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I have finished the first bug fix version for the BMLT release. It fixes a couple of fairly significant bugs, and restores the “change rollback” and “undelete meetings” functionalities.

Read about it here.

After more than a year of design and development, the Basic Meeting List Toolbox (BMLT) is almost ready for its debut.

“Release Candidate” means that I believe it is ready for general release.

Read about it here.

There is entirely to many reported instances of “theft of n.a. funds”. When these things are discovered, what do we do about it. Most of the time nothing gets done. Most of the time practical procedures were not followed. How do we prevent these things from happening, or can we?

What about requiring an area or regional treasurer to be bonded? What could be good or bad about this idea?

The clear Property

The clear property tells the browser to make sure that the element with the clear property applied, gets put under an element with a float property applied. However, you can make a clear property react only to elements floated on the left, or on the right (or either one).

The clear property has four possible values: “none”, “left”, “right” and “both”. It is described as “Set the side of an element where other elements are not allowed.” Like the float property, it can only be applied to block-level elements. It also is useful when used in conjunction with floated elements.

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Floated Block Elements

Floating elements are a useful and often misused CSS capability. They allow images or other types of content to be positioned so that they are always to the right or left of the content text, and allow the text to flow around them.

Any block-level element can be assigned a float property. This will govern how it will behave with its peers (but not its containers or contained elements).

The float property has three possible values: “left”, “right” or “none”.

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This was done to help out NA Iran. Iran uses a different calendar than Western countries, so we added support to the NACC to have an option to use this calendar.
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Just a reminder.

7PM, at the Brentwood United presbyterian Church, Second Street at 4th Avenue, Brentwood, NY.

Hello everyone. Just want to get some feedback on this idea. Attracting NA members that have the skills to make significant changes to the GNYR website has not been successful. I am appealing to the MAGBLOG community for guidance. Do you think the creation of “special worker” status would be beneficial? Dollar amounts, how to determine project fees etc., would be decided on later. Right now I’m asking, is this the right direction.

Positioned Block Elements

One of the most powerful things that you can do with CSS control of block elements is position elements anywhere you want on the screen. If you learn to use the CSS position properties properly, you can do some really neat stuff.

For this post, I’ll only discuss display property values of “block” and “table.” There are a few more display values, but they are not commonly used, and belong in a more advanced discussion.

First of all, we need to realize that inline elements can’t be positioned. Only block-level elements and tables can be positioned. For the examples in this page, I’ll use <div> elements. See my previous posting on block-level and inline elements to get a quick idea of what the difference is.

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Minutes of the May 2008 SASNA Online Subcommittee Meeting
Date: Thursday, May 1, 2008 7PM-9PM
Location: Brentwood Presbyterian Church, 2nd St. at 4th Ave., Brentwood, NY 11717
Attendees:

• Chris M. (Chair)
• Papillon
• Ed L.
• Daniella E.
• Mike M. (H&I)
• Melissa

NOTE: The Moderator was not present at this meeting. They cannot miss another meeting and retain their Moderator status.
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