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RokBox

RokBox is a mootools powered JavaScript slideshow that allows you to quickly and easily display multiple media formats including images, videos (video sharing services also) and music.
RokBox provides a theme system that allows you to create your own custom ones to fit your websites design. It includes two predefined themes, a Light theme and a Dark theme that will fit seamlessly into your site design. RokBox is as easy as pie to install and customize, providing an easy way to create your own custom themes for it.

RokBox

Features

  • Mootools v1.11 compatible
  • 4 Customizable Transition Type: Fade, QuickSilver, Growl, Explode.
  • Support for Images, QuickTime (.mov), Windows Media Video (.wmv), Flash (.swf), YouTube, DailyMotion, MetaCafe, Google Video, Vimeo, Audio (.mp3, .wav), local and remote sites.
  • Support for albums/categories.
  • Support for Captions including support for titles and descriptions.
  • 3 Predefined Themes provided: Light Theme, Dark Theme, Mynxx.
  • Support for custom themes with ability to customize styles and RokBox configuration per theme.

History

RokBox is inspired by the now famous LightBox, but with a large support for multimedia content and not only images. RokBox is written by Djamil Legato.

 

 

Race Related

groundbreaking polling conducted by a leading Canadian sociologist confirmed what we already know. That 23 percent of Metro Vancouver teenagers, or one in four, have parents born in Canada. And 37 percent of teens in Metro Vancouver, were born outside the country, typically in Asia. And another 39 percent of teenagers in our West Coast metropolis have immigrant parents. Based on an extensive survey of Canadian teenagers, it was discovered that more than nine out of 10 Metro Vancouver teenagers said they have close friends who are not Caucasian.

The conclusion is that the younger people of Metro Vancouver are a remarkably international and intercultural generation. (more…)

Korean spouses have spent an average 13 million won ($10,600) in costs for interracial marriages, the Korea Consumer Agency (KCA) said Monday after surveying 266 matchmaking agencies.
“We conducted a survey of 1.044 companies but only 266 of them properly answered. The rest of them are marginal ones,” said Choi Eun-sil of the KCA.
Interracial marriages in Korea are increasing year by year, from 4,710 in 1990 to 36,204 in 2008. More than 28,000 Korean men married foreign spouses last year, more than double the 8,000 Korean women who married expatriate men. (more…)