Approximately one year ago, Microsoft conducted its big "Re-Org" of FY18 into the One Commercial Partner (OCP). I mention the fiscal year because this is not the first, nor the last re-org we will see. It's also approximately a year since the Co-Sell initiative began. In my Microsoft tenure, I have seen many, many, MANY programs released and sunset. To see these big changes happening all at once, I knew we were in for some work to meet these new metrics to be a managed partner.
Today, I look at where Quadrotech is, and I'm astonished at how far we've come and what that means for us as a company, and our customers.
I admire the ideology of this, and I have to give credit to Gavriella Schuster (Microsoft's Corporate VP, Commercial Partner Channels & Programs) for adopting and driving this to the successful program it is today!
I speculate that the reasoning for "ONE" commercial partner, is that through technological development the partner types that seemed so clear-cut at the time, now have many facets and blurry lines.
In Microsoft's FY17, a colleague introduced me to the term SI-ISV. SI, as you probably know, stands for System Integrator – Microsoft defined these partners as organizations that deployed and offered services around Microsoft solutions. ISV or Independent Software Vendors were partners that developed IP that either sat on top of or ran alongside Microsoft solutions. SIs were the big guys; they had the muscle, therefore, got the attention from Microsoft. ISVs were mostly behind the scenes and were only called upon when they were needed, developing custom software to fit a particular customer's needs.
I believe that 'One Commercial Partner' is just that. Partners are being recognized as a Partner, not solely by the solutions or services they provide; thus, releasing the shackles and constraints of being typecast into an SI or ISV. Change is good; freedom is better.
Quadrotech is a natural SI-ISV. Not only do we develop our own solutions, but we also offer managed migrations with a fixed price, fixed outcome. We do not sell our solutions and offer limited training, expecting the customer to facilitate the migration themselves and then when they fail charge them consulting fees to fix a solution that was never really setting them up for success initially.
Partner to Partner. This is an initiative that Microsoft tried very hard to institute, but I didn't perceive it as successful before OCP was introduced. Historically, partners didn't want to work with other partners; they simply wanted to stay in their swim lanes and function completely separate from each other. The key issue in retrospect was there was nothing incentivizing them to come together. Each partner was afraid the other would steal their customers, IP, or the niche that separated them from their competition.
Today we see a much different approach to P2P, and it comes from Microsoft. Microsoft has allowed partners to market to one another through various programs and initiatives. Whether it's an Indirect CSP partner leveraging Direct Partners to supplement services they don't offer or SIs pulling in ISVs to supplement aspects of a project that they do not have the proper skills to execute. ISVs are even collaborating to combine their niche IP with 1-3 other ISVs to encompass a service offering they couldn't offer alone. P2P has come a long way, and Microsoft is setting the stage & leading by example with their Co-Sell motion.
Today Quadrotech has our own booming Partner Channel. With the majority of our solutions having the ability to be white-labeled, other partners that have Managed Service Practices are quick to jump onboard adding our SaaS solution stack to their customer's billable services. When they see all of the business value our solutions provide to end user organizations, including providing consumable data regarding Office 365 usage and utilization, role-based access control (RBAC), and auditable timelines that can be kept as long as they're needed, the list of possible added services is near infinite.
What do all partners want from Microsoft? Leads! Where do we get them?
Isn't that the million-dollar question?
Our amazing PDM (Partner Development Manager) first introduced me to Co-Sell, and initially, I took it as boxes to check. One solution, check. Two solutions, check. I went about working with our Marketing team to list all of our offerings in the OCP Catalog, and I'm not going to lie, it was a lot of work.
While this was happening, I was asking our PDM for introductions to field sellers to work with my team on opportunities, to no avail. We were the unknown. She and I would burn cycles trying to get in front of these account teams, while they were giving our opportunities to the partners that they already knew even if it wasn't the best solution for the customer.
The first part of 2018, everything changed. The matching feature of being co-sell ready switched on, and suddenly I no longer needed the introductions from my PDM. Instead, an automated email would go out to the account team highlighting the opportunity to them. The best part? These field sellers were reaching out to us before I even had a chance to check my email!
Our first co-sell deal is a perfect example of how simple co-sell can be. It was, at the time, the largest deal to date that Quadrotech had closed. We were stalled out with the customer, and it was our Q4. Our customer contact was not responding to emails or calls, we later found out he was out of office for the holidays. We asked the Microsoft Account Executive (AE) to help us. She advised us to go one level up from our contact. We did, and we were able to close the deal on time and on budget. It was incredibly simple, and I doubt to this day, that the Microsoft rep has any idea that this one little IM she sent would have such a big impact on the project.
Do we get leads from Microsoft today? Yes, we do! Are they all good leads? Of course not, but the fact that we are being recognized as an industry leader is still pretty cool.
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Since Quadrotech resides in 7 different countries around the globe, the supplier program ensures that Microsoft field sellers around the world will recognize our deep knowledge and expertise in Migrations, Reporting, Security and Management. Having a global presence is very important to us, and this has given us the leverage needed to start being impactful in those countries.
We have all of these programs in place, and the work is far from over. Somedays I feel like I am a magician making the impossible possible. When I look back at the last year, I can honestly say I am proud of the hard work Quadrotech has done to get here. It's been worth the blood, sweat and yes, sometimes tears.
Its As we move into the second half of FY19, I have a much deeper respect for our PDM, Kelsey Ausili. She has not only worked tirelessly for us but has also been an advocate, the voice of reason, a detective, a teammate and ultimately a friend to Quadrotech. She celebrates with us and is always "lookin' out" for us. Our partnership with Microsoft would not be where it is today without me and her being in lockstep through every program onboarding, frustrated program owner, executive meeting and event planning session. We are lucky to have her and are sincerely thankful for all her hard work and dedication to me and the #Quadrofam. Our continued success is something that she is partially responsible for, and we are grateful.
For now, Kelsey and I will continue to work our magic to propel Quadrotech to the top, but don't blink! You could miss something magical!
Steph Eddy is the Microsoft Global Alliance Director for Quadrotech. Steph's background includes six years of working with a Microsoft Vendor in Microsoft's Partner Program, where she eventually managed a team of Microsoft Inside Sales, Partner Development Managers. Steph has been with Quadrotech since July 2017.
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Arabian Prophets
Pharaoh Merneptah & The Jezreel Valley
Posted on April 22nd, 2018
H. Abdul Al-Dahir
There has been much debate about the mention of Israel in the Egyptian annals. One of the most contested interpretations occurs in the Merneptah Stele where appears the hieroglyphic word 'Yssrair' which many scholars insist refers to Israel. The problem which plagues this interpretation is that the word is followed by determinatives which mean a people rather than a determinative which means a foreign land. The Merneptah Stele was written between 1213 – 1203 BCE or during the Late Bronze Age. Scholars place the Kingdom of Israel during Iron Age I or approximately 900 BCE, which would make the interpretation of the word Yssrair as Israel impossible. However, there was a location in Israel which the Biblical authors named Jezreel, meaning (the god) El sows (seed). This location was known as the Qina Valley to the Egyptians who controlled this area of Canaan during the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age I.
The Egyptian name for the Jezreel Valley was Qina. The valley was named after the Qina N29-Z4-N35-G1-N25 Valley in upper Egypt which is located on both sides of the Nile. According to the Encyclopedia Britannica:
"Qin?, also spelled Qena, mu??fa?ah (governorate) in Upper Egypt, extending 3–4 miles (5–6 km) on each side of the Nile River between the Arabian and Libyan deserts. Occupying the great bend in the Nile valley, it contains the celebrated ruins of Thebes and the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings. Qin? has a dense agricultural population (more than 3,000 persons per square mile), and most of its land is under basin irrigation, yielding only one crop annually. Main crops are sugar (about three-fifths of the nation's production), lentils, and grains. Perennial irrigation water, mainly from the Kelabiya and A?f?n canals, is supplied from the Isn?"
Qina/Jezreel like Qina in Egypt is a fertile valley which is watered by a body of water the Egyptians named the brook of Qina aka the Wadi of Qina. According to the Annals at Karnak, Thutmosis III conquered the area:
"Now while the rear of his majesty's victorious army was (still) at [the town] of Aruna, the vanguard had come out into the [Qi]na Valley … His majesty reached the south of Megiddo on the bank of the Qina brook … The southern wing of his majesty's army was at a hill south of [the] Qina [brook], and the northern wing was to the northwest of Megiddo, while his majesty was in their centre."
The Egyptians controlled this area and used local and imported corvee labor to work the land according to Am Heltzer who published Society and Economy in the Eastern Mediterranean, C. 1500-1000 B.C, pgs 182-184. These laborers had a history of revolting against their Egyptian masters and their appointed lackeys who ruled the region. According to Amarna letter EA250 they are referred to simply as the people of the land of Gina. Their local name was never mentioned which is unusual as most Egyptian inscriptions mention the name of a people as separate from their locales as the Shasu of Yhw (Bedouin of Edom), the nHsy (Nubians), TmHw (Libyans) etc. There is not mention of Qinites in Egyptian annals, so the people of Qina must have been known by another name and that name was Yssrair or Jezreelites. The name designates the farming status of the people who inhabited the Valley of Qina. They were sowers of seed and their god was El. The Biblical authors appear to have renamed the Valley of Qina as Jezreel after the 'sowers of seed' or Jezreelites known to the Egyptians as Yssrair.
"Qina" in Egyptian is spelled N29-N35-M17-G43-M182-Z2 and it means 'sheaves, bundles'. In other words, the name means the valley of sheaves/bundles (of grain). For the Egyptians, the name would be applied to any fertile, grain producing valley. The most ancient name of the Jezreel Valley was Qina. The Egyptian word qina is a cognate of the Hebrew word qaneh which means reed. The Bible mentions a place and a stream named Qanah or Kanah in Jos 19:28 as the inheritance of Asher:
"And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families. 25 And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph, 26 and Allammelech, and Amad, and Mishal; and it reached to Carmel westward, and to Shihor-libnath; 27 and it turned toward the sunrising to Beth-dagon, and reached to Zebulun, and to the valley of Iphtah-el northward to Beth-emek and Neiel; and it went out to Cabul on the left hand, 28 and Ebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Sidon; 29 and the border turned to Ramah, and to [b]the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea [c]by the region of Achzib; 30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages. 31 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages."
Although no one has located the exact territory occupied the tribe of Asher, what is know in that part of Asher's inheritance lay in the Jezreel Valley according to the site Israel-A-History-Of's article entitled, The Tribe of Asher:
"The city list of Asher begins with Helkath, located in the southeastern quadrant of the territory. Helkath rested in the ever important Jezreel Valley, near Megiddo.
During the time of the Judges, the Israelites fought against the Canaanite king Jabin and his commander Sisera (Jdgs 4). Sisera's forces were stationed near Helkath, and the Canaanite forces gathered for battle against Deborah and Barak in Megiddo. The battle itself took place near Mt. Tabor.
Helkath bordered the tribe of Zebulun. Along with Helkath, Scripture lists the cities of Hali, Beten, Achshaph, Allammelech, Amad and Mishal as belonging to the tribe of Asher. These cities, when viewed on a map, delineate the eastern border of Asher."
So, Qina/Qanah/Kanah/Jezreel was the inheritance of Asher along with the tribe of Issachar who also inherited parts of the Jezreel Valley. The people who worked this valley for their Egyptian masters were the Jezreelites or Yssrair in the Merneptah Stele. They were the sowers of seed who worshipped El that Merneptah massacred after they revolted. The name Jezreel says it all! The Jezreelites sowed the valley on behalf of El while the Egyptians dedicated this valley to Amun. This alone would be enough to instigate trouble. Peasant revolts were common as is mentioned in Amarna letter EA250. There is absolutely no doubt that the Egyptian name for Jezreel was Qina and that the Yssriar who inhabited and cultivated this valley were the Jezreelites. The interpretation of the Egyptian word Yssrair as Israel is mistaken. The correct interpretation should be Jezeerlites.
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The Nashville Predators who are facing the Detroit Red Wings in the Stanley Cup Western Conference quarter-finals may very well look familiar, but make no mistake: this is a much different Predators club than the one that fell to Detroit in opening-round playoff series during the springs of 2004 and 2008.
With the trade-deadline additions of shutdown defenceman Hal Gill, scoring forward Andrei Kostitsyn, and grinding centre and faceoff specialist Paul Gaustad, not to mention the late-season return of the high-end skill of right-winger Alexander Radulov after more than three years of action in Russia's Kontinental Hockey League, they are loaded and believe they have what it takes to make a run deep into the playoffs for the first time in franchise history.
"I think we've been building the last couple of years," Nashville coach Barry Trotz said. "Stabilizing the franchise was priority No. 1. We've done that in Nashville. We're a real stable franchise, we're selling out most every night. We've got a good, young team. We got through the elephant in the room, getting by the first round (of the playoffs for the first time in franchise history last year by defeating the Anaheim Ducks).
"Our next goal is to try and win the Cup. Not that we haven't been trying to, but I think we have all the elements in place now to be a team that has enough parts from a business side and a player standpoint, to be a threat for a number of years. It's not an urgency to win, it's a reality that we want to win. That's a good place to be, not a bad place to be."
That urgency to succeed also has much to do with the ability to keep the core of this team together in one of the National Hockey League's smaller markets. All-star defenceman Ryan Suter will be an unrestricted free agent this summer, and Norris Trophy-contending defenceman Shea Weber is due to become a UFA the following year, so the Predators realize they must show these two that they are legitimate Cup threats in a bid to keep them within the fold.
"Today they're with us, so we're trying to win," Trotz said. "We tried to add pieces (at the trade deadline) and pieces that will help us win. They were certain areas of the game that we could improve upon, and certain elements of the game that can help us win."
Going forward, Trotz believes the Predators have the arsenal to maintain a place among the NHL's elite. " We've got the same bucket list as everyone else," he said. "We've drafted pretty well, so we've got assets to part with."
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Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole is a 2010 3D computer-animated fantasy adventure film directed by Zack Snyder. Based on the Guardians of Ga'Hoole book series by Kathryn Lasky, the film was written by John Orloff and Emil Stern and features the voices of Helen Mirren, Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Hugo Weaving, Emily Barclay, Abbie Cornish, Ryan Kwanten, Anthony LaPaglia, Miriam Margolyes, Sam Neill, Richard Roxburgh, and David Wenham. An international co-production between the United States and Australia, the film was produced by Village Roadshow Pictures and Animal Logic, following their success with the 2006 film Happy Feet. In the film, Soren (Sturgess), who loves listening to stories, is kidnapped and brought by the Pure Ones to St. Aegolious Home for Orphaned Owls led by Metal Beak (Joel Edgerton) and Nyra (Mirren) where the owlets are brainwashed to becoming soldiers. He befriended Gylfie (Barclay), and later escape the facility to find the Island of Ga'Hoole with new-found friends and together fight against the evil army.

Legend of the Guardians was theatrically released in RealD 3D and IMAX 3D in North America on September 24, 2010, and in Australia on September 30, 2010, by Warner Bros. Pictures; it was accompanied by a new 3D Looney Tunes cartoon entitled Fur of Flying. The film grossed over $140 million worldwide against a budget of $80 million. It received mixed   reviews with praise for its dark tone, voice acting and visuals, while criticized the screenplay and felt it did not live up to its potential.

Plot

Soren, a young owl, lives in the Tyto Forest with his family. Soren enjoys listening to his father's stories of the "Guardians of Ga'Hoole," valiant warrior owls who fought the evil Pure Ones. Kludd, Soren's older brother, becomes jealous of Soren after they are taught how to fly and pushes him off a branch, causing them both to fall to the ground. The brothers are kidnapped by Jatt and Jutt, two owls who work for the Pure Ones, and taken to the St. Aegolius Home for Orphaned Owls.

The Pure Ones' queen, Nyra, announces that the owls will either become soldiers or pickers (owls who find " flecks," bits of magnetic metal that are used to build a superweapon). While Kludd becomes a soldier, Soren and another owl named Gylfie become pickers and are put through a brainwashing process called "moon-blinking," but they resist. A boreal owl named Grimble teaches them to fly and tells them to find the Great Tree of Ga'Hoole, but Nyra finds out and kills him. Soren and Gylfie escape and soon meet two more owls named Digger and Twilight. In their hollow, Soren reunites with Mrs. P, a blind snake who is his family's nest maid. She agrees to go with them and find the Guardians.

The owls fly towards the sea of Hoolemere and reach the legendary shrine of the Guardians, guarded by an oracular echidna who helps the owls find the Island of Ga'Hoole. While flying, the band encounters a fierce snowstorm and Digger's wings freeze, causing him to fall into the sea, but they are saved by Boron and Barran, the king and queen of the Guardians. They lead the party to the Great Tree of Ga'Hoole, where Soren tells the Guardians about the Pure Ones' plans. Boron sends a great grey owl called Allomere out with two scouts to investigate St. Aegolius.

The owls stay in the Tree of Ga'Hoole for a long time and are looked after by a young short-eared owl named Otulissa. One day, Soren learns that Ezylryb, his teacher, is really Lyze of Kiel, who fought and defeated Metal Beak, Nyra's mate. Allomere returns from his scouting mission with news that his two wingmen were killed in an ambush. He brings back two moon-blinked owlets, one of which is Soren's younger sister Eglantine. The Guardians prepare for battle and fly out towards St. Aegolius. When she finally snaps out of her trance, Eglantine tells Soren that it was Kludd who moon-blinked her and gave her to Allomere, confirming that Allomere is a traitor and that the Guardians are actually flying into a trap. The owls fly back to St. Aegolius where they find Metal Beak holding the Guardians captive in a machine powered by flecks and guarded by bats.

While Twilight, Gylfie and Digger fend off the bats sent by Metal Beak, Soren navigates his way through a forest fire  and manages to disable the fleck trap. Upon returning, he sees Kludd, who attacks him. Soren is shocked that his brother is a Pure One, but a glory-obsessed Kludd tells him that the Pure Ones truly believe in him in a way that he's never felt before. The brothers fight until Kludd falls into the fire below. Soren grabs a flaming branch and stabs Metal Beak to death, causing Nyra to retreat with the remaining Pure Ones.

When they return to the tree, Soren, Gylfie, Digger, and Twilight are initiated as new Guardians. Later, Soren tells the story to a group of owlets, revealing that Nyra is still out there and that Kludd's body was never retrieved. The film ends with the owls flying off into another storm.

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Production

Development
Warner Bros. acquired the rights to produce a computer-animated film to the book series Guardians of Ga'Hoole by Kathyrn Lasky in June 2005. Donald De Line was set to produce the film and Lasky was set to write the screenplay. In April 2008, Zack Snyder signed on as director, Zareh Nalbandian took over as producer and a new screenplay was written by John Orloff and Emil Stern. Production began in Australia in February 2009.

Animation
The film's animation process took place at Animal Logic's headquarters in Sydney, Australia. A team of over 500 artists, technicians and support staff were amassed to design and animate 15 unique species of owls, as well as other forest creatures such as snakes, crows, bats, centipedes, bees, beetles, moths, a hermit crab, a Tasmanian devil, and an echidna.

The animated end credits sequence shows the adventures of Soren, Gylfie, Digger and Twilight as told by the young owls as if they were putting on a shadow play performance in the Great Tree. This idea was conceived by Felicity Coonan and took around three months to animate. Coonan wanted the sequence to be a playful experiment in 2D and 3D, as the classic storytelling form of shadow puppets is a 2D medium. The credits were designed to be legible without 3D glasses.

Casting
Much of the cast was announced in the early months of 2009. Hugh Jackman, Hugo Weaving and Ryan Kwanten were announced in January; Jim Sturgess, Geoffrey Rush, Rachael Taylor, and David Wenham in February; and Emilie de Ravin in March. The rest of the cast was announced in November 2009, including Emily Barclay, Abbie Cornish, Jay Laga'aia, Miriam Margolyes, Helen Mirren, and Sam Neill who replaced Jackman as the role of Allomere. However, like Jackman, both Taylor and Ravin were also no longer in the film. Laga'aia was also going to voice Twilight but was replaced by Anthony LaPaglia.

Release
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole was theatrically released in the United States on September 24, 2010, and in Australia on September 30, 2010. After Warner Bros. ended its long-time theatrical distribution deal with Village Roadshow in Australia at the end of 2020, Warner Bros. Pictures distributed the film worldwide, with Roadshow Entertainment (via Village Roadshow Pictures) distributing in Australia and New Zealand.

Home media
The 2010 Region 1 DVD includes a documentary featurette about owls, entitled True Guardians of the Earth, featuring ornithologists and conservationists, and presented by child actor Rico Rodriguez and character Digger the Owl (voiced by David Wenham). The cartoon Fur of Flying is also included on the DVD.

Video game

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment released a video game based on the film for the Wii, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and Nintendo DS platforms on September 14, 2010. The game was developed by Krome Studios for Wii, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 while the Nintendo DS version was developed by Tantalus Media.

Reception

Box office
In the US it took in $5.5 million on opening day, ranking third at the box office in the US. It ranked second on Saturday, earning $6 million, and was No. 1 on Sunday, earning $4.6 million (US). Overall, it earned $16,112,211 on its opening weekend, reaching second place at the box office behind Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps in America. This makes Legend of the Guardians Zack Snyder's first film not to reach No. 1 on its opening weekend in the US.

In its second weekend, the film slipped 32% to $10,887,543 and held on to second place, this time behind The Social Network, claiming the title of the biggest second-weekend hold for an animated feature in 2010. The film ended its run in January 2011 with a $55.7 million domestic (US) gross. The film also grossed over $84 million from its international release, bringing its global box office total to $140,073,390.

Critical response
Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports that 52% of 133 sampled critics gave the film positive reviews and that it has received an average rating of 5.70/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Legend of the Guardians dark tone and dazzling visuals are to be admired, even if they're ultimately let down by a story that never lives up to its full potential." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 53 out of 100 based on 21 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.

Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian gave the film a score of 3/5 stars, describing it as a "likable family movie" and writing: "It's all very weird sometimes, but engaging: a nice half-term treat for younger children." John Walsh of The Independent wrote: "The stars of this computerised epic are the Design and Art departments, who provide stunning landscapes, caves and kingdoms, and whose 3D magic is genuinely thrilling", but added: "The dark atmosphere and violent fights would scare most under-nines." Stephen Cole of The Globe and Mail gave the film a score of 3/4 stars, describing it as "a splendid adventure sure to thrill children and fantasy buffs, while leaving everyone else passably entertained."

Tim Robey of The Daily Telegraph gave the film a score of 2/5 stars, praising the film's visuals, but criticizing its dialogue and humor. He concluded: "We're left with something gorgeous, turgid, and emotionally impenetrable – less a movie, more an Imax screensaver." Andy Webster of The New York Times wrote that the film "may be a hoot, but for all its pyrotechnics, it fails to soar." Sandra Hall of The Sydney Morning Herald wrote: "It takes a certain knack to make a film which has a sinister feel to it without being the least bit exciting but Snyder has done it with this one."

Accolades

 Snippets of the film were shown when the company behind the animation, Animal Logic won the Byron Kennardy Award.

Possible sequel

According to Animal Logic's CEO, Zareh Nalbandian, there were discussions for a sequel to Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole as of 2011, but nothing solid as to when production would begin, as such a sequel would come in behind several other films Animal Logic will be producing or already is producing with Warner Bros.

Jim Sturgess and Ryan Kwanten have both said in a 2010 interview that they would reprise their roles as Soren and Kludd if a sequel ever entered production.

Soundtrack

WaterTower Music released the film's official soundtrack on September 21, 2010. The album includes thirteen score tracks composed by David Hirschfelder. The soundtrack also includes the song "To the Sky", Owl City exclusively for the film.

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I used to be a great admirer of Norton Antivirus. Indeed I used it myself for years. While it's effectiveness in detecting viruses has never been in doubt it acquired over the years a reputation as a resource hog. Each successive version seemed to cause your PC to run slower and slower. Around 2004 it got so bad that I gave the product away and migrated to NOD32. I was not alone; thousands of knowledgeable users abandoned Norton AV and Norton Internet Security Suite for more resource efficient security products. Symantec's response was to initiate a project called "Genesis" to create a new security product from scratch. This was to be a ground up re-write rather than a revamp. Furthermore this new product would not only include anti-virus capabilities but anti-spyware detection, rootkit detection, behavior based malware analysis, phishing and malicious site blocking, a stateful firewall, backup and more. It was an ambitious project but a worthy one. Despite the pressing need I'm not aware of any other security vendor who has totally re-written their core product. Most just enhance their existing products and bolt on additional modules leading to every larger, more unwieldy and less efficient products. Project Genesis gave rise to Norton 360  that was released earlier this year. Early reviews ,  have been glowing and suggest that Symantec has indeed succeeded in creating a product that is effective, resource efficient and user friendly. Norton 360 is an end-user product so I though I'd ask end-user Rick Farrow to check it out. Full assessment will have to wait until the new anti-malware engine is tested by a full certification lab like AV Comparatives. Meanwhile you can read Rick's report here . Commercial software, $69.99 for up to 3 PCs, 15 day free trial, Windows XP - Vista, 49.4MB.
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George Dewey Wilbanks Jr. was an American cancer researcher, surgeon, and professor of obstetrics and gynecology. He was best known for his research in cervical cancer and was responsible for early work identifying the human papillomavirus and its relationship to the development of cancer, eventually leading to the development of the herpes vaccine Gardasil.

Career
Wilbanks helped establish gynecologic oncology as a specialty. He was the first full-time chairman of obstetrics and gynecology at what is now Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. In addition to his research on cancer, which included both cervical and ovarian cancer, he was a pioneer of in-vitro fertilization, founding the second clinic in the U.S. to use these techniques. He also regularly treated patients.

Born in Georgia, Wilbanks grew up on a dairy farm in Tampa, Florida. He attended Duke University, completing a combined 6-year bachelor's / MD program. After completing his medical training through an internship and residencies in Philadelphia, Durham and Boston, Wilbanks served at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma. He then returned to Duke University as an assistant professor, where he helped establish its gynecologic pathology program. He moved to Chicago in 1970, becoming the John M. Simpson Professor and Chairman of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Rush Medical College, a position he held until 1996.

Wilbanks served as president of a number of professional organizations, including the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics, the International Federation for Cervical Pathology and Colposcopy, and the American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology. He was a Regent at the American College of Surgeons and a former Board member and medical adviser to Planned Parenthood of Chicago.

Two professorships have been established in his honor:
 The George D. Wilbanks Chair in Gynecological Oncology at Rush Medical College to support research in ovarian cancer
 The George D. Wilbanks Lectureship in Gynecologic Oncology at the University of South Florida

Personal life
Wilbanks was married to Dr. Evelyn Rivers Wilbanks, a professor of art history and archivist. He had two sons: George (Rivers) Wilbanks, who is the Founder and Manager Partner of Wilbanks Partners, and Wayne Freeman Wilbanks, who is the Founder and CEO of Wilbanks, Smith and Thomas.

Wilbanks died on June 3, 2012, of natural causes.

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Certain climates can be really challenging to shoot a movie in. While many films are shot in warmer climates, some live in areas where below-freezing temps are part of the norm… I am one of them.
People, cameras, vehicles… everything. So it's best to just plan on everything taking longer than you'd like. Build padding into your shooting schedule and maintain a secondary schedule of things you can shoot indoors if the outdoors is not cooperating.
Your mission, should you choose to accept it: outsmart the weather and keep moving forward no matter what.
Preparation is everything when it comes to working in winter weather, but sometimes we forget how harsh the cold is until we're freezing on set.
Put together a cold weather survival packet for your cast & crew and send it to them before they show up on set. If they have never lived or worked in a cold climate before they may not know how best to prepare. Include things like types of clothing, recommendations for hand and foot warmers, & tips for winter driving.
Extras can be an afterthought, but on a winter set that normal lack of consideration can become a miserable, possibly dangerous, situation. Make sure that they are dressed appropriately, have warming stations available, and possibly provide a hot beverage to help them stay warm.
Technology and extreme weather don't exactly go hand in hand. It's essential that you protect your camera gear from the elements and monitor its performance while working in the cold. One of the simplest ways to protect your camera is with a plastic bag/cover, but you can also purchase more specialized protective gear. Also, never expose your camera to any big temperature changes. Start acclimating your camera to the cold before you need to start shooting, and then warm it back up slowly when you're finished. Any significant temperature shifts can cause condensation inside your camera, and we all know moisture and technology do not go hand in hand.If you do happen to deep freeze your camera, check out this video on how to defrost it properly.
Pro-Tip) Carry extra batteries, you'll burn through them more quickly in the cold. Be sure to keep your spares in your pocket so that they'll stay warm.
Most winter days are just a blah-blend of white and grey, but when the sun does shine it can really blow out everything your camera is trying to capture. Use filters on your lens (sunglasses for your camera) and make sure to check your white balance as often as you can.
If you're trying to work at night you won't need to contend with the sun, but keep in mind that full snow cover acts like a giant reflector, making a little light go a long way. So take it easy and double check each lighting setup.
Winter weather is like a refining freezer that can bring out the worst in even the most hearty, but complaining doesn't help. Trust me. It just causes you, and everyone around you, to focus on what's hard right now instead of looking ahead to where we're going and why that's awesome. It will literally make you feel colder. Being on a film set, even a winter set, is always a privilege, it's worth being cheerful about!
Hang in there, the cold doesn't last forever… and remember, you could always go get a job indoors (I've heard Starbucks is hiring baristas). ????
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Alberto Lysy (geboren 1935 in Buenos Aires, Argentinien; gestorben 2009 in Lausanne) ist ein argentinischer Geiger, Dirigent und Violinpädagoge.
Als Schüler von Ljerko Spiller wurde er 1955 der erste lateinamerikanische Preisträger beim Concours Reine Elisabeth (Königin-Elisabeth-Wettbewerb) in Brüssel, wo er den sechsten Platz belegte. Er wurde ein persönlicher Student von Yehudi Menuhin.  Neben einer erfolgreichen Karriere als Solist gründete er 1967 die Camerata Bariloche. Ab 1977 leitete er Yehudi Menuhins internationale Musikakademie in Saanen; aus den dortigen Studenten rekrutierte er die erfolgreiche Camerata Lysy.

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The European United Left/Nordic Green Left (GUE/NGL) group in the European Parliament has criticized today's conference in Tallinn titled "The legacy of the crimes of communist regimes in 21st-century Europe". They are accusing Estonia of politicizing its EU council presidency.
EU politics and news portal Euractiv reported on Tuesday that the Greek minister of justice, Stavros Kontonis, had turned down an invitation to participate in the conference.
While the Estonian EU council presidency says that the event to be held today on the Day of Remembrance for Victims of Communist and Nazi Regimes is meant to commemorate the victims of all totalitarian and authoritarian regimes, the leftist group in the European Parliament sees things differently: The conference was an "insult to European historical memory", they said on Tuesday.
They urged the justice ministers of the EU member states, especially those of progressive orientation, to boycott the event like the Greek government did.
Greek justice minister Stavros Kontonis, a member of Greece's leftist Syriza government and a former communist activist, rejected the invitation, saying that the initiative was "very unfortunate", as the far right and right-wing extremists were getting stronger across the continent and the world.
The conference, to be held in Tallinn today Wednesday, is dedicated to the investigation of the legacy of the crimes of communist regimes. Acts ranging from the abuse and torture of political prisoners to the persecution of specific groups in the population as well as crimes against humanity in the form of purges and artificially caused famines are part of the legacy of those regimes, some of it is part of Estonia's experience as well.
From Estonia's point of view, that period ended 26 years ago, spokesperson for the Estonian Justice Ministry Katrin Lunt said. Minister of Justice Urmas Reinsalu (IRL) told ERR News in a short interview on Tuesday that apart from the moral imperative to investigate these crimes, finally dealing with them was important to keep similar things from happening again in the future.


Born in 1960 in Tehran, Iran, Ramin Samandari immigrated to the United States in 1978 where he has made San Antonio, Texas his home. Samandari is a versatile artist working with photographic and digital imaging processes that investigate the human form in relation to space and the intangible forces of time, place, and history. Samandari teaches photography at the Southwest School of Art and owns Magical Realism Studio, located in the Blue Star Art Complex. Samandari's work is in the permanent collections at the San Antonio Museum of Art and the University of Texas at San Antonio, along with numerous private collections.


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Europe 2015-16 Blog
Men's Ice Hockey Falls to Post in Regular-Season Home Finale, 4-3
Post (9-14) 1 2 1 4
Saint Michael's (5-15-4) 2 1 0 3
1st - 03:42 - Patrick Doherty (Saint Michael's)
1st - 12:22 - Jake Raleigh (Post)
1st - 13:23 - SH - Matt Egan (Saint Michael's)
2nd - 04:48 - Ethan Hendrickson (Saint Michael's)
2nd - 08:07 - PP - Tyler Hackett (Post)
2nd - 14:28 - SH - Tyler Hackett (Post)
3rd - 11:19 - SH - Tyler Hackett (Post)
G: Tyler Hackett - 3
A: 4 Players (#4, #18, #26, #27) - 1
Sh: Tyler Hackett - 10
Sv: Brandon Brown - 37
G: 3 Players (#6, #19, #23) - 1
A: Sam D'Antuono - 2
Sh: Nic Hermary - 6
Sv: Chris Johnson - 29
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SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. - The Saint Michael's College men's ice hockey fell to Post University, 4-3, in its regular-season home finale during Saturday afternoon's non-conference contest at Cairns Arena.
Saint Michael's (5-15-4), Post (9-14)
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS
Senior Patrick Doherty (Tewksbury, Mass./Middlesex Black Bears), 1 goal
Sophomore Ethan Hendrickson (Budd Lake, N.J./New Jersey Rockets), 1 goal
First-year Matt Egan (Hingham, Mass./Kimball Union Academy), 1 goal
Senior Sam D'Antuono (Hingham, Mass./Dexter School), 2 assists, 16-for-26 on faceoffs
Senior Chris Johnson (Duxbury, Mass./Pomfret School), 29 saves
OPPONENT LEADERS
Junior Tyler Hackett, 3 goals, 1 assist, 16-for-25 on faceoffs
Sophomore Jake Raleigh, 1 goal
Sophomore Brandon Brown, 37 saves
Sophomore Nolan Arbuckle, 5 blocks
GAME FACTS
Second of a two-game weekend series and regular-season home finale for the Purple Knights.
The Purple Knights honored D'Antuono, Doherty, Johnson, and fellow seniors Nic Hermary (Coquitlam, British Columbia/Melfort Mustangs), Jake Myers (Belmont, Mass./The Hill School), and Jack Ouellette (Arlington, Mass./Dexter School) in a short ceremony after the game.
With 29 saves Johnson pushed his career total to 2,006 to become the third Purple Knight to reach the 2,000-save plateau behind only Phil Fernandez '87 (2,320) and Simon Theberge '02 (2,344). He is also only the sixth goaltender in NE10 history to reach the mark.
Ten of the last 11 Purple Knights' games have been decided by two goals or less.
The Purple Knights struck first as Doherty intercepted a pass in the neutral zone and skated into the right circle, unleashing a shot that ricocheted off the left post and in at the 3:42 mark of the first period.
Post evened the score at 12:22 as junior Matt Moreschi threw the puck into a scrum in front of the net that Raleigh picked up and shot at Johnson only to be denied, but grabbed his rebound and tucked the puck into the right side of the net.
Saint Michael's made it 2-1 at 13:23 as D'Antuono stole the puck off a Post defenseman, skated into the right circle and passed across the slot to Egan, who tallied on the 2-on-1 breakaway for a shorthanded goal.
At 4:48 in the second period, Hendrickson corralled the rebound off of junior Hadan Jordan's (Colorado Springs, Colo./Boston Bandits) initial shot from the point and scooped it in to give the Purple Knights a 3-1 lead.
Post cut the deficit to one at 8:07 on a 5-on-3 power play as sophomore Evan Lugo passed the puck from the right circle to Hackett at the left post for a one-timer.
Post knotted the score at 3-3 at 14:28 when Hackett outskated a teammate and a Saint Michael's defenseman and potted into the top right corner from the slot for a shorthanded goal.
Hackett scored his hat-trick and second shorthanded goal for the game-winner at 11:19 when he intercepted an attempted clear by Johnson and threw the puck into a vacant net.
The Purple Knights had three shots in front of the net smothered by Brown during a 1:06 5-on-3 power-play opportunity that started at 14:09 and threw another three on net after Johnson came out with 1:29 remaining for the extra-man advantage, but were unable to score.
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Composer and conductor Gustav Mahler.
A few days ago someone asked on Quora, the question-and-answer website why an orchestra "needs a conductor, when most of time the conductor seems to be doing nothing." It's a good question, because the role of the orchestral conductor is not widely understood outside the classical music world. Even less so in the rice fields of Isaan, for someone from the region once asked me why "there's always a man dancing in front of the orchestra".
The tasks of the conductor depend largely on the type of orchestra. A youth orchestra conductor for example, has much more work than a guest conductor of a professional orchestra. Youth orchestra conductors usually have to select the music, hire the scores and parts, audition the players, book the rehearsal venue and deal with dozens of minor matters. They might even have to set up all the chairs and music stands in the rehearsal hall. And you might detect the voice of experience here. The conductor also has to find time to study the music. Conductor and orchestra might rehearse for many weeks or even months before a concert performance. In contrast, conductors of professional orchestras sometimes have only a few hours rehearsal time available, occasionally even on the day of the concert.
Conductors have many more musical tasks than merely beating time, partly due to the limitations of musical notation. Instructions in the score are usually in Italian and often vague to say the least. Expressions such as "a bit slower" or "gradually getting faster" are quite common. Printed music doesn't tell you exactly how loudly or how quietly a piece should be played, how short a staccato note should be, or how a musical phrase should be "shaped". As a result, one of the most challenging tasks in performing music is not necessarily playing the right notes in the right place, but deciding how to play them.
Musical decisions define a performance and it's the conductor's job to make them. It takes certain personal qualities to convince the members of a sixty-piece orchestra to "play it my way". Some conductors manage this with ease, tact and consummate charm. Others are less successful in the personal skills department. There are several well-known conductors who are heartily detested by members of the orchestras they conduct. But as my father used to say, "No names; no pack-drill."
Competent conductors study the orchestral score for weeks or months before rehearsals begin. The score shows what every instrument in the orchestra is playing (or is supposed to be playing) whereas the players see only their own part. The conductor is expected to know every detail of the score intimately and some conductors, notably Gustavo Dudamel commit the entire score to memory. If, at a concert it looks as though the conductor isn't doing much, it's because most of the work has already been done. Even so, at performance the conductor still needs to give cues, control tempo and dynamics and ensure that the orchestral balance is appropriate. Some conductors have the gift of pulling that little bit extra out of an orchestra at the concert.
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911): Symphony No. 1 (Rehearsal). National Youth Orchestra of the USA cond. James Ross (Duration: 1:10:46; Video: 1080p HD)
This is a splendid example of a typical youth orchestra rehearsal. They tend to have a high element of training, so it's start-stop-start-stop all the way. Notice how the conductor brings a sense of phrase, shape and balance to the music. He addresses the "how to" aspect of the music and takes the young musicians beyond the printed notes. And notice how James Ross does this with such apparent ease, keeping the musicians on their toes and yet continuously giving encouragement. Incidentally, when Mahler started this work in 1887 he was deputy conductor of the Leipzig Opera Orchestra.
Samuel Barber (1910-1981): Adagio for String Orchestra (Rehearsal). American Symphony Orchestra cond. Leopold Stokowski (Duration: 08.46; Video: 480p)
This rehearsal couldn't be more different. It was filmed in 1968, as Stokowski and his orchestra were preparing for a concert in New York City. At the time, Stokowski was 85 years old and no time is wasted with superfluous words. Instructions are typically given as the musicians are playing. Stokowski wanted the maximum tone from the string players and continuously pleads "piu, piu" ("more, more").
You might be surprised to know that despite his peculiar accent, Stokowski was of English birth. His father was half Polish and his mother was Irish. He was to become one of the great conductors of the twentieth century. But how do conductors achieve "greatness"? Let's leave that until next week.
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Woody Harrelson is likely playing Garris Shrike in the Han Solo movie
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It appears that Woody Harrelson sheepishly let slip just who he'll be playing in the Han Solo movie during an interview with Variety at Sundance. The actor's initial reticence to respond perhaps implies that he'll be getting a stern talking to from some higher ups at Lucasfilm, but he did seem to confirm that the mentor figure role he'll take on will be Garris Shrike. As /Film notes, however, there is some lingering skepticism as to whether Harrelson was just reiterating that he'll be in the Star Wars spin-off rather than spilling character details, but you can see for yourself:
Shrike is a character imported from The Han Solo Trilogy novels by Ann C. Crispin, the first of which, The Paradise Snare, was published in 1997. In that book, he's a one-time bounty hunter who is the captain of the Trader's Luck. Shrike essentially adopted Han when the hero was a homeless child. Crispin describes Shrike as a "less-than-benevolent despot" with a "warped sense of humor, especially if the pain of others was involved" and an affinity for getting drunk. So, basically, a perfect Woody Harrelson role.


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Mol Biol Evol. 2016 May;33(5):1245-56. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msw008. Epub 2016 Jan 11.
Evaluating Phylostratigraphic Evidence for Widespread De Novo Gene Birth in Genome Evolution.
Moyers BA1, Zhang J2.
Department of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan.
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan jianzhi@umich.edu.
The source of genetic novelty is an area of wide interest and intense investigation. Although gene duplication is conventionally thought to dominate the production of new genes, this view was recently challenged by a proposal of widespread de novo gene origination in eukaryotic evolution. Specifically, distributions of various gene properties such as coding sequence length, expression level, codon usage, and probability of being subject to purifying selection among groups of genes with different estimated ages were reported to support a model in which new protein-coding proto-genes arise from noncoding DNA and gradually integrate into cellular networks. Here we show that the genomic patterns asserted to support widespread de novo gene origination are largely attributable to biases in gene age estimation by phylostratigraphy, because such patterns are also observed in phylostratigraphic analysis of simulated genes bearing identical ages. Furthermore, there is no evidence of purifying selection on very young de novo genes previously claimed to show such signals. Together, these findings are consistent with the prevailing view that de novo gene birth is a relatively minor contributor to new genes in genome evolution. They also illustrate the danger of using phylostratigraphy in the study of new gene origination without considering its inherent bias.
© The Author 2016. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.
BLAST; gene age; new genes; phylostratigraphy; proto-gene; yeast.
10.1093/molbev/msw008
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Computer simulation for examining phylostratigraphic errors. (A) Tree used in the simulation of protein sequence evolution. The tree, including relative branch lengths, follows . Node label refers to the age group corresponding to that node. (B) Numbers of genes estimated to belong to each age bin for real and simulated protein data. Numbers of genes in bins 1–10 for simulated protein data are 2, 6, 6, 171, 33, 222, 119, 36, 74, and 5,209, respectively. Numbers of genes in bins 1–10 for real data, as provided by Carvunis et al., are 143, 169, 133, 314, 90, 476, 381, 78, 469, and 3,625, respectively. Carvunis et al. arbitrarily assigned 107,425 smORFs to bin 0, which is not shown here.
Evaluating Phylostratigraphic Evidence for Widespread De Novo Gene Birth in Genome Evolution
Mol Biol Evol. 2016 May;33(5):1245-1256.
Age distributions of six gene properties in real and simulated proteins. (A) Average coding sequence length of genes in each age bin. Interestingly, although the same lengths are used for the real and simulated proteins, mean length is lower for simulated than real proteins in each bin. This is an example of Simpson's paradox in statistics and is not due to mistakes in our analysis. (B) Mean expression level of genes in each age bin. (C) Proportion of genes having a TF-binding site within 200 bp of the translation start site for each age bin. (D) Proportion of genes under purifying selection for each age bin. (E) Proportion of genes with optimal AUG context for each age bin. (F) Median CAI for each age bin.
Age distributions of four additional gene properties in real and simulated proteins. (A) Mean hydropathicity value for each age bin. (B) Mean proportion of transmembrane regions for each age bin. (C) Mean proportion of disordered regions for each age bin. (D) Amino acid frequency ratios between age groups.
Biological Evolution*
Codon
Databases, Nucleic Acid
Evolution, Molecular
Genomics/methods*
Models, Genetic*
Mutation*
Saccharomyces cerevisiae/genetics
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins/genetics
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Proteins
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Upper West Regional Minister, Dr. Hafiz Bin Salih, has cited administrative issues as the reason for which the new ultramodern Upper West regional hospital is not operational. The hospital which is expected to serve as a referral center to other health facilities in the region and beyond is yet to be opened to the public for medical services after it was commissioned on 18th August, 2019.
Speaking at the Meet the Press Series in Nandom on Monday, November 11, 2019, Dr. Bin Salih said the hospital "is not operational because there are certain administrative matters that need to be settled." Among these, he said, is the search for a medical director, whom he is confident, will be recruited soon to run the facility. "There is an advert for the position of a medical director", he disclosed, assuring that "very soon, the medical director will be appointed to come and spearhead the administration of the facility".
The Minister was however quick to declare that persons who refused postings to the region should not think of being appointed as the Medical Director of the hospital. He made it clear that "people who have sacrificed to serve this region must be given the opportunity to head that facility. We cannot give a position that is so dear to us to people who refuse to take up postings to this region," but will want to take such positions from people who have sacrificed for the region. He therefore called on all to support him in ensuring that happens.
Dr. Hafiz Bin Salih also revealed that the new hospital facility has been issued with a certificate to operate by the Health Facilities Regulatory Agency. He said with the 160-bed hospital now having a license to operate, it is now at the stage of seeking approval from the National Health Insurance Authority to be absorbed which he believes will be done soon.
The Minister reiterated government's commitment to ensuring that the people of the Upper West Region benefit from the many programmes and projects being implemented. He further assured the people of government's readiness to ensure the effective operation of the hospital, and to improve the lives of the people in the region.
Meanwhile, pro-NDC group, Association for Transparent and Accountable Governance (ATAG) has charged government to operationalize the facility to help prevent avoidable deaths in the region. The group in a statement released on Tuesday, November 12, has given an ultimatum to government to open the hospital to the general public by close of year 2019 or face their wrath. The group said it will use any legal means possible to mount pressure in ensuring the operation of the hospital should government fail to do so by close of December 31, 2019.
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Q: How can I recover a variable-length number of GET variables via PHP? In many languages, you can have variable-length argument lists to functions (eg printf in c).
In a current php application I am working on, I have a desire to process X-many variables coming-in via HTTP GET. I am wondering if I need to follow something like DuckDuckGo's GET query format (?q=find+many+things), and parse the results breaking on the intervening character (in this case a + sign), or if there is a way to create a list of incoming variables that might look something like:
?t0=find&t1=many&t2=things

all the way out to tn items which I could iterate through a la using argv and argc in command-line applications.
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*is there a way to process argc-many items via GET with PHP?

*if not, is there a method other than the variable=..+..+.. method?

A: $_GET is just an associative array.  You can iterate over it like any other.
foreach ($_GET as $key => $value) {

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