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After overwhelming feedback by The Times community, v1.3 is the most exciting yet! With a major overhaul of the Header, Tabbed Module, and Options Panel I’ve added 11 new features all while streamlining the code to make The Times load faster.

If you haven’t done so, be sure to upgrade to Wordpress 2.9 to take advantage of the Logo Upload/Edit feature now standard in The Times.

Greg Rickaby dESIGN is proud to present:

VERSION 1.3 (1.01.09)

Front End:

• Header: @font-face Text Logo
• Header: Added Date & Time
• Header: By popular demand; nixed 468×60 banner, replaced with 234×60 half-banner
• Tabbed Module: Tweaked CSS to set spacing
• Tabbed Module: Added border
• Tabbed Module: Tweaked CSS to set spacing
• Tabbed Module: Added “overflow:hidden” to prevent overflow of content
• Accordion Slider: Added + sign before Titles

Options Panel:

• Added ability to upload a Logo using Wordpress 2.9  image editor
• Added ability to turn on/off Top Left Links
• Added ability to turn on/off default Thesis Navigation
• Added ability to turn on/off “Auto Generated” Homepage Teaser Box Titles
• Added ability to give Homepage Teaser Box Titles custom names
• Added ability to set time-zone
• Renamed “Body” Tab to” Sitewide”
• Moved “Select Skin Style” to “Sitewide” Tab
• Moved Logo Upload to “Logo” Tab

Back-end:

• Moved all jQuery to jquery.js and all Java to java.js to improve download speed
• Moved all jQuery and Java CSS to script-styles.css to improve download speed
• Moved all color attributes from custom.css to individual styled style-sheets
• Added Comments to all attributes in individual styled style-sheets for easier customization
• Major documentation overhaul
• Minor Options Panel CSS tweaks
• Combined IE7 & IE8 style-sheets. Re-did conditional CSS code

Bug Fixes:

• Added footer link and H3 style attributes to all six “styles”
• Several IE CSS fixes (too many to list)

After 11 straight hours of (uninterupted) coding v1.2 is ready for download.

Options Panel:

• Removed extra “save button”
• Removed post count from Breaking News Box
• Added HTML & PHP functionality in Vanity Box
• Added Debugging option

Back-end:

• Updated documentation

Bug Fixes:

• Added VivaThumb code to Breaking News Box
• Changed documentation to reflect Featured Video code
• Fixed multiple categories displaying incorrectly in Homepage Teaser Boxes

Download The Times Now

Just 12 days after I released The Times, v1.1 is ready for download.

What’s new?

Options Panel:
- Refined and styled to match Thesis
- Category drop-downs
- Footer “Vanity” section

Back-end:
- Featured content slider is smarter and handles video better
- Image slider now supports videos too
- Slimmer code for faster loads
- VivaThumb integration with ALL sub-loop generated images (with caching!)

Front-end:
- 6 Selectable styles
- PSD for drop-line.gif so you can customize further

Bug Fixes
- Several IE7 & IE8 CSS fixes
- Set overflow to hidden on Tabbed Module and Module #2
- Featured content slider would display Video AND Image
- When custom field was set to “video” Thesis would show the video in the Multi-Media box

Don’t forget on Monday we are going to move everything over to ThesisThemes.com – if you already have a log-in there you don’t need to do anything. The Times will show up in your list of available downloads.

Go get your copy now! The Times v1.1

A dirty tricks effort by deniers of global warming shouldn’t detract from the hard science behind the need for the Copenhagen summit opening today to act aggressively to stem dangerous human activity.

Norway’s environment minister called the United Nations climate negotiations starting today in Copenhagen “the most difficult talks ever embarked upon by humanity.” They are also probably the most important; at stake in this gathering of 190 nations intended to draft a successor to the Kyoto Protocol are the future of human civilization and the survival of countless plant and animal species threatened by climate change. Yet even at a time when unity of purpose is crucial, global warming deniers have stepped up their dirty tricks campaign and scored their biggest victory to date.

Hackers last month illegally intercepted hundreds of e-mails from scientists at a prominent British climate research center, a few of which show signs of ethical lapses. In some, researchers discuss withholding data or manipulating them in ways that, the deniers claim, show the scientists hyping the threat of global warming. In others, they discuss boycotting journal editors they believe are too accommodating of the work of climate skeptics. The content of many of these messages has been distorted or taken out of context — for example, one of the correspondents, Pennsylvania State University professor Michael E. Mann, has said he was merely criticizing a journal editor who was notorious for publishing studies that didn’t meet minimal scientific standards. Still, some climate scientists appear to have crossed the line that separates objective observers from advocates, undermining their credibility.

None of this comes close to refuting the decades of research by thousands of scientists providing overwhelming evidence that climate change is happening and is being caused by human activity. The future effects of warming are predicted by computer models, but you don’t need a computer to see the damage already being wrought: accelerating species extinction,vanishing glaciers and killer heat waves, among other problems. A recent study by 26 top researchers showed that Arctic sea ice is melting much faster than predicted, raising fears that sea levels could rise by up to 6 1/2 feet by 2100 unless action is taken. So long, Florida.

The intercepted e-mails are adding decibels to a conservative noise machine that has successfully drowned out more responsible voices in the U.S. Senate, which has been unable to move ahead with a crucial climate bill. The Senate’s failure, in turn, has all but ensured that the Copenhagen talks will produce at best a political agreement on emissions targets and aid to developing nations to help them build clean infrastructure, but no binding treaty. If this continues, the United States won’t just be an international pariah; it will be a menace to humanity.

Reporting from Washington –

On a day when Americans acknowledge military veterans, President Obama said he would honor current service members’ work with a commitment to the “hard work of peace.”

Speaking Wednesday to veterans and their families at a memorial service at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, Obama said that modern military personnel belong in history alongside veterans of “wars whose names have come to define eras.”

“We don’t mark this day each year as a celebration of victory. . . . We mark this day as a celebration of those who made victory possible,” Obama said. Service members fight today, he continued, “in hopes of a day when we no longer need to.”

The president delivered his first Veterans Day address flanked by top military officials and veterans, after laying a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns.

The ceremony began at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, commemorating the armistice ending the major actions of World War I in 1918. Congress later established the date as the holiday.

The anniversary falls at a time of grief for many, as the nation reels from the shooting rampage at Ft. Hood, Texas, last week that left 13 dead and dozens wounded. The U.S. also just marked its bloodiest month in the eight-year war in Afghanistan, a conflict into which Obama may deploy thousands more Americans in the coming months.

The president was somber Wednesday as he recalled his visit to Ft. Hood for a memorial service and talked about the determination he saw in the survivors of the attack.

“In this time of war,” he said, “we gather here mindful that the generation serving today already deserves a place alongside previous generations for the courage they have shown and the sacrifices that they have made.”

For veterans and their families, the president said, there was “no tribute, no commemoration, no praise” that can match the magnitude of their service and sacrifice.

He also said that future veterans would not suffer the neglect and condemnation that greeted many returning from Vietnam.

“When your tour ends,” Obama said to those now serving, “when you touch our soil, you will be home in an America that is forever here for you, just as you’ve been there for us. That is my promise.”

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This is a new event that we hope will help us reach our goal of $2,626,000! As most of you know if we reach our goal the Wiregrass Foundation will give us $400,000 to distribute to our agencies. 100% of that money will go directly to the agencies. Nothing is kept out for administrative

costs. As you can imagine, the agencies need the additional dollars this year more than ever. Please help us spread the word about Pedaling for Pride. If you are interested in riding we have about 5 slots open at different times and would love to have you join one of the three teams. Just contact me and I can schedule you an available time. Also, please encourage people to listen to Kickin’ Country 93.7 on Friday, November 20th.

They will broadcast live for 12 hours from this event! It will be easy to keep up with the amounts raised by our three teams. Thank you for your support of the Wiregrass United Way! Walter Hill Chief Executive Officer Wiregrass United Way Post Office Box 405 Dothan, Alabama 36302 334-792-9661