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Pantone And Valspar Paint Launch New Pantone Universe Paint Collection Available Exclusively At Lowe’S
Pantone and Valspar Paint Launch New PANTONE UNIVERSE Paint Collection Available Exclusively at Lowe’s New Collection Empowers Consumers to Design like the Pros, Confidently Selecting from 100 On-trend Pantone Colors CARLS...
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Pantone Introduces Pantoneview.Com: Subscription Service For Global Color Insights And Analysis
Pantone Introduces PANTONEVIEW.com: Subscription Service for Global Color Insights and Analysis Delivering critical color intelligence to help creative professionals across all areas of design make informed and effective color decisions ...
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RDF Validation Workshop - Practical Assurances for Quality RDF Data
W3C announced today a RDF Validation Workshop - Practical Assurances for Quality RDF Data, 10-11 September 2013, in Cambridge, USA. The Semantic Web has demonstrated considerable value for collaborative contributions to data. Adoption in many mission-critical environments requires data to conform to specified patterns. Validation in a banking context shares many requirements with quality assurance of linked clinical data. Systems like Linked Open Data, which don't have formal interface specifications, share these validation needs. Most data representation languages used in conventional settings offer some sort of input validation, ranging from parsing grammars for domain-specific languages to XML Schema or RelaxNG for XML structures. While the distributed nature of RDF affects the notions of "validity", tool chains need to be established to ensure data integrity. The goal of this workshop is to discuss use cases for data validation on the Semantic Web with development of technologies to enable those use cases. W3C membership is not required to participate. The event is open to all. All participants are required to submit a position paper by 30 June 2013.
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Updated Candidate Recommendation of XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators 3.0
The XML Query Working Group and the XSLT Working Group have published a new version of the Candidate Recommendation of XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators 3.0. The new version reflects changes and clarifications that have been made during the CR period, primarily as a result of feedback from implementors outside the two Working Groups. The document describes various functions and operators that work on XML Schema-compatible data types for use in XPath, XSLT, XQuery, XQueryX, SPARQL and other languages. Learn more about the Extensible Markup Language (XML) Activity.
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Drupal Association News

Guest Blog: Drupal Crowd-Funding Success!
Mike Gifford is President of OpenConcept Consulting Inc. and co-founder of Open Source Alliance of Canada.   Personal blog tags:  Drupal crowd funding Drupal 8
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Drupal.org D7 team at DrupalCon
Come meet Drupal.org team in person at DrupalCon Portland! We’re hard at work upgrading Drupal.org to Drupal 7. DrupalCon is a perfect opportunity for you to find out what is going on with the upgrade, give us feedback on the new issue page layout and, of course, help us in the issue queue. Where to find us: Weekend before DrupalCon - We are taking part in the extended sprints, come and help us close some issues Tuesday, May 21, 4:30pm - We’re having a BoF, Drupal.org improvements and D7 upgrade (Room B112) Wednesday, May 22 at 6pm - I’m presenting D7 upgrade report at the Drupal Association board meeting Thursday, May 23, 10:15am-1:15pm - I’ll be at the Drupal Association booth in the Exhibit Hall’s Community Village Friday, May 24 - We'll be closing more issues at the Contribution Sprint Come and learn how you can help out with development, site building, or QA!
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Apple Hot News

Apple’s App Store Marks Historic 50 Billionth Download
Apple has announced that customers have now downloaded over 50 billion apps from the App Store. The 50 billionth app — Say the Same Thing by Space Inch, LLC — was downloaded by Brandon Ashmore from Mentor, Ohio, who received a $10,000 App Store Gift Card to commemorate the milestone. “The App Store completely transformed how people use their mobile devices and created a thriving app ecosystem that has paid out over nine billion dollars to developers,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “We’re absolutely floored to cross this milestone in less than five years.”
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Ailing UK School Makes Dramatic Turnaround
A new video profiles Essa Academy, a once struggling school in one of the most disadvantaged areas of England. New principal Showkat Badat has reinvented the school as a hub of technology-assisted learning, and helped incorporate an ecosystem of Apple products, including iPad, Mac, and iTunes U, into the classrooms. The students’ excitement about the technology and direct access to information is reflected in dramatically improved test scores. Since adopting the technology, Essa went from a 28 percent pass rate to 100 percent. “I don’t see technology as an add-on, a nice option to have,” says Badat. “It’s what enables learning and creates an environment that sparks creativity.”
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