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Cyber Attacks
- Category: Archived News
- Published: Monday, 03 December 2012
- Author: Godfrey Budd
Hackers are stealing trade secrets, proprietary technologies, business strategies
The exploitation of computer networks for espionage and other hostile activities is a growing menace to businesses and governments in North America. Commonly called cyber attacks, these electronic intrusions typically rely on one or two of several types of malicious software known as malware—including viruses, worms, Trojans, bots, back doors—to steal information or money, destroy data or commit acts of sabotage like disabling systems and networks.
Often, the attacks are designed to gather confidential information on corporate strategy and plans, government policy or proprietary technologies. Reports suggest that this type of spying, as well as the potential for digital era–style acts of sabotage, has been growing by leaps and bounds lately.
At the World Petroleum Congress in Doha, Qatar, in 2011, oil company executives said that cyber attacks were becoming more frequent and better planned, according to a Reuters story last December. An IT expert at the conference warned that the Stuxnet computer worm, which was specifically designed to subvert industrial systems and surfaced in 2010, changed the world of international oil companies because it was the first such attack to directly impact process control. In the computer-controlled, automated global energy sector, this type of malware could wreak havoc by subverting controls on equipment. The misuse of valves, for instance, could cause "huge damage," the expert said.
The Stuxnet worm also demonstrated that innovative malware could be introduced into a system that was isolated from any external network, like the Internet. Believed to have been developed with the support of the U.S. and Israeli governments, the worm, which affected controls, wound up causing damage to centrifuges at a nuclear facility in Iran. It was delivered by a memory stick.
Iran, which is under international trade sanctions arising from its nuclear program and a dispute over its real nature, has had other major malware-related headaches. Last April, a virus infected the country's oil ministry and national oil company networks, forcing the disconnection of control systems including those at Kharg Island, the location of a key export facility.
Although a wide range of sources point to significant growth in cyber attacks, with one recent report from Symantec Corporation indicating an annual increase of about 25 per cent, getting a handle on the true level of cyber mayhem targeting businesses and governments around the world can be difficult. For one thing, companies that discover their networks have been hijacked tend to keep quiet about it, often leaving shareholders and clients in the dark. Sometimes, they are unaware of the problem at all.
Bloomberg News published a story last summer, which was widely circulated, on a gang of so-called "patriotic hackers," with IP addresses in Shanghai strongly suspected by experts of ties to the Chinese government. When reporters working on the story contacted 10 victims of the Shanghai-based Comment Group, they found that those that had learned of the hacks had not disclosed them publicly. Three of the 10 had been unaware of any cyber attack at all until reporters contacted them.
Some sectors are perhaps getting targeted at a far more rapidly increasing rate than Symantec's 25 per cent, which is based on global averages. Intrusions against computers that run essential infrastructure in the United States increased seventeenfold in the period of 2009-11, according to General Keith Alexander, chief of U.S. Cyber Command and director of the National Security Agency. He called the loss of industrial information and intellectual property through cyber-espionage "the greatest transfer of wealth in history," reported the New York Times last summer.
Reliable estimates on the economic cost of these attacks are hard to come by, as one would expect. Last spring, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said that cyber espionage had cost U.S.-owned businesses $14 billion over a six-month period. But, given the under-reporting and other factors, experts have said that the figure probably represents a fraction of the problem.
Although perhaps more aggressive than most, the hacking activities of the Comment Group are indicative of a trend in which cyber espionage appears to be tied to government agendas, or areas of interest, in the view of some experts. The Bloomberg story said that in case after case "the hackers' trails criss-crossed with geopolitical events and global headlines."
In short, some governments have apparently embraced network hacking and cyber-spying with gusto.
A couple of examples: When European Union (EU) leaders were negotiating on the Greek financial crisis, it was found that the cyber equivalent of a wiretap had hacked into the EU president's office with the apparent objective of gathering vast amounts of intelligence over weeks, or perhaps months. Closer to home, in July 2011, hackers accessed the network of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada.
Starting with computers in Toronto, the logs from Cyber Squared Inc., an Arlington, Virginia–based cyber-security firm that monitors Comment Group activities, show that hackers busted into the board's network across Canada, grabbing and decrypting passwords, and finally gained access to the computer of a Vancouver-based adjudicator, Leeann King, who had made headlines less than a week earlier after temporarily freeing a Chinese national near the end of a long extradition fight, which he eventually lost. The whole hacking operation took only five hours.
Cyber Squared, on its website, says that oil and gas is one of several sectors, including telecommunications, financial services, law firms, public relations firms with dealings in China, think tanks, research organizations and the health-care industry, that are being increasingly targeted.
Various government agencies and organizations are also raising the alarm. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) report for 2010-11 said that attackers targeted networks of two federal government departments in January 2011—finance and the treasury board. The federal government, it added, was seeing "serious attempts to penetrate its networks on a daily basis."
Canada's auditor general, in his latest report to Parliament, highlighted concerns among senior civil servants that "the cyber-threat environment is evolving more rapidly than the government's ability to keep pace."
Aside from government, other sectors being targeted are aerospace, high-tech, oil and gas, and universities doing research. "In addition to stealing intellectual property, state-sponsored attackers are also seeking any information which will give their domestic companies a competitive edge over Canadian firms: an example would be inside knowledge of upcoming negotiations—personalities involved, their likes and dislikes, and so on," said the CSIS report.
A couple of years ago, CSIS director Dick Fadden made headlines after saying that some provincial cabinet ministers were under foreign influence. He was indirect about the precise source of foreign interference, but indicated that China posed concerns.
Although U.S. reports sometimes target Russia, China is likely a greater focus for the American cyber-security community. A report prepared by Northrup Grumman Corporation for the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission would appear to underscore worries about threats to cyber-security emanating from China. Designed as an open-source reference for policy makers, China specialists and "information operations professionals," The Report on the Capability of the People's Republic of China to conduct Cyber Warfare and Computer Network Exploitation, released in 2009, said that China was "a decade into a sweeping military modernization program that has fundamentally transformed its ability to fight high-tech wars."
One of the priorities of this modernization effort is computer network exploitation which, ideally, would mean achieving state-of-the-art intelligence-gathering capabilities conducted through the use of computer networks to scoop data from target or adversary automated information systems or networks.
For a recruitment drive in support of its burgeoning information warfare capabilities, the Chinese military has been casting the net wide for people with specialist skills, across the commercial and industrial sectors, academe and "possibly select elements of China's hacker community," according to the 88-page report.
It says that many aspects of the modernization effort are based on the view of Chinese military strategists who see information dominance as the precursor to overall success in a contest or conflict.
U.S. Congressman Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, in early October urged Canadian companies not to do business with Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. The intelligence committee had just released a report describing the company as a threat to U.S. national security.
Although the warnings about Huawei have been dismissed as "politics" by some, the United States, India and Australia have banned Huawei from bidding on supplying equipment for networks considered part of critical infrastructure—oil and gas pipelines or the electricity grid, for example.
In Canada, Huawei is a supplier of networks to Bell, Telus, SaskTel and Wind Mobile, owned by Egypt's Orascom Group.
Clients of telecommunications suppliers need to be sure that the equipment they buy does not include some malware that "phones home" and relays the data running through a supposedly secure network back to some hostile "mother-ship." Also, a so-called back door within a switch's software could enable unauthorized third parties to listen in, participate or even control a network. Experts note that both methods can be used with network switches. "The problem is that everything on a network goes through switches. You want to scrutinize companies that sell you them," says David Skillicorn, a computer science professor at Queen's University who has testified about cyber security before Parliament. He says it is even more important for switches to be free of such malware than it is for laptops.
Certainly, there have been questions about Huawei's practices over the years since the Chinese company was founded in 1987. In 2003, Cisco Systems launched a suit against Huawei for copyright infringement. Although Cisco eventually dropped its lawsuit, that didn't happen until independent confirmation that Huawei, as a result of the legal action, had stopped selling disputed switches and routers, and changed its manuals and software.
Also, Brian Shields, a former senior security adviser with Nortel Networks Inc., a telecommunications and network equipment manufacturer that filed for bankruptcy protection in 2009, has gone public in the last year with allegations that the company was targeted by hackers based in China. He says that the attacks continued for years, likely compromising everything from proprietary technologies to confidential financial data and strategic plans. Experts interviewed for this article consider these charges credible. "Evidence points very strongly that Nortel was hacked," Skillicorn says. Shields has also been publicly warning against buying from Huawei, which he alleges was involved in some of the Nortel hacks, although he says he cannot prove it. Nortel once accounted for a third of the total market value of the Toronto Stock Exchange.
The tools for the Nortel raids have been around for a long time, well before they began, likely around 2000. But a dozen or more years ago, network defences were thinner on the ground than they are today—although the term firewall (for network security) was coined in the 1983 movie War Games, which featured a hacker.
Despite better overall protection, however, and although the oil and gas industry is regarded by experts as relatively diligent about security, some weak links have been exposed in a series of cyber attacks over the last two years.
The U.S. natural gas pipeline system was targeted in a series of cyber raids likely beginning sometime in 2011. Pipeline operators were hit with "spear-phishing" attempts—correspondence that masquerades as an internal message or coming from some other reliable source in order to gain information like usernames and passwords.
Last August, Saudi Aramco was targeted and 30,000 workstations were infected with a virus. Data was destroyed and replaced with an image of a burning American flag. The isolated networks for production were not affected, according to the company. Days after the Saudi Aramco incident, Qatar-based RasGas was forced to shut down its website and email systems because of an attack. Saudi Aramco was probably hit by a virus called "Shamoon" or "Disstrack" that attacks computers running Windows NT, and is being used for cyber-espionage in the energy sector.
In early 2011, it emerged that the networks of several oil and gas companies, including some U.S. and European majors, had been hacked over a lengthy period, perhaps starting in 2008 but no later than November 2009. The purpose of the hacks appears to have been the theft of valuable or sensitive information, including deals, legal matters and financial data. Hackers had also targeted electronic topographical maps. In some instances, hackers had undetected access to company networks for more than a year, according to one investigator. A report by the security firm McAfee Inc. described some of the techniques used to hack company computers as "unsophisticated" and commonly used by Chinese hackers.
In September this year, Telvent Canada Ltd. learned of a breach of its internal firewall and security systems. In a letter mailed to customers, a copy of which was obtained by blogger Krebsonsecurity.com and quoted on the site, the Calgary-based company said that the attacker(s) had installed malicious software and stolen project files related to one of its core offerings, OASyS SCADA. Telvent makes software for remote support services in the energy sector, including pipelines.
The Krebs account of the Telvent breach referred to an accompanying image from a photocopied document on the malware and network components involved, and said that they "strongly suggest the involvement of Chinese hacker groups tied to other high-profile attacks against Fortune 500 companies over the past several years."
Schneider Electric, a French energy conglomerate and owner of Telvent, responded to a request for an interview with a prepared statement. It said that Telvent was working with law enforcement, security specialists "and our affected customers to ensure this breach has been contained."
It's not just Fortune 500 companies that are targeted. An estimated 18 per cent of attacks target companies with less than 250 employees, while about 50 per cent are aimed at ones with less than 2,500. The attacks are trending up for companies with less than 250 employees and governments are the targets of about 25 per cent of all attacks worldwide, says Kevin Haley, director of security response at Symantec Corporation. One of the lures drawing hackers to small businesses (less than 250 employees) is the customer or client lists. "But it is just as likely to be intellectual property," he says.
Smaller firms might also be hacked as a means of gathering intelligence about a large client or project. Haley says this has happened in the defence industry. "The bad guys wanted to find out about a defence program, so they got in via a small contractor."
Some of the targets may be small companies, but the complexity and sheer volumes of data are enormous. Haley says security companies have to be able to handle these volumes as it is "a waste of smart people to have them search a haystack for a needle. You need a system that can handle huge amounts of data. We have the ability to process big data."
Another area of risk potentially providing a vector for unauthorized data capture is the conventional operations network. "Control systems out in the field are not afforded the protection available for the enterprise environment," says Walter Sikora, vice-president for security solutions at Industrial Defender Inc. The risk, he suggests, is that malware could move along a network from controls to the enterprise part.
The U.S.-based company, which provides automated security, compliance and change management solutions for the chemical, oil and gas, and electric utilities sectors, was in the news in September when Telvent announced it was partnering with it to improve cyber security.
Another factor potentially increasing the cyber threat could occur in the case of a company whose senior management has ties to a hostile regime overseas, says Tom Keenan, an environmental design professor and a research fellow at the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies at the University of Calgary. "Invoices, for instance, go back and forth. The level of security varies among companies. Bad code could be buried in an invoice. More interaction means more opportunity."
Also adding to the data vectors for spies is the increasing use of mobile devices with access to networks and SCADA systems, says Douglas Gray, president of Graycon Group Inc. He makes the point that an office lunch room with a wireless hot spot could wind up being used for something more than collegial talk over laptops and lattes. The hot spot might extend to another floor or two, potentially exposing an internal discussion to an outsider.
The good news, as Gray and others point out, is that many types of security breach are easily preventable and at little cost. Experts say somewhere between 80 and 95 per cent can be prevented with education, training and the willingness to follow a few rules.
Take cloud computing, which involves entrusting a remote service provider across a network, typically the Internet, with a user's data, software, etc. If Human Resources moves data to the cloud without informing IT or the legal department, data could be vulnerable. When a university recently migrated scheduling, personnel and working data to the cloud—and left others in the dark about it—the university's IT department wound up scrambling to plug the security holes. "When people move stuff to the cloud without IT or legal checking it, you have exposed a firm to risk," Gray says.
He says that as non-IT people have become more tech savvy, they feel able to act more autonomously on IT issues, but they're sometimes unaware of the specific security issues related to what they do. Gray says IT has to move away from the traditional top-down model. "IT needs to be an enabler so that then things are done safely," he says.
Trustworthy providers are a common sense part of security, says Skillicorn, the computer science professor at Queens. "The problem with Huawei is no one really understands the relationship between the company and the Chinese government. There's a reason we don't buy fighter jets from the Russians. It's not just a market."


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Sichuan cuisine is famous for different types of seasonings and spices. There is an old saying that red pepper and Sichuan peppercorn are hearts of Sichuan cuisine. People interested in Sichuan cuisine will feel it in the kitchen.
Elaine is going to introduce the most common and important seasoning : Doubanjiang or also known as broad bean paste.
Firstly the doubanjiang in sichuan cuisine is broad bean paste which uses broad bean(fava beans) as the main ingredients rather than soy bean chili paste.
And we are two types of doubanjiang quite popular in China now. One is homemade red oil doubanjiang; this is quite popular in the housewives' kitchen. And the other one is the famous Pixian doubanjiang. Following is a picture shows the two types of doubanjiang.
Only people in Sichuan province use broad bean to product this type of chili paste. And there are people in other provinces of China use soy beans to make their chili bean paste with a misleading name Doubangjiang (soy paste) too.
Among different producers, the most famous one is Pixian Doubanjiang (Pi Xian Dou Ban)which is produced by generations in Pixian, a small area in Sichuan province. Due to the excellent water sauces and ancestral recipe, Pixian Doubanjiang has its unique flavor and enjoy a high reputation all over China even outside China.
Besides the famous Pixian Doubangjiang, common people in Sichuan province also make their own Doubanjiang at home. The homemade Doubanjiang has a simpler process and also outstanding taste. I get two in my family: my lovely mother and my excellent grand mom. They all make Doubanjiang at home every one year since the ready Doubanjiang can be kept over years. Generally homemade doubanjiang is referred as red oil doubanjiang, which means oil is used in the process. Comparing with Pixian doubangjiang, homemade red oil usually gets a brighter color due to the oil used but the former one provides a stronger taste. I have searched on online and find Pi'xian Doubanjiang on amazon: Sichuan / Pixian / Pi Xian Broad Bean Paste 16OZ (454g)
If you ever tried the following dishes, I guess you understand the taste of doubanjiang.
Mapo tofu
Twice –cooked pork
Boiled pork
Spicy Hot pot
Chengdu Chicken
Dry fry green beans
Yuxiang Rou Si(Fish sauce pork)
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Get a look of my Doubanjiang family.The big jar is made by myself this year! And I have to wait around 4 months before enjoying it. You can also purchase red oil chili bean paste in supermarket or on amazon.
I list the Homemade Doubanjiang recipe in case you may want to try to make it at home or get a further understanding about how doubanjiang is made. Since the large jar of doubanjiang I paste above has been planed for the following two years, I am sorry that the step photos are not provided now. I will try to get some in near future.
Homemade Red Oil Doubanjiang.
- 100 oz. broad bean
- 10 oz. wheat flour
- 1 bottle of white wine around 500 ml, hard liquid please (Note1)
- 9 oz. salt
- 50 oz. fresh chili pepper
- 5 tablespoons of mixed herb (Anise, Cinnamon, Bay leaf, Sichuan peppercorn)
- 20 oz. rapeseed oil
- Soak the beans in boiling water until the shells become soft. And then peel the broad beans.
- Steam the peeled broad beans around 20 minutes with a wok and steamer. Cut into small pieces (around fingernail size).
- Transfer broad beans to a container and add white wine, set aside for 18 hours to 24 hours (avoid sunshine)until the broad bean becomes a little bit sticky. Sometimes this process may need two days according to the temperature.
- Mix beans with salt and wheat flour evenly.
- Cover the container with clean gauze and put the container under the sun shine and remember to turn it over every 24 hours. After two days, move the container to a shade place for another week.
- Capped fresh pepper and dry the water on surface in the air. Chop it with machine or by hand. (Not too small, with the size around 3cms)
- Add chopped fresh pepper, mixed herbs into the beans dried before. Cover with gauze again and dry under sun shine (usually need 3~5 days) until you can smell the flavor of garlic, pepper and herbs strongly.
- Add rapeseed oil into the container and put aside until the color of oil becomes brightly red. If rapeseed oil is not available, please replace the oil with other vegetable oil.
The real Doubanjiang is made from broad bean but not soy beans. And the tastes of the two types of pastes are quite different.
hard liquid means High alcohol(high alcohol content like vodka,Whisky,Brandy and Chinese spirit) . So common cooking wind cannot work for this recipe.
I strongly recommend eating it after placing at least 15 days (3 months are the best). The flavor will becomes stronger as the time goes by.
Make sure that your doubanjiang is soaked with oil. Then it can be saved up to 3 years.


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"Considering the value of Hollywood's content deals with Netflix (NFLX), this is probably a deal-breaker."
There's nothing misleading about it. Netflix has signed a number of deals involving current TV shows, as a quick look at their library demonstrates; and many of these shows are also carried by Hulu.
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This particular story (i.e. an M&A source providing details of Yahoo's offer) isn't old news, Business Insider reported it this morning. The second sentence of the current is indeed an opinion. It's certainly not the only current which attempts to provide some color or analysis on a story.
No, bilton is absolutely right -- EVERY media report suggests that 2 years of exclusivity is on the table, but YOU, without any basis whatsoever, conclude that's "probably a deal-breaker."
I'm well aware of those reports - the BI article references Bloomberg's report. The question is what kind of exclusivity they're talking about. The article talks of Yahoo wanting exclusivity on "current TV shows and older movies," something that sounds a lot like content currently offered by Netflix. Whereas Hulu's owners seem to be offering the kind of exclusivity Hulu has right now for the most recent episodes of a show (with exceptions for TV network sites and on-demand services).
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The BLM is currently conducting an environmental impact statement on 65 leases on the White River National Forest issued since 1993. The public comment period on the Draft EIS ended Jan. 8, 2016. A final EIS is anticipated to be released in August 2016.
Volume I*Volume II
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Executive Summary*Chapter 1 Purpose and NeedChapter 2 AlternativesChapter 3 Affected Environment Section A Section B Section CChapter 4 Environmental ConsequencesChapter 5 Consultation and CoordinationChapter 6 ReferencesChapter 7 Glossary and Index
Appendix A Surface Water and Aquatic Species Reference TablesAppendix B Cumulative Impacts ScenarioAppendix C SocioeconomicsAppendix D Methodology for Scaling RFD
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What does this Draft EIS address?
The Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Previously Issued Oil and Gas Leases in the White River National Forest analyzes 65 leases issued since 1993 in the White River National Forest, including within the area known as Thompson Divide.
Why are you doing this EIS?
In 2007, the Interior Board of Land Appeals (IBLA) ruled on a challenge of three leases in Pitkin County that BLM must either do its own environmental analysis or formally adopt the White River National Forest's 1993 Oil and Gas EIS for leasing on the White River National Forest.
Through the EIS, the BLM will conducts its own environmental analysis on 65 leases issued since the 1993 EIS to determine whether the leases should be voided, reaffirmed, modified with additional or different terms, or subject to additional mitigation measures for site-specific development proposals.
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What's the problem?
I think it's the face…?
that's definitely weird, did you have any other programs or files running?
Janck: Its the face
Henry: Not that i know of besides Msn and Aim.
I was just messing around with my keyboard and i looked up and there he was.
He could have just photoshopped it….
Lol well I can't see the picture… but if you are talking about a face in orbular I think I know what you are talking about… it's an easter egg in the game TastyLamp told us at the van about it when he uploaded the game… I don't know if I'm supposed to tell you how to get it though… I think he said it was there because the game's original name was brick or somthing and that's brick from The Anchorman
he didnt photoshop it i had it too!
ROFL!! :D Omg.
i wish i had a face on my computer…lol
wow you probobly hacked
Um, No. That Has Happened to me before.
wow you probobly hacked
Wow, downloading the game, decompiling it, inserting the image on top of the paddle movie clip, recompiling it, and hacking into the Kongregate server to replace the game with your own version just to be able to take that screenshot is a lot of effort to go through when you could simply photoshop it. Not that I don't believe that that could be the case or anything, but…
Nah, he didn't Photoshop it. It's happened to me, too. It's part of the game.
ok if it isnt a hack, than how did you do this.
Hey dx,STFU.
It's not a hack,it happened to me too.
I think it's random
It's said to be something related to muting the game
It's also happened to me right after I unpaused it.
everybody, i stumbled upon this while trying for the impossible badge a few weeks ago. you just have to hold down the left mouse button over the paddle for a few seconds then let go and it will turn into steve carell. :] enjoy
Happened to me to O.o
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WASHINGTON — Just how rich is Mitt Romney? Add up the wealth of the last eight presidents, from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama. Then double that number. Now you're in Romney territory.
He would be among the richest presidents in American history if elected — probably in the top four.
He couldn't top George Washington who, with nearly 60,000 acres and more than 300 slaves, is considered the big daddy of presidential wealth. After that, it gets complicated, depending how you rate Thomas Jefferson's plantation, Herbert Hoover's millions from mining or John F. Kennedy's share of the vast family fortune, as well as the finer points of factors like inflation adjustment.
But it's safe to say the Roosevelts had nothing on Romney, and the Bushes are nowhere close.
The former Massachusetts governor has disclosed only the broad outlines of his wealth, putting it somewhere from $190 million to $250 million. That easily could make him 50 times richer than Obama, who falls in the still-impressive-to-most-of-us range of $2.2 million to $7.5 million.
"I think it's almost hard to conceptualize what $250 million means," said Shamus Khan, a Columbia University sociologist who studies the wealthy. "People say Romney made $50,000 a day while not working last year. What do you do with all that money? I can't even imagine spending it. Well, maybe ..."
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After all, even in the rarefied world of the top 1 percent, there's a big difference between life at the top and at the bottom.
A household needs to bring in roughly $400,000 per year to make the cut. Romney and his wife, Ann, have been making 50 times that — more than $20 million a year. In 2009, only 8,274 federal tax filers had income above $10 million. Romney is solidly within that elite 0.006 percent of all U.S. taxpayers.
Congress is flush with millionaires. Only a few are in the Romney realm, including Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, who was the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004. Kerry's ranking would climb much higher if the fortune of his wife, Teresa Heinz, were counted. She is the widow of Sen. John Heinz, heir to the Heinz ketchup fortune.
Further up the ladder, top hedge fund managers can pocket $1 billion or more in a single year.
At the top of the wealth pile sits Bill Gates, worth $59 billion, according to Forbes magazine's estimates.
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Romney clearly stands out here. America's super rich generally don't jockey to live in the White House. A few have toyed with the idea, most notably New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, whom Forbes ranks as the 12th richest American, worth $19.5 billion. A lesser billionaire, Ross Perot, bankrolled his own third-party campaigns in 1992 and 1996.
Many presidents weren't particularly well-off, especially 19th century leaders such as Abraham Lincoln, James Buchanan and Ulysses S. Grant. Nor was the 33rd president, Harry Truman.
"These things ebb and flow," said sociologist Khan. "It's not the case that all presidents were always rich."
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I just received the Ironman FIR1000 and assembled it on 07-13-2014. I'm very disappointed because a very important piece is so ridiculously cheaply made and broke on its initial use. The piece in question is Part 30 "Safety Knob". This is the Knob you tighten to make sure the adjustable boom stays in place. (You lengthen or shorten the Boom depending on your height and then tighten the Safety Knob. The Safety Knob is a plastic knob over a threaded bolt. The first time I loosened it the Plastic Top came right off the bolt and now the bolt part is stuck with no way for me to loosen or tighten it. Disgustingly cheaply made part. I cannot imagine how it could ever last - what were they thinking? (Realize this knob broke while I was loosening it, not tightening it)
Was easy to put together. Helps eleviate back pain, but doesn't get hot enough
A well made piece of equipment, I bought it for my wife and she said the FAR heat helps with her back pain. I use and enjoy it also.
Excellent quality so the price was acceptable. Assembly took about an hour but was doable. Came with all the tools for assembly which was nice. Sturdy enough for my husband. Seems to be helping our backs.
I receive this item sooner than expected. I purchased this item for my mother and myself to use, as we both have back injuries. When I put the table together , which was really easy, I didn't try it for the first time right away. When I did try it it took some time to realize that I was not going to tip over or otherwise fall on my head. The table frame is really sturdy and the ankle holds are comfortable and the heat on my back was really nice too. My mom tried it but had to much pain laying back on it due to three surgeries on her back. For myself, I need a small low back support due to injuries, stenosis, and spondylosis because it keeps me from relaxing completely so it will work at its best. That will definitely be my next purchase. But, overall I am extremely satisfied.
Owned several brands...the Ironman FIR1000 is by far the best one yet. I assembled it in less the 30 minutes. There were several items that were broken, but with one phone call they were replaced no questions asked. The infrared heat is great my back has done well by it. Large and sturdy, balancing is exceptional by moving your arms you change your position. I'd recommend it to anyone with back problems.
This product meets all expectations plus. Easy to assemble and quality merchandise.
Good sturdy unit, would recommend to others for purchase.
The reason I selected this model was for the heat. It takes forever to heat up, and starts at the bottom then SLOWLY warms higher up toward the top. By the time your shoulders get any heat the timer has beeped at you that it's shutting off, and you have to spend forever turning the timer back up if you want heat at your shoulders. The remote failed the second time I tried to use it, so forget about adjusting temp or time while inverted. I have thin legs, and with the clamp as tight as it goes I can still slide freely. This means that as I invert, I slide up the table until I'm hanging by my feet and trying to dislocate my ankles. This also puts the back of my head right on the top edge of the table, and the bottom edge under my thighs about midway down. The end result is if I use the heat, I only get heat therapy for my butt which is by no means pleasant. Maybe if your legs are thicker this won't be a problem for you, But I'll be returning this one for a hopefully better fitting model. On the plus side, it comes with everything you need to put it together, and if you follow the directions it's easy - I had this one together in about ten minutes.
this was purchased for my son who always has back pain, work related and colitis related, he is so excited to have some relief due to the inversion table with heat.
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The inversion table has met our expectations, the heating pad is great and helps greatly, Walmart shipped the product the same day we ordered it and we received the next day
It's a infra red heated gravity inversion table. Your back hasn't felt this good in years despite hundreds of massages. I've had it one week and I am moving better than I have in ten years. Until you are hanging upside down for 5 minutes. You will never know how pressure gravity is placing upon you spine each day. Noe you can reverse the process which alleviates the pain. Assembly is not too taxing. This is one product you won't regret buying.
Bought this for my husband to help relieve back pain. Didn't take long to put together, maybe 40 minutes. He's on it at least twice a day and loves it. The heat is a nice added feature. The height can be adjusted so that when I go on it fits perfectly to my back. We both absolutely love this inversion table. I'm only sorry I waited so long to buy it.
The table is sturdy and well built. Easy to put together. Does all that is advertised and is a great value at less than $300. Checked several inversion table before purchasing this one.
I am Happy With The purchase of the Ironman FIR-1000...I Received the Item In about 3 Business Days Once I had ordered it...Price was Good Just remember that there Will be Tax also... I Purchased this Inversion Table after Researching all the Other ones out there... The Way that the ankle clamps you on IS a Much better design than Just the Foam wrapped bars...Holds You onto the bed much more securely as well as it is Very EZY to get on and off with Just a Push down on the large knob... This Table also has a Nice Comfortable oversized platform(bed)...The extra padding is also a plus over Most others out there...Then of course the Heat option is a Nice Feature... As Many have said...I also have it (leg clamps) set a Couple inches more than My actual height...This does make it more EZY for You to Tilt back as well as retuning to the Upright Position...Just Try It a Couple times in different positions to find which suits You the Best... The Heat has a 60 minute timer...Takes a few Minutes for the bed to reach Full Temperature... I use the Inversion Table a Few times in the evening for about 6 minutes at a time(as well as anytime throughout the day that I feel the Need to Stretch out My Back)...The Key Here is to Start a Little at a Time...I will Start Increasing the Time Gradually...I tried it one time at a Full 180... Which was a Bit To Much for Me...Seemed to Aggravate My particular Back issues...However...Using the Limiting Strap The Inversion Table does seem to Help Relieve some of the Pain/Pressure and helps Me get out of Bed the Next Morning Without walking Too Much like Frankenstein...Also...To help increase the benefit of the Inversion Table I do a Few sets of 1/4 Crunches for about 10 seconds at a time to help strengthen My Muscles to better support My back... Overall I am Very Happy that I Had Made the Purchase...Like others Have Said...I Should Have Bought One Years Ago... Best of Luck.
The inversion table was really nice, I think well made and would be fairly stable. Unfortunately, I did not feel well after only being on the table for 5 minutes or less.


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All praise to the God King Bush and his Holy Warriors who shall rule the peasants of Amerika!
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Absolutely disgusting.
Just imagine how much fun reading the news is going to be when Alito and pals throw out Roe Vs Wade and the coat hanger abortion fatalities start to hit the news. Just wait until the radical right stays home on Election Day and the popular feminist backlash starts.
this is exactly why pay restitution should be legalized.
What does failure to pay restitution mean?
This makes me angry. WTF!?
#3, Just remember how many people voted for Bush which is a vote against abortion. The democrats really should have done the mud slinging both in 2000 and 2004 that a vote for ANY Republican means back alley abortions, and black plastic bags with dead fetuses in them....
You can make it illegal to get an abortion but it will not stop them. It just makes it more dangerous. Hope you Republicans (and those who voted for Nader) are happy!!
Jessica @ 5...
It means she committed a property crime sometime in the past (maybe theft, or a car prowl), the court ordered her to pay restitution to the person whose stuff she stole or damaged, and she didn't pay it.
It is not even abortion, in most cases the egg hasn't even had a chance to latch on. No worse than using the rhythym method. URGH! IDIOTS!
Shouldn't be the first or last time this happens. After all, when I was in jail I had to suffer my injuries without any medication or treatment as well.
While my mistreatment was because police and jail officials decided to teach me a lesson for something that they eventually discovered I didn't do, this poor woman has to suffer because a jail official was able to enforce her religious beliefs on a prisoner.
I have to live with the scars from that abuse of power, I hope this woman doesn't have to live with a baby that was forced upon her by a rapist and the jail.
Payment of restitution is often required in cases of theft. If this woman had a warrant out for her arrest for neglecting to restore what she had the duty to restore, the arrest of her after visiting the nurse was proper.
The issue for concern is the denial by the prison nurse of the second dose of emergency contraception (do we know that this was a two dose treatment and not merely a one dose treatment that the suspect wanted to take twice?). State officials have a responsibility to protect and that nurse and her supervisors need to be investigated for negligence.
(An interesting pro-choice theory says that pregnancy can be considered a form of assault, insofar as it radically alters the pregnant woman's body. Should the nurse be found to have forced pregnancy on the suspect, could she then be accused of assault?)
What the fuck is wrong with the fucking US? Instead of being compassionate to a person who has been brutally violate they her throw in jail? A nurse refuses to do her job because of religious reasons? Is taking emergency contraception illegal? No. So where do these fucking people get off ramming their fucking morality down other people's throats? And where the fuck are all these religious objector medical practitioners (an awkward mouthful, I know) when doctors are mutilating the genitals of newborn babies? That sounds way worse that taking emergency contraception.
What the fuck is wrong with the fucking US?
This happened in Florida. I think that's all the information needed.
One nice thing about global warming is that a Florida might become the new Atlantis. I'd say that's one in the plus column.
I think people are fooling themselves if they think something similar wouldn't happen in the fine state of Washington or anywhere else in the US.
After all, weren't there some very recent publicized problems with King County's treatment of female prisoners?
You stay classy, Florida.
I want to become a nurse/phamacist, then when fat diabetics come to me for medicine I am going to say
"Sorry, your illness is totally preventable. Its against my beliefs to enable fat fucks. My belief says you need to get on treadmill. No insulin for you."
amusing that the actions of a fundie nurse may actually cause an abortion that would be unnecessary if the woman had been given the contraception.
Hopefully someone will provide her of a picture of the fetus after it was aborted to illustrate the message.
Floriduh is a swing state, actually. One that's sinking.
Gasparilla is kind of fun, but floria fuckin sucks.
Gasparilla is kind of fun, but floria fuckin sucks.
11-- It might be true that it was proper to arrest her, but don't they usually forgo arrests for reletively minor things when someone is reporting a crime that they might not otherwise have reported? Maybe its just that the detectives on law and order are written to be more likeable to the viewers, but they usually don't get people in trouble for things like drugs or minor crimes if they have their sights on something more important like getting a rape victim to cooperate and help them catch the rapist. Many rape victims don't report crimes, so it pays to be nice to them when they do.
I guess they may hve been required to arrest her for the outstanding warrant. But it is the nurse in the prison who should be fired, and perhaps arrested for something. That is a gross abuse of power. If I were that girl, I would look into suing her and the prison system.
Why is it that these fundie idiots can pick and choose what medical advancements constitute "playing god"? I just wish they'd all stop taking inoculations and die of measles.
You want to follow the rules of an ancient culture, then do follow 'em RIGHT.
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fucking a....really florida? i mean REALLY?
Procedure or no....who in their RIGHT MIND would think to jail a rape victim?!
I hope that nurse in Florida realizes that refusing to give that girl contraceptive is a violation of HIPPA law. I work with plenty of hare-core Catholic doctors who perform abortions or refer the patients to someone else. The first rule of being a health-care provider is that a patients health and wishes are more important than imposing your beliefs.
Despite the fact that I dont remember having to take more than one dose of a morning after pill, I would happily donate towards the termination of her pregnancy if it was due to this circumstance. Im hoping that she is able to get counseling for this horrible situation. Rape and then being jailed (warranted or not), I cant even imagine. My heart goes out to her.
This of course is the same city that banned any recognition of gay pride activities (technically the county did it). Tampa makes eastern Washington look progressive.
When I started my rounds at the hospital this week, it was explained to me that we were only allowed to refuse treatment based on religious reasons, if and ONLY IF, there was someone with equal or better qualifications to give the treatment instead. Abandoning a patient was grounds for dismissal. Period. That nurse should have her license revoked!
Three clarifications here:
1) The restitution was for a property crime for a juvenile offense four years ago (when she was 17) in the amount of around $4000.
2) The victim believes she completely paid the amount and is searching for receipts to prove it.
3) The warrant for which she was arrested was never served. The sheriff made one attempt (she wasn't home) and gave up. She had no way to know there was an outstanding warrant against here.
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