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Intelligence, in government and military operations, evaluated information concerning the strength, activities, and probable courses of action of foreign countries or nonstate actors that are usually, though not always, enemies or opponents. The term also is used to refer to the collection, analysis, and distribution of such information and to secret intervention in the political or economic affairs of other countries, an activity commonly known as "covert action." Intelligence is an important component of national power and a fundamental element in decision making regarding national security, defense, and foreign policies.
Nature of intelligence
Levels of intelligence
Intelligence is conducted on three levels: strategic (sometimes called national), tactical, and counterintelligence. The broadest of these levels is strategic intelligence, which includes information about the capabilities and intentions of foreign countries. Tactical intelligence, sometimes called operational or combat intelligence, is information required by military field commanders. Because of the enormous destructive power of modern weaponry, the decision making of political leaders often must take into account information derived from tactical as well as strategic intelligence; major field commanders may often also need multiple levels of intelligence. Thus, the distinction between these two levels of intelligence may be vanishing.
Counterintelligence is aimed at protecting and maintaining the secrecy of a country's intelligence operations. Its purpose is to prevent spies or other agents of a foreign power from penetrating the country's government, armed services, or intelligence agencies. Counterintelligence also is concerned with protecting advanced technology, deterring terrorism, and combating international narcotics trafficking. Counterintelligence operations sometimes produce positive intelligence, including information about the intelligence-gathering tools and techniques of other countries and about the kinds of intelligence other countries may be seeking. Counterintelligence operations sometimes involve the manipulation of an adversary's intelligence services through the placement of "moles," or double agents, in sensitive areas. In authoritarian and totalitarian states, counterintelligence also encompasses the surveillance of key elites and the repression of dissent.
Governments often direct their intelligence services to perform covert actions to support diplomatic initiatives or to achieve goals that are unattainable by diplomatic means alone. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), for example, organized the overthrow of the government of Guatemala by military coup in 1954 and helped to undermine the government of President Salvador Allende (1908–73) of Chile prior to the military coup there in 1973. More recently, U.S. covert actions have included providing military and financial support to the mujahideen (from Arabic mujāhidūn, "those who engage in jihad"), who fought Soviet troops in Afghanistan during the 1980s, and aiding U.S. and British military forces in their campaign against Afghanistan's Taliban government in 2001. Earlier in the 20th century, the intelligence services of the Soviet Union assassinated exiled political figures such as Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) and supported Marxist-Leninist organizations throughout the world.
Types of intelligence
The types of intelligence a country may require are extremely varied. The country's armed services need military intelligence, its space and Earth-satellite programs need scientific intelligence, its foreign offices need political and biographical intelligence, and its premier or president needs a combination of these types and many others. Consequently, intelligence has become a vast industry. At the beginning of the 21st century it was estimated that the U.S. government spent some $30 billion annually on intelligence-related activities, employing perhaps 200,000 people in the United States and many thousands more U.S. citizens overseas in both clandestine and overt capacities. The intelligence operations of the Soviet Union were likely of even greater dimensions prior to the dissolution of the country in 1991. All other major countries maintain large intelligence bureaucracies.
Political intelligence is at once the most sought-after and the least reliable of the various types of intelligence. Because no one can predict with absolute certainty the effects of the political forces in a foreign country, analysts are reduced to making forecasts of alternatives based on what is known about political trends and patterns. Concrete data that are helpful in this regard include voting trends, details of party organization and leadership, and information derived from analyses of political documents. A chief source of political intelligence has long been the reports of diplomats, who normally gather data from "open," or legally accessible, sources in the country where they are stationed (see diplomacy). Their work is supplemented by that of the professional intelligence apparatus.
Much military intelligence is gathered by military attachés, who have formal diplomatic status but are known to be mainly concerned with intelligence. Space satellites produce reliable information about the composition of military units and weapons and can track their movements; satellites are especially important for monitoring a country's production of strategic ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction (i.e., biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons). The most valuable kinds of military intelligence concern military organization and equipment, procedures and formations, and the number of units and total personnel.
The state of a country's economy is crucial to its military strength, its political development, and the conduct of its foreign policy. Consequently, intelligence organizations attach great importance to the collection of economic information, including data on trade, finance, natural resources, industrial capacity, and gross national product.
Because of continuous advances in technology, there has been a constant race between new methods of collecting intelligence and new techniques of protecting secret information. In order to guard against scientific or technological breakthroughs that may give other countries a decisive advantage, intelligence organizations keep abreast of foreign advances in nuclear technology, in the electronic, chemical, and computer sciences, and in many other scientific fields.
In order to make accurate predictions of a foreign country's future behaviour, intelligence systems obviously require detailed information about the personal characteristics of the country's leaders. The need for biographical information has expanded with the proliferation of international organizations, whose officers must be briefed about their foreign counterparts. Intelligence agencies also compile data on foreign populations, topographies, climates, and a wide range of ecological factors.
Sources of intelligence
Despite the public image of intelligence operatives as cloak-and-dagger secret agents, the largest amount of intelligence work is an undramatic search of open sources, such as radio broadcasts and publications of all kinds. Much of this work, which also includes sifting reports from diplomats, businessmen, accredited military attachés, and other observers, is performed by university-trained research analysts in quiet offices.
Covert sources of intelligence fall into three major categories: imagery intelligence, which includes aerial and space reconnaissance; signals intelligence, which includes electronic eavesdropping and code breaking; and human intelligence, which involves the secret agent working at the classic spy trade. Broadly speaking, the relative value of these sources is reflected in the order in which they are listed above. A photograph, for example, constitutes hard (i.e., reliable) intelligence, whereas the report of a secret agent may be speculative and difficult to prove.
Methods of intelligence gathering
Good intelligence management begins with the proper determination of what needs to be known. Unless precise requirements are set, data will be collected unsystematically and the decision maker ultimately left without pertinent information on which to act. Collected data must be evaluated and transformed into a usable form (and sometimes stored for future use). Evaluation is essential, because many of the wide variety of sources are of doubtful reliability. A standardized system is used to rate the reliability of sources and the likely accuracy of the information they provide (e.g., information may be classified as confirmed, probably true, possibly true, or unlikely to be true).
Information obtained from open sources probably constitutes more than four-fifths of the input to most intelligence systems, though this proportion varies with the number of state secrets a country may have. Clandestine collection methods from covert sources provide the basis for much of the drama and romance attributed to intelligence work in fiction. Although the classic espionage agent will never be completely obsolete, some observers have suggested that the role largely has been taken over by machines, including orbiting reconnaissance satellites, long-range cameras, and a variety of sensing, detecting, and acoustical instruments. With this kind of technology, it is now possible to see in darkness, to hear from great distances, and to take detailed photographs from altitudes of hundreds of miles. Nevertheless, only spies can produce information about the attitudes and intentions of foreign leaders or international terrorists and other criminals. Indeed, a lack of adequate human intelligence was cited by some critics as a factor in the failure of U.S. intelligence and law-enforcement agencies to prevent the devastating terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2001 (see September 11 attacks).
Techniques of aerial reconnaissance have advanced dramatically since the 1940s, when the United States drifted balloons carrying special cameras across Soviet territory to photograph military and industrial installations. Today aerial reconnaissance is conducted by satellites, aircraft, and unmanned drones, which can orbit a battlefield for 24 hours. The U.S. U-2 aircraft and its higher-flying successors are capable of taking photographs that experts can read with great accuracy. Imaging satellites, which can produce accurate information about the number and location of a country's nuclear missiles and other weapons, made possible the arms control treaties between the United States and the Soviet Union. High-altitude photographs are also used to diagnose environmental catastrophes, to locate terrorist training camps, and even to detect human rights abuses.
Intelligence organizations often employ electronic scavengers (from ships, planes, listening posts in embassies and military installations, and orbiting satellites) to collect information about a country's radio communications and its naval equipment and operations. An individual submarine, for example, can be identified by the telltale and unique noises it makes (its "signature"). During the Cold War the United States collected sensitive signals intelligence by tapping communications lines in Soviet territorial waters. It also used satellites and special planes for conducting missions close to the borders of potential adversaries. Similarly, the Soviet Union (and later Russia) collected signals intelligence from listening stations in diplomatic and consular missions and from large "fishing trawlers" that shadowed the U.S. fleet.
The use of computers to analyze data on complex phenomena such as industrial production, missile launches, and rates of economic growth has created vast amounts of information that threaten intelligence systems with inundation, making the filtering of useless information a key task. Since World War II great efforts have been made to develop efficient means of cataloging, storing, and retrieving the gigantic volume of data being amassed. Although some observers believe that data collection, especially in the Internet age, has been overemphasized at the expense of analysis, computer technology and the application of artificial intelligence, which allow computer programs to organize mammoth amounts of raw material for analysts, promise to make the tidal wave of information manageable. For example, such techniques can be used at border crossings to quickly compare the image of a suspected terrorist with thousands of pictures of known criminals.
History of intelligence activities
Premodern intelligence
The ancient soothsayers, who claimed to be able to communicate with the gods and were often said to have the power of predicting the future, were perhaps the earliest counterparts of the modern intelligence agency. As in modern times, their reports were often ambiguous and frequently ignored by decision makers.
The Bible says that God advised Moses (Numbers 13) to send agents to "spy out the land of Canaan." After 40 days, 12 agents returned to report that the people in the land flowing with milk and honey were more powerful than the Israelites—and on the basis of this intelligence the Israelites rebelled and were punished by God.
The ancient Chinese author Sun Tzu (fl. 4th century bc), whose Ping-fa (The Art of War) is said to be widely read by contemporary Chinese strategists, identified five kinds of secret agent; their modern counterparts are the agent in place (who has access to enemy secrets), the double agent (who is recruited from an enemy's intelligence and security service), the deception agent (who provides disinformation to confuse the enemy), the expendable agent (whose loss can enable other more important agents to operate), and the penetration agent (who has access to an enemy's senior leadership). Sun Tzu stressed the importance of good intelligence organization, and he also wrote of counterintelligence and psychological warfare.
In Europe during the Middle Ages, intelligence was systematically used but crudely organized. Although it was usually impossible to conceal the massing of troops or ships, communication was slow, making the achievement of strategic surprise a difficult matter of balancing the time required to assemble large forces against the time needed by enemy agents to discover and report them.
In the 15th century the Italian city-states began to establish permanent embassies in foreign capitals. The Venetians used such outposts as intelligence sources and even developed codes and ciphers by which information could be secretly communicated. By the 16th century other European governments had followed suit.
Intelligence and the rise of nationalism
The rise of nationalism was accompanied by the growth of standing armies and professional diplomats as well as by the establishment of organizations and procedures for procuring foreign intelligence. Queen Elizabeth I (reigned 1558–1603) of England maintained a notable intelligence organization. Her principal state secretary, Sir Francis Walsingham (c. 1532–90), developed a network of intelligence agents in foreign countries. He recruited graduates of Oxford and Cambridge, developed the craft of espionage, including tools and techniques for making and breaking codes, and engaged in much foreign political intrigue. Later, Armand-Jean du Plessis, cardinal et duc de Richelieu (1585–1642), and Oliver Cromwell (1599–1658)—whose intelligence chief, John Thurloe (1616–68), is often cited as an early master spy—developed notable intelligence systems. The intelligence operations of the Great Powers also included secret channels of communication, the penetration of émigré circles, and the assassination of enemies of the state.
Not until the late 18th century, however, did there arise sharp divisions between organizations devoted to internal security (a counterintelligence function) and those concerned with external foreign intelligence. As populations began to give their allegiance to the state rather than to dynasties or religious leaders, national leaders paid increasing attention to the opinions of foreign publics, resulting in both a new diplomacy and new intelligence needs. Major innovations in organization and doctrine have been credited to the Prussian king Frederick the Great (reigned 1740–86). Frederick, and later Wilhelm Stieber, an aide to the Prussian prime minister and later German chancellor Otto von Bismarck (1815–98), organized the intelligence-gathering functions of the general staff. Under Stieber, a single military intelligence agency—the world's first large-scale espionage organization—was established to serve as the country's eyes on the outside world.
Intelligence in the modern era
At the turn of the 20th century European governments required increasing amounts of strategic intelligence to compete in power politics, to support their foreign empires, and to keep up with advances in military and communications technology. Accordingly, intelligence bureaus spread throughout the European continent, resulting in a corresponding growth in counterintelligence. Nevertheless, when World War I broke out in 1914 the intelligence services of most European countries were inadequate. The war, which none of the combatants intended, is often cited in hindsight as a tragic failure of intelligence. The French intelligence service, which already had been weakened by the Dreyfus affair (see Alfred Dreyfus), was torn by internal intrigue, and other services had been shaken by scandals. One spectacular failure of French intelligence was its gross miscalculation of German military strength in 1914, when it underrated German technical and tactical capabilities. German intelligence also had deteriorated, and by 1914 the German general staff evidently placed little faith in the information its intelligence officers supplied. Nevertheless, the Germans carried out successful intelligence activities in Persia and scored limited successes in the United States. The Russian intelligence service initially enjoyed great success against the Austrians because of the treason of an Austrian general staff officer, but it subsequently performed no better than the services of other countries involved in the war. The British succeeded in breaking German naval codes, and they were able to use the information they obtained to hasten U.S. entry into the war by exposing German efforts to involve Mexico in a war with the United States. However, tactical intelligence provided to British commanders on the Western Front was fraught with optimistic and misleading assessments of Germany's military capabilities.
Unlike the European countries, the United States had no central intelligence organization. Indeed, at the beginning of the war, army intelligence was only a small section of the general staff, comprising two officers and two clerks. By the end of the war this service had grown to 1,200 officers and civilians. Overall, the American intelligence community at this time was staffed by amateurs and was quite deficient.
The intelligence lessons of World War I, along with advances in technology—especially electronics and aircraft technology—resulted in a proliferation of new intelligence agencies in the 1920s and '30s, particularly in totalitarian states (Italy, Germany, and the Soviet Union) but also in some democratic European countries. The expansionist policies of the Soviet Union, Italy, Germany, and Japan in the 1930s, and especially the outbreak of World War II in 1939, precipitated the creation and expansion of intelligence services throughout the world. In 1942 the United States, which had virtually no peacetime intelligence services, created its first full-fledged organization for intelligence and secret operations, the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). The war imposed intelligence requirements never before faced by the major warring powers, primarily as a result of rapidly advancing military technology. Air warfare in particular required vast new offensive and defensive intelligence operations. Air force commanders needed information on possible bombing targets, as well as on enemy fighters and antiaircraft artillery. In the first days of World War II, the United States relied on the insurance records of German industries and on aerial reconnaissance to identify bombing targets. The growth of radio broadcasting enabled the development of the new art of psychological warfare, whose effects demanded study by intelligence services.
Yet despite its rapid development, intelligence forecasting remained a precarious trade. Many key events in the war—including the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941, the Pearl Harbor attack against the United States by Japan in December 1941, the Battle of the Bulge in December 1944–January 1945, and the Allied bombing campaigns against Germany (1942–45), in which the Germans showed unexpected resilience—were marked by the failure of decision makers to profit from their elaborate intelligence networks.
However, there was one area of enormous success. Perhaps the most significant intelligence achievement of the war was the Ultra project, in which the British, using a German Enigma encoding machine obtained from the Poles and relying on earlier decryption efforts by the Poles and the French, intercepted and deciphered top-secret German military communications throughout much of the war. In essence, the Ultra project enabled the Allies to read the mind of the German high command. As the war progressed, Hitler's increasingly centralized control of operations on all fronts made German military operations especially vulnerable. Ultra was particularly important in the defeat of the German U-boat fleet and the German surface navy. When the Allies were caught by surprise, such as in the American defeat at Kasserine Pass, the Allied defeat at Arnhem, and the Battle of the Bulge, the Germans had used land lines for communication or Ultra intercepts had been misused.
During the Cold War intelligence became one of the world's largest industries, employing hundreds of thousands of professionals. Every major country created enormous new intelligence bureaucracies, usually consisting of interlocking and often competitive secret agencies that vied for new assignments and sometimes withheld information from each other. The United States established the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 1947. Among other well-known intelligence organizations created during this period were the United Kingdom's MI5 and MI6, the Soviet Union's KGB (Committee for State Security), France's SDECE (External Documentation and Counterespionage Service), China's MSS (Ministry of State Security), and Israel's Mossad. By the 1970s every regional power and many relatively small states had developed intelligence services. At the same time, the exploits of spies and counterspies became a staple of the entertainment and publishing industries. In books, movies, and television, intelligence agents were portrayed in roles that were sometimes comic but often deadly serious. All these accounts tended to glamorize an occupation that was often painfully tedious and sometimes (in the opinion of some) distasteful and immoral.
In the last two decades of the Cold War the United States relied heavily on imagery and signals intelligence, including satellite photography, to collect information on Soviet weapons of mass destruction. Its emphasis on these sources of intelligence, however, may actually have weakened its ability to combat terrorist organizations, which by their nature are not easily penetrated through technical means.
Since the disintegration of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, nonstate actors (e.g., terrorist organizations, militias, and drug cartels) have developed sophisticated intelligence and counterintelligence capabilities that rival those of some states. The Islamic terrorist organization al-Qaeda, which organized the September 11 attacks against the United States, had an intelligence infrastructure that maintained safe houses in the Middle East, Europe, and North America. Evidence uncovered after the U.S. and British military campaign in Afghanistan indicated that al-Qaeda had purchased sophisticated computer hardware that enabled it to send enciphered communications to terrorist cells and to track U.S. photographic reconnaissance satellites. Today, terrorists and drug traffickers from the jungles of Colombia to the streets of western Europe employ advisers drawn from the intelligence services of the former Soviet Union, East Germany, and Yugoslavia and use criminals of various kinds to bribe or terrorize their opponents and protect their organizations. Accordingly, since the end of the Cold War the targets of intelligence activity have been just as likely nonstate actors as states. Operations against such organizations require smaller and more-flexible intelligence services capable of combining technical intelligence (i.e., imagery and signals intelligence) and human intelligence; operations officers and analysts; and various military, intelligence, and security organizations.


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Melting Clock
Time is an arbitrary concept
- Surreal "melted" clock that still keeps accurate time
- Perfectly balanced to hang off of any flat surface
- Quartz precision movement
Time is an illusion - lunchtime, doubly so. The truth is, time is an arbitrary construct created by limited beings trying to make sense of causality. We perceive time as a sequence of events in a progressive chain of cause and effect. Were we to lose our perspective of cause and effect, time would lose meaning entirely, and it would seem to sag and melt like soft cheese left out in the sun - metaphorically speaking, of course.
So when performing truly boring tasks, for example: work, we require time pieces to remind us that the passage of time persists without us even being aware of them. Clocks on the walls, in our computers, or in digital watches (which is a pretty neat idea). They show us the passage of time, but they don't show us the ooey-gooey consistency of time that has stretched out into something barely recognizable.
This clock, however, succeeds where those others fail. Here we can accurately see the passage of time whilst being reminded that time drips and flows like fatty rotten milk. Don't worry, though - even if the clock is stretched and pulled like taffy, it still tells accurate time... unless you're spiraling towards the event horizon of a black hole, or traveling at relativistic speeds where time tends to slow and stretch. Maybe time really is an illusion?
- "Melted" clock with chrome trim
- Perfectly balanced and rests off the edge of any flat surface
- Quartz movement
- Requires 1 AA Battery, not included
- Measures approximately 7.5" h x 5" w x 6" deep

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Drilling and Holemaking
When looking for high-quality drilling tools and holemaking tools Grainger has the selection—from broach tools and keyway broach sets, to keyway broach shims and rotary broaches. You'll also find a number of chamfering tools for many of your milling applications. Counterbores and countersinks are available in a number of configurations and are the precision cutting tool to reach for when working with metal or wood. We even have drill bits in a variety of styles and materials including carbide steel and cobalt steel, with many suitable for high-speed applications. Select a drill case or cabinet to keep your drill bits organized and close at hand on the shop floor or at the jobsite. A drill bit sharpener helps keep drills in peak operating condition for quality parts and less wear and tear on your drilling equipment. Check out our assortment of reamers including adjustable blade models that allow you to handle multiple hole sizes with just a single tool.


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Oregano Flatbread (with bonus cinnamon sugar version)16 08 2010
I've got a flatbread this week, somewhere in between a pita and a flour tortilla. The oregano is a really good addition, and though you can add it into the dough instead of just on the surface like I do here, I found you get plenty of flavor from having it on the surface, and I like the way it makes them look. These cool and soften well if you cover them with a towel, but they're also really good hot off the pan. In fact while I was making them I stole one to make myself a quick little dinner, a chicken breast, the flatbread and some pesto!
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We were already on alert for a new super-slim edition of the PlayStation 3, thanks to the unearthing of documents filed with the Federal Communications Commission in the US, but now pictures of the new console have appeared online to back them up.
The PS3 4000, as it is being dubbed, is believed to be the subject of some (hazy) photographs published by Brazilian site Tecnoblog. It claims that it received them from telecoms regulator Anatel, which received them as part of a Sony filing.
The main change to the new version of the console - apart from an even slimmer form factor to the current model - is what looks to be, a sliding-top disc tray, rather than an automatic slider on the front. The slim PS2 also featured this kind-of tray system.
Sony's filing with Anatel also states that there will be three different models of the super-slim PS3, with 250GB, 500GB and 16GB hard drives, although games trade magazine suggests that the last is a typing error (160GB?).
As well as the blurred photographs, a mock-up of the redesigned console has appeared on games forum site Neogaf.
Many, Pocket-lint included, expect Sony to announce the PS3 4000 at Gamescom in August. There's no indication on price as yet.
What do you think? Look good or pointless? Let us know in the comments below...


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Martyr Daniel at Nicopolis in Armenia
Saint Daniel was one of the forty-five martyrs of Nicopolis, Armenia who suffered during the reign of the emperor Licinius (311-324). Licinius, the ruler of the Eastern Empire, fiercely persecuted Christians and issued an edict to put to death any Christian who would not return to paganism. When the persecutions began at Nicopolis, more than forty people appeared voluntarily before their persecutors, in order to confess their faith in the Son of God and accept martyrdom.
The procurator Licius, before whom the holy confessors appeared, was amazed at the bravery of those who voluntarily condemned themselves to torture and death. He tried to persuade them to renounce Christ and offer sacrifice to the pagan gods, but the saints remained steadfast. They refuted all the governor's arguments, pointing out to him the folly of believing in the vile pagan gods. The procurator ordered the confessors to be tortured and imprisoned.
In prison the saints rejoiced and sang the Psalms of David. Saint Leontius inspired and encouraged the brethren, telling them of the bravery of all those who had formerly suffered for Christ. In the morning, after repeatedly refusing to offer sacrifice to the idols, the saints were tortured again.
Saint Leontius saw the intense suffering of the martyrs and worried that some of them might falter and lose faith. Therefore, he prayed to God that their end would be swift.
When the holy martyrs sang Psalms at midnight, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared to them, and the prison blazed with light. The angel told the martyrs that their contest was near its end, and their names already were inscribed in Heaven. Two prison guards, Meneus and Virilad, saw what was happening and believed in Christ. On the following morning, the governor decided to put the martyrs of Christ to death.
After beastly tortures they were burned in a fire, and their bones were thrown into a river. Pious people found the relics, gathered them up and saved them. Later on, when freedom was granted to the Church of Christ, a church dedicated to the 45 Martyrs was built on the spot.


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Theft of copper wire at West Orange Elementary School
Copper thieves struck yet another area school over the weekend, police reported.
According to Chief Fred Hanauer III of the Pinehurst Police Department, a school official reported the crime Monday morning, Sept. 9, after arriving at the West Orange Elementary School at 2605 MLK Jr. Drive in Pinehurst and discovering the air conditioner was not functional.
Upon investigation, maintenance staff realized someone had removed copper wire from the air conditioning system's chiller units, similar to what happened recently at several Beaumont Independent School District schools.
Reports say someone had cut the chain on a gate housing the chiller units, and approximately 250 feet of copper wire had been removed from two units causing close to $1,045 in damage to school property.
BISD police are still looking for the suspects in four copper thefts at Beaumont campuses.
BISD spokesperson Ron Reynolds said at a press conference at the Bingman Headstart Pre-K4 Center on Wednesday, Aug. 14, that Price Elementary School, Vincent Middle School, the Paul A. Brown Center and Bingman all had overnight copper thefts over a two-week period, which left them with damaged and nonfunctional air conditioning unit chillers. Bingman was the most recent Beaumont campus, having been hit sometime during the night of Aug. 13 or the early morning of Aug. 14.
BISD Police Detective Sergeant Danny Moore said during the press conference that investigators were reviewing videos and testing physical evidence left at the scene by the perpetrators. Moore said the insulated copper electrical wire was a large gauge and hundreds of feet were stolen at each in the four Beaumont thefts, which started with Price Elementary.
"In my opinion, it's not just one person," Moore said. He said at least two shadows could be seen on the video. He asserted that because the modus operandi was the same in each theft and hundreds of feet were taken from each campus, he is "sure" the same perpetrators were responsible for the thefts at all four locations. He thinks at least one of those responsible has some knowledge of electrical systems because otherwise they would not have known where or how to disable the power to the A/C units.
BISD's HVAC and plumbing supervisor Robert Mann said during the Aug. 14 press conference that he would likely have to hire a contractor to help with the repairs in order to ensure they were complete when classes started. Reynolds said the estimated cost, including contract labor and materials, would be approximately $33,000.
Bingman Principal Lisa Bolton said she is shocked someone would steal from schools serving local children and utilizing taxpayer dollars.
"I can't believe someone has the heart and the nerve to do this," she said.
BISD Police Sgt. Moore said the schools are located in neighborhoods where he believes someone must have seen something during the thefts.
"Somebody knows what's going on," he speculated. He asked that anyone with information regarding these thefts call the BISD police at (409) 617-7001.
Pinehurst Police Chief Hanauer said his department has identified two persons of interest in relation to the crime with assistance from other Orange County law enforcement agencies but asked that anyone with information pertaining to the theft contact them at (409) 886-2221.
When asked if the two suspects in the West Orange Elementary School copper thefts could be the same suspects police are looking for in connection with the BISD schools' copper thefts, Hanauer said, "I can't say for sure, but I do know that the persons we have of interest, who I will not name at this time, have been involved in copper thefts in Jefferson County. But as far their relationship to anything involving the school district, I can't say for sure. Our investigator has not gotten that far into it."
Upon hearing some of the details of the theft at West Orange Elementary School, BISD Police Detective Sergeant Moore said, "That sounds like my guys."
No arrests have yet been made, but the suspects could be looking at multiple charges if the thefts at the West Orange Elementary School and the BISD schools are related. Whether that is the case remains to be determined, but the perpetrators still face stiff penalties if convicted of even one of the thefts. Theft of copper wire is a state jail felony punishable by up to two years in state jail and a $10,000 fine.


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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
Allsup's Fired Managerial Employee After Learning of His Cooperation with the EEOC on Co-Worker's Claim of Discrimination, Federal Agency Charged
DALLAS – New Mexico-based Allsup's Convenience Stores, Inc., which operates over 300 stores in Texas and New Mexico, will pay a former employee $37,000 and furnish other relief to settle a retaliation lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today.
According to the EEOC's lawsuit (Civil Action No. 6:10-CV-023-C) filed in the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico, Las Cruces Division and subsequently transferred to the Northern District of Texas, San Angelo Division, Orvel Pape, a manager-in-training who had worked for the company for almost ten years, was fired because he cooperated with an EEOC investigation of another employee's charge of disability discrimination. The EEOC charged that Allsup's fired Pape from its store in Santa Anna, Texas, shortly after the company was notified that Pape's statements led to an EEOC finding of violation in connection with the other employee's charge of discrimination. That charge was filed under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA).
The suit was brought pursuant to the ADA, which includes a section prohibiting discrimination against any individual based on that individual's testimony, assistance, or participation in any manner in an investigation into an alleged ADA violation. The Commission filed suit after first attempting to reach a voluntary settlement.
"Mr. Pape, a dedicated ten-year employee, was asked by Allsup's to speak with an EEOC Investigator about his co-worker's allegations of discrimination, and was dealt the ultimate punishment for simply following those instructions," said EEOC Trial Attorney Meaghan Shepard. "No employee should fear that cooperating with the EEOC will result in the end of their employment."
In addition to the payment to Pape, the consent decree settling the suit requires the company to train its managers on retaliation and the company's procedures for reporting complaints of discrimination, as well as how to properly handle an employee's discrimination complaint. Allsup's will also post a notice of non-discrimination and distribute that document to supervisors at the company's annual training.
"We will always be willing to aggressively pursue the claim of an employee who we believe is punished for providing honest testimony in a federal investigation," said Regional Attorney Robert A. Canino of the EEOC's Dallas District Office. "It is of overriding importance to our agency to thaw the chilling effect of such retaliation, and thereby ensure the freedom and motivation of co-workers to do the right thing. The company's agreement to re-train its large workforce will go a long way in establishing a more positive climate."
In fiscal year 2010, retaliation charges filed with the EEOC nationwide accounted for 36.3% of all filings, at 36,258.
The EEOC enforces federal laws prohibiting employment discrimination. Further information about the EEOC is available on its web site at www.eeoc.gov.


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I don't usually impulse buy foods online that I've never tried, but I did this time and I'm really regretting it. I ordered Katsuo Furikake, thinking "Oh, that sounds great!" only to open it, sniff, and become repulsed at the aroma.
Will it keep its retched smell over time or will it subside?
Would anyone want to buy this off of me? $2.00 (was bought for $2.19? plus s&h ?
Which brand did you buy?
I'm a big fan of shiso/perilla leaf furikake (sometimes called yukari) and use several brands. However, I once bought some from a health food store and that version was completely vile. I'm glad it wasn't the first time I'd tasted it, if it had been I might never have tried shiso furikake again!
Even when furikake shares the same name as others (katsuo furikake would be very common) the taste can differ widely with some being divine and others repulsive.
But try a little bit on some rice first before giving up on that kind of furikake from that brand, it's possible (although improbable) that you'll like it after all.
Yeah, things like furikake really vary according to the brand, the way it's stored, and how old it is. Was it past its sell-by date? (this unfortunately is a problem at some general Asian supermarkets.) Then again, it may be that dried fish flakes are not for you too...
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Hey Sean - I'm an Older (48) 3-3.5ish player, (that's possibly being generous) also south Minneapolis. Self-employed, also with a random schedule that includes lots of open mornings/afternoons. Hit me up if you ever want to play a match.
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Aside from the enjoyable Irish fire and humour I thought the most interesting part of this article was that it bought to my attention this part of the Priority of Constituencies that I hadn't taken notice of before:
In case of conflict, consider users over authors over implementors over specifiers over theoretical purity.
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this seems something that is unlikely to work in reality. Is it really the expectation that the browser makers are seriously going to prioritise users and authors over their own implementations of the actual technical specifications. This strikes me as incredibly unlikely and naive given browser and web history. I see there's a few people who work for browser makers lurking in the comments (hey Bruce); can anyone expand a bit on what the practical implications of this part of the spec is for the browser makers and how likely they would be to abide by it (or even how on earth they could abide by it if they wanted to).


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1. Implementing the new choice syntaxGary Brown Apr 12, 2011 6:06 PM (in response to Olivier Pernet)
I think the first priority at the moment is to complete the draft of the scribble protocol type syntax doc.
However this should now be able to include the new choice construct, although I am not sure how widely the 'introduces' construct has been discusssed? Has a syntax been agreed for this? If so, then it could also be included in the draft.
Once the draft is ready, given that we are planning on a discussion/comment period of a month, that would probably be a good time to update the syntax/model - and then do one more release after the final version is agreed.
2. Implementing the new choice syntaxOlivier Pernet Apr 12, 2011 6:13 PM (in response to Gary Brown)
Ok, that sounds reasonable. Who is writing the spec? Is there a shared document I can have a look at?
3. Implementing the new choice syntaxGary Brown Apr 13, 2011 4:45 AM (in response to Olivier Pernet)
We are still discussing some of the issues, so the spec hasn't officially started yet. We've been delayed a bit due to several unforeseen circumstances.
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i have done it and will gladly do this for anybody.
Making the deal
whether you contact the person via email, personal message, instant message, snail mail, or phone, keep a written log as to when you spoke to them. if it is email or personal message, print those out and store away. IM would be slightly hard to print out. snail mail is easy. if a telephone call was done, make notes as to the date, time, and briefly what was spoken.
always keep the other person in the loop. email them when you shipped. if you have a tracking number, send that.
the information that you have saved about the deal will build a strong case in your favor if and when you contact the authorities. compared to "he said" and "she promised" hear-say. written documents that show date and times is much better.
be clear as to what you are getting and in what time frame. the longer it is before you get something, the less likely you will ever see it.
kind of on the same note, credit cards offer some kind of guarantee on purchases. pending on the creditor. but, if it goes on for more than 90days, they are do not have to honor (and most likely will not) the transaction. Paypal (a way for credit cards to be used) offers sort of the same. but not entirely sure what there guarantee is.
all important thing is to keep the person informed. whether it be that you are shipping the item out, going to be late in shipping, or wanting to back out of the deal. being informed is better than wondering what is going on.
NEVER SEND CASH!!! i repeat, NEVER SEND CASH!!! the person you are sending to may be honest. but you never know about the mail carrier. send a money order or check. these items can be easily cancelled if it is lost or stolen.
credit cards is another way of paying for things. and offers a guarentee on purchases as noted above.
paypal is another way of sending funds. it is quick and easy to do. enables one to wire money from bank account to bank account. or use a credit card if the recieving party cannot directly recieve via the cards.
never, ever send cash. spend the extra $1 at the USPS for a money order.
when you send the item, either directly or to the 3rd party, use some type of tracking. UPS, FedEx, and DHL are great sources of tracking. they also offer inexpensive insurance. another way that i personally like is the USPS. i admit that they may not have all the garentees like UPS and the others have. but you would have some leverage since it is federaly regulated as explained in the next part.
don't loose that shipping number!! it is proof that you did send it. contact and let that person know the shipping number. also, don't loose that insurance form as shipping an item is not always 100%.
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It is a crime for anyone to use the U.S. mail, or any private or commercial interstate carrier (e.g. FedEx, U.P.S.), to carry out a scheme or plan to defraud (trick or lie) an individual or group.
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3. Mailing of any letter or writing by way of carrying out scheme is sufficient, although letter or writing itself may have been harmless.
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One may be found guilty of a felony, imprisoned up to 5 years, and fined up to $250,000. If a financial institution is involved, one may be imprisoned up to 30 years and fined up to $1,000,000. The punishment is per transaction. For example, if 8 letters are sent through the U.S. Mail and 10 packages are sent through FedEx, the potential punishment above is multiplied by 18.
Frequently, the Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) will secure a Federal Indictment from a Federal Grand Jury and charge a defendant not only with mail fraud, but also with wire fraud, bank fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy to commit the aforementioned crimes. One should also be aware that since 1987 parole has been abolished in the Federal System. Expungement (removal of conviction from public records) is also not available.
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PARK CITY, Utah -- "Escape from Tomorrow," filmed on the sly at Disney theme parks, is the talk of the Sundance Film Festival this weekend. But what was it like to make a movie over 25 days at Disney World, Epcot and Disneyland without park employees, or tourists, knowing?
In the video above, lead actor Roy Abramsohn and director Randy Moore explain the bizarre and thrilling experience of filming on Disney property without permission. In the black-and-white film, Abramsohn plays a down-on-his-luck father touring the park with his wife and children.
"As an actor, once you get over the fact that you didn't get caught that first day, no one threw you into 'Mickey Mouse jail,' then you're really just playing the scene," Abramsohn said. "It's almost easier, because you're not waiting for lighting setups" and other typical preparation between takes.
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Abramsohn described the experience as "almost more exciting" than a normal production because there was "always the thrill of getting caught."
"It's the constant thrill, like an illicit affair," he said. "You're never bored."
Still, at various points during the shoot, the cast and crew were faced with the difficult task of playing the scene while not attracting too much attention from park staff and visitors. Abramsohn recalled one particularly challenging day when they filmed at the Germany section of Epcot in Orlando.
"There was a scene where I'm getting drunker and drunker and more belligerent," Abramsohn said. "The waitress didn't know [what we were doing], and I would have my arm around the waitress and saying 'Deutschland uberalis!' and I was trying not to say Nazi stuff so I wouldn't get thrown out.... That was a little touchy."
"There was a few moments where I was just crossing the edge, [where a person might say] 'What are you doing?'" he added. "She didn't know it was a movie. The cameramen were just at the other table, filming very quietly."
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Moore said he decided to make the movie in black and white because he "didn't want it to be home movieish, didn't want it to have a found footage feel."
Without color, he said, audiences see "almost an alternate Disney World."
"Fantastic things were popping out of the woodwork, things you normally don't notice," he said.
Moore said "Escape" is an exploration of a childhood that was influenced by "a great deal of time spent with my father at these places, particularly Disney World.... I was trying to explore the relationship I had with the park and my father as a child."
Abramsohn said it was interesting to explore the question of "how do you live in a place that's supposed to be the happiest place on earth, but you're miserable and longing? There's a real sadness, longing and wanting in this movie."
It's unclear if Disney will have legal objections to the movie that might prevent it from being shown beyond the festival, in movie theaters nationwide or on DVD or video-on-demand. So far, no distributor has picked up the film.
Moore said he was hopeful Disney executives "would just see it as a creative exploration of someone who does have a nostalgia for the park."
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I'm impatient, I had to buy it. Shoujin cuisine was something I've heard about but never had the opportunity to try.
Maki's review is pretty accurate for all the non-winners who are considering parting with their cash -- the first impressions are pretty good.
The one thing I find slightly odd is the number of recipes that require corn starch. I may be wrong here, but in the few years I spent in Japan, I don't remember eating Japanese food which used this. It is clear the book has been written for non-Japanese so perhaps it isn't surprising that some dishes have been adapted to suit a foreign palate -- I was just wondering...
Is this the Chinese influence Fujii mentions in her introduction; something unique to shoujin dishes; or perhaps just something I completely overlooked while in Japan?
I didn't really notice that she uses cornstarch a lot, but cornstarch or more commonly, potato starch (katakuriko) is used quite a bit as a thickener, coating and so on in Japanese dishes, as well as Chinese.
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Another shoujin cousine book I've browsed through, Good Food from a Japanese Temple, also had a lot of potato/corn starch usage. Some were for frying and some for thickening the soup. That's not an ingredient I usually have on hand either.
I've just been prompted to actually go 'look' at the packet of corn starch in our cupboard. My husband (Japanese) uses it regularly and has always said he prefers the Japanese kind to the stuff we get in England so we buy it in the London Japanese food grocers.
I'd noticed the texture was a tiny bit different (but not by that much) I just hadn't noticed that our 'corn'flour was katakuriko and made from potatoes. If you're only adding a teaspoon or so to food, there is really little difference between the two. I honestly hadn't even realised I was using potato starch until this very moment.
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Thursday, 11 September 2008
Rush hour
Note that captions on the video are only visible on computers, not on mobile devices.
This is a short video showing part of the rush hour traffic near our home in the suburbs of Assen.
It's like this every morning and evening. In fact, as this video is rather murky and doesn't have the 360 degree vision you need to see what is really going on in all directions at once, real life is somewhat more impressive than what you see here.
This is just one small area. There are many other busy cycling routes.
The large bridge, carrying the dual carriageway over the cycle paths, was built in order to make cyclists feel safe and so that they have direct and fast journeys. Until last year, there was a flat road junction here, and the bicycle roads were part of a direct driving route to the centre of the city. No longer. Drivers are now sent along that dual carriageway, through a few sets of traffic lights and by a detour to the centre. The direct route is for bikes.
Other, later blog posts explain a lot more about what is happens in this location and why.
6 comments:
- matthew said...
I see no Give Way signs or markings as cycle lanes intersect.
I assume this is because personal injury would result from inconsiderate cycling, unlike driving a car where biggest vehicle wins through 'might has right' attitudes, and the isolation from responsibility that comes with being insde a metal box.
I know that if UK Highway engineers ever got this close to implementing real cycle infrastructure, they'd put signs up and lane markings all over the place!
What is the 'I'll Sue Your A**' culture like in the Netherlands when it comes to bike to bike incidents?
- 8 December 2008 at 14:55
- David Hembrow said...
There are actually a few give-way markings. They are visible about 50 seconds into the video on a cycle path from the right and look like white triangles.
For any junction without such markings you give way to traffic from the right (the same applies whether you are driving or cycling or whether what you are giving way to is a cyclist or a driver). It works very smoothly.
There is a chance of being sued, and everyone has third party insurance here as part of their home insurance. However, there are clearly not many claims as our insurance cost overall for theft, property (fire etc.) and the third party insurance is about a third of what it was for just property and contents in the UK.
- 8 December 2008 at 15:21
- Sarah said...
That is awesome! I wish more rush hours in the U.S. looked like that.
I don't think I saw a single person with a helmet on, though. Do people just not wear helmets there? The vast majority of the cycling I do is commuting like the folks in this video, but I would stick out like sore thumb since I insist on wearing a helmet; it just seems foolish to me to take a risk of not wearing one.
- 9 January 2009 at 00:17
- David Hembrow said...
Sarah, people do not wear helmets here. There is nothing remotely foolish about this. Cyclists in this country are 17 times safer than American cyclists per km travelled.
The Netherlands has made the environment safe for cyclists instead of moving the onus onto cyclists to protect themselves by the not actually very effective measure of wearing a helmet.
The result is that people cycle around 30x so often as in the US.
Please read this post for more information.
- 9 January 2009 at 07:43
- Laca said...
@David: oh yeah, and you couldn't see a single obese person in the vid. :)
@Sarah: Blaming the risk on the one who suffers from it, instead of the one, who causes it, is not the solution.
It is the problem.
- 6 March 2010 at 00:45
I'm currently staying in Assen and I simply can't believe it! This is Paradise on Earth when it comes to cycling. Yesterday, I covered anything between 30-50km, simply cycling with no specific destination and enjoyed every single second of it. The junction in the video? Went through there a couple of times because I tend to lose my way when I'm not focused ;).
- 14 July 2010 at 01:02