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A violent child rapist and murderer is now a featured trans-feminist and LGBTQ prison activist. Patricia Elaine Trimble is now a published contributor to several women’s magazines. Trimble violently raped two 9-year-old girls. He later murdered a cellmate he was raping and pimping out in prison.

Nashville Bar Association symposium on the Marcia Trimble case which consists of a multi-part series on YouTube.

A problem that rendered as many as 10,000 U.S. military GPS receivers useless for days is a warning to safeguard a system that enemies would love to disrupt, a defense expert says. The Air Force has not said how many weapons, planes or other systems were affected or whether any were in use in Iraq or Afghanistan. But the problem, blamed on incompatible software, highlights the military's reliance on the Global Positioning System and the need to protect technology that has become essential for protecting troops, tracking vehicles and targeting weapons. "Everything that moves uses it," said John Pike, director...

Without it, ATMs would stop spitting out cash, Wall Street could blunder billions of dollars in stock trades and clueless drivers would get lost. It's GPS, and it's everywhere. Although most people may associate the Global Positioning System with the navigation devices that are becoming standard equipment on new cars, GPS has become a nerve center for the 21st century rivaling the Internet — enabling cargo companies to track shipments, guiding firefighters to hot spots and even helping people find lost dogs. "It's a ubiquitous utility that everybody takes for granted now," said Bradford W. Parkinson. He should know. Three...

military did no advance testing on a specific type of military GPS receiver that had problems picking up locator signals after a change in ground-control software, the Air Force said Monday. The Air Force tested other equipment, but none of it contained the type of receiver that was unable to lock on to Global Positioning System satellites after the change, said Joe Davidson, a spokesman for the Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center. The manufacturer of the receivers, Trimble Advanced and Military Systems, said it ran its own advance tests using specifications from the Air Force GPS Wing and...

The most recent upgrade to the GPS ground control segment created an incompatibility issue with a specific type of military GPS receiver used on at least 86 different U.S. weapon systems, some of which cannot be used until the problem is fixed, according to the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force said in an April 30 posting on the Federal Business Opportunities website that it gave a $900,000 sole source contract in February to the receivers’ maker — Trimble Advanced & Military Systems of Sunnyvale, Calif., — to help the Air Force Space Command’s GPS Wing track downand modify the...

Hillary Clinton distances herself from adviser who branded Lord David Trimble a 'crankpot' By Toby Harnden in Washington Last Updated: 2:41am GMT 28/03/2008 Hillary Clinton's campaign has disowned a senior adviser who branded Lord Trimble, former Northern Ireland First Minister, a sexist "crankpot" whose views were suspect because he was a Protestant. Under fire: Hillary and Chelsea Clinton are greeted by a smiling eight-year-old Bosnian girl in 1996 "It is not the campaign's policy to attack leaders from other countries," said Howard Wolfson, Mrs Clinton's communications director. Jamie Rubin, a former assistant secretary of state in Bill Clinton's administration, lashed...

SAN JOSE, Calif. - The fossilized bones of a creature that might have been a mastodon were unearthed Tuesday in the creek bed of a suburban river being renovated for flood protection. The remains of what appears to be a massive pelvic bone, ribcage fragments and a tusk were uncovered along the Guadalupe River in San Jose. The river project has been cited as a model of how to integrate nature and development. The discovery prompted both wonder and frustration, as officials tried to determine the source of the remains but couldn't find experts to scour the site. "We've never...

Ulster Unionist leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner David Trimble has lost his seat in Parliament, as his party's vote collapsed in the General Election.The Rev Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party candidate David Simpson took the Upper Bann seat in Northern Ireland. Mr Trimble's defeat was a hammer blow for his party, which has seen a substantial swing across Northern Ireland to the DUP. Earlier, the DUP's Sammy Wilson captured Roy Beggs's seat in East Antrim, while nationalist SDLP deputy leader Dr Alasdair McDonnell sensationally gained South Belfast from the UUP. There was another DUP gain in Antirm South, and...

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Blair and Ahern in NI assembly talks October 4, 2003(19:05) The Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, has held a brief meeting with the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, to review progress in the the intensive series of talks on Northern Ireland. Speaking afterwards, on the margins of the European Council session in Rome, Mr Ahern said they want to see elections before christmas, and to see an executive with cross community support up and running. The Toiseach added that he wants to hear David Trimble say that he will work the executive positively if these matters happen. The Sinn Fein and...

BELFAST (Reuters) - Northern Ireland's Protestant First Minister David Trimble called on the British government on Friday to act against the Irish Republican Army after a police raid on the offices of the group's political ally Sinn Fein. Trimble told journalists he believed the raid on a Sinn Fein office at the province's devolved parliament at Stormont, east Belfast, was in response to "an IRA intelligence operation directed against the upper echelons of the government." "The challenge today to (Britain's Northern Ireland Secretary) John Reid is...you have a duty to act, you have a responsibility to act, we expect you...