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Google Tech Talks
April, 3 2008
ABSTRACT
jQuery is a JavaScript library that stands
out among its competitors
because it is faster, focuses on writing less
code, and is very
extensible. In this talk, I will explore
jQuery and how to use it. I
will start off talking about the basics of
using jQuery. Then, I will
talk about building plugins. Finally, time
permitting, I will take
apart some plugins and talk about how they
work, and I will show the
nitty gritty details of the library.
Speaker: Dmitri Gaskin
Dmitri Gaskin drinks code with his cereal for
breakfast every
morning. He's a jQuery whiz and a Drupal
know-it-all. He
contributes patches for both Open Source
projects. In the Drupal
world, he maintains many modules, is on the
security team, and is
involved in the upcoming Summer of Code as a
mentor and
administrator. Dmitri has given many talks on
Drupal and jQuery, in
such places as Logitech, Drupalcon and live
on a radio show out of
L.A. When Dmitri isn't coding, a very rare
occurrence, he is playing
and composing contemporary music. And
attending classes in the 6th
grade. (He's only 12.)
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Tim Gaskin: A Lifetime of Challenges Met with
a Lifestyle of Hope
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Most people would never believe the
background of Tim Gaskin to see him now.
Creator and Founder of Benefit Magazine, a
new publication that raises awareness of
charitable non-profits and supports the
"lifestyle of giving," he knows first hand
how important charities are to helping people
get ahead in life.
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A third generation San Franciscan, Gaskin,
40, grew up in the city's Castro and Mission
districts living in and out of battered
women's shelters with his Mother. His father
and brothers were alcoholics, himself the
victim of their abuse from the disease. By
the time he turned 13; Gaskin had had enough,
and ran away from home. Â He was made a ward
of the court until he petitioned for and was
granted emancipation at the age of fourteen.
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Gaskin continued to attend school, being
elected Sophomore Class President at Lincoln
High School while living on his own. Â But by
his junior year, he had to drop out of school
to work full time simply to survive. Â He
began working in fast food restaurants across
San Francisco while living in a one room
apartment in the Fisherman's Wharf
neighborhood district.
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Gaskin worked hard through his teen years,
and in his early twenties met Rueben Glickman
and Susie Tompkins who owned the old Hamm's
Brewery. Â He was offered a chance to found
the Hamm's Café, a new café in the
building, and it became a success. Â
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Gaskin's career after that continued to be
tied to the food industry, working as a
trader in the import meat business, something
he continued to do until recently.
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"Because I lived on the streets in my youth,
there is nothing I haven't seen or been a
part of," said Gaskin. Â "It's hard today to
imagine that my life was ever that way."
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As his career grew, Gaskin got more involved
in community affairs, becoming active in
local merchant societies and
community-focused publications and television
shows. Â In 2001, he co-founded Gloss
Magazine, an alternative lifestyle magazine
for San Franciscans and began co-hosting a
local cable show called "Inside City Limits"
for ComcastSF. Â The show gave him a platform
to raise the profile of the local non-profits
he had personally benefited from as a child.
 Gaskin currently hosts his own cable show,
"OUT Spoken," which is the only LGBT
entertainment/talk show of its kind in the
United States. Â
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In late 2005, Gaskin saw an opportunity to
fulfill his long held dream of starting a
publication dedicated to the lifestyle of
philanthropy and raising the profile of
non-profit organizations in the greater San
Francisco Bay Area. Â Just like so many
challenges in his life, Gaskin overcame the
nay-sayers and the critics, launching Benefit
Magazine, The Lifestyle of Giving in 2006. Â
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"I came from an impoverished welfare family,"
said Gaskin. Â "It was poverty that killed my
parents, not the domestic violence or their
drug addition. Â Those were just coping
mechanisms to try and deal with the poverty.
 The charitable organizations that serve San
Francisco are out to destroy poverty, and I
believe it's my obligation to help them.
 While my parents chose one way to face
poverty, I chose another, and now I'm in a
position to give something back."
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Gaskin's involvement in the non-profit world
is not new to him. Â For over ten years he
has helped raise desperately needed funds for
charities struggling to survive.
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He served on the board of AEF/BCEF (AIDS
Emergency Fund/Breast Cancer Emergency Fund)
and while a board member, Gaskin launched
This Old Bag (www.thisoldbag.org), a
celebrity and designer handbag auction which
has included donations from Oprah Winfrey,
Sharon Stone, and every star on Desperate
Housewives. Â Since its inception two years
ago, the event has raised over $200,000 to
help women who are struggling financially
while coping with the brutality of their
disease.
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Gaskin, who has used painting as a creative
outlet, has also donated many of his
creations to charity fundraisers and was
chosen as one of the artists in the Hearts in
San Francisco project that benefited the SF
General Hospital Foundation. Â Gaskin was
selected by Mayor Gavin Newsom as his pick to
be a commissioner on the city's Arts Task
Force, a position he still holds.
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