Me alucina que un cuerpo policial sea escuchado por
sus dirigentes que le quieren recortar el sueldo sólo por hablar en
castellano.

Todd Michael Mosser is a distinguished attorney specializing in homicide and complex commercial litigation

The Indoor Air Quality Improvement Foundation, IG USA INC is launching "Petite Foret Plus", a natural moss-based terrarium on the global crowdfunding platform Kickstarter.

Chevo Wins Contracts in Unrestricted and Small Business Tracks, Valuing $82 Million

A rolling stone gathers no moss.¹

Publilius Syrus

When software in a particular category stops rapidly evolving and its interface begins to develop along a set of accepted patterns, designers begin to decorate. Decoration is a luxury, it is something you can only afford to do once the functionality of the thing you are working on has been implemented to a high degree. It is in the period of gradual evolution and established interaction norms that designers begin to decorate, begin to focus on small aesthetic details for the visual experience alone. Prolonged times of slow evolution lead to decorative excess. Unable to differentiate software on the level of how it works, developers try to push it ahead on the level of how it looks. When the buttons in all the apps are the same, when the controls all appear in about the same place, when all the interfaces are laid out in a similar fashion, designers begin to differentiate their work by changing the appearance of the interface rather than its function or its structure. The interface begins to gather decorative moss.

The recent minimalist trends in software design – Metro, flat, iOS7, Material – are attempts to scrape away the moss without a radical alteration in the underlying function. It is a reaction to the friction felt between the old stratum of software that has cemented its implementation and thus could afford to wear a rich visual coat, and a new stratum of software that yearns for a radically different approach to interface design. The old and the new cannot co-exist in harmony because the appearance of the two look nothing alike. The layers of visual excess painted over old software apps – e.g. skeuomorphic visuals, rich textures, reflection effects, etc – became baggage to designers who wished to develop something new, for example, using animation to help differentiate between the different states of the app and create a more fluid experience. If you wish to move content around, scale things, change colors, morph one element from one into another, all the superfluous visuals like gloss and textures simply get in the way. Minimalist design makes animation simpler.

The old paint was scraped away not for the sake of a minimalist style, but to allow the designer to create a new kind of experience, an experience where the content making up the interface would be more alive and more dynamic than ever. Buttons morph into panes, panels bounce back and forth to reflect the speed of the finger used to pull them across the glass screen, bits of content fly from place to place signifying a change in state or context, icons move or change shape, and everything gently slides in or fade out as you navigate around the digital canvas. Without the baggage of skeuomorphic visuals, rich textures or decorative styles, the designer can now experiment with motion, can begin to craft a new kind of visual experience from the content itself.

1. The saying has two interpretations. In one, moss is seen as a sign of stagnation. If you don’t act, if you don’t keep moving, you will begin to rust away. In another, moss is seen as something desirable. If you keep changing projects, if you keep losing focus, you will never be able to build up anything worthwhile. I think the duality of the message is quite fitting for the analogy in the post. Excessive decoration is bad design, it is a distraction that adds unnecessary baggage to our work, but decoration is also beautiful, something that enhances the experience of people using our work. Decoration is not in itself good or bad, just as design is neither good or bad – it is how it is implemented that makes all the difference.

NOT only is Millie Moss a keen Aussie rules player, but at eight years of age she’s got design flair beyond her years.

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Moss Agate meaning revolves around growth, emotional healing, and nature's balance. Discover its grounding energy and how it fosters abundance and inner peace.

Instagram’s top executive Adam Mosseri pushed back against some lawmakers’ assertions that social-media products are designed to be addictive, during a Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing Wednesday. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram, and Tracee Ellis Ross, actor, producer, and CEO, speak with WIRED's Arielle Pardes as part of WIRED25, WIRED's second annual conference in San Francisco.

MOSSAD Now using sharks to kill people and ruin tourism in hostile nations.

The great motor-racing driver and one of the most lionised figures in the history of British sport, 'closed his eyes' in the early hours of Easter morning.

Who do you think you are, sir? Stirling Moss? It was the disapproving question asked time and again - until police pulling over motorists grew too young to remember one of Britain's greatest racers.

Moss, who was often described as the greatest driver never to win the World Championship, passed away in the early hours of Easter Sunday at his London home following a long battle with illness.

They’ve got no roots or veins and grow in hanging pendants or tightly packed mats attached to stones, soil and wood. Called by some “the […]

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Mosses are an important but sometimes overlooked group of plants, which play a significant role in cycling in carbon and nitrogen between the land and the air. A new study proposes that scientists could use mosses as a model to investigate the impacts of environmental change on biodiversity and nature.

Moss helps prevent soil erosion on fire-damaged land, a Portuguese study suggests. The researchers analysed water that ran off from post-fire hillsides. They found less sediment and organic matter in run-off from patches of land with high levels of moss than from those with low levels of moss. Moss quickly establishes itself on land after fires, so the study suggests that land managers could take advantage of its restorative effects by deliberately encouraging its growth.

Deposition of heavy metals and nitrogen is falling across Europe, a new study suggests. The researchers used the levels of these pollutants in mosses as indicators of how deposition has changed from 1990 to 2010. These reductions are likely to be the result of effective air pollution policies, they say.

'Mad Men' star turns contemporary detective in 'Top of the Lake'.

Moss may seem insignificant, but there are so many unique traits that make this plant important to the ecosystem.

Air quality is a critical issue affecting the health of billions of people worldwide, yet often little is known about what is in the air we breathe. To reduce air pollution’s health impacts, pollution sources must first be reliably identified. Otherwise, it is impossible to design and effectively enforce environmental standards. However, urban networks of air quality monitors are often too widely spaced to identify the sources of air pollutants, especially for pollutants that do not disperse far from their sources. Developing high-resolution pollution maps with data from these widely spaced monitors is problematic.

Moss growing on urban trees is a useful bio-indicator of cadmium air pollution in Portland, Oregon, a U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station-led study has found. The work—the first to use moss to generate a rigorous and detailed map of air pollution in a U.S. city—is published online in the journal Science of the Total Environment.

Information can be used to investigate air pollution in the city.

Moss accumulates pollutants from the atmosphere and can serve as an inexpensive screening tool for mapping air quality and guiding the placement of monitoring instruments. We measured 22 elements using 346 moss samples collected across Portland, Oregon, in December 2013.

A composition comprising peat moss and one or more alkoxylates selected from the group consisting of alcohol alkoxylates and alkylphenol alkoxylates and, optionally, one or more polysaccharides, for example guars and/or guar derivatives. A synergistic effect of a combination of the alkoxylates and the polysaccharides was discovered. A method of preparing the peat moss composition and a method of using it are also disclosed.

Golden Ring ABC wrote another chapter in their storied history as they had two sisters competing in the Nationals Finals for the first time – and came away with two famous victories.

Southampton boxing star Amber Moss-Birch was crowned European Champion in Georgia.

Artful simplicity from the couple in the cottage next door.

The changing media landscape has meant former electrician Brodie Moss has an audience of more than 1 million, a comfortable full-time income, and the freedom to go fishing whenever he wants.

(California Court of Appeal) - Revived a business owner's lawsuit accusing a certified public accountant of professional negligence. Held that the statute of limitations did not bar this suit concerning alleged erroneous tax advice about how to structure a business deal. Reversed a summary judgment ruling.

(United States Fifth Circuit) - In a dispute over ownership of a lucrative YouTube channel, held that the district court had subject-matter jurisdiction and did not err in dismissing a nondiverse partnership as dispensable. Also affirmed a judgment entered on a jury verdict.

Dorinda Clark-Cole and J. Moss take the hot seat!

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In 1961, F1 driver Sir Stirling Moss won the hearts of the nation to be crowned Sportsview Personality winner.

Sir Stirling Moss recalls the two serious Formula One crashes that nearly cost him his life.

Watch Lewis Hamilton and Sir Stirling Moss race vintage Mercedes Silver Arrows at Monza in 2015.

A federal judge on Friday declined to dismiss charges filed against Lori Loughlin and 13 others in a national college admissions case based in Massachusetts.

Leipzig : Veit, 1879.

Leipzig : S. Hirzel, 1892.

Leipzig : Veit, 1894.