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MarkChapter 16 1 1 When the sabbath was over, Mary Magdalene, Mary, the mother of James, and Salome bought spices so that they might go and anoint him. 2 Very early when the sun had risen, on the first day of the week, they came to the tomb. 3 They were saying to one another, "Who will roll back the stone for us from the entrance to the tomb?" 4 When they looked up, they saw that the stone had been rolled back; it was very large. 5 On entering the tomb they saw a young man sitting on...

Freescale starts LimePC Fri, 2008-01-11 10:42 — rangnar Freescale is in the SoC (system on a chip) business and offers quit complete systems with the MPC512x line. Together with one of the top 5 China based pc maker the LimePC emerged out of this into the market. It's a UMPC smaller than an iPod nano. I happend to put my finger on such a system in form of a Genesi EFIKA that run with Linux and Enlightenment as desktop system. For the bare technical specification I was surprised that the little thing does a good job on rendering html, as...

FORWARD OPERATING BASE HIT, Iraq (Jan. 8, 2006) -- As part of their tour of Marine forces in Iraq, a small delegation from Washington, D.C. recently visited the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) at Forward Operating Base Hit, Iraq. Among the group was General Robert Magnus, the Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps, Lt. Gen. Jan C. Huly, the Deputy Commandant for Plans, Policies and Operations, and Col. Harvey C. Barnum Jr. (USMC, Ret.), the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Reserve Affairs). After an update on the MEU’s ongoing and planned counterinsurgency efforts with the 2nd Marine Division...

A report commissioned in mid-1999 by Rep. Curt Weldon (R) looks into possible Chinese front companies in the US seeking technology for the Chinese military. Dr. Eileen Preisser and Michael Maloof are commissioned to make the report. Dr. Preisser, who runs the Information Dominance Center at the US Army's Land Information Warfare Activity (LIWA) and will later become closely tied to Able Danger, uses LIWA's data mining capabilities to search unclassified information. According to Maloof, their results show Chinese front companies in the US posing as US corporations that acquire technology from US defense contractors. When the study is completed...

Special operations forces eye terrorists By Rowan Scarborough THE WASHINGTON TIMES August 12, 2005 U.S. Special Operations Command has drafted a war plan that sets up procedures for how its commandos will work with other regional commands across the globe to hunt for senior Islamic terrorists. The complex plan from SoCom in Tampa, Fla., has been in the works since summer 2002, when Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld signed a secret directive authorizing it. His memo directed SoCom to come up with a plan for dispatching special operations forces on quick notice to virtually any spot in the world to...

Special Ops Command honors 23 soldiers killed in action The Associated Press May 26, 2005 11:56 pm FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- Nearly two dozen names were added to a memorial wall at the Army Special Operations Command during an emotional ceremony attended by about 150 family members. "No one can measure this wound," Yury Tarlavsky of Passaic, N.J., said Thursday. His son, 5th Special Forces Group Capt. Michael Yury Tarlavsky, was killed in August 2004 in Najaf, Iraq. "It's like touching a wound that never heals," said his wife, Rimma Tarlavsky. Lt. Gen. Philip Kensinger Jr., commander of the Special...

Masters of Chaos, by U.S. News Senior Writer Linda Robinson, published by PublicAffairs Books, tells the stories of the men who fight the nation's murky wars in the world's far corners. In Iraq, the Pentagon's special operations forces were critical to the capture of most of the top leaders of Saddam Hussein's regime, and they led two of three major battlefronts in the war to liberate Iraq. In one of them, in northern Iraq, Army Special Forces soldiers faced down 13 Iraqi divisions and attacked a camp believed to be harboring al Qaeda terrorists and other foreign jihadists, as well...