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Confronting doubtsAugust 31,2014An op-ed piece appearing in these pages last Sunday has struck a nerve among advocates for the single-payer health care plan that is due to be unveiled this January.
Paul Ralston, a Democratic House member from Middlebury who is not running for re-election, warned that the poor performance of Vermont Health Connect, the states new health care exchange, has created doubts about the states ability to manage a new single-payer plan. He warned legislators against becoming lemmings marching to the sea in a mindless embrace of a plan that would not work.
The common thread among responses has been that the exchange and the single-payer system are two separate and quite different projects and the purpose of single payer is to avoid the complications that have made the exchange such a mess.
Meanwhile, those designing the new system have many variables to juggle as they develop a plan that provides affordable, universal, comprehensive coverage for all Vermonters. And in some areas there is good news that might bode well for the future of health care and for single payer.
A story last week in The New York Times charted the changing forecasts for the growth in spending for Medicare. For the past six years forecasts for Medicare spending have steadily declined so that the difference between the current forecast for spending in 2019 and the forecast for that year that was made four years ago is $95 billion. The shrinking cost estimates for future Medicare spending mean that future federal deficits can also be expected to shrink.
Vermonts single-payer system is not Medicare. But shrinking costs for Medicare could well be an indicator of shrinking costs more generally in health care. And cost projections about health care spending in Vermont will help determine whether legislators face a lemming-like leap off a cliff or a steady march toward affordable, universal care.
Health care officials are well aware of the importance of containing costs, and many projects are under way, with some success, in bending the cost curve downward. Initiatives to manage chronic illnesses more effectively are helping to restrain spending for costly conditions such as diabetes or heart disease. Widening awareness of the danger of obesity has allowed physicians to focus on improving health rather than merely racking up a steadily growing tally of treatments for Vermonters worsening health.
The many moving parts of the health care system will require constant attention by state health officials. Thomas Huebner, president of Rutland Regional Medical Center, testified before the Green Mountain Care Board that he suspects high-deductible health care plans for which people have signed up on Vermont Health Connect have led to increased patient debt. He said he saw increased hospital usage before those plans kicked in because, he surmised, patients didnt want to pay high deductibles for the treatments they needed.
If Huebners suspicions about the high-deductible plans are valid, it would be an indicator that Vermont Health Connect is failing to achieve one of the major goals of health care reform freeing consumers from high-deductible plans that do no good for the policyholder.
One of the conditions for a workable single-payer plan is that it is affordable. Affordability means that health care costs will have to be contained and that the cost to taxpayers does not become overly burdensome. Supporters of single payer say that unless these conditions can be met a plan will not be enacted. And yet decisions about going forward may hinge on judgment calls about what is an affordable tax and how fast we expect costs to rise.
There are unintended consequences. Another New York Times report showed how the expansion of Medicaid coverage under Obamacare has led to a booming new demand for mental health care and that lack of sufficient providers in Kentucky has led to long wait times. A wait time of that sort might be characterized as rationing, except before Obamacare, there was often no line to wait in. Now at least there is a line.
Forward-thinking policymaking requires a willingness to embrace the complexity of the task. The health care system is in flux, with much promise for major improvements. To achieve those breakthroughs we cannot become timid before the inevitable problems and doubts. Nor can we remain dogmatic about a desired solution.
The state and nation have embarked on a grand endeavor to fix a system that has become cruelly distorted by market forces, greed, haphazard growth and the unwillingness of the people to believe in their power to achieve great ends. Doubt is natural and useful as long as it does not become transformed into paralyzing fear.MORE IN PerspectiveOver the last several months, a debate has ensued across higher education on a fundamental... Full StoryIt is not always useful to adopt the language of grand reform when grand reforms are out of reach... Full StorySo, whats it gonna be? Are we in for lots of snow? Will it be as cold (or as warm) as last year? Full Story
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SmartDay - now with SmartShare!
SmartDay organizes all your tasks, appointments, notes, and projects together in one place - smartly, by finding time for you and showing exactly what you can accomplish today and for the entire week. And now you can share projects with other team- and class-mates, even with family members. Check out the details below.
"Combine the connectivity of Evernote with the task management of OmniFocus. Add a Calendar and Sharing - then add a brain - and you've got SmartDay."
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Create some Projects, such as "Home Repairs" or "Build a Spaceship." Add Tasks to each. Then in the Task list, see all your tasks from your projects, combined together. Sort them by priority or by deadline. Notice how they are segmented by day of the week - SmartDay shows you which tasks will fit into each day, given your other appointments. Then view them directly integrated into your calendar, together with your appointments. Smart! You can also schedule tasks manually, simply drag them onto the timeline of your calendar for the ultimate in control.
SmartShare is a new feature of SmartDay Online that allows you to share projects with anyone else. It is free. Try it out. Share a project with anyone else. Assign tasks and monitor their completion. Start a conversation about the project, or about any individual task ("Should the spaceship door be on the top?" "I think it should be on the side."). On your Mac, open SmartDay and you can automatically see all Tasks that have been assigned to you by others. A "Notifications" button appears when you have new messages or new notifications from shared projects.
To learn more about SmartShare, go to http://mysmartday.com/help or click on the MARKETING link below.
• Four Handy Views: Calendar, Tasks, Projects, Notes.
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Liesel Swart is a Dutch shoe designer and teacher at the SVGB. Since 1992 she designs for the shoe industry. Liesel designed for fashion labels like Yellow Cab, Usa, Mexx, Mega Mox en Fornarina. She also makes shoes for different theatre companies.
For Liesel shoes are an essential part of your outfit: 'Shoes make or break your appearance.'


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"Gather the family and invite over a couple of good friends. Push the sofas and chairs up close to the coffee table. Douse the electricity and light some candles. Better yet, light a fire in the hearth. Serve plenty of food and drink. Raise a toast or two, or three, and feel the warmth flow around the table. Look at each other until you see the candlelight shimmering in each other's eyes. You've got hygge!"
This just about sums up what I crave every night when I can't sleep and every autumn afternoon,… and whenever I think about Christmas, but my Christmases don't seem to be like this anymore. An effort shall be made this season.


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On 28-feb-2006, at 17:09, Kevin Day wrote:
Some problems/issues that are solved by current IPv4 TE practices
that we are currently using, that we can't do easily in Shim6:
1) Prepending/tagging routes to influence the amount of inbound we
receive from certain providers
2) Announcing more specifics to some peers/transit to influence
which POP certain traffic is received
3) Announcing less specifics (total aggregate announcement) to
"backup" transit provider/connections that we don't want to receive
traffic on unless something is really really wrong
4) Being able to do 1-3 in realtime, in one place, without waiting
for DNS caching or connections to expire
How fast is real time?
5) Being able to make routing/policy changes without having to rely
on the owners/administrators of the machines/sites/domains
themselves to do the right thing. (i.e. untrusted/not-maintained-by-
us systems/networks on our network)
6) Anycast?
7) During what will be a very lengthy dual-stack transitional
period, having to do TE in two entirely different ways. BGP
+Prepending+Selective-announcements along side Shim6 doesn't really
sound like fun to me. We can't treat bits as bits, we have to
consider if they're IPv4 bits or IPv6 bits, and engineer them
differently, even though they're sharing the same lines and are
probably going to have a 1:1 addressing relationship between IPv4
and IPv6 services.
This is a result of the transition to IPv6, regardless of shim6.
On top of those, even if shim6 accomplishes the failover and
reliability goals, I can't see how shim6 is going to make path
decisions as optimal as IPv4/BGP/etc.
My last IPv6 experiment proved that if we're going to provide IPv6,
it has to be as fast to the end user as IPv4 is, or users will
switch off their IPv6 stack entirely. If an end user is running a
dual stack system, sees slow performance a non-optimal path being
chosen via shim6, they'll turn IPv6 off so they can reach the IPv4
version of the site. Anything we do has to ensure that IPv6 has AT
LEAST the same visible performance to the end user, or they're not
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Samsung Galaxy S 4 up for pre-order at US Cellular for $200, ships late April0
Chalk up another one: in sync with Sprint and T-Mobile, US Cellular has joined the ranks of US carriers detailing their Galaxy S 4 launch plans. The mid-size provider won't commit to a more specific timeframe for its launch beyond "late April," but it's already taking pre-orders for a 16GB edition at $200 with a contract and a steep $750 contract-free. That last detail prices it above AT&T's offering, although US Cellular is sweetening the pot by giving away an S View Cover to those willing to buy sight unseen. The news leaves just Cricket, C Spire and Verizon without mostly complete Galaxy S 4 plans — let's hope they pick up the pace.
LG Optimus G sequel coming Q3 2013, will stick close to 5-inch screen size0
LG's been teasing a big reveal for the start of May over in the US and we reckon it'll mark the official launch of the Optimus G Pro. But what about the not-so-humbleOptimus G and the rest of the world? Well, we've been told that a (global-bound!) sequel flagship from LG will appear sometime in Q3. Direct from LG's HQ in Seoul, Won Kim, Head of Mobile Marketing says that we can expect "something different and something unique", which all sounds good to us. It'll also be something that won't skirt near the 5.5-inch screen size of the Optimus G Pro, and will instead stick closer to the five-inch mark. Unfortunately, he kept his explanation of new device tantalizingly vague for now, but it looks like LG will wait for the current flagship phone fight to settle a bit before it reveals its new weapon.
The FT: Nokia planning phablet for 2013, 41 megapixel Lumia too0
Between the Lumia Tablet and a Windows Phone device with proper PureViewtechnology, the list of mythical Nokia devices is pretty short. The Financial Times, however, thinks that the company might be wading into the middle ground with a 5- or 6-inch device that'll rival the Galaxy Note. The paper's coterie of sources also reiterated the rumor that we'd see a Lumia flagship with the 41-megapixel sensor we'd seen on the 808, as well as a skinnier Lumia 920 arriving through the year. We'd love to believe it, but the story's appearance just before the company's first-quarter financial results makes us wonder if this isn't a distraction., 41 megapixel
BlackBerry 10.1 OS preview uncovers HDR camera mode, PIN-to-PIN messaging inside Hub0
If you're already starting to feel that shiny 'wow' factor fade from BlackBerry 10, then you'll be glad to know about some new features that are primed to appear with the next update. Reports are now flowing in from developers that suggest an HDR camera mode, PIN-to-PIN messaging within the BlackBerry Hub and an improved text selector are all likely candidates for inclusion in BlackBerry 10.1 OS. Other smaller tweaks include the ability to paste phone numbers into the dialer, the option to disable alerts for specific applications and the ability to check for app updates more easily. These reports are based on a pre-release version of BlackBerry 10.1 OS that the company recently shared with its developers, and while the list is by no means comprehensive, it sure beats unsubstantiated rumors.
Samsung Rugby Smart review0
Not every smartphone stakes its claim on speedy processors, huge gorgeous screens or slim and sexy physiques. Some take a relatively modest set of specs and add a little wrinkle to make them stand out from the crowd. The Samsung Rugby Smart is one such device. Though it adds Android to what we'll now refer to as the Rugby Dumb, we can already tell you this handset isn't for the spec snobs among you. But, if you're more concerned with durability and tank-like construction, you might want to stick around a while. This AT&T-branded phone is built to mil-spec 810F standards, meaning it's shockproof, dustproof and can be immersed in up to a meter of water for up to 30 minutes. If these are qualities you desire in a phone, meet us past the break to see how it stacks up against its competition.
Sharp AQUOS SH-06D arrives from Japan, we go hands-on (video)0
Sharp's AQUOS SH-06D will most probably never leave the Land of The Rising Sun. That doesn't stop us, however, from lusting after its 4.5-inch. This 720p display also manages 3D, spread across a slinky 10mm frame that houses NTT DoCoMo's recently launched NOTTV streaming broadcast system. The device arrives in pink, white and blue options — all provided with a matching dock and built-in aerial. Like several eastern phones with the ability to tune into live TV broadcasts, the AQUOS SH-06D has its own extendable antenna built into the side. The device, despite its largely plastic build felt solid in our hand, although the minuscule power and volume buttons proved difficult to manipulate at times. The screen technology is still a closely guarded secret, but it aims to bring both 3D functionality alongside a crisp HD display performance during two-dimensional antics. Viewing angles are great — a welcome trend we've seen on plenty of handsets at this year's MWC — but the heavily customized Android 2.3 skin took away some of that sheen. Applications are stowed away into several drop-down menus that took some getting used to — regardless of any language barrier. Sharp hasn't revealed any plans to join its Japanese competitors in the frenzied global smartphone market, but some import options wouldn't go amiss. See why in our hands-on right after the break.
Lenovo LePhone S760 shows up with Android 2.3.5 and 3.7-inch AMOLED display0
Alongside the LePhone S2 and the two-and-a-half tablets from earlier today, Lenovo also showed off a 3.7-inch Android 2.3.5 phone dubbed the S760. Packed within is a 1GHz processor, 512MB RAM, a vibrant AMOLED display, five megapixel camera and Lenovo's usual customised UI. Externally the phone looks very much like the S2, though the former's shiny plastic backside gives out more of a toy-like feel. No prices just yet but expect this to hit the Chinese market at the end of December.
Lenovo LePhone K2 to arrive with 4.3-inch IPS display, 1.5GHz dual-core chip0
Frankly speaking, the phones that Lenovo have announced so far this week haven't been all that exciting (unless, of course, you're somehow aroused by its 5-inch tabletphone), but it turned out the folks had a little surprise for us: the LePhone K2. What we got here is a 4.3-inch IPS display (resolution of which not yet announced), a powerful dual-core 1.5GHz Qualcomm MSM8260 chip, 1GB RAM, 1GB ROM and an eight megapixel 1080p camera. Sadly, like the S2 and the S760, this crouching tiger also packs Android 2.3.5 instead of Ice Cream Sandwich, but without a price or a release date, perhaps there's still a small chance that we'll see it eventually launching with the newer OS. Anyhow, that's just our wishful thinking. Chinese hands-on video after the break.
AT&T announces Windows Phone Mango lineup coming this fall, existing devices to be updated0
In the first of what we expect to be many announcements related to Windows Phone Mango devices, AT&T stepped up to the plate this morning by unveiling three new "4G" handsets that use the latest version of Microsoft's OS: the HTC Titan, Samsung Focus S and Focus Flash. We already know quite a bit about the Titan, but details on Sammy's selections are slim for now — images aren't even available for either phone, though it's likely we've seen at least one of them before. In addition, the carrier's also planning to update its entire existing lineup with Windows Phone 7.5.
Owngadget's smartphone buyer's guide: fall 2011 edition0
Shopping for a new smartphone is an exciting and arduous experience. It holds the promise of something better and the fear of a two-year commitment. For gadget enthusiasts, it also involves pouring over specs and reviews, and fretting over what's coming out in the near-term. As we publish this buyer's guide, we face potential upheavals in the mobile space. Samsung's Galaxy S II lineup will arrive at three major US carriers, the next iPhone perpetually looms in the distance, and a new generation of Windows Phone handsets is close upon us. You might ask, "Why would anyone buy a smartphone today, when something better is coming tomorrow?" Friends, that's the blessing and curse of the mobile world — there's always something better coming. You can't wait forever, though, and if you want to purchase a smartphone today, we're here to make the process easier and help you make an informed decision.


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LOVE! I kind of liked the original Rosebud Salve but was put off by the rose/baby powder/greasy vaseline scent. I saw this at a bookstore & was immediately drawn to the pretty packaging (I'm one of those gross people who doesn't mind lip product in a pot or tin). The tin is pink and very retro cute. [Sidenote: I also have to admit that I bought it untested partially because of the name. My dog's name is Mocha and I get a kick out of things called Mocha, LOL.]
The balm in the tin is a tad darker than the original Rosebud but it doesn't really pigment my lips at all. The smell is mainly chocolate/vanilla, slightly coffee, with no hint of rose scent (which is good b/c I think that would be a weird combination of scents). So overall the fragrance is much better than the original. I like the feel of it better as well.
Very happy with this! I paid $5.95 for it at a chain bookstore.
I finally got my hands on this! Ever since reading the reviews I wanted to get this, but it wasn't offered at Sephora which annoyed me. Anyhow, I have it and to be honest I'm a little disappointed. The scent is really gross to me as it is a horrible fake chocolate smell, but it fortunately disapears quickly once applied..so I took one lippie off for the smell. But smell aside, this is a nice lip balm. The texture is not like any of the other smith's balms I have/have tried. The strawberry one was the worst texture imo...very waxy. The original and the minted rose are in that slick almost "oily" feel category. This one falls somewhere in between. It kind of has this cushy "jelly" feel to it. It sinks quickly into lips and is decently moisturizing. Overall I am happy with it. I just don't fancy the smell. UPDATE***This is quickly rising in my list of fave lip balms! The sent smells soooo good once I get it on my lips. It's just smelling it up close in the tin that makes it a little overwhelming. This is also so moisturizing! Definite must for my parched winter lips.***
The smell gets a little strong because it's so sweet, but it didn't really moisturize my lips that well. I was so disappointed! My lips are still chapped and flaky. sigh.
Overall, I am a fan of the Rosebud Perfume Co. products. This is, as far as i'm aware, the newest variation of lip balm from them
COLOR: In the tin this is just about what it says it is: Mocha Rose. I wouldn't mind finding a blush that looked like this does in the tin, as a matter of fact.
SCENT: The first thing i get off this tin when I first open it is a slightly artificial chocolate scent, but as I exhale, the artificial note transforms into the coffee scent you expect. There is a tinge of vanilla as well, but it's an afterthought. This one might be an acquired taste for some, but if you love coffee, it's a keeper.
TEXTURE: This particular one is just about the same as the original Rosebud Salve, but it has a slightly creamier feel on the lips. This might be due to the fact that Mocha Rose contains shea butter and some "essential oils" within the petrolatum base. The original Rosebud salve has those "essential oils" claims as well but does't list shea butter in the ingredients. Mocha Rose is not thick but it's not as vaseline-like as you might think. On the lips, you get a light sheen, not enough to be glossy but to make the lips look plump and well hydrated.
PACKAGING: The tin, as most of the Rosebud tins are, is adorable. Maybe more adorable than any of the rest. I've included a photo below to show you what it looks like. Very much a vintage vibe, makes me feel like i borrowed it from my grandma, in a good way, haha.
WEAR: This clings for quite a while, I put it on and a few hours later I struggle to remember what I applied since then, and then I realize it's still Mocha Rose. The scent eventually fades, or I just get used to it, but either way, the legacy it leaves is just natural looking juicy lips.
PRICE: This is a tricky one. It will run you about $7 which isn't a lot of money, but I've heard a lot of people complain that they won't pay $7 for Vaseline. My view is this: It's not just Vaseline, it's a lip balm with shea butter, albeit in a petrolatum base, but there are any number of reasons to buy this. One being the collectability (some people collect $50 palettes and never use them, why is this more crazy? lol). Another reason being that the cute little vintage tin and the actual feeling of splurging itself for a mere $7 is a bit of a cheap thrill. I love these, for all the reasons above, and Mocha Rose is my current favorite (which might change soon as i'm about to try Minted Rose for the first time, but i'll update on that)
OVERALL: yeah it's a $7 lip balm, but it's a HUGE tin at .8oz, and it's cute and it smells great. It's a great cheap way to splurge.
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Well, Minted Rose was my favorite, but now Mocha Rose has taken it's place. Mocha Rose has a texture similar to the orginal Rosebud salve, Brambleberry Rose, and Minted Rose. It didn't add color to my lips, but it added a nice shine (like the others). I love the smell (a warm coffee smell). It also has a slight sweet taste. I will buy this again. Also, the tin is really cute.
I looooove these lip balms! I also have Brambleberry Rose. but Mocha Rose is my abosolute FAVE! I'm totally addicted and use them all the time. What could be better than the scent of roses and chocolate?
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I am a really big fan of the rosebud salves. I had all of them but not the mocha rose, so i bought it. I really like mocha, but only the smell itself is really awfull. It smells like coffee, yuk! I really don't like it!
I am a self proclaimed lip balm addict, so of course I have to have all of the balms that Smith's makes. I love the Minted Rose Lip Balm and the original Rosebud Salve. This Mocha Rose with Vanilla is no exception and is now one of my favorites! I don't care for the Strawberry Lip Balm because I feel that the strawberry is too fake, I REALLY dislike Brambleberry Rose Lip Balm for the funky smell and if I am desperate for something STRONG, I reach for the Smith's Mentholated Salve. This Mocha Rose is a great balm, not to mention, I love the lovely tin packaging it comes in!
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This is my second rosebud salve, my first was minted rose.
My first impression is good. The tin is adorable and pretty large for a lipbalm, while still fitting in my purse. It opens easily, and once opened a lovely chocolate&vanilla smell fills yours nostrills. I'm not very fond of the structure of rosebud salve's, they seem too gel-ish, but it does its work great! It lasts about 2 hours on my lips.
The mocha rose is harder (but not hard like the solid perfumes of lush) than the minted rose, which is a plus to me.
I am a big fan of all the Rosebud family. They're like an awesome skin dryness army. This one smells really yummy to me. Like mocha, chocolate and vanilla. I wish they had SPF. Then they would get used constantly. Still awesome products, though!
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about the energy implications of the behavior if it did occur; and so on. Finally, because most of the evaluation studies were commissioned by organizations responsible for the programs being evaluated, who have a stake in the outcomes of the research, the assumptions, methodologies, and conclusions may have been subject to political pressure, with unknown effects. For example, the Department of Energy commissioned an evaluation of a 1979 program in which it distributed water flow limiters and conservation information t o all households in New England (Booz, Allen, and Hamilton, 1980). It found an annual savings of $26 in fuel for each dollar spent by the program. But a review by the General Accounting Office (GAO) (1981) criticized the evaluation for making assumptions that may have vastly inflated the estimates of energy and money saved. The Department of Energy subsequently reestimated energy savings to account for one of the GAO's major criticisms; this reestimation reduced the estimated savings by one-third. The remaining GAO criticisms did not receive response, but a defensible case can be made that even the revised estimate is several times too high. Although on the surface the program seems to have been cost effective, this conclusion cannot be drawn from the evaluation with much certainty.
Because of the self-interest of most of these conducting evaluation studies, it would be naive to take their conclusions at face value. But what of the general issue: how valuable is energy information? A careful analysis of the methodologies and data convinces us that some energy information programs have been effective in terms of producing economically justified energy savings by consumers. These programs probably include the Energy Extension Service, which was evaluated by the Department of Energy (1980), the automobile fuel economy information program of the Department of Energy (see McNutt and Rucker, 1981), and a few of the programs aimed at promoting major home retrofits (see Hirst, Berry, and Soderstrom, 1981).
Other lines of evidence also suggest that under optimum conditions, energy information programs might be important. It is obvious, for example, that automobile manufacturers know that fuel economy sometimes sells cars: their advertising has often said much more about miles-per gallon than is mandated by regulations. In fact, it has been estimated that the automotive industry spent upwards of $100 million on advertising fuel economy in 1979 (Pirkey, McNutt, Hemphill, and Dulla, 1982). While fuel economy has been less of a concern of automobile advertisers since then, in 1982 it was still one of the major foci (Pirkey, 1982), reflecting the concerns expressed by purchasers of new cars. At the same time, because manufacturers are not trusted as a source of fuel economy information (Pirkey, 1982), information from a standardized fuel efficiency test has an important function—if it is effectively presented.
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The resort of Gumbet is situated in the southwest of Turkey on the Bodrum Peninsula, right next to the town of Bodrum itself.
It is only quite recently that Gumbet has become recognised as a resort in its own right. Gumbet holidays are popular with many people simply for the long stretch of sandy beach that curves around the bay. The excellent beach and gentle shallow waters have attracted many water sports enthusiasts and there are certainly plenty to choose from.
The nightlife on Gumbet holidays has flourished in recent years and there is now a vast array of bars and discos to liven up the evening. A great choice of restaurants serving everything from Chinese, Mexican and Italian dishes to more traditional local cuisine ensure holidays in Gumbet remain interesting to the palate. A visit to neighbouring Bodrum promises an equally thrilling evening among the plentiful bars and nightclubs of one of Turkey's most eye-catching and interesting towns.
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Jackson and George S. Patton: A Survey of Leadership
Threats to the American Homeland
We Finally Found the Manning Holy Grail?
March-April 2004
Maj. Gen. Alfred A. Valenzuela is commander
of the U.S. Army South (USARSO), on Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Col.
Victor M. Rosello, is Deputy Commander, Operations, USARSO.
THE WAR AGAINST drug trafficking and terrorism
in Colombia continues to entice and perplex the United States, but
the average Colombian citizen in Bogotá regards the current
U.S. administration's commitment to Colombia as tentative and insincere.
The last case of sustained U.S. military support to a Latin American
government under siege was in El Salvador in the 1980s and early
Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush supported a small,
limited war (from a U.S. perspective) while trying to keep U.S.
military involvement a secret from the American public and media.
Present U.S. policy toward Colombia appears to follow this same
disguised, quiet, media-free approach.
In the 1980s, El Salvador became a "line in the sand."
The U.S. pledged to defeat Cuban-inspired and supported insurgencies
in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Guatemala. U.S. policy
today appears to want to take a similar stance in Colombia. U.S.
support to El Salvador included a sustained commitment of military
advisers and a security assistance package guaranteeing U.S. support
for the long haul. The monetary commitment was hefty- $6 billion
in security assistance over the course of the war.1
But the U.S. military commitment of "boots on the ground"
in El Salvador was even more important: it was a concrete manifestation
of U.S. resolve to El Salvador Armed Forces (ESAF) and the El Salvador
If the United States is serious about countering terrorism and drug
trafficking in Colombia, it might be worthwhile to dust off El Salvador
archives and examine the model used there to create the necessary
organization and structure with which to respond. Other military
services played important roles during the El Salvador conflict,
but 90 percent of the advisory support effort came from the U.S.
Army. Therefore, the Army should be the focal point of any advisory
effort brought to bear in Colombia.
The El Salvador Model
United States support to El Salvador began
in 1981. Three mobile training teams (MTTs) of military advisers
provided infantry, artillery, and military intelligence instruction.2
Service support advisers on 1-year tours augmented these limited-duration
(3- month) MTTs. Typical service branches were infantry, Special
Forces (SF), and military intelligence officers, usually majors,
captains, noncommissioned officers (NCOs), or warrant officers with
linguistic capabilities. Some were Latin American foreign area officers,
and most SF personnel had served exclusively in Latin America.
U.S. military advisers populated the entire ESAF from joint headquarters
to brigades. Two officers (operations and intelligence) were assigned
to each of the six ESAF infantry brigade headquarters in six geographical
areas of the country. Personnel were also assigned to the ESAF artillery
headquarters, the logistics center, and the national training center.
Their mission was to support their Salvadoran counterparts in establishing
training programs and to assist in the military decisionmaking process
and in staff and operational matters. In San Salvador, El Salvador's
capital, U.S. Army combat and combat support majors and lieutenant
colonels supported key ESAF joint staff elements while quietly and
discreetly prosecuting the war operationally and with intelligence.
As early as 1983, the Salvadoran military intelligence effort received-
- Target folder packages from the Central American Joint Intelligence
Team of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
- Aerial platform intelligence support from Howard Air Force Base
in Panama and Soto Cano Air Base in Honduras.
- All-source intelligence analysis from the U.S. Southern Command
J2 through its liaison officer at the U.S. Embassy.
- Intelligence from an advisory team assigned to the Salvadoran
These elements worked in harmony to produce actionable intelligence
from within and outside El Salvador in direct support of the ESAF.
Reagan and Bush pulled out all the stops when it came to ESAF unit
and collective training. Entire Salvadoran immediate reaction infantry
battalions went to Fort Benning, Georgia, and Fort Bragg, North
Carolina, for advanced infantry training. Another battalion trained
at the U.S. and Honduran training facility in Puerto Castillo/Trujillo,
Honduras, until a training center was established at La Union, El
Salvador. Also, SF personnel trained ESAF infantry battalions and
brigades in country. Many Salvadoran officers and NCOs went to the
former School of the Americas (now the Western Hemisphere Institute
for Security Cooperation) at Fort Benning to learn the basics of
warfighting-from U.S. Army staff planning doctrine to infantry tactics.
The U.S. Army sought to improve ESAF professionalism by emphasizing
the importance of an NCO corps. As an experiment, cadets from El
Salvador's military academy were assigned to platoon leader or sergeant
positions in their last 2 years of school so they could apply leadership
skills in the field. Those who survived became officers with degrees
and 2 years of combat experience. They eventually became the colonels
and generals of El Salvador's postpeace-process military. This full-court
press from a committed U.S. administration produced rapid improvement
of the ESAF's combat capabilities and effectiveness.
The Commander, U.S. Military Group (USMILGP), San Salvador, assisted
by a deputy commander, operations officer, and U.S. Army section
chief, managed the robust security assistance program and supervised
the military advisers assigned to the USMILGP and the American Embassy.
The USMILGP operations officer and senior U.S. operations adviser
coordinated the military advisers' day-to-day activities. Lieutenant
colonels assigned to the Salvadoran Joint Command Headquarters and
who worked with their ESAF counterparts assisted the USMILGP as
To ensure that the U.S. Army did not exceed its in-country advisory
force structure, the U.S. Congress placed a 55-man cap on U.S. personnel
permanently assigned to the program. The cap did not include temporary
duty (TDY) personnel. At times as many as 250 U.S. service members,
most of them on TDY, responded to legitimate host-nation requests
for support that permanent personnel could not provide (medical,
mine detection, or antiterrorist training support). This small support
package sustained the war effort from 1981 until the Farabundo Marti
National Liberation Front (FMLN) and the Salvadoran government signed
peace accords in December 1992.
Assessing the Model
U.S. military advisory programs in El Salvador
received mixed reviews.4 But if "success
has a hundred fathers and failure is an orphan," the Salvadoran
advisory model has been generally touted a success. The U.S. military
effort helped create a more combat-effective ESAF. U.S. military
assistance vastly improved the ESAF's ability to use its equipment
and perform combat operations and clearly contributed to putting
an improved Salvadoran military on the battlefield. ESAF combat
and civic action performance improved enough to undercut FMLN combat
capabilities and popular support.5
The advisory effort also helped create an environment that promoted
success at national and strategic levels. As noted in 1993, the
ESAF's new professionalism and the dramatic improvement of its human
rights record "affected how the populace, the international
community, and even the FMLN ultimately viewed changes in Salvadoran
political conditions [and] served to legitimize the gains made by
the Salvadoran government in its creation of a climate in which
the political left could voice opposition without fear of military
reprisals or deathsquad murders."6
U.S. military advice and assistance also helped create a secure
environment in rural areas. U.S. Army advisers trained peasants
in basic marksmanship then united them with the police and the military
in local self-defense units. These self-defense forces kept insurgents
from harassing small towns, provided security, and became instruments
of a democratic government. They were well-received and remained
in place from the late 1980s until the early 1990s.
Human rights benefited most from the U.S. Army advisers' presence.
Required to report any human rights violations to the American Embassy,
U.S. Army advisers paid close attention to field reports emanating
from ESAF combat units. As a result, atrocities or abuse during
ESAF military operations did not reach the levels of violations
in Guatemala. Guatemala's army, which was not supported by a U.S.
Army advisory program, has been accused of committing atrocities.
ESAF personnel suspected of atrocities had to answer any charges
levied by the United Nations Commission on the Truth for El Salvador.
U.S. Army advisers were not allowed to accompany Salvadoran units
on combat operations to verify reports of atrocities. Much could
have been gained from doing so, but not doing so kept U.S. military
and civilian casualties to only 20 during 10 years of conflict.
In future conflicts, the Army must make a cost-benefit analysis
to weigh the policy's pros and cons.
Despite positive indicators of the military advisory program's benefits,
a debate continues as to whether the war ended as a direct result
of the program or as a consequence of the negotiated settlement
between the FMLN and the Salvadoran government. What is certain
is that the ESAF's improvement on the battlefield (and on the front
pages of newspapers) put the Salvadoran government in a stronger
negotiating position at the peace talks. The military advisory program
deserves at least some of the credit for this.
The Colombian Conflict
Placing an El Salvadoran template over Colombia
presents challenges, chief among which is Colombia's geographical
size. Colombia is the size of Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico combined.
El Salvador is only as big as Massachusetts and fits easily into
southern Colombia's Caqueta and Putumayo departments. The towering,
snowcapped Andes Mountains bisect Colombia from north to south,
and a dense jungle in the south competes with the Amazon's rain
forest. Rivers crisscross southern Colombia and swamps make movement
of military units difficult or next to impossible.
Another difference between Colombia and El
Salvador is the nature of the Colombian insurgency. The National
Liberation Army and Colombian United Self Defense Forces are at
war with Colombian government forces, but the tenacious, 15,000-man
strong Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), which has fought
the Colombian government since the 1960s, overshadows them. FARC
has evolved from a classic guerrilla group to a terrorist and drug-trafficking
organization. This is significant because with substantial drugfinanced
resources, FARC is better equipped and supplied than El Salvador's
FMLN was. FARC can purchase state-of-the-art communications equipment,
weapons, and ammunition through international black markets and
even keep its members in new uniforms and boots.
FARC's lucrative drug business almost puts it into the category
of a drug cartel or illegal corporate enterprise with its own CEO,
middle-management executives, sales and distribution infrastructure,
and security force. Today's FARC is a mafia with well-established
connections in the drug underworld supported by a large army of
hit men as ruthless as any Los Angeles, California, gang. Terrorists
in the classic sense, FARC insurgents target civilians, kidnap prominent
members of the establishment, and murder people in cold blood to
maintain millions in drug revenues and to provide a more-than-comfortable
lifestyle for their leaders.
FARC's tentacles extend beyond Colombia to influence every aspect
of drug production, transport, and delivery throughout Latin America.
It is no exaggeration to say that all countries in Latin America
and the Caribbean have a permanent FARC presence or that FARC influences
them in one way or another.7 The 40-year-old
insurgent organization has roots deeply embedded in the political,
social, and economic fiber of Colombia, is ubiquitous, and foments
anarchy. FARC finances, arms, trains, and equips radical groups
and inspires them to take violent action against elected governments.
FARC insurgents monitor all aspects of their huge drug empire and
aim to create a narco-superstate in the southern hemisphere.
FARC thrives on chaos. The more chaos it creates, the more easily
it can produce and transport drugs. FARC uses drug money to buy
the services of Latin American politicians, judges, ministers, police
chiefs, and armed forces commanders. The social consequences of
drug addiction in Los Angeles or Miami are minor compared to the
consequences of allowing FARC to destroy political freedom, law
and order, and civilization in Colombia.
One of the great challenges of the war is how to dismantle FARC.
How does the military take on a mafia? Would the U.S. Army be capable
of taking on the Chicago or New York mafia? If it did, where would
it apply combat force? While it is not an impossible task, it is
certainly a formidable one.
A professional army's job is to win its nation's wars. In Colombia
and neighboring countries, "winning" the war on drugs
can only be measured by sporadic battlefield victories resulting
in guerrilla casualties, the successful chemical spraying of coca
fields, or the seizure of large drug shipments. The ultimate military
victory would be FARC's destruction, the dismantling of its entire
coca drug network, and the end of the war on drugs in the United
States. These will be achieved only when Colombia, neighboring Latin
American states, and the United States are totally committed to
defeating drug traffickers. The job is simply too large for the
Colombian military alone.
In El Salvador, FMLN chose to negotiate for peace. The government
and FMLN negotiators decided to end the war for the sake of creating
a future for their beleaguered country, and a negotiated settlement
to the war led to the signing of peace accords. But FARC has no
allegiance to Colombia. It is a criminal organization that does
not desire a future for Colombia other than as a territory for business
operations. As a Salvadoran government official told us, "Negotiations
always serve a beneficial purpose, but in the case of Colombia,
you cannot negotiate with organized crime."8
Taking on FARC militarily is not a question of winning, but of keeping
FARC from winning. The ESAF is fighting to preserve Colombia's political,
economic, and social infrastructure and to maintain security for
its citizens. If the Colombian military does not take the battle
to FARC, FARC will completely dominate rural Colombia and major
urban population centers.
The Colombian government has prudently combined its military and
national police operations. Because drug trafficking and terrorism
are criminal activities, the government has put the national police
in charge, with the Colombian military in a supporting role. This
strategy and the use of village defense forces combined make a good
recipe for success, one that keeps the government on a higher moral
The Colombian military is in combat against the FARC cartel's military
arm, all other FARC combatants, and associated field drug producing
and refining operations. The Colombian military can put pressure
on FARC's leadership by killing as many of its members as it can,
blocking supply corridors, and destroying drug-producing and processing
areas, but the war will only end when attrition depletes FARC's
ranks and it loses the will to fight. There can be no final victory
until all Latin American countries put pressure on FARC transit
routes, and the United States and Europe's insatiable demand for
drugs subsides. The Colombian military can and must take the battle
to FARC, and U.S. Army advisers can play a significant role in this
war. The U.S. Army can make considerable contributions to improve
all aspects of the art of warfare through the advisory program.
This is where the El Salvador model comes in.
Exporting the El Salvador Model
To apply the El Salvador model in Colombia,
the United States must include U.S. Army advisers at the military
joint command level within the Colombian military and, perhaps,
even to Colombia's police forces. The Colombian military's equivalent
to the U.S. joint staff (Jstaff) is the department staff (D-staff).
Placing U.S. Army combat, combat support, and combat service support
colonels or lieutenant colonels in the D1 through D5 staff sections
will ensure support to personnel and logistics matters as well as
to operations and intelligence matters. Assigned to the USMILGP
on a 1- year unaccompanied or 2- year accompanied basis, these officers
would have additional duties to the USMILGP commander as subject
matter experts and would form the nucleus and would form the nucleus
of an ad hoc advisory task force headquarters. This U.S. Military
Advisory Task Force-Colombia (USMATFC) headquarters would manage
the day-to-day advisory operations for the USMILGP commander.
Placing military advisers with the rank of major or lieutenant colonel
at the Colombian Army's general headquarters is the next step. The
ejército, or army, staff (E-staff) is equivalent to the U.S.
general staff (G-staff). The U.S. Army should assign officers who
are fluent in Spanish to support ejército staff sections.
Like D-staff advisers, the officers would assist in manning the
USMATFC headquarters.
The United States should also create a military intelligence analytical
advisory effort for Colombia's joint and army intelligence centers
by assigning two to three U.S. service members at each level. Intelligence
personnel (captains, lieutenants, warrant officers, or senior NCOs)
should thoroughly understand how to develop collection plans; integrate
intelligence preparation of the battlefield; and thoroughly employ
all-source analysis, particularly the fusion of signals, imagery,
and human intelligence. An effective military intelligence advisory
effort should have experienced personnel with multiple tactical
unit tours, combat experience, and even extensive training center
rotational experience. Obviously, Spanish-language expertise remains
With this structure in place, advisers could flow down to the 6
Colombian army combat divisions and approximately 20 brigades, with
one operations adviser (combat arms or SF captain or major) and
one military intelligence adviser (captain or major) assigned to
each combat division and subordinate brigade headquarters. Such
assignments would take personnel outside of Bogotá into rural
areas, so they would serve unaccompanied 1-year tours. A nationwide
VHF tours. A nationwide VHF radio net using multiple repeaters,
a SATCOM UHF radio system, or cellular phones would link the advisers.
Advisers could be placed at selected locations such as military
schools or regional training centers.
If not enough U.S. Army personnel are available to man all divisions
or brigades, the priority of effort should be to the geographic
areas or units that will benefit the most from an advisory presence.
This flexible, rotational approach toward manning could fill one-third,
two-thirds, or all of the Colombian army's infantry divisions and
brigades with advisers as the mission dictated. This approach follows
the current U.S. approach in support of Plan Colombia, which Colombia
developed as an integrated strategy to meet the most pressing challenges
it must confront.9 As in El Salvador,
the advisory program should use specialized MTTs, particularly SF
personnel, to provide tactical training to Colombian soldiers.
The U.S. military advisory program in Colombia should be more joint
and interagency in nature than it was in El Salvador. U.S. Air Force,
Navy (USN), and Marine Corps (USMC) personnel should provide advice
from the service headquarters level down to specific locations and
units. The National Security Agency, Drug Enforcement Agency, and
Central Intelligence Agency can also play significant roles. This
joint, interagency approach would be of considerable benefit to
the Colombian military.
In the Colombian departments of Caqueta, Putumayo, and Amazonas,
USMC and USN advisers could help in riverine warfare operations.
The area is similar to the Mekong Delta region of the Republic of
Vietnam, and the extensive river networks that crisscross the area
are main FARC logistics and drug-trafficking routes. Because the
absence of adequate pick-up and landing zones limits heliborne air
assault operations' effectiveness, the best way to interdict FARC
movements is to attack river transportation. A standing naval infantry
advisory presence would enhance the Colombian Navy.
In El Salvador U.S. military advisers were prohibited from accompanying
their Salvadoran counterparts on combat operations-even though on
some occasions, U.S. military advisers broke the rules and did just
that. These occurrences were the exception and not the rule, and
the USMILGP command did not endorse them. However, by not participating
in field operations, U.S. advisers had difficulty establishing their
reputations and remaining a viable part of operations. To enhance
U.S. advisers' influence and professional standing with their Colombian
counterparts, U.S. advisers should accompany their host-nation counterparts
when they take the field.
Even limited deployments would probably result in U.S. advisers
being killed or wounded in action in numbers greater than those
killed or wounded in El Salvador. Nonetheless, U.S. advisers would
certainly be more effective, viable, and responsive, and Colombians
might regard anything less than adviser participation in combat
operations as a less-than-firm U.S. commitment to the war against
drug trafficking and terrorism.
Showing U.S. Resolve
The advisory program functioned reasonably
well throughout the Salvadoran conflict, fulfilled its intent, and
directly affected the war's outcome. U.S. military personnel-
- Were present at all major combat unit headquarters.
- Assisted in unit operations planning.
- Provided tactical intelligence analysis.
- Developed individual and unit training programs.
- Acted as subject matter experts in support of ESAF commanders
and staffs.
The U.S. ambassador or the USMILGP commander could count on trained
professional U.S. military personnel to observe and report on events
in the war zone.
In El Salvador, the physical presence of U.S. military personnel
was proof of a firm U.S. commitment to support a besieged government.
Salvadoran soldiers saw the evidence of the U.S. commitment when
America's fighting men stood beside them. No other type of security
assistance could have replaced this concrete example of U.S. resolve.
Colombian soldiers will feel the same way. A former Colombian army
commander responsible for Plan Colombia counterdrug and combat operations
said, "Your [U.S. military advisers'] presence is yet another
indicator of your support. Your presence and support are indicators
of your confidence in our operations. Your physical presence here-eating
and sleeping, and sharing the war effort-demonstrates your trust
in our ability to protect the force, as we prosecute the mission."10
A robust U.S. military advisory program might not bring the Colombian
war to a negotiated settlement as it did in El Salvador, nor will
it ensure an ultimate military victory for the Colombian military;
however, it can buy time to achieve victory by preventing the destruction
of Colombia's political, economic, and social infrastructure by
an armed, well-organized criminal group. If this safeguards U.S.
national interests in Latin America, then the mission is worth executing.
1. Benjamin C. Schwarz,
American Counterinsurgency Doctrine and El Salvador: The Frustrations
of Reform and Illusions of Nation Building (Santa Monica, CA: RAND,
1991), 2.
2. Victor M. Rosello, Peter Diaz, and Victor
J. Castrillo, "US Military Intelligence and Electronic Warfare
Support to the Salvadoran Conflict: A Brief History," Low Intensity
Conflict & Law Enforcement (Summer 1994): 74.
3. Ibid., 70.
4. A.J. Bacevich, James D. Hallums, Richard
H. White, and Thomas F. Young, American Military Policy in Small
Wars: The Case of El Salvador (Washington, DC: Pergamon-Brassey's,
5. Rosello, "Lessons from El Salvador,"
Parameters (Winter 1993-94): 104.
6. Ibid.
7. The authors obtained the views expressed
through their discussions with Latin American military counterparts.
The perspective on the regional threat from FARC and its foreign
liaisons is in direct contrast to the view that the Latin American
area is a safe, benign environment posing no immediate threat to
the United States and its national interests.
8. David Escobar Gallindo, interview with
the authors, San Salvador, El Salvador, 20 June 2002. Gallindo served
as a representative for the Salvadoran government during the negotiations
leading to a peace accord from 1991 to 1992.
9. Plan Colombia's objectives are to promote
the peace process, combat the narcotics industry, revive the Colombian
economy, and strengthen the democratic pillars of Colombian society.
For more information, see on-line at <www.state.gov/p/wha/rls/fs/2001/
1042.htm>, accessed 25 February 2004.
10. MG Mario Montoya Uribe, Colombian Army, former
Commander, JTF South, interview with the authors, Tres Esquinas,
Caqueta Department, Colombia, July 2001.
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O.J. Simpson has told The Associated Press that he took memorabilia that belonged to him from a casino hotel, but didn't break into the room.
Simpson went on to tell the AP that he was conducting a "sting operation."
Hey number 12...to answer your question about the Goldman's getting everything. Wrong, they will make 17 pennies on every book that is sold with a portion of the profits going to Simpson's children's estate, some to a memorial in Ron 's memory, and then a few pennies to Fred and his daughter. They have spent 13 years and many, many dollars on attorney's emotional stress beyond belief, trying to recover what was awarded to them by the Civil Courts and he still manages to divert the money he makes so they cannot attach it!! What a joke...the Civil Courts judgments ruling is as good as the paper it is written on..They cannot enforce their ruling, it is up to the victims..In other words, the money the victims had to spend on lawyers to win the Civil judgment goes down the toilet!!!
This arrogant poor excuse for a human being has gotten around the justice system since he was found him not guilty in the slaying of Ron and Nicolle..How the jury could ignore all the blood evidence is beyond belief..I hope he gets what has been coming to him for a long time...PRISON, PRISON, PRISON!!!
I suppose Jesse James Jackson and his deputies will be getting on their high horses and galloping in for the rescue..what a joke these guys are..I don't care what color you are, right is right, wrong is wrong and that is the bottom line..
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OJ WAS NOT PROVEN INNOCENT - He just wasn't found guilty. BIG DIFFERENCE. And it wasn't the courts and judges - the jury decided there was not enough evidence (what-have-you) to convict him. THIS DOES NOT, BY ANY MEANS, MEAN THE KILLER IS INNOCENT!!!!!!
I guess you are among the 7% polled who voted that he didn't steal the memorabilia - now he admitted he did. Keep telling yourself lies - you might eventually believe you - OJ does it to himself every day.
Once again OJ chooses to handle his perception of justice his own way.
Johnnie Cochran can't save you this time.
I wonder if they can give him the death penalty for this. That would be great!!!
What a dumbass. Kids, don't try this in Las Vegas. Everything is videotaped there!!!
He is a disgusting sorry excuse for a man- shame too- i loved him as kid
You guys are such tools. You're so obsessed with the idea of some grand miscarriage of justice you look for every opportunity to express your hatred and outrage towards this man. Strangely, I'm certain there's a lot more to this story than OJ getting gangsta on some comic book guy. But seriously, LEAVE OJ ALONE!!! He's a good guy that happened to get caught up in some unfortunate situations.
The memorabilia dealer is as shady as OJ. This should be interesting.
According to reports, he's now saying he was running his own "sting operation" to get his stuff back.
Lying murderer.
Leave the man alone, he went to get what was his, I would do the same thing, and so would you all. I wish it work out all the best for him. Go OJ!
26, You can't sue the Court System. And PS He was NEVER found innocent. It was not Guilty! Still a joke after all this time. I can't wait for Jay Leno tonight!!!
Hey OJ! I have a great idea for you. Go back to the room (that is always either locked or with a security officer) take something else that is the size of a gun and run fat ass, run. When the police chase you point it at them and start yelling at them. The police will help you then. (With a bullet) I would love to say you have balls but obviously you only have the balls of a baby goat...sorry I guess they are too big, you have NOTHING.
Grow up and be a man. If you don't some day some way something will happen to make you wish you stood up like a man.
These Sport Memorbilas have been hiding from O.J on the day of aquitted of the Murder, Back then, I remember the T.V. interview by the Ron Goldman Family, trying to track them down for years and at the same time O.J must have secretly sold to auction and the buyer bought them. IT looks like O.J want them back for some reason I don't know why. I think he is just not honest person.


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So, the conclusion you draw is pretty interesting.
The Senate Intelligence Committee today received the classified documents they requested from the Obama Administration that concerned communications in the executive branch in the hours after the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi that resulted in the deaths of four Americans. Fox News Capitol Hill reporter Chad Pergram has a source that claims the e-mails revealed by the White House did not "shed any new light", which might have been disappointing to Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee:
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Recognizing Bad Behavior
Video analytic technology is quickly evolving to learn and detect abnormal activity
Video analytics algorithms and performance have gotten better, marginal companies have fallen out, and prices have become more reasonable. Apart from this, I had not seen any recent drastic changes until I chaired a panel at the recent ISC West show entitled "Control Center of the Future." The panel included a compelling presentation on behavior-based analytics by Wes Cobb, Chief Science Officer of BRS Labs. What caught my attention was the concept of identifying aberrant or unusual behavior, not with respect to pre-set rules, but with respect to an automated "learned" normalcy.
Most video analytic technology has evolved from machine vision technology, as used in manufacturing automation. Along the way, technologies such as artificial intelligence have helped to create varying degrees of product differentiation. The ultimate objective of any analytic is to either identify anomalous situations or behavior, to provide an alert, or to yield some statistical analysis of a scene; however, almost all seem to rely on pre-defined criteria or rules to define what is "normal" and what is not.
Recently, I wrote in this column about video synopsis technology designed to pack events into a compressed time frame, allowing the human brain to more easily fix on situations of interest. So, if all of these technologies are supposed to be able to make it easier for the human brain to react, why not try to simulate the human brain more closely to provide even more pre-processing prior to human intervention?
Following another line of thought, TSA is apparently going down the behavior path through a "chat down" — a form of profiling involving a brief interview with security officials trained to spot suspicious behavior. According to one NPR report, TSA has a list of about 35 things they are listening and looking for, including facial expressions. As TSA officers obtain more and more real-world experience in these techniques, it's logical to expect that they will get better at it and better able to flag erroneous reactions or unusual behavior.
Automating a system to learn what is "normal" requires an analysis of an overall scene dynamic and flagging instances that don't normally occur — not because they have violated a rule, but because you don't normally see that behavior. It is possible that no rules have been written to detect that particular behavior. This is akin to the human brain saving memories and building up long-term impressions of what has been seen before so that it knows that something is not right.
The underlying science is based in "neural networks", described by Wikipedia as "composed of interconnecting artificial neurons (programming constructs that mimic the properties of biological neurons)."
The system from BRS Labs, for one, involves, at a high level, a two-part process. The first is analyzing the scene. Using computer vision techniques, the system plays its own version of "20 questions" to examine different visual properties of the scene with the ability to add special features. Techniques are used to detect, classify, track and report the positions, speeds, accelerations, sizes and shapes of objects in the scene. The scene is presented as metadata, continuously streamed to the "brain" for learning. This is only about 20 percent of the processing that is involved.
The other 80 percent is the learning part. The complex algorithms which attempt to mimic the long-term memory of the human brain create an impression of what's normal and flag the exceptions. It is almost like the subconscious of a child, which knows that climbing onto that kitchen counter is not right; or of the child's mother, who spies the stepstool next to the counter or chocolate smeared on the child's lips.
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