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Haystack is a project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to research and develop several applications around personal information management and the Semantic Web. The most notable of those applications is the Haystack client, a research personal information manager (PIM) and one of the first to be based on semantic desktop technologies. The Haystack client is published as open source software under the BSD license. It's developed in a RDF-aware dynamic language, Adenine, built for this project on top of Java.

Similar to the Chandler PIM, the Haystack system unifies handling different types of unstructured information. This information has a common representation in RDF that is presented to users in a configurable human-readable way.

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Tanah Lot Island Of Bali

Tanah Lot Island Of Bali

Tanah Lot means "Land [sic: in the] Sea" in Balinese language Located in Tabanan, about 20 km from Denpasar, the temple sits on a large offshore rock which has been shaped continuously over the years by the ocean tide.

Tanah Lot is claimed to be the work of the 15th century priest Nirartha. During his travels along the south coast he saw the rock-island's beautiful setting and rested there. Some fishermen saw him, and bought him gifts. Nirartha then spent the night on the little island. Later he spoke to the fishermen and told them to build a shrine on the rock for he felt it to be a holy place to worship the Balinese sea gods.

The Tanah Lot temple was built and has been a part of Balinese mythology for centuries. The temple is one of seven sea temples around the Balinese coast. Each of the sea temples were established within eyesight of the next to form a chain along the south-western coast.

At the base of the rocky island, poisonous sea snakes are believed to guard the temple from evil spirits and intruders. A giant snake purportedly protects the temple, which was created from Nirata’s scarf when he established the island.

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Lake Bratan In The Bali Island

Lake Bratan In The Bali Island

Bedugul is a mountain town in Bali, Indonesia, located in the centre-north region of the island near lake Bratan on the road between Singaraja and Denpasar. Bedugul is located at 48 km north of the city of Denpasar. Other nearby lakes are lake Buyan, and lake Tamblingan.

Major sites in Bedugal are the Pura Ulun Danu Bratan water temple and the Bedugul Botanical Gardens.

Bedugul enjoys a mild mountain weather due to its location at an altitude of about 1500 m above the sea level.

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