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CALLIHOO (Calehue, Kalliou), LOUIS, Iroquois fur trader, trapper, and hunter; probably b. at Caughnawaga (Kahnawake), Que.; fl. 1819–45 in the vicinity of Lesser Slave Lake (Alta).
Louis Callihoo was one of many Iroquois men who travelled west with the fur trade in the late 18th and early 19th century. He probably came, like most of them, from the mission village of Caughnawaga, sometimes called Sault-Saint-Louis. An entry in its parish registers records the baptism of a Louis Karhiio, born 17 Oct. 1782 to Thomas Anatolia (Kanakonme) and Marie-Anne Tekonwakwehinni. A note beside the name indicates that he "went to the north, married there, had a family, [and] never returned." This description fits the career of Louis Callihoo; unlike most Iroquois who went to the west, he stayed there for the remainder of his life, and he founded a large and prominent family.
It has been claimed that the family name was originally Kwarakwante and that Father Albert Lacombe* was responsible for naming the branch that settled about the St Albert mission (Alta) Callioux, which later became corrupted to Callihoo. This hypothesis is not supported by the historical record. Individuals with the name Callihoo (variously spelled) appear well before Father Lacombe's time, in fur-trade records from the early 1800s and in church records from the 1840s. A Louis Cahiheue of Sault-Saint-Louis was hired in 1800 by McTavish, Frobisher and Company, agents for the North West Company, to winter in the north for two years. In 1812–13 a Louis Calihue worked for the NWC in the Athabasca district.
By the 1819–20 trading season Louis Callihoo was one of a number of Iroquois and Canadian freemen who hunted and trapped in the Smoky River area of what is now northwest Alberta and traded at posts on the Athabasca River and at Lesser Slave Lake. He was never a contract employee of the Hudson's Bay Company, although he did perform occasional services for it such as hauling goods to the Lesser Slave Lake post in 1819 or wintering company horses in 1829.
Callihoo appears to have married two sisters from one of the Smoky River families of freemen. His first wife was Josephte Patenaude and his second was Marie Patenaude; with them he had two and seven recorded children, respectively, between 1822 and 1845. Throughout the 1820s and into the 1830s he is portrayed in HBC journals as the head of a small network of free trappers and hunters living along the Smoky River. He and his family are included in an 1838 census of freemen who traded at Lesser Slave Lake. By 1842 he had moved from the Smoky River area to Shaw Point on the lake.
Callihoo was probably brought up as a Roman Catholic. The first missionary to reach the Lesser Slave Lake area was a Methodist, the Reverend Robert Terrill Rundle*, who arrived in the early 1840s. Although Callihoo associated with Rundle, even calling the missionary to attend him when ill, he did not become a Protestant convert. All his recorded children were baptized and married by priests, including six baptized in October of 1845 by Joseph Bourassa, one of the earliest Roman Catholic missionaries to reach Lesser Slave Lake.
Callihoo died some time between 1845 and 1856. His nine children survived to produce families of their own. Notable among his descendants are Michel Callihoo (Calistrois), who as chief signed an adhesion to Treaty 6 in 1878 and settled his band near St Albert, Felix Calihoo, a founder in 1932 of the Métis Association of Alberta, and John Callihoo, a founder in 1939 of the Indian Association of Alberta.
Arch. of the Archdiocese of Edmonton (Roman Catholic), Sainte-Anne (Lac Ste Anne), reg. des baptêmes, mariages et sépultures, 1844–59. PAM, HBCA, B.8/a/1; B.94/a/2; B.115/a/3–9; B.239/z/10; F.4/32. Provincial Arch. of Alta. (Edmonton), 71.185 (O. J. Rath, corr., reports, and geneal. charts tracing hereditary condition in descendants of Louis l'Iroquois, 1954–55); Oblats de Marie-Immaculée, Forts des Prairies/1 (reg. des baptêmes, mariages et sépultures, 1842–59); Forts des Prairies/5 (index des reg. des manages, s.d.). R. T. Rundle, The Rundle journals, 1840–1848, intro. and notes G. M. Hutchinson, ed. H. A. Dempsey (Calgary, 1977). Trudy Nicks, "The Iroquois and the fur trade in western Canada," Old trails and new directions: papers of the third North American Fur Trade Conference, ed. C. M. Judd and A. J. Ray (Toronto, 1980), 85–101. D. I. Buchanan, "Blood genotypes – D-/-D-and CDe/-D-; transfusion therapy and some effects of multiple pregnancy," American Journal of Clinical Pathology (Baltimore, Md.), 26 (January–June 1956): 21–30.
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Apple CEO is 'Extremely Sorry' that Boston Looks Like it's Melting
If you need proof that there are some problems with Apple's newest Maps applications, come on a little Apple-led tour of our fair city with us.
As you've probably heard, within days of last month's iPhone 5 release, users began to notice problems with the new Apple Maps application, which replaces Google Maps on the phone's new iOS 6 software: distorted images, wrong directions, and some towns missing completely. The problems are bad enough that Apple CEO Tim Cook issued an apology.
For those of you who have so far avoided using the Maps app, we've compiled some examples of our favorite Boston-area mistakes, assembled through our own forays into the Maps app, and with the help of the good people at "The Amazing iOS 6 Maps" tumblr.
1. Bourne Bridge: If you're trying to get to Cape Cod this weekend, your biggest problem may not be the traffic.
2. Bunker Hill Monument: How can such a tall monument look so flat yet have such a bold shadow?
3. Boats at the New England Aquarium: You may want to think twice about taking a harbor cruise on one of these boats.
4. Fenway Park is looking a little…. White? Turns out this image was captured when Fenway was set up for a concert by Pink Floyd's Roger Waters back in July.
5. Boston City Hall is looking a little Inception-y. Maybe this is an improvement?
6. And then there are these images of downtown Boston that look the roads are melting:
7. The App thinks the TD Garden is an actual … garden. Or maybe Apple just wants more outdoor concerts?
8. There are even some directional mistakes, such as this Cambridge hospital: The Holy Ghost hospital actual changed its name to 1970 and then again in 2009 to Spaulding Hospital. Let's hope not too many ambulance drivers are relying on their iPhone for directions.
Here is a shot of the same area on Google Maps:
9. The Microsoft New England Research & Development Center probably isn't too happy about its location being represented by a gas station symbol.
10.Powderhouse. Powderhouse powderhouse. We're not really sure what to make of this shot of Cambridge.

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As Daniel Jones, author of Love Illuminated, explains: we spend youth asking "How do I find love?" and midlife asking "How do I get it back?"
Anyone in a relationship or who plans on being in one needs to know how to keep love alive over the long term.
But how do you learn the secret to this? Everyone is happy to explain "how they met" but few give the details on "how they stayed together."
So let's look at what science has to say.
Aside from being the epitome of lazy writing, "happily ever after" is not simple.
Ty Tashiro explains that couples in their first year of marriages score 86% for marriage satisfaction. By the seventh year, it's under 50%.
Yes, about 50% of couples get divorced. Another 10-15% separate but do not file paperwork. And 7 more percent are chronically unhappy.
So the real stat is two-thirds of marriages do not live "happily ever after."
Via The Science of Happily Ever After: What Really Matters in the Quest for Enduring Love:
The divorce rate often reported by the media is 50 percent, which is based on Census Bureau data. However, census data does not capture the 10 to 15 percent of couples who permanently separate but do not file formal paperwork for a legal divorce. This means that a conservative estimate of the divorce and permanent separation rate is 60 percent. Add the additional 7 percent of chronically unhappy couples who do not divorce or permanently separate but are consistently unhappy in their marriage, and this means that two-thirds of all married couples do not live happily ever after.
Why is marriage so hard over the long term?
One of the main reasons is what science calls it "habituation." Which is a fancy way of saying we get bored.
Early on, when a couple can finish each other's sentences it's romantic. But over time "predictable" is a huge negative.
Chris Rock gets the point across humorously in this video (NSFW):
Robert Greene, author of The Art of Seduction, explains that surprise is key to romantic feelings:
Seduction involves a degree of surprise, which is generally the first thing that disappears after you've been in a relationship, and why there's no more seducing that goes on. Everything is familiar and you're no longer surprised by the other person.
So is there any way to bring those tingles back?
Yes. Here's how.
"Arranged marriage! AGH! Weird!"
Hold on a sec. We can learn something here. What do researchers find when they compare at 50 arranged marriages and 50 "love" marriages?
Love marriages start out happier — but that declines quickly.
Arranged marriages start out less happy, but after 10 years, they're happier than love marriages. And stay that way.
Via The Art of Choosing:
The couples who had married for love and been together less than a year averaged a score of 70 points out of a possible 91 on the love scale, but these numbers steadily fell over time. The love couples who had been married ten years or longer had an average score of only 40 points. In contrast, the couples in arranged marriages were less in love at the outset, averaging 58 points, but their feelings increased over time to an average score of 68 at the ten or more years mark.
What's the secret behind the long term success of arranged marriages?
They have to work at it.
They don't passively rely on "magic" and intense emotion. They have to spend a lot of time thinking about how to make it work.
Via Love Illuminated:
That process of discovery is ostensibly the fun of courtship, too, except that in arranged marriage the goal is to figure out how to be married, not whether to marry.
Research shows expecting a fairy tale relationship is a prescription for disappointment.
Via 100 Simple Secrets of Great Relationships:
Elements of fairy tales such as Cinderella were present in 78 percent of people's beliefs about romantic love. Those people were more likely to have experienced disillusionment, devastation, and angst in their relationships than were those who gave less credence to fairy tales. – Lockhart 2000
Feeling like it's all magic means it's out of your control — and that without that initial magic, it's hopeless.
The happiness of arranged marriages means a couple can make magic if they try.
So you need to actively keep the marriage happy. How do you do that?
Look at your spouse as something you purchased "as-is." Research shows trying to change them doesn't work:
…when participants (N = 160) focused their relationship improvement attempts on changing the partner, individuals reported more negative improvement strategies, lower improvement success, and, in turn, more negative relationship evaluations… results suggest that targeting the partner may do more harm than good despite that relationship evaluations pivot on whether the partner produces change.
John Gottman, researcher and author of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, says 69% of a couple's problems are perpetual.
These problems don't go away yet many couples keep arguing about them year after year.
Via The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work:
Most marital arguments cannot be resolved. Couples spend year after year trying to change each other's mind – but it can't be done. This is because most of their disagreements are rooted in fundamental differences of lifestyle, personality, or values. By fighting over these differences, all they succeed in doing is wasting their time and harming their marriage.
So if you can't change them and they won't change you, how can you reduce the bad stuff?
You can't. But you don't need to.
The best relationships are more about increasing the good than reducing the bad.
Divorce may have less to do with an increase in conflict and more to do with a decrease in positive feelings.
Via Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding of Happiness and Well-being:
Shelly Gable, professor of psychology at the University of California at Santa Barbara, has demonstrated that how you celebrate is more predictive of strong relations than how you fight.
Okay, so you need to increase the good times. What's the best way to do that?
(This part is exciting. I mean, literally.)
Think a pleasant date night is all it takes to keep love alive?
Researchers did a 10 week study comparing couples that engaged in "pleasant" activities vs "exciting" activities. Pleasant lost.
Via For Better: How the Surprising Science of Happy Couples Can Help Your Marriage Succeed:
Those who had undertaken the "exciting" date nights showed a significantly greater increase in marital satisfaction than the "pleasant" date night group…
Why would doing anything exciting have such a big effect on a relationship?
Because we're lousy about realizing where our feelings are coming from.
Excitement from any source will be associated with the person you're with, even if they're not the cause of it.
As happiness researcher Sonja Lyubomirsky explains, excitement experienced mutually brings the tingles back.
…Whether the couples were only dating or long-married, the ones who did the shared novel activity were more likely than the ones who did the shared neutral activity to agree to statements like "I feel happy when I am doing something to make my partner happy" and "I feel 'tingling' and 'an increased heartbeat' when I think of my partner" after the activity than before.
So no boring, lame date nights. Go do something exciting. Go dancing together or anything else you can both participate in as a couple.
Keeping love alive can be tricky. You need to actively work at it and it's more important to increase the good then to reduce the bad.
And the best way to do that is by increasing excitement.
So you're hopping on roller coasters and going white water rafting — but what do you need to do when you're there?
Pretend you're on your first date.
Studies show pretending time with a romantic partner was a first date makes it more enjoyable for you and for your partner:
Across a series of studies, participants underestimated how good they would feel in situations that required them to put their best face forward… participants who were instructed to engage in self-presentation felt happier after interacting with their romantic partner than participants who were not given this instruction…
Why? On first dates we make an effort to impress. And we're full of hope.
Love means being a little delusional (Some researchers even think love might qualify as a mental illness.)
Thinking your partner is better than they really are makes for longer, better relationships.
Via The Science of Love:
Sandra Murray and her colleagues have been studying romantic relationships now for several decades, and have found that idealising one's partner is a sure recipe for marital success; moreover, the higher one's ideals are and the more one idealises one's partner, the more satisfied one is with the relationship – and the longer it is likely to last.
Letting yourself be a little crazy — crazy for your partner — pays off.
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EWG's Clean Fifteen™ list, those fruits and vegetables with the least pesticide load, consists of corn, onions, pineapples, avocados, cabbage, frozen sweet peas, papayas, mangoes, asparagus, eggplant, kiwi, grapefruit, cantaloupe, sweet potatoes and mushrooms.
"When given a choice, more consumers are choosing organic fruits and vegetables or using EWG's Shopper's Guide to find an easy affordable way to avoid toxic chemicals," said Sonya Lunder, an EWG senior analyst. "They want to eat a diet rich in fruits and vegetables without eating too many pesticides. And they want to support local farms and agriculture that is better for the environment."
EWG's Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce, now in its 9th year, ranks pesticide contamination on 48 popular fruits and vegetables, based on an analysis of more than 28,000 samples tested by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and federal Food and Drug Administration.
EWG researchers compile the Shopper's Guide and the Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen lists from pesticide residue tests conducted by USDA and FDA scientists, who made public their most recent round of results earlier this year. Since government scientists wash or peel samples before testing them, pesticide measurements reflect the likely pesticide loads of produce when people eat it. EWG's ranking uses six measures of pesticide hazards, among them, the number of pesticides detected on a crop and the percent of samples testing positive.
For the second year, EWG has expanded the Dirty Dozen™ with a Plus category to highlight two crops - domestically-grown summer squash and leafy greens, specifically kale and collards. These crops did not meet traditional Dirty Dozen™ criteria but were commonly contaminated with pesticides exceptionally toxic to the nervous system.
In the most recent USDA tests for kale and collards, conducted in 2008, some samples were found to be contaminated with organophosphate pesticides. Organophosphate pesticides are potent neurotoxins that can affect children's IQ and brain development, even at low doses. Over the past decade organophosphates have been withdrawn from many agricultural uses and banned for home pesticide use but still be applied to certain commercial crops.
Banned organochlorine pesticides were detected on nearly 20 percent of the samples of zucchini and crookneck squash in 2008. Imported summer squash were cleaner. Most organochlorine pesticides were widely applied in the 1940s through 1970s but withdrawn from use after studies revealed them to be highly toxic to people and wildlife. They are extremely persistent in the environment and still pollute produce grown in contaminated soils.
Results remained troubling for some baby foods purchased in American stores in 2011. Green beans canned for baby food tested positive for five pesticides, including the toxic organophosphates methamidophos and acephate, detected on 14 and 13 percent of samples respectively. EPA and producers have voluntarily agreed to remove these two chemicals from agriculture due to health concerns. Pear samples tested positive for 11 pesticides, including iprodione, deemed to be probable carcinogen and not registered for use on pears.
Pesticides are toxic by design and created expressly to kill living organisms -- insects, plants and fungi that are considered "pests." Many pesticides pose health dangers to people and have been linked to brain and nervous system toxicity, cancer, hormone disruption, skin, and eye and lung irritation.
Last year, the American Academy of Pediatrics, which represents more than 60,000 pediatricians, for the first time adopted an official position warning doctors and parents that pesticide exposures from food are potentially dangerous to children's health.
"By following EWG's Shopper's Guide and advice, consumers can feel confident they can buy foods with consistently lower overall levels of pesticide contamination," said Lunder.
EWG advises people who want to avoid genetically engineered food as well as pesticides to buy organically-raised produce. U.S. law does not require labeling of GE foods. Zucchini, Hawaiian papaya and some varieties of sweet corn may be genetically modified.


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When writing your report, the most important things to consider are:
- To participate in the international contest, you must submit your report in English.
- File(s) must be uploaded to the Quarry Life Award website before 15th September 2022 (midnight, Central European Time).
- The upload limit on the website is 10MB.
- Reports have to be 10 pages long (Arial 10) – this does not include the title page and table of contents.
- If annexes are needed these should be at the end of the report document (in addition to the 10 pages).
- Do not provide more personal data in the document than absolutely neccessary.
- Complete the Species list template as well and upload it to the website, too.
Contact your National Coordinator if you have any questions.


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IRS Scam
As reported by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Internal Revenue Service sent out an alert warning taxpayers about an e-mail scam that claims they are the subjects of a criminal investigation, and then asks them to click on a link that allows the scammer to take over the person's computer remotely. When a hard drive is hijacked in such a way, the scammer has access to all the information a computer user has saved on his hard drive. The e-mail claims to be from the agency's Criminal Investigation division and says that the recipient is under criminal probe for submitting a false tax return to the California Franchise Board. It then asks the person to click on a link or open an attachment to find out more about the complaint against him or her. Once the person does so, the link or attachment can allow the scammer to remotely access the person's hard drive. IRS spokesman Mark S. Green pointed out that the agency does not send out unsolicited e-mails or asks for a person's personal or financial information. The agency said the person should forward the e-mail to [email protected]. The instructions can be found on IRS.gov by entering the term "phishing" in the search box.


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• reprehend •
Pronunciation: re-pree-hend • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Verb
Meaning: Rebuke, condemn, censure, reprove.
Notes: The lexical relatives of today's word replace the final D with an S before attaching endings: reprehension "an act of reprehending", reprehensive "given to reprehending", and reprehensible "deserving reprehension". That is because it, like many English words borrowed from Latin, via French or directly, is based on the past participle of the Latin verb reprehendere, reprehensus.
In Play: The implication of this verb is that the reprehendee had committed at least a faux pas in the eyes of the reprehender: "No matter how often he was reprehended, Calvin couldn't help laughing at what went on in the legislature." Mothers sometimes form an inescapable habit of reprehending their children: "I visit so seldom, mother, is because whenever I come, you reprehend me for not attending church."
Word History: Today's Good Word was borrowed from French, but it goes back, as mentioned above, to Latin reprehendere "to seize, blame, censure". I'm sure you recognize its structure: re- "again, back, against" + pre-hendere "grasp, grab". Don't try to make sense of it; it has been around for a long time and gone through many changes. We see its original meaning in prehensile "adapted to grasping", as the prehensile tails of monkeys. The root of prehendere, hend-, comes from a Proto-Indo-European word ghe(n)d- "to take" which, without the Fickle N, went on to become English get. (Lest I be reprehended, let me express all our appreciation at this point to Rob Towart for recommending today's Good Word.)
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Greetings folks! This week we have ourselves a two-for-one!
First up, for the week of June 4th – 10th: My Top Three
Cymre of Bubbles of Mischief posted this topic for the Blog Azeroth Community to contemplate –
"What are the top three items on your main that you just love for sentimental, fun or silly reasons and would hate to lose? Tell us a story, what makes them so special and as always illustrate with screenshots"
These fine folks responded with zee posts –
Cymre's post on Bubbles of Mischief
JDKenada's post on Arcane Wordsmith
fivequarters from Argus or Bust
Ninevi from Flask Half Empty
Mabaho's post on BikesBabesBytes
Erinys from The Harpy's Nest
Dragonray's post on Azerothian Life
Toki, of Turkey Lurkey Rogue Jerky fame, posted this
And lastly, but certainly NOT leastly – Karegina of Yseras Daughter
As you can see, just about everyone who has a WoW blog answered the call to that topic!
Now, for the week of June 11th through the 17th: Insert NPC Name Here
We have another topic from Cymre of Bubbles of Mischief this week!
If Blizzard added your main as an NPC in WoW, where would they be located and what would be their function? Give us a shot illustrating the fact.
And we already have some responses –
Navimie of The Daily Frostwolf
Karegina of Ysera's Daughter
Make sure to head over to the Blog Azeroth forums and post a link to your response to this weeks topic, in this thread , and I'll add it to the list prior to this Saturday's TNB!
Two more posts for the mix!, from Mataoka of Sugar & Blood –


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Next-gen computing: Know me, follow me
Here is the future of computing: Solid state memory (no disk drives); neural interfaces ); batteries that recharge by motion created as you walk ; holographic displays (no monitor); smart communication cards that know your data plan, track your usage and find the cheapest route automatically; GPS navigation systems that know your driving habits and automatically alert you to traffic issues and call you with alternatives.
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Here is the future of computing: Solid state memory (no disk drives); neural interfaces that enable your thoughts to interact with the computer operating system (not keyboards); batteries that recharge by motion created as you walk through the airport or to the office; holographic displays (no monitor); smart communication cards that know your data plan, track your usage and find the cheapest route automatically (and encrypt your communications over public networks); GPS navigation systems that know your driving habits and automatically alert you to traffic issues and call you with alternatives.
Know me, follow me
The next generation of computing will know more about you than you know about you! The device will study your habits, your activities and adjust to you. A passive/active monitoring interface (you tell it - you let it) learns as you live! Intrusive? Maybe! It is up to you. Perhaps the settings feature will have a closeness option that you can set when you configure or set up the device. Somehow I feel a Carpenter's song coming on, "Just like me, they long to be, close to YOU! (I'm dating myself.)
Could the computer become a virtual family dog and replace the real one? Could you in fact have a relationship with your technology? Well, in some cases, we have that now. We live in the Digital Age where our use of technology has become intensely immersive. Most of the technology that I have listed is already being used, it is just not integrated into one device yet. As computing power continues to grow, device integration will only be a matter of time.
Ultimately, next generation computing will morph into a computer companion. The alarming fact is that some can't live without their computer, smartphone or tablet today!
In the banking space
One of the greatest frustrations of a financial institution employee is that they have to be at a workstation, desk, or specific location in order to function. They need a keyboard, mouse, monitor and connectivity. The reality is that banking locations, or branches, over the next decade will decline domestically. Staff will become increasingly mobile (Technical support and whatever system access you need to perform your job will follow you much like the personal computing lifestyle mentioned earlier.) It will know you and follow you.
Banking locations, retail, commercial, or operational, will be entirely wireless environments constructed with no cables in the wall except power. Goodbye to looking for an Ethernet connection. Bank buildings will know you the minute you walk through the door and automatically connect (or pair) with your device, once you successfully authenticate.
The challenge is accepting this reality, anticipating the technological changes, and commencing planning in preparation for the change. Culturally, it is massive mind-shift in the application and use of technology for your organization and it will traumatize traditional thinkers. The reaction will be to resist. But as the Borg said in Star Trek, "resistance is futile, you will be assimilated!" (I know... dating myself again.) Vendors will also resist because they have a history of being slow to adapt to technological trends . What are your options? The only way you will be prepared for change is if you insist on it! By the way, your customers will!
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We are happy to introduce Power BI support for Intune Mobile Application manager (MAM) on iOS devices. Support for Android devices is coming soon.
About Intune
Microsoft Intune enables organizations to easily manage devices and applications across all teams. Through configuration policies, you can control application access with a PIN, limit data sharing, and even encrypt application data. The Power BI Mobile application is already integrated with Intune MDM, or Mobile Device Management. See our documentation to learn more on how to configure Power BI Mobile apps with Microsoft Intune via MDM.
With this release we are adding support for Intune MAM.
What is special about MAM?
While MDM is a good solution for many organizations, in other cases the organization may not be interested in managing the device itself, but only specific apps like Power BI. Many organizations exercise a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policy, and they may consider it too intrusive and time-consuming to manage their employees' devices. Other organizations already use Mobile Device Management (MDM) tools and do not want to establish a new MDM solution (Intune) just for Power BI and O365 apps. Using MAM allows these organizations to control and manage Power BI in parallel to managing the device with the MDM of their choice or without any MDM all together. Now that Microsoft Intune – Mobile Application Management is supported in Power BI Mobile apps, IT administrators can control access to Power BI and help prevent data leaks without requiring employees to enroll their device.
What can you do with MAM and Power BI?
Intune MAM is currently supported on iOS devices that run iOS 8.0 and later. It allows you to modify the functionality of Power BI apps to align with the organizational compliance and security policies.
Intune MAM introduces the following capabilities:
- Restrict web content to display only in a corporate-managed browser.
- Prevent iTunes and iCloud backups.
- Allow data transfer from the app to: (a) all other apps; (b) only managed apps; (c) none of the apps.
- Prevent "Save As".
- Restrict cut, copy and paste with other apps.
- Require pin code to access the app.
- Encrypt app data.


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Camp Smalltalk is an optional extra to the ESUG conference. Not everyone who comes to the conference comes to Camp Smalltalk as well - but those who do have a great time pair-programming with experts on leading-edge open-source projects. As in past Camp Smalltalks, we also aim to have 'get started' tutorials on Smalltalk, Seaside and Agile Methods.
Camp Smalltalk runs on the Saturday and Sunday before the main conference (and, for the really keen, it continues in the intervals and evenings of the main conference). Turn up when you like and join a project or a 'get started' tutorial. The Camp shows lists of projects and people, and runs contact schemes, so newbies can get involved.
This year's provisional list will appear nearer the time.
Past Camp Smalltalk projects have included:
Details of some ongoing projects are on the Camp Smalltalk wiki.


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Someone once observed that a liberal's life consists of confronting one unexpected suprise after another. I think it is safe to say that the same can be said of the typical Ivy League foreign policy wonk, to the extent they are different groups of people.
A lot of people of all political persuasions were excited by the "Jasmin" revolution that started in Tunisia and spread, near instantly, to Egypt and resulted in the toppling of President Hosni Mubarak. Just like the situation in Libya, no one took the time to ask what we knew about the demonstrators before we cast our lot with them.
The average citizen can be excused. The stripey pants set in Foggy Bottom, not so much.
From today's NY Times, who are also shocked, shocked at the happenings:
In post-revolutionary Egypt, where hope and confusion collide in the daily struggle to build a new nation, religion has emerged as a powerful political force, following an uprising that was based on secular ideals. The Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group once banned by the state, is at the forefront, transformed into a tacit partner with the military government that many fear will thwart fundamental changes.
It is also clear that the young, educated secular activists who initially propelled the nonideological revolution are no longer the driving political force — at least not at the moment.
"We are all worried," said Amr Koura, 55, a television producer, reflecting the opinions of the secular minority. "The young people have no control of the revolution anymore. It was evident in the last few weeks when you saw a lot of bearded people taking charge. The youth are gone."
Hmmm. Committed, ruthless, professional subversives have managed to push aside the Egyptian equivalent of the contributors at dKos. Who would have thought this could come to pass?
And we're seeing an immediate result of this:
Cairo: Women arrested by Egyptian military personnel during protests at Cairo's Tahrir Square were subjected to "virginity tests" and other forms of humiliation, claims an Amnesty International report.
Eighteen demonstrators were detained by army officers on March 9 at the end of weeks of protest.
The Amnesty report revealed that the women protesters were beaten, given electric shocks, subjected to strip searches and photographed by male soldiers.
Women were then given 'virginity checks' and threatened with prostitution charges if the medics ruled they had had sex, said the report.
Amnesty has called on the Egyptian authorities to investigate this alleged abuse, which it described as 'utterly unacceptable.'
'The purpose is to degrade women because they are women", "All women of the medical profession must refuse to take part in such so-called 'tests'," The Daily Mail quoted an Amnesty spokesman, as saying.
The spokesman said one woman who had told the military she was a virgin and then failed the 'test' was beaten and given electric shocks.
The only thing left to make this a rousing success for the Obama Doctrine is the inevitable "one man, one vote, one time."


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(visited by Helmut Resch, Babs Coleman, Renate Gössnitzer, Walter Schorm and Abdrahamane Camara)
10-Apr-2008 -- This is the 18th of a series of 83 confluence visits during our voyage from Nigeria to Europe and back to Nigeria around the entire African continent. It all started on 28 January at 11N 5E.
Story continues from 13N 5W.
Several days ago at Jutta's little guesthouse at Sévaré near Mopti, we meet first Renate and after a couple of cold beers later also her travelling companion Walter, who was resting after the long journey from Senegal. The beers tasted exceptionally good this day and the discussions in the group resulted that we will make a joint tour through the Dogon country.
The homeland of the Dogon people is arrayed above and below the huge Falaise de Bandiagara, which extends some 150 km through the Sahel to the East of Mopti. The landscape is just stunning. The Dogon are noted for their complex and elaborate culture, art forms, and unique houses and granaries clinging to the bare rock face of the escarpment.
The next day Walter and Renate made arrangements to hire a 4x4 with driver and the following morning we were on the way. We drove from Sévaré to Bandiagara and down the escarpment to Dourou where we spent the first night. The next morning we where strolling around the village guided by one of the staff of the campground where we had spent the night. After this most interesting walk, we continued to the village Tirelli, then further on to Amani where we visited the sacred crocodile pond. A few hundred meters from this pond towards the village of Iréli we stopped when we spotted some villagers being busy roasting pieces of freshly slaughtered pork meat. I could not resist the temptation and tested a small bit. The meat was so delicious that we took out some bread from our vehicle and ordered some more and had a great feast. In the meantime Walter and Renate had stopped and parked their vehicle still in viewing distance away and thought we were purchasing something. We in turn thought they do not like "Schweinsbraten" (roasted pork). Sorry guys, you lost out on one of a hell of a delicious meal.
The next stop was the village Banani where we all had something to drink and continued afterwards to the village Kundu where we spent the second night. The next morning we drove back with one vehicle to Banani and up the escarpment to Bongo, hired a guide which lead us down the escarpment back to Banani where our driver Abdrahamane already waited for us. It was a very nice walk and not to be missed by anyone visiting this area. After some refreshments, which mainly consisted of lots of beers and a dash of tonic at the local campground, we continued to Yenndouma, where we spent the third night.
The next morning we took one car again and the guide from the campground and went to the village Yougopiri. Yougopiri is a couple of hundred meters up the hill; our driver dropped us at the bottom and we continued on foot up the hill with our guide to the village, went through the village, and then further up to the top and crossed the plateau (approximately 3 km) and descended on the other side through a gorge to the village of Yougodogorou and then down the hill where our driver was waiting for us. From the entire fantastic walks we did in the Dogon country, this was the most fascinating one.
We returned to the campground, had our usual refreshments, and continued via Bamba to Douentza. At Douentza we looked for a suitable campground and had our usual refreshments. There was still time to visit the confluence 15N 3W, which is situated 6 km outside the town in the direction of Mopti – so off we went and not much later we were 33 meters from the Confluence, then the climbing up the hill consisting of huge boulders began. It was quite a task, but eventually we succeeded. There was only one more problem: to get the picture with all those zeros lined up. Very nerve ragging to hop around in these boulders and not get the desired result. Eventually, at 5:15 p.m., after several attempts, we were successful.
It was Renate's and Walter's first visit of a Confluence and both entirely enjoyed the experience to find, as I believe, still a virgin Confluence. After an extended photo session with Walter making all variations of group photos, we returned to Douentza and celebrated our successful visit to the Confluence with some more beers. During the following day and numerous discussions in the group, we decided to name this Confluence "Seou-Seou", which is part of the greeting in the Dogon country.
Continued at 13N 7W.


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If you think meeting a sea captain at a bar and planning a rendezvous the subsequent day on the southernmost tip of Louisiana is fishy, well, you'd be right.
But all judgement aside, it was about 150 pounds worth of delicious fish, and one of the most memorable trips I've taken in my life.
Last Thursday afternoon my friends and I were headed seaward, aimed for the oil rigs. We were on Venice Offshore Charters' 26-foot double hull with Captain Brett Ryan and three of his friends.
Our excursion began in Venice – a town which lies roughly where Highway 23 forfeits its pavement to the Gulf of Mexico. It's a small fishing village of anglers and dock dogs, where charter boat captains like Brett make a humble living out of taking their patrons to sea in search of red snapper, marlin and yellow fin tuna.
Venice Offshore Charters' boat launches from Venice Marina at 6 a.m. So, customers often seek shelter at the marina the night before in order to avoid an absurdly early morning commute from New Orleans.
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Fishin' the Rigs
Day excursions, lasting anywhere between 6 and 8 hours, will take you deep into the tuna grounds of Mississippi Canyon. Cpt. Brett prefers fishing by oil rigs which, as I'm sure you've heard before, are scattered across a large portion of the Gulf of Mexico.
The rigs, which are teeming with marine life, are located at depths of up to 5,000 ft. Since they provide shelter for bait fish in open water, they are, ironically enough, a very industrial version of a pescetarian's heaven.
Cpt. Brett will typically head for the oil rigs via South Pass or West Delta. After launching from the marina, we opted for South Pass stopping near quiet patches of river grass to catch menhaden, or poagies, for bait along the way.
On our way to the tuna grounds, we stopped at a rig a little past the 3-mile line, fitted our rods with poagies, and fished around 100 feet for snapper which Cpt. Brett would later grill for us under the starriest sky I've ever seen.
While you're fishing for snapper, make sure your line is – at the very least – 100 feet deep. Otherwise, you'll be catching young, inedible shark pups. If you catch one, don't be disheartened. The good stuff is swimming just beyond that.
Jiggin' for Black Fin and the coveted Yellow Fin
When the sun started setting, we headed toward ATP Titan, an oil rig 78 miles out of South Pass, located in one of the Mississippi Canyon's deepest blocks. There are only three more rigs beyond this monstrosity.
We were fishing for tuna until we could see marlin fins slicing through the gray hours of the early morning. During our time at Titan, we hooked a few decent-sized black fin, but failed to jig the elusive yellow fin, which is prized for its flavorful meat.
On the way back from the tuna grounds, Captain Brett likes to stop at Moxy, which is good for amberjack and snowy grouper. Snowy grouper, which haunts the depths at around 600 feet, is best to catch with an electric reel.
How to Book a Charter:
Reservations can be made by phone (504) 234-6865 or by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
There are six boats in Venice Offshore Fishing's fleet. So, the captains can usually meet any accommodations.
Adhere to rules of the sea:
Bring pre-made food and drinks in your own ice chest.
Even with sea legs of steel, it's best to take it easy on the fire water. Sea swells take a toll on a belly full of booze. With that being said, bring dramamine to battle the possibility of any sort of nausea.
Put sunscreen on every bit of exposed skin repeatedly, and unless you want to look like you got slapped on one side of your face by the fiery hand of Ra, remember not to fall asleep on your side.
Keep an extra ice chest at the marina so you can take your catch home. Also, bring a camera so you can easily back up your fishing tales with photographic evidence because you'll probably eat all of it before most of your friends see.
Weather at sea is volatile. Layer your clothing. Bring rain gear, a hat and non-slip shoes.
Be superstitious. Don't bring bananas. Throw away your change. Abandon your redheaded friends (Sorry, Alex). Get naked if you're comfortable doing so. (Apparently, Neptune rewards those who shed their clothing in moonlight with a bounty harvest.)
Pray before launching.
Regardless of what you believe on land, all these things are a part of the maritime experience. Since you spend so much time following the laws of the land, you might as well allow the rules of the ocean to govern your seaward self for a singular day.
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Japanese man, 80, oldest to top Everest for now
KATMANDU: An 80-year-old Japanese man who began the year with his fourth heart operation became the oldest conqueror of Mount Everest on Thursday, a feat he called "the world's best feeling" even with an 81-year-old Nepalese climber not far behind him.
Yuichiro Miura, a former extreme skier who also climbed the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) peak when he was 70 and 75, reached the summit at 9:05 a.m. local time, according to a Nepalese mountaineering official and Miura's Tokyo-based support team.
It was a moment Japanese news agency Kyodo captured on video from 10 kilometers (6 miles) away, using a camera crew at 5,500 meters (18,000 feet) elevation on another mountain.
"We have arrived at the summit," Miura said in a radio transmission to Kyodo from the world's highest point. "80 years and 7 months. … The world's most incredible mountaineering team had helped me all the way up here."
Miura and his son Gota made a phone call from the summit, prompting his daughter Emili to smile broadly and clap her hands in footage shown by Japanese public broadcaster NHK.
"I made it!" Miura said over the phone. "I never imagined I could make it to the top of Mount Everest at age 80. This is the world's best feeling, although I'm totally exhausted. Even at 80, I can still do quite well."
Nepalese mountaineering official Gyanendra Shrestha, at the Everest base camp, confirmed that Miura had reached the summit and was the oldest person to do so.
The previous oldest was Nepal's Min Bahadur Sherchan, the 81-year-old on Miura's heels.
Sherchan is preparing to scale the peak next week despite digestive problems he suffered several days ago. On Wednesday, Sherchan said by telephone from the base camp that he was in good health and "ready to take up the challenge."
The two elderly mountaineers have crossed paths before.
Miura, who had become the oldest Everest climber with his ascent at age 70, would have reclaimed the title in 2008 as a 75-year-old, but Sherchan, then 76, reached the summit just a day before he did.
Emili Miura said Wednesday that his father he "doesn't really care" about the rivalry. "He's doing it for his own challenge."
Sherchan's team leader, Temba, who uses one name, said Sherchan will congratulate the new record holder when he returns to the base camp, and that he won't turn back until he completes his mission.
Sherchan got good news Thursday when Nepal's government approved financial aid for his climb. The Cabinet approved 1 million rupees ($11,200) for Sherchan's expedition and waived $70,000 in permit fees, said Bimal Gautam, the press adviser to the Chairman of the Council of Ministers.
Miura conquered the mountain despite undergoing heart surgery in January for an irregular heartbeat, or arrhythmia, his fourth heart operation since 2007, according to his daughter. He also broke his pelvis and left thigh bone in a 2009 skiing accident.
On his expedition's website, he explained his attempt to scale Everest at an advanced age: "It is to challenge (my) own ultimate limit. It is to honor the great Mother Nature."
He said a successful climb would raise the bar for what is possible, a point echoed after his success byJapanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga.
"This will be deeply touching to all the people of Japan. And, especially, in an aging society, it will also give much courage and hope to all elderly people," Suga said at a news conference.
Miura became famous when he was a young man as a daredevil speed skier.
He skied down Everest's South Col in 1970, using a parachute to brake his descent. The feat was captured in the Oscar-winning 1975 documentary, "The Man Who Skied Down Everest." He has also skied down Mount Fuji.
It wasn't until Miura was 70, however, that he first climbed to the top of Everest. When he summited again at 75, he claimed to be the only man to accomplish the feat twice in his 70s. After that, he said he was determined to climb again at age 80.


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The use of Graphene for high frequency applications is also being carried out where a major push is towards application in the terahertz range.


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This post is part of a special series of articles by blogger and activist, Marcell Shehwaro, describing the realities of life in Syria during the ongoing armed conflict between forces loyal to the current regime, and those seeking to oust it.
I am writing this article while repeatedly hitting the F5 key on my computer to reload the Facebook page with news about Aleppo, to see what the fighting on the front lines brings.
It seems my city is living a new situation, moving towards the liberation of some of its parts. We still don't know the size or extent of the new areas, nor can we verify what we're hearing. But all of us—those eagerly awaiting the liberation as well as those against it—are anxiously following the news.
The revolutionaries are hoping to reunite parts of the city, which has been divided for about two years. With some areas under government control, and others in the hands of the rebels, we residents of Aleppo have ourselves become a divided people, separated within ourselves. Parts of us live on in the memories we have left behind in areas of the city which we cannot visit for security reasons, while other parts try to integrate themselves into new areas of the city, and force ourselves to love these places.
The liberation of Aleppo started in July 2012. On that day we had dreams of peace which we are reassessing today, realising how naïve we were to assume that a peaceful movement of any magnitude would be able to overthrow a regime backed by international powers, on the one hand, and whose crimes—among them the use of chemical weapons—have been met with international silence. Between our dreams of instigating change in a peaceful manner in the exhausted countryside subjected to months of bombardment from the heart of the city, the liberation of huge swaths of the city took place. The armed revolutionary resistance forces took control of 70 per cent of Aleppo.
Liberation is usually accompanied by the destruction that takes place wherever firearms are used. The chaos and vandalism are compounded by the creativity of the regime and its airforce, which leaves behind the horrible stench of death wherever they fly. Suddenly, all the inhabitants of the liberated areas disappeared, moving either to the regime-controlled or occupied areas, which are safer from the bombardment and fighting, or towards the refugee camps on the Turkish border.
The four million inhabitants of Aleppo have no doubt been affected by the arrival of war at their doorstep. Those who believed in the importance of change as well as those who resisted it, have felt the impact of the liberation, which has changed the flow of time and life: the opening and closing hours of shops, the use of fuel, the constant cuts in the supply of electricity, water and communications services.
On the side of the war would rise warlords, profiteers who would not want the battle to end, who wanted to steal all that was good in us to sell to others.
The schools in the government-controlled areas were turned into refugee centres, to accommodate those who left the liberated areas and provide them with humanitarian aid: a wonderful gesture of comradeship. We believed this situation to be temporary, so some of us took the life-changing decision to move to the liberated areas and fill the places of the journalists, doctors and aid workers who'd fled. We were under the illusion that the complete liberation of the city would not be long in coming, and that we would soon be reunited with our families and return to our normal lives. Many left with nothing more than a small suitcase, not realising that they would be prevented from returning to their homes for almost two years.
At the time, I lived in the occupied part of Aleppo. On an almost weekly basis I was called in for a different type of interrogation—an experience I will write about one day. The interrogation was enough to paralyse all my activities related to the revolution, but it wasn't sufficiently threatening to force me to move to liberated Aleppo or outside Syria.
The areas which we heard were being liberated were as strange to us as the jungles of Africa, and didn't seem part of the city I have lived in my entire life. They were poor areas which we had no opportunity to learn about because of the lack of on-the-ground social work in Syria. They were areas which our social class, and perhaps our sectarian tendencies, prevented us from visiting before.
It's said that the Syrian revolution ignited the fire of sectarianism; some claim that before the revolution we lived together in harmony. But the bitter truth is that we lived side by side, in boxes which completely separated us from each other. It was in fact the revolution that brought all Syrians together, regardless of class, culture and sect. It wasn't until after the revolution that I heard the names of some of the district in liberated Aleppo, even though they're a mere a 10-minute car ride from my own neighbourhood. I had never had friends from those areas, and it would only after the revolution that I ever entertained the possibility that I would.
Salahuddin? The first revolutionary neighbourhood in Aleppo, and where I spent an entire year protesting almost daily? I never knew it exisited on the map of my city until 2012.
Aleppo was being liberated. It was being destroyed. And those of us sequestered in our cardboard boxes became subject to choices and uncertainties which mirrored those being experienced by the city itself. We had to chose between remaining captive in a self-imposed refugee centre, in an atmosphere of fear and the resistance of change; and liberating ourselves from that places in which we walled ourselves and our possessions, moving towards the others, joining them in the revolution with all its pain and sharing with them the anxiety and fear of barrels falling from the sky.
We complained constantly about all the friends we left on the other side whom we can no longer see. With every battle, a new extremist or a spiteful man wanted to rule us with his gun. We had to bear the feelings of neediness, sadness, and accumulated memories. Aleppo was changing, and we were changing with it.
Aleppo was liberated. Its new borders remained stable for almost two years, separated by a bloody passage manned by regime snipers ready to reap ten lives a day from among those who resisted the separation and crossed from one part of the city to the next. The alternative route between Aleppo's two sections, by car, took 10 hours, instead of the one hour it did previously. One day I will write about the impact of this division, and how the regime succeeded in making us spite each other.
The Aleppo which wasn't yet liberated was subject to the whims of the dictator. When he signalled his planes to rest, its residents would lead an almost normal life; and when he decided that no life should exist there, they'd have no life at all. This Aleppo is also on the threshold of a question: Are the liberated areas really liberated, given the existence of those who are forcing the city to look only like them? We were forced to lose parts of ourselves constantly, with every friend we have left on the other side.
Aleppo is redrawing its boundaries once again with blood: blood being spilled so we can move towards liberation, blood being spilled to maintain the status quo, blood being spilled to make us pay the price for opposing the oppressor.
Today we are all looking forward to a miracle that would make us all live in one city. So we can summon up the courage to dream of going back to having one state where we are all united in freedom.
We have the right to dream of unity.
And I have the right to dream of living as an individual, whole.
Marcell Shehwaro blogs at marcellita.com and tweets at @Marcellita, both primarily in Arabic. Read the other posts in the series here, here, here, here, here, here and here.
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