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The Occupy movement has heated up precipitously since we last posted here. Last weekend saw a coordinated authoritarian crackdown on the occupation with fallout and confrontation continuing throughout the week. That this coordinated effort occurred is not a surprise. The writings of historians such as Fernand Braudel or JC VanLeur demonstrate how closely knit and mutually reinforcing the institutions of the market and state militancy tend to be in modern political economy, where any perceived threat to the market is usually confronted by the power of the state (see the Opium Wars).
[the Opium Wars in China were an instance of direct state-authored military intervention in the interests of the national market institution]
The root of confrontation might be seen in the peaceful but assertive act of occupation, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "the act of taking or maintaining possession of a country, building, land, etc especially by force. The fact that protesters are choosing to claim a public space and make their argument through an assertion of physical presence should not be watered down. The state and the market both offer institutionalized and accepted modes of protest, including permitted gatherings, legal challenge, and ostensibly the choice to shop or work elsewhere. Of course, their mechanisms for sublimating the authentic grievances voiced through these channels are so sophisticated as to render impotent accepted forms of protest. The genius of the Occupy movement its ability to set new terms of engagement including the occupation of symbolically important public spaces- Wall Street, City Hall, campus quads, public parks, and the like- and the tactics employed to carry out those strategies- tent cities, kitchens, day marches, drumming, blogging, and internet broadcasting.
Confronted with these new terms, the state has deployed a raft of tactics and strategies that look eerily similar to crowd control strategies for a heated soccer match between hated South American rivals. These include border fencing, chemical and electrical weapons, mass arrests, and massed units of armed foot patrols dressed like storm trooper automotons. While the Occupiers are interested in assertively stoking a conversation and forcing those they vilify to confront the fact that life is , in fact, nasty, brutish, and short, the state decides that this must not be. And so they escalate the tensions in the interest of protecting the targets of the Occupy protests, deciding that if some heads are going to be cracked, or if some people are just going to be inconvenienced, better it be a host of protesters than those that keep quiet and go to work.
Brett Milligan at Free Association Design documented the material and spatial qualities of Occupy Portland before it was removed from Lawnsdale and Chapman Square in Portland. The Atlantic has provided incredible coverage, including Alexis Madrigal's typically insightful piece analyzing the roots of this systematic state violence against citizens.
[referees are escorted from the stadium during the 1964 soccer riots in Lima, Peru; In a game between Peru and Argentina a critical goal was disallowed; spectators rushed the field in protest and were subsequently gassed by the police, as they tried to escape they found the exits to the stadium were locked; hundreds died, crushed or asphyxiated]
We were compelled to offer a quick analysis of some of the equipments and tactics in use in the hopes of enabling an understanding of these landscapes of occupation. The analysis is broken down in to three sections that aim to capture a variety of instruments in operations. The hope is that while the analysis is far from exhaustive, it might offer a framework understanding the instrumental aspects of these tactics and equipments, and allow for a mapping of how to negotiate these contested landscapes.
Borders are a fundamental element of any landscape. They not only establish the shape and size of a place, they also mediate the exchange between adjacent entities and spaces. Borders in the Occupy movement are typically the pre-existing curbs of roads, the steps and exterior walls of adjacent buildings, or densely planted areas. These intensify and mediate activity, becoming places of certain types of conversation: proselytizing of passersby, or confrontation with bankers or politicians going to work. The benign and commonplace characteristic of these borders tends to inflect these relations, limiting them to passive and verbal exchanges.
["Police fences reproducing" by AppellateSquawk; these are used to enlarge a perimeter of state control in public space]
[the importance of enlarging and transgressing an aggressively established border become paramount for the most aggressive people on either side of the demonstration in Times Square, New York City; image courtesy of the National Journal]
The introduction by police of modular steel barrier fencing and their reinforcement by armed patrol units greatly amplifies the nature of these exchanges. They become zones of heated confrontation and violence, drawing to it the most active members of both sides and provoking them. Each side sees the border as an affront- for the protesters its mere presence is unfair, for the police the fact that they don't get to put it where they decide it should go is an attack. The use of human bodies as a border similarly works to escalate actions, creating terms that establish and sense of immediacy and demand there must be a victor and the vanquished in that moment. The cops that are in contact with politicians, media, each other, and are able to make strategic decisions are clustered back from the border whereas the foot soldier reduced to helmeted actants reacting to their immediate surroundings are clustered along the lines. Much the same occurs with the protesters, with those interested to turn their anger towards a faceless symbol through shouting or incessantly snapping photos or taking video move toward the line. The border thus serves to reorganize a relatively flat and homogeneous field of actors along lines that radiate back from the borders in a gradient.
The widespread use and destruction of tents has been the iconic strategy employed by protesters and police. By employing camping equipment- sleeping bags, tents, tarps, stoves- which is procured from nearby, dispersed locations (homes and stores) the protesters are able to greatly extend the ability of their bodies to occupy an outdoor public space while still conveying the image of a tenuous and negotiated existence in that place. A large scale bourgeoisie yacht-occupation of the marinas along Manhattan's Hudson River side would hardly have the same effect. These dwellings require inputs of food, replacement materials, and waste disposal that extend the network out to local houses and business that have the needed supplies. The landscape that is created- including the homes and stores supplying the equipment a
[the array of domestic equipments in Occupy Portland as documented by Brett Milligan before its destruction November 12th]
[a landscape where resistance goes to become anonymous; the landfill in Kearny, NJ may be a final resting home for many of the tents, bags, pans, and tarps that sustained Occupy Wall Street through the fall]
By confiscating and destroying this equipment and enforcing rules initially intended to criminalize the homeless and youth (no sleeping on park benches, no biking, drumming, or cooking) the state is able to dismantle the landscape and dissolve the immediate capacity of those people to continue occupation. In this operation (after the people are dispersed) trucks are brought in from municipal yards capable of hauling everything away at once, and in a disorderly fashion. The final resting places are other municipal yards- landfills- designated for the disposal of society's undesirable material wastes. This equipment is of course designed to be disassembled, stored, and reused. The fact that the police employ large-scale and violent methods of disassembly and disposal is a symbolic act. The landscape that is generated is one of large centralized municipal yards and dispersed local homes and businesses. Materials flow from the homes and businesses and coagulate for a time in strategic sites, forming a sort of heterogeneous and horizontal settlement- a larger entity. This entity is then deconstructed wholesale and disposed of alongside restaurant waste and construction and demolition debris in a city landfill, where it will be mixed, covered over, and symbolically forgotten in the future.
The instruments of media create an extensive landscape in the Occupy movement. The images and audio they record engage a huge slice of the population. The field devices including police intercoms, bullhorns, ipads, cameras, and video recorders can immediately distill the effects and extend the reach of the actions of each person nearby. These instruments access a regional network of server centers which then offer the content to every person who access the internet. That the Occupy organizers use these same networks to coordinate marches, disseminate tools and information, and establish principles is not surprise (and is detailed here by Alexis once again). However, these instruments are most powerful because of the potentiality they embody. Because they are media devices they are both objects in their own right and can affect other objects. They can be used antagonistically (coordinating police crackdowns, photographing officers incessantly) or defensively (the possibility of being caught can limit the irrational anger of authorities and protesters).
[Image from a video tour Google put together of its server containers, screen capture by Stephen Shankland/CNET, image via Mammoth's "Preliminary Atlas of the Gizmo Landscape"]
[both bystanders and police use media recording devices as some occupy San Diego protesters are removed from Civic Center Plaza on Oct 14th; image courtesy of the National Journal]
In their immediate vicinity (whether on the ground or through digital space) these instruments produce desire effects, urging police patrols into action, enabling satellite occupations, or emboldening protesters to confront authorities or each other. The effects can destabilize to chains of command as well as coordinate novel or reinforcing ground actions. Insidiously, they also offer a level of removal from embodied events; police officers get an order from their telephones and execute it through the chain of command, protesters turn in to bystanders as people are brutalized with batons or doused with poison chemicals.
[The analysis is rather hastily assembled and we would love any additional information, insight, or correction to what we offer here.]


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Founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen, Microsoft is an American multinational corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells computer software, consumer electronics, and personal computers.
Its most recognized software products include the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, Microsoft Office suite, and Internet Explorer web browser. Microsoft hardware products include the Xbox game console and the Microsoft Surface series of tablets.
In September 2013, Microsoft agreed to buy Nokia's mobile unit for $7 billion; with the acquisition of Nokia's devices and services to form Microsoft Mobile Oy, Microsoft will re-enter the smartphone hardware market.
In July 2013, Microsoft announced its intention to reorganize the business into four new divisions by function, which will absorb all previous divisions without any workforce cut. There divisions are: Operating System, Apps, Cloud, and Devices. In February 2014, Satya Nadella succeeded Steve Ballmer as CEO.
In July 2014, Nadella released a memo announcing a new direction for Microsoft: sharpening the company's devices and services strategy to focus on productivity and platforms. Shortly after that, the company announced that it would lay off 18,000 workers over the course of the next year (12,500 will be Nokia employees, brought on by Microsoft when it acquired Nokia's devices and services division).


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Travels in France Part II – AvignonPosted by Martin Field on 21 September 2011 in Wine Travel
Sous le pont d'Avignon
The train from Dijon to Avignon takes us through vineyard country. Signs for M.Chapoutieradorn the hillsides. As you enjoy the scenic vignettes, you pass an ominous brooding nuclear reactor, no doubt waiting for the Rhone to flood and irradiate the already powerful reds.
A first impression of Avignon is that it is noticeably more touristy than Dijon and more English language friendly. For example, unlike Dijon, many of the restaurant menus here feature English translations.
Half a bridge too far
A must-see here is the Pont d'Avignon, originating from the 12thcentury and the basis of the famous song. It's actually less than half a bridge as only four of the original 22 arches remain, so it stops disappointingly half way across the river. They have had many centuries to fix this but so far no action.
And I have it on good authority that the song we learned in execrable French at school is wrong – they didn't dance "sur la pont", they actually danced under it, that is, "sous le pont", in a long gone café. Should I be called upon to sing this song in future it is the correct "sous" version I shall offer.
We have a good look round at the Palais des Papes in the heart of the city. A bunch of popes who battled with Rome for control of the Catholic empire lived here and ruled in the 14th century. Read the rest of this entry


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18 community members vying for seats on city's golf committee
Steamboat Springs — The Haymaker Golf Management Committee is currently the city of Steamboat Springs' hottest volunteer board.
At least 18 community members have applied for three open seats on the committee, which helps to oversee the management and operations of the city-owned golf course.
The applicants all think they can help improve the profitability of the course and bring more players to the greens.
The applicants also bring a wide range of experience, and many of them have spent many years themselves managing golf courses or playing the game.
Asked about the most pressing issues facing the golf course, several applicants mentioned profitability, increasing use of the course, taking care of locals and finding a way to better market it.
Some other applicants also expressed a desire to get more youth to play the game as many of the game's existing players grow older.
The Steamboat Springs City Council will interview the committee applicants Tuesday night and make the three appointments.
While the city has seen strong interest in the golf committee in the past, it has not seen this many applications before.
Asked what he thought motivated so many people to apply this round, Council President Walter Magill didn't credit the free rounds of golf that committee members get for their service or any single issue the course is facing.
"I think it's the unique opportunity people feel they can have managing a program," Magill said. "I do think they are motivated and have a lot of great ideas for the course."
A review of the applications does show some different philosophies and suggestions among the candidates.
Some applicants credit and applaud the direction the course has gone in recent years and want to help sustain it. Others mention some areas where they see room for improvement.
One applicant suggested he believes the course can improve by "making sure the service is consistent and reliable."
The Golf Management Committee interviews are the first item of business for council on Tuesday night.
Other discussion items include a work session on the future of Howelsen Hill and the possible approval of a recruiting brochure for a new city manager.
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Train Reading: The Return of Risk Appetite, AIG Style
Kick the can, D.C. style – WSJ
Will the Dell deal spark a debt-fueled buyout boom? – Deal Journal
The government's case against S&P might have some teeth – naked capitalism
The next secular bull market is still a few years away – Lance Roberts
Latest sign of the return of risk appetite: securitized subprime personal loans (and, yes, of course AIG is involved) – WSJ
A musical interlude: Curtis Mayfield; Move On Up – YouTube
Spain's El Pais hands over the secret kickback ledger to the authorities; this may get interesting – Christian Science Monitor
Lawrence Kasdan, who wrote Empire Strikes Back and Raiders of the Lost Ark, will be involved in Disney's Star Wars sequels – Speakeasy
The federal budget deficit is falling sharply, but the debt is still growing – WSJ
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CBO says to balance budget in 10 years, need less gov for all and higher taxes for all. Fracking won't save us. Need to cut $4 tril!
— James McTague (@Mctaguej) February 5, 2013


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Anthony Rizzo was moved back to the third spot in the Cubs' lineup against the Dodgers on Monday night. He went 1-for-4 and grounded into a double play. Inspiring, no?
But thank goodness his ego has been properly massaged.
In the five games before Monday, Rizzo had batted second, a blow to his ego, he said. But it was a boon to his average. During the bruised ego trip, Rizzo batted .292. Overall this season, he's hitting .231. Sounds like his ego could use a GPS. Also sounds like Rizzo has confused the object of the exercise. Does this guy get it?
The supposed face of the franchise is obscured by a question mark weaving from his forehead to his chin, and you can't help but think it's not too far from turning into a big red X with a circle around it. I mean, this is the Cubs, right?
Is it Rizzo's inability to hit major league pitching? Is it in his head? You could make a case it's both. You have to hope he isn't irretrievable.
As far back as April, manager Dale Sveum was demanding major-league execution and accountability from Rizzo and Starlin Castro.
"There's reasons why people play in the big leagues and have long careers, because they perform on an everyday basis,'' Sveum said then. "There's reasons why a lot of (guys are) minor league players. You see it all the time; they can't perform at the big-league level. They're pretty good. They're really good players. But you put the third deck on the stadium and something happens.''
And it has not been something good for Rizzo or Castro. Not much has improved on the field. What's more, some of Rizzo's recent comments off the field have sounded immature, if not downright whiny.
"Hopefully, I never go back,'' Rizzo said of batting second. "It's more, to be honest, an ego thing.
"I never hit second in my life. You think your second hitter of the game is someone who gets guys over and bunts and slaps. And I think our lineup doesn't call for me hitting second. . . . I was there and tried to make the best of it.
"He's the manager. He makes the calls. I just come in to play baseball.''
Stop playing it badly, OK? And stop sounding weak. You wouldn't expect that from a guy who has fought through so much, including cancer. But sorry, he sounds soft, especially after Castro went on mental walkabout recently and was benched while hitting as horribly as Rizzo.
"There are nine guys hitting every day, so it's not just me and Castro's responsibility,'' Rizzo said. "It's the entire team's.''
Excuse me, but this isn't fantasy camp. You want to bat third, kid, you'd better deserve it. I don't think the Cubs gave you those long-term millions so you could post the 86th-best OPS in the majors.
Batting third isn't a birthright, although it seems to come with some enabling and/or coddling here. Sveum is batting Rizzo third because the future demands it. The manager said the Cubs' job is to find a way to make Rizzo and Castro finish well this season so they can have happy thoughts in the offseason. Group hug, everybody.
Shortly after Rizzo tried to deflect accountability and responsibility for the mess he and Castro continued to make, Sveum had another message for Rizzo. It also sounded like a pump-the-brakes message for everybody who thinks 2015 will be the year the Cubs stop stinking.
Sveum's remarks seemed to officially make an issue of Rizzo's ability to handle the demands of being "The Man'' emotionally, mentally and physically.
"Like I told Rizzo, fortunately or unfortunately, it's part of the gig,'' Sveum said. "And one thing you don't want to have happen is not being the focal point.
"You always want to be the focal point when you're in a big market.''
Life in the big city is this: You can't be the focal point when you fail to produce and then sound like you're running from responsibility. Rizzo has the month of September and all of 2014 to show he ought to be considered part of the future instead of just another example of a sorry franchise's overrated, underwhelming past.


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DURHAM, N.C. - Joe Alleva has been reappointed director of athletics at Duke University, President Richard H. Brodhead announced Tuesday.
Alleva's reappointment follows a review by a committee of trustees, faculty and alumni, including former athletes, that was chaired by trustee emeritus Harold L. Yoh, Jr., with Dean of the School of Nursing Catherine Gilliss serving as vice chair.
Duke regularly conducts five-year reviews of deans and senior administrative positions. Brodhead said the review confirmed that Alleva was well-recognized for sustaining high standards of integrity in the athletics program, his championing of Duke's concept of the student-athlete, the quality of coaches he has hired and the high level of success that has been achieved across athletic programs at Duke under Alleva's leadership.
"Joe is unwaveringly loyal to Duke and to the educational values that undergird all of our programs, including athletics," Brodhead said. "These are times of great challenge and change in intercollegiate athletics. In the coming year I've asked Joe to undertake a comprehensive strategic plan to ensure that we continue to have a program that represents the best opportunities for our student-athletes to grow and excel, both on the playing fields and in the classroom."
Alleva joined the Duke athletics department in 1980 and rose through the ranks to his appointment in 1998 as athletic director. Under Alleva's leadership, Duke has won six NCAA national championships and 44 ACC championships, and 147 Duke students have earned All-America designations.
Duke athletes regularly rank among the top in the country in academic performance. Seventy-one students have earned Academic All-America during Alleva's tenure as athletic director. During the 2007 spring semester, 21 of Duke's 26 athletic teams posted grade point averages of 3.0 or higher. In 2005 and 2006, Duke ranked first among Division I schools in the National Collegiate Scouting Association Power Rankings, which combines a school's NCAA Director's Cup ranking, its athletics graduation rate and its academic rank in U.S. News & World Report.
"I am excited and honored to be reappointed as the director of this outstanding athletic department," Alleva said. "We have made tremendous progress over the past nine years and there is much more to do.
"I look forward to the challenges ahead, and thank President Brodhead for his support and leadership. I also want to thank the wonderful people in the Duke Department of Athletics for all of their hard work and support."
Alleva and his wife, Annie, have three children, all of whom graduated from Duke: J.D. ('01), Jeff ('03) and Jenny ('07).
What They're Saying About Joe Alleva:
"Joe Alleva has been with us for a long time. He understands our department and what our mission is more than anyone. I am very glad he will be with us for the years to come."
-Dan Brooks, Duke Women's Golf Coach
"I am happy for Joe Alleva and his family that he will continue in his capacity as Athletic Director. He has been an integral part of incredible success we have enjoyed as a department in the last decade. There is no doubt that Joe truly loves Duke and is wholly committed to the mission of educating our student-athletes while providing them with a first-rate athletic experience. I look forward to working with him and helping our department to build on our success and continue to grow into one of the nations finest overall athletic programs."
-Kerstin Kimel, Women's Lacrosse Coach
"I am pleased that Joe Alleva has been reappointed as the Duke Director of Athletics. His accomplishments in that role speak for themselves. He understands many facets of the University and how athletics fits into its larger mission. Joe values loyalty, ethical behavior and the people around him who are committed to making Duke an elite athletic program. Above all, Joe has been a trusted friend to many of us in the Duke Department of Athletics through the years, and I look forward to that continuing and growing in the future."
-Mike Krzyzewski, Duke Men's Basketball Coach
"I am delighted that Joe Alleva has been reappointed as our Athletics Director. Duke student athletes excel on the field, in the classroom, and in the community. Joe's strong leadership is the core of our department. I believe his is a source of strength for Duke University and consider him to be a good friend as well. He greatly deserves to continue to lead this outstanding athletic department. Congratulations to Joe and his family."
-John Rennie, Duke Men's Soccer Coach
"Joe's reappointment is reflective of his commitment to the welfare of our student-athletes and his wonderful work here at Duke. I am both pleased and excited for Joe and Duke University."
-Ted Roof, Duke Football Coach


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The Pink Panther was found up Chevy Chase Canyon, courtesy of the Ark Family Center and its "First Summer Extravaganza." Joan and Warren Binzley opened their Glendale home and gardens on Saturday to more than 100 members and guests willing to part with their dollars to benefit the Ark Leadership Academy and Youth Mentorship Programs.
The Pink Panther theme was carried out with a giant statue, bearing a strong resemblance to actor Peter Sellers who played Chief Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther movies. "Peter Sellers" overlooked guests enjoying appetizers at white linen-covered tables. Silent auction tables laden with baskets of goodies were sprinkled throughout the Binzley's garden.
Guests included Glendale attorney Allen Sarkisian and wife Robina Sarkisian; Paula Devine, pretty in pink with her signature gold hoop earrings, and husband Art Devine. Burbank neighbors Maryam Abrahamian and Nora Shirinian were also a part of the festivities. Shirinian is the mother of Ark member Karen Shirinian and the aunt of Ark member Helen Kalognomos from Sunland.
Ark Educational Director Melina Sardar made sure guests had their every need filled. Sardar is soon to leave for Armenia to teach self-empowerment seminars at the Armenian Women's Center, a partner of the Ark Family Center. Along for the trip will be five Glendale students who regularly attend Ark seminars.
Sardar estimated that "hopefully" the evening's proceeds will total $5,000 to $8,000.
The Pasadena Symphony and Pops and its "Musical Circus" graced the Americana at Brand's central green on Sunday. The orchestra's program opened with an instrument "petting zoo," manned by members of the Pasadena chapter of the National Charity League. Two-year-old Carmine Cordes tried out a violin, but the budding musician seemed more at one with a trombone. Parents Wendy and Darrin Cordes agreed. Four-year-old Glendale resident Arineh Shahbazi was partial toward a trumpet. Helpers were mom Anoosh Shahbazi and Charity League Ticktocker Kendall Khonsari. Four-year-old Jonathan Collier preferred the baritone horn, guided by dad Reggie Collier.
The concert, "New York, New York," followed with popular favorites from the Big Apple. The next Pasadena Pops performance will be on July 17 at the Rose Bowl Adjacent Lawn.
July showers brought wedding and baby showers that blossomed over the weekend. Janel Crane's bridal shower was held at the Glendale home of Judy and Jon Ritchie on Saturday. Crane's family members were front and center, including mom Caroline Crane, sister Cynthia Crane and niece Ariana Crane from Burbank. Sister Melanie Parish and niece Megan Parish dropped by, having recently moved to La Cañada Flintridge. Sister Celia Otis from El Centro also put in a welcome appearance.
Party hostesses with the mostest were Judy Ritchie, Carma Watrous, Kathy Lee and Sara Beth Sheffield. Crane's BFF's from Glendale included Sheffield's mother Linda Sheffield, Melissa Madsen, Nancy Kochi, Lois Frost and Anna Jump — all enjoying the traditional gift opening.
Judy Ritchie went all out with a dining room table filled with sweets and savories. The couple-dozen shower guests went away well-satiated and looking forward to the nuptials in August.
Glendale resident Malia Jones was also treated to a shower Saturday. Her baby shower was held at the North Central Avenue apartment of hostess Noura Christensen. The very pregnant Jones is due to give birth to baby son Kekoa at the end of this month.
Guests bearing blue baby gifts included shower hostess Susan McNeill, Nettie Allison and Heather Phillips, enjoying a little party time away from her own three sons. Guests dropping by from the earlier Crane wedding shower included Lois Frost, Melissa Madsen and yours truly.
After an afternoon of games and refreshments, the dozen guests were anxious to meet Jones' soon-to-arrive bundle of joy.


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Project TitleA Modelling Language for Interactive Web Applications
Project SummaryWeb-based application development has become a well established approach to software development, and several modelling approaches have been proposed, but none of these have become widely accepted in the software engineering community.
Many existing models focus solely on the hypertext structure, but have poor support for important web application-specific concepts, such as sessions and request forwarding. New technologies such as AJAX and web services go beyond the abilities of traditional modelling languages.
In this project, we propose to develop or extend a modelling language which is appropriate to model interactive web applications, including support for asynchronous content update, complex application events, and formal model verification. It will also be platform-independent and standards-based.
Research MethodologyThe first research required will be a study of existing literature, to identify what work has already been done, and potential extension points. This will be performed simultaneously with the development of requirements from a comprehensive selection of real-world use cases for web applications. (This work has already been completed.)
These requirements will be compared with existing approaches (such as WebML and UWE), allowing us to identify if an existing language should be extended, or a new approach should be developed. Prototypes of real-world applications will then be developed as proof-of-concepts, which will be compared with existing work. This approach will be iterated multiple times until a sufficiently concise solution is developed.
As further proof-of-concept, a CASE tool implementing the language may be developed, most likely through existing platforms such as ArgoUML or EMF.
Relationships will be established and maintained with leading national and international researchers in the field of web engineering, and multiple papers demonstrating our progress and achievements will be published over the course of the project.
See Also
- J. Wright, "ModelDoc: A Model-Driven Framework for the Automated Generation of Modelling Language Documentation," Technical Report, 2012. pdf, bibtex
- J. Wright, "A Modelling Language for Rich Internet Applications," Ph.D. Thesis, 2011. bibtex
- J. Wright, "The Development of a Modelling Language for Rich Internet Applications," in the New Zealand Computer Science Research Student Conference (NZCSRSC 2010), Wellington, New Zealand, 2010. pdf, poster
- J. Wright and J. Dietrich, "Non-Montonic Model Completion in Web Application Engineering," in Proceedings of the 21st Australian Software Engineering Conference (ASWEC 2010), Auckland, New Zealand, 2010. web, pdf, slides, bibtex, [DOI]
- J. Wright, "A Modelling Language for Interactive Web Applications," in Proceedings of the Doctoral Symposium at the 24th International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2009), Auckland, New Zealand, 2009. web, pdf, ppt.zip, bibtex
- J. Wright, "Use cases for Rich Internet Applications," Technical Report, 2009. web, pdf
- J. Wright and J. Dietrich, "Requirements for Rich Internet Application Design Methodologies," in Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2008), Auckland, New Zealand, 2008. web, pdf, ppt.zip, bibtex, [DOI]
- J. Dietrich, N. Jones and J. Wright, "Using Social Networking and Semantic Web Technology in Software Engineering - Use Cases, Patterns, and a Case Study". Systems and Software, 2008. [DOI]
- J. Wright and J. Dietrich, "Survey of Existing Languages to Model Interactive Web Applications," in Proceedings of the Fifth Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modelling (APCCM 2008), Wollongong, NSW, Australia, 2008. pdf, ppt.zip, bibtex, [ACM]
- J. Wright, "Towards an Interactive Web Modelling Language," in Proceedings of the 2007 SIENZ Workshop, Auckland, New Zealand, 2007. pdf, ppt.zip, bibtex


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janTepanNetaPelin wrote:For example, Sonja didn't state that she's trying to be as simple as possible. At one point, she even combines two sentences with a comma (yielding a ", taso", by the way). It is preferable for me to call this simplicity "pona", which is a style, not grammar. "Keep Toki Pona as simple as possible!" is not a grammatical rule.
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jan Tepan o, toki!
"Simplify your thoughts. Less is more." pu page 9
This is not only a style. The grammar has to be simple as well.
Think about the German "Beamtendeutsch". Often It uses complicated grammar with nested subordinate sentences to hide a simple fact. Toki Pona has to be the opposite.
I' wrote at the beginning of my lessons: "Lawyers, bureaucrats, theologians and politicians are be warned of the side-effect of this language. "
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The New Brick Road….. The title is inspired by the Norman and Nancy Blake tune and a tribute to Don Jacobson's classic KVMR folk show "The Long and Dusty Road". This Brick Road takes the traveler on a fun and exciting adventure every other Friday morning from 10 until noon, exploring folk and acoustic music. The show features a variety of folk music, mostly from North America, the U.K. and Ireland. You will hear songs that inspire and move you. I am drawn to the poetic and celebrate songwriters whose wisdom and brilliance makes us think.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 81 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
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FavrApp is one of the sites to be launched by FavrMedia. A new media company that focus on provide users generated reviews for the latest gadgets and entertainment.
It's aimed to be fun, trendy, and community based
some of the identity we liked
For FavrApp, the target audience will be users who own one of the following devices: iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android phone.
Our target users tends to be affluent, smart, and trendy professionals, who are vocal about their opinion. Looking for something clean cut, to the point, and clever
We will have some iPhone touch users as well. We believe they will be a bit younger 21 and under. If we can take them into account great. But if it will effect the primary target audience, we are ok not to have an identity that's to young.
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Amazing Spider-Man #673
Peter goes after Strange, demanding to know how Carlie could have uncovered his identity after his spell.
The thing he has to do is give MJ the antidote, since she still has her spider-powers.
Also, Kaine is now scarless, and from the looks of it I'm guessing he's going to be the new Scarlet Spider. I liked what they did with Kaine when they brought him back (before 'killing' him off), but I'm not too crazy about prettifying him and making him some sort of superhero. And why tease the possibility of bringing Ben back?
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Just yesterday there was a report that came out saying that Netflix had been forced to pull The Bodyguard from their streaming service because the studio in charge of the film's home video distribution wanted to boost DVD sales following the death of star Whitney Houston. While it sounded like something a major studio would do - in that same article I cited the theatrical release of This Is It following Michael Jackson's passing, I did question the story because I didn't recognize the source and it seemed a bit weird to me that Netflix would admit that the film was pulled to take advantage of a celebrities death. It turns out that I was right to throw a question mark on the end of my headline.
Journalist Dan McDermott, the same man who first reported yesterday's news, has printed a retraction and is now saying that the removal of The Bodyguard from Netflix Instant has nothing to do with the death of Whitney Houston. While McDermott's quotes from the Netflix representative and administrators were accurate, those employees were apparently misinformed. According to the new post, the rights to the film were lost at the end of last year and when McDermott looked through cached pages on Google he discovered that The Bodyguard has been unavailable to stream since January 1st. Said McDermott, "I wish I had thought to do this before the post. It just honestly didn't occur to me."
It did seem weird that the movie would be taken off of Netflix and still be available to be streamed on Amazon, so the real version of this story really does make a lot more sense. It also happens to be an instance in which Hollywood is shown to be not as evil as its often portrayed, so that's something to celebrate!


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Experiences with depressionJan. 17th, 2013 10:35 am
Most of 2002 wasn't great for me. Many of my friends had graduated and moved away. My PhD, which was what I'd spent the past few years of my life working towards, was going horribly wrong. The girl I liked didn't like me. Lots of individual small things that didn't fundamentally matter, but which build up into overall feelings of isolation and failure at life. I was spending an increasing number of days not leaving bed and not talking to people. It wasn't that I couldn't have fun - socialising was still pleasurable, and I didn't actively avoid people, but it was always tempered with the knowledge that this was temporary and I'd be returning to the unhappiness afterwards. I couldn't see any sequence of events that would turn my life around and restore my happiness. This was how life was, and this was how life was going to be. I'd irrevocably fucked up, and this was my future.
Looking back, what strikes me is how reasonable this seemed. I could point at specific things that were making me unhappy, and nobody could argue that it was unreasonable to be unhappy about them. There wasn't any point in speaking to people about it, because what would they be able to do except agree that I was justifiably unhappy? I thought about suicide. Not seriously, because overall life still seemed worthwhile, but I could conceive of a level of further unhappiness that would make it seem like the best choice. I don't think it would ever have occured to me to speak to someone about it first. It seemed like it would be the same argument - I'm justifiably unhappy, I already feel like I'm letting my friends down, what could they do other than tell me that my feelings are wrong or make me feel even more guilty? So, when I saw exhortions for people to speak to someone if they felt suicidal, it seemed like they were talking to people who hadn't thought this through as well as me. It felt like I'd thought this all through carefully and rationally and come to a completely logical decision. If changes in circumstances and further consideration made it seem like suicide was the better choice, that would be because it was the better choice. Maybe other people weren't thinking about this as logically as I was. Maybe they'd have their minds changed by speaking to a friend or a professional. I wouldn't. Of course, with hindsight I was rationalising the way I already felt rather than making entirely rational decisions. I could have rationalised myself to death even though there were (in my case) straightforward ways to make my life better.
In any case, I've no idea how close I ever got to that point. Things were at their worst in August - by September I had a new job and new house, and things just got better from there. In the end, the friends I was convinced could do nothing for me ended up giving me the opportunity to find gainful employment and made sure I had somewhere to live. Without them, things might have been different. As it was, I spent less than nine months depressed and it was still the most hellish experience of my life. The thought of returning to that state is terrifying. I was lucky. I might not be again.
There's no terribly good moral here. If I'd known more about depression beforehand, I might have been able to identify what was happening to me and seek professional help. Other than that, I didn't learn anything about how to avoid or deal with depression. The experience didn't make me a better person. I've no advice for people in the same situation. The only thing I gained from it all was the realisation that if I'd felt any worse and knew that this was what I faced for the rest of my life, death might not have been the worst choice I had.
Depression is a huge social problem and we deal with it badly. We refuse to talk about it, and when we do talk about it we mostly limit ourselves to platitudes about how things will get better or placing the blame on depressed people for not wanting to talk to those around them. Sometimes it doesn't get better. Sometimes talking to those around you will make things worse. People need to be aware of what the effects of depression are and get better at identifying it in others, rather than assuming that they'll be able to ask for help themselves. Society as a whole needs to be better at ensuring that professional support is there for people who need it. And, unless we can make massive improvements in our understanding of the causes of depression and effective mechanisms for countering it, we need to accept that it will cost us friends. Let's redirect the anger we feel at their choice to avoid a lifetime of misery into anger at the society that still hasn't done everything it can to help them.


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GDT: Blues 2, Oilers 4 – Game 11 – 2011-10-30 @ 6:00 PM MST – SNET W
After a brief road trip to the mile high city, the Oilers are back home again. The Oilers have enjoyed home ice so far this season and another win would go a long way. They could use the continuation of the win streak to further build momentum before going on the road for 6 games.
After handing the reins to Khabi early on, Dubnyk slotted in Friday night and had an impressive 40 save performance in the win. Hopefully the two can continue to make the starter role a tough decision for management with their solid play.
The Blues are playing .500 hockey right now and are struggling on the powerplay. Combined with the Oilers current success on the P/K, I'd say we have a pretty solid chance of recording another win tonight.
Alex Plante has been recalled from OKC, and should be in town with plenty of time to slot in tonight since the goon Sutton is out of the lineup.
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The airport has 4 terminals (T1, T2, T3, T5) and serves domestic, European, International and Intercontinental destinations.
Fiumicino Airport in numbers:
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- Number of air companies operating at Fiumicino: about 200
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ESMERALDA (not her real name) discovered that her husband had HIV only after his death, a few days after he had entered the hospital for the first time. The couple had been living in a small Mexican town. At first, his family didn't tell her what was wrong.
She soon discovered that she too had HIV. She was breastfeeding her baby daughter at the time and, to protect her daughter from getting HIV, she was told to stop breastfeeding. She remembers being "really, really scared" for her baby. Fortunately, her daughter was HIV negative. But Esmeralda discovered that she was pregnant again.
Four days after her husband's death, Esmeralda was encouraged to move out. With little money, one baby, and another on the way, she had nowhere to go. So, she bravely crossed the border into California to live with her sister-in-law. While she was pregnant with her second baby, a boy, she took medicine to prevent the transmission of HIV and didn't breastfeed him. He is HIV negative.
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December 11, 2000
For a long while, GNOME-specific mail clients seemingly languished in varying states of completion. Though Balsa has been labelled the official GNOME mailer, there's a long list of candidates that integrate with GNOME with varying degrees of success and offer a collection of features that are pretty nice, even though there are some unfortunate shortcomings in individual clients.
Evolution remains the 800-pound gorilla, but it isn't done yet, and it may be overkill for many when completed since it not only provides a very complete mailer, but calendar and contact management as well. To that extent, it isn't appropriate to write off some of the smaller projects still making progress toward a goal similar to what kmail provides in the KDE environment: a basic, easy-to-use, light-weight GUI mail client.
Balsa seemingly stalled for a while, but development picked up this year and the team has produced version 1.0 of the project. The quick version of this review is as follows:
Balsa is stable, configurable, and integrates well with the overall GNOME environment. It's very easy to use and configure, and if there's any feature that I'd complain about missing, it's the as-yet-to-be-completed filtering tools, which would give the project parity with kmail, Netscape Messenger, and others.
Getting BalsaBalsa is available from the project download page as a source tarball, source RPM, or RPM package. Links are included to a Debian package and the latest Slackware .tgz.
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calcitonin (salmon)
Pharmacologic class: Hormone (calcium-lowering)
Therapeutic class: Hypocalcemic
Pregnancy risk category C
Directly affects bone, kidney, and GI tract. Decreases osteoclastic osteolysis in bone; also reduces mineral release and collagen breakdown in bone and promotes renal excretion of calcium. In pain relief, acts through prostaglandin inhibition, pain threshold modification, or beta-endorphin stimulation.
Injection: 0.5 mg/ml (human), 1 mg/ml (human), 200 international units/ml in 2-ml vials (salmon)
Nasal spray (salmon): 200 international units/actuation, metered nasal spray in 3.7 ml-bottle
Indications and dosages
➣ Postmenopausal osteoporosis
Adults: Calcitonin (salmon)-100 international units/day I.M. or subcutaneously, or 200 international units/day intranasally with concurrent supplemental calcium and vitamin D
➣ Paget's disease of bone (osteitis deformans)
Adults: Calcitonin (salmon)-Initially, 100 international units/day I.M. or subcutaneously; after titration, maintenance dosage is 50 to 100 international units daily or every other day (three times weekly). Calcitonin (human)-0.5 mg I.M. or subcutaneously daily, reduced to 0.25 mg daily.
➣ Hypercalcemia
Adults: Calcitonin (salmon)-4 international units/kg I.M. or subcutaneously q 12 hours; after 1 or 2 days, may increase to 8 international units/kg q 12 hours; after 2 more days, may increase further, if needed, to 8 international units q 6 hours.
• Hypersensitivity to drug or salmon
• Pregnancy or breastfeeding
Use cautiously in:
• renal insufficiency, pernicious anemia
• children.
☞ Before salmon calcitonin therapy begins, perform skin test, if prescribed. Don't give drug if patient has positive reaction. Have epinephrine available.
• Bring nasal spray to room temperature before using.
• Give intranasal dose as one spray in one nostril daily; alternate nostrils every day.
• To minimize adverse effects, give at bedtime.
• Rotate injection sites to decrease inflammatory reactions.
Adverse reactions
CNS: headache, weakness, dizziness, paresthesia
CV: chest pain
EENT: epistaxis, nasal irritation, rhinitis
GI: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, epigastric pain or discomfort
GU: urinary frequency
Musculoskeletal: arthralgia, back pain
Respiratory: dyspnea
Skin: rash
Other: altered taste, allergic reactions including facial flushing, swelling, and anaphylaxis
Drug-drug. Previous use of bisphosphonates (alendronate, etidronate, pamidronate, risedronate): decreased response to calcitonin
Patient monitoring
• Monitor for adverse reactions during first few days of therapy.
• Assess alkaline phosphatase level and 24-hour urinary excretion of hydroxyproline.
• Check urine for casts.
• Monitor serum electrolyte and calcium levels.
Patient teaching
• Instruct patient to take drug before bedtime to lessen GI upset. Tell him to call prescriber if he can't maintain his usual diet because of GI upset.
• Inform patient using nasal spray that runny nose, sneezing, and nasal irritation may occur during first several days as he adjusts to spray.
• Instruct patient to bring nasal spray to room temperature before using.
• Advise patient to blow nose before using spray, to take intranasal dose as one spray in one nostril daily, and to alternate nostrils with each dose.
• Tell patient to discard unrefrigerated bottles of calcitonin (salmon) nasal spray after 30 days.
• Encourage patient to consume a diet rich in calcium and vitamin D.
• As appropriate, review all other significant adverse reactions and interactions, especially those related to the drugs mentioned above.
calcitonin/cal·ci·to·nin/ (-to´nin) a polypeptide hormone secreted by C cells of the thyroid gland, and sometimes of the thymus and parathyroids, which lowers calcium and phosphate concentration in plasma and inhibits bone resorption. Preparations (c.-human, c.-salmon) are used in the treatment of osteitis deformans, postmenopausal osteoporosis, and hypercalcemia.
CALCAA gene on chromosome 11p15.2 that encodes peptide hormones calcitonin, calcitonin gene-related peptide and katacalcin, by tissue-specific alternative RNA splicing of gene transcripts and cleavage of inactive precursor peptides. Calcitonin regulates calcium and phosphorus metabolism; calcitonin gene-related peptide is a vasodilator; katacalcin is a calcium-lowering peptide.
calcitoninThyrocalcitonin Physiology A 32 residue polypeptide–plasma levels 100 pg/mL hormone produced by the parafollicular or 'C'–ultimobranchial cells of the thyroid; calcitonin is rapidly secreted in response to ↑ plasma Ca2+, pentagastrin, glucagon, β-adrenergics, and alcohol; it is produced by several neoplasms, especially, medullary CA of thyroid–MCT, which may also be associated with other endocrine tumors ↑ in MCT, small cell of the lung, breast CA. See C cells.
calcitoninSalcatonin or calcitonin (salmon), a hormone secreted by the THYROID gland, independently of the thyroid hormones, and concerned with the control of calcium levels in the blood. It acts on bone to interfere with the release of calcium. It is less important in calcium balance than the parathyroid glands. Used as a drug under the brand name Miacalcic.
calcitonina polypeptide hormone secreted by both the THYROID and PARATHYROID glands that lowers the calcium content of the blood.
calcitonin; thyrocalcitonin hormone (secreted by parafollicular cells of thyroid) reducing plasma calcium (by increasing urinary calcium excretion and reducing osteoclastic bone resorption); used to treat Paget's disease
calcitonin (kal·si·tōˑ·nin),
calcitonin (kal´sitō´nin),
drug class: synthetic polypeptide calcitonins;
action: inhibits bone resorption, reduces osteoclast function, reduces serum calcium levels in hypercalcemia;
uses: Paget's disease, postmenopausal osteoporosis, hypercalcemia.