The inside story of how Microsoft killed its Courier tablet - CNET
http://www.cnet.com/news/the-inside-story-of-how-microsoft-killed-its-courier-tablet/
"Our job is to incubate those and work with the product teams to bring them to market," said Pioneer's co-founder Georg Petschnigg in a video posted to Microsoft's developer Web site last year. It will be evaluated for use in future offerings, but we have no plans to build such a device at this time." While the internal fight over Courier occurred about 18 months ago, the implications of the decision to kill the incubation project reverberate today
MSDN Events
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In this video, Tim Heuer will provide an overview of the APIs and explain how the platform and Visual Studio tooling teams worked together to build productivity on top of the APIs. When creating the test plan, a few factors should be taken into account: app modules; how those modules interact within the app and in which order they are initialized; and which modules are required for the app to run
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Learn More Digital Games Watch our latest media piece about digital games and the ways they engage and motivate students Learn More Get to Know Tracy Jost, Education Program Specialist, Maryland State Department of Education Tracy Jost offers her expertise in inclusive child care. Learn More UDL for Families Special series on important education topics for families Learn about Universal Design for Learning and the ways teachers use it to reach all students effectively
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/jan/04/depression-allergic-reaction-inflammation-immune-system
Brain imaging studies of people injected with a typhoid vaccine found that this might be down to changes in the parts of the brain that process reward and punishment. There are other clues, too: people with inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis tend to suffer more than average with depression; cancer patients given a drug called interferon alpha, which boosts their inflammatory response to help fight the cancer, often become depressed as a side-effect
The Science of Practice: What Happens When You Learn a New Skill
http://lifehacker.com/the-science-of-practice-what-happens-when-you-learn-a-510255025
While certain things, especially language, are more easily learned by children than adults, we have plenty of evidence that even older adults can see real transformations in their neurocircuitry. One specific study used a particular brain scan called Diffusion MRI, which gives us information about tissues and fibers inside the scan region in an non-invasive way
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324635904578639780253571520
Politicians have imposed curfews and all manner of regulations on hagwons, even going so far as to ban them altogether during the 1980s, when the country was under military rule. Thanks in part to such tutoring services, South Korea has dramatically improved its education system over the past several decades and now routinely outperforms the U.S
http://weeklysift.com/2012/12/03/a-short-history-of-white-racism-in-the-two-party-system/
They are the party of small government in a state where only massive federal intervention gave blacks the right to vote or to attend the state university. So the 1876 map looks like this: 1876 electoral map But by 1896 the Jim Crow laws have disenfranchised Southern blacks, and Southern whites still remember how Lincoln destroyed their society, so Southern Republicans go extinct
http://www.britannica.com/topic/therapeutics
Transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) occur before stroke in 20 percent of patients and consist of sudden onset of one or more of the following symptoms: temporary loss of vision in one eye, unilateral numbness, temporary loss of speech or slurred speech, and localized weakness of an arm or leg. One patient may have a high pain threshold and complain only after the disease process has progressed beyond its early stage, while another with a low pain threshold may complain about pain that would be ignored or tolerated by most people
http://nationaldayofprayer.org/what-is-prayer/
Between 1994 and 2008, the violent crime rate in America decreased 17.7 percent, and the property crime rate decreased 19.5 percent.5 The role of prayer in America cannot be ignored. And through the tireless efforts of citizens submitting petitions, as well as the diligent work of the Alliance Defense Fund and WallBuilders, concerted efforts to strip away the faith of this nation have been repeatedly thwarted
Disease - definition of disease by The Free Dictionary
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/disease
An abnormal condition of a part, organ, or system of an organism resulting from various causes, such as infection, inflammation, environmental factors, or genetic defect, and characterized by an identifiable group of signs, symptoms, or both.2. (Pathology) any impairment of normal physiological function affecting all or part of an organism, esp a specific pathological change caused by infection, stress, etc, producing characteristic symptoms; illness or sickness in general2
Bend - definition of Bend by The Free Dictionary
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bend
To force to assume a different direction or shape, according to one's own purpose: "Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events" (Robert F
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GI for Kids Newsletter is a quarterly publication sent to area physicians that features different topics, including related resources offered by our practice. Our practice sponsors one of the largest vendor fairs in North America for celiac disease and gluten free foods each year with 75 plus vendors and 2,000 plus individuals and families attending
http://www.diabetesnet.com/
From improvements in insulin pumps and infusion sets to the implementation of continuous glucose monitors, technology is helping deal with diabetes easier than ever before. Designed for people who require more than 80 units of U-100 insulin per day or those on U-500, it is the largest capacity inulin pump available in the United States
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Navigation/The_future_-_Galileo/What_is_Galileo
Two Galileo Control Centres (GCCs) have been implemented on European ground to provide for the control of the satellites and to perform the navigation mission management. Satellites are therefore equipped with a transponder, which is able to transfer the distress signals from the user transmitters to regional rescue co-ordination centres, which will then initiate the rescue operation
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