Day One. Partridge in a pear tree:

During the night-shift at the NSA, Booz Allen contractors suddenly have their online Christmas shopping interrupted when Booz Allen proprietary counterterrorist data-mining algorithms note an unusual spike in internet chatter of “persons of interest” using the term “partridge in a pear tree.”  Their NSA Contracting Officer’s Technical Rep is alerted.

Day Two. Two turtle doves.

At the NSA, SAIC contractors discover a correlation between “partridge in a pear tree” and “two turtle doves.”  The NSA notifies the CIA. CIA analysts who are new to the job due to high Agency turnover do not recognize the turtle-dove/partridge-in-a-pear-tree pattern, but speculate that the combination of phrases indicates that a terrorist plan may have gone operational.  The White House is briefed.

Day Three. Three French Hens.

Sources on the ground in Paris are unable to corroborate indications of French involvement.  Officers in the National Clandestine Service suspect the French hens are a false-flag and secretly hope that the Russians are back in the game.  Due to strong political pressure from the White House, CIA analysts concede that the Iranian involvement cannot be ruled out.

CIA interrogators at a black site in Burkina Faso send a cable to Headquarters requesting permission to gut slap an al Qaeda detainee who may hold valuable information.

Day Four. Four Calling Birds.

At the behest of the Administration, AT&T, MCI, Sprint and Verizon all hand over their calling data to third-party data warehousing companies that do not face the same legal restrictions as the telcos, creating a rendition program of sorts for data. The data warehousers frantically sift through calls.

CIA interrogators at the African black site are frustrated when Headquarters requests more details about potential information that could be acquired from the detainee if he is slapped. They curse the lawyers and compose a response.  A senior contractor overseeing facilities management at the site quips that they should suggest the detainee may volunteer information about five golden rings, but he never thinks the kids running the interrogation would not get the joke.  The 26 year-old  case officer in charge of the interrogation cables Headquarters that the detainee likely holds information about five golden rings.

Day Five. Five Golden Rings.

New NSA intercepts discover “persons of interest” discussing “Five Golden Rings.”  With this new development, CIA analysts suspect terrorists are plotting to use five dirty bombs to radiate large areas of US metropolitan areas.

The Deputy Director of National Clandestine Service is excited that one of the black site detainee may know about the golden rings. Over the objections of his Assistant General Counsel, the Deputy Director approves the slap.

Day Six. Six Geese-A-Laying.

A blogger who monitors al Qaeda internet sites and chat rooms contacts the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to alert them to a suspicious discussion among al Qaeda sympathizers about “six geese-a-laying.”  The ODNI passes the intel along to the CIA and NSA and as word of the sites spread among Intelligence Community members, the sites are slammed with new visitors from overt beltway bandit IPs in northern Virginia and Anne Arundel county in Maryland.  Suspicious al Qaeda webmasters shut them down.

Meanwhile at the black site, a CIA interrogator trained in enhanced techniques, slaps the al Qaeda detainee. A CACI green badger interpreter with no formal training in interpretation misinterprets the terrorist’s mumblings as “seven swamis.”

The interrogators cable Headquarters with the raw intel and request permission not only to attention shake the detainee, but to apply sleep deprivation techniques, justifying the request with their suspicious they might receive additional information about possible Indian involvement, which may actually turn out to be Iranian since both words start with “I”, end with “n”, and have between six and seven letters.

Day Seven. Seven Swans-A-Swimming.

NSA contractors Raytheon, Booz Allen and SAIC have all picked up chatter about seven swans a-swimming.  SAIC analysts at the National Counterterrorism Center rack up billable hours trying to reconcile this with CIA intel concerning the seven swamis.  Raytheon analysts at Defense Intelligence insist that the seven swans-a-swimming indicates that seaplanes are bringing the dirty bombs into the country.  With strong pressure from corporate and the DoD which has been pushing for funding for a satellite-based seaplane early warning system proposed by Raytheon, Raytheon green badgers at the ODNI push hard for the seaplane analysis and win out.  It is included in the President’s Daily Brief.

At the Pentagon, with the support of DIA’s General Clapper, the Air Force claims it should be the lead. The Navy argues that since the swans are swimming and not flying, clearly this requirement falls under their command’s area of responsibility. The Marines stand at the ready, prepared to toast and roast, then eat the swans, whether in the air, land or sea.

All the while, CIA case officers at the black site stare at the detainee, waiting on a response to their cable. Junior officers are afraid if they don’t put the detainee to bed soon, they may be accused of torture and face possible legal actions. Just to be on the safe side, they offer a can of Red Bull to the detainee. The Office of Medical Services on-site physician takes the detainee’s blood pressure.

Day Eight. Eight Maids-A-Milking.

The Department of Homeland Security alerts TSA agents to be on the watch for breastfeeding mothers who may have terrorist involvement. It issues alerts to local authorities.

With an attack on the Homeland seemingly imminent, a Fusion Center in Sacramento is used to circumvent various federal privacy laws. In a piecemeal version of Total Information Awareness, federal, local and state databases are fused with private marketing databases. Contractors search through billions of records from phone and credit card and internet search companies to find breastfeeding behavioral patterns suggestive of terrorist involvement. They come up with an additional 226,351 persons of interest in the Golden State. The FBI and local authorities work overtime to investigate all leads. None turn up anything actionable, but the 226,351 persons of interest are added to the TSA’s No-Fly list anyway just as a precaution. As a result to the extra additions to the 600,000 strong list, holiday air travel is snarled.

At the black site, a cable is received approving administration of sleep deprivation. The 26 year-old case officer in charge of the interrogation is relived that his decision to push the envelope with the Red Bull has not endangered his career.  He’s secretly proud he’s carrying on the tradition of the Agency’s bad boys and starts calling himself “Captain Bull,” after the legendary, bat-wielding Beirut interrogator “Captain Crunch.”

Day Nine. Nine Ladies Dancing.

Fearing more sexual harassment training seminars, analysts throughout the Intelligence Community dismiss intercepts concerning nine ladies dancing and omit all references to them from their reports.

Day Ten. Ten Lords-a-Leaping.

The same day that the phrase “ten lords-a-leaping” is correlated with the previous NSA intercepts, ten members of the British House of Lords are killed in Baghdad by a suicide bomber. They were on their way to observe the British pullout in Basra under the protection of a Blackwater PSD team. Blackwater claims that it was not allowed to fire upon a rapidly approaching white Toyota containing the explosives because the vehicle did not fit the suicide bomber profile as outlined by the State Department’s acting head of Diplomatic Security.  At a well-attended press conference the Iraqi Minister of Interior charges that Blackwater was negligent and should have known to fire upon the occupants of the suicide vehicle. He holds up a twisted, charred bumper that he claims was from the VBIED.  Plastered to it is the damning yellow bumper sticker: How’s My Driving? Call 1-800-Al-QAEDA.  International headlines claim Blackwater is responsible for the British Lord’s deaths because its operators should’ve correctly identified the VBIED.  Congressman Waxman vows to hold Blackwater accountable for its unforgivable lack of aggression.

Meanwhile at the black site, sleep deprivation is proving to be ineffective and a cable is sent to Headquarters requesting permission to waterboard the detainee.

Day Eleven. Eleven Pipers Piping.

Outsourced analysts at the CIA and Department of Energy are convinced that the latest NSA intercept, “eleven pipers piping” is a thinly veiled reference to aluminum tubes.  Aluminum tubes could really only be used in a centrifuge enrichment program to develop atomic weapons, they explain.  Under pressure from the Vice President’s office, it’s determined that the earlier information from the CIA’s detainee program about seven swamis was misinterpreted.  It’s now thought the seven swamis were an indirect reference to seven Pakistani nuclear scientists working with Iranians on nuclear weapons.

The black site interrogators receive permission to waterboard the detainee. Before the procedure begins, the lead interrogator collapses from the stress that he will end up in front of Congressional committees and in court for his actions. The detainee is horrified at the sight of his interrogator crying in a fetal position.  He is convinced something so horrific is about to happen to him, he breaks before they can position the Saran wrap over his mouth to protect him from drowning.  The detainee explains that al Qaeda is now working with Iran to help them with their nuclear weapons development program.  He confirms every suspicion of his interrogators. The black site cables Langley with confirmation that the seven swamis swimming was actually seven Pakistani nuclear scientists assisting Iranian WMD development.

Day Twelve. Twelve Drummers Drumming.

On the twelfth day of Christmas, the world wakes up to New York Times headlines, “U.S. Says Ahmadinejad Intensifies Quest for A-Bomb Parts.”  On the same day, twelve top administration officials appear on Sunday morning talk shows.

On Meet the Press Cheney claims that Iran is “trying, through its illicit procurement network, to acquire the equipment he needs to be able to enrich uranium — specifically, aluminum tubes.”  Condi Rice appears on CNN’s Late Edition With Wolf Blitzer and warns “we don’t want the smoking yule log to be a mushroom cloud.” Then she recites the evidence in the reverse order in which it was gathered: “Twelve drummers drumming, eleven pipers piping, ten lords a leaping, nine ladies dancing, eight maids a milking, seven swans a swimming, six geese a laying, five golden rings, four calling birds, three French hens, two turtle doves, and a partridge in a pear tree.”

Blitzer pauses for a commercial break.

Meanwhile at the black site, the CIA contractors and interrogators are watching CNN via satellite and realize what they’ve just done. The contractors fire off a cable to their corporate headquarters, explaining what’s happened and their indirect role in the folly.

But corporate is ecstatic.

The employees at the black site and everyone even remotely associated with their chain of command in the firm all receive special Christmas bonuses (a reimbursable expense on their contract).  Their company stock in their 401(k)s quadruple due to increased business thanks to the war with Iran.

CHINO – A judge has ruled that a sex abuse lawsuit brought against the Chino Valley Unified School District can proceed to trial.

The plaintiff, given the pseudonym “John Roe 79,” filed a law suit in August against the district for damages based on negligence, negligent hiring, sexual battery and sexual harassment as well as other issues.

Attorneys for the school district argued that the complaint should be tossed out because it was not presented within six months after the alleged abuse, as required by law.

The alleged incidents from 2000 to 2002 involved a former Ruben S. Ayala High School student and a former color guard instructor at the school.

The plaintiff is seeking $20 mil lion in damages.

Judge David A. Williams over ruled the timely claim-filing requirements this week in West Valley Superior Court in Rancho Cucamonga.

“The judge decided to overrule the (defendant’s objection to the claim),” said Devin Miles Storey, an attorney from the Zalkin Law Firm representing the plaintiff. “The case is able to move forward past the pleading stage.”

The judge’s ruling was based on the precedent of a similar case, K. J. vs. Arcadia Unified School District, where the alleged victim’s discovery of harm took place after the statute of limitations, said Devin Storey, the plaintiff’s attorney.

However, the judge indicated “down the road he may be willing to entertain a motion to dismiss the case based on the statute of limitations,” Storey said.

Attorneys for the plaintiff stated the claim was filed within six months of his reasonable discovery of adulthood injury resulting from molestation.

The plaintiff’s attorneys said the alleged victim did not recognize the alleged abuse he suffered from the perpetrator as wrongful until he saw a mental health therapist in January.

According to court documents, which do not name the alleged victim and the alleged perpetrator, the plaintiff was 16 to 18 years old at the time of the alleged inci dents.

In summer 1999, the student met the instructor, who provided special treatment to the student, such as taking him on outings. A sexual relationship developed the following year, according to the complaint.

In March 2000, school administrators became aware of a rumored relationship and held a meeting with the plaintiff, his mother and the instructor, according to the claim.

The school principal told the instructor to stop showing special attention to the student, according to the claim. Attorneys for the district tried to show that the school meeting demonstrated the complaint was filed too late.

“The allegations in the com plaint demonstrate that plaintiff had reason to know at the time of the events giving rise to this com plaint that perpetrator’s alleged conduct was occurring and that it was wrong and harmful,” according to a legal document from the district’s attorneys, Fagen Friedman & Fulfrost.

John Roe 79′s complaints are similar to those surrounding the July arrest of George Armenta, 36, of El Monte, a former color guard instructor at Ayala High and a former district employee, according to court records. Armenta was employed as a color guard instructor for the Arcadia Unified School District when he was arrested.

According to the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office, any possible charges to be filed in Armenta’s case are pend ing review.

- neil.nisperos@inlandnewspapers.com, 909-483-9356

The Japanese on the southern Island of Okinawa have re-elected incumbent governor Hirokazu Nakaima, who wants an end to the American military presence.

Nakaima, who wants the US base off Okinawa altogether, beat his opponent who agreed to relocate the base to a less crowded area on the island.

In May, Tokyo and Washington agreed to implement a 2006 plan to relocate Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to a less crowded area in Okinawa.

The move infuriated local residents, who view the base as a source of noise, pollution and serious crime –including rape.

Futenma hosts about half the US troops in Japan and the row over this airbase has been giving new headaches to Japan’s Prime Minister Naoto Kan.

The development comes after his Democratic Party lost an upper house election in August.

Kan’s predecessor Yukio Hatoyama had to resign after he failed to keep his election campaign promise to remove the base off Okinawa.

Futenma has provoked a wave of anger in the country, with the nation demanding a complete removal of the airbase, which has been under US command since the end of World War II, off Okinawa.

Japanese people have been urging their government to remove US military installations from the country altogether.

Tens of thousands of people have held several rallies against the American military engagement in the country over the past months.

A Danish-British security company has sold torture instruments to the Israeli prisons, holding Palestinians inmates, a Danish newspaper has written.

The spy agency has a venture capital arm that is funding an array of companies developing bleeding-edge technologies.

Tiny cameras. Hearing devices for the teeth. Wi-fi for refrigerators. These are some of the products made by companies that have caught the eye of In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the Central Intelligence Agency.

One of the most recent companies to get an infusion of cash from the U.S. spy bureau’s investment fund is Cleversafe, a Chicago-based startup that offers software to keep data stored in cloud networks secure by slicing it up and storing it in different locations. In a press release issued last month about the investment, William Strecker, In-Q-Tel’s chief technology officer, said the intelligence community is looking for new ways to secure information given the increasing ubiquity of cloud computing.

The country’s only federally funded venture capital firm was created in 1999, during the tech boom, because the private sector was setting the pace in technological innovation, leaving the intelligence community feeling not very intelligent. In-Q-Tel invests in startups developing technologies that could prove useful to the Central Intelligence Agency and the national security community. But it knew it had to adjust to the Silicon Valley model to work. “The CIA had to offer Silicon Valley something of value, a business model that the Valley understood; a model that provides those who joined hands with In-Q-Tel the opportunity to commercialize their innovations,” CIA official Rick Yannuzzi wrote in a briefing document for the Defense Intelligence Journal in 2001.

In-Q-Tel invites startups to submit applications for funding through its website, asking for their business plan, a technology whitepaper and leadership list. The operation’s budget is classified, but the Washington Post reported in 2005 that it received $37 million in funding yearly from the CIA. It tends to invest from $500,000 to $2 million in a given company.

In-Q-Tel issues a press release every time it funds a new company, but it discloses neither the amount of the investment nor the product it’s focused on. It’s believed that the relationship can lead to the development of off-market products tailored specifically for the CIA. A spokesman for one company funded by In-Q-Tel told Forbes that their investment was focused on a specific project with a yearlong deadline, declining to provide further details.

What technologies is the CIA interested in now? One clear area of focus is energy. In 2007 In-Q-Tel plugged into , a company that develops products that harvest energy from impulse shocks, vibrations, and even footfalls. It also likes companies that are working on making smaller batteries, like Qynergy, a New Mexico-based company working on radioisotope batteries, and Infinite Power Solutions, a Colorado developer of thin-film batteries that can power RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tracking chips.

Speaking of RFID, In-Q-Tel seems to see potential there. In 2008 it invested in Massachusetts-based ThingMagic, a company that makes RFID chips that can “track anything.” The Florida State Attorney’s Office for West Palm Beach uses them to track felony case files, and Ford offered them up as an additional feature for pickup trucks. A contractor can put the tags on all of his tools, so that a quick scan of the truck bed with an RFID scanner will reveal everything in there. ThingMagic was acquired last month by Global Positioning System device maker Trimble Navigation for an undisclosed amount. In-Q-Tel has also invested in GainSpan, a company finding ways to make everything wi-fi-enabled, from refrigerators to health monitoring devices, for richer information on something than just its location.

Experts say the next big trend in data is going to be geolocation, and the power to predict where you’re going to go next and who you spend the most time with. Several companies focusing on geospatial technology are in the In-Q-Tel portfolio, including Image Tree Corp., which can help show where illicit crops are being grown, and FortiusOne and Geosemble, which map people, places and things instantly using location data from RSS feeds and tweets.

As one would expect from a spy support firm, In-Q-Tel is very interested in companies that make better cameras. Earlier this year, it sank money into Lens Vector, which is taking the moving parts out of cameras, employing electricity to change the focus of liquid crystal lenses; the company makes auto-focus devices that are dwarfed by pennies. IQT’s also interested in making sense of video shot by the increasing numbers of surveillance cameras. In 2005 it invested in 3VR, which creates video analytics to make surveillance video “Google-able.”

Companies coming up with better ways to use and monitor the Internet have attracted In-Q-Tel money. Earlier this year it invested in Recorded Future, a company that mines websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to “predict the future” by making “invisible links.” The company says it’s also popular among Wall Street traders.

Intelligence agencies are increasingly interested in mining open-source intelligence, particularly online, but the proliferation of voices, whether on social networks, blogs, or elsewhere, can be challenging to make sense of. Visible Technologies, FMS and StreamBase Systems, all companies that provide products that analyze the massive amount of data flowing out of social networking and communication sites, all found spots in the In-Q-Tel portfolio.

In-Q-Tel has some fun investments, like Destineer Studios, an outfit that develops military-themed videogames as well as training simulations for active-duty soldiers.

The espionage potential of many of the technologies in the In-Q-Tel portfolio are immediately apparent, but there are some surprises, like Sonitus Medical, which makes hearing aids that fit over the teeth and send sounds directly to the inner ear.

Is involvement with the CIA good for business? A connection to the CIA can be a slight disadvantage for companies when doing business overseas, particularly in China or the Middle East, where people are leery of the affiliation with the intelligence agency.

However, entrepreneurs generally welcome interest from In-Q-Tel, says Basis Technology CEO Carl Hoffman, because it’s a gateway to Washington for small companies that normally struggle to compete for federal contracts. An investment from In-Q-Tel led Hoffman’s company, which makes software that analyzes foreign-language texts, to expand to Middle Eastern languages, and it now does business with a variety of federal agencies, including the National Security Agency. He says that IQT is also well regarded in Silicon Valley because of its successful investing track record. “When we mention to other Silicon Valley investment firms that In-Q-Tel is one of our investors, that earns us brownie points.”

Josh Lerner, an investment banking professor at Harvard Business School, says that the liquidity crisis in venture capital has made venture firms eager to draw In-Q-Tel in as a partner. “Funds are increasingly looking to other, less traditional investors to fund portfolio firms, including In-Q-Tel, even if their ultimate objectives may be quite different from the venture capitalist’s goal of maximizing the rate of return.”

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Havana, Nov 26 (ACN-RHC) The worldwide prestige of Cuban rum is reaffirmed by the growing demand of Ron Legendario, whose sales show an annual 10 percent increase.

The trademark’s deputy director of marketing, Carlos Sanchez, stated that Ron Legendario is currently available in more than 15 European countries.

Ron Legendario is produced in six factories across the country, three of them located in Pinar del Rio, Matanzas and Villa Clara and one in Havana, Sanchez said. Legendario is distributed in Europe by the Valencian Legendario SL company, which is currently seeking entry into other markets.

The trademark’s leading product is the Legendario Elixir de Cuba 7-year-aged rum, which is the richest, smoothest, sweetest and most delicate rum produced in the island.

Other Legendario spirits commercialized by the Spanish company are
Dorado, Añejo, Añejo Blanco, Carta Blanca Superior and Gran Reserva 15 Years.

Washington, November 27 (RHC)– Protesters gathered Saturday in front of the White House in Washington to call for an end to the provocations against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The emergency anti-war rally was called in response to the latest escalation of hostilities in the Korean Peninsula.

Organizers of the anti-war protest said the provocations could lead to a new Korean War — “one that could expand to wider regional, and potentially nuclear, conflict.”

In a statement released just before Saturday’s protest rally began, organizers said that the biggest provocation in the region is the massive presence of U.S. military bases, troop, nuclear and conventional weapons. “In 2010, 65 years after the end of World War II, there are scores of U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine bases in the Republic of Korea, Okinawa, and all across Japan. This vast deployment of military power halfway around the world far exceeds that of any other country.”

The anti-war protesters said that the real purpose of this military machine “is to secure and further the interests of the U.S. corporate power and strategic domination in Asia and around the world. It is the enemy of the people of Korea, China, Japan and the people of the United States.”

An outstanding warrant remains in effect for an Air Force officer accused of soliciting sex from a person he thought was a 15-year-old girl in an Internet chat room.

Maj. Reinaldo Canton was arrested in 2007 on suspicion of meeting a girl he met online at a mall in Layton, Utah. The “girl” was actually an Federal Bureau of Investigation agent working for an Internet sex crimes unit.

Prosecutors dropped coercion and enticement charges in May 2009 against Canton because the retired airman had a serious heart condition, according to local media reports. Defense attorneys argued a trial would amount to cruel and unusual punishment.

The Utah Attorney General’s Office picked the case up that June after a second medical opinion on Canton’s condition, according to Utah Assistant Attorney General Paul Amann. Canton now lives in Florida and is being charged with three misdemeanor counts of enticing a minor, Amann said.

Neither Canton nor the last attorney known to represent him could be reached for comment.

Canton worked at the Space Development and Test Wing of Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M.

GREAT FALLS, Mont. — A 22-year-old Great Falls man was convicted Monday of killing his girlfriend’s 3-year-old daughter.

A Cascade County jury deliberated for less than three hours before finding Jerimie Hicks guilty of deliberate homicide and solicitation to tamper with evidence in the death of Kaelyn Bray. Hicks, who was stationed at Malmstrom Air Force Base at the time of the girl’s death, will remain in custody without bail until he is sentenced in six weeks.

County Attorney John W. Parker said he would seek a life sentence without parole.

Prosecutors said the former airman severely beat Kaelyn on Feb. 26, leading to her death from brain injuries three days later. But Hicks, who was the only one with the girl when she was injured, said she suffered minor injuries when he shoved her into the wall out of frustration. He told police she fell down the stairs later after tripping on their puppy.

Parker, who portrayed Hicks as someone who continually changed his story, pointed to testimony from emergency responders and doctors who said they did not believe the girl’s injuries were consistent with a fall down the stairs.

Meanwhile, defense attorney Ed Sheehy argued the state did not present any evidence that Kaelyn’s injuries were not caused by an accident. Sheehy did not offer any comment after the verdict was read.

Hicks faced the solicitation to tamper with evidence charge for asking his mother to remove his bloody uniform from his house. Investigators found a uniform with blood stains on the boots and pants that matched Kaelyn’s DNA profile.

President Barack Obama has asked his bioethics council to look into the recent disclosure that in the mid-1940s, a United States Public Health Service scientist deliberately infected patients in Guatemala with syphilis. In a letter sent Wednesday to University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann, chair of the 13-member Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, Obama writes: “The research was clearly unethical. In light of this revelation, I want to be assured that current rules for research participants protect people from harm or unethical treatment, domestically as well as internationally.” The letter asks for a “thorough review” of U.S. rules protecting human subjects and a “thorough fact-finding investigation” of the Guatemala experiments. The commission, which is finishing up a report on synthetic biology, is to start its work in January and complete a report within 9 months.

(CNN) — A Catholic priest, facing criminal charges and a lawsuit alleging that he sexually abused a teenage boy, is now charged with attempting to hire someone to kill the youth, authorities said Tuesday.

The Rev. John M. Fiala was in the Dallas County, Texas, jail on Tuesday, charged with one count of criminal solicitation to commit capital murder, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety and the jail’s website. He also is charged with two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child. His bail totals $700,000.

Fiala, 52, of Dallas, was out on bond on other sexual assault charges involving the youth, now 18, when he allegedly attempted to negotiate the boy’s murder, said Thomas B. Rhodes, the teen’s attorney.

He was arrested last week after he offered an undercover agent with the Texas Department of Public Safety $5,000 to kill the teen, according to department spokeswoman Lisa Block.

“This guy,” Edwards County Sheriff Don Letsinger said, “is an evil man.”

A call to Rex Alan Gunter, the defense attorney listed in jail records for Fiala, was not immediately returned Tuesday.

The youth met Fiala in 2007, according to Rhodes. The attorney said the priest started “grooming him,” buying him gifts including a computer and a car. In early 2008, when the boy was 16, under the guise of providing private catechism lessons, Fiala “gained access to him and began to sexually abuse him once or twice a month, including on church grounds,” Rhodes said.

At the time, Fiala was administrator of Sacred Heart of Mary in Rocksprings, Texas, which is in Edwards County. The alleged abuse occurred in two counties — Edwards County and Howard County — and included the youth’s rape at gunpoint, the attorney said.

Fiala allegedly threatened to kill the youth if he told anyone — threats he repeated in daily text messages, Rhodes said, and Fiala also threatened to kill himself, telling the teen they would “go to heaven together.”

The teen, after struggling with the abuse, told a school counselor, who notified authorities, Rhodes said. He filed suit in April against Fiala, as well as the archdioceses of San Antonio, Texas, and Omaha, Nebraska — where Fiala was before Texas — and Fiala’s religious order, the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity, the attorney said.

The suit claims that all three covered up Fiala’s record of abuse. All three have denied doing so, according to the San Antonio, Texas, Express-News. When former San Antonio Archbishop Jose Gomez and the religious order learned of the police investigation into Fiala’s relationship with the teen, he was removed from active ministry in October 2008, the newspaper reported.

In September, an Edwards County grand jury indicted Fiala on three counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child and one count of aggravated sexual assault by threat, according to the Express-News. Fiala was arrested in Kansas by a fugitive task force and was extradited to Texas, where he posted bail on September 27, according to the newspaper. He then moved to Dallas County.

A grand jury in Howard County handed up an indictment last week on the two aggravated sexual assault charges, the Express-News said.

Meanwhile, “approximately a week ago, we got an anonymous phone call from someone saying, ‘Look, I’m living in a building with this guy, and he’s talking about killing this young man,’ ” Rhodes said. “Our response was, ‘You need to call police.’ “

Letsinger said he got a call November 11 from the neighbor. The man at first just told authorities they should “be looking at this guy,” the sheriff said, but later said Fiala had offered him $5,000 to kill the teenager. The allegation surprised him, Letsinger said.

The Department of Public Safety and its Texas Ranger Division got involved, sending the undercover agent to speak with Fiala, Rhodes said. The conversation was caught on video and audiotape.

Rhodes said his client was relieved to hear of Fiala’s arrest. He was attending college but had to withdraw and be spirited away somewhere safe because of the threats, he said.

“He’s still very afraid, but he is hoping that this time Fiala will stay behind bars,” Rhodes said.

A hearing on the lawsuit was held Monday, he said. The Omaha diocese had argued it should be sued in Nebraska rather than Texas. The judge rejected that argument, Rhodes said.

“I think he’s cooked his goose now,” Letsinger said of Fiala. “We know that pedophiles sometimes threaten their victims to keep them quiet. But this is kind of an older victim, and you wonder sometimes why they wouldn’t come forward. … I can see now the evil in this guy is pretty bad.”

The United States has briefed its key allies, including Britain, France, Germany and Saudi Arabia ahead of the mass release of classified documents by WikiLeaks.

Whistleblower website WikiLeaks plans to release around three million leaked documents, including cables sent to Washington from American embassies throughout the world.

The website had previously posted online secret details of US military operations in war-ravaged Iraq and Afghanistan.

United States Department of State Spokesman Philip Crowley says the United States is “gearing up for the worst-case scenario.”

“Across the State Department, senior officials are reaching out to countries and warning them about a possible release of documents,” AFP quoted Crowley as saying.

“We are all bracing for what may be coming and condemn WikiLeaks for the release of classified material,” he said. “It will place lives and interests at risk. It is irresponsible.”

Several countries, including Israel, have been warned of potential embarrassment from the release.

Crowley says US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also phoned the senior officials of Germany, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Britain, France and Afghanistan regarding WikiLeaks.

The cables are said to date from the past five years and include media reports, talks with politicians, officials and journalists, as well as evaluations and various analyses by American diplomats regarding their host countries.

According to reports, the next release, due to take place in the next few days, is also expected to include thousands of classified cables reporting corruption allegations against politicians in Russia, Afghanistan and other Central Asian nations.

WikiLeaks has not confirmed exactly when the documents will be made public, but it said the release will be nearly seven times larger than the 400,000 documents on the Iraq war it published in October.

“The coming months will see a new world, where global history is redefined,” the organization said via Twitter.

Canadian police have charged the head of the Archdiocese of Canada of the Orthodox Church in America with two counts of sexual assault on young boys.

Archbishop Kenneth William Storheim, who has held many Church positions in Canadian communities, turned himself in to Winnipeg police on Wednesday after being charged. He has since been released on bail and is waiting to appear in court on January 10.

Authorities launched an investigation into the allegations after Storheim resigned from his post in October.

Canadian media report that the archbishop sexually assaulted the boys while he was the rector of a Winnipeg parish from 1984 to 1987.

His defense lawyer, Jeff Ginden, said Storheim will remain on a leave of absence as head of the church and plans to resume after the case is over.

“He has faith in the system that justice will be done,” Ginden said.

“He hasn’t been given the police report, he doesn’t know what the disclosure is. All he knows is one thing — those things he’s not responsible for,” Ginden further stated.

Melanie Sakoda of Survivors Network for those Abused by Priests told CBC News that they had been pushing for an investigation for two years.

“It makes me frustrated and angry but not surprised. They (the Church) have a habit of protecting the clergy rather than doing everything possible to make sure children are safe,” she said.

Storheim also held positions in London, Ontario, Saskatoon, North Carolina and Alberta.

The Orthodox Church in America has hundreds of parishes in Canada, the US, Australia and Mexico.

An inquiry has found that organs and bones from the bodies of dead British nuclear industry workers at Sellafield were illegally harvested without their consent over a period of 30 years.

The inquiry’s findings revealed that the relatives of 64 staff discovered their loved ones had been stripped of livers, tongues and even legs decades after they were buried, the daily Belfast Telegraph reported.

The findings also proved the existence of an “old boys’ club” among pathologists, coroners and scientists around Sellafield prior to 1992 which prioritized the needs of the nuclear industry above those of grieving family members.

Representatives of the workers told the inquiry’s Chairman Michael Redfern QC that they felt as if bodies had been “mutilated” and treated as “commodities” to assist in research on behalf of the industry to disprove the link between cancers and radiation.

Some missing bones had been replaced with broomsticks for deceased workers’ funerals. Redfern said the families had been “wronged”.

“In most cases considered by the inquiry, relatives were let down at the time when they were most vulnerable by those in whom they were entitled to place an absolute trust,” he said.

In the Commons, Energy Secretary Christopher Murray Paul-Huhne apologized to the families and said the practice had been stopped.

The 650-page report, following a three-year inquiry which also examined three other studies involving the nuclear industry in which 6,500 bodies, including children, were used, said the removal of organs and tissue was “unnecessary and inappropriate” in the majority of the Sellafield cases.

We’ve all seen the bumper stickers: “My son is in the Air Force,” “If You Can Read This in English, Thank a Marine,” “Proud Vietnam Veteran,” “Fly Navy,” and of course, “Thank a Vet.”

Why should we?

Why should we call them heroes, give them military discounts, grant them veterans preference, express our support for them with ribbons on our cars, honor them with a holiday, hold military appreciation church services for them, and thank them for their “service”?

Veterans Day began as Armistice Day to commemorate the signing of the armistice that ended World War I. It had nothing to do with honoring current and former members of the military like Veterans Day is celebrated today. And if the sole purpose of Armistice Day was to honor World War I veterans, it should never have been celebrated since no American soldier did anything honorable by intervening in a European foreign war. And it doesn’t matter if he was drafted or not.

Britain’s last World War I combat veteran, Harry Patch, died last year at the age of 111. He boasted that he hadn’t killed anyone in combat. “War isn’t worth one life,” Patch said, it is “calculated and condoned slaughter of human beings.” In his autobiography The Last Fighting Tommy, Patch wrote that “politicians who took us to war should have been given the guns and told to settle their differences themselves, instead of organising nothing better than legalised mass murder.” In the last years of his life, Patch warned some young naval recruits that they shouldn’t join.

Frank Buckles, age 109, is the only American veteran of World War I still living. When asked while being honored for his service at a 2007 Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery what he thought about being there while the United States was at war, he replied: “I’m no authority, but I’m not in favor of war unless it’s an emergency.” I think that Buckles is more of an authority on the horrors of war and the folly and wickedness of war than the current members of the Joint Chiefs.

It is only because World War I did not turn out to be the “war to end all wars” that the holiday was changed to Veterans Day as a tribute to all soldiers who fought for their country.

Although I believe World War II to be neither necessary nor good, I come not on this Veterans Day to criticize the “greatest generation,” who, it turns out, were also great at pillaging and carousing.

For reasons I explained in “U.S. Presidents and Those Who Kill for Them,” World War II marks the permanent establishment of the American military as the president’s personal attack force to kill by his decree Koreans, Vietnamese, Laotians, Cambodians, Grenadians, Panamanians, Yugoslavs, Serbians, Afghans, Iraqis, Somalis, Yemenis, and Pakistanis. Next on the list is Iranians. Sometimes these presidential decrees are rubberstamped by a congressional authorization to use force, but they are always preceded by presidential lies and warmonger propaganda.

So why should a Vietnam veteran be proud? He was typically young, ignorant, deceived, and drafted. He may have fought obediently, valiantly, selflessly, and fearlessly, but since he had no business fighting in Vietnam in the first place, I have nothing to thank him for. And I certainly can’t thank him for preventing the Viet Cong from turning America into a socialist republic. Besides, LBJ beat Ho Chi Minh to that anyway. Many Vietnam veterans have written me and expressed shame, remorse, anger, and resentment – not pride – for having been duped into going thousands of miles away from American soil to intervene in another country’s civil war. In fact, I have found that it is those who are not Vietnam veterans who are the most vociferous defenders of the war in Vietnam.

The most undeserved and oftentimes disgusting outpouring of thankfulness I have ever seen is over those who have fought or are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan. The praise and adoration of those fighting in “the front lines in the war on terror” reaches its apex on Veterans Day, which has become a day to defend U.S. wars and recognize all things military. These soldiers certainly have done nothing worthy of thanks. Sure, they have rebuilt infrastructure – after bombing it to smithereens. They no doubt removed a brutal dictator – and unleashed American brutality in the process. And yes, they have rescued orphan children – after blowing their parents and brothers and sisters to kingdom come.

What is there to thank our soldiers for? They are not defending our freedoms. They are not keeping us safe from our enemies. They are not protecting us from terrorists. They are not guaranteeing our First Amendment rights. They are not defending U.S. borders. They are not guarding U.S. shores. They are not patrolling U.S. coasts. They are not enforcing no-fly zones over U.S. skies. They are not fighting “over there” so we don’t have to fight “over here.” They are not avenging 9/11. They are not safeguarding the American way of life. Oh, and they are not ensuring that I have the liberty to write what I do about the military.

What, then, should we thank our soldiers for? Should we thank them for fighting an unconstitutional war, an unscriptural war, an immoral war, an offensive war, an unjust war, or a senseless war? Should we thank our veterans for helping to carry out an aggressive, reckless, belligerent, and interventionist foreign policy? Should we thank the military for sucking $1 trillion out of the federal budget?

But, some will say, these soldiers are just doing their jobs. They can’t help it if the U.S. military sends them to fight in an unjust war in Iraq or Afghanistan. They are just following orders. They didn’t enlist in the military to kill people.

What would any sane man think about a doctor who takes a job at a hospital knowing that the hospital instructs its doctors to euthanize old and sickly patients – and then says he was just doing his job, following orders, and didn’t take the job to kill people?

Why are soldiers treated so differently? Why do they get a pass on committing or supporting those who commit murder and mayhem?

But, someone else says, the military has lowered its recruiting standards and is scraping the bottom of the barrel. Many soldiers are ignorant about the true nature of the military and U.S. foreign policy. Why should we fault them for their ignorance? Why should they be criticized for unjustly killing Iraqis or Afghans or Pakistanis? They are just following orders.

Let’s go back to the doctor I mentioned. Suppose that after he takes a job in ignorance at what he thinks is a reputable hospital he is instructed to euthanize old and sickly patients? What should he do? I don’t know of anyone who would say anything else but that he should quit his job or at least refuse to euthanize anyone.

Again, why are soldiers treated so differently? Why do they get a pass on committing or supporting those who commit murder and mayhem?

But, comes another reply, soldiers have a term of enlistment. They can’t just quit their jobs. Doctors can walk away from their jobs at any time. Then I guess it all comes down to morality: Be a mercenary and kill for the state or refuse to do so and suffer the consequences of dishonorable discharge and/or imprisonment.

It is high time that Americans stop holding veterans and current members of the military in such high esteem. It is scientists, engineers, inventors, businessmen, industrialists, software developers, and entrepreneurs that made America great – not veterans of foreign wars. It is doctors, iron workers, taxi drivers, bricklayers, writers, electricians, and cooks that positively contribute to society – not soldiers.

I would like to be able to thank a vet – on Veterans Day and every other day of the year – but I’m still searching for a reason.

November 11, 2010

Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from Pensacola, FL. He is the author of Christianity and War and Other Essays Against the Warfare State and The Revolution that Wasn’t. His newest book is Rethinking the Good War. Visit his website.

Copyright © 2010 by LewRockwell.com. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit is given.

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LOS ANGELES – A former Chino prison guard convicted of abusing inmates was sentenced Monday to more than four years in federal prison.

Robert McGowan of Bloomington was convicted by a federal jury three years ago in connection with a May 9, 2002, incident in which, prosecutors said, he and two other correctional officer hurled shackled inmates to the ground and conspired to cover it up.

In November 2007, a federal judge overturned guilty verdicts for the three officers from the California Institution for Men, but McGowan’s conviction – for two counts of deprivation of rights under color of law – was reinstated on appeal.

U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright II sentenced McGowan, 41, to 51 months in prison Monday in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom, according to a U.S. Attorney’s Office news release.

The allegations of abuse came after the inmates reportedly assaulted an officer, first throwing a jacket over his head and then beating him.

McGowan shackled two prisoners and took them in a van to the prison’s administrative segregation unit. Once they arrived, prosecutors said, the officer threw the shackled inmates from the van.

Because their hands were bound, the inmates were unable to break their falls and suffered minor injuries, prosecutors said.

One of McGowan’s colleagues threw another shackled inmate to the ground, prosecutors said, and lied about the incident to a federal grand jury.

The third officer indicted in the case was accused of lying about the incident in a memo to prison officials.

Two Norview High School teachers were placed on paid administrative leave this week after a parent complained that they distributed classroom materials that gave advice on how to deal with police if stopped.

The materials – a one-page handout and a video distributed and aired in a 12th-grade government class – are sponsored by two organizations, one a nonprofit that supports legalization of marijuana and one that calls itself a “decentralized anarchist collective.”

The last paragraph of the flier, titled “When Dealing with Police” states, “Remember You have legal rights, but many police will not respect your rights. Be careful – Be Street Smart.”

Schools spokeswoman Elizabeth Thiel Mather said division leaders are investigating the incident over concerns that the materials were unauthorized.

The parent, who asked not to be named out of fear that her daughter could be ostracized or get a lower class grade, told The Pilot that she contacted the division and police after her daughter described the leaflet and video.

“She came home recently and said, ‘You won’t believe what we are learning in Government. They are teaching us how to hide our drugs,’ ” the parent recounted.

Last week, an Oakwood Elementary School employee was placed on leave with pay in connection with the distribution of plastic fetus models to children, which division leaders also considered unauthorized material. Oakwood’s principal was also put on leave in connection with the incident, and an investigation is continuing.

Mather said it is uncommon to have to put staff on leave for using inappropriate materials. The division typically gets no more than two parent complaints a year about the suitability of textbooks or library materials, she said.

The leaflet handed out at Norview describes the rights citizens have if they are stopped or arrested by police or witness police activity. It is posted on the Web here.

A credit on the leaflet reads, “Assembled by the Crimethinc Police Unwelcoming Committee.” On its website, Crimethinc.com calls itself a “decentralized anarchist collective.”

The video, “Busted: Citizen’s Guide to Surviving Police Encounters,” is posted online here.  It opens with a portrayal of young adults stopped by a traffic officer who searches their car and arrests them for marijuana possession. Other scenes depict police questioning a young man at a bus stop and patrol officers who visit a home where loud partiers are smoking marijuana.

A commentator on the video states, “Whether or not you break the law, this video is designed to explain what the law is and how you can legally and properly assert your constitutional rights through even the most stressful police encounters.”

For each scene, the commentator explains how legal rights apply to police searches of vehicles, homes or individuals and how people can cite those rights during encounters with police.

The video was created by Flex Your Rights, a nonprofit that advocates educating the public about how constitutional protections apply during encounters with law enforcement. The production has gotten 2.3 million viewings on YouTube since November 2006.

The video’s end credits cite funding from the MPP Foundation, which is part of the Marijuana Policy Project. On the Web, the group advocates legal regulation for marijuana and noncoercive treatment for problem marijuana users.

Pilot writers Hattie Brown Garrow, Lauren Roth and Alicia P.Q. Wittmeyer contributed to this report.

Steven G. Vegh, (757) 446-2417, steven.vegh@pilotonline.com

DESERT HOT SPRINGS — A security guard at Desert Springs Middle School is behind bars, today, and faces charges that forced sex on a child.

Marvin Cash was arrested at his home in Desert Hot Springs by police, and brought in for questioning, Tuesday. He will be transported to the Riverside County Jail, where is bail is set at $50,000.

Police tell News Channel 3 several students came forward, and reported incidents involving Cash. Details of the encounters were not released.

Cash was arrested for committing a lewd act on a child under 14-years-old, sexual battery, and annoying/molesting a child under 18.

Desert Hot Springs Police say they have contacted Palm Springs Unified School District to inform them, and they cooperated with the investigation.

Stay with News Channel 3 and KESQ.com for more.

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In the news today, worldwide controversy around an Israeli commando attack on a “Free Gaza Movement” flotilla carrying aid supplies to the blockaded Gaza strip. NYT story here. Varying reports on how many were killed: 10 according to Israel, and 19 or more according to the activists and some news organizations. Some 600 people were aboard the flotilla including a Nobel Peace Prize recipient and an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor. The attacked ship was some 100km (70 miles) off the coast, in international waters. Above, video of the event.

Analysis and reactions around the web: The Wikinews article is interesting, in part for the clash of perceptions from those who condemn and those who support the actions of Israel’s military. This Jerusalem Post article touches on the resulting PR and media offensive out of Israel, and the government’s rationalization for what it maintains was a justified and defensive event (and pointed to ties with Turkey and alleged “Islamist” groups). More reading: “Why the Gaza boat deaths are a huge deal,” Blake Hounshell in Foreign Policy. Condemnation from South African Anglican Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. “A Lesson in Information Operations,” Center for a New American Security. Ha’aretz: “Israel Lost at Sea.” Top Israeli official when Gaza blockade was imposed several years ago: “The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet.”

This compilation is dedicated to the latest and most competent resources for knowledge discovery available over the Internet. The key is to be able to find the important knowledge discovery resources and sites both in the visible and invisible World Wide Web. The following selected knowledge discovery resources and sites offer excellent knowledge and information discovery sources to help you accomplish your research goals.

ACM SIGKDD: Current Explorations Issue
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/explorations/issue.php?issue=current Explorations is published twice yearly, in June/July and in December/January each year. The newsletter is distributed in hardcopy form to all members of the ACM SIGKDD. It is also sent to ACM’s network of libraries. Online versions are available on the web free to the general public. Their goal is to make the SIGKDD Newsletter an informative, rapid means of publication and dynamic forum for communication with the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining community.

Advanced Knowledge Technologies
http://www.aktors.org/ The Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) project aims to develop and extend a range of technologies providing integrated methods and services for the capture, modelling, publishing, reuse and management of knowledge. AKT is a multi-million pound , six year collaboration between internationally recognized research groups at the Universities of Aberdeen, Edinburgh, the Open University, Sheffield and South Hampton.

APECKS: a Tool to Support Living Ontologies
http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KAW/KAW98/tennison/index.html Ontology servers are currently under-developed in terms of the support they provide for collaborative activities on their content. This paper presents the APECKS (Adaptive Presentation Environment for Collaborative Knowledge Structuring) system, an ontology server which supports collaboration by allowing individuals to create personal ontologies. These ontologies can be compared with others’ to prompt discussion about the sources of their differences and similarities.

Association of KnowledgeWork (AOK)
http://www.kwork.org/index.html At the Association of Knowledgework, people from every specialty cross professional, geographic, cultural, economic and hierarchical barriers to learn together. Not just another website, this is a virtual home for those who work with knowledge.

BAYESIA: Bayesian Networks and Data Mining Tool
http://www.bayesia.com/ The Bayesian Network approach merges and supersedes existing approaches coming from Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining, both symbolic and statistical ones. Bayesian Networks are rigorously justified, provide a distributed knowledge representation, and are as understandable as a rule base. They deal particularly well with uncertainty, and they can be manually generated by consultation of an expert, or inductively built by machine learning.

Bibliomining Information Center - Data Mining for Libraries
http://www.bibliomining.com/ The basic definition is “data mining for libraries.” For years, bibliometrics has been used to track patterns in authorship, citation, etc. Today, there are many more tools available for discovering similar patterns in complex datasets from data mining and statistics. In addition, tools from management science such as Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) can be used to explore the data for patterns. Therefore, a more complex definition is: Bibliomining is the combination of data mining, bibliometrics, statistics, and reporting tools used to extract patterns of behavior-based artifacts from library systems

Brint.com – Business Technology – Information Economy – Knowledge Management
http://km.brint.com/ KMNetwork and the WWW Virtual Library of Knowledge Management combined to bring together an excellent resource for research papers and portals on knowledge management and discovery. In depth research articles and research portals from over the entire global Internet discuss the business, technologies, processes, systems, sociology, creativity, psychology and philosophy of Knowledge Management.

Creative Commons RDF-Enhanced Search
http://search.creativecommons.org/ This search engine will help you find photos, music, text, books, educational material, and more that is free to share or build upon. Copyright applies fully and automatically to any work. a photograph, a song, a web page, an article, pretty much any form of expression, the moment it is created. This means that if you want to copy and re-use a creative work you find online, you usually have to ask the author’s permission. This “all rights reserved” protection is good thing for many authors and artists. But what about those who want you to use their work freely without permission — but on certain conditions? This search engine helps you quickly find those authors and the work they have marked as free to use with only “some rights reserved.” If you respect the rights they have reserved (which will be clearly marked, as you’ll see) then you can use the work without having to contact them and ask. In some cases, you may even find work in the public domain — that is, free for any use with “no rights reserved.”

Conceptual Graphs
http://conceptualgraphs.org/ Conceptual graphs (CGs) are a system of logic based on the existential graphs of Charles Sanders Peirce and the semantic networks of artificial intelligence. They express meaning in a form that is logically precise, humanly readable, and computationally tractable. With their direct mapping to language, conceptual graphs serve as an intermediate language for translating computer-oriented formalisms to and from natural languages. With their graphic representation, they serve as a readable, but formal design and specification language. CGs have been implemented in a variety of projects for information retrieval, database design, expert systems, and natural language processing.

D2K – Data To Knowledge
http://alg.ncsa.uiuc.edu/do/tools/d2k D2K – Data to Knowledge is a rapid, flexible data mining and machine learning system that integrates analytical data mining methods for prediction, discovery, and deviation detection, with data and information visualization tools. It offers a visual programming environment that allows users to connect programming modules together to build data mining applications and supplies a core set of modules, application templates, and a standard API for software component development.

Data Mining Resources
http://www.DataMiningResources.info/ A blog developed and created by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. for monitoring data mining resources and sites on the Internet.

Data Mining : White Papers, Webcasts and Product Information
http://www.bitpipe.com/data/rlist?t=itmgmt_10_40_96 Research the latest Data Mining technologies, tools and techniques. Read white papers, case studies, webcasts and product information from multiple vendors .

Deep Web Research 2010
http://DeepWeb.us/ Marcus P. Zillman’s guide extensively documents resources that include articles, books, websites, presentations, search engines, and technology applications that facilitate the challenging task of accessing information, published in many formats, that encompass the hundreds of millions of pages comprising the “deep web.”

Explore Open Archives
http://opcit.eprints.org/explorearchives.shtml This site lists and comments on other lists of individual open archives. This list and its categorisation gives a broad overview of the structure, size and progress of full-text open access eprint archives. This list will be maintained and updated as far as is possible, and is intended to assist further quantitative research on the open access eprint phenomenon for those who want to measure the growth and quality of open access eprint archives.

Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP)
http://www.globalknowledge.org/ The Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP) is a worldwide network committed to harnessing the potential of information and communication technologies (ICTs)* for sustainable and equitable development. GKP’s vision is a world of equal opportunities where all people can access and use knowledge and information to improve their lives. The network enables the sharing of information, experiences and resources to help reduce poverty and empower people.

GMDH – Group Method of Data Handling
http://come.to/GMDH Group Method of Data Handling was applied in a great variety of areas for data mining and knowledge discovery, forecasting and systems modeling, optimization and pattern recognition. Inductive GMDH algorithms give possibility to find automatically interrelations in data, to select optimal structure of model or network and to increase the accuracy of existing algorithms. This original self-organizing approach is substantially different from deductive methods used commonly for modeling. It has inductive nature – it finds the best solution by sorting-out of possible variants.

Gurteen Knowledge Website
http://www.gurteen.com/ This site acts as a gateway Knowledge Management, Learning, Thinking, Creativity, Personal Mastery; Personal Knowledge Management and the effective use of Technology. The site has been created by and maintained by David Gurteen an UK-based knowledge consultant.

Google(TM) Directory – Knowledge Discovery
http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Knowledge_Management/Knowledge_Discovery/ Google’s directory of Knowledge Discovery resources on the world wide web in the following categories: 1) Books, 2) Business and Companies, 3) Data Mining, 4) Information Visualization, 5) Magazines and eZines, 6) OLAP, 7) Organizations, 8) Software, and 9) Test Mining.

IBM Research – Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD)
http://www.research.ibm.com/compsci/kdd/ IBM Research has been at the forefront of the exciting new area of Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining (KDD) from the very beginning. Key advances in robust and scalable data mining, methods for fast pattern detection from very large databases, text and web mining, and innovative business intelligence applications have come from our research laboratories. Links to their current projects as well as KDD links are available from this site.

Insightful Miner 3
http://www.insightful.com/products/iminer/default.asp Insightful Miner is a highly scalable data mining and analysis workbench that gives new analysts and skilled modelers the ability to deploy predictive intelligence throughout the enterprise. Insightful Miner 3 increases support for large data environments with new versions for Windows and Solaris servers and adds many new features that allow data analysts and data miners to easily build and deploy analytic applications that boost product performance and improve the efficiency of critical business processes.

International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management (P2PKM)
http://www.p2pkm.org/ The P2PKM workshop is intended to serve as an active forum for researchers and practitioners, where they will have the possibility to exchange and discuss novel ideas, research results and experiences, laying in the intersection of the P2P, Knowledge Management (KM), Semantic Web, databases, pervasive computing, agents, as well as other related fields.

ITtoolbox Knowledge Management Knowledge Management Information and Tools
http://knowledgemanagement.ittoolbox.com/ A comprehensive site for Knowledge Management and Discovery Resources including browse by type of content: Blogs, FAQs, Groups, Jobs, News, Peer Publishing, PR, Research and White Papers. Also available browse by Knowledge Management Topic: Business Intelligence, Business Strategy/Planning, Communication/Collaboration, Data Warehousing, Document/Content Management, e-Learning, Enterprise Portals, General Knowledge management, KM Career, Knowledge Transfer, and Packaged KM Suites.

KBL(sm): A Registry of Library Knowledge Bases
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/KBL.htm Library-created or library-related Knowledge Bases. A Knowledge Base / Knowledgebase may be defined as a database with a focus on empirical or practical knowledge. In recent years, Knowledge bases have become common components for many businesses and services.

K-CAP2005 – Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture
http://www.kcap05.org/ Areas covered: Knowledge engineering and modeling methodologies, Mixed-initiative planning and decision-support tools, Acquisition of problem-solving knowledge, Programming-by-demonstration systems, Knowledge management environments, Knowledge-based markup techniques, Knowledge extraction systems, Knowledge acquisition tools, Advice taking systems, and Learning apprentice.

k-collector – Enterprise Knowledge Aggregator
http://www.evectors.it/itideatools/story$data=ideatools&num=142&sec=5 k-collector is an enterprise knowledge aggregator that leverages the power of social software, weblogs and shared topics to present new ways of finding and combining the real knowledge in your organization.

KDD-2010: The 16^th Annual ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/kdd2010/ The 16^th annual ACM SIGKDD conference is the premier international forum for data mining researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to share their ideas, research results and experiences. KDD-10 will feature keynote presentations, oral paper presentations, poster sessions, workshops, tutorials, panels, exhibits, demonstrations, and the KDD Cup competition.

KDnuggets: Data Mining, Web Mining, and Knowledge Discovery Guide
http://www.kdnuggets.com/ KDnuggets.com (KD stands for Knowledge Discovery) is the leading source of information on Data Mining, Web Mining, Knowledge Discovery, and Decision Support Topics, including News, Software, Solutions, Companies, Jobs, Courses, Meetings, Publications, and more. KDnuggets News has been widely recognized as the leading newsletter on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.

KmBlogger
http://kmwiki.wikispaces.com/ A resource covering site, resources, communities and related information about the relationship between blogs and knowledge management and knowledge discovery.

Know-Center – Austria’s Competence Center for Knowledge Management
http://www.know-center.at The Know-Center is Austria’s Competence Center for knowledge-based Applications and Systems. The Know-Center has its core competences in the fields of information technology as enabling technologies for knowledge management and in human-oriented knowledge management.

Knowledge Discovery
http://www.KnowledgeDiscovery.info/ A blog developed and created by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. for monitoring knowledge discovery resources and sites on the Internet.

Knowledge Harvesting
http://www.KnowledgeHarvesting.org/ Knowledge Harvesting is used to rapidly convert top-performer expertise into knowledge assets that enhance corporate valuation and protect the organization from knowledge degradation. The purpose of this site is to offer an extensive introduction to Knowledge Harvesting.

Knowledge Management Cluster Web
http://www.kmcluster.com/ KMCluster focus is knowledge management (KM). Focus is also on the key KM techniques of enterprise collaboration (EC), organizational learning (OL), communities of practice (CP), social networks (SN), intellectual capital (IC), complexity science (CS), content management (CM), measurement & metrics (MM), policy & procedures (PP), innovation & invention (II) and analytics & taxonomies (AT).

Knowledge Management Magazine – Inside Knowledge
http://www.kmmagazine.com/ The original knowledge management publication. The knowledge that exists within your organization is your only sustainable source of competitive advantage. They believe this makes knowledge management a strategic imperative for you. Each issue of Inside Knowledge is designed to provide you with the information you require to: 1) Learn from the mistakes and success stories of others, 2) Lower business costs and increase productivity across your organization, 3) Ensure the ongoing professional development of yourself and your colleagues, and 4) Keep on top of industry developments, new techniques and tools for knowledge management and knowledge discovery.

Knowledge Management Research Center - CIO
http://www.cio.com/topic/1467/Knowledge_Management Making the most of intellectual capital. Topics in the Knowledge Management Research Center include: 1) Overview, 2) Strategy, 3) Process, 4) Measurement, 5) Technology, 6) Portal and Collaboration, 7) In the Know, 8) Case Studies, 9) Metrics, 10) CIO Radio, 11) Q&A, 12) Books, 13) Events, and 14) Newsletters. A comprehensive research center presented and updated by CIO.

Knowledge Management Resource Center
http://www.kmresource.com/ Knowledge Management Resource Center is a gateway to the world of Knowledge Management (KM). On this site you’ll find a comprehensive collection of KM resources, each reviewed and described to help you quickly locate what you’re looking for. You can explore knowledge management in their 17 departments, browse their bookstore, or search the site by keyword.

Linguistic Tools for Knowledge Discovery
http://www.montague.com/abstracts/discovery.htm The gaps between subject and functional boundaries are one of the best sources of breakthrough innovation. Yet for a variety of reasons — managerial, technical, and editorial — it’s often difficult to exploit them. In this article they use an example from their own research and experience to show how linguistic tools such as thesauri, glossaries, and navigation schemes can promote knowledge discovery by exposing potential linkages between seemingly unrelated subjects.

my Knowledge Explorer (mKE) and the mKR Language
http://mKRmKE.org/ my Knowledge Explorer (MKE) is an interactive tool for organizing knowledge. It helps the user to record, change and search knowledge, and provides extensive error checking to ensure the internal consistency of the knowledge. Interaction with mKE uses the mKR language. mKR is a very-high-level knowledge representation language with simple English-like statements, questions and commands, plus UNIX-shell-like variables, methods and control structures.

Megaputer Intelligence
http://www.megaputer.com/ Megaputer Intelligence Inc., a Delaware corporation established in May of 1997, is a leading developer and distributor of advanced software tools for data mining, text mining, and intelligent e-commerce personalization. Their tools help reveal knowledge hidden in data. They add intelligence and insight to every step of the business decision-making process. The mission of Megaputer is to provide customers around the world with top quality software tools for transforming raw data into knowledge and facilitating better business decisions.

Open Directory – Knowledge Discovery
http://dmoz.org/Reference/Knowledge_Management/Knowledge_Discovery/ A listing pf knowledge discovery resources broken into the following categories: 1) Books, 2) Business and Cmpanies, 3) Magazine and eZines, 4) Organizations, 5) Software, 6) Data Mining, 7) Information Visualization, 8) OLAP, and 9) Text Mining.

PEPITe S.A.
http://www.pepite.be/ PEPITe is a company specialized in intelligent data exploration and knowledge extraction techniques. PEPITe sells Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD) solutions. These solutions combine software modules and services. PEPITe offers a complete range of services and products dedicated to industrial Data Mining (DM) applications.

STATISTICA – Data Mining, Data Analysis, Quality Control, and Web Analytics Software
http://www.statsoft.com/ StatSoft’s flagship product line is the STATISTICA suite of analytics software products. STATISTICA provides the most comprehensive array of data analysis, data management, data visualization and data mining procedures. Its techniques include the widest selection of predictive modeling, clustering, classification and exploratory techniques in one software platform. Ideal for the knowledge discovery starter kit ….

T2K – Text to Knowledge
http://alg.ncsa.uiuc.edu/do/tools/t2k The T2K (Text to Knowledge) tool provides text mining and analysis capabilities that have been specially designed to operate in and capitalize upon the complexity of rich natural language domains of very large stores of text and multimedia documents.
T2K is a library of D2K modules that implements sophisticated algorithms for text analysis.

Telemakus – Mining and Mapping Research Findings to Promote Knowledge Discovery
http://www.telemakus.net/ The goal of the Telemakus System is to enhance the knowledge discovery process by developing retrieval, visual and interaction tools to mine and map research findings from the research literature. The objective of the research is to create, test and validate an infrastructure to permit the automation of the creation and maintenance of a searchable database that generates knowledge maps via query tools and concept mapping algorithms. We will also be applying natural language processing models and information analysis methods to ultimately speed up the scientific discovery process.

The Data Mine
http://www.the-data-mine.com/ The Data Mine was launched in April 1994, to provide information about DataMining (AKA KnowledgeDiscoveryInDatabases or KDD). There are 6 seperate DataMining topic areas (known as “webs”), each with an index. You could also start with the IntroductionToDataMining. Popular pages include: OnLine Analytical Processing (OLAP) , Data Mining Journals, Data Mining Tutorials, Data Sources. Topic areas include: Data Mining Software, Data Mining Index, Data Mining General/Misc, People Working in Data Mining, and Data Mining Companies and Organizations.

The Protege Project
http://protege.stanford.edu/ Protege is an ontology editor and a knowledge-base editor. Protege is also an open-source, Java tool that provides an extensible architecture for the creation of customized knowledge-based applications. Protege’s OWL Plug-in now provides support for editing Semantic Web ontologies.

Visual Analytics – VisuaLinks, Link Analysis, Data Mining Software
http://www.visualanalytics.com/ VisuaLinks^(R) is a platform-independent, graphical analysis tool used to discover patterns, trends, associations and hidden networks in any number and type of data sources. VisuaLinks presents data graphically uncovering underlying relationships and patterns. VisuaLinks addresses the entire analytical process – from access and integration to presentation and reporting – providing a single and complete solution to a broad range of data analysis needs.

UCI Knowledge Discovery in Databases Archive
http://kdd.ics.uci.edu/ This is an online repository of large data sets which encompasses a wide variety of data types, analysis tasks, and application areas. The primary role of this repository is to enable researchers in knowledge discovery and data mining to scale existing and future data analysis algorithms to very large and complex data sets. The archive is intended to serve as a permanent repository of publicly-accessible data sets for research in KDD and data mining.

Knowledge Discovery/Management and Data Mining

Academic Earth – Thousands of Video Lectures From the World’s Top Scholars
http://academicearth.org/

Academici – Where People Who Know Meet People Who Know
http://www.academici.com/

ACM SIGKDD: Current Explorations Issue
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/explorations/issue.php?issue=current

ACM SIGKDD Home Page
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/

Advanced Knowledge Technologies
http://www.aktors.org/

Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy
http://advancingknowledge.com/

Amazon.com: A Glance: Managing Knowledge : A Practical Web-Based Approach
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/020143315X/002-5401737-1036049

Ambient Intelligence: Changing Forms of Human-Computer Interaction and their Social Implications by Mahesh S. Raisinghani*, Ally Benoit, Jianchun Ding, Maria Gomez, Kanak Gupta, Victor Gusila, Daniel Power and Oliver Schmedding
http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/viewArticle/149/147

Analyzing the Role of Knowledge Organization in Scholarly Communication
http://www.db.dk/dbi/samling/phd/jackandersen-phd.htm

Association of KnowledgeWork (AOK)
http://www.kwork.org/

BAYESIA: Bayesian Networks and Data Mining Tool
http://www.bayesia.com/

Bibliomining for Automated Collection Development in a Digital Library Setting: Using Data Mining to Discover Web-Based Scholarly Research Works by Dr. Scott Nicholson
http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/archive/00000625/

Bibliomining Information Center
http://www.bibliomining.com/

BLIASoft Knowledge Discovery
http://www.bliasoft.com/Eindex.html

Brint.com – Business Technology – Information Economy – Knowledge Management
http://www.brint.com/

Center for Automated Learning and Discovery
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cald/

ChangeThis – A New Media
http://www.changethis.com/

Community Intelligence labs (CoIL)
http://www.co-i-l.com/coil/knowledge-garden/cop/index.shtml

Conzilla – Concept Browser
http://www.conzilla.org/

CORDRA (Content Object Repository Discovery and Registration/Resolution Architecture)
http://cordra.net/

Creative Commons RDF-Enhanced Search
http://search.creativecommons.org/

Context Discovery – Text Summarization and Knowledge Discovery Tool
http://www.contextdiscovery.com/

D2K – Data To Knowledge
http://alg.ncsa.uiuc.edu/do/tools/d2k

DataFerrett – Data Mining Tool
http://dataferrett.census.gov/

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Databases
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.42.1071

Data Mining Resources
http://www.DataMiningResources.info/
Data Mining, Web Mining and Knowledge Discovery Resources
http://www.eruditionhome.com/datamining/

Data Mining : White Papers, Webcasts and Product Information
http://www.bitpipe.com/data/rlist?t=itmgmt_10_40_96

DBpedia Knowledge Base
http://dbpedia.org/

Deep Web Research
http://www.deepwebresearch.info/

ePresence Interactive Media
http://epresence.tv/

Excited Utterances – Archived Resource Of All Things Legal KM
http://www.excitedutterances.blogspot.com/

Explore Open Archives
http://opcit.eprints.org/explorearchives.shtml

Global Knowledge Partnership (GKP)
http://www.globalknowledge.org/

GMDH – Group Method of Data Handling
http://come.to/GMDH

Gurteen Knowledge Website
http://www.gurteen.com/

IBM Research – Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining
http://www.research.ibm.com/compsci/kdd/

IET Discover
http://discover.theiet.org/

Information Retrieval Intelligence
http://www.miislita.com/

Insead Knowledge
http://knowledge.insead.edu/

Insightful Miner
http://www.insightful.com/products/iminer/default.asp

Intellexer – Custom Built Search Engines, Knowledge Management Tools, Natural Language Processing
http://www.intellexer.com/

Intelligent Portals
http://www.intelligent-portals.com/

Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge, and Management
http://ijikm.org/

Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects
http://www.ijklo.org/

International Conference on Knowledge Management (ICKM 2008)
http://www.ickm2008.org/

International Journal of Knowledge and Learning (IJKL)
http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijkl

International Journal of Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Engineering Systems
http://www.kesinternational.org/journal/

International Journal of Knowledge Management (IJKM)
http://www.igi-global.com/journals/details.asp?id=4288

International Journal of Knowledge Management Studies (IJKMS)
http://www.inderscience.com/ijkms/

International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Management (P2PKM)
http://www.p2pkm.org/

ITtoolbox Knowledge Management
http://knowledgemanagement.ittoolbox.com/

J.UKM: Universal Journal of Knowledge Management
http://www.jukm.org/

KANA — Knowledge Management

http://www.kana.com/

KBL(sm): A Registry of Library Knowledge Bases
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/KBL.htm

K-CAP2005 – Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture
http://www.kcap05.org/

KDD-2010: The 16th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/kdd2010/

KDnuggets: Data Mining, Web Mining, and Knowledge Discovery Guide
http://www.kdnuggets.com/

KM4d – Open Access, Peer-Reviewed, On Knowledge Management In Development
http://www.km4dev.org/

KmBlogger
http://kmwiki.wikispaces.com/

KMCI – The New Knowledge Management
http://www.kmci.org/

KmForums
http://kmwiki.wikispaces.com/

KMNetwork
http://www.brint.com/km/

KmWiki
http://kmwiki.wikispaces.com/

KMWorld
http://www.kmworld.com/

Know-Center – Austria’s Competence Center for Knowledge Management
http://www.know-center.at/

Knowledge and Distributed Intelligence
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/publicat/nsf9860/start.htm

Knowledge at Wharton
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/

Knowledge Base – Indiana University
http://kb.indiana.edu/

Knowledge-Based Collaboration Webs
http://www.ai.mit.edu/projects/its/

KnowledgeBoard: the European Knowledge Management (KM) Community
http://www.knowledgeboard.com/

Knowledge Connections Website
http://www.skyrme.com/index.htm

Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)
http://www.keionline.org/

KnowledgeForge – Digital Open Knowledge Community
http://www.knowledgeforge.net/

Knowledge Management
http://www.mapnp.org/library/org_perf/know_mng.htm

Knowledge Management for Development (KM4Dev)
http://www.km4dev.org/

Knowledge Management Cluster Web
http://www.kmcluster.com/

Knowledge Management Consortium International – Resource Center
http://www.kmci.org/

Knowledge Management Is a Business Imperative
http://www.llrx.com/features/kmsmarter.htm

Knowledge Management Knowledge Base
http://knowledgemanagement.ittoolbox.com/

Knowledge Management Magazine
http://www.kmmagazine.com/

Knowledge Management Research and Practice (KMRP)
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/kmrp/index.html

Knowledge Management Resource Center
http://www.kmresource.com/

Knowledge Nurture
http://www.knowledge-nurture.com/

KnowledgeTree(TM) – Open Source Document Management System
http://kt-dms.sourceforge.net/

Linguistic Tools for Knowledge Discovery
http://www.montague.com/abstracts/discovery.htm

LLRX: Deep Web Research 2010
http://www.llrx.com/features/deepweb2010.htm

LLRX — Knowledge Management: A Bibliographic Resource
http://www.llrx.com/features/km_bib.htm

London Knowledge Lab
http://www.lkl.ac.uk/cms/index.php

M2K (Music-to-Knowledge)Toolkit
http://www.music-ir.org/evaluation/m2k/

Megaputer Intelligence
http://www.megaputer.com/

Melcrum’s Knowledge Management Newsletter
http://www.melcrum.com/services/topic_alerts/source_km/archive_new.shtml

Meta Knowlege Management Portal
http://www.metakm.com/

MIT Center for Collective Intelligence
http://cci.mit.edu/

OpenClinical – Knowledge Management for Healthcare
http://www.openclinical.org/

OpenKM – Knowledge Management
http://www.openkm.com/

Open Knowledge Definition (OKD) – Defining the Open in Open Data, Open Content and Open Information
http://www.opendefinition.org/

Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org/

PEPITe S.A.
http://www.pepite.be/

Perilog
http://ettc.usc.edu/ames/perilog/homepage.html

Public Knowledge Project (PKP)
http://pkp.sfu.ca/

Resource Discovery iKit
http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/rdinfokit/service/index.cfm

SecondBrain – Organize and Discover Online Content
http://secondbrain.com/

Semantic Knowledge Technologies and Language Computation
http://gate.ac.uk/projects/sekt/

SIGKDD Explorations
http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigkdd/explorations/

Software Suites for Data Mining, Analytics, and Knowledge Discovery
http://www.kdnuggets.com/software/suites.html

SPREE – The Knowledge Exchange Network Project
http://spree.dai-labor.de/

STATISTICA – Data Mining, Data Analysis, Quality Control, and Web Analytics Software
http://www.statsoft.com/

T2K – Text to Knowledge
http://alg.ncsa.uiuc.edu/do/tools/t2k

Team Knowledge Management: A Computer-Mediated Approach – A Knowledge Ability White Paper
http://www.knowab.co.uk/wbwteam.html

Telemakus – Mining and Mapping Research Findings to Promote Knowledge Discovery
http://www.telemakus.net/

The Brain – Visual Information Management
http://www.TheBrain.com/

The Data Mine
http://www.the-data-mine.com/

The Gurteen Knowledge Website – Knowledge Management
http://www.gurteen.com/

The Protege Project
http://protege.stanford.edu/

The Nonsense of ‘Knowledge Management’ by T.D. Wilson
http://www.informationr.net/ir/8-1/paper144.html

The Semantic Indexing Project – Creating Tools To Identify the Latent Knowledge Found in Text
http://www.knowledgesearch.org/

TripleHop Technologies: Knowledge Management
http://www.triplehop.com/solutions/knowledge.htm

UCI Machine Learning Repository Content Summary
http://mlearn.ics.uci.edu/MLSummary.html

Uncovering Epistemological and Ontological Assumptions of Software Designers
http://arxiv.org/ftp/cs/papers/0406/0406022.pdf

wePapers – Creating the World’s Biggest Study Group for Knowledge Discovery
http://www.wepapers.com/

Knowledge Discovery/Retrieval and the World Wide Web

Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT)
http://www.aktors.org/akt/

AnkaSearch – Meta Search and Deep Web Search Desktop Tool
http://www.ankasoftware.com/ankasearch.html

APECKS: a Tool to Support Living Ontologies
http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KAW/KAW98/tennison/index.html

CGI: Common Gateway Interface
http://www.w3.org/CGI/

Cirilab Knowledge Generation Engine(TM) (KGE)
http://www.cirilab.com/

Comindwork – Collaboration Mind Work: Online Tools for Project Management, Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing
http://www.comindwork.com/

Comprehensive Knowledge Archive Network (CKAN)
http://www.ckan.net/

Conceptual Graphs
http://meganesia.int.gu.edu.au/~phmartin/WebKB/doc/CGs.html

Controlled Languages in Industry
http://cslu.cse.ogi.edu/HLTsurvey/ch7node8.html

Corporate Memory Through Cooperative Creation of Knowledge Bases and Hyper-Documents
http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KAW/KAW96/euzenat/euzenat96b.html

Creative Commons RDF-Enhanced Search
http://search.creativecommons.org/

CSA – Guide to Discovery
http://www.csa.com/

Cuil Search – Search 127 Billion Web Pages
http://www.cuil.com/

Database Projects — WebLog
http://users.encs.concordia.ca/~bibdb/weblog.html

dgCommunities – Knowledge Sharing and Collaboation Worldwide
http://topics.developmentgateway.org/

Eigenfactor.org – Ranking and Mapping Scientific Knowledge
http://www.eigenfactor.org/

Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management (EJKM)
http://www.ejkm.com/

Evri – Search Less Discover More
http://www.evri.com/

Foundations and Trends(R) in Information Retrieval
http://www.nowpublishers.com/ir/

FreshNotes – Why Search? Discover
http://www.freshnotes.com/

Go-Geo! – Geo-Spatial Datasets and Related Resources
http://www.gogeo.ac.uk/

Google Directory – Reference & Knowledge Management & Knowledge Discovery
http://snipurl.com/7f7v

Harvest Information Discovery and Access System
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.21.1842

intelligentKM
http://www.intelligentkm.com/

International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence
http://www.inderscience.com/ijkwi

Knowledge Harvesting
http://www.KnowledgeHarvesting.org/

Knowledge Interchange Format (KIF)
http://logic.stanford.edu/kif/kif.html

Knowledgespeak – STM Publishing News from Scope eKnowledge Center
http://www.knowledgespeak.com/Index.asp

KnowleSys – Web Data Extraction
http://www.knowlesys.com/

Librarians’ Resource Centre – SLA Toronto Chapter Toolbox
http://slatoronto.andornot.com/lrc.aspx

News To Watch – Discover, Visualize and Embed the News
http://www.newstowatch.com/

OntoBroker and Related Initiatives for the Semantic Web
http://ontobroker.semanticweb.org/

Ontosaurus: Loom Web Browser
http://www.isi.edu/isd/ontosaurus.html

Qitera – Unleashing Collective Knowledge
http://www.qitera.com/

Qlipso – Content Discovery Collectively Tool
http://www.qlipso.com/

OWL – Library of Useful Knowledge, Opinions and Images from Experts Worldwide
http://www.owl.com/

RDF: Resource Description Framework
http://www.w3.org/RDF/

Sharein – Share Your Discoveries
http://sharein.com/

Surfulater – Software for Internet Research and Web Information Management
http://www.surfulater.com/

Swivel – Explore and Discover Data
http://www.swivel.com/

Tadzebao and WebOnto: Discussing, Browsing, and Editing Ontologies on the Web
http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KAW/KAW98/domingue/

The Klearinghouse: An Inventory of Knowledge Technologies
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue25/brett/

The Lemur Toolkit – Language Modeling and Information Retrieval Research
http://www.lemurproject.org/

ThoughtMesh – Publishing and Discovering Scholarly Papers Online
http://thoughtmesh.net/

Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF)
http://xml.coverpages.org/udef.html

Video Lectures – Exchange Ideas and Share Knowledge
http://videolectures.net/

Visual Analytics – VisuaLinks, Link Analysis, Data Mining Software
http://www.visualanalytics.com/

Visual Programming Languages Bibliography: A Branch of the Visual Language Research Bibliography
http://web.engr.oregonstate.edu/~burnett/vpl.html

Web Information Retrieval/Natural Language Processing Group (WING)
http://wing.comp.nus.edu.sg/portal/

Web IR & IE
http://www.webir.org/

WebKB Set of Tools
http://meganesia.int.gu.edu.au/~phmartin/WebKB/

WordNet
http://wordnet.princeton.edu/

YourVersion – Real Time Discovery Engine of Relevant Content for Your Personal Interests
http://www.yourversion.com/

The Iraq war is still being touted by Washington and the Pentagon as a war for progress and stability in the region. A study released May 26, however, reveals a radically different reality.

The Mercer Quality of Living Survey ranked Baghdad last in a list of “most livable cities.” The study took into account political, economic, ecological, social and cultural factors.

The result is not surprising considering the devastation brought on by the U.S.-led invasion. Sewage treatment plants, factories, schools, hospitals, and museums have been destroyed. As a result, Iraqi citizens now have scarce access to water and electricity.

The demolition of infrastructure is an important tactic in imperialist war and helps explain why the study found that, “A lack of security and stability continue to have a negative impact on Baghdad’s quality of living.”

The only benefactors from the occupation have been big corporations like BP, who got access to the giant Rumaila oil field. The citizens of Iraq continue to pay with their lives.

OCEANSIDE, Calif. – A Marine Corps fighter pilot accused of stealing $440,000 in Iraq reconstruction funds turned himself in on Monday, federal officials said.

Maj. Mark R. Fuller, 42, of Yuma, Ariz., is facing 22 counts under an indictment issued by a federal grand jury, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Phoenix. An arrest warrant was issued for Fuller, who appeared before a federal judge Monday and “was released on his own recognizance,” said Special Agent James McCormick, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office.

Federal prosecutors charge that Fuller took cash earmarked for the Commander’s Emergency Response Program, or CERP, and made 91 cash deposits totaling more than $440,000 into bank accounts with Navy Federal Credit Union, Bank of America and Chase Bank from October 2005 to April 2006. Each deposit was less than $10,000, the threshold at which federal law requires banks to report cash deposits.

While he was in Iraq in 2005, Fuller was assigned as a project purchasing officer with 5th Civil Affairs Group, officials said.

Fuller is an F-5 pilot assigned to Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron 401, the Corps’ aggressor squadron based at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, said Gunnery Sgt. Bill Lisbon, an air station spokesman.

The case stems from an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service, Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Defense Criminal Investigative Service and the Special Inspector General for Iraqi Reconstruction, officials said.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. — A Marine Corps recruiter for the Grand Junction area faces charges alleging more than 200 files of child pornography had been downloaded to his computer.

Craig Thomas Walker surrendered Monday on a warrant alleging sexual exploitation of a child.

An arrest warrant affidavit says authorities tracking IP addresses of computer systems that were sharing pornography files were led to the 25-year-old’s computer.

Walker’s attorney, Edward Nugent, told a judge Tuesday that Walker cooperated with investigators. He says Walker has served active duty with the Marine Corps for eight years, is a combat veteran, and has worked the past three years as a local recruiter.

Walker’s bond was set at $60,000.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Alaska-based soldier is under investigation for a video on his Facebook page that taunts smiling Iraqi children by asking if they’re gay, if they engage in certain sex acts and if they would grow up to be terrorists.

The two young boys did not appear to understand the questions, which were in English, but smiled at the camera and at times flashed “thumbs up” gestures during the 30-second clip.

Spc. Robert A. Rodriguez, who is based at Fort Wainwright in Fairbanks, was ordered to remove the video from his site, Army spokesman Maj. Bill Coppernoll said Monday.

“The incident is currently under investigation, and the Army will take appropriate action based on the findings of the investigation,” he said.

It wasn’t immediately clear if Rodriguez shot the video or just posted it, and discovering that will be part of the Army’s investigation, Coppernoll said.

The video is “disgraceful and clearly inconsistent” with standards expected of every soldier, he said.

Raleigh, N.C., television station WRAL first reported the video after another soldier stationed at Fort Wainwright shared it with friends in North Carolina, who took their concerns to the station.

WRAL aired part of the video and quoted from Rodriquez’s Facebook page before the site was made private.

Above the Facebook video posting — which was titled, “future gay terrorist!” — is written, “i got bored in iraq … so I kept myself entertained!”

The boys are shown on a dirt road, facing a camera.

A voice is heard asking the boys, “Are you going to grow up to be a terrorist?”

When the boys show two thumbs up, the voice on the video says, “Yeah. All right. Cool. Yeah, terrorist.”

There was no phone listing for Rodriguez in the Fairbanks area. Coppernoll said he did not know the soldier’s hometown, but the video of the Facebook page shown on WRAL indicated Rodriguez listed Miami.

“For anybody to be so cruel and disrespectful to children of any country but especially a country that we are occupying is really disgraceful and repugnant,” said Tim Stallard, a spokesman for Alaskans Together for Equality.

An officer from Scott Air Force Base, Ill., pleaded guilty in federal court May 17 to a charge of online enticement after traveling to Tennessee to have sex with a 15-year-old girl.

Capt. Felix Tran, assigned to Air Mobility Command, will be sentenced Sept. 23 in Chattanooga, Tenn. He faces a minimum sentence of 10 years, said Bryan Hoss, Tran’s defense lawyer.

The 32-year-old officer met the girl five years ago while playing the online fantasy game Everquest II, according to court documents. The two developed a relationship via online chat, e-mail, MySpace, text messages and phone calls. The girl’s mother discovered the relationship after Tran mailed the teenager a sex toy, and an undercover employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigation began working with the family in November.

The girl invited Tran to visit her in Chattanooga, where Tran was arrested shortly after he arrived Dec 18. According to an affidavit filed by an FBI special agent, Tran knew the victim’s age and worried he was being set up by police.

He was taken into custody following his guilty plea, and Hoss said his client will be discharged from the Air Force soon.

“He was keeping his unit aware of what was going on,” Hoss said. “They knew this day was coming.”