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We've casually mentioned that SVG lets you separate a document's structure from its presentation. In this chapter, we're going to compare and contrast the two, discuss the presentational aspects of a document in more detail, and then show some of the SVG elements that you can use to make your document's structure clearer, more readable, and easier to maintain.
As we mentioned in Chapter 1, in Section 1.4.2, one of XML's goals is provide a way to structure data and separate this structure from its visual presentation. Consider the drawing of the cat from that chapter; you recognize it as a cat because of its structure — the position and size of the geometric shapes that make up the drawing. If we were to make structural changes, such as shortening the whiskers, rounding the nose, and making the ears longer and rounding their ends, the drawing would become one of a rabbit, no matter what the surface presentation might be. The structure, therefore, tells you what a graphic is.
This is not to say that information about visual style isn't important; had we drawn the cat with thick purple lines and a gray interior, it would have been recognizable as a cat, but its appearance would have been far less pleasing. These differences are shown in Figure 4-1, albeit without the color differences. XML encourages you to separate structure and presentation; unfortunately, many discussions of XML emphasize structure at the expense of presentation. We'll right this wrong by going into detail about how you specify presentation in SVG.
SVG lets you specify presentational aspects of a graphic in four ways; with inline styles, internal stylesheets, external stylesheets, and presentation attributes. Let's examine each of these in turn.
Example 4-1
uses inline styles. This is exactly the way we've been using
presentation information so far; we set the value of the
style attribute to a series of visual
properties and their values as described in Appendix B, in Section B.1.
You don't need to place your styles inside each SVG
element; you can create an internal stylesheet to collect
commonly-used styles that you can apply to all occurrences of a
particular element, or use as named classes to apply to individual
elements. Example 4-2 sets up
an internal stylesheet that will draw all circles in a blue
double-thick dashed line with a light yellow interior. We have placed
the stylesheet within a
<defs> element, which we will discuss
later in this chapter.
The example then draws several circles. The circles in the second row of Figure 4-2 have inline styles that override the specification in the internal stylesheet.
<svg width="200px" height="200px" viewBox="0 0 200 200"> <defs> <style type="text/css"><![CDATA[ circle { fill: #ffc; stroke: blue; stroke-width: 2; stroke-dasharray: 5 3 } ]]></style> </defs> <circle cx="20" cy="20" r="10"/> <circle cx="60" cy="20" r="15"/> <circle cx="20" cy="60" r="10" style="fill: #cfc"/> <circle cx="60" cy="60" r="15" style="stroke-width: 1; stroke-dasharray: none;"/> </svg>
If you want to apply a set of styles to multiple SVG
documents, you could copy and paste the internal stylesheet into each
of them. This, of course, is impractical for a large volume of
documents if you ever need to make a global change to all the
documents. Instead, you should take all the information between the
beginning and ending
tags (excluding the
]]>) and save it in an
external file, which becomes an external stylesheet. Example 4-3 shows an external
stylesheet that has been saved in a file named
ext_style.css This stylesheet uses a variety
of selectors, including
*, which
sets a default for all elements that don't have any other style, and
it, together with the SVG, produces Figure 4-3.
* { fill:none; stroke: black; } /* default for all elements */ rect { stroke-dasharray: 7 3; } circle.yellow { fill: yellow; } .thick { stroke-width: 5; } .semiblue { fill:blue; fill-opacity: 0.5; }
Example 4-4 shows a
complete SVG document (including
<?xml ...?>,
<?xml-stylesheet ...?>, and the
<!DOCTYPE>) that references the
external stylesheet.
<?xml version="1.0"?> <?xml-stylesheet href="ext_style.css" type="text/css"?> <!DOCTYPE svg PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/DTD/svg10.dtd"> <svg width="200px" height="200px" viewBox="0 0 200 200" preserveAspectRatio="xMinYMin meet"> <line x1="10" y1="10" x2="40" y2="10"/> <rect x="10" y="20" width="40" height="30"/> <circle class="yellow" cx="70" cy="20" r="10"/> <polygon class="thick" points="60 50, 60 80, 90 80"/> <polygon class="thick semiblue" points="100 30, 150 30, 150 50, 130 50"/> </svg>
Inline styles will almost always render more quickly than styles in an internal or external stylesheet; stylesheets and classes add rendering time due to look up and parsing.
Although the overwhelming majority of your SVG documents will use styles for presentation information, SVG does permit you to specify this information in the form of presentation attributes. Instead of saying:
<circle cx="10" cy="10" r="5" style="fill: red; stroke:black; stroke-width: 2;"/>
You may write each of the properties as an attribute:
<circle cx="10" cy="10" r="5" fill="red" stroke="black" stroke-width="2"/>
If you are thinking that this is mixing structure and
presentation, you are right. Presentation attributes do come in handy,
though, when you are creating SVG documents by converting an XML data
source to SVG, as you will see in Chapter 12. In these cases it can be
easier to create individual attributes for each presentation property
than to create the contents of a single
style attribute. You may also need to use
presentation attributes if the environment in which you will be
placing your SVG cannot support stylesheets.
Presentation attributes are at the very bottom of the priority list. Any style specification coming from an inline, internal, or external stylesheet will override a presentation attribute. In the following SVG document, the circle will be filled in red, not green.
<svg width="200" height="200"> <defs> <style type="text/css"><![CDATA[ circle { fill: red; } ]]></style> </defs> <circle cx="20" cy="20" r="15" fill="green"/> </svg>
Again, we emphasize that using
style attributes or stylesheets should
always be your first choice. Stylesheets let you apply a complex
series of fill and stroke characteristics to all occurrences of
certain elements within a document without having to duplicate the
information into each element, as presentation attributes would
require. The power and flexibility of stylesheets allow you to make
significant changes in the look and feel of multiple documents with a
minimum of effort.
While it is certainly possible to define any drawing as an undifferentiated list of shapes and lines, most non-abstract art consists of groups of shapes and lines that form recognizable named objects. SVG has elements that let you do this sort of grouping to make your documents more structured and understandable.
element gathers all of its child elements as a group, and often has an
id attribute to give that group a
unique name. Furthermore, each group may have its own
<title> and
<desc> to identify it for text-based
XML applications or to aid in accessibility for visually-impaired
users. In addition to the conceptual clarity that comes from the
ability to group and document objects, the
<g> element also provides notational
convenience. Any styles you specify in the starting
<g> tag will apply to all the child
elements in the group. In Example
4-5, this saves us from having to duplicate the
style="fill:none; stroke:black;" on every
element shown in Figure 4-4.
It is also possible to nest groups within one another, although we
won't show any examples of this until Chapter 5.
You may think of the
<g> element as analogous to the
Group Objects function in programs such as Adobe
Illustrator. It also serves a similar function to the concept of
layers in such programs; a layer is also a
grouping of related objects.
<svg width="240px" height="240px" viewBox="0 0 240 240"> <title>Grouped Drawing</title> <desc>Stick-figure drawings of a house and people</desc> <g id="house" style="fill: none; stroke: black;"> <desc>House with door</desc> <rect x="6" y="50" width="60" height="60"/> <polyline points="6 50, 36 9, 66 50"/> <polyline points="36 110, 36 80, 50 80, 50 110"/> </g> <g id="man" style="fill: none; stroke: black;"> <desc>Male human</desc> <circle cx="85" cy="56" r="10"/> <line x1="85" y1="66" x2="85" y2="80"/> <polyline points="76 104, 85 80, 94 104" /> <polyline points="76 70, 85 76, 94 70" /> </g> <g id="woman" style="fill: none; stroke: black;"> <desc>Female human</desc> <circle cx="110" cy="56" r="10"/> <polyline points="110 66, 110 80, 100 90, 120 90, 110 80"/> <line x1="104" y1="104" x2="108" y2="90"/> <line x1="112" y1="90" x2="116" y2="104"/> <polyline points="101 70, 110 76, 119 70" /> </g> </svg>
Complex graphics often have repeated elements. For
example, a product brochure may have the company logo at the upper
left and lower right of each page. If you were drawing the brochure
with a graphic design program, you'd draw the logo once, group all its
elements together, then copy and paste them to the other location. The
<use> element gives you
an analogous copy-and-paste ability with a group that you've defined
Once you have defined a group of graphic objects, you can
display them again with the
<use> tag. To specify the group you
wish to reuse, give its URI in an
xlink:href attribute, and specify the
x and
y location where the group's (0, 0) point
should be moved to. (We will see another way to achieve this effect in
Chapter 5, in Section 5.1.) So, to create
another house and set of people as shown in Figure 4-5, you'd put these lines
just before the closing
</svg> tag:
<use xlink:href="#house" x="70" y="100"/> <use xlink:href="#woman" x="-80" y="100"/> <use xlink:href="#man" x="-30" y="100"/>
You may have noticed some drawbacks with the preceding example:
The math for deciding where to place the re-used man and woman requires you to know the positions of the originals and use that as your base, rather than using a simple number like zero.
The fill and stroke color for the house were established by
the original, and can't be overriden by the
<use>. This means you can't make a
row of multi-colored houses.
The document draws all three groups: the woman, the man, and the house. You can't "store them away" and draw only a set of houses or only a set of people.
<defs> element
solves these problems. By putting the grouped objects between the
beginning and ending
tags, you instruct SVG to define them without displaying them. The SVG
specification, in fact, recommends that you put all objects that you
wish to re-use within a
<defs> element so that SVG viewers
working in a streaming environment can process data more efficiently.
In Example 4-6, the house,
man, and woman are defined so that their upper left corner is at (0,
0), and the house is not given any fill color. Since the groups will
be within the
<defs> element,
they will not be drawn on the screen right away, and will serve as a
"template" for future use. We have also constructed another group
couple, which, in turn,
<use>s the
man and
woman groups. (Note that the bottom half of
Figure 4-6 can't use
couple, since the woman is to the
left of the man.)
<svg width="240px" height="240px" viewBox="0 0 240 240"> <title>Grouped Drawing</title> <desc>Stick-figure drawings of a house and people</desc> <defs> <g id="house" style="stroke: black;"> <desc>House with door</desc> <rect x="0" y="41" width="60" height="60"/> <polyline points="0 41, 30 0, 60 41"/> <polyline points="30 101, 30 71, 44 71, 44 101"/> </g> <g id="man" style="fill: none; stroke: black;"> <desc>Male human</desc> <circle cx="10" cy="10" r="10"/> <line x1="10" y1="20" x2="10" y2="44"/> <polyline points="1 58, 10 44, 19 58"/> <polyline points="1 24, 10 30, 19 24"/> </g> <g id="woman" style="fill: none; stroke: black;"> <desc>Female human</desc> <circle cx="10" cy="10" r="10"/> <polyline points="10 20, 10 34, 0 44, 20 44, 10 34"/> <line x1="4" y1="58" x2="8" y2="44"/> <line x1="12" y1="44" x2="16" y2="58"/> <polyline points="1 24, 10 30, 19 24" /> </g>
<g id="couple">
<desc>Male and female human</desc>
<use xlink:href="#man" x="0" y="0"/>
<use xlink:href="#woman" x="25" y="0"/>
</g></defs> <!-- make use of the defined groups --> <use xlink:href="#house" x="0" y="0" style="fill: #cfc;"/> <use xlink:href="#couple" x="70" y="40"/> <use xlink:href="#house" x="120" y="0" style="fill: #99f;"/> <use xlink:href="#couple" x="190" y="40"/> <use xlink:href="#woman" x="0" y="145"/> <use xlink:href="#man" x="25" y="145"/> <use xlink:href="#house" x="65" y="105" style="fill: #c00;"/> </svg>
<use> element is
not restricted to using objects from the same file in which it occurs;
xlink:href attribute may
specify any valid file or URI. This makes it possible to collect a set
of common elements in one SVG file and use them selectively from other
files. For example, you could create a file named
identity.svg that contains all of the
identity graphics that your organization uses:
<g id="company_mascot"> <!-- drawing of company mascot --> </g> <g id="company_logo" style="stroke: none;"> <polygon points="0 20, 20 0, 40 20, 20 40" style="fill: #696;"/> <rect x="7" y="7" width="26" height="26" style="fill: #c9c;"/> </g> <g id="partner_logo"> <!-- drawing of company partner's logo --> </g>
and then refer to it with:
<use xlink:href="identity.svg#company_logo" x="200" y="200"/>
element provides another way of grouping elements. Unlike the
<g> element, a
<symbol> is never displayed, so you
don't have to enclose it in a
<defs> specification. However, it is
customary to do so, since a symbol really is something you're defining
for later use. Additionally, symbols can specify
viewBox and
preserveAspectRatio attributes, so that a
symbol can fit into the viewport established by the
use element. Example 4-7 shows that the
width and
height are ignored for a simple group (the
top two octagons), but are used when displaying a symbol. The edges of
the lower right octagon in Figure
4-7 are cut off because the
preserveAspectRatio has been set to
<svg width="200px" height="200px" viewBox="0 0 200 200"> <title>Symbols vs. groups</title> <desc>Use</desc> <defs> <g id="octagon" style="stroke: black;"> <desc>Octagon as group</desc> <polygon points=" 36 25, 25 36, 11 36, 0 25, 0 11, 11 0, 25 0, 36 11"/> </g> <symbol id="sym-octagon" style="stroke: black;" preserveAspectRatio="xMidYMid slice" viewBox="0 0 40 40"> <desc>Octagon as symbol</desc> <polygon points=" 36 25, 25 36, 11 36, 0 25, 0 11, 11 0, 25 0, 36 11"/> </symbol> </defs> <use xlink:href="#octagon" x="40" y="40" width="30" height="30" style="fill: #c00;"/> <use xlink:href="#octagon" x="80" y="40" width="40" height="60" style="fill: #cc0;"/> <use xlink:href="#sym-octagon" x="40" y="80" width="30" height="30" style="fill: #cfc;"/> <use xlink:href="#sym-octagon" x="80" y="80" width="40" height="60" style="fill: #699;"/> </svg>
<use> lets you re-use a
portion of an SVG file, the
<image> element includes an entire SVG
or raster file. If you are including an SVG file, the
width, and
height attributes establish the viewport in
which the referenced file will be drawn; if you're including a raster
file, it will be scaled to fit the rectangle that the attributes
specify. You can currently include either JPEG or PNG raster files.
Example 4-8 shows how to
include a JPEG image with SVG; the result is in Figure 4-8.
<svg width="310px" height="310px" viewBox="0 0 310 310"> <ellipse cx="154" cy="154" rx="150" ry="120" style="fill: #999999;"/>
[1]<ellipse cx="152" cy="152" rx="150" ry="120" style="fill: #cceeff;"/>
[2]<image xlink:href="kwanghwamun.jpg"
[3]x="72" y="92"
[4]width="160" height="120"/>
[1] Create a gray ellipse to simulate a drop
[2] Create the main blue
ellipse. Since it occurs after the gray ellipse, it is displayed above
that object.
[3] Specify the URI of
the file to include.
[4] Specify the upper
left corner of the image.
[5] Specify the width and
height to which the image should be scaled. If these aren't in the
same aspect ratio as the original picture, it will appear stretched or
[4] We'll see another way to create a drop shadow in Chapter 10 in Section 10.2.
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Jay Cutler and his Chicago Bears teammates walked off the grass at Soldier Field on Nov. 20 with what seemed to be the whole world in front of them ... or, at least, the whole NFC. Chicago had just finished off the San Diego Chargers for its fifth victory in a row, giving the Bears a 7-3 record and command of a playoff spot. Everyone was all smiles, particularly head coach Lovie Smith.
Well, everyone except Cutler. Unlike the rest of America, he knew something was wrong. Fans and football hacks were already starting to look forward to Week 16, when the Green Bay Packers figured to present the red-hot Bears with their next serious challenge. However, by the time that late-December showdown rolled around, Chicago was all but out of the playoff race.
Few knew it in the immediate aftermath of that big triumph over the Chargers, but Cutler was already carrying the reason for the Bears' forthcoming implosion on his person.
What could have been ...
A broken finger might not sound like much, but when it's on your throwing hand and you're an NFL quarterback, forget it. It's more of a deal-breaker than a gal telling you she used to date Mario Lopez.
Throwing the ball with a broken digit is hard enough. Taking the snap from under center is another matter. A pinky injury derailed Tony Romo and the Dallas Cowboys in 2008. Ditto for Kurt Warner and the St. Louis Rams in 2002 and 2003, when pinky and thumb fractures helped bring down the curtain on "The Greatest Show on Turf." Warner's "small" injuries also, incidentally, helped lead to his ultimate departure and Marc Bulger's emergence in St. Louis.
So while that November trouncing of San Diego initially seemed to mark a high point of the Bears' season, the news that Cutler had broken his right thumb in the fourth quarter spelled doom for Chicago.
Cutler's injury meant the Bears would be going down the stretch -- or, as it turned out, just plain going down -- with Caleb Hanie at quarterback. The Bears needed their starter, just as the Cowboys and Rams needed Romo and Warner, respectively.
Chicago had been playing lights-out before an MRI turned the lights out on Cutler's 2011 campaign. Consider these numbers from the Bears' five-game winning streak:
» The Bears outscored their opponents, 161-85.
» Cutler threw just three picks, while the club's turnover differential was a stout plus-eight.
» Chicago averaged nearly 32 minutes in time of possession.
» Opposing quarterbacks posted a 62.7 passer rating.
» Cutler was sacked just once per game.
The last stat might be the most telling. Much of Cutler's early-season mediocrity could be blamed on the fact that he had been running for his life. When Mike Martz, Chicago's offensive coordinator at the time, finally decided to start protecting Cutler, the quarterback started making big plays -- completing 10 passes of 25-plus yards during the five-game winning streak -- and cutting down on his mistakes.
The lost MVP?
Cutler was finally free to play ball, and the Bears' defense, buoyed by a couple of new starters at safety, was more than doing its part. Chicago was poised to seriously challenge Green Bay. (Despite Aaron Rodgers and his Tecmo Bowl numbers, the Packers' defense couldn't stop anybody.)
Stats aren't everything, and in Cutler's case, winning out or going 12-4 might have netted him an MVP award and resulted in an Offensive Player of the Year nod for Rodgers. (As it turned out, Rodgers nabbed the MVP, while Drew Brees took home Offensive POY.) Moreover, he could have pushed the Bears to make noise in the postseason. Remember, the 9-7 New York Giants went on to win it all; the Bears, who were a much stronger defensive team, certainly could have pulled off a similar feat if Cutler had been healthy.
Cutler's value is made even clearer by the fact that he was able to put his team in control of a postseason berth despite missing offensive linemen Gabe Carimi and Chris Williams, and despite a lack of playmakers on the outside. (If you considered Roy Williams a playmaker, then you might have actually thought Gigli was going to be awesome when it was released.)
What wasn't awesome is what happened after Cutler went down for the count. Hanie put together a string of turnover fests, first in Oakland (three picks and a loss), then against Kansas City (three picks, a fumble and a loss), and finally against Seattle (three picks and a loss). Even Josh McCown got into the act, adding an interception of his own -- on just two attempts -- during the 38-14 shellacking by Seattle.
Here's a look at how Hanie and McCown performed over the final six games of the Bears' season:
|2011 Def. Ranking
|Bears' TD-INT Ratio
|Bears' Passer Rating
|at Raiders
|at Broncos
|at Packers
|at Vikings
|* Average defensive ranking for the six opponents.
With Cutler, the Bears had been out-producing their opponents by a healthy margin. In their first five games without him, they were killed, 121-68. Chicago went from 7-3 and screaming toward a Christmas showdown with the Packers to 7-8 and sputtering out of Wisconsin -- and the playoffs.
Yes, an injury to running back Matt Forte hurt badly (although he likely could have returned in time for the postseason). And yes, there are other positions on the field besides quarterback. But there is no mistaking the 180-degree turn the Bears took the moment No. 6 went down.
2012 outlook
So what does all this mean for 2012? Chicago has as good a shot as any squad to come out on top in the NFC. Cutler is healthy. So is Forte. Young safeties Major Wright and Chris Conte, pressed into duty last year, are now full-time starters. Receiver Brandon Marshall has bolstered the weakest position group on the club, and running back Michael Bush gives Chicago a great complement to Forte.
And yet, as good as the improved Bears figure to be, remember that they might have won it all a year ago, if not for a little thumb injury.
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Basic Page Mode
We will walk through building a whiz-bang little page mode for that most ubiquitous of Internet grottos, example.com.
The main form of any page mode is the define_page_mode form. Its two required arguments are the symbolic name of the page mode, and the human-readable name. In addition to the required arguments, it accepts several optional keyword arguments. Typically, you will use both $enable and $disable, which give the setup and teardown functions for your mode. Each takes a buffer as its single argument.
define_page_mode("example_mode", "Example", $enable = function (buffer) { // setup }, $disable = function (buffer) { // teardown });
Telling Conkeror when to turn on your page mode is as simple as adding a handler to auto_mode_list. You make a regular expression that matches the urls for which your page mode is intended, and push that, in association with your page mode function, onto auto_mode_list. This registration should be the last thing in the javascript file for your page mode. We'll start with a short example, then we'll pick it apart.
let (re = build_url_regex($domain = "example", $tlds = ["com", "net", "org"], $allow_www = true)) { auto_mode_list.push([re, example_mode]); };
Since creating regular expressions to match urls has patterns that are used over and over again, Conkeror has a function to simplify the creation of these regular expressions, called build_url_regex. It takes several keyword arguments that specify parts of an url, and produces a regexp.
- $domain
A regexp or a literal string to match the domain name, not including the top-level domain (.com, .net, .org, etc), and not including www., unless the www. is required.
- $allow_www
Boolean where true means that the domain name may optionally have the subdomain www.. Default is false.
- $tlds
A list of allowed top-level domains. The default is the list ["com"].
- $path
A regexp or a literal string to match against the path portion of the url, excluding the initial /. The default matches any path.
Adding a Keymap
If you go to example.com and hit tab, you will see Conkeror's normal error message, No form field found because tab is bound to browser-focus-next-form-field. But in the underlying Gecko engine, the tab key will also move focus among links. For reasons we need not explain, we will add a key binding to example-mode that lets the tab key fall through to Gecko, instead of letting it be processed by Conkeror.
First we make a keymap with our binding. We set the $parent of our keymap to content_buffer_normal_keymap because we will be overriding that keymap, and we want any keys not bound in our new keymap to still be looked up in that one.
define_keymap("example_keymap", $parent = content_buffer_normal_keymap); define_key(example_keymap, "tab", null, $fallthrough);
Now we will modify the define_page_mode form that we gave earlier to declare this keymap as an override for normal_input_mode. The $enable and $disable functions have been removed, because we are not using them.
define_page_mode("example_mode", "Example", $keymaps = {normal_input_mode: example_keymap});
Invocation of Page Modes
If you are going to write a page mode, you will very well want to know when and how a page mode gets run.
In Conkeror, web browsing gets done in content buffers. There are other kinds of buffers, like those for displaying progress of downloads, and for showing help, but page modes only exist in content buffers.
The content_buffer data type has a method called onLocationChange, which is an event handler that gets called by Mozilla when the location of the buffer's xul:browser element changes.
The onLocationChange event handler runs the hook content_buffer_location_change_hook.
One of the functions attached to content_buffer_location_change_hook is page_mode_auto_update.
page_mode_auto_update searches the associative list auto_mode_list for a regexp key which matches the new url of the buffer. When it finds one, it calls the function associated with that key to enable the page mode.
Page modes are a type of buffer-mode. (The mode-class is page_mode.) Buffer modes within any given mode-class are mutually exclusive. Thus if you enable one page mode, the underlying buffer-mode mechanism makes sure that any other page mode gets disabled first. But there is one special corner case particular to page modes. If page_mode_auto_update did not find a page mode to enable, then the mutual exclusivity mechanism of buffer modes cannot clean up the old mode. In that case, page_mode_auto_update will disable the old mode itself.
Thus only one page-mode can be current in a buffer at one time, and it is also possible to have no current page mode.
Tips for Writing Good Page Modes
- Don't make assumptions about the page being completely downloaded
Try to make your page mode handle partially-downloaded content reasonably. Waiting until the entire page has loaded before allowing basic functionality should be considered the nuclear option, and only used when absolutely necessary.
- Avoid using wrappedJSObject
Whatever you are trying to do, there is probably a better way. Any use of wrappedJSObject on content DOM can provide a vector of attack from malicious content. Even if you trust the site in question, steering clear of dodgy techniques like this makes your code more robust and trustworthy.


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When the Scottish DNA Project (Scottish Clans) started in 2001 there were very few clan, family or surnames projects running. Thankfully the situation is now much healthier with new projects starting nearly every other week.
In order to help promote the many Scottish orientated projects and give easier access to their websites we are compiling a list on this page. Many thanks to my friend Chris Halliday who runs the Halliday Clan DNA Project who has very kindly supplied many of the following links.
Do please drop us an email at firstname.lastname@example.com if you find any broken links.
Clan, family and surname projects
ALEXANDER http://alexanderdna.org/
ALLAN / ALLEN http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Allan/default.aspx
ARTHUR / MACARTHUR http://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/arthur
BARCLAY http://www.clanbarclay.org/
BLAIR http://blairdna.com/
BROWN http://brownsociety.org/
IRVINE / IRVING / IRWIN www.dnastudy.clanirwin.org and http://www.isogg.org/wiki/Irwin_DNA_Project
NORMANITE Family Finder Project http://www.familytreedna.com/public/normanite connecting descendants of followers of the Reverend Norman McLeod > North of Scotland to Pictou and St Ann's in Nova Scotia, Canada, and ultimately to Waipu, New Zealand]
SUTHERLAND http://www.sutherlanddnaproject.com/
An older list can be found on our project website at http://www.scottishdna.net/projects.html


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On the high street there are clear indicators already. USC are already in administration with a rescue package underway which won't necessarily prevent the inevitable.
Sadly it includes the wonderful shop at Maison Bertaux.
Many stores have failed to change their customer experience (service, ambiance etc.) or their stock. A proliferation of the high street hasn't helped with the low to high end all competing for the same customers.
Sir Phillip Green is the key person and he seems to have the upper hand with Topshop and Dorothy Perkins. Dotty Ps will suffer but I suspect he has a business model to overcome any downturn. Primark is going to continue to provide that fast cheap fashion fix.
My predictions for wobbles and even the end in the UK high street are:
Jane Norman
Karen Millen
All Saints
Ted Baker (women's)
even New Look
Taking a battering will undoubtedly be M&S
Oasis and French Connection will be put under strain as will Kew and Jigsaw. Plus John Lewis and House of Fraser in their clothing retail, they both carry the same concessions with a few exceptions.
Gosh that's quite a lot. Who do you think will bite the bullet or reign supreme?
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PS The breaking news that greeted me this morning was the collapse of Morgan the french retail chain with 33 stores in the UK ... and I'd written this two days earlier opps!


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Located in the centre of the Hibiya business district, Hibiya Central Building stands out distinctively from other buildings in the area. Surrounded by several branches of Japanese mega banks, public offices and Tokyo's first class hotels such as The Imperial Hotel and The Peninsula Tokyo, the Hibiya Central Building is a highly recognized and desirable location for both established companies and new businesses planning to start up in Japan.
Servcorp is located on the fourteenth floor, providing an excellent environment with various sized serviced offices, a luxurious boardroom with granite table, meeting rooms, spacious reception area and a coworking space with beautiful views of Tokyo Tower. Restaurants in the basement floor provide clients with a variety of dining choices. Hibiya Park, Tokyo's first western style park is just a 5 minute stroll from the building and a great option for a lunch-break walk or even a game of tennis.
From Narita International Airport: 60 min by Narita Express to Tokyo Station, 3 min by JR Line from Tokyo Station to Shimbashi Station 75 - 110 min by Airport Limousine bus to The Peninsula Tokyo, Imperial Hotel or Daiichi Hotel Tokyo. From Haneda Airport (Tokyo International Airport): 30 min by Keikyu Line to Shimbashi Station 30- 75 min by Airport Limousine bus to The Peninsula Tokyo, Imperial Hotel or Daiichi Hotel Tokyo.
Right on the left from Exit A8 or 1 min walk from Exit A4 of Uchisaiwaicho Station on Toei Mita Line. 5 min walk from Hibiya Exit of Shimbashi Station on JR Line, Tokyo Metro Ginza Line, Toei Asakusa Line and Yurikamome Line. 5 min walk from Exit C3 of Kasumigaseki Station on Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line, Hibiya Line and Chiyoda Line. 7 min walk from Exit 9 of Toranomon Station on Tokyo Metro Ginza Line.
TOEI BUS: Uchisaiwaicho Eki Bus Stop (1 min walk) : HIGASHI98/HASHI63 Nishi-Shimbashi 1 chome Bus Stop (1 min walk) : TO01/SHINYA01/SHIBU88.

Location and reputation of the building. Hibiya Central Building is situated at the crossroads of the financial, governmental and logistics district, yet in the direct vicinity of Ginza.

Spectacular panoramic views over the city with Tokyo Tower and Hibiya Park in the scene.

Floor theme of "Music" offering a relaxing yet elegant environment for business

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Easy access to transportation. Hibiya Central Building is only a minute's walk to Uchisaiwaicho station on the Toei Mita Line and a five minute walk to Shimbashi station on the JR Line. Tokyo station, Haneda Airport and Narita Airport are also conveniently accessible from this location, making it an excellent choice for business travellers.


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Warranty costs – which reach into the tens of billions of dollars annually – are a huge expense for global manufacturers. And high-profile product recalls are in the headlines regularly. Product quality has become an important differentiator, and that makes communicating accurate warranty information across the organization more critical than ever.
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Every week we'll break down the movers, shakers, winners and losers in fantasy football, and keep an eye out for the players you should be eyeing for your fantasy rosters.
Well, it finally happened -- after weeks and weeks of football without much in the way of major injury news, we saw a passel of QBs go down with injuries this past weekend. How will these losses affect your fantasy world moving forward? If you've still got hopes of making your league's fantasy playoffs and need a pickup or two to come through, some QBs might look mighty tempting this week, but are they worth it? Let's break it down while we look at other pressing issues from the past week:
The Week 10 Debrief:
1. MFFF's picks last week = more wins than losses. We did pretty well on predicting the offensive and defensive games of the week -- if not for a defensive TD, the Jets would have been shut out against Seattle, which is right where we reckoned them to be. And even though Tampa Bay RB Doug Martin had a below-par game, the rest of the Buc offense continued to hum against the Chargers, piling up 34 points, Still, the biggest surprise of the week was the Ravens, as they rolled up 55 points on the Raiders behind one of QB Joe Flacco's best days as a pro.
Some of our individual picks that came up roses: Seattle players continue to smile in fantasy with WR Golden Tate adding to his recent scoring binge with 2 TDs (1 on a pass, 1 on a throw) and QB Russell Wilson playing error-free ball with 2 TDs and 30+ rushing yards last Sunday. Denver TE Joel Dreessen also continued his steady play with 39 yards and 1 TD.
On the other hand, we predicted good things for Pittsburgh WR Emmanuel Sanders, who only gained a paltry 30 yards in place of injured WR Antonio Brown. Raiders TE Brandon Myers was felled by a concussion. Colts RB Vick Ballard failed to make himself the clear-cut choice over RB Donald Brown last week, as he only gained 58 yards and was replaced by Brown by the fourth quarter.
2. NFC: Wild days ahead. Every division leader in the NFC except the 49ers lost last weekend, and the 49ers only eked out a tie by the skin of their noses. With the NFC North-leading Bears looking very vulnerable without QB Jay Cutler, teams like Saints potentially heating up for the stretch run, the Giants fully into their typical "second half of the season swoon" and the Cowboys' schedule giving them a shot to overtake New York, it's time to ride the hot hands on the hot teams in fantasy, which in our view are the Packers, Saints, Seahawks and Buccaneers. Teams that we believe will struggle (and take a corresponding hit in their players' fantasy production): the Giants, Bears, Vikings and Eagles. Next week, we'll see how the AFC races are shaping fantasy.
3. Quarterback Carousel. We needed a scorecard to keep track of all the injuries that felled starting QBs last week. But is the loss of a QB a real opportunity for you as a fantasy owner? To keep things realistic, let's just look at the next few games (assuming that any starter who misses time will be back in a week or two):
Philadelphia: Nick Foles for Michael Vick. If you're in desperate need for a starter for the rest of the year, Foles might be worth a look, as it looks like Vick will be sidelined for a while -- although we'd argue that overlooked QBs like the Raiders' Carson Palmer and the Rams' Sam Bradford are better long-term plays. Foles didn't do badly in replacement duty last week, passing for 219 yards and a touchdown, but he also had 1 INT (which could easily have been 2 or 3) and lost a fumble. The main problem in Philly right now is that the Eagle offensive line can't block anybody well, so we may be talking about the Eagles' third-string QB in a few weeks. Still, the Eagles play the woeful Redskins defense this Sunday, so this may be the one and only time to jump on board the Foles train. Verdict: Okay as a fill-in this week, shaky long-term.
San Francisco: Colin Caepernick for Alex Smith. Smith may yet be able to start against Chicago next Monday night, so wait until later in the week for an update on his condition, but Kaepernick is an attractive option because of his dual-threat capabilities as passer and runner. Chicago has a tough D, but the Niners have home field this time around, and Kaepernick might be just the kind of running QB that can give the Bears' disciplined but older defenders fits. Verdict: Good fill-in for this week.
Chicago: Jason Campbell for Jake Cutler. As of this writing it looks like Campbell will get the nod as starter vs. San Francisco on Monday night. The Niner defense looked vulnerable against the pass last week against the Rams, but the Bears tend to be more conservative in their playcalling, and while Campbell has a strong arm, he doesn't yet have the same chemistry Cutler had with WR Brandon Marshall. Verdict: Only if you're desperate for a starter this week.
Pittsburgh: Byron Leftwich for Ben Roethlisberger. Leftwich is pretty much the same QB we've always known him as -- a tough guy with a rocket arm and a slow-as-molasses release. That was enough to lead his team to a paltry 3 points in relief duty last week, and with leading WR Antonio Brown still iffy, his offensive options will be limited. With a game against the division rival Ravens looming, we're not looking for an explosion this weekend. Verdict: Stay away.
Week 11 Fantasy Pick-ups: Injury-prone Edition
Oakland RB Marcel Reece
Speaking of injuries, the Oakland RB crew has been decimated in recent weeks, with Reece the last man standing. This is a bit of gamble if RB Darren McFadden returns to duty this week so keep your eye on the injury report, but Reece has value as both a runner and receiver, and will get his share of touches even if McFadden gets playing time.
Arizona RB Beanie Wells
Remember Beanie? We do, just barely, before he got injured a few months ago. He claims he's back and ready to go, but he might rethink his position when he sees the patchwork offensive line he has to run behind. Still, no one has been able to step up in his absence, so if he starts this week, expect him to receive a lot of touches to try and reestablish his rhythm.
New York Giants RB Andre Brown
He already has value as a goal-line back (7 TDs so far this year), but with Ahmad Bradshaw continuing to be plagued by injury and fumbling issues, this is his opportunity to start over an extended period. He's on bye this week so he might be under the radar, and ripe for a pick-up.
New Orleans RB Chris Ivory
After being MIA for the first eight weeks of the season, Ivory has busted out with 135 yards and 2 TDs these last two weeks. He might not match those numbers this Sunday, as the Raiders are an inviting target for QBs and WRs, but moving forward, he has as good as anyone on the roster to be a starting RB.
San Diego WR Danario Alexander
Alexander was expected to be a placeholder while WR Robert Meachem nurses an injury, but last week's numbers are tough to ignore: 5 catches for 134 yards and 1 TD. A below-par performance against Denver this week might lead him back to the bench, but with leading receiver Malcom Floyd likely to be covered by Denver CB Champ Bailey this week, Alexander should have plenty of opportunities to continue making a name for himself. Keep in mind he has an injury history himself, so he may only be good for a game or two.
Arizona TE Rob Housler
A forgotten man during the Cardinals' offensive struggles this year, Housler is actually one of the more reliable weapons on the team, getting 40+ receiving yards in 4 of the last 6 games. His only drawback is his lack of TD production, but if you need a fill-in for a bye player, he's a good as choice as any.
Best Offensive Matchup of the Week:
Green Bay at Detroit: The Packers are rounding into form, and they've traditionally been able to put up a lot of points versus the Lions in the Silverdome.
Best Defensive Matchup of the Week:
NY Jets at St. Louis: Until they can prove otherwise, the Jets are in line to score the least amount of points every week. St. Louis is playing for its playoff life, and coming off a frustrating tie at San Francisco last week, they should be raring to take out their anger at home.
Got a specific question or need advice on fantasy football this week? Sound off in the comments section below.


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Ten Keys to Successful iPad Implementation in the Classroom
Don't let the rush to get iPads into your classrooms precede the careful planning that's so crucial to iPad implementation and their success as educational tools. Instead, iPad use needs to be integrated within a holistic approach to 21st-century education that encompasses a thorough and ongoing review of the skills and competencies required by our rapidly changing society and the educational processes that best help students acquire them.
Well-planned technology deployments can be tremendously successful and transformative for schools and students. Here are ten vital components of a successful iPad implementation.
Determine whether you're ready to implement iPads in the classroom
There's no point in purchasing iPads if you don't have the technical infrastructure to manage and deploy them. Consider the following questions before going down that road:
Do you have adequate incoming Internet bandwidth to connect all the devices and use them at the same time?
Remember that you may also need significant upload bandwidth as students start to create and deliver large media files.
Is your wireless network robust enough to manage and distribute a strong, reliable wireless signal all around campus?
Do your classrooms have safe, secure locations to store iPads?
Communicate why you want iPads in the classroom
It's imperative that the entire organization be on the same page, which requires a clearly communicated explanation of how iPad use complements your educational mission, which then needs to be clearly communicated to all the various constituent groups, including teachers, students, parents, directors, and administrators.
Let iPad classroom implementation target 21st-Century learning objectives
There's a natural inclination to stay in your comfort zone. Many teachers, especially older ones, prefer to stick to the methods they have always used in the classroom. An iPad program should take full advantage of the educational potential of the technology and be designed to address 21st-century learning objectives.
That means integrating multimedia, communication, collaboration, project-based learning, and more into the classroom. What point is there in purchasing expensive technology and then using it to reinforce outdated pedagogical practices such as frontal lecturing, content delivery, and drill and practice?
Develop simple iPad classroom management strategies
Research and document your plans for the following:
Which responsibilities and processes are in place for buying and deploying apps? How will you decide what apps to buy, and who will be responsible for the purchasing?
How will you manage user profiles? What restrictions will you enforce? Will you have one common student profile or vary them by class or group?
What are your processes for system and app updates and data synchronization? How often will they be done and by whom?
Would you consider allowing your older students to manage their own iPads? Have you considered the risks versus benefits of such a policy?
Where and how will students store and submit work? Will you use cloud services such as Evernote or Dropbox? Will you create and/or use a WebDAV server? How will you students submit digital work to teachers?
How will you deal with instances of damage and theft? Will you buy insurance? Under what circumstances, if any, will students be held accountable? Has this been clearly communicated to parents through a Responsible Use policy?
How do you plan to create and use e-mail accounts? Will students be given e-mail, and if so, at what age? If not, will the iPads have generic e-mail accounts to enable outgoing e-mail of content from students to teachers?
Remember that in a classroom, iPads aren't laptops
Many laptop programs use network servers and domain logins that also set permissions. Laptops are controlled and administrators can often view screen activity. It's important to remember that iPads are not laptops. There's no login, and the ability to secure and control them is minimal.
If you're using iPads, utilize their unique assets. Look for ways to take advantage of their mobility, built-in camera, microphone, video, and so on. If monitoring and controlling activities are important criteria to you, it may be advisable to consider staying with laptops.
Overcome "There's an iPad app for that" teaching syndrome
You hear it all the time: "There's an app for that." One of the biggest mistakes teachers make is to constantly search for apps that directly address specific curriculum content everything from 20th-century American history to the geography of California.
Many great apps exist, but the real benefit comes from viewing iPads as tools that can be used as part of the learning process. Encourage students to create mock interviews with famous historic figures, explain scientific phenomenon with stop-motion animation, create podcasts for the school community, practice and record speech in a foreign language, create a screencast to explain a principle in algebra, and more.
Given the opportunity, students will naturally gravitate toward creative and innovative iPad use if allowed to use it as a learning tool.
Share and share alike doesn't work with classroom iPads
You learned the value of sharing all the way back in preschool. Although it may be an important life guideline, you need to forget all about sharing when it comes to using iPads in school. iPads are designed to be personal devices; each student needs to protect his or her user login and personal data and files. Sharing them will create huge privacy and security issues.
It's best to push for 1:1 deployment of iPads from 4th grade upward. If that causes financial concerns, you need to discuss those concerns and either scale down your deployment or consider an alternative approach, such as allowing children to bring their own devices to school which comes with its own set of problems, especially for families that cannot afford them.
Sharing at upper grade levels, however, is not the solution.
Develop ongoing training and support for classroom iPads
Deploying iPads is a major step toward addressing the learning needs of 21st-century students. It's also important to stress that "training" doesn't mean that one day at the start of the year when you bring someone into school for a half-day workshop.
Schedule time for ongoing training sessions throughout the year. Develop teacher support groups within your school and with other schools, where teachers can exchange experiences, share their successes, and learn from each other.
Connect to iPad educational teacher and classroom resources
The web has many helpful resources. You can easily connect and benefit from the knowledge and experience of other teachers. Join Twitter or sites such as the iPads in Education network.
Enable the unpredictable in your iPad classroom
In other words, let them fly. Technology is most effective when used as a tool for student empowerment. Don't expect to control every aspect of students' learning. And you don't always need to be the expert. Technology is their canvas. Give them the freedom to paint their own masterpieces.


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What's the best way to help your son (or daughter) start a new business?
Suppose your daughter Pam needs $50,000 to start her new venture. You've reviewed the concept and think she can make a go of it. But what if you're wrong and Pam ultimately loses the $50,000? Can you deduct your $50,000 loss without the IRS shooting you down?
First the three painful wrong roads: (1) You loan Pam the $50,000; take back her note; her business pays you interest until it goes broke. Tax wise, you have a capital loss, which is deductible at the pitiful rate of $3,000 per year against your ordinary income (or you can use the loss to offset capital gains). (2) The same sad tax fate—a capital loss—results if you sign as surety and must pay Pam's $50,000 loan to the bank. (3) A gift to Pam is even worse tax wise. The $50,000 is now hers. As a result the tax loss is hers. Chances are Pam has little or no income and the loss is almost totally wasted.
A loan or surety is often attacked by the IRS. Why? The IRS contends the $50,000 was a gift because you never intended to try to collect from Pam in the first place.
Section 1244 is the right road. It allows you to claim an immediate deduction against ordinary income rather than a limited capital loss. The maximum amount you can claim as a Section 1244 loss in any one year is $100,000 on a joint return or $50,000 on a single return.
How to do it right? You and Pam set up a corporation for Pam's new business. In exchange for $50,000, you get stock in the corporation that qualifies for Section 1244 treatment. Pam runs the business and receives a salary. If the business succeeds, Pam can gradually buy back your stock (or you can gift it to her) over time. Any profit you make on the buy back will be a low-taxed capital gain. If the business fails, your loss will be fully deductible under Section 1244.
Here's one more nice thing about Section 1244: The tax benefits are easy to get and are automatic. No written plan is necessary.
One final point: Section 1244 is the way to go if your spouse wants to start a new business. The same strategy applies if you want to venture into something new while keeping your present business.
When To Start Your Wealth Transfer Planning?
When should you start estate (or wealth transfer) planning? The sooner you start, the better for you and your family. The simple truth is that there are ways to pass every dime of your wealth intact to your family. Best of all, it works no matter how old you are or how much you are worth.
One of the basic principles of winning the wealth-transfer-planning game is to get into a tax-free environment. Then, stay in that environment for as long as you can. Here's what you accomplish: Your wealth grows at an accelerated rate because it is compounding tax-free.
For example, a sum of money (say $100,000) will double every eight years if it earns 9 percent a year tax-free. So in 24 years (about one generation), the $100,000 will grow to $800,000. In a second 24-year generation, that original $100,000 will reach $6.4 million.
Let's summarize. If you are young, get into a tax-free environment as soon as you can. If you are not young, put your kids or grandchildren into the tax-free environment. Start now with an appropriate gift-giving program. You can disinherit the IRS and transfer your wealth intact to your family.


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How To Build Your Own Tube BumperPosted in How To: Body Chassis on July 1, 2012
If you've ever visited Southern California, you've probably came across what is commonly referred to as a prerunner truck. It is usually decked out with white fiberglass fenders that have not been painted yet due to lack of funds, a bunch of tube work in the bed where giant shocks are attached, a pair of spare tires for that race-ready look, and a front tube bumper with a big aluminum skidplate. These trucks usually have some sort of long-travel independent front suspension and are commonly based on two-wheel-drive Toyota and Ford Ranger mini trucks due to their fuel economy and low price.
Our old '03 Chevy Avalanche was built as a big heavy trail monster for the 2003 Ultimate Adventure ("Ultimate Avalanche," Aug.–Nov. '03), but we're slowly looking for ways to slim it down and make it more of a desert exploring truck. The old TrailReady front bumper worked awesome but was made of very heavy plate steel. We decided that a prerunner-style front bumper made of lighter tube would help this big pig of a truck. While it will never be nimble, it can be lighter over all. FabWorx helped design and build this straightforward front bumper, and we're going to show you how to make your own with some simple fabrication tools.
We also added a tube for hooking up the winch hook so it wouldn't dangle below the bumper where it could get pinched or cut should we encounter a boulder along the trail. Below that we bolted on a Warn tow hook in case we need a tug or double line pull. We may add some light tabs and a pair of brights to the top bar down the road, but for now the bumper is complete and ready to run.


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Web-based home sales on the rise in Connecticut
On the Internet: Web-based home sales on the rise in Connecticut
Maryland resident Joanne Larson just sold her childhood home in Easton, and never left her house to do it and didn't use a real estate agent. She used the web.
"We've actually got a contract on it," she said by phone Monday. "Sold it very quickly."
Larson isn't anti-Realtor. Her husband is one. But when she had to sell her parents' house at 145 Staples Road, she decided to use the website Forsalebyowner.com.
It was a collaborative effort with her sister, who lives in Connecticut. They took photos and created the listing. Larson set up appointments for potential buyers to see the home and her sister would open the house for them.
"We got four full-price offers," Larson said. One of the offers was from an investor who only looked at the house online, she said.
The key was pricing the home right and to do that, she surfed the web looking at listings in Easton and concluded that many weren't priced below $400,000. So she listed at $395,000.
While Larson and others who are trying to buy and sell purely on the web are in the minority, it is clear that more and more people are slipping into the digital stream to find homes. A recent study by Google and the National Association of Realtors found that 90 percent of buyers searched online for a home in 2012.
The widespread adoption of computer-aided real estate searches is a direct result of the recession, according to buyers, sellers and professionals.
"Relocation costs ¦ Companies aren't paying for that any more," said Doris Ghitelman, a Westport agent with William Raveis.
Before the Great Recession, it was not uncommon for firms to provide corporate housing, cover moving costs and even closing costs on a new home, she said. But most companies have not restored those perks in this economy and now people transferring into the state for a new job have to find a new home quickly or lock into a rent.
That's where the Internet comes in. She said she is working with clients from Chicago, New Jersey and Florida who don't have a lot of time to look for a home, so emailing photos, talking on the phone and hunting online are key to finding a home for them.
She said in the past she has made videos and sent those to clients and You Tube, the social video-sharing site, is popular with Realtors and buyers alike, according to Google's study.
Social media itself is helping to propel some of the digital migration of the real estate market.
Ghitelman said Pinterest, the site that allows people to grab and post a collection of images and share them, has been very effective for her in showing homes.
Social media is seen as such an important part of the business that William Raveis has a social media coordinator.
Samantha Hamilton has that job at Raveis and agreed with Ghitelman that Pinterest is one of the important sites for agents. It's a combination of the site being visual, but also because of its demographics.
"Something like 72 percent is female," she said. "Most users have a masters degree and make over $100,000."
Ghitelman said in her experience, women are the final decision makers on whether a couple buys a house or not, so it is important to reach them.
But beyond that, Hamilton said the real benefit of social media is that it's where people are.
"Ten or 20 years ago, people were talking to their neighbors, asking them, `who sold you your home?' " she said. "Today, they're going online."
Facebook and Twitter in particular provide people with access to a network of friends, family, acquaintances and associates that often spans the country and can reach into other nations. There, people can immediately tap into the experience of those in their trusted circle to get information on neighborhoods and where to live.
It's because homeowners and renters are online that realtors need to be there, too, said Todd Miller, an agent in the Fairfield and Greenfield Hill offices of the Higgins Group, an affiliate of Christie's International.
"You need to know how to use social media to open lines of communication," said Miller, a veteran of the public relations field before going into real estate.
His Facebook page is designed to educate buyers and provide more information to them about himself and the market. He uses the various channels to market properties he's selling.
Miller combines the use of traditional selling methods with the digital ones, he said. At open houses, he has people sign in and invites them to join his network. There he can get a conversation going.
"The buyers have changed. We've adapted," he said.
In many ways, an agent's role in a digital market is similar to the one they have in real time.
Brendan Grady, with Coldwell Banker's Ridgefield office said as websites started popping up, there was a theory early on that people wouldn't need agents.
"What we found is the consumer needs us now more than ever," he said.
Part of the Realtor's role involves helping clients manage the quantity of information available on the web.
One Realtor said people can get fixated on a house they saw online without realizing the home has some real problems.
Buyers today meet with realtors armed with their own lists of houses they want to see. And the sellers are better informed about the state of the market, as they are able to peruse websites like Zillow and Trulia to find information on recent sales and listing prices in their neighborhood.
Sellers who go without an agent in the digital age are having mixed results, the Realtors said.
Larson had almost immediate results using the web, but Virginia Chen, who is trying to sell 48 Carroll St. in Stamford, has not had the same success.
Listed on Zillow (a free service) at $499,000 two months ago, Chen said the only calls she has received are from Realtors hoping to land the listing. She's hoping to save the commission cost, she said.
As for Larson, she recommends people try it.
"I think more people should do it," she said.


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In China, June 4, 1989 is the day that wasn't.
Tiananmen Square is the massacre that didn't happen.
And on this anniversary of the massacre that didn't happen, nobody inside China had better say anything that intimates that it did.
Welcome to the world of our trading partners. You know; the country to which we have exported our industrial base.
I'm talking about the last major Communist stronghold, which America has cunningly built into a world economic power by sending our jobs and our manufacturing base to them.
I am referring to the land of forced abortions and murdered baby girls, the bastion of slave labor, persecution of Christians and censorship. I mean the country that did not slaughter thousands of its own citizens in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
If you think that perhaps the Tiananmen Square massacre actually happened and that I'm exaggerating about our trading partner's censorship, just try to send an email to anyone in China with the words Tianamen, June 4 or massacre in it. It will go nowhere.
The Chinese government forbids discussion of Tiananmen Square, the massacre it wreaked on its own citizens, and the brutal aftermath of persecutions, torture and re-education that followed it. The Chinese reaction to today's anniversary of that tragedy is the reaction that totalitarian governments always use: stone-walling and silence that is enforced by threats, lies and raw power.
A few Americans have become rich beyond the dreams of avarice by dismantling our industrial base and moving it to China. The rest of us, not so much.
How this will play out in the years ahead, I am not sure. I only know that this Chinese leopard has not really changed its spots. That, and the obvious fact that our corporatists have weakened this country greatly feeding their greed.
BEIJING – Tight security around Beijing's Tiananmen Square Wednesday combined with a months-long crackdown against dissidents and a quarter century of enforced amnesia to prevent public commemoration of the crushing of the 1989 pro-democracy movement.
In Hong Kong, China's semi-democratic enclave, more than 100,000 people attended an evening vigil to mark the bloody end to seven weeks of demonstrations for a fairer, cleaner government 25 years ago.
On the mainland, China's ruling Communist Party forbids citizens from discussing the movement. Thousands were believed to have been killed on the evening of June 3 through June 4, 1989, when the same party sent army troops into central Beijing to quell protesters.
In the past two months, about 50 people have been detained in a pre-anniversary crackdown that Chinese activists and human rights groups have called the most severe ever.
China's state-run media all but ignored the highly sensitive date, while the censor's trigger finger was busy Wednesday blacking out television screens showing CNN and BBC whenever the foreign broadcasters aired segments on Tiananmen.


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Global temperatures are rising faster than scientists thought possible even a few years ago. The Arctic icecap is melting at a rate that few researchers had anticipated, and, most ominously, the permafrost is beginning to thaw, which could release vast amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than CO2.
The situation is indeed grave – but not unsolvable. While the majority of scientists agree that we humans have made the problem, new innovations show that we can also solve it. Climate change is a global problem, but the world looks to the US for leadership and solutions.
There are three reasons for this. First, America is the world's largest economic power. Second, the US has been the main obstructionist at global climate conferences preventing the tough action that needs to be taken to cut the emissions of greenhouse gases and slow the progress of climate change. Finally, and more hopefully, the US remains the world leader in science and innovation.
I saw proof of this when I visited Dr. Klaus Lackner, the chairman of the Earth and Environmental Engineering department at Columbia University in December. He showed me a palm-sized mockup for an "artificial tree" that mimics the photosynthesis of real trees by chemically sucking CO2 out of the air. A single such tree-sized device left standing in the wind, Dr. Lackner told me, would remove one ton a day of carbon from the atmosphere, the equivalent of the greenhouse gases produced by 36 automobiles.
This "carbon capture" technology is not a risky geo-engineering scheme, according to Lackner. It is simply cleaning up after ourselves and repairing the damage that we have already done. He envisions a day when forests of such artificial trees – they cost less than automobiles to manufacture and can be placed anywhere on the face of the earth since C02 is equally dispersed – will make a big dent on the climate problem.
Graciela Chichilnisky, one of the original architects of the Kyoto protocol, and Peter Eisenberger, who founded the Earth Institute at Columbia have developed yet another system that uses the excess heat produced by power plants to remove carbon dioxide from the air. Ms. Chichilnisky told me that she expects capturing and selling CO2 for an array of industrial purposes will more than pay for itself in the coming years.
One use for the greenhouse gas is in enhanced oil recovery, where C02 is pumped into depleted oil wells to release untapped petroleum. The booming global market for such recovery alone is expected to top $800 billion within a decade, according to Chichilnisky.
Carbon capture for commercial purposes could potentially take more CO2 out of the atmosphere than we are currently putting in, while producing a healthy profit, Chichilnisky says. But governments around the world will need to grease the wheels by mandating a carbon market, in which industries are required to pay to remediate the damage that their pollution creates.
It makes sense. With innovative new approaches like carbon capture on the verge of becoming economically viable, a little push from Washington and other world capitals could go a long way toward creating a market-based brake on climate change.
Whether carbon capture or some other developing technology is the answer remains to be seen. But a free-market approach, where different systems could compete on a level playing field, would quickly drive prices down and sort out which technology is the most cost-effective.
Now President Obama has an historic opportunity to push for a mandatory carbon market during his second term, and start cooperating with other countries in aggressive international measures to curb greenhouse gases. The European Union, which already has an emissions trading scheme in place, is an obvious place to seek cooperation.
During the president's previous term, Republicans in Congress shot down his rather half-hearted effort to enact a cap-and-trade law. But if November's election results can be trusted, the public's patience for Republican obstructionism on the environment may have just run out. In the wake of hurricane Sandy, more Americans than ever – 68 percent according to a Rasmussen survey conducted in November – are convinced that climate change is an urgent problem that needs to be addressed. This shift in public opinion may give the president the political space that he needs to push for the tough action that is required.
Then America – and Mr. Obama – can fulfill their role as global leaders. In my lifetime alone, the US sent a man to the moon and helped create an Internet that unites the globe in a worldwide web of instant communication. I have no doubt we can fight climate change.
Richard Schiffman is an environmental journalist who publishes regularly in the Guardian and elsewhere. A longer version by the author describing carbon capture in detail first appeared in the Earth Island Journal.


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In 1st grade, my hyperactivity was fully unleashed for the first time ever. It was the highly anticipated Halloween at Valley View Elementary where we trick or treated throughout the school. My best friend Tanker (biggest kid in the class/3rd overall in school) dressed up as Ray Nitschke and I dressed as a little Lombardi, coaching him through classes that day as I imagined the real Lombardi would. Tanker played the part well, snarling at math problems and doing pushups upon command until I was satisfied.
At the end of the day, Mrs. Pfefferle granted us a five-minute candy free-for-all before we went home. While most kids were happily jamming Zagnuts and Tootsie Rolls down their gullets, Tanker and I were bonging giant Pixie Sticks in the back of the room. We finished right as the bell rang and that's when the wild sugar energy took over.
I started mad flexing like my favorite wrestler, the Ultimate Warrior and projecting numerous barbaric YAWPS at the world. For the entire bus ride home, I was a motormouth of overactive smack talk, which I would later dub "The Runs". I somehow latched on to the Packers (go figure) and pretended the rest of the bus was the other team. When Tanker was dropped off, I decided to join him although my stop was 16 blocks away. We wrestled for a half hour and then I sprinted home and passed out in the hallway.
As I got older, I realized that the perfect storm of sugar and highly anticipated events triggered The Runs. More often than not, it was a Packer game, which earned the special title of "The Sunday Runs". Well, there is undoubtedly and lot of excitement in the air because I got the Sunday Runs on Wednesday. I was slugging my morning Monster and listening to sports talk radio and they were playing a clip of the Jared Allen spouting off. I sort of went borderline ballistic inside of my Tercel, screaming and taunting him with reckless abandon. I got so worked up that when I got home I passed out in the hallway (again). When I woke up, I realized that when the Sunday Runs start on Wednesday, it's either gotta be Armageddon or Favre returning to Lambeau on the horizon to get me this worked up.
Franklin, I hope you're ready to be Nitschke because little Lombardi is making a mad comeback Sunday.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Mad Case of the Runs
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As long as I can be Nitschke from the Miller Lite commercial below, then I am ready.ReplyDelete
ahhh Bonging Giant Pixie Sticks. My Mom sent me to rehab for that in 3rd grade. I may do a couple lines before the game Sunday to get my head right.ReplyDelete
hilarious article.
This is one of the top rants of all time! People at work are confused as to why I am laughing so heartily.ReplyDelete
- pashawwOctober 30, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Pixi stix = poor man's lick a stick, alternate with swigs of Jolt till you can feel your hair grow. I don't remember most of third grade.ReplyDelete
I heard the Ultimate Warrior died from snorting crushed up Runts during a Jolt case race.
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