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There's new help available for New Jersey homeowners who suffered flood damage from Superstorm Sandy.
There's new help available for New Jersey homeowners who suffered flood damage from Superstorm Sandy.
The State of New Jersey is planning to buy 1,000 homes that were flooded by Superstorm Sandy almost 9 months ago, plus an additional 300 houses that have frequently flooded in the past.
More than nine months after Superstorm Sandy rocked New Jersey, the generous giving continues.
By now, you've probably heard that tax assessments on more than 40,000 Garden State properties have been reduced by $4.3 billion due to damage caused by Superstorm Sandy.
Rock legend and Sayreville native Jon Bon Jovi has donated $1 million dollars to the Hurricane Sandy New Jersey Relief Fund.
Same-sex couples in New Jersey are happy after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled yesterday that legally married same-sex couples should have the same federal benefits as heterosexual married couples, but how much of a difference will it really make?
While more than 95 percent of Sandy-related insurance claims in New Jersey have been settled and paid, thousands of homeowners have not started rebuilding yet for a variety of reasons, but a new program will offer many of them assistance.
The June edition of Ask The Governor touched on Gov. Chris Christie's reaction to the United States Supreme Court's rulings on gay marriage, a new $780 million federal grant program that begins in July to assist with Sandy relief and what goes into the decision to fly flags at half-staff.
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has signed a resolution declaring Jan. 11 Clarence Clemons Day. That's the day Clemons was born.
The 11-mile-long oceanfront dune project remains up in the air, thanks to hundreds of holdouts, refusing to sign easements.
During a visit to the Jersey Shore, President Obama promised to continue to help local residents rebuild after Superstorm Sandy caused an estimated $38 billion in damages at the end of last year.
Embattled Rutgers University is embroiled in yet another scandal and this one shows no signs of letting up. Newly-hired Rutgers Athletic Director Julie Hermann is under fire for allegedly calling members of the University of Tennessee volleyball team, "whores" and "alcoholics." A new report says Hermann was also involved in a discrimination lawsuit while at Louisville.


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The Timberwolves exercised the third-year contract options on guard Ricky Rubio and forward Derrick Williams on Tuesday. They are both now under contract through the 2013-14 season. Rubio averaged 10.6 points and 8.2 assists in …31 Oct 12
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I have 64-bit 12.10 Ubuntu. I can't get Skype to install from the software center because it can't find the repositories. I can't install it from the website either. I tried checking the 64-bit Debian package in case it would work and it installed but it won't open. What should I do?
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Q&A: Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone on SXSW, Bright Spots, and His New Book
Talking with Twitter's designated nice guy, at the conference where Twitter blew up.
For Biz Stone, coming to SXSW Interactive must feel like taking a victory lap. He's a regular at the annual Austin tech conference, and in 2007, his fledgling company – Twitter, which he co-founded with Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, and Noah Glass – was the unanimous star of the show. It won an award (Biz put up a celebratory blog post), and got flooded with new users – a growth spurt that continued all the way to last year's $25 billion IPO, and solidified SXSW's reputation as a tech kingmaker.
Seven years later, Stone is back with a new company – Jelly, a social search app that launched to fanfare last year (but has since fallen on the charts). He also has a book coming soon – Things a Little Bird Told Me, a compendium of his musings on life and creativity, which hits shelves on April 1. I sat down with Stone, on the day after his 40th birthday, to discuss the evolution of SXSW, his book, and why he's not retired already.
It must get weirder and weirder for you to come to SXSW every year.
Back in the day, it wasn't like this. In 2003, 2004, 2005, it was just nerds, and it was pretty sparse. Then the cool music guys started coming in. Now it's where you launch your thing.
This is my first time here.
Oh, man. It's not what it was. It's almost like if Coke bought it and turned it into something. When we were here, there was no iPhone. There were no apps. I think there's a conference called XOXO, I've heard good things about it. It's in Portland, and it's much more chill. They're trying to re-create the early feel of this place.
What's your favorite memory from SXSW? A crazy party?
We used to throw our own party for Blogger. This conference always falls on my birthday, and one year, Google gave us $10,000 to rent out a bar and give out free whiskey and beer. I always pretended it was my birthday party.
What did you think of Nick Bilton's book about the founding of Twitter?
I only read the parts about me, and he made me sound like a great guy. Sounds good to me. I am a great guy!
It's too bad your book isn't for sale yet. You're doing a panel today, right? You could be signing a ton of books here.
Not until April 1. But it's okay. That would be kind of embarrassing, anyway. I can imagine, like, Paul Newman signing books. But who wants a book signed by Biz Stone?
You know, you're going to have to sign books at some point.
I think I can just say no. I think I just don't go. They can't put me in publishing jail.
Speaking of books, I was just reading Ben Horowitz's book about start-ups. It's really depressing. It's all about how shitty it is to be a start-up founder. He compares building a start-up to going to war – he makes it sound like this awful, vomit-inducing thing.
A lot of these guys, especially men, treat business like war. Like, The Art of War, Wall Street, all that stuff. How about giving people an aspirational vision of the future? Where, you know, all of this stuff is great and it's leading humanity down a path towards something better? Why does it have to be so bad?
You didn't have to do another start-up. You don't need the money. So why are you putting yourself through it again?
Well, first of all, I don't think it's that horrible. I have a much rosier outlook than most people. [Twitter co-founder] Evan Williams always accuses me of spinning things positively. But I'm not spinning it. In my book, I talk about bright-spot theory — finding the bright spots. When everything sucks, and everyone agrees that nothing's good, something's good. Find what the good thing is, whatever it is, and go from there.
Where does Jelly fall in that scenario? Is it sucking? Or is it in a bright spot?
We launched, and everything was crazy amazing. We looked like the most successful start-up of all time. And then everything crashed. I told everyone, "Guys, this [makes steep uphill gesture with his hand] means it's gonna go like this [steep downhill gesture]." I tell people, if you're trying to lose weight, you don't look at the scale every day. You have to look at it over a month, if it's going up or down. We're at the point now where we know we have a thing that works. But we need to wire it up right, and put the ingredients in the right order, so it works really, really well.
People have had what we're calling "Jelly moments." One guy's 2- or 3-year-old daughter kept saying, "I want to play Angry Birds, the crash crash boom boom level." He couldn't understand what she meant, and he was desperate. He finally turned to Jelly, and he was like, "My daughter wants the Angry Birds crash crash boom boom level, can someone help me?" And another father was like, "I think she wants Cut the Rope, not Angry Birds." And that's exactly what she meant. You need a human to answer that.
Before the interview, I asked Jelly what I should ask you. Can I ask some of these questions people submitted?
Okay, here's one: "What are his favorite pizza toppings?"
Oh, come on.
"How much Twitter stock has he sold?"
No? Okay, next question: "Will Jelly compete with or complement Twitter? How so?"
Well, Jelly's a search engine. But it complements it right now. It takes your Twitter network plus your Facebook network, blends it into one agnostic network. Jelly's purpose-built to help people – Twitter's a broadcasting mechanism.
"What's the next step for Jelly? Are there more features coming?"
Why do people ask if there are more features coming? "No, it's frozen!" What I will say is that there will be better quality answers, and better ways of asking questions. Those are two immediate things.
Last one: This guy asks, "How will you monetize Jelly?"
I'm not going to say specifics, but we're in the search business, and that's a good business if you want to make money. If someone wants to give us money, and they can help people and answer their questions, great, they can give us money. But only if they can do that. It sounds crazy, but it'll somehow work.
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Distal hypospadias is a commonly encountered anomaly. Since its innovation by Duckett the MAGPI procedure has become almost the standard operation for the correction of minor cases. Recently case selection has been advised to avoid possible complications and limitations. Between April 1986 and April 1995, 153 boys were treated for distal hypospadias. In 51 patients (coronal 31, subcoronal 20) a modified technique of urethral advancement and glanuloplasty (UAGP) has been used. The main indications of UAGP were the presence of glanular chordee (7), failed MAGPI (3), circumcised children with distal hypospadias (7), immobile fibrotic urethral meatus (5), and as an alternative to MAGPI (29). The overall complication rate was 4% compared to 3.8% with the MAGPI procedure which has been used in the treatment of 102 patients (glanular 50, coronal 47, and subcoronal 5). We feel this technique can be used effectively in patients with coronal and subcoronal hypospadias, particularly in the presence of distal chordee, fibrotic immobile urethral meatus or MAGPI limitations. Also UAGP could be a useful alternative to MAGPI where tension-free urethral advancement and glanular wrapping can be achieved.
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The closer has created a monster. No lead is seemingly safe going into the 9th inning anymore. It isn't just nights like tonight when 6 run ninth inning leads are blown, but all over MLB, the 9th inning has turned into a circus night after night all over America. There is now something mystical about the final inning, and the more I think about it, the more I see the 9th inning closer as feeding this monster.
The teams that have them supposedly have identified this reliever who "has done it before," he usually is a power pitcher. Other guys seem just as much, if not more qualified, but then when they are thrust into the last three outs guy, they cough up a few and are relegated to "freaking out when in the closer role." Once a guy becomes entrenched, he has to hit double digits ERA totals to get removed from the spot, which I am afraid where Cordero is right now. The manager would rather continue to get beat up in the abusive relationship rather than move on and try a different method, worrying about dissing someone who is "THE CLOSER."
Add to that making a big deal about getting the last three outs of a game, whether it be a complete game, which is a total non-event in the grand scheme of things. Or pull the starter who has been dealing all night in favor of "THE CLOSER" because the game is still 1-3 runs. All of this feeds the mystique and seemingly adds fuel to the full court press, late comeback efforts of the offense to mount a 9th inning barrage. Add to that positioning your fielders (outfielders deep, guarding the lines, baseball's equivalent of the prevent defense, and we know how that works in that sport) based on the score of the game instead of who is at the plate, and you have a recipe for disaster.
So, how do you start removing this mystique from the 9th inning? I've been questioning the whole idea of a 3 out, 9th inning guy for several years. Too many times, below average pitchers are asked to cover 2-3 innings of a ballgame as teams try to get to their "setup guy" and "closer." As we remember the 1990 WC, the Nasty Boys come to mind as an example of using your bullpen to fit the situation. While there were many nights of Charlton 7th, Dibble 8th, Meyers 9th, Dibble also had a number of saves that year as Lou did not automatically go to Meyers for the "save." This year, Dusty has a chance, with a little imagination, to use Cordero, Massett, and Rhodes to finish out games. When you use one guy continuously in the "save" situation, you are at the whim of his stuff on any given night. The opponent has a chance to set up their bench strategy to face the guy they know is coming in for the last three outs, who is going to be out there until the game is tied or is turned into a walkoff.
Of course, this is all in vain, because the major league manager has about as imagination as a toad. Dusty is doing the same things every other MLB manager is doing, much of which is based on entrenched ideas moreso than employing solid strategies.
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I don't know what this is but it is really cool looking. Found it camping...oodles of legs! It has a hard exoskeleton...if you know what it is, tell me please.
nice picture. it's a millipede of some sort
Ewwwwwww.... i dont like bugs so much,but it is beutiful! nice makro ;D
I had never seen anything like this before this. I even picked it up!!! Which is very brave on my part because I usually beg my husband to get rid of the little crawlers!!!
I am pretty sure that this is a millepede--I love them so much--want to get one as a pet evenutally--after I move out of my parents house! GREAT shot though!
Cool! My husband found it when we were cleaning up some things at camp. I RAN for the camera. It was so cool looking. Seemed friendly enough too!
Millipedes are very very friendly--it's the centipedes that aren't so nice..but I'm sure you know this already!
It put up with me poking it to see what it felt like and pick it up and move it around....
then it most certainly ISN'T a centipede--a centipede would've stung the crap out of you..!
OH!!! Then I am glad that I didn't know that before I picked it up!!! Geez!
Oooh! Cool! Looks almost metallic!
Hmm. I'm failry sure that's a centipede. See, my roomie once had an African Milipede, and she had to be one of the cutest things ever, despite her initial creepy buggyness. She looked similar to this, but her carapace segments were smoother and darker, her feeler antennae were smaller, and she has this adorable little piggy-nose face. Smaller, darker legs, too. While milipedes are docile herbivores, I think centipedes are actually carnivores. Could always look up the differences on Wikipedia.com. Hope this sheds some light on things ^_^
Cool. thanks for the info. I wondered if it was a centipede but I thought that it was too big...I always thought that they were tiny...I will definitely look it up! Thanks!!!
That is fine and dandy but it is not the correct criteria to differentiate between centipedes and millipedes. Centipedes have the first pair of legs modified into poison fangs/claws, and the body segments do not fuse in a pairwise fashion during embryogenesis. While Millipedes do not have the first pair of legs modified into poison claws, and during embryogenesis most of the body segments fuse pairwise resulting in each 'segment' in a postembryonic critter bearing two pairs of legs. You can slightly see the pairwise grouped legs on this specimen. Thus I would put my money on it been a Millipede.


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James Cameron's Avatar is finally out, and it dominated at theaters. Everyone I know who saw it said "Definitely spring for the 3-D showings." In a column for the New York Times, Neil Genzlinger recalls some of his favorite special effects from his childhood, and bemoans how easy it is to see through them when armed with a DVD and slow motion. Dave Itzkoff followed up on the Arts Blog, and included video of some of Genzlinger's formerly favorite pre-CGI scenes.
Genzlinger's taken some heat in the comments section — and indeed, in this very office — for ruining his own sense of wonder with the use of slow-mo, and for ever even believing the stunts in the first place. I'll leave that first point, but take the second. As special effects advance, it's easy to look back at old tricks of the trade and scoff. But, as Barrie reminded us today, it's rumored that when people first saw the above film* in 1896, they screamed and ran from the approaching train. Though that may be a gross exaggeration, it was no doubt unsettling... And the turn-of-the-century audience's reaction, though hard to imagine today, cannot be dismissed as "dumb." We've come a long way, it's true. But damning the wonder of yesterday's cinematic sorcery just doesn't sit right with me.
*I think this film's best viewed without sound — any music on these videos isn't original.
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captured after he fled in a county car he was washing should have
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The inmate, 42-year-old Andy Tyrone Sanford of Quinton,
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Tonight's episode of "Arrow" not only saw the culmination of Darhk's attack on the world, but Oliver's original journey to save Star City.
Tonight's episode of "Arrow" pit Oliver against Thea, Donna against Noah, and Star City in the middle of Damien Darhk's war to end the world.
In next week's season four finale of "Arrow," Damien Darhk releases a war on the streets of Star City.
There are only two episodes left in season four of "Arrow," and CBR has an exclusive clip of Curtis meeting and Noah Kuttler, Felicity's dad.
On tonight's episode of "Arrow" Felicity recruited her father to help stop Darhk's nuclear launch, while Thea faced off against Anarky.
Tom Amandes spoke to CBR News about the Calculator's "mutually beneficial cooperation" with Team Arrow, his relationship with Felicity and more.
On tonight's episode of "Arrow," Oliver discovered Darhk's true intentions for Star City, which turned out to be worse than he could imagine.
On tonight's episode of "Arrow," Laurel Lance was laid to rest and Team Arrow tracked down a Black Canary copycat who was bent on killing the Mayor.
Emily Bett Rickards, who plays Felicity Smoak on The CW's "Arrow," has just been cast in a new sci-fi thriller from Diablo Entertainment.
Tonight on "Arrow," Oliver and Diggle track down Damien Darhk, while Laurel, Thea, and Andy get caught up in a plot involving Malcolm Merlyn.
Tonight's episode of "Arrow" saw the return of Bug-Eyed Bandid, who sent her bees after Felicity in search of the tech that made her walk again.
Cupid was back, Damien Darhk's trial began, and Oliver and Felicity finally made a decision about their relationship on tonight's episode of "Arrow."
In the latest "Arrow" photo, Felicity -- now known as Overwatch -- stands front and center with a T-Sphere in hand.
On tonight's episode of "Arrow," Damien Darhk forces Oliver's hand when he kidnaps his son William, and Team Arrow calls Vixen for help.
Throughout the episode Felicity had to put her feelings aside for the better interest of finding William, but Oliver's secret may be too much.
Chadwick Boseman talks about his Wakanda accent; Geoff Johns compares Patty Jenkins to "Superman" director Richard Donner and more.
Emily Bett Rickards shares her thoughts on Felicity's roller-coaster of a season on "Arrow," including getting engaged and becoming paralyzed.
As Oliver and Felicity's wedding approaches, Oliver must decide if he's going to tell her about his son William, or he will keep William a secret.
On tonight's episode of "Arrow" Oliver had to make a choice between saving the life of his enemy, Malcolm Merlyn, or his sister, Thea Queen.
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After months of speculating Felicity's fate and her new, post-injury code name, tonight "Arrow" revealed what she'll be called within Team Arrow.
"Arrow" executive producer Wendy Mericle hints at the Felicity-Calculator parentage rumor, to be explored later this season.
Last month, "Arrow" ended on a major cliffhanger, and tonight's midseason premiere answered the lingering question of Felicity's fate. SPOILERS!
The return of Colton Haynes as Roy Harper and much more are highlighted in the brand-new trailer for the second half of "Arrow" season four.
A handful of new set photos from the upcoming return of "Arrow" tease a major character's fate following the shocking events of the midseason finale.
"Arrow" winter finales are notorious for dropping huge bombs and cliffhangers, and this episode was no different, as Darhk took his revenge.
Following the events of "Dark Waters," "Arrow" fans will have to wait until 2016 to find out the fate of a main character. SPOILERS!
With the midseason finale of "Arrow" nearly here, a new clip shows Star City under attack during a photo-op for mayoral candidate Oiver Queen.
In a new promo for "Dark Waters," Damien Darhk targets Oliver Queen's family and friends in his war against Star City.
In a new clip from "Brotherhood," Felicity confronts Ray about returning to Palmer Tech, even as he solves a mystery about Darhk's ghosts.
While Damien Darhk sets his sights on Oliver's campaign, Ray Palmer rejoins Team Arrow in photos from "Brotherhood."
Felicity's journey in this episode explores her passion to rescue Ray Palmer, tensions with her mother and her first fight with Oliver.
Team Arrow learns what happened to the Atom in this exclusive clip from tonight's episode.
After the idea of Mama Smoak and Papa Lance hooking up went viral, the actress confirms sparks will fly between them when she returns to "Arrow."
In "Lost Souls," the next episode of "Arrow," Felicity is frantic to track down Ray and enlists the help of Team Arrow in order to do so.
In this week's "Arrow," Captain Lance is forced to deal with dirty cops, Oliver Queen's campaign for mayor and his recently resurrected daughter.
A new clip and behind-the-scenes video for "Beyond Redemption" explores the case of Felicity's mysterious e-mails, Sara's condition and more.
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DURANGO, Colo. - Eric Talburt scored a pair of goals as the Colorado School of Mines handed West Texas A&M a 4-1 loss Friday, the Buffs' first defeat of the season.
WT falls to 5-1-1 on the season.
Talburt got Mines off to a quick start when he scored 3:29 into Friday's match. James Trask added another goal before Collin Mabry scored for the Buffs at the 24:13 mark to cut the deficit to 2-1.
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interview he's ever done. >> i think he has betrayed his country. >> miller: first thing we asked morell about was the last thing he did at cia, taking part in the damage assessment on edward snowden. how serious a threat is that to national security? >> this is the most serious leak, the most serious compromise of classified information in the history of the u.s. intelligence agency. >> >> miller: because of the amount of it or the type in >> the amount and the type. ♪ ♪ >> simon: the phrase "the greatest show on earth" usually refers to the circus, but man named peter gelb who runs the metropolitan opera in new york city is doing everything he can to change that. there's no other place where you can see such monumental staging, elaborate sets and a cast of hundreds. but the met is above all about extraordinary voices, some of the best voices in the world. tonight we're going to take you
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tonight, you will hear for the first time from a security officer who witnessed the attack. he calls himself, morgan jones, a pseudonym he's using for his own safety. a former british soldier, he's been helping to keep u.s. diplomats and military leaders safe for the last decade. on a night he describes as sheer hell, morgan jones snuck into a benghazi hospital that was under the control of al qaeda terrorists, desperate to find out if one of his close friends from the u.s. special mission was the american he'd been told was there. >> morgan jones: i was dreading seeing who it was, you know? it didn't take long to get to the... to the room. and i could see in through the... through the glass. and i didn't even have to go into the room to see who it was. i knew who it was immediately. >> logan: who was it?
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>> jones: it was the ambassador, dead. yeah, shocking. >> logan: morgan jones said he'd never felt so angry in his life. only hours earlier, ambassador chris stevens had sought him out, concerned about the security at the u.s. special mission compound where morgan was in charge of the libyan guard force. now, the ambassador was dead and the u.s. compound was engulfed in flames and overrun by dozens of heavily armed fighters. although the attack began here, the more organized assault unfolded about a mile across the city at a top secret c.i.a. facility known as the annex. it lasted more than seven hours and took four american lives. >> carney: we do not have any indication at this point of premeditation or preplanned
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attacks. >> logan: contrary to the white house's public statements, which were still being made a full week later, it's now well established that the americans were attacked by al qeada in a well-planned assault. five months before that night, morgan jones first arrived in benghazi, in eastern libya about 400 miles from the capital, tripoli. he thought this would be an easy assignment compared to afghanistan and iraq. but on his first drive through benghazi, he noticed the black flags of al qaeda flying openly in the streets and he grew concerned about the guard force as soon as he pulled up to the u.s. compound. >> jones: there was nobody there that we could see. and then we realized they were all inside drinkin' tea, laughin' and jokin'. >> logan: what did you think? >> instantly i thought we're gonna have to get rid of all these guys. >> logan: morgan jones' job was training the unarmed guards who manned the compound's gates.
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a second libyan force-- an armed militia hired by the state department-- was supposed to defend the compound in the event of an attack. morgan had nothing to do with the militia, but they worried him so much, he could not keep quiet. >> jones: i was saying, "these guys are no good. you need to... you need to get 'em out of here." >> logan: you also kept saying, "if this place is attacked these guys are not gonna stand and fight?" >> jones: yeah. i used to say it all the time. yeah, in the end i got quite bored of hearing my own voice saying it. >> andy wood: we had one option: "leave benghazi or you will be killed." >> logan: green beret commander lieutenant colonel andy wood was one of the top american security officials in libya. based in tripoli, he met with ambassador stevens every day. the last time he went to benghazi was in june, just three months before the attack. while he was there, al qaeda tried to assassinate the british
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ambassador. wood says, to him, it came as no surprise because al qaeda-- using a familiar tactic-- had stated their intent in an online posting, saying they would attack the red cross, the british and then the americans in benghazi. >> logan: and you watched as they... >> wood: as they did each one of those. >> logan: attacked the red cross and the british mission. and the only ones left... >> wood: were us. they made good on two out of the three promises. it was a matter of time till they-they captured the third one. >> logan: and washington was aware of that? >> wood: they knew we monitored it. we included that in our... in our reports to both state department and d.o.d. >> logan: andy wood told us he raised his concerns directly with ambassador stevens three months before the u.s. compound was overrun. >> wood: i made it known in a country team meeting, "you are gonna get attacked. you are gonna get attacked in benghazi. it's gonna happen. you need to change your security profile." >> logan: "shut down..." >> wood: "shut down..." >> logan: "the special mission..." >> wood: "shut down operations.
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move out temporarily. or change locations within the city. do somethin' to break up the profile because you are being targeted. they are... they are... they are watching you. the attack cycle is such that they're in the final planning stages." >> logan: wait a minute, you said, "they're in the final planning stages of an attack on the american mission in benghazi"? >> wood: it was apparent to me that that was the case. reading... reading all these other attacks that were occurring, i could see what they were staging up to, it was... it was obvious. >> logan: we have learned the u.s. already knew that this man, senior al qaeda leader abu anas al libi, was in libya, tasked by the head of al qaeda to establish a clandestine terrorist network inside the country. al-libi was already wanted for his role in bombing two u.s. embassies in africa. >> greg hicks: it was a frightening piece of information. >> logan: because it meant what?
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>> hicks: it raised the stakes, changed the game. >> logan: greg hicks, who testified before congress earlier this year, was ambassador stevens' deputy, based in tripoli, a 22-year veteran of the foreign service with an impeccable reputation. logan: and in that environment you were asking for more security assets and you were not getting them? >> hicks: that's right. >> logan: did you fight that? >> hicks: i was in the process of trying to frame a third request, but it was not allowed to go forward. >> logan: so why didn't you get the help that you needed and that you asked for? >> hicks: i really, really don't know. i, in fact, would like to know that... the answer to that question. >> logan: in the months prior to the attack, ambassador stevens approved a series of detailed cables to washington, specifically mentioning, among other things, "the al qaeda flag has been spotted several times flying over government
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buildings." when the attack began on the evening of september 11, ambassador stevens immediately called greg hicks, who was back in tripoli. >> hicks: ambassador said that the consulate's under attack. and then the line cut. >> logan: do you remember the sound of his voice? >> hicks: oh yeah, it's indelibly imprinted on my mind. >> logan: how did he sound? >> hicks: he sounded frightened. >> logan: in benghazi, morgan jones, who was at his apartment about 15 minutes away, got a frantic call from one of his libyan guards. >> jones: i could hear gunshots. and he said, "there's-there's men coming into the mission." his voice, he was... he was scared, you could tell he was really scared and he was running. i could tell he was running. >> logan: his first thought was for his american friends, the
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state department agents who were pinned down inside the compound, and he couldn't believe it when one of them answered his phone. >> jones: i said, "what's going on?" he said, "we're getting attacked." and i said, "how many?" and he said, "they're all over the compound." and i felt shocked. i didn't know what to say. and i said, "well, just keep fighting. i'm on my way." >> logan: morgan's guards told him the armed libyan militia that was supposed to defend the compound had fled, just as morgan had predicted. his guards-- unarmed and terrified-- sounded the alarm, but they were instantly overwhelmed by the attackers. >> jones: they said, "we're here to kill americans, not libyans," so they'd give 'em a good beating-- pistol whip them, beat them with their rifles-- and let them go. >> logan: "we're here to kill americans." >> jones: that's what they said, yeah. >> logan: not libyans. >> jones: yeah. >> logan: about 30 minutes into the attack, a quick reaction force from the c.i.a. annex
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ignored orders to wait and raced to the compound, at times running and shooting their way through the streets just to get there. inside the compound, they repelled a force of as many as 60 armed terrorists and managed to save five american lives and recover the body of foreign service officer, sean smith. they were forced to fight their way out before they could find the ambassador. not long afterwards, morgan jones scaled the 12-foot-high wall of the compound that was still overrun with al qaeda fighters. >> jones: one guy saw me. he just shouted. i couldn't believe that he'd seen me 'cause it was so dark. he started walking towards me. >> logan: and as he was coming closer? >> jones: as i got closer, i just hit him with the butt of the rifle in the face. >> logan: and? >> jones: oh, he went down, yeah. >> logan: he dropped?
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>> jones: yeah, like a stone. >> logan: with his face smashed in? >> jones: yeah. >> logan: and no one saw you do it? >> jones: no. >> logan: or heard it? >> jones: no, there was too much noise. >> logan: the same force that had gone to the compound was now defending the c.i.a. annex. hours later, they were joined by a small team of americans from tripoli. from defensive positions on these rooftops, the americans fought back a professional enemy. in a final wave of intense fighting just after 5:00 a.m., the attackers unleashed a barrage of mortars. three of them slammed into this roof, killing former navy seals tyrone woods and glen doherty. >> logan: they hit that roof three times. >> wood: they hit those roofs three times. >> logan: in the dark. >> wood: yeah, that's getting the basketball through the hoop over your shoulder. >> logan: what does it take to pull off an attack like that? >> wood: coordination, planning, training, experienced personnel.
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they practice those things. they knew what they were doing. that was a... that was a well- executed attack. >> logan: we have learned that there were two delta force operators who fought at the annex and they've since been awarded the distinguished service cross and the navy cross, two of the military's highest honors. the americans who rushed to help that night went without asking for permission, and the lingering question is why no larger military response ever crossed the border into libya-- something greg hicks realized wasn't going to happen just an hour into the attack. you have this conversation with the defense attaché. you ask him what military assets are on their way. and he says... >> hicks: effectively, they're not. and i... for a moment, i just felt lost. i just couldn't believe the answer.
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and then i made the call to the annex chief, and i told him, "listen, you've gotta tell those guys there may not be any help coming." >> logan: that's a tough thing to understand. why? >> hicks: it just is. we... for us, for the people that go out onto the edge, to represent our country, we believe that if we get in trouble, they're coming to get us. that our back is covered. to hear that it's not, it's a terrible, terrible experience. >> logan: the u.s. government today acknowledges the americans at the u.s. compound in benghazi were not adequately protected, and says those who carried out the attack are still being hunted down. just a few weeks ago, abu anas al-libi was captured for his
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role in the africa bombings and the u.s. is still investigating what part he may have played in benghazi. we've learned that this man, sufian bin qumu, a former guantanamo bay detainee and long-time al qaeda operative, was one of the lead planners along with faraj al-chalabi, whose ties to osama bin laden go back more than 15 years. he's believed to have carried documents from the compound to the head of al qaeda in pakistan. the morning after the attack, morgan jones went back to the compound one last time to document the scene. he took these photos, which he gave to the f.b.i., and has published in a book he has written. after all this time, he told us he's still haunted by a conversation he had with foreign service officer sean smith a week before the attack. >> jones: yeah, he was worried.
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he wasn't happy with the security. >> logan: and you didn't tell him all your worries? >> jones: no. no, didn't want to... >> logan: why not? >> jones: i didn't want to worry him anymore, you know? he's a nice guy. i sort of promised him he'd be okay. >> logan: you think about that? >> jones: every day, yeah. >> logan: the u.s. pulled out of benghazi and al qaeda has grown in power across libya. when a member of our team went to the u.s. compound earlier this month, he found remnants of the americans' final frantic moments still scattered on the ground. among them: ambassador stevens' official schedule for september 12, 2012, a day he didn't live to see. it's simple physics...
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room for almost every important decision. mike morell was deputy director of the c.i.a., and gave us the only television interview he's ever done. he spoke to us, largely because he believes the very nature of the spy business keeps successes in the shadows, but often pushes failure into the bright lights. morell operated in those shadows, but his insights have helped shape the key foreign policy decisions of the last three presidents. the first thing we asked morell about was the last thing he did at the c.i.a.: taking part in the damage assessment on edward snowden, the n.s.a. contractor who leaked classified documents about america's secret electronic surveillance programs. >> mike morell: i do not believe he was a whistleblower. i do not believe he is a hero. i think he has betrayed his country. >> miller: how serious a hit is that to national security? >> morell: i think this is the most serious leak-- the most serious compromise of classified information in the history of the u.s. intelligence community. >> miller: because of the amount of it? or the type?
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>> morell: the amount and the type. >> miller: but of the hundreds of pages of n.s.a. documents that snowden has leaked, morell pointed to one in particular that has caused a great deal of damage to u.s. intelligence. it's a copy of the top secret document the c.i.a. calls its" black budget." what value would that have to an adversary? >> morell: the real damage of leaking that document was that certainly they could focus their counter-intelligence efforts on those places where we're being successful and not have to worry as much about those places where we're not being successful. >> miller: kinda like handing over the playbook... >> morell: uh-huh. >> miller: ...to the other team? >> morell: uh-huh. >> miller: he went first to hong kong and then to russia. do you think that china and russia now have access to all or much of that material? >> morell: i think we have to assume that any material that mr. snowden had with him has been compromised.
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>> miller: protecting secrets is so engrained in the c.i.a. culture that cell phones aren't even allowed in the building. meetings are held in lead-lined rooms called secure compartmented intelligence facilities, or scifs, and if there is one room where they discuss the most closely guarded secrets of all it is the c.i.a. director's conference room. >> morell: on an average day, you know, we're making... we're making hundreds of decisions, a good number of them in this room. and they range across the entirety of the national security issues that this country faces. >> miller: mike morell joined the c.i.a. in 1980 as an energy policy analyst. a self-described nerd, he wanted adventure, and he would soon find plenty of it, as he rose through the ranks and became the key intelligence briefer for president george w. bush. morell traveled with the president wherever he went and was with him at a florida elementary school on september 11, 2001. >> morell: and what i'm actually
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standing there thinking is "i wonder how long we're gonna be here" because everybody knows the president was gonna be at this school on this date. and "is somebody gonna fly a plane into this place?" >> miller: morell would travel back to washington with the president. he was busy reviewing early intelligence the c.i.a. had collected, when he was told to look out the window of air force one. >> morell: and what you could see was an f-15 on the wing tip. you could see the pilot's face. and in the background, you could see the still burning pentagon. and that is a memory i'll never forget. >> miller: the c.i.a. launched a plan to dismantle al-qaeda and even today, the single most controversial piece of that strategy was the use of" enhanced interrogation techniques." let me read you a list of some of the techniques that were used by the c.i.a. to get information: waterboarding, hitting, bouncing suspects off walls, confining them in small spaces, loud music, sleep deprivation,
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nudity, keeping suspects in physical stress positions. if these were americans being held overseas by a foreign power, would we have called that torture? >> morell: i actually, john, want to challenge you on the word "torture." my officers carried out the guidance that was provided to them in both administrations, and obviously that was differing guidance. what's my view? my view was that those coercive techniques were the wrong thing to do. my view was that those techniques were inconsistent with american values. and for that reason i don't think they should have been done. >> miller: no top c.i.a. official has ever said that before. in morell's 33 years in the c.i.a., perhaps the boldest change in how the agency achieved results came literally out of the blue: armed drones in the skies over afghanistan,
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pakistan, somalia and yemen became the go-to weapon to kill al-qaeda terrorist. but the u.n. and others have said they have also caused hundreds of civilian fatalities. >> morell: this is a very precise weapon. collateral damage is very low. it's not zero, i wish it was. but it is as close to zero as we have gotten with any weapons system in the history of this country. there is no doubt in my mind that without these operations, that there would have been another attack in the homeland that would have rivaled the scale of 9/11. >> miller: to pave the way for military and intelligence operations including the use of drones, the c.i.a. has reportedly supplied between $50 and $100 million over the past decade, in direct cash payoffs to president karzai. foreign aid is one thing, but
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cash in suitcases and backpacks to the president and key aides has a different feel to it. >> morell: it's all foreign assistance to the government of afghanistan. >> miller: is there a quid pro quo here about you take care of me, and i'll allow unfettered drone operations in the country even though they're unpopular? >> morell: i think that those things that president karzai allows the united states of america to do in afghanistan are in the interests of afghanistan. >> miller: the c.i.a. has paid in cash, but also in blood during the war in afghanistan. at the agency's headquarters stars are etched into the marble marking the number of c.i.a. officers killed throughout the agency's history. a ledger contains a list of names, but some remain classified. when i look here, i see forward operating base chapman, probably if not the worst, one of the worst, days for losses in c.i.a.
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history. >> morell: absolutely. december, 2009-- we lost seven officers. it happened at this base in the khost province of afghanistan. a team of c.i.a. officers waited for this man, humam al-balawi. >> morell: somebody that we hoped to be an asset of ours in this fight had essentially double-crossed us and detonated a suicide vest. >> miller: this was the first time that a c.i.a. asset killed his case officer. >> miller: but while the attack in khost was the biggest loss of life for the c.i.a. since the start of the afghan war, the biggest loss of credibility came with the intelligence that led to the invasion of iraq. >> morell: i think that my biggest mistake was not in scrubbing that analysis more closely. i wish i would have done that.
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>> miller: after iraq, c.i.a. analysts were required to not just analyze the intelligence but also give an assessment of their level of confidence in what the agency's spies were reporting. >> morell: and so what we really learned from that experience was that analysts need to think about their confidence level and to be very, very clear with policy makers about it. >> miller: that would happen today? >> morell: that would happen today. >> miller: as a matter of discipline? >> morell: as a matter of course. as a matter of discipline, as a matter of the trade craft of doing intelligence analysis. >> miller: and that, morell says, was a key factor when the analysts were asked how sure they were osama bin laden would be found hiding in this compound in abbottabad. >> morell: the lead analyst put the number at 95%. the collective group of analysts put that number at 80%. when i said 60, the president asked me, "do you think we should do this?" and i said absolutely because i thought it was the best chance we ever had and might be the best chance we would have for a
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long, long time. >> miller: this photo, taken in the white house situation room on the night of the raid, was seen everywhere, but the operation was actually being run at c.i.a. headquarters, inside this room. >> morell: place was packed with people. computers everywhere, video conferencing with folks in afghanistan, the white house, folks at the pentagon. and just an awful lot of activity when the director and i walked in. >> miller: a picture captures the moment when mike morell and then c.i.a. director leon panetta heard the news bin laden had been killed. >> morell: and that's when they said, "geronimo, for god and country, geronimo." and the director and i gave each other a hug at that point. it wasn't a hug of happiness that bin laden had been killed; it was a hug of "this is over. this-this piece of this story is over." >> miller: today, bin laden's
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gun-- which was never fired on the night of the raid- as well as the scale model of bin laden's compound are on display at c.i.a. headquarters, and as mike morell finishes a career of 33 years assessing the strength and weaknesses of nations, he believes america can manage most external threats. but as an analyst he sees our greatest vulnerability is one generated right here at home. >> morell: what really keeps me up at night is the inability of our government to make decisions that will push our economy and our society forward. and one of the things i learned looking at the world is that a country's national security-- any country's national security-- is more dependent on the strength of its economy and on the strength of its society than anything else. i think there is for some reason that i don't understand, john, there's been a change from a willingness of the two parties to work together to get things done to today, the two parties
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sends it over the internet so you can go find exactly where those open parking spots are. the collaboration with citi was important for providing us the necessary financing; allow this small start-up to go provide a service to municipalities. citi has been an incredible source of advice, how to engage with municipalities, how to structure deals, and as we think about internationally, citi is there every step of the way. so the end result is you reduce congestion, you reduce pollution and you provide a service to merchants, and that certainly is huge. >> simon: the phrase "the greatest show on earth" usually refers to the circus, but a man named peter gelb, who runs the metropolitan opera in new york city, is doing everything he can to change that.
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he is reinventing opera, making it accessible to more people, even those who always thought they would hate it. gelb wants opera to become as popular and populist as it was a hundred years ago. he believes people would come out in droves for opera if they just had a chance to see it. ♪ ♪ there's no other place where you can see such monumental staging, elaborate sets and a cast of hundreds. ♪ ♪ and raw emotion... beautiful women... defiant...and doomed. ♪ ♪
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and special effects that you might expect to find in a hollywood movie. ♪ ♪ but it's not just about the magic, the met is above all about extraordinary voices... some of the very best voices in the world. beginning with rehearsals, we followed a new production, a reimagining of giuseppe verdi's masterpiece "rigoletto." polish tenor piotr bezcala belts out one of verdi's greatest hits. what's the difference between singing at the met and singing in the smaller european houses? >> piotr beczala: it's the most
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important opera house in the world. >> simon: do you get more nervous before met performance than at other performances? >> beczala: maybe a little. maybe a little because i know how important is... it is here. >> simon: serbian baritone zjelko lucic sings the role of rigoletto. ♪ ♪ >> zeljko lucic: this is the kind of crown of our business, coming to new york and metropolitan.
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because i know what kind of people, what singers sang here and stood at the same place where i am. >> simon: in fact, when you sing the first time at the met, is it a very big deal? >> lucic: yes, because that's your chance to prove yourself. and if you are, you know, if you... how can i say, blew it out? >> simon: if you blow it? >> lucic: if you blow it, you're done. that's it. >> simon: unlike divas of the past german soprano diana damrau is a working mom, nursing a two month old baby and a cold. she has a lot to contend with. >> simon: you were quite sick last week? >> diana damrau: yes. i'm still a bit. but i tried not to sing all the time, and reduce a little bit. >> simon: just a little bit, i mean you were belting it out. >> damrau: oh, no, only at the end.
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♪ ♪ >> simon: "rigoletto" is far from the only thing going on here today. there can be as many as ten operas in production at once. right now the met stage is being set up for a new version of richard wagner's "parsifal," a sacred opera that's never been done like this before. dozens of raven-haired maidens sloshing around in a river of blood. 1,600 gallons of the stuff, heated so the singers don't get cold. overseeing all this is that worried-looking man, peter gelb,
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the met's general manager. he says opera is a blood sport. >> gelb: i go in every day to the met knowing that this is... there is a battle to be... to be waged and fought for the survival of this art form. and so i'm here to do that. >> simon: this is your seventh year at the met? >> gelb: yes. still here. ( laughs ) >> simon: seven years micromanaging one of the biggest theatres in the world, and one of the most expensive to run. the met employs over 3,000 people. it spends more than a million dollars a day on its productions. >> gelb: we are the closest thing to an opera factory that one could possibly imagine, except the difference is that all of our factory workers are the greatest artists in the world. >> right now. we got it. >> wahoo! >> gelb: we're doing seven performances a week, constantly going from opera to opera, which is why our stage is busier than any other opera house in the world. it's like a giant, self- sufficient ocean liner. >> simon: but that liner was in
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danger of sinking when gelb took over in 2006. it was awash in debt with falling attendance and an audience which might not be around much longer. >> gelb: it was way behind the times. and it had become so mired in images of elitism that unless that changed, unless it was prepared to become accessible, as opera once had been, it was going to be very difficult for the met to survive. >> simon: to make opera more accessible, gelb opened up dress rehearsals to the public for free and put up huge screens in lincoln center and times square. and he did something which has never been done before: he began transmitting live performances in hd to movie theaters around the world, now in 64 countries. those broadcasts are money makers; this year they grossed nearly $60 million, more than three-quarters of total tickets
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sold. >> gelb: there's no opera company in the world today that has a global audience that the met has because of these live hd transmissions. >> simon: but you're still a hundred million dollars in debt. how does that relate to everything you've done? >> gelb: opera's always in debt. from a business point of view, opera shouldn't exist. i mean, it only exists because there are enough people who love opera, and my job is to try to persuade them that it is necessary to change in order to keep the art form alive. otherwise... otherwise it will die with them. >> simon: one of gelb's strategies to keep opera alive is to update the classics, like "rigoletto." after four weeks of rehearsals it's opening night. "rigoletto" has been performed over 800 times here but this audience, almost 4,000 here and another 350,000 watching in hd as far away as tokyo, is about to see a radically different version.
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ten minutes before curtain, you can cut the tension with an a flat. ♪ >> beczala: okay, i'm ready. >> lucic: it seems that i'm not nervous. but, yeah, of course i am. this is a big thing, so i'm kind of, you know, cooking somewhere here, you have this feeling that everything's... that you are going to throw up. ( laughs ) >> gilda to stage right, please. ms. damrau to stage right. >> please. >> maestro to the pit, please. maestro to the orchestra pit, please.
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>> simon: giuseppe verdi set his tale of debauchery, lust, and vengeance in a corrupt court in 16th-century italy. this one plays out in its modern equivalent: las vegas in the 1960s. ♪ the heartthrob, the duke, is now a big shot singer and casino owner with an eye for the ladies. ♪ the met provides subtitles for its hd broadcasts, and those have been revamped too. ♪ >> take it easy, fella.
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>> simon: it's a big role of the dice for peter gelb. will the old guard be ready for show girls, a pole dancer, even a sharp-dressed hit man? his name is sparafucile, one of the longest names in opera. ♪ >> simon: when you decided to put on "rigoletto," in las vegas, what worried you the most? >> gelb: that i was heading for a disaster, but it's a risk worth taking. >> simon: the risk of doing nothing is the greatest risk of all. in the last act the mood changes. rigoletto will not have a happy ending. very few operas do. >> damrau: let's go and die.
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>> lucic: yeah, but peacefully. ♪ >> simon: the plot is much too complicated to explain, but we'll just tell you rigoletto's daughter sacrifices herself to save the duke. ♪ it will be a spectacular death scene, with the met pulling out all its stops from the chorus backstage, to the lighting team, to the hd crew sending it out live around the world. the hitman offs the daughter and stuffs her into the trunk of a 1960 cadillac coupe deville. she breathes her last in her father's arms. >> ready on three. wait for it.
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♪ ♪ >> simon: at the final curtain, the audience jumps to its feet, even the orchestra applauds.
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On the Friday before Christmas of 2012, a day that some people predicted to be the end of the world, chef Robert Phalen invited about a dozen chefs into his restaurant, One Eared Stag, to prepare an apocalyptic-sized feast. There is nothing convenient or simple about inviting 12 knife-wielding control freaks into a space built for one; conventional wisdom tells us what to expect from too many cooks in the kitchen. Logistics and proverbs be damned, Phalen and company expanded his cozy neighborhood kitchen into a sprawling makeshift cookery that included a storage room transformed into a banquet table for cold plating, a sidewalk commandeered for tabletop Binchotan charcoal grilling, a trailer-sized smoker parked outside the back door, and a kitchen line that turned over like a well-oiled revolving door. The kitchen worked late into the night, the world did not end, and, at some point, I realized that I had spent the last year worrying about Atlanta, about the past, and about the South in general. But by the end of the evening, I had also decided that I wasn't as worried about those questions anymore.
If that feels like an odd statement to make about what was, essentially, a bombastic dinner party, so be it. I find it increasingly hard to differentiate between my own experiences dining in Atlanta and an objective consideration of the restaurant scene here. That might be an indication of my failings as a reporter or, I hope, a sense of perspective that comes from trying to immerse myself in the culinary life of our city. Either way, what I'm saying is that the dinner felt to me like a sea change in Atlanta dining and I'd like to explain to you why.
On the Sunday before that dinner, I spent the afternoon watching a matinee dance performance at the Goat Farm. Afterward, a couple of friends and dancers and I decided to drop into One Eared Stag for cocktails and a few small bites. Not long after we arrived, AJC dining critic John Kessler walked in with a friend. A little while later, Atlanta magazine's dining critic Bill Addison arrived with Kim Severson, the Atlanta bureau chief for the New York Times and author of a number of food-related books. Picture that: a restaurant with a food writer for every table.
I spent some time that night trying to make a joke out of it. What's the punch line to "Four food writers walk into a bar ..."? At least for me, the gist of it was a minor existential crisis: "Is Atlanta really that small of a city?"
Most of the chefs I've talked with in recent months aren't wringing their hands and furrowing their brows about Atlanta's relationship to other cities in the country, about whether or not we have an image problem, about how much (or little) we're living up to that world-class city status that the Olympics supposedly cemented. They've got more pressing concerns, like food costs or how to find a line cook who'll stick around.
On the other hand, most of the writers I know in Atlanta are, at least occasionally, worried about those questions. This perception was perhaps exacerbated by my time as deputy food editor earlier this year at Atlanta magazine, during which I worked on a themed issue that gravitated around the questions "How Southern are we? (and should we even care?)" It is a good issue as far as magazines go. The editors there managed to wrangle a number of smart, articulate people to weigh in on those Southern concerns. I can't say that I had much of anything to do with it. I filed a few short features and occasionally sat at the conference table while discussions were had about it. But after the issue went to press, I was still troubling over those questions, turning them over until they became little polished stones, easier to look at than in.
When I wasn't in Atlanta, I spent a lot of time in New York this past year, mostly in the East Village, mostly drinking and eating as much as my body would allow. More than a few of those afternoons were spent sitting at Ssäm Bar, eating bowls of duck and rice with my girlfriend, and talking about what it means to live in a Southern city, or what it means for anything to be "Southern" at all. Eventually, that became a question of Atlanta versus New York or, more accurately, Atlanta's relationship to New York.
At Ssäm Bar, we always ordered a plate of country ham first, usually Benton's. Ssäm Bar treats that ham without kitsch or gimmick. The dish is simply a plate of good country ham served thin and uncooked, as literal as Pacific Coast oysters. Between those smoky, fatty bites, we tussled with a little problem: that almost nothing ever arrives from the South as unburdened and unadorned as that ham. Southern culture always seems to come with the kind of unwieldy baggage that threatens to upstage the thing itself, like a trout meunière drowning in its own sauce.


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Amid the fanfare over the new vision for Ontario Place and its inclusion of mixed-use residential development onsite, concerns are being voiced by politicians and urban designers about how the transit needs of residents and visitors will be met and paid for.
Direct TTC bus service, a new LRT line and a local streetcar loop are recommendations included in a 55-page report by the panel charged with making over the shuttered tourist attraction.
The panel, chaired by CivicAction head John Tory, recommends public-private partnerships to fund new lines in the underserved area. The TTC's 29 Dufferin bus route is currently the only direct transit link to Ontario Place and has irregular summer and non-summer hours.
Local Councillor Mike Layton, whose ward includes Ontario Place, said Friday that the report does not provide enough explanation about funding additional transit lines.
"This is a hard infrastructure piece that the city's really not in a position to pay for," he said. "We're having difficulty delivering transit to the surrounding community that's already there, let alone a community that they might want to build there."
The report suggests extending Dufferin Street farther south to Lake Shore Boulevard to provide direct bus access to the area. A proposed TTC LRT line would run along Lake Shore Boulevard from Remembrance Drive and meet the Dufferin Street extension.
Councillor Peter Milczyn, chair of the city's planning committee and a member of the TTC commission, said getting transit to the site and to the entire western waterfront is key. "If you are going to make it more of a year-round area where people are living, working, and there are more entertainment options, then you've got to upgrade transit," he said, referring to the proposal to bring back the free concert venue, the Forum.
The panel also proposes extending the current streetcar loop from Exhibition Place farther south through Ontario Place, an addition provincial transit authority Metrolinx estimates will cost $100-million.
Mr. Tory said that although the pricetag is hefty, any option is preferable to the current lack of transit.
"It's certainly unacceptable for a much more active site like we contemplate in our report where people actually live, study, work and come there to visit," he said.
However, he noted that public-private partnerships to raise the funds may be tricky. Mr. Tory warned against Ontario Place becoming a "wall of high-rise condos" in exchange for money from developers to be funnelled towards transit.
"They'll say, 'We'll give you an extra $25-million to help enhance transit, but you have to let us build 10 more storeys on those buildings,'" Mr. Tory explained. "Even then, if I was sitting at the government table, I would say, 'No thank you.'"
Mr. Layton said many of the report's other recommendations – such as keeping the area publicly accessible and prioritizing green space – were "expected," but commended the panel for advising against the development of a casino and suggesting Ontario Place be open year-round. Mr. Layton said he thinks bringing the Forum back is a "fantastic idea," but wants it to remain free.
"If we're now looking for financial mechanisms to play for it, that works against what was so great about the Forum," he said.
Ken Greenberg, a Toronto architect who worked as a consultant on a 2004 report about the future of Ontario Place, said the proposed LRT line and streetcar loop would benefit not only Ontario Place, but the Exhibition and Liberty Village as well.
Keeping the space public, opening pedestrian and transit access and rejecting over-commercialization will bring Ontario Place back to its roots, he said. However, he said, it's easier to write reports than to execute them.
"What people should be mindful of now is what are the implementation strategies that will be put in place to actually make this come to pass," he said. "And sooner rather than later, because it's quite sad to see that site sitting there all boarded up."
- With files from Elizabeth Church
Councillor Ford unimpressed
Councillor Doug Ford, who faced strong criticism for suggesting the redevelopment of the eastern Port Lands at the mouth of the Don River include a megamall, Ferris wheel and monorail, said he wonders why those same critics aren't upset by the Ontario Place proposal.
"You know what I find ironic?" said the mayor's brother. "Doesn't the Ontario Place proposal sound awful familiar, with the exception of the Ferris wheel – mixed use, residential, commercial? Everyone is embracing it. 'Oh isn't this wonderful.' I'm thinking next time I will get a John Tory to present my deal.
"We propose one thing, we get shot down. They propose it – almost identical – and everything is hunky dory."
- Elizabeth Church
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