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Another Tack: Contextualizing 'Ned'
05/24/2012 21:54
The conflict didn't begin in 1948- it reached its culmination then.
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Ned recently arrived from the US under immigrant status, though he himself probably has no clue how long he'll stay. He isn't employed anywhere and has no visible means of support. Someone is footing his bills. But someone always has because, to the best of my knowledge, Ned has never held any job long-term and never forged any career. There must be an organizational benefactor but I can't say for sure.
Ned and his brother are both products of American Hashomer Hatza'ir inculcation and both remain radically tied to that pro-forma Zionist-Marxist youth movement (even though both are now thirty-something). They seem unable to outgrow the evidently addictive juvenile connection.
Both brothers lived in American communes and both thrive on political activism. There's almost no radical cause which they hadn't passionately espoused, even that of the
Mavi Marmara.
For years they paid sporadic visits to Arab communities in and outside our Green Line and they waxed positively ecstatic over last year's camp-in at Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard.
It wasn't long afterwards that the Occupy Movement began springing up, initially on Wall Street, from whence it spread to other urban centers. The brothers were there, very confrontationally there.
Are they or their ilk the invisible link between our 2011 summertime protests and what later sprang up elsewhere? Who knows? Maybe.
Then Ned, whose Hebrew is rudimentary, announced that he's "making aliya." This meant a shared pad in Tel Aviv's hip Florentin Quarter, frequent trips to Jenin, participation in almost every trendy demonstration or flashpoint of contention.
NED PROTESTED Kadima's joining the coalition, hotly supported the Hamas prisoners' hunger strike, equally hotly opposed JNF tree-planting near Beduin communities, decried a projected eviction of Arabs in Silwan and celebrated its foiling, marched in Tel Aviv on May Day, protested on behalf of illegal African infiltrators, demanded the unconditional razing of disputed apartment houses on Givat Ha'ulpana, protested Jewish residence in Jerusalem's Beit Hanina, agitated against "racist and thieving settlers," partook in the latest attempts to revive the social protests, and much, much, much more. The list is long.
That seemingly is all that Ned does in Israel. He's an aging professional youth movement stalwart who has made it his mission to enlighten us benighted natives and change our evil ways.
Ned's Facebook page featured calls to attend the Nakba memorial (which denigrates Israel's birth as a catastrophe) at Tel Aviv University (where he's not a student). The ceremony, the messages said, "is supposed to be very interesting and good. Also there's supposed to be violence, crazy right-wing style."
Subtext: Violence is the attraction, the desired outcome. This of course echoes assorted classic anarchist aims to unsettle and destabilize the existing system. Undermining social order is the first step on the road to revolution. The latest crop of Tel Aviv social protesters indeed hoisted banners urging "revolution."
The irony is that the useful idiots who dance to the tunes of shadowy political pied pipers like Ned couldn't be more petite bourgeois. Their disaffection arises from the conviction that expensive Nespresso machines are a must in every suitably chic kitchen, that ski trips aboard are the birthright of every Israeli seeking to escape our arid climes, that other taxpayers need subsidize luxurious tastes and spendthrift lifestyles to which all nouveau-riche wannabes are entitled.
Do the useful idiots know that Ned and fellow "social protesters" attended alternative Remembrance Day ceremonies in which fallen terrorists (a.k.a. suicide-bombers) were also mourned? Probably not.
Do they know that on his website meddlesome Ned describes himself as "striving for global justice and equality?" Do they stop to ponder what the phrase means? Do they at all attempt to put it into any sort of historical context?
If they could at all contextualize, they'd instantly associate Ned's "global justice" with the battle for "justice and legality" waged by this country's pre-independence militant Left. The similarities are quite striking. Yesteryear's far Left, under the aegis of the Communist Peh-Kah-Peh (PKP, the Yiddish acronym for the Palestinisheh Kommunistisheh Partai) wasn't afraid of getting down and dirty. Immediately following the bloody Arab-perpetrated pogroms of April 1936, the PKP plastered local streets with posters demanding "the repeal of the Balfour Declaration and an end to all Jewish immigration."
It opposed the construction of Tel Aviv Harbor and repudiated each batch of immigration certificates issued. These were entry visas allotted very tight-fistedly by the British mandatory authorities to Jews already then desperately escaping Europe. The PKP, purportedly anti- British and anti-fascist, opposed rescuing these Jews. In that they sided with the infamous Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini who instigated the Nazi-financed bloodletting that was the 1936-39 "Great Arab Revolt."
Husseini subsequently, in the role of pan-Arab prime minister, spent the war years in Berlin, where he hobnobbed with Hitler, Himmler, Eichmann, et al. He broadcast virulent Nazi propaganda, recruited Muslims to the SS and actively foiled the rescue of any Jews, even children, during the Holocaust.
Indeed, as Arab terror escalated, proof mounted of PKP collusion (in incidents such as the 1936 bombing of Haifa's Beit Hapoalim and Tel Aviv's Fairgrounds). When Arab leaders themselves announced a brief truce in the autumn of 1936, the PKP rejected any cease-fire on the grounds that "Zionism drags Jews to hell.... Zionists and imperialists alone are to blame for these days of atrocity."
The anti-Zionism of the PKP evolved gradually. The party arose from the fringes of the mainstream Poalei Zion. In 1919 it banded as the Hebrew Socialist Workers Party. But by 1922 its rejection of Zionism became so pronounced that it ditched Hebrew – whose revival was core to the Zionist ethos – and reverted to Yiddish.
In 1923, the PKP castigated Zionism as "a bourgeois movement serving the interests of British imperialism" (just as the Zionist state today is castigated for purportedly serving the interests of alleged American imperialism). The party cheered the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop pact that facilitated WWII. The PKP vehemently opposed fighting the Third Reich until Hitler betrayed Stalin and attacked the USSR in 1941.
Ned, of course, would stress that pro forma he's no communist and that his now-diminutive Hashomer Hatza'ir regards itself as Zionist.
The trouble is that distinctions which mattered hugely in the 1930s no longer matter much. The big picture is that of a radical Left which undercuts the Jews of this country, whether back in the days of the embryonic Jewish state or in today's extant Jewish state, whose struggle to survive still continues. Sovereign Israel is still menaced by descendents and torchbearers of the mufti's original pro-Nazi adherents and it still faces unabated threats of genocide or ethnic cleansing.
The enemy, now as then, still bays for our blood, while posing as the downtrodden victim of grasping wily Jewish forces. It's this duplicitous Arab strategy which begat the Nakba that Ned so bewails. Israel's cardinal sin was having dared spoil Arab plans for its annihilation. Because Israel impudently remained alive (and kicking), its survival is denigrated as a cataclysmic misfortune.
The very assertion that the Nakba resulted wantonly out of the blue from Israel's birth in 1948 is malevolent distortion. The conflict didn't begin in 1948 – it reached its culmination then.
The Arabs violently combated the Jewish community which existed in this country pre-WWII and was ripe for statehood before the Holocaust. The mufti's carnage delayed Jewish independence. The Arabs denied asylum here to desperate Jewish refugees from Hitler's hell, thereby dooming them to death. The blood of these exterminated Jews permanently stains Arab hands.
The war which the entire Arab world launched against newborn Israel, three years post-Holocaust, was with explicit blusterous braggadocio (and the help of recruited European ex-SS henchmen) geared to complete Hitler's mission.
Murderous Arab rampages greeted the November 29, 1947, UN General Assembly Partition Resolution. Its objective was to divide this tiny land into a Palestinian Arab state and a pitifully puny, terrifyingly vulnerable Jewish counterpart (wedged mainly along the coastal highway between Tel Aviv and Netanya).
The Arabs set out to thwart the implementation of the UN decision. Now they pose as the hapless victims of the war they launched, pretending that all they ever wanted was a twostate solution. They lost their own war and, ever since, are consumed by the festering rage of having failed to eradicate us.
What they call "occupation" doesn't only relate to the territories that came under Israeli control in 1967. Occupation also – and principally – refers to the territories that constitute Israel since 1948. In other words, all of Israel is illegitimate. Israel's very existence is unacceptable. No Jews should be here.
And this is what gravely gullible Ned and fellow overly idealistic Jewish fanatics of the last vestiges of the lost Marxist cause (by whichever name it parades) refuse to acknowledge. They, who lure their own sub-set of useful idiots, are foremost themselves useful idiots in the service of the mufti's latter-day disciples (by whichever name they parade).
Nobody knows better than the volatile incited Arab masses how to collectively fly off the handle in an orchestrated display of premeditated pseudo-righteous indignation. And my cousin falls for their lament of the fact that we at all live.
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Police search for Toyota in hit and run
Maryland State Police have released a description of a suspect vehicle as they continue to search for the driver who hit and killed a Laurel man early Saturday morning on I-295.
Henry Smith, 71, was hit and killed at about 3:00 a.m. as he walked in or near northbound I-295 near I-695. The driver of the vehicle that struck Smith left the scene.
The responding trooper found Smith lying dead in the fast lane of I-295.
A possible vehicle is described as a light blue Toyota car. The car had a left headlight out and the front bumper was dragging on the road. It was traveling north on I-295 with its flashers on and apparently exited onto Waterview Avenue in the Westport area of Baltimore.
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Ok, Art Basel is nearly a week away and already it's beginning to resemble the MTV VMAs. Paris and Nicky will be in town, as will Britney Spears--allegedly. Other Hilton pals Brandon Davis and Miami resident Scott Storch, too. And Pamela Anderson and Robert Downey, Jr. And so will Lindsay Lohan, who will be hosting a party at Mynt on Saturday, December 9. Somewhere along the lines, someone may have gotten the wrong memo. But what do we know? Maybe serious art collectors find beauty in tabloid living.
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"But it all turns out all right you see. And I go back to being...me." - Dr. Seuss
This quote is on the wall in the kitchen area here at Casa Ronald McDonald. (See picture above). Every time I pass it, I feel peace & hope. It strengthens my belief that John will win this battle and live the life he deserves.
I have now accepted the fact that the path to curing John's cancer is not one that simply goes from A to B. He has a long challenging road ahead of him. A road that will have many twists and turns but will ultimately lead to John beating Leukemia!
Tomorrow will be day 22 of John's Induction phase, the day when Dr. Pui will get more aggressive with John's chemotherapy treatments. John has been pumped with so many drugs over the last three weeks it's hard to imagine a more aggressive path. He will be inpatient for at least a coupe days. His stay in the hospital is critical because they push the chemo in, via his IV, then they flush it out with IV fluids to protect his bladder and kidneys. They repeat this process every 12 hours for 2 days, four treatments over 48 hours. Ugh!
John's body is starting to show the signs of chemotherapy. He started to lose his hair today. I think he still looks very handsome but he is emotional about the changes he sees in the mirror. He is also showing the side effects of chemotherapy internally, John's ANC level is 100. ANC stands for Absolute Neutrophil Count and it represents how well your body can fight off infections, especially bacteria infections. To put John's 100 ANC in perspective, a normal ANC is above 1,500. Having a low ANC right now for John is a good thing. They don't want his body fighting the chemo. That also means John could get sick easily, so we need to be extra careful and take antibiotics & antifungal prophylactically. Germs are bad!
Kathy, John, Isabella and I continue to be humbled by the outpouring of love, prayers and support. It's amazing and uplifting. Please continue to send John messages, emails, tweets, viddy's, instagrams, and smoke signals of prayers.
It all WILL turn out right you see......
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According to a release, the new cinema complex, Queen Creek 14, expects to open by late 2014. The Queen Creek Marketplace venue will feature a 14 screen megaplex including all-digital projection and a $6.00 childcare service called Harkins PlayCenter.
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Aquarius is the Waterbearer, that's depicted on the Star card in tarot. Cosmic currents flow in, to awaken, inspire and act as a beacon on the distant horizon. At the New Moon in Aquarius, we catch sight of a possible future. It's a vision of a different way to think and be, that at first can seem odd, strange.
Look to the house, where cosmic Aquarius (Sun-Moon) energies are swirling. This is your scene for breakthroughs and web of allies, like minds and rallying for a cause. It's where you're apt to be radical, a word meaning "of roots" -- you're acting from your unique essence, instead of conforming to the norms.
Aquarius New Moon in the First House: (House of Aries and Mars) New Moon wishes to do with your self-image -- your look and personality. Look for fresh combinations, and spend time with those that celebrate your eccentricities. Aquarius in the first, as your rising sign, gives you a friendly, but cool way with others. You find rapport with wildly varying kinds of people. This lunation favors being noticed, so being visible for chance encounters leads to new friendships. What's original, even odd about you attracts, and your circles widen. Spend time cleaning the antennae, for clear psychic guidance. Great time for: acupuncture or energy healing; making an impression (with clients, employers, first dates); meeting new people.
Aquarius New Moon in the Second House: (House of Taurus and Venus) If Aquarius flavors your house of money, possessions and values, you thrive with a lot of freedom. It could be time to download new ideas to do with your livelihood. How does what's quirky, stimulating to others and unique find its place in the cultural marketplace? Are your investments bringing a return? 'Tis also time to streamline, release what's dead weight, and make room for the new. Take time to vision your ideal (productive) day -- is it time for change? This lunation is about bringing commonsense to your wild, and potentially lucrative ideas. Great time for: considering collaborations; turning an odd obsession into a biz; invest in what's ahead of its time.
Aquarius New Moon in the Third House: (House of Gemini and Mercury) You're a social creature with Aquarius in the house of mingling, bright exchanges, and idea currents. Is it time to seek out more inspired company? These magazines, online subscriptions, group associations have run their course, time to clear space for the new. A lunation for broadcasting -- is it time for a new revamped site or profile? Or perhaps, it's time to step out of the matrix and into more real life encounters! What will bring your social house alive again? What kinds of fascinations get your wheels turning? Great time for: learning an unusual language; protecting privacy online; creative expression for a cause.
Aquarius New Moon in the Fourth House: (House of Cancer and the Moon) A home life with Aquarian mood lighting is unusual, with an emphasis on individual freedom. The New Moon here brings you back to that refuge, your sanctuary. What colors and designs fit your resonance now? It could bring on spontaneous rearranging, or sudden decisions (like moving altogether!) What kinds of stimulation is healthy, and what spins you out? Your home space is a place of inspired thinking. If circuits are jammed, what needs dialing down, and what tools will take you higher. Great time for: self-healing with tuning forks; new music downloads; meditation or creative corner in home; infusion of new or shake up with living arrangements.
Aquarius New Moon in the Fifth House: (House of Leo and the Sun) A New Moon to call in mediums of self-expression that bear your unique stamp. Your Aquarian fifth house makes you wildly creative -- if you've fallen into routine, what risks will get you back in the groove? One for romantic encounters with unlikely people -- across race, cultural or class lines. A friendship started now can be vivifying! Children figure prominently, and you might consider adoption, or embrace another unconventional route to parenting. Or you arrange to do something special, with your own. Great time for: bursts of creativity; claiming the spotlight; being generous with friends; showing your kinky side (in a relationship of trust).
Aquarius New Moon in the Sixth House: (House of Virgo and Mercury or Chiron) You bring an open Aquarian outlook to matters of health, and are open to the cutting edge of what's known. Take time to replenish, and see what crosses your radar. It's possible to experience breakthroughs, that lead to more ease in your daily rhythm. A boring, routine job is hard on your constitution. If you're looking for change with work, call in the unconventional set-up, with quirky co-workers you can learn from (and vice versa). Great time for: acupuncture or energy healing (reiki); taking the road less traveled with work.
Aquarius New Moon in the Seventh House: (House of Libra and Venus) Your relationship house is playing with Aquarius rules, where individual freedom is celebrated, over merging. A timely New Moon wish is for a lover, who is also a friend, with all the qualities you desire. It's also a romantic time with your beloved, to refresh your bond, especially if you've spent a lot of time apart. It's also fine time to consider your public image -- is it working for you? The 7th House is how we relate to our "audience," as the reflection of who we are. Good time for: talks that clear the air; soulstorming with a friend; pairing up for events or a date.
Aquarius New Moon in the Eighth House: (House of Scorpio and Pluto) Your psychic abilities are heightened, and you could astonish others or trigger them in some unexpected way. It's profound to tune into your intuition, but what comes through may be wierd, shocking or a catalyst for healing. Stream-of-consciousness writing takes you to unfamiliar, leading-edge places of your inner world. Potentially a time for spontaneous healing, of yourself or others. The adventurous could experiment with sexual healing, for enlightenment and the experience. Great time for: exploring shamanic techniques; looking at unusual investments; sexual experimentation/healing; breaking free of financial entanglements.
Aquarius New Moon in the Ninth House: (House of Sagittarius and Jupiter) Is it time to initiate a quest for knowledge? Your Aquarian 9th house thrives with freedom, when it comes to exploring new terrain, both of the mind and the globe. This New Moon could invoke wanderlust, and get you planning travel to some place off the beaten track. Or you might consider taking your study in an area to the next level. You might consider new philosophies or sciences that are unusual in some way. Great time for: taking a leap with learning; entertaining thoughts of journeys; connecting to people in other times and places (time travel?); jumping time lines; lucid dreaming; setting physical goals.
Aquarius New Moon in the Tenth House: (House of Capricorn and Saturn) When Aquarius is in the house of making your mark, that impression is striking in some way. You can be known in your field, as an expert, and ahead of your time. And then there's the legacy as offbeat, original or even a freaky dude or dudette. A New Moon here is time to hit the re-set button, for visioning and downtime. But you could have waves of ah-has that signal new directions with your life's work. Very high probability of a breakthrough here, or cracking through the confusion to a sense of purpose. Great time for: creating a vision board; talking to worldly friends about your path; tuning in to divine inspiration.
Aquarius New Moon in the Eleventh House: (House of Aquarius and Uranus) You're a natural in mixed company, with Aqua in your house of friendship as a way of life. This New Moon invites you to tune in to your ability to break the ice, find common ground, and parlay it into something good! Is it time to break your own isolation, and connect with meet-ups, or form alliances? Or perhaps you see a need to circle out of this clique and into others on your wavelength. Good time for: updating your friend list; seeking stimulating currents.
Aquarius New Moon in the Twelfth House: (House of Pisces and Neptune) Your Aquarius-lit house of mysticism gives you unusual intuitive gifts. The impressions you get are not of this world and therefore hard to translate. Aquarius is about drawing down fast-moving currents, to this realm. When it's in the house of mystery, the doors of perception are open, continually leading further down the rabbit hole! Be alert to breakthroughs, that come from being in quiet, protected atmospheres. Where you roam, will be greatly affected by the environment, so choose wisely. What music or art, books or movies, lift rather than degrade? Be ready for a creative breakthrough! Great time for: spiritual practices; new moon rituals; experimenting with free association or through a medium.


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Apple first gen...........somehow i enabled adult content warning in navi-x.............how can i remove this so i can watch movies of any content ?
When i enabled add on's ie: Programs/navi-x/zip file/fusion/repositories/add on scripts..........i back out and go to add on's to view,but they don't show up ?
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Please forgive me for hassling you about this topic, but being a moderator, I hope you can help. myself and numerous people have constantly complained about the amount of **** cropping up on navi-x that is unflagged. Even with my preferences on the navi extreme site set to 'no adult' material, there it is! My wife and children refuse to use it for cartoons etc anymore because of this, blatant hardcore ****, including thumbnails which kids can see when looking through the 'recently updated' section. Turner3d always fixed this, but he seems to of disappeared at the moment. As you donate or sponsor them etc, I hoped you would know someone who could rectify this, as it has fallen on deaf ears for the past month. Check the shout section on navi extreme to see the constant requests for this to be fixed. I cannot express how greatful both myself and many others would be if this could be fixed,
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MT. VERNON — State Rep. Mike Bost says the latest fracking bill in the Legislature could mean jobs in Southern Illinois, if it doesn't get derailed with amendments.
"We worked on this bill in phases," Bost said. "First, we did a lot of research and learned a lot of information about fracking and the process. ... we worked on the taxing side ... and now the newest amendment added to it is to have all union labor on the sites."
It has been a roller coaster of a ride for the bill, which was introduced by State Rep. John Bradley, with Bost as a chief co-sponsor. The bill, HB 2615 and was introduced on Feb. 21.
Since that time, additional bills have been filed which would place a moratorium on fracking.
Fracking is horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. The process uses high pressure mixtures of water, sand or gravel and chemicals to crack rock formations to release oil and natural gas. Vertical fracking has been used for decades in the oil industry, while horizontal fracking has been used for just over a decade.
One group in Illinois has also come forward to oppose the use of fracking — SAFE, which stands for Southern Illinoisans Against Fracturing our Environment.
One such representative of the opposition, Vito Mastrangelo, went before the Rend Lake Conservancy Board last week, to "urge you not to make any sweetheart deals ... they use too much water."
Also this week, SAFE held an anti-fracking rally in Carbondale, stating they believe the process will pollute air and water, urging the state to place a moratorium on the process.
"There is a moratorium on the table and we'd like students to call their legislators and tell them they have concerns about this and a moratorium is a good way to put the breaks on this and study the issue," stated Tabitha Tripp of SAFE.


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(NBC News) -- Longer school supply lists and larger demand for electronics are expected to drive back-to-school spending higher during the second-biggest selling season of the year.
The National Retail Federation's annual survey says total spending on back-to-school items is expected to reach $74.9 billion — up about 3 percent from $72.5 billion in 2013.
The average family with kids in grades kindergarten through high school will spend $669.28, up 5 percent from last year.
The average back-to-school spending for a college student is expected to rise 10 percent to $916.48.
According to the National School Supply Lists Directory, required school supply lists for the upcoming year contain on average 18 items. That's a 29 percent increase from 2013, as items such as tissues and hand wipes are being added into the equation more often.
Electronics are also driving budgets higher, with shoppers expected to spend $212.35 on these items — up 7 percent from 2013.
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Does the "sandbox" that HTML5 defines belong in your company's Web applications? Long-time Web developer and IT manager Cameron Laird explains when and how a sandbox can improve the HTML your software developers use in creating the organization's applications.
The HTML5 standard promises "to ease the authoring of Web-based applications," according to the specification current in summer 2010. Improvements in security are a vital part of that "ease," especially the
iframe "sandbox." Let's look at sandbox's costs and benefits – not how to code with sandbox, but how to decide where to use it, and what the implications will be for your software development team. Before your in-house programmers baffle you by giving you more techie detail than you need to know, here's what you should understand about the choices inherent in a migration to HTML5.
The purpose of HTML5 sandboxes is to manage
iframe "mash-ups," web pages that pull together their content from more than one site. You might build an application, for instance, in which part of the screen shows price-and-availability from a third-party vendor. The easiest way to accomplish that could be simply to retrieve a Web page from the vendor, and display it within your application.
Think what that means from a security standpoint, though. Anyone who trusts your application is now implicitly willing to render the vendor's page. Permission to run scripts, allow cookies, and so on, given to your application, are all extended to the vendor's page. An
iframe-d page could pop up an annoying advertisement and make your application look vulgar.
That's a steeper cost than many of us can bear, and it's a situation that can and should make a CIO nervous. In fact, it's even worse than this description suggests, for there are implementation reasons – state management, performance, and modularization, for instance – to use
iframe even when the user-view doesn't directly involve a mash-up. Also,
iframe is an accessibility challenge; conventions for browsing
iframe-based pages with non-visual browsers are unsatisfying.
The result:
iframe has the reputation of being hazardous, and is probably used less than it should be. Web coders end up relying on more difficult or fragile codings, simply to avoid
iframe. Over-all security suffers both when
iframe is used and when it isn't.
HTML5 Changes All That
The HTML5 sandbox changes that conclusion: It limits the trust the browser puts in
iframe-d content, to eliminate the damage a third-party site can do within your Web application.
A clear picture of the gain that the sandbox brings requires first an understanding of HTML5 and its role in construction of Web applications.
HTML5 is a medley, not a symphony. HTML5 is not a single definite standard, like, say, FORTRAN 77, or a specific recipe for farfalle; it's more of a style, like "Italian cooking." HTML5 isn't fully "baked" yet, and probably never will be; it's likely that, by the time all its many parts have been formalized, the Web world will have moved on to something new.
When someone says he's writing HTML5 now, he probably means he's using an HTML5
<!DOCTYPE html>, and perhaps the
canvas widget. He might be doing more in CSS these days, and relying less on
Beyond these general tendencies, it's hard to pin down "HTML5″ as developers speak of it in terms of specific features. Different programmers do or don't think of:
- drag-and-drop
- geolocation
- scalable vector graphics (SVG)
- Web storage
- Web forms
- media playback
- …and at least another half-dozen major features
The point for an IT manager should be this: When a developer on your team talks about HTML5, and especially about browser support for HTML5, have the person say exactly what that means to her.
"HTML5 sandbox," in contrast, is relatively well-defined. Web applications have experimented with several sandbox concepts and implementations before; from now on, though, the HTML5 sandbox as it appears, for example, in this July 2010 reference will be the winner. Browsers will increasingly support it, and coders will increasingly rely on it.
Direct support for HTML5 sandbox is narrow today. The only major browser to claim it as of this writing is Google's Chrome. However, it's widely assumed that all other browsers will support it in their next releases, and libraries and plugins implement compatibility patches for essentially all the browsers. Your front-line coders should be able to use
sandbox freely, and count on being in an environment that implements the standard correctly. (Unless you're still committed to IE6, in which case, God help you.)
If your development team is thinking about HTML5 sandbox, it needs to do a serious analysis of the implications for your users. Keep in mind that HTML5 as a standard is so fragmented that any other analyses you've done are unlikely to bear directly on HTML5 sandbox. Whether you use
canvas or SVG or off-line storage doesn't determine at all what is right for you with HTML5 sandbox. In most cases, though, the security enhancements HTML5 sandbox brings are so large that it's easy to decide go with it. The only occasions I've seen for it not to be chosen are when a user population is particularly dependent on a legacy browser (IE5 or IE6, for example), and the team already has in place another solution for the security challenges
iframe presents.
The bottom line is this:
- If
iframebenefits your Web applications, then HTML5 sandbox is probably the safest way for you to use
- If you're thinking about HTML5 sandbox, you need to design a compatibility strategy that fits your users and the browsers on which they rely. Which browsers will natively support sandbox when you roll out? Which will need auxiliary libraries?
- Once you've chosen to code against HTML5 sandbox, expect to use it with every
iframe. The security boost it gives is so strong, and its application so flexible, that there's unlikely to be a good reason for any
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Got this note from Amy Severson late last night:
Houston's Preston Center will be changing their name to Hillstone by the end of July. Addison will remain Houston's. Our wonderful server said something about being able to offer more regional "somethings." I don't know exactly, I was busy noticing they had Merryvale Chardonnay (by the glass) back on the menu – FOR $4 LESS PER GLASS THAN A YEAR AGO! Of course some of that is because the vineyards have been slashing prices, still, 1/3 (almost) less. I did notice that their French Dip had gone up $1. Also, the old Houston's location on Walnut Hill has applied for a liquor license as Glen Lakes Grill.
Hmm. This is a curious move. The name Hillstone doesn't make me hungry. "Hey, honey. Let's go to Hillstone's." Guess it works in Boston, New York, and San Francisco. I thought Houston's was the restaurant everybody wanted to be? Now Houston's is putzing with Houston's?


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Left field at Citi Field
In case you missed it, here's the latest photo of the new left field seats at Citi Field. The Mets posted it yesterday on their Twitter feed (@Mets). Check it out:
Looks . . . interesting. And potentially awesome. I heard a rumor, though, that the new seats are going to sell for $100 apiece and include an all-you-can-eat deal with waiter service. Can anyone confirm this? What does everyone think?
(Also, two additional playoff teams?! This could turn out to be great, but I'm not sold yet. I love how hard it is/was to make it to the post-season. Major League Baseball is becoming more like the other major team sports — not necessarily a bad thing, but right now I feel a bit queasy.)
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Hey Zack – I'm not sure about the Mets seats, but as far as the new added playoff team – Bad idea. The reason they are adding it is because they didn't like seeing teams shut it down toward the end of a season because they had the Wild Card spot to fall in to. So, this is how I imagine it sounds in their heads: "Wow, this Wild Card is causing problems. Hmmm…. Let's add ANOTHER!!! Yesssss!".. I sit back and shake my head.
If it was to be fixed, then a revamp was needed, but their solution should be to eliminate the Wild Card that is causing the problem, not add more..
But it's all a numbers game. More teams in = More $$.
33 (now) days to Opening Day! I really do love baseball so much, that I can't wait. I hope you are able to make a California Bay Area tour again this year.
Zack – I like the expanded playoff format myself. As a long-suffering Jays fan (back-to-back WS titles are a fond memory) it would be nice to get back to Oct baseball after nearly 20 years!
I guess that adding more teams doesn't really offend my sensibilities…as long as it doesn't get too out of hand. I still think that only good teams will get in.
Big Glove Bob
We need to move the RF fence in at PETCO.
"Just make it fair." – Phil Nevin former Padres first baseman
Yeah, exactly. More teams = more money. I do think that it could add a lot more excitement, though, but I need to see it to believe it. As for California . . . unlikely. I probably won't be traveling nearly as much this year.
Damn, has it really been that long?
With MLB now sending the top third of teams into the playoffs, teams barely have to be better than average to make it. Right?
As a baseball fan, I love huge ballparks; as a ballhawk, I hate 'em. PETCO is still one of the best, though, with unique snagging opportunities all over.
In response to kslo69, it is TYPEWRITER. Don't ask how I know that.
Wow. (And for those who are like, "Huh?" this is the continuation of a discussion from a previous entry.)
The format of playoffs in the NBA and NHL scares me because more than half of the teams make it. You barely have to be good (the Knicks) to make it to the playoffs. As of now, I believe the Knicks are the 8th best team in their conference.
So they just tacked on two extra rows of seats? I guess no big gap for balls to trickle down into huh?
There is a big difference between a third and a half. So I would not agree that you merely need to be barely above average.
I think it leads to a little more excitement.
Big Glove Bob
Please make a west coast (Bay Area specifically) trip in 2012.
I like the fact that the expanded playoffs have a one-game elimnation. It makes being the regular season divsion winner that much more important.
The lowering opf the fences at Citi is a great move–if three years overdue. Better late than never. I'm sure they will sell these at a premium (ot at least try), which probably makes them off limits for BP.
All you can eat… i would be in heaven
Nice one Skim. I don't have so much a problem with the wildcard addition since the 2 WC's will have to play to eliminate each other before they will face a division winner. It almost makes it a harder road for the WC team. What makes me uneasy is the talk about bringing the DH to the NL. I think that would be a real shame. Can anyone confirm or deny these heinous rumors?
btw, I agree with you about the ballparks. If Bud wants to make another change, I vote for a minimum 380′ to the foul poles, 400′ to center for all new ballparks. We can start the petition here! 8D
An eight-place team has NO business in the playoffs (unless there are 80 teams in the division).
There might end up being a gap in deep right-center. We'll all know in a month.
I guess so.
I will if someone else pays for it. Otherwise, it's highly doubtful.
Good points all around. (Nice to hear from you.)
Depends on the quality. If it's just a bunch of hot dogs, peanuts, popcorn, and soda, I'd be pretty unhappy.
WHAT?!?! This is the first I've heard of NL/DH talk. Say it ain't so. Meanwhile, 380 is a bit far for the foul lines. I'd say 350.
I hope it ain't. I've heard it described as something on Bud's to do list. Maybe just idle chatter. I find it comforting you haven't heard these heresies.365′.
you never said nachos :P yum
Better yet, heres a list of some others. Not pictured is the Marlins who have yet to release designs for the balls this year. So many to get!
I feel very spoiled on a certain level that I have the chance to ballhawk at the Coliseum where the average attendance is 17,000… but then again, it is the Coliseum… oh, and I have Nachos the same way… chips with melted grated cheese
At my hometown Triple A ballpark the have a concession stand dedicated to nachos. yes, real cheese.


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The Old Dominion University Lady Monarchs Monday night 74-70 overtime upset of the Purdue Boilermakers on their home court ended the Boilermakers' 26-game winning streak at home and advanced the Lady Monarchs to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament.
Old Dominion will play third seeded Kansas State in the Mideast Regional semifinals on Saturday in Milwaukee. The game will be broadcast at 2:30 p.m. on ESPN2.
Old Dominion lost in the first round a year ago. Before that, the Lady Monarchs reached the round of 16 five straight times, including a trip to the 1997 title game.
The Lady Monarchs beat Purdue 69-65 in overtime in the second round of the NCAA tournament in 1997.
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Ka'aihue to not get September call up
Previously, the Royals brought up pitchers Victor Marte, Carlos Rosa and Dusty Hughes from Omaha. Hillman said the DiNardo and Gordon promotions signal the end of September callups. That means that Omaha first baseman Kila Ka'aihue (.252, 17 homers, 57 RBIs) will not get a look this year, as he did in 2008.


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Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) hits the Arena at Gwinnett Center in Deluth, Georgia on January 15, 2014 with UFC Fight Night 35: "Rockhold vs. Philippou." The free card is set to be headlined by former Strikeforce Middleweight champion Luke Rockhold looking to pick up his first UFC win against Constaninos Philippou.
While the main event should provide fireworks, one of the most interesting fights was set to take place in the lightweight division between Jason High and Adlan Amagov. Unfortunately, Amagov was forced to pull out of the bout on Wednesday (Dec. 18, 2013) due to an undisclosed injury, leaving High without an opponent.
Amagov has been on a tear as of late, riding a three-fight winning streak, including a first round knockout of T.J. Waldburger at UFC 166. The injury is sure to be a setback with the constantly changing lightweight landscape.
The good news for High is that the promotion was able to find a new opponent pretty quickly. High has the honor of welcoming Beneil Dariush to the UFC. Dariush is a member of the Wand Fight Team and is currently undefeated with five of his six wins coming by stoppage.
High was the first to break the news on Twitter.
New opponent Beneil Dariush. Still goin down January 15th @UFC Fight Night in Atlanta don't trip.
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High is currently on a two-fight winning streak, with his latest win coming by Unanimous Decision at UFC 167 against Anthony Lapsley. While Dariush isn't the step up in competition that he expected, a win will surely make him a player in the UFC's lightweight division.
So what do you say Maniacs, is Dariush in for a hurting? Or will he upset High in his UFC debut? Sound off!


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CATONSVILLE, Md. - Students of one school in Baltimore County are staying home Thursday after a fire damaged their school overnight.
According to Baltimore County officials, a fire broke out at the Western School of Technology in Catonsville around 2:30 a.m. on Thursday.
Crews arrived to find a portable classroom on fire with a second one starting to catch.
The fire went to two alarms. Crews were able to get it under control by 3:30 a.m. They were able to contain the damage to the two portable classrooms and some exterior roof damage to the main building.
There is no word on what started the fire.
According to the Baltimore County Public Schools, the school is closed for students on Thursday. Staff should report to Catonsville High School.


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FARRAGUT (WATE) - The wait is over for Knoxville shoppers.
After years of rumors, hope, petitions and most recently, construction, Knoxvillians finally have their own Costco warehouse.
"Over the years we've taken surveys asking our citizens 'What would you like to see in Farragut that we don't already have?' and always Costco was at the top of the list," said Farragut Mayor Ralph McGill.
The store opened Friday morning with crowds lined up ahead of the 8:00 a.m. open.
"I've heard so much about Costco," said customer Miranda Householder. "I knew it had to be great."
"This is one of the best stores in the country," said customer Glen Laiken. "It's the ultimate in value and quality."
Knox County Mayor Tim Burchett and County Commissioner Mike Hammond attended the ribbon cutting.
"We've been waiting for this for a long time. We've spent a couple of years going back and forth and trying to figure where we could put such a thing, but the bottom line was Costco told us they wanted to be in Farragut period," said McGill. "So it's gonna go in Farragut or it's not gonna be in East Tennessee. So we made it happen."
The mayor said the boost in sales tax would bring in funding for projects around Farragut.
"We've got an active program of adding to our parks, adding other amenities, and this will help pay for some of that," he said.
Costco's vice president for the Southeast U.S., Roger Campbell, said the store has been a long time coming.
"I've been coming to the whole Knoxville market for about the last 12-14 years looking at different sites, knowing we wanted to be here," Campbell said. "When we came upon this one, to me, immediately it just felt right."
Campbell said Costco is about bringing quality items to members at lower prices than they'd find at other stores.
That's why, he said, so many Knoxville residents already had a membership before the store came to town.
"Our sign ups have been very strong. Surprisingly, before we came here we already had 1,500 members that lived in the Greater Knoxville area. They've got to drive an hour and half to the closest store," Campbell said.
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NEW YORK (AP) - Marian Gaborik scored twice in the first period and then completed his hat trick 27 seconds into overtime as the New York Rangers overcame a pair of blown leads and beat the Boston Bruins 4-3 on Wednesday night for their first win of the season.
Gaborik broke free and outraced Andrew Ference and Johnny Boychuk down the ice. His first shot was blocked by goalie Tuukka Rask, but Gaborik batted the rebound out of the air to end the game and start a cascade of flying hats onto the ice.
Taylor Pyatt also scored for the Rangers (2-1), who squandered leads of 2-0 and 3-2 en route to avenging a season-opening loss at Boston on Saturday. Henrik Lundqvist made 26 saves for the win.
The Bruins fell to 2-1 in their first road game of the season.
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A water leak on U.S. 74 near Bivens Road in Monroe caused traffic delays on Saturday.
At one point after a water main burst around 6:45 a.m. the eastbound lanes were closed and traffic was detoured. Later, traffic for the eastbound side was detoured into one lane of the westbound side and marked with traffic cones.
The City of Monroe's Water Resources department was working on repairs that were expected to go well into Saturday night, police said.
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"Life isn't always perfect. But it is overflowing with teachings."
- Jill Blashack Strahan
A small-town girl with big dreams. A brilliant businesswoman. And a force to be reckoned with.
Today Jill Blashack Strahan is a captivating speaker, author and one of the nation's leading female entrepreneurs. Above all, she's a role model and inspiration to thousands of people across the country.
Born and raised in rural Minnesota, Jill grew up on her family's farm, where she was deeply influenced by her father's entrepreneurial spirit. "Dad was typically before his time," she says. "He was an ideas man."
Like father, like daughter.
After earning an associate's degree in sales and marketing, Jill co-owned and managed a cafe with her father called "Jill's Grill" and later started her own retail gift basket shop. And then her story took a whole new turn.
In 1995, she founded Tastefully Simple on what she often calls "a dream and a shoestring." In fact, the company started in a 1,200-square-foot shed with no running water, using a pool table as a packing station.
Then – just three years into the business – Jill was rocked by tragedy. Her brother was killed in a fall, and only a few months later, her husband died suddenly. Jill was then faced with raising her 5-year-old son alone and a skyrocketing business. The decision to continue was difficult. However, Jill pushed herself and developed a new appreciation for living one day at a time. She says, "You always have a choice. You can get better or get bitter."
Today it's easy to see how Jill Blashack Strahan's passion and perseverance paid off. Tastefully Simple has become a $100 million-plus, award-winning company in the Inc. 500 Hall of Fame. (Learn more at www.tastefullysimple.com.)
Thanks to her outstanding leadership and spirit, Jill has also been personally recognized with many honors, such as:
National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) Hall of Fame for Minnesota
Direct Selling News Most Influential Women in Direct Sales
Twin Cities Business "200 Minnesotans You Should Know"
Minnesota Business Professionals of America – Outstanding Business Executive of the Year Award
Minneapolis/St. Paul Women in Business Industry Leader Honoree
Minnesota Entrepreneurs, Inc. Entrepreneur of the Year
Twin Cities Business Hall of Fame
Inc. magazine's list of "Inc. 500" CEO All-Stars
Fast Company magazine's 25 Top Women Business Builders
Small Business Administration Entrepreneurial Success Award
Ernst & Young® Entrepreneur of the Year National Finalist
Ernst & Young Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year for Minnesota & the Dakotas
Jill Blashack Strahan is a published author with Simply
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stories about her life and journey with Tastefully Simple. She began shares her powerful and uplifting message with the nation as
an inspirational speaker. And in 2012, she launched Inspirada Dreams – an inspirational company providing
online members with tools to reflect on where they are in life, imagine new possibilities and create goals
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Today Jill makes her home in Alexandria, Minnesota, with her husband, Gary, and her son, Zach.
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