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I moved through the cafeteria line, waiting to get to the top. My stomach was rumbling and I was really getting annoyed by hearing Jayden complain about not having lunch yet. They were serving spaghetti and meatballs today and I was going to help myself to a lot of it, even if I had to pay extra.
After moving away from the line with my tray full of food, I headed for the usual lunch space. I didn't like having lunch in the cafeteria. It was noisy and crowded. That's why I preferred going out and eating by the shade of a tree. That's exactly what I wanted to do now. After sitting down, I took a bite of spaghetti and then stopped eating when I heard Jayden groan.
"What?" I asked, irritated.
"The spaghetti's not good. And I don't eat meat. I only eat fish and chicken, not meat!"
"Well deal with it spirit boy. You wouldn't want to starve to death either would you?" I grinned and took another bite of spaghetti.
"This is just blackmail!" He croaked.
After finishing my food, which I finished quite fast just to irritate Jayden, I returned my tray and came back outside to lean against the giant oak tree and sit back in the shade. Closing my eyes, I chilled out.
"So…where are your friends?" Jayden asked, trying to make his voice sound casual but yet curious.
"I don't know. Since the game yesterday, they haven't really been talking to me. No one's been talking to me, other then you, that is."
After a few minutes of silence he said, "Sorry again…"
I ignored him and opened my eyes when I heard the sound of crunching grass. Andrea and the rest of the basketball team were watching me with concern on their faces. Closing my eyes again, I ignored them.
"You should talk to them," Jayden said in a matter of fact voice.
I didn't answer back since I would seem like a lunatic if I was talking to myself in front of others.
"Filomena…we need to talk to you" Joyce said, her voice sounding weak.
"Yeah. We do! About the game yesterday! How many times should we tell you that it wasn't your fault? And you're still moody!!" Andrea said, more loudly.
"I'm not moody at all. It just seems like all of you guys were avoiding me so I let you."
"Well we're not, okay? Avoiding you, I mean."
I shrugged and looked away from them.
"Look…it's not like we aren't your friends any more because of the whole game. We lost…big deal! But that doesn't change the fact that we're your friends! You think that everyone's mad at you but that's because you feel disappointed in yourself. Everyone still likes you. You shouldn't be so upset about it all, okay? You're like a sister to us and we don't like it when you're like this…so please just chill out!"
I stared at Andrea. What she was saying was true. Maybe, just maybe, I was over reacting about everything. And maybe, I should cool down. Joyce reached out her hand and told me something very important.
"We're still a team. Maybe not a basketball team but we're still a group of friends, all of us. And you're still going to be our leader, no matter what you feel or say. So come on."
I took hold of her hand and she pulled me up. They all grinned at me, Andrea, Joyce, Jenny, Melanie, Stacy and Tracy [the twins], Lynn, Sally and Nancy.
"Welcome back sis," Stacy and Tracy sang simultaneously.
We all laughed and as I walked ahead of them to our usual hang out, Jayden whispered in my mind, "Maybe you guys losing is not that bad after all…"
After thinking about what he had said for a few seconds, I muttered under my breath, "Maybe…"


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Headliner fabric is the fabric attached to the inside roof of the car. It can be difficult to attach, or re-attach if it sags, due to the number of clips, screws and brackets that hold it in place. It is also partly held in place by certain fixtures in the car, such as the visors and the shoulder seat belts. You can give headliner fabric a smooth, attractive finish without using glue to attach it.
Things You'll Need
- 1 small flat-head screwdriver
- 1 Philips-head screwdriver
- New headliner fabric (optional)
- Tape measure
- 1 roll Velcro, male (hook), 25 yards by 4 inches wide, peel-and-stick
- 1 roll Velcro, female (loop), 25 yards by 4 inches wide, peel-and-stick
- Dressmaker's chalk
Open the car door. Search the roof of the car carefully around the roof edge to locate the fasteners holding the current headliner fabric in place.
Unscrew or pry open the first fastener using the appropriate screwdriver for the task. Start from one corner of the headliner and work your way carefully around the roof of the car, until each fastener is open and the headliner fabric is completely detached.
Measure the headliner fabric length and width. Write the measurements down on paper. Cut your new headliner fabric to those dimensions if you wish to replace the headline fabric completely.
Measure the roof area where the headliner fabric will be installed. Note the dimensions on paper also.
Plot the placement of the Velcro in the roof area using the width of the headliner as the required length of Velcro from the roll. Cut the female Velcro into five strips and position the strips on the headliner fabric, placing them at equal distances apart.
Check the measurements between the strips. Mark the same positions for the Velcro strips on the roof of the car using dressmaker's chalk. Cut the male Velcro into five strips of the same length as the female Velcro strips.
Attach the female Velcro to the male. Peel the backing slightly off the male Velcro strip, exposing about 2 inches of the adhesive. Place it on the roof in the desired position and begin to peel off the rest of the backing to stick the Velcro to the roof. Work from one side of the car to the other carefully, keeping the Velcro strip as straight and smooth as possible.
Repeat Step 7 four more times with each of the remaining strips of Velcro. Then peel off the backing from the female Velcro, exposing the adhesive.
Hold up the headliner fabric to the roof of the car and start to smooth it in the direction of the first Velcro strip. Keeping the fabric taut, press down on the fabric as it makes contact with the first exposed Velcro strip. Smooth along the whole length of the strip.
Continue smoothing the headliner fabric toward the next Velcro strip. Smooth it over the adhesive tightly, avoiding any sagging.
Repeat Step 10 until the headliner is fully installed in the roof area of the car. Refasten all the clips and strips that hold the headliner in place.
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The ink is not yet dry on this year's elections, with a possible recount in VA and a runoff in Louisiana and several races undeclared across the country.
But that does not stop the postmortems from coming out. The curious case of Virginia is the topic of many already this year.
Ed Gillespie, left for dead with double-digit deficits in polling before the election, nearly pulled off the upset against incumbent Sen. Warner.
This sets off several questions worthy of consideration.
1. How?
This is a question with several answers.
–Warner ran a lackluster campaign. He took Gillespie lightly, not really laying a glove on him for all of the liberal kvetching over Gillespie's Enron connections and other past resume fodder. The polls showed a strong win, so why chance raising Gillespie's name ID the way Cantor did to Brat? Normally Warner's strong approval rating would carry him.
–The Wave. Look at results across the country. Republicans typically polled between 3 and 9 points behind where they finished on Election Day. Even where there were bad Republican candidates (NC and Kansas were two examples), Republicans took all the late deciders as the nation delivered a message to President Obama. Even Thom Tillis, one of the worst Republican candidates of this or any cycle, overperformed to win despite being outspent 3-1. A Republican won in Maryland for governor for God's sake! The Wave was massive and washed away and Dem in its path. Gillespie clearly benefitted from that.
–Establishment strategy. In most cycles, you actually have to tell people what you would do with the power you seek. Not this time. The Establishment strategy of keeping your head down and telling people what percentage of the time your opponent supported President Obama was effective this time because this electorate is reviled by Obama and his policies and incompetence. Gillespie ran low on substance (which is a problem when you need to govern or seek re-election), but this time it kept the focus off him and on Warner. I don't think this strategy works in most cycles (see Cuccinelli, Ken; Allen, George; Thompson, Tommy; etc). But this time, it provided the Democrats fewer targets to hit, while allowing the natural anti-Obama environment to fill the room.
–The hard work of Republican activists all over Virginia, some of whom did not like Gillespie as the nominee but remained good Republicans and supported him anyway.
-The late bribery charges against Warner, which while they did not stick, did catch traction because of the corruption conviction of former Gov. Bob McDonnell. Virginians are tired of corruption among their political class and that weariness showed.
Overall, while lackluster, Gillespie ran a mistake-free campaign.
2. What happened on Election Day?
This is a tricky question.
Gillespie performed as a Republican needs to in most places. There was no special overperformance in Southwest Virginia; strength in Central Virginia. He won Loudoun, which McCain and Romney could not. He did not perform well in Fairfax, with only 40%; nor in Arlington or Alexandria (under 30% in each). Ideally you'd like to see a Republican with closer to 45% in Fairfax and 34% in the People's Republic. Losing Prince William, Manassas, and Manassas Park is crushing; a Republican cannot win statewide without them. Even McCain took Manassas and MP.
The Richmond area was also a big problem. Gillespie lost Henrico by 12. Henrico used to be the center of the Marcus-Allen Republican machine; regardless of the rise of Democrat Eastern Henrico, a Republican MUST win Henrico to win statewide. Performance in Hanover is also not what you would ideally like it to be; Chesterfield was right on target however.
Hampton Roads was mildly disappointing. Chesapeake was a close win; Virginia Beach was strong but needed to be stronger, granted weakness in Henrico and elsewhere. Norfolk was disappointing. It would appear that African-American voters heard the President's pleas to come out and save Warner's backside.
Nelson and Caroline counties are usually good indicators of how the state goes; if they go Republican, the Republican usually wins. They went for Warner this time.
Libertarian Robert Sarvis scored 50,000 votes and 3%. Some have cursed his voters, but history has shown with Sarvis that his voters are very rarely Republican; most likely they would have stayed home. Issues like the Patriot Act, Drug War and others would have put them crossways with both Warner and Gillespie. Ultimately, a candidate's votes are earned. If you didn't earn them, they don't belong to you anyway.
3. What does it all mean?
Ahh, a very tricky question.
For Warner, it means the end of his presidential aspirations. If the investigation for corruption yields an indictment, he is done- and may have to resign. His aura of invincibility is shattered. This may hurt Tim Kaine as well, who is well known for being Warner's lap dog.
For Gillespie, tough to say. A close loss is still a loss, just ask George Allen, who lost by a closer margin than Gillespie did in 2006 and never recovered, losing again in 2012. A Republican who cannot pull it out during a cycle like this one or 2010, probably never will. It is not very frequent that you get a situation where the wind is THIS much at the Republican's back; most cycles, a Republican will need to run a stronger campaign to win in Virginia- take more positions, raise more money.
This is not to say others could have done better, necessarily. What ifs are common in close losses but rarely useful. Write-ins were no more a factor in this election than any other (ie, their numbers were comparable to past elections). Warner is still the most popular politician in Virginia, and that is no small thing.
Some in the Washington Times and different bloggers here in VA have been floating Gillespie already for Governor for 2017- something that was rumored to be his goal all along.
History has not been kind to retreads in Virginia however. George Allen lost in 2006 by less than Gillespie did; that loss was still the end of his political career. Virginia moved on without him. Jim Gilmore last won in 1997, his 2008 loss to Warner was a blowout. Bob Marshall barely lost to Jim Gilmore in the 2008 convention and has never been close in any Federal office run since. And you always run the risk of being labelled the "perennial candidate". Fundamentally, there is never the guarantee the dynamics behind one election will be there for any others.
We in Virginia are hard on newcomers; we tend to embrace the comfortable known rather than give a new guy (or gal) a chance. The Virginia Republican bench is deep and getting deeper. 2017 and 2018 are a long way off, and the Virginia GOP is riding a 6-race statewide losing streak. We have had a number of close losses there; it's time to open the field of ideas, stand for something (lower taxes?), and do as Margaret Thatcher advised:
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|What's wrong with you? They're just children!
|~ Ms. Gradenko before being hit by a jet pack and losing her hair in the process
Ms. Gradenko is an antagonist of the first Spy Kids film. She is a rogue OSS agent and is in league with Mr. Lisp and his team. She is an enemy of Gregorio and Ingrid Cortez.
She was portrayed by Teri Hatcher who also played Susan Delfino in the hit TV show, Desperate Housewives.
Not much is known of Ms. Gradenko's childhood or early life; but it is suggested she once was an agent of the Organization of Super-Spies, the OSS. It is mentioned that the OSS were working on a project code-named the "Third Brain", which could transmit telepathic signals. The agents did not know what the Third Brain would be used for, but Floop, a children's TV show host and former agent, turned it into a programme mission control for robot Spy Kids he was building with the help of his lieutenant and spokesman Alex Minion.
Ms. Gradenko almost certainly had a romantic relationship with Alex Minion; based on their greeting. Ms. Gradenko says "It's good to be back, Alex; let's never have children," which suggests that they know each other and were planning on making love when the Third Brain was completed. However, Ms. Gradenko's encounter with Carmen and Juni Cortez changed this view; she feared all children.
Meeting the Cortez children
Ms. Gradenko turned up unexpectedly at the OSS Safe House, her visit itself a surprise because the Safe House was designed to be undetectable. Ms. Gradenko posed as an ally, saying that she had known Ingrid and Gregorio, the Cortez parents, and she said she had met Carmen as a baby. Carmen had no recollection of Ms. Gradenko; who pushed her way inside, surrounded by her henchmen, designed to protect her. Ms. Gradenko told the Cortez children of the message the OSS had received from Gregorio, their father, which contained the letters "FLOOP." Taking this as meaning Fegan Floop, the comedian, was the villain, Juni felt betrayed and took his anger out on Ms. Gradenko. He and Carmen grabbed explosives and lobbed them at the walls, alarming Ms. Gradenko's henchmen, but Juni noticed a henchman outside destroying and sinking the craft him and Carmen had used to get to the house. Fortunately, jetpacks were available, and Carmen successfully grabbed one and flew off after a henchman Ms. Gradenko had said to give Floop the Third Brain... or so Juni thought. Carmen followed the man and managed to retrieve the Third Brain. She flew back to the safe house, where Juni had knocked out Ms. Gradenko who said that he would never see his parents again. Ms. Gradenko awoke as Juni escaped and she was in a panicked state. A jetpack flew right into her, knocking her off her feet just as she shouted to her henchmen that the kids were not worth bothering about, but her dismissal of the Cortez kids was proven wrong when the jetpack shot into her hair, burning it down to the scalp. Ms. Gradenko stood up and growled in anger as her henchmen sprayed water at her burning hair.
Reunited with her boyfriend
Ms. Gradenko, now terrified of children, sought shelter in Floop's castle, which Alex Minion had just seized control of after betraying Floop and imprisoning him in the dungeons. Ms. Gradenko was now safe and protected by her true lover and ally; Alex Minion himself, who had been in love with her in the OSS and had planned to have kids with her. However, her encounter with the Cortez kids had changed her views and she now just wanted a lover. As Alex was insulted by his business employer Mr. Lisp, Ms. Gradenko put her hand on his shoulder in comfort. Ms. Gradenko was revealed to have lost all her hair, except a strand or two. Her body was also revealing in a red tube dress. Alex welcomed her with, "Welcome back, Ms. Gradenko," and kissed her passionately, Ms. Gradenko also said, "It's good to be back, Alex, let's never have children," and Alex slipped his arm round her and she wrapped her arm round him. The couple walked off to look out at sea and kiss.
Alex greeted Mr. Lisp's investors and Ms. Gradenko provided some eye candy for them, and the group all gathered in the main hall as Alex provided a speech where he stated he valued partnership. However, Floop's voice rang out via speakers, saying he wanted Minion at his office as there was a problem with the robots. Mr. Lisp looked confused and said he had been told Floop was away. Ms. Gradenko looked terrified and put her hands on her hips as she adjusted to the situation. Alex said he would investigate, but Floop turned him into a Fooglie, a mutated monster of his own creation. Minion returned, but he had three extra heads and hands. Ms. Gradenko thereafter seemed to lose romantic interest in Alex Minion and when she was next seen, she seemed to be flirting with Mr. Lisp instead. She had warmed up a seat for Lisp, saying it would be "more comfortable."
Ingrid and Gregorio gatecrashed the presentation, and Gregorio worked out all the individuals before him were traitors to the OSS. Gregorio said he ought to have known Lisp was in charge. Upon hearing Gregorio insult Ms. Gradenko when she told Gregorio his kids had burned off her hair and ruined her appearence, Lisp reccommended that the Cortez parents be killed. Ms. Gradenko smirked sexually and looked at Alex for his view, and Alex wholly agreed.
Just then, Carmen and Juni ran into the hall, but their parents swiftly knocked out all their attackers. Immediately afterwards, the Spy Kids (numbering 50,000) approached down the corridor. Lisp proclaimed it was "wonderful" to see his army, and Minion smiled eagerly, and as for Ms. Gradenko, she was hopping up and down gleefully clapping her hands and gasping in excitement.
Just then, as Gregorio rallied his family for battle against 50,000 androids, his brother jumped in through the glass window high above and caused havoc amongst Lisp, Ms. Gradenko and Minion. Ms. Gradenko ran away screaming to protect herself and Lisp rolled off the throne he was on. Lisp then straightened up and Ms. Gradenko brushed glass out of her dress and hair and Lisp commanded the Spy Kids to rip the Cortez family limb from limb. Ms. Gradenko notably looked shocked at this command. At that moment the Spy Kids activated to attack. However, Floop reprogrammed their minds, so they wanted to attack Lisp and his force instead of the Cortez family. The amazed Cortez family watched as the Spy Kids rushed at Lisp, Minion and Ms. Gradenko, then they began throwing the three in the air. Ms Gradenko attempted to save herself before she was seized by clinging onto part of the throne, but the robots grabbed her. Ms. Gradenko was flung into the air and Lisp yelled at Minion to get the robots to let them down. Minion told him that they would no longer listen to him. Ms. Gradenko was flung about more. She was presumably killed after being tossed about as she is never seen again.
- Ms Gradenko appears to be very sexual, even before her hair was burned off, and due to her interactions with Minion, it is possible she was his girlfriend. When Minion briefly disappears, she is seen flirting with Lisp, hinting at her unfaithfulness and her lust for other men. When Minion reappears deformed, she seems to be unimpressed with him and, as seen when the Cortez parents gatecrash the presentation, she is flirting with Lisp again, who seems to now be on talking terms with her and it is possible she was going to become Lisp's girlfriend.
- Ms. Gradenko is the only female villain in the Spy Kids franchise
- She and Mr. Lisp do not appear in the other 3 Spy Kids films, although they were with Minion in his team.
- Ms. Gradenko's story is a parallel of the Cortez parents' story, being that Ingrid and Gregorio Cortez were former spies who were assigned to kill each other but fell in love and got married. In a way, Ms. Gradenko is a tragic parallel of Ingrid Cortez because Ms. Gradenko was a ruthless spy before she met Alexander Minion and she fell in love with him and her lust for him was her driving force behind her assignments.
- Her name comes from the Police song "Ms. Gradenko".
- The colour of her red dress has several meanings in culture, red means either regality or protection, depending on its use. Symbolizing either Ms. Gradenko's arrogance that she was "regal" or her cowardice that she was relying on Lisp and Minion to protect her from "danger" i.e. children. Unfortunately in this case the symbolism didn't work because she was attacked and potentially killed.


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Poor Shane Battier. The NBA has given the Miami Heat and the Brooklyn Nets permission to put their nicknames on the back of the jerseys during one of their four regular season meetings, which works great for Miami's LeBron "King" James and Brooklyn's Paul Pierce, who will always be The Truth. The problem is that a lot of players who will play in the game lack such catchy, popular nicknames.
While Dwyane Wade's most recent attempts to rebrand himself as WOW and Three haven't worked, he at least has the old Flash handle, or the we're-counting-this-as-a-nickname standby "D-Wade" to fall back on.
Miami Heat role player Shane Battier, who we last saw helping lead his team to a championship in game seven of the NBA Finals, might be getting the short end of the stick with this promotion:
Miami forward Shane Battier – who wasn't exactly thrilled about the nickname idea – said he wanted to wear "Batman" on his jersey, although he was told that Warner Bros. holds the rights to that name. Other players also have had to deal with copyright-related issues with their suggested monikers. Battier said he'll go with "Shaneo" instead.
Maybe Warner Brothers wouldn't be big on Battier being "Bat-man" for copyright reasons, they haven't had much of a problem with Dwyane Wade using the Flash, but would they let a bench guy like Shane Battier take up the cowl? They're still taking heat for Affleck. Maybe Battier could best hope for Bat-Mite? Hey, it's way less sad than "Shaneo". (We could suggest finding a way to include the Houston Rockets' Dwight Howard in this game, rocking his Superman monicker, but Howard ruins everything fun, that's his real superpower, plus there's the further proprietary issues with Shaq.)
All of this talk of not-so-secret identities has us wondering: where does this game leave players like Shaneo, the NBA players who lack marquee alter-egos? The guys without nicknames, or nicknames bad enough that they would most likely be seen with the Legion of Substitute Heroes than any sort of Justice League might have the perfect opportunity to reinvent themselves. With the premiere of Joss Whedon's Agents of SHIELD, about the less superheroic denizens of The Avengers landscape, and the news that Fox might be creating a show about Batman's less glamorous ally Commissioner Gordon, the zeitgeist is just right for these lesser-knowns to steal the spotlight.
So what new identities should these supporting players bring on the court?
Maybe some on the Heat can take inspiration from shooting guard Ray Allen, who will most likely wear "Shuttlesworth" on his back because of his turn as Jesus Shuttlesworth in Spike Lee's He Got Game. Borrowing a name from a movie you've made an appearance in seems like the easiest move to make, and maybe teammate Chris Bosh should take a page from that. Chris Bosh, despite being a perennial all-star, lacks the cooler nicknames of his teammates. There's a chance that Bosh might have to settle with the nickname "Boshtrich", which isn't dignified at all. Considering this cult favorite YouTube video, wouldn't he gain more style points by putting some variation of his Multiverse-saving alter ego Star Prince Akilobataar's name on the back of his jersey?
Sure, it's a bit more of an esoteric reference, but it's usually best to avoid going with comedy in this situations. This is why Miami's emphatically not super Mario Chalmers will likely stick with the misleading but cool-sounding Super Mario tag rather than going with the Simpsons fan recommendation of "Superintendent Chalmers" (or occasionally "Supernintendo Chalmers").
There is one Heat player who could take this nickname gimmick as a chance to show his sense of humor. Guardian commentator CollaroyAl suggests that Chris Andersen, change his nickname to reference the recent, incredibly peculiar, resolution of his legal troubles:
I wonder if Chris Andersen will have "Birdman" or "Catfish" on his jersey?
(It should also be noted that Birdman too may have some copyright issues, even if he's not quite Batman-level as far as intellectual property.)
Speaking of troubled players, it will also be curious whether former top prospect Michael Beasley, who the Heat re-acquired after he flamed out in Phoenix, will still be around on this yet-to-be-determined date. Certainly if any player involved would attempt to push the limit it would be him. If the league allowed pictures and symbols in lieu of names – a "Prince in the '90s" move – look for Beasley to reference his own off-court concerns by wearing a familiar leaf icon and not an actual nickname. For what it's worth, he would also have a superheroic precedent.
Of course, the Miami Heat players have a ridiculous surplus of nicknames compared to their opponents. Maybe this is the real reason the Brooklyn Nets traded for the Truth and the Big Ticket during the offseason, as the Boston imports have by far the best known nicknames on the roster. Heck even throw-in Jason Terry's JET dwarfs anything anyone has come up with for Deron Williams or Joe Johnson. They will most likely go with D-Will and JJ on nickname night despite these being less nicknames and more, well, just plain old abbreviations. (You could say the same about Kevin Garnett's more popular "KG" handle, but he would probably shout you down. In fact this is the most likely ending to any social interaction one would have with Garnett.)
Brook Lopez is one of the best centers in the league, but googling "Brook Lopez" and "nickname" leads you to discussions where people try to solve the problem that Brook Lopez doesn't have a nickname. Some suggest, in fact, that Brook Lopez attempt to use the "Batman" name, as Lopez is a super-fan. Hey, he's also known for having a less well-known, less talented and less cooler partner named Robin.
Say Brook Lopez actually does find a way to get Batman on the back of his jersey by game night? This would be just one last bit of humiliation for the poor guy struggling the most with this idea. If all else fails, Shane Battier could probably play it safe and go with Shaneo come gameday, but we believe the truly brave thing would be to walk onto the court wearing "Battioke" on his back:
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It's almost forgotten that the first Men In Black film theatrical gross nearly sextupled its original budget fifteen years ago. It reaped financial rewards for its studio, and presaged other big budget pulpy adaptations like Raimi's 2002 release of Spider Man (rebooted this summer as Columbia's real tentpeg release).
The first MIB saw makeup genius Rick Baker win an Oscar, and garner Barry Sonnenfeld, formerly the cinematographer for the likes of the Coen Brothers, hit first blockbuster. Any other year, this would have likely been the top of the box office pile for that year. Yet that 1997 season is most remembered for another Spielberg production, The Lost World, when that sequel to Jurassic park took an enormous bite out of the Summer audience haul. And then, by the end of the year, a certain ship-that-sank film saw a generation of obsessive twelve year-old girls rewrite cinema history (not for the last time).
Still, the success of MIB bred an inevitable sequel. Even the most generous critics must admit that 2002s MIB2 (or M][B, as per the poster) was a tired retread of the original film. If you dig into the production of the first film, you'll see that a relatively complicated element of the plot was removed entirely, mandating that some of Baker's practical effects were replaced by CGI effects. MIB2 continued this trend of unabashed simplification, with a slew of CGI critters trying in vain to replicate the charm of the first film. Notable as well as that the conclusion had to be revised, removing a sequence involving the NYC World Trade Center buildings that no longer existed by the time of the film's release.
The last decade has not been kind to Sonnenfeld's output. Other than a slew of TV projects, his only real film that he served as director was the Robin Williams disastrously unfunny film RV. Will Smith too has been pretty hit and miss, the once box-office Golden Child no longer drumming up the kind of excitement that the films from his heydays in the 90s did. Tommy Lee Jones has turned to a slew of character roles of late, many of them sublime. On the set of the Coen's superlative No Country for Old Men, Lee Jones was set to chase Josh Brolin's character. Clearly Tommy's southern drawl was ripe for parody, and Brolin learned to do a mighty fine take on his costar's mannerisms.
Which brings us to the latest installment of the film that nobody really was waiting for. MIB3's biggest effect, really, is Brolin doing Lee Jones, established firmly in the trailers that the conceit this time involves time travel. The plot is convoluted enough that it becomes kind of meaningless after a while - suffice it to say, the film allows Smith to be a fish out of water in another time, soon after he struggles with a giant CGI fish literally out of water that wants to bite his head off. Metaphors, you see, come pretty blatant in a film like this.
Having not seen the other films in some time, there was a certain warm nostalgia to be back in the headquarters that I frankly wasn't expecting to feel. Production design has always been an exceptional component of these films, and this threequel is no exception. The designers particularly go to town when we're dropped into the late sixties. There always was a retro cheesiness to the industrial design shown in the films, but the time shift allows Baker and his team on the character side to delve even deeper into the quirks of that decade's aesthetic. Think Mad Men, but with aliens and spacemen walking around with fishbowl helmets.
Will Smith's charms seem even more dated than some of the sets, but occasionally there are flashes of what made him so charismatic the first time 'round. Unfortunately, most of the jokes fall with a thud, many being little more than groan worthy.
There are, however, some highlights: Flight of the Conchords star Jemaine Clement is a heap of fun, entirely unrecognizable buried within the fantastic makeup Baker constructed. His "Boris the Animal", in all its iterations, is a nice mix of creepy-as-hell and comic-book silly. Emma Thompson takes over for Rip Torn, and does an adequate job as the new boss. Alice Eve plays the same character in the other timeline, the chemistry between her and Brolin more than adequate. Even former Pussycat Doll Nicole Scherzinger (and partner of Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton) makes a brief appearance, using her talents to full effect in 3D.
Bill Hader makes an appearance as Andy Warhol, showing once again on screen his dexterous use of character voices. David Rasche, another of the Coen slate of players, makes a brief and amusing appearance, but it's A Serious Man's (and Boardwalk Empire's) Michael Stuhlbarg that really shines when he's on screen. Another actor may have made his turn obnoxious, but there's such a warmth and sweetness from his performance that it's hard to find fault. Stulhbarg is joining an elite list of character actors that make whatever they're in significantly better simply because of their inclusion.
Visually, the film is a treat. Character design is of course excellent, and Sonnenfeld's eye (along with the maven of genre cinematography Bill Pope) makes for a particularly excellent 3D presentation. Carefully composed shots and brisk action sequences allow for moments of glossy Hollywood style, and even when the in-your-face, gratuitous 3D shots take place they're well earned. Some elements, like the "Grievous bike" chase, are pretty silly, but they're quickly replaced by more banter and fine character performances. The ending sequences at Canaveral are dizzyingly spectacular on screen, all without resorting to barfy shakycam or scattershot editing.
Sonnenfeld and his crew can't help but throw in a heap of Kubrickian allusions. From the opening credits in Pablo Fero-style scrawl, nods to Dr. Strangelove abound. The most esoteric is perhaps the CRM-114 scrawled at the entrance to an underground tunnel. I'm not sure what's worse, them putting in the Easter Eggs, or me spotting them on first viewing.
The misfires at the first two thirds of the film all kind of coalesce into a decent finale. I'm sure if you think about it too much there will be a slew of plot holes, temporal irregularities and other annoyances. Maybe it's the tribute of going in with zero expectations, but it all kinda makes sense, at least superficially. Nobody's going to claim that this is the most compelling use of the tired trope of time travel, but they at least have fun with the idea, and it allows the Brolin/Lee Jones duo to work their magic.
Whatever your thoughts of the closing "twist", the last act does a pretty decent job of bookending the series. The film is a superior sequel (not so hard, given the quality of the second film), and a nice wrap-up of the series as a whole. It's a satisfying enough conclusion that any further films in the series really would be overstaying their welcome.
For some reason, with this release I had so little invested in its return, I couldn't care less about all the stories regarding cost overruns, starting without a script, meddling by the leads, and so on. In the end, I had more fun revisiting this world than I had any right to expect.
MIB3 is dumb, flashy fun, and if you simply ignore its obvious shortcomings you may in fact find that being back in the saddle with the boys in black remains an enjoyable, frivolous ride.
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Spindleworks, established in 1978, is a nonprofit art center for adults with disabilities and a program of Independence Association of Brunswick, whose mission is to help children and adults with disabilities achieve full and inclusive lives in their chosen community. Spindleworks is the creative home for over 40 artists who work in a variety of mediums, including painting and drawing, ceramics and sculpture, weaving and other textile arts. In addition, some artists write poetry and stories, and express themselves through performance. Their work has been exhibited widely, and they are well known and respected members of Maine's artistic community. SpinOff Studio, located in Gardiner is a new branch of the program. Established in 2011, SpinOff is home to fifteen artists who have become part of the art scene in the Kennebec Valley Region.
Artists attending each program receive supplies, studio space, and guidance as needed. Their work is exhibited in the Whatnot Gallery and Store at Spindleworks and SpinOff, as well as in shows both locally and nationally. The artists receive 75 percent of the sale price of their work, with 25 percent returning to the program to purchase supplies.
The Spindleworks gallery and store are open Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The artists are on site Monday-Thursday, 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., and Friday until 1:00 p.m. They enjoy visitors and love to give tours and talk about their work. For more information, please visit: www.spindleworks.org. SpinOff Studio is open Monday-Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and artists are on site 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. each day. For more information, please visit: www.spinoffstudio.org.


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The Sedan nuclear crater is located at the Nevada Test Site, about 90 miles north of Las Vegas. It is the result of the Sedan nuclear test, an underground nuclear test carried out on 6 July 1962 as part of the Plowshare Program, established in June 1957 to explore peaceful applications for controlled nuclear detonations. The idea was that a nuclear explosion could easily excavate a large area, facilitating the building of canals and roads, improving mining techniques, or simply moving a large amount of rock and soil. The intensity and distribution of radiation, however, proved too great, and the program was abandoned. Operation Plowshare resulted in 27 thermonuclear detonations. Only four events were intended to produce craters, among which Sedan was by far the largest.
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Model Builder: Graphical ODE Simulator - News
posted by fccoelho, Mon Apr 19 20:00:02 2004 - 0 replies
After a big effort a new version of Model Builder
lots of new stuff!
plotting via matplotlib
full uncertainty analysis and more!
new tutorial site accessible via the help menu
posted by fccoelho, Sat Jan 24 21:05:25 2004 - 0 replies
Development has accelerated over the past few months.
The next release is almost ready. Due to the considerable number of new features, It will still take a while until everything is tested, and the system as a whole works.
A glimpse into the new features:
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posted by fccoelho, Tue Apr 29 14:14:20 2003 - 0 replies
I am finishing an Uncertainty analysis tool for Model Builder that will be out on the next major release, meanwhile CVS users will be able to use in the preliminary stages.
The next Major release will probably contain a Sensitivity analysis mode as well.
If I didn't have to teach so many classes I would be able to spit out feature full releases, way more often!!
posted by fccoelho, Tue Apr 29 14:07:07 2003 - 0 replies
One down, one to go! (at least for now)
posted by fccoelho, Tue Apr 29 12:21:41 2003 - 0 replies
I have just posted a new release (0.1.2) that fixes the parameter bug, which was already fixed in the CVS files.
posted by fccoelho, Thu Apr 24 17:31:12 2003 - 0 replies
Since Gnuplot on windows does not accept inputs at the command line, Model builder will not be able to plot in windows but other outputs should work just fine.
Meanwhile, I will keep looking for a decent pure python plotting solution. any suggestions?
posted by fccoelho, Wed Apr 16 18:31:17 2003 - 0 replies
I ran some tests and it seems that scipy has a problem with Numeric 21.3 22.0 and 23.0. Because of that we'll have to stick with Numeric 21.0 until this bug in scipy is fixed...
As soon as the next release of scipy is available I'll try those tests again,
posted by fccoelho, Wed Apr 16 15:25:56 2003 - 0 replies
Model Builder Won't run with Numeric 22 please Use version 21.
I haven't figured it out yet if anybody knows why please let me know...
posted by fccoelho, Tue Apr 15 15:18:17 2003 - 0 replies
The first release of Model Builder is out!!
just download it, unpack the files to a directory of your liking and run "python PyMB.py"
Remember that you need to have Python installed, as well as Numeric, sciPy, wxPython,and gnuplot.
posted by fccoelho, Thu Apr 10 02:26:34 2003 - 0 replies
For those of you who can't wait to try it, there is a working version of Model Builder available via CVS.
just Download the files to a Directory, and type:
# python PyMB.py
remember that you must have wxPython, NumPy, Scipy, and Gnuplot installed
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Silence Quotes and Sayings
In my silence. My heart speaks volumes.
Silence is a girl's loudest cry.
Saying nothing doesn't mean nothing but you have nothing to say.
Silence is the sign of satisfaction and approval.
I'm silent it doesn't means I don't have anything to say, but what is going around me does not deserve my words.
Silence is not only the absence of sound, but also the stillness of mind.
Keeping your silence signifies that you're guilty indeed.
Sometimes, silence is the best answer.
Words may sting, but silence is what breaks the heart.
The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.
Silence is the strong weapon used in the battle of agony.
Silence is the best answer for a fool.
Your silence says the things you cannot say in words.
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Loose Reins on Nurses in Drug Abuse Program
The morning of her second day at Starpoint Surgery Center in Studio City, nurse Melony Currier was found in the parking lot, passed out in her car.
Once roused, she was escorted to a drug-testing facility to provide a urine sample. In the restroom, she injected an anesthetic she had stolen from the surgery center, according to state records and a Starpoint official.
Currier, a participant in the state's confidential recovery program for impaired nurses, had failed repeatedly -- and spectacularly -- at rehabilitation, the records show.
Over 4 1/2 years, she'd been discovered high in her car at a Hollywood hospital, stolen anesthetics at a San Gabriel Valley hospital, been convicted of burglary after taking more drugs from the same hospital and flunked a drug test.
Yet it wasn't until Currier shot up at the drug-testing facility in September 2006 that she was kicked out of the recovery program. Though her evaluators labeled her a "public risk," the California Board of Registered Nursing didn't impose discipline until 1 1/2 years later, leaving her free her to work without restriction in the interim, the documents show.
As the state begins overhauling regulation of California's 350,000 registered nurses, one of the board's most touted programs stands out as seriously troubled: drug diversion.
For years, nursing board officials have described diversion as a haven where good nurses can kick bad habits -- without losing their licenses or their reputations.
But an investigation by ProPublica and the Los Angeles Times found participants who practiced while intoxicated, stole drugs from the bedridden and falsified records to cover their tracks.
Since its inception in 1985, more than half the nurses who have entered the program haven't completed it. Some who fail at diversion are deemed so incorrigible that the board labels them "public safety threats" (sometimes referred to as "public risks").
Based on a review of all nurses who faced disciplinary action since 2002, The Times and ProPublica identified more than 80 such nurses.
Dire as they sound, the labels do not trigger immediate action or public disclosure. Some nurses that the board considers dangerous continue to treat patients.
"These healthcare professionals may be in the operating room. They may be serving you when you're sick," said George A. Kenna, an addiction researcher at Brown University. "You just don't want that sort of person who's impaired" at the bedside.
Earlier this month, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger replaced most of the nursing board and demanded wholesale reform after The Times and ProPublica reported that it took more than three years on average to investigate and discipline nurses. The newly appointed board meets for the first time Sunday and Monday.
Confronted with reporters' findings on the diversion program this week, State and Consumer Services Secretary Fred Aguiar answered nearly every question by saying the program was part of a "broken system." Aguiar, whose agency oversees professional licensing, promised it would be on the new board's agenda.
In a separate interview, Carol Stanford, who has directed the diversion program since 2006, vigorously defended it. She said reporters were focusing too heavily on nurses who failed and not enough on those "saved" by diversion.
"You can pick apart any program," she said. "But what about the good? What about the other side of that story?"
Stanford said the program, which nearly 1,400 nurses have completed since 1985, had a graduation rate of 59% last year.
"Of course, nothing's perfect," she said. "We're working on whatever issues might be going on."
Diversion, embraced in various forms by many regulators, is intended to protect both professionals and the public.
Nurses enroll voluntarily, sometimes after a complaint, sometimes before they land in trouble. They agree to a host of conditions, such as submitting to random drug tests, seeking treatment and pledging not to work without permission.
In return, the board suspends the disciplinary process, keeping secret the nurses' participation in the program. With an annual diversion budget of nearly $3 million, it relies on an outside contractor to run the program day to day.
Because the program is confidential, it is impossible to know how many enrollees relapse or harm patients. But a review of court and regulatory records filed since 2002, as well as interviews with diversion participants, regulators and experts, suggests that dozens of nurses haven't upheld their end of the bargain. And oversight is broadly lacking.
Nurses must promise they won't work until they're sober, yet the board doesn't confiscate their licenses, nor does it ensure that addicts have kept their word.
Some covertly get jobs and steal drugs. The board typically doesn't find out until the nurse gets in trouble again.
Even after the program expels nurses and labels them public safety threats, the board takes a median 15 months to file a public accusation -- the first warning to potential employers and patients of a nurse's troubles. It takes 10 more months to impose discipline, based on the Times/ProPublica review of disciplinary records filed since 2002.
Labor and delivery nurse Tiffany Fahrni, who originally enrolled in the program after stealing and using painkillers, said she was kicked out and labeled a "public risk" in December 2005 because she had worked without permission. But the board didn't file an accusation against her until January 2009.
During that time Fahrni logged at least two arrests on drug-related charges, though she says she did not work as a nurse.
"They terminate you. They say you're a danger to public society . . . then it takes three more years for them to do anything," she said.
The nursing board "should have been all over me like a hawk," Fahrni said. "An addict -- you got to watch them like a baby."
Julianne D'Angelo Fellmeth, administrative director of the Center for Public Interest Law at the University of San Diego, said every "public risk" case should be pursued within five days.
Nurses "treat how many dozens of patients?" she said. With such delays, "the chance for harm to a patient is exponentially multiplied."
Drug convictions
In retrospect, Melony Currier may not have been a good candidate for diversion.
She first landed in trouble on Nov. 8, 2001, when she was arrested for stealing Demerol from Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank. (She later told board investigators that she'd stolen drugs every day for months.)
Nearly two weeks after her arrest, while working at Planned Parenthood in Van Nuys, she was found collapsed in the bathroom, injecting herself with the general anesthetic propofol. Two days after that, she returned to Providence St. Joseph and stole more of the drug, board documents say.
She was later convicted of misdemeanor theft in the Van Nuys case and petty theft and drug possession in the Burbank case.
Currier, then known by the last name Dietrich, was allowed into diversion in February 2002. The program bars nurses who have been convicted of selling drugs or who have caused patient harm or death. Also rejected are those previously disciplined by the board for drug use or mental illness, and those previously kicked out of any diversion program.
None of this applied to Currier. When the program finally expelled her in 2006 -- after the five relapses -- her case entered the clogged pipeline of ordinary complaints. There it was investigated outside public view.
A month after Currier was ejected, according to board documents, she went to Providence St. Joseph, where she'd been arrested five years earlier. Posing as an employee, she said she'd come to collect drugs for outpatient surgery.
When questioned, she "fled," board records say, driving 10 miles to Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale. Again posing as an employee, she stole two cases of propofol, according to court and board records.
Two days later, on Oct. 18, 2006, Currier was arrested when she returned to Verdugo Hills for more.
The board filed a public accusation against Currier in March 2007-- nearly 5 1/2 years after the agency first learned of her drug problems.
When the board settled the case in 2008, Currier's license was suspended for a year and she was put on probation. As part of the settlement, she admitted the allegations.
Currier is now free to practice with restrictions. She has declined to comment on her case.
Asked about delays in cases like this, in which a nurse has been deemed a public risk, diversion manager Stanford said: "That nurse still has due process. . . . You cannot go after a registered nurse in this state for falling out of treatment."
In some other states -- Arizona, Texas, North Carolina and Ohio, for instance -- nurses are booted from diversion much more quickly and disciplined sooner, according to interviews with regulators there.
"You can't stay in the program after one relapse, even one," said Julia George, executive director of the North Carolina Board of Nursing.
Leonard LaBella, Verdugo Hills Hospital's chief executive, said he was dumbfounded that the California board had not moved against Currier sooner.
"They might be overwhelmed," he said. "But this one, I think, might have floated to the top."
Risky honor system
At the moment, the main person responsible for protecting the public from a drug-addicted nurse in California is the drug-addicted nurse. It's a risky honor system.
Anette Ekelius, who landed in diversion for allegedly stealing drugs in April 2001, said she knew the rules -- she couldn't work without the board's permission. She also knew there was nothing to stop her. "I thought, 'This is good,' " she recalled. " 'I need to work. I need to pay my bills.' "
Ekelius got an unauthorized job as a temporary nurse at Torrance Memorial Medical Center that September, according to court records. She later pleaded guilty to stealing Demerol on her first -- also her last -- day. The hospital reported her to the board, but she remained in diversion.
Months later she took another job without permission, she said in an interview. At Corona Regional Medical Center, she appeared high and was accused of leaving a critically ill patient unattended, board records say.
Two days later, in February 2002, she was kicked out of diversion. She got another job and stole drugs before the board filed an accusation against her. Her license was revoked in August 2004.
"I was a good nurse, but not when I was using, obviously," said Ekelius, who said she is now sober.
Diversion manager Stanford said she doubted there were more than a handful of such cases but conceded she has no way of knowing for sure.
Doctors program
California regulators well know that diversion programs can fall dangerously short.
In recent years, audits of the state medical board's program found that relapsing doctors weren't always removed from practice, surprise drug tests often weren't surprises and designated monitors sometimes left doctors unwatched.
The medical board closed the 27-year-old program last year.
At legislative hearings on the matter, nursing board officials insisted that their program did not have the same problems and was "very successful."
But the board often defines success as completing the program. By that measure, it has lagged behind the medical board. Historically, about three-fourths of doctors who entered diversion finished it.
And the nursing board does not track nurses once they complete the program. Scott Bertrand, a Claremont nurse anesthetist, relapsed three months after graduating. In August 2005, he was caught injecting himself during a surgery with the painkiller fentanyl, which was intended for the patient. Afterward he admitted using opiates every workday for 10 to 12 weeks, according to his board disciplinary record.
Given a second chance at diversion, he was kicked out, according to his board record. Last year the board suspended his ability to work as a nurse anesthetist for one year and put him on probation.
Reached twice by telephone, Bertrand said he was busy and never called back.
The board almost certainly misses other cases like Bertrand's, addiction experts said.
"I'd want to know what their relapse rate is," said Dean Dabney, a criminal justice expert at Georgia State University, who has written about impaired practitioners. "That's your true indicator."
In this week's interview, Stanford initially stuck to her overall assessment of her diversion program as "a success."
Pressed on the flaws identified by reporters, however, she said officials were taking steps to "tighten it up."
One change in process, she said, is a requirement similar to that in New York -- in which new enrollees in diversion inactivate their licenses. Another would allow the state to investigate complaints even while nurses are in diversion, as the state of Washington does. A third would expedite legal action on cases in which nurses are considered "public safety threats."
"You're raking me over the coals," Stanford said to reporters. "I'm trying to work with the program to enhance it."
A fatal overdose
Chad Matheny's newspaper obituary said he died unexpectedly at his Cathedral City home May 19, 2008.
Just 32, Matheny was described as a loving husband and father, a musician and singer, a dedicated nurse and caregiver. Left unsaid: Matheny's death came after a years-long battle with drugs.
It was a fight the nursing board knew he was losing.
An autopsy found that he had died of an accidental overdose: of powerful painkillers, antidepressants and anti-anxiety drugs. Some of the drugs appeared to have been obtained by phoning prescriptions in under the name of the physician he worked for, the autopsy report said.
Matheny had been booted from the diversion program two years earlier, and the board had labeled him a public threat, saying he had a "complete lack of insight into addiction." But, with disciplinary proceedings pending, he could still work -- and score drugs. He died in bed, beside his wife.
Matheny's mother, Gaytha Minor, said the nursing board failed her son. But she is a veteran nurse herself -- and what most angers her is that the board didn't step in to protect the public.
"How many patients suffered because of my son?"
Maloy Moore, of the Los Angeles Times, contributed to this story
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It sounds to me like the over site board itself needs to be brought up on charges . Thank you Pro Publica for the heads up .
One out of ten people in this country are addicts and nurses are no exception. Couple this with the mindset of believing drugs fix problems and a very stressful jobs and sometimes nurses divert drugs. Some nurses get hurt on the job and become addicted to pain pills through their injury. When you have a craving and your hand is already on the drug it is hard to say no. There are many many states which put addicted nurses in diversion programs and monitor them very closely. They have a very high success rate and most of the nurses can eventually even go back to working with narcotics. The WHPS program in Washington State is probably the best. If the nurse makes it clear they are not willing to do what they should do they are not allowed to practice. They provide a lot of support, nurses have to go to treatment(successful completion), support groups for chem dependent nurses, have very random urine Tox screens, go to 12 step meetings, complete any other counseling or anything they put in the contract(for at least two years and often longer). The nurse has to pay for these things. Most nurses are able to understand addiction and the treatment for it. They want to keep their licenses and continue working. What they have to do to prove themselves is vey difficult. California also did not regulate physicians very well. The American Nurses Association issued a statement that nurses should be treated like any othe professional with an addiction problem. They should be treated, monitored and sent back to work ASAP. The public should also be protected through monitoring. If an alcoholic attorney goes to treatment he then goes back to work. There is a danger he may drink again and it may effect his work. It should be the same for nurses.
The California Board of Registered Nursing seems to be the gift that keeps on giving for ProPublica's journalists. How in the world does the board get away with running a "diverson" program for addicts? Aren't these addicted R.N.s guilty of actual crimes for which any other non-nurse would be prosecuted? The arrogance of the former board members seems to know no bounds. It is reminiscent of the Catholic Church's handling of the pedophilia scandals. Just pass the errant priest/nurse along to the next unsuspecting congregation/patient and hope they control their impulses. The Church did have its own "diverson program", of course. In my small town it was called the "House of Affirmation", a secluded mansion where, I imagine, attempts were made to treat misbehaving clerics who never appeared in our town. We were told that they were priests who were questioning their faith but, the reality was that they were causing rank and file Catholics to question theirs. Keep up the good work, ProPublica!
I'm wondering about the choice of photograph at the top of the story. Is this a composite? Couldn't you find a better likeness of Mss Ekelius, Stanford/ or Terry?
This is a very sloppily done image and degrades the quality of the story.
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The board that oversees the state's registered nurses has taken more than three years, on average, to discipline nurses with histories of drug abuse, negligence, incompetence and violence.