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Happy New Year! A quick note to wish you all a very happy new year! We’ve been busy these past few months touring to promote our newest album, Move In Spectrums, and are so looking forward to continuing to share our music with the world in 2014. Our first destination is Japan from January 13 to the 19th, making stops in Tokyo, Niigata, Kanazawa, Kyoto and Nagoya. Getting the chance to reconnect with our fans and our favorite Japanese foods is already a highlight of this upcoming year. February finds us heading back to Europe for a three-week tour, playing cities we traveled to recently (like London, Berlin & Paris–we cant go to Europe and not play Paris!)

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HTML5 Presentation In March 1936, an unusual confluence of forces occurred in Santa Clara County. A long cold winter delayed the blossoming of the millions of cherry, apricot, peach, and prune plum trees covering hundreds of square miles of the Valley floor. Then, unlike many years, the rains that followed were light and too early to knock the blossoms from their branches. Instead, by the billions, they all burst open at once. Seemingly overnight, the ocean of green that was the Valley turned into a low, soft, dizzyingly perfumed cloud of pink and white.

5 Ways to Give Yourself an Education That Kicks the Crap Out of the One You Got in School 5 Ways to Give Yourself an Education That Kicks the Crap Out of the One You Got in School One of the biggest reasons that people are denied the privilege of education is because they can’t afford it. However, today we live in a world where knowledge and information are at our finger tips like never before. Technology has leveled the playing field so that anybody with an interest and an internet connection can receive a world class education. Bloggers, podcasters, search engines and digital content creators of all types of have made it possible for us to learn virtually anything we want to even if we don’t have the money. If you want to learn anything chances are there is somebody creating content about the subject and sharing it with the world at no cost.

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Robert Moog's 78th Birthday In the mid-1960s, Dr. Robert Moog unleashed a new universe of sounds into musicdom with his invention of the electronic analog Moog Synthesizer. The timbre and tones of these keyboard instruments (true works of art in and of themselves) would come to define a generation of music, featuring heavily in songs by The Beatles, The Doors, Stevie Wonder, Kraftwerk and many others. When people hear the word “synthesizer” they often think “synthetic”—fake, manufactured, unnatural. In contrast, Bob Moog’s synthesizers produce beautiful, organic and rich sounds that are, nearly 50 years later, regarded by many professional musicians as the epitome of an electronic instrument. “Synthesizer,” it turns out, refers to the synthesis embedded in Moog’s instruments: a network of electronic components working together to create a whole greater than the sum of the parts.

API v0.6 Available languages — API v0.6 is the current version of the OSM Editing API deployed 17-21 April 2009. This page was updated in March 2012 to reflect small changes applied since then, in April 2013 after the addition of the Map Notes API and in January 2016 after the addition of changeset discussions. This Editing API is based on the ideas of the RESTful API. For more information on RESTful APIs see wikipedia's Representational State Transfer page.

25 Napping Facts Every College Student Should Know Written By: Angelita Williams It's almost cruel the way adults ease children into life outside of the house. They got us on board with the whole going to school thing by letting us take naps in pre-school. But then, come kindergarten, no more naps! Nothing but 12 more grades of trying to focus all day without a siesta. But now, friends, it's a new day.

Type Drawing [iPhone]: Draw with letters on the iPhone TypeDrawing is an iPhone app that lets you drawing with letters! Type a sentence or word you want to say, set the background, choose the font and draw. Just released version 1.1 adds function to set background paper from photo album or by taking a picture with the camera. Multi-language & PDF export will be supported soon but for now, save to library button helps avoid the cumbersome screengrab combo. TypeDrawing originally started with an online project in year 2005 which already includes many interesting drawings.

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