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It's been a busy week! Catch your breath and catch up on what's happening in the business intelligence and analytics world with the community's top bloggers, including a special Big Data focus and a Stephen Few editorial to ponder over the weekend:
With under a month to go before the inaugural PASS Business Analytics Conference, the industry is buzzing about business intelligence and business analytics. We asked our @passbac and PASS BA Conference Facebook followers how their roles are becoming more analytics focused and awarded five registration passes to the conference for the best answers. Some great insights and experiences were shared, and we've compiled them for your interest:
As the only DBA I am the point for our new BA / BI projects. We want to leverage PowerPivot and SharePoint with our existing Data Warehouse. Our goal as a manufacturing company is to better prepare to meet the demands of our customers.
Our DBA services team supports more and more self-service BI each month and is gaining unprecedented momentum as Office 2013 reaches more desktops enterprise wide. We're all asked to do more with less and self-service BI leveraged correctly is going to become the vehicle to meet that goal for our customers.
Using historical data to stock product for manufacturing, using prior sales to project the effect of changing pricing nets on internal costs, monitoring changing trends in the marketplace and the ability to confirm current system invoicing is calculating correctly. Current data requests have doubled in the past year.
I was hired as a Business Analyst to write basic reports and software requirements. My role has morphed into building the tools and infrastructure to provide actionable data to our clients. Knowledge on where they need to take action is what's really needed and basic reports can't accomplish that.
I was hired as a Business Analyst to write basic reports and software requirements. My role has morphed into building the tools and infrastructure to provide actionable data to our clients. Knowledge on where they need to take action is what's really needed and basic reports can't accomplish that.
We are using data and BI to gain insights on how to improve scholastic achievement in K12 Students (I work for a school).
Analytics help us discover the questions we are not asking yet.
We're increasingly getting more and more requests for forward-looking insights rather than rear-view metrics. This involves a lot more data mining and information intelligence than ever before. True data scientist work!
Analytics at our casino are moving more towards not only giving our guests offers, but giving them offers they'll enjoy - and doing so in a manner that takes external factors into account. Different segmentation in revolutionary ways, with a smart, fresh new outlook and appreciation for our data.
At Ernst & Young, we increasingly use analytics to provide business units and supporting risk functions with a comprehensive set of capabilities to analyze and assess business data to support key risk and performance indicators (e.g., control exceptions, potential irregular activities, excessive change activity, KPIs, KRIs).
Digging deeper into healthcare data, I have realized there are a lot of life saving answers buried under the terabytes (growing exponentially with ObamaCare coming) of prescription, encounter, demographic data we work with. I want to do a better job finding patterns, so care providers become proactive, instead of reactive.
I primarily work in the ePrescribing engineering group - writing code for the back-end and also win-form apps for various tools, but the last few years I'm called upon more and more to perform data mining tasks to research data. I looking for the good, the bad, and the ugly data that pops up during production.
I work as a BI Consultant and have seen analytics take over discussions at all organizational levels at my clients. With the ease of use in today's BI tools applying data and contextual analysis is easier so salespeople, CFO's and everyone in between is looking for behaviour patterns.
My role is increasingly based on performance measured by numbers. I use analytics to spot trends so small decisions can be made quickly.
We sit upon mountains of data where I work, but we're just beginning to learn how to turn it into true information. This conference would be a HUGE step toward that goal!
Our customer websites used to be nothing but operational grids of data. Now I define the dimensions and let users slice through the information to find trends meaningful to them.
I work @PROS_Inc and analyzing BIG DATA is our bread-and-butter. As we state on our website, "PROS big data analytics software helps you compete and win more effectively."
My role on enhancing data driven BI for processing our daily captured environmental data, performance measurements - will be accelerated attending this conference.
As a small business, Management is always looking for improved efficiency. More and more we are finding that by analyzing our existing data we can spot inefficiencies and track progress on process improvements.
Part of my role is to use analytics to optimize operational systems and processes (smarter operations). Also working on developing analytical dashboards for category managers helping them to monitor sales current status and identify local actions to launch.
Every second we are getting familiar with the incremental Analytics continuum to turn the data into real information and use data in imaginative ways to gain maximum value. Becoming a part of the #passbac conference would definitely help me to find out the story behind data.
I would just love to have the opportunity to attend this event as I feel it would greatly help my beginning in the BI/BA field that I started @2012pass
Employers expect students to be at ease with numbers and to using analytics to make decisions. As a college professor in market research, my courses are increasingly oriented around new technologies and analytic techniques.
So much data, so little time. Need to understand!
Our conversion to a new BI tool empowered myself and my colleagues to know that clear metrics are the reason for a well-developed DBMS.
I am becoming the defacto excel expert at my company. Keep them surprised by making large data pretty. :)
For years I've been telling them the What and the When ... now they're asking me What if? and Why? I need to attend the @passbac conference!
The Affordable Health Care Act has requirements for HealthCare providers participating in the HealthCare Exchanges. As we worked to build the functionality to participate in the exchanges with our partners the need for analytics quickly became apparent. In order to truly measure our health services against others that will be competing in the new exchange market we know that the better we build our BI analytics the better we can complete. With HealthCare data streams (including Medicare), as a provider the primary concern is always with patient care but we can easily leverage some of the BI tools to strip relevant facts and dimensional data from that stream to build our new Analytics system. With the sweet integration of the platform tools, SQL Server 2012, SSIS, SSAS, and Excel 2013 PowerPivot we were able to quickly build a prototype and are now in the process of developing a more robust system using those same tools.
We are a small custom software and consulting company and everyone we work with are finally coming around to the fact that their Data is important and want to know how to use BI tools to analyze and learn from what they have collected. We are trying to educate them and move them toward the latest SQL Server 2012 and Excel 2013 to expose all the new possibilities they can have at their fingertips. I would love to win registration to the PASS BA Conference and learn more about all the new tools.
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By Gregory Piatetsky
I interviewed Douglas McDowell about the PASS Business Analytics Conference, SQL Server, Microsoft Data Mining, less known but useful features of SQL, NodeXL, Big Data and more.
Douglas McDowell is the CEO of North America for SolidQ (www.solidq.com). He is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for SQL Server and serves on the Board of Directors for the Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS). He is an author and contributing editor for SQL Server Magazine.
I spoke to Douglas ahead of the PASS Business Analytics Conference in Chicago April 10-12. (Note: KDnuggets readers can save $150 when you register for the PASS BA Conference by using the BAC13KDN discount code.)
GP: What is the PASS Business Analytics Conference?
McD: It's a very exciting time for data professionals as more and more organizations turn to data-driven insights to stay ahead in today's competitive marketplace. Staying up to speed in this constantly changing world of data can be a challenge - that's where the PASS Business Analytics Conference fits in.
The conference was established to meet the needs of a growing Business Analytics community affiliated with Microsoft technologies such as Excel, SharePoint, SQL Server, Parallel Data Warehouse, Azure, Hadoop and more. The event is geared towards data and business analysts, data scientists, architects, and business analytics/business intelligence professionals and covers a wide range of information from data exploration and visualization, predictive analytics, content management and architecture, information strategies, and much more.
GP: What is the role of SQL Server in the Microsoft eco-system?
McD: As a partner and insider I have listened to Microsoft's vernacular shift from "SQL Server" to "Data Platform" and other similar terms. Some might think it a de-prioritization of SQL Server, but that would be a mistake. Microsoft is focused on the exploding business analytics (BA) needs of clients and understands it requires a complete toolbox of complementing technologies to deliver it all. As far as I can see, SQL Server is and will be a core component to BA for Microsoft going forward. Whether it be in the cloud or on-premise, SQL Server will hold critical features and therefore the Microsoft licensing model for core BA functionality. I see SQL Server getting more robust and more integrated with the rest of the Microsoft BA platform (since SQL Server will not and should not contain everything). ...
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by Hyoun Park
When Johnny Lee wrote his country classic, Looking for Love (In All The Wrong Places), he wrote with such heart, such pain, and such meaning that you just knew that he was writing about the challenge of creating a business plan for Big Data. For those of you who know the song, you might have missed this detail because you were so caught up in the story. Or perhaps maybe the soothing melody just took you away. But in any case, even a cursory understanding of the lyrics makes it clear that this song was meant to provide guidance to the enterprise analysts and project managers trying to figure out why Big Data is going to help them out.
Just think of the first line, "Well, I spent a lifetime looking for you/Singles bars and good time lovers were never true"
Who hasn't spent a lifetime thinking about how data could help their organization? But the challenges of integrating Big Data into sales, marketing, service, product development, HR, operations, and manufacturing were just too challenging. You could never settle on the correct solution. And when you chose that simple SaaS solution for a one-time need, it never quite worked out the way you expected.
If only there were a roadmap for figuring out how and where to begin in a cost-effective manner. And a way to prioritize how to set a realistic business goal for analytics. And it didn't take a lifetime to find...
"Playin' a fool's game hoping to win/And telling those sweet lies and losing again"
Amen to that. How many promises were analytics supposed to solve? When these analyst firms start throwing around claims like "Analytics pays back $10.66 for every dollar spent," people start to think that kind of return is possible and expected. (OK, I may be guilty for that last statistic.)
But how do you get to that kind of return? How do you play the game of analytics so that this is a realistic business return and not just a sweet lie you tell to your CIO before finding that those returns aren't happening after all?
"I was looking for love in all the wrong places/Looking for love in too many faces/Searching their eyes looking for traces of/What I'm dreaming of"
The vendor landscape for Big Data analytics and data management is enormous. There are a few short lists and short cuts for general analytics deployments, but there are so many specialized tools and new vendors that it is hard to keep up with them. It would be a lot easier if there was a simple way to weed out the contenders from the pretenders without pulling out a full-fledged RfX.
"Hoping to find a friend and a lover/I'll bless the day I discover/another heart ,looking for love."
Somewhere out there is that One True Pairing for your company: Big Data that has the functionality that the IT office wants, the usability that the line-of-business wants, the cost structure that the CFO wants, the support that service and help desk personnel want; and the agility and scalability buzzwords that your executives keep going off about. Should all of these be equally as important? Or are there certain areas where you can skimp on your analytics investment so that you can focus on the areas that truly matter?
"And I was alone then, no love in site/I did everything I could to get me through the night/I don't know where it started or where it might end/I'd turn to a stranger just like a friend."
When you're tasked with building the business case, it sure feels lonely. And you do go out to anyone in Project Management or IT land who has done this before to get some advice. Do I use TCO or ROI and how do I do that without leaving anything out? Am I just looking for some basic business requirements? Will I ever finish this business case or are we just going to end up taking a blind leap into building a data warehouse or implementing a Big Data appliance? Is this going to end up being an all-nighter to figure all this out? Is SQL Server enough or is it time for Hadoop?
"Then you came a-knocking at my heart's door/You're everything I been looking for"
That's the goal, isn't it? Unfortunately, it's probably not going to be as easy as having your analytics solution and all of the value propositions fall in your lap. But there are a number of basic findings that can help you to estimate some of the value propositions you're looking for, such as the keys to maximizing potential ROI, the best way to measure indirect benefits, the four stages of the Analytic Enterprise, the five key components of analytic benefits that Nucleus has identified through over 60 case studies, and attributes that provided Big Data users with an average incremental 241 percent ROI over their existing analytics efforts.
If, like Johnny Lee, you've been trying to build the business case for Big Data in all the wrong ways and in all the wrong places, you should stop by my session at the PASS Business Analytics Conference on April 11th so I can help you find everything you've been looking for in a Big Data business case.
Learn more from Hyoun at his PASS BA Conference session, "Building the Business Case for Big Data."
This could be your lucky week! With just a month to go, excitement's in the air around the PASS Business Analytics Conference. We've heard that many of you are interested in attending and are looking to get the best rate by registering by this Friday, March 15. But wouldn't free be even better?
For those who haven't signed up yet, here's your chance to win registration to what's going to be an incredible 2 days of business intelligence and analytics learning. Keep an eye on Facebook and Twitter today through Wednesday (March 11-13), and share how your job function is becoming more analytics focused for your chance to win one of five passes*.
Make sure you're following the BA Conference on Twitter (@passbac/#passbac) and Facebook to participate. Only one entry per person please, and remember to post your answer by midnight Pacific Time Wednesday, March 13. We'll announce the winners on Thursday.
Good luck! And even if you don't win, you can get $200 off registration by using the discount code from your local or virtual PASS chapter or favorite blogger – just remember to register by March 15 for the best rate.
See you in Chicago!
The PASS Business Analytics Team
* Prize includes: One full-conference registration to the PASS Business Analytics Conference. Travel, accommodation, and other expenses not included.
Got 5 minutes? Take a reading break with these blog posts from around the world of business intelligence and data analytics:
Can't possibly attend all the sessions on your PASS Business Analytics Conference must-see list? You can catch those you miss and relive your favorites by ordering the session recordings at the special pre-event attendee rate of $295*.
Including over 60 breakout sessions across five comprehensive topic tracks – plus the Microsoft keynote – the session recordings come on a convenient USB flash drive. Not only are the recordings a valuable resource as you continue your training throughout the year, but they are a great way to share the conference with your teammates.
Don't miss a thing – make sure you add the recordings as you go through the registration process. Or if you've already registered, you can order them today by contacting Shannon Cunningham via email or phone (1-888-714-5544 / 1-303-530-4879) to update your registration record.
Hurry! The pre-event attendee pricing ends Friday, April 12, at 3pm Central Time.
* Plus $15 shipping and handling in the US/Canada; $25 international. Limit 1 USB per attendee at the attendee price. Note: PASS BA Conference presentations are the property of PASS and its presenters. Replication of any form of the drive, content, or presentations contained within is strictly prohibited.
Cross-posted from The SQL Herald
By Joey D'Antoni
The new PASS Business Analytics Conference is a new concept for PASS — we've seen Business Intelligence (BI) User Groups and even SQLSaturdays dedicated to this subset of PASS, but a whole conference? What is driving this demand? I can't explain the whole industry, but I can at least provide some perspective from what I see in my window.
I don't intend to start a debate between relational databases and NoSQL datastores — that's a religious war I have no intention of jumping into. I'm also not going to abuse the terms "big data" and "data" in combination with some body of water (data pond, data lake, data ocean, etc. — seriously, who comes up with this stuff?). What I will talk about is how a relational database isn't always the right answer for every data set, and how relational databases from major vendors (especially with enough cores to do serious analytic workloads) are REALLY EXPENSIVE. So, especially since a lot of my expertise is in Infrastructure-based solutions, how did I end up presenting at BaCON?
My organization sees the changing landscape of data — and we generate and save TONS of data. We're not always choosing the best path for our architecture. So given I'm on the architectural team, I started investigating some alternative solutions like Hadoop and Hive for less structured non-transactional data. To make it easy to learn this stuff, it helped to have a use case, where I could take it from start to finish. I'm not by any means an expert in data analysis, but I am fortunate to be presenting with a great friend who is — Stacia Misner (b|t). So what are we going talk about at BaCON?
Our data set represents about a week's worth of set-top-box data from the largest cable provider in the US. We are going to discuss our data source and how we used Hadoop and then Hive to allow us to perform multiple types of analysis on the data in an extremely nimble fashion. From there, using Power View and some other tools, we see the impacts of various events on metrics such as viewer engagement and channel preferences.
For those of you who are SQL Server and/or Oracle professionals — this is a brave new world, but think of it like learning a new version of something. You are building on an existing skill set — you already do tons of data analysis in your job. This is just another step in the process, and it will be part the skill set of the 21st century data professional.
Cross-posted from Dirty Reads
By Rod Colledge
The SQL Server Community, specifically PASS, has provided me with enormous opportunities for professional growth, and so I always look to give back in whatever way I can. In the last 5 years, my focus has been exclusively on Business Intelligence, so when I heard about the PASS Business Analytics Conference being held in April in Chicago, I knew this was something I wanted to be a part of. I submitted an abstract and was selected to speak, so in April, I'll be making the 18-hour trip to Chicago with one of my StrataDB colleagues, Mr PopBI, aka Peter O'Gorman.
What immediately struck me about the conference is that it uses the phrase "Business Analytics" instead of "Business Intelligence." "Business Intelligence" is used almost universally these days as a blanket phrase for all sorts of things. So I did some research on the difference between the two terms. "Intelligence" is a synonym for "aptitude," "clever," and "brain power" – all of which are fairly generic terms that could really mean whatever you want them to mean. "Analytics," on the other hand, is a synonym for "investigation," "scrutiny," and "breakdown," which I believe to be much more of a descriptive term for the work we as BI professionals are engaged in.
Before you think I've set off on a self-indulgent grammar excursion, this is a really important distinction, because what we as BI professionals do, or what we should do, is provide business users with a platform for information discovery – Investigation, Scrutiny, and Breakdown. It's really important to understand that the sole reason we exist as IT professionals is not just to make lots of money and drink beer, but to support the business users. At the end of the day, they're the reason why we're here, and if we forget that, they'll forget about us. So with this in mind, my session, Self-Service Business Analytics in 2013, is about how we as IT professionals can assist the business using the Microsoft BI platform.
Including the term "Self-Service" in my title was always going to open me up to criticism from my colleagues. Take this blog post for example, Self-Service Business Intelligence: It's Wrong, Bad and Shouldn't be Anyone's Goal. Wow, that's a broad, sweeping statement! Read the post, however, and the core point is that the business cannot (effectively) perform BI without IT professionals, but the reverse is also true: IT professionals cannot perform BI without the business. This is something that Microsoft has long recognised. Effective BI systems are those that combine the traditional strengths of Corporate BI (Data Quality, Security, Governance, and Performance) with the flexibility and agility of Self-Service BI. Microsoft's term for this is Managed Self-Service BI.
My session will explore the awesome benefits of Managed Self-Service BI – how we, as IT professionals, can work with the business to achieve truly meaningful business outcomes. It is, after all, the whole reason for our existence.
If you're a BI professional or a business user with a keen interest in analytics, this is the conference to attend in 2013. I'm really pumped about this one, and I'd love to see you there – I might even shout you an (Australian) beer!
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There's no doubt about it – Parliament needs to work better. The hostile theatrics that Canadians see at question period, which you've likely noticed is not called answer period, are just the tip of the partisan iceberg in Ottawa. Hostility and tribalism between parties are getting worse. Parties fight for every electoral seat in a desperate quest for majority government that Canadians have been repeatedly and wisely denying any party. Politicians' mailboxes are filled with pleas to get along better and get things done for struggling regions, industries, citizens, and families. I agree. Most Parliamentarians went to Ottawa to improve the lot of our constituents, but we seem to have built a system that often brings out the worst in our elected representatives. How can we turn that around to encourage cooperation and effectiveness in governance? I have been proposing some ideas.A NEW SEATING PLAN: In the House we are seated hockey-bench style with team captains facing each other, occasionally urging us to go over the boards for a verbal brawl. Fun for some, but frustrating to others. It's the reason why school teachers don't bring their students to question period anymore.But we could randomize seating in the House. It would be difficult to heckle and insult MPs from other parties sitting in the next seat. Some time spent next to other members from all parties will lead to recognition of them as people with whom we can share ideas and work on solutions in an atmosphere of respect. ALLOW MPs FROM DIFFERENT PARTIES TO CO-SPONSOR LEGISLATION: Private member's legislation – bills and motions introduced by MPs, not by the government or a party – are one of the last truly democratic institutions in Parliament. Members are free to table just about any good initiative, and votes are usually free. They make up the majority of legislation introduced, but they face steep challenges to actually passing. Of the 1,005 private members' bills introduced since the 2008 election, only one has been signed into law. Few successfully pass the House, with my Climate Change Accountability Act being a rare exception. A key reason is that private legislation is often branded as a party initiative. If an MP tables a good bill or motion, other parties are often reluctant to see it pass because it will give the other party political points. This is our system actively working against the interests of Canadians.That's why I recently tabled a motion to change the rules. M-597 will allow cross-party sponsorship of legislation, in order to allow more co-operation between parties and to give private bills and motions a better chance of passage. Co-operation on the drafting of bills would lead to more co-operation and compromise after they are tabled, in committees, and around the Hill. Private legislation would be more about ideas, and less of a zero-sum political game.A MORE DEMOCRATIC VOTING SYSTEM: Most democracies in the world have some sort of proportional representation. Of Western democracies, only Canada and the U.S. are left clinging to the antiquated winner-take-all system with false majorities, where a party can win near-absolute power with only 37 per cent of the vote. Even the UK is changing. Proportional representation would mean that if 20 per cent of voters voted for a party, that party would get 20 per cent of the seats. In Scandinavian Parliaments, I have seen firsthand how this leads to rational discussion and debate, mutual respect, workable compromises and much better governance.Canadians are looking for statesmanship, leadership and effective government that represent all Canadians. They want better. They deserve better. Let's act to improve our system and our behaviour.
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We'd like to thank our talented partners, VidaBox (http://www.vidabox.com/), for creating a very powerful extension to mControl. They've created an XML file, which can be used with our Generic Driver to control Media Centers either manually (e.g., using mControl Editor) or within mControl macros.
Need to start a music playlist upon sunrise or press a light switch upon entering a room to set up your preferred Media Center environment, now you can using mControl macros, (which reference an Media Center Controller device through the mControl Generic Driver).
Here's what you need to do to get it going:
1. You'll want to install mControl v2.1 Beta 2.
2. Download and install the MCE Controller (http://www.kindel.com/products/mcecontroller/). This is an open source project. This is the utility that will accept commands from mControl (through the Generic Driver) and then transport these commands to Media Center. You'll want to install this utility on the MCE machine that you're going to control.
3. Download the Media Center Controller XML file (http://www.embeddedautomation.com/md...Controller.xml) and put it in the C:\Program Files\Embedded Automation\mControl\server\plugins directory (or C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\mControl\server\plugins directory if you're using WHS). You'll need to restart mControl for this file to be picked up.
4. Add a device, using the "EA Generic Driver" as an adapter and selecting "EAGA - MCE Controller" as the device. Then enter the IP address of the Media Center you're going to control and 5150 as the port address.
5. Now you're ready to control the Media Center through mControl using manual or macro operation.
1. Again, we'd like to thank VidaBox for sharing this with us and we'll work with them to refine the solution over time. We are working on a more comprehensive solution to this and it will be available after v2.1.
2. This will not work *unless* Media Center has focus. That is, if you try to control this using mControl Editor, it won't work, because when you're using mControl Editor it has focus, Media Center will have background focus. To test it, you might try using mControl Editor from a different machine or write a simple macro.
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There was once a time where Sarah Palin was the queen of the news. Any story written about her went viral and any TV show featuring her was a success. But a series of gaffes, embarrassing blunders, and general media whore-ness caused her to fall from grace. Fastest. Perhaps the fastest of anyone in media history.
The latest news -- that Palin has been dropped from Fox News where she was a commentator -- isn't a surprise, but it does kind of represent the true end of the Palin era. She rose to stardom as a Vice Presidential candidate and she leaves it as a laughing stock. A rich one. But a laughing stock all the same.
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So what happened? Palin happened. She is her own worst enemy.
First, her knowledge of policy, history, and general current events was shaky at best. She spent most of her time jabbing at President Obama and the media and chatting about things that only affect her. That folksy Alaska love actually turned out to be selfish narcissism with a healthy dose of over-confidence.
Bottom line: She just isn't that smart. She is business savvy and used her brand to do a whole lot, so kudos to her. But as a commentator or person we would look to as insightful, smart, or witty? Well, no. Sorry Sarah.
Just four years ago, Palin was on top. She was the author of a book that was a monster best-seller and starred in a TLC reality series about Alaska. Even her daughters were getting famous, Bristol Palin, especially. Bristol had her own reality show as well as a stint on Dancing With the Stars.
But it was after the Gabby Giffords shooting, when some commentators linked Palin to the tragedy, when she truly fell from grace. She accused those commentators of "blood libel" in an ill-advised statement where she looked both ignorant of history and selfish in the face of a tragedy.
It ended her. She lost so many fans.
In many ways, Palin IS a cautionary tale. She is wealthy, sure. But she is also an amusing anecdote, a national punchline. Personally, I wouldn't take millions of dollars over my dignity. But then, I am not Sarah Palin.
Do you think she will have a comeback?
I have never seen either of her shows, since I don't have cable tv. But I have been appalled at the way Sarah Palin has been treated in the press. Every word she uttered was twisted to fit their "Sarah's a stupid hick media whore" image. Where was the media outrage when Hillary Clinton affected a Southern-Black accent in a Black Church during a campaign, saying, "Ah don't feeeeel no-ways tahhhrrrd"? When she said that Gandhi used to run a gas station down in St. Louis". Had Sarah done the same thing she'd have been decimated. Hillary was treated to an indulgent smile and pat on the head with an "isn't she clever?" attitude.
Palin is as smart as any other person in media. Yes, she makes mistakes. But so do others. Her biggest mistake was being so loud and proud about her Conservatism. Unapolagetic about it, she drew more arrows than anyone else.
I don't know why she's parting ways with Fox, nor do I care. I wish her luck. Mostly, I pray for our country, which is currently in the iron grip of a severely compromised and biased media - one that knows it holds the power to destroy anyone. They've proven it over and over again. When will people wake up and understand this?
I love the liberal obsession with Sarah Palin. I guess she isn't a real woman because she didn't abort her Down's syndrome baby? You all probably think Joe Biden is a genius. It's okay to be snarky and dump on a conservative woman because when it comes down to it, liberals are bullies. You bully minorities saying they aren't real fill in the blank for not holding the "correct" views, woman are bullied and called stupid and dumb for not holding the "correct" views, those against stricter gun control are accused of all sorts of heinous things, if a rich republican runs for office it must mean he is a criminal, never mind that the super-rich are more likely to be democrat (John Kerry has a bigger net worth then Mitt Romney)...liberalism is the playground bully of the political world.
Yawn... Liberals are bullies, conservatives are bullies, both sides have idiots talking out their ass. They're two sides of the same coin, anyone with an unfailing allegiance to either side is blind deaf and dumb.
@Bloomie - you've made the most logical comment on this. I'm glad if I never have to hear from/about her again - now if only we could shut every other politician up too!


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With more regular season games than ever before, TSN and TSN2 present its 124-game NHL ON TSN broadcast schedule for the 2009-10 regular season. All games will be available nationally in High Definition. Games and highlights will also be available on-demand on TSN.ca.
This year's combined 124-game national broadcast package is part of TSN/TSN2's multi-year broadcast and digital rights agreement with the NHL. A total of 89 regular season games will air on TSN, with 70 games featuring at least one Canadian team. TSN2's regular season schedule features 35 live NHL games showcasing non-Canadian teams. In addition, TSN and TSN2 will produce and televise a total of six pre-season games featuring each of the six Canadian clubs.
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TSN has exclusive Canadian specialty television rights for national English-language broadcast and digital coverage of NHL games. Once again, TSN will have coverage of the first three rounds of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, continued exclusive Canadian coverage of the NHL Entry Draft and NHL Draft Lottery, and a suite of broadband, wireless and video-on-demand rights for NHL ON TSN telecasts.
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County executive recaps 2007
As your Whatcom County Executive I am pleased to report some key accomplishments this past year.
Public Works
Public works projects were a priority for Whatcom County government in 2007. Reconstruction of Drayton Harbor Road will be completed in the spring. Planning, design and permitting for a new Lincoln Road is under way. Also, in response to citizen feedback, a small, but significant, drainage project on Lee Lane was completed. The Birch Bay Transportation Plan process has started.
Shoreline Projects
The Whatcom Marine Resource Committee (MRC) coordinated two tidal flat tours in September, implemented a pilot clam-seeding project on two public tidelands in Birch Bay and funded a prioritization study of potential near-shore habitat restoration projects in Birch Bay and Point Roberts.
Parks Department
In 2007 Whatcom County Parks completed the remodel of the Semiahmoo Cannery Lodge, now available for public rental. The Sunset Equestrian Center received needed improvements. Whatcom County Parks presented 31 outdoor recreation and interpretive programs to local residents. The 51-acre, Point Whitehorn Park, will open in the summer of 2008. The acquisition of Lily Point, a 90-acre marine shoreline property with 40 acres of tidelands in Point Roberts, is yet another example of saving a pristine and unique area for future generations. The latter two projects were made possible in partnership and collaboration with the Whatcom Land Trust.
Deputy Program – Whatcom County Sheriff deputy Cliff Langley was assigned to Birch Bay as part of Sheriff Elfo's neighborhood deputy program.
Approximately two years from now, we'll become the gateway to the 2010 Winter Olympics. We're moving forward with plans for an appropriate level of security and easier access through the border.
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(WNFL) - Adrian Peterson is not the same player he was last year -- but the Green Bay Packers still have immense respect for him. The Packers will try again on Sunday night to contain last year's M-V-P, when they play the Minnesota Vikings in Minneapolis. Last December, Peterson exploded for 210 yards against the Pack at Lambeau Field, and 199 yards during their game in Minneapolis. In the January playoffs, Peterson ran for 99 yards -- and all three of those games were Green Bay victories. Defensive end Mike Daniels said he couldn't blink when facing Peterson last year. That was when the All-Pro finished the regular season with two-thousand-96 rushing yards. Daniels was a rookie last year, and said Peterson would almost be gone by the time he got to his coverage gap. Despite Minnesota's 1-and-5 record -- and despite the distractions involving the apparent murder of his two-year-old son -- Peterson remains a huge threat. He ranks seventh in the N-F-L in total rushing yards so far with 511, with an average of four-point-four yards per carry. In 13 games against Green Bay, Peterson has run for 15-hundred-41 yards with 10 touchdowns.
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SNELLVILLE -- A school bus carrying children from Norton Elementary School was involved in a crash Tuesday afternoon on Hwy. 78 near High Point Road.
Cpl. Jake Smith of the Gwinnett County Police Department said two students were transported to the hospital with minor injuries after the Gwinnett County Public School bus and a minivan collided at about 3:20 p.m.
Smith said the driver of the minivan also was transported with non-life threatening injuries.
It was not yet clear who would be charged in the incident. Smith said that would likely be determined by Wednesday.
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When I try to install it, Wordpress says that the style.css is missing. What shall I do? Thanks!
It's HTML only version of the theme, it won't work with wordpress, sorry. WordPress is still in development stage.
You could try to contact with envato for a refund or if they won't accept it, mail me and I'll try to get you the WP version with a discount when it comes out.
Hi, I want this template but am concerned about the problem someone raised about 1024 resolution. I checked my stats and about 7% of my traffic is 1024. Any plans to fix that?
Hey, there is no problem with 1024px, users with such resolution get the mobile-tablet version. Try it yourself, resize your browser window to 1024px or less and refresh the page
Hi, Great template! How can I remove "div id="master-header-bar""? I don't need the div on top with opening hours. Deleting the div does not work as the hight of the navigation on top does not fit anymore (when scrolling down master-nav disappears). I suppose I have to change settings in the css. Can you give me a quick hint? Thanks!
more of the html in play actually, edit say index.html and at the top: the body style there should have 105px and not 141px, at master-header it should be data-96="top:-36px;" and well, it should work then. I've been playing with it recently as the WordPress version will have an option to disable it, so if still not working lemme know, maybe I missed something else
I adjusted index.html: the body style on top -> 105px instead of 141px; and removed 'div id="master-header-bar"'; didn't work; changed 'data-96="top:-36px;"' of 'master-header' to '0' and now it's working. Changing of the body style on top does not seem necessary. Correct?
padding on body makes sure the rest of the page is in proper distance from the fixed bar, it should make a bit of a difference but am glad you got it
Hi! Great template, nice design! One question: When using the unordered lists and the list points are long they break into a second/third/... line. That's normal But the text of the second/third/... line should start at the same position as the text of the first line, but it starts at the (unordered list) icon. How can I get this done? Cheers!
will look into this, do you have an example of this on live server somewhere perhaps?
no, I have not yet an example on a live server. btw, I'm using the bullet-mark style. Thx a lot.
yep you were right, so the quick solution is to add this to css (near bottom):
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that should do it. I'll have to rethink it again if it's optimal solution, but it looks like it's ok. Thanks for finding that and reporting I'm gonna add it to WP release as well!
Thx a million for your quick answer. It works fine and looks as expected! Let me know when you'll find a more optimal solution (if there is any :-)) Cheers!
- The template shakes on safari desktop versione
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What shall I do? I also experience those problems on your live preview.
Thank you very much!
hey, can you describe the shaking in the safari? I don't have a mac at hand to test it, but on the older win version it works fine (though at low framerate)
I'll also look into iphone landscape issue (I guess you meant that, because I didn't notice problems with landscape view on ipad)
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A shallow tunnel may be what gives the green light to a portion of the proposed Southwest Light Rail Line that has faced opposition from community members -- as long as it can clear a Wednesday vote.
The tunnel would go under the current Kenilworth Bike Path in Minneapolis that traverses a thriving but quiet neighborhood. In order to preserve that popular bike and walking path, a portion of the line that will one day bring trains toward Eden Prairie may be buried underground.
Engineers are proposing two shallow tunnels on that section. The first would start just north of West Lake Street and emerge before the water channel connecting Cedar Lake and Lake of the Isles, and the second would take the train underground once more before coming up just before the Interstate 394 expressway.
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A brief engagement of the Ten Commandments begins on Good Friday at the Cincinnati Museum Center.
The 2,100 year old scroll is the oldest and best preserved parchment manuscript of the Ten Commandments. The display will be open to the public until April 14, and joins ten additional scrolls in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Ancient Times exhibition.
Written in Hebrew between 50 BCE - 1 BCE on a parchment, the scroll measures just over 18 inches by 3 inches.
A special gift from Great American Insurance Group enabled the Museum Center to bring this treasure to Cincinnati. "It is a privilege to support Cincinnati Museum Center in their extraordinary efforts to provide our community with this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness one of the most esteemed religious artifacts known to man," said S. Craig Lindner, co-president and co-CEO, Great American Insurance Group. "Great American Insurance Group is honored to sponsor this remarkable exhibition."
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Three tips to help reinvigorate your board meetings
Chances are, your board is looking for details that help them feel they've done right by the organization. They want to help you do your job well, but they may not really understand how to do that without crossing the line between governance and management.
And let's face it: Board meetings can be, well... boring. Many board members don't communicate. Those who do often want data, information, and detail that you must scramble to provide. You talk and they listen. You might even feel interrogated. You leave feeling relieved it's over, and not always with the answers or support you needed going in.
Here are three tips to help reinvigorate your board meetings, in order to build a more collaborative, supportive relationship.
1. Send the data, share the love. Send the spreadsheets in advance (with notes and comments, if needed), but begin your presentation at the board meeting with something human. Share a letter or drawing from a kid in one of the programs whose budget you want to expand. Begin your PowerPoint with photos of people doing work in the field that the budget funded. Make a video with a staff person talking about their work and thanking the board. (Tip: It doesn't have to be a fancy video, either; you can use your phone's camera if you need to.) Connecting to the board's emotions will help them understand the human implications of the numbers and remind them why it all matters.
2. Show and tell. Devote ten minutes in each board meeting--perhaps over lunch--to something that will help board members feel more connected to your work. Take them on a tour of a new department, walking or through slides. Ask a new employee to come and share their observations. Visit the websites of two or three peer organizations and talk about how your work relates to theirs.
Board members are rarely close to the work itself--which is a good thing, if you ask me--but that distance can also lead to disconnects when they make recommendations or share ideas. Bridge the divide by sharing pieces that help them feel like part of your world without inviting them to pull up a chair at your desk.
3. Tell them what you want from them. Before each segment of the meeting, tell the board what you want from them. Want them to vote to approve your new name, logo, or next year's budget? Say that upfront. Sharing information for their reference only? Let them know that, too. Most board members want to help and assume, sometimes incorrectly, that asking a lot of questions or making suggestions is useful.
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Speaking Silos -- and no judgement here. I have found that Board members, for the most part , are "not in the know" with what is actually going on in the office with staff, volunteers, new programs, positive feedback, organizational mentions, you name it--the work that is being done to serve the cause. I encourage organizations (ED's) on a monthly basis to send news from the shop/field, to Board members. Let me count the ways that we have some dialogue going on at those meetings!


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Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act
|Long title
|An Act To prohibit loans to, other investments in, and certain other activities with respect to, South Africa, and for other purposes
|Enacted by
|the 99th United States Congress
|Public Law
|Pub.L. 99–440
|Statutes at Large
|100 Stat. 1086
|Legislative history
|International opposition to
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The Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986[1] was a law enacted by the United States Congress. The law imposed sanctions against South Africa and stated five preconditions for lifting the sanctions that would essentially end the system of apartheid. The sanctions were repealed in July 1991 after South Africa took steps towards meeting the preconditions of the act.
Legislative history[edit]
Initial introduction in 1972[edit]
Sponsored by U.S. Representative Ron Dellums in 1972 with support from the Congressional Black Caucus and Rep. Howard Wolpe, chair of the House Africa Subcommittee, the law was the first United States anti-apartheid legislation. The act was initiated in reaction to the plight of blacks in South Africa and demanded the end of apartheid. The legislation banned all new U.S. trade and investment in South Africa and was a catalyst for similar sanctions in Europe and Japan. Direct air links were also banned, including South African Airways flights to U.S. airports. The act also required various U.S. departments and agencies to suppress funds and assistance to the then pro-apartheid government.
Initial attempt at passage in 1985[edit]
Democrats in the Senate initially tried to pass the Anti-Apartheid Act in September 1985, but could not overcome a Republican filibuster.[2] President Ronald Reagan viewed the act as an intrusion on his authority to conduct foreign policy and issued his own set of sanctions, though Democrats considered these to be "watered down and ineffective".[3]
Passage in the House and Senate in 1986[edit]
The bill was re-introduced in 1986 and brought up for a vote despite Republican efforts to block it in order to give President Reagan's sanctions time to work.[4] It initially passed unexpectedly in the House in June 1986 after Republicans agreed to a voice vote in the hopes that the bill would die later on in the process, thus ending any possibility of sanctions.[5] President Reagan publicly opposed the bill[6] In August 1986, the Senate passed a version of the Anti-Apartheid Act with weaker sanctions by a margin of 84-14.[7] Democratic leaders in the House agreed to accept the weaker Senate version of the bill in order for it to have sufficient bipartisan support to avert a possible veto.[8]
Veto by President Reagan[edit]
Reagan vetoed the compromised bill on September 26, calling it "economic warfare" and alleging that it would mostly hurt the impoverished black majority and lead to more civil strife.[9] He again offered to impose sanctions via executive order, while also working with Senate Republicans on concessions to avoid them overriding his veto. Reagan's veto was attacked harshly by anti-Apartheid leaders like Desmond Tutu who said Reagan would be "judged harshly by history".[10] In the week leading up to the subsequent vote, President Reagan enlisted South African foreign minister Pik Botha to call Republicans on the fence, though this was seen to backfire.[11]
Veto override[edit]
Reagan's veto was overridden by Congress (by the Senate 78 to 21, the House by 313 to 83) on October 2.[12] In the House vote, taken on September 29, 1986, 232 Democrats and 81 Republicans voted to override the President's veto while 4 Democrats and 79 Republicans voted to sustain the President's veto. [13] In the Senate vote, all 47 Democrats were joined by 31 Republicans to override the President's veto while 21 Republicans voted to sustain the President's veto. This override marked the first time in the twentieth century that a president had a foreign policy veto overridden.[14] Apartheid opponents in America and South Africa applauded the vote, while critics argued that it would be either ineffectual or lead to more violence.[11][15]
President Reagan made the following statement after the override:
"Today's Senate vote should not be viewed as the final chapter in America's efforts, along with our allies, to address the plight of the people of South Africa. Instead, it underscores that America—and that means all of us—opposes apartheid, a malevolent and archaic system totally alien to our ideals. The debate, which culminated in today's vote, was not whether or not to oppose apartheid but, instead, how best to oppose it and how best to bring freedom to that troubled country.
I deeply regret that Congress has seen fit to override my veto of the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986. Punitive sanctions, I believe, are not the best course of action; they hurt the very people they are intended to help. My hope is that these punitive sanctions do not lead to more violence and more repression. Our administration will, nevertheless, implement the law. It must be recognized, however, that this will not solve the serious problems that plague that country. The United States must also move forward with positive measures to encourage peaceful change and advance the cause of democracy in South Africa.
Now is the time for South Africa's Government to act with courage and good sense to avert a crisis. Moderate black leaders who are committed to democracy and oppose revolutionary violence are ready to work for peaceful change. They should not be kept waiting. It would be tragic to lose this opportunity to create a truly free society which respects the rights of the majority, the minority, and the individual. There is still time for orderly change and peaceful reform. South Africans of good will, black and white, should seize the moment."[16]
The override was seen as a major defeat for Reagan, coming at the hands of his fellow Republicans in Congress. It was subsequently revealed that there was significant debate within the White House between Reagan's political advisors advocating more compromise and those like Pat Buchanan and Donald Regan who supported Reagan's hard line against sanctions.[17]
After 2 years of sanctions under President Reagan, the head of South Africa's central bank argued that the nation had adjusted to financial sanctions.[18] In 1989, the General Accounting Office said in a report that the sanctions against South Africa had been only partially enforced by the Reagan administration.[19][20] In 1989, the newly elected President George H.W. Bush committed to "full enforcement" of the Anti-Apartheid Act, a departure from the Reagan administration`s policy.[21]
From 1990-1991, South African President F. W. de Klerk made steps towards meeting the preconditions of the Anti-Apartheid Act.[22] In 1991, following de Klerk's repeal of Apartheid laws and the release of Nelson Mandela and other (though not all) political prisoners, President Bush issued an executive order lifting virtually all bans against doing business with South Africa.[23] The degree to which the sanctions were responsible for ending apartheid was a matter of debate as those opposed to the sanctions argue that the South African economy was already struggling before the sanctions were enforced and that it was the political process on the ground that led to the changes.[24][25] Despite the repeal of most of the sanctions imposed by this act, many companies were still restricted by laws within individual states and cities in the United States that imposed sanctions. In September 1993, Nelson Mandela called for these sanctions to be removed as well and for investment to return to a still-struggling South Africa. [26] The last of the sanctions stemming from this act was repealed in November 1993.[27]
See also[edit]
- ^ Pub.L. 99–440, H.R. 4868
- ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZZopAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AYQDAAAAIBAJ&dq=anti-apartheid%20act%20reagan&pg=2824%2C4988842
- ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZZopAAAAIBAJ&sjid=AYQDAAAAIBAJ&dq=anti-apartheid%20act%20reagan&pg=4676%2C4983327
- ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2gNOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=bZoDAAAAIBAJ&dq=anti-apartheid-act&pg=6943%2C1641030
- ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ImgeAAAAIBAJ&sjid=x8gEAAAAIBAJ&dq=anti-apartheid-act&pg=1235%2C4729675
- ^ "Excerpts From Speech In Response To Reagan". The New York Times. July 23, 1986.
- ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=cLZAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=sKUMAAAAIBAJ&dq=anti-apartheid%20act%20senate&pg=4580%2C3866369
- ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=4r4yAAAAIBAJ&sjid=be8FAAAAIBAJ&dq=anti-apartheid%20act%20senate&pg=2214%2C44297
- ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8ggyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=E40DAAAAIBAJ&dq=anti-apartheid%20act%20senate&pg=5957%2C6691795
- ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kmspAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Y-YDAAAAIBAJ&dq=anti-apartheid%20act%20senate&pg=5901%2C9830038
- ^ a b Roberts, Steven V. (October 3, 1986). "Senate, 78 to 21, Overrides Reagan's Veto and Imposes Sanctions on South Africa". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 February 2009.
- ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yuxSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QIIDAAAAIBAJ&dq=anti-apartheid%20act%20senate&pg=6111%2C354872
- ^ 99th Congress (1986) (September 29, 1986). "House Vote #829 in 1986". Legislation. GovTrack.us. Retrieved December 8, 2013. "To override the President's veto of HR4868, a bill to prohibit loans to, other investments in, and certain other activities with respect to, South Africa (Motion passed; two-thirds of those present voting in favor)."
- ^ Norment, Lynn (August 1994). "How African-Americans helped free South Africa - Special Issue: Nelson Mandela and the New South Africa". Ebony (Johnson). Retrieved 2008-04-19.
- ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yuxSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QIIDAAAAIBAJ&pg=4315,376804&dq=apartheid+sanctions+veto&hl=en
- ^ Statement on the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986, October 2, 1986. http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1986/100286d.htm
- ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yuxSAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QIIDAAAAIBAJ&dq=anti-apartheid%20act%20senate&pg=6053%2C376098
- ^ Wren, Christopher (February 7, 1989). "Pretoria Banker Discounts Sanctions". The New York Times.
- ^ "Enforcement of sanctions inadequate, report suggests". The Pantagraph. August 20, 1989.
- ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Fy5iAAAAIBAJ&sjid=MncNAAAAIBAJ&dq=apartheid%20gao&pg=6622%2C5620472
- ^ "Bush's Carrot-and-stick Policy On S. Africa Faces Critics In U.s". Chicago Tribune. October 12, 1989.
- ^ Wren, Christopher S. (February 2, 1991). "South Africa Moves to Scrap Apartheid". The New York Times.
- ^ "Bush's rash repeal of sanctions". Boston Globe. July 11, 1991.
- ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iOJLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=uIsDAAAAIBAJ&dq=bush%20sanctions%20south%20africa%201989&pg=4903%2C1578476
- ^ Keller, Bill (September 12, 1993). "THE WORLD; South Africa Sanctions May Have Worked, at a Price". The New York Times.
- ^ Holmes, Steven A. (September 25, 1993). "TRANSITION IN AFRICA; Officials in U.S. Are Moving For a Removal of Sanctions". The New York Times.
- ^ http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bOcyAAAAIBAJ&sjid=mQcGAAAAIBAJ&dq=apartheid%20sanctions&pg=3361%2C4583866
Further reading[edit]
- Thomson, Alex (2012). "A More Effective Constructive Engagement: US Policy Towards South Africa after the Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act of 1986". Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies 39 (3): 371–389. doi:10.1080/02589346.2012.746186.