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Richard Halloran, The Rising East: Retired Sailor Seeks 'Better Way' to Resolve Deadly Disputes. Honolulu Civil Beat, Mar 5, 2012.
http://www.civilbeat.com/article ... ve-deadly-disputes/

Note:
(a) The article mentions "the chains of Marley’s ghost."

Jacob Marley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Marley
(a fictional character who appears in Charles Dickens' 1843 novella A Christmas Carol)

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)

(i) For gunnel, see Pholidae
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pholidae
(a family of three genera; in the order Perciformes)

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.

(ii) Three video clips of gunnel.
(A) Gunnel. YouTube.com, uploaded by bcscubadiver on Nov 9, 2007.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1bL-4BCdbM
(B) Butterfish - Rock Gunnel fish. YouTube.com, uploaded by seanyroche on Mar 9, 2011.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVqpmw7KDQM

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)

(e) Pepperdine University
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepperdine_University
(private; affiliated with the Churches of Christ; Location Malibu, Califorenia; founded by George Pepperdine in 1937)

(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)