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Gainesville Aerial Advertising is your banner tow source for advertising your business high in the sky. Barnstormers has advertised for small businesses, individuals, and fortune 500 companies alike for over 30 years.
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Welcome to Butternut Creek Golf Course
Butternut Creek Golf Course features rolling valley holes and challenging slopes with mountain views from all 18 holes. Each hole is unique – none remotely similar to another. Golfers ask, "Why haven't we heard about this gem before?" We invite you to visit us in Union County and enjoy all that the we have to offer!
Owned and operated by the Union County Recreation Department, Butternut Creek Golf Course sits in downtown Blairsville below beautiful Ivy Log Mountain.
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NEWS FROM: Nevada Division of Investigation 99-117
On April 28, 1999, Tri-Net Narcotic Task Force served 3 search warrants in Carson City and arrested 6 people. On Wednesday morning, at 10:00 a.m., Task Force Investigators served a search and arrest warrant at 1420 Edmonds Drive #1 arresting Gary Grinker, age 42, unemployed. Grinker was charged with Sales of Methamphetamine. During the search of Grinker's residence, investigators located drug paraphernalia, a customer list and seized approximately $700.00 in cash. Grinker was booked into the Carson City Jail with a bail of $20,000.00.
After receiving numerous phone calls from neighbors relaying information of possible drug activity occurring at 600 Hot Springs Road, #85, Task Force Investigators obtained a search warrant which was served at approximately 3:00 p.m. Investigators located 1 pound of marijuana and 5 1/2 grams of methamphetamine. Arrested were Magdalena Ramirez, age 35, unemployed, and her 16 year old son. Magdalena Ramirez was charged with Trafficking of Methamphetamine, Possession of Methamphetamine for Sale, Possession of Marijuana for Sale, Sales of Marijuana and Child Endangerment. Magdalena Ramirez was booked into the Carson City Jail with a bail of $80,000.00. Ramirez' 16 year old son is being charged with Trafficking of Methamphetamine, Sales of Marijuana and Possession of Marijuana and Methamphetamine for Sale. Ramirez' son was booked into the Carson City Juvenile Detention Center.
At approximately 8:45 p.m., Tri-Net Narcotic Task Force, with the assistance of Carson City Sheriff's Office, served a search warrant at 3190 Dale Drive in Carson City locating 10 people within the residence. During the search, with the assistance of Carson City Sheriff's Office canine "Scout," investigators located over 1 pound of Methamphetamine packaged for sale, over $24,000.00 in cash, 6 guns and items used to weigh and package drugs. Arrested were Ismael Hernandez-Segura, age 28, for 2 outstanding traffic warrants, Aurillo Nava, age 35, charged with Trafficking of Methamphetamine and Victor Orozco-Vargas, age 29, unemployed, charged with Sales of Methamphetamine, Possession of Methamphetamine for Sales, Trafficking of Methamphetamine, two counts, Possession of Drug Paraphernalia, Maintaining a House for Drug Sales and Child Endangerment. Orozco-Vargas was booked into the Carson City Jail on a Bail of $250,000.00. Both Orozco-Vargas and Nava are being held for Immigration. Lieutenant Steve Albertsen of Tri-Net Narcotic Task Force stated, "Orozco-Vargas has been a significant supplier of drugs in this area and has been under investigation by Tri-Net Narcotic Task Force for over a year."
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Now that the we can wave goodbye to the summer season it's time to focus on the new season trends and revamping our look. A fantastic cut and/or color makeover is all that is necessary to maintain a fresh and fabulous look capable of making heads turn, so if you're looking for a hair color that underlines your uniqueness and falls out of the ordinary, check out the following cool multi-chromatic hair color ideas for fall 2012 and draw inspiration for your new look. The hair color trends are still focused on natural, simple hues such as blond... Read More


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The State Heritage Inventory is a list of heritage items in New South Wales including Aboriginal Places, State Heritage Register, Interim Heritage Orders, State Agency Heritage Registers and Local Environmental Plans.
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When it comes to gross motor skills such as running, jumping and walking, most children don't need much encouragement. However, fine motor skills that involve the small muscle manipulation of the fingers, thumb and wrist can take a little more practice. Since fine motor development is just as important as gross motor development, finding ways to incorporate activities that strengthen these muscles is essential. Especially considering the importance of dexterity in so many facets of our lives.
Fine motor skills aren't only necessary for the movement of small muscles in the fingers, they are great for eye coordination as well. It's important to encourage your child to strengthen those fine motor skills when they are still infants and toddlers since it makes life as a small child much easier. You can help your child hone his/her fine motor skill development by making fun activity games with them. Read on to learn 5 activities I created with my own son when he was an infant and toddler, then hit your recycling bin for all of the supplies that you will need. The best part, your child will have just as much fun making the games with you as he will using the games.
What you will need for all 5 projects:
- muffin tin
- recycled paper (from your recycling bin)
- golf tees
- marbles
- yarn
- egg carton
- recycled cardboard (from your recycling bin)
- buttons or milk caps
- scissors
- hole punch
- craft knife
- 2 empty cardboard food containers with lids
Project #1: Counting Fine Motor Skills Game
What you will need:
- an empty cardboard food can with lid (I used a baking powder one)
- discarded buttons, milk caps or other circular items
Simply clean out the inside of an empty cardboard can. Then, cut slots the same size of your circular items with your craft knife. This is a great way for little ones to practice their fine motor skills by putting the circular items into the small slot. You can also color code each piece to help with color identification.
Project #2: Color Fine Motor Skills Game
What you will need:
- muffin tin
- colored buttons, milk caps or other small items of the same color
- paper (from the recycling bin)
Another great fine motor and sorting activity is encouraging your little ones to sort all of the items by color into separate sections of the muffin tin. I used paper from the recycling bin to color code the bottom of each muffin tin. This fine motor skill activity is great for color recognition, sorting and counting.
Project #3: Hand-Eye Coordination Fine Motor Skills Game
- an empty cardboard food can with lid (I used a baking powder one)
- toothpicks or discarded straws
Manipulating small items such as toothpicks and inserting them into the slot is great not only for fine motor skill development, but also for hand-eye coordination. If you choose to use straws, you can punch holes in the lid of the container instead of pushing the toothpicks through to make holes.
Project #4: Fine Motor Skills Balance Game
- Golf tees
- marbles
- egg carton
This is a great fine motor skill activity that incorporates the principles of precision and balance as little ones place the marbles to balance atop the tees. This is great for toddlers who are strengthening their fine motor skills and is a little more difficult than the other activities. You can also color code this game to help your child practice their color recognition at the same time.
Project #5: Lacing Fine Motor Skills Game
- cardboard
- yarn or string
- hole punch
Learning how to lace is great for little ones especially considering they will be tying their own shoes shortly. If you have very small children, just learning how to lace the string through the holes is enough, older children will enjoy tying the yarn after lacing it through the holes. Simply cut a rectangle from a piece of cardboard (I used a cereal box), punch side-by-side holes and let your little one lace away.


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The Joy of Inspired Teaching is about what it takes to become a truly great teacher, about the unique role of teachers as shapers of human potential, and about meeting the challenge of the day-to-day teaching routine. This very special book, available in either printed or recorded format, will touch your core values, tantalize you with fresh insights, and sustain you with the knowledge and courage to become the truly outstanding mentor you aspire to be. Tim Lautzenheiser, one of the most sought-after speakers on education and leadership in the United States, brings his insights as a music educator to bear on three major areas: a philosophy of music education, achieving excellence in teaching music, and student leadership.
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This special event is an opportunity to hear a lecture by Geoffrey Doherty, an Australian social historian, on "Finding Your Australian Cousins – A Guide to Online Resources". The lecture will be preceded by a buffet dinner that will provide the opportunity to speak with Geoffrey informally.
The lecture and dinner are being made available exclusively to Toronto Branch members. Due to the event location, registration numbers are limited. REGISTRATION NOW CLOSED.
Not all your ancestors' brothers and sisters came to Canada and the US. Some went to places like Australia. Some went there because they wanted to but many went unwillingly as Convicts. Most people who travelled to Australia stayed there and had many descendants. Geoffrey Doherty's lecture will highlight online Australian sources at both National and State level that can help you to find your missing 'Cousins'.
Geoffrey Doherty
Geoffrey is from Brisbane where he is a retired, mature-age student now in the process of completing a PhD. As a social historian, Geoffrey is interested in not only the significant dates attached to a person's life but also the whys and wherefores that made them take the actions and decisions they did. His interests mainly centre on Military, Family and Convict social history. Geoffrey is a member of the Australian Historical Association, the Professional Historians Association Queensland and the Genealogical Society of Queensland.
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Real Betis bounced back from two straight defeats as a Paulao header set them up for a 2-0 victory over Real Sociedad that lifted them up to fourth in the table.
The Andalusian side had conceded a total of eight goals against Atletico Madrid and Malaga,but they managed to keep a clean sheet in an open game with chances at both ends yesterday.
They were two set-plays which decided the game as Paulao headed Betis in front after 18 minutes from a corner and Ruben Castro also with his head added to the lead with 10 minutes to go from a Benat Etxebarria free-kick.
Sociedad found themselves up against an inspired Adrian San Miguel in the Betis goal who made expert stops from Carlos Vela and Mikel Gonzalez before the break,while Emanuel Nosa also blazed over for Betis from 10 yards out.
Straight after the restart the home side were inches away from doubling their lead when Castro fired a volley which came back off the woodwork and while Real continued to press forward looking for their first points away from home this season,it was Betis that scored again through Castro.
Betis defender Pedro Mario was dismissed two minutes from the end for his second yellow card.
A second half Diego Castro penalty gave Getafe a 1-0 victory away to Zaragoza in a stormy game with three sendings off.
Zaragoza were left with an uphill battle after Koffi Romaric was shown red after just eight minutes and although they fought on valiantly their resistance finally broke with a 64th-minute spot-kick conceded by Alvaro Gonzalez,who was dismissed,and Castro made no mistake from 12 yards.
Abdelaziz Barrada was also red carded for the visitors seven minutes from the end.
Rayo Vallecano beat Deportivo la Coruna 2-1 with goals by Francisco Piti and Jose Carlos while Luis Miguel Pizzi pulled one back from the penalty spot.
Ten-man Espanyol picked up only their second point of the season after a 1-1 draw away to Valladolid.
Joan Verdu put them ahead from the penalty spot after 70 minutes,with Victor Alvarez having been sent off at the end of the first half,but Oscar Gonzalez equalised with nine minutes to go.
Real Madrid face Barcelona in El Clasico on Sunday where defeat would see them trail their bitter enemies by 11 points.
The Catalan side have won their first six league games but Madrid have hit form after a slow start and can count on a resurgent Cristiano Ronaldo who has scored hat-tricks in his last two games.


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Ragtime Festival returns March 22-23
World-renowned ragtime musicians again will deliver spectacular rhythms and outstanding showmanship during Mississippi State's seventh annual Charles Templeton Ragtime Jazz Festival.
Taking place on the university campus March 22-23, the major spring event includes evening concerts in the McComas Hall Auditorium, along with daytime sessions and tours at the Templeton Music Museum in Mitchell Memorial Library.
To view the performance schedule and purchase tickets for the individual programs -- or the entire festival -- visit https://library.msstate.edu/ragtime/festival/tkts/index.html.
All returning artists, the 2013 five featured performers include:
-- Jeff Barnhart. A highly regarded pianist, vocalist, arranger, band leader, recording artist, composer, teacher and entertainer, he appears regularly as a soloist and band pianist for international parties, festivals, clubs and cruises. When not performing, Barnhart has recorded as both a pianist and vocalist on more than 75 full-length albums.
-- Frederick Hodges. Considered by many to be among the world's best ragtime pianists, he consistently is requested by leading orchestras, festivals, conductors and collaborative musicians. A classically trained concert pianist, Hodges has established a reputation as a versatile artist who can perform as a soloist, singer, dance band pianist and silent film accompanist, among other venues.
-- Brian Holland. A ragtime, jazz and stride pianist for almost 30 years, he is a classically trained and Grammy Award-nominated performer with a keen ear for improvisation. With a driving style described as "clear as Waterford crystal," the three-time World Old-Time Piano Playing Champion now serves as a judge for the competition. Most recently, Holland has been featured with performances in the African nation of Rwanda and a subsequent recording project on the Mohawk Productions label.
-- David Jasen. One of the most highly regarded authorities on ragtime music, Jasen is a collector of books, recordings, piano rolls, periodicals, catalogs and sheet music covering the gamut of American popular music. An adviser to the Charles Templeton Ragtime Jazz Festival since its inception, Jasen brings an extraordinary knowledge of ragtime and history, enriching the festival experience and providing a dimension rarely seen in other such events.
-- Carl Sonny Leyland. After discovering boogie-woogie at age 15, he was inspired to go to the piano and begin on a path that became his life's purpose. Whether solo or with the Carl Sonny Leyland Trio, his play typically involves a spontaneity that provides many happy surprises.
In addition to the MSU Libraries and Templeton Music Museum, the festival is sponsored by the Starkville Area Arts Council, Rotary Club of Starkville and Greater Starkville Development Partnership. Additional sponsorships also are provided, in part, by the Mississippi Arts Council and National Endowment for the Arts.
For additional ticket and schedule information, contact planning committee member Lynda Graham at 662-325-6634 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Carrabelle taps two for EDC
On Dec. 5, Carrabelle commissioners voted unanimously to add two at-large seats to Carrabelle�s Economic Development Council (EDC), acting on a request from EDC Director David Butler.
On Jan. 9, the city commissioners unanimously approved Linda Cowan and Gene Snider as the newest members, expanding the board to nine Butler said Cowan and Snider were the only two applicants for the seats.
Carrabelle updates CRA plans
Carrabelle is revising and updating plans for its Community Redevelopment Area (CRA).
Commissioner Charlotte Schneider said the plans have fallen by the wayside in recent years and the city is now seeking state funds to improve Marine Street.
At their Jan. 9 meeting, city commissioners voted unanimously to add two new CRA members, downtown merchant Bo May and Robert Powist, a resident of Riverside Condominiums.
Meetings of the CRA committee will be the third Thursday of each month at 5 p.m. at the Carrabelle Municipal Center.
Carrabelle museum seeks volunteer help
The Carrabelle History Museum is in need of volunteers to host the open hours of the museum from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and especially on Saturday. Two or three hour shifts work well.
The museum also is building its files on local families and local places, and needs people to gather and organize what it has on specific topics.
The museum also is asking members to renew their membership or join the Carrabelle Historical Society. Annual membership dues for the society are $15 individuals and $25 for families.
The next changing exhibit will be about salt, so the museum is looking for artifacts and a salt kettle to borrow.
Please stop by and see all of the new changes and improved displays. The Holiday Bears will be on display for another week.
The museum is at 106 Avenue B, SE, in the heart of downtown Carrabelle. For more information, call 697-2141 or 524-1153.


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This session headed by trumpeter Lee Morgan was not initially released until this 1998 CD. Morgan is joined by an all-star cast of James Spaulding on flute and alto, tenor saxophonist Wayne Shorter, baritonist Pepper Adams, pianist Herbie Hancock, bassist Ron Carter and drummer Mickey Roker, but the music overall is not all that memorable. Most of the selections, although allegedly "standards," were of more recent vintage (like "A Lot of Livin' to Do" and "If I Were a Carpenter"), and even if Morgan and the other musicians play well, nothing too exciting occurs. Although not a dud, it was not a major loss that this recording stayed in the vaults.


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I've been busy these days playing so many freeware strategy games that I'm behind my schedule. The last time I made a proper review was when I discussed Cursed Treasure, a Flash-based free tower defense game.
To update followers on what's going on in the PC gaming industry, I've decided to launch "Twitter Today," (hopefully) daily updates on what PC gaming experts/websites are saying.
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Tribes Universe - The Tribes series just refuses to die. After a slew of lackluster jetpack-based (and other FPS-Z) games, up comes the news that a new MMOFPS is being developed, this time bearing the name of the franchise. (Kudos to Gamespot member MatrixKing giving me a heads-up.)
F.E.A.R. 3 - Launch date revealed: March 22, 2011. The developers of Armored Core are manning the helm this time. Let's hope the horror PC FPS doesn't get buried under a ton of walking tanks designed like those of Mechwarrior's.
Gamespot's Call of Duty Black Ops Game Guide - "Full campaign walkthrough, multiplayer tips, and more." 'Nuff said.
IGN's The History of Halo - For the game's 9th anniversary, IGN delves into the history of the bestselling franchise.
Gamespot's Call of Duty: Then and Now - Gamespot goes back through time and compares screenshots of four of the best selling Call of Duty games: Black Ops, World at War, and Modern Warfare 1 and 2.
TenTonHammer's League of Legends' Sona Guide - The gaming website just released a guide on how to play Sona, a new "ranged support" hero in the RTS League of Legends (a PC strategy game made in the vein of Defense of the Ancients)
All Points Bulletin - This MMOFPS made waves this year --- the tragic saga of an overhyped game that flopped on its release. Now it's even making more ripples across the gamingverse --- its new publisher is making the game free to play!
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Market activity in Almería province is currently 61% below its peak in 2006. There were 2,626 property transactions registered in Q1 2018.
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Dr. Max G. Manwaring
Research Professor of Military Strategy
Area(s) of Expertise: Theory of grand strategy; U.S. national security policy and strategy; military strategy; military and nonmilitary operations other than war; political-military affairs; and Latin America.
Phone: (717) 245-4076
Dr. Max G. Manwaring is a Professor of Military Strategy in the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) of the U.S. Army War College (USAWC), has held the General Douglas MacArthur Chair of Research at the USAWC, and is a retired U.S. Army colonel. He has served in various civilian and military positions, including the U.S. Southern Command, the Defense Intelligence Agency, Dickinson College, and Memphis University. Dr. Manwaring is the author and co-author of several articles, chapters, and books dealing with Latin American security affairs, political-military affairs, and insurgency and counterinsurgency. His most recent book is The Complexity of Modern Irregular War, Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, forthcoming. His most recent article is "Security, Stability, and Sovereignty Challenges of Politicized Gangs and Insurgents in the Americas," Small Wars & Insurgencies, December 2011, pp. 860-889. His most recent SSI monograph is The Strategic Logic of the Contemporary Security Dilemma, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, December 2011. Dr. Manwaring is a graduate of the U.S. Army War College, and holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Illinois.
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SSI books and monographs by Dr. Max G. Manwaring
Venezuela as an Exporter of 4th Generation Warfare Instability
December 19, 2012
Authored by Dr. Max G. Manwaring.
We must adapt our approach to the overwhelming reality that just as the world has evolved from an industrial society to an information-based society, so has warfare. The reality of this evolution demonstrates the need for a new paradigm of conflict based on the fact that information—not firepower—is the currency upon which war is now conducted. The new primary center of gravity is public opinion and political leadership. The "new" instruments of power are intelligence, public diplomacy, media, time, and flexibility. The one thing that remains the same is that one level or another of compulsion still defines war.
Ambassador Stephen Krasner's Orienting Principle for Foreign Policy (and Military Management)—Responsible Sovereignty
April 27, 2012
Authored by Dr. Max G. Manwaring.
This monograph takes the logic of the contemporary security dilemma to another level. The intent is to operationalize and elaborate Ambassador Stephen Krasner's "Responsible Sovereignty" orienting principle for foreign policy and military management.
The Strategic Logic of the Contemporary Security Dilemma
December 01, 2011
Authored by Dr. Max G. Manwaring.
This monograph is part of a continuing effort to inform the contemporary transnational security debate, move it to the strategic level, and support the best interests of the United States Government and peoples, and also those of the Western Hemisphere and the rest of the world.
A "New" Dynamic in the Western Hemisphere Security Environment: The Mexican Zetas and Other Private Armies
September 25, 2009
Authored by Dr. Max G. Manwaring.
A new and dangerous dynamic has been introduced into the Mexican internal security environment. That new dynamic is represented by a private military organization called the Zetas, and involves the migration of power from traditional state and nonstate adversaries to nontraditional nonstate private military organizations. Moreover, the actions of this irregular nonstate actor tend to be more political-psychological than military, and further move the threat from hard power to soft power solutions.
State and Nonstate Associated Gangs: Credible "Midwives of New Social Orders"
May 22, 2009
Authored by Dr. Max G. Manwaring.
The author addresses the subject of the multifaceted nature and predominant role of gangs operating as state and nonstate proxies in the modern unbalanced global security environment. In every phase of the process of compelling radical political change, agitator-gangs and popular militias play significant roles in helping their political patrons prepare to take control of a targeted political-social entity. As a result, gangs (bandas criminales or whatever they may be called) are important components of a highly complex political-psychological-military act—contemporary irregular asymmetrical political war.
A Contemporary Challenge to State Sovereignty: Gangs and Other Illicit Transnational Criminal Organizations (TCOs) in Central America, El Salvador, Mexico, Jamaica, and Brazil
January 15, 2008
Authored by Dr. Max G. Manwaring.
Building on his 2005 monograph, Street Gangs: The New Urban Insurgency, the author answers questions regarding "What are the implications of the gang and other Transnational Criminal Organizations' assault on stability in the Western Hemisphere?" and "What are the implications of the clash of values between liberal democracy and criminal anarchy?"
Latin America's New Security Reality: Irregular Asymmetric Conflict and Hugo Chavez
August 24, 2007
Authored by Dr. Max G. Manwaring.
The author answers questions regarding "What is President Hugo Chavez doing in Venezuela?" "What are his plans for the future and for the rest of Latin America?" and "What are the implications for stability and instability in the Hemisphere?"
Venezuela's Hugo Chavez, Bolivarian Socialism, and Asymmetric Warfare
October 01, 2005
Authored by Dr. Max G. Manwaring.
The author answers questions regarding Who is Hugo Chavez? How can the innumerable charges and countercharges between the Venezuelan and U.S. governments be interpreted? What is Chavez's bolivarianismo? And, What are the implications for stability and instability in Latin America?
Street Gangs: The New Urban Insurgency
March 01, 2005
Authored by Dr. Max G. Manwaring.
The author identifies the political-strategic challenges of contemporary unconventional conflict. He focuses on the political complexity of the gang phenomenon, and the common linkage between third generation gangs and insurgents.
Shadows of Things Past and Images of the Future: Lessons for the Insurgencies in Our Midst
November 01, 2004
Authored by Dr. Max G. Manwaring.
The author identifies the political-strategic challenges of modern unconventional conflicts, with a focus on the political complexity of insurgency. This report comes at a time when U.S. and other world political and military leaders have been struggling with the "new" political-psychological aspects of insurgency/terrorist war.
Security in the Americas: Neither Evolution nor Devolution--Impasse
March 01, 2004
Authored by Dr. Max G. Manwaring.
The author identifies the strategic-political challenge of effective sovereignty and security, with a focus on nontraditional threats. If the United States and the other countries of the Western Hemisphere ignore what is happening in Latin America, the expansion of terrorism, "lawless areas," and general instability easily could destroy the democracy, free market economies, and prosperity.
Building Regional Security Cooperation in the Western Hemisphere: Issues and Recommendations
October 01, 2003
Authored by Dr. Max G. Manwaring, COL Wendy Fontela, Dr. Mary Grizzard, Mr. Dennis M. Rempe.
Dr. Max Manwaring and his team of conference rapporteurs have generated a substantive set of issues and recommendations. They have provided a viable means by which to begin the implementation of serious hemispheric security cooperation. This report comes at a critical juncture, a time of promise for greater economic integration between the United States and Latin America.
Strategic Effects of Conflict with Iraq: Latin America
March 01, 2003
Authored by Dr. Max G. Manwaring.
The author has been asked to analyze four issues: the position that key states in their region are taking on U.S. military action against Iraq; the role of America in the region after the war with Iraq; the nature of security partnerships in the region after the war with Iraq; and the effect that war with Iraq will have on the war on terrorism in the region.
Nonstate Actors in Colombia: Threat and Response
May 01, 2002
Authored by Dr. Max G. Manwaring.
Colombia's "Hobbesian Trinity" of illegal drug traffickers, insurgents, and paramilitary organizations are creating a situation in which life is indeed "nasty, brutish, and short." Political and military leaders can start thinking about the gravity of the terrorist strategy employed by Colombia's stateless adversaries from this point. It is also the point from which leaders can begin developing re
The Inescapable Global Security Arena
April 01, 2002
Authored by Dr. Max G. Manwaring.
The author outlines the violent characteristics of the new security-stability environment and briefly examines the problem of terrorism and the related problem of governance. Finally, he enumerates some civil-military implications for playing effectively in the contemporary global security arena.
Internal Wars: Rethinking Problem and Response
September 01, 2001
Authored by Dr. Max G. Manwaring.
Asymmetric guerrilla war--insurgencies, internal wars, and other small-scale contingencies (SSCs)--are the most pervasive and likely type of conflict in the post-Cold War era. The author draws from the lessons of the recent past to better prepare today's civilian and military leaders to meet the unconventional and asymmetric warfare challenges that face the United States and the rest of the intern
U.S. Security Policy in the Western Hemisphere: Why Colombia, Why Now, and What Is To Be Done?
June 01, 2001
Authored by Dr. Max G. Manwaring.
In substantive U.S. national security terms, the author addresses the questions, Why Colombia, Why Now, and What Is To Be Done? He points out that the fragile democracy of Colombia is at risk, and that the violent spillover effects of three simultaneous wars pose a threat to the rest of the Western Hemisphere and the interdependent global community. He recommends an actionable political-military s
". . . to insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense . . ."
September 01, 2000
Edited by Dr. Max G. Manwaring.
On April 11-13, 2000, the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute sponsored a major conference that examined what the Department of Defense must do "to insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence . . ., given the increasing contemporary threats to the U.S. homeland. This book highlights the issues and themes that ran through the conference.
Security and Civil-Military Relations in the New World Disorder: The Use of Armed Forces in the Americas
September 01, 1999
Edited by Dr. Max G. Manwaring.
The book is organized as an anthology of the best of a series of excellent symposium presentations, revised in light of the discussions that took place there, and complemented by an explanation of the strategic interests of the United States in Latin America and an overview.
The Challenge of Haiti's Future: Report on the Conference Sponsored by U.S. Army War College, Georgetown University, and the Inter-American Dialogue
August 01, 1997
Authored by Dr. Max G. Manwaring, Dr. Donald E. Schulz, Dr. Robert Maguire, Dr. Peter Hakim, Dr. Abigail Horn.
This Special Report contains an account of a conference on "The Challenge of Haiti's Future," sponsored by the U.S. Army War College, Georgetown University, and the Inter-American Dialogue, and held on February 10-11, 1997, on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC.
SSI articles, editorial, and briefs by Dr. Max G. Manwaring
Op-Ed: The New Security Reality: Not Business as Usual
August 20, 2012
Op-Ed: The Criminals South of the Border: Lessons from Mexico
August 09, 2011
Brazil's Security Strategy and Defense Doctrine
March 03, 2011
A New Chapter in Trans-American Engagement
September 21, 2010
The Role of Cuban Paramilitary Organizations (People's Militias) in the Post-Castro Era
August 07, 2009
Defense, Development, and Diplomacy (3D): Canadian and U.S. Military Perspectives
October 05, 2006
The Challenge of Governance and Security
March 01, 2006
Gangs, "Coups D' Streets," and the New War in Central America
July 01, 2005
Strategic Opportunities: Charting New Approaches to Defense and Security Challenges in the Western Hemisphere
May 23, 2005
Uncomfortable Questions Regarding the inevitable Succession of Power in Cuba
September 01, 2004
Hemispheric Strategic Objectives for the Next Decade
May 11, 2004
U.S. Security Strategies: Trade Policy Implications for Latin America
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Partway through Marisha Pessl's second novel, "Night Film," I began to feel as if I had been taken hostage by the book. This, I should hasten to add, is not its intent. The saga of a legendary film director, Stanislas Cordova, and the suicide of his 24-year-old daughter, Ashley, "Night Film" is willfully portentous, claustrophobic even, a novel that means to explore hidden meanings, in which each turn seems to unveil another layer until illusion and reality begin to merge. It is also, at 600-plus pages, at least a third too long, an overwrought narrative that hints at much but delivers little and, for all its feints and twists, remains surprisingly unsuspenseful in the end.
Pessl is the much-lauded author of "Special Topics in Calamity Physics," which the New York Times Book Review selected as one of the 10 best books of 2006. This follow-up has been seven years in the making, and it has the feel of a novel that may have incubated a bit too long.
Narrated by Scott McGrath, an investigative reporter whose career was ruined after a previous (failed) inquiry into Cordova, it follows some of the conventions of a detective novel, although the mystery is never fully clear. Was Ashley driven to suicide? Did the madness in her father's films come to be visited on her?
"Freak the ferocious out," McGrath explains, referring to "Cordova's supposed life philosophy, which meant, in a nutshell, that to be terrified, to be scared out of your skin, was the beginning of freedom, of opening your eyes to what was graphic and dark and gorgeous about life, thereby conquering the monsters of your mind. This was, in Cordovite speak, to slaughter the lamb, get rid of your meek, fearful self, thereby freeing yourself from the restrictions imposed on you by friends, family, and society at large."
There's a point to be made here about the nature of idolatry, about the way we let certain artists get inside us, as if they were speaking directly to some hidden part of ourselves. That's particularly tempting when it comes to a character such as Cordova, whose films — psychological thrillers — are so disturbing that he's been dropped by the studios.
A recluse, he apparently lives on an estate in upstate New York called the Peak, barricaded from the outside world by an expansive military-style wall. After granting a brief and enigmatic interview to Rolling Stone in 1977, he has never spoken (or been seen) in public again.
His daughter is no less elusive: A piano prodigy, she made a single album at 14, under the name Ash DeRouin. In case we miss the significance, one of Pessl's characters spells it out for us: "Ash DeRouin. The ashes from ruins." Portentous, indeed.
This is a key problem with "Night Film" — that it is driven less by the concerns of its characters than by a sense of authorial schematics, as if we were involved in an elaborate shadow play. Pessl encourages such a reading by including an array of documents: notes, Web pages, newspaper clippings, photographs, pages torn from phone books.
The idea is to seed the story with artifacts from the real world and, in so doing, make it feel more rooted. The effect, though, is precisely the opposite, to enhance the novel's artificiality. It's as if we were being guided from one plot point to another, as if this were less a work of fiction than a treasure map. For all her emphasis on, well, emphasis (among other things, "Night Film" may set a new record for italics), Pessl can't disguise a gaping emptiness at the center of the book.
In part, that has to do with McGrath, who is among the most unlikely investigative reporters I've ever come across — disgraced, yes, and with a habit of drinking more than is good for him but somehow able to maintain a West Village duplex and get the most unwilling sources to open up. As a narrator, he's nothing if not archetypal, broken down but not really, with a divorce and a young daughter he can't help placing in harm's way.
Pessl's point is obvious: that there's a parallel between McGrath and Cordova, both of whom have put their daughters at risk through their obsession with certain mysteries. And yet this can't help but backfire because we figure it out at least 100 pages before McGrath does, leaving us to wonder about his skills.
Even more, there's his decision to share the investigation with two younger characters who know more about Ashley than he lets on. Setting aside for a moment the unbelievability of such a setup — why would a seasoned reporter bring a couple of amateurs into an investigation? — the connections Pessl means to showcase come off as gratuitous, a matter of narrative mechanics rather a bond between the characters themselves.
Ultimately, however, the most troublesome aspect of "Night Film" is its benighted attitude toward art. Throughout the novel, in either McGrath's voice or those of the people he interviews, Pessl offers a series of riffs on the inviolability of the artist and the belief that, in the act of creation, every indiscretion or cruelty may be redeemed.
"You'll find that great artists don't love, live … or even die like ordinary people. Because they always have their art," an actress named Marlowe Hughes, once married to Cordova, explains. "Whatever human tragedy befalls them, they're never too gutted, because they need only to pour that tragedy into their vat, stir in the other lurid ingredients, blast it over a fire."
The implication is that Cordova, by virtue of his genius, is immune from basic human expectation, from decency, from empathy. He's a master manipulator, setting traps for those who can't withstand his vision, and yet this sort of gamesmanship — is it real, what happens in this novel, or has McGrath slipped through a wormhole in which the universe of Cordova's movies begins to assert itself in real life? — undermines the urgency of the book.
Art, after all, is not about the artist; it becomes more essential the more it reaches out. This is a conclusion "Night Film" never reaches, offering contrivance, image, rather than the pulse of life.
[For the Record, 1:26 p.m. PDT, Aug. 15: A headline in a previous version of this post stated that the title of Marisha Pessl's second novel is "Night Movies." It is "Night Film."]
Night Film
A novel
Marisha Pessl
Random House: 602 pp., $28


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In college, I took an exegesis class in the Pauline Epistles. The class required students to translate the apostle's letters on sight from their Greek New Testaments. Our professor's eyes were failing, and the temptation to crib from an English Bible was just too much for some of my friends.
One day, as a student faked a translation on the fly, the professor looked up and said, "Mr. H---, is that an RSV on your desk?"
Sure enough, H--- had been reading aloud from a black, leather-bound Revised Standard Version. Nervously, he said, "Y-y-yes, sir."
"Why," quipped our professor with a big grin, "it almost looks like a Bible."
Back then, the default meaning of Bible for Christians in my group was the King James Version. The default physical form was a black leather binding.
The physical form of the Bible matters because it influences the way Christians use their sacred book. In the countercultural 1960s, for example, publishers shucked the black leather uniform in favor of more contemporary dress. The aim was to reach those who might not otherwise pick up the Scriptures. The American Bible Society's Good News for Modern Man resembled a mass market paperback, and Tyndale House's Reach Out: The Living New Testament looked just plain "groovy."
Three centuries before Luther's New Testament first came off the press in 1522, workshops in Paris produced one-volume Bibles called pandects. Unlike the large multivolume Bibles that sat in churches, monasteries, and rich men's libraries, these could be conveniently carried by Sor-bonne students and mendicant preachers. Thus began the revolutionary shift from communal reading of Scripture to its private, ...1


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Colon Cancer Risk With No Family History
Last Reviewed: March 16, 2011
Dear OncoLink "Ask The Experts,"
I heard if I do not have anyone in my family who has had colon cancer that I don't need to do the screening. Is that true?
Carmen E. Guerra, M.D., M.S., Associate Professor of Medicine at Penn Medicine, responds:
Even if you do not have a family history of colon or rectal cancer, you have a lifetime risk of developing colorectal cancer that approximates 6%. Therefore, if you are over 50, you should undergo colorectal cancer screening with one of the guideline approved tests such as a stool test, a colonoscopy, a flexible sigmoidoscopy or CT colonography.
This question and answer was part of the OncoLink Brown Bag Chat Series. See the full transcript of Advances in Colorectal Cancer Screening.


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Hear how Sandy coped with the hazards of fieldwork in exotic locations.More about Fieldwork
Researching the botany of Central and South America has seen Sandy navigate a variety of obstacles, from fundraising for fieldtrips to Peru and Guatemala, to surviving truck breakdowns and falling out of trees!
Her research has taken her to botanical institutions all over the world, but Sandy has found that even Kew and the Museum, institutions geographically so close, are very different in their approach to collections management and the scientific working environment. Sandy is appreciative of the breadth of science that is conducted at the Museum, which enables her to deepen her perspective on the natural world.
Sandy joined the Botany Department in 1989 as a NATO postdoctoral fellow and is, to date, Individual Merit Researcher. Sandy is also a regular books reviewer for a wide variety of publications such as Nature and the Times Literary Supplement.
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Intelligent design is the theory that a supernatural hand, and not just the random process of natural selection, guided the development of life on Earth.Recently, 36 of the 52 Republican state representatives, including House Speaker Brian Bosma of Indianapolis, sent questionnaires to constituents asking, among other issues, whether intelligent design should be given equal time in science classes.Rep. Bruce Borders, R-Jasonville, said he would file legislation mandating the teaching of intelligent design if no other lawmaker did."It's a passionate issue for me, personally," Borders said.The proposal comes a little more than a month after Bosma and a handful of other House members met privately with Carl Baugh, host of the Trinity Broadcasting Network show "Creationism in the 21st Century," to discuss bringing intelligent design to public schools.Baugh was in town as the guest of Zion Unity Missionary Baptist Church, a small Indianapolis church whose pastor, the Rev. Fredrick W. Boyd Jr., is an acquaintance of Baugh's. Baugh is founder and director of the Creation Evidence Museum in Glen Rose, Texas.Boyd said Bosma and the lawmakers already were pursuing the idea, but they wanted to hear Baugh's thoughts on how to create the legislation.Similar initiatives are being discussed in legislatures nationwide. The National Conference of State Legislatures said 11 legislatures have debated intelligent design this year. None has enacted a law, and in most cases bills died in committee.In Pennsylvania, the issue is being played out in federal court, where the parents of 11 students are suing a school district for requiring that intelligent design be taught as an alternative to evolution.
The state should be removing mandates from schools -- not adding to them, Gov. Mitch Daniels said Thursday, maintaining he'd be reluctant to sign a bill requiring teachers to incorporate intelligent design into their lesson plans.His comments come as House Republicans are trying to gauge public opinion for the concept, which maintains that the development of life on Earth required a supernatural designer. At least one Republican has said he will sponsor a bill in the upcoming 2006 session if no other lawmaker steps forward.Daniels said Thursday his policy is to support greater freedom for teachers and principals."I'd have to think hard about a bill that would require any particular curriculum or assignment," he said.However, he added that if he were running a school, he would want students to think critically and be exposed to competing ideas."But that's different from saying the state, let alone the legislature, ought to force that or any other such rule on everybody," he said.
Of course we must constantly remind ourselves that "WMD" was always intrinsically somewhat of a bullsh[]t argument. It should never have been whether Iraq had some nonconventional weapons, most of which aren't capable of "mass destruction," but whether Iraq was, through any means, a genuine threat to us. Absent an active nuclear program that really just was not the case, no matter how many nasty drums of chemicals Saddam had (or, apparently, didn't have) lying around.
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Two men in Kuwait told local media that they spotted what they called a "flying saucer."
The UFO, one man said, first appeared on the 10th of November and resembled an illuminated halo. The second man, a government employee, spotted a UFO nine days later. After reading of the UFO account by the first man, he decided to report the incident to the police, saying it matched the description of the first man.
"The body carries the same attributes mentioned by Failakawi [the first identifier], it contains considerable light in the middle and is lined with small lights," Kuwaiti daily Al Rai quoted the second man as saying.
The man also told reporters that the object flew horizontally before disappearing behind a condominium in the Sabah al Salem area.
Despite reports in Kuwaiti media, no photos or recordings have been provided as proof of the two citings. Nevertheless, the two men and several supporters have defended what the men saw, saying two identical descriptions by strangers cannot be a coincidence.
Others, however, have argued that the men merely witnessed solar reflections from small meteorites.
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Sew it All, Volume 6 is hitting newsstands June 18th! We're really excited about this issue, with so many projects from stylish to simple to perfect it's an issue that can't be missed!
For me, I love the maxi skirt "Great Lengths" so perfect for summer wear and the trendy tank project "Peplum Rally" would look great together. Plus, the adorable applique sweater in "Foxy Lady" is just right for fall days. But, with over 40 projects it's hard to pick one or two favorites.
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After receiving lots of love for her Pottery Barn-inspired NOEL sign last Christmas, Richella from Imparting Grace shares the simple steps she took to create it. While it may not be iron like the inspiration, Richella's pretty letters cost only $10 to make. And, quite honestly, finished with some oil-rubbed bronze paint they look just like the real deal!
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This Bowl is an example of Style III from Baca ruin, a Classic Mimbres village in Grants County, southwestern New Mexico. The site was partially excavated in the 1950s during a highway construction project (Laboratory of Anthropology 1959) and by Evans and colleagues (1985; http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b2110132) in the 1980s. The site includes Three Circle phase (A.D. 750-1000) and Classic period (A.D. 1000-1130) components and consists of pithouses and 85 to 150 pueblo rooms. Artifacts, photographs and field notes from the earlier excavations are curated in the Laboratory of Anthropology, Museum of New Mexico. Evans, Roy H., R. Evelyn Ross, and Lyle Ross (1985) Mimbres Indian Treasure: In the Land of Baca. Lowell Press, Kansas City. Laboratory of Anthropology (1959) Excavations of the Baca Ruin in the Mimbres Valley, New Mexico. Report on file, Laboratory of Anthropology, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe.
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There's nothing complicated about the strap. And that's a good thing. It's just soft padded leather that tucks into your camera's strap loop on one end and screws into the tripod mount on the other. Stick your mitt in, and you're ready to run and gun while the camera sticks to you. I can also see this as a way to turn your camera into a particularly sophisticated bludgeoning weapon, although that's not a use condoned by Photojojo, myself, Gizmodo, or its parent company. [Photojojo via Gadget Lab]


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Eight years ago this month, Bill Richardson launched what will go down as the most exhilarating roller-coaster ride of an administration in this pokey state's century-long history.
We've come to the end of that ride, not with a triumphant shout or even a satisfied smile but with a certain sense of relief at finally being able to climb down (however woozily) from this carnival apparatus.
It went on about two years too long, if you ask me. Those last few loop-de-loops in his tenure weren't exciting as much as they were stomach-wrenching. I may not be very keen on a Susana Martinez term in the Governor's Office, but the time had certainly come to bid adios to Richardson.
How did a guy who accomplished so much—who ended his first term with such an overwhelming landslide of approval in his 2006 re-election—end up upside down in the public's esteem?
And why do I feel like I've got a killer hangover when I try to recount the saga of Big Bill, his rise and his ultimate fall from grace?
Those last few loop-de-loops in his tenure weren't exciting as much as they were stomach-wrenching.
The saddest part of the entire tale is that he came so close to being able to leave while at the top of the heap, before things started falling apart. He almost joined the Obama cabinet as commerce secretary, the kind of job for which his personality, skills and experience would have been a perfect fit. If only ...
If only he hadn't decided to make that disastrous run for president.
If only he hadn't tried to finance his run for president by soliciting mega-buck donations from New Mexico's few fat cats.
If only he hadn't, in nurturing those fat cats, created such an aura of pay-to-play that—even if he managed to avoid crossing into grounds for criminal prosecution—left his every decision in the last two years subject to cynical second-guessing in the press and by the public.
If only he hadn't insisted on taking care of those fat cats right up to the bitter end. He blocked every attempt to roll back his income tax cuts for the wealthiest New Mexicans. That has prolonged the torture of trying to balance the state budget exclusively by cutting payrolls, programs and services—just when all are needed most.
Practically every state in the country is in a similar bind (most are far worse-off than we are) and for the same reason.
I don't know where he'll land now. I suspect Santa Fe will quickly lose its appeal to someone with his restless energy and extra-paged passport. But I do believe that history will be far kinder to him than either KKOB radio or the Albuquerque Journal has been. He can point to a long list of solid accomplishments.
And I am confident that some of his most controversial initiatives (the Spaceport; the Rail Runner; the public school and higher education construction binges) will bear their most important fruit in the decades ahead.
In large measure the blame for the state's financial deficit has been laid at his feet. But that isn't an accurate reading of what went on. Practically every state in the country is in a similar bind (most are far worse-off than we are) and for the same reason.
They all rode the roller coaster to the top as the national economy boomed—then we all spun dizzily to the bottom when it tanked. It was Wall Street and the multinational banks that created the collapse—not hiring a few hundred cronies for cushy state jobs, no matter how convenient a scapegoat that clumsy maneuver provides.
We would be facing this deficit no matter who had been on the fourth floor. About 7,000 housing construction projects per year fueled the state's boom. I can't imagine any governor with the prescience to have known that number was going to shrink to 800 just 12 months later. That had absolutely nothing to do with what went on in Santa Fe but everything to do with the collapse of the international financial structure.
We're climbing out of the hole, though slowly. It will take at least another two years before we get back to anything close to 6 percent unemployment in this state, and these will be a very painful two years.
It is crucial that the Martinez administration correctly diagnose the cause of our malaise and avoid the usual Republican treatments of amputation and leeches. This is not the time to be making deep cuts. That's a strategy guaranteed to prolong the recovery time.
I don't expect my advice will be welcomed. Martinez ran essentially as an anti-Richardson candidate (I can't recall a single positive thing she campaigned to accomplish), one determined to erase all vestiges of her predecessor. She is importing her own out-of-state cabinet appointments. Looks like she's planning to start all over again rather than build on what has gone before.
We, too, will begin again; another ride in another administration. It's starting off just as dizzying as the last—so buckle up tight, folks.


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Mass Effect 3 faces getting fixed in next patch
The Mass Effect 3 face importing glitch is getting a patch, currently going through testing and certification.
With all the talk of endings and closure, you might have forgotten the other controversy dogging Mass Effect 3. Some users were unable to import their custom Shepard's face upon starting the game, and EA's suggestion to remake your face wasn't exactly satisfying. That problem is set to be fixed with an upcoming patch.
A post from community coordinator Chris Priestly on the BioWare forums (via Joystiq) gives word that the team has fixed the face importing issue, and it will be included in the next patch. The bad news, predictably, is that thanks to all the stages of testing for patches (at BioWare, EA, Microsoft, and Sony), he can't give a clear time frame of when it will hit.
"Until we know that the patch has passed certification testing, I don't want to give even a rough idea of the date, to prevent disappointment should it need further testing," he wrote. "So I'm sorry I don't have the full answer you all want and are waiting for yet. When I can give you the date when the patch will be available I will."
The answer is better than nothing for those who want to sport their custom-mugs in the game.
Steve Watts posted a new article, Mass Effect 3 faces getting fixed in next patch.
The Mass Effect 3 face importing glitch is getting a patch, currently going through testing and certification.


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Bring on all-things-romantic and lovely! It's time to rediscover the mother's old wardrobe, the lightness of the summery and feminine fabrics which keep emotional souvenirs. We recently came across this super-cute collection coming from Like My Mother and we must admit it's absolute lace madness. There are lots of flirty looks in the brand's latest line, perfect to add awesomeness to your sunshine wardrobe. Have a nosey at these beauties that will make you feel flirty and sexy! Okay, so we are head over heels with the less-is-more st... Read More