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When you are the last team to make their first selection in a draft, you do not expect to be acquiring any household names. That was the situation the New York Rangers faced during the 2013 NHL Draft as the Blueshirts sat through 64 previous selections before entering the draft with the 65th overall pick.
You can just imagine how anxious Rangers Director of Player Personnel Gordie Clark must have been getting waiting for his turn to draft.
"I just never had sat there and watched so much talent walk by our table to get to the podium, and even in the second (round) where there are so many good names," Clark explained to Jim Cerny of BlueshirtsUnited.com.
"But I would never give Nash back for that first (round pick), and Ryane Clowe was such a big part of our march after the trade deadline. It was interesting, though, how it went because you just had to wait and watch all of these players go off the board. But in the end we liked who we got."
However, low and behold, the Rangers did manage to reach out and draft a player with a household name – sort of.
If family lineage has anything to do with playing in the NHL, Adam Tambellini is destined for an NHL career. His father Steve was the New York Islanders first draft choice (#15) in the 1978 NHL Draft. The former Edmonton Oilers GM played for four NHL teams scoring 160 goals and 150 assist in 553 games while winning the Stanley Cup with the 1980 Islanders.
Older brother Jeff was the second of two first round draft picks (#27) of the Los Angeles Kings in 2003. The Kings drafted Brian Boyle one pick ahead of Jeff. Big brother played four three NHL teams and scored 27 goals and 36 assists in 242 NHL games. Jeff has played the last two years with Zurich in the Swiss A League.
"He's a lot like his bloodlines," Central Scouting's B.J. MacDonald told Mike G. Morreale of NHL.com.
"He's very good with the puck and has really nice size. People were waiting for the trade, and at Christmas his game took off. He's got an NHL shot and can score … he has a nice wrist shot as well. He can beat goalies clean from the dots on that wrister. He's got a quick release, is efficient and intelligent."
MacDonald was not the only person who liked Tambellini's bloodlines and NHL connection.
"There's no question," Clark admitted to Cerny. "I think a lot of Steve Tambellini. I remember watching his other son. He was shorter and faster, this one taller and more of a playmaker. Both of them have Steve's shot. They have NHL shots. He needs to put a little weight on and he'll have time to do that at North Dakota.
"It's kind of like [Carl] Hagelin. We projected he might be there four years, and he came out all right. North Dakota's put a bunch of players in the NHL."
Tambellini was one of 18 draftees who counted ties to former or current NHL family members.
Adam's NHL start will be delayed a few years as he is set to attend the University of North Dakota this year where he will spend some time building up his 6-foot-2 and 158 pound frame. The C/LW last season with Surrey and Vernon of the BCHL and scored 36 goals with 29 assists in 52 games.
Tambellini was on the radar of the following Scouting Services: NHL Central Scouting (CS) (#42 North American skater), International Scouting Service (ISS) (#93), The Hockey News (THN) (#33), and McKeen's (McK) (#69).
Here is Tambellini's ISS Scouting Report: "Few players have shown as much development on the ice in the past two seasons as Adam Tambellini. [He] is a perfect example of how a late birthday can work to a player's advantage. Tambellini established himself as a premier forward in the BCJL this year. He has good size, works hard and thinks the game very well. His offensive timing and net presence are very strong which makes him a very dangerous offensive player during zone play. He has good hands, moves well for his size and can play in all situations. He has shown up in all the big games this year for his team."
While the Rangers sat and waited two plus rounds before making their first selection, they only had to wait a few minutes before exercising their next two picks – both in the third round (# 75 and #80).
With their middle third round pick, the Blueshirts drafted Russian LW Pavel Buchnevich and then finished up the third round by drafting QMJHL LW Anthony Duclair.
Adam Kimelman praised the Rangers for selecting the pair of LWs.
"The Rangers got good value for their picks. Russian left wing Pavel Buchnevich, the second of three third-round picks, was highly regarded for his skill," Kimelman wrote on THN's web site.
"The third third-round pick, left wing Anthony Duclair, got a good hockey education from Patrick Roy the past two seasons with the Quebec Remparts," the NHL.com columnist wrote.
The 6-foot-1 and 161 pound Russian played for Cherepovets last season. In 24 games with their Junior Team, Buchnevich scored 8 goals and 15 assists. The youngster also played in 12 KHL games with Cherepovets adding a goal and an assist as a teenager. One of his assistant coaches with Cherepovets was former Rangers forward Vladimir Vorobiev. Clark compared Buchnevich to former Rangers 1st round draft pick the late Alexei Cherepanov.
Buchnevich received solid rankings from three of the above Scouting Services: CS (#10 European skater), (ISS) (#34), THN (#Not Rated), and McK (#76). Craig Button, former NHL GM and current TSN analyst, had him rated as the 33rd best player.
Morreale offered up the following tidbit on Pavel.
"Buchnevich, who is No. 10 on Central Scouting's list of the top European skaters, told NHL.com he will spend two more seasons in the KHL before coming to North America. He has two years remaining on his contract with Cherepovets. The 6-1, 176-pound left-handed shot is very strong on the puck and offers a tremendous wrist shot and one-timer."
NHL Director of European Scouting Goran Stubb commented to Morreale that, "He has great offensive instincts but needs to improve his defensive game. He does have all the tools to become a star."
Here is Buchnevich's ISS Scouting Report: "The only Russian U-18 player to play more than one game in the KHL this season, Buchnevich really burst onto the scene this year and managed to showcase himself well at all the major events and high exposure situations he attended."
"Buchnevich has good size, controls the puck well but thinks the game very quickly and can execute with very little time or space available. He is confident and manages to find his way to the high slot often without the puck and times with the puck and defenders draped all over him. He is a dangerous shooter who can place his shots well and pick corners but is even more dangerous considering his vision and instinct with the puck, using quick fakes and look-offs to set up wide-open teammates."
ISS also wrote: "Needs to add muscle [and] not always the most intense [player]. ISS compares him to Johan Franzen and sees him as a "2nd-3rd line player who can be relied on for offensive production and PP contributions."
The third of the trio of 3rd round picks was a player I wrote about in my Third Round Draft Preview – Anthony Duclair. Interestingly enough, the draft guides that I had listed him as a RW, but the Rangers list him as a LW – which was a position the organization was looking to strengthen.
The 5-foot-11 and 180 pound Duclair played 55 games with Quebec (QMJHL) and scored 20 goals and 30 assists – a decrease from his rookie season when he scored 31 goals and 35 assists in 63 games. It appears that a pair of "I's" played a part in his production reduction – Injuries and Inconsistency.
The interesting point to note is that Duclair's rookie QMJHL numbers were second to only one other Under-17 player that year – 2013's number one draft pick Nathan MacKinnon. In their 2012 Draft Guide, ISS listed Duclair as the 28th best prospect as they looked ahead to the 2013 NHL Draft.
The talent and tools are there, it is just a matter of finding a tool bag for all of those tools. Even I have to admit that Duclair's chances at making an impact with the Rangers is better with Alain Vigneault as coach then they would be with John Tortorella behind the bench. Duclair's defensive lapses would have driven Torts batty.
Duclair received the following pre-draft rankings: CS (#57 North American skater), ISS (#64), THN (#55), and McK (#72).
Here is Duclair's ISS Scouting Report: "Duclair has battled adversity this tear; injury early in [the] year and some inconsistent play, but [he] worked through and became a good offensive contributor with a +23 rating. When he is on his game he can be difficult to handle one-on-one and is dangerous in the offensive zone … when he is not, he looks like a career CHL player. Luckily for him, we have seen him at his best and believe he will mature and has top 6 upside with added maturity and consistency in compete level. He is not strong and that does force him to rely on his skating and stick skills too heavily."
THN wrote that scouts compare his abilities to that of Marian Gaborik and Alexander Semin on one hand while questioning his consistency. "The tools are there, but he's inconsistent. You never know what you are going to get from this kid," one scout told THN.
Another scout related to THN, "Because there's so much talent, people think there's more there, whereas I accept them for what they are. The key to Duclair is the team that gets him had better be patient and understanding with him. If they are, they're going to be rewarded."
THN wrote that a third scout told them "Duclair has done a better job this season slowing the game down, which allows him to be more creative with the puck rather than just using his speed. His junior numbers haven't caught up to his skill." THN projects him as a "Skilled Forward".
Kyle Woodlief of Red Line Report said that Duclair is "very difficult to contain when he's at full throttle, and can make plays at top speed, but has tendency to stay outside on the rush, not often cutting inside or driving to the net."
Duclair and teammate Adam Erne earned one-game suspensions from coach Patrick Roy over "indifferent play". Duclair also missed time during the season with an ankle injury (almost six weeks) just three games and eight points) into the season. I suppose there is a question to whether Duclair had an attitude problem or it was just a clash between coach and player.
One positive in Duclair's favor is that, according to Cerny, growing up in Montreal Duclair's father's favorite team was the New York Rangers.
Another positive in his favor is that Duclair knows he needs to ramp up his game.
"I have a lot of speed, that's one of my biggest assets as a player, and I love to compete," Duclair told Cerny on Draft day. "I have been compared to Evander Kane, which is an honor, of course. But I'm not coming off the greatest season, I'm not going to lie. After my rookie season (in Quebec) I was projected as first rounder, then I got hurt at the beginning of this year and fell a bit (in the draft). So I want to prove to myself first that I am still a top prospect."
After their trio of the third round, the Blueshirts did not draft again until the 4th round. With the 110th selection they drafted Prince Edward Island defenseman Ryan Graves. In 68 games last season, his second in the QMJHL, the 6-foot-4 and 220 pound blueliner scored 3 goals and 13 assists. He was the 116th ranked North American skater by CS (up two places from his Mid-Term ranking) and was ranked #135 by ISS.
Although a Rangers draft pick, Graves will be playing for the Islanders next season – PEI's new ownership has rebranded the team as the Charlottetown Islanders. Graves was the 9th overall pick in the 2011 QMJHL Draft – the same Draft that saw Nathan MacKinnon go 1st overall.
"After the third round you're looking for things that stand out. Ryan Graves, he's a big 6'4" defenseman and I would say he had an average first half and then the second half of the year his play just went up hill," Clark told HockeyScene.com.
Here is Graves' ISS Scouting Report: "Has size and good backwards mobility, but forward mobility is very average. Stride is short and choppy. Looks like defensive D, puck skill is average. Good defensive read and positioning, but has a tendency to get locked on guys in D zone and run around a bit for a hit. Plays with some grit and does not back down from confrontation. He possesses good size with the potential to really fill out and get stronger as he develops. Always willing to stand up for teammates, Graves is still working on game-to-game consistency and is an unpolished long-term project on defense."
The Rangers fifth and final selection of the 2013 NHL Draft came in the 6th round when they selected goaltender Mackenzie Skapski with the 170th overall pick. The 6-foot-2 and 186 pound goalie was born the day after the Rangers last won the Stanley Cup.
Skapski entered the 2013 NHL Draft as the 17th ranked North American goalie by CS. However, he is no stranger to the NHL scene as he was invited to the Minnesota Wild's 2012 Development Camp.
After spending the 2011/2012 season as the backup goalie to Nathan Lieuwen (Buffalo's 2011 6th round pick), Skapski stepped into the starting role last year with Kootenay. In 65 games, Skapski posted a 35-25-1-0 record with a 2.78 GAA and a .910 SV%.
Jess Rubinstein of Prospect Park wrote, "[Skapski] is also coached by former Hartford coach Ryan McGill and was the starter for the Ice playing in 65 games with a decent 2.78 GAA and a 0.910 save percentage off a 34-25-1-0 with 7 shutouts. Skapski is an older draftee as this was his 2nd time through the draft. Had a great 2nd half in the 2012-13 season including Goalie of the Month for February as he went 22-7-1 to help Kootenay earn a playoff spot."
Justin Goldman of McKeen's Hockey wrote, "I had him targeted as a "below-the-radar" pick after a breakout season in Kootenay. He was passed over in last year's draft, but played in 65 games this season in the WHL and tied a league-high seven shutouts. He was invited to the Wild's development camp last summer, where I had a chance to see him up close, and liked his combination of size and athleticism."
Given how he battled back from adversity about four years ago, making the jump from the WHL to the NHL should be a piece of cake.
Dan Kinvig of the Abbotsford (BC) News relates the following story.
On Dec. 11, 2009, Skapski was on the bus with the Fraser Valley Bruins major midget squad when the vehicle hit some black ice just south of Williams Lake, skidded off the highway and landed on its side.
Skapski suffered the most serious injuries of anyone on the team – he sustained a broken nose and a fractured orbital bone, and had surgery to place a couple of plates in his cheek and to remove a blood clot beside his brain. During his convalescence, he lost 30 pounds, dropping from 155 to 125.
But he battled back, and earned a roster spot with the WHL's Kootenay Ice in 2011-12 …. Skapski got into just 19 games, though, and was passed over in the 2012 NHL draft, his first year of eligibility.
According to Kinvig, Skapski father, Denis, played two seasons of NCAA hockey at the University of Alabama-Huntsville and then played briefly in the ECHL with the Columbus Chill and the Roanoke Valley Rampage. Unlike his son, Dad was a defenseman.


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|Request methods
|Header fields
|Status codes
Data from the response can be used to alter the current document in the browser window without loading a new web page, and despite the name of the API, this data can be in the form of not only XML,[3] but also JSON,[4] HTML or plain text.[5] The response data can also be evaluated by client-side scripting. For example, if it was formatted as JSON by the web server, it can be converted into a client-side data object for further use.
The Ajax web development technique used by many websites to implement responsive and dynamic web applications depends on XMLHttpRequest.
For security reasons, XMLHttpRequest requests follow the browser's same-origin policy, and will therefore only succeed if they are made to the host that served the original web page.
- 1 History and support
- 2 HTTP request
- 3 Cross-domain requests
- 4 See also
- 5 References
- 6 External links
History and support
The concept behind the XMLHttpRequest object was originally created by the developers of Outlook Web Access (by Microsoft) for Microsoft Exchange Server 2000.[6] An interface called IXMLHTTPRequest was developed and implemented into the second version of the MSXML library using this concept.[6][7] The second version of the MSXML library was shipped with Internet Explorer 5.0 in March 1999, allowing access, via ActiveX, to the IXMLHTTPRequest interface using the XMLHTTP wrapper of the MSXML library.[8]
The Mozilla project developed and implemented an interface called nsIXMLHttpRequest into the Gecko layout engine. This interface was modeled to work as closely to Microsoft's IXMLHTTPRequest interface as possible.[9][10] Mozilla created a wrapper to use this interface through a JavaScript object which they called XMLHttpRequest.[11] The XMLHttpRequest object was accessible as early as Gecko version 0.6 released on December 6 of 2000,[12][13] but it was not completely functional until as late as version 1.0 of Gecko released on June 5, 2002.[12][13] The XMLHttpRequest object became a de facto standard in other major web clients, implemented in Safari 1.2 released in February 2004,[14] Konqueror, Opera 8.0 released in April 2005,[15] and iCab 3.0b352 released in September 2005.[16]
The World Wide Web Consortium published a Working Draft specification for the XMLHttpRequest object on April 5, 2006, edited by Anne van Kesteren of Opera Software and Dean Jackson of W3C.[17] Its goal is "to document a minimum set of interoperable features based on existing implementations, allowing Web developers to use these features without platform-specific code." The last revision to the XMLHttpRequest object specification was on November 19 of 2009, being a last call working draft.[18][19]
Microsoft added the XMLHttpRequest object identifier to its scripting languages in Internet Explorer 7.0 released in October 2006.[8]
Ajax.Request that wraps the browser's underlying implementation and provides access to it.[20] jQuery objects represent or wrap elements from the current client-side DOM. They all have a
.load() method that takes a URI parameter and makes an XMLHttpRequest to that URI, then by default places any returned HTML into the HTML element represented by the jQuery object.[21][22]
The W3C has since published another Working Draft specification for the XMLHttpRequest object, "XMLHttpRequest Level 2", on February 25 of 2008.[23] Level 2 consists of extended functionality to the XMLHttpRequest object, including, but not limited to, progress events, support for cross-site requests, and the handling of byte streams. The latest revision of the XMLHttpRequest Level 2 specification is that of 16 August 2011, which is still a working draft.[24]
As of 5 December 2011[update], XMLHttpRequest[25] version 2 has been merged into the main XMLHttpRequest specification, and there is no longer a version 1 and a version 2.
Support in Internet Explorer versions 5, 5.5, and 6
Internet Explorer versions 5 and 6 did not define the XMLHttpRequest object identifier in their scripting languages as the XMLHttpRequest identifier itself was not standard at the time of their releases.[8] Backward compatibility can be achieved through object detection if the XMLHttpRequest identifier does not exist.[26]
Until 8 April 2014 Microsoft supported Windows XP and so Internet Explorer 6 - a JavaScript encapsulation example is provided below.
Provide the XMLHttpRequest constructor for Internet Explorer 5.x-6.x:
Other browsers (including Internet Explorer 7.x-9.x) do not redefine
XMLHttpRequest if it already exists.
This example is based on findings at:
if (typeof XMLHttpRequest === "undefined") {
XMLHttpRequest = function () {
try { return new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP.6.0"); }
catch (e) {}
try { return new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP.3.0"); }
catch (e) {}
try { return new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); }
catch (e) {}
throw new Error("This browser does not support XMLHttpRequest.");
HTTP request
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The following sections demonstrate how a request using the XMLHttpRequest object functions within a conforming user agent based on the W3C Working Draft. As the W3C standard for the XMLHttpRequest object is still a draft, user agents may not abide by all the functionings of the W3C definition and any of the following is subject to change. Extreme care should be taken into consideration when scripting with the XMLHttpRequest object across multiple user agents. This article will try to list the inconsistencies between the major user agents.
The open method
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The HTTP and HTTPS requests of the XMLHttpRequest object must be initialized through the open method. This method must be invoked prior to the actual sending of a request to validate and resolve the request method, URL, and URI user information to be used for the request. This method does not assure that the URL exists or the user information is correct. This method can accept up to five parameters, but requires only two, to initialize a request.
open( Method, URL, Asynchronous, UserName, Password )
The first parameter of the method is a text string indicating the HTTP request method to use. The request methods that must be supported by a conforming user agent, defined by the W3C draft for the XMLHttpRequest object, are currently listed as the following.[27]
- GET (Supported by Internet Explorer 7 (and later), Mozilla 1+)
- POST (Supported by Internet Explorer 7 (and later), Mozilla 1 (and later))
- HEAD (Supported by Internet Explorer 7 (and later))
- OPTIONS (Supported by Internet Explorer 7 (and later))
However, request methods are not limited to the ones listed above. The W3C draft states that a browser may support additional request methods at their own discretion.
The second parameter of the method is another text string, this one indicating the URL of the HTTP request. The W3C recommends that browsers should raise an error and not allow the request of a URL with either a different port or ihost URI component from the current document.[28]
The third parameter, a boolean value indicating whether or not the request will be asynchronous, is not a required parameter by the W3C draft. The default value of this parameter should be assumed to be true by a W3C conforming user agent if it is not provided. An asynchronous request ("true") will not wait on a server response before continuing on with the execution of the current script. It will instead invoke the onreadystatechange event listener of the XMLHttpRequest object throughout the various stages of the request. A synchronous request ("false") however will block execution of the current script until the request has been completed, thus not invoking the onreadystatechange event listener.
The fourth and fifth parameters are the username and password, respectively. These parameters, or just the username, may be provided for authentication and authorization if required by the server for this request.
The setRequestHeader method
Upon successful initialization of a request, the setRequestHeader method of the XMLHttpRequest object can be invoked to send HTTP headers with the request.
setRequestHeader( Name, Value )
The first parameter of this method is the text string name of the header. The second parameter is the text string value. This method must be invoked for each header that needs to be sent with the request. Any headers attached here will be removed the next time the open method is invoked in a W3C conforming user agent.
The send method
To send an HTTP request, the send method of the XMLHttpRequest must be invoked. This method accepts a single parameter containing the content to be sent with the request.
send( Data )
This parameter may be omitted if no content needs to be sent. The W3C draft states that this parameter may be any type available to the scripting language as long as it can be turned into a text string, with the exception of the DOM document object. If a user agent cannot serialise the parameter, then the parameter should be ignored. Firefox 3.0.x and previous versions will however throw an exception if
send is called without an argument.[29]
If the parameter is a DOM document object, a user agent should assure the document is turned into well-formed XML using the encoding indicated by the inputEncoding property of the document object. If the Content-Type request header was not added through setRequestHeader yet, it should automatically be added by a conforming user agent as "application/xml;charset=charset," where charset is the encoding used to encode the document.
If the user agent is configured to use a proxy server, then the XMLHttpRequest object will modify the request appropriately so as to connect to the proxy instead of the origin server, and send
Proxy-Authorization headers as configured.
The onreadystatechange event listener
If the open method of the XMLHttpRequest object was invoked with the third parameter set to true for an asynchronous request, the onreadystatechange event listener will be automatically invoked for each of the following actions that change the readyState property of the XMLHttpRequest object.
State changes work like this:
- After the open method has been invoked successfully, the readyState property of the XMLHttpRequest object should be assigned a value of 1 (OPENED).
- After the send method has been invoked and the HTTP response headers have been received, the readyState property of the XMLHttpRequest object should be assigned a value of 2 (HEADERS_RECEIVED).
- Once the HTTP response content begins to load, the readyState property of the XMLHttpRequest object should be assigned a value of 3 (LOADING).
- Once the HTTP response content has finished loading, the readyState property of the XMLHttpRequest object should be assigned a value of 4 (DONE).
The listener will only respond to state changes which occur after the listener is defined. To detect states 1 and 2, the listener must be defined before the open method is invoked. The open method must be invoked before the send method is invoked.
var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
request.onreadystatechange = function () {
var DONE = this.DONE || 4;
if (this.readyState === DONE){
request.open('GET', 'somepage.xml', true);
request.setRequestHeader('X-Requested-With', 'XMLHttpRequest'); // Tells server that this call is made for ajax purposes.
// Most libraries like jQuery/Prototype/Dojo do this
request.send(null); // No data needs to be sent along with the request.
The abort method
This method aborts the request if the readyState of the XMLHttpRequest object has not yet become 4.[30] The abort method ensures that the callback handler does not get invoked during an asynchronous request.
abort( )
Some AJAX libraries use the abort method to cancel potential duplicate or out-of-order requests.[31]
The HTTP response
After a successful and completed call to the send method of the XMLHttpRequest, if the server response was well-formed XML and the Content-Type header sent by the server is understood by the user agent as an Internet media type for XML, the responseXML property of the XMLHttpRequest object will contain a DOM document object. Another property, responseText will contain the response of the server in plain text by a conforming user agent, regardless of whether or not it was understood as XML.
Cross-domain requests
foo.example.com for information from
bar.example.com will normally fail.
Various alternatives exist to circumvent this security feature, including using JSONP, Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) or alternatives with plugins such as Flash or Silverlight. Cross-origin XMLHttpRequest is specified in W3C's XMLHttpRequest Level 2 specification.[32] Internet Explorer did not implement CORS until version 10. The two previous versions (8 and 9) offered similar functionality through the XDomainRequest API. It is now supported by all modern browsers (desktop and mobile).[33]
The CORS protocol has several restrictions, with two models of support. The simple model does not allow setting custom request headers and omits cookies. Further, only the HEAD, GET and POST request methods are supported, and POST only allows the following MIME types: "text/plain", "application/x-www-urlencoded" and "multipart/form-data". Only "text/plain" was initially supported.[34] The other model detects when one of the non-simple features are requested and sends a pre-flight request[35] to the server to negotiate the feature.
See also
- ↑ "XMLHttpRequest object explained by the W3C Working Draft". W3.org. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
- ↑ http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/FileAPI/
- ↑ "The responseXML attribute of the XMLHttpRequest object explained by the W3C Working Draft". W3.org. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
- ↑ "Response entity body of XMLHttpRequest, W3C Editor's Draft". W3.org. 2012-02-06. Retrieved 2012-02-05.
- ↑ "The responseText attribute of the XMLHttpRequest object explained by the W3C Working Draft". W3.org. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Article on the history of XMLHTTP by an original developer". Alexhopmann.com. 2007-01-31. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
- ↑ "Specification of the IXMLHTTPRequest interface from the Microsoft Developer Network". Msdn.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Dutta, Sunava (2006-01-23). "Native XMLHTTPRequest object". IEBlog. Microsoft. Retrieved 2006-11-30.
- ↑ "Specification of the nsIXMLHttpRequest interface from the Mozilla Developer Center". Developer.mozilla.org. 2008-05-16. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
- ↑ "Specification of the nsIJSXMLHttpRequest interface from the Mozilla Developer Center". Developer.mozilla.org. 2009-05-03. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
- ↑ "Specification of the XMLHttpRequest object from the Mozilla Developer Center". Developer.mozilla.org. 2009-05-03. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 "Version history for the Mozilla Application Suite". Mozilla.org. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Downloadable, archived releases for the Mozilla browser". Archive.mozilla.org. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
- ↑ "Archived news from Mozillazine stating the release date of Safari 1.2". Weblogs.mozillazine.org. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
- ↑ "Press release stating the release date of Opera 8.0 from the Opera website". Opera.com. 2005-04-19. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
- ↑ Soft-Info.org. "Detailed browser information stating the release date of iCab 3.0b352 from". Soft-Info.com. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
- ↑ "Specification of the XMLHttpRequest object from the Level 1 W3C Working Draft released on April 5th, 2006". W3.org. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
- ↑ "XMLHttpRequest W3C Working Draft 19 November 2009". W3.org. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
- ↑ "W3C Process Document, Section 7.4.2 Last Call Announcement". W3.org. Retrieved 2009-12-17.
- ↑ Porteneuve, Christophe (2007). "9". In Daniel H Steinberg. Prototype and script.aculo.us: You Never Knew JavaScript Could Do This!. Raleigh, North Carolina: Pragmatic Bookshelf. p. 183. ISBN 1-934356-01-8.
- ↑ Chaffer, Jonathan; Karl Swedberg (2007). Learning jQuery. Birmingham: Packt Publishing. p. 107. ISBN 978-1-84719-250-9.
- ↑ Chaffer, Jonathan; Karl Swedberg (2007). jQuery Reference Guide. Birmingham: Packt Publishing. p. 156. ISBN 978-1-84719-381-0.
- ↑ "Specification of the XMLHttpRequest object from the Level 2 W3C Working Draft released on February 25th, 2008". W3.org. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
- ↑ "XMLHttpRequest Level 2, W3C Working Draft (Latest Version)". W3.org. Retrieved 2010-11-19.
- ↑ "XMLHttpRequest Editor's Draft 5 December 2011". w3.org. Retrieved 5 December 2011.
- ↑ "Ajax Reference (XMLHttpRequest object)". JavaScript Kit. 2008-07-22. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
- ↑ "Dependencies of the XMLHttpRequest object explained by the W3C Working Draft". W3.org. Retrieved 2009-07-14.
- ↑ "The "open" method of the XMLHttpRequest object explained by the W3C Working Draft". W3.org. Retrieved 2009-10-13.
- ↑ Test-Driven JavaScript Development, Christian Johansen, ADDISON-WESLEY, 2010, p. 270
- ↑ "XMLHttpRequest - Document Object Model (DOM)". Mozilla. Retrieved 2013-04-05.
- ↑ "In-Order AJAX Handling". Antradar Software. 2012-03-10. Retrieved 2013-04-20.
- ↑ "XMLHttpRequest Level 2". Retrieved 2013-11-14.
- ↑ "Can I use Cross-Origin Resource Sharing?". Retrieved 2013-11-14.
- ↑ "XDomainRequest - Restrictions, Limitations and Workarounds". Retrieved 2013-11-14.
- ↑ "7.1.5 Cross-Origin Request with Preflight". Retrieved 2014-04-25.
External links
|Wikibooks has a book on the topic of: XMLHttpRequest
- XMLHttpRequest (level 1) specification from W3C (abandoned Candidate Recommendation)
- XMLHttpRequest level 2 specification from W3C (Working Draft)
- MSDN Library
- Specification of the XMLHttpRequest object for Mozilla developers
- Specification of the XMLHttpRequest object for Opera developers
- New Tricks in XMLHttpRequest2, online tutorial by Eric Bidelman (Developer Relations, Google)
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As we begin a new year, with all the self-reflection that often entails, I'm not afraid to admit my many addictions. Nothing illegal or immoral, of course: smartphone addiction, computer gaming addiction. But I'd say there are few things more important to me than music; I listen to music whenever I can, and I've always had an insatiable need for new music at every available opportunity. So I was a little disturbed when I saw a recent press pitch about cloud computing technologies heralding the death of the CD.
First of all, I'm all in favor of cloud music players. In the past year, I've become a devotee of Spotify in particular because it lets me choose the music I get to listen to, as opposed to Pandora and other services which provide only radio stations based on your tastes. With Spotify, I can choose a new album or artist and listen repeatedly, which lets me decide whether I want to spend money on that particular music. If I do choose to buy something, my first choice is still to get the CD.
Yes, I'm old school. I like the CD because it usually contains lyrics, sometimes liner notes or other track information, often some interesting artwork or artist pictures (at least from the bands I follow). Sure, I know most artists include this information on their websites these days. But the CD is also a high-quality hardcopy backup, even if you listen to your music digitally or through a cloud service. However, when I read the press pitch from Karl Volkman, CTO for SRV Network, I had to begin rethinking my approach to music: Maybe I've been doing it wrong.
Here's the quote from Volkman that shakes my worldview: "With the advent of ever-improving technology, we are seeing online music platforms expand and professional-level audio products now being offered to the mainstream. There's no question this will make old school products like CDs a thing of the past." It's not just Spotify, of course, but more specifically platforms such as Apple iTunes, Amazon Cloud Play, and Google Play Music, that both sell digital music and let you store your music collection in their clouds, making it, in theory, available on any device, anywhere.
At first blush, the concept seems quite attractive. And then I start thinking of all the problems. First, nothing is really free, and these services all come with their costs, whether it's an annual fee or the privacy you yield to Google any time you use one of its services. Second, "anywhere access," as always, really means "anywhere you have an Internet connection," and if you're streaming music, it had better be a pretty solid connection.
Finally, I'm not convinced that any one service can really satisfy my diverse and eclectic tastes in music. For instance, I had a large Barnes & Noble gift card to spend after Christmas. I ordered five CDs online, ranging from progressive rock or progressive metal (Spock's Beard, Porcupine Tree) to Celtic/folk (Gaelic Storm, Alan Doyle) to big band/swing (Lee Presson and the Nails). As much as I like Spotify, even that service only hits maybe 75 percent of the music I'm looking for. Therefore, I'm not convinced that settling on a single cloud music service going forward would be practical for me.
Nonetheless, I feel somewhat compelled to investigate the services that are available, particularly if CDs truly are going the way of the dodo. Fortunately, I spend most of my time in areas where I get good 4G connection on my smartphone, so if I switch to streaming music from the cloud, I might be OK -- and save the hassle of loading music onto my phone. (Until recently, I used an iPod specifically for my mobile musical needs, but it finally reached its fatal end-of-life a few months back.)
This is the point where cloud music and business IT might begin to come in contact -- or, indeed, conflict. As consumer services such as music providers become more ubiquitous, with the promise of anywhere, anytime access, it's only natural that workers will use their smartphones or tablets to access this content, and do so during working hours. The problem -- if it is a problem -- is only more pronounced when you work in a BYOD environment where employees have a reasonable expectation that they can use their device for personal as well as work purposes. Add to this the number of younger, digital natives entering the workforce, and the number of employees mixing work, cloud, and mobile device access is just likely to skyrocket.
Of course, from the business side, you can take steps to make sure steaming music and other cloud connections don't overwhelm your network. Appropriate security policies backed by good user education is usually the best way to start. Through mobile device management (MDM), you could control or block what apps users have access to on mobile devices if necessary; however, I find that being too restrictive most likely leads to grumpy end users. Be sure that your policies are based on sound reasoning.
I know there are many more issues surrounding music -- rights management and regional differences; artists versus records companies; illegal downloading or pirating -- all sorts of other stuff that has played a role in the decline of CDs and the rise of digital downloads and cloud music services. Ultimately, as long as the creators are getting paid for their efforts, I guess the format doesn't matter all that much. (Yes, as a content creator myself, I fully back the artists' right to be properly rewarded for their efforts!) In my life, I've witnessed the death of 8-tracks, vinyl albums, and cassette tapes, but CD is the only format I witnessed the birth of, which I guess makes it a little harder to say good-bye.
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There's more to spring than April showers watering the flowers.
Each April, Opening Day returns, and whether a little boy or girl has just picked up their very first ball or agonized 50 years over their favorite losing team, April brings new dreams and new chances to play, to watch and to hope that baseball will finally make everything right.
Eddie Mensor was working on that dream all the way back when baseball was barely 60 years old and the New York Yankees were called the New York Highlanders.
Born in 1886, when Rogue River still was called Woodville, Eddie was the grandson of one of Jacksonville's earliest settlers, Morris Mensor. Of Mensor's 14 children, nine were boys.
In 1878, eight of those sons, including 4-year-old Albert as their second baseman, joined with their father to challenge and bet that they could win a baseball game against any other family team in Southern Oregon.
Eddie's father, Henry, was the standout athlete in a family of athletes. He played ball with the Jacksonville baseball team and for about a decade was one of the area's fastest runners, challenging all comers to match his speed and his $100.
Growing up was hard for Eddie Mensor. The entire family moved to San Francisco after his grandfather's death, and in 1893, when Eddie was 6, his father divorced Eddie's mother. Within four years, his father had taken out a marriage license for one woman and finally married another. But Eddie's stepmother lasted only four years before she divorced his father, accusing Henry of cruelty.
When Eddie had just turned 17, he began boxing for money as a lightweight. He also had a few minor scrapes with the law and seemed to be heading down a dangerous path, until he began to play baseball in the amateur city park leagues.
Eddie was officially listed at 145 pounds and 5-foot-6, but that was probably a stretch. As far as all the ballplayers were concerned, Eddie was little, and they nicknamed him "Eddie the Midget."
In the summer of 1908, Eddie turned professional and started at shortstop for the Oakland team of the California State League. He bounced around Bay Area teams until July 1910, when he landed the starting shortstop job at San Jose, just before the team folded.
A .321 hitter for San Jose and a sure-handed speed demon at short, Eddie agreed to sign with Walter McCredie, manager of the Portland Beavers. After a year with the Beavers, Eddie played with the Portland Roadsters of the Northwest League and, just as he was preparing to return to the Beavers in 1912, his contract was sold to the Pittsburgh Pirates for $3,000. Eddie received $2,100 a season, a figure usually reserved for outstanding pitchers.
By August, Eddie was batting .370, third in the league. That's when he was spiked by an opposing runner while he was fielding at second. The next day, he sprained his ankle and was out for three weeks. The day he returned to the lineup, he re-injured the ankle, and although he continued with Pittsburgh through the 1914 season, he wasn't ever the ballplayer he had been.
For the next six or seven years he played with a variety of professional teams on the West Coast, finally retiring to his home near Salem. There he was a maintenance worker in a petroleum plant and an amateur baseball coach.
Eddie "The Midget" Mensor had gotten his chance and fulfilled his dream.
And now, it's April again. The dreams are back, and hope begins anew.
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MADRID (AP) — Spain's prime minister on Monday brushed off demands he should resign after text messages emerged showing him comforting a political party treasurer under investigation over a slush fund and secret Swiss bank accounts. The spectacle of alleged greed and corruption has enraged Spaniards hurting from austerity and sky high unemployment with no end in sight.
As Mariano Rajoy told reporters he would not step down, former Popular Party treasurer Luis Barcenas testified behind closed doors in Madrid, telling a judge investigating the slush fund allegations that he gave tens of thousands of euros in secret cash payments to Rajoy and party secretary general Maria Delores de Cospedal between 2008 and 2010 while they were key opposition leaders.
Rajoy declined to comment on specifics, while Cospedal slammed Barcenas' declarations as "new slander and lies" from a criminal suspect and said she never received cash payments from him. Rajoy insisted after meeting with Poland's premier that he will "see out the mandate the Spanish electorate gave me. This is a stable government that is going to fulfill its obligations."
Rajoy, who says neither he nor other party figures received illegal payments, did not deny exchanging text messages with now jailed former Popular Party treasurer Luis Barcenas. He insisted that the messages demonstrated that the state "was not bowing to blackmail. This is a serious democracy."
But the text messages from 2011-2013, some analysts said, appeared to convey a tone of cronyism among two men who talked to each other like buddies.
"Luis, nothing is easy," one message from Rajoy to Barcenas said. "But we are doing what we can. Cheer up."
Analysts are divided over whether the scandal could prompt an early exit for Rajoy, whose conservative party ousted the ruling Socialists in a 2011 landslide giving his party an absolute majority in Parliament and no requirement to call new elections until late 2015.
If Rajoy's position as leader becomes untenable, his party could theoretically decide he needs to go and select someone else as prime minister. It's unlikely that there would be any changes in Spain's tough austerity measures aimed at helping keep the European debt crisis at bay.
But the ever deepening scandal and its twists and turns have shaken Spaniards who saw their country teeter on the edge of a full-blown public finances bailout last year before Rajoy asked for a 100 billion euro ($130 billion) bailout of the country's hurting banks, raised taxes and cut public services — all in the name of saving the country from ruin.
And the corruption allegations come on top of unemployment at 27 percent with the rate double that for those under age 25, plus an ill-fated elephant hunting trip by Spain's king last year seen as a shameless sign of royal excess while the economy tanked.
Sitting on a shady park bench on a hot day in downtown Madrid, guide dog trainer Juan Antonio Luna said the corruption allegations on top of the painful cuts Spaniards have had to endure keep on amazing and angering him as details leak out bit by bit .
"They raised our taxes, they cut services like national health care, and they got rid of scholarships for college students," said Luna, 56. "But there are millions (of euros) hidden away in Switzerland. If this happened in the United States, they would fire the president. Not here. They have no shame. They are raising taxes through the roof and swindling us at the same time."
Investors are closely watching the case play out without panicking yet, but Spain's already shaky image abroad is getting hammered, said Javier del Rey, a political science professor at Madrid's Complutense University.
"We're hitting new lows, with the Spanish brand tarnished across Europe," he said. "The question is if Rajoy stays, will it go down more? How is he going to be received in Brussels, London and Paris under these circumstances?"
Rajoy's leadership of his party is strong and party members fear that forcing him to step down could be make matters worse, potentially causing the party itself to implode, said Florentino Portero, a professor of contemporary history at Spain's Open University.
"But Barcenas places a question mark over whether Rajoy has the legitimacy to lead the government, particularly at a moment when strong leadership is needed to carry out the reforms Spain needs," Portero said. "At a time when the government is raising taxes to unprecedented limits, threatening the livelihood of the middle classes, that the same party should be found to be hiding its own income from the tax inspectors is morally unacceptable."
The scandal started earlier this year, when allegations of irregular or illegal party member financing emerged in a scheme allegedly orchestrated by Barcenas, a top financial in the Popular Party for nearly two decades until her resigned in 2009 after being named as a suspect for illegal party funding.
Details of the case have dripped out piecemeal for months, but reached a fever pitch on Sunday, when the text messages between Barcenas and Rajoy were printed by the El Mundo newspaper.
Barcenas was jailed last month while awaiting possible trial on tax fraud and money-laundering charges after the National Court found he had held the 47 million euros in secret Swiss bank accounts. Speculation has been rampant since then that he might try to drag the party and the government into the scandal, and TV camera crews film everyone who shows up outside jail to visit him.
While the slush fund probe has rocked the party and the county, Rajoy on Monday boasted that his party's economic reforms were beginning to pay off.
"Let no one think we are going to be distracted from getting Spain out of the crisis," he said.
During his appearance before a judge held behind closed doors, Barcenas gave details of making cash payments directly to Rajoy and Cospedal over a three-year period while Rajoy was Spain's opposition leader, the leading newspaper El Pais reported. The private news agency Europa Press said Barcenas claimed to have given 25,000 euros to Rajoy and Cospedal in 2010 alone but acknowledged there were no receipts.
He also reportedly confirmed the authenticity of ledger sheets handwritten by him and published by El Mundo last week allegedly documenting other under-the-table payments to Rajoy and other party leaders. El Mundo said the documents showed Rajoy received at least 42,000 euros in payments while serving as a government minister between 1997 and 1999.
Other Popular Party members portrayed Barcenas as a liar and a tax cheat who is trying to save himself by falsely implicating Rajoy.
"It's Barcenas who is in jail and it's up to him to explain where he got the money in Switzerland from," said Carlos Floriano, the party's deputy national organizer.
Barcenas initially claimed the money stemmed from private business deals. But last week El Mundo quoted him as saying the Popular Party has long been illegally funded.
Economy Minister Luis de Guindos dismissed suggestions that the scandal was affecting Spain's economic credibility, noting that Spanish stocks rose slightly on Monday and interest rates eased on the nation's benchmark 10-year bond.
"As regards international investors," he said, "nobody has asked me about this."


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Eat your finger paint
For the tiniest artist, add a few drops of food coloring to plain or vanilla yogurt, dump it on her high-chair tray, and let her smear her way to a masterpiece that's finger-lickin' good.
Chalk it up
Turn sidewalk-chalk art into watercolor creations: Just dip the chalk in water before drawing, or spray water onto your driveway to create a wet "canvas." The H2O gives the chalk a painterly feel.
Older kids can scour garage sales for a chair that needs some love. Clean it with soap and water. When it's dry, sand it down with sandpaper. Wipe off the dust with a damp cloth and start painting!
Meet Matisse
Cuddle up with any of the Mini Masters books by Julie Merberg and Suzanne Bober, with paintings by Picasso, Van Gogh, Degas, Cassatt, and more. Our fave? A Magical Day With Matisse. (Birth to 4)
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Got a blank wall in the basement? Let your kids have at it! And when they get bored, you can just paint over it and start again.
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Who needs paintbrushes when you have toy cars? Pour some paint into a disposable aluminum pan, then show your kid how to roll the car through the paint and drive it onto the paper for a cool design.
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The third major bombardment of Fort Sumter began on July 7, 1864, and would become the second-largest assault on the fort. Over the course of two months, 81 Confederate soldiers would die as 14,600 rounds were fired at the fort.
The Confederate flag was falling -- a slow-motion, seemingly endless cascade into the smoking rubble below.
On that day, June 20, 1864, it appeared the flag would be just another casualty in the continued bombardment of Fort Sumter, another fallen soldier.
The shell was only the second shot of the day, fired at 1:30 p.m., a lazy day's work by Union standards. But it hit the fort's flagstaff squarely, sending Sumter's stripes falling toward the ground.
Lt. C.H. Claiborne would not let the colors touch the ground, would not give the Yankees the satisfaction of realizing how good their aim actually was on that day. Somehow he managed to grab the flag in mid-air, then he rushed to the fort's parapet, dodging shrapnel and inhaling smoke all the way.
By the time the haze cleared, he was holding the flag high above his head.
Soon, two other soldiers, N.F. Devareaux and B. Brannon of the engineer department, rushed to Claiborne's aid and worked to re-mount the flagstaff while he held it aloft. They were quickly spotted by the Yankees, who opened fire on the men, "too cowardly to appreciate, and too mean to honor a gallant act in a foe," The Charleston Mercury would later note.
The three soldiers ignored the assault and finished their work, re-hoisting the flag high over the battered fort. And before they ducked back into the relative safety of Sumter's crumbling walls, Claiborne, Devereaux and Brannon "saluted the enemy with a cheer and a wave of their hats" -- a patriotic show of defiance.
The Mercury would call it "one of the most heroic acts of bravery connected with the history of the bombardment of Fort Sumter."
By the summer of 1864, Charleston was desperate for uplifting news. It had been a demoralizing spring, for the most part.
Through March, the Hunley's successful attack on the USS Housatonic filled the newspaper's pages. Most of the stories actually were reprinted from Northern newspapers, which in the wake of the attack openly fretted about the possibility that the South had six or eight of these infernal stealth boats.
The Mercury did little to dissuade such speculation. Although Editor Robert Barnwell Rhett Jr. never named the ship responsible for the attack, the editor assisted the Confederacy by spreading disinformation.
"We are glad to be able to assure our readers that the boat and crew are now safe," Rhett reported.
Of course, the Hunley was lost and no one in Charleston knew its fate. To maintain the charade, and keep the Yankees guessing, Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard dispatched the David on two attacks that spring.
In early March, the torpedo boat engaged the USS Memphis in the North Edisto River. In April, the David tried to sink a blockade ship, the USS Wabash. Neither battle accomplished much.
In the weeks between those two attacks, Charleston suffered another setback. On March 19, a fire broke out at the Confederate States Arsenal.
One simple spark set off 20 pounds of powder in the arsenal's "pyrotechnic room," a wooden building on the site.
Several soldiers were injured, and one man, Emanuel Hogan, succumbed to smoke inhalation during the blaze. He was unable to escape in time because of a prior injury: Hogan had lost a leg a year earlier at the Battle of Battery Wagner.
The Mercury noted that the accident, while horrible, could have been worse. It was as much optimism as Rhett could muster.
The Confederacy was quickly coming to grips with the possibility of defeat. Every week brought another editorial concerned with the uncertain future facing the South, "What Remains of the War" followed by "The Vindications of History."
From Richmond, Confederate President Jefferson Davis declared April 8 a day of fasting and prayer, which only served as another excuse for Rhett to contemplate the South's fate.
"We are on the eve of events big with the destiny of ourselves and our posterity," Rhett wrote. "A future the most awful that the imagination can contemplate awaits us if we fail; a future glorious and happy if we succeed."
The next week, Beauregard and his officers tried to raise morale with a ceremony similar to those that Charleston hosted almost every week in the early days of the war. On April 13, the Confederates marked the anniversary of the surrender of Fort Sumter with a 13-gun salute.
As they went through the motions, the city was hit with 20 shells from Union guns on Morris Island.
Endless summer
By the spring of 1864, Charleston bore little resemblance to its grand, antebellum self. Its central business district gutted by fire, the homes of the lower peninsula deserted, the city had become little more than an outpost for soldiers.
Past glories were all but forgotten, and most days there was little to report save for the number of shells fired on the city or its defenses in a given day.
On a good day, no shells were hurled at Charleston. On a bad one, lives were lost. In April, one shot hit Mr. Duncan's blacksmith shop on Hasell Street. The shell crashed through the roof and landed on an anvil where a young slave boy named Aaron was working.
Doctors later reported that the boy's left arm would have to be amputated, but he would likely survive. Weeks later, another shell would "shatter" a child's arm. He too would live.
As a result of this onslaught of artillery and bad news, the entire city's nerves were frayed. The Mercury was forced to devote an increasing amount of its columns to crime news. On Friday, March 18, officer McSweeney of the Charleston Police Department arrested a Private Young of the 1st S.C. Infantry for some unrecorded offense.
Young, however, drew his pistol and shot McSweeney, "the ball entering his abdomen, and coming out at the back." Young was eventually jailed. McSweeney, the newspaper reported, was doing well and "it is hoped he will recover."
On Saturday, May 7, police found a runaway slave named Christopher lying at the corner of Beaufain and Rutledge streets, a gunshot wound to his abdomen. The 18-year-old -- owned by Hugh E. Vincent, the paper noted -- had been missing for a year and a half, and claimed that he had been robbed and shot by soldiers.
The newspaper was not averse to reporting crimes allegedly committed by soldiers, but Rhett raised questions about the accuracy of Christopher's story, which he carried to his death bed.
The residence of J.C.E. Richardson on Rutledge Street, not far from the corner where the young slave was found, had been robbed. Richard was out of town, like so many Charleston residents, but had left his home booby-trapped.
There was really only one window in the house suitable for thieves, and Richardson had set up his rifle with a double-shot of ball and buckshot pointed at the window. If the shutter was opened, the gun would go off.
The Mercury reported that the gun had been fired, and surmised that Christopher had been shot while trying to rob Richardson's house. Whether that was what happened, it sounded better than the alternative, that the South's own soldiers were killing people in the streets of Charleston.
In the early days of the war, The Mercury had printed primarily positive news items about events around town. As the summer of 1864 approached, however, stories of women delivering clothes to the crew of the CSS Indian Chief were the exception.
More likely, the paper had to devote space to denouncing rumors, such as the one circulating in town on May 18 that said Richmond had fallen. Someone claimed that blockade ships had fired guns that day in salute to Union troops taking the Confederate capital.
The fact that the rumor was false provided little comfort to a city under siege.
On Sunday, May 22, the North began another concerted push to take James Island. Union ships sailed into the Stono River and began to bombard Secessionville. At the same time, between 800 and 1,000 Yankees attempted to come ashore at Legare's Farm.
They were repelled by local troops, but soon they would once again have a foothold in the island. It was the beginning of the summer's escalation.
By July 2, an estimated 1,500 Northern troops descended on James Island, where they fell into a brutal fight with Confederate forces. It seemed that this exercise, largely unsuccessful, was meant to distract the South from a much larger assault on Fort Johnson.
The next day, a Sunday, 48 barges filled with Yankee troops approached the James Island fort. Lt. Col. Joseph A. Yates trained all his guns on the barges, which sent the enemy scurrying for cover.
Only 11 of the barges were noticed returning to Battery Gregg on Morris Island. Yates confirmed that at least five barges were captured in the attack, netting Fort Johnson 140 prisoners.
For the rest of the month, the two sides would engage in various minor skirmishes across James and Johns islands. Most were stalemates. The Union held its ground at the edge of the islands, but could not advance.
This was a victory for the Confederates, but they found little reason to celebrate. On July 7, the third major assault on Fort Sumter began, and it would be the most punishing offensive in more than a year.
Most days, more than 100 shells hit Sumter, and on some as many as 350 shots rained down on the decimated fort. The average was more than 200 shots per day, and the shelling was doing its share of damage.
On July 20, Capt. John Mitchel, the commander at Fort Sumter, was killed in the bombing. A week later, an engineer named John Johnson was hit by a mortar round and died instantly.
Fort Sumter would bring in a new commander, Capt. Thomas Huguenin of the 1st S.C. Regular Infantry, and other soldiers would rise up to fill the positions of their fallen comrades. It was a never-ending cycle as the summer of 1864 dragged on.
The Union shelling of Sumter would not ease up until the end of the summer.
Between July 7 and Sept. 4, Union guns would hurl 14,600 shells at Sumter, killing 81 Confederates. After a day's respite, the guns re-opened on the fort for another 12 days. In that time, nearly 600 more shells would be fired at the fort, killing another half-dozen men.
But by then, it was almost over.
News from Georgia
In September, Atlanta fell.
The battle had consumed much of the summer, stretching north from the city all the way to Chattanooga, Tenn.. Ultimately, Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman managed to get the best of the Southern troops.
When Sherman cut off the Confederate's supply line, Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood had little recourse but to evacuate the city on Sept. 1, burning supply depots and ammunition to keep them from falling into enemy hands.
The next day, Atlanta's mayor presented his city to Sherman.
Charleston residents were devastated by the news. The Mercury followed Hood's retreat, but Rhett refrained from speculating on what this meant for the Holy City. He didn't need to say anything; most residents realized the South was in trouble.
Soon the city would have its own problems, a disaster that distracted Charlestonians from the plight of Atlanta.
On Saturday, Sept. 17, a two-story building on Clifford Street caught fire in the middle of the day. Four small buildings on the street, along with the lecture room at the German Lutheran Church, were destroyed. Sparks from the flames ignited a house on Berresford Street, and the fire began to spread.
Ten buildings on Archdale Street burned, including the hall of the German Friendly Society, a tenement building and the home of a free black woman. Before firemen extinguished the blaze, it had spread from Beaufain Street to Tradd and Meeting streets.
"The city has been visited by a conflagration more extensive and serious in its character than any that has occurred since the memorable disaster of '61," The Mercury reported.
Between this latest fire and the continued shelling, locals could hardly help but notice that Charleston was looking more like Atlanta every day.
The next week, the city was demoralized by the news that Beauregard, who had been gone since April, would not return to defend the city. The Mercury reported various rumors about the general's new orders -- one day the paper said he had been given command of the army in Georgia, where he would join Hood and prepare to fight Sherman, the next it reported that Beauregard would take over the army in Tennessee.
His ultimate destination mattered little; many Charleston residents were crestfallen that the general would no longer stand between them and the Yankees. Beauregard was largely credited with Charleston's impressive resistance throughout the war.
When the general and his staff arrived on Sept. 25 for a brief layover en route to his new assignment, it was a bittersweet visit for locals.
The city bore the brunt of the Yankees' ire throughout October. A few days of firing would be followed by a day or two of eerie quiet. The weekend of Oct. 15 was particularly violent as Union guns lobbed 134 shells at the city.
For those souls who remained in Charleston, the bombardment was becoming a normal occurrence, as close to normal as was possible for a city that had been under siege for more than a year.
The casualties were mounting, and The Mercury could do little but tally the war dead and report on the ever-increasing instances of crime committed on the peninsula.
On Nov. 10, the 490th day of the siege, The Mercury grudgingly reported that the quick succession of firing heard from Morris Island the prior Tuesday marked the end of a party, in which the Yankees celebrated casting their "intelligent votes in favor of the permanence of the Lincoln dynasty."
"About dark the shouting and cheering of the enemy could be distinctly heard over the quiet waters of the harbor," Rhett wrote. "In point of facts the mongrel Morris Islanders are believed to have been all gloriously drunk."
As the fall of 1864 settled in, the Yankees were the only ones in Charleston with cause to celebrate. Most residents of the city spent the rest of the year concerned by the rumors starting to come out of Georgia.
Sherman, it appeared, was marching to the sea.
Next: The fall of Charleston


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Personally I would keep the rocks in but remove your lettering from the images. It detracts from any merit the images have.
If you see my site, those images are for sale commercially and for personal use. I can't just let them fly. The way I figure it, I work hard on my photography and I need to get paid. If people like art then they can pay for it. Otherwise, they can go without. really wish it weren't that way becsaue it's counter to my intuition-that we should share and rejoice in all our humanity. Sadly, that worldview is not in vogue, nor does it afford a living.
If you see my site, those images are for sale...
Point taken, although I wonder if given the tiny size of these images you aren't being a touch hypersensitive. In any event, I can't exclude the distraction of the lettering, which is enormously more intrusive than anyone else has ever used here, sufficiently to form an opinion of the shot. If you watermark images like that on your site as well, I rather suspect you lose a significant number of sales.Jeremy
Out of curiosity, how many have you already sold of those rocks?
Hi,Yes I would crop out the rocks running through the middle bottom of the frame but there is more than just this for a good landscape. You changed the comp slightly in the second and eliminated the larger rock on the right altogether, which had served as an anchor to the image. All your corners are floating in space, if this makes sense?I find nothing compelling about either image. What makes me want to go further? What draws me in? Things such as extraordinary lighting such as sunset/sunrise, or mists, or sun in frame. You aren't close enough to the beach to use the waves coming ashore as a draw either. Nor are they crashing ashore as a dynamic.The boat shot is similarly composed. Nothing going on there either. And they are facing away from the camera. It is like photographing wildlife someone told me. "No one buys a butt shot". I saw some of your model images and they are much better composed. Use the same techniques. Get closer.Hope this helps.
The chance that people who don't mind to steal the use of an image, will be paying costumers because you watermarked the image, is fairly small. The number of potential paying costumers that are too annoyed to consider the use of your watermarked images might be higher. Most designers, publishers etc use small res website images in the first phases of their projects.Therefore I do not botherntoo much about protecting my website images.
.The bottom of the image. Do the rocks coming into the frame ruin the image? Compare it to the image below that, which is similar, but without rocks at the bottom of the frame.


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At the Preliminary Inquiry (PI), the intake officer will update your information, discuss your rights, go through the charges and evidence in the police report and if you plan to deny the charge, (s)he can assist you in completing paperwork for an arraignment waiver and request for an attorney. Possible consequences will be discussed and general information about school and family will be gathered.
It is the intake officer's job to assist you in navigating through the legal process and to do what is in the best interests of the child, family and community. Some things to keep in mind about this meeting:
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NEW CASTLE — Sixteen years ago, the Wentworth by the Sea Hotel was headed toward demolition, a crumbling shell of its former illustrious self.
Dozens upon dozens of investment companies had evaluated the dilapidated grand hotel since it closed in 1982, although each backed away from the multimillion-dollar project for various reasons. Locals didn't give up hope, though, and eventually in 1997, a buyer took the $30 million risk to rejuvenate the property.
Fast-forward to 2011 — about seven-and-a-half years after the hotel reopened — and that buyer, Ocean Properties Ltd., has almost made the move look risk-free.
Wentworth by the Sea was recently named as one of the 504 hotels on Cond� Nast Traveler's prestigious international Gold List for the third year in a row, and for the first time was also named as one of the "500 World's Best Hotels" by Travel and Leisure. The Wentworth also was the only New England hotel on each list this year.
The hotel is upgrading its spa as a part of its first major capital improvement project since the reopening, something some experts say indicates the initial $30 million investment has paid off and the hotel is reaping the benefits of sustained industry excellence.
"A new hotel should begin to turn a profit in three years after an investment if all the numbers work," said Carl Linblade, an industry expert and professor within the University of New Hampshire's Hospitality Management Department. "They are clearly within the high end of industry norms, given the facts that during the recession many renovation projects were deferred.
"There are a whole bunch of factors that a hotel must successfully manage to turn a profit, and I would say Wentworth by the Sea has beautifully found that balance."
The Wentworth was originally built as an 82-room resort named the Wentworth Hall in 1874 by Daniel Chase, a Boston distiller from Somerville, Mass.
The name was changed to Hotel Wentworth in 1876, and the hotel was later purchased in 1879 by Frank Jones. Jones made several alterations, such as adding two new floors to expand the room total to 300 as well as adding a golf course, a clubhouse, a dining room and other attractions.
The building saw a lot of history after that, according to current Wentworth General Manager Frank Wetenkamp, who said one of the most notable occurrences was in 1905, when Russian and Japanese delegates stayed at the Wentworth and devised the Treaty of Portsmouth, which ultimately ended the Russo-Japanese War.
The hotel continued to operate until 1982, closing after the owner sold the property and recommended the Wentworth be overhauled to meet modern guest expectations, said Wetenkamp.
Despite the efforts of the hotel's multiple owners after that point, Wetenkamp said the Wentworth continued to remain closed and slip into disrepair.
A local group named the Friends of the Wentworth pushed for several years in the 1990s to save the hotel from demolition. Eventually, after dozens of fruitless attempts to find a buyer, Ocean Properties purchased the property in early 1997 in order to save the historic hotel, according to Stephanie Seacord, the current Wentworth public relations director and a representative for Ocean.
Linblade said the romantic ideal of saving old buildings is the reason most companies embark on the "extremely risky enterprise" to restore grand hotels — marked by high ceilings, columns and extraordinary decor and architecture, with service to match.
He said that is also their downfall, though, as most developers become "so enamored with the restoration and spend too much money" on refreshing grand hotels that the hotel can never turn a profit.
There are only 10 in the country and four in New Hampshire, he noted.
What he said differed in Ocean's strategy, though, is they were able to keep their "corporate ego" in check and essentially start over, nearly gutting the entire building to create a 161-room version of the hotel the market wanted and could support when it reopened in 2003.
Linblade called it a "magic confluence" of market sense, development sense and respect for the hotel's charm that allowed Ocean, which is based in Portsmouth and is one of the 10 largest hotel management companies in the country, to be successful.
"These hotels have to stand alone against more modern hotels where maintenance costs less because the buildings are newer and are built to more modern standards," he said. "The success of the (Wentworth) is almost despite its historic charm. If Wentworth had no flat-screen TVs or modern bathrooms, it wouldn't be successful. The consumer of today is not into yesterday's hotel amenity style."
Because of that success, which Linblade said is well measured by inclusion on the guest-driven awards lists as well as high awards the Wentworth has received within its Marriott brand, it now has the ability to refresh its features for the first time since 2003.
Seacord said she isn't sure if the initial investment has fully paid off, although she said the hotel is in a good financial position to begin the work thanks to strong summer seasons, growing wedding services and surprisingly steady winters despite highs and lows due to the economy.
The spa work is expected to be completed by the end of the year and is the beginning of a series of improvements, including redoing each room's bedding and eventually the hotel's dining room.
Seacord said all of these things are essential for any hotel — regardless of market — to continue to stay attractive to its customers, let alone maintain a level of quality that places any hotel into the upper echelon of the industry.
"Sooner or later, no matter how nicely you smile or treat guests, you need to look at the actual physical plans if things need upgrading because they don't look as good," she said. "The expectation of a spa is beyond what is was in 2003. We need to get evolving. We need to make that investment to maintain our service and hopefully anticipate where the trends are going."
Roaring back from the brink: Wentworth by the Sea, once shuttered, now a world-class hotel
NEW CASTLE — Sixteen years ago, the Wentworth by the Sea Hotel was headed toward demolition, a crumbling shell of its former illustrious self.


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CM Storm QuickFire Stealth Mechanical Keyboard Review
CM Storm QuickFire Stealth Introduction:
These days the idea of having anything but a mechanical keyboard is just silly. Having to type on an old Dell rubber dome at work only makes me more ready to go home to my dear mechanical at the end of the day. We've taken a look at quite a few different options in the mechanical world here at OCC and today we'll take a look at a rather familiar friend with a twist. Today we'll be taking a look at the CM Storm QuickFire Stealth, which was revealed back in January at CES 2013. Personally I've played with almost the full line of keyboards from Cooler Master, including the CM Storm QuickFire TK, the CM Storm QuickFire Pro, and still my favorite and in use, the CM Storm Trigger; but I find the Stealth to be its own breed.
The QuickFire Stealth, which you can guess by its name, has something a little different about it. The keys don't light up, and actually, they don't even have letters on them (at least not on the tops of the key caps). This awesome design, for those of us fortunate enough to touch type, provides a complete blacked out look from the top down (quoted "hidden and dangerous" from the website). Only from a lower angle can you see the careful markings on the front sides of the key caps to help you locate the keys you just can't remember. This keyboard surely isn't for the light hearted computer fans – if you can't navigate without chicken pecking, you won't get anywhere with this. This keyboard is truly for the pros – are you self-conscious about your typing abilities yet?
CM Storm QuickFire Stealth Closer Look:
The CM QuickFire Stealth mechanical keyboard comes in one of the smallest keyboard boxes I've seen yet. Despite my anger toward the lack of a numpad (I'll rant later), the size of this board is incredibly "cute". The box overall follows the usual format from Cooler Master with the red and black theme and CM Storm logo. The keyboard image on the front of the box looks almost Photoshopped; but really it's more the fact that the keys have no writing on the tops. The image nonetheless registers "keyboard" to the brain, despite this fact. The back of the box goes on to spout off the "stealthy" features in eight different languages.
Taking a quick look at the front of the box again before we open it up, there is a quick sticker to identify what keyboard switch you have received. In this case, I've been lucky enough to get some Cherry MX Blues. Although I've become a diehard fan of the Cherry MX Greens, I'm pretty happy as long as it's not Reds or Browns (personal choice). Opening up the box, you won't see the keyboard yet, but a manual is packed neatly with a PS/2 adapter and some hidden away bonus items for your eyes to see on the next page...keep reading!


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August 16. 2013 11:22PM
Tom Brady's left knee looked fine Friday night, and so did his right arm.
Brady was in the starting lineup for the New England Patriots' 25-21 preseason win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Foxborough, Mass., and completed 11 of 12 pass attempts for 107 yards before he left the contest following New England's second offensive possession. Backup quarterback Ryan Mallett replaced Brady on New England's first possession in the second quarter.
Some questioned whether or not Brady would play after he suffered an injury to his left knee during a joint practice with Tampa Bay on Wednesday.
Tampa Bay defensive end Adrian Clayborn pushed offensive lineman Nate Solder into Brady, who left practice shortly thereafter.
Brady suffered a torn ACL in his left knee in the 2008 season opener and has worn a knee brace in games since then, but was not wearing the brace when the injury occurred Wednesday.
Brady tossed a 26-yard touchdown pass to Danny Amendola on the game's opening possession and completed all eight of his pass attempts for 72 yards during the scoring drive. He completed his first 11 passes before throwing an incompletion.
Brady also completed a pass to rookie tight end Zach Sudfeld for the two-point conversion following Amendola's TD. Amendola, who signed a five-year, $31 million contract with New England in March, had six receptions for 71 yards in the first quarter, which ended with New England leading 8-0.
The Patriots received a 39-yard field goal from Stephen Gostkowski in the second quarter to increase their lead to 11-0.
Tampa Bay got on the scoreboard when Kevin Ogletree caught a 13-yard touchdown pass from Mike Glennon with 5:10 left in the second quarter. Derek Dimke's PAT made it an 11-7 game.
The Patriots increased their lead when Sudfeld, an undrafted free agent who played at Nevada, hauled in a 22-yard TD pass from Mallett with 3:54 left in the half. Gostkowski's kick gave New England an 18-7 advantage.
Mallett finished his stint 12-for-20 passing for 137 yards.
If there was a tough spot for the Patriots' offense, it was Tim Tebow, who replaced Mallett under center in the second half.
Tebow had as many completions (1) as interceptions (1), for minus-1 passing yards and was booed by the Gillette Stadium crowd. He did rush six times for 30 yards, making him the Pats' second-leading rusher on the night.
The Patriots were coming off last Friday's 31-22 victory over Philadelphia in their preseason opener. Tampa Bay opened its preseason schedule with a 44-16 loss to Baltimore.


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My daughter said I needed to retire and do things I love so I volunteer four-and-a-half hours a week and 100 hours a month. I really do enjoy it.
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