end of file by the parser.
on the length of the comments that follow the first '*'.
examples - which are redundant since they are all default values.
first 4 MP3 files will be excluded from the random trigger function.
feature does not apply to function types 5-7.
You only need to include entries for triggers that are to be non-default.
powers up and loops continuously through all the tracks on the card.
The MP3 Trigger has a resident bootloader that allows updating the firmware directly from the microSD card, alleviating the need for a hardware programmer. Because this bootloader is in located in protected sectors of the PSoC's flash memory, it cannot overwrite itself. The bootloader can always be run on power up, thus making it possible to recover from a bad firmware load.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Use of a hardware programmer, such as the Cypress MiniProg, to program the MP3 Trigger with anything other than the bootloader image will erase the bootloader. Don't do it!
To update the MP3 Trigger firmware, copy the new firmware hex file to a FAT16 or FAT32 formatted micro-SD card and rename the file to "MP3TRIGR.HEX". It doesn't matter if it's the only file on the microSD card or not - the bootloader will find it as long as it has this exact filename. Insert the microSD card into the MP3 Trigger with the power off. Hold down the center nav switch while turning on the power. Wait for the status LED to go solid, then power cycle the MP3 Trigger to run the new firmware.
The bootloader is always entered whenever the board powers up. The first thing it does is look to see if the center nav switch is being held down. If not, it immediately vectors to the start of the firmware. Note that if you have previously loaded bad firmware, the board will simply halt or do whatever your bad code tells it to do – possibly with no activity other than the power LED. This is normal if there's no good firmware loaded.
If the center nav switch is being held on power up, the bootloader searches the microSD card directory for a file named "MP3TRIGR.HEX". If there's no card installed, or the file doesn't exist on the card, it will blink the status LED very rapidly forever. If it finds and is able to open the file, it begins to program the PSoC Flash with the contents of the firmware file. The status LED will illuminate for each hex record programmed. If it successfully programs the entire file, the status LED will turn solid upon completion. You can then power cycle the MP3 Trigger and you will be running the new firmware (don't hold the nav switch down again or you will simply re-enter the bootloader.
If there's a flash memory programming error (or you pull the microSD card out before it finishes, for example) the status LED will indicate a bad programming cycle by blinking briefly at about 1 Hz (This looks very different than the blinking for programming records). You need to cycle the power again holding the nav switch to re-enter the bootloader.
The key is that the bootloader cannot over-write any p art of itself, no matter what's in the firmware image file. The worst thing that can happen is you load bad firmware and the board won't run. But you can always hold the nav switch down on power up and get into the bootloader to load new firmware.
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My XML file looks like this

Here is my js
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        url: "xxxxx",
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        dataType: "xml",
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Here is the result I get

What do I need to do to get what I need? any help or suggestions will be aprreciated

A: You just need to use item g\\:id:contains('yourid') to get information about particular xml node.
So your will look like :
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Marilyn Bergman
Marilyn Bergman, wife, mother, grandmother and one of the most respected figures in music. A multi-award-winning lyricist with three Academy Awards, four Emmy Awards, three Grammy Awards, and one Cable Ace Award among others. For over sixty years in collaboration with her husband, Alan, Marilyn won Oscars for the songs, "The Windmills of Your Mind," "The Way We Were,"and for the score for "Yentl." Since their first Oscar nomination in 1968, they have been nominated sixteen times -- for such songs as "It Might Be You" from "Tootsie," "How Do You Keep The Music Playing?"from "Best Friends," "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" and "The Way He Makes Me Feel" from "Yentl" and "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" from "The Happy Ending." "The Windmills of Your Mind" and "The Way We Were" also received Golden Globe awards and "The Way We Were" earned two Grammys. The four Emmys are for "Sybil," "Queen of the Stardust Ballroom," "Ordinary Miracles" and "A Ticket to Dream." In 1996 they were nominated for a Golden Globe Award, an Academy Award and a Grammy Award for their song "Moonlight"performed by Sting from the Sydney Pollack film, "Sabrina."
All it takes is one listen to know there's something uniquely special about DOE. Between the purity of her vocals, intuitive lyrics and soul-captivating sound, the singer-songwriter-musician — born Dominique Jones — is poised to usher in a new era of gospel/inspirational music that transcends traditional perceptions.
Music fans first heard DOE's multifaceted talent in October 2020 with the release of her debut single "Brighter." The ebullient hit track was the lead-off to her self-titled EP, released through gospel star Jonathan McReynolds' Life Room Label in partnership with RCA Inspiration. Now DOE is ready to welcome everyone into her fearless world with Clarity, her debut full-length album due February 18th, 2022. The project borrows its title from one of the 11 tracks comprising the timely and cohesive package.
Cuban-American, International Superstar, Gloria Estefan, is a Grammy award-winning singer, songwriter, actress, author of two New York Times best-selling children's books, philanthropist and humanitarian. Also one of the founder's of the Miami Sound Machine. She is considered one of the world's most recognizable and beloved performers. Billboard Magazine considers her the single most successfulLatin crossover artist in music history. Having sold over 100mllion records worldwide she's been award with 8 Grammy Awards, an Oscar nominated performance for the song "Music Of My Heart," a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, an American Music Award for Lifetime Achievement, an induction into the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song.
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Singer/Songwriter Siedah Garrett was first discovered by Quincy Jones and has toured internationally as a backup and featured vocalist with Jones, Michael Jackson, Madonna, and others. She is best known for co-writing Michael Jackson's mega-hit "Man in the Mirror," and for having recorded as MJ's duet partner on his chart-topping BAD album lead single "I Just Can't Stop Loving You". Garrett won a GRAMMY Award and earned anOscar nomination for her original song "Love You, I Do" performed by Jennifer Hudson in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical, Dreamgirls, and her second Academy Award nominationcame as the result of co-writing the song "Real In Rio" with Sergio Mendes, from the animated film, Rio. As a recording artist, Siedah is well known for her timeless duets, including the top R&B single "Don't Look Any Further" with ex-Temptations lead singer Dennis Edwards, and her duet with Chaka Khan,"The Places You Find Love".
Amy Ray and Emily Saliers began singing together during high school and have remained partners ever since, adopting the moniker Indigo Girls in 1985. That partnership has proven profitable for the folk rock duo. Epic records signed them to a recording contract in 1988. The following year, they released the eponymously titled Indigo Girls (1989), featuring the hit single "Closer to Fine." The album earned Grammy nominations for Best New Artist and Best Contemporary Folk Recording—they received the Grammy in the latter category. Indigo Girls have subsequently released Nomads*Indians*Saints (1990), Rites of Passage (1992), Swamp Ophelia (1994), Shaming the Sun (1997), as well as the live discs Back on the Bus, Y'all (1991) and 1200 Curfews (1995). In addition, Indigo Girls have appeared as themselves in the feature film Boys on the Side (1995) and on the television situation comedy Ellen (1994).
"To make it in this business, you either have to be first, great or different, and I was the first to ever go into Nashville, singin' it like the women lived it." by Loretta Lynn
Loretta Lynn has long been established as the undisputed Queen of Country Music, with more than 60 years of recording and touring to her name. A self-taught guitarist and songwriter, Lynn was one of the most distinctive performers in Nashville in the 1960s and 1970s. She shook up Nashville by writing her own songs, many of which tackled boundary-pushing topics drawn from her own life experiences as a wife and mother. "Coal Miner's Daughter," "Fist City" and "Don't Come Home A' Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind)" are just three of 16 country No. 1 singles.
Rose Marie McCoy
Rose Marie McCoy was blessed with many talents. She was able to write both lyrics and music, and she was a talented singer. As an independent songwriter, not connected to one publishing company, she went from publisher to publisher to plug her songs. From a tin top shack in Arkansa to having her own office in the Brill Building, hers is truly an inspirational story.
Rose Marie McCoy broke into the white male-dominated business side of the recording industry in 1953, becoming not only one of the most sought after songwriters of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s, but also a record producer and music publisher. Her first song was recorded in 1946 and her last creations came out in 2013 on a country album. She has written over 850 songs.
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GRAMMY winner Dr. Jody Watley, singer/songwriter/producer/businesswoman/motivational speaker, is one of the architects of 21st century pop. From her groundbreaking marriage of rap & R&B (1989's "Friends," a collaboration with hip-hop legends Eric B. & Rakim pairing that is the first to crossover R&B/Hip-Hop, Pop and Dance into the Billboard Top 10 "Friends," to her vision-forward marriage of high fashion, street fashion and music in the '80s (long before it became the norm), to her fusion of jazz and underground club culture with keen pop instincts, and the ease with which she crossed and still crosses genre, Jody Watley forged the template that is now everybody's playbook.June 2022 the music icon is set to be honored with Jody Watley Day at the Georgia State Capitol and receive the prestigious Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award. She will also be inducted into the Women's Songwriters Hall of Fame in Washington, D.C. that same month.
Junko Yagami
2022 Junko Yagami -- Profile Junko Yagami is a singer-songwriter whose music, carefully delivered word by word, inspire listeners. She made her professional debut with the single "Omoide wa utsukushisugite" in 1978. Her third single "Mizuiro no Ame" was a big hit, followed by a string of best sellers including "Omoide no sukuriin," "Polar Star," "Mr. Blue – watashi no chikyu" and "Purple Town." She moved her base to Los Angeles in 1987. In 2012, live performances in Japan were resumed in full scale. Her 20th original album "TERRA~here we will stay" was released on September 29th, 2021, after a five-and-a-half-year break. Her discography includes "Here I am -Head to Toe-," "There you are" and others. She is active performing throughout Japan with various types of musicians in live concerts: such as special concert "Yaga Matsuri" at Shibuya Bunkamura Orchard Hall, "To your town" "Billboard live – The Night Flight" and "Premium symphonic concert."
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Vote on Spending Bill Postponed Amid Syria Debate
Obama seeks authority to arm and train rebels.
Daniel NewhauserNational Journal
A rebel fighter burns a Syrian flag found in a building that belonged to Syrian government forces in the northern city of Aleppo on November 21, 2013. Fighting for a key military base outside Syria's main northern city of Aleppo killed at least 15 pro-government militiamen, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.National Journal
House Republicans have postponed a vote that was planned for Thursday on a must-pass spending bill, as they grapple with an eleventh-hour request from the White House to include an authorization to arm and train Syrian rebels.
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy announced the postponement Wednesday afternoon after the White House dispatched officials to the Capitol for a classified briefing with bipartisan stakeholders, including members of the leadership and the Appropriations, Armed Services, Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence committees.
That came after President Obama requested the authorization from leaders at a White House meeting Tuesday, and as the administration followed up with a flurry of late-night phone calls to members of leadership and the Appropriations committees asking that they include the authorization in a continuing resolution.
House Republicans are reticent to include the measure in the CR. But GOP leaders are concerned that Democrats will withhold votes for the CR if they do not include the authorization in the measure. Democratic votes will be paramount to pass the bill, since many conservatives object to the Export-Import Bank reauthorization included in it and the fact that the measure extends spending authority into December, not into 2015.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that Congress should give Obama the authority he sought "as soon as possible."
Asked whether it should be attached to the spending bill, she said: "Well, we want it to be on whatever engine is leaving the station, and that's one that is leaving the station. That's for sure a must-pass bill in a time-certain period of time. And I would hope that it would be on there."
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Mike Rogers said a similar request faced opposition in the past because members felt the mission was not clear, but he is waiting to hear from the administration before deciding whether to support this request.
"It's a big issue, it's critically important. A lot of members have a lot of strong feelings about it," said one GOP aide. "It's sort of an issue that's too big for a CR. It rises above the traditional constraints of a continuing resolution."
Another top Republican aide said "this isn't a new request, and it has thus far faced bipartisan opposition."
But the politics are difficult to ignore. Republicans are wary of seeming unsupportive of a president in the run-up to a military campaign heavily supported by the American public. As one Armed Services Committee Republican noted, the GOP heavily criticized Democrats for pushing back against President George W. Bush during his campaign in Iraq, so they cannot be perceived as doing the same to Obama.
Still, the concerns are bipartisan. One Democratic aide noted there are many questions about the administration's ability to arm Syrian moderates while keeping weapons and equipment out of the hands of forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, against whom Obama asked Congress to authorize military strikes last year.
There is also the matter of procedural hurdles. The continuing resolution is already written, and would have to be rewritten to include the military authorization. A House Rules Committee hearing that had been scheduled for 2 p.m. has been postponed as lawmakers sort through the Syria issue.
Either way, members are pushing back against the idea of adding an authorizing measure to a spending bill. Proponents of the military measure, however, are also pushing back, noting that the CR already includes at least two major authorizations: the Export Import Bank and an Internet tax measure.
House Republicans will hold a special conference meeting Thursday morning to discuss the situation in Iraq and Syria, and any requests included in the president's speech on the situation scheduled for Wednesday night.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has already expressed support for granting the administration's request. And Senate Democrats could choose to move separate legislation on the subject if the House does not attach it to the CR they send across the Capitol.
"It's clear to me that we need to train and equip Syrian rebels and other groups in the Middle East," Reid said on the Senate floor. "It's called Title 10 authority. The president has tried to get that from us and we should give it to him. That's one way of helping to build an international coalition. Congress should do that."
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski would not say whether she would add the measure into a CR and send it back to the House if the House does not include it in their spending measure.
"We want to see what the House is going to do," she said in an interview on her way to meet with Reid about the matter. "It's not my decision alone, it's something in consultation with the leadership, but we're waiting for the House's actions."
A Senate Democratic aide, however, noted that the chamber could pass the authorization as a freestanding measure and send it back to the House separately from a continuing resolution, if need be.
Daniel Newhauser is a staff correspondent for National Journal, where he primarily covers the House of Representatives. He was formerly a House leadership reporter for Roll Call, where he started as an intern in 2010 and quickly earned a slot as a beat reporter.
A native of San Antonio, Texas, Newhauser traveled further West to study journalism at Arizona State University's Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication and write for newspapers including the East Valley Tribune and the Green Valley News & Sun.


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Petraeus Gets Leniency for Leaking — And Risen's CIA Source Should Too, His Lawyers Say
Peter Maass
April 24 2015, 8:51 p.m.
Lawyers for Jeffrey Sterling, convicted earlier this year of leaking classified information to New York Times reporter James Risen, urged today that Sterling "not receive a different form of justice" than David Petraeus, the former general and CIA director who has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for leaking classified information to his biographer.
While Petraeus will not go to jail — yesterday a judge sentenced him to two years probation and a $100,000 fine — prosecutors have asked for a "severe" sentence against Sterling within federal guidelines of 19 to 24 years in prison. In January, a jury convicted Sterling, a former CIA agent, on nine counts related to leaking information to Risen, a Times reporter who in 2006 wrote a book that revealed the agency had mishandled a program to disrupt Iran's nuclear weapons program.
Sterling's lawyers, Edward MacMahon Jr. and Barry Pollack, filed their sentencing memorandum today, arguing that their client "should be treated no more harshly than any other person who has been charged and convicted of 'leaking' to the press." In addition to Petraeus, they cited the cases of John Kiriakou, a former CIA agent who was sentenced to 30 months in prison, and Stephen Kim, who received a 13-month sentence. Unlike Petraeus, Kiriakou and Kim, who reached plea agreements, Sterling took his case to a jury. He is scheduled to be sentenced on May 11.
"He should be treated similarly to others convicted for the same crimes and not singled out for a long prison sentence because he elected to exercise his right to trial," the lawyers stated. "[T]he court cannot turn a blind eye to the positions the government has taken in similar cases."
The Petraeus and Sterling cases have highlighted another disparity in the government's handling of leak cases: powerful officials like Petraeus are treated leniently while mid-level ones like Kiriakou, Kim and Sterling go to jail. In the Petraeus case, the government claims no harm was caused by his leak, because none of the information he leaked to Paula Broadwell, his biographer and onetime lover, was published, whereas the information published by Risen had caused "substantial damage" to national security.
However, this characterization was called "overwrought hyperbole" by a former CIA official in a letter of support for Sterling released today by his lawyers. David J. Manners, a former station chief in Prague and Amman as well as chief of the agency's Iran task force, described as "not credible" the prosecution's claim that Risen's book severely hurt the CIA's ability to recruit spies. Manners, who first met Sterling when both worked at the agency, noted that the government itself has often disclosed the role of intelligence operatives.
"While such disclosures are never helpful, they happen all the time (and sometimes the United States quietly endorses the disclosure — read some of Bob Woodward's books, or look at Agency collaboration on the film about the bin Laden raid)," Manners wrote.
Sterling's lawyers called attention to what they regard as another inequity in the treatment of Petraeus and their client. Petraeus admitted in his plea agreement that the classified information he leaked included highly sensitive names of covert operatives, war plans for U.S. forces, as well as details about his discussions with senior officials, including President Obama. Petraeus also admitted to lying to FBI agents about what he had done. Sterling, his lawyers noted, "revealed the names of no covert personnel and never lied about his actions to the FBI."
The prosecution appears to be trying to do more than put Sterling behind bars for two decades; it appears to be trying to rewrite history and put an end to leaks of information that embarrass the government.
In their sentencing memorandum released earlier this week, prosecutors described the program that Risen wrote about as "meticulously conceived" and "thorough," whereas Risen, the prosecution noted, had portrayed it as a "rogue" operation that made the agency look "hapless, even reckless." If it follows the prosecution's request for a severe sentence, the court may be seen as affirming the government's upbeat portrayal of the program, which involved providing Iran with nuclear blueprints that would not work. According to Risen's book, the Iranians were able to figure out which part of the blueprints were accurate and used those.
The prosecution also argued that Sterling's sentence should be rendered as a warning to other would-be leakers. "A substantial sentence in this case would send an appropriate and much needed message to all persons entrusted with the handling of classified information … that intentional breaches of the laws governing the safeguarding of national defense information will be pursued aggressively, and those who violate the law in this manner will be tried, convicted and punished accordingly."
Sterling's lawyers argued that he has already been punished severely — he was indicted five years ago, lost his job and is now "unemployed, unemployable, and destitute" — and that there is "no reason to believe that a substantial prison sentence given to a man who last worked at the CIA in 2002 will deter the leakers who supply information to the press on an almost daily basis to serve their own political and personal purposes." They added, "People know they face penalties, and leaking has continued."
Lawyers for CIA Leaker Cite Selective Prosecution After Petraeus Plea Deal
After Petraeus Plea Deal, Lawyer Demands Release of Stephen Kim
Petraeus Plea Deal Reveals Two-Tier Justice System for Leaks
Stephen Kim Spoke To A Reporter. Now He's In Jail. This Is His Story.
The Surrender (a short documentary by Stephen Maing)
Photo: John W. Adkisson/Getty
Peter Maass[email protected]theintercept.com@maassp
Interesting…Petraeus gets a deal. And Westhusin got a bullet.
NFJTAKFA
Interesting photo. It almost makes you hope his usual shit-eating grin was part of the plea deal.
Nete Peedham
The gnashing of teeth and rending of garments over Moveon.org's "Will General Petraus Betray Us" column should make those who participated 'formerly employed'…but it won't. Right-Wing incompetence is rewarded by posting and promotion.
April 27 2015, 2:10 a.m.
Wonder what GEN. Stonewall Jackson would think about this.
coram nobis
Glenn Greenwald, call your office.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/25/russian-hackers-read-unclassified-obama-emails-report
Baldie McEagle coram nobis
A global imperial executive can't catch a break.
Notice the term "swept up," so reminiscent of NSA's delicate phrasing. Not hacked, just "swept."
"Mr President, there is an email sweeping gap with the Russkies! We need to catch up!"
NFJTAKFA Baldie McEagle
General "Buck!" One of my favorites, Baldie, thanks!
bahhummingbug coram nobis
Glenn is looking for his 'Magic Mantle of Power' (h/t Snowden) … you'll have to check back ltr.
Think of network attacker as a needle lost on a dirty living room floor. What does the NSA do to find that needle? It goes off and searches the barn because "that's were the hay is." *Moon of Alabama
eastariel
YAY! Hugs to the lawyers on both sides for a fair look at an oops. I told you I never lose, Gypsy Davy. I'll thank you to be more selfish from now on. Do what's best for you, please. ~ with Brag, the world's most annoying defender of imperfect peeple'n'ponies.
While I agree with the general thrust of this article, it is unwise to try and lecture or shame a judge, especially when you standing before them awaiting judgment. Having been convicted of a crime, one should show some level of contrition and offer extenuating circumstances. Also, you should play up his service and have character witnesses, religious leaders and human rights leaders are often best. It gives the judge an out. I'm sure all this was done for Petreaus.
That being said, this case might have been determined when the judge was selected. Getting the right judge is a large part of successfully navigating the US legal system.
So. What do we have here, a lawyer with a client or a lawyer with a cause?
chronicle Si1ver1ock
April 26 2015, 12:39 a.m.
The Office of Obfuscation, Doublespeak and Gimmicks has an employment opportunity for you.
War Heroes still Accountable to the Law
David Petraeus is guilty of treason.
In other generations, he likely would have hanged or be shot by a firing squad.
There is no excuse that meets the level of curing an act of treason against nation and people, leaving them at potential risk of harm, even if by another U.S. citizen that was not permitted to view classified information. This nation's lack of discipline will cause its cessation one day because of an exceptionally permissive contemporary society that sees no wrong, cannot identify threat, and will happily take all with it down into mire of immorality and ethics violations. I know my comment will not be the popular one of the day. I do not see this man as anything but a failure. His behavior threatened all and our families. I have never seen such a generation as this that rewards police officers that kill innocent people and military veterans that leak national security information, and do so proudly knowing that peers will never properly impart criminal justice against them. This "general" is a coward that was more interested in wrecking his marriage than behaving as a military leader. Shameful is insufficient to describe David Petraeus. It is because of men like this that our young men and women are sent into undeclared wars and are placed under arrest when they discharge their firearms in the line of duty in combat. Blurring all of the lines that keep the upper eschelon safe from prosecution but the lower ranking members of the military feeling frustrated and blamed for all the problems of war.
I'm fed up with this. $100,000 is a dime to this multi-millionaire. I hope you all realize that. It's not going to put a dent in his bank account and he still gets to keep his military pension.
Your priorities are wrong, USA.
David Petraeus is (was) a war hero, whereas Jeffrey Sterling has hardly any worthwhile contribution to the War on Terror. I remember that in the debate McCain and Obama had for the latter's first term, both of them kept mentioning their firm commitment to David Petraeus to keep him happily waging war against the hapless folks out there somewhere. So this guy deserves some return favor.
One has also to see the reason for divulging secrets. All that David Petraeus wanted was to screw that female by impressing her with all that he knew, but Jeffrey Sterling wanted to screw the whole country by divulging secrets that helped the enemy.
I think the fair punishment would be to waterboard both of them and let them go. The purpose of punishment is not to prevent them leaking in future, for nor they have no access to any secrets now. The purpose is to inform future leakers that they will also suffer, so waterboarding is a good and short method to do this. I can't imagine what purpose it will serve to keep someone in jail for 20 years with free food and accommodation, including free medical and gym facilities – in fact it may tempt some people to leak secrets just to enjoy these perks.
chronicle General Hercules
quote"David Petraeus is (was) a war hero, whereas Jeffrey Sterling has hardly any worthwhile contribution to the War on Terror. "unquote
Don't you ever get tired of looking like a complete fucking moron.
Not that all milprop sockpuppets are morons.
William Bednarz General Hercules
April 26 2015, 10:41 p.m.
General Hercules 4-F is all he is qualified for ….. FAIRY – FAGOT – FUCK-UP – F A K E
Baldie McEagle General Hercules
"Jeffrey Sterling wanted to screw the whole country by divulging secrets that helped the enemy."
Yeah, and that old lady tried to kill the king by looking at him funny with her crazy eye. "Same old joke since 1362."
William Bednarz Baldie McEagle
TRUTH – JUSTICE – The AMERICAN WAY
SECRETS are for TRAITORS to hide their dirty deeds
HONEST GOVERNMENT – does not exist in SECRET
GOVERNMENT is not a secret organization – Gestapo? – Mafia? The. torture report(secret). War on DRUGS ( secret C.I.A. operation)
I love that excuse for leniency in the Betrayus case – the info provided to Broadwell was never made public and thus had no effect on national security. How do we know? It could have easily found it's way to many foreign intelligence services via private channels.
Mike Tabony
Petraeus was/is a useful POS to the fascist elite. Riesen's source was/is not useful. End of story.
Petraeus' fame includes the portrayal of him as an intellectual.
As far as I can tell
His PhD dissertation was/is about drawing lessons from Vietnam.
It is loaded with militarized-insider-strategizing-gobblygook-indifference-to-the-victims gross theorizing which
ends up being a pep-rally to justify using more vicious force than has been used in the past.
His limited mentality is a product of and a promoter of
sadistic indifference in the name of domination.
This is why he is treasured and protected by the corporate predators who run the USA.
Powerful officials are treated more leniently, since they have more leverage. Petraeus knew how to play the political game and could release information that would embarrass or possibly even damage the Obama administration. So his lenient sentence is not a sign of some special favor, but rather the result of a stronger negotiating position.
The fact that he was even charged demonstrates his incompetence, since he should have been able to negotiate retirement on his own terms behind the scenes. This is supported by the amateur techniques that he and Broadwell used to communicate electronically. He was the director of the CIA and wasn't even able to encrypt his own communications. Fortunately, in the US political system, you can't be convicted for incompetence.
Did Petraeus' incompetence rise to a level that will make him memorable? I don't think so; his legacy will be as a laughingstock and the butt of salacious jokes about his relationship with his mistress, if he is remembered at all.
bahhummingbug Benito Mussolini
>"Did Petraeus' incompetence rise to a level that will make him memorable?"
Idk. You will have to ask Ms Broadwell.
*mornin' b'toe :)
chronicle Benito Mussolini
For once you sound like human being..vs your usual fascists bullshit.
Baldie McEagle Benito Mussolini
"Fortunately, in the US political system, you can't be convicted for incompetence."
Or for much of anything.
bahhummingbug Baldie McEagle
On the contrary, this sort of 'blue stained dress' stuff is exactly the kind salacious incompetence that can get CIA directors fired (and convicted!) and Presidents impeached. *see my book 'The Iraq War and Impeachment of Bill Clinton'
"According to Risen's book, the Iranians were able to figure out which part of the blueprints were accurate and used those."
Those damned, dirty apes!
At least one core hypocrisy here is that while the government trumpets its claim to "send a clear message" to would-be leakers that they will suffer for their transgressions, it simultaneously muddies the waters by (a) leaking minor stuff to influence the media (b) providing major stuff to sworn global enemies and (c) pointedly protecting government-side people caught doing either one. Plainly this undermines any supposed message that leakers will always be punished according to the severity (i.e., intelligence value/threat) of their leaks.
"Sending a message" by singling out an individual for extreme punishment is already a miscarriage of justice. It only makes it worse that the true message is plainly that there is no clear message. Muddy waters provide cover for all sorts of unethical prosecutorial activities, and all of them have been on display in the past half-decade.
As just one example of how dimming the bright line between serious and nonserious criminal behavior aids in imperial "messaging":
—Snowden might have leaked a name or two to people he warned should check the material he leaked. He trusted those people not to expose these names and they did not, as far as I know.
—Petraeus definitely leaked names to someone he trusted who did not expose them.
Neither leak has led to any known damage. One leaker is castigated for irresponsibility, while the other is assured that he is blameless.
All this is perfectly obvious by now. But I wonder—has anyone in the mainstream media even noticed that the phrase "sending a message" is a red flag for subverting the Constitution on multiple levels?
David J. Manners seems like an extremely level-headed person. Intentional leaks about spies by government officials happen all the time and do not destroy the CIA's operations. It is remarkable that the government is willing to let pass an opportunity to "send an appropriate and much needed message" in the sentencing of David Petraeus but feels the need to do so in the case of Jeffrey Sterling.
Baldie McEagle tortoiseshell
Exactly. Which message would speak more loudly? Which would do more to reinforce the concept of the rule of law?
Let's also compare this to the Manning case. It's on point here because Pvt. Manning was arrested in May 2010, while Petraeus was commanding general at CENTCOM, and, as such, had general court-martial authority over Manning (along with Odierno as local CG in Iraq. At least in theory, Petraeus was a judicial authority over Manning during the period when charges — unauthorized release of classified material, just like Petraeus — were filed. Manning's subsequent removal from Iraq to Kuwait, then out of theater to Quantico, would have been staffed through CENTCOM.
Also, Manning's material was SECRET level or below; Petraeus' was TOP SECRET/SCI, wasn't it? Under Art. 92 of the UCMJ, dereliction of duty and failure to follow regulations — which in this case involved handling of classified material — is a crime.
Manning gets 35 years, Petraeus gets a scolding — and Petraeus was among those who sat in judgment. Interesting, isn't it?
AmericanGestapo14 coram nobis
Petraeus was head of the CIA, his clearance would be on par with Clapper, the President etc…Broadwell did not hold a similar clearance. I personally think the man was being worked, I'm curious why there are no charges against her. After all, she either took the highly classified material or requested material above her clearance…in exchange for blowjobs. The question remains, who did Broadwell pass this information to. She is a documented stalker and has used psyops against an American citizen. WHO does Broadwell work for?
bahhummingbug AmericanGestapo14
Gold Digging Inc. ?
I, too, am curious why there is so little info (that I can find) about Broadwell. *I guess we'll just have to wait for the biography?
jgreen7801 bahhummingbug
My old eyes get tired easily from reading, but any word on the movie rights?
nuf said AmericanGestapo14
Broadwell's action is classic behavior for an operative. Justin Raimondo wrote in 2012
Eric Cantor, the House majority leader, said Saturday an F.B.I. employee whom his staff described as a whistle-blower told him about Mr. Petraeus's affair and a possible security breach. … Cantor is a great friend of Israel, and Petraeus — not so much. The General was attacked, as you'll recall, by partisans of the Lobby, including Abe Foxman, when he delivered testimony before Congress citing Israel as a strategic liability in the Middle East. As the executor of the new Obamaite policy of sidling up to Islamists, not only in Libya but also in Syria and Egypt, Petraeus was no doubt seen by the Israelis as an enemy to be neutralized.
Broadwell's affiliation with the Jebsen Center, [Jebsen is on the board of directors of the distinctly warlike Hudson Institute, where Scooter Libby, Douglas Feith, Michael Ledeen, and practically every neocon you've ever heard of have found refuge. ] and the Center's connection to the neoconservative network, sets the scene: a young, attractive woman with impeccable national security credentials throws herself at Petraeus, and he takes the bait. Whether she's been recruited by a foreign intelligence agency at this point or not is irrelevant: he's already put himself in a vulnerable position, and there are any number of actors on the international stage more than willing to press their advantage.
A serious charge against Petreaus would have opened up the obvious; he was compromised by our "friends", the Israelis.
Miss_Fritz nuf said
Just like Bill & Monica! Set-up.
AmericanGestapo14 nuf said
Who is paying for these operations? Because Israel doesn't have the money, unless we give it to them. Is the money being funneled from neocon multimillionaires and billionaires through religious charities and foundations? If so, why isn't IRS tearing their books apart?
I just saw a young woman from the country in question, who showed up at my hotel 4 weeks ago, she was supposedly visiting for 2 weeks. But here she is today running operations against me in a foreign country. What did I ever do to them or am I just a convenient target?
Baldie McEagle nuf said
Interesting, and plausible. I just don't keep up enough with the court gossip these days.
Candace AmericanGestapo14
Maybe they were both being blackmailed. Someone from the CIA could have had the best opportunity to betray him. If so,would Petraeus tell on his own agency? Maybe the threat wasnt only announcing the affair.
Maybe she had the info because he would've known who it was.(?) If there is an investigation going on we'll never know.
I have to mention that this happened during the 2012 election with millions of dark money to be spent. Are we supposed to trust that millions from anywhere will rely on election flyers and negative campaign ads or will some turn to those that have a reputation in influencing elections? (especially where foreign policy is concerned)
For example, Libya (a CIA site, with Chris Stevens, friend of Libyans but also probably #1 CIA operative in Libya) was a foreign policy success for Obama and Romney was in trouble in that department. Petraeus affair could have offered someone an opportunity that a person or persons with connections thought they needed.
All of this may have nothing to do with why Broadwell hasn't been charged with anything and why the professional secret keeper decided to resign and come out with his affair when the election was over or why he wasn't there when Chris Steven's coffin arrived, but I think that is just one kind of criminal event that could easily happen with our current system of dark money in elections, largely privatized military, and then the impunity for all intelligence personnel (that stay publicly quiet) and everything being on line in the shape shifter world.
Our current system creates very real incentives for home grown and international extremists to buy and sabotage our democracy by designing tragedies and other crimes with appropriate spin to influence votes and compliance if you don't have the opinions they want you to have- if you don't vote the way they want you to.
Hard not to notice that for some reason the people being murdererd by extremist groups in the Middle East always represent the same groups the right wing power hungry, religion-profit-military extremist merge in this country want to silence.
As far as what info got out from what Paula had, who knows the extent of how that's affected and continues to affect what we we're trying to do in the Middle East, whatever the hell that is.
Are you making a point about morality or suggesting a retroactive effect on Manning's sentence? Because would DEFINITELY be interesting.
Then again, some people thought prejudicial remarks by commanding officers could weaken the case against Manning.
coram nobis Baldie McEagle
What I'm suggesting is twofold:
1. There is a moral argument, official hypocrisy, equivalency, and the legal principle is tu quoque. Worth raising, since Pvt. Manning is now at the first appellate level, the Army court of appeals.
2. Prejudicial remarks are serious business in military case law, which calls it Unlawful Command Influence, and can get a verdict quashed. It's important because the military chain of command — in Manning's case, one that ran through Petraeus at CENTCOM to the Commander in Chief — conducts the pretrial (Art. 32) proceedings and only then convenes a court-martial. I'm not aware Petraeus actually did skew Manning's initial proceedings, but Obama is on record opining about Manning's guilt. All of that is worth exploring in the military appellate courts.
Between unlawful command influence, the pretrial delay, and Manning's treatment in pretrial custody, it may get the verdict overturned. This development is worth raising as well, both for tu quoque and to explore what passed between CENTCOM and Washington. Moving an Army private out of a theater of war to a Marine brig is an extraordinary thing.
Phil Ferro coram nobis
@coram-if that is true then Manning has a get out of jail card. If anyone allows him to play it is yet to be seen?
A family who has been ravaged by war, such as mine, Petreaous, betrayus or however his name is spelled is a fucking piece of shit with no honor worthy of no respect and I personally would love to beat the life out of him. If I can't I hope someone else will preferably someone that was under his command. He's the worst type of commander!
coram nobis Phil Ferro
She's currently serving the sentence at Ft. Leavenworth and has started on the first level of appeals (Army). Next level is US Court of Appeals of the Armed Forces if need be. USCAAF has a way of being very hostile to cases tainted by unlawful command influence, in particular.
Baldie McEagle Phil Ferro
You'll change your tune when he runs in 2024 as the only Democrat willing to stand up to Israel.
Ha ha ha! I crack myself up.
AmericanGestapo14
Really, how do you know that Broadwell was not "working" the general and passing on code word classified material to others…we don't do we? What we know know is that she is a stalker, who uses military psyops against American citizens. So very familiar to me. I wonder if her perceived rival was the first time she stalked and harassed an American citizen or if this is part of her job as DIA.
General Hercules AmericanGestapo14
She was working for Mossad. So that's okay. They were just verifying that the lines of top-secret communication were not being tampered with by the enemy. It would indeed be a disaster if Petreus got his stuff backwards or garbled.