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INETA Boston User Group Leadership Summit @ TechEd
On Sunday June 11th, user groups from throughout New England are hosting a special event at the Waltham Microsoft Offices. The event is targeted at members of user group "leadership", meaning not just the president, or official group leader, but all of those people involved in making user groups happen. While the event is being hosted by local groups in the Boston area, anybody that happens to be in the area for TechEd is invited to attend. The day will be full of opportunities share ideas and energy about building user group communities. INETA Boston User Group Leadership Summit "User Group Leaders today faces many challenges such as promoting your group, financing, engaging existing members, recruiting speakers, finding new sources of content, leveraging local Microsoft relationships; etc. The New England INETA user groups along with INETA, in hopes of building a more close knit community, invites you all to join us on Sunday June 11th, prior to the start of " Registration f
05:27:31 May 11, 2006, Thursday (PDT)
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All 52 Mix06 Session Videos Posted
If you were unable to attend the MIX06 event in Las Vegas earlier this spring, you'll want to check out each and every one of the 52 presentation videos that have been posted on the Mix06 web site. Great content! More blogs about rob zelt. - My thoughts, my ideas, my opinions www.robzelt.com.
11:14:29 May 4, 2006, Thursday (PDT)
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Atlas Resource List
If you've been working with Atlas, you'll want to check out this list of Atlas resources that Rick Strahl has put together here. If you're not familiar with Atlas (no, not the book with all the maps, but the Microsoft AJAX framework), go visit http://atlas.asp.net More blogs about rob zelt. - My thoughts, my ideas, my opinions www.robzelt.com.
18:18:08 April 19, 2006, Wednesday (PDT)
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Ineta Live! - Stay ahead of your peers by attending this exclusive series.
INETA Live! is a series brought to you primarily by user group leaders around the country that have exceptional material they believe would be good to share with other user group leaders. Don't miss these if you are interested in growing your own user group. Live at Redmond! is a series presented to you directly by Microsoft product teams! No marketing hype -- just the technical details that you want to hear and need to know. Stay ahead of your peers by attending this exclusive series. More blogs about rob zelt. - My thoughts, my ideas, my opinions www.robzelt.com.
08:23:21 April 7, 2006, Friday (PDT)
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A late Mix06 Recap
I've finally returned home from a crazy month of travel, some for work, some for me. Some good, some.. less than good. Somewhere in the middle of it all I ended up at the Microsoft Mix06 conference in Las Vegas. I personally think that the conference was a huge success. it was very different that previois MS events I have attended such as PDC and TechEd. There were many people there who had never really seen Visual Studio, or any of the .Net related technologies that some of us know and love. This was interesting because these were truly smart people, that are doing amazing things with other tools such as Flash, PHP, Ruby, Perl, etc. I found it very insightful to hear what they had to say, both good and bad about what they saw from Microsoft. I think a few are even rethinking their current tool focus. Before the conference even officially started I had my first chance to see Origami, the Microsoft codename for the new Ultra Mobile PC's. These are slick little devices with touch ...
10:55:02 April 6, 2006, Thursday (PDT)
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Congrats Matt Ranlett - MVP
Congrats on the MVP award Matt, you deserve it! More blogs about rob zelt. - My thoughts, my ideas, my opinions www.robzelt.com.
10:16:52 April 6, 2006, Thursday (PDT)
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Jeff Prosise speaking in North Carolina
Sorry for the short notice on this, but if you're a .Net developer in North Carolina you'll be interested to know that the Triangle .Net User Group is hosting Jeff Prosise at a special event Monday April 3rd. Power ASP.NET 2.0 Programing Speaker: Jeff Prosise By now you've seen the countless new features that debuted in ASP.NET 2.0. But how well do you REALLY know ASP.NET 2.0? Let Jeff take you under the hood and show you the cool new stuff that isn't documented anywhere else. Among other things, you'll learn how to use AJAX to perform real-time screen updates, build asynchronous pages and do asynchronous data binding, extend ASP.NET 2.0 with custom expression builders and custom Web events, store site maps in databases, and much more. Amaze your friends and confound your enemies with your deep knowledge of ASP.NET 2.0! > For more information pleae visit the TRINUG web site. More blogs about rob zelt. - My thoughts, my ideas, my opinions www.robzelt.com.
19:19:54 April 1, 2006, Saturday (PST)
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See you @ MIX06
After a hectic few weeks of work and travel, I've finally reached the "pack for mix" line on the to do list. I'm very excited this event, and look for to the opportunities it will bring. What does one pack for a 72 hour conversation however? While I figure that out, if you're attending drop me a note. I'm looking forward to meeting a number of people for the first time, and seeing some good friends again. See you in Vegas! Technorati tags: mix06 More blogs about rob zelt. - My thoughts, my ideas, my opinions www.robzelt.com.
07:23:24 March 18, 2006, Saturday (PST)
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Origami Pics?
hmmmm...... is this it? http://jkontherun.blogs.com/jkontherun/2006/02/origami_video.html If so, very cool. There are sooooooo many uses for a small tablet device. More blogs about rob zelt. - My thoughts, my ideas, my opinions www.robzelt.com.
13:06:46 February 26, 2006, Sunday (PST)
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Axosoft is offering their OnTime project management / bug tracking software for $5
This is not an endorsement, but I know some folks that do like the product.. anyways... "Axosoft is offering their OnTime project management / bug tracking software for $5. You actually get 5 user licenses for that price. The whole $5 goes to the Red Cross." http://www.axosoft.com/Products/ontime.aspx?cn=otm_stepromo [From Devcow] More blogs about rob zelt. - My thoughts, my ideas, my opinions www.robzelt.com.
19:28:46 February 23, 2006, Thursday (PST)
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OrgamiProject: What is it?
http://www.origamiproject.com What is it? What is? I don't know, but I get the feeling I want to! [From Scoble] More blogs about rob zelt. - My thoughts, my ideas, my opinions www.robzelt.com.
19:24:20 February 23, 2006, Thursday (PST)
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Richmond, VA Code Camp
Frank has annoucned that there is going to be a Code Camp in Richmond, Va on April 22nd. Information is available here: http://www.richmondcodecamp.org Is going to be held at: Location: ECPI Technical College 800 Moorefield Park Drive Richmond, VA 23236 If anybody else from these parts is interested in attending please let me know. Tags: Code Camp More blogs about rob zelt. - My thoughts, my ideas, my opinions www.robzelt.com.
15:02:50 February 20, 2006, Monday (PST)
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Custom Profile Provider
This weekend I did some work on an ASP.Net 2.0 project that I've been meaning to devote some time to because it keeps dropping off the list of important things to do. Anyways, as part of it I needed an easy way to allow for user membership with customer profile selections. With the Membership and Profile providers and associated control this was really easy to do. Then comes step 2 where based on those profiles, at a point in time behind the scenes I need to do a couple of things. Suddenly the quick and easy profile provider maybe didn't seem quite so cool with it's serialization of information for all of the user profile data into a single text field. Fortunately, the whole purpose of the provider is to allow us developers to extend or replace to fit our needs. Enter the custom profile provider. By simply deriving a class of our own from ProfileProvider we're off to the races. Matthew MacDonald and Mario Szpuszta provide a great example of creating a FactoredProfileProvder in ...
14:57:05 February 20, 2006, Monday (PST)
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Welcome Greg!
For all of those that know Greg from the Triangle .Net User Group, he has starting a blog over at LimeInTheCoconut (http://www.limeinthecoconut.com/blog) with an initial post on using SQL Profiler. More blogs about rob zelt. - My thoughts, my ideas, my opinions www.robzelt.com.
14:20:50 February 17, 2006, Friday (PST)
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Can't Add Windows Form - Part II
Thanks for the suggestions includiong Ioan's suggestion of just inheriting from the form class with my own class. I ended up going a little further and creating a custom item template for a windows form using the Export Template Wizard. This was good anyways because it allowed me to set some default items of my own. For more info there are some good links: MSDN - http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms185318.aspx David Hayden - Creating Custom Item Templates in Visual Studio 2005 - Code Generation and Productivity MSDN Mag - http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/06/01/CodeTemplates/default.aspx I still would like to find out some way of getting my default from back however, just to know how/where they get defined. More blogs about rob zelt. - My thoughts, my ideas, my opinions www.robzelt.com.
14:17:47 February 17, 2006, Friday (PST)
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Can't Add Windows Form - Bad CTP?
I've been playing around recently on my tablet with the January WinFX/WPF CTP's and having a great time. Today however I noticed somethign strange. I went to add a new form to an existing windows forms application and I couldn't. A regular windows form not longer seems to be an option. I did some digging and the form template still exists, but I can't seem to add it. I'm hopeing somebody else may have seen this and can offer me a solution? These must get registered somewhere..... More blogs about rob zelt. - My thoughts, my ideas, my opinions www.robzelt.com.
13:07:16 February 16, 2006, Thursday (PST)
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Deploying Applications with Click One: Advanced Topics - Web Feb 8, 2006
On Wednesday February 8, 2006 Kate Gregory will be presenting an Advanced Click Once topic at the monthly Triangle .Net User Group meeting as an INETA guest speaker, that will take us much deeper than the previous VS2005/Click Once demos that have been shown. I've had the privilege of hearing Kate speak a few times in the past and can guarantee this will be a must see event. She is an extremely knowledgeable and enjoyable presenter. See you there! Smart clients offer many advantages over web applications but they must be deployed and installed on the end-user's computer. The new ClickOnce technology in Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0 makes this much simpler than it once was – at least in demos. What happens when ClickOnce meets the real world? How can you combine ClickOnce with SMS, or with an MSI install that updates the registry? How can you ensure the prerequisites for your application, including the framework itself, are on the end-user's computer? This talk will ...
09:12:53 February 4, 2006, Saturday (PST)
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Save the Ewok [And Rory]!
As much fun as it would be to see MSDN Evangelist Rory turn to a diet of cheese things, I'm concerned about the Ewok. Please do your part and visit TinyThings. (I'm starting to wonder if the name "Tiny Things" has created somewhat of a marketing issue for Rory. I mean, let's face it, who goes looking for tiny things? At least, not without some context. What if i said visit Sexy Technology? Or the Ultimate Windows Mobile 5.0 Podcast? Whatever your preference, please click one and go take a look!) (For the complete story, visit http://neopoleon.com/blog/posts/17356.aspx) More blogs about rob zelt. - My thoughts, my ideas, my opinions www.robzelt.com.
09:10:38 February 3, 2006, Friday (PST)
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Potential Brain error Message
With all of the new things we are bombarded with and must learn, do you ever get the felling your brain would love to pop this error message? Actually, kidding aside, I love the excitement from the level of change in technology today. It doesn't matter if you're talking about developing software or buying a cell phone, things are changing fast. While it's a battle at time to keep up, it's a reality of today. As DonXML recently stated in his Developer Career Tips -2006 post, "Complacency is a career killer". He's absolutely right. A job requirement of today is simply keeping up with the pace of change, and understanding the impacts of where things are going. As developers, it's a fine line between trying to implement everything new vs. understanding how changes effect our future directions and design decisions today. More blogs about rob zelt. - My thoughts, my ideas, my opinions www.robzelt.com.
07:34:58 January 31, 2006, Tuesday (PST)
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Let's Keep Up Now...
Ok .Net developers, just to make sure nobody falls behind, here are the new releases I downloaded today and need to take a look at: Windows Mobile 5.0 Developer Resource Kit (1.5) http://msdn.microsoft.com/mobility/windowsmobile/howto/resourcekit/default.aspx WinFX January CTP (Includes WCF and WWF GoLive License) http://blogs.msdn.com/tims/archive/2006/01/18/514356.aspx Enterprise Library for .Net Framework 2.0 (Release) http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/?url=/library/en-us/dnpag2/html/EntLib2.asp More blogs about rob zelt. - My thoughts, my ideas, my opinions www.robzelt.com.
12:14:49 January 22, 2006, Sunday (PST)
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Naked Conversations in North Carolina
Today before spending some quality time at the local cafe, I spotted [and purchased] Robert Scoble and Shel Israel's new book Naked Conversations on the shelf at the local Barnes and Noble. With North Carolina being such a blogger hot spot, I would have assumed these would be displayed more prominently than on the bottom shelf. I thought about setting some out on the "New Items" table myself, but wasn't sure how that would go over. If they haven't moved by my next visit I will relocate a few of them. More blogs about rob zelt. - My thoughts, my ideas, my opinions www.robzelt.com.
17:12:12 January 21, 2006, Saturday (PST)
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Fun with Encarta Instant Answers
If you haven't tried this yet, add email@example.com as a contact in MSN Messenger. It allows you to ask it questions and provides answers. Very sci-fi like... Anyways, ask it "Where is Pluto?", read the stats it returns and then check out the map it displays. (No, I can't jsut post it here, you have to go look!)
20:43:03 January 17, 2006, Tuesday (PST)
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Raleigh MSDN Event March 2, 2006
Despite Glen Gordon and the MSDN team continuing to pack the house, I always hear from people that somehow missed hearing about the events so I decided to make this post early. If you are in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill area of North Carolina and are interested in learning more about Visual Studio 2005, .Net 2.0 and other exciting technologies, go signup now before it's too late! At the last event in November a number of people were lined up at the door hoping for an empty seat after the registration was full. Don't let this be you. Go signup now for the March 2, 2006 event at http://www.MSDNEvents.com The schedule for the March event appears to include: Smart Solutions with SmartClients - Session 1: Building Mobile Applications with Visual Studio 2005 - Session 2: Creating Office Solutions with Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office - Session 3: Introduction to the Windows Presentation Framework The gang from TRINUG will be there as well, so please come by and say hello! [Note* ...
20:14:34 January 17, 2006, Tuesday (PST)
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Thursday The 12th
Wednesday the 11th... Thursday the 12th..... yup Friday the 13th. Now, I'm not superstitious, but it's a proven fact that technology does not like Friday the 13th and the days leading up to it. If you're planning a major software update or little change on the server, wait. Please wait! On my way to the TRINUG meeting my power steering started sounding really strange and not working as it shoud. Today I find out that along with a couple of other minor, but can't ignore problems it's gonna be more expensive than a new MacBook Pro to fix. This morning I sit at the local over priced coffee shop watching their computer freak out not accepting any form of plastic payment including their handy new gift cards they've been forced to promote so heavily recently. Any to think, it's only the 12th. Be very careful tomorrow dear friends, very very careful!
06:26:20 January 12, 2006, Thursday (PST)
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Community Launch of Visual Studio and SQL Server
If you missed the MSDN launch in town, or just can't get enough of .Net 2.0 don't miss this event! What? Community Launch of Visual Studio and SQL Server Where? Triange .Net Users Group (www.trinug.org) When? Wednesday January 11, 2006 Details: Speaker: Joe Bennett Developing Windows Applications in Visual Studio 2005 Microsoft has provided some new and improved controls for Windows development with Visual Studio 2005. We will look at some of the most interesting and develop a simple application using them. Once the application is developed, we will see how to make it a smart client for initial deployment and automatic updating. PS - LOTSA FREE STUFF TO BE GIVEN AWAY!
08:46:23 January 9, 2006, Monday (PST)
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Happy New Year Y'all
2006 has started off with a bang! It's definately going to be an exciting year for us in the technology field. So many things that have been building momentum seem to be reaching a critical mass all at once. Pretty soon anything with a battery will be able to be used as a phone, take pictures, connect to the internet, sync with Outlook, record and paly back your favorite TV show, and tell you your exact position on the planet, as well as hopefully some unique feature to diferentiate it from the other products. For those that hate change it's going to be a very unpleasant year. This fact becomes crystal clear when I look at my list of "Things to Look Into". It's going to be a busy year. One example of change was also shown at the PodCasterCon2006 conference hosted this weekend in Chapel Hill. The event was organized by local podcaster/blogger Brian Russel, and he put together an amazing event. With attendees from all over the map, and i mean the big map, not the little state map, ...
07:46:20 January 9, 2006, Monday (PST)
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TabletPC Search Tip - Must See!
An absolute must see on Loren's blog for tablet PC users, a web based search supporting ink input from a tablet pc. Great job Loren! More blogs about rob zelt. - My thoughts, my ideas, my opinions www.robzelt.com.
17:32:08 December 12, 2005, Monday (PST)
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WinFX November CTP
The November CTP of WinfFX has been released on the MSDN Windows Vista Developer Center. This version support (Requires) the RTM of Visual Studio 2005. This release is for XP/2003 only, but allows those of us that jumped to the RTM versions to get back to workign with WinFX. Downloading and Installing the November CTP The following must be installed in the order presented. If you want to execute WinFX applications: WinFX Runtime Components If you want to develop and execute WinFX applications: WinFX Runtime Components [Optional] Visual Studio - You can use either a full version (available in the MSDN Subscribers Download section) or the free Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition. Windows SDK [Optional] Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for WinFX [Optional] Visual Studio 2005 Extensions for Windows Workflow Foundation
07:58:24 November 19, 2005, Saturday (PST)
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VS2005 Beta Uninstall Tool
At last night's Triangle .Net User Group (TRINUG) meeting we were discussing issues when installing the RTM version on systems that previous versions were installed in. It is very important that you completely uninstall any previous beta or CTP versions before installing the release software. The tool that we spoke of is available here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/support/uninstall/default.aspx More blogs about rob zelt. - My thoughts, my ideas, my opinions www.robzelt.com.
08:24:49 November 10, 2005, Thursday (PST)
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Quote of the Day
"No matter what your profession, if you arent busting ass to be prepared and to get better, you are falling behind." - Mark Cuban [From Blog Maverick]
12:02:04 November 6, 2005, Sunday (PST)
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Dead man 'may have fallen from plane'
A man found dead in a car park may have fallen from a plane on its way to Heathrow Airport, police have said.
He was found in a Homebase car park in Richmond, south west London, shortly before 0700BST on Thursday.
The man, who was of Mediterranean or Middle Eastern appearance, suffered severe head injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
Detectives are investigating the possibility that man was a stowaway hiding inside a plane, and fell as the pilot lowered the landing gear.
A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said: "It is only a possibility that the man has fallen from a plane but it is one of a number of lines of inquiry the coroner will be following.
"We are currently liasing with the airport authorities as the scene is on the flight path.
The spokeswoman added: "The death is being treated a suspicious at this early stage."
The dead man, thought to be in his 20s or early 30s, has not yet been identified.
Last year two Cuban stowaways fell to their deaths from a plane near Gatwick.
The teenagers were military cadets who wanted a new life in the US, it was reported.
Alberto Esteban Vazquez, 17, and Michael Fonseca, 16, died after stowing away on board a British Airways flight to London at Christmas.
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Hi at all,
I 've already read some posts in this forum about these tools working toghether but i got an unintended result.
Here is my set up with mentioned tools on the same host :
iptables :
proxychains.conf:Code:iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 80 - j REDIRECT --to-port 666
squid-cache 3.0 as transparent proxy the rest of squid.conf file is unchanged except:Code:http thishost 3128
and except the http_access rules..Code:http_port 3128 transparent
I tried to use sslstrip "piped" to squid transparent proxy(in the same evil host) when doing a MITM attack with ARPSPOOF method in a lan.Code:proxychains sslstrip -l 666
Why squid? well, the next step will be to modify html content on the fly through squid and an icap server.
It doesn't work as i expect.
Squid duplicate every request to the same site to port 80 and the to port 443.
It seems squid try to get the requested http content from a site contacting it to port 80 and then to port 443 as it was in dubt about the nature(http or https) of the traffic it has to manage.
And in fact i got connections only to hosts accepting https connection!Code:[S-chain] -<>- myhost:3128 -<><>- 220.127.116.11:80-<--denied [S-chain] -<>- myhost:3128 -<><>- 188.8.131.52:443-<><>-OK
i.e trying to get google.com..i got encrypetd.google.com
I tested singularly all chain components and they work correctly.
Does proxychains tunnel via ssh the all the traffic catched by sslstrip?
p.s : i made a revert of this chain, i tried to proxify squid..but proxychains detached the squid process immediatly as strace command reports.
Thanks in advance.


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Wednesday, June 3 2009 - 9/11 Consequences
How Important is Cheney's Admission that There was NEVER Any Evidence Linking Iraq and 9/11?
June 2, 2009
Cheney said in an interview on Fox News:
How important is Cheney's admission?
Well, 5 hours after the 9/11 attacks, Donald Rumsfeld said "my interest is to hit Saddam".
He also said "Go massive . . . Sweep it all up. Things related and not."
And at 2:40 p.m. on September 11th, in a memorandum of discussions between top administration officials, several lines below the statement "judge whether good enough [to] hit S.H. [that is, Saddam Hussein] at same time", is the statement "Hard to get a good case." In other words, top officials knew that there wasn't a good case that Hussein was behind 9/11, but they wanted to use the 9/11 attacks as an excuse to justify war with Iraq anyway.
Moreover, "Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the [9/11] attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had any significant collaborative ties with Al Qaeda".
And a Defense Intelligence Terrorism Summary issued in February 2002 by the United States Defense Intelligence Agency cast significant doubt on the possibility of a Saddam Hussein-al-Qaeda conspiracy.
And yet Bush, Cheney and other top administration officials claimed repeatedly for years that Saddam was behind 9/11. See this analysis. Indeed, Bush administration officials apparently swore in a lawsuit that Saddam was behind 9/11.
Moreover, President Bush's March 18, 2003 letter to Congress authorizing the use of force against Iraq, includes the following paragraph:
Therefore, the Bush administration expressly justified the Iraq war to Congress by representing that Iraq planned, authorized, committed, or aided the 9/11 attacks. See this, this, this and this.
And while many people now focus on the false WMD claims, it is important to remember that - at the time - the Saddam-911 link was at least as important in many people's minds as a reason to invade Iraq.
Indeed, given that Cheney and the boys are still pretending that everyone thought that Iraq possessed WMDs, Cheney's admission that there was never any evidence linking Iraq and 9/11 might be even more definitive proof of intentional misrepresentations by Cheney and other high-level members of the Bush administration.
Given that the anthrax attacks were also blamed on Iraq by the Pentagon - but they turned out to be the work of an American scientist - and given that it is now accepted by the 9/11 Commission itself as well as high-level military leaders, intelligence officials and others that the government's version of 9/11 is false, additional questions also arise.
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Two current CIA officers agree
Milton Bearden, a former Central Intelligence Agency Pakistan station chief who served at the agency for three decades, says claims that the Bush administration's so-called enhanced interrogation techniques saved American lives are likely false.
The retired senior CIA officer also says that the former administration's repeated assertions that attacks were foiled through torture are hurting US credibility abroad, endangering alliances and aiding the cause of would-be terrorists.
Bearden, who formerly headed the CIA's Soviet/East European Division and served as station chief in Pakistan, Nigeria and Sudan, was a key figure in the funding and training of the mujahedeen in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation. He retired in 1994 but says he has communicated with contacts who agree they've heard of no evidence to support Bush officials' claims.
If the Bush administration had proof of a plot stopped by enhanced interrogation, they would have produced it, Bearden says. "I cannot imagine that the system would not have leaked such a story," he insists. "It would have been leaked in a New York minute."
Former President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney publicly defended their harsh interrogation approach last month. However, the techniques approved by Bush administration lawyers in 2002 appear to be prohibited by both the Geneva Conventions and the United Nations Convention against Torture, to which the US is a signatory.
Slapstick plots
Bearden is intimately familiar with the countries that some of the most prominent terror suspects have hailed from. He dismisses many of the alleged terror plots which have been made public.
"They dredge up the slapstick plot of the Liberty Seven or the strange Lyman Faris plot which included a blowtorch," Bearden said. "But when asked for something more substantive, the [Bush administration] retreated behind the screen of protecting sources and methods. We are told to trust them."
"When challenged on any aspect of national security," he added, "the standard collection of administration acolytes instantly dredged up the now well known list of interdicted attacks against us."
Vice President Dick Cheney has vigorously defended the interrogation program in recent months. In May, the former VP said the specter of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 caused the Bush administration to respond far more aggressively to avoid any future attacks and claimed that many attacks were thwarted as a result of harsh interrogation tactics.
"Every senior official who has been briefed on these classified matters knows of specific attacks that were in the planning stages and were stopped by the programs we put in place," Cheney insisted.
Alleged damage to national security
Bearden argues that since we already know the methods used -- in some cases including waterboarding -- there should be no reason to hold back on exposing more substantive thwarted plots. He also believes that making claims of a thwarted plot but being unable to lay the "intelligence on the table" is harmful to US national security.
"Ronald Reagan laid his intelligence on the table almost immediately after his retaliatory attack against Tripoli following the Libyan attack of 1986 on the La Belle Disco in Berlin," Bearden said. "Reagan let it be known that we had the Libyan codes and did this before he felt even a twinge of heat from the public or Congress because it was the right thing to do."
Perhaps most significantly, Bearden believes that by making unsubstantiated claims of success in preventing attacks, the Bush administration has actually undermined US alliances with other nations. Bearden and the others he's communicated with have not heard of any significant plots against the United States that were uncovered by the Bush administration's harsh techniques -- and that, he says, weakens US standing in the world.
"I have never been able to understand how any responsible leaders could so vehemently stick to the excuse of protecting sources and methods while that very position accounted for a weakening not only of this nation's alliances, but potentially strengthened our enemies," he said.
Two active CIA officers agree
Two other CIA officers, who have asked to remain anonymous due to their ongoing involvement in covert operations, seconded Bearden's skepticism that any domestic plots of significance were disrupted during the Bush administration.
"Certain officials of the Bush administration would have had no qualms about exposing any of our officers, operational methods and sources of information if it meant scoring political points," said one CIA covert officer, whose focus is the Middle-East, referring to the outing of CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson. "The fact that [the Bush administration officials] continue to use the protection of sources and methods as a reason for why they can produce no evidence of a serious plot is not believable given what they have already made public."
Another current CIA officer who works the Near East agreed that if any plot had actually been disrupted, someone from the Bush administration would certainly have leaked the proof, noting, "Nothing is sacred to them."
Source: http://rawstory.com/08/news/2009/06/02/cia-chief-questions-claims/
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It is a 5 room shared flat, all 3rd year students so lots of studying and no noise. The kitchen and living space is large and comes with the usual electrical stuff. There is a communal area with large TV, pool table, vending machine and also washing and drying room. Very cheap.
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A FORMER waste site has been transformed into a car repair centre.
The centre, in St Clement's Way, West Thurrock, was brought back into use by Thurrock Council's environment team.
Work on the council's vehicles was previously carried out at its Curzon Drive depot in Grays, but the authority needed to expand.
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As Jim Agenbroad pointed out some time ago (and reminded me recently), the
Malay NOON WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE (U+06BD) moves the dots below and inverts
them in the initial and medial forms to avoid ambiguities with THEH (U+062B).
It turns out that these forms are now ambiguous with the initial and medial
forms of another Malay character, YEH WITH THREE DOTS BELOW (U+06D1). There
is not really an ambiguity with the initial and medial forms of PEH (U+067E)
because Malay doesn't use PEH.
Help! Is some special shape change needed? Is it determined by context or
are the two just simply not used together? Are they from different time
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Administrative Rules
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The Austin Community College District ("ACC" or "the College") provides accrued leave for employees to attend to illnesses, injuries, and family needs, as well as to take time off to be away from work.
Administrative Rule
Annual Leave:
1. Full-time administrative, professional-technical, and classified employees with less than five years of continuous employment with the College accrue 10 hours of annual leave per month (15 days a year).
2. Part-time administrative, professional-technical and classified employees accrue a proportionate amount of annual leave.
3. Upon the 5th anniversary of employment with the College, administrative, professional-technical, and classified employees accrue annual leave at the rate of 13.4 hours per month (20 days a year).
4. The maximum number of hours which employees may accrue is 240 hours (30 working days). When an employee has accrued the maximum of 240 hours of annual leave, no additional leave can be accrued.
5. If an employee changes positions from an accrual status to a non-accrual status, the amount of annual leave accrued will be frozen until the employee returns to a status which accrues leave or separates from the College.
6. Upon separation from the College, a non-faculty employee is eligible to receive payment for all accrued annual leave. In the event of the death of an employee, payment for all unused annual leave will be made to the beneficiaries or the estate of the employee upon receipt of the appropriate documents.
7. All annual leave must be approved in advance by the supervisor.
Sick Leave:
1. Staffing table employees may accrue a maximum of 1200 hours of sick leave. Full-time staffing table employees accrue 8 hours of sick leave per month. Part-time staffing table employees accrue hours proportional to their hours of employment.
2. Employees may use accrued sick leave for personal illness, illness in the immediate family (spouse, child, parent, or sibling) or illness of an individual permanently residing in the employee's home.
3. Employees are not eligible to use sick leave while in a leave without pay status or if using other incidental leave. Abuse of sick leave shall constitute grounds for disciplinary action, up to and including possible dismissal. Employees must contact their immediate supervisor no later than one hour after the scheduled start time or as soon as reasonably possible to request sick leave.
4. If the illness requires the use of sick leave for more than three (3) consecutive working days, the employee must file FMLA paperwork to secure the employee's position. FMLA paperwork must be filed if the illness is for the employee, spouse, child or parent. To return to work, the employee must submit a supporting physician's statement that the employee is fit for duty.
5. Only sick leave accrued while employed with the College shall apply.
6. If an employee becomes ill during the day while at work and is sent home by the supervisor, the employee will use the employee's available sick leave and be paid for the full work day.
7. Upon separation from the College, employees will be paid at 50% for any sick leave hours accrued over 960 hours. Payment for unused sick leave will be calculated at the employee's current rate of pay.
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I do have an iPhone 3Gs with IOS 4.2.1.
I have jailbreaked my iPhone.
Now I'm using the Android lockscreen battery
This one turns from Green - Orange to Red.
Now I'm looking for the same with the Sea Shepherd logo. I mean the Jolly Roger logo:
If I'm charging my iPhone, this logo apears in green, orange and/or red.
Who can make this for me? Or where do I need to be, for asking this question.
I'm sorry I don't understand anything from ssh or changing the files in my iPhone. So I prefer something I can download from example Cydia and install.
Who can help me?!


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By TOMMY BRYAN, sports editor
Last Friday's firing of Blue Devil baseball coach Tracy Slone brings to five the number of Lebanon High head coaches dismissed by principal Myra Sloan since taking her job a year ago.
Tracy Slone's seventh and final season as head coach of the LHS baseball program ended with a record of 13-21 -- including victories over TSSAA Sectional qualifiers Mt. Juliet, Beech and Dickson County.
"Coach Slone came to Lebanon High School as our baseball coach after Coach (Barry) Messer left in 2004," Principal Sloan said. "I have known Tracy since he first moved to Lebanon and also when he taught at LHS as a Special Education and Physical Education teacher. I appreciate his dedication to LHS and the passion for the game itself and for the young men that have played under his direction."
"At some point, I'll have something to say about this," Coach Slone said, "but not right now."
Team parents and players attempted to meet with Principal Sloan Tuesday in support of Coach Slone, but that visit was delayed, then postponed when the gathering swelled to over 20. It is believed a spokesman for that group will have a face-to-face meeting with Director of Schools Mike Davis in the next several days.
LHS knocked off Hendersonville in the first round of the District 9AAA tournament, then lost to Gallatin 3-0 and eventual state qualifier Mt. Juliet 5-1 to close the 2011 season.
Slone's 2009 Lebanon team went 23-13 and reached the Regional Tournament for the first time in over a decade -- losing to Coffee County in the semi-finals.
Slone is a native of Indiana and a graduate of Cumberland University where he pitched on the Bulldogs' first World Series team in 1988. He played two seasons of minor league baseball in the New York Yankees and Oakland A's organizations.
Prior to coaching at LHS he was the head coach at Lincoln County High School and at Lakeland High in LaGrange, Ind. During his prep coaching career, Sloan has seen 80 of his former players go on to play at the college level and three more sign pro contracts.
Slone now joins the ranks of football coach Bobby Brown, boy's basketball coach Doug Keil, track coach David Glasscock and wrestling coach Darren Plumlee as having been dismissed under Principal Sloan's tenure.
Brown has secured a position with the Lebanon Special Schools District as assistant principal at Baird Middle School. Within days of his firing, Keil was hired as assistant basketball coach and math teacher at Mt. Juliet High.
Glasscock has been named an assistant principal at Carroll-Oakland Elementary while Plumlee will teach and coach at Baird Middle School this fall.
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In magic, the joy of discovery, the anguish of practice, the satisfaction of mastery and the thrill of performance are all undertaken for a single moment. It staggers the mind to think of all the hours of practice that go into a brief, flashing moment in time, where you show your spectator something completely inexplicable, something that tweaks their belief systems and gets them thinking there is much more to be discovered.
That moment is "the reaction." And, BOY, do magicians crave it.
Most of the magicians I know do it all for that one purpose. You know the reaction: It's what you saw on the faces of the spectators in David Blaine's specials. It's what you see in trailers for new magic products. It's what you see when you perform and blow someone's mind. It's almost intoxicating, the rush a magician gets from that. There's nothing like the feeling of knowing you brought genuine amazement into a person's life.
The reaction is the holy grail of most magicians. Whether they play for a crowd of thousands in a theater or do card tricks in the local coffee shop, they crave that reaction. Whether they get paid thousands for a single performance, they work for tips or even if they don't make a dime, magicians want their spectators to see something differently.
Most who enjoy magic enjoy being dumbfounded. Perhaps you've heard of the legendary Magic Castle, the historic establishment where some of the world's finest close-up magicians stun spectators regularly. The high-end clientele is not filled with rubes and dummies. These are smart, savvy people who simply enjoy seeing the impossible. They may know exactly how a certain trick is done, but they appreciate the performance put behind that moment of amazement.
Most of you know about the reason I started Ellusionist.com. It was after I met my nephew for the first time, when he was four. After doing some tricks for him, he was completely awed -- he thought it was the coolest thing in the world. But, here's the thing: There isn't much difference between kids and adults when it comes to amazement. The only difference is the amount of work you have to do to overcome the life experiences of adults. But once you get past that, you have a genuine way of making a grown adult feel exactly like a kid again, back when the world was filled with possiblility, mystery and imagination.
That's why it's dangerous to think of sleight of hand as a way of "fooling" your audience. Sure, a magic trick is arguably the very definition of fooling someone. But if a secret move or two and some misdirection lead someone to experience a single second of beautiful bewilderment, isn't that what matters? Isn't that a great gift you can give a fellow human being?
The world is filled with stressful realities right now. Politicians are yelling at each other, the economy is causing problems for people who are losing their jobs or not making ends meet and some areas of the world are locked in violent struggles where it's unsafe to walk down the street in broad daylight. A truly magic moment takes all the bad stuff away and shines a ray of hope and life in their eyes.
Which leads back to you: Why are you learning magic? Why do you practice a double lift for hours upon end? What do you want your spectators to feel when you perform? Hopefully, you feel the need to give those wonderful reactions to people.
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We strive to prevent illness whenever possible. The time and effort invested in Wellness programs has rewards for both pets and owners. Our Wellness programs are designed specifically for your pet and include: Comprehensive physical exam; internal parasite testing; heartworm and flea control; vaccination program; spay and neuter package; and specialized blood tests for all life stages.
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We cover all areas of internal medicine, including: Cardiology; Ophthalmology; Neurology; Dermatology; Gastroenterology; Orthopedic surgery; Oncology; Endocrinology; among others.
We offer the most advanced surgical techniques and technology. All patients are carefully screened for safety, and anesthetics are specifically tailored to your pet. Surgical services and facilities include: board certified surgeon available for consultation; fully trained veterinary and technical staff, to ensure the safest, most efficient, state-of-the-art procedures for your pet; heated surgery tables for greater comfort; advanced sterilization techniques; ECG and oxygen saturation monitors; intensive after surgery care and full blood testing.
Radiology – or X-rays – help our veterinarians evaluate muscular-skeletal, cardiovascular(cardiopulmonary), gastrointestinal, reproductive and urinary systems.
Dental Care
Regular professional cleaning is important to maintaining your pet's teeth. We use modern and safe ultrasound to clean each tooth thoroughly - above and below the gum line. Dental technicians polish teeth to create a smooth, lustrous tooth surface more resistant to plaque buildup. Fluoride treatments help strengthen enamel and reduce tooth sensitivity. Advanced dental care is available, including root canals, caps and braces.
Pain Management
Veterinary patients feel pain and discomfort under the same circumstances as people do. We know that recognizing and alleviating pain in animals is the essence of good patient care.
This non-invasive, state-of-the-art technology uses sound waves to painlessly examine specific internal organs, primarily the heart and abdominal organs. Pregnancy exams are also available.
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We stock a wide range of the best veterinary drugs in the animal healthcare field.
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Saying goodbye to a long-time friend is painful. We work with clients to ensure their pet's comfort and dignity. Services include taking care of the remains as directed by the client.
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In any emergency, seconds count. Our experienced staff is backed up by our mobile resuscitation unit, stocked and equipped to administer the ABCs of basic life support – Airway, Breathing, Circulation/Cardiac compressions. Emergency care is offered during regular business hours. In addition, we use the services of a local, fully staffed emergency center.
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January 17, 2008
The North Atalantic Treaty Organization (NATO), linchpin of America's and Europe's postwar security, is in serious trouble. Key members won't pull their weight, leading to a weaker coalition that might soon break apart, says Investor's Business Daily (IBD). This is no speculation. It's the conclusion of Defense Secretary Robert Gates.
Speaking of Afghanistan, where NATO has directed operations against the Taliban since 2005, Gates faulted NATO troops for their poor training and said he's "worried we have some military forces that don't know how to do counterinsurgency operations."
This isn't the first criticism, and it isn't likely to be the last, says IBD:
- Our European allies have repeatedly refused requests for more troops, even as the Taliban's attacks have intensified.
- In many cases, the European countries have failed to meet commitments to send helicopters and other badly needed gear.
In Europe, a fashionable pacifism holds sway. What remains of a warrior culture is long gone. Why bother when the United States will step in and do the fighting for you?
This attitude is manifested in budget priorities. Instead of spending on defense, Europeans have constructed an extensive welfare state that is now a dead weight on their economies, making increased military spending problematic at best.
A look at defense spending in 2005, the most recent full year for which data are available, is illustrative, says IBD:
- That year, U.S. defense spending of $420.7 billion was greater than the next 15 largest countries combined.
- The United States is but one of 26 countries in NATO, yet makes up the bulk of its troop and equipment commitments.
Source: Editorial, "Out With Old, In With A New NATO," Investor's Business Daily, January 16, 2008.
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WASHINGTON (Aug. 28)
Four democratic Senators joined today in a statement saying that they would-seek complete restoration of all cuts in the eight and one-half billion dollar Mutual Aid Bill. This would include the allocations for Israel and the Near East which were reduced last week by the Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Service Committees as a part of a 30 percent across-the -Loard reduction.
An amendment authorizing the full amount requested will be sponsored by the Senators. They include Senators Theodore F. Green, of Rhode Island, John Sparkman, of Alabama, Brien McMahon, of Connecticut, and J. William Fulbright, of Arkansas. They pointed out that advocates of the appropriation of the full amount included President Truman, Secretary Acheson, Secretary Marshall, and General Bradley.


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Tuesday, 29 September 2009
New Motorcycle Land Speed Record 367.382mph
BUB 7 is now the fastest motorcycle on the planet * Chris Carr set a new FIM world record & AMA national record at 367.382 mph thru the mile with an exit speed of 372.534 mph at the Cook Private Meet at the Bonneville Salt Flats Utah.
Monday, 28 September 2009
c90 for sale
well as this was going to be made into a trailer for the diesel bike that i have sold it needs to go too...
no tax, no test, non runner, no v5 ... get the picture? no NOTHING - i was going to use the back half as a trailer chassis for a bike so didnt need anything
all i want is £50 and come and take it away
email me email@example.com
Saturday, 26 September 2009
Thursday, 24 September 2009
Panther Pulling
Tom sent me over a great pic of a panther outfit last night from an old AWOL magazine - too cool. Great pulling power have these little 600cc slopers.
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
Pegasus Sprint Panther
absolutely nutty sprint panther from years back. anyone has any info on it id be eternally greatfull
Sunday, 20 September 2009
Out in the Daylight
yet more hours on the trikebox. but its done now, just needs wiring up and the box is finished!!! HAZZAAHH
then onto brakes odds and sods etc. im getting there. nice to ge it on the ground at last and see it in the sun
Just got this pic sent through from the NCC Kent do. very cool panther belonging to PantherShaun, cool guy, cool bike sporting a vintagechop sticker. yep - he's another bafoon that is planning a panther trike - if its as good looking as bobcat then it'll be a good un
Friday, 18 September 2009
Tinker & Tipple
just got this pic sent over from ray - pretty much sums up the run for me [and bikes in general for that matter] - tinkering with bikes and deciding which scrumpy to start the afternoon off with... happy days
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
Ogri Return?
Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Gypsy Run Ride
Right heres the lowdown how i ended up riding a henderson excelsior motorcycle on they gypsy run.
met a guy in a bar, didnt even know his name [im bad like that] and within a few hours he was telling me that i could take his bike tomorrow... the bike i was riding ended being a bit of a pool bike with there being a couple of breakdowns so we were sharing shifts in it.
so i get up in the morning feeling a little woolly after a night on the shandy, go for some breakfast and one of my friends comes wadering up with me, hands me a key and says that im riding the "ugly bike in the corner" today. i was floored it wasnt just pub talk but nope. the guy had sent his keys and i was riding 2 wheels today not the chase truck.
SIR - you are a true ruler, i thank you
whats more he had a funky little video camera on it - heres about half an hour he did from the bike when i was riding it
Sunday, 13 September 2009
Tipple Run Rundown
Thanks again everybody that turned up. Ill put a bit more of something together when ive recovered but in the mean time
I'm putting together an album of pics - if you were there and took some pics send them over to me (vintagechop @ gmail . com) and I'll add them to the set [link is on the tipple run sub-site to the right]
perfect riding and great weather. what more can you ask for in life
Tuesday, 8 September 2009
tipple run starts tomorrow night [well the pre-night camping and booze fest does anyhows]. let the good times roll
Thursday, 3 September 2009
Yet More Goodness
Im bringing in Baxter Grips too, they should be in the store in a couple of weeks
Ride the Lightning! and hang on for dear life. A motocross inspired design made from a soft yet durable rubber compound. They Fit 1" bars and the throttle grip has a larger internal diameter to fit a stock sleeve.
Tuesday, 1 September 2009
Back From the Gypsy Run
Back from the Gypsy Run. Any orders made while i was away will go out tomorrow [2nd sept]
I'll dig out some photos of the run when i recover a little, right now im going to bed to recover a little.
Keep your eyes open for the news from the run - its was a blast
I'll dig out some photos of the run when i recover a little, right now im going to bed to recover a little.
Keep your eyes open for the news from the run - its was a blast
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Obesity and high blood pressure lead to faster mental decline in the over-50s, researchers warn.
A study shows that being fat and having other risk factors for heart disease and diabetes accelerates the loss of memory and other cognitive skills.
Over the course of a decade, obese participants' brains aged 3.8 years more than those of a healthy weight.
Obesity and high blood pressure 'speed up mental decline' for those aged over 50
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Pen, Pencil Or Sloth? Now You Can Draw With All Of 'Em
Regular writing utensils are so boring. That's why we're super into this new app that let's you draw with sloths. Yes, that's right, sloths. The Sloths.AreRad.com gives you the sloth option (the app's eraser is a moonraser, of course). I've drawn a note for Amelia in sloth, because she hates them and they make her uncomfortable. [Ick. — Editor] [Sloths.Arerad.com]


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MIDTOWN CORNERS SOLD TO INVESTOR; Store Syndicate Buys Sixth Av. and Broadway properties From Walter J. Salmon. FLANDERS HOTEL LEASED West 47th St. Hostelry, With Annex, Taken for Ten Years -- Other Deals in Manhattan.
One of the largest of sales in the midtown section of Manhattan was closed yesterday when the Retail Department Stores of America, Inc., of which M.J. Whitman is president, purchased from Walter J. Salmon the northwest corner of Forty-second Street and Sixth Avenue and the southwest corner of Forty-ninth Street annd Broadway.
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Have a Tax Question? Ask a Tax Expert
Hello and thanks for trusting me to help you today. I am a tax adviser with over 15 years of experience.You should send another payment for the remaining amount with a short letter explaining what happened. You should make it clear that you wish the payment to be counted for the quarter that the original payment was sent.
sounds good. That's what I had started to do, but wanted confirmation from someone who regularly deals with the IRS.
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Haifa Wahbi sought after for a new duet
Lebanese singer Nidal Sultan is waiting for the final decision to be made by Lebanese singer Haifa Wahbi over a new duet he wishes to sing with her. Nidal has chosen Haifa especially to sing with him the song "Al Gharam" (Love), written by Al Hamid Al Habbak and composed by Ehab Abdul Wahid.
According to the London based Elaph, Haifa had given her initial acceptance to sing a duet with Nidal, but stressed she wished to listen carefully to the words of the song and its composition during her upcoming visit to Cairo.
It has been revealed that Haifa is Nidal's second choice, where as Lebanese singer Mariam Faris was first chosen to sing the duet but due to her preoccupation with other matters she turned down the proposition.
Wahbi had recently traveled to the United States of America, where held four concerts in different states. This trip marks the first time in her career that Haifa holds performances in the US and the tour took her to Boston, Las Vegas, and San Francisco.
Upon her return, Haifa resumed preparations for the release of her second album, which she has already filmed one song from in the form of a video clip. Wahbi had repeatedly announced in different interviews that she does not consider herself to be a singer but rather a performer who sings what suits her voice. Haifa's comments made people wonder why she would say such statements especially after achieving a large popularity in such a short time into her singing career. –Albawaba.com
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Afro-Pessimism and African
By Wafula Okumo
The Perspective
April 5, 2001
It is most likely that when one reads a story in the foreign media or eavesdrops on foreigners talking about Africa it will be a rueful tale of doom and gloom. Sometimes, as an African living in a foreign land it is hard to hold my head and keep my chin up for fear of being identified and called on to answer for the ills wrought on Africa by people who have no relations to me. There were a number of times when I received sorrowful looks that seemed to be reminding me how lucky I am to be away from Africa. I can vividly recall the number of occasions when I was literally told to shut up when commenting on issues relating to Africa. Of course those who attempted to muzzle my freedom of speech are the same ones who are partly responsible for Africa's plight.
Since the 1980s we have been witnessing the spiraling of Afro-pessimism and melancholic conclusions that nothing good will ever come out of Africa. In 1983, futurist author Paul Kennedy prophesied that Africa's future was "extraordinarily gloomy." Such pessimistic pronouncements of Africa's future were reinforced by western journalists such as David Lamb (in The Africans), Peter Marnham (in Dispatches From Africa), Blaine Harden (in Africa - Dispatches from a Fragile Continent), and Keith Richburg (in Out of America), who brazenly painted Africa in dreary terms: unbridled corruption, state brutality, severe underdevelopment and general desolation. Robert D. Kaplan, who wrote a widely-read essay entitled "The Coming Anarchy" in Atlantic Monthly magazine) did not mince words and declared Africa to be "at the edge of the abyss." While some of these western observers of Africa have written off Africa as a hopeless case, some, such as Blaine Harden, are optimistic that African can be saved under a special program such as a Marshall Plan.
Not to be left out of this apocalyptic clairvoyance, The New Republic on June 16, 1997, devoted the issue to the theme of "Africa is Dying." In its editorial it argued that what is happening in Africa "is nothing less than Africa's exit from international society." All major western newsmagazines have carried out special issues over the years echoing similar views. The most recent, and controversial, western newsmagazine (in the Economist of July 2000) story that virtually wrote Africa off and exasperated the feeling of many Africans was for a while a reference article in major international forums.
Africans have also become Afro-pessimists. Among them is Michael Chege, an African scholar at the Center for African Studies of University of Florida, who has predicted that Africa is the only region in the world where poverty and political violence are likely to increase in the opening years of this Century. He has been joined by other African scholars such as Jean-Francois Bayart (author of Criminalisation of the State in Africa) and Patrick Chabal (author of Africa Works: Disorders as Politician Instrument), who have alluded to the dysfunctional nature of the Africa state and society.
Why is Afro-pessimism so pervasive and on the increase worldwide?
Although I recognize the role the foreigners, particularly Europeans and Americans have played in making Africa one of the poorest places on earth, I fully hold the African leaders accountable. It is tempting, but facile, to generalize that Africa's problems are self-inflicted by vaulting political ambitions of its leaders. However, it is hard not to see Africa's pathetic leadership in the wider context as a reflection of Africa's persistent failure to throw up progressive leaders, not merely colorful visionaries seeking to rewrite history with themselves as central players.
The Banyankole of Uganda have a saying that: if a home has no head, it will have visitors in every corner 24 hours a day. The international attention given to Africa by altruistic non-governmental organizations, mischievous media, and weary governments has blurred the fact that Africa is likely to remain in this chaotic state for a very long time even if outsiders increase their attention. Potential and present leaders have become addicted to being showered or supported by handouts from the US, Western Europe and international financial institutions. The best-qualified people in Africa cannot run and take over power without outside support. Unless they were part of the system that they are trying to get rid after falling out with loaded bank accounts stuffed with money pilfered from the state, those challenging governments such as Moi's, Mugabe's and Biya's must have foreign backers to seriously contend for power.
Despite the existence of mountains of information that their countries are on the precipice of doom African leaders have dithered, waffled and procrastinated and played survival politics. Many of them, with political rhetoric and hyperbole at their hearts, have not only failed to take decisive measures to address these problems but have instead engaged in double-speak and blame games. In African countries, the presidency is the heart and the engine of the state and in most instances the bane of the nation. Whoever is the head of state finds it his manifest destiny to indulge in African leaders' favorite pastime, namely cronyism, nepotism and outright plunder of national resources through the distribution of the national carcass. The national carcass is political lordship, monopoly of state violence and its application, or material and financial benefits. It is because of this that African leaders have been variously and aptly referred to as "Eating Chiefs." An African president is someone with extreme political power but essentially an Autocrat, a Tsar, a Kaiser, a Big Parochial Boss.
Instead of serving their people, African leaders have looted and plundered state coffers with impunity and in utter disregard and contempt of the peoples' needs. African leaders have yet to understand that they have a moral, political and economic responsibility to serve their people in a more ethical, accountable and transparent manner. Instead, most of them use xenophobic policies which, coupled with the country's economic decline have worsened ethnic tensions. With boundless energies, African leaders are known to excel in oppressing their people when they are not lavishly and conspicuously spending. The best example of such a leader is the late Nigerian strongman, Sani Abacha. Abacha not only spent his time amassing billions of dollars that not even five generations of his family would be able to spend in their lifetimes, but also threw in a murder or two on the side as he kept count of the loot. It is rumored that Abacha died while having fun with a trio of cocottes.
Africa is replete with "white elephants," prestigious projects with no economic utility, build by narcissistic leaders. Ivory Coast is a typical place to observe how grandiosity and spending lavish amounts of public money on leaders' villages can border on the absurdity. Henri Konan Bédié who succeeded Félix Houphouët-Boigny in 1993 might be criticized for steering one of the most prosperous and stable African countries into a complex political emergency but his villagers will always remember him as a great son. Like Houphouët-Boigny who turned his birthplace Yamoussoukro into the country's capital and Mobutu who turned his village of Gbadolite into modern city, Bédié made sure that Daoukro, a remote town with a population of only 14,000, had the best roads in the country. Driving in or out of Daoukro one might think he or she has happened upon an American suburb. Its roads are free of potholes, have visible dividing lines, shoulders meticulously marked off and signs warning of schoolchildren crossing, setting speed limits, naming each little village at least three times. Among other hugely expensive public works projects he constructed were a new hotel and a nightclub. The new Hôtel de la Paix, with three separate bungalows for private presidential meetings, now looks like a ghost building. This and many other lavish projects have started deteriorating as those in Yamoussoukro.
It seems as if Bédié was trying to outdo Houphouët-Boigny who had turned forest, cocoa and coconut plantations into a modern city with a six-lane boulevard, luxury hotels, and a presidential palace surrounded by artificial lagoons alive with crocodiles. However, Houphouët-Boigny left in Yamoussoukro what no other leader in Africa can match. He built the world's largest church--the Notre Dame de la Paix basilica-that is even bigger than St. Peter's in Rome. The basilica, built at an estimated cost of more than $300 million, has hand-blown French stained glass in 4,000 different tints and tons of marble shipped from Italy to cover a 7.4-acre esplanade. Each of the 7,000 seats in the basilica has an individual air-conditioning duct. The basilica, whose compound is untended, now has cracks in the marble esplanade and a few hundred worshippers.
Most African leaders are openly clumsy. Take for instance Henri Konan Bédié who enthusiastically presided over a corrupt government, manipulated elections, and changed the laws to exclude his main rival, Alassane D. Quattara, a Prime Minister under Houphouët-Boigny. Quattara was disqualified by Bédié on the grounds that one of his parents had come from Burkina Faso. Surprisingly, Bédié's quest to exclude Quattara from running against him led to his overthrow by Gen. Robert Guei, who first swore not to run for the presidency but changed his mind and used Bédié's tricks book to stay in power. He was forced out of power but iniquitously the new leader is also relying on Bédié's tricks book to run the country down.
Other contemporary African leaders who deserve a place on the list of the clumsy are: Mugabe, Chiluba, and Moi. Mugabe, in a fight with nature, is trying to transmogrify himself to match his young wife and to justify his continued stay in power by significantly reducing his age. Chiluba, miffed over the years by Kaunda's dismissal of his challenge by reference to his diminutive stature turned the tables on Kaunda by changing the Constitution to bar him from running for the presidency on the grounds that his parents were originally from Malawi. This clause was inserted in the constitution notwithstanding the fact that man had ruled Zambia for 27 solid years. Moi, on his part has gained infamy in western capitals for his awkward ways of demanding handouts whenever visiting there or when foreign dignitaries pay courtesy calls on him.
If there is one place where the travails bedeviling Africa can be found it is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or former Zaire. Congo, a land that is rich in diamonds, gold, copper and cobalt, is now impoverished by years of misrule and widespread corruption. Besides its world class musicians the Congo has also produced one of the world's best known ignominious leaders, Field Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko. After more than three decades of misrule and plunder of his country the dictator Mobutu Sese Seko was ousted from power in May 1997 following a Uganda- and Rwanda-sponsored rebellion led by Laurent Desire Kabila. Although initially hailed by the world community as the avenging angel who liberated his people from the clutches of a kleptocracy presided over by Mobutu Sese Seko, he quickly alienated himself when he invited close friends and relatives into the government. He also angered investors, obstructed a United Nations investigation of reports that his rebel army had slaughtered thousands of Hutu refugees, and consistently violated the Lusaka peace accords aimed at ending the war in the DRC.
He sequestered himself in a hilltop residence near downtown Kinshasa, known as the Marble Palace, which was always heavily guarded by soldiers and a North Korean-made tank. At the time of his assassination Kabila had become the only one in his class. Few leaders anywhere have as many enemies and are as mistrusted by their allies as was Kabila. The Congolese are still in mourning their "liberator" while his son, Joseph, has now been installed as their new president. Joseph Kabila has not had a honeymoon as he has to continue the contest from where his slain father left off for control of Africa's third largest country with other power-hungry contenders.
But are these hackneyed power-hungry rebels seeking to succeed Laurent Kabila and Mobutu better alternatives? A look at these rebel leaders reveals what is wrong with African leadership and why Africa will be doomed for a long time if political power continue to attract such characters. The saddest part of this story is that the names of the players in the DRC could easily be substituted with those in Sudan, Sierra Leone, or Angola and the story will read the same.
The epitome of Congo's corrupted power is Major Jean-Pierre Ondekane, the man referred to and treated as "Vice President" by the Emile Ilunga/Bizima Karaha group that was seeking to wrestle power from Laurent Kabila in the DRC. This is a man who, in his Kisangani residence and tactical command post, wakes up at 10am to a sumptuous breakfast served by smiling light-skinned Congo beauties. After feasting on both the food and the beauty of his servants he takes a bath and while dressing has a dozen men fighting to tie his shoelaces as he watches recorded videos showing the atrocities committed by his men in the field. Over 50 soldiers carrying rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns guard his house whose entrance is decorated with drums of fuel and compound is dotted by sleek new Nissan Patrols (Pathfinders).
While this is the way Jean-Pierre Ondekane puts on his show that gives a glimpse of how he will run the country he is destroying, other African rebel leaders, including the rag-tag and aimless fellows like Johnny Paul Koroma and General "Mosquito" of Sierra Leone and Joseph Kony leader of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army, apply sadistic means such as chopping off people's heads or other body parts. None of these notorious rebel leaders hides the fact that theirs is not a struggle against dictatorship and for justice but for wealth and ego.
Ondekane's rivals in the Congo are equally less impressive. The one time highly regarded Professor Ernest Wamba dia Wamba is a sad display of the toll the Congo conflict has taken on the country. The man who used to be an energetic, articulate and dashing figure now looks spiritless and aged despite the clumsy dyeing of his gray hair. To see him one has to visit his residence at Stotesxi and contact a horde of aides who take ages to decide whom Wamba should meet. Watching them at work is a classic show of the highest state of disorganization. If one is lucky to meet "the future president of the Congo" it will immediately become apparent that here is a man who is detached from what he is doing. The professor speaks in a faltering, inaudible voice and takes about one thousand words to explain a point when all he needs are ten words.
Then there is Jean-Pierre Bemba, the Movement for the Liberation of the Congo (MLC) leader, who has been rated as the best organized of all those seeking to oust (Laurent) Kabila from power. Bemba is essentially a rich boy fascinated with the idea of being hailed as leading a group with the best chance of taking power from Kabila. He will stop whatever he is doing to meet a journalist, take the wheels of a fancy off-roader typical of Colombian drug lords and give a tour of his accomplishment and proof of how he is adored by his people. Whenever he arrives at any of the small airports that dot Eastern Congo he demands parades to be mounted for his inspections.
Bemba's show is typical of Congo's leadership that includes the likes of Emile Ilunga, Willy Mishiki, and Moise Nyarugabo. They all are engaged in a game of hoodwinking the international community into believing their versions of the Congo problem by using satellite telephones with which they declare "territories captured" and organizational structures "built." What this simply means is that they have captured a territory turned it into a fiefdom, are levying taxes and run dungeons they call prisons. No wonder many Congolese are now nostalgic of Mobutu's kleptomaniac rule that they point out did not kill but just robbed them.
Talking or listening to Congolese rebel leaders one will hear them outline grandiose military and political plans of taking over the reigns of power from the video-watching, sex-addicted, seven-meal-a-day Laurent Kabila, who, before he was assassinated, held only one-third of the country. One wonders how the characters, intelligence, capacities and lifestyles displayed by the Congolese leaders are the characteristics the Congolese should expect of the new leadership that is needed to rebuilt their severely traumatized and underdeveloped nation.
It is saddening to note that the DRC's neighbors have taken advantage of its chaos to siphon its wealth. By claiming patronage of the rebels, Uganda and Rwanda have send in their troops as has Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia that are supporting Kabila. But it is common knowledge that these foreign troops are now shooting themselves through the DRC in search of its mineral wealth rather than to restore democracy, justice and peace.
While Uganda, Rwanda and Angola are using the pretext of wiping out rebels who have been attacking and killing their people, Zimbabwe's purpose is hard to fathom since it now has a crumbling economy that cannot afford millions of dollars needed to maintain its troops in the DRC. An explanation that has now gained currency is that Mugabe is using the DRC to divert attention of his military from their poor conditions by enabling them to enrich themselves by pillaging the DRC. This sounds not dissimilar to what Taylor is doing in Sierra Leone by acting as a conduit of Foday Sankoh's illicit diamonds.
The Congo is a classic example where the African concept of brotherhood has gone awfully wrong: Africans are enthusiastically enriching themselves at the expense of each other. In view of this shameful reality, one is justified to ask the question: what is the difference between these Africans looting their own people and the European imperialists? The Congolese warlords are almost matching the Belgian brutality in their ferocious search for ill-gotten wealth.
Looking at Africa today one is dumbfounded by the prevalence of leaders who are obsessed with outdoing each other. It is frightening to note how the likes of Moi, Mugabe, (Laurent) Kabila, Bedie and others shamelessly tried to replay what happened in Rwanda, Somalia, Sierra Leone and Liberia. In view of where we have been, where we are and apocalyptic future wished on us Africa needs a savior. Africans need nothing but visionary leaders who can intelligently utilize its rich human and natural resources for the present and future generations. This leadership must also combine pragmatism and sobriety. It is this model leadership that is the subject of the next article on our on-going series on African leadership.


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|Mass scale obtained by multiplying the atomic mass unit (u) (or equivalently the dalton (Da)) by the ratio of the mass of the CH2 group to 14.0000 to simplify the display of peak patterns in hydrocarbon mass spectra.
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Kendrick, Edward (1963). "A mass scale based on CH2 = 14.0000 for high resolution mass spectrometry of organic compounds". Anal. Chem. 35: 2146–2154. Retrieved 2010-01-25.
Marshall AG, Rodgers RP (January 2004). "Petroleomics: the next grand challenge for chemical analysis". Acc. Chem. Res. 37 (1): 53–9. doi:10.1021/ar020177t. PMID 14730994.
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Jake Westbrook has put together
three good games for the first time in awhile, and his efficient, six-inning
stint on Tuesday night raised his record to 9-4 with a 3-1 win over
Westbrook had to pitch from the stretch a lot -- he allowed seven hits, and his only perfect inning was his last one. But the sinkerballer got 12 of his 18 outs on groundouts, indicating that he was down in the strike zone.
In Westbrook's last three starts, he is 2-0 and has given up just five earned runs in 19 innings.
"Location," said manager Tony La Russa. "He's just getting the ball where he's aiming it. And he's not getting it over the middle of the plate."
Westbrook said, "Even if it's over the middle of the plate, a ball down is still good."
The Cardinals' bullpen was mostly
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lately to use either of his left-handed relievers, Trever Miller and Raul Valdes, and Miller didn't generate much confidence Tuesday. He allowed a
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But right-handers Jason Motte, Lance Lynn and Fernando Salas retired nine of the 10 men they faced over the last three innings. Salas posted his 19th save in 22 attempts, getting three strikeouts in the ninth.
The Cardinals hit two homers -- maybe -- for all their runs.
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There was some question -- and a review -- of first baseman Albert Pujols' two-run drive to center in the first. The televised replays indicated that the ball hit either the top of the padded wall or the concrete atop the wall before bouncing back, but the umpires' call stood after they looked at replays in the bowels of Busch Stadium.
La Russa, of course, thought it was a home run. "You don't get a rebound like that unless it hits something behind the fence," said La Russa.
Pujols, whose homer was his 23rd and his sixth in 16 games since he returned from a fractured left wrist, said, "It was tough for me to see. But it bounced 10 feet over (center fielder Bourn's) head, so it had to hit something hard."
LF Matt Holliday was a scratch with a case of the stomach flu. RF Lance Berkman, who was scheduled to take another day to rest his strained right shoulder, replaced Holliday in the lineup but then had to come out of the game in the fourth inning when he did not feel comfortable swinging. Berkman will have an MRI on Wednesday and possibly an injection and isn't expected to play for several days although he said, "I don't think it's anything catastrophic. I don't think it's serious, but it's there. It's affecting me more mentally. I'm not trusting myself to cut (the bat) loose. It's more something I don't want to see exacerbated."
SS Ryan Theriot was out of the lineup, replaced by rookie Daniel Descalso. Theriot is 2 for his last 34. Descalso made several good plays in the field in his sixth start at shortstop and also had two hits.
3B David Freese hit his fifth home run but will get a day off on Wednesday, manager Tony La Russa said, citing hot weather. Freese also has been playing with a tight hamstring, and La Russa said he didn't want to push Freese. "My only regret is that if he might be out 14, 15 days (if La Russa pushed him). No regrets," said La Russa. "We've got other guys who can sock it."
2B Skip Schumaker, who finished up in the outfield when RF Lance Berkman had to leave the game, had two hits and thus is 42 for 121 (.347) since June 4. Schumaker had missed five weeks earlier with a strained right triceps and had gone 5-for-33 upon his return before generating his current eight-week stretch. "We probably rushed him back," manager Tony La Russa said of Schumaker, who had only a couple of days on a rehabilitation option before the club activated him.
RHP Lance Lynn, getting three groundball outs in the eighth inning, continued to impress manager Tony La Russa, "He's got a chance to be a force," said La Russa. "He got a couple of outs on breaking balls. He's not just firing his fastball."
BY THE NUMBERS: 40 and 431 - 1B Albert Pujols tied Cal Ripken Jr. for 40th place on the all-time home run list with his 431st in the first inning.
QUOTE TO NOTE: "He's a .300 hitter. Once he gets it, he strangles it."
- Manager Tony La Russa, on the two-month stretch of hot hitting by 2B/OF Skip Schumaker, who has hiked his average to .288.
RF Lance Berkman (strained right shoulder) was inserted in the lineup July 26 when LF Matt Holliday was a late scratch, but then Berkman had to leave the game in the fourth inning when his injury continued to bother him. He is scheduled for an MRI on Wednesday.
LF Matt Holliday (stomach flu) was a late scratch July 26.
RHP Kyle Lohse (inflamed
middle right finger) left the team July 21 to have an exam in
LHP Brian Tallet (strained right intercostal muscle) went on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to July 4. He was injured while sneezing.
RHP Eduardo Sanchez (mild right shoulder strain) went on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to June 13. He began a rehab assignment with Class AA Springfield on July 7 but had renewed soreness soon after and was shut down until late August or early September.
OF Allen Craig (broken right kneecap) went on the 15-day disabled list retroactive to June 8. He began a rehab assignment with Class AAA Memphis on July 23, and he figures to return after Aug. 1.
RHP Adam Wainwright (Tommy John surgery in February 2011) went on the 60-day disabled list March 25. He will miss the entire 2011 season.
Wed., July 27 vs. ASTROS: Chris Carpenter (6-7, 3.73) vs. Bud Norris (5-7, 3.70) 7:15 p.m.
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