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By Jane Lee / MLB.com | 12/04/12 2:56 PM ET
2012 GIBBY Award winners
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Major League Baseball's A-listers won 2012 GIBBYs trophies — the ultimate honors of baseball's awards season — based on votes by media, front-office personnel, MLB alumni, fans at MLB.com and the Society for American Baseball Research.
This year's GIBBY Awards featured nominees in 21 categories. Individual honors went to the MLB MVP, in addition to the year's best starting pitcher, hitter, closer, setup man, rookie, breakout hitter, breakout pitcher, comeback player, defensive player, manager and postseason performer.
GIBBYs trophies were also awarded for the year's top play, storyline, hitting performance, pitching performance, oddity, walk-off, Cut4 topic and postseason moment, from MLB.com's Must C highlight reels.
Beane built a club that not only improved by 20 games — from 74-88 in 2011 to 94-68 — but won its last six games to claim the division title over the two-time defending American League champion Rangers and Angels. The A's took the Tigers to Game 5 of the AL Division Series, before falling to Detroit's Justin Verlander, whose dominating performance ended Oakland's inspiring season.
It marked the first time a team won a division or pennant after trailing by at least five games with nine to play, and the A's did it by beating Texas five times in the final nine days, including the last three. This after the offseason trades of All-Star pitchers Gio Gonzalez, Trevor Cahill and Andrew Bailey, moves that had the seemingly rebuilding A's staring down expectations of a 100-loss season.
Yet several of the young players they got in return from these same trades — outfielder Josh Reddick, pitchers Jarrod Parker, Tommy Milone and Ryan Cook, and catcher Derek Norris — played significant roles in the A's resurgence. Furthermore, Beane found role players in the likes of Jonny Gomes, Seth Smith and Brandon Moss.
Jane Lee is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Major Lee-ague, and follow her on Twitter @JaneMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery
Anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) is a heart defect in which the left coronary artery (which carries blood to the heart muscle) is connected to the pulmonary artery instead of to the aorta.
ALCAPA is present at birth (congenital).
Alternative Names
Anomalous origin of the left coronary artery arising from the pulmonary artery; ALCAPA; ALCAPA syndrome; Bland-White-Garland syndrome
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
An anomalous left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery is a problem that occurs when the baby's heart is developing early in the pregnancy. The developing blood vessels in the heart do not connect correctly.
In the normal heart, the left coronary artery starts in the aorta -- the major blood vessel that takes oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the rest of the body.
In children with ALCAPA, the left coronary artery starts at the pulmonary artery -- the major blood vessel that takes oxygen-poor blood from the heart to the lungs.
When the left coronary artery starts in the pulmonary artery, it carries oxygen-poor blood to the left side of the heart. When the heart does not get enough oxygen, it begins to die, a condition leading to a heart attack in the baby.
A condition known as "coronary steal" further damages the heart in babies with ALCAPA. The low blood pressure in the pulmonary artery causes blood from the abnormal left coronary artery to flow toward the pulmonary artery instead of toward the heart. This results in less blood and oxygen to the heart, which will also lead to a heart attack in a baby. Coronary steal develops over time in babies with ALCAPA if the condition is not treated early.
Symptoms of anomalous left coronary artery in an infant include:
- Crying or sweating during feeding
- Pale skin
- Poor feeding
- Rapid breathing
- Sweating
- Symptoms of pain or distress in the baby (often mistaken for colic)
Symptoms can appear within the first 2 months of the baby's life.
Signs and tests
ALCAPA can be diagnosed in an infant. However, this defect may not be diagnosed until someone is a child or adult.
Signs of ALCAPA include:
- Abnormal heart rhythm
- Enlarged heart
- Heart murmur (rare)
- Rapid pulse
Tests for anomalous left coronary artery include:
- A test of the electrical activity in the heart (electrocardiogram)
- A special dye injected into the blood vessels of the heart to see their structure and position (arteriography)
- A thin tube (catheter) inserted in a blood vessel of the heart to measure blood pressure and oxygen levels (cardiac catheterization)
- Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Chest x-rays
- Ultrasound of the heart (echocardiogram)
Surgery is needed to correct ALCAPA. Usually only one surgery is required, depending on the baby's condition and the size of the involved blood vessels.
If the heart muscle supporting the mitral valve is seriously damaged from decreased oxygen, the baby may also need surgery to repair or replace the valve. The mitral valve regulates blood flow between the chambers on the left side of the heart.
If the baby's heart is already severely damaged from lack of oxygen, a heart transplant may be an option.
Medications include:
- "Water pills" (diuretics )
- Medications that make the heart muscle pump harder (inotropic agents)
- Medications that lower the workload on the heart (beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors)
See also:
Congenital heart defect corrective surgery Pediatric heart surgery
Support Groups
Expectations (prognosis)
Without treatment, most babies do not survive their first year. Those who survive without treatment may have severe complications and other cardiovascular problems, orcould die suddenly during the following years.
With timely treatment such as surgery, most babies do well and can expect a normal life. However, they need routine follow-ups with a heart specialist (cardiologist).
Complications of ALCAPA include:
- Heart attack
- Heart failure
- Heart rhythm problems
- Permanent damage to the heart
Calling your health care provider
Call your health care provider if your baby:
- Is breathing rapidly
- Looks very pale
- Seems distressed and cries often
Scholz TD, Reinking BE. Congenital heart disease. In: Gleason CA, Devaskar S, eds. Avery's Diseases of the Newborn. 9th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 55.

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PER vol.15 no.5 Potchefstroom Dez. 2012
State Control over Private Military and Security Companies in Armed Conflict by H Tonkin*
HJ Lubbe
LLB, LLM, LLD. Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
According to the figures used as examples in Tonkin's book, the number of Private Military and Security Company (PMSC) contractors working for the United States (US) in the Iraqi theatre by 2007 exceeded the number of US troops, and in 2010 these contractors made up around 54 per cent of the US Department of Defence workforce in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the past the PMSC industry has managed to keep largely out of the limelight, but academic interest in the industry has steadily increased and Tonkin's book is one of the latest additions to the legal literature on the topic.
The conventional notions of the state as the primary holder of coercive power have lately been challenged by the increased outsourcing and participation of PMSCs in armed conflict and concerns have been raised regarding the reduction in state control over the use of violence. Broadly, Tonkin considers the question of state responsibility for the misconduct of PMSCs through the usual three-party framework: the hiring State, the host State and the home State. She ultimately aims to set standards to guide states in developing their domestic laws and policies on private security, and she argues that traditional international law is sufficiently flexible to accommodate the challenges posed by the PMSC industry. Her general approach is to try to find potentially relevant doctrines of international law, to explain their characteristics and then to attempt to illustrate the potential applicability of these existing legal principles to the issue.
Chapter 1 contextualises the field of study and provides a proper background. Tonkin relies on existing literature to reflect upon the origin and development of the private security industry, to describe the functioning of private military and security activity, and to present the objections thereto.
Chapter 2 lays the theoretical foundation of the book by outlining the basic normative structure of the international legal system and critically examining how the law of state responsibility operates within that systematic context. For this purpose this chapter also clearly differentiates between the hiring, home and host state. Due to the limited possibility of directly attributing PMSC wrongs to the hiring state, a difficulty which becomes more evident in Chapter 3, this chapter and the rest of the book in Chapters 4, 5 and 6 focus more on the positive obligations imposed upon the state to subject PMSCs to control. A distinction is drawn between the restrictive obligations of result and the broader obligations of diligent conduct, pertaining to which a five-step framework is proposed. Chapter 2 finally turns to the consequences of state responsibility with reference to the International Law Commission (ILC) Articles.
Chapter 3, concerns the attribution of PMSC conduct to the hiring state. The concern often raised, namely that states may be able to evade responsibility for violations of international law by acting through PMSCs, is found to be overstated. The primary question here is if, and in what circumstances, the conduct of PMSCs could be attributed to the hiring state itself. Based on articles 5 and 8 of the ILC Articles, Tonkin argues that a large portion of PMSC conduct will indeed be attributable to the hiring state. This is so, she finds, because PMSCs could be construed as forming part of the hiring state's armed forces or by virtue of the factual relationship of control. For this purpose she skilfully analyses the test of "exercising governmental authority" and investigates the situation in which PMSCs act "under state instructions, direction, or control".
Chapter 4 considers the obligations of the host state, in other words the state in which the armed conflict takes place. Mindful of the fact that the host state will frequently lack the capacity to control PMSC conduct, it is presumed that the host state possesses some degree of capacity to control PMSCs by virtue of its sovereignty and control over its territory. Accordingly International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and Human Rights Law (HRL) impose obligations on the host state to take diligent measures to prevent, investigate, punish and redress PMSC misconduct. Tonkin firstly investigates the host state's obligations to control PMSCs under IHL and considers state responsibility for the breach of these obligations. Secondly she examines obligations under HRL and focuses on the applicability thereof to situations of armed conflict. The relationship between IHL and HRL is also considered and it is shown that their concurrent application complicates legal analysis. She indicates how the general framework of HRL differs from and relates to the more specialised framework of IHL. The last part of this chapter deals with immunity agreements, such as the Coalition Provisional Authority Order 17 in Iraq, and shows how these can undermine host state control over PMSCs by placing their contractors beyond the reach of Iraqi civil and criminal law.
Chapter 5 deals with the obligations of the hiring state. At the outset Tonkin investigates possible constraints on states' ability to hire PMSCs in armed conflict. For this purpose she examines mercenary law, particularly the Organisation of African Unity Convention for the Elimination of Mercenarism in Africa of 1977 and the International Convention Against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries of 1989, as well as IHL. She accepts that a state is not per se prohibited from using PMSCs to perform particular activities in armed conflict and continues to investigate the international standards that guide states' actions in relation to the PMSCs that they hire. For this purpose she considers the obligations to control PMSCs under IHL and HRL. She finds that the obligation to ensure respect for IHL in Common Article 1 establishes a minimum threshold of mandatory regulation, which serves as a residual obligation, in addition to specific IHL obligations that may apply in particular circumstances. She further holds that HRL also imposes obligations on the hiring state to control PMSC behaviour, and that HRL's sophisticated individual complaint procedures could provide effective mechanisms to scrutinise such behaviour. Tonkin emphasises the constraints on the extraterritorial applicability of HRL in relation to PMSC operations outside the hiring state's territory, and highlights certain special measures that heighten the level of protection required with regard to especially vulnerable categories of persons.
Chapter 6 concerns the obligations of the home state of a PMSC and acknowledges that international law has been reluctant to impose any broad obligations on the home state to regulate the PMSC's activities abroad. Consequently the home state is generally not liable for violations of the PMSC merely by virtue of the territorial link between the two. International law does, however, impose a number of obligations on the home state to take positive steps to prevent and punish harmful conduct by its nationals overseas, and responsibility in such cases arises from the state's own failure to fulfil these obligations, which are founded in the norm of non-intervention, the law of neutrality, IHL and HRL. The norm of non-intervention covers both direct and indirect interferences and requires states to refrain from interventions by its own agents and to take steps to prevent or to punish private parties from doing so from its territory. Likewise, the law of neutrality may impose obligations upon home states to take steps to prevent PMSCs from organising or recruiting personnel for combatant roles for the belligerents. The obligation to ensure respect for IHL imposes a further due diligence to promote PMSC compliance therewith. As regards the constraints on the extraterritorial applicability of HRL discussed in chapter 5, the home state has no obligation to take steps unless it exercises effective control over the foreign territory in which the PMSC operates.
In conclusion Tonkin confirms that the law of state responsibility is vitally relevant and that a close analysis of states' international obligations and responsibility should constitute a core component of any strategy to address the growing private security industry. She does, however, admit that state responsibility is not sufficient in itself to address the accountability concerns surrounding PMSCs, because it does not address the accountability of contractors or companies as such, and because it lacks the necessary enforcement mechanisms. She therefore suggests that apart from relying on existing accountability frameworks of international law, new domestic and international law frameworks targeting these shortcomings should also be developed. By drawing attention to states' international obligations to regulate PMSCs in armed conflict, critically analysing the content of states' obligations and evaluating recent state practice, this book provides the necessary clarity to assist states in formulating their internal laws and policies on private security in accordance with international law.
* Tonkin H State Control over Private Military and Security Companies in Armed Conflict (Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2011)


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Image Replacement. Again.March 30, 2005
Since there are still lingering questions about image replacement, this is the state of CSS image replacement in early 2005.
In the past few weeks, I've had some conversations about image replacement techniques. A quick recap for those who may not be familiar: image replacement is the concept of taking a structural, text-based HTML element (an
h1, for example) and substituting it with an image. Why do it? Better typography and more visual interest, as well as flexibility in the CSS to later change the images themselves. Why not do it? It's hackish, somewhat inaccessible, and the old 'non-web' argument applies to any instance where you're locking text up in an image.
Of course, a few years ago I was keeping a tally of all the various ways of doing it. And we all know about sIFR. So I don't have to summarize those here.
One of the more popular questions I've been answering regards which method I use. Since Douglas Bowman officially deprecated the original FIR (Fahrner Image Replacement) that he popularized a few years ago, it's been necessary to choose from the list of other techniques, of which there are many. Heck, a brand new technique just showed up the other day, even.
So which do I use? I'm still not going to say just yet. Let's talk about a few more things that influence the decision first.
Classic FIR had three problems: an extra span in the markup, some screenreaders would ignore the hidden text, and in a scenario where a user had CSS enabled, but for some reason had turned off images, they wouldn't see anything. As of this writing, all problems have been addressed in one technique or another, but there is still a decision to make between trade-offs, since no one technique does it all.
The Mike Rundle/Phark method and the Gilder/Levin method demonstrate this trade-off nicely. One elegantly and simply hides the text in an accessible way to everyone except those with images off and CSS on, the other solves that particular problem with plenty of ugly code.
So the temptation is to discount the images off/CSS on scenario as unlikely, and use the elegant solution. Except that it turns out there are quite a few instances where this scenario may be more widespread than it first appears. Dial-up users, of which well over half of all web users currently still are, have limited bandwidth. They may end up turning off images in their browser for the sake of quicker load times. Or even if they don't, all dial-up users are still at least temporarily affected by this problem during page load, and no text equivalent for the images can be annoying, to say the least.
Finally, it's possible that the user hasn't made the choice at all, but it's occurring anyway. Recently I was asked about a Windows accessibility setting that throws the entire OS into high contrast mode. A peculiar side effect was that in Internet Explorer, all background images were ignored while in this mode (although foreground images loaded fine.) And there are no doubt scenarios I'm not accounting for here, so yes it's likely that the images off/CSS on situation is affecting users.
And targeting no one particular method, what about Google? Let's face it, when you're able to place text in a page that won't be displayed to the viewer, through substitution or some other method, the potential for SEO spam is ripe. The same holds true across all image replacement techniques, sIFR, and hey, even
alt text for that matter. We have to be prepared for the worst, but the chances of Google blocking legitimate sites that have been using these techniques for years — simply to punish SEO spammers — is slim. It's probable that they would block the elements themselves (instead of the entire page/site), or even more likely, that they would treat the hidden text the same as they would any other textual content, and filter it on its merits.
In any case, the methods we have are imperfect. The ideal fix is CSS3's generated content module, which allows something like this:
h1 {
content: url(image.gif);
The W3C CSS working group is aware of the accessibility issues of current FIR variations, and last time I checked in they had properly accounted for fallbacks in situations like the images off/CSS on scenario.
But until such time as CSS3 is supported across enough browsers that we can use this method, we're stuck picking and choosing between imperfect methods. And getting around the basic accessibility problems, there are even more issues. Rundle/Phark breaks in Win/IE5 in certain situations, while Gilder/Levin basically disallows the use of transparent GIFs due to the fact that the text will peek through the transparent spots.
Aware of its shortcomings, I continue using the Rundle/Phark method. I don't necessarily think it's the best choice for all users, and I'd happily ditch it for a more robust method like the CSS3 generated content solution. Why not Gilder/Levin? To get it truly cross-browser compatible, you have to do this. Again, it's a matter of deciding between trade-offs.
Test there a name for the method with padding that Rob talked about? (http://www.mezzoblue.com/archives/2005/03/30/image_replac/comments/#c011213)
What are the issues with it? (Apart from being able to select the text downwards - although this doesn't happen in Opera, and IIRC, it doesn't happen in IE either.)
Oops… sorry, where it says "Test" it should say "Is". The commenting was slightly buggered and I was playing around trying to get it to work… then I forgot to get rid of it ; ).
That MIR method sure does look promising!
I'd say sIFR and the MIR method are the way to go (and don't get me started on the img-off+css-on debate: no user truly surfs the web that way. period.).
But what's the point you're trying to make with your article Dave? That until CSS3 is supported there's not going to be a "clean" way of replacing text?
> no user truly surfs the web that way. period.
Really? So that must mean that Dave is lying in this post then right? With all his experience, when Dave Shea says that there is a percentage of users who browse with Images Off/CSS on, then I would take it for the truth.
If I was a dial-up user, I would probably turn images off if I was doing a lot of surfing around. That doesn't mean I would go through the trouble of turning CSS off too, I don't even know how you would do that in IE.
I would be more shocked to see vistors with CSS Off/Images Off than anything else.
I am sure Images Off/CSS On people are quite used to websites not looking too good under this scenario and they are probably fully expecting it, but I know that's a cop-out ;)
Soon, fonts supported by browsers will be widened to the point where we don't have to use images anymore. But that raises issues about the operating systems..
"With all his experience, when Dave Shea says that there is a percentage of users who browse with Images Off/CSS on, then I would take it for the truth."
Well, in general you might want to exercise a bit of discretion. I can be wrong too you know… but in this case, yes, I happen to have experience that says a small percentage of users *do* browse with images turned off. It may be remotely small, to the point of irrelevant, but I've listed two potential scenarios in this article (and I'm sure there are more).
"Soon, fonts supported by browsers will be widened to the point where we don't have to use images anymore."
Sorry, but… what? What are you basing this on?
Why not implementing a alt-attribute for background images? Would solve a wide array of current accessibility/IR problems, i guess.
Pascal - the point is that alt attributes hold no semantic meaning, therefore screenreaders do not know whether an image is the logo of the entire site or just an email icon. Attaching semantic data to the information (the same way sighted users can see larger text and assume it's more important) is the goal.
And thanks for pimping my technique ;)
"Soon, fonts supported by browsers will be widened to the point where we don't have to use images anymore. But that raises issues about the operating systems.."
I don't see how that can be true. Sure browsers will accept more and more different alphabets and whatnot (heck, they already accept any major ones), but fonts are something else.
Most major corporations have their own trademarked font. Some companies I have worked with required all the headings to their printed material to be in a particular, proprietary, font. This issue could not be addressed for the web however and it's not because all major browsers will widden their font lists that we will be able to accomodate particular fonts.
Basically, until the big browsers and the W3C sit down and iron out a way to append fonts to a page, this will still be an issue. Maybe not for the average Joe, but still an issue for any professional website.
I have to say I originally used FIR but have latched onto and stuck with the gilder-levin technique. Although the extra mark-up is a pain and leads to some redundant code the method is good with images-off/css-on and I think this is why it's the best IMO. The other fall-back is the lack of support for transparent images. Bit of a problem, but I've rarely come across it as a major stumbling block.
I have seen some good methods which use :before to put the image before the text, then overflow: hidden on the element with a fixed width/height of the image. Works really well. Now we just need the browser support!
I usually use the SIR technique, as it caters for the images off/CSS on issue as well as just about everything else. I have no problem with adding an empty SPAN, because the SPAN tag is meaningless, so it's like having whitespace there instead. I've never heard of anyone having problems with it, so even though it's not entirely elegant, it's much nicer to add an empty span than a ton of other crud.
But hey, if you really don't want to have an empty SPAN, you might check out BIR - yes, another image replacement technique. In the event that your header is a link, there is no requirement for an additional SPAN tag; if your header isn't a link, though, you have to wrap the text within the A tag in a SPAN. Unfortunately, neither Bob nor I is a Mac user and as a result we haven't been able to test this for any problems in IE5/Mac or Safari. (If anyone sees a problem with it in Mac, please post a comment on Bob's blog.)
Maybe I'm just shooting off at the mouth here but…
Why do screenreaders even bother to load the CSS? I know they're based on top of other browsers, but I think it'd possible to, programatically, tell IE not to load stylesheets. Surely it's possible to adjust FireFox to behave in that manner?
CSS makes it easy to provide alternate stylesheets, why not provide an alternate for people who need to cut down on the bandwith? (And make sure they know of said stylesheet)
And what about an alternate stylesheet, e.g. media="reader" (!=aural). Or have a JavaScript check for 'images on' and overlay the 'fancy' stylesheet.
Something to look into maybe? More interaction with the developers of screenreaders would me more than helpful.
P.S. : I'm pretty sure you will have noticed by now, and if not please don't hate me for pointing it out. There's a duplicate 'note' on pages 132 and 133 of your (wonderful) book.
Incidentally, it's the note describing screenreaders.
Why do screenreaders even bother to load the CSS?
You know, maybe that's something we haven't been complaining about enough. It just goes to show that not many of us care about those who actually depend on them.
For the last 3 years we've been complaining about all the horrible things with IE6… what about the things that went wrong with screen readers… why won't JAWS make an update?
Is there even a population out there that uses screen readers that pay attention to the "look" of the page…
oh wait, my bad (just realizes this), there are css rules that apply to speaeh…
okay well couldn't it just ignore all the rules that have nothing to do with speech?
Thankyou for another plug, Jonathan. Actually, you need a span for the link to work. And thanks to a visitor, I now know it works in Safari, Camino, and Firefox on Mac. IE/Mac shows like images were turned off. So I thank you!
Enough of me syphoning Dave's fame. You need an extra element for reliable image replacement. CSS 3, when supported, will solve many issues.
As far as I understand it (I haven't been using it) sIFR seems to handle all three problem scenarios - do you have any problems with using that, Dave? Or is it just a general uneasiness with anything overly Flash-based? Because I was in that camp until Mike D explained that it degrades just fine in Flash off/Javascript off situations:
Better yet, the titles are made dynamically, without having to create all of those tedious images by hand - that's one in the plus column that none of the other techniques have.
sIFR "doesn't" fix all the problems. My solution (if implemented by browser makers) would be the best bet.
What sIFR does is that if no javascript XX Flash are not found, it defaults to CSS…
Well then, the problem relies with CSS then..so like I was saying earlier, if we could have something like
I think the world would be a better place (Hypothetically).
Regardless of all that anyway, still, the benefit of image replacement (over any plain typography method) is that you can use "image"ry - may that be all your "J"'s turned into flowers or the dot's in your lower case i's turned into apples. You can do so much more with imagery over plain type (even if you could choose any font from your library).
There are still certain instances where standard image replacement (whatever-I-R) is better than sIFR. For instance if you need Photoshop- or Illustrator-level control over your type, you still have to use images. Whether that be for kerning, blurring, or the use of other graphical elements. With (non-automated) image replacement, you can replace type with just about any graphic you want. With sIFR, you are pretty much just replacing crappy type with much better type. You don't have a ton of control over it after that though.
I do believe that I saw a stylesheet the other day that had content: url(); plus the Rundle/Phark method. I also dig the padding-top variant[1].
Being the prometheus of the gang, I always tend to ignore everything <=5, and many hate me for that ;)
1: h1 {
height: 0;
padding-top: 100px;
background: url();
overflow: hidden;
But people find this scary, as you can select the text by dragging down on the element.
Gosh, until now, I haven't realized that there are truly numerous ways of image replacement. After seeing the headline of this post "Image Replacement. Again."… Those were exactly my thoughts as well. I mean really, Again?
However if you really look at the progress of the way things are moving, I think we'll be saying this for a while. To truly have control over our own typography, we'll need something better than even what CSS3 currently has to offer. Something more like a font plugin. Or maybe CSS will implement something like
font: url(/fonts/spiffy.ttf);
Of course we still get into Copyright laws and misuse. Even if you bypass all that, I'm sure the web will go through a wave of people using horrible font selections for their site….thinking that just because "we can," doesn't mean "we should (use that font)."
For what it's worth, I spent the last two years doing all my browsing from home with only a mobile phone as my modem, paying per megabyte. It was very slow and very expensive so I would always have images switched off, but CSS on. When I found a site that was using an image replacement technique, I tended to just switch CSS off as well if it was necessary - just the click of a button in Opera.
Remind me again what the real problems are with img elements and alt attributes?
It seems to me that the only real drawback is that the URI to the image is contained in the HTML rather than the CSS.
That I can live with. Things breaking for visitors in the myriad ways discussed here, I can't live with.
If you have to worry about what happens when something is disabled, then the image is *part of the content* and should be in the HTML.
The alt attribute is an alternative representation for the image, should it not be displayed. That is its semantics. It is not true that the alt attribute has no semantics; they are clearly defined in the HTML specifications.
The mechanisms people discuss here seem to be little more than wheel reinventing. Clever hacks, but hacks nonetheless.
You can allready use the content-property combined with the ::before- and ::after-pseudo-elements.
IE don't support it, of course, but we can use the IE7 JavaScript-library to enhance the support.
I think your missing the point, sure alt text helps give meaning to an image of text, but what the real problem is is when you want to use an text image as a header. Sure you could do it the img alt text way, but that won't give proper structure to the page like a header tag will. It would be nice if you could just put header tags around the normal text image and use alt text, but that doesn't cut it semantically or for accessibility.
For Accessibility purposes (this means making it accessible to people with and without disabilities - whether they are say blind, deaf, etc. or just want to see the page on their PDA) you want to make sure you use correct semantic markup and make sure to use it in places where it is supposed to be, like using header tags where there is a header in the document. That way you are giving meaning to your document structurally and not just visually.
I remember coming across this technique once and I thought the person referred to it as the Shea Method. It survives the images off/css on scenerio and uses no plugin. While it does have an extra span tag, the tag doesn't have to go around the text, just before it. The span tag gets a background image attached to it and when you apply a height and width of 100% to it, it basically just covers the real text. The real text never gets pushed out of the way and if the image doesn't load you can still see what the header says.
Is this your method or someone elses (sorry I don't keep up on all of the names for techniques) and is there a flaw to it? (besides the extra span tag that I know others will point out) I also know that nothing is 100% flaw proof.
I ask because I am planning on suggesting it for implimentation on our future redesigns. I would rather prefer just normal text, but branding guidelines may prevent that.
I know about the sIFR method and it seems promising, but I always prefer the simpler is better method.
Here is the code (i've replaced the <> characters with () to make sure it post correctly.)
h1 {
width: 500px;
height: 25px;
position: relative;
font-size: 12px;
color: #006;
#info {
background: url(isitbad.gif) no-repeat;
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
height: 100%
(h1 id="info" title="Is there anything wrong with this method?")(span)(/span)Is there anything wrong with this method?(/h1)
I like the look of the gilder-levin technique, but I've spotted a problem with it.
If you resize the text in the browser it will - eventually - burst out from behind the image.
Obviously this matters more with some images on some sites but it might cause problems for limited vision users who have their browser render the text larger than the image.
Two days in a row Dave, I'm impressed. And both very good articles. I started learning about image replacement in "The Zen of CSS Design." I was using something very close to the Rundle/Phark method for my previous site (although less successfull in cross browser rendering) so it's good to see more discussion on it.
Thanks a ton nick :)
Stories (real one's) that come from the blind themselves always make more of a convincing argument.
I know a lot of people really like the sIFR method, but here's my major issue with it:
In an attempt to cut down on Flash based banner ads, all Flash content in my browser (Firefox) loads with a small round "F" icon. If I click it, it loads the Flash.
So, whenever I visit a site using sIFR, all the headings are just round "F" icons. I'd have to go through and click every single one of them…When I go to the next page in the site, I have to do it all again.
As Flash ads become more and more of a problem, attempts to block/circumvent them will also become more and more prevalent.
So, for me, I can't stand the use of sIFR because it makes the site unusable for me.
How about using plain 'ol JavaScript? We could even call it JIR…
You could even call it JRE, Java Replaces Everything… Oh wait, that's already taken…
Seriously though, you shouldn't have to resort to JavaScript or Flash as stop-gap measures. There are proper uses of JavaScript (well, even that is arguable) and Flash. This is definitly not one of them.
I have a lot of trouble swallowing the fact that simple, correct, HTML with an attached CSS file for presentation, cannot fix this problem. With CSS3 we could but I'm fairly certain there are problems with that too. (There always have been in the past and I doubt the future is any different…)
In summary, I think you should pick whatever method fits your particular site. If your site has a lot of flash in it, why not use sFIR? You have nothing to lose since visitors need Flash enabled anyways to see your content.
I think it really depends on the particular site and how the technique integrates into the rest of it.
Dean, that one's already be suggested (if I understand your suggestion correctly). Didn't really take much of a hold since sIFR blows it out of the water…
Dustin asks 'Is there even a population out there that uses screen readers that pay attention to the "look" of the page…'
I was discussing this with a blind friend a couple of nights ago. Like most people described as blind, he has a small amount of vision remaining. He uses Supernova, which incorporates both screen reading and high contrast display with zoom.
He told me that when dealing with tag soup or sites that insist on having long lists of links/navigation before the content, with no "skip" links, he will often give up listening and resort to the zoom option to try to track down the information he wants from a page.
So the answer is yes, even blind visitors will depend on the look of a page.
(FWIW, he views pages at a magnification of x32; try shrinking your browser window to 1/32 of its normal size to get an idea of his browsing experience…)
"I use the <h1><img /></h1> combo from time to time myself. It just has a weakness - flexibility. I can't re-style a page from the CSS when an image is embedded. That's what image replacement gets me that an embedded img doesn't."
However, the image in a header would most likely be content in this instance. Content goes in the markup, presentation goes in the stylesheet. While image replacement may be more flexible for some in terms of maintenance, the image's "proper" place would probably be in the HTML code in this context.
> Sure you could do it the img alt text way, but that won't give proper structure to the page like a header tag will.
Who said anything about not using header elements? Using header elements for headers goes without saying.
> It would be nice if you could just put header tags around the normal text image and use alt text, but that doesn't cut it semantically or for accessibility.
In what way? Is the image a header? Yes. Is it accessible? Yes.
> For Accessibility purposes […] you want to make sure you use correct semantic markup and make sure to use it in places where it is supposed to be, like using header tags where there is a header in the document.
But an img element inside an h1 element *is* the correct semantic markup!
It seems to me that there's a phobia surrounding img elements in the same way there's a phobia surrounding table elements. Sure, many people abuse them, but when what you actually want *is* an image or table in your content, that's what you should use.
Yup, during all the image replacement discussions, I've never seen anyone state exactly what's wrong with this:
<h1><img src="heading1.gif" alt="Heading 1"></h1>
Works in all browsers that support images or alt, works with images turned off, works with CSS turned off.
You can also use PHP with the GD image library (or equivalents in other languages) to automatically generate them whenever a page is served, if you don't mind the necessary coding, and processing overhead.
Well, if the reason you wish to use an image in a header is to make it look good, it's presentation, not content.
"Yup, during all the image replacement discussions, I've never seen anyone state exactly what's wrong with this:"
I totally agree and that's the approach I use. Unless you need automated image generation this will be the most accessible and user-friendly approach in all instances, and there are even server-side methods you can use if you really need the automated generation of header images.
"Yup, during all the image replacement discussions, I've never seen anyone state exactly what's wrong with this: <h1><img src="heading1.gif" alt="Heading 1"></h1>"
I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with it. Accessibility-wise, it's pretty sound. You might lose some Google juice from the difference between in-page text and alt text, but the jury's still out on image replacement's results in Google anyway.
I use the <h1><img /></h1> combo from time to time myself. It just has a weakness - flexibility. I can't re-style a page from the CSS when an image is embedded. That's what image replacement gets me that an embedded img doesn't.
There are countless reasons why moving the image to the CSS is good for flexbility — I can do things as broad as theme an entire site, to more subtle things like per-page colour variations of an image. You *can* do that with img elements and server-side code, of course, but this kind of presentational variation feels more suited to CSS.
I have been struggling with image replacement techniques myself, even to the point of writing an article about it. It may be utter nonsence (regarding webdesign I'm pretty much an amateur), and nowadays my worries about IE 4 probably seem overdone, but the article may still be useful to some, so here it is: http://blog.dutchroll.com/?p=30
Unfortunately, the link to "Santa's Image Replacement" doesn't work anymore – I believe it was a little like the Phark method, except for a vertical text shift.
Today, I also found the following article: http://www.moronicbajebus.com/playground/cssplay/image-replacement/ which deals with a method that seems to be related to: http://www.sitepoint.com/print/1221 (to which I linked in my blog post).
These last two methods both use the z-index property in the CSS, an approach that doesn't seem to have been mentioned in Dave Shea's tally. So I thought I'd mention them here, as the CSS bag of tricks can never be full enough. :)
> Well, if the reason you wish to use an image in a header
> is to make it look good, it's presentation, not content.
Exactly, this finally causes the need for replacement techniques. But there are more severe violations than using image elements in headlines, of course.
Nice article, by the way.
One thing that strikes me in particular regarding the Google issue (and I may just be going over something they've already proposed) is that perhaps they ought to alter the way their bot work so that it virtually renders the visited page, and can thus determine what is/isn't visible. Stylesheets for web spiders, anyone?
"But people find this scary, as you can select the text by dragging down on the element." (Rob Mientjes - first comment)
As far as I can see (don't have a mac) the scrolling problem occurs only in Firefox (so in Gecko-based browsers I suppose). I found out that setting 'font-size: 0.000001em;' resolves the scrolling problem (correct me if I'm wrong.).
Well, I have another method I discovered after reading about this issue in the CSS Zen book. If you set the opacity of the text to 0% in the <span>, the text disappears from view but still exists in the web page. In theory, that would allow it to be read by screen reading software. The only pitfall to this method (I'm not sure if anyone else has tried this method, so I'll assume I'm the first) is that if you disable image loading in your browser, the text will not appear even with the images gone. Let me know if this has been done and/or feasable. Here's a sample of the I used:
#preamble h3 span {
display: block;
opacity: .0;
filter: alpha(opacity=0);
width: 300px;
height: 50px;
The second opacity setting is for IE as well as the width and height settings.
I wish I could edit my last comment. I just had an idea. If you use the method I stated above and then, set the box that holds the image to return the text opacity to 100% when one hovers over it, you could see the text even though the image is not there. Not a perfect solution, but it solves the CSS on/Image off problem I stated in my previous comment. IE is still a problem. It doesn't allow hover applied to anything other than a link.
One more regarding those who browse with images off/CSS on. I just received this email from an actual user:
Why dont you add some kind of alt-text so your navigation links at the top of the page are still accessible to a viewer with images disabled in their browser like me?
Wouldn't it make all of our lives much easier if they made content: url(); work with the img tag? >: (
I have no idea if anyone still reads these comments, but I just came up with a new technique which is much better than all the pevious ones - it has no extra elemets and works in "CSS on, images off" scenario… all major browsers, including IE (even IE5/Mac). You can see it here: http://fecklessmind.com/main/5/definitive-solution-to-image-replacement


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John Lara, whose irreverent cartoons appeared in Laguna Beach, Orange County and national newspapers, died Jan. 15 of complications from lupus. He was 56.
A memorial service will take place at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Little Church by the Sea, 468 Legion St.
John's political and social commentaries in cartoon form appeared in the Chicago Sun Times, Copley News Service, the Orange County Register, the Laguna News Post and the Coastline Pilot. His first job was with the now-defunct Newport Ensign.
"We worked together at the Ensign," said best-selling author T. Jefferson Parker. "It was our first job, and we became friends.
"He was so talented, so full of life and energy, he was a pleasure to be around.
"John saw other people's foibles without seeing himself as better than they were," Parker said.
John exhibited at the Sawdust Festival, where his Thurston Middle School art teacher, Ron Rodecker, also showed.
Rodecker said John's talent was already obvious when he attended Thurston.
"You couldn't miss it," Rodecker said. "John was an infinitely talented person. He was a wonderful cartoonist with an acerbic sense of humor and empathy for people. He always had a twinkle in his eye."
John went on to be named California Junior College Artist of the Year.
Away from the drawing board, he served as master of ceremonies for the Brooks Street Surfing Classic and was a guest speaker for "Let's Hook Up," which referred to fishing in those days. Fishing was another of John's preferred activities, and he taught fishing classes as a volunteer.
He was the leader of the famed "Walk-Around," the bar-to-bar perambulation that celebrated the end of the tourist season in Laguna until it became too popular with out-of-towners and the tradition withered.
John also illustrated books, including "Little Gnome Facts," written by Audley Wheeler Bethea.
While carrying on the great cartooning tradition in Laguna, John worked as a graphic artist and T-shirt designer with Ken Auster, who evolved into a fine artist.
No topic was too sensitive for John.
When Chernobyl imploded in 1986 in Russia, John showed up the same day at the News Post office with blow-torched T-shirts that read "Chernobyl Maintenance Service."
They sold like hot cakes.
Kathy Lawhon, an Orange County Register editor who oversaw the News Post when John was on the staff, said he did not take kindly to being edited.
"In fact, as I recall, he never allowed himself to be edited," Lawhon said. "He constantly surprised us."
John Theodore Lara was born March 18, 1955, in Tucson, the eldest son of the late Barbara and Theodore Lara Jr., and brother to Haddon Matthew and Lori Lara.
Barbara Lara was the daughter of renowned illustrator Haddon Sundblom, creator of the Coca-Cola Santa Claus, and often served as a model for the company's ads, one of which hung at Ruby's Diner. The Lara children were models for a well-known Thanksgiving ad.
After the Laras divorced, the family moved to Laguna in 1967. Barbara Lara became active in arts and politics, married Perry Kopf and gave birth to her fourth child, Julie Elizabeth Harback Kopf.
A liberal, John's mother often wondered why John had tilted to a more conservative view.
John and his siblings graduated from Laguna Beach High School.
"He was a little bit older than I was," said Kimberly Maddock Clark, LBHS class of 1974. "I thought he was so handsome, and he was very much the same person then that he was later."
As an adult, John and his chocolate Labrador, Buffet, were familiar morning sights outside Scandia Bakery, where he harvested fodder from newspapers for his cartoons.
"Buffet allegedly broke Scandia's window, but that is only heresay," Lori Lara said.
The dog was named for John's favorite singer, Jimmy Buffett, whose concerts he attended whenever possible, often with Jim White, a former Laguna Beach police officer.
John was pre-deceased by his parents and wife, Cora Schultz Lara, described by family members as his best friend.
He is survived by his son, Mitchell Lara DeMinck, his sisters and brother.
The family has asked in lieu of flowers that donations may be made in John's name to:
The Lupus Foundation of America Inc., P.O. Box 418629, Boston, MA 02241-8629, (202) 349-1155;
Friends of Rollo, which is dedicated to sending kids on marine awareness fishing trips, 2838 Garrison St., San Diego, CA 92106, (858) 350-5875; or
New Vision Autism Center, 40335 Winchester Road #E-522, Temecula, CA 92591, (951) 708-6827.
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A Detailed Cross-Examination of Yesterday and Today's Best-Selling Platform Games
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2006 Revised Introduction
[Note: This unprecedentedly detailed survey of the platform game genre was originally created in 2003 by journalist and game designer Daniel Boutros, but this special 2006 version includes much additional information and is publicly released for the first time.]
After writing this piece, I got an equal amount of heat and praise for it. Thanks to some much-needed critical feedback, I was made aware that there were far too many terms that really didn't need to be there, so they're gone, so now some of the data won't be such a headache to read.
I also realised that there was a need to develop a detailed taxonomy to describe common game elements and at present I'm working toward a project that will address that, though cannot announce it in detail just yet. Some of these processes and measuring standards have also been significantly refined and will be revealed in the next paper.
As for the platform game market, since the writing of this piece we've seen the market go more toward a 'hybrid' genre, with richness of interactivity in the environment traded off for more crudely (but competently) implemented multiple genres and sub-games. Conversely we've also seen a resurgence of late 80s / early 90s era 2D platform gameplay in the handheld Nintendo DS and Sony PSP consoles.
Current darlings of the scene include the simplistic and charming Loco Roco, which has considerable depth in a simplistic control scheme where you tilt the environment to move the lead character. It also contains concepts where you squish the character and split it up to move through areas of a certain shape and size.
New Super Mario Bros is regarded as a hybrid mix of all the best features of Super Mario Bros and Super Mario Bros 3, married with completely new concepts and a fully comprehensive two-player mode. The game has achieved excellent reviews and for good measure, I've added it to the analysis below, just for comparison's sake. Though sadly lack a copy and the time to play through Loco Roco at present.
As for overall game design trends in the last few years, games have taken on a philosophy to become more rewarding. Burnout is the perfect example of this, with players being able to unlock hundreds of bonuses, be they titles, pictures, extra vehicles or special areas. It's rare to find any sports or general action games nowadays that don't contain a reward at least once per level or every five to ten minutes. Some games now have more unlockables than actual levels.
To end, you may find that some of the conclusion data has not aged well, though regardless, it's hard not to find something useful in it at the end of the doc. Hope you get something out of this,
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Among fruits, the banana is taken for granted, yet its popularity is undeniable. Why it is so well-liked is difficult to explain, because it is essentially bland with a consistency comparable to unstirred paste of the type used to hang wallpaper. Maybe the price has something to do with it; just the other day I bought two for 21 cents.
Don't misunderstand me. I like bananas at any price, but they do fluctuate wildly. One week they are 39 cents a pound and the following week the price jumps to 69 cents, an increase of more than 50 percent. Do they taste any better at the lower price? I never noticed.
But I have often wondered whether there is a technocrat in Honduras manipulating prices. Think about it: Doesn't it seem strange that one week they are 49 cents at Tops and the next week 49 cents at Wegmans? Bananas are an attractive "sale" item, but just at one place at a time, or so it seems. The supermarkets appear to be taking turns using bananas as a loss leader.
The banana is the most popular fruit in the United States, suitable for so many uses. The best statistics I could find reported that the average American consumes more than 26 pounds of bananas a year. That is an impressive number, especially when it is extended to relate to a typical family of four. That pushes the total past 100 pounds.
The second most popular fruit is the apple, with average per-capita consumption just over 16 pounds. The apple is followed by the orange, but the banana's total is greater than the total of the other two. The final number in this discussion is the total number of bananas eaten annually: 100 billion.
It is a uniquely designed fruit, with a sculptural curve that provides an ideal grip, enabling the consumer to tuck it comfortably in the hand. Further, it is protected with wonderful skin, which, I recently was told, some men use to polish their shoes.
I got the wrong impression of the versatility of the banana at an early age. I thought it was just a breakfast food, sliced and used with milk to glamorize a bowl of cornflakes. What I discovered later was that others were eating them for dessert at lunch, for an afternoon or evening snack or, on occasion, blending them with rum to make a daiquiri.
The basic appeal of the banana is enhanced by its changing complexion in the retail store. Some shoppers like them when there is still a touch of green at the end. Others like them when the skin is turning a blotchy brown. One prescription for a perfect marriage is having one partner like the green and the other prefer the ripened brown. I like the brown, which are sweeter.
I once tried to buy a brown banana in a deli and the manager insisted on giving me not one but two at no charge. If I didn't take them they would end up in the garbage, she said. I was glad to help.
Apparently there are several hundred varieties of the banana grown and eaten around the world, but only two have attained significant popularity in this country, and one of those two is no longer available. That would be a species known as the Gros Michel. It was the banana of choice in the early 20th century, and there is testimony that while it looked like the bananas we see today, it was more flavorful. However, starting in the early 1900s, banana plantations came under attack by a fungus and were decimated. The steps taken to stave off the disease were unsuccessful, and by the early 1960s the Gros Michel was gone.
That was probably the banana my mother sliced for cereal.
It was replaced by the Cavendish, a variety developed in China that is the one we know today. One of its characteristics is that it supposedly is more disease-resistant than the Gros Michel. That has proved to be true, but now there are reports that a new, even more virulent fungus has been killing banana trees around the world and is expected to invade Central America in the next decade.
I suppose we should consider adding the plight of the Cavendish banana to the expanding list of situations we should worry about in our spare time.
Dick Hirsch is a longtime contributor to the Opinion page.
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text: Just to be fair... well... maybe not fair... how about Devil's Advocate: Are any of the MS anti-malware apps more or less difficult to manage than their *NIX counterparts? Network layer firewalls, HIDS, file system integrity apps, spam containment and prevention apps and so on? Being a consultant these days means I no longer in live in fear of SSH, RPC/NFS or SNMP vulnerabilities all of which I have lost at least one cluster to in my career as a cluster admin... even with appropriate network level firewalling. More to the point of the thread: if we are talking about MS making greater inroads into the HPC market, then their most likely tactic is to convince the commercial app vendors to write and/or port their apps to the Windows platform. I've seen a number of animation and visualization apps running on MS clusters. They do exist and this is their best near-term chance of making those inroads. Perhaps Windows 7 with its anticipated modularization of Windows services will greatly improve their profile for running in a clustered environment. I don't think anyone expects currently established tools like NAMD (just as an example) to ever be ported over to Windows, but if MS can provide great development environments and support libraries for a new generation of scientists... well... maybe the future is less predictable than we may think. It seems HPC has been swinging away from performance and towards ease-of-use for some time, in my opinion. I've been doing clusters for approx 10 years, but like others I am now running Windows on my main workstation because it is the right combination of development environment, application availability and usability for me. Prior to Vista, this would not have been the case... so life and technology do evolve. Just my two cents. -geoff -----Original Message----- From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Chris Samuel Sent: Freitag, 4. April 2008 09:47 To: Beowulf Mailing List Subject: Re: [Beowulf] How Can Microsoft's HPC Server Succeed? ----- "Jon Forrest" <jlforrest at berkeley.edu> wrote: > What technical features could they add that couldn't > be added to a Linux cluster? Windows botnet clients & client access licenses ? :-) Seriously though, my concern is about the impact of the essential anti-virus, anti-malware and anti-spyware software on each node of the system be ? Who could seriously consider running *any* Windows box these days without them ? Not least on a system that is designed to have random people login in and run their applications on. cheers, Chris -- Christopher Samuel - (03) 9925 4751 - Systems Manager The Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing P.O. Box 201, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia VPAC is a not-for-profit Registered Research Agency _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf at beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf


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May ratings sweeps — and its accompanying sizzling news topics such as vampire face-lifts, cyber peeping toms, sex cereal and magic underwear — came to a close Wednesday night.
San Antonio's reigning news station? ABC affiliate KSAT and its anchor team of Steve Spriester and Isis Romero once again got the most eyes during the signature news time of 10 p.m.
The box score for all the late newscasts at 9 p.m. and 10 p.m., according to Nielsen numbers supplied by KSAT:
KSAT: 9.7 (85,457 households)
KENS: 6.4 (56,384 households)
KABB: 4.8 (42,288 homes)
WOAI: 4.2 (37,002 households)
KWEX: 3.4 (29,954 households)
KVDA: 1 (8,810 households)
A ratings point equals 8,810 households.
KABB's younger-skewing 9 p.m. newscast is led by Michael Valdes and Cynthia Lee
KSAT also beat the local news competition in the morning (5-7 a.m.) with its anchor team of Leslie Mouton and Mark Austin and at the evening hours of 5 p.m. and 6 p.m., which are anchored by Ursula Pari and Spriester.
KENS, however, did come out victorious at 4 p.m. Its "First at Four" newscast, featuring anchorwoman Deborah Knapp, once again outdrew KSAT's competing 4 p.m. news half-hour with anchor Pari.
In terms of prime-time programming Monday through Sunday, ABC's lineup drew the most viewers here with CBS' roster of shows coming in a very close second. NBC finished third, Univision fourth and Fox fifth.
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In general there is sufficient demand in the local community that home health aides will not need to travel far for work, unless they choose to. If you want to be able to easily relocate, the demand is such that you shouldn't have difficulties doing so. Keep in mind, training and certification requirements do vary from state to state so you will have to confirm you have the needed education to fulfill local requirements.
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