Quote: Marley's ghost is "'captive, bound and double-ironed' with chains which are described as 'long, and wound about him like a tail; it was made * * * of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel.' He often, in moments of great despair or impatience at Scrooge's scepticism, flings these upon the ground before him and almost induces his former partner 'into a swoon.' He explains that it is the chain he unknowingly forged himself in life, as a result of his extortionate behaviour"
(b) USS Gunnel (SS-253) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Gunnel_(SS-253)
(the only ship of the United States Navy to be named for the gunnel; Commissioned 1942; Decommissioned 1946)
Eels are an order [called Anguilliformes] of fish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel
(Eels are elongated fish, ranging in length from 5 centimetres (2.0 in) in the one-jawed eel (Monognathus ahlstromi) to 4 metres (13 ft) in the slender giant moray)
, so eels and gunnels are of differenrt orders.
Rock gunnel (Pholis gunnellus) is also known as butterfish, because it is slippery.
(C) Penpoint Gunnel (Apodichthys flavidus). YouTube.com, ploaded by yawnthensnore on Jun 5, 2011. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAMdGTvFiJw
View (C) and you will see a gunnel is small in size.
(iii) What is the difference between a gunnel and an eel (the smaller size or baby)?
Eelgrass: Zostera Marina. Peuget Sound Shorelines, Department of Ecology, State of Washington, undated. http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/s ... ecies/eelgrass.html
("What's In Eelgrass? [Among the animals is] Grub for Gunnels: Gunnels are often confused with eels. Their top fin is long and spiny. Gunnels swim in shallow water among eelgrass blades, feeding on crustaceans and mollusks")
The eelgrass is a seaweed that looks like eels.
(c) Regarding Lloyd “Joe” Vasey.
The Welsh surname Lloyd is derived from Welsh adjective llwyd ‘gray.’
(d)
(i) Pacific Forum CSIS http://csis.org/program/pacific-forum-csis
(Based in Honolulu, Hawaii, the Pacific Forum CSIS is a nonprofit, private, foreign policy research institute that operates as the Asia Pacific arm of the Center for Strategic and International Studies of Washington, DC; Founded in 1975; The Forum's $1.3 million annual budget is funded by grants from foundations, corporations, and individuals, as well as governments)
(ii) Center for Strategic and International Studies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cen ... ternational_Studies
(a DC think tank; founded in 1962 by Admiral Arleigh Burke and Ambassador [to NATO 1983-1987] David Manker Abshire)
(f) The article talks about "Beijing Institute of International Strategic Studies." It should be "Beijing Institute for International Strategic Studies."
(i) Bates Gill and James Mulvenon, Chinese Military-Related Think Tanks and Research Institutions. The China Quarterly, 171: 617-624 (2002) http://www.irchina.org/en/xueke/inchina/gaikuang/view.asp?id=37
("The premier intelligence analysis think tank in the Chinese military is the China Institute for Internationsl Strategic Studies (CIISS), directly subordinate to the General Staff Department Second Department (Intelligence) though it is often publicly and incorrectly identified as the Ministry of National Defense's major research unit on international affairs. Founded in 1979 as the Beijing Institute for International Strategic Studies, the institute is located in north-central Beijing. Typically, the Chairman of CIISS is also the Deputy Chief of Staff whose portofolio includes foreign intelligence * * * The staff of CIISS consists of a mixture of senior retired intelligence officers * * * active-duty intelligence officers, and permanent research staff in mufti. According to Swaine, the institute was formed 'prinarily by transferring to it, on a temporary or permanent basis, some of the best military analysts from the Second Department'")
(ii) mufti (dress) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mufti_(dress)
(section 1 Origin)