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Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Hello, my name is Angie and I'm a Crackberry (Blackberry) addict!
I was sent a Blackberry Tour 9260 a few months ago (read my review here). Ever since I haven't had it, my life has kind of sucked. I no longer get to update my Facebook status via my Blackberry. I can't Tweet on my Blackberry. I was able to send photos from my Blackberry to my Facebook account and my MySpace account. Now, I can't keep up-to-date on my emails on my Blackberry.
When I had my Blackberry, I was constantly keeping abreast of anything that mattered to me: my friends on Facebook, news, weather, appointments, everything.
And now I'm lost...
Verizon and JuiceBoxJungle sponsored me to write this post, and they asked me to talk about the ways my smart phone affects my life as a parent.


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I went to a place and I saw a bird. Then I went to another place and I saw another bird and several of another species of bird. Then I saw a really cool bird. Then I saw some more birds. Finally, I saw a bunch more birds and then I went home.
-Way too many posts in the bird blogosphere
Is there any reason to spend your time on a straightforward accounting of another birder's recent outing? If a bird blogger is an amazing wordsmith or has a unique voice – most aren't and don't – then the post might be fun to read. If a bird blogger is an expert wildlife photographer or artist – most aren't – then the post might be nice to see. If a bird blogger is based somewhere really fascinating or visits astounding places – most aren't and don't – then the post might be good because of the novelty value. But if a blog post is an un-or-poorly illustrated, straightforward account of a birder's visit to a local park that lacks amazing birds or scenery is there any reason to read it?
Readers like good pictures of birds.
Birders bird their local patches more than anywhere else. Bird bloggers are no exception. And while the accumulation of information about a local patch is important, rewarding, and could be of long term scientific value, it is boring to read. Really boring. Paint-drying boring. So why the heck are blog posts about birding local patches the most common type of blog post that bird bloggers produce?
Blogs started out, for all intents and purposes, as online, public diaries. It is easy to fall back to that type of writing when one is uninspired or just trying to feed the gaping maw that is the internet. Taking a walk, seeing some common birds and then coming home and writing about going to see them is easy. No muss, no fuss. And no interest. It is no wonder that the vast majority of bird blogs get very little traffic. If what is written on bird blogs is boring to even other birders then what are the odds that non-birders are going to find the writing compelling?
Some folks are probably muttering about glass houses and stones right about now. Yes, I have been known to write straightforward accounts of a day's (or an hour's) birding. But I also enliven trip reports with different perspectives, excellent photographs (if you don't mind me twisting my arm to pat myself on the back), and marvelous places. And the posts that have any of these three elements are far better posts than the typical, straightforward posts.
Readers like pretty pictures.
If you are going to insist upon continuing to blog trip reports then you could do much worse than to blog like Redgannet. He is, I think, the premiere trip report bird blogger blogging right now. He travels all over the world, sees great birds, gets tack-sharp pictures, and brings a marvelous and entertaining perspective to all of this activity. Not only that, but his blog posts often contain detailed information about how to reach the sites he is birding, the costs of different forms of transport, and information about safety, food, and the locals. Despite all of that awesomeness his blog gets very little recognition. So if you think you can write as well as Redgannet while traveling all over the world and taking amazing pictures then go for it! But don't expect to see a ton of blog traffic pouring onto your blog.
What is a sad sack bird blogger to do? Our online ecological niche is small. We must enlarge it and we must engage with a larger audience. Writing great posts about the behaviors of common birds that people tend to notice (and Google!) is a good way to engage a new audience. Writing about where the world of birding intersects with other worlds is another. Most important is to let some of your personality and joie de vivre shine through into your blog posts. Don't write clinically or scientifically or dryly. Write like you mean it, write like you are arguing, write like a human! Find your voice and use it! And for the sake of the bird blog audience don't write like a machine, churning out post after post of the same old same old. Your audience, which will grow, will appreciate your efforts.
What do you do to make your bird blog more interesting to the average internet surfer?
Wow Corey! A thought provoking read for sure. I think the one thing that I do to make my blog more interesting is to write about things that excite me. Obviously, great bird photos make for better bird blog posts in my opinion because I think birders are visual people. After all, we spend most of our time looking through equipment that brings these beautiful creatures closer to us and gives us the opportunity to photograph them as well.
That being said, the most fascinating thing about birds to me is their behavior. I love watching birds and enjoying their beauty but trying to determine why they do what they do is the most interesting part of birding for me.
I usually do a lot of research when writing a post because I am interested in not only enjoying the visual beauty of the birds I'm writing about but learning about their behavior. Where can they be found, what type of nest do they build and in what habitat? Why do they show up in my neck of the woods in September, hang around most of the year, and then disappear at breeding time?
I believe that bird watching is a life long learning experience and the thrill of seeing a species new to you and discovering its secrets can be a very intoxicating endeavor.
Thanks for writing this post! By the way, nice photos! 😉
i don't have a blog (yet? muahaha, i may unleash my bird paintings on the internet yet) but i do sometimes read trip reports on local patches…that are local to me. so in that respect if they are at aleast somewhat well written they can be helpful to me. i don't live in a really great birding location so the few trip report/blogs based in the area are really appreciated.
otherwise, yeah, i like to read about more tha what bird was where. i live to know what they were doing and about the location. more general travel writing with a focus on birds than a 'trip report'.i like background, a post that can transport me to somehwere else for a few minutes on my lunch break. also, nice pictures.
This is a mean-spirited and unnecessary post. Yes, there are many less-than stellar blogs out there, and not just about birds, but about any topic you can imagine. And yes, there are many blogs, including birding blogs, that are really wonderful, with artistic presentations, stunning photos, lucid or even lovely prose etc., and these justly deserve our admiration and any fame they develop. But many people create blogs for their own pleasure, to document their own experiences in their own way, perhaps to share with family or friends or other local birders. You are creating a problem where none exists, and slighting many birders who might not be up to your standards. This is another example of elitism and competitiveness that taints some corners of the birding world.
I write a blog that covers my birding adventures, in addition to other topics of interest. I don't list my sighting, but tend to write about a particular species, or my ongoing observations about the birds at a particular patch. I am not a photographer so there are no bird photos to accompany my essays, so my blog probably wouldn't be good enough for you. I don't need to change it to suit anyone's standards, including what anyone thinks "bird bloggers" OUGHT to do for the good of birding – it's my blog, for my own pleasure.
Here's what I suggest you do: Read the blogs you enjoy. Don't read the ones that you think are beneath your notice.
@Corey @Larry – Both of you have been great examples to me of great bird blogging. I know I'm guilty of the occasional boring post, but I agree 100% with your analysis and feel I have come along way in the last three years. Pretty pictures make a huge difference in viewer appreciation. The ability to convey interesting facts in an engaging manner is a plus. Transmitting enthusiasm and passion is essential. And portraying your personality and unique voice is much more satisfying to read. I think that is why Sharon Stiteler (Birdchick), Bill Thompson III, and Julie Zickefoose have been so successful at blogging – they all ooze personality and it is captivating.
Feeling like I was writing the yellow sentences over and over again is one reason I cut back on trip reports, especially from my local patch. Now when I do a trip report, I usually give a short description of the birds I saw and let the remainder of the post be determined by what photographs I have on hand.
Consistently writing good posts on bird behavior is difficult because of the need for research and illustrative photos. It is definitely worth doing, though.
GREAT post Corey…I have been thinking this the entire time Ive been bird blogging, but have been unwilling to make a whole post about it at the risk of offending almost every other bird blogger! A ballsy move, I must say.
Variety is key. Photos are key. I think John and Nate both do an excellent job at keeping things fresh, and The Great Ornithologist Felonious Jive and I try our best to keep things a bit weird.
I think there is absolutely nothing wrong with the trip report format (particularly if you have a lot of pictures and dont go deep into inane detail of birds you didnt photograph)…but at the same time I am in total agreement that I wish there was more variety out there.
5 gold stars for that opening statement, BTW.
I do think that there is one important role played by even dull trip reports. If I'm traveling to a new place that isn't a premier birding destination, there's still a good a chance that there are some locally common species in boring local parks that will, nevertheless, be exciting to me – and I want to know where they're seen week in and week out, so I have the best shot at them. Boring, trip-report heavy local bird blogs – and even more boring, trip-report heavy static web sites from the days before blogging got huge – were my key resources when the I.T. and I drove from New York to Montana and I only had a day per state to pick up what new birds I could.
I think those trip report posts would be better used if there was some central website were someone could look up a location and see what different bloggers saw there…
Robert–thanks for the love.
Steve is excellent and weird and fun to read. John is always informative. Larry has amazing photos of bird behavior. Carrie is such a good writer even her regular trips in the field are worth reading. At the risk of turning this into a lovefest, the people who have posted comments here are doing a great job keeping readers (if I am Joe Blog-reader) engaged and informed.
I can only speak for myself, but I spend as much of my time in the field trying to come up with a narrative as I do looking for birds. I hate boring trip reports, and while I'm easily guilty of them from time to time, I do try to come up with a hook that makes a day in the field something worth plowing through and I spend a lot of time thinking about that hook while I'm birding.
If I've got a good story, I might not worry so much about getting photos. If I can't find anything worthwhile to write about, I'll work harder on photos. If neither work, well, I either put up something I know will be boring or I try to come up with something else. At the very least, it keeps my mind sharp, I guess.
Thought provoking, Corey, and questions we must all ask ourselves. Big names like Thompson, Zickefoose, and Stiteler have established an audience that fawns on their every soundbite. Lesser-known names? Well, we just work our little niches. We have to be realistic, knowing who we are, what our niche is, being proud of that niche, and working it. The occasional blog comment that says that the reader just found you which thanks you for what you do is what let's you know you're doing a good thing. I feel each of us can make a difference in our own sometimes little way.
Thank you for putting in to words exactly what I have been finding in my reaction to browsing around blogs and what not.
A few thoughts:
Paragraph style trip reports are tedious to read; list style are a little better. I know these are great records to have and show alot about not just the area, but also who has some local knowledge. IMO they are best kept on litservs / yahoo groups where they will be there and searchable when you want them.
I see some posts on yahoo groups that are copied lists of a person's eBird submissions. For actual data I think eBird is great, in many ways, (and would benefit greatly from all these posted sightings).
A blogger, I suppose one will want to think of what kind of birder you want to attract as an audience, there are as many different audiences as there are ways to enjoy birds. Mixing it up could be a good thing. Seeing a good photo and the promise of learning something fundamental is always motivation for me to read something.
Thanks again! Dianne C.
I second Sharon's interest in a centralized index of trip reports.
Corey, remember that not everyone has the talent or the ambition that 10kb can muster–and that all this e-stuff is e-phemeral anyway. Nobody writes about birds for the ages.
Point taken, Corey. While I try to write well and with a sense of humour, and I feel my photos are not terrible and the locations I visit are esoteric if not exotic, after 2+ years of regular blogging, I still have trouble gaining an audience to turn away. I attempt to network by following and commenting on other like-minded (and geographically similar) blogs, but these efforts go for the most part unrewarded. Very discouraging; your post is nevertheless an encouragement to up my game and persevere.
@Stuart- If it's any consolation, I've been blogging for four years now and my traffic is so-so. I don't claim to have any insight, but perseverance seems to be the number one trait for successful blogging.
I honestly got bored writing a blog full of trip reports. I'm glad this issue was brought up from the side of the reader. About the only good thing a trip report blog does in its existence is act as a travel guide. My now-dead blog occasionally brings an email from someone out of the area asking where they can go to find good birds. They will cite a few entries I had on specific locations, and ask for directions to them. But that is the only use I ever got out of keeping a trip report birding blog.
Good post Corey. You are absolutely right, our niche must reach more people. We deserve it and the birds deserve it.
In a way BirdingBlogs was a reaction to boring birding blogs – and to the fact that many good blogs did not get the traffic they deserved. And exactly the points you mention were part of the strategy: some nice large size pictures (I still can't understand why some bloggers insist on small size pictures, which you have to click to see what they are – just go for 600-700px straight away – and they can still be clickable for larger size if that is what you want), interesting & varied text, some exotic places, some seriousness, some humor, some conservation, lots of sharing of your collegues' stuff, etc – that is a winning formula.
Multi-author blogs may be a the way to go for some people – it takes a lot of time to produce read-worthy content, and getting together with others help that.
Even trip reports can be made interesting if one simply does not list every bird. Try to concentrate on the essence of the day in the field.
Rick Wright often have posts that pics out something particular on a trip that he has done. His posts from Peru for example last year were great to read.
Birdingblogs Rich Hoyer for example reports weekly from Cristalino Jungle Lodge and manages to keep every post as interesting or even more interesting than the previous. Just check the last one on the Sunbittern.
Lastly, I'd like to make a mention of one of the best blogposts I have read in a long time, that of Dawn's Dilemma to help or not to help a bird in distress.
I think many bloggers who blog from a local patch can do much better in just posting the full birdlist to ebird, and then tell a particular story about one or two birds – and I think photographs are essential. Even if one does not have photographs oneself, one can find good photographs licensed Creative Common on Flickr to use (giving credit of course). At the end of the post, just link to your daylist on ebird (you can do that right?) for anyone interested in a full list.
I'm not a skilled photographer, writer or birder. I don't travel to exotic locations or see many exotic birds. I'm bored by myself when I write trip accounts but resort to that if I'm too lazy or don't have enough time to put something more creative together. My goal is to keep the blog active by posting something-anything-about once a week and then come up with something interesting once in a while.
-This is a blunt, cold, slap- in- the- face post which is why I found it so interesting to read!
Planning the trip I want to do is why I search for trip reports. I don't want to see pretty pictures; I want to see the birds once I reach the birding destination/s; that's why I use trip reports.
It is more important to me to get logistical info. I am a good enough birder that I will see/hear birds once I get there, but I want to see what others dealt with in getting there.
Examples: Best/least expensive places to stay
What transportation to use
Good restaurants in the area if any
Directions to the birding site
I've already purchased the field guide; I don't need any pretty pics to help or entice me.
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He had the requisite looks, charm and talent, but it wasn't until 1969, when he was in his mid-30s, that Robert Redford truly broke out as a genuine Hollywood player. That year he starred in two very good films (Downhill Racer and Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here) and one hugely entertaining, honest-to-god classic, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
As fate would have it, 1969 was also the year that LIFE photographer John Dominis spent a week with Redford as the legend-in-the-making mixed business and pleasure at his homes in Utah and New York, chronicling the days and nights of an increasingly famous man struggling mightily to maintain control of both his private life and his career.
At the time, Redford was married to first wife, Lola Van Wagenen. With their kids Shauna and Jamie (their youngest daughter, Amy, would arrive in October 1970), the couple lived for several months each year at a three-story A-frame house they had built themselves in Lola's snowy, mountainous home state of Utah. During that part of the shoot, Dominis spent a few days trying to keep up as Redford traversed his vast property on horseback, skis and snowmobile.
Only a few of Dominis' photos made it into the February 1970 LIFE cover story. Here, LIFE.com presents a series of photos—none of which ran in the magazine—from the photographer's time with the Sundance Kid: Redford on horseback in the Utah mountains; hailing a cab in Times Square; playing with his kids; and always, always taking care of business.
Dominis' pictures revealed more than just an actor indisputably on the rise: they captured a new kind of movie star, one who carefully managed every aspect of his career, from creative choices to nuts-and-bolts business matters. For Redford, the reasoning behind his decision to take control of his professional life was eminently practical.
"They throw that word 'star' at you loosely, and they take it away loosely if your pictures flop," he told LIFE. "You take responsibility for their crappy movie, that's all it means. So what I said was, since you say I'm responsible if my name is above the title, then give me responsibility. That's all."
Dominis' unobtrusive, fly-on-the-wall approach to shooting, meanwhile, suited the star just fine, especially in light of how little time Redford really seemed to have to himself. In New York, for example, he was swamped with details connected to the release of his next movie, Downhill Racer. Even in Utah, a place to which he retreated in order to get away from it all, Redford "engages in endless long-distance discussions with agents, partners and other unfree spirits," LIFE reported.
There's no doubt at all, though, that Redford made an impression on Dominis. "He was a real man," Dominis, now 91 years old, told LIFE.com, recalling his days and nights spent with the actor. "A strong person. I liked him a lot. And he was nice to me, even though he didn't know me."
One key aspect of Redford's appeal for Dominis—a sportsman himself—was the actor's obvious love of, and respect for, the natural world and the dramatic landscape of the American West. ("Other people have analysis; I have Utah," Redford once quipped.)
By 1975, Redford had amassed about 7,000 acres of land in Utah, including a ranch, a ski resort, a horse-training farm and a large tract in the Wasatch mountain range. "I'd understand it if someone said it was too much for one man and his family," he told People that year. "But I don't think I'm just piling up land the way some men pile up money. I'm collecting space, and space has a very deep meaning for me." In the coming years, of course, Redford would give much of that land in service to his craft, making it the site of the enormously popular and influential Sundance Film Festival and the nonprofit Sundance Institute.
Liz Ronk, who edited this gallery, is the Photo Editor for LIFE.com. Follow her on Twitter at @LizabethRonk.


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From ForensicsWiki
- Forensic Analysis of the Windows Registry in Memory, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, DFRWS 2008 [slides]
- Forensic Analysis of the Windows Registry, Peter Davies, Computer Forensics: Coursework 2 (student paper)
- A Windows Registry Quick-Reference, Derrick Farmer, Burlington, VT.
- The Windows Registry as a forensic resource, Digital Investigation, Volume 2, Issue 3, September 2005, Pages 201--205.
- Forensic Analysis of the Windows Registry, Lih Wern Wong , School of Computer and Information Science, Edith Cowan University
- The Windows NT Registry File Format, Timothy D. Morgan
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The studio responsible for the multiplayer component of Spec Ops: The Line, whose lead designer called it a "cancerous growth" foisted upon the game by publisher 2K Games, defended its work in a statement today.
In a feature published earlier this week by Polygon, Cory Davis, formerly of Spec Ops developer Yager, ripped the multiplayer as inessential to the story the studio was trying to tell. "2K was relentless in making sure that it happened — even at the detriment of the overall project and the perception of the game," he said.
Darkside Game Studios, the developer responsible for Spec Ops' multiplayer, said this today:
There are a lot of positive topics covered in the recent Polygon article about Spec Ops: The Line. However, one clarification needs to be made about the multiplayer mode: Darkside Game Studios was brought onto Spec Ops towards the tail end of the project and revamped the entire multiplayer design. The deadline was tight, the demands were high, and Darkside did a great job according to focus tests, reviewers and players.
Cory Davis himself followed up on his Twitter account: "Darkside Games did a great job with the time / resources they were given. They finalised and shipped a historically troubled Multiplayer." His concerns originated prior to Darkside's involvement and stemmed from his opinion that the game should contain no multiplayer at all. Fortunately, for the core fans of Spec Ops multiplayer, this was an outlying opinion.
Davis in earlier tweets said his statement about Spec Ops' multiplayer "is not directed at Darkside Game Studios. MP passed to multiple studios, was troubled throughout," and that his comments "are in no way representative of my overall feelings for 2K as a publisher." Davis also noted that he no longer works at Yager.
Davis, to Polygon had said, "The multiplayer game's tone is entirely different, the game mechanics were raped to make it happen, and it was a waste of money. No one is playing it, and I don't even feel like it's part of the overall package — it's another game rammed onto the disk like a cancerous growth."
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President Bush Appoints James Herbert as Acting Chairman of National Endowment for the Humanities
President Bush has appointed James Herbert, director of the Division of Research Programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), as the Endowment's acting chairman.
Dr. Herbert has been at NEH since 1989. He has also served as the Endowment's director of the Division of Education Programs. He holds a Ph.D. in the history of ideas from Brandeis University and has served on the faculties of the Catholic University of America, the University of the District of Columbia and the University of Maryland. He has held research and administrative posts at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the College Board, as well as the American Council on Education Fellowship at the U.S. Department of Education.
Dr. Herbert will serve as acting chairman until December, when the post of chairman will be taken by Bruce Cole, Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts and chairman of the Department of the History of Art at Indiana University, Bloomington.


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I have an issue where, each time I start my CentOS 5.6 VM, DHCP (I believe) is allocating my VM a different IP. I have the VM mapped as a Samba share in Windows 7 and this changes between 192.168.0.8, 192.168.0.9 and 192.168.0.10 each time meaning I have to mount a new drive in Windows each time.
This is also frustrating as I have to update my hosts file to point to a different IP each time and any projects I have pointing to the Samba share in my IDE are also gone.
Is there a way that I can set the IP to be the same each time in the Devernet Configuration under the
setup tool in CentOS?
[root@dev ~]# ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 16436 qdisc noqueue
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
2: eth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
link/ether 08:00:27:f2:9f:d6 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.0.8/24 brd 192.168.0.255 scope global eth0
Here is a screenshot of the Devernet Configuration under the
setup utility in CentOS. I had Use DHCP on, but I have turned it off in this screenshot.


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Battery usage tips
1. A new battery usually comes in a discharged condition and with a very low capacity. It is generally recommended to fully charge new battery packs before use. Refer to the users?guide of your electronic device for charging instructions.
2. A new battery pack needs to be circled (fully discharged and recharged) three to five times to reach its optimum performance.
3. Rechargeable battery will undergo self-discharging when left unused for a long period of time. Thus, it should always be stored in a fully charged state and kept in a cool, dry and clean place.
4. To maintain the optimum performance of a battery pack, it is highly recommended to circle (fully discharging and recharging) it at least once a month.
5. It is normal if a new battery gets warm when being charged or used. However, close attention should be paid if the battery pack becomes excessively hot. This may indicate there is a problem with the charging circuit of the electronic device. So, it is necessary to have it checked by a qualified technician.
6. New batteries are hard to be charged. Sometimes, your electronic device may indicate a fully charged condition about 10 to 15 minutes when the new battery pack is being charged for the first time. When this happens, remove the battery pack and let it cool down for about 10 to 15 minutes then repeat the charging procedure. Sometimes, a new battery will suddenly refuse to be charged. If this happens, it is then suggested to remove the battery from the device and reinsert it.
1. Do not modify or disassemble.
2. Do not incinerate or expose battery to excessive heat, which may result in an exposure.
3. Do not expose battery to water or other moist matters.
4. Do not pierce, hit, step on, crush or abuse the battery.
5. Do not place battery in device for a long period of time if device is not being used.
6. Do not short circuit the terminals or store your battery pack with metal objects such as necklaces or hairpins.


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Erase Bullying
In early 2013, LUSH was featured on an episode of Undercover Boss Canada, and our very own shop staff member Sina Kamran spoke candidly about his past experience as a victim of bullying. Our eyes were opened to the harsh realities of this issue, and we invited Sina to help create the concept and direction of our next ethical campaign: Erase Bullying.
The campaign launched in early September 2013, coinciding with the return of millions of North American kids and teens to school. With the help of artist Bryce Evans of The One Project, our shop windows were transformed into shocking displays of hurtful words collected from real bullying experiences. We invited our customers to physically erase the words from our window and pledge to do their part to erase bullying from their lives.
Our Partners
This organization is committed to promoting compassionate thinking and actions in an effort to erase negativity from our communities. They organize the annual Compassion Games: an international movement of spreading compassion with a hint of friendly competition!
This Quebec-based charity is fighting against discrimination, bullying and violence in schools through sustainable solutions like in-school anti bullying programs. Their aim is to reduce bullying-related dropouts and raise the public's awareness of bullying in schools.
Our Progress
Sina Kamran, the retail staff member who helped to design the campaign said, "I felt that a lot of our customers and walkers-by alike were not only touched by what was going on, but were more than happy to help Erase Bullying! A lot of customers used the window as a way to get out pent up feelings: the physical act of erasing a word that may have affected them really acted as closure…I felt that the campaign was extremely successful. It succeeded in getting people to notice, and to understand that bullying is more than just a rite of passage."
Through the sale of Charity Pot hand and body lotion, we donated $25 500 towards the cost of organizing the 2013 Compassion Games. The Games were held in September 2013, and included communities from across the globe competing to be the most compassionate place on earth!
$11,000 from the Charity Pot initiative was donated to Fondation Jasmin Roy to fund one Quebec school's anti-bullying program for the duration of one the school year.
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A new research and training opportunity has opened up for robotic cardiac surgery. WITN took a first-hand look at the facility and its equipment.
The 37,000 sq. ft. fourth floor of the East Carolina Heart Institute officially opened Thursday afternoon.
It will house advanced labs and simulated clinical rooms, with 80 to 120 people working in the area.
The only Robotic Cardiac Surgery training facility in the world sits on the floor as well.
The fourth floor will also house the East Carolina Diabetes and Obesity Institute.
WITN spoke with Dr. Wiley Nifong about the progress ECU has made in medicine.
Dr. Nifong said, "When they come here they're like, 'Oh we didn't realize this was all going on at East Carolina.' And not only here, but when you walk over to the Dental School and Allied Health School. This area now, the vision is, it's like a medical campus."
Dr. Nifong says when you look outside, you see white coats and blue coats, with everyone collaborating together. He says it's a lot more fun to work in that type of environment.


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US figure skaters will train in Austria ahead of Sochi
The U.S. figure skaters will do some of their training for the Sochi Olympics in Austria.
Barbara Reichert, the spokeswoman for U.S. Figure Skating, says the organization secured ice time two years ago at a training facility in Europe "to allow additional practice time for American athletes to prepare for the Olympic Winter Games. This is a very common practice at the Olympics and is not in response to any security issues."
The athletes will still practice during their regular time slots in Sochi, with additional skating to be done in Austria. Reichert says this has been done before: At the 2002 Salt Lake City Games, the team trained outside of Utah. Same thing at the 2006 Turin Olympics and four years ago in Vancouver.
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NASSAU, Bahamas -- Hurricane Sandy raged through the Bahamas on Friday after leaving 39 people dead across the Caribbean, following a path that could see it blend with a winter storm to hit the U.S. East Coast with a super-storm next week.
The hurricane knocked out power, flooded roads and cut off islands in the storm-hardened Bahamas as it charged through Cat Island and Eleuthera, with authorities reporting one death in the scattered archipelago.
Sandy, which weakened to a category 1 hurricane Thursday night, caused havoc in Cuba earlier that day, killing 11 people in eastern Santiago and Guantanamo provinces as its howling winds and rain toppled thousands of houses and ripped off roofs. Authorities said it was Cuba's deadliest storm since July 2005, when category 5 Hurricane Dennis killed 16 people and caused $2.4 billion in damage.
The death toll was still rising in impoverished Haiti, reaching 25 on Friday as word of disasters reached officials and rain continued to fall.
Joseph Edgard Celestin, a spokesman for Haiti's civil protection office, said some people died trying to cross storm-swollen rivers. While the storm's center missed the country as it passed on Wednesday, Haiti's ramshackle housing and denuded hillsides make it especially vulnerable to flood damage.
Officials at a morgue in the western town of Grand Goave said a mudslide crashed through a wooden home on Thursday, killing 40-year-old Jacqueline Tatille and her four children, ranging in ages from 5 to 17.
"If the rain continues, for sure we'll have more people die," said morgue deputy Joseph Franck Laporte. "The earth cannot hold the rain."
Sandy also killed a man in Jamaica on Wednesday when a boulder crashed through his house, and police in the Bahamas said a 66-year-old man died after falling from his roof in upscale Lyford Cay late Thursday while trying to repair a window shutter. Police in Puerto Rico said a man in his 50s was swept away Friday by a swollen river in the southern town of Juana Diaz, where rain from Sandy's outer bands has been steadily falling.
Cuban authorities said the island's 11 dead included a 4-month-old boy who was crushed when his home collapsed and an 84-year-old man in Santiago province. Near the city of Guantanamo, the Communist Party daily Granma reported, two men were killed by falling trees.
Official news media reported Friday that the storm caused 5,000 houses to at least partially collapse while ripping the roofs off 30,000 others. Banana, coffee, bean and sugar crops were damaged.
On Friday afternoon, the hurricane's center was about 30 miles (50 kilometers) north-northeast of Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas and 430 miles (695 kilometers) south-southeast of Charleston, South Carolina. Sandy was moving north at 7 mph (11 kph) with maximum sustained winds near 75 mph (120 kph).
Government officials in the Bahamas said the storm seems to have inflicted the greatest damage on Cat Island, which took a direct hit, and Exuma, where there were reports of downed trees, power lines and damage to homes.
"I hope that's it for the year," said Veronica Marshall, a 73-year-old hotel owner in Great Exuma. "I thought we would be going into the night, but around 3 o'clock it all died down. I was very happy about that."
In Long Island, farmers lost most of their crops and several roofs were torn off, said legislator Loretta Butler-Turner. The island is without power and many residents do not have access to fresh water, she said.
With the storm projected to hit the Atlantic coast early Tuesday, there was a 90 percent chance that most of the U.S. East Coast would get steady gale-force winds, flooding, heavy rain and maybe snow starting Sunday and stretching past Wednesday, U.S. forecaster Jim Cisco said.
A new tropical storm watch was issued early Friday for a section of the U.S. East Coast extending from Savannah, Ga., northward to North Carolina's Outer Banks.
In the Bahamas, power was out on Acklins Island and most roads there were flooded, while in Ragged Island in the southern Bahamas, the lone school was flooded.
Russell, the emergency management official in Nassau, said docks on the western side of Great Inagua island had been destroyed and the roof of a government building was partially ripped off.
Jennifer Savoie, a New Orleans native who lives in Eleuthera, said that her fiance's resort, The Cove Eleuthera, was spared major damage but that power is out across most of the island.
"We know the protocol and how to prepare," she said. "It's in our blood. We were hit pretty hard though."
There were no reports of injuries at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, but there were downed trees and power lines, said Kelly Wirfel, a base spokeswoman. Officials canceled a military tribunal session scheduled for Thursday for the prisoner charged in the 2000 attack on the Navy destroyer USS Cole.
Officials reported flooding across Haiti, where many of the 370,000 people still displaced by the devastating 2010 earthquake scrambled for shelter. More than 1,000 people were evacuated from 11 quake settlements, according to the International Organization for Migration.
Associated Press writers Danica Coto in San Juan, Puerto Rico; Trenton Daniel in Port-au-Prince and Pierre-Richard Luxama in Grand Goave, Haiti; Seth Borenstein in Washington; and Anne-Marie Garcia in Havana contributed to this report.


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GOP braces for shutdown fallout
House and Senate Republicans are still spooked by the ghosts of shutdown past, with many fearing a brutal political fallout that could threaten their party in the run-up to the 2014 midterms.
Despite a firm belief that the public is on their side in opposition to Obamacare, there is palpable fear among Republicans on Capitol Hill that they will not be rewarded for taking such a tough stand against the law, which helped lead to the first government shutdown in 17 years early Tuesday. And there is even deeper concern that President Barack Obama won't give any ground in the battle over his signature legislative achievement and House Speaker John Boehner will eventually capitulate, leaving Republicans with little to show for after a raging political fight.
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In interviews on Monday, many congressional Republicans argued that their best hope is that the shutdown will be short, the GOP can secure at least one concession from Obama and that voters will forget about the budget debacle by next November, instead applauding them for fighting a health care law they see as completely unworkable.
But even that may be a stretch, a number of Republicans concede.
( POLITICO's full government shutdown coverage)
"I don't think it ends well for Republicans," said Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), the conservative freshman and former House member. "I just think that we get the blame on things like this. I don't think it will be any different this time."
"I just don't think it's smart," said Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.). "People don't get elected to shut the government down, especially over something you clearly don't have the votes for."
Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt, a member of Senate GOP leadership and a former House Republican leader, said: "If Republicans don't get most of the blame for a shutdown, it will be the only time that the opposition party to the president didn't get the blame for a shutdown."
( WATCH: Shutdown: Democrats vs. Republicans)
"It's funny: People want to repeal Obamacare, but they don't see the connection about what we're doing here and the fact they don't like Obamacare," said Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who served through the last shutdown and was a supporter of using the spending bill to defund Obamacare in this fight. "It's an anomaly."
And while some House and Senate Republicans believe they won't suffer the same political backlash that Speaker Newt Gingrich did in 1996 that helped bolster Bill Clinton's reelection, virtually everyone believes the public — and the media — will place a much bigger blame on their party than the Democrats, fairly or not.
"I think for either party, it depends on the duration of it, and the impact of it on people's lives," said Rep. Kevin Brady (R-Texas). "If people feel that this is worthwhile, I think it will accrue to the Republicans. If at the end of the day they don't, I think it will be damaging."
( WATCH: Boehner 'confident' House will pass CR)
"Oh yeah," Rep. Tom Rooney (R-Fla.) said when asked if he thought Republicans would suffer more of the blame for the shutdown. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid "could do nothing and he still won't get blamed for shutting down the government."
Still, while Rooney wants to dismantle Obama's health care law, he's skeptical Republicans can do it now.
"I find that hard to believe that Barack Obama would do any damage to Obamacare, as much as I would like it."
( PHOTOS: 18 times the government has shut down)
Therein lies the problem in the eyes of many congressional Republicans: They set a very high bar demanding changes to Obamacare, but that could ultimately turn out to be a lost cause, given the Democrats' no-compromise stance on the issue. After a drama-filled Monday in which House Republicans passed bill after bill gutting Obamacare only to see Senate Democrats reject the moves, the chambers return Tuesday back at square one — but this time, with government services cut off and hundreds of thousands of federal employees experiencing furloughs.


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Israel, Palestine (and Beyond) Live Coverage: US Restarting Negotiations?
US Secretary of State John Kerry with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday (Photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
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1731 GMT: Mali. Clashes between the army and Islamists killed seven people Sunday, including a soldier and two civilians, after the insurgents infiltrated northern Mali's largest city, Gao.
The army carried out what it called a "clean-up" operation after Islamists opened fire on an army camp overnight.
The city was now "calm" again, an "African military source" said, adding that the army, "backed by French and African troops, had the situation under control".
1725 GMT: Egypt. President Morsi has prompted speculaton and concern, following outside the Muslim Brotherhood's Cairo headquarters on Friday, with remarks on his Facebook page: "If I am forced to do what is required to protect this nation, then I will do it. And I fear that I might be on the verge of doing it."


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Last week, I gave away a lot of my time and attention to Madonna. (Oops! I've done it again, with this column.) But then you, or someone you know, did too. She may not watch TV, or listen to the radio, as she says on American Life (Maverick/Warner Bros.), and maybe she doesn't read any entertainment media, but she sure knows how to work them all. For many, particularly those of a straight male persuasion, every new Madonna vehicle works them into a foaming-at-the-mouth state as they ruthlessly savage her entire reason for existence. Perhaps she shouldn't have served them up that soy latte. But among gay groupies, rarely is a critical word heard, with endlessly fawning reviews the norm. Friends of Madonna are as hopelessly devoted to their deity as Reaganites are to theirs. Soon enough there may even be a Reagan-styled movement to encourage every gay institution to somehow celebrate Madonna either through a name change or a plaque. Soon to appear at a gay bar near you: a toilet dedicated to the "Drowned World Tour."
But before you Madonnarama llamas lob cigarette lighters disguised as grenades my way, before you turn on me as if I, a transplanted Midwesterner, had said, Dixie Chick-style, "I'm ashamed our number one diva is from the Midwest," let me preempt you. Madonna's latest release is a refreshingly decent output, a more consistent album than her Mirwais vs. William Orbit Music (Maverick/Warner Bros.), if not ultimately better.
I almost feel like chirping "fuck it," as Madonna does in her album-only version of "American Life," and give up. This is designed to be a dance-music column, but apparently there's little to dance to in Madonna's American life these days — though the retro electro vibe on the album makes you move even when it's in folksy ballad form. Madonna is bitter at the state of the world, politically and culturally, and disturbed by her role in it. "I'm So Stupid" she ignobly titles one track.
Her strongest moments on the album, though, are when she rises above matters of the material world and goes metaphysical. "Nothing Fails" plays out as "Like a Prayer" revisited (in restrained, mature fashion). In nearly every way, she's outdone herself here. The lyrics wax poetic about unending love: "You could take all this, take it away/I'd still have it all," she sings. "'Cause I've climbed the tree of life/And that is why, [I'm] no longer scared if I fall." The music gradually swells to a full-on gospel choir climax in which the choir chants the slyly sacrilegious line, "I'm not religious, but it makes me wanna pray."
Her parting song, "Easy Ride," rises nicely from the ashes of the lush violins, dramatic flourishes and abrupt ending of the breathtakingly fierce "Die Another Day." Madonna yearns in "Easy Ride" for the meaning of life, but she's contented with what she's already learned — that life is one giant circle. She hasn't learned from all her mistakes, though. American Life adds up to be the modern-day Madonna equivalent of earlier Madonna's noisy, bumbling, but not totally irredeemable Erotica (Maverick/Warner Bros.). There's no "Ray of Light" to anchor this album and make it soar; no "What It Feels Like for A Girl" to lyrically provoke us with musical sweet-nothings; no "Music" to make us come together in glee. Instead, we get an abrasively whiny-pitched Madonna appreciating her parents on "Mother and Father," complete with an even more unfortunate rap than that of the title track, featuring imbecilic gems like "My father had to go to work, I used to think he was a jerk." Did she write that, or did her seven-year-old daughter?
And what's with the inner artwork? I like the stark, Che Guevara look on the cover, but could she think of nothing more creative than to use her body to spell out the album title, as if it were an A-Teens album? She should have taken images from her original, angstful "American Life" video, especially since she canceled it. (Hopefully you'll see it soon, since that video is on par with the music video queen's best ever, just as its United Nations, flag-waving replacement is one of her worst.) The erstwhile Material Girl has effectively shirked that moniker for good by now. But sometimes she gets too close for comfort to becoming immaterial.
Madonna's American Life CD Maxi-Single (Maverick/Warner Bros.) came out Tuesday, full of respectable remixes of this respectable yet a bit boring song. Missy Elliott does nimble work, adding her own comments to her remix — she sighs, appropriately, "Oh Madonna!" after Madonna raps, "I'd like to express my extreme point of view." And Felix da Housecat does even better here than he did on "Die Another Day." His is the only version to make Madonna's rap sound almost natural, since he slows down her flow to match the pace of the beat. If only Rauhofer had done the same, or at least hadn't tacked the rap to the very end of his otherwise dazzling "American Anthem Part 1" remix. I'm crying, that's how hard I'm laughing. Do you think I'm satisfied?
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IN DA CLUB BABYLON… Finally, we can tell you all about the Queer as Folk Babylon Tour. (I just know you were waiting with bated breath.) The tour, which has expanded from an original 12 cities to 15, will be helmed by DJ Peter Rauhofer at some stops, while Tracy Young will work others, including right here in her native D.C. The tour stops at Velvet Nation on Saturday, May 17. Gay clubbers' best straight girlfriend Kristine W. will powerbelt her hits at select events, but sadly, not here. Ed Bailey, Velvet's promotional director, informs that Miami's risqué performance duo RKM will provide Babylon-style entertainment, and the club will be all decked out with go-go boy cages and other flourishes direct from the show. Billboard reported that Showtime is seeing to it that the tour meets "the same high quality and standards of the series." Well, it had better — or else I'll be tuning into HBO from now on.
COME GO WITH ME… Music is a crucial element of QAF, and if you happen to catch the show this Sunday, you'll hear the latest straight girl trying to recruit us into her fold: "Let Me Be The One," Gioia Bruno screams. We've heard her before as the sultry vocalist with the strongest pipes in the phenomenally successful '80s dance-pop girl group Exposé. The benign tumor on her vocal chords that essentially ended Exposé is now gone, and Junior Vasquez has remixed her latest solo track, "From The Inside," which will debut on the show at Babylon (of course). It's a typically joyous peak-anthem house song, so expect to hear Gioia (pronounced joy-ah) and her insides at a Babylon near you, too.
QUEER AS NERVOUS NELLIES… Don't you just wanna scream in despair about how much space Queer as Folk is getting here? Well, this is the last of it, I swear. After Queer as Nervous (Nervous Records), you'll scream and swear in despair, too. It's not a bad compilation of dance hits; it's certainly no worse than the periodic official Queer as Folk compilations, another of which will appear from Tommy Boy Records next month. It plays like an episode of the show, with full earnestness, mediocre acting, melodramatic plot points and predictable resolutions. Okay, so you can hardly describe a record like that, but suggesting that this is a "record" and not the slopped together buffet of diva anthems that it is would be your first mistake. The other would be paying for it. If I'm going to pay fifteen bucks or more on music, I'd hope for something more than a disposable collection of songs — many of them songs from eons ago, to boot ("U Turn Me," "Dive In The Pool") — that no thought went into. Like the album's coverboy, it seems the Nervous people responsible for this spent too much time focusing on the brawn, not the brain.
A WINDY CITY TIT FOR TAT…Backstreet Boy Kevin Richardson may be gone as Billy Flynn, but Broadway's Chicago continues to razzle-dazzle with big-name pop performers. No, Queen Latifah won't be joining the cast, but in her stead as Matron "Mama" Morton is Angie Stone. The neo-soul crooner cum dancefloor belter (via last year's "Wish I Didn't Miss You") made her Broadway debut in the role this past Monday.
WAKING UP FROM A NIGHTMARE… What did I ever do to deserve Aphex Twin's 26 Mixes for Cash (Warp)? The second in the double CD set is the noisiest dance disc I've heard, e-v-e-r. Oh, all right, yes, that's a tad exaggerated. But it is downright unlistenable. The first CD is quite pleasing, in a mostly laid-back chill-out movie soundtrack kinda way, and there are moments when the music makes you sit up and take notice, for good — a truly inspired mash-up of a moody Philip Glass score meets David Bowie's "Hero" a capella, for instance. But the second CD is all for bad. Mescalinum United's "We Have Arrived" opens to the sound of an air pump adding needed pressure to your low bike tires, but then as more sounds come in you realize this isn't a bike shop. It's an industrial machinery repair shop, the likes of which you've probably never known before, nor wanted to hear — there's the banging metal, the pounding drills, the…oh, I don't remember. But my eardrums sure remember — they're still recovering from the pain.
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TEST DRIVE THE 2003 LeDION… By now you're already as familiar as you wanna be with the 2003 Chrysler LeDion, formerly known as Celine Dion. The singer has apparently sold her soul to Chrysler, whose logo and slogan, "Drive & Love," is prominently displayed in the jewel case of her latest CD, One Heart (Epic Records). One song even sideswipes a competitor with the lyric, "The old Chevy's dead, they tried to fix it in vain." So just how smooth of a ride is this 2003 LeDion? She breezes her way right through "I Drove All Night," never once taking off the "uh-huh, yeah" cruise control to reveal the vulnerability of Cyndi Lauper's version and Roy Orbison's original. LeDion performs to expectation over the bumps and potholes of hip-hop-style beats on "Love Is All We Need," but on several occasions the check engine light flashes as LeDion encounters an Alanis Morissette-sized rut of "uh-huh, yeah" irony. (No rain on your wedding day here of course, just something about pain instead of love). I could go on and on, near, far, wherever you are, but if you've never wanted a Chrysler before now, this LeDion isn't going to change your mind. It'll just cause you much ironical pain. Uh-huh, yeah.Â
HIGH ON SOMETHING…"What you see is real. I am really that high," LeDion told Reuters. She was talking about the flying-to-the-rafters act of her new show in Las Vegas. She certainly wasn't being euphemistic, since there are no drugs and precious few other vices to speak of in her view of Vegas. She described the city as "full of churches and families," a perfect spot for her fans to visit her. Uh-huh, yeah.
CHER-ING THE BOUNTY… Before we all see what Madonna's so-called American Life looks like on April 22, Cher has just shown us on NBC what her so-called farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye concert tour looks like. She's still touring a year into her Living Proof Farewell Tour, and she'll keep going through the remainder of 2003. Whereas LeDion has at least given the world new material to augment her Vegas show, the "Half-Breed" Cherilyn LaPierre only regales us with her golden oldies on The Very Best of Cher (Warner Bros.). Just four years ago Geffen Records played a trick on us, unloading its own compilation — If I Could Turn Back Time: Cher's Greatest Hits — capitalizing on her runaway success with Believe. Cher, who was in charge of putting together this latest compilation, clearly knows her target audience better than David Geffen: In addition to all her staple songs, she's included Rodney Jerkins's main mix of "A Different Kind of Love Song" (not a good remix, but a dance remix nonetheless) and Junior Vasquez's high-caliber edit of her "One by One," which was a hit nowhere else but danceland (it didn't even break Billboard's Top 100 Pop Chart). Actually, Geffen didn't get much of anything right with Cher, and the fact that she had nothing to do with Turn Back Time makes me feel like a dupe for having bought it. Avoid my mistake if you too want a collection of Cher hits, as well as an insightful if flowery recap of her career from MTV News veteran Kurt Loder. Warner Bros. has your number.
ELECTRO 'EMERGE'NCYÂ… The New York duo known as Fischerspooner has been entertaining underground electro-heads with its core songs for a couple years now, waiting for the revival of '80s synth-pop to catch on in dance circles. Now that it has, the group couldn't have affected a more bored pose with the release of its full-length debut, #1 (Capitol Records). Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner, who met in art school in Chicago, helped nurture the electro genre in Manhattan through over-the-top stage and DJ performances, so great things are to be expected of their first D.C. performance this Sunday at the 9:30 Club. Of course Village Voice declared last year the duo "sucks," with amateurish costumes and dance routines like a "high school cheerleading squad's interpretation of a Janet Jackson video," so maybe great things shouldn't be expected. But whatever you do, don't bother with the duo's #1, which sounds as tired and bitter as LeDion sounds sappy and earnest. No wonder the album flopped unexpectedly last year when it was released in the electro-mad U.K. Only "Emerge" emerges as a hit. Well, "Invisible" comes close, and the hidden "Megacolon" demands attention for its naughty, naughty lyrics. (A sample: "We met each other in the ladies room/She said: 'Holy shit,' I said: 'Yes that is it'/Now Megacolon is a big, big hit.") "Emerge" offers an effective musical definition of its title, growing gradually from singular computer blips to full-force human emoting, from jangly chords to full-on trance ecstasy. If only this truly No. 1-worthy song symbolized Fischerspooner's album. Instead it's symbolized more by the nonsense and noise of "*#!@¥ç." That's "Fucker" in wingdings.


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Bin Laden son-in-law takes stand in NYC court in own defense
NEW YORK -- In surprise testimony in a Manhattan courtroom Wednesday, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law recounted the night of the Sept. 11 attacks, when the al Qaeda leader sent a messenger to drive him into a mountainous area for a meeting inside a cave in Afghanistan.
"Did you learn what happened? We are the ones who did it," the son-in-law, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, recalled bin Laden telling him.
When bin Laden asked what he thought would happen next, Abu Ghaith testified that he responded by predicting America "will not settle until it kills you and topples the state of the Taliban."
Bin Laden responded: "You're being too pessimistic," Abu Ghaith recalled.
Bin Laden then told the onetime imam, "I want to deliver a message to the world. ... I want you to deliver the message," he said.
The testimony came at Abu Ghaith's trial on charges he conspired to kill Americans and aid al Qaeda as a spokesman for the terrorist group. His decision to take the witness stand was announced by his lawyer, Stanley Cohen, who surprised a nearly empty courtroom that quickly filled with spectators as word spread.
Testifying through an Arabic interpreter, the 48-year-old Kuwaiti-born defendant said he went to Afghanistan for the first time in June 2001 because he had a "serious desire to get to know the new Islamic government in Afghanistan."
He said he met bin Laden when the al Qaeda leader, who was living in Kandahar, Afghanistan, summoned him after hearing that he was a preacher from Kuwait.
Abu Ghaith said bin Laden explained that the al Qaeda training camps involved so much weapons training and a rough, hard life that he wanted him to change that, to reach the hearts of recruits and show them another side of life.
Abu Ghaith said he knew bin Laden was suspected in terrorist attacks but still "wanted to get to know that person."
"I wanted to see what he had, what is it he wanted," he said.
The defendant testified that videos he made warning that there would be more attacks on Americans and trying to inspire others to join al Qaeda's cause were based on "quotes and points by Sheik Osama," including at threat in one video that "the storm of airplanes will not abate." He also denied allegations by the government that he had prior knowledge of the failed shoe-bomb airline attack by Richard Reid in December 2001.
He said he stayed for two to three weeks after Sept. 11 in a cave in a mountainous part of Afghanistan with bin Laden and others because the "situation was tense and the roads were dangerous."
He testified that his videotaped sermons were religious in nature, and meant to encourage Muslims to fight oppression.
If "oppression befalls ... any category of people, that category of people must revolt," he said.
Abu Ghaith said his intention was not to recruit.
"My intention was to deliver a message, a message I believed in," he said. "I was hoping the United States would say, 'Let's sit down and talk and solve these problems,' but America was going on and doing what I expected them to do."
Abu Ghaith is married to bin Laden's eldest daughter, Fatima. According to Cohen, they were married in 2008 or 2009.
The defendant looked relaxed on the witness stand, wearing a blue shirt, open at the collar, beneath a charcoal-colored jacket. His hands were sometimes folded before him, though sometimes he waved or pointed them for emphasis.
The announcement that he would testify energized jurors, who became more animated as they looked around the courtroom as it filled. Some of them leaned forward and toward the witness as Abu Ghaith spoke.
Some of his answers went beyond the questions posed to him and led to a warning from U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who said he should answer directly and "save the speeches for some other time."
Kaplan did not immediately rule on Cohen's request that the defense be permitted to call Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-professed architect of the Sept. 11 attacks, as a witness via a video link from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where he is imprisoned.
Cohen said it wasn't the right time to pursue that request, which was denied by Kaplan on Tuesday but was renewed after Mohammed confirmed he would be willing to testify.
"I've got a few other things on the fire right now," Cohen said.
} Abu Ghaith is the highest-ranking al Qaeda figure to face trial on U.S. soil since the 9/11 attacks.
The Kuwaiti-born defendant was flown to the United States a year ago from Jordan, where he was captured as he headed to Kuwait, which had revoked his citizenship after 9/11.
The CIA's Bin Laden group was able to track Abu Ghaith's movements to a luxury hotel in downtown Ankara. Abu Ghaith hoped to get help from the al Qaeda network to move to another country, but the CIA was working with the MIT, Turkey's national intelligence service, and they arrested Abu Ghaith.


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In addition, each artist has his or her own make-up style which may explain.
4.Chromatic aberration happens to same dolls from different batches or purchase time
It is a normal phenomenon due to coloring by hand.
5. Whiten phenomenon may occurs to dolls in tan skin/special skin during polishing or make-up removal.
For such dolls,there are higher demands and more difficulty in coloring and the polished sites may be whiter, which is normal and irresistible.
Do not soak tan-skinned dolls in thinner for make-up removal,nor wipe them with different kinds of thinner,which may cause resin corrosion and surface whitening .Such situation cause by inappropriate treatment is not responsible by Ringdoll.
Doll itself is consumable and it changes on appearance and color as time goes by , we are trying our best to solve the problem for you after market.
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Please follow the following maintenance rules.The problems caused by ignorance of them are not considered as quality defects.
1.Keep dolls out of long-time immersing in water in case of metal components erosion inside doll's body.
2.Keep dolls out of high temperature to avoid resin deformation.
3.Be gentle with dolls. Dolls as resin artwork can be broke or damaged when hit with strong force or drop from high place.
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5.Keep dolls out of the reach of children under 3 years old because some components are sharp and fragile which may cause choking hazards.
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During my visit to Texas, I did some research on trail running locations. Here is a map of my findings:
I look forward to seeing more of the Lone Star Trail and the trails in Big Thicket National Preserve next time I visit!
Note: The green shaded area is the Lone Star Trail within the Sam Houston National Forest and the orange shaded area is the Lost Pines Region.


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One of our most popular new features here at Screen Rant is the movie spoiler discussion post, where people can feel free to talk about all aspects of a film without having to worry about spoiling it for others. For spoiler-free discussion, check out our Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen review (which will be up very soon), but if you want to talk about the movie after having seen it I suggest you do so right here.
So discuss Transformers 2 below to your heart's content!
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LETTER- New reservoir would waste water
In her letter, ["Give thanks for higher water rates," April 9], Diane LaSauce welcomes the higher price for water that she claims is "the only way to draw attention to water conservation."
Ms. LaSauce is confusing cause and effect. It has been reported in the Hook and elsewhere that calls for voluntary conservation were heeded so well that higher rates were needed to break even, according to water officials. The conservation is pushing up the price of water, not the reverse.
Yes, water is a precious resource where demand exceeds supply, but that is not the case here. Of course we should use it wisely. Area residents will be overpaying for an oversupply if both projects are undertaken to expand the Ragged Mountain Reservoir and dredge the Rivanna Reservoir, either one of which would be adequate.
Impounding too much of it wastes water by evaporation, wastes dollars, and destroys forest habitat.
J.A. Barker


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GRINNELL, Iowa - St. Norbert College used two fourth-quarter touchdowns to slip past Grinnell College 20-12 in a Midwest Conference game at Rosenbloom Field.
St. Norbert's win sets up a showdown for the Midwest Conference title next weekend. The Green Knights (7-2, 7-1 MWC) will play Lake Forest College (8-1, 8-0 MWC) in the regular-season finale at 1 p.m. next Saturday at Schneider Stadium in De Pere. St. Norbert can clinch a share of its 14th MWC title since joining the league for football in 1984 with a win. Lake Forest can win its first outright MWC title since 1983 with a win and clinch a berth in the NCAA Division III Playoffs.
The Green Knights found themselves trailing 12-7 at the end of three quarters, but took the lead early in the fourth quarter on a 1-yard plunge by Brad Boockmeier on fourth-and-goal. The point-after try was missed to hold St. Norbert's lead at 13-12 with 13:40 left to play.
Grinnell's next three possessions could not penetrate St. Norbert territory, and the Green Knights took over at their own 45 with 5:21 remaining. St. Norbert faced third-and-11 with 3:05 to go at the Grinnell 41 when James Tringali hit Brian Fliess streaking down the right sideline for a 41-yard touchdown pass. Randy Hill's extra point made it 20-12 with 2:58 left.
Grinnell's next possession was a four-and-out, and the Pioneers got one last chance with 0.2 seconds left, but a short pass was incomplete to end the game.
St. Norbert outgained Grinnell 136-42 in the decisive fourth quarter, and the Green Knights had the ball for 10:26 of the final 15 minutes.
Grinnell (2-7, 2-6) got early life when Kevin Hwang returned a St. Norbert fumble 22 yards for a touchdown. The extra point was missed to give Grinnell a 6-0 lead with 6:07 left in the first quarter.
Neither team's offense could muster any scoring until the Green Knights scored just before halftime. Tringali found a seam to find a streaking Joe Green, who ran 62 yards untouched for the touchdown just 1:48 before halftime. St. Norbert carried its 7-6 lead into intermission.
Grinnell took its first second-half possession to the St. Norbert 24-yard line before stalling, and the Pioneers' Graham Fisher made a 40-yard field goal for a 9-7 lead with 8:11 left in the third quarter. St. Norbert went three-and-out on its next series, and a blocked punt gave Grinnell prime field position at the St. Norbert 20.
The Pioneers had first-and-goal at the St. Norbert 5, but three incomplete passes forced Grinnell to settle for a 22-yard field goal from Fisher with 6:15 left in the quarter. The Pioneers would not run another play in St. Norbert territory for the rest of the game.
St. Norbert outgained Grinnell 371-176 and had 15 first downs to the Pioneers' nine. Boockmeier led the Green Knights on the ground with 15 rushes for 101 yards and one touchdown. Austin Williams had 23 carries for 62 yards, as the Green Knights rushed for 193 yards on 49 attempts. Tringali completed 15 of 24 passes for 178 yards and two touchdowns. Green caught there passes for 69 yards and one touchdown, while Fliess caught three passes for 58 yards and one touchdown.
Sam Poulos completed 15 of 36 passes for 127 yards for Grinnell, and added 29 yards rushing on 16 carries while being sacked six times.


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Scenario we've seen over and over again white cop, dead black man. This scenario only differs because the black man just so happens to be a fellow police officer himself. And of course now an investigation needs to be done in order to see whether this shooting had to do with race. Really? You think that white police officers are out gunning down white people left and right?
We have ALL seen police footage of white men holding guns, threatening people and cops and still NOT be gunned down. They try and reason with the man, give him every opportunity to be taken down without bloodshed. But somehow when the person is black not only do they get 50 or so bullets, but they get them without so much as a 5 minute window between being seen and being shot.
Have these city and police officials ever watched the video of the white cop abusing what he thought was just some random black man walking where the white cop felt he shouldn't be? And didn't this random black man turn out to be a cop himself? Was this race related, what a joke! If this was a white man chasing a white man, the white cop would have stopped everyone involved and questioned them to no end, getting down to the nitty gritty of the situation.
It wasn't just a case of cops being overzealous and shooting who they thought was a perpetrator like people are already saying. The black cop named Edwards actually called the crime in to the police before chasing the suspect down the street. So why didn't Edwards just unload his gun into this suspect if this is just what cops do? He did what he was supposed to do; he did what ALL cops should do with ALL people black, white or whatever. He did his best to protect and serve, not shoot and kill.
We are constantly making excuses, constantly doing investigations and constantly finding these white cops innocent of any and all murder charges after needlessly gunning down some black man in the street. Whether he is an innocent man on his way home from the grocery store holding a bag of groceries, a man out with friends at a bachelor party, a kid walking down the street holding a candy bar or a black cop trying to subdue a suspect, our black men are walking around with shoot me signs plastered all over them which is synonymous with black skin.
People can talk all day about how mistakes are made. Why are the cops not making these innocent mistakes with white men and women? Why are these types of mistakes always directed at the brown and black folks? And don't tell me that it is because minorities commit more crimes. We have seen that this is NOT the case. The people being shot haven't even committed a crime let alone fit any stereotype of a person who has. I guess unless you count being a black or brown minority person.
This has got to stop! And people wonder why minorities don't trust the police. Why should we trust a gang of people who are constantly coming into our neighborhoods under the guise of helpers who then turn around and shoot our innocent neighbors. And don't talk about the suspected criminals who are shot. Because the last time I checked you are innocent UNTIL proven guilty. So when an unarmed man is gunned down only to be implicated in a crime makes no sense since the cops did NOT know he/she was guilty of anything. Not to mention don't we give people a fair trial before we sentence them to death. Again this has got to stop!


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Influencing consumer behaviour toward protecting a species such as the iconic Manta Ray is a nuanced and lengthy process gaining awareness, changing attitudes and finally changing actions. It is work that SOS Grantee WildAid, has been doing for some time using a toolkit including celebrity ambassadors, social media, television and billboard advertising to win hearts and minds. First and key, however, is up to date market information: in this case the manta gill plate consumer market of Guangzhou, China – where 99% of the world's consumption occurs.
A report published by WildAid in June 2014, reveals an alarming and unsustainable increase in the number of manta and mobula rays killed for their body parts. The report found these remarkable fish are being killed to supply a single ingredient – their gills – for a pseudo-medicinal health tonic. Slow to reproduce, populations of many ray species suffer from over-harvesting, unable to replenish numbers in the face of market demand. Newer data on manta ray reproduction suggest that they may reproduce even more slowly than previously believed, with a maximum lifetime reproduction potential estimated at only 5-15 offspring.
Key findings of the report included:
• Both volumes traded and the market value of manta and mobula gill plates (known as Peng Yu Sai in Guangzhou) have increased dramatically in three years since the last survey conducted.
• The Guangzhou manta and mobula gill plate market is now estimated at 138,000 kg per year worth US$30 million, representing gills from approximately 147,000 mantas and mobulas annually or 99% of the world's manta gill consumption.
• There are no scientifically proven health benefits associated with the consumption of dried manta and mobula gill plates.
• Arsenic, Cadmium, Mercury, and Lead were detected in all manta and mobula gill plates sampled from the Guangzhou markets with Arsenic found at 20 times the levels permissible by the Pharmacopoeia of China and Cadmium at triple the permissible levels.
• Of 100 Guangzhou Peng Yu Sai consumers surveyed in 2014, 99 were unaware of the presence of heavy metals in the product.
• The surveys' results suggested a demographic of Peng Yu Sai consumers comprised primarily of working mothers/wives, over 40 years of age with less than half of all respondents knowing the source – manta and mobula rays – of the product.
All species of manta were recently included in Appendix II of CITES (Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species). Their addition to the listing will take effect 14th September 2014. Trade in such species is controlled to avoid utilization incompatible with their survival. Policing trade is difficult, which is partly why WildAid focuses efforts at the consumer end of the supply chain.
According to Peter Knights, Executive Director of WildAid, "together with assistance from the Chinese government and Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioners, we will raise awareness among China's consumers of the manta ray gill trade and the issues surrounding their alleged medicinal values".
To this end, WildAid is in the process of launching a coordinated media campaign featuring television, social media and billboard advertising. We look forward to reporting on the campaign and its impacts soon.


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About AG Wright
The people defending this can't understand the simple fact that one reason some people are so upset isn't just the fact that this information is collected. It is the fact that eventually it will be abused.
Whether is is abused by some guy that wants to follow his ex or a prosecutor chasing someone who isn't really guilty it eventually will be abused, just as all other government overreaches have always been abused.
It occurs to me that someone somewhere, well in DC, must really be scared of people forming pro fourth amendment opinions of this subject if they are willing to pay someone to argue for this long on a web site.
No it's the "I am not a criminal because you haven't arrested and convicted me defense."
It's a funny thing about our rights in the USA. There is no such thing as being guilty without a trial, even when the spies think we are guilty.
Congress can stop this cold. All they have to do is remove funding from this part of the NSA. No money, no contractors, no contractors, nobody to analyze data and of course no new equipment.
I simply do not understand the whole if you aren't guilty then you have nothing to fear attitude. With more federal regulations than even the government knows about, if anyone wants to arrest and convict you, you will be arrested and convicted.
It WILL happen that some ex husband, ex boyfriend, obsessed fan, even obsessed girlfriend or something will abuse this data to hurt or even kill some innocent, well mostly innocent, since nobody is innocent according to this way of thinking, person.
It is there because the security nerds at the NSA have a wet dream every time they think about "having" all that data.
It's unconstitutional. It may take a tragedy and a change in the constitution to do it but it is against the character of our country to gather information like this.
Congress can easily reign in the NSA/FBI/CIA. All they have to do is cut of the money.
Cut funding for NSA and the new building in Utah is just a building with no people to do the work. No funding, no contractors, no contracts and they will lose interest.
I expect the "accident" to happen just as soon as the press coverage has died down.
Simple, all of them. The number keeps changing so they can't possibly answer.
Simple there have been rumors that NSA has a direct link to AT&T servers/routers for at least ten years.
Is it true? I certainly don't know, don't really want to know to tell the truth.
Actually it is already unlawful to make a false police report. However it is not probably something that you could be deported from, for instance, Russia.
Illegal is a sick bird.
Since I'm not in the UK so I can't tell but there are Tor programs for Android that work well can not anyone that is interested use them thus routing around the telco's DNS and filters?
My vision is limited. An Ebook's text can be enlarged to a point that I can read it with comfort. A physical book is stuck with whatever font size the publisher decided to use in the first place.
I poked around the other day and found an Ebook of an old childhood favorite, that I didn't have a "real" copy of and sat down with my grandson. Guess what. He leaned into me and the computer and listened as I read that old favorite.
I'd say something witty and erudite but I'm sure the NSA is watching and I don't want to come to their attention.
Don't think of it as mismanagement think of it as stimulus.
The problem with forgetting the public in all of this is that, at least in the US the part of the whole bargain where we benefit from the agreement has been left out.
I'm a musician. If I want to record out of copyright music, and I do sometimes I have to figure out if a song is still copyrighted, which is a not trivial exercise and even if I do record music that is out of copyright it is extremely likely that a corporation will claim that it is still there's even when it's not.
Another problem is that, in general, corporations don't die. People do. Even when a corporation dies it's intellectual property is generally sold to another so it's still copyrighted and nothing is going into the public domain.
One more time, even though the corporations aren't really listening. NOTHING
Part of the bargain to allow creators copyright is being violated.
It's not a problem with creators not being compensated. It's a problem of the fact, one more time, it's a fact, that the bargain has been violated by the corporations.
The corporations have NO natural right to perpetual copyright but with their lobbyists and bribes to legislators they have removed the public benefit and with our new global society they are trying to remove that benefit to the entire world.
I know you won't but you corporate apologists should hang your heads in shame but this is your job so you will continue to be corporate lackeys.
Personally back in the day when I had babies I usually dressed them in yellow. Leave them guessing.
I can't help it.
I've been a musician for 40 years, never had or even wanted a "hit".
I've had a lot of fun though and I figure that anyone that has made any money at all is pretty lucky.
Just think in 30 years she can join a reunion tour and be nostalgic with a bunch of other one hit wonders.
Only if there are no aliens there. If there are aliens there then they have already been there.
Where are all the posts about pirate Mike? This has been up for hours and nothing.
I wonder if they all got laid off in the latest cuts?
First, within days of this being implemented someone would publish an exploit to take advantage of this.
Second someone would make use of it to distribute some porn or malware and then it would make the old routers unstable.
It seems to me that if the family wants to have a little control over what is going to happen in the movie and wet their beak a little they ought to cooperate with the movie makers, but no that would be too easy.


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Those of you who are still eagerly awaiting the Amber / GDR2 rollout, we have some positive news for EE customers. The UK mobile operator took to Twitter today to reveal mid-September as to when Lumia Windows Phone owners can expect to see the updates shipped out on the network. Not long to go now, folks. EE is the last UK mobile operator to approve the software updates for the Lumia 920 and Lumia 820.
The GDR2 update from Microsoft brings along with it FM radio support, fixes for Xbox Music, Other storage fix and other minor improvements. Amber is the name for Nokia's accompanying firmware and it allows new camera features, Glance and flip to silence, to name a few new additions (depending on hardware).
Keep an eye on Nokia's update page for when the updates are released, as well as our feed and EE's Twitter account.


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Shania Twain Continues Her Vegas Residency
After a nearly decade-long hiatus, Shania Twain returned to country music as a resident performer in Las Vegas. And now, the 'Any Man of Mine' hitmaker has added 22 new dates to round out the first year of her two-year stint as a Las Vegas headliner.
This fall, Twain will play 22 dates for 'Shania: Still the One,' an extravaganza at Caesar's Palace's 4,300-seat concert hall. In addition to Twain singing her mega-hits, the performance will include trained horses and a live band -- and, of course, some glamorous costumes.
The 47-year-old Canadian singer told the Associated Press that a residency at Caesar's Palace is "a dream performance scenario" because it allows her to indulge her music career and keep up with her responsibilities as a wife and mother.
In 1997, Twain's album 'Any Man of Mine' became the top-selling album in country music history. By 2004, the iconic star was ready to take some time off of performing to be with her son, who is now 11. After a decade of rest -- and some difficult life events, like a public divorce -- Twain returned to country music with a grand entrance into Sin City on horseback last December.
The 'That Don't Impress Me Much' hitmaker sold out her first 24 shows of 'Shania: Still the One' at the Colosseum, and she'll return for another set of 12 shows on May 14. Tickets for the shows between mid-October and mid-December are on sale now.


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Passer, 2008
Asphalt and concrete, size: 4,5 x 3 x 0,5m
I had cut the asphalt, took the white stripes of a crosswalk and brought them into the exhibition space. This action positions the work between painting and sculpture. Beyond the formal proposition the work considers the poetics of space and human behavior.
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Buxton Museum and Art Gallery
Founded in 1893, the museum houses geology and archaeology of the Peak District, including the archives and collections of Sir William Boyd Dawkins and Dr J.W.Jackson. A busy programme of temporary exhibitions provides opportunities for contemporary artists and access to the museum's own fine art and photographic collections.
Venue Type:
Archive, Museum, Gallery
Tues-Fri 09.30-17.30
Sat 09.30-17.00
Easter - September: Sunday and Bank Holiday Mondays 10.30-17.00
Closed: Mondays (except summer Bank Holiday Mondays)
Principle collections include the fossil and osteological records of the Peak District and human archaeology of the region. The archives of Sir William Boyd Dawkins and Dr. J.W.Jackson span 150 years of the history of geology. The Buxton collections include extensive photograph archives. Special collections include the curiosities of the Randolph Douglas collection and, since 2003, the Derbyshire Police Collection. There is an extensive collection of locally made and inlaid Ashford Black Marble, Blue John and other local minerals.
Collection details
Archaeology, Archives, Decorative and Applied Art, Fine Art, Law and Order, Natural Sciences, Personalities, Photography, Social History
Key artists and exhibits
- The Ashford Black Marble grapes table by Thomas Woodruff.
Time Detectives
An investigation into time and the history of the earth and how objects help us find out about the past. Children handle objects ranging from 340 million-year-old fossils to a Victorian agate egg and ask questions and find out about them. They build a time line, allowing them to demonstrate their discoveries and new knowledge.(Group size: up to 30; Duration: approximatley 2 hours; Level: KS1 and KS2)
Family Events
A range of exciting events for all the family to enjoy, held on the 1st Friday of the month 10.00-11.30. Themes vary each week.
How to obtain
Activities are free and there's no need to book - just drop in.
The Romans
Bring the Romans alive for your class through handling and investigating real Roman objects from local sites such as the Roman settlement at Aquae Arnemetiae (Buxton) and the forts at Melandra (Glossop) and Navio (Brough). The children use their skills in observation, listening, writing, and drawing to investigate the objects and the Roman displays within the Wonders of the Peak time tunnel gallery. They share and discuss their discoveries with the rest of the group. Roman and Iron Age costumes are available as part of the session. (Group size: up to 30; Duration: approximately 2 hours; Level: KS2 and KS3)
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MINEOLA, N.Y.: A man who admitted helping his father fake his drowning at a New York beach in a life insurance scam is being held without bail after being captured in Ohio.
Jonathan Roth appeared Friday in New York�s Nassau County Court. He was captured Thursday by a bail bonds company on an arrest warrant.
Authorities say Roth failed to appear for his scheduled sentencing last week in the insurance case.
Roth�s father, Raymond, became the focus of a nationwide manhunt in 2012. The son claimed the father may have drowned while swimming at Jones Beach on Long Island.
The elder Roth later surrendered. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy.
Jonathan Roth also has arrest warrants pending in Suffolk County, N.Y, for allegedly harassing his girlfriend.