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Most transparency advocates favor the legislation, but there are worries about several provisions
A House panel has approved a bill that would create a single governmentwide board to set rules for expense reporting and track all federal spending data on a single website modeled after the Recovery.gov site.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee passed the legislation June 22. Sponsored by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), the committee's chairman, the bill would create a Federal Accountability and Spending Transparency Board, similar to the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board that is charged with finding fraud and waste in economic stimulus law spending.
The bill would also require standardization of spending data by recipients and agencies.
Related story:
Rep. Issa tries oversight on recovery board model
The Obama administration issued an executive order June 13 that seeks to
standardize the reporting of spending data. It contains many features
similar to those in Issa's bill, which was introduced on the same day.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) has introduced companion legislation in the
A group of 10 transparency advocacy groups endorsed both efforts in a letter to the committee, dated June 21.
"President Obama's June 13, 2011, Executive Order has the immediate
effect of creating a Government Accountability and Transparency Board
with the mission of applying the lessons of the [Recovery Accountability
and Transparency Board] to the entire federal government," the letter
states. "These are complementary efforts. The Federal Accountability and
Spending Transparency Board, as envisioned by Chairman Issa and Senator
Warner, will have the opportunity to learn from the report to be issued
by President Obama's Government Accountability and Transparency Board.
Similarly, if enacted, the [legislation] will revolutionize federal
spending transparency by impelling agency compliance and addressing the
thorny but crucial questions of data standardization."
However, several transparency groups are less enthusiastic because
Issa's legislation would expire in seven years unless Congress
reauthorizes it. There are also concerns that the bill would repeal the
Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA), which
created USAspending.gov.
Craig Jennings, director of federal fiscal policy at OMB Watch, wrote in a blog entry June 22 that those concerns were strong enough that the organization could not support the legislation.
Although OMB Watch approves of many of the bill's provisions, the
legislation is fatally flawed, Jennings wrote. "By repealing FFATA, the
bill would actually take spending transparency a few steps back because
FFATA contains a number of data elements that are required to be
reported that the [new bill] does not. And unless Congress acts to
reauthorize the bill in 2018, the spending information that appears on
USAspending.gov and all the other spending transparency created by the
[legislation] will disappear."
"We shouldn't have to be reconsidering whether spending transparency is
necessary every seven years or worried that a polarized Congress finding
itself in a legislative stalemate will fail to agree on approving
time-sensitive legislation," Jennings added.
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Oak Brook, Ill., Oct. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) heralds the recent news of a decline in U.S. cancer death rates, with the biggest decrease occurring in colorectal cancer deaths. ASGE, representing the specialists in colorectal cancer screening, is excited by the report showing that among the leading causes of cancer deaths -- lung, prostate, breast and colorectal cancer -- colorectal cancer showed the largest decline, down 4.9 percent for men and 4.5 percent for women (2002-2004).
The study, issued by the American Cancer Society, the National Cancer Institute, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries, shows a drop of 2.1 percent each year between 2002 and 2004 in cancer death rates for the majority of the 15 most commonly diagnosed cancers in men and women. Previous studies showed U.S. cancer death rates decreasing an average of 1.1 percent per year from 1993 to 2002. After steadily decreasing for many years, the decline in colorectal cancer death rates has accelerated. The concurrent declines in colorectal cancer mortality and incidence are likely associated with preventing colorectal cancer through screening and removal of precancerous polyps, improving cancer outcomes by earlier stage diagnosis, reducing exposure to risk factors, and improving cancer treatment.
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|Internet media type
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|December 17, 1996
|Type of format
|Style sheet language
|Filename extension
|Internet media type
|Developed by
|Initial release
|December 17, 1996
|Type of format
|Style sheet language
|Cascading Style Sheets
|Web design
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used for describing the look and formatting of a document written in a markup language. While most often used to change the style of web pages and user interfaces written in HTML and XHTML, the language can be applied to any kind of XML document, including plain XML, SVG and XUL. Along with HTML and JavaScript, CSS is a cornerstone technology used by most websites to create visually engaging webpages, user interfaces for web applications, and user interfaces for many mobile applications.[1]
CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content from document presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts.[2] This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control in the specification of presentation characteristics, enable multiple HTML pages to share formatting by specifying the relevant CSS in a separate .css file, and reduce complexity and repetition in the structural content, such as semantically insignificant tables that were widely used to format pages before consistent CSS rendering was available in all major browsers. CSS makes it possible to separate presentation instructions from the HTML content in a separate file or style section of the HTML file. For each matching HTML element, it provides a list of formatting instructions. For example, a CSS rule might specify that "all heading 1 elements should be bold," leaving pure semantic HTML markup that asserts "this text is a level 1 heading" without formatting code such as a
<bold> tag indicating how such text should be displayed.
This separation of formatting and content makes it possible to present the same markup page in different styles for different rendering methods, such as on-screen, in print, by voice (when read out by a speech-based browser or screen reader) and on Braille-based, tactile devices. It can also be used to display the web page differently depending on the screen size or device on which it is being viewed. While the author of a web page typically links to a CSS file within the markup file, readers can specify a different style sheet, such as a CSS file stored on their own computer, to override the one the author has specified. If the author or the reader did not link the document to a style sheet, the default style of the browser will be applied.
The CSS specification describes a priority scheme to determine which style rules apply if more than one rule matches against a particular element. In this so-called cascade, priorities or weights are calculated and assigned to rules, so that the results are predictable.
The CSS specifications are maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Internet media type (MIME type)
text/css is registered for use with CSS by RFC 2318 (March 1998). The W3C operates a free CSS validation service for CSS documents.[3]
CSS has a simple syntax and uses a number of English keywords to specify the names of various style properties.
A style sheet consists of a list of rules. Each rule or rule-set consists of one or more selectors, and a declaration block.
In CSS, selectors are used to declare which part of the markup a style applies to by matching tags and attributes in the markup itself. Selectors may apply to:
Classes and IDs are case-sensitive, start with letters, and can include alphanumeric characters and underscores. Any number of instances of any number of elements may have the same class. Conventionally, IDs only apply to one instance of one element.
Pseudo-classes are used in CSS selectors to permit formatting based on information that is not contained in the document tree. One example of a widely used pseudo-class is
:hover, which identifies content only when the user 'points to' the visible element, usually by holding the mouse cursor over it. It is appended to a selector as in
a:hover or
#elementid:hover. A pseudo-class classifies document elements, such as
:link or
:visited, whereas a pseudo-element makes a selection that may consist of partial elements, such as
:first-line or
Selectors may be combined in many ways to achieve great specificity and flexibility.[5] Multiple selectors may be joined in a spaced list to specify elements by location, element type, id, class, or any combination thereof. The order of the selectors is important. For example,
div .myClass {color:red;} applies to all elements of class myClass that are inside div elements, whereas
.myClass div{color:red;} applies to all div elements that are in elements of class myClass.
The following table provides a summary of selector syntax indicating usage and the version of CSS in which it was introduced.[6]
|First Defined in CSS Level
|An element of type E
|an E element being the source anchor of a hyperlink of which the target is not yet visited (:link) or already visited
|an E element during certain user actions
|the first formatted line of an E element
|the first formatted letter of an E element
|an E element whose class is "warning" (the document language specifies how class is determined).
|an E element with ID equal to "myid".
|an F element descendant of an E element
|Any element
|an E element with a "foo" attribute
|an E element whose "foo" attribute value is exactly equal to "bar"
|an E element whose "foo" attribute value is a list of whitespace-separated values, one of which is exactly equal to "bar"
|an E element whose "foo" attribute has a hyphen-separated list of values beginning (from the left) with "en"
|an E element, first child of its parent
|an element of type E in language "fr" (the document language specifies how language is determined)
|generated content before an E element's content
|generated content after an E element's content
|an F element child of an E element
|an F element immediately preceded by an E element
|an E element whose "foo" attribute value begins exactly with the string "bar"
|an E element whose "foo" attribute value ends exactly with the string "bar"
|an E element whose "foo" attribute value contains the substring "bar"
|an E element, root of the document
|an E element, the n-th child of its parent
|an E element, the n-th child of its parent, counting from the last one
|an E element, the n-th sibling of its type
|an E element, the n-th sibling of its type, counting from the last one
|an E element, last child of its parent
|an E element, first sibling of its type
|an E element, last sibling of its type
|an E element, only child of its parent
|an E element, only sibling of its type
|an E element that has no children (including text nodes)
|an E element being the target of the referring URI
|a user interface element E which is enabled
|a user interface element E which is disabled
|a user interface element E which is checked (for instance a radio-button or checkbox)
|an E element that does not match simple selector s
|an F element preceded by an E element
A declaration block consists of a list of declarations in braces. Each declaration itself consists of a property, a colon (
:), and a value. If there are multiple declarations in a block, a semi-colon (
;) must be inserted to separate each declaration.[7]
Properties are specified in the CSS standard. Each property has a set of possible values. Some properties can affect any type of element, and others only apply only to particular groups of elements.[8]
Values may be keywords, such as "center" or "inherit," or numerical values, such as 200px (200 pixels) or 80%. Color values can be specified with keywords (e.g. "red"), hexadecimal values (e.g. #FF0000, also abbreviated as #F00), RGB values on a 0 to 255 scale (e.g. rgb(255, 0, 0)), RGBA values that specify both color and opacity (e.g. rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.8)), or HSL or HSLA values (e.g. hsl(000, 100%, 50%), hsla(000, 100%, 50%, 80%)).[9]
Before CSS, nearly all of the presentational attributes of HTML documents were contained within the HTML markup; all font colors, background styles, element alignments, borders and sizes had to be explicitly described, often repeatedly, within the HTML. CSS allows authors to move much of that information to another file, the style sheet, resulting in considerably simpler HTML.
Headings (
h1 elements), sub-headings (
h2), sub-sub-headings (
h3), etc., are defined structurally using HTML. In print and on the screen, choice of font, size, color and emphasis for these elements is presentational.
Before CSS, document authors who wanted to assign such typographic characteristics to, say, all
h2 headings had to repeat HTML presentational markup for each occurrence of that heading type. This made documents more complex, larger, and more error-prone and difficult to maintain. CSS allows the separation of presentation from structure. CSS can define color, font, text alignment, size, borders, spacing, layout and many other typographic characteristics, and can do so independently for on-screen and printed views. CSS also defines non-visual styles such as the speed and emphasis with which text is read out by aural text readers. The W3C has now deprecated the use of all presentational HTML markup.[10]
For example, under pre-CSS HTML, a header element defined with red text would be written as:

 Chapter 1.

Using CSS, the same element can be coded using style properties instead of HTML presentational attributes:

 Chapter 1.

An "external" CSS file, as described below, can be associated with an HTML document using the following syntax:
<link href="path/to/file.css" rel="stylesheet">
An internal CSS code can be typed in the head section of the code. The coding is started with the style tag. For example,
CSS information can be provided from various sources. These sources can be the web browser, the user and the author. The information from the author can be further classified into inline, media type, importance, selector specificity, rule order, inheritance and property definition. CSS style information can be in a separate document or it can be embedded into an HTML document. Multiple style sheets can be imported. Different styles can be applied depending on the output device being used; for example, the screen version can be quite different from the printed version, so that authors can tailor the presentation appropriately for each medium.
The style sheet with the highest priority controls the content display. Declarations not set in the highest priority source are passed on to a source of lower priority, such as the user agent style. This process is called cascading.
One of the goals of CSS is to allow users greater control over presentation. Someone who finds red italic headings difficult to read may apply a different style sheet. Depending on the browser and the web site, a user may choose from various style sheets provided by the designers, or may remove all added styles and view the site using the browser's default styling, or may override just the red italic heading style without altering other attributes.
|High Priority
|CSS Source Type
|The '!important' annotation overwrites the previous priority types
|A style applied to an HTML element via HTML 'style' attribute
|Media Type
|A property definition applies to all media types, unless a media specific CSS defined
|User defined
|Most browsers have the accessibility feature: a user defined CSS
|Selector specificity
|A specific contextual selector (#heading p) overwrites generic definition
|Rule order
|Last rule declaration has a higher priority
|Parent inheritance
|If a property is not specified, it is inherited from a parent element
|CSS property definition in HTML document
|CSS rule or CSS inline style overwrites a default browser value
|Browser default
|The lowest priority: browser default value is determined by W3C initial value specifications
Specificity describes the relative weights of various rules.[11] It determines which styles are applied to an element when more than one rule could apply. Based on specification, a simple selector (e.g., H1) has a specificity of 1, class selectors have a specificity of 1,0, and ID selectors a specificity of 1,0,0. Because the specificity values do not carry over as in the decimal system, commas are used to separate the "digits"[12] (a CSS rule having 11 elements and 11 classes would have a specificity of 11,11, not 121).
Thus the following rules selectors result in the indicated specificity:
|H1 {color: white;}
|P EM {color: green;}
|.grape {color: red;}
|P.bright {color: blue;}
|P.bright EM.dark {color: yellow;}
|#id218 {color: brown;}
|style=" "
Consider this HTML fragment:
<!DOCTYPE html>   <meta charset="utf-8">
 To demonstrate specificity

In the above example, the declaration in the "style" attribute will override the one in the style element since it has a higher specificity.
Inheritance is a key feature in CSS, it relies on the ancestor-descendant relationship to operate. Inheritance is the mechanism by which properties are applied not only to a specified element, but also to its descendants.[11] Inheritance relies on the document tree, which is the hierarchy of (X)HTML elements in a page based on nesting. Descendant elements may inherit CSS property values from any ancestor element enclosing them. In general, descendant elements inherit text-related properties, but box-related properties are not inherited. Properties that can be inherited are color, font, letter-spacing, line-height, list-style, text-align text-indent, text-transform, visibility, white-space and word-spacing. Properties that cannot be inherited are background, border, display, float and clear, height and width, margin, min- and max-height and -width, outline, overflow, padding, position, text-decoration, vertical-align and z-index.
Inheritance prevents certain properties from being declared over and over again in a style sheet, allowing the software developers to write less CSS. It enhances faster-loading of web pages by users and enables the clients to save money on bandwidth and development costs.
Given the following style sheet:
h1{color: pink;}
Suppose there is an h1 element with an emphasizing element (em) inside:

This to illustrate inheritance

If no color has been assigned to the em element, the emphasized word "illustrate" will inherit the color of the parent element,h1. The style sheet h1 has the color pink, hence, the em element will likewise be in pink.
Whitespace between properties and selectors is ignored. This code snippet:
is functionally equivalent to this one:
body { overflow: hidden; background: #000000; }
One common way to format CSS for readability is to indent each property and give it its own line.
CSS was first proposed by Håkon Wium Lie on October 10, 1994.[13] At the time, Lie was working with Tim Berners-Lee at CERN.[14] Several other style sheet languages for the web were proposed around the same time, and discussions on public mailing lists and inside W3C resulted in the first W3C CSS Recommendation (CSS1)[15] being released in 1996. In particular, Bert Bos' proposal was influential; he became co-author of CSS1 and is regarded as co-creator of CSS.[16]
Style sheets have existed in one form or another since the beginnings of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) in the 1980s, and CSS was developed to provide style sheets for the web.[17] One requirement for a web style sheet language was for style sheets to come from different sources on the web. Therefore, existing style sheet languages like DSSSL and FOSI were not suitable. CSS, on the other hand, allowed a document's style to be influenced by multiple style sheets by way of "cascading".[17]
As HTML grew, it came to encompass a wider variety of stylistic capabilities to meet the demands of web developers. This evolution gave the designer more control over site appearance, at the cost of more complex HTML. Variations in web browser implementations, such as ViolaWWW and WorldWideWeb,[18] made consistent site appearance difficult, and users had less control over how web content was displayed. The browser/editor developed by Tim Berners-Lee had style sheets that were hard-coded into the program. The style sheets could therefore not be linked to documents on the web.[19] Robert Cailliau, also of CERN, wanted to separate the structure from the presentation so that different style sheets could describe different presentation for printing, screen-based presentations, and editors.[18]
Improving web presentation capabilities was a topic of interest to many in the web community and nine different style sheet languages were proposed on the www-style mailing list.[17] Of these nine proposals, two were especially influential on what became CSS: Cascading HTML Style Sheets[13] and Stream-based Style Sheet Proposal (SSP).[16][20] Two browsers served as testbeds for the initial proposals; Lie worked with Yves Lafon to implement CSS in Dave Raggett's Arena browser.[21][22][23] Bert Bos implemented his own SSP proposal in the Argo browser.[16] Thereafter, Lie and Bos worked together to develop the CSS standard (the 'H' was removed from the name because these style sheets could also be applied to other markup languages besides HTML).[14]
Lie's proposal was presented at the "Mosaic and the Web" conference (later called WWW2) in Chicago, Illinois in 1994, and again with Bert Bos in 1995.[14] Around this time the W3C was already being established, and took an interest in the development of CSS. It organized a workshop toward that end chaired by Steven Pemberton. This resulted in W3C adding work on CSS to the deliverables of the HTML editorial review board (ERB). Lie and Bos were the primary technical staff on this aspect of the project, with additional members, including Thomas Reardon of Microsoft, participating as well. In August 1996 Netscape Communication Corporation presented an alternative style sheet language called JavaScript Style Sheets (JSSS).[14] The spec was never finished and is deprecated.[24] By the end of 1996, CSS was ready to become official, and the CSS level 1 Recommendation was published in December.
Development of HTML, CSS, and the DOM had all been taking place in one group, the HTML Editorial Review Board (ERB). Early in 1997, the ERB was split into three working groups: HTML Working group, chaired by Dan Connolly of W3C; DOM Working group, chaired by Lauren Wood of SoftQuad; and CSS Working group, chaired by Chris Lilley of W3C.
The CSS Working Group began tackling issues that had not been addressed with CSS level 1, resulting in the creation of CSS level 2 on November 4, 1997. It was published as a W3C Recommendation on May 12, 1998. CSS level 3, which was started in 1998, is still under development as of 2014.
In 2005 the CSS Working Groups decided to enforce the requirements for standards more strictly. This meant that already published standards like CSS 2.1, CSS 3 Selectors and CSS 3 Text were pulled back from Candidate Recommendation to Working Draft level.
The CSS 1 specification was completed in 1996. Microsoft's Internet Explorer 3[14] was released in that year, featuring some limited support for CSS. But it was more than three years before any web browser achieved near-full implementation of the specification. Internet Explorer 5.0 for the Macintosh, shipped in March 2000, was the first browser to have full (better than 99 percent) CSS 1 support,[25] surpassing Opera, which had been the leader since its introduction of CSS support 15 months earlier. Other browsers followed soon afterwards, and many of them additionally implemented parts of CSS 2. As of August 2010[update], no (finished) browser had fully implemented CSS 2, with implementation levels varying (see Comparison of layout engines (CSS)).
Even though early browsers such as Internet Explorer 3[14] and 4, and Netscape 4.x had support for CSS, it was typically incomplete and had many bugs that prevented their implementations from being usefully adopted.
When later 'version 5' browsers began to offer a fairly full implementation of CSS, they were still incorrect in certain areas and were fraught with inconsistencies, bugs and other quirks. The proliferation of such CSS-related inconsistencies and even the variation in feature support has made it difficult for designers to achieve a consistent appearance across browsers and platforms. Some authors resorted to workarounds such as CSS hacks and filters.
Problems with browsers' patchy adoption of CSS, along with errata in the original specification, led the W3C to revise the CSS 2 standard into CSS 2.1, which moved nearer to a working snapshot of current CSS support in HTML browsers. Some CSS 2 properties that no browser successfully implemented were dropped, and in a few cases, defined behaviors were changed to bring the standard into line with the predominant existing implementations. CSS 2.1 became a Candidate Recommendation on February 25, 2004, but CSS 2.1 was pulled back to Working Draft status on June 13, 2005,[26] and only returned to Candidate Recommendation status on July 19, 2007.[27]
In the past, some web servers were configured to serve all documents with the filename extension
.css[28] as mime type
application/x-pointplus[29] rather than
text/css. At the time, there was a software product on the market to convert PowerPoint files into Compact Slide Show files using the
.css extension.[30]
CSS has various levels and profiles. Each level of CSS builds upon the last, typically adding new features and typically denoted as CSS 1, CSS 2, CSS 3, and CSS 4. Profiles are typically a subset of one or more levels of CSS built for a particular device or user interface. Currently there are profiles for mobile devices, printers, and television sets. Profiles should not be confused with media types, which were added in CSS 2.
The first CSS specification to become an official W3C Recommendation is CSS level 1, published on December 17, 1996. Håkon Wium Lie and Bas Bos are credited as the original developers.[31][32] Among its capabilities are support for
The W3C no longer maintains the CSS 1 Recommendation.[33]
CSS level 2 specification was developed by the W3C and published as a recommendation in May 1998. A superset of CSS 1, CSS 2 includes a number of new capabilities like absolute, relative, and fixed positioning of elements and z-index, the concept of media types, support for aural style sheets (which were later replaced by the CSS 3 speech modules)[34] and bidirectional text, and new font properties such as shadows.
The W3C no longer maintains the CSS 2 recommendation.[35]
CSS level 2 revision 1, often referred to as "CSS 2.1", fixes errors in CSS 2, removes poorly supported or not fully interoperable features and adds already-implemented browser extensions to the specification. To comply with the W3C Process for standardizing technical specifications, CSS 2.1 went back and forth between Working Draft status and Candidate Recommendation status for many years. CSS 2.1 first became a Candidate Recommendation on February 25, 2004, but it was reverted to a Working Draft on June 13, 2005 for further review. It returned to Candidate Recommendation on 19 July 2007 and then updated twice in 2009. However, since changes and clarifications were made, it again went back to Last Call Working Draft on 7 December 2010.
CSS 2.1 went to Proposed Recommendation on 12 April 2011.[36] After being reviewed by the W3C Advisory Committee, it was finally published as a W3C Recommendation on 7 June 2011.[37]
Unlike CSS 2, which is a large single specification defining various features, CSS 3 is divided into several separate documents called "modules". Each module adds new capabilities or extends features defined in CSS 2, preserving backward compatibility. Work on CSS level 3 started around the time of publication of the original CSS 2 recommendation. The earliest CSS 3 drafts were published in June 1999.[38]
Due to the modularization, different modules have different stability and statuses.[39] As of June 2012, there are over fifty CSS modules published from the CSS Working Group.,[38] and four of these have been published as formal recommendations:
Some modules (including Backgrounds and Borders and Multi-column Layout among others) have Candidate Recommendation (CR) status and are considered moderately stable. At CR stage, implementations are advised to drop vendor prefixes.[40] Summary of all module-specifications:[41]
|Specification title
|Status, date
|CSS Backgrounds and Borders Module Level 3
|Candidate Recommendation, September 2014
|CSS basic box model
|Working Draft, August 2007
|CSS Cascading and Inheritance Level 3
|Candidate Recommendation, October 2013
|CSS Color Module Level 3
|Recommendation, June 2011
|CSS3 Generated and Replaced Content Module
|Working Draft, May 2003
|CSS Fonts Module Level 3
|Candidate Recommendation, October 2013
|CSS Generated Content for Paged Media Module
|Working Draft, May 2014
|CSS Template Layout Module
|Working Draft, November 2011
|Media Queries
|Recommendation, June 2012
|CSS Paged Media Module Level 3
|Working Draft, March 2013
|Selectors Level 3
|Recommendation, September 2011
|CSS Basic User Interface Module Level 3 (CSS3 UI)
|Working Draft, January 2012
There is no single, integrated CSS4 specification,[42] since it is split into separate modules. However, there are "level 4" modules.[43]
Since CSS3 split the CSS language's definition into modules, the modules have been allowed to level independently. Most modules are level 3 - they build on things from CSS 2.1. A few level 4 modules exist (such as Image Values, Backgrounds & Borders, or Selectors), which build on the functionality of a preceding level 3 module. Others define entirely new functionality, such as Flexbox.
So, while no monolithic CSS4 will be worked on after CSS3 is finished completely, the level 4 modules can collectively be referred to as CSS4.
Because not all browsers correctly parse CSS code, developed coding techniques known as CSS hacks can either filter specific browsers or target specific browsers (generally both are known as CSS filters). The former can be defined as CSS filtering hacks and the latter can be defined as CSS targeting hacks. Both can be used to hide or show parts of the CSS to different browsers. This is achieved either by exploiting CSS-handling quirks or bugs in the browser, or by taking advantage of lack of support for parts of the CSS specifications.[44] Using CSS filters, some designers have gone as far as delivering different CSS to certain browsers to ensure designs render as expected. Because very early web browsers were either completely incapable of handling CSS, or rendered CSS very poorly, designers today often routinely use CSS filters that completely prevent these browsers from accessing any of the CSS. Internet Explorer support for CSS began with IE 3.0 and increased progressively with each version. By 2008, the first Beta of Internet Explorer 8 offered support for CSS 2.1 in its best web standards mode.
An example of a historically well-known CSS browser bug was the Internet Explorer box model bug, where box widths are interpreted incorrectly in several versions of the browser, resulting in blocks that are too narrow when viewed in Internet Explorer, but correct in standards-compliant browsers. The bug can be avoided in Internet Explorer 6 by using the correct doctype in (X)HTML documents. CSS hacks and CSS filters are used to compensate for bugs such as this, just one of hundreds of CSS bugs that have been documented in various versions of Netscape, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, and Internet Explorer (including Internet Explorer 7).[45][46]
Even when the availability of CSS-capable browsers made CSS a viable technology, the adoption of CSS was still held back by designers' struggles with browsers' incorrect CSS implementation and patchy CSS support. Even today, these problems continue to make the business of CSS design more complex and costly than it was intended to be, and cross-browser testing remains a necessity. Other reasons for the continuing non-adoption of CSS are: its perceived complexity, authors' lack of familiarity with CSS syntax and required techniques, poor support from authoring tools, the risks posed by inconsistency between browsers and the increased costs of testing.[citation needed]
Currently there is strong competition between the WebKit layout engine used in Apple Safari and Google Chrome, the similar KHTML engine used in KDE's Konqueror browser and Mozilla's Gecko layout engine used in Firefox — each of them is leading in different aspects of CSS.[clarification needed examples would be useful] As of August 2009, Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 2 and 3 have reasonably complete levels of implementation of CSS 2.1.[47][needs update]
Some noted limitations of the current capabilities of CSS include:
margin-left: 10% – 3em + 4px;). This would be useful in a variety of cases, such as calculating the size of columns subject to a constraint on the sum of all columns. However, a working draft with a calc() value to address this limitation has been published by the CSS WG.[52] Internet Explorer versions 5 to 7 support a proprietary expression() statement,[53] with similar functionality. This proprietary expression() statement is no longer supported from Internet Explorer 8 onwards, except in compatibility modes. This decision was taken for "standards compliance, browser performance, and security reasons".[53]
column-count module),[54] layouts with multiple columns can be complex to implement in CSS 2.1. With CSS 2.1, the process is often done using floating elements, which are often rendered differently by different browsers, different computer screen shapes, and different screen ratios set on standard monitors.
:first-letter pseudo-element, one cannot target specific ranges of text without needing to utilize place-holder elements.
class, type or relationship to others. This is much more efficient than repeating style information inline for each occurrence of the element. An external stylesheet is usually stored in the browser cache, and can therefore be used on multiple pages without being reloaded, further reducing data transfer over a network.
CSS frameworks are pre-prepared libraries that are meant to allow for easier, more standards-compliant styling of web pages using the Cascading Style Sheets language. CSS frameworks include Foundation, Blueprint, Bootstrap and Cascade Framework. Like programming and scripting language libraries, CSS frameworks are usually incorporated as external .css sheets referenced in the HTML
. They provide a number of ready-made options for designing and laying out the web page. While many of these frameworks have been published, some authors use them mostly for rapid prototyping, or for learning from, and prefer to 'handcraft' CSS that is appropriate to each published site without the design, maintenance and download overhead of having many unused features in the site's styling.[56]
CSS 2.1 defines three positioning schemes:
There are four possible values of the
position property. If an item is positioned in any way other than
static, then the further properties
left, and
right are used to specify offsets and positions.
float property may have one of three values. Absolutely positioned or fixed items cannot be floated. Other elements normally flow around floated items, unless they are prevented from doing so by their
clear property.
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I have bought two vinyl windows to replace the two aluminum windows in my bathroom. My house is of stucco construction, all my interior sheetrock is removed, and nominally the old and new windows are the same size.
The reason is to replace plain glass with obscured glass. The new windows are not replacement type, but are new construction.
I'm unsure how far back to remove the stucco - I would only need to remove an inch or two to remove the old window, but I'm wondering about making the new installation water tight.
Any advice on how much stucco to remove, and the best procedure for water tightness appreciated!
Oh, I'm in California so not much rain and no snow/ice if that matters.
kenc 2006,
It would be safe for you to remove the stucco up to about three to four inches around the stucco. You can either use a saw for a clean line or just use a hammer. The one thing you want to be careful of is tearing into the paper begind your lath when doing this, try your best to avaoid doing so. Tour also idealy going to want your lath to stay in good enough condition to use again when restuccoing. Once the stucco is broken out pull the few furring nails around the window and then pull the lath back so you can remove/install the window(s). If you have pierced the paper while doing your demo you can either slide a new piece behind the exisiting or if there are too many nails to do so just fill/cover holes with a caulk. Once you have your framing exposed (sills, King stud, trimmers and header stapple a six inch moist stop to the framming. 1st run a piece across the face of the sill and run it about 5 inches past each trimmer. Then run your vertical peices from top of header and down the face edge of your trimmers and king stud. Make sure the over lap on top of your bottom piece. Get the window ready for installation by running a liberal bead of caulk acros the header, trimmes and sills. Now put the window in. Once you've deternined the window is plumb and level nail it of using 3/4 inch galvanized roofing nails and then put your final piece of moist stop acrros the header and overlapping the top nailing flange. Pull your lath back into place and nail it tighlty and taught using furring nails. Once this is done you can mask of the window and begin to apply stucco. Always best to take the time of doing three coats, scratch, brown and finisc.... Good luck


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Here Come The Official Russian Counter Sanctions: Boehner, Reid, McCain Barred From Entering RussiaSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 03/20/2014 11:47 -0400
The people sanctioned via the Russian foreign ministry:
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The Next Shoe To Drop On Your Retirement AccountSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 03/06/2014 14:32 -0400
President Obama released his 2015 budget proposal this week...and as expected, it contained even more language about his MyRA initiative. As we've discussed so many times in the past, IRAs are an irresistible kitty for such a bankrupt government. The US government itself estimates that over $5 trillion is tucked away in American retirement accounts. They need that money. Your money. The US government is struggling to come up with new funding sources… and retirement accounts are by far the easiest target. Why? Because the majority of retirement accounts at trapped at big Wall Street banks, which are all de facto agents of the government. All the Treasury Department has to do is make a phone call. Yesterday's budget announcement constitutes the next phase: automatic enrollment.
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David Stockman Berates Bruce Berkowitz's Bogus BombastSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 03/05/2014 16:06 -0400
The Fed's serial bubble machine has not only bestowed massive speculative windfalls on the 1%, but it has also fostered a noxious culture of plunder and entitlement in the gambling casinos of Wall Street. After each thundering sell-off during the bust phase, crony capitalist gamblers have been gifted with ill-gotten windfalls during the Fed's subsequent maniacal money printing spree. In this context comes Bruce Berkowitz "scolding" and firing "salvos" at Washington from the front page of the Wall Street Journal.
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The Obama Budget In Two ChartsSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 03/04/2014 14:33 -0400
The magical thinking highlighted in two charts, as WaPo reports; in his budget request, Obama projects public debt as a percentage of gross domestic project falling to 69% by 2024, while the CBO has it rising to 79% - a difference of 10 percentage points, or roughly $2.7 trillion. As WaPo notes, the likelihood of this scenario unfolding... zero.
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Presenting The #1 Financial Haven For Dictators & CriminalsSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 02/26/2014 16:02 -0400
Pop quiz: When really nasty criminals and dictators want to hide their illicit gains, which country do they go to? We'll make this easy for you - multiple choice:
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US And Israel Quietly Provide Military Support And Parts To Iran, Which In Turn Is Arming SyriaSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 02/23/2014 22:19 -0400
To summarize: in an act of complete disregard for the official diplomatic song and dance, both Israel and the US are now providing military support to Iran, which in turn is providing military support to Syria, which is also getting military support from Russia. And now, just to make things more interesting, the same labyrinth of "military support" is about to be unleashed in the Ukraine, whose western half is just as likely getting arms and military equipment (not to mention funding)from the West under the table, while Russia, whose main Black Sea port is in the Ukraine's Crimean peninsula, is arming the Eastern part of the Ukraine.
What can possibly go wrong?
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While we will have more to say about the disastrous December TIC data shortly, which was released early today, and which showed a dramatic plunge in foreign purchases of US securities in December - the month when the S&P soared to all time highs and when everyone was panicking about the 3% barrier in the 10 Year being breached and resulting in a selloff in Tsy paper - one thing stands out. The chart below shows holdings of Chinese Treasurys (pending revision of course, as the Treasury department is quite fond of ajdusting this data series with annual regularity): in a nutshell, Chinese Treasury holdings plunged by the most in years, after China offloaded some $48 billion in paper, bringing its total to only $1268.9 billion, down from $1316.7 billion, and back to a level last seen in March 2013! This was the second largest dump by China in history with the sole exception of December 2011.
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Just as we predicted it would happen, here it comes:
Specificaly, according Bloomberg, businesses with 50-99 workers have until 2016 before being penalized for not providing health-care coverage to full-time workers, according to final regulations released by Treasury.
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Three times more Americans gave up on America in 2013 than in 2012. As The WSJ reports, last year saw a record number of US taxpayer expatriations. While "exceptionalism" and living the American Dream remain cornerstones of maintaining the US citizenry's view of the world, it seems everything from tax-code changes to spying drove 2,999 people to hand in their passports last year, "above all, fear seems to be driving this increase."
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The Debt Ceiling "X-Date" Is Back: May Hit As Soon As February 28Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/30/2014 15:48 -0400
While everyone focuses on the turmoiling in Emerging Markets, a good, old standby is back - the periodic "debt ceiling" IMAX tragicomedy. Recall that the debt limit, which has been suspended since October 17, is scheduled to be reinstated on February 8. At that time, the nation will be operating right at the debt limit, and the Treasury Department will use extraordinary measures to temporarily issue additional public debt to meet federal financial obligations as it always does during episodes of political posturing that without fail take place until the 11th hour, 59th minute, and 59th second. However, unlike last year when there was a 5 month interval between hitting the debt ceiling, and the day the Treasury's funds fully ran out - the infamous X Date - this time the emergency measures will only last a limited time. What this means when looking at a calendar, is that the Treasury may not have sufficient cash-on-hand to cover all obligations due as soon as February 28.
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The MyRA Propaganda Begins: "A Start To A Secure Retirement" Promises Treasury SecretarySubmitted by Tyler Durden on 01/30/2014 14:38 -0400
You didn't think the US could at first slowly, and then all of a sudden, expropriate retirement accounts and invest them in the "no risk, guaranteed return" MyRA Ponzi scheme introduced by Obama during the State of the Union address without lots of behavior-modifying indoctrination in the "friendly press" first now did you? Sure enough, here is the first major propaganda salvo, coming from none other than the US Treasury Secretary, Jack Lew, which will be published tomorrow across the McClatchy media empire.
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1,582-Page Spending Bill Hinges On NSA Giving Congress 5 Years Of RecordsSubmitted by Tyler Durden on 01/14/2014 13:24 -0400
The 1,582-page (apparently bipartisan) omnibus spending bill announced last night adds up to a cool $1.1 trillion. As Bloomberg reports, lawmakers notes "not everyone will like everything in this bill," and we can see why. There is no IMF funding, nothing that "blocks Obamacare," the IRS gets a reprimand - barring them from targetng groups based on their ideological beliefs, preserves language that blocks Federal funding for abortions and spending any money to legalize marijuana. But, perhaps the most critical aspect of the bill is the NSA is required to give Congress number of phone records collected, reviewed during last 5 yrs, including estimate for records of U.S. citizens (among other things). Will that be one step too far for the administration?
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Guest Post: The Greatest Myth Propagated About The Fed: Central Bank Independence (Part 1)Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/11/2014 21:14 -0400
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It has been commonplace to speak of central bank independence - as if it were both a reality and a necessity. Discussions of the Fed invariably refer to legislated independence and often to the famous 1951 Accord that apparently settled the matter. [1] While everyone recognizes the Congressionally-imposed dual mandate, the Fed has substantial discretion in its interpretation of the vague call for high employment and low inflation. It is, then, perhaps a good time to reexamine the thinking behind central bank independence. There are several related issues.
- First, can a central bank really be independent? In what sense? Political? Operational? Policy formation?
- Second, should a central bank be independent? In a democracy should monetary policy—purportedly as important as or even more important than fiscal policy—be unaccountable? Why?
- Finally, what are the potential problems faced if a central bank is not independent? Inflation? Insolvency?
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500 Years of History Shows that Mass Spying Is Always Aimed at Crushing DissentSubmitted by George Washington on 01/09/2014 12:57 -0400
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Saturday, April 25, 2:30 – 3:30 PM
Shawna Coronado is an author, columnist, blogger, photographer, and spokesperson dedicated to speaking internationally on living a green lifestyle, organic gardening, and culinary arts. Shawna's ultimate goal through all of her work is to better the world through community involvement and simple green living.
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Friday, April 24, Saturday, April 25 and
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NASA's exhibit will be a multi-media experience where visitors will find themselves fully immersed in the International Space Station Program, learning the finer points of space exploration, and getting up close and personal with a 4 billion-year old moon rock.
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Yes, tree climbing as a recreational activity and it is just as much fun as it sounds. Learn how to climb trees, rope-and-harness style, with professional instructors on the historic oaks at Fair Park.
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Come watch professional musicians and talented youth play side-by-side at our outdoor concert series organized by Texas Music Project, a nonprofit that supports music education in Texas schools. Seven-time Grammy award-winner Paul Winter and Consort is headlining the two-day series of quality music and entertainment.
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Seven-time Grammy winner Paul Winter has a body of work that chronicles his wide-ranging experiences in the musical traditions and natural enviornments of the Earth. The saxophonist, composer, and bandleader founded Living Music as the recording context for his ensemble, the Paul Winter Consor, and his community of colleagues, which includes some of the world's finest jazz, world, and clasical musicians, along with notable voices from the great symphony of wildlife.
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FIG. 1 is a front perspective view from one side and above of the mobile telephone embodying the design;
FIG. 2 is a front elevation thereof;
FIG. 3 is a rear elevation thereof;
FIG. 4 is a right side elevation thereof;
FIG. 5 is a plan view thereof;
FIG. 6 is an underneath plan view thereof;
FIG. 7 is a front elevation thereof with the keyboard extended downwardly to reveal the entire display; and,
FIG. 8 is a left side elevation of the mobile telephone as shown in FIG. 7 with the stylus exploded therefrom. The interior portion of the mobile telephone that is obscured when the stylus is in place is shown in broken lines as same is not a part of the claimed design.
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A new review of studies challenges prior research that belly fat is worse for your heart.
The new research finds that any excess fat-- whether it's distributed evenly throughout your body, or just concentrated at your waistline, is bad for your heart.
The review shows that a high body mass index (BMI) can predict heart risks just as well as a large waist.
The findings contrast previous work that suggests abdominal fat is a better predictor of heart disease than overall obesity.
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NEW ORLEANS -- BP managers were under pressure to cut costs significantly in the years leading up to the Deepwater Horizon accident, according to testimony at the federal trial here over liability for the 2010 explosion and oil spill.
Kevin Lacy, BP's former Head of Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, said in a videotaped deposition that he was told to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in costs in 2008 and 2009.
"I was never given a directive to cut corners or deliver something unsafe," Mr. Lacy said. "But there was tremendous pressure on costs."
The testimony came on the third day of the civil trial that will determine the degree of culpability that BP and other companies have for the accident, which killed 11 workers. They are being sued by the federal government, state, and local businesses that say they were hurt financially by the oil spill, which lasted for three months.
Mr. Lacy's testimony was preceded by excerpts from interviews lawyers for plaintiffs suing BP did with its former CEO, Tony Hayward, who was asked repeatedly about speeches he had given on cost-cutting at the company. In many cases, Mr. Hayward tried to point out a broader context for the statements and speeches.
Lamar McKay, the Head of BP's exploration and production business, repeatedly rebuffed attempts by a lawyer for the plaintiffs to place the entire blame for the accident on BP. Mr. McKay stressed that decision making and safety were shared responsibilities among all the companies working on the doomed rig.
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There is a trajectory in Australian political and intellectual thought that is carrying us towards a true national identity and spirit. It is crucial that Yolŋu thought and philosophy continue to exist strongly for that to occur. We need to celebrate Indigenous wisdom in the hope that some of it can rub offREAD MORE
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Legally nothing changes responsibility with chip cards.
However, like debit cards today, the user will be responsible if the pin is compromised.
Legally nothing changes responsibility with chip cards. The user is still only responsible for the first $50 on a fraudulent credit transaction. However, like debit cards today, the user will be responsible if the pin is compromised.The problem for the user with a fraudulent chip transaction is going to be proving that the cryptographic algorithms on the chip have been compromised.
Entering a card number and PIN? Where do you do that? My credit cards don't have PINs. You enter the credit card number and card expiration date and, if the site is a trustworthy, smart site, you are also required to enter the the 3 digit number on the back. ...
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Why would the customer have to prove that the cryptographic algorithms on the chip have been compromised?
Because EMV will put us back where we were before congress passed the credit card liability law.
Assuming you're talking about a credit card & not a stored value card, there's no doubt issuers would like to see that codified but has Regulation E been modified to incorporate that change?
Informative 3 page thread here on EMVViews on EMV (chip & pin) usage in the US?»ficoforums.myfico.com/t5/Credit- ··· /1505804
What's a "stored value card"? I've never heard of it.
I am amazed reading this thread how behind the times the USA is with credit cards.
In the aftermath of one of the worst recessions in history, more Americans have limited or no interaction with banks, instead relying on check cashers and payday lenders to manage their finances, according to a new federal report.Not only are these Americans more vulnerable to high fees and interest rates, but they are also cut off from credit to buy a car or a home or pay for college, the report from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said.Released Wednesday, the study found that 821,000 households opted out of the banking system from 2009 to 2011 and that the so-called unbanked population grew to 8.2 percent of U.S. households.That means that roughly 17 million adults are without a checking or savings account. Another 51 million adults have a bank account, but use pawnshops, payday lenders or rent-to-own services, the FDIC said. This underbanked population has grown from 18.2 percent to 20.1 percent of households nationwide.The study also found that one in four households, or 28.3 percent, either had one or no bank account. A third of these households said they do not have enough money to open and fund an account. Minorities, the unemployed, young people and lower-income households are least likely to have accounts.
...Not only are these Americans more vulnerable to high fees and interest rates, but they are also cut off from credit to buy a car or a home or pay for college, the report from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said....
More Americans opting out of banking system...
With statements generally not available it's up to the consumer to manually track charges with discrepancies of a few cents not considered a big deal.
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Huh? Credit cards do NOT require pins.
In Canada? I was talking about USA. Sorry if that wasn't clear.
I don't get the point of those kinds of cards.


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Food Finds Us > Appetizers > Azúca Corn Bread
Azúca Corn Bread
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Ingredients description
Ingredients for Corn Bread
2 lb Butter Solids, room temperature
17 ea Eggs, extra large
1.9 lb Cornmeal
2 oz Baking Powder
2½ lb Roasted Corn Kernels, fresh or frozen
2½ lb Granulated Sugar
1.6 lb Flour, all-purpose
½ oz Salt
2½ lb Sour Cream
2 lb Roasted Red Pimentos (Bell Peppers), diced
Method for Corn Bread
• Cream the butter and sugar for 5 minutes, in the mixer with the paddle.
• Add the eggs slowly.
• Add flour, corn meal, baking powder, salt and mix for 2 minutes until every thing is well incorporated.
• Add the sour cream last and mix for another 2 minutes on # 2 speed.
• Add roasted corn kernels and roasted diced peppers.
• Spray Molds with pan release spray and poor 6 oz of mix. Bake in a pre-heated 350 degree oven for 40 minutes. Bon Appétit !!!