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Open Source Bridge 2015 Birds of a Feather proposals
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* 12 Steps to Cloud Security
Cloud Architects, Managers and Engineers looking for a simpler introduction into the world of cloud security will benefit greatly from this talk. Using the 12-steps as a guide, attendees will be able to understand various security domains outlined and be able to implement a cloud security framework of their own using open source solutions alone.
|Birds of a Feather session
|2015-05-13 08:07:48 +0000
|Vishnu Vettrivel
* Adventuring Beyond the Local Development Environment
Web developers have access to better and better tools, but many of us use the same local dev environments we used 5 years ago. Let's discuss how we can make a better future for developing websites on our computers by adventuring beyond the concept of a "local development environment".
|Birds of a Feather session
|2015-06-19 02:25:01 +0000
|Alec Reynolds
* Chat & Open Source: Past, Present, & Future
UPDATE: By request, this will be moved to Friday's unconference sessions. Was Wednesday B201 7-8:30pm: Proprietary platforms like Slack and newer open source alternatives like Telegram & others are giving IRC serious competition. Let's discuss the current state & what the future holds.
|Birds of a Feather session
|2015-06-15 18:22:51 +0000
|Michael Downey
* Diversity in Open Source
Let's share ideas, challenges, and solutions for the goal of diversity in the Open Source community.
|Birds of a Feather session
|2015-03-06 21:21:54 +0000
|Alberto Roca
* Nothing Is Totally Incomprehensible If We Try Together
Let's talk about ways to demystify programming topics that people think are mysterious, incomprehensible, and scarily hard.
|Birds of a Feather session
|2015-03-13 20:04:51 +0000
|Sumana Harihareswara


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|Rex Ryan (right) and the Jets beat Rob Ryan's Cowboys when the twin brothers met in Week 1 last season.
Before those pesky Harbaughs stole their thunder, Rex and Rob Ryan were the most recognizable set of coaching brothers in the National Football League.
Rex is entering his fourth season as head coach of the New York Jets, while this is Rob's second year coordinating the Dallas Cowboys' defense. The Jets and Cowboys both failed to earn a playoff berth last season and Buddy Ryan's sons will be facing an incredible amount of pressure to help their respective teams avoid that same fate in 2012.
|Rex Ryan vs. Rob Ryan
|Rex Ryan (overall defense ranking)
|Rob Ryan (overall defense ranking)
|Jets HC (5th)
|Cowboys DC (14th)
|Jets HC (3rd)
|Browns DC (22nd)
|Jets HC (1st)
|Browns DC (31st)
|Ravens DC (2nd)
|Raiders DC (27th)
|Ravens DC (6th)
|Raiders DC (22nd)
|Ravens DC (1st)
|Raiders DC (3rd)
|Ravens DC (5th)
|Raiders DC (27th)
|(not coordinator)
|Raiders DC (30th)
|*Average ranking of Rex Ryan defense is 3.29; average ranking of Rob Ryan defense is 22.0
One interesting subplot: Rob Ryan has never led a defense that has bested his twin's unit over the past eights seasons, as the table on the right shows.
I reached out to 15 different NFL executives or scouts to get their opinion on which brother would be orchestrating the better defense in 2012. Here is what each of them had to say:
1. AFC Executive: "[Morris] Claiborne will be a big help. Sean Lee is a stud and everyone knows how good [DeMarcus] Ware is. The Jets are getting old and they don't have the young talent to replace those guys." Pick: Cowboys
2. NFC Executive: "I love (the Cowboys') offseason additions in both free agency and the draft." Pick: Cowboys
3. NFC Executive: "Rex is a better coach than his brother. The Jets play in a division without an explosive offense. Even New England isn't explosive. They use a short, intermediate-style passing game. The Jets' ball-control offense will shorten games and limit the amount of points and yards their defense allows." Pick: Jets
4. AFC Scout: "(The Cowboys) have always had the front seven and now they've finally shored up their holes in the secondary." Pick: Cowboys
5. NFC Scout: "Aside from [Darrelle] Revis, the Cowboys' secondary is much better and deeper than the Jets'. Also, the Cowboys have that one special rusher (Ware) that the Jets lack." Pick: Cowboys
6. NFC Executive: "The Cowboys have a better combination of coverage and edge pass rushers. Claiborne will be a huge addition. The Jets' pass rush doesn't scare me and that kid they picked from North Carolina (Quinton Coples) isn't the answer." Pick: Cowboys
7. NFC Executive: "I love DeMarcus Ware, and this rookie class will help them immediately." Pick: Cowboys
8. NFC Scout: "The Cowboys are much improved at cornerback, and I don't see how the Jets are going to generate a consistent pass rush. The Cowboys have more difference makers in their front seven." Pick: Cowboys
9. AFC Scout: "The front seven and secondary of each team is pretty equal, but the Cowboys are much better at linebacker." Pick: Cowboys
10. NFC Scout: "Dallas should be much better in the second year of Rob Ryan's scheme. They can get to the quarterback much better than the Jets." Pick: Cowboys
11. AFC Executive: "I'll take Rex and (defensive coordinator) Mike Pettine over Rob Ryan, even though DeMarcus Ware is the best player on either defense." Pick: Jets
12. NFC Scout: "Dallas has more defensive players that scare you as an opponent. Their linebackers are much better." Pick: Cowboys
13. NFC Scout: "The Cowboys have a better pass rush and they upgraded their secondary." Pick: Cowboys
14. AFC Scout: "The Jets have a better coaching staff and they are more physical than the Cowboys." Pick: Jets
15. AFC Scout: "The Cowboys have better personnel. Really not much of a debate in terms of overall talent." Pick: Cowboys
Final results
⢠Rob Ryan's Dallas defense: 12 votes.
⢠Rex Ryan's New York defense: 3 votes.
I didn't expect such a landslide result in favor of Rob Ryan and the Cowboys' defense. The offseason additions of cornerbacks Brandon Carr and Claiborne have convinced the overwhelming majority of these executives and scouts that the Cowboys' defense will be greatly improved in 2012. The Jets supporters are basing their decision more on coaching and divisional opponents than the actual personnel on the field.
In my opinion, I believe these are both top-10 defenses in 2012. The Cowboys have the better defensive line and linebacker unit, but I give the Jets' cornerback duo the edge over the Cowboys' new additions. The safety position is a major concern for both teams. I would give the slight overall edge to the Cowboys because of their ability to get after the quarterback. As I wrote the other day, rushing the passer has become the key element in championship defense.
This might be the season Rob finally earns bragging rights over his brother.
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Guests: Rep. Ike Skelton, Rep. Duncan Hunter, Dee Dee Myers, Andy Card, Bill Carter, Howard Fineman, Pat Buchanan
CHRIS MATTHEWS, HOST: So why do you want to be president?
Let's play HARDBALL.
Good evening. I'm Chris Matthews in Washington. Leading off tonight:
What's the mission? When we invaded Afghanistan in 2001, the mission was clear—get the people who organized the attack of 9/11 and bring down the government that let them do it. Well, we didn't get Osama bin Laden and we let the leader of the Taliban, Mullah Omar, head into Pakistan. Now, eight years later, a milestone we pass tomorrow, what is our mission, to keep the Taliban from regaining power, to keep al Qaeda from relocating back into Afghanistan?
The military's calling for reinforcements, lots of them, 40,000 more of our troops. Is this something we should be doing, manning outposts in Afghanistan, setting our American troops out there in distant areas to be targets for the rebels who want to overthrow their own government? Democratic congressman Ike Skelton, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, met with President Obama today to talk about it, and he's going to be here on HARDBALL.
Also, what's missing from the Obama presidency? Big question. How can the president turn his beautiful words into accomplishments? Is it clear—is it a clear, well-known purpose that he wants to do in the White House? Is it the ability to discern what can actually get done? These are big questions. Is it having the right people to do it? Does he have the right people? Does he have the ability to discern what can get done? Does he have a clear mission? We're going to get the breakdown on some of those questions about the White House because they're looming right now.
Also, catching up with David Letterman, who found a new target for his opening monologue last night, himself.
DAVID LETTERMAN, HOST, "LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN": Don't kid yourself, things are still pretty bad. There's a possibility that I'll be the first talk show host impeached, so...
MATTHEWS: So will the late-night comic be able to continue what he's always done, lampoon public figures caught in embarrassing situations? Well, I think so, anyway. We've got two top media people here to talk about it, to talk about Letterman's survival chances tonight.
And might the Democrats be seeing a ray of sunshine in the Garden State? The latest polling in New Jersey has the governor's race going the Democrats' way. Some new numbers and perhaps a new outlook in the "Politics Fix."
And what kind of mad men—advertisers, that is—would hire Levi Johnston—yes, that Levi Johnston—to be their product's new poster boy? Check out the HARDBALL "Sideshow" tonight and we'll show you the ad. I can't believe it, actually.
Let's start with Afghanistan and the president's meeting with members of Congress today. Democratic congressman Ike Skelton of Missouri was one of those in attendance at the White House. He's the chairman of the Armed Services Committee. And Republican congressman Duncan Hunter of California is a member of the Armed Services Committee, as well. He served two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. Gentleman, thank you for joining us. And thank you, Mr. Hunter, for your service, sir. Thank you. I always do that because we ought to all do that all the time.
Mr. Skelton, old pal, this is the question for you. Why are we in Afghanistan, and when can we leave?
REP. IKE SKELTON (D-MO), ARMED SERVICES CMTE. CHAIRMAN: Well, we went into Afghanistan, as you know, as a result of the 9/11 attacks. Nationally, that was the fifth attack on Americans, in 9/11. They started in 1993. We went in there, we dismantled the Taliban government that supported the al Qaeda terrorists, and—however, we didn't destroy them, as we had hoped to.
And through the years, you will note that we were diverted into Iraq, which took our eye off the ball. If we had put all of our resources into Afghanistan and done our very best against al Qaeda and against the Taliban government, which we did topple, we'd be far better off today.
Now, you'll recall that the president gave an excellent speech in March, outlining the strategy that we should have in Afghanistan. So for all intents and purposes, we didn't have a real strategy until then. And when he gave that speech, in my opinion, the real war started. He appointed General McChrystal, who has a strong background of special forces, special operations, and he asked him to give an assessment in the next 60 days, which he did. And that assessment, of course, is one that's dire, and frankly, very troublesome.
And the president's now faced with a situation where I'm sure that General McChrystal will make, if he hasn't already made, recommendations for increased resources to fulfill the mission that should have been finished back in 2002.
MATTHEWS: Congressman Hunter, we had a moral reason, I think most people would agree, to go into Afghanistan in '01. We had been attacked heavily. The bad guys were there, the ones who organized the attacks, cost us the lives of 3,000 innocent people. We went in there to get the people who did it, who organized it, and to punish those—let's be honest about it—who let them do it.
What's our moral reason? Give me a moral reason for why we're thinking of sending almost 21,000 more troops over there and General McChrystal, the field commander, is asking for another 40,000, we're told in the latest report. What's our moral reason for doubling down now in Afghanistan?
REP. DUNCAN HUNTER (R-CA), ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE: I don't think it's a moral reason. What I think we have to do is win. And if General McChrystal, who is...
MATTHEWS: No, what is the moral reason, though? You have to answer the question, sir. What is our moral case for our right to be in that country, killing people we don't like, killing people who are trying to knock down their own government? What's our moral case now for being there?
HUNTER: OK, Chris, you're asking me about the morality of warfare. I would say...
MATTHEWS: No, going in there now.
HUNTER: The moral case is this, that we have Islamo-fascists who want to kill Americans. They're based out of Afghanistan. They attacked us on 9/11, and prior to, as Chairman Skelton said. We went in there, took them out. We have to win this now. The moral obligation is we went in there, we started fighting, we disbanded al Qaeda there and Taliban, and if the president's general is asking for more troops, we ought to listen to him. We don't make strategy here, we just help the troops win. And that's what we need to do.
MATTHEWS: Well, let me ask you about the moral question, Mr. Skelton. The question is—and you're chairman of the committee and you do make strategy because we have a co-equal branch that you represent. The question is, we had a moral case to go in there and punish the people who attacked us and to knock them out of power. But today, are we fighting the people that attacked us on 9/11? Are the Taliban forces attacking us now the people who attacked us on 9/11?
SKELTON: What will happen is, the Taliban regains hold in either part or all of Afghanistan, just bet your bottom dollar, as sure as God made little green apples, the al Qaeda terrorists will go back in there and have a safe haven from which to plan, plot and attack America and American interests, wherever they may be.
And consequently, we have to finish the job. The job should have been finished back in 2002 and put the resources there that were put into Iraq, and sadly, they were not. And now the war really begins as a result of President Obama giving a strategy speech, and hopefully, he will listen to the recommendations of his commanders.
MATTHEWS: I think, gentlemen...
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you, Congressman—I want to ask you, Congressman Duncan (SIC), that same question because "finish" is a good word. I think most Americans believe that if we can get a job done over there that'll make us more secure, we should do it and come home. But the idea of finishing the job in Afghanistan sounds almost contradictory to history. Other countries that have gone in there have had a hard time changing Afghanistan. Can we change the country so Taliban won't take over?
HUNTER: Chris, that's...
MATTHEWS: Can we do that and finish the job?
HUNTER: Yes, that's the exact same thing people said about Iraq. And what's happening now there, we're going to come home victoriously, men and women, job well done, thanks for your service. Iraq is done. We've won over there. The exact same thing can happen to Afghanistan.
And I'll tell you, al Qaeda in Afghanistan, the exact same ones that we fought in 2001, 2002, they're Islamo-fascists. They want to destroy America. Yes, those are the same people that are over there now. Those are the same America-hating people who will blow us up for any reason whatsoever. Those are the exact same ones that we're fighting over there. That's why we have to win, and that's why we ought to follow General McChrystal's counterinsurgency plan for Afghanistan. He's the guy. He knows how to win. Let's give him the resources to do it. Let's leave Afghanistan victoriously. I think that's the right thing to do.
MATTHEWS: How many people in the Islamic world do you think are like that? Of the billion people in the Islamic world, what—where are these Islamo-fascists that are rooting against us? What percentage do you think are out there that we would have to take on at some point?
HUNTER: Don't know what percentage there are...
MATTHEWS: But a lot of them?
HUNTER: ... but 95 percent of them are in Pakistan or Afghanistan, so that's where we're focusing at.
MATTHEWS: They're not in—they're being supported by the people in Saudi Arabia? They're not being supported by the Emirates? They're not getting their money from all over the Arab world? I thought they were. I thought that's who was arming the Taliban.
HUNTER: No, Wahhabism's part of this. Wahhabism's part of this. Iran is part of this. This is general hatred for the West and a throwback to 15th century Islamic fundamentalists. I mean, that's what this has all been about since September 11, 2001. Nothing's changed, Chris. There...
MATTHEWS: OK, bottom line, gentlemen...
HUNTER: There's, you know, still some angry folks out there that have camels and will throw stones at us.
MATTHEWS: OK, let me ask you this. You first, Congressman Campbell (SIC). Will we succeed in Afghanistan to be able to come home at some point?
SKELTON: I think so. I certainly think so, and I think with a good strategy, with a good follow-through, with our allies, the NATO allies that are there—as a matter of fact, I just left a meeting with our British counterpart from parliament, and the large majority of them express strong support for what we're going to do.
MATTHEWS: OK. Do you have the same confidence, Congressman Campbell, that—I mean, Congressman Duncan Hunter—that we can come home after doing the job in Afghanistan, that can be done?
HUNTER: Absolutely. Absolutely.
HUNTER: And Ike Skelton's a great leader for Congress. With his help, the president's leadership on this, we can get Afghanistan done.
MATTHEWS: OK, thank you very much, Congressman Ike Skelton, and thank you, Congressman Duncan Hunter.
Coming up: What's missing from the Obama presidency right now? Is he beginning to lose touch with the country? Has he lost touch with the people right now? We're going to break down that with—that question with some experts on the White House.
You're watching HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. Some critics on the right, and the left occasionally, think the failure of the Obamas' Copenhagen trip to get the Olympics embodies a bigger problem. Here's what George F. Will, a man of the right, wrote today in "The Washington Post." Quote, "Perhaps the premise of the otherwise inexplicable trip to Denmark was that there is no difficulty, foreign or domestic, that cannot be melted by the sunshine of the Obama persona. But in the contest between the world and any president's charm," George will says, "bet on the world."
And here's what Richard Cohen, a man of the liberal side of things, wrote today. Quote, "What does he believe? And will he ask Americans to die for it? Only he knows the answers to those questions. But based on his zig-zagging so far and the suggestion from the Copenhagen trip that the somber seriousness of the presidency has yet to sink in on him, we have reason to wonder."
Well, that brings us to the big question, and it is a big question in my heart right now. Nine months into his presidency, has Barack Obama made the transition from candidate to president, from talking to achievement and accomplishment? And is there a missing ingredient in the White House staff right now or in the White House thinking?
Dee Dee Myers was press secretary and head honcho for President Bill Clinton and still a close personal friend, and Andy Card was the chief of staff for President George W. Bush.
It's great to be—I want to make this completely positive because I think it would be good for this president to get some things he doesn't seem to have right now, which is achievements. Now, that's my view. And I don't think he's had them. So let's go with this. A couple of thoughts here. Has—I want to run three thoughts by you and let you take maybe a few minutes to talk about all three of them.
My hunch is he hasn't really laid before the American people a clear mission. In the campaign, he had a mission, I'm not George W. Bush, I wouldn't have gone into Iraq, and by the way, we need change in this country, and being an African-American, I can symbolize big change. Right now, I'm not so sure. It seems like he's focused on health care. He doesn't really connect so far with people with their economic problems, which are real. And he's giving good speeches still, still giving great speeches.
Reagan came in and he had another advantage, Reagan, besides everybody knew where he stood, discernment, the ability to decide not just what I want to do, but what I can do of the things I want to do. That's the second thing. I'm not sure he's made those decisions about health care and Afghanistan. What can I really get done, as opposed to what I'd like to get done?
And thirdly, does he have the right personnel? So let me ask you all three of those questions. You're looking seriously because this is damned serious, my friend. It is so serious. We have a presidency that's still sort of—like a chicken breaking out of the egg right now. He's still coming out of that hatched egg.
First question. Do you have a clear sense or do you believe he's presented a clear sense of the things that in his heart, he really wants to get done, and for whom, as president? Is it clear?
DEE DEE MYERS, FORMER CLINTON WHITE HOUSE PRESS SEC.: I don't think that that's changed in two years. I think...
MATTHEWS: Well, what is it?
MYERS: I think he came in—he ran for president and has governed in the first nine months of his presidency as someone who wants to make big, transformational changes. They are very hard. Not only that, against that backdrop, that desire to do big things, was an economy that's the worst recession since the Great Depression and two wars. So it's a complicated situation.
I think—but I think it's clear. He believes that unless we reform health care, the economy—you know, ten years from now or eight years from now, we'll be right back where we were with the economy, in a deep and nasty recession. So he's trying to do that.
I think the question is, Doe she—has he figured out what's possible? We're still working our way through that. And I do think presidents, it takes them, you know, more than a few months to make that transition from being a candidate to being president. Nothing prepares you for being president like being president, something that Bill Clinton and I think President George—both George Bushes have talked about in their private conversations. But I think...
MATTHEWS: Does he have the right people?
MYERS: I think he has the right people. I think that he needs to have—I don't think any—I don't think there's bad people around him. He has very good people around him. He...
MATTHEWS: Does he have the people he needs?
MYERS: He needs—I think presidents have to make the circle bigger, and I think that's true of them, too. Think the circle is too small, and I don't think they have enough...
MATTHEWS: Too Chicago?
MYERS: You know, I don't know if it's too Chicago, but it's—it's -
· you know, it has to get bigger, and that's hard. It was a group that won a campaign by holding it close and controlling it very tightly. That's not possible once you become president. And so the transition from small to bigger to bigger is hard.
MATTHEWS: Yes, David Plouffe's not there anymore, by the way.
MYERS: Right.
MATTHEWS: (INAUDIBLE) that hurts. Andy Card, you worked in a Republican administration, but the same question applies. Has this president got a clear mission? Has he figured out how to get done what he can get done, and does he have the people to do it?
ANDY CARD, FORMER BUSH WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF: He may have a clear mission, but he has not described it to the American people. He said he wanted change. Everyone who runs for president wants change.
MATTHEWS: Especially after your guy.
CARD: That...
MATTHEWS: Especially...
CARD: Every campaign is about change.
MATTHEWS: Right.
CARD: But he didn't give a definition to change, so he allowed the word "change" to be whatever anybody who heard it believed...
CARD: ... rather than what he believed. Now he has to make the tough decisions as to what change is, and the American people are not reacting that well to it. And he hasn't described it very well.
The second thing is, whether he likes it or not, he's a wartime president.
MATTHEWS: Yes.
CARD: There's a war going on. He hasn't talked about the need for us to succeed in our war against terror, succeed in Afghanistan, and that is a critical concern right now, as we're recognizing that Afghanistan is really hard and young men and women who are over there really fighting and sacrificing for us. And he's got to describe to the American people why those sacrifices are so important and why it is the right thing to call for America to rally...
MATTHEWS: You don't think he seems like a war president, like a commander-in-chief, is what you're saying?
CARD: Oh, I don't think he's sent that message...
MATTHEWS: Like, viscerally.
CARD: ... at all to the American people. I don't think he recognizes the burden of being the president during a war.
MATTHEWS: Yes. OK.
MYERS: Yes.
MATTHEWS: Let me—how about the right people, just to finish off the questioning? Does he have the right people? Does he need more eminence grises like Gergen or people like that, people like you?
CARD: He's got very confident people, but he doesn't have people who really have an institutional respect for the presidency and the White House, and people who have peripheral vision. He's got a lot of people with outstanding tunnel vision...
MATTHEWS: Yes.
CARD: ... but he needs some people around him who have good peripheral vision...
MATTHEWS: Good antennae.
CARD: ... and also someone who says, You're the president of the United States, Mr. President, and the institution of the presidency stands for a lot. Recognize the foundation you're standing on as you talk about...
MATTHEWS: OK. The reason I think we're (INAUDIBLE) this conversation
· and I am a fan of this presidency. I want it to succeed. I'm not a dittohead, though. Couple things. I think he—in terms of the health issue, which you raised, his approach seems to be, Let a thousand flowers bloom. Let's see what—let's see what—oh, let's see what the Ways and Means Committee comes up with, Rangel's committee. Let's see what Baucus comes up with, let's see what—and let's see how it works together in some magical moment, I'll ride in like the cavalry and I'll settle it.
That doesn't seem to be working because you still have Ed Schultz on this network pushing for the public option very hard. You have the net roots people pushing very hard for it. You've got people like Nancy Pelosi out there pushing. And yet you see in the Senate, that's going to be a hard sell.
When is he going to say, I'm not a cheerleader, I'm a quarterback? Has he failed in the role of quarterback in saying, this is what's essential to me? This is what I believe we can get done with 60 votes. And by the way, we're going for 60, no more games on the 50. At least tell us what the strategy is and then do it. Has he discerned what he can do as president and laid it out? Has he done that?
MYERS: As you know, as somebody with experience on the Hill, it is a dynamic process. I think that in some ways, they did over learn the lessons of the Clinton health care.
MATTHEWS: Explain.
MYERS: Which is, rather than going up there and presenting the bill like the tablets.
MATTHEWS: The way Rostenkowski asked you guys to do.
MYERS: Well, that's President Clinton's.
MATTHEWS: You were asked to do it. OK, fairness to Clinton.
MYERS: In fairness to him, that became a huge, big, fat target. It was a big bull's-eye. Everyone had something to shoot at. Everybody had something not to like.
MATTHEWS: But does this elusiveness on his part which you're explaining, has that turned out to go far?
MYTERS: It's easy to sit here and Monday morning quarterback.
MATTHEWS: It's already, it's October. By the way, it's not Monday morning yet. Monday morning is Christmas.
MYERS: It's Monday morning after each piece of the process.
MATTHEWS: Is he late in deciding what he needs to get done?
MYERS: I think he could have weighed in a little more heavily a little earlier. But you know what? I think that we still have to see where this comes out. He's going to get a health care bill. And it probably won't have a public option. You will get a health care bill because the Democrats know if they do not successfully pass something, if they're not capable of governing, they're going to lose a lot more seats than if they pass health care.
MATTHEWS: I used to think that. You might be right. Bill Clinton believes that. I hope you're right in a sense.
But here's the question to you, because you work for the Republican administration, which was very successful in the beginning. You guys got that tax cut. I didn't like it, but you got it. You got the war that the way you wanted it. You were tough, you got this stuff done. Does the president have to strike early? Does he have to use his political capital like Reagan did, like you guys did? Move quick, win quick, LBJ did it.
CARD: Yes, but you can't ignore what's happening in the real world. When George W. Bush became president, we were in the midst of a recession that people didn't really understand that was there until he took office. So he had to deal with that reality, and he did.
MATTHEWS: You're saying that Barack Obama hasn't caught up with the new change which is the bad unemployment numbers that are breaking people's hearts.
CARD: I think that he's still seeing the world as he wants it to be rather than the world as it is. And he's not leading us to the world that we have. I can understand having a goal. But I actually think he should be focusing more on the significant, foundational needs that we have as a country rather than all of the wants—
MATTHEWS: But my question to you, and both of you, there's a great political question you ask, are we going in the right direction? You and I know everything. We all know the same stuff, by the way, that knowledge is shared.
Are we going in the right direction? These people know what they're doing. A question I like even better is does this candidate, this politician, this president care about people like me? Does he care about people like me?
I think the president, when he was a candidate, was like most people. They didn't like the war in Iraq, they thought it was a bad decision, they wanted change. They wanted an African-American guy. They wanted to show that we were a bigger country. They wanted all those good things. Shared page, same page.
Now I think most people are primarily worried about that unemployment rate. Whether it's a lagging indicator or a leading indicator, they're scared to hell they're going to be on that list.
And he's, on the other hand, focusing on health care. I think they're on different pages.
CARD: He has two responsibilities. One to address the concerns of the American people and they are concerned about the economy, and there are still big questions and there are still dark clouds on the horizon with regard to—
MATTHEWS: This thing could go down again.
CARD: And he's got to pay attention. He's got to demonstrate to the American people—
MATTHEWS: Does he do that? Does he show sympathy for the working stiff? Do you believe he's shown sympathy for the working—the average person out there who's either lost their job or is working at halftime or has given up? Has he shown sympathy for that guy?
MYERS: I think he's tried to.
MATTHEWS: How as he tried to?
MYERS: Well most recently...
MATTHEWS: Have you seen him meet with these people?
MYERS: I was just going to say, I don't think that's his long suit.
I don't think that he has...
MATTHEWS: Does he have empathy?
MYERS: Yes, I think he does have empathy, but I don't think he has quite the ability to show it.
CARD: Actually if you look at over the last two months, it has been very forward leaning rhetoric about the economy. We've turned the corner of—
MATTHEWS: But I don't think that's right. I don't think people think that's true.
MYERES: And I think that's—and I think that that was a—
MATTHEWS: Is he on the same page as the—
MYERS: -- first made in the '92 campaign.
MATTHEWS: Dee Dee, I don't want you to throw the sword through your chest to give up politically here, but is this president on the same page as the average working stiff right now in this country?
MYERS: You know, I mean, is he concerned? Is he up nights worrying about it? Yes. Does he show it? Not as much as he could. I always thought that was one of Obama's challenges was going to be when things went badly, was he able to connect with the American people in a way that would sustain him? That was Bill Clinton's greatest strength.
CARD: He has two challenges as president. First is to relate to the concerns that the average American person has, the economy. But he also has to worry about these other dark clouds on the horizon and he's going to talk to the American people about it. Iran, North Korea, the challenges in Afghanistan.
MATTHEWS: Let me tell you—here's what I think about personnel. And I think there are some really smart people in the White House. Rahm Emanuel is as smart as a whip. And I love Greg Craig, I think he's fabulous. I don't know who's got their knives out from over there and somebody does, and he's fabulous. And he's one of the reasons I like Obama, he and Ted Sorenson, the really best of the Kennedy people.
But let me tell you. It seems to me there's a couple people missing. They lost Jim Johnson because of Fannie Mae. They lost Tom Daschle because of the tax problems. They lost heavyweights on Capitol Hill, big shots, really good guys. I'm telling you, it's hurt them. They need a George Mitchell, bring him back from the Middle East. Bring back Mitchell from the Middle East where he's not going to get anything done and make him top dog. Well, we'll see if that happens. I've just said it. They need a guy like him to connect the words with actions and get things done. Nobody was a better majority leader on the Hill, ever, than George Mitchell. Well, LBJ was. Anyway, Dee Dee Myers, thank you, Andy Card.
Up next, Levi Johnston, where do they get these sleaze balls, 15 minutes of fame. This guy wants more. Look at him, he's doing ads about getting Sarah Palin's daughter pregnant when they weren't married. I mean, this guy is the lowest form—you have to be the deposits of a whale on the bottom of the ocean to get lower than these people. You're watching HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
MATTHEWS: I love that laugh. Back to HARDBALL. It's time for the "Sideshow." First, meet, if you have to, Orly Taitz. She's the outspoken spokesperson for the Birthers who argue that the president is an illegal alien. Taitz is a dentist, lawyer, real estate agent born in the Soviet Union, the former Soviet Union, who emigrated to Israel and later moved here with her new American husband. Well, here's a peek at her world courtesy of "The Washington Post." "Taitz's rhetoric is laced with the suspicion that Obama may be an agent for a foreign power, a modern Manchurian candidate. This is why she wants not only his vital records, but his academic records as well."
Taitz also has a different definition of natural born citizen than the rest of us do, or the Constitution does. She argues that to be a president, a person not only must be born here, but must also be the child of parents who were both U.S. citizens at the time of the birth.
Well, she's also I should add said that the president represents "radical communism and radical Islam and is to boot, a member of the mafia. Well a federal judge doesn't agree with her exactly. He compared her legal case against Obama to "Alice in Wonderland." I think he was being kind.
Next up, a study in stretching out your 15 minutes of fame. Levi Johnston, can we get lower than this guy? Sarah Palin's almost-son-in-law is out with a new ad for pistachios. Of course, he doesn't shy away from his claim to fame, the unplanned pregnancy of this then-girlfriend Bristol Palin, daughter of Sarah. Here is the unbelievably sleazy ad this guy is using.
CROWD: Levi! Levi! Levi!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Now Levi Johnston does it with protection.
Wonderful pistachios.
MATTHEWS: He does it with protection. So he's making money on getting Sarah Palin's daughter pregnant. I don't know who's sleazier here, the advertiser, I would put that one up for a bet or the nut company or the guy himself.
Finally, it's the end of the road for dancing Tom DeLay. "Entertainment Weekly" reports tonight that the former House majority leader has dropped out of "Dancing with the Stars." I don't really see any talent there, actually. Tonight, due to stress fractures in both of his feet, I don't think he could do that with fractures. Anyway, you can tell, there, at least he had some fun while he was at it, and good for him, I guess, good for him being out of there too.
Now for the big number tonight. During the campaign, I talked a lot about how the election of Barack Obama would change the way the world looked at this country. Well, here's some proof. Last year under George W. Bush, the United States came out seventh in the GFK poll of the most admired countries in the world. Well this year under President Obama, where does America stand? Where we like to be, number one. The survey's head says the only explanation that Obama won the election. And that he's never seen such a dramatic change in one year by any country in the standings. Take that, America, number one in the world, most admired country on this planet. By the way, people have been coming here for 200 years, they still come, and everybody who comes here does better than where they come from. That's why they love it, besides liking Obama. That's all I have to say is I love this poll.
Up next, David Letterman apologized to his wife and staff for having sex with some coworkers and skewered himself in the process. Can Dave legitimately do what he's always done now? Lampoon public figures caught in these embarrassing situations. Well, I think I can be on that one. He's going to keep doing it. You're watching HARDBALL, only on MSNBC.
DAVID LETTERMAN, TALK SHOW HOST: It's fall here in New York City and I spent the whole weekend raking my hate mail. I'll be honest with you, folks, right now I would give anything to be hiking on the Appalachian Trail. I got into the car this morning and the navigation lady wasn't speaking to me. Things are still pretty bad. There's a possibility that I'll be the first talk show host impeached.
MATTHES: Wow. Welcome back to HARDBALL. That was David Letterman last night. He kicked off his monologue as you just saw with rapid-fire jokes about the extortion plot. It's caused him to make an on-air admission of relationships with female staffers on his program. But later on, he talked about the pain he's caused his wife. No joking here.
LETTERMAN: My wife, Regina, she has been horribly hurt by my behavior. And when something happens like that, if you hurt a person, then it's your responsibility, you try to fix it. Let me tell you, folks, I got my work cut out for me.
MATTHEWS: Joining me now is "The Washington Post's" Paul Farhi and "The New York Times," the great Bill Carter. I must say the great Bill Carter, let's start with you, sir, out of seniority in greatness and grandeur, sir. This seems to me a great study in what late-night is all about. I'm like you, I grew up with Carson. I loved him. When I had no social life, he was my social life, he was my company. I would make peanut butter and crackers or cheese and crackers and a coke and I went in there for an hour and a half and he was my best friend on this planet. Isn't this thing about Letterman only adding to that intimate connection between him, with all his faults, and his audience?
BILL CARTER, NEW YORK TIMES: I think you're right. I think it's an extraordinary thing that he's doing. And really, Letterman has done this more than anyone else. He's played his life out on camera. You know, from his illnesses to his baby being born to the crazy woman who broke into his house. All these crazy events in his life, extreme events in his life have taken place on camera, because he discusses them with the audience and in very honest and candid terms. So yes, there's a real connection built up there.
MATTHEWS: Is there a clown-like aspect to him? You'll see him there in the monologue wearing the white socks. It's almost like he's got the big, floppy shoes. He portrays himself in the great, classic sense of a comic as a clown. He's funny. He's a kid. Let me go to Paul here. He comes off as a kid, a big, overgrown kid. He's almost my age, and yet you think of him as 18.
FARHI: That's what's lovable about him. He's this self-deprecating guy, who the audience can relate to. He never seems to be a giant intellectual, but he's the kind of guy who puts himself down as much as he's going to put anyone else down. You can't help but love him.
MATTHEWS: So what are the danger marks here for him, professionally? I see where Andrea Peiser (ph), a columnist for the "New York Post," she is calling for him to be fired. That seems a little extreme with the evidence we have at hand. What do you think is the story is here, Bill?
CARTER: Obviously, unless something else comes forward, it would be sort of surprising if CBS did anything. The guy is doing really well right now in the ratings. They're very happy with his performance. I think it would have been to be kind of an extraordinary series of events for that to take place.
But we don't know how this is going to play out in the long-term, because I don't know what the audience reaction will be long-term. There's a question about women. Maybe women will be more uncomfortable with him. I think we'll see how it plays out. But in the short-term, it looks like it's just drawn more attention to him and made him even more—if not popular, certainly unmissable.
MATTHEWS: Well, could he be—I don't know him. I've done this show
· guys, I did it like years ago after 9/11. He's one of these mystery men, where you do the show—you probably did them, Bill. You show up. You never see him. He's like the masked man. You don't see him until he shows up in that chair next to you. And then you never see him afterwards.
When you do my friend Jay Leno's show, you hang around with him for an hour before and he's got jeans on. You talk to him after the show. You talk to him before the show. He's always been elusive, but isn't he like the professional Cad. Like he isn't the good guy.
FARHI: Right now he's the professional Cad in a way he doesn't want to be.
MATTHEWS: Are you sure? Did you see his numbers last night?
FARHI: These allegations keep coming out. We don't know how far it goes.
MATTHEWS: Yes, the age of this intern is an issue, I would think.
FARHI: That is a problem. Potentially, there are other women coming forward. There may be allegations of sexual harassment. We don't know. So far, nothing. And I think, frankly, he probably ends up riding it out.
He controls the microphone.
MATTHEWS: He also owns Worldwide Pants, his production company. He's not an employee, like all of us are. He's not a part of a big corporation with all kinds of HR rules. Here he is, by the way—in fact, I'm not sure what the governing laws of New York labor laws. That might come into play here. Bill, is anything coming up on that, New York labor law affecting him? Is he vulnerable to any charges there?
CARTER: No, nothing has been raised in that way. We've talked to some of the legal experts. I think you have to really look hard at this and say, well, who are the women involved? Nobody has come forward in his past, ever, to make a complaint about him? There's never been a sexual harassment complaint about him.
MATTHEWS: Except that one young woman who said, I would have married him and he's funny and I love him and all these joyous comments. Let's take a look at some more of his humor last night, because he managed to sustain last night. Here he is last night. Let's listen.
LETTERMAN: Let's look at the news. First of all, Bill Clinton said -
· no. Good news for South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford because he—How about that Eliot Spitzer. Will you take a look at—
MATTHEWS: So he's making himself the joke, Bill Carter.
CARTER: That's the best way to do it. I mean, the audience is tense. They don't know what he's going to do or how he's going to address it. He comes out and does killer humor last night, just one joke after another, bang, bang, bang. And they were explosively funny and all on him. He pulled all the jokes on to himself. And I think that's the best approach.
MATTHEWS: OK. Let me ask you guys about the dirty little secret of late-night television. It's a dirty little secret. Late-night television is a different than prime-time. You're allowed to be a little risque. Your language can be across the line. Johnny Carson was married how many time? How many times did he and Ed McMahon, who I love, joke about him being bar rag breath, and out drinking and having another disastrous experience with a woman. That was all part of the intimacy build up.
FARHI: Certainly. And you can get away with a lot more than even Johnny Carson used to get away. There's many more channels. The audience is much smaller. The standards are lower. He can do that kind of humor. The question with Letterman, though, is can he get away with making fun of these people in these sex scandals when he himself is in one himself.
MATTHEWS: What do you make of that, Bill? I think he still thinks everyone is fair game? That's my hunch, because they're funny in themselves these people. How can you not see in the humor when he says he's hiking on the Appalachian Trail and he's in Buenos Aires with some Latino girlfriend of his. It's just too good a story.
CARTER: He's not going to be shying away from that. He can't. He wouldn't be doing his job. You can see a little spin put on it, as it goes forward, every time he does it, the way Carson would joke about some event that had to do with divorce and he would talk about his own divorce. I think you'll see Letterman use in his own interests.
MATTHEWS: I remember the business adviser that stole all of Johnny's money. He made jokes out of that for years.
CARTER: Bombastic Bushkin.
MATTHEWS: God, we were fans, weren't we, Bill?
CARTER: Yes, we were.
MATTHEWS: Nobody knows late-night like this guy, Bill Carter. Maybe he's got another book coming out. Up next, we've got a lot of—Thank you, Paul Farhi. I read you all the time. I need you.
Got a lot of President Obama. After nine months in office, we've seen a lot of him. But there's a growing question, can he put those beautiful words into action? Is it time now? He's in the on deck circle. Is it time to start swinging and hitting that ball? Next in the politics fix here on HARDBALL, with some baseball metaphors, which I usually avoid. We'll be right back.
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. Time for the politics fix with two pros: Howard Fineman, who is a "Newsweek" columnist, an MSNBC political analyst, who is a beautiful writer, a beautiful analyst, and Pat Buchanan is an actual former practicing politician, which is always a plus, and of course, an MSNBC—
Let's do something constructive here with two people with ability.
And that is to try to figure out if there's a Barack Obama missing piece. I think there is. I'm not sure how to say it. He's a great speaker. He has a philosophy. He has great personal appeal. We've got a new poll out tonight that shows he's up at 56 percent, first big increase in his polling since he's been. It's an AP poll. It's a solid poll. He's up in September.
Pat, you first. You worked as a communications director. I don't think it's just communications. I think he has to translate words—talking into walking, doing something. Ronald Reagan was able to say, I'm for less government, so he cut taxes 25 percent. He said I'm going to beat the communists, so he said I'm going to use SDI and strategic weaponry. They can't keep up with this. We're going to beat him. They're going to say uncle.
Every cab driver understood that. Does this guy have that ability?
PAT BUCHANAN, MSNBC POLITICAL ANALYST: No, he doesn't. He's not an executive. He's unfocused. LBJ had his great society, but knew every guy in the Congress. He rammed it all through. Let's get it through. Nixon was laser focused on foreign policy. Get Henry in here. That's what we're going to deal with.
MATTHEWS: Does he have somebody out there that you can imagine, on the center left side, that he could bring in and play the role that Jimmy Baker, a moderate conservative, played for you guys and helped Reagan discipline himself and get it done?
BUCHANAN: I think maybe he could do what Nixon did with John Connolly.
MATTHEWS: Is there somebody out there like that?
Is it Jim Johnson? Is it Mike Burman? Is it George Mitchell?
BUCHANAN: You don't have somebody as big as—
MATTHEWS: Is it George Mitchell?
BUCHANAN: I don't think it is George Mitchell. To be honest, I think he's too old right now. Connolly came in in his prime. He's a tough Texas governor.
MATTHEWS: What do you think?
HOWARD FINEMAN, "NEWSWEEK": I heard you mention George Mitchell earlier.
MATTHEWS: Somebody that can translate on the Hill with the other grown-ups. Look, they lost Tom Daschle because of the tax stupid—it wasn't stupid. It was a problem. He shouldn't have done it. He should have paid taxes on that car. They had the problem with the other guy, Jim Johnson, because he ran Fannie Mae during the troubled times. Who have they got?
FINEMAN: The thing is that he's got a lot of good people around him.
· in economic—
MATTHEWS: You know what Red Auerbach said? I was just up in the American Basketball Hall of Fame. He said, I learned one thing through 50 years of coaching, somebody has to be in charge.
FINEMAN: President Obama is the CEO. He doesn't really have a COO. Now, Rahm Emanuel is chief of staff. But Rahm seems to be focused primarily on legislative strategy, for the most part.
MATTHEWS: Is he a man of the Hill or a man of the executive?
FINEMAN: He's more man of the Hill, which is one reason why I think their strategy on health care was to turn it over to the Hill in the perhaps mistaken notion that they can manage it that way.
MATTHEWS: This isn't when you let the kids at school do what they want to do.
BUCHANAN: He's got a bigger problem than that.
MATTHEWS: You're turning your head. You always do that when you don't want to answer the question. Do you believe he turned over too much power to the Hill?
FINEMAN: I think there's a way he'll get a bill. But he's not going to get the bill he should have gotten.
BUCHANAN: I don't know that he really cares. I think he says, here's a Congress of the United States. You guys put together this bill. Get all your people in there. Get it together. Get it down to me. And I'll sign it.
MATTHEWS: Does he have a motive?
FINEMAN: I think he cares.
MATTHEWS: Does he have a clear-cut policy motive like Reagan did?
BUCHANAN: I think he has a messiah complex, to be honest with you. That means he has succeeded by being president of the United States. His very presence there, and who he is, and who Michelle is, has elevated this country. And he can get things done.
MATTHEWS: You're saying he's just a prom king?
BUCHANAN: I think there's an awful lot of that, walking across, big man on campus about him.
FINEMAN: Here's the thing. When—he has a lot of leadership ability, I think. When he—when he's handed something—and I think he performed well in dealing with the economic near catastrophe that we had initially. I think he was calm. I think he was resolute. I think he was focused. Everything I know from people in meetings with him say he's really good at it.
Health care's a different thing. He didn't start with the problem overwhelming him. So he had to pick an answer.
MATTHEWS: OK. David Plouffe in the campaign, he knew if he won the caucuses, he could beat Hillary. He knew being against the war in Iraq would be the winning issue. He doesn't have that kind of clear leadership.
BUCHANAN: He takes stances.
MATTHEWS: We'll be right back with you guys. Right back with Pat and Howard. Right back with the fix.
MATTHEWS: We're back with Howard Fineman and Pat Buchanan. We got the latest poll numbers showing that in Virginia the governor's race is basically still going to the Republican, McDonald, over Creigh Deeds. But in the New Jersey race, it looks like the governor is coming back. That race is, by the way, neck and neck.
The governor's race, it looks like Chris Christie, the Republican, has peaked, as Nixon would say in the old days. He's coming down that red line. He's coming down. The other guy's catching him. Corzine's catching him. What is this going to mean in terms of reading on Obama at the end of the month? When we have a vote, will it be seen as a rejection of the president if he loses both?
BUCHANAN: I think New Jersey is less important for the reason that you have a third party guy in there siphoning off votes from the Republican candidate, who is not good and not running effectively.
MATTHEWS: Will those votes dissipate at the end?
BUCHANAN: I don't know. Corzine is enormously unpopular. I think Virginia is a major case, because it's well governed. Unemployment is not as bad as it is nationally. Democrats have a good candidate. Republicans have a good candidate.
MATTHEWS: Therefore, if the Republican wins, what does it mean?
BUCHANAN: I think here's what it means, the African-American vote won't be coming out. The youth vote won't be coming out. But the white working class, middle class, Tea Party—
MATTHEWS: Which is the leading indicator of next year?
BUCHANAN: That's it.
MATTHEWS: Older, whiter voters.
FINEMAN: Older, whiter voters are going to come out this time. They didn't come out for McCain.
MATTHEWS: Older, whiter electorates.
FINEMAN: Excuse me, older white electorate. They didn't come out for McCain, which is one reason Obama won Virginia.
MATTHEWS: Really? Will they come out now?
FINEMAN: I think They're going to come out now because they don't like some of what he's doing.
MATTHEWS: They'd rather vote against Obama than vote for McCain?
FINEMAN: Virginia is part of the universe of Washington, D.C. now. It's part of the extended echo chamber of Washington. They're listening to what Obama is doing there in Washington because it's right across the river. I think if the Republicans win Virginia, that shows that we're back to where things were before Obama won, in terms of the map of the United States politically.
MATTHEWS: Looking at it, the question we're raising, if this administration continues the way it's going, the same level of success it's on right now, what will be the results in the races next year? Will they lose 40 seats? Will they lose the House?
BUCHANAN: I would guess right now they're going to lose 25 to 30 seats easily. Reagan lost—
MATTHEWS: So a big loss, but not the end of the House?
BUCHANAN: I don't agree with Charlie Cook that it's a wipe out yet. But they're in real trouble. There's no doubt which way the trend is going.
MATTHEWS: I agree with Pat. Virginia is more important than New Jersey. See what the numbers are in Virginia. If the Republicans end up winning comfortably, if McDonald wins comfortably, to me that presages a really big Republican year.
MATTHEWS: I think they could lose 40 seats. They could lose. There's no doubt in my mind they could lose the House next year, because if only older, white people vote, it's not Obama's America.
BUCHANAN: What does that tell you about Obama?
MATTHEWS: It tells you that he has to get his vote out and he probably won't in the mid-years. Thank you, Howard Fineman and Pat Buchanan.
Join us again tomorrow night at 5:00 and 7:00 Eastern for more HARDBALL. Right now, it's time for "THE ED SHOW" with Ed Schultz.
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The other option is seeing it as being like algebra. I once had an algebra teacher who kept telling me, nope, you can not start to solve the problem by finding the solution, you need to simply do the very first step, and then the next... Programming is exactly like this as you need to have each little element working perfectly before anything further will do so. In algebra, one incorrect calculation and the whole thing falls apart. In programming it is just the same.
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While I may be a very season-focused person cant wait to ski when its October; itching to start gardening in February; dying for days when jumping in the river feels good in April; and longing for the crisp fall mornings somewhere around July my Extension career dictates another type of seasonality.
From January to about April, my life revolves around the classroom. Colorado Master Gardeners, Building Farmers, Food Retreat, four or five workshops and the start of the Backyard Food Production Series all center on my organizational (and voice projection) fortitude.
Come May, the phones start to ring, and the random samples of leaves, insects, fruit and the occasional 40-pound bag of soil and turf find their way to my desktop. Hopefully, they dont find their way to the bottom of the pile where the overripe strawberry half-eaten by some mysterious creature or the Ziploc bag full of now-dead aphids, make for a rude awakening. After five years on the job in La Plata County and thousands of inquiries I have concluded that the number of unknown causes (insects, bacteria, fungi, virus, rodents and neighbors) can be whittled down to just a few dozen culprits. Kind of like one of those choose your own adventure books we read as kids even if you make the wrong decision, if you keep reading, youll probably come out with the correct pest (or princess, depending on the book).
Now, toward the end of July, I start to enter the oh-my-gosh-so-time-consuming Season of Events. Dont get me wrong, I love assisting with the coordination of these events, and I truly feel that agritainment should be Websters word of the year for 2012. Its enjoyable to watch a 20-year-old or retiree find out how they can correctly cook a kohlrabi or shishito pepper (Iron Horse Chef); or a young couple recently transplanted here as they discover how to grow vegetables or raise chickens at their new house (Tour de Farms); or even a grandfather and grandson sharing quality time as we trick them into doing work while they think they are having fun running the apple press (Homegrown Apple Days Festival).
The first of two Iron Horse Chef cooking competitions will start at 9 a.m. Saturday at the Durango Farmers Market. Now in its fifth year, this fun spectator event will pit the seasoned veteran Warren Smith from Manna Soup Kitchen against young-gun Marcos Wisner, a Colorado native, who most recently started the culinary wonder of Foundfood. While the primary purpose of the Iron Horse Chef is to showcase the agricultural and culinary highlights of our area, I also find it somewhat intriguing that both of these chefs have made a point to make amazing food with what is given to them.
For chef Smith, he is the master of making great food from what is donated to the Soup Kitchen, while chef Wisner is part of a new culinary movement that believes great food is everywhere you just need to know where to look (or forage) for it.
So come to the Durango Farmers Market on Saturday to root for your favorite chef.
Oh, and what is the fourth season? Thats the dreaded reporting season, which typically lasts all of December. But well get to that later.
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2 December 1964, Sproul Hall, Berkeley., California, USA
You know, I just wanna say one brief thing about something the previous speaker said. I didn't wanna spend too much time on that 'cause I don't think it's important enough. But one thing is worth considering.
He's the -- He's the nominal head of an organization supposedly representative of the undergraduates. Whereas in fact under the current director it derives -- its authority is delegated power from the Administration. It's totally unrepresentative of the graduate students and TAs.
But he made the following statement (I quote): "I would ask all those who are not definitely committed to the FSM cause to stay away from demonstration." Alright, now listen to this: "For all upper division students who are interested in alleviating the TA shortage problem, I would encourage you to offer your services to Department Chairmen and Advisors." That has two things: A strike breaker and a fink.
I'd like to say -- like to say one other thing about a union problem. Upstairs you may have noticed they're ready on the 2nd floor of Sproul Hall, Locals 40 and 127 of the Painters Union are painting the inside of the 2nd floor of Sproul Hall. Now, apparently that action had been planned some time in the past. I've tried to contact those unions. Unfortunately -- and [it] tears my heart out -- they're as bureaucratized as the Administration. It's difficult to get through to anyone in authority there. Very sad. We're still -- We're still making an attempt. Those people up there have no desire to interfere with what we're doing. I would ask that they be considered and that they not be heckled in any way. And I think that -- you know -- while there's unfortunately no sense of -- no sense of solidarity at this point between unions and students, there at least need be no -- you know -- excessively hard feelings between the two groups.
Now, there are at least two ways in which sit-ins and civil disobedience and whatever -- least two major ways in which it can occur. One, when a law exists, is promulgated, which is totally unacceptable to people and they violate it again and again and again till it's rescinded, appealed. Alright, but there's another way. There's another way. Sometimes, the form of the law is such as to render impossible its effective violation -- as a method to have it repealed. Sometimes, the grievances of people are more -- extend more -- to more than just the law, extend to a whole mode of arbitrary power, a whole mode of arbitrary exercise of arbitrary power.
And that's what we have here. We have an autocracy which -- which runs this university. It's managed. We were told the following: If President Kerr actually tried to get something more liberal out of the Regents in his telephone conversation, why didn't he make some public statement to that effect? And the answer we received -- from a well-meaning liberal -- was the following: He said, "Would you ever imagine the manager of a firm making a statement publicly in opposition to his Board of Directors?" That's the answer.
Well I ask you to consider -- if this is a firm, and if the Board of Regents are the Board of Directors, and if President Kerr in fact is the manager, then I tell you something -- the faculty are a bunch of employees and we're the raw material! But we're a bunch of raw materials that don't mean to be -- have any process upon us. Don't mean to be made into any product! Don't mean -- Don't mean to end up being bought by some clients of the University, be they the government, be they industry, be they organized labor, be they anyone! We're human beings!
And that -- that brings me to the second mode of civil disobedience. There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus -- and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it -- that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all!!
That doesn't mean -- I know it will be interpreted to mean, unfortunately, by the bigots who run The Examiner, for example -- That doesn't mean that you have to break anything. One thousand people sitting down some place, not letting anybody by, not [letting] anything happen, can stop any machine, including this machine! And it will stop!!
We're gonna do the following -- and the greater the number of people, the safer they'll be and the more effective it will be. We're going, once again, to march up to the 2nd floor of Sproul Hall. And we're gonna conduct our lives for awhile in the 2nd floor of Sproul Hall. We'll show movies, for example. We tried to get Un Chant d'Amour and [they] shut them off. Unfortunately, that's tied up in the court because of a lot of squeamish moral mothers for a moral America and other people on the outside. The same people who get all their ideas out of the San Francisco Examiner. Sad, sad. But, Mr. Landau -- Mr. Landau has gotten us some other films.
Likewise, we'll do something -- we'll do something which hasn't occurred at this University in a good long time! We're going to have real classes up there! They're gonna be freedom schools conducted up there! We're going to have classes on [the] 1st and 14th amendments!! We're gonna spend our time learning about the things this University is afraid that we know! We're going to learn about freedom up there, and we're going to learn by doing!!
Now, we've had some good, long rallies.
Just one moment. We've had some good, long rallies. And I think I'm sicker of rallies than anyone else here. She's not going to be long. I'd like to introduce one last person -- one last person before we enter Sproul Hall. Yeah. And the person is Joan Baez.


text: For her spring collection, jewelry designer Pamela Love drew inspiration from elements of nature and Indian and African cultures. She explored themes of ethnic ornamentation and the idea of jewelry as a form of protection. While the new collection may be a departure from the macabre style she's been touted for, it remains true to her design aesthetic of creating perennially cool statement jewelry and will no doubt be seen everywhere (at least below 14th Street) come spring.


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Your shoulders take part in almost everything you do, from brushing your teeth to lugging your laptop to performing downward facing dog. But because they're ball-and-socket joints, shoulders also can be more vulnerable to injury, particularly in women.
The problem stems from weak upper-body muscles (trapezius, rhomboids, deltoids, and latissimus dorsi), which lend strength and stability to the shoulder joint, says Jeffrey Rupp, Ph.D., associate professor and director of the applied physiology lab at Georgia State University. When any of these muscles grows weak, your chance for injury during normal daily activities goes up. Over time, weak muscles also may result in chronic pain.
To build strength, endurance, and resilience in the shoulder muscles, Rupp suggests the following exercises. Do these moves twice a week, and come summer you'll be ready to carry a cooler and play hours of tennis. Added bonus: You'll look great in a tank top.
One-Arm Row
What it does: Works the rhomboids and latissimus dorsi as well as the biceps, making it easier to pick up heavy items. Also wards off age-related loss of flexibility in the shoulder joint.
How to do it: Stand with your left side facing the front of a chair that has no arms (you can also use a bench), holding a weight in your right hand. Bend and rest your left knee on the chair, grabbing the side edge of the chair with your left hand; your right arm should extend down toward the floor. Keep your spine straight and core tight. Moving to a three count, bend the right elbow and lift the weight straight up. Slowly return to the starting position using a three count. Complete eight to 12 reps. Switch sides and repeat with weight in left hand.
How heavy? When you can complete the full range of motion for each exercise at least eight times but not more than 12, you have the right size weights.
Overhead Press
What it does: Works the deltoids and trapezius, along with the triceps. Builds strength for overhead lifting and movements, making it easier to perform actions such as retrieving items off high shelves or powering up a tennis serve.
How to do it: Stand tall with a weight in each hand. Keeping your core tight, raise the weights until your hands are at the same level as your ears; palms facing forward and elbows pointing out. This is the starting position. Press the weights straight up to a count of three, then lower them back to the starting position to a count of three. Do eight to 12 reps.
Shoulder Shrug
What it does: Builds strength and endurance in the trapezius and rhomboids, as well as in the levator scapulae. Helps prevent injuries when performing overhead actions such as lifting luggage into a bin, and makes it easier to carry heavy items for long distances.
How to do it: Stand with feet hip-distance apart, arms by your sides and weights in your hands. Keeping your body stationary, core engaged, and shoulders down, draw your shoulder blades back so they reach toward each other. Now, to a count of three, slowly lift your shoulders up toward your ears as far as you can go without compressing your neck. Then lower them back to the starting position, also for a count of three. Repeat for eight to 12 reps.


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A: SY-4 Berlin Mix
B: SY-4 Budapest Mix
Hanno Leichtmann writes: "SY-4 was a four-channel sound installation I presented at the SYN/CUSSION festival in May 2017. It is a homage to my most beloved of electronic instruments: the SY-1 Syncussion Drum Synth by Pearl.
The installation, an 18 min loop, was made exclusively with recordings of the SY-1, with only a touch of reverb added here and there. SY-4 Berlin Mix is more-or-less one loop of the installation, in a stereo mix.
SY-4 Budapest Mix was recorded at 4D Sound, Budapest, during a residency in August 2017. For this mix I mostly worked with unused prerecorded sounds and samples of the SY-1, run through a ER-301 Sound Computer." – Hanno Leichtmann, Berlin, 15.ii.2018
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I'm very new to Ubuntu and to Linux in general, and took the leap and formatted my PC to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS very recently :)
I seem to be having some trouble getting my graphics card to run properly, I looked over what information I could find but I still cannot get it up and running and figured this was a good place to ask for help.
The information I can find on my graphics is as follows:
lspci outputs:
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RS880M [Mobility Radeon HD 4225/4250]
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Madison [Mobility Radeon HD 5650/5750 / 6530M/6550M]
I tried using a mixture of the following links:
How do I fix my installation of ATI Catalyst Video Driver in 12.04 LTS?
What is the correct way to install proprietary ATI Catalyst Video Drivers (fglrx) directly from AMD?
Ubuntu Precise Installation Guide
But it does not seem to work, since running
fglrxinfo in terminal gives:
display: :0.0
screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 0x301)
OpenGL version string: 1.4 (2.1 Mesa 9.0.3)
What am I doing wrong here?
All help appreciated.
Edit: I have tried the legacy driver from http://www2.ati.com/drivers/linux/amd-driver-installer-catalyst-13-4-linux-x86.x86_64.zip
I also tried the guide at https://launchpad.net/~makson96/+archive/fglrx which caused the system to crash (blackscreen, no boot)
Neither seemed to work. I did however reinstall ubuntu 12.04 LTS, and re-tried both with no success.
Reinstalling ubuntu did however fix the broken dependencies problems, etc.


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|Executive Director of Intercollegiate Athletics, Emeritus
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Few athletic administrators in the state of Connecticut -- and, indeed, anywhere else on the planet -- can rival C. Donald Cook for length of service or passion for and dedication to each of his three employers, Sacred Heart University, the University of Hartford and his alma mater, Fairfield University. His myriad of accomplishments encompasses 48 years and is nothing less than mind-boggling.
Indeed, including his three varsity seasons as a star baseball player at Fairfield, the Mount Vernon, N.Y., native spent 51 years in athletics in the Nutmeg State.
Some of his major honors in recent years include:
- Induction into the Fairfield County Sports Commission Athletic Hall of Fame, October 2013
- Induction into the ECAC Hall of Fame Inaugural Class, April 2015
- The Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Commissioner's Award, September 2013
- Induction into the Northeast Conference Hall of Fame, February 2013
- The All-America Football Foundation's General Robert Neyland Athletic Director's Award in 2001
- The prestigious Gold Key Award from the Connecticut Sports Writers' Alliance in 1999
- The ECAC Athletics Administrator of the Year Award in 1998.
- Inducted into the University of Hartford Alumni Athletics Hall of Fame, May 2014
Cook retired from Sacred Heart University in June 2013 after 21 years as director of athletics and then executive director of athletics. Under his leadership, the university expanded its intercollegiate athletic program from 12 to 31 varsity sports and constructed several new facilities, including the $17.5 million William H. Pitt Health and Recreation Center.
He led the Pioneers' move to Division I status, which began in 1999 as a full member of the Northeast Conference (NEC), the ECAC and an associate member of the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) in men's wrestling, as well as a charter member of the Atlantic Ice Hockey Association (AHA).
Included in the program development and move to Division I, Cook guided the university through its first NCAA Division I certification in 2007, a process that reaffirmed and validated Sacred Heart's commitment to the highest NCAA Division I standards. He was a recent recipient of the Sacred Heart Administrator of the Year Award.
Cook chaired the Northeast Conference Athletic Director's Committee for 2010-11 and 2011-12 and served on the NEC Strategic Planning Committee. He was a co-founder and the first president of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC), a former president of the ECAC, a member of the NCAA Council, and served on the NCAA Division I-A and I-AA Football Issues Committee.
He was chair of the Atlantic Hockey Association (AHA) Executive Committee in its early formative years, and continued as a member of the Association's Executive Committee while serving on the league's strategic planning committee. In retirement, he's been retained as consultant to update the AHA strategic plan. He formally served on the NACDA Football Executive Committee. He chaired the Northeast Conference Baseball Committee and served on NEC Membership Committee, and chaired the organization's Cost Containment Committee.
Currently, he's a member of the Sacred Heart University Sports Communications and Media Advisory Committee, and is working part time in University Advancement following retirement from full time athletics administration.
He also made significant contributions at Fairfield University. As a baseball catcher and solid hitter, Cook starred for the three Stag teams and in 1963, served as co-captain and received the senior class athletic award.
Appointed head coach in 1966, he directed the Fairfield team for 19 seasons, transforming the program into a respected Division I entity that challenged the traditional powers -- Maine, UConn, Holy Cross -- for regional supremacy. Fifteen of his players, including former Cincinnati Reds pitcher Keefe Cato, advanced to pro ball.
In his years (1971-86) as Fairfield's athletic director, Cook supervised the building of the Recreation Complex, the enlargement of Alumni Hall and the renovation of Alumni Field. During that eventful period, the Stags' men's basketball team earned its first bid to the NCAA Tournament (1986) and made three appearances in the National Invitation Tournament (1973, '74, '78).
As athletic director at the University of Hartford from 1986-92, Cook oversaw the building of an $11 million athletics complex as well as the program's emergence as a Division I institution. As the Hawks interim baseball coach, he contributed to the development of Jeff Bagwell, one of major league baseball's finest hitters in the 1990s.
Cook earned three degrees from Fairfield: a bachelor's degree in economics, a master's in counseling and a master's in corporate communications. He did extensive post-graduate work in business at the University of Connecticut as well.
In 1984, Cook was inducted into the Fairfield University Alumni Association's Athletic Hall of Fame, the highest athletic honor at Fairfield, for his achievements as an athlete, coach and administrator.
Cook's late wife, Patty Hemenway, was a former high-level singer-actress who starred in the title role of "Evita" on Broadway and in the National Touring Company in the early 1980s. She was a 1972 graduate of Sacred Heart.
He is the father of two children, Christopher; vice president of marketing at Hitachi Credit America Corp. Chris passed away in April 2014 following a long, courageous battle with cancer. He's survived by his wife Camilla of Westport; and Dr. Courtney Cook-Stephenson of Charlotte, N.C., a board-certified obstetrician and surgeon in maternal fetal medicine. He has three grandchildren, George (14) and Julianna (11) Stephenson, and Kirsten Cook (3). Don has had a new, happy lease on life since his late wife, Patty's passing. He's engaged to Deborah McAuley of Bedminster, New Jersey.


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Detectives from the Brockton police narcotics unit executed a search warrant at 107 Riverview St. Thursday afternoon in the southeast section of the city. Seized were 76 marijuana plants and other items, said police Lt. Paul Bonanca.
For the second time in one week, Brockton police seized dozens of marijuana plants during the execution of a search warrant Thursday.
Detectives from the Brockton police narcotics unit executed a search warrant at 107 Riverview St. Thursday afternoon in the southeast section of the city.
Seized were 76 marijuana plants, along with three jars of marijuana and extensive amounts of growing equipment, said police Lt. Paul Bonanca.
Each plant could have yielded approximately $1,000 in marijuana, Bonanca said.
The search stemmed from a call to the home a few days prior, when fire officials were called for reports of a fire, and noticed marijuana plants growing in the backyard, police said.
Detectives on Thursday found plants growing inside and outside the home.
Police were still looking for homeowner Travis Davis, 40, who they said will be charged in the case. Davis faces a charge of manufacturing a class D substance (marijuana).
He is the only person being charged.
Police on Sunday arrested a Winnifred Road man after reports of a prowler in the neighborhood led them to a separate growing operation where they seized 87 marijuana plants.
Arrested was Douglas P. Rowe, 36, of 106 Winnifred Road, who was held on $50,000 cash bail at his Monday arraignment.
Police were still looking for two others who were to be charged in that case.
Franco Dossantos, 29, is facing drug and gun charges, and Daneille Demarco, 28, is facing a drug distribution charge, police said this week.
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ALMATY (Reuters) - Major powers will offer Iran some sanctions relief during talks in Almaty, Kazakhstan, this week if Tehran agrees to curb its nuclear program, a U.S. official said on Monday.
But the Islamic Republic could face more economic pain if it fails to address international concerns about its atomic activities, the official said ahead of the February 26-27 meeting in the central Asian state, speaking on condition of anonymity.
"There will be continued sanctions enforcement ... there are other areas where pressure can be put," the official said, on the eve of the first round of negotiations between Iran and six world powers in eight months.
A spokesman for European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who leads the talks with Iran on behalf of the powers, said Tehran should understand that there was an "urgent need to make concrete and tangible progress" in Kazakhstan.
Both Russia and the United States stressed there was not an unlimited amount of time to resolve a dispute that has raised fears of a new war in the Middle East.
"The window for a diplomatic solution simply cannot by definition remain open forever. But it is open today. It is open now," U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told a news conference in London. "There is still time but there is only time if Iran makes the decision to come to the table and negotiate in good faith."
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said there was "no more time to waste", Interfax news agency quoted him as saying in Almaty.
The immediate priority for the powers - the United States, Russia, China, Germany, Britain and France - is to convince Iran to halt its higher-grade enrichment, which is a relatively short technical step away from potential atom bomb material.
Iran, which has taken steps over the last year to expand its uranium enrichment activities in defiance of international demands to scale it back, wants a relaxation of increasingly harsh sanctions hurting its lifeline oil exports.
Western officials say the Almaty meeting is unlikely to produce any major breakthrough, in part because Iran's presidential election in June may make it difficult for it to make significant concessions before then for domestic reasons.
But they say they hope that Iran will take their proposals seriously and engage in negotiations to try to find a diplomatic settlement.
"No one is expecting to walk out of here with a deal but ... confidence building measures are important," one senior Western official said.
The stakes are high: Israel, assumed to be the Middle East's only nuclear-armed arsenal, has strongly hinted at possible military action to prevent its old foe from obtaining such arms. Iran has threatened to retaliate if attacked.
The U.S. official said the powers' updated offer to Iran - a modified version of one rejected by Iran in the unsuccessful talks last year - would take into account its recent nuclear advances but also take "some steps in the sanctions arena".
This would be aimed at addressing some of Iran's concerns, the official said, while making clear it would not meet Tehran's demand of an easing of all punitive steps against it.
"We think ... there will be some additional sanctions relief" in the powers' revised proposal," the official said, without giving details.
Western diplomats have told Reuters the six countries will offer to ease sanctions on trade in gold and precious metals if Iran closes its Fordow underground uranium enrichment plant.
Iran has indicated, however, that this will not be enough.
Tehran denies Western allegations it is seeking to develop the capability to make nuclear bombs, saying its program is entirely peaceful. It wants the powers to recognize what it sees as its right to refine uranium for peaceful purposes.
The U.S. official said the powers hoped that the Almaty meeting would lead to follow-up talks soon.
"We are ready to step up the pace of our meetings and our discussions," the official said, adding the United States would also be prepared to hold bilateral talks with Tehran if it was serious about it.
Ashton's spokesman, Michael Mann, said the updated offer to Iran was "balanced and a fair basis" for constructive talks.
(Additional reporting by Yeganeh Torbati and Dimitry Solovyov; Editing by Jon Hemming)
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LVTA Home Page
Welcome to the London Vintage Taxi Association's website.
For more than three decades, the LVTA has brought together people interested in retired London-type purpose built taxicabs and related vehicles built on taxicab chassis.
Where we are
We also have a dedicated American section based in the USA, which administers all business on the American continent, including all sales orders and payments for the American continent, and all American & Canadian membership enquiries..
What we do
What the LVTA offers to members
We publish a high-quality full colour, glossy bi-monthly magazine, 'Vintage Taxi' which is, we believe the world's only magazine dedicated to old London taxis. We have for sale, to members only CD-Roms of workshop manuals for Austin FX3 and FX4 and LTI Fairway, plus our unique Beardmore Guide, the only workshop manual ever produced for the Beardmore Mk7. We are always looking to increase our range of specialist publications
If you are considering buying an old London taxi, we strongly recommend that you join us first. The modest cost of annual membership of the LVTA can be bring advice that could save you making expensive mistakes. We do not, out of fairness to our existing members give advice or support of a technical nature to, or advise on the availability and/or value of older taxis to non-members.
What we can offer to others
We can answer quite a wide range of questions about the London taxi and its history, from researchers, family historians and writers (but out of fairness to our members, we cannot give advice on spare parts, matters of a technical nature or advice on locating or valuing old taxicabs to non-members)
Click on the "taxi plates" on the left to access the different sections of our site.
We regret that we are unable to give advice of a technical nature to non-members.
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CSS is an very useful and effective tool which help you separate the representation definitions of such structured documents as HTML, XHTML, XML from content. It opens the doors to a lot of powerful and rich opportunities such as create a whole new look, feel, and effect of sites.
We introduced some useful CSS skills, helpful CSS tools and most useful CSS resource in pervious articles. In this article, we collected 30+ pure CSS Menu tutorials for web developers. Enjoy!
This tutorial I will show you how to slice up the menu design (step by step) and put them together with CSS. Most of you probably know how to code a horizontal or vertical CSS list menu. Now let's take it to the next level — code an advanced (un-typical) list menu utilizing the CSS
position property.
What we want to do here, is instead of simply altering the state of the navigation item the user is currently rolling over, we want to alter the non navigation items as well. This will help focus the users attention on the item they have selected on, and create a new look and feel for the site overall. Want to see it in action? Look at my demo page before we start.
A Great CSS Horizontal Drop-Down Menu
The question has been asked numerous times in the css forum, "Is a there way to create a css horizontal drop-down menu in css that will work on most browsers. Well… technically, the short answer is "No" if you are using just css, because IE is problematic in the way it handles css. However, the above is a DEMO of a horizontal drop-down menu that works
Apple's Navigation Bar Using Only CSS
In this article we are going to make the toolbar below, using nothing but HTML and CSS. If it doesn't look overly impressive, then you aren't using Safari 4. I've not written this to show you something you can use in every browser today (though as we shall see it degrades gracefully in browsers that don't support various CSS3 features), but to show what will soon be possible, and coming down the pipelines of CSS in real live browsers.
In this tutorial author shows you solution how to preclude common problems with implementations.
CSS dropdown menu without javascripting or hacks
Here is a tiered CSS drop-down menu that works in IE 6, 7, and 8; Opera 9 and 10; Firefox 3.5.3.00; Flock 2.0 and 2.52; and Chrome 184.108.40.206 and 18.104.22.168
without hacks or javascripting and is accessible without using a mouse. One downside is that it still uses images for the tabs and the sub-menus are only one level.
This uses just CSS 2 to turn nested lists into a working menu and does not use any JavaScript (except in IE 5.5-6 on windows where I use the proprietary DHTML behaviours, because its CSS handling is not good enough to work this menu without script)
What in the world is a CSS Express Drop-Down menu? Simply stated, CSS Express Menus are a PVII solution that will help you produce a quick (express) CSS drop-down menu without some of the limitations found in some other "pure" CSS menus. What the heck is a pure CSS menu? Pure CSS menus use the hover pseudoclass, on the LI tag, to hide and show drop-down menus without JavaScript.
Are you looking to create navigation menus using CSS? Are you looking to use different styles for your navigation menus? This tutorial will teach you how to create different menu styles for a main menu, submenu, and footer menu.
In this tutorial you're going to learn to create a simple, yet cool menu with overlapping tabs. I've kept it simple not because of the lack of time or inspiration, but in order for you to be able to improve on it and modify it in any way you need/want, both code and graphics. It should also be easy to understand its "inner workings", as we will see during this tutorial.
CSS graphic menu with rollovers
This tutorial will show You how to code website menu using unordered lists, and valid xHTML/CSS. No JavaScript was used!
CSS Sprite Navigation Tutorial
This tutorial teaches how to build a css navigation using sprite images. With the mobile web becoming more important than ever before, load time and the size of a web site are some of the biggest factors to consider when developing a site for mobile users.
CSS Vertical Navigation with Teaser
This tutorial introduced how to code simple vertical menu a simple way to display some teaser information for your vertical navigation.
In this tutorial, we can learn how to create Mac-like multi-level dropdown menu that author's created using border-radius, box-shadow, and text-shadow. It renders perfect on Firefox, Safari and Chrome.
Creating a glassy non div navigation bar
In this tutorial however, no divs will be used, instead you will be forming a navigation bar using a unordered list. This tutorial will show you how to style and control lists in CSS, as well as showing you the valid ways of using lists and where to use them.
Create a Slick Menu using CSS3
Create Windows 7 Start Menu Using CSS3 Only
I am fascinated with how much you can do with so little using CSS3. Many user interface elements that require images in order to have appropriate visual appearance now can be styled only with CSS3. In order to prove that I assigned myself a task to create Windows 7 start menu only with CSS3 (and some icons).
Designing the Digg Header: How To & Download
The design of Digg is full of smart ideas. The site identity is strong but doesn't take up too much valuable vertical space. Navigation is compacted with the use of simple drop-down menus. Important things like subscribing, searching and account information are right up top where you would expect them to be. It's fluid width, but it doesn't shrink too far or grow too big.
It's a tutorial covering all the basic points of building a horizontal drop-down CSS menu!
How to Create a CSS Menu Using Image Sprites
Follow these steps to build your own modern navigation bar design, starting with the initial steps in Photoshop to flesh out the design, then moving on to constructing the HTML and styling with the CSS image sprite technique. However, if all that sounds too strenuous, there's also a handy download of the source files especially for you!
Navigation bar with tabs using CSS and sliding doors effect
My friend William asked to me to design for his project a simple navigation bar with tabs using CSS.
I prepared for him this navbar (with status effects active, hover, link). You can download the source code and reuse it in your projects. If you want, you can change tabs colors simply modifying the image which I used as background for each tab.
This is a simple yet professional looking multi level side menu. Markup wise it's just a regular nested UL list, turned into a drop down menu using a very small JavaScript code. Note that the menu's background should be a solid color instead of a background image, as the later property is reserved to show the right arrow images that appear next to menu items with additional sub menus.
Very cool pure CSS Menu!!!
A pure CSS technique to transform your icon menu into an interactive zooming icon navigation menu inspired from Mac OSX Dock with fish eye effect. One of many ways to style html list tags into interactive, usable, and accessible menu using pure CSS.
Today I wanted to share the easy method of creating a pure CSS horizontal navigation menu with you.You see a lot of sites using them and while some are very creative others are way off base as far as functionality and SEO is concerned.So without further ado let's begin to create this horizontal navigation menu.
Pure CSS Menu With Infinite Sub Menus Tutorial
Today we are going to cover how to build a pure CSS menu with infinite sub menus; an area of CSS that is seldom talked about, poorly written or misconceived. This pure CSS menu with infinite sub menus technique makes use of CSS2 selectors so it will not work in IE6 and below without help from JavaScript. With that said, this pure CSS menu with infinite sub menus technique will work in:
- FireFox,
- Safari
- Opera
Pure CSS Vertical Navigation Menu
Today we are going to build the second most common menu navigation, the vertical navigation menu. Here we are going to be using only pure CSS and un-ordered lists to create our vertical navigation menu with three levels of pop outs. This version of the vertical navigation menu will work in IE5, IE6, IE7 and IE8 as well as FF and Safari.
In this tutorial you will learn the basics of creating simple vertical menus for your website using only HTML and CSS.
Super Fantastic CSS Navigation Image Rollovers
This tutorial will show you one of my favorite ways of doing a navigation menu with image rollovers done in CSS that uses only one image and very minimal HTML / CSS code. This is by no means the only way of going about it, nor is it the "right" way if there is such a thing, but I've found this to be a very quick and efficient way of accomplishing our task.
This article is the first of a 2 part series, and the second half will apply this tutorial into creating a CSS only dropdown menu navigation with the image rollovers that is compliant with IE6 and up.
Vertical CSS Menu With a 'Behavior' File
This time we will build a vertical CSS menu with rollover submenu's. This menu will be written in CSS and HTML, and will use a so-called 'behavior' file.
I really like the top navigation implemented on Vimeo.com. First time I saw it I wanted to recreate it. And this is exactly what I am going to do in this tutorial.