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- Should a developer also act as a tester? [closed] 9 answers
- Are programmers bad testers? 9 answers
I don't know yet how it feels to be a part of dev/testing teams. If in an organization (mostly single-product company), can a developer handle testing efficiently?
From what I have read:
Developers do not like testing and hence effectiveness of testing suffers, Testing requires special tools and skills.
So in a work place, if a member from dev has to perform a testing part, wouldn't he do it efficiently? If not, why not? And why don't developers like testing?
I am not getting the actual concept.
Source: Automated Software Testing: Introduction, Management, and Performance by Elfriede Dustin, Jeff Rashka, John Paul


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joeish80829 wrote:You mentioned "You cannot. There is no "direct" way to associate a "value" to a keyword without some indirection" is there a way inolving redirection that would be under .10 seconds per million iterations...I could sure use an example
(defenum foo ((baz #.(cffi:foreing-enum-value 'foo :baz))) ; etc
joeish80829 wrote:How would I fix emacs highlighting to see constants highlighted...also the package prefixes aren't getting highlighted e.g. gc:test, the gc: is the same color as "test"
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Alumni Advisory Council
Members of the Alumni Advisory Council are available to students for career counseling, networking and mentoring. Members have organized and participated in career panels as well as organized academic panels.
Alumni Advisory Council Members
Steven J. Bolognese ('07)
Mr. Bolognese joined Tentindo, Kendall, Canniff & Keefe LLP (TKCK) in 2007. Prior to joining the firm, he held various leadership positions in industry including managing customer service, operational and human resource departments for both US Airways and United Airlines. Steve's practice areas include workers' compensation under Massachusetts and federal acts including the Longshore and Harbor Workers Compensation Act, employment law, aviation law, and general business law including federal and state tax matters. In addition to his law practice, Steve has extensive business and management experience and is a licensed pilot.
Mr. Bolognese earned a B.S. in management from Cambridge College, and his Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from New England Law | Boston. He is admitted to the Massachusetts State Bar.
Daniel B. Brunk ('07)
Daniel Brunk is assistant vice president, compliance testing and risk assessment program manager for J.P. Morgan in London, England. He was previously an associate at Quirk & Bakalor P.C. in New York City. His practice has included commercial litigation, representing clients in industries as diverse as insurance, food manufacturing, and the airlines. Before practicing law, he was an assistant vice president at Bank One, NA, where he managed operations for a retail banking center and later served as a quality analyst in the international funds transfer operations area. Prior to his banking career, Brunk taught in the public school system in Indiana as a band director, achieving multiple state level awards with his bands.
Mr. Brunk is active in the legal community and is a member of the American Bar Association, Massachusetts Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, District of Columbia Bar Association, New York City Bar Association, and the New York County Lawyers Association. He serves on various committees of the local associations in the areas of litigation, securities regulation, and banking.
Mr. Brunk earned a bachelor's degree in music education from Indiana University and his juris doctor from New England Law | Boston, receiving a Meritorious Service Award for Service to the law school. He is a member of the New York, Massachusetts, and District of Columbia bars, and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.
Douglas Denny-Brown ('97)
Matthew Growney ('00)
Mr. Growney has become a well-known and successful investor for both his understanding of new technologies as well as his ability to build compelling new businesses for the commercial marketplace. In September 2007, he launched Rudyard Partners, a specialized venture capital firm, as an investment vehicle to deliver new consumer products and solutions to both mass market and specialized users alike.
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Prior to creating Rudyard Partners, Mr. Growney was co-founder and managing director of Motorola Ventures (MV), the corporate venture capital arm of Motorola, Inc. Matthew was directly responsible for building investment offices in Boston, Silicon Valley, Tel Aviv, and Beijing. He co-managed a $350M portfolio of 70+ companies. Matthew created the investment program in 1997 and established it as one of the premier corporate venture practices in the world. He developed MV's investment thesis around monetizing both strategic and financial returns. He focused on emerging networks (3G, 4G, Wireline, Cable), new media, mobile devices, Web 2.0, enterprise software, and material science. He was responsible for making investments in innovative companies like E Ink, A123, Xanboo, Airclic, Cedarpoint Communications, Snaptrack, Camero, Ocean Broadband, and Netomat. He has also served on both the Investment Committee and the Board of Directors for Shanghai NewMargin Ventures, one of the leading domestic venture capital firms in China.
Mr. Growney serves on the board of advisors for Sigma Capital Partners, a specialized private equity firm in New York. He is also a board advisor to Collective IQ, a corporate venturing firm in Atlanta focused on providing Fortune 2000 companies with strategic investment advisory and business development services.
Mr. Growney serves as chairman of the advisory board for the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship in New England, a non-for-profit focused on developing entrepreneurship criteria for low-income high school students. He is also involved with the Ad Hoc Technology Committee for the Boston Children's Museum. In November 2005, Mr. Growney was named one of Boston's "40 under 40″ by the Boston Business Journal for his professional achievement and community contributions in New England. He has been a featured speaker around the world and contributed to several books both on innovation and venture capital.
Mr. Growney graduated from Michigan State University (B.A.) and the New England Law | Boston (JD). He has also studied software at Harvard University and civil law with Loyola University-New Orleans in Costa Rica. Matthew is fluent in French, speaks Japanese, and is learning Mandarin.
Kelly Kneeshaw-Price ('09)
Ms. Kneeshaw-Price graduated from New England Law | Boston in 2009. During her third year she served as the student fellow for the Center for Business Law and helped organize academic programs, conducted legal research, and coordinated student projects. She also served as a research assistant for Professor Susan Finneran. In addition, after her first year, she interned with Volunteer Legal Services in Washington state. This organization coordinates pro bono legal services for low income individuals.
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Atmospheric Sciences & Global Change
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January 2007
Tony Janetos Helps National Research Council Outline Future of Space-Based Earth Observations
As a member of the National Research Council's Committee on Earth Science and Applications from Space, Dr. Anthony Janetos and his colleagues examined the government's long-term planning for space-based observations of Earth over the next 10 years. Their findings were released during the 2007 American Meteorological Society meeting. Earth Science and Applications from Space: National Imperatives for the Next Decade and Beyond recommended a number of fundamental improvements to existing observation and information systems to provide the United States with crucial scientific information for predicting severe storms and climate change effects. The study was commissioned by groups within the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the U.S. Geological Survey.
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Midterm Accreditation Report October 2005 (PDF file)
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With presidential "daddyism" rampant, and our National Father-Protector's manifest failure to protect us from oil spills and tornadoes, there couldn't be a better time to check out the comprehensive libertarian indictment (if I do say so myself) of the presidency, the very model of a modern constitutional monstrosity.
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4th of July in Long Beach, WA– Boreas has Front-Row Seats for Fireworks!
June 23, 2011 by: Susan Goldsmith
Boreas Inn still has a couple of really beautiful rooms open for the 4th of July holiday weekend! Since the 4th is on a Monday, a few of our guests coming for the weekend are actually leaving right on the 4th–so we have a couple rooms open on the 4th proper in addition to the 1st and 2nd of July. This is NEXT weekend–wow! We are asking for a three-night minimum over the weekend, but as we approach the holiday, we will compromise on two-night stays, if we must, but three nights is so relaxing at Boreas!
We love the 4th of July in Long Beach, Washington. Well–sort of. It is clearly the most exciting day of the year on the gorgeous Long Beach Peninsula. We would love it more if all the people packed out what they pack in. (Our Boreas guests are always perfect–it's the other 20,0000 guests on the Peninsula who aren't so perfect!) The Long Beach Peninsula is truly a place for amateur and professional pyromaniacs!
To address this post-explosive and partying beach clean-up problem on the 4th of July on the Long Beach Peninsula, there are now "Treasure Our Beach" volunteers at all the beach approaches, handing out trash bags and fliers encouraging everyone who comes to the beach to picnic and blow things up, to take their trash home with them! We treasure our Treasure our Beach volunteers. Thank you all! If any of our readers would like to help in this effort, please let us know. Shelly Pollock's Grass Roots Garbage Gang will have hundreds of volunteers combing the beaches on July 5th to pick up after the 4th of July revelers and we are grateful to those volunteers also! This is a big beach clean-up and we always need more volunteers!
Well first of all, on Saturday, the 2nd of July, to lead off the pyrotechnic displays, there is a stunning and sparkly professional fireworks show on the Port of Ilwaco over the harbor. We like to reserve tables for our guests at Pelicano on Saturday at the Port of Ilwaco, before the 4th so that they have front row seats for the Ilwaco Fireworks display. So in addition to wine pairings at Pelicano that evening, there are fireworks pairings also! If you have dinner at Pelicano, you will also have a place to park right on the harbor for the fireworks. It is truly inspiring to see the glittering on the water and this display just whets the appetite for the total pyrotechnic craziness that is the true 4th of July in Long Beach, WA. We've never seen anything quite like Long Beach on the 4th. So there is a method to our madness–we like our guests to dine on the best for breakfast and dinner and watch the celebration of our nation's independence!
We brag about our 28-mile long beach. Well just about every foot of our very long beach will be filled with cars, families, picnics and We'd estimate–millions of dollars of fireworks that will blow your socks off. This doesn't include the very fine professional show that happens at dark on the ocean-end of the Bolstad Beach approach five blocks south of Boreas Inn. It's all FREE and quite insane. Stay on the boardwalk or sit in the back yard of Boreas Inn, (the hot tub has a great view) and stay a safe distance from all the pyromaniacs and you will have a great time in Long Beach, Washington on the 4th of July, 2011. I found a video taken by visitors to the Peninsula last year and you can get a little idea of what it's like in front of Boreas Inn on the 4th. Hang onto your sparklers, baby!
Grab our last rooms and watch the 2nd and 4th of July shows at Boreas Bed and Breakfast Inn on the lovely Long Beach Peninsula!


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StandardsJanuary 05, 2004
Support the standards and nothing but the standards, regardless of whether or not browsers get them right?
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Support what standards are available given today's browser support, and kludge together markup/script/CSS hacks to overcome deficiencies in implementations?
Oh sure, 'use the best choice for your audience'. That goes without saying. But there's an underlying philosophy that drives your decision-making process, and I know there are people who fall into each camp.
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Is there a third option of only using the standards that are supported, period?
"But there's an underlying philosophy that drives your decision-making process."
YES. As a Designer I wanted support only for the 5+ Browsers. BUt my bosses want to support 3+ because all our customers dont have any control/option to UPgrade! ;)
What do you say?
At heart I'd say I'm a "standards or death" kind of guy, but in the real world you have to address your audience. However I must say that I am much more less sympathetic to browsers which appear to have been abandoned. Nothing is more frustrating.
I really think ultimately too much hacks will end the need for browser development. It?s not the responsibility of the webmaster to compensate their individual website because for faulty browsers, that?s comparable to make a special highway lane for cars who can?t get the ?round wheel thing? right and use square ones (while saying they are round).
So by introducing all these ?make up for IE flaws? techniques MS don?t have to update IE anymore because they will show customers that all modern sites still look exactly the same as on the alternative browsers.
And that should not be the long term effect of practical webdevelopment.
I typically support only the 5.x+ browsers at a minimum. For more advanced projects which tend to have a more specialized audience, only the best get in.
I try to go with standards only, sending browsers with little or no CSS support just the unstyled HTML, which is a lot better than locking out unsupported browsers the way we did back in the 20th century. Make sure your HTML is valid and semantic and the content should be accessible to any browser.
There are situations where I've resorted to using CSS hacks to get around the box model problem with IE 5.*/Win and some problems with IE 5/Mac, but I try to avoid hacks.
Standards *are* the only tool in the toolbox. If Microsoft developed a proprietary replacement for XHTML, I sure as hell wouldn't use it. Why? Because, in my mind, if it's not a recommendation, it doesn't exist. That's just me though.
My exception to this is when a different technology fills in gaps in the W3C recommendations. For example, XUL isn't covered by the standards, so it's a gray area (notwithstanding the new dispute with Microsoft's XAML). Also, I don't feel all too guilty using -moz-insertCSS3propertyHere, because it doesn't hurt other browsers, and it's about to be a recommendation anyway.
I might not be correct in saying all that, but that's my reasoning at this point in time.
When I approach a layout, I simply make it work in Mozilla and Safari. Then, I fix the things that IE/6 gets wrong using "*>#id" style selectors. At this point, the only thing IE/5 has wrong is the box model, which I remedy with the infamous box model hack.
Browser hacks are only necessary because of the dominance of one certain browser. All competitive browsers have been forced to fix their problems double quick or loose out. I doubt somehow that if the dev community started taking out all the IE hacks from their designs that MS would suddenly start fixing their browser. On the other hand, our sites would all be ignored by the largest user base out there and would fail. Shame, but its true.
kludge (external) scripts and css…yes.
kludge markup…no, if it can be avoided. maybe creatively reorganise some of the markup so deficient browsers can still display something meaningful, but i try to avoid any obfuscation only to make it look right in IE.
of course, this also depends on the "shelf life" of the pages in question. if it's something that only needs to be up for a week or so, then i'm not too fussed about the odd bit of kludgey markup. if, however, it's content i want to keep for a long time, i try to keep it as clean as possible for easy future repurposing.
I would go with the standards - I check pages with IE 5.0+, Opera, Mozilla. Sometimes I also check with IE 4.0 and it mostly works OK.,
I use compliant markup and CSS with conditional comments for IE. I think standards-compliance is a healthy attitude that will make your site future-proof but we need the hacks to make standards-compliant sites work. The best that the current avant-garde of webdesign can hope to accomplish is a mindset towards standards, with minimal hacks to support older browsers.
There's very little compliant sites which don't use hacks, if only because of IE's dominance. I don't think you could create a successful http://www.csszengarden.com without the current hacks. Hacks aren't only used for your audience, but also for your employers, who don't care about compliance if your site isn't attractive in 90% of their audience's browsers. Thus, if you're into web standards, you almost *have* to use hacks. Your first category seems appropriate for the overzealous who follow the W3 dogmatically.
There is a 3rd (4th now?) option which I prefer to use.
Standards are awesome, and in the perfect world you could design a site with them in mind, and it would work. ;)
But since they don't in the majority of browsers used by the population, if you can implement a hack (the box model for example) which will better your site in a fair percentace of browsers it's a good idea.
… at my current place of work, the boss, client and the other co-workers couldn't give two hoots if the site was designed in CSS of slapped together in dreamweaver, as long as it works. I manage to occasionally slip in the odd table-less layout still :D (just have to be weary of not spending 5 times the ammount of time building it to perfection when you have a deadline, unlike blogs and the such which are more free to do what you like).
I'm from the camp that says you should have a good grasp on standards and know how far they can take you. It should be a tool in your toolbox. Period.
The standards are a wondeful tool, but they aren't the only tool. People often lose sight of this (although temporarily loss of sight while you are getting the hang of standards is good for bringing you to a proper state of affairs).
A bit of my philosophy (at least at one point) can be seen here: http://www.yayhooray.com/thread/7552.html
Websites accessible by your viewers are a must so I side with "Support what standards are available given today's browser support, and kludge together markup/script/CSS hacks to overcome deficiencies in implementations?". I don't like it but thats the way it goes.
I dream of semantics, validation, standards, a much easier way of life where you're not puzzling over which bit of code you'll need to cobble because you know it will all work as it should anyway.
Before I meet any client…
I try to steer clear of CSS 'hacks' altogether – they're messy, but worse still, they put a use-by-date on the style sheet. Sure, the 'tantek hack' (for example) has been tested to death *today* on *todays* browsers and can produce reliable results, but we're left with the unknown of how tomorrow's browsers will react to it.
How many style sheets will you all have to edit tomorrow when a popular future browser falls over at the sight of such a hack?
I hide CSS2 from Netscape et al with @import, and I aim for graceful degradation and accessibility in everything else.
As for (X)HTML, I make sure it all validates, but I do conceed that content and presentation can't be 100% separate – there has to be *some* extra divs and spans to act as hooks for styling (as per Zen Garden).
After I meet the client…
Some things require more me to bend… I won't back down from validation and accessibility, but I will conceed to adding a few lines of JS or extra divs to make sure their drop-down menus (a recent example) work well in the current popular corporate browser, IE5/6. A good example can be found here: http://alistapart.com/articles/dropdowns/
I would have to say that you have to design for what works, since a website is dependant on it's audience. For example, for my latest design, I had to make certain concessions in my code to make sure it worked in the horrible Internet Explorer, since alot of my visitors use that.
Yes, standards should work in everything. Yes, standards is great. Yes, I love standards. But when it comes down to it, the visitor must see the site. Especially when that visitor uses a program that a large majority of web crawlers use.
Thats my two cents, or maybe three.
A bit late to the discussion, but I have to say the only really answer I can think of for this is:
It really depends
Depends on the project, the audience, the client and lots of other things.
Right. I work in DreamweaverMX which, for the most part chucks out xhtml [transitional] compliant code. So, for the most part I comply with the standards. When it fscks it up I dive in and fix it myself. I can't trust it to do my CSS, so I use TopStyle to do that (and very good it is too).
There is only onle place that I don't tend to comply, and that is when it comes to placing bits of Flash content on the page. Its insert>media>flash every time. The code might be ugly but it works across the board, which is more than can be said for the compliant version (http://alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay/)…
Sigh … I use standards when possible.
Does anyone agree that this topic is just plain worn out? I have been designing web sites since 1998 and have dealt with most standards/browser related issues in one form or another. I find myself simply tiring of the whole topic and I don't think I am alone here. It seems like even a lot of the big names in the business are a lot less rabid about standards these days and have moved along to more pertinent and exciting issues. Why some of them even (gasp) say tables are okay now … as long as they are used appropriately. Appropriately? Two years ago, these same people treated tables as scourges to be wiped from the planet.
Could it be that everyone is just kind of tired of the endless blathering about standards? Even after all this time, how many web sites out there are now standards compliant? Mayby 1/100 of 1%? Less? It just doesn't seem to be catching on, does it? Even the HUGE corporate sites just don't care. Look at their code! It sucks! But who really cares?
Standards are still good for some things though. They allow those who have made careers preaching about it to get their books published.
Or maybe its because I haven't had my morning coffee yet …
In no particular order, a couple of points…
1. I recently sent a rant over to WASP (poor Steve Champeon, I apologize for my short temper) on this very topic because I'm frustrated by the amount of questions dealing with browsers and standards on the css-d mailing list. There are numerous emails each day complaining about differences in browsers, hacks, etc…
2. I happen to think that you should design towards standards, not towards a browser. I think the browsers should be the ones adjusting to us, not vice-versa. We're playing by the rules; so should they. I'm pretty sure they have the capacity to do so. How is it so impossible for each browser to handle things the exact same way?
3. I don't understand the concept off a "CSS hack." Doesn't it go the way of the tabled-design, and take away from the overall design and concept of a web-standard??? Or am I just crazy? Doesn't it violate this: http://www.webstandards.org/about/
Anonymous wrote: "Does anyone agree that this topic is just plain worn out?"
Not at all. I do however, think that all too often the core audience that has heard the message over and over again are already "believers", so the response is "Yes, yes, we *get* it".
Anonymous - you asked what percentage of sites are standards based and suggested perhaps 1%. That says to me that the topic isn't old or worn out, despite the fact that many of us have been dealing with it for *years*. We've only just begun…
Anonymous also said: "Why some of them even (gasp) say tables are okay now … as long as they are used appropriately. Appropriately? Two years ago, these same people treated tables as scourges to be wiped from the planet."
Many people misinterpreted statements about using tables for layout during the past 2 to 3 years as sweeping generalizations that "all tables are bad".
Tables for tabular data are as ok now as they were back then.
The problem is, we (collectively) see questions on lists and in various fora: "If we aren't supposed to use tables, how can I use CSS to replicate a table type layout?"
Questions like that are evidence that people have missed the point, and we all have to provide further clarifications and disclaimers so that they understand that tables for layout is not the preferred method/best practice for site design/development and that tables for tabular data are required to provide the semantic meaning required to make sense of the data.
To Derek Featherstone:
I believe my guesstimate was one hundredth of 1%, not 1%. Even this, in my opinion, is being generous. After years of talk, this isn't much of a start.
At any rate, don't get me wrong, I design using standards and will continue to do so. I've invested too much time and effort to the cause to go backwards now.
"Support the standards and nothing but the standards, regardless of whether or not browsers get them right?"
On my personal site (source of 0% of my income): absolutely.
On my employer's site (source of 100% of my income): absolutely NOT.
As an employee I can present the benefits of using standards to my employer, but using standards just for standards sake (eg: "We MUST validate damnit! Revenue is secondary!") really ain't gonna fly.
I'm a purist at heart, but in the real-world I'm a pragmatist.
I think that, until standards-compliance gets better, you have to keep on hacking things up a little bit. However, any hacks should be well-documented, since better compliance should allow you to remove the hacks as time goes by … assuming, that is, that one leaves the design alone long enough for better adoption of standards to make the hacks obsolete.
I think that's one other thing to consider: design churn.
MJH said "I happen to think that you should design towards standards, not towards a browser."
If creating a webpage that adheres to a few hundred pages of documentation was as time-efficient as designing towards the browser(s) then I'm sure more people would [design to the standard]…
Truthfully, getting sites to validate isn't as hard as people seem to make it out to be. There are very few things that can be tougher than following simple syntax (programmers *must* have 100%-"validating" code, or it won't even compile), and for those few things we have workarounds. Unless you're trying to support ancient browsers (Mosaic?), at least validating shouldn't be a problem.
Now, if you have to make a few concessions to table layouts here and there, that's understandable considering deadlines and such.
Of course, even a site that starts out validating will likely decay over time. I'm sure I've left a stray ampersand on my blog many times. However, sites like ESPN and Wired show that even big commercial sites can at least validate from the beginning.
Also understandable is when reworking a site from its existing state. It can be a huge pain to make it validate, with all the cleaning up to do. Throw in archived content, and you've got a task that just wouldn't be cost-effective.
I've blogged a bit about this at http://www.interactiveleigh.co.uk/blog/archives/000012.shtml
It's a big issue that's plaguing todays standards conscious web designers. Just how far can you go before you start being unrealistic?
Tim - good point, so - to all - why dont we have a single browser that follows the documentation to the letter… we have ones that are close, but close isn't good enough.
I read in the summer that The WASP was moving on to phase 2 - I can't find the article on that though. But the gist of it was 'web standards is well on its way, and we've have accomplished our original mission statement.' I'll allow that the WASP has made people AWARE of web standards, but the standards are not being enforced properly.
I agree with Anonymous - its really not even a good start.
Why don't you just throw an apple into the ballroom that says "to the fairest"?
Wow, lots of good discussion overnight. Thanks guys.
A lot of factors drive development on the web today, and whether you're okay with admitting it or not, economics is still a very big one.
As the Little Orange Book states, standards are a continuum. You can hop on at any point. I'd been coding valid transitional XHTML for a full year before I realized you could actually build layouts without tables and bgcolors and center elements. It was a big discovery for me, and it may not be as far in the past as some would assume. It took even more time to figure out the various techniques to replicate columnar layouts and such. Should I not have been building CSS-based layouts until I had learned them all? Of course not.
Keeping both in mind, the simple fact is that if you're developing layouts of any complexity, for a client who expects a large degree of cross-browser similarity, you eventually have to face the fact that some browsers can't keep up as well as others. Since these browsers are still used by 90+% of the population, it's foolish to assume that they'll change to adapt to your code, and in that the attitude is benefitting your users.
Still, there are things that can be done to improve your situation substantially. Good points made above were using just the standards that do work consistently if you can, and keeping the hacks out of the markup and in the CSS. While some select pieces of CSS can affect accessibility, your markup is generally where the main benefits of using standard code are derived from. The CSS is the presentational layer, but the structure of the markup is what gets you your heightened accessibility, search engine optimization, and so forth.
Which is why articles like this are frustrating - http://www.digital-web.com/columns/keepitsimple/keepitsimple_2003-11.shtml - because the CSS is exactly where the hacks SHOULD go. Let's acknowledge something: browser support can sometimes suck. Even Safari and Opera and Mozilla don't get everything right, all the time. It's not so much that they get things wrong; it's that the wrong-ness is inconsistent between them. How can you overcome this? Sometimes, re-organizing your CSS and finding a new way to build it is practical. A lot of the time it's not. CSS hacking can be useful, and to think that a hack that hides CSS from Opera 7 or displays it only in Opera 7 isn't useful is to take a high road that doesn't prove practical in most real-world situations.
Hacks may cause problems in future browsers? Let's cross that bridge when we come to it. If and when this does happen, here's why CSS hacks are better than markup hacks: you don't have to change the structure of the site to fix your code.
As in all things in life, moderation is the key. When you build sites for other people, you can explain the issues all you want, but sometimes you just have to shut up and do what works. I'll take CSS hacks as the least harmful way to accomplish that.
Dave said:
"Which is why articles like this are frustrating - - because the CSS is exactly where the hacks SHOULD go. "
Hmmm, I never thought of it that way. I don't really agree, I think, but you make an interesting point.
"CSS hacking can be useful, and to think that a hack that hides CSS from Opera 7 or displays it only in Opera 7 isn't useful is to take a high road that doesn't prove practical in most real-world situations."
Actually, in my specific situation avoiding CSS hacks works fine, believe it or not, also in commercial projects. I've never seen the slightest reason to use any hacks, except for @import, in my commercial sites. Granted, the design is not bleeding edge so it's easier to avoid hacks, but in my day to day coding I found that I just don't need hacks at all (again, except for @import).
"Hacks may cause problems in future browsers? Let's cross that bridge when we come to it."
One of the theoretical advantages of the standards is that they (are supposed to) continue working in future browsers.
As most of you will know I've never been renowned for my strict support of the standards. I absolutely love CSS, and I use it extensively, but I rarely validate my HTML or style sheets. I'll talk about my reasons another time.
The point I'm trying to make is that it sometimes seems as if standards promotors are talking with forked tongue. "Thou shalt follow the standards to the letter" on the one hand, but as soon as thou encounterest a browser bug CSS hacks are okay to use.
Similarly, the standards are supposed to ensure continuous working of your site in all future browsers, but CSS hacks, which empathically do NOT guarantee continuous operation, are okay to use even when you purportedly follow the standards.
Maybe it's one bunch of people being pure about it, and other people being pragmatic about it, I don't know, but I feel standards promotors regularly switch arguments, as it suits them.
In any case, there are three distinct parts of "standards compliancy" that should never be confused:
1) The general idea that there really ought to be web standards and that everyone, browser vendors and web developers, should follow them. I fully support this general idea, and modern CSS and DOM go a long way towards usable standards.
2) The actual standards as they exist today. I feel all XHTML standards are too restrictive and that there are some mistakes in the CSS standards (lack of support for vertical alignment, box model, etc).
3) The general feeling that web standards are the cure for all evils of the world. This especially goes for the "forward compatibility" argument, which I personally think is a religious rather than a technical argument. Standards to ensure eternal salvation? Nonsense.
The habitual mixing up of these three distinct points is what causes most of the confusion in the current standards debate.
Q: Why bother?
A: You are here, posting your comment, aren't you?
Q: What the future (browsers) will bring?
A: I'll think about it then.
Q: You have to use hacks if you want standard compliant web site that works.
A: Well, for me it's still less complicated to write 'w\idth:XXpx", than lot of tables.
I tend to markup for standards, then hack the CSS as needed. The degree of hacks used depends on the type of site.
For a personal site, I'm more likely to let non-compliant browsers display as they will, fixing only the bugs that would affect a site's functionality.
For a client site, it's often hack city, particularly if I have to convert a print designer's work (I'm a markup jockey, not a principal, so I usually don't have much say). So far, I've managed to keep the hacks within CSS. I generally avoid @import, and just use every hack in the book in the main screen CSS file.
That's this week - ask me next week and I may return a different answer.
In my upcoming website, I plan on the former. (as soon as I can verify that works in Safari), prologue, application/xhtml+xml, strict doctype, all the bells and whistles.
Why? IE sucks, and people need to know it. The standards have been around a long time, and there's absolutely no reason why IE can't comply with them. I see no reason why not to alienate what will be a small fraction of my target audience based on their ignorance of standards. Call me arrogant, but that's my view.
Let me try that first paragraph again:
In my upcoming website, I plan on the former. <?xml-stylesheet?> (as soon as I can verify that works in Safari), <?xml?> prologue, application/xhtml+xml, strict doctype, all the bells and whistles.
What frustrates me most about this issue is most user's absolute belief there is only *one* browser. I run across this every day at work, where I try to encourage people to at least try more modern browsers. This has nothing to do with an anti-MS stance. In fact, before Mozilla was a reality, and Opera wasn't ready for prime-time, I went through the same thing trying to get people to ditch NS4 and give IE5.2(Mac) or 5.5/6(Win) a try.
People will drop hundreds of dollars every couple years to get the latest Office suite, because they "have to have the latest version", but will hold on to a 4+ year old browser till their dying day, even when newer browsers are *free*.
If every designer in the world stopped doing any hacks to get their sites working niceley in IE, would people get the picture and upgrade? Doubtful. I may be a pessimist, but i think (at least at first), they will simply stop visitng the "broken" sites. Poorly designed cludges that work well in ver 4/5 browsers will win out, at least in the short term.
On a more optimistic note, I think if we keep plugging away, people will come around (including most browser makers.) The Web Standards Project succeeded in weening people off of ver. 4 browsers, thanks in part to those annoying little nags about how the browser they're using isn't standards based…Sure, attrition had a big part in that as well, but a great many people switched on their own, not because they bought a new computer that didn't have NS4 installed…
Sure, I can afford the time to make most of my own website validate ( http://www.penmachine.com ) but commercial, deadline-based work is a different story.
It depends, also, on how much control you want over the final presentation. You have to accept that a completely validated XHTML/CSS design will _not_ look the same across browsers, and could be radically different in 3/4-era desktop clients, unusual browsers, and on handhelds or in Lynx. (Well, that's true of non-validated designs too, really.)
But you can rejoice in that, and concentrate on your written content. Then again, I'm a writer, not a graphic designer, and I'm not quite as concerned about the appearance of my pages as others would—and in many cases, must—be.
I am all-for the extensive use of web standards. Anyone who's talked to me when I'm in geek-mode, or who has read anything I've written on the subject knows this.
I would prefer to serve my XHTML pages as application/xhtml+xml, use XHTML 1.0 Strict or 1.1, and have all of my CSS2 work without a hitch. Some people only design for the "trinity" (which I think is a bit of a misnomer – "triumvirate" would be better), being Moz, Opera, and Safari. These kinds of things are fine for them.
Unfortunately, the real world – especially the world of business – requires sites to work as well on IE/Win as any other browser/platform. Standards are fantastic, but standards purists are missing something. We couldn't move on from using Tables for layout until CSS was good enough to give us an alternative. Now CSS gives us that (better) alternative, but it's not flawless – neither the support, nor the spec.
Unfortunately, Microsoft is *the* driving force on the web. Not "driving" as in progressing, but "driving" as in "this is how it's going to remain". I could beat Bill Gates and Steve Ballimer senseless for not implementing :hover on all elements, or :focus on anything. It makes my job as a web designer that much more difficult.
The problem lies with this: Most web designers have a passion for the web, and what it all can be. We want it to move beyond the computer screen and into everything that it possibly can. I can now syndicate another website's content on my site thanks to the power of the web. Microsoft, on the other hand, just wants control. They want power. They want money. They don't care about the potential of the web. All of that "Your Potential. Our Passion" is crap. Hey Microsoft! I wanna be a web designer when I grow up! Where's your passion now?!
We, as web designers, often say things along the lines of "IE has 90% of the market. We just have to design for them. Oh well." I disagree with this. On the other hand, standards purists chanting "everyone must code perfectly right now" are wrong as well. We need to *transition* from the older methods to the newer methods, and that requires us to design standards-compliant sites using necessary (not gratuitous) CSS hacks to make it work.
IE5 was released in 1999. IE 5.5 was released in 2000. IE6 was released in 2001. It's now 2004. This spring will be three years since the last IE/Win update. Let's start putting up "your browser is outdated, please upgrade" messages for IE5 now, like we do for NS4. This summer, let's start displaying it for IE 5.5, and hopefully by this time next year a significant majority of people will *at least* be using IE6 – which will remove the need for the box model hack at the very least, maybe even more.
Promote the use of Moz, Opera, or Safari in these messages, and the Standards-Compliant market share is sure to increase. The more of us who do it, the better the chances. It might not make Microsoft update their browser, but it might make them think about it if they lose enough market share.
There's a fledgling site that's being put together by some people I collaborate with called DASDUA (Developers Against Standards Deficient User Agents) at http://www.dasdua.org . I don't particularly like the name, but the premise is good. They're working to create a website for end-users to teach them about standards and why browsers like Moz, Opera, Safari, Konqueror, and OmniWeb are better. They're looking for people to handle different things, as they're still growing and building. It might very well be a worthwhile cause if they can get enough support…
Ryan made a good point here. The same idea came to me when I saw "This is Cereal" submition (http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=057%2F057%2Ecss). Perhaps we should design as best as possible with what IE supports, but notify non-aggressivly that there is so much better experience of the particular site (some kind of "bonus"). There is many sites that still have footer with "Optimized for…" statement…
Personally, I like Cheah Chu Yeow's solution to IE being a sucky browser. Take a look at his site in IE, then take a look in anything else: http://blog.codefront.net/
If we FORCE Internet explorer to REALLY suck, then people will switch. The problem lies with commercial work, however. Clients don't like it when their site doesn't work for their customers…
I'm with Suzanne on this for the most part. Use the standards that are supported as much as possible. You may still have to salt lightly with hacks – particularly for some of the bad box models. But there's lots of great design that can be done only with what's supported.
I design with standards in mind, and then hack my code up to take into account the deficiencies of the various browsers.
Not the most elegant solution, but it works.
I have not seen any news on this yet–but I wonder if MS is making any engine improvements to IE6 with either XP Service Pack 2? I think I'm going to try to find out.
I always code to standards, and then make reasonable fixes for less capable browsers - but never any that break standard compliant browsers.
Your css don't validate!! What a mess…
Derek K. Miller writes:
"You have to accept that a completely validated XHTML/CSS design will _not_ look the same across browsers, and could be radically different in 3/4-era desktop clients, unusual browsers, and on handhelds or in Lynx. (Well, that's true of non-validated designs too, really.)"
One of the great discoveries when I finally convinced work to switch our Intranet to a table-less CSS design: it started working on PDA's (and cellphones, but that was never an issue.) The PDA issue had come up frequently, however, since the entire IT deparment staff were given PDA's…yet couldn't access our own Intranet to get to some resources. Once we switched to a table-less design, it degraded perfectly for PDA's, no WML required! The same goes for Lynx…I fired it up, just to check, and it's *much* more useable now than before.
there is one more issue that seems not to have been addressed: we keep talking about standards refering to markup/css/script. on top of that i think we shouldn't forget that, once we have decided for xhtml, comes the issue of *how* to serve it, i.e. MIME types… SHOULD, SHOULD NOT, MAY…aamof one browser absolutely refuses to cooperate on that. so we need to be looking for a workaround there as well if we do not opt for content denial to (alas) that one big market share… it is a constant compromise.
The only standard I respect is serving the best my clients
Clients wants fast, efficient, usable web sites that fulfils the visitors' need. They don't mind about standards. Table or CSS, XHTML or HTML has no sense for your client.
Make your decision as a designer, and stick to it. I choose to use CSS because it:
1.make pages load faster
2.lower hosting costs
3.get better search engine results
and eventually
4.makes redesigns more efficient and less expensive
5.help maintain visual consistency throughout your sites
6.makes web sites more accessible to all viewers and user agents
7.and give a competitive edge as more of the world moves to using Web standards.
Some other may decide to use table because they are 100% web browsers' compliant. If they feel comfortable to sell & design with this message, good for them. I don't.
As a designer I mind about standards if they can improve my own productivity and create added value for my clients. As a commercial I try not to bother my clients with them. My duty is to satisfy 100% of the clients needs optimising my own resources use. This concept is called profitability. I will not accept that any standard erode my small business profitability. At the same time, it is highly respectable to me that some designers do not want to dive into the CSS/XHTML realm because they think that the learning curve is not worthy at this moment. Can you afford investing at this moment ż? I don't, I barely can get money to live.
Back to the CSS/web browser issue:
I bet than 99% of the clients would accept a web site delivery shorter + lower cost, if you offer him a web site IE's + Mozilla compliant (with no commitments on NN & Opera, and remaining browsers' compliancy). The remaining 1% should be high end clients ready to pay for a complete compliancy (actually I guess those clients would have an internal webmaster that will advocate for 100% compliancy, without looking carefully at the associated costs issue).
Have a look to others fast moving technological industries, Mobile Phones for example: Worldwide there are currently 3 dominant technologies, 3 new ones fighting for the new multimedia mobile services. Do you know any of them ? Does it really matter ? Don't you think the world is big enough for different views, different standards, different solutions, and that any of them is good enough to serve a market ? Why the internet would be different ?
To me the 100% compliancy is a non sense business concept. How many companies do you know that are targeting a 100% worldwide population reach for their products. Are you planning to serve these companies ? Standard businesses use marketing techniques to segment the market, then target their objective segments and try to optimise their sales channels for each segments ? They know the 100% reach is not feasible from an economic point of view. The CSS/Web browser issue is just about the same. Decision makers will understand this issue if you speak their language (what are the options, pros and cons of each option, associated costs of each option), not the XHTML CSS W3G 508 AAA language.
I don't think using table is a bad design practice. I do think talking technology with a Top Management Decision maker is a bad commercial practice.
Support the standards and nothing but the standards.
Webdesigners already do enough work as it is. An upgrade isn't that hard, come on!
Of course, my Grandma wouldn't know a thing about upgrading. This is a problem that can easily be solved by the method Wired uses: Have a notice at the top to warn the viewer that his/her browser is old, and how to upgrade.
I've noticed that some people are confusing "web standards" with "table-less layouts" etc. You can make a web page that is basically a sliced-up image dumped in a table adhere perfectly to web standards, it just isn't the wise thing to do.
I never use markup hacks, but I do use CSS hacks like @import from time to time, but I avoid anything browser-specific.
Just be realistic I guess. Support web standards as much as you can but know when to step back a bit. For instance, I no longer use horizontal padding in any of my designs. Until all browsers/platforms play catch up I prefer this method to utilizing any hacks. I don't think there's anything wrong right now in adding a few extra child divs with horizontal margins in order to save a lot of time and frustration trying to negotiate the box model problems. Sometimes we overcomplicate things unnecessarily.
"The initial premise is perhaps a bit flawed, in that most CSS hacks are fully standards compliant."
The issue is not, I thought, whether the hack is implemented using valid CSS. The issue is that it involves *two* nonstandard behaviours of the browser it targets. Nonstandard behaviour 2 is used to feed the targetted browser CSS directives to compensate for nonstandard behaviour 1.
Now, what happens when a new version of the browser in question comes out? 4 possibilities:
1) Neither behaviour is fixed.
2) Behaviour 1 is fixed, but 2 is not
3) Behaviour 2 is fixed, but 1 is not
4) Both are fixed
Case 1) and 4) are OK: the browser will either behave just as before, or it will behave (in this regard, at least) like any other standards-compliant browser.
Cases 2) and 3) are rather unpredictable. The site will most likely break in some nasty way. And, since years have gone by, you may or may not be around to fix it.
The initial premise is perhaps a bit flawed, in that most CSS hacks are fully standards compliant.
At least one commenter stated something about "avoiding CSS hacks" but "rarely validating". This seems completely non-sensical: religiously anti-hack and yet flippantly invalid?
I say Standards with hacks. Well hacks only when needed.
I test in ie 5+, NS5+, Mozilla 1.5.
I figure if someone isn't using one of these or a compliant browser they know what to expect at this point. Besides the main issues I would say is Netscape 4 and with all the crap that is out there, seeing a text based site is better than a badly designed site anyday. If I'm looking for information and I go to a really "bad" site, I might not stay for too long, but if it's just text, I will go through it.


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Days 5–6: Drive about 5 hours south to Wellington for two nights at the Kingsgate Hotel Wellington.
New Zealand's capital city, Wellington, has more bars, cafés, and restaurants per capita than New York—one of the reasons why Lonely Planet named it a top-10 city in 2011. For some of the best views of the city and its harbor, ride the Wellington Cable Car up to Kelburn Village.
Days 7–8: Drive about 4.5 hours north to Taupo, where you'll spend one night at the Millennium Hotel and Resort Manuels Taupo. The following afternoon, return to Auckland, about 3 hours north of Taupo, and spend one more night at Copthorne Hotel Auckland City.
Taupo sits on the shores of Lake Taupo, the country's largest lake. The lake was created nearly 2,000 years ago during a massive volcanic eruption that sent plumes of ash as far as Europe and China. Today, it's a peaceful spot where you can parasail, kayak, and fly-fish for rainbow trout.
Auckland, often called the City of Sails, sits right on the Waitemata Harbour in northern New Zealand and has more boats per capita than any other city in the world. One of the best ways to see Auckland is from Waitemata Harbour; head to one of the city's many docks to take a harbor tour or simply hop on a docile sea turtle. You can also visit the observation deck of the Auckland Sky Tower to get a 360-degree view of the city from more than 1,000 feet in the air.
Days 9–11: After spending the day exploring Auckland, you'll return your rental car at the airport and board a flight to Honolulu, Hawaii in the evening. You'll then spend two nights at the Aqua Aloha Surf Waikiki hotel (or similar property). Hotel transfers are not included.
Just a few blocks from your Honolulu hotel is a 1.5-mile stretch of white sand and turquoise waters known as Waikiki Beach, one of the most famous beaches in the world. Head to nearby Diamond Head State Monument to spend a few hours hiking around a 300,000-year-old volcanic crater that has stunning views of the city and the Pacific Ocean.


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By Christopher Dawson
The renowned historian Christopher Dawson devoted his long and brilliant career to precisely the kind of historical research of which theologians and churchmen stand in great need, particularly if they are to meet the authentic demands of this ecumenical era.
Dawson's book traces the formation of Christian culture from its roots in the Judeo-Christian tradition through the rise and the decline of medieval Christendom. Here, as in all his works, he sees religion as the dynamic element of culture. He shares with Arnold Toynbee the ideal of a universal spiritual society as the goal of history; but whereas Dr. Toynbee sees this as achievable by a consensus of the great world religions, East and West, Dawson sees it as coming from the working out of the Catholic principle.
"Catholicism does not rest on the consensus of human wisdom—even on its highest and most spiritual plane—but on a divine revelation which is also an act of creation." The Church is, in his view, just such a society working as a leaven in history; its role in history is that of healing the divisions of humanity by bringing the nations back into spiritual unity.
This work of Dawson's has all the qualities which have earned him international acclaim as an historian and as a Christian Humanist.
"Unequaled as an historian of culture. Unless we read him, we are uninformed".
The Saturday Review of Literature.
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Last night, ABMA member The Timken Company hosted CNBC's Mad Money at their Faircrest Steel Facility. During the show, Jim Cramer interviewed Timken CEO Jim Griffith who discussed manufacturing innovation and growth in the United States and the impact of bearings and steel on the global economy. For a recap of the broadcast and video
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No Croutons Required - The Winners for June and the Challenge for July
The votes are in for June's challenge of soups and salads featuring grilled or roasted ingredients and we have two winners this month.
Congratulations to Michelle of Food, Football and a Baby who submitted this mouthwatering Indian Roast Potatoes salad. I so love Indian dishes, and I will be trying this one soon.
Also congratulations to Raven of Cook.Eat.Delicious who entered this most tempting Roasted Vegan Corn Chowder that I could not resist trying.
I will be hosting the July edition of No Croutons Required. The theme this month is hot peppers and my regular readers will know that they are dear to my tummy. Any variety is welcome included in a vegetarian soup or salad of your choice. Hot chilies, red or green, Jalapenos, habaneros, or any hot peppers that suit your fancy. I very much look forward to your creations. If you grow your own peppers, it would be a welcome addition if you included a picture of your plant or garden, along with a picture of your finished dish.
Posted by Lisa Turner on Thursday, June 30, 2011
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3 comments:
- Jacqueline said...
Good topic Lisa and I have to say I am amazed you haven't done it sooner, knowing your love of chillies xx
- June 30, 2011 at 6:23 PM
- Susan said...
Well, I am in for chilies. : )
- June 30, 2011 at 7:05 PM
- Torviewtoronto said...
yummy dishes
- July 20, 2011 at 5:03 PM
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BALTIMORE, 05-13-13---Both pride and purses will be on the line for eight male and female riders in the inaugural $34,000 Xpressbet Jockey Challenge on Friday at Pimlico Race Course.
Past winners Javier Castellano, Rosie Napravnik and Emma-Jayne Wilson join locally based riders Kristina McManigell and Forest Boyce and are among the participants in Pimlico's first riding competition to combine some of the country's top male and female jockeys in head-to-head competition.
In the challenge format, riders will earn points for finishing first (12 points), second (6), third (4) and fourth (3) in four designated races: the second, third, fifth and seventh. The jockey with the most points at the end of the competition will be crowned champion and take home top prize of $12,000. Other prize money is $8,000 for second, $6,000 for third, $4,000 for fourth and $1,000 for fifth through eighth.
The 'Battle of the Sexes' winner is determined by which team, male or female, has the higher point total overall for all riders in the four-race challenge.
This is the fifth year for a jockey challenge at Pimlico on the Preakness eve card. Kent Desormeaux beat three others, including Castellano, to win in 2009, but Castellano edged Desormeaux in an eight-rider group for the 2010 title.
Switched to an all-female format in 2011, the challenge was won in 2011 by Wilson, who donated her $10,000 winner's share to the Komen foundation, and in 2012 by local favorite Napravnik.
The Xpressbet Jockey Challenge brings together a group that has won more than 23,000 career races and over $1 billion in purse earnings, including 14 Triple Crown races, five Eclipse Awards and two Sovereign Awards for riding success.
"I'm so excited, so excited, to ride with people I've always looked up to," said McManigell, 24. "Now, I'm riding with them. It's going to be a great experience. I'm very honored."
A graduate of Hall of Fame jockey Chris McCarron's North American Racing Academy in Lexington, Ky., McManigell is in her first year riding full-time in Maryland. She has eight wins from 76 mounts at the current Pimlico meet, which began April 4 and runs through June 8.
Her career got into full swing in 2010, winning her first career race on Jan. 7 at Tampa Bay Downs, where she was the leading apprentice rider, and finishing the year with 51 victories. McManigell topped $1 million in purses earned in both 2011 and 2012, and is more than halfway to reaching that mark again in 2013.
An Illinois native, she has also ridden at Churchill Downs, Turfway Park, Parx Racing and Ellis Park, which is close to where she was raised in Kentucky. In addition, she spent a summer internship exercising horses for trainer Todd Pletcher at Saratoga Race Course.
"My family had nothing to do in the horse racing business," she said. "In high school, I worked for a gentleman who had racehorses, and I'd clean stalls. He would run horses at Ellis Park, which is near where I grew up. He always put the thought into my head that I should be a jockey, and I just kind of got into it. I shipped in a couple times for a few trainers from Philly last year, and I was always very impressed with the attitude of the people around here, and just how everyone welcomed me in. The racing in Maryland is great."
McManigell will have special inspiration on Friday. Her mother, Jennifer, was diagnosed with breast cancer last year and will be in attendance to watch her daughter compete.
"She is doing really well now," she said. "The prognosis is good and the last check of everything is good, so thank God for that. She hasn't seen me ride in years live, so just to have her here is great, but to have her here on that day and with what she's been through this last year, it definitely means a lot."
McManigell admits being a bit awed by her competition, which includes many of her professional role models.
"The lineup – Gary Stevens, Edgar Prado – these are people I idolized," she said. "I remember reading Gary Stevens' book when I was like 13 years old. It's pretty cool. If nothing else, I'm going to learn a lot just by riding with them. I'm very excited."
Napravnik, 25, who made her mark on the Maryland circuit, ranks second overall with 123 wins and fifth with $5,186,563 in purses in 2013, both tops among female riders. Her fifth-place finish on Mylute was the best for any woman rider in the Kentucky Derby, and on Saturday she will become only the third female to compete in the Preakness, following Patti Cooksey and Andrea Seefeldt.
Wilson, 32, captured the 2005 Eclipse award and Canada's Sovereign Award in 2005 and 2006 as champion apprentice jockey, and became the first female to win the Queen's Plate, her country's version of the Kentucky Derby, in 2007.
Boyce, 28, was sixth in Maryland's jockey standings with 58 wins last year, after being the state's leading rider as an apprentice in 2010, finishing second in Eclipse Award balloting that year as top apprentice.
Castellano, 35, has won the Travers Stakes three times and was the regular rider for champions Bernardini and Hall of Famer Ghostzapper. This year, he is second overall with more than $7.3 million in purses earned and fourth with 121 victories.
Prado, 45, rose to prominence winning 24 riding titles in Maryland in the 1990s. He has one Kentucky Derby and two Belmont Stakes victories to his credit, has won 6,636 races and nearly $245 million in purses in a career than earned him the 2006 Eclipse Award as top rider and a spot in racing's Hall of Fame.
Stevens, 50, has won the Kentucky Derby and Preakness three times, and the Belmont Stakes twice in a Hall of Fame career that includes the 1998 Eclipse Award as top rider, 4,906 wins and more than $222 million in purse earnings.
Velazquez, 41, was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2012. He has won the Kentucky Derby once and Belmont Stakes twice, a pair of Eclipse Awards as champion jockey, is closing in on 5,000 lifetime wins and has earned more than $285 million in purses.
Participants from both the challenge and the Lady Legends race will take part in an autograph session on the first floor grandstand starting at 10 a.m.


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White House to show secret drone strike memos to Senate
WASHINGTON — The White House said Tuesday it will show senators secret memos by one of President Obama's appellate court nominees justifying the drone strike in 2011 on U.S.-born al-Qaeda operative Anwar al-Awlaki.
The administration announced the decision to release the classified documents to lawmakers one day after the American Civil Liberties Union urged senators to read the Justice Department legal opinions before voting on the nomination of David Barron for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit.
Barron served as the acting assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department as government officials debated the legality of drone strikes against Americans and may have written or signed two legal opinions authorizing the killing of a U.S. citizen.
The White House released the documents last year to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which has approved Barron's nomination. Barron awaits a vote from the full Senate.
"We defer to (Senate Majority) Leader (Harry) Reid on timing on votes of judicial nominees," White House deputy spokesman Eric Schultz said. "I can confirm that the administration is working to ensure that any remaining questions members of the Senate have about Barron's legal work at the Department of Justice are addressed, including making available in a classified setting a copy of the al-Awlaki opinion to any senator who wishes to review it prior to Barron's confirmation vote. "
Last year, Attorney General Eric Holder confirmed that four U.S. citizens had been killed in counterterrorism drone strikes since 2009.
The radical cleric al-Awlaki, who was the inspiration for several plots against the United States, was the only one specifically targeted in counterterrorism operations against al-Qaeda.
Three others — al-Qaeda propagandist Samir Khan; al-Awlaki's son, Abdulrahman al-Awlaki; and Jude Kenan Mohammed — were killed during the same time period, but "these individuals were not specifically targeted by the United States,'' Holder said in a letter to the Senate last year.
Last month, a federal appeals court ruled that the government must release parts of a memo to the public citing the legal rationale for drone strikes that target Americans. The administration is considering whether to appeal that ruling.


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What in the world is an icosahedron you ask?It is a 20 sided shape(That I always thought was called a dodecahedron. Dodecahedron is so much funner to say.)! A long time ago (9 years) I did this project with a group of students and then forgot all about it. Well this year I wanted to do an art project with my class that could be hung up. I searched Pinterest and didn't find any inspiration. How can that be you ask? I know, I know. No inspiration on Pinterest....unheard of. Anyways I pulled out an old box and saw my flattened example of a dodecahedron and I knew instantly I wanted my kiddos to make their own.
Here is a look at the finished product!
Materials needed:
-materials to color with, scissors, glue stick, string, circle template (see below)
Step 1: Have students decorate 20 of the circles. Click on the picture for a copy of the template.They may complain that they have to do 20 of them and that they won't have enough ideas. I alleviated this worry by having the class brainstorm a list of possible things to draw. Each time we worked on the
Tip: Do not cut out any circles until all 20 are colored. I also have my students lightly put their initials on the back of the circles when they cut them out so if they are dropped on the floor they can get back to the rightful owner.
Step 2: After all 20 circles are decorated, have students cut them out and fold up the sides like the picture shows.
Tip: I let my students use stencils if they wanted to so that students who were self-conscious of their drawing abilities could have fun and be creative.
Do this twice creating 2 separate 5-sided domes.
Students will now have used 10 of their circles.
Tip: Before gluing the top on make sure you attach string through the middle of one of the domes so you can hang it up.
Step 4: With the remaining 10 circles, have students glue them together to create a long strip like the picture shows.
Step 5: Take the top dome and the long strip. Glue the top flaps of the long strip to the flaps on the dome working your way around the dome circle. To check as you go along, when you are gluing the flaps together you will be creating groups of 5 circles. This may sound confusing right now but it becomes very clear as you are gluing!
Once the top dome is glued to the long strip repeat step 5 with the bottom dome.
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I know that Christmas has come and gone and you may not be able to make Christmas
Here are a few of the Christmas books I read to my students this year. They especially liked The Christmas Orange.


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While politicians probably support many policies for college students in part because they think the policies will be educationally or otherwise beneficial, vote buying is no doubt also important. Of course, it's hard to find a politician who will actually cop to the latter. On this morning's Today show, however, Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine came about as close to doing that as you could possibly hope for.
Responding to interviewer Ann Curry's observation that President Obama has aimed a lot of campaigning at college students lately, Kaine noted that young people voted for Obama in record numbers in 2008, and "the message to young voters is pretty simple… we've done the largest expansion of the student loan program in American history… we've done a health care reform that allows youngsters to stay on their family insurance policy until age 26, and we've done important credit card reform that has helped young voters. So we have their attention…."
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...No shortening, no trans-fats from partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, no weird, processed cake mix cookies...
Chocolate Wafers:
- 8 oz organic butter, room temperature [or vegan butter]
- 1 c organic powdered sugar, (I use Wholesome Sweeteners brand)
- 1 tsp natural vanilla extract
- 1 c cocoa powder (I use Dagoba's cacao powder)
- ¾ tsp fine grain sea salt
- 1 ½ c whole wheat pastry flour
Chocolate Peppermint Coating:
- 1 lb good quality semi-sweet chocolate, chopped
- ¼ tsp plus a couple drops of natural peppermint extract (I use Flavorganics brand, avail. at Whole Foods)
Preheat your oven to 350. Racks in the middle zone.
Make the cookie dough: In a mixer cream the butter until it is light and fluffy. Add the powdered sugar and cream some more, scraping the sides of the bowl a couple times if necessary. Stir in the vanilla extract and then the salt and cocoa powder. Mix until the cocoa powder is integrated and the batter is smooth and creamy, sort of like a thick frosting. Add the whole wheat pastry flour and mix just until the batter is no longer dusty looking, it might still be a bit crumbly, and that's o.k. You don't want to over mix and end up with tough cookies.
Turn the dough out onto a counter, gather it into a ball, and knead it just once or twice to bring it together into once nice, smooth mass. Place the ball of dough into a large plastic bag and flatten it into a disk roughly ¾-inch thick. Place the dough in the freezer for 20 minutes to chill.
Rollout and bake: Remove the dough from the freezer and roll it out really thin, remember how thin Thin Mints are? That's how thin you need your dough, about ⅛-inch. You can either roll it out between two sheets of plastic, or dust your counter and rolling pin with a bit of flour and do it that way. Stamp out cookies using a 1 ½-inch cutter (this time I used one with a fluted edge, I've done hearts and other shapes in the past). Place cookies on a parchment-lined baking sheet and bake for 10 minutes. Remove the cookies from the oven and allow them to cool completely on a baking rack if you've got one.
Make the peppermint coating: While the cookies are in the oven you can get the coating ready. I use a makeshift double boiler to melt chocolate (a metal pan over a saucepan of gently simmering water), but I know many people who swear by melting chocolate in the microwave. Slowly melt the chocolate, stirring occasionally until it is glossy and smooth. Stir in the peppermint extract. If you think the chocolate needs a bit more peppermint kick, add more extract a drop or two at a time - but don't go overboard.
Finishing the cookies: You are going to coat the cookies one at a time and then gently set them on a parchment-lined baking sheet to set. Drop one cookie into the chocolate and (using a fork) carefully make sure it gets fully coated. Lift the cookie out of the chocolate with the fork and bang the fork on the side of the pan to drain any extra chocolate off the cookie. You are after a thin, even coating of chocolate. Place on the aforementioned prepared baking sheet, and repeat for the rest of the cookies. Place the cookies in the refrigerator or freezer to set. They will set at room temperature, it just takes much longer, and I prefer them straight out of the freezer anyways ;)
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Craig Breedlove, land-speed record holder, born
On this day in 1937, Craig Breedlove, the first person to reach land speeds of 400mph, 500 mph and 600 mph in a jet-powered vehicle, is born.
Breedlove was raised in Southern California, where as a teenager he built cars and was a drag racer. As a young man, he designed a three-wheeled, rocket-shaped vehicle powered by a surplus military J-47 plane engine and dubbed it the Spirit of America. On October 5, 1963, Breedlove became the fastest man on wheels when he recorded an average speed of more than 407 mph in the Spirit of America at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats. Located approximately 100 miles west of Salt Lake City, the Bonneville Salt Flats are a hard, flat 30,000-acre expanse formed from an ancient evaporated lake. In 1914, Teddy Tezlaff set an auto speed record at Bonneville, driving 141.73 mph in a Blitzen Benz. By the late 1940s, Bonneville had become the standard place for setting and breaking world land-speed records and has since attracted drivers from around the globe who compete in a number of automotive and motorcycle divisions.
On November 2, 1965, Breedlove set a new record at Bonneville, driving 555.485 mph in the four-wheeled, jet-powered Spirit of America Sonic 1. Shortly after that, on November 15 of the same year, he set another new record with an average speed of 600.601 mph at Bonneville. According to Salon.com: "At a time when drag racing was the fastest-growing sport in the United States, Craig Breedlove was a hero. While his speed records won him the kudos of his racing brethren, his matinee-idol good looks assured him photo spreads in national magazines." The Beach Boys even wrote a song about Breedlove's daring, called "Spirit of America."
In October 1970, Gary Gabelich broke Breedlove's record with a speed of 622.4 mph. In the mid-1970s, Breedlove took a break from racing and embarked on a career in real-estate, but he eventually returned to racing. In 1997, Breedlove tried unsuccessfully to top the 700 mph mark. Instead, that year Britain's Andy Green broke the sound barrier and set a record of 763 mph. In 2006, Breedlove sold the Spirit of America to Steve Fossett, a wealthy adventurer. Before Fossett could set a new land-speed record, however, he died in a plane crash in 2007.


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#3 TEASING MOMENT (5-1) Let's try to start off the right way by taking 'MOMENT to win her second straight. She broke her maiden at 15-1 when making her first start for these connections and might come right back in this restricted claimer going 6 1/2 furlongs.
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