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"Very busy, the executive staff is pretty much going crazy staying late nights and they've been doing Saturdays," said Douglas Inouye, chairman of the Board of Private Detectives and Guards, which developed some of the new criteria for the industry.
Enacted in July of 2010 as Act 208, the law requires all security guards to have a high school diploma or GED, and receive additional training before applying for a state license.
According to DCCA estimates from 2010, there are 10,700 workers in Hawaii employed in the security guard field. To date, 2,992 people have been registered, or are pending approval.
"We are currently working now on applications, (and) we have a thousand that came in last week," said Charlene Tamanaha, executive officer of the Board of Private Detectives and Guards.
Recognizing that many people will not meet Monday's deadline to become licensed, DCCA will allow security guards to remain on the job as long as they turn in applications before the cutoff date.
"If however, we find that they aren't (in compliance) and there's something amiss or some component is missing, then we will deny that application," said Inouye.
DCCA formed an ad-hoc in July of 2010 keep industries that employ security guards better informed about the new requirements under Act 208. But Sen. Will Espero, one of six co-sponsors of the bill, blames the agency for the number of security guards who have not yet complied.
"The outreach from the state was lacking and it was subpar, Espero told Kitv4"
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April 7, 2005
Author: Ersel Aydinli, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 2004-2005
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Explores the impact of globalization on the conduct of international affairs.
This volume studies the links among the concepts of globalization, security, and the authority of the nation state, drawing attention to why and how these three concepts are interrelated and why they should be studied together. Contributors explore the connections between security and global transformations, and the corresponding or resulting changes in state structures that emerge. Probing and extending existing paradigms, the book offers three regional cases studies: the periphery states of the Middle East and North Africa, the second world states of the Russian Federation, and the core states of the European Union. It concludes with three chapters that synthesize the above themes to identify corresponding changes in the patterns of international politics.
"These are absolutely terrific essays—extremely insightful, well informed, and extraordinarily readable. The contributors make important arguments that are provocative and worth pondering." — Edward Rhodes, Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Rutgers University
"This book is an excellent exposition on the themes of globalization and security. It problematizes dominant theories of security in light of events like 9/11 and places them in important conceptual and historical backgrounds. It not only critiques dominant paradigms, but also replaces them with critically argued insights." — J. P. Singh, coeditor of Information Technologies and Global Politics: The Changing Scope of Power and Governance
Ersel Aydinli is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Bilkent University in Turkey. During academic year 2004–2005, he is a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard's International Security Program. James N. Rosenau is University Professor of International Affairs at The George Washington University. He is the author and editor of many books, including Distant Proximities: Dynamics beyond Globalization and Thinking Theory Thoroughly: Coherent Approaches to an Incoherent World, Second Edition (coauthored with Mary Durfee).
- Anarchy Meets Globalization: A New Security Dilemma for the Modernizing State
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Today we are launching our newest CMT server, the T5440. This server is a monster of performance and scalability. It can have up to four T2 Plus processors, 1.2GHz or 1.4GHz in a 4 Rack Unit (RU) chasis. The design is modular enabling 1, 2, 3 and 4 processors configurations. The system scales to 32 cores, 256 threads and 512 GB of memory.
The diagram on the right shows the architecture. Each UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor has 4 coherency planes.
On a T5440 there are four high speed hub chips, called Zambezi, running at 800MHz which connect each of the four coherency planes. Each UltraSPARC T2 Plus processor communicates with all others in the system via the Zambezis. Each processor has its own local memory and can access all the remote memory of the other processors via the Zambezis. Thus the memory in the system scales as we add processors. Each processor also has its own integrated PCI-Express x8 link so the I/O bandwidth also scales as we add processors. The scalability advantage of this architecture was highlighted at the 2008 IEEE Symposium on High-Performance Interconnects. http://www.hoti.org/archive/2008papers/2008_S2_1.pdf there is also a set of slides at http://www.hoti.org/hoti16/program/2008slides/Session_Presentation/Feehrer_CoherencyHub_2008-08-27-09-51.pdf The design of the T5440 system itself is very different to our previous systems which have all been traditional 1U and 2U servers. The T5440 is 4 RU and the processors and memory are on daughter cards. These daughter cards plug into a motherboard. The motherboard contains the Zambezis and I/O subsystem. The daughter cards are configured in groups of two. One cpu card and one memory card per group. The memory cards are optional however as the cpu cards has enough DIMM slots for a minimum memory config The photo on the right shows a cpu daughter card which contains one UltraSPARC T2 processor and slots for 4 FBDIMMs. The UltraSPARC T2 Plus has 2 FBDIMM channels, 2 branches per channel and the DIMM slots on the cpu daughter card are directly connected to these 4 branches. The memory board as shown in the photo on the left contains 12 slots for FBDIMM memory. The memory daughter card extends the 4 FBDIMM branches from the associated UltraSPARC T2 processor. Each branch can be extended by up to 3 more DIMMs.
DIMMs come in 2GB, 4GB and 8GB sizes and run at 667MHz just like the T5140 and T5240 servers.
The minimum requirement is 4 DIMMs per processor. Other options are 8 or 16 DIMMs per processor.
Currently all processors must have the same amount of memory but each processor can achieve this with different sized DIMMs
From these photos you can see that the connectors on the cpu and memory daughter cards are different. The cards can only go in preassigned slots. This can be seen from the photo of the motherboard, the cpus plug into the longer slots and the memory into the shorter ones.
Slots must be filled in the following order. CPU/MEM pair 0 and pair 1 followed by pair 2 and pair 3. Standing in front of the server the slots are numbered.
front left 3 - 1 - 2 - 0 front right.
The motherboard photograph also shows the 8 PCI-E slots, although all are x8 electrically two of the slots (the longer ones) have x16 physical conectors.
Note PCI-E cards on the T5440 plug in vertically, this is a change from the T5120, T5220, T5140 and T5240 servers which used risers and installed PCI-E cards horizontally.
Note also two of the PCI-E slots have a second smaller slot next to them. These are the XAUI slots. Sun supplied XAUI cards plug into these slots and provide 10Gig networking.
The diagram on the right shows a fully configured T5440 with all its daughter cards and how these are connected to the Zambezis and I/O system. The beauty of this physical design is upgradability. You can start with a 1 cpu configuration and add extra compute and memory as required There needs to be 'blanks' in place of empty slots that ensure appropriate airflow.
A top view of a fully loaded T5440 is shown in the photo at the right. From bottom to top are the 4 large fans for cooling, the row of cpu and memory daughter cards, and the 8 PIC-E I/O slots. The separate circuit board is the Service Processor for the system which also plugs in as a daughter card.
In the photo on the left we see the T5440 from the rear. Here you see the 4 power supplies each of which is 1,120 watts. To power a fully loaded T5440 with 4 cpus, 4 disks and 512TB of memory requires 2 supplies. Four supplies are required for full redundancy in this configuration.
Also note metal fillers that cover the 8 PCI-E slots, the built in 4x1Gig copper network connections, 100Mb and serial links to the Service processor, USB etc. Also in this photo you can see one of the 4 fans pulled out of the system.
Finally looking at the front of the system we see the 4 built-in disks. These are SAS and can be either 73GB or 146GB. There is also a DVD if required.


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Oprah's buddy Dr. Christiane Northrup and breast thermography: The opportunistic promotion of quackery
As many readers know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. What that generally means at our cancer center and in the rest of the "real world" is that, during the month of October, extra effort is made to try to raise awareness of breast cancer, to raise money for research, and promote screening for cancer. Unfortunately, what Breast Cancer Awareness Month means around the Science-Based Medicine blog is that a lot of breast cancer-related pseudoscience and outright quackery will be coming at us fast and furious. There's no way, of course, that I can deal with it all, but there's one area of medical pseudoscience related to breast cancer that I just realized that none of us has written about on SBM yet. Actually, it's not really pseudoscience. At least, the specific technology isn't. What is pseudoscience is the way it's applied to breast cancer and in particular the way so many "alternative" medicine and "complementary and alternative medicine" (CAM) practitioners market this technology to women. The technology is breast thermography, and the claim is that it's far better than mammography for the early detection of breast cancer, that it detects cancer far earlier.
I've actually been meaning to write about thermography, the dubious claims made for it with regard to breast cancer, and the even more dubious ways that it's marketed to women. In retrospect, I can't believe that I haven't done so yet. The impetus that finally prodded me to get off my posterior and take this on came from what at the time was an unexpected place but in retrospect shouldn't have been. You've met her before quite recently when SBM partner in crime Peter Lipson took her apart for parroting anti-vaccine views and even citing as one of her sources anti-vaccine activist Sherri Tenpenny. I'm referring, unfortunately, to one of Oprah Winfrey's stable of dubious doctors, Dr. Christiane Northrup. Sadly, Peter's example of her promotion of vaccine pseudoscience is not the first time we at SBM have caught Dr. Northrup espousing anti-vaccine views. We've also harshly criticized her for her promotion of "bioidentical hormones" and various dubious thyroid treatments. However, Dr. Northrup is perhaps most (in)famous for her advocating on Oprah's show the use of Qi Gong to direct qi to the vagina, there apparently to cure all manner of female ills and promote fantastic orgasms in the process. This little incident ought to tell you nearly all that you need to know about her. Even Oprah looked rather embarrassed in the video in which Dr. Northrup led her audience in directing all that qi goodness "down below."
What brought Dr. Northrup to my attention again was my having joined her e-mail list. As you might imagine, I'm on a lot of e-mail lists, ranging from that of Mike Adams, to Generation Rescue, to Joe Mercola and beyond. I do it all for you, in order to have the blogging material come to me rather than my having to seek it out. True, the price is that my e-mail in box is frequently clogged with quackery, but it's a small price to pay. This time around, Dr. Northrup's e-mail brought my attention to a post of hers, Best Breast Test: The Promise of Thermography. It was truly painful to read, and I consider it inexcusable that someone who claims to be an advocate of "women's health" could write something that reveals such ignorance. But, then, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised after her recent flirtation with anti-vaccine views. If it isn't already complete, Dr. Northrup's journey to the Dark Side is damned close to complete. You'll see what I mean right from her very introduction:


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Authorities expand investigation into fatal lion attackBy GOSIA WOZNIACKA
The Associated Press | March 08,2013DUNLAP, Calif. The U.S. Department of Agriculture and Cal-OSHA on Thursday joined other state and federal agencies investigating the fatal mauling of a volunteer intern at an exotic animal park in California.
State investigators who protect workplace safety said they are trying to determine whether Cat Haven near Fresno has the required written procedures that employees follow to stay safe.
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Fresno County sheriffs investigators and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife want to know why Hanson was in the enclosure with the animal.
The Seattle-area intern had loved lions and tigers since childhood, was absolutely fearless around them and hoped to work at a zoo after her six-month internship, her father said.
She was at ease with those big cats, Paul Hanson, an attorney, said of his daughter. They liked her.
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The academic left has reached new levels of absurdity on economic policy and Democratic lawmakers would be wise to distance themselves from their failures.
Case in point is Princeton Economics Professor Paul Krugman's most recent declaration that our nation's annual budget deficits are "a problem that is already, to a large degree, solved."
This despite the fact that the national debt is at a record high of $16.5 trillion and annual budget deficits have exceeded $1 trillion each year of the Obama Administration.
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More deficit spending that, according to Krugman, will eventually stimulate economic growth and result in a broad recovery – and never mind that pesky national debt ceiling.
In fact, according to Krugman, those on Capitol Hill who continue to talk about proposals that leverage the debt ceiling into policies that encourage fiscal discipline are just "crazies."
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In a recent interview and New York Times editorial, Krugman advances the belief that our lawmakers can completely circumvent the annual budget deficit debate by minting platinum coins in trillion dollar denominations.
"And there is this wonderful bit about the platinum coin. In a 1997 act amended in 2000 which covers issuance of coins and stuff like that. There's one clause that says that the Secretary of the Treasury shall have the right to mint and issue platinum coins in any denomination that he so chooses."
Krugman adds, "And as far as legal scholars have been able to make out, there's no reason why the Secretary of the Treasury can't order the minting of a coin that says this coin is worth $1 trillion … walk that coin over to the Federal Reserve … and then the government can pay its bills by drawing on that bank account."
"And it's crazy, it's an accounting gimmick, but then this whole thing is crazy. And if that lets you bypass this nonsense about the debt limit, fine," Krugman said.
Another of Krugman's ideas is the issuance of "moral obligation coupons."
"There are other routes … it's possible the government could issue coupons that look like debt and function like debt, but says, "No, they're not debt.
"They could say, 'We have no legal obligation to pay this. We are, in fact, going to pay it, but we have no legal obligation to pay it.'
"That's another alternative. I'd call it 'moral obligation coupons,'" Krugman said.
So, from the best and brightest of the academic left, we have trillion dollar coins and the circumvention of generally accepted accounting principles.
This is ridiculous.
Let's face it, Krugman is in effect proposing to cook the books, and if done in the private sector, this would send executives to prison.
This flies in the face of the very concept of checks and balances as well as good faith and credit.
Let's face it, the governor of the United States economy right now is not the Federal Reserve Board or the Treasury Secretary, but investors in federal debt.
If the United States started to seriously consider manipulating monetary policy to the extreme espoused by Krugman, there would be a race from the dollar, which would cause a crisis of confidence in the United States that would in turn flip the world economy upside down.
What is the Nobel Laureate in Economics' answer to that?
"I'm for whatever gimmick works. Even if … investors decided they don't like U.S. government debt, it can't cause a funding crisis because the U.S. government prints money."
In other words, we can print more money.
Let's face it, our best and brightest are out of touch, and Krugman's recent comments are proof.
When will the academic left finally realize that we cannot have something for nothing just because we are the United States?
– Swint is a commercial property broker and political activist from Charleston.


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I mean Danzo died but what happened to the officers of root
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I mean Danzo died but what happened to the officers of root
Disbanded probably.
same thing that happened when Luffy beat Crocodile
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same thing that happened when Luffy beat Crocodile
Followed their dreams?
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Followed their dreams?
Disbanded... altho I lately got the feeling they're doing something else. Many people think the person who 'knows all' is Shisui.. (IF) that is true, then root might be protecting his body somewhere in the shadows as Kabuto was unable to find it :o
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- Defining dignity in terminally ill cancer patients: a factor-analytic approach
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- Hack, Thomas F.; Chochinov, Harvey Max; Hassard, Thomas; Kristjanson, Linda J.; McClement, Susan; Harlos, Mike
- Abstract
- The construct of 'dignity' is frequently raised in discussions about quality end of life care for terminal cancer patients, and is invoked by parties on both sides of the euthanasia debate. Lacking in this general debate has been an empirical explication of 'dignity' from the viewpoint of cancer patients themselves. The purpose of the present study was to use factor-analytic and regression methods to analyze dignity data gathered from 213 cancer patients having less than 6 months to live. Patients rated their sense of dignity, and completed measures of symptom distress and psychological well-being. The results showed that although the majority of patients had an intact sense of dignity, there were 99 (46%) patients who reported at least some, or occasional loss of dignity, and 16 (7.5%) patients who indicated that loss of dignity was a significant problem. The exploratory factor analysis yielded six primary factors: (1) Pain; (2) Intimate Dependency; (3) Hopelessness/Depression; (4) Informal Support Network; (5) Formal Support Network; and (6) Quality of Life. Subsequent regression analyses of modifiable factors produced a final two-factor (Hopelessness/Depression and Intimate Dependency) model of statistical significance. These results provide empirical support for the dignity model, and suggest that the provision of end of life care should include methods for treating depression, fostering hope, and facilitating functional independence.
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Adapted from the semi-classic, kitschy cop show Mann executive produced in the second half of the 1980s, Miami Vice follows two undercover police detectives in the Miami, FL vice squad: James "Sonny" Crockett (Colin Farrell) and Ricardo "Rico" Tubbs (Jamie Foxx). What happens to them is not at all points crystal-clear, but they infiltrate a drug empire after the FBI manages to royally screw the pooch, working under Special Agent John Fujima (Ciarán Hinds, a natural choice to play a character named "Fujima") as they insinuate themselves with apparent South American druglord José Yero (John Ortiz), who turns out to be a front for the real kingpin, Archangel de Jesús Montoya (Luis Tosar). Along the way, Crockett finds himself falling for Montoya's... secretary? chief operations officer? second-in command? Anyway, her name is Isabella, a Japanese-Cuban mercenary (Gong Li).
Allow me to borrow from myself for a moment: "It's not incoherent. By and large, I understand what happened and in what order and why. But none of it hangs together. It was more like watching a dream, where events and characters are related to each other, but it's extremely difficult to link the past with the present. I found myself forgetting - constantly - what was going on in the scenes leading up to whichever given scene was happening." That's less true of the inevitable extended cut of the film released on DVD (perhaps a "director's cut", but that phrase gets thrown around a lot without a lot of meaning), which generally clarifies the plot and improves its tone something fierce; but if the extended cut is certainly a marked improvement over the theatrical cut, it's not a panacea. It is still the case that somewhat often, you can't quite be absolutely certain why people are where they are, and for precisely what purpose.
I am, however, inclined to be more generous towards the film on this count than I was three years ago. It is the nature of Mann to favor action and momentum over description and exposition, I have mentioned time and again, and as he has demonstrated several times, most notably in Manhunter and L.A. Takedown, he is absolutely fascinated by the process of law enforcement. He certainly gets to indulge that whim with Miami Vice, which is a pure and rarefied sort of procedural if ever I've seen on: the kind in which process has all but replaced functional narrative. We can be pissed off at that, or find it interesting and experimental. I shall choose the latter.
Still, an experiment can fail, and this I think is what happens to Miami Vice. It is perhaps the first Michael Mann film to almost completely lack a human element; or rather, the human element it possesses is thin and unconvincing. Tubbs is given virtually no character-building elements other than his relationship with Trudy Joplin (Naomie Harris), a police intelligence agent; Crockett is meant to be given much more chance to grow and be interesting in his developing infatuation with Isabella (the film's nod to the Mannian theme of men betraying their code of conduct), but unfortunately both Farrell and Li drop the ball on that storyline with fierce abandon: Li because she has clearly learned all of her dialogue phonetically (in the previous year's Memoirs of a Geisha, she was even more stilted and awkward), and Farrell because he... is Colin Farrell, and simply not given to all that many good performances. A rare example of Mann failing entirely to drag good work out of an actor capable of it, though not inclined to naturally.
Without much of a human core, that leaves only the narrative and Mann's characteristic style to give Miami Vice merit, and to be fair, that's quite a lot. I honestly think that the narrative works - or rather, inasmuch as it doesn't work, it's extremely interesting. I've already mentioned Manhunter, so permit for doing so again; because I think that's probably the film that offers the clearest precursor to Miami Vice in all Mann's career (coincidentally, Manhunter was the first movie he made after the TV Miami Vice had begun its run). Both films feature police protagonists who are almost totally without psychological interest, acted without much distinction (Manhunter's Will Graham, as given life by William Petersen remains the dullest lead character in Mann's filmography); in both cases, the leads' flatness seems to be a deliberate attempt to make their actions the focus, rather than their selves. Both films are about how law enforcement works, with the specific details of the case in question less important than how the agents on the case react to the details.
That said, Miami Vice has no real excuse to be as long as it is: at 140 minutes, the extended cut feels swifter than the 136-minute original, but either way there's a tremendous amount of padding; in particular, the lengthy neo-Nazi subplot, in which they ransom both Joplin and a large shipment of drugs, could have been cut with hardly the slightest impact on the movie itself. Or to put it less nicely: there's no damn reason for a movie with such a scattershot plot to take more than two hours to not tell its story.
Stylistically, the film is a bit harder to defend. Back in 2006, I praised Dion Beebe's cinematography; this is perhaps because it was in the summer of '06 that I was constantly messed-up on smack. After achieving great things with Collateral two years earlier, I wonder if Beebe and Mann felt that they had "solved" digital photography, or some such, and could go on and do whatever the hell they wanted with their follow-up. At any rate, I cannot explain what's going on with the look of Miami Vice, a film that combines the sleekness of video that makes it so distasteful to we film purists with positively godawful night photography. This is a particular shame given how much Mann had proven himself a great director of night scenes throughout his career: Thief with its impressionistic visual poetry, Heat with its dreamy vision of Los Angeles, Collateral, which made the same city look like a blasted hellscape. Miami Vice is just fucking ugly, with foul yellows washing out the image and leaving it visually filthy. That's an experimental choice too, I guess, but one that I'm much less okay with. At least the daylight scenes are generally unobjectionable, though as I said, they're a bit shiny for my tastes.
Here's what's weird: I dislike Miami Vice to very nearly the same degree that I did before, but now I dislike it for completely different reasons. Then, it was because the film was so bizarre, something I now recognise as being the mark of Mann, fully invested in the post-narrative field of his career; except that by the same token, it's not good in the way that the best of Mann's films are good, even if it's interesting in the way that they're all interesting. I admire him for trying to push cinema past its comfort zone, as I have admired him throughout his career; whatever else may be said, he is a truly brave and brilliant filmmaker. But braveness cannot always win out, when the cinema decides to push back.
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- dfantico said...
I have to disagree with Petersen being dull; he is instead numb, and there's quite a gap between the two, since much pain can be withheld under numbness, something great actors like himself are able to pull of and inexperienced and extroverted ones like Farrell cannot.
- F L said...
I'm saddened to see that your Mann write-ups have already come to an end. They were very insightful and eloquent, even if I haven't always agreed with them. A suggestion: it would be great to read your thoughts on James Cameron's output in the weeks prior to the Avatar premiere.
- Tim said...
F L: You and I are on very much the same page in re Mr. Cameron. A plan I've had in mind since before starting the Michael Mann retrospective. But sh! don't tell anyone.
- F L said...
Oh! That is great news. I'm glad you're a fan, and I'm sure your reviews (and Cameron's new movie) will be well worth the wait.
- javi75 said...
I have only watched the director's cut of "Miami vice", and I couldn't understand all the negative reception to the movie. I was guessing it couldn't be that different from the theatrical cut. Reading yoru review, I guess it is differente and better.
I enjoyed it very much. I thought it was a good procedural. I think it's in the nature of procedurals that the characters don't have psychological depth, because watching them do their job is the important thing. Well, I didn't miss it anyway. They're "normal" people, doing their job. Nothing melodramatic. I thought it was very refreshing that they don't have any troubled pasts or whathever. Past and future don't seem to have any importance whatsoever, actually. It's kind of a "live documentary" style, always on edge. It fits, since the characters are undercover and can be discovered any minute.
Well, Colin's character does have a dilemma, and Foxx's also to a smaller degree. It's kept very simple and direct. I liked that. It's kind of classic.
- Robert Dobolina, Esq. said...
I didn't even know what the name of Ciaran Hinds' character was. That's hysterical.
I tend to lean toward the positive on Miami Vice. It's a flaw that Farrell and his love interest fail to have any chemistry, but on the upside Farrell and Foxx sell Crockett and Tubbs as a team, and two guys comfortable being a team, pretty well. We don't need backstory, but it's obvious that they've been in the trenches together... works a lot better. I'm actually kind of glad that the Crockett subplot doesn't take over the way it's plainly meant to -- I always really hated how Tubbs got cheated of any real prominence on the show, where he was more of a sidekick than a partner.
I kind of like... ugly films, I guess. A lot of people I know hated the visual style of Fargo, and I didn't understand that. A prettier delivery would have screwed with the tone of the story. So it is here -- the glamorous Eighties are gone, the world of Miami Vice is an ugly netherworld where ugly things happened. I thought that worked.
Best performance in the film was Jose Yero. I liked seeing the undercovers run into a bad guy too canny to be fooled by them. "They are wrong... somehow, they are WRONG."
- StephenM said...
It's almost a tone poem of a movie. Everything is about mood, created by the fascinating ugly-but-beautiful cinematography and the radical editing, and leaving aside any backstories for the protagonists makes it always Now, but also leaves us kind of dreamily apart. It feels a little like a documentary filtered through a fever dream, and you either let it envelope you or you don't. Its no wonder so many don't like it; I saw it last year for the first time and found it brilliant. Perhaps seeing and admiring Blackhat will allow Tim to revisit this one again at some point and find it easier to take.


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Author: Stephen M. Walt, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Affairs; Faculty Chair, International Security Program
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Now that the war is officially over and most U.S. forces have withdrawn, what are the most important takeaways?
This month marks the ninth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Regardless of your views on the wisdom of that decision, it's fair to say that the results were not what most Americans expected. Now that the war is officially over and most U.S. forces have withdrawn, what lessons should Americans (and others) draw from the experience? There are many lessons that one might learn, of course, but here are my Top 10 Lessons from the Iraq War.
Lesson #1: The United States lost. The first and most important lesson of Iraq war is that we didn't win in any meaningful sense of that term. The alleged purpose of the war was eliminating Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, but it turns out he didn't have any. Oops. Then the rationale shifted to creating a pro-American democracy, but Iraq today is at best a quasi-democracy and far from pro-American. The destruction of Iraq improved Iran's position in the Persian Gulf which is hardly something the United States intended and the costs of the war (easily exceeding $1 trillion dollars) are much larger than U.S. leaders anticipated or promised. The war was also a giant distraction, which diverted the Bush administration from other priorities (e.g., Afghanistan) and made the United States much less popular around the world.
This lesson is important because supporters of the war are already marketing a revisionist version. In this counternarrative, the 2007 surge was a huge success (it wasn't, because it failed to produce political reconciliation) and Iraq is now on the road to stable and prosperous democracy. And the costs weren't really that bad. Another variant of this myth is the idea that President George W. Bush and Gen. David Petraeus had "won" the war by 2008, but President Obama then lost it by getting out early. This view ignores the fact that the Bush administration negotiated the 2008 Status of Forces agreement that set the timetable for U.S. withdrawal, and Obama couldn't stay in Iraq once the Iraqi government made it clear it wanted us out.
The danger of this false narrative is obvious: If Americans come to see the war as a success which it clearly wasn't they may continue to listen to the advice of its advocates and be more inclined to repeat similar mistakes in the future.
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February 4, 2002
State Board of Education Announces Further Streamlining Plans
Newly appointed State Superintendent of Education Respicio Vazquez today announced the second phase of the State Board of Education's reorganization that further streamlines the structure and better aligns agency resources with its mission to help school districts.
The plan, which will go into effect March 1, was announced at employee meetings in Springfield and Chicago. By the end of this fiscal year, June 30, the reorganization plan will result in about 60 fewer positions than the 723 the agency had on Dec. 31, 2001, Vazquez said.
The plan is not a headcount-reduction plan, but one to improve the efficiency of delivery of services to schools and the students they serve, he said.
"This plan places the right number of people in the right places to get the needed assistance to schools most efficiently," Vazquez said."It is the result of two months of intense study by former Superintendent Wish and the Core Team of administrators he put in place in phase one of this reorganization."
"Our agency's organization will now be aligned with its mission," Vazquez said.
"This structure is driven by the needs of schools. Although we do not directly serve students, our operations have one goal - to support schools in the most efficient way possible. That is the bottom line of this plan."
Vazquez pointed out that the centerpiece of the new structure is the Center for Teaching and Learning, led by Dr. Christopher Koch, the State Board's Chief Education Officer.The Center for Teaching and Learning will include nearly half of the agency's staff, with all other agency units and staff providing "utility support" for that Center's mission.
Staff members within the Teaching and Learning Center will come from several areas within the current agency structure and be organized into four work units targeting high-priority areas that reflect several pressing needs of schools:
In addition to adding a new department to help underperforming schools, the reorganization plan also establishes a new department for strengthening partnerships with Regional Offices of Education, which Vazquez says fulfill key roles in school improvement and accountability. Another new department combines all auditing staff from several units into a single, focused unit responsible for audits.
The estimated reduction of 60 positions by June 30 includes anticipated retirements as well as the 15 management positions eliminated in phase one of the re-organization announced January 7.
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Hello, I am really hoping someone can help me and offer advice, I want to give all the facts/background so apologies if a little long.
My DD is 5 month old and is exclusively breastfed, she has gone from sleeping through very early on to waking up to 6 times a night with terrible bottom wind and a rumbling tummy as soon as I feed - this started at 3 months.
Apart from the usual problems of sore nipples and learning to bf things seemed ok although she was often fussy at going on the breast and would moan whilst feeding for the first few minutes before settling. She was 8lb 9 at birth and has continued above the 75th percentile with her weight gain, so she's quite a big baby.
She wasfeeding every 2 tp 2.5 hours in the day and naturally cluster feeding in the evening, by 6 weeks she was sleeping through 7-9 hours a night and I was obviously very happy! this continued for 2 weeks until she got back to back colds.
With the cold she started what seemed to be a nursing strike, screaming, punching my breast - even though her nose was not particularly blocked up. We persevered with feeding standing up etc and I had to change her nursing position from rugby ball to more tradional across me. I think part of the reason was that she was naturally moving to longer between feeds and I was confusing her signals and trying to feed to frequently. We got over the worst but even now 3 months on she is still somewhat fussy at going on even when hungry.
I seem to have heaps of milk (breast went from 36F to 36K :() and there is no question of her emptying a breast.. I only ever feed from one side during a feed. Feeds look like this...
She sometimes refuses to go on and I have to stand up or use a dummy to get her into it then offer breast. She feeds ferociously for 5-8 mins and gulps alot, (if she comes off at the start my milk sprays all over, but only right at the start) She comes off with wind, I burp her and she refuses any more, but will want to feed again within 2.5 to 3 hours, which seems frequent for 5 months. although can go for 6-8 hours if she feeds at 4am she may not take any more until 12 noon.
In the evening before bed she can feed for up to an hour, if I try to wind her mid feed she screams for food... by the end she's asleep and won't wind.
I have tried drops, cutting out caffiene and dairy and various veg, bicycling her legs, infant gaviscon....
Her nappies are NOT green however, they are orange and once every 2-3 days so I ruled out a foremilk problem.
Any advice? she often has pain and cries hard until I can cycle her legs and rub her tummy enough to expell it. Last night she woke every 1 to 2 hours with bottom wind and her tummy rumbled away :(


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LIBERTY, NY — The Liberty SADD Chapter (Students Against Destructive Decisions) presents the third annual Spring Fling 5K Race/Walk on Sunday, April 28 at Liberty High School. Registration begins at 7 a.m. and the race starts at 9 a.m. T-shirts will be given to the first 100 racers and refreshments will be available to all participants after the race.
The race fee is $20 with early registration, $25 on the day of the race, or $10 for students. The Fun-Run for Kids (12 and under) will follow the main race. Proceeds from the race will benefit the Liberty Boys and Girls Club, an after-school program that serves Liberty Middle School students in grades five to seven.
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Best Interest
If former West Virginia state school Superintendent Jorea Marple has been serious in previous statements that doing good things for children is a priority for her, she will call off her attorneys.
Marple became what amounts to chief executive officer of the state's public school system in March 2011. But late last year, the state Board of Education voted to fire her, with two members disagreeing so strongly they eventually resigned their posts.
Now attorneys for Marple said they are preparing to sue the state board over the firing. They have said Marple's reputation was damaged. She should be paid compensation for that and reinstated to her $165,000-a-year job, the lawyers say.
As far as Marple's reputation goes, some of the very state board members who voted to fire her went out of their way to commend her. They implied it was not her qualifications for the job but simply a difference of opinions in how to proceed with school reform that led them to hand her a pink slip.
In other words, some board members feared that Marple did not see eye to eye with them on how to improve public schools.
Marple, whose husband is former state Attorney General Darrell McGraw, knows as well as anyone the difference in some jobs in state government. In some, it may be fair to maintain that a grasp of the mechanics of how certain work is done, along with a willingness to do it that way, is enough to ensure job security.
But things are vastly different in "will and pleasure" jobs such as that Marple held until late last year. In those, in exchange for higher pay and often more influence, employers such as the state Board of Education are entitled to feel entirely comfortable with their appointees.
They were not comfortable with Marple, so they made a change. It is that simple.
If Marple proceeds with her lawsuit, it will cost the state a substantial amount of money that otherwise could have gone into education reform. It will divert the attention of some board members and state Department of Education officials away from reform while they deal with the lawsuit.
It will not serve the best interests of the children of West Virginia. If Marple wants to secure her reputation in that regard, she will not proceed with the suit.


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Benjamin Pierce Bishop, 59, a former U.S. Army officer who works as a civilian employee of a defense contractor at U.S. Pacific Command in Hawaii, has been arrested on charges of communicating classified national defense information to a person not entitled to receive such information, according to the FBI.
Bishop, a resident of Hawaii, was arrested Friday without incident at his workspace at USPACOM in Hawaii and made his initial appearance on Monday in federal court in Honolulu.
The criminal complaint filed in the District of Hawaii charges him with one count of willfully communicating national defense information to a person not entitled to receive such information and one count of unlawfully retaining documents related to the national defense. If convicted, he faces a maximum potential sentence of 20 years in prison.
According to an affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint, Bishop currently works as an employee of a defense contractor that has a contract with USPACOM, whose command is based on Oahu. Bishop has held a Top Secret security clearance since July 2002 and held access to Secure Compartmented Information from November 2002 to April 2012. As a person holding a Top Secret security clearance, Bishop has been subject to multiple security briefings on restrictions regarding the disclosure of classified national defense information, as well as the handling, marking and storage of such information.
"Mr. Bishop communicated classified national security information with a citizen of the People's Republic of China," said U.S. Attorney Florence Nakakuni.
According to the affidavit, between May 2011 through December 2012, Bishop willfully communicated classified national defense information on multiple occasions to Person 1, an individual not entitled to receive such information. The affidavit alleges that Person 1 is a 27-year-old female citizen of the People's Republic of China who is residing in the United States on a visa and who does not possess, nor has ever possessed, a U.S. security clearance, and thus is not entitled to receive U.S. classified information.
According to the affidavit, Bishop and Person 1 originally met in Hawaii during a conference regarding international military defense issues. Since June 2011, Bishop and Person 1 have allegedly been involved in a romantic relationship. Despite a Defense Department directive requiring personnel, like Bishop, who maintain a U.S. security clearance to report to the U.S. government any contacts with foreign persons, Bishop has affirmatively hidden his relationship with Person 1 from U.S. government officials, the affidavit alleges.
The affidavit alleges that Bishop communicated information classified at the Secret level to Person 1 on several instances. According to the affidavit, the national defense information that Bishop passed to Person 1 included information relating to nuclear weapons; information on planned deployment of U.S. strategic nuclear systems; information on the ability of the United States to detect low- and medium-range ballistic missiles of foreign governments; and information on the deployment of U.S. early warning radar systems in the Pacific Rim.
The affidavit further alleges that a court-authorized search of Bishop's residence in November 2012 revealed approximately 12 individual documents each with classification markings at the Secret level. Bishop's residence is not an authorized location for the storage of classified information and Bishop was not authorized to remove and retain those documents.
Bishop's attorney Birney Bervar said, "He's doing OK. As you can expect, this is devastating. He served his country honorably for 29 years and he maintains he would never do anything to intentionally harm the United States."
FBI agents claim Bishop hid the relationship from U.S. government officials even though he knew he was required to report it.
"My office and our partners at the Department of Justice National Security Division Counterespionage Section are collectively committed to the ongoing protection of military secrets here in Hawaii," said Nakakuni.
Two year ago, another Hawaii resident Noshir Gowadia, a former B-2 stealth bomber engineer, was sentenced to 32 years in prison for selling military secrets to China to pay for his oceanfront Maui home. Bervar represented Gowadia in that case.
"It's unusual to have two espionage cases in the last 7-or-8-years in Hawaii but we do have a large defense presence here in Hawaii so in that vein, it's not unusual," said Bervar.
If convicted of the charges, Bishop could face a maximum of 20 years in prison. He is scheduled to appear in court later this month.


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Studies in Desperation: Where Am I In This, 1963
Connor EvertsAmerican, 1926-2016
Lithograph, Edition of 20, No. 4
16-7/8 x 24-1/2 in. (42.9 x 62.2 cm)
Norton Simon Museum, Gift of Robin C. Park and D. Robert Park
© 2012 Connor Everts
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Created in the wake of the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Connor Everts's lithograph portfolio Studies in Desperation responds to the profound social struggles of the early 1960s. The artist was instrumental in founding the Los Angeles Printmaking Society, and he was one of the first guest artists of the Tamarind Lithography Workshop. Here his skill with the medium is evident: multilayered images of teeth, skulls, ribcage and phallus gnash and tear as they emerge and then recede through the artist's refined use of shading. The powerful content of these images led to Everts's arrest and eventual trial for pornography. The artist intended the work to speak about the state of the world, and more particularly, the view of the world from the womb. Years later, as he reflected on the series, the artist questioned, "What if someone looked out from the womb and decided not to be born until it was a better world?"
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Leslie Pattison died in 1979. He was a gentle man, soft spoken, one of the kind who helped build, as did his brothers and father, Curry County.
Leslie came to Curry County with his folks the year New Mexico was made a state. His father was Will H. Pattison.
They came from Indiana. There were six boys: Forest, Orville, Dean, Cecil, Kenneth and Leslie. Kenneth drowned as a boy in a lake east of Clovis.
Forest, Orville, Dean, and Leslie spent most of their lives farming in, or near, the old Claud community. I didn't know Leslie and Dean as well as I did Forest and Orville. My folks lived a half-mile east of the Orville Pattisons.
I knew Orville's two boys as I grew up with them, Hoyt and Buell, and the two boys would come to our house and my mother would fix breakfast for them as they like my mother's good pancakes. I lived out on our farm for 13 years until my mother, brother, sister and myself ran off to Clovis in 1943 as my Dad became too mean and he never lived with us again.
My Dad worked at times for Orville and Forest. Forest got one of the first self-propelled combines in the late 30s or early 40s and my Dad ran it.
I usually went with my Dad when he went to work for Forest, just to see and get to play with their adopted daughter, Shirley. Shirley was two years younger than myself, but she was my first girlfriend.
Leslie farmed between our place and Clovis, west of Pleasant Hill. In the 1940s my Dad's brother, George came to New Mexico and after some time looking around, went to work for Leslie.
Leslie told me awhile back that Uncle George was the best and fastest "shocker" he'd ever seen. (To you city folks a "shocker" is one who, after the row crop of maise or "high-gear" was cut and bundled and tied with binder-wine, came along and shocked or stacked the bundles with the grain up off the ground. The shocks looked something like teepees with from six to 10 bundles in each).
I tried to get Leslie to write down his history for the Curry County History Book, but he didn't think he could say anything too interesting. (He was on the 1916 Clovis High School football team.)
My sympathies are with Thelma, his wife, and his daughter, Janice. Only one of the Pattison brothers was alive the last I heard, and that is Cecil who lived near Belen. I didn't know him.
My first girlfriend, Shirley Pattison, grew up and moved to Hot Springs, N.M. with her folks. When I got out of the Army in 1954, I went up there from Fort Bliss and spent most of the summer prospecting for gold and such with Forest and some of his friends. I didn't find any gold, and Forest didn't find any gold and I didn't get the girl. She married someone else.
But we are still friends.


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The College's month-long Flamenco Festival will showcase the emotive, rhythmic music and dance from Spanish culture with performances, dance classes, films, a lecture and photography exhibit. All are free and hosted by the student club Fusión Española, Student Governing Association, the Office of Academic Affairs and Office of International Programs, with the exception of the Feb. 19 fine arts performance by Chicago's Ensemble Espanol Spanish Dance Theater. Two events will kick off the celebration at noon Tuesday, Feb. 2. Adjunct Instructor of Spanish Jelena Sanchez will give a talk on "The Art of Flamenco" in Koten Chapel and the film Carmen will be shown in Meiley-Swallow Hall.
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Some local kids facing a hungry holiday
Local charitable organizations and volunteers have worked many hours to help feed the needy this holiday season. Their efforts are to be commended, and they know from firsthand experience that we definitely have people in our community who are without food.
This is tragic, particularly when the hungry ones are children.
This week, Randolph County school officials talked to The Inter-Mountain about efforts to make sure students have enough to eat during the Christmas break, which begins Monday and runs through Jan. 2.
Many Randolph County children eat both breakfast and lunch at their schools. During Christmas break those meals won't be provided, which worries some officials.
"Sometimes parents spend so much time in their daily grind that they are not accustomed to having their children home for an extended period of time," said Randolph County Superintendent of Schools Terry George. "We want students who are away from school for an extended period of time to maintain a healthy lifestyle on their break."
Officials aren't just worried that parents won't plan ahead and have healthy food on hand. They know that for some local families, those school-provided meals are a necessity.
Ladonna Rosencrance, coordinator of Child Nutrition for Randolph County Schools, wants parents to know that, if necessary, they can look toward a local food bank for help.
This is by no means just a local phenomenom.
An NPR?story titled "For Many Kids, Winter Break Means Hungry Holidays" stated that a study by the anti-hunger organization Share Our Strength found more than half of teachers have used their own money to buy food for hungry students.
Linda Godfrey, who advises school districts on their meal operations and ran a summer food program for kids, told NPR some children would "have their faces to the door" as early as 6 a.m. during the summer. "And as soon as the doors would open at 11 o'clock, they would already be lined up, and they were extremely hungry. Especially on Monday."
The winter months bring holiday hunger problems, Godfrey said.
"I had children that would come up to me and say, 'I really don't want to be out of school for Christmas because we know we're not going to get much to eat,'" she told NPR.
Only a truly heartless person could fail to be moved by the plight of a hungry child. We urge parents to make sure they have food for their kids during the holiday break – even if it means asking for help. And we encourage everyone else to give to those charitable organizations we mentioned earlier, and support their efforts to end hunger locally.
We don't want any local kids to have a hungry holiday – or to go without food any other day.


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Sports Talk: Remembering Stan 'The Man,' Robby, and others
A March 12, 1960 souvenir scorebook, featuring the St. Louis Cardinals vs. New York Yankees spring training opener at Al Lang Field in St. Petersburg, Fla., cost 15 cents.
My grandpa, who took yours truly to his first major league baseball game, purchased it, and also kept score.
Turning the pages, the rosters of both ballclubs are revealed, showing uniform numbers and surnames only. Back then, all baseball fans were very familiar with the first names of Yankees like Mantle, Berra, Stengel, and perhaps the greatest Cardinal of all – Musial.
This past Saturday, Stan "The Man" Musial died at the age of 92. On that same day, former Baltimore Orioles skipper Earl Weaver also passed away.
In 1960, at age 39, Musial was beginning his 19th season with the Cards. He ended up playing the game (all with the same franchise) until he was 42, and his last hit of which he had 3,630 was a single past Cincinnati Reds rookie second baseman Pete Rose.
Bill "Robby" Robinson, the late Marietta Times sports editor/writer, was a big Stan Musial and St. Louis Cardinals fan. Often, he would wear the Cards' ballcap while covering his beloved Marieta College Pioneers in the Don Schaly Stadium press box.
On that long ago, sunny afternoon game in Florida, Musial started at first base and hit third in the batting order behind leadoff man Joe Cunningham (right field) and Daryl Spencer (shortstop), who finished with three singles to help the Solly Hemus-managed Cardinals beat the Yanks, 5-1.
Ken Boyer (third base) batted cleanup; Bob Nieman (left field), fifth; Curt Flood (center field), sixth; Hal Smith (catcher), seventh; and Alex Grammas (second base), eighth.
Righty Larry Jackson started on the hill for the Cards.
St. Louis also had a future Hall of Famer on its roster by the name of Bob Gibson, but he didn't throw in this game.
The Yankees started and countered with Whitey Ford on the mound, Ken Hunt (center field), Bobby Richardson (second), Gil McDougald (short), Bill Skowron (first), Yogi Berra (third), Roger Maris (left), Hector Lopez (right), and Elston Howard (catcher).
Mickey Mantle wasn't even on the premises that day due to a contract dispute with the Yankee front office.
Interestingly, Berra was at the hot corner, and Maris, in his first season as a Yankee, was positioned in left.
The Bronx Bombers got on the board first on two-out hits by McDougald, Skowron and Berra, respectively. But the Cardinals came back to tie the score with a run in the third, went ahead with two runs in the seventh, and plated two more in the eighth.
Musial didn't figure in on any of the scoring in this game, and was subbed for late in the game by Leon Wagner, who had an eighth-inning double.
A couple of days later, a visit to Sarasota (not far from St. Petersburg) to see the Chicago White Sox play the-then Milwaukee Braves capped a very memorable baseball journey for a wide-eyed youngster to the Sunshine State.
Sadly, many of the aforementioned names are no longer with us as time is of course unyielding.
Ron Johnston is the Marietta Times sports editor, and can be reached at 376-5441 or at firstname.lastname@example.com