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After a slow start to his Arizona Fall League season, top Nationals prospect Anthony Rendon has gone on a tear at the plate over the last week.
Rendon has 10 hits in his last 21 at-bats for the Salt River Rafters, with three doubles, five RBI and four walks, to raise his AFL season batting average to .317. His seven total doubles are tied for the league lead, while his .411 on-base percentage ranks ninth among all the upper-level prospects participating this fall.
Rendon, the sixth overall pick in the 2011 draft, is one of the least experienced players in the AFL, having appeared in only 43 professional games, only 21 of them above Class A. (He missed most of this season with a fractured ankle.)
The 22-year-old third baseman, who received a major-league contract from the Nationals before the new collective bargaining agreement banned such deals, will be in big-league camp next spring. He's likely to return to Class AA Harrisburg (or perhaps jump to Class AAA Syracuse) to open 2013 and could be ready to join the major-league roster at some point during the season's second half.
Rendon was one of three Nationals prospects selected to play in Saturday's AFL Rising Stars Game. (He flied out to left field in his lone at-bat.)
Center fielder Brian Goodwin was among the stars of the game, going 2-for-5 with a homer and a double. A fellow 2011 draft pick, Goodwin has cooled off since his hot start to the season; he's 0 for his last 16 (though that doesn't include the Rising Stars Game).
Reliever Aaron Barrett, meanwhile, retired one of two batters faced in Saturday's game. The right-hander has a 3.38 ERA in seven overall appearances.
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When scientists from a broad range of disciplines get together to discuss research to feed the world, while protecting the planet in a changing climate, it's not surprising that they would call for increased investment. More surprising is that they would agree on setting clear priorities.
The World Bank co-organized the Global Science Conference on Climate-Smart Agriculture in Wageningen, Netherlands, with Wageningen University and The Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation as part of its efforts to build the store of knowledge that can help small holder farmers around the globe increase productivity – a central theme of the Bank's Agriculture Action Plan – and build resilience to climate change. The conference will also inform the upcoming global climate change negotiations in Durban, South Africa.
Motivated by the statement of UK Chief Scientific Officer Sir John Beddington that the world is unlikely to make the changes required to limit global warming to 2 degrees centigrade, and is heading for a "4 degree centigrade world with disastrous implications for African food security", the scientists heeded policy makers' pleas and delivered some clear evidence-based advice.


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I know I'm relatively new here, but I could really use some advice. I was walking my dog this evening and he got attacked by a German Shepard. My dog was on a leash, but the German Shepard was loose in the front yard. I didn't realize he was loose, but as soon as he saw Wesley, he ran straight for him. I didn't have time to pick him up before the GS got there, but who knows what would have happened to me if I had him in my arms.
Luckily, there is a vet that lives 4 houses down. I had never met her before, but she was kind enough to come and take a look at my dog. It's mostly puncture wounds, and she said he would probably be in a lot of pain. I gave him a baby aspirin per her instructions, and he's currently resting by me. He's stopped bleeding, but I think he'll need stitches/stapes tomorrow when we go to the vet first thing in the morning.
My dog is normally friendly, confident, and very playful. I have no idea what this attack will do to him. I fed him a little bit of his dinner, and he seemed to eat that and a few treats just fine.
My husband and I called the police, and they filed a report. I have no idea what will happen as a result, but we wanted to make sure it was documented. The dog owner seems clueless. She had the gall to tell me that he looked ok and that it wasn't life threatening. At least she gave my dog and I a ride home, but she mented that her two male dogs fight all the time. Wonderful.
What can I do to comfort my dog? He's sleeping in bed cuddled up with me, and we'll go to the vet tomorrow. He was supposed to start training this week, but I have no idea how he'll react to other dogs now. Should I try some private lessons, and then perhaps have the trainer introduce him to a bigger dog in a controlled environment? Also, what should I do about the owner and her dog? Obviously, I am expecting her to pay his vet bills, but if this incident has really traumatized my dog, should I expect her to help pay for the rehabilitation too? I don't necessarily want her dog to be put down, but I also don't think she should be allowed to keep it, since she clearly cannot handle him.
I'm supposed to go back to work on Wednesday, and now I'm thinking I shouldn't. He already got hurt on Wednesday (he knocked over a mirror and it shattered and cut his leg, resulting in the need for 7 stitches). I just don't want to leave him if he's hurt & scared.
I'm sure this post is scattered, but I'm still pretty shaken up, and now terrified to walk alone in my neighborhood. Any advice would be wonderfully appreciated.


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|Warren Kuhn, my dad, offering a seat in his new ride.
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Wordless Wednesday - Wanna ride?
10 comments:
- Wendy said...
I bet he was the envy of the neighborhood. Check the cars next door! Great auto history here.
- June 26, 2013 at 6:49 AM
- Linda said...
What a great photo to have, really nice!
- June 26, 2013 at 7:44 AM
- John D. Tew said...
That looks like a Chevy Corvair! A girlfriend of mine in high school had a maroon Corvair convertible with which she cut a memorable image tooling around with the top down and her hair flying. :-)
This was the car that Ralph Nader made infamous and that brought Nader to widespread notice in the 1960s with his book about Corvair handling problems titled, "Unsafe At Any Speed." It was a distinctive looking car, but the Nader investigation and book doomed it and it was only around from like 1960 or so until 1969. Like the VW Beetle it had a rear-mounted air cooled engine! [I had a red Beetle.]
- June 26, 2013 at 8:29 AM
- Kathryn said...
Great photo Heather! He's stylin'. :)
- June 26, 2013 at 12:32 PM
- Heather Kuhn Roelker said...
I know! Such a slice of history. This block still looks the same, though the trees are a but taller.
- June 26, 2013 at 9:33 PM
- Heather Kuhn Roelker said...
Thank you, Linda!
- June 26, 2013 at 9:34 PM
- Heather Kuhn Roelker said...
Wow, John, I didn't know about it's demise. My dad had two, the one above and a convertible. I'll have to ask him about the Nader connection. I see another Corvair blog post in my future!
- June 26, 2013 at 9:37 PM
- Heather Kuhn Roelker said...
I know! I think this was the first car he bought on his own so he was especially proud.
- June 26, 2013 at 9:38 PM
- Nancy said...
I remember those cars! A first car is always memorable and it's great someone thought to take a photo. (That rarely happened in our family.)
- July 12, 2013 at 8:34 PM
- Heather Kuhn Roelker said...
Thanks, Nancy! My dad's family was always good about taking "important" photos. It's a trait my dad had and passed on to me!
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Born on August 25, 1935, in Pickwick Dam, Tennessee, Charles Wright was educated at Davidson College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He began to read and write poetry while stationed in Italy during his four years of service in the U.S. Army, and published his first collection of poems, The Grave of the Right Hand (Wesleyan University Press), in 1970. His second and third collections, Hard Freight (1973) and Country Music: Selected Early Poems (1983), were both nominated for National Book Awards; the latter received the prize.
Since then, Wright has published numerous collections of poems, most recently Caribou (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014); Bye-and-Bye: Selected Late Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011); Outtakes (Sarabande, 2010); Sestets: Poems (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009); Littlefoot: A Poem (2008); Scar Tissue (2007), which was the international winner for the Griffin Poetry Prize; The Wrong End of the Rainbow (Sarabande, 2005); Buffalo Yoga (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004); Negative Blue (2000); Appalachia (1998); Black Zodiac (1997), which won the Pulitzer Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Chickamauga (1995), which won the 1996 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets; The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990 (1990); and Zone Journals (1988).
Wright has also written two volumes of criticism: Halflife (1988) and Quarter Notes (1995) and has translated the work of Dino Campana in Orphic Songs (Oberlin College Press, 1984) as well as Eugenio Montale's The Storm and Other Poems (1978), which was awarded the PEN Translation Prize.
He taught at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville as the Souder Family Professor of English. His many honors include the 2013 Bollingen Prize, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award of Merit Medal, a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. In 1999 he was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and served until 2002. In 2014, he was appointed United States Poet Laureate.
Selected Bibliography
Caribou (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2014)
Bye-and-Bye: Selected Late Poems (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2012)
Sestets (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2009)
Littlefoot ((Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2007)
Scar Tissue (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2006)
Buffalo Yoga (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2004)
A Short History of the Shadow (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2002)
Negative Blue: Selected Later Poems (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 2000)
Appalachia (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1998)
Black Zodiac (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1997)
Chickamauga (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1995)
The World of Ten Thousand Things: Poems, 1980-1990 (Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, 1990)
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iSALT Theories and ConceptsPage address: http://www.mnsu.edu/its/academic/sotltheories.html
Why should we care about the theories or conceptual frameworks that underlie research on teaching and learning? Think about this: Will we upgrade our houses without understanding their current conditions? Wouldn't we look to the existing models, materials, mechanics, as well as our budget, to form more specific ideas about the house upgrade? Similarly, for the SoTL research, we would like to look at the current theories and studies to develop more specific ideas about the research questions and research design. By reviewing the literature, we will understand the questions to ask, the variables to consider, and the types of data to gather.
There are many theories and conceptual framework in the SoTL field. Bransford, Brown, and Cocking (1999) described the How People Learn (HPL) model, which became a very well-known meta-framework for teaching and learning. This framework identifies four areas that instruction should include to maximize learning. These are Student, Knowledge, Assessment, and Community.
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(Bransford, Brown, & Cocking, 1999)
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My team draws from chemistry, electrical engineering, biological engineering, and materials science, among other disciplines. What we care about is clean manufacturing and engineering efficient devices. To me, everything is a material. Proteins, DNA, conducting materials, parts of solar cells—all are materials, and we put those components together to try to self-assemble more efficient devices. We don't stop and say we will look at as these as strictly materials scientists or biologists. We ask: what is the overall performance we are looking for? And can we apply some of biology's expertise from billions of years of evolution to create an electronic device?
You were named "Research Leader of the Year" by Scientific American in 2006. What was the research that led to this honor?
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Ruth Stone was born on June 8, 1915, in Roanoke, Virginia.
Her books of poetry include What Love Comes To: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize; In the Next Galaxy (Copper Canyon Press, 2002), which received the 2002 National Book Award; and Ordinary Words (Paris Press, 1999), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Stone is the recipient of the 2002 Wallace Stevens Award. The poet Galway Kinnell writes:
Her poems startle us over and over with their shapeliness, their humor, their youthfulness, their wild aptness, their strangeness, their sudden familiarity, the authority of their insights, the moral gulps they prompt, their fierce exactness of language and memory.
Among her other awards are two Guggenheim Fellowships, The Bess Hokin Award from Poetry magazine, the Shelley Memorial Award, and the Vermont Cerf Award for lifetime achievement in the arts. She taught creative writing at several universities, including the State University of New York in Binghamton. A Vermont resident since 1957, she died at her home in Ripton, Vermont, on November 19, 2011. She was ninety-six years old.
Selected Bibliography
What Love Comes To: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2008)
In the Dark (Copper Canyon Press, 2004)
In the Next Galaxy (Copper Canyon Press, 2002)
Ordinary Words (Paris Press, 1999)
Simplicity (Paris Press, 1995)
Second Hand Coat: Poems New and Selected (D. R. Godine, 1987)
American Milk (From Here Press, 1986)
Cheap : New Poems and Ballads (Harcourt Brace, 1975)
Topography, and Other Poems (Harcourt Brace, 1971)
In an Iridescent Time (Harcourt Brace, 1959)


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In celebration of little-known MOTHER EARTH NEWS-type folks from all over, including a homesteader who goes up against the law over home schooling her children and Katherine Hepburn's encouragement to the public to stand up against the legislation against planned parenthood.
In September of 1979, Patty Blankenship was teaching her two children—10-year-old Patrick and 14-year-old Mark—at home . . . when DeKalb County, Georgia authorities arrested her and charged her with failure to comply with the state's compulsory school attendance law.
Patty (who faced a possible $100 fine and five days in jail for each day her sons had heen "kept out of school") was soon released on $1,000 bond and warned that the county would take custody of Mark and Patrick unless she enrolled the boys immediately. That threat forced the Blank: family to go into hiding until their
October 1979 trial . . . which ended in victory when Magistrate Hopkins Kidd threw the case out of court, citing the Fifth Amendment and ruling that Mark and Patrick—the prosecution's only witness—should not be compelled to give testimony that might incriminate them. New legal proceedings were promptly started, however, and Patty and her lawyer had to pool their efforts to obtain a restraining order to keep county officials from taking custody of her sons.
When she was put on trial again in March 1980, Ms. Blankenship testified that she was in complete compliance with Georgia's compulsory school attendance law—which mandates that all children between the ages of 7 and 16 attend either a public or a private school—since the piece of legislation doesn't define what constitutes a private school. After four days the case ended in a mistrial when the jury failed to reach a verdict . . . leaving the county with the option of dropping the charges or calling for a retrial at a later date. But although officials declined to say whether or not they would pursue litigation, there was some speculation that—because the state was beginning appear vindictive rather than conscientious—authorities had opted not to take further legal action.
Still, Patty would like to see the repeal of Georgia's compulsory school attendance law which she considers to be in violation of First Amendment rights. "It's a question of who should make the final decision about child's educational needs . . . the parents or the state," she says. "I contend that I have the full right and responsibility to choose what's best for my boys, and I believe that it's best to teach them at home." (For an update on Patty's activities in home education, write Patty Blankenship, Dept. TMEN, Roswell, Georgia. And, for more details on this approach to learning, see MOTHER EARTH NEWS issue 64's Plowboy Interview with movement leader John Holt, turn to page 48 in this issue for information on ordering back issues.)—JV.
"Normally, I don't get involved in public controversy," begins Katharine Hepburn's open letter to the American people. "But reproductive freedom is a basic, personal issue . . . " Ms. Hepburn, whose mother helped Margaret Sanger found the organization which is today the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, recently joined forces with the nonprofit health service to help promote its Public Impact Program. The purpose of the undertaking is to inform individuals of, and encourage them to stand up against, two proposals which are—at this writing—pending in Congress and which, Katharine maintains, threaten to deprive women of the right to decide whether and when to bear children.
The first piece of legislation, the Human Life Amendment, would impose a ban on all abortions . . . and on some forms of birth control—such as the IUD—which technically abort pregnancies within a few days after fertilization. And the second, the Human Life Federalism Amendment, would give both Congress and the states the power to outlaw all abortions. Passage of either amendment, explains Katharine, could prohibit abortions even in cases of fetal malformation or where pregnancies have occurred as a result of rape or incest. In these and other situations, opines the spokeswoman for Planned Parenthood, abortions should be treated in the same way as any other medical procedure . . . as a matter between patient and physician.
Contributions—which can be sent to Planned Parenthood, Dept. TMEN, New York, New York—will help support both the organization's national media campaign and its affiliates and clinics, which provide counseling and medical services to millions of low—income families each year. (For more information about the agency's work, see the Plowboy Interview in MOTHER EARTH NEWS issue 17.)—JV.
Novata, California dairy farmer RALPH GROSSI is converting the manure furnished by his 300 cows into enough energy to pay his electric bill and provide a profit besides. Grossi pumps the slurry into a pit lined with a plastic bag that expands to hold methane gas as it's produced by the decomposing dung. Water heated to 160 degrees Fahrenheit is piped under the manure to keep it at the constant 95-100 degrees Fahrenheit temperature necessary to trigger fermentation. Bacteria then break down the organic matter . . . a process which yields the fuel that powers Ralph's generator, enabling it to feed approximately 40 kilowatts of electricity per hour directly into the Pacific Gas & Electric Company's system.
FLORENCE GLEASON—a scientist at the University of Minnesota Gray Freshwater Biological Institute—is directing a research team in the study of a "defensive" chemical produced by the blue-green algae Scytonema hofmanni (the substance was discovered several years ago by Gleason's then-colleague Charles Mason). The chemical, which can kill various other types of (green and blue-green) algae, may prove effective in controlling the overabundance of plant life that can rob lake water of the dissolved oxygen vital to aquatic organisms.
A horde of celebrities made headlines last summer as a result of their participation in a series of June antinuclear demonstrations, which were timed to coincide with the U.N.'s five-week-long special session on disarmament:
As the first week came to a close, a "Peace Sunday" concert—which boasted GRAHAM NASH (of Crosby, Stills & Nash) as one of its principal organizers—was in progress at Pasadena, California's Rose Bowl. And actress MERYL STREEP hosted the June 7th New York premiere of Mary Benjamin's film Eight Minutes to Midnight (the 1981 Academy Award nominee documentary about antinuclear activist Dr. Helen Caldicott . . . for details on Dr. Caldicott's accomplishments, see issue 56, page 110 and issue 58, page 114), as a benefit for a group called PAND (Performing Artists for Nuclear Disarmament) and for the city's mid-June nuclear disarmament rally. Actress JILL CLAYBURGH,, director ANDRE GREGORY, and playwright ARTHUR MILLER also addressed guests at the showing.
Among the many speakers at New York City's June rally were CORETTA KING . . . ORSON WELLS. . . and THE REVEREND WILLIAM SLOANE COFFIN, JR. And performers JACKSON BROWNE . . . LINDA RONSTADT . . . BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN . . . PETER, PAUL AND MARY . . . JOAN BAEZ. . . and PETE SEEGER (see the Plowboy Interview on page 16 of this issue) contributed their musical talents to that event, as well.
Meanwhile, DR. BENJAMIN SPOCK took to the platform in the nation's capital to do his part in urging antinuclear activists to spread the word and keep the faith.—J.V.


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-----Original Message-----
From: Mellitz, Richard [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 4:03 PM
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: [SI-LIST] : RE: RESULTS to Proposal: Rs
correlation/collaboration for W-Eleme nts
I think I've got to augment my table. Apparently XFX reports Rs in terms of
radians. If we multiply the Rs from XFX (with lambda = 1) times the
sqrt(2*pi) we get: Rs=1.314E-3 Ohms/(sqrt(Hz).meter) which is roughly the
same as every one else. The farthest one off of the group seems to be the
HSPICE field solver.
So this means if you used XFX to determine Rs for HSPICE,, you need to
multiply the Rs value (in the tlp file) by the sqrt(2*pi).
I still don't have a good answer for ground plane losses yet. I have someone
using yet another modeler to do both lossy and lossless ground plane. I'll
post a new table one I get some new data.
Richard Mellitz
-----Original Message-----
From: Mellitz, Richard
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 1999 1:13 PM
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: RESULTS to Proposal: Rs
correlation/collaboration for W-Elements
Rs Tabulations so far (8/4/99):
Equation: signal + ground
Rs= 1.806e-3 Ohms/(sqrt(Hz).meter)
Equation: signal alone
Rs= 1.455e-3 Ohms/(sqrt(Hz).meter)
R0= 4.454 Ohms/meter
Rs= 1.3555e-3 Ohms/(sqrt(Hz).meter)
RO= 4.519685 Ohms/meter
Rs= 1.245e-3 Ohms/(sqrt(Hz).meter)
R0= 5.346 Ohms/meter
Quad Design's XFX (universe =50 mils, Lambda =1, Integral
Rs= 5.241E-4 Ohms/(sqrt(Hz).meter)
R0= 4.456 Ohms/meter
Quad Design's XFX (universe =50 mils, Lambda =6, Integral
Rs= 1.284E-3 Ohms/(sqrt(Hz).meter)
R0= 4.456 Ohms/meter
HSPICE 98.4 field solver
RS= 7.26284e-04 Ohms/(sqrt(Hz).meter)
RO= 4.37069 Ohms/meter
It looks like SIMPEST, AP SIM, XFX lambda=6, and Rs equation
for the signal line are all close.
Questions to resolve for accurate W element usage.
1) Should Rs include return plane skin effects? Michael Chan used a PEC
in SIMPEST and because it seems close to others, I might assume the other
did not include ground losses.
2) Why do I need to set lambda= 5 to 6 in Quad Designs XFX to get Rs
results that are similar to other modeling programs?
Richard Mellitz,
-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, August 02, 1999 10:51 AM
To: '[email protected]'
Subject: [SI-LIST] : Proposal: Rs
correlation/collaboration for W-Elements
<< File: Mathcad - ms_loss_eq.pdf >>
Apparently the W element model uses a
pseudo-propagation function with the following form.
P(f)= exp{-sqrt[
(G0+f*Gd+j*2*pi*f*C)*(R0+sqrt(f)(1+j)Rs+j*2*pi*f*L) ]*len }
(From HSPICE application note "Boosting
Accuracy of W Element for Transmission Lines with Nonzero Rs or Gd Values")
Let's assume that this is valid for some
conditions. It would be nice to know what the assumptions are.(geometry,
frequency, etc.) We can talk about the validity of the above in another
I would like to make a proposal. I would
like to know what various field solvers report in regards to the above
propagation function. Let's start with a microstrip first (and only look at
skin effect). The geometry follows.
Height over ground: 0.004"
Width of conductor: 0.006"
Thickness of conductor: 0.001"
Conductivity: 0.58E8 mho/meter
Let's all use the same units for Rs. Say:
Now, A colleague of mine has supplied a
formula that is used in microwave
design. I have attached a PDF file with
details. (Too tough for text, TTFT
:-)), I remember foobar)
The answer, using the closed form formula
for Rs is:
1.806E-03 ohms/(sqrt(Hz)*meter)
If this is the magnitude of complex Rs, then
Re(Rs) would be
1.277E-03 ohms/(sqrt(Hz)*meter)
I have received sidebar results from some of
you folks, but I don't want to post other people answers. However I will
compile a table of posted results. There are issues of complex number
involved. Remember I'm looking for the Rs for the above propagation
Step 2 will be to do same for a strip line
geometry where:
Height over ground: 0.005"
Width of conductor: 0.0025"
Thickness of conductor: 0.0005"
Distance between ground planes: 0.0105
It would be appreciated if we could find out
what "tricks" people are using to get Rs from their field solvers.
Richard Mellitz
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Visual DesignApril 22, 2003
It's been lamented that most of the people using CSS for design are the people who shouldn't be designing in the first place. I have a theory about why the real designers aren't jumping in.
Building a site with tables, while tedious, is generally straightforward. You make sure your body margins are set to 0, you check that you have enough spacer GIFs, you chop accordingly, and you're good to go. It's refined to the point where there isn't a lot of thinking involved anymore.
CSS is still quirky. You have to remember to add your padding to your width instead of subtracting it, although in some browsers it works the opposite way. (I have to admit, IE5's way of doing it makes far more sense to me) You have to test your expandibility and make sure that a smaller (or larger) window size doesn't cause elements to overlap or position themselves completely differently. You have to carefully test your horizontal alignment, and you have to use hacks to get any form of vertical alignment happening.
That's just too much logic and problem solving for most left–brained types. When you consider most graphics applications, they are visual, and rightly so. You don't create PostScript documents or PDFs from code, you use Quark or InDesign to preview your work, as you work.
WYSIWYG editors are much–maligned by HTML purists. Given that there are, to my knowledge, no comprehensive and really good CSS–design packages available, the situation doesn't seem to be improving.
So code you must, and coding is something that designers do not do unless forced to. This is why cookie–cutter, GIF–free generic templates are the best CSS advocates have come up with so far.
No tools? No quality design. And I wonder what the likelihood is that a really well–designed, flexible CSS building tool coming out any time soon is. When you consider the logic that goes into breaking up your page structure from endless DIVs, Ps, Hxs and so forth into two–column, properly aligned structures, it's hard to imagine software replacing the good old human ingenuity involved in doing it right.
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i find it interesting that the web standards were developed by web developers and not designers. these standards have strict rules that tie the hands of the designers, preventing them from being as creative as they can get.. BUT it allows the developers to easily code a page.
what's worse is that the new standards doesnt HELP! it solves a handful of the old problems, but in turn creates a handful of new problems. so now, developers still have a headache and designers are restricted in what they can do. is the process really evolving, or de-evolving?
the evolution of HTML should be to make things easier for developers AND designers, not to make things harder. developers who argue that this provides them with a "challenge" to their work, i say go get a hobby.
Had CSS been developed by designers, there would have been a way to vertically align since day one. I have to say, the newer drafts of CSS definitely one-up plain HTML by leaps and bounds. The problem being, of course, that anything beyond CSS-1 is close to useless until browser support gets better.
I'd argue the not helping bit though. I look back at the days where I'd have to change font size site wide by finding every instance of the FONT tag and replacing it, and I can't help but cringe. There's no way in hell that the global nature of a CSS file isn't miles above hard-coded pixel values, font faces, and background colours.
I totally agree with the CSS and centering thing. Dear heavens, how'd they put together this great system but not allow you to easily center a single object? I mean, what, do they think they're *Quark,* or something?! ;D
CSS and browser support is something else. :P I put up a version of my site the other day that looks just fine in Netscape 7 and IE 6 for PC, as well as Netscape 7 for Mac. IE 5.x for Mac, though…another story completely. Damnit. Fortunately, it's only happening on one of the design elements, so I "just" need to go figure out what's different about IE on Mac for that element (as opposed to the other browsers) and recode appropriately. Eesh.
I do love CSS, though. Much better than fifty zillion table tags.
I feel the CSS frustration, I really do, make no mistake, I must admit that it's a tough one to master. I'm not even close and I'm trying very hard. However, as I get more and more adept using CSS I realize the flexibility and forward thinking/planning-ness of it. If you've ever had to work with FrontPage, Image Ready, Go Live, heck, even Dreamweaver generated code on a large scale you know what I'm talking about.
CSS might be frustrating, but it's nothing compared to 100+ pages chock full of improperly nested tables and font tags.
Code your pages with clean, stripped down (X)HTML and use CSS to style it and mark my words when it comes time for a redesign, with any old flavor of CSS that the future holds, and you'll be glad you did it. And that is just the benefit to the designer. The list goes on and on.
I do admit it is tricky (downright incomprehensible at times) to learn, but I think it's well worth it. It's not going anywhere and any professional Web designer worth his salt should be trying to learn it.
As far as the issues with browser support for CSS and cross browser problems, come on, that isn't new, in fact it's better for lots of folks than it used to be as IE has gained market share – although I hate to say it. I think IE 6 for PC accounts for something like 95% of my traffic at work and 80% at home.
I'm on a Mac so you can see how this creates the same old cross browser/platform issue that has been around forever. Does anyone else remember when it was 50/50 and you HAD to make sure your design worked in IE and NS, Mac and PC? As much as I hate to admit it – you probably could get away with picking IE for PC and still have a successful site now adays. It might look a bit funky in Mozilla based browsers and on a Mac, but at least it would function.
I also have to say it's things like CSS that separate a Web designer from a graphic designer. Gone are the days, and good riddance, that you could just cut some graphics, throw it together in Dreamweaver, or worse yet concoct some bloated Flash movie, and call yourself a Web designer. It's a separate but related discipline and it's things like CSS and understanding user interface, etc. that some one wanting to make the move, from print to web for instance, needs to learn.
Shaun - I find it patently ridiculous that I can't add padding to a width: 100% element without getting a scrollbar in the "correct" way. This has tripped me up more than once.
It occurs to me that a casual observer might think I'm bashing CSS. Not true. My original post is more aimed at solving why CSS layouts have so far been so very bland and uninspiring. I believe in the technology, and use it as well as I can. To be honest, it's been bothering me for a while that I built this site in tables and not CSS, but I still can't figure out how I can add that little logotype to the bottom right without an 'align="bottom"' placed in a TD.
I just think as far as support and general usage of CSS goes, we have a long way to go. Structurists/developers see CSS as the second coming of Christ, graphic designers use it for the odd block of typography but generally stay completely away from it. Both viewpoints are too extreme, so there has to be a good middle ground.
nothing philosophical, just was inspired enough to say that i'm glad i'm not the only one who thinks IE5's way of handling the math of padding et al. makes more sense.
I think the big problem with a lot of these standards is that there are no graphics designers on the W3C (at least none amongst those writing the standards). As a consequence, we have these really absurd rules like the W3C box model where 100% width refers only to the content box, and does not include padding or margins. Not to mention the inability to add a footer to the bottom of an absolutely positioned box. Sigh.
I like CSS to a great extent, now that I can figure out most of the rules, and the savings in time, page size and the abilitiy to develop truly flexible and dynamic layouts is neat. But sometimes I get the feeling that the W3C releases many of the standards to spite designers, rather than help them (the poorly-named XHTML 2.0 standard comes to mind).
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I quote Edward Tufte: "… why should we have to keep working around the theories and guesses of programmers about the character of information and analytical design? Formats affect and even corrupt thought …"
I also feel that the IE5 box model is more intuitive; defining the width of an element should define the width of the entire elelement, not just parts. To me, the main turn-off is the float system. CSS is great at style (as stated, basic style changes site wide are easy) - but it is complicated to make complicated structure.
Any table based design can be done via css; the question is which is easier or more intuitive. For a forward compatible design, the data is ID'd/Class'd with no mark up so that all the visualizations would be done via CSS. This works, but I think there is a fundamental flaw: we are using CSS for page structure, not just style. The reality is that the order of elements is not linear and very complicated. The box model defines style well, but it feels like float/position are afterthoughts. The appearance of an element (style) and its placement (structure) are very different things. I think that we should define the page structure (loosely position elements), then define the style of the elements.
We shouldn't have elements tell where they will go; we should be telling THEM where to go. Table designs told elements where they would go by nesting. CSS designs use the same strategy of nesting, but then have the elements tell where they will go, which is counter intuitive - especially as the style code is not there, just the class/id. With CSS, we are structuring inside-out instead of top-down, and that is a pain in the ass.
I completely agree with IE's box model being far better than W3C's. For those of you not following the latest CSS developments, I thought I'd add a little technical note.
For those who wish to switch all browsers to the IE box model (yes, that's possible!), simply add
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
box-sizing: border-box;
to the element. See my test page for some more information.
Tables or css positioning… it depends on your priorities.
If you want to please the crowd of politically correct purists, you should definitely go for css.
If you want to please your customer by getting the project working in time for all required browsers (and more then 1 version is required, that is), go for a pragmatic mix of tables and css, and please forget 'strict'. Also forget about using css for specifying width+padding, or aligning. Css is very nice for span/div/a classes, use them as feature-enhanced font tags. Also settings like border:0 for all images, or (display:inline for all forms etc) are great. For the rest: be pragmatic!
Now that browser development is slowing down, I wonder if we'll ever get to where we want to be as designers. What I think everyone forgets, however, is that Web pages are about information. As much as I wish XHTML and CSS were perfect, I also realize that current technologies make a lot of great things possible. Informational Web sites can be made accessible, well-linked, and somewhat visually appealing if not the image of perfection as conceptualized by the designer's vision.
When you need that creative outlet, I say go to Flash. It may not be as accessible, and it may not provide all the cool benefits to information that markup affords us, but you can still get your design on and out there where people can see it.
haze said: "it solves a handful of the old problems, but in turn creates a handful of new problems. so now, developers still have a headache and designers are restricted in what they can do."
Cross-browser compatibility is actually *less* of an issue in CSS. Your site is guaranteed to *function* in older browsers (including Lynx) – although it won't look the same. And that's the point: using CSS requires designers to give up the notion that everyone will see the site as *you* intended. They won't. Even with a table-based layout.
dave said: " The problem being, of course, that anything beyond CSS-1 is close to useless until browser support gets better."
Not really. IE 5 and 6, Opera 6 and 7, Netscape 6+, and Mozilla have pretty good support for the basics of CSS 2 (positioning). It's some of the more advanced stuff (like complex backgrounds in IE5 for Mac) that causes problems. But again: the site will still function.
leo said: "This works, but I think there is a fundamental flaw: we are using CSS for page structure, not just style. The reality is that the order of elements is not linear and very complicated."
That's not a flaw. All documents have structure. Some items on a page have priority over others. There are paragraphs, lists, urls and images. They may not be linear, but there *is* an order inherent to the document. CSS and XHTML force you to think about the structure.
Henk said: If you want to please your customer by getting the project working in time for all required browsers (and more then 1 version is required, that is), go for a pragmatic mix of tables and css, and please forget 'strict'. Also forget about using css for specifying width+padding, or aligning. Css is very nice for span/div/a classes, use them as feature-enhanced font tags. Also settings like border:0 for all images, or (display:inline for all forms etc) are great. For the rest: be pragmatic!
Most users of most web sites have browsers that support basic CSS2. Less than 5% of visitors to most web sites will not be able to see the site's design. But *unlike* with a table-based layout, they will all be able to *use * the site. In many ways, CSS widens the number of people who can use any given site – certainly a good thing for clients. And once you get up to speed on CSS, it's no less time-consuming than coding a table-based layout. In my experience, it's faster.
Just my $.02.
I have sort of a "jack of all trades, master of none" view of this discussion, and more importantly a predominantly *user's* point of view as well.
Having some experience in both print-based graphic design and software development I can follow the argument on both sides. Yes, CSS is complex from a more artistic point of view. It can be confusing and constricting. But from the developer's point of view, the XHTML/CSS combo is clearly the future in terms of information processing.
The tipping point for me personally though, is that from a usability point of view CSS is completely awesome. You say CSS based design is bland? I say GREAT! I will choose simple and straightforward designs anyday over a complex, busy layout that distracts from the content itself.
Vinnie: "This is the most likely reason why the W3C made its box model work the way it does."
Perhaps, but even the W3C has recognized that there is value in the IE box model by creating a CSS3 box-sizing property: 'border-box' which emulates the broken IE box model. There's nothing wrong with eventually having a choice.
*yawn*… the eternal struggle between developers and users (in this case, Designers) will always be apparent, regardless of the technology.
IMHO, the struggle is required in order to establish a future balance between the two sides. What is easily forgotten (on both sides) is that developers can not think like designers & vice versa. What may be simple to accomplish from a design standpoint, may be complex to accomplish from a development standpoint (and vice versa). Designers should recognize the accomplishment of "getting a computer - an inanimate number crunching box - to understand what a "webpage" should do, look like, etc." since that is essentially what they are accomplishing by using this technology (CSS, HTML, or whatever). Developers should recognize that they are solely the lackeys of the users and obey simple commands (ex. better vertical alignment plz!).
I see a lot of comments about the IE5 box model somehow being the "superior" model. If so, then how can you explain away the image problem? Where would you add padding to an image? You would add it to the width of the image, because if you subtracted it your image would either be distorted or the padding would be inside the image's dimensions. This is the most likely reason why the W3C made its box model work the way it does. Yes I can see how the IE5 box model would be easier, but the right solution isn't always the easy one in life or Web development.
The real solution would be to add expressions to CSS. I'd love to be able to do something like:
.content-section {
width: 50%-2em+5px;
… to specify that the content section takes up 50% of the page, minus enough room for this, that and the other. The only time the box model bites me (and makes me wishes it really was an all-Microsoft world) is when I'm using percentages.
MikeyC: "Perhaps, but even the W3C has recognized that there is value in the IE box model by creating a CSS3 box-sizing property: �border-box� which emulates the broken IE box model. There�s nothing wrong with eventually having a choice."
I agree, there is nothing wrong with choice. I'm just explaining a good possibility why the W3C went the way that others would not have thought of. I think there is merit to both box models, but the W3C box model isn't so difficult once you figure out how to work with it.
The W3C box model makes it impossible to work with percentages for width and em's for border for example. I think the IE box model is better, though you have a good point about graphics.
When I started to do web design, I always wondered for ONE thing: Why The Hell HTML Is Not PDF?
After then have been Dreamweaver with GoLive, tables and font tags and all of this crap, and finally I come to this:
And then my concern became not that all of my stuff is pixel-correct, but that it is readable content - and this is far more important. So I just try to live with the CSS quirks, it is certainly better because I achieve my goals better. As long as I don't hunt pixels ayway :)
Besides I am at the same time a designer and a developer.
Dave said: "My original post is more aimed at solving why CSS layouts have so far been so very bland and uninspiring."
and Julik said:"I am at the same time a designer and a developer."
For me, the combination of these two comments (obviously out of context) gets to the heart of Dave's original post. In the real world, designers and developers are often one. However, the processes of design and development must remain separate in order to avoid being tied down creatively by our understanding of the technology. Design solution, revise solution where necessary to allow for limitations within development process.
We need to design the solution which is needed, not the solution which is easy to implement. We all know this makes the job harder, but frankly the product is worth it.
When CSS first came out, my initial thoughts were, "Wow…this could really change the whole premise of web design!" The idea of truly separating design and data was inspiring. Then reality set in…
After using CSS for almost 7 years now, I have still yet to design a complete CSS-based web site that sits online. In other words, I have *lots* of experiments and trials that I have designed over the years but nothing that I ever felt safe enough with to post online.
The lack of browser support, though daunting, has only made me try harder to get things to work properly. I review what others have done and try a few things that I know and try some new things as well. That is what this is about, right? Keep trying until the rest of the world catches up?
I have to agree with one person's comments that the client dictates the amount of flexibility that we have as designers/developers (I am both as well!) when using CSS. It is simply too kludgy to fiddle with sometimes. But, oh how I long for pure CSS layouts that work… The feeling of glee that one gets from structuring content with CSS and watching it degrade nicely in NS4… The yearning for clean, valid code in our pages that do not rely on nested tables… I want CSS design and so does everyone else who does this for a living (at least the one's who are paying attention in class!).
It's hard to design a catch-all web site using just CSS, period. That doesn't mean that I don't try. Every site that I have developed over the last 5 years has gotten a CSS twin in some way that never saw the light of day for one reason or another and I look forward to the day when ALL of my web design work is done using CSS. Until then, use good discretion: What is the target audience? IE5+/NS6 for PC? Push the envelope… If it is a US Government site, be prepared to cater to NS4 AND make it look good to boot. Enough ranting… my opinion is here to be changed, so please feel free to post a reply. I need new opinions! ;-)
When I discovered css, I literally got up and ran around my house both ecstatic and in shock.. FINALLY I could design the site in a graphical way.
I've always used MS FrontPage.. but with css, I delete the program-generated meta tags denoting FrontPage, and write all the css code myself, with no problem.
I believe the biggest shortfall with web design is the same with other media design you see out there.. NO IMAGINATION, or an attitude of "let's just pump it out".
Css is too good to ignore, and since the web was designed by a bunch of wire heads, the design side of the thing will emerge. It may be slow, but we shall overcome.
I just finished rolling out my XHTML/CSS version of vaneerden.com which I worked on in spare time over a year, to get worked out in enough browsers to feel good. Now Opera 7.5 test breaks it, old konqueror on Linux does funny things, …
I don't miss my nested tables, but I do miss how things fit together with less testing.


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And studies predict that as diets change and the world's population grows to 9 billion people by 2050, we will need to increase food production by at least 60 percent to meet the global demand for food, all in the face of increasing pressures on natural resources.
Forty-three years ago, the first Earth Day celebration began a movement to create awareness about the need to protect the world's natural resources so they can be enjoyed by generations to come. Since then, governments and civil society have worked together to address environmental challenges and improve our understanding of how we can help protect the world's natural resources.
Today's celebration of Earth Day is an opportunity to remind ourselves and our partners of the connection between our environment, agriculture, and food and nutrition security and how we can work together to end world hunger and undernutrition. Although we still face environmental challenges, our ability to apply scientific innovation and technology in agriculture and work in partnership across different sectors can help us protect our planet and end hunger and undernutrition at the same time.
Feed the Future, the U.S. Government's global hunger and food security initiative, is working with a variety of partners to meet the dual challenges of growing more while conserving natural resources.
Through our collaboration with Feed the Future strategic partners, like Brazil, India, and South Africa, we leverage the expertise of emerging economic leaders and scale up joint efforts to achieve food and nutrition security goals. Our partnership with Brazil is helping increase the income of small holder farmers in rural areas of Honduras and providing renewable energy to 10,000 families in remote areas of the country.
Feed the Future is also part of the U.S. contribution to the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition, an effort by the G-8, partner governments, and the private sector to reduce poverty and undernutrition in sub-Saharan Africa by expanding agricultural production and incomes to help lift 50 million people out of poverty by 2022.
Together, these investments contribute to improved health, food security and nutrition and increase the stability of developing countries, while simultaneously supporting responsible management of natural resources.
At a conference in Dublin, Ireland, last week on the intersection of food and nutrition security and climate change, I highlighted that we are already seeing encouraging results and are committed to continuing to work with our partners to end hunger and undernutrition.
Together, we can help take care of our planet and make our generation's legacy one of shared progress and prosperity.
Editor's Note: An expanded version of this entry appears on the Feed the Future Blog.Related Content: Statement by Secretary of State John Kerry on Earth Day
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We need to double food production, not increase it 60%, and in order to do that, we need large scale mechanization, electrification, and water management, like Franklin Roosevelt's Tennessee Valley Authority, but world-wide. The idea that we can feed humanity by "providing renewable energy to families in remote locations" is a macabre joke. Every day that we delay getting serious about this is a crime against humanity.
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While we encounter a wide variety of threats on a regular basis, sometimes we come across those that are truly unusual. This is one of them: it appears to be a PHP backdoor delivered via spammed emails.
At first glance, this threat appears to be a fairly typical malicious spam email: it pretends to be a notification from Visa that the user's card has been suspended.
Figure 1. Fake email notification
The body of the email itself appears to be blank. Neither a malicious attachment nor a link to a website can be found here. So what is the threat here?
Figure 2. Embedded PHP code
The body of the email is actually not blank; instead it contains PHP code. This particular code is actually a well-known website backdoor known as c99madshell, which we detect as PHP_C99SHEL.SMC. C99madshell has been around since at least 2008. It allows an attacker who has compromised a website via FTP to control the said website using an easy-to-use control panel accessible with any browser, as can be seen below running on a test machine:
Figure 3. c99madshell control panel
It should be clear right away that something is very off-base here. The control panel is meant to be accessed by the attacker, not the victim. It would make no sense for the victim to see a backdoor to their own server's control panel!
That assumes, of course, that the backdoor would even run. It is theoretically possible, but in practice it is very difficult. Anyone reading the email on a non-webmail client – such a desktop email client, or a mobile app – would merely see the blank page. Even then, the webmail client would have to be configured to allow arbitrary embedded PHP code to run in the first place, which is extraordinarily dangerous. Finally, the attacker would then be unable to view the page unless he got access to the email inboxes somehow.
There are several possibilities as to how this happened. One possible attack scenario is that the attacker was going after a webmail provider or email list archive; however in such a case the attacker would not need to send spam messages with this content. In addition, this would require a server set up so insecurely, it would be insane.
Other possibilities involve mistakes on the part of the attacker: he could have made a mistake in inserting the contents of the email, or it could be an attacker with faulty knowledge of PHP. However, without getting into the mind of the attacker, we cannot be sure.
Both the email and file components of this attack are detected and blocked by the appropriate Trend Micro solutions.


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MONTREAL — A local Muslim women's group is reaching out to the Jewish community for greater dialogue through the screening of a documentary film that offers the perspective of those people of faith struggling against the hijacking of their religions by extremists.
The Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW) has teamed up with the Montreal Dialogue Group (MDG) and the Canadian Friends of Rabbis for Human Rights to bring Out of Cordoba: Averroes and Maimonides in Their Time and Ours and its New York-based director Jacob Bender to Montreal.
The award-winning film, released in 2010, will be shown at the Segal Centre for Performing Arts twice on May 12, at 4 and 7:30 p.m.
CCMW board member Shaheen Ashraf said she had been trying for a couple of years to find a partner in the Jewish community to help support this effort and to hold a public program about the issues the film raises.
"I think the film is a good medium to bring about better understanding and peace between the two communities," said Ashraf, a native of Pakistan.
Founded 30 years ago in Winnipeg, the CCMW describes itself as a highly diverse organization in favour of women's equality and dedicated "to empowering Muslim women to remain true to their Islamic heritage within the rights and responsibilities of the Canadian context."
Ashraf said the CCMW has spoken out against so-called honour killings and, in Quebec, has taken the position that a women's head or face coverings should be a matter of personal choice, although its membership includes both those who do and do not wear such attire.
Ashraf has been involved with the MDG, a group that brings together Jews and Arabs, since its founding 10 years ago. While the MDG's intercultural activities are generally open to the public, the film screenings will be its first outreach program on the Jewish Community Campus, said MDG member Deena Roskies.
Roskies emphasized that the initiative came from the CCMW, and she is grateful that the Segal has agreed to be the venue. "The Segal, although connected to the Jewish community, is going to great lengths to make everyone feel welcome," Roskies added.
"I think this will be a wonderful chance to broaden our dialogue from the personal or political. Religion can be sensitive, but I learned from living for a while in Singapore, where I had many Muslim friends and colleagues, that we have much in common and we can talk when there is good will."
Out of Cordoba, she believes, will encourage openness among Montrealers today by recalling the common heritage of Jews and Muslims in the medieval Spanish city.
Bender, a Jewish filmmaker with more than 30 years experience, has been dedicated to interfaith dialogue throughout his life.
"Out of Cordoba is not only about Averroes and Maimonides, the two 'wise men of Cordoba,' one Muslim, one Jewish, but also the story of the remarkable Christians, Muslims and Jews I have met during the making of this film over nine years," Bender said.
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Bender began his research after the 9/11 attacks, in an attempt to restore his belief in the possibility of interfaith reconciliation and co-existence. He started in Spain, exploring its history of harmony among the monotheistic religions.
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Manpower the Temporary
Race: Uncroaked, (Men)
Faction: Gobwin Knob
Class: Warlord
Special: Leadership
Proposed Canon
"I can taste key lime pie."
Strengths: Goatee, Good Taste, Cool Under Fire
Weaknesses: Bullseye Armor, Inability to Dodge, Keen Eye for Enemy Fire
First Appearance: TBFGK 2
Manpower the Temporary was Chief Warlord in the service of Stanley the Tool. After falling in battle, he became one of Stanley's uncroaked warlords.Erf-b1-p027
His demise was an indirect result of the Titans leaving behind an extra gem (a rhinestone fallen from the clothes of one Titan) in the Minty Mountains, leading to the Marbits buying another squad of axemen which breached the flank of Stanley's spidews leaving Manpower exposed.Erf-b1-p001
During Wanda's conversation with Stanley following her uncroaking of Manpower, she suggests that Stanley had picked him not for his command abilities, but because he was "another pretty boy". Stanley initially requests that Manpower's replacement should be "the most dashing and handsome [living Man] left" before agreeing to use Wanda's Summoning Spell.Erf-b1-p005
Lord Manpower the Temporary was leading Stanley's troops at the Battle of Warchalking. When the right flank of his battle line was breached, enemy archers were able to approach and fatally shoot him through the eye.
However, Wanda Firebaugh was sent by Stanley to uncroak Manpower. He thus remained in Stanley's service as one of his uncroaked warlords.
Later, he, along with Sir Leeroy Jenkins, and Phat-Singh, are sent with a large force of Dwagons to raid the coalition column; after destroying half of the coalition's siege units, Manpower was permanently destroyed by Prince Ansom using the Arkenpliers.
Stanley's Choice of Warlords
Since units (presumably) do not have a leadership bonus until after they are promoted to warlord, it is likely that picking "dashing and handsome" units to promote is Stanley's attempt to use natural Signamancy to determine which units will give the best leadership bonus once promoted to warlord, attempting to maximize the statistical bonuses provided by warlords to the exclusion of their ability as strategists.
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Manpower Inc. is an international employment agency, specializing in temporary work. In a case of life following art, Manpower the Temporary is also the name for a Zombie with a shot of KeKe (a key lime liqueur). Acceptable toasts include "I can taste key lime pie."
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