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Nadia's Ramadan
Nadia, a young Muslim-American girl, describes the celebration of Ramadan, in which Muslims fast, or go without food and drink, during the day. She narrates a day in the life of her family of parents and siblings as she completes the fast for a whole day. Nadia explains when Ramadan happens, what happens from the beginning to the end of the day, what it means for adults and children.Read More

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Detailed plot synopsis reviews of The Colour of Magic
Chapter Analysis of The Colour of Magic
Click on a plot link to find similar books!
Plot & ThemesComposition of Book Descript. of chases or violence 40%planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives 20%Feelings, relationships, character bio/development 20%Descript. of society, phenomena (tech), places 20% Tone of book - humorous or laughable FANTASY or SCIENCE FICTION? - fantasy world/fantasy past Explore/1st contact/ enviro story - Yes Explore: - exploring a wondrous planet or phenomena Parody - Yes Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Main CharacterIdentity: - Male Age: - 40's-50's
SettingTerrain - Water - Mountains - Forests A substantial portion of this book takes place on a non-Earth planetary body: - humans in a primitive/fantasy society - unfriendly aliens - neutral aliens Planet outside solar system? - Yes
Writing Stylescientific jargon? (SF only) - none/very little science jargon needed Sex in book? - Yes How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
Books with storylines, themes & endings like The Colour of Magic
|The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett
|Bored of the Rings by Harvard Lampoon
|How to Rescue a Dead Princess by Jeff Strand
|Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
|Sourcery by Terry Pratchett


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Enna is a Media Center application. Featuring a simple user interface, Enna is based on the powerful Enlightenment Foundations Libraries (EFL) as for its graphical user interface and GeeXboX libraries as for multimedia playback and information retrieval.
2010/03/21: Enna v0.4.0 is available for Nokia Maemo5 (N900 phones).
2010/01/02: Enna first public stable release (v0.4.0) is available.
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Well, I don't know what got into me but I've been a stitching fiend for the past few weeks and have produced some new designs. The first is hot off the iron as of an hour ago and I don't have a name for it (any ideas?) but I absolutely enjoyed every stitch! It only took me 3 1/2 days to stitch and I love the colors if I do say so myself. I used a bunch of new Gentle Arts Shaker threads.
The second piece was finished for me by Deb Hunter and has the oh-so creative name of "Remember Me Stitching Pocket", lol. Deb always does such a fantastic job of finshing and I highly recommend her. You can contact her at firstname.lastname@example.com
The third piece I'm calling "A Patriot's Sampler". I like to do a patriotic piece each summer and this one grew and grew, too many good quotes out there! I hope you'll like them and they should be out within a couple weeks.
Friday, April 24, 2009
A few more offerings
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Monday, April 13, 2009
Primitive Wizard of Oz finished
Finished! This is my primitive Wizard of Oz that I talked about below. It scanned a bit light but you'll get the idea, lol. Hope you like it.
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Friday, April 10, 2009
Primitive Wizard of Oz
Here's a little sneak preview of my flying monkey. I just designed and am currently stitching a primitive Wizard of Oz sampler. My daughter is off to the "Emerald City" for college this fall (Seattle) and is also playing Oz in her annual dance recital which has the Wizard of Oz theme this year so I thought it was an appropriate time to do an Oz sampler. Stay tuned!
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Monday, April 06, 2009
Sheep's Paradise
Just a quick note and photo of my latest design, "Sheep's Paradise". It's done on 40 ct Sandstone with Crescent Colours cotton floss. It was so nice stitching with the bright colors at this time of year and I hope you'll like it.
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Apparently, Randy at GeneaMusings started a meme. He tagged Jasia at Creative Gene, who in turn tagged me! Before I write out mine, you can go to Jasia's post and read her answers. Or go to Randy's post and read his.
Okay, here goes!
10 Years Ago I:
1. Was waiting for my oldest daughter to graduate high school
2. Had been working at my (present) job 9 months
3. Was planning to attend my 20th high school reunion
4. Made some of my own clothes
5. Enjoyed making homemade bread and egg noodles
5 Things on Today's "To Do" List: (will update as I complete!)
1. Run Errands
2. Update Web sites
3. Plan my Bible Study Lesson
4. Send an anniversary card to my sister & brother-in-law
5. Watch the last Presidential Debate
5 Snacks I Enjoy:
1. Jalapeno bombers from Church's chicken
2. Frozen Yogurt
3. McDonald's Chocolate shakes
4. Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte
5. Swiss Cheese
5 Places I Have Lived:
1. Beavercreek, Ohio
2. Lewisville, Texas
3. Denton, Texas
4. Grapevine, Texas
5. Kettering, Ohio
5 Jobs I've Had:
1. Prep for a Catering Company
2. Waitress
3. Graphic Artist/Designer
4. Clerk
5. After Market Sales Rep
5 Genea-bloggers I'm Passing This On To:
1. Jeanna at RootsReading
2. A. Spence at Spence-Lowry Family History
3. Nikki-ann at Notes of Life
4. M. Diane Rogers at CanadaGenealogy or 'Jane's Your Aunt'
5. Janet Iles at Janet the researcher
Please post your Meme and tag others!


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(CNN) -- North Korea's state media released a "detailed report" Tuesday claiming that American journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee entered the country illegally in order to record material for a "smear campaign" against the reclusive communist state.
Supporters rally for U.S. journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling on June 4 in Seoul, South Korea.
It added that the two women "admitted that what they did were criminal acts ... prompted by the political motive to isolate and stifle the socialist system of the DPRK by faking up moving images aimed at falsifying its human rights performance and hurling slanders and calumnies at it."
Ling and Lee were sentenced this month to 12 years of hard labor in North Korea.
They were arrested in March for "having illegally trespassed into the border of the DPRK [Democratic People's Republic of Korea, as North Korea is officially known] and committed hostile acts against it for which they were tried."
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak urged North Korea to release the two journalists Tuesday in a joint appearance with U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House. Obama did not mention them. Relations between North and South Korea are extremely tense. Watch family members plead for women »
The reporters for California-based Current TV -- a media venture of former U.S. Vice President Al Gore -- were arrested while reporting on the border between North Korea and China. They were sentenced after a closed-door trial.
"The investigation proved that the intruders crossed the border and committed the crime for the purpose of making animation files to be used for an anti-DPRK smear campaign over its human rights issue," the Korean Central News Agency said Tuesday.
The KCNA report said there were two unidentified men with Ling and Lee when they were arrested, but gave no further details. It did not say whether the men were arrested.
In a joint statement June 8, the journalists' families said they were "shocked and devastated" by the trial and sentence and urged Pyongyang "to show compassion and grant Laura and Euna clemency and allow them to return home to their families."
"Laura and Euna are journalists who went to the China-North Korea border to do a job," they said. "We don't know what really happened on March 17, but if they wandered across the border without permission, we apologize on their behalf and we are certain that they have also apologized."
The KCNA report Tuesday said they had "covertly crossed the River Tuman" into North Korea.
In Washington, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told reporters earlier this month the United States is seeking the immediate release of the two journalists on humanitarian grounds.
"Obviously, we are deeply concerned about the length of the sentences and the fact that this trial was conducted totally in secret with no observers," she said June 8. "And we are engaged in all possible ways, through every possible channel, to secure their release."
The families said Ling suffers from an unspecified "serious medical condition" and Lee has a 4-year-old daughter "who is displaying signs of anguish over the absence of her mother."
"We believe that the three months they have already spent under arrest with little communication with their families is long enough," they said.
The United States has no diplomatic relations with North Korea, and Sweden represents U.S. interests there. The Swedish ambassador told the U.S. State Department that no observers were allowed in the courtroom for the trial, and the ambassador was allowed to see Lee and Ling only three times.
CNN's Suzanne Malveaux in Washington contributed to this report.
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Welcome to the Higgins Wiki (click Higgins Home if that's what you really wanted). This wiki is a catch-all place for misc documentation, spex, etc. that don't otherwise fit nicely into one of the left-hand menu items on the Higgins Home page.
- 1 Getting Around
- 2 Newly Added Pages
- 3 Upcoming Events
- 4 Developing, Building and Deploying
- 5 IP-Related
- 6 Interoperability
- 7 Archives
- 8 Eclipse
- 9 Related Communities
- 10 Reference
- 11 Links
Getting Around
The Higgins Home site and this wiki are not integrated from a navigational point of view so it is is easy to get lost. From Higgins Home you can click the menu items at the left and get where you want to go, including back to this wiki. The best thing to do is bookmark Higgins Home, not this wiki page. At the bottom of every wiki page we try to remember to put a link back to Higgins Home. Oh, and did we mention Higgins Home.
Newly Added Pages
Upcoming Events
- Higgins SAML Architecture F2F
- IIW - Higgins participation in interop, etc.
- Jan_15-17_Provo_F2F_Agenda Preliminary agenda
- Higgins upcoming events
Developing, Building and Deploying
Branch Structure
- HEAD -- ongoing development for Higgins 1.0
- B1-0M9 -- state of components at the end of 1.0M9
- M0-8 -- state of components at the end 1.0M8
We've recently switched over to using SVN instead of CVS so the following is out of date:
- Higgins Development Processes
- Coding-related Conventions
- Build Enhancements --list of planned enhancements to the nightly and developer build processes
- Automated Builds --description of the existing nightly build process
- Starting a Higgins Build
- Generating anonymous psf file using PERL script --steps to generate anonymous psf file for a project including all it's dependencies
- Copying necessary 3rd party libs to project lib folder using PERL script --steps to copy all necessary 3rd party libs from centralized location (local) to project lib folder
- Higgins2Ant -- new page, needs work
- Deployment Requirements -- gathering requirements for our build/deploy processes
Being a Component Owner
- List of Higgins Third Party_Dependencies
- Open Higgins Ipzilla items (committers only)
- Response to Open Specification Promise --Higgins and Microsoft CardsSpace
- Draft Response to Open Specification Promise --earlier draft
- CardSpace Interop --testing with CardSpace IdP/STSes and RPs
Previous Face-to-Face
- Relying Party Security Policy - rough draft
- Idemix and Higgins
- Integrating With Higgins
- Preliminary Use Cases
- OpenXRI Support
- Dependency Template
- 2007 identity events - use as input to plan 2008 events
- Development Resources
- Eclipse Development Process 2006 Revision Final
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- Guide to the Eclipse Legal Documents
- Eclipse Committer Due Diligence Guidelines, feel free to email firstname.lastname@example.com with any IP related licensing or process questions
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Clarification of IP processes for use of third party libraries
- Any time anyone working on the Higgins project wants to introduce a project dependency, it needs to be brought forward to the Higgins project.
- If the decision is made to introduce the dependency and the dependency involves software that is not licensed under the EPL, then a formal IP process needs to be gone though to approve the software binaries for inclusion in the project cvs. Note that this process must be followed even if the software is a common java library used by other Eclipse processes. (If the software has been used by another Eclipse project, the process is much faster.) Eclipse has a system IPzilla for managing this process. If you are anticipating a dependency, you need to bring it forward as soon as possible to allow time for the IP due diligence process to take place. See more about IPzilla below.
- Libraries licensed with EPL are the easiest to get permission to use, followed by Apache 2.0. GPL and LGPL licences are not compatible with EPL.
- Orbit is a new Eclipse project http://www.eclipse.org/orbit/ designed to be a repository for third party libraries that are approved for use in Eclipse projects. If the incoming libraries are not already bundles then Orbit committers will work to create a bundle that is suitable for use in Eclipse projects. See http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Orbit_Faq for a list or Orbit managed libraries. Orbit managed libaries are the easiest of third party libraries to add to an Eclipse project. Even if a library is listed under Orbit, you still need to go through the IPzilla process before putting it into the Higgins CVS.


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Deutscher, Isaac
Deutscher, Isaac doi´chər [key], 1907–67, English writer, b. Poland. Editor (1926–32) of the Communist press in Poland, he was expelled from the party for his anti-Stalinist views. During World War II he escaped to England in 1939, and he served on the staffs of the Economist and the Observer. Deutscher made notable use of his literary and political acumen in writing a number of excellent works on Soviet topics. Outstanding are his scholarly biography of Stalin (1949) and his trilogy on Trotsky, The Prophet Armed (1954), The Prophet Unarmed (1959), and The Prophet Outcast (1963).
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2023, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Banks could generate incremental global annual revenue of US$200b – equivalent to 20% of emerging market banks' 2016 revenues – by better serving financially excluded individuals and small businesses in 60 emerging countries, according to the EY report Innovation in financial inclusion: revenue growth through innovative inclusion.
Driving greater financial inclusion – the availability of affordable, accessible and relevant financial products – will generate sizeable economic benefits, according to the report, boosting GDP by up to 14% in developing economies such as India, and 30% in frontier markets such as Kenya.
More than 40% of micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in the least developed countries reported challenges in obtaining financing, compared to 30% in middle-income countries and just 15% in high-income regions, as traditionally, banks operating in emerging markets (Ems) have not viewed financially excluded individuals and MSMEs as profitable target customer segments.
Jan Bellens, EY Global Banking & Capital Markets Emerging Markets Leader, says:
"There is a multitude of opportunity for banks to increase profits by being more financially inclusive. Not only does financial inclusiveness have a positive impact on financial institutions' bottom line, but it is also good for local economies and individuals as inclusiveness tends to smooth income trends, grow local businesses, protect against natural and man-made disasters and helps individuals to save for important life events."
According to the report, banks' financial inclusion growth opportunities will be the greatest in markets that embrace technology-led innovation and that have a clear and supportive policy framework for financial stability. Drivers of technology infrastructure include mobile adoption and e-payments, national digital identity systems, credit data infrastructure, open access to digital data and currency digitization. Policy and systemic drivers include strong customer safeguards, responsible financial literacy programs, bankruptcy regimes, regulatory incentives for banks, diverse financial ecosystems and interoperable financial systems.
The report states that banks focusing on the following three actions will be most successful in the realm of financial inclusiveness:
1.Customize offerings to raise relevance and deepen account adoption:
To drive financial inclusion, banks must structure highly relevant and simplified financial solutions that meet the specific needs of their customers at an affordable cost. For example, in Kenya and Uganda a global financial institution provides poor communities with a low-cost group savings account, making more than US$229k available in loans to the community.
2.Innovate channels to reach more customers at lower cost:
Financial institutions will likely require a "bricks-and-clicks" distribution model that includes a physical branch presence to build trust and confidence, supplemented by correspondent agents. In Colombia, a telecom company has converted 13,000 pay phones into "payphone banks" allowing underserved customers to deposit coin-denomination daily earnings into their own microsavings accounts, which can be used to pay utility bills or apply for microloans at stores and retailers.
3.Creatively manage risk to address absence of credit histories:
Non-banks, such as venture capitalists and some microloan organizations, are pioneering in this space, developing new underwriting and credit scoring analytics for individuals and businesses. For example, in India, a small business lender that developed credit assessment processes using business and behavioral data, trade associations and referrals, coupled with modern workflow automation. It has disbursed US$32m in loans to MSMEs in India since 2014.
The complete report is available to download here.
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Feb 27, 2015
Since the beginning of time, mankind has been compelled to create. They are driven to build, tinker and craft. It's something that makes us distinctly human. With the growth of modern technology and the birth of the internet, innovation has never been so accessible and within our grasp. Allowing us to learn about the...
Feb 24, 2015
Are games art? Or is that too lofty a title? Join the Honeybadgers and Sour Grape as we debate the validity of games as an art form, and why this is such an important topic to to the medium as well as it's relationship to the Gamergate discussion.
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Sometimes there's a man. Okay maybe not a man, cause he's an otter. Sometimes there's an otter who just happens to be perfect for his time and place. He fits the situation like a glove. Turns gray skies in sunshine. He's never turned water into wine and surely he can only walk on water when he's ice skating,...
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Hilarious and enraging things are happening to art. And vice-versa.
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- Sambal Dabu-Dabu is traditional hot, sour and spicy salsa from Manado, Indonesia. Sambal dabu-dabu is similiar to Mexican salsa for tacos. It's consists chopped tomatoes, freshly squeese calamansi limes or known as lemon cui or jeruk kesturi/kunci, shallots, chopped bird's eye chili, lemon basil leaves, vegetable oil or coconut oil, and salt. Sambal Dabu-Dabu is related to Sambal Matah from Bali which consist of finely sliced shallots, chopped bird's eye chili, terasi or shrimp paste, with a dash of kaffir lime juice. Both Sambal Dabu-Dabu and Sambal Matah is suits for any seafood, especialy barrbequed dish.
- For the grilling or barbequing seasoning, i use Sambal Rica-Rica. Another spicy and hot sambal from Manado, it uses ginger, chili, lemon and spices. Suitable for barbecue meats and seafoods. I've posted Grilled Beef Ribs with Indonesian Spicy Rica-Rica Sauce or Resep Iga Sapi Bakar Bumbu Rica-Rica. For todays lunch, i use ikan baronang or rabbit fish, species from family Siganidae. Common baronang in Indonesia is Baronang Susu (Siganus canaliculatus). This fish ir rather seasonal fish with a white, sweet and succulent meat. Ikan baronang is usually grilled, deep fried or even pepes (steamed with banana leaves wrap).
Since i'm starving and literrary can wait longer to cooked through the fish with grilling, i deep fried the fish first to cheated the cooking duration. Well, some of the restaurant did this too. The fish is usually seasoned, deep fried until half done than grilled with some seasoning applied. The fish is grilled just to infused the smokey aromas and this can get rid the fishy smells.
Grilled rabbit fish (ikan baronang bakar) recipe:
- 1 (600 gr) ikan baronang or rabbit fish, cleaned
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
- 3 cloves garlic, mashed
- 3 cm ginger, grated, juiced
- salt and peper to taste
- 3 tbsp SAMBAL RICA-RICA
- oil for deep friying
How to make grilled rabbit fish :
- Marinade the rabbit fish with garlic, ginger juice, lemon juice and salt, let it refrigerate for 30 minutes
- Meanwhile, set your barbeque charcoal
- Deep fried the rabbit fish until half done#optional
- Spread SAMBAL RICA-RICA all over the rabbit fish
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Photo gallery: 1,000 Firefighters Battle The 11,000-Acre Silver Fire Near Banning |Silver Fire destroys structures in Banning | Silver Fire burns over 10,000-acres burning mulitple structures, south of Banning
Related story: Silver Fire south of Banning burns homes, chars about 6,000 acres
The Silver Fire near Banning grew to 14,000 acres on Thursday as 1,000 firefighters scrambled to gain control of the fast-moving blaze.
Evacuations remained in place Thursday for Vista Grande, Mount Edna, Poppet Flats, Twin Pines, Silent Valley and the community of Snow Creek.
Highway 243 is closed from San Gorgonio Avenue in Banning, south to Marion Ridge Drive in Pine Cove, Caltrans official said.
The fire ignited about 2 p.m. on Wednesday near the intersection of Wolfskill Truck Trail and Mount Edna Road, growing from just a few hundred acres to several thousand within a few hours.
As of Thursday evening five firefighters and one civilian were reported injured duing the fire, according to a Cal Fire statement. A total of 26 homes and one commercial building were destroyed and two structures damaged by the fire, the statement said. More than 530 structures were still threatened.
James Goble stepped out of his mountain home along Twin Pines Road on Thursday to assess the damage caused by the Silver Fire that has burned 14,000 acres, several vehicles and injured three firefighters and one civilian.
"It was like a wall of flames," he said pointing to damage within feet of his home.
The Silver Fire is the second the longtime mountain resident has experienced since moving to the area – the Esperanza Fire in 2006 being the first, he said.
Goble was one of the many residents stuck inside their homes Wednesday.
Property damaged still has not been estimated.
A wood chipper and other items belonging to Goble were destroyed along with a tractor that belonged to his daughter, who also lives on the property with her five children and mother, he said.
"I didn't think it was going to be a problem for hours. But about an hour later, the wind started to pick up. And I told my daughter to grab papers and the kids," he said. "We had to be sheltered (in the house) for at least an hour. After it looked clear, my daughter took off with two of her children. But I stayed put to put out embers that dropped from dead branches of trees blowing near the house."
Gobel's wife and three other grandchildren were not at home when the fire started, the 63-year-old said.
Hundreds have been evacuated from their homes and campgrounds in the fire's path.
The fire is 20 percent contained.
Many took advantage of two evacuation centers set up by the American Red Cross – one at Beaumont High School, 39139 Cherry Valley Blvd., and the other at Hemet High School, 41701 East Stetson Ave. – while other stayed in hotels or with friends or family, said officials.
Twelve individuals stayed overnight at the Beaumont High School site. But by morning, only one person was still add the facility, said Georgia Duncan, a public information officer for the Red Cross.
More were expected as evacuation orders continued, she said, adding, "We're not going to close the shelters until everything has calmed down."
Animals displaced by the Silver Fire have been taken to the San Jacinto Valley Animal Campus, 581 S. Grand Ave. A number of animals at the shelter was not immediately known.
Around 1,000 firefighters from 84 engine companies are working the fire along with helicopters, air tankers and bulldozers. said Cal Fire officials.
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Irish mystery solved? DNA analysis of snails may help unravel a mystery known as the 'Irish question' - why some wildlife species are found in Ireland and Europe, but not in Britain.
The snails (Cepaea nemoralis) from both Ireland and the Eastern Pyrenees region along the Spainsh-French border have large, white-lipped shells share genetic markers that are extremely rare elsewhere in Europe.
Along with other evidence, the findings also offer a new window into ancient human migrations.
"It's interesting to use snail genetics to find out how snails colonise, and it also maybe gives us a little insight into what humans were doing, too," says Angus Davison, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom.
"One really neat thing about this study is that, if we accept that humans transported snails, it really gives us a unique insight into an individual journey 8000 years ago, and it gives us evidence of that from a source you might not imagine."
For more than 150 years, biologists have been puzzling over an Irish mystery: A number of wildlife species that live in Ireland are absent from the rest of Britain but are found in Iberia, the peninsula that includes modern-day Spain, Portugal and parts of France.
Research into this so-called 'Irish question' has failed to produce a single theory that explains how and when various species covered hundreds of miles from one place to the other.
To see if they could add any new understanding, Davison and colleague Adele Grindon focused on a distinctive-looking snail that had the same one-inch long shells in both locations. According to fossil evidence, the snails first showed up in Ireland about 8000 years ago. The molluscs had lived in southern Europe for tens of thousands of years before that.
First, the researchers enlisted volunteers to help collect nearly 900 snails from both parts of its range. Then, they extracted mitochondrial DNA, which is passed directly from mother to offspring, and they looked at specific areas of the genome that are known to vary from snail species to snail species.
The genetic material they analysed was essentially identical between the two regional groups, the researchers report in the journal PLOS ONE. The team was also surprised to find that they could trace the Irish population of snails directly back to a population in a specific region of the Pyrenees. The species lives nowhere in between.
Carried across by humans
The findings argue against a gradual move from one place to another, says Davison, and instead suggest that the snails migrated from Spain to Ireland in one step. He thinks it unlikely that birds transported the molluscs, partly because there are no known birds that migrate along that route that would have been large enough to carry the snails.
More likely, Davison suspects, people brought the snails with them as they moved. Ancient people may have intentionally brought the snails as a source of food on the trip. Alternatively, the snails may have hitched a ride in the grassy fodder packed for other animals.
In the early 2000s, some studies proposed a connection between Ireland and the Pyrenees, but those studies were later shown to be too small and flawed to be convincing, says Allan McDevitt, a geneticist at University College Dublin, who specialises on questions about the colonisation of Ireland. The new research is far more robust.
"I think this study is important in that it does conclusively show that there is some link with Spain based on this snail," says McDevitt. "It's the most definitive proof yet that this is actually a very real migration that was happening."
Still unclear is how people made the trip. At least some of the journey would have been by sea, as Ireland was separated from the mainland by 15,000 years ago. But evidence of primitive canoe-like boats remains scant. Using new genetic tools to investigate unlikely creatures may be key to uncovering a better understanding of the past.
"Ireland has always been a very controversial topic, both in how people reached it there and how animals reached it there," says McDevitt. "We're finding a lot of things by looking at small animals. They actually do tell us a lot about how humans were moving."


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DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge was established on March 12, 1958 under the Migratory Bird Conservation Act of 1929 for "...use as an inviolate sanctuary or for other management purposes, for migratory birds." The refuge lies in the wide, fertile plain of the Missouri River Valley in a former bend of the Missouri River about 25 miles north of Omaha, Nebraska. Each spring and fall since the end of the last ice age, spectacular flights of ducks and geese have marked the changing seasons along this traditional waterfowl flyway. The habitat diversity that exists at DeSoto attracts many species of wildlife. But, by far, the most spectacular wildlife event is the fall migration of the snow geese.
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DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge's primary wildlife management role is to serve as a stopover for migrating ducks and geese. During typical years, a half million snow geese utilize the refuge as a resting and feeding area during their fall migration between the Arctic nesting grounds and the Gulf Coast wintering areas. Peak populations of 75,000 or more ducks, mostly mallards, are common on the refuge during the fall migration. November is the month of peak waterfowl use, with less spectacular concentrations of ducks and geese returning in March and early April.
Bald eagles follow the geese into the area, with many eagles wintering here until March. Peak numbers of bald eagles usually occur in late November and December, and again in early March. As many as 145 have been seen here at one time. Bald eagles are often seen perched in cottonwoods along DeSoto Lake when waterfowl are present, and good viewing opportunities are available from the DeSoto Visitor Center. An interesting assortment of warblers, gulls, shorebirds, and other bird life also can be observed on the refuge during fall (Sept-Oct) and spring (Mar-May) migrations.
In the summer, white-tailed deer, with one or two fawns, are often seen in the morning and evening hours beside refuge roads. Wild turkeys gather in large groups along the roads and in the fields to strut. Cottontail rabbits, raccoons, coyotes, opossums, and fox squirrels also are frequently observed along refuge roads. Backwater areas of DeSoto Lake and several wetlands on the refuge serve as habitat for beaver, muskrat and an occasional mink. Grassland birds are attracted to areas of restored prairie for nesting.
History of the Area
One of the first documented expeditions into this section of the Missouri River Valley occurred when Lewis and Clark traveled through the area seeking a route to the Pacific. The explorers' journal entry, dated August 3, 1804, describes the party's historic meeting with Indians at the "council-bluff", after which the party set sail in the afternoon and encamped at the distance of five miles upstream. Although the river has changed its channel many times since, the Lewis and Clark campsite was located just below the river loop called DeSoto Bend, on the present refuge. Clark's journal notes an abundance of wildlife in the area, including the expedition's first observation of a badger and "great numbers of wild geese."
DeSoto Refuge does not permit overnight camping. It is a daytime-use area only. But, immediately adjoining the refuge, on the south-east, is the Wilson Island State Recreation Area, an Iowa Department of Natural Resources facility. This 577-acre area can be accessed through the refuge, or directly over Route G12 from Interstate 29 at the Loveland exit. Secluded along the Missouri River in giant cottonwoods are spacious, shady campgrounds, hiking trails, and picnic spots. Hunting and fishing are permitted in their respective seasons. There are 140 campsites. A modern camp area offers showers, flush toilets, and all-electric campsites. The non-modern camping area offers 20 electric sites, and two sites for organized youth camping. Camping permits are obtained through self-registration at the campgrounds. Powerboaters will find a boat ramp, which provides excellent access to the Missouri.
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A mixture of puppet and hand-drawn animation, The Necktie is the story of Valentin and his quest to find meaning in his life. Stuck in a dead-end job, he has forgotten all about the things that used to bring him joy. Years pass, and boredom replaces all his aspirations and hope for the future. It is only on his 40th birthday, when he rediscovers an old accordion hidden in the depths of his closet, that he regains his lust for life.
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Very inspiring!DaneeGurl, 1 May 2012
Sheer and utter delight! Having once trained as an actor and musician myself, who 20 years later finds himself in the corporate world, flying between Europe and the US frequently, I stumbled across this gem of an animation whilst on one of those flights. It brought tears to my eyes as I watched on the plane, and now I seek it out every time I have to travel.... Recommend this to all people working in an office environment... If it makes you raise your voice at your boss just once, it will have achieved its objective... Bravo!Jaylondon, 4 Feb 2012
very movingjohannamay, 7 Dec 2011
is very very goodsajjadanimation, 20 Aug 2010
Wonderful, simply wonderful. I feel pretty much as if my life has gained 12 extra minutes after watching this. Truly a masterpiece.Arkanent, 13 Aug 2010
Fantastic work of art, Mr. Levesque. From the theme, I imagined the filmmaker to have been a much older person. I was really surprised to find out it was made by such a young man. You have a great career ahead of you. This film is a treasure.Confessor, 29 May 2010
What a beautiful, meaningful, and brilliant film! Thank you for making it. It's a real keeper, to be watched more than once.silviastraka, 27 May 2010
Please take pity on those of us deaf or hard of hearing! Please add a closed captioning advantage. Merci beaucoupalbertarose, 26 May 2010
Jean-François, you are absolutely brilliant! wishing you tons of luck with your films. I will be sure to pass on a link to friends so they can watch The Necktie again and again... likeme. Anneannebursey, 26 May 2010
Brilliant Jean-Francois! Moving with humour and so true, sadly so true!cjsmith, 12 Jan 2010
Bravo, Jean-François! I loved it.ClaireElizabeth, 10 Jan 2010
Beautifully rendered and beautifully told. Great job Jean-Francois!myroncampbell, 30 Dec 2009


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Back on track: Amputee makes great strides despite setbacks
Every stride that 17-year-old Algona track runner Kali Garman takes is a painful one, but you wouldn't know it by observing her overwhelmingly positive attitude and vibrant smile.
While riding her 1974 Suzuki 250 motorcycle two years ago in June at a farm in Kossuth County, Garman was involved in a nightmarish accident that took her leg. The throttle got stuck and she flailed out of control, went through a side ditch and landed on Highway 18, colliding with the front driver's side of an SUV.
Garman, who wasn't wearing a helmet, was thrown from the motorcycle and suffered a serious injury to her right leg. She had to be flown to Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines. Then she received the bad news: She was going to lose her leg.
As the blow came to her, Garman thought to herself: "This isn't the end, and I will come back from this." It's just small glimpse into her inspiring personality that consists of dedication and perseverance.
"(I was) shocked that it happened," said Brian Connick, co-head coach of the varsity girls' track team. "And then it really turned quickly into just hoping and praying that she was going to be OK."
It was only the beginning of her road to a slow and long recovery. It took about six to seven months for her skin to heal to the point where she could get a prosthetic leg and learn to walk again.
"I was eager because you go to school and you're the only one in a wheelchair," Garman said. "You take for granted your freedom. I was ready to be back on my feet."
When she was fitted for her prosthetic, it took some adjustment, but after trial and error, she was walking after the first day.
Garman was also a swimmer, frequently visiting the YMCA. She told KCCI's Vanessa Peng in September 2015 that swimming was her mental escape.
"It's just you and your thoughts, and it's kind of therapeutic sometimes just to get in the water and be by yourself," she said. "I think that's just how I handle a lot of my problems."
But Garman has always been optimistic about being an athlete again: "I initially was scared. No one likes to lose."
"She made up her mind that she was going to return to as much of a normal lifestyle, and if you know Kali, if she's decided she's going to do something, it's going to happen," Connick said.
The Algona community illustrated an outpouring of support for the Garman family as she never lost hope of returning to the fast lane.
Some swim teammates sold T-shirts to help raise money for Garman's medical bills. She also received an approximately $20,000 prosthetic leg from Shriners Hospitals for Children in Minneapolis.
"It's been really, really crazy, and we're so grateful, Garman said. "People have done some crazy things for me; it has been awesome."
Fast forward to this week's track meet in Webster City and it's safe to say Garman is back on the track this season.
"(Running) does hurt," she said. "I can feel it with every step, but it's OK. I can tolerate it."
One of the downfalls of her prosthetic leg is she sometimes kicks herself with a blade while running, something she experienced on Tuesday.
"It hurt a lot, but I didn't fall," Garman laughed.
Beside the pain, beside uneasiness of having one leg, beside the fact she always gets last at every track meet, she's happy because she gets to fulfill her life passion at least in some capacity: compete.
"Competing again has definitely been a big part in my healing process, and I'm just thankful for where I'm at," Garman said. "The joy of being able to be normal and run, for me, is way greater than any pain I would ever feel."
In an emotional moment during the Webster City track meet, one of Garman's paramedics, Ben Darling, drove more than two hours to pay a surprise visit to one of his patients.
As the two embraced in a long hug, Garman fought back tears: "I am going to cry. This is not OK. Why are you here?"
"Well, somebody told me to come say hi," Darling said.
"Was it my mom?" Garman said.
"Maybe," Darling said.
"Oh my gosh," Garman said.
"This all got arranged this morning," Darling said.
"This is my nurse," Garman said.
"Let's call me paramedic," Darling said.
"Yeah, no you're a nurse," Garman laughed.
"It's very good to see her up and about," Darling said. "What are you going to run today?"
"One-hundred-meter dash," Garman said. "I bet I could kick your butt."
Darling said the interaction doesn't come through with every patient.
"You know, every once in a while, you just have a special connection with somebody that comes through, and you just hold onto that," Darling said.
Garman has been an inspiration to her teammates, who aren't surprised she has recovered this well.
"I look up to her a lot," junior Kelsey Connick said. "Knowing Kali, she has been so persistent. If she has a goal, she is going to go get it."
Garman spreads her positive influence to other areas of athletics as well, including coaching swim teams in her town. Though she's dealt with hardships throughout her high school career, there is nothing dragging her down.
"The pain will never compare to how great it feels to run," she said.


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NEW YORK, N.Y.—Fox's Super Bowl telecast of the Seahawks' victory of the Broncos is the most-watched television event in U.S. history, drawing 111.5 million viewers on Sunday night.
The Nielsen company said Monday the telecast broke a viewership record set by the Super Bowl two years ago between the New York Giants and New England Patriots. It's the fourth time in five years that a Super Bowl game has set a viewership record. Last year's game, with 108.6 million viewers, was the exception.
The game kept up its appeal to viewers despite being relatively non-competitive.
Fox said an estimated 2.3 million people watched its online stream of the game, peaking at the end of the third quarter.


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DB Schenker is a well-established, worldwide logistics organization and a veteran of the supply chain and logistics industry. We are leaders in the 4PL service market, with expert knowledge of the industry and an understanding of Asia Pacific's multi-regulatory business environment. Let us be the 'change-agent' that provides the positive impact that your supply chain needs. You can bridge the gap between strategic decision making, tactical control and operational execution when you choose our dedicated, integrated and end-to-end services.
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Looks like MJ the God has upset the American Cancer Society by being snapped with a heavy duty cigar hanging out of his mouth. The ACS are worried that like anything Jordan touches this will be an influence on the youth of today and they are not wrong there. With lung cancer patients increasing every year in the US by approx 175,000 it is understandable why the ACS expect better from high profile celebs when in the public eye really.
Jordan looks like he is pulling a lil too hard on that bad boy too on the pic.


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Seattle startup Mobilisafe has been acquired in a deal of undisclosed size by Boston-based Rapid7, a heavily-funded security company that raised $50 million last year. The deal comes just four months after former T-Mobile USA engineers Giri Sreenivas and Dirk Sigurdson launched Mobilisafe, which was bankrolled by Madrona Venture Group and Trilogy.
Sreenivas tells us that they weren't looking to sell, and they were just days away from raising another round of capital. He said the deal marks a "great return" for investors.
"As we got to know Rapid7 better, however, working together made a lot of sense," Sreenivas tells GeekWire. "We have very complementary products and our views on the security market are identical – security products are too cumbersome today to be effective and the focus needs to shift to ease of use and ease of deployment. Coming together this way is a great way to accelerate adoption of our product and impact the market."
Mobilisafe employs seven people, and they will all be joining Rapid7, which is maintaining an office in Seattle. Sreenivas will serve as vice president and general manager of mobile at Rapid7.
"The trend of (Bring Your Own Device) highlights one of the greatest challenges organizations face in security, which is identifying all the devices being used to access corporate data, and understanding the associated threats so they can be mitigated," said Mike Tuchen, CEO of Rapid7, said in a release. "With the acquisition of Mobilisafe, Rapid7 addresses this challenge, providing visibility of mobile devices and enabling organizations to manage their risk and take mitigating action. This builds on our existing expertise in managing IT risk across on-premise, cloud and virtual assets."
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Happy birthday, Archie! Harry and Meghan's baby turns 1 in LA, stars in adorable Instagram video
Royal expatriates Archie Harrison Mountbatten-Windsor and parents Prince Harry and Duchess Meghan of Sussex celebrated his first birthday Wednesday in their Los Angeles quarantine home, thousands of miles from his birthplace and his royal relatives in Britain.
Fans (and even critics) were delighted the Duke and Duchess of Sussex released a new video and picture of Archie, who has not been seen in public since his parents' September 2019 tour of southern Africa in September when the couple introduced the squirming cutie to the world while meeting retired Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
The royal couple released the video of the little tyke in a birthday appearance to promote Save the Children's Save with Stories project. Meghan, reading aloud a picture book titled "Duck! Rabbit!," held baby Archie in her lap, with Harry behind the camera.
The baby laughed as his mom gave an animated reading of the story, showing off a few tiny bottom teeth growing in. His resemblance to Harry is even more pronounced than it was back in September.
"Let's go to the next page. Look, Arch," Meghan said as he attempted to turn the pages backward. "That's the cover, let's go to the next page.
'Wait a second, did you hear that? I heard duck sounds,'" she read. "Quack, quack quack."
Harry could be heard mimicking duck sounds from the other side of the camera. Later, he laughed as his son dropped another book and looked to his dad for help picking it up.
"Yay, the end! Bravo," Harry cheered. Archie, meanwhile, attempted to chew on the board book.
The book's co-author is the late Amy Krouse Rosenthal, who wrote a heart-wrenching New York Times Modern Love column about her husband, Jason Rosenthal, just days before her death in 2017. On Wednesday, Rosenthal, who has just published a memoir, praised Meghan's choice of reading material.
"Although Meghan Markle is clearly one of the most famous people in the world, seeing her read 'Duck! Rabbit!' to her son Archie was so relatable to any parent anywhere," he said in a statement provided to USA TODAY. "There he was squirming around, smiling and just being a regular little boy. What a testament to Amy that her book has such meaning to so many families."
The Sussex media team said in a statement the family is participating in the Save With Stories campaign in the U.S. and the United Kingdom to raise awareness of the urgency of bringing food and learning resources to millions of children affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
About 30 million children rely on school for food, according to the Save With Stories campaign, which urged small donations to support food banks, mobile meal trucks and community feeding programs.
Meanwhile, Archie's royal relatives sent birthday wishes via social media. Prince William and Duchess Kate of Cambridge wished their nephew a "very happy first birthday" Wednesday on Instagram, sharing a photo from his christening last July.
After Archie's Cape Town appearance with Bishop Tutu, the couple posted on Instagram a picture of the prince holding Archie on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, where they were living from Thanksgiving to March.
It was Dec. 31 and cold in Canada, so both were bundled up – Archie was wearing a knit cap with pom poms on the sides.
Harry and Meghan's Los Angeles-based public relations team declined to discuss details of the birthday celebrations for Archie. Given that California is still largely under a shelter-at-home order due to the pandemic, it is unlikely they would have hosted a party for the baby.
Archie was born on May 6, 2019, at Portland Hospital, an American-owned London hospital to which Meghan was rushed in the early hours from Frogmore Cottage, their home on the Windsor Castle estate about 25 miles from London.
The timeline of the day remains somewhat confusing due to mistakes by palace press aides and the couple's determination to avoid the media mob that gathered outside St. Mary's Hospital for the birth of the three children of his brother and sister-in-law, Prince William and Duchess Kate of Cambridge.
Meghan, 38, and the new baby were not seen until two days later, when they posed with Harry, 35, in a grand corridor of Windsor Castle and introduced Archie to his great-grandparents, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.
The meeting was private but the picture, which included her mother, Doria Ragland, was posted on their Sussexroyal Instagram, now dormant since their move to Los Angeles.
The baby's name was announced later that day. They decided against a title for Archie and his surname, Mountbatten-Windsor, is a tribute to great-grandparents the queen and Prince Philip, whose surname was Mountbatten.
Early in the queen's 68-year-reign, she decided that descendants not in close, direct line to the throne would carry both the Mountbatten name and the Windsor dynasty name. Harry is sixth in line to the throne and Archie is seventh.
Now all three are living in sunny Los Angeles, Meghan's hometown, and the place the couple have chosen to build a new life free from royal constraints and focus on becoming financially independent via new commercial endeavors and partnerships with Hollywood.
They no longer use the HRH part of their titles and can't use the word "royal" in their social media, but they're still members of the royal family. They hope to add making millions to the usual royal portfolio of promoting charities, cutting ribbons and unveiling plaques.
Some traditional royal activities continue: Last week, Meghan posted a video and words of encouragement on the website of one of her London charities, Smart Works, which helps jobless women find employment. And Harry joined the British military in launching a website for serving personnel and veterans that offers online tools and resources promoting good mental health.
It is not clear where Harry and Meghan are living in sprawling Los Angeles, despite conflicting reports about where they might be looking to buy.
But privacy and security will be high on their must-have list. The couple indicated they sought to exit the royal swirl in Britain to escape the intense scrutiny of the British tabloids, with whom they are locked in an increasingly bitter legal and verbal feud over their allegedly invasive tactics.
But Los Angeles is hardly a haven from the media and the paparazzi – for them or any celebrity.
Still, living in L.A. means they are a lot closer to her mother, who also lives there, than when they were while living on Vancouver Island or in Britain.


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Gus Van Sant has never been a risk-averse filmmaker, but he directs his Harvey Milk biopic so carefully, there might be a Ming vase balanced on his head. Van Sant's steps are deliberate, his posture is straight, his attitude is responsible, and his eyes are fixed firmly on the prize. No less cautious, Sean Penn drops his habitual banty roosterism to play Milk (1930–1978), the martyred gay activist and San Francisco supervisor, with the concentration of an actor entrusted to portray the future subject of a U.S. postage stamp.
Opening 30 years and a day after Milk and San Francisco mayor George Moscone were gunned down in City Hall by another supervisor, ex-cop Dan White, Van Sant's film is narrated by Milk from beyond the grave—less an exercise in fatalism than a way of giving collective history an engagingly Noo Yawk accent. The film is skillfully edited, using archival footage when necessary, and, working from a detailed script by documentarian Dustin Lance Black, Van Sant streamlines Milk's life, simplifying his trajectory from closeted Wall Street zero to out-front Castro Street hero. On the eve of his 40th birthday, Milk picks up cute hippie Scott Smith (James Franco) leaving the subway and, after a romantic evening in tight close-up, effectively joins the counterculture, growing his hair and eloping with Smith to San Francisco. There, they open the Castro Camera Shop. When some cheerful canoodling prompts a local Chamber of Commerce type to blackball the enterprise, an activist is born: "We'll form our own business association!"
This ringing declaration serves to announce San Francisco's new gay district as an autonomous region, with the Castro Camera Shop as its epicenter. It also allows the filmmakers to portray the burgeoning Castro as a function of Milk's own political development. (The collective nature of this enterprise is built into the movie itself, which not only depicts, but, in some cases, casts Milk's associates.) Milk organizes against police harassment and, allied with progressive elements in the teamsters' union, helps ban right-wing elixir Coors from the Castro's bars. After San Francisco's most powerful gay figure advises Harvey to simmer down, the irrepressible entrepreneur appoints himself Mayor of Castro Street, hopping an actual soapbox: "My fellow degenerates." Losing a run for San Francisco's Board of Supervisors, Milk cuts his hair, shaves his beard, and loses again, promptly launching an equally quixotic primary challenge against local state assemblyman and future mayor Art Agnos (Jeff Koons, no less).
Scarcely less indefatigable, Penn is present in nearly every scene. His marked resemblance to Milk—hawkish profile, mask-of-comedy smile—is matched by an understanding of his gregarious character's political gifts. The Mayor of Castro Street was a son of the Borscht Belt—a wise guy, a tummler, part self-deprecating nerd, part infectious showoff. (Like Harvey, Penn has no difficulty milking it.) More hearty frontier settlement than drag- and disco-fueled den of depravity, the Castro blossoms in the warmth of Milk's sunny personality. A thousand flowers bloom: Abandoned by the long-suffering Smith, Milk gets a new campaign manager, self-described "tough dyke" Anne Kronenberg (pert Alison Pill); a new lover, Jack Lira (adorable Diego Luna); and, finally, a seat on the Board of Supervisors.
Happy, flirtatious, paternal, Milk was able to play politics both inside City Hall and out in the streets. San Francisco is the city Republicans love to hate and Milk turns grandly world-historical once the campaign launched by homophobic Christian crusader and Moral Majority avatar Anita Bryant arrives in the form of Proposition 6, an initiative to purge gay teachers (and their supporters) from public schools. The new supervisor finds himself on the front line of the Culture Wars, face-to-face with evil twin Dan White (Josh Brolin, who, better directed here than in W., has the distinction of playing the year's two pre-eminent real-life villains).
Beleaguered personification of "family values," White is the film's most complex character, after Milk. That their death-match embodies a civil war in the American psyche is implicit in the script's suggestion that White's rage—as well as his fascination with Harvey—is fueled by repressed homosexuality. As Milk grows in stature, assembling a statewide coalition against Prop. 6, enlisting former governor Ronald Reagan and President Jimmy Carter, White goes increasingly nuts—as does Jack and, indeed, San Francisco. White's lethal freak-out came 10 days after the S.F.-based People's Temple imploded in Guyana.
The quintessential 21st-century Gus Van Sant movie has been a boldly experimental death-trip. Elephant and Paranoid Park both fractured chronology, Gerry and Last Days distended duration, but all revolved around young protagonists whose mortality was never less than self-evident. Milk, too, has a doomed protagonist, but what's experimental here is Van Sant's faith in the old-fashioned vérités: Content trumps form as communal solidarity redeems individual sacrifice.
Rob Epstein and Richard Schmiechen's groundbreaking 1984 documentary, The Times of Harvey Milk, spent a third of its length on White's murder trial, including powerful footage of the flaming riots that greeted White's conviction on a lesser charge of manslaughter. Van Sant prefers to show a community together. He doesn't avert his gaze from Milk's death, but he wraps it in a comforter of last-day reconciliations, romantic flashbacks, and ethereal patriotic music.
Corny as it is, Van Sant's ending still packs a wallop. Milk is so immediate that it's impossible to separate the movie's moment from this one. The 1978 victory over Prop. 6 merges with the current struggle against California's Proposition 8, overturning the State Supreme Court's ruling on same-sex marriage. A charismatic leader has yet to emerge, but there is . . . Milk, and its wholehearted devotion to the principle of equal protection under the law. (Sound bites from the filmed demonstrations are near-identical to those culled from those held two weekends ago.)
Van Sant and Black position Milk as both gutsy civil rights leader and creative community organizer—not to mention a precedent-shattering politician who, it's very often reiterated, presented himself as a Messenger of Hope. And also Change: "A homosexual with power, that's scary," Milk jokes by way of alerting the viewer that he not only anticipated but understood his assassin's motives. Milk is now. The ecstatic reception accorded Wall-E's visionary tikkun (and the president-elect's strategic non-support for same-sex marriage) notwithstanding, it's the first openly Obama-iste movie.
Here's hoping that Milk and Penn's Milk do as well in our annual fake election. When The Times of Harvey Milk won its Oscar for best documentary, presenter Kathleen Turner described it as "a film about American values in conflict." This time, the Academy won't have to be as discreet.


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I'll be participating in the Data 2.0 Summit on Tuesday, April 3rd, and I hope to see some of you there. Last year, my colleague (and fellow LinkedIn data scientist) Scott Nicholson attended and wrote this guest post about it. This year, I'm not only attending but participating on a panel about social data, moderated by AllthingsD Senior Editor Liz Gannes.
There's a great line-up of speakers for the day, including:
- Bram Cohen, the founder, chief scientist, and inventor of BitTorrent, the leading peer-to-peer file sharing protocol for sharing large files on the Internet.
- Michael Driscoll, CTO and co-founder of the Metamarkets Group. He moderated a fantastic debate at the recent Strata conference about the relative importance of domain expertise or machine learning for data scientists.
- Gil Elbaz, the founder and CEO of Factual, an information marketplace. He is also the co-founder of Applied Semantics, which Google acquired in 2003 for $102M and turned into the foundation for AdSense (now a $10B business).
- Anthony Goldbloom, co-founder and CEO of Kaggle, a platform for data science competitions that generated a lot of discussion at Strata.
- Stefan Weitz, director of search at Bing. He'll be on my panel. Also see the discussion I had with him in the comment thread for a post on "Why Are People So Clueless About Search?".
And lots more, but you get the idea. I'm thrilled to be part of such a talent-heavy program and looking forward to insightful discussions with with fellow panelists and attendees. Also a great excuse to spend a day in the city (note for my former townspeople — that's what they call San Francisco around here).


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One of the most beautiful relationship that a person can have is the one that is shared between a Grandmother and Grandson… Especially with maternal Grandma. My Nani passed away last week at a ripe age of 95, As always each time the phone rings early morning it makes you sit up thinking of the worse and so it was.
So many memories flash by when you hear of someone close passing over, the earliest memories that I have are of my summer vacations spent in the village at my maternal grandparents house. We use to call my grandma Bibi.
Kids in those days use to be got married off especially girls at a very early age, My mom was only 18 when she was married and funny as it may sound the race to have a male heir for the family name meant try try until you have a male child , so was the case here too , Nani had to give birth to 6 girls before she had a male heir, and so it happened that the age difference between me and My Mama (mother's brother) is almost nothing.
The biggest problem of coming abroad is not to be able to see loved ones at the end that always bothers me and I have had to get through a few of them over the last few years.
Things were not that advanced so everything had to be done manually, filling up of water, preparing food for the farm labourers, taking care of the household work , looking after the household animals, There was always so much work to be done and Nani was always busy doing something or the other.
She was GOOD and when I say good I do mean Good at everything , apart from preparing food, I remember her stitching, most of my school shirts/trousers were stitched by her not just mine but the rest of the household too, other than that the women also had the skills of creating beautiful Phulkari's , Women had to prepare for their dowry themselves and by the grace of god (or was it my Grand father's 🙂 ).. Nani had 6 daughters for whom all the Dowry had to be created, so Nani had a busy time.
I also remember the amount of time that was spent spinning the Charkha to weave thread from cotton, The thread then used to create the beautiful bed sheets or Shawls and other type of clothes. Women had so much work to do in a day, long long working hours get up very early to make sure everything is set in motion for the day.
Men had it easy I believe as they had only one big thing to look after , tend to the fields all day long every day, I use to laugh with my Nani saying she was a Work horse never got tired, taking care of such a big household took immense strength and Lot of hard work.
The amount of Desi Ghee, the big dollops of butter on the food I have had growing up, the yummyliscious food cooked with all that love over the fireplace, I remember I use to sit on one side of the Chulha pushing the cotton plant dried sticks for fire, as Nani cooked.
Going to bed and she would bring hot milk and tell stories till we dozed of. Makes me think how it will be visiting the maternal grandparents house now that they are gone, time will tell.
I miss you Bibi ji world is not going to be the same place anymore.


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- Login to Azure portal to create an Azure Site Recovery Vault
- Download Microsoft Azure Site Recovery Provider and install it on both SCVMM servers.
- Register the Microsoft Azure Site Recovery Provider with ASR
- Configure SCVMM cloud for protection in the ASR portal
- Download ASR runbooks for Azure Pack from Microsoft Script Center and import them into Service Management Automation
Create a DR Plan/add-onTo offer a DR plan, you need to create and publish a plan, link a DR add-on to it and finally create a corresponding private recovery plan on secondary Azure Pack admin portal. To explain these steps in detail, let us use a plan named "Gold Plan" that we will link to a DR add-on. To create a DR add-on expand PLAN, click on CREATE ADD-ON and give it a name as "DRAddon". Now your add-on is created but it still needs to be configured. To configure an add-on click on the ADD-ONS in your Azure Pack and select the newly created add-on. You will see that under add-on services, "Virtual Machine Clouds" is not activated.
Click on the "Virtual Machine Clouds" and select the name of "VMM MANAGEMENT SERVER" and "VIRTUAL MACHINE CLOUD" that you have configured to use with Azure Pack in your primary data center. Complete rest of the details like usage limit of cores, memory etc. depending upon your offering and check mark "Enable protection for all virtual machines" under custom settings, which is the latest addition with Azure Pack UR4 release. You have now successfully created a DR add-on and next thing is to link it to the plan. To Link an add-on click on "Link a plan" and select "Gold Plan". By this step our DR Plan is ready for customers but this plan needs to have a corresponding private plan on the secondary Azure Pack. This private plan is the one that ensures that tenant's subscriptions have the exact same services and offerings on the DR site. ASR automatically adds your tenant's subscriptions from primary plan to the private plan on the secondary data center which helps in providing a consistent and seamless experience to tenants across both the datacenters. To create a private plan login to the secondary Azure Pack admin portal and create a plan named "Gold Plan–Recovery". It is important to note that the name of private plan should start with primary plan name followed by the suffix that could be anything but it would be recommended to use "-Recovery" for ease of identification Once the private plan is created, you need to configure it similarly as mentioned in the earlier steps by selecting name of the secondary datacenter SCVMM Server and Virtual Machine Cloud.
Master RunbookASR runbooks help you deploy protection automatically, taking away the pain of manually enabling protection for each tenant. There are five runbooks in total that you need to import into your primary Azure Pack admin portal but you only need to configure and schedule the master runbook named "Invoke-AzureSiteRecoveryProtectionJob.ps1". Rest of the runbooks are internally invoked by the master runbook for querying tenant subscriptions, enabling protection and adding copy of subscriptions from primary Azure Pack admin portal to secondary Azure Pack admin portal. For scheduling and configuring the master runbook browse "AUTOMATION" in primary Azure Pack admin portal, select the master runbook and click on schedule. Provide a user friendly name to the schedule and specify frequency and time for the runbook. To complete the schedule you have to provide name of the assets as runbook parameters. The complete details of asset creation can be found at Microsoft Script Center but to give you an idea, here is an example of creating one asset. To create an asset for "PrimarySiteAdminConnection" parameter, browse to "AUTOMATION", click "ASSETS" on the top and select "ADD SETTINGS" at the bottom middle 1.) Choose ADD CONNECTION 2.) Select name of connection type as "MgmntSvcAdmin" and name it Primary Azure Pack Login 3.) Provide Computer Name, Password, Username of the primary Azure Pack Similarly you can create rest of the assets and provide name of these assets in the master runbook.
Onboarding TenantsTenant onboarding is seamless as Tenants can see the new DR Plan/Add-on in their portal. As a tenant, one will subscribe to a DR Plan by going to his tenant portal account and signing up for the new plan. Once it is done, he has to add DR add-on to his subscription. Tenant account portal will look like below. Tenant can create virtual machines in his portal and they will be shown in the portal. There are no more additional steps for a tenant to perform !!
Automatic ProtectionOnce the tenant has subscribed to the plan, ASR runbook will do the following two tasks:
- Automatically detect subscriptions with DR-enabled plan on primary Azure Pack admin portal and add the copy of that subscription to the secondary Azure Pack private plan
- Enable protection for the tenant virtual machines and replicate all the virtual machines to the recovery Azure pack


text: An amazing sunset last night, as the sky cleared over Portland just before the sun disappeared over the hills. I suspect the colours are due to all the ash in the air due to the fires in southern California. These are taken with my cheap digital camera, from our apartment in the centre of the city, looking west, and haven't been altered.


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Laury scores 20, grabs 17 rebounds as Iona beats Niagara 79-73 to reach MAAC final
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – David Laury scored 20 points and grabbed 17 rebounds as Iona eliminated top-seeded Niagara 79-73 Sunday in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference tournament semifinals.
Laury's jumper with 9:18 remaining started a 10-2 run that gave the fourth-seeded Gaels (19-13) a 70-61 lead at the 6:37 mark. The sophomore forward also sank two free throws after Juan'ya Green's layup brought the Purple Eagles (19-13) to within 70-67 with just under 3 minutes left.
Lamont Jones added 17 points, Taaj Ridley had 16 and Sean Armand 13 for Iona, which split two games against Niagara during the regular season.
The Gaels now have won four in a row after losing six of seven games by a combined total of 11 points.
Antoine Mason scored 21 points to lead Niagara, which was hurt by erratic 3-point shooting. The Purple Eagles were 7 of 33 behind the arc, including 0 of 7 by Green.


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Putting IT Back in Control of BYOD
Osterman Research conducted a survey of 760 individuals with regard to the BYOD issues they face in their organizations. Personally owned Apple iPhone and iPads, as well as Android smartphones and tablets, are more common than their company-supplied counterparts.
The research also found widespread use of third party, cloud-based storage and file synchronization offerings that are sometimes used with IT's blessing, but more often not. Dropbox, for example, is used in 14% of 1,000+ employee organizations with IT's blessing – and in 44% of them without approval.
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