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Toad Fondo
Saturday, April 26, 2014 from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM (PDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
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Event Details
Take a scenic ride through the Ojai Valley. Mix in new and old friends. Throw in roadside snacks and a farm fresh feast after the finish. Top it off with a little media hype and you are riding in the exciting energy of the Toad Fondo!
When: Saturday, April 26 , 2014 at 8 am
Start: The MOB Shop, 110 W Ojai Ave, Ojai, CA 93023
Register here or at www.toadfondo.org
Ride and raise funds for high school students to attend The Thacher School!
When & Where
Toad Fondo at The MOB Shop
110 West Ojai Avenue
Saturday, April 26, 2014 from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM (PDT)
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The Toad Fondo, is a charity ride, to raise funds for students to attend The Thacher School in Ojai, where 27% of students receive aid. The Thacher School is a 501c3 non-profit


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Steve Grossman on Corporations
Former Chair of DNC; Democratic Challenger MA Governor
Grossman is hoping for a bit of role reversal. We've seen many instances where progressive candidates offer a sheaf of plans to create jobs only to be shot down by an opponent, usually a Republican, with something like, "Plans are great but I'm the only one in the race who has actually created good jobs at good wages." This time though, Grossman feels that he's the one that can say that with conviction because of his and his family's experience with the Grossman Marketing Group, formerly the Massachusetts Envelope Co., a very successful local firm.
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MA Gubernatorial:
Bill Weld
Charlie Baker
Dan Wolf
Deval Patrick
Don Berwick
Karyn Polito
Martha Coakley
Marty Walsh
Richard Tisei
Tom Menino
Warren Tolman
MA Senatorial:
Brian Herr
Bruce Skarin
Ed Markey
Elizabeth Warren
Gabriel Gomez
John Kerry
Martha Coakley
Mo Cowan
Gubernatorial Debates 2014:
AL: Bentley(R) vs.Griffith(D)
AR: Ross(D) vs.Hutchinson(R) vs.Griffin(R,Lt.Gov.)
AZ: Ducey(R) vs.DuVal(D) vs.Mealer(AE) vs.Gilbert(L) vs.
CA: Brown(D) vs.Kashkari(R)
CO: Hickenlooper(D) vs.Beauprez(R) vs.
CT: Malloy(D) vs.Foley(R) vs.Walker(R,Lt.Gov.)
FL: Scott(R) vs.Crist(D) vs.Snitker(L,Lt.Gov.)
GA: Deal(R) vs.Carter(D) vs.Hunt(L)
HI: Ige(D) vs.Aiona(R) vs.
IA: Branstad(R) vs.Hatch(D) vs.
MA: Coakley(D) vs.Baker(R) &Polito(R,Lt.Gov.) vs.
ME: LePage(R) vs.Michaud(D) vs.Cutler(I)
MI: Snyder(R) vs.Schauer(D)
NM: Martinez(R) vs.King(D)
NY: Cuomo(D) &Hochul(D,Lt.Gov.) vs.Astorino(R) vs.Hawkins(G) vs.
OK: Fallin(R) vs.Dorman(D)
PA: Corbett(R) vs.Wolf(D) vs.
Newly-elected 2014:
AK-I: Bill Walker
AR-R: Asa Hutchinson
AZ-R: Doug Ducey
IL-R: Bruce Rauner
MA-R: Charlie Baker
MD-R: Larry Hogan
NE-R: Pete Ricketts
PA-D: Tom Wolf
RI-D: Gina Raimondo
TX-R: Greg Abbott
Up for re-election 2014:
AK-R: Sean Parnell
AL-R: Robert Bentley
CA-D: Jerry Brown
CO-D: John Hickenlooper
CT-D: Dan Malloy
FL-R: Rick Scott
GA-R: Nathan Deal
HI-D: Neil Abercrombie
IA-R: Terry Branstad
ID-R: Butch Otter
IL-D: Pat Quinn
KS-R: Sam Brownback
ME-R: Paul LePage
MI-R: Rick Snyder
MN-D: Mark Dayton
NH-D: Maggie Hassan
NM-R: Susana Martinez
NV-R: Brian Sandoval
NY-D: Andrew Cuomo
OH-R: John Kasich
OK-R: Mary Fallin
OR-D: John Kitzhaber
PA-R: Tom Corbett
SC-R: Nikki Haley
SD-R: Dennis Daugaard
TN-R: Bill Haslam
VT-D: Peter Shumlin
WI-R: Scott Walker
WY-R: Matt Mead
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Foreign Policy
Free Trade
Govt. Reform
Gun Control
Health Care
Homeland Security
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Social Security
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Term-Limited or Retiring 2014:
AR-D: Mike Beebe
AZ-R: Jan Brewer
MA-D: Deval Patrick
MD-D: Martin O'Malley
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EVESHAM business owners are asking why the county council has not done more to protect the town after meeting with the managing director of the company building the new bridge.
Ali Aldkish, who owns Avonside Motors in Abbey Road with his wife Vanessa, has called for Worcestershire County Council to explain why businesses in the town have not been better supported during the disastrous delays on the Abbey Bridge works.
The call from the couple comes after they met with John Jackson, the managing director of Hochtief, the company contracted to carry out the replacement of the bridge.
But despite the delay to the work, meaning the bridge will be closed for more than six months and not the original 10 weeks as planned, Mr Aldkish says he does not blame Hochtief.
He said: "We met with John Jackson and the site manager. The chief put his hands up and said we were over optimistic about the 10 weeks.
"They faced the problem and paid the penalty."
And this is where Mr Aldkish believes Worcestershire County Council are to blame.
"The main problem is who drafted the contract and put a small penalty in," he said. "I don't blame Hochtief. If the penalty was higher they would've used all their workforce."
The council is not revealing what the penalty charges are to Hochtief for the delay. But it says the priority has been getting the bridge open.
Councillor John Smith, cabinet member for highways, said: "Yes, there are liquidated damages included in the contract, financial penalties in non-legal language, and the county council will be working to ensure Hochtief meet all of its contractual obligations in full.
"Exact details of the liquidated damages are commercially sensitive and, as such, can't be discussed publicly. Priority at this stage is being focused on getting the link open as early as is possible.
"The contract with Hochtief is a fixed price design and build contract. The contractor, who takes all final decisions on the work programme, is responsible for staffing levels and associated costs."
Now after months of uncertainty Mr Aldkish said the best thing to come from the meeting was the assurance the bridge would open by the end of March.
"He (John Jackson) said it will be before March 31. I have to believe him. We can now plan and we know where we stand. Evesham will survive this but let's learn from this."


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LONG BEACH — Voters were favoring the re-election of one City Council member Tuesday, but were closely split on who would fill the other two seats.
The sole race apparently headed to a clear-cut result by 9:45 p.m. was the 2 nd District, where Councilwoman Suja Lowenthal was polling strongly with a 2-to-1 margin over political newcomers Janet Ballantyne and Mike Kamer, with only vote-by-mail ballots counted, according to the City Clerk's Office.
Lowenthal was guarded, declining to assume victory, but was pleased with the early indications.
"From what we've seen so far, I feel very comfortable and sort of renewed in the fact that people believe in what we've been doing in the 2 nd District," she said.
"Not just me, but all of us together, empowered by partnership."
In the 8th District, retired Los Angeles official Lillian Kawasaki was leading labor representative Al Austin by less than two percentage points.
Councilman Patrick O'Donnell, the 4th District representative seeking a third term as a write-in, was running behind retired Long Beach police officer John Watkins and business marketing consultant and community activist Daryl Supernaw.
Winners take office on July 17.
8th District
The 8th District was the most competitive council race, with two politically-connected candidates battling to succeed Councilwoman Rae Gabelich.
Kawasaki, an elected director of the Water Replenishment District of Southern California, was in the lead, drawing 49.7 percent of vote-by-mail ballots. Her campaign was backed by two frequent Gabelich council opponents, Mayor Bob Foster and Councilman Gary DeLong.
Gabelich supported Austin, who had 48 percent of the vote.
A third challenger, Army veteran and student Gustavo Rivera, didn't mount an active campaign and had 2.3 percent of the vote.
The district includes parts of Bixby Knolls and North Long Beach and is bisected by the Atlantic Avenue business corridor.
4th District
In the 4th District around Los Altos and the Traffic Circle area, Councilman Patrick O'Donnell is trying to make history.
If he places at least second, with no candidate gathering 50 percent of the vote, he would advance to a June runoff and appear on the ballot.
That, along with O'Donnell's steadfast labor support, would boost his chances of being the first member of the council to win a third term since voters approved term limits in 1992.
Watkins had 35.6 percent of the vote as of 9:45 p.m.; Supernaw had 34.7 percent. O'Donnell was third with 29.7 percent.
During the campaign, Watkins fended off questions after it was revealed he lost his contractor's license in 1995 when the state determined he had done deficient work for the remodeling of a Rossmoor home.
He said he worked off approved plans and didn't have money to contest the charges or pay about $115,000 in restitution.
Public safety was a centerpiece issue in 4th District debates.
The city's police and fire unions supported O'Donnell for a third time; Watkins was a member of the LBPD for almost 30 years.
2nd District
Lowenthal was the only incumbent on the ballot Tuesday and had 62.3 percent of the early votes.
The 2nd District covers the Port of Long Beach and coastal downtown areas to the east.
Ballantyne, a sponsor relations manager at a financial firm, and Kamer, a volunteer coordinator and graduate student, accused Lowenthal of being out of touch with residents. They collected 29.7 percent and 8.1 percent of votes, respectively.
Discontent over possibly including residents in a 14-year-old downtown business improvement tax drove the candidacy of Ballantyne, the president of a homeowners association.
Lowenthal has refused to take a stance on the issue prior to it coming to council.
She focused on a campaign pledge of continuing to work on everyday constituent concerns regarding parking, infrastructure, recreation and water quality, among others.
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Four local organizations made it on to one of the most coveted lists in Jewish life — the annual Slingshot Guide.
Four local organizations made it on to one of the most coveted lists in Jewish life — the annual Slingshot Guide.
The guide named the Jewish Learning Venture, based in Melrose Park, and the Jewish Farm School, a national environmental group based in Philadelphia, as two of the 50 most innovative Jewish organizations in the country.
Slingshot, a New York-based group, also rolled out a new supplement to its annual guide, highlighting the work of 18 Jewish organizations in the area of special needs. The Bryn Mawr-based JCHAI made that list.
And Moving Traditions, a Jenkintown-based organization devoted to Jewish education and identity-building for teenagers, was listed as one of 17 "standard bearers," organizations included year after year as models in innovation. It was also cited as one of 18 Jewish organizations committed to impacting the lives of women and girls in a second special supplement.
The Slingshot organization was founded in 2004 by a group of young entrepreneurs looking to fund innovative organizations and programs that had the potential to transform Jewish life. The funders have mostly spotlighted startup organizations.
Slingshot describes its online and printed list as a kind of Zagat guide for individuals looking to support Jewish programs that are making a difference. Landing a spot on Slingshot has meant a major boost in visibility, prestige and, oftentimes, fundraising.
In addition, being named in the guide makes groups eligible to directly apply for dollars from the Slingshot Fund.
Organizations were selected from a pool of hundreds of finalists by 83 individuals with experience in grant-making and Jewish communal service.
The Jewish Farm School was co-founded in 2006 by local resident Nati Passow, who still serves as its director. The group runs programs in organic farming and urban sustainability in Philadelphia, Camp Eden Village in New York, and other locales.
"By combining rural and urban agricultural education programs, the Jewish Farm School has caught the attention of the mainstream Jewish community, where interest in sustainable food and environmental education is spiking," the guide states. "Jewish Farm School provides hands-on opportunities for the Jewish community to re-connect with the land, live more sustainably and learn about food production."
For its part, Moving Traditions was cited by Slingshot for providing "thousands of Jewish teens with ways to grapple with their daily lives in a Jewish context and with Jewish wisdom."
JCHAI, serving a total of 70 clients, supports people with intellectual disabilities and autism living in three group homes, several apartments and in their own homes. It is planning to build an integrated apartment building on the Schwartz Campus in Bryn Mawr, which is owned by the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia.
Slingshot specifically highlighted JCHAI At Home, which provides independent living skills for people living in their own homes or with their families.


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Why Are So Many NYC Hotels Tweaking Their Names?
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Is the hottest New York hotel amenity a new name?
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Ogden • Surely, it will become more difficult to win in the Big Sky Conference. So far, it's been mighty easy for Weber State.
The Wildcats have played four league games and, excluding the overtime victory at Portland State, have blown out each opponent by an average of 26 points. This included Saturday's 95-63 rout of North Dakota in the Dee Events Center.
It was the school's largest margin of victory since beating Sacramento State by 36 points in 2009.
"Our defensive urgency was pretty good," WSU coach Randy Rahe said. "We defended really well and that kind of set the tone and we got the transition going, which is good for our team.
"We got good contributions from everybody who played."
Certainly, North Dakota (4-9, 1-3) could not slow WSU wing Davion Berry. Often, it was Berry aggressively triggering the break, finishing his controlled rush upcourt with a basket or an assist.
"I just wanted to keep attacking like coach tells me," Berry said. "I always want to give my teammates shots.
"We got stuff to prove. None of us has won a championship here. Coach tells us that every day so we're hungry."
The junior college transfer from Cal State Monterey Bay finished with 20 points, six rebounds and six assists as WSU opened a 30-point advantage midway though the second half.
"He had those wide eyes tonight," Rahe said. "He can affect the game in so many ways. We need him to be a stat-stuffer kind of guy. He loves setting up his teammates, too."
The Wildcats grabbed 46 rebounds, which fueled transition opportunities.
Conference newcomer UND converted a frosty 16 percent of its shots in the first half. UND guard Aaron Anderson, the BSC's leading scorer, finished the game with 23 hard-fought points.
"We were just playing the way we were taught on defense," said WSU center Kyle Tresnak, his team's leading scorer with 22 points. "No middle penetration, no 3s, no layups. Just make them shoot tough shots, and we were able to do that the first half."
Scott Bamforth, Berry and Tresnak were a combined 13 of 18 from the field in the first half for 44 points. They finished with a combined 61 points, while Gelaun Wheelwright added 13 points off the bench to go with three assists.
Weber State spread out the assists, with four players getting three or more. The extra pass led to WSU's high shooting percentage.
Even the Wildcats' free-throw performance improved. Last year, they were the best in the nation. So far in 2013 that hasn't been the case, but WSU did improve Saturday, making 20 of 24 attempts.
Weber State continues BSC play Thursday at Southern Utah.
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R Weber State, paced by Joel Bolomboy's 11, outrebounded North Dakota 46-26.
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This is the way to get the lastest compiz-fusion from the git core, so lastest plugins etc...
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install git-core to download from gitCode:apt-get remove compiz*
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Three University of South Carolina students have been named Goldwater Scholars, a prestigious honor awarded to the nation's top undergraduates pursuing careers in math, science and engineering.
William "Cole" Franks, Daniel Grier and Gerry Koons have been named 2012 Barry M. Goldwater Scholars. The 282 scholars were selected on the basis of academic merit from a field of 1,123 students nominated by faculty members at colleges and universities nationwide. The one- and two-year scholarships will cover the cost of tuition, fees, books and room and board up to a maximum of $7,500 a year.
The Goldwater scholarship is awarded to sophomores and juniors pursuing degrees in natural sciences, mathematics or engineering and intending to pursue a career in research or college-level teaching: Virtually all the scholars intend to obtain a Ph.D. in their respective fields. Each participating university can nominate up to four students for the award.
This marks the 20th consecutive year that USC has had one or more Goldwater Scholars and a total of 41 scholarships have been won by USC students since 1990.
Franks is from Greenville and is a junior double-majoring in mathematics and physics and is a member of the South Carolina Honors College. USC's William B. Douglas Carolina Scholar, Franks also was awarded the Cary K. Smith Jr. Mathematics scholarship, given annually by the mathematics department. Franks is a member of Pi Mu Epsilon Mathematics Honor Society, a volunteer tutor at Dreher High School and an ACE math tutor. He is currently participating in the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics program in Hungary. Franks plans to complete a Ph.D. in mathematics and focus on research and teaching at a university. He is the son of Wade and Mary Jo Franks of Greenville and is a graduate of Southside High School.
Grier is a junior from Greenville with a double major in mathematics and computer science. He is a member of the South Carolina Honors College and a National Merit Scholar. Grier is the recipient of both the Lieber and Palmetto scholarships, as well as the Wilson Scholarship, given by the department of computer science for undergraduate research. Elected to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior, he is also the recipient of the Computer Research Association Undergraduate Research Award. His current research includes work with Stephen Fenner in USC's computer science department on two-player mathematical strategy games played over partially ordered sets. Grier is participating in the Budapest Semesters in Mathematics program in Hungary. He is a member of Pi Mu Epsilon Mathematics Honor society, a math tutor at Dreher High School and plays on the International Men's Soccer Club team at USC. Grier plans to complete a Ph.D. in mathematics and conduct research in discrete mathematics while teaching at the university level. Grier is the son of Marion and Jon Grier of Greenville and is a graduate of Southside High School.
Koons is from Wayne, Pa., and is a sophomore biomedical engineering major and German minor in the South Carolina Honors College. She is a McNair Scholar, National Merit Scholar and the recipient of both the Lieber and Joseph M. Biedenbach Engineering scholarships. She holds officer positions for the McNair Scholars Association and the Biomedical Engineering Society. She works as a research assistant at the USC School of Medicine, focusing on skeletal muscle tissue engineering for use in craniofacial surgery, for which she has received a Magellan Scholar research grant. She also has worked as a research assistant with the Academic Associates Emergency Medicine Clinical Research Program at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Koons plans to complete a joint M.D.-Ph.D. in biomedical engineering with a specific focus on clinical research in pediatric craniofacial surgery. Koons is the daughter of Nancy R. and Robert "Bob" A. Koons Jr. of Wayne, Pa., and is a graduate of Radnor High School.
USC's Goldwater committee is chaired by Douglas Meade of mathematics. Other faculty members are: Melissa Moss (chemical and biomedical engineering), Scott Goode (chemistry), Susan Alexander (South Carolina Honors College) and Gwen Geidel (earth and ocean sciences). The committee worked closely with nominees in preparing their applications. The Office of Fellowships and Scholar Programs further assisted the Goldwater applicants.
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The southbound semi was hauling two trailers full of gas a full-size and a smaller, pup-size unit. It was the pup that caught fire, according to a series of UHP tweets.
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This week on New Tech Forum, we have a discussion about the past, present, and future of the Web and Web development from Divya Manian and Thibault Imbert, Web product manager and Web Group Product Manager, respectively, at Adobe.
As Web standards move forward, we're seeing a substantial change in the possibilities of Web development and rich Web applications. New Web development frameworks and developer tool sets are appearing and growing more popular by the day, alongside advances in browser rendering engines. Together, this is causing the Web development model to grow by leaps and bounds.
HTML5 is clearly at the forefront of this movement. Divya and Thibault lay out how HTML5 is changing the game, and what Adobe is doing to help foster the future vision of the World Wide Web. -- Paul Venezia
The evolving, expressive Web
The beauty of the Web lies in its reach. All someone needs to do is write a few lines of HTML and post it online, and people all over the world can see the results. This miraculous occurrence is made possible by the widespread adoption of a relatively simple set of standards.
The features of the Web are not created in secrecy. They are specified through discussions on public mailing lists and written down in public specifications. This enables everyone who is interested to contribute to the shaping, testing, and implementation of these features. Contributors can learn from each other -- and, most important, learn from past mistakes -- to continuously move toward a better Web.
This openness is especially important as we move into the next phase of the Web -- where it will become an ever more powerful, collaborative, creative surface. Features that emerged years or even decades ago will evolve and be pressed into service to build the future.
Pushing JavaScript to the edge
Let's take an example of an element of the "classic" Web evolving to fit today's workflow: JavaScript.
As was shared at Google IO this year, in the past decade, JavaScript has seen a hundred-fold performance improvement, and recent research projects like Mozilla's asm.js have demonstrated that we could go even further beyond that. Asm.js defines a subset of JavaScript that can be generated by compilers and highly optimized by JavaScript VMs, by mainly getting rid of garbage collection and dynamic types.
The idea is of using JavaScript as the "assembly language of the Web" is not new. Past projects such as GWT from Google, or more recently TypeScript from Microsoft, have used a similar approach, enabling new developers to target the Web platform.
That said, enabling efficient parallelization still has limitations today. Yet exciting conversations are happening around areas like shared memory and more efficient message-passing models. When those problems are solved, concurrency on the Web could make the Web platform a far more powerful stack.
Here's a simple example of how we would increment the value of each element in a simple array, using the ParallelArray API:
We create our array:
var first = new ParallelArray(1,2,3,4);
We increment each element:
var inc_pa = first.map(function f(val) {return val+1;});
As you can see, the complexity of an OpenCL kernel is completely abstracted and a higher-level API is exposed, providing power and safety. To see RiverTrail in action, have a look at the particle simulation shown at IDF 2011, and the liquid image resizing demo first shown at Research @ Intel day 2011.
When large tech companies pool resources (funding, engineering talent, and so forth), great things can happen. For example, at Adobe, we've been using TypeScript to develop projects like the Digital Publishing Viewer on Windows 8. Everything was developed in TypeScript, except the PDF libraries that we already developed (C++) and a few compression libraries we wanted to reuse. We initially did this as a challenge and discovered that the optional static typing and sourcemap support enabled increased productivity.
Scripting is one piece of the equation. For many years, rendering has remained a big bottleneck for Web developers trying to produce expressive content. Until recently, Flash was the go-to solution for expressive content, providing a fast and consistent renderer. Today, the broad support for the HTML5 canvas element with the combination of CSS for DOM-based animation is giving developers a consistent and powerful graphical surface for their expressive content.
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Of course, a motion library could be utilized to perform the same animation. With JQuery, we would write something like:
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This opens amazing capabilities to Web developers wanting to develop immersive 2D and 3D content on the Web. Some exciting new frameworks have emerged for 2D game development like Mat Groves' Pixi.js, which leverages WebGL but elegantly falls back to canvas when necessary and exposes a higher-level API.
Beyond HTML5: The future of the Web as a foundation for applications
What's next for the Web? We're moving toward a future where traditional desktop tools will also run on Web technologies. The Web has morphed from a set of links into an increasingly malleable surface for creators.
A much neglected but most successful feature of HTML5 has been the implementation of the HTML parser in every browser laying the foundation for consistent rendering of all Web pages across all HTML5-ready browsers. This has allowed us to focus on more powerful features that would enable creating great experiences for the Web.
This is why Adobe has been contributing features that would bring these experiences to end-users through standardizing them via W3C and contributing code to WebKit, Blink, and Gecko -- the rendering engines that power Apple's Safari, Google's Chrome, and Mozilla's Firefox. Some of the features we are working on are Regions (for next-generation text layout), Blend Modes (for graphic manipulation via code), and Shapes (for nonrectangle text wrapping).
It's also why we work on projects such as responsive CSS Web designer Reflow and open source code editor Brackets. It'll be tools like this that will drive the Web forward, as they are built from the ground up using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other Web technologies using a very thin native wrapper (Chromium Embedded Framework) to make them available as desktop applications.
Apple's iWork for iCloud and Google Docs have already been helping push the envelope of what's possible on the Web. Developers and designers such as Garann Means, TJ Holowaychuk, Guillermo Rauch, Chris Coyier, Lea Verou, and Hakim El Hattab are all helping test the edges of new technology and informing Web features and enlightening the larger creative community on what is possible on the Web.
Most of these features are new and fairly untested across browsers. But Browser Developer tools are getting better at making it easier to write and debug code for these new features. Web Platform Docs and Mozilla Developer Network provide exhaustive documentation to help creatives understand how each of them work and how to use them.
The future of the Web holds great promise, but we are at the cusp of its potential, and it is easier to see the challenges we face. We want to create a powerful Web platform where creatives see possibilities instead of constraints that limit their expression.
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By Lesli Nolen
December 2010
He's making a list, checking it twice, gonna find out who's naughty or nice, Santa Clause is coming to town. Yes, it's that time of year again. Time to cook, clean, shop, decorate, all the stuff that fills our lives during the holiday season. Time to fill shoe boxes at the church, go to candlelight service Christmas Eve, Christmas carol, and make sure everything is ready for the big day. But too often enough we get so busy doing that we forget the true meaning of Christmas. We're making list, checking it off, hanging stocking, wrapping presents and in the midst of all the holiday cheer we forget about the gift that's already been given to us. Have you ever thought about how Santa and God are really alike?
Santa is like God in that He knows everything about me. He knows when I'm sleeping, he knows when I'm awake, he knows if I've been bad or good (so be good for goodness sake). God knows the desires of my heart and wants to give them to me. He knows everything on my Christmas wish list.
Don't we, as kids, write down everything we want for Christmas, then go to the mall, sit in Santa's lap and ask him for what we want? Isn't that what God wants us to do too? But with God we don't have to wait all year for this. We can tell God what we want everyday. He tells us to ask unto him and it will be given, to knock on the door and it shall be opened. When we ask, whether we ask Santa or God, don't we believe it's going to happen, just like it happens every Christmas morning. We use words like believe and faith, to give us hopes in something.
The dictionary defines believe as to take as true or real; to have confidence in a statement or promise. Faith in the Bible is defined as being sure of what we hope for and the certain of what we do not see. Well it's no wonder we hear those words so often used around our children. We want them to believe in Santa Clause. We want them to believe that miracles do happen. We want them to get up Christmas morning and look at all the presents Santa left. We want to see their eyes light up, a smile on their face and most of all we want them to see love. We get the glory on Christmas morning of seeing our children happy and knowing that they got what they believed would happen.
Isn't that all our Heavenly Father wants to for us? Doesn't he want the glory when we believe in him and anticipate what he's going to do? The gift he's given us isn't only a one time of year gift, nor does it only last a little while. It is a gift that lasts an eternity. God gave me the gift of his son and because I believe with all my heart that Jesus died on the cross for me, I can confess my sins, ask for forgiveness and I can have faith that the gift from God is eternal life.
God sent his son Jesus Christ to die for me, because He knew I would fall short of the glory of God. He knew I would sometimes be on his naughty list and sometimes I would be on his nice list.
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American History XBy Sadie Stein
My dad is a man who likes to make time. Forget roadside attractions, lingering meals, and charming scenic routes: when we traveled as a family, speed was our goal. He especially liked to break previous records; I remember trying to see how many exits we could pass on the Long Island Expressway before the end of "I Want You (She's So Heavy)." (To this day, hearing the opening chords of "Here Comes the Sun" stress me out.)
The one exception to this rule was presidential homes. And in the late nineties, my father was going through a major Warren G. Harding phase. So, when my parents drove me out to Chicago to start college, there was no question but that we would detour off the I-90 to Marion, Ohio, to visit the Harding house.
With all due respect to Monticello and Lincoln's cabin, there is a particular charm to what I hesitate to call "minor" presidential homes. Lindenwald, the Martin Van Buren house in Kinderhook; Springfield, the Louisville boyhood home of Zachary Taylor; Lancaster, PA's Wheatland, where Buchanan lived out his final years. These places are important to their communities. Taken together, they make up a bigger proportion of the country's history than Hyde Park or the Hermitage, and they are sustained purely on the strength of the enthusiasm of volunteers.
Said volunteers are rarely prepared for my dad. His knowledge is vast, his ardor unwavering, his memory for presidential trivia intimidating. I have seen guides delighted by such an attentive visitor. Others recoil in fear and uncertainty. I was concerned as we approached 380 Mt. Vernon Avenue in the charming town of Marion, because I knew full well that in this instance, he had an agenda. Read More


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Is Lil Wayne engaged to his girlfriend Dhea? In a preview of Vinny Guadagnino's "The Show With Vinny," Weezy is about sit down for an Italian feast with Vinny and family, when he's asked if he likes Italian food. Wayne's response is "My fiancee's Italian."
WHAT?! Did he just let the cat out of the bag?! He doesn't mention Dhea's name, but, when asked where she's from, Weezy says "Arizona." Which is where Dhea is from. Watch below:
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The Nokia 6316s is a multimedia device with web browsing, music, imaging and GPS with a 2.2-inch QVGA display, a 2-megapixel camera and Bluetooth 2.1.
The Nokia 6316s offers features in support of China Telecom services and preloaded applications such as QQ, Email, web browser, as well as try-and-buy applications mobile navigation and mobile stock, the vendor said.
There are three color schemes available: black, gold and red.
The Nokia 6316s is expected to become available in China during the first quarter of 2010.
- Wireless broadband developments in Southeast Asia markets
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Cluster rings are timeless, sophisticated and dramatic. Typically a large single centered stone is framed by a number of smaller gems. This 20th century example is of 14k white gold and showcases a natural almandine garnet of an estimated 1.75 carats. The richly colored oval faceted garnet is surrounded with a scalloped 14k white gold border saturated with eight (8) single cut diamonds of an estimated total .08 carats (H-I color; VS2-SI1 clarity) which alternate with small panels embellished with foliate designs. The lusciousness of the garnet and the sparkling glitter of the diamonds place this beauty in the category of a great value.
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But speaking to Fox News afrter the vote, McCain seemed to admit the move was, as the White House said, just political posturing.
And no HIV-positive performer has stepped forward to admit to working with Burts.
The interval between possession and hell was short," he says, "though I admit it was wonderful.
As much as those in other, wealthier capitals are loath to admit it, the future of Islam is apt to be written there.
She should admit her mistake and tell us exactly what happened.
I didn't see it just at first, and then I didn't want to admit it even to myself.
The Permanent Officers had to admit that he got "results," but they shook their heads.
I admit that the days of England's unique greatness are over.
I admit it was ridiculous, but you wouldn't lift your finger to make it less so.
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Age Of Avengers Vs. Spider-Man's Wedding Vs. X-Men Vs. Apocalypse: Even More Marvel Revivals On The Way
For the third week in a row, Marvel has released a string of teasers for summer 2015 comics that revisit or at least reference previous Marvel events, at a rate of one a day -- except Tuesday, which was all about the movies.
Last week, the wrench in the gears was a teaser that seemed to imply that the Ultimate Universe was coming to an end. There's nothing quite as big in this week's batch, which included Avengers vs. X-Men, Age of Apocalypse, and Future Imperfect. But one event of the bunch does seem... kind of risky. It's called Amazing Spider-Man: Renew Your Vows and it revisits Peter Parker's marriage... and daughter.


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I hope his performance is marginally better than the last great theft from Kansas City, Roger Nelson, or was that Rich Gale
I hope his performance is marginally better than the last great theft from Kansas City, Roger Nelson, or was that Rich Gale
Danny Jackson?
Games are won on run differential -- scoring more than your opponent. Runs are runs, scored or prevented they all count the same. Worry about scoring more and allowing fewer, not which positions contribute to which side of the equation or how "consistent" you are at your current level of performance.
Bob Tufts?
Jeff Austin
Yeah, that Jeff Austin game against ATL sticks out in my mind.Originally Posted by Danny Serafini
'When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.'
-Snoop on his retirement
Your Mom is happy.
Man, I missed that Don Heffner guy so much.Originally Posted by redsupport
I don't even want to venture a guess at what Mays line will be tonight, it could be scary.
6 IP 4 ER 3 BB 3 Ks, NDOriginally Posted by KoryMac5
Championships for MY teams in my lifetime:
Cincinnati Reds - 75, 76, 90
Chicago Blackhawks - 10, 13, 15
University of Kentucky - 78, 96, 98, 12
Chicago Bulls - 91, 92, 93, 96, 97, 98
Everything that happens before Death is what counts.
― Ray Bradbury, Something Wicked This Way Comes
Originally Posted by KoryMac5Oh... wait a minute... that's Mulder's line from last night.Code:CINCINNATI ip h r er bb so hr J Mays 2 1/3 10 9 9 0 0 2
When all is said and done more is said than done.
ex-Royal should be a term to scare everyone away.
What are you, people? On dope? - Mr Hand
Roger Salkeld
Go BLUE!!!
3 IP, 15 hits, 18 runs, 3 BB, 0 K, 15 homeruns.Originally Posted by KoryMac5
7ip 2er 5h 1bb 4k 1hr
Salkeld was drafted by Seattle and played with the Mariners and Reds. If I remember correctly he had some arm trouble but pitched fairly well for the Reds in 96, don't remember him pitching for the Royals
kc got the better of the charlie liebrandt trade
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New York City -- Blockbuster's bankruptcy auction is set to stretch into a second day on Tuesday after preliminary talks between bidders and the chain's representatives dragged on late into Monday, a company spokesman said.
Blockbuster did not say how many bidders it attracted, but halls outside the auction room in Manhattan bankruptcy court were packed with attorneys and investment bankers refining their bids throughout Monday, Reuters reported.
With talks wrapping up Monday evening, the bidding itself is set to take place on Tuesday and will be public, said Blockbuster spokesman Michael Freitag, according to Reuters.
Satellite television company Dish Network Corp. and billionaire investor Carl Icahn qualified for the auction by submitting bids last week, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.
A Dish spokesman declined to comment. Icahn did not return calls seeking a comment, but a room at the courthouse was reserved for the Icahn group.
Gordon Brothers Group and Hilco Merchant Resources also submitted a joint bid for Blockbuster's inventory, the Journal said on Monday.
The auction will be followed by a hearing before federal bankruptcy judge Burton Lifland on April 7 to approve the new owner.


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Dad Accused In Georgia Hot Car Death Indicted
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Georgia father accused of leaving his toddler son to die in a hot SUV is now facing eight felonies. A grand jury indicted Justin Ross Harris today on charges that include malice murder.
That makes him eligible for the death penalty. Harris' 22-month-old son Cooper died in June. Harris maintains he forgot the child in the SUV while he went to work.
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Ashley Stewart Herald Writer
It's been three years since world famous movie producer Samuel Goldfin Myser decided to make a movie about Langley.
And now, he's been murdered.
Well, not really.
It's the plot behind this year's Langley Mystery Weekend, "Gone With the Tide," a weekend-long interactive play on Feb. 23 and 24.
The 29th annual game includes more than 30 actors, 33 clues at local businesses and participation from most of the Whidbey Island town.
"There are huddles all over town. They come to have a good time, regardless of the weather, and they like the fun of trying to solve the mystery with friends," said Marc Esterly, executive director of the Langley Chamber of Commerce, who helps coordinate the festival.
The story so far: Following the passing of the 19th Amendment, the women of Langley took control of city government to prove they could do a better job than the men.
Nearly a century later, the famed producer cruised to Langley on his yacht. When he heard the story, he decided to resurrect his favorite film genre, the western musical. The project was coming along fine until his body was found behind City Hall.
Now the city needs help in finding his killer.
Solve the case
The coroner's report will be delivered at 1 p.m. Feb. 23 at Langley Park, but participants can start trying to solve the mystery as soon as they purchase tickets.
Tickets are $10 for ages 18 to 64. Seniors 65 and older, veterans and kids 7 to 17 pay $8. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Feb. 23 at the Langley Visitor Information Center.
The tickets include information about the case and a map of the merchants who hold the 33 clues.
Costumed actors will be all over town ready for questions.
Participants enter their guesses as to who is the culprit on a ballot and submit it before 3 p.m. Feb. 24. All entries will be put in a drawing for prizes, which takes place at 4:30 p.m. Feb. 24 at the Langley Middle School auditorium.
Winners don't have to be present to claim the prizes, which include a night at the Inn at Langley, the Saratoga Inn, a gift certificate to Prima Bistro, a blow-your-own-glass experience at Calahan Firehouse, a book from Moonrakers and a box of truffles from Sweet Mona's.
The culprit will be revealed when the drawing takes place.
For more information, go to www.visitlangley.com.
Ashley Stewart: 425-339-3037; email@example.com.
Mystery Weekend
The 29th annual Langley Mystery Weekend play is "Gone With the Tide."
When: 10 a.m. Feb. 23 to 5 p.m. Feb. 24
Where: Langley Chamber of Commerce Office and Visitor Information Center, 208 Anthes Ave.
Cost: $10 for ages 18 to 64, and $8 for youth ages 7 to 17, seniors 65 and older and veterans
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Two Third Basemen You Want Now
Many fantasy baseball leagues have supplemental drafts throughout the year or enable managers to pick up new players who make their debuts. If you are in need of a third baseman or a corner infielder, then this week is your lucky week if these guys are still available.
On Thursday, Dayan Viciedo, 21, was promoted from Triple-A Charlotte. The 5′ 11″ Cuban, who signed a 4 year $10 million deal in 2008, was hitting .290 with 14 homers and 54 RBI in the minors in 62 games.
At first, the move left Sox fans wondering given that Viciedo has started all but ten games at first this year, but manager Ozzie Guillen confirmed that Viciedo's role will be at the hot corner. Paul Konerko, the Chicago first baseman, has 17 homers already this year.
To make room for the phenom, Chicago sent Jason Nix to the minors. Guillen resisted the urge to put one of the White Sox top prospects against the top young pitcher in the game in the Nationals' Stephen Strasburg for Friday night's contest at Nationals Park. Nice work, Ozzie.
But Guillen plans to split time at third base between DayanViciedo and Omar Vizquel, who is 22 years older than Viciedo, trusting in general manager Kenny Williams and Minor League director Buddy Bell in that Viciedo is ready to make a contribution.
"He's going to get a lot of significant playing time simply because Omar was brought in here to spell the guys in the middle [infield], not to play every day," said Williams of Viciedo. "He's going to get his at-bats and certainly enough at-bats, whether or not he's progressed to the level, where he can be a force."
Pedro Alvarez, 23, got the call up on Thursday night and faced White Sox southpaw John Danks. Alvarez's weakness was reported in preseason that he struggles against lefties and his debut did not buck that trend as the Pirates lost their tenth in a row.
But, Alvarez, who hits in the six hole for the Bucs will ultimately be Pittsburgh's cleanup hitter. The New York City native, who attended Vanderbilt, is built like a cleanup man. At 6′ 3″ and 225 pounds, Alvarez is knicknamed "El Toro" which means The Bull.
Pedro Alvarez was a 14th round pick of the White Sox out of high school, but chose to join fellow Commodores David Price and Justin Smoak in Nashville. The move paid off when the Pirates took Alvarez with its first round pick in 2008.
Alvarez began 2010 in Triple-A Indianapolis, though from the beginning, everyone knew the visit wouldn't last much beyond two months. Now, after hitting .277 with 15 doubles, 13 homers, 53 RBIs and 42 runs scored in 66 Triple-A games, his journey has hit its final destination.
The promotion of Alvarez is bad news for fantasy baseball owners of Andy LaRoche who will be relegated to pinch hitting duties. Laroche should be dropped by all fantasy baseball owners at this point. To make room for Alvarez, infielder Aki Iwamura was demoted.
Alvarez has the punch to hit 15 – 20 homers in the remainder of the season. He will never be a .300 hitter, but his power numbers will not disappoint in Pittsburgh. He's a 30 homer and 90 RBI guy when he plays a full season in Pittsburgh.
"I can't wait to show the city what I can bring to the table," said Alvarez, who will wear No. 17. "All I ask is that the fans of Pittsburgh let me show them what I can do for them and show them how much I love this game and how hard I can play. I'm super, super excited to be here."


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Fox adopts GOP spin that delaying vote on tax cuts injects "uncertainty" into the economy
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Fox has dutifully adopted claims by GOP Reps. John Boehner and Kevin McCarthy that failing to immediately vote to extend Bush-era tax cuts injects "uncertainty" into the economy that hinders hiring, a claim which both Boehner and McCarthy made on Fox News Sunday. However, economists agree that tax cuts -- especially those for the wealthiest Americans -- are poor stimulus.
Boehner and McCarthy tell Wallace: Waiting on extending tax cuts inject "uncertainty" into economy
McCarthy: "The number one reason out there why jobs aren't being created: Uncertainty." On the September 26 edition of Fox News Sunday, McCarthy told host Chris Wallace: "The number one reason out there why jobs are not being created: Uncertainty. They don't know what's going to happen with the taxes; they don't know what's going to happen from regulation. This [Pledge to America] could reign it all in." He later added that "the Democrats have failed to lead on [tax cuts]. They're going to want to leave the House without dealing with it. That uncertainty itself is keeping capital on the sidelines and stopping jobs from being created in America."
Boehner: Pelosi should "end the uncertainty" by promising a debate on "extend[ing] all of the current tax rates." Following McCarthy's remarks, Boehner asserted: "If we leave here this week and adjourn for the election without preventing these taxes increases on the American people, it will be the most irresponsible thing that I have seen." He added that "the speaker ought to promise a fair and open debate on making sure that we extend all of the current tax rates, end the uncertainty, and getting our economy going again."
Fox dutifully picks up GOP spin and runs with it
Wallace grills Hoyer on delaying tax cut debate: "Is that any way to add certainty and confidence to the economy?" Minutes after his interview with Boehner and McCarthy, Wallace asked House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer: "Isn't a serious failure by Democrats in both the House and the Senate that you haven't told the American people what's going to happen to their taxes on income, on dividends, on capital gains, on inheritance, and it's coming up now just three months away. Is that any way to add certainty and confidence to the economy during tough times?"
Doocy: "The uncertainty is just killing people." On the September 27 edition of Fox & Friends, co-host Steve Doocy asserted: "So as you go into the voting booth, come the first Tuesday in November, Americans -- according to what we've heard so far -- will not know what sort of taxes -- or tax hike they're going to face next year, and that's one of the problems. People say the uncertainty is just killing people. Why can't we know what we're going to pay in taxes next year?"
Carlson: Uncertainty is "the big buzz word here." Following Doocy's comments, co-host Gretchen Carlson added that "people across America should be really, really upset about this. Steve touched on the big buzzword here, and that is uncertainty. That means that businesses are not going to continue to hire, or start hiring, they're not going to continue to lend to small business -- I mean, everyone is living in this cloud of unknown, including even people who work in payroll departments."
Perino: Democrats "haven't heeded the advice" that businesses "desperately want certainty" on tax cuts. Later during Fox & Friends, Fox News contributor Dana Perino stated that she was "surprised" that the Democrats have not yet voted on whether to extend the tax cuts because they "haven't heeded the advice from the economic community and businesses saying we desperately want certainty. And even if they had voted on it and not extended all the tax cuts, at least then businesses would know."
Obama, congressional Dems want to extend tax cuts for all but wealthiest Americans
Obama's proposed FY 2011 budget calls for only allowing the tax cuts that affect families earning more than $250,000 a year to expire. From the proposal:
In addition to closing loopholes that allow wealthy investment managers to not pay income taxes on their earnings and ending subsidies for big oil, gas, and coal companies, the Budget eliminates the Bush tax cuts for those making more than $250,000 a year and devotes those resources instead to reducing the deficit. Our Nation could not afford these tax cuts when they passed, and it cannot afford them now.
Reid spokesman confirmed to Reuters: Dems "believe we must permanently extend tax cuts for the middle-class ... and we will." In a September 24 Reuters article, Reid confirmed through a spokesman that congressional Democrats will push to extend tax cuts for the middle class:
"Democrats believe we must permanently extend tax cuts for the middle-class before they expire at the end of the year, and we will," Jim Manley, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Reid said in an email. "Unfortunately, to this point we have received no cooperation from Republicans to do so."
Extending tax cuts "does not create much incentive ... to hire more workers"
CBO: Extending tax cuts "does not create much incentive ... to hire more workers." Congressional Budget Office (CBO) director Douglas Elmendorf stated in February written testimony that "[d]eferring the scheduled increases in tax rates in 2011 would help some businesses" but that "increasing the after-tax income of businesses typically does not create much incentive for them to hire more workers in order to produce more, because production depends principally on their ability to sell their products."
Economists: Extending the tax cuts that benefit only the wealthy is poor stimulus. Howard Gleckman of the Tax Policy Center wrote that "higher income households are more likely to bank the cash than spend it. As a result, tax cuts for these high-earners will do relatively little to boost the economy in the short run." CBO has also stated that as stimulus, allowing only the top tax cuts to expire "would be more cost-effective" than extending all of the cuts "because the higher-income households that would be excluded would probably save a larger fraction of their increase in after-tax income." Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman also said of extending the tax cuts for the wealthy: "[I]t's hard to think of a less cost-effective way to help the economy."
CBO scored "[d]eferring the scheduled increases in tax rates" as the lowest-scoring policy proposal to stimulate economy. In a January 14 report on "Policies for Increasing Economic Growth and Employment in 2010 and 2011," CBO stated:
[P]olicies that would temporarily increase the after-tax income of people with relatively high income, such as an across-the-board reduction in income taxes or an increase in the exemption amount for the AMT, would have smaller effects [than other options] because such tax cuts would probably not affect the recipients' spending significantly.
The report further stated that "a permanent extension [of the Bush tax cuts] would entail large revenue losses after the recovery is over."
According to a table in the report, CBO estimated that reducing income taxes in 2011 would have the least stimulative effect of the policy options considered.
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I looked guys and could not see where else to post this , so if it doesn't fit remove it .
I just wanted to say a Merry Christmas to all the Backtrack Team and to all that make this forum what it is , i know ive learned loads and spent many many years learning and having fun at the same time .
my point is this there might be lots of guys like me that never write a great tut or vid for whatever reason and might not even post a lot , but that doesn't mean we don't appreciate all the time and effort the guys and everyone else put in
and for some more than others i know its a lot of time
so i am taking my chance while i can and even though its just words sometimes a thank you is all that's needed to say yeah that was worth it .
Merry Christmas to you all .
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Wholeheartedly agree with the_z_1 Happy Christmas to all!
If I could figure out how to scuba dive & hack at the same time, there would be nothing I couldn't do...
I agree with all of you.
We spent hours reading and learning in the forum
To all the participants of the forum and BackTrack team
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Memoright will present its military and industrial ruggedized SSDs at the 2011 CeBIT show from March 1-5, and Embedded World 2011 from March 1-3 (Hall 12, 479).
The products include the Memoright GTR series, which meet both the US MIL-STD-810F/G and China GJB standards. Capacities range from 32GB to 128GB.
In view of growing demand for SSDs used in industrial control and embedded solutions, Memoright adopts In-Drive UPS and Health Doctor high-end technologies and uses in-house firmware design capabilities to develop durable, stable and customized IPC SSD storage solutions for various platforms.
- Wireless broadband developments in Southeast Asia markets
As of 2013, the 10 ASEAN nations had a total of over 700 million mobile subscriptions, with the CAGR from 2003-2013 reaching 24%. This Digitimes Research Special Report analyzes the various mobile broadband markets in ASEAN and looks at the respective trends in 4G LTE development for those markets.
- 2015 global tablet demand forecast
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Met up with Jeremy May, ex TUF fighter at the Abu Dhabi Pro Jiu Jitsu trials in Florida recently. Managed to get a quick interview with him where he talks about training with Rampage Jackson, and his thoughts on UK fighters....
Jeremy did real well at Abu Dhabi, fought 9 times on the day, finished most within 30sec with submissions.
Went to the final but was DQ'd with a controversial ending.
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Hybrid Vehicles Save You Gas Money
Two or more power sources, such as gasoline and electric batteries,
are used to extend gas mileage and reduce emissions. The desired
net effects are to lessen the impact that our cars and trucks have
on the environment, reduce dependence on foreign oil, and save money
for the owner of the vehicle.
Today's hybrids are primarily gas and electric, but future models
may utilize hydrogen or pure ethanol.
Generally, today's models run on electric power during stop-and-go
city driving, and electric power out on the highway. The batteries
are recharged during highway driving and during braking. The cost
of a hibred vehicle is generally only slightly more than the same
model offered as a non-hybrid.