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NSI Director Thomas O'Reilly: I understand that you had a good visit to New Jersey.
IHS: Yes, indeed. Major Souchek rolled out the red carpet for us. We had a tremendous experience there. I'd like to start by continuing with the thread of discussion from New Jersey. Could you tell me about your role in creating the ROIC there in Trenton?
O'Reilly: In my capacity as Administrator for the Department of Law and Public Safety in the post-9/11 era, using my background in fusion center issues, and other national emergency management perspectives, we engaged and developed a new emergency management facility for the state of New Jersey. The Colonel of the State Police—and there is only one other state, Michigan, that's like this—serves both as the emergency management director as well as the superintendent of the state police operation. In most states, it's a separate FEMA-like organization. So as we were developing a new emergency management center (EOC), it just seemed very logical, assuming we could get the funding, to collocate those functions together. And for all intents and purposes, the fusion center, with its steady 24/7 flow of information, would be at the front end of any emergency, as well as developing information that would help both from an all crimes perspective and receiving information from the federal government concerning terrorist threats and adding value to that by seeing the information percolating up from the cities and other communities, and then kind of massaging that and producing a product that's relevant to the 580 municipalities within the state of New Jersey.
In 2001, 2002, 2003, there was an avalanche of information coming from the feds to the states, and unfortunately—and this is nobody's fault, it's just a matter of maturity—most of the information would be generic, such as "there is a threat in the Northeast." And it got a little better when we got a threat against mass transportation in the Northeast, but not a whole lot of additional information. So, after a while, it was like crying wolf in terms of we would spend a million dollars a week deploying troopers to critical infrastructure to protect it against a generic threat. So as things got a little better, we found out that the threat would be against transportation—I'm just using this as one example—and then can we leverage the fusion center to identify the mass transportation hubs? Are they Newark, Penn Station, and Trenton? Would it be the tunnel under the Hudson River from NYC to Newark? So the people could be deployed in the event of a threat with a little more specificity, and in addition, the fusion center role is to gather information from local police, from local communities, as it relates to suspicious activity to further pinpoint the risk.
But going back to my role, basically as we were building the emergency management center, myself, working with originally Colonel Dunbar, then Colonel Fuentes, teamed up and went to the legislature, went to the state treasurer, got some additional funding in order to add the fusion center process ultimately to the EOC process. And subsequently, we were also able to add the public safety answering points for the cellular 911. So you had, No. 1, situational awareness because the cellular 911 calls were being answered at that building. No. 2, you had the analytical capacity of the fusion center, as well as the watch commander issues there, to take information, add value to it, make it relevant to New Jersey, as well as collect additional information from the ground, so to speak, and add value to the New Jersey product, as well as passing it up to the federal entities, such as DHS (Department of Homeland Security) and JTTF (Joint Terrorism Task Force). Then, finally, if those prevention mechanisms—i.e. the phone notice, the intelligence of the fusion center—were not successful, and the event still occurred, then you had the ability to respond from a command and control perspective, running the response and recovery effort out of the EOC.
So in many ways, it was one-stop shopping. From an economic point of view, it leveraged the similar types of resources, so they didn't have to be repetitive. As we built the building out, there were other design functions that just seemed very logical, like the press room in the front, inside to notify the public of a threat, whether it's a potential terrorist attack, or a tornado, or a hurricane coming. So, we ended up getting the funding and convincing the state legislature to pass the appropriation, and the rest is history in terms of design of that building and the way you saw it the other day.
IHS: I can see now, from your explanation, perhaps why you became the logical choice for NSI Director. Do you think of New Jersey as a template?
O'Reilly: Yes, New Jersey is a template, but not the only template. I think the beauty of what we do, with the 72 fusion centers and the NSI, is that it allows us to have a certain degree of standardization. In the case of the NSI, we're standardized on the data model in terms of needing a national information exchange model. We're standardized on the behaviors, the privacy policies, and the definition as to possible nexus to terrorism, in order to share that information.
But the beauty of it is that it still allows us flexibility so that we respect and can accommodate the unique needs of each of the 72 jurisdictions, the 50 states, and the 22 Urban Area Security Initiatives Operations (UASI). A good example is Minnesota. Their legislature has a conservative policy as to sharing information that identifies individuals in police databases. So in that case, it's what you call, PII, Personally Identifying Indicators, and in the Minnesota case, they still participate in the NSI, but they control their database locally. … And so, Minnesota can play in that space, but they can still adhere to their state's requirements by being able to blank out certain fields that we have set up as personally identifying fields.
IHS: Major Souchek said he was observing a shift in the way fusion centers are structured, that they began with more local emphasis and now are becoming more uniform. Do you have a view on that?
O'Reilly: Actually the way they began, in many ways, was as a conduit for information coming from Homeland Security and the FBI in order to have one focal point—so the governors, the mayors, and state police colonels could be advised, because in 2001 and 2002, the information was coming in to multiple entry points. It also helped, in a more economic fashion, to utilize resources, so that if the target was potentially a Newark railroad station, and the Newark Police Department had already deployed 10 extra cops to patrol it, then the State Police knew that they did not have to go.
So, I think that the fusion centers have a dual purpose, and each one is a little different in terms of how this mix occurs. There is certainly the functionality, in terms of homeland security—they have played a critical role as outlined in the 2007 National Strategy for Information Sharing as well as several other documents that the White House has issued. And in addition, the role in terms of dealing with localized crime and localized police emergency issues has emerged, and that's becoming a very critical role for New Jersey. Now with the layoffs that are occurring in the police departments, the fusion centers are assuming that data analysis role for many of the larger cities, as well as the smaller cities. And there's actually a partnership within the International Chiefs of Police Association, which is representative of smaller and mid-size police departments, working to partner the fusion centers with those police departments to help them, particularly in these times of tough economic needs.
So it's a mix of homeland security and, pardon the cliché, hometown security, regardless of what the public safety threat is. The threat may be coming from overseas, in terms of people sitting in caves in Afghanistan or other places. Or that threat could be coming from the woods in Michigan—as you may be aware, they locked up 12 guys in Michigan who were part of a militia, who were going to kill a police officer, in order to attract more police officers at his funeral so they could shoot more police officers, which is another threat of a domestic nature. Or it's a threat from people who are violent extremists in animal rights, or abortion, or other types of things, where we've seen bombs detonated in abortion clinics, or violence exhibited against pharmaceutical companies.
But the beauty of it is now, on the basis of the Global [Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative] tools that I mentioned to you before, we have certain standard or certain baseline capabilities that we are trying to work at the state and local level so everybody has—I won't call them standards, in the sense that everybody is a cookie cutter, but they all have an analytical component. As an example, they all are engaged with the Nationwide SAR Initiative. They all have a privacy policy, but within that privacy policy is the flexibility to customize it to their particular needs, their particular statutes, and operational considerations. So, although there is a network of 72 fusion centers, and there are some core standards to ensure interoperability, all use the National Information Exchange Model, or NIEM, as a data model again, not only for NSI, but for other communications. And there are certain fundamental things that are just good government, and good public safety, like a good privacy policy and a good analytical policy. There's no standard that says everyone has to have five analysts who are doing homeland security work, and everybody has to have two analysts who are assigned to gangs and guns, or something of that nature. This is a local or state determination, though. Hopefully that's clear.
IHS: What else does the NSI do that we need to know about besides develop and support fusion centers?
O'Reilly: Well, right now the NSI has a comprehensive program that goes from a data model to aggressive training where we are trying to have outreach to all 800,000 police officers in the country to provide them with a front-line video of training. It's 15 minutes, and it might be worth your viewing it. [The NSI] is associated with fusion centers, it's associated with the street cops, the local cops, it's associated with the public, with If you see something, say something, the DHS Secretary's program, and it's associated with all the critical infrastructure in the country. In addition, we have three sources of information: cops, the public at large, and those people who are protecting the critical infrastructure or high value targets, such as chemical plants, such as dams, such as nuclear reactors, such as maritime facilities. So in that sense, we touch a lot of different things.
In addition, we are also working in terms of using the shared space solution and the NIEM solution to develop other critical public safety priority issues. We are about a month away from issuing a gang standard for information exchange. Right now there are about five different gang databases out there nationwide, and most of them will not talk to each other because they were developed with different proprietary software. NIEM, being somewhat of a middleware type of solution, overcomes that, as well as again trying to standardize the vocabulary and standardize the protocols, but still allowing that flexibility that each of the states needs.
We are also looking at human trafficking, and things like gun trafficking, as other areas that we may become involved in, so we have a homeland security role vis-à-vis counterterrorism and fusion centers, but we have a much broader public safety role that's emerging as part of our core role as the Bureau of Justice Assistance in the Department of Justice (BJA), where we are housed. The BJA interacts with state and local law enforcement as well as providing federal funding to those entities.
IHS: It also appears that the NSI may very well evolve because, as I understand it, the rollout of fusion centers is expected to be completed within the next year. What's next?
O'Reilly: There are a couple of things next. You are right; we are trying to have all the fusion centers completed within the next year. And there's some interest in expediting this because, as we see from the terrorist threats from around the country in the last 12 months, whether it was Dallas last week, or Times Square, or Detroit, or Portland, Oregon, with the Christmas tree issue, that these incidents of terrorism occurring on American soil have quadrupled in the last 12 months. Then you have the Somali issue up in St. Paul, where people are allegedly going overseas to fight and then coming back is also a concern. What's next is moving to provide more robust analytical tools that will allow the analyses to be done at both the fusion center level and the DHS and FBI level, and take advantage of both open source as well as intelligence type information in order to better protect the homeland.
What's next is looking at the all crimes perspective, because in many cases, the terrorism issue is not an isolated incident of terrorism. I will give you two examples: In Torrance, California, a couple of years ago, there were guys who got out of prison—three people who radicalized the prison, who started doing gas station robberies. They did a number of robberies and they finally got arrested. When they executed a search warrant on their dwelling, they found not only the tools of robbery in terms of automatic weapons and masks and things like that, but they also found a ton of terrorist-related literature. They found maps of the National Guard facility, maps of local synagogues, and the rudimentary makings of bombs. If you go to the East Coast, not too long ago, in South Carolina, there was a case of cigarette smuggling by Hezbollah, which was bootlegging cigarettes up to New York and to Detroit. And the investigation of that case proved that the proceeds were going overseas to buy firearms to fight in Afghanistan and Iran. If you go back to the West Coast, there are a couple of SARs that were discovered related to shoplifting. There were a couple of jurisdictions that had a rash of shoplifting where 30 people would go into a Walmart or a Target and clean off the shelves and then take off. Ultimately, as part of the knitting together of the SARs and the investigation, it also proved it was Hezbollah, in terms of working with the number of illegal aliens coming across the border, taking them in to do the shoplifting, and particularly focusing on products that have a high black market value and selling them for fundraisers for terrorist activities. The issue of crime—whether it's robbing gas stations, the smuggling of cigarettes, shoplifting, or other things—is all very complicated and all very interwoven into the potential terrorist/homeland security issues. So, the next step of moving beyond pure counterterrorism to some of the all crimes issues is a logical step, and it is certainly a step that is confronting the states right now, whether it's gang violence, firearms trafficking, or other things like that.
IHS: Is there anything else that you want to add at this point?
O'Reilly: Three things: One is that when you think of the NSI, it's anchored in behaviors; it's not anchored in the who. It's not Arab-looking males, in terms of a profiling issue. But it's specifically anchored in behaviors that have been researched through looking at over 500 terrorism cases, nationally and internationally, and identify the surveillance issues, the interactions with security guards, and the burglaries committed to test how soon the police respond. That's important, because that helps us address civil liberties and privacy rights in terms of pinpointing somebody because of their race, color, religion, or dress, and it moves it to the factual basis of using the behaviors as our factual principle. Also, those behaviors have to occur within or adjacent to a critical infrastructure or a high-value target. If those two elements occur, basically you have a SAR that has a potential nexus to terrorism.
Next, it takes some analytical effort to make a determination as to how real it is. If it's photography of a bridge, let's say, and an officer stops an individual because a citizen calls in, and that photographer took one or two pictures and explains to the officer that his grandfather built the bridge 30 years ago, or that he's an architecture student and he's doing a photo essay for a class project, and he only took one or two pictures, and everything kind of checks out, then the officer basically says, "Have a nice day, enjoy yourself." If when the officer rolls up and the guy is taking 30 pictures of the bridge, and he's been taking pictures that are obviously of the closed-circuit TV, of the security provisions, of the underpinnings of the bridge, and he has a very garbled explanation as to what he's doing, then that becomes a potential SAR issue; and the officer needs to ask the next question or questions to further review the circumstance. In some ways, it's what I call the tourism vs. terrorism test. Because we know in D.C., where I am right now, at this moment, there's probably thousands of people taking pictures of the White House and Union Station and the Washington Monument and various bridges or whatever. Obviously, they are not terrorists. Usually they are taking one or two tourism photographs and moving on. It's when you get somebody that's doing 40 pictures of Union Station and taking pictures of the track controls and stuff like that—where the cops are located—then that becomes an issue. So, behaviors are a critical issue, and where they are occurring is extremely critical. And then the issue of privacy policy is the third leg of this, in terms of making sure that everybody has a privacy policy before they are allowed to exchange information across state lines.
The second issue is that this is a partnership with America. And we need the participation of all communities, whether it's the various faith-based communities, the Somali communities, and people over here of various immigration statuses, etc. In order to cooperate with the law enforcement, in order to have an understanding that when they give information to law enforcement, that it will be used correctly and appropriately, consistent with civil liberties and privacy safeguards. I think that's important. The second aspect of this issue is that the information has to come from the police officers. So when a citizen sees something, the police officer is sensitized that he needs to ask the next question, because that hole in the fence may not be vandalism. It may be someone checking out how soon the police respond to that chain-link fence that is around a critical infrastructure. And we are doing that, working with a number of professional associations to reach out to all 800,000 police officers in America to provide them with that basic training. So, we need the public at large to be partners in this program. The issue is that nobody knows the community better than the people who are living in that community. I don't care whether it's who's trafficking drugs, who's selling guns, or who might be making a bomb in their basement type of thing. People know the anomalies, they know what's out of the norm, and they have to have that ability and confidence to report it to the police.
And finally, after all those collection processes work, we need to make sure, as the 9/11 Commission reports, that we connect the dots. And that's what the NSI does. It encourages the reporting, consistent with privacy policies and certain behavior standards, and then it provides the mechanism so that all 72 fusion centers, in conjunction with DHS and FBI, have the ability to connect the dots and make a determination that there is a threat to America before that threat gets operationalized.


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It's been awhile since there's been a dust-up between the White House and reporters over the decorum surrounding attempts to question the president, but we got one today.
Economists had hoped lower gasoline prices — other than California, Minnesota has some of the highest gas prices in the country — would get people to spend more.
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Following flooding, why don't people follow the news, a Guardsman says goodbye, would painting blacktop white make a difference, and a walk over Niagra Falls.

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In this strangely muted concert, Nott conducted two works by Messiaen alongside Bartók's complete Miraculous Mandarin score, writes Andrew Clements
After a tour through work by Japanese composers, the Arditti Quartet took the rare step of putting themselves centre-stage, writes Andrew Clements
Scottish Ballet take a postmodern tumble, then recover with a classic fatal embrace, writes Luke Jennings
The Mariinsky's performance triumphed over the shortcomings of Jonathan Kent's production, writes Andrew Clements
The Glaswegian writer and artist talks to Charlotte Higgins about his latest project, a mural in his local subway station
Audiences defy economic downturn and dreary weather to help fringe register increase in ticket sales
A timely, but ultimately naff and mind-numblingly slow updating of Rossini's Babylonian tragedy, writes Kate Molleson
An ancient dance, joyously and sexily performed in the present tense, that's hypnotically lovely to watch, writes Judith Mackrell
Andrew Dickson: It was a month of triumphs and turkeys, and we couldn't have reviewed them without your tweets and pictures. What did you think of our coverage?
Comedians stripped off or fell silent, theatre got lost in gadgetry, and a bassoonist was arrested … Brian Logan and Lyn Gardner give out their Edinburgh festival round-up awards
Booker prize-winning novelist explains why she is such a profound pessimist – and why reading novels gives her hope
Jackie Kay, Colin Thubron and AL Kennedy in our honorary awards to mark the end of the Edinburgh Book Festival
The Penny Dreadfuls man's love of straight-to-DVD Disney flicks comes from a poignant place, says Brian Logan
One Thousand and One Nights; The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle; South Pacific; Me, Myself and Miss Gibbs – reviewOne Thousand and One Nights in Edinburgh has never seemed longer, but a one-woman show based on a picture postcard is worth writing home about, writes Susannah Clapp
Comedian with a 'fearless level of audience engagement' beats joint-favourite Nick Helm to most prestigious standup prize in UK
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Would YOU leave your boyfriend for Justin? He knows you go to his concerts to see him!
He may only be 16, but Justin Bieber has picked up some swagger from his mentor, Usher. In a new cover story from the February issue of Vanity Fair, the Biebs is asked about his female fans, and his answer is anything but modest: "Not trying to be arrogant, but if I walked down the street and a girl saw me, she might take a look back because maybe I'm good-looking, right?"
Justin also understands too well how his image affects his fan base, saying, "For younger guys, it's like [they think] they're not cool if they come to my concert. That'll [change], I think; it'll happen, maybe when I'm 18. But meanwhile all their girlfriends are coming to watch me."
As for what the future holds, Justin draws creative inspiration from his hero, Michael Jackson: "Michael was able to reach audiences from young to old; he never limited himself. He was so broad, everybody loved him, and that's what my goal is — to basically make people happy, to inspire them, and to have everyone root for me."
He does hope to avoid the personal mistakes that plagued the King of Pop, saying, "I know I'm not going to make a life-changing bad decision, as some people have. I've seen it happen too many times. I could be my own worst enemy, but I don't want to mess this up."
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I don't know if this is the right forum, but I thought it might be the best. Anyhow, I am looking for some help with a mini project I am doing in my bathroom during my renovation. I do not like any of the medicine cabinets I can afford for a few reasons, and I am building one in the wall behind a mirror that has been chosen.
The mirror is framed with molding on the top and bottom that is screwed to the frame. My intentions are to take the molding off and attach it to the wall and use the framed mirror itself as the door to the medicine cabinet. A friend of mine told me that it would not work, which inspires me even more to make it work.
My question(s) to all of you are in regards to the type of hinges I should use, attachment points, etc. I am relatively new to this type of carpentry, but in no means afraid or in lack of skill. I was thinking 3 hinges to support the weight, one of which I would like to be a soft close.
The wall the mirror will be attached to has a full 2x4 box built for the rough opening of the medicine cabinet, and there are double 2x4s for the mirror to be anchored to. The outside of the medicine cabinet I was planning to border with 1x3 so that the mirror would have room away from the wall to open.
I have provided a picture of the mirror and will provide pictures of the wall itself tomorrow.
I do realize that this will not be easy, and I do realize that I will probably fail at some point in this and have to redo something, but its something that I want to do. I appreciate any help anyone can give. Thanks!
sorry I don't have your answer but have been wanting to do the same, actually looks like we have the same mirror.
I removed a standard medicine cabinet so I have the whole but the wooden mirror looks so much better to me now if I can only figure to hinge it to swing open.
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Can u leave the 1x3 trim around the mirror now (either paint or stain to match room) an then just hinge off the wood that is already attached to the mirror
As you mentioned, I don't see it working with the top and bottom trims in place. And if you can remove the trim, what will you do with the exposed, unfinished edges?
So if you are going to go to all this trouble, why not just start with a mirror that will work?
Hinging this can be a challenge. You might consider a piano hinge just for ease of installation.
If the top and bottom molding will be attached to the wall, you could drill through the molding and into the frame from the top and bottom and insert steel pins and bushings to server as the hinge. The pins would need to be glued into the frame and the bushings would need to be glued into the moldings. you would need to pay attention to placement so that there would be clearance to swing open the mirror.
Kaschmid3 - the 1x3 would remain intact, only the crown-type trim would be removed from the mirror frame itself and attached to the wall.
Blondesense - That is one thing that has been in the back of my head, if it will hold up. I am probably better off starting with some nice oak and building it myself as if it were a cabinet door, then having a mirror cut to fit. If I were to stay with this mirror, I would stain the unfinished edges to match. Being that they are not readily visible, I could get away with a mismatch in the color. A piano hinge was one of my first thoughts.
Chitownken - That is actually a pretty trick idea. That would definitely take the load off of the frame as with hinges. Hmm...
After further inspection of the mirror, it definitely would not hold up to daily use as it is just stapled together...
Time to get the woodworking equipment setup...
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Why do I still read about how important it is to have a difficult 3-3 in the LP under the COP? It just doesn't make sense, I think it's totally unwise, as far as strategy is concerned.
Ok, I finally found out the rationale of equating the the score for a 3-3 to the sum of the respective individual jumps performed separately and why a 0.8 factor is accorded to a 3-3 jump sequence. The people who devise the scores for triples have different perspective of the 3-3s. They see it as a licence to the 7 jumping passes barring the 3A, and nothing more. That clearly signifies that the COP is gravitated more to the in between elements than jumps and it also means the impending demise of jumping beans.
I don't like that, I feel 3-3s should be awarded. Ok, since that's the way things are, then it's totally unwise to go for the 3lz/3lp or to have 2 3/3s. What for? The risk is not worth it. Why not go for the simplest yet slightly dificult combo like 3t/3lp or 3s/3lp or even 3t/3t, to obtain 7 jumping passes and then include 2 3Lzs and 2 3Fs to maximize the scores for jumps?
As for Michelle, stick to 3t/3t and she shouldn't go beyond 3t/3lp or 3s/slp. Just get the 7 jumping passes and don't fall. Now how many ladies have been consistently landing 7 3s in the last decade? What makes everyone think under COP, Michelle will lose as far as 3s are concerned? For Michelle, her weaknesses are her spins. This is the area where she can be trounced by many skaters if she doesn't upgrade them.


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text: Despite what other blogs would have you believe, BitTorrent Sync was not released for Windows Phone last week. Instead, it was a private beta that was helping develop the Windows Phone version of the app. That beta is finally over. BitTorrent just announced version 1.3 of their Sync product and with it, a new app for Windows Phone users. Let's check out BitTorrent Sync for Windows Phone.


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Lady Gaga has hooked up with a Yale University psychologist to promote tolerance and put an end to bullying.
Marc Brackett, a research scientist and deputy director of Yale's Health, Emotion and Behavior Laboratory, is one of seven scholars named to the advisory board of the Born This Way Foundation, which was co-founded by Lady Gaga and her mother.
"I've only worked with her on the telephone so far," Brackett said of the pop superstar. "My main job is to help promote the tenets of the foundation, but I do get to go to some concerts. I'm going to Boston, Connecticut and New York."
In a sense, it's a duet of youth empowerment, combining Lady Gaga's celebrity sizzle with years of scholarly research conducted by Brackett and other experts.
For example, there will be a Born Brave Bus parked in the tailgating area at Lady Gaga's concerts, where kids can learn about local resources in their community that celebrate individuality and help them deal with problems. Scholars, meanwhile, will devise ways to monitor the program's effectiveness.
"A lot of people have been doing academic work on these issues," said Susan Swearer, chairwoman of the foundation's research advisory board and a professor of school psychology at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. "But how do we communicate what we know and get it out there to the public? It helps to have a megastar with a global network, who is thoughtful about the research."
Actually, Yale's Brackett is becoming something of a star himself, in the realm of research.
He's been working on a cyber bullying project with Facebook, and this spring he'll head up a new center at Yale devoted to teaching emotional intelligence in schools and other organizations.
Brackett is co-creator of RULER, a novel approach to teaching social and emotional intelligence. RULER stands for recognizing, understanding, labeling, expressing and regulating -- a set of skills Brackett said is vital to dealing with the emotions we all experience.
"There's no real system in place to learn the language of emotions," Brackett said.
Yet they play a big part in everything from our memories and relationships to our decision making and health.
"It's pretty much our whole life," Brackett said. "Our argument is that we should provide every child with an emotional education. It should start in preschool and it should never end."
Yale's Health, Emotion and Behavior Lab has produced a wealth of data on this topic for decades. As Brackett pointed out, understanding how to recognize and regulate emotion makes a profound impact on the workplace, family life and school. It's become particularly relevant as the nation looks for ways to curb bullying.
"When you teach these skills in schools, good things happen," Brackett said. "Students feel safer and more comfortable, student-teacher relationships are better, there is more engagement with school and less anxiety and depression."
The next step, he added, is getting this data to policy makers.
"That's when we can start making a difference," Brackett said.
Contact reporter Jim Shelton at 203-789-5664.


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One of the many partnerships and projects we're involved in is the First Book Award, in partnership with MACK. Now in its second year, the First Book Award supports an emerging photographer by publishing their first book.
This year's winner is Paul Salveson, whose work has been exhibited at MoMA PS1, Swiss Institute, New York, and Actual Size, LA.
The winner was announced last night at the Kraszna Kraus Book Awards during the Sony World Photography Awards last night.
Salveson's work was selected by a panel of five judges from 100 invited submissions, by international photographers. The judges were: Michael Mack (MACK), Polly Fleury (Wilson Centre for Photography London), Liz Jobey (FT Weekend Magazine), Greg Hobson (our Curator of Photographs) and photographer Clare Strand.
Taken in New York and Virginia between 2006 and 2011, Paul Salveson's work uses commonplace items and objects within domestic environments to construct absurdist images. His book, Between the Shell, will be published by MACK later this year.
Of his work, Salveson says:
"Often my photographic process unfolds like a private performance in an empty house, or after everyone falls asleep. My engagement emerges from a perspective that precedes familiarity, disregarding the functions and cultural associations that objects are assigned. I try to process my surroundings with an alien mind."
The winner of the inaugural First Book Award in 2012, was Anne Sophie Merryman, whose book Mrs. Merryman's Collection presents a series of postcards collected by her grandmother between 1937 and 1980. Mrs. Merryman's Collection is now available to buy through MACK books.


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to discover the land of spiritual life
Goritsy is a tiny settlement near the White Lake. Once the cruise ship docks here, you will temporarily forget reality and dive into the medieval atmosphere of this extraordinarily picturesque town. The famous Russian writer Andrey Muraviov called Goritsy the "Russian Northern Thebais", an analogy for the Egyptian desert where early Christian hermits sought solitude and union with God in their cells.
Goritsy has two especially famous fascinating monasteries that are definitely the main landmarks of the town: the Kirillo-Belozerskiy monastery and the Goritsky Monastery of Resurrection (Goritsy Nunnery). Even on a short visit, Goritsy's atmosphere in these monasteries and the deep spiritual life of the monks has a tremendously powerful effect.
The Kirillo-Belozerskiy monastery is slightly more well-known, playing a role in the beginning and end of Ivan the Terrible's life. Before he was born, his parents prayed here for God to give them an heir. When Ivan was old and sick he begged the monks to pray for God to forgive his bloody deeds. The monks believed that the terrible Tsar had transformed and hoped to see him prove his salvation by becoming a monk. This, of course, never happened.
The Kirillo-Belozerskiy monastery was founded in 1397 when a monk named Reverend Kirill left his privileged life to seek a remote place to become closer to God. His monastery prospered and became a refuge for many nobles during the Time of Troubles. It soon turned into a fortress which resisted the attacks of the Poles and Lithuanians for many years. It could not, however, resist the Bolsheviks. The monks were shot or sent to labor camps, though it was one of the few monasteries not turned into a concentration camp. Despite this, the ornate building has managed to preserve much of its historic grandeur and was recently named the winner of a competition to become one of "The New Seven Wonders of Russia".
Although less grand, the setting of the Goritsky Monastery of Resurrection on the banks of the broad Skeksna River is stunningly beautiful. This ghostly building with pure white walls can be glimpsed through the forest, making it look like a vision out of a fairy tale. It was founded in 1554 by Princess Efrosiniya, the wife of one of Ivan the Terrible's sons. She became one of Ivan's numerous victims when Ivan began to suspect her and her son of treason, and the tsar had her cruelly drowned in the river Shekna. More horrible still, Ivan then turned the monastery into his own personal harem for wives and abducted Russian beauties. During the Time of Troubles the nunnery fell to foul Lithuanian attacks and was only saved from complete destruction by the rebels Minin and Pozharsky. During the Revolution, legend has it that the Mother Superior Kaleria's second sight forewarned her of the impending Bolshevik attack.
As part of the Golden Ring river cruise Goritsy has become increasingly popular for a short sojourn, as it enables the visitor to forget for a moment the worries of daily life and to plunge in the medieval atmosphere of this visually stunning place.
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From Ash Wednesday to the Saturday before Easter, Roman Catholics around the globe and many other Christians begin a spiritual introspection.
These forty days before Easter are called Lent. Catholics examine their relationship with Divine Providence and their fellow human beings.
Lent forces believers to confront their weakness, make amends, correct their lives, and to reflect on how to proceed.
The forty days reflect Biblical stories.
Jonah was in the whale for forty days.
The ancient Hebrews spent forty years in the desert before reaching the Promised Land.
Christ spent forty days in the desert before he began his ministry.
Ramadan is also a religious period when people of the Muslim faith spend forty days reflecting on their spiritual health.
It may be appropriate for nations to have forty days of political, social, and economic introspection. We should impose a national political Lent forcing all American citizens to reflect on the direction the country is taking. We need to confront our political weaknesses, make amends for our errors, correct our mistakes, and reflect on how to proceed. Television, radio, and other media would concentrate on the major political, social, and economic issues facing the nation. It would be refreshing not to see, listen, and read about celebrity award shows, the sex lives of dead gangsters, the pregnancies of major and minor celebrities, and sport team rivalries.
Political pundits are discussing the consequences of the congressional mid-term election that will be held this year.
Some are claiming these elections will be a referendum on the lame duck president's policies. At this time, Bush 2 is having difficulties because of his lame duck status and because of the state of the war in Iraq, economic uncertainties, his handling of the Dubai port agreement, and the relief efforts in the Gulf region.
Both major political parties appear weak and ineffective.
There appears that the Democrats and Republican have no consistent and clear message on the problems facing the nation.
A political lent can be a nationwide debate on the issues of confronting terrorism, safeguarding civil liberties, ensuring a decent retirement system, meeting the challenges of globalization, securing our borders and having a humane system of immigrant entry, establishing an effective educational system for our youth, reforming our health care delivery system, workplace safety issues, and protecting the most vulnerable members of our society- our children, elderly, poor and ill.
We need to debate on how to proceed in restoring the devastated Gulf region and especially New Orleans. Our nation needs to confront the economic and social effects of ever growing reliance on foreign capital to support our standard of living.
Do we want foreign powers and companies to have power and control of our ports, airports, electric, gas, and water supplies?
A British company is seeking to buy KeySpan and another operates the Indianapolis airport.
The Progressive has written in many previous columns about our lack of national concern for the needs of abandoned and abused children. Increasingly, many politicians and prosecutors are advocating the harsh sentencing of juveniles involved in criminal activity. In New Mexico, a judge decided to sentenced a juvenile (14 years of age) to an adolescent rehabilitation center and not to a life term in an adult prison as desired by the prosecution. The youngster was an abused child and convicted of killing his parents and stepsister. Daniel Leddy, a judge and in the Law column of the Staten Island Advance of February 28, 2006 wrote: "Judge Counts' decision was facilitated by New Mexico law under which a child cannot be sentenced to an adult prison unless the prosecutor proves that the youngster is not amenable to the rehabilitation in a juvenile facility." This nation needs to balance the tough on crime stance of society's leaders with compassion and belief in juvenile redemption. Shakespeare spoke on mercy in his play the Merchant of Venice. A moral nation does not imprison its youth.
Our political Lent should reflect on the corrosion of our economic life. Corporate greed, corruption, and cronyism at the highest levels of government are now threatening the fundamental basis of social cohesion. John Boyle, a former chief executive of the Vanguard mutual fund group is a staunch defender of capitalism and free markers. He wrote a book called "The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism." He proposes a variety of reforms to overcome market deficiencies such as performance-based compensation for executives; better corporate governance; improved accounting standards; a return to a long-term goal and focus rather than quick returns, and a clear separation of ownership from management. Raymond Baker wrote a book "Capitalism Achilles Heel." A guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, Mr. Barker draws attention to problems such as bribery, money laundering (that can also finance international and domestic terrorist groups), tax evasion, and income inequality.
All of the above mentioned are systematic to the feeling most Americans have of an environment that is hostile to honest working citizens. We must demand ethical behavior in all levels of political and economic life. I propose a 40 day political Lent before the Mid-Term elections begin. It is the time for political introspection.


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Google has unleashed a new behavioral ad targeting scheme onto YouTube and partner sites in its AdSense advertising network - though it has carefully avoided the term behavioral ad targeting.
Alonzo is recruiting male and female heart attack survivors over the age of 35 to fill out the anonymous online survey he designed to examine how people actually behave during a heart attack -- what he refers to as a "behavioral autopsy."
Suzanne O'Malley: Day Three: Yale Heart Study Asks 'Why Do We Wait So Long?'
PELLETIER: So we're start -- we spent a lot of time helping people in their homes make these changes, and what we find is that in any home, the first 20 percent or so of savings come out of what I call behavioral things.
Just today, we learned former Florida Representative Mark Foley has checked into rehab for alcoholism and what he calls behavioral problems.
I want to clarify that YieldBuild is what we call a behavioral formatting yield optimization engine.
If you've got this -- what I call a behavioral problem, and you either need to stop drinking or you need to stop drugging, you know you need to get treatment, and the same is true with sex.
CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Ann Richards Discusses Texas, Politics and Humor - January 23, 2001
And I don't think - I think Roethlisberger, if he was ever truthful with himself - now they've sent him off for what they call behavioral evaluation, which God knows what that's going to be - but if he looked himself in the mirror, he would be disgusted with the public image of what he's done.
The TSA drew upon that research to train a corps of what it calls behavioral detection officers to look for signs of anxiety, such as increased sweating or heavy breathing.
SIEGEL: Dan Ariely, professor of psychology in behavioral economics at Duke University.
It also offers the latest advances in behavioral health theory, technologies and treatments.


text: by Tim-o-tato on Dec 17, 2012 @timotato Apps News Google Maps Updated With Bug Fixes This afternoon, Google has pushed an updated version of Maps to Google Play. It currently offers nothing extra except for a few bug fixes, but hey, we'll take it. Don't forget to be thankful for your Maps app, people. Play Link Cheers Adam!


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WINTER HAVEN, Fla., March 12. --The 1931 Robins came from behind to win their exhibition game from the Phillies today, 10 to 6, because the Shotton athletes could not overcome the handicap of eight errors, two wild pitches and five bases on balls.
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Biographical Sketch
Dottie Waddell
Dottie Waddell (aka Dotti Holmberg) is a multi-talented singer, song writer, poet, playwright and social activist. She was born in Los Angeles, but grew up in White Bear Lake, Minnesota. She and her sister Sheri performed as an a cappella duo at churches, charity benefits, and other venues in and around White Bear Lake. They later joined Ron Neilson to form a group called the Keynotes and performed in local coffee houses in Minneapolis.
At one of these coffee houses they met Curt Boettcher and the four formed a folk/rock group named the GoldeBriars in 1963. The group continued to perform in Minneapolis coffee houses until signed to a recording contract by Epic Records in the fall of 1963. The group's first album was released in early 1964, at about the same time as the "British invasion" of the Beatles. Though the album enjoyed critical acclaim, neither it nor a subsequently released album enjoyed commercial success. A third album was recorded but never released. The GoldeBriars, in a number of incarnations, continued to tour and perform until finally disbanding in June 1965. Waddell wrote about her experiences with the GoldeBriars in The GoldeBriars: Starving, Laughing, Crying, a typescript copy of which is in the collection.
Waddell was in California at the time of the band's demise and remained there until returning to Minnesota in 1974. She and her husband moved to Lakeland in 1977. She continued to write, and a number of her poems appeared in local newspapers. She also worked as a music teacher in local schools and has produced a number of educational albums and cassettes featuring the voices of local children singing songs that Waddell wrote. In Lakeland Waddell also returned to a project she had begun many years before. She completed a musical for children of all ages entitled The Land of Myrtle the Gloom and had the pleasure of seeing it presented on stage by the Pied Piper Players of Lakeland in 1989.
As of this writing, Waddell continues to live, write, and teach in Lakeland. In 2002, SunDazed Records issued a compact disk of previously unreleased songs that Waddell had recorded as solo artist in the late 1960's. In 2014 Now Sounds in the United Kingdom released a CD entitled Walkin' Down the Line: the Best of the Goldebriars. A visit to her web site www.rightchoicekids.com will provide an overview of her current activities and www.thegoldebriars.com provides background about The Goldebriars.


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Talk:The Same Game Test (DnD Guideline)
From D&D Wiki
A hallway filled with magical runes that do... what? --Ghostwheel 06:39, 11 July 2009 (MDT)
- Explode, go beep, kill you, etc. --TK-Squared 14:43, 11 July 2009 (MDT)
- Think there might be a chance of getting this statted out a little more extensively? (How many shadows makes a horde?) --Ghostwheel 07:01, 13 July 2009 (MDT)
- Try some ingenuity. Like 12 Shadows make a horde (A CR10 Encounter) --TK-Squared 11:47, 13 July 2009 (MDT)
- According to "Organization" terminology used in the Monster Manual, 12 is usually a "band" which doesn't seem synonymous with horde. After band is "tribe", used to describe organizations of over 100. Swarms are defined as 300 non-flying creatures (1000 if flying). That might be closest to a definition of swarm, IMO. -- Syneran 11:12, 2 March 2012 (MST)
Appropriate CR[edit]
Okay, here comes Frank's explanation about this, as I've heard it.
- Back in the 3.0 days, the CR chart listed your actual percentage of survival, of a party of four, against a challenge of CR. With CR=party level, the party is supposed to win and expend 40% of their resources in doing so. At a CR 4 higher, their chance of survival is supposed to be 50%. That's "Win and survive at any cost."
- The same section also contained rules on adjusting the party's CR based on party sizes other than 4. Decreasing the party size increase the CR of an encounter by 2. Do it twice, and you're left with one person, who should have, on average, a 50% chance (on average) of beating encounters with a CR equal to his level.
- In the 3.5 DMG, this information was written out in words, without the actual numbers, partly as an effort to make the 3.5 DMG substantially longer than the 3.0. WotC is like that sometimes. The underlying assumptions are still the same, they're just harder to see.
This is the underlying assumption of the Same Game Test. It may not be exactly right, but it has the benefit of being concrete and having few variables. A party of 4 can cover each other. When someone's alone, their strengths and weaknesses show more clearly. Therefore, it's possible to build a specific character and run him through the gauntlet and see if he's posing an credible threat to monsters of his CR. And, well, it has the added bonus of generating more interesting character classes, because they have to develop to keep up with the crazy-ass monsters. Genowhirl 23:44, 23 August 2009 (MDT)
- So I shouldn't be worried if a class I make kills everything it fights from the Lv. 10 Same Game Test except the Trolls? (The Fire Giant was really a fluke failed Fortitude Save.) --Suezotiger 02:09, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
- He's probably a little OP. If you've uploaded the class to the wiki, I can look over it if you post a link, if you want. --Badger 02:21, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
- It's also likely you're not interpreting the test the way it's commonly perceived by those who reference it regularly. I'd be interested in hearing how you beat the horde of shadows. -- Jota 04:11, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
- Passing the same-game test means going about 50/50 for your level, against the variety of challenges. So, yeah, if it can whip everything at it's level, it's probably overpowered. --Genowhirl 17:23, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
- The class I made is the necro blade and someone did already look it over and posted his results in the discussion page. I beat the shadows because necro blades get Ghost Touch on their weapons at Lv. 5 and I never had them hide.--Suezotiger 21:31, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
- Looking over the challenges, it's difficult for me to imagine a bard overcoming any of them, unless equipped with items specifically designed for certain challenges. What sort of gear should the characters be equipped? To be standardized, it should be all non-magical? In which case, would the bard class pass even 20% of the challenges? -- Syneran 11:12, 2 March 2012 (MST)
- Normal treasure/gear. I mean, that's safely assumed, as the SGT was originally meant for you to try a character out against some level-appropriate challenges. And, no, the bard is not going to do well at this. The Bard is horribly dependent on other characters, and has nothing unique they truly shine at that can make enemies worry, without really going specific in its build. The same with the Monk, and to a degree, things like the Fighter or Paladin. That's actually what the SGT was originally designed to test--whether or not a character could pull their weight against level-appropriate foes. Ideally they're able to handle 50% of the challenges, but different characters (again, ideally), should be able to handle different types of challenges (many small monsters vs. one big one, etc) so a group has their bases covered. If you're making a new character class, it's also handy--you can try a few potential builds with that class and see how it does, when you're not really trying to milk every advantage, and how that compares to when you're pulling out the stops.
- The sad fact is, not all things made by Wizards of the Coast--heck, not all things in the SRD material was created equal, so some semi-objective testing helps. It's easy to point fingers at druids and wizards--except monsters also get spells and crazy abilities fighter-types can't overcome, so if you want to tone down magic, you're re-writing several hundred pages of spells and monster entries. Frank and K (the guys who wrote up the SGT) took the other approach--inviting fightery-types to come play with the big boys. If you're interested, take a gander at the Tomes--The Tome of Necromancy, the Tome of Fiends, the Dungeonomicon, and Races of War. Each one includes some rewrites/spot fixes of D&D, along with some rants/explanations of said rewrites. You may--heck, you probably won't agree with everything they say, but they usually make for interesting reading. --184.108.40.206 19:00, 2 March 2012 (MST)
5th Edition[edit]
Is this even compatible with 5th edition? 5e classes and races operate under a different standard of balance, assuming that characters must perform in all aspects of the game, and that there must be both challenge and risk present in all aspects of the game, not just combat. As a consequence, classes like bard and ranger are not on par with the other classes in combat, but a fighter can't match a bard in social situations, nor can it match a ranger during exploration. Everything in 5e is built around the three pillars of adventure; combat, socialization, and exploration, and in that context, all exist on a fairly even playing field. It's probably one of the most well-balanced editions yet. --Kydo (talk) 23:34, 29 May 2016 (MDT)


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A: We've chosen to disable the stock status feature on our website because the situation is simply too fluid. Unlike some web-only business, we are a true multi-channel merchant. We could show 50 cases of 9mm 115gr. FMJ ammunition in stock and in 15-20 minutes it takes for you to place your order, have it uploaded and processed and sent to one of our warehouses for picking, we could have an LE agency walk into that store and clean us out. That's why we've chosen to post the message that most of our ammunition is out of stock and backordered. It's not a perfect situation but we are sticking to the "under promise and over deliver" philosophy.Q: When could I expect to receive my ammunition?
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Donald Glover stars as Troy, a former high school football star trying to find his way, in the comedy series Community.
Glover is a talented actor, comedian and writer. He was born in California on Edwards Air Force Base and moved to Atlanta when he was four. There, he studied drama and the process of writing short plays, which he continued to study at New York University's Dramatic Writing program at the Tisch School of the Arts for four years.
He also studied improvisation and comedy writing with the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre in New York and had the pleasure of improvising with the likes of Amy Poehler and Horatio Sanz. Glover also performed on Late Night with Conan O'Brien multiple times. He was hired as a staff writer on the show 30 Rock while he was still a resident assistant at NYU. During his time at 30 Rock, the show won two Emmys for best comedy, as well as a Writers Guild Award for best comedy.
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Doris Opal Miller
Waynesville — Doris Opal Miller, 77, of 374 Pigeon St., passed away Monday, Aug. 19, 2013 at Autumn Care.
A native of Jackson County, she was the daughter of the late Lynn (Red) Taylor Olvey and Etta Barnes Olvey. She was also preceded in death by a son, Logan Bumgarner and one sister, Elizabeth Olvey.
She worked as a seamstress in Sylva for more than 18 years. Doris' heart was her family. She loved and cared for her family and enjoyed relaxing with her husband, Ron, as well as spending as much time as possible with her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
She is survived by her husband of 46 years, Ronald Miller; two daughters, Jana Sherrill of Waynesville and Sue Painter of Sylva; one son, Edward Bumgarner of Belmont; seven sisters, Shirley Long (Leroy), Mary Franklin (Jessie) and Brenda Buchanan (Junior), all of Sylva, Nell Holloway (Franklin) of Murphy, Bea Baker (Bobby) of Georgia, Katie Barker of Waynesville and Alice Mathews of Clyde; one brother, Jim Olvey (Geraldine) of High Point; seven grandchildren, Shane Bumgarner, Allen Carr, Susan Campbell, Jason Sherrill, and Logan, Tommy and Jonathan Painter; 12 great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22, in the Waynesville Chapel of Wells Funeral Home with the Rev. Dr. Roy Kilby officiating. Burial will follow at Garrett-Hillcrest Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 12:30 until 2 p.m. prior to services.
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I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are enjoying what's left of the weekend. My holiday was absolutely lovely.
…but I find myself saying, "Did we really just have Thanksgiving?"
With all the Christmas-ing that we're sure to be a part of, I think it's important to make sure we're enjoying the season. So this is for any of you who may need a little help.
A christmas zen garden!
To ensure a stress free holiday….well maybe not "ensure" but help.
Isn't this fun?!
And it couldn't be easier to make.
Start with a tray…
fill with epsom salt…
then add your zen objects. See, I told ya it was easy.
You could use anything in your zen garden to add your own twist to it.
I decided to dip some pinecones for mine.
I tied thread around the top of the pinecone then tied the other end to a wooden skewer.
Then dipped that baby into the paint.
Then I just let them hang in these cups and dry for a couple days. I was amazed at how much the pinecones closed up from the moisture of the paint.
For the "rake" I used a thrift store fork and bent the tines down. Then it got a couple coats of red spray paint.
I grabbed a couple ornaments I already had and a few candy canes to finish it off. I sprayed the candy canes with an acrylic top coat so they wouldn't get sticky when they were handled.
My christmas zen garden doubles as our centerpiece on the dining table. It's the perfect spot for it. Not only is it great for entertaining after the food is gone, but it's also a good conversation piece.
This is another smaller zen garden I made for a gift. I got this tray from the dollar store and it worked perfectly.
There are so many possibilities for what you could use in the garden, I love it.
Happy holidays and remember to relax and enjoy the season.
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It Happened On The Way To War
In the summer of 2000, Rye Barcott, an undergraduate at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, traveled to Africa to study ethnic violence. A student preparing for a career in the Marine Corps, Barcott sought out the most dangerous locales. However, his first choice of venue, Rwanda, was denied and he was redirected to the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya. There, his research was reshaped into action as he sought to elevate lives in a poverty-stricken community.
Barcott's book, "It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine's Path to Peace," chronicles an eight-year period during which he served as a Marine officer and concurrently established and directed Carolina for Kibera (CFK), a humanitarian relief organization.
As a Marine intelligence officer, he deployed three times, once each to Bosnia, the Horn of Africa and Iraq, while still managing CFK.
Having been a junior officer leading troops three times in a combat zone, I could relate to wartime experiences, encountering third-world poverty and disorientation after leaving the military; at times the realism of the narrative made me cringe, cry and laugh.
Opportunity jumped Barcott during his initial trip to Kibera, a place he describes as so destitute that children defecated in the streets. Frustrated by what he perceived to be ineffective relief efforts, Barcott pursued a local approach and joined forces with a widowed nurse, Tabitha Atieno Festo, and a community organizer, Salim Mohamed, to engage the youth, promote public health and encourage local entrepreneurs. For advice and assistance, Barcott turned to the family, friends, academic mentors and alumni donors from his alma mater.
CFK's success as a pioneer in participatory development catapulted Barcott into Harvard and other circles of influence, and triggered visits from national leaders, among them a freshman senator from Illinois with his eye on the White House.
While his civilian community of friends, family and academics seemed troubled by Barcott's military activities, his Marine Corps leadership encouraged his charitable work. Some superiors saw his activities as congruent with understanding unconventional warfare. Others liked the idea of a Marine involved in an important peaceful pursuit, so Barcott took every inch of latitude given by his seniors to continue managing CFK, both in garrison and while deployed.
As an example, when Barcott was stationed in Djibouti, Festo became gravely ill, and Barcott felt the need to be by her side. He recently had been in an accident that cost his unit a land cruiser. He was not in a position to ask for favors, but he needn't have worried. "What you are doing, Lieutenant, is God's work," said his colonel. "I think there's something we can find for you in Nairobi for a few days."
The book is not without flaws. The friendship of Barcott, Festo and Mohamed is central to the story, but in an effort to spread the credit for the things he and his small team achieved, Barcott overdoes the details and dialogue. So, at times, the narrative lags. That issue notwithstanding, readers will be deeply moved by a tale of a man caught in the breach of roles that many would see as contradictory: humanitarian and combatant.
Barcott comes across as a man profoundly troubled by the dark attractions and violent aspects of human nature. The pungent odor of sweat and human squalor permeate the pages of his book. He could have portrayed himself as without blemish, but instead he reveals his faults and flaws, sometimes quite literally falling on his face.
In one instance, Barcott becomes ill with dysentery. In his rush to find relief, he stumbles into the community toilet, soils himself and emerges covered in other people's feces and his own vomit. A local girl, dying from AIDS, learns of his situation, and washes his filthy clothes. He thought he was there to serve the needs of others, and is stunned when someone responds in kind. In just a few pages, Barcott takes the reader through panic, bewildering gratitude and lacerating grief as he describes the girl's death and burial in a mass grave.
"It Happened on the Way to War" takes readers to places so far removed from others that it seems they cannot be reconciled. Ultimately, they are, because the story is not about Africa or Iraq. It is an odyssey and one in which Barcott does not wish to be the hero. But it is his story, and it is nothing short of heroic.
Charity E. Winters
Editor's note: Ms. Winters, a graduate of the New Mexico Military Institute and the U.S. Air Force Academy, served three tours in Iraq conducting security operations. She is a freelance writer and a graduate student at Tennessee State University in Nashville.


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