Clearly the highlight of 2011 for SOCOM was the operation on the lips of every adult human being from Washington, D.C., to Hong Kong - the one that killed al Qaeda chief bin Laden. After more than a decade of trying to target the elusive al Qaeda leader, a National Security Agency "wireless wiretap" pulled a call from the mobile phone of a suspected courier who had been under observation for years since 9/11. This led to the creation of a task force to run the lead to ground, which turned out to be an unusual residential compound in the town of Abbottabad, Pakistan.

Implementing security as a cross-cutting concern has several challenges. Consequently, modern software development practices and Service Oriented Architectures are alluding to the idea of claims-based Identity for access control. Microsoft’s Identity and Access Control paradigm leverages industry standard open specifications and provides tools, runtime and platform support for facilitating the development of claims-enabled applications.

Today's collection includes 68 issues from DC, Marvel, Image and other companies. These are provided to me by the Empire release group, even though they have not scanned all issues. Included are Empire, theGroup, DCP and Minutemen scans, plus a few independant releases.

Fight fat at its true source: your cells.
An MIT-trained scientist explains the one secret you need to know to lose weight and keep it off.
Raymond Francis is the scientist people turn to when diets don’t work. His groundbreaking approach treats excess weight for what it really is—a disease caused by malfunctioning cells. As Francis explains, many of the foods we eat every day, especially the “health” and “diet” ones we dutifully buy to lose weight, have the opposite effect. Full of hidden toxins and lacking nutrients, they actually poison your cells and alter your weight-control genes, causing your body to put on the pounds. Like he’s done for thousands of other people, Raymond Francis can help you turn this fat cycle around and reclaim your waistline—and your health.

Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.

jQuery is awesome for designers – it builds easily on the CSS and HTML you already know and allows you to create impressive effects with just a few lines of code. However, without a background in programming, javascript – on which jQuery is built – can feel intimidating and impossible to grasp. This book will show you how simple it can be to learn the basics and then extend your capabilities by taking advantage of jQuery plugins.

Social Media can help elect a U.S. President, transform the way we educate ourselves and drum up support for disaster relief. What lies beneath the two ominous buzzwords is not some secret game-changing technology but rather a new approach at forming relationships with your audience in real-time. Discover the power of online influence many already rely on.

Drush is a command line interface for Drupal. Most of the tasks for building and maintaining a website are repetitive and involve filling in forms on administration pages. The majority of these tasks can be achieved with a single Drush command, shortening the development and maintenance time of a project drastically.