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Did you know that the largest US Church (The Presbyterian Church) has released a book that says President Bush is behind 9/11 attacks?!
Also, a former NSA official said that terror plot was cooked by Bush-Blair mafia!
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Did you know that suddenly, one can be an 'Islamic Fascist'?! How would Homeland Security judge me if I stepped off a plane in the U.S. tomorrow and told officials not only that I am appalled by the humanitarian crises in Lebanon and Gaza but also that I do not believe the war on terror should be directed against either the Lebanese or the Palestinians? How would they respond if, further, I described as nonsense the idea that Hezbollah or the political leaders of Hamas are "terrorists"?
May be you should not try!
Did you know that an "Arab" terrorists are going to attack America just in time for the November elections?! Here are Israelis caught red handed planning "Arab" terrorism.
Now you know!
Did you know that Israel forced foreigners to work under rocket fire?! At least 30 Thai workers have complained in the past few days that their employers are forcing them to work in fields in the north, even as Katyusha rockets launched from Lebanon rain down on towns near the border.
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Did you know that Zionist Christians are a Mossad operation and that Zionist changed the name of Jesus In Israel so that it is now an acronym meaning "Be His Name and Memories Forgotten."
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Did you know that (PDF) over the past decade, the United States has transferred more than $17 billion in military aid to Israel. From 2001 to 2005, Israel has actually received more than $10.5 billion in Foreign Military Financing. In 2005, Israel received $2.25 billion in Foreign Military Financing, and President George W. Bush's budget request for 2007 includes an additional $2.24 billion in FMF aid for Israel?!
Now you know!
Do you know how the reports of the July 12th capture of IOF soldiers shifted from Lebanon to Israel?!
Now you know!
Did you know that "No justice for the Palestinians = no peace for any of us." Arabs and Moslems everywhere begin to entertain if they are not already entertaining something like the following thought: "If 3,000 Hizbullah guerrillas can stand up to mighty Israel for weeks and give it a seriously bloody nose, what would happen if we all joined the fight?"
Now you know!
Did you know that US/Israeli planning for decimating Hezballah was a prelude and testing ground for attacking Iran?! (very insightful article by Semour M. Hersch)
Now you know!
How long would Israel's war have been allowed to continue if American audiences had seen those charred bodies or dead babies? How long would most Western viewers have remained silent if they were exposed to the kind of images shown daily on the Arabic satellite channels? Might they then start to understand why we hate them — and more usefully why they should hate themselves?
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Property management is about mapping crawled properties to managed properties. Crawled properties are automatically extracted from crawled content and grouped by category based on the protocol handler or IFilter used. If you plan to make the crawled properties part of the search user experience, you can map the crawled properties to managed properties.
For example, three different document types might have different names for the property identifying the author. One document type might name this property "author," another "writer," and a third "property3". You can map each of these crawled properties to the Author managed property so that when a user queries by author, appropriate results from the three document types are included. Searches can be performed only on managed properties, not crawled properties.
Example use cases for managed properties:
You can add a new managed property and then map this property to selected crawled properties, or you can select a crawled property and map it to an existing managed property.
To manage properties within the FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint farm, use Property Management on the FAST Search Administration page, as described in this article. To manage properties for People Search, however, use Metadata Properties on the Query SSA Search Administration page
To map managed properties to crawled properties, first open the Managed Properties page:
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You can find information about the managed property settings, including how to add a new mapping, in the Add a managed property section.
Deleting a managed property has the following consequences:
To delete a managed property:
You can map crawled properties to managed properties by editing the crawled property. You can map a crawled property to one or more managed properties.
Note The changes actually take place on a document-by-document basis during the crawl.
Crawled properties are grouped by category, based on the protocol handler or IFilter used. For example, a property coming from the Office IFilter will be in the "Office" category.
Categories are supplied by the indexing connectors. Only use one category per indexing connector. Default mappings are supplied out of the box.
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Joseph Kony considers himself as a good Christian.
He abducts kids, makes little girls go in prostitution, makes little boys become kid soldiers and force them to do horrible things, things a kid isn't supposed to do. Neither is an adult, no one is. He started the LRA, Lord's Resistance Army. 20.000 kids have been kidnapped, this needs to stop. And that's why we need to Make Kony Famous. Let the world know about the horrible things he does, and the thousands of children and parents suffering.
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Go Back to Liberation War 1971 home
NEWS FROM BANGLADESH, January 26, 1999
The diabolical role Lt. Gen. Gul Hassan Khan played during 1971
By - A.H. Jaffor Ullah
I wrote quite a few articles centering the diabolical role played by Lt. Gen. Gul Hassan Khan in our struggle to boot out the occupation army from our soil. During the entire period (March 26, 1971 through December 16, 1971), I was in the US attending graduate school. Reading all sorts of news report those days, I was more than convinced that the genocide of Bengalis was not the work of one or two persons like Gen. Aga M. Yahya Khan and Lt. Gen. Tikka Khan. The entire West Pakistani military establishment of the time was backing the inebriate president Gen. Yahya Khan to purge and kill millions of Bengalis all over the occupied Bangladesh
Unfortunately, the government of Pakistan headed by Z.A. Bhutto in 1972 blocked the publication of an investigative report by Chief Justice Hamoodur Rahman and his commission. Until now, only a handful of people in Pakistan has read that report. Most likely none of them are alive today. Supposedly, the military establishment and Bhutto himself were implicated in the dismemberment of united Pakistan. Knowing how much damage it could do to the demoralized nation, the government of Pakistan had decided to classify the entire document.
Because of the censor of this important document, we had to rely on news analysis, biographies, interviews, etc. to reconstruct what really did happen in December 1970. Because it was in the aftermath of the general election of December 7, 1970, some very important army personnel in the ranks of Major General and Lt. General met in a hastily arranged meeting in the cantonment in Rawalpindi. Several references had been made in the biographies written by some Pakistanis. In one of those references, it was clearly mentioned that the meeting was chaired by Lt. Gen. Gul Hassan Khan. I do not have that book in my possession, but I read it some passage in a website in 1997 or 1998. In that meeting all the participants agreed that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman (SMR) cannot be trusted and as such should be barred from taking the charge of Pakistan. Gen. Yahya Khan did not attend this important meeting. Gen. Yahya Khan was informed of the outcome of this meeting.
A Pakistani octogenarian journalist by the name Ardeshir Kawasjee (Sp.?) wrote a very important and informative article in Dawn several years ago. In that article he clearly mentioned that Z.A. Bhutto with the aid of Lt. Gen. Gul Hassan Khan dismantled the united Pakistan. I had the chance to attend a symposium in Washington D.C. in April 1998 to honor late Prof. Feroz Ahmed of Sindh. While attending the symposium, I talked to several Pakistani scholars about our struggle for independence in 1971. Most of them agreed that the upper echelon of Pakistani military (mostly Punjabis and Pathans) engineered the breakup of Pakistan with the political backing of Z.A. Bhutto. Under this scenario, how one can say that Lt. Gen. Gul Hassan Khan was unblemished and did not participate in Bengali genocide?
It is true that Lt. Gen. Gul Hassan Khan was not seen in the killing fields of the occupied Bangladesh. Lt. Gen. Tikka Khan and Lt. Gen. A. Niazi were the two who were seen in Dhaka during the nine-month period. But we should focus more on what devious role Lt. Gen. Gul Hassan Khan played sitting in the comfort of his military buddies in Rawalpindi. And that includes Gen. Hamid who was the chief of Pakistani military at the time. Lt. Gen. Gul Hassan Khan called that crucial meeting right after the election result in the second week of December 1970. He headed that meeting and he might have been the most influential army general present in that meeting. For everything that had transpired after that crucial meeting leading up to the crackdown of March 26, 1971, I squarely point finger at Lt. Gen. Gul Hassan Khan. He gave that crucial intellectual support necessary to form the opinion by the Pakistani army top brass that a Bengali politician could not be trusted at the helm. They recommended a military solution to the political problem of the renegade province East Pakistan (from the perspective of West Pakistan).
Lt. Gen. Gul Hassan Khan is an extremely shrewd person. In a five part Rediff Interviews (July 18-20, 1997) Lt. Gen. Gul Hassan Khan talked about his life and philosophy, but never did he mention the diabolical role he played behind the scene. He must have been very perturbed right after the breakup of Pakistan during questioning session of Justice Hamoodur Rahman Commission, otherwise he would not be writing to Gen. Osmani asking for a testimonial. I am very surprised to hear that Lt. Gen. Gul Hassan Khan wrote a letter to his old pal Gen. Osmani. (In his memoir, Lt. Gen. Gul Hassan Khan printed a letter written by Gen. Osmani sometime in early 1972. This letter addressed to Gul Hassan was a reply from Gen. Osmani in which the Bangladesh army chief cleared Osmani from any wrongdoing during 1971). Because, those days there weren't any direct mail service between Pakistan and Bangladesh. I personally know this because I used to relay mails for Bengalis stranded in Pakistan and send those mails to Bangladesh. Another curious thing is -- why did Osmani write that letter? Pakistan did not recognize Bangladesh then. Gen. Osmani will be taking a big chance to draft that letter and send it to Islamabad. Think about it for a moment. Besides, Gen. Osmani was not in a position to know what role Lt. Gen. Gul Hassan Khan played all through our struggle in 1971 sitting in a remote place in Rawalpindi cantonment.
Another point should be considered here. Right after the fall of Dhaka Lt. Gen. Gul Hassan Khan and his friend Air Marshall A.R. Khan went personally to Yahya Khan. Jointly they plotted a coup in which Yahya Khan was deposed. They also asked Z.A. Bhutto to assume the office of President of Pakistan. Z.A. Bhutto immediately after taking the office gave Lt. Gen. Gul Hassan Khan the grand prize by making him the chief of demoralized Pakistan army. There was a secret entente between Bhutto and Lt. Gen. Gul Hassan Khan from the very beginning right after the declaration of election result in December 1970.
I would ask Mr. Nawaz Sharif, the present Prime Minister of Pakistan, to declassify the report of Justice Hamoodur Rahman Commission. There lays the truth. But I am afraid Pakistani army will not allow Mr. Nawaz Sharif to declassify the document and let the world see this very important document.
Lt. Gen. Gul Hassan Khan lives part of the year in Austria and his family members living in Austria have access to Internet. The articles I wrote were posted in soc.culture.Pakistan too. Why is this venerable octogenarian mum so far?
In summary, the planning of Bengali Genocide was the work of Pakistani military generals and Lt. Gen. Gul Hassan Khan was a very willing player right from the beginning. He never did protest the gratuitous killing of Bengalis. At least, I have not seen one article or protestation letter coming from him. He is not the person I could trust before or for that matter now. He knows very well that his hands are stained with the blood of Bengalis, although, he was not the General who pulled the trigger. The world knows very well that Lt. Gen. Tikka Khan was the trigger man. Lt. Gen. Gul Hassan Khan, however, gave the intellectual support and leadership that made the Bengali Genocide a reality. Let us not be self-deceived saying that this individual is clean because he never entered occupied Bangladesh during 1971. Such a simplistic notion would give this person a clean bill of health and it will be a litany of lie.


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Yet again, Ficwad, you DON'T have the anime I'm writing for. Hetalia fic. When Ivan starts to lose it, who will be there to help him get it back?
"B-big brother." I whimpered. He glanced down at me, his strange purple-blue eyes confused.
"Natalia, why are you on the ground?" he asked, tilting his head. I flinched slightly as he held his hand out to me. His jaw dropped. "Natalia, what's wrong?" he knelt next to me in the snow.
His hands closed over my shoulders. I haven't been this scared of Ivan since his last fight with Alfred. "Natalia, what is this?" he asked, brushing my hair away from my neck and face. "Who did this?" he asked, his voice going hard.
I shook my head. He stood, pulling me by my arm. How can he not remember strangling me not a second ago? I stared at him as he drug me to big sister Katyusha's room.
"Ukraine! Open up! This is an emergency!" he shouted, pounding the door.
"What is it now, Ivan? Did Toris dye your....." she trailed off as she opened her door and her eyes fell on me. "What happened to you, Natalia?!" she grabbed me by my shoulders.
Ivan sighed and let go of my arm. "She won't tell me. So I'm going to go get answers." he turned and stopped in the large hallway. "Don't let Natalia out of your sight, got it?"
"Y-yes, Ivan." Katyusha stuttered, pulling me into her room.
"Big brother, how are you going to get answers?" I called after him. "Big brother!" he didn't turn. Katyusha shut her door.
"He did it, didn't he?" she whispered. I nodded, falling to my knees. Usually, Lili was the one to help me when this happened, but Vash had dragged her to some stupid lake.
Katyusha sighed. "I'm okay. Just worried for him. He's getting worse, sister." tears stung in my eyes. She sat on her bed and looked down at me.
"I know. Now he's hurting everyone and not remembering it. He nearly killed poor Raivis last week with his pipe. And he's been beating us and Eduard...." she shook her head. "We were the only ones he was kind to. And now we get the worst of it."
"He needs help, sister. You know I'm not very fond of you, but we are family." I wiped my eyes and stood. She looked at me, her eyes huge and scared.
"What do we do?" she asked, falling back.
"We get Alfred and Arthur to help. They'll know what to do." I sighed. "I just hope Alfred doesn't try to hit on me again. That won't help brother feel any better about him."
She just stared at me. "God, sometimes I feel liked the younger sister!" she laughed. I glared at her.
Was her boobs filled with her brain or something?
For those of you who don't know me, I am an avid cosplayer and Belarus (Natalia) and Ivan (Russia) are two of my characters. This is all from Hetalia!! If you haven't seen it, then GO WATCH IT!!!!!! I will place you in Busby's chair if you don't!!!! Besides, you kinda gotta know a about the anime/manga to understand this story. But here's a list of the characters I used in this chapter. I'll do this for every chapter I put up.
Ivan – Russia
Natalia – Belarus
Katyusha – Ukraine
Toris – Lithuania
Raivis – Latvia
Lili – Liechtenstein
Vash – Switzerland
Alfred – America
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Devo honors Mitt Romney's dog with new song and takes jab at the presidential candidate for his actions.
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Not hardly!
OK, if not a landlslide, then how about a "resounding, laughable rout." Obama's 2-to-1 bodyslam of McCain was "Certainly decisive?" Well, um… yes.
p.s. — Wither Joe The Plumber now?
How about purchased? Yes money and a crooked medial can even buy the presidency of the ex United States of America. Thankfully we still have a two party system… the Americans and the Socialists.
To A. Giordan: the popular vote (real people)was 52% to 48%…based on your math skills you must have voted foy Obama.
it wasn't a landslide. look at the national vote. obama won by 6%. a nice victory, but a blowout? get lost.
The final tally was 52% Obama and 46% McCain. I believe, however, that A Giordano was referring to the electoral votes, seeing as to Obama recieved more than twice the amount that McCain did.
I believe that any win with over 60% of the electoral vote is considered a landslide victory.
Obama has surpassed that
1 — Bankrolling their way into office has served Republicans well. This time, though, too many regular people chipped in with small amounts, e.g., 10, 20, 50 bucks, for that to work.
2 — The Electoral College (vs. popular vote) system has similarly served Republicans well. Perhaps you've heard of the 2000 Election?
3 — As a metric, the popular vote doesn't matter (just ask W) but, even so, 52-48 is solid, solid victory — and 349 (and likely to go higher) to 189 is an embarrassment.
Landslide or no, this is a mandate for positive change.
To MoneyBags: Yeah, the (real people) cobbled together their nickels and dimes to elect a Real President, the best that money (and HOPE) could buy. Money Bags can't buy the (real people)
No matter how we all feel about it, the truth remains the same. Obama won! In order for our Nation to heal and our children to continue to dream, we have to put the hate aside and do what is best for all Americans. At the end of the day, unless we plan to move…we still have to live with one another. Stop the selfish attacks and ask what can you do to make a change…a difference.
When do we get to see who the small donors were? Illegal foreign, no doubt.
how is john mccain takimg this
Yep, you're right. He stitched together via a cabal of dastardly furr-i-ners with their funny accents and strange headgear. With 2.5 million unique Obama donors (donating typically $50-60), it was in no way impossibly complicated to pull off. But where's my man Joe The Plumber? I got some leakin' pipes over here and I'm willing to pay in Rogaine!
Well KC,
I'm one of the small donors. I gave $220 to Barack Obama's campaign in dribs and drabs over the course of the the last year. I should mention that president-elect Obama is the first politician I've ever given money to. My money was neither foreign nor illegal, and I have dozens of friends who donated just like me.
Its a role reversal every time a new party takes over. The government has everyone hating each other and coughing up more and more money each year to keep the hate going. Divisiveness is in governments best interest so it can survive and grow. With an operating budget of 3 Trilion and Medicare underfunded by 65 Trillion, it doesn't take an idiot to see how it feeds on itself. The people are fools and have been for decades. Barack has no chance at bringing people together until gov't is drastically reduced in size. His agenda is to increase the size of gov't so that hope is shot to hell. There is no politician on the horizon that is pushing to decrease the size of gov't. So talk togetheress, success, peace, love and all that B.S. till your blue in the face.
Life is Good ya'll.
Realize that you're all just cattle feeding the machine. Can you say MOO?
Obama's election victory is a resouding kiss-off to the malignant policies of Bush and Cheney et al. We have emerged from the darkness of their stranglehold, thank God. Now they can turn to their boardrooms and raking in money from dirty fuel and, later, fitting places in oblivion, to be resurrected now and again as sour "remember when" jokes. Our long national nightmare is over.
Last one out unplug Dick.
The 1984 map was an overwhelming landslide, but 60% of the electoral votes or 55% of the popular vote is considered landslide. In terms of Electoral Votes, yes it was a landslide. Close even with Popular Vote. Landslide or not it is a convincing mandate, and no amount of spin or splice can change that.
Wikipedia says: "… many presidential victories appear to be huge landslide victories when examining the electoral vote, but much less so when examining the popular vote; for example, in the 1984 election, Ronald Reagan won 97.5% of the electoral vote but 58.8% of the popular vote.
Thus, a landslide victory can be either over 55.5% of the popular vote or over 60% of the electoral vote.
I looked again at the electoral map, the red, the blue and the gray coloring. I thought to myself, If Jefferson Davis suddenly and unexpectedly was revived from the dead today and the first thing he saw was that same map he would have to think:
the Civil War is still going on.
McCain is his successor as president of the Confederacy
A black runaway slave from Africa leads the post Lincoln North
Missouri is still in play for becoming a slave state.
The Union army has overrun Virginia and Sherman is approaching North Carolina
Most of the Confederate army is holed up along both sides of the Appalachians
Newer Western states are now mostly part of the Confederacy.
There seems to be two Pacific islands, the larger in the hands of the Confederacy.
The US has always consisted of "foreigners", just ask the Native "Americans". A new batch every generation. How many generations has your family been here? That is what we are all about. Sorry, you don't get to lock the gate behind YOUR family. Mine immigrated in about 1900 and generations of our family have been taught the value of universal respect and dignity for all races, nationalities and faiths. That is why I voted for Obama, even though I don't subscribe to his Christian faith.
The irony is that in order to win, Obama turned many states blue. While in office, he will turn the entire country RED.
It's a Mandate, and the Clintons were not even relevant! Hahahahahahahahah
Where will you all be in a couple of years when this country is in a Great Depression? Will you still remember this day as historic, a landslide, a mandate? It will be interesting to see how many on this bandwagon will leave him when things get tough – because they will tough. Or will it be Bush's fault long after another President has been in office. Remember who you voted for because you will be accountable.
It is a win of Peggy the moocher – the woman who prodly claimed in Florida that Obama would pay her mortgage and faill gas in her car, over Joe the plumber – a guy who wanted to start his own business and employ people.
We all know what happens to country's where the former dominate. You see – you NEED Joe the plumbers to pay for Peggy the moochers mortgage and gas. Welath doesnt grow on tree you know – someone has to generate it for it to be distributed by Obama.
Why this certainty that the small donors were foreign? I was one of those small donors, and I am a proud American. I know of many more small donors. If you really want to know, trace the IPs of those donations, and you will find they were almost all in the US. Even if there were small donors from outside the country, what does that mean? Obama isn't beholden to any single donor of that group, he is beholden to ALL of us. He doesn't go in with major debts to pay to Comcast, or banks, or insurance agencies, or Big Oil, because most of his campaign came from US. How great is that? He is free to support the PEOPLE for a change! Not like McCain, and those who worked for McCain, who are beholden to Big Oil, foreign countries like Georgia, and dictators.
GOT MILK makes some interesting points. All and still, elections do matter on things like taxes, defense and the Supreme Court. See Ronald Reagan on all three. In most elections whether there's a mandate, let alone a landslide, is in the eye of the beholder. The reality is that it doesn't become clear until one goes about the business of governing. Dems, you argued that the popular vote was more important in 2000; but now you want to give greater weight to the electoral tally. The truth is, Mr. Obama won comfortably. But 6% is hardly a mandate. To illustrate, if I only have to turn 3 people out of 52 to even things up, I'd give it a go. It gets more daunting at 10 out of 60 or 15 out of 65. Unless the numbers are overwhelming (1984), it's perilous to assume a mandate. Pray for Mr. Obama.
ignorance must be bliss!!
"Wither Joe the Plumber now?" He's got his wallet under severe lockdown, least the Dems start their experiment in income redistribution.
He won and that's that. Let the man have his victory.
Joe the [unlicensed] plumber is a fraud. He owes back taxes. His intention to buy a business that made $250k was a lie. The owner of the business stated that they never talked about it, he didn't confirm that the business was even for sale, and it only makes $100k/yr. Gotta love that political spin.
Amazingly the republican stronghold is now the south which once was solidly democratic. republicans never gave a hoot for what they considered ignorant poor folks until they saw them as voting block they could garner by preying upon their fears, ignorance and racism.
I also donated a small amount to Obama's campaign, and I know lots of others who did as well. No one I know who donated was illegal or foreign (by the way, foreign only equals illegal if you don't have a green card — check the FEC web site if you don't believe me).
There's no reason to assume that Obama would have more illegal or foreign donators than McCain would anyway. That's just silly and you have no data to back it up. Americans living abroad are allowed to donate, and yes, they did donate more to Obama than McCain, by 10 times. That's because they see how awful our reputation abroad has become due to Bush.
In terms of income redistribution — hello, that is what every government does. It's just the Republicans have redistributed our income to killing people in Iraq.
I just hope Obama puts some white people in his cabinet,he has to keep his 52% happy and they are not all black.
What a sad lot we are, like wild dogs fighting over meatless bones, so blind with hate and ill will. so willing to follow anyone that feeds our egos. look at yourself, read your words, think before you speak. Remember this is America, not a thing, it's not even a place, America is what lives inside you! No one can steal America from you, America is a spark of light that started in 1776. That light will always burn inside all free people. We are the goverment, the people. They work for us, we pay their salary.
So snap out of it! and start acting like the BOSS!!
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."
George Washington
Lori, you are an idiot.
That is, in reference to putting "White" People on the cabinet. I'm sorry, I am offended by the ignorance of that statement. Just read the news, ok?
The election results were a repudiation of the COWARDICE of Bush (a Daddy's boy cop-out who ducked service in Vietnam, but is/was nontheless a gung-ho warmonger, as long as *he* doesn't have to ship out), the INCOMPETENCE of Bush (an exploding deficit, the debacle that is Hank Paulson, Katrina, and more) and the LIES of Bush (WMDs, DOJ Scandal, the list goes on.) You can't be *that* much of a joke and get away with it — or, more correctly, your party can't get away with it — at least not forever — and we saw that in this election. Republicans have done a brilliant job at getting everyday people in "Red States" to vote against their *own* self interests and, thus, for Republicans. It worked tremendously well for the better part of 40 years, but then it ran out.
Senator McCain got it right. The American People have spoken clearly. That speech was classy, noble and dignified, and the best I have heard from him in years.
the thing most scary is the level of stupidity of people who vote. remember Al Capone? remember where he lived? noting has changed in Chicago since he lived there. now remember Bill ayers,rev wright,tony Rezco, rashid ???, etc. etc. etc. oh why would someone need to seal his birth certifcate, school records, Ill. vote record, etc. etc. etc.???
Mine eyes have seen the signs! We have elected a prophet, a true visionary, to lead us to the promised land. I rejoice in the fact that "we the people" have elected a leader who has seen the path, and already drawn an outline of the map to reach the American Dream. And, it don't go through the Senate, or the House, or the Church, but through the people! Obama will give America back to the people. Government of the people, by the people, and for the people! We the people will re-write the tax code , we will see the fall of lobbyists, and we will oversee the demise of greed and corporate monopolies that feed on the poor and middle class to fill the purses of the wall street fat cats, and the coffers of the big pharmaceutical and insurance companies.
Rejoice, the end is near.Obama is here!
I donated for the first time to a presidential candidate 200 over the course of the election.I started out as a Hillary supporter but…I have have come to be proud of our new president. I am a middle class white female voter from the ms gulf coast and could not be happier with the nations decision.
Lori- LOL. Are you serious? Do you read?
Hmmm. I notice the Wall Street Journal listed Reagan and Nixon, but forgot LBJ's landslide in 1964. I wonder why?
Compair the stats. In 1984 Reagan took 525 or 97.6% of the Electoral votes. However he only took the popular vote by 59.2% compaired to Mondale's 40.8%. The real issue here is how the Electoral system no longer serves our voters.
"The real issue here is how the Electoral system no longer serves our voters." ………. Did you feel that way in 2000, when Gore won the popular vote? Or was the Electoral College OK in that case?
They're sore. They're losers. They're sore losers. But mostly, they're losers.
I'm still waiting to hear from any liberal how EXACTLY is Obama qualified for his new job ?
and how "EXACTLY" was Bush qualified? About as qualified as that "Maverick"-Who-Is-No-Way-A-Total-Sell-Out-Who-Betrayed-His-Own-Promise-And-Got-What-He-Deserved-(A Humiliating Defeat) McCain… yes, the same John McCain who's been trolling around DC for 25 years, but, somehow, was going to ring "real" "change."
But he lost. Badly. Too bad we won't get to see President Palin. She would've been great, too. A "real American." Hilarious!
JJ – How is Obama not qualified?
Anonymous – Where have you been? GW and Cheney already have put is in the RED, big time. They started with a surplus.
The article is hardly important, it misses the position of history. Trying to compare the civel war with the war in Iraq. Then, hundreds or thousands would die in a battle – today, it's a big deal if two die in Iraq. We couldn't even imagine loosing more than a few dozen in a single battle. Landslides in the long-gone days of three-major-networks, newspapers and NO Internet, could be more dramatic. But those days are gone and we need to recalibrate what a landslide is. Today, the Internet provides the ability to fact-check and research everything. Gone are the days a candidate only needs to please the press corp, as Reagan so famously, and effectivly did. We will no longer see landslides of long ago, we will see tighter and tighter races as candidates are held under tighter scrutiny.
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First, the Tropicana Casino and Resort announced Broadway Burger Bar & Grill will open in The Quarter this spring. A week later it announced Chickie's and Pete's Crab House & Sports Bar will open this summer in The Marketplace. Now, you can add four more eateries to that list, courtesy of George Siganos.
Siganos, known for his Tazza café brands in Harrah's Resort and Caesars Atlantic City as well as other eateries and businesses along the East Coast, will open four concepts in The Marketplace this spring, including a Tony Luke's location and a Mexican restaurant and tequila bar.
"George has a great reputation and is so professional," says Tropicana General Manager Steve Callender. "It's easy to deal with someone who understands the importance of getting the experience right. I think everything he is bringing is exactly what we needed."
The restaurateur and entrepreneur will open the second Tony Luke's in the city, following the location in Borgata Hotel Casino and Spa's Cafeteria. The Philadelphia-based institution known as much for its cheesesteaks and chicken cutlets as it is for the affable, personable Tony Luke Jr., will bring a taste of South Philly to The Marketplace with its awesome sandwiches baked on fresh-made bread.
Casa Taco & Tequila Bar will be the second Mexican restaurant inside an Atlantic City casino, following Dos Caminos at Harrah's Resort. The concept will feature more than 50 different tequilas, a private party room, indoor and outdoor seating and a full Mexican menu ranging from tacos to fajitas and more.
"It's a full, sit-down Mexican restaurant," Callender says. "But if you don't want to have dinner, you can sit down at the bar and have some tequila and tacos or sliders. We really wanted a Mexican restaurant here and George knew we were interested in one. So when he suggested that he could do it, we knew it would work out because he can do just about anything."
The other two Siganos concepts include Perry's Pizza, an authentic pizzeria; and The Marketplace Express, which will be similar to Tazza and offer grab-and-go coffee, drinks, pastries, breakfast sandwiches, wraps, salads, sandwiches, Italian specialties and more.
"Visually, George understands that we are an impulse business and when people walk by and see the attractive sandwiches and pastries and everything else in his display cases, that they want to buy something," Callender says. "I think it's going to be great because it will be open 24 hours and people looking for a quick bite will always have an option there. We have a lot of young people play here after they party at Providence or RiRa or wherever, and they want to get a bite after they play for a while. Now, they have another place to go besides the coffee shop."
"We wanted to offer Tropicana guests and Boardwalk visitors authentic dining experiences in unique settings," adds George Siganos, president of Siganos Group. "Whether looking to enjoy a taco and tequila, a famous Philly cheesesteak, a slice of pizza or pastry, guests can enjoy a culinary journey all in one place."
All four concepts will be featured in the space formerly occupied by Corky's BBQ restaurant. Construction has already begun in hopes of a spring opening. Siganos was already at the Tropicana, offering Boardwalk Favorites, which had to close to accommodate Chickie's and Pete's.
"It is a very big space, and when they use the Boardwalk, they will have even more seating and entrances to maximize the impact," Callender says. "We are really excited. Anytime you bring more nongaming amenities to a building, it adds to the excitement and brings more people.
The four eateries will join other Marketplace offerings such as the Fiesta Buffet, A Dam Good Deli, Firewaters, James Salt Water Taffy, Hooters, Create-A-Cone, Boardwalk Corner Store, and Starbucks.
With all of the new additions coming to the Tropicana, 2013 looks very promising for the already strong casino.
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Officials warn of dangers on the thinning ice
Like many other lakes in the area, the ice on Milton Three Ponds, especially near the shore and along the route of the Salmon Falls River, is disappearing in the warm spring sunshine. (JOHN QUINN/photo)
While ice still covers most of Sunrise Lake in Middleton, the waterway is starting to open up near the dam and dark spots can be seen scattered along the snow cover. John Quinn/Union Leader
That's the message from firefighters planning to conduct ice rescue training this week.
Rochester Fire Capt. Joe Burns said he hopes the training plunge into the Cocheco River will be the only time firefighters have to don cold water suits this year.
"We don't recommend anyone going out on the ice right now," Burns said.
Milton Fire Chief Nick Marique said parts of Milton Three Ponds are ice-free, especially along the Salmon Falls River.
"It's spring now, so it's not safe," Marique said.
Dover Fire Capt. Paul Haas said ice should be at least four inches thick for people to walk on it safely.
Lee Fire Capt. Scott Newett said firefighters are keeping a close eye on Wheelwright Pond, along Route 152, even though he hasn't seen anyone on the ice in the past week.
In the best of circumstances, Northwood Fire Lt. David Wakeman said it takes about a dozen firefighters to rescue a person who breaks through the ice. People sometimes get into trouble trying to rescue animals, he said.
"We go out for animals more often than people," Wakeman said.
While snowmobilers enjoy traversing Sunrise Lake in Middleton, dark spots are appearing in the ice, especially near the shoreline. John Quinn/Union Leader
While ice still covers most of Sunrise Lake in Middleton, dark spots signal the end of winter spots and herald the start of boating, fishing and swimming in warmer weather. John Quinn/Union Leader
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Aug 29, 2012 2:50 PM
I'm not a fan of drug testing. I've seen people come to work with hangovers, but would be considered "Sober" yet their performance was definitely impaired. A mechanical/dexterity and reaction test would be a better indicator of a persons ability to do tasks. (Lance Armstrong passed over 500 drug tests yet he was using PED's throughout his career.) Drug tests are a money maker for prohibitionists. In any event, nothing justifies the caging of nearly a million Americans a year for using a substance which has been proven to be safe than ones which are currently legal. The Henningfield-Benowitz substance comparison charts b.rox.com/gizmos/henningfield-benowitz/ Nicotine. Cocaine. Caffeine. Marijuana. Benowitz. Henningfield. Less < Addict


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Medical Aid: Help with Terminology
We understand that when you look for the right medical aid, help with terminology can come in handy. It's simply easier to make an informed decision regarding the right medical aid and benefit plan for you, if you at least understand the terms used.
We thus provide essential help to understand terminology. You can call our service centre and have a consultant explain all the terminology and benefits packages or you can make use of the online chat facility for such. In addition, help is given below for immediate understanding of wording used in medical aid covers.
Reference Pricing
The reference price refers to the maximum price a medical aid is willing to pay for drugs that is listed on the Condition Medicine List for the specific condition. One should note that a reference price is applied for a specific benefit option. The price stipulated at, for example the Silver Plan, may be less than the upper limit stipulated at the Gold or Platinum benefit plans.
Reviewing of Reference Prices
The medical aid scheme reviews the reference prices once a year. Considerations for the upper limit include whether the drug is to be discontinued, availability of alternatives, licensed indications, and patent expiry or price changes.
How Reference Pricing Works
With the reference prices, we give patients control over their spending. If the medication prescribed is above the price we're willing to pay, the patient can substitute the medicine with a generic and therefore clinically approved alternative. In most instances the generic alternative will be cheaper, allowing the patient to save on out-of-pocket costs. The patient also has the choice of keeping with the more expensive medicine even though alternatives are available and then pay the difference between the reference price and the price it is offered at.
Prescribed Minimum Benefits
The Medical Schemes Act No. 131 of 1998 governs medical schemes in South Africa. According to the terms in the Act, specific conditions must be covered by medical aid benefit plans. The PMBs cover such treatments available in public hospitals. These benefits are available irrespective of the benefit plan or medical aid selected and should be available to the members regardless of their state of health or age.
Medical aids must cover costs regarding medical emergency conditions and conditions forming part of the prescribed conditions in Diagnosis Treatment Pairs. The medical professional treating the patient makes the decision whether the condition falls within the PMB category.
Pre-Authorisation for Hospitalisation
Pre-authorisation is required before the patient is admitted to hospital. We provide a telephone number for such. To ensure that authorisation can be given we require the membership number and details of the patient to be admitted to hospital. Information such as the reason for hospitalisation or for a specific treatment, date of admission and planned date for any scheduled procedures, as well as the name and practice number of the medical facility must be provided. We also require the particulars of the service provider such as initials and surname, contact, and practice numbers.
When a doctor thus recommends hospitalisation, it's imperative to ask for the reason, information about the diagnosis and prospective procedures to be carried out. Once the authorisation is given the member is issued with a relevant authorisation number.
In the instance where the patient must be admitted to hospital for an emergency and as a result doesn't have the time to request authorisation, it's important to obtain such information within 24 hours of admission. Where the patient cannot do so because of their health state, the hospital or a family member can contact the Authorisation Centre with the required information within 48 hours.
Pre-authorisation helps the medical scheme to manage costs and to ensure that the patient receives relevant and needed treatment.
Claims refer to the request for payment for services and drugs supplied by the authorised service provider. In most instances, the service provider submits the claim on behalf of the medical aid member. In the instance where such is not the case, the member must submit the claim. It's imperative to check claim statements monthly to determine whether the service provider has claimed and that the claim is for the correct treatment.
Call us for more information and medical aid help to ensure that you understand the terminology used in our benefit plans.


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Ice-O-Matic 400 Lb. Self-Contained Flake Ice Machine [EF250A38S]
- Product Review (submitted on July 26, 2012):
- this machine is not bad - one of the coolest features is that this door does not open up - it slides open!!! I used to have the door slam on my hands all the time so this does not happen any more :)


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FiOS TV customers, including small-business customers, access the new feature through the applications store on their mobile phone handset and then pair the device with their in-home FiOS network by opening up the Mobile Remote Widget on FiOS TV and selecting either the Motorola Droid or HTC Imagio icon. Customers will be asked to register their wireless telephone number, using the widget. Customers can register their handsets on any FiOS TV, at home or away.
Once set up, FiOS Mobile Remote offers these features for Motorola Droid and HTC Imagio customers:
- My Remote -- Controls a FiOS TV set-top box from the mobile device, with features including changing channels, adjusting volume, managing parental controls and using DVR functionality such as pause, rewind, fast forward or record live programming. Customers can also use the handset to control the FiOS TV onscreen full QWERTY keyboard, or use their handset's keyboard to search for TV programming and video-on-demand titles or manage the Facebook and Twitter widget applications.
- My Photos -- Photos stored on the handset can be instantly transferred from the phone to the TV, with two options. With the touch of a finger, subscribers can flick one picture at a time and see it appear on the TV screen. Subscribers can also display an entire slide show of stored pictures.
- My Favorites -- Users can import to the mobile device favorite-channels lists currently stored on the TV set. The mobile device can then be used to flip through and select channels from the lists.
- Tele- TV Mute -- Automatically mutes the TV when a call is answered with the handset and resumes the previous TV-volume level after the call is ended.
FiOS TV offers a broad collection of programming, with more than 560 all-digital channels, and up to 138 HD channels. FiOS provides next-generation interactive services including an advanced interactive media guide; social-networking, news and entertainment widgets; remote DVR management via broadband or cell phone; multi-room DVR, Internet videos on TV; streaming of personal videos, photos and music from home computers to the TV; and many others. The FiOS TV Widget Bazaar is a marketplace for applications that includes a selection of free interactive services, including widgets that let subscribers interact with Facebook, Twitter, KODAK Gallery, HSN and other services on their TVs.
Via: PR Newswire | News Archive | Tags: Motorola, smartphone, TV, HTC, Verizon, FiOS, droid
Up until today, most every major home automation or A/V control application for phones was reserved for the iPhone. It felt like every major developer was only coding apps for controlling equipment for Apple's App Store, and so it's a breath of fresh air to see something like this. Verizon's FiOS service, which just became one of only two TV providers in America with access to HBO Go, has yet another notch in their belt today thanks to a new app for Motorola's Droid and HTC's Imagio.
FiOS TV users can now use either of those smartphones to control their DVR and TV content, which kills the need for a remote to do those tasks. It's the early days of seeing phones replace remotes, and with these mobile devices becoming ever more powerful, we suspect the trend will continue. Effective immediately, FiOS TV customers who have an HD set-top box and a Motorola Droid or HTC Imagio mobile phone can use the phones as a television remote control. The mobile remote has virtually the same functionality as the standard FiOS remote, plus additional features including instantly transferring photos from the handset to the TV screen.
Verizon Wireless even promises that the functionality will be added to more phones in the coming months, but considering that the same parent company oversees VZW and Verizon FiOS, we kind of doubt that this will be offered on other cable networks. Goodbye remote, hello smartphone control!
3vi1, we obviously caught a bug in the system here. Did you do anything to make the above post show up? I'm assuming you didn't actually cut and paste this in, correct?
You are correct - it's a bug. My original reply was two short paragraphs and seems to have been completely replaced by the article text.
Ouch, OK, we're on it. Sorry for the inconvenience.
No prob - good hunting!
Hudson: Is this gonna be a standup fight, sir, or another bughunt?
Gorman: All we know is that there's still no contact with the colony, and that a xenomorph may be involved.
Frost: Excuse me sir, a-a what?
Gorman: A xenomorph.
Hicks: It's a bughunt.
3vi1 what? lol
Smart phones will rule the world one day :D. i would love to use my iphone to control my tv but i don't got fios :(
Aliens quote :-P
That would be sweet to control the TV with my phone :-P
What I had originally posted, before the bug ate it:
This is a cool feature, but I'm surprised that phones didn't just add IR.
One Thanksgiving, I was pretending to play games on my PSP 1000 (with IR, running hacked firmware). Every time my sister would sit down the TV volume would go down to zero. And when she would get up it would return to normal. This went on for several minutes until I literally fell off the couch laughing.
Haha, that sounds like a fun prank.
Cool technology but as 3vi1 mentioned, wouldn't it be easier just to have IR, or at least an IR attachment for your phone? It could also double up as a Wii motion sensing remote!
My PDA has a IR sensor and a program that does this, but since Palm doesn't support PDAs anymore, This is great. But I don't have FIOS in my area, so it still doesn't matter.
Lol you (Dave or someone who told him) must have finally caught one of my post's. I have been posting about the auto copy paste action for 2 days now.
Either way besides this you can also use your smart phone to do things when your not home, such as record shows if your going to be late, or if your laying on the floor during a bank robbery, and missing a Football, Baseball, or some other show and can just program it to record from there.
I just thought... the lag would be killer lol...
Soon a smart phone will control everything I guess. You can also control home alarm systems, watch cams on your kids babysitter, check out your home to make sure your mate is not cheating on you, control your teenagers care as well as GPS it to see where they are, and on and on.
I'm very happy with the healthy competition that's around nowadays in the smartphone market. This will only push industry to create even better phones and apps at better prices, and hopefully free us of the typical smartphone prices. Functionality like what we see here only makes things sweeter...
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I thought these were pretty bland. They were easy to make; I didn't have enough shortening so I used 1/4 cup shortening and 3/4 butter. They're fluffy and nice with soup, but I thought they would have more flavor. I think fresh herbs in the dough would really help.
Neiman Marcus Cheddar Cheese Biscuits
Neiman Marcus Cheddar Cheese Biscuits are the perfect addition to a classic lunch-with-the-girls menu.
Yield: Makes about 2 1/2 dozen
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20 Minutes
Total: 1 Hour, 40 Minutes
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 1/2 tablespoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup vegetable shortening
- 1 cup (4 oz.) freshly shredded sharp Cheddar cheese
- 1 cup buttermilk
- Parchment paper
- 1. Whisk together first 3 ingredients in a large bowl. Cut in shortening with a pastry blender until mixture resembles small peas and dough is crumbly; stir in cheese. Add buttermilk, stirring just until dry ingredients are moistened.
- 2. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface; knead 3 to 4 times. Place dough in a bowl; cover and chill 1 hour.
- 3. Preheat oven to 350°. Turn dough out onto a lightly floured surface. Pat or roll dough to 1-inch thickness; cut with a 1 1/2-inch round cutter, and place on parchment paper-lined baking sheets.
- 4. Bake at 350° for 20 to 22 minutes or until golden brown.
Unbaked biscuits may be frozen up to 1 month. Bake frozen biscuits as directed for 26 to 28 minutes or until golden brown.
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- COURSE: Breads, Snacks
- CONVENIENCE: Entertaining, Freezable, Make-Ahead
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Rice/Grains
- COOKING METHOD: Bake
- PUBLICATION: Southern Living
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Grilled Chicken and Zucchini Sandwich
Although you can use both light and dark meat on this sandwich, it's best with breast meat. To kick-start lunch preparation, cook the zucchini on the grill while you're cooking the chicken; you can even assemble the sandwich the night before.
Yield: 4 servings (serving size: 1 wedge)
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 351
- Calories from fat: 30%
- Fat: 11.6g
- Saturated fat: 3.9g
- Monounsaturated fat: 4.7g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 1.4g
- Protein: 26.5g
- Carbohydrate: 36.7g
- Fiber: 2.2g
- Cholesterol: 64mg
- Iron: 3.1mg
- Sodium: 785mg
- Calcium: 132mg
- 2 tablespoons low-fat mayonnaise
- 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice
- 1/4 teaspoon bottled minced garlic
- 1/8 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 1/2 teaspoons extravirgin olive oil
- 2 small zucchini, thinly sliced lengthwise (about 12 ounces)
- 1 (8-ounce) package plain focaccia, cut in half horizontally
- 2 ounces thinly sliced sharp provolone cheese
- 2 cups thinly sliced skinless, boneless Grilled Lemon-Herb Chicken (about 8 ounces)
- 1/4 cup sliced bottled roasted red bell peppers
- Combine first 4 ingredients; set aside.
- Preheat grill or grill pan over medium-high heat.
- Brush olive oil evenly over both sides of zucchini slices. Place half of zucchini on grill rack or grill pan; grill 2 minutes on each side or until lightly browned. Remove from grill or grill pan. Repeat procedure with remaining zucchini.
- Layer bottom half of focaccia with cheese, zucchini, mayonnaise mixture, Grilled Lemon-Herb Chicken, bell peppers, and top half of focaccia. Cut into four wedges. Wrap in foil or parchment paper; chill.
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- COURSE: Sandwiches
- CONVENIENCE: Make-Ahead, Portable/Picnic
- CUISINE: Italian
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Poultry
- COOKING METHOD: Grill, Grill Pan
- OCCASION: Summer
- PUBLICATION: Cooking Light
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Search: The New Frontier in Data Management
I can't remember when I stopped organizing my emails and file folders. But I do remember why I stopped. At some point, I came to the realization that, instead of spending my precious time meticulously archiving my documents in sub-directories (and sub-sub directories and sub-sub-sub-categories), I could rely on Windows' search function to locate what I needed, when I needed.
To clarify, I still save documents by loosely defined categories: Work, Family, Friends, Finances, and so on. But I no longer obsess over micro-categories, like interview notes from meeting with mobile app developers at Macworld 2010.
In the past (say, 10 years ago), it was important for me to micro-manage my documents at that level because I had no easy way to locate a piece of information pertaining to a certain project, created on a certain date. I had to impose an artificial structure on my data pile because personal computers weren't sophisticated enough to discern and handle unstructured data.
Today, my email client (happens to be Windows Live mail) can locate a cookie recipe from 2004 buried in my inbox faster than I can, because the software, running on modern CPUs, can peruse many more documents in a second than I can with my human eyes.
Generation Google: Welcome to the Era of Integrated Search Engines!
Seek and You Shall Find, Perhaps More Than You Need
This month, as Oracle users headed home from their annual gathering (Oracle OpenWorld 2011, Oct. 2 to 6), they learned that Oracle was about to buy Endeca, an enterprise search engine. In a letter to customers, Thomas Kurian, Oracle's executive VP of development, wrote, "The explosion of data variety and volume, including enterprise content and application data, social media, sensor data and third-party feeds, has changed the way that companies and consumers interact and how businesses want to use this information … Endeca's leading unstructured data management engine, web commerce and business intelligence applications help enterprises improve decisions and deliver a superior customer experience … The combination of Oracle and Endeca is expected to create a comprehensive technology platform to process, store, manage, search, and analyze structured and unstructured information together."
Oracle's pending purchase of Endeca echoes another acquisition that took place in June 2010: Dassault Systemes' acquisition of Exalead, an enterprise search engine (some described it as the French Google). Announcing the transaction to the press, Dassault CEO Bernard Charlès said, "With Exalead and its partners, we can provide a new class of search-based applications for collaborative communities."
In the past, engineers bemoaned the lack of data. Not enough information on sustainable materials, not enough paper trail for compliance, not enough information on seismic activities at a construction site — these were the headaches from a bygone era. Today, the challenge is not a lack of data; it's having too much data.
Information Week warned, "Security systems generate an overload of information," therefore we'll need "New tools [to] help manage it all more effectively" ("Data Deluge," Aug 19, 2002). Los Angeles Times joined the discussion with an article called "Pondering effects of the data deluge," (July 7, 2011). Similarly, The Economist pointed out "Plucking the diamond from the waste" would be the new challenge for businesses ("Data Deluge," Feb 25, 2010).
Newcomers: Inforbix; Alcove9
In manufacturing, newcomers like Inforbix (cofounded by PLM blogger Oleg Shilovitsky, Beyond PLM) and Alcove9 are tackling the data deluge with search technologies. Whereas traditional data management and product lifecycle management software tends to cover supply chain, change orders, revisions, compliance, and collaboration, Inforbix and Alcove9 focus keenly on search and retrieval as their core offerings. They both take a similar approach to scan, index, and remember the locations and attributes of clients' files and documents, thereby enabling their software to respond to user queries quicker. (Both Inforbix and Alcove9 describe their software interfaces as "Google-like.")
Inforbix offers a wizard, a small executable applet downloadable from the company's site. When launching the wizard (dubbed Product Data Crawler), you'll be prompted to identify the data repositories you'd like to index. Inforbix then scans (or crawl, as programmers like to say) your file folders and directories, retrieve the meta data (author, last change date, approval info, and other attributes) to a cloud-hosted server. The process allows Inforbix users to subsequently launch Inforbix from a standard browser and perform searches to locate and use their data.
Inforbix is not a remote data storage (like Dropbox). The information stored in Inforbix's cloud server is strictly confined to data about your data (attributes from your CAD files and Office documents). It does not create duplicate copies of your data in the cloud (your CAD files and Office documents do not get uploaded to Inforbix's cloud).
Currently, Inforbix offers two modules: xSearch and xTable. xSearch lets you use a search window to find and locate the items you need from your indexed data sources. It offers a series of filters to narrow your findings (by date, by author name, by last modified, and so on). xTables lets you export your search results in the form of an Excel table, with active links to your data source. (If you click on the thumbnail of SolidWorks part, for instance, you'll be automatically launching the CAD file in the authoring software.) The value of xTables, as the company points out, is that the information is always synchronized and updated by its connection to the cloud.
For instance, if you have saved an xTable search results for all AutoCAD files created by drafter John, approved by supervisor Carl, the next time you launch the table, the results will be updated to reflect new AutoCAD files created by the same drafter, approved by the same supervisor.
Alcove9 offers its products through a series of subscription plans (free, Gold, and Platinum). The centerpiece of Alcove9's suite is the A9 Hub, an open source software to index your data. To perform searches, you'll use a standard browser. The hub is complemented by a series of AppConnect modules, add-ons that link A9 Hub to PLM, ERP, and other programs. There is also an AppConnect for CAD visualization, which functions as a viewing and markup app for those who need to visualize, approve, inspect, and annotate CAD files but don't necessarily need to perform CAD modeling.
Mobile Mania
Since data search and retrieval involve no overly taxing computing demands on CPUs, the function seems ideally suited to lightweight, portable mobile devices. Inforbix is currently developing mobile apps to allow Apple and Android device users to perform similar functions from their portable devices. Alcove9 FAQ states it's "pursuing this capability [mobile device support] for future releases."
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What is it with this cloud junk. So I am supposed to be happy about something that adds a new panoply of security risks and in addition a whole new vast array of devices and infrastructure beyond my control subject to failure. WHY does this have to go to this wonderfull cloud to work? Sell me an app to work off of my PC without the exposure to the web and you have a customer.
My stuff stays on my PC because it is mine. Yes I can hear the response that the majority of the data indexed will still reside on my PC and NEVER be collected. I don't believe any promises like this. Think Facebook here for all of you who so love the web and desire to live there and put all your personal and business stuff out there for the world to see. The cloud is not a warm and fuzzy feel good nirvanic place. It is a place full of hackers and predatory corporate types replete with gobs of infrastructure problems they make promises about but can't deliver on because they neither own or control it.
Dave, you said in your message above, "Sell me an app to work off of my PC without exposure to the web and you have a customer." WELL DAVE, Alcove9 WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME YOU AS A NEW CUSTOMER…!!!
We happen to agree with your assessment of the potential problems that may exist with The Cloud…. While I can certainly see some of its advantages, your reference to Facebook should remind all of us that there IS a potential for the "hackers and predatory types" to storm the pearly gates.
While Cloud security is an obvious concern, I would also add reliability and efficiency as potential issues for a lot of companies. Alcove9 is NOT based on a cloud solution. Furthermore, it respects your internal security measures as well, so it's non-invaisive even on your home front.
Dave, I'd like to invite you to visit our website to read more about our suite of products and services, or better yet, give me a call and I'd be happy to tell you why we're so excited about our secure, intrAnet search solution. Janie Farner, Director of Marketing, Alcove9. 248.287.1444


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We've added a couple new gifts for you this holiday season, and we think you'll love them.
Google Analytics integration
We recently added the ability to integrate Castfire with your Google Analytics account. Additionally, each account can support multiple Google Analytics IDs to track more granularly.
To track all your data, visit your network's player configuration page. Enter your Google Analytics ID, and events from Castfire will start showing up in your network.
Important: This player configuration only works with Castfire's built-in player on the web, and not currently mobile devices. (Stay tuned on that front…)
Universal player
We're rolling out another feature in beta, this one enables a universal player for your account which will play on any Android, iPhone or computer.
To enable, head to the plugins page (must be an admin) and activate "iframe" for your network.
Old user accounts demise
Some of our customers are using old "global" style user accounts. We're going to be turning those accounts off next week.
If you need assistance with transitioning off of them, or need help with any of the features we've talked about, shoot us an email: support [at] castfire.com.


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Promises were kept on March 23 when St. Lucie Sheriff Ken Mascara, former Port St. Lucie City Commissioner Jack Kelly and St. Lucie County Fire District Chief Ron Parrish had their heads shaved after the Mets vs. Nationals game at Tradition Field. The trio had promised to lose their locks if the community raised enough money for the Boys & Girls Club of St. Lucie County to keep their Port St. Lucie branch open for the children. Overall, the community raised more than $100,000 for the nonprofit organization.
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