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12:10pm Thursday 6th March 2014
By Stephanie Manley
A FOSTER home created by the generous donations of South Lakeland residents is caught up in the Ukrainian crisis.
The five teenagers living at Genesis House, near Kiev, have been evacuated for their safety, with the younger ones sent to a camp away from the trouble and the older ones staying at college to prevent transport in and out of the city.
The Ukraine conflict started with the fatal protest in Kiev which has spilled over to threaten the Crimean region.
Being just outside the capital and on the main route to Crimea, parents at the home, Sasha and Olena Donsky, are said to be 'terrified'.
Kendal grandmother Pat Harrison, who founded the New Beginnings charity to raise the money for the safe house, said she was in regular contact with them, but that she did not know how long this would be possible.
"I am worried that soon we won't be able to communicate because mobile phones are being cut off," she said.
"We have done our best to make sure the children are as safe as possible, but it is a very scary situation.
"Just last week I was told people came into the village, sent all the children home from school, bashed up the teachers and took over the building. Nobody knows what's going to happen next."
The Donsky's son Andrey, 32, moved to Kendal 16 years ago - around the same time as Olesya, who he later married.
He said he had tried to speak to his parents once or twice a day, and expressed fears for his wife's family who live in Crimea.
"In Crimea they have been cut off from the mainland. Prices have gone up because the value of the local currency has halved. The food in shops is running out because people are stockpiling it.
"They are just stuck inside and trying to keep their head down. We have been told that there are armed vehicles all around and people with machine guns – people are very scared."
He added that his parents were also trying to 'keep a low profile', despite the clashes stopping in Kiev.
"The concern now is that it's very uncertain because there is no real police force in control. People are walking around with masks and guns in their hands, and nobody knows who's in charge. A few days ago just miles from the house three policemen were killed by men who took their weapons.
"All we can do is follow the news and try to keep in touch. We were meant to be visiting at Easter but I don't think that will happen now."
On Tuesday Foreign Secretary William Hague told the House of Commons that the Government's first objectives were to avoid any further military escalation, and to see Russian forces withdraw.
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Police have charged a middle-aged man over a shooting in Melbourne's inner west on Monday afternoon that left a woman dead.
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A girl affected by the Pakistan earthquake drinks water from a community tap in Awaran, Balochistan province. The death toll from the 7.7 magnitude earthquake in the southwest of the country on September 24 climbed to 355 people with hundreds injured. Awaran was the epicentre of the quake which was felt as far away as New Delhi, the Indian capital.
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In late January, Christopher W. Landsea, a hurricane specialist
with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in
Miami, publicly announced that he would end his
participation in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC), a group that comes together periodically
under the auspices of the United Nations to report the
latest advances in scientific understanding. Landsea's
withdrawal was sparked by a press briefing that followed the
busy 2004 hurricane season in Florida. That event was
promoted by a Harvard University press release headlined
"Experts to warn global warming likely to continue
spurring more outbreaks of intense hurricane activity."
One of these experts was Kevin E. Trenberth of the National
Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder—the person
who had invited Landsea to contribute to the IPCC's upcoming
fourth assessment report.
Although Trenberth didn't explicitly state that the 2004
Florida hurricanes were caused by global warming, some of
the comments he made at the briefing could easily be
misconstrued. For example: Referring to the heightened
hurricane activity in 2004, Trenberth said, "...in the
Atlantic there's no guarantee that this is going to
continue, because in the Atlantic there is large, natural
decade-to-decade variability in hurricane activity...." So
far so good. But he then added: "...now superimposed on
that natural variability is also this longer-term trend that
we associate with global warming." A listener could
easily reach the conclusion that climatologists had at least
some evidence of a warming-induced upward trend in hurricane
Although one can find theoretical support for the
proposition that hurricanes may indeed get worse—from
a consideration of general principles (hurricanes are fueled
by the heat from tropical seas, which will likely warm
somewhat over the coming decades) and from certain computer
models (one 2004 study suggests that hurricane winds might
increase by 5 percent or so over roughly the next 80
years)—the historical record does not show any obvious
In an open letter to the climate-science community,
Landsea wrote:
...Given Dr. Trenberth's role as
the IPCC's Lead Author responsible for preparing the text on
hurricanes, his public statements so far outside of current
scientific understanding led [to my] concern that it would
be very difficult for the IPCC process to proceed
objectively.... My view is that when people identify
themselves as being associated with the IPCC and then make
pronouncements far outside current scientific understandings[,]
this will harm the credibility of climate change science and
will in the longer term diminish our role in public policy.
Trenberth now says that "it was clear I was
not speaking for the IPCC." Yet the moderator for the
briefing had introduced Trenberth as "convening lead
author of the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
report." And in his opening remarks Trenberth
volunteered, "I was a lead author on the 2001 IPCC
report for Working Group One, which deals with the science
of climate change, and in fact I was involved in developing
some of the information that is in that report dealing with
Commenting on Trenberth's controversial
statements to the press, Hans von Storch, a climatologist at
the Institute for Coastal Research in Geesthacht, Germany,
says "It's a demonstration of how highly politicized
the IPCC process has become." Von Storch should know,
having lately been in the thick of some rather heated
climate debates himself. One erupted two years ago, forcing him
to resign his position as editor of Climate
Research in protest when he was prevented from
publishing an editorial critical of an article that had
appeared in that journal, one that called the uniqueness of
recent global warming into question. (It's clear that here
von Storch was acting on principle, not campaigning to defend
the notion that the recent warming is extraordinary. Indeed, his
own work points in the other direction: Last year von Storch
and five coauthors published a paper in Science
suggesting that ancient swings in climate might well have
been a lot larger than many experts, including those on the
IPCC, estimate.)
Although tropical hurricanes are not
his specialty, von Storch has studied the evolution of
storminess elsewhere. Lars Bärring of Lund University
in Sweden and von Storch published a paper last year (in
Geophysical Research Letters) that uses
measurements of barometric pressure to gauge the degree of
storminess in Scandinavia since Napoleonic times. Their
conclusion: Although there have been oscillations up and
down over the decades, there is no overall trend during this
interval. That article is an outgrowth of work that began in
the early 1990s, at time when, according to von Storch,
European newspapers were full of stories about increasing storm
activity, which was described as an early signal of global
warming. A more careful analysis by von Storch's group,
however, found that the level of storminess in Europe in
1995 was, in fact, similar to the level existing in
Landsea suspects something similar will happen when
Americans look back at the busy hurricane season of 2004:
"If I had to make a guess for the next 20 years, I'd
say it's going to be a lot like the last 10 years."
That is not to say that Landsea discounts any influence of a
warming planet. "No one should pooh-pooh the
possibility that global warming might do bad things," he
says. But he stresses that the increase in hurricane wind
strength being suggested on the basis of computer modeling
is "pretty tiny." And he points out that the
monitoring of hurricane winds today has a coarseness of
about 5 miles per hour. So the influence of global warming
on hurricanes now, if it exists at all, is in the noise.
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he city has retained a professional survey company to conduct a new Citizen Satisfaction Survey to assess public opinion on the effectiveness of city programs and services.
The survey includes 36 questions and covers such topics as city facilities, parks and recreation services, sanitation services, streets, public transportation and parking facilities, water and sewer service, public safety and the city Web site.
"We last did a survey in 1999 to assist the Citizen Efficiency Review Committee," said City Manager Lee Garrity. "A lot has changed since then, especially with the many e-government services we now offer over our Web site, so it's time for us to conduct a new survey."
BKL Research and Consulting of Salem, Va., will randomly call city residents until it has compiled 600 completed surveys, enough to give a statistically valid sample of the city, said Dennis Newman, the city's chief information officer.
"In addition, we will be making the survey available on our Web site for any citizen who wants to complete it online," Newman said. The surveys that are completed online will be reported separately from those completed by the polling company, he said. "The characteristics of the citizen who goes online do not reflect a complete cross-section of our community," he said. "We will compare the survey responses of the two groups to see if there's much of a difference."
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First Solar, Inc. announced that it nominated two new candidates for election to the Company's Board of Directors and that it has expanded the size of the Board to eleven from nine, creating two vacancies as it continues to seek additional independent directors. As detailed in its Proxy Statement, which was filed today with the Securities and Exchange Commission, First Solar nominated George "Chip" Hambro and Richard "Rick" Chapman to stand for election to the Board at the Company's Annual Meeting of Stockholders, which will be held on May 23, 2012. Chapman will serve as an independent director.
To fill the two new vacancies, First Solar has retained an executive search firm to help identify candidates with experience that will support the company's strategy to compete as a vertically integrated provider of photovoltaic power plants in energy markets that are sustainable without subsidies.
The company also announced that José Villarreal, a director since 2007, will retire from the Board due to personal commitments and will not seek reelection at the Annual Meeting.
"We are pleased to be adding two distinguished candidates to the First Solar Board of Directors. Chip and Rick are both knowledgeable about First Solar's strategy and operations and have diverse experience and expertise that will make them valuable additions to our board. We are also committed to further expanding our board by adding two additional independent directors to support our long-term strategic plan," said Mike Ahearn, First Solar's Chairman and Interim CEO. "On behalf of the First Solar Board of Directors, I extend my gratitude to José, who has been an engaged and dedicated Director for the past five years."
Chapman, 58, is CFO of Walton Enterprises, Inc., where he has worked since 1983. In his current capacity, Chapman oversees all aspects of the Walton Family Office in Arkansas. Chapman currently serves as a director on the boards of the Arvest Bank Group; the University of Arkansas Foundation, where he serves on the Executive and Finance Committees; and the Razorback Foundation, where he is a member of the Investment Committee. Chapman was previously a member of the Board of Managers of First Solar Holdings, LLC prior to the Company's initial public offering and JWMA (formerly True North Partners, L.L.C.), an equity investment firm. Chapman earned a B.S.B.A. in Accounting from the University of Arkansas and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Hambro, 48, previously held various positions at First Solar from June 2001 through June 2009, including serving as Chief Operating Officer from February 2005 through May 2007. Prior to joining First Solar, he held the positions of Vice President of Engineering & Business Development for Goodrich Aerospace from May 1999 to June 2001 and Vice President of Operations for ITT Industries from February 1997 to May 1999. For the last five years, Hambro has been a director of both the Toledo Zoo and Imagination Station, Toledo's children's science museum. Hambro currently serves on the board of directors of Soladigm, Inc., a developer of next-generation green building solutions. Hambro graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a B.A. in Physical Science (Applied Physics).


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I want to include headings, positioned off-screen, inside major page divisions such as the navigation and footer. To me, it makes a lot of sense to improve ease of use by providing these extra "hooks" (for want of a better word) by which I know that a lot of vision-limited users navigate when they use assistive software. I imagine that it would also improve their understanding of the page structure and content. Win-win (for those users, at least).
The trouble for me is in dealing with anything that sits above the main content (and its H1) in the HTML. My current structure is simple and minimal. At the very top, I have skip links; then a position:fixed vertical menu on the left with the main content to the right of it, and nothing else except a footer:

skip links in a UL

main menu items in a UL

main title

main content...
and a simple footer div...
As far as I can see, I have limited options. (a) Move the main menu to below the main content and change the skip links to suit. This would not alter its screen position but I have major reservations about this unconventional HTML layout that would not match the screen layout. And the skip links couldn't receive a heading in that case, though that might not be a huge issue. (b) Be slack with heading hierarchy and use lower-numbered headings in the divs above the content. Again, I'm not keen on that. (c) Move the H1 up in the HTML, above the skip links, and somehow work around or correct the HTML/screen order (because the H1 ideally needs to be below the skip links so that it's directly above the content: this makes much more sense to me). (d) Put a generic website title in an H1 and use an H2 for the content's title. I know that some sites do that, but I hate it: making the most important heading a generic title or logo? It just doesn't make sense to me. (e) Who knows...
I need recommendations and counsel, please folks! How do you solve layout issues like this in a way that ticks all the boxes: semantic HTML, tidy structure, matching HTML/screen order, meaningful content, helping all users...
I don't generally bother with a heading for the main navigation on the page because it's a fairly common practice for it to be near the top of the page so it should be fairly obvious to most people (sighted or otherwise) what it is when they encounter it. I'd only bother with headings for navigation if they appeared in other places of the layout.
You can also add extra accessibility and semantic meaning to your elements by using ARIA landmark roles, like
 which is something that I do.
Yes, I have landmarks in place. Regarding the headings: do you not think that they also aid in-page navigation for screen reader users? I know that they are often used in that way, so if they are also useful for reaching the navigation and footer, that would seem to be a strong reason for using them in most, if not all, major segments.
do you not think that they also aid in-page navigation for screen reader users?
They can; header-navigation is one of the easiest ways to bop around in a page. But I agree with Tyssen: you're overdoing it here. People have access to the beginning and end of the page: the skip links are the first content on the site; heading them is unconventional and unnecessary.
I don't "head" my skip links and I usually don't "head" my main menu (unless, as Tyssen mentioned, there are other menus... complex sites may have a "main" navigation menu (which I would give a role of "nav" to), a "sub" navigation (less important but still site-wide links, like privacy, terms&conditions, press releases, investor relations... and this nav might be in the footer), a "products" menu for sites who sell many products, etc) because, as Tyssen said, the main menu is fantastically obvious and users have numerous ways of navigating it. Headers are Good, but Being Too Chatty can reduce accessibility. There's a clever term for this (too much accessibility) but it escapes me. In any case, it can become annoying quickly.
Users who want to get straight to the main content have many options:-they can use your skip links (see Safari note below); so make the link text obvious that it's for skipping-they can call up all the lists of links on the page, and select the second one (main nav) and then Next Non-Link Text (this would be your h1)-they can use h or h-1-they can go directly to the role of "main" that you'll have on your content div-they can go do the role of "nav" and then Next Non-Link Text
Lots of options. Most sites don't head skip navs or main navs, meaning these other methods of moving around them aren't lost on experienced users. I would expect less-experienced screen reader users to use the skip links heavily... so a link to your footer would not be a bad idea. Also, skip links are still pretty cool for sighted keyboarders... so have that text appear onscreen on :focus.
A note on the "using skip links to move focus down the page": this won't work in Safari, which means it won't work for VoiceOver users who don't use Firefox or some other browser. Safari moves the visual focus down when clicking on a skip link whose destination is an id attribute, but it won't move the keyboard focus. If you want to ensure VO users using Safari get real skip links, you'll need to embed something clickable at the skip destinations. I use empty anchors inside the elements whose id's the other browsers are using.
Opera sometimes won't do this either, but I forget the rule for Opera (and I worry much less about skip links in Opera: it's trickier to use with many screen readers and Opera offers spatial navigation for sighted keyboarders, meaning they have more freedom to move where they want than users of other browsers).
I personally would say heading the skip link nav is Too Much and heading the main nav is being Captain Obvious.
Having a skip link to your footer is good/fine if there's a nav in there, using role=complementary is good, heading it is something I'd only do if I had a Fat Footer (those ginormous things people manage to call footers but are like half the site page crammed with information... and may have multiple headers inside them!).
This would not alter its screen position but I have major reservations about this unconventional HTML layout that would not match the screen layout.
While I agree with your conclusion (don't move the main navigation to an unconventional order in the markup), whenever you start playing with position: fixed, that kind of talk gets nowhere fast, because screen layout becomes disconnected with any sort of reality anyway. I had a layout with main navigation in a fixed footer (but also, really in the footer) and even setting up skip links at the start of the page, I was pretty sure people would get confused. I just didn't have any authority to re-arrange that page though.
No, I wasn't going to add a heading to the skip links (I should have clarified that), but I thought that the main menu and, most of all, the footer could benefit from it. I was looking at what the 456 Berea St website has and figured that this would be representative of best practice. Although, as with so many things, there is probably much more than just one "correct" answer.
Re: the skip links; I have one going to the footer, which has quite a lot of supplementary links (privacy, terms, archive, etc.) and content in it. Not a ridiculous amount, but it makes it a major content section.
Re: the fixed main menu; is it OK to do this if its initial position on-screen pretty much reflects its position in the HTML? On-screen, it's lined up to the left of the H1 (and its subsequent content) with the skip links appearing above these two sections. I just like having it fixed because I appreciate the convenience when browsing.
Thanks for your input.
No, I wasn't going to add a heading to the skip links (I should have clarified that)
but I thought that the main menu and, most of all, the footer could benefit from it.
Yeah, if your footer has enough content to be headed, a header in the footer can be a good idea.
I was looking at what the 456 Berea St website has and figured that this would be representative of best practice. Although, as with so many things, there is probably much more than just one "correct" answer.
Hm, I definitely can't say Roger's site isn't best practice! Roger likely added the header specifically for navigation purposes, for a few reasons:- there's actually stuff in the way between the skip link and the navigation (including a search form)- and he hid the header because whether CSS is on or off, his main navigation is obviously obvious main navigation.
It still seems a little overboard to me but with that search form in there, it's probably nice to have. Also, he's mixing HTML5 stuff and wrapping excessively with divs for the browsers/UAs who aren't HTML5-ready yet, and so he's probably using the hidden headers as counterparts to the roles (since olders UAs don't understand roles and users won't be able to use them for navigating). His code might be a bit of a purposeful showcase in that regard.
On this site: http://juicystudio.com/ you see Gez has a lot of content coming before the navigation, and does the same thing as Roger, except he left it out in the open because its position makes it somewhat less obvious. I would otherwise completely rely on his CSS to easily find the menu.If you were still thinking of having your nav in the footer (or a sidebar), then not only would a header be okay but I'd even consider leaving it out in the open for everyone.
http://lflegal.com/ which was done by Mike Cherim (who on his own blog had headers before the navigation, which is actually probably the place I first saw this technique) and was one of the two first sites to pass Vision Austraila's WCAG2 tests, also uses header navigation— but like Gez' site, the navigation is after a bunch of other content, and keeps the header onscreen.Interestingly, there are also headings (hidden) for the breadcrumbs and some extra text ("You're exploring").
Mike Paciello's blog page http://www.paciellogroup.com/blog/ doesn't use hidden headers above the navigation but, looking at the page, the navigation doesn't look like the main course of anyone's navigating.
I dunno, I can see the arguments for headers before main navigation, but personally (yeah, opinion) it's a little more than necessary.
It's probably ok. I mean, if you're thinking of screen readers, it doesn't matter where you set it with fixed positioning. If you mean everyone else, it's probably okay but you could always ask users for feedback or do user testing.
Thanks, Stomme. Much appreciated.
I really don't think putting the h1 before the accessibility menus is a big deal -- it's ONE MALFING LINE. Hoody-hoo!
Though, just to rag on you a bit (not entirely serious -- not sure if those are placeholders or if you'll have them in the final code) if the accessibility menu going to be a UL, why have the DIV? If the main menu is going to be a UL, why have the DIV? Both are perfectly good block-level containers so don't waste a div on them for NOTHING -- especially the one you won't display for screen/print.
Though I would NOT position them offscreen. Display:none is typically fine if you put accesskeys on them with title attributes.
Check out Home - DEATHSHADOW PASCAL in Opera (excuse the green, it's a retrocomputing joke) and hit shift-esc to pull up the accesskeys menu.
I usually rag on people for "pointless" title attributes -- if the title is the same as the content inside the element, there is NO reason to put title on it... unless you have accesskeys! Then it actually does something useful.
Though that really comes down to do you want screen reader users to hear them or not -- I've actually had screen reader users complain about their presence which is why I display:none them for media="screen,projection,tv" but leave them alone for "handheld" where they are useful... and of course CSS off browser users love them too.
Really though, if you are practicing separation of presentation from content how does it look without the CSS? There's a reason I advocate coding the entire markup semantically before even THINKING about appearance/layout.
A lot of screen readers won't read things out that are display: none, so it kind of defeats the whole point!
read paragraph 6... the one starting "Though that really comes down to"
You were talking about title attributes at that point!
There's more than one sentence... Literacy much? "display:none" is only IN the second sentence and all...
That defeats the purpose then doesn't it (the purpose according to the OP is using them for navigation)?
My posts above agree with your concern that adding headers everywhere may make the page "chatty" (which experienced screen reader users find more than annoying), BUT if you're going to add them in anyway, then make them heard.
There's zero point in having them in there and also display: none, unless they're being added for teh Googles. And I don't add crap special for them, they're the least important visitor in my view.
Though the handheld idea, that one's good (I hide stuff in my desktop.css that isn't hidden in the handheld css) but I don't hide from screen reader users.
One reason being, how do I know the visitor is experienced? Screen reader n00bs do everything slowly, they make generous use of skip links, and they are often tabbing/arrowing through everything instead of using more advanced navigation. So I try not to overdo it with headers, but if I'm gonna waffle anyway and add them in, I know those who really don't need them likely also know how to skip them anyway.
Titles: you can't know people turned "read titles" on. It may be default in their reader... it may not. Or they may have turned them off explicitly because so many sites throw titles around everywhere (as you said). Only place I trust titles is in form controls (inputs, this is when for some good reason there isn't an explicit label), and there's one popular reader who still ignores them (Orca).
There are things OTHER than screen readers; like handhelds which is what the original point of such menus was supposed to be; I find it odd to even find people talking about screen readers for such a thing -- since they generally navigate the heading structure. (which is why I'm such a stickler for proper heading orders).
HANDHELD, SMALL SCREEN. HANDHELD, SMALL SCREEN!!! Bandwidth locked text only on Blazer or similar...
Especially when, as I mentioned, the device lets you use an accesskeys menu.
90% of the time people use title attributes there's no good reason for it. I've said it a billion times if you NEED a title attribute and you aren't using accesskeys, there's something HORRIBLY WRONG with the content of the element. This is particularly true of anchors...
REALLY true when you see people putting title attributes on an anchor that's identical to the content of the anchor! /FAIL/ hard. (Yes turdpress, I'm looking at you!)
For example:
Home
== Go back and learn how to write HTML!
Are you claiming people using handhelds need headers to tell them what's a menu?I certainly don't add extraneous headers for handhelds. If you need a header before your main menu then your menu isn't obvious (which is fine, this is true in most of the examples I listed earlier... the menu was nowhere near the top of the page and needed a header... ONSCREEN for EVERYONE in most cases).The OP asked if more headers should be added to the page specifically for screen reader navigation more than anything else... that's what most of our answers in this thread were about.
And I don't touch accesskeys with a 10-foot pole. I realise large sites who are constantly revisited by people do (like SitePoint and BBC) but I will not add them to any of my pages.
But that's me.
Yeah, I caught someone using Drupal with one of these. Title text would have been great taglines for the pages the anchors linked to, but it was ridiculous on anchors.
I wonder if most CMSes out there are adding title="" and prompting people to fill them in?? Arg arg.
Yeh, I was wondering why these were needed for handheld device... maybe 10 years ago when WAP was all the rage, but not any more!
Well, if a section of content is relying on desktop styling to make it obvious to users what it is, a header is a good idea... but then, a header should have been there in the first place anyway. Looking at Gez Lemon's page, again, I would need CSS styling to find the navigation menu (it's surprisingly easy to miss, at least for me). I actually found it first by searching in the source, and then /Site Navigation to search for that text in my browser, which highlighted the header above the navigation.
I'm saying if you make a skipto/jumpto/accesskeys menu for ON PAGE navigation, that's mostly for handheld users where it's REALLY useful on the pathetically small display; like in Blazer, Opera Mobile or Opera mini.
I think you completely missed what I was saying or something.
Which is wierd -- that's not who I ever heard of them being for. Acessibility aid, certainly, but not for screen readers... I know when I'm stuck on a small display they're a HUGE help for skipping around the page rather than the PAINFUL scrolling through trying to find things. Hell, I even use them on desktop on occasion since Opera supports them properly.
Modern handheld devices all support CSS though... so anything you'd see on a desktop browser, you should see on the mobile one anyway.
SOME CSS.... and not everyone is going out for the monster data plans with the $400 a pop devices (or two hundred dollar a month data plans) so there's plenty of people still using Opera Mini, Opera Mobile, and Blazer. (in fact, aren't the majority of handheld users STILL using Opera in one form or another?)
... and "anything you'd see on a desktop"?!?!? Sure, that 240x320 display is SO useful on those idiotic 1024 fixed width layouts... Someone on a droid phone is going to disagree with that one a hell of a lot...


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Some Air Force rules and regulations can leave airmen flummoxed.
For example, airmen are required to wear a bright reflective belt when doing physical training, but they can't wear athletic shoes with "bright loud colors or excessive ornamentation," noted Tech. Sgt. Joseph Craig, of Buckley Air Force Base, Colo.
"Why ... would bright colors blind oncoming runners?" Craig wrote in an email. "Additionally it is quite difficult to find/buy athletic shoes that do not break this rule, or push the boundaries of this AFI. These are not small brands, but brands like Nike, Reebok, Newton, etc., that predominately make reflective/bright/loud athletic shoes."
Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force James Cody took time to explain this and some of the rules that perplex Air Force Times readers.
"What we're talking about is the bright pink shoes that are shining all over the place," Cody said. "You can have little reflective bands on your shoes, just like the same material that's on your PT gear; it's subdued, it just shines when the light hits it, it's not blaring out there like it's hot pink or bright orange."
The issue comes down to standards, said Cody, who has been asked about sneakers before.
"When an airman is not in uniform — which the PT gear is — they can wear any sneakers they want to," he said. "But when they're in uniform, it needs to be somewhat conservative, it needs to present a professional military image."
A lot of airmen tell Cody it's hard to find sneakers that fall within Air Force uniform standards, but he says that's no excuse.
"It may require a little bit more effort on the airman's behalf to find sneakers that are acceptable in uniform, but they are out there, I promise you," Cody said. "It doesn't take long to get on the Internet and find them, and we are actually going to address this with our military clothing sales and our exchange folks to make sure we are at least offering in those venues an assortment of some sneakers that would meet the Air Force standards for uniform."
Another uniform question came from Senior Master Sgt. Anthony DiNini, of Robins Air Force Base, Ga., who asked why airmen are required to wear their hats outside.
"I've been in and out of the Air Force for about 30 years, and we've always had to wear hats outside," DiNini said. "I'm just not a big fan of wearing hats in the first place."
Hats can also be dangerous for airmen in certain jobs, he said.
"Especially logistics, like myself, we work in maintenance — a big part of the Air Force — and when we're performing our duties out there, we're not allowed to wear our hats because it creates what they call a FOD [foreign object debris] problem out there on the flightline around aircraft," DiNini said. "So 99 percent of the time, we're required not to wear our hats except, of course, when we go home or leave the duty area."
While the requirement about wearing hats is part of Air Force tradition, it is also practical, Cody explained.
"The Air Force philosophy is that the uniform has got to be plain, distinctive and standardized, and headgear helps standardize — we all don't have hair and we all don't have the same color hair, it's not all the same length, so when you put us in uniform, there's a piece that goes with that standardization," he said.
Moreover, some hats are meant to serve a purpose, such as the hats airmen who work in dining facilities wear to keep their hair out of your food, or other hats that keep the sun out of your eyes, Cody said.
Hats are also essential to presenting a professional military appearance that inspires confidence fromthe American public, he said.
"They draw certain views of the military's effectiveness based on the image of the Air Force," he said. "The image must instill public confidence and leave no doubt that the service members live by these common standards, that we represent this disciplined force."
When airmen take leave, they are charged for any weekends or holidays that fall during their time off, noted Master Sgt. Melissa Whitfield, of Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.
"I feel robbed every time I have to take leave during a time where, even if I were in the local area, I wouldn't have to be at work," Whitfield said in an email.
The reason for the policy is that airmen typically can't be called back to duty when they are on leave, Cody said.
"If you're not on leave, there could be a time where we would call you back to duty, even though it was your normally scheduled day off, and we would expect you to be able to report to duty within a reasonable amount of time," he said. "If you're on leave, you're on leave. If you're on your days off, and there's a fundamental difference of what we can expect an airman to do in those time frames."
However, commanders may limit where an airman can go on leave if they feel there is a chance that the airman may be called back to active duty during that time, Cody said.
"When we approve leave, a commander will take into consideration — or should — where they're going and if that's acceptable," he said. "If they want to take a trip overseas, that may not be conducive to what might be coming up and going on; where the commander might say, 'Well, I can't approve leave for you to go overseas but I can approve leave if you want to go to South Carolina — because I can get you back from South Carolina but I can't get you back from overseas.'"
A retired chief master sergeant, who asked not to be identified, asked why airmen can be permanently denied military awards and decorations for failing the PT test once. There isn't an Air Force rule that says airmen who fail the PT test are ineligible for awards, but some commanders do so anyway.
The issue came up last year when former Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force James Roy wrote an April 6, 2012, memo to senior enlisted leaders.
"We don't need policy to mandate that a decoration will or will not be recommended after one PT failure, and we don't want guidance stating that we can or cannot recommend our best technical sergeants for meritorious service medals," Roy wrote. "In fact, AFI 36-2803 clearly forbids establishing these kinds of set conditions for denying or downgrading decorations."
While there is no policy that makes airmen with one PT failure ineligible for a decoration, commanders set their criteria when they are the approval authority for decorations, Cody explained.
"They can establish what standards must be met for them to consider," Cody said, "They're not supposed to — and typically do not — come out with these hard and fast, 'You must do this, this and this to earn a decoration.' The AFI covers that, but they can certainly say if you are going to be considered for a decoration, you need to meet all Air Force standards, you need be to able to do this type of stuff because when you're looking at the overall performance of what an airman has done, how they meet standards is certainly relevant."
Commanders can look at a one-time PT test failure as one of several factors when determining an airman's performance, but thousands of airmen who have failed the PT test have gone on to receive decorations, Cody said.
The Air Force is currently conducting a review of all special duties, such as first sergeant, which can be hard to find enough volunteers for. But one technical sergeant at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, said he was denied a position as field training detachment instructor because he has not spent enough time where he is now.
The technical sergeant, who asked not to be identified, doesn't feel it's fair that an otherwise qualified candidate should be denied a special duty because he or she has not had enough time on station.
But it would be more expensive to allow airmen to move on to another duty more often and the Air Force is facing a climate of severe fiscal austerity, Cody said.
"We need to save money; every time you move people it costs money," he said. "Once we [permanent change of station] and — in many cases — move your entire family, your household goods and all that stuff, to just turn around and move you again without making sure we don't have another airman who's eligible to do it or somebody else who should be able to fill the position, we have to think about that — that's the taxpayer's money right there."
The Air Force hopes to wrap up its review of special duties in the next few weeks, Cody said. He said previously the service is leaning toward having commanders pick their best performers to fill special duties instead of asking airmen to volunteer.
"We are closer to we've ever been to execution on this," he said. "There's still some final coordination and signing off to be done but we're in the right place for right now."
If the Air Force really wants to save money, it should consider reducing the number of its general officers, said a deployed master sergeant.
"We're downsizing and they're hitting the enlisted side, they're hitting us pretty hard," said the master sergeant, who asked not to be identified. "They haven't started looking at the top yet — at all."
Actually, then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates decided in March 2011 to reduce, reallocate or eliminate 140 general and flag officer positions, said Defense Department spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Nate Christensen.
Since then, the department has eliminated 17 Air Force general officer positions, as well as nine Army, 10 Navy and 34 joint general and flag officer positions, Christensen said.
"Of the remaining positions to be eliminated or reduced, many of them are 'conditions-based' and tied to operations within and supporting Afghanistan," Christensen said in an email. "We expect the number of eliminations to increase mostly from late 2013 through 2014."
These are just some of the rules that you felt need to be changed. Others include:
The gripe: Computer-based training.
Computer-based training doesn't give airmen the hands-on experience they need, and this problem is particularly felt by reservists who need time to get real training when they deploy, said a senior airman in the Air Force Reserve, who drills at March Air Reserve Base, Calif.
"How can we possibly be effective if we're behind a computer screen all the time for training?" she said.
The rule: In February, Cody told Air Force Times he plans to review how much computer-based training airmen need, but for every airman who says CBT is a waste of time, others will say it is worthwhile and easier than taking time out of their day to go somewhere else for training.
The Air Force first needs to find out how many CBT classes it has so it can figure out which ones are priorities for airmen, he said.
"Both the chief and I want to address it," Cody said in the Feb. 21 interview. "We want to be able to respond back to our airmen and tell them, 'OK, we've looked at this'; (give them) a better explanation, a better prioritization of what we're doing and why we're doing it. We certainly want to eliminate things that we don't need to do."
The gripe: Reflective belts.
As all airmen know, reflective belts are usually a bright puke green color that only the most nearsighted sniper could not see from five miles away.
"If you're not bright enough to look both ways before you cross a road, you've earned what's coming to you," one person wrote on Air Force Times' Facebook page. "The only folks who should be wearing one are children on base and those on a motorcycle."
Over the years, airmen have complained that wearing the reflective belt has been so obsessively-compulsively enforced that airmen have been denied entry to chow halls and gyms for not wearing it.
The animosity toward the reflective belt is evidenced by the "I Hate Reflective Belts" Facebook page, in which troops from all branches can kvetch.
"I was always told to wear one during an exercise because we were practicing for war!" one person posted. "Well, I always figured that is the LAST thing I would want to wear!"
The rule: Airmen are required to wear reflective belts or armbands in low-light conditions or when commanders decide that "safety conditions make it appropriate."
There are no indications that this rule is going away, so embrace the suck.
The gripe: The V-neck undershirt.
V-neck undershirts and dress blues don't go together well, said Aaron Sanderson, an Air Force ROTC cadet at Auburn University, Ala.
"The V-neck kind of dips down and with top button of the blues unbuttoned, sometimes with men, you can see their chest hair," he said.
The rule: The Air Force regulation on dress and appearance allows airmen to wear a white crew-neck T-shirt under their service and dress blues only if their collars are buttoned up. The V-neck must be worn if the collar is open.
The gripe: Lack of uniform policy for uniforms.
Individual bases can have their own uniform policy, and that can pose a challenge to airmen deploying downrange, said Tony Carr, a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel.
"Let's say I'm an airman and I'm stationed at Charleston Air Force Base, S.C., and I deploy to an unnamed location in Southwest Asia that has its own uniform AFI or its uniform OI that's a local base operating instruction — and that instruction might actually have a lot of pages, it may have 80 pages or 85 pages of additional amplified guidance on how to wear the uniform," Carr said. "The two weeks that I'm learning how to do that, I should really be focusing on doing the ...job that I deployed to do instead of relearning how to wear my uniform."
The rule: The Air Force instruction on uniforms allows both Major Command and installation commanders to have the authority to spell out what airmen wear, and that includes requiring and prohibiting clothing and equipment.
In practical terms, this means that when Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Welsh allowed commanders last year to decide whether or not to continue Blues Mondays, it was initially unclear how many airmen still had to wear their blue uniforms on Mondays.
The gripe: ID checks at base entrances.
When the Air Force got rid of vehicle decals and mandated 100 percent ID checks to get on base, it created a big mess, Carr said.
"I would be surprised if there's a threat that would justify checking every single ID," he said. "It's a bit of a jobs program. You have security professionals who are always going to advise more security, that's what they get paid to do, and what it does is it just creates a need for the Air Force to manage more traffic, to deal with more traffic backups at front gates."
Carr argues that most bases are secure enough that going back to decals and using random security checks would work better.
The rule: The Air Force phased out vehicle decals in March 2007 because the Defense Department required 100 percent ID checks on all bases following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
"This has rendered the decals superfluous, since the ID card checks are a much more effective means of verifying the authority of a driver to enter the base," according to a 2007 fact sheet from the Air Force Security Forces Center.
"In fact, the decals now are arguably a detriment to security. They are easily counterfeited, moved from one car to another, or found in used car parking lots. Moreover, looking for the decal on an approaching vehicle distracts our gate guards from focusing on the occupants."
The gripe: Hands in pockets.
One person, who asked not to be identified, took issue that the Air Force — and the other services — does not allow airmen to put their hands in their pockets.
"It's cold out sometimes and they serve a good purpose," the person wrote in an email.
The rule: This is a perennial issue, prompting a petition to the White House last year to allow all service members to put their hands in their pockets, although the petition is no longer available on the White House website.
The Air Force instruction for dress and appearance of service personnel makes clear that airmen will not, "Stand or walk with hands in pockets of any uniform combination, other than to insert or remove items."
But do you know who put his hands in his pockets while in uniform? Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower. And no one ever accused him of not presenting a professional military appearance.
The gripe: Headphones during PT.
One way to get into the zone while jogging is to listen to some good tunes, but the Air Force recently mandated that airmen can't use headphones on base roads.
The reason is they are afraid you will get distracted and get hit by a car.
The rule: Airmen are not allowed to wear headphones while running on base roadways "for the sake of ensuring good situational awareness," Bill Parsons, the Air Force's ground safety chief, wrote in a January 2012 letter. The rule is actually a result of Defense Department policy.
However, you can still use your headphones on "specifically designed jogging trails, tracks and recreational areas," Parsons wrote in the letter.
So if you want to run in a oblong-shaped circle, you'll probably need some ZZ Top to get you past the boredom.
The gripe: Waist measurement.
Col. Tim Bush had an enviable career, until he was relieved of command March 20 for failing the waist measurement part of his PT test.
Bush was 2 inches above the limit, and that meant his time in the Air Force was done. The former wing commander is among the 5,800 airmen who failed the waist portion of the PT test in the first half of fiscal 2013. It is just one of four components of the test, but the most hated because it fails to give any leeway for height or age.
An oversized waist means airmen fail the entire test, regardless of their performance on the 1.5-mile walk, situps or pushups.
The rule: The waist measurement limits for most airmen is 39 inches for male airmen and 35.5 inches for female airmen because science has indicated that anything more than that is a red flag for health problems down the road.
But experts have questioned how reliable the waist measurement is and the Air Force is conducting a review of whether it should be part of the PT test. There is no word on when the review will be completed.


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Part of the conversation in the office this week was a true story of a young boy who, for a few days one summer, set out on a business venture.
He set up a lemonade stand just outside the fence at a local golf course and offered the procession of weekend hackers walking by a chance to refresh themselves at a nickel a cup.
Everyone seemed happy with the deal. The golfers played on and the boy pocketed the cash, hoping to make a profit because there was very little overhead.
Still, the golfers couldn't resist giving him a little trouble about it. They asked questions, wondering if the young entrepreneur had all the proper permits and if the health department knew what he was doing.
It was all in good fun, of course, but it made the little boy worry that he was doing something terribly wrong.
I raise this story because I also had a conversation this week with Paul Gross of Menifee, who is like an adult version of the little boy selling lemonade. The only difference is that in Gross' case, all those concerns about health departments and community development departments and their necessary permits are real.
Until about 10 months ago, Gross ran a farmers market each Saturday in the parking lot at Mt. San Jacinto College in Menifee. He billed it as a farmers market, but it really wasn't that. There wasn't much produce, at least not enough to make everyone think it was brimming with farm-fresh products.
It attracted about two dozen vendors selling things you normally would find at an outdoor market ---- clothes, jewelry, knick knacks, that kind of thing. It attracted enough people to keep it going for about two years, but then things fell apart.
People stopped coming in the summer, Gross said, because it was too hot on that parking lot pavement. Then there were sign and other issues, laid down by both the city of Menifee and the college. With pressure mounting, and not enough farmers to support it, the market finally shut down last July.
Since then, Gross has been learning a lot about the market business, which seems like a great idea for us consumers but is a pain in the neck for people like him. He talked about certified farms and non-certified farms, farmers markets and outdoor markets, and how permits and fees vary from county to county and even city to city.
He said that even in this agriculturally rich area, it's hard to find loyal farmers willing to spend time at these markets. Like everyone else, they look for a steady profit and when they're all producing the same crops at the same time, well, some days at the market are better than others.
He also said that if grandma wants to sell a dozen home-made, sweet potato pies, the health department will be asking how and where those pies are made. Then grandma has to start jumping through a lot of hoops.
"I know they're looking out for our interest, but sometimes I think they overdo it or don't know what they're doing in the first place," Gross said of the regulators.
But all the red tape still hasn't soured him on the market scene. He's developed friends in the business and wants to remain loyal to them.
"Sometimes I don't know if I'm a fool or a hero," Gross said.
Within the last few weeks, he's opened an outdoor market on Friday nights in the Trevi Entertainment Center parking lot on Mission Trail in Lake Elsinore.
He said he also will be filing an application soon to open a farmers market at Wickerd Farm on Scott Road in Menifee.
"It'll be on a real farm with what we hope will be produce, a kids zone and maybe a petting zoo," he said. He hopes to have it up and running by early summer, but he's also not taking any bets.
With all the regulatory issues he may have to face, it may be smarter to open a lemonade stand.
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To the writer; I apologize for all of my negative comments in other threads about the "Event." I still don't foresee an iPad mini but I was wrong about the event.
Probably nothing too important but good info none the less. I'm happy with my iPad 2 but its about time the iPad mini stands up to those other "smaller tablets".
I am planning on buying this new idevice if it has retina display.
There's clearly a market for an Apple product with a form factor somewhere in between an iPod touch and the current iPad. I'm excited about the iPad Pico-Nano, which will have a form factor somewhere in between the iPad Nano and the iPod touch (with the iPad Nano having a slightly smaller form factor than the upcoming iPad mini).
The latest generation of iPod Nano proves that if you can't come up with anything revolutionary, you can still make money by reproducing the same old thing in a slightly different size :-)
Dear Apple I want a Nexus 7. I don't know why and I've never owned a single Android product in my life. If you really are making an iPad mini (perhaps to compete with the Nexus 7) please convince me to hand over my money for such a thing :P
And to the people complaining about the name, c'mon really, who gives a toss what it's called. They could call it a FannyPad for all I care it's the price that's more appealling to me.


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The WBIR Torch Run Thursday benefited United Way and some of the runners took a leg of the relay to show support for a specific United Way agency. One of those groups ran for the Girl Scouts.
The troops start their meetings with the Girl Scout Pledge and then dive into the day's activities.
At Lonsdale Elementary School, Patricia Robledo and Sharon Fields enjoy leading the troop and seeing elementary school students grow.
'We trust ourselves," 10 year old Cristina Francisco said. "We follow the rules, laws of Girl Scouts."
Juana Francisco added, "You can do a lot of exciting stuff that any other Girl Scout can do."
That's thanks to support from Girl Scouts of Southern Appalachians and the United Way who make possible the Girl Scout experience for those facing financial challenges.
"They can't wait to go on outings and do activities and they have come together as a troop really, really well," Girl Scout Troop Leader Patricia Robledo said.
They just earned their art badge which included creating their own mural and taking a trip to check out murals in downtown Knoxville.
"We went to the Visitors Center. We looked around town to see pictures on the wall," Juana said.
Cristina said, "We went to go look at pictures on buildings."
Patricia Robledo said, "And then on way back to Lonsdale Elementary School the girls were looking out the window and pointing out murals that I hadn't even seen so for me it was neat to see that something had clicked."
The Girl Scout experience reinforces positive values.
"Like being respectful and being kind and being helpful. They're doing magnificent about it. They're taking what they are learning at Girl Scouts and applying it at home and at school and with friends," she said.
Cristina summed it up. "Every day we have fun stuff to do."


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Student Clubs and Organizations
On the campus of CMC, there are over 50 different clubs and organizations you can join that cater to a variety of interests, cultures, and activities. If you are interested in learning about more of what we have to offer here on campus, attend the Club Fair hosted at the beginning of each semester to meet with group representatives and to learn more about how to become a member. For a current list of CMC-specific organizations, check out the list below!
Beyond the CMC-specific clubs, the Claremont Colleges have a host of 5C organizations. The members of these groups include students from Pomona, Pitzer, Claremont McKenna, Scripps, and Harvey Mudd. All events and programs hosted through these groups cater to students across the 5C's. All 5C organizations are recognized through the Associated Students of Pomona College. If you are interested in joining one of these organizations, attend the 5C Club Fair at the beginning of the fall semester to meet with group representatives and to learn more about becoming a member.
If you find that the current list of clubs does not match your interests, we encourage you to create your own organization! The Campus Orgs team, made up of Student Activities and the ASCMC Campus Organizations Chair, can help you through the basic charter application process to get started! Look below for more details.
See also: Clubs and Organizations web page from ASCMC (student government).
Organization Resources
Start an Organization
Organization List
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The Campus Orgs team offers a variety of resources, services, and opportunities to ensure that student organizations are able to thrive and reach their full potential. If you have any questions regarding the information available please contact us at email@example.com.
Club Recognition
Becoming a recognized student organization at CMC provides a unique opportunity for students to reserve spaces around campus, register and host events, use the CMC name and logo for recognition and promotion, as well as to apply for funding through ASCMC. Recognized student organizations have access to Student Activities and ASCMC resources and workshop series, as well as, event and organization consultation.
Student Organization Recognition Form
2017-2018 deadline for recognition is August 15
Steps to Recognition
- Review Student Activities Organization policies
- Become familiar with institutional policies, specifically student organization policies for officers and activities, to ensure that the proposed organization will adhere to expectations for the entire CMC community.
- Policies can be found here.
- Complete Application for Recognition
- Student organizations are chartered only once but must complete a registration form and roster each year. To become a recognized student organization, you must complete the Application for Recognition. This online form will require an updated roster and constitution in order to be submitted.
- Attend the mandatory Club Leader Orientation
- Approved organizations' officers will attend a club and organizations training to prepare them to lead a successful organization. A minimum of two officers are required to attend the orientation. As soon as the organization completes the training requirement, it may begin/resume operating and meeting. The Club Leaders Workshop for 2017-2018 will occur on Thursday, August 31 at 7pm in Freeberg Forum.
Workshops and Training Sessions
The Club Leader Orientation is a mandatory student organization meeting that prepares organization leaders to better understand Student Activities policy,event registration procedures, and the ASCMC budget and reimbursement process. It is mandatory for a student organization to have two leaders attend this training session once a year in order to be informed and educated on how to best lead and protect their organization.
For more information about Clubs and Organizations, please email email@example.com. Fall 2017 office hours are held on Thursdays from 11:00am-12:00pm in Armour Conference Room on the first floor of Heggblade Center.
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Chartering a student organization at CMC presents an incredible opportunity to serve the campus community, develop new leadership skills, and enrich your college experience. The following steps are required to charter a recognized student organization.
Application for Student Organization Charter
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- Review Student Activities Organization policies
- Become familiar with institutional policies, specifically student organization policies for officers and activities, to ensure that the proposed organization will adhere to expectations for the entire CMC community.
- Complete application for charter
- Student organizations are only chartered once. After an organization has been chartered, they will renew their active status once a year using the Application for Recognition form. The charter application will require a list of club leaders, a roster, and a constitution.
- If you need assistance with writing a constitution, please use these sample constitutions or feel free to contact Student Activities or the ASCMC Clubs and Organizations Chair.
- Submit application
- Submit the forms electronically through the Application Charter form
- The application will be reviewed by the Assistant Director of Student Activities and the ASCMC Clubs and Organizations Chair. If the application is approved for charter, you will receive an email confirmation and the date of the next club leaders Orientation Workshop.
- Attend Club Leader Orientation
- Approved organizations' officers will attend a club and organizations training to prepare them to lead a successful organization. A minimum of two officers are required to attend the orientation annually. As soon as the organization completes the training requirement, it may begin/resume operating and meeting. The Club Leader Orientation for 2017-2018 will occur on Thursday, August 31 at 7pm in Freeberg Forum. If you were unable to attend this Orientation you can complete this requirement by meeting with the Campus Orgs Team during their weekly Office Hours on Thursdays from 11:00am-12:00pm in Armour Conference Room, located in Heggblade Center.
- Optional: If you would like to request funding through ASCMC please go to their website.
Organization List
3C Intervarsity Christian Fellowship
3D Printing Club
Alternatives Anonymous
American Medical Student Association
Asian Pacific American Mentors (APAM)
Brothers and Sisters Alliance (BSA)
Claremont Accounting Association
Claremont Boxing
Claremont Chinese Political and Societal Studies Club (C-PaSS)
Claremont International Relations Society
Claremont McKenna Catan
Claremont Undergraduate Surgical Society
Claremont Women in Technology
CMC Advocates for Sexual Assault Survivors
CMC Climbing Club
CMCers of Color
College Knowledge
DC Semester
Everybody Dance Now! Claremont
Film History and Appreciation Club (The Reel)
Hallyu Club
International Development in Education Association (IDEA)
Middle Eastern Cultural Club
Mock Trial
No Lost Generation CMC
Ocean Scene
Outdoor Initiative
Power of Women
Recording Club of the Claremont Colleges (5C Records)
Sexuality and Gender Alliance (SAGA)
Skate Initiative of Claremont (SIC)
Special Olympics Club
Sustainable Students Promoting Environmental Awareness and Responsibility (SSPEAR)
Student Investment Fund
The Southern Society
Under the Lights
Vinyl Appreciation and Listening Club (The Spinners)
Winston Churchill Society
Zen Yoga Club for Mental and Physical Health
Updated September 12, 2016
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You exercise your body to stay physically in shape, so why shouldn't you exercise your brain to stay mentally fit? With these daily exercises you will learn how to flex your mind, improve your creativity and boost your memory. As with any exercise, repetition is necessary for you to see improvement, so pick your favorite exercises from our daily suggestions and repeat them as desired. Try to do some mentalrobics every single day!
When trying to solve a problem, it is very important to consider alternate solutions instead of forging forward with the first decent idea. Picking one idea and proceeding until a solution is reached is called vertical thinking and this is the type of thinking that is most often taught in our schools. When thinking laterally, you continue to generate ideas even after a promising idea has been produced. A vertical thinker must always be moving usefully in some direction and must be correct at every step. A lateral thinker can wander in different directions to find creative solutions and often must be wrong in order to be right in the end. Lateral thinkers welcome and explore seemingly irrelevant facts or ideas, whereas vertical thinkers shut out all irrelevant data.
There are merits to both types of thinking. If you used only lateral thinking, you would be constantly experimenting and broadening and you would seldom finish anything. If you only used vertical thinking, you could go very far down the wrong path because you failed to find the correct path before starting out. A good compromise would be to use lateral thinking until you have decided on a solution and then switch to vertical thinking to implement that solution.
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1890 U.S. Census Substitute
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The 1890 U.S. Census Substitute is a substitute for the original records of the 1890 U.S. Federal Census.
It is used by Ancestry.com because seventy-five percent of the original 1890 census records were destroyed in a 1921 fire in the basement of the Commerce Building in Washington, D.C. before census records were stored permanently in the National Archives.
=Questions from the original 1890 census= Charles W. Walker
- address (modern address) 404 Ann Street McGregor,Iowa 52157
- number of families in house 1
- number of persons in house Family-4 Domestic help-3
- whether a soldier, sailor or marine for the Union or Confederate army during the American Civil War, or widow of such person No
- relationship to head of family Head
- race, described as white, African American/black, mulatto, quadroon, octoroon, Chinese American, Japanese American, or Native American White
- sex Male
- age 59
- marital status married
- mother of how many children and number now living 2
- place of birth of person and their father and mother MA, NY,NY,NY
- if foreign-born, number of years in US NA
- whether naturalized NA
- whether papers have been taken out
- profession, trade or occupation Ticket agent for steamship and railroad
- months unemployed during census year 0
- ability to read and write Yes
- ability to speak English, and, if unable, language or dialect spoken
- whether suffering from acute or chronic disease, with name of disease and length of time afflicted
- whether defective in mind, sight, hearing or speech, or whether crippled, maimed or deformed, with name of defect No
- whether a prisoner, convict, homeless child, or pauper No
- home rented, or owned by head or member of family, and, if owned, whether free from mortgage Owned
- if farmer, whether farm is rented, or owned by head or member of family; if owned, whether free from mortgage; if rented, post office box of owner


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As part of the Globe's Remembrance Day coverage, readers from coast to coast have shared their photos of loved ones who served their country.
Brian Kells is pictured with father Peter Kells and mother Marlene Grace at the Ottawa Airport on April 16, 2009 - the day he returned from Afghanistan.
(Submitted by Brian Kells/Submitted by Brian Kells)
Second World War veteran Douglas Millar of Campbell River, B.C., sent this photo of himself with his crew, while training for anti-submarine action using Lockheed Hudsons at Truro, N.S.
(Submitted by Douglas Millar)
In this photo, veteran Douglas Millar and crew in Burma, where their his RCAF 436 squadrom was sent to support the British 14th Army fighting the Japanese.
(Submitted by Douglas Millar)
Donald Stewart Maynard, a Sapper in the 7th Battalion, Canadian Engineers, is pictured here in an assembly camp prior to shipping out to England. Maynard was killed on October 25, 1918, two weeks before Amistice, and buried in France.
(Submitted by Drew Maynard/Submitted by Drew Maynard)
Donald Maynard (second from right) is pictured here shipping out to England on the train. He came from a farming family near Chatham, Ont. He was killed on October 25, 1918.
(Submitted by Drew Maynard/Submitted by Drew Maynard)
(Submitted by Harry Smith)
(Submitted by James McCreath)
Lt. Ronald E Newton is pictured in England 1942. His tank was the second ashore in the Sicily invasion July 10, 1943.
(Submitted by Jim Newton/Submitted by Jim Newton)
(From left to right) John Joseph Hugh (Mickey) O'Neill, Irene and John O'Neill and Cliff O'Neill are pictured as John Joseph Hugh O'Neill prepares for departure overseas in Thorold, ON c. 1943
(Submitted by Kathleen Ross/Submitted by Kathleen Ross)
John and Cecil Sanders are pictured in this 1944 photo.
(Submitted by Larry Sanders/Submitted by Larry Sanders)
Mother and son both in the military in World War II (circa 1944). Robert A Coulter joined the RCAF in 1941 at Vancouver. His mother, Leah D. Coulter, joined the CWAC shortly after its formation in 1941.
(Submitted by Bob Coulter, Marion Coulter-Mackie and Colleen Coulter/Submitted by Bob Coulter, Marion Coulter-Mackie and Colleen Coulter)
Ron MacKay (bottom left) and the crew of their bomber, dubbed Li'l Abner after the comic strip. Among the crew are Arthur Hiller (centre) and Gordon Williamson (bottom right.)
(Submitted by Wally MacKay)
Hy and Rose Alper are pictured at the Montreal West train station in April 1942, the day Hy left for his initial training in Kingston, Ontario.
(Submitted by Teresa Alper/Submitted by Teresa Alper)
Hy Alper, RCAF radio mechanic, is pictured in the cockpit of a training plane. The photo was most likely taken in Texas prior to his departure overseas.
(Submitted by Teresa Alper/Submitted by Teresa Alper)
Arthur "Geoff" Christie is pictured in this July 12, 1917 photo, taken in France. Writes his granddaughter: "A few months later he was a victim of early chemical warfare, blinded in a mustard gas attack. He survived, and his eyesight eventually returned. He spoke little of his wartime experiences. As a child I thought it funny when he shouted in his sleep. Now I know better."
(Submitted by Binnie Brennan/Submitted by Binnie Brennan)
An unidentified group of soldiers from WWI, submitted by Susan Morrison. Writes Susan: "Although the inscription in the lower right corner says New York Photo Studio, Queen St., I am fairly certain these individuals were from the Toronto area as my grandmother lived there for a period of time during the war."
(Submitted by Susan Morrison/Submitted by Susan Morrison)
Kelly Thompson (L) is pictured here with her grandfather at a Remembrance Day ceremony several years ago. Thomspon isn't your typical Canadian military vet, she says: "I have not been overseas, I have not seen battle, and I have not held the hands of comrades as they died. Instead, I spent my entire career injured and so, I was relegated to a desk." This will be her first Remembrance Day without uniform after an injury led to her military release.
(Submitted by Kelly Thompson/Submitted by Kelly Thompson)
Greg Owen submitted this 2010 photo of the Commonwealth War Cemetery in Holten, The Netherlands, where over 1,300 Canadian soldiers are buried. Says Owen: "What struck me was the contrast - the Dutch boys in the foreground, very proud and happy and with an incredible love for Canada - with the Canadian veteran in the background, a chest full of medals, thinking of his friends who died in Holland."
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Watford defender Lloyd Doyley played the full 90 minutes as Jamaica lost 2-1 to Serbia last night.
Doyley was part of a back four which conceded twice in the opening quarter of the match, with FC Twente's Dušan Tadić and Manchester City's Aleksandar Kolarov scoring the goals.
Philadelphia Union goalkeeper Andre Blake helped keep Jamaica in the contest in the first half but the Reggae Boys produced an improved second-half display and pulled a goal back through Michael Seaton's header seven minutes after the restart.
Kolarov had the chance the make it 3-1 from the penalty spot late on but his effort was saved by Blake.
Former Watford winger Joel Grant also played 78 minutes for the Reggae Boys.
Jamaica take on Switzerland in Luvern on Friday.
Watford goalkeeper Jonathan Bond was an unused substitute as England Under-20s lost 2-1 to Brazil in their second game in the Toulon Tournament.
Jamaica line-up v Serbia: Andre Blake, Alvas Powell, Upston Edwards, Lloyd Doyley, Kemar Lawrence (Nicholy Finlayson 75), Chris Humphrey (Hughan Gray 71), Rudolph Austin, John Ross Edwards (Nicholas Beckett 46), Joel Grant (Romario Campbell 78), Simon Dawkins (Deshorn Brown 83), Darren Mattocks (Michael Seaton 46).
England line-up v Brazil: Jack Butland; Tyias Browning, Liam Moore, Michael Keane, Luke Garbutt (Brad Smith 60); James Ward-Prowse, Nathaniel Chalobah; Jordan Cousins (Solly March 80), Jake Forster-Caskey (Cauley Woodrow 51), Nathan Redmond; Saido Berahino.


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The problem is the absolute url of the "mypage.html" file in the code is also rendered as a blue link when javascript is off. I don't want that rendering when off.
I do use html comment tags as you can see in the code below. They don't stop the rendering of the link. Can anyone help?
Here is the code:
<!DOCTYPE html><xhtml><title>No Javascript Page</title>
</xhtml>
I am confused, what link are you referring to in the above source as the only code you have changes the URL in the browser not on the page itself. Also in your markup you have a tag called xhtml, a tag called html exists but no tag by that name exists in the HTML spec and never will.
I took the "x" out of <xhtml>. Thanks for the feedback.
I did not write a link. I wrote this method: location.replace("mypage.html");
I wrote it to redirect the user when javascript is turned on. It does redirect when js is on.
Firefox renders it as a link when javascript is turned off:
I'm with Sgt Legend
There is no link at all displayed on the page.
Not necessarily my business to comment here, but a better approach to web design and use of JS is to make a page with accessible content and then use JS as an enhancement to the page. I guess it depends on what you are trying to do, but it's a good principle to work by.[/ot]
just did a quick :google:
maybe it's your noscript add-on that is displaying the url as a link.
Thanks for your help.
I tried again and my firefox still shows the link. I have to find out why my browser is doing this.
I read the comment about trying not to use javascript. My website will have two parts. The https/javascript registration part and the http/html text part. I'm working on and talking about the secure part right now. I'll need javascript for ajax in the secure part.
I say this for 2 reasons, I want to use ajax to validate form data, using onfocus and onblur events, before submit, and the page we are talking about right now is an https page. I wonder if that is causing firefox to show the links.
This is a brain twister. Thanks to everyone for the comments.
:bouncy3: DANGER Will Robinson, DANGER :bouncy3:
You mention you are learning javascript and so you might not be aware. AJAX is just a specific way of using javascript to communicate with the server. It's not a separate language or technology, and being nothing more than javascript it (along with any ajax code) can be easily bypassed by a malicious user.
Bottom line: any user inputted data must be validated in your server side script when it receives the data (which, by the way, might not be sent from your form at all by a malicious user) and client side validation (with javascript and/or ajax) is just an optional extra to enhance user experience.
Yes, I use noscript. The link disappears when I tell noscript to stop blocking javascript. I was assuming the links appear when javascript is turned off for any reason. Maybe noscript is specifically designed to show them when it is blocking js .I am assuming many others will use this add on as well, that's why I'm trying to learn how to deal with it (prevent these links from showing to those who use noscript).
"DANGER Will Robinson DANGER"
Thanks. I can use the laugh.
I use php to validate, and communicate with mysql. A php file for each separate form element contains a regex specifically for that form element. This regex checks (not submits) the data for that element only by using XMLHttpRequest object . When all user input passes the series of regexes (nothing submitted yet, just checked by a regex), the user submits to a separate server side php validation script.
There will be so much going on for each user that I want to keep all activity on one dynamic page for ease of use. No one gets lost - including me.
sounds good :tup:, that's the way it should be.
Thanks for your help, and...
I learned from the responses here that the noscript add on is rendering those links. Other users will have this add on, so I have to learn more about it to see if I can test for it and response as necessary. I don't want my customers to see the links at all, even before they turn js on. That's why I'm looking for a way to turn off the links to the scripts.
The links are a dead end, but they show the path to the scripts, and they look bad.
Thank for your help!!
I'm not sure why you want users to turn on their js just for the client side validation (with or without ajax).
If the user has js turned off, all that should mean is that there will be no client side validation and their inputted data will be validated in your separate server side script anyway when they click the submit button.
If you insist users turn on their js, at least the less tech-savvy ones might suspect you are trying to do something "nasty" on their pc and so you risk losing them.
There is no reason at all saying a registration process must use javascript to function securely.
Just some food for thought
Thanks for your question, and your ideas.
I want to move beyond a form that shows errors only by scrolling the form after the submit button is clicked. I want the user to know within half a second or less of moving away from each form element if their input into that element has errors, - that is, if they entered 876r4 as a zip code, etc
The faster I can show the user any errors they make, the faster they can get through the form. Scrolling and searching slows things down.
Also, why use AJAX (which slows down your validation speed) unless you are querying a database as part of your validation?
Yes, what you're saying is true. Not everyone loves javascript. I've been talking about the secure part of the site on this thread, which is the part people will go to after spending time on the html, css only, section. If they spend a lot of time on the non secure part, I think that means they are interested and not so concerned about the use of javascript on the secure part.
I will try not to use any javascript on the non secure part, for the reasons you're talking about.
Javascript is not going to be the first thing they find on the entire site. I won't be like the speed bump on the lazy sunday afternoon drive.
No one will be able to go to the secure site directly by typing the url into their browser. They will have to link from the non secure site.
Also, the things they will be able to do after registering will require ajax as well. That provides the quick functionality. There will be a database involved. If it slows down, I'll upgrade the hardware.
I'm still learning to code. There will always be a learning curve to coding. It won't always be as steep as it is now, but it will always be there to some degree. I don't have all the answers. I have to make some decisions about how to do things, and see how it goes. No one method has all the advantages and no disadvantages.
Thanks for your feedback. Thanks for helping.


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I can't tell, cos Apple stupidly removed the "Time Remaining" Battery view in the Menu Bar.
I'm having heat and battery problems with my 2011 13-inch MacBook Pro ever since I downloaded and updated. I really hope they fix this in 10.8.1
Well, I installed it on my 27" iMac I noticed a huge difference in temperature. Back with Lion my machine ran hot, even on cold days. Now it runs cool and smooth. I obviously can't report on battery life since it doesn't have one, but I'm pretty happy with Mountain Lion so far.
My guess is that all the iCloud-based apps and push notifications are draining battery in the background.
I've been using 10.8 since the GM release on my Mid 2010 MBP (Upgraded with a Samsung 830 SSD) and haven't had any issues. In fact, I believe the estimated time remaining has become more accurate as it'll say I'm going to have 5 hours of life with Safari/Mail/Messages/Adium/Steam/iTunes and a few other apps open… and Steam isn't particularly friendly on the battery life, I've found.
Closing Steam, it estimates about 6 hours battery life on 97%. Lion wasn't that good, in comparison.
ya mine is bad to but whats even worse is that it stays hot even in sleep mode....