China has our forests, now we're sending our oilfields too. Canada is at the brink of what is probably the most radical shift in energy and foreign policy since Pierre Trudeau and Mitchell Sharp engineered the ultimately doomed “Third Option” 40 years ago, which was all about reducing our economic reliance on the United States. This time around, everything is happening quite suddenly. There has been no debate of any consequence at all – not in the House of Commons, not in the Senate, not in the proceedings of a Royal Commission. Certainly not in the news media. Just as the underpinnings of the old order are collapsing, certain Conservatives are summoning the faithful and blanketing the newspapers with purported evidences of a Masonic strategem devised by socialist Hollywood billionaires to activate sleeper cells of Ducks Unlimited agents for the purpose of sapping Canada’s will to live as sovereign nation.
Here’s what you’ve been missing. Now, everything’s changed. Sure, Rex Murphy is quite right, as far as it goes. Right after Mr. National Post. The Truth Behind the Coming “Regime Change” in Syria. After meeting again to decide Syria’s fate, the Arab League again decided to extend its “monitoring mission” in Syria. However, some Arab League nations under U.S. diplomatic control are clamoring for blood.
These countries — virtual sock puppets of U.S. foreign policy — want to declare the Arab League monitoring mission “a failure,” so that military intervention — in the form of a no fly zone — can be used for regime change. The United States appears to be using a strategy in Syria that it has perfected over the years, having succeeded most recently in Libya: arming small paramilitary groups loyal to U.S. interests that claim to speak for the native population; these militants then attack the targeted government the U.S. would like to see overthrown —including terrorist bombings — and when the attacked government defends itself, the U.S. cries “genocide” or “mass murder,” while calling for foreign military intervention.
“Mr. Prince Charles right that plants really can communicate with one another. By Tamara Cohen Updated: 09:37 GMT, 4 February 2012 All quiet in the garden? Take another look because it seems there might be an awful lot of chatter going on in the flower beds. In news to gladden the heart of Prince Charles, who was once much mocked for having conversations with cabbages and the like, it appears science has caught up with what many gardeners have long held true – plants can communicate. Researchers revealed how plants talk by modifying a cabbage gene which triggers the production of a gas emitted when a plant’s surface is cut or pierced. Close study: Charles uses magnifying glass to inspect cacti plants in 1993 By adding the protein luciferase – which makes fireflies glow in the dark – to the DNA the plants’ emissions could be monitored on camera.
One cabbage plant had a leaf cut off with scissors and started emitting a gas – methyl jasmonate – thereby ‘telling’ its neighbours there may be trouble ahead. It is the first time such a process has been caught on camera. Why Gardening Makes You Happy and Cures Depression - Articles - Permaculture College Australia. Robyn Francis While mental health experts warn about depression as a global epidemic, other researchers are discovering ways we trigger our natural production of happy chemicals that keep depression at bay, with surprising results.
All you need to do is get your fingers dirty and harvest your own food. In recent years I’ve come across two completely independent bits of research that identified key environmental triggers for two important chemicals that boost our immune system and keep us happy - serotonin and dopamine. What fascinated me as a permaculturist and gardener were that the environmental triggers happen in the garden when you handle the soil and harvest your crops. Getting down and dirty is the best ‘upper’ – Serotonin Getting your hands dirty in the garden can increase your serotonin levels – contact with soil and a specific soil bacteria, Mycobacterium vaccae, triggers the release of serotonin in our brain according to research. Harvest 'High' - Dopamine Robyn Francis 2010 Share: The Battle of Oakland. Red Staple Announces Release of Innovative e-Book Authoring Tools. How to Create a CSS3-Only Tab Control Using the :target Selector.
Do we need another tab control? Probably not, but this example demonstrates the power of the CSS3 :target selector. We’re going to build an attractive animated tab control using HTML5 and CSS3. You won’t need JavaScript or images and it works in IE9, Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Opera. Essential Features You’ll find many CSS3-only tab controls throughout the web. Not displaying any tab content if you link to the page without a hash selector, i.e. you link to mypage.html rather than mypage.html#tab1.not highlighting the active tab. This solution overcomes those problems — view the demonstration page… What about IE6, 7 and 8?
Were you expecting modern CSS3 effects to work in a browser released in 2001? You therefore have two options: Don’t offer legacy browser support. The HTML Here’s our basic HTML5 code. <article class="tabs"><section id="tab1"><h2><a href="#tab1">Tab 1</a></h2><p>This content appears on tab 1. This is different to HTML tab code you’ve seen before. The CSS. Report predicts demise of OS-centric app storefrontsGoMo News. Rating: Bring on D2C and HTML5 Market Analyst, Juniper Research has just released a new report that predicts the demise of OS-centric app storefronts in favour of HTML5 and direct-to-consumer (D2C) models. “The closer integration between web-based apps and handsets should mean that the advantage that native apps have is reduced,” the report claims.
That will favour HTML5 which is a mark-up language that reduces end-user dependence on plug-in app technologies. Smartphones users will utilise their handset’s browser to access platform independent apps. This report also highlights the growing importance of operator and in-app billing and predicts tablets’ share of the apps market will rise considerably. Most do not possess the scale of traffic to make D2C a viable option: in most cases, the storefront will continue to be the optimal discovery and distribution mechanism.”
The report also concludes that most network operator storefronts will struggle to attract developers due to lack of scale. LibreOffice developer shows prototype Android and HTML5 ports. The Document Foundation (TDF) announced plans last year to create mobile and cloud versions of LibreOffice. A preliminary iOS porting effort that was undertaken earlier in 2011 demonstrated the viability of the project and showed that the open source office suite could have a future beyond the desktop. In a presentation this week at the FOSDEM conference, SUSE developer Michael Meeks shed some light on the current status of the porting project. The presentation slides, which he published on his blog, offer insight into some of the underlying technical details and the rationale for some of the high-level design decisions.
Reusing code The LibreOffice developers aim to maximize the amount of code that is shared between the desktop, mobile, and cloud variants of the office suite. Instead of rewriting the software or maintaining separate implementations, the existing code base will be adapted to work in new environments. Port status Scaling Listing image by Photograph by Brett Jordan. Head-Mounted Android: Google Reportedly Preps Connected Glasses. Behold the future! Take a pile of smartphone parts and stuff them into a pair of somewhat bulky glasses. That’s the idea behind a project Google is reportedly working on right now. According to 9to5Google.com, these high-tech glasses have been in the works for a while now but the blog’s unnamed source has apparently witnessed a real-world set of prototype glasses that appear similar to the Oakley Thump glasses your favorite bounty hunter is wearing in the above photo. (MORE: AirScouter Projects a 16-inch Display Directly onto Your Retina) While the Oakley Thumps merely pump music through the attached earbuds, these Google glasses appear to basically act as a head-mounted smartphone with a tiny screen mounted to the side of them and an interface controlled by voice commands.
Says 9to5Google: The navigation system currently used is a head tilting-to scroll and click. But who would buy such a system? Those are companies, though. Why Android Developers Should Flock to BlackBerry (RIMM) Developers are the golden ticket. It may have taken Apple's (Nasdaq: AAPL ) Steve Jobs a while to realize this, since he was initially opposed to opening up iOS to third-party developers, but obviously that objection didn't stick around for long and the rest is history.
That significance is also what led to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT ) CEO Steve Ballmer's famous sweat-soaked "Developers! Developers! Developers! " rant. As Apple, Google (Nasdaq: GOOG ) , Research In Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM ) , and Microsoft vie for mobile dominance, a lot of attention naturally turns toward each platform's respective app offerings, and what each company can do to win over quality devs. At the BlackBerry DevCon Europe event recently, RIM Developer Relations VP Alec Saunders highlighted a few interesting tidbits while trying to "bust a few myths" surrounding the BlackBerry's app platform.
Cue Android developer exodus now. RIM: BlackBerry Apps More Profitable to Developers Than Android, iOS. BlackBerry maker Research in Motion provides its users with more than six million applications per day and the apps generate 40 percent more revenue than the Android marketplace. Contrary to popular belief, the Canadian phone company actually provides developers would a good opportunity at making money from BlackBerry's App World, with users downloading more paid apps than for Android. Speaking at Research in Motion's DevCon Europe conference in Amsterdam, RIM's head of developer relations, Alec Saunders, said that roughly 13 percent of BlackBerry developers have made $100,000 or more from selling applications for the handsets, a figure that he claims to be higher than with Android and iOS developers.
After the torrid 12 months that RIM has endured, the company is reliant more than ever on its app developers to create new and innovative ways of using BlackBerry smartphones and tablets. The CEO continued: "This is the heart of BlackBerry 10. It's to be effortless in everything you do. Three years on, Chrome at last arrives on Android | Deep Tech.
Google today released a beta version of its Chrome browser for Android, a momentous step that marries two of Google's most important programming projects. The new browser, unlike the stock Android browser, is available in the Android Market so that people don't have to wait for handset makers to offer it through an operating system upgrade. But its reliance on newer hardware acceleration interfaces means it only works on Ice Cream Sandwich, which despite emerging last year on Samsung's Galaxy Nexus smartphone remains a rarity in the real world. Chrome for Android (review) includes the desktop version's V8 JavaScript engine, has gesture-based controls for moving among multiple tabs, synchronizes with the desktop version of Chrome, and shuts out plug-ins including Adobe Systems' Flash Player and Google's own Native Client.
With its performance and features, Google expects Android users to increase their browser activity. Peas in a pod Android and Chrome are made for each other. Shawn Achor: The happy secret to better work. Chris Risner . Com.