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Tuesday, June 19, 2012
This Hack Could Save Your or Your Kid's Life
Materials: Any heavier picture frame (Ribba, Fjallsta)
Description: So I finally got around to hanging my large 100cmx70xm FJALLSTA frames. I only had print for one, but I hung them both anyways. As both frames were to be in the master bedroom right above our heads, where also a 13-month old resides at the present time , I didn't want to leave anything to chance. I bought high quality screw anchors and solid screw hooks to go with them. I drilled the holes, hang the frames.
Two hours later at 6PM, crash boom bang, one frame came crashing down. The metal clip at the back of the frame holding the wire just snapped braking in two. Obviously I was concerned given the position of the frames right above our heads. I was planning to take both frames back the next day. The mistake was not taking down the other frame still hanging. At about 8PM, shortly after my baby boy was put to sleep in that very bed, another crash boom bang. Horrified we ran into the bedroom, finding the other frame just inches from our baby's head (the first frame fell in the gap between the wall and the bed, this other one fell right on the pillow.
I don't have to tell you how furious I was (and yes I know it was stupid of me not to hang down the other frame after the first one fell). The next day I went to Ikea's Bratislava store to return the frames. I asked for the manager, wanting to caution them about an obvious batch defect that I think could warrant a recall (if 2 out of 2 frames fail like this, I say something's definitely wrong). The first response I got at the returns counter was "who knows what you've been doing with it". Obviously that had sent me into frenzy, considering that piece of crap had just almost crushed my boy's skull (which didn't seem to be of special interest to the person), so there wasn't much rational talk after that. At the end I was told "they would look into it", and I could tell they "really" meant it. By the way at no point was the manager called. That's Ikea customer service eastern European style.
Anyway, I needed frames, especially with the large ugly hooks now sticking out of my bedroom's wall. Ordinarily I would just walk out of the store and never came back, but this is Ikea. And how do you go around ignoring Ikea? Especially in eastern Europe where choices are few and far between. I think it's generally well known that Ikea's workmanship, material quality and quality control are truly abysmal, often times just pure crap, but their design is great. Call me stupid, but I went in got another frame. This time a much lighter Ribba frame. The original frame was Fjallsta, a frame made out of actual wood (I'm not kidding, actual wood at Ikea, how about that?), hence pretty heavy. This Ribba frame is made out of genuine trash material that I would not even call fiberboard, more like recycled paper pulp. But hey, it's lighter.
Obviously I did not want to leave anything to chance, so I devised the following safety measure in a form of a double wire (or string, rather), so that when the official Ikea hook system fails, the frame won't fall down and kill someone.
What made this secondary attachment easier to do were the metal clips you see in the middle of each side of the frame. Their purpose is to hold the frame with the back board. Why? Because the frame is pure crap, the material is so bad and such poor quality, that it cannot support its own weight. Hence the extra attachment had to be implemented by Ikea or the frame would just collapse into itself like a black hole. By the way, I have another Ribba frame at home, from about 7 years ago. It does not have these supporting clips. Why? Because back then the frame was made from actual fiberboard capable of supporting its weight, unlike the garbage they make it from today. Why does Ikea use garbage as a production material? Because it is cheaper, and cheaper material means lower costs and higher profits, and with the massive volume, they can easily afford a fatality here and there.
One final word: I have 7 other large Fjallsta frames at home bought last year. So far they all hang well. When I was putting together the two new Fjallsta frames, I actually explicitly noticed that the clips that hold the wire were different. They were thinner, flimsier than the old ones, and they were quite hard to slide on the back board. So essentially it comes down to the corporate cretins trying save a 0.01 cents on these clips, at the risk of injuring or even killing you or your family member. It's a sad world we live in.
~ Brano, Slovakia
85 comments:
- AnonymousJune 19, 2012 6:31 PM
All that talk just to add an extra string to the pre-existing brackets?
ReplyDeleteReplies- G.V.M.June 20, 2012 3:01 PM
The original clips appear to be torn away at the bottom or completely, by the pulling force of the wire attached (apparantly) in between. They are, to my best knowledge, meant to carry the weight in the opposite direction, without a wire: the jagged little edge is supposed to rest directly on a screw/bolt in the wall.
As a dad, I can sympathize with your feelings. And I concur that Ikea often has flimsy products - though I also still use them, because they are cheap, and hackable.
But it seems to me you might have made a wrong decision in the way you hung them to start with. In which case you would have to face the ugly truth that you might have put your son and yourself) in danger yourself. .
you're right about the jagged edge, wrong on everything else. where do you think i got the wire? the frame was hung exactly the way the manual said.
finding two clips and a wire when unwrapping the frame did not suggest too many alternative ways of hanging it, but i did check the manual after it fell. yup, all good on my part.
what have you got to say now?G.V.M. will have to speak for himself/herself but to me you come off as an aggressive, quite mean spirited person. Keeping that up might be more detrimental to a child's development than a few crashing picture frames...
Delete- AnonymousJune 23, 2012 3:02 AM
G.V.M. the frame does indeed appear to he hung correctly. The photo of the broken clips was clearly taken with the frame on its side which means that the jaggies point to the side and outward. That makes no sense as they have no purpose then but it goes to show they are not meant for this frame. At the same time with the clip being the design it is its impossible to possition it any other way. The manual pasted in this forum several times proves the frame was hung correctly. Ikea failed on this one.
Delete @adin
yes I'm a mean spirited bad ass. is it your contention that the frames failed on me because of that?
- AnonymousJune 19, 2012 6:40 PM
You seem to shop at IKEA a lot for someone who dislikes it so much.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJune 19, 2012 6:51 PM
Contact IKEA corporate office in Slovakia.
We had an issue where our Karlstad sofa was delivered damaged and after receiving no response from the store for over a week, I tweeted pictures of my damaged sofa @IKEACanada on Twitter. The store manager called within 24 hours to set up a date for pick up and delivery of a new sofa. - AnonymousJune 19, 2012 6:53 PM
Jules are you vetting these at all anymore? There may be good info in this post but the bad language is masking it. You could have cut this down to 2 paragraphs and got the safety and the hacking point across.
and brano if you hate ikea so much don't shop there. Order in from elsewhere and pay more for the quality like touch should - AnonymousJune 19, 2012 6:58 PM
Jules are you vetting these at all anymore? There may be good info in this post but the bad language is masking it. You could have cut this down to 2 paragraphs and got the safety and the hacking point across.
and brano if you hate ikea so much don't shop there. Order in from elsewhere and pay more for the quality like touch should - AnonymousJune 19, 2012 7:31 PM
Haopened to us, frames purchased from Manchester UK. Hit the floor so hard it tore the carpet. Thankfully my son was outside. Store not interested, good hack, hope it encourages people to check and fix their frames.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJune 19, 2012 8:10 PM
Why even bother shopping at IKEA or hacking their products if you think they're made so poorly and you hate the store so much? This is a small, simple hack with a huge, angry complaint attached.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJune 19, 2012 8:45 PM
also not hanging a huge a@# painting over you baby's crib could be a good hack
ReplyDeleteReplies- AnonymousJune 21, 2012 9:20 AM
I have to say I agree with that advice. You'd never catch anyone from San Francisco with a potential-injury item hanging over their bed, no matter how many strings..
- AnonymousJune 19, 2012 9:23 PM
Your last paragraph is all about how the fact that they use poor materials to cut down on costs. If you really hate that so much, why didnt you spend a little more and get a quality material frame?
Obviously, because you shop there so much, you know that is the appeal of ikea, dont EXPECT the best from the cheapest. Ikea is cheap, I like their designs and what you can do with it...but its still cheap.
However, all your complaints on customer service are valid, they should have profusely apologized and gave you a refund, they might not have pulled the stock, but you would have done the best you could, sometimes employees cant make those calls, even managers.Replies- AnonymousJune 19, 2012 10:47 PM
I'd like to point out they easily could of have pulled the stock. I work for the recovery department of an IKEA in Canada, and we have a quality control that allows any returns cashiers to submit a quality report if they have suspicions, and the reports are followed up with managers who are in 5/7 days of the week. Regardless I don't know if the process if different in Eastern Europe, but this is still just inexcusable.
Delete what in god's name are you talking about? listen to yourself. cheap is no excuse for life endangering! when cheap becomes dangerous, it's no longer cheap, it's defective.
- AnonymousJune 19, 2012 10:01 PM
Let me understand this.. you have a problem with the Fjallsta frame and your solution is to "fix" the Ribba frame? Kinda silly.
You could have said the following in one paragraph: don't buy the Fjallsta, get the lighter Ribba and attach a string between the brackets that are holding the back panel in place. thank you for posting. you may well have saved some one heart ache and pain.bravo for coming up with a solution.
ReplyDelete- AnonymousJune 20, 2012 1:08 AM
There was another Ribba hack you might be interested in: http://www.ikeahackers.net/2011/12/reinforced-ribba.html
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJune 20, 2012 1:29 AM
Thank you for posting this. I like some of Ikea's products a lot, but with some they do not take safety seriously enough. Their U.S. customer service can be really bad too.
ReplyDelete I have heard a lot about Ikea's products, and I have heard a lot of good reviews. I do appreciate that you had been honest on your blog.Who would want a defective product?Thanks for posting this.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the post. Good to know the whole story. This is life. Thanks Jules for NOT shorten our posts. Live and let live.
ReplyDeleteRepliesthank you Beate, and indeed thank you Jules! she in fact did not shorten it at all, even though i was expecting it, realizing it was a bit harsh and even potentially controversial. i'm glad this is a trully independent website with a brain, and not a silly fanboy club (although some of the remarks in the forum would suggest otherwise).
thank you JULES.
but look people, i had no incentive to tell you about this other than the fact that i'd feel real bad if somebody out there got hurt (or worse) when I could have cautioned at least a few people out there. as i have. take what you want out of it.
thanks for all the positive comments.
- AnonymousJune 20, 2012 4:40 AM
Perhaps you got bad customer service because you went into a "frenzy". I wouldn't want to help you either.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJune 20, 2012 5:17 AM
I've been shopping from Ikea since the early 80's and I have to say that when they started outsourcing to China, the quality and consistency of the materials has deteriorated to the point where you have to be very careful what you purchase under the Ikea brand.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJune 20, 2012 5:18 AM
did it ever occur to you that you're hanging the frame wrong...? those brackets are made for hanging directly onto two screws in the wall... not by using a wire..
ReplyDeleteReplies- AnonymousJune 20, 2012 4:52 PM
Nope, the brackets were installed correctly, and come including the wire.
Delete - AnonymousJune 21, 2012 10:51 PM
"did it ever occur to you that you're hanging the frame wrong...? those brackets are made for hanging directly onto two screws in the wall... not by using a wire.."
Yep, exactly. It's rather frightening that some people seem to fail to see that. "did it ever occur to you that you're hanging the frame wrong...? those brackets are made for hanging directly onto two screws in the wall... not by using a wire"
genius, it did not occur to me, as otherwise i would have to wonder why they included the wire. the only reason i'm responding to your silly comment is because you clearly may pose danger to yourself. be careful, read the manuals, don't ever assume anything. peace.
- AnonymousJune 20, 2012 6:10 AM
This post just makes me mad.. Someone who doesn't like IKEA shops there.. Need I say more? I agree with the post above .. Would of been easier if u just screwed into the wall.. ESP with it being a glass made front in a kids room.. For extra reassurance that it would by fall down.. IKEA are a global company and all the products don't come from one warehouse.. There is a pipeline the products go through which involves many different suppliers.. Depending on where the store is located.. Therefore if u have queries/complaints about specific bits on products.. It's best to point out because the store may not be aware that it has changed supplier and there may be a quality issue with it.. Obviously you didn't get good customer service on the day which is inexcusable.. Though attacking the global IKEA brand based on lies and assumptions is laughable.. IKEA do their best to highlight What products are made out of.. If u wanting proper wood products they are generally like anywhere else you would buy them from a little more expensive.. But even the fibreboard products are great quality, sustainable (from the point if IKEA used 100% wood in all products am sure u Wud be the first to complain bout the amount of trees they are chopping down) and cheap
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJune 20, 2012 6:44 AM
I don't know...sure, this sucks, but I agree, this whole post seems ridiculous - if you really hate Ikea so much, why did you KEEP shopping there after this happened?
As for Ikea's quality, sure, it's not the greatest, but you get what you pay for. However, we recently moved and have furnished an entire house, a lot with Ikea, but quite a few pieces from other stores as well. Some in a similar price range as Ikea, some higher. And with Ikea, we had by far the least quality issues. BY FAR. We also didn't have any problems reassemling older Ikea furniture that had been moved and put into storage for a couple years, whereas something from another store, also moved and put into storage, then moved out again, just fell apart in our hands while we tried to put it back together (that was just one piece, but still).
Of course that is just one experience. But judging from friends' experiences with Ikea and other furniture stores, I just have to come to the conclusion that Ikea, while certainly far from perfect, is worth what you pay for and more. Which is something I certainly can't say about some other furniture stores in my country (Germany), some of them much pricier than Ikea. I was given the wrong couch covers and the Ikea store I purchased them from refused to let me return them. My roommate did a bit of research and managed to find the email of someone at a corporate office. They called me back within 24 hours and handled everything. While I love the cheap prices and great selection of Ikea I hate, hate, hate their customer service.
I understand not having much options when it comes to where you shop. I hope this frame stays up :)Repliesthanks Pour Girl, glad to hear you got your covers exchanged.
maybe i should have emphasized that i DID get my money back instantly and essentially with no questions asked, in case i wasn't clear on that.
the problem arose when i wanted to make it into a safety issue. i'm no philanthropist but i'd feel bad if someone else got hurt without me at least trying to do something about it.
I'm sorry but I definitely don't consider this a hack, more of a rant at IKEA. I'm sure there's plenty of other websites/forums where this would've been better received.
Can the owner of this page please start vetting these before they get posted? It's a complete waste of everyone's time to go through a never ending post only to find there's no actual hack to be found anywhere!
Other than that - keep the REAL hacks coming, I love most of them to bits! :)Repliesgood job sherlock. you bet it's a rant. but you're free not to read it.
trust you do understand that this website is probably not custom tailored to what YOU personally perceive as useful or interesting. clearly enough people found it of use.- AnonymousJune 23, 2012 2:59 AM
Well the site is called ikeahackers not ikeahaters, right? Regardless of how much you hate ikea for the reasons you've described you have no justification for being a total ass against fellow readers in the comments section. Site mods, please mod Brano!
- AnonymousJune 20, 2012 12:25 PM
It's maybe not a hack but it's a realy important information from a customer. Some post from some kind of "Anonymous" make me fell sick.
like a "shop" is ok but just think is it just so perfect that they never do stupide think is wrong for me.
Just shack ikea's probleme in france and you will see the back side of Ikea.
For me, some "Anonymous" in this website have a blue and yellow ID card around the neck to post stupid post like this.
Like IKEA is not a reson to protect it like that.
And trust me, i like IKEA. - AnonymousJune 20, 2012 4:50 PM
Hung incorrectly, end of story. You can't blame IKEA for that, unless they stated in their mounting instructions that you can wire them up like that whixh I highly doubt. But it looks pretty obvious that they're meant to be hung directly on screws in the wall....
ReplyDeleteReplies- AnonymousJune 21, 2012 10:57 PM
Well, I guess IKEA could be blamed for not being foolproof, or for trusting their customers' DIY ability and knowledge too much.
Delete you're way off, buddy. end of story. be safe, stay out of ikea.
- AnonymousJune 21, 2012 9:26 AM
First of all I'm really glad for him that his baby was safe, but I didn't quite get it either.
1)The second photo shows that the frame was obviously hung in the way it was NOT supposed to be hung.
2)In the last 3 "after" photos, it looks even more flimsy and insecure in the way metal parts are mounted and strings/wire? were tied and everything. I'm hoping that it's not going to be back up on the wall near his little one.
3)In the bedroom, especially with a little kid, I would never hang a large, heavy, glass-front frame.
4)The post doesn't seem to be about any "hack", but the best hack in this situation would probably be using products like SAXNAS or NYTTJA instead. This is just what these plastic-front frames are for, right? :)Repliesyou're dead wrong. it was hung in accordance with the manual. no other way to hang it.
if that 'obviousness' of yours refers to the fact that the clip has jagged edges on the side that does not support the wire, you have to ask ikea why that is.
none of my other Fjallsta frame have clips with jagged edges by the way.
here's the manual:
I found this very informative. I don't think she hung them up wrong they were too heavy. No it isn't a knock off but it is great information. I wouldn't have bought another frame from them either but I am glad you posted this. Yes, it was a bit long but you told why you had to do it this way. I think you could do a blog. People tell me I write too much it is because we are more into details than some others.
ReplyDelete- AnonymousJune 21, 2012 1:09 PM
I don't understand why anyone would trust the mounting hardware that comes with any frame be it pre-built/made or build your own. ALWAYS assume that the hardware that comes with it will fail and purchase separate mounting hardware appropriate to where you live. (I say that, since someone living in "earthquake country" Southern California will mount frames differently than someone in "Tornado/Hurricane" country, and someone not in any of those will mount frames)
Poor customer service is inexcusable in any company, I would send an email to the Ikea global corporate office (not the local corporate office)and let them know about the whole situation and what happened at the Ikea when you returned the frames.
In future you should always assume the hardware from any retailer selling a pre-assembled frame will be using cheap hardware and purchase separate hardware.Repliesi see where you're coming from, but listen, we're not talking about screws or screw anchors here. these clips are not the mounting hardware, they are THE product, an integral part of it.
you're can't get a 'better quality' version of these clips in a hardware store, they are a part of the frame. skipping them i may as well just build the whole frame myself.
- AnonymousJune 21, 2012 4:55 PM
As a general rule, any hardware that comes with my IKEA purchase is replaced with hardware from the local hardware store. I have repeatedly found their fasteners to be too malleable. Better to be safe than sorry!
ReplyDelete Its really quite sad that your so narrow minded to think that Ikea is trying to kill you with their frames. Actually, its rather pathetic. I hope you at least sent your "complaint" to Ikea corporate so that they are aware of your situation and not ONLY complain at the store, that would be absolutely idiotic. But you probably didn't since you are so stupid as to hang something so heavy above your baby's bed to begin with. I'm saddened that I will never know the Darwin award you will eventually earn.
ReplyDeleteRepliesyour pea-sized brain is clearly incapable of basic text comprehension. intent vs. negligence...two different terms. but who am i talking to here? a moron. cheers :)
Deleteanother example of you "not minding" someone disagreeing with you?
Hey listen, at the very least most intelligent people would know not to cut the end of the cord so close to the knot. It will, over time, slip. Especially from the very poor knot tying you did there. Who are you going to blame after that?
- AnonymousJune 22, 2012 8:38 AM
Wow...so many haters on the old comment box this week....is there any need to be so nasty to people?
They posted a simple solution to a product problem and gave us the background...stop stressing, be happy people! - AnonymousJune 22, 2012 12:26 PM
I had the same thought as several of you: the mounting hooks were used improperly with wire. But, because someone mentioned that the wire comes with the frame, I pulled up Ikea's instructions online. In fairness to the melodramatic original poster, this is how the instructions show the hooks being used:
http://www.ikea.com/ms/en_US/customer_service/assembly/F/F30109782.pdfRepliesmelodramatic is the nicest thing anyone's called me today. thanks buddy. and for the vindicating manual too.
i'm exhausted from all the replies, this website has the most difficult CAPTCHA i've seen in a long time.
thanks Jules, thanks everyone, be safe!- AnonymousJune 22, 2012 9:57 PM
Thanks all for the informative ways of how IKEA works - Brano explained several times why their family shops at IKEA, and that they hung the frame according to the manual, and I have noticed myself that IKEA replaces parts of certain items with parts of lesser or flimsier quality that probably save money, and there is no problem with that unless they are unsafe, which is clearly the case here - I would urge someone to pursue this and get this product recalled - it clearly is not safe. The responses by some anonymous reply's don't make sense, they seem to be by people affiliated by IKEA and that track the different blogs for IKEA complaints, there are several of these unusual posts on this website (I know companies hire people to do these kind of things, trace blogs, post things on blogs to promote their products, discredit people complaining) and it behooves us to be responsible about what we write and why.
- AnonymousJune 23, 2012 3:11 AM
Your photo of the Ribba shows the clips positioned close to the top end of the frame. Did you also position the clips at the top end on your malfunctioning Fjällsta frames? I ask because the manual shows a placement of the clips at the middle of the frame.
ReplyDeleteRepliesthis is a fair question but pls consider this:
1. should the relative placement of the clips be of importance, the manual should have emphasized that, as ikea manuals often do when there is a chance of alternative interpretation. their manuals are top notch in this regard.
2. but more importantly, consider the physics involved. no matter how you look at it the pulling forces at play will be more or less the same (if not identical), so this cannot make a difference. if it did we're back to point 1. But i don't think that is the case, think about it.
- MagnusJune 23, 2012 9:00 AM
Ssorry about my English, I hope I can make myself clear.
This is not only about the hack, it's also about how Brano answers to all.
Brano, I understand that it's your kid's life that you are talking about and you made your point by saying that your main goal is to prevent more accidents with this simple hack - it can save more than one head - but you don't need to answer that way to people. If you can use English so well, you can find a way less agressive to express your disagreement.
It's awful to me, that came here to understand the hack better, and some of what is written is how to attack a comment without answer it.
I hope to see more hacks from you because it's simple things like that extra string that change Ikea things to wau!-things and this is what this site is for. Bye.RepliesFrom what I can see the only mean responses went to people that attacked him first.
Delete- AnonymousJune 23, 2012 1:58 PM
Brano you have the right to be agressive for me.
first, the probleme with your kid.
seconde, the way your IKEA managed the probleme.
All frome US or west Europe can't imagine how hard is the relation between customer and shop in some country.
This make you really agressive.
In my country this is the same, the client have to shut up.
I hope this story will be ear from IKEA's customer care and maybe they will do something...
- Nicky NooJune 23, 2012 4:11 PM
Gosh, these comments are ridiculous. The poster found a way to make hanging a frame much safer and had the concern to share it with us all so what is the problem here? Why such venom? She has a right to be angry, the products she bought were defective and dangerous.
ReplyDelete obviously you do mind having someone disagree with you. You are aggressive, rude, and demeaning. I couldn't even finish reading this "hack" due to the manner you present yourself.
How can I take you, or any of your ideas seriously? First you break cardinal rule #1 not to hang stuff over your baby. No matter where they are from or what quality they are. You are putting style above a child's safety. Shame! #2 I can't imagine you handling anything in a decent adult manner and laughed when you gave excuse for your frenzy. No one's post on this board has endangered you or your family and yet you still act like an ass. What is your excuse now?
Hey listen, at the very least most intelligent people would know not to cut the end of the cord so close to the knot. It is ironic you calling people peabrained. It will, over time, slip. Especially from the very poor knot tying you did there. Who are you going to blame after that?Replies- AnonymousJune 24, 2012 5:27 PM
Sir/madame, you took the words out of my mouth. There are ways to express one's anger without being a jerk.
Delete - AnonymousJune 24, 2012 7:28 PM
Exactly - couldn't have said it better myself.
I agree with the PP that growing up with such a negative parent could be just as detrimental, if note more so, as that parent's unbelievable choice to hang frames above the child's bed.
Jules seems to like posting these 'hacks' (ie hacks that place a child in danger) so I assume it's her way of increasing page views? - AnonymousJune 25, 2012 4:11 AM
If hanging a picture above the bed in the master bedroom is considered somehow unsafe, negligent or even out of ordinary, then cuff me.
Delete - AnonymousJune 26, 2012 8:57 AM
@Jens - what a nasty little piece of work you are.
Jules, you should be deleting his comment. I thought personal abuse was not allowed?
- AnonymousJune 24, 2012 5:24 PM
Remember the hack of the year is choosen among the hacks with more comments so you could be looking at the winner.
ReplyDelete - AnonymousJune 26, 2012 2:02 PM
Oddly enough, I don't see any unnecessarily angry language in this fellow's post. What I do sense is a lot of anonymous Ikea shills trying to confuse the real issue, which is the lack of quality control over the junk they sell.
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Don't forget to mention that Cancellara is world champion AGAIN!
Don't forget to mention that Cancellara is world champion AGAIN!
Any reason to post a pic of Cancellara is good.
how many titles is that Fabian?
I hate that Worlds is being overshadowed by the Bert controversy.
ETA: And just in case you haven't had enough doping controversy for the time being, investigators searched Ricco's house and found "unidentified tablets"
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yes it's true, it's Michael Rasmussen doing the quickstep :rofl
ETA: German press claims there was a higher than normal level of some "plasticizers" in Contador's tests which could be evidence of blood doping. The theory being that the low levels of clen resulted from taking blood in an out of competition period where he may have been taking clen, and reintroducing it on the rest day. Even if they tested the blood, the levels were low enough that they weren't picked up (but that the Cologne lab used during the Tour had more sophisticated equipment that could pick up the trace levels. No info given on how the German reporter would have gotten access to the test levels for plasticizers.
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It's been such a depressing day.
So here is something a bit more cheery. Fabian's big day in big pictures.
Plasticizers and hormones of all kinds are so ubiquitous now, they're found in drinking water. At some point the testing equipment will be so sensitive, that everybody will test positive for something. I hope this is just a case of contamination (contaminated food, contaminated water bottles, whatever) but whatever is actually the case, it is still a mess.
Time to go look at some pictures of Fabian to cheer up.
The kinds used in water bottles are different from the type used in blood bags. Which is why they test for those certain plastics. Or so I read in one of the many (way too) many articles I read in the last 24 hours. I'd provide a link but I can't remember which article. However...wait and see is how I feel. In the mean time..
Spartacus RULES! He is amazing and I hope he pulls off the double and wins the RR!
Tony Martin! got a flat and took third in the TT. Probably would have beat Millar for 2nd but no way he's have beat Fabian.
lot of pics here. http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/uci...ite-men/photos
Kevin: He compared Scott to a disposable feminine cleansing product one might use on a summer's eve.
Meagan: Yeah, and the bag it came in. -The Big Bang Theory, performed by the Canadian WTT team and interpreted by Cyn.
to Taylor for getting a bronze (in a record making tie with Canada's Boivin) in the U23 road race to go with his gold in the TT. I was going to watch online last night, but lost power due to some very heavy rainstorms in the area. Congrats to Australia for getting a home country gold.
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Who knew cows had passports?
And Ivan Basso's sister has been banned for 4 years from being involved with CONI, Italian national federations or from frequenting sporting facilities or places designated for athletes and their coaches or from participaint in events organized by Italian federations.
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My husband who's an MD said that Spain is a country that has a history of finding clenbuterol in meat, even though it's illegal. Back in the 80s or 90s it was legal and there were some human deaths from the residue in meat. So the story may have some basis in fact. He also said that it would be a rather stupid pick for using illegally since it can be fatal and wouldn't be very beneficial.
Ok, I apologize in advance for having to use caps and exclamation marks here, but:
THOR HUSHOVD IS WORLD CHAMPION!!!! I just can't believe it. He is our first World Champion in cycling ever!
I sat up watching all night. The last hour (around 6.30AM) I started getting really tired, couldn't sit and resorted to walking around in front of the TV. So sure that when EBH was gone from the front group, the Italians and the Belgians were going to make it too hard for Spain to close the gap, but all of a sudden things got really exciting when Gilbert went too early and was caught.
I was so sure Breschel had it, until I saw a red, white and blue cannonball emerge on the right side. And in the end, there was no contest - he won with two bike lengths! I screamed and woke up my neighbors at 7.35AM a Sunday morning! What an adrenaline rush. I haven't been this happy about a sports result since Daisuke won Worlds. And it didn't really matter that the Australians totally butchered our national anthem! At least they played the right one, albeit a syrupy one for like 10-15 seconds.
Didn't fall asleep before 9AM - so many messages and phone calls. Woke up an hour ago. Now I'm going to watch the delayed Eurosport coverage with my two favorite commentators.
Sorry - pretty excited! Needed this after a depressing few days because of Contador.
Here is Thor in big pictures!
Congrats, itsartemis (and Thor!) I made it through most of the race, but by 12:30 I just couldn't stay awake any more. Can't wait to see the broadcast.
Very well deserved win for Thor and a nice boost for Garmin-Cervelo next year. And he does look very handsome in the rainbow stripes.
ETA: Love this pic from Cadel's wife
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"The Devil is joining in, and that's never a good sign." Phil Liggett
Toto makes a subtle comment on it in the title panel here, where you can barely see Fabian and Thor in the background. "Hello?" "Smash?"
YAY THOR! I'm so happy for you itsartemis! First ever WC medal for Norway and a gold at that
NY Times article about the plasticizer test
"The Devil is joining in, and that's never a good sign." Phil Liggett
Per his twitter, Sal Ruibal who wrote for USA Today and covered cycling among other sports, was let go from the paper. Doesn't bode well for cycling coverage in USA Today.
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Hello, I purchased a cheap web template many moons ago and a colleague of mine at the time said he could get it changed to display my details instead of the Latin content that came with it. He managed to do it perfectly as he showed me on his local machine but as soon as he uploaded it to the host GoDaddy.com, the text is replaced by two animated boxes? Unfortunately he is seconded to Australia through our company and I don't have a contact number for him. I'm stuck and need to have my website up and running so I can try and make some money freelance. The web address is http://www.lastmincad.com/ and if need be, i can upload the source code if it helps. I would REALLY appreciate some help if anyone feels kind enough!
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Frankly it looks like the site hasn't been populated with content.
What I THINK is supposed to happen is that when you click on once of the four boxes, it populates the 'floating boxes' area with content from a div with a class of 'cascade-window-content'....except there is nothing in that div.
While it's waiting it shows that aimated gif as a 'pre-loader'.
I'm a complete numpty when it comes to things like this, is there an easy way to display the content or is it not as easy as that? Any pointers would be gratefully appreciated.
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 405 (Method Not Allowed)
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"The '405 Method Not Allowed' error would appear if you are submitting a POST request to a page that does not support post. Usually, this would occur if you are submitting a POST to a .html page."
The error that is occurring looks something like this:
POST http://www.lastmincad.com/page/green.html 405 (Method Not Allowed)
If you're trying to retrieve the content, you shouldn't be using POST anyways. To the best of my knowledge, you should be using GET.
Okay, that makes a little bit of sense to me, I gather you can see the source from your browser, as I said I know very, very little when it comes to web design so would there be an easy way of changing this?
You can see the source code from ANY browser...just rightclick anywhere.
It seems odd that it displays correctly on my local machine but not once it's been uploaded to godaddy?
Viewing source and opening Inspector are two different things, really.
If you want to see the error that I see when clicking on your links, open up Chrome and right click anywhere on the page and select 'Inspect Element'. Once the inspector is up you can go to the Console tab and see any errors that are running (you'll also see that your Twitter code is throwing an error).
As far as changing it goes, I couldn't actually find where the AJAX call is being made because the theme is bundled with so many JS files - I might be able to dig later today, but hopefully somebody else can help you out in the mean time.
I'd appreciate if you or anyone could assist, it's been melting my brain for days now. Thanks everyone for all your help so far!
Ok. To clarify this a little...
Each piece of content that goes in the sections is not within the source of the page itself but is instead loaded in with some kind of JavaScript. It looks like @TheDoc is correct in that blue.html is the file that contains the content for the blue panel that cannot be loaded (hence an empty page). If that support quote is correct, the simplest fix would be to change the extension on all your filenames from .html to .php.
More abstractly, I would strongly advise cleaning up your site a bit. There are more than 10 separate JS files being loaded. This is going to spell disaster for performance as well as making it really hard to work out where problems are coming from. You could therefore improve this by combining all the jQuery into 1 or 2 compressed files and doing the same for the multiple CSS requests. Arguably, these things are just symptoms of the biggest issue as far as the site being next to useless when JavvaScript is disabled.
I know I sure criticized a lot but in doing so I am trying to help. :)
I can give this a go but it won't be till I get out from work. I'll post tomorrow to tell you how I got on. Fingers crossed!
Thanks Mr Rogers, all help is appreciated, especially when you're as thick as a whale omlette like I am!
Well I renamed all HTML pages to PHP but the issue still remains? Anybody else have any other ideas?
On your local machine, can you look in the folder your website is in? You should see a folder called
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.If so, upload that folder to your host via FTP, with the same directory relationship as in your local machine.
Guys, a big thanks to all who assisted. Just changing the .html extension to .php (and in the index file) has resolved it!!! One thing though, the first page 'About Me' does not show the content when opened in IE7? It's okay in any other browser?


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Royal Oak Police Chief Corrigan O'Donohue said, "Lockhart's BBQ has donated gift cards for our officers to hand out to people who are observed being good citizens. Our officers will be looking for individuals who help one of their neighbors in a time of need, obey traffic laws or go out of their way to make the City of Royal Oak an even better place to live, work and play."
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