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Saturday, January 21, 2012
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Description: Deb spotted an Ikea hack on Apartment Therapy. Submitted by Kirstin, this play kitchen can be played with on all four sides. It's kinda like a kitchen island for kids. Also, more than one kid can play at a time. Nice. Yes, cooking (even pretend cooking) should be a social activity.
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Here is a look at the life of Britain's Prince Harry.
Personal: Birth date: September 15, 1984
Birthplace: London, England at St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington
Birth name: Prince Henry Charles Albert David
Father: Charles, the Prince of Wales
Mother: Diana, the Princess of Wales
Education: Eton College, 1998 - 2003; Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, 2005
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The insurance coverage provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will have a net cost of $1,168 billion over the 2012-2022 period—compared with $1,252 billion projected in March 2012 for that 11-year period—for a net reduction of $84 billion, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) announced yesterday.
The projected net savings to the federal government is a result from the Supreme Court's decision allowing states to choose whether or not to expand eligibility for coverage under their Medicaid programs. The reductions in spending from lower Medicaid enrollment are expected to more than offset the increase in costs from greater participation in the newly established exchanges. CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) now estimate that fewer people will be covered by the Medicaid program, more people will obtain health insurance through the newly established exchanges, and more people will be uninsured. The magnitude of those changes varies from year to year.
In 2022, for example, Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) are expected to cover about 6 million fewer people than previously estimated, about 3 million more people will be enrolled in exchanges, and about 3 million more people will be uninsured. These estimates are dominated by the movements of people losing eligibility for Medicaid. However, other smaller shifts in coverage also are expected to occur.
Federal spending over the 2012-2022 period for Medicaid and CHIP now is projected to be $289 billion less than previously expected, whereas the estimated costs of tax credits and other subsidies for the purchase of health insurance through the exchanges (and related spending) have risen by $210 billion. Small changes in other components of the budget estimates account for the remaining $5 billion of the difference.
The report issued yesterday does not include the budgetary impact of other provisions of the ACA.
Additionally, CBO and JCT found that the latest repeal bill (HR 6079) would cause a net increase in federal budget deficits of $109 billion over the 2013-2022 period. Specifically, they estimate that HR 6079 would reduce direct spending by $890 billion and reduce revenues by $1 trillion between 2013 and 2022, adding $109 billion to federal budget deficits over that period.
Older adults who have total hip replacement (THR) or total knee replacement (TKR) surgery are at an increased risk of heart attack, say authors of a study that included records of more than 95,000 Danish patients who underwent a primary THR or TKR from January 1, 1998, through December 31, 2007.
During the first 2 postoperative weeks, the risk of heart attack was substantially increased in THR patients compared with controls (adjusted hazard ratio [HR] 25.5). The risk remained elevated for 2 to 6 weeks after surgery (adjusted HR, 5.05) and then decreased to baseline levels. For patients with TKR the risk of heart attack also was increased during the first 2 weeks (adjusted HR, 30.9) but did not differ from controls after the first 2 weeks. The absolute 6-week risk of heart attack was 0.51% in patients with THR and 0.21% in patients with TKR.
The authors say the association was strongest in patients 80 years or older. They could not detect a significantly increased risk in patients younger than 60 years. Additionally, a history of heart attack in the 6 months before surgery increased the risk of new heart attack during the first 6 weeks after THR and TKR surgery, but it did not affect the relationship between THR or TKR and heart attack.
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Evidence is increasingly being used as a prerequisite for reimbursement of services and is an ongoing mandate for rehabilitation clinicians. The use of evidence-based practice also can ensure that the most effective treatments are being provided to patients, which is fundamental to cost-effective, appropriate care. On September 18, CARF International will host a 90-minute webinar that will review easy-to-use, easy-to-access options for accessing evidence for stroke rehabilitative services. Upon completion, webinar participants should be able to:
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The owner and the park are my only 2 complaints. First, the owner. HE IS CRAZY!!! He came by our campground at 6am in the morning and yelled at us screaming YOU CRAZY PEOPLE STOP BEING SO LOUD EVERYONE CAN HEAR YOU!!! BE MORE QUIET OR I'M KICKING YOU OUT AND CALLING THE POLICE!!! The campground next to us was... More
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Following the release of the National Research Council's Astronomy and Astrophysics decadal survey, survey chairman Roger Blandford and committee member Michael Turner discuss Astro2010, as well as the current and future directions of the fields.
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Just wondering who won the Alienware compo? I checked the original post and there was no mention.
Just wondering who won the Alienware compo? I checked the original post and there was no mention.
You are too impatient, sir.
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haha sorry, its not the first time ive been told that alright :)
I'll get me coat. :P
Any news on this?
It was a ruse. The RPS crew took all your screenshots and made off to finance their newly found pompous way of life in Laos with them.
Play Arma2:CO with us. (It isn't nearly as difficult as you might think.)
It's okay to not like things.
Is it still impatient to ask after 2 weeks?
I have an inkling they will announce the winner when they finish the:
Shogun 2: The Rise and Fall of Reginald Samurai,
Series of articles... though thats founded on nothing more then my random thoughts.
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Was browsing through other posts, seems like the news person has to go through all our emails so it might take some time. Just give them time I guess ;P, other than that the compo may have already ended and winners already emailed, not sure though.
Is it still it still impatient asking a month on?
Pretty much just after conformation of whether its already ended or not, mainly because I made the mistake of sending my entry from a spam riddled email address which I've been out of the habit of checking for like a year
Still no winner? I am aware I might be annoying but im sure other people are wondering what happened with it too as it was a damn tasty prize.
Ah well looks like something happened :( I was feeling all optimistic and all :P


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Proposition 30 passing is very good news. It certainly is hard to imagine what the alternative might have looked like for our schools. Now that it has passed, what does that actually mean? First of all, Proposition 30 is not a windfall for schools. In simple terms, it helps to stabilize the state general fund and prevents devastating mid-year cuts. As a result, funding for schools will remain flat for this year. That means the passage of the measure does not provide additional revenue, at least for this year, and also does not resolve all of our concerns about school …
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Google TV Product Lead Brittany Bohnet has just announced that she's leaving Google after four years to try her luck as an entrepreneur, presumably as a co-founder of an as of yet un-named startup.
At Google Bohnet was a Product Marketing Manager who worked on products like Maps, Earth and iGoogle, but most recently Google TV. Before Google Bohnet worked in PR at Apple as well as Marketing at Tiny Pictures. Bohnet has also been a founder before, being the CEO of Median Media which was a PR consulting company for Silicon Valley startups.
We've contacted Bohnet for more details and await her blog post about the matter. Bohnet most recently made TechCrunch in a post about her engagement to PATH co-founder Dave Morin.
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Sunday, January 4, 2009
Baby Bella Mushrooms
to eat the mushrooms).
It was love at first bite -- not him -- the mushrooms. It's a good
thing I was his only guest because I ate almost all of them, with the exception of what he'd already put on his plate (and I did try to take them, surreptitiously, with my fork when he went inside to get me more wine). Poor guy; he didn't realize I could be such a pig, but he forgave me.
Since that time, I can't get enough mushrooms--any kind of mushrooms. I put them in many of my recipes, eat them on their own, and also serve them as an accompaniment (think main part of the meal; big portions) with meat or chicken, or anything else. So, without further ado, here are my favorite mushrooms: Baby Bellas.
The recipe is really easy: Just melt some real butter (4 to 5 tablespoons, maybe more) in a saucepan--or a wok--over medium-high to high heat. Add the mushrooms (I used a 16 oz. container of baby bella mushrooms; grown locally here in Texas,
but any kind of mushrooms will do) and saute until they turn nice
and brown. Add about 5 cloves (more or less to suit your taste) of finely-minced garlic and saute for another minute or two. Sprinkle with freshly chopped parsley to serve. I've also been known to throw some dried oregano and freshly ground black pepper into the mix.
I'm submitting my Baby Bella recipe to Weekend Wokking, a once-a-month event featuring a secret ingredient, created by Wandering Chopsticks and hosted this month by Palachinka. As you've probably already guessed, the secret ingredient for December was MUSHROOMS. I think you're supposed to make an actual meal, using mushrooms as part of the dish, but I obviously didn't do that because these Baby Bellas are so good on their own.
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- Meg said...
I love Baby Bellas. What a tasty way to enjoy them!
- January 4, 2009 at 1:14 PM
- Bellini Valli said...
I have had the same love hate relationship with mushrooms myself until recently.I had them in a salad and have been hooked ever since!!
- January 4, 2009 at 1:59 PM
- Natashya said...
I love garlic mushrooms. I used to order them by the bowl at My Marvin's Deli when I was pregnant!
- January 4, 2009 at 2:11 PM
- ♥Reeni said...
I've had a love/hate relationship with them my entire life! Smothered in butter and garlic? I think these would be on the love side, yummy!
- January 4, 2009 at 2:54 PM
- Lys said...
Baby Bellas are my fave as well. What a great way to enjoy them!
- January 4, 2009 at 4:16 PM
- Photonuts said...
This sounds wonderful...some red wine and mushrooms...a meal for me!
- January 4, 2009 at 4:20 PM
- Aggie said...
Oh I love baby bellas! What a perfect dish!
- January 4, 2009 at 6:19 PM
- Joan Nova said...
Your introduction to mushrooms is too funny. I love them!
- January 4, 2009 at 10:45 PM
- Wandering Chopsticks said...
I love mushrooms. This is easily a whole meal for me too. Watch out, I might steal them off your plate. ;)
Thanks for participating in Weekend Wokking! - January 5, 2009 at 12:26 AM
- giz said...
Your description sounds exactly like the ongoing conversation Psychgrad and I would have about mushrooms. All of a sudden she's a mushroom maven. Baby Bella's are the same as crimini's right?
- January 5, 2009 at 1:21 PM
- melissa said...
This is just the kind of thing I've been meaning to make to toss over some steaks. Thanks for the guideline.
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At a total standstill with our bedroom. We bought this bed and 2 nightstands. The finish is very textured - almost like a scraped hardwood floor. Really love them. The headboard is massive 68" high. The problem is I do not like to see the TV out in the bedroom, so I want to get an armoire. I know they are not the most popular item now, but it will work great for us. I have been looking online at different manufacturers and in consignment and thrift shops. I just don't know the style to look at. Most are very traditional and don't seem to blend well. I think the height should be 82-86", because the borrowed piece we have in their now is 79" and looks small and out of scale with the rest of the room. All suggestions gratefully appreciated. Thank you. | |||
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Cayo, what fabulous furniture. Looks like a stylized fusion of Chinese (the nightstand) and Japanese (clean lines and rustic texture). These media cabinets and armoires from Room & Board might fit the bill: http://www.roomandboard.com/rn...gory=cabinet_armoire | ||||
Pier One has this one World market had these in Oriental style: http://www.worldmarket.com/pro...p?productId=11095245 http://www.worldmarket.com/pro...sp?productId=3958869 You can do a base cabinet and have a double door cabinet on top (secured) and baskets and rice baskets at top for vignette. BEAUTIFUL bedroom set! LOVE it, you got a great find! Also check CL for Amoires, since a lot of people are not keeping them because they take up a lot of room. And if your room is small, you will notice how it jets out in the room with that depth. This one I found that is Oriental, shows how a color instead of texture and wood color can really add a great accent to the room. You can look for an Armoire with simple lines, two full doors, or two upper doors and drawers below.This message has been edited. Last edited by: Mary Ruth, Mary Ruth *****We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are! ***** (Anaias Nin)***** http://pinterest.com/mary_ruth/ | ||||
Here is a craftsman Armoire I had in my other house, this is a set up photo, we later added antique leather luggage on top, but can't find that photo. By adding something tall at the top, then you are not required to get the Armoire that tall. Mary Ruth *****We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are! ***** (Anaias Nin)***** http://pinterest.com/mary_ruth/ | ||||
Here is an example, a shorter (about 6' tall) that can be mounted on top of a base media cabinet to hide the TV, the two together can be very tall, make sure it is secured if you do this and secure top to the wall as well so avoid tipping. Got this photo off our Craigslist in my area for only $75 And it can be painted any color! I am sure that there are pieces in your area you can use to become creative!This message has been edited. Last edited by: Mary Ruth, Mary Ruth *****We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are! ***** (Anaias Nin)***** http://pinterest.com/mary_ruth/ | ||||
I too like the idea of a painted armoire in a simple design. I was thinking black if it suits your decor. No need to match woods or even try to come close to this handsome set. A unique piece would compliment it and be more interesting anyway. Just use more of the armoire color around the room to tie everything together. | ||||
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Sonoma Home Winemakers CelebrationSonoma Home WinemakersSaturday, September 7, 2013 from 2:00 PM to 6:00 PM (PDT)Sonoma, CA |
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Come taste some of the finest hand-crafted artisan wines of the Sonoma Valley from over 20 home wineries and enjoy some local cuisine at the 8th Annual Sonoma Home Winemakers Celebration. Hosted by the Sonoma Home Winemakers and the Sonoma Valley High School Boosters, all proceeds for this event benefit SVHS. If you're a home winemaker would like to participate in the event, please contact us at email@example.com.
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We grow our grapes in our private vineyards, acquire grapes from local sources, or just help out fellow members with their winemaking. Our varietals range from Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc, Cabernet Sauvignon, Zinfandel, to the distinctive Tanat, Sangiovese, Cabernet Franc, Grenache, and Mourvedre.
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December 14th, 2012One of the members of our church who runs a locksmith Austin based company and is a devout Christian came up to us and asked the question, "If God loves us so much, why does he bring forth so much pain"? This is perhaps a mystery that many devout believers themselves ask from time to time. When tragedy strikes us, it can put even the most devout person to the test. We feel that if we do good in the world and have faith in the Lord, that we shall always receive blessing.
The man in our congregation was a local businessman that wove and sold sundresses to make a living. One day he left his work only to return to see that his store had been burnt down by an apparent fire. Apparently the central heating short circuited and burned everything to the ground in a matter of minutes. This was devastating to the man as he barely had any money and could not afford insurance, thus all of the losses he incurred would not be restored. He wondered why if he had been such a man of faith that such things had happened to him?
It is true that God does work in mysterious ways, and the only answer to this question is that it is meant to be. Perhaps moving forward the man would learn a new trade that would benefit him more in the future. Perhaps this tragedy will lead him down the road to another opportunity. Whatever it may be, he must not doubt the intentions of the Lord as he does have a plan for all of us.
When bad things happen to us of course faith will be challenged. Sometimes it seems that evil triumphs while good struggles with defeat. However understand that these trials and tribulations are here to not torture you, but to make you stronger. If you can get through it, you will definitely become a stronger person for it. By the way the man who sold sundresses eventually started a new business selling contemporary sofas and carpets and is much better off than before. So trust that the Lord has better plans for you, and you'll be on your way.


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It's media day at the Super Bowl. That means that hundreds of reporters...some of which know nothing about football,,,descend on Miami and the players and coaches are inundated with idiotic questions and stupid stunts. You may remember the South American reporter who dressed in a wedding gown and proposed to Tom Brady. Howard Stern will usually send one of his stunt boys to ask racy questions. But it will be hard to top the question once asked of Washington quarterback Doug Williams. A reporter asked him "how long have you been a black quarterback"? Sunday can't come quick enough.
The Bucks get a nice road last night in Miami. Andrew Bogut continues to lead Milwaukee but Carlos Delfino has also raised his game lately. The Bucks are two games behind the Heat for the final Eastern Conference playoff spot...although it's a bit early to be thinking about that. The Bucks have a tough matchup tonight in Orlando.
The Brewers have already sold over a million tickets for this season.
If youre heading out to the Wausau East-Wausau West girls-boys basketball doubleheader tonight at the East gym bring along some extra cash. The teams are combining to raise funds for The Womens Community. They will have special t-shirts for sale and also a silent auction and raffle items including an I-POD, autographed footballs, basketballs and jerseys from Barry Alvarez, Bo Ryan and Kobe Bryant and Badger Basketball tickets. If you can't make it out to the games I'll have them for you on Foxsports 1390, WRIG beginning at 5:45.
The Badger Mens Basketball team needs a win tonight to stay in the Big Ten race. First place Michigan State comes to the Kohl Center. We'll have the game on WSAU... pre game at 7 pm.
Songs of The Day
Don't You Hear Jerusalem Moan-Nitty Gritty Dirt Band(1989) a traditional bluegrass tune from the 2nd "Will The Circle Be Unbroken" project. This one features the slick mandolin playing of Sam Bush.
Don't You Worry Bout a Thing-Stevie Wonder(1973) from the classic Innervisions Lp comes this Latin tinged love song. This hit was sandwiched around the more political offerings "Living For the City" and "You Havent Done Nothin"...a most fertile Stevie period.


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Picton Press has been a publisher for over 40 years, specializing in genealogical and historical research material of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. We have earned the reputation for being the highest quality genealogical publisher, a reputation we intend to keep.
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We will continue to bring you both quality and honesty in the future as we have in the past. WE HAVE MOVED! One recent change is that in January 2013 Picton Press moved its inventory, shipping, and some editorial work to Florida. Our new address is: Picton Press, Lewis Bunker Rohrbach, 814 E. Elkcam Circle, Marco Island, FL 34145-2558. Our web site is unchanged, and the fastest and best way to communicate with us is at firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com. Our old Rockland address and telephone number are no longer in service. For those who need to reach us by phone, 239.970.2442 is the best number in Florida for us. Another recent change is that effective immediately and with the greatest reluctance we have had to add a 4% service charge to all orders utilizing credit or debit cards for payment, which simply reflects the amount we are now charged for accepting them (Those "cash-back" offers of 1%, 2%, now even 3%, are charged to the merchants - rest assured that the credit card companies don't pay you with their money!). SAVE MONEY: mail us your order with the correct payment by check (remember sales tax and the correct shipping charge) and for all orders above $200.00 we will ship to you by Priority Mail but you will pay only for standard Media Mail delivery. NEWS FOR LIBRARIES: There is no change for library invoice orders; just mail them to the new address in Florida [814 E. Elkcam Circle, Marco Island, FL 34145-2558] and we will handle them in our usual prompt fashion. A major change concerns our CDs and DVDs which contain the one million pages of original images of Bernese church records from the 1500s to 1875, and the roughly one million original pages of Chorgerichtsmanuale [the church disciplinary committee records] for the Bernese Kirchgemeinde. We now are allowed to sell our Swiss CDs and DVDs to American libraries so long as they do not lend out the CDs or DVDs to patrons. Staatsarchiv Bern in Bern, Switzerland together with Picton Press have designed a simple but secure method for libraries to share their CD/DVD records with patrons while virtually elmininating the risk of unauthorized and illegal duplication of the original material. Please contact me for information. It appears that 2013 will be a rather busy year for Picton; already we have published four new books and have our usual backlog of vital records and other projects. Best of luck in your genealogical and historical research. OUR CHECK-OUT HAS BEEN ON 'THE FRITZ' If you have any difficulty in ordering please contact us directly at: email@example.com or email@example.com In rare cases, call us at 239-970-2442. PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE. We will get back to you. Lewis Bunker Rohrbach, president, Picton Press, 27 February 2013


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Updated: January 28, 2013
At midday the Saxton Outdoor Supply store on Raystown Road remained closed as repairs to the building were underway. It was about 2:30 in the morning when someone used a car to smash out the front door of the business and gain access to the store.
State police say it appears the suspect was able to get away with a number of handguns. The car used in the break in and burglary was a late 90's or early 2000 Cadillac STS that was either maroon or red according to the State Police. Troopers added that it appears that just one person was involved in the crime.
A joint investigation involving the Pennsylvania State Police and Federal Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Agents is underway. Because a "substantial" number of handguns are missing, investigators are looking for some help from the public in the effort to try and recover the stolen guns before they get into the hands of other criminals.
The Federal ATF Agents can be reached at 1-800 283-4867 (ATF GUNS). The Bedford Barracks of the State Police can be reached at 623-6133.


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The Thomas H. Leath Memorial Library in Rockingham has new book selections that just arrived in the children's section.
"Llama Llama Time to Share," by Anna Dewdney, teaches children to share and be more giving to other children.
"Stay Close to Mama," by Toni Buzzeo, is another new book the library has obtained that teaches children the importance of not straying away too far and keeping safe in public.
Pointing out some of the newest children's books available were Peggy Wilkes, children's coordinator, and Deborah Knight, outreach coordinator, who has worked in the library on and off since she was 14-years-old. The two have worked alongside each other for six years and say they "love working together."
"I didn't like reading until I started working here surrounded by books," Wilkes said.
Each year during the Thanksgiving season they like to read "Turkey Surprise," by Peggy Archer. The story is about two pilgrim boys looking for a turkey. One of the boys didn't want to kill the turkey so the boys ended up taking home a pumpkin for Thanksgiving instead.
The second very popular story among the kids is, "'Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving," by Dav Pilkey. The story is about youngsters who take a trip to a farm and have turkeys hid under their shirts because they fear the birds are going to be killed for Thanksgiving.
A new story time has been scheduled for toddlers ranging from the ages of 2 through 4 years, on Tuesdays at 10 a.m. Pre-school kids from the ages of 4 and older can attend story time on Thursdays at 10 a.m. The story time groups now have about 95 kids, and the summer reading program held at the library has increased. As of last summer, the program had an attendance of more than 400 kids.
Thomas H. Leath Memorial Library is located at 412 East Franklin St., Rockingham, right next to City Hall. For more information, call 910-895-6337.


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Dutchtown, however — coming off an emotional win on a shot at the buzzer the night before against Stockbridge — was playing without Donovahn Jones, its leading scorer and rebounder, as well as 6-foot-5, 330-pound Jordan Harris, its largest post player. Both were in Florida playing in the Georgia-Florida football All-Star game.
Nonetheless, Tae Mayes scored a team-high 16 points and Rayshod Armstrong added 12 as Griffin (9-5 overall, 3-3 region) — which was fifth in the Region 4-AAAA Div. B standings when the weekend started — snapped a two-game losing streak and split the regular-season series with Dutchtown while the Kalvin Hobbs-led Bulldogs (6-7, 3-4) had a four-game win streak end.
This game was not a Region 4-AAAA contest.
Griffin pressured the ball throughout the first half to build a 20-10 lead at the end of the first quarter, a 33-26 lead at the half and a 45-37 lead going into the fourth.
Dutchtown cut the lead as close as two, 46-44, on a basket with 6:49 to play, but Griffin worked it back to nine, 53-44, with 4:46 to play. The Bulldogs made three more runs, each time getting it back to five. Griffin slammed the breaks on the first two, working its lead to nine and then seven. The third time Dutchtown ran out of clock as the game came to an end.
Dutchtown's Aundre Reid (16) and Turgiun Mott (11) joined Hobbs (19) in double figures. Terrell Collier scored nine to round out Griffin's top three scorers.
Dutchtown 48, Griffin 40 (GIRLS): Dutchtown prevailed in a game with large momentum shifts as Griffin lost its second in the last three games Saturday evening.
The Region 4-AAAA Div. A second-place Lady Bulldogs, which led 17-10 at the half, proceeded to score the game's first six points of the second half to build a 23-12 lead on a night where offense was at a minimum.
Nonetheless, Griffin (6-8, 3-3) — which started the weekend as the second-place team in Region 4-AAAA Div. B — came storming back to take the lead on a 3-point shot by co-team leading scorer Shacoria Jones, 26-25, with 1:45 left to play in the third quarter of a game Griffin trailed 7-5 at the end of the first quarter, 17-12 at the half and 31-27 going into the fourth quarter. There Griffin was outscored 17-13 for the final margin.
This contest was not a Region 4-AAAA game.
Joining Jones in double figures for Griffin was Ashton Elliott with 13. Double-digit scorers for the Lady Bulldogs included Victoria Nelson (11) and Kivanna Kudratt (10) as both teams split the regular-season series.


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Take not fellow grindr/manhunt users. THIS is a swimmers build.
Queerty, could you folks check-in with Buzzfeed; they post so that you can scroll down rather than clicking thru photo to photo. Personally, I'd check out more if I could do so more quickly.
Yowzers. I'd love to do a lap or two with those guys. Gurgle gurgle.
Start at far right… Using tongue, work your way to the far left… Rinse, repeat…
Thank the gay gods for the return of the speedo and discontinuation of those HORRIBLE full body shark skin suits !!!
Four gold stars to JJ, spot on comment!
The accent from there is ridiculously hot.
Has anybody else seen articles that Anderson Cooper just came out of the closet popping up all over facebook today?
How much does it cost to ship them to America for a week and be my personal love/sex slaves? Seriously?
They are nice enough looking lads but who was the photog. This is the boring photo group I have seen in a major mag. Black suits and the same hands on hip pose? They look like a bunch of male nuns.
Correction. Phelps eats 12,000 calories a day, I'm sure these guys are up there too.
I'm waiting for the announcement that one or more of them are gay. It happened when the last Olympics (China) closed and the swimmer, Throp? (spl). came out.? No matter, they are welcomed to our camp!
These pictures are why I still surf Queerty. OK, hon, we can skip the viagra tonite!!
What, they couldn't find any aborigine swimmers of color to photograph? Racism!
@Rev. Al Sharpton: Well, that's because none of them actually want to do it or if they do; THEY AREN'T AS GOOD.
So it isn't racism. It's simply depicting those who deserve the credit they are due. Even if the rest are shit, and I have yet to be proven wrong, why should they get a pic? This is based on how well these guys can swim, not on the colour of the skin.
nice pictures, but I would invest in a photographer who actually knows how to use photoshop, it's very clear (in some pictures more than others) that the swimmers weren't actually at the sea for the shoot…
These are gods among men and should be worshiped, serviced and worshiped some more. What beautiful specimens and probably very, very tasty and fulfilling too.
If *I* were in this group, I would *not* be able to hide my reaction in the cover of a Speedo!
the styling could have been just a slight better with lighter bathing suits?? or that is the color for the Olympics?? but too dark for pictures….beautiful men
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PARIS — Three-box sport sedans. Gas-fuelled straight-six-cylinder engines. Rear-wheel drive. These three characteristics succinctly sum up what most people think of when one says BMW, which makes the latest show car from the German automaker — the Concept Active Tourer — either incredibly interesting or shamefully blasphemous.
As a compact, front-wheel-drive hatchback powered by a three-cylinder gasoline engine/electric motor hybrid powertrain, the Concept Active Tourer that made its world premiere at this year's Paris Motor Show is like no BMW before it.
"It's a whole new gesture we haven't seen in this segment," says British-born Michael de Bono, the BMW exterior designer who oversaw the creation of the Concept Active Tourer (CAT).
Although he barely looks old enough to drive a car, de Bono has been full-time at BMW since 2004, after graduating from Britain's Transportation Design Department of Coventry University.
After working on various Rolls-Royce and BMW advanced design concepts, de Bono made the jump to production design in 2007. He's now based in Munich, working for the head of BMW design, Canadian Karim Habib.
The young designer's first production car was this year's BMW 3 Series Touring wagon. But as a new type of vehicle for the German automaker, the CAT project presented de Bono with a new series of challenges to make it look like, well, a BMW.
"We worked and honed the package so that we had really short overhangs and a forward-leaning rear pillar, pushing the car forward like a sprinter leaning out of the blocks," says de Bono, as we chatted alongside his baby on BMW's Paris Motor Show stand.
Different than his more traditional 3 Series Touring — where de Bono says the design is based on horizontal lines, setting the greenhouse back and focusing on the rear wheels — his design for the CAT focused on all four corners, especially the front of the car.
"There was a lot of pressure on us to keep really small, slim kidney grilles, because that would help pedestrian safety. But we came up with a solution I'm happy with," says de Bono.
He explains that the CAT's traditional BMW kidney grilles wrap over the nose of the car, "so you get the right proportion [and] the right height." And the lines that flow to the grille are curbed to show a lot of strength for such a short distance.
The other CAT design solution de Bono is proud of is at the rear of the concept. Instead of simply adding cut-lines for the tailgate and bumper, de Bono wanted to create a sense of width using sculpture alone.
"There are some really precise lines there that play with light and show," de Bono says.
"You can see here on the rear corner of the car we've combined everything: aerodynamics, focus on the wheels, dividing the top and bottom volumes — and the car doesn't look heavy; it feels light on its feet."
Although it's officially a concept, BMW has confirmed that the CAT is a precursor to a whole family of front-drive compacts. According to de Bono, the production version of the CAT is a car that can be sold around the world, appealing to a variety of age groups and an important part of the German automaker's goal of growing annual global sales to two million by 2020 from 1.67 million last year.
The idea of a small BMW also addresses the changing demographics of North American cities, he says.
"You can imagine people downsizing from a larger car, or as people move back to the cities as city centres become more and more alive. People now live their lives in their own neighbourhoods," explains the BMW designer.
Beyond addressing the CAT's exterior looks, de Bono says he didn't want to make any compromises in terms of luxury and space inside. And, in fact, the move to front-wheel drive helped with that goal.
"Because of the front-wheel-drive packaging, we have all this room between the seats. So we developed a rail system that can be very flexible and offer different elements that you can plug in and take out as you need them," de Bono says.
He also adds that the use of electric motors at the rear wheels may eventually lead to all-wheel-drive versions, without compromising precious interior room.
And, of course, talk of any new BMW leads to the discussion of a potential high- performance M model. Mercedes-Benz will offer a 350-horsepower AMG version of its rival A-Class compact later next year. So an M version of the CAT — or whatever BMW ends up calling it — isn't out of the question.
"M is always a part of BMW," says de Bono.


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Duncan N et al. – This study showed different treatment patterns between paediatric and adult patients and how the patterns impacted health–related quality of life (HRQOL). It also provided the first standardized evaluation of adherence using the VERITAS–Pro in a US national sample. This study enhances understanding of treatment practices and adherence for the US haemophilia population and may offer insight into where adherence can be improved.


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Get this GE 3.7 Cu.Ft. Washer and GE 6.8 Cu.Ft. Electric Dryer each for $349 at HomeDepot.com. This saves you $350 off the regular price of this washer and dryer, and with free delivery, it's the best price we found anywhere (one other site had them for $349, with $99 shipping). You get to choose your delivery date at checkout, and can select "free haul away" at checkout for free removal of your old washer and dryer. Sales tax is charged in most states.
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National Poetry Competition 2013: The winning poem http://gu.com/p/3emh9
LOL. This is so going to be me. I still have a 3000 word assignment to complete...
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All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.


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Travel Tips for Sihanouk Ville
Blue Frog Hotel
A bohemian hide-away set on Weather Station Hill, away from many of the other resorts. Rooms offer fan and AC, cable TV, fridge, mini-bar. Motorcycle rental and boat trips are also available.
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GST Guest House and Tour Company
Comfortable, well-serviced rooms at a cheap price. The Guest House is not on the beach, but it's just a stone's throw away. Great, helpfull staff and a nice restaurant up on stilts, offering a great...
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Golden Castle Casino and Hotel
Another top establishment (a little way from Long Beach, between Sokha and Ochheuteal beaches), is the brand new Golden Castle Casino and Hotel, already up-and-running but due to officially open in August 2000.
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Susaday Guest-House
Highly recommended is the Susaday Guest-House, on Ochheuteal Beach. Good bar and restaurant, however, the rooms are fairly small, with fan and cold water only. $US10 a night.
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Seaside Hotel
For those who like more creature comforts, the Seaside Hotel also on Ochheuteal Beach, is a palatial pagoda-style structure, probably the best hotel in Sihanoukville, at $US25-50 a night.
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Espionage or spying involves a government or individual obtaining information considered secret or confidential without the permission of the holder of the information. Espionage is inherently clandestine, as it is taken for granted that it is unwelcome and, in many cases illegal and punishable by law. It is a subset of intelligence gathering, which otherwise may be conducted from public sources and using perfectly legal and ethical means. It is crucial to distinguish espionage from intelligence gathering, as the latter does not necessarily involve espionage, but often collates open-source information.
Espionage is often part of an institutional effort by a government or commercial concern, however the term is generally associated with state spying on potential or actual enemies primarily for military purposes. Spying involving corporations is known as industrial espionage.
One of the most effective ways to gather data and information about an enemy (or potential enemy) is by infiltrating the enemy's ranks. This is the job of the spy (espionage agent). Spies can bring back all sorts of information concerning the size and strength of an enemy army. They can also find dissidents within the enemy's forces and influence them to defect. In times of crisis, spies can also be used to steal technology and to sabotage the enemy in various ways. Counterintelligence operatives can feed false information to enemy spies, protecting important domestic secrets and preventing attempts at subversion. Nearly every country has very strict laws concerning espionage, and the penalty for being caught is often severe. However, the benefits that can be gained through espionage are generally great enough that most governments and many large corporations make use of it to varying degrees.
Further information on clandestine HUMINT (human intelligence) information collection techniques is available, including discussions of operational techniques, asset recruiting and the tradecraft used to collect this information.
History [edit]
Events involving espionage are well documented throughout history. The ancient writings of Chinese and Indian military strategists such as Sun-Tzu and Chanakya contain information on deception and subversion. Chanakya's student Chandragupta Maurya, founder of the Maurya Empire in India, made use of assassinations, spies and secret agents, which are described in Chanakya's Arthasastra. The ancient Egyptians had a thoroughly developed system for the acquisition of intelligence, and the Hebrews used spies as well, as in the story of Rahab. Spies were also prevalent in the Greek and Roman empires.[1] During the 13th and 14th centuries, the Mongols relied heavily on espionage in their conquests in Asia and Europe. Feudal Japan often used ninja to gather intelligence. More recently, spies played a significant part in Elizabethan England (see Francis Walsingham). Many modern espionage methods were well established even then.[2] Aztecs used Pochtecas, people in charge of commerce, as spies and diplomats, and had diplomatic immunity. Along with the pochteca, before a battle or war, secret agents, quimitchin, were sent to spy amongst enemies usually wearing the local costume and speaking the local language, techniques similar to modern secret agents.[3]
The Cold War involved intense espionage activity between the United States and its allies and the Soviet Union and China and their allies, particularly related to nuclear weapons secrets. Recently, espionage agencies have targeted the illegal drug trade and those considered terrorists. Since 2008 the United States has charged at least 57 defendants for attempting to spy for China.[4]
Different intelligence services value certain intelligence collection techniques over others. The former Soviet Union, for example, preferred human sources over research in open sources, while the United States has tended to emphasize technological methods such as SIGINT and IMINT. Both Soviet political (KGB) and military intelligence (GRU[5]) officers were judged by the number of agents they recruited.
Targets of espionage [edit]
Espionage agents are usually[citation needed] trained experts in a specific targeted field so they can differentiate mundane information from targets of intrinsic value to their own organisational development. Correct identification of the target at its execution is the sole purpose[citation needed] of the espionage operation.
Broad areas of espionage targeting expertise include:
- Natural resources: strategic production identification and assessment (food, energy, materials)
- Agents are usually found among bureaucrats who administer these resources in their own countries[citation needed]
- Popular sentiment towards domestic and foreign policies (popular, middle class, elites)
- Agents often recruited from field journalistic crews, exchange postgraduate students and sociology researchers
- Strategic economic strengths (production, research, manufacture, infrastructure)
- Agents recruited from science and technology academia, commercial enterprises, and more rarely from among military technologists
- Military capability intelligence (offensive, defensive, manoeuvre, naval, air, space)
- Agents are trained by special military espionage education facilities, and posted to an area of operation with covert identities to minimize prosecution
- Operations specifically targeting opponents' intelligence services themselves, such as breaching confidentiality of communications, and recruiting defectors or moles
Methods and terminology [edit]
While news media may speak of "spy satellites" and the like, espionage is not a synonym for all intelligence functions. It is a specific form of human source intelligence (HUMINT). Codebreaking (cryptanalysis or COMINT), aircraft or satellite photography (IMINT) and research in open publications (OSINT) are all intelligence gathering disciplines, but none of them are espionage. Many HUMINT activities, such as prisoner interrogation, reports from military reconnaissance patrols and from diplomats, etc., are not espionage.
Unlike other forms of intelligence collection disciplines, espionage usually involves accessing the place where the desired information is stored, or accessing the people who know the information and will divulge it through some kind of subterfuge. There are exceptions to physical meetings, such as the Oslo Report, or the insistence of Robert Hanssen in never meeting the people who bought his information.
The US defines espionage towards itself as "The act of obtaining, delivering, transmitting, communicating, or receiving information about the national defense with an intent, or reason to believe, that the information may be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation". Black's Law Dictionary (1990) defines espionage as: "...gathering, transmitting, or losing...information related to the national defense". Espionage is a violation of United States law, 18 U.S.C. §§ 792–798 and Article 106a of the Uniform Code of Military Justice".[6] The United States, like most nations, conducts espionage against other nations, under the control of the National Clandestine Service. Britain's espionage activities are controlled by the Secret Intelligence Service.
Organization [edit]
A spy is a person employed to obtain such secrets. Within the United States Intelligence Community, "asset" is a more common usage. A case officer, who may have diplomatic status (i.e. official cover or non-official cover), supports and directs the human collector. Cutouts are couriers who do not know the agent or case officer, but transfer messages. A safe house is a refuge for spies.
In larger networks the organization can be complex with many methods to avoid detection, including clandestine cell systems. Often the players have never met. Case officers are stationed in foreign countries to recruit and to supervise intelligence agents, who in turn spy on targets in their countries where they are assigned. A spy need not be a citizen of the target country—hence does not automatically commit treason when operating within it. While the more common practice is to recruit a person already trusted with access to sensitive information, sometimes a person with a well-prepared synthetic identity, called a Legend in tradecraft, may attempt to infiltrate a target organization.
These agents can be moles (who are recruited before they get access to secrets), defectors (who are recruited after they get access to secrets and leave their country) or defectors in place (who get access but do not leave).
Spies may also be used to spread disinformation in the organization in which they are planted, such as giving false reports about their country's military movements, or about a competing company's ability to bring a product to market. Spies may be given other roles that also require infiltration, such as sabotage.
Many governments routinely spy on their allies as well as their enemies, although they typically maintain a policy of not commenting on this. Governments also employ private companies to collect information on their behalf such as SCG International Risk and others.
Many organizations, both national and non-national, conduct espionage operations. It should not be assumed that espionage is always directed at the most secret operations of a target country. National and terrorist organizations and other groups are also targets.[citation needed]
Communications both are necessary to espionage and clandestine operations, and also a great vulnerability when the adversary has sophisticated SIGINT detection and interception capability. Agents must also transfer money securely.[citation needed]
Industrial espionage [edit]
Reportedly Canada is losing $12 billion[7] and German companies are estimated to be losing about €50 billion ($87 billion) and 30,000 jobs[8] to industrial espionage every year.
Agents in espionage [edit]
In espionage jargon, an agent refers to the person who does the spying; a citizen of one country who is recruited by a second country to spy on or work against his own country or a third country. In popular usage, this term is often erroneously applied to a member of an intelligence service who recruits and handles agents; in espionage such a person is referred to as an intelligence officer, intelligence operative or case officer. There are several types of agent in use today.
- Double agent, "is a person who engages in clandestine activity for two intelligence or security services (or more in joint operations), who provides information about one or about each to the other, and who wittingly withholds significant information from one on the instructions of the other or is unwittingly manipulated by one so that significant facts are withheld from the adversary. Peddlers, fabricators, and others who work for themselves rather than a service are not double agents because they are not agents. The fact that doubles have an agent relationship with both sides distinguishes them from penetrations, who normally are placed with the target service in a staff or officer capacity."[9]
- Re-doubled agent, an agent who gets caught as a double agent and is forced to mislead the foreign intelligence service.
- Unwitting double agent, an agent who offers or is forced to recruit as a double or re-doubled agent and in the process is recruited by either a third party intelligence service or his own government without the knowledge of the intended target intelligence service or the agent. This can be useful in capturing important information from an agent that is attempting to seek allegiance with another country. The double agent usually has knowledge of both intelligence services and can identify operational techniques of both, thus making third party recruitment difficult or impossible. The knowledge of operational techniques can also affect the relationship between the Operations Officer (or case officer) and the agent if the case is transferred by an Operational Targeting Officer to a new Operations Officer, leaving the new officer vulnerable to attack. This type of transfer may occur when an officer has completed his term of service or when his cover is blown.
- Triple agent, an agent that is working for three intelligence services.
- Unwitting double agent, an agent who offers or is forced to recruit as a double or re-doubled agent and in the process is recruited by either a third party intelligence service or his own government without the knowledge of the intended target intelligence service or the agent. This can be useful in capturing important information from an agent that is attempting to seek allegiance with another country. The double agent usually has knowledge of both intelligence services and can identify operational techniques of both, thus making third party recruitment difficult or impossible. The knowledge of operational techniques can also affect the relationship between the Operations Officer (or case officer) and the agent if the case is transferred by an Operational Targeting Officer to a new Operations Officer, leaving the new officer vulnerable to attack. This type of transfer may occur when an officer has completed his term of service or when his cover is blown.
- Re-doubled agent, an agent who gets caught as a double agent and is forced to mislead the foreign intelligence service.
- Intelligence agent: Provides access to sensitive information through the use of special privileges. If used in corporate intelligence gathering, this may include gathering information of a corporate business venture or stock portfolio. In economic intelligence, "Economic Analysts may use their specialized skills to analyze and interpret economic trends and developments, assess and track foreign financial activities, and develop new econometric and modeling methodologies."[10] This may also include information of trade or tariff.
- Access agent: Provides access to other potential agents by providing profiling information that can help lead to recruitment into an intelligence service.
- Agent of influence: Someone who may provide political influence in an area of interest or may even provide publications needed to further an intelligence service agenda. I.e. The use of the media to print a story to mislead a foreign service into action, exposing their operations while under surveillance.
- Agent provocateur: This type of agent instigates trouble, or may provide information to gather as many people as possible into one location for an arrest.
- Facilities agent: A facilities agent may provide access to buildings such as garages or offices used for staging operations, resupply, etc.
- Principal agent: This agent functions as a handler for an established network of agents usually Blue Chip.
- Confusion agent: May provide misleading information to an enemy intelligence service or attempt to discredit the operations of the target in an operation.
- Sleeper agent: A sleeper agent is a person who is recruited to an intelligence service to wake up and perform a specific set of tasks or functions while living under cover in an area of interest. This type of agent is not the same as a deep cover operative, who continually contacts a case officer to file intelligence reports. A sleeper agent is not in contact with anyone until activated.
- Illegal agent: This is a person who is living in another country under false credentials that does not report to a local station. A non official cover operative is a type of cover used by an intelligence operative and can be dubbed an "Illegal"[11] when working in another country without diplomatic protection.
Law [edit]
Espionage is a crime under the legal code of many nations. The risks of espionage vary. A spy breaking the host country's laws may be deported, imprisoned, or even executed—especially in wartime, a summary execution may well be the penalty. A spy breaking his/her own country's laws can be imprisoned for espionage or/and treason, or even executed, as the Rosenbergs were. For example, when Aldrich Ames handed a stack of dossiers of CIA agents in the Eastern Bloc to his KGB-officer "handler", the KGB "rolled up" several networks, and at least ten people were secretly shot. When Ames was arrested by the FBI, he faced life in prison; his contact, who had diplomatic immunity, was declared persona non grata and taken to the airport. Ames's wife was threatened with life imprisonment if her husband did not cooperate; he did, and she was given a five-year sentence. Hugh Francis Redmond, a CIA officer in China, spent nineteen years in a Chinese prison for espionage—and died there—as he was operating without diplomatic cover and immunity.[citation needed]
In United States law, treason,[12] espionage,[13] and spying[14] are separate crimes, the former two of which have graduated punishment levels, the latter for which death is a mandatory sentence.
The United States in World War I passed the Espionage Act of 1917. Over the years many spies, such as the Soble spy ring, Robert Lee Johnson, the Rosenberg ring, Aldrich Hazen Ames,[15] Robert Philip Hanssen,[16] Jonathan Pollard, John Anthony Walker, James Hall III, and others have been prosecuted under this law.
Use against non-spies [edit]
However espionage laws are also used to prosecute non-spies. In the United States the Espionage Act of 1917 was used against socialist politician Eugene V. Debs (at that time the act had much stricter guidelines and banned speech against military recruiting amongst other things). The law was later used to suppress publication of periodicals, for example of Father Coughlin in WWII. In the early 21st century, the act was used to prosecute whistleblowers like Thomas Andrews Drake and John Kiriakou, as well as officials who communicated with journalists for innocuous reasons, like Stephen Jin-Woo Kim.[17][18]
As of 2012, India and Pakistan were holding several hundred prisoners of each other's country for minor violations like trespass or visa overstay, often with accusations of espionage attached. Some of these include cases where Pakistan and India both deny citizenship to these people, leaving them stateless. The BBC reported in 2012 on one such case, that of Mohammed Idrees, who was held under Indian police control for approximately 13 years for overstaying his 15 day visa by 2–3 days after seeing his ill parents in 1999. Much of the 13 years was spent in prison waiting for a hearing, and more time was spent homeless or living with generous families. The Indian People's Union for Civil Liberties and Human Rights Law Network both decried his treatment. The BBC attributed some of the problems to tensions caused by the Kashmir conflict.[19]
List of famous spies [edit]
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Espionage under Elizabeth I of England [edit]
Espionage in the American Revolution [edit]
- Thomas Knowlton, The First American Spy
- Nathan Hale
- John Andre
- James Armistead
Espionage in the Napoleonic Wars [edit]
Espionage in the American Civil War [edit]
One of the innovations in the American Civil War was the use of proprietary companies for intelligence collection by the Union. See Allan Pinkerton.
The Confederate had the Confederate Secret Service.
Espionage in the Aceh War [edit]
Dutch professor Snouck Hurgronje world leading authority on Islam was a proponent of espionage to quell Muslim resistance in Aceh in the Dutch East Indies. In his role as Colonial Advisor of Oriental affairs he gathered intelligence under the name "Haji Abdul Ghaffar".
He used his knowledge of Islamic and Aceh culture to devise strategies that significantly helped crush the resistance of the Aceh inhabitants and impose Dutch colonial rule, ending the 40 year Aceh War. Casualty estimates ranged between 50,000 and 100,000 inhabitants dead and about a million wounded.
Espionage in the Second Boer War [edit]
Espionage in The Russo-Japanese War [edit]
- Sidney Reilly
- Ho Liang-Shung
Espionage in World War I [edit]
Espionage in World War II [edit]
Informants were common in World War II. In November 1939, the German Hans Ferdinand Mayer sent what is called the Oslo Report to inform the British of German technology and projects in an effort to undermine the Nazi regime. The Réseau AGIR was a French network developed after the fall of France that reported the start of construction of V-weapon installations in Occupied France to the British.
Counterespionage included the use of turned Double Cross agents to misinform Nazi Germany of impact points during the Blitz and internment of Japanese in the US against "Japan's wartime spy program". Additional WWII espionage examples include Soviet spying on the US Manhattan project, the German Duquesne Spy Ring convicted in the US, and the Soviet Red Orchestra spying on Nazi Germany. The US lacked a specific agency at the start of the war, but quickly formed the Office of Strategic Services (OSS).
Spying has sometimes been considered a gentlemanly pursuit, with recruiting focused on military officers, or at least on persons of the class from whom officers are recruited. However, the demand for male soldiers, an increase in women's rights, and the tactical advantages of female spies led the Special Operations Executive (SOE) to set aside any lingering Victorian Era prejudices and begin employing them in April 1942.[citation needed] Their task was to transmit information from Nazi occupied France back to Allied Forces. The main strategic reason was that men in France faced a high risk of being interrogated by Nazi troops but women were less likely to arouse suspicion. In this way they made good couriers and proved equal to, if not more effective than, their male counterparts. Their participation in Organization and Radio Operation was also vital to the success of many operations, including the main network between Paris and London.
- See also: Honeypot
Espionage post World War II [edit]
In the United States, there are seventeen[21] federal agencies that form the United States Intelligence Community. The Central Intelligence Agency operates a Clandestine Service (NCS)[22] to collect human intelligence and perform Covert operations.[23] The National Security Agency collects Signals Intelligence. Originally the CIA spearheaded the US-IC. Pursuant to the September 11 attacks the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) was created to promulgate information-sharing.
Espionage technology and techniques [edit]
Spy fiction [edit]
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An early example of espionage literature is Kim by the English novelist Rudyard Kipling, with a description of the training of an intelligence agent in the Great Game between the UK and Russia in 19th century Central Asia. An even earlier work was James Fenimore Cooper's classic novel, The Spy, written in 1821, about an American spy in New York during the Revolutionary War.
During the many 20th century spy scandals, much information became publicly known about national spy agencies and dozens of real-life secret agents. These sensational stories piqued public interest in a profession largely off-limits to human interest news reporting, a natural consequence of the secrecy inherent to their work. To fill in the blanks, the popular conception of the secret agent has been formed largely by 20th and 21st century literature and cinema. Attractive and sociable real-life agents such as Valerie Plame find little employment in serious fiction, however. The fictional secret agent is more often a loner, sometimes amoral—an existential hero operating outside the everyday constraints of society. Loner spy personalities may have been a stereotype of convenience for authors who already knew how to write loner private investigator characters that sold well from the 1920s to the present.
Johnny Fedora achieved popularity as a fictional agent of early Cold War espionage, but James Bond is the most commercially successful of the many spy characters created by intelligence insiders during that struggle. His less fantastic rivals include Le Carre's George Smiley and Harry Palmer as played by Michael Caine. Most post-Viet Nam era characters were modeled after the American, C.C. Taylor, reportedly the last sanctioned "asset" of the U.S. government, whose use of informants made him most prolific at information gathering. Taylor, refusing the normal assignment as "embassy attache", worked alone and would travel as an American or Canadian tourist or businessman and is rumored to be responsible for over two dozen assassinations, many in East Germany or the former Soviet Union. According to documents available through the Freedom of Information Act, his operations were classified as "NOC" or Non-Official Cover, he was officially retired at the end of the Cold War, never revealing the names of his informants., even to his handlers.
Jumping on the spy bandwagon, other writers also started writing about spy fiction featuring female spies as protagonists, such as The Baroness, which has more graphic action and sex, as compared to other novels featuring male protagonists.
It also made its way into the Video Gaming world thus the famous creation of Hideo Kojima, the Metal Gear Solid Series.
World War II: 1939–1945 [edit]
Author(s) | Title | Publisher | Date | Notes |
Babington-Smith, Constance | Air Spy: The Story of Photo Intelligence in World War II | — | 1957 | — |
Bryden, John | Best-Kept Secret: Canadian Secret Intelligence in the Second World War | Lester | 1993 | — |
Hinsley, F. H. and Alan Stripp | Codebreakers: The Inside Story of Bletchley Park | — | 2001 | — |
Hinsley, F. H. | British Intelligence in the Second World War | — | 1996 | Abridged version of multivolume official history. |
Hohne, Heinz | Canaris: Hitler's Master Spy | — | 1979 | — |
Jones, R. V. | The Wizard War: British Scientific Intelligence 1939-1945 | — | 1978 | — |
Kahn, David | Hitler's Spies: German Military Intelligence in World War II' | — | 1978 | — |
Kahn, David | Seizing the Enigma: The Race to Break the German U-Boat Codes, 1939-1943 | — | 1991 | FACE |
Kitson, Simon | The Hunt for Nazi Spies: Fighting Espionage in Vichy France | - | 2008 | |
Lewin, Ronald | The American Magic: Codes, Ciphers and the Defeat of Japan | — | 1982 | — |
Masterman, J. C. | The Double Cross System in the War of 1935 to 1945 | Yale | 1972 | — |
Persico, Joseph | Roosevelt's Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage | — | 2001 | — |
Persico, Joseph | Casey: The Lives and Secrets of William J. Casey-From the OSS to the CIA | — | 1991 | — |
Ronnie, Art | Counterfeit Hero: Fritz Duquesne, Adventurer and Spy | — | 1995 | ISBN 1-55750-733-3 |
Sayers, Michael & Albert E. Kahn | Sabotage! The Secret War Against America | — | 1942 | — |
Smith, Richard Harris | OSS: The Secret History of America's First Central Intelligence Agency | — | 2005 | — |
Stanley, Roy M. | World War II Photo Intelligence | — | 1981 | — |
Wark, Wesley | The Ultimate Enemy: British Intelligence and Nazi Germany, 1933-1939 | — | 1985 | — |
Wark, Wesley | "Cryptographic Innocence: The Origins of Signals Intelligence in Canada in the Second World War" in Journal of Contemporary History 22 | — | 1987 | — |
West, Nigel | Secret War: The Story of SOE, Britain's Wartime Sabotage Organization | — | 1992 | — |
Winterbotham, F. W. | The Ultra Secret | Harper & Row | 1974 | — |
Winterbotham, F. W. | The Nazi Connection | Harper & Row | 1978 | — |
Cowburn, B. | No Cloak No Dagger | Brown, Watson, Ltd. | 1960 | — |
Wohlstetter, Roberta. | Pearl Harbor: Warning and Decision | — | 1962 | — |
Cold War era: 1945–1991 [edit]
Author(s) | Title | Publisher | Date | Notes |
Ambrose, Stephen E. | Ike's Spies: Eisenhower and the Intelligence Establishment | — | 1981- | — |
Andrew, Christopher and Vasili Mitrokhin | The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB | Basic Books | 1991, 2005 | ISBN 0-465-00311-7 |
Andrew, Christopher, and Oleg Gordievsky | KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations from Lenin to Gorbachev | — | 1990 | — |
Aronoff, Myron J. | The Spy Novels of John Le Carré: Balancing Ethics and Politics | — | 1999 | — |
Bissell, Richard | Reflections of a Cold Warrior: From Yalta to the Bay of Pigs' | — | 1996 | — |
Bogle, Lori, ed. | Cold War Espionage and Spying | — | 2001- | essays |
Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin | The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World | — | — | — |
Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin | The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West | Gardners Books | 2000 | ISBN 978-0-14-028487-4 |
Colella, Jim | My Life as an Italian Mafioso Spy | — | 2000 | — |
Craig, R. Bruce | Treasonable Doubt: The Harry Dexter Spy Case | University Press of Kansas | 2004 | ISBN 978-0-7006-1311-3 |
Dorril, Stephen | MI6: Inside the Covert World of Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service | — | 2000 | — |
Dziak, John J. | Chekisty: A History of the KGB | — | 1988 | — |
Gates, Robert M. | From The Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story Of Five Presidents And How They Won The Cold War' | — | 1997 | — |
Frost, Mike and Michel Gratton | Spyworld: Inside the Canadian and American Intelligence Establishments | Doubleday Canada | 1994 | — |
Haynes, John Earl, and Harvey Klehr | Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America | — | 1999 | — |
Helms, Richard | A Look over My Shoulder: A Life in the Central Intelligence Agency | — | 2003 | — |
Koehler, John O. | Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police' | — | 1999 | — |
Persico, Joseph | Casey: The Lives and Secrets of William J. Casey-From the OSS to the CIA | — | 1991 | — |
Murphy, David E., Sergei A. Kondrashev, and George Bailey | Battleground Berlin: CIA vs. KGB in the Cold War | — | 1997 | — |
Prados, John | Presidents' Secret Wars: CIA and Pentagon Covert Operations Since World War II | — | 1996 | — |
Rositzke, Harry. | The CIA's Secret Operations: Espionage, Counterespionage, and Covert Action | — | 1988 | — |
Srodes, James | Allen Dulles: Master of Spies | Regnery | 2000 | CIA head to 1961 |
Sontag Sherry, and Christopher Drew | Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espinonage | Harper | 1998 | — |
Encyclopedia of Cold War Espionage, Spies and Secret Operations | Greenwood Press/Questia | 2004 | — |
- Anderson, Nicholas NOC Enigma Books 2009 - Post Cold War era
- Ishmael Jones The Human Factor: Inside the CIA's Dysfunctional Intelligence Culture Encounter Books 2008, rev. 2010
- Michael Ross The Volunteer: The Incredible True Story of an Israeli Spy on the Trail of International Terrorists McClelland & Stewart 2007, rev. 2008
See also [edit]
- Animals used in espionage
- Chinese intelligence operations in the United States
- Ninja
- Classified information
- Covert United States foreign regime change actions
- Dumpster diving
- History of Soviet espionage
- Intelligence assessment
- Labor spies
- List of cryptographers
- Operation Snow White
- Security clearance
- Spymaster
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Further reading [edit]
- Jenkins, Peter Surveillance Tradecraft: The Professionals Guide to Surveillance Training ISBN 9780953537822
- Felix, Christopher [pseudonym for James McCarger] "Intelligence Literature: Suggested Reading List". US CIA. Retrieved 9/2/2012. A Short Course in the Secret War, 4th Edition Madison Books November 19, 2001
- West, Nigel MI6: British Secret Intelligence Service Operations 1909–1945 1983
- Smith Jr., W. Thomas Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency 2003
- Richelson, Jeffery T. The U.S. Intelligence Community 1999 fourth edition
- Richelson, Jeffery T. A Century of Spies: Intelligence in the Twentieth Century 1977
- Owen, David Hidden Secrets: A Complete History of Espionage and the Technology Used to Support It
- O'Toole, George Honorable Treachery: A History of U.S. Intelligence, Espionage, Covert Action from the American Revolution to the CIA 1991
- Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth & K. Lee Lerner, eds. Terrorism: essential primary sources Thomas Gale 2006 ISBN 978-1-4144-0621-3
- Lerner, K. Lee and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, eds. Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence and Security 2003 1100 pages.
- Knightley, Philip The Second Oldest Profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century Norton 1986
- Kahn, David The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet 1996 Revised edition. First published in 1967.
- Johnson, Robert Spying for Empire: The Great Game in Central and South Asia, 1757-1947 London: Greenhill 2006
- Friedman, George America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between the United States and Its Enemies 2005
- Doyle, David W., A Memoir of True Men and Traitors (2000)
- Tunney, Thomas Joseph and Paul Merrick Hollister Throttled!: The Detection of the German and Anarchist Bomb Plotters Boston: Small, Maynard & company 1919 | available on Wikisource: s:Throttled!
- Beesly, Patrick || Room 40 1982
- Burnham, Frederick Russell Taking Chances 1944
- May, Ernest (ed.) Knowing One's Enemies: Intelligence Assessment before the Two World Wars 1984
- Tuchman, Barbara W. The Zimmermann Telegram Ballantine Books 1966
External links [edit]
Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Espionage |
- The dictionary definition of espionage at Wiktionary
- An Interactive Rosenberg Espionage Ring Timeline and Archive