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Get an overview of this hotelWaterfront resort across from San Juan cruise-ship piers, just steps from restaurants, shops and attractions.
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With a stay at Sheraton Old San Juan Hotel, you'll be centrally located in San Juan, steps from Pier 3 and Port of San Juan.
This 4-star hotel is within close proximity of Teatro Tapia and Pier 4.
Make yourself at home in one of the 240 air-conditioned rooms featuring LCD televisions. Your pillowtop bed comes with down comforters. Complimentary wired and wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming provides entertainment. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature designer toiletries and hair dryers.
Don't miss out on the many recreational opportunities, including a 24-hour health club, an outdoor pool, and a spa tub. Additional features at this hotel include complimentary wireless Internet access, concierge services, and babysitting/childcare (surcharge).
Enjoy a meal at a restaurant, or stay in and take advantage of the hotel's room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge. Buffet breakfasts are available daily from 6:30 AM to 11 AM for a fee.
Featured amenities include a computer station, express check-out, and complimentary newspapers in the lobby. Planning an event in San Juan? This hotel has 8073 square feet (750 square meters) of space consisting of a conference center and meeting rooms.
Languages Spoken
- English
Sheraton Old San Juan Hotel
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Sheraton Old San Juan Hotel is across the street from the cruise-ship piers and 3 blocks from Fort San Cristobal.
The resort offer an onsite restaurant and café. Guests have access to a computer in the resort's administrative office, along with tour/ticket assistance, complimentary wireless Internet access in public areas, an Internet point, multiple conference/meeting rooms, luggage storage, and photocopy, faxing, and secretarial services. Concierge services are also available. A 24-hour fitness center contains cardio machines. The resort's shopping arcade lies across a narrow street.
This Puerto Rico resort is smoke-free.
- Bar/lounge
- Elevator/lift
- 24-hour front desk
- Spa treatment room(s)
- Conference space
- Porter/bellhop
- Restaurant
- Express check-out
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Meeting rooms 10
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Free WiFi
- Outdoor pool
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Valet parking (surcharge)
- Smoke-free property
- Computer station
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Conference space size (meters) - 750
- Terrace
- Luggage storage
- Offsite parking discounted rates available
- Hair salon
- Breakfast available (surcharge)
- ATM/banking
- Concierge services
- Conference space size (feet) - 8073
- Conference center
- Spa tub
- Total number of rooms - 240
- Television in common areas
- Number of floors - 9
- Wedding services
- Multilingual staff
- 24-hour health club
- Free newspapers in lobby
Family Friendly Amenities
- Family Hotel
- Outdoor pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Microwave (on request)
- Cribs/infant beds (complimentary)
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi , Free wired Internet
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Languages Spoken
- English
- Spanish
Valet parking (surcharge), Offsite parking discounted rates available
Room Amenities
- Premium TV channels
- Pay movies
- Hypo-allergenic bedding available
- Premium bedding
- Room service (limited hours)
- Air conditioning
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Phone
- Coffee/tea maker
- Refrigerator (on request)
- Microwave (on request)
- Daily housekeeping
- Designer toiletries
- Private bathroom
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- In-room massage available
- Iron/ironing board
- Desk
- Satellite TV service
- Free WiFi
- Free wired Internet
- In-room safe (laptop compatible)
- Down comforter
- Pillowtop mattress
- Free cribs/infant beds
- Rollaway/extra beds (surcharge)
Where to Eat
Palio - This authentic restaurant offers Puerto Rican fusion cuisine with a selection of quality meats and fresh fish and stunning views of Old San Juan Harbor from the resort's second floor. Breakfast, brunch, lunch, and happy hour are also available. Closed Mondays.
Nearby Things to Do
Guests can take advantage of the hotel's outdoor pool for swimming and sunning, and 24-hour fitness center for staying in shape.
The concierge desk can assist with a range of tours and activities, from mountain climbing to snorkeling.
The recreational activities listed below are available at or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
- Snorkeling nearby
- Hiking/biking trails nearby
If you have requests for specific accessibility needs, please note them at check-out when you book your room.
- Accessible bathroom
- Roll-in shower
- In-room accessibility
Hotel Policies
Check-in time starts at 3 PM
Minimum check-in age is 18
Check-out time is 11 AM
Payment types
Children and extra beds
- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 16 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding.
- Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 25 per night.
- Free cribs (infant beds)!
- Pets stay free
- Dogs only
- 1 per room (up to 40 lb)
You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy.
- Resort fee
Optional extras
- Fee for buffet breakfast: USD 20 for adults and USD 16 for children (approximately)
- Valet parking fee: USD 25.65 per night (in/out privileges)
- Early check-in fee: USD 75
- Late check-out fee: USD 75
- Refrigerator fee: USD 10 per night
- In-room microwave fee: USD 10 per night
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 25 per night
Hotel Name
- Old San Juan Casino
- Old Sheraton
- Old Sheraton Hotel
- Sheraton Old
- Sheraton Old Hotel & Casino
- Sheraton Old San Juan
- Sheraton Old San Juan Casino
- Sheraton Old San Juan Hotel & Casino
- Sheraton San Juan Casino
- Old San Juan Sheraton
- San Juan Sheraton
- Sheraton Old San Juan Hotel And Casino
- Sheraton Old San Juan Hotel San Juan
- Sheraton San Juan
- Sheraton Old San Juan Hotel
- Sheraton Old Hotel
We should mention
A resort fee is included in the total price displayed. Children 16 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. Some facilities may have restricted access. Guests can contact the property for details using the contact information on the booking confirmation.


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March 1, 2009
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Peter Bogdanich's shot from the left circle caught the net inside the far post 1:19 into overtime as the Colgate men's hockey team earned a 3-2 win over No. 11 Yale before an Ingalls Rink sellout crowd on the final day of the regular season in ECAC Hockey.
The Raiders (11-16-7, 6-11-5) erased a pair of one-goal deficits in the third period to send the game into the extra session before registering the knockout blow.
The Bulldogs (20-7-2, 15-5-2), who won the conference regular-season championship on Friday night, had a shot blocked at the point that turned into an odd-man rush at the other end. Brian Day carried the puck into the Yale end and dropped a pass for Bogdanich, who notched the winner with his fourth goal of the year.
Colgate, outshot 28-23, got revenge for a 5-4 OT loss to the Bulldogs at Hamilton on Jan. 24 when the Raiders surrendered a four-goal lead over the last 12 minutes. Yale senior Alec Richards finished with 20 saves, and he did not allow anyone to find the net on four power-play chances. Charles Long, who stopped 15 shots in the third period, had 26 for the game.
The Elis had goals from Kevin Limbert and Sean Backman, while three different Raiders lit the lamp, including the ECAC's top goal (20) scorer, David McIntyre.
Yale, which had its home win streak end at five games, outshot Colgate 8-5 in a sluggish, scoreless first period. Both teams had a few grade-A scoring chances and a pair of man-advantages.
The second frame wasn't much different, though the Raiders had the upper hand in shots (9-3). Most of the action was in the Yale end, but Mark Arcobello had the best opportunity to find the net in the period. Backman picked up a loose puck at center ice and hit his linemate in stride. Arcobello went in alone on Long and sent a rising wrister off the crossbar with three minutes left.
The crowd, in a relative calm after 40 minutes of scoreless hockey, erupted 35 seconds into the third period when Yale lit the lamp on a great wrist shot from freshman forward Limbert (6th goal). The rookie took a pass from Denny Kearney and maneuvered into the hight slot before letting go on a wrister that flew over Long's shoulder.
The shots were 17-8 in the third in favor of Yale, but both teams had a pair of goals.
The Raiders had just two of the first 15 shots on target in the third, but their second one found the net to even the score. Nick St. Pierre took a pass in the middle of the slot and fired a high wrister past Richards at 12:42 to even the score at 1-1.
Backman's hard work in the neutral zone resulted in Yale taking a 2-1 lead with 4:39 left. The junior forward fought for the puck a few times before getting it over to Brian O'Neill, who passed it over to Arcobello. When Arcobello's shot was saved by Long, the rebound stayed on the side of the crease and Backman swooped in to flick it home for his team-high 16th tally of the year.
Despite being outshot 17-8 in the final frame, the Raiders were able to seize momentum.
"We came out flat and that's just not acceptable. We stayed flat for two periods," said Backman, pondering the two-week wait for the playoffs to have another shot at victory. "This will leave a sour taste in our mouths, but you have to let the water roll off your back. We will use the extra time to get better and have some injured players get healthy."
McIntyre's goal was one of the biggest ones for Colgate this season. He took a sizzling feed feed from the right corner off the stick of Bogdanich and re-directed it off the edge of the crease with 1:52 left to make it 2-2.
Broc Little had a nice rush as regulation time expired, but couldn't get enough on a backhander. The Elis didn't realize how much they needed him to find the net.
"You can't expect to play just 20 minutes and win a game," said Keith Allain '80, Yale's Malcolm G. Chace Head Coach of Hockey. "We played better in the third, but we were not ourselves in the first two periods."
Bulldog Bites: Yale seniors Matt Nelson, Alec Richards, Dave Inman and Patrick Brosnihan were honored before playing their last regular season home game at Ingalls... The sellout crowd was the sixth straight at Ingalls Rink...Today's game aired live on ESPNU, but there were no media timeouts during the periods... The Bulldogs next play in the ECAC Hockey Quarterfinals at home on March 13-15 against an opponent that will be determined by this week's first-round series... This was Colgate's 16th overtime game of 2008-09, which ties the national record.


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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 26th Jan 2006 18:04 UTC, submitted by Nehemoth
Some more news on Apple's Intel Macs. First off, contrary to what OSNews reported on
yesterday, a research and investment firm says that sales of the Intel iMac and MacBook Pro are good. Secondly, a contest has been set up to get Windows XP to boot on the Intel Macs.
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Grub won't help out WinXP to recognise EFI... Windows surely still use some real mode BIOS call during the boot process. I guess you'll have more chance by writting a plugin for the EFI that emulate a BIOS.
EFI is greatly extensible, but still I would have like it to create a revolution and to permit low-level driver, so we could have wrote code like used to do in real mode but directly in protected mode...
A question? Are the Mactel booting in protected mode? This would be awesome. If so I want one


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SJ39 is the personal community service organization of St. Louis Rams running back and all-time leading rusher, Steven Jackson. The organization is dedicated to promoting strong educational values and healthy living among today's youths. The Little Bit Foundation, founded in 2001, works to create a more focused and active learning environment for children in the most underserved areas of St. Louis by providing basic educational needs through relationships with local schools.
"Nothing makes me happier than encouraging our youth that obstacles are designed to be overcome and are but stepping stones to greatness," Jackson said. "The Little Bit Foundation is about helping children focus on their education and the power it gives them to rise above their challenges."
The Little Bit Foundation currently serves more than 3,250 students in 14 sponsored schools. Every week during the school year, Little Bit volunteers deliver needed items, as identified by school staff. These volunteers interact with each child in a one-on-one setting to fit new shoes and uniforms, instruct on proper hygiene and help build self-esteem with words of encouragement. These efforts have contributed to increased attendance, lower disciplinary issues and improved Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) proficiency in schools where Little Bit has had a consistent presence.
Jackson and his family have spent time in Little Bit-sponsored schools interacting with volunteers and the children they serve.
"Through my work with Little Bit, I have experienced how much a 'little bit' can do to lift the spirits and strengthen the confidence of a child," Jackson said. "I am so excited to support Little Bit programs and bring greater awareness to the need in the St. Louis area."
Jackson says the partnership will include financial backing, procurement of needed items, such as shoes and clothes and student incentives, with a particular focus on Walbridge Elementary School. Walbridge is Little Bit's latest adopted school in one of the most impoverished neighborhoods of North St. Louis. It also will bring further involvement of the St. Louis Rams, who have volunteered with Little Bit in various capacities over the last few years.
"We are thrilled by the support of the Steven Jackson Charitable Fund, as well as the St. Louis Rams," Rosemary Hanley, Executive Director of the Little Bit Foundation said. "We share the same passion and vision for the children of St. Louis, and I know this is the beginning of an amazing partnership for the community."
"The mission of the Steven Jackson Foundation and The Little Bit Foundation align perfectly, and we are extremely proud that they are joining forces to serve some of our community's most underserved students," Molly Higgins, St. Louis Rams Vice President of Corporate Communications and Civic Affairs said. "Since learning of the work of the The Little Bit Foundation, the Rams have been impressed with the impact that they are making on students who need it most. We know that impact will be even more profound moving forward thanks to the tremendous commitment and passion of Steven and the Jackson family, who truly embrace their opportunity to make a difference in the lives of those in need."
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RECAP: CANADIENS 2 - SABRES 0by Chris Ryndak / Buffalo Sabres
Heading into this weekend, Nathan Lieuwen didn't expect to play three nights in a row. He certainly had no idea that the third game would mark his NHL debut.
Sunday morning, Lieuwen received a call from the Buffalo Sabres, telling him that he was needed in Buffalo on an emergency recall. He'd played the past two games for the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League on Friday and Saturday.
He prepared himself to back up Jhonas Enroth for the Sabres' game Sunday night against the Montreal Canadiens at First Niagara Center.
However, Enroth left the game due to a lower-body injury with 3:51 remaining in the second period and Lieuwen was thrust into action.
He faced a one-timer right off the faceoff and from there, it was game on.
Lieuwen stopped all 10 shots he faced in the game, but Buffalo was unable to generate any offense, falling 2-0 to Montreal.
"I was in disbelief. It felt like a dream. I kind of had to pinch myself a little bit, but once I got in there, I actually felt really good," Lieuwen said. "It was actually kind of nice that I played the last two nights for Rochester. Just to step in, it was like another game once I actually got in the game and that was nice just to go out there and play."
He was recalled because Michal Neuvirth sustained a lower-body injury in his last start on Friday and tweaked the injury sometime thereafter. Before the game, Sabres interim coach Ted Nolan said Neuvirth was day-to-day.
In Lieuwen's two previous starts with Rochester, he stopped a combined 69 of 73 shots.
He robbed Thomas Vanek on a point-blank opportunity midway through the third period was a blocker save.
Unfortunately, he couldn't say much about it.
"Everything that happened between whistles, I don't remember," he said. "It was a blur."
Lieuwen was drafted by the Sabres in the sixth round (167th overall) of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft. While playing with the Amerks this season, he has appeared in 32 games, compiling a 17-11-2 record and registering a .922 save percentage and a 2.34 goals-against average.
On the play that injured Enroth, Canadiens forward Brandon Gallagher was bumped by Sabres defenseman Jamie McBain and then collided with Enroth. The net was knocked off its moorings and Enroth was down for some time before skating off the ice with the training staff..
"He just started taking it to the net so I put a stick on him and a body on him and obviously it's unfortunate when things like that happen," McBain said. "It's one of those things where you're kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place. Obviously you can't just let him go because then he walks right in alone, but at the same time, you've got to try and make a play on it. It's unfortunate that it's a thing that happened and hopefully [Enroth] is OK."
Enroth will be evaluated again by doctors in the morning but that the injury could keep him out for some time.
"It doesn't look like it's going to be short term but we'll get our second opinion here tomorrow morning and we'll see," Nolan said.
Nolan said that a few players including Cory Conacher and Mike Weber volunteered to serve as the emergency goaltender.
It's just another injury that Buffalo is forced to deal with. In addition to Enroth and Neuvirth, the team is without forwards Zemgus Girgensons, Torrey Mitchell, Chris Stewart and defensemen Tyler Myers and Alexander Sulzer.
Going into the game, Buffalo had 192 man games lost due to injury. Thirty-eight skaters and four goaltenders have taken the ice for the Sabres so far this season, tying Edmonton for most players used in the NHL.
"For what we're going through and the injuries we have – and you lose a goaltender on top of that – I thought we put the effort in," Nolan said. "The two goals that were scored against us, one was kicked in by them and one was kicked in by us. We can't do too much about that. The one thing we are concerned with is our effort and tonight I thought our effort was there."
The Canadiens took their 2-0 lead in the first period when Dale Weise and Brandon Gallagher were credited with goals 1:26 apart.
Weise scored by deflecting a shot by Alex Galchenyuk in off his skate. The ruling on the ice was a good goal and video replay confirmed the call.
Gallagher ripped a shot from the right win on Enroth, who knocked the puck down with his blocker. However, the rebound went off Sabres defenseman Chad Ruhwedel in front of the net and in past Enroth.
With about 2:50 left in regulation, Cody Hodgson found himself on a breakaway against Canadiens goaltender Dustin Tokarski, who recorded his first career shutout. However, as Hodgson made his move in, the puck rolled off his stick and he lost control, unable to get a shot off.
"If I'm in that situation, if I'm put in a key situation up there that the team gives me the breakaway and I need to be able to score. That's my job and I didn't do it," Hodgson said. "…To win in this game, you've got score goals and we didn't tonight. And that's on our offensive players and it's on me too."
The game marked Thomas Vanek's first game against the Sabres since the team traded him to the New York Islanders on Oct. 27. The Islanders then moved Vanek to Montreal at the NHL Trade Deadline earlier this month.
"Last night coming in and today, it was a different feeling for sure. I can't explain it. I actually felt pretty good all day and as soon as I walked in here, I started to get a little of the jitters," he said before the game. "…There are lots of good memories here. I still have lots of friends on the team, around town so I've got nothing but good things to say about Buffalo."
A highlight package aired on the video board during the game that featured some of Vanek's big moments in a Sabres jersey. Vanek stood up and saluted the cheering crowd after it played.
The Sabres now head out for a five-game road trip that starts in Calgary on Tuesday and ends in Nashville on March 27. Along the way, the team will stop for games in Edmonton, Vancouver and Montreal.
With all of the injuries that have afflicted the team, particularly at the goaltending position, it could be a pretty packed flight on Monday.
Nolan said that it's possible they may call up goalie Matt Hackett from Rochester in case Neuvirth is unable to play in the early stages of the trip. That will be contingent on a discussion with general manager Tim Murray and on how Neuvirth feels Monday morning.


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EU Referendum: who will speak officially for 'Out'?
As might have been expected, the reaction to the Prime Minister's announcement of an In/Out referendum on UK membership of the EU has divided opinion - among both sceptics and philes; politicians, economists, journalists and bloggers. Some say it is a watershed moment in British political history; others that it's a ruse, a sham, a bribe simply to increase David Cameron's chances of re-election in 2015 (not to mention a complete deflection from the whole 'gay marriage' saga about to be unleashed upon Parliament).
All of this was entirely predictable: we've been lied to for 40 years, so it's really no surprise that the Father of Lies should be aroused to crush the glimmer of national salvation. But let us be clear about one thing: UK membership of the EEC was ratified by referendum of the people in 1975: it can only be undone by a further referendum. David Cameron has now promised that referendum, and only he is ever likely to be in a position to deliver on that promise.
You may not trust him because of his previous 'cast iron guarantee' on the Lisbon Treaty, but there were complex reasons for that U-turn, not least the post-ratification context of the 2010 general election. Do not forget that he pledged to take his MEPs out of the federalist EPP grouping in the European Parliament, and he delivered on that. A bit later than promised, certainly, but he delivered. Nigel Farage will not be prime minister in 2015. Neither will Nick Clegg. The choice will be between the Conservatives - who will bring draft legislation to re-negotiate with the EU, and a manifesto commitment to a referendum - and Labour, who yesterday appeared to rule out both.
You may loathe Cameron and despise the Conservatives. You may not trust or believe either, with very good reason. But if you really want to act in the national interest in order to have a hope of restoring national sovereignty and our ancient liberties, you will need to hold your nose in 2015 and vote Tory.
The Prime Minister has made it clear that he will campaign for the 'In' side. And that is an entirely honourable position, notwithstanding that his 'In' appears not to be contingent on the success or otherwise of his re-negotiated settlement. But let us be clear, if that settlement does not include - as a minimum - repatriated control over borders, fishing, employment, welfare and social policy, justice and human rights, then there cannot be the 'flexibility' he demands. And that will mean that David Cameron will have failed in his negotiations. And that will be more likely to incline the people to vote 'Out'.
Except that the Government, Church, Crown, BBC, Guardian, FT and the entire Establishment will be pouring their time, money and concerted effort into the 'In' campaign. They will be slick, organised and professional. The Prime Minister will campaign alongside the Leader of the Opposition (and the 'third party' LibDems), and the media will fawn at their statesmanlike feet, lapping up every word of their economic obfuscation and political lies. But at least their campaign of deception will be united, and the BBC will know whom to call when they want a spokesperson to argue passionately, intelligently an knowledgeably for the 'In' side.
But who will speak for 'Outers'? Seriously, who will answer the phone for the 'Out' campaign? UKIP? The Democracy Movement? Nigel Farage MEP? The Freedom Association? Dan Hannan MEP? Douglas Carswell MP? The European Foundation? Bill Cash MP? Dr Richard North? Open Europe? Better Off Out? The Bruges Group? The Express? The People's Pledge? Conservatives Against a Federal Europe? Global Vision? The Campaign for an Independent Britain? Peter Bone MP? Mrs Bone?
You see the problem. While the 'Inners' will be disciplined, coordinated and united in their quest, the 'Outers' consist of a ragbag of 'swivel-eyed nutters', 'right-wing xenophobes', 'eccentric little-Englanders', not to mention the 'fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists'. And (here's the important point) most of them simply can't stand the sight of each other. There's backbiting, distrust and an entire dung-heap of mutual loathing.
If the 'Outers' are to have any chance of winning in 2017, there needs to be cohesive planning and preparation for victory. But even UKIP can't coalesce around a single political strategy, with its own (few) elected politicians resigning, defecting and demanding a change of leader. The anti-EU movement is defined by that to which it is antithetical: there is no unifying movement towards any positive vision, and that includes even the idea of a referendum. In truth, there are some very prominent individuals who are so unyielding in their infallible opinions and uncompromising in their dispositions that unity of purpose is an impossible ask: the contempt they have for others is palpable. Even the arch-Eurosceptic Bill Cash MP has been heard to criticise the arch proponent of 'Better Off Out' Douglas Carswell MP - for having 'extreme views' on the EU. And His Grace won't go into what Dr North thinks of Dan Hannan, or speculate on what Mrs Bone dreams about Nigel Farage.
As far as the 'Outers' are concerned, we not only have the People's Front of Judaea and the Judaean People's front, but the Front and Rear of the People Faffing Around about Semantics in Samaria while the occupation and destruction of Judaea continues apace. The BBC simply won't have a clue whom to phone at which legally-constituted organisation to ensure that the contrary view is expressed fairly and impartially.
We've seen it all before, and very recently. We were told time and again before the AV referendum that there was a 'progressive majority' in favour of electoral reform; that the people wanted change, a different politics, a fairer system, a more democratic method of electing their representatives. After decades of wailing and wandering in the wilderness, the Liberal Democrats got their manna and quail.
But they blew the holy grail.
The pro-AV campaign was disunited, poorly articulated, badly led, painfully patronised and hopelessly disorganised. Against all that, its generous and credible funding went absolutely nowhere.
Similarly, on the matter of an EU referendum, we are told time and again that in excess of 50 per cent of the nation would vote to leave the EU tomorrow. And so those who yearn for liberation have demanded a referendum, which has now been proposed. Despite the chronic divisions in the 'Out' camp, the demand is still for this strategy – the success of which would be wholly contingent upon unity, charismatic leadership, creative strategy, credible patronage and very generous funding.
And Sir James Goldsmith is, very sadly, no longer with us.
Let us not forget that the 1975 referendum on the UK's continuing membership of the EEC was held at a time when previous polls had suggested a clear majority in favour of withdrawal. That poll was overturned by charismatic politicians, cross-party consensus, an unequally-funded campaign, clever marketing and the erosion of reason by omnipotent pro-EEC forces. We saw it again (and again) in Denmark over the Maastricht Treaty; in France over the Constitution for Europe; and in Ireland over the Lisbon Treaty: if 'No' is not an option, 'Out' becomes be an unthinkable heresy.
His Grace despairs, and cannot for the life of him work out why those who have long demanded a referendum are not already planning, plotting, scheming, strategising and preparing for victory. Instead, as seen on this blog yesterday, there is cynicism, apathy, contempt and distrust. Where is the media onslaught of the beneficial consequences of our leaving the EU? Let us hear of falling taxes, reduced burdens on business, rising employment, increased standards of living, and a prosperous UK as part of EFTA, the Commonwealth and the free-trade world. Instead of deploying the language of defeat, let us hear talk of 'Freedom', 'Democracy', 'Prosperity' and 'Britain in the World'.
Yet getting even that unified message out of anti-EU organisations is like herding cats. The Europhile Establishment is vastly more experienced and far more advanced in strategic thinking. The 'Outers' need to meet immediately, bury their differences, swallow their pride and dispense with their egos. God forbid that a self-appointed elite might already have conspired in secret to determine the future course, and presumed to decide among themselves who will speak officially on behalf of all 'Outers'. Such unilateralism can only serve to entrench obstinate positions and perpetuate the chronic divisions. If the Church of England has to step in to chair a summit of peace, reconciliation and cooperation, His Grace is ready and willing.


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VERGENNES — Addison Northwest Supervisory Union voters on Tuesday will decide whether to support a proposal put forth by the Vergennes Union High School board for a five-year, $600,000 loan to put a new roof on the school's leaky classroom wing and auditorium.
If voters back the $600,000 loan, payments would add about $10 of annual taxes per $100,000 of assessed home value, according to an estimate offered in April by ANwSU business manager Kathy Cannon. Those who are eligible for prebates would not pay the full amount of that increase.


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In our exceedingly electronically modified world, where the pure sound of the human voice is often second fiddle to instrumental accompaniment, a cappella groups occupy a unique (and sometimes underappreciated) niche in entertainment. But the jazz vocal group, Groove for Thought just might change all that.
"In the sparkling, lush, harmonically and rhythmically sophisticated arrangements of group member Kelly Kunz, the seven singers merge into one powerhouse unit—whether they're backed up by excellent keyboard player Nick Moore, or performing sans instruments," writes Misha Berson of the Seattle Times, about their 2011 concert at Benaroya Hall.
Groove for Thought (GFT) started out in 2000 as a group of friends jamming together in their homes to create vocal music that went far beyond what they could produce in college choirs. As they coalesced more into a formal group, they began performing locally, then regionally, until they made their first national appearance at the American Choral Director's Association Conference.
Their music received rave reviews and awards almost from the beginning. They won the 2005 National Harmony Sweepstakes Competition and, in 2006, were acknowledged by the Contemporary A Cappella Recording Awards (CARA) for Best Jazz Song. Since then they have received several more CARAs, for Best Holiday Song in 2011, and again for Best Jazz Song in 2012. They were chosen as Favorite Jazz Group in the 2011 A Cappella Community Awards.
In 2010, GFT was one of 10 vocal groups from around the United States selected to appear on the second season of NBC's vocal competition show, The Sing-Off. In addition to appearing on four of the show's five episodes, Groove was featured on The Sing-Off: Harmonies For The Holidays and The Sing-Off: The Best of Season 2. The soundtracks for both shows are available on Epic Records.
The seven, mostly CWU alumni, musicians that form GFT have worked together for more than 10 years, developing magical harmonies that transform classic tunes into jazz masterpieces. The members vary in age and interests, but what binds them together is a passionate love for music, singing, and most of all, singing together.
"As you can see from our degrees, our connection to CWU spans over 30 years," says Jeff Horenstein, bass. "We have all been shaped in some way by the tradition of excellence in jazz education that really started with John Moawad. Central has long been a nurturing environment for jazz educators and performers alike and we wouldn't be the musicians we are without our CWU experiences."
The decades differences in age, unusual in singing groups, all but disappear in GFT.
"We all learn a great deal from each other, regardless of our varied ages. We don't really think much about it," continues Horenstein. "We all just try to bring our own musical experiences to the table and work together to create something unique."
Two of the members have a little more than musical ability in common—group founder Kelly Kunz, who sings baritone and tenor, and his daughter, Amanda, the lead soprano.
Kelly earned bachelor's and master's degrees in music education from Central. He currently teaches audio production and music theory at Bellevue College. Kelly also works on the staff for the ensemble vocal performance group Vocalpoint! Seattle. In addition, Kelly just started a new vocal jazz group for college graduates and other young vocalists looking for opportunities to sing jazz. Many members of this new group are also recent CWU graduates.
Over the years, Kelly has developed a reputation as one of the finest vocal jazz directors in the country. A life-long musician—at three-years-old, he sang while his father accompanied him on the piano—Kelly plays numerous instruments, primarily electric bass, and has played all types of genres, including jazz, Latin, pop, and rock.
And just as he had a significant connection to his father through music, through GFT, Kelly has a similar connection with his daughter.
"It's truly amazing when you and your child share a love for music and can work together creating and performing," adds Kunz. "At home she's my daughter, but when we're in the group, she becomes a colleague and fellow singer. Her maturity as a performer, musician, and songwriter continues to delight and amaze me."
Amanda, who, like dad has been singing and playing music most of her young life, joined the group in 2009, when she was 16, after many years of performing in award-winning groups such as the Seattle Youth Symphony and Seattle Girls' Choir, with which she traveled internationally. While a high school freshman, she took college level music courses and sang in Pierce College's award-winning vocal jazz group, Farwest Jazz. As a junior, she was accepted into the Grammy Jazz Choir, and was flown to Los Angeles to perform during Grammy week, which included performances at the Blue Note Records party and the Grammy Celebration After Party.
A songwriter since she was very young, Amanda received her bachelor's of music in composition this spring, and plans to pursue a master's of music in film scoring at the University of Southern California. She completed her debut solo album, Pieces of my Heart, a collection of original songs, in 2011.
Earlier this year, she won Opus 7's 2012-13 Student Choral Composition Contest. Her winning piece, "A Single Rose," scored for women's choir, was performed in Opus 7's All Northwest Concert at St. Mark's Cathedral in Seattle in May. This competition featured students throughout the Northwest, including Alaska.
"Working with my dad in a setting like this seems completely natural. He's always been involved in my musical development, obviously from a parental standpoint, but also as my director in multiple groups," notes Amanda. "When I graduated from those groups, it was such an exciting idea to be able to sing with one of the best musicians I know of, and one of my favorite people.
"People ask sometimes what it feels like to be the youngest member of the group . . . honestly, that's not something I ever really have to think about. We get together once a week, we work to make good music, and we have a blast on stage. They're my peers and my friends, and that's about all there is to it."
GFT will release a Christmas CD this fall, and the group will be celebrating its release with a performance at Seattle's Jazz Alley on December 26.
Many GFT members are music teachers, have teaching degrees, and view music education as a valuable component in their daily lives. They enjoy "inspiring and empowering young people in a unique and important way."
In addition to performances, the group presents workshops, clinics, and master classes at conferences and symposiums around the world. They also teach at high schools, colleges, universities, and conservatories throughout the United States.
GFT may be contacted to give workshops on a variety of topics, such as arranging, vocal technique, recording, the music business, and improvisation. They can even tailor a workshop or symposium to meet individual needs. For more information about their educational offerings, contact Brennan Baglio, 425-243-2438, email@example.com
You can see and hear GFT performing here.
Photo courtesy of Groove for Thought


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Comment posted New local leader, Roddy McCuish, says SNP has moved from protest to progress by Simple Simon.
Reading a copy of Sundays' Herald at tea break and came across this – Education Minister Mike Russell had a very different vision when he was out of parliament. In his 2006 book, Grasping The Thistle, he called for flat taxes, privatisation of hospitals and the virtual dismantling of the welfare state. A true blue Tory.
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Recent comments by Simple Simon
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Pub gossip this time: James Robb will last three months at best. He will soon rebel against Roddy McCuish's lack of intellect and Michael Russell's control of the Council Group. Apparently SNP ambition under McCuish is to be a strong opposition. Russell talks about taking the Council. Should be great fun to watch!
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If you never finalize it's not a standard. This sounds like a Microsoft move to me.
The real reason is because the committee which desides whats in the standard couldn't get a consensus, so HTML 5 took forever and its still not a W3C recormendation.
Look at http://www.w3schools.com/w3c/w3c_html.asp
HTML 4.01 became a W3C Recommendation 24. December 1999
XHTML 1.0 became a W3C Recommendation 20. January 2000
On January 22nd, 2008, W3C published a working draft for HTML 5.
So 10 years after xhtml 1.0 we still dont have a W3C recormendation for HTML 5, if HTML 6 carried on business as usual then we would probably be looking at 2025 for it...
You missed all those XHTML 1.1 Modules. That's how W3C wasted all its time.
Original HTML5 draft came from WHATWG, not W3C.
HTML 2/3/4, XHTML/1, and CSS/1 were all small, simple, understandable standards. Then the web got popular - in part because web standards and technology were so simple. Once the web had exploded, every damn company wanted to stick its oar in. CSS 2 took years, is overly complicated, but still just barely manageable. Look at CSS 3 - everybody's special wishes are in there - the thing is immensely complex and as a standard, frankly, it is therefore nearly useless. HTML 5 is much the same - too many special wishes and fancy features. One needs to take a weed-whacker to it and to CSS, to restore some degree of simplicity.
Think of it this way: why is there a competition to see how well browsers score on the ACID tests? The standards ought to be simple enough that any decent browser scores 100%. The fact that this is not the case is proof that the standards are far, far too complex.
Sure it is. The standard is what is currently on their page. If you are using deprecated methods, you are non-standard.
You could be standard compliant one day and be out of compliance the next.
Maybe it's better if I put it this way. There's a new standard every day. It's just the nobody puts a version on it.
That will truly help the industry, when contracts calling for levels of compliance become impossible and designers can never get paid because their work is never compliant.
You'll get pages that becomes invalid with time despite they were valid before. That sounds like a very stupid idea.
Until you name the revision by dates, which is basically the same thing as giving version numbers...
They'll start naming them the way sequels get named.
Until you name the revision by dates, which is basically the same thing as giving version numbers...
Or names! Firefox supports HTML Insomnia. IE is now on HTML Narcoleptic. Chrome upgrades to HTML Sonambulia. Opera is still on HTML Purgatory, but they will go to HTML Heaven next month. Oh, the possibilities!
You'll get pages that becomes invalid with time despite they were valid before.
That is a result of backward-incompatible changes, not the absence of version numbers.
You'll get pages that becomes invalid with time despite they were valid before.
That is a result of backward-incompatible changes, not the absence of version numbers.
Quite true, but what I think the poster was saying is that without version numbers it would be impossible to claim they were "standards" compliant at any one time. So even if you wrote very good code that was compatible across 99% of all browsers out there, a few years go by and you look like lazy morons that just don't care.
As for the backwards-incompatible changes, without version numbers you would really have no way to tell what you are doing anyways. Since you can't reference it by version number you would be forced to reference by a specific instance of a problem. The newest Firefox blah blah blah tends to have a problem with this, this, and this, and Opera v.x tends to have a problem with that, that, and that.
Next thing you know the browsers will go versionless too and then at that point all you can do is drink heavily.
So even if you wrote very good code that was compatible across 99% of all browsers out there, a few years go by and you look like lazy morons that just don't care.
That doesn't happen unless the standard is accepting backwards-incompatible changes to widely-established features, which they've committed not to.
As for the backwards-incompatible changes, without version numbers you would really have no way to tell what you are doing anyways. Since you can't reference it by version number you would be forced to reference by a specific instance of a problem. The newest Firefox blah blah blah tends to have a problem with this, this, and this, and Opera v.x tends to have a problem with that, that, and that.
Which is what you have to do with features in the real world anyway.
That doesn't happen unless the standard is accepting backwards-incompatible changes to widely-established features, which they've committed not to.
Provided you only use "widely-established" features. Which ones are those, specifically? Because they certainly have not made any commitment to reject backwards-incompatible features in general. Quite the opposite: they make it very clear that if they decide something is "broken", they will change it without warning. Hope you weren't relying on that "broken"
Numbers are so square. Introducing HTML version "Fred"!
An upcoming revision will make HTML Multi-Freded.
This is the same thing that happens with Operating Systems' need for versioning. What does the board plan, "reflexion" API's where each dev must ask the browser what it can do and assume the missing features in the ethereal standard are enough for the page to render 3 years from now? 10 years from now?
Just like an OS, the standard can drop features at any time; the point of numbers is to tell the dev from an easy test what stylesheets to junk and what error messages to give.
Validity rot isn't the issue here, it's that compliance is now a constantly moving target.
Browser vendors (some more than others) have always had a tough enough time getting their products to comply when the spec was finished and became static. With a dynamic spec chaos will surely ensue and developers will pay the price, because the lowest common denominator won't be as much of a known value as it is now.
Also, didn't Daniel Glazman lament a few years ago about how one of CSS's biggest flaws was the lack o
That's The Google Way, eternal beta.
I know. At this point I would seriously consider junking the whole steaming pile and writing my own. Not that it would ever be used by anyone. The steaming pile has already reached critical mass.
...I can always render the latest HTML in Netscape Navigator. Right?
People will still need to differentiate between implementations of HTML that have different features...do they expect us all to just use the latest and hope nothing breaks?!
Yeah, I look forward to the "this site is compliant with some of HTML standards and not others because they're too new. We can't really define that for you because there is no version, so best of luck to you" badges.
Time to break out those, "This page best viewed in..." badges again!
It's still ok. I'll mail him a money order. Unfortunately it's for a higher amount, but he can just deposit it then send me the difference.
All will be well.
And this is a classic example of having two replies open and responding in the wrong textbox.
I either need way more or way less Monster right now.
It is possible that individual features of HTML will have versions instead of the entire standard. Maybe each tag will have a version?
Or as time moves on, various tags, or sub-features of a tag, gets defined as deprecated.
As long as the basic definition of a tag, and its layout have some kind of default (hello, xml) then this can be done.
People will still need to differentiate between implementations of HTML that have different features...
This presumes that future versions of HTML from the point of adoption forward have backward-incompatible changes. The solution to that is to minimize backward-incompatible changes.
Wow, so now my browser has to interrogate every single element on a page to determine what's supported BEFORE going to plugins etc.
As a practical matter, that's pretty much what you have to do now. Modernizr and the like make it easier for you, but ultimately that's what they're doing. You can't really trust what each browser claims to support anyway.
Just have the browser "not render" the element that's not supported anymore. That's pretty much what they do now.
Microsoft got tired of people asking when they were going to fully support HTML 4....
Now everyone will be able to say "We support HTML" even though nobody fully supports all aspects of the spec. Just like today, only nobody will be able to point their finger at any sort of milestone that they missed, so companies that drag their heels in standards compliance end up looking better.
How is this a benefit again? It seems to me that we need smaller, more frequent milestones, not elimination of those milestones.
Now everyone will be able to say "We support HTML" even though nobody fully supports all aspects of the spec. Just like today,
Yeah, and the major benefit will be that developers of web sites will no longer waste their time trying to figure out what numbered version to declare in their DOCTYPE line, and pointing their fingers accusingly at browsers that don't support exactly that standard. They'll go right to testing against a flock of more-or-less current browsers (plus IE6
Fact is, it has never worked very well to study any particular HTML standard and code s
So, in the future it's impossible to figure out what browser supports what? Because, after all, browser support is dragging behind years even now. Or is that the very goal of Google? Make Chrome the de facto standard, and force everyone else to play the catch-up game?
Seriously, don't do this "living standard" crap. At the very least use minor version numbers to identify a given set of standards. Don't force me to guestimate how a web page I write today is going to behave in browsers 5 years from now; let me specify what behaviour I want.
So, in the future it's impossible to figure out what browser supports what?
Why would you expect the future to be different from the past?
There will be no way to pressure browser developers to be compliant with "NGHTML 4.7" if we can't even talk about it because it lacks a name. It'll also be hard to enumerate features of releases, to decide what version of the standard we're talking about and have programmatic support for that, etc.
This eliminates most of the benefits of having standards to begin with.
"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."
http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/4.html [george-orwell.org]
if we can't even talk about it because it lacks a name.
Hey, we've seen this before - no numbers, but we can have HTML Pro, HTML Extreme, HTML on Acid, HTML JC, etc.
Seriously though, if there is a written standard, no matter what they don't call it, people will label it. HTML 2012, or whatever, will be what was in effect as of January 1st 2012.
Maybe what they're trying to do here isn't to keep browser writers from having excuses for not keeping up, but for keeping the standards body from feeling like if th
So instead of versions, we'll have a big vector of flags, where each flag indicates whether or not a particular HTML feature is required, supported, etc.? And a given web page will work with a given browser only if their two flag vectors are compatible?
This is stupid. Standards exist for a reason.
We'll have exactly what we have now. Browser vendors were already adding draft features into their product before the specification was finalized. Just look at how many browsers support HTML5 features, even though HTML5 does not exist as a standard yet.
I was going to mod, but I cannot let this pass. Browsers have always added features that's true. And in some ways it is required, you cannot make progress by mindlessly adding to the standard, you will have to try out new features first.
But any *mainstream* site should be able to choose a HTML version to support, maybe taking into account some features that are badly supported by the browsers. This way you can be reasonably sure that most browsers (and with the internet appliances market soaring, there are
we'll have a big vector of flags
No. There will be a
I think the "vector of flags" idea has merit, but it introduces worse issues than those it solves. Consider privacy and user-tracking issues; this vector would make it trivial to uniquely identify users because it contains that much more information (see also the EFF's Panopticlick [eff.org]).
We still need "milestones" which can be marked, even if they are years, quarters, or months instead of versions. In this manner, we can still determine compatibility without introducing millions of different combinations of
The subheading on that link seems particularly appropriate:
> Please leave your sense of logic at the door, thanks!
Indeed, and as that article points out, this change in naming applies ONLY to what the WhatWG was calling "HTML5", not to be confused with what W3C calls "HTML 5." For anyone that's been following this, or has read Zeldman's HTML5 book, knows, "HTML5" and "HTML 5" can refer to entirely different sets of standards.
The W3C, as far as I can tell, is still taking "snapshots" of WhatWG's "HTML" spec and numbering them, and the W3C is still the primary authority when it comes to official web specifications.
This change really isn't as big of a deal as people here seem to think, and the original article does confuse the issue.
Do they mean the browser Chrome? As in Google Chrome 8.0.552.237?
Is 8.0.552.237 not the version?
It is for n00bz like you, I'm running 9.0.597.47 beta.
What a n00b, I'm running 10.0.634.0 dev
I can finally paste into Slashdot comments. The future is wonderful.
Really? That's weird because I thought browsers were waring over who could get HTML 5 features out first, who had the most, and showing them off.
But I might be totally crazy.
...The various Javascript APIs, web sockets, IndexedDB, SVG, etc, are not HTML 5.
And what is this jet you speak of? Javascript, CSS, DOM? If these are jets, then someone put the turbines in backwards, pasted the wings on with glue sticks, and is using banana peels as fuel.
Since when did Google become the keepers of the HTML spec?
I think a randomly changing feature-set sounds like a bad idea. HTML is supposed to be a standard, not something which just changes without any real control behind that.
This is like agile programming run amok -- let's expect the customer to have to upgrade to the latest nightly build. That'll work!
Since when did Google become the keepers of the HTML spec?
Since Ian Hickson moved to Google?
Browsers were already adding support for draft features as they happened. I believe his point is that there is no use in waiting until the spec is finalized; add the features they become available and let people start using them now.
Since when did Google become the keepers of the HTML spec?
Google is not "the keepers of the HTML spec". Ian Hickson, who happens to work for Google, is the editor of the HTML5 spec. Usually, spec maintainers work for a firm involved in the area the spec addresses.
I think a randomly changing feature-set sounds like a bad idea.
In none of the discussion of this change has there been any indication that the WHATWG process for HTML will involve random changes.
HTML is supposed to be a standard, not something which just changes without any real control behind that.
There is a process, which is discussed in the WHATWG FAQ [whatwg.org]. The process just doesn't involve version numbers anymore.
Version numbers? Where we are going, we don't *need* version numbers!
Their justifications for the decision are here:
+1 to everyone who thinks this is stupid. In particular given how significant HTML is to the web-as-we-know-it surely there must've been some consultation before making a call like this? With a cacaphony of "NO" coming through here (and very little, if any, support) one has to wonder....
If this is Hickson's idea, it certainly tops all the other terrible or poorly reasoned ideas he's come up with.
A constantly evolving standard is bad news for everybody
The standard was, in fact, constantly evolving anyway, and all the browser vendors (and other heavily interested parties) were engaged in the process and doing pretty much exactly what they would do under a version-number-less process.
The only difference is that people that weren't deeply involved were dealing with snapshots that the major players were treating as outdated.
I broke the cardinal rule and read TFA. From TFA:
"Hickson mentions that the group will be dropping the HTML5 name immediately, but it we have not received a confirmation that this will happen over at the W3C as well."
So WHATWG will no longer be using numbers? WHATWG can call it "Hullapuhjelpus" as far as I'm concerned as long as W3C still continues using version numbers. Version numbers provide excellent reference points to featuresets and are useful to implementers, developers, and end users alike.
From the WHATWG Blog:
"However, shortly after that we realised that the demand for new features in HTML remained high, and so we would have to continue maintaining HTML and adding features to it before we could call "HTML5" complete, and as a result we moved to a new development model, where the technology is not versioned and instead we just have a living document that defines the technology as it evolves."
Because there's demand for new features you no longer want to use a numbering scheme? Many standards are evolving. Why not just increment the minor version when new features are added? HTML version 5.1 added this cool thing, 5.2 this cool thing, etc.
If we're dumping version numbers then why bother calling it Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8, and 9? Why not just call it "Internet Explorer"? We all know that each of those versions render pages the same, right? Hmm. I just realized that I invoked Internet Explorer in a discussion about standards. Mea Culpa.
How does removing the version number help the people who need to implement and work with the standard?
Say hello to HTML 2011.
How does removing the version number help the people who need to implement and work with the standard?
It doesn't, it's a fucking disaster. I'll give a concrete example. I used HTML 5 audio on a site with a Flash fallback for browsers that didn't support it. All is good and well. One day, I start getting complaints that the audio is broken. Turns out that a) the HTML 5 spec had changed and b) Firefox had changed to match in a minor point release. Firefox 3.51 worked, Firefox 3.5.2 didn't, as I recall. The new API was indistinguishable from the old API in as much as all the same objects and functions were there, but a return value had changed. So, even with the best practice method of feature detection, anybody writing to the old API was screwed.
So I fixed it up by removing the HTML 5 audio and made the decision to wait until HTML 5 was published in its final form. Something that I should have done to begin with really, it's madness to use HTML 5 at the moment as it's just not finished yet. You don't know what is going to change.
And now they want to do away with a "final" version altogether? Gee thanks, guys! How am I going to be able to trust it to be stable enough to rely on ever again? What's going to stop the same thing from happening over and over again?
Funny distribution of approval on the linked blog's comments there (I hope not to have violated the rule of not RTFA I just read the comments there I swear).
First 10 comments, 2 negative. Last 10 (around n.50 as I write) 9 negative.
Color me "not surprise". Engineers, much like artists, have a hard time knowing when something is done and want to "tweak and tweak" everything to death.
Solution? Rather than *finish* something, just remove the versions! It'll be in development for perpetuity - an engineer's dream come true.
HTML ME, closly followed by HTML XP
What was said is that the moving spec in development is now called HTML, when a snapshot is taken it will be called HTML5, next HTMLX.X.X or any other name. The WHATWG spec is not a finalized document, HTML5 will be snapshoted sometime
Ian Hickson, a Google engineer and editor of the HTML5 standard announced that the language will be transitioned to a 'living standard' without version numbers. A bit like like Chrome, if you will."
The HTML standards committee takes eternity and a day to finalize anything.
Which is how and why workable solutions - like Flash - that evolve outside the committee gain traction.
20% of peak hour Internet traffic in the states was a content-protected Netflix stream before Netflix offered a streaming-only service. HVEC - aka H.265 - will be ready in about two years. High Efficiency Video Coding / HEVC / H.265 : Beyond H.264 [vcodex.com]
Half the bit rate of H.264 for content of the same quality...
The HTML standards committee takes eternity and a day to finalize anything.
Exactly. Ten years passed between HTML 3 and 4. Another ten have now passed from 4 to 5, and 5 is still not an official standard.
Meantime, requests for features and API tweaks flow in, and all browsers are going ahead and building them (even IE!). If you froze the spec after so many features, you would be drafting HTML 8 before HTML 5 became standard.
Second, I don't know about you, but I write web apps for a living, and I've used HTML since 1997, and never once did version numbers help me. By the time I got serious, it was HTML 4. But none of the browsers posted anything like "we are an HTML 4 browser," and if they did, they lied, especially Internet Explorer. To know what worked, you tested and read about tests other people did on each the browsers.
Finally, the term "HTML 5" has already been stretched so much to be meaningless. I'm not even talking about the journalists who use it to mean things that you could do with 4. HTML 5 is huge: Canvas, video, audio, three persistent storage APIs and one session storage API, various APIs to do with the web address, geolocation, and others. Does a browser need to call itself HTML 4 until fully implements all of these? How would that help me?
The only thing I have ever really looked for are those comparison tables with the red and green squares, like we've always done, to figure out what to use in my web page next.
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Lance Franklin's injury clouds Sydney's victory
Goals: Sydney: K Jack 2 B McGlynn D Hannebery H Cunningham J Kennedy L Franklin L Parker T Derickx. Melbourne: C Dawes C Salem D Tyson M Jones S Byrnes.
BEST - Sydney: D. Hannebery, R. Shaw, L. Parker, C. Bird, K. Jack, J. Kennedy, H. Grundy. Melbourne: N. Jones, M. Jones, B. Vince, D. Cross, L. Dunn, T. McDonald, J. Grimes.
Umpires: Dean Margetts, Heath Ryan, Andrew Mitchell.
Official Crowd: 24,855 at MCG.
Sydney overcame a dogged Melbourne by 31 points at the MCG on Saturday night, but the Swans' third win of the season was overshadowed by a knee injury to superstar forward Lance Franklin.
Franklin got tangled up with Demon Tom McDonald 12 minutes into the third quarter and came up clutching his right knee. He limped to the bench, where he received treatment for 10 minutes before he was subbed out of the match after several run-throughs on the sideline.
The injury cast a pall over the Swans' third win in the past month and the successful return of Adam Goodes, who started as the substitute and replaced Franklin in the third term of the 9.15 (69) to 5.8 (38) victory.
Goodes made an immediate impact when he set up two goals in his first appearance since suffering a knee injury in round 13 last year.
With Jarrad McVeigh blanketed by former Bulldog Daniel Cross for most of the evening, the Sydney skipper's midfield teammates took up the slack with Dan Hannebery, Luke Parker and Josh Kennedy all working hard around the stoppages.
While Melbourne coach Paul Roos was unable to conjure a win in his first encounter with the club he coached for 202 games, he certainly designed a game plan that troubled the Swans for the first three quarters.
It wasn't much of a spectacle for the 24,855 fans, but to be fair, both coaches showed a clear intent to get numbers back behind the ball, which starved forwards of clear opportunities as their teammates grimly battled for territory.
Franklin was given a torrid welcome back to the ground that he last visited as a Hawk in last year's grand final, with direct opponent McDonald adopting a physical approach to minding the star Swan. But the Demons defender gave away the free kick that allowed Franklin to slot his only goal of the night in a bright opening by Sydney.
Parker was prominent as the visitors put through the first two goals of the match, but the Demons, once again well led by Nathan Jones, managed to absorb that early pressure and wrest the momentum through the middle of the term.
A goal to Shannon Byrnes was all the Dees had to show for their efforts when Sydney hit back with Kieran Jack sending his side into the first break with a 21-point lead when he converted from long range inside the last minute of the quarter.
With the Swans threatening, Melbourne lifted its pressure around the contest in the second term, which didn't help the aesthetics of the largely scrappy encounter, but effectively frustrated Sydney's attempts to deliver clean ball inside attacking 50.
Chris Dawes and James Frawley struggled to have an influence up forward for the Demons on the back of some poor delivery, but Dawes slipped free to boot the only goal of the quarter as Melbourne closed the gap to 17 points at half-time.
Franklin found Harry Cunningham for the first goal of the second half, but his night came to a premature end minutes later as Josh Kennedy extended the Swans' lead to 30 points midway through the third term.
The arrival of Goodes was greeted by applause from all quarters of the ground and he was immediately in the thick of the action with his first kick sailing towards goal before it was cut off by the desperate Melbourne defender.
The Demons were 26 points down heading into the final term and needed to score more goals than they had in the first three quarters if they were to mount a successful comeback.
On a bright note for the Demons, debutant Christian Salem, who came on as the substitute, booted his first AFL goal, but Goodes found Ben McGlynn with a searing pass that he duly converted to put the game beyond Melbourne's reach.
In a triumphant return, Goodes also set up Tom Derickx for a late goal as the Swans closed out the match, which evens their season's ledger at three wins and three losses.
But while Swans coach John Longmire will be pleased with his side's momentum in recent weeks, all eyes will be on Franklin, who will undergo scans in the coming days.
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If you were going to create a list of the Twins' offseason needs, you would likely write in big, bold letters STARTING PITCHING and underline it twice and put some exclamation points next to it for safe measure.
Clearly this area of the team put the Twins in significant default night after night. Shackled to the American League's worst earned run average (5.40), the focal point of the front office will be to beg, borrow and steal anything they can that can help deflate that unsightly statistic and give the team an opportunity to win games in 2013. For the most part, this means throwing whatever free cash at a consistent starter or two and potentially trading away a key member of the team in order to acquire more.
While the starting pitching problem was so big it could be seen from space, perhaps somewhat surprising is what the Twins viewed as their second biggest need is. During an interview with TwinsDaily.com's John Bonnes, Twins general manager Terry Ryan told the incredulous Bonnes that finding more relief pitching was next in line.
This is interesting for several reasons. Whereas the starting rotation was obviously downright horrendous, the Twins bullpen actually fared well. A pessimist might say that the relief staff's success may be due to the fact that by the time Ron Gardenhire dipped into his 'pen, the opposing team was too tuckered out from all the home run-hitting and base-circling to put forth any real effort. An optimist, on the other hand, would point out that guys like Glen Perkins, Jared Burton and Brian Duensing formed a solid core of late innings options. And, given that those three members will be back in 2013, there would seem to be fewer vital roles to fill in the bullpen which helps redirect the resources back to the starting pitching.
Here's another thing: The cost of relief pitching could get scary expensive.
Early this week, the Dodgers made a somewhat surprising move when they extended right-handed reliever Brandon League with a three-year, $22.5 million deal, giving him short of $8 million per year. The hard-throwing 31-year-old comes equipped with the "proven closer" label which may help explain some of the need to pay out that much, but his walk rate has fluctuated that it may be hard to sit still with him on the mound in a close game.
While that may seem like a steep price, there may be some logic behind why League received $7.5 million per year. In a candid interview, Cleveland Indians team president and former general manager Mark Sharpiro told Fox Sport Ohio's Pat McManamon that, based on growing revenue streams, the cost of purchasing one "win" on the free agent market has increased from $8 million just a few years ago to $9 million this year.
Per the interview:
Q: How is that figure determined?
A: Our analysts can put a value on what it costs in free agency to sign a player and what that means in Wins Above Replacement and what those players end up costing in free agency and that changes every year. They measure all the players signed in free agency and what their history has been and what they offer going forward and they place a value. The challenge in free agency is you're often paying for that in the first year of a contract, and in the out years of a contract the players WAR usually goes down because he's usually past his prime. So it becomes a less efficient contract over time. That's why free agency is never the best way to build. It's a good way to supplement but not build.
Q: So $8 million for one win?
A: It's $9 (million) now. It was $8 (million) two yeas ago. I think at the end of this year they figured out it was nine. And when those wins come in the win curve are important. What does that win mean if it's the difference between 80 and 81? Very little. But if that win's the difference between 89 and 90, that could be a meaningful win.
So, applying this logic to League's contract, we find that over the last three seasons he has accumulated 2.5 wins above replacement which averages out to 0.8 wins above replacement per year. If a team were to purchase that on an open market, that would cost $7.2 million – just shy of the average annual value of League's actual contract of $7.5 million. Provided League performs at or better than his last three seasons, the contract may actually wind up right on the money and not nearly as insane as the initial reactions. Then again, if League underperforms or gets injured, the contract could blow up in their face.
Needless to say, most teams have to feel confident in their projections in order to dish out $9 million per win on the free agent market. That, or have Scrooge McDuck-type of money. Stupidly rich teams like the Dodgers have the luxury of committing that volume of money to a set-up man/closer and walking away financially unscathed if something goes wrong. Not every team in baseball will be looking to pay the going rate of a relief pitcher. The Twins will need to be smart with their investments and, given their track record of eschewing long-term contracts to free agents and avoiding marquee ones, there are no indications that they would chase any free agent down that rabbit hole.
Outside of the top relief arms who can anticipate multi-year contracts, there are several players who may be acquired for fewer than three years. There is Kyle Farnsworth who pitched well as Tampa Bay's closer but elbow soreness truncated his 2012 season. Likewise, Jason Frasor also battled an elbow injury but struck out 53 in 43.2 innings thanks to a dirty slider. Mark Lowe, a member of the Rangers and Mariners bullpen, can bring some heat and miss bats but a non-arm related injury (intercoastal) sidetracked this past season. Those are just three of the bargain rate right-handed arms that could be available for the Twins. Heck, if bridges aren't burnt, Pat Neshek, who threw frisbee after frisbee in Oakland, seems to have rediscovered his command and would be a solid option for a season. These kind of arms may give you the same wins above replacement value but will not likely require the $9 million pay out.
While the more statistically inclined organizations like the Indians may run numbers on everyone until their word processors explode, the Twins have proven quite adept at nabbing arms who require a bit more scouting acumen over the stats. Well, that, and the sheer numbers game. The Twins philosophy when it comes to relief pitching appears to stem from Branch Rickey's farm system mantra: From quantity comes quality.
Last year the Twins signed a bushel of low cost minor league relief arms including Jared Burton, Jason Bulger, Luis Perdomo, Casey Fein and Joel Zumaya. Of the five, Burton emerged as a legitimate hurler while Fein threw well in the final two months of the season.
Expect Terry Ryan and the Twins to be very active in the reliever market, just don't anticipate them to pay the going rate. After all, there are bigger fish to fry.
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By Whitney Creasy, Special to The Times
The Knights of Riverside Christian Academy defeated Sacred Heart of Jesus High School of Jackson in a 40-25 game on Friday night to become the Middle Tennessee Athletic Conference Division Two regular season champions.
Senior quarterback Reagan Eldridge connected with his brother, Ryan Eldridge, on a three-yard pass to score the Knights' first touchdown with 9:59 left in the first quarter, and Eldridge's pass to Caleb Durham for the two-point conversion was good to bring the score to 8-0.
RCA kicked the ball off to SHJHS for a touchback. SHJHS was penalized on their first offensive play after the kickoff, moving them back to their own goal line. RCA freshman Nathan Moose tackled the SHJHS running back in the end zone for a safety, putting RCA up 10-0.
The next RCA score came with 11:52 left in the second quarter on a six-yard pass from Reagan Eldridge to Josh Brooks. Eldridge ran the ball in the end zone for the two-point conversion, making the score RCA, 18, SHJHS, 0.
Sacred Heart would score twice before halftime on two touchdown runs. They made one of the point-after-touchdown attempts to bring the score to RCA, 26, SHJHS, 13, at the half.
RCA's second half kickoff was returned by SHJHS for a touchdown on the first play of the third quarter, closing the score to 26-19.
RCA's first score of the second half came with 8:24 left in the third quarter on a nine-yard pass from Eldridge to Josh Brooks; the two-point conversion attempt was no good for a score of 32-19.
Eldridge connected with RCA sophomore Seth Finch on an eight-yard pass to the end zone for another Knights touchdown with 6:41 left in the game. Reagan Eldridge's pass to Ryan Eldridge was good for the two-point conversion for a score of 40-19.
SHJHS scored the last points of the game with one minute left to go on a touchdown run. The extra point attempt was no good for a final score of RCA, 40, SHJHS, 25.
Reagan Eldridge led the Knights on offense with 19 quarterback keeps for 159 yards rushing and seven first down conversions. Eldridge also completed 16 of 26 passes for 221 yards, five touchdowns and two interceptions.
Nathan Moose had 12 carries for 36 yards and two first down conversions for the Knights, and Josh Brooks had three carries for 14 yards.
Josh Brooks led the Knights in receiving with seven catches for 105 yards, three touchdowns and two first down conversions. Seth Finch had six catches for 68 yards, one touchdown and one first down conversion for the Knights. Mason Forchetti had one catch for forty yards and one first down conversion.
Nathan Elrod and Josh Mills led the Knights on defense. Elrod had six tackles, two tackles for a loss, and caused one fumble. Mills had five tackles, three assisted tackles, and two caused fumbles.
Also contributing on defense were Reagan Eldridge with seven tackles; Josh Hill with four tackles, one tackle for a loss, and an assisted tackle; Josh Brooks with three tackles, one tackle for a loss, one assisted tackle, a fumble recovery for 12 yards, and two deflected passes; Seth Finch with two assisted tackles; Nathan Moose with an assisted tackle and a safety; and Caleb Durham with a fumble recovery.
The Knights will travel to Montgomery on Friday night to play a non-conference game against Evangel Family. The Knights' next home game will be Friday, Oct. 19, against Aaron Academy beginning at 7 p.m.


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The Swan 60 marks a significant milestone in yachting history, on the one hand a stylish and highly-competitive contender for the race courses of the world and on the other, a luxurious, high performance cruiser/racer that will cross oceans in comfort.
Under her former name 'Innovision', this yacht sailed to victory in 1998 Swan Cup owing to her tactician and project manager Russell Coutts who played a key role in the specification and build of the yacht in 1996. In the years since, 'Fiamma' has been given the royal treatment and been subjected to intense maintenance program that has seen nearly every system on the boat renewed in the last five years. This racer/cruiser is a perfect contender for the glamourous new Swan Maxi Class which begins in the Mediterranean this summer.
While stored ashore in Italy from November until April each year since 2003, Fiamma' has undergone many extensive improvement projects including the following:
2007: New 60lbs CQR anchor
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New Refrigeration pump
New Stereo hi-fi system
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Wave-Finder system installed, Radar interface with Man Overboard transponders, 8 personal beacons
Installation of new steering cables
Refit and service of rudder bearings
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New turn-buckles for Cap and lower shrouds
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Installation of new engine and associated components Yanmar 4LHA with new exhaust system
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LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman (photo by JD Lasica)
Reid Hoffman on pervasive data and how it will impact business in the future
In addition to being the founder of LinkedIn, Reid Hoffman is a Silicon Valley insider with rich insight into technology trends, markets and building companies.
I attended his presentation at SxSW, where his main message was that the future was bearing down on us, and he prophesied that it would "arrive sooner and be stranger than we think."
- He painted the context for his theme, "Web 3.0 as data," with this timeline:
- Web 1.0 was a low bandwidth environment in which individuals searched for files online (and on demand). The concept of "cyberspace" was separate from the "real" world. It was an anonymous world in which many people participated as animes.
- Web 2.0 was a shift in which people increasingly participated with their real identities (MySpace notwithstanding), and the online world became increasingly integrated with the offline world. Social networks mapped social graphs (again, with real people), and most people blogged as themselves. Online became firmly embedded in offline life, as a way to help manage and navigate by using reviews and other buying tools. Wikileaks and the current revolutions in the Middle East are part of this larger trend.
- Web 3.0 is mostly to do with the massive amounts of active and passive data we are generating. An example of passive data is phone calls from mobile devices. Bandwidth is increasing, which enables video, audio and graphic sharing and data. Hoffman advocates thinking hard about it and acting to protect data. Think about what kind of future we want to create.
- Web 3.0's data introduces significant risks to privacy because every transaction, passive and active, is linked to our real identities. Mobile device transactions are constantly tracked, and this is relevant because they are tied to real identities.
- Hoffman's biggest fear is how governments could use information to control people. Governments are organizations that are closest to what he called "pure power" (because they integrate information, legal authority and military/police power). They can mine email, text and all other digital data to learn anyone's social graph.
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NEWMARKET — A University of New Hampshire art history professor is facing a domestic assault charge after allegedly striking a woman with a cane.
David Smith, 67, of 27 Elm St., was arrested Saturday evening when a woman who lives at the residence reported to police that she had been assaulted.
The alleged assault took place during an altercation between the two, according to police.
Smith's resume shown on the university's website, boasts numerous exhibits curated, publications authored, various fellowships, grants and honors, as well as lectures and courses taught throughout his professional history.
The professor could not be reached for comment Tuesday evening.
The university is aware of Smith's arrest and is keeping the campus community a priority at this time.
According to UNH media relations director, Erika Mantz, "We will continue to monitor and evaluate the situation as it progresses through the legal system with a focus on the rights and needs of our faculty, staff and students."
Smith was released on $1,500 personal recognizance bail and is prohibited from having contact with the woman.
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Adam opens the show talking about the interesting venue he performed in over the weekend, as well as a backstage toilet mishap. Adam also comments on the history of Boston, the Three Stooges, and why airplanes shouldn't serve asparagus to patrons. Lisa Lampanelli then calls into the show, and Adam talks with her about building and performing her new one-woman show. Later, Adam has more complaints about bad airplane food and why all planes should have a sleep channel.
After the break, Bald Bryan reviews the new Edgar Wright film, The Worlds End, for this week's Baldywood. Adam then rants about coffee shops needing a line for people who just want regular coffee and nothing fancy. Next up, Alison starts the news discussing the state of emergency in CA because all the TV and film productions are going out of state where taxes are lower. The group also talks about Alec Baldwin's new baby girl. As the show wraps up, the guys watch footage from the VMAs, and discuss the casting choice of Ben Affleck as Batman.
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