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Celine Dion wants to come back to the main scene. So, obviously she will opt for the best writer out there right now for her lead single, "Love Me Back To Life." We only wish that Sia Furler actually sang it herself.
Celine Dion wants to come back to the main scene. So, obviously she will opt for the best writer out there right now for her lead single, "Love Me Back To Life." We only wish that Sia Furler actually sang it herself.
Katy Perry just tweeted that Sia Furler is in the studio with her writing some songs for the next album. Yes, Sia, who has no time for her original fans anymore, is writing for the blandest of the them all – Katy Perry.
Oh em gee @siamusic just showed me her pubes. Yeah songwriting!
— Katy Perry (@katyperry) January 10, 2013
Of course this doesn't make us happy as we have been anticipating a new Sia album for a while now but it seems that the original people who supported her will have to wait some more for another MOR hit penned by Sia. Sia, we are only doing this because we love you and we love to hear you r vocals on your words. Continue reading
We always knew that it would sound better if SiA sang it. We also this Christina Aguilera's "Blank Page" would have gotten a better treatment had SiA saved it for her own album, which looks like it won't see the light of day anytime soon. Even, "Kill, Fuck, Marry" would have been saved by SiA had she done her vocal acrobatics on it! Continue reading
Hello All, it's time you told me what you think are the standout tracks on Christina Aguilera's "Lotus to post on @loft965!
— Nasser AlQatami (@nasque) November 10, 2012
@nasque lotus intro and blank page<3
— فَص. (@F9AlShareef) November 11, 2012
@nasque literally nothing.
— Omar AlQadhi (@jvdge) November 11, 2012
@nasque Cease Fire, Best of Me, and Circles
— Fahad (@Fhaid) November 11, 2012
Hahaha RT @recentstudies: Dirrty, Cruz, and Can't Hold Us Down. RT @nasque: What are your favorite tracks from Christina Aguilera's "Lotus?"
— Omar AlQadhi (@jvdge) November 11, 2012
@recentstudies @nasque lool exactly! Its even worse than Bionic. Stripped > all her other albums combined
— Omar AlQadhi (@jvdge) November 11, 2012
I like "Circles" and "Red Hot Kinda Love" and the "Intro"
— Nasser AlQatami (@nasque) November 11, 2012
Photo: My favorite song from #lotus tmblr.co/ZmskuxX2NntY
— Neuri Y. M. Ortiz (@TheRealNYmo) November 11, 2012
Can't choose wich song is my favorite. Omg they're all so gooood! #Lotus
— CHANEL (@chantalbooi) November 9, 2012
OMG "circles" is my favorite song so far. #Lotus #Floptina
— James (@JAD6126) November 5, 2012
Nikki Williams, who is sure to be one of the most talked-about breakthrough artists of 2013, has released a video for her buzz single "Kill, Fuck, Marry." The provocative song was written by Sia, who penned Rihanna's latest hit "Diamonds." The video features Austin Sanderson, who is one of Cosmo's "50 Most Eligible Bachelors" in this month's issue.
Christina Aguilera is getting ready to release her make-or-break album Lotus. Surely, the second single off of the album must be a ballad. Yes, "Blank Page" is a Sia-penned slow one that is set to pave the way for the album's promotional campaign.
However, as much as we love Sia, this is definitely not the track to catapult Christina Aguilera's career back to its glory. In fact, its one of the worst ballads we had heard by Xtina.
Let's hope it's just a buzz single to generate some attention for the shaky Lotus, whose first single, much like "Not Myself Tonight" for Bionic, didn't garner enough mainstream attention for the album's launch.


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America has begun the hard work of rebuilding our infrastructure. … We need to repair our existing infrastructure, and invest in the infrastructure of tomorrow including high-speed rail, high-tech schools, and power grids that are resilient to future extreme conditions." — President Barack Obama, in his proposed fiscal year 2014 budget
With these words, President Obama last week put forward his FY 2014 budget plan, which included a historic pairing of issues that deserve careful attention: infrastructure and resilience. Two of the lynchpin proposals unveiled in the president's larger budget blueprint were a major new program for infrastructure reconstruction and a plan for improving the resilience of American communities in a rapidly changing global climate. The linking of these two issues is essential to addressing perhaps the greatest challenge facing the U.S. economy and America's competitive footing in a generation: retooling the infrastructure of the U.S. economy to operate on clean energy systems capable of averting the worst damage resulting from global climate change.
As the administration is getting to work defending the principles within the president's proposals, another noteworthy event is taking place this week in Washington, D.C.: Former President Bill Clinton and a group of the nation's leading mayors will meet with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the AFL-CIO, and other private-sector leaders to discuss in detail how local governments are already moving forward on this challenge, and discuss ways to drive private-sector investment into the publicly beneficial infrastructure underpinning our economy.
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HARRISBURG - Miles Durham, who spent parts of four seasons with the Curve, including 2012, was released by the Pirates organization Thursday.
The 28-year-old Durham was drafted by Pittsburgh in the 22nd round of the 2006 MLB draft, and the utility outfielder/infielder spent his entire professional career in the Pirates organization until his release.
"[Durham] is every manager's dream," Curve manager P.J. Forbes said. "The way he goes about it, [he's] professional. It's tough [to tell someone they're released]. It's the worst job a manager has, especially when it's a guy like him."
This year, Durham hit .259 (which is also his career average) with two homers and 14 RBIs in 40 games with the Curve since being called down from Triple-A Indianapolis in mid May.
In 2010, when the Curve won the Eastern League title, Durham had his most productive campaign in Altoona. Two seasons ago, Durham was the primary right fielder for the Curve and he drove in 69 runs, while hitting .259 in 136 appearances.
"He's one of those guys, no matter in terms of how he's playing offensively, he's going to give you everything he's got," said pitcher Mike Colla, Durham's teammate in 2010. "You here the cliche 110 percent, well he legitimately is that guy. He's a guy who is going to break through an outfield wall if he needs to or body up on a groundball."
Durham did have his chances in Triple-A as he spent time with Indianapolis in 2011 and started there this season, however he never got it going at the next level.
Last year, Durham was called up to Indianapolis at the end of May and hit .233 with two home runs and 24 RBIs in 74 games. This year, Durham managed just six hits in 42 at-bats (.143) and played in 19 games before being called down to Altoona.
The releasing of Durham clears a roster spot for utility man Oscar Tejeda who the Pirates acquired off waivers on Wednesday and was officially assigned to Altoona on Thursday.
Tejeda, a 22-year-old who was previously in Boston's organization, appeared in left field and at designated hitter for Double-A Portland in 51 games this season. He hit .262 with five home runs and 31 RBIs in 202 at-bats.
In other Curve transaction news, pitcher Kris Johnson was promoted back to Indianapolis after spending just a day on the Curve's roster, and pitcher Kyle Cofield was activated off the disabled list. Cofield pitched Thursday against Harrisburg and struck out two and allowed two runs - one earned - on one hit in of an inning.


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In the latter half of the year 1936, 3 children with cervical rib were seen at the John Gaston Hospital and at the outpatient clinic for diagnosis and treatment. This succession of cases within so short an interval of an entity usually described as producing symptoms only in adults suggested the possibility that similar cases might previously have been overlooked. It led to a review of 1,000 consecutive roentgenograms of the chests of children under 13 years of age taken at the John Gaston Hospital and at the outpatient clinic beginning Jan. 1, 1936. The result of this review and the reports of the 3 cases observed are incorporated in this paper, together with a general discussion of cervical rib in early life.
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Owing to the recipients' identical given names and the similarity of method, manner, and matter in the two series of letters, Lord Chesterfield's (Philip Dormer Stanhope, fourth earl of Chesterfield) letters to his son and his letters to his godson often are confused. Chesterfield wrote the former group to his illegitimate son, Philip Stanhope (1732-1768). He wrote the latter group to another Philip Stanhope (1755-1815), Chesterfield's distant cousin, whom he agreed to godfather. To confuse matters, in 1757 Chesterfield legally adopted his godson, making him simultaneously Lord Chesterfield's cousin, godson, and son. To avoid inevitable confusion, scholars have taken up the convention of referring to Chesterfield's illegitimate son as …
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A cigar. Also known as a stogie. The word orginates from the men traveling west during the gold rush that smoked cigars. The name stogie refers to the conastoga wagens that the men traveled in.
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Cigarette - a smoke
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A stog is a cigar, not a cigarette. Short for stogie.
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Nick D tarafından 1 Aralık 2003, Pazartesi
a cigarrete.
"Imma buy a pack of stogs."
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Can I bum some stogs, bro?
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Then: Bethesda sees stars(2010)
Again: More room for food lovers
Yannick Cam was a top chef decades before "Top Chef" became every other budding toque's aspirational model (alas). At the height of his fame, at Le Pavillon downtown in the '80s, his only serious rival in the French department was Jean-Louis Palladin at the Watergate.
A few edible reminders of those glory days can be sampled at Bistro Provence in Bethesda, where a bite of roasted lobster is tucked into a tiny clutch of pastry and where the plump boudin gets its richness from foie gras and pigeon. This is a bistro, of course, so you can count on also finding an omelet (at lunch) and hanger steak in the mix. Yet in Cam's hands, a dish as straightforward-sounding as asparagus soup can create a hush at the table as companions spoon into the pale green puree of vegetable, chicken stock, cream and (just a whisper of) truffle oil encircling an island of Parmesan flan. Escargots are rethought, too, with dabs of silky, smoky eggplant spaced between the succulent snails.
In good weather, every Francophile wants to eat her duck confit or dessert crepes alfresco; the bistro's patio out back is a beaut, crazy with flowers. Got a group? Book the second-floor dining room, introduced two years ago, with space for 40 or so.
Service can be spotty -- and it would be nice to hear the prices with the epic recitation of specials -- but little flourishes prove welcome. Linens are so rare in restaurants anymore, I'd consider booking at Bistro Provence just for the novelty.
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Cam's bistro brightens the dining scene By Tom Sietsema
August 1, 2010
After far too long, there's a fresh reason to book a table in Bethesda: Bistro Provence.
Its outdoor patio is one of the area's loveliest. The restaurant's long list of specials sends you on the trip to France you can only fantasize about right now. Best of all, the April debut of Bistro Provence marks the return of one of the mid-Atlantic's best chefs, Yannick Cam. His five-year run at the sumptuous (and sometimes haughty) Le Paradou in Washington ended a year ago, a victim of the sour economy. His new endeavor -- set so far back from the street it almost feels like a secret -- extends the trend toward ever-more-casual restaurants from great chefs, although Bistro Provence still dresses its tables with linens.
Eating Cam's beautiful food in his new lair is like watching Streep or De Niro onscreen. Each can move audiences with quietly astonishing performances. In the chef's case, that translates to carefully pared vegetables, sauces that bring Michelin to mind and the sort of deft touches that separate masters from so many "Top Chef" wannabes. To see what I mean, order the grilled shrimp appetizer, napped with a subtle sauce of celery and pear, and dusted with bacon, or a fetching ode to the season that brings together tender clams, creamy morels, verdant asparagus and slender penne. One of the most seductive seviches anywhere right now is the 61-year-old chef's refined and refreshing version of dewy, thinly cut scallops partnered with grapefruit and sprinkled with diced red onion and coriander. The more you eat of these dishes, the more you don't want them to end.
In the opening weeks, chaos defined the service. But time and new management have smoothed out some of the staff's wrinkles. Chances are excellent, in other words, that you will get the baby clams stuffed with spinach and walnuts you ordered rather than someone else's dish. Chances are also good that you'll swoon over the juicy, crunchy and herb-sweetened appetizer.
If you close your eyes and taste the duck confit, you'll swear you're sitting in a Parisian locale rather than in downtown Bethesda. The skin shatters with a light crackle, giving way to meaty and succulent bird, its bed of sauteed potatoes sweetened with soft onions every bit as heady as the centerpiece. Cam's simpler dishes are just as transporting. High and light on the plate, a pale green tumbleweed of chicory comes with brush strokes of mustard dressing and precise snips of bacon. Gorgeous. Onglet honors that bistro classic with oh-so-tender hanger steak, pitch-perfect red-wine sauce and buttery chanterelles mixed in with golden potatoes.
Unlike Cam's last place, Bistro Provence forsakes truffles and caviar. But the chef is still stocking lobster, and he serves luscious tail and claw meat on an equally rich bed of tiny lentils speckled with minced carrot and tomato. ("Proves anything is better with two sticks of butter," cracks a lentil agnostic at my table who surprises herself by how many of the marjoram-laced legumes she dispatches.) The chef brands Provence a bistro, but his $24 foie gras appetizer and wines priced for moguls push it into the realm of a serious, and sometimes seriously expensive, restaurant: With wine, a recent midweek dinner for two set us back $200.
So expectations run higher, and flaws or oversights become more objectionable. Why, for instance, does the printed list of specials come without any prices? And why the missteps among the entrees? Dull bread plus a bland veal chop equals one dissatisfied diner. The meat is tender, its sauce glossy, but the chop has so little flavor, it might as well be tofu. My first and early encounter with chicken here was so positive that I insisted a table mate order it on my latest visit. The second encounter was far less memorable (the bird was overcooked), although the entree was somewhat redeemed by an airy disk of Parmesan-enriched polenta on the plate. The restaurant's accompaniments and side dishes are terrific, by the way, foremost the lacy tian of spinach, tangy dried tomatoes, egg and olives: a frittata gone to heaven.
When the thermometer isn't edging or surpassing 100 degrees, the bistro's patio, surrounded by stone and greenery, is where you want to dine. To reach the rear, diners pass a small granite bar and closely set tables in one of two narrow spaces. Inviting in brick and gold paint, the dining room ends with an open galley and a glimpse of Cam and crew in action. (Vincent Arnaux, the chef's No. 2 at the late Le Paradou, reprises the same role here.)
The elegance that distinguishes the food burnishes the interior, which is dressed up with fancy metalwork and a silver duck press, among other appointments. A caveat: I never noticed the restaurant's noise problem until the sweltering night in July when I sat in the forward dining room. All of the doors and windows were shut, trapping the sound and forcing my companions and me to read lips between sips of Gigondas and bites of boeuf (disappointingly flat, I should add, despite the steak's topping of cracked pepper).
Bistro Provence's sorbets and molten chocolate cake are similar to what you can find in dozens of other restaurants. More in keeping with Cam's résumé is a delicate sugar crepe filled with almond cream that meets its contrast in a tart and brilliantly colored passion fruit sauce. White chocolate is a flavor that food professionals tend to poke fun of (it's not really chocolate, and it reminds some palates of wax); even so, I confess an affection for this kitchen's fluffy white chocolate mousse sandwiched by elegant, wafer-thin tuiles.
Already, there are plans to expand: For fall, Cam is mulling a small private dining room on the second floor, which houses an office and apartments. This diner hopes Cam attends to some necessary polishing on the ground floor first. But even now, Bistro Provence is the brightest star in Bethesda's galaxy.


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Rodrigue, K.M., Rieck, J.R., Kennedy, K.M., Devous, M.D., Diaz-Arrastia, R., & Park, D.C. (2012). Risk factors for β-amyloid deposition in healthy aging: vascular and genetic effects. Archives of Neurology, in press.
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Guardianship reform has largely overlooked issues related to sexual orientation and gender identity. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) individuals, however, present a distinct set of needs and concerns due to certain unique demographic characteristics, the evolving nature of LGBT civil rights, and the stubborn persistence of anti-LGBT bias and prejudice. This chapter explores these LGBT-specific concerns from a comparative perspective and identifies the various ways that seemingly neutral guardianship laws can work to silence LGBT identities and place LGBT families at risk. It concludes that guardianship systems should incorporate safeguards that expressly acknowledge the importance of sexual orientation and gender identity. Respect for a ward's sexual orientation and gender identity is essential to the concepts of dignity and self-determination that have served as the guiding principles of guardianship reform. In the absence of appropriate safeguards, even guardianship reform driven by a "person-centered philosophy" will ultimately fall short and fail to protect the interests of LGBT individuals and LGBT families.
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By Joshua Partlow and Javed Hamdard
Sunday, November 8, 2009
KABUL -- Afghan officials said Saturday that a NATO airstrike had inadvertently killed several Afghan soldiers and policemen a day earlier in northwestern Afghanistan.
The airstrike took place amid fighting in Badghis province as Afghan and U.S. troops were looking for two American paratroopers who disappeared in the area Wednesday.
The U.S. military said the soldiers on the search operation came under an attack that killed four Afghan soldiers and two policemen and wounded five American and 17 Afghan troops.
Afghan officials said the NATO airstrike hit a coalition base in the area or hit near it. The district's mayor, Abdul Shukor, put the death toll at 20 -- six Afghan soldiers, two policemen and 12 civilians. Shukor described the bombing site as a military checkpoint near a warehouse.
A NATO statement said authorities were investigating whether "close air support" caused some of the casualties. A U.S. military spokesman, Lt. Col. Todd Vician, said Saturday that the casualties resulted from a "hostile engagement, not an accident." He said he had no reports of civilian casualties in the area.
The Taliban said earlier that the two missing soldiers had drowned and that it had found the bodies. A parliament member from Badghis, Amir Tawakal, said the soldiers drowned while fishing. U.S. officials did not confirm whether the soldiers had died.
Vician said that he did not know whether the two 82nd Airborne Division paratroopers were in vehicles when they disappeared but that he thought they were part of a group.
Reports of missing U.S. soldiers are rare in Afghanistan and Iraq and generally prompt extensive search-and-rescue efforts.
An American soldier, Pfc. Bowe R. Bergdahl, disappeared in eastern Afghanistan in June. He was captured by the Taliban and remains in captivity.
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U.S. Northern Command & Defense Support of Civil Authorities
By R. Barry Cronin, Colonel, Deputy Commander, Joint Task Force North, U.S. Marine Corps, Fort Bliss, Texas
aw enforcement agencies and the U.S. Department of Defense have a long history of positive, mutually supporting cooperation. Routine sharing of assets such as firearm training range facilities, tactical training programs and facilities, and dog teams is common. Traditional cooperation occurs in local search-and-rescue operations, in natural disasters such as Hurricanes Katrina and Andrew, and in response to riots in major cities.
After the September 11 terrorist attacks, the necessity for successful cooperation took on an entirely new perspective. Law enforcement agencies throughout the United States responded by reorganizing and redistributing assets to meet the new threat to law and order. The Department of Defense recognized the need to enhance cooperation with law enforcement agencies at all levels while respecting the legal constraints imposed by the Posse Comitatus Act1 and the U.S. Constitution. Consistent with that mindset, the department has made significant changes. Among the most notable of those changes was the creation of the U.S. Northern Command, known to military officials as USNORTHCOM.
The purpose of this article is to provide a strategic overview of the U.S. Northern Command's organization, roles, and missions, focusing primarily on the U.S. Northern Command's responsibilities for defense support of civil authorities and explaining the process by which the Department of Defense authorizes and the U.S. Northern Command conducts approved missions in support of its civilian law enforcement partners. The article also addresses how the Defense Department works with communities to provide emergency support to save lives and protect property at the local and regional levels.
U.S. Northern Command
Located at Peterson Air Force Base near Colorado Springs, Colorado, the U.S. Northern Command was established October 1, 2002, to provide command and control over the Defense Department's Acronyms homeland defense efforts and to coordinate defense support of civil authorities. The U.S. Northern Command defends the U.S. homeland, protecting its people, national power, and freedom of action. The U.S. Northern Command has a twofold mission:
The U.S. Northern Command's area of responsibility includes air, land, and sea approaches and encompasses the continental United States, Alaska, Canada, Mexico, and the surrounding water out to approximately 500 nautical miles, including the Gulf of Mexico and the Straits of Florida. Although the U.S. Northern Command is responsible for planning, organizing, and executing homeland defense and civil support missions, it has few permanently assigned forces. The command is assigned forces whenever necessary to execute missions, as ordered by the president and the secretary of defense. The commander of the U.S. Northern Command is in charge of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), which is responsible for aerospace warning and aerospace control for Canada, Alaska, and the continental United States. As such, the NORAD area of operations and the U.S. Northern Command's area of responsibility overlap but are not congruent. NORAD and the U.S. Northern Command are two separate commands, neither subordinate to the other. The commander is commander of both NORAD and the U.S. Northern Command.
The U.S. Northern Command's civil support mission includes domestic disaster relief operations that occur in response to fires, hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes. Civil support also includes counterdrug operations and managing the consequences of a terrorist event employing a weapon of mass destruction (WMD). The command provides assistance to a lead agency when the Defense Department orders it to do so. Under the law, military forces can provide civil support but cannot become directly involved in law enforcement.3 In providing civil support, the U.S. Northern Command generally operates through established joint task forces that are subordinate to the command. The U.S. Northern Command can become involved in civil operations only when an emergency has exceeded the capabilities of local, state, and federal agencies. In most cases, support will be limited, local, and specific. When the scope of the disaster is reduced to the point that the lead agency can resume full control and management without military assistance, U.S. Northern Command forces will depart, leaving the local experts to finish the job.
The U.S. Northern Command comprises multiple subordinate and service component commands. The commands most involved in day-to-day nonemergency support to civil law enforcement are Joint Task Force North (JTF-N) and Joint Force Headquarters, National Capital Region (JFHQ-NCR). U.S. Army North and Joint Task Force Civil Support (JTF-CS) are the two commands primarily involved in emergency support. In addition to the military subordinate commands, the U.S. Northern Command headquarters staff also includes representatives from numerous federal agencies.
Defense support of civil authorities refers to Defense Department support, including federal military forces and the Defense Department's civilian and contract personnel and its agencies and components, for domestic emergencies and for designated law enforcement and other activities.4 While most commonly understood to refer principally to response and consequence management in terrorist scenarios involving WMDs, there are additional categories of authorized support.
Although defense of the U.S. homeland is the command's top priority, the U.S. Northern Command actually spends most of its time and effort providing military support to lead federal agencies. The next several paragraphs discuss the various categories of support, starting with routine day-to-day interaction and concluding with support provided under the National Response Plan.5
Day-to-Day Defense Department Interaction
Civil jurisdictions near military installations undoubtedly already enjoy close working relationships. Military installation security and criminal investigation organizations routinely work with local civil law enforcement organizations. In the area of crime prevention, installations coordinate with local law enforcement in order to share information regarding current trends in criminal activity. Installations also coordinate with local law enforcement to ensure adequate patrol coverage of perimeter areas, and many installations have access to local law enforcement frequencies to ensure coordinated response to incidents. Command criminal investigators routinely work with local law enforcement in order to ensure investigative coordination of crimes that involve military personnel and property, and military installation security personnel work closely with local law enforcement to identify and protect critical infrastructure that supports military installations.
The Law Enforcement Support Office at the Defense Logistics Agency at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, is authorized to transfer Defense Department equipment to federal and state law enforcement agencies using two programs.6 The first program, known as the 1033 Program (formerly the 1208 Program), authorizes the transfer of excess Defense Department property for counterdrug and counterterrorism missions.7 The second is known as the 1122 Program, which authorizes the purchase of law enforcement equipment suitable for counterdrug missions through the federal government.8 The Law Enforcement Support Office is also the Defense Logistics Agency point of contact for this program as well. In order to effectively manage the programs, each state appoints a state point of contact (SPOC) to administer the programs, and the Law Enforcement Support Office, in turn, provides the respective SPOCs with the opportunity to purchase items from any of the four inventory control points managed by the Defense Logistics Agency. In the end, the 1122 Program helps state and local governments save money on major items required for mission accomplishment.9
Subordinate Commands of the U.S. Northern Command
The U.S. Northern Command's subordinate commands involved in day-to-day support to civil law enforcement are JTF-N and JFHQ-NCR.
Joint Task Force North
Located at Biggs Army Airfield, Fort Bliss, Texas, JTF-N is the U.S. Northern Command's lead operational headquarters for providing support to law enforcement agencies (LEAs) by employing military assets to help police agencies detect and interdict transnational threats with a counterdrug nexus. JTF-N personnel do not participate in any arrest or seizure, nor do they collect or retain intelligence on U.S. citizens. They focus on foreign intelligence and ensure that it is properly analyzed and shared with appropriate agencies and is used to focus limited resources against our greatest threats.
JTF-N missions are always led by a federal law enforcement agency. JTF-N is not a disaster response headquarters but instead employs volunteer units to support law enforcement detection and interdiction efforts.
Under the law, transnational threats consist of "international terrorism, narcotics trafficking, weapons of mass destruction and the delivery systems for such weapons, and organized crime."10 JTF-N specifically identifies drug trafficking organizations, alien smuggling organizations, foreign terrorist organizations, and WMDs as transnational threats.
JTF-N is authorized to accept support requests from the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, and any of the regional high-intensity drug trafficking areas (HIDTAs) designated by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. Police and sheriff's departments in a HIDTA may also request support through that HIDTA. All requests must have a counterdrug nexus and provide a training value to the military unit involved. Additionally, JTF-N has no permanently assigned forces and relies on volunteer units to conduct all missions.
Operational Support: This category includes military capabilities applied to increase supported law enforcement's ability to interdict threats and employs the capabilities ground sensors, air surveillance radar, unmanned aerial systems, Stryker vehicles, and other detection platforms. This mission category also includes aviation reconnaissance to detect cultivation or processing of illegal drugs in public lands and forests.
Intelligence Support: This support focuses on developing intelligence collection requirements, conducting analysis, and participating in the prioritization of missions. It also includes information sharing, imagery support, and training law enforcement agencies in analysis.
Engineering Support: This support shapes the operating environment by denying threat mobility and enhancing law enforcement agencies mobility along the southwest border of the United States. Defense Department engineers support law enforcement agencies by constructing roads and bridges, fences, vehicular barriers, and lights.
General Support: This includes methods for tunnel detection, transportation of law enforcement personnel and equipment using fixed-wing aircraft, aerial refueling, and one of our largest types of support, mobile training teams. Mobile training teams export certain types of expertise to law enforcement agencies emphasizing a train-the-trainer approach. The Defense Department has provided training in such skills as special reaction team operations, desert survival, trauma management, chemical weapons detection and emergency response, patrolling, land navigation, and intelligence link analysis.
Joint Force Headquarters, National Capital Region
Joint Force Headquarters, National Capital Region plans, coordinates, maintains situational awareness, and, as directed, employs forces for homeland defense and defense support of civil authorities to safeguard the U.S. capital. Located in Washington, D.C., JFHQ-NCR has participated in several real-world events, including managing Defense Department support during the ricin attack in U.S. Senate office buildings and supporting state funerals. It makes good sense to have a standing command and control element in place to support special events in Washington, D.C.
Emergency Support
The U.S. Northern Command subordinate commands primarily responsible for responding to emergencies or disasters are U.S. Army North (previously known as the Fifth U.S. Army) and JTF-CS. There are two ways that the Department of Defense provides support to civil authorities: immediate response and support for incidents under the National Response Plan. Support pursuant to the National Response Plan is normally provided under the Stafford Act and through the joint director of military support process.
Immediate Response: A Department of Defense directive defines immediate response as "any form of immediate action taken by a DOD component or military commander . . . to assist civil authorities or the public to save lives, prevent human suffering, or mitigate great property damage under imminently serious conditions occurring where there has not been any declaration of major disaster or emergency by the president or attack."11 With respect to immediate response, the key things to remember are that there must first be a request for assistance from civil authorities. Local military commanders do have the authority to provide immediate response to save lives, prevent human suffering, or mitigate great property damage. The Department of Defense has bases and installations throughout the United States that are a part of local communities, and for those civil jurisdictions near a military base it is worthwhile to work out potential scenarios in advance via exercises and agreements.
The National Response Plan, last updated May 25, 2006, establishes a comprehensive all-hazards approach to enhance the ability of the United States to manage domestic incidents. The plan incorporates best practices and procedures from incident management disciplines of homeland security, emergency management, law enforcement, firefighting, public works, public health, responder and recovery worker health and safety, emergency medical services, and the private sector and integrates them into a unified structure. The National Response Plan forms the basis of how the federal government coordinates with state, local, and tribal governments and the private sector during incidents. It establishes protocols to help do the following:
In a hypothetical scenario under which Defense Department assets could potentially be brought to bear under the provisions of the National Response Plan the following situation develops. An event occurs, in this example the detonation of a radiological dispersion device, or dirty bomb. Local first responders are at some point overwhelmed, and neighboring state responders are mobilized and deployed in response to preexisting compacts or memorandums of mutual support. In the event additional response forces are required, the governor has the authority to request federal support, directly from the president, who in turn directs the Department of Homeland Security, as the primary federal agency, to respond accordingly. Any additional military requirements needed by the Department of Homeland Security can be asked for through an interagency request for assistance to the Defense Department. The U.S. Northern Command is ultimately the organization tasked to identify and deploy military assets in response.
U.S. Army North
One important aspect of this process, from the perspective of Defense Department support, is the role of the defense coordinating officer (DCO). This is a key player and someone well worth knowing before an emergency takes place. Note that the DCO joins the state and federal coordinating officers in the joint field office (JFO) during an emergency. This synchronization is the key to an overall coordinated response. The DCO represents the single point of contact at an incident management location for coordinating and validating the use of Defense Department resources. The DCO works directly with the federal coordinating officer or designated federal representative.
All DCOs are army colonels assigned to U.S. Army North, one of the subordinate service component commands of the U.S. Northern Command. The command's mission statement includes homeland defense and civil support, most likely in the form of defense support of civil authorities. Potential civil support missions include employment of a DCO in response to a hurricane, fire, or earthquake, up to and including the deployment of an entire JTF staff in response to a catastrophic disaster. In other words, the DCO is most likely the Defense Department's first responder. As such, tasks include familiarization with existing state and federal emergency response plans, coordination with military installations in the Federal Emergency Management Agency region regarding available base support operations, and readiness oversight for all designated or dedicated homeland defense and civil support forces. The DCO should also be participating in local, state, federal, and military exercises in the region.
Prior to Hurricane Katrina, the DCO was an additional duty for an army colonel. As a direct result of lessons learned during that response, the position is now permanently filled in order to ensure a quicker, more efficient Defense Department response. The other critical component of this concept is the defense coordinating element (DCE), which is the five-person staff for each DCO. Like the DCO, the DCE will also be permanently assigned. The scene of a catastrophe is not the place to exchange business cards for the first time. By permanently assigning a DCO to each Federal Emergency Management Agency region, the U.S. Northern Command intends to ensure that its first responders are well known to their civilian counterparts before an emergency.
Joint Task Force Civil Support, located in Hampton, Virginia, is specifically organized and equipped to deploy rapidly in response to an event involving chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosives (CBRNE). Operations are directed toward saving lives and preventing further injury by providing such services as decontamination, medical assistance, and temporary critical life support for the local population. Once the situation stabilizes and Defense Department support is no longer required, the force redeploys. JTF-CS is a stabilization force, not a rebuilding or recovery force.
There is an important distinction between CBRNE and WMD. CBRNE is any chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, or high-yield explosion, including those caused by industrial accidents, acts of nature, acts of war, or acts of terrorism. WMD refers specifically to a CBRNE weapon, device, or material designed to produce mass casualties. JTF-CS is capable of responding to either, and the response is much the same, regardless of the source or nature of the incident.
Homeland security organizations operate on parallel lines of authority, coming together at the operational level during a CBRNE event to ensure a coordinated response. To best accomplish this, an enormous amount of information sharing is required, not only within DOD agencies, but also with other federal agencies as well as state and local authorities. The joint field office is where tasks and requirements are identified and validated, with resolution achieved at the lowest level. The state coordinating officer manages the state and local response, the federal coordinating officer manages the federal response, and, lastly, the DCO manages issues requiring response from the Department of Defense. JTF-CS acts only on mission assignments received from the primary federal agency (formally referred to as the lead federal agency) passed by the federal coordinating officer to the defense coordinating officer. The unclassified and classified worlds converge at the site of a CBRNE response. In order to help facilitate command and control, the JTF-CS Emergency Response Communications Suite and the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Mobile Emergency Response System provide both secure and nonsecure voice and data systems to facilitate critical command, control, and decision-making processes required for timely, effective response.
This article has provided the reader a brief overview of the complex and potentially confusing topic of military support, with a particular emphasis on how the U.S. Northern Command and its subordinate and service component commands provide support to civil authorities. It is important for the emergency service community to understand what the U.S. Northern Command is, what it is authorized to do and when, what it cannot do and why, and how and when civil authorities can obtain support. Every year, the U.S. military responds to hundreds of requests for assistance from civilian law enforcement. The dedicated men and women of the U.S. Northern Command stand ready to provide that support when and as directed by the president and the secretary of defense. ■
NOTES1 The Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C. 1385) provides that "whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined not more than $10,000 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."2 "Consequence management . . . describes ways and means to alleviate the short- and long-term physical, socioeconomic, and psychological effects of a chemical or biological attack." Chris Seiple, "Consequence Management: Domestic Response to Weapons of Mass Destruction," Parameters (Autumn 1997).3 According to 10 U.S.C. 375: "The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary to ensure that any activity (including the provision of any equipment or facility or the assignment or detail of any personnel) under this chapter does not include or permit direct participation by a member of the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps in a search, seizure, arrest, or other similar activity unless participation in such activity by such member is otherwise authorized by law."4 Department of Defense Directives 3025.15 (Military Assistance to Civil Authorities) and 3025.1 (Military Support to Civil Authorities).5 According to the Department of Homeland Security's National Response Plan, issued May 2006, "The National Response Plan is an all-discipline, all-hazards plan that establishes a single, comprehensive framework for the management of domestic incidents. It provides the structure and mechanisms for the coordination of federal support to state, local, and tribal incident managers and for exercising direct federal authorities and responsibilities."6 According to 10 U.S.C. 380: "The Secretary of Defense, in cooperation with the Attorney General, shall conduct an annual briefing of law enforcement personnel of each State (including law enforcement personnel of the political subdivisions of each State) regarding information, training, technical support, and equipment and facilities available to civilian law enforcement personnel from the Department of Defense."7 See 10 U.S.C. 380(c)(1).8 According to 10 U.S.C. 381: "The Secretary of Defense shall establish procedures in accordance with this subsection under which States and units of local government may purchase law enforcement equipment suitable for counter-drug activities through the Department of Defense."9 States that wish to apply for entry into the program or learn more about it may do so by contacting the executive agent at 703-604-7450 or going to the Law Enforcement Support Office Web site at https://pubweb.drms.dla.mil/cmis/.10 Under the law (50 U.S.C. 402), a transnational threat is "any transnational activity (including international terrorism, narcotics trafficking, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the delivery systems for such weapons, and organized crime) that threatens the national security of the United States" and "any individual or group that engages" in a transnational activity that threatens the national security of the United States.11 Department of Defense Directive 3025.1 (Military Support to Civil Authorities).12 U.S. Department of Homeland Security, National Response Plan (May 2006), www.dhs.gov/xprepresp/committees/editorial_0566.shtm.
From The Police Chief, vol. 74, no. 4, April 2007. Copyright held by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, 515 North Washington Street, Alexandria, VA 22314 USA.


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Today's New Haven Register article: Shelton artist Dave Choate finds his muse in the Yankees, Celtics, Os and more Wednesday, April 27, 2011 By Jim Shelton, Register Staff, email@example.com/Twitter: @JimboShelton SHELTON — On sunny days, Dave Choate's driveway is a fantasy sports camp waiting to happen. Sandy Koufax is young again and pitching for the [...]
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Baseball Painting, Thurman Munson and Ron Guidry, New York Yankees
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Drafts of my Thurman Munson and Ron Guidry painting. It's about halfway there – with about 100 other incomplete paintings.
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Football Painting, Clay Matthews, Green Bay Packers Draft
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Rough draft football painting of NFL linebacker for the Super Bowl bound Green Bay Packers, Clay Matthews III by sports artist, Dave Choate.
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Football Painting – New York Jets
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New York Jets players, Jerricho Cotchery, Braylon Edwards, and Santonio Holmes mock the New England patriots fans at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts after their upset victory over the Super Bowl favorite Patriots.
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Reggie White, Green Bay Packers
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Rough draft painting of Reggie White, Green Bay Packers HOF NFL Defensive End.
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Kyle Singler – Duke Blue Devils – Draft Painting
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Rough draft of Duke Blue Devils basketball player, Kyle Singler by sports artist, Dave Choate.
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Joe Namath, New York Jets
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Here's a rough draft of my New York Jets, Joe Namath painting as he drops back for a pass against the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III.
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My Painting Style and Behind The New York Yankees Paintings
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I started following the Yankees at age seven in 1976 – the year they were swept by the Cincinnati Reds in the World Series. It was the toughest loss I suffered as a sports fan and as good as the Red were and love 70's baseball, I doubt I'll ever do a team painting of [...]
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Mickey Mantle Paintings
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My two new Mickey Mantle paintings. Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 – August 13, 1995) was an American baseball player who was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. He played his storied 18-year major-league professional career all for the New York Yankees, winning 3 American League MVP titles and playing [...]
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One of the first things that pops into most minds when discussing the Houston Texans is the long arms extending from J.J. Watt's jersey.
Almost always busy, wrapped around a quarterback or swatting a ball from the air, those arms are devices of havoc, and somehow are made more menacing by a black brace, a device that typically signifies weakness or some kind of defect, over the left one.
But with Watt, weakness doesn't seem to exist. A front-runner for the defensive player of the year award, the defensive end recorded 20.5 sacks and 16 passes defensed this season. He hung zeros in both categories against the New England Patriots during a Dec. 10 meeting, but still managed to hit quarterback Tom Brady five times.
The performance by New England's offensive line was celebrated as a huge success, and considering Watt's typical level of destruction the reaction was justified. An encore in Sunday's divisional playoff game will be necessary if the Patriots hope to cruise to another victory.
"He's an incredible player," Brady said. "You have to know where he's at on every single play because he's so disruptive with tackles for loss and his penetration of the backfield. He gets to the quarterback, led the league in sacks. He's as good as anyone playing the game."
New England once again brought out the tennis rackets and broomsticks to simulate Watt's arms in practice and prepare Brady to throw over them, but perhaps the bigger key is finding a way to keep him caged up. The approach last time was a simple: don't run his direction and use two blockers to contain him on deep passes.
Many of the times when Watt wasn't double-teamed, Brady got rid of the ball quickly. ProFootballFocus.com reported that the New England quarterback only held the ball an average of 2.27 seconds, one of the fastest times the site clocked throughout the season.
"Obviously I didn't play well enough," Watt said. "I got quite a few hits on Brady, but obviously the ball was gone every time. Didn't bat any balls, didn't have any tackles for a loss, so I need to do more.
"I think that's understood, I think that's known, but that's why you get another shot and this is the playoffs. I'm going to bring everything I have."
Watt will be an issue no matter what, but the Texans and defensive coordinator Wade Phillips entered the week with an even bigger decision about what to do with the rest of the pieces of defense.
Houston sent five or more pass rushers on 56 percent of the plays in the last meeting and was eaten alive by Brady. He completed 14 of 20 passes for 159 yards and three touchdowns against the blitz.
This wasn't unique to Houston or the result of some defensive failure. Brady has historically excelled when teams take players out of coverage to chase him, and it's been no different this year. He completed 105 of 163 passes when blitzed this season for 1,328 yards with 18 touchdowns and no interceptions.
The Texans may stick to their guns and hope for the best, but they may be better served following the blueprint the Jets created in 2010 when they largely opted not to blitz in a divisional playoff game and instead clogged the middle of the field.
The approach took away many of Brady's options and disrupted his timing. The Jets walked away with a 28-21 victory after losing to New England, 45-3, a little more than a month earlier.
Houston isn't tipping its hand on how it plans to approach things this time, but Watt did admit that the Texans were surprised by how quickly Brady actually gets rid of the ball.
"Yes, he gets the ball out quick," Watt said. "He knows the scheme very well, he knows where his receivers are, and he knows who's going to be open."
There's only so much Watt can do with those arms. In the end, he'll have to get help from the other 10 guys on the field to atone for what happened last month.


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