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Monetary – Determined by US FOMC policy. Dovish, Neutral or Hawkish. Up to 10% long.Fiscal – Determined by US Fiscal policy. Up to 10% long.Timing – Long/Short off of wave count / Fibonacci projections. Short, neutral or long. 10% short, neutral or 10% long.Based on Sea Change Long-Term Indicator:Global Equities: 30% long or 30% cashUS Small Caps: 10% long or 10% cashEmerging Markets: 10% long or 10% cashTechnology: 0% - 10% long off of FAANG chartsFinancials: 10% long or 10% cash off of XLF chartCurrent Read:Monetary Indicator: Long 8% DJ Industrials proxyFiscal Indicator: Long 8% Russell MidCap Growth proxyTiming Long / Short Indicator: Short 8% of ARKKGlobal Equities – 14.4% long with SPY slot 9.6% long with IEV9.6% in cash with PacRim slotUS Small Caps – 8% long with IWMEmerg. Mkts – 8% long with EEMTechnology – Long 8% FAANG proxy (QQQ)Financials – CashEnergy – Cash with 10% in energy moneyGold / Silver – Short 5% in GLD and short 5% in AGQNet 45.6% long exposureSea Change Opportunistic Indicator:The current reading is 0.91. Waiting for next "buy" signal (north of 1.20 is the primer). When it does give us a "buy" signal, we'll go "all in" with equity money.
Monetary – Determined by US FOMC policy. Dovish, Neutral or Hawkish. Up to 10% long.
Fiscal – Determined by US Fiscal policy. Up to 10% long.
Timing – Long/Short off of wave count / Fibonacci projections. Short, neutral or long. 10% short, neutral or 10% long.
Based on Sea Change Long-Term Indicator:
Global Equities: 30% long or 30% cash
US Small Caps: 10% long or 10% cash
Emerging Markets: 10% long or 10% cash
Technology: 0% - 10% long off of FAANG charts
Financials: 10% long or 10% cash off of XLF chart
Current Read:
Monetary Indicator: Long 8% DJ Industrials proxy
Fiscal Indicator: Long 8% Russell MidCap Growth proxy
Timing Long / Short Indicator: Short 8% of ARKK
Global Equities – 14.4% long with SPY slot 9.6% long with IEV9.6% in cash with PacRim slot
US Small Caps – 8% long with IWM
Emerg. Mkts – 8% long with EEM
Technology – Long 8% FAANG proxy (QQQ)
Financials – Cash
Energy – Cash with 10% in energy money
Gold / Silver – Short 5% in GLD and short 5% in AGQ
Net 45.6% long exposure
Sea Change Opportunistic Indicator:
The current reading is 0.91. Waiting for next "buy" signal (north of 1.20 is the primer). When it does give us a "buy" signal, we'll go "all in" with equity money.

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One of the Main projects of the Cemetery Restoration Workshop was restoring a unique gravesite belonging to Mollie Ophella Napier, daughter of William D. Napier & Annie M. "Haley" Napier. Mollie died September 29, 1884, at 1 year, 10 months, and 2 Days. What makes this "small project" unique is that it's made of 5 pieces of marble. This one project turned out to be a rather a larger task than first thought, but this restoration has added decades to this unique gravesite.
The following is a sequence of the restoration process. Click to enlarge pictures
|Checking Depth of Tombstone
|Removing the Foot-Stone
|Removing the Sunken Headstone
|Using a Block & Tack to Save Tired Backs
|Foot-Stone Removed
|Headstone & Side-Rail Made of White Marble
|Digging & Leveling Trench
|Adding Sand & Gravel to Foundation
|Setting Side-Rail in Place
|Leveling Side-Rail
|Refitting Mortise & Tenon Joints In Place
|Applying Compound To Hold Tombstone
|Leveling Tombstone
|Sand Added to Grave Top
|Rest in Sweet Peace Mollie


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EA Tiburon called us out. They were gonna bring the noise, the ruckuss and the funk into our house and kick us down the stairs. They threw down the gauntlet, delivered a glove slap and snapped on the lubricated rubber glove of probing insult. It was on.
OK, not really. What actually happened is some of the Tiburon team wanted to play a Humpday so they messaged Frankie and we set it up. But, something smelled fishy, something just seemed off about their challenge. Chicanery? Ringers?
It just wouldn't be a Humpday without them.
The Bungie BenchwarmersNew0001 – Joe Tung, Fighter in DisguiseEamon – Eamon McKenzie, Mr. Consistent, Mr. OverkillFrankie – Still only playing one-handedAbe Froman SK – Luke Timmins, taking a break from vacationThug Larz – Oh, Lars!TJ Scoot – Scrub-filled cookie
EA Tiburon's Tight End
CallsignJester – Andrew WalengaTickity – Kendall BoydJorsneezy – Jorge UrbanCallsignIceman – Secret Ringer dudeAntwaan3000 – Anthony StevensonBiggest Aho – Jeff Aho
Game 1
Territories, Last ResortTone of Game: Zone Blitzing
"So, what do you guys want to play first?" "Well, we know Lukems wants to play Slayer, so we're going to choose Territories on Last Resort."
We let EA pick first, and headed off to the beachside landing of Last Resort. When Lars came up to the water cooler this morning for some chat about the Humpday Challenge from the night last hence, he pointed out the tactical mistake in taking Territories on Last Resort. See, Eamon, Froman, Lars and New have all been playing Territories on Last Resort for the last year and a half, with sinewy strategies constricting like an Anaconda. There was suffocation, there was begging for mercy, but we were fresh out of mercy last night. "This is for killing Joe Montana Sports Talk Football," said I, in an icy monotone.
Final Score: 9-3Watch the Film (Film is slot 12)
Game 2
Team Slayer, ValhallaTone of Game: Cover 2 Flex, DE QB Spy
There are vehicles everywhere on the map. Wraiths, Banshees, Warthogs, Mongooses. Trouble and death awaits you at every turn, if you aren't wearing Recon Helmet and there isn't a Bungie logo next to your name in the pre-game lobby. Somewhere during this game, Eamon had an Overkill, the stats told me so, but I didn't realize it in game, because Eamon didn't announce it to the entire group in the style of Joe Tung.
Jester went back to our base and took our Sniper rifle and camped and tried to mount a comeback, but in the end, the EA Tib fellas were the ones with Spartan taint blotting out their setting sun of dashed hopes.
Final Score: 100-47Watch the Film (look for it Bungie Favorites later today!)
Game 3
Neutral Bomb, SandtrapTone of Game: Engage Eight
We talked about trying something on Guardian, but agreed it might be a little too compact and bijou for the 12-man roster we had tonight, so we figured we'd head over to Sandtrap for Game 3. I wanted to play Team Slayer, but I was experiencing a new Humpday emotion in the wake of our two massacres, guilt. See, this might be the first time since Halo 3 shipped that I've felt like we might have brought guns to a knife fight and there was a small part of me that felt bad.
I killed that part of me and we agreed to play Neutral Bomb on Sandtrap. At one point in the match someone on our team yelled, "Oh my God, they are going to score." Which was the trap, we'd taken their Behemoth, moved it "into position." And then we planted three times in succession. So much for emotion.
Final Score: 3-1Watch the Film (Film is in slot 6)
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Fix your -blam!-, Bungle!
So, yeah, This week's Double EXP Weekend is running a little behind. I blame Ninja 0n Fire. (He tells me that some fairly large updates are being deployed and as a result, we'll likely not see the Double EXP Weekend go live until tomorrow, or, *gulp* "later").
When it is ready to go, we'll let you know.
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Looks like ubald unleashed another render over at HBO. This one's a WIP and part of a much larger collection that will ultimately serve as a webcomic. But you should check it out now.
ubald: Halo Rendered Comic
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Faux Chief.
This week's Steve's getting all Batman on some Scarab carapace.
Chronicles of ODS Steve: Faux Chief (#81)
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Anoj didn't submit his latest entry to Comm Chatter, but they gang at HBO picked up the slack. Besides, even without Anoj's familiar wordplay, we all know what this video's about anyway. There's like ten kills. You can submit your own for next week if you're astute enough to figure out how to make it happen.
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MESA, Ariz. -- Steve Clevenger wasn't real pleased last season when Welington Castillo got more playing time with the Cubs, and used that to motivate him this offseason.
Clevenger had made the Cubs' 25-man roster out of Spring Training one year ago to back up Geovany Soto. Once Soto was traded to the Rangers, Castillo started getting more starts. Did that upset Clevenger?
"Yeah," he said. "At the same time, [Castillo's] a good player. I know it's a competition. I'm not going to root against anybody. But it did light a fire under my butt a little bit."
Castillo heads into this season as the Cubs' No. 1 catcher and veteran Dioner Navarro is the backup. Clevenger went to work this offseason and followed a program designed by strength coach Tim Buss. He added 15 pounds of "good weight."
"My second year catching, it was the first time I was over 200 [pounds], and I felt like I was too big," Clevenger said. "This year, I stretched every day and did my running. Flexibility is big. When you're going to put on weight, you have to stretch and do your running and everything, and that way you come in feeling good.
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Another day, another iPad 3 rumour, this time that while the gadget will indeed sport a display with a higher resolution than the iPad 2 has, other specs will not change.
According to analyst Craig Berger of US investment house FBR Capital Markets, what World+Dog is calling the 'iPad 3' will in fact be the 'iPad 2 Plus'.
That tallies with a squeak from the start of the year that the next version of the fondleslab, said to be due now as then in September, will be a kind of 'iPad HD' unit.
Berger's mole says the new model is all about upping the pixel density from the current 132ppi to 250-300ppi.
If Apple is to be nice to developers, that means doubling the horizontal and vertical resolutions from 768 x 1024 to 1536 x 2048.
Doubling the dimensions is what Apple did when moving from the iPhone 3GS' 320 x 480 screen to the iPhone 4's 640 x 960 panel. The iOS SDK (software development kit) allows developers to incorporate images tagged '@2x' and the OS automatically displays these on higher-resolution displays.
Meanwhile, market watcher GfK reckons the iPad 3 - or iPad 2+, or iPad HD, or whatever - won't actually ship until Q1 2012, presumably as a direct, year-on successor to the iPad 2, we hear. ®


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Most of the Orioles had already cleaned out their lockers at Camden Yards by Saturday afternoon, when just a few stragglers were tossing their possessions into cardboard boxes to mark the symbolic end to baseball in Baltimore this season.
Outside, a few dozen fans still lingered for one final sight of their favorite players. Executive vice president Dan Duquette stopped by to sign autographs.
The Orioles had a remarkable turnaround in 2012 — going from 93 losses in 2011 to 93 wins in the regular season, then falling just one win short of playing for the American League title — but the finality had hit manager Buck Showalter. This team — as is existed on the field this season — was forever done.
Changes will be made in the offseason. It's the nature of the game.
"That's what's so sad," Showalter said about his final talks with individual players. "You see them and they know it. It gets emotional. You got through that many things together and you've got to summon some real strong will to get through some of those conversations. This game has a way. Everyone crosses paths, but it's tough. Coming in here, I wasn't in a hurry. You try to give every guy the time they deserve, but if you did that it'd be three hours to every guy."
If their greatest accomplishment this season was giving the long suffering baseball fans of Baltimore something to cheer about after 14 straight losing seasons, their next step is not only sustaining it, but competing for a championship. Long a cellar-dweller, the Orioles hope to become an annual contender.
Meeting with reporters on Saturday, a day after the Orioles' season-ending 3-1 loss to the Yankees in Game 5 of the American League Division Series, Duquette talked about mirroring this Orioles rebirth after the one his mentor, Harry Dalton, used to build the original Orioles powers of the mid-60 to early '70s.
"We took a giant step forward this year, and we re-energized the fan base, improving the number of games we won was significant," Duquettte said. "Buck had a good foundation of pieces here, and we've continued to build on that so we can have a winning organization. Not just a good team for this year but a foundation on which we can build on so we can have a good team year in and year out.
"That's really the Oriole way," Duquette added. "It's the same way that they built the great Oriole teams, and we are doing the same thing now. So that we have a core group of players on this ballclub and we can have them together for a few years and we can take another run at the championship."
On Friday night, Managing partner Peter Angelos gave both Duquette and Showalter strong endorsements, even opening the door on an extension for Showalter.
"I have a contract for next year," said Showalter, 56, who is scheduled to have partial knee replacement surgery on his right knee this week. "We've got people in our country and in our city, they don't know what's going on tomorrow. The organization committed to me long before that had to. They had a great deal of faith in me. … I've fallen in love with this city. We'll see what happens. That would be an honor. You take every job with the idea that it's going to be your last."
The Orioles' coaching staff should remain nearly the same.
In the end, the Orioles didn't have enough clutch bats or a shutdown ace. But Duquette said that if the Orioles are to improve, it will be by building around cornerstone players like Adam Jones and Matt Wieters. He pointed to the signing of left-hander Wei-Yin Chen from Japan and the August trade for left-hander Joe Saunders as moves that they will continue to make to improve the club.
As for a big-ticker free-agent acquisition?
"I've said all along the way to build a good ballclub is from the ground up," Duquette said. "lt's not from the top down. Having said that, we signed a couple free agents last year that did a good job. ... So, we are always looking for opportunity, but I'm going to tell you this: The core players are going to come from our minor league system. The really good ballplayers. And we've got a couple of them on the horizon that can help our pitching staff."
By that he's referring to top pitching prospects Dylan Bundy and Kevin Gausman. Bundy made his major league debut in September, and Gausman — the No. 3 overall pick in this year's draft — is on the fast track to Baltimore.
The Orioles must decide whether to pick up Mark Reynolds' $11 million option for 2013. Reynolds was streaky at the plate, as expected — his power surge in the final two months of the season helped carry the Orioles through some tough spots — and he developed into a plus defender at first.
They overcame injuries to key players like Nick Markakis and Nolan Reimold with reclamation projects like Nate McLouth. But now McLouth, who resuscitated his career here and was the team's best hitter in the postseason, could get rewarded handsomely on the free agent market.
In the moments after the Orioles' season ending loss, both Reynolds and McLouth said they want to stay, but can they?
Duquette promises to make the moves that will keep the Orioles a contender.
"My philosophy is, if you have a good team, you get to the postseason and you knock on the door and one of the times you're going to get through," he said. "This year we knocked on the door, we didn't get quite get through, but we took a big step forward."


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- Government Communications Headquarters
Government Communications Headquarters GCHQ Agency overview Formed 1919 as Government Code and Cypher School Preceding agency MI1b (Army) and NID25 (Royal Navy) Jurisdiction Government of the United Kingdom Headquarters GCHQ, Cheltenham, United Kingdom Minister responsible The Rt. Hon. William Hague MP, Foreign Secretary Agency executive Iain Lobban, Director Parent agency Foreign and Commonwealth Office Website gchq.gov.uk
The Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) is a British intelligence agency responsible for providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) and information assurance to the UK government and armed forces. Based in Cheltenham, it operates under the guidance of the Joint Intelligence Committee.
CESG (originally Communications-Electronics Security Group) is the branch of GCHQ which works to secure the communications and information systems of the government and critical parts of UK national infrastructure.
GCHQ was originally established after World War I as the Government Code and Cypher School (GCCS or GC&CS), by which name it was known until 1946.
GCHQ is the responsibility of the UK Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, but it is not a part of the Foreign Office, and its Director ranks as a Permanent Secretary.
- 1 Structure
- 2 History
- 4 International relationships
- 5 Constitutional legal case
- 6 Leadership
- 7 See also
- 8 References
- 9 Further reading
- 10 External links
GCHQ is led by the Director of GCHQ, currently Iain Lobban, and a Corporate Board, made up of Executive and Non-Executive Directors. Reporting to the Corporate Board is Sigint missions (comprising Maths & cryptoanalysis, IT & computer systems, Linguists & translation and the Intelligence analysis unit), Enterprise (comprising Applied Research & emerging technologies, Corporate knowledge & information systems, Commercial supplier relationships and Biometrics), Corporate management (comprising Enterprise resource planning, Human resources, Internal audit and the Architecture team) and the Communications-Electronics Security Group.[2]
Government Code and Cypher School (GCCS)
During the First World War, Britain's Army and Navy had separate signals intelligence agencies, MI1b and NID25 (initially known as Room 40) respectively.[3] In 1919, the Cabinet's Secret Service Committee, chaired by Lord Curzon, recommended that a peace-time codebreaking agency should be created, a task given to the then-Director of Naval Intelligence, Hugh Sinclair.[4] Sinclair merged staff from NID25 and MI1b into the new organisation, which initially consisted of around 25–30 officers and a similar number of clerical staff.[5] It was titled the "Government Code and Cypher School", a cover-name chosen by Victor Forbes of the Foreign Office.[6] Alastair Denniston, who had been a member of NID25, was appointed as its operational head.[4] It was initially under the control of the Admiralty, and located in Watergate House, Adelphi, London.[4] Its public function was "to advise as to the security of codes and cyphers used by all Government departments and to assist in their provision," but also had a secret directive to "study the methods of cypher communications used by foreign powers."[7] GCCS officially formed on 1 November 1919,[8] and produced its first decrypt on 19 October.[4]
Before the Second World War, GCCS was a relatively small department. By 1922, the main focus of GCCS was on diplomatic traffic, with "no service traffic ever worth circulating"[9] and so, at the initiative of Lord Curzon, it was transferred from the Admiralty to the Foreign Office.[10] GCCS came under the supervision of Hugh Sinclair, who by 1923 was both the Chief of SIS and Director of GCCS.[4] In 1925, both organisations were co-located on different floors of Broadway Buildings, opposite St. James's Park.[4] Messages decrypted by GCCS were distributed in blue jacketed files that became known as "BJs".[11]
In the 1920s, GCCS was successfully reading Soviet Union diplomatic ciphers. However, in May 1927, during a row over clandestine Soviet support for the General Strike and the distribution of subversive propaganda, Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin made details from the decrypts public.[12]Main article: Ultra (cryptography)
During the Second World War, GCCS was based largely at Bletchley Park in present-day Milton Keynes working on, most famously, the German Enigma machine and Lorenz ciphers, but also a large number of other systems. In 1940, GCCS was working on the diplomatic codes and ciphers of 26 countries, tackling over 150 diplomatic cryptosystems.[13] Senior staff included Alastair Denniston, Oliver Strachey, Dilly Knox, John Tiltman, Edward Travis, Ernst Fetterlein, Josh Cooper, Donald Michie, Alan Turing, Max Newman, William Tutte, I. J. (Jack) Good, Peter Calvocoressi and Hugh Foss.
An outstation in the Far East, the Far East Combined Bureau was set up in Hong Kong in 1935, and moved to Singapore in 1939. Subsequently with the Japanese advance down the Malay Peninsular, the Army and RAF codebreakers went to the Wireless Experimental Centre in Delhi, India. The Navy codebreakers in FECB went to Colombo, Ceylon, then to Kilindini, near Mombasa, Kenya.
GCCS was renamed the "Government Communications Headquarters" in June 1946.[14]
After World War II
GCHQ was at first based in Eastcote, but in 1951[15] moved to the outskirts of Cheltenham, setting up two sites there — Oakley and Benhall. GCHQ had a very low profile in the media until 1983 when the trial of Geoffrey Prime, a KGB mole within GCHQ, created considerable media interest.[16]
Since the days of WWII, US and British intelligence have shared information. For the GCHQ this means that it shares information, and gets information from, the National Security Agency (NSA) in the US.[17]
Public key encryption
Early in the 1970s, the asymmetric key algorithm was invented by staff member Clifford Cocks, a mathematics graduate: this fact was kept secret until 1997.[18]
Trade union disputes
In 1984, GCHQ was the centre of a political row when the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher prohibited its employees from belonging to a Trade Union. It was claimed that joining such a union would be in conflict with national security. Appeals to British Courts and European Commission of Human Rights[19] were unsuccessful. Appeal to the ILO resulted in a decision that government's actions were in violation of Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention.[20] The ban was eventually lifted by the incoming Labour government in 1997, with the Government Communications Group of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) Union being formed to represent interested employees at all grades.[21] In 2000, a group of 14 former GCHQ employees, who had been dismissed after refusing to give up their union membership, were offered re-employment, which three of them accepted.[22]
Post Cold War
Since 1994, GCHQ activities have been subject to scrutiny by Parliament's Intelligence and Security Committee. Post-Cold War, the aims of GCHQ were set out by the Intelligence Services Act 1994.[23]
At the end of 2003, GCHQ moved to a new circular HQ (popularly known as 'the Doughnut'): at the time, it was the second-largest public-sector building project in Europe, with an estimated cost of £337 million.[24] The new building, which was designed by Gensler and constructed by Carillion,[25] is the base for all of GCHQ's Cheltenham operations.
The public spotlight fell on GCHQ in late 2003 and early 2004 following the sacking of Katharine Gun after she leaked to The Observer a confidential email from agents at the American National Security Agency addressed to GCHQ agents about the wire-tapping of UN delegates in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war.[26]
GCHQ gains its intelligence by monitoring a wide variety of communications and other electronic signals. For this, a number of stations have been established in the UK and overseas. The listening stations are at Cheltenham itself, Bude, Ascension Island, with the U.S.A., at Menwith Hill.[27] Ayios Nikolaos Station in Cyprus is run by the British Armed Forces for GCHQ.[28]
In March 2010, GCHQ was embroiled in controversy after it emerged it had lost 35 laptops, potentially containing highly sensitive national intelligence data.[29]
The Communications-Electronics Security Group (CESG) of GCHQ provides assistance to government departments on their own communications security: CESG is the UK national technical authority for information assurance, including cryptography. CESG does not manufacture security equipment, but works with industry to ensure the availability of suitable products and services, while GCHQ itself can fund research into such areas, for example to the Centre for Quantum Computing at Oxford University and the Heilbronn Institute at Bristol University.[30]
CESG runs a number of schemes such as CHECK, CLAS, and CAPS.[31]
International relationships
GCHQ operates in partnership with equivalent agencies worldwide in a number of bi-lateral and multi-lateral relationships. The principal of these is with the United States (National Security Agency), Canada (Communications Security Establishment), Australia (Defence Signals Directorate) and New Zealand (Government Communications Security Bureau), through the mechanism of the UK-US Security Agreement, a broad intelligence sharing agreement encompassing a range of intelligence collection methods.
Relationships are alleged to include shared collection methods, such as the system described in the popular media as ECHELON,[32] as well as analysed product.
Constitutional legal case
A controversial GCHQ case determined the scope of judicial review of prerogative powers (the Crown's residual powers under common law). This was Council of Civil Service Unions v Minister for the Civil Service [1985] AC 374 (often known simply as the "GCHQ case"). In this case, a prerogative Order in Council had been used by the prime minister (who is the Minister for the Civil Service) to ban trade union activities by civil servants working at GCHQ. This order was issued without consultation. The House of Lords had to decide whether this was reviewable by judicial review. It was held that executive action is not immune from judicial review simply because it uses powers derived from common law rather than statute (thus the prerogative is reviewable). Controversially, they also held that although the failure to consult was unfair, this was overridden by concerns of national security.
The following is a list of the heads of the operational heads of GCHQ and GCCS:
- Alastair Denniston CMG CBE (1921 – February 1942) (continued as Deputy Director (Diplomatic and Commercial) until 1945).
- Sir Edward Travis KCMG CBE (February 1942 – 1952)
- Sir Eric Jones KCMG CB CBE (April 1952 – 1960)
- Sir Clive Loehnis KCMG (1960–1964)
- Sir Leonard Hooper KCMG CBE (1965–1973)
- Sir Arthur Bonsall KCMG CBE (1973–1978)
- Sir Brian John Maynard Tovey KCMG (1978–1983)
- Sir Peter Marychurch KCMG (1983–1989)
- Sir John Anthony Adye KCMG (1989–1996)
- Sir David Omand GCB (July 1996 – December 1997)
- Sir Kevin Tebbit KCB CMG (January–July 1998)
- Sir Francis Richards KCMG CVO DL (July 1998 – April 2003)
- Sir David Pepper KCMG (April 2003 – July 2008)
- Iain Lobban CB (July 2008–present)
See also
- RAF Intelligence
- RAF Digby
- Zircon, the cancelled GCHQ satellite project
- Hugh Alexander– head of the cryptanalysis division at GCHQ from 1949–1971
- Geoffrey Prime, a former employee of GCHQ, convicted both of spying for the Soviet Union and of sexual offences involving children.
- Capenhurst
- National Security Agency
- ^ Gloucestershire Echo, 23 July 1998, p. 3
- ^ Aldrich, p. 565
- ^ Johnson, p. 27
- ^ a b c d e f Johnson, 1997, p. 44
- ^ Johnson, 1997, p. 45 and Kahn, 1991, p. 82; these sources give different numbers for the initial size of the GCCS staff
- ^ Macksey, Kenneth (2003). The Searchers: Radio Intecept in Two World Wars. Cassell. p. 58. ISBN 0-304-36545-9.
- ^ Michael Smith, "GC&CS and the First Cold War," p. 16-17 in Action this Day edited by Ralph Erskine and Michael Smith, 2001
- ^ Kahn, 1991, p. 82
- ^ Alastair G. Denniston, "The Government Code and Cypher School Between the Wars", Intelligence and National Security 1(1), January 1986, pp 48–70
- ^ Smith, 2001, pp. 20–21
- ^ Smith, 2001, pp. 18–19
- ^ Aldrich, p. 18
- ^ David Alvarez, GC&CS and American Diplomatic Cryptanalysis
- ^ Smith, Michael (1998). Station X. Channel 4 books. p. 176. ISBN 0-330-41929-3.
- ^ "History of GCHQ Cheltenham". GCHQ website 'About Us' pages. Archived from the original on October 5, 2006. http://web.archive.org/web/20061005175413/http://www.gchq.gov.uk/about/moving5.html. Retrieved 29 June 2006.
- ^ Aldrich, p. 382
- ^ Dirty Diplomacy, Craig Murray, 2007, Scribner, p 332
- ^ Unsung Heroes of Cryptography The Sunday Telegraph
- ^ EComHR Inadmissibility decision of EComHR on application no. 11603/85
- ^ EComHR Inadmissibility decision of EComHR on application no. 11603/85 — The Facts, para. IV
- ^ "Union representation". GCHQ website. http://www.gchq.gov.uk/recruitment/union.html. Retrieved 12 April 2006.
- ^ "Sacked GCHQ workers win compensation". BBC News. 1 February 2000. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/627574.stm. Retrieved 12 April 2006.
- ^ Stephen Twigge, Edward Hampshire, Graham Macklin, British Intelligence, p87, The National Archives 2008, ISBN 978-1-905615-00-1
- ^ "Industry projects: GCHQ". designbuild-network website. http://www.designbuild-network.com/projects/gchq/. Retrieved 12 April 2006.
- ^ Carillion set for growth BBC News, 19 September 2000
- ^ Aldrich, p. 521
- ^ Campbell, Duncan, Phone tappers and the state, New Statesman, 1981, p.54
- ^ Aldrich, p. 471
- ^ "'Cavalier' GCHQ online spy centre loses 35 laptops". Computerworld UK. 12 March 2010. http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/government-law/public-sector/news/index.cfm?newsid=19344.
- ^ "Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research". http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/research/labs/heilbronn/.
- ^ "Information Assurance & Consultancy Services (IACS)". http://www.cesg.gov.uk/products_services/iacs/index.shtml. Retrieved 2010-11-02.
- ^ Schmid, Gerhard (11 July 2001). "On the existence of a global system for the interception of private and commercial communications (ECHELON interception system) – Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System, (2001/2098(INI))" (pdf – 194 pages). European Parliament: Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System. http://www.fas.org/irp/program/process/rapport_echelon_en.pdf. Retrieved 27 March 2008.
Further reading
- Richard J. Aldrich, GCHQ: The Uncensored Story of Britain's Most Secret Intelligence Agency, HarperCollins 2010
- John Johnson, The Evolution of British Sigint: 1653–1939, 1997
- David Kahn, Seizing the Enigma: The Race to Break the German U-Boats Codes, 1939-1943, Houghton Mifflin 1991
External links
- Official website
- Her Majesty's Government Communications Centre
- Communications-Electronics Security Group (CESG)
- GovCertUK
- GCHQ: Britain's Most Secret Intelligence Agency
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McDaniel appeared before a joint meeting of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees on Wednesday.
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Didn't Jefferson grow cannabis???
Hey thanks man!
I actually did some research of my own on the subject and ran across something quite interesting...
This ranks up there with the snub of Leroi at the Grammies! How dare these "academics" downgrade TJ's rightful spot at the Pinnacle of Greatness!
I can't imagine why JFk is 6th unless the space program got him huge increase. He got us into Vietnam for goodness sake.
Kennedy dealt with a number of crises with aplomb and, had he survived, he probably would have managed the crisis in Vietnam with far more finesse than LBJ did. However, it is his early death that helps explain his lofty rating. I agree that he probably shouldn't be higher than Jefferson.
Had he lived longer there is ample evidence and speculation that his reputation would have been severely damaged by revelations of his lifestyle; a lifestyle that was severely whitewashed in the immediate aftermath of his early death.
Really? We can't think of ANY reason why TJ's reputation is in decline? There's practically an industry now devoted to representing him solely as a horny slave-schtupper. We're lucky he even made the top ten considering.
Then again, Steven Spielberg is making a Lincoln pic with Liam Neeson in the main role and Sally Field as nutty ol' Mary Todd. If Harvey Fierstein appears as Joshua Speed - LOL - we'll definitely topple Lincoln.
Historians are already beginning to judge President G.W. Bush's presidency. 7th worst president of all time, worst president since Warren G. Harding, and 25th best at crisis management. Ouch.
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I have YouTube banned in my system. How can I enable it?
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Looking for an Ubuntu specific solution, how to disable/enable it?
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I have YouTube banned in my system. How can I enable it?
I tried to lookup for it in
/etc/hosts.deny file but couldn't locate it.
Looking for an Ubuntu specific solution, how to disable/enable it?
does modifying
hosts.deny helps or not?
I'm not sure that this is the right place to ask that question, since it's got nothing to do with Ubuntu (or any specific OS for that matter), BUT... Since it's already there, I might as well answer you :)
A note first: Before anyone thinks that it is 'not right' to try to circumvent a rule like this, there can actually exist a number of situations when there is no other way to access somethings that are otherwise completely legal and allowed and there's nothing wrong in doing so or trying to do so. I myself have had an awful opportunity to live in a place where so many convenient websites are blocked on a country level (I'm talking about Skype and Flickr and things like that, completely harmless). Also, rational people should not be approving any kind of restrictions, and grown-ups need to be responsible for their own actions.
Depending on the method used to block the content, there might be one or more methods (or none :) ) that you can use. The first thing that I'd suggest is trying to use a proxy server. You can do it in several ways. The best place to start would be Hide My Ass. There you can:
You can also find many useful instructions on that website.
A second solution is to use Tor project and its Vidalia tool. Basically, it's a shared connection tool. You have several options there too.
There is some great documentation on Vidalia's website, but if you're having trouble with it, feel free to leave a comment here.
Another possible solution that I just remembered might help you is to download and install Opera desktop browser. When you open Opera, enable its Opera Turbo feature. Opera Turbo is a traffic compression tool by Opera, but by nature it uses Opera's proxy servers. That might be handy.
Finally, also in Opera, you have a feature to browse internet in a 'Private tab'. I'm really not sure if that will help, but it's worth mentioning. I also have no idea if any other browser has this feature. To enable private browsing in Opera, click on Opera button > Tabs and Windows > New private tab, and browse away :)
https instead of
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https but when i executed the command
wget https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StJLvbPIvTw in Terminal it gave the following response:-
--2013-03-04 13:09:28-- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StJLvbPIvTw Resolving www.youtube.com (www.youtube.com)... 18.104.22.168, 188.8.131.52, 22.214.171.124, ... Connecting to www.youtube.com (www.youtube.com)|18.104.22.168|:443... connected. Unable to establish SSL connection.
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Friday, October 15, 2010
Failure 101
It's Friday. What can I say? My life is just getting back to normal.
I forgot something in Wednesday's blog - the signs. As I was running ,thinking things were going fairly smoothly and that I might not have anything to write about, I started to memorized some of the crazy signs that people were holding up. It seemed that I had a bunch of them memorized but after my "passing out" episode, it seems they all didn't stay in my brain. Here are a few that I can remember.
"It takes an idiot to run, but it takes a special idiot to run a marathon."
"You are doing fine; your nipples aren't bleeding yet."
"Your legs will forgive you... eventually."
"Mortuary ahead... look alive."
Then I saw this shirt that said, "Dear God, let someone be slower than me so they can read this shirt." I'm looking down at my toes and one of my toenails is coming off because of this run.
Okay now that you are awake...
I started this blog almost three years ago to try to make people feel less alone in this crazy thing they call dentistry. I use to read the magazines and feel so insecure because I wasn't producing $4,000,000 in a three-day week. I used to go to the annual meetings and talk to my lying friends about how it was going and apparently I was the only one that didn't have it all together.
It appears to me that I have done the same thing to you guys. I talk about things that go wrong in the office but I rarely talk about things that go wrong in the operatory, and there are reasons for that.
First, it doesn't happen very often. I am talking about catastrophic failures. Sure, I get the marginal ridges chipping off one of my fillings or a two year old filling that looks like crap, But on this one I am talking about the "Oh S!#t, I have to tell the patient something went wrong."
Second, I don't like to talk about it. I think this is definitely a problem. I want you to think that I have it all together. I want you to like me and think I am funny. If you think I am great at teeth and you like me and think I am funny then I am in blogger's utopia. But we all know there are cracks in this armor. Or maybe you don't, because I haven't told you.
About two years back, I wrote a blog telling you how I pulled the wrong tooth but I quickly took it down after about 4 hours. I was embarrassed. It was a kid. The script from the orthodontist said to take all of her laterals out except one (so I didn't really take out the wrong tooth, just one I wasn't supposed to). See, she was born without #10 and the orthodontist was going to save #G through the first phase of ortho. Not after I got ahold of her.
I didn't read the script right; simple as that. But does anyone really like to to just admit they screwed up? Would that make me less credible? In a place where there are a lot of your dentist friends around and you tell that story, do they understand where you are coming from or do they start to distance themselves from you? I have got to think the latter.
Well, last Friday I did it again. Twice in three years, that's not too bad right? Are you distancing yourself from me yet?
My father sees this patient for the first time. He has two teeth broken down to the gum line that are unrestorable. #18 is a long tooth. It has post endo of 40 years (with silver points in the mesial roots). You know what that means - that tooth is not coming out easily. Even my oral surgeon told me that teeth like this break like a cracker.
To all you non-dental people, let me explain. After a tooth has a root canal it loses its vitality and becomes more brittle, and because it has no life in it, something happens to the tooth bone interaction. The tooth starts to become one with the bone over time. So you have to cut the bone away from the tooth sometimes to loosen it up.
I talked to the patient at length about how this tooth was going to break. And we would do our best to get it all out. There was a good chance this tooth was going to break and we were going to have to make a decision on whether to go after a root tip or not.
So we began and it went about as expected. I would get a purchase point and it would break. Things were not very stressful because it was going about as we expected. It got so far down that I asked my assistant if we had any longer burs. This was my mistake. I never use the longer carbide burs and I don't have a real good feel for how they cut (I usually use a diamond to cut through bone). I started blasting away and got a little farther down and the root broke again. It was at this point, I told him that we were going to stop because I didn't want to cut anymore. I thought we got enough of the tooth out that it wasn't going to cause any issues. He was fine with it.
I suggested that we take an X-ray to see how much was left. I told him that if there was too much tooth left he was going to have to see an oral surgeon. Very clear lines of communication at this point.
I stepped out of the room as my assistant took a quick picture of the tooth.
I came back in and this is what I saw:
(marinate on that for a second)
Are you thinking of distancing yourself from me? Am I losing my credibility with you?
Okay, so I knew the next couple of minutes with this patient would be crucial. We were looking at this X-ray together and full disclosure is a MUST (at least it is to me).
I told him what appeared to have happened. I told him that I must have angled the bur the wrong way and clipped the adjacent tooth. I told him it was on me, that if he ever had any issues with this tooth that I would take care of it. I told him that in two weeks I was going to bring him back and see what I can do about filling in the hole that I created. I told him that I thought it was going to be okay and if it isn't I would take care of it.
I said it very casually so as not to get his hear rate up, even though I had some pretty good butt sweat going. He was totally okay. I, on the other hand, was a basket case. I hate this. I like sharing successes with people. I don't like having to disclose things like this to people. It ruined my day. I haven't stopped thinking about it since. But I guess it is supposed to feel like this. It is supposed to hurt because that is how you learn.
I hope this is going to make me more careful in the future. This is going to make me sharper because it will be in the back of my mind every time I pick up a bur during an oral surgery appointment.
I screwed up and I am going to learn from it. I still want you to like me. I still want you to think I am a good dentist. This is why people don't share in magazines or at a dental conference. It isn't easy, and it isn't fun. It kind of burns. Know that if you screw up, you are not alone, but it is going to burn. And if it doesn't burn then you need to look at yourself in the mirror and ask yourself why it isn't burning.
Sorry so heavy on a Friday.
Have a great weekend,
8 comments:
- Cesar said...
HUGE points for sharing this, and even more for stepping up and doing the right thing (i realize it's your professional obligation, but we both also know of cases where the pt has not been advised of a negative outcome or sequelea)
chin up! it's great that you have such a fantastic relationship with your patients that you can tell them the bad news, convey your feelings, and still have them "be cool" about it.
- October 15, 2010 at 10:08 AM
- Tom Gilbert said...
John, You handled this in the correct way. We all make mistakes, those of us who make them so seldom tend to dwell on the negative impact. I'm sure your patients and bloggers know what an honest, caring dentist you are. Congrats on finishing the marathon. I run the Columbus marathon on Sunday. The other day I was talking to a patient/friend and I almost numbed the wrong tooth, thankfully I have an awesome assistant who grabbed my arm. Whew! We can't be perfect all the time. Have a great weekend and keep up with the great blogs.
- October 15, 2010 at 12:35 PM
I want to say that I agree with the way you handled it. I too have had 'situations' that for whatever reason, be it my eagerness, inexperience or plain ignorance have not gone the way I wanted. I think honesty is the best policy, but I live in Canada where the dental business is not nearly as litigious as the US. I hope that you don't have any negative fallout from this, I know that you are always putting your best foot forward. That being said, I gotta say that from your radiograph, it appears that you went about this extraction the wrong way. Sectioning interproximally between the roots of 18, even at the expense of bone (which can be easily grafted) would have been much safer and then you could have used some leverage to luxate those roots slightly. In any case you hopefully will NOT have to pay for an implant on tooth 19. I love your blog, read it all the time. Keep up the good work and honesty, you are a credit to our profession.
Sorry for the criticism, but we are friends, are we not?
- October 15, 2010 at 4:25 PM
Great that you told the pt right away. Just put some Glass Ionomer in it and it should be fine. Or MTA would be even better.
Next time lay a flap and use the east, west or learn to use the osteotome and mallet.
- October 15, 2010 at 5:41 PM
- gatordmd said...
Of course we are friends.
And I am up for constructive criticism....and I appreciate it.
I am also a big proponent of separating the tooth. I started with that method and the roots wouldn't move. I then tried to remove more furcal bone and the tooth kept breaking. I then tried to remove bone all around the tooth to try to grab it with a forcept. This is when I got in trouble.
I appreciate you,
- October 19, 2010 at 10:06 AM
- Warren Bobinski said...
I really appreciate the way you write - you are a big influence on the way that I write! I enjoy the personal touch John - its' good to know that we are all human :)
I have spent much of the last week talking about this post in particular and I think there are several friends here that can appreciate what you do, as a matter of fact a couple of them are probably starting blogs themselves.
I have held several comments from the last few posts - but only because I couldn't post from my iPad! Probably something to do with flash, or whatever - I just couldn't read the captcha, so I took all the time to write - but couldn't post!
The summary would have been the same - keep doing what you are doing. Its' inspirational and motivational...
Warren Bobinski
Success in Dentistry and Life.
- October 19, 2010 at 5:45 PM
- gatordmd said...
Thanks Warren,
I am glad you are liking what I am doing. I just try to be me. That is all.
About your friends blogging....
We watch NBA guys and complain when they miss a wide open three point shot but when I go and shoot around I can't even shoot the ball that far with out throwing it.
What I trying to say is... we are professionals, we make it look easy.
Just kidding.
Hope they have success.
Talk to you later,
- October 19, 2010 at 8:52 PM
- rutcanal said...
But the real question is: What did you learn from this experience?
Would better visibility and better light have helped you locate the structures on which you were working ? Have you considered how, perhaps, a surgical operating microscope could have helped prior to the unfortunate iatrogenic misadventure?
Its no crime to make a mistake like this if that is all it takes for you to have a "Eureka" professional moment that makes you a better dentist.
Our patients deserve our absolute best, all the time.
"Do every case like its your last"
- October 22, 2010 at 11:00 PM
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A pedestrian was struck Wednesday afternoon by a green Mercedes, according to a dispatch from the Emergency Communications Center.
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Silly Harry... rich people don't walk. They all have segues.
So, "pedestrian hit by out of control seque" sounds much better..thanks!
Still the comments are great!
yes, but what color was the pedestrian?
"Rich" person driving a Mercedes? How do you come to that conclusion? Was the pedestrian "poor" becuase they were walking?
As I recall, Howard Hughes drove a piece of crap and was seen walking many times.
Why is this news? Do you post this stuff just to get Kevin Cox fired up?
I thought it was a speed bump. Damn. And here I just washed the car.
I drive a Dodge Stratus!!!
90% of the time, these dispatches are incorrect or injuries are very minor. I've probably been dispatched to 10 pedestrians hit, and only seen one bad injury.
Im confused, was the car green in color or going to Mcdonalds for a fill of veggie oil.
Did someone say something about humping?
Now I see...it was bumping. Is there a difference?
quote: Gerry Mitchell - don't look at me, man."
If I didn't jump in here with both feet joking and laughing about cop shoppe cars repeatedly running over pedestrians....
....the rest of you shouldn't either!!! :)
the driver was distracted frmm that loud rock and roll eminating from belmont...
i think its halarious that we can all link everything that is currently happening in the city to a ped hit by a rich person driving a mercedes. oh. and great job hawes on your story. great detail.
The best posts so far.....................comedy act, perhaps a movie!
WoW .. Very informative .. Lots of valuable information. Thanks!
Not news.....that gossip.
Great in-depth reporting.
Don't look at me, man.
Police refused to give further details as the incident is a "Personnel matter."
Maybe subliminal distraction was the cause.
Any reference to Mt Chipotle- we seek DETAILS
I think the cop shoppe is to blame. They have pretty much proven it's OK to run over pedestrians with immunity from any law(s). :)
More hard hitting reporting by Hawes. Are you sure Gary O'Connell isn't to blame!?!?
With the way most people drive and the brazen cluelessness of almost every pedestrian it's practically miraculous 3% of the city doesn't get mowed down daily. No, no, I don't need to hang up I'm only crossing a busy street.
Pedestrians be warned, it's a lot more than cars you need to watch out for.
A segue is a smooth transition from one topic or section to the next.
In music, "segue" (pronounced /Ã?Ë?sÃ?â?º¡weª/) is a direction to the performer. It means continue (the next section) without a pause. It comes from the Italian "it follows". The term attacca is also used in classical music.
In journalism, a segue is a method of smoothly transitioning from one topic to another. A segue allows the host or writer to naturally proceed to another topic without jarring the audience. A good segue makes the subject change seem like a natural extension of the discussion.
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The accident happened on Millmont behind the shopping center.
As the daughter of an 86 year old who regularly shops at Barracks Road with a cane, I really appreciate the Hook sharing this information with the public. Thank you.


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If you've visited my Etsy store you know I'm the coaster guy. I have coasters of every style under the sun but they only come in one shape: square.
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Men's Sinsinawa - Black
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Handcrafted, Made in USA
We're totally into this leather — a thick buffalo hide, milled to supple, and exhibiting a dramatic natural grain pattern that varies in size throughout the hide. These will break in almost immediately, conforming to the shape of your feet. The thick hide feels substantial, yet they're going to be as comfortable as your favorite pair of slippers.
Our single-sole moccasins are incredibly comfortable with a true barefoot feel. Slightly less structured than our more popular double-sole Cota moccasin, they're still meant for indoor/outdoor use. In northern climates, we consider these appropriate for three season use, spring through fall, but in southern climates they're perfect for year-round use. Consider these as a great alternative to flip-flops, sandals and athletic shoes.


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Justin Bieber shares his latest travel experiences in a new video that he posted on YouTube--and it has nothing to do with hitching a ride while sightseeing or even his new album. In this new confessional video, the Biebs gushes about his life-changing trip to Guatemala with Pencils of Promise.
Special funds raised by Justin's Believe Tour are helping to build a school for children living in poverty in Guatemala, and Justin was there to help get the construction started. Opening up in this sweet video, Justin admits that he wasn't always a belieber when it came tomaking a difference, saying, "I even think it's corny sometimes when people are like 'you know everybody can single-handedly make a difference.'" But after his "magical" experience in Guatemala, Justin wants all of his fans to know that they have the power, "no matter how old or young you are," to make a big difference. Check out the adorbs video for yourself--it'll totally make you see another side of Biebs. Spoiler alert: The vid includes an adorbs photo of Justin hugging a new little friend, Shelly, that will melt your heart.
Does Justin's new video confession inspire YOU to start giving? What will you do to create change? Let us know in the comments!