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Where to get free Letter head templates for coreldraw / PhotoShop? Hi every one, Please help me to find out free Letter head templates for coreldraw / PhotoShop. Thanks in advance..
How do I create a locked/unmovable custom letter head in Microsoft Word? I want to create a custom letter head template in Microsoft Word. The letter head will use an image but I want the letter head image to remain locked in place. How do I do that?
how do you write an air force rebuttal letter for a LOR? I got a lor for missing an appointment. How do I write a rebuttal letter? And where do you get a letter head or template to write it on? And how do u begin the letter?
Non-profit Organization: How do you do a letter head for a non-profit organization? Anyone know of a template for this kind of thing. Not just any letterhead. NON-PROFIT letterhead. The Bank requires business letter head with all the officers for the non-profit be listed before we can open the bank account. Do you know if the letter head requires the Business lic# MOST WANTED... Do you know if the letter head requires the Business lic# ?
how do i make a letter head in microsoft office? are there any templates in publisher or anything like that??? thanks.
How do i set up my letter heading to use on outlook express? I run a small family business and wish to send out more quotes via email. This is not a problem but i cant seem to save a template which includes my address and a rough layout where i fill in the blanks for prices and delivery etc. I use outlook express. I have saved a template in my documents but when i open it up i cant send the email.
Where can i find free blank templates for corporate identity package? illustrator or photoshop? 1. Business Cards 2. Binder Cover 3. Letter Head 4. CD 5. Presentation Folder w/ CD & Card Holder 6. Envelopes etc..
Prefect letter, template, Help!? i need a really good letter of , im thinking about going for head girl. I need help with a template, I has to be sophisticated enough because I have serious competition. thank you :)
Compose email body templates? Hi friends, i have a letter head design [with header and footer] with me which i am using it for years. Now i want to use the same in all my outgoing emails. How to do it in Yahoo or Gmail? It should have a editable space to type my msgs. Advance thanks for your time.
How do I write a letter of appreciation to a hospital? I'd like to show my appreciation for how my doctor and his whole support staff (assistant, nurses, etc.) took care of me. Instead of just writing thank you's to them, I would really like to write something to the head of the hospital to let them know what a great job they did. Any suggestions on how to do this or links to templates? Thanks!
free letter heading design fomat? i want to design my bussness letter heading can you find me fee site with free templates
How to create dynamic field in MS Word? I prepared a teplate of my official letter head. I want to add a Field name to give each letter a Unique Reference No. corresponding to the Job_Order_No. Can anybody help me how to incorporate such a Macro or Field so that the moment the template is opened it will ask me to enter the Job_Order_No. and the Unique Reference No. of the letter is complete automatically.
How do I write a counterclaim letter to (his) insurance company? Or tips.? First, the details of the accident: I was following a silver Sedan on the motorway at 9:30pm, doing the speed limit and following at a safe distance when all of a sudden it braked hard, indicated once and swerved into the middle lane (we were travelling in the fast lane). I braked as I didn't know what was going on. As soon as the silver car was out of the way, I saw the problem - there were a motorcyclist stopped in the middle of the fast lane. He was on an angle (so his lights weren't fully showing), straddling his bike and looking over it, at what I don't know. Anyway I slammed on my brakes and indicated to go left into the middle lane but unfortunately I was blocked by a car on one side and a barrier on the other. I skidded and ended up hitting him head on. He hit my windscreen and went over my car and landed next to the barrier. When I was able to get out of my car he was conscious and leaning against the motorway barrier with people either side of him. When the ambulance arrived, the paramedics said he had no broken bones and had only suffered minor scrapes and bruises. Anyway yesterday (15/01/09) I received a letter from the Police saying that no Police action was being taken against either party. Today my mother recieved a letter from the motorcyclists' insurance company to say that he was making a claim against me. As I have never been in this situation before I'm unsure how to write a counter-claim letter and was hoping you could help me. I couldn't have avoided the accident in any way and if I hadn't hit him the car behind me would have (what I wish to know above all else is why he was stopped in the middle of the fast lane on the motorway and didn't try to move over to the barrier if something had gone wrong with his bike!!) I understand that I hit him and that I'm very lucky that the police aren't charging me with reckless driving however as he is claiming against my insurance I wish to do the same against his. I have Third Party insurance, however I've talked to my insurance company and they've said that it is still possible to claim under his insurance or claim under the 'innocent party' insurance that is included within Third Party. If anyone has any sites that could help or templates or advice, I would be very grateful. Thanks
HELP* converting scanned document to adjust it? I just bought a epson scanner to scan documents like my letter head for example. I wanted to then convert the scanned image of my letter head so I can open it as a template and type my letters and print them and the letter head together. I otherwise need to have more letter head printed. I also have documents that I want to scan and fill out and print. I have to keep this damn old archaic typewriter to fill out all my aplications for payment and safety forms. If I could scan the original I can fill it out and print it instead of typing it. I scanned the documents and they are saved as a jpeg or tiff but I cannot alter them. I assume I can get some sort of software to convert the file. I have microsoft word and works. How can I do this??? Thanks in advance.
Why does the color change when I convert pdf to tiff? Can I fix this? THANKS!!? I have a letter head in PDF format that I want to change into a word template. Only problem is word does not read pdf images so I have to convert the image. This changes the colors. I do not remember running into this ever. Can anyone be of service?
how to get a refund on a holiday? my stepmother contracted cancer this year,and mh dad thought it would be nice to take her away,but the cancer spread very fast,after telling the holiday Co.the problem,he asked for a full refund,they only offered him 30% back as he had no insurance,can someone give me a template letter that i can write to the head office and beg for the rest ,as they need every penny as time is short,but alot needs to be bought,thanks to anyone who can help me in my plight....
Is this job giving me the "professional" skills I need? I am a reporter for a local newspaper. However, I also work for the business manager doing real estate billing, bank deposits, legal notice filing and other administrative duties. Sure, it's good "experience" but we don't use ANY computer programs which most corporate companies use and when I've applied for other jobs, they ask me if I've used various billing programs etc. To bill people, this company I work for uses a manual type writer, or bills are handwritten. When I do real estate billing, things are typed on an old fashioned type writer on pre-printed letter head. I once felt like doing more than reporting for the paper was learning great financial and administrative skills, but we're not using technology or programs or anything that professional companies use (which will be the death of me looking for an administrative job in the future, if I don't continue reporting). Excell is also one of the most-used templates in offices and we don't even use that! Is this a waste of my "experience"?
Default Excel Template? I would like to have all my excel books use the same template. something with a few details at the top like letter head. is it possible i can create this to be used each time i open excel?
Bank charges query? Do I send my template letter to my branch or head office?
Credit issues-Everywhere I look says“Notify ur company of Financial Difficulty”so they work w/u. Letter Help? Every time I have ever encountered “Lawyer Speak” they turn the words of the ‘average’ person around to mean something they didn’t mean right when you think that things are finally coming to a close. I want to send a letter to my Business Partner’s credit card companies telling them about our financial hardship but I don’t want the Lawyer Speak to turn this in to something I don’t intend. I am wondering if there is a “Template” to send to credit card companies explaining that we are having financial difficulties and that we want them to work with us to cut back on the fees and fines so that we don’t end up snowballed and in bankruptcy court. Basically I see the credit card company’s POV from the standpoint of a Mafia Boss… “If we kill the guy we loaned money to, he will never be able to pay it off.” So it is in their best interest to work with us… I want to come to an arrangement that everyone can live with because if they keep exponentially increasing the amount of debt, they will fine/fee us in to never being able to settle this matter… They will, essentially, be putting the bullet in our heads if they don’t… but I don’t want anything said to try and get this taken care of amicably to come back and bite us in the butt later on. Understand? I have found legal document templates all over the internet, but I can’t locate anything like this. Can anyone link me or recommend some wording for the letter I will be sending out to my Business Partner’s credit card companies? (P.S. Payments go in every month but they are below the “Minimum Payment” so apparently they don’t count and we can’t get anyone to say anything but “Pay us in full or face the consequences.)
please, help me fast, could anyone give me examples?....? i'm a new graphic designer, and someone asked me to do a design for "letterhead", "business card", "EMAIL template" and a "COMPLIMENT SLIP" now i designed the letter head and the bus card but i have no idea about the the email template and the compliment slip i don't know even what are their length and width.... so anyone could supply me with the size of them and an image on any website so i could know how they look like, please!!!????
How to create a new template in Page 09 on MAC? I want to put a Title heading at the bottom of the page on pages 09. It is information about the buisness i work for, almost like the school letters you used to get with the school logo at the top. but i dont want to have to insert it each time i create a document so i want to create a template to i can just click on it when i want to write a letter. Thank you.
I designed and prepared 7 business related documents requested for someone, how much should I charge? Someone I know has started a business recently and asked me if I will prepare some paperwork for them, and for that I would be paid. I am actually quite close in relation with them so there was no need for prior acknowledgment of how much I will charge, and there still is not. But I was wondering how much does this kind of work get paid for anyways? The following are the documents I designed and made custom for their company. -Intro Letter/ and head -Price list -Quote -Purchase order -Praforma Invoice -Commercial Invoice -Packing slip -Sub-distribution Agreement I used templates for few of them just so I could get the headache of equations input on Ms Excel out of my way. But the main question I had was; How much do you think a person should be paid for designing and typing up these documents for a new business owner? considering the following: It took me 3.5 hours, and the person who I am doing the work for is very close in relation with me. Thanks! related in the family, I would actually look at it as free but since they insist on paying. I have to put a price on it.
How can i locate a specific picture/logo being used on the web? Let me be specific, I want to design a logo for my company. I have been working through Green Box software to design my logo. We have agreed upon a design but the problem is that it is a free ware template of that software. I want to know by any chance if some other company is already using that template for their logo. I want to have a logo which is unique. I can do some minor amendments in that template logo design to make it different. After finalizing my logo on website, business cards or letter head, it would be very scary to find out that its already being used by some one else. How can i find out through any sort of search etc that where that specific picture is being used across the web? Your answers will definitely help.
Move out notice in LA, California? I am moving out and need to write a move out notice to my suite-mate, who is also a sub-landlord (head tenant). Here are my questions: 1) Where can I find a professional free move out letter/template online? I couldn't find the most compiled version. 2) I am wondering if my suite-mate (the sub-landlord) or I have the legal responsibility to find someone to replace me? *He found me after the previous sub-tenant left. 3) What are the rights of sub-landlord (head tenant) and sub-tenant (me)? Thank you so much for your time!!
Can anybody help me with these computer questions pt.2? 25.If a cell has precedents or dependents on other worksheets or in other workbooks, Excel ____ to an icon of a worksheet to indicate that the precedent or dependent cell is outside of the current worksheet. a.flashes a pointerc.highlights a line b.draws a dashed arrow d.none of the above 26.The ____ allows you to monitor values and formulas in cells as you work on a worksheet. a.Error Checking window c.Show Formula command b.Validation Circled.Watch Window 27.Goal seeking takes trial and error one step further by ____. a.automatically changing the formula of a cell until a single criterion is met in another cellc.determining if a value has been minimized b.automatically changing the value of a cell until a single criterion is met in another celld.determining if a value has been maximized 28.Adjustable cells, also called ____ cells, are the cells modified by Solver to solve the problem. a.changing c.problem b.variable d.modified 29.If the Solver button does not appear on the Data tab, then you must use the ____ in the Excel Options dialog box to add it. a.Ribbon buttonc.Solver page b.Add-In command d.Add-Ins page 30.Software, which can be used easily by individuals with limited training, is called _____. a.fool-proof c.an application program b.user friendly d.user easy 31.A(n) _____ is a pointing device used with Windows Vista that may be attached to the computer by a cable or may be wireless. a.keyboard c.mouse b.monitor d.scanner 32.If you know the name or partial name of a file, you can use the _____ box to locate the file. a.Findc.Search b.Helpd.Location 33.The _____ contains five buttons and one hidden button to accomplish various tasks on the computer. a.Chat Boxc.Command Bar b.Navigation Paned.Question Box 34._____ list icons appear to the left of a message heading and indicate the status of the message. a.Arrangementc.Message b.Statusd.E-Mail 35.The _____, located near the top of the Outlook window, is the control center in Outlook. a.Ribbonc.Taskbar b.Toolbard.Menu 36.The _____ button allows you to answer an e-mail message quickly using the sender’s e-mail address. a.Forward c.Reply b.Respond d.Answer 37.In the accompanying figure, clicking the _____ button while displaying a list of contacts will result in Outlook making a hard copy of the contacts on the list. a.Printc.Close b.Page Setup d.none of the above 38.Calendar allows you to schedule _____ for yourself as well as others. a.appointments c.events b.meetings d.all of the above 39.You use a(n) _____ to display different portions of a document in the document window. a.insertion pointc.status indicator b.scroll bard.end mark 40.Which is true of insert mode? a.It moves all characters to the right of the typed character one position to the left. b.It moves all characters to the right of the typed character one position to the right. c.It moves all characters to the left of the typed character one position to the right. d.It moves all characters to the left of the typed character one position to the left. 41.To erase a character to the right of the insertion point, press the _____ key. a.CANCELc.DELETE b.BACKSPACEd.either b or c 42.To right-align a paragraph, use the ____ shortcut keys. a.CTRL+Tc.CTRL+R b.CTRL+Md.CTRL+K 43.If you do not want the border style to carry forward each time the ENTER key is pressed, you need to ____. a.clear formattingc.press the ESC key b.return to the Standard style d.restore shading 44.Word provides ____ styles of merge letter templates. a.threec.five b.fourd.seven 45.Because data sources often contain the same fields, Word provides a list of 13 commonly used ____. a.characters c.field names b.numbers d.addresses 46.When you click the ____ button in the New Address List dialog box, Word adds the entered data to the data source and clears the text boxes in the Enter Address information area in preparation for the next data record to be entered. a.Findc.OK b.Add New d.New Entry 47.When the long edge of paper is at the side, Word is printing a document in ____ orientation. a.landscape c.resolved b.portraitd.dimensional 48.To add dashes or hyphens, you can use the ____ tab in the Symbols dialog box. a.Punctuation c.Special Characters b.ANSId.Character Options 49.To return to a single Word window from a split window, click the ____ button on the View tab. a.Single Windowc.Restore b.Remove Splitd.Full Screen 50.____ graphics are visual representations of ideas. a.SmartArt c.WordArt b.Line art d.Both a and
How do I create a Word template to which I can export info from an Excel spreadsheet? I am creating a sales letter in which I only need change the heading with client's name, business, and address and the name after 'Dear'. The body of the letter remains unchanged. I'm thinking it's something akin to typing '%n' or something into Word as I used to do with my AIM profile.
WORD 2007 please help me!!!? i was doing a headed paper template for my sister on her work pc and every thing was fine, i'd save the document,wrote a letter using the headed paper document, then my sister said could i make the header bigger and change the colour of the text. i did this then i noticed a red box with a X saying click here to lock this document so no one can edit or change the work i wanted to save. so i clicked it. now word is compleatly locked, when you open a new document or open a saved document and then try and type you get this message at the bottom of the screen 'this modification is not allowed because the selection is locked' when using the help option it says to click on the security box to unlock a document, but the security box is 'locked' i asked a few people even another friends IT department and they said right click and put in the pc password, this dont happen either as all the tabs and places to click are inoperable??? i even removed office standard 2007 and then reinstalled!! my sister isnt connected to the internet, the pc is a month old and has only ever been used for word processing. i dont think im being understood, my sister has bought standard office 2007 which word 2007 has come with it, its a authentic copy of office and she has the m/s office code on the box. i jsut can understand how i cant work out how to unlock word!??
Have an image to put at the top of a document to print it as letterhead. How do I make a template for it? Sometimes I don't write the doc myself. I just want to easily add letterhead to a document. Usually just needs to be on the first page. What I dont want to do is to open up a doc that has the letter head and then copy and paste it. Is there a way to just apply letterhead? I am doing this to avoid printing on our colored letterhead as it is expensive and pointless when we send a fax where the recipient wont see the color anyway.
How has smallish beans created his youtube background!!? Hi guys, I was just wondering how has the youtube user : smallish beans created his youtube background? you can find it here at : http://www.youtube.com/user/SmallishBeans Now i know he has a template and i have copied his template.... but in particular i was wondering: 1. How has he created such cool text. such as how has he made all the type of lens flare type of effects. 2. How come he has such a large space above his channel for the big lettered heading of small beans. Anyway thanks in advance! Any help is much appreciated. I am good with photoshop and programs such as xara 3D, But i just couldnt get my head around how he made it so cool :P - Snooza
Help with a php file and contact form? Hi I have my website uploaded now where I used a template bought. The template has a Contact Us form imbedded. The php form that came with the template was this; <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head><title>401 Authorization Required</title> <style type="text/css"> <!-- h1 { font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 24px; color:#333333; line-height:19px; font-weight: 200; text-transform: uppercase; } p { font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; color:#333333; line-height:19px; } --> </style></head><body><br> <h1>Internal server error </h1> <p> We’re sorry for the inconvenience, but there has been an internal server error. Please click on the back button to return to the former page. </p> </body></html> and it just gives a message saying there was an internal error. I created my own ; <?php $your_company = $_GET['company']; $your_name = $_GET['your_name']; $your_telephone = $_GET['telephone']; $your_email = $_GET['email']; $your_message = $_GET['message']; $recipient_email = "info@pctech.com.eg"; $subject = "from " . $email; $headers = "From: " . $your_name . " <" . $email . ">n"; $headers .= 'Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'; $content = "<html><head><title>Contact letter</title></head><body><br>"; $content .= "Company: <b>" . $your_company . "</b><br>"; $content .= "Name: <b>" . $your_name . "</b><br>"; $content .= "Telephone: <b>" . $telephone . "</b><br>"; $content .= "E-mail: <b>" . $email . "</b><br><hr><br>"; $content .= $message; $content .= "<br></body></html>"; mail($recipient_email,$subject,$content,$headers); ?> <html> <body bgcolor="#282E2C"> <div align="center" style="margin-top:60px;color:#FFFFFF;font-size:11px;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold"> Your message was sent. Thank you. </div> </body> </html> <script>resizeTo(300, 300)</script> But it still isnt working. if anyone can I would appreciate them going to www.pctech.com.eg and on the contact us page and try the form urself to see the error page u get. can anyone shed some light on this error and help. I would be sooo grateful. Also is there any way I can be sure whether PHP is enabled thrpugh my host or whether I have to use ASP I have emailed them but not had an answer. Was just checking whether there was a way i could check for myself. Thanks
Dreamweaer CSS sheets not working in Firefox, yes in Safari? Hello, I am a newbie Dreamweaver user. I used a template to make several other pages. I applied to the CSS style sheet to the template. Even though it says the other pages are updating, they do not take the style sheet and I have to apply it individually. When I do apply it, everything appears right in Dreamweaver. However, in Firefox, it only takes the styles for classes that I defined myself and leaves the basic text and links in a default style. In Safari, the styles work. This is the head of my template: <HTML> <!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="doctitle" --> <TITLE>MiriamHurley.com || Miriam Hurley || Freelance Italian-to-English Translator</TITLE> <!-- TemplateEndEditable --> <!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="head" --><!-- TemplateEndEditable --> <link href="../miriam.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> I tried taking off the ../, but then it doesn't link at all. My style sheet looks like this: @charset "ISO-8859-1"; .menumiriam a { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-variant: normal; color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: none; } .menumiriam a:link { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; line-height: normal; font-weight: normal; font-variant: normal; color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: none; } .maintext { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; text-decoration: none; td { font:12px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#333333; text-decoration: none; color: #666666; } td:link{ color:#990000; text-decoration: none; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; } a { color: #333333; } a:hover { text-decoration: none; color: #00fff; } a:link { text-decoration: none; color: #333333; } .body { font:12px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:#666666; line-height:20px; margin: 0px; } .pageName{ font: 18px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #d45f00; line-height:26px; letter-spacing:0.21em; } .subHeader { font:normal 12px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #d45f00; line-height:22px; letter-spacing:0.2em; } .subHeader:link { font:normal 12px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #d45f00; line-height:22px; letter-spacing:0.2em; } .quote { font: 16px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; line-height:30px; } .smallText { font: 9px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #666666; line-height: 10px; } a:link { text-decoration: none; color: #999999; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: normal; } .menumiriam a { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #FFFFFF; a:active { text-decoration: none; color: #666666; } Please help! Thanks in advance, Miriam Thank you for the answers. In reviewing the material and my problem, I think that it is not a problem of linking to the CSS style sheet, but of how each browser is reading the style sheet, because in both Safari and Firefox, part of the styles take. In Firefox, only the styles in classes I defined myself take and the others go to the Browser default. My pages are up at www.miriamhurley.com Text should be gray or orange and links red if working properly. Thanks, Miriam
Page won't render in Firefox but is ok in IE7? This is driving me nuts! PLEASE HELP. The content of the page is over to the left not the center when viewed in Firefox.This is just a template I'm playing around with, I didn't create it.Here's the .css body { background-color: #000000; color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding-top: 15px; width: auto; float: left; position: relative; height: 50px; } h3 { font-size: 14px; font-weight:bold; letter-spacing: 1px; text-decoration: underline; } em { font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; } img { border-style: none; } a { color: #333333; text-decoration: underline; } a:hover { color: #990000; text-decoration: underline; } #topnav { border: 1px solid #333333; background-color: #CCCCCC; text-align:center; padding: 3px 16px 3px 16px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 11px; letter-spacing: 1px; margin-top: 6px; } #topnav a:link, #topnav a:visited, #topnav a:active { text-transform: uppercase; text-decoration:none; background-color: #CCCCCC; padding: 3px 16px 3px 16px; text-decoration: none; color: #333333; } #topnav a:hover { background-color: #990000; border-left: 1px #333333 solid; border-right: 1px #333333 solid; text-decoration: none; color: #CCCCCC; } #container { border: 3px solid #333333; width: 750px; background-color: #000000; padding: 6px; height: 685px; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; margin-bottom: auto; border-color: #990000; margin-top: auto; } #header { background-image: url("banner.jpg"); border: 1px solid #333333; background-color: #CCCCCC; color: #000000; text-align: center; height: 60px; padding: 10px; font-size: 16px; } .contentblock { border: 1px solid #333333; background-color: #CCCCCC; text-align: left; padding: 2px 20px 2px 20px; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 6px; margin-left: 220px; } .leftnavheader { border: 1px solid #666666; padding: 2px 2px 2px 2px; margin: 5px 5px 1px 5px; background-color: #333333; color: #CCCCCC; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-size: 12px; } #leftnav { float: left; border: 1px solid #333333; background-color: #CCCCCC; text-align:left; width: 210px; margin-top: 6px; margin-bottom: 6px; } #footer { margin-top: 6px; clear: both; /* FIXED MAJOR LAYOUT ISSUE */ border: 1px solid #333333; background-color: #CCCCCC; color: #333333; text-align: right; padding: 4px; padding-right: 15px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 10px; letter-spacing: 1px; } .formstyle { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: #666666; background-color: #CFD4E6; border: 1px #333333 solid; } .formbtns { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-weight: bold; color: #333333; background-color: #CFD4E6; text-transform: uppercase; border: 1px #333333 solid; } /*EOF*/ Here's the code: (I do have the <head> and then the meta tags above what I'm pasting on here) </head> <body> <div id='container'> <div id='header'> <h1>My Site</h1> </div> <div id="topnav"> <a href="#" title="">Home</a> <a href="#" title="">Services</a> <a href="#" title="">Templates</a> <a href="#" title="">Contact Us</a></div> <div class='contentblock'> <h3>Content Block</h3> <p> This is my 2nd css layout. Based primarily on my first one but I had need of a left column menu...was a good learning experience, and I'd like to thank many many contributors here at oswd, as I looked at a bunch of different templates to get an idea how to do it, and then take those ideas to create my own. I took several techniques, got what I needed, and created for myself. Anyway, the usual blah blah aside, I hope someone out there finds this template useful.</p> <p> My wife has been energeticly learning html design, she is the one that helped pick the colors for this scheme, as well as created the banner as a learning excersize. Feel free to change whatever you like, the rest is up to you. Please drop me a line if you find this template useful in anyway. I didn't get much feedback from my last template, though I wasn't really expecting any, but what did come back was positive.</p> </div> <div class='contentblock'> <h3>Block Two</h3> <p> Duis malesuada egestas justo. Nunc non metus ac velit viverra tincidunt. Donec ligula wisi, tristique a, porta et, ultricies non, dui. Duis egestas nibh eu augue. Sed facilisis sapien non est. Donec aliquet, nunc vel hendrerit tempus, quam turpis dignissim est, id dapibus dui ipsum et massa. Suspendisse blandit ornare enim. Morbi libero neque, mollis in, rutrum sed, tempus at, sem. Sed id enim. Vestibulum pharetra urna sed nulla. Etiam ultricies, urna non fringilla aliquam, turpis diam venenatis diam, quis vestibulum mi nunc a velit. Curabitur volutpat turpis vel nibh. Ma I tried both suggestions and now there is a big space between the footer and the red border at the bottom, although now the page is centered in Firefox and still renders ok in IE. I tried your newest fix and still the same problem in Firefox with the footer and border and now in IE the footer is over top of the border. How did you get this to work? Did you change something else? I changed float to inherit in container and it now works in IE but still can't figure out how to get it to work with ff. http://paste2.org/p/92815 I got it to work!!! Yay! Thank you sooooo much. I'll give you best answer when it allows me to.
Can you please help me with this simple assignment? I have to hand in this 0-credit hour resume/cover letter assignment. We have the templates - we just have to fill them in with our details. It's just an assignment, but my instructor said that they would spruce the resume/cover letter up for us later, so that they can be used for real. I have no idea what to type under 'SKILLS'. It says: ·Communication skills: a."[Type in and list your professional skills]" b. ·Computer skills: a."[type in & list your computer skills]" What do they mean by 'communication skills'? I don't think they mean languages, because there is another heading for languages And what exactly do I type under computer skills? a. Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint b. HTML, Internet Browsers Sounds stupid, I know, but that's all I know, honestly. I kinda knew ACCESS, but I hated it, so I'm sure I forgot everything.Is that okay? Or should I put 'Internet Browsers' as c., and HTML as b.? . And 'interests'... What do I type in there? My silly hobbies are maths, astronomy, reading books, going out, solving mysteries, playing chess, ancient history... I don't stargaze, though. Gah, I suck. And it says 'Do not type something like surfing the net or going out - everybody does that. That does not make you any different.'. And is the objective... 'Seeking a part-time job that utilises mathematical, interpersonal and computer skills' okay? Can you suggest a better one? It says that the objectives must be specific, but since this is an assignment, and I have no idea what job I'm applying for, I really don't know what to write. As a mathematics student, I can say that Maths can be applied to any field of life, really, so I can do any job, but I don't know what to write as my objective. I don't really have an objective... :'( My university helps students and graduates get part-jobs in the university or part/full-time jobs in the real world. Engineering and business students get the crowing glory, engineering students especially. They have this internship that's part of their course, and the career advising guys say that although the Maths programme here is accredited, there are no job opportunities for Maths students so far, and neither is an internship a part of the Maths programme. Gah, I suck, and I guess I won't get a job, anyway. That's the only damn disadvantage of being a Maths student - you have to wait for a long time until you can get a cool job. I don't want to make this too long, or else no one will help me... So I'll ask for help with the cover letter in my next post.
how to export values from an html drop down list to a php file? I have a contact form in a site template which looks like this <div class="col-1 footer-pad"> <h4>Request info</h4> <form id="Form" method="get" action="request.php" name="requestform"> <fieldset> <label><input type="text" name="Name" value="Your Name" class="input" onblur="if(this.value=='') this.value='Your Name'" onFocus="if(this.value =='Your Name' ) this.value=''" /></label> <label><input type="text" name="Number" value="Your Phone number" class="input" onblur="if(this.value=='') this.value='Your Phone number'" onFocus="if(this.value =='Your Phone number' ) this.value=''" /></label> <label><select name="List"> <option value="m1">Request info on</option> <option value="m2">Door Supervision</option> </select></label> <div class="alignright"> <a href="#" class="link1" onClick="document.getElementById('Form').reset()">tell us more</a><a href="#" class="link2" onClick="document.getElementById('Form').submit()">submit</a> </div> </fieldset> </form> </div> I am trying to output the values to the following php so they get mailed. <?php $subject="from ".$_GET['Name']; $headers= "From: ".$_GET['Number']."\n"; $headers.='Content-type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1'; mail("feeds@k****", $subject, " <html> <head> <title>Contact letter</title> </head> <body> <br> ".$_GET['List']." </body> </html>" , $headers); echo("<script>location.href = '/prem/contactsuccess.php';</script>"); ?> its not working please help. cheers.
Please I need help with these few questions. And yes I know its my homework but I need help with it. Thanks’? 7. O’Hara has prepared a monthly report using Word 2007, which will be e-mailed to several individuals who use Word 2003. To ensure that features in the Word 2007 document are not lost or changed when saving as a lower format, O’Hare should use which one of the following Word 2007 features? A. Compatibility checker C. Compare and merge B. Inspect document D. Save to Appropriate Formats 8. Clark and Jameson share a computer to prepare sensitive personnel documents that are saved on the hard drive. Two other workers also use the same computer from time to time. To allow the personnel documents to be opened and modified only by Clark and Jameson, they should be protected with A. editing restrictions. C. formatting restrictions. B. passwords. D. mark as final. 9. Last month you saved a document containing your personal letterhead with a logo as a template. You remember that you named the document “Heading Style;” however, you see four documents saved with that name. All four have different extensions. Which one of the following contains your letterhead template? A. Heading Style.docx C. Heading Style.dotx B. Heading Style.jpeg D. Heading Style.htm 10. Lou wishes to post his resume with an online job bank. He has just graduated from college with a degree in marketing. During high school and college, Lou worked part-time at Emerson’s Café as a server; this is his only work experience. Which one of the following would be the most effective arrangement of his resume? A. Name and address with contact information, honors, career objective, activities, work experience, education B. Letterhead, work experience, education, keyword summary, honors, references C. Career objective, name and address with contact information, honors and activities, education, references D. Name and address with contact information, career objective, education, special skills, honors, work experience 11. You’ve designed a letterhead with logo to use for all letters. To make sure that you can use the letterhead design for all letters, create the letterhead as a A. style. C. template. B. document file. D. autocorrect entry. 12. You open one of your documents needed to create a Mail Merge. In the document you find variables such as client name, city, state, and ZIP Code. This document is the A. record. C. data source. B. main file. D. field holder. 13. After sorting data records in descending order by registration number, which one of the following records would be placed last? A. 0011 C. 0101 B. 0110 D. 0099
help me with this code on blogger? everytime i copy it to the edit template and preview.. it says.. "We were unable to preview your template Please correct the error below, and submit your template again. Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly. XML error message: The content of elements must consist of well-formed character data or markup" what should i do??!! please help!!! i just want to edit my blog ^_^ this is the code btw.. <html> <head> <title>This Other Eden</title> <style type="text/css"> body { background-image: url(http://cbimg6.com/layouts/08/08/30770aa.gif); overflow-x: hidden; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-position: top left; font-family: arial; font-size: 0.71em; color: #A5C733; scrollbar-face-color: #000000; scrollbar-highlight-color: #000000; scrollbar-shadow-color: #000000; scrollbar-3dlight-color: #000000; scrollbar-arrow-color: #A5C733; scrollbar-track-color: #A5C733; scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #000000; } #image { position: relative; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 800px; height: 600px; background-image: url('http://cbimg6.com/layouts/08/08/30770ab.gif'); background-repeat: no-repeat; } #posts { position: absolute; top: 275px; left: 95px; width: 365px; padding: 3px; } #nav { position: absolute; top: 400px; left: 500px; padding: 10px; width: 150px; text-align: right; } #nav ul { margin: 3px 0px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; list-style-type: none; } #nav ul li { margin: 3px; } #nav p { margin: 3px 0px 0px 0px; } #nav ul a { color: #A5C733; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1em; padding-right: 20px; background-image: url(http://cbimg6.com/layouts/08/08/30770ac.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: right top; text-decoration: none; } #nav ul a:hover { color: #A5C733; background-image: url(http://cbimg6.com/layouts/08/08/30770ad.gif); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-position: right top; } a { color: #A5C733; font-weight: bold; font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none; } a:hover { color: #FFFFFF; } strong, em, i, b { color: #FFFFFF; } u { text-decoration: none; color: #FFFFFF; border-bottom: 1px solid #A5C733; } blockquote { color: #000000; background-color: #A5C733; border: 1px solid #000000; padding: 3px; } h1 { color: #FFFFFF; font-family: arial; font-weight: bold; text-transform: lowercase; font-size: 20pt; line-height: 20px; text-align: left; letter-spacing: -2pt; } h2 { color: #A5C733; font-family: arial; font-weight: bold; text-transform: lowercase; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 15px; text-align: left; letter-spacing: -2pt; margin-top: -20px; } h3 { color: #FFFFFF; font-family: arial; font-weight: bold; text-transform: lowercase; font-size: 15pt; line-height: 15px; letter-spacing: -2pt; } </style> </head> <html> <div id="image"></div> <div id="posts"> <MTEntries lastn="7"> <h1><MTDateHeader><$MTEntryDate format="%B %e, %Y"$></MTDateHeader></h1> <h2><BlogItemTitle><$BlogItemTitle$></BlogItemTitle></h2> <$MTEntryBody$> <h3>Posted by <$MTEntryAuthor$> at <BlogItemDateTime><$MTEntryDate format="%I:%M:%S %p"$></BlogItemDateTime></h3> </MTEntries> </div> <div id="nav"> <h3>Navigations</h3> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.friendster.com/thottzkie">friendster</a></li> </ul> <h3>Archives</h3> <ul> <BloggerArchives> <li><a class="menu" href="<$BlogArchiveURL$>"><$MTArchiveTitle$></a></li> </BloggerArchives> </ul> <h3>Credits</h3> Layout By Molecular Studios </ul> </div> </html>
Trouble with AIM, help please? Ok well i got a new computer and when i put my AIM on it it seemed to be working just fine untill i tried to send a message. where my buddy icon should be and where the conversation should be is a big HTML type letter that starts out. " File Name: template.html * ****************************************************************************** * C O P Y R I G H T A N D C O N F I D E N T I A L I T Y N O T I C E ****************************************************************************** * * Copyright (c) 2007 AOL LLC. All rights reserved. * This software contains valuable confidential and proprietary * information of AOL LLC. and is subject to applicable * licensing agreements. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or * distribution of this file and its contents is a violation of * applicable laws. * * A O L C O N F I D E N T I A L * ****************************************************************************** --> <html> <head> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="template.css"> <style type="text/css"></style> <script for=SWF1 event=FSCommand>onFSCommand(arguments[0],arguments[1])</script> <script for=SWF2 event=FSCommand>onFSCommand(arguments[0],arguments[1])</script> <script for=SWF3 event=FSCommand>onFSCommand(arguments[0],arguments[1])</script> <script for=SWF4 event=FSCommand>onFSCommand(arguments[0],arguments[1])</script> <script src="default.js"></script>" obviously this html isint what i want to see in my conversation window. i can send and receve messages i just cant read them because of that being there instead of the window. i get my internet for the new computer through a router that is connected to the old one and i figure it has somthing to do with that but i dont know... so anyway can anyone help me out? and no, reinstalling the program dosent help it.
I'm having problems with my blog.? I wanted to change my blog skin (http://blogskins.com/info/148885) into this design but they keep rejexting saying;We were unable to save your template Please correct the error below, and submit your template again. Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly. XML error message: The element type "body" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "". What does that mean? Can anyone help? And for more information the code for the skin : <html> <head> <title> will you fly to the stars with me ? please ? </title> <meta http-equiv="Page-Enter" content="progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Fade(Duration=3)"> <meta http-equiv="Page-Exit" content="progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Fade(Duration=3)"> <noembed> <body> </noembed> <style type="text/css"> A:link { text-decoration: none; color: #FFFFFF; } A:visited { text-decoration: none; color: #FFFFFF; } A:active { text-decoration: none; color: #FFFFFF; } A:hover { text-decoration: none; cursor: none; color: #FFFFFF; background-color: ; font-weight: 0; text-transform: uppercase; border-bottom:; } .head { font-family: arial; text-transform:; font-size: 7.5pt; line-height: 15px; text-align: right; letter-spacing: 1pt; color: #FFFFFF; background-color: transparent; } .head2 { font-family: arial; text-transform:; font-size: 7.5pt; line-height: 15px; text-align: center; letter-spacing: 1pt; color: #FFFFFF; background-color: transparent; } body { background: #FFFFFF url("http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/norrisxie0309/flytotheskybackground-1.jpg"); background-position: -69px 0px; background-attachment: none; background-repeat: repeat-y; font-family: arial ; color: #FFFFFF; font-size: 7.5px; line-height: 145%; text-align: justify; margin: 0px; cursor: crosshair; font-size: 7.5pt; color: #FFFFFF; letter-spacing: 0.2pt; font-weight: normal; cursor: crosshair scrollbar-face-color : #CCCCCC; scrollbar-highlight-color : #CCCCCC; scrollbar-3dlight-color : #CCCCCC; scrollbar-shadow-color : #FFFFFF; scrollbar-darkshadow-color : #CCCCCC; scrollbar-track-color : #CCCCCC; scrollbar-arrow-color : #FFFFFF; cursor: sw-resize; } i { font-family: arial; font-size: 7.5px; color: #99CCFF;} </style> <noembed> <body> </noembed> </head> <p> </div></div></div></div></div></div> </div></div></div></div> <DIV STYLE="position:absolute; top:0; left:0;"> <img src="http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa91/norrisxie0309/flytotheskymainimage.jpg"> </div> ; <div id=blog style="position:absolute; overflow-x:hidden; padding:3px; top:265; left:345; width:370; background-color: transparent;"> <Blogger> <div align=center> <br><div class="head"><right><b><BlogDateHeader><$BlogDateHeaderDate$></BlogDateHeader>;<$BlogItemDateTime$></b><br></span> </right></div> <br><$BlogItemBody$></div><br> </Blogger> </div> <div style="position:absolute; overflow-x:hidden; padding:3px; top:265; left:100; width:200; background-color:transparent;" > <div align="center"> <Br> <div class="head"><b>PROFILE;</b></span></div> <div align="center"><br> PROFILE HERE =)<br> <br> <div class="head"><b>LOVES&HATES;</b></span></div><br> loves and hates =)<br> <div class="head"><b>LINKS;</b></span></div> <br> <a href="http://link.com">link</a></br> <a href="http://link.com">link</a><br> <br> <div class="head"><b>TAGGY</b></span></div> <br> tagboard here =)<br> cbox recommended<br> no more than 170 width!<br> <br><br> <div class="head"><b>PAST;</b></span></div> <br> <BloggerArchives> <a href='<$BlogArchiveURL$>'><$BlogArchiveName$></a><br> </BloggerArchives> <br><br> <div class="head"><b>THANKS;</b></span></div><br> <font color=#FFFFFF>layout : <a href="http://s2nightmares.blogspot.com">x</a> <a href="http://blogskins.com/me/tetsu69">x</a><br>
Good with clues? Fun and friendly British place name quiz? okay this is a bit of a long question, so be prepared to read, so its a cryptic quiz naming British places. The answers are in the clue so don't think too much. For example question - Protect marine life, answer - Fishguard. Okay so here we go Travel by horse Crispy coated sea water Cured meat past its best Hair piece worn with girls name Fuel the fire upon thirty french Residue from burnt car Cereal's entrance Alphbetical letter above Top Bowler with no runs Not salty liquid Small mice hidden in the ground Celtic mere Wooden nerve centre Painful straw Tying up cured meat with string Sausage Weighty whisky Young shopping centre A baby donkey might sleep here Others arrived Ships company Template for jelly Sugary vehicle without art Stupid chips Inform a shallow crossing Fill up the harbour Metal crossing Murky pond Small amphibian on head monk A trifle gusty Envious devil woman Sore skin lacks "L" Celtic angle Kiwi Clergyman Crimson Mould Grave Digging Forbidden Arrived at river crossing Depressed dogs Farm buildings Destroys cured meat Cntented cat with a lisp Heavy toilet Doesn't wash off A fiendish place Heavy term of endearment Hide beers underground Rosy dug-out Frequently the bootm Sheep may use this exit. 12-Bore tree Heavy insult I no longer have Halfway up a golfers leg Chat unlocks door Half-price in January Fasten Cease sleeping in a pasture Top of house looks rosy Heavy wal covering Scorched Swift forest Bovines Former office Monarch weight Wealthy French World Farm animals car Prince's castle Sight the queens brids Acute body of water En-suite,perhaps Fresh fortress Explosive skull Summons landscape For browning bread Monarch's girl Thanks to all those who reply, hope you enjoy xx
What's my job title? "Secretary" doesn't quite cut it....? My job title at work is "secretary," but my job description goes way beyond that. I'm trying to research what kind of salary I should be making, but don't know what job title to search for. My duties include: -Creating and maintaining a contact database with full history of where everyone has worked and what committees they have served on during their employ. Producing reports, statistics, and mailing lists on demand. -Creating and maintaining network templates for word documents. -Creating and maintaining a special events database for inviting people worldwide to upcoming media events. Must run statistics and reports on demand, see who was invited to previous events and whether or not they attended, etc. -Creating event programmes, invitations, signs, tickets, RSVP cards, and sign-in sheets for internal and external events. -Attending highly confidential board meetings, taking and distributing minutes, formatting and revising publications and redistributing them, organizing the meetings, room reservations, and refreshments at the call of the chair. -Light technical support and trouble-shooting for my department. -Standard permission and information letters for my various department heads. -Proofreading and occasionally reformatting media releases and other public documents before distribution. -Streamlining electronic office procedures. -Screening phone calls for my supervisor. -Dictation. -Relief reception. -Online research. -Troubleshooting the photocopier, fax machine, voicemail computer, and postage machine. -Whatever else my boss can find for me to do. So....Who Am I?
i cant read my AIM coversations there all encrypted.? like when i try to type a message to some one or anyone my words turn all into encrypted letters. like this. SOME PNE PLEASE HELP!! ive tried uninstalling it and re installing! donsent work =/ <!-- ****************************************************************************** * * File Name: template.html * ****************************************************************************** * C O P Y R I G H T A N D C O N F I D E N T I A L I T Y N O T I C E ****************************************************************************** * * Copyright (c) 2007 AOL LLC. All rights reserved. * This software contains valuable confidential and proprietary * information of AOL LLC. and is subject to applicable * licensing agreements. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or * distribution of this file and its contents is a violation of * applicable laws. * * A O L C O N F I D E N T I A L * ****************************************************************************** --> <html> <head> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="template.css"> <style type="text/css"></style> <script for=SWF1 event=FSCommand>onFSCommand(arguments[0],arguments[1])</script> <script for=SWF2 event=FSCommand>onFSCommand(arguments[0],arguments[1])</script> <script for=SWF3 event=FSCommand>onFSCommand(arguments[0],arguments[1])</script> <script for=SWF4 event=FSCommand>onFSCommand(arguments[0],arguments[1])</script> <script src="default.js"></script> </head> <script language="JavaScript"> var AIMX = null; var AIMXURL = ""; var stuckToBottom=true; var isInitial=true; var hasBuddyIcon=false; var hasSuperBuddy=false; var hasWallpaper=false;
Survey: What would you do (part 4)? It's back by public demand :) People emailed me saying they wanted more...so here it is :). Anyway rules still apply, one answer per question and use this template to answer, that way I can count results easier. Also please use letters instead of sentences to answer. Thanks 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) Section 4: Imagine you are a... 1. Imagine you are a famous footballer and are loved by many of your fans, one day a (crap) club wants to buy you for a record £100m and £300K a week, doing this might lose popularity, what would you do? a) Tell your manager you don't want to leave for the fans sake b) Immediately say yes, thinking more about the money instead of your fans c) Have a long think about it, why not flip a coin to decide if you're not sure? d) Don't play football again since this situation will never end 2. Imagine you are a manager and suddenly your star player calls you a crap manager with crap tactics, what would you do? a) Tell him your banned from the club forever b) Tell him how crap he is c) Fight him, who ever loses is crap d) Sell him to another club...no wait...give him away free due to his bad atitude 3. Imagine you are a referee and halfway through a match your watch stops working, what do you do? a) Just imagine a clock in your head and continue playing b) Stop play and say why you need to get a new watch, bearing in mind everyone will be jeering at you c) Ask a fan for a spare watch d) Quickly with your tools, fix the watch in front of everyone 4. Imagineyou are a die-hard football fan and your girlfriend/boyfriend tells you to stop supporting football or risk keeping him or her, what would you do? a) Tell him or her "sorry, football before love" and dump him or her b) Say OK but secretly support football behind his or her back c) Truthfully say you will never support football again to keep him or her d) Flip a coin to decide, heads = support football, tails = never support football again 5. Imagine you are a fan that loves to bet, one day you spend £10k on bets for your team, only in the last minute of the game, the other team score an equaliser and you lose all your money, you know your lover will be very angry, what would you do? a) Admit to what you done and risk being dumped/divorced b) Make up a stupid lie, such as "I was robbed" or "I accidentally wrote a cheque for £10k and lost it" c) KIll yourself since there is no way out d) Complain to the betting shop 24/7 that you want your money back Thanks for completing this survey, results will appear here tomorrow, please come back to check on it.
Please help me with this HTML? I'm brand new to web design, but I still want my sites to look nice and professional. I got this free CSS template and for some darn reason it will not allow me to change some of the main title header letters to uppercase. Here is a screenshot showing the issue. http://oi56.tinypic.com/2e30u4k.jpg Is it supposed to be that way or is it something wrong with my computers, Kompozer or something else? How can I fix it? Some of the code is: <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" />\ </head> <body> <div id="wrapper"> <div id="header"> <div id="logo"> <h1><a href="index.html">NAME (Don't really want this showing up in search engines)</a></h1> </div> </div> <!-- end #header --> ... /* Design by Free CSS Templates http://www.freecsstemplates.org Released for free under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License */ body { margin: 0; padding: 0; background: #FFFFFF url(images/img01.jpg) repeat-x left top; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: #787878; } h1, h2, h3 { margin: 0; padding: 0; font-weight: normal; color: #32639A; } h1 { font-size: 2em; } h2 { font-size: 2.4em; } h3 { font-size: 1.6em; } p, ul, ol { margin-top: 0; line-height: 180%; } ul, ol { } a { text-decoration: none; color: #4486C7; } a:hover { } #wrapper { width: 960px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0; } /* Header */ #header { width: 940px; height: 148px; margin: 0 auto; background: url(images/img04.jpg) no-repeat left 20px; } /* Logo */ #logo { float: left; margin: 0; padding-top: 30px; color: #000000; } #logo h1, #logo p { margin: 0; padding: 0; } #logo h1 { float: left; padding-left: 80px; letter-spacing: -1px; text-transfo } .post .meta .date { float: left; height: 24px; padding: 3px 15px; color: #4A81DE; } .post .meta .posted { float: right; height: 24px; padding: 3px 15px; background: #A8CF64; color: #FFFFFF; } .post .meta a { color: #FFFFFF; } .post .entry { padding: 0px 0px 20px 0px; padding-bottom: 20px; text-align: justify; } .links { padding-top: 20px; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; } /* Sidebar */ #sidebar { float: right; width: 280px; padding: 0px; color: #787878; background: #FFFFFF; } #sidebar ul { margin: 0; padding: 0; list-style: none; } #sidebar li { margin: 0; padding: 0; border-left: 1px solid #E2E2E2; } #sidebar li ul { margin: 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 30px; } #sidebar li li { line-height: 35px; border-bottom: 1px dashed #D1D1D1; margin: 0px 30px; border-left: none; } #sidebar li li span { display: block; margin-top: -20px; padding: 0; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; } #sidebar h2 { height: 38px; padding-left: 30px; letter- spacing: -.5px; font-size: 1.8em; } #sidebar p { margin: 0 0px; padding: 0px 30px 20px 30px; text-align: justify; } #sidebar a { border: none; } #sidebar a:hover { text-decoration: underline; color: #8A8A8A; } /* Calendar */ #calendar { } #calendar_wrap { padding: 20px; } #calendar table { width: 100%; } #calendar tbody td { text-align: center; } #calendar #next { text-align: right; } /* Footer */ #footer { height: 50px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0px 0 15px 0; background: #D8E7FE; border-top: 1px solid #D3DEF0; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } #footer p { margin: 0; padding-top: 20px; line-height: normal; font-size: 10px; text-transform: uppercase; text-align: center; color: #A0A0A0; } #footer a { color: #5389E0; }
Where to get free Letter head templates for coreldraw / PhotoShop? Hi every one, Please help me to find out free Letter head templates for coreldraw / PhotoShop. Thanks in advance..
Where to get free Letter head templates for coreldraw / PhotoShop? Hi every one, Please help me to find out free Letter head templates for coreldraw / PhotoShop. Thanks in advance.. please help
XML template won't work on blogger? Tried to load this template from PYZAM onto my blogger but I keep getting the following error: Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly. XML error message: Open quote is expected for attribute "{1}" associated with an element type "border". Please help with directions or correct the code please. Here is the original HTML code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xmlns:b='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/b' xmlns:data='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/data' xmlns:expr='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr'> <head> <b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/> <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title> <b:skin><![CDATA[/* ----------------------------------------------- Blogger Template Style Name: Designer: pYzam Team URL: www.pyzam.com ----------------------------------------------- */ /* Variable definitions ==================== <Variable name="bgcolor" description="Page Background Color" type="color" default="#E42727" value="#E42727"> <Variable name="textcolor" description="Text Color" type="color" default="#C80202" value="#C80202"> <Variable name="linkcolor" description="Link Color" type="color" default="#FFFFFF" value="#FFFFFF"> <Variable name="pagetitlecolor" description="Blog Title Color" type="color" default="#FFFFFF" value="#FFFFFF"> <Variable name="descriptioncolor" description="Blog Description Color" type="color" default="#FFFFFF" value="#FFFFFF"> <Variable name="titlecolor" description="Post Title Color" type="color" default="#FFFFFF" value="#FFFFFF"> <Variable name="bordercolor" description="Border Color" type="color" default="#FFFFFF" value="#FFFFFF"> <Variable name="sidebarcolor" description="Sidebar Title Color" type="color" default="#C80202" value="#C80202"> <Variable name="sidebartextcolor" description="Sidebar Text Color" type="color" default="#C80202" value="#C80202"> <Variable name="visitedlinkcolor" description="Visited Link Color" type="color" default="#FF0000" value="#FF0000"> <Variable name="bodyfont" description="Text Font" type="font" default="normal normal 100% Georgia, Serif" value="normal normal 100% Georgia, Serif"> <Variable name="headerfont" description="Sidebar Title Font" type="font" default="normal normal 78% 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Verdana,Sans-serif" value="normal normal 78% 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Verdana,Sans-serif"> <Variable name="pagetitlefont" description="Blog Title Font" type="font" default="normal normal 200% Georgia, Serif" value="normal normal 200% Georgia, Serif"> <Variable name="descriptionfont" description="Blog Description Font" type="font" default="normal normal 78% 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Verdana, Sans-serif" value="normal normal 78% 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Verdana, Sans-serif"> <Variable name="postfooterfont" description="Post Footer Font" type="font" default="normal normal 78% 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Verdana, Sans-serif" value="normal normal 78% 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Verdana, Sans-serif"> */ /* Use this with templates/template-twocol.html */ body { background:$bgcolor; margin:0; color:$textcolor; font:x-small Georgia Serif; font-size/* */:/**/small; font-size: /**/small; text-align: center; background-color:#E42727; background-image: url(http://stuff.pyzam.com/layouts/img/r/e/bdrepublican.gif); background-attachment: fixed; background-position:bottom left; background-repeat:no-repeat; border-color:#FFFFFF; border-width:15px; border-style:solid; } a:link { color:$linkcolor; text-decoration:none; } a:visited { color:$visitedlinkcolor; text-decoration:none; } a:hover { color:$titlecolor; text-decoration:underline; } a img { border-width:0; } /* Header ----------------------------------------------- */ #header-wrapper { width:660px; margin:0 auto 10px; border:1px solid $bordercolor; background-color:#EF3434; } #header-inner { background-position: center; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } #header { margin: 5px; border: 1px solid $bordercolor; text-align: center; color:$pagetitlecolor; background-color:#EF3434; } #header h1 { margin:5px 5px 0; padding:15px 20px .25em; line-height:1.2em; text-transform:uppercase; letter-spacing:.2em; font: $pagetitlefont; } #header a { color:$pagetitlecolor; text-decoration:none; } #hea
Can someone help me with Blogger Template issues? Error Message: "We were unable to save your template Please correct the error below, and submit your template again. Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly. XML error message: The processing instruction target matching "[xX][mM][lL]" is not allowed." I am trying to upload a three-column blogger template 'White Minima'. Code: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html expr:dir='data:blog.languageDirection' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xmlns:b='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/b' xmlns:data='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/data' xmlns:expr='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr'> <head> <b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/> <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title> <b:skin><![CDATA[/* ----------------------------------------------- Blogger Template Style Name: Minima Designer: Douglas Bowman URL: www.stopdesign.com Date: 26 Feb 2004 Updated by: Blogger Team ----------------------------------------------- */ /* Variable definitions ==================== <Variable name="bgcolor" description="Page Background Color" type="color" default="#fff" value="#ffffff"> <Variable name="textcolor" description="Text Color" type="color" default="#333" value="#333333"> <Variable name="linkcolor" description="Link Color" type="color" default="#58a" value="#5588aa"> <Variable name="pagetitlecolor" description="Blog Title Color" type="color" default="#666" value="#666666"> <Variable name="descriptioncolor" description="Blog Description Color" type="color" default="#999" value="#999999"> <Variable name="titlecolor" description="Post Title Color" type="color" default="#c60" value="#cc6600"> <Variable name="bordercolor" description="Border Color" type="color" default="#ccc" value="#cccccc"> <Variable name="sidebarcolor" description="Sidebar Title Color" type="color" default="#999" value="#999999"> <Variable name="sidebartextcolor" description="Sidebar Text Color" type="color" default="#666" value="#666666"> <Variable name="visitedlinkcolor" description="Visited Link Color" type="color" default="#999" value="#999999"> <Variable name="bodyfont" description="Text Font" type="font" default="normal normal 100% Georgia, Serif" value="normal normal 100% Georgia, Serif"> <Variable name="headerfont" description="Sidebar Title Font" type="font" default="normal normal 78% 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Verdana,Sans-serif" value="normal normal 78% 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Verdana,Sans-serif"> <Variable name="pagetitlefont" description="Blog Title Font" type="font" default="normal normal 200% Georgia, Serif" value="normal normal 200% Georgia, Serif"> <Variable name="descriptionfont" description="Blog Description Font" type="font" default="normal normal 78% 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Verdana, Sans-serif" value="normal normal 78% 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Verdana, Sans-serif"> <Variable name="postfooterfont" description="Post Footer Font" type="font" default="normal normal 78% 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Verdana, Sans-serif" value="normal normal 78% 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Verdana, Sans-serif"> <Variable name="startSide" description="Side where text starts in blog language" type="automatic" default="left" value="left"> <Variable name="endSide" description="Side where text ends in blog language" type="automatic" default="right" value="right"> */ /* Use this with templates/template-twocol.html */ body { background:$bgcolor; margin:0; color:$textcolor; font:x-small Georgia Serif; font-size/* */:/**/small; font-size: /**/small; text-align: center; } a:link { color:$linkcolor; text-decoration:none; } a:visited { color:$visitedlinkcolor; text-decoration:none; } a:hover { color:$titlecolor; text-decoration:underline; } a img { border-width:0; } /* Header ----------------------------------------------- */ #header-wrapper { width:960px; margin:0 auto 10px; border:1px solid $bordercolor; } #header-inner { background-position: center; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; } #header { margin: 5px; border: 1px solid $bordercolor; text-align: center; color:$pagetitlecolor; } #header h1 { margin:5px 5px 0; padding:15px 20px .25em; line-height:1.2em; text-transform:uppercase; letter-spacing:.2em; font: $pagetitlefont; } #header a { color:$pagetitlecolor; text-decoration:non Template HTML: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AccqNx3SF1eLZDdwM2dueF8wbXp4dnQ1ZHQ&hl=en Need help with customizing my blog template.
I want to change my blogs XML template's blogtitle font size and post font size. ? I am a young blogger. I found a free blogtemplate and I need to change the blogtitle font size because its too small and i also need to change the blogs post font size because its also small. anyone help me? I give the full templates HTML code below: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "oo"> <html xmlns='oo' xmlns:b='oo' xmlns:data='oo' xmlns:expr='oor'> <head> <b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/> <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title> <b:skin><![CDATA[/* ----------------------------------------------- Name: Blue Wave Template Designer: se7en URL: www.blogsgonewild.net Type: Free Blogger Beta XML Skin ----------------------------------------------- */ /* Variable definitions ==================== <Variable name="bgcolor" description="Page Background Color" type="color" default="#fff" value="#ffffff"> <Variable name="textcolor" description="Text Color" type="color" default="#333" value="#333333"> <Variable name="linkcolor" description="Link Color" type="color" default="#58a" value="#5588aa"> <Variable name="pagetitlecolor" description="Blog Title Color" type="color" default="#666" value="#666666"> <Variable name="descriptioncolor" description="Blog Description Color" type="color" default="#999" value="#999999"> <Variable name="titlecolor" description="Post Title Color" type="color" default="#c60" value="#cc6600"> <Variable name="bordercolor" description="Border Color" type="color" default="#ccc" value="#cccccc"> <Variable name="sidebarcolor" description="Sidebar Title Color" type="color" default="#999" value="#999999"> <Variable name="sidebartextcolor" description="Sidebar Text Color" type="color" default="#666" value="#666666"> <Variable name="visitedlinkcolor" description="Visited Link Color" type="color" default="#999" value="#999999"> <Variable name="bodyfont" description="Text Font" type="font" default="normal normal 100% Georgia, Serif" value="normal normal 100% Georgia, Serif"> <Variable name="headerfont" description="Sidebar Title Font" type="font" default="normal normal 78% 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Verdana,Sans-serif" value="normal normal 78% 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Verdana,Sans-serif"> <Variable name="pagetitlefont" description="Blog Title Font" type="font" default="normal normal 200% Georgia, Serif" value="normal bold 200% Verdana, sans-serif"> <Variable name="descriptionfont" description="Blog Description Font" type="font" default="normal normal 78% 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Verdana, Sans-serif" value="normal normal 78% 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Verdana, Sans-serif"> <Variable name="postfooterfont" description="Post Footer Font" type="font" default="normal normal 78% 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Verdana, Sans-serif" value="normal normal 78% 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Verdana, Sans-serif"> */ /* Use this with templates/template-twocol.html */ #navbar-iframe { height: 0px; visibility: hidden; display: none; } body { background:#cccccc; margin:0; padding:0; font:12px Arial, Sans-erif; text-align: center; color:#000; } a:link { color:#444; text-decoration:none; } a:visited { color:#444; text-decoration:none; } a:hover { color:#444; text-decoration:underline; } #main .post-body a { color:#444; text-decoration:underline; } #sidebar-wrapper a { color:#3366cc; } a img { border-width:0; } .post-body img { margin:5px; border:1px solid #444; } /* Header ----------------------------------------------- */ #header-wrapper { background: url("http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh92/eblogtemplates/misc/bluewave/sine-heading-2.jpg") no-repeat; width:980px; height:100px; margin:0; padding:0; text-align:left; color:#CCC; border-top:4px ridge #67a1cf; border-bottom:6px ridge #67a1cf; } #header { height:40px; margin:0; padding:0; } #header h1 { margin:0; padding:5px 0 0 10px; font-size: 150%; font-weight:bold; line-height: 1.2em; letter-spacing:.1em; font-style:italic; color:#FFFFFF; } #header a { color:#CCC; text-decoration:none; } #header a:hover { color:#777; text-decoration:underline; } .descriptionwrapper p { margin:0; padding:0 0 0 10px; line-height: 1.3em; font-style: italic; font-weight:bold; font-size:90%; letter-spacing:.1em; color: #FFFFFF; } #header-wrapper .top-nav a { background:#1c5494; margin:0; padding:2px 10px 3px; border-top:1px solid #666; border-left:1px solid #555;
Do you belong to the "new Church of Global Warming"? "Aliens Cause Global Warming" A lecture by Michael Crichton California Institute of Technology Pasadena, CA January 17, 2003 My topic today sounds humorous but unfortunately I am serious. I am going to argue that extraterrestrials lie behind global warming. Or to speak more precisely, I will argue that a belief in extraterrestrials has paved the way, in a progression of steps, to a belief in global warming. Charting this progression of belief will be my task today. Let me say at once that I have no desire to discourage anyone from believing in either extraterrestrials or global warming. That would be quite impossible to do. Rather, I want to discuss the history of several widely-publicized beliefs and to point to what I consider an emerging crisis in the whole enterprise of science-namely the increasingly uneasy relationship between hard science and public policy. I have a special interest in this because of my own upbringing. I was born in the midst of World War II, and passed my formative years at the height of the Cold War. In school drills, I dutifully crawled under my desk in preparation for a nuclear attack. It was a time of widespread fear and uncertainty, but even as a child I believed that science represented the best and greatest hope for mankind. Even to a child, the contrast was clear between the world of politics-a world of hate and danger, of irrational beliefs and fears, of mass manipulation and disgraceful blots on human history. In contrast, science held different values-international in scope, forging friendships and working relationships across national boundaries and political systems, encouraging a dispassionate habit of thought, and ultimately leading to fresh knowledge and technology that would benefit all mankind. The world might not be avery good place, but science would make it better. And it did. In my lifetime, science has largely fulfilled its promise. Science has been the great intellectual adventure of our age, and a great hope for our troubled and restless world. But I did not expect science merely to extend lifespan, feed the hungry, cure disease, and shrink the world with jets and cell phones. I also expected science to banish the evils of human thought---prejudice and superstition, irrational beliefs and false fears. I expected science to be, in Carl Sagan's memorable phrase, "a candle in a demon haunted world." And here, I am not so pleased with the impact of science. Rather than serving as a cleansing force, science has in some instances been seduced by the more ancient lures of politics and publicity. Some of the demons that haunt our world in recent years are invented by scientists. The world has not benefited from permitting these demons to escape free. But let's look at how it came to pass. Cast your minds back to 1960. John F. Kennedy is president, commercial jet airplanes are just appearing, the biggest university mainframes have 12K of memory. And in Green Bank, West Virginia at the new National Radio Astronomy Observatory, a young astrophysicist named Frank Drake runs a two week project called Ozma, to search for extraterrestrial signals. A signal is received, to great excitement. It turns out to be false, but the excitement remains. In 1960, Drake organizes the first SETI conference, and came up with the now-famous Drake equation: N=N*fp ne fl fi fc fL Where N is the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy; fp is the fraction with planets; ne is the number of planets per star capable of supporting life; fl is the fraction of planets where life evolves; fi is the fraction where intelligent life evolves; and fc is the fraction that communicates; and fL is the fraction of the planet's life during which the communicating civilizations live. This serious-looking equation gave SETI an serious footing as a legitimate intellectual inquiry. The problem, of course, is that none of the terms can be known, and most cannot even be estimated. The only way to work the equation is to fill in with guesses. And guesses-just so we're clear-are merely expressions of prejudice. Nor can there be "informed guesses." If you need to state how many planets with life choose to communicate, there is simply no way to make an informed guess. It's simply prejudice. As a result, the Drake equation can have any value from "billions and billions" to zero. An expression that can mean anything means nothing. Speaking precisely, the Drake equation is literally meaningless, and has nothing to do with science. I take the hard view that science involves the creation of testable hypotheses. The Drake equation cannot be tested and therefore SETI is not science. SETI is unquestionably a religion. Faith is defined as the firm belief in something for which there is no proof. The belief that the Koran is the word of God is a matter of faith. The belief that God created the universe in seven days is a matter of faith. The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief. SETI is a religion. One way to chart the cooling of enthusiasm is to review popular works on the subject. In 1964, at the height of SETI enthusiasm, Walter Sullivan of the NY Times wrote an exciting book about life in the universe entitled WE ARE NOT ALONE. By 1995, when Paul Davis wrote a book on the same subject, he titled it ARE WE ALONE? ( Since 1981, there have in fact been four books titled ARE WE ALONE.) More recently we have seen the rise of the so-called "Rare Earth" theory which suggests that we may, in fact, be all alone. Again, there is no evidence either way. Back in the sixties, SETI had its critics, although not among astrophysicists and astronomers. The biologists and paleontologists were harshest. George Gaylord Simpson of Harvard sneered that SETI was a "study without a subject," and it remains so to the present day. But scientists in general have been indulgent toward SETI, viewing it either with bemused tolerance, or with indifference. After all, what's the big deal? It's kind of fun. If people want to look, let them. Only a curmudgeon would speak harshly of SETI. It wasn't worth the bother. And of course it is true that untestable theories may have heuristic value. Of course extraterrestrials are a good way to teach science to kids. But that does not relieve us of the obligation to see the Drake equation clearly for what it is-pure speculation in quasi-scientific trappings. The fact that the Drake equation was not greeted with screams of outrage-similar to the screams of outrage that greet each Creationist new claim, for example-meant that now there was a crack in the door, a loosening of the definition of what constituted legitimate scientific procedure. And soon enough, pernicious garbage began to squeeze through the cracks. Now let's jump ahead a decade to the 1970s, and Nuclear Winter. In 1975, the National Academy of Sciences reported on "Long-Term Worldwide Effects of Multiple Nuclear Weapons Detonations" but the report estimated the effect of dust from nuclear blasts to be relatively minor. In 1979, the Office of Technology Assessment issued a report on "The Effects of Nuclear War" and stated that nuclear war could perhaps produce irreversible adverse consequences on the environment. However, because the scientific processes involved were poorly understood, the report stated it was not possible to estimate the probable magnitude of such damage. Three years later, in 1982, the Swedish Academy of Sciences commissioned a report entitled "The Atmosphere after a Nuclear War: Twilight at Noon," which attempted to quantify the effect of smoke from burning forests and cities. The authors speculated that there would be so much smoke that a large cloud over the northern hemisphere would reduce incoming sunlight below the level required for photosynthesis, and that this would last for weeks or even longer. The following year, five scientists including Richard Turco and Carl Sagan published a paper in Science called "Nuclear Winter: Global Consequences of Multiple Nuclear Explosions." This was the so-called TTAPS report, which attempted to quantify more rigorously the atmospheric effects, with the added credibility to be gained from an actual computer model of climate. At the heart of the TTAPS undertaking was another equation, never specifically expressed, but one that could be paraphrased as follows: Ds = Wn Ws Wh Tf Tb Pt Pr Pe… etc (The amount of tropospheric dust=# warheads x size warheads x warhead detonation height x flammability of targets x Target burn duration x Particles entering the Troposphere x Particle reflectivity x Particle endurance…and so on.) The similarity to the Drake equation is striking. As with the Drake equation, none of the variables can be determined. None at all. The TTAPS study addressed this problem in part by mapping out different wartime scenarios and assigning numbers to some of the variables, but even so, the remaining variables were-and are-simply unknowable. Nobody knows how much smoke will be generated when cities burn, creating particles of what kind, and for how long. No one knows the effect of local weather conditions on the amount of particles that will be injected into the troposphere. No one knows how long the particles will remain in the troposphere. And so on. And remember, this is only four years after the OTA study concluded that the underlying scientific processes were so poorly known that no estimates could be reliably made. Nevertheless, the TTAPS study not only made those estimates, but concluded they were catastrophic. According to Sagan and his coworkers, even a limited 5,000 megaton nuclear exchange would cause a global temperature drop of more than 35 degrees Centigrade, and this change would last for three months. The greatest volcanic eruptions that we know of changed world temperatures somewhere between .5 and 2 degrees Centigrade. Ice ages changed global temperatures by 10 degrees. Here we have an estimated change three times greater than any ice age. One might expect it to be the subject of some dispute. But Sagan and his coworkers were prepared, for nuclear winter was from the outset the subject of a well-orchestrated media campaign. The first announcement of nuclear winter appeared in an article by Sagan in the Sunday supplement, Parade. The very next day, a highly-publicized, high-profile conference on the long-term consequences of nuclear war was held in Washington, chaired by Carl Sagan and Paul Ehrlich, the most famous and media-savvy scientists of their generation. Sagan appeared on the Johnny Carson show 40 times. Ehrlich was on 25 times. Following the conference, there were press conferences, meetings with congressmen, and so on. The formal papers in Science came months later. This is not the way science is done, it is the way products are sold. The real nature of the conference is indicated by these artists' renderings of the the effect of nuclear winter. I cannot help but quote the caption for figure 5: "Shown here is a tranquil scene in the north woods. A beaver has just completed its dam, two black bears forage for food, a swallow-tailed butterfly flutters in the foreground, a loon swims quietly by, and a kingfisher searches for a tasty fish." Hard science if ever there was. At the conference in Washington, during the question period, Ehrlich was reminded that after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, scientists were quoted as saying nothing would grow there for 75 years, but in fact melons were growing the next year. So, he was asked, how accurate were these findings now? Ehrlich answered by saying "I think they are extremely robust. Scientists may have made statements like that, although I cannot imagine what their basis would have been, even with the state of science at that time, but scientists are always making absurd statements, individually, in various places. What we are doing here, however, is presenting a consensus of a very large group of scientists…" I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. Let's be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it's consensus, it isn't science. If it's science, it isn't consensus. Period. In addition, let me remind you that the track record of the consensus is nothing to be proud of. Let's review a few cases. In past centuries, the greatest killer of women was fever following childbirth . One woman in six died of this fever. In 1795, Alexander Gordon of Aberdeen suggested that the fevers were infectious processes, and he was able to cure them. The consensus said no. In 1843, Oliver Wendell Holmes claimed puerperal fever was contagious, and presented compellng evidence. The consensus said no. In 1849, Semmelweiss demonstrated that sanitary techniques virtually eliminated puerperal fever in hospitals under his management. The consensus said he was a Jew, ignored him, and dismissed him from his post. There was in fact no agreement on puerperal fever until the start of the twentieth century. Thus the consensus took one hundred and twenty five years to arrive at the right conclusion despite the efforts of the prominent "skeptics" around the world, skeptics who were demeaned and ignored. And despite the constant ongoing deaths of women. There is no shortage of other examples. In the 1920s in America, tens of thousands of people, mostly poor, were dying of a disease called pellagra. The consensus of scientists said it was infectious, and what was necessary was to find the "pellagra germ." The US government asked a brilliant young investigator, Dr. Joseph Goldberger, to find the cause. Goldberger concluded that diet was the crucial factor. The consensus remained wedded to the germ theory. Goldberger demonstrated that he could induce the disease through diet. He demonstrated that the disease was not infectious by injecting the blood of a pellagra patient into himself, and his assistant. They and other volunteers swabbed their noses with swabs from pellagra patients, and swallowed capsules containing scabs from pellagra rashes in what were called "Goldberger's filth parties." Nobody contracted pellagra. The consensus continued to disagree with him. There was, in addition, a social factor-southern States disliked the idea of poor diet as the cause, because it meant that social reform was required. They continued to deny it until the 1920s. Result-despite a twentieth century epidemic, the consensus took years to see the light. Probably every schoolchild notices that South America and Africa seem to fit together rather snugly, and Alfred Wegener proposed, in 1912, that the continents had in fact drifted apart. The consensus sneered at continental drift for fifty years. The theory was most vigorously denied by the great names of geology-until 1961, when it began to seem as if the sea floors were spreading. The result: it took the consensus fifty years to acknowledge what any schoolchild sees. And shall we go on? The examples can be multiplied endlessly. Jenner and smallpox, Pasteur and germ theory. Saccharine, margarine, repressed memory, fiber and colon cancer, hormone replacement therap6y…the list of consensus errors goes on and on. Finally, I would remind you to notice where the claim of consensus is invoked. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough. Nobody says the consensus of scientists agrees that E=mc2. Nobody says the consensus is that the sun is 93 million miles away. It would never occur to anyone to speak that way. But back to our main subject. What I have been suggesting to you is that nuclear winter was a meaningless formula, tricked out with bad science, for policy ends. It was political from the beginning, promoted in a well-orchestrated media campaign that had to be planned weeks or months in advance. Further evidence of the political nature of the whole project can be found in the response to criticism. Although Richard Feynman was characteristically blunt, saying, "I really don't think these guys know what they're talking about," other prominent scientists were noticeably reticent. Freeman Dyson was quoted as saying "It's an absolutely atrocious piece of science but…who wants to be accused of being in favor of nuclear war?" And Victor Weisskopf said, "The science is terrible but---perhaps the psychology is good." The nuclear winter team followed up the publication of such comments with letters to the editors denying that these statements were ever made, though the scientists since then have subsequently confirmed their views. At the time, there was a concerted desire on the part of lots of people to avoid nuclear war. If nuclear winter looked awful, why investigate too closely? Who wanted to disagree? Only people like Edward Teller, the "father of the H bomb." Teller said, "While it is generally recognized that details are still uncertain and deserve much more study, Dr. Sagan nevertheless has taken the position that the whole scenario is so robust that there can be little doubt about its main conclusions." Yet for most people, the fact that nuclear winter was a scenario riddled with uncertainties did not seem to be relevant. I say it is hugely relevant. Once you abandon strict adherence to what science tells us, once you start arranging the truth in a press conference, then anything is possible. In one context, maybe you will get some mobilization against nuclear war. But in another context, you get Lysenkoism. In another, you get Nazi euthanasia. The danger is always there, if you subvert science to political ends. That is why it is so important for the future of science that the line between what science can say with certainty, and what it cannot, be drawn clearly-and defended. What happened to Nuclear Winter? As the media glare faded, its robust scenario appeared less persuasive; John Maddox, editor of Nature, repeatedly criticized its claims; within a year, Stephen Schneider, one of the leading figures in the climate model, began to speak of "nuclear autumn." It just didn't have the same ring. A final media embarrassment came in 1991, when Carl Sagan predicted on Nightline that Kuwaiti oil fires would produce a nuclear winter effect, causing a "year without a summer," and endangering crops around the world. Sagan stressed this outcome was so likely that "it should affect the war plans." None of it happened. What, then, can we say were the lessons of Nuclear Winter? I believe the lesson was that with a catchy name, a strong policy position and an aggressive media campaign, nobody will dare to criticize the science, and in short order, a terminally weak thesis will be established as fact. After that, any criticism becomes beside the point. The war is already over without a shot being fired. That was the lesson, and we had a textbook application soon afterward, with second hand smoke. In 1993, the EPA announced that second-hand smoke was "responsible for approximately 3,000 lung cancer deaths each year in nonsmoking adults," and that it " impairs the respiratory health of hundreds of thousands of people." In a 1994 pamphlet the EPA said that the eleven studies it based its decision on were not by themselves conclusive, and that they collectively assigned second-hand smoke a risk factor of 1.19. (For reference, a risk factor below 3.0 is too small for action by the EPA. or for publication in the New England Journal of Medicine, for example.) Furthermore, since there was no statistical association at the 95% confidence limits, the EPA lowered the limit to 90%. They then classified second hand smoke as a Group A Carcinogen. This was openly fraudulent science, but it formed the basis for bans on smoking in restaurants, offices, and airports. California banned public smoking in 1995. Soon, no claim was too extreme. By 1998, the Christian Science Monitor was saying that "Second-hand smoke is the nation's third-leading preventable cause of death." The American Cancer Society announced that 53,000 people died each year of second-hand smoke. The evidence for this claim is nonexistent. In 1998, a Federal judge held that the EPA had acted improperly, had "committed to a conclusion before research had begun", and had "disregarded information and made findings on selective information." The reaction of Carol Browner, head of the EPA was: "We stand by our science….there's wide agreement. The American people certainly recognize that exposure to second hand smoke brings…a whole host of health problems." Again, note how the claim of consensus trumps science. In this case, it isn't even a consensus of scientists that Browner evokes! It's the consensus of the American people. Meanwhile, ever-larger studies failed to confirm any association. A large, seven-country WHO study in 1998 found no association. Nor have well-controlled subsequent studies, to my knowledge. Yet we now read, for example, that second hand smoke is a cause of breast cancer. At this point you can say pretty much anything you want about second-hand smoke. As with nuclear winter, bad science is used to promote what most people would consider good policy. I certainly think it is. I don't want people smoking around me. So who will speak out against banning second-hand smoke? Nobody, and if you do, you'll be branded a shill of RJ Reynolds. A big tobacco flunky. But the truth is that we now have a social policy supported by the grossest of superstitions. And we've given the EPA a bad lesson in how to behave in the future. We've told them that cheating is the way to succeed. As the twentieth century drew to a close, the connection between hard scientific fact and public policy became increasingly elastic. In part this was possible because of the complacency of the scientific profession; in part because of the lack of good science education among the public; in part, because of the rise of specialized advocacy groups which have been enormously effective in getting publicity and shaping policy; and in great part because of the decline of the media as an independent assessor of fact. The deterioration of the American media is dire loss for our country. When distinguished institutions like the New York Times can no longer differentiate between factual content and editorial opinion, but rather mix both freely on their front page, then who will hold anyone to a higher standard? And so, in this elastic anything-goes world where science-or non-science-is the hand maiden of questionable public policy, we arrive at last at global warming. It is not my purpose here to rehash the details of this most magnificent of the demons haunting the world. I would just remind you of the now-familiar pattern by which these things are established. Evidentiary uncertainties are glossed over in the unseemly rush for an overarching policy, and for grants to support the policy by delivering findings that are desired by the patron. Next, the isolation of those scientists who won't get with the program, and the characterization of those scientists as outsiders and "skeptics" in quotation marks-suspect individuals with suspect motives, industry flunkies, reactionaries, or simply anti-environmental nutcases. In short order, debate ends, even though prominent scientists are uncomfortable about how things are being done. When did "skeptic" become a dirty word in science? When did a skeptic require quotation marks around it? To an outsider, the most significant innovation in the global warming controversy is the overt reliance that is being placed on models. Back in the days of nuclear winter, computer models were invoked to add weight to a conclusion: "These results are derived with the help of a computer model." But now large-scale computer models are seen as generating data in themselves. No longer are models judged by how well they reproduce data from the real world-increasingly, models provide the data. As if they were themselves a reality. And indeed they are, when we are projecting forward. There can be no observational data about the year 2100. There are only model runs. This fascination with computer models is something I understand very well. Richard Feynmann called it a disease. I fear he is right. Because only if you spend a lot of time looking at a computer screen can you arrive at the complex point where the global warming debate now stands. Nobody believes a weather prediction twelve hours ahead. Now we're asked to believe a prediction that goes out 100 years into the future? And make financial investments based on that prediction? Has everybody lost their minds? Stepping back, I have to say the arrogance of the modelmakers is breathtaking. There have been, in every century, scientists who say they know it all. Since climate may be a chaotic system-no one is sure-these predictions are inherently doubtful, to be polite. But more to the point, even if the models get the science spot-on, they can never get the sociology. To predict anything about the world a hundred years from now is simply absurd. Look: If I was selling stock in a company that I told you would be profitable in 2100, would you buy it? Or would you think the idea was so crazy that it must be a scam? Let's think back to people in 1900 in, say, New York. If they worried about people in 2000, what would they worry about? Probably: Where would people get enough horses? And what would they do about all the horseshit? Horse pollution was bad in 1900, think how much worse it would be a century later, with so many more people riding horses? But of course, within a few years, nobody rode horses except for sport. And in 2000, France was getting 80% its power from an energy source that was unknown in 1900. Germany, Switzerland, Belgium and Japan were getting more than 30% from this source, unknown in 1900. Remember, people in 1900 didn't know what an atom was. They didn't know its structure. They also didn't know what a radio was, or an airport, or a movie, or a television, or a computer, or a cell phone, or a jet, an antibiotic, a rocket, a satellite, an MRI, ICU, IUD, IBM, IRA, ERA, EEG, EPA, IRS, DOD, PCP, HTML, internet. interferon, instant replay, remote sensing, remote control, speed dialing, gene therapy, gene splicing, genes, spot welding, heat-seeking, bipolar, prozac, leotards, lap dancing, email, tape recorder, CDs, airbags, plastic explosive, plastic, robots, cars, liposuction, transduction, superconduction, dish antennas, step aerobics, smoothies, twelve-step, ultrasound, nylon, rayon, teflon, fiber optics, carpal tunnel, laser surgery, laparoscopy, corneal transplant, kidney transplant, AIDS… None of this would have meant anything to a person in the year 1900. They wouldn't know what you are talking about. Now. You tell me you can predict the world of 2100. Tell me it's even worth thinking about. Our models just carry the present into the future. They're bound to be wrong. Everybody who gives a moment's thought knows it. I remind you that in the lifetime of most scientists now living, we have already had an example of dire predictions set aside by new technology. I refer to the green revolution. In 1960, Paul Ehrlich said, "The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s the world will undergo famines-hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death." Ten years later, he predicted four billion people would die during the 1980s, including 65 million Americans. The mass starvation that was predicted never occurred, and it now seems it isn't ever going to happen. Nor is the population explosion going to reach the numbers predicted even ten years ago. In 1990, climate modelers anticipated a world population of 11 billion by 2100. Today, some people think the correct number will be 7 billion and falling. But nobody knows for sure. But it is impossible to ignore how closely the history of global warming fits on the previous template for nuclear winter. Just as the earliest studies of nuclear winter stated that the uncertainties were so great that probabilites could never be known, so, too the first pronouncements on global warming argued strong limits on what could be determined with certainty about climate change. The 1995 IPCC draft report said, "Any claims of positive detection of significant climate change are likely to remain controversial until uncertainties in the total natural variability of the climate system are reduced." It also said, "No study to date has positively attributed all or part of observed climate changes to anthropogenic causes." Those statements were removed, and in their place appeared: "The balance of evidence suggests a discernable human influence on climate." What is clear, however, is that on this issue, science and policy have become inextricably mixed to the point where it will be difficult, if not impossible, to separate them out. It is possible for an outside observer to ask serious questions about the conduct of investigations into global warming, such as whether we are taking appropriate steps to improve the quality of our observational data records, whether we are systematically obtaining the information that will clarify existing uncertainties, whether we have any organized disinterested mechanism to direct research in this contentious area. The answer to all these questions is no. We don't. In trying to think about how these questions can be resolved, it occurs to me that in the progression from SETI to nuclear winter to second hand smoke to global warming, we have one clear message, and that is that we can expect more and more problems of public policy dealing with technical issues in the future-problems of ever greater seriousness, where people care passionately on all sides. And at the moment we have no mechanism to get good answers. So I will propose one. Just as we have established a tradition of double-blinded research to determine drug efficacy, we must institute double-blinded research in other policy areas as well. Certainly the increased use of computer models, such as GCMs, cries out for the separation of those who make the models from those who verify them. The fact is that the present structure of science is entrepeneurial, with individual investigative teams vying for funding from organizations which all too often have a clear stake in the outcome of the research-or appear to, which may be just as bad. This is not healthy for science. Sooner or later, we must form an independent research institute in this country. It must be funded by industry, by government, and by private philanthropy, both individuals and trusts. The money must be pooled, so that investigators do not know who is paying them. The institute must fund more than one team to do research in a particular area, and the verification of results will be a foregone requirement: teams will know their results will be checked by other groups. In many cases, those who decide how to gather the data will not gather it, and those who gather the data will not analyze it. If we were to address the land temperature records with such rigor, we would be well on our way to an understanding of exactly how much faith we can place in global warming, and therefore what seriousness we must address this. I believe that as we come to the end of this litany, some of you may be saying, well what is the big deal, really. So we made a few mistakes. So a few scientists have overstated their cases and have egg on their faces. So what. Well, I'll tell you. In recent years, much has been said about the post modernist claims about science to the effect that science is just another form of raw power, tricked out in special claims for truth-seeking and objectivity that really have no basis in fact. Science, we are told, is no better than any other undertaking. These ideas anger many scientists, and they anger me. But recent events have made me wonder if they are correct. We can take as an example the scientific reception accorded a Danish statistician, Bjorn Lomborg, who wrote a book called The Skeptical Environmentalist. The scientific community responded in a way that can only be described as disgraceful. In professional literature, it was complained he had no standing because he was not an earth scientist. His publisher, Cambridge University Press, was attacked with cries that the editor should be fired, and that all right-thinking scientists should shun the press. The past president of the AAAS wondered aloud how Cambridge could have ever "published a book that so clearly could never have passed peer review." )But of course the manuscript did pass peer review by three earth scientists on both sides of the Atlantic, and all recommended publication.) But what are scientists doing attacking a press? Is this the new McCarthyism-coming from scientists? Worst of all was the behavior of the Scientific American, which seemed intent on proving the post-modernist point that it was all about power, not facts. The Scientific American attacked Lomborg for eleven pages, yet only came up with nine factual errors despite their assertion that the book was "rife with careless mistakes." It was a poor display featuring vicious ad hominem attacks, including comparing him to a Holocust denier. The issue was captioned: "Science defends itself against the Skeptical Environmentalist." Really. Science has to defend itself? Is this what we have come to? When Lomborg asked for space to rebut his critics, he was given only a page and a half. When he said it wasn't enough, he put the critics' essays on his web page and answered them in detail. Scientific American threatened copyright infringement and made him take the pages down. Further attacks since have made it clear what is going on. Lomborg is charged with heresy. That's why none of his critics needs to substantiate their attacks in any detail. That's why the facts don't matter. That's why they can attack him in the most vicious personal terms. He's a heretic. Of course, any scientist can be charged as Galileo was charged. I just never thought I'd see the Scientific American in the role of mother church. Is this what science has become? I hope not. But it is what it will become, unless there is a concerted effort by leading scientists to aggressively separate science from policy. The late Philip Handler, former president of the National Academy of Sciences, said that "Scientists best serve public policy by living within the ethics of science, not those of politics. If the scientific community will not unfrock the charlatans, the public will not discern the difference-science and the nation will suffer." Personally, I don't worry about the nation. But I do worry about science. Thank you very much.
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Plz someone help me to understand this ?Plz Plz Plz help me ..... ? I want to add a widget code to my blogger blog. For some reason my html/ javascript is not working. So i want to do it with "add html" . but i have tried a lot. i could not understand where to put my code. I don't have much knowledge about html and all. I am new to internate. If someone help me where to put it . This is my code.... <script language="javascript" src="http://www.fuelmyblog.com/pages/friendswidgetv1.1.jsp?userId=44515&ehex=19dafe4789700b7d95fb3123c63e61fe&blogId=20485"></script> <script language="javascript"> document.write( myFriendsWidget ); </script> My html is <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html expr:dir='data:blog.languageDirection' xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' xmlns:b='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/b' xmlns:data='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/data' xmlns:expr='http://www.google.com/2005/gml/expr'> <head> <b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/> <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title> <b:skin><![CDATA[/* ----------------------------------------------- Blogger Template Style Name: Minima Lefty Stretch Designer: Douglas Bowman / Darren Delaye URL: www.stopdesign.com Date: 14 Jul 2006 ----------------------------------------------- */ /* Variable definitions ==================== <Variable name="bgcolor" description="Page Background Color" type="color" default="#fff" value="#ffffff"> <Variable name="textcolor" description="Text Color" type="color" default="#333" value="#6728B2"> <Variable name="linkcolor" description="Link Color" type="color" default="#58a" value="#285fb2"> <Variable name="pagetitlecolor" description="Blog Title Color" type="color" default="#666" value="#660000"> <Variable name="descriptioncolor" description="Blog Description Color" type="color" default="#999" value="#341473"> <Variable name="titlecolor" description="Post Title Color" type="color" default="#c60" value="#cc0000"> <Variable name="bordercolor" description="Border Color" type="color" default="#ccc" value="#ffffff"> <Variable name="sidebarcolor" description="Sidebar Title Color" type="color" default="#999" value="#6f3c1b"> <Variable name="sidebartextcolor" description="Sidebar Text Color" type="color" default="#666" value="#6f3c1b"> <Variable name="visitedlinkcolor" description="Visited Link Color" type="color" default="#999" value="#b47b10"> <Variable name="bodyfont" description="Text Font" type="font" default="normal normal 100% Georgia, Serif" value="normal normal 110% Arial, sans-serif"> <Variable name="headerfont" description="Sidebar Title Font" type="font" default="normal normal 78% 'Trebuchet MS',Trebuchet,Arial,Verdana,Sans-serif" value="normal bold 78% Courier, monospace"> <Variable name="pagetitlefont" description="Blog Title Font" type="font" default="normal normal 200% Georgia, Serif" value="normal bold 348% Times, serif"> <Variable name="descriptionfont" description="Blog Description Font" type="font" default="normal normal 78% 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Verdana, Sans-serif" value="normal normal 68% Times, serif"> <Variable name="postfooterfont" description="Post Footer Font" type="font" default="normal normal 78% 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Verdana, Sans-serif" value="normal normal 78% 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, Arial, Verdana, Sans-serif"> <Variable name="startSide" description="Start side in blog language" type="automatic" default="left" value="left"> <Variable name="endSide" description="End side in blog language" type="automatic" default="right" value="right"> */ /* Use this with templates/template-twocol.html */ body { background:$bgcolor; margin:0; color:$textcolor; font:x-small Georgia Serif; font-size/* */:/**/small; font-size: /**/small; text-align: center; } a:link { color:$linkcolor; text-decoration:none; } a:visited { color:$visitedlinkcolor; text-decoration:none; } a:hover { color:$titlecolor; text-decoration:underline; } a img { border-width:0; } /* Header ----------------------------------------------- */ #header-wrapper { margin:0 2% 10px; border:1px solid $bordercolor; } #header-inner { background-position: center; margin-$startSide: auto; margin-$endSide: auto; } #header { margin: 5px; border: 1px solid $bordercolor; text-align: center; color:$pagetitlecolor; } #header h1 { margin:5px 5px 0; padding:15px 20px .25em; line-height:1.2em; text-transform:uppercase; letter-spacing:.2em; font:
What percentage of Cars & emissions stem from CA. 10th largest economy in WORLD? Bush defends EPA's rejection of California plea template_bas template_bas The president insists that 'a national plan' on emissions standards is more effective at combating climate change. Meanwhile, Rep. Waxman asks the agency for documents on how the decision was made. By Richard Simon and Janet Wilson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writers 9:43 AM PST, December 20, 2007 WASHINGTON -- President Bush today defended the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to deny California's bid to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles, saying that a national strategy toward climate change is more effective than a state-by-state approach. "The question is how to have an effective strategy," Bush said at a year-end news conference. "Is it more effective to let each state make a decision as to how to proceed in curbing greenhouse gases, or is it more effective to have a national strategy?" Bush said. Related Stories - EPA denies California's right to mandate emissions With the enactment this week of a landmark energy bill raising automobile gas mileage standards to 35 miles per gallon by 2020, Bush said, "We know have a national plan. It's one of the benefits of Congress passing this piece of legislation." EPA administrator Stephen L. Johnson on Wednesday denied the state's request to implement its own landmark law, dealing a blow to the state's independent attempts to combat global warming and prompting an immediate vow from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to take the decision to court. "The Bush administration is moving forward with a clear national solution, not a confusing patchwork of state rules," Johnson said in announcing his decision. The decision infuriated public officials and environmentalists from Washington to Sacramento, who fired the first shots in what is expected to be a pitched legal and political battle through the 2008 presidential campaign. At least 16 other states, with nearly half the nation's population, have adopted or are considering California's emission limits and could join in challenges to Wednesday's decision. And with distrust toward the Bush administration rampant on Capitol Hill, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-Beverly Hills) fired off a letter to the EPA today, requesting that the agency preserve and produce all documents relating to the decision. "Your decision appears to have ignored the evidence before the agency and the requirements of the Clean Air Act," Waxman says in the letter. Noting that the committee has opened into an investigation into whether EPA's director "overruled the unanimous recommendations of EPA's legal and technical staffs in rejecting California's petition," Waxman requested that the EPA turn over all documents relating to the request by next month. Schwarzenegger assailed the EPA for "standing in our way" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. "California sued to compel the agency to act on our waiver, and now we will sue to overturn today's decision and allow Californians to protect our environment," he said in a prepared statement. California Air Resources Board Chairwoman Mary Nichols, whose agency requested the waiver two years ago, said there was no "patchwork" of standards. "There is a California greenhouse gas standard . . . which 16 other states would adopt, whereas there is no federal greenhouse gas standard," she said. "The Supreme Court told EPA it has to take action on global warming. It affects our health and our environment. It's not just about fuel economy." Congress is likely to weigh in, although lawmakers may not be able to craft legislation that could survive a presidential veto. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) called the decision "disgraceful." David Bookbinder, the Sierra Club's chief climate counsel, vowed to take the fight to court. "These guys are 0 and 4 in court," he said. "And they're about to go 0-5." Bookbinder was referring to the Supreme Court's decision this year that greenhouse gas regulation fell under the purview of the EPA and to several lower court decisions rebuffing the auto industry's efforts to head off states' regulation of tailpipe emissions. The EPA waiver decision was a victory for the auto industry. David McCurdy, president and chief executive of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, said in a prepared statement that a "patchwork quilt of inconsistent and competing fuel economy programs at the state level would only have created confusion, inefficiency and uncertainty for automakers and consumers." The federal Clean Air Act allows California to set anti-pollution standards stricter than those of the federal government, subject to EPA permission. California had been waiting for the EPA to act since the state petitioned the agency in 2005, and at least 16 other states had been hoping to follow California's lead. Johnson, who telephoned Schwarzenegger shortly before announcing his decision Wednesday, said that with the energy bill, there was no need for separate state regulations that would cover only part of the country. Under the energy bill, fuel efficiency for new cars and light trucks will increase 40% by 2020, for a fleet-wide average of 35 mpg, the biggest congressionally ordered increase since the fuel economy program was created in 1975. Cars and light trucks, including SUVs, account for about a fifth of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions. "I believe that Congress by passing a unified federal standard of 35 mpg delivers significant reductions that are more effective than a state-by-state approach," Johnson said. "This applies to all 50 states, not one state, not 12 states, not 15 states. It applies to all 50 states, and that's great for the economy, for national security and for the environment." Johnson said California's request was unlike others that had been granted by his agency that covered "pollutants that predominantly impacted local and regional air quality."
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