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The gardener does not love to talk,
He makes me keep the gravel walk;
And when he puts his tools away,
He locks the door and takes the key.
Away behind the currant row
Where no one else but cook may go,
Far in the plots, I see him dig,
Old and serious, brown and big.
He digs the flowers, green, red, and blue,
Nor wishes to be spoken to.
He digs the flowers and cuts the hay,
And never seems to want to play.
Silly gardener! summer goes,
And winter comes with pinching toes,
When in the garden bare and brown
You must lay your barrow down.
Well now, and while the summer stays,
To profit by these garden days,
O how much wiser you would be
To play at Indian wars with me!
Brief Biography from Answers.com:
Stevenson was one of the most-read adventure novelists of the late 1800s. Among his most popular books were Kidnapped (1886), The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), and Treasure Island (1883). The latter book features Stevenson's famous crafty pirate Long John Silver. Stevenson also published a much-loved book of poems, A Child's Garden of Verse (1885). Having suffered from tuberculosis for much of his life, Stevenson spent many years travelling in search of a climate that would suit his illness. He finally settled in Samoa, where he died in 1894 and is buried.
Soil that is lower than 7.0 pH. Acidity is measured by the amount of calcium in the soil. The opposite of acidic soil is alkaline soil.
Deciduous
A tree or plant that loses its leaves at the end of the growing season, such as a maple tree.
Fungus
A primitive, non-vascular, non-photosynthetic form of plant life. Examples include mildews, molds, and mushrooms.
Nematode
A microscopic roundworm that lives in the soil. There are both harmful and beneficial nematodes. Harmful ones take their toll on the roots of the plant.
(001) Color --pictures also-- displayed on your monitor screen, depends on the angle of your screen. Tilt your screen a few degrees up --forward towards you-- or, down --backwards away from you-- a little for best viewing angle --for what appears best on screen to you. The more you tilt the screen back to a more flat position, the darker colors appear, & pictures 'look washed out' or, way off color. The more you tilt the screen up to a more vertical position, the better the viewing. (But don't begin to close the screen lid on your laptop down a little --that makes text almost impossible to read. Keep laptop screen lid vertical, or back just a few degrees.) Sometimes it depends on what you are viewing, or 'what part' of a page you are viewing. This also depends on your distance from the monitor, & the height of the monitor from your eyes. And also depends on the distance the 'left-hand side' of screen, & the 'right-hand side' of screen, is from your eyes --this distance should be equally alike. Also, your sitting posture plays into this, & the type of glasses you wear, --if you need them, & your general current vision status. Adjust the screen for your best viewing angle --for what appears clearest & sharpest to your vision.
(002) The size of a pixel depends on the display resolution of the monitor. For example, suppose someone views your page using a 17-inch monitor at 800 × 600 resolution. The monitor’s size is measured diagonally, so it’s about 13.6 inches wide and 10.2 inches tall. If 10.2 inches high represents 600 pixels, there are about 60 pixels per inch vertically. Therefore, a 15-pixel character height translates into about 1/4 of an inch onscreen. Now suppose the display resolution is 1024 × 768. That means there are about 77 pixels per inch vertically; a 15-pixel character height translates into about 1/5 of an inch onscreen. {p107}
Table 4-1 Common "List-Style-Type" Attribute Values
List Style
Value
Result
Bulleted
disc
Filled circle (the default)
circle
Unfilled circle
square
Filled square
Numbered
decimal
1, 2, 3, 4 (the default)
decimal-leading-zero
01, 02, 03, 04
lower-roman
i, ii, iii, iv
upper-roman
I, II, III, IV
lower-alpha
a, b, c, d
upper-alpha
A, B, C, D
none
(nothing)
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(005) Image resolution is always expressed first in width, then height; 800 x 600 = 800 pixels wide & 600 pixels high. {p143} 2 ways of controlling image size: (a) resize smaller in graphics program, (b) let HTML code do it, --which preserves original photo size, but takes longer to download in a webpage.
(006) Do NOT drink water near computer; do NOT set water bottle near computer & monitor. (Same goes for eating near computer & monitor, I guess.) Oh NO! I spilled some water from my water bottle that I was drinking from onto the keyboard & some of it went onto my monitor. I accidentally hit the bottle & it started to fall over, spilling some water. It is too easy to forget the bottle is there, & knock it over, in which case, it is NOT supposed to be there in the first place. Now the monitor has a "black" spot area at the bottom of the screen --water damaged--, which has grown bigger; hope it does not grow any larger. I did not notice it at first until it had become the size of a coin quarter up from bottom of screen, & about 3 quarters wide. I canNOT "see" anything behind that black spot area; I guess I have ruined that part of the monitor screen. I guess the water got between the screen & the outer case; next time wipe water off of monitor first,... Keyboard seems to be OK; I turned it over to shake out all water that I could that way, then I used a vacuum to suck up the water & to air-dry it at the same time...
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This is struck-through.
Congratulations, you win! (Text blinking)
I had a great time.
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(The old way of doing things...)
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<p>I had a <span style="font-weight: bold">great</span> time.</p>
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When css formatting style rule conflicts occur, they are resolved as follows (from highest priority to
lowest):
(1) Styles applied to individual tags [inline styles within a tag]
(2) Styles applied using an internal style sheet (with highest priority going to the
entries nearest the bottom of that style sheet) [styles in the head area of doc]
(3) Styles applied using an external style sheet (again, with highest priority to
the entries nearest the bottom) [styles "link" to external ".css" doc] {from p100}
An embedded style sheet [those in the head area] takes precedence over an external one [linked in head]...
Furthermore, any tag-specific styles [inline within a tag] you apply take precedence over both embedded and external style sheets. {from p99}
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