There was a silence at the other end and he awkwardly replied, “Well, same back at ya!”SUO YIN GAO
I chuckled and said, “Dad, I know you love me, and when you are ready, I know you will say what you want to say.”
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A few weeks later, Dad concluded our phone conversation with the words, “Paul, I love you.” I was at work during this conversation and the tears were rolling down my cheeks as I finally “heard” the love. As we both sat there in tears we realized that this special moment had taken our father/son relationship to a new level.
When I was growing up I do not recall hearing the words “I love you” from my father. When your father never says them to you when you are a child, it gets tougher and tougher for him to say those words as he gets older. To tell the truth, I could not honestly remember when I had last said those words to him either. I decided to set my ego aside and make the first move. After some hesitation, in our next phone conversation I blurted out the words, “Dad… I love you!”
A short while after this special moment, my father narrowly escaped death following heart surgery. Many times since, I have pondered the thought, if I did not take the first step and Dad did not survive the surgery, I would have never “heard” the love.Procomil Spray
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These are tight fitting necklaces worn high on the neck and can consist of one or more bands around the neck. Chokers generally vary between 14 to 16 inches in length and can be adjusted accordingly to the thickness desired. The best thing about chokers is that they suit best for long and slender necks as well as short necks.
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Just as Microsoft advanced the state of the art for programming on Windows, Google is trying to do the same with Web-based software. Its latest move: the release of Google Web Toolkit 2.0.GWT translates software written in the Java programming language into the JavaScript code that browsers can run natively. The technology is designed to produce fast-executing JavaScript and ease the pains of incompatibilities among different browsers. Google Web Toolkit, Men’s Pittsburgh Penguins released Tuesday night at a Google Campfire One developer event, fits in with the company’s general push to make the Web a more powerful foundation for applications, not just static Web sites. The financial reasoning the company offers boils down to this: more use of the Web means more searching on Google and more search advertising revenue.GWT is an open-source tool. Among the newer Web sites Google built with it are Wave, Orkut, and the AdWords interface.”We’ve been working with those teams in applied R&D in the last year to evolve to meet their needs,” said GWT product manager Andrew Bowers. Specifically, he mentioned three new features in the refurbished GWT:• Speed Tracer, a Chrome browser extension that graphs a Web application’s sluggishness over time.The tool is designed to help Web developers find problems in the complex interactions of JavaScript, the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) that’s assuming new duties in describing a Web page, and the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) that handle formatting chores. “As more functionality moves from standard JavaScript into HTML and CSS, a lot of things are moving to native functionality, it gets harder to find performance problems,” Bowers said.• “Code-splitting” technology to break Web applications up into urgent sections that must be downloaded immediately and the other parts that can be sent at a more leisurely pace.Bowers likened the incremental application download feature to streaming video, where people can start watching the video before the full movie has been downloaded. The feature was developed with the Google Wave team, he added.• Coming from work with the AdWords team is UiBinder, which lets programmers separate an application’s user-interface code from the program logic that actually does the thinking. The result: user interface designers can be given free reign without the logic programmers worrying about everything breaking, Bowers said.Google also has used GWT to develop Google Health andiPhone Web applications such as Google 
Latitude and Gmail.But GWT isn’t universal at Google. Google Docs and Gmail, for example, rely on JavaScript but don’t use GWT. Some of those projects grew from code bases that predate GWT, Bowers said.But Google is working pretty hard on another JavaScript programming tool called Closure, which has its own compiler to produce fast JavaScript. It’s another open-source project, and not just a historical artifact.Different strokes for different folks, said Bruce Johnson, GWT’s technical lead of the different tools.”Probably Closure is going to be more targeted at someone who wants to write JavaScript to begin with,” Johnson said. “GWT is for Java developers or people who see additional benefits to programming that way.” Stephen Shankland writes about a wide range of technology and products, but has a particular focus on browsers and digital photography. He joined CNET News in 1998 and since then also has covered Google, Yahoo, servers, supercomputing, Linux and open-source software, and science. E-mail Stephen, or follow him on Twitter at Pittsburgh Penguin for men
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