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Ukraine movement a 'Maidan of dignity', says bishop
(Vatican Radio) The protests in an increasing number of public squares across Ukraine are more about a growing people's movement than plain political expression, says a Ukrainian Greek Catholic bishop.
While the media is reporting that the ongoing protests are motivated by the Ukrainian government's refusal to sign an agreement that would have steered Ukraine towards Europe, Bishop Borys Gudziak says the story "has a much broader context and a much deeper quality."
The Maidan movement is a reaction against the general atmosphere of fear and intimidation in Ukraine and against wanton corruption in the country, he said. It is a movement of principle and dignity, with spiritual expression.
"The people are morally exhausted," he told Vatican Radio. "So… what began as a Euro-Maidan movement…is really now a Maidan of dignity, a Maidan of citizens recognizing something that is rather transcendental and that is fundamentally spiritual— that every person is created in dignity in the image and likeness of God."
Listen to the full interview with Bishop Borys Gudziak:
Bishop Gudziak heads the Ukrainian Greek Catholic eparchy of France, Belgium and Luxembourg. He also serves as president of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv.
"After 20-odd years of independence, Ukraine is maybe halfway on the pilgrimage from the land of captivity to the promised land," he said, as many aspects of the former totalitarian regime are only slowly being pushed aside. "Dropping the cloak of slavery is not easy."
Protest leaders include many from the Ukrainian middle class; about two-thirds of protesters have university degrees, he said.
The clergy from the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, the various Orthodox churches, the Roman Catholic Church and Protestant communities, as well as Jewish and Muslim clerics, have joined protesters seeking to minister to their spiritual needs.
"Basically, the churches have come to where the people have asked them to be," said the bishop.
The religious presence in the main Independence Square in Kiev is obvious. Acting in accord, the churches hold ecumenical prayer on Sundays at noon. And throughout the night, when fear of violence is greatest, prayer is led from the main stage on the hour every hour, said the bishop. Religious services are held and "ecclesial tents" are set up in the square, where people can pray quietly before an icon, access the sacrament of confession and spiritual guidance.
"The Church, following the basic insight expressed by Pope Francis, is trying to make sure that the pastors have the smell of the sheep," he stated.
In early January, the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture sent a letter to the Major Archbishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, stating that the Church's involvement in the protest could lead to a revocation of its legal status.
"That is a very serious threat expressed to a Church that for much of the 20th century, by the powers that be, was outlawed," Bishop Gudziak said .
From 1945 to 1989, the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church was the biggest illegal Church in the world and the biggest body of resistance in the Soviet Union, he stated. It did not collaborate with the regime; as a result, by 1945, all of its bishops were imprisoned.
"Because of its free and dignified stance in the Soviet times, it emerged into the period of Ukrainian independence with unique moral authority," he explained. Today, the Church exerts a very big influence on issues of freedom, dignity, justice, and equality before the law.
"The Church speaks about these principles because they are the principles of our Saviour," Bishop Gudziak said.
He commented on how numerous protesters are being beaten and harassed and how many students of the Ukrainian Catholic University have been intimidated by calls from the police and the secret service.
"One must realize that in a country where so many people were killed, so many people were sent to Siberia, so many people were spied on, a call from the secret service to the students' personal cell phone is a very invasive action that creates great trepidation and insecurity," he said.
"The fear in Ukraine is only skin deep," he continued, "and you scratch the surface and it pops out. Because the system killed systematically, people are afraid of the system. This movement of the Maidan is actually a response to this fear."
The bishop called for prayers for peace and for conversion in Ukraine. He also urged people to become informed about the "real-life story" that is developing there, to understand the importance of Ukraine in Europe's geopolitics. He called for people to express their solidarity with the Ukrainian protesters by writing letters and appealing to political leaders.
"This experience of the 20th century, in which people of faith and other people of good will stood up to the greatest human challenge, the challenge of totalitarianism, this school of faith has much to offer to western Europe and to the broader international and ecclesial community," he said.
"I think Ukraine and the Church in Ukraine has a great responsibility to share this story," he concluded. "Today, this Church is growing and I am convinced that it has a vocation to help the universal Church in ways that are still unknown."
Report and interview by Laura Ieraci
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Bob Burdorff's '57 Ford Custom 300 Rekindles His Early Years
At almost any point in time we realize the hot rod we have is in some way a reflection of our earliest ride. For Bob Burdorff of Benton, Kansas, his first car was a 1958 Ford Custom 300 and it is the car that rekindles the memories he relives when driving his current ride: a '57 Ford Custom 300.
This wheat-fed Ford was recycled through a farm auction, then cycled its way through the hands of several local rodders before Bob was able to begin its 2 1/2 year build. With the helping hands and watchful eyes of Keith Bright of Bright Built Hot Rods in Salina, Kansas, the body and paintwork as well as assembly of the '57 began to take shape. Others who helped in the process are Kraig Kerner of Black Widow Garage (Wellington, KS) who was instrumental in the installation of the engine and trans, while Jim Burdette (Wichita, KS) assembled the rearend.
The chassis is based on the original FoMoCo 'rails (sandblasted and repainted) wrapped around a 3.70 geared Ford 9-inch rearend narrowed 4 inches. From here Air Ride Technologies (Jasper, IN) is used in back with Koni shocks and Caddy disc brakes. A pair of Pete & Jake's (Peculiar, MO) ladder bars and Panhard bar were also used; interestingly the ladder bars are tunneled up into the body to conceal their side visibility and enhance suspension geometry. In front the Air Ride system continues-this time in conjunction with a pair of Fatman 3-inch dropped spindles, and a much heavier front sway bar was included. Added to this combo are Koni shocks, Granada disc brakes and Cavalier power rack-and-pinion that utilizes Borgeson linkage via the stock steering column sporting a cut-down stock wheel. The disc brakes are operated through a Kugel Komponents (La Habra, CA) pedal assembly and an under-dash-hidden power master cylinder setup. Holding the Custom 300 above the asphalt and at the corners are Foose Monterey 17×7 and 17×8 wheels with Hancock rubber.
This '57 never moved as quickly as it does today via a 345hp Ford Racing Performance Parts 302ci small-block topped with GT-40 aluminum heads, an Edelbrock (Torrance, CA) Air Gap intake, and a 600cfm four-barrel dressed with a Billet Specialties (Le Grange, IL) air cleaner. Another Edelbrock component is the aluminum water pump, while twin electric fans work well with the custom aluminum radiator keeping temps in line. Other engine items include an MSD (El Paso, TX) ignition system with a 6AL box, Taylor wires, Hedman Hedders (Whittier, CA), Flowmaster (Santa Rosa, CA) exhaust and mufflers (21/2-inch pipe throughout), and a Street & Performance (Mena, AR) serpentine belt system. The AOD tranny and converter comes by way of Chance Transmission (Wichita, KS) and fitted with a Gennie Shifter (Denver, CO) gear selector and a Power Drive Inc. (Wichita, KS) driveshaft.
One of the secrets to any great looking hot rod lies in the subtleness of the body mods.
This two-door post Ford features headlight buckets shortened 11/2 inches, resulting from the front fenders being rolled down the same amount. And, yes, the lights are frenched. Additional body mods include being nosed and decked, shaved door handles with remote control doors and decklid, the windshield drip molding removed and replaced with a 3/8-inch eyebrow, custom external mirrors and grille, smoothed front and rear bumpers (with the rear narrowed), side chrome modified and lowered, and a smoothed firewall and inner fender panels. The crowning art of this bodywork are the frenched '57 T-bird taillights. Over the sheetmetal Bright Built sprayed the modified Prowler Orange above the beltline while the lower portion was sprayed with DuPont silver.
Inside the dash sports a Haneline (Anaheim, CA) insert with VDO gauges. Other notable interior appointments include the JVC stereo (hidden antenna), Vintage Air (San Antonio, TX) HVAC system, loads of Dynamat (Hamilton, OH), and wiring from Haywire (Joplin, MO) aptly handled by Bright Built.
The interior is comprised of power T-bird seating stitched in fawn leather (aircraft quality), as are the door panels, with rust colored wool carpet stitched by Sam Wright (Baldwin, KS). Seatbelts are Juliano's (Vernon, CT).
All of us are enjoying our hot rods more today than at any time but it is hard to pass up those good old memories-and why should we? Those were fun times.

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Thursday, August 12, 2010
Back to School organizer
When Fox Ct 61 asked me to create a back to school wall organizer I thought, well that's perfect since my daughter is leaving to be a Freshman at College this year.
Searching around, I found the extra large very affordable Corkboards at Job Lot. So that is how the project started.
Two or three pairs of jeans and a corkbaord are the basics here. This is a good way to recycle those old worn jeans that no longer fit your child. You will cut them to pieces using the double sewn leg and hem seams for the ribbon, the pockets for storage, and the waistbands for the vertical bands. The loops will hold many things.
You will also need also need: tacks, a glue gun, scissors or pinking sheers. Optional: extra fabric behind criss cross organizer.
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I'm planning on replacing the brake hoses on my 2004 1150GS (with ABS) using Galfer brake lines. I previously had a bad experience with Spiegler, so decided to give Galfer a try. Anyway, Galfer has a kit for the 1999 - 2002 1150GS with ABS (kit D265-5). When I asked if the kit would work on the 2004 model they said no and they would have to custom make a kit. So, does anyone know if the brake hoses on the 2004 GS with ABS are different from the 1999 - 2002 models?
Also, the OEM brake lines on the bike look like rubber. I thought I read somewhere that the 2004 GSA had stainless steel brake lines, but the regular 2004 GS still had rubber lines. Is this correct?
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Let's get one thing straight: there's nothing wrong with learning itself.
It's the key to unlocking new business ideas and growth hacks within existing markets. BUT learning for the sake of learning – especially in the early growth stages – is business suicide.
"Never stop learning, BUT always use learning to get shit done."
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By Moni Basu, CNN
(CNN) - Richard Blanco, the poet who likes to describe himself as being made in Cuba, assembled in Spain and imported to the United States, will serve as the inaugural poet when President Barack Obama takes the oath of office for a second term this month.
Blanco will be the first Latino, the first openly gay person and the youngest poet chosen for the coveted role.
A statement from the inaugural committee said Blanco was chosen because the power of his poetry is rooted in American identity.
"Richard's writing will be wonderfully fitting for an inaugural that will celebrate the strength of the American people and our nation's great diversity," Obama said in a statement Wednesday that announced his selection.
With that announcement, Blanco will surely be catapulted to fame in the vein of Natasha Trethewey, 46, who this year was chosen to become the nation's poet laureate.
"I'm beside myself, bestowed with this great honor, brimming over with excitement, awe, and gratitude," Blanco, 44, said in a statement.
"In many ways, this is the very 'stuff' of the American Dream, which underlies so much of my work and my life's story - America's story, really," he said. "I am thrilled by the thought of coming together during this great occasion to celebrate our country and its people through the power of poetry."
Blanco was conceived in Cuba to parents who fled Fidel Castro's authoritarian rule. He was born in Madrid but grew up in the United States, living first in New York and then in Miami.
His first book of poetry, "City of a Hundred Fires," was all about a Cuban-American immigrant's quest to define a cultural identity. It won the prestigious Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize from the University of Pittsburgh.
"I always describe this book as a cultural coming of age 'story,' tracing the cultural yearnings and negotiation of growing up Cuban American," Blanco said of the book, named after Cienfuegos, the hometown of his family.
In an interview that aired on NPR on Wednesday, Blanco said he has been thinking about his heritage again in the past few weeks after he learned that he would be writing the inaugural poem.
"Even though it's been a few weeks since I found out, just thinking about my parents and my grandparents and all the struggles they've been through, and how, you know, here I am, first-generation Cuban-American, and this great honor that has just come to me, and just feeling that sense of just incredible gratitude and love," he said.
And in a telephone interview from his home in Bethel, Maine, he told the New York Times that he related to Obama's life story and his multicultural background.
"There has been a spiritual connection in that sense," he said. "I feel in some ways that when I'm writing about my family, I'm writing about him."
Educated in Miami, Blanco began his professional career as a consultant engineer. He wanted to make his family happy by pursuing the sort of career expected in the Cuban-American community.
But his musings on identity led him to writing, and he enrolled in a master's program in fine arts and creative writing at Florida International University. His mentor there was Campbell McGrath, who himself has written several books of poetry.
Even before McGrath had moved from Chicago to start a teaching job in Florida, he received a letter from Blanco.
"I'm not a poet, but would you let me into your class?" Blanco asked McGrath.
McGrath thought Blanco sounded ambitious, but the very first poem he wrote in class, "America," became the first poem in "City of a Hundred Fires."
"From the get-go, his poems were good enough to be published," McGrath said.
He brought to his poetry the structural, analytical abilities of an engineer. He was able to go beyond the beauty of the words, to look beneath the surface and examine the engineering of the poem, McGrath said.
But more than anything, McGrath felt that the power in Blanco's poems lie in the universal messages he conveys. Yes, he writes about identity, but he does so in a deeply personal way: through family and relationships.
"They are deeply humanistic poems," McGrath said.
In "America," for example, Blanco writes about how there was pork served at every family gathering and that one year, he, as a 7-year-old, explained that they should have turkey instead on Thanksgiving. That's what everyone else did.
Abuelita prepared the poor fowl
as if committing an act of treason
faking her enthusiasm for my sake.
McGrath said one of his personal favorites is "El Florida Room," a poem about home and family published in Blanco's latest book, "Looking for the Gulf Motel."
Not a sitting room, but El Florida, where
I sat alone for hours with butterflies
frozen on the polyester curtains
and faces of Lladró figurines: sad angels,
clowns, and princesses with eyes glazed
blue and gray, gazing from behind
the glass doors of the wall cabinet.
Not a tv room, but where I watched
Creature Feature as a boy, clinging
to my brother, safe from vampires
in the same sofa where I fell in love
with Clint Eastwood and my Abuelo
watching westerns, or pitying women
crying in telenovelas with my Abuela.
Obama's inaugural team has asked Blanco to write three poems, McGrath said, from which they will choose one for him to read out on the steps of the Capitol on January 21 at Obama's swearing-in ceremony.
As though writing one poem that captured all at once the personal and the grandness of the nation were not enough. But three.
He thought of another friend, Elizabeth Alexander, who was tapped as Obama's inaugural poet in 2008 and has spoken to McGrath about the process.
"Usually when you write a poem, you think first of yourself," McGrath said. "Then you envision a close friend reading it. But now you have to think about reading it on the steps of the Capitol with the whole world watching. So you have to think of it differently."
Alexander, the chairwoman of the African-American Studies Department at Yale University, said she was amazed at the amount of mail she got from around the world - not just e-mails but letters written on paper. "Who writes letters anymore?" she asked with a laugh.
Some were from people who had written America off as a land of money and power, not one that still appreciated poetry.
"I was so struck," she said. "All these people were taking the time to say that a poem had moved them."
In crafting her own inaugural poem, "Praise Song for the Day," Alexander said she had to think about her words in different terms. She meditated on America and the works of bards like Walt Whitman. She thought of the way Obama had been elected president, by what she felt was a language that was grounded, specific and always looking to higher aspirations.
"The word 'hope' felt tangible and real in his political rhetoric," Alexander said. That was something that resonated in Alexander's poem:
I know there's something better down the road.
We need to find a place where we are safe.
We walk into that which we cannot yet see.
And this last stanza:
In today's sharp sparkle, this winter air,
any thing can be made, any sentence begun.
On the brink, on the brim, on the cusp,
praise song for walking forward in that light.
In writing his poem, Blanco will have to keep in mind one other key factor: that most people will hear his poem read aloud and perhaps never read it on paper or a computer screen.
"That means there has to be a level of clarity," Alexander said, adding that she was delighted that Blanco had been chosen this time.
"The question of how we become American is an enduring one and one that Blanco is dealing with in the present moment with his particulars," she said.
He is a nuanced poet who deserves this honor in every way, Alexander said.
"The ways in which the voices of a diverse America are being given more space and more time is something that's very exciting to see in the choice of Richard Blanco," Alexander said.
There have been only five inaugural poets in American history. Robert Frost was the first at President John Kennedy's 1961 inauguration. The others were Maya Angelou in 1993 for Bill Clinton; Miller Williams in 1997, again for Clinton; Alexander in 2009; and now, Blanco.
"We need to remember that it's not something you have to do," Alexander said. "You don't have to put culture on the program."
But there are things that can be said in poetry, she said, that can't be said in any other way.
That was the power of words, pulled from the heart and threaded together with utmost care and love. Those who know Blanco know that he will deliver.
Geez, the world is going to hell and the gays are leading it there.
I thought the poetry excerpted here sounded sentimental and not very good.
While watching this gentleman read his works during the inauguration, i cared not (and knew not) that he was gay, or latino... all i wanted to know was, where's Maya Angelou? was she on vacation or something? and judging by the comments i saw in my facebook feed, a lot of people thought the same thing.
To whoever wanted Maya Angelou, get an education and find out the meaning of "poetry."
To Richard Blanco, your Inaugration poem was glorious, and we all want a date with you.
Obviously if this guy is gay, that means that Obama is trying to promote the gay community and alternative lifestyles. But just where would that leave our nation? I can completely understand that by the letter of the law gay marriage should be legal, but the letter of the law is not all there is. It is possible that some quite legitimate concerns and some real consequences about gay marriage can sound like gay-bashing to a bunch of left-wing bigots. Which is what you are doing, honestly. You want tolerance for gays/lesbians, but you refuse to tolerate anybody who says differently. Hypocrisy?
if it isn't supposed to matter if a person is gay or not, then why the headline? as if the picture isn't enough to tell me that he's tuti and fruti
Ok. There's nothing so special about this guy except that he's gay and latino. Don't take special as meaning good, either. I'm a Christian and don't believe in that stuff. Celebrating diversity is great and ok, but if the diversity is moral degradation, then of course no. That is anti-American. That's why people who don't belive the Bible think that being gay is ok. If you don't have a set standard of rules to abide by, anything can slide.
The bad thing about this country is that it's full of anti-somebody militants whose little brains can't fathom the concept of live and let's live, if it's not anti-gay, it's anti-latino or anti-meat eater or anti-left handed or whatever. The good thing is that it's not something that a good, solid punch in the nose can't fix when they get in your face.
Ill be honost folks i am gay myself but comon.... now your just rubbing it in peoples faces!!
OMG is he a hottie, yeah baby!!!
Hello Everyone,
It's not about the poet, it's about the poem. There are plenty of good Inaugural Poems on Amazon. Search for "Inaugural Poem 2013" or "Inauguration Poetry," If you truly love poetry, or the President, or America, there is a rhyming poem by Ssal Nogard, for you people who don't care for free verse.
Its ok to have a gay poet speak, but its not acceptable to have a anti gay preacher pray. This is discrimination no matter which way you look at it. Both these individuals speak based on what they believe.
Would you say the same if they had a preacher rant against a particular race?
Can you stay focused? The christ-cult "minister" withdrew HIMSELF! It was HIS choice. Nobody elses. And he did so AFTER the gay poet was named.
Is anyone surprised?
Hey everyone, check out this black astrophysicist, Neil DeGrasse Tyson! He's a black guy! That makes him so awesome!
If that statement didn't sound awkward or stupid to you – you have a serious problem. Let a mans merit be measured by what he contributes to the world by choice, not the things he wasn't given a choice over. Tyson is a fantastic speaker and one of my personal heroes for what he contributes to Science, and nothing else.
I, I, I, me, me, me – this is the sort of unstructured self-indulgence emperor's-new-clothes adolescents tap into their me-phones, hardly poetry.
This is sad. Our Lord does not approve of his ugly, unholy lifestyle. All in the name of political correctness? This makes me sick. We need our Christian country back – NOW.
What do you mean "our" lord? It's "your" lord, not mine. And 1/3 of the world is not religious so it's not their lord either.
We Americans don't have lords. Some of you religious people may have one, but in civil matters there are no lords.
You are the sad one.Ask your Lord to help eradicate your bigotry & ignorance.All the negative comments about this article glaringly indicate we still have a way to go in this country to accept the differences in us all.Please stop displaying how incredibly stupid some of you truly are.Go watch championship "wrestling"...more in step.
If those who profess to be Christian would complete some historical research ( as I have done – well over 12 years) you will know that Christianity and Jesus Christ is the biggest hoax ever perpetrated. Do the research and once you do, you will no longer be a Chrsitian ( which is no more than Paganism).
Nice poetry.
It's good that he is Latino, is he from Italy and will the poems be in LATIN?
All I am saying is that I would like to live in a world where we don't need to point out that someone is gay, straight, pink or purple. I just want us to be known as human beings and not care what the other person is. Not really sure why you felt the need to insult me, Jackson.
The parents fled Castro's Communist regime. CNN can't bring themselves to equate communism with desperate people wanting to flee.
His poetry sounds kind of gay
Well, so much for my attention span.... Read the word GAY...... and that was it.... later....
You read the word "gay," and that was it....
I don't think so, jusme101. You took the time to sign in to the blog, and leave your slur, so that was not it..... "It" is going to be with you for a long, long time, b/c it is clearly eating at you.
Well -said, wise oldowl.
Ever since Anita Bryant, anti-gays have sought to keep LGBT Americans at the fringe of American society, but today they find that they themselves are at the fringe, as we saw from the withdrawal of the hateful, anti-gay minister just as this poet is at the very center of our country's public life. Whining from the fringe will not change your fringe status, anti-gays, your whining is why you were shoved there in the first place. Face the fact, Americans on the whole have just had it with whining anti-gays.
lol. That is one special pick.
So was he actually chosen for his talent as a poet, or are his other attributes more important ? Given the way the article is worded, I am not sure.
"so, his only claim to fame is that he is a poet that got the nod for being gay?"
No. He's an award-winning author.
Next time, read the story before making foolish comments.
Does he want to be remembered for his lifestyle or his talent as a poet?
If you have to ask that question you know nothing about American history or the people of your own country. Very sad.
Yea when they say gay poet, I'm like, "I don't want to hear that poem, NASTY!"
Why say "gay poet", just say "a poet"; you don't say "straight poet" if referring to a straight guy. He is a person and a poet, end of story. Whatever his lifestyle is or his preferences are, it's his business and no one's; most of the critics here are beneath this person for writing nasty comments.
I totally agree. What purpose or necessity is fulfilled by stating that the man is gay? So what? He is a man who is a poet who will have an important job at the inauguration. That is the only thing that matters.
"What purpose or necessity is fulfilled by stating that the man is gay?"
Easy, it demonstrates that while LGBT Americans are accepted in all walks of American life, including public life, anti-gays are now restricted to the fringe of American society–and whining from the anti-gays at the fringe won't change that.
What do you know of his lifestyle?
See, this is what ticks people off. It isn't that he is gay, or of a certain ethnic group, it's that for whatever reason, it must be pointed out that he is gay and of a certain ethnic group. Why can't he just be, "Richard Blanco, Poet."
Untrue. Just be who you are and that is enough.
And who he is is a gay latino. What exactly are you complaining about? Be who you are but don't tell anyone?
And it's absolutely true. You might have noticed some changes in how gays are perceived in society. It's because we came out and people learned that we're their neighbors, friends, co-workers, family members....even inaugural poets. Never would have happened if we let the lying bigots define us.
Yeah, like the gay dude in my neighborhood that was just hauled away to prison for attacking an underage boy
My reply above was intended as a reply to your comment, so here it is again: If you have to ask that question you know nothing about American history or the people of your own country. Very sad.
Thanks huhb! Your spot on my friend. Minority communities have to fight for respect from the "majority", whatever that majority might be.
you must mean "we could HAVE hit the jackpot"....this country's national obsession with reality TV and celebrities is on a par with the lack of education, and ignorance – so aptly demonstrated in this post....
His poems are about the lack of glory holes in modem day America.
I would not know that look but it is a good guess.
Certainly no looker! The dude is ugly.
Go out and get a life.
Does one need to appear appealing to be a successful writer? I thought we looked at the words > not them...
Why do we need a poet for the inauguration? What purpose does this serve? No one reads poety anymore.
Your seedy, smarmy thoughts are all in vain, and yet
like wading through a sewer, hoping not to get wet
The crap that this guy rights in not poetry.
He does not like straight people. He should be disqualified from participating becuase he does not agree with a hetro lifestyle. Sounds crazy doesn't it. This is the exact positon gays take when a hetro does not agree with their lifestyle like the preacher that has backed out of the inauguration due to gays not liking his comments from 15 years ago. Backlash is a coming for LGBT.
Backlash, huh? We've only been dealing with that for about two thousand years. Bring it, beeoch!
He could read me a bed times nursery rhymes any old night.. 😉
You and me both! Oof!
I just blew my O ring thinking about him!
benjamin, you made my night " that was a good one " the dude is really hot "yeah baby"
I think its absolutely fabulous.. And, he is such a hottie, tottie.. Obama has a great straight I for the gay guy..
How wonderful! Congratulations Blanco!
He's fully clothed, and it's a profile, not a full length picture. What exactly is wrong with the angle that his body happened to be in when the picture was taken? Also, it's one of the three pictures of himself on his website, and I would say the most flattering picture. You're trying way too hard to be offended here
I'm not offended. Just asking a question since I'm not of the gay persuasion.
Being gay is NOT a "persuasion." It is a gift from God. You are either born with it, or you're not.
A picture of Katherine Webb (Brent Musberger's dream girl) would have been a better choice.
This article is not about her, is it, Einstein?
Is he going to give the benediction as well, since the preacher bowed out?
One can only hope.....
Or maybe the Rev. Al Sharpton. He's always available.
What? that bigot?
Why, why do you want to say and think such things?
Makes sense! Thanks AmeriKA!
I am now more convinced that "gay" men are, generally, the handsomest and to top it all – intelligent.
Congratulations Blanco. Powerful words!
Well he can not be any worse than the incohearant drivel the the "poet"( and I use the term Loosly) that was selected at his last inaugeration if any of you recall. LOL
And if you go back to school, you may learn how to spell!
Bed?! It's a hammock. Where is your mind?
Isnt a hammock a type of bed? Do you just feel the need to insult random ppl your dont know?
Sadly, the US would be best represented by Homer Simpson. Any variance from that level of intelligence or culture is not understood or supported by the majority of US citizens.
Speak for yourself.
If it weren't so true I'd be mad at that.
why not just say poet chosen for inaugural and give his name why give all these details he is this and that? i now see why people like alex jones yell at you guys.too much information folks
You were forced to stare at it? What forced you – your subconscious?
Looking at their screen is what most people do when they wait for a page to load. Don't play shmart. That's of course if you don't have a habit to avoid looking at your own screen. But if you do, that would call for a question of what makes you not to look at your screen.
i must honestly say that I was not aware poet was still a viable career choice......
Its what he does when not wiating tables
Oh? Are you his bus boy?
Why do we need to know whether the man is gay and Latino? If it was a straight and white man would they say we welcome the openly straight white man John Jacob Jingle Heimer Smith.
Actually, John Jacob Jingle Heimer Smith was a German-English, Middle European man.
Are we supposed to stand and cheer because a gay man is going to speak? Why do we need to know that this man is gay or Latino? Is this really news?
Intimidated by the gay latino, are we Jon????? Or just turned-on, horrified at yourself and in need of someone to bash.....
Yes, Jon, we need to know this man is gay and Latino, because -besides his beautiful writing – Obama chose him as a political statement! Yes, Obama is a politician, did you know that? And politicians do this type of things! Is that wrong? No, it's the way politics work!!! Politicians use specific people to state their position about something. Why is that wrong??
Thank you for iterating that MIC! People are so stupid and jealous these days, and it's so amazing that our President is allowing visibility to the gay community. Hopefully there will be a day when we don't have to know that the person is a gay, Latino, Black, Asian, or whatever minority, because we won't care, but sadly I doubt this will ever happen. Bigotry and racism is unfortunately a human condition.
Because we do not need to know that he is anything except a great poet and that's it. Being gay or Latino does not make him special. Telling us that he is gay an Latino makes it sound like he has some disability and we are supposed to feel sorry for him. How about reporting news that actually means something. How about the fact that we live in the richest country in the world and we are doing nothing for our homeless people. How about the fact that our schools are not being properly protected from maniacs with guns but our shopping malls and grocery stores are. We cant fund additional police for schools but we have to fund Obama phones for those in the inner cities.
For those who disapprove of President Obama choosing Richardo Blanco as the inaugural poet; your welcome to hop on another Mayflower, and sail to a new world.
Are you talking about what happened to Native Americans?
We might approve him as a poet (assuming it is his poetry that made him selected for the inaguration) but we don't care to know whether he is a gay or Latino.
This is awesome! I can't wait to hear Richard Blanco's poem when I watch the inauguration. I hope that President Obama continues to show more support for gay rights during his second term. Gays are Americans too and deserve to have equal rights.
Except for the gov not acknowledging their love, what rights doesnt the gay community have? Are they not allowed to take out loans? Are they not allowed on buses or subways? Are they not allowed to adopt? Are they not allowed to go to school or get an education? What exactly cant a gay person do?
He is beautiful.
Now are we being so friggin politically correct. Obama, you are a piece of work!
Could it possibly be that he likes his poetry? Get over yourself!
Why is this being politically correct, how about just, that this poet was chosen for his inspiring work. Nothing wrong in that.
funny, people will begin bashing and hissing, yet probably didn't even know there was a such thing as an inaugural poet.
Robert Frost was the poet at John F Kennedy's inauguration.
And what a world of difference that was. Frost wrote poetry as opposed to an ill-constructed stream of consciousness that this buffoon vomits forth.
inb4 Ruben Navvarrette bashes Obama for picking the 'wrong' type of Latino.
LOL omg seriously thats SOOO something ruben would do.
lol!! And you know its coming too.
@naija folk: "who is Obama gaining votes for?"
All tolerant people in America, which happen to be the majority.
'It's about the "victim group" identification strategy designed to make a majority out of minorities.'
what, you think that if they do this long enough we will all become gay latinos?
"All tolerant people"? Man, are you misguided.
Hm, do you know his poetry?
I find his poetry to be beautiful and inspiring (along with a few other people including critics and award givers).
Many Americans were schooled only in English and American poetry. But now there are wonderful translations available that allow us access to unique and splendid poetry of other nations. Latin America has some fabulous poetry and you would do well to listen to it. Don't limit your world to what is familiar to you; new horizons are available.
I am not Latin American but I am so grateful for how their poetry has enriched my life and that of friends.
Keep an open mind to beauty; that is the American way at root anyhow. Enjoy !
No issues with your statements, but just so that maybe you and others reading understand, Cubans do not consider themselves Latin Americans. They are Caribbeans, primarily of Spanish and African decent.
Thanks for pointing out that distinction; I had not realized that. In point of fact, I do not know the work of this poet, nor any Cuban poets (that I am aware of), but I guess I tend to use the term Latin American to distinguish from Spain. I look forward to learning more about yet another cultural group. I am certainly aware of politics, but I wish people would just relax and try something new. Whatever happened to merit? Whatever happened to variety? Whatever happened to being a citizen of the world?
Check your facts...wasn't Rita Dove the national poet laureate? You reported Natasha Trethewey would be the first African American poet laureate
Yes, you are right; Rita Dove was an American poet laureate, and a wonderful one. Thanks for reminding us.
WOW!!!! Each and every one of the previous posters is a sour-grapes-fox, raunchy example of Americans.....so sad that anyone, let alone CNN permits you to spew your vitriol rants and venomous opinions.
Except maybe sassysticks53.....
So you don't believe in freedom of speech? And I'm sure you figure yourself as "liberal". Yeah, that's what I thought.
Further proof the US is now being run to the benefit of minorities. This country is so over.
It's now official: America has jumped the shark.
thanks for the hyperbole.
How do you possibly come to this conclusion, what o earth is wrong with this choice of poet ?
I'm so sorry for all of us that you feel that way.
Personally, I think he writes some of the most beautiful and truly American poetry I've read in a long time. His poem "Looking for the Gulf Motel" actually brought a tear to my eye the first time I read it because I could identify so strongly with the sense of an erased childhood caused by the constant redevelopment of "old Florida" into these new, sterile condos built for the tourists and snowbirds. But I wouldn't expect you to actually read his work before passing judgement on his qualifications
Your ascendants, goodbyestarsnbars, were once minority, until they annihilated the Native Americans. Don't even forget that......
As it should be. The "majority" is the reason everything is so screwed up!!!!
Anything Obama can do to make him seem more accepting.
No, I believe President Obama was ACCEPTED by the American people on election day and your tax evading outsourcing communist friend was not.
You mean the man who knew how to run a successful business, and also the man who did indeed paid his taxes, and the man who also gave a far bigger % of his income to charity than our Current President. That guy?
Romney's religion REQUIRES him to donate 10% to stay in good standings. Presumably he still is in good standings despite falling slightly below that requirement.
We don't know what he did in 10 of the last 12 years.
Not enough votes in that one.
who is Obama gaining votes for? that's what I thought.
No just no talent.


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Watch Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga Sing 'Lady Is a Tramp' [VIDEO]
On his new album, 'Duets II,' legendary crooner Tony Bennett works with scores of talented artists — but perhaps none as wildly popular as Mother Monster herself, Lady Gaga.
Teaming up for a jazzy rendition of 'The Lady Is a Tramp,' Gaga gets the rare opportunity to show that she's no studio creation — the chick can actually sing.
On the video for the track, Gaga dresses appropriately for the occasion in a long black lace gown, with minimal makeup and none of her normal attention-grabbing weirdness.
Well, she does have seafoam-green tresses, but they're styled in a classic Marilyn Monroe bob. And really, for Lady Gaga, that's her version of understated soccer-mom hair.
Bennett and the 'Born This Way' icon sound divine, and seem to be having a ball together. Check out their duet on a jazz standard below.
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Has your state made the naughty or nice list?
Now that the election is over and we are in the thick of the holiday season, we only need a snowstorm to really put us in the festive spirit. (Why do I believe that some of you are swearing at me right now?) Regardless of the holiday cheer we may have, there is a different kind of storm brewing on the horizon which all employers need to be prepared to weather. As I'm sure you are aware, it is a major tax storm. One of the earliest waves of this storm comes in the form of additional FUTA tax owed by employers in 2012. As mentioned in my previous Crain's blog entry, the actual FUTA tax rate is still 6% and for states who have timely paid back the funds they borrowed from the federal unemployment fund, there is a 5.4% FUTA credit that the federal government provides to employers. This results in a net FUTA tax of 0.6% on taxable wages. FUTA is generally paid on the first $7,000.00 of wages per employee per year which equates to a maximum of $42.00 in tax per employee per year paid by the employer. The Department of Labor has recently released the official list of 19 states (including the US Virgin Islands) that will experience a reduction of this FUTA credit for 2012. These states all had outstanding unemployment insurance (UI) federal loans as of November 11, 2012. Employers who pay into any of these 19 state's unemployment insurance programs will owe additional FUTA tax at the end of 2012 because their FUTA credit has been reduced. How much you ask? The credit reduction schedule is 0.3% for the first year and an additional 0.3% for each succeeding year that your state has not repaid the federal loan. The majority of states on the list will see a 0.6% credit reduction. In other words, these sophomore-standing employers will experience a reduced credit of 4.8% for 2012 and will have to pay an extra 0.6% FUTA tax by Jan 31st 2013. Definitely worth noting again, the credit reduction is exclusive to employers who pay state unemployment insurance (SUI) tax to any of the 19 states listed. If you do not pay state unemployment insurance tax to any of these 19 states, you should receive the full FUTA credit of 5.4% and not owe any additional FUTA tax. For those of us employers in Ohio, we are not so lucky as our FUTA credit is being reduced by 0.6% so we will owe the extra 0.6% tax in 2012 due Jan 31st 2013 and reported on the annual 940 return. Your payroll provider or accountant will be able to inform you of the additional FUTA tax you will owe after your last 2012 payroll. For your reading pleasure, here is a synopsis of the 19 states in which employers are subject to a higher net FUTA tax for 2012, due on Jan 31st 2013 and reported on the annual 940 return. They include: AZ, AK, CA, CT, DE, FL, GA, IN, KY, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OH, RI, VT, VI, WI. • 0.3% Credit Reduction States AZ, DE, & VT. Employers in these states will pay an additional 0.3% FUTA tax at the end of 2012. These three states did not have credit reductions in 2011 and are new to the list this year. • 0.6% Credit Reduction States are AK, CA, CT, FL, GA, KY, MO, NV, NJ, NY, NC, OH, RI, and WI. Employers in these states will pay an extra 0.6% FUTA tax at the end of 2012. This basically doubles the amount employers owe for 2012. • 0.9% and Higher Credit Reduction States are IN (0.9% credit reduction) and VI (a whopping 1.5% credit reduction). There were also five states that were FUTA credit reduction states for 2011but have since repaid the federal unemployment loan. They are Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Virginia. Employers in these states will get the full 5.4% FUTA tax credit and will not owe additional FUTA in 2012. South Carolina is also not a FUTA credit reduction state for 2012, avoiding a reduction of 0.9% because it received conditional Labor Department approval of its credit reduction avoidance application. I know this is a lot of information but with the tax storm approaching, you need to stay informed and be aware. I truly hope this has been informative for you and regardless of whether we get snow or have no snow in the coming weeks, I wish you a warm, festive and wonderful holiday season!


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A new study from the University of Texas and the Sloan foundation suggests Texas' Barnett shale oil and gas play has barely reached a third of its potential.
However, it also concedes that the area's production rate has peaked.
The study's finding's were first reported by the Wall Street Journal's Russell Gold.
"We are looking at multi, multi decades of growth," Scott Tinker, director of the Bureau of Economic Geology at the university and a leader of the study, told Gold.
The study looked at every one of the 16,000 wells in the Barnett, and found that the area is ultimately capable of producing 44 trillion cubic feet of oil and gas, three-times more than it currently puts out, assuming a break-even price of $4.
That's actually about 25 cents above the current Henry Hub price.
The study argues natural gas prices are still low enough to produce a gently declining production curve in the Barnett, located in north-central Texas. Here's the chart:
Sloan said it found no conflict of interest among the studies co-authors despite one having ties to BP.
"The consensus from those meetings was that the quality of the research was excellent and that there was no indication that it was influenced by conflicts of interest," the foundation said in a statement.


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Designer's WishlistAugust 12, 2003
I'm currently subscribed to www-style, the W3C's mailing list for CSS development. CSS-3 is being developed this very moment by engineers and programmers. Why aren't a few designers involved in building a language meant for style? I honestly don't know. Maybe none of us were ever asked. Maybe none of us ever volunteered.
Mike Pick started a wish list today with linked text boxes and alpha-channel runarounds, two features he'd like to see carried over from the print world. Both are logical to the designer, and already work in existing software applications. Here, then, are a few more to add to the pool.
Element Awareness
Visual design is all about proportion. If I have to guess at arbitrary values for text blocks of varying lengths, I can't properly design how they relate to each other. I may want
#elementTwo to be 500 pixels high because
#elementOne is, but if the user has a different default font size than what I designed for, my plans go out the window.
If I was able to apply
height: inherit(#otherElement); to a specific element, the problem would be solved.
Better Vertical Alignment
vertical-align property has been around since CSS level 1, but it's currently a poor concept in general use. You may only apply it to inline elements (and later, table-cell elements) — we need block-level vertical alignment too, guys. Why can't we apply it to both?
Type Improvements
Credit where credit is due: CSS handles type really well right now.
line-height and
letter-spacing attributes and
first-letter selectors go a long way toward addressing what designers traditionally do with type. But since there's always room for improvement, here are two things I wish to see addressed. Compare the following:
It's possible you're scratching your head and wondering the difference, but trust me, typography geeks will see it. You may only see one intended effect, but there are two problems (assuming the size is the same!) with this demonstration.
The first is that I have no idea which font the top word renders in. Theoretically, you should be seeing Helvetica. But if you don't have it installed, chances are you're seeing Arial instead. The fact that I have to guess at this highlights a big problem. Typefaces are important, and to some designers, having to dish up Arial as a substitute for Helvetica is almost as reprehensible as serving Comic Sans as a substitute for Caslon. This problem isn't really the W3C's to solve, but someone has to figure it out.
A proprietary solution exists in Microsoft's WEFT, but when was the last time anyone actually used it? Thanks to licensing issues involved in embedding fonts, the whole process of selecting a character subset from a font that's actually safe to embed is almost onerous enough to invalidate the method.
The second problem with the above example is something the CSS working group can address. Notice the difference in spacing between the two words? The top is loose and looks about as good as setting type with any imaging program before adjusting. The second is tightly-kerned and far more refined. In Photoshop, as with any high-end design program, I can adjust the space between each letter individually. Yes, this is important.
While kerning in the style sheet would quickly become a burdensome task for any longer passages — and really, who kerns body text? — I should at least have the option of adjusting my display text; that is, my headlines. A possible interface might look something like
kerning(5): -10, +5, -20;. The first value would apply to the space between characters five and six, with the subsequent values affecting those between six and seven, and seven and eight, respectively. Units could be percentages of an em, or for maximum obfuscation they could be full em values (and the designer would just have to put up with three-digit decimal values).
What do you want to see out of CSS? What kind of functions do you find in traditional design software that you wish existed in CSS? If the list grows to significant proportions in the comments, I'll consider submitting some of these to www-style.
Reader Comments
I'd like to see true browser-based transparency of background colors without having to resort to alpha-trans PNGs (which fail in IE6 if used as background-images) or "semitransparent" GIFs comprised of a checkerboard pattern of transparent and opaque pixels.
Could this be what Mike is asking for? http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol/#content
Bob - I think http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#transparency is what you're looking for.
I just realized that kerning is useless unless you know ahead of time that the font you're kerning is the font the end user will see. Even a different font size will throw off your optical adjustments, thanks to anti-aliasing.
So in order to have kerning, there has to be a system in place that guarantees the end user's browser is using the same font I'm kerning. I don't see that happening. This is why img- or FIR-based text continues to be important.
Call me radical, but I want diagnals. I want the ability to take that rectangular div and stick it on a 45 degree angle. I don't know if anyone else cares about this, but I think it would lend itself to some very cool designs… of course, then you'll get the designer-wannabes creating whole slanted websites thinking that they are all cool, but in general- used in moderation- this would be mad cool.
Michael's column idea is tops on my list. I'd love to be able to easily flow text into columns, and I think the ability for designers to do this would encourage more print-influenced design (which may or may not be a good thing).
At the risk of getting flamed for supporting Microsoft, I always really liked the filter: alpha (opacity=xx) interface to creating trasparency that you can use in IE5.5+. The concept is great, but the execustion leaves a bit to be desired. It sounds like CSS3 may include this sort of thing. I sure hope so.
I'd like to see a more robust text-shadow property, and I'd like to see a similar drop shadow property that can be used on block, as well as text.
"Stroke" is one thing I'd REALLY like to see. Granted, it's similar to "border," but you can't "stroke" text with the "border" property.
With regard to "Element Awareness," Internet Explorer actually supports something like the following:
p.caption {width: expression(document.getElementById("img01").width)}
Of course, I don't think that's the way CSS should do it.
"Bob - I think [url clipped] is what you're looking for."
Thanks, Dave. I actually had not looked at the proposed specs. (Could you tell?) That is in fact exactly what I'm looking for.
I guess the biggest obstacle to all of this is, as always, browser support.
For future reference (as much mine as yours) - http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/current-work is the list of CSS-3 working drafts.
Jeff — http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/#font-effect — the font-effect property coming up in CSS-3 offers outline, so stroke will be covered. I seem to remember seeing drop-shadow somewhere along the way, but I could just as easily be confusing CSS for IE's filters or SVG on that point.
Personally, I'd rather see some of the layout problems resolved first before we get into frills like embossed text and drop shadows, but I suppose we'll have to come to them eventually, and if they're in the drafts…
Minh — I've never seen that before. The syntax leaves a lot to be desired, but the net effect is exactly what I'm looking for. Now to get that concept into a spec…
I'm afraid I don't understand "junk element" - what does this mean? That a empty div would be specified in the HTML - although it technically would not be empty since it gets text flow?
re: angles:
Yes! Content rotation! how about
#yourblock p {text-angle: 45;} … heh.
I love this sort of thing - fantasy coding.
re: CSS Columns
Yes and no - it's sort of like a table layout - and limited because of needing a containing box. Ideally you might want to link two entirely different absolute position divs…
Another to add to the list would be the ability to affect other blocks without using javascript or some such - so that a:hover changes content in a completely different block, for example…
In addition to the opacity property that Dave linked to, there'll also be HSLA color values ( http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-color/#hsla-color ). Opacity will make the text semi-transparent as well as the background, whereas you can set an HSLA value for the background-color property and keep the text completly opaque.
I've always thought that having a ::background pseudoelement would be helpful, because it offers more flexibility than even the background properties that CSS3 offers. For example, you could specify the background with the following:
h1#masthead::background {position: fixed; right: 14px; repeat: no-repeat; content: url("bg.png"); border-right-color: aliceblue; border-right-width: 5px}
WRT font embedding and finer kerning control, well, native SVG support would help for that - and could potentially solve the FIR thing as well.
Of course, I don't want to pull this discussion into the realm of the real-but-not-implemented - it's just too depressing.
Two things I would like to see:
1. A pre-adjacent selector. Very much like the adjacent selector now but it would apply to the element before not after.
2. A active-hover pseudo class. It would start once the active state is in effect and would persisted as long as it is in the hover or active state. Note: their is a :menu, but I do not think that is the same thing.
Positioning of gross page elements is just too damned hard. a lot of people have done admirable work on figuring out how to do, say, three columns plus a footer, but this shouldn't be rocket science. The current techniques of float, absolute, and relative positioning are powerful, but difficult to apply well. We need new techniques.
Here's some more information on the Internet Explorer "CSS expressions": http://webfx.eae.net/dhtml/cssexpr/cssexpr.html
Adam — http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/tables.html - CSS-based table model, introduced in CSS-2. Theoretically, that should address our layout problems.
Now, can someone remind me why we're not using it right now? Browser support is my best guess, but I'll plead ignorance here.
Adam, what Dave says and
although I've just been working on such a project (3 column CSS layout):
.. which did seem like overly hard work, it's only because the cross browser "quirks" are coming into effect. The easy bit was the table properties ;)
You're right it's not rocket science but how come there's so much "layout reservoirs" and basic questions still needing answered?
This is the next phase of CSS I think, it's not so much what we'd like it to do but what we can Make it do, there's nothing like skimming over the basics to make you miss important stuff.
But because we're being 'forced to make do" we're learning the subject inside out and back to front.. I know that I am still learning something new every day.. and I like it that way.. because if everything were a walk in the park, then everyone would be doing it and this discussion wouldn't even exist.. software would be taking our place!
So although I say carry on with the wish lists I know deep down it will make (me) us lazy when it becomes a mechanical task
Dave, I don't think the CSS2 table model addresses *all* our layout problems. It allows you to reproduce certain table-based layouts, but to do anything complex (e.g. colspan, rowspan) you still need to use HTML tables in the markup. Even relatively simple layouts will often require a significant amount of presentational markup for CSS tables to work. (Generated content might help with this to some degree.)
"A pre-adjacent selector. Very much like the adjacent selector now but it would apply to the element before not after." —Seamus
This is what I was going to suggest. 'h1+p' means a 'p' that directly follows a 'h1'. 'p^h1' could mean a 'h1' that is immediately before a 'p'. Of course, '^' might not be the best character to use for this, that would have to be looked in to.
I may have simply missed it, but I'd like the ability to change the orientation of text. My desires are simple;-)
Some designers ask for a lot of things and never stop to ponder how difficult some of those things would be to implement. Programming isn't magic :) I'm both a designer and a programmer so I keep my designer wishlists minimal.
Duc - maybe that's why Quark & InDesign cost hundreds of dollars. But I can't imagine anything suggested so far could be more difficult than float, and we seem to have that one locked up. Does the W3C have an obligation to make sure their recommendations are easily implementable?
Apologies if I'm repeating someone else's. My eyes went fuzzy quickly so I just skimmed.
What I want more than anything else is the ability to easily flow text from one column to another. Kind of like what's going on over at the International Herald Tribune site, or what happens in magazines. And I want it dynamic so as users expand/contract their browsers, it re-flows, and also if/when users change font sizes.
Apart from that? a really simple way to round corners on things. Particularly form elements. Call me crazy, but since I made my first form way back in the mid 90s, I've wanted to be able to round out the edges of my form elements.
Hmm..Oddly, and probably useless, but I've had reason to do it before is having non-rectangular boxes. Like a triangular or ovoid box, with borders,padding,margins that change shape to match (as opposed to fitting said shape into a rectangular box).
Another thing I'd like to see is:
clip: poly(coords);
Hi Dave… The linked text box idea (at least as Mr. Pick proposed it) has been proposed and shot down many times because it relies on a junk element. As you know from the FIR criticism, this is a bad thing.
I recently had a proposal to overcome this; you may have seen it if you were on www-style at the time. It basically proposed the introduction of a new pseudo-element that could be style independently of its content-parent.
Here's the post:
Unfortunately, there is no formal way for members of the public to propose new additions to the drafts, so I'm afraid my proposal went under the radar. I got absolutely no response to it on the list.
I'm posting it here not as an attempt at self-promotion (well, maybe a little:) but because I agree with you and Mr. Pick that this is an important addition to CSS. We designers have been trying to push this through for years. What do you think?
PS. I agree with the rest of your wishlist.
I think it is more important to get consistent and complete browser support for CSS2 before concentrating on CSS3. However, I'd like to add my own wish to the pot.
I am sure that many people will gasp in horror at this proposal. I would like to see the ability to make radial and linear gradient fills on colors (text and background), through the entire specrtrum and opacity range. I would suggest that start and end points could be specified using the same values associated with background-position.
I am certain that this would be programmatically awkward, since it would require a dynamic redrawing of the gradient(s) during a viewport resize. However, both SVG and Flash are capable of it, so it should be possible.
Simon - it is, but that's not up to the W3C. Since there's nothing they can do to speed adoption of recommendations, the best they can offer is continued improvement of those that exist.
Your gradient fill idea is something I've considered too, but when I think about how much extra work goes into making a gradient actually work well in Illustrator or Photoshop, I realize that if CSS did them they would almost assuredly be relegated to amateurs just cutting their teeth on CSS.
Steve - http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-border/#the-border-radius should be more or less what you're looking for. The caveat being that I doubt it will ever apply to form elements - those have always been considered part of the operating system, even though Mozilla goes to great pains to render them otherwise. That we can style them somewhat is, I believe an extra 'feature' that's not W3C-governed.
I don't know about the support, I think there isn't any :), but you can tell a browser what font to use and if the user hasn't got it, the browser will download it instead: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#font-descriptions
And that with pure CSS. About the tranparacy, you can do it with todays browser only CSS (Opera hasn't got any support):
opacity:.5; /* CSS3 */
-moz-opacity:.5; /* Moz */
filter:alpha(50); /* IE, most ugly solution */
@ Stv. do you mean this:
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol/#content ?
@Dave, with the @property I linkek at above, kerning (what is it?) will be posible I think. But it should only be possible if the above @ thing is applied.
Off-T: Could you make the box "remember me" checked by default?
"when I think about how much extra work goes into making a gradient actually work well in Illustrator or Photoshop"
To be honest, I was thinking of it more from a perspective of depth. I use gradients to make things look a little more three dimensional.
Another "wish" I have would be the ability to style IFRAME content. This could also extend to html object data. An example of what I mean can be seen on Tantek's log - http://tantek.com/log/ - he imports text/html using <object>, but he has to apply a separate style sheet. It would be cool to be able to style such data in the context of its 'parent', would it not?
<iframe> actually lasted up till XHTML 1.0 Transitional - it's been dropped from Strict and 1.1. I doubt the CSS-3 working group is much concerned about it at this point.
I know the <iframe> element isn't much of a concern, but surely the <object> element is.
Incidentally, has anyone had any success with using CSS to alter the z-index value of an object? I tried to get some imported Flash (Satay method) to appear beneath other elements, but I failed to succeed. With the exception of IE/Win, the object always seems to appear on top.
You can see an example of the problem at this temporary page (resize browser window): http://jessey.net/library/
Stv., Dave linked to the future border-radius property in CSS3. Mozilla currently implements a -moz-border-radius property. You can find out more about it at http://www.xulplanet.com/references/elemref/ref_StyleProperties.html#prop_-moz-border-radius . Mozilla's rendering of rounded corners is a bit rough, though. Of course, you wouldn't notice that unless you specify very rounded-off corners.
Instead of just being able to use just solid colors to fill text, it would be nice if their could also be an image fill for text. This would be nice for headers.
I seen a number wishes fly by and on the top of mine is importing fonts. Nothing new in CSS land, but supporting it would definitely be new. Multicolumn layout would also be nice. Michael Pick and James Craig and the W3C have their own idea's on how to do it. But I see them all living and working together. Isn't that nice ;)
I've never seen this mentioned but I think it woud be great if we could have text wraparound applied to absolutely positioned elements (sort of like what is done with float elements). That way, you can place pull-quote elements after the article body in the HTML instead of interrupting the body of the article. Then with CSS, you can place these elements wherever you want and have the articles automatically wrap around. The margin properties of the element specify the wrapping box.
#pullquote1 {
wrap: #article; /* multiple elements can be specified */
wrap-position: left; /* or right, both, no-wrap, none */
Also , there should be a way to position elements based on other completely unrelated elements. That way, you can align stuff with respect to each other and without needing to define container elements with position set to relative.
My proposal should be simple.
I'd like to be able to set an element to have a width or height that just takes up the available space without breaking.
To explain, imagine two divs #one and #two.
I give:
#one {
width: 300px;
float: left;
background-color: yellow;
#two {
width: fill;
float: left;
background-color: red;
This would produce a 300px yellow element followed by a red element that will take up that rest of the width of the containing element. In case they are both top-level elements that could mean the full width of the browser. If the browser gets resized this element will resize with it.
By having something like this it becomes much easier to create multi column layouts with fixed-size columns in them (for instance a menu bar)
As far as I know the only way to do this now is to work with absolute positioning or nasty margins.
Tao - what's wrong with width: auto;?
Claire–Thanks for the demo–that's a useful approach (I recently saw a demo of the reverse–rendering tabular matter in a non-tabular form). As others have mentioned, I'm not sure that'll solve all our layout problems. I've occasionally wanted to be able to "magnetize" a div to one edge or corner of the window–or another page element–and have everything work its way into the middle to determine spacing. This is kinda-sorta possible now, but not easy.
One other idea I've had is more flexible selector matching. I suppose the ultimate would be GREP matching.
Standards adherence, of course, is the big one, but that's not the W3C's problem.
Pardon me if I'm wrong, but width: auto does not produce the intended effect. At least not in Moz, nor in Safari.
width: auto just produces a div of the size of its contents here.
Maybe I'm missing something but:
.one {
width: 200px;
float: left;
background-color: purple;
.two {
width: auto;
float: left;
background-color: yellow;
produces a purple div with the proper width, followed by a yellow div that does not fill the available space (i.e. the rest of the width of the browser window).
Any ideas?
Another one:
I'd like to be able to use "position: fixed" within an absolutley positioned box.
For example: say I have a wrapper that contains all of my page elements:
#wrapper {
margin: 50px auto;
width: 750px;
And a small box inside of that that display, say, the lastest news headlines. I use overflow: auto to add a scrollbar if necessary.
#newsBox {
width: 150px;
overflow: auto;
Now, say I have a header that I want to always sit atop the newsBox, even if the user scrolls it:
#newsBoxHeader {
position: fixed
width: 100%
background-image: blah
This currenty doesn't work (that I can tell).
Mike – "the ability to affect other blocks without using javascript or some such - so that a:hover changes content in a completely different block, for example�"
This isn't a presentational issue, it's more a part of a page's behaviour, and so is suitably achieved with JavaScript.
For my money, I'd like to see a ::first-word(n) pseudo-element, which would be useful in creating the 'first few words of an article in small-caps' effect so common in print, and currently only achievable by wrapping a span around the first few words of your opening paragraph, since typically you don't want the effect to continue for the whole of the ::first-line.


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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! <–That's not just ALL CAPS, folks. That is a legitimate scream. If that scream was in a movie, it would be the desperate cry of someone who had just fallen off the world's largest cliff, and it would be loud enough to start an avalanche on a neighboring continent. It would only be slightly less dramatic than Sally Field realizing she had eighteen personalities, her daughter was trapped in a Middle Eastern custody dispute, and her ex-husband was dressing in drag as the nanny…all at the same time. It's a true scream. But why?
Kris flippin' Jenner. That's why. Remember when rumors seemed so true that her talk show was cancelled and the world rejoiced? Yeah, me too…and I'm not even home during the day to defiantly not watch it. It looks like that call may have been premature. Thanks a lot, tiny rapper.


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Stuck in the Sand
National Transportation Policy At Odds With National Security
August 31, 2005
Stuck in the Sand: About This Report
Principal author: Dusty Horwitt, Richard Wiles
Graphics and web design: T.C. Greenleaf
Thanks to the Surface Transportation Policy Project, Smart Growth America and Rob Puentes of the Brookings Institution for their ongoing help with this work.
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It appears that I have bad luck with Oregon hiking. That, or I am just so gosh-darned Northwestern by nature that the world throws storms at me because she knows I can take it.
Saddle Mountain is rated "hard" and the sign at the bottom describes the path as "a constant climb". Even still, with my current fitness level, it's a pretty straightforward hike; out-and-back, about 2.5 miles each for a total of just over 5 miles.
The views are meant to be some of the best around and you're surrounded by breath-taking panoramas for more than half of the hike, so you really get the bang for your buck. Funny thing about views, though – I have recently discovered that you can't see through clouds.
The weather report for Saturday promised rain. Lots of it. My cousin was coming into town for the weekend and we'd planned to spend Saturday hiking. "What's a little rain," I thought, "A little rain never hurt anybody."
Is this sounding familiar yet?
My cousin was of the same mind, having also been born and bred in the blustery weather of the Seattle area. We set off without hesitation, packs full of tuna fish sandwiches, carrots, apples, blueberries, and water. I was packing all of my camera gear in a brand new fancy ultra-rugged camera hiking backpack I recently purchased for just this purpose.
We were confident and unphased by the little raining clouds that we'd seen on the weather.com website. Secretly, we both disbelieved the forecast. Neither of us admitted this until later, however.
The hike started well enough. We were happy and energized. The trail was surrounded by astounding verdant foliage. The colors were startling and amazing. Things were great.
Then we reached the point at which the trail leaves the happy shelter of the forest and presses out onto a series of exposed ridges. The weather did not seem to bad, so we moved along happily, having finally reached the gorgeous wildflowers that the trail guide had promised us. We snapped pictures as we went but I opted to leave my large SLR packed up tight in the fancy backpack due to the constant drizzle. Instead, I shot with the little Elixim point and shoot digital that Sal bought me for Christmas for just such purposes.
As we continued, the trail found it's way back into some forest shelter and we relished the respite from the wind that was starting to kick up.
It didn't last long.
Back out on an exposed ridge, the storm came on in earnest, battering us with icy gusts of wind and pelting us with freezing rain. The views were amazing despite the fact that they were mostly blocked by clouds and we were bound and determined to reach the top. Conditions were rapidly deteriorating around us.
At this point I should mention that my cousin, having come down specifically for the purpose of a hike and with full knowledge of the weather forecast, managed to forget hiking pants, hiking boots and her raincoat.
I'm not kidding.
I hadn't been able to come up with shoes or pants for her, but I stole one of Sal's clear plastic cycling warm-up jackets for her before we left. So, although her upper body was dry, her legs were bright red from exposure to the wind and her running shoes had long-since soaked through.
We were cold.
Actually, we were freezing.
I was quickly losing control over my fingers even though I'd been wearing gloves for most of the hike (they soaked through eventually and stopped working). Our hands hung like icy bricks at our sides and we pressed on. My fine motor skills were so poor that I could barely grab onto rocks to stabilize myself as we scrambled up slippery, rocky sections of the trail.
At about what looked to be about 100 yards from the top we were ruthlessly assaulted by a hail-storm. Raging winds brought the pellets in sideways and they bounced off our faces, jackets, and already frozen hands.
We turned around.
Although our pride was somewhat bruised, it was the right thing to do. The weather was unbearable and my rainjacket had given up the ghost – I was wet and cold all the way through. My pants (neither of us had proper rainpants) were also completely water-logged and were pasted to my numb legs.
The descent off the ridge trails was treacherous and slow-going with our frozen hands and legs. We wanted to move faster but the trail conditions were bad and getting worse. A small river was starting to form in its path.
At several points during this descent I screamed back at her, "This is F-ing CRAZY!!!" and she laughed maniacally in response. We were getting delirious and referencing King Lear.
Finally, back in the shelter of the covered trail, we ate a little food to replace our glycogen and then booked it down the remaining portion to get to the car. I ran for the last quarter mile.
Back at the car my fingers were so numb that I was not able to turn the car ignition over. Luckily, Jenny managed to get it done and we cranked the heat and held our hands in front of the vents for 15 minutes until our fingers moved properly again. As we changed clothes in the front seats I took the opportunity to snap a picture of what is left of my mountain-bike-endo thigh bruise, which is now 6 days into its healing process.
We high-tailed it to Cannon Beach for warm drinks and a lunch of steamer clams at The Wayfarer. Driving east on Highway 26 after lunch we passed the entrance to the trailhead and shuddered simultaneously.
We'll be back for you, Saddle Mountain!!


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Stanford has lost its offensive coordinator, Pep Hamilton.
Hamilton reportedly has accepted the same position with the Indianapolis Colts, where he will be reunited with former Cardinal quarterback Andrew Luck and tight end Coby Fleener.
Hamilton replaces Bruce Arians, who left coach Chuck Pagano's staff to become the head coach of the Arizona Cardinals.
At Stanford, Hamilton's endowed position was called the Andrew Luck Director of Offense.
Hamilton, 38, assumed the role two years ago, after David Shaw was promoted to head coach and assistant Greg Roman followed Jim Harbaugh to the 49ers.
Stanford was No. 70 in the nation in scoring last season (27.9 points per game).
Two potential replacements for Hamilton are on the current staff: offensive line coach/run game coordinator Mike Bloomgren and running backs coach Mike Sanford.


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There was no banner, no naval cheering section, no aircraft-carrier landing and — thank heavens — no flight suit. But make no mistake: President Obama gave his own version of a "mission accomplished" speech Wednesday.
The policy itself was no triumph, just a split-the-difference compromise between the slower troop withdrawal from Afghanistan sought by the generals and the faster one many congressional Democrats and a majority of the public desired. But Obama packaged it nicely, wrapped it with a bow and declared, perhaps prematurely, that his "surge" in Afghanistan had been a success.
"We are starting this drawdown from a position of strength," the president proclaimed in his prime-time address. "Al-Qaeda is under more pressure than at any time since 9/11. Together with the Pakistanis, we have taken out more than half of al-Qaeda's leadership. And thanks to our intelligence professionals and Special Forces, we killed Osama bin Laden, the only leader that al-Qaeda had ever known. This was a victory for all who have served since 9/11."
"Drawdown from a position of strength" sounds eerily like the "return on success" phrase that George W. Bush used in Iraq — and the similarities did not end there. "We take comfort in knowing that the tide of war is receding," Obama told the nation. "We have ended our combat mission in Iraq, with 100,000 American troops already out of that country. And even as there will be dark days ahead in Afghanistan, the light of a secure peace can be seen in the distance."
To be sure, the president was characteristically muted in his celebration, warning of "huge challenges" ahead. His staff was rather less restrained; speaking under the cloak of anonymity, his aides held a teleconference Wednesday afternoon with audible chest thumping. "We haven't seen a terrorist threat emanating from Afghanistan for the past seven or eight years," one boasted, finding "no indication that there is any effort within Afghanistan to use Afghanistan as a launching pad to carry out attacks. . . . The threat has come from Pakistan over the past half-dozen years or so, and longer."
So if there hasn't been a terrorist threat coming from Afghanistan for seven or eight years, why did Obama send tens of thousands of additional troops into a conflict that has claimed more than 1,500 American lives? And why is he leaving most of them there?
Obama surely hopes that his declare-victory-and-retreat-slowly plan will get us somewhere between a catastrophic collapse of order in Afghanistan and an unending American commitment. But the happy talk comes with a risk: By saying things are going so well, Obama would wind up looking premature, as Bush did, if things later go poorly.
That's more than a theoretical possibility. As an investigation by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee found, Afghanistan has squandered the breathing space given it by the surge, making only modest progress toward competent governance. All but 3 percent of Afghanistan's GDP is foreign military spending.
But Obama is sorely in need of a victory, and proclaiming one in Afghanistan is as good a choice as any. Sixteen months before the election, it seems his leadership is in trouble everywhere he looks. Liberal Democrats and many Republicans are uniting in opposition to his military action in Libya. The Federal Reserve on Wednesday steeply reduced its growth forecasts for both 2011 and 2012. Even Al Gore is complaining, about Obama's work on global warming. A Bloomberg poll this week found that only 30 percent of Americans said they would certainly vote for Obama, compared with 36 percent who definitely wouldn't.
Against that miserable backdrop, Obama's handling of terrorism is his strongest area of performance — 69 percent in the Bloomberg poll. The president reminded Americans why they hold this view, recalling his vanquishing of bin Laden. "The information that we recovered from bin Laden's compound shows al-Qaeda under enormous strain," he said. "Bin Laden expressed concern that al-Qaeda has been unable to effectively replace senior terrorists that have been killed. . . . We have put al-Qaeda on a path to defeat, and we will not relent until the job is done."
That, again, echoed Bush. But by the end of the speech, Obama was aiming rather higher. "With confidence in our cause, with faith in our fellow citizens and with hope in our hearts, let us go about the work of extending the promise of America — for this generation, and the next."
When you echo the closing lines of Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address, you don't need a "mission accomplished" banner.


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Justice Minister Judith Collins has backtracked on a law change that would have ensured compensation for ill-treatment of prisoners by the state was used to benefit victims rather than being given to the inmates.
Ms Collins will instead make the existing regime permanent, allowing prisoners to keep any money left after claims by their victims and reparation and legal aid costs have been covered.
Her decision followed a review of the bill put up by her predecessor, Simon Power, which would have sent any leftover compensation to a general victims' fund rather than to the prisoner.
There have been about 40 compensation payments to prisoners since 2005 - and in the 25 cases for which victims' claims had been decided, just under half of the total $247,250 awarded went to the victims instead of the inmates, who each received an average of $5300.
Ms Collins said the replacement bill ensured victims could still claim on the compensation while recognising the legitimate claims of prisoners whose human rights were breached.
"There was a concern that [the previous] bill may have gone too far and caused unintended injustices by preventing prisoners ever receiving compensation as a remedy for breaches of their rights."
Her decision disappointed Sensible Sentencing Trust spokesman Garth McVicar, who said it should be even easier for victims to claim against compensation and all the surplus should go into the general Victims' Fund.
"So I'm disappointed Judith has gone that way. I suppose she got cold feet. We support abiding by human rights legislation, but we don't believe prisoners should have any financial rewards for breaches of those."
Kim Workman, the spokesman for Rethinking Crime and Punishment, said it was the right decision to allow prisoners to keep some of the compensation. However, even the current regime went too far against their rights.
"It's a human rights issue that when people are victimised, regardless of whether they are prisoners or not, they should be entitled to pursue compensation," Mr Workman said.
Labour MP Charles Chauvel agreed with the decision not to go ahead with Mr Power's bill but believed there were problems with the regime Ms Collins had settled for. He said there was no provision for those payments to the victims to be taken into account in the prisoner's sentence in any way - something that should be considered.
He also questioned why the Government did not include the ability for victims to use the claims process to claim against other "windfalls" prisoners received, such as Lotto winnings or money left in a will.
Ms Collins said it was considered too difficult to monitor and take such payments before the money was spent. Victims could instead take a civil action for damages in the courts in such cases.
Her new bill effectively makes permanent a law change made by Phil Goff as Justice Minister in 2005 after several controversial payouts of compensation to prisoners - including five who were ill-treated under the old Behaviour Management Regime at Auckland Prison.
That law was intended to be temporary until its impact was assessed. It restricted compensation to exceptional cases.
Payments to prisoners:
25 claims by victims have been finalised in the 40 compensation payments to prisoners since 2005.
$247,250 Total compensation for those 25.
$46,949 Awards to victims for claims.
$43,793 Reparation payments.
$27,075 Other payments, such as fines.
$47 Legal aid costs.
$133,070 Final amount for prisoners.


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Saturday, August 11, 2007
Vacation Has Begun!
I went to the eye doctor on Thursday. I'm unhappy to report that I'll be getting my first pair of bifocals. :( I've known for awhile that I needed new glasses and decided to give myself time to get used to them before September.
The kids were here last night. Liz had asked us to get the movie Robots so that's what we watched. It had a lot of grown-up stuff that seemed to go right over the kids heads. It was a fun movie and they really loved it. The DVD had extras on it and we all were up dancing to to Robot variations of old disco dances.
The weather today was absolutely perfect. Country Girl and I went to see a garden that is only open to the public once a year. It was really quite amazing. You'd never know it was there just looking at the house from the street. On our way to that garden we stopped at a friend's, as she and some thers were going too. She gave us a quick tour of her garden, which is very beautiful too. Before we left she had given Country Girl a large clump of rasberry beebalm and I ended up with some of that. She really didn't make me beg too much. I spent the afternoon planting and weeding and just enjoying the day. Right now I'm sitting on my old glider trying to catch up on blogs while watching the hummingbirds and butterflies. It doesn't get much better than this!
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You'll enjoy seeing better. I wear trifocals with no lines (progressive lenses) It made such a difference)ReplyDelete
Enjoy your vacation!
I wish we had bus cleaners during the summer. I didn't go a super great job cleaning mine last year when I turned it in. Aaahhhh!ReplyDelete
I get it back in virtually the same condition I turned it in. They do mechancical junk on it and whatever I asked them to do in my summer bus things needed list.
My school starts the 29th. I am getting my bus this next week though, so I will have a bit to clean it and get my new seating chart made. I am so so looking forward to the start of schoool as much as I was looking forward to it being over at the end last year. LOL....
Have fun with those kids now though. A zoo trip or something like that should be in order.
Congrats on a big job well done! I'll say that as a student riding buses, I never stashed a wad of gum under a seat. Looks like I was a minority, huh? ;)ReplyDelete
Have a great vacation. Yes, the weather in Upstate has been idyllic, hasn't it? I am savoring my beautiful Rose of Sharon shrubs in full bloom.
I'm so glad your bus cleaning job is finished. Now have a rest girl...you deserve it!ReplyDelete
I hope you get used to the bifocals quickly. Sounds sensible to give yourself time to adjust.
I can see you and the crew dancing to the disco tunes :) Must've been lots of fun!
Isn't the weather fantastic? When I read your comment yesterday (thanks for visiting!) we had just come home from a funeral (Ross's aunt) so, no, I didn't get to spend the day in the garden unfortunately. I so wanted to! And today after church this morning, I've been mowing lawn. Maybe tomorrow!
At least it's an outside job, so I'm not complaining.
Watching the hummingbirds and butterflies while blogging....no, it doesn't get much better than that :)
I ate my lunch on the front porch and watched the hummers. They're such fun.


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