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Oh, the heralded "man cave" — the space of manliness and testosterone where men can truly let loose and revel in their guiltiest pleasures.


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For many families, the only football involved in Thanksgiving traditions comes from a blockhead in a yellow sweater falling for the same trick once again.


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Did you know that the perfect temperature for happiness is 13.9°C? Adjust your thermostat, then check out these quick tips for maximizing mirth. Happiness is so interesting, because we all have different ideas about what it is and how to get it. It’s also no surprise that it’s the Nr.


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And why their "bad" decisions might be more rational than you'd think. In August, Science published a landmark study concluding that poverty, itself, hurts our ability to make decisions about school, finances, and life, imposing a mental burden similar to losing 13 IQ points.


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CIO — Do you spend more time looking for documents, supplies, emails or your mobile phone charger than you do working? If so, you're losing valuable productivity.


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This month marks a milestone in the turf war for the space beneath our television sets: it’s the first time that Sony and Microsoft have released new video-game consoles within a week of one another. The PlayStation 4 launched in the U.S.


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This was an early snow for us, hitting the day before Thanksgiving. It was pretty light, but draped the trees beautifully.


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You can see that the amount of snow is limited, but it's beautiful!


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Well analyzed "stuff" is still "stuff." No matter how much you dissect why something landed in your world, until you decide what you want to do about it, it's stuck as stuff. This is what is choking inboxes and psyches around the world.


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However, when I visit companies or speak to groups this is one of the pieces of advice people say is most difficult for them to act upon.


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New York (AFP) - Yale University went on a four-hour lockdown Monday after an anonymous caller said his roommate was planning to shoot people at one of the most prestigious universities in the United States.


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Bill Rielly had it all: a degree from West Point, an executive position at Microsoft, strong faith, a great family life and plenty of money.


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Visit dailyburn.com Need to work out anywhere, anytime? Stream All Our Workouts. Only At ‘Tis the season to give thanks. We’re used to expressing gratitude around a holiday meal, but many of us have probably never considered that fitness could help bring more gratitude into our lives.


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I’ve seen the future of Facebook, and it is... Yahoo! Between 1994–2000, Yahoo! dominated the consumer Internet industry and much of the world’s attention.


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Some workers like to listen to anything when they find themselves losing focus. They may also plug in their ear phones to escape a work environment that’s too noisy — or too quiet — or to make a repetitive job feel more lively.


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JavaFX has been trotted out at every recent JavaOne as one of the platform’s big new features, but the dev team have often struggled to come up with a convincing tech demo to communicate its appeal.


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Police dashcam footage of the arrest of Army Master Sergeant CJ Grisham has surfaced, and reveals how dangerously close the decorated veteran came to losing his life in an altercation with Temple, Texas police officers.


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Is the standard K 1600 GTL too plebian for you? Do you desire even more from your luxury-touring machine? Well BMW has heard your elitist cries! The Exclusive edition of BMW’s preeminent touring motorcycle has all the bells and whistles.


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Pi Relay Pro is an app to link an Android Device to a Raspberry Pi, for the purpose of switching relays. This could be used to control with your Android device virtually anything that requires an electronic switch to operate. e.g.


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In his book No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs, business coach and consultant Dan Kennedy reveals the steps behind making the most of your frantic, time-pressured days so you can turn time into money.


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Daryl Davis is no ordinary musician. He’s played with President Clinton and tours the country playing “burnin’ boogie woogie piano” and sharing musical stylings inspired by greats like Fats Domino, Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis.


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Security experts have announced the discovery of a Linux back door attack that they have pronounced "more sophisticated than we have seen in the past.


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Keywords: GPS, Garmin Emap, serial communication, RS-232, C program, string messages, reading GPS string, parsing string message, extracting longitude and latitude from GPS string, NMEA protocal


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Most embedded Linux / BSD systems such as routers, servers and nas devices comes with console interface (serial port with RS-232). BIOS can uses this, and after boot BIOS screen I/O is redirected so that you can use the device.


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shared by How To You will be surprised to know that there were 224 deaths in Australia were caused by Motorcycle Accidents in 2012 and the average percentage of motorcycle fatalities is growing every year. Motorcycle riders are at risk 30* higher than that of car occupants.


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Marc Marquez at the Valencia MotoGP test- gives you a new perspective on how low they get, amirite? ELBOW DOWN!


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After a week of somber news about the victims of Typhoon Haiyan and serious reports about the troubled launch of the Affordable Care Act, we don't want to pass up the chance for some relief. So let's all take a minute to watch one of the latest viral videos:


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Writing things down helps you remember them later, but it's also a great way to keep yourself from getting distracted. If you often find your mind wandering when it should be focused on the task at hand, keep a "procrastination pad" to jot down those fleeting thoughts and look them up later.


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According to Parkinson's Law, if your deadline is too long, you will be anxious and your work will be boring. What's Parkinson's Law? Totally read this right now! How so? Imagine the world of Christoph Niemann.


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The current level of general surveillance in society is incompatible with human rights. To recover our freedom and restore democracy, we must reduce surveillance to the point where it is possible for whistleblowers of all kinds to talk with journalists without being spotted.


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Dear Lifehacker, I want to share my photos with friends, but I'd rather create my own portfolio and gallery rather than trust the Facebooks and Yahoos and Googles of the world to host them for me. How can I take control of my photos and host them myself?


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Writing codes for hours only to find that it returns errors is one of the most distressing thing about a developer’s life. This is made worse when we have no idea what we did wrong.


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At Google I/O earlier this year, we added PHP, the fourth language runtime on Google App Engine in Limited Preview. Today we’re moving to Preview, making PHP on App Engine available for everyone immediately. It is no longer necessary to whitelist your application for deployment.


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This article is a review of landscape photography tips and techniques I’ve covered before. Have you wondered why I’m going over previously covered ground? There are several reasons.


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I’m a worrier by nature, and I come by it honestly. My mother was afraid to cross bridges, and ride in elevators, boats, and airplanes.


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My work station is an invading overlord. Belongings march across the long desk I share with several other editors, spilling out of my space and encroaching on the neutral zones abutting my colleagues’ work areas.


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I gave a talk today at Creative Mornings in Cincinnati about the importance of bravery to creativity. I believe bravery and creativity are two sides of the same coin. You cannot create something of value without some measure of risk, which means facing up to uncertainty and overcoming it.


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If you’re anything like me, you might worry like it’s a second job: if the coffee is good or bad, if we'll get that promotion, and what diseases the future has in store for us.


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Traffic, one of the most annoying conditions of modern life (if you own a car), often happens for no real reason. Roads have carrying capacities, sure, but even drivers on closed tracks have shown that traffic jams appear to be hardwired in human nature.


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Inspired by the iOS photo viewer and Google images for mobile, PhotoSwipe is a HTML/CSS/JavaScript based image gallery specifically targeting mobile devices. The current version supports mobile handsets running WebKit based browsers, i.e. iOS, Android and Blackberry 6.


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It’s a great idea to keep track of everything you own, one of those things you likely remind yourself of when you’re walking through IKEA trying to find a new bookshelf. Then you go home, pull your hair out trying to setup said bookshelf, and promptly forget to record your purchase anywhere.


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Note: If you already use gzip, you don’t need to use some of the tools recommended above. 5.0 Performance Best Practices 5.1 Scripts 5.1.1 Script position - always put your JavaScripts at the end of your HTML document, usually before the ending tag.


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jQuery is already very popular because it is very fast and concise Javacript library simplifing and different event handling, smooth animation with very little code. With jQuery you can enjoy new way of web development and image galleries are the best way to use it effectively!


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Yesterday, I did something different. In fact, I intentionally stepped on the brakes and stopped my progress. It was time to take a pause and evaluate.


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Over the recent months we’ve been presenting various showcases of photography – while many readers hated the showcases, most readers found them inspirational and perfect for a lousy workday’s morning.


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A deer wondering in a field along the Cades Cove Loop Road


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A small clump of mushrooms that grew up beside an old stump in my yard.


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Twice as many Americans will be eligible for cholesterol-lowering drugs, based on controversial new heart guidelines from two of the USA's leading cardiovascular associations. The number of adults considered likely to benefit from statins will rise from about 15.


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Comfort and confidence are of utmost importance at Garrison Bespoke. We’ve traveled the world and met with the best experts in the industry in order to ensure that our clients walk away feeling at ease, knowing they are—in fact—dressed for success.


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Waking up and getting the day started is one of the toughest parts of the day. Everything you have to do is jumbled and floating around in your head. You want nothing more than to just stay in bed. But you can’t because you have a life and people that depend on you.


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Apple announced new Retina display-equipped MacBook Pro laptops at its event last month, as well as the launch of the latest version of OS X, Mavericks. For this PC user, it was enough to finally make the jump from Windows to Mac for the first time.


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Get ready to have your mind blown. I was seriously shocked at some of these mistakes in thinking that I subconsciously make all the time.


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CIO — If National Geographic taught us anything over its 125-year history, it's this: Survival depends largely on adapting to constantly changing conditions.


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CIO — Collaboration software lets a business share ideas and information among people and across an organization.


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When the ideas aren't flowing the way you'd like, there can be a strong temptation to "knuckle down" and simply try harder on a project. While diligence and urgency are critical to doing excellent work, there are times when additional effort alone will be ineffective.


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DENVER - Not only were Colorado homes damaged by the recent severe storms, flooding, landslides or mudslides, but many survivors also lost valuable personal documents.  The documents include everything from Social Security cards to driver licenses to credit cards.


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Is there a recommended way to escape <, >, " and & characters when outputting HTML in plain Java code? (Other than manually doing the following, that is). An alternative to Apache Commons: Use Spring's HtmlUtils.htmlEscape(String input) method.


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A Raspberry Pi-based server is perfectly capable of sharing photos on the Web.


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If you own a modern amateur radio here’s an open source software project you’ll find useful. It’s called CHIRP, and supports programming of a large number of manufacturers and models, and provides a way to interface with multiple data sources and formats.


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Whether your company is large or small, being a manager is a tough job. Not only are you responsible for your own performance, but you are also responsible for the performance of your employees and of your organization.


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I know the feeling. You unboxed your camera and thought that taking pictures would be just about pointing it and clicking the button. Technically – yes, you are right. Creatively – wrong. Taking great, nay even good pictures is understanding what makes a photo standout.


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I think, if we were to do a random poll, we’d probably find that most of us hate keeping our computers running smoothly more than any other task.


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This handsome black upholstered faux leather chair lets you sit comfortably while you work on your laptop computer, tablet or smartphone. It’s fully adjustable, with an ergonomic design and a maximum weight capacity of 300 lbs.


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Let's get right to good stuff. The following tips are easily implemented techniques that can make nearly any photograph better. Keep in mind that many of these tips will not only make you a better photographer, but a better traveler as well. That's because travel and photography go hand in hand.


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In my workflow I am always looking for ways to be more productive, and to have more fun while developing. There’s nothing quite like the feeling of flying through a sequence of commands in bash that you know would take your peers twice as long to execute. Have you ever :


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The '80s may have failed in its attempt at decor, but it did bring us Loverboy and their spot-on summation of everybody's two favorite days of the week -- the weekend. It turns out that the boy band's observation holds true today (unlike those pouffy couches and chintz curtains -- thank goodness).


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I just went to the Samsung Developer Conference in San Francisco and one thing in the goodie-bag was a book (paper, no less) on building apps for the amazing new Smart TVs they are bringing out. Exciting stuff, especially as the platform is HTML5 and JavaScript driven.


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Tried to stream media over the web lately? Unless you have fiber running through your walls, you probably encountered a brief moment of delay before the video started playing. The player was buffering content to get ahead of playback. Your device (computer, phone, etc.


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Dean J. Tatooles specializes in fine art panoramic landscape photography, wildlife photography, and indigenous portraiture from remote locations around the world. Fresh off a trip from Kenya, Tatooles shares with us some lessons learned out in the field.


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In a technology-obsessed world, we tend to track everything we do. Technology seems to make use of the human nature with all its curiosity and aim at perfection.


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When you’re running a business, the last thing you want to deal with is another dropped call or bad connection. Especially in this day and age, when chances are the key members of your staff, partners, and even investors may not be in the same country, let alone the same room.


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I have four photographic techniques for vacation travelers which can help improve your travel images and assist you in not missing great vacation photo opportunities.


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