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The following video tweets are gone, but we will be adding others in the comments below.
Here is what these tweets looked like AFTER the videos were removed, but before the TEXT was removed:
What these videos showed was that the "post-shooting" video shown by Sky News was actually part of "post-crisis-acting" video. The proof was unassailable. Twitter took it down.
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1) As the movement required is small, I am wondering what kind of motor is desirable here ? Is stepper motor the right one for this ? If not, what else can I use. Also, there seems to be few types of stepper motors out there.
2) what type of micro-controller can be used here ?I am looking for something with a very small form-factor here as I am dealing with milli-litres.
3) Regarding the container, I need this to close every time once required amount of liquid is pushed out (so that there is no seepage). Any suggestions on how to build or where to get such a thing ?
4) How exactly can I interface this container with the motor ? For pro-typing, I can use a syringe but it is not clear how to connect the motor to it.
5) What other electronic components would I need to get this started ?
Hi,Just dropping a link for now:http://www.harvardapparatus.com/wcsstore/ConsumerDirect/images/site/hai/techdocs/Pump%20Selection%20Guide.pdfThis file might be a good read for you.
I don't think you need to close it to prevent leaking. As long as the outlet hole is small enough it should just stay there. Might evaporate tho.Threaded rod to drive the syringe?You might also do something like a fuel injector, with a constant, regulated pressure behind a valve, which you open for a known amount of time.
Can threaded rod mechanism provide accuracy ? or does it depend on how fine grained threads are ?
I was also looking at ways to convert rotary motion to linear motion and came across "rack and pinion" - http://www.flying-pig.co.uk/mechanisms/pages/rackandpinion.html. Has anyone tried this ?
The rise (not sure it's the right word in English, the center distance between 2 consecutive "valleys")
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BOSTON — Catherine Greig has been by James "Whitey" Bulger's side for more than three decades, first as a secret girlfriend he kept on the side while he lived with another woman, then as the faithful woman who left behind her life in Massachusetts so she could go on the run with him.
Now, Greig is about to learn what her punishment will be for helping Bulger elude authorities for 16 years while he was one of the most-wanted fugitives in the world.
Greig will appear before a federal judge in Boston on Tuesday, when she will be sentenced before an expected crowd of family members of people allegedly killed by Bulger. The 82-year-old former leader of the Winter Hill Gang and FBI informant is awaiting trial on charges he participated in 19 murders.
Greig faces a maximum of 15 years — 5 years on each of three charges: conspiracy to harbor a fugitive, identity fraud and conspiracy to commit identity fraud.
Federal prosecutors told family members in March that she could get as little as 32 months under federal sentencing guidelines. But on Friday, they filed a sentencing memo in court saying she deserves a much longer punishment. They asked the judge to sentence her to 10 years in prison.
"This is no garden variety harboring case. It is the most extreme case of harboring this district has ever seen," First Assistant U.S. Attorney Jack Pirozzolo wrote.
"For over 16 years, Greig conspired to, and did, protect Bulger — alleged to be one of the most dangerous and violent criminals in the history of this district — from being discovered by law enforcement. Knowing full well that Bulger was wanted for very serious crimes and having ample opportunity to walk away at any time, Greig not only concealed Bulger from law enforcement, but did, herself, commit multiple additional felonies in order to protect him from capture."
Suffolk University Law School professor Chris Dearborn said Greig's lawyers will likely emphasize her lack of a prior criminal record and the fact that she did not participate in any of the violent crimes Bulger allegedly committed before he fled Boston.
"That's the elephant in the room," Dearborn said. "She was involved in harboring a fugitive who is alleged to have committed some really serious and heinous acts, but she's not a conspirator in any of those homicides."
Greig pleaded guilty in March under a plea deal with prosecutors. The deal does not include an agreement for Greig to cooperate against Bulger, but prosecutors said it does not preclude them from trying to compel her to testify against him.
In her plea agreement, Greig admitted that she used aliases, unlawfully obtained identification documents and repeatedly helped Bulger get prescription medication from a pharmacy by pretending to be his wife. The couple was apprehended last June in Santa Monica, Calif., where they were living in a rent-controlled apartment.
U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock has not said yet whether he will allow relatives of Bulger's victims to give victim impact statements at Greig's sentencing hearing. While Bulger is the one accused of killing their loved ones, many of the family members believe they have been victimized by Greig, too.
"A lot of people were hurt. She knew what was going on," said Patricia Donahue, whose husband, Michael Donahue, died in a hail of bullets in 1982 after Bulger and another man opened fire on Edward "Brian" Halloran, who Bulger believed was going to implicate him in a murder. Donahue was an innocent bystander who happened to give Halloran a ride in his car.
"In my heart, I don't believe (Bulger) would have stayed out there that long if it wasn't for her," Donahue said. "She was his companion, she was his caretaker, and without that, he never would have survived all those years. She made sure he had his medicine and she was there for him."
Greig's lawyer, Kevin Reddington, would not say what sentence he will recommend for Greig. When he asked a judge to release Greig on bail last year, Greig argued that she was in love with Bulger and did not know the full extent of Bulger's crimes when she fled with him in 1995. At the time, he had been charged in a racketeering indictment that accused him of loan-sharking and extortion. A separate racketeering indictment charging him in connection with 19 murders was handed up years after the couple fled.
Steve Davis, whose 26-year-old sister, Debra Davis, was allegedly killed by Bulger in 1981, said he doesn't buy Greig's claim and would like to see her get a stiff sentence.
"She kept this man 16 years, gave him 16 years of freedom. She should be held responsible for the same amount of time that she kept us searching. They should give her the same amount of time as she stole from us," Davis said.
Greig, a former dental hygienist and dog groomer, had been Bulger's side girlfriend for 18 years while Bulger was living with another longtime girlfriend, Teresa Stanley.
Authorities have said that Bulger initially fled Boston with Stanley in 1994 after being tipped that he was about to be indicted. The tip came from former FBI agent John Connolly Jr., who was Bulger's FBI handler when Bulger was an informant who gave the FBI information about the rival New England Mafia. They say within a few months, Bulger returned to Boston, dropped off Stanley and picked up Greig.
The couple traveled extensively during their first year on the run — to Chicago, New York City, Grand Isle, La., and other places — but then settled in a two-bedroom rented apartment in Santa Monica.
Last June, Bulger and Greig were apprehended just days after the FBI began a new publicity campaign focusing on Greig.
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REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN--(Marketwired - April 4, 2016) - Viterra is pleased to announce it has been recognized by the Regina & District Chamber of Commerce with a Paragon Award for Export Achievement. The award acknowledges companies with exceptional performance in exporting Saskatchewan goods and services nationally and internationally.
"This distinction is a testament to the dedication and hard work of our team at Viterra, and the strong relationships we've built with Prairie farmers over the last 100 years," said Kyle Jeworski, Viterra's President and CEO for North America. "As an industry leader, we take pride in connecting our customers to global market in over fifty countries, helping to feed a growing world. I'd like to thank the Regina Chamber for recognizing our company in this way, and for the great work they do on behalf of our business community."
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Viterra is Canada's grain industry leader, supported by the expertise of its people, a superior network of assets, and unrivalled connections to world markets. Headquartered in Regina, Saskatchewan, our commitment to agriculture goes back over 100 years, partnering with farmers to market and move their crops to areas of need around the world. Our continued focus on operational excellence throughout North America allows us to efficiently handle, process, distribute and transport grains and oilseeds. We provide further value to our partners through a wide variety of contracting and risk management tools to help them realize the full potential of their crops. For more information on Viterra in North America, please visit www.viterra.com. Viterra is part of the Agricultural Business Segment of Glencore.
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Andrea made us a sensational lunch. That's right. Sounds fucking poncy doesn't it. It's been some time since I've actually sat down and eaten Sunday lunch and it was a stark reminder of what I'd been missing. We started with two types of pate (they were exceptional) with date and walnut toast and Swiss Chard on the side, but the main course was beyond expectation. Pork belly with creamed mash and pickled red cabbage and kale, the pig was cooked to perfection and it was devoured in virtual silence save the moans of delight and the crackle of perfectly cooked skin from our host, Myfwt, JM and his missus and yours truly.
After a few glasses of wine, literally, we set off early evening to make our way home. When we arrived back Myfwt (who'd driven there and back) asked for a glass of wine and I resigned myself to the hangover I have now -it wasn't aided by a string of Alan Partridges on Dave and The Bourne Supremacy on much later. Actually, the 'overs not that bad but I'm putting in a booze free tonight and contemplating a two day abstinence drive on Wednesday and Thursday so I'm clearly guilty about my having indulged (and partially getting away with it).
To be frank I wasn't expecting the weekend to be as congenial as it was. I left work on Friday in a fairly poor frame of mind without any plans for the evening. I didn't mind this incidentally, it just meant Friday would be a non-event of sorts, but I usually find a way of injecting some sort exuberant 'other' into proceedings. Then I had a result, Frank and his missus were about and Myfwt was coming back later as well. Unfortunately the latter development ended in a moody silence on account of my being a bit of a tit, nothing specific, just a general twatishness on my part.
The cold shoulder remained in place until mid morning when it instantly vanished. She had an appointment at the hairdressers and the chap whose being cutting her barnet for the last few years was obviously batting for team Piqued. She called up and said some nice stuff and came back home after lunch looking all lovely.
We had an appointment with an estate agent in Clapham to view a 3 bedroomed ex council place. It was a non starter from the off, I didn't like the little cunts kicking a football in the car park with no regard to the vehicles parked therein –I had visions of them booting the ball into my Black Bitch and being carted off by the police whilst one of them lay screaming on the ground with a broken arm- and the actual flat was bizarrely minute despite having 3 decent sized bedrooms. The agent was a decent enough fellow, Myfwt felt sorry for him because he was flamboyantly driving a Porsche Boxster that wasn't his, the number plate bore the initials of the estate agency, apparently this because the best agent gets to drive the bosses car. After flatly turning down the property we went back to the agents office in order to see the details for some other places, all rather dull, save one that caused Myfwt and I so much excitement we insisted we viewed the place right there and then.
The property was in a converted gothic Church in its own grounds next to a large common near Wandsworth. We drove up to it via a long private road; it was like something out of Brideshead Revisited but not as gay and parked on the gravel by a huge Howard Oak which was home to a multitude of songbirds. It was like being in the countryside yet we were in the middle of Sarf Landan. We entered the property via huge wooden door, the sort of door undead creatures use to access corseted young ladies with heaving busts, and walked up a stone staircase to gain entry to the flat.
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Though it's not as simple as that, we've told the estate agent that if the vendor sorts the lease (he bought it with a short lease, I don't see why we should be held responsible his decision to purchase a place under such circumstances) and is prepared to negotiate further on the price… well you never know. We spent a lot of Saturday night discussing it over posh fish and chips procured from a shop patronised by Ainsley Harriet of all people. Indeed, he was stood right next to us in the queue to pay.
I can confirm that Ainsley has a fucking enormous tongue; the man could lick his own nipples if he wished. You heard it first on Piqued.
I'd like to welcome to the world Jamie's second 'beast' as he called it, little fella by the name of, well, lets just call him Red.
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DIABETES MANAGEMENT IN THE EVERYDAY LIVES OF EMERGING ADULTS by Elizabeth Ann Pyatak A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (OCCUPATIONAL SCIENCE) December 2010 Copyright 2010 Elizabeth Ann Pyatak
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The AAVSO's volunteer-driven project to digitize paper archives of variable star observations is moving forward, and there have been some exciting developments over the past few months that deserve to be mentioned. Here, I'll summarize some of the happenings in this project, and talk about some of the issues that have arisen at AAVSO and among the volunteers.
In the 1980s, the AAVSO began a monumental project to completely digitize the paper and punchcard records of the AAVSO. This project, undertaken just as computers became more common and easy to use, foreshadowed the rapid advancement in networking technology that led directly to the world wide web, and to the AAVSO website. As a result of the work the AAVSO did, we are now able to serve our archive of over 18 million observations to the entire world via our website, providing decades worth of variable star observations for thousands of different variable stars to researchers world-wide.


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The 40-quart cooler holds 58 16-oz cans, and is tall enough to carry two-liter bottles upright, and Igloo claims that its Ultratherm insulation will help keep your booze cool for up to 51 hours. The two speakers are 3 watts each and run on four AA batteries. The cooler measures 20"L x 17-3/4"W x 18"H and costs a shade under $150.
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What kids know and can do? Or just how they compare to others?
Parents may not understand the test score from the state or national test; however, they do understand and want to know how their child's performance compares to other children across the state and nation.
Terry Holliday via http://kyedcommissioner.blogspot.com/2012/11/taking-stock-of-unbridled-learning.html
Yet another indication that parents don't care about what their kids actually know and can do, they just care about how they compare to others?


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Say the name Huell Howser and you'll know if the person you're speaking with is a Californian because he or she is sure to smile.
For 18 years, Howser beamed into living rooms sharing his travel adventures on KCET's "California's Gold." His Tennessee accent and easygoing manner charmed viewers, but it was Howser's heartfelt interest in learning about the offerings of our environs and people's passions that kept viewers tuning in.
Howser died last year, but his legacy will live on in the permanent exhibit "That's Amazing! Thirty Years of Huell Howser and California's Gold," opening at Chapman University in Orange on Saturday.
Howser explored Orange with his television show several times, but somehow always failed to include Chapman University, said Rand Boyd, head of special collections and archives librarian for the college. At one point, the school's president, James Doti, sent Howser a handwritten invitation to visit the campus. Howser filed the letter away, but remembered it when he was seeking a place to care for his collection of "California's Gold" videotapes. He met with Doti and toured Chapman, which began a relationship between the school and Howser. He ultimately decided the college was the right place to assure his archives would be put online and made available to anyone for free.
"He wanted to make sure his show was available to the public, but he didn't think that anybody was really interested in him as a man or any of his stuff," Boyd said.
Boyd sought to add more to the institution's Howser collection and persuaded Howser to donate items from his travels, as well as his personal papers. When Howser died, it was discovered that he had given the bulk of his estate, including his personal photographs, to the school.
"Huell always told me he wanted all of this not to be about him, but about 'California's Gold' — and that it's not the kind of gold that can be found in a gold mine or in a gold ring, but in the hearts and minds of the people of California, and especially our students," Doti said.
Howser spent time at the college and met many of its students. He created the California's Gold Scholarship Fund to assist with their education costs.
In February 2013, Chapman hosted an event to honor Howser posthumously, which featured an exhibit curated by Boyd.
"It was very successful, and that's what gave people the idea that maybe we should do something permanent, and also we were having fans call," Boyd said.
The public wanted to see more on Howser, so Boyd stepped in as curator, working with college staff to select the items that would be on display. The resulting exhibit boasts a timeline, a behind-the-scenes look at the television show and memorabilia Howser collected.
"The exhibit was driven by what we had on hand because the bulk of the materials are all the tapes from the aired shows and, more importantly, all of the camera masters, the raw footage that he had shot for each show. There are approximately 5,000 tapes of those, but they don't make a good exhibit. It's hard to put shelves out there and make them interesting for folks," Boyd said.
One of the highlights of the display is a re-creation of Howser's office. This is a favorite of Mary Platt, Chapman University director of media relations.
"This was a guy who did his own work," Platt said. "It's really touching to see that we have his desk and all his equipment that he used to cut those shows together and some of his personal items that were on his desk … It's like you could see him walking right back in any time."
Visitors also will see the microphone and camera used for "California's Gold" and a plastic cow given to Howser by Fosselman's Ice Cream Co. About 3 feet long and 29 inches tall, the cow is emblazoned with Howser's portrait on one side and the company's logo on the other.
Another memento was given to Howser by an ironworker involved in a maintenance project on the Golden Gate Bridge. When Howser visited, the rivets were being replaced and he was given one of the original rivets that had been removed.
Boyd's favorite piece in Chapman's collection is one that will not be on display, although it is telling about Howser's humanity. It is a photograph taken in 1967 by a photographer from the Tennessean newspaper during a civil rights conference at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Howser, who was in the Marine Reserve at the time, is in uniform sitting in the crowd next to African-American members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, an organization instrumental in the civil rights movement.
"It's a great photograph," Boyd said.
Boyd's other favorite, which is on display, is a cartoon drawn for Howser by Stan Lee. The two men worked together in New York and when Howser was leaving for a job in Los Angeles, Lee gave him a drawing of them shaking hands.
"I found it in his papers. It was wedged in between some newspapers," Boyd said.
Currently, there are no plans to rotate objects on display in "That's Amazing! Thirty Years of Huell Howser and California's Gold," but there will be a changing exhibit in the display cases in the adjoining reading room. There visitors may see items that require special preservation and can be on display only for short periods of time, such as Howser's yellow shirt made memorable in his famous poppy fields portrait.
"He had a point that the important thing is the show, but I think it's important that we memorialize the man, too, because he did a great thing — he recorded the end of the 20th century in California. He recorded it at a level historians normally ignore," Boyd said.
The exhibit will be launched with special events on its opening day. There are expected to be guest appearances by people who were featured on Howser's show, such as the Lint Lady, Whistling Diva and the owners of the Bunny Museum in Pasadena, as well as food vendors, such as Pink's Hot Dogs.
"A Golden State of Mind: The Storytelling Genius of Huell Howser," a new documentary film, will be screened.
"I think only people in California understand the impact Huell had on California and how much people just adored him and still do," Platt said.
Other campus collections will be open to view during the event as well, including Chapman's Holocaust artifacts, artworks and outdoor sculptures.
Chapman's next venture is the Center for American War Letters. When journalist Andrew Carroll wrote "Letters of a Nation: A Collection of Extraordinary American Letters," he asked military families for their correspondence and amassed a collection of 50,000 letters. Chapman will be archiving, digitizing and placing as many of the letters as possible online for the public.
"It doesn't do any good to have these materials if you hide them behind locked doors," Boyd said.


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Starting your first online business or even adding to your list of online businesses can be pose many problems and headaches such as development, hosting and many more associated problems like what payment provider to use.
However, there're several ways you can reduce many of these problems or associated cost and have an internet business with no upfront or running costs. One option is to start an online dating site, or even a complete dating network. Yes, I agree with you that online dating sites have been around for ages and it's nothing new. But it's a constantly growing market that returns profit year after year. You only need to look at all the adverts we now have within our TV commercials or on the radio, this alone proves there's a still a very good demand for online dating.
There's a few companies offering dating software for sale, but we want to have no upfront cost or hassles and for everything to be as painless as possible, don't we! This is why I recommend you take a look at internet companies that offer something called White Label option. There're several good companies offering free online dating platform, some are good, some are OK and some should be avoided like the plague.
So which white label provider do you choose?
Before you can decide this you need to understand what you need to make this new business venture a success, otherwise you are going to be on a road to possible failure. You need to be looking for the following basic services offered for FREE:
- easy to use and understand dating platform (no point making it hard work is there);
- good range of template sites to use along with being able to make changes as you need;
- good technical support and help when you need it (you're going to need help for sure);
- large active database. (No one will join a dating site with a hand full of members, will they?)
- large database means, good conversion, conversion= (MONEY in your pocket)
Money in your pocket.
There is a distinct pattern that I have seen time and time again from using all the different dating providers that offer this free dating service. It's all down to the volume of members they can pre-populate your dating site with and the support they offer that equates to good or high conversions.
Higher conversions mean you earn more revenue each month, high conversions also plays a direct part in retention rates. Retention rate, by the way, means how long your new members stay subscribed members on your new dating site and pay subscriptions each month.
Simply put, lots of members to start with = good or high conversions means good or high retention rates = more money in your pocket each month.
Allow for growth
You need to look at where you want this new business to go and the income you want it to provide you, like me you're probably looking to change the way you work while retaining a good level of income allowing you to enjoy the life a bit more.
So don't limit yourself to a company that only has a single or a couple county databases, people travel and move to other countries looking for jobs these days, so a dating provider that offers members from many countries should be high on your list of dating platform providers to use.
Most importantly you're going to need help as you grow your online dating business, as you're new to this after all. The better the help from partner support the more chance you have a good product and thus increases your chances of success. Trust me on this!
Who do I use?
I actually use several different white label providers at present, just to keep an eye on what each one is offering me as a partner or affiliate and to make sure my effort are being directed in the right place. There's no doubt that World Dating Partners is returning the best conversion and retention rates and put more money in my pocket, and have done so for many years.
Online dating as a business is not for everyone that's for sure, however I would recommend taking a look at what they offer even if it's not for you at this moment in time. Like me you could earn money each month as an affiliate by just recommending friends, companies or other webmasters to a very good affiliate dating program that has a proven track record


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Tim Phillips
Chief of Staff to Congressman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) 1992-1996
Co-founder and Vice President of Century Strategies 1997-2006
President of Americans for Prosperity and Americans for Prosperity Foundation 2006-present
Tim Phillips graduated Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude from Virginia Tech University with a B.A. in Political Science. He is a seasoned political operative with 24 years of experience, including presidential, gubernatorial and congressional races, as well as state legislative, local and issue-advocacy campaigns.
If we win the science argument, I think it's game, set, and match
"[AFP] is not a corporate front group"
"Our busses are a really good prop…A good way to dramatize the healthcare debate."
"We need to keep taking back victimhood." - Bloomberg Politics, 11/17/2014
Phillips co-founded Century Strategies (along with Ralph Reed), a company that offered business consulting, political and campaign consulting, and direct mail services. According to the The National Journal, Century Strategies has "raked in millions of dollars by mounting grassroots lobbying drives and other campaigns—as well as doing some inside-the-Beltway advocacy—for two dozen or so Fortune 100 companies and lesser-known enterprises."
Phillips spearheaded Century Strategies' campaign for George W Bush during the 2000 GOP primary and general election. Beginning in 1999 and continuing through the election, Century provided direct mail, telemarketing, coalition building and strategic services to Bush for President.
While Phillips was vice president, Jack Abramoff hired Century Strategies to organize a coalition to block Native American tribes in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas from creating casinos that would drive gamblers away from the casinos Abramoff's clients owned. According to the Washington Post, Century Strategies was paid as much as $4 million for its work opposing several tribal casinos in southern states from 2001 to 2003.
Century Strategies' laundered the money Abramoff paid them through the Faith and Family Alliance, a political advocacy group that was founded by Phillips. Robin Vanderwall, the director of the Faith and Family Alliance, has stated he "was operating a shell."
Century Strategies' first big client was Enron, which hired Phillips to mobilize "religious leaders and pro-family groups" to generate support for energy deregulation in Congress and in state assemblies. Phillips and Ralph Reed, co-founder of Century Strategies, used multiple mediums including advertising on conservative talk shows, placing op-eds from community leaders in major newspapers, and having major political campaign contributors press members of Congress to pass the favorable legislation. It is estimated Enron paid Century Strategies $380,000 for its services. Phillips and Century Strategies worked for Enron from 1997 to 2001.
Phillips is the president of the Koch funded front groups Americans for Prosperity (AFP) and Americans for Prosperity Foundation. Since Phillips took over as president of the AFP in 2006, the organization has expanded to over 17 states and has increased its membership to 700,000. In 2007, Phillips earned $250,000 as President of AFP.
Through AFP, Phillips has enthusiastically promoted global warming denial and attacked environmental regulation with a series of national PR campaigns. AFP's "Hot Air Tour," a national tour that calls predictions of global warming "hysteria," labels cap and trade legislation a "climate tax," and features a hot air balloon is one such stunt.
AFP also runs the website No Climate Tax, which exhorts citizens to send a message to federal and state lawmakers urging them to sign the No Climate Tax Pledge.
Other astroturf organizations conceived by Phillips under the AFP banner include:
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- "Save My Ballot Tour," a group that pays Joe the Plumber to travel around the country smearing the Employee Free Choice Act, and
- "No Stimulus" a group launched to try to stop the passage of the Recovery Act.
AFP and Phillips have also been instrumental in orchestrating the anti-Obama, anti-tax tea party protests in April of 2009.
Phillips and AFP are also heavily involved in the tea party movement, organizing rallies and bussing in speakers and participants.
In the wake of Citizens United, Phillips has positioned AFP as a conduit for corporate money entering political campaigns. Americans for Prosperity spent $6 million in ads attacking democratic incumbents in the 2010 elections.
According to Jane Mayer in The New Yorker, Americans for Prosperity and its foundation plan to spend $45 million on "some fifty House races and half a dozen Senate races, staging rallies, organizing door-to-door canvassing, and running ads aimed at 'educating voters about where candidates stand.'"


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Albert Gonzalez, the man described by federal authorities as the kingpin of a gang responsible for stealing more than 130 million payment cards, is a computer addict constantly looking for ways to challenge his abilities, according to his lawyer.
In a conversation with Computerworld on Wednesday, Rene Palamino, the Miami-based lawyer representing Gonzalez said his client has had an unhealthy obsession with computers since the age of 8.
However, he stopped short of saying it was this obsession that might have pushed Gonzalez to get involved with the alleged crimes.
"He was self-taught," Palamino said of Gonzalez. "He didn't go out in the sandbox or play baseball. The computer was his best friend."
Gonzalez was drawn to look for bigger and bigger tests of his abilities, Palomino said. "One challenge was not enough and he'd move on to another challenge," he said. "It wasn't healthy. It's a sickness. It's a problem that has not been addressed in our society."
Palomino said he hopes to shed some light on computer addiction and to warn parents about the issue.
"[Gonzalez] is not looking to harm anybody physically," he added. "He's not a hardened criminal."
Gonzalez was one of three individuals indicted Monday in federal district court in New Jersey on charges related to the massive data thefts at Heartland Payment Systems, Hannaford Bros. 7-Eleven Inc and two other unidentified retailers. The three are alleged to have stolen data on more than 130 million payment cards from these five companies.
Gonzalez had been indicted twice last year - in Massachusetts and in New York - in connection with the sensational data heists at TJX Companies Inc., Dave & Busters, BJ's Wholesale Club, OfficeMax, Boston Market, Barnes & Noble, Sports Authority, Forever 21 and DSW. He is being held without bail in a Brooklyn, N.Y., detention center.
It's unclear how much money Gonzalez made from his "operation get rich or die tryin," but it was apparently enough to support a lavish lifestyle.
Court documents related to his previous indictments described a $75,000 birthday party that was thrown by Gonzalez, and how he once complained about having to manually count more than $340,000 in cash illegally withdrawn from ATM machines.
At the time of his arrest last May, Gonzalez had $1.65 million in bank accounts, a Glock 27 pistol with several rounds of ammunition and numerous PCs, laptop computers and storage devices.
It also was unknown whether Palamino plans on using Gonzalez's computer addiction issue as a defense in court or to drive a plea bargain.
But the mere suggestion that it might evoked a stream of derision and criticism from security experts.
"That contention is pure garbage" said Ira Winkler, president of the Internet Security Advisors Group, and a Computerworld columnist.
"Even if you assume that there was remote validity to that argument, he was negligent in getting treatment," for the addicition, Winkler said.
He also brushed aside Palamino's comments that Gonzalez would never hurt anyone.
"I doubt [Bernard] Madoff would have ever harmed anyone physically, and frankly I would consider Madoff less of a hardened criminal than Gonzales," Winkler said, referring to the convicted mastermind of a Ponzi scheme that stole billions of dollars from clients.
Gonzalez's continued hacking activities despite his previous brushes with the law suggest more of an "addiction to money" than anything else, Winkler said. "Gonzales did not randomly hack things at any opportunity, but repeatedly targeted organizations where he could maximize his financial gain."
Scott Christie, a former federal prosecutor who now leads the information technology group at law firm McCarter & English LLP, was surprised by the claim that Gonzalez is suffering from a computer addiction.
"He's addicted to computers and that somehow forces him to commit crimes, too?" asked Christie, who prosecuted 28 members of the Shadowcrew hacking group in 2004.
Gonzalez was a leading member of the group but was not prosecuted since he had become a government informant the year before. "When you've got nothing for a defense, I guess you've got nothing to lose," Christie said.
Alan Paller, research director at the SANS Institute in Bethesda, Md. also dismissed the notion of computer addiction as an excuse. "So someone who was always interested in money became a bank robber and his addiction to money made him do it?" Paller said.
At the same time, though, Palamino raises a broader issue and one that needs to be addressed at a national level, Paller said.
"People who understand how computers work and learn enough about them to be able to hack have no way at all to advance their interests and skills except to be a hacker," Paller noted. Often, the only place where people with good hacking skills can go is to crime, he said.
"Gun nuts still can't go shoot people and car fanatics still can't use cars to rob banks," added John Pescatore, an analyst with Gartner Inc. in Stamford.
"I do have some faith in our legal system. I believe the 'Twinkie defense' ploy was thrown out in 1979 and hopefully the same thing happens here," he said.


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Healthcare and related sectors are experiencing strong activity, as demonstrated by our latest successful completion, the acquisition of pharmaceutical consultancy, Wainwright Associates Ltd, by German-based acquirer Yes Pharma Services GmbH.
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Quote from: Thomas Barlow on September 19, 2017, 03:20:31 PMDo you think the Nares will freeze this winter?Yes.
I suppose if we have a repeat of this ridiculously warm winter, it may happen again.
Here is a sea ice thickness product for 27 Sep to 30 Nov plus 9 day forecast taken from the Mercator Ocean site. ...Export out the Nares Strait is quite effective.It is more convenient in some ways to view animations at the MercOcean site, for example salinity x depth from May-Nov are linked below though there's no practical way to capture these or rescale (other than full screen mode). They do work well as previews however. The forecast salinity for Dec 9th shows the freshening in the Beaufort Gyre to 318 m depth (but not beyond) as well as the Atlantic Water salt finger wrapping along the Svalbard/Siberian shelf.MercOcean uses a javascript library called Leaflet which works ok overall but has various limitations and bugs. The server is quite fast. The site may be fairly new as most of the cross sections are not yet available.http://bulletin.mercator-ocean.fr/en/permalink/PSY4/animation/3/20170501/20171130/2/1http://bulletin.mercator-ocean.fr/en/permalink/PSY4/animation/3/20170501/20171130/2/2http://bulletin.mercator-ocean.fr/en/permalink/PSY4/animation/3/20170501/20171130/2/3http://bulletin.mercator-ocean.fr/en/permalink/PSY4/animation/3/20170501/20171130/2/4
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I'm hoping that Neven can tweak the blog software admin settings for attachments to get rid of long-gone 'mpg' and allow 'mpg4' so these could display like youtubes on the forums. The link and image are to the lowest resolution version of this file.
Allowed file types: gif, jpg, mpg, pdf, png, txt, jpeg
... Nares export of the very thickest Lincoln Sea ice, late May/early June of 2017 ...
gif shows about half [or the NE Lincoln Sea MYI was actually exported.
the remaining thick ice is highly fractured with interstitial first year ice
Thx, that works great! (Not real sure why, it does not change the 'allowed file types' of attachments but it may be similar to allowing youtubes.) This mp4 format is popular in climate-change journals whereas gif is rarely seen. It has more favorable compression, allowing smaller file sizes. Also having a controller is much more convenient than with gifs. Believe twitter also uses this under the hood too. After installing the 'SaveAsMovie' plugin into Fiji/ImageJ, a 48 MB gif consisting of a full year of daily Ascat files reduced to an astonishing 1.4 MB. (However that's just on my computer so unless photobucket etc are used to provide a url, it can't be uploaded to the forum!)QuoteAllowed file types: gif, jpg, mpg, pdf, png, txt, jpeg
Allowed file types: gif, jpg, mpg, pdf, png, txt, jpeg, mp4
The play button works perfectly for me in Chrome, Neven.
no huge files
Lincoln Sea Nares Export from 2017-12-24 to 2018-1-24. One tracked section of ice traveled approximately 115 miles (185km) in 31 days. Furthest travel in one day was approximately 12 miles (19.3km).
Note that the last frames show mobilization of the north-of-Greenland ice the remaining 'half' of thickest ice in the Lincoln Sea environs
Lincoln sea protected ice motion has continued in three big "waves", each one more damaging than the last...can't really see a Lincoln "arch" forming with this kind of mobility.
The last two days have been stable with only floes already broken off the arc moving. A large crack in the floating glacier ice shelf appeared somewhere between the 11th and 18th of January but has not developed further (arrow).
Monday's forecast winds (per Windy.tv) in the Lincoln Sea are for 60+ kt wind gusts most of Monday and 50+ kt gusts the first half of Tuesday.
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Christian mourners, mob, police clash in Egypt
A mob threw rocks and fired birdshot Sunday at several hundred Christians marching in a protest against Egypt's Islamist government after the funeral of four Christians killed in sectarian clashes over the weekend.
The Christians were chanting slogans against Islamist President Mohammed Morsi, just as several thousand did earlier during the funeral service nearby in the Coptic Orthodox cathedral in Cairo.
The attacking mob, described by witnesses as residents of the area, forced the marchers to take shelter inside the sprawling cathedral complex. They also showered the protesters with rocks from the roofs of nearby buildings, according to witness Ibrahim el-Shareef.
Mohammed Sultan, director of Egypt's national ambulance services, said at least 17 people were wounded in the clashes.
Riot police later arrived, firing tear gas at the Christians and the mob. Several tear gas canisters landed inside the cathedral's grounds, causing a panic among women and children who attended the funeral.
Video footage aired live on the private ONTV network showed young men on the roof of a building adjacent to the cathedral firing handguns in toward the compound.
The four Christians, along with a Muslim, were killed in clashes on Saturday in a town north of Cairo.
Inside the cathedral, several thousand mourners chanted slogans against Morsi, calling on the Egyptian leader to step down. They shouted "Leave!" and "This is our country, we will not leave."
Coptic Christians make up about 10 percent of Egypt's estimated 90 million people. They have long complained of discrimination. Attacks against Christians have increased since the ouster two years ago of autocrat Hosni Mubarak.


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Boot camp raises money for Boston Marathon victims
Participants push bodies to limit in strenuous exercise
A charity boot camp was held at Derryfield Park in Manchester on Saturday morning, with all donations going to the One Fund in Boston.
For more than an hour, people pushed their bodies to the limits by doing a strenuous boot camp training exercise. Everyone was there in solidarity and didn't care how their bodies would feel when it was over and done.
Fitness instructor Vanessa Underwood said the event is called "Boston Strong." Though it was a tiny crowd who participated, Underwood said she's hoping it will have a big impact.
"It takes a village sometimes, I think," Underwood said.
Each resident at the event is doing their part.
To participate in the boot camp, they donated money to the One Fund Boston benefiting victims of the Boston Marathon bombing.
It's a cause close to Victoria Benson's heart.
"I know a lot of people who were affected in Boston," Benson said.
Friends of her family were seriously injured in the blast, so Benson didn't hesitate to join the boot camp.
"To me it wasn't really exercise. It was for fun," she said.
During the boot camp, the participants did fast reps of jumping jacks, lunges, squats and stretching.
Underwood wanted the exercises to be painful, so people could put things in perspective.
"Do something where you are a little out of your comfort zone because it's nothing compared to what the victims in Boston are going through," Underwood said.
The workout session ended with everyone feeling tired, but stronger, knowing they did their part to help.
"We're strong. We're one. We're together and Boston is our city. That's what we are all about," Underwood said.
Another Boston Strong boot camp will take place at 3 p.m. Sunday at 92 Newton Road in Plaistow.


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A copyright enforcement service has filed a lawsuit seeking $150,000 from Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle for posting two newspaper articles without authorization.
The complaint, which was filed in US District Court in Las Vegas, is at least the 117th lawsuit to be filed since March by Righthaven LLC, a controversial group that sues websites mostly on behalf of The Las Vegas Review-Journal, according to The Las Vegas Sun. In the vast majority of the cases, Righthaven obtains the rights to the copied work after detecting the infringement and then files a complaint seeking damages of $75,000 and rights to the domain name of the infringing site.
In almost all the cases, Righthaven files suit with no warning and without first requesting the website remove the copyrighted material. Groups including the Electronic Frontier Foundation have labeled Righthaven a "patent troll" that is abusing the intellectual property system and have offered to defy the group.
The latest suit takes action against Angle for posting two Review-Journal articles critical of her opponent, US Senator Harry Reid, on her website. The group is seeking possession of her domain name, sharronangle.com, but in a departure from previous actions, it is seeking $150,000 in damages.
The Sun reports Righthaven has now brought at least 117 such actions against a wide variety of sites, including the Democratic Party of Nevada, The Democratic Underground and the Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada.
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Drought in the Horn of Africa
The ongoing drought in the Horn of Africa is widespread, triggering a regional humanitarian crisis with food insecurity skyrocketing, particularly among livestock-owning communities, and devastating livelihoods.
Areas of particular concern include southern and southeastern Ethiopia, northern and coastal Kenya, and almost all of Somalia, for which a pre-famine alert was issued by FAO's Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit in January 2017. The Governments of Kenya and Somalia have both declared the drought a national disaster. Northeastern parts of Uganda and southeastern areas of South Sudan have also been affected.
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Following erratic and below-average long rains in March-May 2016, the October to December short rains were extremely poor in much of the region – in some areas, low rainfall represented the third or fourth consecutive poor season. The failed short rains thus extended the already long dry season, with severe implications for food security, nutrition, livelihoods and peace. Correlations with the Horn of Africa drought that preceded the 2011 famine cannot be ignored.
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Shares of Research In Motion (RIMM) were pushing ahead 6.6% in morning trading, following an upgrade by Goldman Sachs.
In a note out this morning, analyst Simona Jankowski upgraded the stock from Neutral to Buy with a $16 target price. She writes that the move is predicated on positive risk/reward heading into the January launch of the BlackBerry10, as she sees a 30% chance of success for the new model, based on interest from consumers, carrier support, and good early reviews.
"For the first time in 3 years, we think out-year Street estimates are too low, as they don't capture: (1) the ASP lift from BB10; (2) the associated margin improvement; and (3) the channel inventory fill for BB10," she writes. "We expect RIM's results will exceed Street estimates over the next 4 quarters, with our revenue estimates 8% and our quarterly EPS $0.14 above consensus on average."
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21,000 Japanese-Canadians were rounded up and placed in internment camps during World War 2. This work of historical fiction reads like a memoir. Themes of loss and grief in one man are woven together seamlessly with stories of those who suffered unjustly at the hands of government forces. I remember reading about similar American history in Snow Falling on Cedars, and was myself unaware that this had happened in Canada as well. Probably the most famous novel about this history was written by Joy Kagawa in a novel called Obasan.
This is a quiet novel, evocative, lyrical and beautifully written. Though there is not much plot, there is movement as Bin Okuma, after losing his wife and struggling with his art work, travels across the country with his beloved dog Basil, hunting down ghosts of his childhood. He travels to meet his First Father to uncover some mysteries of the past. The book is a historical account of the tremendous injustices of this shameful racism, but it is not without redemptive themes of love and art and hope. It is a story well told and very readable. Although I found it a bit plodding and slow at times, I also found parts of it fascinating and I am glad that I stuck with it. It will be a book that is not easily forgotten and is a good choice for book clubs.
Just as I finished this novel I ran into a quote on Facebook which couldn't have been more well timed and appropriate. The topic of the quote refers to an ancient Japanese practice called kintsugi. "When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful." (Billie Mobayed) There is a crack in everything. As Leonard Cohen says, that's how the light gets in. Shattered pieces can learn to mend; brokenness creates a unique history that can become beautiful when it becomes strong again.
There are a lot of music references in this novel. For your convenience, here is a handy playlist.
Itani's novel is this year's choice for One Book, One Mississauga. It's a city-wide library program where residents are encouraged to read one book over the summer, and then participate in events in the fall where the book will be discussed in more detail. It will be the biggest book club in the city!
Note: Itani's husband lived the history in this novel. Here is an article about him.


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According to WWJ-TV, investigators with the Oakland County Sheriff's Office are searching for a man accused of sexually assaulting a woman at last night's KISS and MÖTLEY CRÜE concert at DTE Energy Music Theater in Clarkson, Michigan.
The woman, a 25-year-old from Orion Township, told police that she was forced into the woods and assaulted by a man around 9:40 p.m. She went home before notifying authorities.
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President Donald Trump spoke with Republican leadership this week about the possibility of rolling back part of the $1.3 trillion government spending bill that he signed into law less than two weeks ago, according to a senior House GOP aide.
Trump discussed the idea on a phone call with House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy this week, while staff from House Speaker Paul Ryan's office have been working with the administration on the concept, the aide said. The move would rely on a little-used executive power known as "rescission" that allows the president to ask Congress to cut spending it has already authorized.
"It's a bit unclear how this would play out since it hasn't happened in a long time," the aide said. "That said, this is an idea congressional leaders are taking seriously."
Still, the request is unlikely to make it very far on Capitol Hill. The spending deal passed both chambers with bipartisan support after weeks of delicate negotiations. Republicans would need support from Democrats to make any changes to the legislation now.
But even the prospect of backtracking on the massive spending deal could help the president — and GOP leadership — quell criticism from the party's conservative flank over its high price tag. The House Freedom Caucus opposed the legislation and had urged Trump to veto it. In a dramatic 11th-hour tweet, Trump toyed with the idea, but eventually opted to sign the bill, albeit with reservations.
"I say to Congress, I will never sign another bill like this again," Trump told reporters last month. "I'm not going to do it again."
To roll back the spending deal, the White House would first have to make a formal request to Congress. According to the Congressional Research Service, the reduction would be based on a formula crafted by the Office of Management and Budget, and it could include exceptions for specific programs.
Congress would then have 45 days to act on the request. If it doesn't, the money must be spent and the president cannot ask for another reduction.
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