| What Harry said when he was there
Yeah you've got the 105 guns up there that are firing down here, so, you know, you hear the bangs but you don't see what's going on so it's nice to get down here and actually be part of it and actually help."And obviously my job being a JTAC means that I'm needed around the place as are other JTACs to actually support and help out troops that come under contact."Is it very different doing it in anger in the field than it has been doing your job in exercises?"Yeah, it is slightly different. A lot of the time the guys are engaging invisible firing points because the Taliban are so good at hiding in their trenches "It is somewhat like what I can imagine World War Two to be like, as you saw on JTAC Hill it's just no man's land, they pop up their heads, they poke their heads up and that's it."If the guys are coming under a lot of fire then I call the air in and as soon as the air comes up they disappear and just jump down these holes or go into their bunkers." So it's a very strange reality really."As a soldier this is what it's all about isn't it?"Yeah, this is what it is all about, what it's all about is being here with the guys rather than being in a room with a bunch of officers."I'm in here with all the guys, most of them are artillery guys basically doing a swap over with the other ones on JTAC Hill, staging on staging off, doing a week because it's quite a lot of graft up there, supposedly."It's good fun to be with just a normal bunch of guys, listening to their problems, listening to what they think."And especially getting through every day ...
Conversations With the Deaf
Cheering splashed from Downtowns street corners and blended into one sound. The owners of scattered ahwas, local coffee shops, were calling out orders, already sensing the sweet taste of profits. Even Cairos omnipresent street vendors had abandoned their usual posts and collected around streetside TV sets to shout encouragement to their favorite players. One place remained quiet. On 26 of July Street, five stories up, 20 people gathered around a television, Zamalek supporters in a small cluster on one side of the room, Ahly supporters, by far the bigger group, on the other side. The fans waved in chopping motions through the heavy smoke in the air, their excitement at every goal punctuated with a moan, a jump and rapid sign language. .
Musharraf dismisses 'graceful exit' talk
National Intelligence Director Mike McConnell praised Musharraf as "our best partner" in fighting terrorists. "We have been able to kill or capture more of the al-Qaida leadership in partnership with Pakistan than anyone else." Acknowledging the political landscape has changed, McConnell said the question is, "What happens when a coalition is formed in the new government and what is the position of the president? So we'll be very carefully monitoring that." After an election in which the victors were secular political parties and Islamic hard-liners fared badly, McConnell said he was optimistic "we'll be able to figure out how to work with the Pakistani government going forward and be more effective than we have been in the past." Biden, joined by Sens. John Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, and Chuck Hagel, a Republican, saw Musharraf on the morning after the election.
Carlin is more hippy than dippy
He worked in radio for a time, teamed for a couple years with fellow comic and longtime friend Jack Burns and eventually began to appear on every TV talk show of the day. But somehow it never felt quite right. "I was always out of step," he says now. "I left school in ninth grade, I got kicked out of the Air Force, I got kicked out of the choir and the altar boys and summer camp and three schools and I was a pot smoker when I was 13 in the early '50s. I was always a lawbreaker and a kind of outlaw rebel." Still, the dean of counterculture comedians might have soldiered on in the suit and tie had it not been for one thing: the 1960s. "I went through some changes, as the whole country did, in the '60s and I took on a much more personal point of view and started doing a lot of autobiographical things about my childhood, my neighborhood, being Irish-Catholic, being a kid from Harlem.
Red Mile Secures Key Talent for Sin City Game
SAUSALITO, Calif., Oct. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Red Mile Entertainment, Inc. (OTCBulletinBoard: RDML) , a worldwide developer and publisher of interactive entertainment software, today announced it has engaged acclaimed video-game industry writing and production talent to participate in the development of Red Mile's upcoming game based on multi-award-winning creator/writer/artist Frank Miller's Sin City graphic novels and comic books. Accomplished game and animation veteran, Flint Dille, will spearhead the design, scriptwriting, story generation, and overall production of "Sin City: The Game" (working title). Dille has twenty years of game experience to his name, and has twice won "Story of the Year" for his work on The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay and on Dead to Rights.
Pietruszkiewicz: Sampson should have been there
Kelvin Sampson should have been here, standing beside his Indiana basketball team.All he had to do was put the phone down.Instead, he leaves this group to face the taunts by itself. Everywhere No. 15 Indiana goes the rest of this season it will be heckled with chants like the one the Northwestern student section fired off the moment the Hoosiers hit the floor for pre-game warmups Saturday night at Welsh-Ryan Arena."Where’s your coach?" they hollered.Or like the one Jamarcus Ellis dealt with while he tried to shoot a free throw early in the second half."Sampson’s calling" they yelled, holding up cell phones.He should have been in the huddle.All he had to do was show some of the discipline he demanded the kids he coached to show on and off the floor.Instead, interim coach Dan Dakich and a group of Sampson’s assistants are left to put the pieces back together, to be coaches and counselors."It’s not the way you want to get a job," Dakich said.Dakich and his staff got a standing ovation from the overwhelming number of Indiana fans inside Welsh-Ryan on Saturday when they walked onto the court.They then guided Indiana through a scary 85-82 win against an NU team that has not won a Big Ten game this season.That undying support, those cheers from an adoring fan base, should have been Sampson’s.
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