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When Patagonia first started making wetsuits, we quickly identified neoprene as a material that needed improvements to lessen its environment impact. In our search for alternative materials, we discovered we could use neoprene (polychloroprene) made from limestone instead of petroleum. Although using less petroleum seemed like a good move, limestone is still a limited, nonrenewable resource that is mined from the earth with heavy extractive equipment and heated to extremely high temperatures to remove chemical components. The net environmental benefit of using limestone over petroleum really wasn't that much different. Both petroleum- and limestone-based polychloroprene have equally significant environmental impacts, and we realized we needed to continue searching for a solution.
When we first met with the folks from Yulex a few years ago, their material most closely resembled natural latex—very different than neoprene. But Yulex was interested in leveraging the unique properties of the guayule plant, a hearty desert shrub native to the southwestern United States. We began a collaborative long-term research and development project to develop a wetsuit material from guayule rubber.
Guayule plants aren't grown organically, but they use low amounts of synthetic inputs and water compared to, for example, cotton. During their growth, the plants absorb and sequester carbon from the atmosphere. Guayule is harvested in a way that allows the plant roots to stay in the ground for an average of four years, reducing the soil and carbon loss associated with constant tilling and replanting of typical cropland.
After considerable testing and development, we decided a blend of the two materials would be the best way to launch our new product line. Although we are not completely eliminating polychloroprene from our wetsuits, we are making a significant step to reduce the environmental footprint of the wetsuit material.
Compared to traditional neoprene made from petroleum (or limestone), guayule rubber is a renewable resource that provides improved elasticity and softness to the finished material and can be replaced faster than the product wears out. The agriculture is low-impact and the extraction and processing uses little energy and few chemicals.
The extraction and processing is done by mechanical methods with the use of water, simple surfactants and potassium hydroxide. The main by-product is used as fertilizer and the wastewater can be used as fertilizer or cleaned and reused for processing. The Yulex processing facility uses very little energy compared to the refining and processing of neoprene and its synthetic precursors.
Overall, from the crops to the rubber manufacturing, Yulex® guayule rubber has a lower environmental impact than the polychloroprene that it replaces. We continue to strive towards environmental improvements and innovations in wetsuit manufacturing, not only in raw materials but also in the sponge production, sheet lamination, and final assembly.
We've also made this proprietary biorubber available to the rest of the surf industry. Why? Because when volumes go up, prices go down; and when more surfers can choose less harmful wetsuits, we all win.


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It sounds like Obama is in that video yelling in the video around 16:25.
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she is trina michaels
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lol the fluffers @ 42:28
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Can someone do that to me?
she is gona have alot of babies
She must have some serious self esteem issues
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Bra'Shey Ali is happy to be coming home to Seton Hall.
"My family can watch me play," the New Jersey product and former Nazareth and St. Michael Academy star said. "I felt like I was a long distance away from my family."
Ali transferred from Kentucky to be closer to friends and family in her hometown of Plainsboro, N.J., she said. The sophomore will have to sit out a year due to NCAA transfer rules and will join former St. Mike's and Exodus travel ball teammate Brittany Webb as an incoming player for the Pirates.
"I felt a connection with them," the 6-foot Ali said. "I liked their program. I felt like I could help them."
She said she didn't regret going to Kentucky and enjoyed her overall experience despite being dismissed in early August after various violations of team rules. Those reportedly included arriving late from holiday break. Ali saw limited playing time as a freshman last season, appearing in 11 games, averaging just 7.5 minutes and scoring 2.1 points a contest. Former St, Mike's and Kentucky teammate Jennifer O'Neill felt Ali didn't fit the system and maybe didn't feel comfortable.
"This was a lesson learned for me in many different ways," Ali said. "I'm not sure if it was because this was my freshman year and it was a new experience for me, but this most definitely has taught me to stay focused."
She will join a Seton Hall team that is trying to rebuild and compete in the loaded Big East. She will get to face Exodus alums Shenneika Smith and Jennifer [Big Love] Blanding of St John's and Bria Hartley of UConn. Ali won two New York State Class AA Federation titles – one each at St. Mike's and Nazareth – during her high school career.
"I'm glad that she is part of our Seton Hall family," Webb said.
Added Nazareth coach Lauren Best: "A lot of our kids are very connected to us. Whenever they can get close to home, they will."
Ali got to see a different family Thursday as she and fellow Exodus members took to Rivington Court on the Lower East Side in a game to remember former coach Apache Paschall, who tragically died of a heart attack in January. She is also happy to be closer to her immediate family as well, and get a new start at Seton Hall.
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Editor's note: Tananarive Due is an American Book Award-winning and NAACP Image Award-winning novelist. She is based in Los Angeles. Her Web site is http://www.tananarivedue.com/.
The Due sisters -- Johnita, left, Tananarive, center, and Lydia -- prepare for a Jackson concert in 1984.
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Michael Jackson died Thursday, and my family gathered by telephone from Florida, Texas, California and Georgia to mourn and remember. But we began mourning long ago.
I was 17 when the "Motown 25th Anniversary Special" aired in 1983, and my parents, sisters and I first saw Michael Jackson moonwalk to "Billie Jean."
He sent a lightning bolt through our living room, and all of us leaped to our feet with shouts. He may have been the best entertainer I live to see. His music asked us to transcend race and geography, hate and bigotry, and made us feel like we were the world.
In recent months, I showed my 5-year-old son, Jason, that Motown performance on YouTube. "Billie Jean" made Jason want to moonwalk and wear a glove. "Beat It" inspired Jason to kick his leg and fling his head from side to side like Michael.
But it has been a long time since I could watch Michael Jackson videos without feeling sad. His death is only the next stage of the loss. Michael Jackson left the music world to mourn -- but many of us, especially black Americans, felt like we lost a family member on Thursday. He pained and puzzled us, but we still loved him.
Until Thursday, some of us had forgotten how much.
Michael was not always easy to love. He tested us, sometimes asking us to ignore what we could see with our own eyes. We may never know fully what Michael did or didn't do, but he was like the lost relative we wished we could bring back to shore.
When Jason asked questions about Michael's changing face in the videos, I showed him the beautiful brown-skinned, bright-eyed little boy who grew up in my family's living room.
There is supreme irony in the death of Michael Jackson the same year as the inauguration of the first black president. Michael, who would ascend higher than any black artist in music history, learned a bitter lesson: Even at the top of the mountain, there is only the man in the mirror.
Jason isn't old enough to fully understand black and white, why his grandmother was sent to jail for ordering a hamburger at a Woolworth lunch counter in 1960, or how an ill-used child's soul might never find its way back home.
So I told Jason about the time Mommy, Grandma, Grandpa, Aunt Lydia and Aunt Johnita [now an assistant general counsel at CNN] drove from Miami to Jacksonville to see the Jacksons' Victory Tour in 1984, when Michael Jackson ruled the world. How his aunties and I dressed up for the concert in our own gloves.
After the concert, still floating from the surreal experience, we approached a stretch limousine on the highway. As my father sidled our car closer and my sisters and I pressed our noses to the window to try to see, the limo's tinted electric window slid down.
A sparkling silver glove waved out to us.
When we saw that glove, the whole car screamed -- even my father, who was driving.
My sisters and I begged my father to follow the limousine...and it finally came to a stop in front of our budget hotel. When the rear door opened, a white blond-haired decoy stepped out -- wearing a silver Michael Jackson glove.
If only we'd never seen past the tinted window.
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Tests at Clemson University indicate variable rate application of side-dress nitrogen on cotton can save growers 30-50 percent on nitrogen use without loss of yield.
The spike in nitrogen fertilizer prices in 2008 and the continued volatility of both supply and cost, combined with continued low prices for cotton, has placed many growers in dire need of improving the efficiency of the fertilizer they use.
For the past three years Clemson researchers at the Edisto Research and Education Center in Blackville, S.C., have been testing three different options for variable rate application of side-dress nitrogen on cotton. In 2007 and 2008 they reduced total nitrogen use by 30 percent with no yield loss. In 2009, they upped the ante to saving 50 percent on nitrogen use.
The proof of the 50 percent reduction will come after cotton is harvested and yield and quality numbers are in, but so far tests on the research station and with cooperating farmers look good.
"If you look at cotton prices, they are about the same as in 2003. However, if you look at the price of nitrogen, despite a drop in price this year, it is still near record highs. The recession has kept prices low, but we don't know where nitrogen prices will go next year," says Clemson Researcher Wes Porter.
Porter is a graduate student working with Ahmad Khalilian, a Clemson University Professor of Agricultural & Biological Engineering and guru of precision agriculture for a number of years.
For the past three years Khalilian, Clemson Extension Precision Ag Specialist Will Henderson and a group of dedicated graduate students have tested variable rate technology for use in applying nitrogen and other fertilizers on cotton.
Porter says there are three routes a farmer can go to apply variable rates of nitrogen to cotton. The first is the simplest and least costly: A nitrogen ramp calibration strip (N-RCS) can serve as a simple guide to nitrogen use.
The N-RCS strips, usually 100-150-feet long, begin at a low rate of nitrogen in as close to an average soil type as possible and increase nitrogen rates to a rate higher than a cotton plant can use. The response of cotton to nitrogen rate will increase to a certain level of nitrogen, after which there will not be any significant increase in crop performance with increasing nitrogen rate. On a 150-foot test strip, the Clemson researchers upped nitrogen rates by 10 pounds per acre every 16 feet of the test row.
These strips should be applied early in the growing season (at planting or soon after planting). As the season goes along, growers can check the strips and visually determine which rates are producing optimum growth. Based on color and height differential of cotton at various nitrogen rates, the grower can make decisions as to how much nitrogen to apply in side-dress applications.
The obvious problem with this system is the ability to visually determine which rates are best. Each year is different and each year requires establishing a new N-RCS. Simple and inexpensive, the N-RCS will give veteran cotton growers a visual guide to determining how much side-dress fertilizer needs to be applied.
The second option takes the N-RCS a little farther, using a hand-held GreenSeeker. "When you get ready to apply the first side-dress application of nitrogen, you walk over the cotton, hold the device 36-40 inches above the cotton. Measure the ramp strip to the highest NDVI number — that's where you want to apply nitrogen."
Demonstrating the hand-held GreenSeeker, Porter says the optimum amount of nitrogen for that particular field for 2009 was just over 80 pounds per acre. "In this field, we reduced nitrogen amount by 10 pounds per acre. Multiply that over hundreds or thousands of acres of cotton, and it will be a huge savings," Porter says.
GreenSeeker provides useful data to determine Normalized Difference Vegetative Index (NDVI = NIR - Red / NIR + Red, where NIR and Red are Near Infrared and Red wavelengths, respectively). These NDVI readings can be used in conjunction with other agronomic references to measure crop nutrient response and condition, yield potential, stress, pest and disease impact in a quantitative objective manner. This unit can be used to monitor changes in plant conditions during the growing season.
Cost of the hand-held Greenseeker is about $3,000.
The NDVI also can be read with a six-row system on a Hi-Boy sprayer, or similar system. Clemson researchers built a six-row system, which is used to apply variable rates of nitrogen to cotton at the Edisto Station and with growers in cooperative tests.
The Greenseeker is height sensitive, so the Clemson researchers attached a height sensor on the Hi-Boy sprayer to insure maximum accuracy from the sensors.
The Clemson rig has an on-board controller with built in algorithms that ask for maximum crop yield for the region and number of days after planting in the field. The on-board computer takes the NDVI rating and the high rate of the ramp (N-RCS) and calculates the optimum rate of nitrogen needed at different areas of that field of cotton in that particular year.
Using the same controller on a variable rate nitrogen applicator, you can apply map based or real time. Over the past three years of testing, Porter says they have seen a 30 percent reduction in nitrogen totals, with no yield loss. In 2009, using an algorithm designed just for South Carolina cotton, they got a 50 percent reduction in nitrogen use. Once cotton is picked and data is processed, they will determine whether there was any yield loss at the 50 percent reduction rate of nitrogen.
The Clemson variable rate application rig also incorporates GPS technology. The GPS system provides location at the field as well as ground speed of the fertilizer applicator, adding even more precision to the application process.
A commonly used Farm Works software program, with a touch screen computer is used to change rates as the rig passes through the field. The program tells the operator the rate of nitrogen applied, rpm of motor, acres applied, and speed of the rig as it passes through the field.
Porter notes this machine is an ideal way to apply field-specific nitrogen. If you have two fields five miles apart, one gets an inch of rain and one gets none, you will need different rates of nitrogen — just based on that one parameter. This application system solves the problem of getting maximum yield potential for both fields, he adds.
The variable rate system also helps growers manage different cropping systems. For example, a cotton crop following soybeans and wheat will have different nitrogen requirements, since these crops leave different residual amounts of nitrogen in the field. Using the variable rate system, nitrogen is applied based on what is needed for that field under that year's conditions. So, it takes into account how much residual nitrogen is left in a field.
Using the Clemson rig, Khalilian explains how it can be a one-pass system for applying varying rates of nitrogen. "First you go through the nitrogen-enriched strip and it puts the data into memory automatically. When you go over the rest of the field, the algorithm in the controller calculates how much nitrogen should go to every part of the field."
The cost of a six-row GreenSeeker system is in the $20,000-$25,000 range, according to Khalilian.
Regardless of the variable rate application system used, there is clear evidence that Southeastern cotton growers can reduce the cost of secondary application of nitrogen on cotton and reduce their overall fertilizer bill without jeopardizing yield.
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Bostwick's Feasts on P.B.A., Schenck's Delivers in Nine
With the playoffs looming, Bostwick's has clinched the top seed in East Hampton Town's women's slow-pitch softball league, and, in the men's league, Schenck Fuels was poised to follow suit if it defeated The Independent Monday.
Bostwick's, whose core players — Jeannie Bunce, Jeanie Berkoski, Sue Warner, and Barbara and Lori Schultz — are aiming for an unprecedented sixth straight championship under the Bostwick's banner, and their 16th over all under Bostwick's and other sponsors, was at 7-0 as of Monday, having crushed the P.B.A. 18-3 in a game played at Amagansett's Terry King ball field last Thursday, scoring three runs in the bottom of the first inning, two in the bottom of the second, and 13 on 13 hits in the bottom of the third.
Schenck Fuels, which, in a well-played, homerless extra-inning game, defeated The Independent 9-7 on July 13, was at 12-1 as of Monday, followed by The Independent, at 11-5, Uihlein's, at 7-7, Stephen Hand's Equipment, at 6-6, Round Swamp Farm, at 6-9, and Bono Plumbing and Heating, at 0-14.
All the men's teams will make the playoffs, which could begin as early as Wednesday, assuming numerous rainouts will have been made up by then.
Four of the five women's teams will play in the postseason — Bostwick's, Groundworks, which was 4-3 as of Monday, Men At Work (3-3), and the P.B.A. (2-4). Grazina Orthodontics, a first-year squad, was O-6, and thus out of the running.
Rich Schneider, the leagues' spokesman, thought as of Monday morning that Schenck's had clinched the top seed in the men's loop, but soon after demurred, saying that Schenck's and Indy would wind up tied, with each at 12-5, if the Fuelmen lost Monday to The Independent in the fourth meeting of those teams and went on to lose their three remaining regular season games. However, that was unlikely, given the fact that they are to finish with Bono Plumbing tomorrow. "Then," said Schneider, "we'd have to go to tiebreakers."
Going into Monday's game, Schenck's, a number of whose players won regional amateur baseball championships as the East End Tigers, had taken two of three from The Independent, which has been the playoff champion in four of the past five years.
The first two games the teams played were home run derbies, but in the July 13 meeting, during which swirling winds turned the infield into a dust bowl at times, no one found the fences.
The Independent jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the third inning, on a two-run double by John Amicucci, who hits second in the lineup, and on a single to center field by Bill Collins, the number-three hitter, that scored Amicucci.
Schenck's got two back in the top of the fifth. Brendan Fennell led off with an infield single, after which Zach Brenneman, Indy's shortfielder, failed to hang onto a sinking fly ball hit his way by Jerry Uribe.
Mike Rodriguez then forced Uribe at second as Fennell took third, but Will Collins followed with a run-scoring single to get Schenck's on the board. Chris O'Conner, who was batting 10th in the lineup, beat out a dribbler to load the bases with one out for the pitcher, Doug Dickson, whose sacrifice fly to left field plated Fennell with the Fuelmen's second run. Another 6-4 force, on a ground ball hit by the leadoff hitter, Ethan King, ended the inning.
Dickson kept the lid on in the bottom of the fifth, with Charlie Collins, Tyler Brenneman, and Peyton Kelley making outs. Then Schenck's took a 6-3 lead in the top of the sixth, the key hits being an opposite-field r.b.i. by the left-handed Andy Tuthill, run-scoring singles by Uribe and Rodriguez, and a sac fly by Will Collins.
The Independent had the bases loaded with two out in the bottom half, but Dickson knocked down a hard line drive hit toward him by his opposite number, Rob Nicoletti, and under-handed a toss to Fennell at first for the final out.
Nice base-running by Ethan King, who avoided a tag on the base paths and beat a throw to third, enabled the Fuelmen to load the bases with one out in the top of the seventh. King then came home on Vinnie Alversa's fielder's choice grounder to second.
Trailing 7-3, The Independent's seventh, eighth, and ninth hitters, Herlihy, Pierce Kelley, and Charlie Collins, were due up in the bottom of the seventh. Tuthill made a diving catch of Herlihy's liner to center field to start the inning off. But then Kelley, Collins, and Tyler Brenneman followed with successive singles, loading the bases.
Nick Tuths, a pinch-hitter, hit a high curling foul ball off the right field line, which O'Connor dove for but couldn't grab. Tuths' subsequent hard-hit ground ball to short hit Collins as he was running for third. Declaring the ball dead once it had hit Collins, the umpire ordered Kelley back to third, and the bases remained loaded, this time with two outs.
Alex Tekulsky, Indy's hard-hitting leadoff hitter, smacked a two-run base hit for 7-5, and, after Amicucci singled to load the bases again, Bill Collins drove in two more runs with a base hit, tying the score at 7-7 with Zach Brenneman, the cleanup hitter, due up.
With first base open, Dickson intentionally walked Brenneman, after which Barry Mackin made the last out, sending the game into extras.
Dickson came to bat with the bases loaded and two out in the top of the eighth, but, with two strikes, drove a grounder foul of third, resulting in an inning-ending strikeout.
Tuthill saved Schenck's in the bottom of the eighth as, with one out and a runner on first, he made an over-the-shoulder catch of a deep fly ball hit toward the center field fence by Pierce Kelley and then rifled a throw to Fennell to double up Herlihy, who had been heading for second when the catch was made.
The Fuelmen went up 9-7 in the top of the ninth on a run-scoring single by Tuthill with the bases loaded and one out, and on a subsequent force play that forced Tuthill at second but scored Adam Gledhill from third.
With runners at first and second and two out in the bottom of the ninth, Dickson induced Amicucci to hit into a game-ending 6-5 force that sent the Fuelmen home winners.
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With the evidence collected and knowledge gained, these officers will then attempt to formulate a probable "M.O." (Modus Operandi). This procedure may explain how the crime happened and a possible profile of the person(s) who may have committed the crime. A report is then completed and sent on to the Detective Bureau for follow-up.
These officers, while on patrol, will process a crime scene. If requested, they will also assist other law enforcement officers in the area. These officers, if sent on a call which requires an evidence technician, will process the respective crime scene. If necessary, other evidence technicians may be dispatched to the scene for assistance.


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Cole Barash
"The images in here show my journey of 2008. In between all of the crazy action, I hope to bring ya stories, vibes, personalities, a few laughs and connections. Hopefully, in some of the images, you are brought behind the camera, and into the life of pro shreds, ie snow nomads. Enjoi."
– Cole Barash
Bio: Cole Barash
Age: 21
Homebase: Oceanside, CA
Equipment: Canon bodies and lenses, leica m7, and hasselblad 501.
Lighting: Profoto 7b2, 2 acute 600r, sunpak 555
Do you still shoot film, why?:
Yeah, for sure. More for personal stuff, as most companies and magazines are heavily reliant on digital these days. The main thing about shooting film is, IT SLOWS ME DOWN. You focus much more on your composition, getting your lighting completely dialed and waiting patiently for that moment. Instead of rapid fire with digital, which is easy to do, this can ruin a portrait session.
What companies are you shooting for:
NIKE SNOW, Oakley and Billabong. I no longer shoot for Forum, although those guys are my homies, I've had some of the craziest times with them. I will always be tight with that crew. Forum is a solid program, I learned a lot coming up with them and will always respect my roots.
Photographers who influence you:
I would say original big influences for me were Zacher, Skoglund and Mathis. There shit was so ill! So different; Zacher would shoot it all, showing how it is beyond the action; real stories. He doesn't care, he just shoots! Skoglund is just gnarly, so tech, always experimenting. And mathis, all his urban stuff in True Life days was real inspiring; always switching up crazy films, and such strong compositions.
What photographers are you hyped on in snowboarding today:
Frode, Blom and Blotto. Frode gets it done in Europe, love his work recently. Blom is coming out with some rad material as well, inspiring for sure. Blotto is the road warrior, always coming back with the goods. AND there is this new guy, Carlos Blanchard, SUPER stoked on his black and white stuff.
What is up with the NIKE SNOWBOARDING ads? And are they the same as NIKE 6.0?
No NIKE SNOWBOARDING is a separate core brand similar to NIKE SB. NIKE 6.0 is mainstream action sports. For the NIKE boot ads, we just wanted to do something different. They are weird, and some people probably dont understand them. We chose environments true to each rider (ie, Benne's was mocha salsa in SLC) , all shot at night, moody and contrasty, and we spot lit the boots to add mystery.
What feature or cover in Transworld Snowboarding were you most stoked on this year and why?
The Transworld Photo Annual cover. Curtes slaughtered that shot, the light and angle for the turn was so sick. Not to mention its Terje, such insane style, looks like hes surfing. And the fact his signature is on every copy, it looks rad, shows he was stoked on it and it was an original idea to have him sign it. Its refreshing to see a legit pow turn on a cover in a new way, they are hard to shoot.
What advice do you have for any upcoming photographers:
Keep shooting, and shooting. Always try, reinvent yourself, and experiment. If you really want to be a snowboard photographer, your gonna have to pay your dues, and put in a lot of long days, so get ready. Also, always be scanning through as much eye candy (good imagery) as possible via websites, mags, photo books, blogs whatever, develop your eye and expose it to all. And keep asking questions….
Check out more of Cole's photography at www.colebarash.com. You can also check out his blog at www.ColeBarash.Blogspot.com.


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Anime with inspirational humanitarian messages are exceedingly hard to come by. Most attempts get bogged down in contrivances, never moving beyond manipulative, hackneyed tragedies to stir viewers into some kind of reaction. This is why, when a show like Now and Then, Here and There comes along, I can't help but pinch myself. Although... read more
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Firefox 11 Brings 3D Web Page Visualizer and CSS Style Editor
Mozilla Firefox 11 web browser the latest development release brings several new features improves the web browsing experience for regular users and better developing environment for web developers. A couple of new developer features added lately to the Beta version of Mozilla Firefox 11 are a style editor for CSS editing web page elements and 3D web page visualizer tool allows you to easily check the web page structure in 3D.
CSS Style Editor
This tool allows you to easily change the CSS code web page elements and view the changes simultaneously. To use the style editor, open "tools" drop down menu and open "style editor" from the web developer menu.
3D Web Page inspector
First time we have seen this tool as an add-on for Firefox to visualize the web page structure in 3D, The add-on called "Tilt 3D" and it's available on the Mozilla add-on page. With the upcoming release of Mozilla Firefox 11 you won't need to add additional add-on to use 3D web page visualizer. This tool requires WebGL "web-based graphics library" to be able to use it. To use the you can open it from the web developer menu or by the right click drop down menu on any location at the web page.
You can use mouse and keyboard buttons to zoom in or zoom out, rotate and pan the web page.
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What's New in Mozilla Firefox 11 Beta
- NEW: Most add-ons are now compatible with new versions of Firefox by default.
- NEW: With Sync enabled, add-ons can now be synchronized across your computers.
- NEW: The CSS text-size-adjust property is now supported.
- HTML5: The outerHTML property is now supported on HTML elements.
- HTML5: View source syntax highlighting now uses the HTML5 parser (see bug 482921).
- DEVELOPER: The Style Editor for CSS editing is now available to web developers.
- DEVELOPER: Web developers can now visualize a web page in 3D using the Page Inspector 3D View.
- DEVELOPER: SPDY protocol support for faster page loads is now testable.
- DEVELOPER: XMLHttpRequest now supports HTML parsing.
- DEVELOPER: Files can now be stored in IndexedDB (see bug 661877).
- DEVELOPER: Websockets has now been unprefixed.
- FIXED: Redesigned media controls for HTML5 video.
- FIXED: Firefox notifications may not work properly with Growl 1.3 or later (691662).
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sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-next sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install firefox
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Co-creator, writer and star of the most popular TV sitcom in history, Jerry Seinfeld will take the stage at The Colosseum inside Caesars Palace. Seinfeld will be up to his usual comedic tricks, dishing out the best punches with his signature deadpan delivery.
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Parking the food truck
Owners of LobsterCraft trawl waters of restaurant ownership
Michael Harden learned during his long career as a commercial lobsterman that there are only three components needed to make a good lobster roll -- lobster, butter and roll.
But as it became too difficult for Harden to bank on harvesting the sandwich's most salient ingredient on his boat in Norwalk, he turned instead to a sector of the food industry that was growing nearly as fast as lobster fishing was waning -- food trucks.
Urged by his wife to give cooking lobster rolls a try, Harden purchased a battered truck from Indiana in 2012 and spent four months cleaning and hand-painting the vehicle before taking the nascent LobsterCraft out on the roads of Fairfield County. When the demand became overwhelming, he enlisted Trond Fletcher, a friend of 30-odd years with a family history in the food business, to copilot the venture.
"We always say food trucks are the pirates of the culinary world," Fletcher said.
Since 2012, LobsterCraft has peddled a simple menu of lobster rolls in Fairfield County, attracting a throng of 100 customers on a good day. Now, the seafood venture is setting down permanent roots, an oft-longed-for goal in the food truck business. The first LobsterCraft restaurant is set to open in a 600-square-foot storefront on Tokeneke Road in Darien in the next few weeks, with another location preparing to launch in New York City this fall. LobsterCraft's two trucks, painted with bright orange lobsters, will continue to run from Greenwich to Westport.
"It's been a crazy growth pattern," Harden said. "I think we really hit a niche with gourmet lobster rolls that needed to be filled."
It seems Fletcher and Harden entered the business at a particularly opportune moment. Over the past five years, the food truck sector has been growing at a steady rate of 12.4 percent a year, an unusual beacon of success in a restaurant industry that struggled during the recession, according to market research by IBISWorld. In Connecticut, food trucks have been trawling the roads for customers since the mid-1990s, but the concept has only really taken off in Fairfield County over the past seven or eight years, said Linda Kavanagh, director of the New England Culinary Group in Stamford.
"The transitions come from either angle; a chef with an established restaurant/name taking their act on the road or a successful food truck morphing into a full scale operation," Kavanagh said. "The challenge is that the truck and the restaurant have zero similarities and both have their unique set of business components."
For LobsterCraft, the idea to establish a physical location came through customer demand. After a long search for a location, Harden and Fletcher bought out the space previously occupied by a deli next to White Bridge Wines and Spirits. The operation will be small. A staff of four or five will work in both the restaurant and the two trucks, with room for more hires, Fletcher said.
"Everybody asked if we were just a truck, so it really came from the crowd," Harden said. "There's not a lot of food trucks out there that say they're happy with just a truck."
Though the Sound's lobster industry may only yield a fraction of its former catches, LobsterCraft still sources local ingredients whenever possible. The rolls come from Muro's Original New York Bakery in South Norwalk and LobsterCraft has relationships with a number of local farmer's markets, both to buy produce and to sell the finished product at the markets. The most pared-down lobster roll on the menu starts at about $16, but the price really depends on the market, Fletcher said.
As a food truck, LobsterCraft closed up shop in January and February to refurbish the equipment and prepare for the coming spring season. But the Darien restaurant will be a year-round operation.
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12-Oct-2011 -- "Give Blood - Go Confluence Hunting"
A tale of two confluences - and they could not be more different. In the morning it was 37N15E, in the evening it was 38N15E.
For 37N15E there is a nice parking spot on the side of the road and a gap in the stone wall that perfectly aligns with the confluence point. 10 minutes out and back including photos and confluence dance.
At '38' it was climbing, crawling, brambles and rose thorns, nettles, sharp slippy rocks and foot-trapping bogs. This was all to get to the confluence point - the woods around the point are quite nice and open.
Google Earth shows a track going to within 150m of the confluence. This is technically true most of the way, with the last section of track being an over-grown terrace/footpath but the final 150m "across terrain" is a nightmare.
Driving anywhere in Sicily takes longer than you expect (except if there is a convenient autostrada going your way). My lunch stop was on the southern slopes of Mt. Etna - just 30km direct line from N38E15 - but it took me two and a half hours to drive - there is a big mountain in the way and then the final 20km of road is narrow, steep and twisty. Well worth the drive as I just caught the evening light at the perfect time for photos.
I left my car on the main road as the dirt road toward the confluence was blocked with a wired shut gate. All around I could hear the sound of sheep and their bells - and the distant drone of, what turned out to be, motorbike trials riders (part of my route intersected with a laid out course).
The first 1.5km is all down hill and on good tracks - it took me 20 minutes. The path is then blocked by a fence - and over this is completely choked with a mixture of broom, wild rose and brambles - go-able but I was getting very badly scratched - legs, arms and torso. The path ends at a large boulder on the edge of woodland. It was now getting dark and it had taken me 10 minutes to travel 200m. Even so off-path would have been slower and so it was vital that I find the track on my return so I recorded my position in my GPS - a wise move.
Now only 150m to the confluence - a falling traverse across some steep but quite pleasant woodland and then I hit "the thick stuff" - small vertical rock faces and between these bog, streams, lethally slippy boulders, dense forest (crawling necessary) and lots more sharp-thorny-plants. As I was on my own and absolutely nobody was going to be coming looking for me I took exceptional care and it took me another 20 minutes to reach the confluence. By now I was covered in sweat, blood and flies and with almost no light and a very weak satellite lock I did not attempt to get my GPS reading below 20m (accuracy also 20m).
The return trip was just as painful - but at least was able to re-trace my route - so it was a bit quicker.
(I suspect that with more time I could have found an easier way to the confluence - certainly there was a good animal track descending from the west from what looked like open woodland).
And I was rewarded with one of the most wonderful views in Sicily - the Aeolian Islands...
By the time I got to my car it was full night - lit only by the just risen moon and my, fortuitously carried, Petzl headlamp.
It was then another hour to my hotel - interesting conversation with the receptionist - how did I come to be so badly scratched and bleeding and my clothes all torn...


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Forecast for next week"
The next system coming into north California
Sunday into Monday looks pretty vigorous at this time. Snow levels
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over the higher elevations...especially on Monday...with the storm.
High pressure rebuilds again across the Pacific, so Tuesday through
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Lots of snow followed by sun (and wind, probably). Sounds good. If it comes true, I'll probably be heading up mid-week for a day trip. If anyone is interested, send me a private message.


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