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This training was a defense service under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Brown, a U.S. person under the ITAR, lacked the required license from the State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) to provide that training to foreign persons or foreign military units.

State directs ITAR compliance consulting with DoD and other "interested" governmental agencies that "wish to remain anonymous" in my few experiences with exports to China, which our DC attorney handled as point, including conference calls with the U.S. agencies involved.

If he didn't get an ITAR license, as alleged was required, he's fricked.
The cartels aren't as predominate in that part of Mexico as others, West and Gulf coasts and border areas. As long as you understand even in Cancun they own the justice and LEO systems through bribes you can't match, and if the shite hits the fan you're fricked, then go. Tourists aren't a target but a bystander, bullets don't care. Be a smart tourist and stay within the resort area.

It's as fricked up as I've seen in the last 30 years. Our company attorney in Mexico City drives a beater subcompact so he won't get kidnapped, just robbed. I've told my family to stay out of Mexico for vacations. Which is sad, the drug business has ruined the country beyond the normal low level bribes (mordida) endemic to their culture when dealing with authorities.
Done, he's in 2nd place 2.76% behind.

My nephews are like my sons.

Good on ya Uncle Grinder.

re: “We are proud to be Americans”

Posted by Mr Breeze on 2/22/26 at 10:51 am to

With two of their little kids, a photo for the ages.

re: MIRACLE 2.0

Posted by Mr Breeze on 2/22/26 at 10:11 am to
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It was a miracle we won bc Canada honestly dominated.

No doubt about it could have easily been 3-1 or better for the Canucks.

Classic well deserved win for the Americans.

re: USA USA USA

Posted by Mr Breeze on 2/22/26 at 9:54 am to
Three on three goes quick Great win!!

re: USA USA USA

Posted by Mr Breeze on 2/22/26 at 9:37 am to
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If not for the whole cold factor, there’s really no good reason for southerners not to love hockey.

I lived in Calgary a few years and got hooked.

re: USA USA USA

Posted by Mr Breeze on 2/22/26 at 9:36 am to
Sudden death OT is great in this game for the gold.

re: USA USA USA

Posted by Mr Breeze on 2/22/26 at 9:29 am to
Canucks playing better but can't score. Yanks swarming on defense.
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Have access to an older golden retriever?

Introduced slowly, starting with a walk, then gradually getting them closer is worth a try. My golden’s were super tolerant of opf children, ear pulling eye gouging, crawling all over them, it seems to be instinctive with the breed. They’re super chill with kids.

Or, find a therapy dog organization and see what might be arranged.

Good luck.
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Kirkpatrick in uniform!!!

She's a four star, outranks the three star Marine Lt General.

The possibilities are intriguing.
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Statistician in me has me so very curious as to what the mechanism is involved there

Gotta see those p values, brah.
Article on another approach, the tracking algorithms on my browser doing work.
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An elixir for keeping our brains and bodies younger may already be sitting on pharmacy shelves across the United States — if only we’d take advantage of it.

I’m talking about the shingles vaccine.

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And the results, published in April 2025, were striking: Receiving the shingles vaccine was associated with a 20 percent lower chance of being diagnosed with dementia. Those findings held up to all kinds of veracity checks — and they were repeated in similar natural experiments in Australia and Canada (the latter also co-authored by Geldsetzer). A December 2025 study based on the same Welsh data concluded that people who already had dementia and received the shingles vaccine saw slower progression of the disease and fewer deaths, suggesting that the shot may be effective in treating dementia, too.

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So the circumstantial case for the shingles shot has grown robust — and now we’re starting to get lab-based research that could explain why this is happening.

A pro-vaccine biased article, nonetheless with positive implications worth considering for a terrible disease currently having no cure.

Shingrex
The good ones seem to maintain a constant angle around 25 degrees during the entire process. The bad ones are all over the place. I have not figured it out, highly variable. How the excellent ones stick with zero sensitivity I have no idea.
While not on the Bingo card, I’m tracking the “she attends the University of Virginia” mentions.
I wonder what model BMW daddy got her for her school car?

These small details are important to know.
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Why not 30 Hz/50 Hz? In fact, the researchers tested a range of frequencies. 20 Hz did nothing. 80 Hz did nothing. 40 Hz was the goldilocks frequency cos it is the natural hum of a healthy, focused brain (Gamma waves). The lab also discovered that 40 Hz does not just clear plaques; it also widens the brain's plumbing the lymphatic system & makes the blood vessels pulsate more strongly, literally flushing the toxic waste out through the neck's lymph nodes.

Quote from the X thread, 40hz is a very low frequency a rumbling type sound if sustained, 20hz is the low threshold for human ear detection. The sound pressure level used (decibels) would be interesting to know, I imagine on the lower side.

Hope this leads to something positive to either cure or reduce symptoms of this awful disease. Lost a close friend to it, terrible for his family.
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Even DH Holmes uses to have career folks in different departments who remembered you and could guide you well. Now, it is clerks except for some dinosaurs.

My go to in a February when quality suits were marked down 50% and Holmes had knowledgeable tailors. This was obviously back when dinosaurs still roamed the earth. Maybe five still hanging in my closet, some from the 80's that still fit.

Had to buy a Mens Warehouse suit once while out of town for a sudden funeral. Dropped it off at Goodwill when I got home.