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About us
Welcome to the R1b-FGC5494 and Subclades project!
R1b-FGC5494 is the branch of the human family tree marked by the mutation FGC5494+. It is a common Y chromosome clade of paternal lineages in Europe. There are several large subclades of R1b-FGC5494. This project is intended for people who are SNP tested FGC5494+ or one of its descendant SNPs, like FGC5494+, FGC5496+, CTS4571+, etc.
An important goal of this project is to discover the full deep ancestral family tree of paternal lineages for all R1b-FGC5494 people. This will help us understand the origins of R1b-FGC5494 as a whole, at the subclade levels and down to the genealogical family tree level. The primary method of marking branches in the tree are SNPs so this project is for people who are interested in SNP testing.
The R1b-FGC5494 project administrators will automatically add members to the appropriate R1b-FGC5494 subclade project as test results dictate and as those projects are available. This project is only for those FGC5494+ people who are willing to be added to the appropriate subclade projects. More information on these subclades is available on the "Results" page.
Key steps for you to take1. You must have a test result with Family Tree DNA (FTDNA.) To read more about DNA testing check the DNA FAQ item in the menu above. National Genographic Project testers can easily join, but first you must transfer your test results to FTDNA by following the instructions at your National Genographic web page. Genographic customers must order Y STRs or they will not appear on the project screens and in the Y MATCHING system..
2. To join this project click on JOIN in the graphic banner above and login with your FTDNA account ID and password.
3. Update your myFTDNA dashboard by clicking on MANAGE PERSONAL INFORMATION. This is critical to finding potential relatives and understanding origins.
3A. Make sure your privacy settings are correct for the project. Click on the tab PRIVACY & SHARING. Look under MY DNA RESULTS for the question "Who can view my DNA results in group projects?". Change to ANYONE if it isn't already.
3B. Update your Paternal Ancestor name and origins. Click on the tab PERSONAL PROFILE tab and scroll down to update your paternal origins information from the MyFTDNA dashboard after logged into. Select MOST DISTANT ANCESTORS and complete the information for your PATERNAL DIRECT most distant (oldest) ancestor. Please enter only information that is not speculative. Enter first and last names, birth year and as specific a birth and origin location as you can in the NAME field. For example, "James Welch, b.c.1812, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland". For the COUNTRY OF ORIGIN field, please be as specific as possible. For instance, rather than select UNITED KINGDOM please pick either ENGLAND, IRELAND, NORTHERN IRELAND, SCOTLAND OR WALES if you know the origin. Add the latitude and longitude information as well so that the automatic maps can be drawn properly. If you don't know, that is okay. Unknown may be the correct answer.
4. An additional sharing option is to create a Ysearch record from your myFTDNA web page so potential relatives can contact you without exchanging email IDs or other personal information. From the Y DNA menu on select MATCHES. On that screen scroll down to find the TAKE ME TO YSEARCH.ORG button and follow the instructions there. To learn more, Ysearch is at http://ysearch.org.
5. Join the Yahoo discussion group for this project. Several project administrators and advanced R1b hobbyists are available on the R1b-L21-project yahoo forum so you can get help. There are also links to scientific papers, research data, etc. on this group. You do not need to supply your actual name for this group. You can use a nickname. You can email firstname.lastname@example.com to subscribe or visit https://groups.yahoo.com/groups/R1b-L21-project/
6. If you have not yet tested to 67 Y STRs (Short Tandem Repeats) please upgrade. R1b is young so it is hard to discern between subgroups and potential relatives oftentimes without 67 STRs. 111 STR testing is clearly preferable and a better deal in terms of cost per STR, but 67 is the minimum needed. To learn more, read http://www.familytreedna.com/learn/y-dna-testing/y-str/upgrading-markers-improve-information/
More STRs can help...
a) guide you on SNP/haplogroup testing, saving money on that kind of testing,
b) provide additional and better matches on your myFTDNA matches screen,
c) improve precision for Time to Most Recent Common Ancestor (TMRCA) estimates,
d) and going all the way to 111 Y STRs supports family tree building when you reach brick walls in your genealogy, since the 111 STR panel is estimated to have a change once every three generations.
7. Move forward with an Single-Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) testing plan so your subclade can be identified and haplogroup labeled properly. Evaluating matches you have at 67 or 111 STRs can be very helpful and should not be overlooked. Clear patterns among your best matches may help you decide what SNPs or SNP Packs to buy. This project's Activity Feed as well as the R1b-L21-project yahoo group are setup to help you evaluate testing plans.
SNPs can be ordered one at a time from FTDNA by logging into your myFTDNA account, selecting the blue UPGRADES button and then scrolling down to the ADVANCED TESTS box and the BUY NOW button. SNP Packs can also be ordered here.
7A. Big Y is the preferred test. It is probably the most important test you can take. It is a Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) test that discovers new SNPs by scanning over 10 million locations on the Y chromosome. The tremendous benefit in this is you will discover SNPs for just your paternal lineage as well as identify ancient SNPs that you may share with many, many other people. Big Y has the ability to discover SNPs that are pertinent to the genealogical timeframe, the last couple of hundred years. The Big Y learning web site has more details. https://www.familytreedna.com/learn/y-dna-testing/big-y/ Please read the Lewis and Clark Expedition analogy for Big Y exploration on the FAQ page. https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/r-l21/faq/
7B. The R1b-L21 SNP Pack is a very cost effective option that gives you very good coverage of R1b-FGC5494 branching. You can order a pack from your myFTDNA account. If you don't see the option, please check the blue UPGRADES button, then the BUY NOW button in the ADVANCED TESTS box, and pick SNP PACK in the SELECT A PRODUCT box. Please post on the Activity Feed forum if you need help.
If you have a true interest in genetic genealogy and breaking beyond the brickwalls of your genealogical records, please strongly consider both Big Y to determine your haplogroup down to a very recent timeframe and 111 STRs so that you can refine your close-in family and surname mutation history tree.
A little more about SNPs
Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) are critical for R1b people. R1b is both a very large group and relatively young. Most European R1b paternal lineages are related within the last several thousand years. That means that R1b STR based haplotypes often look alike. The most common pattern of Y STRs is the Western Atlantic Modal Haplotype (WAMH). Most R1b people match several components of it. It is just a remnant of the fact we are closely related. SNPs help differentiate the branches of R1b's descendants tree. A high level simplified version is on this projects "About" overview web page.
R1b-FGC5494 itself, the main branch of our tree, is marked by the SNP FGC5494+. We all are FGC5494+ since it was present in our common ancestor, a single prehistoric man. R1b-FGC5494 already has a number of branches that are marked by SNPs. The number of branches discovered continues to grow.
Many of these branches have coincidentally matching Y STRs. In other words, their branches appear to cross. This gives us false matches.This is definitely a problem with limited haplotypes of 12 and 25 STR markers. Getting up to 37 helps, but 67 is really needed. 111 is best.
STRs are very useful for general guidance and for matching at the very recent family level, but they are not 100% reliable since some mutate relatively quickly and go both up and down and back to where they started from.
SNPs are much more reliable markers for our paternal lineages. Theoretically, they are permanent throughout eternity so they reliably show our branching of paternal lineages. The number of SNPs available for testing is growing as more and more advanced testing is developed. You will want to identify your terminal SNP, which is the youngest SNP mutation that you have, that is on a formal Y DNA tree. Your terminal SNP tells you where you fit from a deep ancestral perspective.
SNPs help...
a) make you more efficient by avoiding false matches when checking for potential genealogical relationships,
b) help you identify deep ancestral family, clan or historical origins,
c) show you what geographic locations might produce additional matches and pertinent genealogical or historical information and
d) benefit all R1b people in general, as well as science, because we'll have a better understanding of how and when this lineage of men spread across Europe as rapidly and as dominantly as it did.
For additional information on SNP testing please visit http://dna-explained.com/2012/08/10/to-snp-or-not-to-snp/
This is a public project. The more of us who test and share our information, the more we will all know. When you join this project, you have granted permission to place your Y SNP and STR data into the public domain, from which it can never be retrieved. We do not publish your full given name or contact info.
Thank you for your consideration. Please review the Results web page. If you have specific questions please post on the Activity Feed or join the R1b-L21-project discussion group at https://groups.yahoo.com/groups/R1b-L21-project/


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Made for iPhone Hearing Aids and the TruLink app have been tested and are compatible with all versions of iOS 10 and iOS 9. Apple's Operating System (iOS) runs your iPhone and is responsible for managing the connectivity between the iPhone and Made for iPhone Hearing Aids. There is a pairing tutorial video further down this page.
iOS UPDATE NOTE: When updating the version of iOS on your iPhone, the hearing aids may lose connection, requiring you to unpair and re-pair the hearing aids with your iPhone.
The TruLink app is a supplement to your Made for iPhone Hearing Aids and offers a variety of enhanced adjustment capabilities and exciting features. The TruLink app relies on iOS connecting to the hearing aid in order to communicate.
Made for iPhone Hearing Aids and the TruLink app are compatible with the following Apple devices: iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6, iPhone 5s, iPhone 5c, iPhone 5, iPhone 4s (Halo only), iPad Pro, iPad Air 2, iPad Air, iPad (4th generation), iPad mini 4, iPad mini 3, iPad mini with Retina display, iPad mini, iPod touch (5th generation) and Apple Watch. Use of Apple Watch requires iPhone 5 or later.
For best performance, we recommend using TruLink 3.0.2.
We are constantly evaluating Android products and their compatibility with our hearing aids. Due to the complex nature of the Android platform and many different types of products utilizing this platform, we test each product separately and will provide compatibility information as we complete our rigorous testing. Remember to check this page for updated Android compatibility information.
Made for iPhone Hearing Aids and the TruLink app are compatible with the following Android products: Google Pixel, Google Pixel XL, Google Nexus 6P, Google Nexus 5X, Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge, Samsung Galaxy S7, Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Plus, Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge, Samsung Galaxy S6, Samsung Galaxy S5, Samsung Galaxy S4, Samsung Galaxy Note 5, Samsung Galaxy Note 4, Samsung Galaxy Note 3, HTC 10, HTC 9, HTC One M8 and HTC One M7.
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U.S. stocks declined Monday, erasing gains that briefly had the S&P 500 index less than one point from its record close, as Wall Street worried about Europe's troubles.
Stocks had initially rallied as a deal was reached to avert a financial meltdown in Cyprus. But equities retreated as investors questioned what the plan for bank restructuring in the island nation would mean for other European countries.
"This is just a reality check. The initial euphoria was Cyprus at least didn't sink into the Mediterranean Sea. But, as you dive in further, you realize Europe still does have significant issues to resolve," said Ron Florance, managing director of investment strategy at Wells Fargo Private Bank.
After coming within a fraction of its all-time closing high of 1,565.15, hit in October 2007, the S&P 500 ended at 1,551.69, off 5.20 points, or 0.3% on Monday.
The S&P 500 initial nearing of its all-time closing high is "much more of a Main Street story than a Wall Street story, as we've been watching this from 2009," said Art Hogan, market strategist at Lazard Capital Markets, referring to the bull market that started a fifth year in March. The index has more than doubled from its 2009 bottom.
Industrials and materials were the worst performing of the S&P's 10 major sectors, all of which lost ground.
Dell Inc. shares gained 2.6% after the computer maker confirmed it received competing bids from private-equity firm Blackstone Group LP and billionaire investor Carl Icahn that could top one offered by founder Michael Dell.
Best Buy Co Inc. advanced 1.8% after the consumer-electronics retailer said founder Richard Schulze would return as chairman emeritus, offsetting talk that its largest investor was considering selling his stake in the company.
After rising as much as 51 points and then falling 117 points, the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 64.28 points, or 0.4%, to end at 14,447.75.
The Nasdaq Composite dropped 9.70 points, or 0.3%, to 3,235.30.
For every two stocks that rose, three fell on the New York Stock Exchange, where 655 million shares traded.
Composite volume approached 3.2 billion.
The euro fell, along with U.S. and European equities, after Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem suggested to Reuters and the Financial Times that a depositor bail-in, the most controversial aspect of the Cyprus rescue, could be repeated among others in the 17-member euro zone. His office later dialed back his comments.
The euro
slid to $1.2855 after rising as high as $1.3048 in Asian trade on Monday.
Cyprus and international lenders struck a last-minute bailout deal early Monday, clearing the way for the euro area's third-smallest economy to receive 10 billion euros ($13 billion) in financing. The agreement calls for a restructuring of two of the island country's largest banks — Popular Bank of Cyprus (also known as "Laiki Bank") and Bank of Cyprus — as well as a downsizing of the nation's overall banking sector.
Deposits at both banks larger than €100,000, the cutoff between insured and uninsured deposits, will be subject to a levy.
"We were having too much of a celebration over the near-term success of fixing the Cyprus problem, but the devil is in the details, and the details are still coming out," said Hogan. "The good news is disaster has been avoided; the bad news is the knock-on effect," he said.
In a speech Monday afternoon in New York, Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley said the Fed's monetary policy should remain "very accommodative" to give the labor market more time to strengthen. Dudley also said the Fed must press ahead with its bond-buying program as Congress is going about fiscal policy the wrong way.
"If you are worried about the Fed ending asset purchases early, you would need an outlook shift from Fed members such as Dudley. At least today, no such shift was seen," noted Dan Greenhaus, chief global strategist at BTIG LLC, in emailed commentary.
In Britain, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told the London School of Economics that low interest rates in developed countries help the global economy while not disrupting trade via weaker currencies.


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The Lantern Obelix, designed by Jesper Møller Hansen, combines quality and design thanks to its conical shape.
Its glass walls protect the wick, so you can take advantage of a cosy atmosphere and its soft cosy lighting for the entire evening!
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The colour and grain of the natural hardwood varies, but after about 6 months of exposure to UV light, the wood matures to a sliver-grey patina. Do not be alarmed if small cracks appear in the end-grain of timbers. They are perfectly natural and you need not worry, as the moisture in the atmosphere rises the timber will return to normal.
Stains and spillages on the wood should be absorbed with kitchen paper as soon as they occur and then washed away afterwards with soapy water. General grime accumulates on furniture and this should be washed away with a light soapy detergent. Any residual marks may be removed with a little light sanding from very fine sandpaper. Extending tables and folding chairs should be regularly opened and closed to prevent moving parts seizing up and the application of a little lubricant on a cloth passed over the runners will help to smooth the process. Timber Furniture may be pressure washed but the hose must be operated from a distance of at least 50 cm and extreme and gentle care must be applied around the joints and dowels. Do not blast it at high pressure or close range as this will damage the grain of the timber. Simply wash over the surface to remove any layer of oxidisation.
Surface Preparation: Your furniture has already been factory treated with an oil preservative, however we do recommend after unpacking and assembly of your furniture, thoroughly wipe clean your furniture removing any dust particles, then lightly re oil the furniture and let dry.
IMPORTANT: After oiling wipe off excess oil, then allow the oil to dry for (4) hours, and then wipe off again with a clean rag removing any excess oil that may not have penetrated into the timber. Repeat wiping off excess oil if necessary.
Your furniture is now protected however repeat applications of the hardwood timber oil may be required. Before re-oiling check your furniture for any residue build up, if this occurs a light sanding may be required. Note: The frequency of oiling will vary according to the climatic conditions in your area and direct exposure to the elements your furniture is subjected too. We recommend Karri Gum timber needs to be oiled a minimum of (3) times a year.
NOTE: IF KARRI GUM furniture is neglected with prolonged unprotected exposure to the elements this will cause the timber to discolour to a silvery grey, checking and hairline cracks may appear if in the event your setting does discolour to restore the timber, sanding and oiling will be required. We recommend the furniture be sorted with undercover protection during wintertime and wet season.
KARRI GUM timber is kiln dried under strict guidelines. Upon purchasing your furniture small hairline cracks may appear, this is part of the drying process of this particular timber species, these cracks will not deter the durability of the furniture, 3% shrinking may occur in this species of timber.
WARNING: Staining on Tuscan or light coloured pavers may occur from sap leeching and dust particles if the timber is not cleaned properly and weathered correctly, hose down your furniture and clean thoroughly before placing your furniture on light coloured pavers.
GNR currently offer Pro Nature Maintenance products at the Claremont and Woodstock Warehouse Outlet. Pro Nature Outdoor Clear Oil is suitable for regular minor maintenance jobs to remove deeply ingrained dirt and stains from food and wine. It is also designed to brighten timber back to its original colour by removing the grey film and to restore the top surface. It opens the pores of the wood in preparation for sealing.
All the Stainless Steel used in the construction of furniture is 304 grade. Stainless Steel is an iron alloy in which the resistance to corrosion is increased through the addition of chrome and nickel. Surface oxidisation deposits are accelerated by chlorine and air-borne chemicals but do not affect the durability of the furniture. Chlorine and salty sea air is Stainless Steel's biggest enemy and can cause a type of corrosion that is known as pitting. For that reason it is recommended that in locations near the sea the metal should be Electro-Polished where optional.
Since stainless steel is not corrosion-resistant by definition, it is advisable to clean the furniture regularly with a standard stainless steel cleaner to minimise the contamination of the surface from airborne pollutants. This avoids the formation of surface oxidisation deposits (brown spots). Heavy Duty Stainless Steel Cleaner may be required if furniture has not been regularly cared for.
High grade Aluminium is preferred by manufacturers for its strength, its low weight and its resistance to corrosion. Most of GNR's Aluminium ranges have a polyester powder paint finish applied statically and embedded by a baking action. The advantages of this procedure are the endless possibilities in the variety of colour and the protection to the metal.
Regularly cleaning with a mild soapy solution to remove surface dirt is all that is necessary. Avoid using abrasives.
Aluminium garden furniture won't rust, but it can suffer from aluminium oxidation. This will change the colour of the metal over time, but won't affect the strength of it – in fact, it actually makes it stronger.
If you want to maintain the original colour of your furniture, make sure you clean it regularly by hosing it down, or keep it covered during the winter months to maximize its longevity. Top tip an easy way to extend the life of your metal garden furniture is to polish it with a clear car wax after you've finished cleaning it. The wax will make it more water resistant.
GNR's extensive All Weather Weave designs include different types of highly-technical woven materials which are soft to the touch, tear resistant, UV resistant, weather resistant and durable. Wicker furniture is made from a High Density Polyethylene woven over a high grade aluminium frame that is not impervious to long term weather exposure. Synthetic woven furniture needs minimal care to keep it looking as good as new. They clean easily with a soapy detergent. The brush attachment of a vacuum cleaner may be used to remove dust or embedded food crumbs. Care must be taken not to damage the weave with sharp objects. Wicker furniture provides a unique aesthetic; however, the ravages of time can take quite a toll on this form of furniture.
Marina Plus is an outdoor synthetic leather commonly used on yachts for its durability to withstand various weather conditions. Complementing our outdoor furniture as fully outdoor resistant, this synthetic leather assures the highest level of dimensional stability and stretch resistant for maximum comfort and luxury. It is UV resistant and UV reflective to prevent heat buildup keeping it soft. It also repels water. For best results clean spills and soils immediately. Ordinary dirt and grime can be removed with mild soap and water. Do not use chemical detergents or solvents to clean. Tip: If required use marine synthetic leather cleaners and conditioners to ensure longevity. Covers are also an excellent way to ensure longevity.
GNR do not take responsibility for any sort of damage(s) or side effects(s) as a results of using commercial cleaners or not following the care and maintenance guidance advised.
Various forms of textilene is used for furniture of which some are from French manufacturer Ferrari. The polyester fibre is PVC coated and then woven. The fibres are then melted together in order to create an exceptionally form fast, stretch and tear resistant fabric. Apart from its exceptional mechanical strength, it has a high chemical resistance. The synthetic coating guarantees an extremely high weather and UV resistance. The fact that there is no moisture absorption, results in rapid drying, maximum stain and mould resistance. Do note that leaving staining products for long periods on textilene could could cause staining.
Textilene needs minimal care to keep it looking as good as new. Simply use soapy water to wash down. Avoid the use of abrasive products and solvents.
All glass for tables are tempered. Ceramic & Glass is naturally resistant to staining making it highly suitable material for outdoor tables.
Glass is fragile and care must be taken to avoid chipping or damaging. Care must be taken to avoid scratching surfaces with cutlery, china and decorative items. It is recommended that tablemats and coasters are used on glass tops. Glass surfaces should be cleaned with standard glass cleaners.
To keep cushions looking good it is recommended that they are stored indoors overnight. Most stains on the material can be spot cleaned with mild soapy water. Simply remove dirt by scrubbing with cool water (under 30 degrees) and natural soap. Do not iron, spin or tumble dry. To prevent creasing replace the covers while still damp and dry in the open air. Cushions must be completely dry before storing in a well-ventilated area over winter.


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Billed as a top-of-the-line our Grange Series is Australia's first ultra heavy duty residential/ commercial Greenhouse and is without a doubt the most sort after Greenhouse on the Australian market today. PLEASE NOTE: This frame can not be compared to 'Hobby Greenhouses on the market' and we provide a FULL Box-Section Frame – every profile not just a few!
External Size: L: 8.0m W: 4.1m H: 2.7m (26.2×13.1×8.10ft)
Eave Heights: 1630mm
Ridge Height: 2700mm
Floor Space: 32sq metres
Colours: Available in Green or Black
Product Description
- Aluminium Frame available in Powder Coated Green & Black
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Well said!
The W3C announced last week that the XHTML 2 Working Group will wrap up at the end of this year. This should have been a straightforward, welcome announcement. Instead it has confused a lot of people who believe that it heralds the end of XHTML—see, for example, the comments on Zeldman's blog post.
This confusion is understandable given the lamentable names that have been assigned to different technologies. This isn't the first time this has happened…
JavaScript sounds like it has something to do with Java. It doesn't. Apart from some superficial syntactical similarities, they have nothing in common. Java is to JavaScript as ham is to hamster.
DHTML sounds like it has something to do with HTML. It doesn't. DHTML is a catch-all term to describe the action of updating the CSS properties of HTML elements using JavaScript. I have my own catch-all term for the combination of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; I call it web development.
And so to XHTML 2. You'd be forgiven for thinking it has something to do with XHTML 1.0 or XHTML 1.1. It doesn't.
XHTML 1.0 is simply a reformulation of HTML 4 with XML syntax:
p and
li elements,
br, and
XHTML 1.1 is the same reformulation but with the added unrealistic demand that documents must served with an XML mime-type.
XHTML 2, by contrast,
has very, very little in common with HTML 4. It was an attempt at a fresh start, to create a theoretically "pure" vocabulary with little concern for backwards compatibility. It was, of course, doomed to failure:
This was a philosophically pure specification that was so backwardly incompatible that it nearly deprecated the
Now that XHTML 2 is dead, some people think that this means XHTML is dead. It doesn't.
Henri Sivonen apparently attempts to clear up this confusion by writing An Unofficial Q and A about the Discontinuation of the XHTML2 WG which, alas, is not very clearly written. Also, Henri, as pointed out by John Allsopp,
your snark is showing:
There are two meanings to XHTML: technical and marketing. The technical kind (XHTML served using the
application/xhtml+xmlMIME type) is a formulation of HTML as an XML vocabulary. The marketing kind (XHTML served using the
text/htmlMIME type) is processed just like HTML by browsers but the authors attempt to observe slightly different syntax rules in order to make it seem that they are doing something newer and shinier compared to HTML.
Belittling authors who prefer a stricter syntax is no way to explain technical differences between formats.
There are perfectly good reasons for choosing to use the XHTML syntax. Take, for example, Drew's comment:
Whenever this argument surfaces, there seems to be the assumption that loose syntax is easier for beginners. This baffles me. In my experience simple, strict rules are much easier to learn and code to than loose rules with multiple shortcuts. I like XHTML because attributes must always be quoted. Tags must always be closed. These are simple rules that require no thought, and result in uniform, predictable markup.
I'm not saying that XHTML syntax is better or worse than HTML syntax. I'm saying it's a personal choice. If you prefer a different syntax to me, that doesn't mean that one of us is wrong. If I like Thai food and you prefer Italian, neither of us is wrong.
The death of XHTML 2 does not mean the death of XHTML syntax. If you want to continue to close all tags and quote all attributes, you can do so. You can either use the existing XHTML 1 spec or you can use HTML 5.
That's right; HTML 5 allows you to use whichever syntax you are most comfortable with. Doctor Bruce has the diagnosis:
I like the XHTML syntax. It's how I learned. I'm used to lowercase code, quoted attributes and trailing slashes on elements like
img. They make me feel nice and comfy, like a cup of Ovaltine and The Evil Dead on the telly.
But you might not. You might want SHOUTY UPPERCASE tags, no trailing slashes and attribute minimisation. And, in HTML 5 you can choose.
Thanks to the "pave the cowpaths" principle, it's up to you. As you like it. What you will. Whatever you want, whatever you like.
If you want, you can even serve your documents as
application/xhtml+xml, instantly transforming them from HTML 5 into XHTML 5 …yes, another confusing name.
Just remember, XHTML 2, the spec, has nothing to do with XHTML, the syntax. XHTML lives on in HTML 5.
But, but, but…, I hear you cry,
surely that does us no good because HTML 5 isn't supported yet, right?
support. HTML 5, unlike XHTML 2, is designed to be backwards compatible. So here's how you can take an existing XHTML 1 document and convert it to HTML 5…
Take this line:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
Replace it with:
<!DOCTYPE html>
XHTML 2 is dead. Long live XHTML …as HTML 5.
Update: What Zeldman said.
Well said!
Spot on with these comments, I've just commented on Zeldmans post that you should choose the right doctype for the job so it's good to hear someone else thinking on the same lines.
On the ball as usual
I definitely prefer the strictness as per XHTML spec, so I guess I'll be using XHTML5 — HTML 5 with optional strict style markup would just be odd.
On the ball as usual
I definitely prefer the strictness as per XHTML spec, so I guess I'll be using XHTML5 — HTML 5 with optional strict style markup would just be odd.
You can have the same strict syntax in HTML. And using HTML you don't have to rely on the lack of proper SGML implementation in your browser. That browsers can digest your broken HTML (this is what XHTML document is for HTML processor) does not mean that you should feed them with it. Zeldman should really quit that marketing game and stick to standards.
Thank you, possibly the first post on the HTML5 / XHTML2 saga that has made some sense.
So where's the panic?
Thanks for explaining this.
XHTML, like Doctor Bruce, is how I learned. Good to hear I can continue to do what I do, and that HTML5 will also allow me to continue to do what I do.
The confusion surrounding the 'death' of XHTML has had a "the sky is falling" vibe recently, thankfully it seems, clear heads will prevail.
Yes, ditto: http://twitter.com/codedread/status/2442135522
Thank you for this writeup. Of the only small bit of reading on this subject I've done, you explained it very well and concisely. Looking forward to the future with more excitement now.
Sweet post. Personally I prefer the xHTML syntax, but I'm not going drone on about it. It's bit like the whole toilet paper under or over preference.
Yeah. I don't care what anybody says, but HTML's traditional lax rules encourage badly formed code, and I believe that time will show that to be the truth.
I've been digging around for the life of my trying to find an absolute answer: They say the HTML5 spec allows trailing slashes on self-closing elements, but that they should be served as XML then. But is an HTML5 document with trailing slashes served as text/html invalid?
"XHTML 2 is dead. Long live XHTML …as HTML 5."
A perfect summarization, thank you for taking the time to spell this out. I will push forward with the XHTML syntax in HTML 5.
Thanks so much for clearing the air a bit with this post Jeremy. An understanding of the relationships between the different specs is an extremely important piece of the conversation that has not been very prevalent until Zeldman announced that XHTML was dead, the comments started rolling in, and everybody who understands these things perfectly started rolling their eyes, disgusted at the amount of ignorance out there in the developer community.
Unfortunately, most developers that I've had the opportunity to work with only take time to get a very shallow understanding of the technologies they are working with, the core of course being HTML, probably because the consequences are not very severe if they don't fully understand and implement the standard (most web clients are very forgiving). It's perfectly reasonable to interpret the incremental version number (XHTML 2) as being an evolution of the XHTML 1 spec instead of a "fresh start". After all, that's how it goes with software and people are used to that.
well done. this is one of the clearest explanations i've read so far. it has all seemed like a lot of chest-pounding and hair-pulling over something not very surprising or upsetting, so it's good to hear some grownup thoughts on the matter from yourself, zeldman, and others. thanks for bringing things back down to earth.
Henri may have been being snarky, but the quote isn't saying anything about "formats" from what I can tell. He's saying that for most people who author web content, XHTML is just a buzz word. Most people serve "XHTML" with "Content-Type: text/html" which removes any benefits over HTML 4 (e.g. inclusion of other XML bits, like MathML, directly in the XHTML markup) and I don't care to guess how many XHTML authors know how to configure a server to override the default of serving XHTML as HTML. To modify your analogy, it's like pretending to be a Thai restaurant but only serving McDonald's hamburgers.
The "requirement" for strict syntax is only enforced if XHTML is served as XML, and browsers parse XHTML served as text/html as HTML. The same ideologic use of strict syntax people have for XHTML can be applied to HTML. Just because you can use loose syntax doesn't mean you HAVE to use loose syntax, and it's best if you don't because (until HTML 5) error recovery (e.g. from unclosed paragraph tags) isn't always consistent across browsers because the W3C didn't define how errors should be handled in HTML. The strict syntax in XHTML served as text/html is self-imposed just like HTML (because the browsers treat it like HTML).
The argument for my decision not to adopt XHTML boiled down to this: If you're serving XHTML as malformed HTML (XHTML's self-closing elements, for example, are treated as having invalid attributes until HTML 5 is implemented and they are treated as self-closing tags like in XML) and you can code HTML with strict syntax, why not just use HTML?
Serving XHTML as text/html is a stop gap that has lasted 9 years while web developers haven't gotten to use the "X" in "XHTML." The promise in real XHTML is great, but it's been held back by lack of support in IE (and probably the lack of web servers that check to see if a document is XHTML or HTML before they pick the Content-type to send to the browser for .html files). The real fate of XHTML, as far as I'm concerned, is whether a complete HTML 5 implementation will require real XHTML 5 support (i.e. XHTML served as XML), and whether the IE team plans to support XHTML 5. If HTML 5 can force IE to support real XHTML, I think XHTML can be revived as the best tool for most web designers needs. If not, I still see no reason to pick XHTML over HTML.
Thanks for explicitly mentioning that XHTML isn't dead. Few of the well known web design celeb types are saying anything about XHTML 5, and posting comments saying that HTML 5 has an XHTML serialization doesn't get the same attention.
Thank you for writing this.
Unfortunately, seems like many people forget or aren't aware that there really are only 4 big things that differ between HTML4 and XHTML1. There's really no excuse not to do those 4 things.
THANK you. I have read Jeffrey Zeldman's post, and I've read the Unofficial Q&A by Henri Sivone. After all the comments on Mr Zeldman's post, I was completely confused. All I know is that I learned XHTML because my OU and University of Exeter distance learning courses said to use it. Then I read about the mime-type issue, so in my limited understanding, I thought maybe I should start writing HTML. Then when all this started about XHTML2, I'm like, for shit's sake, all I want to do is write to standards, but if all these people who know so much more than me are arguing about it, what chance do I have of knowing which to use?
Your post answered my questions. Again, THANK you.
Does this mean XHTML freed your mind or not?
thanks for clearing this up! Now I can sleep again… ;-)
The more I read about this, the more I feel there's a lot of wailing and gnashing of teeth over nothing.
I'm glad we (the web development community at large) are discussing this and are, for the most part, pretty happy about it. But I have to think we should be able to get over it pretty quickly.
I know of very few web sites that implemented XHTML correctly. I know of thousands of websites that are written using Frontpage etc. that don't even use correct HTML.
I know personally the next site I build will be written in HTML5 using the skills I learned from using XHTML.
One ring to rule them all, and let that ring be HTML5.
"I have my own catch-all term for the combination of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript; I call it web development." - Well said.
Great post! I, for one, will continue to mark up my code with XHTML syntax. I can't stand the sloppiness of "old" HTML, but I love the flexibility to do it either way in HTML5. I guess I fall into the category of developers who will be using X/HTML5 and I look forward to all the shiny newness that it will bring. Now, if we can just get them to move a tiny bit faster, so we don't lose our standards 13 years from now.
Hi, I'm new to this field and I would like to learn HTML.
If I understand correctly, most future web sites will be written in HTML5 (served using the text/html MIME type) and just a few sites will use XHTML5 (served using the application/xhtml+xml MIME type). As a consequence, I will focus on HTML5.
You say that HTML5 can use both the HTML syntax and the stricter XHTML syntax, but since I'm starting from scratch I suppose I could safely ignore the XHTML syntax and focus on the HTML syntax (HTML 4.1/5). Why bother about XHTML syntax?
Unfortunately all modern introductory book/online resources about HTML are focused on the XHTML syntax. Where I could learn the pure HTML syntax without any reference to the useless and distracting (for my purpouses) XHTML syntax?
The confusion and misunderstanding is a result of reality distortion field that XHTML supporters created through recent years. XHTML served with text/html was always a lie that these developers wanted to believe.
Great article Jeremy. I think this will clear things up for many people. HTML5 will be here and in common use within a couple of years in my view, forget 2022!! and so it is time to start getting familiar with it. Using it in its purest form will probably involve rethinking how we currently markup our pages (that is the point after all) but until then as you say it is very easy to serve the page with an HTML5 doctype. We have to start somewhere right? lol
This was so very concise and helpful. Thanks for cutting through all the confusion and clutter of these last few days.
Very nice article. I also agree that stricter rules produce nicer, easier to read, and more uniform markup. That is most of the reason I use xhtml. xHTML is very backwards compatible (as with v.1), except if it is served as real xhtml. (Internet Explorer, I'm looking at you!) Otherwise, there is very little difference, and it will only further confuse people if there is a large divide between xHTML and HTML.
I've always been a big proponent of web standards. Use semantic markup and validate your code are two things I always adhere too.
That's why, I guess, I'm none too engaged by the wailing and gnashing of teeth around the current HTML5/XHTML2 conversation taking place across the web at the moment. Because whatever flavour of mark-up you use, you should always do those two things and there are still a ton of developers who don't.
I switched from HTML4 to XHTML some time ago because I felt it gave me the structure I wanted in my coding. It was virtually always served using a
text/html MIME type so it was pretty much HTML4, but with XML syntax. It just seemed cleaner and more structured and helped hone my trade.
There are still very few websites out there that are using XHTML properly (with an
application/xhtml+xml MIME type) compared to the thousands of sites created by WYSIWYG tools that are barely proper HTML, let alone semantic or validated. I would rather concentrate on cleaning those up and educating developers to code sematically and validate their code correctly going forward, before lameting XHTML2, which seemed on a hiding to nowhere from the get go.
The next freelance web site I build will probably be in HTML4, just to brush up. All subsequent ones will be HTML5.
Jeremy Keith has a great post outling the basics you need to know, as does Jeffrey Zeldman. Both posts have links to various other sources if you want to dig deeper.
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Thanks for clearing that up Jeremy and nice to read a balanced - emotion reduced account for the first time this week.
Thank you for the clear explanation.
Great explanation, especially the analogies. There is so much misinformation about this topic, so it's great to see a pragmatic approach in this world of extremes.
Ah, great post, thanks for writing it and clearing it up for the majority, and you explained it better than most of similar explanations I've read so far (including myself :p )
XHTML 2 is dead. Long live XHTML …as HTML 5.
Well said. ^_^
Good article - I'm glad you cleared that up.
I think most people have gotten used to and prefer the XHTML syntax now.
Great explanation. Thanks.
Thanks for this very clear explanation, Jeremy.
Thank you for explaining this in plain English, Jeremy.
Great article! And thanks for adding the Zeldman link. Also, I took your advice and simply changed the doctype on my XHTML Strict code, and it validated for HTML 5, hooray!
Well written. Its intereting in Zeldman's comments to see people like Rimantas come back out of the woodwork in this conversation with some kind of renewed vigour that their doomsayer obsessiveness about XHTML being wrong is somehow finally proven. That guy was accosting me years ago with the very same diatribe of techno-babble, quite unprovoked as well.
I think their obsessive ranting shows more about a lack of work-life balance than it does about the reality of web development. I like the way you have succinctly put each statemtent by the way, so it will be interesting is they now come over to argue otherwise.
Yes its a good thing. End of story. :)
I'm trying to understand the different points of view on this issue. Your post seems pretty much snark-free. Henri's Q&A seemed clear to me, but I don't understand all the issues.
It seems the point of contention is not HTML 5, but the usefulness of XHTML 1.1 over 1.0. Would you say that is fair?
quote"Java is to JavaScript as ham is to hamster" -Apparently you've never had a hamster and bacon club sandwich.
Personally, I'm happy to hear that xhtml 2 is dead. It was needless in the first place. Too many people trying to put their mark on unnecessary standards gets us into needless messes.
You summed it so well, Jeremy! :-)
And I, for one, prefer writing XHTML syntax, too: it's simpler for me, a bit more strict than HTML syntax, and works well in all browsers that can read & interpret HTML.
So I don't understand from where came all of a sudden this "Didn't we tell you, XHTML is dead?" thing that I hear now here and there, all the time, especially after W3C announced that XHTML won't be developed anymore… :-/
XHTML 1.0 is a valid standard. XHTML 5 is developed. HTML 5 with XHTML syntax is perfectly valid, too. So, I don't understand… :(
Java is to JavaScript as ham is to hamster adactio.com/journal/1595 Misunderstanding markup - July 7th, 2009
Just a friendly reminder that Java is to JavaScript as ham is to hamster. - quote from @adactio: adactio.com/journal/1595
"JavaScript is not Java – JavaScript is to Java as hamster is to ham." adactio.com/journal/1595 (@adactio, July 7th 2009)
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"We spend a lot of time at Hampton Beach so for them to see the difference with the storm is really neat," Walsh said.
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Marybeth Mulone, of Derry, was braving the elements without so much as a jacket, but taking photographs and enjoying every chilly splash.
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"Every time they have a storm with the big waves, we come and see," she said.
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"It's a moment in history. We haven't seen a storm this big touch the region for a while. Irene brought a lot of rain, but with the wind predicted from this storm I think it's going to be a lot worse," Margaret Harthlow said as winds gained strength and howled through the harbor. Visiting from Weymouth, Mass., she was glad to be able to see what the beaches were encountering a little farther north.
"I'm ready for anything. Power outage, heavy wind, erosion, I say, 'Bring it,'" Hampton native, Harry Bartlett, said. He'd been out to the grocery store to stock up on essentials and prepare for the storm.
"I've watched a number of storms come into the beach over the years. Anyone from around here knows this is what we get a thrill from, riding out the storms," he said.
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More than one out of four RV owners owe more on their RV loans than their vehicles are worth, according to a March survey by www. RVtravel.com.
Nearly 28% of the more than 2,100 RV enthusiasts who answered the survey reported they owed more on their RVs than what they could sell them for. "It's not uncommon for these RVers to be forced to dig deep into their pockets to unload their vehicle," said Chuck Woodbury, editor of Edmonds, Wash.-based RVtravel.com and host of the Better Business Bureau DVD Buying a Recreational Vehicle.
Woodbury and other RV experts say there are many reasons why RVers get in trouble with their loans.
"They buy an RV with little or no money down and stretch their payments over too many years," said Charles Davis of RVfinancing.com. Davis said that in 2008, nearly all the RV loans of $100,000 or more his company arranged were for 15 or 20 years.
Davis explained that the minute an RV buyer leaves a dealer's lot, his or her new RV becomes a used vehicle and generally drops about 20% in value from its selling price.
RVers who finance their vehicles at significantly lower rates than offered by most other lenders are also asking for trouble. "The RV dealer will simply add thousands of dollars to the RV's selling price to offset the low interest rate, in effect doing what's known as a buy down or buying down the rate," explained Davis.
"A few years ago a guy who I had advised the year before not to take advantage of a dealer's low financing rate came back to me at an RV show. He asked me to tell him how badly he was upside down in his RV loan. I told him about $50,000 on the amount he had borrowed."
The problem gets worse when such an RVer trades in his RV to buy another one.
Davis said he was not surprised by the results of the RVtravel.com survey. "People should always establish an equity in a new vehicle, whatever they buy," he said. "That means making at least a 20% down payment."
Woodbury said it's easy to avoid getting upside down in an RV loan. "Buy an RV that you can afford, make a significant down payment and pay off the loan in the time you expect to own it. An RV is a depreciating asset. If you don't get equity in it right up front, you're asking for trouble."


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printme necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 268 diseños de 105 diseñadores freelance.
We're a printer cartridge supplies company, our website is at http://www.inkfactory.com and we've bought http://print.me to set up a great new service that will allow any internet user to make any webpage printer friendly. This means removing ads and other unwanted stuff that just wastes paper.
We expect the print.me button to appear on blogs and websites as a convenient service for the web, but people will also be able to come directly to our site and type in a web address to have it made printer friendly.
The website contest may well follow this, but for now it's just a logo that we want. The home page of the site will have the simplicity of a Google style box where you can type in a web address.
We want a logo that can also be used as a "print.me" button that will work at varying sizes for different uses on different pages around the internet.
The service will be used by any internet user who wants to make a page printer friendly. This means it should appeal to all ages and both genders.
The domain name for the new site is "http://print.me"
We need a "print.me" logo, but it needs to be flexible so we can use it as a button too.
The logo should work at small sizes and large sizes.
We will offer a widget that you install on your blog or website that puts a "print.me" button on any page you want, if a visitor clicks the button it will launch our website with the page displayed ready to make printer friendly.
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Northstar-at-Tahoe Unveils Mountain Improvement Plan
June 22, 2006
TRUCKEE, CA - (News Release) - In the next step toward achieving Northstar-at-Tahoe Resort's transformation into one of the finest year-round destination resorts in North America, the resort announced the launch of the next phase of its extensive mountain improvement plan, which includes two new lifts, relocating the cross-country center, expanding its snowmaking system, adding new parking lots and additional terrain.
These improvements will noticeably improve access to the most popular areas of the mountain, enhance the convenience of getting to and around the resort and improve flow and circulation of skiers/riders both at the base area and on the mountain.
As the resort's village continues to expand its lodging and amenities, Northstar Resort plans to grow the mountain proportionately to support the new Village at Northstar. Mountain improvements already complete include the opening of Lookout Mountain and the addition of the $4 million Village Express, which opened in the 2004-05 season.
This summer, Northstar Resort is investing $10.5 million in the next phase of mountain improvements which will result in the completion of two new Doppelmayr lifts for the 2006/07 winter season. The planned lifts include a high-speed six-pack which will dramatically improve access to Lookout Mountain and the Backside. The new lift, whose base is situated directly across from the mid-mountain Day Lodge, will whisk riders up nearly 1,050 vertical feet in just five minutes. The new six-pack will access 13 total trails and 137 acres of total terrain, including 60 acres of new intermediate terrain. Included in this terrain is a new mile-long run to connect guests directly from the top of the six-pack to the Backside.
The second lift is a European-style surface lift to replace Salmon Tow, which transported guests over to the resort's popular advanced terrain on Lookout Mountain. The new lift will be friendly to both skiers and snowboarders. The lift will be easily accessible from the top of the new six-pack lift, providing convenient access to Lookout Mountain.
"These two lifts will significantly improve uphill capacity and circulation on the mountain," said Tim Silva, Northstar Resort's general manager. "Previously, guests were required to take two lifts to get from mid-mountain to the Backside. Now, they can easily access this popular terrain with one chair ride, cutting their ride time nearly in half."
Northstar Resort's overall mountain improvement plan calls for the addition and/or replacement of six lifts in total.
Phase One of the new Village at Northstar will be complete this upcoming winter, breathing a vibrant energy into the new Village. New shops, boutiques, art galleries and restaurants will complement the ice skating rink and nine fire pits located at the heart of the Village. All skier services such as the ticket and season pass office, group sales, season and day lockers, new and expanded free overnight ski check and basket check will be open and conveniently located in the Village Center, adjacent to the ice rink. Upon completion, Northstar-at-Tahoe Resort will have invested a total of $30 million into these commercial improvements.
In order to better circulate traffic flow on Northstar Drive, Northstar Resort plans to add a new parking lot containing 600 spaces behind the gas station at the entrance of Northstar Drive. This will alleviate traffic congestion by routing a significant number of cars into this new parking area and off of the resort's main thoroughfare. Shuttle buses will pick up skiers/riders from the lot and drop them off at the entrance to the Village, minimizing the walk required to get from the car to the slopes.
In an effort to further gguarantee that Northstar Resort offers some of the best snow conditions at the lake all season long, the resort will expand its already extensive snowmaking system on the terrain located off of Vista Express and the new six-pack lift. Boasting the largest snowmaking system of any resort on the North Shore of Lake Tahoe, more than 50 percent of the developed mountain is now covered with snowmaking. As a result, Northstar Resort is guaranteed to offer some of the best early season conditions, including some of the earliest available halfpipe and freestyle terrain features at the lake.
Northstar-at-Tahoe Resort is in the process of relocating its cross-country center to make room for the new Ritz-Carlton Highlands resort being built at mid-mountain. The expanded 1,400 square foot cross-country center will be easily accessible from the top of the Gondola and will offer more convenient and direct access to the resort's most popular and scenic cross-country trails. A sundeck and expanded teaching area will round out the improved experience for guests.
Northstar-at-Tahoe is located on Highway 267, just six miles north of Lake Tahoe and six miles south of downtown Truckee. For more information on Northstar Resort, call 1-800-GO-NORTH or visit NorthstarAtTahoe.com.


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Esquire Magazine necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 597 diseños de 133 diseñadores freelance.
Esquire Magazine
Esquire is a monthly men's magazine that has been covering politics, sports, style, fiction, humor, food and drink, health and fitness, entertainment, and lifestyle interests since 1933. (Pick up an issue, or head to esquire.com, for a better sense of the magazine.)
In his first-ever editor's letter, the magazine's founder wrote that "Esquire aims to be the common denominator of masculine interests—to be all things to all men." Seventy seven years later, that still sums up what we do and who we're doing it for.
Esquire wants you to transform its iconic logo (available for reference at esquire.com) for a special portfolio in its February 2011 issue. There are no real creative limitations: provided this transformed logo includes seven letters (E-S-Q-U-I-R-E), it could be any number of things:
--A two-dimensional typographical or graphic treatment with fonts, shapes, and colors of your choosing;
--An animated video (a still of which we'd show in the pages of the magazine, with the full work available on our iPad app and web site);
--A sculpture or 3-D rendering that you've photographed and sent to us.
The top designs will be featured (and their designers identified) in a permanent gallery on http://esquire.com while the Grand Prize winner will receive $500 and see his or her work appear in the February 2011 issue of Esquire.
NOTE: The transformed logo does not have to mimic or otherwise resemble the current Esquire logo in any way; the more experimental and innovative your design, the more we are likely to choose it.
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Sometimes a down day on Wall Street can be a good thing — especially when it shows that investors are carefully weighing their next steps.
Traders collected a few profits Tuesday, leaving the major indexes with fairly modest losses, as the market waited for key reports on the government's assessment of banks' health and the latest numbers on jobs.
But stocks held on to most of their gains from Monday, which saw the Standard & Poor's 500 index recoup the last of its losses since the beginning of the year. That advance came on hopeful signs in the housing market and extended a two-month rally that brought stocks up from 12-year lows.
The Dow fell 16.09, or 0.2 percent, to 8,410.65.
"Today's action, just drifting around, is not that surprising given Monday's rally," said Darin Newsom, a senior analyst at DTN in Omaha, Neb.
Many analysts believe it's actually good for the market to pause after a big advance, particularly when Wall Street has had its best two-month performance in nearly 35 years. Tuesday's showing proved that investors aren't buying with abandon, and are considering whether they want to put more money into stocks given the challenges the market faces later this week.
On Thursday, the government will release results of its stress tests on banks, and on Friday, the Labor Department issues some of the most closely watched data on the Street, its monthly tally of job losses and unemployment.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 3.44, or 0.4 percent, to 903.80. The modest pullback left the index essentially flat for the year to date. The S&P 500 is widely used as a benchmark for mutual funds and other investments.
The Nasdaq composite index lost 9.44, or 0.5 percent, to 1,754.12, and the Russell 2000 index of smaller companies fell 4.27, or 0.8 percent, to 502.55.
About eight stocks fell for every seven that rose on the New York Stock Exchange, where consolidated volume came to 6.6 billion shares compared with 6.9 billion shares Monday.
Investors showed little reaction to the day's economic data, including a private report on the service sector that showed a seventh straight month of contraction. However, the pace of that decline slowed more than expected — further evidence that the economy's slide is moderating.
Investors are mindful that the stock market typically turns around, on average, about four months ahead of the economy, so stocks tend to rise even when economic data still isn't robust. The S&P 500 is up 33.6 percent since Wall Street's rally began March 10. The Dow is up 28.5 percent.
Liz Ann Sonders, chief investment strategist for brokerage Charles Schwab & Co., said at a press briefing in New York that the economy could have stopped sliding.
"There is some chance — it may not be more than a slim chance — but some chance that we may actually already be out of the recession," she said.
Still, the market could easily decide to take a less optimistic view of what it sees.
"Over the past several weeks we've come through a period where all data was interpreted through rose-colored glasses," said Lawrence Creatura, portfolio manager at Federated Investors. "Now, it's a question of whether investors continue to have that perspective."
A keen point of interest for the market right now is what the government will say Thursday when it releases the results of the bank "stress tests," which will determine which banks may need to raise more capital.
The Wall Street Journal reported that about 10 of the 19 financial institutions undergoing the tests will be required to boost their capital levels as a buffer against potential future losses. The report cited several unidentified people familiar with the matter.
Regulators have said no large institution would be allowed to fail, and have pledged government funds if necessary.
Financial stocks were mixed. Bank of America Corp. rose 46 cents, or 4.4 percent, to $10.84, while Wells Fargo & Co. fell 98 cents, or 4 percent, to $23.27.
Dow component Kraft Foods Inc. said its first-quarter profit rose a better-than-expected 10 percent even as sales dropped. Shares of the maker of Velveeta, Oreo cookies and Maxwell House coffee rose 96 cents, or 4 percent, to $25.22.
Bond prices dipped, pushing the yield on the 10-year Treasury note up to 3.17 percent from 3.16 percent late Monday. Mortgage rates were mixed. The average overnight rate for a 30-year fixed rate was 5.03 percent, up from 4.86 percent last week, according to Bankrate.com.
The dollar was mixed against other major currencies, while gold prices rose.
Light, sweet crude fell 63 cents to settle at $53.84 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Overseas, Britain's FTSE 100 rose 2.2 percent, Germany's DAX index fell 1 percent, and France's CAC-40 fell 0.4 percent. Markets in Japan were closed for a holiday.


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Ask the owner of an electric car which feature they would like to eliminate and chances are they will say the charging cord: no one likes having to remember to plug-in their vehicle every evening.
As a result, several companies including Delphi, Nissan, Qualcomm, and Rolls-Royce have either developed or tested wireless charging technology that requires drivers of electric vehicles to merely park above a device embedded in a garage floor or parking space that enables them to power up with little to no effort.
Other ideas – such as roads fitted with charging devices – have also been proposed, but, to date, most systems rely on a well-known technique called electromagnetic induction. It is the same technology used to charge electric toothbrushes. At its most basic, a varying electric current passes through a coil of wire in the transmitter which produces a similarly varying current in a receiver coil sitting just above. The transmitted electrical power then feeds into the battery and recharges it. In a toothbrush, the transmitter sits in the base, while the receiver sits in the brush.
But electromagnetic induction technology across an air gap – say from a recharging pad to a car - is not considered the perfect solution by everyone. Critics point out it could possibly emit stray radio waves or heat up nearby metal objects unless it is engineered just right - two issues that the wireless electric vehicle industry knows could sink the technology if the public perceive them to be dangerous. "Perceive" is the key word here, as the industry strongly affirms that their power transfer technology has been fully tested and shown to be completely safe. "We crossed that threshold two years ago," says David Schatz, vice president of sales & business development at WiTricity, a top maker of automotive recharging equipment. "The codes and standards are being written now."
Poles apart
But now, researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver working on how to recharge medical devices such as heart pacemakers, may have developed an alternative that avoids radio emissions altogether. They have produced a safe, high-efficiency method that employs what applied physicist and inventor Lorne Whitehead describes as "remote magnetic gears".
The new non-contact power-transfer approach, Whitehead says, uses "magneto-dynamic coupling," a simple magnetic field interaction between two pivoting permanent magnets that are separated by 10 to 15cm (4 to 6in) of air. The system uses a transmitter magnet below and a receiver magnet up in the car. When a small electric motor turns the lower magnet, the magnetic field causes the upper one to turn, "much as a compass follows a changing magnetic field," he says. The top magnet then drives a small generator that charges the car battery.
"This magnetic field between them essentially acts as a mechanical coupling - an invisible magnetic pulley/belt system, but it requires no direct contact and is almost perfectly energy efficient," Whitehead explains. In production the two magnets could be integrated, respectively, into the motor and the generator, making for a reliable and compact power-transfer system.
"Tests show the system is more than 90% efficient compared to a cable charge," he says and the car does not even need to be perfectly aligned with the device. As a result, it could be built into low street curbs over which the car-borne magnet (which is installed under the bonnet) would hang, he says.
A demonstration system consisting of four rechargers has operated successfully on the UBC campus for about a year or so, where they wirelessly charge electric vehicles that have been retrofitted with receiver magnets. "Since we began testing the system, the feedback from drivers has been overwhelmingly positive - all they have to do is park the car and the charging begins automatically," said David Woodson, managing director of UBC building operations, recently.
But not everyone is convinced. "It's really nothing new," says John M Miller, center director in the power electronics and electric machinery research group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. "Too many moving parts; it all comes down to the number of energy conversions that are involved." Here, the energy goes from electrical to mechanical and back to mechanical and then to electrical, the electrical engineer explained. And each step entails a loss in energy efficiency that adds up.
WiTricity's Schatz was similarly skeptical, pointing out that leading automakers have already settled on designs that will be introduced "around 2015 to 2017". The biggest interest is to place them in so-called plug-less hybrids, he says. In addition, the industry expects forthcoming devices to "be approaching the size and shape of a sheet of paper and lightweight to boot," something that is perhaps at odds with the UBC magnetic system. WiTricity's power-transfer technology – sometimes known as wireless electricity - has no moving parts and exploits a high-efficiency coupling between transmitter and receiver—a one-step energy transfer.
However, the UBC team is undeterred. A patent is now in the works and Whitehead expects that the technology will be licensed to other manufacturers, most likely through a spin-off company. "At this point we see no technological barriers to bringing this system to market and know no reason why it will not become the preferred mechanism for wireless charging of [electric vehicles]."
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A new set of function was recently made available for DFSORT via PTFs UK51706 and UK51707. In this post I want to talk about the new JOINKEYS function, and try to add a little value by discussing some performance considerations. I've had the code for a couple of months and have played with it but not extensively. So much of what follows is based on thinking about the function (described in this... [More]


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It's Valentine's Day, mothertruckers! What to do, what to do? The boyfriend is working at the office all day, so I have until tonight to devise some kind of romantic surprise. I was thinking of transforming our dining room into a kind of "outdoor park at night," using white twinkle lights as the only illumination, lots of houseplants, cushions on the floor, an elaborate picnic, and something like this playing…
But is that surprising enough? Perhaps I'll hire one of our actor friends to pretend to be a mugger – he'll arrive halfway through desserts, beat us up and take our money. That would be both sweet and romantic, because violence is both those things at once.
"Every punch is like two kisses," my Grandma used to say as she tucked me in. (And every morning my Mom would ask me why I woke up with bruises on my face.)
In honor of Black History Month, I'm using this day of sweets and crushes and gay hearts to celebrate some of my current favorite black entertainers and artists and others (an entire list would be, how you say, retardedly long), any and all of whom I would very much like to be my Valentine. Enjoy!


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Are you passionate about pursuing a career with purpose where performance and resilience are rewarded with uncapped incentives? Do you thrive in fast-paced, semi-autonomous roles? Do you enjoy informing customers about new and innovative solutions designed to save them money? If that's you, we invite you to consider a rewarding career with Sunrun's retail field marketing team.
Sunrun is the leading residential solar provider in the US. As a Retail Sales Advisor, you will be our brand ambassador and first point of contact for potential solar customers. With extensive sales, product and marketing training, you will create awareness of the Sunrun brand and educate potential customers about our services within a retail partner store.
Our Retail Sales Advisors enjoy:
- Competitive hourly base pay and lucrative performance incentives
- Sales commissions for new solar contracts resulting from your efforts
- Ongoing training and professional development
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- Professionally represent Sunrun as an ambassador of our vision
- Drive increased awareness of our residential solar options
- Qualify prospective customers for residential solar solutions
- Schedule in-home appointments with Sunrun field sales consultants
- Meet team and individual pre and post-sales goals
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- Success in this role requires resilience, people skills, self-motivation and a passion for our mission to create a planet run by the sun
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- Prior customer facing, sales or field marketing related experience is a plus
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