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Latest News Updates The current season of 'Sons of Anarchy' has gotten me thinking about secrets and lies. Sons of Anarchy season 3 episode 13/Sons of Anarchy Finale called “NS” which was written by Mr Kurt Sutter and directed by Mr Kurt Sutter & Mr Dave Erickson aired last night on FX.Latest News Updates The current season of 'Sons of Anarchy' has gotten me... more
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U.S. federal agents are closing in on four former Guatemalan soldiers accused of taking part in a massacre in 1982.
The massacre in Dos Erres is widely considered one of the darkest chapters of Guatemala's 36-year civil war that claimed some 200,000 lives, and in which the U.S. military played a shadowy role. One month after allegedly raping young girls and women during the massacre, one of the men under investigation, Pedro Pimentel Rios, began work as an instructor at the US Army School of the Americas, the Pentagon-run training school for Latin American militaries.
The investigations have raised questions as to how the men came to gain entry to the United States and then make lives here.U.S. federal agents are closing in on four former Guatemalan soldiers accused of... more
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Guatemala's government handed over a military document last week containing evidence the country's army massacred villagers during a time in which it was heavily backed by the United States. The document could help prosecute top officials for genocide.Guatemala's government handed over a military document last week containing... more
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Thirty years ago in El Salvador, Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated as he celebrated mass, one day after a sermon where he had called on Salvadoran soldiers, as Christians, to obey God's higher order and to stop carrying out the government's repression and violations of basic human rights. Years later, an official U.N. report identified the man who ordered the killing as former Major and US Army School of the Americas graduate Roberto D'Aubuisson.
Now for the first time, El Salvador’s government is publicly commemorating Romero.Thirty years ago in El Salvador, Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated as he... more
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Two former Guatemalan soldiers have been arrested for the 1982 massacre of more than 200 villagers during the country's civil war.
Aura Farfan of the Association of Missing Relatives of Guatemala says two former sergeants who belonged to a military squad commanded by soldiers trained by the United States were arrested last week. During the massacre, the squad, known as the Kaibiles, raped women and girls, and ripped fetuses from the bodies of pregnant women. A United Nations-backed Truth Commission also found soldiers threw babies against trees and walls and tossed their bodies into a well.Two former Guatemalan soldiers have been arrested for the 1982 massacre of more than... more
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Guatemala’s top human rights official has declared that the victims of one of the most shocking massacres in its country’s history will be paid $3 million to compensate for their suffering in Dos Erres in 1982, where more than 200 villagers were killed by a special forces unit whose commanders were trained by the United States military.Guatemala’s top human rights official has declared that the victims of one of... more
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Oracle 12i training, Oracle Apps Training and Oracle ERP Solutions by Sicher Global Solutions.Oracle 12i training, Oracle Apps Training and Oracle ERP Solutions by Sicher Global... more
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As seen at the recent 2008 Semantic Technology conference in San Jose, serious interest in corporate use of semantic technology continues to grow rapidly. Semantically-enabled applications are increasingly seen as fertile ground for Web 2.0 applications such as mash ups as well as the basis for innovative business intelligence strategies, internal collaboration wikis, and rich canonical models for service-oriented architectures (SOA).
What’s lacking, however, is a clear understanding of where semantic technology fits in enterprise architectures. Should it be thought of primarily as purely a web technology to integrate information on the presentation layer? Should it be seen as closer to the data layer of the application because of its potential to bring disparate sets of data together? Alternatively, should semantic technology be focused on the increasingly important middle layer of enterprise architectures where messaging and service implementations live?
Semantic technology's perennial problem is to gain enough traction to be taken seriously in the corporate world—lest it suffer the fate of object databases—exciting ideas with only niche adoption. Currently, semantic technology is all about “critical mass,” for example, having broad enough adoption that it becomes ubiquitous. Its place in enterprise architecture needs to be clarified; if we don’t know ourselves where it fits, we’re going to have a hard time explaining it to anyone else and an even harder time getting anyone to finance the dollars to make it happen!
First, let’s look at a typical current corporate architecture. With rare exceptions, nearly every real corporate architecture has grown organically. Most mature companies have multiple databases and multiple programming paradigms. People who are new to the field would be shocked at how many major systems continue to run on mainframes accessed via a “green screen” (a dumb terminal that connects to the mainfraime and nothing else). Most of us who’ve been around a while thought these would be long gone, but the reality is that a huge proportion of corporate computing continue to run on mainframes. These systems are simply too complex to rebuild. Newer systems tend to be built on more open platforms—but real architectures are nearly always hybrids—they mix the most modern Web 2.0 features with systems that are at least a decade old.
Many applications in a real corporate environment remain as two-tiered applications, connecting directly from the data layer to the presentation layer. Applications built since 1990 are commonly comprised of three tiers with either a J2EE, .Web server, or a .NET application intervening between the data and the UI. As service-oriented architectures have proliferated and enterprise service buses become common, the intervening layers have become “thicker,” decoupling the entire presentation layer and application layer from the underlying data stores.
Semantic technology is a collection of technologies, rather than a single model, so it can fit into more than one place. For simple data aggregation “on the glass” or in a thin application close on the UI—in the mode of Web 2.0 applications—the presentation layer is an appropriate target. Using XSLT or other presentation tools, information can be mashed directly on this layer. A corporate collaboration wiki could use this layer to interconnect data from a wide range of sources.As seen at the recent 2008 Semantic Technology conference in San Jose, serious... more
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This is from '85. He's picking on this kid from Dearborn Michigan. Then the lighter side of Henry on Soft Focus:
http://www.vbs.tv/video.php?id=507831521
This is from '85. He's picking on this kid from Dearborn Michigan. Then the... more
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