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JR:
Weather and foliage in southern West Virginia mountain towns
- From my Toledo Talk microblog posts in May 2013 (will be imported here, eventually). The first two culled info from the Wikipedia pages.
"Beckley Elevation: 2,421 ft. Summers are warm and humid, although significantly cooler than low-elevation plac...
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- Oct 09, 2013
- #weather #nature
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A young author's views about young people
- Entertaining read.
Aug 19, 2013 - Forbes - Millions Of Millenials Live At Home And Support The Policies That Keep Them There written by Maura Pennington
A writer in Washington, D.C., I am a contributor for Ricochet and have had writing featured by...
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4 min read
- Oct 09, 2013
- #politics #business
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Media purchases
- March 2012 - The New Republic bought by a Facebook co-founder.
August 2013 - Boston Globe bought by owner of Red Sox, John Henry, who also owns a media company.
In 2011, the Times turned down a $300 million offer from Aaron Kushner, CEO of ...
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2 min read
- Oct 09, 2013
- #media
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Password encryption methods
- The best practice among Silicon Valley companies is to adopt far slower hash algorithms -- designed to take a large fraction of a second to scramble a password -- that have been intentionally crafted to make it more difficult and expensive for the NS...
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2 min read
- Oct 09, 2013
- #encryption #privacy #nsa
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Cleaning a window air conditioner
- Our two small window AC units purchased in July 2011:
Frigidaire
model number: LRA074AT7
6500 BTU
manual for unit that's similar to ours:
Care and Cleaning Energy Saving Ideas
Clean your air conditioner occasionally to keep it looking new. ...
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3 min read
- Oct 09, 2013
- #home
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OpOK Scratchpad - Oklahoma Tornado Relief
- Large document to help provide relief to tornado victims in Oklahoma.
June 10, 2013 Twitter post
Anonymous @YourAnonNews 32m
Current needs of the activists anons supporting #Oklahoma recovery: #OpOK
#OpOK Amazon Wedding Registry - Verified
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25 min read
- Oct 09, 2013
- #Oklahoma #OpOK #Rural #okcpets #weather #communication #emergency
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Toledo events for the first weekend of June 2013.
- Old West End Festival
Sat Sun, June 1-2
10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. both days
The 2013 King Wamba Carnival Parade starts at 10:00 a.m. on Sat.
The route starts at Robinwood and Collins (heading South), then going East on Bancroft, and South ag...
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1 min read
- Oct 09, 2013
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Web posts to read - 23May2013
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- Oct 09, 2013
- #toread
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Carroll Township Algal toxins water problem - Sep 5, 2013
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3 min read
- Oct 09, 2013
- #health #lakeerie #environment #nature
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Test page for CSS media queries and min-width
- This is my favorite website. I visit it almost every day. Its not responsive. Its not optimized for iPhone. It looks blurry on a Retina display. It doesnt use the latest HTML5/CSS3 framework. It doesnt have a thoughtful vertical rhythm. The fonts are...
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1 min read
- Oct 08, 2013
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To-read - 7May2013
- Evan Williams on Medium: 'The magazine is the analog for what were doing'
Building a Mindful Company
Why I love Medium Notes and why you will love them too
Include article references without disrupting reading
QA w/Brent re River of News
11th hour fo...
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- Oct 08, 2013
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Yarn Cravin Summer 2013 News and Events
- - Perrysburg
Dont miss the Fiber Art Exhibit at 577 Foundation on June 8; 10-5 9; 12-5. Bring your knitting and stay a while! They have live music, art demonstrations along with the juried fiber art exhibit. - Over 75 pieces of juried fiber art ...
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1 min read
- Oct 08, 2013
- #knitting
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Mercurial source control management
- by a creator of the new, June 2013 iOS notes app Vesper
To swim with the current these days is to use git. But I like Mercurial better and I think Mercurial is to Macintosh as git is to Windows.
Thats probably not fair or rational, but it do...
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- Oct 08, 2013
- #programming #versioncontrol