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By 2014, citizen developers will build at least 25 percent of new business applications, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner said that this advance should both enable end users and free up IT resources. However, analysts warned that IT organizations that fail to capitalize on the opportunities that citizen development presents will find themselves unable to respond to rapidly changing market forces and customer preferences.
Gartner defines a citizen developer as a user operating outside of the scope of enterprise IT and its governance who creates new business applications for consumption by others either from scratch or by composition.
"Future citizen-developed applications will leverage IT investments below the surface, allowing IT to focus on deeper architectural concerns, while end users focus on wiring together services into business processes and workflows," said Eric Knipp, senior research analyst at Gartner. "Furthermore, citizen development introduces the opportunity for end users to address projects that IT has never had time to get to — a vast expanse of departmental and situational projects that have lain beneath the surface."
Mr. Knipp presented his outlook for citizen-developed applications during Gartner Symposium/ITxpo, being held here October 18 through today. He identified four converging forces that are advancing citizen development:
Mass personalization is custom tailoring by a company in accordance with its end users' tastes and references. End users start to become developers when they start to personalize software for their use. Mashup tools enable personalization while allowing reuse of existing service-oriented-architecture investments. Ubiquitous access via mobile devices drives the need for further personalization of content and applications.
Infrastructure industrialization is coming via cloud computing, a model of delivering elastically scalable computing resources as a service over the Internet. Cloud computing frees application development from infrastructure ownership.
Changing demographics are resulting from the retirement of baby boomers, and the maturation of "digital natives" means that the workforce will expect technology to "just work." The consumerization of technology is not a trend for these people — it's a way of life.
Developer tool evolution resulting from stepwise advances in programming tools (programs used by software developers to create, debug, maintain or otherwise support other programs) has made application development more accessible than ever.
Mr. Knipp explained that in the 1982 book "Applications Development Without Programmers," James Martin first coined the term 4GL to describe a form of application development performed by business users. "Over the last 50 years, four waves of 4GL enterprise adoption have seen each generation more widely adopted than the last, and now cloud computing has unlocked the market for 4GL-style development environments delivered as a service. As a result, rapid growth will occur through 2014 as cloud computing matures," he said.
Better technology has also lowered the bar for becoming a developer, while at the same time, users have become less intimidated by technology, empowering citizen developers to do more than they ever could before. However, Mr. Knipp warned that organizations need to recognize the limits of citizen developers and differentiate between the types of applications that IT can afford to let go of and those that it needs to maintain and manage more formally.
"The bottom line lies in encouraging citizen developers to take on application development projects that free IT resources to work on more complex problems," said Mr. Knipp. "Citizen development skills are suited for creating situational and departmental applications like the ones often created in Excel or Access today. However, complex distributed applications and low-level, fine-grained developer decisions will remain in the hands of IT, while line-of-business applications will likely fit between the two and need to be carefully managed."
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- Setting criteria for permissible solutions
- Establishing an accessible development environment
- Requiring "just enough" methodology
- Including solutions in portfolio management processes
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Hip Pain From Running on Treadmill – What Could It Be?
Occasionally, runners may experience hip pain from running. While this isn't uncommon it's important to note and examine these factors below to see what has caused the pain so proper recourse can be taken.
Running injuries are very common and can range from minor issues such as inflammation to major problems. The key is to identify when hip pain from running occurs, does it happen during the workout or is there hip pain after running? How severe is the pain? Does the runner experience others problems like knee pain while running? These can go along way in determining the problem.
Another aspect to examine is your running style while on the treadmill. Running on a treadmill can cause runners to adjust their style. This may mean increasing the length in their strides, which can cause hip pain. When on the treadmill make sure to maintain the same running style you would take on a road as this is a great way to prevent hip pain from running.
For those suffering from hip pain, here are some exercises to alleviate the problem.
Hip pain exercises are a great way to heal quicker and can lead to injury prevention in the future. The goal is to strengthen the hip muscles, which can prevent this from happening in the future. Weightlifting exercises such as squats and quadriceps lifts are a great way to build muscle. Additionally, the exercise routine should also include stretching that way the hips can gain flexibility, which can improve your running style.
If you are experiencing hip pain from running, it can be caused from a variety of things from injuries to poor technique. The best advice is to see a physical therapist if hip pain is a reoccurring problem. They are experts at determining the underlying cause of the injury and can develop a rehabilitation program that will strengthen your hip and help keep you injury free in the future.
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Earnhardt Feeling Relief After Big Decision.
Friday, June 15, 2007 11:37 AM EDT
That was the overwhelming emotion Dale Earnhardt Jr. felt after he decided earlier this week to join Hendrick Motorsports in 2008.
It was a tough few weeks for Junior after he announced in May that he would be leaving Dale Earnhardt Inc., the team founded by his late father, to seek a ride with a team that could help him win more races and the NASCAR Nextel Cup championship he covets.
This week, on his XM Satellite radio show, ``Dale Jr. Unrestricted,'' Earnhardt said, ``Everybody knew that my contract was coming up, and I had a hundred people in my ear telling me 'This is what you ought to do,' or 'Would you ever think about leaving (Dale Earnhardt Inc.), think about this.'' You know, I had a hundred different people telling me a hundred different things.''
He said one thing that made his decision easier was the way team owner Rick Hendrick treated the situation as Earnhardt agonized over which way to go.
``One of the things I think a lot of people would be surprised by _ Rick said, 'Hey, I just want you to be happy. Whatever decision you make, I want to help you make it.'
``That stood out to me. I already knew that was the kind of guy he was, but he never once tried to persuade me, or tried to sell anything to me, or try to talk me into anything. He basically just left it up to me. He wanted me to make the choice that I wanted to make. And that meant a lot.''
Hendrick, a longtime family friend, has also been a longtime supporter of the younger Earnhardt.
``If I would have decided to do something with another owner, he would have helped me do it,'' Earnhardt said. ``He told me I will help you wherever I need to help you. I want you, as a person, to be happy.
``He's known me for so long and that's the kind of guy he is. It's rare, not so much in the sport, but it's rare today in this world, when you have people like that (who) really are genuine.''
OH, BABY: Jeff Gordon's wife, Ingrid, is expecting their first child, a daughter, the week after the road race at Sonoma, Calif., on June 24. But, since first babies rarely arrive when expected, the Hendrick team has a contingency plan.
Mark Martin would be the substitute driver in case Gordon is called away by the blessed event.
Of course, Gordon, a five-time Sonoma winner, the defending race champion and the current Cup points leader, would rather not miss the race. But, even if he does, chances are it would not hurt his chances of winning a fifth Nextel Cup title _ especially with the current Chase for the championship format.
The top 12 drivers after the first 26 races are eligible to race for the title over the final 10 events of the season. This year, a new gimmick has the 12 drivers seeded, with each one getting an extra 10 points for each race victory at the start of the Chase.
Gordon and teammate Jimmie Johnson each have a series-leading four victories so far this season.
``I don't think Jeff wants to miss a race and I don't believe he'll need to,'' Johnson said. ``But in his position, it's a little easier for him to consider (skipping Sonoma).
``Yes, (the Chase format) does take some pressure off of you. From time to time we're not racing for the championship from week one on. You're racing for 12th for the first 26 and from then on you worry about the championship, so it is a little more forgiving.''
FUN OUTING: Longtime NASCAR star Mark Martin will try something different next month, making his Daytona Prototype debut in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series in Newton, Iowa.
Driving a limited schedule in Nextel Cup this year, Martin has the time to try something new.
He will co-drive a Lexus Riley with Shane Lewis in the July 13 race under the lights at the new track designed by former NASCAR champion Rusty Wallace, who retired from racing at the end of 2005.
``I've heard good things about Iowa Speedway and know it's Rusty Wallace's pride and joy,'' Martin said. ``I'm looking forward to driving the Daytona Prototype for the first time and I'm also very excited to see and race at Iowa Speedway.
``Co-driving with Shane will be fun. I know he can get the job done; he will be a big asset in helping me get comfortable in the car during our test sessions. I love road racing and sports car racing. I just need to get used to the car, and with the help of (team owner) Steve Southard, I feel that won't take very long.''
STAT OF THE WEEK: Two-time Cup champion Tony Stewart is winless and frustrated after the first 14 races of 2007, although he is sixth in the season points.
But, while Stewart has 29 career wins, only four have come before the month of June. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver generally heats up when the weather gets hot.
Stewart has scored four wins in June, along with three second-place finishes, eight top-threes and 10 top-fives.
Typically for Stewart, he kick-started his 2005 run to the championship with a second-place finish at Michigan in June, followed the next week by a win _ his first of that season _ on the road course at Sonoma. Before he was through that season, he had five victories and finished the year with 19 top-10 finishes in the final 22 races.
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With a total of £1.3 million meetings held in the UK each year, it is no surprise that conferences and meetings account for the majority of the UK events market, ghosting large exhibitions at £11bn, sporting events (£2.13bn), and music events and festivals (£2.4bn).
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Does this count as a blog post? It's way too philosophical and you just left it at that. I was hoping for an unpacking of this proverb. Please don't disappoint.
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Falling through pages of Martens on angels Feeling my heart pull west I saw the future dressed as a stranger love in a space-dye vest Love is an act of blood and I'm bleeding a pool in the shape of a heart Beauty projection in the reflection Always the worst way to start "But he's the sort who can't know anyone intimately, least of all a woman. He doesn't know what a woman is. He wants you for a possession, something to look at like a painting or an ivory box. Something to own and to display. He doesn't want you to be real, or to think or to live. He doesn't love you, but I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms. It's our last chance... It's our last chance..." Now that you're gone I'm trying to take it Learning to swallow the rage Found a new girl I think we can make it as long as she stays on the page This is not how I want it to end And I'll never be open again "...I was gonna move out...ummm...get, get a job, get my own place, ummm, but... I go into the mall where I want to work and they tell me, I'm, I was too young..." "Some people, gave advice before, about facing the facts, about facing reality. And this is, this without a doubt, is his biggest challenge ever. He's going to have to face it. You're gonna have to try, he's gonna to have to try and, uh, and, and, and get some help here. I mean no one can say they know how he feels." "That, so they say that, in ya know like, Houston or something, you'd say it's a hundred and eighty degrees, but it's a dry heat. In Houston they say that? Oh, maybe not. I'm all mixed up. Dry until they hit the swimming pool." "...I get up with the sun... Listen. You have your own room to sleep in, I don't care what you do. I don't care when. That door gets locked, that door gets locked at night by nine o'clock. If you're not in this house by nine o'clock, then you'd better find some place to sleep. Because you're not going to be a bum in this house. Supper is ready..." There's no one to take my blame if they wanted to There's nothing to keep me sane and it's all the same to you There's nowhere to set my aim so I'm everywhere Never come near me again do you really think I need you I'll never be open again, I could never be open again. I'll never be open again, I could never be open again. And I'll smile and I'll learn to pretend And I'll never be open again And I'll have no more dreams to defend And I'll never be open again
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Modern Earth science is the study of the Earth as a complex system of interacting reservoirs including the geosphere (core, mantle and crust), and the superficial reservoirs, including the hydrosphere, cryosphere and atmosphere. The resulting Earth system produces slowly changing stable habitats for life - the same Earth system produces sudden and catastrophic environmental changes. This online module explores several of the most important Earth system interactions through physical observations in the modern world, geological observations, measurements of changing chemical signatures, and quantitative and semi-quantitative models. Understanding past global changes helps to understand and predict the likely outcomes of present-day Earth.
S808 is an optional module in our:
This module can also count towards F53 and F60, which are no longer available to new students.
If you study this module as part of an eligible qualification, you may be eligible for a Postgraduate Loan. For more information, see Fees and funding.
Across the UK, there are two parallel frameworks for higher education qualifications, the Framework for Higher Education Qualifications in England, Northern Ireland and Wales (FHEQ) and the Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF). These define a hierarchy of levels and describe the achievement expected at each level. The information provided shows how OU postgraduate modules correspond to these frameworks.
Find out more about entry requirements.
This module is divided into five main sections.
You will continue to advance your knowledge and understanding of Earth system science, and learn about the scientific debates concerning the Earth system. You will also gain an understanding of analytical and modelling techniques, critically evaluate issues related to current research, and address scientific decision-making in complex and unpredictable situations.
You will learn to communicate information and conclusions effectively, both to specialist and non-specialist audiences, develop relevant new skills, including numeracy, and demonstrate self-direction and autonomy in planning work and solving problems. You will have to exercise initiative and personal responsibility, and develop and use independent learning skills required for continuing professional development. You will use information and communications technology (ICT) to locate information and communicate with a range of audiences.
Normally you must have completed either this module, SH804, Sd815, SEH806, S807, S809, S819, or S827 before progressing to the MSc project module (S810) or the MSc project module for MSc in Professional Science (SXB810).
You will have a tutor who will help you with the study material and mark and comment on your written work, and whom you can ask for advice and guidance. Electronic communication will be used extensively. Contact us if you want to know more about study with The Open University before you register.
The assessment details can be found in the facts box above.
You will be expected to submit all your assessment online through the eTMA system unless there are some difficulties which prevent you from doing so. In these circumstances, you must negotiate with your tutor to get their agreement to submit your assignment on paper.
The end-of-module assessment, which must be submitted online, will be composed of a summary, a critical discussion and an electronic presentation (a slideshow with an audio commentary).
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To register for any of our masters-level science courses you must normally hold a UK honours degree (or equivalent qualification) in science or a science-related subject. If you have other study or experience that you believe equips you to study at postgraduate level you can still apply, but must supply evidence of that study or experience. Your case will be referred to our MSc in Science Admissions Panel. For further advice, email the postgraduate science team.
To successfully undertake this module you will need to have studied Earth science at degree level. If you do not have a degree in Earth science (or similar) then you are likely to need to undertake additional study at undergraduate Level 3 in geosciences before starting. Please contact the postgraduate science team for advice.
We also recommend that you study Developing research skills in science (S825) before this module, particularly if you haven't studied for a while or would like to improve your postgraduate study skills first.
You will need good computing skills (e.g. able to search the Web, use email, use word processing packages, use spreadsheet packages to perform calculations and produce graphs and use presentation software to produces slides and audio). You should also be able to carry out mathematical manipulations (e.g. algebraic rearrangement of equations, use exponentials and logs).
All teaching is in English and your proficiency in the English language should be adequate for the level of study you wish to take. We strongly recommend that you have achieved an International English Language Testing System (IELTS) score of at least 7. To assess your English language skills in relation to your proposed studies you can visit the IELTS website.
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There may be extra costs on top of the tuition fee, such as a laptop, travel to tutorials, set books and internet access.
We know there's a lot to think about when choosing to study, not least how much it's going to cost and how you can pay.
That's why we keep our fees as low as possible and offer a range of flexible payment and funding options. To find out more see Fees and funding.
Web-based text and software, via the S808 website, and access to the Earth science literature through The Open University Library.
A soundcard, headset and microphone are needed for this course, so that you can interact with your tutor group and also create audio to go with your slide presentation.
A computing device with a browser and broadband internet access is required for this module. Any modern browser will be suitable for most computer activities. Functionality may be limited on mobile devices.
Any additional software will be provided, or is generally freely available. However, some activities may have more specific requirements. For this reason, you will need to be able to install and run additional software on a device that meets the requirements below.
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To participate in our online-discussion area you will need both a microphone and speakers/headphones.
Our Skills for OU study website has further information including computing skills for study, computer security, acquiring a computer and Microsoft software offers for students.
An Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) version of the Course Guide is available. All other material will be provided online. Some online or Adobe PDF components may not be available or fully accessible using a screen reader and mathematical or scientific materials may be particularly difficult to read in this way. Written transcripts of any audio and video components are available. Alternative formats of the study materials may be available in the future.
You will spend a considerable amount of time using a computer, particular software and accessing the internet. This course requires students to access external literature resources (e.g. Earth science journals) electronically via the Open Library. Some resources/articles will be suggested by the S808 team but you will also be expected to spend time searching the library resources independently. Some of these resources may not be fully accessible. If you use specialist hardware or software you are strongly recommended to check that these will be compatible before you register for the course.
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When I am using apache/mod_php, the PHP error will appear in the apache's error log.
Now, I am using php-fpm with nginx via fcgi, is it possible to have the PHP error log in the nginx error log as well?
So far the only solution is to use external file as defined in the php.ini
error_log = /tmp/php_errors.log
But I want them in the nginx error log for the ease of maintenance.
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You need to make two changes:
- Unset PHP's
error_logdirective in
php.ini. This will cause it to log to standard error, which nginx will then log to its own error log.
- Set
catch_workers_output = yesin your php-fpm configuration
php-fpm.conf, to ensure that the FPM SAPI doesn't discard standard error.
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A campaign to promote local higher education in the Valleys.
Our objective was to change peoples' perceptions about who can or cannot undertake higher education, while empowering and building confidence in people who might not normally consider university as an option. By creating a campaign which clearly identified these issues, and turning them into positive messages; we really managed to hit the message home with our audience.
Partnering up with a local welsh illustrator, we developed a series of bespoke illustrations for the campaign, to highlight UHOVI's offering. This was further reinforced by the campaign line 'University courses on your doorstep'. It was our intention to come up with a visual style which was different to anything UHOVI or other local colleges in the area had done before, which moved us away from typical photographs of students on campus, while keeping the UHOVI branding prominent; we wanted it to cut through the 'noise' of typical university recruitment campaigns. The memorable illustrations, and simple headlines, also gave the creative more flexibility to work across all media channels.
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^^wiirelease-1684^^Contributed by Chanser
Cheaper than buying the games of VC I guess and saves space on the Wii. Some classics there, I just hope that some aren't borked like the Metal Slug compilation.
Hmm... contains: Art of Fighting, Baseball Stars 2, Burning Fight, Fatal Fury, KOF94, Last resort, Magician Lord, Metal Slug, Neo Turf Masters, Samurai Shodown, Sengoku, Shock Troopers, Top Hunter, Super Sidekicks 3, World Heroes, King of the Monsters...
Just KOF94? Damn...
And also which metal slug? Metal Slug X?
Just Metal Slug, as in the original.
sounds like a good selection to me
The us-version worked on PAL already. It's a good compilation and you don't have to waste your Wii's memory for the games as VC titles
Oooh, Last Resort - isn't that the bastard hard R-Type style side-scroller? Used to waste so much money on that one in my local arcade...
played the USA version!!!!!!
Nice game, italian review and 16 screenshots HERE
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POLICE today appealed for witnesses after a man was repeatedly punched and head-butted by a gang.
The 20-year-old was about to get into a taxi in Redditch when he was attacked by up to five thugs and left with with severe cuts and bruises to his face.
PC Gemma Cashion, of West Mercia Constabulary, said: "We are appealing for any witnesses who have not yet spoken to police officers about this incident to come forward.
"If anyone recalls seeing a man being punched and head-butted by a group of males near the taxi rank in Unicorn Hill, Redditch, give us a call."
Anyone with information about the incident at 2.30am on Sunday, August 13, can call Redditch police on 08457 444 888 or Crimestoppers anonymously and in confidence on 0800 555 111.
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Kelly Clarkson - Call Me
And, just because you wanted it... here's Jenna, showing us how a real country girl sings.
Personally, I love it! It's amazing what people can make up with just a song. This is a demo song, which means it might not even be for Kelly, she might have wrote it for another artist. To come to all these conclusions based on absolutely nothing, is pretty darn funny. Anyways, she sounds amazing on this song.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the comment Kelly, I mean Anonymous. Of course, I am kidding and always welcome comments from strangers. Thanks for reading! I of course completely agree with you about it being a demo (or as I referred to it, a leaked song) and the only conclusion that I really drew was that the song is, in my opinion, mediocre. Everything else, pure speculation based on Ms Clarkson's recent history with country music (check out her Wikipedia page for details, I use it for all my "fact" checking). It's great that you like it though, I'm all about people having their own music tastes! Thanks again for the comment.ReplyDelete


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Ticonderoga, Kennebec
Bickett Gallery
Friday, April 2, 9:30 p.m.
As far as the very limited world of under-30 Raleigh acoustic music is concerned, it's hard to imagine two bands on the same bill with more disparate sounds than Ticonderoga and Kennebec. Ticonderoga, after all, is a trio of best friends who have equal parts in songwriting and arranging and alternate from drums to keyboards to guitars. They render a warm, headphone-type folk rife with surreal images and haunting reminiscences. Kennebec, though, delivers on another kind of warmth. Fronted by country soul singer Troy Smith and backed by an all-star, six-member band featuring Rob Watson and Christopher Thurston, Kennebec oozes perfectly laconic, slightly lilting pop songs that are as cool as the breeze of an early April evening. For information, visit www.bickettgallery.com. --Grayson Currin
$tinkworx with Sendex and Speculator
Friday, April 2, $5
The Nightlight in Chapel Hill recently rearranged their digs to create the best possible performance space, and it's paid off. This show of electronic dance bump-and-grind is a great reason to come see it for yourself if you haven't already. $tinkworx, Carolina's own electro-bangin' misfit, and owner of the acclaimed Down Low record label, will be producing the dirty beats, along with some great house music stylings of Sendex and Speculator. For more info, call 933-5550. --Chris Toenes
Cat's Cradle
Friday, April 2
Kerpow! Kerblammo! It's Kerblocki!! North Carolinian-turned New Yorker-turned Carolinian again, Kerblocki is comprised of two MCs, MJ aka Urban Myth and JB aka The Chip. The duo and their guests Art Lord and the Self Portraits are putting on the show for Go!'s Mike Triplett, who is still ailing, but recovering. --Chris Scull
My Dear Ella, L in Japanese, Dr, Mindbenda
Friday, April 2
Admission is free to this release party for Bright Orange Tailspin, the latest CD by Chapel Hill's My Dear Ella
Anderson Airplane, Degrassi, Minutemen and Dwarves tribute bands
Kings Barcade
Saturday, April 3
In the spirit of the "Anybody but Bush" campaign, the folks at Axis of Change in Raleigh have another installment of their shows to raise money for getting W. out of office. This one coincides with the birthday, April 1st, of the late D. Boon, front man for the Minutemen. If ever there was a time to have a band like them back, and their "we jam econo" politics, it's now. For more info on how the Axis works, visit their Web site, at www.axis-of-change.org. --Chris Toenes
The Vivaldis, The Pink Slips
Bickett Gallery
Saturday, April 3
On a train somewhere in Switzerland, an art student born in Chapel Hill but living in Raleigh and making left-field hip-hop with some friends meets a busy-body electronic musician born in New York but raised in Colombia only to find out they've both been thinking about starting some sort of "digital pop" band and that the latter is moving to the Triangle to go to school. This isn't make-believe, but it is the serendipitous chain of events that led to The Vivaldis--the duo of Jorge Alvarez and Hollin Norwood. They play with The Pink Slips, a tempting trio straight out of Chatham making infectious guitar pop. --Grayson Currin
Acoustic Syndicate
Lincoln Theatre
Saturday, April 3, 10 p.m.
Are they a bluegrass band that rocks, or a rock band that plays bluegrass? "We don't pretend to be a bluegrass band of any sort, never have," says Acoustic Syndicate guitarist Steve McMurray. He blames cousin Bryon's banjo playing for the rock moniker. "If you gave Jimi Hendrix a banjo, that's probably what it would sound like." The band also sports a dummer as well as a Nashville bassist who favors jazz. "We do have an occasion to sort of go out into outer space a good bit," McMurray admits. "We have a lot of different colors." --Grant Britt
Sauce Boss Bill Wharton
Herb Young Community Center
April 3, 8 p.m.
He's the man Jimmy Buffett says he wishes he was. Sauce Boss Bill Wharton's schtick is that he cooks a pot of gumbo while playing blues guitar. Buffett, who found fame warbling about cheeseburgers and tequila, now adds gumbo to the list, hiring Wharton for his Margaritaville Cafes across the country and writing "I'll Play For Gumbo" for him. --Grant Britt
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When you sprinkle unique game design with a healthy dose of randomness, Katamari Damacy is the result. The series took the idea collecting objects and turned the concept on its nose, tasking you to push around a gravitational ball that causes objects to stick to it, eventually leaving you up with a giant ball of what is essentially trash. When you mix in the King of the Cosmos' random quirks, commands and punishments, you wind up with one hell of a good time.
We had a chance to try out a bit of Beautiful Katamari, the latest game in the series, coming exclusively to the Xbox 360. We first tried out a single-player mission dubbed Roller Roaster where the goal was to raise our Katamari to a certain temperature before time ran out. Each object on the level either raised or lowered the temperature of the ball of random. Some objects have obvious effects, like how ice cream and refrigerators cooled it off while coffee, pizza and fireworks heated it up. As we needed to get it up to 10,000 degrees, we avoided water at all costs.
The section started inside of a small shop, allowing us to pick up snacks and such. But after our Katamari grew a bit and got too big for the level, we were automatically moved out into the open world and let loose.
Playing the game is immediately second-nature if you've played any of the two previous PlayStation 2 titles. It's an interesting control scheme that takes some getting used to, but it also does a good job of helping to simulate your Katamari's size, weight and general awkwardness.
In addition to the single-player game, Beautiful Katamari will also feature online support for up to four players or single-system multiplayer for two players. While online, the versus goal will be to simply grow your Katamari as big as you can, while local play will have you seeking out specific objects. Versus mode will feature three playable environments - House, Street and World. House begins tiny while you collect objects such as fingernail polish, while World is at the opposite end of the spectrum where you'll be picking up people and the like.
The cooperative local play is fun, though it's pretty much identical to what we remembered having played on the PS2. Both players are in control of a single Katamari, so you must coordinate and work together to reach the common goal of rolling up the entire known (and perhaps even unknown) universe. It's a good bit of fun and changes your selfish and controlling side a tad.
Aside from that, Beautiful Katamari is exactly what you would expect it to be. The visuals are obviously sharper than what we saw on the PlayStation 2, as is the scope to some degree, but the same boxy art style is still in full effect.
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For a Truly Different Independence Day Go Beyond the Fireworks at These Alternative Events
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Detroit police say Chris Cornell died of an apparent suicide.
The "Black Hole Sun" singer was found dead Wednesday night at the MGM Grand Detroit Hotel after a concert with Soundgarden. He was 52.
Police spokesman Michael Woody told The Associated Press on Thursday that the grunge icon's death is being investigated as a likely suicide. He didn't elaborate on details, but said "basic things observed at the scene" led to that determination.
WXYZ reports Cornell's wife called a family friend to check on him. When he forced open the hotel room door, he found Cornell on the bathroom floor. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to TMZ, Cornell was found with a band around his neck. There was no blood or other evidence to suggest foul play.
The Wayne County Medical Examiner's office will make an official determination about the cause of death.
With his powerful, nearly four-octave vocal range, Cornell was one of the leading voices of the 1990s grunge movement with Soundgarden, which emerged as one of the biggest bands out of Seattle's emerging music scene, joining the likes of Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains.
Chris Cornell, Kurt Cobain and more grunge musicians who died too soon
Formed in 1984 by Cornell, guitarist Kim Thayil and bassist Hiro Yamamoto, Soundgarden's third studio album, "Badmotorfinger," in 1991 spawned popular singles "Jesus Christ Pose," ''Rusty Cage" and "Outshined" that received regular play on alternative rock radio stations.
Cornell also collaborated with members of what would become Pearl Jam to form Temple of the Dog, which produced a self-titled album in 1991 in tribute to friend Andrew Wood, former frontman for Mother Love Bone.
Three years later, Soundgarden broke through on mainstream radio with the album "Superunknown," which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and was nominated for a Grammy for Best Rock Record in 1995. It included hit singles "Spoonman," ''Fell on Black Days," ''Black Hole Sun," ''My Wave" and "The Day I Tried to Live."
Soundgarden disbanded in 1997, but reunited in 2012. During the group's hiatus, Cornell pursued a solo career and performed in Audioslave with former Rage Against the Machine members Tom Morello, Brad Wilk and Tim Commerford.
Cornell performed in Central New York at K-Rockathon 12 in 2007.
In addition to his music, Cornell also became involved in philanthropy and started the Chris and Vicky Cornell Foundation to support children facing challenges, including homelessness, poverty, abuse and neglect. His solo single "The Promise" benefited the International Rescue Committee, a global humanitarian aid, relief, and development non-governmental organization.


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This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
- Afghanistan 'peace process' continues in limbo
- Russia and China angered by U.S. State Dept. child trafficking report
- Stock share prices fall sharply in global rout
- Bonds and gold hammered along with stocks
Afghanistan 'peace process' continues in limbo
Taliban Flag – Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
A meeting between U.S. officials and representatives of the AfghanTaliban had been expected on Thursday in Doha, Qatar, but the meetinghas been postponed because the Taliban had portrayed themselves as thegovernment of Afghanistan, thus angering Afghan president HamidKarzai. The Taliban had been offered the office building in Doha byQatari officials, but the Taliban hoisted a Taliban flag above thebuilding, and attacked a name plate calling it the "Political Officeof the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan." Qatari officials demandedthat the Taliban remove the name plate and the flag, but apparentlyall they did is move the name plate indoors, and move the flag to ashorter flagpole.
If talks ever begin, the first order of business will probably be aprisoner swap — American prisoner of war Bowe Bergdahl in exchangefor a number of Taliban fighters current imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay.Apparently the Taliban are very anxious to start "peace" talks so thatthey can get their fighters back, presumably to fight another dayagainst U.S. forces. The Taliban are a terrorist group, and theU.S. never negotiates with terrorists, so it will be interesting tosee how this works out. Reuters
Russia and China angered by U.S. State Dept. child trafficking report
The US Department of State released its annual report on humantrafficking, and Russia and China reacted angrily after beingdowngraded to Tier 3, which refers to "Countries whose governments donot fully comply with the minimum standards and are not makingsignificant efforts to do so."
Russia's Foreign Ministry said that the report used "unacceptablemethodology":
"The very idea of raising this issue causesindignation. … In fighting organized crime, including counteringtrafficking, Russian authorities will never follow instructionsworked out in another country, let alone fulfill conditionspresented nearly in the form of an ultimatum."
China's Foreign Ministry said,
"We believe that the US side should take an objectiveand impartial view of China's efforts and stop making unilateralor arbitrary judgments of China."
In the case of China, the report said that trafficking wascountry's one-child policy had produced more boys than girls, fuellingdemand for prostitution and foreign brides. U.S. State Department and BBC
Stock share prices fall sharply in global rout
Wall Street stock prices fell 2.5% on Thursday, the mostin 19 months. Stock prices in general around the worldlost 3.4% on Thursday.
The trigger was a statement by Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernankethat the Fed my start reducing bond purchases (i.e., "printing money")later this year. The Fed has been pouring $85 billion per month ofquantitative easing into the markets, and many people believe thatthis money has mostly made its way into the stock markets, pushing upstock prices to bubble levels. For example, last month we described how the investment bankInteractive Brokers allows wealthy people to borrow $1 million at 1.3%to invest in the stock market, ostensibly for yields above 5%. Thisshows how new debt and leverage has been used to push up stock marketprices.
What Ben Bernanke did was to merely say that the $85 billion per monthof quantitative easing would gradually be reduced, possibly startingin the fall. Many investors have been counting on this money so thatcould keep borrowing and add to their debt, and hope to use theborrowed money by investing in the stock market bubble.
So what always happens is that eventually the bubble starts tocollapse, and investors suddenly have to start paying back the moneythey borrowed. This forces them to sell other stocks, pushing stockprices down even further, in a "vicious cycle."
It's impossible to predict when the current bubble will deflate, butit's possible that it's deflating right now. Stocks are enormouslyoverpriced by historical standards. According to Friday's Wall Street Journal, the S&P 500 Price/Earnings index on Fridaymorning was 18.28, which is astronomically high by historicalstandards. We can't predict when the stock market crash will occur,but we can say with certainty that it's coming, and when it does, theS&P 500 Price/Earnings index will fall from its current 18.28 down atleast as far as to 6, which is where it was in 1982. When thathappens, the Dow Industrials index will fall to 3500 or lower. If thepattern of the 1929 crash is followed, and that's quite possible, thenthe Dow Industrials will fall to 1400.
However, I want to repeat and emphasize that it's impossible topredict when this will happen. It's still possible that Fed chairmanBen Bernanke will reverse himself, and promise more and more and moreand more quantitative easing into the future, and that could pushstocks up to even higher bubble levels, and postpone the inevitablecrisis a while longer. Bloomberg
Bonds and gold hammered along with stocks
The common wisdom from mainstream economists is that when stocks godown, then bonds and gold go up, since investors take their money outof stocks and put it into bonds and stocks. However, mainstreameconomists are getting that one wrong as well. However, bonds aroundthe world fell 1-2%, while price of gold fell 7%, silver fell 7%, andcrude oil fell 4%.
All these prices fell for the same reason that stocks fell –investors had to pay off their debt by selling any assets they had.
At the same time, the value of the dollar rose sharply against othercurrencies, continuing the deflationary trend that we've beendiscussing for ten years. USA Today and Washington Post
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Murder of a Pink Elephant
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By Angelbaby on 06-22-17
If you could sum up Murder of a Pink Elephant in three words, what would they be?
Family surprises me!!
Who was your favorite character and why?
I would have to say Sky again in this book.. She is the main character in this series and I like the character, just her personality the way she handles her self, cares about others, snoops around, and solves the murders is pretty neat.
Which scene was your favorite?
My favorite scene had to be the scene when the Wolfe shed blew up. for some reason that scene is memorable to me, it was stuck in my head, it wasn't the ending but to me that scene was the turning point for the book for me, that is when this book really got good to me.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
when Wallie dropped out of the Mayor Election. I really thought he would have stayed in it and made a great Mayor.
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By Karen K on 10-08-14
Another Good Small Town Cozy
I am a Scumble River fan and have enjoyed all the books in the series so far to various degrees. (I am not sure these would work well as stand alones - a lot of what I enjoy about them is from getting to know the town and its people in previous installments.) I think this one is definitely a step up from the last one, which was not a favorite. This book gets back to the focus on small town life and a lot is going on. We have a school dance, a mayoral election campaign, a developer trying to buy up farmland for an amusement park, drug dealing, a new bowling alley and of course. murder. Skye has a valid reason (other than her natural nosiness) for getting involved this time around since her brother Vince has managed to get himself in yet another sticky situation. I was getting a bit annoyed for a while with the depiction of all law enforcement though. I mean how likely is it that the police department of this small town has totally failed to notice a sudden meth problem and that they would need to be educated about it by Skye whose knowledge all came from some printouts someone gave her from the internet? Speaking of the internet and technology in general, this book has a dated feel (paperback is from 2004) because Skye doesn't know anything about the internet and cell phones still seem very rare. Emailing the police chief doesn't seem to be a possibility and Skye has to go to his house to reach him. In all fairness I think today's technology makes it harder to write mysteries. At least we don't go through all those elaborate reasons for some character not to be able to use their phone. (I remember a Rita Mae Brown mystery where there were so many unlikely occurrences happening just to explain why things that could have been resolved or avoided quickly by a cell phone call are not.) Swanson has her own quirks. In general I enjoy Skye even if she and Simon are a little too goody goody to be entirely accessible, but I can see why a friend says she is annoyed that Skye has to constantly go over her status as a plus sized woman - there are constant references to her curves, her bulk, her padding, etc. She gets attacked in this one by a mean spirited thin woman for her dessert consumption. Seriously though, Skye does eat a lot of cake! I didn't find Swanson at her most believable in the drug part of the plot, everyone just seemed so naive. But I enjoyed the small town atmosphere and the complex overlapping plot pieces and have already downloaded the next in the series.


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I'm blogging to you from New York. More specifically, a beautiful apartment in alphabet city. It's my first visit to New York and it's long over-due.
It seems that whether we've tasted the coffee or not, we all form relationships in this industry. Directing our traveling customers to a spot we know or we've heard of. I've been directing people where to go based on what many of my coworkers have told me. Now, I'm excited to finally put the coffee to the test.
I arrived yesterday and quickly found myself inside the original 9th St. Espresso location. Where I'm staying is a convenient 6 blocks down. Intelli currently roasts the coffee being used by 9th St. I was under the impression that the blend being served was very similar to black cat. However, even at the uttering of the worlds Black Cat, the barista was quick to make it clear that the blend they use is their own. As they've used other roasters previous to us, this seems to be something I've always heard… Ninth Street fights hard to hold it's own identity. This is something I can respect.
Anyway, the espresso… It was a solid, happy two ounce extraction. Most of my travels seem to be in the Northwest and it was so nice to see a proper extraction away from home. It tasted delicious. Nothing about it was overly acidic or bright. The majority of the flavors were chocolate-y, nugget, and caramel. The coffee made me happy.
We walked from Ninth Street to the block that seems to be ran by Momofuku… As in, all three or four, five or six types of restaurants. Miss Liz Clayton had keyed me in that the Ssam Bar was her fav, so we headed there. I have a new found love for fantastic artisan cocktails. I like creative stuff. I respect the classics, but show me what you can do with weird, fine ingredients. That said, I had an amazing pomegranate, ginger sour. The combination of rye whiskey, pomegranate molasses, ginger, and lemon was spectacular. One of my favorite drinks in a while, for sure. The pork buns are what everyone raves about here. They were amazing. So sweet. So spicy. A dish I'll remember for a long time.
Today, we woke up at a reasonable time and headed straight to the Ace Hotel. I was very anxious to see the Stumptown cafe and some old friends. I was especially interested in seeing what the coffee was like after tasting Hairbender in both Portland and Seattle a mere two weeks ago. I found the espresso to be better than anything experienced in the west coast stores. Bright, clean, and sweet. I accompanied that with a mug of Finca El Puente from Honduras… which had some lovely milk chocolate up front, and continued to get sweet with persimmon on the finish.
Hanging out in the lobby of the Ace was rad as well. It's a large space with so much comfortable seating. Apparently, they are doing coffee table service too. The experience is very comfortable. I like the fact that the best cafe seating is so separate from the bar. It allows one to escape what can be a busy and noisy scene to enjoy their coffee in a quiet, more laid back setting.
The rest of the day has been spent at Brasserie Les Halles and the Met. We're gearing up to head out for some Indian and to explore more cocktail bars. I'm stoked. Today was a healthy 20-ish degrees. It's so nice to be in real cold weather. I'm digging this city. Tomorrow, I think we're going to explore Brooklyn and more of the coffee over there.


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I like the black & white, but there's too much going on this image to make me think "deep in thought"...The door has no relevance to the image and I kind of want to see what's on the opposite side of the guy. So a shot without the door and further to the left. Here, he just looks posed. But it's not bad.
Its good phil, but a little busier than a lot of the other stuff you post, i think it lacks the central impact that you normally achieve.
The motorbike spoils it for me as well.
I'm loving the textures but I think I would prefer it in portrait format including the left half of the frame as the brightness of the door and wall details beyond are stealing my eye away.


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I'm up to Day 13 of the "Find the 'awesome' in your family!" Challenge and I've been asked to remember a lovely moment from my own childhood.
Most of the lovely moments I could think of all seemed to revolve around music. The first one that sprung randomly to mind was the hours I would spend as a teenager in the granny flat at the back of our house, playing endless games of pool on my own and listening to the radio for hours, moving the dial up and down the FM band searching for songs I liked. I could do that all day.
Being on my own, being able to listen to music for hours on end without distraction. To immerse myself in it, absorb every lyric, memorise every chord change. I miss that so much now that I am a parent.
Another favourite memory was getting my first ever Sony cassette walkman when I was nine years old, the most wonderful shade of pink and the size of a house brick. I got it duty free when we went on the P&O cruise ship Oriana, and I bought my first ever albums at the same time, pirate cassettes from Fiji. She's So Unusual by Cyndi Lauper and True Blue by Madonna. It would be the start of a lifelong love affair with music and a long, devoted journey to becoming a bona-fide music snob.
It means nothing to be a music snob these days. The internet has made it so easy to find and listen to music for free, and the ability to hear almost any song in the world on a whim is just a few keystrokes away. Everyone is a collector now, everyone is eclectic. Being a music snob used to require a significant investment of time, money and effort, and was a mostly solitary affair. It was a cult-like fanaticism which compelled you to spend hundreds of hours and hundreds of dollars in second hand music stores single-mindedly flicking through racks of CDs and stacks of vinyl. It meant making all-day trips into the city so you could go to independent stores like Red Eye and Waterfront Records. It meant waiting months – sometimes years – to finally spot a much-coveted, hard-to-find album in a second hand shop.
It meant you had to read a lot of music press; domestic magazines like Juice and Rolling Stone, local street press like Drum Media and Revolver, music fanzines and overseas magazines like Uncut, Mojo, Q, Select, NME and Spin. It meant you had to take a gamble buying records by non-mainstream artists you had only ever read about because there was no other way to hear them.
It meant wasting a lot of money on disappointing releases (Pere Ubu), but the pay-off for finding that truly superlative album (The Apartments) was the thing that kept you going, like digging for diamonds in canyons of dirt. It meant going to lots of spectacularly average pub gigs for pedestrian local bands, and a handful of truly sublime ones.
It meant main-lining coffee so you were able to stay up late and watch Rage on Friday and Saturday nights, to see the videos from your favourite indie artists, discover cool new music and awesome old stuff when your favourite bands were guest programmers. One of my favourite songs ever is something I stumbled upon late one night, many years ago. I still remember that moment vividly, for some reason, when much more important memories have since faded into obscurity.
I've had thousands of my albums hidden away in storage ever since having my kids three and a half years ago, because CDs seem to have been purpose-built to entertain destructive toddlers, but not built to withstand them. I miss them terribly and it's very symbolic of my shifting priorities and dislocated sense of identity since becoming a parent, the fact that I have literally "packed away" a lot of my old self, that I have set aside something very important to me in service of my children. I'd always dreamed of sharing music with my kids from a very young age. My kids weren't going to listen to Hi-5, they were going to listen to The Hold Steady. Instead of The Wiggles we'd be bugging out to Wesley Willis singing "I Whupped Batman's Ass".
My youngest son's deafness has put an end to that, because to create an inclusive environment enabling him to hear and to facilitate speech and language development we need to create a home for him that has minimal background noise as often as possible. When he gets older I'm sure we will be able to make time for music, but for now we live in a mostly silent house. I struggle with that a bit, not just the loss of something I love, but the loss of a dream too.
My oldest kid broke both my stereo and my turntable when he was a toddler and that is deeply symbolic too, as is the fact that I've yet to replace them because I can't see the point just yet while I have another 17 month old at maximum capacity for breaking shit. I have some of my music collection loaded up on the computer but it's not the same. I like going through stacks of CDs, picking out things on impulse, reading sleeve notes. I like having them around me, a much-loved collection I've spent a big chunk of my life building, a physical reminder of the person I used to be. I really look forward to the day I get them – and myself – back.
That day will be awesome.
Previous post in the series DAY TWELVE: Choose one activity that you usually do in the morning and do it the night before.
Next post in the series DAY FOURTEEN: Choose one moment when you stop what you're doing and really listen to your child.


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Hawaii Photographer ~ Publication Shoot Waikoloa Village
About a month back we did a Publication Shoot out in Waikoloa Queens Market, the west side of the Big Island and this is one of the images that didn't make the cut but i thought it was a very cool edgy look. This shot was taken at Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort & Spa in Waikoloa Village.
This was a simple shot using one off camera speedlight.
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I Found(ed a) Religion!
[Beware: Topic Maps ahead.]
Once you reach a certain age, you seriously ask yourself whether this has been be all: wealth, fame and many beautiful women.
It is the time when you look for a more integrated meaning in the universe. A meaning which transcends all levels of abstraction. And a processing model which gets rid of the silly separation between programming language and semantic data store with its static knowledge.
libtmrm2, Another C-library for TMRM
Ever since I met Jan Schreiber in Oslo a while back I had this itch that someone should write a C library for TMRM. Not only to host maps in proxy form, but more importantly to have a fast evaluation mechanism for myTMQL path expressions.
I was waiting for an opportunity to pack this into one of the paid projects, but that opportunity never arose.
TM Stack: I Beg To Differ
Every now and then I see typical stack diagrams depicting the standards landscape in TM and in RDF land.
While the relationship between TMRM and TMDM is mostly represented correctly, that is, that TMDM constructs can be couched in terms provided by TMRM, the rest of the usual diagrams does not reflect my understanding.
TMRM FCD on its way
The editors of TMRM have concocted a new TMRM version. It will be soon on its way into the innards of the ISO repository.
Notable decision from Oslo (April 2008) was to factor out the TMDM mapping and add it, maybe as addendum later.
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TMRM Exegesis: Primitive Navigation
Now that we know how proxies form atomic blocks to build maps, we can start to navigate through a given map. Since the structure is so minimalistic we can expect that there are only a few ways to get around a map.
Let us first assume that we have a single proxy in our hand:
beard => white,
beard => long }
4 Corners of the Compass
One thing we could be interested in is to find all it keys of that proxy. Now, for this operation TMRM has
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TMRM Exegesis: Taxonometrics
In our series about TMRM we have covered so far:
- how they can be simply organized into subject maps, and what merging of proxies means and what views on maps one can produce.
Apart from the bottom proxy (remember, the one with no properties at all), there was so far no need to predefine any proxies. As soon as we want TMRM to honor subclassing of concepts and also to understand a type-instance
TMRM Exegesis: Maps and Merging
Continuing with our tour through the TMRM we can now look into complete maps. Once we have namely collected a number of TMRM proxies into a set, we can actually call that already a subject map.
A decent implementation of subject maps will maybe take care that every proxy label used within a proxy inside a particular map has a corresponding proxy in the same map, but the TMRM itself does not concern itself with this.
Generic Merging = Set Union
Since at this level maps are simply sets, we can
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TMRM Exegesis: Proxies
Those of you who got curious from my ultrashort intro into the Topic Maps Reference Model may want follow me here when I write a bit about my interpretation of the TMRM.
Best is to forget topics, names, occurrences and associations as defined in TMDM for the moment. TMRM abstracts all of these into one, atomic concept: the proxy. We will return to TMDM later.
Here again is the proxy spider:
A 5 min Introduction into TMRM
When you are using Topic Maps, then you most likely are familiar with the TMDM, the data model for Topic Maps. It defines items such as topics with their various identification mechanisms, and names and occurrences and associations. TMDM is quite easy to wrap your mind around.
Still, TMDM may not sit at the very center of the Topic Map paradigm in sense that the selection of constructs such as topic, occurrence, name and association is - while anthropocentrically useful -
This is a stub. Nothing here has any official meaning.
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In the course of a life, what is a year?
How was your last year, 2013? Did you achieve what you wanted? Did you learn something new, and feel positive about it? Did you get a new perspective in your life?
What if you were stuck, and came to the point that the pain in your heart was so great, that you knew something has to be done?
We have two choices everyday. You can choose to think positive or negative. One of my friends said it this way:
"You have two beasts in yourself – positive and negative. They fight. Which one do you think is stronger ? The answer is: the one you feed everyday. If you chose the negative one, this beast will be stronger."
So … help yourself to be the best you can be in 2014. Look at your options if you are at a crossroads in life. Choose the pathway, which feels better and lighter. Fix the things, which are causing you pain, whenever it could be. Do not look to others to make you feel happy and fulfilled.
Instead of placing responsibility of all your happiness on another's shoulder, take care of yourself because for real happiness to occur, you have to make the effort to make yourself happy.
Work on your needs; don't run away from your issues.
Wishing you a successful 2014,
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