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Reading List

Culled from NPR/Guardian/Goodreads

• Freedom's daughters : the unsung heroines of the civil rights movement from 1830 to 1970 / by Lynne O
• Hands on the freedom plow : personal accounts by women in SNCC / edited by Faith S. Holsaert ... [et
• Parting the waters : America in the King years, 1954-63 / Taylor Branch.
• Judgment days : Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the laws that changed America / N
• Martin & Malcolm & America : a dream or a nightmare / James H. Cone.
• Ready for revolution : the life and struggles of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) / Stokely Carmichael
• Toward the African revolution : political essays / Frantz Fanon ; translated from the French by Haako

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grid-row: span 2/3

The original syntax was:

grid-row-span: 2;

My concerns

• I do not understand why this was altered.
• The newer syntax is harder to understand than the old one.

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'rubygems'
require 'aws/s3'


# capture png file
tmpfile = "/tmp/image_upload#{$$}.png"
imagefile = ARGV[1]

if imagefile && File.exist?(imagefile) then

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#!/bin/bash
echo '================================================================='
echo 'This will set up all the files necessary for Test the web forward'
echo '================================================================='

promptValue() {
	read -p "$1"": " val 
	echo $val 
}

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Jacob Thornton has an inspiring slide deck on accessibility that brings to fore all the concerns that web developers have with implementing features around accessibility.

For a very long time, developers have been told about making websites 'accessible'. Like it is a faucet that should be turned on or off. Till [Victor Tsaran's demonstration of using a screenreader][] (which was in 2007 - a very long time since accessibility evangelism began) - very few web developers had any idea of the real immediate impact of implementing accessibility features.

It is also interesting that very few developers even knew that blind users of screen readers read at such an extraordinary speed that very few sighted users are capable of. What are some of the other abilities that disabled users of the web use to their advantage?

People like Jason Kiss and Steve Faulkner who detail the [behavior and suppo

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#!/usr/bin/env sh

##
# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
#   https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
#
# install it:
#   curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh | sh
#

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h1 {
  -webkit-border-radius: 10px;
  -moz-border-radius: 10px;
  -ms-border-radius: 10px;
  -o-border-radius: 10px;
  border-radius: 10px;
}

body {
  background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, #000, #fff), url('image.png');

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// Use @include colorize('image.png', red, 0.5)

@mixin colorize($image, $color, $opacity) {
      background: $color;
      $color: transparentize($color, 1 - $opacity);
      background: -webkit-linear-gradient(left, $color, $color), url($image); 
      background: -moz-linear-gradient(left, $color, $color), url($image); 
      background: -ms-linear-gradient(left, $color, $color), url($image); 
      background: -o-linear-gradient(left, $color, $color), url($image); 
}

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// Use @include colorize('image.png', red, 0.5)

@mixin colorize($image, $color, $opacity) {
      background: $color;
      $color: transparentize($color, 1 - $opacity);
      background: -webkit-linear-gradient(left, $color, $color), url($image); 
      background: -moz-linear-gradient(left, $color, $color), url($image); 
      background: -ms-linear-gradient(left, $color, $color), url($image); 
      background: -o-linear-gradient(left, $color, $color), url($image); 
}

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// Scss @extend as of now

.small {
  font-size: 0.9em;  
}


footer,
article > footer {
  @extend .small;