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Get started with HomeBank, an open source personal finance appSubmitted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sunday 20th of January 2019 08:58:55 AM Filed under
There seems to be a mad rush at the beginning of every year to find ways to be more productive. New Year's resolutions, the itch to start the year off right, and of course, an "out with the old, in with the new" attitude all contribute to this. And the usual round of recommendations is heavily biased towards closed source and proprietary software. It doesn't have to be that way.
Here's the eighth of my picks for 19 new (or new-to-you) open source tools to help you be more productive in 2019.
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Boosting Open Science Hardware in an academic context: opportunities and challengesSubmitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 19th of January 2019 02:58:47 PM Filed under
Experimental science is typically dependent on hardware: equipment, sensors and machines. Open Science Hardware means sharing designs for this equipment that anyone can reuse, replicate, build upon or sell so long as they attribute the developers on whose shoulders they stand. Hardware can also be expanded to encompass other non-digital input to research such as chemicals, cell lines and materials and a growing number of open science initiatives are actively sharing these with few or no restrictions on use.
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Get free programs to edit photos, send email and moreSubmitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 19th of January 2019 02:56:32 PM Filed under
Even better, LibreOffice can open and edit the documents you made in Office and can save new files in Office formats. LibreOffice is also compatible with the other document formats, like OpenDocument Format (ODF) and PDF.
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Pseudo-Open Source (Openwashing)Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 19th of January 2019 01:51:57 PM Filed under
New Open Source Blockchain System for Toll Interoperability
Polyverse Donates "Moving Target Defense" Cybersecurity Technology to Open Source Projects [Ed: No, releasing your secret code as FOSS is not a "donation", that's just doing the right and appropriate thing, esp. when it comes to security (which is impossible through obscurity and secrecy)]
Facebook open sources Spectrum 1.0.0, an image processing library for better mobile image production
Facebook open-sources Spectrum to make uploading photos more efficient
Facebook makes its image compression tech available to all
Facebook releases open source tool to make uploading photos less of a data hog
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OSS LeftoversSubmitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 19th of January 2019 01:45:46 PM Filed under
The Serverless Show: The Importance of Open Source & Community Involvement
"I'm also involved with some open source projects. I started with Node community and helping out with some node libraries a long time ago. Now I'm mostly doing serverless-related things. I joined the Claudia.js team a long time ago, almost at the beginning, and helped Gojko Adzic and Alexander Simovich to build Claudia.js. Claudia was and still is a deployment library for AWS Lambda and API gateway. At the beginning, it was really hard to deploy serverless applications. If you tried to do that manually, you need to zip everything, to set the permissions, and things like that. The idea of Claudia was to extend AWS CLI tools and to help users deploy serverless applications easier. We continued doing Claudia and a few other things. We contributed a bit to AWS SAM and we built some other applications that are open source. We're trying to build tools that we need and that the serverless community needs."
Expect to Hear More About Open Source's Role in Security [Ed: Security implemented with proprietary software is almost always fake. The Australian back doors ("encryption") bill is a reminder of it. If something is proprietary, one must assume back doors (even mandated from above, hidden in binaries)]
Will 2019 be the year there is a big push for consolidation between open source and cybersecurity?
Yes, said Sanjay Beri, CEO of Netskope, in an email comment. IBM's acquisition of Red Hat could prove to be the game changer in how organizations approach security.
Want to Save Some Money? Check out These Free Software Alternatives
The list covers drawing and design, animation and film, website building, and others. For example, Ghost Malone presents several free alternatives to drawing, design and post-processing, such as GIMP, Krita, Fire Alpaca, Autodesk Sketchbook, MediBang Paint, and Paint.NET. Another example, for editing vector graphics, is Inkscape, which is free and open source. The list goes on with several choices depending on what you're looking for.
A free and open source Bitcoin trading tool has been developed by two students
University students Jonathan Shobrook and Aaron Lichtman have created a free and open source automated trading bot to use on the Bitstamp exchange.
Thank Stanford researchers for Puffer, a free and open source live TV streaming service that uses AI to improve video-streaming algorithms
Open Source To Open Newer Avenues For CIOs In 2019
Open source plays a crucial role in all the top strategic technology trends that are reshaping the IT world. Rajarshi Bhattacharyya, Country Head, SUSE, looks at the key trends for 2019 that organizations need to explore and in explains how open source technologies and practices open up a window of opportunities for the CIOs in the coming days.
The High Profile Team of Handshake Looks to Truly Open the Internet with a New Domain Name System
Unlike other major blockchain based companies like Ethereum, they chose to avoid ICO funding altogether and went straight for private investors. They were able to obtain major private investment funding from companies such as Polychain Capital, A16Z Crypto, and Founders Fund (purchasing 7.5% coin supply of HNS between them at $10.2M) with the idea that they could be responsible for replacing entire layers of Domain Name System (DNS) layering. This removes the need for those who safeguard these layers, saving future companies large amounts of cash up front.
Handshake is attempting to make the Internet more open
Handshake came out of stealth mode last August. The project, which intends to replace various levels of the Domain Name System (DNS) hierarchy, was founded by Joseph Poon (co-creator of the Lightning Network & Plasma), Andrew Lee (co-founder & CEO of Purse), Andrew Lee (co-founder & CEO of Private Internet Access), Boyma Fahnbulleh (Bcoin developer), and Christopher Jeffery (Creator of Bcoin & CTO of Purse).
Sidestepping the ICO route popularized by Ethereum, Handshake raised private funding from a slew of investors including A16Z Crypto, Polychain Capital, and Founders Fund. These investors purchased 7.5% of the initial coin supply of HNS, Handshake's native token, for $10.2M, valuing the protocol at $136M.
Google remains the top open-source contributor to CNCF projects
According to the latest data from Stackalytics, a project founded by Mirantis and hosted by the OpenStack Foundation that visualizes a company's contribution to open-source projects, Google remains the dominant force in the CNCF open-source ecosystem. Indeed, according to this data, Google is responsible for almost 53 percent of all code commits to CNCF projects. Red Hat, the second biggest contributor, is far behind, with 7.4 percent.
The CNCF is the home of Kubernetes, the extremely popular container orchestration service that Google open sourced, so the fact that Google is the top contributor may not seem like a major surprise. But according to this data, Google would still be the top code contributor to all CNCF projects without even taking Kubernetes into account. In part, that's due to the fact that Google is also the major contributor to GRPC, a queuing project the company donated to the CNCF, and Vitess, the database clustering system it developed for YouTube.
Google Remains Top Open-Source Contributor
According to a scan of code contributions to projects sponsored by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) remains by far the largest contributor of code across all projects. Using a tool called Stackalytics, the survey conducted by open-source infrastructure vendor Mirantis found that Google accounted for 52.9 percent of code commits to CNCF projects.
Johnson Controls to Introduce Open-Source Software for Targeting Retrofits
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Server Side Public License (SSPL), Red Hat and FedoraSubmitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 19th of January 2019 01:44:07 PM Filed under
Red Hat/Fedora decide MongoDB's SSLP doesn't fit
MongoDB's January blues deepened this week as the team behind the Red Hat-backed Fedora Linux distribution confirmed it had added the open source database's Server Side Public License to its "bad"list.
The move came as it emerged Red Hat – Fedora's sponsor – had nixed MongoDB support in RHEL 8.0.
AWS Raised Its Hand Lest Of Open Source Platform
Even though AWS stands by MongoDB as the best the customers find it difficult to build and vastly accessible applications on the open-source platform can range from multiple terabytes to hundreds of thousands of reads and writes per second. Thus, the company built its own document database with an Apache 2.0 open source MongoDB 3.6 API compatibility. The open-sources politics are quite difficult to grasp. AWS has been blamed for taking the top open-source projects and re-branding plus re-using it without providing the communities. The catch here is that MongoDB was the company behind putting a halt to the re-licensing of the open-source tools under a novel license that clearly stated the companies willing to do this will have to purchase a commercial license.
Red Hat gets heebie-jeebies over MongoDB's T&Cs squeeze: NoSQL database dropped from RHEL 8B over license
MongoDB justified its decision last October to shift the free version of its NoSQL database software, MongoDB Community Server, from the open-source GNU Affero General Public License to the not-quite-so-open Server Side Public License (SSPL) by arguing that cloud providers sell open-source software as a service without giving back.
The following month, and not widely noticed until this week, Red Hat said it would no longer include MongoDB in version 8 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The removal notice came in the release notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Beta 8.0.
Under section 4.7, the release notes say, "Note that the NoSQL MongoDB database server is not included in RHEL 8.0 Beta because it uses the Server Side Public License (SSPL)."
Server Side Public License struggles to gain open-source support
MongoDB first announced the release of the new software license in October as a way to protect itself and other open-source projects like it from being taken advantage of by larger companies for monetary gain.
At the time, MongoDB co-founder and CTO Eliot Horowitz explained: "This should be a time of incredible opportunity for open source. The revenue generated by a service can be a great source of funding for open-source projects, far greater than what has historically been available. The reality, however, is that once an open-source project becomes interesting, it is too easy for large cloud vendors to capture most of the value while contributing little or nothing back to the community."
Other open-source businesses have developed their own licenses or adopted others in recent months, citing the same issues. However, the problem with these new licenses is that if they are not approved by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), an organization created to promote and protect the open-source ecosystem, the software behind the license is technically not considered open source, and it will have a hard time getting acceptance from members in the community.
Open source has a problem with monetization, not AWS
Why you should take notice of the open source in enterprise suckers conundrum
In the MongoDB case, AWS is widely regarded as responding to a licensing change MongoDB made in October 2018 that has caused something of a stir among the open source cognoscenti.
Fedora Community Blog: FPgM report: 2019-03
Here's your report of what has happened in Fedora Program Management this week.
I've set up weekly office hours in #fedora-meeting-1. Drop by if you have any questions or comments about the schedule, Changes, elections, or anything else.
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Second Godot 3.1 BetaSubmitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 19th of January 2019 09:45:44 AM Filed under
Godot 3.1 Beta 2
We entered the release freeze last week with Godot 3.1 beta 1, and many high priority bug reports have been fixed since then. We're now publishing a new beta 2 snapshot for testers to work with. This new release fixes various crash scenarios, as well as a performance regression in the GLES backend.
We're still aiming for a release by the end of the month, so we're under a tight schedule. From now on dev focus is on release-critical issues that would seriously hamper Godot 3.1's usability and features.
Contrarily to our 3.0.x maintenance releases, which include only thoroughly reviewed and backwards-compatible bug fixes, the 3.1 version includes all the new features (and subsequent bugs!) merged in the master branch since January 2018, and especially all those showcased on our past devblogs. It's been almost a year since the 3.0 release and close to 6,000 commits, so expect a lot of nice things in the final 3.1 version!
Godot 3.1 Beta 2 Released With OpenGL ES Performance Fix
The developers behind Godot, one of the leading open-source game engines, have announced their second beta release for the upcoming Godot 3.1 feature release.
Godot 3.1 initially entered beta earlier this month as stepping towards the first major release of this cross-platform game engine since Godot 3.0 last year. Godot 3.1 is preparing OpenGL ES 2.0 rendering support, continued work around virtual reality (VR) support, 3D soft body physics capabilities, constructive solid geometry, BPTC texture compression, a new visual shader editor, WebSockets support, and various game developer/editor improvements.
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Some Thoughts on Open CoreSubmitted by Roy Schestowitz on Saturday 19th of January 2019 05:07:57 AM Filed under
Nothing is inherently anti-business about Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). In fact, a number of different business models are built on top of FOSS. The best models are those that continue to further FOSS by internal code contributions and that advance the principles of Free Software in general. For instance, there's the support model, where a company develops free software but sells expert support for it.
Here, I'd like to talk a bit about one of the more problematic models out there, the open core model, because it's much more prevalent, and it creates some perverse incentives that run counter to Free Software principles.
If you haven't heard about it, the open core business model is one where a company develops free software (often a network service intended to be run on a server) and builds a base set of users and contributors of that free code base. Once there is a critical mass of features, the company then starts developing an "enterprise" version of the product that contains additional features aimed at corporate use. These enterprise features might include things like extra scalability, login features like LDAP/Active Directory support or Single Sign-On (SSO) or third-party integrations, or it might just be an overall improved version of the product with more code optimizations and speed.
Because such a company wants to charge customers to use the enterprise version, it creates a closed fork of the free software code base, or it might provide the additional proprietary features as modules so it has fewer problems with violating its free software license.
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Pseudo-Open Source (Openwashing)Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 18th of January 2019 04:55:14 PM Filed under
Red Hat drops MongoDB over SSPL; MDB -3%
Amazon responded by launching DocumentDB, a managed database that's compatible with existing MongoDB applications and tools. DocumentDB works with MongoDB version 3.6, which predates the SSPL license.
Governance without rules: How the potential for forking helps projects
The speed and agility of open source projects benefit from lightweight and flexible governance. Their ability to run with such efficient governance is supported by the potential for project forking. That potential provides a discipline that encourages participants to find ways forward in the face of unanticipated problems, changed agendas, or other sources of disagreement among participants. The potential for forking is a benefit that is available in open source projects because all open source licenses provide needed permissions.
In contrast, standards development is typically constrained to remain in a particular forum. In other words, the ability to move the development of the standard elsewhere is not generally available as a disciplining governance force. Thus, forums for standards development typically require governance rules and procedures to maintain fairness among conflicting interests.
Oracle exec: Open-source vendors locking down licences proves 'they were never really open'
MoltenVK Sees Big Update To Jump-Start Vulkan On macOS In 2019
Facebook 'Likes' (And Open Sources) Better Mobile Image Software
Open source Spectrum library enables edge processing of images for faster performance
Spectrum, an open source image processing library from Facebook, aims to give developers the ability to perform image transformation client-side, with predictable, repeatable results on different platforms. The library can be integrated into Android or iOS apps, and uses C/C++ code for higher performance with Java and Objective-C wrapper APIs for integration ease. Spectrum's API is declarative, allowing developers to define the target output characteristics, leaving the work of formulating settings to achieve that goal to the library itself.
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The Best Open Source Software in 2018 (Users' Choice)Submitted by Roy Schestowitz on Friday 18th of January 2019 04:49:21 PM Filed under
LibreOffice is a free and open source office suite written in C++, Java, and Python. It was first released in January 2011 by The Document Foundation and has since known to be the most reliable open source office suite.
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Anni Albers – With Verticals, 1946, cotton and linen, 154.9 x 118.1 cm
Anni Albers was a well known German textile artist and prominent printmaker. She is perhaps one of the most well-known print artists of the 20th century. Albers dared to go where no textile designer had gone before, which in part helped to launch her designs into popularity. Born in Berlin, Albers became a student of the Bauhaus in Weimar which is where she met and married Josef Albers. Albers sometimes with help from her husband managed to blur traditional boundaries that existed between craft and art. Albers blended her talent as a painter, designer, artist, and teacher to create a highly successful career that lasted over 60 years.
Bauhaus & experiments with weaving & textiles
When she first started out at the Bauhaus, Albers was enrolled by the school in the only course that female students could take at that time. Although she was not particularly interested in the field of weaving, Albers eventually grew to love the craft and everything associated with designing textiles. She learned how to come up with richly colored and complex abstract compositions through her use of natural and synthetic fibers. Soon, her works started to gain her recognition along the halls of the Bauhaus where she quickly became one of the most renowned members of the workshop.
Innovation & recognition
Beyond her integration of abstract modernism into the textiles that she weaved, Albers also managed to introduce new technologies to the weaving shop. Her use of synthetic fibers and cellophane to come up with acoustic panels influenced other manufacturers to create panels in a similar style, which led to groundbreaking innovations in theater design. Albers achievements became so widespread that in 1949, the Museum of Modern Art exhibited her work1. This show allowed her to travel to various parts of the world, which further cemented her reputation as the best textile designer in the world.
Graphic, bright and timeless are some of the words that come to mind when attempting to describe Anni Albers' work. With assistance from her husband Josef, who was also equally as respected in Bauhaus and the rest of the world, the couple created wonderful abstract compositions that are still as impressive today as they were when they were first introduced to the world.
Somewhere along with her career, Albers also developed an interest in lithography and screen printing which allowed her to explore the interplay between patterns and bold color combinations. Her contribution to the field of textiles still remains intact today.
Weavings & Tapestry & Rugs
Anni Albers – Pictorial Weavings, installation view at MIT New Gallery, 1959
Anni Albers – Work in progress. Experimenting. 1950 – 1962
Anni Albers – Two, 1952, linen, cotton, and rayon
1: Black-White-Gold I, 1950. Cotton, jute and metallic ribbon.
2: Haiku, 1961, Plain weave alternating metallic and hemp with supplementary wefts of black and white cotton and silver.
3: Code, 1962, Photo Offset
Anni Albers – Tikal, 1958, Cotton, 30 x 23 in
Anni Albers – Wall Hanging, 1926, silk 72 × 48 in. (182.9 × 122 cm)
Anni Albers – Wall Hanging, 1925, silk, cotton, acetate 50 × 38 in. (127 × 96.5 cm)
Anni Albers – Wall hanging, 1925, wool and silk, 93 × 373⁄4 in. (236 × 96 cm)
Anni Albers – Black White Gray, 1927/1964, cotton and silk 581⁄4 × 473⁄4 in. (147.9 × 121.3 cm)
Anni Albers – Black White Red, 1926/1964, cotton and silk 69 × 461⁄2 in. (175 × 118 cm)
Anni Albers – Black White Yellow, 1926/1964, silk and rayon 80 × 47 in. (203 × 119 cm)
Anni Albers – Monte Alban, 1936, Silk, linen, wool, 146 x 112 cm
Anni Albers – From the East, 1963, Cotton and plastic, 63.5 x 41.4 cm
Anni Albers – Red and Blue Layers, 1954, Cotton, 61.6 x 37.8 cm
Anni Albers – City, 1949, Linen and cotton pictorial weaving, 17 1/2 × 26 1/2 in, 44.5 × 67.3 cm
Anni Albers – Sheep May Safely Graze, 1959, Cotton, synthetic fiber; woven- plain weave and leno, 36.8 x 59.7 cm
Anni Albers – Smyrna rug, 211 x 251 cm
Anni Albers – Wallhanging, 1984, wool 98 × 89 in. (243.8 × 226 cm)
Anni Albers – Design for a 1926 Unexecuted Wallhanging, 1926, Gouache and pencil on reprographic paper, 15 1/8 x 9 7/8 inches (38.4 x 25.1 cm)
Anni Albers – Red Meander, 1954, linen and cotton, 52 × 37.5 cm
Anni Albers – Knot, 1947, gouache on paper, 17 × 20 in. (43.2 × 51 cm)
Anni Albers – Study for Camino Real, 1967. Gouache on blueprint graph paper, 171⁄2 × 16 in. (44.4 × 40.6 cm)
Anni Albers – Connections: Untitled, 1983, screenprint, 69.9 x 50.8 cm
Anni Albers – Orchestra III, 1980, Photo-offset, 18 × 17 in, 45.7 × 43.2 cm, Edition of 50
Anni Albers – Double Impression II, 1978, Photo-offset, 27.94 x 22.86 cm, Edition of 50
Anni Albers – Camino Real, 1967, Screenprint on Mohawk Superfine Bristol paper, 59.5 × 56 cm
Anni Albers – Red Meander, serigraph, 1969, 50.8 x 41.9 cm
Anni Albers – Second Movement II, 1978, color etching and aquatint, 38.875 x 38.875 in
Anni Albers – Second Movement V, 1978, color etching and aquatin, 17-5/16 x 17-7/16 in (image)
Anni Albers with textile samples in her home in New Haven, Connecticut, ca. 1950
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I'm not finished reading this book, but I thought maybe you could join me on this journey. I'm moving through this book slowly, as I have to with all O'Donohue's writings, because so much meaning is packed into so few words. I have to think on it for a while. I wonder if anyone else out there has the same experience.
If you are not familiar with John O'Donohue, you might want to start by reading his popular book Anam Cara. An Irish poet and philosopher, John O'Donohue passed away suddenly in 2008 at the age of fifty-two. Four Elements, Refections on Nature, was published after his death using material from a series of essays he wrote on the four elements. (Click on the book cover to order.)
He loved the natural landscape of his home in the west of Ireland. I also recommend the DVD A Celtic Pilgrimage where you can see the landscape and follow O'Donohue as he leads pilgrimages in Ireland.
But back to the book at hand. After the forward, which is not to be skipped as it serves as an introduction and contains some poetry, the first element explored in this book is air. He begins by talking about us as individuals and our sense of the world that is right around us. Some passages from the book that I highlighted:
All that happens to us remains somehow alive inside us. We do not lose anything. What we have done to ourselves, we also carry. Our memories are different from the memories of all other selves...The place where an event or experience falls is a different place in each consciousness.
We live in a world of air. Space is all around your body. One of the constituents of our freedom is that we can move through space.
It is air that gives us space and makes it possible for us to move. Without movement there is no life possible.
One of the lonely aspects of space is distance. Each individual is unavoidably involved with distance. When you are born you come out into empty space. When your perception is born, it creates an empty space around you. The real difference between people has little to do with where one is or the interests that one has, or the so-called class to which one belongs. The real difference consists in the different species of perception that is active in an individual.
The eye is the mother of distance. When you open your eye you see the distance and space between you and every other object and person.
(Speaking of humans) They are in-between spirits, made out of clay and air. They have the earthen frame and the clay feet. But their inner world seems to be composed more of the air element....This is where individuality emerges, here in this in-between world....Humans are literally grounded. Their earthen feet hold them to the ground.
To me this speaks of the spirit. God is spirit, we are spirit. But, as he says, literally grounded. I think that's why prayer and meditation on God's Word and on God's creation are so uplifting, speaking to spirit. But I admit, such deep philosophical thoughts are usually beyond my comprehension. What do you think???
Note: This book was provided to me without charge by the publisher, Harmony Books, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, with the purpose of providing an independant review.


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The spiritual successor to the Banjo-Kazooie series has wrapped up development.
Playtonic, a team of veteran video game developers, have wrapped up development their first game, Yooka-Laylee, just 21 months after a massively successful KickStarter campaign. In their Going Gold blog update, the team excitedly notes that the game will be in the hands of gamers in just over two months.
In the video game industry, the term going "gold" refers to a game that is ready to be put onto discs and cartridges prior to launch. Of course, this doesn't mean Playtonic is done working hard refining and polishing their game. In the digital era, it's quite normal for a game to go "gold" weeks and sometimes months in advance and the team will subsequently begin work on a "day one" patch that fixes bugs or refines mechanics. Still, with the bulk of the work done before the April 11 launch, the team certainly has plenty to celebrate.
For those out of the loop, while Playtonic only formed a few years back, its employees are predominantly former Rare (Banjo-Kazooie, Conker, Viva Piñata) developers that fled around the time Microsoft acquired the studio in the early 2000s. Because most of the team found their success making platformers, Yooka-Laylee is all about recapturing gamers' nostalgia with old school platforming and level design.
Several weeks ago, the team launched the toy box tech demo area for those who backed the game on Kickstarter. Here, players could get a rough feel for the game in a demo environment. At this point, those who preorder the game also can get access to the toy box demo area.
When the game was announced on Kickstarter nearly two years ago, Playtonic aimed to deliver the game on Wii U. Since then, Nintendo has begun sunsetting the platform ahead of the Nintendo Switch's release on March 3. As a result, Playtonic is no longer porting the game to Wii U and will instead focus efforts on the much more powerful Switch. Kickstarter backers who were hoping to get a Wii U port of the game will soon be able to change their copy of the game to be on a different platform (PS4, Xbox One, Switch or Steam) or simply request a refund.
That's all we have on new Yooka-Laylee news, but keep your eyes peeled for the game when it hits digital and retail shelves April 11, 2017 on Xbox One, PS4, Steam PC and Nintendo Switch.


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Supporting Namespaces in Meta-Models That Have No Direct Namespace Support
Original Publication Date: 2004-Jan-21
Included in the Prior Art Database: 2004-Jan-21
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Disclosed is a methodology for mapping XML Schema Models with target namespace information into meta-models that have no direct namespace support.
Supporting Namespaces in Meta -Models That Have No Direct Namespace Support
In large enterprises there is a need for intercommunication between a variety of platforms, operating systems, and applications. The information that needs to be exchanged can be described in two dimensions: a) The structure of the information, typically described using languages such as XML Schema, C and COBOL, and b) The physical representation (how the data is transferred between applications) of the information, typically described using binary or tagged strings. The Message Broker tool of the Websphere Business Integration family of products uses a single meta-model that can be used to capture both the logical and physical meta-models for a specific message. The logical meta-model defines the logical structure of the message while the physical meta-model defines the various alternative wire formats of the message.
A broker runtime is used to process the information that is exchanged between the different applications. The meta-model can be deployed into a variety of runtimes that may or may not provide support for namespaces. If the user needs to deploy to a runtime that has no namespace support then the logical meta-model cannot contain any namespace information. This document describes a technique for converting a schema having target namespace information into a schema with no target namespace and carrying the namespace information as the physical rendering of the logical model elements.
The key idea behind our invention is to exploit the flexible nature of the message meta-model and to treat namespace specific information as the physical properties of the logical model instead of the logical information. As illustrated in Figure 1, we separate the namespace information from the logical model information and store this under the physical and logical meta-models respectively.
When a runtime that is namespace aware creates and sends an XML instance document to a runtime that is NOT namespace aware, the latter treats the namespace prefix associated with the element as the inherent part of the element name received on the wire. It validates the instance document using wire format information from physical model and determines the logical name of the elements. Since the conversion of schema with target namespace to schema with no target namespace (described further in the document), had set the physical rendering of the element name to namespace prefix followed by ":" and actual name of the element as defined in the schema, the net outcome is that the message tree built in memory has the same structural contents whether it was parsed by a namespace or non-namespace aware parser and can be manipulated in an identical manner. This allows applications running in namespace or non-namespace aware runtime to exchange and validate instance documents.
physical model (xml wire format)
schema with namespaces
namespace info
logical info
logical model...


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Painting metal
Ok, maybe this isn't so much a tutorial as some general things to think of when painting metal and the examples I've made are a little hasty. But I think it just might be worth reading.
I'll be showing a couple of examples of what I'm trying to explain on this crude and ugly cup (it won't get any prettier, but hopefully a little more metallic):
The thing that makes metals difficult to do are of course reflections. Depending on how stylized your painting is and how smooth and reflective the metal surface is you need to know the surroundings of your metal object to varying levels of detail. A complex, perfectly reflective object in a photorealistic painting is almost impossible to do since it not only requires that you know the entire surrounding of the object (even what's unseen in the picture) in detail, but also that you can figure out how they'll be distorted by being reflected in a non-flat surface and sometimes multiply reflected. Some degree of stylization is required. One way is to "fake" the surroundings and just assume that they'll be so distorted that nothing will be recognizable anyway. This works particularly well for thin, circular (or oval or whatever) metal bars. In these all surrounding objects will be reduced to lines along the bar.
Ok, now for the first example picture:
Not very good (maybe even bad), but it should be enough for my purposes here.
The cup is obviously a bit dull and dirty, so not so many details are needed, just the big objects (in a spatial angle sense) from the cup's point of view. When painting a curved surface, try to keep your strokes along the axis of the curvature since this is the direction in which the reflections will be elongated. Up and down on the main part of the cup and side to side on the handle. The edges of both are rounded and will have reflections along them.
Note that the specular highlight in this case isn't on the brightest part of the shading as it would usually be on, for example, plastic. In this case i tried to make something like a bright light coming in between heavy drapes. The drapes themselves will be cast in shadow and so the reflection of them will be darker than many other things. The effect could be made more extreme if you consider say a spotlight mounted on a matte black wall shining on a white wall on the other side of the object. Then the highlight would be on the darkest side.
Next, note the dark bottom edge of the cup. Not only is it in shadow, it's also reflecting the shadow it's casting on the surface it's standing on (from the reflection it's some kind of brown table with a person in red sitting in front of it).
A small, hard brush has been used to add some scratches around the highlights (not that noticeable after the conversion to jpeg)
If you don't want to create a reflected scene it can often be enough to just put in elongated splotches. Make them denser along the parts where the curving is tighter since this represents a larger angle of space that will (on might assume) contain a larger number of objects. It's still best to have at least an idea of what the scene surrounding the object contains, especially in the viewers direction.
Lastly I would like to mention something about coloured metals, like gold, cupper and brass.
I've just used "colorize" in the hue/saturation box and then faded it to about 70% or so. I used fade since not all colour information is lost because the metal preferrs to reflect one. I also touched up the highlights with a bit of colour. A shiny plastic ball will have specular highlights of the same colour as the light source regardless of what colour the ball is. A gold object under a white light on the other hand will have somewhat yellow highlights.
That's all I have to say at the moment. I'm far from an expert (I study physics, not art) so please add whatever you feel has been left out or correct me if I'm wrong.
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if you read my post for that piece carefully you'll see that parts are actually modelled in Blender and rendered, then tweaked in PS. So on the helm itself the metal is a result of first modelling the helm, took I don't know how long, then tweaking the materials for it, which took probably no more than an hour or so, and then integrating it into a painting in PS and adjusting the metal there to fit. The shoulderguards and stuff was painted directly in PS and as you can probably see, they don't really go all that well with the helm. Got lazy and left it like that.
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Natural News broke the story yesterday about mysterious fibers found in Chicken McNuggets, and the story has been covered by www.DrudgeReport.com www.InfoWars.com and thousands of other websites across the 'net.
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Here are the new images just released by the Natural News Forensic Food Lab, with notations:
This black strand appears to be a multi-fibrous "tangle" of unknown origin:
This is one of the more mysterious fibers we've found. Notice that the semi-transparent fiber appears to have a "sheath" surrounding the center portion of the fiber. This seems to indicate the likelihood of a biological origin:
Here's another black fiber "tangle." We found these frequently as we searched through several Chicken McNuggets:
Here is yet another "tangle" we located:
For comparison, we added a dog hair fiber to this slide so that you can see the size difference. The large brown hair arcing across the entire frame is a dog hair. The much smaller black hair-like fiber is what we found in a Chicken McNugget:
Here is an extreme close-up of a black fiber we managed to remove from a Chicken McNugget. Notice that it appears to be segmented. This may indicate it could be made of biological cells connected end to end:
Here are some additional fibers and hair-like structures we found in McDonald's Chicken McNuggets. All images are at 200X magnification:
Click here to see more images from the first batch we released when we first broke this story.
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When an outraged gun hater recently tore into renowned entrepreneur Mike Rowe for attending the annual Shooting, Hunting, Outdoor Trade Show in Los Angeles and "associating with a bunch of gun nuts," he fired back.
But instead of cudgeling the hater, Marla W., with some truth bombs, Rowe approached her with tact and dignity by outlining the purpose for his attendance, describing his first few days at the SHOT Show, then inviting her to accompany him as his guest before it ends on Jan. 20.
"I wanted to do something different for the millennials at mikeroweWORKS, so I called a guy I met through The SEAL Family Foundation, and asked if he could arrange a 'non-traditional corporate team event,'" he wrote in a Facebook post. "Something that might allow my team to rub elbows with veterans …
"Well, it was a great day, Marla, and I wish you could have joined us," he continued. "We started with skydiving … After that, we reconnoitered to an undisclosed location and introduced ourselves to Matt, Bobby, Jeremy, and Danielle – four SEALs who spent the last fifteen years getting shot at by bad guys and returning the favor — with far superior results."
In other words, the so-called "gun nuts" were really good guys — military veterans, in fact, with incredible character and accomplishments serving their country. And the show was not just about gun enthusiasts meeting up for target practice. To learn more about the show, check outs its website.
"Obviously, you and I have a difference of opinion regarding the role of the Second Amendment, but thanks to the First Amendment, we can express our differences," Rowe added.
Then he made an offer she shouldn't refuse.
"As for you Marla – you can either stomp off in a cloud of righteous indignation, or you can accompany me to the SHOT Show as my guest, and see what all the fuss is about.
"Either way, it's nice to have choices, don't you think?"
His full reply may be read below:
Talk about a class act. Rowe, the former host of Discovery Channel's "Dirty Jobs," could easily have made short short of Marla, chastising her every which way for her gross misperceptions about guns and those Americans who wield them.
Instead, he opted to be a gentleman. Good man.
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A History of My Political Journey
by Dave Batcheller, written in 2004.
At the approach of my fiftieth birthday, I reflect back in amazement that for most of my life I have either been ignorant of or disconnected from politics. Growing up, my parents spoke very little of politics, and school did not do very much to encourage or engage me in the subject. Becoming a teenager at the height of the turmoil and confusion of the Vietnam War and Watergate resulted in my adopting a rather dismal, cynical view of our government. Then when I became a Christian at the age of sixteen, I was ushered me into a long period of believing that I was supposed to be uninvolved in political issues. Only in the last four or five years did I finally realize that I needed to become educated and involved.
This process began rather harmlessly with an interest in the American Civil War. In addition to movies, television, and games over the years, I was also able to visit several Civil War battleground sites and read some of its history. Then several years ago I began learning about what some have labeled as the "Constitutional Revival Movement." I discovered that there is a growing number of Americans who are deeply committed to restoring our government to its historical roots and Constitutional foundation. I became deeply disturbed to learn about the history and fallacies of personal income taxes, the IRS, the Federal Reserve, our monetary system, and the creation of many socialistic government programs which have now been completely accepted as normal by the vast majority of Americans.
I revisited my initial studies of the Civil War period and realized how critical this time was in the development of our country. I also learned that our nation, which had begun as 13 colonies voluntarily joining together to create an alliance and a federal government with built-in limitations, had become, in less than a hundred years, a highly controlled and centralized government. This took place as a result of the southern states being invaded, conquered and subjugated at the end of the Civil War. I felt both anger and enlightenment throughout this process, yet strangely compelled to learn more. Along the way, I found an entire body of literature and views on these subjects which have been for the most part successfully shielded from the American population.
I then proceeded to study more about the American Revolution and the early patriots and founders of our country. For the first time I read the actual documents they created with my brain engaged. I reviewed the principal issues and contentions leading up to the Revolutionary War. Most of all I wondered to myself why we now call these people "patriots," when at the time they were most assuredly called "rebels" by the British. I read about the early struggles between people who had divergent views about the nature and purpose of government, and I realized how deeply Judeo-Christian beliefs and values affected the formation of our country. Debate raged on for years, yet the pressure to centralize the government and the banking system was averted until Abraham Lincoln used the terrible schism of the War Between the States to finally bring in a new era of a centralized federal government.
Historical renditions typically offer only one principal cause for the Civil War– the issue of slavery; and one primary hero – Lincoln, elevated through martyrdom and a slanted rewriting of history. Most of us do not realize the other issues in question – States' Rights, centralized government, political power, economic tensions between the North and South, etc. In every country except the U.S.A., where slavery had been permitted, this unjust practice was phased out with relative peacefulness over a period of time. Only in America did it result in the complete division of a nation and warfare which claimed the lives of more Americans than all of our other wars combined. During Lincoln's rise to power, his election campaign and for over a year into the Civil War, the issue of slavery was not at the heart of the conflict. Lincoln was definitely no friend of the African-American. These facts can be easily read by any American. The Emancipation Proclamation, which declared freedom for the slaves, actually did so only in the states which were in "rebellion." In reality, this tactic was employed as a measure to bolster support and rally the North to a unified cause which, up to that point, had been sorely missing.
The South was struggling for independence, the same as the colonies had done with England 90 years before. Seriously outnumbered and under-supplied, the Confederate States were basically doomed from the beginning. What is amazing is that the war lasted over four years, which indicates the depth of conviction and commitment on both sides to their respective causes. As a "Union boy" from Iowa, I write these things now with a measure of both guilt and shame.
From this point, I began to learn about where this path took our nation. By the early 20th century, centralized government and control were firmly established. I was shocked to learn the actual history of the creation of personal income taxes, the Federal Reserve, the United Nations, Social Security, Medicare, and other programs leading our country gradually into socialism. And during this same time frame we were fighting two world wars and a cold war to supposedly combat the same thing!
Well into the 50s and early 60s our nation's values and moral compass were still basically intact, even though we had strayed far away from the intent of our founding fathers. Then, with the counter-cultural and sexual revolutions of the 60s, the Vietnam War, the banning of prayer in school, the movement for women's rights, and the legalization of abortion, cultural tides began to shift dramatically in our country. While Christian values have been increasingly assaulted on many fronts, our society has been transformed in one generation to something far different and nearly unrecognizable from what existed before. And sadly, most Americans are completely unaware of or apathetic about the forces at work pulling our nation toward involvement in a secular, globalist economy and government.
As these latest developments have taken place during my lifetime, I have now realized that I, like many other well-intentioned Christians, have contributed to this downward spiral through my absence and by separating myself from interaction and involvement. Of course I justified this with spiritual-sounding arguments, and believed that the only course of action I was supposed to take was to help evangelize the "pagans" around me while waiting for the return of Christ. Now we find ourselves in the midst of serious struggle to survive in a culture which is deeply divided over many issues. These continuing trends do not bode well for the Church or for many of the freedoms which we have enjoyed as Americans in the past.
As a result of a serious reevaluation in my own life, I have made a renewed commitment to pursue real change within both the church and political arenas. The church has been a part of the problem, and I am therefore part of the problem. I believe the times we live in require a wholehearted response and a radical new direction. I will continue to give my life in faith and obedience to God to help transform the life, reputation and effectiveness of His church, and at the same time, I will engage myself in the process of restoring our nation's heritage and values. In both arenas I will dedicate myself to touching people's lives, to help effect a reversal of this downhill trend. I will no longer remain silent, passive and detached. I will speak out to help others embrace this same purpose and find the courage to follow the same path. In the face of criticism, accusation and political incorrectness, I will take a stand for the truth, for liberty, and for Christ in the midst of a perverse generation. I invite you to consider doing the same.
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Is Turkey Day more like "Family Squabble Day"? It's time to break that pattern.
When it comes to Thanksgiving, we often picture Norman Rockwell-esque images of a happy family gathered together around the table. Delicious food, thoughtful conversations, and loving interactions, all sprinkled with a heart-warming dose of "thankfulness" and appreciation.
But in reality, most of my clients report that their Thanksgiving family gatherings are full of tension, bickering, and passive-aggressive comments. Maybe you can relate?
If you're dealing with anxiety about spending time at the obligatory family gathering, I'm here to say—there is a way to have quality family time while skipping the drama!
Here are 9 ways to make this Thanksgiving with your family a day you're actually thankful for:
Tip #1: Make Your Mantra "It's Not About Me"
Some people escape the reality of their own lives by obsessing over the lives of others. People (especially family) will talk about you. They will comment on your clothes, your weight, and your choice of friends or love interest. They will judge you, because they are too afraid to look within themselves.
Remembering that it's not about you can help free you from worrying about what others think. You are the only person who lives inside your skin, lives your daily life, and meets your eye in the mirror each day. If you are living a life that is best for you, then that's all that matters.
Tip #2: Don't Take The Bait
When people are rude or say mean things, it's tempting to snap back. (So, so, soooo tempting). But remember tip #1: it's not personal.
Step back, take a breath, and apply a lens of compassion and empathy to the situation. Don't take any of the 'bicker bait' they're dangling in front of you. Sure, a snappy retort might make you feel better in the moment, but in the long run, you'll regret it.
Change the subject. Reply with a smile. Someone showing their insecurities and fears doesn't have to send you into reaction mode.
Tip #3: Give Your Inner Critic the Weekend Off
Sometimes, the words of our inner critic are worse than anything others might say. This is why an innocent comment from your aunt about your giant piece of pumpkin pie triggers you and leaves you jumping to the conclusion that she's calling you fat.
Give your inner critic the weekend off, so you can relax and just enjoy the holiday banter.
Tip #4: Don't Play the Comparison Game
Comparison is really about conforming and competition. While seemingly opposite ideas, at the heart of comparison is a desire to conform and yet stand out within a set of norms: cutest kids, best pie, best hair, and happiest life.
Caving to the comparison game pushes you to always strive for perfection, which is just exhausting. Let go of comparison this weekend. You be you. Let your cousin be your cousin. And simply enjoy the tales of what's happening in your family's lives.
Tip #5: Let Your Inner Judge Off The Hook
Find yourself mentally picking apart another's words? Are you obsessively monitoring someone's behaviors and demeanor? (Say, like, the tightness of their jeans or their third helping of stuffing.)
Stop right there! You're caught up in another type of comparison: judging. Just like no one else's opinion of you really matters. Don't over-esteem your opinion of them either. Keep your attention on your own fabulous life.
Tip #6: Lay Down Your Worries
Families trigger all of our stuff. How many of us feel like a self-conscious teenager again the second we step foot into our family's house (no matter how successful we are out in the adult world)?
Don't let old ghosts and old worries run wild in your head, acknowledge them before the big family gathering. Enlist your partner, a sibling, or another trusted family member to help you lay your burdens down for the day. Worried that the promotion you didn't get at work just confirms what your dad has always said—that you're not as ambitious as your brother? Voice that worry to a trusted friend and then put that thought away for the day.
Tip #7: Don't Get Sucked In
No matter what we do personally, there will be some sort of family drama. If it starts, remember, you don't have to get sucked in.
Instead? Walk away. Remove yourself from the situation quickly by offering to help with the dishes, excusing yourself to the restroom, or just taking a walk.
You have the right to honor yourself and your needs. Alternatively, put your wits to good use. There's nothing wrong with trying to turn the conversation to another subject or injecting a humorous shift in energy. Step out of the family politics and drama. It may encourage others to follow your example.
Tip #8: Laugh, Love, and Accept Them
No matter what the holiday brings, focus on the positive aspects of those around you instead of their negative traits. As crazy as they make you feel, they are still your family. And deep down, you love them. You only have the power to change yourself and how you react. Accepting the fact that you can't change anyone, will help you just laugh and love them for who they are.
Tip #9: Consider Skipping It!
And now for some flat-out honesty: if the thought of spending time with your family makes you ill, then stay home. You don't have to submit to being emotionally or verbally abused. The world is full of unhappy people and sometimes, these people are family members.
You have a right to enjoy the holidays. You have the right to be happy. Don't make a rash decision, of course, but do listen to what your heart tells you.
If you decide that the holiday won't be the same without visiting the family, just remember these Thanksgiving ideas for dealing with the stressful moments.
What other Thanksgiving ideas do you have for keeping the peace and reducing the drama?
Debra Smouse believes in creating a daily life that you love. Visit Debra's website and connect with her on Facebook or Twitter.


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April showers may bring May flowers…and May concerts! What better way to enjoy the warm spring weather than by attending a concert around the city? From music festivals, country concerts and jazz festivals, to anything in between, metro Atlanta has a music event for you to enjoy this May.
But with fun concerts comes not-as-fun traffic, whether you're attending a concert or not. Mark these music events on your calendar:
- Khalid, May 22, Infinite Energy Arena
- Kendrick Lamar with SZA and Schoolboy Q, May 25, Lakewood Amphitheatre
- Kenny Chesney, May 26, Mercedes-Benz Stadium
- Dave Matthews Band, May 26, Lakewood Amphitheatre
- Atlanta Jazz Festival, May 26-27, Piedmont Park
- U2, May 28, Infinite Energy Arena
Then check out these commute options to get there:
- Take transit —all the concerts listed above are accessible through MARTA or Gwinnett County Transit.
- Carpool with friends—chances are you're all going to the concert together, so save money on gas and parking by riding together.
Want more commute options? Find one that works for you.