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Comments on 12 Lessons for Those Afraid of CSS and Standards
by Ben Henick
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A good mix of general and specific points.
Whenever I hear someone the web standards movement is elitist and pedantic I am reminded of the argument that Zeldman made years ago. Standards are all about the bottom line. At the time I didn't really understand that, because my own use of CSS grew slowly and it was hard to notice the improvement. But this year when I took a job at an agency where they still barely know what CSS is I discovered the painful truth. Bloated table designs can raise development costs by very large factors. Worse yet, they can create situations for application developers where templates balloon out of control and require baroque display logic that destroys readability.
The idea that your code needs to validate perfectly and not use any CSS hacks _is_ pedantic. Web standards in general, and CSS in particular is first and foremost _pragmatic_.
While I agree that validation must sometimes be sacrificed in favour of what is practicable, I've always found validation invaluable for learning new tricks.
With each site you work on the validation process will throw up another gem that you didn't know about - whether from a standards-compliance or an accessibility point of view.
Yes, where the costs of validation outweigh the potential benefits, you'll have to make a compromise. However, where the pain of transitioning to standards-compliant code is concerned, validation can be an enlightening experience.
Congratulations on this superb piece!
It's really refreshing to read an article covering some of the issues we face concerning real world implementation of web standards. Far too many standardista's dismiss any website that fails validation or uses a less-than-semantically-perfect piece of mark up due to an ill advised decision by a project stakeholder.
"Choose your ground, pick your battles"¦ and fight the ones you can actually win." - This pretty much sums my past 3 years, struggling to introduce a web standards approach to a digital agency.
I am always amused when someone talks about trading validation for some mysterious pragmatic reasons. Unless you are stuck with
crappy CMS or some system which allows html mess in users submited comments - I can see no reasons for tradeoffs.
Thanks for this good article. Sometimes it feels so much easier to stick to the "old" style of producing web pages and I understand that it takes years to adjust. For me as a programmer it might be not as hard as for a designer or artist. Im used to see aesthetic not only in the presentation, but also in the code. Therefore I totally agree to Saint-Excupery…
Right from the beginning you had my attention - because I was the same way. I KNEW the benefits of CSS - but it was psuedo CSS I was using, and it was still mixed with tables every now and then. I look back and laugh at some of my projects then - but it was all I knew. I then took the time to read read and read some more to really grasp CSS, the browsers, and how things are rendered.
I think this is a great article with some excellent points.
Another excellent article outlining the constant battle we all face when developing with CSS. My advice is to get stuck in and keep persevering. It can be de-motivating at times when having to use browser hacks (oh the irony) and it's certainly not an easy ride and full of headaches, but the feeling at the end is worth it. There's no real excuse with the acres of CSS related articles and resources out there!
It's so refreshing to read an article on Web Standards that doesn't vilify the thousands of quality, hard-working designers out there that weren't exposed to CSS early on. I started my career in web design in 1998 and all the training I got was in table-based layout. It would be nice to just turn on a switch and say "I'm going to follow web standards now", but I can't. That's like saying, "I'm going to start speaking Spanish today. It's a much more efficient language."
Now that I'm designing full-time, it's really hard to find the time to train myself in the new standards (I actually enjoy getting away from the computer in my free time). So for me (and MANY others like me), it's going to be a long road to completely saying "goodbye" to tables. Thanks for cutting us some slack. There are a lot of great designers out there that have just been a little misguided.
Thank you for outlining the numerous drawbacks and disadvantages of CSS. As a website optimizer I have to stick to clean markup and standards but I feel reminded of the days of Netscape 4 all the time. Back then we had to code JavScript for two different browsers, the HTML was quite the same on both major ones. Nowadays we have several brwowsers every one of them dealing differently with CSS and so called web standards. I would love those standards if they would work. Having to fight float and padding bugs and such on a daily basis I wish I could do table layouts once again. At least those work everywhere.
I quit flash programming a while ago because of it's by now ludicrous complexity that renders it worthless for simple sites.
If I had an alternative I would also quit CSS. It's a constant annoyance and you can't even use more than the system fonts until now (we're in 2006 and were supposed to have flying cars by now!).
The CSS believers are fighting a just war but in the daily routine CSS sucks. You have to make too many compromises and fight too many inconsistencies. Often I miss the crossbrowser compatibility of flash. I hope that one day we will be able to code websies in SVG, vector based and looking everywhere the same.
Great article. I'll make sure to apply these on my upcoming project! I tend to have problems w/ CSS layouts @ times, but step 11 is a great reminder for those having troubles w/ layout and floats. Thanks!
The story of my life! These people are so friendly, but when they say "let's try moving this link down by three pixels, just on this page" it's like they're _trying_ to make my life hell.
Ha! Yeah, and usually they're looking at Safari and telling you to shrink text sizes without knowing that it makes the size too small in some browsers *cough all windows browsers which make up 98% of your visitors cough*
Sometimes you've just got to be stubborn and tell designers that such minute control is often pointless. Browsers display certain things, like text, differently. In the immortal words of Roger Miller: "You can't rollerskate in a buffalo herd."
If you're making an effort, then it doesn't actually take *years* to adjust, I think.
My introduction was meant to point out that I'm actually pretty lazy, like a lot of the folks I'm trying to address (when compared to the hardcore _standardistas_)... but that I saw the value early on. I was making an effort to be faithful to the spirit of standards from Day One - to the extent that I could, in the beginning.
For straight-up HTML production, letter-perfect validation only holds immediate tangible benefits if you're taking your production the whole distance, and intending your site templates to survive for years to come. Unfortunately, most managers don't see the point to that level of attention to detail. Thus my point about long lead times.
Also, I don't want to be seen as _excusing_ laziness… but at the end of the day, we all need to maintain our lives. I think we'd all be well off to remember that the future of ten years ago is *our present*.
Finally, a piece of advice (per comment 10) that didn't make it into the final draft is that when you're working with floats, column margins are important, too.
Unaware that this article was due to be pushed, I started work several days ago on a new look and feel for my (incomplete) shingle site (henick.net). Other than accounting for two added IA elements, I haven't touched the markup *at all*. I've spent six hours on the project so far, split between Photoshop and my text editor.
...Just sayin'.
bq. using CSS to create standards-friendly sites requires a mindset that is alien to many experienced developers.
Absolutely true - but it is a mindset that is totally alien to the vast majority of people. If you're used to using any sort of WYSIWYG editor, which most people are, the paradigm shift to a structured document - even for those people who do properly use styles within their word processor (which few do anyway!) - is huge.
I've worked with intelligent and experienced writers to produce [printed] publications, and so many of them just can't get their heads round the idea of structure. They want it to look a certain way, so they make it look a certain way - they have no concept of marking sections according to purpose. The thought that presentation is not integral to the document is, as you say, completely alien to them.
If we expect these people to begin to quickly comprehend the power and proper use of CSS then we are on a hiding to nothing. We need to remember, when we are preaching the gospel of CSS, that most people are not using table-based layouts because of obstinacy but because they simply don't see why it is not a good idea.
bq. It's a constant annoyance and you can't even use more than the system fonts until now
Huh? Traditional HTML limits the fonts you can use, because you can only specify one font at any one time, so you have to choose a font that you know everyone will have. With CSS, you can specify less common fonts first, so that users with those fonts installed will have them displayed - and those that don't have the font installed will have one of the fallback fonts used. And (theoretically) you can use CSS to embed fonts in a page so that even users who don't have that font installed will see it. _Yes, I know that doesn't work perfectly, but it's better than anything HTML tables can achieve!_
bq. I hope that one day we will be able to code websies in SVG, vector based and looking everywhere the same.
Great. So it will look the same on WAP as it does on my 1600x1200 desktop monitor? And the same again when I print it? That's impressive! It's nice to know that it will sound the same as it looks when blind people have it read to them too…
This is exactly the problem that CSS faces - people who don't understand the internet.
Web pages are not about pixel perfect rendering - if that is what you *need*, PDF is a better tool. Most websites don't need pixel perfect rendering - they only need to get the content and some basic presentation across, and as long as the website has achieved that goal, it has succeeded. And if one user sees it looking slightly different to another ... so what?
I'm well aware of specifying obscure fonts and moving to more general fonts withing a CSS declaration, but since when has CSS provided a mechanism to embed fonts? This is in resposne to Stephen's comment (#16).
bq. That's impressive! It's nice to know that it will sound the same as it looks when blind people have it read to them too"¦
Too bad scrolling would still sound like turning a page in too many websites…
"For the record, naysayers should know that I've yet to encounter any personal computer users who routinely browse the web with stylesheets enabled and images disabled."
I'll grant the distinction of mentioning "personal computer" in the above section, but as this article addresses CSS and standards, consider the mobile browser.
Certainly it's a small market, but nevertheless an important consideration. I've personally encountered countless mobile users with CSS-enabled browsers, but due to slow data rates have images turned off by default.
The mobile platform is the one space that really bothers me, *especially* in regard to the issue of replacement (but others as well).
The fallback for that *should* be faithful use of the screen value for the media attribute, and gee, it _would_ be nice if mobile browsers would respect that.
My opinion for a while has been that mobile is the new frontier for standards advocates (especially given how expensive I perceive the cost of testing to be).
While I agree with the intent of rule number 4, I don't think it's very practical to restrict the use of "widgets" in a design. In some cases, your clients leave you with no choice. They want that custom border with the radius corners that will fit a box of any width or height.
You might be able to minimize your mark-up using pseudo-class and adjacent selectors, but will the browser display it properly?
What would your rule number 4 compliant solution for flexible radius corners be?
I'm fortunate in that I only wasted a few weeks messing around with tables-for-layout before "discovering" CSS. Thus I didn't have to unlearn a bunch of bad habits :-)
Great article!
"Dave Merwin":http://www.davemerwin.com/ suggests a 13th lesson: "don't give up":http://www.betachurch.org/2006/09/26/when-it-comes-to-css-dont-give-up/ . I personally find that advice a bit on the fatalistic side, but there's no arguing with common sense.
A lot of emphasis seems to be on whether CSS hacks are legitimate or not. I always found IE's powerful conditional statements
the easiest way to live with browser differences (I haven't read all comments, so this might have already been mentioned)
For those who don't know what I'm referring to:
<!—[if IE 5]>
<style type="text/css">
/* your specific styles here */
Many examples:
So make it work in Firefox, then look what breaks in IE and fix accordingly, right down to specific sub-versions. If a new version comes out, simply fix emerging problems by either specific styles from that version onwards, or by limiting your existing exceptions up until that version (or a mixture of both of course).
There really is no need for IE hacks.
_"Another common task for which I believe background images are appropriate is the replacement of headings with bitmapped type."_
Why not put the image inside the header tag with an appropriate alt attribute? Semantically correct, search engines should find the alt text, text-only browsers should render it and no questionable CSS hackery.
The answer to this one is semantics-squared… woohoo! This is as close as I intend to get to pedantry, and figure that at the end of the day, the approach I *don't* use is no better or worse. (Both approaches are ugly hacks in comparison to the ideal, if one considers things with the attitude of a purist.)
Desire for small, shiny objects aside, the primary content of the heading is definitely the copy, *not* its bitmapped representation… the bitmap is the fallback at the _semantic_ level. Thus the bitmap gets relegated to the stylesheet, while the actual heading _copy_ finds its way into the element's textnode (rather than as some alternate value).
In a perfect world, the handheld media type would be respected, and the screen media type ignored by handhelds per the spec (7.3), unless the handheld user explicitly applies the screen stylesheet instead:
bq. Media types are mutually exclusive in the sense that a user agent can only support one media type when rendering a document. However, user agents may use different media types on different canvases. For example, a document may (simultaneously) be shown in 'screen' mode on one canvas and 'print' mode on another canvas.
So I wait for that Radiant Future, and implement a solution that looks forward (by keeping textual content at front-center) while managing to please most of the people most of the time.
On the other hand, use of RE-driven replacement validates the inline-image approach in terms of future-friendliness.
Bear in mind that in cases where the image *is* indisputably the primary content, this entire rationale gets thrown out on its ear.
The single biggest piece of advice that helped me <q>Clear my mind</q> of old-world page design techniques came from the Jedi Master himself.
It is very refreshing to finally discover others with the same problems I have experienced while trying to learn and use CSS in my web design projects. It took me years to understand html and table based layout. To now be told to throw out all I have learned in favor of CSS based design is extremely frustrating, confusing and difficult. This was an excellent article that gave validity to my why I still do not use CSS.
I am first and foremost a print designer who was dragged, kicking a screaming into this new media called web design in 1997. I was taught strict HTML and Table based layout. It is difficult to make such a global change to the way I design a web page from Table based layouts, which is visual to CSS based layouts, which is totally by code. Very left brain stuff. It has been the most difficult transition I have ever experienced in my career as a creative professional.
The biggest problem I have is that it is difficult to maintain layout consistency throughout all browsers and all computer platforms with CSS based design. For the majority of my clients, that is unacceptable. Table based layouts keep the design consistent over all and on all platforms and browsers. I can not say as much for CSS based layouts. Being that 98% of of my client's customers are still using I.E. 5 On the PC, a CSS designed site is not ideal, at least not with my poor CSS skill set.
What I mean is, like with a lot in life, the hardest part is taking the decision, rather than acting on that decision.
So if you're in the scenario where you're going to convert your old-style website with table layouts to more modern CSS, just back up all your code and lock it up in a safe place, and let that be your security blanket to take the plunge.
The two approaches are so different that you might as well just strip the documents of the old tags and mark up the content again from scratch. Sounds drastic, but it's probably the quickest and easiest way to focus on the new goal.
If you're like me you'll also find it breathtaking how you can do the same things as before with a fraction of the code and effort, and that you end up with documents where the code is actually easy to read. This is why I personally never felt the need to look back to the old methods… the new way is simply more fun, and that's often forgotten when considering its much-vaunted worthiness.
Im one of them thats stuck myself between a rock and a hard place. So many projects hitting me that I never get the chance to go back and rework all the hundreds of table-tr-td-td-tr-table i've got. Its painful. I'll refer to this article often. Especially the ubiquitous lesson 4. Thanks for this
"Having to fight float and padding bugs and such on a daily basis I wish I could do table layouts once again."
Thank you. I'm a crazy CSS fanatic but still recognize that in *some* ways tables really do handle things better. Anyone who doesn't recognize that is sticking their head in the sand. I know it's not "semantic" but I proposed a very good solution one time. Only problem was, my solution was proposed on the CSS discussion list and I got vilified because people thought my remarks didn't relate to CSS.
"And (theoretically) you can use CSS to embed fonts in a page so that even users who don't have that font installed will see it. Yes, I know that doesn't work perfectly, but it's better than anything HTML tables can achieve!"
What does selecting fonts have to do with HTML tables?
"Web pages are not about pixel perfect rendering."
I've tried telling that to a couple prospective jobs and they thought it meant I was a bad web developer.
on the use of tables over css divs when appropriate! It seems sometimes that as we strive to move forward with new techniques we forget that there is a time and a place for all of the tools in our toolbox, old and new. A recent personal example of this was when we did some html emails that forced us to return to utilizing table layouts. It reinforced in us a pretty valuable lesson that we are not going to easily forget.
In reading these comments and other feedback - boy have I gotten a lot of IM's the past three days! - there are three ideas that keep on hitting me on the head.
# The lust for pixel-perfection is the consequence of expectations set by print-trained designers, and is the single greatest obstacle to broader deployment of CSS-reliant sites, in my opinion.
# Clients tend to care about upfront cost and timeline more than they care about TCO or the potential to turn their site into a bonafide infosystem.
# The bastard child sites that try to get the best of both tables and CSS wind up leveraging both strengths *poorly*.
And Angela's bit about the HTML e-mails was, for me, a bit of synchronicity. I was bopping about "http://boagworld.com/podcast":http://boagworld.com/podcast/ and in one of the shows I played back, there was a long discussion of HTML e-mail that amounted to "you can do it with CSS but why on earth would you want to?" This is coming from a source that's a reliable cheerleader for Web standards.
Sometimes, no matter how badly you want it, it can't be done.
For all that, I come away with the feeling that the bottom line of standards-friendly design and production isn't being sold _nearly_ well enough.
I liked your article a lot, but disagree with the comment you made #"36":/comments/12lessonsCSSandstandards?page=4#36. In my job the design team and the dev team are separate. The designers go through a lot of effort to make the design pixel perfect. We go back and forth for weeks with the client perfecting a design. And in passing the design over to dev we go through the layouts and make photoshop layers specifying exactly what we want the pixel spacing to be.
Pixel perfect is possible with CSS and worse comes to worse throw a table in there. Comment #"34":/comments/12lessonsCSSandstandards?page=4#34 made the same mistake.
Many agency put design quality over CSS perfection, and rightfully so. Most clients will appreciate the perfect layout and spacing more than they will appreciate the perfect CSS but imperfect spacing.
Kris, you are ENTIRELY missing the point. Nobody here is saying to make your CSS perfect but not to worry about what the design looks like. What is being said is that print media and web media are two different things.
To put all your emphasis on having different elements of a design spaced an exact number of pixels apart or to have fonts appear in an exact pixel size doesn't help much in the web world because anyone viewing your website can change how your page is displayed in numerous ways. This is what needs to be drilled into the heads of print designers who are beginning to work in the world of web design (repeat over and over until it sinks in): YOU CANNOT PRECISELY CONTROL THE FINAL DISPLAY OF YOUR WEB DESIGN. If you have an aversive reaction to such a statement then you just need to keep repeating it.
You can, however, learn to understand how browsers display pages so that the elements of your design will 99.99% of the time relate to each other in a logical and attractive way.
Jeez hacks for different browsers versions. Do you people work for outfits with bottomless pockets and where the boss is your spouse's Dad? Or perhaps if you work for yourself you are on some sort of anorexic kick? Or you don't have a life outside of making sites pixel perfect.
In the real world not many people want to pay for your CSS indulgences especially when our competition in south Asia is churning out sites with nested tables within nested nested tables for peanuts. And you know what? They work - at least until somebody has to maintain them but that can be an issue with CSS and standards compliant sites too.
You clearly have never had to unglue someone elses hack for a client with a change that had to be published online 5 minutes ago and have to explain why the "simple" change isn't working on their browser and the page just won't display properly.
I agree it would be really nice to work in the way suggested but Rule #1 is get it out on time and on budget.
I am afraid you are preaching to the converted as the comments here attest.
bq. I'm well aware of specifying obscure fonts and moving to more general fonts withing a CSS declaration, but since when has CSS provided a mechanism to embed fonts?
It's more complicated than we might like, but by using CSS you can embed a font - have a look at "www.spoono.com/html/tutorials/tutorial.php?id=19":http://www.spoono.com/html/tutorials/tutorial.php?id=19 for the details.
bq. What does selecting fonts have to do with HTML tables?
OK, maybe I didn't write very clearly. It was in response to the comment that CSS offers nothing beyond system fonts (which is utter rubbish) with the implication that a table-based page written purely in HTML is better. It isn't, on so many levels.
bq. "Web pages are not about pixel perfect rendering."?
I've tried telling that to a couple prospective jobs and they thought it meant I was a bad web developer.
It's hard to do, but sometimes you have to try to educate your clients. If they have design skills, these are likely to be print-orientated, rather than screen-orientated - but often, they won't know much about design at all.
The fact is that it is not possible to get a pixel perfect layout that gives an identical rendering across all platforms - but that doesn't matter. What is important is that each rendering gives an aesthetically pleasing website with the appropriate content and branding. How many customers are going to compare the website on different computers to see if it looks identical?
bq. In the real world not many people want to pay for your CSS indulgences especially when our competition in south Asia is churning out sites with nested tables within nested nested tables for peanuts. And you know what? They work — at least until somebody has to maintain them but that can be an issue with CSS and standards compliant sites too.
It depends - you can have it cheap and quick and of limited use _or_ you can have it efficient, effective and easy to keep going. In the long term, a table-based layout is going to be more expensive, because any redesign (or even rewording) is a mammoth undertaking, whereas with properly structured CSS it is a doddle.
And that's even before you look at the savings on bandwidth costs or the increased sales that can be generated by a page that everyone can access quickly.
If businesses are only going to look at the costs this month, then yes, a CSS-based design may be slightly more - but if they have any concern at all about the sustainability of their website, CSS _ought_ to be a no-brainer.
I started web design seriously about a year ago. When I first started designing I used all XHTML and tables for the layout of my designs, which I also did recently for a client also. I find it hard to design a website using just CSS for layout due to the fear of having it look differently in current and older browsers. But I have to admit that I'm a big fan of CSS in alot of ways, so lately I been putting extra time into using CSS more. Does anybody else have this fear?
I think the first steps in HTML are always done without CSS and with using tables. And as you learn more you learn that almost every layout is possible that way. And after some weeks, months or years of developing web pages someone comes along and says CSS layout is better. And, yes, he's right! But starting with the old style and then switching is the tough part. So the beginner tutorials should start with CSS right away as the normal way to layout your pages.
When I first started to learn about layout I learned CSS before I learned tables. But because my g'f used tables alot I decided to give it a try. I also did find out that clients wanted websites built fast and as cheap as possible. Alot weren't interested in whether CSS is more powerful or easier to update, or about web standards. First thing they ask is, what's the cost going to be. How can a designer make standards based sites with all the competiton out there?
bq. I also did find out that clients wanted websites built fast and as cheap as possible. A lot weren't interested in whether CSS is more powerful or easier to update, or about web standards. First thing they ask is, what's the cost going to be. How can a designer make standards based sites with all the competiton out there?
I know I keep banging on about this but what you have to stress to your clients is the *long term cost*. If a client will want their website updated - either the content or the style - then it will take longer, and cost more, if it is written in table-based tag soup.
For clients who know little or nothing about HTML, it may not be easy to convince them of this. But if the competition is only quoting an up-front price, and is being hazy about ongoing costs, it's likely they are trying to hide something.
You owe it to yourself, your clients and your industry to encourage people to commission sites that are well-designed and follow the standards. At the end of the day, sometimes you may need to sacrifice your principles rather than sacrifice a sale, but every time you do that, you make it more difficult for the next time.
well, i do surf with stylesheets but without graphics! I do this while surfing at work. And this for a simple reason: It produces less traces in the corporate log files. Every single file loaded produces an entry in the corporate log. So surfing without graphics reduces the amount of log entries to about 20%, which is quite much. So from the corporates view this is me surfing 80% less :)
I recently built a website for a client that wanted a website as cheap as possible. My original goal was to build a website using nothing but CSS and XHTML. I was going to create some beautiful but fast loading graphics, and use a form along with providing his e-mail to make it very easy for visitors to contact him on his site. Well, it didn't work out that way at all. He wanted the website very fast and wanted to pay almost nothing. He also insisted that it be as simple as possible. What he ended up with was an extemely simple site that ended up costing him only $500. You can see this site on my website portfolio.
Lesson 2 is something I might carry round with me to show clients at meetings. I'm happy to say that I generally know when to let lie.
Great rest of article too. I can definitely associate with almost all your points.
Only thing I would disagree with is Lesson 9. I feel stylesheet hacks are unnecessary. I think it is definitely a better solution to use conditional comments. I don't think I've come across a case that can't be solved with conditional comments. And I feel a lot better about the impending welcomed approach of IE7.
I remember writing my first CSS page some years ago. It was a pain, especially since IE and Opera behaved quite different with the margins and stuff. But I fought through that and converted a whole site from old style table layout to a CSS one. After some more sites I finally found the new style not only better, but also faster to implement.
I'm sick of having to consider IE bugs when developing a Web site. I had my hopes on IE7 but I was disappointed yesterday when I found that it stills doesn't work. Isn't it time that we stop worrying about it? I think most users would start to use better browsers if most pages didn't look good on IE.
Thank you for this support.
It's clear, concise and helpful.
Thanks for the article Ben. I've been teaching web design for around 10 years. Your article rings bells for me as I've wrestled with CSS in the same way, over the same period as you illustrate. For me the struggle is in teaching it to students, with a varied range of skills. Tables where doable, simple at a basic level but could get complex for those that required and understood it.
In class a mistake in a table was reasonably easy to spot (and fix). With CSS it's a whole different kettle of fish!
Students often run before they can walk. The create layouts with a multitude of divs, classes and id's without fully understanding what each element does. Trying to spot the error is almost impossible. How far back in the cascade of styles does the root cause of the error lie? Or is it a browser compatibility error?
As an Information and Communications department, we've always taught from a standards / usability / accessibility standpoint. Getting the combination with CSS definitely isn't straight forward!
There's one other advantage to semantic, fully valid XHTML markup. When you have an XHTML website, you have all your content in XML. You can then use all the great XML tools available to extract data from your site extremely easily. This is especially easy if your content is correctly marked up semantically, as the same advantages to CSS are available to you using DOM. We are even able to easily push our content to one of our partner sites, transforming it to their non-semantic markup with XSLT!
I work in a company where we manage sites for several in-house brands. The brands are always on us about pixel-prefection and "branding". Unfortunately what they don't grasp is that their branding should be more focused on their content than the imagery. Our sites are currently a hybrid of CSS designs and table-based. I'm beginning to have an influence on migrating to standards-based design. The hard part is convincing print-oriented designers that it works, and is the better solution.
As for whoever said, _"Thank you. I'm a crazy CSS fanatic but still recognize that in some ways tables really do handle things better. Anyone who doesn't recognize that is sticking their head in the sand."_ I must be sticking my head in the sand, because I can make CSS layouts do far more than tables could ever achieve. It took me a while to make the plunge, but I'm never going back.
I would disagree with using css hacks, only because as other posters have said, there are other ways of doing it (conditional comments, etc.). My opinion is that it may be good to be backwards compatible (or _sideways_ compatible) but at some point you need to start providing markup that is future-proof. I'd rather read a plain-text website than a broken mess of td's and rows that place content all over the page with no logical flow.
I was needing to know where is the images for article #192?
So, we can see how and where the images work with the code.
Thank you very much and we like your web site. It helps us all in class.
I read ALA lots & lots, but missed this one when it was published. I just caught the interview you did with Paul Boag, and I too am thrilled with this. Thanks!
{it's probably listed in the comments, but if you're running late like me, here's the interview: http://www.boagworld.com/archives/2006/11/podcast_57_afraid_of_standards.html


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Previously, only the giant planets Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune were known to have rings.
"We weren't looking for a ring and didn't think small bodies like Chariklo had them at all," lead astronomer Felipe Braga-Ribas, with Brazil's National Observatory in Rio de Janeiro, said in a statement. "The discovery ... came as a complete surprise."
Chariklo's rings have crisp edges, a feature typically caused by the gravitational effects of a small embedded moon or moons.
"It's likely that Chariklo has at least one small moon still waiting to be discovered," Braga-Ribas said.
Chariklo's inner ring is 4.3 miles (7 km) wide and the outer ring is 1.9 miles (3 km) wide. The bands are separated by a 5.6 mile (9 km) wide gap.
"It was quite amazing to realise that we were able not only to detect a ring system, but also pinpoint that it consists of two clearly distinct rings," astronomer Uffe Grae Jorgensen, with the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, said in a statement.
The origin of the rings is not known, but scientists suspect they formed after another body crashed into Chariklo, forming a debris disk of icy particles.
The research is published in this week's issue of the journal Nature.

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Harvard women's soccer continues its four-game homestand as Providence College and LIU Brooklyn visit Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium this weekend. The Crimson and the Friars kick off Friday, Sept. 13 at 7 p.m., while Harvard and LIU meet at noon on Sunday.
Ivy League Digital Network
Four of Harvard's home matches – including Sunday's contest against LIU – will be streamed in HD quality featuring a live scoreboard, new graphics package and play-by-play commentary through the Ivy League Digital Network. Subscribers to the network can watch contests both live and on-demand at their convenience, and will have access to live and on-demand content for all home Harvard athletics events throughout the duration of their subscription.
Home Stretch
Harvard will host four-straight home matches after Friday's contest was moved to Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium. The Crimson will play three games over a five-day stretch this week. The Crimson holds a 14-4-4 record since moving to Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium.
Last Time Out
Freshman Midge Purce posted her first career goal, but it would not be enough as Harvard fell to New Hampshire, 2-1, Wednesday night at Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium. The Crimson outshot the Wildcats by a 21-2 margin, but two early scores by UNH proved to be the difference.
Follow Harvard Athletics on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to stay connected with all the breaking news from around Cambridge and to get inside access to your favorite Crimson programs.
All-Time Against...
Harvard leads Providence in the all-time series by a 6-2-1 mark, although the two teams have not met since Oct. 30, 1996, a 7-1 win for the Crimson. In a series that started in 2010, Long Island holds a 1-0-1 all-time advantage over Harvard. The last meeting was a 2-1 win for the Blackbirds in 2011.
Fresh Faces
Harvard added nine standouts to the 2013 roster, a class that ranked No. 20 nationally according to All White Kit. Midge Purce leads the squad with two points, as Bailey Gary, Purce and Karly Zlatic have all earned starts.
Scouting PC (3-1-1)
With five days of rest, Providence comes into Friday's match with a 3-1-1 record, paced by sophomore Kathryn Hiller with nine points on four goals and one assist. Amanda Webster has record seven points through five games. In net for the Friars will be freshman Kristyn Shea (2-1-1), who owns a 1.08 GAA with 20 saves. Head coach Jim McGirr is in the midst of his ninth season with PC.
Scouting LIU (1-4-1)
Coming into the weekend with a 1-3-1 record, Jenn Peters leads LIU with four points on one goal and two assists. Jessica Sexton has played every minute in net, holding a 1.15 GAA with 31 saves. Entering her 14th season at LIU Brooklyn, Tracey Bartholomew led the Blackbirds to its second-straight NEC Tournament championship a season ago.
Depth in Net
Three goalkeepers have seen action between the pipes for the Crimson. Junior Bethany Kanten (0-2) earned the start against Cal and UNH, while classmate Cheta Emba was between the pipes to start against USF. Freshman Lizzie Durack – coming off an UEFA finals appearance with England's U19 team – played the second 45 minutes against the Dons.
Scoring Weapons Return
Harvard returns 20 letterwinners from a squad that went 9-5-3 overall a season ago. All five Crimson student-athletes that garnered all-conference status during the 2012 campaign return, including Meg Casscells-Hamby, who earned a spot on the first team. Erika Garcia, Kanten and Haley Washburn all received second team accolades.
Casscells-Hamby and senior captains Elizabeth Weisman and Peyton Johnson accounted for 45 percent of the scoring a season ago and will look to continue their offensive onslaught.
Looking Ahead
The Crimson hosts Rhode Island on Friday, Sept. 20 (7 p.m.) at Soldiers Field Soccer Stadium before traveling to UMass Lowell for a Sunday tilt at 3 p.m.


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The Five Things We Cannot Change
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Why is it that despite our best efforts, many of us remain fundamentally unhappy and unfulfilled in our lives? In this provocative and inspiring book, David Richo distills thirty years of experience as a therapist to explain the underlying roots of unhappiness—and the surprising secret to finding freedom and fulfillment.
There are certain facts of life that we cannot change—the unavoidable "givens" of human existence: (1) everything changes and ends, (2) things do not always go according to plan, (3) life is not always fair, (4) pain is a part of life, and (5) people are not loving and loyal all the time. Richo shows us that by dropping our deep-seated resistance to these givens, we can find liberation and discover the true richness that life has to offer. Blending Western psychology and Eastern spirituality, including practical exercises, Richo shows us how to open up to our lives—including to what is frightening, painful, or disappointing—and discover our greatest gifts.News & Reviews
"A lucid, thought-provoking, and illuminating book about the realities of human existence—a wonderfully useful guide to fluid acceptance of life as it is." —Martha Beck, author of Finding Your Own North Star and The Joy Diet
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WSJ's Brooks: Traders Weary of Nasdaq Outages
Trading resumed in Nasdaq Stock Market-listed securities, more than three hours after an abrupt halt in trading blamed on an unexplained technical issue paralyzed a large chunk of the U.S. stock market. Rick Brooks has details on The News Hub. Photo: Getty Images.
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Washington, DC (July 1, 2014) – On June 30, 2014, President Obama signed into law S. 2086, the Reliable Home Heating Act. This bill clarifies that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) must accept hours-of-service (HOS) extensions during emergencies declared by a Governor for up to two additional 30-day periods (for a total of three). Current law allows additional HOS extensions to be granted by FMCSA or by a Presidential emergency declaration only.
Richard Roldan, NPGA's President and CEO said, "This bill will benefit the millions of households that rely on propane for home heating. Providing two additional hours-of-service extensions gives propane delivery drivers the flexibility they need to safely transport the fuel to the customers who need it most."
The Reliable Home Heating Act also provides an early warning mechanism to monitor home heating fuel inventory levels. The bill directs the Administrator of the Energy Information Administration, using data compiled from the Administration's Weekly Petroleum Status Reports, to notify the governor of each state in a Petroleum Administration for Defense District if that district's inventory of residential heating fuel has been below the most recent five-year average for more than three consecutive weeks.
Roldan continued, "State Governors are a great ally during the winter heating season, and we know they do not ever want to have to use emergency provisions, but are ready to do what is necessary and this legislation helps. The provisions in this bill act as an informal early warning system that will increase communications between state and federal authorities to identify potential supply and distribution challenges before they happen."
Senator John Thune (R-SD) introduced the Reliable Home Heating Act in May. Both the House and Senate passed the same legislation by unanimous consent.


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Information processing and summarization
Information processing and summarization are critical areas of research that study how we can develop stand-alone algorithms as well as algorithms fused with humans to handle and process information in a variety of forms. The goal is to be able to extract the meaning (or semantics) of the information in order to better manipulate/reason and present it to the human user. This is fundamental to solving problems such as avoiding information overload and providing effective summarization.
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MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Spain will send up to 395 troops to combat piracy off the coast of Somalia as part of a European Union task force, the Spanish Parliament agreed on Wednesday.
A soldier looks at a Yemeni fishing boat from a French frigate. Spanish troops are due to join the EU task force.
The near-unanimous parliamentary vote authorizing the troop deployment came after a Spanish tuna fishing boat was seized last spring by Somali pirates and later released, after a reported payment of ransom.
Last November, a Spanish press photographer was kidnapped in Somalia, while working on a story about piracy. He was released two weeks ago.
Spanish Defense Minister Carme Chacon told parliament before the vote that the fight against piracy "is of vital importance for the defense of the geostrategic and economic interests of Spain, and will provide security to our fishing fleet," according to a defense ministry statement.
Spain already has a P-3 maritime surveillance plane with 70 troops at a French air base in Djibouti, just north of Somalia, and those assets will now go toward the EU task force against piracy, involving various EU nations.
In addition, Spain will send a frigate with a helicopter and 196 troops, and later a supply ship with a helicopter and 118 more troops. Spain is due to take the rotating command of the EU task force next April, when Spanish fishing boats work off of Somalia, the ministry statement said.
The cost to Spain's treasury will be €3.7 million to €5.1 million ($4.7 million to $6.5 million) per month, depending on the assets deployed.
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And us penurious ones dig it, too — so much so that, whether we were aware of it or not, most of us have found ourselves inexorably drawn to the squat plastic tubs with their vaguely Hellenic lettering and high prices-tags. Because, see, it's yogurt, so it's for women. But it's also Greek — and like Zorba it's somehow lusty, filling, sophisticated. How can you resist?
Fage, Chobani, Yoplait — whatever your poison, you know the drill. Thicker and richer than the regular white stuff, Greek yogurt is also (as the packages don't let us forget) higher in protein. Plus, the filling's on the side, so it feels more grown-up! Because the filling part is kind of hard to get the spoon into towards the bottom, it takes work, so it's rewarding. And all this is paying off in spades. Says Business Insider,
Rich women looking for low-fat, high protein food have helped push the Greek yogurt segment's growth over 100% according to a new report by UBS. It's one of the hottest-growing food categories of all time. In fact its been the main driver of yogurt sales and represents 19% of the category now.
And don't worry — as the above-ad shows, it's still firmly in the pink ghetto. Now with scantily-clad "Grecian" narcissist, for our ostensible viewing pleasure.
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Chicago College of Performing Arts graduate Sara Litchfield (MM, '09) was honored with the 2012 Donald Chen Young Artist Award by North Shore Choral Society. Litchfield, a mezzo soprano, won 3rd place and received $100.
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On reflection I think I should have done two things differently in order to make a horseshoe:
1. Chilled the pastry and filling before rolling. My pastry, by the time I came to roll it up was quite soft and at room temperature.
2. Use less apple. I am a total piggy where apples feature in recipes and if the recipe says "2-3 apples" it's as if the "2-" bit isn't there. Two apples would have meant less filling and an easier roll. It also would've stopped the apple bursting free during cooking.
So, after picking over what I did wrong, I must add that this still tasted delicious - very delicious! Admittedly it's not going to win any beauty contest but I don't particularly want to look at dessert, I want to eat it!
Here's the pastry – I never was much good at rolling out a rectangle:
Add the apples (bonus points if you can already see that it's not going to roll very easily!):
Add the sultana topping:
Roll. This was never going to be a horsehoe!
Adding "rustic" to the title of anything excuses all ugliness in the finished product– it becomes "charming" rather than "messy". In fact, I might start calling myself rustic; I wonder if it works for people?
The filling is very clever as it turns into a rich caramel sauce on cooking giving a lovely depth of flavour that compliments the apple beautifully. As my apples burst free from the pastry you can see the gorgeous dark caramel sauce seeping out at the top of the photo:
I made the roll with shortcrust pastry but the recipe gives the option of also using puff pastry. I mixed up my apples using two Gala and one Granny Smith. Putting in a tarter apple counteracts the sweetness and adds a little acidity.
Serve it warm or at room temperature with whatever takes your fancy. I kept it simple with some lightly whipped cream but ice cream, custard, clotted cream or even just some pouring cream would be lovely.
For the pastry:
230g plain flour
160g unsalted butter
4 tablespoons icing sugar
2 egg yolk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
For the filling:
2-3 eating apples (I used 3 in total – 2 Galas and 1 Granny Smith- and would probably use only 2 next time)
50g unsalted butter
25g breadcrumbs
100g dark brown sugar
50g sultanas or raisins
1 egg, beaten
Handful of flaked almonds
How to make:
- Start by making the pastry: place all the ingredients except for the egg yolks into the food processor and blitz until you have breadcrumbs.
- Add the egg yolks and blitz again until the pastry just starts to form.
- Turn out onto a sheet of clingfilm and bring together into a ball of pastry.
- Flatten slightly, wrap in the clingfilm and chill.
- Preheat the oven to 200°C/fan oven 180°C/400°F/Gas mark 6.
- Line a flat baking sheet with baking paper.
- Roll the pastry out between two sheets of baking paper; this minimises the amount of flour you need to roll out. Roll out to about a thickness of just under 0.5cm and try to keep it rectangular (don't be too obsessed about this).
- In the food processor blitz some bread (crust removed). I found that just over 1 slice of small bread made the right amount but obviously weigh it.
- Brown the breadcrumbs by tipping into a bowl and putting in the oven for 2 minutes. Then remove, stir and put in for another 2 minutes. Your aiming for the bread to dry out but not go like toast crumbs.
- Peel, core and thinly slice the apples. Scatter over the rolled out pastry leaving a gap at the end you will finish at so you will get a nice clean join.
- Melt the butter in a saucepan and then stir in the breadcrumbs, brown sugar and sultanas.
- Remove from the heat and spoon over the apples.
- Roll the pastry up like a swiss roll (I rolled from the short end).
- If possible, shape into a horseshoe, but don't risk it if your pastry is looking fragile.
- Transfer to the baking sheet and then brush with beaten egg.
- Scatter over the almonds.
- Bake for 35-40 minutes until the pastry is a golden brown colour. Mine took 35 minutes.
- Leave to cool on a baking sheet.
- Serve in thick slices with the accompaniment of your choice i.e. cream, ice cream or custard.
- Bask in glory at the wonderful thing you have made.
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The 29th edition of the CAF Africa Cup of Nations begins Saturday with the world ready for another exciting and surprising finals. A year ago in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea, Zambia shocked the world by beating Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire en route to their first-ever title, and the Chipolopolo join their vanquished foes as favourites – this time looking to claim a spot in the summer's FIFA Confederations Cup Brazil 2013. Also eyeing a possible run to the final at Johannesburg's Soccer City on 10 February are two-time champions Nigeria, third-place finishers from last year Mali and hosts South Africa, who lifted their only AFCON trophy at home in 1996.
The favourites
Zambia are once again led by inspirational French coach Herve Renard, and if anything his side is stronger than last year. However, they have won only three of their 11 matches on the pitch since last January's penalty shootout victory in the final over the Ivorians. They only just qualified to defend the AFCON via another dramatic shootout with Uganda that ended 9-8 in their favour, so the experienced team will fear no side at the business end of a match. The holders open Group C against Ethiopia, who are returning to the event for the first time in 31 years, before facing off with Nigeria in a battle expected to determine the group winner.
Any slip by the Zambians will surely be pounced upon by Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana, the continent's two most experienced and lauded teams. Both have reached the last two FIFA World Cups™ as well as three AFCON semi-finals in the last four events, but there is a whiff of desperation surrounding the giants. The Elephants, now led by Frenchman Sabri Lamouchi in his first managerial job, are anxious to win an international trophy for 34-year-old Didier Drogba in what might be his final go-round, while the Black Stars have not added to their four continental laurels since 1982.
The outsiders
Mali finished third at the last event, but The Eagles are used to flying under the radar despite a side bursting with talent. The Malians have only qualified for eight of the 29 events but have reached the last four in five of those, and they are likely to challenge for Group B with Ghana and Congo DR, who open the event against the Black Stars. Looking to match Côte d'Ivoire in Group D will be the North African duo of Tunisia and Algeria. The Tunisians have not reached the semi-finals of the AFCON since winning the event at home in 2004, but they have escaped the group stage in three of the last four finals. After a heyday in the 1980s that culminated in Cup of Nations glory in 1990, again at home, Algeria did not reach the penultimate stage again until 2010 – the same year they returned to the FIFA World Cup – when they shocked the Ivorians in the quarter-finals.
Fellow North Africans Morocco are inexperienced but talented darkhorses in Group A, where South Africa and coach Gordon Igesund have the weight of expectation on their shoulders despite Bafana Bafana only qualifying automatically as hosts after Libya pulled out. Nigeria coach Stephen Keshi was a linchpin on the last Super Eagles team to win the event in 1994, and 'Big Boss' has stamped his authority on the sometimes nervy west Africans in the hope of reaching their first final since 2000.
Players to watch
Player of the last tournament, Christopher Katongo is once again captain and the key attacking figure for Zambia, who also get firepower up front from Jacob Mulenga, Emmanuel Mayuka and Rainford Kalaba. At the opposite end, goalkeeper Kennedy Mweene was an inspiration in 2012 as was defender Stoppila Sunzu, who converted the winning penalty in the final. Côte d'Ivoire are also led from the front by Drogba, who combines with Gervinho and Salomon Kalou, but a steely, veteran spine underlies the side's success. The Toure brothers are vital, as are Cheick Tiote and Didier Zokora in holding midfield roles and Boubacar Barry in goal.
Midfield graft is equally important for Ghana, who will rely on the Italy-based duo of Kwadwo Asamoah and Emmanuel Agyemang-Badu and Osasuna's Anthony Annan in the absence of Michael Essien, Andre Ayew, Kevin-Prince Boateng and Sulley Muntari. Captain Asamoah Gyan is the main man in attack, while John Paintsil is the veteran at the back alongside a group of talented up-and-comers. Jon Obi Mikel is back in the fold for Nigeria. and his Chelsea team-mate Victor Moses is expected to make waves up front, while in defence captain Joseph Yobo will compete in his sixth AFCON.
Steven Pienaar is a no-show for the hosts, who boast many familiar names from the last FIFA World Cup including young defender Bongani Khumalo, who is now captain. Competing in his sixth Cup of Nations will be Mali legend Seydou Keita, leading a midfield that will miss injured Mahamadou Diarra but can call on the returned Momo Sissoko. Up front, the Malians will feature Cheick Diabate as well as Modibo Maiga, and other strikers to watch for will be Togo's last-minute inclusion Emmanuel Adebayor, Angola captain Manucho, Niger playmaker Moussa Maazou, DR Congo's TP Mazembe duo of Tresor Mabi Mputu and Deo Kanda and Tunisia's Issam Jemaa.
The stat
10 – The number of times Nigeria have reached the semi-final stage in their last 11 AFCONs.
What they said
"It would be great to win the trophy finally. Honestly, we are getting tired of losing out each time after getting close," Côte d'Ivoire's Didier Drogba.
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By Jesse Drucker – Dec 9, 2012 9:01 PM PT
Google Inc. (GOOG) avoided about $2 billion in worldwide income taxes in 2011 by shifting $9.8 billion in revenues into a Bermuda shell company, almost double the total from three years before, filings show.
By legally funneling profits from overseas subsidiaries into Bermuda, which doesn't have a corporate income tax, Google cut its overall tax rate almost in half. The amount moved to Bermuda is equivalent to about 80 percent of Google's total pretax profit in 2011.
The increase in Google's revenues routed to Bermuda, disclosed in a Nov. 21 filing by a subsidiary in the Netherlands, could fuel the outrage spreading across Europe and in the U.S. over corporate tax dodging. Governments in France, the U.K., Italy and Australia are probing Google's tax avoidance as they seek to boost revenue during economic doldrums.
Last week, the European Union's executive body, the European Commission, advised member states to create blacklists of tax havens and adopt anti-abuse rules. Tax evasion and avoidance, which cost the EU 1 trillion euros ($1.3 trillion) a year, are "scandalous" and "an attack on the fundamental principle of fairness," Algirdas Semeta, the EC's commissioner for taxation, said at a press conference in Brussels.


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Programmer's guide
|Programmer's guide
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This page should help developers navigate who want to support Semantic MediaWiki development or develop extensions to SMW can use a number of resources to get started. Of course, it is strongly recommended to be familiar with the usage of SMW as well.
Moreover, there is an SMW architecture guide that provides a basic introduction to the main ideas and concepts in SMW from a developer perspective, which should be useful for reading and writing SMW-related code.
Getting started[edit]
The SMW architecture guide provides a basic introduction to the main ideas and concepts in SMW from a developer perspective.
When switching from a user to a developer of SMW, you should also change the configuration of your testing wiki to ensure that you do not overlook possible errors or problems (especially those created by your own code). Please read about how to debug MediaWiki, in particular the section about PHP error reporting. All MediaWiki extensions are expected to run without issuing any PHP notices!
The Project welcomes all potential contributors and extension developers. Developers can discuss on the SMW developer mailing list, which can also be used to contact the SMW core developers.
Also take a moment to familiarise yourself with the MediaWiki resources for developers.
- Help:Development environment setup
- Help:Using Git
- Coding conventions
- Contributing to Semantic MediaWiki
- Developing extensions and Access to in-process data
Writing testable code[edit]
Code documentation[edit]
SMW and its extensions try to provide thorough code documentation as part of their program files. An API documentation is automatically generated from this data:
This documentation encompasses SMW, Semantic Result Formats, Semantic Forms, Semantic Drilldown and Semantic Maps. It is rebuilt every day from the current contents of SVN. Further extensions can be added to this documentation if they relate to SMW, are hosted in MediaWiki SVN, and use naming conventions that prevent confusion with the other extensions (which use prefixes SMW, SRF, SF, SD and SM, respectively).
To get a quick overview of the code distribution in SMW, you can have a look at
- SMW source code structure (outdated!!!)
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The Elders, a group of past heads of state that advocates for peace announced their visit Thursday.
Former United States President Jimmy Carter will travel to Egypt and Israel next week, where he will advocate for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
A group of past heads of state that advocates for peace called The Elders announced the visit Thursday.
Its news release says Carter will be joined by former Norway prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland and ex-president of Ireland Mary Robinson. The three belong to The Elders.
Carter wrote the 2006 book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid."
He said, "Israel's continued control and colonization of Palestinian land have been the primary obstacles to a comprehensive peace agreement in the Middle East."
This summer, Carter said publicly that U.S. government influence in the Middle East is as weak as it has been since Israel was established as a nation-state in 1948.
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Ghent Functional Programming Group
The "Functional Programming Group Ghent" (GhentFPG) is just starting up. We'll have a next meeting at June 29. The full program can be found online.
Stay informed
- For up-to-date information, join our google group (this is like a mailing list)
- Or follow us on Twitter
- And we can also be reached on IRC using the #ghentfpg channel on freenode.
We are organizing a Hackaton from November 5 to November 7, 2010. More information can be found on this page.
Meeting information
Hackathon Meeting
The fifth meeting will be held during the Haskell Hackathon, but this does not mean that talks/topics discussed during the meeting should be restricted to Haskell, obviously. The precise date and time will be announced later.
October 7 Meeting
Our fourth meeting will be held on October 7, 2010, from 19:00 onward. Same location as the previous meetings: Ghent University Technicum, St.-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, Left Entrance. The program will be announced when it's ready.
June 29 Meeting
Our third meeting will be on June 29, 2010. This is again in the 'Technicum' building of Ghent University, left entrance. The program will be as follows:
- Pierre Carbonnelle - Declarative programming for Business Logic - a new Open-source project
- Tom Schrijvers - Monadic Constraint Programming
- Wouter Kampmann, Lieven Lemiengre - Lightning Talk on Scala
Abstracts of the talks can be found in this google groups message.
May 13 Meeting
Our second meeting was on May 13, 2010 in the 'Technicum' building of Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, starting at 19:00. The program was as follows:
- Atze Dijkstra: The Utrecht Haskell Compiler
- Jean-Christophe Mincke: An Introduction To Monads
- Drinks at a local bar
April 1 Meeting (First Meeting)
Our first meeting was on April 1, 2010. This was in the 'Technicum' building of Ghent University, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, starting at 19:00. The program was as follows:
- Jeroen Janssen - Welcome and short introduction to FP
- Jasper Van der Jeugt - "BlazeHtml: a blazingly fast Html generator in Haskell"
- Tom Schrijvers - "Functional Pearl: The Monad Zipper"
- Romain Slootmaekers - "Functional Programming at Amplidata : a tentative experience report"
- Anonymous - "An introduction to PHunctional Programming"
- Short discussion on the direction of the Ghent Functional Programming Group


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Sony PS4 Undercuts Xbox One on Price, Fully Supports Used Games
Jun 11, 2013 2:14 PM PT
Sony took its best shot at stealing Microsoft's thunder on Monday evening at E3 by announcing that its upcoming PlayStation 4 will arrive this holiday season for US$399.
That's $100 less than the price Microsoft announced earlier in the day for its competing Xbox One, and the reaction was meet by thunderous applause that shook the Los Angeles Sports Arena serving as the backdrop for Sony's Electronic Entertainment Expo press conference.
"Momentum and excitement across the industry has grown exponentially," proclaimed Jack Tretton, president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America.
'We Won't Impose Any New Restriction'
Perhaps even more exciting for some users than the lower price, however, was another gamer-friendly announcement Sony made at the event.
"The PS4 supports used games," said Tretton. "We won't impose any new restriction on gamers."
More thunderous applause greeted that announcement, which came in stark contrast to Microsoft's news that its Xbox One would require an always-on connection and thus limit users' ability to sell the games.
"When a gamer buys a PS4 game, they have the right to trade in that game, sell it to another person, lend it to a friend or keep it forever," Tretton noted. "We won't require you to check in online to play a game."
PS3 Lives On
Sony began its press event by reaffirming its commitment to the PlayStation 3. The company offered a peek at several upcoming titles, including the soon-to-be released Last of Us, which Tretton noted has garnered some of the highest ratings so far this year.
The post-apocalyptic title was just one of several games that showed that while the PS4 is on the way, the PS3 still has some legs. Other titles shown for the device included the action platform game Puppeteer, racing game Gran Turismo 6 and the highly anticipated Beyond Two Souls, which features the voice talents of Hollywood stars Ellen Page and Willem Dafoe.
Next Generation
Sony brought out the big guns for the PlayStation 4, however, offering sneak peeks at upcoming titles including the steampunk alternate history action game The Order 1886, Killzone Shadow Fall, DriveClub and Knack.
"These games are really looking good," said independent game analyst Billy Pidgeon. "Sony has pulled out the stops to show what the PS4 can do."
Sony also offered a look at new titles from third-party developers, including Assassin's Creed IV, NBA 2K 2014, Elder Scrolls Online and just a glimpse of Mad Max -- a retelling of the cult movie series.
In all there are more than 140 titles in development for the upcoming system, Sony said.
'It Is Very Important'
Still, taken together with the PS4's relatively low price, it was primarily Sony's support for used games that stood out at its event.
Indeed, "it is very important," agreed Greg Tarr, executive editor of the consumer electronics trade news site TWICE. "Gamers were very upset by the Microsoft news that they could not resell their used games.
"This could make the PS4 much more appealing to the hard-core gamer," Tarr added.
Beyond Gaming
Sony did also offer a few key points on how the PS4 will fit into the greater Sony umbrella.
Specifically, in addition to streaming services that will include Netflix and Vudu, the new system will feature Music Unlimited and Video Unlimited services, giving users access to more than 150,000 movies and TV shows as well as 20 million songs that can be streamed across Sony' PlayStation platforms.
"Sony is clearly going after the living room as much as Microsoft," said Pidgeon. "While this is as much about games, there is a bigger target for both companies."


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Orthodox Interpretations
The original (or "first") sin was committed by Adam and Eve (see Book of Genesis Chapter 3). Orthodoxy believes that, while everyone bears the consequences of the first sin, the foremost of which is physical death (in this world), only Adam and Eve are guilty of that sin (see Book of Ezekiel Chapter 18).
In contrast to Jewish exegesis of Genesis, Christianity has a Christological reading. We understand the depth of the Fall in the light of redemption. It is in the contrast of the old and new Adams that we understand what the significance of original sin has been.
Mortality is certainly a result of the Fall, but along with this also what is termed "concupiscence" in Augustine's writings -- this is the "evil impulse" of Judaism, and in Orthodoxy, we might say this is our "disordered passion" -- it isn't only that we are born in death, or in a state of distance from God, but also that we are born with disordered passion within us.
Orthodoxy would not describe the human state as one of "total depravity" (see Cyril Lucaris however). One writer has said that "if Latin babies are born blind, and Pelagian babies are born with 20/20 vision, then Greek babies are born in need of spectacles" (ref?).
Roman Catholic Teaching
Roman Catholicism teaches that everyone bears not only the consequence, but also the guilt, of that sin. This difference between the two Churches in their understanding of the original sin was one of the doctrinal reasons that led the Catholic Church to devise their dogma of the 'Immaculate Conception' in the 19th century, a dogma that is completely rejected by the Orthodox Church.(If this is historic RC teaching, it needs to be documented -- quotes from Romanides are not sufficient here. Certainly it is not the teaching today, see the CCC. Modern Orthodox polemics can be traced back to Fr. John Meyendorff (?)... earlier explanations tended to have a scholastic tone, both in Russia and in Greece)
For decades, at least, Orthodox teaching has often been contrasted to traditional Roman Catholic teaching on original sin.
Modern Roman Catholic teaching is best explicated in the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which includes this sentence: ""original sin does not have the character of a personal fault in any of Adam's descendants. It is a deprivation of original holiness and justice, but human nature has not been totally corrupted" (see Talk page for details).
The Roman Catholic Church has defined its teaching of original sin in multiple councils. The first of these was a Council of Orange in 529, which expanded upon the teachings of Augustine of Hippo, whose interpretation of "all dying in Adam"
Sources and further reading
- The Original Sin/Consequences of the Original Fall - by HG Bishop Kallistos Ware
- ORIGINAL SIN ACCORDING TO ST. PAUL - by the late V. Rev. Fr. John S. Romanides
- Original Sin/St. Augustine & Original Sin - Teachings of Orthodoxy - by Fr. John Matusiak, OCA: [1], [2], [3]
- Concerning the Original Sin - the current Coptic Orthodox viewpoint by HE Metropolitan Bishoy of Damietta (Arabic), and an Eastern Orthodox reply (Arabic)
- Original Sin, a short historical note - by Dr George Bebawi
- What are the differences between Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism? - by Father Michael Azkoul
- CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Original Sin
- Original Sin - Wikipedia
- Banishment and Repentance of Adam and Every Christian by Saint Simeon the New Theologian
- Original Sin by Fr Alvin Kimel
- The First-Created Man: Seven Homilies by St. Symeon the New Theologian, trans. Seraphim Rose [ISBN:0938635115]
From Ephrem Hugh Bensusan's Razilaženje
- Original Sin in the Eastern Orthodox Confessions and Catechisms
- Ancestral vs. Original Sin: A False Dichotomy
- Ancestral Sin - Quotations From Orthodox Holy Fathers and Contemporary Authors
- Fr. George Mastrantonis on Ancestral Sin, excerpted from A New-Style Catechism on the Eastern Orthodox Faith for Adults by Fr. George Mastrantonis (St. Louis, MO: The OLOGOS Mission, 1969 [1977]).
- Original Sin: The West-Haters Strike Back


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Giridharan Kesavan updated ZOOKEEPER-756: ----------------------------------------- Status: Open (was: Patch Available) re-submiting to hudson > some cleanup and improvements for zooinspector > ---------------------------------------------- > > Key: ZOOKEEPER-756 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-756 > Project: Zookeeper > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: contrib > Affects Versions: 3.3.0 > Reporter: Thomas Koch > Assignee: Colin Goodheart-Smithe > Fix For: 3.4.0 > > Attachments: zooInspectorChanges.patch > > > Copied from the already closed ZOOKEEPER-678: > * specify the exact URL, where the icons are from. It's best to include the > link also in the NOTICE.txt file. > It seems, that zooinspector finds it's icons only if the icons folder is in > the current path. But when I install zooinspector as part of the Zookeeper > Debian package, I want to be able to call it regardless of the current path. > Could you use getRessources or something so that I can point to the icons > location from the wrapper shell script? > Can I place the zooinspector config files in /etc/zookeeper/zooinspector/ ? > Could I give zooinspector a property to point to the config file location? > There are several places, where viewers is missspelled as "Veiwers". Please > do a case insensitive search for "veiw" to correct these. Even the config > file "defaultNodeVeiwers.cfg" is missspelled like this. This has the > potential to confuse the hell out of people when debugging something! -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.


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European stocks up, but Nikkei retreats from highs
LONDON -- European stock indexes rose on Thursday, despite a retreat in many Asian markets, ahead of a policy meeting by the European Central Bank and amid mostly upbeat corporate news.
The FTSE 100 index of leading British companies rose almost 0.1 percent to 6,296.97 while Germany's DAX increased 0.2 percent to 7,597.03. France's CAC 40 was up 0.3 percent at 3,652.91.
Wall Street was poised to rise. Dow futures rose 0.1 percent to 13,946 while the broader S&P 500 futures gained 0.1 percent to 1,508.80.
The ECB is expected to keep interest rates on hold, but investors will watch President Mario Draghi's subsequent press conference for hints on what it might do in the future to support growth as the rising value of the euro hurts exporters. The 17-country currency was up 0.3 percent at $1.3567.
Analysts say the ECB is very unlikely to take any action to specifically address the euro, whose value it claims is and should be determined by the markets. It could, however, signal concerns over economic growth, suggesting it could yet loosen monetary policy.
Corporate news was mostly positive in Europe, with shares rising in Credit Suisse, Daimler and Statoil after they announced profit increases. The stock of Alcatel-Lucent rose almost 8 percent on news that the CEO will leave, raising hopes for a change in direction for the troubled telecoms company.
Earlier in Asia, however, stocks ended the day mostly lower. Japan's Nikkei 225 led the way with a 0.9 percent drop to close at 11,357.07 as investors cashed in their gains after the benchmark rose to its highest since September 2008 in the previous session.
South Korea's Kospi dipped 0.2 percent to 1,931.77 while Hong Kong's Hang Seng dropped 0.3 percent to 23,177. Benchmarks in India, New Zealand, Singapore and Thailand also fell but Australia's S&P/ASX 200 gained 0.3 percent to 4,935.70.
Asia's other big loser was the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index in mainland China, which ended 0.6 percent lower at 2,418.53. China's smaller Shenzhen Composite Index rose 0.5 percent to 956.73.
Chinese investors were most likely closing out their positions ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday next week.
"The market there has had a good run and people are just being nervous about remaining invested in the market over the Chinese New Year, when the market is closed for a week and they can't do anything," said Andrew Sullivan, director of Asian sales trading at Kim Eng Securities.
He said that holidays in China can be an especially uncertain time for investors because authorities in Beijing often use the occasion to announce new policy measures.
"So I think people are just taking their money off the table," said Sullivan.
Sullivan added that Japan's currency driven market rally may be over as investors bet there's little room for the country's currency to weaken further. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has insisted that the country's central bank act more aggressively to ease monetary policy to help spur economic growth, but Sullivan said investors are worried that "is going to have a knock-on effect to every other currency in the world."
A weaker yen benefits Japan's export manufacturers because it makes their products cheaper in overseas markets. Sony Corp. rose 2.6 percent in Tokyo after it reported a smaller fourth quarter loss as sales inched up thanks mostly to the weaker yen.
The dollar was up 0.3 percent against the Japanese yen, at 93.89 yen.
In energy markets, benchmark crude for March delivery rose 32 cents to $96.94 per barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract fell 2 cents to end at $96.62 on Wednesday.


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A timeline of the top news stories this week
Recommended reads from around the web
SCOTUS PPACA Day 3 (LifeHealthPro.com)
Death of a mandate: Why health care reform in America is over (The Huffington Post)
Jonathan Gruber, health care's Mr. Mandate (The New York Times)
10 lesser known effects of health care reform law (CNN)
Companies that invest in employee education reap multiple benefits (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
Ideas on pensions include turning to states (The New York Times)
Should Hartford's annuity holders be worries? (The Wall Street Journal)
Should your financial advisor be in jail? (The Motley Fool)
A financial dissident movement (The Huffington Post)
How much do you maintain in your 401(k)? (NPR)
Guy in charge of the economy has no idea why it's getting better (The Atlantic)
Most buzz-worthy blogs on BenefitsPro this week
Waiting for the crackdown: DOL retirement plan enforcement to increase, by Andy Stonehouse
Almost 100 new enforcement agents, a new fiduciary standard in May and more than a billion dollars worth of fines and penalties last year? It's time to pay attention, or legally shift your responsibilities.
History's written by the victor, by Denis Storey
It's gotta be a great time to be in D.C. this week. The atmosphere—at least from what I can tell based on the photos moving across the Associated Press wire service — looks almost festive.
The terrible twos, by Kathryn Mayer
A look at the good, bad and the ugly in honor of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's second birthday.
Health reform arguments: Best of social media, by Jenny Ivy
The Supreme Court's three-day debate on health reform is an unprecedented platform for social media coverage and controversy. The dust hasn't settled on Day One. Here's the best from Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.
Is the DOL about to define fiduciary down?, by Chris Carosa
Fiduciary proponents wince as the DOL appears poised to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Most talked-about story on BenefitsPro this week: Most expect court to rule against individual mandate
Most popular story on BenefitsPro this week: Six potential outcomes for health reform
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John Atwood: "I recommend that people read the transcript at the same time as listening to the audio. I do not see from that the PPACA is dead in the water. I am not a supporter, but just saying don't start celebrating too early. The justices needed to ask tough questions of both sides, which they did. But the fact that they questioned–especially that they questioned the Solictor General–didn't strike me as meaning that they already had their minds made up against the mandate being constitutional. It is a tricky question that is and should be decided on best understanding of the what the Framers intended, and what has been the history of applying the commerce clause." (In response to Justices signal deep trouble for health reform)
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