Downhome Pinoy Blues, Intersecting Life Paths, and Heartbreak Songs
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The Blues is alive and well in the Philippines, as evidenced by this appreciation of the Pinoy Blues band 'Lampano Alley', penned by columnist Clarence Henderson as a counterpoint to his usual economics, business, and culture fare.
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Michael Kimsal has posted some more thoughts on what he calls the "sad state of PHP development" pointing out some of the practices of the PHP group surrounding the development of the language.   Every few months there's a release, whether large or small, which introduces new features and bug fixes. However, with every release also comes fears of tiny, sometimes undocumented, changes that break existing code, and often for no solid reason other than someone with commit access decided they liked the 'new' way better than the old way.   He points out a specific example, get_object_vars and how its return values were changed in an earlier release as well as the update to glob made recently to change its return types.    In his opinion:   No changes should be made to the PHP core without an issue being opened, either in the 'bug' tracker or some other issues tracker.   Be sure to check out the comments for other great opinions on the topic.
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The singer's new album shows that pop Svengalis, weird and controlling  as they may be, are sometimes necessary
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Oscar Hijuelos plans a companion novel to his 1990 Pulitzer Prize winner, âThe Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love,â as well as a memoir that will recall his encounters with musicians including RubÃ©n Blades and Lou Reed, The Associated Press reported. The new novel, âBeautiful Maria of My Soul,â and the memoir, âThoughts Without Cigarettes,â were announced jointly on Tuesday by Hyperion Books, which will publish the novel in 2009, and Gotham Books, a Penguin Group (USA) imprint, which will release the memoir in 2010.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Students at Salem College, a small liberal arts school for women in Winston-Salem, N.C., have studied the songs of Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen.  Now they're delving into country singer Martina McBride's catalog.
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By Northwest Florida Daily News, Fort Walton Beach  Jun. 2--The salty old song that goes "Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum" is starting to rub some folks the wrong way.
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For an upbeat guy, Alan Jackson sure sings a lot of sad songs. About half the 12 tracks on his new album "What I Do," set for release Tuesday, deal with lost love or loneliness.
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Matthew Turland, like many in the PHP community these days, has been pondering PHP6 and what it might mean to both the developers and to the language itself:   Be that as it may, as a user with about five years under his belt as of now who has seen all qualities of PHP code ranging from pristine to pedantic, a thought or two has crossed my mind on the subject of the latest upcoming incarnation of the language.   Specifically, he talks about some of the hot topics like namespaces, the mysqlnd driver, Unicode support, and named parameters. Overall, though, his comments are positive, looking toward a brighter future for PHP with this upcoming edition.
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Farhan Akhtar's Don has a mix of good and not-so-good songs.
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The singerâs attempt to include his blues-rock stylings with his pop songs yielded mixed results at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday.
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Passages from a folk legendÂs latest album, ÂModern Times,Â echo a 19th-century ConfederateÂs verses.
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This self-described Brooklyn bar band has toured the country and taken notes.
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MP3 will bring back fond memories of your first love.
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OpenSong is a free software application for managing chords and lyrics sheets (lead sheets), presenting lyrics (and custom slides) using a projector, and much more! Great for worship leaders and musicians! This next release contains quite a few bug fixes, set list printing, proxy support, module loading, a new background image chooser, backgrounds folders, songs folders, multiple themes per song, key field, aka field, key line field, ccli import now imports the new song fields, configurable alert font, live scripture browsing during presentations, HTML song export, and more! Everything has been moved around and optimized. Now with multiple language support. This is a great update to 0.9.8.   You can find the latest release here:  https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=108754&package_id=117409
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In Quezon province, hit earlier this week by a typhoon, relatives were looking for loved ones when second storm hit. BY PAT ROQUE.
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1. "Five People You Meet in Heaven" by Mitch Albom
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Mexican folk ballads known as Corridos have moved north with immigrants and adopted new themes.