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I have been honored to represent the people of Summit County for almost four years. During these four years, the county has faced some significant challenges and I believe I met those challenges with outstanding outcomes for the county. A few wins for the county include:
> Restructuring county government to be the leaner, greener and more efficient government that we are today in response to the unprecedented declines in property tax revenues. This was accomplished in a proactive manner, so that we are on a sustainable path moving forward, including preparation for an additional 5 percent decline in residential property values that will hit us in 2014.
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Discussion in 'Pistons and NBA' started by Darth Tater, Nov 16, 2009.
lol, yeah, it is easy to have an entourage when you don't have to hang with them 24-7.
Amid the specualtion of AI being resigned with the Sixers, there is a poll on Philly.com. Does this struggling Sixers team need to bring back Allen Iverson? Yes 1323 (76.4%) No 408 (23.6%)
I think Iverson back in Philly could turn out well for both team the same way bringing back Big Ben to Detroit did.
Hope its not another New York!
[strike]Brett Favre[/strike] AI sounds like he is set to unretire. Iverson reportedly might 'un-retire' with 76ers - NBA- nbcsports.msnbc.com
ESPN reporting the Sixers have come to terms with Iverson. edit for aurora: 1st game back, Dec 7 against Denver
He's back....... Allen Iverson accepts Philadelphia 76ers' contract offer - ESPN
At least he'll be in a place where he'll get a lot of love from the crowd.
Smilie Story of Aurora's "Process" dizzy2: :behindsof 2nd game back, Dec 9 against our Detroit Pistons on ESPN, per my NBA.com schedule! The article yesterday on the home page of nba.com had the president of the 76ers saying that he told Allen that he would be starting and that he would "most likely" play the rest of the year. So if that is so, I guess everyone, including Allen himself will find out whether he still has game and the unAnswered questions of whether he still belong in the NBA other than on the bench on a bad team will be Answered. Of course I wish him success, but I'd be dishonest if I said after watching him, not in Denver, but in Detroit (you can hardly count 3 games in Memphis) that I think he can carry an entire bad team (which is what we were that year with a lousy coach). So I don't know if Philly is an entirely lousy team. At any rate, I'm glad he is getting his shot and I hope he gets some clarity and he can take in whatever information he reaps from this experience to his benefit.
May be a good Fantasy pickup, sounds like he will be playing a lot of mins.
Wow, she's doing great. I'm still stuck in the Denial stage.
Guess who just picked up AI in a fantasy league in which Aurora is also a team manager? Perhaps a trade offer is coming soon.....
No way man. You should pay her to take him. He's going to screw up the chemistry on your fantasy team.
Surprised you didn't act on that earlier Kim, 2xRalphie picked him up in our advanced league on Sunday....
Thats an advanced league move right there.
I'm thinking Dirk for AI, straight up, would be fair....
I threatened to snag him in Novice when all the Knicks talk was circulating. After New York cooled on the idea, I did too. I kept threatening to do it though and she signed him right away. She's been carrying the "retired" AI on her ball club for over two weeks. She couldn't bear the thought of not having him! I'd actually ask for Dirk AND another decent player from her roster Bill. Name your price - she'll pay it!
Oh no this is a truly horrifying development. I don't even have the will to find all the horrifying smilies at this time to express how profoundly upsetting it is to me that someone else anyone else and even particularly a fellow Pistonsforum.com member for whom I have such respect and fellow feeling for has done such a thing. Sigh. What to do...what to do...must think..not act quickly. AI is on someone else's team. How did I let that happen? Why did I drop him in that league? I guess I just forgot about him on that team. Oh pout pout pout. What an idiot I am. Well it's not a very good thing. I might have to...oh dear.
If we're talking basketball, that would not be fair. If we're talking a dinner date and a long walk along the Strip and a stop in at the Bellagio for some craps, it's a deal.
This is the kind of thing that only happens when you are vacationing in the Pacific Northwest away from your usual tv set and computer, scrambling to figure out how you are going to watch AI's game on Monday when no one you know in the area has NBATV and the computer you are using freezes up and does too slow for NBA Broadband and while you are busy trying to figure all this out a snake in the grass in your other league slithers through and snags your all time favorite player and probably puts him on the bench on his team. OUTRAGEOUS! Vengeance will be mine. Or the rape and pillage of my best players by one Bill Laimbeer. You are all witnesses!
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I agree, rental markets are uniquely hot right now siince people who were foreclosed on still need housing to wait out their credit repair -- and of course, would-be buyers with recency effect. These are usually sellers from the bubble who jumped ship and are still "hording" their equity, renting and waiting out the housing shenanigans. I do not think, going forward say, 10 years, that SFH rentals will be the going concern they are now, and plan to exit property management myself within that time frame.
To be fair, I also think, from a buy-and-hold primary residence viewpoint, there's really no rush to buy.
I think you might be helped by stepping back from the data a bit, Roberto. I don't see how what you've written fits the big picture.
As much as this report tries to be cheery, the fourth graph on Page 2, showing houses held off the marke,t shows we're at 4 million houses being held off the market. What's that about? I think the system is still being gamed. Be careful all you small-timers, and we're all small-timers, the big money is in control.
To be fair, I also think, from a buy-and-hold primary residence viewpoint, there's really no rush to buy.
This is my viewpoint until recently. I used to think it is better to have the flexibility in case I lose my job. Now I figure maybe it is better to "own a loan" so that I can squat for two more years. Talking about a messed up sysem and the influence on me... The key is whether I can get a 3.5% down payment FHA loan.
I was part of a transaction where the seller -- overloaded with debt
This is another post, or comment from you that strikes me as unprofessiional.
You seem intent on giving Real Estate agents, and the Real Estate profession a bad name.
Sheesh people, stop with the ad-hominem attacks. There are two sides to every coin and I for one want to see both. Some people are investing in this market and others are very bearish. No need for insults.
Good story ptiemann.
Sheesh people, stop with the ad-hominem attacks.
Yeah, no kidding all you stupid motherless motherfucking shit turds from hell -- enough with the ad-hominem!
Good story ptiemann
It may be a good story, but a Real Estate agent shouldn't be telling it.
OK, as long as I'm here, the story of the Honest Info is interesting because I have the same discussion here in Seattle about foreclosures, where they are, and who is buying them, especially in condo projects.
It all starts out great with fantastic returns, but one foreclosure leads to another, and more units become rentals.
The guy here in Seattle has lease optioned some units, but those came back because there is no financing available for the buildings. In another building there was a shooting and property values went through the floor.
OK, so he has the income, and is also shopping in Nevada, his home State. Nevada is doing better, but we also discuss the fact I have always been able to buy a 3 bedroom one, and a half bath home with a pool in Las Veags for about $125K. People sold off behind, and moved into newer, nicer homes for roughly the same price range. In other words, for decades the housing market was kind of slow, no one cared, and people moved on.
In 1998 it all changed, and prices began to creep. In 2003 prices exploded.
So today, when my buddy tells me he just bought a screaming deal in some Henderson sub division for $125K I say so what?
The mortgage rates also play a big part. My cousin in Dallas just refinanced their house - 15 yrs for 2.75%.
I can't believe rates are that low. Plus with Dallas and Phoenix prices, the payment is going to come to very low levels. In CA, if the prices were down to 200-400k for good houses, the hosuing market would be very robust at these rates.
Who the hell cares for Phoenix prices? That market crashed hard and is unlike nearly every other RE market in the nation that's not bear Detroit, Las Vegas, or Florida.
Phoenix prices have absolutely no friggin bearing on prices in California. None. So I don't care. Good for you that you did so well. You had an incredible opportunity. Congrats. Now stop bragging!
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Who the hell cares for Phoenix prices? Phoenix prices have absolutely no friggin bearing on prices in California.
Who said they did, and what does California have to do with anything? Lots of people care about Phoenix prices - it's one of the largest metros in the country, duh.
This is a housing board, not a California housing board. Don't read the Phoenix threads if YOU'RE not interested in the Phoenix market trends.
Regular Sales Will Rise.
Hi Roberto. How are the acquisitions going? I'm closing on another place Tuesday - but not Arizona. Good inventory is hard to come by.
In other markets I am seeing a resurgence of regular sales.
As prices rise there are owners who were underwater but not willing to do a short sale flooding the market. Many are overpriced as owners put their houses on the market for what they owe - not the current market value (list and pray).
I haven't seen this in the PHX market yet as the price decline was more severe and most who bought at the peak are still underwater. If prices keep rising you will see some - people who put down a lot or people who bought before 2001.
Where I am now the flood of regular sales have dampened demand for distressed sales. Hence I am picking up a few bargains here and there.
I do think there is still a lot of inventory underwater in Phoenix. So I see foreclosures / shorts continuing for at least 3 or 4 years. Their impact on prices will be less as there are many more 'investors' than there were in '09 or '10 willing to buy anything that looks remotely like a bargain.
Barring a fiscal cliff tragedy, I think prices will continue to itch up close to replacement cost.
RobbertoRealtor.... you're deleting posts to supress the truth about housing. Why?
Indulging in your usual deleting routine, I see.
Yeah. It seems roberto wants to surpress the truth about housing by deleting.
I have to say it's rather strange of Patrick to allow him to delete your posts. I guess it's his next step seeing as you always circumvent his bans.
Rather strange? It's one of the benefits of paid membership. Maybe we should become paid members so we can delete your posts. hmmmm?
Oh, but Roberto doesn't have one of those lovely gold stars under his name. Clearly he's been given special dispensation to remove every single one of your posts after other people have already quoted and responded to them. Power indeed.
You are underestimating CA sales taxes a bit there. They've recently raised them.
This state only knows how to take all our money and hand them over to the greedy unions.
Uh huh.... And you can ask $50k for your used honda civic too.
I'll take it! 50K today when it could be worth 100k in 500 years at today's asset appreciation rates. My grandson's grandson's grandson's grandson will be rich I tell yah. I can't wait.
Robert Shiller: We might see a housing bubble in some cities. Notably...we already, looks like there's already in Phoenix and San Francisco...
Even though this is the Press Release, not the report, I like reading about the info from the source of the info.
Personally, I have NO fears about the fiscal cliff in 2013. The can will get a big old kick at 11:59:59. I can't believe that anyone actually thinks that our inept government would pursue any course of action other than this. The republicans are retarded, but they are not so stupid as to disrupt the status quo in any meaningful way. Same goes for the democrats. They can both feign disagreement on various fiscal talking points and then get uncle Ben to make some power moves to avert the reckoning for another year or two. Then the circus comes back to town for a repeat performance. I agree that at SOME point we may finally go off the cliff as it looks like an inevitability, but I think that the status quo will be maintained this time around. All the huffing and puffing by our "leaders" is for show, I think.
Out of curiosity, what will drive the "inevitable" house price appreciation? I agree that it is inevitable if inventories stay way below historical norms like they have been. Are we in a new paradigm where housing will be dominated almost solely by yield-chasers and the individual owner-occupier no longer participates in a meaningful way?
1. I happen to work in high-volume consumer electronics development/manufacturing. Automation won't bring jobs back here. The entire supply chain is in Asia and it is not moving here. I'd prefer it stay there. Anyone that has actually been to industrial China would. As much as Steve Jobs was a big asshole, he was dead-on when he explained to Obama why we will never produce iPhones in the USA. Supply chain. Automation could cut the production cost in half, but consumers would still pay twice as much because of the logistical problems that stem from getting all of the raw materials there to factories here.
2. Possibly. If Asia is willing to pay more for the energy than America, it will all be sold to Asia. It will go where there is the most profit, without regard for what is "good" for America.
3. Where will these "displaced workers" find employment? If you are educated in something useful you have a shot at a "better" job. Maybe if energy takes off like you say there will be job growth there. Outside of FIRE and service sector jobs that produce little-to-nothing, I am not sure where job growth will come from.
4. Convenience is, and will continue to increase. No argument here. It's all trinkety crap and no meaningful innovation. New applications of mostly existing technology. Maybe working in the industry has made me jaded, but I don't see any real human "progress" in the perfection of disposable consumer goods and the proliferation of web-advertising (*ahem* social media). Keep buying it though, it puts food on my table!
As far as I can see, the bulk of our economy is fueled by consumption which is easily outpacing production. I don't see how it is sustainable. Maybe I am totally wrong and will realize it in 5 years, I don't know. Everyone thinks that their generation is at the helm of a ship that is about to sink. Maybe the idiocy that I see rampant in every corner of our nation has always been there and is just more visible thanks to the internet, I don't know.
Phoenix market sure turned on a dime. I guess a 20k condo is not a sustainable price when a CD pays 1%. Pretty simple looking back...
Will never trust a businessman when he uses the word "honest" in a sentence.
Has it never been a housing bubble in the Bay Area?
This is the latest one.
U6 is 15%. We have a japan style ZIRP in place with trillions in money being QEinfinity keeping the joke afloat.
This place is a mess. This is the end of the middle class. If housing pops again, it will break the back of the pack mule carrying all the freight.
Denver didn't get whacked like Phoenix did, so we can't expect the same kind of increases, but prices are up, inventory is down, and correctly priced houses are gone in a few weeks (if not during the first weekend). My Redfin notifications (on my iPhone app) have been going absolutely insane over the past 2-3 weeks. Lots of activity. I got lucky to buy when I did (just 1 month ago).
Denver's prices make no fucking sense right now.
Phoenix is a place that will never ever be worth it. Doesn't mean few people won't make their money doing rentals or investors won't flip stuff to each other back and forth until someone is left with the empty bag, but overall it's a has been kind of like Detroit.
Phoenix is a place that will never ever be worth it. Doesn't mean few people won't make their money doing rentals or investors won't flip stuff to each other back and forth until someone is left with the empty bag, but overall it's a has been kind of like Detroit.
People flip houses and do rental investment at about everywhere on earth but it is hard to see the similarity between Detroit and Phoenix.
What happens when water wars change the price of water in desert areas? Let's say there's a long term drought, 10+ years, where the price per month of water goes up to say...$300/month in desert areas?
If landlords try to pass the high water price on to renters, the renter will just move away. For owner occupied, they are more likely to stay because it will be harder for them to sell into a crashing market.
After 10+ years of drought and high water prices, the outlying areas of Pheonix will look like ghost towns. With fewer people in the Phoenix area, the price per houshold of water will probably decrease, allowing the remaining people in the city center to stay. But they probably will pay $100 or more per month for water.
I'm sure you have alot of arguments against this happening and why nothing bad like this could ever happen to Phoenix (or you).
Good luck with that.
Water wars sounds like a great movie!
The RE bears are now inventing fiction since no facts support future price drops.
I waited too long to buy back in. Was lucky to buy last year. When i sell my house for 1.2m i will be sure to logon here with the news. Then retire to AZ where i can carry a gun everywhere like the old west.
It's happened before, it most likely will happen again.
I'll take real estate advice from a realtor when I take diet advice from Willy Wonka.
The RE bears are now inventing fiction since no facts support future price drops.
As much as sales data may mean something to a buyer, those aren't the facts. It's the principle of the greater fool, and we just saw that in 2006, and 2007.
I don't really know what perma bear means, but I do know there has been a long term strategy of Real Estate market timing. You buy when people are selling, and sell when people are buying.
That market timing has, in the past, been based on a decade long cycle such as between 1976, 1986, 1996, and 2006. Those were good times to buy except that 2006 thing.
Between 1998, and 2003 the Real Estate market changed radically, and globally. It wasn't just here in the good old USofA, it was Europe, Asia, and Africa. After the crash in 2008 South America then took off as the emerging Real Estate markets.
While people here blame our government for the change in Real Estate it doesn't explain what happened in the other markets until you look at banking.
Real Estate is always a good investment. Owning rentals is a good investment, but the strategy has changed. The Housing Industry has changed.
The economy has changed.
Banks are in control of large blocks of property. They are selling today for a premium, have cleared the books of dead wood, and they may well be done. I think banks will pull out of Real Estate next year 2014, from what Bernanke has said about the Fed.
Some properties will always be good, some other will adjust according to what the market will bear.
Because of that volitility I would rather have my money elsewhere right now.
So, I don't know if that is a perma bear position, because I own property. I just also know that we will sell another place this year rather than rent it out, but keep the commercial property, and land.
While I was writing this the Dow broke through the 2007 record high. How about that Dow? In terms of short terms gain, what about those that bought in 2008? or even last year?
I understand about the leverage, but still something has changed in terms of investment.
Water wars sounds like a great movie!
The RE bears are now inventing fiction since no facts support future price drops.
I waited too long to buy back in. Was lucky to buy last year. When i sell my house for 1.2m i will be sure to logon here with the news. Then retire to AZ where i can carry a gun everywhere like the old west.
Sounds like a plan. Fortunately or unfortunately, I cannot find any house selling 1.2 M in the future at where I live. May need to find some other ways to get some money to retire in AZ.
As much as sales data may mean something to a buyer, those aren't the facts.
It's the principle of the greater fool, and we just saw that in 2006, and
Like it or not, this IS the game nowadays. You can choose not to play the game but it does not necassarily mean people will all lose shirts by playing it.
this IS the game nowadays
That's exactly what I said, but sales data isn't the game. Real Estate is a long term hold.
6 million people who bought in 2006 can tell you that,
It depends on the deal, doesn't it?
Just because a house sold for $300K doesn't make it worth that, it may well be worth only $80K. Then to tell me a person will rent that $80K investment for $1100, doesn't sound like a good thing either.
In your own scenarios you make it attractive to buy rather than rent, so that is also a contradiction. Why would some one pay you $1100 going forward?
It depends on the deal. You are talking blanket mathmatical formulas, that don't seem like sound advice.
Actually we will see soon enough, because like you, I'm usually right.
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The nectar and sugar water will all be mix together.How do you get it a part ?? I do not know. BEE HAPPY Jim 134 :)
it's not that hard to figure out. don't feed when there is a flow on and you have honey supers on. feed in spring for buildup and in fall to top them off for winter. i can't imagine that anyone would feed at the same time they had honey supers on....but, maybe some don't know better?
The nectar and sugar water will all be mix together.How do you get it a part ?? I do not know. BEE HAPPY Jim 134 :)
if you had asked the last question 1st, you would have gotten your answer. we can only guess at what you need to know when your questions are not complete.
Ok, I'm a little slow today........ Yes, I think the bees eat some of the syrup "as is" like they do nectar. Were you asking that if the bees consumed the syrup then they wouldn't make honey out of it and the honey would all be from nectar? I don't think it would, but I am by no means an expert - just speculating on what I have read about bees. My guess is they use it where they need it most - as food, make comb or make honey for future needs.


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Re: LOL - POLLS have libbies on suicide watch
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
There is no country in the world where so many provisions are established for them; so many hospitals to receive them when they are sick or lame, founded and maintained by voluntary charities; so many alms-houses for the aged of both sexes, together with a solemn general law made by the rich to subject their estates to a heavy tax for the support of the poor.
Under all these obligations, are our poor modest, humble, and thankful; and do they use their best endeavours to maintain themselves, and lighten our shoulders of this burthen? — On the contrary, I affirm that there is no country in the world in which the poor are more idle, dissolute, drunken, and insolent.
The day you passed that act, you took away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependance on somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health, for support in age or sickness.
In short, you offered a premium for the encouragement of idleness, and you should not now wonder that it has had its effect in the increase of poverty.
Benjamin FranklinWe are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. - Benjamin Franklin
Re: LOL - POLLS have libbies on suicide watch
there in lies the dilemma, Making it easy in poverty vs having a safety net. As great as a country as we are i cant imagine not having a saftety net for when times are hard but in doing so youre going to have people abuse the system outside what its intended. No safety net means entire towns could look like 3rd world countries and/or ghost towns (detroit comes to mind). In my opinion, its not so much that the programs arent needed or lead to complacency, but that we need to be stricter and penalize those that do abuse it. Same goes for the top 1-2% as well that move their money around and avoid paying taxes or pay less than middle classers do. Theres abusers on both ends, which seems to be all we talk about, while the middle class is what really runs this country. When times are good, this seems to be a lesser issue for the most part. People that want to work typically can find it, and those that dont stick out like sore thumbs.
In other news im glad some states are finally passing laws for drug testing to receive welfare. Thats at least a step in the right direction.-JAB
Re: LOL - POLLS have libbies on suicide watch
That's what a safety net should be, it should not be a way of life.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid. - Benjamin Franklin
Re: LOL - POLLS have libbies on suicide watch
"who is running for president"
enough said about our "educated" voting base.
and per the above conversation... the problem wth the social services we have is the same problem we have with congress... no term limits. Increasing unemployment to 2 years or whatwever it is now is pure lunacy. After a couple of weeks on unemployment most people wait until its about to run out before they even START looking for work, at least above-board work. Because it benefits them to stay lazy. Why work your utt off for $10 an hour when you can get $8 to sit home and drink on your stoop? welfare that's available forever and increases as you pop out more kids? Really??? Permanent disability for someone in their 20's without requiring yearly checkups to prove they can't start working? because they get headaches??? REALLY?
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Re: LOL - POLLS have libbies on suicide watch
Ill have to netflix cinderella man. That is exactly how its suppose to work. Just enough to survive and get you back on your feet. Right now with the way things are youd see a lot of people that arent trying to abuse it get hurt by enforcing the issue though.-JAB
Re: LOL - POLLS have libbies on suicide watch
Second. Im not sure whos waiting for unemployment to run out to start. Thats just a poor decision because its not infinite and the end is very clear even if it is down the road. To me 10$/hr is still better than 8$/hr and you should be more willing. Those people id consider abusers as well but there are also people that look right away and cant find work. As many that are unemployed i wouldnt punish them for others lack of judgement. Again, punish those that are abusing not the ones in need. As a 27 year old ill be the first to say my generations work ethic is pathetic. Self entitlement runs rampant. Too many kids that got spoiled or something.-JAB
Re: LOL - POLLS have libbies on suicide watch-JAB
Re: LOL - POLLS have libbies on suicide watch
FWIW, when i was in between jobs, right in the heart of all this crap, I refused to collect unemployment. I knew I'd get a job in a month or less because I was looking hard, and preferred to fall on the safety net of my family then the safety nt that is my future tax dollars. Wish more people felt that way. Ands I was someone that had to change industries as the mortgage market basically dried up overnight, causing me to be out of work. I worked for a brokerage that, in one week, went from 43 lenders to 8, 6 of which couldn't close a loan to save their lives.
Re: LOL - POLLS have libbies on suicide watch
"Never under estimate the predicatability of stupidity" - Bullet Tooth Tony
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I got laid off right after 9-11 and I was in the process of collecting unemployment. I was amazed how easy it was to simply get a check from the government. Everything was done on the honor system and over the Internet.
Thankfully, I got a job, the same job I have right now in fact. But I was getting to the point where I needed something to pay my mortgage and so I can eat.
I think it was Reagan who said "It shouldn't be a safety net. It should be a trampoline." That always stuck with me.
Re: LOL - POLLS have libbies on suicide watch
I had to go up to Chicago this weekend to watch the Monkees, so I'm a little disappointed to find out that the liberal hasn't come back around to voice his opinion.
I mean, it's not like the Liberals put their hands over their ears and sing "La-la-la-la-la" when confronted with the truth.... oh wait."A moron, a rapist, and a Pittsburgh Steeler walk into a bar. He sits down and says, Hi Im Ben may I have a drink please?


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Something interesting happened in October (yeh, stocks have been doing comparatively great): IE's share in global desktop browser usages has dropped to a
perilous 52%. This, combined with its barely there mobile browser usage, brings its overall share below the 50% percentage mark.
Source: www.frelia.com
With interesting data invariably comes incessant probe of why.
Why so?
Some analysis pointed out the geek factor.
The tech community has abandoned IE in droves ever since they found the delicious toy of Firefox, which is dynamic
and cool, decidely tech friendly and fast and active in development. It started the trend of multiple tabs, a wonderful array of extensions. It gives programmers Firebugs; Chrome joined the
browser war in 2008, soon afterwards, tech people was attracted to it by its minimal interfaces and fast and smooth performance. Chrome came in late yet learn
fast. It soon offered a wealth of tools and even more faster development cycle.
I believe in no time, Chrome would reach 100 or Google (1 followed by 100 :)). Chrome
More analysis dived into the browsers' differences in speed, interface, support for standards (ie., html5 and css3),
privacy and security and Extensions.
In short, there is convergence among the browsers towards speedier, cleaner, more secure, and more customizable browsers.
Surprise! With competition so fierce and stake so high, the best wins!
Speed-wise, Firefox and IE have greatly improved their speed so much so that Chrome actually is currently losing in
this battle.
Interface-wise, Chorme started the minimumistic approach, Firefox and IE are taking notes. This minimum approach is actually catching fire in interface design.
Google started it with its barebone google search, Facebook's home page also has the clean blue. Chrome, FireFox and IE also took great effor to allow tabs
be informative yet non-obtusive, draggable and dockable. Work like a great app.
In terms of standards support, in the tech community, IE is always the object of ridicule. In support of HTML5 features, IE has been falling behind.
In extension offering, FireFox leads the way.
Under the hood - JavaScript Engines
JavaScript is currently the most important language. This in no small part is due to the quick rise and improvement of JavaScript engines, which in turn has made
this browser war so intense and so interesting and so beneficial to all of us internet users.
The engine behind Chrome is V8 javascript engine. Copy Wikipedia here:
"V8 increases performance by compiling JavaScript to native machine code before executing it, rather than to execute bytecode or interpreting it. Further performance increases are achieved by employing optimization techniques such as inline caching. With these features, JavaScript applications running within V8 are said to have an effective speed comparable to a compiled binary."
Firefox has a rapid evolution line of JavaScript engine, started with Rhino, the very grandpa figure started at Netscape in 1997. After that, there are "monkeys" with mostly funny names: SpdierMonkey,
TraceMonkey, JagerMonkey, IonMoney, then tamarin.
IE did not have any serious JavaScript engine until IE 9. Before that (IE 8 and earlier) it uses a script interpreter for running JavaScript. Now with IE 9 JavaScript engine,
it provides features such as JavaScript background compliation and library optimization.
Parting words
So, in the global browser competition for more market share,
IE is in steady decline yet still dominate the scene,
FireFox is barely holding its ground, Chrome is rapidly rising. Still nothing is certain other than that the more they compete, the more we demand,
the greater good will come out of it. Also, we, programmers, time to work harder to meet up the challenge.
Wikipedia: JavaScript Engine
The New JavaScript Engine in Internet Explorer 9
The End of an Era: Internet Explorer Drops Below 50 Percent of Web Usage
The End of an Era: Internet Explorer Drops Below 50 Percent of Web Usage
Chrome 10, Firefox 4.0, or IE9? The Browser Choice
Node.js is just about the hottest new language on the horizon. It also has some puzzling catch-phrase such as "JavaScript on the server side".
It is so hot and so puzzling that I am compelled to commit one hour to watch the video sit on the home page of Node.js web site.
One hour video is long by any standard, but the presentation guy and Node.js creator Ryan Dahl breezed it through without one single slide.
He joked, he coded and typed command lines, he demoed a crappy chat program written in about 5 lines using Node.js.
(Ouch, this tech world was and still is dominated by wiz kids, almost chrismatic, not a bit nerdy.)
However I was still confused even after the one-hour video. What the heck is Node.js? Why on earth we have to create our own servers?
The statement in big font after the video does not seem to help much. As the following it goes:
"Node's goal is to provide an easy way to build scalable network programs.
... Node tells the operating system (through epoll, kqueue, /dev/poll, or select)
that it should be notified when a new connection is made, and then it goes to sleep.
If someone new connects, then it executes the callback. Each connection is only a small heap allocation."
Searching around, I found quite a lot of examples where cool guys flaunting their cool code, however little clear explanations.
Searching more, I found quite a lot of insights and analysis, predications and dismissions.
A testimony of how Node.js has caught the short attention span of the highly excitable yet unforgiving tech community.
Eventually, I came to my senses (at least I think) what Node.js does, what makes it special.
1. Node.js handle things asynchronously. The word "asynchronous" has been a sort of cliche. The big A in AJAX, for example, stands for "Asynchronous". However, the asyc part of AJAX comes from
the client side, in that client (a browser) sends requests to server and still serves the page while waiting for the server to come back for a response. The server
process requests one at a time. To handle multiple requests, it spurns multiple threads.
When requests fly fast and numerous and from everywhere, the thread model falls short. Node.js tries to overcome the challenge by providing true asynchornousity.
Instead of spawning a new OS thread for each request, Node.js uses one thread. The thread stays idle, however springs to action on events. On each event, the thread takes note, tasks it to one or more processes, then
on with another request.
2. Node.js uses an event-driven model. Event-driven is also a cliche, however Node.js gives it some new substance.
Best illustrated the point is the article that uses The Doctor's Office Reception Line Analogy and
fast food The Fast Food Restaurant Analogy. Node.js event-driven model is also closely tied with its async feature. Node.js does not allow blocking I/O, that is, it never stops and waits for I/O.
3. Node.js is server side javascript. Sort of. It adopts the syntax and event-driven concept of client side JavaScript, and strives to
run "the same script" on both client and server side. However Node is not JavaScript, it is actully written in C, and it runs from command line in
unix environment (support for windows is supposedly coming. There has not been a sincere effort). The underlying engine for Node.js is the V8 javascript engine (the
same one that runs Google chrome).
4. Node.js is still very new, therefore it has a lot of forseen and unforseen potentials and pitfalls. For one, Node.js is still a very geeky, barebone creature, its library needs to be greatly
fleshed out to become a framework of sophistication, upon which developers can readily develop rich web applications. Despite all the buzz and excitement surrounding Node.js, there still lacks high profile
web applications built with Node.js.
5. Node is meant for something, but not everything. It is meant for fast and frequent web communications, it is not meant for heavy-duty data access and computation.
"Node has changed our mental image of what a server can be. It doesn't have to be running on a high-performance blade in an air-conditioned co-lo serving millions of requests and gigabytes of data.
It can be in your pocket synchronizing your contacts whenever it finds Wi-Fi. It can be caching a web application for faster, local access. It can be a peer-to-peer web server. And it can be a number of things we haven't even thought of yet. "
The secrets of Node's success
The secrets of Node's success
Just what is Node.js?
While they say closed garden is the lending trend in internet, to me, the internet still feels like an ever expanding infinite loop, or maze.
Like a little kid, I really start out just to search for a shiny pebble, I end up going far and away and lost. I end up with a pocket full of things I am excited and confused about.
Finding css lint is like that. I was looking for some basic css truth, then along the way I read a dozen of other articles, css related or not.
Then I stumbled into css lint. So I copied and pasted from my reportoire of css files, linted it. Wow, it threw up a vocano of warnings at me.
Source: Screen Shot of CSS lint of my css
Interesting. I scanned through them.
"Values of 0 shouldn't have units specified"; "Broken box model: using height with padding"; "Rule is empty" ...
Make sense, I was thinking, almost delighted. Wow, this could be my css "spell-check".
Then I was confused by other rules. "Don't using adjoining classes", "Don't use IDs in selectors".
Really? What is wrong with using IDs in selectors?
A little search quickly led me to this highly provocative article CSS Lint is harmful, followed by fifty or so comments, mostly of them is
a bit spiteful in tone.
So What are the CSS lint rules?
Introducing CSS Lint
Among them, the most attacked is the rule of "Don't use IDs in selectors".
"To suggest that you never use ID's is simply throwing the baby out along with the dirty bath water. ID's are extremely useful and you absolutely should use them. They are the fastest way a browser can select a given element. They are useful for in-page anchoring and if they're already there in the markup then use them as style hooks. They are also, oddly enough, perfectly correct to use as long as they're only ever one instance of that ID on any given page."
Source: CSS Lint is harmful
On with my search. I found a lot of people have dismissed this rule. As it is with almost everything, never say never. Reasons are probably: 1) it has been a common practice; 2) ID by definition is mean to be unique, therefore there is no ground for re-usability concern. And, what is the difference using ID selectors and class selectors.
However, there are also as many people as passionately depending the rule. Using ID selectors lead to a downward spiral into specificity; IDs are meant to be specific, yet css rules by default are meant to be abstract rules.
So my search got me into a heated debate as with so many aspects of the web, jQuery vs. Ext Js, Flash vs. Html5. So I decided to end my aimless wondering in this maze by
ending the search, and take away home my rules:
1) css lint is not all evil or good, it is a good tool for you to get your css cleaner. Yes, always true are rules such as "no empty rules", "zero values need no units".
2) The "too many" rules are to your discretion. Only you should know whether there are too many fonts, too many floats. However, it is good to have a second opinion.
3) IDs in css selectors may not be too bad, at least probably not worth your effort of going back and rewriting your pass css rules. However, when you start a new project, when you
find yourself define a set of rules just for one unique ID, think again.
CSS Lint
Don't use ID selectors in CSS
CSS Lint is harmful
Don't use IDs in CSS selectors?
The following is from the 2011 internet trend report by Mary Meeker (known as "Queen of the Net") released from Web 2.0 Summit San Francisco, CA. The report is a wealth of insights and insightful charts and graphics.
For all of us who are in the thick of the tech world, the time is unprecedently exciting. It is going to be even better.
1. Globality – We Aren't In Kansas Anymore…
2. Mobile – Early Innings Growth, Still…
Source: Hierarchy of Needs Revisited
3. User Interface – Text -> Graphical -> Touch / Sound / Move
Source: Online Audio
4. Commerce – Fast / Easy / Fun / Savings = More Important Than Ever…
Source: eCommerce Accelerating Growth
Source: Local ECommerce is spurred by mobile development
5. Advertising – Lookin' Good…
6. Content Creation – Changed Forever
Source: Print Down
7. Technology / Mobile Leadership – Americans Should Be Proud
8. Mega-Trend of 21st Century = Empowerment of People via Connected Mobile Devices
Source: 16 Minutes Before / After Japan Earthquake on 3/11/11Snapshots of @replies From & To Twitter Users in Japan
9. Authentic Identity – The Good / Bad / Ugly. But Mostly Good?
10. Economy – Lots of Uncertainty
INTERNET TRENDS – Web 2.0 Summit -San Francisco, CA - Mary Meeker (firstname.lastname@example.com) – October 18, 2011
Microsoft got to be so very tired of IE6, the once very popular child of their browser families, so much so that they set up a count-down website dedicated to the
sole purpose of killing it.
Source: Microsoft IE 6 Count Down
Guess who is standing in the way? China. Chinese IE6 users have been trickling down, as of today it has about 28%. But 28%
still makes a big bleeding heart in the above map. And any percentage of Chinese users can easily knock off the whole Europe or even America.
Right now the size of Chinese internet users stand at about 500 million users, and it is still growing. And its mobile users is even growing faster, it is estimated that the
size of mobile users will surpass pc users as early as 2013.
Source: China Now Has Over 500 Million Net Users [CHART]
I can understand why the IE6 chinese users stick with IE6, because my parents are one of them. When they started gingerly with
internet, I taught them to click the big blue E. They remembered ever since and they are afraid of making any changes, clicking on any popups
that might bring in a flood of virus. The golden name of Microsoft somehow does not help much. Also, all they wanted is just to read
their news, so why care about IE 6, or 7, or 9?
Ok, with that kind of mentality and the formiddable weight China carries, Microsoft has to continue its count down for at least a few years.
China Now Has Over 500 Million Net Users [CHART]
Microsoft IE 6 Count Down
Microsoft IE 6 Count Down
More Chinese netizens access internet via Mobile than PC
According to a survey of open source automation testing tools, Selenium is the most popular of them all. And it is getting more and more popular everyday. As a matter of fact, it is currently
the only viable test tool to test website as a whole, because it can simulate running a website as a real user would do. And one set of tests can be run across differnt browsers.
Source:Selenium -Open Source Test Automation: An Overview
However browser testing is complicated, the ubiqutous injection of asynchorons AJAX only makes the situation worse. On top of its own quirkiness,
Selenium has to deal all of the quirkiness of differnt browsers, the possible failure of http requests, etc.
Therefore, browser simulation does come with a cost and not all users (e.g., me) are happy. Some of the biggest challenges that Selenium have now are:
Source: Top 5 Challenges for Selenium Users (San Francisco Meetup)
Some of the much complained test brittleness can be avoided or alleviated by using some of the tips (I learned them from the presentation at
Top Selenium Tips From The Sauce Codebase,
who distilled the essence from the sucesses or failures 8 million tests):
1) Use implicit waits
public IWebElement ImplicitWaitForElement(IWebDriver webDriver, String id, int timeout = 10)
webDriver.Url = "http://somedomain/url_that_delays_loading";
IWebElement myDynamicElement = webDriver.FindElement(By.Id(id));
return myDynamicElement;
public IWebElement ImplicitWaitForElement(IWebDriver webDriver, String id, int timeout = 10)
webDriver.Url = "http://somedomain/url_that_delays_loading";
IWebElement myDynamicElement = webDriver.FindElement(By.Id(id));
return myDynamicElement;
2) Use explicit the right way
Never use static wait:
sleep (10)
(Why? Because a) it increases overhead, you make the webdriver wait no matter what; b) you can never predict what is the correct time interval.)
Instead, use a condition wait
public IWebElement ExplicitWaitUntilForElement(IWebDriver webDriver, String id, int timeout = 10)
webDriver.Url = "http://somedomain/url_that_delays_loading";
var wait = new WebDriverWait(webDriver, TimeSpan.FromSeconds(timeout));
return wait.Until((d) => d.FindElement(By.Id("someDynamicElement")));
public void WaitforElementPresent(IWebDriver webDriver, String id, int timeout = 10)
//var sw = new Stopwatch();
for (int i = 0; i< 60; i++)
if ((webDriver.FindElement(By.Id(id)).Enabled) == true)
catch (Exception)
// Continue the loop, though it may throw an exception at first
So the methods above instruct the web driver within a limited time range for an element to appear before giving up and report the error.
3) Create a magic login method
In a lot of selenium test cases, we call the same login method again to gain the entry to another password protected pages. Doing so has quite some drawbacks: a) Login failure will invariably cause the failure of the other tests;
b) Overhead. If a login method takes, say 10 secs., then 100 tests would waste 1,000 secs on simply login.
So instead, the Sauce Lab teams to create a magic login page to allow automatic login, that is create VIP test account to allow unlimited access for inspection purposes.
Selenium -Open Source Test Automation: An Overview
WebDriver: Advanced Usage
Top Selenium Tips From The Sauce Codebase
Top 5 Challenges for Selenium Users (San Francisco Meetup)
Selenium - Page Object Pattern
Have developed numerous web site now, big and small, fancy and dumb, started clean or jumped in middle way. Sometimes I was responsible for the whole site (front UI and backend database), sometimes just the UI side. A lot of times, css has been treated in a ad-hoc fashion, as a result, css has grown into a mass of snarling classes and elements with funny ids, living across a great many css pages.
For example,
(To be fair to myself, the classes are tweaks from Ext original ones.)
#tagReviewMrcContainergrid .x-grid3-hd.x-grid3-cell.x-grid3-td-1,
#tagReviewMrcContainergrid .x-grid3-hd.x-grid3-cell.x-grid3-td-2,
#tagReviewMrcContainergrid .x-grid3-hd.x-grid3-cell.x-grid3-td-3,
#tagReviewMrcContainergrid .x-grid3-hd.x-grid3-cell.x-grid3-td-4,
#tagReviewMrcContainergrid .x-grid3-hd.x-grid3-cell.x-grid3-td-5,
#tagReviewMrcContainergrid .x-grid3-hd.x-grid3-cell.x-grid3-td-6
background-position:right -91px;
#tagReviewMrcContainergrid .x-grid3-hd.x-grid3-cell.x-grid3-td-1,
#tagReviewMrcContainergrid .x-grid3-hd.x-grid3-cell.x-grid3-td-2,
#tagReviewMrcContainergrid .x-grid3-hd.x-grid3-cell.x-grid3-td-3,
#tagReviewMrcContainergrid .x-grid3-hd.x-grid3-cell.x-grid3-td-4,
#tagReviewMrcContainergrid .x-grid3-hd.x-grid3-cell.x-grid3-td-5,
#tagReviewMrcContainergrid .x-grid3-hd.x-grid3-cell.x-grid3-td-6
background-position:right -91px;
Now whenever the site needs a face-lift or extreme make over, the old css will be the first one to be under the knife, be patched, shifted, or discarded. Oh, boy, the giant octopus with great many arms, where do I even start?
Facebook has had the same problem, and fortunately they got a css master Nicole Sullivan that is keen on keeping css simple and organized. Facebook is decidedly complex and feature rich, however, it is also decidedly and has a deceivingly simple clean look. It's css is simple and pleasant to read:
table.component_table {
padding-left: 5px;
padding-top: 5px;
table.component_table td.icons {
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
width: 20px;
table.component_table td.content {
white-space: nowrap;
width: 200px;
table.component_table {
padding-left: 5px;
padding-top: 5px;
table.component_table td.icons {
text-align: center;
vertical-align: middle;
width: 20px;
table.component_table td.content {
white-space: nowrap;
width: 200px;
What are the problems? What are the traps that we stepped into however she managed to escape
In a presentation at Webstock conference, Nicole laid out the problems and some principles. The problems are with the majority of sites are:
According to her, the so-called best practices are actually the traps that trapped us to those problems.
Yes, we ought to follow the best practices with a grain of salt. Yeah, like everything, too much of anything is not such a good thing.So the so-called best practices under attack are:
1. Classitis
Classes are our friends. Seeing a lot of IDs is actually very bad. Run from this kind of code:
However, when define classes, try not made classes too narrow or too broad. That is to say, both extreme micro-managing and macro-managing are bad. Balance is the key.
2. Never add an non-semantic element
You want your content to be marked up in beautiful HTML that uses a diverse set of tags like P, UL, OL, LI, H1-6, strong, em. Add a few extra wrapper elements to keep your content nicely cordoned off from your containers or separate out decorative flourishes! Your HTML will be clean and your CSS predictable.
3. Never add a non-semantic class
Never want a class like "bigRedText" or "giantRedText".
CSS needs abstractions. We need to be able to solve a particular problem really well, and then allow people to go on using that solution long afterward.
3. Use decadent selectors
Never has more terrible advice been given (ok, ok, I exaggerate, but for CSS, this is as bad as it gets). The descendent selector is *only* appropriate between multiple nodes of the same object (say, a tab container and its' tabs), and even then, only when you are absolutely certain that there will never be any markup changes. Very hard to guarantee, no?
4. Sites need to look exactly the same in every browser
Yes, it would be nice to look fancy across all browsers, but not all browsers are created equal, that is why, you should give up forcing a round corner on IE 6, or making your site look exactly the same pixel by pixel.
See Also
Our (CSS) Best Practices Are Killing US
After bitching and moaning about the instability of Selenium, after searching high and low for alternatives, I am back to Selenium again, convinced it is still the best in town. Yep, it is flexible, it is free, it is being actively developed therefore improved by day. I can write my unit tests in C# or any other server languages. And it is getting more and more backings from major vendors. I can even take my tests to the Cloud, e.g., the SauceLab.
Enough of justifications.
Selenium Page Object Pattern
One of the test designs in Selenium that has gained more and more popularity is Page Object Pattern, the core of it is to wrap your page into classes with members and methods, and in testing. Then tests can call the methods to initiate any interactions with the page UI, the way normal users does, login, run report, click a button, etc. It is a OOO approach, and its advantages are:
So take an example of login, a normal selenium login test would be written as the following:
* Tests login feature
public class Login {
public void testLogin() {
selenium.type("inputBox", "testUser");
selenium.type("password", "my supersecret password");
Assert.assertTrue(selenium.isElementPresent("compose button"),
"Login was unsuccessful");
Now with Page oject pattern design in mind, we would wrap the login page in its own object,
* Page Object encapsulates the Sign-in page.
public class SignInPage {
private Selenium selenium;
public SignInPage(Selenium selenium) {
this.selenium = selenium;
if(!selenium.getTitle().equals("Sign in page")) {
throw new IllegalStateException("This is not sign in page, current page is: "
* Login as valid user
* @param userName
* @param password
* @return HomePage object
public HomePage loginValidUser(String userName, String password) {
selenium.type("usernamefield", userName);
selenium.type("passwordfield", password);
return new HomePage(selenium);
And the new login test would be:
* Tests login feature
public class TestLogin {
public void testLogin() {
SignInPage signInPage = new SignInPage(selenium);
HomePage homePage = signInPage.loginValidUser("userName", "password");
Assert.assertTrue(selenium.isElementPresent("compose button"),
"Login was unsuccessful");
So now we get a suite of page objects with clearly defined methods and services and tests can issue their tests by calling services with appropriate parameters. The code is cleaner and more readable.
Some principles of Page Oject Pattern:
See Also:
Test Design Considerations
You know, I know that Google guys are paid pretty well. Do you remember in Sept. 2010, ALL Google employees got 10% raise? Now here is a pictures of what the best paid jobs in Google and roughly how much.
You probably already have known that it is incredibly hard to be part of Google, but how hard? Here is an overview:
Feel good about IT job market. And Go Mobile!
INFOGRAPHIC: The Incredibly Difficult Process Of Getting Hired At Google
The national job market as a whole is depressing, but on the IT side, especially in the silicon valley, it is quite sunny.
Do you know that:
According to Dice's annual survey, the average Silicon Valley tech salary in 2010 rose nearly 3% to $99,028 a year. That compared with an increase of less than a 1% nationwide to $79,384 a year. Silicon Valley has been tops in tech salaries for at least the past six years, adds Dice.
- Local Technology Salaries Lead the Nation
IT layoffs have dropped to their lowest level in a decade, and demand for techies is expected to jump 32% by 2018.
And if you have time or opportunity, please go Mobile now, because Jobs connected to mobile applications is one of the fastest growing hiring requests on Dice.
And the six hottest new jobs in IT are:
Business architect:
The role of the business architect is to fashion high-level company strategy with technology in mind. Think MBA with an IT focus.
Data scientist
Not your regular sql data developers (though that is useful too), but data scientist that use data analytics to bring stategic insight therefore business opportunitites from the enormous data.
Social media architect
Social media does not just mean just Facebook and Twitter, but also IBM, Jive, and Yammer and a multitude of runner-ups. This creates a demand for IT pros with the specialized knowledge to build secure communities within a business network and between businesses and customers.
Mobile technology expert
Is not this obvious?
Enterprise mobile developer
What distinguishes enterprise dev positions from general mobile dev jobs is their focus on compliance and security, according to Stewart Tan of Accretive Solutions, an executive search firm and consultancy. "Building mobile apps, architecting mobile strategies, and securing those devices" are the top concerns facing the enterprise today.
Cloud architect
"There's so much positive momentum toward cloud integration," says Ron Gula, CEO of Tenable Network Security. "People who can really identify the architecture from a simplicity point of view are going to be in demand."
The 6 hottest new jobs in IT
In the widely-read (maybe intentionally) leaked memo, Google declared that "JavaScript has has fundamental flaws that cannot be fixed merely by evolving the language" and they have taken two strategies to
a) Co-exist with JavaScript in the begining
b) Replace JavaScript eventually
The would-be advantanges or potential of Darts are (as claimed by Google and as Dart is still in its infancy):
a. OOO (object-oriented), structured and flexible;
b. familiar syntax like C++;
c. High performance across all platforms
So what are "the fundamental flaws" referred by Google?
Keep throwing Darts, Google!
Google Dart aims to supplant 'fundamentally flawed' JavaScript
Dart: a language for structured web programming
It does work without them
Why Geek loves gadget?
All of the above is from The Tech Comics section in http://itmanagement.earthweb.com
Tech comics
Apple logo redesigned. By a Hong Kong student.
"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful… that's what matters to me."
[The Wall Street Journal, May 25, 1993]
"I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back."
[Playboy, Feb. 1, 1985]
"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."
[Stanford commencement speech, June 2005]
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle."
In China, this is what People said about Steve Jobs and his apple
There are three APPLEs that have changed the world.
In Genesis, Eve ate the apple that was evil but seductive, and so did Adam, after which they discovered sin, and God punished them for their disobedience. And the life of suffering as we know it starts.
Newton, from observing an apple fall from a tree, discovered the Universal Law of Gravitation.
Then there is the Apple of Steve jobs that changed the world of personal computers, then the definition of a phone, the mobile industry.
Embrace the future and the unpredicability of the future.
Brad Frost spoke about the need to think beyond the present web landscape and start to think and work towards a web for the future.
Smart content - People's capacity for BULLSHIT is rapidly dimining.
Web is everything and everywhere. Think about context. Think about the other 70% of use cases of the web, watching TV, waiting in Line, #Pooping (my favorite).
Think mobile. Think about mobile apps.
Go global, start from mobile. Mobile site can grow into a full-featured, mobile-first, adaptive web site. Desktop-only site is not scalable.
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With former President George W. Bush celebrating his 70th birthday on Wednesday, take a look at him through the years. [ + - ]
George W. Bush was born July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Conn. He is seen here with his parents, George H.W. and Barbara Bush. [ + - ]
George W. Bush with sits with his brother, Jeb, in 1955. [ + - ]
Bush attended Yale University, which is also his father's alma mater, from 1964 to 1968. [ + - ]
Here, Bush is seen in baseball garb at Yale University. He played second base. [ + - ]
After college, Bush served in the Texas Air National Guard from 1968 to 1973. [ + - ]
Bush is seen here in his National Guard uniform. [ + - ]
George W. Bush strikes a pose on the steps to his Texas National Guard fighter plane. [ + - ]
George W. Bush looks over the dials in the cockpit of an F-102. [ + - ]
George W. Bush and Laura Welch Bush were married in Midland, Texas, on Nov. 5, 1977. [ + - ]
George W. and Laura Bush vacation at Walker's Point in Kennebunkport, Maine, in late 1970s. [ + - ]
Bush looks on as his father, then-Vice President George H.W. Bush, addresses a Reagan/Bush rally in May 1984. Bush's daughter Jenna sits on his knee. [ + - ]
George W. Bush with wife, Laura, and their daughters, Jenna and Barbara, in Kennebunkport, Maine, in 1991. [ + - ]
George W. Bush became governor of Texas in 1995 and made a run for the presidency five years later. Here, he and members of his family despair during the 33rd Ryder Cup match played at the Brookline CC in Boston, Massachusetts, in September 1999. [ + - ]
During the 2000 election, Bush was running against Vice President Al Gore. Bush narrowly lost the popular vote but ultimately won in the Electoral College, therefore winning the presidency, after a lengthy vote recount in Florida. [ + - ]
U.S. President George W. Bush (C) meets with Secretary of State Powell, (L) Vice President Dick Cheney and other Cabinet members at the White House the day after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States. [ + - ]
U.S. President George W. Bush, left, and Vice President Dick Cheney walk on the South Lawn of the White House prior to Bush''s departure for Europe July 18, 2001. [ + - ]
George W. and Laura Bush are seen here at the inaugural ball honoring George Bush's first inauguration in January 2001. [ + - ]
President George W. Bush and his father, former President George H.W. Bush, are seen in the Oval Office shortly after the younger Bush takes office in 2001. [ + - ]
The Bushes were only the second father-son duo in U.S. history to have both held the presidency. The first pair was John Adams, the nation's second president, and John Quincy Adams, the sixth president. [ + - ]
The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, marked a defining moment in Bush's presidency. The morning of the attacks, Bush was reading to a group of students at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla. Bush already knew a plane had hit one of the Twin Towers in New York when he entered the classroom, according to an interview with National Geographic, but at that time an accident seemed the most likely explanation. The reading event was cut short shortly after an aide whispered to Bush that a second plane had hit the Twin Towers. [ + - ]
Bush is seen here on Sept. 11 after departing Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, conferring with Vice President Dick Cheney from Air Force One while looking at the smoldering Pentagon during his flight to Andrews Air Force Base. [ + - ]
In one of the most iconic images to emerge in the days after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush stands on top of rubble at the World Trade Center site with retired New York City fireman Bob Beckwith. "I can hear you," he told rescue workers. "The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." [ + - ]
After the Sept. 11 attacks, Bush's focus turned to combatting terrorism, a focus that remained for much of his presidency. He is seen here addressing a joint session of Congress and the American people on Sept. 20, 2001, where he declared a "war on terror." [ + - ]
President George W. Bush signs the USA PATRIOT Act into law in October 2001. The act, as a response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, significantly reduces restrictions in law enforcement agencies' gathering of intelligence within the United States, including the expansion of the scope and availability of wiretapping and surveillance orders. The title of the act is a 10-letteracronymm that stands for Uniting (and) Strengthening America (by) Providing Appropriate Tools Required (to) Intercept (and) Obstruct Terrorism. [ + - ]
In his 2002 State of the Union Address, President George W. Bush describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil, in which he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea. [ + - ]
President George W. Bush signs a congressional resolution authorizing war against Iraq on Oct. 16, 2002. [ + - ]
P resident George W. Bush outlined his justification for invading Iraq during his 2003 State of the Union address. Bush claimed that "the British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." The accuracy of those words would be debated for years, and launched a Justice Department investigation after a covert CIA agent was outed. [ + - ]
In a now infamous moment, Bush told a cheering crew aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003, that U.S. forces had brought about a "turning of the tide" against terrorism. Underneath a banner reading "Mission Accomplished," the president said the conflict with Iraq marked the beginning of "a new era" in waging war. [ + - ]
In 2004, Bush went up against Sen. John Kerry in a bid for re-election. This time, Bush won both the popular and Electoral College vote. [ + - ]
The Bushes dance at a ball honoring Bush's second inauguration in January 2005. [ + - ]
Bush appointed two Supreme Court justices to the bench. The first was federal appeals court judge John Roberts, who Bush picked to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in July 2005. Roberts was then nominated and confirmed chief justice when then-Chief Justice William Rehnquist died in October 2005. [ + - ]
With Roberts filling Rehnquist's seat instead of O'Connor's, Bush nominated Samuel Alito for her position in October 2005. The Senate would go on to confirm Alito by a 58?42 vote on Jan. 31, 2006. [ + - ]
Pope Benedict XVI is greeted by U.S. President George W. Bush upon his arrival at Andrews Air Force Base in 2008. [ + - ]
President George W. Bush and Laura Bush with one of their pets, Miss Beazley. She was a birthday present from the president to Mrs. Bush. [ + - ]
President George W. Bush signs the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 into law within hours of its congressional enactment. The law, enacted in response to the subprime mortgage crisis, creates the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program to purchase failing bank assets, especially mortgage-backed securities, and supply cash directly to banks. [ + - ]
In December 2008, Bush was almost struck by two shoes thrown at him by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi during a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq. In March 2009, al-Zaidi would be sentenced to three years in prison for assaulting a foreign head of state during an official visit. The sentence was later reduced to one year and al-Zaidi was released on Sept. 15, 2009, for good behavior after serving nine months of the sentence. [ + - ]
The Apollo 11 crew poses with President George W. Bush in 2009 in honor of the 35th anniversary of the Apollo 11 flight. [ + - ]
Bush's interest in baseball continued after college. Before becoming the 43rd president of the United States, Bush was a part-owner of the Texas Rangers. Here, he throws out the first pitch at a St. Louis Cardinals game in 2009. [ + - ]
Bush has, for the most part, kept a low profile since leaving office, but he has made some public appearances. Here, he stands with his successor, Barack Obama, at ground zero in New York to mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. [ + - ]
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, former U.S. President George W. Bush, former first lady Laura Bush, former U.S. President Bill Clinton Jill Biden and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden take part in the dedication ceremony for the Flight 93 National Memorial Sept. 10, 2011 in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The memorial honors the passengers and crew on the plane that crashed during a terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001. [ + - ]
Bush's presidential library officially opened in May 2013 in Dallas, Texas. Bush was joined by every living president for the dedication, including President Barack Obama and former Presidents Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush and Jimmy Carter. [ + - ]
"Laura and I gave the presidency eight years of our life," said Bush during an interview right before the library opened. "We gave it our all. Made the best judgment calls I could. I didn't compromise my principles. And I'm a content man. And I am excited about what we're going to do here." [ + - ]
Bush takes the stage at the 2015 Starkey Hearing Foundation So The World May Hear Gala at the St. Paul RiverCentre on July 26, 2015, in St. Paul, Minnesota. [ + - ]
Bush speaks to aspiring Invictus competitors during an event at the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Museum on Dec. 3, 2015, in New York City to announce a major initiative prior to the 2016 Invictus Games. The announcement was to promote the initiative by the George W. Bush Institute in partnership with the Invictus Games to address the invisible wounds of war and a the role of sports in recovery. [ + - ]


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By Nick Ames in Donetsk
Sun, streams - and giant slagheaps. That's the strange, otherworldly backdrop before which England and France will emerge this evening here in Donetsk.
Approaching the gleaming Donbass Arena is an assault on the senses, especially in scorching heat that shows no sign of letting up. Pristine lawns, rock gardens and waterfalls are arranged around its perimeter - but a quick glance beyond yields a vast panorama that leaves no doubt about what really makes this mining city tick.
Inside, a labyrinth of black and orange corridors - the colour of local team Shakhtar - eventually leads to a spacious auditorium. Roy Hodgson and Laurent Blanc both held court there in relaxed fashion yesterday, the latter at some length.
I asked Blanc whether Laurent Koscielny was close to displacing centre-back pair Philippe Mexes and Adil Rami. "There you see the difference between the English and French media," he laughed, referring to the fact that I'd been careful to respect the incumbent duo in my question, before explaining that Laurent will not start tonight.
Nor will Theo Walcott, according to the word around the England camp, but he and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain both seemed in good spirits in the 15 minutes of their training session that were open to the media yesterday. Theo shared a joke with Joleon Lescott as the players warmed up, while Alex could be seen in discussion with Ashley Cole and John Terry.
It's hard to see Theo, in particular, remaining on the bench for 90 minutes. Blanc made a point of expressing wariness at England's potential to exploit space left behind his defence, and that could play into the Arsenal forward's hands as the game wears on.
Theo has previous right here, of course, for scoring exactly the kind of goal Blanc fears – remember that delightfully-taken strike against Shakhtar in November 2010?
There are a couple of other Arsenal links in the England set-up, of course. Ex-Gunners stalwarts Gary Lewin and Ian Beasley are the national team's head physio and doctor respectively. Both looked on from the sidelines, but the most audible member of England's staff was Gary Neville, who appears to have taken to his new coaching role with relish.
Donetsk is harder around the edges than Kharkiv, even if its Soviet edifices are swathed in blankets of greenery. The process of checking into my lodgings certainly recalled times past, the receptionist spending a lengthy amount of time on the telephone to the Ukrainian immigration department discussing the number it had stamped into my passport.
There aren't many England fans here. A walk through the heart of the city last night was taken through eerie quietness, the like of which I've never seen at a major tournament. The majority are camping several miles outside the city, but those who made it into Donetsk's fairly featureless centre had converged upon the Golden Lion pub. Even then, it wasn't packed to the rafters.
Before yesterday's press conference, we were informed that 724 tickets for tonight's game were still available at the stadium - if you're reading this on Monday morning, you probably still have time.
Now, back to the Donbass Arena - and hopefully a spot of lunchtime sunbathing on those luscious lawns before things get serious. It's a stunning amphitheatre for one of European football's truly big games, and certainly fit for one of Arsenal's three representatives to make a decisive impact during the 90 minutes.


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Unstructured data is a very real security risk and compliance concern for your business. Every single email, document and spreadsheet has business-critical - and sometimes highly sensitive information. Meanwhile your organization is generating more and of those documents every day. What's the best way to safeguard the information that's vital to your company?
In this new technical brief, discover a better way to protect unstructured data. Learn about the limited functionality of native tools, and how one third-party option delivers the tracking, auditing, alerting and reporting you need to ensure security and regulatory compliance.


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