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Former Dover music teacher facing child porn charge dies
No cause of death was given. Robertson formerly lived in Greenland and Eliot, Maine, but his obituary said he was a resident of Barrington.
The former St. Thomas Aquinas music teacher was arrested in January on child pornography charges, the result of a federal investigation into a foreign movie production company that sold DVDs and streaming videos of young boys engaged in sexually explicit acts.
The business sold its illegal movies and photos over the web, had a shipping facility in New York State, and maintained a customer database, according to investigators.
The customer information eventually led Greenland police and U.S. Postal Inspectors on Jan. 31 to Robertson's home, then in Greenland.
Robertson was charged by Greenland police with seven counts of possession of child sexual abuse images after a search warrant was executed at his home.
He was a music teacher from 2002 to 2008 at St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Dover.
In 2009, Robertson was acquitted of misdemeanor charges alleging he groped the genitals of a former student while swimming out behind his house.
He was prosecuted at two separate trials in Strafford County. After the verdict, Robertson filed to have his record annulled and applied for a teaching position as recently as last summer in Massachusetts, according to prosecutors.
In his obituary, Robertson is described as a loving husband, son, and brother. He was born in Portsmouth, raised in Greenland and graduated from Portsmouth High School. He earned a bachelor's degree in agronomy form the University of New Hampshire and took graduate courses toward a master's in music education.
According to the obituary, he taught music in several communities, including Barrington, Laconia, Allenstown, Epsom an Dover, and was an excellent musician (percussionist) and had a wonderful tenor voice. He was active in several musical groups.
Raised in Greenland, Robertson graduated Portsmouth High School, and went on to teach music in several communities, including Barrington, Laconia, Dover, Allenstown, and Epsom.
He also had his own landscaping business, which was primarily a summer occupation.
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SUPERIOR, CO -- (Marketwire) -- 09/27/11 -- StillSecure®, a managed network security solutions and certified compliance company, today announced that datacenter and cloud leaders Host.net, Peak 10, and ViaWest have agreed to make available StillSecure's Cloud Security Monitoring Service (Cloud SMS) to their cloud customers. Host.net, Peak 10, and ViaWest join Cloud SMS launch partner SoftLayer Technologies in delivering increased security to their cloud customers.
"Cloud security is still evolving to meet the varied needs of customers," said Wendy Nather, Research Director of the Enterprise Security Practice at The 451 Group. "Just like the cloud itself, security needs to scale in both directions -- up and down. StillSecure's Cloud SMS is one of the new efforts to bring elastic security services to both ends of the customer spectrum."
The first in a series of solutions, Cloud SMS is available free of charge for cloud users and provides Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) customers with a host-based firewall management solution that can be quickly and easily installed. The solution will also be available from StillSecure partners, Host.net, Peak 10, and ViaWest. StillSecure's partners are embedding cloud security into their cloud solutions to ensure that customers can leverage the cloud for mission critical applications.
"ViaWest understands that enterprises need a mixture of technologies, including cloud. However, organizations also have serious concerns about the cloud and security," said Jason Carolan, VP of Product Management at ViaWest. "ViaWest is partnering with StillSecure to deliver cloud security solutions that will enable our colo and dedicated customers to also take advantage of the cloud."
"We've partnered with StillSecure for over six years now and they continue to be an important part of our managed security service offering," said Monty Blight, VP of Product Management at Peak 10. "As a cloud service provider, security is paramount for Peak 10 and our customers. With Cloud SMS, StillSecure seems to be targeting the right segment at the right time."
"Cloud SMS is the right product for cloud users just getting started. They can ensure their cloud instances are secure without having to know a tremendous amount about security," said Lenny Chesal, CMO and VP of Strategic Sales of Host.net. "Then, over time, as their needs increase they can easily move to Host.net and StillSecure's fully managed offerings."
Cloud SMS is available free of charge for Linux-based clouds immediately at cloud.stillsecure.com or through one of our many partners. Cloud SMS is ideal for organizations looking to secure their cloud infrastructures. Also, download StillSecure's Cloud Instance Security whitepaper at http://www.stillsecure.com/cloud-sms/.
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For IT executives facing escalating security threats and evolving compliance requirements, and data centers looking to cement long-term customer relationships, StillSecure designs and delivers managed network security and certified compliance solutions so you can focus on growing your core business.
As opposed to vendors with uncertified partial fixes, or worse, self-audited solutions, StillSecure unites our security experts with our certified processes and innovative technologies to provide holistic solutions that eliminate the need for dedicated resources juggling multiple vendors, products and requirements.
For more information please call (303) 381-3830, visit http://www.stillsecure.com, or check out more on the StillSecure blog at http://www.thesecuritysamurai.com.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that Windstream, a leading provider of advanced network and cloud communications, has been named "Silver Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9–11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York, NY. Windstream (Nasdaq: WIN), a FORTUNE 500 and S&P 500 company, is a leading provider of advanced network communications, including cloud computing and managed services, to businesses nationwide. The company also offers broadband, phone and digital TV services to consumers primarily in rural areas.
Nov. 23, 2014 07:30 PM EST Reads: 1,652
"There is a natural synchronization between the business models, the IoT is there to support ," explained Brendan O'Brien, Co-founder and Chief Architect of Aria Systems, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at the 15th International Cloud Expo®, held Nov 4–6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Nov. 23, 2014 12:00 PM EST Reads: 1,594
The major cloud platforms defy a simple, side-by-side analysis. Each of the major IaaS public-cloud platforms offers their own unique strengths and functionality. Options for on-site private cloud are diverse as well, and must be designed and deployed while taking existing legacy architecture and infrastructure into account. Then the reality is that most enterprises are embarking on a hybrid cloud strategy and programs. In this Power Panel at 15th Cloud Expo (http://www.CloudComputingExpo.com), moderated by Ashar Baig, Research Director, Cloud, at Gigaom Research, Nate Gordon, Director of T...
Nov. 23, 2014 07:45 AM EST Reads: 1,441
The definition of IoT is not new, in fact it's been around for over a decade. What has changed is the public's awareness that the technology we use on a daily basis has caught up on the vision of an always on, always connected world. If you look into the details of what comprises the IoT, you'll see that it includes everything from cloud computing, Big Data analytics, "Things," Web communication, applications, network, storage, etc. It is essentially including everything connected online from hardware to software, or as we like to say, it's an Internet of many different things. The difference ...
Nov. 22, 2014 10:00 PM EST Reads: 1,319
Cloud Expo 2014 TV commercials will feature @ThingsExpo, which was launched in June, 2014 at New York City's Javits Center as the largest 'Internet of Things' event in the world.
Nov. 22, 2014 05:30 PM EST Reads: 1,427
An entirely new security model is needed for the Internet of Things, or is it? Can we save some old and tested controls for this new and different environment? In his session at @ThingsExpo, New York's at the Javits Center, Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, reviewed hands-on lessons with IoT devices and reveal a new risk balance you might not expect. Davi Ottenheimer, EMC Senior Director of Trust, has more than nineteen years' experience managing global security operations and assessments, including a decade of leading incident response and digital forensics. He is co-author of t...
Nov. 22, 2014 05:30 PM EST Reads: 1,273
ARMONK, N.Y., Nov. 20, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that it is bringing a greater level of control, security and flexibility to cloud-based application development and delivery with a single-tenant version of Bluemix, IBM's platform-as-a-service. The new platform enables developers to build ap...
Nov. 22, 2014 05:30 PM EST Reads: 1,445
Explosive growth in connected devices. Enormous amounts of data for collection and analysis. Critical use of data for split-second decision making and actionable information. All three are factors in making the Internet of Things a reality. Yet, any one factor would have an IT organization pondering its infrastructure strategy. How should your organization enhance its IT framework to enable an Internet of Things implementation? In his session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, James Kirkland, Chief Architect for the Internet of Things and Intelligent Systems at Red Hat, described how to revolutioniz...
Nov. 21, 2014 09:15 PM EST Reads: 1,353
The security devil is always in the details of the attack: the ones you've endured, the ones you prepare yourself to fend off, and the ones that, you fear, will catch you completely unaware and defenseless. The Internet of Things (IoT) is nothing if not an endless proliferation of details. It's the vision of a world in which continuous Internet connectivity and addressability is embedded into a growing range of human artifacts, into the natural world, and even into our smartphones, appliances, and physical persons. In the IoT vision, every new "thing" - sensor, actuator, data source, data con...
Nov. 21, 2014 08:00 PM EST Reads: 1,361
Technology is enabling a new approach to collecting and using data. This approach, commonly referred to as the "Internet of Things" (IoT), enables businesses to use real-time data from all sorts of things including machines, devices and sensors to make better decisions, improve customer service, and lower the risk in the creation of new revenue opportunities. In his General Session at Internet of @ThingsExpo, Dave Wagstaff, Vice President and Chief Architect at BSQUARE Corporation, discuss the real benefits to focus on, how to understand the requirements of a successful solution, the flow of ...
Nov. 21, 2014 08:00 PM EST Reads: 1,421
"BSQUARE is in the business of selling software solutions for smart connected devices. It's obvious that IoT has moved from being a technology to being a fundamental part of business, and in the last 18 months people have said let's figure out how to do it and let's put some focus on it, " explained Dave Wagstaff, VP & Chief Architect, at BSQUARE Corporation, in this SYS-CON.tv interview at @ThingsExpo, held Nov 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.
Nov. 21, 2014 07:00 PM EST Reads: 1,273
Focused on this fast-growing market's needs, Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation (Nasdaq: VTSS), a leading provider of IC solutions to advance "Ethernet Everywhere" in Carrier, Enterprise and Internet of Things (IoT) networks, introduced its IStaX™ software (VSC6815SDK), a robust protocol stack to simplify deployment and management of Industrial-IoT network applications such as Industrial Ethernet switching, surveillance, video distribution, LCD signage, intelligent sensors, and metering equipment. Leveraging technologies proven in the Carrier and Enterprise markets, IStaX is designed to work ac...
Nov. 20, 2014 09:15 PM EST Reads: 1,369
C-Labs LLC, a leading provider of remote and mobile access for the Internet of Things (IoT), announced the appointment of John Traynor to the position of chief operating officer. Previously a strategic advisor to the firm, Mr. Traynor will now oversee sales, marketing, finance, and operations. Mr. Traynor is based out of the C-Labs office in Redmond, Washington. He reports to Chris Muench, Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Traynor brings valuable business leadership and technology industry expertise to C-Labs. With over 30 years' experience in the high-tech sector, John Traynor has held numerous...
Nov. 20, 2014 06:00 PM EST Reads: 1,325
Bit6 today issued a challenge to the technology community implementing Web Real Time Communication (WebRTC). To leap beyond WebRTC's significant limitations and fully leverage its underlying value to accelerate innovation, application developers need to consider the entire communications ecosystem.
Nov. 20, 2014 04:45 PM EST Reads: 1,116
The 3rd International @ThingsExpo, co-located with the 16th International Cloud Expo - to be held June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY - announces that it is now accepting Keynote Proposals. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago. All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by 2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several decades.
Nov. 20, 2014 01:00 PM EST Reads: 1,569
The Internet of Things is not new. Historically, smart businesses have used its basic concept of leveraging data to drive better decision making and have capitalized on those insights to realize additional revenue opportunities. So, what has changed to make the Internet of Things one of the hottest topics in tech? In his session at @ThingsExpo, Chris Gray, Director, Embedded and Internet of Things, discussed the underlying factors that are driving the economics of intelligent systems. Discover how hardware commoditization, the ubiquitous nature of connectivity, and the emergence of Big Data a...
Nov. 20, 2014 12:30 PM EST Reads: 1,785
Almost everyone sees the potential of Internet of Things but how can businesses truly unlock that potential. The key will be in the ability to discover business insight in the midst of an ocean of Big Data generated from billions of embedded devices via Systems of Discover. Businesses will also need to ensure that they can sustain that insight by leveraging the cloud for global reach, scale and elasticity.
Nov. 18, 2014 09:00 PM EST Reads: 2,010
SYS-CON Events announced today that IDenticard will exhibit at SYS-CON's 16th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on June 9-11, 2015, at the Javits Center in New York City, NY. IDenticard™ is the security division of Brady Corp (NYSE: BRC), a $1.5 billion manufacturer of identification products. We have small-company values with the strength and stability of a major corporation. IDenticard offers local sales, support and service to our customers across the United States and Canada. Our partner network encompasses some 300 of the world's leading systems integrators and security s...
Nov. 18, 2014 08:15 PM EST Reads: 1,555
IoT is still a vague buzzword for many people. In his session at @ThingsExpo, Mike Kavis, Vice President & Principal Cloud Architect at Cloud Technology Partners, discussed the business value of IoT that goes far beyond the general public's perception that IoT is all about wearables and home consumer services. He also discussed how IoT is perceived by investors and how venture capitalist access this space. Other topics discussed were barriers to success, what is new, what is old, and what the future may hold. Mike Kavis is Vice President & Principal Cloud Architect at Cloud Technology Pa...
Nov. 18, 2014 01:30 PM EST Reads: 2,004
Cloud Expo 2014 TV commercials will feature @ThingsExpo, which was launched in June, 2014 at New York City's Javits Center as the largest 'Internet of Things' event in the world. The next @ThingsExpo will take place November 4-6, 2014, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, in Santa Clara, California. Since its launch in 2008, Cloud Expo TV commercials have been aired and CNBC, Fox News Network, and Bloomberg TV. Please enjoy our 2014 commercial.
Nov. 13, 2014 05:00 AM EST Reads: 3,540


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Nuclear Regulatory Commission Declares Alert at Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant
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Hurricane Sandy May Score a Direct Hit On Spent Fuel Pools at Nuclear Plant
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New Video Contradicts BP Claim About Oil Spill
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Earthquake-Causing Fracking to Be Allowed within 500 FEET of Nuclear Plants
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NEW 4-Mile Long Oil Slick Near BP's Gulf Oil Well
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AMERICAN Government Forces Re-Start of Japanese Nuclear Reactors
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Scientific Paper: "The Fukushima Radioactive Plume Contaminated the Entire Northern Hemisphere During a Relatively Short Period of Time"
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission Engineers Charge Government Coverup: Reactor Meltdown "Absolute Certainty" If Dam Fails … 100s of Times More Likely than Tsunami that Hit Fukushima
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Nuclear Industry Routinely Forces Workers to Disable their Radiation Detectors
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Radiation On West Coast of North America Could End Up Being 10 Times HIGHER than in Japan
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Japanese Parliamentary Inquiry: Fukushima Disaster Caused by "Collusion" Among Government, Regulators and Tepco
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Massive Protests Against Tomorrow's Restart of Japanese Nuclear Reactor
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Radioactive "Dirt" Hits Tokyo
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Due to International Pressure, Tepco Agrees to Start Removing Radioactive Fuel from Fukushima Fuel Pool a Year Early
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The Hidden Influence of the Nuclear Lobby on Climate Change Legislation
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Japanese Nuclear Industry "Spent Ten Times More Money For PR Campaigns Than We Did For Real Safety Measures"
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Japanese Trying to Stabilize Radioactive Fuel Pools, But Are Moving Too Slowly … By a Decade
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U.S. Senator Tours Fukushima, Warns Situation Worse Than Reported …Urges Japan to Accept International Help to Stabilize Dangerous Spent Fuel Pools
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Journalist tells shattering story of Libya's Gadhafi as serial rapist
In this compelling work of non-fiction, renowned French journalist Annick Cojean tells a story that is the stuff of nightmares.
Moammar Gadhafi kidnapped, imprisoned and raped thousands of women over his 42-year reign, from schoolchildren to women he saw in the street, at meetings or at family weddings to the wives and daughters of his military officers and other staff.
Cojean tells the story of one of Gadhafi's staff members who kept a family wedding secret, lest Gadhafi expect an invitation, then take a shine to a friend or family member. No cameras or cellphones were allowed at the celebration in case pictures of the guests ended up catching Gadhafi's eye.
There was no escape for the women Gadhafi did kidnap, Cojean says, even after his death and the fall of his regime in 2011.
Rape remains the highest taboo in Libya, leaving its victims not just shattered by the violence committed by the rapist, but disowned or murdered by fathers and brothers protecting family honour, unable to marry in a society where that is, once again, increasingly the only economic option for women.
Cojean, a senior reporter for Paris-based Le Monde newspaper and head of the committee for the Prix Albert Londres, France's Pulitzer, a prize she won in 1996, reported the story of Soraya in November 2011, just a month after Gadhafi's death at the hands of rebels.
Soraya had just turned 15 in 2004 when she was granted the honour of presenting a bouquet of flowers to Gadhafi at a reception at her school. She did not know the significance of Gadhafi's pat on her head, but within days, three women arrived at her mother's beauty salon to take the child to Bab al-Azizia, his luxurious compound.
She was examined by Gadhafi's squad of nurses, her blood tested for HIV. She was drugged and raped and kept prisoner in the basement for years, just one of thousands of women who were violently abused and degraded by "the Guide," as Gadhafi was often called.
After the story's publication, Cojean returned to Libya to further research the story of Soraya (a pseudonym to protect her). At great personal risk, Cojean convinced terrified Libyans to talk about Gadhafi's perversions. The unfortunately titled Gaddafi's Harem -- it sold more than 100,000 copies in French as Les Proies (The Prey), a better description of these women -- is split into two parts, Soraya's Story and In Soraya's Foot Steps.
The second half tells the stories of other women raped and abused by Gadhafi and how they struggle to survive now. It's hinted that some have been forced into prostitution. Some have tried to flee, but none has found justice for Gadhafi destroying their lives. There's little doubt any of them ever will.
Cojean touches on the Libyan army's use of rape as a weapon of war. She even manages to interview two soldiers who talk about how they were ordered to rape all women, from children to the elderly, as Gadhafi's regime fell.
For those knowledgeable about Gadhafi's reign, the story will be hard to align with how the Guide was portrayed to the world. He authored The Green Book, the manual of his regime, in which he advocated for women's equality.
He spoke of elevating women, allowing them to train in the military and attend higher education. He was known for his Amazonian Guard, an all-female security detail, created to show his respect for women.
But the guard was a sham, perhaps just another sign of Gadhafi's fascination with prestigious-looking uniforms, but no substance. Most of the women received little training in weaponry and other security skills.
At one point, Soraya was asked to dress with the guard for an international trip, yet she had received no security training at all. During Soraya's short stint in the guard, she saw British prime minister Tony Blair depart a tent after meetings with Gadhafi and call out a jaunty, "Hi, girls."
Cojean interviewed some members of the guard, women who were genuine military personnel, who spoke of their frustration at serving side by side with women who would have been unable to protect Gadhafi in case of attack.
Even for those not familiar with Gadhafi's supposed feminist philosophy, it's a tough story to take in. The brain can only absorb so many details of brutality before it goes numb.
And it's not helped by the writing style of Soraya's Story, written in the first person, in a girlish voice with lots of exclamation points and over-excited language.
Perhaps it's an effort to allow Soraya to tell her own story, perhaps it's a poor translation. But Les Proies was translated by U.S.-based Marjolijn de Jager, a former teacher of French language and literature, now a full-time translator who has been honoured with grants from the American National Endowment of the Arts and National Endowment for the Humanities for her work with francophone African literature.
The juxtaposition of the language and the brutality of the story lends it a surreal quality. That quality is reminiscent of Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale, but as fiction that was easier for the reader to absorb.
The writing may miss a step, but Cojean's reporting is superb. Hopefully, she will continue working on the story of Gadhafi's victims and bring pressure to bear on the United Nations and other international groups to find justice for these women.
However painful a story it may be to read, Gaddafi's Harem is an important book for anyone interested in women's rights, social justice and international news. It is proof once again that female journalists as well as male ones must cover stories of the Middle East and other areas of the world where women are repressed. A man would never have been able to tell this story.
A journalist less skilled and less brave never would have either.
Julie Carl is the Free Press associate editor, engagement.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition September 7, 2013 A1
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