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Little Giants Set Stage For Witt Showdownby Jocelyn Hopkinson '15 • November 2, 2013 Share:
Ian MacDougall etched himself into the record books Saturday and the Wabash defense dominated in a 66-0 victory over Hiram.
MacDougall has made 118 extra points, surpassing the 117 record mark shared by Spencer Whitehead '11 and Joe Bevelhimer '86. The Little Giants (8-0, 7-0 NCAC) held the Terriers (2-6, 1-6 NCAC) to 58 yards in the shutout. The win sets up the near-annual Wittenberg showdown for a conference championship and shot at the playoffs next Saturday at Little Giant Stadium.
"I thought we got great effort out of our guys, particularly that first half," Coach Erik Raeburn said. "I couldn't imagine it going any better."
Anthony Stella started the scoring with a three-yard-touchdown run on Wabash's first drive. The following possession, Michael Putko found Houston Hodges open in the middle of the end zone, 14-0.
The defense joined the scoring party on the next two series. Hodges followed his offensive touchdown with a 30-yard interception return. Justin Woods registered a 38-yard pick six on the next series, 28-0.
"We wanted to come out here and make a statement," Hodges said. "We wanted to make sure we establish our run and that's what we did on the first drive. That was a big thing for us."
After two more scores and a MacDougall field goal, Woods took his second interception gave him another score and the Little Giants led at the half, 45-0. MacDougall made the record-setting kick on the last first-half score.
"It's not really a measurement of me," MacDougall explained. "It's a measurement of how good our offense and our defense has been. (Alex) Hirsch has been doing a great job snapping and Cam (Sobleski) holding. It's pretty much a product of everybody."
The senior kicker has converted 41 extra points this year and is 12-of-14 kicking field goals.
Putko finished the game 5-of-8 passing for 78 yards and a touchdown in a half of work. Andy Walsh completed 4-of-5 passes in relief.
Wabash ran for 211 yards led by Matt Gibson's 57. Gibson also had two scores.
Nate Scola paced the Little Giant defense with 8 tackles, five of those behind the line of scrimmage. That left the senior linebacker just a half tackle shy of the single game record. Cody Buresh made 5.5 tackles-for-loss in a game earlier this season. Sophomore Chris Broecker had 6 stops.
The Little Giants will face Wittenberg (7-1, 7-0 NCAC) next Saturday. The conference show down will determine the 2013 NCAC champion.
"It's a big game for us," Hodges said. "It's going to be a battle. They have a lot of athletes like we do. They've been putting up a lot of points like we have. We have to be mentally prepared this week and do everything we can in practice to make sure we're ready."
Kickoff will be 1 p.m. from Byron P. Hollet Little Giant Stadium.
Game Notes
Wabash made its 14th field goal of the 2013 season, tying the mark set by the 1985 team.
The Little Giants have returned 7 interceptions for touchdowns this season. The 1996 team previously held the record with 5.
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Peer Review/Shorthand
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 23.0322 Tuesday, 31 July 2012
Date: July 29, 2012 6:32:06 PM EDT
Subject: Re: Peer Review
Date: July 30, 2012 12:57:28 PM EDT
Subject: Re: SHAKSPER: Peer/SHand
Date: July 29, 2012 7:51:28 PM EDT
Subject: Re: Shorthand
Date: July 29, 2012 6:32:06 PM EDT
Subject: Re: Peer Review
[Editor's Note: I believe that private exchanges should take place offline. I probably should have caught Gerald Downs' claim regarding Gabriel Egan's role as referee and requested that it be conducted offline, but I did not. From that point, I was caught in a loop of catch-up. Egan has the right to respond to Downs, Downs the right to respond to Egan, and so on. My apologies to subscribers for my part in this portion of this ongoing thread. However, as I have said on countless occasions over the past twenty years, subscribers have a role in self-moderation also. –Hardy]
Gerald Downs is right that I was a referee of his essay on "Shorthand, Othello, and the Walkley Quartos". The verdict finally came down to a matter of expression: the argument was so poorly expressed that I thought Shakespeare Quarterly's readers would not be served by its publication. SHAKSPERians have now had a chance to judge for themselves whether Downs is capable of constructing a coherent and persuasive case for what he would have us believe.
My report began by observing that Downs's anonymity had been lost because his article refers directly to his previous work. Double-blind peer review was not upheld and I suggested that Shakespeare Quarterly might for that reason want to set my report aside. I did not mention to Shakespeare Quarterly that I had previously advised Downs on draft material towards the essay, since that would be relevant only if it threatened to dispel anonymity and anonymity had already been lost. I don't think that having previously advised a writer on their work disqualifies a referee from reporting on the version presented to a journal, so long as the double-blind process is upheld. Of course, the referee would have to have forgotten giving the advice or to whom it was given. I don't think I'm more than averagely forgetful yet in this case I had forgotten not only the original advice to Downs but also forgotten doing the refereeing.
Indeed, I nearly sent a SHAKSPER posting denying that I was the referee, based on a thorough search of my self-archive which contains every email back to 2000 and every standalone file I've created since 1992. Then I realized that an online refereeing system would leave no trace in my archive and I checked the systems that I have accounts on; finding that I had done this report for Shakespeare Quarterly was a surprise. I maintain that it is quite possible for refereeing to remain blind even if the referee has previously advised the would-be contributor, so long as anonymity is not lost because the referee recognizes the work. In the present case, anonymity was lost through the contributor's self-reference, which I think the journal editors should have spotted and removed. (That is what we do at the journal Shakespeare that I co-edit.) If SHAKSPERians think I'm wrong about anonymity in these cases and think that peer review worth discussing here (as I do), then I'd be interested to listen to counter-arguments.
Lastly, Downs misuses ellipsis to give a false impression of my view of D. F. McKenzie's work. The way Downs quotes it, my report appears to say of attempts to reconstruct the processes of book manufacture by studying running-title reuse, spelling habits, and damaged type recurrence that "This entire methodology . . . was effectively invalidated by D. F. McKenzie in landmark papers in 1969 and 1984".
This is not how McKenzie's papers are usually understood and is not my view of them. In fact, I wrote that "This entire methodology—or at least Bowers's way of deploying it, based on his faulty assumptions that there was no concurrent printing and compositors were consistent—was effectively invalidated by D. F. McKenzie . . .". The qualifying clause about Bowers's deployment is essential to my meaning and should not have been omitted by Downs. Misrepresenting others' views by misusing ellipsis is one of the serious flaws in the writing of Gerald Downs.
Date: July 30, 2012 12:57:28 PM EDT
Subject: Re: SHAKSPER: Peer/SHand
>And could you also please answer the question of why you're sure I was
>the reviewer of your rejected journal article. If you're no longer sure, a
>statement to that effect would do instead.
Harry Berger asks: Why is this on a Shakespeare site? Isn't there an Egan site?
I second this point.
Julia Griffin
Date: July 29, 2012 7:51:28 PM EDT
Subject: Re: Shorthand
Steven Urkowitz replies:
> Gerald Downs figures out that ARE is a spelling
> substitution for what we would more familiarly see
> or rather ourselves would write as ERE, meaning
> "before." Good figuring. But the trusty OED reveals
> that such a spelling ARE was not a confusion.
Spellings, even accepted spellings, often cause confusion.
> It was used at least once, and is cited. "Look it up,"
> as we used to say before Googling came in. Q1
> here is not senseless or corrupt, it's only different.
One of my principles is to trust Q1 more than F, even though it's often corrupt. The Q1 reading is fine and it serves a purpose: Edgar speaks as if he doesn't know Edmund (who must be in plain sight). His plan is to dare Edmund to fight without revealing his own identity. F misses the point to claim equal nobility, which would rouse everyone's curiosity and obviate the ruse of the "right to bear arms." I'm somebody 'cause I got a sword. Takes a gun these days. But this Darth Vader didn't want to be recognized (if for no other reason than added excitement).
The latest OED 'ar-' entry for 'ere' is 1547. Both 'ere' and 'are' would be among words regularized in print by 1608. Q1 has tons of odd-spelt words, but a reviser's supposition may well have been that 'are' means 'are.' That seems to be indicated by retention of the verb-subject order in Q1: 'Yet are I'; 'Yet am I'. Seems like faulty patchwork to me.
It isn't enough to cite a spelling. Statistics have to come into play. How many 'ares' are really 'eres' in the printed works of the day? Not many, I suppose. Let's say one in ten thousand; That means confusion when it does happen.
> F's reviser revised it to something else. That's what
> revisers do. Revising authors.
There is nothing in this passage to indicate authorial revision. It does indicate revision of Q1.
> Stenographers? I don't think so.
No one could possibly claim that a stenographer revised Q to F. But 'are' could be a phonetic representation of 'ere'. I wouldn't make that claim on such minor grounds, but a glance at Bordox shows just how goofy one stenographer's spelling was, and phonetic error in Lear has been suspected since Day One.
> People who examine play manuscripts of the period
> report that copyists faced with illegible text would leave
> blanks to be filled in later by someone (like an author)
> more familiar with what should go there.
The manuscript that comes to mind is Alleyn's part for Orlando, where the blanks were filled in by rereading the copy, not by the author. That play is preserved by shorthand reporting. I haven't yet rejected the idea that the player's part is also taken from a report, but I'm getting close. Remember, the play was sold twice. Why not three times?
Gerald E. Downs

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Sunday, March 18, 2007
The Calm Before the Storm
It was another quiet week. (That sentence makes me want to add "in Lake Wobegon"). But the granite countertops are scheduled to be installed on Wednesday, so I'm hoping that there will be a flurry of activity after that.
The in-floor heating system was finished and is now ready to start doing its job as soon as the plumber turns the switch or does whatever he is going to do.
They also installed a auxiliary heater under (what will be) the sink. This heater is for the few days when the in-floor heating may not be quite enough to keep it toasty warm. Michael isn't a big fan of these auxiliary heaters because apparently they make a little whirring noise that he thinks may be a distraction. But the heating installers insisted that it was necessary in Minnesota, so he OK'd it.
Jim is fairly deaf, so he probably won't hear the whirring. He's more likely to be annoyed by me saying, "What's that noise?" than he is by the noise itself.
The hardware for the cabinets has arrived and is sitting in its boxes waiting to be installed. I hope that this will happen in the next week because then I'll be able to open the various drawers and doors.
Two new shelves were also installed. I think that cookbooks will go on the top shelf, but I'm not sure about the bottom one yet.
All the doors on the pantry cabinets have now been installed. There are still some shelves for the little cubby areas that haven't been put in yet, but I think that otherwise the cabinetry is complete. I think that the original plans called for another shelf, but R.T., our carpenter, said that was news to him.
And finally, some of the trim on the cabinets was installed on Friday. The rest of the trim is part of the flurry that I'm expecting this week.
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- Paddyscake said...
Lookin Good!! How long has the remodel been going on now? For you, I'm sure it feels like a year..to me..a couple months? Have you had bread baking withdrawal cravings? LOL
- jini said...
how exciting......closer and closer! i think we have a heater dealie similar to yours in the toe-kick under cabinets in our mudroom. it has a thermostat, but not a temp gauge so we had some fun getting it adjusted, but it's worked great! it does whirr, but usually not a problem.
when the counters are in the appliances are in place it will be super! i can't wait to see the completed kitchen....i suppose you feel the same way?? :-)
I love how you tease us with the CLOSED box of Italian hardware!
- breadbasketcase said...
I think it has been a year, hasn't it? Bread withdrawal: I saw a lot of pictures of beautiful Irish soda bread this year, and was reminded of the delicious soda bread I made from The BB last time this year. I felt very sorry for myself.
Yes, closer and closer...and yet so far. It's Monday today, and the predicted flurry of activity still hasn't taken place.
You are so right--you will see them on the cabinets when I see them on the cabinets.
- Melinda said...
I made the Banana Feather loaf on Saturday. So I had a Marie blog re-run to read what you wrote about it way back then. ( I miss your bread posts!) Justin (Demegrad) suggested to try this recipe. When I read your comments again; it is exactly what I had thought. Unless I had tried it I probably would not have thought to make it. But it is light and almost brioche like.Very nice!
I'm excited to see your worktops...
that sounds rather strange!
Closer and closer indeed!! We're all waiting excitedly! This time tomorrow you'll have counters!!! Is it like Christmas when you were a kid? Will you sleep tonight for excitement?
The trim looks really, really nice. What a difference the finishing touches make.
And, I like your cookbook shelf too. What have you decided to do about the books that won't fit on that shelf?
- breadbasketcase said...
Yes, I remember that banana feather loaf from back in the day when I had a kitchen. I'm afraid that I have forgotten how to bake.
Actually, I didn't sleep very well last night. I'm not sure if it was coffee or visions of countertops that kept me awake. I can hardly wait to get home and see what has happened in the kitchen today.


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This video is so cute! What a squirrel.
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That was great!!! It made me think of a cartoon I used to watch as a kid growing up. Secret Squirrel!
oh yeah - secret squirrel
ROFL That is great! Thanks!
So glad you liked it Ruth!
So glad you like it booklover.
I always have to dissect everything, e.g., religions, so I figure this squirrel was taught to do this in segments.
Not necessarily. Squirrels are pretty good problem solvers (when food is the goal) There is a very profitable industry making squirrel proof bird feeders. Their close relatives, the rat, is also a pretty smart rodent. They have both lived around humans long enough to adapt to our attempts to wipe them out.
I don't think they were taught, but rather, figured it out on their own.
I have always loved squirrels. : )
I think they figured it out on their on but in segments.
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The sound of explosions started over a year ago, with what seemed to be professional-grade fireworks. Now, one woman said, the culprits seem to have moved on to pipe bombs, but the source of the alarming noises besieging Montauk — the most recent of them heard on Sunday evening north of the Montauk Firehouse — remains a mystery.
Sunday's explosion was heard toward the Montauket on Tuthill Road, and though some claim to know who is responsible, East Hampton Town police have yet to make any arrests.
Many of those who commented for this story asked that their names not be used for fear of retaliation with a bomb set on their lawn. And many pointed to one couple living near Gravesend Avenue and Greenwich Street whom they suspect are responsible, though none would name the pair.
According to East Hampton Town police, the apparent explosives have been set off in a number of areas of the hamlet, including Second House Road, the golf course at the Montauk Downs State Park, West Lake Drive, and several beaches.
Many residents have reported calling the police about the noises, but the Montauk Precinct commander, Lt. Chris Hatch, said there have been surprisingly few calls.
Lieutenant Hatch said that the police have been investigating for the last three months. Fireworks have been confirmed, but, citing confidentiality, he declined to say who made that confirmation. He said that despite the reports coming in to the department there has been nothing that has led police to the perpetrators.
Officers have heard the explosions and have responded to the areas where they believed they originated, but have found nothing, he said, adding, "the explosives occur without warning and leave no evidence."
The noises sound like a house exploding, Gail Simons wrote in an online forum, and are louder than anything she's ever heard. Her children cry out in fear and huddle in corners and her dogs go running for cover. It is the female half of the couple who often sets off the explosives, Ms. Simons claimed, sometimes from her own backyard and sometimes near her place of work by West Lake Drive.
The worst of the bunch came right before Christmas, said Vicki Rudolph. She saw a flash and within a second her whole house shook. Her 10-year-old daughter was terrified and screamed, " 'Mommy, Mommy where are you?' She thought I was hurt," she said.
The blasts usually occur at night around 10 p.m., but there have been a few during the day. In summer, the noises stopped.
Kim Gatti said she feels as if she's living in a war zone, with the sounds of bombs and gunshots.
Some have speculated that the noises are coming from the Long Island Power Authority's substation on Industrial Road. But Mark Gross, a spokesman for LIPA, disputed that, saying that if a piece of equipment failed it would make a loud popping sound and would also cause electrical outages, none of which have been reported. He said that the frequency at which residents are hearing the noises also indicates they could not be from the station. "No, it's not us," he said.
Lieutenant Hatch said he's worried that the people setting off the explosives will eventually have an accident or an explosive will land on someone's house. Since the department began investigating, police have found no evidence, such as burn marks or burned mailboxes. "We hope that the public will assist us and forward all information immediately," he said.
I have been watching geological changes for many years. It is referred to as Earth Changes.
I was very interested in your article, especially the mention that in summer the noises cease.
I asked a question of ZT (zetatalk5.com) as I thought that Montauk could be added to a specific (Loud Booms) blog here,
that has listed many states who are hearing these explosions.
I wasn't sure if that was the cause but I got my answer this morning and it is exactly that.
I'll paste the whole question, answer below.
'Explosions' Out East? I was wondering if there is something more happening in Montauk, East Hampton as this seems a bit strange. East Hampton is a peninsula bordered on the south by the Atlantic Ocean, to the east by Block Island Sound and to the north by Gardiners Bay, Napeague Bay and Fort Pond Bay.
I'm not sure if it falls under the Booms category on the ning
but the article says "Blasts 'occur without warning and leave no evidence." and have been going on for more than a year although not during the summer. (Why) I recognize that the bow stretch is pulling tighter everyday with adjustments in between. Surely if this were a manmade occurence there would be evidence I would think. Is something more happening that the Zetas can share with us?
SOZT (start of zetatalk)
Close examination of the rock strata holding East Hampton shows that the strata is different than the strata under the rest of New York State. The bowing of the N American continent, and the occasional release of tension along the St Lawrence Seaway when that jerks open to some degree, create a back and forth action along the rock strata edges. Rock strata of a homogeneous nature tend to bond, and resist ripping. But along the borders where different strata meet, this tight bond is missing. This is allowing the Hamptons to hear snapping rock now and then, the booms which are so familiar in many parts of the globe. Why does this ease in the Summer? Heat swells rock and creates a tighter hold along the boundary, rock fingers having more friction and thus preventing motion.
EOZT (end of zetatalk)
These matters are related to the rock strata, which bonds or breaks, as we have stated. There is a natural break in the rock strata holding Ohio, along the Ohio River and into its headwaters, as can be seen. Why should Chicago be affected? There is a natural break in the rock strata between the New Madrid and Chicago also, a weakness, which will rupture with the New Madrid.


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BFP = Big Fat (or your favorite "f" word) Positive; used on TTC (trying to conceive) and birth loss boards on the internet. Women who use this terminology tend to record BBTs (basal body temps) and other fertility signs.
Sturm und Drang = German for "storm and longing" or "storm and stress"
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" . . . the name of a movement in German literature and music taking place from the late 1760s through the early 1780s in which individual subjectivity and, in particular, extremes of emotion were given free expression in response to the confines of rationalism imposed by the Enlightenment and associated aesthetic movements. The philosopher Johann Georg Hamannis considered to be the ideologue of Sturm und Drang, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a notable proponent of the movement . . ."
And since Goethe was one of those poets who was set by "everyone and their dawg" in the Classical musical period, I've come across the theme quite a bit.
What does Sturm und Drang have to do with BFP? Here I type, "barely" pregnant, bearer of the positive pee stick (home pregnancy test), being pulled by my rational mind and wild emotion. I have been pregnant 3 times in the past 5 months. My June cycle led to pregnancy and a 5 week miscarriage in early August. We waited a full cycle and conceived again, but I miscarried between 5 and 7 weeks in early October. We waited 8 weeks for my menses to return, and in the third cycle following the miscarriage I "accidentally" got pregnant again.
The rational mind says: (1) miscarriage is a possibility, and a higher possibility now that I've had 2 back-to-back miscarriages; (2) although miscarriage is a possibility, I am statistically MORE likely to carry the pregnancy successfully to term; (3) there's nothing I can do to cause a miscarriage; (4) there is nothing I can do to necessarily prevent or treat a miscarriage; (5) that I'll survive another miscarriage should that be the journey.
The emotional heart says: (1) Trust God; (2) God won't necessarily spare me from another miscarriage; (3) I can't bear another miscarriage; (4) I'll survive a miscarriage if I have to . . . my family needs me; (5) Bond with this pregnancy; (6) Stay emotionally detached from the pregnancy . . .
Another aspect of Sturm und Drang as it applies to BFPdom is guilt. I have guilt on two levels. First, I didn't intend to become pregnant this cycle, so I am a bit embarrassed about being pregnant so soon and feeling foolish for having "accidentally" gotten pregnant in the first place. My herbalist wanted me to be on a particular herbal regiment for about 3-6 months before TTC. Second, I participate on a birth loss forum. Some of the women in my group have been trying for months if not years to become pregnant. Some have been trying for months if not years to become pregnant and see a pregnancy through to term. Some have suffered multiple losses. So I sometimes feel guilty and petty because I do have one beautiful daughter and have at least experienced pregnancy now 4 times.
As happy as I am for me, I grieve for these kind women on my board. It's hard to see one of them go on to a pregnancy board and continue with their pregnancy and birth. It's hard to see them return after a pregnancy was lost. It's hard for all of us to be excited about possibly being pregnant and scared that the inevitable (menses, miscarriage, stillbirth, etc.) will fall upon us. It's rough waiting for the next hcg or progesterone test or ultrasound that assures us that the pregnancies are moving forward.
I love these women dearly. I wish the circumstances that brought us together were different, but I learn something new every day. Someone posts something heart-felt every day that touches me. These hopeful grieving women have marked me and I them.


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Here's the conclusion to an awesome and fundraising weekend in Houston, Texas.
Part 1 photos are here & sequences. All the video comps: Tech Center, Bowl Jam, Big Four.
The results looked like this:
Bowl Jam: 1st $2500 Andrew Langi
2nd $1500 Josh Mattson
3rd $1000 Tony Cervantes
Zumiez Big 4: Winner Chris Cole, $2000
Tech Center: 1st $2500 Chris Cole
2nd $1500 Gilbert Crockett
3rd $1000 Sean Malto


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The embedded "Quicktime for IE-only trick":/d/byebyeembed/justforie.html supposedly shows nothing in non-IE browsers. This is not entirely correct since it *does work* in Opera 7.54, Safari 2.0.3 and OmniWeb 5.1.1 (on Mac OS 10.4.6). Funny thing is that IE 5.2 (Mac) does _not_ work.
The "full solution":/d/byebyeembed/forall.html indeed works as advertised, even in IE5.2-Mac.
Great article btw—thanks.
Very useful article, thanks. I'm implementing this into my website now. It's worth noting that the control toolbar for Windows Media Player is included in the 'height' variable (intensely irritating as it may be). For IE6 and Firefox 1.5 on Windows XP this is an extra 45 pixels, but I don't know if this is the same across all browsers and operating systems.
Funnily enough, my windows server refuses to render the code. It gives an ASP error, which seems strange as it has no business examining HTML!
bq. Active Server Pages, ASP 0139 (0x80004005) An object tag cannot be placed inside another object tag.
Why can't we focus on getting the ubiquitous <embed> tag incorporated into the XHTML specification? Look how simple and elegant this is:
<embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/I4-5rqlhePQ" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425" height="350"></embed>
Thanks for this useful article from one of the Web's most important women writers.
Check out "www.HappinessU.org":http://www.happinessu.org
They take a rather simple approach to this entire problem that not only makes sense, but requires a heck of a lot less code than any of the other workarounds I've seen out there.
If you're not a real programmer and just want to fix this, they even have a little tool for the commoner that lets you drop your old embed code in and it creates all the code you need.
To JavaScript, or not to JavaScript. For me, there are no alternative options but to always use JavaScript when embedding rich media content.
As we all know, the latest versions of IE 6 (with the recent security update) and IE 7 beta permanently changed the behavior of assets embedded using ActiveX. This is especially detrimental to Flash, where users must click an annoying dialog box button to activate the movie before it can load/playback. While this is (for now) and IE only issue, it may as well affect all browsers because of IE's ubiquity.
You can simply use a series of [removed] calls to do the same thing, and avoid the page weight hit of embedding a medium sized external JS file, if page weight is a concern. But that's prone to human error, and can be a real pain in the arse to maintain.
My points are mostly related to the complexities of embedding Flash content and not necessarily QT or Windows, but after years of tinkering with alternate ways for embedding Flash content and detecting player versions I've yet to find a better solution than using JavaScript.
Amazing! I spent several hours today trying to bust this nut. I almost gave up in the end. Then "ta-da", out of the blue (without searching) the answer turns up.
Many thanks! - Loved the crackers.
I added this article to my page that documents every known method of using embed and object with valid code:
"Standards-compliant Web pages with captioning":http://joeclark.org/access/captioning/bpoc/embed-object.html#ALA-July2006
Man, this Textile syntax is weird.
autostart="false" only works in IE, if you use 0's and 1's for the boolean switches it works in Firefox, and IE have not tested others.
We had a lot of problems lately with video and the latest install of Firefox (1.5.04). We were using the embed tag to display our video files and it only worked on about half of the desktops with the latest firefox install. After hunting high and low this was the fix that solved the issue. Very timely info, thanks for the fix.
It appears that the 'show to non-ie' type of conditional comments were included in Hixies flash example from 2004, Lachlan's example used a different method.
In fact, if you combine them, you could use two blocks, one for IE 5-6, and one for IE 7 & standards based browsers "like so":http://alastairc.ac/code/ie_cc_test.html
I'm not sure what the benefit of nesting the objects is? You are effectively showing different HTML to different browsers anyway?
for MSJVM people have to use APPLET, otherwise see: embeding "java":http://ww2.cs.fsu.edu/~steele/XHTML/appletObject.html via conditional comments.
also: nice js plugin "framework":http://www.knallgrau.at/code/plugin_js
I think the answer is not to get the embed tag added to any HTML specs, but to encourage browser makers to fix the way their browser handles the object tag. (maybe we need a browser plug-in task force?)
Until that happens (and possibly after because of things like the Eolas issue), Javascript is and will be the best way to embed any content that uses a plugin.
Unfortunately, the _Eureka! One object for Windows Media Player_ example did not work for me on Safari 2.0.4. Better head back to the drawing board.
elizabeth, this article made my month! man, i've been scouring the net for this answer for months now. my ad school friends entered a contest recently and asked me to embed their current.tv flash video on my blog to help get them some votes ... and i reluctantly agreed knowing that it would totally ruin my perfectly valid code that i worked so hard to maintain. but your tips helped fix all my issues and now i can go back to being OCD. so thanks!
I had noticed the Safari/Firefox conflict myself in object param markup and mounted my own examples a few months ago <http://www.q7design.demon.co.uk/QTMovieMarkup> before submitting a report to webkit. As both markups validate with the W3C validator it is not clear to me which style of object markup is correct, as I find the W3C spec. completely incomprehensible. Anyone out there understand it?
Few months ago I published similar way how correctly insert a Flash into XHTML (see http://www.dgx.cz/trine/item/how-to-correctly-insert-a-flash-into-xhtml). This method doesn't require to insert any twice!
I have found out the same trick with conditional comments as Lachlan Hunt figured out, syntax-highlighed explanation is here http://www.dgx.cz/trine/item/the-magic-with-conditional-comments.
Sorry - now with clickable links:
- "how insert <object> into XHTML":http://www.dgx.cz/trine/item/how-to-correctly-insert-a-flash-into-xhtml (without duplicate 's)
- "syntax-highlighted conditional comments trick":http://www.dgx.cz/trine/item/the-magic-with-conditional-comments
The parameter for src and controller used in the example are from WMP6.4 rather than WMP7 and later :
From WMP version 7 there was a compatibility layer put into the player to allow these elements temporarily, but it's not guaranteed to work forever.
The src one is easy to change, it should be name="url" instead of name="src". The param element for controller no longer exists, it's replaced by uimode : One of
See these MSDN articles for complete details :
A detailed object comparison between WMP6.4 and WMP 7 and later
Cheers - Neil Smith
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Wow, two ALA articles that correspond exactly to some problems I've been having a while ago!
I've done some research on this subject myself once, but I didn't find a standards compliant solution. Thanks a lot for providing one!
If you're looking to use QuickTime objects, I found a simple solution that uses no JavaScript or nested objects.
Elizabeth pointed out that classid is the piece of code that gives Web standards do-gooders such headaches. So, why not a little server-side if/else statement to show it to browsers that need it?
If the browser is IE, show an opening object tag that includes the classid.
Else, show an opening object tag without it.
<!—#if expr="${HTTP_USER_AGENT} = /MSIE/"—>
<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" type="video/quicktime" width="400" height="300" data="videofile.mpg" standby="Loading MPEG video…">
<object type="video/quicktime" width="400" height="300" data="videofile.mpg" standby="Loading MPEG video…">
<param name="src" value="videofile.mpg" />
<param name="autoplay" value="true" />
<param name="controller" value="true" />
<param name="scale" value="tofit" />
Works in IE Windows, Firefox Windows/Mac, Safari, and kind of works on IE Mac.
This is great. I'm wondering if we can modify it so that it doesn't use the IE conditional in the HTML. Try adding a class ("outterObject" in this example) to the parent object, and this to the global CSS file:
object { height: 0; width: 0; }
object.outterObj, object object { display: block; height: 200px; width: 320px; }
Unfortunately, IE doesn't seem to see the nested object tag as nested, otherwise you wouldn't need to set the default height and width values to 0 for object tags.
This of course means that you have to remove the height and width from inline on the object to the style sheet, which is a good thing, since it's a display property anyway (and it will enable you to modify it for other media types).
I've only tested this for Firefox and IE6 on the PC, so I'd love to hear any feedback.
A possible word of caution here: From my experience with the Flash Satay method to embed Flash movies into pages, using the <object> tag causes browsers to download the Flash movie completely before playing it, instead of being able to begin playing the movie as soon as enough of the content has been streamed in. I noticed a pause before the movie started playback in the article example… perhaps due to the same reason? All I know is that for Flash movies, with <embed>, content seems to be able to be streamed, whereas with <object>, the entire object must be downloaded before playback can begin.
In my own personal projects and in design work that I do for my clients, I tend to try to use Flash Satay as much as possible, but only when the Flash content is inconsequential to the main "meat" of the page, and is just acting as visual "icing on the cake." When my clients demand heavy Flash content, I still have to resort to the twice-cooked method for any kind of streaming to occur. (Preloaders don't seem to be able to counteract this effect, either.) Anyone else have any experience with regard to this?
Elizabeth asked about a variant form of the conditional comment technique which would select for non-IE/Win or certain IE/Win versions.
This should be the answer. Based on work by André Huf, Roger Johansson, Lachlan Hunt). (See "André Huf's comment":urlhttp://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200511/valid_downlevelrevealed_conditional_comments/ at the foot of Roger Johansson's article.)
Try this test example:
Test - valid form, Huf/Johansson: (note: IE6, IE5 should show nothing, all other browsers should show a result)
I am
<!—[if gt IE 6]><!—>
either a non-IE/Win browser, or IE/Win >6, or ancient.
The test for IE versions can of course be reversed by changing the conditional test from gt to lt.
Note that this technique will fail for ancient IE/Win browsers <=IE4/Win.
Cecil Ward.
Alistapart rather chewed up that last example. The close-conditional comment above should have read
< ! - - <![endif] - - >
That is, a straightforward comment with an IE-conditional-close marker embedded within it.
And that too. At this point, I give up. I am indeed an idiot. And I am now going to go off and do something else instead like get some coffee, take the dogs out for a walk and feed the hens and ducks.
This article got me playing with Flash again, and I noticed an oddity in Firefox; the browser appears to rely on page stying to display Flash movies when only the object tag is used.
If you exclude the width and height attributes from the object tag, the movie won't appear at all (I guess it can't read the movie's intrinsic values). But, even when you do set the width and height, if you turn styles off (View > Page Style > No Style), the movie will vanish.
The embed tag doesn't suffer from this quirk, not that I'm condoning its use—but I don't see a workaround.
Just as an addendum, I'm also using the IE conditional commenting to send a unique object tag to IE and a generic tag to other browsers. I'm not nesting my object tags though, it's literally:
<!—[if IE]>
<object />
<!—[if !IE]>—>
<object />
I'm not worried about the minor code repetition, and because the offending IE object tag is entirely commented out, the page validates.
Sorry to triple post, but it ate the second line of my example, which was:
<!- [if !IE]> -> <object /> <!- <![endif] ->
In my earlier post, I mentioned "the Huf/Johansson technique":url:http://www.alistapart.com/comments/byebyeembed?page=3#25 for IE-Win v.x selective exclusion using valid IE-conditional directives.
I've done some testing using "BrowserCam":url:http://www.browsercam.com and the technique seems _very reliable_. I use this technique for CSS filtering (but with additional IE/Mac filtering on top), and it's fantastic. For the benefit of anyone who wants to use know whether they can safely take advantage of this, here's the browsercam blitz in full.
* Tested and *passed* in: IE5.0/Win, IE 6, IE 7 beta3; Netscape 6.2.3, Netscape 7.2; Konqueror 3.4; IE/Mac 5.2.x; Safari 1.2, Safari 2.0; Camino 1.0; Opera 9.0; Mozilla 1.6; Mozilla 1.7.12; Firefox 1.5
* Tested in: Netscape 4.78; IE/Win 4.0 - 'correct' behaviour as per spec, ie filter not effective
* Test *omissions*; IE/Win 3; IE/Win 5.5; IE/Mac 5.1.x; IE/Mac<=4.x; Opera<=8.x
So feel free to go for it, provided you watch out for ancient v4 browsers. See also "Roger Johansson's article":url:http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200511/valid_downlevelrevealed_conditional_comments/ and go down to "André Huf's comment":url:http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200511/valid_downlevelrevealed_conditional_comments/#comment21 .
As I'm currently developing an online video portal for my company, this article has been quite pertinent. Great job.
Great article and method. However, as all my pages are XHTML Strict, this won't validate with W3C. Also, it angers some Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
This worked great for me. Our CIO had me use an .asx file with a redirect in it instead of linking directly to our streaming server. Why is that?
I know that within an XHTML document it is proper to type tags in lowercase but I believe that when referring to a tag (or attribute) within an article it is perfectly fine to render them in all caps. Thus . . .
"The use of embed has gone on too long."
would be perfectly valid as
"The use of EMBED has gone on too long."
It really helps readability for me when I am reading an article such as this. Looking forward to the sixth edition of your book, Elizabeth. Actually checked Barnes and Noble for it yesterday.
We are developing a filter to allow members to more easily publish youtube and other videos into our global social network. Without altering and breaking the rest of the site layout of course. This article helps considerably! Our core platform is Drupal and we plan to publish back the results once completed.
Note: "autostart" isn't part of the QuickTime plug-in attributes, you should rather use the autoplay parameter with value true or false.
Very useful. Mnay thanks.
Michael Locker MD
through trial and error, i came up with the quicktime version ages ago for my day job's virtual tours section http://www.salford.ac.uk/about/virtual_tour/
Great article but the whole object-in-an-object markup concept is just plain bad to me, and smells of the ol' embed solution of olden days. Ive got a much simpler solution that works cross-browser and is xhtml compliant. Mine uses two object tag sets and display:none to hide one set based on the browser. One for IE active x and the other for all the others. Some special fixes as well, but uses simple CSS to show and hide each type for each browser. Works on MAC as well (IE and Safari), and works with Flash, Quicktime and any multimedia object you may have. Can even be used as a replacfement for the old iframe. Check it out when you get a chance and send comments:
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I recently Goggled a problem I was having with the way my WMV files were opening on my site.
I found this site"¦
Ree: One object for Windows Media Player
I just used his code and IMO it works GREAT!!
"GREAT!!"? being it opens the WMV's the way I envisioned them opening!!
The following properties are supported for use with the name attribute of the PARAM element. "Param tags":http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmplay10/mmp_sdk/paramtags.asp All these work with IE and Media Player ActiveX plugin (the object with classid). Don't use old deprecated Media Player 6.4 properties with Active-X plugin.
In Parentheses is specified what you should use with NPAPI-plugin ie. in second object or embed for Firefox, Opera, Safari etc.
Note also that according to specs autoStart is true by default so it is not necessary to specify it.
* autoStart (OK, use 0 or 1 instead of false and true(default))
* balance—-
* baseURL—-
* captioningID—- (Mozilla bug 293616)
* currentPosition (Only works with local files or if the file is cached)
* currentMarker (OK)
* defaultFrame (OK)
* enableContextMenu (OK, use 0 or 1 instead of false and true(default))
* enabled (OK, use 0 or 1 instead of false and true(default))
* fullScreen—-
* invokeURLs (OK, use 0 or 1 instead of false and true(default))
* mute (OK, use 0 or 1 instead of false(default) and true)
* playCount (OK)
* rate (OK)
* SAMIFileName (OK)
* SAMILang ?
* SAMIStyle ?
* stretchToFit—-
* uiMode—- (none = set ShowControls to 0), (mini = set ShowPositionControls to 0), (full(default) set ShowStatusBar to 1)
* URL—- (Use fileName)
* volume—-
* windowlessVideo—-
It is good practise to provide additional download link.
Check that your server actually serves correct MIME-types. "MIME Type Settings for Windows Media Services":http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwmt/html/mime.asp
I have used the object tag to inlcude a Flash video (.FLV) and it seems to work well. Maybe Flash video is the way to go - more people have the plug-in and progressive download means the entire file doesn't have to be downloaded at once.
If you are using QT you need to provide alternatives which could be confusing for the user. I am not sure whether Flash video will be more accessible though - it will need more testing.
The version that is supposed to work (http://alistapart.com/d/byebyeembed/forall.html) shows a completely blank page in my Safari 2.0.4.
Strange. Both test versions wouldn't stream in FF (on winXP) until they fully loaded, then they played fine.
But the final for standards loving browsers version actually crashed my FF; this is the very first time that my FF has crashed.
I don't want to know why the it crashed my FF. It did. Period. I lost all my open tabs (including a lengthy, unposted, reply to someone on why their page was blowing up (because among other reasons, they had used the <embed> tag!). If the solution here crashed on me, it may crash on one of my visitors ... I can't take the risk of lost respect or patronage.
There has been a problem with replacing the damn <embed> tag with a valid "cross-browser-perform-as-intended" <object> tag for over five years now and it seems as if the problem still exists.
As a standards compliant web coder, I often wonder why I bother fighting with tableless css layout to make them cross browser compliant, when tables were simply so much easier (most likely because I resent MS arrogance). Much of the time the box model hacks don't work as expected (or IE keeps finding a way to occasionally blow up my layout just for spite).
And now, trying to find a valid replacement for the <embed> tag is also turning into the same kind of frustrating hit or miss art project. With many brilliant mad scientists' experiments out there that work most of the time for most of the people and some of the time for some of the people yet hardly ever for a few poor saps.
There will eventually be a true working solution. Until then, I applaud those who keep trying. So <"embed" sound of applause>. But back to the drawing board.
I'm having most difficulties getting Windows Media to play in Firefox, especially if I don't want the video to autostart. There is also problems getting ASX files played among all browsers. Pointing directly to the WMV file usually works fine, but if you wrap it in an ASX file, I've found the content type 'video/x-ms-asf' to work better than the 'video/x-ms-wmv' proposed in this article.
And either way, I can't find a way to display WMP's controls in Firefox, so if you manage to get 'autostart=0' to be respected, there's no way to actually start the video since there's no play button. Frustrating.
I tried to implement this technique to embed an IFRAME content while not using the iframe element. I spent quite a few hours in doing this and came home with some results, and a lot of informations on how current UA deals with supposed standards.
If you are interested, find the post here: http://exploded.awcr.org/iframe
I've tried to use the <object> non ActiveX solution and worked just fine with IE 6 in WinXP. But with Firefox I could'nt make to work with the status bar. I've used and it didn't work in Firefox. I've also tried , but it didn't work also. This parameter didin't work with either Firefox and IE 6, both WinXP.
With IE use ActiveX and with other browsers use NPAPI. And remember to use conditional comments especially since some Firefox users might have unofficial ActiveX plugin(ax in user-agent string)
<!—[if IE]>
<object id="WMP" classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" width="320" height="300">
<!—[if !IE]> <—>
<object id="WMP" type="video/x-ms-wvx" width="320" height="300">
To view the movie you need media player that supports Windows Media format
View / Download MyMovie (size) [WMV]
<!—> <![endif]—>
code get messed <IE]> should read < ! - - [ i f ! I E ] > without extra spaces.
I'm at my wits end… I have used every code I know to embed a WMV file on my splash page, yet it keeps appearing with the controller, even though I have controller=false in my code. (C:\Websites\CHLBI\chl_splash1.htm)
It works fine with my MOV page.(C:\Websites\CHLBI\chl_splash2.htm)
<embed src="layout/Layout2006/Animation/CHL2.wmv" width="600" height="400" 'controller=false', '',></embed>
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated!
Well, I now have a hybrid of the Castro method and the Apple method….and I'm begingin to loose control of things!
All was going well - even IE 6.0.29 with SP2 under Win XP Pro was behaving (as was Safari 2.04, FF 188.8.131.52 & IE 5.2 all under Mac OS X)! Then I installed FF 2.0 under Win XP Pro - and now I'm back to square 1 with pormpts to install stuff!
It seems as soon as you fix this for one bunch of browsers, and begin testing on the next - the bubble pops. Is there a definitive version of the code structure out there will enable the embedding of MP3 files with a controller, without having to click through a thousand dialogues and sign your life away? Is it really that much to ask for?
Anyone come across the problem with scrolling embedded videos within scrollable DIVs?
I have embedded a video (youtube,google) within a scrollable DIV and upon viewing them on the mac browsers — Safari, Opera, OmniWeb and InternetExplorer, it produces an undesired effect.
Firefox seems to be an exception, but the browsers mentioned above doesn't recognise the boundaries of the DIV. So the video is not hidden at all within the confines, and when you scroll down to view the rest of the content underneath, a ghost image of the video remains..
Here is a link for a simple demo
The coding is straight forward. I just want to know if this is a known issue, if so are there any methods around it.. (searching the web has been to no avail). Also are PC users experiencing the same?


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Let's start out with the ugly. It is, after all, what you are probably obsessing about. The ugly part about today's economy is that it's one of the worst economic situations this country has experienced in quite some time. The jobless rate reached 7.2 percent in December, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That means 11.1 million people are unemployed, 50 percent more than at the beginning of last year. Still, that number is lower than in past recessions. However, some analysts say the number doesn't account for the underemployed who have stopped looking for a job or who took part-time work when they need full-time work.
This ugliness comes after a period of relative wealth and mega spending on the part of individuals and businesses — spending beyond many people's means. Many of us have become so used to buying what we want when we want it, and worrying about actually paying for it later, that it's hard for people to adjust and cut back on their spending.
But as you've become aware, people are reducing their spending. That seems like more ugliness for the economy as it slows it even further. But really, in the long term, cutting back on our extravagant spending is actually healthier for individuals even though it hurts right now, especially for businesses that offer the services people are cutting back on.
Now to the bad. Some people are canceling their club memberships. Some club operators are seeing higher attrition rates. Some club operators are cutting dues and enrollment fees, or offering a few months of free memberships or a few free sessions of personal training. They are doing all of this in an effort to entice people to join a place they'd rather not go (health clubs) to do something they'd rather not do (exercise) so they can be as thin or as healthy as they want or need to be.
Now, let's end on the good. Not every club operator is facing increased attrition and decreased revenue. Some club operators are actually still growing and expanding. And as Mark Mastrov points out in his column, "Tried and True Game Changers for 2009," many club operators actually saw higher usage in December. (I can attest that my gym was very busy in November, December and January.)
Even better, most market researchers predict that the health club industry will continue to grow because of the high obesity rate and the growing emphasis at corporations on prevention (see "Industry Growth Still Anticipated"). IBISWorld Inc., an industry and market research company, projects that the industry will grow by 4 percent this year. Analysts at Piper Jaffray predict that although growth this year might be slower, the health club industry will grow 5 percent to 10 percent a year. Financial Week magazine predicted that despite the economy, the health club industry would increase by 2.2 percent in 2009 and listed it as one of the industries that would prosper this year. Looking even longer term, the U.S. Department of Labor projects that the number of jobs in the fitness industry will grow by 27 percent between 2006 and 2016.
Let's face it. The ugly truth that our nation is getting fatter (and because of that, also more unhealthy) only seems to secure the future of the fitness industry. However, that doesn't mean that we should continue with business as usual. We're still only reaching about 15 percent of the population. A huge opportunity awaits this business, and the club operators who figure out how to grab that opportunity are the ones who won't have to face a bad and ugly end.


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The Wabash College Brass Ensemble and Jazz Band presents a fall concert at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 14 in Salter Concert Hall in the Fine Arts Center.
The Wabash College Brass Ensemble is scheduled to perform Bergerett and Reprise: Sans Roch by Tielman Susato; Pizzicato Polka by Johann Strauss; Canzoni per Sonare (Venice, 1608) by Merulo and Maschera; Beer Belly Polka by Scott Ramsey; and Czech's in the Mail Polka by Kevin Kaisershot. Under the direction of Peter Hulen, the Brass Ensemble has performed a wide variety of works from the Renaissance to the avant-garde, from 16th-century cathedrals and town halls, to the blues and the Beatles.
In its second year under the leadership of Scott Pazera, the Wabash College Jazz Band is venturing into a mix of traditional swing and Latin rhythms while performing the compositions of Miles Davis, Henry Mancini, and Jerome Kern. This young and exciting band is comprised of a blend of a traditional jazz band with the addition of other instruments, including tuba and french horn. Several of this year's selections are taken from the smaller ensemble arrangements of the Art Pepper Orchestra as well as the Dave Pell Octet.
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In a double immunofluorescence experiment, the adherent monolayer culture of African green monkey kidney cells presented above was fixed, permeabilized, blocked with normal goat serum, and treated with a cocktail of mouse anti-clathrin (heavy chain) and rabbit anti-giantin (Golgi) primary antibodies, followed by goat anti-mouse and anti-rabbit secondary antibodies (IgG) conjugated to Alexa Fluor 488 and Alexa Fluor 568, respectively. The nuclei were counterstained with Hoechst 33258. Images were recorded in grayscale with a QImaging Retiga Fast-EXi camera system coupled to an Olympus BX-51 microscope equipped with bandpass emission fluorescence filter optical blocks provided by Omega Optical. During the processing stage, individual image channels were pseudocolored with RGB values corresponding to each of the fluorophore emission spectral profiles.
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Formula Drift staged the seventh and final race of its 2013 racing season at Irwindale Speedway. The triumphant return to "The House of Drift" was a fitting end to the celebration of FD's 10th season, as spectators witnessed another sold-out crowd, and the largest yet with standing room only. Michael Essa in the GSR Autosport/Yokohama BMW M3 leads the points race by the slimmest of margins with only 17.5 points separating him and second place after six races.
Essa felt the championship in his grasp early on. He impressed the judges with an early qualifying run of 96.6 points, which was enough to give him the top spot going into eliminations with Vaughn Gitten Jr. in the Monster Energy/Nitto Tire Ford Mustang coming in Second with 93.6 points. Being the number one qualifier, Essa was automatically rewarded 12 points to add to his lead. With potential championship contentions on the line for the Top 10 competitors, it became a numbers game as Daigo Saito in the Achilles Tire/Bridges Racing Lexus SC430 qualifying 16th, Justin Pawlak in the Falken Tire Ford Mustang coming in at 17, and Fredric Aasbo in the Hankook Tires/Motegi Racing Scion tC qualifying in 14th Place that had officially determined that Chris Forsberg in the NOS Energy/Nissan 370Z who by mathematical calculations was still in contention to steal the championship away from Essa.
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It wouldn't be an FD event if there wasn't some type of controversy, right? The opening round saw Luke Paluka in the FR Sport Toyota Corolla take on the number one qualifier, Essa. Paluka's car encountered steering problems on the first tandem run and requested a 5-minute ruling. Drama ensued as Essa also called his 5-minute after blowing the BMW engine during that same run. The controversy that would shape the course of this year's championship was who initially called the first time-out. That was the big question the fans wanted to know, including Chris Forsberg, the man standing in Second Place in the points race. Was Paluka "motivated" to throw in the towel early on and give the win to Essa which would ultimately pad his lead even further? Regardless of if this was in fact the truth, the win was given to the BMW as the team moved on to the Top 16.
Dai Yoshihara in the Discount Tire/Falken Tire Nissan S13 ended his valiant season on a disappointing run after losing his engine during practice a few days prior. The team worked into the night and was able to replace his current engine with his 2011 FD championship engine. With only 500 hp on tap, the engine was outdated and outgunned coming into competition. The team tried to make adjustments to the car using smaller sized tires and suspension adjustments, but it just wasn't enough. He qualified 25th and lost to opposing component Forsberg, who moved on to the next round. Others who would move on included a hard-hitting Dean Kearney, Ken Gushi, Fredrik Aasbo, Robbie Nishida, and crowd favorite Daigo Saito to name a few.
Top 16
Upon hearing news of Essa unable to continue due to a blown motor, it immediately brought us back to the 2011 FD Round 7 championship when Yoshihara was leading the points race by the slimmest of margins and eliminated in the early rounds. The early exit reduced him to spectator status as he watched Gitten Jr. attempt to leapfrog over his points lead to take the championship. There was an eerie similarity to this year's finals with Essa sharing the same plight as Yoshihara, and relegated to sitting duck status as the doors were now wide open for Forsberg.
Great Eight
Some tense moments and surprising upsets, including the all-important tandem battle of Saito versus Forsberg in the Great 8 would determine the fate of Essa's championship. It was Forsberg's for the taking, but a critical error gave the win to Saito-and, more importantly, secured the championship for Essa. The win marked the first time a European vehicle has won the Formula Drift championship.
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The consolation round saw the 2JZ engine battle of Robbie Nishida in the Bridges Racing/Achilles Tire Lexus SC300 against Forrest Wang in the Get Nuts Lab/Achilles Nissan 240SX. The two drivers jockeyed for position, as the judges needed a one-more-time battle to determine the winner. Wang who knocked out former champion Gittin Jr. in the previous round proved to be the more consistent driver, earning Third Place for his first ever Formula Drift podium.
The final battle pitted Saito versus Tyler McQuarrie in the Mobil 1/GoPro Chevrolet Camaro. The first run looked to give McQuarrie the edge, as Saito bobbled coming out of the second clipping point. On the second run with Saito as the lead car, McQuarrie came into the turn too hot and hit the retaining wall in dramatic fashion, thus ending his run and giving Saito a First Place podium finish.
Formula Drift Professional Championship Finale
|1. Michael Essa
|GSR Autosport/Yokohama BMW M3
|555.50 Points
|2. Chris Forsberg
|NOS Energy Drink/Hankook Nissan 370Z
|538 Points
|3. Daigo Saito
|Achilles Tire/Bridges Racing Lexus SC430
|510.50 Points
|4. Fredric Aasbo
|Hankook Tire Scion Racing tC
|487.50 Points
|5. Vaughn Gittin Jr.
|Monster Energy/Nitto Tire Ford Mustang RTR
|481.00 Points
|6. Justin Pawlak
|Falken Tire Ford Mustang
|425.00 Points
|7. Matt Field
|CX Racing/Maxxis/Blacktrax Nissan 240SX
|407 Points
|8. Darren McNamara
|Falken Tire Nissan S14
|388.50 Points
|9. Robbie Nishida
|Bridges Racing/Achilles Tire Lexus SC300
|387.25 Points
|10. Aurimas "Odi" Bakchis
|Nexen Tire Nissan S14
|379 Points
|11. Daijiro Yoshihara
|Discount Tire/Falken Tire Nissan S13
|333.50 Points
|12. Conrad Grunewald
|Hankook Tire/Megan Racing Chevrolet Camaro SS
|309.50 Points
|13. Chelsea DeNofa
|BC Racing BMW 3 Series
|291.00 Points
|13. Ryan Tuerck
|Team Retaks/Maxxis Scion Racing FR-S
|291.00 Points
|15. Tyler McQuarrie
|Mobil 1/GoPro Chevrolet Camaro
|290.50 Points
|16. Matt Powers
|Fatlace/Nitto Tire Nissan 240SX
|282.00 Points
Round 7: Final Fight Event Results
|1. Daigo Saito
|Achilles Tire/BridgesRacing Lexus SC430
|First Place
|2. Tyler McQuarrie
|Mobil 1/GoPro Chevrolet Camaro
|Second Place
|3. Forrest Wang
|Get Nuts Lab/Achilles Nissan 240SX
|Third Place
Manufacturers Championship Final Standings after Seven Rounds
|1. Hankook
|1,053.50 Points
|2. Falken
|1,008 Points
|3. Achilles
|973.25 Points
|4. Nitto
|834.50 Points
|5. Yokohama
|788 Points
Tire Final Championship Standsings After Seven Rounds
|1. Lexus
|975.50 Points
|2. Nissan
|912.50 Points
|3. Ford
|906.00 Points
|4. Scion
|866.50 Points
|846.00 Points


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Los Angeles County coroner's officials said Wednesday the body recovered from a fiery, single-car crash in Hollywood that apparently killed journalist Michael Hastings will likely undergo an autopsy Thursday.
But an official cause of death and closure of the case is not likely for four to six weeks or perhaps longer, they said.
Coroner's officials are hoping the results will answer why the accident happened. Officials were attempting to match dental records to help make a positive identification.
The death of the 33-year-old Hastings was announced Tuesday by his employer, BuzzFeed, which said he died in a Los Angeles car accident.
The body was "unrecognizable" and badly charred, police told the Los Angeles Times. The body is identified only as "John Doe 117."
The crash occurred early Tuesday on Highland Avenue. Police said a vehicle was southbound on Highland about 4:20 a.m. when it lost control south of Melrose Avenue and smashed into a tree.
BuzzFeed first reported Hastings' death. Hastings had opened the website's L.A. bureau last fall. An obituary by Rolling Stone magazine followed; he had also written for that publication.
In reporting stints in Baghdad, Washington and Kabul, Hastings rejected the cozy-access reporting favored by some of his colleagues in favor of a bare-knuckle style that sometimes rubbed his peers and subjects the wrong way.
His 2010 Rolling Stone profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, "The Runaway General," exposed the general and his staff's disdain for their superiors, including National Security Advisor James L. Jones, Vice President Joe Biden and President Obama.
Hastings won the prestigious George Polk Award for magazine reporting and later wrote a book about McChrystal and his time in the war zone: "The Operators: The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan."
In a 2010 interview with the L.A. Times, Hastings said he admired "writers who live their lives with integrity and without compromise." He even identified McChrystal as a kindred spirit, someone who also liked to stick it to "The Man."


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The Shelburne Falls Marble Company had been purchased in 1888 by David Temple, a marble salesman in Rutland, Vermont. He then brought his brother into the business to operate the new Shelburne Falls operation. The Temples came from nearby Heath, Massachusetts. Their company was, at the time of this receipt, the largest marble dealer in Western New England. The small engraving shows their company's offices, which faced Water Street in Shelburne and to their back is the Deerfield River. In the foreground the Shelburne Falls-Colrain Trolley is shown, and that is not an accident: David Temple was President of the company, incorporated the year of this receipt, 1896. Its line ran to the North River and on to Colrain. In 1908 a bridge was completed to carry the trolley line across the Deerfield River; today, that is Shelburne's "Bridge of Flowers." The trolleys were initially horse-drawn, like most of the day, but following a national trend it would soon be converted to electricity.
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New Grad Course Leads to Better Writing for Mechanical Engineering Undergrads
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For many engineering students, writing is a chore at best. While there are some who excel at the craft, many panic at the very prospect of putting words on paper.
Yet, from their sophomore year until graduation, that's exactly what mechanical engineering students must do to succeed in a series of three laboratory classes. To complicate matters, their reports are graded by graduate students, including many foreign nationals for whom English is a second language.
Michigan Technological University's Nancy Barr thought there might be a way to improve the process. "I've been the department's technical communications advisor for nearly five years, and as I began looking at our curriculum, I started with easy stuff: Senior Design report writing and presentation skills," she said. But before she worked with students in Senior Design, they had already been writing reports for two years, and Barr wanted to reach them during that critical time. The best way, she reasoned, was through their lab instructors.
"The graduate teaching assistants were required to evaluate the reports, but they didn't have any real training, and their guidance was inconsistent," she said. "I thought they would be a good place to start developing technical communications skills in our department."
To address the problem, she began work on a series of training modules for teaching assistants that may be the only one of its kind in the nation. The modules are adapted from Writing Across the Curriculum faculty training sessions that teach evaluators how to provide effective feedback on writing, the key to improving student communication. In addition, in 2012, Barr met with faculty and course coordinators to develop a set of report guidelines that would meet the needs of all three engineering labs. That way, undergraduates would face similar expectations as they advanced through the mechanical engineering curriculum.
Next, she joined faculty and TAs in developing a grading rubric to build consistency from one lab to the next. "That was a really enjoyable experience," Barr said. "It got faculty thinking about why students do lab reports and what we want them to learn."
Finally, they incorporated their work into training sessions for the GTAs. "Most are nonnative English speakers, so asking them to evaluate native speakers' writing can be a little touchy," she said. So, the GTAs are taught to focus on how well their students have followed the report-writing guidelines and how to grade based on the rubric. The undergraduates are responsible for their own grammar and punctuation.
In the short course, GTAs discuss how to evaluate writing and "get their fears on the table," Barr said. "We help them develop methods to address issues that might pop up. The biggest thing they face is just the volume of work. There are often 30 to 35 students in a section."
The TAs' guidelines go beyond red-pen editing; they are meant to provide helpful feedback, not a slap on the wrist. "It's not about crossing things out that don't make sense or writing question marks," Barr said. "If TAs mark a section down, they need to explain why. The focus is on content: does the undergraduate present content in a logical way that engages the reader and includes all the important information? We also teach them a little about the concept of audience. That's not something you hear much about in engineering, but all writing should be targeted to the appropriate audience. Employers want people who can communicate with a variety of people."
Ranjeeth Naik, a PhD student in mechanical engineering, took the training when it was first offered, in fall 2012. "It was the first time I'd had such a class, and I would have been glad to have it before I started TA-ing," he said. "Once you know the guidelines, the reports almost grade themselves, and it's much easier for our students to improve. It's an excellent class."
Naik is not alone in his enthusiasm. Based on surveys of students and TAs at end of the spring 2013 semester, the new guidelines and rubrics "are overwhelmingly appreciated," Barr said. "The undergraduates felt it saved them time and that they learned something. It's too soon to tell if it actually improves their writing, but in spring 2015, we'll compare the Senior Design reports to reports from fall 2012, because those students wouldn't have had TAs who had that training. We'll see if we can see any improvement."
Associate Professor Ibrahim Miskioglu, who coordinates the solid mechanics portion of MEEM 3000 Mechanical Engineering Lab, gave Barr high marks. "She's helping the TAs a lot--and helping us a lot--in that regard," he said. "I appreciate that she is not just creating this methodology on her own. She asks for input from everybody, and the quality of her work reflects that. I have nothing but praise for what she's doing."
William Predebon, chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering–Engineering Mechanics, is also enthusiastic in his support of the expanded writing program. "Since Nancy has been working in Senior Design, our External Advisory Board has noticed a marked improvement in the students' reports," he said. "And she's been so successful working with GTAs in our labs, that we're talking about doing this for all our graduate students, to improve their communications skills. They will all be writing dissertations and be presenting nationally and internationally, and those skills will not only help them find a position, they will reflect well on Michigan Tech."
Michigan Technological University is a public research university, home to more than 7,000 students from 54 countries. Founded in 1885, the University offers more than 120 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in science and technology, engineering, forestry, business and economics, health professions, humanities, mathematics, and social sciences. Our campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula overlooks the Keweenaw Waterway and is just a few miles from Lake Superior.


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The LAPD frowns upon celebratory gunfire on New Year's Eve. But what if your gun is loaded with 100% agave tequila? An Echo Park shopper stocking up for the New Year's came upon these AK-47 shaped bottles of AK-T tequilla at Super King in Glassell Park. There's also a carbine-shaped bottle for the more traditional gun/tequila lover. Priced from $49.99 to $65.99.


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Impressive technology is paired with sweet European styling in Lazer's Genesis 'Cross. For a perfect fit, this light lid boasts Lazer's Rollsys Retention System, which is super-easy to adjust even on the fly. Nineteen vents force warm air out the back and let cool air stream through the front, so you stay dry and comfortable. The Genesis also features antimicrobial X-static Airpads that cushion and wick to complement the helmet's high-end fit and feel. The 'Cross package includes a cold weather-beating Lion of Flanders aero helmet shell and a winter cycling cap.
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It is looking rather beautiful at l'uccello, our delivery of Sophie Degard handmade accessories arrived today, it is the most exciting parcel we have ever unpacked. The colours are just breathtaking and they are so beautifully made, mostly very fine crochet in either very soft wool or linen.
This handbag is so stunning, there is also a scarf in this design and colourway.
We sold almost half our shipment on the first day so if you see something you love give us a call.
How lovely are these antique lace making bobbins?
Lovely old rayon crochet thread still in purrrfect condition
Perfect for this steamy weather we are having, these fans keep you cool and glamorous at the same time.
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We are starting to get all the Christmas decorations out, so pretty.
Gift ideas for kids and grown ups.
Great gifts for kids and grown ups, Crafty Cards are little kits containing vintage treasures to make into unique gift cards
Also fun are these Cutie Doll Kits, we have a Christmas variety too that includes holly and a halo. They come with instructions for making her outfit and she would look so cute on top of the Christmas tree.
These sweet children's books are French and are in perfect mint condition, they are originals and are around 50-60 years old.
Also great for presents, old fashioned paper dolls, with lots of outfits in each book.
Vintage ephemera kits for scrap booking, collage or altered art projects.
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A curlynikki.com reader writes: "...your hair looks like it is jet black, is that all from henna? I'd love to get that dark shiny look."
I know it sounds weird, but the color changes depending on the setting. It's sort of like a rinse...a transparent copper-y rinse. Imagine drawing with an orange crayon on black construction paper—under most indoor lighting, the paper still looks black (albeit shinier), but if held under the light, just right, you'll catch a glimpse of orange. Outdoors, in sunlight, my hair glows auburn, so much so that my sis and hubby call me "redhead", but indoors it's a rich black. There are some instances (back lighting, etc.) where you can really see the red indoors, but I can never really catch it on camera.
With that said, if your hair lighter than mine naturally (sandy brown, etc) the henna red will be very evident—your hair may appear auburn in most lighting conditions.
Many women use a two step indigo treatment to cover stubborn grays and dye the hair a rich, shiny, blue-black. I've never used indigo and don't plan to, but the results I've seen look gorgeous. Hope this helps!
Later Gator,
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