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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) When things weren't clicking at the beginning of the season, Peyton Manning and the Denver Broncos spent most of their time looking at the film and working out the kinks on the practice field - and very little time focusing on the standings.
The work is paying off, and if they bothered to look at those standings Monday, they would've liked what they saw.
After their runaway win over Baltimore and New England's loss to San Francisco, the Broncos are the No. 2 seed in the AFC and only need victories at home over Cleveland and Kansas City, combined record 7-21, to wrap up a first-round bye in the playoffs.
Eight of the 10 AFC teams to make the Super Bowl under the current playoff format have had a first-round bye.
``I always thought if we kept getting better, there was no way we couldn't be one of the top teams,'' Broncos cornerback Champ Bailey said. ``It was just a matter of keeping your nose down, not worrying about your record, keep working and everything will take care of itself.''
During their nine-game winning streak - longest since they won the first 13 games of the 1998 Super Bowl season - the Broncos (11-3) have steadily gotten better.
One of the issues was how they would fare against a winning team, the likes of which they faced only twice over the first eight wins of the streak. The trip to Baltimore, against a struggling Ravens team, but still a team that has qualified for the playoffs with a 9-5 record, was considered their biggest litmus test before the playoffs begin.
They passed it and didn't even need Manning at his very best to do so.
The Broncos quarterback threw for 204 yards, his lowest output of the season.
But the Broncos were so good everywhere else - rushing for 163 yards, creating two turnovers and returning one for a touchdown, milking the clock in the fourth quarter with a 9:59 drive - they didn't need Manning to do much more than hand off.
In fact, Manning handed the ball off 45 times Sunday, the most in his career.
``Our goal is to try to get better every week,'' he said. ``I feel like we probably have in some areas. You're still looking to play that perfect 60-minute game, and that's your goal every week.''
After Week 5, a 31-21 loss at New England that dropped Denver to 2-3, nobody was mistaking Manning or the Broncos for perfect.
Still getting used to his new offense and his new teammates, Manning was struggling. He threw a career-high 26 incompletions in a loss to Houston and had the three first-quarter interceptions in a loss to Atlanta.
There were still questions about his arm strength, and others about whether he would get used to playing at full speed again.
Manning brushed off most of the criticism, bristled at some of it and, mostly, kept believing that more time with his teammates would solve many of the problems.
Since Week 6, when the winning streak began, the Broncos have averaged 386 yards a game (sixth in the NFL) and scored 30.4 points (second), while allowing 291 yards (second) and 17.8 points (third).
``I knew we had a really good team,'' receiver Brandon Stokley said. ``A lot of people on the outside wanted to push the panic button. But for us, it was just about improving every week. We were a relatively young team with the system we put in, and just getting better, knowing that good things could happen if we kept working hard, that's what we've done.''
Even with the victory over the Ravens, the question remains: How will the Broncos fare against the league's elite? Their only three losses came to Atlanta (12-2), Houston (12-2) and New England (10-4) and Denver hasn't faced a team of that caliber since.
The fact that the Broncos would face a possible rematch with the Patriots at home could give the Broncos a supposed advantage in a series in which they've lost their three meetings in the John Fox era by a combined score of 117-54.
Two of those games, including last year's 45-10 playoff loss (with Tim Tebow at quarterback), were in New England.
But ask any of the Broncos about the path to the Super Bowl that is clearer than it was two days, to say nothing of nine games, ago and, well, you mainly get the trademark blank stare and the pat answer.
``Right now, I know we can control our own destiny, but if we don't play our best game against Cleveland this week, that will be all for naught,'' coach John Fox said.
Notes: Fox did not list RB Knowshon Moreno on the injury report, though Moreno could be seen on the sideline during the fourth quarter with trainers looking at his back. ... Fox downplayed a tweet from CB Tracy Porter, who has expressed his dissatisfaction about the lack of playing time after losing his job to Chris Harris. ``He just needs to focus on getting better every day,'' Fox said. ``I saw good improvement last week.'' Porter, who has been cleared to play after dealing with health issues, hasn't played since Oct. 7. ... Fox said KR/PR Trindon Holliday would still be the returner even though he has fumbled four times since signing with the Broncos in October. He has also scored two touchdowns.
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CJTF-HOA service members complete French Desert Commando Course
Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa
Members of CJTF-HOA recently completed the French Desert Commando Course.
Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines of Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa, Camp Lemonnier and tenant units shed blood, sweat and tears during the Joint Warrior Competition here, Sept. 9.
U.S. Army National Guard Soldiers assigned to 3rd Battalion, 144th Infantry Regiment, Task Force Bayonet and French marines assigned to 5th Overseas Interarms Regiment dove into a water-based French Desert Commando Course prequalification assessment.
Alligator Dagger, led by Naval Amphibious Force, Task Force 51/5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade, is a dedicated, bilateral combat rehearsal that combines U.S. and French forces to practice, rehearse and exercise integrated capabilities available to U.S. Central Command both afloat and ashore.
U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 144th Infantry Regiment (3-144th IN) participated in the passing of the colors with Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 153rd Infantry Battalion (1-153rd IN) during a transfer of authority ceremony at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, Nov. 1, 2017.

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By Brent Bellamy, Creative Director and Architect
Referring to Winnipeg as the 'Chicago of the North' is like comparing the city to a famous child actor who, after his television show was cancelled, spent the rest of his life reminiscing about his time in the spotlight.
Focusing on this Chicago comparison not only discredits the diversity of what Winnipeg is today, it dilutes what the city was during the booming, turn-of-the-century rail-town days that inspired its nickname.
Several entrepreneurs of that time looked for inspiration beyond America's Second City. Like buying a Cézanne or Van Gogh to legitimize their art collection, many of the power brokers in Winnipeg turned to the big-name architects of New York City for the design of their buildings. This oftenoverlooked connection produced some of the most familiar and iconic structures in the city and has left a significant legacy on the physical character of Winnipeg to this day.
The most prominent architectural firm in the United States at the end of the 1800s was New York-based McKim Mead and White. It was an influential contributor at the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, at which an ideal prototype city was built with broad avenues lined by fantastical buildings replicating the styles of ancient Greece and Rome. The success of the exposition popularized the colonnades and archways of classical architecture for a brief time across America.
When the Bank of Montreal decided to build at the crossroads of Portage and Main, it reached out to the New York firm, which was designing such iconic structures as Pennsylvania Station, Columbia University, Madison Square Garden and even the interiors of the White House in Washington D.C.
In Winnipeg, they created a Roman temple that exudes the feeling of strength and permanence associated with ancient architecture. Six stoic granite columns weighing 12 tonnes each stand guard over the famous intersection, protecting a cathedral-like banking hall of Italian marble with a ceiling adorned in gold leaf that is today valued at more than $2 million. The Manitoba Free Press called it "One of the most imposing buildings in Canada."
The Bank of Montreal would define the southern end of what had become known as Banker's Row, a series of 20 houses of finance lining Main Street, each trying to be more opulent than the next. At the northern end, the Union Bank would construct a building that is truly one of the great architectural accomplishments in Winnipeg's history. The familiar tower at the bend in Main Street has a long list of superlatives to describe its achievements. It was Canada's first skyscraper, the tallest building in the country with its fastest elevator, the first tower to be more than 10 stories, one of the first to use a modern steel frame structure, its flagpole standing as the highest in the British Commonwealth.
To implement Union Tower's structural complexity, the Fuller Construction company was brought in from New York, where the world's tallest skyscrapers were being built. Fuller would transition its forces to Winnipeg after completing the iconic Flatiron Building in Manhattan, coincidentally designed by the same architect as Winnipeg's Eaton's Catalogue Building (Cityplace). They would introduce for the first time in Canada the modern system of construction using a general contractor, instead of the architect leading the process.
Midway down Banker's Row, today sandwiched between the Woodbine Hotel and the Fox and Fiddle Pub, is the former Royal Bank designed by renowned Manhattan architects Carrère and Hastings, who were also responsible for the central library in New York. One of the most important libraries in the world, this national historic site has featured prominently in many movies, including the first scene of Ghostbusters, where it was haunted by the ghost of librarian Eleanor Twitty.
Winnipeg's Manhattan connections would go well beyond Banker's Row. No building is more synonymous with Winnipeg than the Hudson's Bay department store on Portage Avenue, designed by New York-trained Barott and Blackader, apprentices of McKim Mead and White.
When Canadian Northern and Grand Trunk Railways needed a design for its new terminal at the foot of Broadway, it would hire the finest trainstation designers in the world, turning to Warren and Wetmore in New York, who were simultaneously creating Grand Central Station. A Beaux-Artsstyle stone façade enclosing a majestic, sunlit central hall with a dramatic aqua-coloured ceiling dome, would be distinctive features common to both magnificent buildings.
Towering over Portage and Main since 1969, the Richardson Building has long stood at the centre of Winnipeg's skyline, but it would take 40 years and two New York architects to be completed. In 1929, the Richardson family announced a striking new 17-storey tower for the site, designed by Columbia University-trained Arthur Stoughton. It would be the tallest building west of Toronto and dwarf every other structure in the city by at least 30 metres. Its ornate central tower was to be adorned with a large glowing clock and topped off with a giant rotating spotlight, illuminating the night sky. The design's imposing Art Deco features looked as though they were lifted from the comic book pages of Superman's Metropolis or Batman's Gotham City.
The project was tendered and the contracts signed. Existing buildings on the site were demolished, but after digging a huge hole for the foundations, the Great Depression hit. Work was put on hold 'temporarily,' but a year later the hole was filled and a quaint little cottage-style gas station was built. Looking more at home in a rural town than at a major city's most prominent intersection, it stood at Portage and Main for almost four decades. Stoughton would go on to become the first head of the department of architecture at the University of Manitoba, designing the Buller and Tier buildings on campus and influencing a generation of Winnipeg architects.
When the project was revisited in the late '60s, another New York architect was engaged. The notable firm of Skidmore Owings and Merrill (SOM) would design the current Richardson Building, the tallest tower in Western Canada at its opening. SOM has since become the world's pre-eminent skyscraper designer, its latest work includes New York's Freedom Tower at the World Trade Center site and the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the tallest building in the world.
Many of Winnipeg's most important buildings have New York roots, but these architectural connections are rarely celebrated. With other strong influences coming from Toronto, Montreal and locally, supported by the only school of architecture on the Prairies, the city's built heritage is far more diverse than the 'Chicago of the North' nickname suggests. The legacy of Winnipeg's varied collection of historic buildings casts a long shadow on the present-day city. Their visual weight, colour and texture give Winnipeg a characteristic feel that is like no other city in Canada. The most successful architecture designed since this golden era, and those buildings that will be successful in the future, understand this diverse legacy and are sensitive to the influence it has on the unique physical character of our city.
Brent Bellamy is senior design architect for Number Ten Architectural Group.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition August 25, 2014 B6


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A former Florida State University basketball player and assistant coach at Creekside High School was killed in car crash Friday.
A spokeswoman for St. Johns County schools confirmed that former FSU basketball standout Alicia Gladden was killed in the crash. She said grief counselors will be at Creekside Monday.
Gladden was a dominant player at Florida State and also coached an A-A-U girls basketball team.
Gladden played at Orange Park High School and won M-V-P in her final three years there.
Details about the crash have not been released.


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Peach may love Mario, but as this clip from Robot Chicken shows, her parents are a little less enamoured by the Mushroom Kingdom's saviour.
And who can blame them! They're royalty, he's a plumber. Dude really needs to wear a suit. And do a better job of keeping his drug habit at bay.


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AI War 2 is out now! Get it on Steam today!
- A Fire Upon the Deep sounds like it could be fun, at any rate. I enjoy space opera from time to time for sure, it's just not what I was looking for right now. Having a recommendation for actual GOOD space opera is a nice thing to have, though.
- Uplift isn't something I'm familiar with, I'll have to peer at it.
- Century Rain certainly has you piquing my interest.- Doughnut even more so, already, heh.- Bitter Seeds sounds pretty fascinating.


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But the extra Bear-inspired features set it apart. There's a small emergency whistle on the lanyard cord. The sheath and plastic scarab Velcro together. There's a sharpening stone, the magnesium fire-starter stick, and land-to-air rescue instructions printed on the nylon sheath in case you need to communicate with a plane. The kit comes with a weatherproof survival guide that has Bear's tips on how to make it in a worst-case scenario outdoors.


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If you're a normal person who happens to find yourself in a desperate need to light a fire and you have, like, no fire lighting equipment... you're screwed. But wait! If you can pee, you'll be totally fine. The guys at The King of Random figured out how to light a fire with urine.
Of course, it's not as simple as pissing and seeing flames erupt on the ground beneath you, but it doesn't seem as hard as you think either. Basically, you're filling a plastic bag with pee to use your piss as a magnifying glass to burn things. When the burning starts, you feed the fire and bam, you've got fire by peeing. And a bunch of pee on your burnt hands. [YouTube via The King of Random via Laughing Squid]


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Snottites, Other Biofilms Hasten Cave Formation
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Biofilms, which are complex layered communities of sulfur-consuming microbes, increase the rate of cave formation, but may also shed light on other biofilms, including those that grow on teeth and those that corrode steel ships hulls, according to a team of geologists.
"Cave biofilms are simpler than the microbes that occur in soils where there can be hundreds of thousands of species," says Dr. Jennifer L. Macalady, assistant professor of geosciences, Penn State. "Some cave biofilms have very few species, 10 to 20. The more complex ones have 100s or 1,000s."
The researchers investigated the Frasassi cave system located north of Rome and south of Venice in Italy. These limestone caves are like New Mexico's Carlsbad Caverns and Lechuguilla Cave, but in those caves, sulfur entered the caves from oil and gas reserves, while in Italy, the sulfur source is a thick gypsum layer below. Having sulfur in the environment allows these biofilms to grow.
Most limestone caves form when rainwater and runoff permeate the caves from above. Water and carbon dioxide mix to form carbonic acid, a very weak acid, that erodes the limestone cave walls. In sulfidic caves, water enters the caves from below, carrying hydrogen sulfide. Microbes in the biofilms use the sulfur for energy and produce sulfuric acid, a very strong acid.
"One type of biofilm, called a snottite because of its appearance, has a pH of zero or one," says Daniel S. Jones, graduate student in geosciences. "This is very, very acidic."
Carbonic acid cave systems lose about a third of an inch of wall every thousand years, while sulfuric acid cave systems lose about two and a third inches or six times as much in the same time. The researchers are interested in the make-up of the biofilms and how they cycle sulfur.
Biofilms are made up of thin layers of microbe species that can be very different. All require water, but some biofilms live in the pools, lakes and streams in caves and others live on the damp walls. The layers against the rock surface use oxygen and hydrogen sulfide for energy and produce sulfuric acid. The layer on the outside does as well, but, because middle layers exist, there is an opportunity for microbes that find oxygen poisonous to thrive. These middle layers
may convert the sulfuric acid to hydrogen sulfide, creating a complete sulfur cycle in a few microns.
In dental biofilms, the microbes on the teeth are the ones that produce the acids that cause cavities, while the ones on the top create the right conditions for the acid-producing
microbes to survive. Cave biofilm layers also fulfill different niches in their very tiny environment.
"Stream biofilms are responsible for the majority of sulfide disappearance in streams," Jones told attendees today (Dec. 11) at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Meeting in San Francisco.
Because the cave biofilms are relatively simple, it will be easier to connect the various microbe species to the geochemistry involved. While this work is not yet complete, the researchers are working on the problem. Dr. Greg K. Druschel, assistant professor of geology, University of Vermont, used microelectrode voltammetry to try to determine exactly which biofilm layers produce acids. The levels of hydrogen sulfide and sulfuric acid change, depending on which layer is tested.
"There is also a question about where these microbes originate," says Macalady. "We do not know if they are always in rocks or if they are transported from somewhere else to establish themselves."
No matter the answer, the biofilms probably begin growing in tiny cracks in the rock and eventually create some of the largest cave systems in the world. Cave biofilms are also the bottom of the food chain for cave ecosystems. They provide food for a variety of spiders, flat worms, pill bugs and amphipods – shrimp like crustaceans – that form a blind and pigmentless community.
"The only other place we find sulfur-based ecosystems is near the deep sea vents on the ocean floor," says Jones.
Understanding how cave biofilms dissolve calcium carbonate may help us to understand the communities around ocean floor vents, but it may also, eventually, lead to understanding how biofilms dissolve calcium phosphate on teeth and the steel hulls of ships.
Macalady, Jones and Druschel worked with two undergraduate students: Daniel Eastman, University of Vermont, and Lindsey Albertson, Brown University. The National Science Foundation and NASA Astrobiology institute supported this research.


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The aftermath is posted to social media sites and firefighters, police officers, and media sources have spoken out against the dare game which has become to be known as the Fire Challenge. In a Fire Challenge, flammable liquids are applied to the person's body, typically while standing in a shower, then set aflame while being video recorded. When the pain becomes unbearable, the participant then quickly douses the flame before any severe damage can be done to the person's body.


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Yesterday Laurie Fine went to a castle to announce that her husband, Bernie, the former Syracuse basketball assistant, hadn't molested anybody, and that she would be suing ESPN for libel for repeating that charge, among others. Today, ESPN and one of Fine's accusers returned her lakeside volley.
Fine's suit argues that ESPN's story had no reason to rely on Mike Lang, the stepbrother of Fine's chief accuser, Bobby Davis. The lawsuit discusses Lang's "blatant non-credibility" and says Davis coached him to claim that he was molested. After all, Fine and her attorneys argue, why would Lang have tried to get his son a gig as a Syracuse ballboy if he knew Fine to be a molester?
In an interview with the Syracuse Post-Standard, Lang today defended himself:
Lang said the coach owed him, after the long-ago abuse. That desire to get back at Fine, Lang said, is why he made the request in 2009 or 2010 for his son to work as a ball boy for Fine.
"I tried to use Bernie for whatever I could," Lang said. "I know he used me. I figured he owed me a little bit of something." Fine denied the request, saying the rules had changed for choosing ball boys, Lang said.
Lang said he previously denied that Fine abused him because he didn't want to drag his father into a mess. Once his father died in 2010, Lang told the Post-Standard, he felt freer to admit what had happened to him:
"Nothing really happened to me," Lang said. "That's what the big thing is, or I would've never brought my little brother on. (Fine) grabbed me, it was nonchalant. I always felt a little weird. He tried to touch me in my penis on the outside of my shorts or whatever and I pushed his hand away. But nothing happened to me like it did to Bobby."
Lang and Davis had sued Jim Boeheim for slander after he called them liars, but the suit was dismissed last week. Lang says he didn't mind losing the suit—he likes Boeheim and didn't want him to get fired. Really.
As for ESPN, they released the full 2002 call between Fine and Davis today on YouTube. Fine's attorney said yesterday that an expert could testify that the tape was doctored. If any audiophiles have 45 minutes, the tape's below:
Mike Lang speaks: Glad he lost slander suit vs. Boeheim, details favors he sought from Bernie Fine [Syracuse Post-Standard]


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The gloomy London duo dive deep into their record collections to talk about the psych, punk, grime and drum & bass that has shaped their music.
Catch Wave
Takehisa Kosugi is a Japanese installation artist. How did you guys come across him?
Joe Andrews: Just digging man. Just digging. You have your spots [that you go to] in record shops when you go in them. For me, it's always the weird avant-garde, experimental section and the industrial section, you know what I mean? So it was simply the case of picking it out because we didn't know what it was.
In listening to it, I was really struck by how emotive it sounds.
Joe Andrews: Yeah. There are parts of it that are pretty out there and pretty avant-garde, and there's parts of it that are very engaging and quite emotive, even spiritual. I always think that spirituality is something that's quite easy to get drawn to. But spirituality in music is a tricky thing because it can easily lead down a rabbit hole to sort of quasi... like New Age, you know what I mean?
Do you ever worry about that with your own stuff?
Joe Andrews: Of course!
Tom Halstead: It helps having two of us, because we rein each other in.
Is it, like, "Ummm, it's getting a little bit cheesy"?
Tom Halstead: Alarm bells start going off, you're like "oh God..."
"What have we done?!"
Tom Halstead: "We've made a trance record!" [laughs]
Joe Andrews: It's just how you frame it. And it's just how you juxtapose it with other things and what that means as a whole. Something very similar I think is the last two Earth records. I think they've now come to a point where they've got a cellist involved, but it still feels very essential and very involved.
There Is No Shame In Death
Joe Andrews: I put this record on a mix that I made for Kiran [Sande, Blackest Ever Black label head]. We had discussed all the things that we were into, and he was similarly into those kinds of things and was very interested in what we were into as well. But that was one of the records where I was like, "Maybe he's not going to be that comfortable..." but actually it was one of his favorites, and so it kind of felt like we're on the same path. You know, "Kiran really gets it."
I think it's about 12 minutes long, right? Your stuff, however, is much shorter than I would often imagine it to be. Almost all of the tracks on the album are about five minutes. How important are the arrangements to what you're doing?
Tom Halstead: Very. We go through it and through it and through it, sifting it down. That's why they're not longer, we don't let things breath. Maybe they'll change in time, but I think we spend so long on arrangements, it's so crucial for us.
Joe Andrews: There's a very strong sort of minimalist tradition in us, I think in terms of us not wanting anything that shouldn't be there to be there. If there is anything superfluous, it has to go. There is a rigorous process of going back over stuff: "We don't need that, we don't need that, we don't need that." It's kind of like trying to realize the most eloquent expression of what you're trying to do, and I think that maybe sometimes that leads to us chopping too much. It's always a battle, it's never right.
Joe Andrews: This track represents for a record buyer, it's like...
Tom Halstead: A window.
Joe Andrews: Yeah, you know when you find this one record and it combines a couple of things you're already interested in? So obviously it's a punk record, but it's a very slow dirge-y punk record. I haven't delved into punk loads, so when I heard this I was like, "Ah, OK, this is my way into punk."
Tom Halstead: It's sludge.
Joe Andrews: Yeah, it's like sludge. And when I heard it I was like, "Maybe there's loads of music like this. Maybe there's a genre like this." You know what I mean? That moment where you're like, "This is going to be my new genre that I'm getting into" and then you look everywhere and you can't find another record exactly like it. So I picked this because not only do I love it but because it also represents that brilliant moment as a record buyer where you think you're gonna uncover this whole universe that you didn't know about, but it's just that one tune. That I've found so far anyway.
Erupting Light
Hildur is a solo cellist.
Tom Halstead: Yes. She uses the cello in quite an extraordinary way. We did some recording sessions for the album with cellists as well.
Why did you pick the cello specifically?
Joe Andrews: There are a lot of contemporary people that use it. Demdike Stare are going to have it in their show tonight. Bobby Krlic [Haxan Cloak] had it on his last album. There seems to be a fascination with this instrument within our sonic landscape. So we did a cello session, we did two drum sessions in the studio and we did loads of guitar stuff. A lot of the sounds in the record are just from a bit of guitar. And that's just sitting there with the guitar making noises for 30 minutes then going back over it with a finetooth comb, picking the two seconds of sound that you like from that bit.
Tom Halstead: And putting it in the vault.
Joe Andrews: And then going back and doing another session. It was definitely about changing our process to make it feel more alive. We tried to add a bit more energy into it, but throughout the structuring process it still gets clamped down.
That's the funny part. When I heard the final product I didn't immediately say, "Oh, this record is way more organic than what I've heard in the past" necessarily.
Joe Andrews: I think that's good, because I don't think we wanted it to come out organic necessarily. It was for our working process. We get off on that thing when you find that two seconds of sound, and to continuously experiment to get those sounds is loads of fun.
Enter The Mirror
Joe Andrews: This one starts very pleasant, and then slowly sort of just starts to burn and crumble because of the distortion I guess. That's what we tried to do on a few of the records on the album I think. One in particular actually.
This is from a live recording, right? Where's your ideal space to play? Do you have one?
Joe Andrews: I think that it's different, but we recently played at the Purcell Room [in London] and that was an ideal place.
That was kind of an intimate, sit-down venue. Does what you do work in a nightclub?
Joe Andrews: Yeah, it's not club music; it's absolutely not club music. In the start we did play a few club shows and it just... if you're playing that kind of shit, you gotta stand there and you gotta watch it and you're probably not going to move, you know what I mean? So it's like if you put that in the middle of a night where someone's been used to moving before and after… It just really takes away the impact.
I recently went to a Blackest Ever Black night in London, and I enjoyed it because the programming took that into account. The main room was the "stand and watch" room, and the second room was "here's a bit of rave." It also brought together a lot of sounds. Regis next to Source Direct next to Vatican Shadow. Kiran has connected a lot of dots with the label and the nights.
Joe Andrews: That dot joining thing is obviously how we kind of arrived at things as well. You know that there are things that are relevant to you, and you know that they give you a similar feeling, even if they're not in the same genre. I think now in the last five years you've just had people joining dots all over the place. It's been a really fertile period. The boundaries between things have become a lot more blurred and when we were young—
Tom Halstead: Younger.
Joe Andrews: [laughs] Yeah. When we were younger, it was quite kinda strict what you were into. Either you were into hip-hop or you were into grunge and you had your thing and that is where it stayed. Now people are much prouder of being into a whole cross-section of stuff. This is kind of what is happening in a lot of areas, and I think it's really quite a sort of strange, but liberating...
It's great, but it does beg the question if people are having this sort of "all surface, no depth" mentality of things. People taking all of these little things, but never really...
Joe Andrews: Perhaps, but that's the consumer's problem, rather than the delivery or the product developer. So as long as the people who are developing those products or cultural artifacts or whatever you want to call them have a lot of care about what they're doing, then the validity and the authenticity of those statements still exists. So even if you experience it for half an hour, as long as you're incredibly involved and engaged with it, that's fine.
That's a pretty good answer. Almost like you had that one ready.
Joe Andrews: [laughs] I've just thought about it quite a lot I think.
Thru The Vibe
Joe Andrews: Ever since we did a jungle mix for FACT we always get asked about jungle. Which is great.
What is it about this particular type of jungle that you love so much?
Joe Andrews: It's heavy rhythm, the strings, the synths.
Tom Halstead: Just the alien beauty of it.
Joe Andrews: It's just...it's so magic that period. I could have picked a million Omni Trio tunes.
He was doing experimental stuff before he made jungle right?
Joe Andrews: Yeah, he collaborated with Nurse With Wound a few times, and he felt a bit separate. It doesn't always feel so squarely dance floor, his stuff. You don't feel like you're being pushed towards a drop. It's beautifully structured. It's what I listen to on a walk with my headphones. It works loud, but it also works when you're just walking down the street.
Joe Andrews: There are two reasons why I selected that. First, it's Detroit and Detroit means everything to us as well. It was the first time where an ideology and conceptual attitude toward music really hit home. And I just remember being totally obsessed with the escapism of it. The other reason is that we went to see him in Queen Elizabeth Hall or something like that when I was like 19 or 20. He had re-scored an edited version of Metropolis of which this EP is a sample of. It was like the first time it clicked that dance [music] can be simply art at the same time. I remember coming home from that, and my brain was just totally alive. It made me feel so inspired and stimulated.
Do you remember when you first heard this? Was it on the radio or something?
Tom Halstead: Nah, white label.
Joe Andrews: Yeah, white label. I used to be obsessed with grime for a period of time 'cause it felt alive. I used to come up to London and go to Uptown and stand there and look at the wall of white labels. It was like hardcore, people just banging it out making it in a day, making it on a PlayStation, cutting it, selling it...
Tom Halstead: Yeah, that was the most exciting thing because it was raw. And that record in particular it's just, the sound... I still don't know what it is, but it still does it for me. That crazy bass synth thing…
Joe Andrews: Jon E Cash put out loads of records. He was really prolific for a period of time. And, like jungle, we could talk about loads of producers. Like Danny Weed... But Jon E Cash just had his own thing. It was super cold, super hench. It almost had a hollow sound to it. Every record sounded pretty similar, but I still bought them. There's that thing where when you listen to a record and it makes your stomach clench a bit. He was always the guy to do that.
Mitleid Lady
I listened to this record on YouTube, and even there I could feel how heavy it was.
Tom Halstead: Deep. Pooling. Black. Liquid.
I was also ready for a voice to come in...
Tom Halstead:...and it never did! [laughs]
And it never did. For me, one of the things about your records is this very similar sense of tension and dread as it goes along. "Who's going to die at the end of this film? Oh, no... is it going to be everyone?" How hard is it for you to get that tension and keep it there?
Tom Halstead: It takes a lot…
Joe Andrews: Again this comes down to restraint as well. It's getting the balance—pushing it out and then pulling it back.
Tom Halstead: Obviously there are signs and sounds that you can use to inspire tension and dread or whatever you like, but for us it's about really maintaining that so that none of those ever get too explicit and overtake the record. So you're always trying to keep things present but you don't want to throw it right to the front of the picture and leave it there. Present it, pull it back, present another thing, all so it never feels like you're committing to anything. It's always a mix of all these different elements and hopefully that makes you feel like it's never quite explicit.


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In addition to taking on the Great Danes on home turf, the Lion's will serve as the host of the opening round matchup between Syracuse and Massachusetts on Nov. 10 at 2 p.m., as well the Quarterfinals on Sunday, Nov. 11. Penn State last hosted in 2010, when the squad took on Syracuse in the First Round. Previously, the Lions had not hosted the NCAA Tournament since 2002, when they went on to finish as the national runner-up.
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Penn State has advanced to the NCAA Tournament in eight of the past 10 years, making four quarterfinal appearances, one semifinals appearance and one appearance as a NCAA Finalist in 2007. In the history of the field hockey program, the Lions have made seven semifinal appearances and two Championship game appearances. Penn State's overall record in NCAA Tournament play is 22-31 for the fourth-highest total of tournament games played to date.
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"The History channel under Ms. Dubuc has expanded what qualifies for its programming lineup, incorporating popular series like 'Pawn Stars' and 'Ice Road Truckers.' Ms. Dubuc, apologizing for being 'testy,' dismissed criticisms that the new shows take History away from its core mission, saying they aren't reality shows but 'vérité documentaries on people doing history today.'"
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Another much tastier flower we tried was Jamaican vervain (Stachtarpheta sp.), also known as porterweed or rat's tail. It is native to tropical Central America, and there are several species found in Hawaii. It grows along roadsides and disturbed areas at lower elevations, we found plenty on seaside cliffs. The leaves are opposite and toothed, with a rough surface. The plant produces a long, spindly flower spike about 12" above the leaves, and there are a few tubular, 5-petaled, blue or purple flowers blooming along this flower spike at a time. This flower tastes like shiitake mushrooms, and Matt explained to us that the flowers have a slight sedative effect when eaten in quantity.
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*712* All About the Mormons?
All About Mormons
All in all the episode was great and dead-on. A few details were blurred over but must admit, the basis of the faith made the comedy write itself.
I am in a Mormon family and related much to the episode. I watched with my Mom who chuckled here and there, and at the end of the show she admitted, that it would look odd from an outsider.
But as a once insider, it did nail it. But again tame. I guess Trey and Matt figured they hurt enough feelings with Orgazmo, but seriously, with so much material to work with (In my opinion more interesting and politically driven then Scienetology) I am very curious and why so tame?
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Kyle,Stan, Kenny/Mysterion.
Fave ep: ESM Season 12,Sec fave: Butterballs Season 16
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I must say however that this episode makes fun of us Mormons just like how one would make fun of anything else. They get the main facts down so that it doesn't lie about it, but they leave out little important details that fill in the holes so that I makes sense. Yes the main points are accurate, but everything else is out of proportion.
All I'm saying is not to take this as what really happened and actually look into it so you get the real picture. One example is when Mrs. Harris took the pages, she didn't hide them. They were stolen from her by people who wanted to destroy Joseph Smith. They changed the words so that when Joseph Smith retranslated it, it would have looked like he made it up; so history tells us that he received a revelation to just keep moving on in the translation.
Also he didn't read out of a hat. He hid them in a hat for a time but when he read them it has at a table with a curtain in-between him and Martin Harris because the plates were sacred. There were also 8 people who did see the plates and testified of them.
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I think this episode is marvelous. I am not a Mormon, but I have known some Mormons, and have found them to be pretty much the nicest people I have ever met. I am fascinated by how such intelligent, sincere people can believe in such a very strange religion. Then again, I'm sure many people find all religion to be strange...
It's clear that Trey is kind of fascinated by Mormons, too: this episode, Oragazmo, the Mormons in Do the Handicapped Go to Hell, and supposedly a new musical about Mormons in the works. I don't blame him for being fascinated; I am too. This episode got me reading about it, and although I don't believe it one bit, I find it to be a remarkable history. Way to go, South Park creators! Shows how thoughtful this show can be...
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the real story can be found at:
http://www.mormon.org/mormonorg/eng/bas ... the-gospel
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Jeffh wrote:the entire episode was inacurate. It's kind of sad when people actually believe what they hear on a TV show like south park.
the real story can be found at:
http://www.mormon.org/mormonorg/eng/bas ... the-gospel
Hmm, actually, its a pretty accurate history account of the Mormon religion.
While I agree Southpark isn't the sort of program you'd take serious when it comes to subjects like these, as they are usually just satire and exaggerated, they still give an accurate account of how the religion was formed, even though its criticising the religion at the same time.
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you know your in trouble when something is really that dumb!
i recently have been around a bunch of Mormons and even (gulp) dated one for a short time... they are a good bunch of people but i just could never understand why they had to believe in such nonsense... other than the Joseph Smith parts it seems like the book of Mormon is based on universal truths... which of course u dont have to be Mormon to believe or understand... so yeah i didnt join... duh
p.s. i wish all LDS kids had as much sense as the kid did when he told off Stan at the end! Brilliant!!!
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I used to be friends with a Mormon years ago and so I researched into the religion (I've researched a lot of religions over the years). I find it amazing how tame it was because they really had a lot of material to work with, such as their beliefs. They're trained to come off as Christians at first (kind of like sounding like a name brand) and then things are revealed the deeper you go into the religion. They believe there are uncountable number of gods all over the universe all watching over little worlds. The gods (former Mormons) have wives who have spirit babies, and the Mormon families have lots of kids in order to bring down the spirit babies from heaven. Any Mormon can become a god or goddess, but if you're a woman watch out: you're in for eternally giving birth to spirit babies. You have to do a lot, and live a very good life to become a god. Polygamy is ok in their writings. They have prophets today that whatever they speak is the voice of god and is comparable to the Book of Mormon, which is a symptom of a cult.
Oh what else can I remember? There's a lot of racism in the books (there's more writings than just the Book of Mormon) and the darker the skin the deeper the sin, so african americans are looked down on in the religion. You probably noticed a bit of racism in the whole Native Americans were originally white bit. Let's see, they are commanded to wear long underwear at all times to protect them from sin. They have their own planet/world called Kolob where the gods and goddesses rule. I confronted my Mormon friend about all this, and he was embarressed but said these basics were true. A few people in my class were angry he hid this. Still a nice guy though, I was still friends with him. I've read stories though of people getting out of the religion in other parts of America, and they feel that deeper in the religion they were brainwashed and they feel it is a cult.
Not a joke. Just google it instead of questioning it, it's all out there. So yeah, I'm amazed South Park didn't go into that. Maybe they didn't research that far into it? Anyways it was a good episode
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The future of the Canadian Grand Prix could be in doubt after reports that Bernie Ecclestone has demanded improvements to the circuit at Montreal before extending the race contract.
The paddock at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve is one of the smallest on the calendar, with floating platforms currently used on the Olympic basin to enlarge the available area. A report in La Presse claims that Ecclestone has now demanded that around €11.6 million is spent on repair work and a bigger paddock before a new contract will be agreed beyond 2014.
Race promoter Francois Dumontier has played down the demands, saying that work on the facilities was to be expected and that the time left on the current contract allows the circuit to react.
"Firstly, it is important to point out that two years remain on the current contract," Dumontier said. "Taking into consideration that the permanent facilities of the circuit, such as the control tower and the garages, are nearly 25 years old, it is quite likely that work to be carried out on these will be an important part of the negotiations aiming at extending the current contract. Furthermore, it appears premature to mention a precise amount regarding the costs of any potential work."


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Owners Pamela and Peter Mullin poured their hearts into this Cape Split rental home. A talented carpenter, Peter built the house single-handedly, and Pamela filled it with her own leaded, light-catching stained-glass windows. "They thought about everything-the scale, the ornamentation, the intimacy of the place," says Thom Lovejoy, a three-time renter.
A passion for Down East Maine led the Mullins to Cape Split, a remote and mostly undeveloped headland an hour's drive east of Bar Harbor. They built their two-bedroom house on two acres of coastal property, fitting it carefully into the rustic landscape. Peter used rich wood finishes everywhere, beginning at the front porch, with its cedar shingles, mahogany flooring, fir wainscoting, and pair of facing benches. Inside, more wood wraps the walls and ceilings, trims the windows, and climbs the stairs. Sun spills through colored and clear windows. Encased in glass, the master bedroom juts like a ship's prow above the water. Thanks to a trio of skylights, "you can lay in bed and watch the stars," says Ellen Nordlof of Virginia, who rented the Mullins' home with her husband, Bjorn, last summer. "If you crack the window, all you hear is a ripple of water against the stones at the bottom of the hill."
Abundant wildlife may break the quiet rhythm here. Moose, deer, black bears, porcupines, and foxes populate the woods. Seals and dolphins splash in the ocean. A pair of eagles that nest on nearby Eagle Island traverse the sky over the house. Last year, the Mullins carved a nature trail into 27 acres of undeveloped forest shared by the two dozen homes on Cape Split.
Exploring the wilderness is one of the draws for Thom, who calls Cape Split "Mother Nature at her best." He brings a friend's kayak for venturing in and out of coves, but visitors can rent them in neighboring Jonesport. The town also offers a sightseeing boat for puffin-watching trips to Machias Seal Island. Other activities include day trips to Acadia National Park and golfing amid the area's blueberry barrens. Though the shoreline near the house is rocky, a sandy white beach is only three minutes away by car.
No visit to Maine would be complete without lobster. Almost every harbor town has local lobstermen, and you can usually buy the day's catch right off the docks. The well-stocked Mullin kitchen comes with big boiling pots, and enough lobster crackers and picks to go around. "That's part of a summer in Maine," says Pamela. "You've got to have a red lobster to crack open."
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This is what people think of when they imagine the Joint Special Operations Command, or JSOC – the secretive, über-elite military unit that killed Osama bin Laden. The leader of a JSOC unit in Iraq, known as K-Bar, gets shot in the chest by insurgents. K-Bar waves away his medic until he finishes killing his assailants. His reward? Leading JSOC's operations in Afghanistan.
Ludicrous acts of superhuman bravado are part of JSOC's myth and mystique. That mystique is hard to penetrate: JSOC is so secretive that it instructs its members not to write down important information, lest it be vulnerable to disclosure under the Freedom of Information Act. But a new book reveals that killing might not even be the most important thing JSOC does.
Marc Ambinder, a former reporter for The Atlantic and National Journal, goes deep inside JSOC to reveal that it has become perhaps the government's most effective intelligence agency. Unassuming office buildings around the Washington area and beyond have become unlabeled spy centers that process untold volumes of information extracted from JSOC's hunting missions, with such a rapid analytic turnaround time that the "shooters" of the unit can quickly begin planning their next kills. In fact, Ambinder reports in The Command, his just-published eBook, the integration of tactical spying within JSOC is so thorough that it's hard to distinguish "shooters" from analysts.
Yet JSOC operates with practically no accountability. In Iraq, it ran a torture chamber at a place called Camp Nama – until its leader, Stanley McChrystal and his intelligence chief, Michael Flynn, cleaned it up. (There's a debate in military circles about whether McChrystal or his friend and successor, Adm. William McRaven deserve credit for JSOC's resurgence; but Ambinder's reporting suggests Flynn is the real father of the modern JSOC.) The unit is supposed to answer to the chain of command, but it advised President Obama not to ask which Navy SEAL actually killed Osama bin Laden – and then wouldn't tell Obama's chief of staff, who ignored the advice. Even while the CIA works intimately with JSOC, it whispers to reporters, self-interestedly, that the unit is out of control.
But JSOC has the biggest trump card of all to play, institutionally: it works. Killing bin Laden was just the culmination of a furious, decade-long pace of lethal operations, involving hundreds of Afghanistan night raids in a single year; what Ambinder describes as a "free hand" in Somalia, including last month's dramatic hostage rescue; and unseen counterterrorism mission from Pakistan to, of all places, Peru. JSOC is so busy its leadership thinks it's exhausted, and prominent analysts claim it needs to step up its game to prevent nuclear terrorism.
Danger Room spoke with Ambinder about JSOC's successes – and the implications for the secretive organization's expanded reach into the spy world, especially as it becomes the lead force waging America's Shadow Wars.
Danger Room: How did JSOC become an intelligence agency?
Marc Ambinder: It was born of necessity. As the insurgency in Iraq became too much for commanders to bear, there was a scramble to figure out how to get tactical intelligence out of anyone they captured. And it seemed like the military's first response, generally, to use a broad over generalization, for the important people, we'll rough them up. At least they'll say something, and that'll give us something tactical. But obviously it didn't work very well, it's immoral. They hadn't really figured out beforehand that [Iraq] would require a lot of tactical intelligence. All the intelligence planning that went on for the Iraq war was strategic.
So there was a huge need for it. Also, there was the timing of it. JSOC was in charge of finding and interrogating high value targets in Iraq. They had just launched internal investigation inside the command into what happened at Camp Nama. There was a lot of sensitivity to the interrogation techniques that were used there. There are different accounts as to how precisely this sort of investigative police directive doctrines became embedded in the minds of the elite, tier-one warriors. But most people give credit to the J2 [intelligence chief] at the time, Gen. Mike Flynn. As he describes it, he would observe your average JSOC operation and you would see insurgents, or whomever, rounded up, put in the same room, with all the stuff they had in their hands, all the pocket litter, would be separated and just kept in a trash bag. And it was brought back to one of the other bases for processing. That was way too inefficient and way too slow for the operational tempo of the insurgents. In his mind, Flynn envisioned the insurgency to be this ever-expanding spider's web, and the U.S. military would be like this tiny mouse, clawing at one end of it. And you needed to speed up.
DR: How complicit was JSOC in torture?
MA: I would say JSOC was moderately complicit. The number of actual interrogators and tier-one operators who actually participated in torture was very small. Less than 50. But the number of people who knew about it, even in a closed culture like JSOC, had to be much larger. And one of the big questions that still hangs over the head of Gen. McChrystal, who's otherwise widely admired for turning JSOC around and moving it away from these [torture] techniques, is that it took him seemingly a long time when he took over the command to get his arms around how the command's interrogation practices were actually working. There's a legitimate and still open question of how much he knew, and what did about it.
I was able to learn that he did initiate an internal investigation that resulted in about 30 people being disciplined, with some of them kicked out of the military or transferred to other units. Because it's a secret organization for most part the results of the investigations remain secret. JSOC prefers to keep its record of accountability in-house. But if you look at the time line, and look at what's public – the torture report from the Senate intelligence committee blacked out all the references to JSOC. Quite clear that even on a senior level, task force commanders in Iraq knew what was going on.
DR: So they torture people until Flynn figures out there's a better way to get intelligence?
MA: I know that sounds like a neat narrative, and this is a complicated story. But in essence, that is what happened. While you have to say the command was complicit in the rough, bad stuff early on, they figured out what was happening, and they figured out a much better, humane and more effective way of doing it. Then they proselytize it, and make sure rest of the military knows they're doing it that way. You can't ever erase the stain of torture, but this command deserves credit for figuring out what to do about it, and how to meet the need for intelligence without roughing people up, and how to get inside the decision loops of the insurgents.
DR: What were some of the intelligence tactics that JSOC would use?
MA: Some of the tactics were as simple as equipping your tier-one operators – i.e., a Delta Force shooter or a SEAL Team Six demolition expert, the elite of the elite – with a camera. Instead of rounding up insurgents, bringing them to one area of a house, they'd have pictures of them exactly where they are, and take pictures what they have on them exactly. They'd keep them with their pocket litter until they were processed. And they'd send pictures back in real time to an intelligence fusion center. The main one in Iraq was in Balad but there were others. And you'd have analyst who could use many of various databases that JSOC had access to, and many that JSOC was building. The common metaphor was that you're building the airplane as it's taking off. You built all these databases for intelligence and had secret biometrics processes. There were teams of U.S. intelligence officers who were trying to get as many fingerprints, DNA samples and so forth of anyone in Baghdad as they could. The analysts would be able to create link analysis charts from them.
If you captured Abu So-and-So, you'd be able to say within a minute, "Hey, I know your uncle is this person, who we really want to get to. If you can tell me where this person is right now, we'll give you a break and even let you go." And often, that would be what Abu So-and-So would do, because it would be in his best interest. Within maybe 20 minutes, JSOC could launch a second raid targeting the uncle of Abu So-and-So.
At a ground level, those kind of techniques, by 2007-8, were used not just by the elite special operations forces, but also the so-called white special operations forces – Green Berets and other Navy SEAL elements, as well as conventional human intelligence brigades that were attached to combat units.
DR: Is JSOC now the tactical intelligence agency of choice for the U.S. government?
MA: Not only are they the tactical intel of choice, they also have the operational capacity to act on that intelligence. So they generate intelligence, they analyze it, and they act on it, all in one package.
DR: What does that mean for holding JSOC accountable? This is an extraordinarily secretive military unit.
MA: There are a lot of buried caches in West Virginia and Virginia of JSOC documents. I only say that with some exaggeration. This is obviously a command that had to be secret when it was stood up in part because secrecy is the coin of realm when doing one-off special operations. The problem generally here is that by law, JSOC can't really collect strategic intelligence or intelligence for its own sake, depending on where they are. In the war zone, in Iraq or Afghanistan, it's different; they can collect and use intelligence there. But they also operate outside of designated war zones in North Africa, in South America, in Asia, and they use these intelligence collection techniques there as well.
It's under the rubric of what they call "Operational Preparation of the Environment." Which is to say, any time there's JSOC operation, you don't want them to fly in blind, so you have to collect some intelligence. But in practice they really stretch that definition. Elements of JSOC run their own human intelligence sources. I didn't put this in the book, but I had one former senior JSOC operator describing to me a very elaborate JSOC operation in Beirut where a dozen more human sources were recruited to steal a variety of documents, relating to international narcotics trafficking. Which sounds great, until you remember that it's not law enforcement officers or the CIA doing it, but the U.S. military doing it.
There are legal restrictions on what the CIA can do in terms of covert operations. There has to be a finding, the president has to notify at least the "Gang of Eight" [leaders of the intelligence oversight committees] in Congress. JSOC doesn't have to do any of that. There is very little accountability for their actions. What's weird is that many in congress who'd be very sensitive to CIA operations almost treat JSOC as an entity that doesn't have to submit to oversight. It's almost like this is the president's private army, we'll let the president do what he needs to do. As long as you don't get in trouble, we're not gonna ask too many questions.
You don't want the command to brief members of Congress before every operation. On other hand, regular briefings every three months might give some sense of the military intelligence collection that goes on. And when you collect intelligence, it's not just satellites that's listen to conversation. You're making in a lot of cases very difficult, grey, moral choices like the CIA does all the time. There's an argument to be made – incidentally, it's one that Republican [Rep.] Mike Rogers, the head of the House intelligence committee agrees with – for more regular briefings from JSOC, to get a more granular sense of how JSOC uses and distributes the money it's given for intelligence gathering. He understands that a lot of vital strategic intelligence isn't being collected by CIA, it's being collected by JSOC, in pursuit of legitimate objectives without oversight.
DR: Does JSOC need to get better at preventing nuclear terrorism, as some critics you cite allege? You wrote a piece recently that discussed U.S. planning to seize loose Pakistani nukes. Won't it be JSOC that does that?
MA: Adm. Eric Olson, the former commander of [U.S. Special Operations Command], has begun to express that worry publicly. JSOC has become the world's premiere counterterrorism force, but other skills have atrophied, and that includes the ability to secure nuclear weapons. The command is aware of that. They will tell you that they still have the same number of people trained to do counterproliferation work. But you can argue that over the past ten years that the amount of counterproliferation work needs to be done, or the level of threat from nuclear proliferation has increased or is rising to the level that requires JSOC to reorient its focus. One argument is that JSOC should be used for special missions, not your average Army Ranger door-knock operation. That's something Gen. McChrystal came to believe, something I believe Adm. McRaven also agrees with. So I think you'll see over the next couple years the command reorient itself around counterproliferation.
DR: What does that mean in practice? JSOC is going to swoop into former Soviet states and snatch nuclear material?
MA: They have done that. In practice, though, the real secret of the Pakistan nuclear question is that there's no way that there are enough trained American – or American and British and Israeli – soldiers to go into Pakistan and seize their nuclear arsenal and render it safe. There's just no way. It would take an entire army of people who were extremely well trained to do that. But the concern is that, in general, you have proliferation concerns and you have forces that haven't trained to confront them in a way that they should.
DR: What was JSOC doing in Peru?
MA: My understanding is that they were pursuing the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and Hezbollah elements that were laundering money and using Peru as a base of operations for that type of activity throughout South America. Technically JSOC was attached to the embassy through the cover of one of these Defense Intelligence Agency programs. There were [bureaucratic] outposts that Donald Rumsfeld created to expand JSOC's footprint across the world.
DR: Should we expect to see JSOC become a global strike force, rather than one that operates at the periphery of the war on terror?
MA: Yes. McRaven has not told me this directly, but I believe he wants to turn JSOC into the non-missile equivalent of Prompt Global Strike. If there's an acute problem somewhere in the world, not just a bunch of people with guns can be there, but an entire integrated military operation can be transported there as a package, with all the branches – communications, intelligence, everything – devoted to the problem and can fix the problem. One gets the sense that the way the administration is budgeting for defense that they agree.
The phrase that's used all the time is "creating lilypads" across the world, from which you can hop into hot zones if necessary. It's a way to cope with the reduction in conventional forces. The idea is that elite forces are force multipliers. If you look at the way the command is structured now, with the number of command posts they have throughout the world, it's hard to see them as anything but a Prompt Global Strike capacity absent active wars. And very soon they'll have a larger presence in Afghanistan. But absent Iraq, absent Afghanistan over the next couple years, that's what it's gonna be. And their focus will be on counter-proliferation, counter-cyber – that's a word we haven't really heard before; JSOC is building a cyber capacity – counternarcotics.
I think one of big challenges will be to figure out how you create legal framework for that that allows for a prompt response that at the same time assures accountability. And I would hope members of Congress are thinking about that.
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Arctic marine ecosystems support fisheries of significant and increasing economic and nutritional value. Commercial stocks are sustained by pelagic food webs with relatively few keystone taxa mediating energy transfer to higher trophic levels, and it remains largely unknown how these taxa will be affected by changing climate and the influx of boreal taxa. <i>Calanus</i> species store large quantities ...


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This is "See Ya Around"
I started to say "this is goodbye," but just because I sold the site doesn't mean I won't be around Linuxville. I'm still writing at ostatic and I may turn up here now and again as well. I'll be looking around to expand my writing after the new year too, so you're not rid of me yet.
But the sale on tuxmachines.org has been completed. The move has not started, so there will be some weirdness with the site in the next week or four while things are relocated and ironed out.
The new owner of tuxmachines.org is Roy Schestowitz. I'm sure many of you recognize that name, he's probably best known for his boycottnovell.com site, a reaction to the Novell and Microsoft patent agreement of the mid-aughts. He also has another site call techrights.org I think it is. Anyway, Roy has said he plans to carry on the tuxmachines.org tradition and avoid controversy here. I'll let him tell you more specificially himself any further details.
It's more emotional for me letting the site go than I anticipated. I started this site as a learning exercise never imagining anyone much would visit. I didn't realize it until just now, but this one little site change my life.
I can never thank all my visitors enough. A website is nothing without its visitors. Another final thank you to all who donated money and hardware to help me and tuxmachines over the years. You'd probably be surprised just how helpful that was.
So, this isn't the end of tuxmachines or me. We'll both still be around. I wish everyone every success in the future and keep on Linux'in!
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Thanks for making what I consider to be the best Linux news portal, Susan. I've enjoyed it, and while I'll continue to do so (assuming it continues in a form that still works for me), I still wanted to say thanks for everything.
I always loved seeing my own posts make it to the tuxmachines feed (I'm the guy behind The Linux Critic blog), and I always appreciated the additional audience your picking up my posts that way provided. I also have always enjoyed the diverse viewpoints presented by the variety of other content you've always featured here, which is what has always kept me coming back here daily for the past 4 years or so.
Take care, and see you around!
- Trent
Hi Trent, Is this your site?
Hi Trent,
Is this your site? I'll try to keep an eye on it and share, where possible, relevant news.
Thank you...
Susan, congratulations on the sale. You will be missed.
Thanks, Susan
Thanks for maintaining this fine site, for posting the news, and for all your distro reviews. Congrats on the sale! Keep on writing.
- Andrew
All the best
Let me just say an era has come to an end. Thank you very much for all your hard work Susan, for pointing me to material when I still had to learn a great deal as a n00bie and later on for featuring some of my work on the blog. It made a huge difference. You reviews were also a great read and very detailed back when you still did them. I particularly enjoyed the Crux review and your early screenshots section. All the best. As you said, see ya 'round.
At the same time, welcome to Roy who I know from his site and from identi.ca. Good to know the tradition will continue.
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Have you ever been In Katrina's Kitchen? No? Well I have, and it is a wonderful place to be, let me tell you. Okay, so I've only really been in her virtual kitchen, i.e. her blog, but it really is a wonderful place to be. If you have a sweet tooth and you like gazing at wonderful baked goods for hours on end, In Katrina's Kitchen will not disappoint. It's a veritable wonderland of sweets and treats. And Katrina herself is one of those lovely, sweet people whose personality seems to jump through the computer screen. I don't know her in real life, but I am pretty sure that she's one of those people who would give really great hugs when you need one.
That's why I was so thrilled when Katrina asked if I would guest post for her while she was away for a few days. Turns out she's taking a much-needed vacation with her husband, while her little one stays behind. And the best part is that she's vacationing in my childhood town, Toronto. She asked my advice for things to do and see, so I hope she's having a good time. I want her to come back from my hometown and home country with a good impression! It's a city I love dearly and miss very much. I might be a little jealous that she's spending some time there.
For my guest post, I decided to go with a full-sugar treat. Sorry, low carb friends and readers, but sometimes I get the urge to bake the conventional way. And my kids and husband deserve a sugar-rush from time to time. So I baked up one of my all-time favourites, Carmelitas. Katrina said she'd never heard of them, so I knew this was a perfect opportunity to introduce her to the ooey-gooey, caramel-ly, oatmeal-ly, chocolatey goodness. Because although I don't eat much sugar myself anymore, I like to lead others astray!
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Single? Apparently Accordance Can Help
Yesterday I saw someone post the following to Twitter (edited slightly to make it more coherent):
Wanna get a babe in church?! Go to service without a Bible but with an ipad2 & bible software installed on it!
Since I've been "off the market" for some time now, I can't personally vouch for the effectiveness of this strategy. Still, assuming this gentleman is on to something, I figured I'd pass it on to you single guys out there as yet another way Accordance can help.
When a girl approaches you to ask what you're doing with an iPad in church, open the Greek or Hebrew in a parallel pane and tell her you're checking the pastor's sermon for accuracy. She'll either think you're smart and spiritual or she'll think you're an arrogant know-it-all. If the latter, do a quick search for "Berea" and show her that the Bereans were commended because they "examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so" (Acts 17:11 HCSB). With Accordance on your iPad and a little quick thinking, you could end up looking like a great catch.
While I doubt we'll start a new marketing campaign around the promise that Accordance can help you "get a babe in church," you never know how you'll meet the love of your life. Who knows? Maybe Accordance on your iPad will help you catch her eye.
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R. Mansfield
This strategy can only last so long before it backfires. My wife bugs me in the service to check the accuracy of our pastor :-)
On another note, I like the graphic above. It has a kind of "I heart Accordance" feel to it.