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BOSTON -- In his nearly 30 years of operating the Motel Caswell, owner Russell Caswell testified Thursday that he has never been fined, cited, arrested or told he could be in trouble for any third-party drug activity at his Tewksbury motel until 2009 when the federal government suddenly moved to seize his family-owned business under a federal drug-forfeiture law.
"I was surprised," Caswell testified during his federal forfeiture trial in U.S. District Court. "I never had any warning."
In what the Virginia-based Institute for Justice describes as "the most contentious civil forfeiture fight in the nation," the U.S. Attorney's Office has filed a civil lawsuit against Caswell to seize the motel, arguing that it was used for facilitate drug activity. The government has provided about 15 drug incidents -- arrests to an overdose -- over eight years dating from 1994 to 2008. The government argues that Caswell either knew and turned a blind eye or should have known about drug activity on his property and did nothing to try to curb it.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Sonya Rao described the motel as a "dangerous property" in the community.
But lawyers from the Institute for Justice, which is representing Caswell pro bono, have argued that this case is about money. The motel, which has no mortgage, is worth about $1 million. Under the "equitable sharing" process, if federal Magistrate Judge Judith Dein rules in the government's favor, the U.S.
In his closing argument, IJ attorney Scott Bullock described this case as a "breathtaking abuse" of the forfeiture law.
After a four-day, jury-waived trial, Dein took the issue of whether the 57-year-old family-owned motel is subject to the forfeiture law under advisement. She gave both sides three weeks to present written briefs to bolster their arguments before she rules. However, in court on Wednesday, Dein said she had "serious concerns" about the government's case and its interpretation of the law.
Before leaving the federal courthouse Thursday, Caswell said he is "optimistic" about the outcome.
To win the case and subject the motel to forfeiture, the government must show that there was a "substantial connection" between the motel and drug activity, and that Caswell knew or should have known what was going on and failed to take action to stop it.
Caswell testified that he had no knowledge of any drug activity at his motel until after arrests were made. If he saw suspicious activity he would call the police, he said.
"Otherwise, I don't know what else I could do," he said.
Bullock questioned Caswell about whether town officials, police or federal agents ever gave him any warning that drug arrests at the motel might lead to forfeiture?
"Not that I'm aware of," the 69-year-old Tewksbury resident testified. Caswell also testified that at the time police did not give him any recommendations on how to curb drug activity.
Bullock told Dein that the government presented a small number of individual drug cases that were "not part of an ongoing enterprise" and did not have a "substantial connection" to the motel, like a warehouse where drugs were stored. Bullock described Caswell as an "innocent owner" who was unaware of drug activity and should not be subjected to the "draconian penalty of forfeiture."
But in her closing argument, Assistant U.S. Attorney Veronica Lei said Caswell instituted a new customer-registration system that included copying a driver's license and installed a new security camera, after the federal complaint was filed. Too little, too late, she argued.
Lei said the substantial connection was that "users and dealers" were using the motel to use, buy, sell and cook meth, marijuana, crack cocaine, cocaine, heroin, and oxycodone. "The one constant was the Motel Caswell," she said.
As for Caswell's argument that no one ever told him what to do to curb drug activity at the motel, Lei said as a business owner it was Caswell's responsibility to find a way.
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The Voile Split Kit is the economical splitboard remedy for the do-it-yourself backcountry nut.
If you don't have the dinero to throw towards a factory-assembled splitboard and you have confidence in your carpentry skills, the Do-It-Yourself Voile Split Kit is for you. Turn any snowboard into a backcountry gem with the Voile Split Kit. This package includes all the hardware, Universal Slider Tracks and Slider Pins, and step by step instructions to safely split your board—you provide the saw, cajones, and ingenuity. The Split Kit works with nearly any binding and board combination. Enough of boot packing and snowshoes. Get up to speed with the Voile Split Decision Kit.
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Really good DIY kit for the price!!
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
Just saw one of my old powder board and did a split board with the DIY split kit and It was really easy, an "idiot proof" kit. Just follow the instructions that are really clear ( specially with the stickers to drill your holes ) and there you go :) Really don't need to be a pro tech, just follow the instruction and everything should be fine. The regular bindings mounted on the plates ( on the picture) are a little heavy so I bought backcountry bindings instead. A really good kit if you have the time to do it and don't have 2000$ to buy a splitboard :)
Great Kit For Entry Splitboarding
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
Converted my Burton Barracuda into a splitboard using Voile kit. Fairly easy conversion and works great. I would definitely recommend buying splitboard bindings instead of using the clunky plates included. The YouTube video was a great tool to follow along. I would recommend this kit to someone just looking to get into splitboarding for the first time. I'll most likely upgrade to a newer, quicker system in the next season or two.
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Didn't need
- Familiarity: I returned this product before using it
I didn't need all the extra parts in the box for the job. So returned it and bought just the things I needed
Fun Project
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Last winter I split an old Lib Tech deck in half and used the Voile split kit (DIY) to turn that former solid into a backcountry machine. If you plan on doing your own DIY split or looking at a split set up and have questions about what kit or parts to get, contact me with your questions.
For this kit, I used all the parts except for the binding plates and brackets as I used the Voile Light Rail bindings instead.
When you get your bits, definitely get a high quality bit for the t-nut holes. I used a fairly cheap one and wasn't a fan of the quality of each hole.
For cutting I taped the board on the base and top sheet with 2" wide painters tape and created by center line. Then I did things the good ole fashion way and cut that sucker with a hand saw. Couldn't have been happier with how straight the cut turned out.
If you've got any questions about what kit to get or splitboard set ups at all, definitely let me know.
Jared D.
Expert Gearhead
If I use this kit to convert my board, do I also need to buy new bindings? In other words, does this kit include the standard binding hardware?
Great question. This kit includes the binding plates, screws and t-nuts for mounting your resort bindings to the plates to use with your DIY set up.
I am looking to split my Jones Twin Sister into a splitboard for an upcoming trip to the caucasus mountains. I tend to be pretty handy but nervous to undertake the project. What would you say the difficulty level is? And would this kit along with Voile light rail bindings be compatible?
Stood up to the test
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
Put this kit to the test in April. Worked like a charm. Very easy to use and the multi height touring mode is awesome. Only downfall is that it's a bit heavy(which is expected) and one of the pins bent slightly on an ascent and it was near impossible to get it in at the top. Otherwise, no complaints.
For a more detailed account check out my blog post on the Launch Snowboards site: http://www.launchsnowboards.com/blogs/bulletin-board/34180997-a-first-timers-take-on-splitboarding
Is there a limitation about the size of the board I should use? I want to craft a splitboard for my 11 years old son.
Does this kit come with the templates?
This kit does come with templates.
Those templates are for ensuring there is alignment with the pucks and that the toe piece is aligned to each board properly.
Lastly there are templates for mounting the chinese hooks and the voile plastic tip/tail clips.
Shoot me an email anytime you have questions!
Jared D.
Expert Gearhead
Closet boards.
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
I've been thinking about getting my boots in some deep untouched pow for awhile now to see what all the hype is about in the back woods, but didn't want to drop the chedda to get a set up. That was my UT state of mind and what made me spring for this Tim the tool man DIY kit. It's pretty damn cool and a hell of allot cheaper than diving head first into one of those factory split boards after all if you been riding around for years like me we all have some skeletons in the closet collecting dust why not split them? The instructions are easy to follow and everything was there to get me side ways in some fluff but I recommend to have your buddy or an Al on hand as it's allot easier to do with two sets of hands.
Do you use anything to waterproof the screw holes on the top sheet? Do you worry that water will seep in under the bindings and get into the core?
If you're worried about water getting into the core, seal each hole at the top with some poly urethane.
I did my own DIY board a month or two ago, so shoot me an email if you have questions!
Jared D.
Expert Gearhead
800.409.4502 ext 4055
I want to purchase the Rome Double agent...
I want to purchase the Rome Double agent split board off your website, how much of this kit do i need in addition to purchasing the board?
Hey JeanKenney,
If you are buying a factory made splitboard, then you do not need this kit. This is for do it yourself splitboards only. Some of the pieces are the same but it comes with extra parts that you wont need, and the pucks are meant to be permanently mounted and not moved.
For that board you will need the Voile Universal Splitboard Interface.
We are currently sold out of it, however.
Jean, Travis is right.
Its fairly easy to piece together the kit. Especially now that there are other binding options out there.
If you're going to be using regular snowboard bindings mounted to slider plates, You'll need the Puck kit, dual heel risers and touring brackets. And climbing skins.
This time of year they can be hard to find all in one retailer.
You can upgrade to the karakoram binding system which comes with all their parts.
Regardless, splitboarding opens up doors for you. Have fun!!
Time to split!
Split time
Super easy kit. I bought a split board setup, but just needed the connectors for the bindings and such. Nice to have some extra hardware in case I lose or break a clip. :)
Stoked to Split my Favorite Board!!
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
These Kits are so great. I love being able to save a lil Cash by doing it myself & even better I get to split my most Fav Pow board of all time, My 61 Charlie Slasher! The kit works so well & touring is way more fun than I origonally thought it would be. If you're scared to cut your own board, theres a lot of shops and tech's out there that will gladly do it for you. I went with the G3/BC.Com Skins since they had the rear attachments for snowboards. Everybody should have a Splitboard in their Quiver!!
I have a board that is towards the end of...
I have a board that is towards the end of its lifespan, and would like to split it. My question is: If I use this kit and the board eventually dies, can I transfer it over to another board? Or are components permanently attached to the board on installation?
It is totally possible to get the hardwear out after a board has finally seen its last day. Just keep in mind that you may have to do some decent harm to the board to get the gear out safely.
Do some reasearch!!
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
Hey I did a K2 Happy Hour 157.
1st suggestion would be to try use a board with minimal graphic on the bottom, as each peice can be pulled out the edge.
2nd try to find what your core has in it. mine had honey comb stringers where i screwed into which after the first one wasn't the worst but the counter sink ripped up the honey comb if i didn't easy up after I got through the base.
3rd the counter sink they sugguest is perfect size for the t bolt. I demand haha that you use one size bigger. For 2 reasons that the teeth on the T-bolt will grab the base of your board and warp your base, with it being bigger now it has more for the appoxy to bite onto. I suggest J&B weld for the T bolts as J&B will penetrate the metal on the T bolts. Use a poly urethane on the cut edge. do 3-4 coats and sand inbetween.
Buyer Beware
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
I picked these up two seasons ago and built my own split board out of a Burton Burden EST. Yes, EST works as a split. This product delivers everything asked of it, however I would like to warn people that patience and a good knowledge of working with boards is needed. The modifications you will make to your board will require you fix portions of your base and drill precise holes. You don't want to make a mistake and notice it at 7000ft. Also, be aware that if you have 2012 light rails they WILL NOT fit the touring mount and pins that come in this kit. The proper mount and pins should have come with your light rails, however that is not always the case so be aware. This is a great product and is worth it to not spend $1000 on a new board. Enjoy and be precise.
Spencer, you split an EST? please post a picture so that I may reference. I have a burton custom that I would love to split. Thanks.
Voile and Backcountry do not disappoint!
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
Bought this from BC last year while it was on sale. Chopped up my '08 Skate Banana and have already put in a few days this season. If you are familiar with ski/snowboard maintenance, the process will be quick and painless. If you are not as familiar, but would like to give it a shot, don't worry the templates are very straightforward and there are a ton of helpful resources if you hop on Google. I replaced a few of the T-Nuts with Quiver Killers so I didn't have to put extra holes in my already torn up base. The DIY kit is definitely the fastest and cheapest way to get skinning. You can upgrade to universal pucks or split-specific bindings at your own pace and within your own budget. I'm still not entirely sure how to pronounce the name though. . . V O I L E
Split and mount your favorite board!
- Familiarity: I've used it once or twice and have initial impressions
I split and mounted my Signal Rocker Snowboard and it was easy and fun to do with the very informative How To Video located on this page! You can also go to YouTube and type in Voile Split Kit and the Instructional video comes right up! You will need a lot of tools to do this so dig into your dad's garage full of tools and get splitting! The mounts are super easy to put on with the sticker templates that tell you exactly where to drill. Can't wait to try out my newly split board out in the mountains of PC, BCC, and LCC in Utah!
Tricky Instructions, Cool product
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
I loved this kit because I got to pick the best board for the conditions and then make it myself rather than settle for the premade splitboards. The instructions were not clear but you can figure it out if you have some basic knowledge of how a splitboard set up works. I used get rot (a marine wood treatment) instead of spar urethane because it seeps into the wood and is much much more water proof. I also used a mill to cut my board so that it fit together perfectly. I would highly recommend watching the you tube videos on how to use this split kit. Also the setup was much heavier than my normal setup and it felt different when riding so I had to take the first run to get used to everything. I wish I would have tried my board out at a resort a bit so I could get the feel of it because it was tricky to ride a pretty difficult run, after hiking, on a foreign setup.
Got an old board? Rip it in half
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
This kit killed it. If you have some basic skills with tools and an old board you can make yourself a split. It's pretty easy to figure out especially with the videos below. It took me about a week start to finish until I was skinning up on this thing. I cut an old Burton board with a 3 hole system with a Diablo Demo circular blade. Make sure you know exactly where you want to mount your bindings, because once you drill the holes to mount the pucks thats where they will need to go. Take the time to measure everything a couple times, you'll be grateful you did when it's done. The plates to mount your bindings are great for riding any 4x4 binding you have but they add a lot of weight and lift your binders off the board. Not a huge deal. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or want to talk about DIY.
Hi Travis. I'm about to split my old never summer and noticed that the instructions only mention using epoxy on the base. How do you seal the hardware on the top sheet to prevent water from getting into the core?

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Question:Does menopause change insulin sensitivity, and what about hormone replacement therapy after menopause?
Answer:You know menopause occurs in all women, we hope, if they live long enough, and it's ultimately going to modify insulin sensitivity very little.
The change in insulin sensitivity that does occur probably doesn't relate as much to the female hormones that are now lower, but probably relates to some extent to the body fat redistribution; in other words, women tend to put more fat on after the menopause, and they tend to put it more centrally around the abdomen. And if insulin resistance does occur within menopause, that's probably a better explanation than not having estrogens and progestin on a cyclic basis.
Now the issue of hormone replacements is a little more complicated, because for a long time it was fairly automatic to put a woman on female hormones after the menopause even if symptoms were not present. But today, the more recent evidence would suggest that women probably shouldn't take female hormones after the menopause unless her symptoms are severe; and those symptoms could be hot flashes, or pain with intercourse, or perhaps women that have a low bone mass, it might be giving an indication for female hormones to prevent osteoporosis.
However, I think what we're seeing now with even more recent data, is that women who start female hormones closer to the menopause may not incur the same risk for heart attack and stroke or other clotting disorders, as women who start the female hormones say a decade or longer after the menopause.
So, this is an area that you need to work carefully with your physician about to determine whether you should be on female hormones, and ultimately what type of regimen is best for you.
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Published: 2013/03/27
by Samuel Martin
Another Take on Small Fires
The Stone Foxes
Small Fires
Small Fires? This record must be hot.
A lot has changed for the Stone Foxes since their last album which many considered at the time to be their breakout effort, Bears and Bulls. Three years later, now with a keyboardist, the Stone Foxes went into the studio with producer Doug Boehm (The Vines, Dr. Dog) and put together their tightest and most unrestricted record yet.
The album stays true to the bands blues-rock sound with Spence Koehler leading most songs with raw and coarse guitar riffs yet the composure is different and has evolved in such a manner that tracks such as "Talk To Louise" softly gets stuck in your head after one listen. The album flows from one song to another with seamless precision which becomes infectiously obvious. The drumming, singing, harp playing and all around dimension that is Shannon Koehler commands gravity. He drives the rhythm throughout, shinning in true drum-rock form, noticeably on heavy and hard hitting tracks like "Cotto" and title track "Small Fires". All the while Rhodes/keyboardist Elliott Peltzman is the unmistakable element, hidden ingredient that was previously missing from earlier albums. Peltzman, whether at a show or on this record adds a noticeable layer that is a must have. Meanwhile the bass lines and harmonies created by Aaron Mort envelope the listener in a earthquake of sonic precision. His artistry is clear, on an album full of distortion, he is a rock of clarity; one that every record needs.
Where their last album set the bar high during the so-called resurgence in alt-blues rock, Small Fires shows how the right amount of production, Boehm is masterful, years of touring and a penchant for crossing those invisible musical boundaries is exactly what's necessary to deliver on perfection. If you want to be rocked awake in a world where most stand happily asleep in their musical boots, I say with certainty that Small Fires will awaken within you and burn itself into your soul. And as a band and you want to be "King Bee", this album is a San Francisco treat indeed.


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CARDS Club Takes Off
NEW BREMEN — In response to Rachel's Challenge and the findings of a survey last year, a new club has formed at New Bremen High School to give students an avenue to make the school a place for everyone.
Students at New Bremen High School attended an assembly Friday afternoon to learn about the new opportunity.
"We explained the reasons for starting it (the club) — the Rachel's Challenge assembly last May being kind of the emphasis for it, but that's not solely it," New Bremen High School Principal Brian Pohl told The Evening Leader. "The students also did a survey last year called 'My Voice,' and that survey was like a social norm survey to get kids' perspectives and compare that to what teachers' perspectives are."
The survey revealed that students felt there was not a place for everyone.
"We took that survey and one of the things that kids said was that they didn't feel that there was a place for every kid and some felt that, like in every high school, there are cliques or groups here, but not every kid was being represented in those groups in a beneficial manner," Pohl said.
Pohl worked with a group of teachers to form CARDS Club.
"Five teachers and myself started creating an outline for what we wanted, and we created CARDS Club, which stands for the Caring Attitude Respect Discipline and Service Club," Pohl said.
The teachers are hoping the students will take the lead in the club and drive it in the direction they see fit.
"What we really want is for the kids to take this bull by the horns and run it themselves, and we hope that their ideas for creating a school climate that they want here will lead to the activities that we do," Pohl said.
In addition to providing a way for students to change their school, CARDS Club will also provide students a way to earn service hours.
"There also is a service learning component that we want to have be a part of it because we do have groups from time to time that either need some volunteers or kids that are looking for ways to pad their resumes or applications and they want to list volunteer activities," Pohl said.
"We're hoping the CARDS Club can be a segue between the community and the students here to create those opportunities."
He noted a goal of the group is to be one that is open to every student.
"We want it to be a thing where any kid can come at any time for any reason, and we hope to do some fun things with it as well as offer some service learning opportunities and whatever else the kids may come up with," Pohl said.
The first monthly CARDS Club meeting will be held on Thursday, and Pohl said the students will dictate the club's next steps.
"We'll see who shows up and who has interest and we'll take it from there," he said.
"The five teachers are going to be the guides, but the kids are going to run it and they're going to have the teachers there to facilitate. The kids will get out of it what they put into it."
Pohl said he is interested to see what the students do with CARDS Club.
"We want to see where kids take this," he said. "They were the emphasis for starting this due to the 'My Voice' survey and them saying they wanted something they felt they could share what they need or expect at the school here, and we've tried to give them an avenue to do that. We're hoping they'll take that and run with it with a little direction from the adults in the building."


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Patterns for Communication, Moderation, and Information Processingby Daniel H. Steinberg
We're finding patterns everywhere. Clay Shirky talks about patterns of moderation strategy, Jon Udell makes recommendations for those of us seeking attention, and George Dyson helps us understand the present by looking back at Von Neumann (DTF 04-03-2006: 31 minutes 05 seconds)
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1:25 Attention-Focussing Strategies
Jon Udell's Wednesday morning keynote at ETech talked about strategies you can adopt for helping people understand what you are trying to tell them in your blog, email, and other communications. When you ask someone for their attention, you should take a moment to make it clear what they will get in return. The solution could be as simple as a clear subject line in a threaded newsgroup. You can download presentations and see more media coverage on the Emerging Technology conference site. (8:30)
9:55 "Shut Up!" "No, You Shut Up!"
Clay Shirky continued the morning with an introduction to a pattern language he's been developing for moderation strategies. Even sites that have taken Slashdot's software have not been as successful at replicating that site's success. Shirky takes a step back and looks at some of the patterns that have made Slashdot and other sites work so well. (13:00)
22:55 Turing's Cathedral
In this portion of George Dyson's talk, he looks at the digital universe that Von Neumann delivered. Instead of merely modeling the existing universe, Dyson explains, these computers helped create a new universe. (7:20)
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If you had one week to explore Michigan what would you do? It's a tough question considering all that the state has to offer but we tackled it just the same. For those visiting Michigan or those looking to discover new destinations here is a bucket list sure to keep you busy during the week. Check one off and move on, or enjoy each Michigan adventure at your leisure.
Observe nature via train and riverboat tour
If you live in Michigan, chances are you've heard of Tahquamenon Falls, but did you know it is part of Tahquamenon Fall State Park? A hidden gem, the park encompasses close to 52,000 acres of undeveloped woodlands, streams and river making it the ideal summer destination for photographers, artists, hikers, bird watchers and even families on vacation.
There are two modern campgrounds (Lower Falls) and a rustic campground (Rivermouth) but what really makes this spot an adventure is the all day tour that includes a train ride and riverboat cruise, out of Soo Junction.
On the historical and wilderness tour, passengers enjoy a six hour train ride that winds its way from Soo Junction, through the Upper Michigan's wilderness (habitat to bear, deer, bald eagles and many other animals and birds) to Tahquamenon Falls. Once there passengers climb aboard a riverboat that takes them on a 21 mile narrated cruise along the pristine river to the rapids a half-mile above the Upper Tahquamenon Falls.
Passengers are entertained with a commentary by the riverboat's captain, about the river's history, Indian lore and points of interest. There's a stopover, allowing passengers to hike through virgin forest to view the mighty falls. Then they board the boat for the return trip to the waiting train and ride back to Soo Junction.
Cost: $45 adults; $29 ages 9 through 15; $20 youth ages 4 through 8; free for children age 3 and younger.
The Toonerville Trolley departs the station promptly at 10:30 a.m. and returns at 5 p.m. Food, beverages and restrooms available on board. A second, shorter tour also is offered by the family-owned and operated company (since 1927). For information and reservations, visit - www.superiorsights.com/toonerville/index.html


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If you go
• Sublime with Rome
• 8 p.m. Saturday, July 12
• Sound Board in the MotorCity Casino Hotel, 2901 Grand River Ave., Detroit
• Tickets are $31.50-$38
• Call 866-782-9662 or visit www.soundboarddetroit.com
It's been five years since Rome Ramirez made the gutsy move to join Sublime, stepping into the formidable frontman spot once occupied by his late idol Bradley Nowell.
But after plenty of touring an album, 2012's "Yours Truly," Ramirez says Sublime with Rome feels like its own entity.
"I think one of the main differences is I'm not new to the band standing next to my idols anymore," says Ramirez, 26, who also works as a solo artist and has written and produced for Enrique Iglesias, Jason Derulo and Dirty Heads. "We've all laughed and cried and been in pain and gone to the hospital with each other now. We're a lot closer than we've ever been — Eric (Wilson) and I, especially.
"I feel like now it's just a lot more of an honest approach where both of us feel a lot more comfortable putting aside our weakness and differences and really just trying to create something all new together. It feels fresh and new, which is great."
Ramirez says Sublime plans to hit the studio in November to work on its next album, while his new solo set, "Get Free," is scheduled for release in August. Meanwhile, the group made news in June when it was busted for smoking marijuana during a radio festival in Tucson — at the request of headliner Linkin Park. The incident was widely reported on social media — to the detriment of Linkin Park, which disavowed responsibility despite police reports to the contrary — though Ramirez things it's much ado about nothing.
"I just thought it was funny, man," he says now. "Y'know, the first thing they teach you in the music business is when it comes to social media and things like that, don't respond, dude. But they did, and then they lied, and when you do that you're labeled a liar.
"I think it got really blown out of proportion, to be honest. I don't think they deserved the wrath they got. They're nice guys; they just could've handled the situation a little better."


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Another holiday season is over. Trees are out by the curb, leftovers are a distant memory and most of the holiday lights have been taken down and put away for another year.
But then there�s the issue of incorporating all the new gifts received into the same overcrowded space that existed before the holidays.
The solution? Clean it up and clear it out.
It�s never been easier. Today�s options include hosting a yard sale, selling on eBay and listing items on Craigslist, a free classified ad website.
Paul Michael, senior writer for the Los Angeles-based website WiseBread: Living Large on a Small Budget, said he has great luck purging his unwanted items while discovering amazing finds using Craigslist and other online tools.
�In the past, I have used Craigslist to buy items that I could not find via conventional methods,� Michael said. �There is a site called adhuntr.com that lets you search every Craigslist site in America, and even the world. I found some great, rare collectibles that way. I�ve also used Craigslist to buy and sell used baby gear, often making back the same money that I spent. So in effect, I spent nothing on things like baby swings, high chairs, cribs and so on. The same goes for exercise equipment and many other things we need. Buy used, sell when done, the margins are incredible.�
Michael has since compiled a list of nine tips to help others be successful using the popular site:
�I made the list because I noticed some frustrations with some sellers and buyers, and they could all be sorted out if they just knew how to be a good seller,� he said. �I think when people obey these rules, they get a much better experience out of it. Of course, there will always be bad apples to ruin the bunch, but if you are careful, you should be fine.�
Michael likes the ease of Craigslist.
�It�s a fantastic way to reach a large number of potential buyers, or sellers, in one quick and easy post,� he said. �And when you need extra money quick, it�s very easy to list something you don�t need and sell it.�
Making some extra cash, or getting a bargain is great, but safety should always come first. Unlike eBay, where one-on-one meetings are unlikely, or a populated garage sale, Craigslist has an element of risk.
�It�s not usually a problem on low-end items, but even then, take precautions when meeting anyone whom you don�t know,� Michael said. �If you are having them come to your home, don�t be alone if you can avoid it. Size them up if you have to let them in, for a piece of furniture or something like that. If you are meeting someone, try to take a friend with you. If it�s for a large item, like a car, you need to take extra precautions. People have been robbed when showing up to buy a car, which was merely bait for a trap. Others have had cars stolen. My best advice is to email back and forth, call if you can, and maybe even do a little Googling on the person if you�re unsure. Remember, when in doubt, always back out.�
Another way to shed some unwanted goods, in a more arm�s-length way, is through eBay Inc., an American multinational Internet consumer-to-consumer corporation, headquartered in San Jose. Inland Valley resident Debbie Carter has been an eBay merchant since 2001 and says though she loves her work, it�s not as easy as it may look.
�Ebay is not rocket science, but it is very, very time consuming, if you do it right,� wrote Carter in an email interview.
Included in Carter�s process is finding the right stuff, taking pictures, writing listings, figuring in the shipping, answering questions from potential buyers, packing sold items and going to the post office up to six days a week.
Carter started slowly, just wanting to get rid of a few things.
�I used to restore dolls and some toys and resell them with the Kiwanis Club four times a year,� she wrote. �After that ended, I started selling off things I didn�t need anymore. Then, when we lost my father-in-law in 2003 (we lost mom-in-law in 1999), I started selling some of their more collectible items. I was working full time at the time, so it was a lot of late nights and all weekend. Right now I sell whatever I think will sell.�
Carter is rated as a Power Seller and a Top Seller.
�That means that I have excellent feedback and sell a lot,� she said. �It also means I sell at a decent price. Doesn�t mean I make a bunch of money.�
Carter explained eBay charges several fees including a listing fee, a percentage of the sale price and a percentage of the shipping cost. If PayPal is used to collect payment, there will be another fee based on the sale price.
�It�s not free and it�s not cheap, but eBay still has the biggest market presence out there. Amazon is a close second,� she said.
�Making a career out of eBay was a fluke,� she wrote. �Most people do it to supplement incomes. Most sellers are not professionals. You need to have a lot of patience. Even one negative feedback can ruin your record (depending on how much you sell every month). The lower your feedback percentage rating, the lower on the search you are. Someone types in �Disney Toy Story bank� in the eBay search engine � dozens of pages can come up of sellers selling those. If your record is good, you are on the first few pages.�
A few things Carter believes important for every eBay seller include:
�If you cannot prove it got there, you will have to either send another, or do a full refund,� she said.
A yard sale is the more traditional and oldest form of clearing out home and garage.
Beverly Hills-based Century 21 Yarrow & Associates Realtor Diona Miller has aided many such sales and has compiled a list of tips to turn anyone�s castoffs into cash.
Of course if selling is not your thing there are plenty of charitable organizations that will gladly accept donations, and several offer curbside pickups. And if parting with books is just too difficult, mailing them to a family member has never been cheaper with the U.S. Postal Service�s Media Mail rate.
So no more excuses. Make 2014 the year of clutter-free living.


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THE TALK's Aisha Tyler was a guest on Andy Cohen's WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE on Thursday night and was asked about being given the wrong envelope when presenting at last month's Daytime Emmy Awards.
"They've never given out the wrong envelope in the history of the Emmy Awards, ever," Tyler explained. "I have to say they did me a favor. Thank God they gave it to me and not one of the poor soap stars who only knows what to say when someone's handed them a page on a script. I'm not trying to hate. Ooooh, that was hate-y."
You can watch the segment in the clip below (at around the 9:30 mark):
As a producer of the annual Indie Soap Awards in New York, I have sent many a "poor soap star" on stage and told them to "wing it" and they've always performed brilliantly. As an example, this year I asked ONE LIFE TO LIVE's Hillary B. Smith to fill in at the last minute presenting the final award of the night, and closing the show with AS THE WORLD TURNS star Martha Byrne. Her instructions were something to the effect of, "you'll walk out with Martha, announced the Drama winner, then ad-lib an introduction of bubbles filling the theater." It was perfect. Speaking of Martha, she pretty much ad-libbed her through the entire 2nd Annual ISAs back in 2011, and it was fabulous and hilarious.
I don't think Aisha had any ill intentions but since her talk show has supported the soap world so much, it was disappointing that this thought about soap stars popped into her head (and out of her mouth) on WWHL.


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i pulled my maf to clean it and see if it helps i have it out but dont know how i should clean it or with what.
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what should i clean my maf with?
Started by seth3030 , Jun 23 2009 02:27 PM
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Posted 23 June 2009 - 02:27 PM
Posted 23 June 2009 - 02:33 PM
Go to your local auto parts store and ask for MAF cleaner. It's a spray can, specifically for cleaning an MAF.
i pulled my maf to clean it and see if it helps i have it out but dont know how i should clean it or with what.
Posted 23 June 2009 - 02:36 PM
ha ha makes sense, guessing carb cleaner wont work then
Posted 23 June 2009 - 03:30 PM
It's easy to damage a MAF. Although there are some carb cleaners that claim to be ''MAF safe'', you're better off with a cleaner that's specifically for MAFs. Even so, be gentle when you work.
Posted 23 June 2009 - 03:47 PM
MAF cleaner is the recommended thing to clean the maf with CRC makes it i believe on the shelf next to the engine degreaser, PBBlaster, and stuff we usually go in for. Pricey stuff and it takes quite bit of it, want to be thorough
Posted 23 June 2009 - 04:14 PM
Pricey stuff and it takes quite bit of it, want to be thorough
but way cheaper than a new MAF.
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Modern Day Powell Crosley he is
It cannot be understated how great Bob Castellini has been for the city of Cincinnati and the Reds organization. I don't know if I would choose anyone else to own this team, to be honest.
Benzinger backing and calling! And the 1990 world championship series belongs to the Cincinnati Reds!
I can't wait until they build the "deck". That will be the icing on the cake for Cincy's downtown.
What if this is as good as it gets?
I'm glad the Banks is being developed, but I've been pretty underwhelmed with the results thus far. There's a lot of wasted space in the development, and the restaurants / bars they've brought in (with the notable exception of the Moerlein Lager House) have all been pretty uniformly mediocre.
It's a pity no one with real vision spearheaded development right from the start.
Cincinnati Here We Go.
26 Years and Counting...
A) The development is still ongoing with the addition of some other great restaurants.
B) The article indicates that the first phase was completed without much financial support, so it got done without much adornment. That additional stuff is likely to follow and make it all cohere better.
I think there needs to be a really signature addition at some point in the next 5-10 years. something visually appealing and memorable on the order slightly beneath the space needle, millennium park, or stl arch, but still iconic. A major art piece that makes all the brochures and is a photo opp. I think the capping of the highway could provide the space for this, or perhaps the phase 2 area. I just don't know what kind of pride or energy would be represented, but it's got to be fun. Anyway, I'm off topic.
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Interesting, I hadn't heard that.
This is an email from last year regarding the USS Cincinnati mentioned above.
Thank you for your comments on the park.
As to a time frame for the USS Cincinnati installation at the park, there is none. Proponents who would like to see this feature placed in the park need to raise funding for the design and installation of the "sail" from the submarine as well as raise operating funds to maintain it. We would also need Hamilton County to make the property available to us to build this. Our plan has identified a site within the park where the facility would go in a future phase and we would welcome it – contingent on the funding and the property being available.
Steven Schuckman
Superintendent, Planning, Design & Facilities
Cincinnati Parks
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Wear gaudy colors, or avoid display. Lay a million eggs or give birth to one. The fittest shall survive, yet the unfit may live. Be like your ancestors or be different. We must repeat!
I've eaten at Crave twice and it was outstanding. As was Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. Calling either of those "mediocre" is a stretch and borderline snobbish.
Toby Keith's isn't at all my style, but judging from the long lines to get in on weekends, it looks to be doing fine.
Frankly, The Banks will continue to be chain-heavy because of the crowds it attracts, and that's fine. Cities do have more tourist-friendly destinations that are popular with the chains. Look at Times Square in NYC, 16th Street Mall in Denver, Universal City in Orlando, etc.
There is literally no shortage of unique, local restaurants all throughout downtown and OTR for you to go to if that interests you more. Heck, in OTR alone, you have Kaze, Bakersfield, Senate, Pho Lang Thang, Nicola's, A Tavola, Abigail Street, Taste of Belgium, Anchor, Park + Vine, Quan Hapa, etc., with more on the way ... And there are endless local restaurants in downtown and Mount Adams also. So there is room for the type of places that are flocking to The Banks. Let it be.
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After reading that, as a Kentuckian I feel the need to say "The Banks sucks, go to Newport on the Levy. It Rocks!"
What if this is as good as it gets?
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"It remains to be seen whether Microsoft waited too long to try to influence basic parts of the spec that most of their competitors have already adopted."
Whatever Microsoft decides to implement is going to become a defacto standard.
It's the sad but true result of still significant share of the browser market.
Whatever Microsoft decides to implement is going to become a defacto standard.
It's the sad but true result of still significant share of the browser market.
Their market share is crumbling away year upon year, and this is despite new PCs coming with IE pre-installed and the default option. People are choosing to get an alternative. Factor in most browsing stats are from slackers on their work PCs, not home machines. HTML5 will not be targeted to people avoiding doing work at the office.
MS are about to be forced to offer a choice of browsers in other world markets, you can bet IE is going to take a hammering from that.
Most web devs don't give a hoot about IE specifics unless they're a doze only shop, few even bother with IE6 support any more unless contractually obliged to do so. If MS want to keep relevant, they are going to have to adhere to published specs. Their silly games of subtly breaking things to make devs code to IE is slowly coming to an end.
Factor in most browsing stats are from slackers on their work PCs, not home machines.
Usage patterns vary a lot among countries, but the general trend is: IE usage drops on weekends, Fx usage climbs on weekends.
This is something Opera could actually push quite much via other countries. Opera has 40-60% marketshare in CIS countries [opera.com], better than both FF and IE. They push the support for HTML5 and its new tags there and CIS websites adopt it (cyrillic language differences make it so that most people use local websites instead of US ones). IE and FF also has to start supporting the same to get marketshare there, and bam: you have the support elsewhere too. And they can also start supporting it on Wii, Mobile Phones and other accessories they make web browsers too. People usually underestimate the power of Opera because of their smaller marketshare (in US home PC's).
Funny that supporting Opera is nothing more than supporting W3C standards and give up 1990s lame tricks like browser sniffing. Same goes for Apple Safari (Webkit), Firefox.
It is not extra work, it is what they (webmasters) should be doing at first place.
You should sniff for the Gecko version rather then Firefox. I run Seamonkey (Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:126.96.36.199pre) Gecko/20090802 SeaMonkey/2.0b2pre) which uses the same browser code as Firefox.
I hate it when a site doesn't display or use features because I'm not running Firefox or tells me to update to Firefox.
As much as I hate people browser sniffing, I do however think Opera has the easiest way to do so: if (window.opera) {}; I guess they needed to add it, as it came with a browser-string-selection-menu-item.
You should just ask what the browser can do rather than the browser name. That is the number 1 issue.
Apple has put some great information regarding capabilities detection, it can be applied to any browser not just Safari/Webkit.
http://developer.apple.com/Internet/webcontent/objectdetection.html [apple.com]
(no account etc. needed)
It's what every decent webmaster has already done, right before starting to make their new site backwards compatible with the latest IE.
Factor in most browsing stats are from slackers on their work PCs, not home machines.
Usage patterns vary a lot among countries, but the general trend is: IE usage drops on weekends, Fx usage climbs on weekends.
Wow! That's a fascinating site.
Try looking at each country. Opera has a large usage share in places like Russia and Zimbabwe and in China IE is actually climbing. Some countries are almost exclusively MS shops such as Greenland.
Opera actually has major marketshare in Russia and CIS countries [opera.com]. They're the major player there, and IE and FF strugling behind. The usual marketshare statistics almost always just count US or major EU countries, ignoring everything else and it gives false statistics because they ignore almost half of the world's people.
What I find quite interesting is that those CIS countries have found the best alternative browser, even in general population. Maybe theres some intelligence to catch up in usa?
I do not know why Opera is so popular in Russia (and CIS / ex-USSR / Eastern Europe), but let me make a guess.
Computers came to Eastern Europe much later than in the West, and PCs later still. When they did appear, they triggered the same effect that was previously seen in the West, however - the birth and spread of the "hacker" culture among those susceptible to it. People tinkered with machines, found interesting hacks and ways around limitations, and so on.
The difference was that all this happened on PCs. There were no PDPs or similar machines (they were there earlier, but not in sufficient quantities, and never as accessible as in Western universities). Thus, the first generation raised on DOS, and the second saw the migration to Windows.
This resulted in an unusually high concentration of DOS/Win power users in those countries. And when Internet, and later the browser wars, came, that situation still persisted - most computer users in Russia were still mostly in the "power user" category by Western standards. Because of that, animosity towards IE was a very early phenomenon, and predated the appearance of today's common alternatives such as Mozilla or Firefox (some people have stubbornly stuck to NN, but it was clearly inferior). So, at that time, Opera was the only reasonable alternative. It actually worked, it was fast, and it had lots of nifty features that IE wouldn't see for years to come (such as MDI, which was a precursor to tab browsing).
One minor thing there was that Opera isn't free. But in Russia in particular, the software culture had long been centered around using pirated software, often distributed from friend to friend. In fact, you could get odd looks by using licensed software at home ("Where does this guy get so much money to waste it on stuff that everyone else gets for free?"), and many people didn't even understand the concept of licensed commercial software and pirating - as far as they were concerned, if you could copy it, then surely it is okay to do so. And so, the price of Opera simply never entered into equation.
Not quite. What happens is IE usage drops on weekends, and Firefox usage drops a little less on weekends. The net effect is that graphs of usage *share* behave as you described.
People are choosing to get an alternative
True, but I think they'll always be a large set of users who will never move away from what is installed be default - you need to target PC manufacturers to get these people off IE.
Still, it's going to be a long time yet before IE6 *finally* dies
Still, it's going to be a long time yet before IE6 *finally* dies
Far too long... We'll still be dealing with IE6 when IE7 is dead. (Look at the stats, IE8 is very quickly supplanting IE7, but IE6 is still only slowly dropping.)
Most web devs don't give a hoot about IE specifics unless they're a doze only shop, few even bother with IE6 support any more unless contractually obliged to do so.
Now, if we can get the webdev software developers to pay attention to strict specifications (Dreamweaver, I'm looking at you), we can see the browser makers paying attention to standards.
Whatever Microsoft decides to implement is going to become a defacto standard.
No, the real standards will be used properly. They'll just be surrounded by ugly hacks to make sure the page renders properly in Internet Explorer.
And, that is exactly where the REST of the world is screwing up. We (meaning all the world outside of Redmond) need to set the standard, then comply with it. If/when pages don't render in IE, we need to shrug, and say, "So what?" IT IS NOT THE WORLD'S PROBLEM when MS chooses to break things. Ballmer wants to throw a chair, few of us notices, and even fewer give a damn. Ballmer wants to break IE, I don't notice, and I don't give a damn. Why does anyone else?
The correct procedure for website design, would be to test the site in FF, Opera, Safari, and/or any other standards compliant browser, and say you're done. Don't even TRY to load it in IE. If it loads, fine, if not, tough. If/when someone complains, just tell that individual that the page renders perfectly in any standards compliant browser, and that they should get one.
It is not the rest of the world's responsibility to "fix" MS screw ups.
No, it's not the rest of the world's responsibility to fix IE.
It is a web developer's job to ensure that a website works for its users. I agree it'd be nice to give IE users the finger, but for the vast majority of business cases, it's nowhere near realistic.
You can either have software quality or you can have pointer arithmetic, but you cannot have both at the same time
You know, it is funny how pointer arithmetic always gets the blame. I have debugged tons of C++ code, and the pointer errors are nearly always one of null pointer derefence or access through invalid (now deleted or otherwise outdated) pointers/iterators. I have seen errors with pointer arithmetic, but they have been rare. Which is probably why checked pointer arithmetic (possible within the stand ard) has never caught on. I wonder why that bit is blamed? Because it is poorly understood, perhaps?
Indeed. As a former debugger developer I used to highlight this particular issue -- we even had a trade show cut-out figure named Bugsy Malone who was wanted for assaulting a global with a deadly pointer. (Hey, it gave the geeks a smile and the suits didn't know what it meant.)
However, as a developer I would say that bad pointers were at most 1% or 2% of our problems, if that. Non-thread-safe threaded code and leaked memory were much bigger issues at the time (1980's).
The MSIE market share has been failing in big numbers lately. I wouldn't be so certain that the old truth is the same as the new truth.
That said, it is undeniable that MS will embrace and extend in ways that will break everyone else's implementation. One expectation is that they will implement the video functionality that, while officially removed from the HTML5 standard, will be implemented by everyone anyway. With that said, they will implement one of THEIR codecs that will not work "without a license." There is plenty of room for typical MS shenanigans when implementing HTML5, but you can bet they will not score any higher than 30 on the HTML5 acid test and that will be by design.
But if Microsoft's browser dominance falls below 50% any time soon, all bets are off -- they will not be able to afford to pull off a non-standard browser too well because the perception will then be "still broken" as web developers are increasingly free to build web sites using standards instead of MSIE idiosyncrasies in mind.
The fact is, it is getting increasingly popular to "rebel" against Microsoft right now. My prediction is that Microsoft will try and will fail in playing their "old game" and are in less of a position to change the rules as they have in the past.
More likely, they will just drop it. Why should they deliver a standards compliant browser? Might as well use Gecko, KHTML or one of its forks.
The video/audio tags have NOT been removed, their just wasn't a consensus on what codecs should be used, thus their is nothing specified about the codecs in the specs. You know what, that's exactly the same as for example the image-tag.
... the video functionality that, while officially removed from the HTML5 standard, will be implemented by everyone anyway...
I really don't know where this urban legend started and why people believe it, since it's trivial to verify that <video> has never been removed from HTML5 [whatwg.org].
What has been (hopefully temporary) removed is the mention of Ogg Theora as baseline format since Apple and Microsoft haven't yet accepted to implement it (Safari supports it anyway with the XiphQT component [xiph.org] installed). OTOH, Mozilla, Google and Opera all support Ogg Theora (and Vorbis for audio) in their browsers (current of future versions), so ap
Microsoft is on their way to miss the train. If they hadn't been catching up at all the web would have been running away from them and out of their control. They think that Silverlight is the solution to everything, but in reality it isn't.
That they finally takes interest means that they have started to worry about losing their advantage. And things can go extremely fast if someone succeeds in a solution that is the next killer app.
Unless the established internet starts to roll against them. Youtube has already publicly dropped support for IE6. If the video tag of HTML5 is 25% more efficient than flash and can save them a bundle on bandwidth, I imagine they'd drop flash.
All it takes is a few big sites like YouTube, Facebook, and Gmail to say "We want HTML5, and we want it to work right." And anyone that comes along with a non-compliant browser gets pointed towards Safari, Chrome, Opera, or Firefox. IE9 will either adapt or die.
They will just "extend" the standard and call all other implementations broken.
That's not so easy anymore; they have a fight against Google, Apple, the EU, Mozilla's momentum, etc.
For evidence, just look at their silverlight [youtube.com] adoption rates.
They already call XHTML 1.0 strict sites broken under IE 8. They cite "errors on the page" with yellow "!".
They cite "errors on the page" with yellow "!".
Ah Microsoft, with their silent/invisible "rendering by this browser" after the word "page".
The usual journalistic nightmare of a summary.
They did not call header and footer arbitrary or unnecessary. They questioned the implementation as to validity for printing.
They did call aside arbitrary as well as section.
From reading the post, I see a lot of good insights into what might be an overly-cluttered and, in places, badly written standard. While there is always an element of Microsoft playing their own games, this does raise valid questions.
Indeed, I completely agree with the comment about security risks of the bb tag, and indeed consider the suggested alternative better.
They could have raised these complaints a long time ago. There is a process for this and they chose to ignore it.
They would propose Windows only VC-1 to Video element, they would ask for "Windows style" development support, they would give up (!) some patents to W3C and give "community promise" or some junk when asked if they really mean it...
They aren't fun to watch anymore, we learned all their tricks thanks to their puppets/trojan coders in open source community.
This *is* the process for this. The HTML 5 spec is not even remotely close to being done. "Too late" does not apply.
This *is* the process for this. The HTML 5 spec is not even remotely close to being done. "Too late" does not apply.
Yes, it is. We're _already_ past the original target date for the release of the candidate specification (which was slated for June 09, according to the HTML working group's home page). AFAICT the latest plan was to have development of the spec wrapped up within the next month or two. Development began over 2 years ago. So I'd say "close to being done" is a fairly accurate assessment. Subst
They did call aside arbitrary as well as section.
I don't see what's supposed to be arbitrary about section and aside. They add structure and accessibility.
The summary seems reasonable to me, if a little brief. Addressing your specific comments:
They did not call header and footer arbitrary or unnecessary. They questioned the implementation as to validity for printing.
About these tags (among others), they said: "It's not clear why these new elements in particular are necessary." This implies that they see them as unnecessary, and question why the particular set was chosen (i.e. that they consider the set arbitrary). "Arbitrary and unnecessary" is a perfectly reasonable summary of the sentiment of this sentence.
The printing issue is probably secondary; they are no better or worse for printing than the div/span tags that MS appear to prefer.
Basically the point MS seem to be making is that they see little value in standardizing the semantic markup of these (and other) elements. They appear to be approaching it from a rather limited perspective of browser implementation (whether traditional or of the screen-reader type), without considering that there may be other ways of processing the documents in question where the new tags make a lot more sense.
From reading the post, I see a lot of good insights into what might be an overly-cluttered and, in places, badly written standard. While there is always an element of Microsoft playing their own games, this does raise valid questions.
I don't see that. WHATWG had good reasons for including the tags they chose as semantic markup that extend beyond browser implementation concerns, and MS seem to be ignoring those reasons (which are well documented in the mailing list archives). There are one or two comments that make some sense (the date/time input field concern, that the format of date specifications passed as attributes to the tag does not allow specification of a timezone, is somewhat serious, and a lot of what they're saying about the application installation feature makes sense), but overall the impression I get is that they've failed to see the bigger picture.
While everyone should keep an eye on Microsoft (*was always) this is generally a good thing for the Internet as a whole. We as consumers, and we as web-developers, alike will be a lot happier if all the major players can create a consistent experience.
If Microsoft, Mozilla, Google, and Apple are all on board before the spec' is even in the final stages we have a fairly good shot of similar behavour no matter the platform or browser.
A lot of Microsoft's "notes" on the HTML 5 spec are either - "This isn't detailed enough to implement concistently" or "Do we need this?" Both of which are fair questions to ask and something that others will want to answer before HTML 5 goes live.
Actually, the "lol wut" was the first post. You didn't quite make it.
That said, I've read the mailing list comments from the MS guy, and none of it seemed like unreasonable moaning. I agree that it's an excellent thing that MS is getting involved - IE's market share may be declining, but it's still the dominant browser, and I think MS is still capable of doing tremendous amounts of damage to emerging web standards if they refuse to support them.
Microsoft's "notes" on the HTML 5 spec are [...] "This isn't detailed enough to implement concistently"
Wow, I wonder [forums.scc.ca] where they got that from?
Someone now does a websearch for the keyword term "traction engine" using Bing, and they find that your blog seems to have >300 posts mentioning that very subject. Then they get quite pissed off with you, because they keep visiting pages on your site and finding that the blog entries referenced don't have anything at all to say about their favourite subject. What's happened is that when you posted the article, the title got copied into the auto-maintained "recent posts" list widget on your blog's sidebar, and the Google and Bing search engines don't know how to distinguish between the linked text in your blog widgets and the contents of the main article. And not only does Google now think that you have 300 separate pages on traction engines, but since you included that cute little widget that lists the current top ten stories on CNN, Google and Bing also thinks that you have 300 blog postings about Michael Jackson, and also about a bunch of unsavoury keyword stuff that's currently in the news.
So if someone's seriously asking, do we really need HTML5 to support a way of allowing authors and blogging engines to voluntarily tag sections as belonging to an article or just to a nav bar, then the answer is "hell yes", we certainly do if we want search engines to continue to work properly.
The "MS team" studying the HTML5 draft spec is supposed to already =know= stuff like this. They're representing a company that actually owns a major search engine, for crying out loud.
MSHTML 5 is coming.....
"We didnt like the standard so we improved on it"
Seriously, does anyone other than a first time Windows user actaully use IE for serious/prolonged web sessions?
Between Firefox, Opera and Safari, is IE still being used to any great extent?
Depends on who you want to believe. [hitslink.com]
Depends on where you live. [statcounter.com]
Still account for at least more than 60% of users, no matter what source of statistics you use.
Wrong. This depends heavily on the site focus. User location makes a difference as well. Go check W3Schools stats and see for yourself: their numbers for IE are below 40% (a single number might not be impressive or usable for just about anything, but the change certainly is: IE fell from 90% to 40% in six years).
The rest of your comment still stands of course.
W3schools having 40% IE visitors? What a surprise! Now try a site that average users go to, like youtube or facebook.
[MSIE] Still account for at least more than 60% of users, no matter what source of statistics you use.
That is an invalid statistic when discussing new technology web sites. It includes the 25% - 30% that are still using MSIE v6. Some of these users are
Discounting these MSIEv6 users, market sh [hitslink.com]
Seriously, does anyone other than a first time Windows user actaully use IE for serious/prolonged web sessions?
Sure, when you're using intranet web pages that only support IE because they're hosted on Microsoft's pseudo-wiki.
I just got a new job and we have some internal stuff that apparently doesn't fully support other browsers yet, so I'm trying IE just to see what it's like. So far it's mostly usable, but I've encountered some pretty strange bugs. If I can get it to work reliably, I intend to keep using it.
The latest numbers I saw show MSIE of all versions combined at 66% where Firefox is over 25%. While Microsoft is still "the majority" by large amounts, this is not an election where only one winner is selected. Microsoft's position at the top isn't as significant at the size of the minority remainder which is about 34%. Long ago, when Microsoft commanded over 95%, nearly everything else was negligible. When it fell to 90%, developers started to take notice and to design for that 10% as well as for MSIE while some still remained MSIE only. But now the minority is too large to ignore. If you were running a business, would you feel comfortable alienating 5% of your customers? Maybe... but 10%? What about 33%? Ah, so you can see why MSIE's lead isn't as important a the size of the minority.
As Microsoft will be one of the foremost implementers of HTML5
Prove me wrong, but weren't other browser vendors already faster in implementing support for HTML5?
MS definitely did a poor job of tracking the standards effort. Getting changes they want is unlikely. There is definitely the appearance and likelihood of MS just trying to impede the standard because every other major browser producer is way ahead of them on HTML5, and the features contained therein are a huge threat to IE. If Firefox, Opera, Chrome and Safari all support HTML5 and can give better video and interactive without Flash (and notably Silverlight), then Web devs may find it worth it to leave IE out of their support efforts to get out of having to use proprietary technologies with more cumbersome licensing circumstances.
That said, generally they have some points. Many of these tags to me seem analogous to
Some other criticisms are not along those lines (i.e. they don't question the validity of some tags, just if they are 'as valid' as other tags that could have been added with it. These criticisms seem a little more hollow at times without much substance.
Web devs may find it worth it to leave IE out of their support efforts to get out of having to use proprietary technologies with more cumbersome licensing circumstances.
Unfortunately, this isn't likely to happen.
A small website is likely to want all the traffic they can get, so they'll have to support IE in some form. The best they could do is progressive degradation -- a <video> tag that gets replaced with a Flash object if the browser doesn't support html5. But a small website isn't likely to have resources to burn creating and supporting an entirely separate player. I know, I was part of one -- html5 was always something I wanted to do, but we ended up going with
I don't agree with the assertion that tags like <section> or <dialog> are a step backward from CSS. These are finer grained semantic equivalents to existing tags (<div class="chapter">, <dl class="dialog">) that make the intent of the author more clear and can make maintenance of content and style sheets a lot easier. They cut down on the clutter of CSS classes, for one thing.
Extend, pending
Extinguish. soon
Microsoft is the last one standing when it comes to the browser musical chairs... how exactly is their browser relevant anymore? Who uses it? WTF? Why?
Video and Audio tags are very cool. Get OGGed and Theora'd out Msie.
Get with HTML5 Msie!
HTML is a markup language. It tells the browser "this is a paragraph" or "this is important".
Telling the browser that the top section of a website (Slashdot's tab bar) or the bottom (the search bar, quote, copyright, and links at the bottom) is exactly the sort of thing the browser should know. Screen readers would, in particular, benefit from this; most people don't need to hear the header or footer on every page.
Unnecessary? Sure - websites do fine without it. But telling the browser more about the page is a Good Thing.
"header"/"footer" don't appear to indicate anything about printing that might reasonably be expected from those terms.
The word "arbitrary" seems to come from this line:
"aside" seems very arbitrary.
We're not sure this is the right design to be encouraging given that it wasn't in HTML 4.01.
I'm not sure that is the right thought process to be applying,
given that HTML 5 is supposed to extend HTML 4.01
I could believe many of their comments are appropriate, but it's worrisome to see one like that escaping orbit.
Adrian Bateman did himself and his team a disservice by putting so many unrelated comments into a single post. Yes they are all related to HTML 5 but then again the mailing list itself is about HTML 5 so the context is set and individual posts should be scoped more narrowly. The end result is that the list lacks priority and appears that each of the comments/feedback sections have the same priority when they really do not.
They bring up some interesting thoughts about a few of the tags/implementations but these are lost in the general negativity of the post.
Additionally some of their comments seem to be focused on unrelated topics such as how the header and footer elements should be handled when printing... ??? as if they are expecting the header and footer to be placed at the top of each printed page in a multi-page print out of a web page. While interesting as a topic of discussion this should not be lumped in with other comments as it is obviously a very low priority for a specification dealing with digital media primarily.
Add to this that they had previously stated that the header and footer elements appear to be unnecessary and I as a reader am left wondering which statement is more important - either they are unnecessary or they are useful but not as useful unless they implement something to do with printing the document... pick a stance Adrian. You can't state conflicting opinions like this and hope to be taken seriously.
So my suggestion for Adrian Bateman is to break up your feedback into more narrowly scoped questions so that they can be responded to in the priority they deserve. I can only think that your intent was to force others to do this work for you and thereby discover what others felt were the priority items to discuss or to set off a generally chaotic discussion of issues and thereby create dissension within the group, bringing up old concerns that have been discussed at length long ago and resolved or agreed to already.
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LaFontaine Oliver, general manager at Morgan State's WEAA-FM since 2007, is leaving to run public radio station WMFE-FM in Orlando, according to the Orlando Sentinel.
Here's part of Sentinel TV Critic Hal Boedecker's report on the hiring of Oliver:
"He has energy and enthusiasm, and we thought he would lead us to great things," said Derek Blakeslee, chairman of WMFE's board of directors.
Oliver replaces Jose Fajardo, who left WMFE in October. Oliver's challenges will include leading a reduced staff through a tumultuous media landscape. WMFE, which got out of public television in 2011, now has 15 employees overall and four full-timers in the news department. WMFE is working to hire several reporters, Blakeslee said.
In 2007, WMFE had 78 employees in all for TV and radio operations.
In a statement, Oliver said, "Our mission is to make WMFE the best station of its kind in not only the local market, but the United States."
Read Boedecker's full report here.
Oliver could not immediately be reached for comment Thursday afternoon.


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Hartsville, SC- Bridget Clark's (Irmo, SC) hat trick paced the Cobra Women's Soccer Team in their 4-2 victory over Brevard College on Saturday, in Coker's 2007 Homecoming match. The win improves the Cobras to 4-7-1 overall, while Brevard falls to 4-9 overall.
Clark scored a true hat trick with all three goals coming in the first half. Her first goal of the day came just two minutes into the game, as she scored on a break away. Her second goal came in the 19th minute, this time Laura Bedenbaugh (Hartsville, SC) hit a cross from the right side that Clark put in the lower left corner of the goal with one touch. Just 30 seconds later, Clark struck again with another one timer, this time with an assist from Katie Holliday (James Island, SC).
Brevard added their first goal just before the end of the half, as Nikki Peacock, snuck a shot between a Coker defenders legs and into the back of the net.
In the 62nd minute, the Tornados added their second goal when Ashley Fincher scored off a penalty kick.
The Cobras put the nail in the coffin in the 80th minute, when Holliday broke away from the defense and a goal past the Tornado keeper.
Coker snapped their seven game losing streak with the win and they will return to the field on Wednesday, as they travel to Barton College for a 5:00 p.m. match.


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Carlton Sherwood, maker of anti-Kerry film, dies
- Associated Press
- June 19, 2014 - 3:55 PM
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A Vietnam War veteran and former journalist who produced a film attacking Democrat John Kerry during his failed 2004 presidential campaign has died. Carlton Sherwood was 67.
Sherwood's wife, Susan, said Thursday that he died June 11 of heart failure at University of Pennsylvania Hospital. He lived in the central Pennsylvania town of Dillsburg.
Sherwood was part of a Gannett News Service reporting team that won a Pulitzer Prize for public service in 1980.
His 2004 film "Stolen Honor: Wounds That Never Heal" alleged that Kerry's actions as an anti-war activist after he returned home from Vietnam harmed American prisoners of war. Attacks on Kerry's own military record were viewed as a factor in his election loss.
Sherwood's family says he will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery.
© 2018 Star Tribune


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I have had to migrate a SQL Server database to MySQL, having only the SQL Server database backup file, and I would like to post the steps here.
The SQL Server database backup file is a binary file, not a SQL script. It can only be read by SQL Server. So the migration covers two phases:
1 - Creating a new SQL Server database from the backup file.
2 - Migrating the SQL Server database to MySQL.
Phase 1 - Creating a new SQL Server database from the backup file
You need to install SQL Server in order to be able to read the SQL Server database backup file.
SQL Server only can be installed under Windows, so you need to have Windows. If you are working with any other operating system, you can use VirtualBox to create a virtual environment to install Windows in your operating system, just as if it were a piece of software more.
It is important to take into account the versions of Windows and SQL Server, as not every ones are compatible, and no error message is shown. For instance, SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition is not compatible with Windows XP, no matter how many service packs it has. However, Windows XP is compatible with all other SQL Server editions (Developer, Standard, Express, etc.).
Other hardware and software must be considered. Look the SQL Server screen books. Specially relevant is the IIS Windows component. Make sure it is installed, before you proceed with the SQL Server installation. It is required to create a database connection.
In the installation process, the most important thing to know is that it cannot be any error or warning in the initial requirement list. After that,
it will be asked which components do you want to install. At this point, if you see some components disabled, the SQL Server version may not be compatible with the Windows version.
The installation may take about 20 minutes.
Once you have installed SQL Server, open the SQL Server Management Studio. In the server connection dialog, in the server name box type localhost if the server is the same machine where SQL Server is, or the name of the machine where the server is. Remember: IIS must be installed and started (it can be started in the services panel).
When the server connection is established, in the left panel, in the object explorer, under the server name, right-click on Databases, and click on Restore database.... The Restore database dialog is displayed.
In the left menu can be seen two sections: General and Options. Initially you are in the General one. There, in the To database box you have to specify the name of the database you are about to create. Check From device, and select the SQL Server backup file you have. Add it and check it in the source list.
Then switch to the Options section, with the left menu. There you may select the restoring options you consider. The main point here is the database paths, in the Restore as column of the database files table. By default these paths are the same ones as in the backup file, which may have been created in another computer, and might not make sense in your computer. So, specify the paths you want to store the database files on.
Now click on OK, and if everything when ok, you have your new SQL Server database from the backup file
Phase 2 - Migrating the SQL Server database to MySQL
I have found just one free tool to migrate from MS SQL Server to MySQL:
mssql2mysql by Michael Kofler.
It is a Visual Basic script that can be run in any Visual Basic platform, such as the ones within Microsoft Office. The script connects directly with SQL Server, but requires MySQL ODBC if you want to create the MySQL directly in MySQL. However, you can create a MySQL script file, and thus no ODBC is required. So I did, and so I am explaining it.
It worked quite good for me, though I had to perform some changes in the code, because of charset issues. Some special characters caused the script to stop when writting it in the file, so I added error handling to the ExecuteSQL() function. This error handler writes "ERRORXXXXXXXXXXXXX" when something cannot be written in the output file. Thus, it is easy to identify where an error occured, and fix it manually. I didn't try to implement an automatic solution, as there are very few errors. I had four errors in a 31 MB sql file.
You had to custom the initial constants. If you want to migrate a SQL Server database from a local server to a file (instead of directly to MySQL), you just need to change the constants MSSQL_DB_NAME and OUTPUT_FILENAME. If your database has many records, you may want to try first the script limited, setting the MAX_RECORDS say to 1000.
The only output of the script's result is a Done message box, if everything went fine.
Note that the Visual Basic script creates the auto increment fields, but the sql script crashes when run, because the auto increment fields are not set as primary keys, what is a requirement of MySQL.
If everything went ok, you have by now your MySQL script. You just need to run it into MySQL and the database with all its data will be generated
(The SQL Server database to MySQL database migration script is attached as mssql2mysql.txt.)
I hope this notes may be useful for anyone.
Alberto Moyano Sánchez


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CONCORD, N.H. — A five-year plan for outdoor recreation in New Hampshire could spur the creation of more community playgrounds, walking trails for older residents, and year-round activities in state parks.
The state Division of Parks and Recreation is required to report on trends and priorities every five years to remain eligible for federal Land and Water Conservation Fund grants. The latest version, released Thursday, brings together state research, surveys and focus group data that will be used by government agencies, businesses, nonprofits, and communities statewide.
Among the report's key findings was that New Hampshire's growing elderly population is seeking more recreational opportunities, such as walking trails, easy nature hikes, and paths to share with pets, said George Bald, director of the state's Department of Resources and Economic Development.
According to the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire, the state's recreational and scenic amenities already attract older people who move to the state, and that trend will probably increase as baby boomers retire. The institute estimates that the combined effect of aging residents and older people moving into New Hampshire will be a doubling of the population, ages 65-74, in the next 20 years.
The Parks Division is also working to develop more year-round activity at state parks. The state park system traditionally has focused its efforts on summer visitors, but tourists who enjoy snow sports also want zip lines, mountain coasters, winter camping cabins, and skating rinks, the report said.


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