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Their jobs vanished in the dead of winter. A springtime full of false hopes came and went. Now summer slips by in an anxious whisper, the calendar pages peeling off into thin air.
More than six months after being laid off, the three Silicon Valley workers we've been following in our Pink Slip 2.0 project have turned a corner and joined the growing ranks of California's long-term unemployed. Swelling more than 150 percent from just a year ago, this ill-fated group has ballooned to its highest level in more than 20 years.
Among those additional 303,000 residents officially out of work for 27 weeks or longer — having exhausted their state unemployment benefits and now relying on federal extensions — are Kris Rowberry, Elise Sandusky and Roopa Govindarajan.
Beyond the statistical snapshot are highs and lows and sleepless nights.
"It's a different me that will eventually come out of this," says Rowberry, a 25-year-old San Jose aviation-tech worker laid off in January. "It happens gradually, but I've gone from going out and talking to people, to not leaving the house as much, almost like a shut-in. You kind of lose your innocence, being jobless this long."
Even with signs the recession may also be turning a corner, more job losses are expected and the long-term pool could continue to swell. Millions of Americans are hitting a wall of rejection or, worse, silence from prospective employers. And California, with its record postwar high unemployment rate of 11.9 percent, now boasts a subculture of more than a half-million people still looking for work after at least six months.
At the same time, the state's 65.2 percent Labor Force Participation Rate is the lowest it's been since 1981, meaning an unprecedented number of job-seekers are simply surrendering to the bad times and no longer looking for work.
"People don't believe there's a job out there for them anymore and they give up on themselves," says Janice Shriver, a labor market consultant with the state's Employment Development Department. "The long-term unemployed used to be people difficult to place because they were maybe ex-offenders, or homeless. Today it's government workers and chemists and engineers."
Sandusky, a South San Jose bookkeeper with two children in their 20s, says she's weathering her joblessness the best she can. Since being laid off, she has filled out 2,000 online applications and landed about 20 interviews in return. As Sandusky continues to plumb the online-job market, if at a slightly slower pace, she has lightened her hair ("I'm going to a big family reunion and I don't want to look old and gray") and rearranged the furniture in her mobile home. She says she remains upbeat despite the fact "that I've never been unemployed before for more than five weeks."
"I'm going on seven months now and it sucks," Sandusky says, even though she giggles when she says it. "There are jobs out there, but for something paying $9.75 an hour it's like you need five degrees and a CPA license. Hell, I'll just slit my wrists."
Sandusky's feeling the impact of a recession folded over upon itself, with many of those chemists and engineers now competing with less-trained job-seekers in less specialized fields. Economist Stephen Levy sees an analogy between the long-term unemployed and the glut of foreclosed homes on the market, because "in a way, the long-term unemployed make it that much harder on people who've just been laid off because they're now at the back of the queue."
As Silicon Valley continues to hemorrhage manufacturing jobs, EDD spokeswoman Patti Roberts says many of the pink-slip crowd "are not only out of a job — they're out of a profession." And the result, says San Francisco labor lawyer and former EDD director Michael Bernick, is that "there's definitely a logjam out there. The long-term unemployment numbers reflect just how brutal this recession has become."
None of the three Pink Slip 2.0 participants has received a solid offer, despite the years of work experience they have. And none sees any sign that their luck is about to change.
"Everyone says the economy is starting to turn," says Rowberry. "Well, I'd love to see that!"
The emotional drift of their jobless status plays out in different ways. Software engineer Govindarajan has experienced perhaps the most pronounced mood shift. From her initial anger and insecurity following her Citrix layoff, through a frenzied search for work, to her recent and transformative embrace of her own motherhood, it's as if Govindarajan lost a job but in the process rediscovered her two young sons, ages 6 and 2.
"I have confidence and I know I'll have a new opportunity one day, but I've lost the job-hunt zeal all of a sudden," says Govindarajan, 33, whose engineer-husband's salary helps the couple stay afloat. "I now realize how much of a difference I can make in my kids' lives. I help them with homework and volunteer at school, and I don't want to miss out on that. Because once it's gone, it's gone forever.
"I started imagining being back at a new job and then thinking of my son at school wondering, 'Is Mommy coming to pick me up?' Now when I get him he says, 'I love you so much. Thanks for doing this.' And that's my silver lining."
As Govindarajan and the others are learning, a lengthy spell of unemployment can compound the initial emotional blow of being laid off. Rowberry describes early feelings of anger — "Screw this," he recalls thinking. "I'll show them. I'll get another job." But after weeks and weeks of cold-calls and résumés and increasingly expanded networking, "it turned into my 'blue period.' "
And that, says South Bay psychologist Janet Redman, is when people start turning inward, sometimes with unhealthy consequences.
"If they have habits that are not so good, they revert back to those and maybe drink or eat too much," Redman says. "They can become isolated. It's like they've lost their edge and their confidence, so going out is stressful because they feel disconnected from the world. They see other people working and they decide that everyone except them is happy. And they eventually decide 'nobody is ever going to hire me again.' "
Their joblessness can become self-perpetuating. "The longer they're unemployed, the harder it is to get motivated and find another job," says Redman, who works with her jobless patients to stay socially active and improve their problem-solving skills. "It's like someone who's become disabled."
Stanford University economics professor John Pencavel says, "The experience of unemployment changes people, or at least the perception others have of them. As their skills deteriorate over time, they can become less attractive to potential employers, who'll think, 'There must be something wrong with this guy because he's been unemployed so long. So I won't hire him.' "
As California and the nation brace for even more layoffs before the economy regains its footing, the Pink Slip 2.0 trio keeps scouring the online job boards for a hint of hope, even as the three go through the life-changing trauma that can accompany long-term unemployment.
Sandusky digs in her heels, saying, "I'm not recession-proof, but I'm resilient, and I'll get a job by the end of the year. I'm unemployed — so what? You can't let yourself get so depressed that it consumes you."
Govindarajan has enrolled in computer-science courses at Santa Clara University to improve her chances of eventually finding work in an ever-changing field. But she's equally focused now on her sons, Varun and Vidyuth, and keeping them happy at school and in the kitchen.
"I'm taking more time now to cook for them, and I find it very therapeutic," she says. "I've learned to make pizza and all kinds of Indian snacks like chaat, samosas and vegetable puffs. My kids have opened my eyes to what's really important in life."
And Rowberry, the youngest and most flexible of the three, is beginning to plot a course not just out of the house he shares with his dad, but out of town. There are some job possibilities in Sacramento, he says. After seven months of joblessness in Silicon Valley, it may be time to move on.
Contact Patrick May at (408) 920-5689.
The Mercury News" Pink Slip 2.0 project is chronicling the lives of three laid-off Silicon Valley employees as they search for work while dealing with the fiscal and emotional challenges of unemployment. Join the online community discussion by following Pat May"s blog at www.silicon
beat.com/category/pinkslip or on Twitter at @pinkslipproject.


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Former winners TP Mazembe and Zamalek were paired together in Group A of the CAF Champions League in Tuesday's draw.
Mazembe, of the Democratic Republic of Congo, won back-to-back titles in 2009 and 2010 and were placed in the same pool as five-time winners Zamalek, who last tasted success in 2002.
With the top two from each group advancing to the semi-finals, the pair will go up against Al Hilal Omdurman and AS Vita Club for a place in the last four.
Group B contains another former winner in ES Tunis, who were last in the final two years ago when they lost to Al Ahly, 12 months after claiming glory with a 1-0 aggregate success over Wydad Casablanca.
They also made the final in 2010, but were beaten by Mazembe, and will now face fellow Tunisian side CS Sfaxien, as well as Algeria's ES Setif and Al Hilal Benghazi, who knocked out defending champions Al Ahly in the second qualifying round.
That defeat meant that Al Ahly took up a place in Africa's secondary competition, the CAF Confederation Cup, and the Egyptian giants were drawn in Group B.
They will face Sewe Sport, Nkana and Etoile Sahel, while Group A includes the winners of the tournament two years ago.
Leopards de Dolisie overcame Djoliba 4-3 on aggregate in 2012 and they will have to see off the challenge of ASEC Mimosas, Cotonsport and Real Bamako if they are to repeat the feat this time around.
Draw in full:
CAF Champions League
Group A: Al Hilal Omdurman (Sudan), TP Mazembe (DR Congo), AS Vita Club (DR Congo), Zamalek (Egypt)
Group B: Esperance Tunis (Tunisia), ES Setif (Algeria), CS Sfaxien (Tunisia), Al Hilal Benghazi (Libya)
CAF Confederation Cup
Group A: ASEC Mimosas (Ivory Coast), AC Leopards (Congo), CotonSport (Cameroon), Real Bamako (Mali)
Group B: Sewe Sport (Ivory Coast), Etoile Sahel (Tunisia), Al Ahly (Egypt), Nkana (Zambia)
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Ask the Trainer: Training for Long-Distance Running
Today we have a guest personal trainer to answer your question - Jessica at our Snap Fitness Chanhassen location!
Question: How many miles should I be increasing weekly to train for a half-marathon?
Answer: It depends on your training schedule and how many weeks you have to train. If you have adequate time to train you should ideally increase your long run day mileage by 1 mile each week until you reach 12-13 miles. I typically start with 3 miles and add 1 mile each week until I reach 13 miles.


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Annie's Pizza Boca Raton Sells! Under New Ownership
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Posted By: Pizza Expert on July 13th, 2010
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Just discovered that Annie's Pizza behind FAU sold last week! I am actually a bit upset that the owners didn't tell me, when I questioned them about the prospective buyer hanging around.
I spotted a guy eating there and hanging around for the course of a month, and asked the previous owners if they knew him since I thought I recognized him from other pizza places (seems like I was wrong about that). She told me "nah, he just likes the food here and eats here a lot." Well I guess it was some big secret that they were selling, since they chose to hide it from me.
We went there today to taste the pizza and see if anything has changed. So far so good, the pizza tasted just like it did when the prior owner used to make it. Was a bit upset that they did not have any Sicilian pizza, but after speaking with the new owner over the phone, he assured me they will have Sicilian on their menu, and were making it today.
The new owner told me he and his partner cased out the place for a month and a half, and ultimately decided to pull the trigger and purchase the out of the way location, after a local realtor notified them Annie's was for sale. Originally from Brooklyn, the new owner had a pizza place in North Carolina that he owned and operated for 10 years before taking some time off and relocating to Florida.
They intend on leaving the Annie's menu as is, and will make no changes to the decor inside. They are even keeping the original staff outside the Annie's family members who seem to have disappeared. The new owners told me "they can safely tell everyone that everything will stay the same and to come to try it out. The hours will stay the same, 8-5 monday through thursday and 8-8 on Friday."
With 25 years of pizza making experience, let's hope the new owners can keep up the peculiar business that Annie's did. Annie's is in a very odd spot, and is extremely hard to find, yet it is usually always busy during lunch. The local businesses that are located near them either love the food, or just love the convenience.
Go give them a try, and support the new local owners. We will go back in a couple of weeks to review their pizza, once they settle in.


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Nicole Kidman Signs Her Name with a Heart for Charity
It was 6:02 when we arrived for a 6:00 p.m. cocktail reception with Nicole Kidman, and it was already chaos.
An NYPD squad car was parked outside the Omega flagship store on Fifth Avenue, its flashing lights competing with bombastic cheeriness from the Disney store next door. An NYPD officer snarled at camera-phone toting tourists: "I told you to move on! There's nothing to see!"
But it wasn't their fault, entirely. Lookie Loos were drawn like moths to the giant white lights set up outside a mini-red carpet where a scrum of paparazzi lay in wait. A burly security guy even blocked the publicists with the clipboards. He gave us the fish-eye when we asked to check in. (What! No one told us we were going to party with Nicole Kidman when we got up at 6 a.m.! Doc Martens make sense at dawn, ok?)
Inside, the space was elegant, softly lit and quiet in the way only churches and extremely moneyed havens are. Champagne was served. Little clock-themed hors' d'oeuvres were passed. People wore black with shiny shoes and expertly parted hair. For all the commotion outside, there were perhaps 30 people (a mix of retailers and media) present to watch Nicole Kidman sign boxes for Omega.
Kidman has been an Omega spokesmodel for six years, Omega president Stephen Urquhart says, because she's "a perfect match" for the brand. "She's an incredibly positive person," he says. "You won't see extremes with her. Elegant, refined, good taste — that's what Nicole is."
At just past 6:30, the actress arrived, setting off such a set of flashes that we worried for any nearby epileptics. In a slim black dress and a high, Bardot-ish ponytail, Kidman entered the Omega store, and even the VIPs who were allowed inside raised their iPhones in salute.
Kidman signed her name (with a heart) on thirty boxes from the Omega Constellation series, which retail between $5,000 – $25,000. Kidman lent her name to the project in part as her work as goodwill ambassador for Unicef; proceeds from sales go to the charity Unifem.
She charmed the retailers, stood for photos, autographed her Omega ad. Minutes past 7 p.m., she was taken upstairs and left the store via a secret entrance. She missed out on the cheesecake lollipops.


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The vibrant pink and white blooms of the loropetalum announce spring in Augusta as completely as our famous azaleas and dogwoods. And this relative newcomer from China and Japan is quite at home here, with its preference for well-drained acidic soil and drought tolerance. Add to those qualities insect and disease resistance, a multi-month flowering time and evergreen growth, and you may have described the perfect shrub for the Augusta area.
Though the white flowering species was brought to United States around 1880, it wasn't until 1989 when the pink flowering variety was introduced that the plant became an overnight sensation in Southern landscapes. Known by its more common pronounceable names of Chinese witch hazel or Chinese fringe, loropetalum prefers moist, well-drained, rich, hummusy, acidic soil, but will easily adapt to less than ideal conditions. While it shows chlorosis or yellowing of leaves in non-acidic soil, this is seldom a problem in Augusta's naturally acidic soils.
Loropetalums grow best in full sun to partial shade, though some of the bronze-leafed varieties need maximum sun to retain their dark foliage, full, dense shape and ongoing blooms.
Loropetalums are evergreens with traditional types having green foliage. Many newer varieties, however, sport purple, year-round foliage. Some of the pink bloomers can be found under names such as Blush, Burgundy, Sizzlin' Pink, Pizazz, Razzleberri' and Ruby.
If left alone to grow, most loropetalum will reach a height of 10 to 15 feet and taller with a similar to somewhat smaller width. Some newer varieties are reported to grow to a manageable height of five feet or less. And Shang-Lo Purple Pixie is supposed to mature at one-and-a-half to two feet tall with a four to five foot spread. Regardless, all loropetalum can be kept at the desired size by pruning, normally required two to three times during the growing season. Be sure not to prune them during late winter so you don't cut off the spring flowers. As with most flowering shrubs, it's best to prune just after their main display of blooms in the spring.
Loropetalums show excellent versatility in the landscape. They are attractive grown in clusters or mixed screens as well as foundation plantings or single specimens. Individually, the purple-leaved forms provide appealing contrast to both green and golden foliage plants and are a superior replacement to thorny, red barberries. They also make attractive hedges, but lose their naturally graceful form if heavily pruned. When limbed up, they form lovely, small trees.
Loropetalums are also a great choice for containers or as a subject for espalier or bonsai. They can even be used as a groundcover, but may require periodic removal of vertical stems. Plant low-growing varieties such as Shang-Lo Purple Pixie for this purpose.
You can start your own loropetalum by planting fresh seed or taking semi-ripe soft or firm cuttings in late spring or early summer. Dip the cuttings in rooting hormone and plant them in a light medium. A 3:1 perlite to peat mix works well or you can try a well-drained potting soil. Fertilize with a diluted fertilizer and keep the medium moist until roots appear in about four to six weeks.
Varieties and Cultivars
There are numerous cultivars available and new plants continue to be released. With the speed of its commercialization, there is some confusion regarding the cultivars' differences. However, the good news for consumers is that there is plenty of variation in leaf color, flower color and growth form, assuring a loropetalum to suit multiple purposes in sunny to partly shady landscapes.
Pink-Flowering Forms
Depending on the cultivar, this maroon- to red-purple-leafed variety has blossoms that range from pink to fuchsia to reddish pink as well as white with pink stripes. Height and width varies by cultivar, of which there are many.
• Burgundy. New leaves are reddish purple, but turn a purplish green to dark olive green as they mature. In autumn, the oldest leaves turn orange-red to red. Clusters of four to seven hot pink flowers are produced most prolifically in spring and then sporadically throughout the growing season. It reaches a height of six to 10 feet with a similar width.
• Blush. Along with Burgundy, it is one of the original two introductions of var. rubrum. Its growth habit is more compact and denser than Burgundy. New growth is a bronze-red that matures to an olive-green. Flower color is fuchsia pink. There are five to 10 blossoms in a cluster and peak bloom time occurs in April with additional blooms appearing sporadically during the rest of the growing season. It reaches approximately eight feet tall and wide. It is also known as Razzleberri'.
• Zhuzhou Fuchsia. The leaves of this cultivar are a distinctive blackish maroon color that continues through the summer. It has deep pink blooms, an upright habit and is a good choice for training as a standard (tree form) or espalier. It reaches 10 to 20 feet tall and is the most cold hardy of the pink-flowering forms.
as subjects for espalier or bonsai.
• Bicolor. The flowers are white with a streak of light pink. Its leaves start off as a dark maroon color that mature to a dark olive green. It reaches a height of five to 10 feet.
• Burgundy Bill Wallace. Bill Wallace originated as a sport on a Burgundy loropetalum. It continues the leaf and flower color of Burgundy, but has a procumbent habit (grows along the ground without rooting), reaching about eight to 12 inches in height and about three to four feet in width. It is particularly suited for cascading over a wall, the side of a container or as a groundcover on a sloping bank.
• Shang-hi Purple Diamond. The leaves of this loropetalum are an intense, deep purple that lasts through the summer and provides an eye-catching contrast to its vibrant pink flowers. Mature height is approximately four to five feet tall with a similar width.
• Shang-lo Purple Pixie. As with Purple Diamond, the leaves are an intense, deep purple and blooms are a vibrant, hot pink. However, its mature height is one to two feet with a spread of four to five feet. New growth tends to be ascending, but over time cascades downward. It is well-suited for use as a groundcover, a container plant or a wall cascade.
• Ever Red Sunset. Leaves maintain a dark burgundy color through the summer. Its flowers are the reddest of this variety. Mature height is approximately six feet tall with a similar width.
• Little Rose Dawn. This cultivar originated as a sprout from Ruby loropetalum and is more compact, more spreading and a profuse bloomer with dark pink flowers. Mature height is approximately eight to 10 feet tall.
White-Flowering Forms
• Carolina Moonlight. This dense, compact shrub is wider than it is tall, generally reaching three to four feet while spreading four to five feet. It is a prolific bloomer from late winter to early spring and then flowers sporadically throughout the season.
• Snowmound or Snow Muffin. Characterized by dense, procumbent growth habit when young. It develops into a roundish mound as it ages, maintaining its dense growth habit. New leaves are light green, maturing to dark olive green. Its white flowers are abundant from late winter to spring. Mature height is from one to three feet with a width of two to three feet.


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USVI utilizing grass to create renewable energy
The St. Croix Public Services Commission (PSC) has approved Tibbar Energy's facility design for a 6 MW anaerobic power plant as the source of continuously renewable green energy fuel. The generator uses Viaspace's proprietary Giant King Grass, with the goal of growing 1,500 acres of hybrid Giant King Grass and converting it to biofuel for generating electricity.
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The biomass project offers a sustainable outlet for the U.S. Virgin Islands' (USVI) green waste through composting, which can then be used as a fertilizer for agricultural operations. The anaerobic digestion operation also offers a potential renewable outlet for the island's food waste.
Prior to the approval, Tibbar Energy representatives explained that Giant King Grass is a fast-growing, high yield grass that is neither genetically modified nor invasive. The grass does not compete with other crops, is similar to sugar cane, and uses high-nutrient fertilizer water which will not deplete the soil, they said.
Tibbar hopes to harvest 500 to 600 tons of Giant King Grass per day, running the grass through an anaerobic generator which can produce up to seven kilowatts per hour.
Biomass projects utilizing energy crops in anaerobic digestion to create renewable electricity have been used successfully in thousands European locations.
Tibbar has been working closely with the USVI Department of Planning and Natural Resources, Department of Labor, Waste Management Authority, Water and Power Authority, Department of Agriculture, Public Works Commission, Public Services Commission, Virgin Islands Energy Office, Farmers Cooperative, and St. Croix Environmental Association. A strategic alliance with Danish biogas company, Renew Energy, will allow Tibbar to capitalize on the company's vast experience in the design and operation of these systems across Europe.
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Packaging and Shipping
Hanging out in the electronics markets of Shenzhen, China after hours I witnessed first-hand how some electronics parts are packaged and shipped to the US and other parts of the world. Shenzhen is the fourth largest port in the world in terms of shipping container throughput, and it has been the number one city in China in terms of export volume for the last twenty years.
I was reminded how fortunate we are to have partners who handle our packages with care, and just how well we do packaging and shipping back home.
In a perpetual cycle of selling, packaging and shipping, the streets at night come alive with vendors sending off what they sold that day.
For a westerner there is seemingly no order to the neurosis that follows. The feverish growth of this city seems to never have allowed anyone to stop and organize the madness. Piles of packages spill out into the streets. With the traffic, it's a miracle packages make it to their final destination.
Every back alleys is filled with vendors taping up their boxes almost superstitiously with the famous yellow tape.
Many packages are shipped off to Hong Kong where shipping rates are more reasonable than mainland China.
The smell of dumplings fills the air as the shippers work well into the night. Note the shipping supplies stand nearby absorbing the dumplings fragrance. I had to try the dumplings. They are delicious and ridiculously inexpensive.
Trucks, vans, bikes, anything that moves on the ground is loaded with packages until they can carry no more.
Back home, for some of you not familiar with our shipping method, we package and label each part individually. The label has the part number at the top, with a description and barcode for that part as well as a batch number, helping us identify the origin of the part.
If you have not ordered from us before, we have spent a considerable amount of time designing and testing various packaging methods, so you can be sure that your parts will arrive consistently intact.
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My webserver chronicles – Part 1: Mail server
Oct 26th
Recently I decided to have a go at setting up my own Mail Server on my Ubuntu dedicated box. I assumed this would be a simple task as there are so many tutorials out there. But the most challenging task turned out to be filtering through the articles that will more than likely leave your system open wide to attacks and those that just simply don't work.
The technologies that I wanted to mess about with were:
1) Postfix
2) Courier
3) MySQL (To hold domain /mailbox information)
Finally I found this. The documentation / instruction is extremely meticulous and yet easy to understand. I would thoroughly advise using this if you want to set up a mail server on a linux machine. It includes aspects from just basic mail servers including security with firewalls (Shorewall), right up to spam filtering, secure auth and much more.
I haven't posted in almost a year but I will be posting more about my journey through setting up my webserver.
Delving into Images with PHP, Exif and ImageSize – the not so secret art
Feb 1st
Recently I have been tasked with automatically compiling, tagging and indexing images added to an application via FTP. The images had been tagged using Adobe Bridge or Photoshop, anyone with knowledge of Adobe products will be familiar with tagging images. For those who aren't, you can add descriptions, titles, ratings, keywords and copyrights (to name a few) to the core of an image using Bridge or Photoshop. My challenge was extracting this information at the other end. As the user would be uploading 1000s of images, there was absolutely no way they would want to tag each image after waiting for it to upload via a web form. After a few cron scripts dumping errors and FTP permission issues I managed to configure a system that would listen in a drop folder on one of the servers and then chmod and move the file to a web friendly directory for processing. This is where the interesting stuff begins.
Cropping images with CodeIgniter and jQuery
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The art to having a website with decent imagery is to allow the user/administrator to crop the images. Despite advancing web technologies, I still cannot trust a computer to scale, resize or crop an image without the resulting image being of someones foot.
There are certain 'off-the-shelf' products, mainly for ASP.net, with very little introduced into PHP, so I had to build my own using helpful libraries and plugins.
The Cropping
Writing a JavaScript cropping tool from scratch is no small challenge, getting a bug-free environment where all of the calculations are perfect can take weeks of hairless programming sessions and various mental breakdowns! And with my hair still in tact and mental capacity intact I implemented jCrop (I let someone else do the hard work). I am continuously reminding people that reinventing the wheel is both a waste of time, energy and sanity but the odds are against you. If a plugin is popular then the chances are that their solution will be 10 times better than yours as theirs have probably evolved over several months if not years!
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On August 31st Twitter will be axing basic auth GET requests, which is being overtaken by the more secure oAuth, there are a few tutorials out there on how to use oAuth and how to get started creating an app with CodeIgniter, but not many with actually helpful advice so here is my 2 penneth.
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Detecting Mobile devices with WURFL and PHP
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The Wireless Universal Resource File (WURFL) is an open source device library which describes itself as follows:
The WURFL is an "ambitious" configuration file that contains info about all known Wireless devices on earth. Of course, new devices are created and released at all times. While this configuration file is bound to be out of date one day after each update, chances are that the WURFL lists all of the WAP devices you can purchase in the nearest shops.
This configuration can be combined with their shiny new PHP and Java API's to interrogate the user's UAProf or USERAGENT strings to pin point the type of device the user is browsing on.
So how do we use it. The first step is to set the WURFL config file (wurfl-config.xml) which may look something like this.
Then to use the API, for this example I will be using the PHP API.
require_once 'WURFL_installation_root/WURFL/WURFLManagerProvider.php';
$wConf = 'Relative path to wurfl-config.xml';
$wManager = WURFL_WURFL_ManagerProvider::getWURFLManager($wConf);
$info = $wManager->getDeviceForHttpRequest($_SERVER);
This code will load a large object of UAProf information which can be interrogated using the WURFL API functions (See Documentation).
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KOLKATA: Diversified PSU Balmer Lawrie & Co Ltd today said it will make a foray into the Rs 1,800 crore construction chemical business and plans to use Chinese technology for this purpose.
"We have decided to get into construction chemicals as diversification of chemical business. This is done with Chinese technology," Balmer Lawrie Chairman and Managing Director S K Mukherjee said here today after the company's annual general meeting.


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Based on over 140 letters from, and extensive interviews with, original Land Girls and songs from the period, Lilies on the Land charts the personal journeys of four women who signed up for the Women's Land Army over 70 years ago in World War II.
Devised by company the Lion's part after placing an open letter in Saga magazine, these gripping but charming tales reveal the lives of women from all walks of life determined to work endless, backbreaking hours on farms across the country in a bid to do their best for the War Effort.
The play looks at how these women, hailing from all different walks of life, torn from their families and bereft of all basic home comforts, deal not only with the hardships of farming life and the pressures of war, but also with being outsiders in new surroundings.
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The Hummingbirds were formed in February 2009 to participate in the first annual Music City Corporate Band Challenge, hosted by the Arts & Business Council of Middle Tennessee. The band was quickly assembled just four weeks before the competition and began rehearsals in earnest with the bank CEO's vow to "rock the house!" After taking second place in the competition in 2009 and 2010, the band took first place in 2012. The Hummingbirds played at the CMA Music Festival in June 2012, and they continue to play together for company functions and by invitation for community events.
The Hummingbirds' style is an eclectic blend of 70s rock and new country defined by strong vocal harmonies with some banjo twang thrown in for that Nashville sound. While the band started out as a typical "cover" band seeking to replicate another group's sound, they have evolved into their own style that capitalizes on the vocal and musical talents of the members.
The band has ten members, including Avenue Bank's CEO (Ron Samuels), Chief Financial Officer (Barb Zipperian), Director of Security (Kevin Mills), Music & Entertainment Private Banking Division head (Ron Cox), Mortgage Loan Specialist (Heather Redmond), and former Private Banking Assistant Holli Ewing. While none of the bank employees are currently music professionals, each one has a musical background—including some professional performers—that was mostly unknown to their co-workers until the call went out to all employees when the band was formed.
Joining these employees are four musically talented friends.
The band's name is taken from the company's logo, which features a bright red hummingbird. The bank chose this symbol because it sends the message that Avenue is "a different kind of bank," and Avenue associates reflect the unique bird's qualities of agility, competitiveness and loyalty.
The Hummingbirds:
Ron Samuels, Guitar – Avenue Bank Chairman & CEO
Barb Zipperian, Vocals – Avenue Bank Chief Financial Officer
Ron Cox, Banjo & Guitar – Avenue Bank SVP & Head of Music/Entertainment Division
Kevin Mills, Guitar & Lead Vocals – Avenue Bank VP & Director of Security
Heather Redmond, Lead Vocals – Avenue Mortgage Loan Specialist
Holli Ewing, Bass & Vocals – Stay-At-Home Mom and former Avenue Bank Private Banking Assistant
Kelly Sullivan, Guitar & Vocals – (Holli's sister) Friend of Avenue and works in pharmaceutical sales
Amy Sullivan, Keyboard – (Holli's sister) Friend of Avenue and a Registered Nurse at St. Thomas Hospital
Leighton Linning, Guitar – Friend of Avenue and works as a restaurant server while also attending law school
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AbstractCombustion of forest and grassland vegetation contributes to atmospheric pollution and rising greenhouse gases concentrations. Remotely measuring the energy radiated during natural fires has been suggested as a method for enhancing current emissions estimates. When made from satellites, such measures can potentially provide important new information on large-scale biomass combustion rates, which relate directly to the production of emissions. EOS-MODIS now makes such observations globally, multiple times per day. Using small experimental fires observed with a field spectro-radiometer we present the first evaluation of the relationship between time-integrated fire radiative energy and total mass of vegetation combusted. Results indicate a linear relationship (r(2)=0.78) for fire sizes varying over almost two orders of magnitude. Further information on the rate and intensity of burning is contained within the emission spectra. The results support the continued investigation of fire radiative energy as a new tool to enhance biomass burning emissions inventories.
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Procurement analyst for the Mission and Installation Contracting Command Policy and Compliance Directorate's Field Support Division at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
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Teaneck, New Jersey (January 17, 2013) - Sharsheret, a national not-for-profit organization supporting young women and their families, of all Jewish backgrounds, facing breast cancer will present a free national teleconference, "Am I A Survivor?" What You Should Know Now About Breast Cancer Survivorship, Tuesday, January 29, 2013, 8:00 p.m. (EST). This teleconference is part of Sharsheret's National Survivorship Teleconference Series. An audio recording and written transcript will be posted online following the teleconference at www.sharsheret.org.
The live teleconference will feature experts in the field of cancer survivorship, Patricia Ganz, M.D. and Lillie Shockney, R.N., B.S., M.A.S., who will address emerging research in survivorship, the transition period after treatment has ended, and the importance of survivorship care plans. Rochelle Shoretz, two-time breast cancer survivor, and Executive Director of Sharsheret, will speak about the unique needs of young Jewish breast cancer survivors. Jennifer Thompson, Survivorship Program Supervisor for Sharsheret, will provide an overview of Sharsheret's new survivorship program, "Thriving Again: Life After Breast Cancer for Young Jewish Women," with details on how women can request their free tailored survivorship kit.
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CORPUS CHRISTI - Today's Texas A&M - Corpus Christi softball doubleheader against Houston Baptist has been postponed to a later date due to a scheduling conflict.
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Dunno who designed it, but I reckon right now its the best CURRENT
financial calculator. I've been evaluating all the ones I could find
and it fits the bill. I was able to program MIRR into it rather
easily using a solution from the 19B manual. The TI has MIRR already,
but the quality of the actual buttons and stuff is inferior to the HP
and it doesn't have a solver. There are some known bugs in the
latest rev of the 17bII+ in terms of the solver, which is
dissappointing, so hopefully HP will come out with something better in
the future. If they still made the 19B I would get it. It has a few
more functions available in the solver which are not in the 17B, such
as trig and PV, FV, etc. But you can write solvers to do those
things, but you just have to use lower level functions and its a bit
more tedious and complicated to figure out.
If HP would make a new calculator that had solver, financial
functions(including MIRR for crise sakes), macro programming, trig and
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PRESTIGE BEAUTY GROWS: The prestige beauty market in the U.S. reached $8.9 billion last year, up 2 percent compared with 2006, The NPD Group reported this week. Of the three main categories, only fragrance sales declined (by 1 percent), while sales of makeup and skin care each increased by 4 percent. Makeup was the biggest prestige beauty category last year, with 38 percent of the market on sales of $3.4 billion. Fragrance was second, with $2.94 billion in sales, and skin care rang up $2.5 billion. Face makeup drove the overall makeup category, with 46 percent of prestige makeup sales, while eye makeup accounted for 29 percent. In skin care, antiaging products drove growth, generating $1.2 billion. In fragrance, the men's and women's markets were both down 1 percent due to a flood of new launches and scores of brands on the market, NPD noted. The top five prestige scents last year were Acqua di Giò, a men's scent; Beautiful (Estée Lauder); Coco Mademoiselle; Chanel No.5, and Cashmere Mist (Donna Karan/Lauder).
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PROCTER IN POLAND: Procter & Gamble is investing $50 million in a factory in Poland, which will manufacture Olay treatment products. Construction already has begun on the plant, which will be operational by the first half of next year, a P&G spokeswoman said on Thursday. Some 300 employees will be based at the factory located in Aleksandrów Lódzki, near Lodz, in central Poland. P&G has been present in the country since 1991 and has two other factories there, which produce Pampers diapers and Gillette razors.
PUIG MOVES: Puig Beauty & Fashion Group is stepping up its international presence. The Barcelona-based firm opened a Mexican subsidiary last month for its prestige fragrance distribution, which was previously handled by Chanel-owned Perfumeria Versailles SA. By 2011, the new subsidiary, Puig Prestige Mexico, aims to double the sales of Puig's designer fragrance brands — including Paco Rabanne, Nina Ricci and Carolina Herrera — which came in at $12 million at wholesale last year. With an 8.1 percent market share and revenue growth of almost 20 percent in Mexico last year, Carolina Herrera is the leading luxury fragrance brand countrywide, according to Puig. Meantime, in Europe, the company has taken full ownership of its German distributor, Parfum Distribution Hamburg, and its Austrian distributor, Parfum Distribution Wein, which have been renamed Puig Germany and Puig Austria, respectively. Formerly, that business was split evenly between Puig and travel-retail operator Gebr. Heinemann. The move was made to double Puig's sales in Germany and Austria from 20 million euros, or $29 million at current exchange, today to 40 million euros, or $58 million, by 2011.
BOSWELL TO ALBERTO: Alberto-Culver Co. has named Gina Boswell president of global brands, a new position. Boswell, who was most recently senior vice president and chief operating officer for Avon North America, oversees Alberto-Culver's Alberto VO5, TRESemmé, St. Ives and Nexxus brands, as well as research and development and consumer insights. She reports to V. James Marino, Alberto-Culver's president and chief executive officer. Prior to joining at Avon, Boswell, a 10-year veteran of the beauty industry, worked at the Estée Lauder Cos. Inc. and Ford Motor Co. "Gina's experience shaping strategy and corporate development will be an integral part of Alberto-Culver's global brand strategy and growth," Marino said.
DROM APPOINTMENT: Fragrance supplier Drom named Jean Gatignol general manager of its U.S. division. Gatignol, who was most recently at fragrance supplier Takasago, also has held international management positions at fragrance suppliers Symrise and Dragoco. He also has worked at L'Oréal. In his new role at Drom, Gatignol oversees the firm's U.S. operations. "Jean is the right fit to manage expansion [at Drom] and lead our young and dynamic U.S. team into the future," said Ferdinand Storp, president and owner of Drom Fragrances.
BOOKWORM: Hairstylist and salon owner Allen Edwards has written a coffee-table book, titled "Shear Force: An Image Maker's Memoir," based on his humble beginnings, his rise to the top of the hair world and his salon business. Edwards entered the hair elite after taking over the successful Los Angeles-based John Peters Salon on Rodeo Drive in the Seventies, where he created Farrah Fawcett's signature feathered look. "Shear Force," due out in May or June, will be sold at Borders and Barnes & Noble, and is being published by Durban House.
DOUBLE DOWN FOR BEAUTY: Based on the success of the Discover Beauty program at Cosmoprof North America last year — which pairs up new beauty companies with retailers — show officials are adding the spa category to the beauty program. Cosmoprof has partnered with the Las Vegas Spa Association to bring spa directors from some of the largest spas in the country to participate in the one-on-one meetings. About 24 exhibitors are expected to participate in Discover Beauty overall, up from 12 companies last year.
SHOW MOVES: In response to industry concern that the second annual Global Beauty Exhibition & Conference would conflict with area distributor shows, Michael Boyce, president of One Vision Management Group LLC, recently announced that Global Beauty will now take place on Aug. 10 and 11, rather than sometime in October. More than 3,000 industry professionals from 33 states and six countries came to New York's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center for last year's inaugural show, with 90 exhibitors filling out more than 20,000 square feet.
TOP 10: TotalBeauty.com, a comprehensive online beauty library for women, is generating more than 500,000 unique visitors a month since launching in December. The site offers more than 60,000 product reviews of prestige, mass and spa brands, the company said. "Women are incredibly passionate about beauty and are hungry for a platform to learn and share. TotalBeauty.com is that place," said the site's chief executive officer and founder, Emrah Kovacoglu, who developed it after working at Procter & Gamble as the global digital brand manager for cosmetics.
SAFETY FIRST: L'Oréal USA has granted the Women's Dermatologic Society Foundation $1.05 million over a three-year period to support the foundation's Play Safe in the Sun campaign. The mission of the WDS campaign is to educate women athletes to maintain healthy skin and hair by promoting sun safety. Community outreach will take place at various venues in select cities hosting various outdoor sporting events and will reach out to the public with free skin cancer screenings. Volunteer dermatologists will provide photo damage assessments and educational materials will be distributed.
RED HEARTS: In celebration of February being heart health month, Clairol Professional is donating 20 cents for each product purchased from select items within its vast portfolio to the national Go Red for Women movement founded by the American Heart Association. The drive started Feb. 1 and will run until June, contributing toward a total donation of $100,000. Retail chain Perfumania is addressing the charity, too, and this month has launched a new Go Red fragrance in stores, and will donate $5 from the sale of each to the AHA. Since 2004, Go Red for Women aims to raise money and awareness to wipe out heart disease — the leading killer of women.
FLAVOR CRAVE: Strong initial sell-through and mounting consumer demand for the new Guilt Free Lip Gloss by Too Faced Cosmetics has led the company to plan new flavors by yearend and to expand distribution outside of Sephora. Starting in March, the glosses — which retail for $18.50 — will roll out to Nordstrom, Ulta, Gottschalks and Macy's doors nationwide. Betsy Olum, senior vice president of marketing for Sephora, said the Strawberry Melon version of the product has been a top five selling lip gloss at Sephora as well as for the total Too Faced brand. The glosses first launched in late December exclusively at Sephora stores nationwide. They are a product of a collaboration between Irvine, Calif.,-based Too Faced and Fuze Beverages, which is part of the Coca-Cola group.
COLLIER PROMOTED: Sharon Collier has been named president and chief executive officer of Gurwitch Products, which develops and markets the Laura Mercier beauty brand. Collier, who previously was president of the firm, is replacing Janet Gurwitch in the ceo role. Gurwitch Products, which was acquired by Alticor Inc. in 2006, has reached $100 million in annual sales, according to the company.


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I have been using microsoft office word 2007 (beta) but I am no "techno" and just use it everyday as a secretary would, in fact I am not even a secretary but like using computers. I did not sign up to your event as it would go way over my head. Your blog is very readable 🙂 but I would likke to know when the new software will be made available to the ordinary punter and what will happen after my sell by date has happened.
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Former mortgage executive Lee Farkas is asking a judge to toss his conviction for orchestrating a multibillion-dollar fraud because of the shoddy defense he says his lawyers put up. Read the Daily Bankruptcy Review article here.
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According to The Wall Street Journal, a government witness testified Tuesday that Bernard Madoff's entire company was a fraud, not just the investment business that hosted the massive Ponzi scheme.
Oil and gas company OGX Petroleo e Gas Participacoes might file for bankruptcy pretty soon, Bloomberg reports.
Bloomberg has more on the Commodities Futures Trading Commissions' upcoming adoption of new rules to better protect customer funds.
Residential Capital LLC parent Ally Financial Inc. is settling with regulators over mortgage-backed securities sold during the financial crisis, WSJ reports.
Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr said he might force a cramdown deal on creditors if they don't accept a restructuring plan, Reuters reports.
According to Bloomberg, American Airlines Chef Executive Tom Horton thinks there will be a way to settle the Department of Justice's antitrust suit over the airline's planned merger with U.S. Airways Group
Eastman Kodak is set to list its stock in the New York Stock Exchange Friday, the Associated Press reports.
The fight is heating up in the battle over the Philadelphia Inquirer, the New York Post reports.
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