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Article posted 17 February 2015 Amazon Drone Delivery Plans Nixed by U.S. Regulators [via Facebook] posted 10am / revised 10am

I am trying to understand what even the prima facie reason for these restrictions would be.

Amazon Drone Delivery Plans Nixed by U.S. Regulators

Amazon’s drone delivery plans appear to have been shot down by U.S. regulators, who have proposed new rules that would require operators to keep…

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Article posted 16 February 2015 LayerSlider Responsive jQuery Slider Plugin [via Facebook] posted 11am

Hey so does anyone have experience working with LayerSlider (a somewhat heavyweight jQuery plugin for creating complex slider effects, ), and especially with creating fluidly sized sliders using it? I recently had to spend a few hours ripping my hair out to figure out a halfway decent way to implement a particular layout (where I had a required aspect ratio and full width, rather than full width with a fixed pixel height). It required some ugly kludges to do so I am probably going to write up the janky solution I ended up with for public reference. But if anyone has a stronger background with this thing than I do, I’d like to double-check that I haven’t missed some more obvious or more elegant approach to the problem.

LayerSlider Responsive jQuery Slider Plugin

In the WordPress version we are talking about slides and layers and here, in the standalone version we are talking about layers and sublayers. Of course the cores of the WordPress and standalone versions are the same and they work with the same HTML markup, only the naming is different. We are calliâ€¦

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Article posted 16 February 2015 February 16, 2015 at 01:24PM [via Facebook] posted 11am

Hey so does anyone have experience working with LayerSlider (a somewhat heavyweight jQuery plugin for creating complex slider effects, ), and especially with creating fluidly sized sliders using it? I recently had to spend a few hours ripping my hair out to figure out a halfway decent way to implement a particular layout (where I had a required aspect ratio and full width, rather than full width with a fixed pixel height). It required some ugly kludges to do so I am probably going to write up the janky solution I ended up with for public reference. But if anyone has a stronger background with this thing than I do, I’d like to double-check that I haven’t missed some more obvious or more elegant approach to the problem.

Article posted 16 February 2015 February 16, 2015 at 10:43AM [via Facebook] posted 8am

trotzdem is like the coolest, most unassuming word in the German language

Article posted 16 February 2015 Execution 150 Years Ago Spurs Calls for Pardon [via Facebook] posted 7am

Presidents should not be celebrated. http://ift.tt/1gtonAC #AbolishThePresidency

Execution 150 Years Ago Spurs Calls for Pardon

Thirty-eight men were hanged, but President Lincoln had spared one, and now an effort is taking root on campuses and Capitol Hill to keep the story alive.

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Article posted 16 February 2015 February 16, 2015 at 10:11AM [via Facebook] posted 7am

Presidents should not be celebrated. http://ift.tt/1gtonAC #AbolishThePresidency

Article posted 16 February 2015 George Washington, Slave Catcher [via Facebook] posted 7am

Presidents should not be celebrated. #AbolishThePresidency

George Washington, Slave Catcher

Our first president relentlessly pursued the fugitive Ona Judge.

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Article posted 16 February 2015 February 16, 2015 at 10:05AM [via Facebook] posted 7am / revised 7am