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Футбольний клуб «Торпедо» Владимир або просто «Торпедо» (Владимир) () — професіональний російський футбольний клуб з міста Владимир, заснований 1959 року. Клубні кольори — чорний та білий.

Хронологія назв
 1959 — «Труд»
 1960—1968 — «Трактор»
 1969—1972 — «Мотор»

Історія
Футбольна команда майстрів у Володимирі була організована в 1959 році за ініціативою обкому КПРС і керівництва тракторного заводу. Перший успіх до володимирських футболістам прийшов в 1966 році, коли «Трактор» посів перше місце в зональному турнірі та друге в півфіналі. Наступного десятиліття колектив двічі займав перші місця в своїй зоні і тричі брав участь у півфінальних турнірах найсильніших команд класу «Б» і другої ліги, однак домогтися підвищення в класі так і не зумів.

У 1982 і 1983 роках тракторозаводці в першостях СРСР участі не брали. У 1984 році команді Володимира знову була надана можливість виступати в другій лізі. У восьми останніх союзних першостях найкращими результатами у «Торпедо» стали 4-е місце в 1989 році і 3-є в 1991-му. Останній успіх ледь не вивів команду у вищу лігу чемпіонату Росії.

Рішенням РФС «Торпедо» все ж опинився в першій лізі. У 1993 році команда досягла найвищого досягнення у своїй історії — 6-о місця в західній зоні першої ліги. Наприкінці тієї першості на повний голос заявив про себе 21-річний Дмитро Вязьмікін, який забив з 30-го по 40-й тури 8 голів. Але 1994 рік виявився фатальним — «Торпедо» не врятували від вильоту до другої ліги навіть 24 м'ячі Вязьмікіна.

Транзитом через другу лігу в 1995 році володимирці, які втратили напередодні початку сезону більшу частину складу (Максим Путілін, Ігор Асланян, Владислав Хахалев перейшли в «Асмарал», Ігор Варламов — у московське «Динамо», Дмитро Вязьмікін — у «Сокіл»), вилетіли в третю, де відіграли два сезони. Вдалий виступ у 1997 році дозволило владимирського колективу «забронювати» місце в другому дивізіоні, але лише на два роки — за підсумками першості 1999 року володимирське «Торпедо» втратило професійний статус.

У сезоні 2000 року, футболісти «Торпедо» виграли першість і Кубок міжрегіональної федерації футболу «Золоте кільце» і повернулися до другого дивізіону.

Перші три сезони в зоні «Захід» пройшли для «Торпедо» під знаком боротьби за виживання, але вже в 2004 році команда змогла виграти першість. Цьому сприяло повернення в рідну команду з клубів прем'єр-ліги і першого дивізіону Дмитра Вязьмікін, Євгенія Дурнєва, Олега Глібова і прихід в колектив гравців переможця зони «Захід»-2003 — тульського «Арсеналу» — В'ячеслава Криканова, Дмитра Гунько, Сергія Кирпічнікова, Сергія Єгорова. Головним тренером володимирській команди став ще один її вихованець — Олег Стогов. 2 лютого 2005 року керівництво клубу заявило про відмову грати в першому дивізіоні, поступившись своїм місцем «Петротресту».

У 2005 році команда зробила ставку на Кубок Росії, де вперше дійшла до 1/16 фіналу і зустрілася з ЦСКА — на той час віце-чемпіоном Росії, чинним переможцем Кубка Росії і Кубка УЄФА. У двох наступних сезонах «Торпедо» зупинялося в кроці від повторення цього успіху, програючи в 1/32 фіналу петербурзькому «Зеніту-2» в 2006 і калінінградській «Балтиці» в 2007. Усі ці роки торпедівці показували стабільно високі результати і в першості Росії. З 23 жовтня 2003 року по 2 липня 2006 року володимирська команда провела 37 матчів на своєму полі і жодного разу не покинула його переможеною. Оновив свій особистий рекорд й Дмитро Вязьмікін, який забив за сезон-2004 25 м'ячів.

Ще один рекорд встановив у сезоні-2008 воротар «Торпедо» Євген Конюхов, який пропустив перший м'яч в свої ворота лише в 14-й грі першості. «Суха» серія голкіпера склала 1224 хвилини, а з урахуванням матчів на Кубок Росії — 1404 хвилини. «Чорно-білі», як і трьома роками раніше, дійшли до 1/16 фіналу Кубка країни і зіграли з ЦСКА, пропустивши від армійців в два рази більше, ніж за всі попередні матчі сезону — 1:4. Через три дні, 9 серпня, торпедівці зазнали першої поразки в першості, поступившись з рахунком 0:1 своєму головному конкуренту за вихід до першого дивізіону, клубу «МВС Росії». І все одно шанси на перемогу в зоні «Захід» у володимирських футболістів були дуже високими — станом на 1 вересня відрив «Торпедо» від «МВС Росії» становив 12 очок. Однак москвичі, які видали серію з 13 перемог поспіль, змогли на фініші чемпіонату випередити володимирців.

У 2009 році володимирська команда знову впустила шанс посісти перше місце в західній зоні другого дивізіону. На фініші чемпіонату «Торпедо» впритул підібралося в турнірній таблиці до петербурзького «Динамо», але програвши 19 жовтня в очній домашній зустрічі, вийти в лідери не змогло. У цьому сезоні володимирські футболісти провели два матчі з клубами Прем'єр-ліги: у 1/16 фіналу Кубка Росії з «Зенітом» (0:2) і в товариській грі з московським «Спартаком» (0:3).

У 2010 році «Торпедо» виграло турнір в зоні «Захід» другого дивізіону і заслужило право участі в першому дивізіоні.

Протягом перших 11 турів сезону 2011/12 року п'ять тренерів суперників «Торпедо» були відправлені у відставку, які прямим чином чи опосередковано були пов'язан з матчами з клубом з Владимира. У зв'язку з цим Євгена Дурнєва назвали «катом тренерського цеху ФНЛ». У липні 2011 року «Торпедо», обігравши «Спартак-Нальчик», вийшло в 1/8 фіналу Кубка Росії, де поступилося грозненському «Тереку». Перше коло першості ФНЛ «Торпедо» завершило на 10-му місці, але після 32-го туру, маючи в пасиві серію з семи матчів без перемог, опустилося в «зону вильоту». 18 жовтня 2011 року Євген Дурнєв подав заяву про відставку, виконуючим обов'язки головного тренера команди був призначений його помічник Олександр Акімов. Після заключного матчу першого етапу, в якому «Торпедо» здобуло перемогу над московськими одноклубниками, Акімов був затверджений на посаді головного тренера. На другому етапі першості ФНЛ владимирці істотно виправили турнірне становище і після перемоги над «Балтикою» в передостанньому турі забезпечили собі місце в дивізіоні на наступний рік. Нападник «Торпедо» Артем Делькін — найкращий молодий гравець сезону за підсумками голосування уболівальників на сайті ФНЛ — був викликаний до молодіжної збірної Росії.

5 липня 2012 року керівництво володимирського «Торпедо» оголосило про відсутність фінансових можливостей для участі в першості ФНЛ-2012/13 і позбавлення клубу професійного статусу. У 2012 році «Торпедо» виступало в зоні «Золоте кільце» Першості Росії серед аматорських клубів. У травні 2013 року клуб пройшов атестацію в ПФЛ і отримав право в сезоні-2013/14 грати в другому дивізіоні.

Досягнення та рекорди
  Клас «Б» чемпіонату СРСР
  Чемпіон (3): 1966, 1969, 1970

  Друга ліга чемпіонату СРСР
  Чемпіон (1): 1974
  Срібний призер (1): 1975
  Бронзовий призер (2): 1973, 1991

 Найкраще досягнення в Кубку СРСР — 1/16 фіналу (1959/60)
 Найкраще досягнення в першостях Росії — 6-е місце в першій лізі (1993)
 Найкраще досягнення в кубку Росії — 1/8 фіналу (2011/12)
 Рекордсмен клубу за кількістю зіграних матчів у чемпіонатах країни — Наїль Сафаєв (511)
 Найкращі бомбардири — Дмитро Вязьмікін (146); Наїль Сафаєв, Валентин Сатаров (по 116)
 Рекордсмен за сезон — Дмитро Вязьмікін (25 м'ячів, 2004)
 Рекордсмен за матч — 6 м'ячів — Дмитро Вязьмікін («Торпедо» — «Техінвест-М» — 6:1, 1994).

Виступи в першостях СРСР
У першостях СРСР (клас «Б», друга ліга) команда провела 31 сезон, 1113 матчів: +428=316-369, м'ячі: 1278—1161.

Дебют: 16 квітня 1959 року — «Металург» (Дніпропетровськ) — «Труд» — 1:1.
 Найбільша перемога — 7:0 (над «Локомотивом» Самтредіа, 1973).
 Найбільша поразка — 0:10 (від «Крила Рад» Куйбишев, 1984).

Виступи в першостях Росії
У першостях Росії (перша, друга, третя ліги, другий дивізіон, турнір КФК «Золоте кільце») команда провела 26 сезонів, 881 матч: +391=195—295, мячи: 1259—1043.

Дебют: 25 квітня 1992 року — «Енергомаш» Бєлгород — «Торпедо» — 0:0.
 Найбільші перемоги — 6:0 (над «Знаменем Труда» Орєхово-Зуєво, 2017); в аматорській футбольній лізі — 10:0 (над «Сухонею» Сокол, 2012).
 Найбільш поразки — 0:5 (від «Чорноморця» Новоросійськ, «Балтики» Калінінград, 1994), 1:6 (від «Зарі» Ленінськ-Кузнецький, 1994; «Арсенала» Тула, 2002; «Тосно», 2014; «Соляріса» Москва, 2017).

 4 сезона в першій лізі
 18 сезонів у другому дивізіоні
 2 сезони в третій лізі (професіональній)
 2 сезони в ''КФК (третьому дивізіоні, аматорському)

Відомі гравці
Владимирське «Торпедо» було першою командою в кар'єрі двох заслужених майстрів спорту СРСР — Валентина Афоніна та Віктора Лосєва. Також у різні роки за «Торпедо» грали понад 20 майстрів спорту СРСР та Росії.
 Валентин Афонін (виступав за «Труд» і «Трактор» в 1959-1960 роках) — учасник двох чемпіонатів світу (1966 і 1970, чемпіон СРСР (1970) у складі ЦСКА.
 Віктор Лосєв (виступав за «Торпедо» в 1977-1978 роках) — олімпійський чемпіон (1988), срібний (1986) і бронзовий (1990) призер чемпіонатів СРСР у складі «Динамо» Москва.
 Володимир Сучилін (виступав за «Мотор» і «Торпедо» в 1971-1975 роках, в 1980 році — граючий тренер) — чемпіон СРСР (1976, осінь) у складі «Торпедо» Москва.
 Максим Путілін (виступав за «Торпедо» в 1984 і 1987-1991 роках) — володар Кубка Росії (1993) в складі «Торпедо» Москва.
 Дмитро Вязьмікін (виступав за «Торпедо» в 1992-1994 та 2004-2010 роках) — бронзовий призер чемпіонату Росії (2000) у складі «Торпедо» Москва, найкращий бомбардир чемпіонату Росії (2001). Найцінніший гравець володимирського «Торпедо» за перші 50 років існування клубу за підсумками голосування уболівальників.
 Андрій Гашкін (виступав за «Торпедо» в 1988 році) — бронзовий призер чемпіонату Росії (2000) в складі «Торпедо» Москва.
 Олег Стогов (виступав за «Торпедо» в 1984 році) — срібний призер чемпіонату Росії (1993) в складі «Ротора».
 Владислав Хахалєв (виступав за «Торпедо» в 1987—1991, 1995—1999, 2002—2003 роках) — переможець Кубка Марокко (1993).
 Денис Євсіков (вихованець володимирської СДЮШОР) — чемпіон Росії (2003), переможець Кубка Росії (2002) у складі ЦСКА.

Склад команди
Станом на 1 лютого 2019, згідно з офіційним сайтом ПФЛ.

Уболівальники
Фанатський рух у Владимирі зародився у 1983 році. Ініціаторами стали місцеві вболівальники московського «Спартака». У 1987 році владимирські фани здійснили перший в своїй історії виїзд на матч «Торпедо» в Орєхово-Зуєво. Найактивнішим та найчисленнішим угрупованням Sturdy Fighters 03, створене в 2003 році.

Факти
 У 1973-1975 роках кольори «Торпедо» захищав Юрій Іванов — майстер спорту, на початку XXI століття - журналіст газети «Спорт-Експрес». Незважаючи на те, що професіонального спорту в СРСР офіційно не існувало, в трудовій книжці Іванова 15 листопада 1972 року у відділі кадрів тракторного заводу було зроблено запис «Зарахований у ФК «Мотор» футболістом».
 У 1994 році «Торпедо» вперше в історії чемпіонатів Росії серед команд першої ліги заявило до складу легіонера з далекого зарубіжжя. Ним був студент технічного університету Амаду Коне з Малі.
 Два роки поспіль — у 1993-у та 1994-у — «Торпедо», яке виступало в першій лізі, проводило два перших домашні матчі не у Владимирі, а в Судогді, на стадіоні «Червоний Хімік», оскільки поле в обласному центрі на той час ще не було готове. У 2011 році, після повернення до першої ліги «Торпедо», знову з тієї ж причини розпочинало сезон не в рідному місті — в якості домашньої арени був використаний стадіон «Нові Хімки» у підмосковних Хімках.

Примітки

Література

Посилання
 Офіційний сайт клубу
 Сайт уболівальників клубу
 Офіційна сторінка клубу в соціальній мережі Twitter
 Сторінка клубу в соціальній мережі Facebook
 Офіційна сторінка клубу в соціальній мережі Instagram
 Профіль клубу на сайті soccerway.com
 Профіль клубу на сайті transfermarkt.com
 Профіль клубу на сайті zerozero.pt
 Профіль клубу на сайті footballdatabase.eu
 Профіль клубу на сайті worldfootball.net
 Профіль клубу на сайті soccerpunter.com
 Профіль клубу на сайті weltfussballarchiv.com
 Профіль клубу на сайті footballfacts.ru
 Статистика виступів на сайті wildstat.com (російський період)
 Статистика виступів на сайті wildstat.com (радянський період)
 Профіль клубу на сайті ua.tribuna.com
 Профіль клубу на сайті sportbox.ru
 Профіль клубу на сайті footballtop.ru

Футбольні клуби Росії
Футбольні клуби, засновані 1959


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Q: Не работает импорт в python Имеется такая структура:
- /dir/file1.py
- /dir/file2.py
- main.py
- main2.py

В file1.py стоит импорт:
from file2 import module

Но получаю ошибку:
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'file2'

Пытался так:
from dir.file2 import module

Получаю:
ValueError: attempted relative import beyond top-level package

Как тут быть?
Есть подозрение, что sys.path.append сработает, если добавить его в file1.py, но выглядит не очень - писать его в каждый файл.
Вопросов два:

*

*Поможет ли sys.path.append?

*Как принято решать такие ситуации?

A: В file1 можно написать
from .file2 import module

Работает,
но тогда запуск file1 напрямую падает.
Это решается запуском с флагом -m вашего модуля. Например
python -m dir.file1

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Chritopher Alexander argues that the concept of order, as well as the generation of ordered structures, are fields that can be explained from the point of view of physics and biology, although there is yet too much to be done in the field of architecture. The four volumes of The Nature of Order (The Phenomenon of Life, The Process of Creating Lige, A vision of a Living World and The Luminous Ground) could be considered as a self-biography in which new contributions are linked to those made during the period between the 1960s and 1970s. The numerous examples that illustrate Alexander's thesis (collected in the book of The Nature of Order) belong both to the world of modern and vernacular architecture and to that of nature, and even to his own work.
On the other hand, we are facing an aescalar and fractal investigation, that addresses both the detail of a mosaic and the structure of a city. Alexander's gaze rests on nature as a source of evolutionary inspiration and production of order, collected in the second book: The Process of Creating Life. In this second volume, both the morphogenetic processes present in nature and the generation processes of the vernacular architecture are analyzed in parallel.
Acetabularia seaweed morphogenesis.
San Marcos Square morphogenesis.
This ambitious work by Christopher Alexander aims to identify and study hidden ordered structures in nature, for its later application, as basic principles without scale, to the built environment.
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Occupying and Connecting. Frei Otto.
Although the book was published in 2009, the origin of this publication dates back to the year 1964, from an investigation about "Shorter paths between two points" made by Frei Otto at the Institut für leichte Flächentragwerke in Stuttgart. This work was followed by others about networks and reticles in nature "Wide span two dimensional frameworks; 1970-1985" and "Natural structures". The research carried out by Frei Otto is of clear interdisciplinary vocation, as a result of collaborations with biologists such as Ulrich Kull and Johann Gerhard Helmcke, as well as being focused on topology, mathematics or self-organized systems.
Self-organization.
Otto, as Heinz Von Foerster already did, designs an experimental apparatus with floating magnetized pins that generates a self-organized system through repulsion and attraction.
The book is not presented as a finished investigation but as the germ of different ways to explore. It is a work on occupation processes (settlements, cities, urban planning) and connection processes (communications, infrastructures), but focused both from a morphogenetic and exclusively formal point of view. That is to say, Otto proposes a geometrical investigation on the evolution of the form, but deviating the look towards already existing processes in nature or in those others generated by the technology, like the experimental prototype devised by Otto that measures the relations between the occupation and the distance between objects. Only the last pages of the book are devoted to how these evolutionary patterns can be applied or transferred to urban growth or development.
This look was not new in Frei Otto. A work similar to this one but carried out from a point structural point of view can be found in "Finding Forms. Towards and Architecture of the Minimal" by OTTO, Frei and RASCH, Bodo.The methodology of the research is very clear and systematic, and is carried out from the individual and simple to the collective and complex. Occupation systems are analyzed first on points, lines and surfaces to subsequently evolve into meshes or grids, both static and flexible. The final objective is to provide architects and urban designers self-organized systems for human settlements.
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"…AD is thinking about architecture and planning". Guest editor: Royston Landau. Architectural Digest, 9 September 1969.
Royston Landau, guest editor of the Architectural Design magazine, proposed in 1969 a revolutionary number about new theoretical contributions that were being developed around architecture and urban planning. This number is a statement of principles on indeterminacy and open systems, due to its interdisciplinary contributions, ranging from the scientific and epistemological approach of Alan E. Musgrave, Imre Lakatos, Warren Brodey, Peter Cowan and Karl Popper, to the cybernetic approach of Gordon Pask, Nicholas Negroponte and Andrew Rabeneck, to the new planning possibilities of Chris Abel and AG Wilson, to the architectural contributions of Cedric Price and Warren Chalk, and to the advances in CAD systems at the hands of Nicholas Negroponte, David Greene and Peter Kamnitzer.
"Thinking about architecture and planning" is a number about theory as a new field of opportunity for architectural research. Landau describes the magazine as a volume about the concept of change in its broadest sense. In fact, he points out that theories which are advancing are in a state of permanent transformation.
The figure of Karl Popper is present directly or indirectly throughout the whole number. In fact, the cover is an interpretation of his famous lecture "Of Clouds and Clocks. An approach to the problem of rationality and freedom of Man", which is collected inside. The first two articles describe the Popperian contributions to scientific epistemology such as the false objectivity of science ("Objectivity in science" by Alan E. Musgrave) and the methodological falsificationism ("Sophisticated versus naive methodo-logical falsificationism" of Imre Lakatos ).
Information theory and cybernetics is present in several articles as its possible applications to a new teaching methodology based on feedback, complexity and the Unknown ("Unlearning the Obsolescent" by Warren M. Brodey) or about how to approach irreversibility to city analysis ("On irreversibility" by Peter Cowan). This last text advances the importance of information and irreversibility in the government of cities as they are getting more complex, in which the arrow of time has only one direction.
Gordon Pask was responsible for introducing cybernetics into architecture and also probably the first to theoretically expose their relations in the article "The Architectural Relevance of Cybernetics".
Cedric Price's relationship with cybernetics begins at the hands of Gordon Pask at the beginning of the sixties. For Price the notion of circularity and feedback represent a great opportunity to activate user participation. But the relationship between Pask and Price was not limited exclusively to architecture but also extended to teaching, based on the theory of learning from second generation cybernetics.
There is no doubt that "Thinking about architecture and planning" is a revolutionary and interdisciplinary number that marks a switch of paradigm about architecture and time. Royston Landau concentrated and compressed, in just one magazine, the different theories about change and evolution, and how these were becoming an area of opportunity for the architect.
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"From Master Plan to Non-Plan. An evolution from conservative to self-organized systems."
Posted in Publication, Sin categoría	by mperezromero
During a fertile period of fifteen years between 1954 and 1959, it was set up a change of paradigm from the conservative models established by the modern movement to self-organized systems. This deep transformation can be explained from two complementary points of view: on the one hand the manifestos that emerged against the closed systems and on the other hand the influences of the scientific theories related to open and complex systems.
Six interdisciplinary manifestos that emerged from biology, chemistry, cybernetic, self-organization will change the direction of the new urbanism: Doorn Manifesto (1954), Open Form Manifesto by Oskar Hansen (1959), the Mobile Urbanism Manifesto by Yona Friedman (1959), the Additive Architecture by Jorn Utzon (1958-1970) and finally the provocative manifesto-experiment "Non-Plan: An Experiment in Freedom" by Paul Barker, Peter Hall, Reyner Banham and Cedric Price.
Written by Manuel Perez Romero, the whole article can be read in:
Click to access 015_Perez_Romero_Manuel.pdf
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The "Open Form" Manifesto
Poland, 1959
Author: Oskar Hansen Continue reading →
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The Doorn Manifesto
The Netherlands. 1954
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package com.github.devnied.emvnfccard.parser;

import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.apache.commons.lang3.ArrayUtils;
import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;

import com.github.devnied.emvnfccard.enums.CommandEnum;
import com.github.devnied.emvnfccard.enums.EmvCardScheme;
import com.github.devnied.emvnfccard.enums.SwEnum;
import com.github.devnied.emvnfccard.exception.CommunicationException;
import com.github.devnied.emvnfccard.iso7816emv.EmvTags;
import com.github.devnied.emvnfccard.iso7816emv.EmvTerminal;
import com.github.devnied.emvnfccard.iso7816emv.TLV;
import com.github.devnied.emvnfccard.iso7816emv.TagAndLength;
import com.github.devnied.emvnfccard.model.Afl;
import com.github.devnied.emvnfccard.model.EmvCard;
import com.github.devnied.emvnfccard.model.EmvTransactionRecord;
import com.github.devnied.emvnfccard.model.enums.CurrencyEnum;
import com.github.devnied.emvnfccard.utils.CommandApdu;
import com.github.devnied.emvnfccard.utils.ResponseUtils;
import com.github.devnied.emvnfccard.utils.TlvUtil;
import com.github.devnied.emvnfccard.utils.TrackUtils;

import fr.devnied.bitlib.BytesUtils;

/**
 * Emv Parser.

 * Class used to read and parse EMV card
 *
 * @author MILLAU Julien
 *
 */
public class EmvParser {

	/**
	 * Class Logger
	 */
	private static final Logger LOGGER = LoggerFactory.getLogger(EmvParser.class);

	/**
	 * PPSE directory "2PAY.SYS.DDF01"
	 */
	private static final byte[] PPSE = "2PAY.SYS.DDF01".getBytes();

	/**
	 * PSE directory "1PAY.SYS.DDF01"
	 */
	private static final byte[] PSE = "1PAY.SYS.DDF01".getBytes();

	/**
	 * Unknow response
	 */
	public static final int UNKNOW = -1;

	/**
	 * Card holder name separator
	 */
	public static final String CARD_HOLDER_NAME_SEPARATOR = "/";

	/**
	 * Provider
	 */
	private IProvider provider;

	/**
	 * use contact less mode
	 */
	private boolean contactLess;

	/**
	 * Card data
	 */
	private EmvCard card;

	/**
	 * Constructor
	 *
	 * @param pProvider
	 *            provider to launch command
	 * @param pContactLess
	 *            boolean to indicate if the EMV card is contact less or not
	 */
	public EmvParser(final IProvider pProvider, final boolean pContactLess) {
		provider = pProvider;
		contactLess = pContactLess;
		card = new EmvCard();
	}

	/**
	 * Method used to read public data from EMV card
	 *
	 * @return data read from card or null if any provider match the card type
	 */
	public EmvCard readEmvCard() throws CommunicationException {
		// use PSE first
		if (!readWithPSE()) {
			// Find with AID
			readWithAID();
		}
		return card;
	}

	/**
	 * Method used to select payment environment PSE or PPSE
	 *
	 * @return response byte array
	 * @throws CommunicationException
	 */
	protected byte[] selectPaymentEnvironment() throws CommunicationException {
		if (LOGGER.isDebugEnabled()) {
			LOGGER.debug("Select " + (contactLess ? "PPSE" : "PSE") + " Application");
		}
		// Select the PPSE or PSE directory
		return provider.transceive(new CommandApdu(CommandEnum.SELECT, contactLess ? PPSE : PSE, 0).toBytes());
	}

	/**
	 * Method used to get the number of pin try left
	 *
	 * @return the number of pin try left
	 * @throws CommunicationException
	 */
	protected int getLeftPinTry() throws CommunicationException {
		int ret = UNKNOW;
		if (LOGGER.isDebugEnabled()) {
			LOGGER.debug("Get Left PIN try");
		}
		// Left PIN try command
		byte[] data = provider.transceive(new CommandApdu(CommandEnum.GET_DATA, 0x9F, 0x17, 0).toBytes());
		if (ResponseUtils.isSucceed(data)) {
			// Extract PIN try counter
			byte[] val = TlvUtil.getValue(data, EmvTags.PIN_TRY_COUNTER);
			if (val != null) {
				ret = BytesUtils.byteArrayToInt(val);
			}
		}
		return ret;
	}

	/**
	 * Method used to parse FCI Proprietary Template
	 *
	 * @param pData
	 *            data to parse
	 * @return
	 * @throws CommunicationException
	 */
	protected byte[] parseFCIProprietaryTemplate(final byte[] pData) throws CommunicationException {
		// Get SFI
		byte[] data = TlvUtil.getValue(pData, EmvTags.SFI);

		// Check SFI
		if (data != null) {
			int sfi = BytesUtils.byteArrayToInt(data);
			if (LOGGER.isDebugEnabled()) {
				LOGGER.debug("SFI found:" + sfi);
			}
			data = provider.transceive(new CommandApdu(CommandEnum.READ_RECORD, sfi, sfi << 3 | 4, 0).toBytes());
			// If LE is not correct
			if (ResponseUtils.isEquals(data, SwEnum.SW_6C)) {
				data = provider.transceive(new CommandApdu(CommandEnum.READ_RECORD, sfi, sfi << 3 | 4, data[data.length - 1]).toBytes());
			}
			return data;
		}
		if (LOGGER.isDebugEnabled()) {
			LOGGER.debug("(FCI) Issuer Discretionary Data is already present");
		}
		return pData;
	}

	/**
	 * Method used to extract application label
	 *
	 * @return decoded application label or null
	 */
	protected String extractApplicationLabel(final byte[] pData) {
		if (LOGGER.isDebugEnabled()) {
			LOGGER.debug("Extract Application label");
		}
		String label = null;
		byte[] labelByte = TlvUtil.getValue(pData, EmvTags.APPLICATION_LABEL);
		if (labelByte != null) {
			label = new String(labelByte);
		}
		return label;
	}

	/**
	 * Read EMV card with Payment System Environment or Proximity Payment System
	 * Environment
	 *
	 * @return true is succeed false otherwise
	 */
	protected boolean readWithPSE() throws CommunicationException {
		boolean ret = false;
		if (LOGGER.isDebugEnabled()) {
			LOGGER.debug("Try to read card with Payment System Environment");
		}
		// Select the PPSE or PSE directory
		byte[] data = selectPaymentEnvironment();
		if (ResponseUtils.isSucceed(data)) {
			// Parse FCI Template
			data = parseFCIProprietaryTemplate(data);
			// Extract application label
			if (ResponseUtils.isSucceed(data)) {
				// Get Aids
				List<byte[]> aids = getAids(data);
				for (byte[] aid : aids) {
					ret = extractPublicData(aid, extractApplicationLabel(data));
					if (ret == true) {
						break;
					}
				}
				if (!ret) {
					card.setNfcLocked(true);
				}
			}
		} else if (LOGGER.isDebugEnabled()) {
			LOGGER.debug((contactLess ? "PPSE" : "PSE") + " not found -> Use kown AID");
		}

		return ret;
	}

	/**
	 * Method used to get the aid list, if the Kernel Identifier is defined,

	 * this value need to be appended to the ADF Name in the data field of

	 * the SELECT command.
	 *
	 * @param pData
	 *            FCI proprietary template data
	 * @return the Aid to select
	 */
	protected List<byte[]> getAids(final byte[] pData) {
		List<byte[]> ret = new ArrayList<byte[]>();
		List<TLV> listTlv = TlvUtil.getlistTLV(pData, EmvTags.AID_CARD, EmvTags.KERNEL_IDENTIFIER);
		for (TLV tlv : listTlv) {
			if (tlv.getTag() == EmvTags.KERNEL_IDENTIFIER && ret.size() != 0) {
				ret.add(ArrayUtils.addAll(ret.get(ret.size() - 1), tlv.getValueBytes()));
			} else {
				ret.add(tlv.getValueBytes());
			}
		}
		return ret;
	}

	/**
	 * Read EMV card with AID
	 */
	protected void readWithAID() throws CommunicationException {
		if (LOGGER.isDebugEnabled()) {
			LOGGER.debug("Try to read card with AID");
		}
		// Test each card from know EMV AID
		for (EmvCardScheme type : EmvCardScheme.values()) {
			for (byte[] aid : type.getAidByte()) {
				if (extractPublicData(aid, type.getName())) {
					return;
				}
			}
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Select application with AID or RID
	 *
	 * @param pAid
	 *            byte array containing AID or RID
	 * @return response byte array
	 * @throws CommunicationException
	 */
	protected byte[] selectAID(final byte[] pAid) throws CommunicationException {
		if (LOGGER.isDebugEnabled()) {
			LOGGER.debug("Select AID: " + BytesUtils.bytesToString(pAid));
		}
		return provider.transceive(new CommandApdu(CommandEnum.SELECT, pAid, 0).toBytes());
	}

	/**
	 * Read public card data from parameter AID
	 *
	 * @param pAid
	 *            card AID in bytes
	 * @param pApplicationLabel
	 *            application scheme (Application label)
	 * @return true if succeed false otherwise
	 */
	protected boolean extractPublicData(final byte[] pAid, final String pApplicationLabel) throws CommunicationException {
		boolean ret = false;
		// Select AID
		byte[] data = selectAID(pAid);
		// check response
		if (ResponseUtils.isSucceed(data)) {
			// Parse select response
			ret = parse(data, provider);
			if (ret) {
				// Get AID
				String aid = BytesUtils.bytesToStringNoSpace(TlvUtil.getValue(data, EmvTags.DEDICATED_FILE_NAME));
				if (LOGGER.isDebugEnabled()) {
					LOGGER.debug("Application label:" + pApplicationLabel + " with Aid:" + aid);
				}
				card.setAid(aid);
				card.setType(findCardScheme(aid, card.getCardNumber()));
				card.setApplicationLabel(pApplicationLabel);
				card.setLeftPinTry(getLeftPinTry());
			}
		}
		return ret;
	}

	/**
	 * Method used to find the real card scheme
	 *
	 * @param pAid
	 *            card complete AID
	 * @param pCardNumber
	 *            card number
	 * @return card scheme
	 */
	protected EmvCardScheme findCardScheme(final String pAid, final String pCardNumber) {
		EmvCardScheme type = EmvCardScheme.getCardTypeByAid(pAid);
		// Get real type for french card
		if (type == EmvCardScheme.CB) {
			type = EmvCardScheme.getCardTypeByCardNumber(pCardNumber);
			if (type != null) {
				LOGGER.debug("Real type:" + type.getName());
			}
		}
		return type;
	}

	/**
	 * Method used to extract Log Entry from Select response
	 *
	 * @param pSelectResponse
	 *            select response
	 * @return byte array
	 */
	protected byte[] getLogEntry(final byte[] pSelectResponse) {
		return TlvUtil.getValue(pSelectResponse, EmvTags.LOG_ENTRY, EmvTags.VISA_LOG_ENTRY);
	}

	/**
	 * Method used to parse EMV card
	 */
	protected boolean parse(final byte[] pSelectResponse, final IProvider pProvider) throws CommunicationException {
		boolean ret = false;
		// Get TLV log entry
		byte[] logEntry = getLogEntry(pSelectResponse);
		// Get PDOL
		byte[] pdol = TlvUtil.getValue(pSelectResponse, EmvTags.PDOL);
		// Send GPO Command
		byte[] gpo = getGetProcessingOptions(pdol, pProvider);

		// Check empty PDOL
		if (!ResponseUtils.isSucceed(gpo)) {
			gpo = getGetProcessingOptions(null, pProvider);
			// Check response
			if (!ResponseUtils.isSucceed(gpo)) {
				return false;
			}
		}

		// Extract commons card data (number, expire date, ...)
		if (extractCommonsCardData(gpo)) {

			// Extract log entry
			card.setListTransactions(extractLogEntry(logEntry));
			ret = true;
		}

		return ret;
	}

	/**
	 * Method used to extract commons card data
	 *
	 * @param pGpo
	 *            global processing options response
	 */
	protected boolean extractCommonsCardData(final byte[] pGpo) throws CommunicationException {
		boolean ret = false;
		// Extract data from Message Template 1
		byte data[] = TlvUtil.getValue(pGpo, EmvTags.RESPONSE_MESSAGE_TEMPLATE_1);
		if (data != null) {
			data = ArrayUtils.subarray(data, 2, data.length);
		} else { // Extract AFL data from Message template 2
			ret = TrackUtils.extractTrack2Data(card, pGpo);
			if (!ret) {
				data = TlvUtil.getValue(pGpo, EmvTags.APPLICATION_FILE_LOCATOR);
			} else {
				extractCardHolderName(pGpo);
			}
		}

		if (data != null) {
			// Extract Afl
			List<Afl> listAfl = extractAfl(data);
			// for each AFL
			for (Afl afl : listAfl) {
				// check all records
				for (int index = afl.getFirstRecord(); index <= afl.getLastRecord(); index++) {
					byte[] info = provider.transceive(new CommandApdu(CommandEnum.READ_RECORD, index, afl.getSfi() << 3 | 4, 0).toBytes());
					if (ResponseUtils.isEquals(info, SwEnum.SW_6C)) {
						info = provider.transceive(new CommandApdu(CommandEnum.READ_RECORD, index, afl.getSfi() << 3 | 4,
								info[info.length - 1]).toBytes());
					}

					// Extract card data
					if (ResponseUtils.isSucceed(info)) {
						extractCardHolderName(info);
						if (TrackUtils.extractTrack2Data(card, info)) {
							return true;
						}
					}
				}
			}
		}
		return ret;
	}

	/**
	 * Method used to get log format
	 *
	 * @return list of tag and length for the log format
	 * @throws CommunicationException
	 */
	protected List<TagAndLength> getLogFormat() throws CommunicationException {
		List<TagAndLength> ret = new ArrayList<TagAndLength>();
		if (LOGGER.isDebugEnabled()) {
			LOGGER.debug("GET log format");
		}
		// Get log format
		byte[] data = provider.transceive(new CommandApdu(CommandEnum.GET_DATA, 0x9F, 0x4F, 0).toBytes());
		if (ResponseUtils.isSucceed(data)) {
			ret = TlvUtil.parseTagAndLength(TlvUtil.getValue(data, EmvTags.LOG_FORMAT));
		}
		return ret;
	}

	/**
	 * Method used to extract log entry from card
	 *
	 * @param pLogEntry
	 *            log entry position
	 */
	protected List<EmvTransactionRecord> extractLogEntry(final byte[] pLogEntry) throws CommunicationException {
		List<EmvTransactionRecord> listRecord = new ArrayList<EmvTransactionRecord>();
		// If log entry is defined
		if (pLogEntry != null) {
			List<TagAndLength> tals = getLogFormat();
			// read all records
			for (int rec = 1; rec <= pLogEntry[1]; rec++) {
				byte[] response = provider.transceive(new CommandApdu(CommandEnum.READ_RECORD, rec, pLogEntry[0] << 3 | 4, 0).toBytes());
				// Extract data
				if (ResponseUtils.isSucceed(response)) {
					EmvTransactionRecord record = new EmvTransactionRecord();
					record.parse(response, tals);

					// Fix artifact in EMV VISA card
					if (record.getAmount() >= 1500000000) {
						record.setAmount(record.getAmount() - 1500000000);
					}

					// Skip transaction with nul amount
					if (record.getAmount() == null || record.getAmount() == 0) {
						continue;
					}

					if (record != null) {
						// Unknown currency
						if (record.getCurrency() == null) {
							record.setCurrency(CurrencyEnum.XXX);
						}
						listRecord.add(record);
					}
				} else {
					// No more transaction log or transaction disabled
					break;
				}
			}
		}
		return listRecord;
	}

	/**
	 * Extract list of application file locator from Afl response
	 *
	 * @param pAfl
	 *            AFL data
	 * @return list of AFL
	 */
	protected List<Afl> extractAfl(final byte[] pAfl) {
		List<Afl> list = new ArrayList<Afl>();
		ByteArrayInputStream bai = new ByteArrayInputStream(pAfl);
		while (bai.available() >= 4) {
			Afl afl = new Afl();
			afl.setSfi(bai.read() >> 3);
			afl.setFirstRecord(bai.read());
			afl.setLastRecord(bai.read());
			afl.setOfflineAuthentication(bai.read() == 1);
			list.add(afl);
		}
		return list;
	}

	/**
	 * Extract card holder lastname and firstname
	 *
	 * @param pData
	 *            card data
	 */
	protected void extractCardHolderName(final byte[] pData) {
		// Extract Card Holder name (if exist)
		byte[] cardHolderByte = TlvUtil.getValue(pData, EmvTags.CARDHOLDER_NAME);
		if (cardHolderByte != null) {
			String[] name = StringUtils.split(new String(cardHolderByte).trim(), CARD_HOLDER_NAME_SEPARATOR);
			if (name != null && name.length == 2) {
				card.setHolderFirstname(StringUtils.trimToNull(name[0]));
				card.setHolderLastname(StringUtils.trimToNull(name[1]));
			}
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Method used to create GPO command and execute it
	 *
	 * @param pPdol
	 *            PDOL data
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A pair of black beach stones were used to create these beach stone cuff links.
A pair of black beach stones were used to create these beach stone cuff links. The size and shape of the stones are almost identical. A splatter of cream color can be seen in each stone, one has a bit more cream than the other. The color variation adds a natural interest. Silver plated cuff link findings were securely glued to the stones. A coat of lacquer gave the stones a very nice glow.
These stones were collected from The Great Lakes of Michigan.
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Come see The Blue Stones play Black Holes (Solid Ground) at the Fine Line on Saturday March 23rd. Tickets are just $10 (or $20 reserved balcony) for the 93X Low Dough Show. The show is 18+ with doors at 7pm and opening band Lavender Daughter starting at 8pm. Get your tickets HERE before they are gone.
Listening to the larger-than-life, but tight and precise blues-rock of The Blue Stones on their Entertainment One Music debut, Black Holes, it is astonishing to discover all that sound and fury is created by just two people.
Guitarist/vocalist/lyricist Tarek Jafar and percussionist/backing vocalist Justin Tessier, have known each other since meeting as kids just across the Detroit River in their Canadian hometown of Windsor, Ontario. But it wasn't until attending university together, that they decided to combine their talents into a musical project.
The Blue Stones have an incredibly diverse palette of influences — and although they're a duo, it's unfair to limit the comparisons just to The Black Keys and The White Stripes. The weight of Led Zeppelin, the grit of Hendrix and groove from hip-hop artists like J. Cole and Kanye are all there. But in an effort that's unlike any other in contemporary rock, the result is something entirely unique to today's musical landscape.
From the slap back echo and the Rolling Stones' "ooh-oohs" in the gut-punching "The Drop," through the tribute to perseverance in the catchy, bluesy "Rolling with the Punches" and the acoustic-to-electric whisper-to-a-scream dynamism of the title track, Black Holes shows a band blasting into outer space and leaving "Solid Ground" behind. It's the voyage of a group beginning to find its way, emerging from isolation and perspiration to inspiration, reaching an audience waiting to be tapped and entertained. An Alternative Blues Rock band fighting the good fight, looking to connect in an increasingly fragmented music universe.
"The album's about being a young adult and entering the real world from a sheltered environment, like college," explains Jafar. "Feeling torn between taking the secure path or doing something that might be riskier, but you're passionate about… following what you love as opposed to sticking to the straight and narrow."
Indeed, "Black Holes (Solid Ground)" is about precisely that either/or dichotomy, caught between infinite space and terra firma, willing to take a shot at the unknown rather than settle for the familiar, in between Jafar's restless guitars and Tessier's heavy-hitting and massively impressive drum beats.
"We play blues-rock, though it's not loose and dirty," explains Justin. "It's lean, raw, tight, without a wasted note."
It took seven long years – and two independently released EPs – for The Blue Stones to hone their approach, putting in those requisite 10,000 hours to perfect their craft, and then build upon that. As Jafar describes the audience participation of "Rolling with the Punches," which is the group's usual, rollicking set-closer, "It takes a lot to be a success. You have to stay determined and focused. And it's always fun to have people sing the words you've written and just sit back and take it all in."
There's a similar message in the album finale, "Magic," in which Jafar admits he doesn't believe in it. "People these days are all looking for instant gratification, the quick reward," he says. "If you want something that will endure, that's not how it works. You have to put in the hours and the effort."
The Blue Stones have done just that, with an approach that isn't afraid to take chances, like mining Jafar's love of hip-hop and Miles Davis into the funky backbeat of "Be My Fire" or the epic psychedelic experimentation in the pitch-dark "Midnight."
"You never know where we'll pull inspiration from," says Justin.
"This is the album we've always wanted to make," adds Tarek. "We set out to show we're more than loud and lo-fi, that we have range and dynamics."
And now it's time to take to the road, play these songs and add to their growing legion of admirers.
"We have dreams and we have goals, but we separate the two," adds Justin. "A dream is to headline Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, where we saw so many great bands. Our goal, though, is to reach out at every show and win people over one by one. That's how we've always done it and it's worked so far. We believe in what we're doing and we have emotional connections to the songs we're playing. We want to provide our audience with the kind of experiences we had when we were younger attending shows of our favorites. That's what we look to pass on."
"My whole attitude is, let's see what happens," nods Tarek. "And that's allowed me to be up for anything." "It's not over now," he sings in "Lay," "Don't lay your flag and turn away/Please don't leave me with another regret."
With the release of Black Holes, The Blue Stones are ready to raise the stakes and turn up the heat.
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Judge rules NY can't give Trump's state tax returns to Congress — for now
A federal judge on Thursday blocked New York from immediately turning over President Trump's state tax returns to Congress.
The order by Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, bars the state from releasing the president's tax returns while his lawsuit seeking to keep his records private proceeds.
The arm-wrestle over Trump's New York returns began in earnest on July 8, when Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed the "TRUST Act" into law.
The Tax Returns Released Under Specific Terms Act allows the state Department of Taxation and Finance to release any elected official's tax returns "for a specified and legitimate legislative purpose" upon the written request of the House Ways and Means Committee, the Senate Finance Committee, or the Joint Committee on Taxation.
Trump's lawyers have argued that no records should be released prior to a judge determining the legality of the law.
The judge also set a schedule for the case to proceed — throughout which Trump's state tax returns cannot be disclosed.
The defendants in Trump's lawsuit — New York's Taxation and Finance commissioner, state Attorney General Letitia James and the House Ways and Means Committee — have until Aug. 9 to move to dismiss the lawsuit.
Trump's side has until Aug. 19 to file its reply.
The defendants have until Aug. 23 to reply to the reply.
A hearing with arguments will then be held Aug. 29.
James spun the order as a win.
"We are pleased that the court has accepted our reasonable proposal for how to move forward in this premature lawsuit filed by President Trump," she said in a press statement.
"We look forward to continuing to make our case in court. This law is constitutional, and we will vigorously defend it."
Bill sponsor Assemblyman David Buchwald (D-Westchester) said he believed the president's lawsuit would eventually be dismissed on jurisdictional grounds.
"I am confident the court will rule that it does not have jurisdiction over the New York State officials and the restrictions on the state of New York will be lifted," he said.
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Qatar to invest billions of dollars in Turkey amid currency crisis
Doha government will purchase a mall and shares of Istanbul stock exchange amid a deep currency crisis in Turkey
Qatari Emir Al Thani and Turkish President Erdogan pose for cameras in Ankara on 26 November, 2020 before a bilateral meeting (Turkish Presidency/Supplied)
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Published date: 26 November 2020 15:06 UTC | Last update: 1 month 3 weeks ago
The Qatari government has signed new investment deals worth billions of dollars for the Turkish economy, including purchasing a luxury mall and buying a big chunk of shares in the Borsa Istanbul stock exchange, Middle East Eye has learned.
The Qatari Investment Authority inked the purchasing deals as part of a bilateral trip by the Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to Ankara on Thursday. He met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to join the 6th strategic summit between the two nations.
'We are at a point where it's actually hard to find new ways to co-operate. Our alliance is now very deep, from the defence sector to the economy'
- Turkish official
Among the investments, Qatar will acquire a 10 percent sharehold in the Borsa Istanbul from Turkey Wealth Fund, which controls more than 90 percent of the total shares.
Doha will also buy 42 percent of Istinye Park, a shopping mall in Istanbul, for a reported $1 billion from Turkey's Dogus Holding, which owns the remaining 58 percent stake.
Located on the "Qatar Street", Istinye Park is one of Turkey's biggest and most visited malls, with 300 stores and a car park with a capacity of 3,200 vehicles.
The Qatari government will also contribute investment in the Golden Horn Marina project in Istanbul. The sum of the investment was not specified.
Doha, in a separate deal, also made official terminal operating company QTerminals' purchase of Antalya's Port Akdeniz, in a $140m deal signed with Global Ports Holding (GPH).
Currency crisis
The new investments come as the Turkish economy suffers a currency crisis. The Turkish lira has lost nearly 40 percent of its value this year due to depleted foreign reserves and unorthodox monetary policies.
A senior Turkish official, speaking anonymously, said that the bilateral ties between the two allies were standing on a strong foundation and both sides were always looking for ways to deepen the cooperation.
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"We are at a point where it's actually hard to find new ways to co-operate. Our alliance is now very deep, from the defence sector to the economy," the official said. "President Erdogan and the Qatari emir also have a very friendly relationship."
Turkey and Qatar are close allies, a relationship forged over the years through joint military operations in Somalia and Libya, and a united front against Doha's Gulf neighbours. Ankara has a major military base in the emirate.
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Persuading the Left Intelligentsia on Syria
Byconcettafannin2
Sep 9, 2013 academe, news media, propaganda, public opinion
Barack Obama's fervent drive for yet more war carries a number of important lessons in terms of propaganda and the extent to which the "progressive left" literati can be persuaded to jump on the homicidal bandwagon.
The forces behind Syria's destabilization have employed an array of public relations maneuvers to sway public sentiment and hone in on the support of key constituencies, including credentialed intellectuals and opinion leaders.
This became abundantly clear to many in 2011 as the mercenary guerrilla forces within Syria were self-referentially labeled "activists" and "rebels," a falsehood that continues to be unquestioningly echoed throughout Western corporate media [1] and its "progressive" alternative counterparts such as Democracy Now! As Finian Cunningham observes, because such programs are presented as ostensibly "critical, independent journalism," they serve "to sow powerful seeds of misinformation in a way that the 'compromised' mainstream media cannot."[2]
Similar ploys include "astro-turf" outlets purporting to represent genuine causes. One such organization appears to be the Global Campaign for Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution (GCSSR). The GCSSR has managed to obtain the signatures of close to one thousand prominent European, American and Middle Eastern academics and public intellectuals on its petition, "Solidarity with the Syrian Struggle for Dignity and Freedom." Perhaps the support is unsurprising, especially since the document presents Syria's coordinated subversion with genuine indigenous uprisings throughout the world.
"The fight in Syria is an extension of the fight for freedom regionally and worldwide," the petition's preamble reads. Syria's insurrection
is a fundamental part of the North African revolutions, yet, it is also an extension of the Zapatista revolt in Mexico, the landless movement in Brazil, the European and North American revolts against neoliberal exploitation, and an echo of Iranian, Russian, and Chinese movements for freedom.
This captivating rhetoric closely conforms to the Obama administration's "humanitarian intervention" and "responsibility to protect" publicity lines, even though now GCSSR claims to oppose Obama's impulse toward "war and imperialism" that is a logical extension of a much broader plan.[3] Yet in scratching the surface of the "Global Campaign," it is difficult to ascertain any distinct institutional makeup or personnel behind it.
This author's repeated requests via GCSSR's Facebook page to communicate with a spokesperson have been met with silence. Still, the organization's ambiguity has not prevented it from successfully garnering the broad endorsement of figures seduced by its renegade branding.
One is oddly reminded of how overall distant the media manipulation tactics appear that were used in the lead up to the 1991 Gulf War—indeed, ones that targeted a much broader and presumably less sophisticated population. At that time a front group for the Kuwaiti government called the Citizens for a Free Kuwait conducted a multimillion dollar promotional campaign to sell its war to the American people. This impressive undertaking was overseen by the powerful Hill and Knowlton public relations firm and culminated in a fifteen-year-old Kuwaiti girl's testimony before the phony congressional Human Rights Caucus.
"Nayirah" claimed to be a volunteer at a hospital in Kuwait when Iraqi forces entered the facility. "While I was there I saw the Iraqi soldiers come into the hospital with guns," "Nayirah" recalls, "and go into the room where 15 babies were in incubators. They took the babies out of the incubators, took the incubators, and left the babies on the cold floor to die." [4]
The "eyewitness account" provided the basis for continual denunciations of the Iraq army's alleged atrocities by those American political leaders angling for war. Yet it later turned out that Nayirah was the daughter of Kuwait's ambassador to the United States, and before her testimony she had been coached by Hill and Knowlton staff. In the end the initial story of hundreds of Kuwaiti newborns cast out of their incubators was discredited.[5]
Still, the effort was ultimately successful, as it conned the American people into backing a conflict that stole an anticipated Cold War peace dividend, presaged the slow deaths of half a million Iraqi children via US-led sanctions, and paved the way for America's far-expanded and destructive role in the Middle East.
Much like the George W. Bush administration's "weapons of mass destruction" ruse, there is a degree of primitiveness in the deceptive effort leading to the Gulf War vis-à-vis the clever and overall low-cost maneuvers encompassed in those such as GCSSR. The latter entails a more flagrant and Orwellian manipulation of political codes whereupon empty appeals to "democracy," "solidarity," and "struggle" direct passions toward ends far removed from their historical bearings and original intent.
America's political myopia is perhaps most abundantly clear in the enigma that is Obama—a personage who enthralls his supporters with well-crafted platitudes that rouse veneration once reserved for genuine leaders. In his hypocritical and now increasingly isolated worldview where war is peace, freedom is slavery, and ignorance is strength, the obligation to act on humanitarian grounds likewise wraps coldblooded aggression in the adornments of morality and deliverance.
[1] Charlie Skelton, "The Syrian Opposition: Who's Doing the Talking?" Guardian, 12 July, 2012, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/12/syrian-opposition-doing-the-talking
[2] Finian Cunningham, "'Democracy Now' and the 'Progressive' Alternative Media: Valued Cheerleaders for Imperialism and War," GlobalResearch.ca, July 13, 2012.
[3] Seymour Hersh, "The Redirection," The New Yorker, March 5, 2007. Available at Information Clearinghouse, http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17173.htm
[4] John R. MacArthur, Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the 1991 Gulf War, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004, 58. See the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Fifth Estate's "To Sell a War," (1992).
[5] Ibid., 36-77.
-JFT
Manufacturing Dissent: The Truth About Syria
"Bring Them Home! Stop the Illegal Wars!"
By concettafannin2
28 thought on "Persuading the Left Intelligentsia on Syria"
I know a lot of people on the left who hate Obama even worse than Bush.
They should.
According to a recent poll sentiment falls roughly along partisan lines, with independents appearing the most rationale, suggesting the limited extent to which at least a portion of the American public is capable of thinking apart from uninformed allegiance.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57602096/majority-opposes-military-attack-on-syria-poll-says/
Citizens are united in their disdain of wars, lies, corruption, out of control debt, basically all that DC represents. It is time to bring our troops home and quit sending our tax dollars to our enemies! http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2013/09/08/US-Spent-1-010-354-195-In-Syrian-Humanitarian-Aid-2012-2013
nader paul kucinich gravel mckinney says:
rethink 9-11-2001 pack o' lies
rethink 9-11-2001 Coverup
rethink 9-11-2001 PsyOp
rethink 9-11-2001 Fraud
rethink 9-11-2001 Sham
free Boston patsy Jahar
The insanity continues. These people are never going to wake up. They will take to the streets and demand free food, school, medical care, housing, you name it. However, they will never take to the streets for truth and freedom. Eventually something much worse than 9-11 will happen, we will have a total economic collapse, WW lll, and yes ladies and gentleman, mainland USA will not get to sit this one out. Good luck keeping the bad guys out of your wood stick home.
Marzi says:
Here's the latest RT take down of the press regarding Syria, 9/11 and the commemoration not being analyzed correctly by Maddow – her 2 million dollar salary makes her putty to say what the network wants.
http://911blogger.com/news/2013-09-08/911-and-operation-gladio-russia-today-declares-911-inside-job-false-flag-attack#comments=
Persuading the Left Intelligentsia on Syria | William Bowles.info says:
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It gets even worse concerning Amy Goodman. Some evidence suggests she's a willing counter intelligence asset. That would make her indictable for war crimes. Yet on many college radio stations she is given a few hours to spin world and national news every day. This is supposed to counter Fox News and "the mainstream." You might be better off in the mainstream than with Amy Goodman and prized "'Democracy' [now means] Now" guests like Noam Chomsky.
A lot of people looked to Chomsky after 9/11. They were immediately led astray and found themselves repeating an argument that, while apparently anti-war, permitted the case of a "war on terror." Because he accepted the official story, the only thing left to debate was how punishment should be carried out. One says more force; the other says less. No thinker of any value would have let the evidence go into that dialect. No one who seriously considered the evidence could have let it go there.
We really found out how sickeningly phony and unimportant the left intelligentsia is when the Libyan demolition and mass murders were taking place. These people opposed the Iraqi invasion on grounds that it was imperialistic and veiled racism. No race card to play because of Obama's physical appearance (note that Nato command's death squads are prone to load pits with dark skinned Africans), synchronized to the release of a film called "The Dictator" (see Pepe Escobar's article on this), many of the left believed mass murder in Libya could be humanitarian, could be flippant, even that it could save women from sexually deviant men. Remember how many people were hooked on the lie that Libyan troops were raping women left and right. This disgusting charade of provocation, full of well-worn cliches designed to appeal to a "left" preoccupied with "the fight" to have men and women share washrooms and wardrobes, became a sort of making-of documentary for the "Dictator" film.
If you walk around any University or college in North America, you'll likely find not protest against a possible world war being triggered in Syria, but concerns over a homosexual being called a name outside a restaurant, on a warm but cloudy afternoon, in Moscow. Then there are the devious worries that not enough people are entranced by "climate science." They are peddling fake issues, counter intelligence designed to divert. To think—-they believe they are on the cutting edge of intelligence but you would need a leash just to pull them toward reality.
Mollie says:
I think you're being a bit unfair to Amy. To be honest, I don't watch DN – I never can seem to find it when I might be able to watch and I haven't watched online (maybe I should catch up). If you check the website – it looks as though the coverage is pretty ok…
Anyway, she just had on Glenn Greenwald (there's a video and transcript on the site and that earns some points from me! I did read the transcript and Glenn was excellent.
I'm Liberal – and certainly was/am in no way in favor of a strike against Syria. I think one thing the Admin. is running into is that the public is not very much in favor of it.
Not quite sure what to make of your comment re: colleges and protests. Maybe this issue will reenergize the Peace Movement. I also wonder why we don't have millions protesting in the streets against NSA spying and privacy invasions. In the past, a lot of energy for social protest came from college students. It certainly seems as though it's not anything as strong as years before. There may be many reasons: the recent thrust in education toward career/job readiness; crushing loads of student debt; the general apathy afflicting so many.
I do want to share that I was very concerned about Syria and wondered what to do. Lo and behold, something came in my one mailing list about a prayer time for Syria. Although the appointed time had past, the idea did strike a chord and I have been praying for the Syrian people and for Peace. Pope Francis has also been leading a Prayer Vigil. So anyone who feels the spirit to do so,praying is probably one of the best things you could do.
Amy Goodman is in a position of influence. Amy Goodman has clearly made the case for the destruction of Syria. She made it for Libya. She has made it easier for cannibals and baby killers to rule the world, we may deduce.
We're talking mass murder here. This cannot be taken as a difference of opinion. My comment (perhaps too long) did mention flippant reactions from the left. Perhaps I should have put more stress into that.
Peace is a desirable outcome in the sense you mean. But someone like John McCain is a repeat offender. We are not safe with him walking the streets. If peace is achieved it's likely that McCain will continue to carry out criminal acts. He needs to be "brought in for questioning". This would involve a great deal of effort because to some degree (and I do mean degree!) he is above our law. There is no rest for the weary.
What about Goodman? Clearly, Amy Goodman is in a position to influence the public. The evidence suggests she has swayed public opinion toward mass slaughter at least twice now. She needs to be questioned in a legal sense. There would be nothing extraordinary about that. You can't murder people and you can't incite public support for murder knowing that it will result in murder. This sounds like basic law enforcement to me. How does it sound to you?
Robert Walk says:
I guess Syria does have chemical weapons. Retractions from prior comments anyone, especially the fearless leader?
Marilyn Jay A. says:
On Pacifica Radio this a.m., one guest proffered the notion that the Syrian chemical stockpile was in defense of Israel's massive buildup of nuclear. A poor-man's answer, as if the two systems could be equated.
My head is swimming in contradictions meant to keep the average American off balance. The Left has secured the moral high ground from the "God fearing, gun-grasping gun owners" (per Obama), which makes them fairly dizzy with delusion. It is almost impossible to take the high ground, as anyone in battle knows.
As a former liberal, now turned independent, I have walked that path and recall how self-satisfying it was to be right and true. If you want to stay centered, think GLOBALIZATION. The left/right paradigm fades into obscurity. Finally, clarity comes filtering down to relieve your migraine.
There is no difference; the two political philosophies are fused into one humongous people-eating monolith.
Who cares if "they" do? To be brief, you're playing off stuff you see in the mainstream media. Those debates are a farce. What does that make you?
I think Robert Walk needs to read "Precious Little Girl Dismembered While She Is Still Alive By Obama's Psychotic Syrian Rebels" at http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/precious-little-girl-dismembered-while-she-is-still-alive-by-obamas-psychotic-syrian-rebels.
He then needs to beg for forgiveness. How dare he ask for retractions even as he allies himself with absolute savagery.
Surely you miss my point. So many people on here said that the chemical weapons were a farce. Now that Syria has even admitted owning them, surely it's not and those who said it was a massive ploy were mistaken
One more thing. Lose that glib tone
"Lose the glib tone"? Is that line from the John Mccain "everyone's disingenuous except me" playbook?
Why don't you break from the imaginary. That is, you attempt to incite some farcical debate about chemical weapons as if it's news that countries of all places, in all times, possess chemical weapons. We knew this many years ago; it all took place many headlines ago. You're telling us water is wet and chanting "newsflash". Actually, you've asked us down the memory hole.
To take either side of a debate on chemical weapons is ridiculous. The only story here is the invasion of Syria by absolute savages posing as heroes, business men, charitable agents, etc. You support mass murder or you don't. You push toward the dark ages or you don't. It's not glib to place your position. You stand against war or spin toward it. You spin. That means mass murder. It's not glib to oppose mass murder. Again I feel that you should apologize for trivializing an issue that could not be more serious.
If a certain Russian faction can use certain terminology as a tool to prevent war, we may have cause for pause. International law is a different game and I see it as such. For you to pretend you have a trump card in this venue is absurd. This is not the damn UN. The only story here is the invasion of Syria by absolute savages. There's nothing to spin. All distractions are invalid.
Wondering Aloud (@WonderingAloud1) says:
I don't believe the issue was ever the chemical weapons were not present. The issue at hand is whether Assad deployed them on civilians.
If we are of the mind to ban the possession of chemical weapons, there is much work to do: Also in the Middle East, Israel has chemical weapons and has deployed them on civilian population. Israel used those weapons in 2008 against Palestinians, including children. In this case, Obama ignored those children.
This was in the news in April of this year: http://972mag.com/israel-gives-up-white-phosphorus-because-it-doesnt-photograph-well/70063/
Here is a link to damaging photos of suffering children: http://www.demotix.com/news/62659/unseen-agony-white-phosphorus#media-62628
The US has a stockpile of chemical weapons we should probably turnover: http://www.policymic.com/articles/62023/10-chemical-weapons-attacks-washington-doesn-t-want-you-to-talk-about
This clamoring for war to "save" the children is rubbish. Children are not going to be helped by bombs raining on their country. Obama and his co-horts are corrupt to the core if they pursue this War. Pipelines, realms that need to be protected, untapped riches in the Golan Heights, Gaza Marine… none of it is worth murdering people over.
Shawn E. Abrell, Esq says:
I propose that Syria is a distraction from ISON, which is a ELE……
As for me, I can't for the life of me see what makes poison gas any more horrible than any other deadly weapon. I wonder if anyone gives that real thought. Death is death, whether from a bullet the size of a dime, or a bomb the size of a football, or a massive, exploding missile shot from a warship. Is the argument that it's all right to slaughter people with a hail of lead, but it's qualitatively different if you slaughter them with poison gas? If so, why?
Now, we, of course, do it the right way. All our small ordinance nowadays is made of depleted uranium, not lead. Uranium is a flammable metal, so the moment it leaves the tube and hits the air it bursts into flame; by the time it strikes its target half of the metal has been vaporized. The other half, uranium being so dense, can penetrate steel like a hot knife though butter, so it's really great for getting bad guys hiding behind barriers. As for the vaporized uranium, well, what bystanders don't breathe becomes part of the soil and water. We have spread this stuff very evenly across many countries now, and no doubt will keep on until the whole region is nicely salted with invisible, poisonous, metal. Almost like chemtrails; it almost strikes one as looking like a plan. But no one talks about it.
DU creates birth defects, and if anything can be worse, it does worse. It will be there, poisoning those lands forever. There is a nightmare of birth defects unfolding in the countries we go over to "save", not to mention that our own troops are experiencing the same thing. Yet no one seems to care.
Maybe it's the delay in the bad effects that keeps our massive spreading of powdered uranium from horrifying people in this country, so cause and effect is not obvious. But in my opinion if we're going to get all hot and bothered about a specific form of weaponry, I'd advise us to object to the one that's not going to kill, but the one that attacks DNA and hands future generations a living nightmare. We should be ashamed of ourselves, not strut with patriotic pride about how "humanitarian" our impulses are. (Not to mention that squabbles in that part of the world are none of our business, however nasty.)
Why is DU not a lefty Hollywood cause celebre? It sure won't be as long as this horrible fellow is the figurehead in Mordor…er, Washington.
But gas seems to work as a propaganda ploy, so that's the "justification" they're using to add Syria to the list of ruined places. What is the Big Picture? I don't know. James Corbett's recent report "Who is Really Behind the Syrian War? is an interesting exploration of that question (http://www.corbettreport.com/episode-279-who-is-really-behind-the-syrian-war/).
The end of the Cold war seems to have really scared the military/industrial/spy complex. After all our wars we always dramatically reduced the size of the military; they had no intention of letting that happen this time. They are enacting the world Orwell describes in 1984: perpetual, endless, war. You can't just go home and relax after a war is over any more; you have to launch the next one before the last one is even over. Forever.
Weird, how so many of the familiar, sanctimonious, lefties now sound so much like those unspeakably evil neoconservatives these days. Perhaps they never had any principles at all, and it's just for them a question of whose ox is being gored.
Patrick, your comments are spot on. Drones attacks are another example of "acceptable" death and destruction. I can not understand how anyone cannot see when the truth is right before our eyes.
Patrick,COMMENDABLE WRITING! Thank you Sir!
The vast majority are opposed to this war as evidenced by representatives that have been inundated with contacts from the people, some saying 500 to 1 against, some none for. Polls have been manipulated for years to sway our thinking, but they are beginnins to speak the truth. If it is 10% for, that 10% are those who would benefit. Here's our favorite NYTimes that indicates a huge majority against http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/10/world/middleeast/poll-majority-of-americans-oppose-military-strike.html?_r=0
Hopefully, this is a new trend, a politician telling the truth!
http://washingtonexaminer.com/obama-embellished-syria-case-justin-amash-claims/article/2535417
BE AWARE…. possible false flag
http://friendsofsyria.co/2013/09/10/rt-sources-syrian-rebels-plan-chem-attack-on-israel-from-assad-controlled-territories/
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http://i.imgur.com/cIiZm8a.jpg
Left is right and right is left.
Up is down and down is up.
I said so.
Any more questions, idiots?
9/9 2013 was a memorable day historically, the evening being in a different category from the morning. three tendencies were brought to fruition.
1. The people of the world united against American war power and made their leaders retreat from endorsing it.
2. The American people rebelled against their leaders and made Congress retreat from supporting war.
3. this was all done primarily by internet and phone, with very few and very small demonstrations, especially in the USA.
An initial signal that a new era is dawning, with the American and the earth's people beginning to reject American power.
I believe it is very key that the American Public used the phone and email to voice their adamant refusal. Protests are not part of the political process, lobbying is.
As for the earth's people rejecting American power, it is also Americans rejecting the undue influence on our political process of those who would have the US be an Oligarchy.
The big secret is out of the bag. There is still time via local and State politics (in a majority of the country, not all) to reclaim the US Government for the American People… the Dome hasn't trapped us yet.
James Tracy "Bring Them Home, Stop the Illegal Wars!!" says:
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The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), the newest camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, has captured a spectacular pair of galaxies engaged in a celestial dance of cat and mouse or, in this case, mouse and mouse.
Located 300 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices, the colliding galaxies have been nicknamed "The Mice" because of the long tails of stars and gas emanating from each galaxy. Otherwise known as NGC 4676, the pair will eventually merge into a single giant galaxy.
The image shows the most detail and the most stars that have ever been seen in these galaxies. In the galaxy at left, the bright blue patch is resolved into a vigorous cascade of clusters and associations of young, hot blue stars, whose formation has been triggered by the tidal forces of the gravitational interaction. Streams of material can also be seen flowing between the two galaxies.
The clumps of young stars in the long, straight tidal tail [upper right] are separated by fainter regions of material. These dim regions suggest that the clumps of stars have formed from the gravitational collapse of the gas and dust that once occupied those areas. Some of the clumps have luminous masses comparable to dwarf galaxies that orbit in the halo of our own Milky Way Galaxy.
Computer simulations by astronomers Josh Barnes (University of Hawaii) and John Hibbard (National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, Va.) show that we are seeing two nearly identical spiral galaxies approximately 160 million years after their closest encounter. The long, straight arm is actually curved, but appears straight because we see it edge-on. The simulations also show that the pair will eventually merge, forming a large, nearly spherical galaxy (known as an elliptical galaxy). The stars, gas, and luminous clumps of stars in the tidal tails will either fall back into the merged galaxies or orbit in the halo of the newly formed elliptical galaxy.
The Mice presage what may happen to our own Milky Way several billion years from now when it collides with our nearest large neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31).
This picture is assembled from three sets of images taken on April 7, 2002, in blue, orange, and near-infrared filters.


Epiphora is excessive tearing. Extra tearing from time to time is normal, but if it is constant, you should visit your veterinarian as soon as possible. All that moisture can cause pain, infection and staining (tears have no color, but they dry into a red, brown or black crust, which will stain your dog's hair and face).
2) Abnormal tear drainage: In a healthy eye, tears flow through the puncta (a tear duct located in the inner corner of the eye near the nose) that drains the tears into its nose and throat. Problems along this route can cause epiphora.
If your dog is showing any of these signs, this is an emergency and you should visit your veterinary clinic right away. It is especially important if thesigns occur suddenly.
Your veterinarian may perform some tests to rule out other diseases. A corneal stain, (a fluorescent dye placed in the eye), can test for ulcers.Your veterinarian may also test your dog's eye pressure to see if it has glaucoma.
Most of the time, you will not be aware of your dog's condition until you start to see signs of epiphora, so there is no way to prevent it.
To prevent a relapse, wash and dry around their eyes daily using lukewarm water and a soft cloth.
There is a good prognosis for dogs that get quick medical attention and treatment. Delaying treatment may lead to blindness.
Laika was the world's first astronaut dog. She was sent into space in 1957 by the Russian government.


As care becomes more complex, patients and clinicians are often unable to do the one thing that could help them most – connect.
Pocket is the mobile worksurface that supports connected care, from task to task and space to space. It moves with clinicians to bring people, tools and technology together, wherever they're needed.
Clinicians can make pocket their own, even as technologies and procedures change, with magnetic accessories and fixed or adjustable height options that enable both sitting and standing work.
An adjustable arm holds an iPad, and pivots and articulates for vertical or horizontal display at different heights.
With increased mobility, there is an ever-rising need for spaces to support a new way of work. Impromptu workstations are available as needed, and team-based care requires collaboration that is supported by technology. Meanwhile, conventional carts are complex, intimidating and noisy, and do not support this work.


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Thomas Ehrhorn (nascido em 20 de março de 1959) é um político alemão da Alternativa para a Alemanha (AfD) e desde 2017 membro do Bundestag, o órgão legislativo federal.

Vida e carreira
Ehrhorn nasceu em 1959 na cidade alemã de Helmstedt e tornou-se piloto de avião.

Ehrhorn entrou para a recém-fundada AfD em 2013 e é vice-presidente do seu partido no estado federal da Baixa Saxónia.

Após as eleições federais alemãs de 2017, ele tornou-se membro do bundestag.

Membros da Alternativa para a Alemanha
Nascidos em 1959
Pessoas vivas

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Q: Adding classpath entries using Gradle's Application plugin I'm using Gradle's Application plugin to generate the install for a standalone java application. I have a configuration file I need to put on the classpath but I can't seem to get it to generate the classpath correctly in the sh/bat files. This configuration file needs to be located outside of the jar.
The conf file is in the directory /src/dist/conf/ so when I run installApp it installs it under a conf directory like this $APP_HOME/conf.
I tried adding this directory to the claspath like this:
startScripts.classpath.add(files('$APP_HOME/conf'))

but when I look at the classpath in the sh/bat files it adds an entry that looks like this:
$APP_HOME/lib/conf

How do I tell gradle to drop the lib section for this entry?

A: The easiest way to get a file onto the class path is to put it into src/main/resources. src/dist is for adding files to the distribution (i.e. zip file), not to the Jar/class path.

A: This isn't a particularly good answer to your question, but I've found a few instances where the startScripts task doesn't quite yet have the flexibility we need.
I've worked around a couple of these instances by editing the file contents directly... not exactly taking advantage of Gradle's great model and not particularly recommended, but at least shows off how flexible Gradle is!
So you could hack something into the classpath like this:
tasks.startScripts {
  doLast {
    def scriptFile = file "${outputDir}/${applicationName}"
    scriptFile.text = scriptFile.text.replace('CLASSPATH=$APP_HOME/lib', 'CLASSPATH=$APP_HOME/conf/:$APP_HOME/lib')
  }
}

Be aware of breaking the start script's platform independence when doing this.

A: It seems to me that what I'm trying to do shouldn't be that far out of the ordinary, but as a workaround I can have the dist directory be src/dist/lib/conf which allows the conf directory to be placed in the lib directory and the classpath that gradle generates for the sh/bat files to be correct.
I'll accept another answer if someone has a better one.

A: I did a variant of Martin Dow's recipe below:
I replace 'APP_HOME=' with 'export APP_HOME=' in the start script.
Then my code can do System.env.get("APP_HOME") and then navigate to e.g. the conf/ folder.
This is my Gradle hack:

tasks.startScripts {
  doLast {
    def scriptFile = file "${outputDir}/${applicationName}"
    scriptFile.text = scriptFile.text.replaceAll('APP_HOME=',  'export APP_HOME=')
  }
}

Example of Java code in the app:

String APP_HOME = System.env().get("APP_HOME");
Properties p = new Properties();
p.load(new FileInputStream(APP_HOME + "/conf/myapp.properties"))

Hope this helps.
NOTE: "export" does not work in Windows!

A: Another workaround for this issue (GRADLE-2333) is proposed by Alexandr Fadeev here.
Here is (a bit modified) Alexandr's solution that solved the problem for me on Gradle-1.6:
startScripts {
  classpath += files('src/dist/XxxAPlaceHolderForAConfigxxX')
  doLast {
    def windowsScriptFile = file getWindowsScript()
    def unixScriptFile    = file getUnixScript()
    windowsScriptFile.text = windowsScriptFile.text.replace('%APP_HOME%\\lib\\XxxAPlaceHolderForAConfigxxX', '%APP_HOME%\\config')
    unixScriptFile.text  = unixScriptFile.text.replace('$APP_HOME/lib/XxxAPlaceHolderForAConfigxxX', '$APP_HOME/config')
  }
}

It's a bit uglier than Josh's solution, but it allows you to preserve the exact directory layout (/src/dist/conf and $APP_HOME/conf) mentioned in the original question.

A: add the line  inside build.gradle dependencies
runtimeOnly files('lib/config')

This will add lib/config into classpath list. Please note am using gradle 7


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By Adam Nicky
The Media Line
Jordanian eyes have it in fight against hackers
AMMAN—A Jordanian firm specializing in cyber-security has developed "Iris"—security technology that uses the iris of the computer owner's eye in the manner of a fingerprint in order to prevent identity theft.
The new technology comes amid an increase of reported hacker attacks throughout the kingdom.
Jordan prides itself of being a center for excellence in matters related to the cyber world, including software development. Recently, the Internet giant Yahoo bought a local email provider and made the kingdom its center of Middle Eastern operations.
But the reputation of being a center for top talent in the cyber world came with a price: soaring Internet crimes. Last year alone police recorded 700 Internet crimes, mostly targeting financial institutions.
Police figures show that Internet-based crimes have been increasing at an annual rate of 5percent. A total of 180 cyber crimes were reported during the first three months of 2013, most of which involved hacking into bank accounts, ATM card theft, extortion, identify theft and taking over personal social media accounts.
"We are witnessing an increase of Internet attacks on individuals," a senior police criminal investigator told The Media Line. "The police have intensified their efforts to combat this phenomenon," a senior police investigator told The Media Line.
"Leading businessmen are being affected. Private images that could harm their family are targeted by hackers for the purpose of extortion," the police official said.
Culprits are mostly hackers from abroad. "Our records show 70percent of Internet crimes are carried out by non-Jordanians. This includes foreigners living in the kingdom or hackers from overseas," the police official told The Media Line.
Local banks refuse to reveal the scale of Internet-related losses to protect their interests, but a source in Jordan's central bank said banks are increasingly concerned over the rising attacks.
Officials from the Arab Bank, the kingdom's leading financial institution, said they had to implement stringent measures concerning Internet-based transactions such as requiring direct phone calls from clients in order to check personal information before it allows transactions to proceed.
Computer experts said the hacking is often done through emails sent to individuals urging them to log into their bank account through a link provided by the thieves. "When the individual enters his username and password, the information is registered by the hacker who would later enter the victim's account details and transfer funds to an overseas account," Ebrahim Qadiri, a private consultant specializing in computer forensics, told The Media Line.
Enter Iris, the technology being introduced by a growing number of banks in the battle against identity theft. The technology relies on the fact that each iris, the colored part of the eye, is unique, like a fingerprint.
A camera connected to the Iris system takes a digital photo of the customer's iris and algorithmically converts it into a template to be compared against others in a data base at banks or by any other end users to see if they match.
The technology also allows bank clients to look into a special camera from home that does away with the need to enter passwords or user names, Iris technology owner Imad Malhas explained. "The Iris print prevents your neighbor or any other hacker from robbing you," he said. Malhas said the Cairo Amman Bank has also successfully introduced Iris to its cash machines across the kingdom.
Banks aren't the only ones benefiting from the patented Iris technology. Jordanian border guards, the United Arab Emirates, Iraq and other countries are using Iris, which has also helped the United Nations to register Syrian refugees.
Despite inventions like Iris cutting into the hackers' earnings and information, experts say authorities should also impose tougher penalties. The Cyber Crimes Law of 2001 makes Internet crimes punishable by only three months to one year in jail.
Jordanian Internet law expert Fadi Alkawalee said, "We need to have laws that fit the nature of the crime. If someone hacks my account and robs millions, they will face a minimum jail sentence. The current law does not do the country a favor; it should be stricter on certain crimes," he told The Media Line.
Alkawalee also believes that attacks originating overseas also need to be dealt with legally, through cooperation with the Interpol or special international units to combat Internet attacks.
"We are being attacked from Africa, Europe and even the United States, but the problem is that Jordanian authorities are unable to chase culprits or investigate further without help from other countries," he lamented.
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"It's funny because I had a Transworld interview come out right after I'd quit. People told me that I should've at least waited for the photo incentives but that's exactly what I didn't want to do. It was never about that."
Friend of the site and multi-faceted maker of rad, Greg Hunt.
This part doesn't get enough credit.
Most would argue, and I might even agree, that he has made more of an impact behind the lens than in front of it. And there's plenty of reason to say that. His film, video and still work is beautiful and powerful. A true artistic documentarian.
But lord almighty that Tincan Folklore part remains one of my favorites of all time. The tag team combo of him and Matt Rodriguez in that video reset the way I skated- especially ledges- in a real way. And I was lucky enough to film him for that part before he stepped behind a camera. Some skaters look at spots in a different way, think about lines in a different way, think about connecting the dots in a different way, and Greg was one of them. His fluid and somewhat lazy style just flowed along. Maybe that's why he never jumped out to a lot of people. But he had that flowing, skipping style that has always intrigued me. I'd definitely rather watch him skate a ledge than most others in the world.
And crap, he introduced me and all of us, really, to Tortoise. And that first pro model he had with the guitar on it that was like 9" wide... just perfect for the times.
Yeah, Spoons! An honor to know you.
That interview took me back to one of the first TWS mags I bought (early '98). Dude always seemed subtle to me, but able to convey power and thought in his skating. Feel some of his ledge tricks (180-ing out of grinds the hard way) in Tin Can, came back into popularity these last few years. Happy to see his transition toward work behind the lens throughout the years. Inspiring. Cool that he realized professional skating wasn't the end of the world, didn't milk it, and still participates in the industry with legit cred.
Always stoked on Greg Hunt. Nice smooth unique skate style.
Is there any footage of Goose?