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Are you the news?Content for briefs is selected from e-mail submissions to Community Editor Amy Edgett at firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit http://www.sierrasun.com to submit events online. Please limit descriptions to 50 words. E-mail submissions may be 150-300 words. Items published in the print edition news space permitting.Truckee Donner Historical Society Old Jail Museum to openOn June 16, at noon will be the grand opening of the 2012 Special Exhibit: The Human Side of the 1952 Snowbound City of San Francisco Train Rescue at 10142 Jibboom St., Truckee.Truckeeandamp;#8217;s history centers on railroads, tourism and the andamp;#8220;storm king.andamp;#8221; The railroad stories are a common thread in the areaandamp;#8217;s history. The story of the 1952 snowbound City of San Francisco train is one of the monumental Sierra stories that captured the nationandamp;#8217;s attention. Truckee played a key role in the rescue operations. The 2012 Truckee Old Jail Museum Exhibit highlights what became a successful rescue from participants in the rescue efforts and/or surviving family members.Museum hours are Saturday, Sunday and Holidays from June through September, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; and Thursday from June 21 through Aug. 23, 5-7 p.m. as part of the weekly festivities in downtown Truckee.Take Dad to Truckee RibFestItandamp;#8217;s time for ribs, rods and rock-n-roll at the Truckee Fatherandamp;#8217;s Day RibFest andamp; BBQ, June 17, noon-4 p.m. at the Tri Counties Bank Plaza, 12047 Donner Pass Road, Truckee. The event promises to be an affordable, fun family event with mouth-watering barbecued ribs and other choices to suit everyoneandamp;#8217;s appetite. Better yet, fire up your grill and be the best darn rib cook of the day. There will be judges trophies for the winners, with two-year winner Resort at Squaw Creekandamp;#8217;s Six Peaks Grille returning.There will be entertainment and activities including a beer garden, live music, kids corner, arts and craft concessions and a line up of classic cars.This event is in support of Truckee-Tahoeandamp;#8217;s Relay for Life.Check out truckeeribfest.com or find them on Facebook!Bird WatchingJune 16, 8-10 a.m. at the UC Davis Tahoe City Field Station, 2400 Lake Forest Road, Tahoe City.Go birding with an expert. Kirk Hardie, co-executive director of the Tahoe Institute for Natural Science will lead a bird-watching walk on Saturday, June 16, ($5 donation suggested), beginning at the UC Davis Tahoe City Field Station. Binoculars are recommended. After the walk, the UC Davis Tahoe City Field Station will be open 10 a.m.-2 p.m. with a volunteer docent available for tours of the wetlands, stream restoration, and native plant demonstration gardens as well as opportunities to participate in citizen science projects for water quality monitoring, phenology monitoring, and bird watching.For information contact 775-881-7566, email@example.com or visit http://terc.ucdavis.edu.Salad Social LuncheonSaturday, June 23, 11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m., 11707 Northwoods Blvd., Truckee. Truckee Tahoe Republican Women Federated social luncheon. Please bring a salad or dessert to share. Any interested Republican women are welcome to attend. Please RSVP by Wednesday, June 20 to email@example.com or 530-587-1691.Free Planting Days and Mini-SeminarsJune 22-23, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., 4th Annual Free Planting Days and Mini-Seminars at Village Nursery, 10678 Donner Pass Road in Truckee. Free Planting: You buy the plants and pots (or bring up to three pots from home). Mike and Giselle here to plant them for you using premium Master Nursery Gardenerandamp;#8217;s Gold potting soils and bio-active, organic Gardner andamp; Bloome Fertilizers. Join the fun and create colorful baskets and planters to enjoy at home. Maximum pot size 18andamp;#8221; in diameter; no window boxes or whiskey barrels please.Mini-Seminars: Donandamp;#8217;t have the time for one of the Villagerandamp;#8217;s free Saturday or Wednesday seminars? There will be three mini-talks during the day on Friday, and five on Saturday. Kellogg Garden Products expert and friend Mike McLain and organic-gardening specialist and educator with Gardner andamp; Bloome, Gisele Schoniger, will both be on hand.Planting and mini-classes will be held at the Nursery. For more information call the Villager at 587-0771.Last day of schoolFree beach day Join Truckee Donner Recreation andamp; Park District on Tuesday, June 19, noon-4 p.m., for free admission to West End Beach at Donner Lake. Meet the kayak; SUP and SUP Yoga; and sailing instructors. Receive class demos, and free limited rental use of kayaks, SUPs and paddleboats. All watercraft use is free for that day. Go out and get on the water for a fun day at the beach. For more information call TDRPD at 530-582-7720.Trail Ribbon CuttingThe TCPUD invites you to the Lakeside Trail Ribbon Cutting andamp; Dedication Ceremony, Thursday, June 21, 2 p.m. at Jakeandamp;#8217;s on the Lake in Tahoe City. Take the Lakeside Trail Trivia Challenge any time between 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Pick up your trivia card at Jakeandamp;#8217;s and get out and enjoy the linked trails.Cruiser Rally in Tahoe CityDress up your favorite bike and cruise Tahoe City downtown in the inaugural Tahoe Teas Cruise, Thursday June 21. Itandamp;#8217;s all about fun, but they will andamp;#8220;very seriouslyandamp;#8221; judge the best decorated bike in junior (up to age 10) and big people (everyone else) divisions. Win some great prizes. Meet for registration at 6 p.m. at Jackpine parking lot on Jackpine Street. The cruise starts at 7 p.m. riding through downtown to Commons Beach. Cost: $10 donation requested. Prizes for best and most fun cruiser bike so put your imagination to work!Food, tea and beer, followed up with Adventure Sports Week andamp;#8211; Movie Night in the park. Your $10 donation will go toward Biking for a Better World nonprofit organization.Casting clinicTruckee Tahoe Fly Fishers is putting Flycasting clinic in lieu of their June meeting. It will be held at June 21, 5 p.m. at the park behind the Fire Station on Donner Pass Road near the Truckee High School and adjourn at 7 p.m. to the Blue Coyote. The purpose is to tune up fly casting skills. People who want to attend should have their own rods, and lines. If someone wants to attend as a starter they can get outfitted at Mountain Hardware fishing department, see Tom or Steve, just across the street. Email Paul Warmerdam at email@example.com for information or visit http://www.ttff.net/calendar.html.andamp;#8220;Letandamp;#8217;s Get Linkedandamp;#8221; CelebrationSunday, June 24, 1 p.m., along the Tahoe City Lakeside Trail, downtown Tahoe City. Join the community before the first Concert at Commons Beach to create a human link on the new Lakeside trail. The link will be captured in video and aerial photography and you'll be part of history! All linked participants will receive a free water bottle, a free drink token for the concert and entry in a grand prize drawing to be held at the concert. Hosted by Tahoe City Public Utility District, Jakeandamp;#8217;s on the Lake, Auerbach Engineering Corp. and Landesign Group. Call 530-583-3796.Truckee Chili Cookoff is comingStir it up in Truckee with our 4th annual Chili Cook Off. The big chili pot once more rules the day at the Truckee Regional Park, June 24, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. There will be plenty of fun for the kids and adults alike. Join celebrity MC from KCRA – Teo Torres for chili, beer, hot dogs, and ice cream. Groove to the Deck Heads, Jo Mama and Drinking with Clowns. Unlimited chili testing is $15 for adults and $3 for kids 12 and under. The competitors are an assortment of culinary artists from restaurants, nonprofits and individuals. All proceeds go to Sunrise Rotary of Truckee to fund their mission of service to the community. Tickets are available around town, at Truckee Thursdays, the RibFest and day of event. Visit http://www.TruckeeChiliCookoff.org or contact Jeff Sparksworthy at 530-386-4275 or email@example.com of the Sky Garden Club MeetingLake of the Sky Garden Club will hold its monthly meeting Monday June 25, at Tahoe Tree Company (McBrides Nursery) on West Shore Boulevard and Granlibakken Road in Tahoe City.The social starts at 3:30 p.m. and the meeting is at 4 p.m. The speaker is Jeff Corbett, Daylily Hybridzer, who will have a PowerPoint presentation and slide show. Tickets will be on sale to members and non-members for the 2012 Lake of the Sky Garden Tour. The tour features 10 gardens this year including three lakefronts. This event is a sell out so get your tickets early. Cost is $20 for paid members and $25 for non members. Contact Rich Caravelli for ticket information and purchase at 530-583-4066 or email@example.com.
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In January this year, Elsa Lefort, 6 months pregnant and married to an East Jerusalemite was
denied entry to Palestine.
Before she was deported back to her native France she was detained for two days by the Israeli authorities who cited "security concerns" as their justification for her expulsion, and degrading and humiliating treatment in airport holding cells.
When the Israeli authorities cite "security concerns" as grounds for deportation it has an existential ring. But it is simply an attempt to deceive that there are compelling grounds for denying entry. However, the only viable threat that a pregnant French woman married to an East Jerusalemite holds to the Israeli nation is a change to the population demographics.
The ad hoc operations at Israel's borders appear to be a permanent state of crisis management as it routinely accepts and denies access to the oPt with no definite rhyme or reason.
The fact that Ms Lefort was granted a one year visa only two months prior to her deportation, having then passed security clearance, only serves to emphasize the extent of this chaos.
This arbitrary denial of Ms Lefort's entry effectively dictates a choice for her and her husband between living apart as a family unit or the possible revocation and denial of her husband and child's Jerusalem residency.
This indirectly devises a means of "quiet deportation" and unmasks one rationale behind the escalade of discriminatory residency laws that currently preside over East Jerusalemites.
Ms Lefort's husband comes from the occupied territory of East Jerusalem and holds the precarious status of permanent resident of the State of Israel. This residency status is considered temporary under Israeli law and can be revoked if certain conditions are not complied with, despite it being his place of birth.
Naturalization of his wife and expectant child is an inaccessible privilege, and consequently their right to exist as a family unit is at the fanciful whim of the Israeli authorities.
Given that Israel maintains complete control over Palestinian borders, the Ben Gurion airport security rooms are fast becoming a beaten track for spouses and family members of Palestinians, like Ms Lefort, attempting to enter the Occupied Palestinian Territories (oPt).
These family members are often then arbitrarily designated enemies of the state without having committed a single act worthy of deportation and expulsion. While Israel is entitled to regulate entry and the stay of foreigners in its territories, this right is being abused and being used as a tool to alter the Palestinian population of Jerusalem.
Unlike citizenship, permanent residency is not automatically conferred to the holder's children. If Ms Lefort's child is born outside the boundaries of the municipality of Jerusalem, or Israel, Ms Lefort and her husband must follow a family unification procedure where Ms Lefort's husband, as the resident parent, has to prove his "centre of life" is in Jerusalem.
This "Centre of life" policy places a burden of proof on Palestinians to show that their day-to-day life takes place in the city. If Ms Lefort's husband is forced to leave the country to exist within the family unit, he will not be able to prove that his life is centred in Jerusalem and consequently will not be able to obtain residency for his child. If the child reaches 14 years, and has not obtained residency, the child will be denied the right to obtain permanent residency and consequently any social rights.
Revocation of Jerusalem residency status is considered when persons become naturalized or is granted residency status in other countries, or when they leave East Jerusalem for more than seven years without returning. If Ms Lefort's husband is forced to leave the region he risks losing Jerusalem residency rights.
These discriminatory laws coupled together with the Right to Return, which allows the Jewish diaspora the right to gain citizenship in Israel regardless if they hold any other citizenship or have been naturalized in another country, have led to shift in the population demographics of East Jerusalem.
Ethnic cleansing is the practice of removing people who belong to an ethnic group that is different from the ruling group in a country or region; and when you unravel the impact of the East Jerusalem residency laws, they represent a manufactured product of just that.
Jerusalem seems to be the golden chalice of Israel's exploits in the occupation of Palestinian land, and this desire to annex the city as a sovereign part of Israel was formally enshrined in law in 1980 with the passing of the Jerusalem Law declaring a "complete and united" Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
The law has however been declared null and void by the UN General Assembly, and this self-declared ownership of East Jerusalem has not been recognised by the majority of UN member states or international organisations.
In the absence of any international recognition of Jerusalem as the undivided capital of Israel, the "silent transfer" of the current and future Palestinian population is one certain way of maintaining effective control over the city by what appears to be no more than a frenzied method of population control.
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Big Data – the use of large datasets to solve problems and deliver better "customer" value – was a big topic of discussion at this week's CityLab, which brought leading urban practitioners and thought leaders together in New York to explore ideas in economic development, environmental sustainability and other issues that are shaping the world's metropolitan areas. A plenary session on Big Data featured a conversation with Geoff Mulgan (CEO of NESTA), Emer Coleman (formerly of the London Datastore), Chris Corcoran (from New York City's data analytics team), and Anthony Townsend (author of Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia). That session, combined with discussion of data in other sessions, provided an interesting lens into the current state of development in the field of cities and data. Here are five takeaways:
City governments need to expand their capacity in order to harness the full power of big data – Despite New York City's strong focus on using data to drive policy, Chris Corcoran noted that out of approximately 300,000 city employees, fewer than ten are currently employed by the city's data analytics team. As data comes to play a bigger and bigger role in the work of city governments, local officials and advocates are seeking to extend cities' capacities in this area. Academic centers like the University of Chicago's Urban Center for Computation and Data and NYU's Center for Urban Science and Progress are helping to develop new tools and train a new generation of people who will be equipped to do this work inside of and outside of government.
As the amount of data available grows, so too will our understanding of that data's potential –Chris Corcoran noted that New York City government receives about 50,000 data points per day from its residents, along with all of the data points generated by the city's 300,000 employees. Across the country and around the world, the move to open city data is creating ever-increasing opportunities. Despite this increasing quantity of data, in many cases, as Emer Coleman pointed out, the return on investment for cities in opening up their data may not always be known in advance. But as more and more data gets opened, the more opportunities will exist for governments, businesses, and city residents to find new and in some cases unexpected uses for it. (For example, data analytics have helped to prevent building fires in New York, reduce rodent complaints in Chicago, and identify "super-users" of youth services in San Francisco). So we should expect an iterative and evolving process between data availability and data usage. Chris Corcoran helpfully sketched what one such arc might look like: from the reporting of data to predictive analytics to changes in resource allocation.
Applying big data to address big challenges remains a key frontier – Geoff Mulgan posed a provocative question: is big data at this point mainly a matter of a lot of hype and some nice apps, or does it have the potential to actually transform people's lives? This is a question that we at Living Cities have been exploring – a take on this question by Living Cities' Ben Hecht and Code for America's Abhi Nemani was recently featured in a blog for Meeting of the Minds. There was consensus that there are real opportunities to use big data to help provide "fundamental solutions to compelling problems," including in the areas of health care, education, and transportation. The questions remain: how soon will we see these transformative impacts, and what will it take to get there?
Big data raises questions of representation and inclusion – With the massive growth of data, there is a concomitant need to ensure that the growth of data does not widen disparities of access and influence in local government. Indeed, as one panelist pointed out, even the term "big data" may sound intimidating and discourage engagement. So, on the one hand, it's in the interest of inclusive governance to ensure that new data being generated reflects the city as a whole – crowdsourcing, as Anthony Townsend pointed out, may not generate scientifically representative data. At the same time, communities need more tools to generate and analyze data in a way that allows them to participate fully in policy discussions in their city. Over the longer term, cities and civic hackers are seeking to address the question of how best to update the processes by which local government interacts with its residents for today's data-enriched world. Traditional governmental mechanisms (think about the archetypical town hall or community meeting) are being significantly rethought.
Trust, privacy, and silos remain critical barriers – Discussion focused on a number of the particular barriers on which progress is needed to enable the growth of data as a tool to help address city problems. First, city residents often do not trust city government with their data: as one panelist pointed out, some people have greater trust in providing their data to apps like Foursquare than they do to their own government. Second, and relatedly, proponents of Big Data recognize the need for progress on privacy issues, including embedding privacy dimensions in the design of data collection tools. Third, city governments are seeking new and proven approaches to reduce silos across agencies within government, and also how to reduce barriers to collaboration around data across sectors (e.g., with the private sector), so that all of the data relevant to particular problems can be assembled and analyzed.
As municipal governments work to modernize their operations to better tackle 21st century challenges, local officials, intermediaries and practitioners will need to address these issues in order to harness the full power of Big Data. We see breaking through these barriers as a critical step towards making cities places of greater economic opportunity for all. We'll continue to share our thinking, learning, and activity around this subject as it develops.


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AT&T is only allowing FaceTime over 3G to its shared data plan subscribers, PayPal will soon be accepted in over 7 million stores, T-Mobile is launching unlimited data plans on September 5, and Facebook revamps Messages.
- Enabling FaceTime Over Our Mobile Broadband Network After rumors that AT&T might be charging for FaceTime over 3G, the company announced that while they won't be charging for this feature, only users of their shared data plans (launching tomorrow) will be able to use FaceTime over 3G. Upset users have argued that this violates FCC net neutrality rules, but AT&T claims otherwise, stating that their policies regarding FaceTime are "fully transparent to all consumers." [AT&T]
- PayPal Trumps Square's Deal with Starbucks by Partnering with Discover Starting next year, PayPal will be accepted at any store that accepts Discover as a payment method. This means that over 7 million stores will start accepting PayPal. Users will receive a special PayPal card to make purchases with and these payments will be processed through Discover's network. [Businessweek]
- T-Mobile Unleashes Unlimited Nationwide 4G Data While other carriers ousted their unlimited data plans, T-Mobile is introducing their own truly unlimited and unthrottled data plans. Starting September 5, users can get unlimited talk, text and data for $89.99/month. [T-Mobile]
- A New Look for Facebook Messages Facebook introduced a new layout and look in Messages. There's now a two-pane view that you can easily use to navigate between messages. They also added keyboard shortcuts, and you can view them all by tapping Alt+Q in Windows or Ctrl+Q in OS X. [Facebook]
- Facebook Officially Launches "Sponsored Results" Search Ads Facebook has launched Sponsored Results in search, meaning that users searching for specific apps or Pages will receive relevant advertisements at the top of search results. Fortunately, the ads don't direct users off-site. [TechCrunch]


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Sveum confident Garza making next start for Cubs
DENVER -- On Friday it looked like Matt Garza would be pitching in a new uniform by the time his next scheduled start rolled around.
But the once-turbulent trade waters have calmed, and Cubs manager Dale Sveum said he remains confident that Garza will be on the mound for Chicago on Monday for the series opener against the D-backs.
"I'd say 100 percent he's going to be pitching tomorrow," Sveum said.
Sveum said Saturday that Chris Rusin and Brooks Raley are the early leaders to take over if Garza leaves the rotation, but he still has no established plan for a last-minute trade. Rusin would appear the more likely option because Raley just threw 4 2/3 innings for Triple-A Iowa on Friday.
The Cubs skipper once again emphasized that the decision on whether Garza stays in Chicago beyond the July 31 Trade Deadline is out of his hands, and Sveum will address the issue if and when it materializes.
Sveum did say he likely would not resort to relying on the bullpen since the Cubs do not have an off-day for more than two weeks. He would also try to avoid bumping up All-Star Travis Wood's Tuesday start.
"There's going to be something in place," Sveum said. "It's not just going to be a wing-it type thing. Whatever they got going on, if there is anything going on, there's going to be a contingency plan, but we're not going to bullpen it.
"If anything's that close, I would imagine there would be [an extra pitcher with the team]," he said. "But as of right now, there's nobody on its way."
Sveum also is trying to keep his head out of the rumor mill despite the endless trade talk and questions surrounding Garza.
"All I know is he's pitching tomorrow, and I guess if we get a phone call and something changes, that's the way it is," Sveum said. "But it's not something that consumes me, I don't live my life that way."


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My sister-in-law, a teacher, told me recently about the day she discovered to her horror that many of the 6-year-olds in her first-grade class had seen the movie "Saw."
Assuming for the sake of argument that none of us gathered here would do anything like that intentionally to our kids, here are three sites to ensure that you're not inadvertently dragging your little ones to movies filled with gore, sex, or violence.
Nell Minow, the Movie Mom, rates movies at Beliefnet and recommends an age range for whom the movie is appropriate. Down to earth, common-sense reviews.
Screenit.com offers an exhaustive, detailed analysis of old and new movies (how many swear words, descriptions of each violent or sexual scene, etc). You can subscribe to get this data for brand-new movies; movies older than one week are available free at the site. If you don't want to subscribe, click "no thanks" at the bottom of the home page to get to the movie database.
Sister Rose Pacatte, FSP director of the Pauline Center for Media Studies in Culver City, California, has a wonderful blog on movies. We've interviewed her here at our offices and I can say I've never met a funnier, livelier source on media literacy and finding themes of our faith in movies and on TV. She even has a whole list of movies with themes mirroring the seven sacraments and conducts a National Film Retreat each year.
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CUPERTINO, Calif. and LAS VEGAS, Nov. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), the global leader in cloud security, and platinum sponsor of the AWS re:Invent Conference at the Venetian in Las Vegas, Nevada from November 27th- 29th, is announcing that global customers of Amazon Web Services (AWS) are able to take advantage of highly optimized security solutions from Trend Micro for their AWS deployments, including the newly announced AWS Storage Gateway. Customers deploying on AWS are now able to take advantage of newly listed Trend Micro security solutions available in the AWS Marketplace, providing a streamlined path to securing their cloud deployment. Global customers are leveraging Trend Micro security solutions today to shield their AWS cloud-based applications from threats, meet strict compliance regulations, and protect the privacy of their customer data stored in the cloud – all in a way that is easy to deploy and manage.
Trend Micro cloud security solutions are optimized for AWS, automating the protection for new AWS instances, automating the encryption of sensitive data stored in the cloud, and centralizing the management across hybrid cloud environments. Amazon Web Services is amongst the first public cloud service providers to be certified as part of the newly launched "Trend Ready for Cloud Service Providers" program, easing deployment for joint customers.
Wipro is a leading IT services firm that has combined AWS and Trend Micro together for rapid delivery of secure, reliable deployments in the cloud for multiple global customers.
"Wipro is actively deploying solutions on the Amazon cloud for leading global organizations," states Sheetal Metha, Global Head – Enterprise Security Services at Wipro. "As more and more of our customers are taking advantage of the cloud benefits by moving to AWS, they are demanding that we deliver solutions that include protection. With Trend Micro cloud security solutions we confidently deliver protection for customers' critical servers, applications, and sensitive data."
Virtualizing and pooling IT resources in the cloud enables organizations to realize significant cost savings and tremendous business agility – including the ability to deploy new cloud-based applications in a matter of minutes, and scale up and down instantly as demand changes. However, those valuable business benefits cannot be sustained without addressing the unique security challenges posed by cloud computing. While AWS provides secure facilities and hardware, customers are responsible for maintaining and protecting their operating systems, applications and data against malware attacks, zero-day vulnerabilities and data breach.
According to IDG Research's 2012 Cloud Computing Study (January 2012), 70 percent of enterprises have security concerns about security/privacy issues in virtualization or cloud environments. Corroborating this concern, Trend Micro's annual global cloud security survey* found that 43 percent of the respondents using a cloud service have experienced a data security lapse/issue in the last 12 months.
Recognizing that security concerns continue to deter enterprises from widespread deployments of business-critical applications in their reliable and cost-effective cloud service programs, Amazon has worked with Trend Micro to be certified in the Trend Ready for Cloud Service Provider program. The program helps to expedite a company's journey to the cloud by giving assurances that the journey is safe and protected through the use of Trend Micro security products in conjunction with leading service providers like AWS.
"Trend Micro has focused a significant amount of time and energy on delivering highly optimized security solutions for AWS deployments," said Dave Asprey, Vice President, Cloud Security, Trend Micro. "Trend Micro delivers proven threat protection and data security capabilities that help businesses address security needs when deploying on AWS, all in an automated and consistent way."
Protect Against Threats
Trend Micro has focused on innovating and enhancing security for virtualized and cloud deployments since 2005, providing customers with proven application and server protection for cloud workloads. Deep Security includes even more innovation, enabling customers to automate and simplify security operations on and across AWS deployments. Tightly integrated modules easily expand the platform to ensure server, application, and data security across Amazon EC2 instances. Security can be highly customized with any combination of anti-malware, firewall, IDS/IPS, web application protection, integrity monitoring, log inspection and reporting. Customers can access the latest version of Deep Security through the newly listed Amazon Web Services Marketplace listing.
Protecting Sensitive Data
Trend Micro helps to protect sensitive data through automated encryption and key management, enabling AWS users to protect the privacy of their data and make sure that only authorized servers access encryption keys. Trend Micro™ SecureCloud™ enables organizations to define the policies that determine where and when encrypted data can be accessed. In addition, server validation applies identity and integrity rules when servers request access to secure storage volumes. SecureCloud's elegant and highly automated approach safely delivers encryption keys to valid devices without the need to deploy an entire file system and management infrastructure.
Architected for cloud from the ground up, Trend Micro security products seamlessly support deployments on AWS, not only providing industry leading security capabilities but also including key integration points like:
- Seamless ability to perform inventory synchronization of AWS environment into Trend Micro security solutions, giving administrators an instant and complete view of security deployments and any gaps in protection.
- Automatic protection of newly deployed instances and automatic deletion of terminated instances in AWS, ensuring consistent security and management in the elastic cloud environment.
- Visibility into critical troubleshooting data for all protected instances, removing barriers often found in security organizations and enabling successful and timely resolution.
- Protection for AWS Storage Gateway, a new service connecting an on-premises software appliance with cloud-based storage to provide seamless and secure integration between an organization's on-premises IT environment and AWS's storage infrastructure.
- Support for AWS Linux kernels in addition to leading platforms like Microsoft Windows and various other Linux distributions (RedHat, SUSE, Ubuntu, CentOS), giving customers the flexibility to fully leverage a complete AWS environment for any instance they deploy.
- AWS has been tested and certified under the Trend Ready for Cloud Service Providers program.
To learn more about Trend Micro's Cloud Security Solutions, join a hands-on boot camp, or listen to a breakout session. Visit Trend Micro at Booth 201 during the AWS re:Invent Conference. Trend Micro will also be participating in the following speaking sessions:
SPR203: Cloud Security is a Shared Responsibility
Allan Macphee, Sr. Product Specialist, Trend Micro
Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
4:30 p.m. – 5:20 p.m.
SPR204: Securing Your Applications Across On-Premises IT and the AWS Cloud
Dave Asprey, Vice President, Cloud Security, Trend Micro
Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
3:25 p.m. – 4:15 p.m.
*Survey methodology
1,400 IT professionals from the U.S., the U.K., Germany, Canada, India, Japan and Brazil (200 respondents from each of the seven countries) were invited to participate in a survey on cloud computing. These professionals, from enterprises with over 500 employees, make purchase decisions for cloud computing services, server virtualization or Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) solutions.
About Trend Micro
Trend Micro Incorporated (TYO: 4704; TSE: 4704), the global cloud security leader, creates a world safe for exchanging digital information with its Internet content security and threat management solutions for businesses and consumers. A pioneer in server security with over 20 years' experience, we deliver top-ranked client, server and cloud-based security that fits our customers' and partners' needs, stops new threats faster, and protects data in physical, virtualized and cloud environments. Powered by the industry-leading Trend Micro™ Smart Protection Network™ global threat intelligence data mining framework, our products and services stop threats where they emerge – from the Internet. They are supported by 1,000+ threat intelligence experts around the globe.
Additional information about Trend Micro Incorporated and the products and services are available at Trend Micro.com. This Trend Micro news release and other announcements are available at http://newsroom.trendmicro.com/ . Or follow our news on Twitter at @TrendMicro.
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An actress running from her past finds escape with a man hiding from his future. Life has burned them both. This is a heart-felt novel about two broken souls looking for healing and trying to find a way forward. There is only one other character in the novel: Father Steady is the one who brings Sunday and Katie together. The start of the novel is a little unnecessarily ambiguous. It was probably meant to create an aura of mystery. If you just keep on reading it all becomes completely clear (just remember that men can have long hair too). The names seemed a bit trite (Steady for the only solid character and Sunday for the one who is stymied in rest).
The aspect of this novel that I found compelling was how humans are really unequipped to be worshipped. Our society seems to value fame and fortune, but coping with the effects of these, often contribute to ill health and addiction. "Life in the spotlight, on the pedestal, at the top of the world (is) a lonely, singular, desolate, soul-killing place." Man is not made to be worshipped and praised. Man shouldn't hold light but reflect it. Like gasoline in a Styrofoam cup, it eats away from the inside out and eventually spills out across the sidewalk.
This author was recommended to me and I felt slightly disappointed. Parts of it were beautifully written, and I found the beginning intriguing, but my interest was not sustained. This is Martin's latest book, perhaps his earlier novels are better? If you are a Martin fan, let me know if there are any that you particularly liked, since I'd like to try another.


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MOUNTAIN VIEW, California, Nov. 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- With the increasing need to accurately track objects and personnel in resource supply chains- robust, utilitarian, and efficient real-time location systems (RTLS) have become an essential need. Other technologies, such as bar-codes, radio-frequency identification (RFID) and global positioning systems (GPS), have constraints in terms of exact location-tracking. RTLS is the only one that has the ability to accurately map and provide reliable location information, which has been the leading factor in fostering the growth of this high-potential market.
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.autoid.frost.com), Analysis of the Real-Time Location Systems (RTLS) Market, finds that the market earned revenues of over $382.8 million in 2011 and estimates this to reach $3.52 billion by 2018.
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Hospitals, pharmaceuticals, as well as governmental sectors, like defense, military, national security and research programs, offer immense growth opportunities for RTLS.
"Technological quality, accuracy, and reliability are key factors in organization's decision-making, as they look to automate their processes," said Frost & Sullivan Senior Research Analyst Nandini Bhattacharya. "Price is not really considered a factor when it comes to mission critical business systems."
With several technologies involved in RTLS, research and development is an on-going process that enables these technologies to evolve. The market is therefore influenced by a fairly high degree of technological change and the emergence of innovative applications.
Solution providers are constantly looking to add more features to existing technologies and products. They also need to enhance performance, read-range, and accuracy, as well as facilitate the device's smooth functioning in the presence of metals, concrete and other similar environments.
The availability of advanced and innovative products has attracted more players to the market. These various solution providers use different technologies and the lack of a common standard makes applications proprietary and expensive. Although costs have reduced in the last couple of years, they are still prohibitive. This impedes market growth, as many prospective customers are hesitant to own these systems due to budget constraints.
"Wi-Fi-based RTLS is popular worldwide, as it employs existing wireless networks and requires minimal investments for infrastructure," Bhattacharya. "Hybrid solutions developed through the convergence of various technologies will also be more cost-effective."
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Description: The Voluntary Mobile Emissions Reduction Program includes a number of voluntary measures aimed at reducing emissions from motor vehicles beyond the mandated reductions. Some include alternative fuels, employee trip reduction, public education, ozone-season fare reduction, sustainable development, non-road ozone-season reductions, tier II locomotive engines, off-road heavy duty diesel engine retrofits, and vehicle retirement and maintenance.
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Within the body many vital processes crucially depend on the mechanical performance of living cells. Prominent examples are the contractility of muscle cells, the generation of tissue tension or the locomotion of macrophages that permanently migrate through the body in search of pathogens.
Much less known, but equally important, is the fact that living animal cells also recognize mechanical stimuli and respond to them. Such a response to a simple mechanical signal occurs in cells of the connective tissue of the heart (cardiofibroblasts). If these cells are cultivated on substrates of enhanced stiffness, they differentiate to myofibroblasts. During this process the cells grow very much and simultaneously increase their contraction forces enormously. During this process stiffened scar tissue is contracted, which resulted from e.g. a heart attack.
Our research targets a quantitative understanding of such mechanical properties, processes and signals of living systems. To this end we use modern methods of biophysics and cell biology to investigate animal cells of different sources. At present, we focus on the cellular activities of adhesion and migration as well as on cellular mechanosensation. We mostly study the cell membrane and its actin cytoskeleton because these structures are decisive for the aforementioned mechanical processes.
Due to the extremely complex architecture and dynamics of living cells, it is rarely possible to rigorously describe and understand specific cellular processes by the laws of physics. To this end we exploit the possibilities of simplified biomimetic model systems of the cytoskeleton and the cell membrane.
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You get true sandbox freedom as you are a traveler to explore and build in. There are many square miles of vast landscapes and skies, all for the players' taking. Imagine...an entire world to build and grow.
With our Player Building System, you can place and adjust building pieces however you want. Rotation, scale, and position will be just some of the abilities you'll have as a builder. That means buildings can be any shape one desires. There is also no limit to how tall your structures can be. The possibilities are endless! All of this in the open world and weather it be your faction base or your own piece of carved
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Orbiting a dying star in a forgotten solar system, the red, iron rich planet of Malu teems with life. Near the equator, on one of the few land masses, lies a colossal pillar that ignites the sky with energy. Every living thing feeds from this in one form or another. Crystalline orbs grow in trees and brush to collect energy which gets consumed by the strange and exotic beasts that stalk the crimson plains and yet there is a small moon thats fills the skyline of Zeta a smaller less refined planet that was a staging group of development thousands of years ago.
The unknown race of beings that created Malu had used Zeta as a staging ground for the creatures and races that would inherit Malu as their own. Forced in combat to test each races capabilities and weakness the inhabitants of Zeta are at the will and mercy of the ones who control the strings. There experiments that took place utilized great power that would resonate and shift time and space and sometimes opening portals to different times.
The world is a vast and diverse tapestry of sights and sounds. Much like the planet you're on, there is a variety of environments: swamps, forests, deserts, and more. Each with their own dynamic climate and ecosystem.
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Pregnancy rumors and baby bump photos have been common for French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy recently and now the singer / actress has confirmed that's she's pregnant.
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She remained mum on rumors that she is expecting a boy with French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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She also remained vague about her due date – some have said she is over 5 months along.
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The French President has three sons from his two previous marriages and last year became a grandfather. Carla also has a 10-year-old son, Aurelian, from a previous relationship.
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Inglot eyeshadow: Pearl 446
Colour: Purple-Plum with a hint of brown to it and a pearl finish to it. It really doesn't have shimmer particles in it, but the pearlescent finish gives it a lovely shimmery finish to it.
How I use it: As an all-over lid colour, either on it's own or darkened with a matte black shadow just on the outer corners.
Inglot Pearl 446 Eyeshadow - ReviewThis is a shade I love using - it's a beautiful colour and fits in perfectly with my usual single-eyeshadow routine. Used on it's own (without a primer or a base), the colour does show up and while the staying power won't be much, it definitely doesn't crease or fly around. With a good base, the shadow stays on all day, and a base of black or plum really brings out the colour that you see in the pan. A definite must-have from Inglot.
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|Swatch on my hand without a primer/base. On my eyes, I used UD Rockstar eyeliner along my upper lashline and used Inglot Pearl 446 to smudge the liner and all over my eyelid. A lighter-skinned person, this would show up as a darker eyeshadow (check here for swatches on Temptalia), but with my skin tone, I can use this easily any time :D
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Big Sur: Hiking in condor country
Perched on a rocky outcrop above Highway 1, the condor displays his white-banded wings with distinctive flight feathers at each tip. He pivots slowly, turning his pinkish-orange featherless head as he scans the hillsides. It's hard to guess whether he's showing off for the dozen pairs of binoculars following his every move or, like me, is captivated by Big Sur's magnificent, rugged coastline.
I've come to this 90-mile stretch of soaring hills, plunging cliffs and redwood forests south of Monterey to explore its state parks and beaches, join a condor tour and sample the region's back-to-natural cuisine. It's my type of vacation -- spending most of the time outdoors, grateful once again to be surrounded by untouched nature.
My plan is to explore a 13-mile coastal stretch that includes three state parks and a not-to-be-missed beach. Andrew Molera State Park, Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park, Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park and Pfeiffer Beach all offer unparalleled scenery, miles of hiking trails and water for wading. In my four-day visit, I'm able to sample and enjoy each one.
At 4,800 acres, Andrew Molera is the largest state park on the Big Sur coast, with hiking trails that cover meadows, beaches, hilltops and the banks of the Big Sur River. One morning I chose a three-mile loop that affords a bit of each.
I follow Creamery Meadow Trail -- past oat grass, sycamores and lupine -- to the coast, where I beachcomb along a sandy, driftwood-strewn expanse. Heading north I cross the shallow Big Sur River, sans shoes, and take Headlands Trail to Molera Point to slowly turn 360 degrees, taking in vistas of sea and mountains. As fence lizards scurry nearby, I pick up the Beach Trail to complete my loop, following the river's riparian alders, willows and laurel under a lush green canopy. The water's so clear that I watch patterns of colored stones glimmer in the riverbed, while taking in bird songs and raucous crows.
It's no surprise that Pfeiffer Beach is Big Sur's most popular and trickiest-to-find beach, situated at the end of an unmarked, narrow two-mile road. The end result is well worth the effort -- a massive arch-shaped rock complete with water crashing through a wave-sculpted opening, towering cliffs and sand colored by manganese garnet deposits. At sunset, I watch sky blues morph to orange and purple until they blend into the sea.
Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park encompasses coastline, redwoods, 3,000-foot ridges and an underwater reserve, and its scenery almost breaks the bank. One day I picked two short contrasting hikes that take it all in. I follow Waterfall Trail to 84-foot McWay Falls, famous for dropping from a granite cliff onto a pristine beach in a cove so turquoise I feel as if I've been transposed to Hawaii. Views from the 100-foot bluff are gorgeous.
For a woodsy experience, I chose Canyon Trail into McWay Canyon along a creek bordered by coast redwoods, tan oak, madrone and laurel. With boots cushioned by leaf litter, I listen to water over rocks and take in lush ferns and sorrel as I make my way to a small but scenic waterfall. The tranquility is priceless.
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The great thing about staying at Big Sur Lodge in Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park is that it allows me to sleep, dine and explore in one location. I can step out of my spacious, comfortable cottage and hit the hiking trails.
Sixty-two cottage-style guest rooms, each with its own deck, sit in a peaceful spot, amid ancient oaks, redwoods, resident deer and wild turkeys. The lodge also offers a swimming pool. Nicely appointed furnishings echo the colors of the outdoors with high ceilings, pine furniture and botanical artwork. It's like being dropped into a forest, yet sheltered oh-so-comfortably.
One of the park's signature hikes leads to Pfeiffer Falls and Valley View Overlook. The woodland path crosses wooden bridges over Pfeiffer Redwood Creek and provides a good workout as it steeply climbs to the multitiered 60-foot Pfeiffer Falls. As I walk, I look up into towering redwoods, amazed at the distinctive habitat they create and how great it is to be within their cathedral-like splendor. I next take a side trail to Valley View Trail and walk the short distance to sweeping vistas of Point Sur and the Big Sur Valley. Though this is a known location for condor sightings, they prove elusive that day.
Condor recovery
The largest flying land bird in North America has lured me south, and I'd really like to see one.
The California condor slowly has been making a recovery in the wild, thanks in large part to the efforts of the Ventana Wildlife Society, the only nonprofit organization working with condors in the wild.
So the next day I join one of the society's condor tours. The tour begins and ends at the Discovery Center at Andrew Molera State Park, where photographs, exhibits and artifacts reinforce the presentation. I examine a 15-inch flight feather and learn that miners during the Gold Rush hid gold dust in the shaft of these massive feathers. Definitely a clever move.
On the two-hour van ride, the group learns how the society is working to restore the wild population and monitoring the birds' health. (Tours are scheduled the second Sunday of every month, 12-2 p.m., $50/person. Contact www.ventanaws.org, 831-455-9514.)
The organization uses radio telemetry to track the condors, and leaders report any sightings. At a sea lion haul-out, we grab binoculars and pile out of the van while tour leader Katie Lannon sets up the spotting scope, a necessity for viewing flying or nesting condors. As everyone scans the hills and coast, Lannon explains that Big Sur condors are showing evidence of feeding on marine mammal carcasses.
"The down side is that they pick up DDT that bioaccumulates in the ocean from the Channel Islands," she said. "This causes thinning in condor eggs, so they can be crushed before they hatch."
To protect the chicks, Ventana researchers remove the egg from the nest and replace it with a dummy egg. Right before it's ready to hatch, they return the real egg so the chick can be reared by its parents.
The dangers of lead
Driving toward the next stop, Lannon tells us that the No. 1 problem facing condors is lead poisoning. Because they feed on carcasses, they ingest lead when they swallow spent ammunition.
The society is working with hunters and ranchers to advise them of this threat to condor recovery, going so far as to provide boxes of nonlead ammunition for residents in San Benito and Monterey counties.
Condor 101 continues as we learn that Big Sur has eight nesting pairs, with each pair raising one chick every two years; that adults bring juveniles to the coast for rearing; that condors can fly 150 miles in one day; and that they mate for life, which can be a long one -- 50 to 60 years. Enough amazing facts to fill a naturalist's notebook.
At Partington Cove pullout, 12 miles from our starting point, we hit condor paydirt. We peer through binoculars and the spotting scope at two adults and one mottled black/dark gray fledgling in the far-off coastal redwoods.
The fledgling, orange-billed and adorned with fluffy boa-like neck feathers, is huddled in a tree, oblivious to parental flight lessons, and seems to have no interest in leaving.
One of the adults shows how it's done. I watch as the magnificent condor spreads its 10-foot wingspan and lifts off, gliding along the coast and into the Santa Lucia Mountains, alert for food and, perhaps, checking out what's new.
Like the condor, I've found a setting worthy of a repeat visit, with more hikes to explore, shells to find and morsels to savor.
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Ventana Wildlife Society's condor tours
Regularly scheduled tours the second Sunday of every month. Must sign up for tour in advance by phone or email, email@example.com.
Address: 19045 Portola Drive, Suite F-1, Salinas, Calif.
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Andrew Molera State Park
Location: 20 miles south of Carmel on Highway One
Telephone: (831) 667-2315
Website: www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=582
Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park
Address: 26 miles south of Carmel on Highway One
Telephone: (831) 667-2315
Website: www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=570
Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park
Location: 37 miles south of Carmel on Highway One
Telephone: (831) 667-2315
Website: www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=578
Big Sur Lodge
Inside Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park. Your stay includes complimentary day-use passes to Andrew Molera and Julia Pfeiffer Burns parks.
Address: 47225 Highway One
Price: Doubles from $189
Telephone: (800) 424-4787??
Website: www.bigsurlodge.com
Big Sur River Inn and Restaurant
Address: 46840 Highway One
Telephone: (831) 667-2700
Website: www.bigsurriverinn.com
Big Sur Bakery and Restaurant
Address: 47540 Highway One
Telephone: (831) 667-0520
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TOKYO, Aug. 22 (UPI) -- A cooperative is suspending fishing in the waters near Japan's stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant, officials said Thursday.
The announcement by the Soma Futaba fisheries cooperative followed the Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s admission that highly contaminated water if leaking into the ocean from the plant, Kyodo News Service reported. The plant was crippled in 2011 by the Great East Japan earthquake and tsunami.
TEPCO said late Wednesday that radiation levels in groundwater are so high the most likely explanation is that radioactive water from the plant's cooling system is leaking from the reactors into basements and mixing with water from local aquifers,The Japan Times reported.
Tests have detected 10 trillion becquerels of radioactive strontium and 20 trillion becquerels of cesium-137 from the groundwater. That's 100 times the levels of radiation allowed in water flowing from the plant before the earthquake, The Mainichi Shimbun reported.
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DURHAM, N.H. (AP) — University of New Hampshire police say they're stepping up patrols after a student says two men attacked him and tried to steal his backpack.
UNH police said the student reported that he was attacked from behind at about 9:15 p.m. Wednesday in Parking Lot C by two men who threw him to the ground and tried to take the backpack.
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Top notch Bleat from Lileks today. There's a memorable slam at brutal architecture: "No other building material demonstrates contempt for people more than exposed concrete."
But the good stuff is further down, about a column by the faux-penitent Garrison Keillor, who now bravely admits that the Left's appeasement of communism in the 1940's and 50's was more about peevitating anti-communists than dealing with reality. It was more fun to protest McCarthyism, Keillor admits, than to acknowledge that Communism was illiberal, malignant, and a genuine threat:
This refusal was a reaction against anti-communists such as Richard Nixon — if he said the sun rose in the east, then we would look off to the west and maybe build mirrors there so as to be able to argue the point
And then, something sad happens: because the Left was deluded about the threat of Communism in the fifties, Keillor realizes that…the Right must be deluded today! Of course!
Much worth reading at the link; but I couldn't help but notice this litany Lileks had excerpted from Keillor's latest book, whatever that is:
(As he puts it in his latest book: "hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, see-through fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, hobby cops, misanthropic frat boys, lizardskin cigar monkeys, jerktown romeos, ninja dittoheads, the shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, cheese merchants, cat stranglers, taxi dancers, grab-ass executives, gun fetishists, genteel pornographers, pill pushers, chronic nappers, nihilists in golf pants, backed-up Baptists, Crips and Bloods of the boardroom.")
It sounded familiar, but not quite–and I remembered he had tried that same Right-is-bad litany back in this ugly rant from 2004:
The party of Lincoln and Liberty was transmogrified into the party of hairy-backed swamp developers and corporate shills, faith-based economists, fundamentalist bullies with Bibles, Christians of convenience, freelance racists, misanthropic frat boys, shrieking midgets of AM radio, tax cheats, nihilists in golf pants, brownshirts in pinstripes, sweatshop tycoons, hacks, fakirs, aggressive dorks, Lamborghini libertarians, people who believe Neil Armstrong's moonwalk was filmed in Roswell, New Mexico, little honkers out to diminish the rest of us, Newt's evil spawn and their Etch-A-Sketch president, a dull and rigid man suspicious of the free flow of information and of secular institutions, whose philosophy is a jumble of badly sutured body parts trying to walk.
I'm not sure which is supposed to be the polished version, but I sure hope Keillor didn't drop "Lamborghini Libertarians" in favor of "chronic nappers" and "cheese merchants".
Because if by "cheese merchants" Keillor does not intend to target literal purveryors of fromage, but is in fact bashing people who traffic in cheesy programming,well… tu quoque, amigo. Tu quoque.
UPDATE: At least one blog has already taken its name from Keillor's blatherings.


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We went on a mission to find the world's most cinematic beaches. Here, 10 ridiculously beautiful beaches (and 10 landmark movies) you won't want to miss. Recognize this beach? It featured prominently in a popular pirate movie (click to the next slide for the answer).
If you guessed Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl you are correct! Here's another perspective of St. Vincent and the Grenadines—the islands on which this film was set.
Lumahai Beach on Kauai, pictured here, stood in for Vanuatu in the film South Pacific.
The perfectly white sand and aquamarine water of the One&Only Ocean Club on the Bahamas' Paradise Island was the perfect setting for the James Bond flick, Casino Royale.
Our favorite scene from that James Bond thriller: when 007 intercepts the lover (Caterina Murino) of one of Le Chiffre's henchman after one of her horseback rides on the beach.
The silver screen version of the Abba-infused, chartbusting musical, Mamma Mia!, shines a spotlight on Kastani Beach on the Greek island of Skopelos.
A beautiful view of the dramatic monolith on Kastani. Nearby is the hilltop monastery of Agios Ioannis sto Kastri, where Mamma Mia's wedding scene took place.
The movie that gave voice to a generation of backpackers, The Beach, centers on the quest for Thailand's last pure beach, one untainted by tourism. The location for the film? Picture-perfect Phi Phi Leh island.
"Colorful boats line the shores of Maya bay on Phi Phi Leh island. In the movie, the directors digitally enhanced this bay with a "fourth side" to make it seem even more private. But that doesn't make it any less spectacular in real life."
Stephenie Meyer's wildly popular Twilight series is set in cloudy Washington State, but some of the best beach scenes in the films are shot 200 miles south on Indian Beach in Oregon.
The movie that brought Brooke Shields, then 15, into the limelight, The Blue Lagoon tells the story of cousins falling in love after being shipwrecked on a deserted island. The film was shot on Devil's Beach on the island of Nanuya Levu in Fiji.
Nanuya Levu is just as idyllic now as when it was filmed—palm trees and shallow coral reefs—but it's got a few more services than the movie would suggest.
28 miles northwest of Santa Monica, the Malibu-area state park, Leo Carillo Beach, may be Hollywood's favorite stretch of sand for shooting minor beach scenes, appearing in such films as Inception, The Usual Suspects, Point Break, Beach Blanket Bingo, and, most famously, Karate Kid.
Framed by sycamore trees and steep headlands, the 1.5-mile-long coastline of Leo Carrillo Beach is a favorite with surfers, swimmers, and picnickers up from Los Angeles.
Find Leo Carrillo Beach by driving north on Pacific Coast Highway and stopping just short of its intersection with Mulholland Drive. Here, you can see tide pools created by the spray and splash of high tide.
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Located 8 km northeast of the recognized township of Hura, Umm al-Hiran is among the Bedouin villages in the Negev desert at the risk of being demolished.
Named after the valley that passes by, Umm al-Hiran is home to about 500 residents of the Abu al-Qian tribe.
Following the Nakba in 1948, the tribe was forced to leave their ancestral lands to an area nearby Rahat, the biggest Bedouin town in the Negev.
Since then, the Abu al-Qian tribe had been displaced several times until they subsequently settled at the present location and founded the village of Umm al-Hiran.
In 1997, a heavy storm destroyed the whole village. Israeli Minister of Infrastructure visited the area and ordered the villagers to build new stone houses for their protection. These houses, however, were not granted any building permissions.
Even though the relocation of Umm al-Hiran to the current area was a specific order from the Israeli authorities, now after 60 years, residents of the village are once again at the edge of being uprooted.
In May 2015, Israel's Supreme Court rejected the appeal of the residents of Umm al-Hiran against the removal of their village to make rooms for the construction of a new Jewish village.
The court gave out rulings that the land belongs to the state and the residents of Umm al-Hiran are not entitled to live there.
The residents of Umm al-Hiran have since received demolition orders and were told to move to the Bedouin town of Hura, where living conditions are already overloaded and infrastructure underdeveloped.
Umm al-Hiran is among the 46 Bedouin villages in the Negev unrecognized by Israeli authorities. Those villages are not seen in the map and as such, deprived of basic necessities including running water and electricity.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – Orlando police officers opened fire on a man wanted in an aggravated assault who, according to officials, tried to run them over in a parking garage.
Derrick Lattimore, 27, was arrested in the incident, which occurred around 1:20 a.m. Monday at the City View apartments at 595 W. Church St. No one was injured.
According to Orlando police, officers were in the area of Church Street and Terry trying to locate a man in connection with a domestic violence aggravated assault with a firearm, which occurred at another location in the city.
The man, later identified as Lattimore, fled the initial scene in a vehicle, and officers were advised that he could possibly be headed to the City View apartments.
Officers located Lattimore in his vehicle in the parking garage of the apartments, according to police, who said Lattimore tried to run them over.
Three officers fired shots, but Lattimore was not struck, police said.
The officers took Lattimore into custody on charges of aggravated assault with a firearm. Additional charges are pending.
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Yea, it's me again. Overgeneralizing this game. Sorry in advance.
So was Ol Corn Eye changed from a 1 Cost to a 2 Cost for balance purposes?
And Pyramid of the Sun states that if a Cost 1 or higher Sandylands creature enters its lane, you can return it to your hand.
Assuming you have 2 of them in play and a SandWitch in another lane- You'd merely need to play 2 copies of Sailing Sand Crab into the lanes that the Pyramids are in, because the first crab would enter play and then return to your hand; you'd then play the 2nd Crab in the other Pyramid's lane and it would also proceed to return to your hand. But because of each Crab's ability activating because they would keep entering play, you would just play the first, then the 2nd, then the first again, and so on, and so on. Then with SandWitch, each time one of these Crabs would enter play, your opponent would take 1 damage- essentially this leads to a loop that wins you the game. You can also do this with Peach Djini instead of SandWitch, and in which case, Djini would essentially have infinite ATK.
I was discussing this with a friend of mine, and we both came to the conclusion that this might have been an oversight on Pyramid's design, in regards to cards that were later printed. So was this the case?


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Rumoured to originally have been titled, Scottish Music Will Never Die, But You Will, the SAY Award is set to underscore how much terrific comes out of Scotland.
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The Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award is an ambitious new national prize established to reward and promote the diversity and creativity of music and art in Scotland. Developed by the Scottish Music Industry Association, in partnership with Creative Scotland, the award recognises the most outstanding albums released by Scottish artists in 2011. The SAY Award will place its focus on artistic merit rather than sales history, genre or label affiliation, offering £20,000 to the winning album and £1,000 to each of the nine runners-up.
Employing a progressive format and a clear commitment to engage with all sectors of the music industry, the award will provide a unique platform from which Scotland's finest albums can be championed. The relationship between music and art is recognised too, with a £20,000 art commission offered to graduates from Scotland's four principal art schools. The successful graduate will produce a unique artwork for each of the shortlisted finalists.
This inaugural award features a long list of twenty records, including DiS favourites Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat, Found, Rustie, Remember Remember and Mogwai. To see the full list and to find out more visit sayaward.com. And yeah, if you look under the list of judges you'll see some familiar names.


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Beware the Coming of the Mac
As users sneak Apple Macs into the enterprise infrastructure, IT needs to keep an eye peeled for hackers; on the other hand, corporate management may clamp down hard.
Over the past two years or so, users have increasingly brought the Mac into the enterprise.
However, IT staff are not prepared to deal with Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) Macs, either from a management or a security perspective, as the overwhelming majority of desktops in the enterprise are Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) Windows boxes.
Now, they will have to change. "IT will now have to address a universal security policy instead of a Windows security policy," Lumension Security's Director of Solutions and Strategy Don Leatham told InternetNews.com.
Where previously Chief Security Officers only had to worry about Windows desktops when putting together enterprise security policies, now they "have to include Mac and Linux desktops, USB devices, iPods, iPhones and other personal smartphones and smart PDAs (define) that are actually small laptops," Leatham said.
Hackers will also begin turning their attention toward the Mac. The Mac has benefited from the concept of security through obscurity, Leatham said, explaining that hackers target the most widely-used operating systems for maximum effectiveness and that Windows' predominance made it the prime target.
"It's a numbers game, just like marketing," he explained.
Now, Macs are becoming more attractive as they are beginning to "sit in privileged access locations in corporations, and are not just for personal use," Qualys Chief Technology Officer Wolfgang Kandek told InternetNews.com.
Security professionals themselves are part of the problem, Jack Phillips, co-founder and managing partner of security research firm Institute for Applied Network Security (IANS), told InternetNews.com.
"More and more IT people and security teams are going for the Mac for personal use because they see it as a more secure platform than Windows," Phillips said.
At IANS' last forum, held in Dallas over two days in June, "Ten to 15 percent of the users had Mac laptops, the most we've ever seen in the seven years we've held these forums," Phillips said.
The Mac operating system is based on Unix, so there won't be too many kernel-level hacks or problems at the low end of the operating system, but the "newer, higher levels" of the Mac operating system "probably still need to be tested" to see how many vulnerabilities exist in them, Leatham said.
Also, while the Mac will come under heavier attack now, it still lacks some applications that create security holes. "There are some things like Outlook on the Windows side that aren't even available on the Mac," Bob O'Donnell, program vice president in IDC's clients and displays program, told InternetNews.com.
There are very, very few Macs in the enterprise, O'Donnell said, although the numbers are growing, so "enterprise IT isn't sure what to do with Macs."
There are security and system tools in the market that work on Windows and Macs which will help IT manage Macs in the enterprise. Lumension offers Patchlink Scan, a vulnerability scanner, and Patchlink Update, a remediation tool, both of which work on Windows, the Mac, Linux and Unix.
Qualys offers QualysGuard, which conducts security evaluations through the network to find and identify nodes on it. This works with the Mac and "helps IT departments enforce security with the same functionality you have in Windows," Kandek said.
What happened, and where things are going
Macs are gaining ground in the enterprise because there's "a perfect storm of consumer convergence," Leatham said.
"There's the iPhone and iPod, Web 2.0, Internet messaging, Twitter, all sorts of different vehicles which are to a certain degree valid mechanisms to do business, especially by the younger generation, and 20-year-olds who see Macs as tools, not as toys," he explained.
Together, these will challenge the hold enterprise IT has on IT in the business place.
The Mac's penetration of the enterprise is being helped by Windows Vista's unattractiveness to corporations.
"The relatively slow enterprise adoption of Vista due to its graphics requirements and application compatibility issues makes the Mac all the more attractive because it's being compared to Windows XP, a pretty old system design," Internet Research Group analyst Peter Christy told InternetNews.com.
The user-driven adoption of Macs in the enterprise is not going to last, IANS' Phillips said.
"Personal preferences will peak for now, but ultimately IT's insistence on a PC or Windows environment will win out," he said.
In the short term, enterprises will turn to vendors and ask for help, but "ultimately, management will tell users that they must abide by corporate policies, not personal policies, when they come to work."
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