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- Part 18, already. I never thought it would acually get this, far, it seems super unsuccessful. But for you few fans out there, here you go, a sequel.
Angela ran out the huge hole and headed deeper into the forest. She hopped over rocks and any small streams in her way. She often looked behind her, she knew Mandy was after her...
"Get back here, Angela!"
Mandy ran after Angela, holding the heavy maul in her hands. The weight of the maul caused her to run a little slower, and her left side was heavier than the right, but she kept running. "I won't hurt you, Angela! Come back!" Now she wondered why she brought the maul in the first place. "Please? We all love you as a friend!"
Angela paid no heed to her words. She kept running into the forest, trying to get as far away from them as possible so she can commit suicide without anyone stopping her.
"Alex, truth or dare?" James said.
"I dare you to go to the attic..."
"What attic?"
"Oh, I was playing my DSi and I made a flipnote with that dare in it."
"... Okay, so, come on. A dare, gimmie a dare!"
"I dare you to eat an inch long piece of peeled paint."
"Ewwww!" Vincent said, sitting and rocking like a girl.
"Come on, Alex. Do it!"
Alex stood up and walked toward the wall. He went to it cautiously, thinking if he should actually do it.
"Come on and do it! Or are you... chicken? Bawk, bawk, baaaawk!" James said, bending his arms and flapping them.
"I am not chicken!" Alex shouted, and peeled off a long strip of paint, shoving it in his mouth. He chewed it, and the taste of rot filled his mouth. He swallowed the paint and coughed. He wanted to puke, but he kept it down. He couldn't even open his mouth without the risk of puking his guts out. "See?' he said through his teeth. He sat back down with James and Vincent.
James looked at him. "Jeez, I only asked for an inch, not two feet!"
"Angela, pleeeease!" Mandy shouted, begging Angela to stop. This maul was really getting heavy now. She wanted to drop it, but what's the point? So she held it and tried her best to catch up with Angela. They ran for a few minutes, and it seemed like Angela could run an entire marathon while Mandy sat at the benches. All this running had made Mandy tired, but she kept going. She ran, then a sudden pain hit her leg, making her collapse to the ground. "Ow! AAH!" She dropped the maul and immediately grasped her calf, trying to ease the muscles. "Aah! It hurts... it hurts..." Mandy was on the verge of tears.
Angela kept running until she heard Mandy start to cry. She hesitated to go back. "That's just a cramp. It'll go away. I need to go kill myself." So Angela decided to keep running and ignore Mandy's cried for help. As she ran, she heard strange noises. Branches fell off trees, low growling bounced around, and she saw a shadow run past her. "Wha... who's there?!" Angela asked, stopping and pulling out her knife. She started looking in all directions. "I-I-I have a knife! I know h-how to use it!"
"AAH!!" Angela screamed. Running back in the opposite direction, she flung the knife behind her and ran for her life. She ran away from the sound, terrified about what it might do to her. She kept looking behind her shoulder, checking if anyone's following her. "AAH! MANDY!! HELP ME!!!" she screamed as she saw Mandy still on the ground crying. "I'm being chased by a monster!!"
"Aaah... and you ha-have problems?! This is th-the most severe leg cr-cramp ever! It hurt-hurts..." she said as she tried to stop her tears.
"Give me your maul, then!"
"It-it fell down th-there..." Mandy said, pointing to the ditch in the ground next to her. "It looks st-steep, so be ca-careful..."
Angela looked in the ditch. It was steep, and it was muddy. It would be nearly impossible to get the maul back up to ground level by herself. "I'm going down there. You grab the maul when I hand it to you."
Angela looked down again. Should she do this? "Okay, I'm going." She placed her foot over the empty air near the edge of the ditch, trying to find a spot to step on. She the shifted her weight on her foot, and the mud collapsed under her weight, and she slipped into the ditch. Angela rolled down, and planted her face into the thick mud on the bottom of this small canyon. "Aww..." she got up and wiped the mud off her eyes. The maul was right in front of her, in plain sight. "Awesome!" she said, and leaned over to grab it. The mud under the maul started to bubble.
"Huh?" she said, and felt tense. The bubbling continued for a few moments, then it stopped. Angela sighed and relaxed, but then she couldn't hear Mandy. She looked up on the edge of the ditch and saw Mandy, just as she was before. As she returned to look at the maul, something rose from the mud, splattering some mud in Angela's face. Again mud covered her eyes, and in this darkness she heard what sounded like someone being strangled, gasping for air. Angela rushed to get the mud off her face, and when her sight returned, she saw one ugly monster.
It struggled to get out of the mud due to its hands, three sickle-like blades grafted on each wrists. The iron blades kept sinking into the loose mud, keeping this monster from getting a good grip. Angela scrambled out of the mud and backed away from the hideous creature. It was twitching slightly, and the vertical slit on its head was its only feature. It roared a distored "raaah" as it tried to get out of the mud. It swiped its claws around, trying to hit Angela.
"M-Mandy! AAH!"
Mandy looked over the ditch edge, having recovered from the cramp. "Wha- oh... Nasty. What's that?"
"I don't know! Help!"
Mandy didn't have any weapon besides the maul. "I don't have weapons! I only have my fists!'
"Better than nothing! Get down here!!"
Mandy jumped down next to Angela, splattering mud again. The mud covered Mandy's black spiked shoes. She might have to use her hands, so she dug in her pocket and pulled out a pair of leather gloves spiked at the knuckles. She slipped them on and said, "Let's do this, you ugly..."
The monster roared again, and it managed to grab hold of something solid, so it dragged itself forward.
"Aaah! Help me! I want out of this!"
"Calm, down, Angela. It's going down, not you," Mandy said, and walked toward the monster, cracking her joints.
"That's too epic, Mandy! You're over-epicing yourself! You'll die!"
"Not true. Let's go!" she said, and started pacing around the monster.
It lunged forward, swiping at Mandy with its wicked claws. Mandy leaped to the right, barely dodging the claws.
Angela tried to climb out of the ditch, digging in the side of the ditch to try to find dry dirt strong enough to hold her weight and let her out.
Mandy stepped back, waiting for the monster to come to her. It crawled at high speed, swiping at her. As soon as the monster was away from the maul, Mandy tried to do a dangerous stunt. She watched its movements, waiting for it to stop moving. When it did, Mandy leapt over its head, stepping on its back and then touching the ground again. She quickly picked up the maul, then started to bring it over her head. The monster had its legs bound by lots of peeling dead skin, so the monster had difficulty turning around, giving Mandy enough time to bring the maul down on its head, crushing it. Its rusty crimson blood decorated the maul and Mandy's clothes.
Angela managed to get back to ground level and she watched the entire thing. "That was much too epic. TONE IT DOWN!" she said, and helped Mandy up.
"So, then I said, 'nuh-uh, I can toooootally beat you in MW2.' And then he's like, 'What? I don't think so'..."
"Oh my gawd..."
"And so- hey, are we there yet?"
"We are not even close."
"Oh. How bout now?"
Dante and Jean walked down the same asphalt road they were on earlier. They even passed the bench they met Mandy at. "We met a hater here," Dante said.
"Yes, we did. Now, that should mean we are close to the warehouse again, right?"
"Yes, sweet. Hmm, just another five minutes and the warehouse should be in view."
"Yeah... yeah I see it! There!" Jean said, pointing at the warehouse. "Woo hoo! Now kill the haters!"
"Oh, I will. I will." Dante said, holding his sword again. "They will die today. TODAY. I GUARANTEE IT."
"You sounded like the guy on the 'Men's Wearhouse' commercial."
"I'm hotter, though."
"No duh. He's like, 50 years old."
"Oh, really? Then I am TOTALLY hotter than him."
"Let's just get to the warehouse, yeah?"
"Yeah. Down this hill. KI-KI-KI HATE-HATE-HATE!" he screamed again, holding the sword.
"Did you hear something, James?" Vincent asked.
"Yeah, I heard another Friday the 13th reference from Dante."
"What? WHAT?! What kind of name is 'Shroomster'?!"
"MY name. Is that a problem...?"
"What, is that a nickname for something?"
"Yes. I'm not tellin' ya my name, Nosy."
"Fine. But what the hell are you doing?!"
"Killing people."
"For what?!"
"For my amusement."
"I'm kidding, idiot. I just found those here, and I wanted to drain the blood out of it. And apparently, to scare you, too."
"You sick, sick man."
"Who said I was a man?"
"... ... ... ... ... You're a ghost?!"
"Never mind. Now, what are you doing out here?"
"I was given a letter by a stalker named Walter and I was going to see if what it said was true."
"Huh. It's dangerous here. Do you have a weapon?"
"Uh, yeah, um... a katana. Why? It doesn't look dangerous here, It just looks like its dying."
Shroomster sighed. "What are you looking at?"
"Um, nothing. Why?"
"Who are you talking to?"
"A weirdo named Shroomster."
"Weirdo? Ugh. I am a freaking evil monster!!!"
"You just told me you were human..."
"AGH! Just... hold on a second," Shroomster said, and jumped back up into the trees.
Heather waited patiently, looking at her boots and her car.
A few moments later, Shroomster came back down.
"What took you so long?"
"Grrhmm, don't ask such questions in my presence..." it said in a distorted voice.
"Hey, Shroomster... your voice changed..."
"Who's that? What's a 'Shroomster'? Such stupid questions cannot be tolerated. Now, come here and let me tear your soul apart..."
"What the...? Who are you?!"
"Wervenzen. Now, come here. I want to hear the sound of your soul being ripped away from your body."
"Whoa, you're crazy! I never did anything to you! I just freaking met you!"
"And? It doesn't matter. You seem... resistant. I can't take you alone, now, can I?"
"The hell you can't!"
Wervenzen put his arm in the air, pointing with a clawed finger toward the branches. "Now, see, here. In those branches are a few of my... agents, if you will."
"What are you talking about?!" Heather exclaimed, backing away from this thing.
"Faruark and Scraugolen. They are my followers. Please applaud as they appear on stage," Wervenzen said.
"Crazy... guy... thing! You evil demon!"
"Demon? Oh, so insulting. I wait anxiously for your next remark. Just expand your imagination a bit more. Maybe you'll find something to hurt me."
The branches rustled, and two more things came down from the branches. One of them had missing armor pieces, and the skin underneath was rotting and bleeding. The monster's head never stopped twitching. The other one had five blades running down its back. The blades pierced its back and protruded out the demon's chest. A reverse porcupine, in a way.
"Where did you come from?!"
"Ah, a question every victim asks. We come from, what you say, a schizophrenic? No, much more complicated. Let me show you..." Wervenzen said, and jumped up into the branches again. A bit of rustling, and he and a body came down.
"Hey, that's Shroomster!"
"Ah, yes, whatever you wish to call it. This thing is an amalgamation of three different people. But they are no longer human. Instead, we look like what you call a 'demon'. We are like multiple personalities, but each one has their own body. We can exit the one main body and create our own. We may also return to it as well. We ourselves are not sure why. But now, since you know, please come forward. We must now remove your soul. Come along now, it won't hurt..."
"Very well. We are asking nicely. Go get her, Faruark."
The twitchy monster quickly moved around the trees, jumping off their trunks and stopping behind Heather, grabbing her shoulders.
"Let me go! AAH!"
Wervenzen walked calmly toward her. "You see, it won't hurt at all. We promise," he said, and held out his hand. "Now, grab my hand."
"Why should I? Egh! I won't do it!"
"Please? I said it won't hurt for a reason. Now do it."
"Ah, still resisting. Scraugolen, please."
The monster reached behind its back and grasped a blade. It slowly pulled it out, a sickening slicing sound poured out of the wound. After it was out, Scraugolen held it like a katana.
"Now, one more time. Grab my hand, or it will hurt."
Heather didn't want to, but she had no choice. She hesitaded, then she held out her arm, grabbing his cold armored hand. Immediately after, Wervenzen's head started twitching violently. He let go of her hand, and stepped backwards into Shroomster's body. The other two followed after. Bloody fog rose from Wervenzen as soon as he stepped on the body, obscuring the three demons and Shroomster.
"What the hell?!" Heather said as she watched the trees become covered in the fog. "Oh, it might be like at the haunted mansion!" she said, and ran for her car. She opened the door and quickly climbed in. She watched the fog disappear into the air. She saw the same Shroomster rise from the ground, twitching slightly. After completely rising, Shroomster stopped twitching, and looked at Heather's car. It headed right for it. Heather started feeling nervous. "OMG what will it do?! OMGOMGOMG!! It's gonna kill me!"
Shroomster just went up to the window and signaled to lower the window glass.
"What the hell do you want, demon?!"
"I showed you what you were talking to. Three different, twisted, monstrous humans. Now you know how powerful a thing with the name 'Shroomster' is?"
"But... if you are three demons, why did you say you are human?"
"We are, we just don't look like it. Spending so much time in one armored human body does things to you."
"You are sooooo confusing me. And I'm sure I'm not the only one who is confused."
"Those other humans were evil serial killers. Their actions had also influenced their grotesque appearance. What do I look like? This. This armor is grafted to my skin. I can't remove it. Technically, we are four humans, but the three hidden humans are the cause of my existance. Without me, they don't exist as 'demons'. Mwahaha. I know this doesn't clear anything up, but it is so interesting."
"... ... ... ... It is, actually."
"But I loved Hungry Hungry Hippos!" Missionary said.
"You loved it because you kept winning!" Claudia said.
"So? But I loved it! Yet your father has to break it!'
"Seriously, Dad. What for?"
"I told you! It's a heretic!"
"It's a freaking game!"
"It can still plan against God!"
"You know how much anti-religious things are out there!"
"Plastic hippos eating plastic marbles has nothing to do with religion!"
"Oh, so you think that?! HA! They're hippos eating all of our faith!"
"... How?!"
"We are spending time playing around with plastic hippos and not practicing our faith!"
Claudia thought for a moment.
"No! I want to play HHH!" Missionary butted in. "Fix it!!"
Leonard smacked him in the head. "Screw those damn hippos! Get back to work!"
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For years, the demise of the Detroit Red Wings has been popular to predict. With an older core, the idea that the team would fall into decline after it lost Yzerman, Fedorov, Shanahan, Hull and the rest was a popular one. It didn't happen.
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If it wasn't for bad luck, Marleau would have no luck at all
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Let's start with a counterfactual: had the San Jose Sharks won the 2010 or 2011 Stanley Cup, would they be considered the best post-lockout team? After all, San Jose has the second-best record since the lockout, averaging 106 points per season, four points behind the Detroit Red Wings, and they've won more playoff games and series than all but Detroit and the Pittsburgh Penguins.Had they won one of those cups – more recently than Detroit and Pittsburgh – would they not indeed be viewed as a dynasty as opposed to a team that has never been able to crack the NHL's upper echelon?
The irony is that this counterfactual had something like a 25% chance of happening.In the 2009-10 and 2010-11 Western Conference Finals, the Vegas lines expected San Jose to win 46% of their games; they won 11%.On average, the Sharks should have won one of these series, and they would have then had a 50-50 shot at winning the Stanley Cup. (As bad as events have unfolded lately, Sharks fans should be happier than Flyers fans, who have lost their last six straight Stanley Cup Finals.)
Phoenix Coyotes 12-13 Preview: Making the experts look like fools
Corey S.
August 12 2012 10:03PM
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The Phoenix Coyotes are one of the more interesting teams in the league when you think about it. They are an out of market team with a tight-budget, are always in relocation talks and are still searching for an owner but despite that, they have made the playoffs in three consecutive seasons and appeared in the Western Conference Finals last year. Phoenix is a team that has always managed to "beat the odds" for the last few seasons. They always seem to be in the playoff mix despite many predicting them to regress, and they always seem to do it while losing a major piece or two.
Ever since they made the playoffs, the Coyotes haven't been a bad team at even strength, but they have been largely mediocre, ranking 15-19th in Fenwick close in the last three seasons. The main reason they have reached the playoffs is because they've received outstanding goaltending. Their lowest even strength save percentage the last three years has been .923 and it was at least .930 in the last two seasons. Most hockey minds thought they would take a large step back when they replaced Ilya Bryzgalov with Mike Smith, but the exact opposite ended up happening and the Coyotes ended up getting a Vezina-quality season from Smith.
Elite goaltending can boost a mediocre team to greater heights and that has been the case with the Coyotes over the last few years. The question now is will Smith be able to replicate his incredible season and will it be enough to keep the Yotes in contention? Goaltending performance is something that is next to impossible to predict, so Smith could go either way. A bigger problem for the Coyotes is that they lost a couple important players up front and could be on the verge of losing another, so Phoenix may need more than great goaltending to get back to the post-season next year.
The "Dave Tippett effect"
Cam Charron
August 11 2012 08:33AM
If you followed my earlier article on the "Ken Hitchcock effect", you'd have maybe found what I did. A particularly elite coach like Hitchcock can possibly influence his goaltender's save percentage and make it a little better than the goalie normally expects. Now, the effect isn't great. I think a lot of people who took a look at St. Louis' goaltending this season can make the mistake of attributing all of the success of Brian Elliott and Jaroslav Halak to Hitchcock.


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Scott McNealy
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|Scott McNealy
November 13, 1954
Columbus, Indiana
|Known for
|CEO and co-founder,
Sun Microsystems[1]
|Susan (m. 1994)
|Maverick, Colt, Dakota, Scout
|Sun Microsystems Scott McNealy bio
Scott McNealy (born November 13, 1954) is an American businessman. He co-founded computer technology company Sun Microsystems in 1982 along with Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, and Andy Bechtolsheim. In 2010, he co-founded and is Executive Chairman of Wayin, based in Denver.[2] and founded Curriki.[1]
Sun Microsystems, along with companies such as Apple Inc., Silicon Graphics, 3Com, and Oracle Corporation, was part of a wave of successful startup companies in California's Silicon Valley during the early and mid-1980s. McNealy started out working at his fathers company American Motors.[3] McNealy later became manufacturing director at Onyx Systems,[4][5] a vendor of microprocessor-based Unix systems. In 1982, he was approached by fellow Stanford alumnus Vinod Khosla to help provide the necessary organizational and business leadership for Sun. The name "Sun" was derived from Andy Bechtolsheim's original SUN (Stanford University Network) computer project, the SUN workstation.[5]
In 1984, McNealy took over the CEO role from Khosla, who would ultimately leave the company in 1985. On April 24, 2006, McNealy stepped down as CEO after serving in that position for 22 years, and turned the job over to Jonathan Schwartz. McNealy is one of the few CEOs of a major corporation to have had a tenure of over twenty years.
Unlike most people who become involved in high technology industries, Scott McNealy did not come from the world of amateur programmers, hackers, and computer scientists. Instead, his background was in business, having earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Harvard and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Prior to college, he graduated from Cranbrook School in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where his father was in the automotive industry as the Vice Chairman of the American Motors Corporation; most of his work experience prior to joining Sun was in automotive manufacturing.[4][5]
According to the book The Decline and Fall of Nokia, Scott McNealy was the "dream candidate" to become CEO of Nokia in 2010.[6] However, McNealy said he was not offered the job.[7]
Personal life[edit]
McNealy was born in Columbus, Indiana. He is married, and has four sons: Maverick, Dakota, Colt, and Scout. He is known to be an enthusiastic ice hockey player and has been ranked as one of the best golfers in executive ranks; he has referred to himself as a "golf major" who wound up running a high-tech business.[8][9]
He graduated from the same secondary school as 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney (Cranbrook School, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan), and supported Romney's presidential campaign. He is the commissioner of the Alternative Golf Association (known as "Flogton").[10] He was co-founder and Chairman of Wayin.[citation needed]
Positions at Sun[edit]
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- Chairman of the Board of Directors from April 2006 to January 2010
- Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer from April 2004 to April 2006
- Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer from July 2002 to April 2004
- Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer from April 1999 to June 2002
- Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer from December 1984 to April 1999
- President and Chief Operating Officer from February 1984 to December 1984
- Vice President of Operations from February 1982 to February 1984
In 1987, McNealy was named an Award Recipient of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the Northern California Region.[11]
In 1999, Stephen Manes quoted McNealy as saying, "You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it."[12] Manes criticized the statement in his Full Disclosure column: "He's right on the facts, wrong on the attitude. ... Instead of 'getting over it', citizens need to demand clear rules on privacy, security, and confidentiality."[12] The authors of Privacy in the 21st Century admitted, "While a shocking statement, there is an element of truth in it."[13]
McNealy was an early advocate of the networked environment; his company's motto was "The Network is the Computer". At times, he has been known to be skeptical of products that do not integrate well with networked environments. One example McNealy has given involved the Apple iPod. As quoted in The Register, McNealy said, "There's a pendulum thing where stuff is on the client side and then goes back into the network where it belongs. The answering machine put voicemail by the desk, and then it went back into the network. Your iPod is like your home answering machine. I guarantee you it will be hard to sell an iPod five or seven years from now when every cell phone can access your entire music library wherever you are."[14]
Most notably, McNealy is an outspoken libertarian and proponent of laissez-faire capitalism.[15] He makes regular appearances on the Fox Business Channel to discuss libertarian business issues.[16]
- ^ a b Scott McNeally interviewed on the TV show Triangulation on the TWiT.tv network
- ^ Clark, Don (May 22, 2015). "Scott McNealy Is Back - as a Startup CEO". The Wall Street Journal. p. B1. Retrieved 22 May 2015.
- ^ http://www.cnet.com/uk/news/like-father-like-sun/
- ^ a b "Scott McNealy and Sun Microsystems", Center for Management Research, Case Code LDEN039, 2006 [1]
- ^ a b c Brent Schlender (October 13, 1997). "Javaman the adventures of scott mcnealy today's episode his fight to save the world wide web from the evil empire". Fortune Magazine. Retrieved 2008-03-17.
They called their box the SUN – for Stanford University Network – workstation. The investor was intrigued; within a month, Sun Microsystems was born.
- ^ Cord, David (2014). The Decline and Fall of Nokia. Schildts & Söderströms. pp. 190–192. ISBN 978-951-52-3320-2.
- ^ McNealy, Scott. "Not likely...". Twitter. Retrieved 27 April 2014.
- ^ John Steinbreder; Narayanan, S.; Murad, M.A. (June 1998). "Handicapping America's CEOs". Golf Digest. 7 (3): 215. doi:10.1159/000026045.
Scott McNealy, CEO of Sun Microsystems, once quipped: 'Am I a computer scientist? No, I'm a golf major.' A former captain of the Harvard golf team, he now plays to a 3.2 Handicap Index – lowest of any top executive.
- ^ "On the Record: Scott McNealy". San Francisco Chronicle. September 14, 2003.
- ^ Glier, Ray (May 8, 2011). "Turning Golf Tradition on Its Head". The New York Times. Retrieved June 30, 2017.
- ^ "InstallShield® Software Corporation Co-Founder And CEO Named National Finalist In Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur Of The Year® Program".
- ^ a b Manes, Stephen (April 18, 2000). "Private Lives? Not Ours!". PC World. 18 (6): 312. ISSN 0737-8939. Retrieved 2009-05-27.
- ^ Adams, Helen R.; Bocher, Robert F.; Gordon, Carol A.; Barry-Kessler, Elizabeth (2005). "The Future of Privacy in Libraries". Privacy in the 21st Century. Libraries Unlimited. p. 181. ISBN 978-1-59158-209-0.
- ^ Vance, Ashlee (January 12, 2006). "Sun and Apple almost merged three times – Bill Joy". The Register.
- ^ "On the Record: Scott McNealy". The San Francisco Chronicle. September 14, 2003. Retrieved 13 April 2017.
- ^ "Sun Microsystems' McNealy on Economy". Fox Business.
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- Scott McNealy on Twitter
- Scott McNealy's biography at the International Directory of Business Biographies
- Computer History Museum, 11-Jan-2006: Sun Founders Panel
- Scott McNealy on IMDb
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Marketplace: "A different way of doing business", a radio interview with McNealy
- McNealy's foray into providing educational resources to school children worldwide
- USA Today story about McNealy and other CEOs who have played golf with Tiger Woods
- McNealy meets with a group of UK entrepreneurs (2008 video)
- McNealy to Ellison: How to duck death by open source
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text: Prussia x Reader Mir Est Kalt Oneshot [fluffstuff]Mir ist kaltJanuary 1st. New Year's party at Alfred's, and you went outside to take a breather, getting away from the crowd and grabbing a soda. You were alone, and it was rather cold. But you couldn't feel it right away since you were heated from the crowded space inside. "He sure knows many people" you thought, although you were sure he wasn't even acquaintances with all of them. You were enjoying your lone drink, when you heard a voice calling out: "Hey, you" you turned around "Ja, you. Mind if I join you?" he did accompany you either way, you didn't even get the chance to respond. He was rather tall, with snowy white hair and crimson eyes that could capture any look on the street. "Hey, tell me your name. Why are you being so silent? Don't you know who I am?" you tried responding, but you didn't even get the chance to make any sound because of the storm of the questions, and he continued "I'm the awesome Prussia, but you already know this. Now, I'll go back in. It was nice meeting


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Welcome to one of the web's most anticipated lists of the year: The 100 Best, Most Interesting Blogs and Websites of 2013. This is the second such list I have made since founding DailyTekk and it's very special. A website can only be featured ONCE in this annual series, so make sure to check out last year's list so you don't miss 100 other amazing sites and blogs. I've broken this monster list down into 19 categories and limited myself to five links per category (except for the last category) to ensure I whittled away all but what I thought were the most deserving candidates of right here and right now in 2013. This post kicks off a whole new year of incredible top 100 lists (see a summary of the best curated content from last year in The Ultimate Lifehack for 2013: 200+ Incredible Sites and Services). This isn't a wussy list like Time's 50 Best Websites of 2012 which contains a bunch of web tools; nope, this is essentially a treasure trove of pure content.
When I make this list I consider 3 things: content, design and style (you know, that x-factor that really makes a site stand out). Throughout the year I save screenshots, bookmark, email myself links, star and favorite the best web content I run across. It's a year-long process but I start getting pretty excited when I'm finally getting close to publishing it because I'm so excited to share with you my good finds. Actually, I took a few really good suggestions from readers (in the form of comments from last years post), and I had some valuable input from my wife, so I can't take full credit for what you see here, technically.
Apparently, as of March 2012 there were 644,275,754 active websites (according to Business Insider) and you know the number has done nothing but rocket up since then. Someone has to go through and find the best, most interesting web content to make it easier on everyone else–but what does this have to do with technology? After all, DailyTekk IS a tech blog, right? Yes it is, and to me, great web content has everything to do with technology; as TechCrunch pointed out, the world is being eaten by technology to the point that all journalism is becoming tech ...


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easyJet is an equal opportunities employer and we always treat employees and applicants fairly regardless of their age, gender, sexuality, full or part-time status, disability and marital status.
We value diversity and inclusivity and believes this contributes to the continued success of the easyJet, by attracting and retaining a workforce which reflects the airline's customer base and can engage with passengers as individuals.
For example, easyJet employs people of 50 different nationalities. These people are predominantly from countries in which easyJet operates, which provides valuable insight about different markets.
easyJet has also recently begun working with OUTStanding, an organisation which promotes equality and inclusion for people of all sexualities in the workplace.
easyJet works hard to create an environment where women have the opportunity to build careers in all communities and at all management levels of the organisation, by ensuring there is a pipeline of women coming up through the organisation.
We believe that a significant issue for women in business is the lack of female executives at senior management level. Currently too many women are leaving work and the business community is losing a lot of talent before enough women get to executive positions.
easyJet is a signatory to the "think, act, report" campaign which promotes equal opportunities for women in the workplace. The campaign provides a simple step-by step framework to help companies think about gender equality in their workforces, particularly in relation to recruitment, retention, promotion and pay.
easyJet has three female Directors on its Board: the Chief Executive, the Chairman of the Audit and Finance Committees, and one other non-executive Director. The Board has a 30% female make-up.
50% (five of 10) of easyJet's Executive Management Team are women.
Middle managers will provide the pipeline for future senior managers and increasing the number of women in this group is an important part of our strategy to grow the number of women in our Senior Management Team.
As at 30 September 2015 the overall easyJet workforce was 45.4% female.
easyJet welcomes the UK's Government's commitment to address the gender pay gap. The Company agrees that greater transparency would encourage organisations to give more consideration to gender pay and help to close the gender pay gap. However, to be meaningful the pay gap comparisons need to be made by type of role. Otherwise the statistics, which should be a useful guide for companies and employees, risk becoming distorted and losing their value.
As an illustration, female pay as a percentage of male pay at easyJet – irrespective of the type of role or any other consideration – is 38.6%. This is based on full-time equivalent basic salary of active UK employees. This is influenced by the salaries and gender make up of easyJet's two largest communities, its pilots and cabin crew. Pilots are predominantly male and their salaries are higher than for cabin crew, the majority of who are female.
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Chase is a Transformer from Planet Cybertron. He is part of the Throttlebots, an espionage team of the Autobots led by Goldbug.
Marvel Comics continuity
Chase was part of a detachment sent to Earth to deal with the menace of a Cobra-rebuilt Megatron. The team was very surprised to find that this Megatron guy was actually pretty powerful, and soon started making mincemeat out of them. Chase got his leg blown off, and told the rest of the team not to wait for him. He kept firing as Megatron approached, only to get blown to smithereens at point blank range for his troubles. Megatron then examined Chase's snapped-off leg, looking for a soil sample that would let him locate the Autobots' starship. An enraged Brawn would beat on Megatron, declaring one punch was "for Chase". Final Transformations
- Chase was voiced by Rob Paulsen in the Transformers cartoon. Paulsen was the voice of Snow Job in the Sunbow G.I. Joe cartoon.
- Chase is the red Throttlebot, and the white one is named Searchlight, so the character appearing in the G.I. Joe comic is either a miscolored Chase or a misnamed Searchlight.


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Get an overview of this hotel3-star hotel with restaurant and bar/lounge
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Situated in Mont-Dore, this hotel is within 6 mi (10 km) of Puy de Sancy, Grands Thermes Baths, and Fenestre Park. Roche Tuiliere and Lac de Servieres are also within 12 mi (20 km).
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The late, underappreciated humorist Erma Bombeck was that rare writer who could describe motherhood without sounding either saccharine or homicidal. Publishers still search for the "new" Erma Bombeck, usually in vain.
But in her first book, Why Animals Sleep So Close to the Road (and Other Lies I Tell My Children), Susan Konig displays a winning ability to convey the humor, the quiet delight and the mild desperation she finds in rearing her four young children. A mixture of the tart and the sweet, Why Animals Sleep provides a refreshing contrast to all the corn syrup about to flow this weekend in honor of Mother's Day. (Related story: It takes moms of all kinds)
Konig opens with a hilarious prologue titled "Bambi's mom was just running an errand." In it, the author describes all the blatant lies she has told her children about Disney films and other topics, such as raccoon roadkill on the side of the road.
Of the ever-terrifying Lion King, she writes, "Simba's father was not, as it appeared, crushed to death in front of his cub. He's just resting at the bottom of the gorge until the stampede is over and will probably meet up with his son in a sequel."
This is brilliant and useful advice, refreshingly different from the usual dreary wisdom dished out by most parenting books (to wit: have a frank and open discussion of death with your 5-year-old).
Konig also lies to her children about the fate of discarded Christmas trees. (Forget recycling. Konig claims that "Santa's special garbage trucks pick them up and bring them back up to the North Pole, where they're re-animated for the next year.")
By the end of the first chapter, many moms will want to move next door to this maternal Solomon. Seriously.
Konig is refreshingly honest, too, about why her family had to move to the suburbs. Although she valiantly tries to raise her brood in a Manhattan two-bedroom rental, it was the "pitter-patter of little feet" that drove her to the suburbs. Not hers or her children's; these were the feet of rodents.
She and her husband would dispose of one mouse only to discover its twin "traveling the same path several mornings later, like the ghost of some murdered relative haunting the killers in an Emile Zola novel."
The topics Konig handles are familiar to all modern mothers: minivans, why children ignore their mothers until she wants to talk on the phone, getting a dog ("It was like having a baby with no diapers who could run"), the rage-inducing belief that women who stay home devote their days solely to devouring bonbons and watching soap operas, the nightmare of buying a house, the grim reality of giving birth.
She also addresses the minor and sometimes major irritations wrought by husbands, as well as the heartbreaking sweetness little people can display when they are not throttling their siblings.
What makes the book so entertaining is Konig's honesty, wit and her sometimes unapologetically emotional notes. For example, a chapter about her cat's death is genuinely moving.
And many women, tired of all those fetchingly preggers celebrity moms, will appreciate Konig's tart remark that when she was nine months pregnant, "I looked as though I had swallowed Cindy Crawford whole." Her husband suggests that Konig, in fact, looks like "Shamu in drag."
A gentle warning for those deep in the mommy-war trenches: This is a book to delight stay-at-home moms and working moms who have gone AWOL in the war (that is, they simply do not argue with other moms about personal decisions).
Konig is a traditionalist (she also writes columns for Catholic Digest and National Review Online) and advocates that women should stay home with their children full time — just as she does.
Such a decision can, of course, be costly in terms of money. But even that becomes fodder for Konig's humor. A very funny chapter tells how she and her husband, an actor, ended up with such massive credit card bills that they had to go to credit counseling.
In the end, Konig displays a lovely perspective about her life, her marriage, her children, and her decisions in life. She moans about the small stuff but celebrates the big things.


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We returned from the Akumal last Sunday. As you can see we have been there 10 times over the years. Yes we have tried others, but still come back the the Akumal. We have always stayed in The Club Gold Section and a very special thank you to Guillermo Carrasco @ Club Golden for getting us into block 66 it was great to see you again this year hopefully you will still be in that position next year, your personality is awesome for customer service. Thank you, Vanessa in public relations for booking our restaurants before arriving again this year. Louis @ the beach hut bar and the 24 hour bar you always make us smile and to see you again this year was great, keep up the good work my friend. To our housekeeping staff many many thanks, for a great job and the towel art, we realize it is the most thankless job to a lot of people, however, if our room was not clean, we would be worried about the rest of the resort. Which we are not.
The resort is quite large, but the transportation system is easy to get to know. We tended to stay on the beach in front of our block of rooms, as it was a little quieter than further down towards Tulum section. There is lots of places to eat within the complex, if someone can not find anything they are just to picky in our opinion. Please try to remember that the buffets feed hundreds of people per day, all with different tastes, we think that the resort does a amazing job with this.
We are very happy that we decided to return to the Akumal this year, as we had a massive emergency medical issue on Mar 6, in turn from the bottom of our hearts we would like to thank Dr. Cynthia Paloma Garcia, and her paramedics Mr. Abraham Zimon Sanchez and Mr. Jose Cardenas Guevara for saving my husbands life. It sure helps when you know the resort inside out like we do and the fast thinking of the resort staff (the lady who answered my call from the room that night) it only took the Dr. and ambulance 5 min to get from the Hacienda to our room, and let me tell you it is a maze of road ways through out the complex.
Will we return next year? You bet, the value, service, and customer service within this resort keeps us coming back year after year. GREAT JOB EVERY ONE
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Berin Loritsch wrote: > > 2) estimate link degradation > > In a real Web Application, the links between pages are relatively > constant--the information displayed on the pages changes with the > underlying data. I was talking more generally than web-apps. > > 3) agglomerate links dependening on their order of > > degradation, possibly on different pages. > > Maybe this is because I never got anything above a Recording Arts > Specialized Associate Degree, and learned how to program later; but > I am not quite sure what you are referring to here. Take the college course case where the course is linked to a professor, a room and the students attending in this semester. All links have a degradation time of, at last, the semester. You should not place assignments links in the exact page, if the degradation time is much frequent (say, 2 weeks)... this calls for a separate page. This is what I mean for "agglomerate isodegradating links" and might be used to evaluate the 'beauty' of a link topology, given the history of link changes. This is not only useful for web-apps but for web publishing in general. > > To answer such a question we must define what a "linkmap" is: a > > collection of relations between resources. > > > > XLink provides sufficient expressivity to write such a thing and > > XPointer provides sufficient granularity to link very specific parts of > > a resource. > > > > But is this really useful? > > No. The Flowmap or automatic navigational components are required. This is my perception as well. > > The solution I envision is the creation of a "flowmap" where the web-app > > designer is not focused on intermediate locations (resources), but in > > the flow of the application, much like you procedural languages let you > > program by writing a flow, not filling memory slots declaratively with > > instructions. > > I have a navigational Action that I developed that will only let a viewer > see pages after they have logged in. When fully fleshed out, it will > fill the "void" in my immediate need. However it only solves part of the > problem--so the FlowMap concept looks very interesting to me. cool. > > So, what is a flowmap? > > > > Take a piece of paper, avoid thinking you are writing an application for > > the web, so avoid taking into consideration technical constraints (like > > the request/response paradigm, intrinsic statelessness, low bandwidth, > > proxying, etc..) and draw a diagram of the latest application you wrote. > > > > What you should outline, at this stage, is the 'skeleton' of the flow: > > this should be drawn to give the other people in the team the overlall > > picture of what the application is doing. > > > > So, let's see, let's take something like slashdot.org: > > > > > > identification > > ^ > > | > > v > > (enter) ---> home ---> (exit) > > ^ > > | > > +--> read article <-()-> post comment > > | > > +-()-> set preferences > > | > > +-()-> add article > > | > > +-(editor)-> accept submission > > > > where: > > > > (enter) indicates the entrance of the application > > (exit) guess what? :) > > ---> indicates a 'general flow' [no restriction on identity] > > <---> indicates a 'bidirectional flow' > > -(???)-> indicates a 'restricted flow' > > -()-> indicates a 'identificated flow' > > This is very similar to the Modified Flow Charts we use to map the > Flow of the Application. In fact, we will typically break up one > large webapp into smaller ones. For instance, we have a product > called VendorExchange that is designed to act as an interface > between Vendors and Retailers. It manages the workflow of getting > a product approved for sale in the Retailer's stores. There are > several smaller Webapps in the larger one, namely: Product submittal, > Product Display submittal, Promotion information management, > and Cost Changes for existing products. > > Each of these smaller webapps have some similar structure (to make > it easier for the end user). So a FlowMap to be really useful has > to support the notion of of Sub Flows, or Heirarchical Flow Maps. Totally. Yes. It is easy to extend the above model to provide hierarchy, in fact: (enter)---> stage1 ----> (exit) ^ | +-------> [flowmap] where [flowmap] is (enter)---> stage2 ----> (exit) Where (enter) means move to the linked flowmap and (exit) means go back to where you came in from. > > an 'identificated flow' requires that the user is identified. > > In other words: the user is logged in or Authenticated. Yes, but your terminology is incorrect at this abstraction level: the action of "log in" or 'authentication' are technologically specific. The user could be identifier by a retinal scan placed in front of his monitor, or by a DNA analyzer on the keyboard. The "aspect" we care here about login or authentication is "identification" of the user. > > a 'restricted flow' is a specialized 'identification flow' that requires > > identification and belonging to a specific identification group which > > has enough rights to enter. > > Restated, the Authenticated user must be Authorized. Yes, this terminology is equivalently abstract. > Let me interject > that many times the same record has different views based on the Role > or Authorization of the user. For example, in the afforementioned > WebApp, a new Product that is submitted to a Retailer has information > that the Vendor must enter and view. Once submitted, the application > is in a read-only state for that user--BUT THE FLOW HAS NOT CHANGED. > The next person in the WorkFlow, typically the one who manages a > specific Category of products has to review the submitted information, > and enter some proprietary information for the Retailer that only > internal users can view. > > Again, the information shown has changed, but the FLOW is the same. > Flow being described as the movement between one page of the form and > the next. Yes. Exactly like sitemaps are static but can represent all the possible dynamic publishing needs, flowmaps are static but the resulting behavior is not so. I believe that this "staticity" indicates the "beauty" of the projection, its a measure of the minimum possible concern overlap. So, the more "static" representations we find, the more expressive Cocoon is at describing and implementing web sites in general. > > We can starting noting a few properties of a flowmap: > > > > 1) there must be no end stages, the flowmap must describe a fully > > connected graph between the (enter) and (exit) dummy stages. > > True. For our workflow apps, the "enter" would start at login, and > the "exit" would start at logout. Again, this is not sufficiently abstract: in fact, for sub-flowmaps, this is not true. So "enter" and "exit" points are just dummy representations that allow you to connect the flowmap to the real world... in fact, "login" is a stage, not the implementation of the "enter" entry point. (enter) ---> login -()-> home --> (exit) > > This is very important: the absence of such a fully connected graph does > > *NOT* make the application unusable, but this is only because of "back" > > functionalities in your browser. > > I would venture to say that the "back" button in a webapp with > important information is a dangerous thing. There are methods of detecting > if the back button or stop button has been pressed so that you can force > a "forwards only" flow for the user. Yes, the "back" button is a hack, a client-side usability patch to bad hypermedia design. > > In short, a fully connected flowmap avoids the 'dead end' problem. > > Absolutely necessary. Hierarchical flowmaps make it very easy to evaluate the 'fully connection' of a flowmap... and an algorithm can easily estimate this automatically (or even draw an flowmap overall SVG poster with different colors for 'dead end' stages). Wouldn't it be cool to show that to your customers? :) > > 2) the site of the flowmap represents a good estimation of the web-app > > complexity and gives an fuzzy metric. > > Pre-planning the flow of information gives you a better idea of the useability > of the webapp. Too much recursion is a *bad* thing, but carefully managed > flow can help a user use the system. Even more: a "usability engineer" is normally a person that doesn't have a strong technical background. The flowmap is sufficiently abstract to allow the usability engineer to play around with the usability of the system without touching technical details or impacting on them. Guess what? SoC :) I've recently met IRL a girl that does this job for a major italian portal and she amazed me with the amount of design effort that she puts into tasks that seem apparently obvious. I admit that part of the flowmaps concept comes from understanding her mental and visual processes that go into web-app design. And one thing for all: error handling! There is no suck thing as "user error", the very act of calling some user "action" an "error" is egocentric since it forces a world where you decide what is right and the user must understand this in order to get accepted. This creates frustration, expecially on older people which are not used to learn rapidly new behaviors and new paradigms. It may sound simple to draw a flowmap, but when you think at the psyco-cognitive requirements of millions of individuals, gosh, the more technological help you get, the better. > > This creates a contract between the administration concern island (who > > is in charge of designing the restrictions) and the logic concern island > > (who is in charge of implementing them). > > It is important to point out here, that the role of the Administrator has > to be clearly defined. The Sitemap merges the concern of administration of > publishing constraints and the selection of Actions for forms, etc. This > is a clash as a multipage form navigation needs to be easily maintained by > a Developer--not an Admin. Yes, but be careful: at this abstraction level, each 'stage' can be implemented with several web 'screens'... my goal is to allow Cocoon to automatically separate a stage into different screens and automatically manage flow. This goes also along with the ability to fragment a page into its web construct (as Paul has done with the SVG fragment extractor). Stage fragmentation and content deaggregation might not appear obvious for HTML pages, but it's automatically so for WAP and other devices.... so my plan is to make it possible for Cocoon to exit pure request/response paradigm and enter a statefull ability to automatically handle more requests with the same information. Think of multiple WAP decks out of the same page or SVG internal fragments taken out as images, etc... but this is meat for another RT. > > This is already long enough so I'll stop here. > > Alot has been said, but most in the last section. > > > A few questions need to be answered and I'll like to hear your comments > > on them: > > > > 1) can the flowmap be used not only for description, but directly for > > design like we do for the sitemap? > > Yes. In fact, it could be designed like an orthagonal view of the sitemap. Oh, here you touched the nerve: are flowmaps and sitemaps really orthogonal? I still haven't figure this out. > It needs to describe the flow of Form pages and implicitly their handlers. > There also needs to be a method of conditionally selecting pipeline elements > and flow based on runtime information such as variables returned from an > Action. Yes. > > 2) if so, is there a way to completely remove aspect overlap between > > sitemaps and flowmaps and make them totally independent given a few > > solid contracts between the two? > > It would be equivalent to Mounting a SiteMap. In fact, to the Cocoon system, > they would both be a SiteMap--however the semantics of specifying flow, error > handling, and navigational rules needs to apply here. Actions have there > place in both views of the URI space, but they are more pronounced in the > FlowMap idea. Good terminology here: sitemap and flowmaps are different view of the same URI space. Please understand that different views (projections) are not necessarely orthogonal and if they are not, a modification on one requires modification on the other, thus breaking SoC and increasing the constract costs. > > 3) if so, which contracts? is URI space enough? > > No. URI Space is only one of the flows that need to be handled. The URI space is not a flow. Careful with terms or our friends here will be easily lost. > We as a > company are going to use 3rd Party Workflow Engines to manage record movement > between roles, however that does not affect the flow of the form to the user. > > The concerns that have to be managed are: > > * URI Space > * Authentication/Authorization for certain URIs > * Action definition and use. > * Automatic backtracking based on errors. > * Back button and Stop button detection (some apps require that a transaction > can only be executed once). > > > 4) where would actions be described? > > It should be able to be described in both places. The FlowMap will need a > different set of Actions. Ok, do you have more vision of this? just curious, I'm trying to collect info on others. > > 5) whose concern would flowmap maintenance be? > > The developer's. There might be a use-case for a Business Analyst to alter > the flow of the webapp--but form handling semantics and rules need to be > handled by the developer. I disagree. Flowmaps contain almost all the usability energy and normally developers have no idea (rather than their own) on how to use this energy. Their concerns must be merely technical: write me an action that does this and that. But where to place it, where to direct users if they make mistakes, where to locate them is not their concern. Just like sitemap's administration. Careful: this doesn't mean that a developer can't be the flowmap manager, it sure can, but my point is it must not be *required* that the flowmap manager needed technical skills.... just like we did for the sitemap. This is a very important point: separating concerns between technology and usability is something that has never been engineered before (not even for modern all-knowing web-app frameworks). We must at least try to do so here. > > 6) would the introduction of the flowmap concept require changes in > > cocoon's core design? > > No. It would require another MarkupLanguage that creates a Sitemap object > by the different semantics of the FlowMap. Are you sure? The flowmap doesn't contain information on how to present information, or even on how to generate it. My perception is more like a flowmap is a "style" of the sitemap, it "connects" the URI space with flows... But one thing is for sure: a flowmap cannot generate a sitemap since it doesn't contain the required information (nor it should!). > The functionality of the sitemap is same, but the semantics regarding flow > and definition of the pipeline are different. I disagree: the flowmap "adds" information to the sitemap... information that is crosscut across resources and is normally left to the user to define in actions or generators. For sure, the result is a sitemap object, but I percieve "flowmaps" as the information required to "fill" sitemaps with statefull information. This is my perception, but I have no idea on the semantics required to do it. > There is a number of things that can be done by Actions--and careful planning > can yield some very flexible results. For example, the DatabaseActions that > I created use an XML configuration file to determine how they are used in a > given flow. This is sort of a secondary mapping of URI to logic. Exactly, but not a "secondary" an "augmented". > In other > words, one Action is used in multiple locations, but the specifics of its > action are handled by an orthagonal view of the semantics. Yeah, more or less. > OK, I think I just confused myself there: > > Database{Add|Delete|Update}Action is defined once. However based on one > parameter, I specify a configuration file that maps the Request parameters > to database columns in a table. This is very important as it enables the > Action to be reused with different mappings based on the URI space. > > However, it feels clumsy managing the Flow of a Webapp via URIs. I agree, unless each "stage" is associated with a URI 'label' that is "augmented" directly by cocoon at "flowmap -> sitemap" transformation stage. What do I mean? Well, something like (enter) --> /login -()-> /home --> (exit) but /login indicates both the /login URI and all the other screens required to terminate the 'stage'. Each "stage" can be seen as the simplest possible flowmap: (enter) ---> [(stage)] ----> (exit) ^ | | | +(self)+ where (enter) is the entry point (where we came from) (exit) is the exit point (where we go next) (self) is the same stage the translation of these "flow events" to URI requests is done at another level even if it useful, at this point, to label the stages with URIs to create a strong contract between sitemaps and flowmaps.... otherwise, this contract will have to be specified somewhere else. Note: this would enforce the use of URI as identifiers rather than addresses and will very likely make it easier to design a URI space without all the problems that plague web sites today. > Thus the > Navigation Action I am developing. It will follow the same semantics of > the DatabaseActions, as the flow of navigation will alter the stylesheet > based on Role, and status of the transaction (draft, pending, approved, rejected). At the end, I'm not sure where these RT lead to, but it's great to exchange visions on these things and keep them sufficiently abstract to provide R&D ground for future innovation. Thanks to all for your patience and hope this will be useful someday :) -- Stefano Mazzocchi One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. <firstname.lastname@example.com> Friedrich Nietzsche --------------------------------------------------------------------
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