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San Pedro de Atacama
August 20th 2012
Published: August 21st 2012
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Iquique to San Pedro
Shelley and Scott
Valle De La Luna
At Sunset
Day 311 Friday 17
Up at 7 to pack our bags and preparing ourselves to move on. Breakfast at the hotel didn't start till 8, which was the time we were walking out the door, so we didn't bother with it. Iquique has a central bus terminal as well as a multitude of private ones around town. We are travelling with Turbus, which has two terminals in town within a ten minute walk of each other. Thankfully when we got our tickets the woman explained to us which terminal otherwise you could see how you could easily miss your bus. Got a taxi down to the right bus terminal and had to wait ten minutes so we picked up an Empanada for breakfast and it was so nice we almost picked up a few more for the trip. Most empanadas we have got in South America are sold cold to at best luke warm, but these ones were actually hot…yooohhooo.
Today we are off to San Pedro de Atacama, which sits inland near the Bolivian border, which for narrow Chile only means about two hours from the coast. Started off at 8.30 driving south down the coast for
El Tatio Geysers
Hot water stream
about 5 hours, before turning inland. The road skirted along the Pacific Ocean just above the waves with huge desert mountains towering over us. Towns along the route seemed more like fishing shanty towns. Once we turned inland we had to climb up a steep road till we were powering through a desert terrain, and when I say desert I mean absolute, dead, nothing, lifeless, nada desert. The few towns we pass through seem to cling precariously to small slow moving streams, that barely move and any greenery doesn't grow any further than a metre from the water. We have been travelling through this barren terrain since the top of Peru and here it is by far the most severe. It is an amazing landscape which although fairly featureless was far better viewing than watching the onboard television where they were screening "Final Destination 5". We have copped so many violent splatter films on buses in South America but this movie took the cake, and why they chose this film when the bus was full of kids of all ages is beyond any sense or reason.
Got to the town of Calama at 2.30 in the afternoon where we
San Pedro
Main Street
had to get off and pick up another bus to San Pedro. Hadn't pre booked this second bus and thankfully we got almost the last two seats on the 3.05 so we were in luck today. Second bus arrived a bit late but it was only a short journey to San Pedro where we arrived at 4.45. We had pre booked our accommodation in town but unfortunately we didn't have a map to show where it was, and all we knew was that it was about a ten minute walk from town. San Pedro is a very small tourist town and no taxis are allowed in and around the centre so we were forced to walk in search of it. As we walked along we asked locals if they could direct us and we started to get contrary information till a guy at a tour office gave us a map and showed us exactly where we had to head.
It took us nearly twenty five minutes from the bus station to the hotel with our packs on, so we were fairly relieved to finally get there. Considering we are now back up in the mountains at an elevation of
San Pedro
Our Street
2300 metres we didn't do too bad…we just must be so used to it now. Our room is small, but spotless and tidy, and the people running the Hotel Solor are super friendly so it is fairly good place to stay, although it is over priced. Unfortunately we discovered that the whole town is over priced and there are a whole group of hotels here that charge up to a $1000 a night. When you see the town it is way beyond laughable that anyone would pay that sort of money to stay here, but they must because there is more than one hotel that charges that.
We dropped our stuff off and headed back into town to check the place out. Traffic is heavily restricted in the centre of town so it is a fairly pedestrian friendly place. The streets are narrow and all the buildings are single storey adobe structures that mainly contain tour agencies and restaurants. We needed to book some tours and organise an onward ticket but after the bus journey today all we really wanted to do was get a beer and a feed, so after wandering around in a daze for a bit
San Pedro
Iglesia San Pedro
we settled into a restaurant for the night. On our arrival in town, the sun was up and despite a cool breeze the temperature was warm, but once the sun disappeared so did any warmth. We know from here till Brazil we are in for cold, cold and bloody cold. Luckily our room has a heater and we had hot water on our return so we could at least wash off the dust and thaw out.
Day 312 Saturday 18
The breakfast at the Hotel Solor is simple but nice and is dished out by a lovely lady that makes you feel like you are staying with family. Before heading out for the day we were given another map and a better set of directions from town so we could reach the centre of town in 12 minutes. San Pedro has a great laid back feel and the area around where we are staying seems to be undergoing an urban renewal with what looks like a large community centre and playing fields. Sort of get the feeling that a lot of the tourist dollars that flow into this town, stays in this town. Prices for
Death Valley
Approach to the Death Valley
most things are a bit over the top, which you might say because it is isolated, but it really isn't that far from the coast and other large towns, it is just that it feels that way. The town isn't exactly pretty, but has heaps of character, but what is the wow factor here is the setting, which is incredible. Straight out the door of our hotel this morning and the view to the East is a chain of snow capped volcanoes that are absolutely stunning, and that combined with the other incredible sites around here is why so many people are flooding in.
First job today was to book tours and the first was a jeep onto Uyuni in Bolivia on Tuesday. Lots and lots and lots of horror stories about this trip most of which involve drunk drivers so we opted to only see one agency about this trip. Our research showed that Cordellirea traveller had the best (although not completely unblemished) track record so we only spoke to them and booked it. The cost is expensive and I am positive others would do it for half their fee but not willing to take the chance on
Death Valley
such an incredible journey. After that we looked at booking some day tours and after getting a ridiculously high price from one agency we opted for a cheaper one that still had a good name. Ended up booking a sunset trip for this afternoon and a sunrise one for tomorrow through Desert Adventures. Got a discount for booking two tours and paying in cash so it worked out okay. In the midst of walking around talking to the agencies we stopped to get a coffee, and discovered that although a lot of cafes in town offer cappuccinos not too many will and can make them. Had a laugh at one of them that had a menu filled with two dozen varieties of coffee but in the end could only give us a Nescafe with milk…pass.
Went to get my mop of hair cut but the hairdresser was shut so we headed back to our hotel for a spell and get ready for the afternoon trip. Thought it would be freezing for the sunset so we dragged out our gloves and beanies and every bit of warm clothing we had but in the end didn't use any of it and
Valle De La Luna
Salt Valley
watched the sunset in our t-shirts. Our day trip left from town at 3 so we wandered back early and picked up yet another great empanada for lunch before meeting at the tour agency. The bus that picked us up had to first tour around the town picking people up from the distant hotels so we didn't get to board till 3.30. Our guide today was "Ossie" an over the top Brazilian who was funny and fairly knowledgeable but perhaps not our best guide we have ever had. To give him his credit it is a very difficult job having to explain everything twice, once in Spanish and then in English. To add to his difficulties was that there were 24 people in our group and a lot of them just kept wandering off. We of course had several sites to see before the sunset and so we were on a tight schedule you can imagine his stress but he kept it together and by the end of the night hadn't murdered anyone so in that respect he was a better person than me.
First stop of the afternoon was at a lookout over the "death valley", which in
Valle De La Luna
Tres Marias - The Three Marias
fact was called "Martian valley", but due to a mix up in Spanish, Portuguese and English is now called "Death Valley", but as Ossie said "it's better for the tourist industry". The valley is a jumble of multi coloured jagged, folded earth that is as dramatic as it is picturesque.
From here we headed to the main draw card of the day "the valley of the moon". We had to stop and pay a 2,000 peso ($4) entry fee, before pushing into the valley and to our second site, the small "salt valley". Probably a good reason so much of this terrain is so lifeless is that the entire area is salt, a leftover from a huge lake that dried up thousands of years ago. The crusty white salt covers everything, wherever you look and it takes on the appearance of a light dusting of snow. What we discovered at this stop was that what looks like plain rocky mountains are in fact loaded with solid crystallised salt. In the late afternoon light when everyone went quiet you can actually hear the knocking and cracking sound of the salt as it cools, and it is a really weird sound.
Valle de la Luna
Salt formation
When you take a close look at the red coloured rocks you can see that it is in fact layered and filled with clear, bluey coloured salt. Due to this weird composition the salt valley is really unstable and large chunks of rocks litter the site from where they have fallen from the cliff above. The end of the valley was cordoned off with tape stating it was off limits and too dangerous to pass but that didn't stop Ossie who led us past the danger point and then into a cave. It was probably really reckless of him particularly when he had us clambering up a steep rocky outcrop but we loved every minute of it and was glad he showed us.
From the Salt Valley we took a short drive to see a strange rock outcrop called the 3 Marias although we are unsure why they are called this before moving onto our final destination. The main reason for this tour is to watch the sunset over the Valley of the Moon (Valle de la Luna), but unfortunately we arrived a bit late. From the carpark it was a ten minute walk up a large rocky hill
Valle de la Luna
Three Marias
from where you could watch the sunset and although we did see the sun dip behind the adjoining mountains we didn't get to see the sun in the valley, which was in shadow on our arrival. From experience day trips are good because you get to see additional things you hadn't expected (like the Salt Valley) but you always fail to fully see the thing you paid to see (like the sunset over the Valley of the Moon). Despite not getting to see the sun set in the valley, the view was still extraordinary and something unfortunately photos can never quite capture. The landscape in this corner of the world is mind blowing and has been well worth the effort to get here. We clung to the top of the rocky out crop with about a hundred or more people for about 40 minutes till the light started disappearing from the sky and we made our way back to the bus, being nearly the last to leave.
We got dropped in the centre of town and took a chance on one of the many restaurants in town and came up with a winner with a great feed. The restaurant
Valle de la Luna
Salty ground
was a bit pricey but was well worth it, and would have loved to have stayed all night but we had a very, very early start in the morning so we headed back to the room at 9.30.
Day 313 Sunday 19
I think Shelley's first words to me when the alarm went off at 3.20, was "this is your fault", and I think I heard that at least 485 more times over the next 9 hours. When planning this trip and I pencilled in the "sunrise at the Taito Geysers" it was probably good that I didn't think too much about it. Likewise when we booked it yesterday that we didn't think about it too much otherwise we may not have done it. Getting up so early was only the start of our pain and in hindsight was the easiest part of the day. We got ourselves ready and packed all our warm clothing and were waiting out the front of our hotel in the dark at 3.55am. Within 5 minutes of waiting in the freezing night air all that warm clothing that we had packed like gloves, beanies and scarves was on
Valle de la Luna
us, so by the time that it actually started to "get cold" we really had run out of ideas.
Lucky for us we were the very first pick up and we had the same bus and guide (Ossie) from yesterday afternoon. Today's group numbered 20 and it wasn't till 4.30 that we had everyone and were leaving the town. Ossie gave everyone a rundown on what to expect today especially on how cold it would be and then we all settled down for a snooze in the warm bus for the hour long trip to our destination. First inkling on how cold it was to be when ice started forming on the outside and inside of the windows but when we had to jump out to but the entry tickets it was a real slap in the face. The thermometer outside the ticket office read -12.1 degrees, but Ossie was there to reassure us that it would drop at least 3 more degrees to around -15 before sunrise. Had always told Shelley how I wanted to feel "real cold" weather like this, so you guessed it, it was "my fault". Lucky for us this isn't winter where it hits
Valle de la Luna
Sand Dune
-30, and Ossie said it isn't much fun, although at -15 I didn't hear too many chuckles.
After we got our tickets we were herded into a timber refuge building where Ossie made hot chocolate and scrambled eggs on rolls while we waited for the sun to rise. Being stuck in a windowless room we missed the start of the sunrise but quite frankly didn't care, and may have been happy to sit there all day drinking hot chocolate than go out in the cold again, but eventually we had to move outside to see why we had come here.
The Taito Geyser fields are the world's highest, sitting at 4320 metres above sea level and are also one of the most extensive. There are 64 Geysers and hundreds of Fumaroles scattered throughout the park and they all bubble and spit boiling hot water. None of the geysers are huge or as powerful as the classic "old faithful in Yellowstone national park and most only spit water up to about a metre but the sight at dawn of the steam pouring across the valley is incredible. Because of the altitude, water here boils at 92 degrees rather than
Valle de la Luna
Sunset - note the white is salt not snow
100 degrees and best seen in the early morning extreme cold when they bubble even more.
From the refuge we were driven down into the valley where we were given a guided walk amongst the steam and boiling water. There is a reasonable level of danger visiting here as the surface is unstable, geysers are constantly changing position and the steam is so thick at times that it would be easy to walk into one of the holes. Apparently tourists are scalded here all the time and after walking it and I can believe it. Also it is so numbingly cold that somehow that lovely hot water looks so inviting, you have to keep reminding yourself that slipping your hand into it is like pouring water from a boiling kettle on yourself. Being stuck in a valley the sun didn't hit us till about an hour into the walk by which time we were frozen solid. We would have to take our gloves off to take photos and after a while we lost all feelings in our fingers to the point I couldn't push the button on the camera. After the numbness came the pain at which point I
El Tatio Geysers
Waiting for the sun
think if Shelley had a gun and she could have somehow squeezed the trigger, I would have been a dead man.
Luckily with the sun came some warmth and so the remainder of our walk was near bearable. We then jumped back into the bus and were driven onto the hot springs for a swim if we wanted, ha, ha, ha, ha. Plenty of people did jump in for a swim, which would have been nice except for the stripping down to your swimmers and then of course hoping out wet in what was by then -5 degrees. While others swam we walked around in the sun checking out some more geysers before returning to the bus for our run home. On the way back we stopped at a small village that had a quaint old church and where we also picked up yet another great empanada, (they are so good around here that I think we are getting addicted). The views in the daylight of the surrounding mountains and volcanoes were as you would expect, spectacular. One volcano was in fact letting out small puffs of smoke.
We got back to town at midday and were dropped
El Tatio Geysers
Dormant geyser
off at our hotel where we took a short nap. In the evening we were disappointed the nice restaurant we found yesterday was closed so the search started. I think we checked out every restaurant in town and walked out, we finally ended up back at the restaurant from the first night and it was packed. The meals here are cheaper and pretty good, the only problem was when the bill came it was $6.00 more that it should have been but the waitress sorted it out. We are not sure if they just hope tourists will not check the bill or maybe are confused with the money but it happens about 1 in 10 restaurants, which because we have been travelling for so long would add up.
Day 314 Monday 20
Today is an easy day walking around town which does not take long but we looked in all the shops. The first shop we came across was a hairdressers and because Scott was about 5 weeks beyond a haircut it was a priority so we came to a stop. It was so funny sitting in the hairdressers looking at photos around the wall
El Tatio Geysers
The Geysers
showing all the cuts I could get, it looked like a catalogue of the world's worst cuts from the 1980's and 1990's. Scott came close to getting his hair dyed and getting a "Take That" cut but decided on just a straight buzz…the barber looked shattered that he couldn't perform a masterpiece on his mop.
We then ventured further into town where most of the items in the shops are the same we have seen all through South America, but there were a few shops with different jewellery and clothing but the prices were higher. We are hoping to buy things cheaper in Bolivia as everyone we meet keep telling us that is where to buy. We visited Iglesia San Pedro which was built in the 17
Century but has had changes over the years including the bell tower being added in 1890. The walls are thick adobe and the ceiling is made from Cardon which is cactus wood which truly makes you feel you are in a desert town.
We also had some chores to get done today which include supplies for the trip to Bolivia, you know like toilet paper, water and snacks. The other main
El Tatio Geysers
Sunrise over the mountains
thing was to change money to get some Bolivianos for the Bolivian leg of the journey. The travel agent offered us a rate of 90 and the official rate is 68 the best rate we got in town was 82, so we did not want to exchange too much money just enough to cover us till we got to Uyuni.
I hope we have enough warm clothes for this trip as the temperature will drop to about minus 12 degrees overnight and after the other morning at the geysers I am not looking forward to that, I think I will have every piece of clothing that I own on. For dinner we headed into town hoping our favourite restaurant would be open, and yes it was but it was booked solid. Stepped outside to work out where we would eat and opted for the restaurant next door. A chance pick had us getting one of the best feeds we have had in South America. Chose the house specialities of a Parilla, which is a plate of BBQ meat and it was sensational, (sorry once again to our veggie friends). Once again we discovered the best restaurant in town on
El Tatio Geysers
our last night. We got home about 9.30 and then started packing for tomorrow, making sure all our warm clothing was available to grab.
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21st August 2012
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Yep...confirms why Atacama is on the top of my wish list...can't wait to see the rest
24th August 2012
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The geysers and landscapes look amazing, the photo\'s and the detail of what you saw and felt was great! I cant imagine feeling that cold though, must have been real awful that part of it. What a beautiful place to visit, looked so interesting, just incrediable. Glad to hear your still alive scotty and not wearing a hidieous hair do!!! stick with the buzz! Stay warm xx
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SNYDER — Burkburnett's Kylee Trahan dominated Lubbock Cooper from start to finish in Friday's opener, and Casey Cannon helped the No. 4 Lady Bulldogs achieve a sweep with a game-winning RBI double in Game 2.
Burkburnett won the opener 4-0 as Trahan, a junior right-hander, allowed only one hit and one walk while striking out 16.
Kaylea Armstrong picked up the victory in a 3-2 Burkburnett win in Game 2 as the Lady Bulldogs swept the Region I-3A semifinal series. They'll play either Kennedale or Andrews for a state-tournament trip.
Burkburnett (30-5-1) had nine shutout innings to begin the series and had given Armstrong a 2-0 lead with a two-run first inning in Game 2. But Lubbock Cooper (28-9) battled back with two in the third to tie it.
The Lady Bulldogs answered the challenge as Trahan singled and Bryson Young walked to open the fourth. With one out, Casey Cannon hit a line-drive double to center field to score what proved to be the winning run.
Armstrong (12-1) pitched five innings, allowing five hits and no earned runs. She also drove in a run. Trahan pitched the final two innings for her fourth save.
Burkburnett coach Allen Hennan was pleased to see how his team bounced back with a quick run and then Armstrong went right back to work and got a shutdown inning.
"We had a couple of mistakes and could have got out of the inning, but Kaylea kept us in the game and left when we were up and we put Kylee in to finish it up," Hennan said. "We're finding ways to win close games this year. Maybe last year or earlier in the year we weren't doing that."
There was no such drama in Game 1 as Trahan baffled the Lady Pirates from the outset. And for good measure the offense put the pressure on with runs in each of the first three innings. Armstrong had an RBI double in the first and Trahan and Jaley Matteson also drove in runs.
Burk catcher Paige Daino had two hits and two runs scored in Game 1 and two more hits in Game 2. "Paige had a great day, carried the team," Hennan added.
And Trahan (18-4, 0.75 ERA) allowed only one hit — a fifth-inning single by Sami Gonzales — and just one walk while striking out 16. This was the seventh time she'd struck out 15 or more this season with a high of 21 against Keller Timber Creek in another one-hitter. The fireballer surpassed the 300-strikeout mark with her 20 Friday giving her 316 in 150 innings.
"The screwball was working really well and we went in and out," Hennan said.
And the Burkburnett bats did a good job of making the Cooper defense work behind senior right-hander Abbi White (25-8). The ace came in with 244 strikeouts but managed just four in two games against the Lady Bulldogs.
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Burkburnett 4, Lubbock Cooper 0
Game 1
Teams R H E
Lubbock Cooper 000 000 0 — 0 1 2
Burkburnett 111 001 x — 4 6 1
Battery: (LC) White and Hughes; (B) Trahan and Daino. WP: Trahan (18-4). LP: Abbi White (25-7).
2B: (B) Tabion, Daino, Armstrong. 3B: None. HR: None.
Leading Hitters: (LC) Sami Gonzales 1x2; (B) Daino 2x3, 2 run; Trahan 0x3, 1 RBI; Faulkenbery 0x3, 1 RBI; Armstrong 1x3, 1 RBI; Matteson 1x2, 1 RBI; Hardaway 1x3.
Burkburnett 3, Lubbock Cooper 2
Game 2
Teams R H E
Burkburnett 200 100 0 — 3 7 1
L. Cooper 002 000 0 — 2 6 1
Battery: (B) Armstrong, Trahan (6) and Daino; (LC) White and Hughes. WP: Armstrong (12-1). LP: White (25-8). SV: Trahan (4).
2B: (B) Daino, Cannon. 3B: None. HR: None.
Leading Hitters: (B) Paige Daino 2x4; Armstrong 0x3, 1 RBI; Trahan 2x3; Faulkenbery 1x4, 1 run; Cannon 1x2, 1 RBI, 1 BB; Matteson 1x3; (LC) Roxy Eurstie 2x3, 1 RBI; White 1x3, 1 RBI.
Records: Burkburnett 30-5-1; Lubbock Cooper 28-9.
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ArtRage 4 was released couple days ago.
It includes cloner and transformation tools. The other upgrades include square head and more tweaking for the Oils and other brushes. (I don't think all have a square head option). UI customizations and more.
Upgrade is about 25 dollars from some past versions. You can get it on Steam or from their website for about 50 dollars.
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The Huron Tigers (9-3) take on the Coldwater Cavaliers (10-2) at 7 p.m. Saturday at Findlay Donnell Stadium in a Division V, Region 16 final.
Huron and Coldwater have met twice previously in the playoffs, with Coldwater winning 19-6 in 2004 and 28-0 in 2005.
Huron defeated Loudonville 17-13 in its regional semifinal, while Coldwater topped Doylestown Chippewa, 49-21.
Coldwater is the defending Division V state champion.
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Calif unemployment climbs to record 11.5 percent
LOS ANGELES - LOS ANGELES (AP) - California's unemployment rate climbed to 11.5 percent in May, the highest in modern record-keeping, the U.S. Department of Labor reported Friday.
The loss of another 69,000 jobs comes as a blow to the state after unemployment dipped slightly to 11.1 percent in April, according to revised figures. The California Employment Development Department said the government posted the largest job declines in the month, down by 14,200 jobs. Every other sector besides education and health services also saw losses.
The dreary jobs outlook wasn't news to people seeking assistance at an EDD office in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale.
Respiratory therapist Andrew Forrest, 56, of Glendale, said he has been out of work for two weeks.
"I'm calling the registries every day, bugging them to get me work and hanging out by the phone," he said.
Although the Labor Department reported that 48 states and the District of Columbia saw their unemployment rates rise in May, California's rate was substantially higher than the national rate of 9.4 percent for the month.
Only four states had higher rates: Michigan, Oregon, Rhode Island and South Carolina.
The West had the highest regional jobless rate in the nation, at 10.1 percent, and it was the highest rate since September 1983, when the nation was emerging from a deep recession.
Jesus Munoz, who came to the Glendale EDD office to correct an error in his unemployment benefits, said that in the 41 years since he immigrated to the United States he always had full weeks of work until October. Since then, he said, there have only been one or two shifts to pick up each week at his job packing pillows.
"Hanging on," the 60-year-old Glendale resident said in Spanish.
Greg Glick, 58, of Tujunga, said he's been a truck driver since he was 17 but got laid off from his job about a year ago. He came to the EDD office to try to learn to use a computer.
"It's hard to teach an old dog new tricks but I have to learn to use it," he said. "I'm sending out resumes and hoping for the best."
California has lost 885,000 jobs since May 2008, when the unemployment rate was 6.8 percent.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said in a statement that with the massive international economic downturn, it's natural the state would see historic job losses.
"A full recovery will not happen overnight - it will take time, which only further underscores the need to continue the economic stimulus measures I fought for in the February budget," said Schwarzenegger. "There is no greater priority right now than to stimulate the economy, create jobs and get California back on the road to prosperity."
Schwarzenegger, a Republican, has proposed laying off another 5,000 state employees, along with billions of dollars in cuts to education and social welfare programs, to address a $24.3 billion deficit for the fiscal year that starts July 1.
But lawmakers are divided over how to close the gap and could be headed toward another budget standoff, which would further jeopardize the state's precarious finances.
Agop Cancik, 44, of Tujunga, came to the Glendale EDD office to seek unemployment benefits for the first time. The married father of three said he had worked for four years as a manager of a dry cleaning business after 12 years as a business owner.
Despite being out of work for a month-and-a-half, he sought to put the problem in perspective.
"My parents have gone through this. We're not special," he said.
"Finances have never been guaranteed. And this is a problem worldwide," he added.
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CD 10, he saw nothing. I left in almost tears after he told me I wasn't going to ovulate this cycle. Made no sense as I ovulate every month on my own with no drugs. On Clomid just to make my ovulation stronger. I told him to retest me a few days later. Glad I listened to my body, CD 14 went back and he saw a follicle. go back this morning CD 17, and there were 5 Follicles! 2 dominant ones. he said they were very ripe. and he said he thinks I may ovulate 2 eggs at once and asked how I felt about twins. I want a baby so bad that I will take whatever the good Lord blesses us with. I tested on clearblue easy yesterday afternoon and still no smiley face. He wants me to test again this afternoon. If still negative, he wants me to go straight to his office for a trigger shot. My birthday is Monday, my 36th, what a great early birthday present!
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That sounds like good news....Good Luck to you!!!! And I applaud you for listening to your body, we rely on doctors but sometimes we have a better sense of whats going on!!!
Christina - M/C at 16 weeks (10/09), 7 weeks (5/10), undated (7/10)and mother to 1 fur baby.
Rainbow Baby EDD 2/28/13
I know that even with ovulation, there is no guarantee of pregnancy. my husband had a zero sperm count on March 2nd due to 21 months of tesesterone replacement. He quit the shots in January, and I started him on fertility blend for men. By June 8th, he had a normal sperm count again. I had stage 4 endometrosis. I was told my only hope was invitro, but I have no symptoms at all of endo nearly 2 years later. They told me they got it all. So I am hoping to prove them wrong, save 10 grand and get pregnant on clomid instead.
Woo Hoo!! I would start BD :)
last night, I patiently waited til my DH got out the tub, and thought for sure we were going to BD. I applied Preseed and everything. He says sorry baby I am too tired. He said we will try in the morning. of course he doesn't wake up in time to do the deed before work. so nothing happened. He promised me we were going to BD tonight and through the weekend just in case. of course it won't be til at least 9 tonight as we have to wait for his 7 year old to go to bed. and Saturday he has class all day from 8 and won't be home til about 6. so our BD will prob be late each night.
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I was so happy I had tears, I got a trigger shot satuday and I am hoping that this baby got stuck. Lots of baby dust to all.
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Try to understand the spirit
of the wolf in the wild and other animals. Love them, help when they need your help. They are wild and free.
Earth, Teach Me
Earth teach me quiet ~ as the grasses are still with new light.
Earth teach me suffering ~ as old stones suffer with memory.
Earth teach me humility ~ as blossoms are humble with beginning.
Earth teach me caring ~ as mothers nurture their young.
Earth teach me courage ~ as the tree that stands alone.
Earth teach me limitation ~ as the ant that crawls on the ground.
Earth teach me freedom ~ as the eagle that soars in the sky.
Earth teach me acceptance ~ as the leaves that die each fall.
Earth teach me renewal ~ as the seed that rises in the spring.
Earth teach me to forget myself ~ as melted snow forgets its life.
Earth teach me to remember kindness ~ as dry fields weep with rain.
/An Ute Prayer /
Wolf Blessing
May Wolf ever walk beside you
and grant you rest in his shadow.
May his paws ever guide your paths
and your howls be heard by all.
/ WindWolf /
Treat the earth well.
It was not given to you by your parents,
it was loaned to you by your children.
We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors,
we borrow it from our Children.
/Ancient Indian Proverb /
I am Wolf.
It is my cry you hear in the night,
My eyes that gaze at you from the shadows.
It is my heart that beats in your Soul,
My strength that makes you whole.
I am Wolf. I am in you.
You are in Me. We Are Wolf.
/ WolfDreamer /
Call of the Wild
He's been worshiped
And he's been feared,
He's been pushed from state
to state thru the years.
But now we know him
Now we understand,
The fragile balance
Between nature and man.
He's the call of the wild
with a spirit strong and true,
And each and every child
Should have the chance
To listen to the call of the wild.
Brother to brother
Father to son,
Have told the stories
Of this nobile one.
Proud as an eagle
And free as the wind,
And you can hear him
If you only listen.
You'll hear the call of the wild
With a spirit strong and true,
And each and every child
Should have the chance
To listen to the call of the wild.
Please let them hear
The call of the wild.
/ Unknown /
From an Eagle's View
Have you ever wondered what it's like to fly free,
To see the world as far as the eye can see,
To view the surroundings from high and from low,
To hear only the sound of a distant echo,
To float in the air with the wind being your guide,
To admire many rainbows that the trees tend to hide,
To see the misty mornings over a beautiful mountaintop,
To glide over a flowing river that never seems to stop,
To watch the animals from over a mile away,
Or to rise above the treetops that glisten in the day?
If you were an eagle you would wonder no more,
For it can see things you have never seen before.
Next time you look into the sky of blue,
Think of what it's like from an eagle's view.
/ Unknown /
To look into the eyes of a wolf is to see your own soul ...
/ Unknown /
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Columbia City High School's Alulmni Association held its 7th Annual Golf Outing at Eagle Glen Golf Course Saturday.
Eleven teams participated in the event.
The winning team, scoring a 55 (17 under par), from left: Doug Sauers, Gary Harris, Jeff Wright, Andrew Thompson (Alumni Association president, presenting trophy) and Troy Jagger.
COLUMBIA CITY — Columbia City's boys tennis team took on Manchester Monday, and the Eagles' Niko Rongos improved to 11-1 with a three-set win.
After falling 7-5 in the first set, Rongos came back to win 6-4, 6-1 in the final two to grab the win.
COLUMBIA CITY — Columbia City's volleyball team picked up a win against Blackhawk Christian Monday night.
Leading the Lady Eagles at the net was Gabrielle Hazen, with 14 kills and 12 blocks, but she also had strong back row play, serving up three aces.


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Food and Agriculture Events
IN BEIJING: Global Choke Point: Water-Energy-Food Confrontations in the World's Two Largest Economies
August 07, 2013 // 2:00pm — 4:30pm
China Environment Forum
At this workshop at Beijing University our Chinese and U.S. China WET members will be joined by Dr. Paolo Farah to delve into the water-energy challenges facing China and the United States, looking at risks and opportunities to build resilience to deal with these growing natural resource confrontations.
Oysters, Octopus, and Resilience
July 26, 2013 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Growing awareness of the connected challenges of natural resource management, economic growth, and human health has encouraged more integrated models of international development. The experience of two organizations – TRY Oyster Women's Association, based in The Gambia, and Blue Ventures, based in Madagascar – demonstrates the success of a community-based approach to building resilience.
From Sustainable Communities to Global Pollution Challenges: Twenty Years of U.S.-Taiwan Environmental Cooperation
July 17, 2013 // 3:00pm — 4:30pm
China Environment Forum
On the July 17th meeting, cosponsored by the Asia Program and the China Environment Forum cosponsored, three speakers will provide an overview of the expanding EPA – EPAT cooperation, highlighting the progress in developing sister sustainable communities in the United States and Taiwan. Stephen Shu-hung Shen, Minister of EPAT, and Randy Solomon, Sustainable Jersey community certification program lead, will introduce the successes of these sustainable community projects. Jane Nishida, U.S. EPA's Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator for International & Tribal Affairs and former Maryland Secretary of Environment, will share how international collaboration can strengthen state and national environmental programs and provide opportunities for green growth.
Earth Observation Satellite Data-Sharing: Policies and Partnerships
July 15, 2013 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Science and Technology Innovation Program
On Monday, July 15, 2013, Secure World Foundation and the Commons Lab of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars will co-host a panel discussion, entitled "Earth Observation Satellite Data-Sharing: Policies and Partnerships." Please note, this event will be held at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace from 12 to 2 PM and requires an RSVP by Friday, July 12, 2013.
RCC Stakeholder Dialogue Session: Agri-food
June 20, 2013 // 1:00pm — 6:00pm
Canada Institute
Backdraft: The Conflict Potential of Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation (Report Launch)
May 16, 2013 // 9:00am — 11:00am
Environmental Change and Security Program
Amid the growing number of reports warning that climate change threatens security, one potentially dangerous – but counterintuitive – dimension has been largely ignored. Could efforts to reduce our carbon footprint and lower our vulnerability to climate change inadvertently exacerbate existing conflicts?
The Role of Local Institutions in Climate Change Adaptation
May 13, 2013 // 2:30pm — 4:30pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Effective local institutions are central to society's ability to respond to the impacts of climate change. Our capacity to adapt is dependent on a wide range of factors with complex institutional arrangements: production strategies, land and water governance, social support systems, household and gender dynamics, availability of weather and climate information, and interaction with external actors, among others. The interaction between local and national institutions is also an important, and often complex, factor.
Protecting Parks, Empowering People in Mozambique and Zambia
April 17, 2013 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
Integrated approaches to conservation and development can both preserve biodiversity and improve the lives of the people who have long depended on these resources. Dale Lewis of Community Markets for Conservation in Zambia and Katherine Raphaelson of the Gorongosa Restoration Project in Mozambique discuss innovative ways they have addressed conservation, park restoration, and improving the well-being of surrounding communities.
Climate Change and Extreme Weather: Impacts on Public Health and Agriculture
April 10, 2013 // 3:00pm — 5:00pm
Brazil Institute
On April 10, the Wilson Center brings together a panel to discuss how climate change is affecting public health and agriculture.
Postponed: Improving Health and the Environment Through Integrated System Approaches
March 06, 2013 // 12:00pm — 2:00pm
Environmental Change and Security Program
This event is postponed due to inclement weather. Today's health and environment issues are complex and interconnected. By embracing holistic viewpoints and finding commonalities in problem-solving, organizations like Health in Harmony (HIH) and Pathfinder's SCIP (Strengthening Communities through Integrated Programming) have successfully and sustainably tackled seemingly un-related health and environment issues in Indonesia and Mozambique. This panel will highlight examples of integrated system approaches in both programs and will share best practices for combining development projects in health and non-health technical areas.


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HTML5 & CSS3 for the Real World!
After more than five months of preparation, and countless weeks spent on research, writing, and editing by the wonderful authors and publishing team – we're finally ready to unleash the awesomeness that is HTML5 & CSS3 for the Real World.
As the newest book to be added to the prestigious SitePoint library, HTML5 & CSS3 for the Real World is what you've been waiting for.
You might assume that the person writing this blog post is a designer or a front-end developer, at the forefront of these new technologies? Well, that's not the case.
I have a confession. I'm not a techie and I know nothing about code.
Yes, I work at SitePoint and have copied and pasted my way through creating a few HTML emails, but that's about as far as my skills go. So, why am I writing this introduction if I don't know anything about HTML5 & CSS3?
Because rarely does something this big come along that shakes the foundations of web development and affects everything in its path. Even for the likes of me.
This book has caused a huge stir in our offices. The buzz is unmistakable. There is something seriously cool about HTML5 & CSS3.
I know it, and you know it — HTML5 & CSS3 will change the way designers and developers work for the better.
And that, my friends, is a big deal.
One of our designers explained it beautifully when he said, "We've been locked in, trying to get petty tasks done with so much effort. HTML5 & CSS3 allows me to finally do cool stuff and have some fun".
Well, that sounds pretty amazing to me.
For only $17, you can grab the digital version of this book to read on any of your tablets or devices! Available in EPUB, MOBI or PDF.
Learn more and grab your copy of this new title today.
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Why is the sample PDF not sent to me? I already requested the link with 2 different Email adresses?
Regards, Reini
Melinda Szasz
Hi Reini,
Have you checked your junk folder?
Send me an email at email@example.com and i will send sort this out for you.
Alexis Goldstein
To get a look at two of the JavaScript APIs discussed at length in the book, you can take a look at my two earlier blogs: http://blogs.sitepoint.com/a-drag-and-drop-planning-board-with-html5/ and http://blogs.sitepoint.com/a-better-cookie-html5-and-web-storage/
Hope you enjoy the book! I enjoyed contributing to it!
When will this be in bookstores?
Melinda Szasz
Hello Jess,
It will probably hit shelves in a week or two.
We've got some in stock right now if you would like one earlier.
Thanks so much, Melinda! Like another poster, I'm also having trouble with the sample .pdf. My request does not seem to have worked. Thanks!
I really don't want to rain on the parade, but this post is incredibly misguided.
The blurb for the book tells us that we can use HTML5 to create future-proof websites, which is a thoroughly meaningless statement. Future-proofing is not an issue. New browsers are going to continue to support older versions of HTML for decades. The problem with HTML5 is past-proofing. Older browsers have no support for HTML5 elements, and new browsers are inconsistent with the features they do implement. We still have to contend with IE6 – support for new HTML5 / CSS3 features will not be widespread for a very, very long time.
Another problem is that the specification is not yet complete, and wont be for years. They're still fighting over video codecs. It seems pretty silly to develop sites to a specification when there's a decent chance that specification will be altered somewhere down the line.
Anyone working on a business website is going to stick with HTML 4.01 because it is a stable standard with almost universal support from browsers. It is capable of doing pretty much everything HTML5 can (if in a slightly less elegant way) and the end user is never going to notice the difference.
HTML5 and CSS3 allow you to achieve cool things with little effort, yeah, but they're only going to work for about 30% of your visitors. HTML5 wont be much more than a toy for developers to experiment with for a long time, and it will be years before it starts being used for serious business applications.
Louis Lazaris
John, everything that was valid in HTML4, is now valid in HTML5, so there is no reason for any developer not to start using HTML5-based markup, and gradually start adding new things with each project, depending on the situation.
An HTML5-doctype *alone* is enough to future-proof a website (to some degree), because that doctype will never change again.
The book doesn't endorse going crazy on every project with various new features, but helps developers gain a balanced approach that will allow them to start using as much as they feel comfortable with, while learning some less-supported stuff that they can use later on when browser support increases.
Okay. Well you're right, you can switch to a HTML5 doctype and still have your code work just the same, but I'm not sure why you would unless you were actually using HTML5 features. Simply slapping a HTML5 doctype on a HTML4 page provides no benefit (and is arguably detrimental), and you certainly don't need a book to tell you how to do it.
I object to this notion of "future-proofing", as if we're going to wake up one day to find that browsers have suddenly stopped supporting HTML4. Browsers will never drop HTML4 support. The idea that we need to switch to a HTML5 doctype or risk having our sites stop working is completely absurd. Future-proofing is an imaginary concept dreamed up to give people an extra reason to justify promoting HTML5.
Of course there is no problem with having a HTML5 / CSS3 book for developers who want to be ready when the technologies do become viable, or who want to create sites that take advantage of HTML5 regardless of browser support. I just think it's disingenuous to say that you can easily use HTML5 features without any "tricky hacks or workarounds", and using the fictional idea of "future-proofing" websites as a selling point is a cheap, dishonest marketing technique. As a SitePoint customer (I own several SitePoint books, and they're all excellent), I am very disappointed to see them stoop to this level.
Louis Simoneau
@John I completely disagree :) Lack of widespread support is in no way a reason to not start using some of the HTML5 and CSS3 features now—simply because, when used carefully, they degrade gracefully and often don't even require any additional dev time.
A few examples: 1) input types. HTML5 input types degrade to plain text fields in nonsupporting browsers, so you can start using them and getting the benefits of native inputs and validation on supporting browsers without any detriment to the rest of your users.
3) Audio/video. It's easy to put in fallback flash content using the same encoded source, so you can provide HTML media to modern browsers and degrade gracefully on older ones.
5) The rest. Even for things that can't be polyfilled, like localStorage and canvas, to pick just the ones you brought up, support is increasing rapidly. localStorage is supported on all modern browsers and IE8+, canvas on all modern browsers and IE9+.
6) Not to mention mobile. With extremely good support for HTML5 and CSS3, including the new JS APIs, on most new-generation mobile devices, there's even *less* reason not to start using this stuff when working on mobile sites.
Your point that "anyone working on a business website is going to stick with HTML 4.01″ just doesn't fly, in my opinion.
I realize that HTML5 and CSS3 have been the subjects of a lot of buzz in the industry, and it's normal to be skeptical of anything that comes with a lot of hype. I also understand that a lot of designers and developers have become really comfortable with the way they work, since the browser and spec landscape has been so quiet for the past 10-ish years. But I really do think this is another one of those times (like the original shift from tables to CSS layouts) where as an industry we're going to have to learn some new skills and start pushing things forward.
Louis Lazaris
John, I think you're misunderstanding a couple of things.
First of all, technically speaking, the simple "HTML5 doctype" is not really an HTML5 doctype — it's an HTML doctype. It's universal. It no longer is reserved for a single style of markup or syntax. It's the future-proof doctype that ensures all past and future content (that is in line with the spec) will be valid. That same doctype will apply to all future markup.
Second of all, when SitePoint's marketing copy describes the fact that we should use HTML5 and CSS3 to avoid "tricky hacks or workarounds", they are referring to things like rounded corners and gradients (to give two simple examples). In the past, to create either of those two things, you needed "tricky hacks or workarounds" (extra images, extra markup, or extra scripts). This is no longer necessary with CSS3. No, it's not supported by all in-use browsers, but that doesn't mean their statement is false or misleading. Everyone agrees this is one of the great benefits of CSS3.
Not that I think everything those people say is gold; I disagree with some of those guys quite often, but in this case, it's virtually unanimous, so it's not entirely prudent to disagree here, unless you have compelling reasons.
You might not know this but there were many people in the early 2000s that thought certain people were crazy for pushing CSS layouts. Those doubters continued using table layouts instead — and we all know what happened there.
Nonetheless, I do appreciate you expressing yourself here, and I don't blame you for having doubts about these technologies being useful today. I don't love the situation we're in browser-wise, but if we don't move ahead, then we'll be stuck creating IE8-only websites for another 5 years, and that would just be wrong.
I suggest you download the sample chapters, which you can get here, if you haven't done so already. You can read all of chapter one, which discusses the reasons it's best to start using HTML5 and CSS3 today. If you still don't like our reasons for promoting these technologies, then we'll agree to disagree. :)
I thought I'd get some strong opposition to these posts :)
So, Louis Simoneau:
I'm aware that you can do all of these things. But it isn't like these are perfect solutions. In response to your examples: 1) Yes, you can use HTML5 input types which will degrade nicely in older browsers. But that just adds an extra layer of headaches. If you want to validate your inputs, you're going to have to do it with JS anyway to support those older browsers. So now you have two methods of validation to keep up with – HTML5 attributes, and your JS validation. Since you're going to have to write the JS anyway for older browsers, why not just use it for every browser? It's easier to maintain that way, and achieves the same result.
2) I don't disagree on this one. In fact I do use CCS3 where I can, although some clients do insist on having a consistent appearance across all browsers. If it wasn't for those client restrictions, I would happily use CSS3 progressive enhancement on all my sites.
3) Yes, but now you're having to test to see if <video> tags are supported, and serve up different content to different users. Which isn't a huge deal, but it is an extra step you have to think about during development.
4) Yes and no. As a general rule, if something already works in JS in a non-hacky way, I don't see the point in using HTML5 / CSS3 to do it. Sure, you can use all your nice new features to do stuff and have JS act as a polyfill, but then you just end up with twice as much code to maintain – the HTML5/CSS3, and the JS. You still have to write the JS anyway for older browsers, so why not just serve it up to everyone? It just seems easier that way.
5) At least 10% of people still use IE7, and IE6 is only just reaching the point where it can be ignored (about 4%). A lot of people still use old versions of FireFox. So I still wouldn't feel comfortable using localStorage etc. when at least 15% (for IE alone), and probably more like 30% of my overall users aren't going to have those features work.
6) I generally create separate mobile versions of my sites, and you're right in saying that they have better support for new features than desktop browsers. I have recently started using HTML5 for some mobile content.
I think our main disagreement is a philosophical one. I just don't see the point of using new HTML5 features when I'm going to have to write JS polyfills anyway – why not just use the JS and keep development and maintenance simple?
You're also right in saying that HTML5 and CSS3 have been the focus of a huge amount of (often ignorant) hype, to the detriment of pretty much everyone. But that isn't why I'm wary of leaping on the bandwagon. I'm not adverse to learning new skills either – like I said, I would be very happy to never use HTML4 again if the support was there for HTML5. In the meantime though, I don't want to end up having to write and maintain two sets of code. I had enough of that trying to get IE6 to behave for the last 5 years.
Louis Lazaris:
I understand the doctype difference. To be honest, I'm not sure what the problem with having different doctypes for different versions of the spec was. Having a single doctype for HTML seems foolish – HTML is liable to evolve in the years and decades to come, and I don't know what's wrong with having different milestones to identify which particular set of features we're using. What would be the problem with <!doctype html5>, and then in the future when they inevitably start adding new features to the spec, html5.1 etc.? Is it really so hard to change the doctype that we need to set one infinite, universal html doctype and then never change it again? Why even bother including one at all? Browsers can (and in fact do) just go off the MIME type of the file. But that's a wider issue with the spec itself.
Fair enough, yes, you can do away with many cludgy workarounds using CSS3. They just aren't going to work on all browsers, so if you want to provide a consistent user experience (which a lot of businesses insist on, regardless of the arguments for progressive enhancement) you will still need to fall back to those hacky fixes.
Using JS to enable the new semantic elements isn't really a problem, but it is just one extra thing to think about. I'll concede your point though, it isn't exactly hard to do. But new semantic tags aren't the features of HTML5 that most people are excited about. It's barely worth the trouble of re-writing code just to get the marginal benefits of the extra semantic tags.
The analogy of the tables vs. CSS wars might turn out to be accurate here, I guess we'll see in a few years. In that case, CSS was definitely an improvement, and was worth migrating to. But the reason tables were so popular is because they were easy to use. The argument for CSS was that it was a "purer" standard, with a better approach to some fundamental ideas (separation of content and styles etc.). The same argument exists for HTML4 (it's easier to use at this point in time), but HTML5 isn't all that much better than HTML4. It's an improvement, yeah, but a more marginal one. It doesn't represent a fundamental shift in how we write code like tables vs. CSS did.
This is all largely a matter of opinion, and I guess it really comes down to how willing you are to mess around making sure your polyfills work and writing two versions of your code to support different browsers (something that I'm sure all web developers have plenty of painful experience with already). Businesses generally want as little hassle as possible, and right now, that's HTML4.
I'm not knocking the book, I'm sure it's an excellent guide given SitePoint's record of quality publications. In fact I'll probably end up buying a copy at some point, even if it's just as a reference while I play around with the new features in some personal projects. I do object to ridiculous terms like "future-proof" being used to market it though, and I think the sales page for it should have a giant asterisk next to it, with a note explaining that all the "ease of use" of HTML5 only applies if you're willing to abandon older browsers.
SitePoint seem to have helpfully removed some of the tags I used there. It was supposed to read:
They didn't decide to create HTML5 so we could change all our <div> tags to <section> tags.
For some reason, it looks like SitePoint have decided to delete any text between < and > characters from user comments, but allow us to enter HTML character encodings (e.g. <) which then get parsed and displayed correctly. Which to my mind is a very odd way of preventing HTML injection. It would be a lot more useful if they properly escaped these characters for us instead of silently deleting them.
I noticed that too. Sitepoint uses wacky wordpress I think so everything works a little weirdly.
Louis Lazaris
John, they can't do what you're saying because sometimes people want to include links in their comments, which use HTML anchor elements (i.e. the "a" tag). Sometimes people want to include code snippets, which sometimes require "code" tags so the code is more readable. Sometimes people want to use bold or italic.
These are common uses for HTML tags in WordPress-driven sites, and all WP sites handle it the same way by default. Thus, if you want your HTML to be shown to the users, then you have to use the proper HTML entities.
It is entirely possible to do what I am saying. They can easily convert the characters to the correct HTML entities if they want to. If exceptions need to be made for certain elements, then they can very easily code in those exceptions. There is no good reason this simple functionality couldn't be included on the site.
Patrick Samphire
"They didn't decide to create HTML5 so we could change all our <div> tags to <section> tags."
You're quite right, of course, and nobody who knows what they're doing should be doing this. *Some* divs will become sections. Some will become asides. Some will become articles. Some will become headers and footers. Some will stay as divs. And so on.
I know that some people don't think the extra semantics have any point, but then the same argument could be made to abandon almost every HTML 4 tag and replace it with a div or span with an appropriate class (and, believe me, I've seen that in sites). I've actually found that introducing these additional semantic tags has improved the structure of my sites and my code, because it makes me think harder about the functionality of each part of the code. And, because divs had no significant semantic meaning, I used to be more ready to throw them in to hang CSS off. Now, I code better and rarely have to use any tags that don't add semantic value. Maybe I just used to be a bad coder, but I'm happy to be using these new HTML5 tags when I can.
Patrick Samphire
Bollocks. Screwed up the character encodings… Must learn to preview my comments…
The extra semantic tags are fine, even if some of them are fairly arbitrary and vague. I understand the point of them. It is however a bit of a pain to convert all your HTML4 to the new semantics of HTML5, and I'm hesitant to do so while the HTML5 spec is still subject to change. I'm not sure the extra work of converting my code to use the new semantics is really worth the marginal benefits of doing so. I do agree that it's slightly easier to write good markup with the new tags though.
Incidentally, if you had previewed your post, you would have encountered another fun SitePoint comments quirk: if you have more than one newline (n) character in a row, they get collapsed to a single newline in the comment edit box after you press preview. So if you like to leave an empty line between your paragraphs, you're going to have to go and put all of them in again after you press preview. Which isn't a huge deal, but it's another stupid problem that should be easy to fix. I'm not sure why SitePoint is using such buggy wordpress code. Their motto is "become a better web developer" – you'd think they'd try to do that themselves on their own site.
Patrick Samphire
John, you're right. I have no intention of updating any of my old HTML4.01 sites to HTML5. That really would be pointless. But new sites? Yeah, I'm using HTML5 markup for almost all of them (although it has to be on a case-by-case basis, of course, depending on the site and audience).
Yeah, using HTML5 tags in new sites is reasonable. I will probably start doing so myself soon. Unfortunately, that's pretty much the only usable part of the HTML5 spec right now.
I'm currently reading a html5 CSS3 book myself and I must say the new standards make it easier to make beautiful things on a web page while having fun at the same time.
I purchased the book this morning. I just went to the html5herald site and found that in IE8 – the page is broken, Chrome – video doesn't work, and in FF the bike just disappears instead of rolling off the page.
Hopefully the code presented in the book will work with out fault.
Louis Lazaris
Hey, Jim. Thanks for the feedback on that.
IE8 doesn't support much of anything in HTML5 and CSS3, so that was not a priority for this project. Not to say that we're encouraging that for any projects, but this book constitutes an HTML5 and CSS3 tutorial, so naturally there are going to be problems because we're using a lot of new stuff.
I don't see any problems with the video in Chrome myself. Do you have a version number?
Also, depending on the version of FF you're using, it may not support transitions (you need FF 4+).
SitePoint generally write good books, so I'm sure the code will work fine. The bit they aren't telling you is that it will only work fine in supported browsers, and HTML5 browser support is patchy at best.
Louis Simoneau
Hi Jim. I can't seem to reproduce the problem you're having with Chrome, I've tried on Windows and Mac and the video works on both. In FF4, the bike transition happens, though I just added an extra modernizr selector to not change the bg position if transitions aren't supported, so if you're using an older version of Firefox the bike won't disappear (that particular transition isn't specifically covered in the book, it's a bit of an Easter egg in the demo—although we do cover all the properties and selectors that are used to create it).
As for IE8, my bad. I tested the layout in IE7—where everything works fine. I've just managed to track down the bug, and it's a weird one. In order to demo some new selectors, our code does things like:
#main > div:first-of-type,
#primary {
width: 375px;
padding-right: 4px;
The first selector is a new hotness CSS3 selector, the second is an ID selector targeting the same element for older browsers. IE7 doesn't understand first-of-type, so it ignores it, but it still reads #primary and applies the styles. IE8, for some reason, ignores the whole declaration block. IE8 in compatibility mode will render the layout correctly. Go figure.
Those layout styles, being pretty basic CSS2.1 float layout code, aren't covered in the book at all—they're just there to hold the site together, so no need to worry about the book code on that count either.
I've just pushed up fixes to those two issues, so they should be live on thehtml5herald.com shortly.
Thanks for buying the book, and for pointing out these issues.
The images in the e-book I bought are over compressed with noticeable artifacts and some images are just plain blurry, what gives?
Hi Jay,
What format are you reading in? PDF, EPUB or MOBI?
Hi Melinda, I'm reading in PDF, in the latest version of Adobe Acrobat.
Thanks for your response — Jay.
Melinda Szasz
The images in the PDF are as high resolution as we can make them without making them too small to see (because many of them are screenshots so we have a limited number of pixels to work with to begin with). We've double checked the PDF and all the images appear to be fine. There definitely should not be any compression artefacts as we only compress images as PNG. Can you try re-downloading your PDF and letting us know if you still have this problem?
Hi Melinda, the pdf appears to be fine now. When I downloaded a week ago, the pdf file was only 3.5 MB, I've only just redownloaded it, the updated pdf is 9.3 MB. Thank you for your assistance, the images look crisp and clear now :).
Cheers — Jay
I had been griping about the new video tag in HTML5 and how it works for awhile myself.
As i understand it, HTML5 added a nice new shiny tag called video. But the browser vendors can't decide on what format of video they want to support. So, FF uses OGG, Chrome will use WebM (VP8 codec (they've recently dropped support for H.264)), and Safari supports H.264. So, to use HTML5 video i have to make 3 different version of the video!!! This seems completely insane. What kind of standard is that?
In addition to those 3 version, if I want to allow older browsers to see my video I have to provide a Flash player (because guess what? Flash runs on everything except iPods and iPhones.)
Obviously what needs to happen is all browsers must at least adopt one common codec so developers don't have to waste time making multiple versions of the same thing. Its wasted space, wasted time, and up until the iPhones/iPods/iPads became popular Flash has a nice, simple solution to all of this.
Personally, I believe WebM will be the future with Google Chrome, IE, and Firefox eventually supporting it. I don't think Apple will support WebM unfortunately.
It really is a headache and the dudes writing the HTML5 should specify what codec is the standard codec. I believe WebM is the best option at the moment because it will free forever. H.264 is only being promised to be until 2016.
Hear hear @ robbiegod!!!
Paul O'Brien
Hi Louis,
Re your comment :"The first selector is a new hotness CSS3 selector, the second is an ID selector targeting the same element for older browsers. IE7 doesn't understand first-of-type, so it ignores it, but it still reads #primary and applies the styles. IE8, for some reason, ignores the whole declaration block. IE8 in compatibility mode will render the layout correctly. Go figure."
IE8 is behaving correctly (according to the specs) and if a browser encounters a rule it doesn't understand then it should exit at that point (even in a comma separated list). That's why you should never apply any pseudo classes/elements in a comma separated list unless you know that all browsers support them.
Just wanted to clarify that IE8 is in fact behaving correctly here:)


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The Buckeyes would have probably won the conference title last season after going 8-0 in Big Ten play as part of an undefeated 12-0 run through the regular season, but they were serving out a one-year NCAA suspension from postseason play. It was Urban Meyer's first year at the helm as head coach and with nine starters back on offense including quarterback Braxton Miller, look for even bigger and better things on this side of the ball in 2013. There will be quite a few new faces on defense with just four starters returning from 2012, but Meyer should have little problem filling these holes with a strong recruiting effort this past year.
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The other team listed at +200 to win the Legends Division is the Michigan State Spartans. They stumbled their way to just three victories in the Big Ten last season against five losses and finished 7-6 overall. They are expected to have eight starters back on offense including quarterback Andrew Maxwell as well as wide receivers Keith Mumphrey and Bennie Fowler, who combined for 83 receptions for 1,039 yards in 2012.
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Reply+3#77 - doodogger (07/20/2013) [-]
He took out a real gun and pointed it at Leonardo? Leonardo stayed on script? Didn't mess up, look at the camera or jump away? This doesn't add up to me.
Reply+1#114 to #77 - rantansoop (07/20/2013) [-]
In Django Unchained, Leo smashes his hands on a glass cup/plate thing (I forget the exact object) and cuts his hand open. Blood everywhere, it wasn't supposed to happen.
Continues on with his lines without a stutter or wince.
Yet no Oscars?
Continues on with his lines without a stutter or wince.
Yet no Oscars?
Reply+4#98 to #77 - pedobarekiller (07/20/2013) [-]
you'd be surprised how often things like this happen, in the first fight seen in fight club with tyler and edward, edwrd was only meant to do a kind of hard hit around pitt's neck area and the editing group would do the rest. however to provoke a more real reaction he punhed him as hard (and goofily) as he could in pitt's ear. pitt's reaction is real time like this one. acting isnt just about acting its about reacting
Reply+42#85 to #77 - freenarative (07/20/2013) [-]
Because he's such a good actor. He really deserves all the oscars he's won.
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Ye, idd, he's a bit overrated.
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That was the joke my friend ;)


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