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Dollar stores lure us in with rock-bottom prices. Sometimes you get what you pay for, but often the things they sell are good products at a tremendous discount — a real bargain.
1. Greeting Cards
There is no reason to spend $4 to $5 or more on a greeting card when dollar stores typically have a wide selection available for a buck or less. You might not get textured paper or fancy extras like ribbon, but the heartfelt message you write will be the same regardless of how expensive the card looks.
2. Party Supplies
By some estimates, you can save up to 70% by using party supplies from a dollar store. Get plastic tablecloths, paper plates and cups, streamers and favors from the dollar store and save a bundle. Don't forget to look for Mylar/foil balloons too. These are an absolute bargain and can easily sell for five times as much elsewhere.
3. Gift Bags, Boxes and Wrapping Paper
While you're getting your party supplies, look for gift bags and wrapping paper too. You could end up paying two or three times more for gift bags and boxes at other stores. In addition, wrapping paper can be a steal. You might not get the same thickness of expensive paper, but for something that's going to end up in the trash, why pay more?
4. Seasonal Décor
From extra ornaments for your Christmas tree to a scarecrow to stake in your front yard for the fall, dollar stores can have a surprisingly robust selection of seasonal décor. Pick up some bargain-priced items to decorate your house for less. But stay away from holiday lights, which have a poor track record of safety at discount stores.
5. Reading Glasses
As we age, we often have difficulty focusing on close objects. In many cases, a simple pair of reading glasses is all you need, and the reading glasses at dollar stores are as good as those found in other stores. However, if you have trouble seeing at a distance, it may be time to schedule an eye exam and see about getting a prescription pair.
6. Hair Accessories
From elastic bands to bobby pins to headbands, you can find hair accessories at a fraction of the price at dollar stores. Combs and brushes can be a bargain too.
7. Pregnancy Tests
Grocery store pregnancy tests will set you back $10 to $15, but you can find them at some dollar stores for only a buck. You might be wondering whether a $1 pregnancy test is going to be accurate. That's a good question and, according to this news report, the answer is yes.
8. Vases and Decorative Bowls
Don't bother with other stores for vases and decorative bowls. The dollar store probably carries a number of styles at a price that can't be beat. You can use vases to skip the florist and make your own, much cheaper arrangements. Or spruce up decorative glass bowls to make inexpensive gifts for family or friends.
9. Mugs and Glasses
Like vases and bowls, mugs and glasses are also a good buy at dollar stores. The quality is comparable to what you might get at Walmart or other mass merchandisers. As a bonus, you can typically buy only the items you need rather than being forced to purchase a set.
10. Dishes
Dollar stores also often have a nice selection of open stock dishes. This isn't going to be top-of-the-line quality, but they're perfectly serviceable pieces. For those with little kids, dollar store dishes can be just what you need to get you through that phase of life when something seems to get broken in the kitchen on a weekly basis.
11. Storage Containers
Plastic storage containers also get a thumbs up when it comes to great dollar store buys. In the grocery store, you can easily pay up to $5 for disposable containers. Get them for a buck at the dollar store instead. You can also find some great deals on storage bags, but be wary of off-brands that may not seal correctly.
12. Picture Frames
If you're crafty, dollar store picture frames are an excellent buy. With a little paint or other decoration, bargain frames can look as nice on your walls as their more expensive counterparts. However, quality can vary widely. Check the joints to make sure they are secure and look for stray glue that may be difficult to remove.
13. Bagged or Boxed Candy
Checkout lane candy will likely be just as cheap, if not cheaper, at the grocery store, but movie theater-style boxed candy and bagged candy can be a bargain at the dollar store. Next Halloween, head there for your treats rather than paying supermarket prices.
14. Socks
Much of the clothing you find at dollar stores is of an inferior quality and not worth the money. One exception may be socks. Dollar store socks can be as good as department store varieties if you buy the right type. Look for ones made with acrylic or spandex for a comfy fit.
15. Washcloths and Dish Towels
Finally, the price of washcloths and dish towels at the dollar store can't be beat. You need to be careful with some towels that won't be absorbent enough to dry dishes. However, even those work great as cleaning rags.
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Vitamin B1(thiamin) is a water-soluble vitamin of the 8 B complex vitamins. All B vitamins help the body convert food (carbohydrates) into fuel (glucose), which is used to produce energy. The B vitamins, also help the body metabolize fats and protein. B complex vitamins are needed for healthy skin, hair, eyes, and liver. They also help the nervous system function properly, and are needed for good brain function.
Vitamin B1(Thiamin) is used by cells to help make energy from foodstuffs. Thiamin pyrophosphate is a cofactor for dehydrogenase enzymes with key roles in cellular energy production. Thiamin pyrophosphate is required for transketolase activity, which is a component of the pentose phosphate pathway, the sole source for the synthesis of ribose used in synthesis of the nucleic acids (DNA and RNA). These reactions also produce the major source of cellular NADPH (used in fatty acid biosynthesis and other pathways). Thiamin triphosphate is localized in nerve cell membranes, and plays a role in transmission of nervous impulses and acetylcholine synthesis.
Deficiency symptoms:
Early vitamin B1(thiamin) deficiency leads to clinical signs of:
- Loss of appetite
- Irritability
- Fatigue
- Constipation
- Mental depression
- Nausea
- Peripheral Neuropathy
Clinical signs of more severe thiamin deficiency (Wernicke-Korsafoff Syndrome):
- Mental confusion
- Loss of eye coordination
- Loss of fine motor control
- Weakness
Those at risk for vitamin B1(Thiamin) deficiency include:
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It's no secret that DEET has been the go-to insect repellent ingredient for more than half a century. It's effective against ticks and mosquitoes, but it comes with a price: It's been identified as a neurotoxin and can cause skin reactions, eye irritation, headaches, lethargy, and even seizures. It's especially problematic for kids, who can easily get the repellent on their hands and into their mouths.
Although repellents made with herbs and essential oils tend to work for shorter periods of time, they're safer than DEET and can be effective for staving off insects. Citronella, cedar, lemongrass, lemon-eucalyptus, and rosemary oils work well, with higher concentrations offering better protection.
Natural insect repellents are widely available. You can also make your own by adding a few drops of essential oil to a vegetable oil. (Test it on a small area of skin first; dilutions of 20 to 50 percent are more effective for keeping away insects but can irritate the skin.)
Consider these essential oils for DEET-free bug protection.
Tea tree is a natural insect repellent. And it can help reduce itching if a bite does occur.
Citronella keeps ticks, houseflies, and mosquitoes at bay. It's often found in repellent candles for outdoor use.
Lemon eucalyptus and rose geranium are effective against mosquitoes. They also deter sandflies, ticks, and midges.
Pennyroyal fends off many biting insects, including chiggers, fleas, flies, gnats, mosquitoes, and ticks.
Patchouli and neem will help keep mosquitoes away.
Basil and thyme are among many other herbal oils that appear to work well.
Lavender at a 30 percent dilution can repel ticks.
Aromatherapy by Kathi Keville and Mindy Green ($19.95, Crossing Press, 2009)
Naturally Bug-Free: 75 Nontoxic Recipes for Repelling Mosquitoes, Ticks, Fleas, Ants, Moths & Other Pesky Insects by Stephanie L. Tourles ($10.95, Storey Publishing, 2016)
"Popular Insect Repellent Deet Is Neurotoxic," www.ScienceDaily.com, 8/6/09
"Researchers Compare 'Natural' Mosquito Repellents to DEET," Entomological Society of America, 10/28/15


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Every week, Food52's Senior Editor Kristen Miglore is unearthing recipes that are nothing short of genius.
Today: Grilled beets for the multi-tasker -- and (optional) redemption for cottage cheese.
- KristenThese may look like the roasted beets you know, but they aren't. These beets were buried in hot coals and lived to tell the tale. Singed rosemary and smoke lurk inside, and we can thank Jamie Oliver for that.This delightful recipe comes from his 2008 cookbook Jamie at Home and the TV series that accompanied it, which had him sourcing clever, simple recipes out of his own garden in Essex.
The genius of this recipe is twofold:1) The coal-roasting technique, which renders the beets subtly smoky -- not dingy casino smoky.
2) A life-changing cottage cheese dressing. More on that later.First up, the technique: I've learned there's more than one way to grill a beet. You could slice them thick and lay them straight on the grill for handsome char marks (like this) but you risk them slipping through the grate, unless you have one of those grill basket thingies.
And there's always the matter of your whole meal competing for surface area on the grill, especially when you're cooking to feed a lot of people. As you're carefully flipping your beet slices (and growling every time you lose one to the ashes), the dang steaks are getting cold! Oliver's method allows you to multi-task -- and multi-story -- your grill, instead of cooking in shifts. The beets cook in the basement.
Here's how: You bundle up your beets in protective layers of beet greens, rosemary and foil, just like they're going into a campfire. You stab the foil all over to make vents for the delicious smoke. Then you nestle your foil packet under the coals for half an hour or so while you get ready to grill whatever else up top -- fish, steak, garlic bread, even salad. (See the whole process illustrated in the slideshow below.)How will you know the beets are done? Just poke them (through the foil, between the coals) with a paring knife. If they're soft to their middles and magenta beet blood seeps out on the withdrawl, they're done. Time to excavate.
After they cool, you'll slip off their skins and your hands will turn pink. (If the skins put up any resistance, gently scrape them away with the back of a paring knife.)
At this point, you can quit and eat the beets however you like. Keep them in the fridge and slice them up for salads or burgers all week long. But I recommend you proceed to genius element number 2: the life-altering cottage cheese dressing.I've never been a fan of cottage cheese. How unfair that it's historically been presented by the binful at salad bars, or as a wan plop on the side of a badly garnished diner platter. Plus, isn't it diet food?
But if anyone can make such a thing sexy, it's Jamie Oliver. Whoops, there went that food prejudice. (Anyone want to work on my mental block about egg salad?)
To doll up this so-called diet food, Oliver swirls it with lemon juice and zest and generous glugs of olive oil, for a dressing that's beautifully broken and lumpy, mottled white and gold. You'd never think that elegant lemon and olive oil would benefit from squeaky cheese, but they do.
Sure -- in a typical stroke of exuberance -- Oliver uses four different herbs in this recipe (rosemary, parsley, tarragon, thyme), but you don't really have to. Feel free to streamline, mix and match. But it's sure good his way, if you've got the herbs (and the cottage cheese, which now holds a soft, squeaky place in my heart).
Jamie Oliver's Smoked Beets (with Lemon-Thyme Cottage Cheese Dressing)
From Jamie at Home (Hyperion, 2008)
Serves 4 as a side.
See the full recipe (and save and print it) here.
To see Jamie Oliver making this salad while kneeling in his garden in Essex, go here and skip to 4:25. It appears the episode will also be broadcast in full on the Cooking Channel this October 13th at 6pm.
Want more genius? Try last week's recipe: Nancy Silverton's Whipped Cream.
Got a genius recipe to share -- from a classic cookbook, an online source, or anywhere, really? Please send it my way (and tell me what's so smart about it) at [email protected].
Photos by James Ransom
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Game Day Information
Items to Bring to Each Game:
Joel's cell phone number (408 590-9319) in case issues arise on game day.
For U6, U8 and U10, each player's 1601 Form. For U12 and U14, Player Passes.
Three game balls.
Access to the game rules (either via web site from phone or print a copy), in case any questions arise during the game.
A roll of tape, if you have the first game of the morning (U10 coaches only).
Remind your players that shin guards are mandatory.
Combination for all Portable Toilets: 1-4-14
There is a "No Dogs Policy" on all School Campuses.
Goal Differential Rule:
For all age groups, ensure that the Goal Differential is not greater than Five.
Strategies to manage goal differential:
Switch offensive with defensive players.
Require that kids pass a certain amount of times before shooting.
Require that the kids shoot outside of the penalty box.
Require that kids shoot with their off-sided foot.
Reduce the number of players on the field.
Game Scores will NOT be Tracked:
Guest Player Rule:
Within the Recreational Program, guest (non-rostered) players are not permitted to be used for any reason, as supplements to a roster. Use of guest players runs contrary to the spirit of OVYSL's Recreational Program, of having fun without the pressure of winning. In addition, non-rostered players take playing time away from rostered players on the team. In lieu of recruiting guest players, coaches have the option to reschedule games if for some reason they are not able to field a team on a particular date.
Rescheduling a Game:
If you should have a scheduling conflict during the season, please contact the opposing team's coach, in order to reschedule the game. Games at Nordstrom and P.A. Walsh must end by 5:00PM. Games at Galvan Park must end at 1:30PM. Do not schedule games on Sundays. Please make schedule changes at least 7 days prior to the originally scheduled game, and keep schedule changes to a minimum. You will also need to verify with Joel, that the field is not being used for another rescheduled game or a competitive game. Please always keep Joel in the loop for all rescheduled games, such that he can make certain that the equipment and the field is available for your game.
For U10 only: If you reschedule a game, please notify Dave Kaeini at 408 706-8929, or at firstname.lastname@example.com, such that he can cancel the referees for the initial game and try to reschedule referees for your new game.
Game Rain-Out Notification Procedure:
Games will be played as scheduled, in the event of light rain. It is the condition of the fields, which dictates whether or not games are canceled. OV is not permitted to play on fully saturated fields, as it results in damage to the grass.
Friday night's rain activity and Saturday morning's weather conditions determine if games are canceled and therefore OV is only able to notify coaches about game cancellations on that Saturday morning, shortly before 8:00am. Therefore, please do not contact OV on Friday night for an update. If you do not hear from Joel, games are ON.
If field and weather conditions result in the cancellation of games, here is how you will be notified: You will receive an email and/or you will receive a text message to the preferred contact phone number that you provided at the beginning of the season (the one that is listed on the game schedule).
If games are rained out, they will not be rescheduled.
Referee No-Show Procedure (U10 Only):
OV's Referee Coordinator attempts to assign referees for all U10 recreation games, as late as Friday and sometimes into that Saturday morning. Given the last minute nature of referee vacancies, OV will not be able to notify you in advance of your game, if a referee has not been assigned to your game. In the event that the League is not able to obtain referees for one of your games, please be aware that each coach will be required to step in and referee based on the Two Man Referee System, outlined in the hand guide.
Field Setup and Breakdown:
If you have the first game of the day, you are required to setup your one-half of the field prior to game time, and to unlock the equipment. Please allow for some extra time to complete this task such that games can start according to the schedule. Also, please unlock the portable toilet when you arrive. The code is 1-4-14.
Please do not tie the nets to the goals (using the nets themselves), as it becomes nearly impossible at times for us to remove them. The nets must be removed in order to store them in the equipment enclosure, such that they are not left vulnerable to theft. Please bring along a roll of tape (if you are a set-up coach), as this is the easiest way to attach the nets to the goals. It is difficult for the League to use Velcro bands, because it requires the bands to remain on the nets, which may not always be the case.
If you have the last game of the day, you are required to breakdown one-half of the field, and to place the equipment (goals, nets, corner flags, goal anchors) back into the equipment enclosure. If you are using full size goals, the nets are to be placed back into the enclosure and the goals are to be broken down and locked against the fence. Both locks, for the enclosure and for the goals, must be locked, before you leave the field. Also, lock the portable toilet.
Refer to your game schedule in order to determine if you are the last team to play on the field for that day. If you have rescheduled your game, you may be required to set up and to break down the equipment and to lock it before you leave the field.
Additional Information for Games at Nordstrom:
The Equipment box at Nordstrom contains "L" shaped hooks that must be used to secure the goals to the ground. Please use two hooks per goal. A mallet has been placed inside the equipment box, to facilitate driving the hooks into the ground. The hooks and the mallet are located in the top tray of the equipment box.
It is MOST IMPORTANT that ALL hooks are removed from the ground when dismantling the goals. If the hooks remain in the ground, the groundskeeper will accidentally mow them, which is problematic, and in addition the remaining sharp pieces in the grass are dangerous.
Please place the mallet and the hooks back into the top tray.
Trash Pickup:
Please assign a parent (usually the snack parent) to pick up any trash after your game. During the week, coaches need to ensure that no trash is left behind after practices as well.
Portable Toilets:
A requirement from the school district is that each portable toilet is locked when the field is not in use. OV will lose its ability to use the field if we do not adhere to this policy. It is essential that the coaches which have the last game of the day ensure that the portable toilet is locked prior to leaving the field. If you unlock the toilet during the week for practice, you must secure the toilet prior to leaving the field that day.
Parking Regulations at Nordstrom Elementary School:
Any time that the Nordstrom parking lot gates are closed and locked, parking is NOT ALLOWED in the school's parking lot. This is generally the case on weekends only, but may occur on weekdays as well. When the parking lot gates are closed and locked, all Orchard Valley participants must park along the street and walk onto the campus. Orchard Valley has been warned that if its participants use the off-limits parking lot, the League will lose its permit to use this location, which impacts weekday practices and weekend games. Orchard Valley cannot afford to lose these fields. If you see a car parked illegally in the parking lot, please try to identify the owner as quickly as possible and ask them to move the vehicle immediately.
Motor Vehicles on School Grounds:
All vehicles need to remain in dedicated parking areas. No vehicles can be driven on the school grounds without prior permission from the League.


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Google translate gives me: Duōmǐníjiā gònghéguó.
But I wondered if the chinese use a smaller word or lop-off the Republic at the end?
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Google translate gives me: Duōmǐníjiā gònghéguó.
But I wondered if the chinese use a smaller word or lop-off the Republic at the end?
First of all, let's confirm the translation. If you look for "Dominican Republic" on Wikipedia, and then choose the chinese page, the result is:
Duō mǐ ní jiā gòng hé guó
So, yes, it's the right translation. If you don't like Wikipedia as the only source, this is confirmed by the YouDao and CEDICT dictionaries.
I tried searching for "多米尼加" only (in both of those named above) and the result is simply "Dominica". Note that "Dominican Republic" and "Dominica" refer to two different countries, so since I think the same ambiguity is present in Chinese, you should keep the whole expression in order to be understood unambiguously.
多米尼加 is an acceptable short form of 多米尼加共和国.
Though the Wikipedia page lists 多米尼加共和国 as the primary name for the Dominican Republic, the sidebar says, "通称:多米尼加", i.e., "Commonly called 多米尼加." The Baidu page on 多米尼加 is about the Dominican Republic, and Google results for 多米尼加 return pages about the Dominican Republic. A quick search reveals that 多米尼加 is also common in news reports about the country. (E.g., see here.)
(Dominica, the other country Alenanno mentioned, is transliterated as 多米尼克, as Wikipedia attests. It is true that it used to be called 多米尼加联邦, but 多米尼克 is now preferred.*)
*EDIT: This claim is from the Wikipedia entry I linked to above. The Chinese original is as follows:
As the last sentence says, the usage of 多米尼克 is now completely standard in both China and Taiwan.
Duōmǐníjiā gònghéguó.
多Duō 米mǐ 尼ní 加jiā 共和国gònghéguó
It's correct.


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My sis and I love love love pasta - love it! So we decided to grab a bite to eat and wanted Italian - it's not as easy as you'd think to find pasta places in Cincinnati. You can't throw a chopstick without hitting a Thai place - but Italian - not so much.
We did come across The Spinning Fork on Rt 4 in Fairfield - we'd driven by many times and decided this would be as good a time as any to give it a try.
She recommended the manicotti ($6.95) and said she added the extra shredded cheese on top for me. This is not extra cheese. It was fine - but to me ricotta isn't cheese like I was wanting - I wanted thick mozz. I was hoping there was a lot on top - but there wasn't. The marina sauce they use is very red and not cooked very long. It was fine - but about as bland as can be. I want to be able to taste the oregano and the garlic!
Sis got the lasagna ($6.95) - basically looks like the same plate without the shred on top. She said it was fine as well but nothing exciting.
Why Should You Go? We'd both have rather had Maggianos or Olive Garden. I think we're going to have to suck it up and try some of the more expensive local Italian places - like Germano's or Barresi's. The prices are very affordable though and it's not bad - it's just bland.


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Soaring above the city at 1,776 feet, One World Trade Center is America's tallest building - and an indelible New York landmark. Designed by David M. Childs of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the 3-million-square-foot building includes office space, an observation deck and world-class restaurants.
The building was initially developed by Silverstein Properties and taken over by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in April 2006. The building is expected to open in November, 2014.
The 104-story building will feature a grand lobby and observation deck with unparalleled views. Currently, the building is 55% leased to tenants Conde Nast, Vantone China Center, and the U.S. General Services.
Sustainable design is central to One WTC's development, integrating renewable energy, interior daylighting, reuse of rainwater, and recycled construction debris and materials. The below-grade concourses will include approximately 55,000 square feet of retail space and connect to an extensive transportation network.
37 minute drive from JFK International Airport
23 Minute drive from LaGuardia Airport
Quick and convenient access to WTC Transportation Hub connecting to eleven subway lines A, C, E, R, J, Z and 1-5
M1 or M6 to Church and Vesey Streets
20-25 minute drive from Grand Central Station
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Tel: 212 757 3000
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Asparagus Yeast Rolls
"I came across this recipe in a magazine," notes Margaret Peterson from Forest City, Iowa. "It sounded so good and easy, plus I like recipes with unusual ingredients. Whenever I serve the lovely moist rolls, folks can't believe they're eating asparagus!"
Total TimePrep: 25 min. + rising Bake: 15 min. + chilling
Makes2 dozen
- 1 package (1/4 ounce) active dry yeast
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons warm water (110° to 115°), divided
- 1 tablespoon mashed potato flakes
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1-1/2 teaspoons salt
- 5-1/4 to 5-3/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 cup finely chopped fresh asparagus, cooked and drained
- In a bowl, dissolve yeast in 2 tablespoons water; let stand for 5 minutes. Combine potato flakes and remaining water; add to yeast mixture. Add butter, sugar, eggs, salt and 2 cups flour; beat until smooth. Add the asparagus and enough of the remaining flour to form a soft dough. Turn onto a floured surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 6-8 minutes. Place in a greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and refrigerate for 2 hours or overnight. Form dough into 2-in. balls and place in well-greased muffin cups. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled, about 45 minutes. Bake at 400° for 14-16 minutes or until golden brown. Cool for 5 minutes. Carefully run a knife around the outside of each roll before removing from pan. Serve warm.


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I joined the Navy and had a 20 year career as a U.S. Navy Radiation Health Offi cer. My wonderful wife Margaret was at my side through it all. The Navy sent me to complete a Sc.D. at the Johns Hopkins University in 1976. They gave me many challenging assignments and opportunities to use my physics education. After leaving the Navy in 1989, I spent a few years at Bell Labs in New Jersey, and at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, CA. I am now a Radiological Safety Offi cer at Argonne National Laboratory. I have spent the past couple years working on the radiation dose reconstruction and compensation program for the atomic veterans −− those 200,000+ military veterans who witnessed atomic tests between the years 1945 and 1962. It has been a satisfying experience to engage and, in some small measure help, improve the process to obtain the recognition and compensation the veterans deserve. I have many fond memories of the University of Minnesota in 1968-69. The war and the war protests on and off campus affected all of us in that age. A couple times the Administration Building (right next to the Tate Laboratory of Physics) was shut down due to sit-ins by protesters. Another memory was staying awake all night to start my car every hour when it was -25 degrees in the middle of January. But I did not mind that because I was up all night anyway working on Quantum Mechanics for Professor Stephen Gasiorowicz. He was beyond any doubt my favorite and toughest professor.


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A Bit of TransparencyAugust 23, 2004
PNG files would make transparency effects a snap, except for one tiny little quirk: support for the format is great in every browser but one. Unless, of course, you resort to using some of the hacks and workarounds now available.
A List Apart ran Cross-Browser Variable Opacity with PNG: A Real Solution almost two years ago, and since that time other methods have come to light offering similar solutions of varying stripes to work around Windows IE's lack of Alpha transparency support. (1, 2)
Since I'm a fan of valid code, I generally haven't bothered messing around with the proprietary solutions, and the extra weight of an .htc behavior file is a bit more than my personal preferences can handle.
When it came time to code certain elements of the new design of this site, I knew what I wanted to do: tile a 1-pixel, transparent PNG on
:hover for advanced browsers to add a nicely transparent screen, and hide that effect from IE to pretty much ignore a
:hover state. As I coded I realized I could use two images, one for browsers that knew how to handle PNG properly, and one for IE.
There are two spots where you can see these effects come into play — the logo in top left corner of the header displays a very faint blue screen on mouseover (which is subtle enough to be missed, which is okay by me), and the three big content panels on the home page do the same with a more obvious red screen.
The markup is basic enough, although an extra  was necessary to pull it off:

By layering the elements one over top of the other, three overlapping planes were created which I could use to manipulate imagery (from the bottom up: the
a, and
span elements). The label of each panel shouldn't be covered by the
:hover effect so it sits on the top plane (the
span), the transparent screen is applied to the middle plane (the
a) but only on
:hover, and the toned photo that makes up the background of each panel is applied directly to the
li behind the rest of them.
With a nod to Jon Hicks' 3D box model example, this is more or less how the panels are constructed: (well, actually, on the live site the background image is instead applied to the
ul, not the
li, but I'm simplifying… stay with me here)
The corresponding CSS sets up the containing boxes, places the images, and positions everything just so:
#contentNav {
position: relative;
#contentNav li {
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
position: absolute;
width: 231px;
height: 94px;
background: url(../i/ice/contentnav-panels.gif) 0 0 no-repeat;
#contentNav li a:link, #contentNav li a:visited {
width: 231px;
height: 94px;
display: block;
html>body #contentNav li a:hover {
background: transparent url(../i/ice/alpha-red-dr.png);
#contentNav .li2 a span {
width: 56px;
background: url(../i/ice/contentnav-projects.gif) no-repeat;
html>body filter on the
:hover rule ensures IE doesn't get any fancy ideas about the PNG, and everyone's happy.
Well, except for the fact that there's no feedback when the link is hovered in IE, a result I wasn't happy with. I tried setting a solid background color on
:hover and block the background image, but that seemed excessive. Then I remembered an old-school hack for semi-transparency, using an on/off pixel screen to create a checkered, pseudo-transparent GIF. Check it out:
(caveats: these inline examples not BMHed, won't work in IE5, and you'll need to visit the site and have your browser grab the custom style sheet to get the hover effect. They're not pixel-perfect either, but you get the idea.)
The panel on the left is what Safari/Firefox/Opera users should see. The panel on the right is how IE sees it (regardless of which browser you're using). The left is preferable, but the right is a decent enough downgrade that I'm happy with it. (On an LCD monitor there's even a bonus optical shimmering effect that was unintentional, but kind of neat.)
Because of the filter that keeps the PNG away from IE, not much more was needed than to throw an alternate rule into the mix for IE, just before the latter rule that immediately over-rides it in every other browser:
#contentNav li a:hover {
background: transparent url(../i/ice/alphafake-red.gif);
html>body #contentNav li a:hover {
background: transparent url(../i/ice/alpha-red-dr.png);
Of course if I hadn't got all of this working, I suppose I could have gone the high-bandwidth route and just thrown out a brand new pre-rendered GIF on the
:hover state for each panel. But this way keeps the pipes unclogged, and that's a good thing.
(And I'd be remiss not to point out that CSS3's opacity property is gaining support. But I wouldn't consider generally useful for production work quite yet, hence the images.)
Reader Comments
Prehaps you should use the same stacked method on the main mezzoblue logo, as in IE with the GIF, the logo gets all blerted out (is that even a word? lol)
Good work though :)
Apparently (think i read it on ie blog) MS are fixing PNG transparency in the next update (whenever that will be - longhorn - 2006 or beyond)
I find this saves a few bytes and has the same filtering effect as html>body:
#contentNav li a:hover {
background: transparent url(../i/ice/alpha-red-dr.png) !important;
background: transparent url(../i/ice/alphafake-red.gif);
IE doesn't support !important and so the second rule overwrites the first, whereas Mozilla, Opera et al recognise that the first rule is the one to use and disregard the second. Unless anyone knows any different?
Great technique Dave, though I just want to point out that it would have been possible to get this exact effect without using any CSS hacks. It's really quite simple. It would just require using the great, but underused, HTTP content negotiation. eg. by using Apache Multiviews.
That way, you give the same rule to each and every browser and leave it up to the server to decide whether the browser prefers PNG or GIF. So, IE would get the GIF and, AFAIK, Mozilla, Opera and Safari would all get the PNG. Other, lesser known browsers would also get what they prefer, whatever that may be.
What about just using IE7? (dean.edwards.name/ie7/)
I'm getting to the point where I am saying "screw it" when it comes to IE. I mean it is easier to make a site accessible to the blind than it is for an IE user.
Nicely organized article. I like what you did to the 3D box model. You're the first I've seen to actually put it to practical use.
Imagine if Wal-Mart or Ikea had a security guard standing in front of their shops and saying "screw it" to anyone not wearing bright-red shoes. My guess is that a lot of people would get offended by that. Why can I not buy this garden-chair while wearing orange, green or white shoes? What does a garden chair have to do with the color of my shoes in the first place?
Well - nothing.
But, this is what you get if you stop supporting people using IE. If you have a website that sells garden chair, but stop 95% of the visitors at the front door, you have failed to reach this website's goal (to sell chairs - not browsers).
Dave, Interesting article.
A good reminder of the on-off pixel trick, I'd forgetten about that one!
re - forgetting about IE, you can't forget about it, but you can sometimes - most of the time - just say "well, the site works in IE without this visual frippery, lets just give pretty stuff to complient browsers"
Dave in fact wrote an article about that.
However if you can get something working in IE and its not going to take really that much work, then do it.
I'm in general against using behaviors, unless I have to. Generally I find they are very unreliable in complex enviroments, but for a simple CSS menu, or similar, they usually work fine.
One thing - why do people insist on saying IE is 95% of the trafic on the net? Its just not true, its closer to around 80-85% overall (of cource this is an average, site specific ones may differ).
Anyhow - great article Dave, it shows a nice way of getting around the most annoying missing stylistic feature in IE.
Couldn't you have used gifs and used background:position to change the images and make it accessible for all browsers?
Good use of PNG. I was also wondering, at first, as to why you didn't use pre-rendered gifs on a sliding position. But if bandwidth is the priority then that makes sense. How much difference does it actually make though? Just curious.
And in case you haven't tired of hearing it yet - great work on the redesign. Nice to see mezzoblue going back to it;s roots with the cool blue.
"Couldn't you have used gifs and used background:position to change the images and make it accessible for all browsers?"
What's so inaccessible about it? Which browsers?
But the second to last paragraph addresses your question; I just didn't completely spell out that I meant using background-position to swap images, and now I have.
Scott: It seems like a suitable solution to me, quite accessible I'd say. I agree with Gregory about the article, very enjoyable.
I love the idea of using PNG files, but it just doesn't seem to work well enough yet. IE doesn't work right with them, Firefox's scroll bar slows to a crawl, and if they can't get it right then I am doubtful about Safari and Opera.
I know this is accessible but it's alot easier to use background-position with gifs to me :). But to each his own.
Thats an excellent way to explain how to get a really great hover effect on a site. I may have to use this tip in the latest design of my site, I really enjoy it.
Great post, Dave.
There's an easier way of doing it, though.
The power of !important will do the trick.
#menu li a:hover {
background: transparent url('images/image.png') no-repeat top left !important;
background: transparent url('images/image.gif') no-repeat top left;
The first rule will count for all browsers which support !important, while the last one counts for IE, since IE always goes for the last occurance of a rule.
It seems there are visual discrepancies between Safari and Firefox in the way they composite transparant images. Have a look at http://www.taospace.com/transparancy.jpg to see what I mean. This is really too bad as (at least in this case) the result of Firefox is unacceptable, whereas Safari does it perfectly.
In this test the cloud image has variable transparancy throughout and it is displayed on top of a gradient background.
Lately, I've just been using a filter for all of my sites on the server end. If it detects that the user is using IE, it'll recode img tags that have png's in the src to output the mutilated-for-IE code.
Tao - That is actually due to the differences in gamma reporduction in firefox and Safari.
Photoshop also screws the pootch when it comes to writing png gamma chunks. Correct gamma chunks still show too dark in Safari (it seems to ignore them and do its own correction).
So firefox is actually probably rendering the file correctly, given the gamma info in the file. Safari tends to be darker, because of its wierd gamma treatment.
Oh and also - why anyone would use gif's at all for non-animation files when png comes out smaller everytime I don't know.
I'm just wondering do any browsers support MNG? ( i think its called that ) MNG is the animated PNG isn't it?
I'd love to use MNG for motion files i'd think they'd be smaller and have alpha to boot!
It's been a yea ror so since i've been on the web dev scene i look to come back now :)
Damon I think Mozilla does, but it ised to only with an extension. Maybe that's changed (or I remember wrongly.. both posible).
However no-one really uses the format. Its not a particularly well developed format atm, but yes.. in theory if could be smaller than gifs, but its not right now.
static png vs gif tho.. thats a different story. Check out this article for a good comparison:
Not that either of us is the first to grok this concept, but I think it's interesting when people stumble upon basically the same idea at around the same time without influencing each other.
This is almost exactly the same technique I've got going for the upcoming redesign of my personal site.
Love your latest, by the way. Best yet.
If you are going to use different code for IE anyway why not use a 1px Gif and take advantage of IE's poprietry Transparency/Opacity CSS filter?
One would expect that this would give a better result whilst still keeping thigns trim….
funnily enough I'd attempted this a few days before reading this article, howver it seems that IE has trouble if the image is tiled over a larger area, in my case it is applied all the time - not just on hover. You can see it in effect here:
I dont suppose anyone knows why IE runs so slowly with this on?
I had a similar problem when designing http://ballisticzen.org - I wanted nice round edges, with soft shadows. PNG seemed to be the answer.
In every browser, apart from IE, it worked fine, as we all know. So I attempted to use several of the IE-specific Filter hacks to get transparency. Wow, what a mangled mess that was.
First major problem: Any text links, if overlaid on a CSS-filtered PNG, became unclickable.
Second major problem: Rather than tile the image, or crop it, it resizes the entire image to fit into the dimensions you set. So using single-image rollovers is out.
So, I came up with a solution - it wouldn't have worked for this instance, sadly, but it IS a viable solution:
First, I used TweakPNG to set a specific background color that IE will display rather than transparency, and removed the gamma chunk, so all browsers render it consistantly.
Then, I used a CSS hack to switch the nice textured background to a solid color for IE only, that matches the background color I set above.
*Poof!* Following your MOSe concept - IE gets something usable, fairly attractive, but all other modern browsers get that little bit more.
You can snag TweakPNG here: http://entropymine.com/jason/tweakpng/
I don't know if someone else already posted this link but there is a (ugly) way for webdesigners to make PNG-files show transparency for IE6+ users. For more information, read here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q294714
The CSS opacity property will rock when properly supported. I use it (in combination with the -moz-opacity property) on my header bar. Using Firefox, find a page on my site that requires scrolling, and scroll down.
On a different subject, you might find using a larger PNG than 1px square better. Josh S claims Firefox scrolling slows to a crawl (not here), and this may be the problem. I remember using a 1px wide gradient background on a site many moons ago, and NS4 took ages to tile it across the page.


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BEIJING — A senior Chinese government official has admitted that most major Chinese cities fail national standards for good air quality.
Li Ganjie, a vice minister of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, gave a positive spin to the launch of the 2013 Report on the State of China's Environment, but did not disguise all its bad news on the severe levels of air, water and soil pollution brought by years of fast-paced economic growth.
And the real situation is far worse, warned Ma Tianjie, China program director for Greenpeace, an environmental lobbying group. "We have to look at the annual state of environment report with a pinch of salt, as the monitoring capacity of the MEP is always limited," said Ma.
Only three cities, or 4.1%, of the 74 major Chinese cities subject to air quality standards met the national standard for good air quality in 2013, Li told a news conference in China's capital on Wednesday. The trio are Haikou, capital of the southern island province of Hainan; Zhoushan, an island in eastern China; and Lhasa, the high-altitude capital of Tibet.
Almost 70% of the remaining 256 cities met old air quality standards that do not measure smaller, more hazardous pollutants — known as PM2.5 — that are so tiny they can enter the bloodstream through the lungs. The report showed seven of the 10 most polluted cities last year are located in north China's Hebei Province.
Major sources of China's smog include coal-reliant industries, power plants and rising automobile emissions. China issued a five-year action plan on air pollution last September. And earlier this week, it pledged to cap its carbon emissions by 2016, although it did not provide detailed figures for the cap.
ENVIRONMENT:China follows USA with emissions pledge
Public protests are usually forbidden and quickly crushed in Communist-run China, as was the case on Wednesday, the 25th anniversary of the bloody, June 4, 1989, crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
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By contrast, environmental protests in China have enjoyed unusual leeway nationwide, as residents take to the streets to complain about industrial projects they fear will harm their health.
Recent demonstrations over planned waste incineration plants stem from distrust fanned by poor official planning, illegal procedures, lack of transparency and failure to allow public participation, said Li.
Chinese leader Xi Jinping has called for innovation to protect China's environment. "We'll intensify efforts to protect the natural ecosystem and environment, spare no effort to solve issues, including the haze, and work hard to build a beautiful China with a blue sky, green land and clean water," Xi told a conference Tuesday.
Critical responses to the 2013 report included a micro-blog post by Beijing writer Yang Bo. "If we can't guarantee good air and safe food, what do we have to brag about?" Yang wrote on Sina Weibo, a Twitter-like platform.
Water pollution remains severe, the government admitted. Yet their data, from limited monitoring sites, targeted only at a limited set of pollutants, inadequately reflects the scale of the crisis, said Greenpeace's Ma. Extremely poor ground water quality is "very concerning, as northern cities especially rely on ground water," he said.
The environment ministry now "has more tools at its disposal to do a better job," including a strengthened environmental protection law, said Ma. But enforcement remains difficult in a system where government officials have long prioritized growth and ignored the negative impact, he said.
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#1 Are Intelligent Design and Creationism the same?
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Gauging CU member's attitudes towards this.
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I am not a religious person (agnostic) but I would think they are separate. My understanding is that intelligent design does not necessarily mean the Christian God or Christian story of creation but that a higher power whether a god, or alien etc started things up.
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In some ways yes, in others no. The modern 'pioneers' of ID are all old earth, common-descent believing 'semi-evolutionists'. Or so they say anyways. It really depends who they are talking to. One of these guys trying to pitch ID to a creationist crowd will make it sound very creation-like. If the ID'ist is trying to convince a scientist, he will attempt to make it sound scientific and within the realm of methodical naturalism. So its really hard to say. They arent consistent.
But ID, in many cases, as its been presented (or attempted to be presented) in the classroom is creationism:
I would say they arent really the same. But I would say ID is a watered down version of creationism with pseudoscientific jargon behind it (but no actual research) to get around constitutional restrictions against teaching religion in the classroom. It is always strange to see the alliance between ID'ists and creationists though. Creationists should be throwing Behe and the other leaders of ID into the same category they put most scientists: Evil people who've bought into the lies of Satan. But being allied is politically expedient I guess.
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The poll is lacking the natural third option, which would get the most votes of any of them:
I think coming up with another definition of what they originally believe is just a marketing ploy - easily countered by some whale species, which at one time had rear appendages. What great intellect would give limbs and then take them away? Simply a carnival shell game and needs to be exposed for what it is accordingly.At Coretta Scott King's funeral in early 2006, Ethel Kennedy, the widow of Robert Kennedy, leaned over to him and whispered, "The torch is being passed to you." "A chill went up my spine," Obama told an aide. (Newsweek)
Here is what my Governor said yesterday. Will someone explain it to me?
(I want my Youtube link back!!! - I don't want a blog)
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1. "Intelligent Design Creationism"
is a pejorative term coined by some Darwinists to attack intelligent design; it is not a neutral label of the intelligent design movement.
Scientists and scholars supportive of intelligent design do not describe themselves as "intelligent design creationists." Indeed, intelligent design scholars do not regard intelligent design theory as a form of creationism. Therefore to employ the term "intelligent design creationism" is inaccurate, inappropriate, and tendentious, especially on the part of scholars and journalists who are striving to be fair. "Intelligent design creationism" is not a neutral description of intelligent design theory. It is a polemical label created for rhetorical purposes. "Intelligent design" is the proper neutral description of the theory.
2. Unlike creationism, intelligent design is based on science, not sacred texts.
Creationism is focused on defending a literal reading of the Genesis account, usually including the creation of the earth by the Biblical God a few thousand years ago. Unlike creationism, the scientific theory of intelligent design is agnostic regarding the source of design and has no commitment to defending Genesis, the Bible or any other sacred text. Instead, intelligent design theory is an effort to empirically detect whether the "apparent design" in nature observed by biologists is genuine design (the product of an organizing intelligence) or is simply the product of chance and mechanical natural laws. This effort to detect design in nature is being adopted by a growing number of biologists, biochemists, physicists, mathematicians, and philosophers of science at American colleges and universities. Scholars who adopt a design approach include biochemist Michael Behe of Lehigh University, microbiologist Scott Minnich at the University of Idaho, and mathematician William Dembski at Baylor University. (3)
3. Creationists know that intelligent design theory is not creationism.
The two most prominent creationist groups, Answers in Genesis Ministries (AIG) and Institute for Creation Research (ICR) have criticized the intelligent design movement (IDM) because design theory, unlike creationism, does not seek to defend the Biblical account of creation. AIG specifically complained about IDMs "refusal to identify the Designer with the Biblical God" and noted that "philosophically and theologically the leading lights of the ID movement form an eclectic group." Indeed, according to AIG, "many prominent figures in the IDM reject or are hostile to Biblical creation, especially the notion of recent creation ." (4) Likewise, ICR has criticized ID for not employing "the Biblical method," concluding that "Design is not enough!" (5) Creationist groups like AIG and ICR clearly understand that intelligent design is not the same thing as creationism.
4. Like Darwinism, design theory may have implications for religion, but these implications are distinct from its scientific program.
Intelligent design theory may hold implications for fields outside of science such as theology, ethics, and philosophy. But such implications are distinct from intelligent design as a scientific research program. In this matter intelligent design theory is no different than the theory of evolution. Leading Darwinists routinely try to draw out theological and cultural implications from the theory of evolution. Oxfords Richard Dawkins, for example, claims that Darwin "made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist." (6) Harvards E.O. Wilson employs Darwinian biology to deconstruct religion and the arts. (7) Other Darwinists try to elicit positive implications for religion from Darwins theory. The pro-evolution National Center for Science Education (NCSE) has organized a "Faith Network" to promote the study of evolution in churches. Eugenie Scott, executive director of the NCSE, acknowledges that the purpose of the groups "clergy outreach program" is "to try to encourage members of the practicing clergy to address the issue of Evolution in Sunday schools and adult Bible classes" and to get church members to talk about "the theological implications of evolution." (8) The NCSEs "Faith Network Director" even claims that "Darwins theory of evolution has, for those open to the possibilities, expanded our notions of God." (9) If Darwinists have the right to explore the cultural and theological implications of Darwins theory without disqualifying Darwinism as science, then ID-inspired discussions in the social sciences and the humanities clearly do not disqualify design as a scientific theory.
5. Fair-minded critics recognize the difference between intelligent design and creationism.
Scholars and science writers who are willing to explore the evidence for themselves are coming to the conclusion that intelligent design is different from creationism. As mentioned earlier, historian of science Ronald Numbers has acknowledged the distinction between ID and creationism. So has science writer Robert Wright, writing in Time magazine: "Critics of ID, which has been billed in the press as new and sophisticated, say it's just creationism in disguise. If so it's a good disguise. Creationists believe that God made current life-forms from scratch. The ID movement takes no position on how life got here, and many adherents believe in evolution. Some even grant a role to the evolutionary engine posited by Darwin: natural selection. They just deny that natural selection alone could have driven life all the way from pond scum to us." (10)
Whatever problems the theory of intelligent design may have, it should be allowed to rise or fall on its own merits, not on the merits of some other theory.
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That's easy to explain. He's walking a thin line and making everyone happy. He sounds like he believes in ID without saying so, and he says he wants his kids to be able to learn and question everything. The real nugget in his response is when he says that the federal and state governments should stay out of it and that individual school boards should decide it. The school boards of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Possum Crick, Alabama, might well make different decisions.
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This guy has fallen for the common fallacy that evolution somehow rules out or is mutually exclusive with a 'creator'. He also misrepresents it by saying evolution says everything is just accidental and random.
I do agree with him when he says 'he wants the kids exposed to the very best science'. Unfortunately, ID doesnt pass the test. There's not even much to debate on this point, seeing as how there isnt even any research to back up the claims. The biologic institute just recently (in the past few months) put up some research papers, but they actually don't really have anything to do with ID at all. So why should ID be the only scientific theory to be taught in school, that has absolutely zero research behind it... just a couple pop-science books?
Watch the video again, and substitute in your mind every instance of evolution with psychology, and intelligent design with astrology... then you can understand the silliness of what he is saying.
Scholars who adopt a design approach include biochemist Michael Behe of Lehigh University, microbiologist Scott Minnich at the University of Idaho, and mathematician William Dembski at Baylor University. (3)
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Lance Armstrong, the seven-times Tour de France winner whose reputation was shredded by a US Anti-Doping Agency report labelling him a bully and a "serial drug cheat", was on Thursday night under increasing pressure to respond to damning charges that included claims he committed perjury and intimidated witnesses.
The cyclist could also end up in court facing an attempt to claw back millions of dollars of bonus money if the Texas-based insurance company SCA Promotions tries to recover a payment to Armstrong for winning the 2004 Tour. Other civil actions in the US to recover sponsorship and prize money are also possible.
World cycling's governing body, which is also under pressure to justify its role in the scandal, said it wanted to take time to study the 1,000-plus pages of the Usada judgment that concluded Armstrong was at the heart of the "most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen".
The UCI has 21 days to decide whether to comply with Usada's attempt to strip Armstrong of his career titles or attempt to fight its jurisdiction over the case. The rider has denied cheating, but he did not fight the Usada charges when they were made public in August.
Armstrong could face charges of perjury after the report highlighted a 2005 court case in which he repeatedly denied doping or having any professional relationship with Michele Ferrari, the Italian doctor accused of overseeing the US Postal team doping ring, after 2004.
"As demonstrated by the testimony of numerous witnesses in this case, each of the above statements made under oath and subject to the penalties of perjury were materially false and misleading when made," said the Usada report.
The assertions were made after Armstrong went to arbitration to recover a $5m (£3.1m) bonus from SCA, which was reluctant to pay out in the wake of his sixth Tour de France win amid increasing rumours of drug use.
Armstrong received a settlement of $7.5m made up of the original bonus plus interest and lawyers' fees. "We will readdress the issue when we see if there is inaction or action [from UCI]," Jeff Dorough, a lawyer for SCA, said. It is believed likely SCA will take legal action given the exhaustive nature of Usada's report.
Meanwhile, the ripple effects of the damning judgment continued to spread:
• Michele Ferrari, the Italian known by the nickname "Schumi" to whom Armstrong, according to the report, paid more than $1m over a decade to mastermind US Postal's training and doping programme, could face criminal charges in Italy.
• The International Olympic Commission is investigating the possibility of stripping Armstrong of his bronze medal from Sydney in 2000.
• Nike, the US sportswear giant that backs Armstrong's Livestrong brand through a sponsorship deal and a line of almost 100 branded goods, vowed to stand by him.
• Leading British cyclists condemned Armstrong, with Bradley Wiggins describing himself as "shocked at the scale of the evidence", but others were more equivocal.
Usada announced in August that it was stripping Armstrong of all his career titles including his Tour de France victories due to his central involvement in a large scale doping ring.
"It was not enough that his team-mates give maximum effort on the bike, he also required that they adhere to the doping program outlined for them or be replaced," said Usada in its reasoned decision published on Wednesday.
"He was not just a part of the doping culture on his team, he enforced and re-enforced it. Armstrong's use of drugs was extensive, and the doping program on his team, designed in large part to benefit Armstrong, was massive and pervasive."
Ferrari, who is alleged to be Armstrong's doping guru, was banned for life by the UCI in July but responded then by issuing a statement protesting his innocence. Doping is a crime in Italy, and Ferrari was cleared on appeal in 2006 of criminal charges of distributing banned products to athletes. But he could face new criminal changes as a long-running investigation by the Padua prosecutor Benedetto Roberti draws to a close. He is believed to be investigating up to 70 people including about 20 athletes.
In the US, government lawyers were also poring over the documents amid speculation about whether a criminal case will be reopened against Armstrong. A spokesman for Andre Birotte, the US attorney for the central district of California, who abruptly ended an earlier investigation, refused to comment. Some US legal experts thought it unlikely due to the high burdens of proof associated with putting a criminal case in front of a jury.
Armstrong's lawyers again condemned Usada. One, Sean Breen, called the report a "hatchet job" and another, Tim Herman, said: "What they call a reasoned decision is neither reasoned nor a decision."
The 41-year-old, who has raised more than $470m for his Livestrong charity after recovering from cancer to win the Tour de France seven times, himself tweeted on Thursday: "Hanging @LIVESTRONGHQ w/ the team talking about next week's events and plans for 2013. Can't wait to see so many friends and supporters."
A total of 26 witnesses including 11 fellow riders from the US Postal Service team testified against Armstrong in a doping case described as "more extensive than any previously revealed in professional sports history".
Wiggins said the British cycling system may have saved him from being pulled into doping circles: "Regardless of what team I was in, they supported me with the right way to deal with it. They probably saved me otherwise it might have been me, who knows? The peer pressure was huge. But the culture has changed."
The IOC said it was reviewing the report and supporting evidence. A spokesman said that while it would be "premature" to say whether the IOC would take any action to strip Armstrong of the bronze medal he won in the time trial in Sydney in 2000, he added: "Should we come across any evidence that would justify opening a disciplinary procedure, we would of course act accordingly." But Nike, Armstrong's most high profile sponsor, said it would continue to back the former cyclist – reissuing an effusive statement of support that it originally put out in August. "Lance has stated his innocence and has been unwavering on this position," it said. "Nike plans to continue to support Lance and the Lance Armstrong Foundation, a foundation that Lance created to serve cancer survivors."
The brewing giant Anheuser-Busch, which supports the Livestrong foundation, also said it was standing by him for now. Paul Chibe, vice president of US marketing for the company, told the Guardian: "Our current relationship with Lance remains unchanged." Sporting Kansas City's stadium will also continue to carry the name of Lance Armstrong's cancer charity Livestrong, said its chief executive.
But British Cycling performance director Dave Brailsford admitted that the allegations cast a cloud of suspicion over the entire sport on a day that the organisation had hoped to trumpet the fact it had added 1m riders to its participation figures since its partnership with Sky began in 2008 and in the wake of a run of unprecedented British success.
"It is understandable now for people to look at any results in cycling and question that," Brailsford told the BBC. "It completely and utterly lost its way and I think it lost its moral compass."


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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Bridget McGillivray scored in overtime to seal a 3-2 win for the Harvard field hockey team against Lafayette Sunday afternoon at Jordan Field, giving the Crimson a win in its home opener and a sweep of its first weekend of games.
McGillivray redirected a shot from older sister Georgia high into the cage in the 11th minute of overtime, finishing off a dominant period for the Crimson (2-0). Harvard outshot Lafayette (0-2) by a 6-2 margin in the extra session and held a 3-1 edge in overtime penalty corners.
Freshmen Noel Painter and Sydney Jenkins scored first-half goals for Harvard while Cynthia Tassopoulos made nine saves and helped hold off the Leopards in the second half. Mara Kish logged 10 saves for Lafayette, which led in total shots, 21-20. The Leopards held a 14-10 advantage in corners.
Lafayette struck first, after 10 minutes of play in the opening half, as Kelsey Mead got behind the Crimson defense and slipped the ball under Tassopoulos as the Crimson goalie came out to challenge. It took Painter less than four minutes to even the score. She hopped on the rebound of a Georgia McGillivray corner shot and sent the ball over Kish for her first collegiate tally.
Jenkins netted her second goal in as many collegiate games at 20:55 of the first half. Carly Dickson sent in a shot off a corner, and it was deflected on goal. Bridget McGillivray directed the ball across the front of the goal to Jenkins for the finish at the right post. The Leopards looked destined to tie the game six minutes before halftime, but Tassopoulos came through with a big save on Kristin Heaney.
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