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There has been some confusion about the quality of the ongoing Q4 earnings season, which has seen some 47% of the S&P 500 companies report to date (and with 53% still left things can certainly change). The confusion apparently is that this has been a "good" earning season so far. Nothing could be further from the truth, and as Goldman shows in its midterm Q4 earnings report, the reality, not spin, is that earnings are tracking at $24.03, or some 6% below the consensus estimate at the start of earnings season of $25.51. This revised number, which could well drop even more from here, means that Q4 earnings will post a minuscule 1% growth in EPS year over year compared to Q4 of 2011 when Europe was imploding, and when the world's central banks had to arrange a global bailout to prevent yet another Armageddon.
It gets worse: in Q4, only 34% of companies posted positive earnings surprises, well below the 42% average, based on the correct methodology which is relative to the standard deviation of consensus estimates two weeks prior to reporting date. This is the lowest beat ratio in all of 2012, and is the second lowest in the entire post Lehman failure period, except for the sub-30% number which we saw in Q4 2011, which as noted above, is when the world was ending.
But fear not: there is much hope that this time the future, unlike all those previous times, will be different and grow vertically from here in a straight line straight to the Utopia that would mean the S&P at 1500 is fairly priced (assuming a 13.5x multiple in a central bank-propped up world is fair).
Here are the facts:
- Using a mix of realized and consensus earnings, 4Q EPS is tracking 6% below the consensus estimate at the start of reporting season, $24.03 vs. $25.51
- Positive earnings surprises are tracking below average this quarter (34% vs. 42%). The percentage of firms missing earnings estimates by one standard deviation or more is above the 40 quarter average (18% vs. 14%).
- 36% of firms beat consensus sales expectations by more than one standard deviation, below the 10-year historical average of 38%. In addition, 19% of firms have missed sales estimates by that magnitude (versus 18% historically).
In summary, the S&P 500 is expected to earn some $98 for all of 2012, which means that as of this moment, the market is trading at a quite rich 15+ multiple (although what multiples mean under central planning nobody knows yet).
So how does the S&P500 go from 98 in earnings in 2012, to the consensus 111 in S&P500 EPS in 2013? A magic escalator apparently.
Finally, for those curious what exactly is the primary driver of this "surprising" weakness in the current earnings season, the answer is underfunded pensions - a topic that will recur over and over as more employees retire and their employer retirement promises are found to have massively underperformed relative to acctuarial plans:
Accounting and definition differences have lowered index-level results. Results comparable to consensus analyst estimates may differ from the Standard & Poor's definition due both to accounting differences and definitions of earnings from operations. These differences are usually small, but pension charges had a significant impact in 4Q.
The Telecom Services sector is expected to post a loss following large pension charges. Verizon's (VZ) $7.2 billion of pre-tax pension and severance charges and AT&T's (T) $10 billion pre-tax pension charge are both considered part of operating arnings. The after-tax impact of these charges reduced index-level EPS by about $1.22 and represents the majority of index-level earnings decline.
Luckily, none of the above matters. Why? Because Benny has your back, and fundamentals are so Old Normal.
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Officials said the driver was backing out of a driveway on Route 70 when the backhoe snagged a guy wire. The driver, not realizing the wire was hooked onto the backhoe, put the truck in drive and accelerated north on Route 70, pulling down utility poles.
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Jackie Barry, National Grid spokeswoman, said three utility poles and all the wiring were knocked out by the accident. Initially, 800 National Grid customers, primarily in Lancaster and some in Bolton, were without power, but crews reduced those numbers to 94 by early tonight, Ms. Barry said.
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|Summer Appointments on Research Foundation Payroll
- Summer 2013 Research Foundation Payroll Schedule for Faculty
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- As in the past, no more than two months (44 days) of total support may be obtained from NSF.
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Thursday grains sold off late to finish lower in corn and beans and higher in wheat. March corn finished 10 ¾ cents lower, Jan soybeans 3 ¼ cents lower, and March wheat 9 ½ cents higher.
The corn market lost half of what it made yesterday after being steady to unchanged for most of the day. I have included an intra-day chart of corn to illustrate just how quickly the markets can change.
Weekly exports were friendly for soybeans and as expected for corn and wheat. The actual numbers are below:
1,341,600 MT's soybeans
758,100 MT's corn
663,300 MT's wheat
The Stats Canada report will be out tomorrow morning at 7 am, we will have the results in the EHedger morning letter. Today's outside market strength would normally be seen as favorable for grains but the late selloff was probably attributed to more liquidation.
Wet weather continues to be of concern in Australia and kept wheat as the upside leader today. It was reported that as much as 33% to 40% of the Australian wheat crop could be used as feed. There could be legitimate shortages of high quality wheat around the world. Canada has the most feed wheat they have seen since 2004. With the rains in Australia, their quality is declining rapidly and they are usually higher quality wheat. Since a lot of this will go to feed, the expectation is the US will have to make up for the shortfall. Minneapolis and Kansas City wheat will likely be the first to rally on quality concerns, and Chicago wheat will try to follow. This is also something that could keep corn tempered if more and more wheat continues to get fed.
Over the past 3 weeks our markets have been in a liquidation stage. From the highs we broke into December option expiration and into first notice, all with open interest declining roughly 9-10%. Also during this timeframe was large change of ownership between the Index Funds, Large Specs, and Commercials. Establishing new long positions is a really healthy correction now that ownership is in new hands. We could see the liquidation phase extend out into the second week of December, but from the middle of December going into the middle of January we could see more buying interest as we get through the January reports.
If liquidation is done and more money starts pouring back in, it is going to be hard for this market to stay down given the fundamentals. The dryness concerns in Argentina, all the fundamentals that are still in place which took us to the original highs, and the acreage battle; the market has plenty of reasons to be optimistic.
Energy is another thing to watch out for. All the things are in the working for a 2008 style market except $100+ crude oil. Energy prices have been heading higher led by RBOB, which hit 7 month highs today. This is obviously friendly corn if this trend continues.
Last but not least: will the ethanol blender's credit and import tariff be renewed? There is a group of senators who are trying to abolish both the credit and import tariff all together. From what it looks like they will end up decreasing the blenders credit down to 30 cents for 2 years to try to slowly relieve the ethanol industry from these government subsidies over a period of time, rather than abruptly. At least this will anger the fewest amount of people. This should be viewed as long term friendly for corn, currently we are on pace to crush 5 billion bu. which is well over the 4.8 bill the government had written down for this year. Without the subsidies it could drop to 4.5 to 4.6.
Something else to consider is the susceptibility of volatile market swings during the holiday season as traders wrap up for the year. December 10th will be the next USDA production report. This is the last major report before the end of the year. In January we will get an influx of data that should provide plenty of direction for the 2011 marketing year. Right now we are comfortable with the cash sales and hedges that we have in place. If you are looking to add additional protection, please don't hesitate to give your broker a call.
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- September 5, 2008 at 3:38 PM
- notebook doodles said...
oh i wish!! but i'm across the globe which makes it quite impossible. good luck finding an intern though =) i'm sure everyone would love to eat cupcakes and listen to boy bands!
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it would be really cool if I could be your intern, I would love to help you out (and get paid for it) but unfortunaly I live in the Netherlands... but I´m positive you will find a intern who doesn´t live in Europe though
Good Luck
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David Payne, 35
Vice president, Payne & Payne Builders
When David Payne went off to Ohio State University to study mechanical engineering, he did not expect to come back to the family home-building business.
Sure, Mr. Payne had grown up around construction, following around his building supervisor father, Michael, on jobs and working as a sweeper at age 14 and a drywall installer later. Still, Payne & Payne Builders was just getting going under his dad and his uncle, David, while the young man was in college.
After the young Mr. Payne graduated from OSU in 1999, an electrical parts manufacturer in Chicago where he had interned offered him a job, but his father asked him to give Payne & Payne a try.
"Once I got into it as a committed mindset, it just gelled," Mr. Payne said. He became the sixth employee at the company, which now has more than 20 employees. Payne & Payne will do more than $20 million in construction and remodeling work this year. It managed to grow in the downturn, in part by focusing on green homes.
"One of the gifts being an owner of a company is getting to craft your job," Mr. Payne said. "I like to do the analytical part, to figure out what is important to clients and how to do it." He now runs the company's four-person sales team.
He also enjoys the collegial nature of the family business in a one-time century home and general store in Chardon that doubles as a sales center.
"When we have a decision, the five owners discuss it. We all bring different ideas and perspectives to the table," Mr. Payne said.
Mr. Payne, 35, served as president of the Home Builders Association of Greater Cleveland in 2010, a job that culminated a five-year rise through the trade group's ranks. His presidency coincided with one of the most challenging periods for the association because of the housing slump, which made the group weather a cash-flow crisis it now has gotten beyond.
Bill Sanderson, vice president of joint ventures at Forest City Enterprises Inc. and a past president of HBA, said the group's presidency is the kind of position people gain not only by working with HBA but also by their willingness to share knowledge with other builders and so win their respect.
Payne & Payne's growth through the downturn is a testament to Mr. Payne and his family, Mr. Sanderson said, because local builders have faced the toughest time in the housing industry as they lack the size and financial resources of publicly traded builders.


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Perhaps you heard, but Issue 10 of La Petite Magazine is out, and as usual it doesn't disappoint. You'll find lot's of great photography and styling, some gorgeous kids, some killer fashion, a few DIYs, art, books and the list goes on and on... One thing for sure is you'll be plenty inspired.
There were a few photos that stood out for me- here is a small selection...
This editorial is called "Science Fiction"- it was shot by Jenny Brandt, maybe you know her better as one of the contributors to the great blog Dos Family. Loved this shoot- it's true to Jenny's style, she seems to do everything right!
I'm loving the color combination in this shot- red, baby blue, pink and a little white. Gives me lots to think about! photos by Karolina Henke.
I really enjoyed all the photos by Maxine Helfman in Tea Party, doesn't help that all the clothing was vintage! Tea anyone?
There is something about this boy and his smile...
I Am Styling- photos by Anna Mattsson and styling by Rebecca Cohen, was my favorite. I'm a huge fan of Rebecca's work and always in awe as to how she puts all this clothing together and makes it look so good. I feature the two photos above from this shoot, but could have easily showed them all- I'll let you discover them for yourself.
I liked how un-staged this photo-shoot felt, a walk through the park! How cute is that girl? Photos by Berta Pfirsich.
And Kristin Loffer's book suggestions is a must read. It's all about the winter must haves this time arround. Her photos are also always fantastic.
Don't forget to read the cute interview with Rafa- Kids.
To check out the DIY by Trine from Groovy Mama and Baby, you know I'll be making one!
Barb Bruno collages are always fun...
and so much more to discover!
Lastly, here's a sneak peak at my selection for Lovely Finds and Petite Style...
I need to thank Rachelle, the editor in chief for giving me such a great opportunity to work with her and has trusted me to be a part of her lovely magazine. I can't thank her enough as this will be my last time contributing- I'm moving onto new projects, soon to be announced.
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WAG Announces Selection Committee for Major Contemporary Show
Celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2012, the Winnipeg Art Gallery is Canada's oldest civic gallery and one of the country's largest. The WAG is planning a milestone year of celebrations of art, programs, and special events from September 2012 through September 2013. It all kicks off on September 29, 2012 with the contemporary exhibition Winnipeg Now, featuring ten of Winnipeg's hottest and brightest artists currently shining on the national and international art scene. The longlist for Winnipeg Now will be determined in July 2011, and the final selection will be announced at the beginning of September 2011.
The selection committee for Winnipeg Now consists of four respected arts professionals from across the country, along with Mary Reid, WAG Curator of Contemporary Art and Photography, and WAG Director Stephen Borys.
"Winnipeg Now will reconfirm Winnipeg's place on the international stage in contemporary art, says Stephen Borys, "and audiences will be amazed at the remarkable scope of art being produced by artists living in or associated with our city."
Over the last decade the artistic ingeniuty that has longed defined Winnipeg has now established this city as a hotbed of talent in the global art arena. Winnipeg Now will capture this "moment" in contemporary practice, highlighting the very best and newest work that is being created right now.
"I am ecstatic that this amazing group of professionals will be joining us in creating this remarkable exhibition at the WAG," says Reid. "Their expertise, breadth of knowledge, and sound advice will help shape a truly defining exhibition that represents the richness and diversity of practice by some of Canada's leading contemporary artists."
Winnipeg Now Selection Committee
Josée Drouin-Brisebois, Curator of Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa • Drouin-Brisebois holds a Masters of Arts, Art History from the University of Montreal. She has organized and written essays for numerous exhibitions and publications, and is currently organizing the Canadian participation of the Venice Biennale 2011 which will feature an exhibition of Steven Shearer's recent work.
Bruce Grenville. Senior Curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver • Bruce Grenville was the founding editor of the YYZ Books: Critical Works series and a former Toronto editor of Parachute magazine. He has written for many major arts publications and has curated a wide variety of group and solo exhibitions.
Robin Metcalfe, Director/Curator of the Saint Mary's University Art Gallery, Halifax • Writer, critic and curator, Robin Metcalf works with a wide range of media and cultural practices, including visual arts, architecture, craft and design, and has a special interest in issues of Queer identity, gender and the body. His fiction, poetry and essays have been published in 15 anthologies and more than fifty magazines, in four languages and on four continents.
Dr. Johanne Sloan, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Director, Department of Art History, Concordia University, Montreal • Johanne Sloan's teaching and research encompass modern and contemporary Canadian art, the interdisciplinary study of landscape, and questions related to visual and material culture. She has written extensively about Canadian art and visual culture.
Dr. Stephen Borys, Executive Director, Winnipeg Art Gallery • Stephen Borys also holds the posts of Adjunct Professor at the University of Winnipeg and Scholar in Residence at the University of Manitoba. He was previously Curator of Collections at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, and has held curatorial posts at the Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College and at the National Gallery of Canada. He has organized numerous exhibitions, written accompanying catalogues, collection guides and articles, and has lectured across North America.
Mary Reid, Curator of Contemporary Art and Photography, Winnipeg Art Gallery •Mary Reid has taught and lectured on art and contemporary issues regarding curating and exhibition practice at the University of Winnipeg, University of Manitoba, and Georgian College. She has curated a number of exhibitions and contributed to various publications, exhibition catalogues, and magazines focused on contemporary art.
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ANAHEIM, Calif. - Henderson Alvarez was the latest in a long line of pitchers who have thoroughly confused and frustrated the Los Angeles Angels' lineup.
Alvarez pitched his first major league shutout with a six-hitter, Jose Bautista homered and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Angels 4-0 on Friday night.
Alvarez (2-2) threw just 97 pitches, striking out three and walking one. The 22-year-old right-hander, whose only other appearance at Angel Stadium was in the 2010 All-Star Futures Game, has won back-to-back starts after going winless in his previous nine.
"Right from the first pitch of the game through the 97th one, he stayed in his delivery well and didn't overthrow the baseball," Toronto manager John Farrell said. "And with that sinker, he could neutralize their power and keep the ball on the ground. He's got confidence. Even if he's got two men on base, he's always a pitch away from slowing down any damage with a groundball. We saw his overall composure last year in the 10 starts he made for us, and it continues right now."
Toronto handed Ervin Santana (0-6) his sixth loss in as many starts this season and kept slumping Albert Pujols homerless in a game that took just 2 hours, 10 minutes.
It was the first time in six outings this season that Alvarez did not allow a home run, and batterymate Jeff Mathis had something to do with that. Mathis spent his first seven big league seasons with the Angels before he was traded to Toronto in December.
"I've been with those guys a long time, so I've got a decent feel for them," Mathis said. "But Henderson did a good job executing the plan that we talked about and we were pretty much on the same page. He threw the ball well and mixed his changeup and his slider when he needed to. His sinker was good — he got a lot of early-count groundballs, and that's what kept his pitch count down."
After three consecutive nights of complete-game shutouts at Angel Stadium — a three-hitter by Angels righty Jerome Williams, a no-hitter by teammate Jered Weaver and a series-opening three-hitter by Toronto's Brandon Morrow — Alvarez kept the string alive as he lowered his ERA from 3.62 to 2.83. The complete game was his first in 16 big league starts.
"He knows how to pitch, obviously," Pujols said. "He was mixing his pitches pretty well and had a pretty good idea of what he was doing out there. He was taking some velocity off his fastball. He wasn't just throwing 95, 96 (mph). And he kept the ball down pretty well. We didn't hit too many balls hard."
It was the first time the Blue Jays have had consecutive complete-game shutouts since 1993, when Jack Morris and Al Lighter turned the trick — and the first time it's happened on the road in the franchise's 36-year history.
Pujols' career-worst home run drought reached 33 games and 137 at-bats after he went 0 for 4, dropping his average below the Mendoza line at .194. The three-time NL MVP, who signed a 10-year, $240 million contract in December as a free agent, has just five RBIs in 108 at-bats.
"I'm fine. I mean, this is baseball. It's a long year," Pujols said. "I've been in this situation before, so I need to have faith and stay strong, knowing this bad time will pass. If it's meant to be like this the whole year, I'll deal with it. But I'm a great hitter and I know I can hit.
"I've been making some adjustments, and before you know it, I'll be swinging the bat the way I know how to swing the bat. But I can't get myself down, because that's not who I am. I'm a leader in this clubhouse, just like I was in St. Louis. And when you're struggling around this time of the year, this is when the ballclub really needs their leader to step up. Just because I'm struggling the way I am, it's nobody's fault. I just need to stick with the same attitude."
Santana allowed three runs and three hits over eight innings with 10 strikeouts, the eighth double-digit strikeout game of his career. But the Angels have been shut out in each of the beleaguered right-hander's last five outings.
Toronto grabbed a 3-0 lead in the third on Yunel Escobar's two-out RBI single and Bautista's homer to left-centre on the next pitch. Those were the Blue Jays' only hits until Escobar's two-out double in the eighth.
"I'm trying to have good at-bats, but I'm not seeing too many pitches over the heart of the plate," Bautista said. "I'm seeing strikes, but they're good pitches on the corners and they're not making many mistakes on me. Tonight they made one and I was able to attack it. A lot of bad breaks have been going my way, and I just hope the tide turns soon."
NOTES: All five games on this Angels homestand have been completed in less than 2 1/2 hours, including one that took 2:11 and two that lasted 2:10. ... Bautista, who outhomered Pujols 97-79 over the previous two seasons, has five in his first 27 games. ... The Angels optioned RHP Kevin Jepsen to Triple-A Salt Lake to clear a roster spot for RHP Ernesto Frieri, acquired Thursday in a trade with San Diego.


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MIDDLETOWN, R.I., Jan. 9, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In a precedent-setting move for the maritime satellite communications market, industry leader KVH Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq:KVHI) is launching new Unrestricted Rate Plans featuring Business Class Service for its mini-VSAT Broadbandsm network. Designed to meet the booming demand for maritime connectivity, KVH's new Business Class Service provides unrestricted, prioritized, multimegabit service with unfettered access to all Internet applications and protocols, including streaming media formats, popular Voice over IP (VoIP) services like Skype ™, and rich media websites. This premium quality service, traditionally only available with very expensive dedicated satellite capacity and used exclusively by high-end cruise ship or megayacht customers, is competitively priced with other shared maritime VSAT services, but delivers significantly faster service and a superior user experience. "The launch of our new Business Class Service culminates a two-year initiative to upgrade our network, increase our capacity, integrate network management capabilities into our core product offering, and devise unrestricted rate plans that provide unprecedented performance while also being cost effective," said Brent Bruun, Executive Vice President of KVH's Mobile Broadband Group. "We're working hard to keep up with the exponential growth of the Internet and mobile data services. In the past five years there has been an 18-fold increase in the use of mobile data, while more than half of all Internet traffic is now video. There are more than 700,000 apps for iPad ®, iPhone ®, and Android devices, millions of which are sold every year. Connectivity services that don't embrace these new technologies will not be able to keep up with the new cloud-based services and other exciting innovations we are sure to see in coming years. KVH is constantly working to improve our service to ensure we provide our customers with the connectivity they need." KVH's new Unrestricted Rate Plans with Business Class Service address the same challenges that the tiered plans of the world's major cellular service providers address. Rather than block popular high-bandwidth services or limit access through deliberately reduced speeds, KVH's new transparent, usage-based rate plans provide a defined amount of data in a monthly package and give the customer the opportunity to buy more service at a reasonable price if the package threshold is exceeded during the month. Heavy users are free to consume as much bandwidth as they desire because they are paying for the additional service. Further, with these new plans, KVH dynamically monitors usage and can quickly add satellite capacity as required to stay ahead of customer demands. With bundles from 5 GB to 40 GB and additional gigabytes for as little as $200 ($0.20 per megabyte), these new plans are faster than comparably priced fixed rate plans and offer speeds as high as 4 Mbps.
To support its new Business Class Service, KVH has incorporated the features of its CommBox™ Ship/Shore Network Manager right into the integrated belowdecks unit of its new TracPhone® V7-IP and TracPhone V11 products, providing customers with the tools they need to manage this powerful service efficiently and control their airtime costs. This fully integrated solution provides the ability to set up distinct, firewalled networks for operations and crew use. On many vessels equipped with maritime VSAT service, crew use accounts for 85-90% of the total bandwidth consumed, so helping vessel owners manage the crew's Internet access is a key aspect of managing the onboard network. KVH also offers Internet café and VoIP calling card services to help the crew self-manage their use of the service. At the owner's discretion, industry-leading transmission optimization and onboard caching, least cost routing, and e-mail management are also available as part of the CommBox solution.To ensure that fast, high-quality service is delivered to all KVH customers, the company has nearly completed a global network upgrade with the implementation of advanced Variable Coding, Spreading, and Modulation (VCSM) technology provided by ViaSat, Inc., (Nasdaq:VSAT), KVH's partner in the mini-VSAT Broadband network. VCSM was deployed in the European region in November, providing a 60% increase in the capacity of the mini-VSAT Broadband service, and in the Caribbean region in December, where the capacity was increased more than 100%. The entire network is scheduled to be updated by the end of February 2013. KVH expects the new mini-VSAT Broadband Unrestricted Rate Plans to be popular with customers who don't want to be constrained by the restrictions and inherently lower data speeds of fixed rate plans. Fixed rate plans are often designed to prevent a small percentage of customers from consuming a disproportionate amount of the available bandwidth. These plans typically block access to popular websites with rich media content, prevent transmission of video and other multimedia protocols, block VoIP services like Skype, and slow data rates for heavy users as pre-defined thresholds are reached. With mini-VSAT Broadband's Unrestricted Rate Plans, customers are not prevented from enjoying all of the modern web content that is transforming the Internet into a multimedia experience accessed by a plethora of new devices.
KVH offers two other types of airtime plans for its mini-VSAT Broadband service in addition to its new Unrestricted Rate Plans. For customers with low data volume or irregular month to month data use, KVH offers metered airtime bundles ranging from 50 megabytes to many gigabytes in size and delivered at speeds as fast as 2 Mbps with rates starting as low as $49 per month for 50 MBs of service. For customers desiring a fixed monthly bill, KVH continues to offer traditional speed-based fixed rate plans, which are subject to service restrictions for streaming applications or excessive use. The new Unrestricted Rate Plans round out the industry's broadest, most competitive, and most innovative airtime service plan portfolio.With more than 2,500 compatible onboard terminals sold, KVH's mini-VSAT Broadband service is the world's fastest growing, most popular maritime VSAT solution, according to three independent industry research reports published in 2012 by Euroconsult, NSR, and Comsys. Visit www.minivsat.com for complete details about the global mini-VSAT Broadband network and award-winning TracPhone V-series antennas. Note to Editors: High-resolution, press-ready images of KVH's TracPhone V-series systems and mini-VSAT Broadband coverage maps are available at http://press.kvh.com for download and editorial use. About KVH Industries, Inc. KVH Industries, Inc., is the leading provider of in-motion satellite TV and communications systems, having designed, manufactured, and sold more than 150,000 mobile satellite antennas for applications on vessels, vehicles, and aircraft. In 2012, Euroconsult, NSR, and Comsys all reported that KVH was the market share leader in global maritime VSAT. KVH's mission is to connect mobile customers around the globe with the same digital television entertainment, communications, and Internet services that they enjoy in their homes and offices. The company is based in Middletown, RI, with facilities in Illinois, Denmark, Norway, Japan, and Singapore.
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May 22, 2013, (ISN) – Volleyball Canada staged its official press conference today to announce the return of Volleyball World League to the Hershey Centre in Mississauga for two weekends in June.
Canada will face Portugal in two matches on June 7 and 8, and then Korea on June 14 and 15. World League is an annual men's national team volleyball tournament that reaches all corners of the planet, offering millions in prize money, professional organization and worldwide TV coverage. The two weekends in Mississauga will be preceded by the first weekend of competition, May 31-June 1, 2013 at the Colisée Pepsi, Québec City, featuring Canada versus the Netherlands.
The Hershey Centre was host to Canada versus Brazil in World League competition in June 2007. At that time, Canada faced Brazil in front of sold out crowds. Canada is hoping to recapture that energy and crowd support in the 2013 matches.
"The last time we staged World League matches here, we had sold out crowds and the atmosphere was electric," stated 1984 Olympian and Honourary President for the Mississauga World League matches John Barrett, at the press conference. "We are hosting Portugal and Korea this time for two weekends and we want to set attendance records for Canadian events. My former Team Canada teammate and honourary President for the Quebec City matches Gino Brousseau has issued us a friendly attendance challenge and I don't intend to lose! We have a lot of volleyball players and fans in Mississauga and the greater Toronto region so I am confident that we will once again fill the stands." Canada hosted Brazil in World League action at the Ricoh Centre in 2012 with over 7,000 fans in attendance.
Head Coach Glenn Hoag stressed the development value of World League for the men's team program. "It's extremely important for Canada to measure itself against the best and World League offers us that special opportunity. Our quadrennial objective is to qualify for the Olympic Games in Rio so all of our training and competition is structured around this objective. We expect great matches against Portugal and Korea and look forward to playing them in Mississauga in a few short weeks."
The press conference also featured the participation of veteran players Adam Simac from Ottawa, Ontario and Gavin Schmitt from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Both players competed in World League in 2012 and look forward to taking on the world's best again this year. Schmitt who has played most of his professional career in Korea looks forward to facing off against some of his former teammates. Simac, who hails from Ottawa, looks forward to playing in front of family and friends. "It's always great to play in Ontario. I finally get a chance to show my friends and family what it is I do. They might watch it on TV or online or maybe just hear about it, but they rarely get to see it. It's always special to play at home."
The Canadian Olympic Committee was also on hand to support the press conference. "On behalf of the entire Canadian Olympic family, I would like to welcome all the athletes and coaches to Mississauga for the 2013 FIVB Volleyball World League tournament," said Canadian Olympic Committee President, Marcel Aubut. "This is a tremendous opportunity for the residents and fans in the Greater Toronto Area to witness some world-class volleyball. We hope to see some of these athletes back on our courts in two years' time when Toronto hosts the 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games."
The Canadians returned to World League play last season for the first time in five years and automatically qualified for 2013 finishing 12th overall. Following the home matches in Quebec City and Mississauga, Canada will conclude its World League preliminary round Pool C matches in Finland June 28-29 and Japan July 6-7.
Six teams will qualify for the World League Finals in Argentina featuring the top two teams from Pools A and B, plus the winner of Pool C and Argentina as the host country.
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Heartland Recreational Vehicles LLC today (Feb. 3) announced the acquisition of the remaining active trademarks of Fleetwood Enterprises Inc.'s towable brands — commercial nameplates that Heartland describes in a press release as the "some of the most recognized and iconic brands in the industry."
"This is an exciting transaction for Heartland," said Heartland CEO Brian Brady. "Fleetwood's towable brands have long been among the most widely recognized names in the towable RV segment, with loyal customers and an extensive dealer network. By acquiring the trademarks of Fleetwood's towable products, we will enhance Heartland's brand portfolio with industry leading names such as Prowler, Pioneer and Wilderness."
"In the last five years," he added, "Heartland has become one of the leading manufacturers of towable RVs and is the third-largest manufacturer of fifth-wheel RVs in the U.S. Our phenomenal growth and success has given us the financial strength to pursue the acquisition of Fleetwood's legendary trademarks. We would like to thank our dealers and customers for their continued support of Heartland and we look forward to enhancing our industry leadership by continuing to create great products that our customers love."
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TxDOT prepares for I-10 eastbound traffic switch
Contract bridge crews are preparing for this weekend's traffic switch on the Neches River bridge (Purple Heart Memorial), according to a press release from The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT). TXDOT says crews will begin the process of shifting eastbound traffic to the westbound bridge this evening, Friday, March 22, at 9 p.m. The process is expected to take two days, stretching into the weekend.
Tonight's lane closures will impact eastbound and westbound motorists as traffic will be reduced to one lane in each direction. TxDOT says drivers can expect alternating lane closures beginning tonight and lasting throughout the weekend into Sunday evening. Workers will also close the downtown entrance ramp to eastbound I-10 to build a slight detour. Motorists can also expect delays throughout the weekend.
Lanes closures, including the downtown ramp, are expected to reopen Sunday evening. Once reopened, eastbound and westbound will share the westbound bridge with two lanes for eastbound traffic and two lanes for westbound traffic. Workers will then begin the year-long process of rebuilding the eastbound bridge.
The closure is part of TxDOT's $59 million project to rebuild the bridge at the Neches River. Williams Brothers, the project contractor, expects to complete the project in mid-2015.
In addition to road work on the Neches River Bridge, the following traffic alerts have been issued for Jefferson and Hardin Counties.
March 22-24, 2013
Jefferson County
I-10: East and westbound closures at Neches River from 9 p.m. tonight to Sunday evening for traffic switch. Expect delays. Entrance ramp to eastbound I-10 from downtown Beaumont also closed during this period. Use MLK as alternate.
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FM 418: Road closed at Timber Rock Railroad crossing east of FM 92 from 8 a.m. Monday to 8 p.m. Tuesday night. Follow detours.


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Roger returned to Florida in May of 2000 as a general assignment reporter at WFTV in Orlando, where he was thrilled that he no longer had to scrape ice off the windshield in the morning.
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The World in 2025
"…Thus began the fierce endeavour of the State to squeeze the population to the last drop. Since economic resources fell short of what was needed, the strong fought to secure the chief share for themselves with a violence and unscrupulousness well in keeping with the origin of those in power and with a soldiery accustomed to plunder. The full rigour of the law was let loose on the population. Soldiers acted as bailiffs or wandered as secret police through the land. Those who suffered most were, of course, the propertied class. It was relatively easy to lay hands on their property, and in an emergency, they were the class from whom something could be extorted most frequently and quickly…"
Is this too fanciful, do you think, too apocalyptic? Well, this is not a dark prediction, proceeding from the recesses of some futurologist's 'heat oppressed brain', but a direct quotation taken from The Cambridge Ancient History, pp. 263-264, in the section that deals with the decline of the Roman Empire.
It was a time when the ordinary Roman citizen and those who served him, whether as slaves, freemen or attendants, learned that everything that they had once taken for granted, their much vaunted civic independence ('Civis Romanus Sum – I am a Roman Citizen') had long since disappeared. As the once-near guaranteed certainty of their invincible Empire collapsed into what we have come to call the 'Dark Ages', the citizens found themselves the victims of a State-turned-predator, as the money required to sustain the normal structure of civic control ran out.
Then, as the controllers of an increasingly feral society looked for even more ways to justify the seizure of the property of the citizen to maintain their own status, the citizens themselves looked for ways to get away and escape, taking with them as much of their property as they could most easily carry. In many cases this meant debating with corrupt magistrates and tax collectors, to negotiate the amount of personal property and private goods which their lawful owner had to leave behind, in order to be left with just enough to sustain any form of lifestyle across the border, in another country, and beyond the Empire.
As more citizens found that escape, the 'ultimum refugium', was their only hope, so the State increased the pressure upon those who remained. Returning to the Cambridge Ancient History, we are told;
"…If the propertied class buried their money, or sacrificed up to two-thirds of their estates to escape from a magistracy; or went so far as to give up their whole property in order to get free of the domains rent, and while the non-propertied class just ran away, the State replied by increasing the pressure…"
If you have ever wondered why so many Roman buildings, houses, farms, fortified homes and private estates have been discovered, left almost intact, with a wealth of artifacts; and why modern archaeologists have been able to learn so much about the end of the Roman era while excavating them, it is because they were almost certainly just abandoned, agri deserti, by their owners, as they sought to escape from this renegade army of tax collectors and State registered looters, as the dark shadows of Barbarianism gathered over the decline of the Roman Empire. This analysis also helps to explain why such large hoards of gold and silver coins and plate are continually being found by contemporary treasure hunters. Released from the grip of the cold sticky clay of old fields in the near vicinity of ancient Roman homesteads, valuables, whose hiding-place has remained undiscovered for two thousand years, have been dug up in virtually the same state as when their fearful owners buried them to hide their personal wealth from those who posed the greatest threat to their well-being, the last emperors' tax collectors.
The relevance of these historical anecdotes to a modern paper on money laundering will soon become more apparent in the ensuing pages as I attempt to deconstruct and re-evaluate the reasons why international money laundering legislation has reached its present stage of development, and, of more concern, why there is still more room for it to grow. Make no mistake, both the US and the UK, already have the necessary laws to confiscate and remove personal assets from their citizenry with an equally sparse lack of requirement to justify their actions, as those which their historical counterparts used 2 thousand years ago. Then, the purported justification was no doubt the need to counter the perceived threat from the Barbarians and the Visigoths, today it is the threat from International Organised Crime and Terrorism.
There is legitimacy therefore in seeking to extrapolate from what information we already have and which we possess now, to determine a picture of the future in the year 2025. I am doing this to seek to place in context that which is reported later in the text. In so doing, I am inviting the reader to exercise his or her own skill and judgement to decide whether what I am writing is a realistic analysis of the real reasons which lie behind the introduction of the international laws and regulations which purport to deal with money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
Like so much else about the money laundering story, the facts and the fantasies have become interchangeable, depending on whose agenda is being best served. This is largely due to the fact that governments on a global basis have so far found no substitute for the value possessed by their ability to instil in the mind of the public, the fear of the actions of the 'international cartels of organised crime gangs and terrorists', a series of moral panics which they are anxious to emphasise and at pains to amplify. Coupled with this, they have for so long, steadfastly refused to try and calculate any meaningful and realistic statistics of the real size of the money laundering problem, preferring instead to cling to an armoury of figures so fantastical as to be risible. In doing so, they demonstrate that they do not have to face up to the limitations on their core thinking, and are content to continue to operate on the margins of intellectual legitimacy. Under the shadow of this tattered banner they have long sought to justify their actions and support their ambitions to introduce confiscatory legislation of draconian proportions, which, under any 'ordinary' or 'normal' or non-contentious circumstances, would have no chance of getting on to the statute book.
Hardly a news story breaks in which some government official or politician, seeking to introduce even more legislation designed to further curtail the rights of the citizen, or to share even more private and confidential information among even more law enforcement agencies, can report his intentions without the traditional bromide of the need to combat the actions of criminals or international terrorists being trotted out.
In a story headed 'Terrorists use stolen blank passports', reported in the Philippine Star on 29th February 2004, an Interpol conference was reported to have been told that hundreds of thousands of stolen blank passports plus millions of other virgin documents allow terrorists to 'breeze across borders'
The real purpose behind this no doubt shocking story was an attempt by the secretary-general of Interpol, Ron Noble, to demand the sharing of important and highly contentious criminal information among all the signatories to the Interpol agreement. Presently only 34 countries out of the 181 members of Interpol share such data, and they alone report over 80,000 missing passports. '…That's only what's on file…', Noble is reported to have breathlessly told the conference. '…You can imagine the rest. If we don't have a global database with everyone contributing, think of all the terrorists and criminals trading in documents…
But what possible value would a global database of such suspected criminal information be, and to whom, and how much would it cost? More importantly, what damage could be done if this information was unfortunately leaked into the wrong hands? Why does Interpol, which is nothing more than an international police information-exchange mechanism, suddenly need to control a mega-database of all the information about all the criminals in the world, information which is already maintained everywhere else in the world? Is this not more to do with power and relationships between competing law enforcement and intelligence agencies and the struggle for bigger budgets, at the expense of other competing systems. Is this not precisely the appalling state of affairs which existed between the FBI and the CIA on and up to 11th September 2001, where both agencies, jealous and resentful of each other's remit, budgets and powers, refused to share information and intelligence with each other, on the basis of 'need to know'!
In the same newspaper on 29th February 2004 another story outlined how a report from Paris showed the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) demanding that Governments consider tighter controls on religious groups and charities to stop them from being used to fund terrorists. The report complained that charities were still being used to fund extremists. Governments, it was reported are unable to monitor religious organisations in countries where they enjoy a special legal or constitutional status. The report concluded by calling for alternative solutions to guarantee transparency and access when necessary to competent authorities.
This last sentence is thinly-disguised language which when interpreted means that the next round of FATF recommendations will include legal requirements for all charities to submit reports on income and expenditure, or some other similarly over-bureaucratic requirement, and to allow their books to be examined and investigated by police and revenue authorities.
Quite how such a facility would have made any difference to preventing the 9-11 attacks, as an example, is hard to see. In that case, the perpetrators opened a perfectly normal bank account in a small bank, having transferred the funding in from another bank by the normal channels. They had credit cards and other modern financial services facilities. Nevertheless, because charitable giving is now perceived by law enforcement and security agencies to be a conduit for a wide variety of illicit funds, charities themselves must become subject for special scrutiny.
Why senior police officials and law enforcement agencies behave in this way, and the purposes to which all this new proposed legislation is intended to be put, is the purpose of this management report. It is designed to permit the financial practitioner to have a clear, and unambiguous alternative interpretation of the reasons for the need for anti-money laundering legislation, the better to make the necessary commercial judgements on such issues as 'best practice' compliance; Basle II risk management provision, or what level of spend is necessary to provide IT support for financial transaction monitoring.
As with all alternative interpretations, it is wise to begin by looking for explanations from a completely different perspective.
In the next edition, I shall expand on this concept.
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Having taken the example from my son, Ross, I have now opened my own blog. From time to time I shall publish my own views and thoughts on this site, and welcome comments from interested readers.
Having taken the example from my son, Ross, I have now opened my own blog. From time to time I shall publish my own views and thoughts on this site, and welcome comments from interested readers.
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Sini is an environmental activist from Helsinki, Finland.
She describes herself as an ordinary person who thinks that national elections every four years is not enough to really change things. A nature lover, Sini likes to explore the forests around her home during the summer months.
She has taken part in many demonstrations. Sini is an experienced climber, and in 2007 scaled the crane of a nuclear construction site Olkiluoto 3, Finland, to demonstrate against nuclear power.
Sini is not deterred by the cold conditions in the Arctic. Last year, she climbed the oil platform Prirazlomnaya with Greenpeace International Executive Director, Kumi Naidoo. During that protest Sini said,
This is some of the things, Sini Saarela said when questioned in the preliminary hearing in Murmansk:
On being held on board the Coast Guard vessel:
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AUSTIN, Texas--The Harvard sailing team enters the final day of competition at the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association/Gill Dinghy National Championship Friday on Lake Travis in fifth place.
With 155 points through 10 races in each of two divisions, the Crimson sits just 13 points out of the top three teams of the 18-school field. With four races sailed in each division on a Thursday session slowed by lack of wind, Georgetown maintained its lead with 104 total poiunts.
The collegiate sailing season concludes with Day 3 of the regatta, which gets underway Friday at 10 a.m. Central. The final race will start no later than 5 p.m. Fans can follow live coverage here, with live results here.
Brendan Kopp and Sarah Pierson rank second in the A division with 63 points, just 16 off the pace of division-leading Georgetown. They finished in the top half of the field in three of their four Thursday races, posting one runner-up finish and one fourth-place showing.
In the B division, Emily Lambert and Brian Drumm stand eighth with 92 points after finishing sixth in Thursday's final race.
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Georgetown 104
Yale 134
Roger Williams 142
College of Charleston 153
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Stanford 180
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Dartmouth 189
Boston University 194
Wisconsin 198
South Florida 204
Miami 205
Brown 214
Tufts 215
Old Dominion 246
Navy 248
New York Maritime 276


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MINNEAPOLIS - Fox News weekend anchor Gregg Jarrett was charged with a misdemeanor after he allegedly became combative and refused to cooperate with police at a bar in the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.
Jarrett, 59, was arrested about 12:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Northern Lights Grill in the airport's main terminal. Airport police arrived at the bar after an employee reported that a man "appeared to be acting very intoxicated," according to information released Thursday by police.
Public arrest information says Jarrett was "uncooperative, resistant, and combative." No weapons were used. Additional details were not immediately released.
Airport spokesman Patrick Hogan said officers reported Jarrett seemed intoxicated, acted belligerently and refused to follow orders.
He was charged Wednesday with one count of obstructing the legal process/interfering with a peace officer. He posted $300 bond and was released from the Hennepin County Jail early Thursday.
He is scheduled to appear in court June 6.
Court records don't list a defense attorney, and Jarrett did not return an email seeking comment Wednesday.
Jarrett hasn't been on the air since mid-April. In a statement Wednesday, Fox News said Jarrett "is dealing with serious personal issues at this time. A date at which Gregg might return to air has yet to be determined."
Fox News told Media Bistro earlier this month that Jarrett had asked for time off for personal reasons.
A biography on the network's website says Jarrett joined Fox in 2002 and is co-anchor of Fox News Channel's America's News HQ, on weekends. He is based in New York and has covered a variety of stories, including the George Zimmerman murder trial, the crash of Asiana Flight 214 and the inauguration of Pope Francis.
Before joining Fox, Jarrett was an anchor and correspondent for MSNBC and had worked for Court TV. He has a law degree.


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I am bored - yes I should be working as have not got a proverbial pot to you know what in and have not earnt since left my job and set up on my own etc etc infact since I lost Oliver in september but it is very quiet here on this side and even the posts are all sensible so here goes.............
What have you lot been up to in the shopping stakes - I want details and lots of them - baby stuff, nursery stuff etc - all the brands etc! Jackie I know you have bought a house but what else?
I can then report back to Nikola too - she loves shopping as you know - next best thing is what we have been spending the overdraft on!
Jules and all the other mummies you can then comment on how daft we have been on buying certain items and we just might manage to take them back and change them before it is too late. For instance in my pg fuddle I have now bought two yes I know I probably won't even need one of the flaming things as want to breast feed while I can??!!!!! TWO AVENT BOTTLE WARMERS - so if anyone wants one!
Bought a new one last year with my boots points (bang went the jazzy make up) and then a new one never used off my down fall EBAY!!
CAtch you all soon I hope


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Since June 2006, Dr. Jubanyik has been the Director of the required two-week Emergency Medicine Clerkship, as well as the four-week Emergency Medicine SubInternship offered to 4th/5th year students. At the Haven Free Clinic, she supervises students in a clinical setting. She serves on the Yale New Haven Hospital Bio-ethics Committee, has obtained additional training in End-of-Life and Palliative Care, and is the National Chair of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine's Palliative Care Interest Group. Integrating Palliative Care and End-of-Life Care teaching to residents and medical students on all clerkships, including Emergency Medicine, has been a recent priority for Dr. Jubanyik.
In addition to leading workshops in End-of-Life and Palliative Care for third year students, she is a core faculty member in the Professional Responsibility course taught to first-year students, and will continue to teach second-year student workshops devoted to recognizing and treating victims of Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Assault. She also organizes and teaches the Emergency Medicine component of the Integrative Clinical Medicine course taught to graduating medical students. She graduated from Yale Medical School, and also completed an Internal Medicine residency at Yale New Haven Hospital.
Education & Training
- MDYale University School of Medicine (1994)
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- Board CertificationAB of Emergency Medicine, Emergency Medicine (2002, recertified: 2012)


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Hello Adam, Well I do agree with you re. what is a sufficient technique. Right, in the groom and bride example one can tab to both first name fields and then to 2 last name fields ... they are labelled etc. But typically one reads the info for an entity and then the next unless the objective is to compare first names or compare ages... then one would want a data table representation of the data. Here it is a case of a table being used for layout. If I am entering data from a paper application on to the Web page, I expect to step through the info for a person then the next. So reading it row wise is sort of illogical though it makes sense. And that is what the author is doing via tabindex. On the other hand if one used tabindex in the div- example in my email about 2 products such that the tab went from one learn more link to the next, then that would break logical reading order. The purpose of the link would be clear from context but tab order is not proper don't you think? ... That would be a failure example. Rightho, Sailesh --- On Sun, 8/14/11, adam solomon <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: From: adam solomon <firstname.lastname@example.com> Subject: Re: 2.4.3, 1.3.2 To: "Sailesh Panchang" <email@example.com>, "WCAG" <firstname.lastname@example.com> Date: Sunday, August 14, 2011, 4:21 AM Thanks for the response, Sailesh. I still contend that in the examples, tabindex need not be added to satisfy WCAG. It is only present to satisfy the authors personal preferences. The words "does not suffice" in the description really mean not sufficient for the author, but yes sufficient for WCAG. Take the bride and groom example. The default reading order would certainly be sufficient to satisfy 1.3.2 (for if not we anyway would have a violation of 1.3.2), so why is the author adding tabindex? The answer must be that he prefers to have the tab order in a different sequence for user convenience. Yet, even without his intervention, both 1.3.2 and 2.4.3 are satisfied. Thus, the examples given in H4 are not necessary to satisfy any success criterion. On the contrary, they simply don't create a failure. I always assumed that a sufficient technique is defined as one which actively satisfies a success criterion, such that if it were not implemented (and assuming no other technique was used) then there would be a failure. This does not seem to be the case with the examples in H4. On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Sailesh Panchang <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: Adam, In the first example for H4, the author believes it makes better sense to read the fields for the groom and then the bride and has used tabindex. Sometimes, the tab order goes to main content area and then to nav links that perhaps precede it in reading order. And this may be done via tabindex. Consider another scenario: <div on the left> Product name 1 with h tag Some info Learn more link Price info Add to cart button </div> <div on the right> Product name 2 with h tag Some info Learn more link Price info Add to cart button </div> Default reading order and tab order is fine. But I have seen instances where tabindex has been added that takes focus from one learn more link to the next and then from one add to cart button to the next. Here focus order does not match logical reading order... hence the line in h4 that saes make sure the two match. H4 begins with 'default order does not suffice'. Rightho, Sailesh Panchang --- On Sat, 8/13/11, Adam Solomon <email@example.com> wrote: From: Adam Solomon <email@example.com> Subject: RE: 2.4.3, 1.3.2 To: "'Loretta Guarino Reid'" <email@example.com> Cc: "'WCAG'" <firstname.lastname@example.com> Date: Saturday, August 13, 2011, 3:31 PM Tabindex is listed as one of the techniques in http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/Techniques/HTML5 for 2.4.3, focus order. Use of tabindex in html5 is basically the same as in 4, except that it applies to all elements. In the html4 techniques, http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2011/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20110621/H4 uses specifically set tabindex values as a means of fulfilling SC 2.4.3. In the understanding document for 2.4.3, it states that care must be taken to make sure the focus order matches the programmatically determined reading order. As a result, all the examples in H4 are fairly harmless. In other words, it seems that in all of the examples, there is no necessity to add tabindex values to change the focus order, rather a slight preference by the author to do so. The reason for this is that inherently, where there is a necessity to add tabindex values to straighten out the tab order, we must assume that the programmatically determined reading order is incorrect, otherwise it wouldn't be necessary to add those values in the first place. The point of all this is that in all the examples even if the author did not choose to add tabindex values, the page would still fulfill 2.4.3. I can't think of a case where adding tabindex is actually fulfilling 2.4.3, except in a case where only sighted users were viewing the page and the only thing that counted was the tab order, and not the programmatically determined reading order. Is H4 really a sufficient technique for 2.4.3? From: Loretta Guarino Reid [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2011 4:43 PM To: adam solomon Cc: WCAG Subject: Re: 2.4.3, 1.3.2 Andrew should weigh in on this, but I believe this is the way things work in Flash, that tabindex can be used to control the reading order of all the content, not just interactive content. Using tabindex in HTML is not a sufficient technique for 1.3.2. On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:03 AM, adam solomon <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: We have Using tabindex in flash as a sufficient technique in 2.4.3 and 1.3.2. 1.3.2 stipulates meaningful sequence to be programmatically determined. Can someone explain how tabindex facilitates this? Tabindex will never fix a bad sequence for screen readers, so how can it satisfy 1.3.2?Received on Sunday, 14 August 2011 13:40:43 UTC
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