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Font Size: No Happy Medium
If there's one thing nobody can agree on, it's how to treat your text size. Pixels aren't scalable within the most common browser on the market, and if you do everything you can to support relative units, you will still get people complaining that you are using text that's too small, or too big, or too low in contrast, or too high in contrast. A designer can do his or her best to find a happy medium, but someone will always speak up:
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I have. Why? The only point on that list that I might be breaking is "Avoid sizes in em smaller than 1em for text body" — a pretty good success rate.
Because your fonts are tiny!
CTRL + '+' ? Or CTRL + 'scroll wheel'? I'm using relative sizing specifically for cases like this. Besides, my text is a pretty common size…
Of course I know how to adjust font size in my browser quickly. Doing it all the time is annoying though.
My fonts are based on your default browser size. If you bump that up, they scale accordingly. So is this my problem, or, perhaps, yours?
And what about thin users who think that IE 'is the internet'?
My site is not for them. I have a target audience; what do mom & pop care about CSS, after all?
Perhaps your site is not for them, but, in my opinion, ALL websites should be accessible to ANYONE, ANYWHERE. My opinion of course.
Then read [above] again. My target audience is not clueless newbie. But they are able to view it all the same — not only are my fonts scalable, the rest of my site complies with Section 508 and the better half of WAI's AAA. In fact, it would be single A if it weren't for FIR; other than that it's kosher. Even IE can scale my fonts just fine, and it renders the site well.
I really have a hard time understanding what your problem is — if you don't want to hit CTRL + '+' just say so, and don't cloak it behind misdirected accessibility concern. This isn't an accessibility problem, it's a convenience problem, n'est-ce pas?
Okay, a rather contentious way to start off the day. But something I'm hearing more often than I'd like is the opinion that text size should be left alone; a user's default font size shouldn't be messed with. This is an idealist view, and not at all representative of how the world works.
Built into that viewpoint is the naïve, or willfully ignorant assumption that all users are a) aware of this setting, and b) have changed it to suit their preference. Even the low percentage of the population that know they can do this generally won't; too many existing pages rely on a 16px default font size. The majority, believe it or not, would bump their default down a size or two. 16px is too big for most people.
If it helps, don't consider this issue on a site-by-site basis, consider it on a web-as-a-whole basis. Bump your font size down a setting or two, and start loading some common sites. Microsoft. CNN. Yahoo. This site, even. All become less legible, since they assume a starting point of 16px. And they assume because people don't, as a general rule, screw with the default font size.
Let's ignore Internet Explorer for a second. Browsers like Firebird and Safari allow a quick adjust. If, as a user, I visit a site that uses a text size I can't read, I can hit CTRL + '+' a few times until it's legible. Done, and my fonts are now bigger for every other site. The fact is that my browser allows me to compensate in different ways; I can even whip up a custom user style sheet to customize each site I care to, if I wish.
Which places the legibility issue in a grey area somewhere between designer and user, since both can combat the problem. The designer should take precautions to ensure his or her default font size is legible to a wide percentage of the population. But is it necessary to address users who need extra assistance, within the same style sheet everyone else uses? CSS offers choice; is there some reason we shouldn't be taking advantage of this?
The current standards movement seems to place an awful lot of responsibility on the designer. It's up to the designer to work around browser flaws by not using pixel-value text. It's up to the designer to consider people with perfect vision, low vision, and no vision. It's up to the designer to account for different monitor sizes and resolutions. It's up to the designer to make sure their layout doesn't break when fonts are at 100%, or 150%, or 200%.
Which, when you consider the history of the web, is the way it's always been, except that no one used to do it. And now that we are starting to, by way of alternate style sheets and relying on relative font sizing, it's becoming clear that while CSS offers answers, sometimes the answers aren't good enough for some users.
Yes, it's important for the designer to keep all these things in mind, and with a developed social conscience, cater to the largest audience possible. But, and here's the whole point of what I'm trying to say, when the designer does this to the best of his or her knowledge and ability, and it's still not enough, perhaps it stops being his or her responsibility.


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Counterfeit World Of Warcraft Theme Park Opens In China
The Chinese may have been the first to invent gunpowder and delicious pork-filled fried dumplings, but they have not caught up to the rest of the world when it comes to respecting intellectual property rights. Case in point, the recent opening of an entire themepark dedicated to World of Warcraft and Starcraft, two of the most popular online games in the world, in the Changzhou, Jiangsu province. It's a sprawling $30 million megaplex spanning 600,000 square meters that aspires to compete with Disney and Universal Studios as a global theme park destination. And it's a total knockoff. They didn't pay Blizzard, the company behind those two games, a dime.
The folks over at Shanghaist visited the park and took lots of pictures and detailed the experience. The place is massive. There are statues all over the place taller than a grown man with characters from the two video games. The funniest part is how even though they stole all the details and characters from the games, they know they can't go all out and call it "World of Warcraft Land" (although from the initial schematics that surfaced online a few months ago made it look like that was basically their original intention). They have to come up with their own phraseology. So Warcraft World is called "The Terrain of Magic." The Starcraft ripoff zone is called "Universe of Starship." The entire park is called "World Joyland."
Ripping off Apple stores wholesale is one thing, but it really takes gumption to steal an entire themepark.
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The Seven Daughters of Eve focuses on mitochondrial DNA, or mtDNA, which is passed down matrilineally—from a woman to her daughter, to her daughter, to her daughter, generation after generation. Journey of Man traces Y-DNA, which is similarly passed down, patrilineally, from a man to his son, to his son, to his son, and so on. Both of these ground-breaking works look at the big picture: the evolution of the human species over thousands of years, through migration out of Africa and across the planet. Genealogy writ large.
I am not going to go into detail here about the substance of either Seven Daughters or Journey. Much has been written about both of them. When I Googled the titles earlier today, I noticed, for instance, that Journey of Man is available for viewing (in 13 segments) on YouTube.
There is a plethora of material available now about DNA research and its significance for genealogy. I've read a number of the popular books, and I've attended numerous workshops on this topic. I am not by nature scientifically inclined, so much of the material seems dry and does little to increase my understanding. The Seven Daughters of Eve and Journey of Man, though, captivated me.
There is a mythic quality about The Seven Daughters of Eve that engages me. Sykes's research (later expanded upon) led him to conclude that people of native European descent trace their ancestry back to one or another of seven women whose mtDNA mutated from their mother's. These seven mutations occurred thousands of years apart, between 45,000 and 10,000 years ago. Each was a turning point that created a new haplogroup of mitochondrial DNA.
Sykes envisions these seven women as "clan mothers." He christens them each with names—Ursula, Xenia, Helena, Velda, Tara, Katrine, and Jasmine—and describes their probable lives and times in their respective regions of Europe and the Middle East. This is science as Susan Seddon Boulet might have painted it. I can imagine the Seven Daughters' stories being told during ceremonies deep in the caves of Lascaux with flute music echoing from yet-deeper caverns. But that's just me and, as I have to emphasize, I'm no scientist.
If The Seven Daughters of Eve takes you into the dreamtime, Journey of Man lurches you onto the frozen tundra with a backpack of test kits. Spencer Wells is a high-energy genius who seems like he'd be equally comfortable analyzing lab results or summiting K2. A book was developed from this documentary, but this story is such an amazing adventure, and certainly so visual, that this just might be one of those rare times when the film trumps the book.
"Blood was the time machine, and we were the time travelers," Wells says as he explains the research that took him visiting isolated tribes and populations all over the planet to trace the Y chromosome and explore how everyone—everyone—is related. One of my favorite scenes is in Kazakhstan, which you can see in Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey (Part 9 of 13) on YouTube. This documentary rocks.
Bryan Sykes and Spencer Wells, more than anyone else, brought DNA and genetics to life for me. Their work made traditional paper-trail genealogy seem like a very tiny, limited view of the real story—the really great story of human evolution and migration. They linked my passion for genealogy with my lifelong interest in anthropology. They opened doors that beckoned me inside, ready to swab my mouth for saliva (thankfully, no blood samples required!) and learn how my ancestors and I fit into this amazing journey of man and woman across Planet Earth. And what I've learned from my family's DNA tests intrigues me even more. It's our own journey, evolution and migration writ small.


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Heavyweight contender David 'The Hayemaker' Haye confirmed he has handed back his Luxembourg boxing license, but will still try to force a fight with WBC world heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko in 2013. "I'd like to thank the Luxembourg Boxing Federation for licensing me ahead of my July bout with Dereck Chisora in London, but I no longer require that license," said Haye, the former WBA world heavyweight champion. "It's been well-publicised already, but the reason I applied for a license from the Luxembourg Boxing Federation was because my opponent, Dereck Chisora, had seen his British license withdrawn. The only way we were able to deliver the fight the public wanted, when they wanted it, was to both apply for foreign licenses, as arranged by Chisora's promoter. "In an ideal world, though, I'd now like to box on with a British license. I'm a British boxer, I have never had any issues with the board and, should a fight with Vitali Klitschko happen, I'd be keen to have the British Boxing Board of Control in my corner, simply because they are so experienced and are the best at what they do." Haye watched Vitali Klitschko defeat challenger Manuel Charr earlier this month and remains confident of getting his shot, despite the champion's hints of impending retirement and a move into politics. "If I was Vitali Klitschko, I wouldn't want to go out on a win like that," said Haye. "Even in a predictably one-sided affair he didn't look impressive and the the finish was anticlimactic to say the least. The win itself also means very little, as Manuel Charr proved to be nothing more than an unworthy challenger in a half-empty arena. "My aim is to get Vitali in a ring next year, after his election campaign has failed, and bring his WBC world title back to Britain. This is the only fight that interests me at heavyweight, and the WBC world heavyweight title is the one belt I'm desperate to win before I retire for good. I won the WBC world cruiserweight title in 2007, and have won many other world titles since, but lifting the green WBC belt at heavyweight would be an extremely proud moment for me."


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Can You Believe This Guy Is a Serial Killer?
Weird, right? He looks so normal-eyed and harmless! But 65-year-old trucker Robert Ben Rhoades, currently serving a life sentence for the murder of a 14-year-old Illinois girl, is believed to have killed "an average of three women a month by the early 1990s."
This week, Rhoades pleaded guilty to the murder of newlyweds Patricia Candace Walsh and Scott Zyskowski, earning him another life sentence. From the Deseret News:
The former long-haul truck driver is believed to have kidnapped and tortured mostly female hitchhikers across the United States. He was the subject of the book "Roadside Prey" by Alva Busch. Rhoades' cab was set up as a type of dungeon with handcuffs on the ceiling used to incapacitate his victims. He is accused in the book and by investigators of sexually assaulting and systematically torturing the women he held captive before killing them.
A story in the Tucson Weekly in 1996 quoted officials as saying they believe that by early 1990, Rhoades was kidnapping and killing an average of three women a month.
With a face like that?
UPDATE: Commenter Hank_Scorpion_King points out that before he was crazy-eyed, Rhoades looked much more approachable. (Photo probably NSFW.)


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Do you get out birding much? If you're checking in here on a Monday morning, chances are you have a bird tale to tell. Then again, maybe like me you simply enjoy hearing about the avian observations of others even when you can't make time for your own bird chases. Speaking of Birdchasers, Rob Fergus may not be a medical doctor, but his prescribed 20 Bird Minimum Daily Requirement seems to be a sure cure for what ails most of us. Be honest: how often are you reaching that mark?
I'll admit that I rarely reach 20 bird species a day, especially this time of year. This weekend, however, I needed to take my mind off all those gaudy birds Corey was scoping down at the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival. Plus, the time was finally right for me to savor a local slice of that southern Snowy Owl invasion. Seth and I hit the Summerville pier on Lake Ontario to spy the bird who's been hanging out for the last month or two. The bad news was that it had flown away right before we arrived, but the good news is that it hadn't traveled far. Dive-bombing crows marked its perch on a low roof, which we could view after a bit of trouble. That magnificent predator was too distant for decent photos, so I snapped some of the Long-tailed Ducks on which the owl has been sustaining itself…
As for Corey, his Space Coast experience is yielding ABA birds and lifers in buckets. If pressed, he'll acknowledge a Gray Kingbird found by Doug Gochfeld at Viera Wetlands — his fifth lifer and tenth ABA-area bird of his Florida trip — as his his Best Bird of the Weekend™ .
What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. If you've blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.
Two owls to choose from this weekend – an adult and juvenile Spotted Eagle Owl, or a pair of African Wood Owls. Hard choice, but I think the fluffy baby probably has it! Pictures on the Safari Ecology Blog.
Discovering that there are still Crested Tits in my neighbourhood was nice, as was the adult male Goshawk that dropped out of the sky over my backyard on Sunday to try and make a Rose-ringed Parakeet his lunch – the experience was family-friendly though as the parakeet prevailed.
Having heard of Corey's Florida fortunes though, and seeing as we are in the midst of a mad, bad competition, I have to name the only new bird for my year list: Siskins flying over Luisenpark in Mannheim/Germany, #74.
Best bird was the New Zealand Storm Petrel… follow up, the New Zealand Dotterel… honorable mention, the Black Petrel.
Duncan- I would LOVE to be in the Hobbit movie myself! I am visiting from AUS and did a Hauraki Gulf pelagic yesterday, hence the NZSP.
Despite loving the LOTR movies, a NZSP beats being part of the Hobbit movie.
All week long I hear the high pitch keening of Cedar Waxwings high in the tree tops, zooming back and forth and circling all around our neighborhood. Infuriating, I tell you, as they never come down from the high branches. And then, one day, they light in our berry tree.
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Pine Grosbeaks, at a feeder, along with Common and one or maybe two Hoary Redpolls.
I hadn't realized that Gray Kingbirds could look so "shrikeish". An all-day kinds birthday party on Saturday made it a quiet weekend for me too in terms of birds. Out of the very few birds noticed, my best was Crimson-fronted Parakeet.
I Had a really special weekend! I went up to Nylsvlei Nature Reserve to assist with the woodland bird census and had so much time to bird it was a real treat. Out of the 140 odd species seen it is difficult to choose as you can imagine but I think the highlight has to be the adult male Western Marsh Harrier with possibly the Dwarf Bittern a close second!
I walked along the beaches of Port Townsend, Washington, where I live, on the Olympic Peninsula. I didn't see anything unusual. I always enjoy watching Surf Scoters, and they were spread out in a group of about 100. But the best bird for me was the Horned Grebe. They are common here, and I watched six of them as I walked. I wrote about them recently on my blog, calling them the most adorable bird.
Prob'ly the Razorbills at Barnegat Light, New Jersey.
I had a three-lifer weekend!!!! Snowy owl, greater white-fronted goose, and blue-morph snow goose. All in and around Somerset and Warren counties NJ.
The large flock of snow buntings at jones beach for sure
Razorbill, along with gannets, harlequin ducks and common eiders, all at Barnegat Light, NJ. Missed the red knot, but a kind photographer showed me her very crisp pictures of it. Jetty walk was challenging, but well worth the trek.
There's been a Green-tailed Towhee hanging around in the game lands surrounding a local lake for about two months now. I had a great view of it sitting in a bush in the sun making cat-like noises on Sunday. Sadly, I couldn't take pictures this time because my good camera died earlier this month.
@Corey: You could always visit Pennsylvania after you get done in Florida. I don't think this towhee is likely to leave for at least a little while longer.
We've had Bald Eagles flying overhead here in New Rochelle, NY.
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Is JSON Fast and Reliable?
JSON produces slightly smaller documents, and JSON is certainly easier to use in JavaScript. XMLHttpRequest parses XML documents for you whereas you have to manually parse JSON, but is parsing JSON slower than parsing XML? I tested the XML parser built into XMLHttpRequest against JSON on these address cards and put them through thousands of iterations. Parsing JSON was 10 times faster than parsing XML! When it comes to making AJAX behave like a desktop application, speed is everything, and clearly, JSON is a winner.
Of course, you might not always have control of the server-side that's producing data for your AJAX application. You might be using a third-party server for your data and it's possible that server provides only XML output. And, if it happens to provide JSON, are you sure you really want to use it?
Speaking of parsers, Python fans might've noticed that not only is JSON a subset of JavaScript, it's also a subset of Python. You can evaluate JSON directly in Python, or take advantage of a safe JSON parser instead. Parsers for JSON exist in dozens of other languages as well; the JSON.org Web site lists them.
JSON on the Server Side
So far, you've been focusing on using JSON in AJAX-based Web applications running in the client browser. Naturally, there has to be something in the Web server to produce that JSON in the first place. Luckily, creating JSON or "stringifying" it from existing data structures is fairly straightforward. Certain Web application frameworks, such as TurboGears, automatically include support for JSON output. JSON stringifiers exist for several languages as well.
In addition, commercial Web services providers are taking note of JSON. Yahoo recently made many of their Web services JSON-enabled. Yahoo's various search services, travel planners, del.icio.us, and highway traffic services all support JSON output. Doubtless, other major Web services providers will jump on the JSON bandwagon.
About the Author
Sean Kelly is a fan of Greek mythology and comedy and appreciates the vast potential for puns in both AJAX and JSON. His own team of AJAX-led Argonauts are ready to tackle whatever tasks you might need to face in Web applications, Python, AJAX, Java, Web services, and even the most loathsome XML. He consults to the medical, aerospace, and digital media industries, but does yoga daily and is enormously flexible to whatever your application might be.
He resides in an undisclosed location with his wife Mary and daughter Ariana, who are routinely annoyed by his home automation hobby.
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Surgical Techniques Used in Plastic SurgerySurgical Techniques Used In Plastic Surgery - Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis and Treatment
There are many different techniques used to perform cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery procedures, including the following:
Endoscopic surgery
Endoscopic surgery is performed with an endoscope, a tubular probe that has a tiny camera and a bright light, which is inserted into a small incision (a small cut in the skin). Images from the camera are transmitted back to a screen, which the surgeon watches while manipulating the endoscope inside the body. The endoscope is a device to assist the surgeon during surgical procedures. Instruments to actually perform the surgery are inserted through a different incision(s).
Flap surgery
Flap surgery involves moving healthy, live tissue from one location of the body to another - often to areas that have lost skin, fat, muscle movement, and/or skeletal support. There are several different types of flap surgery methods that may be used, depending on the location of the flap and the structures that need to be repaired. The types include the following:
Local flap - is located next to the wound; the skin remains attached at one end so that the blood supply is left intact.
Regional flap - uses a section of tissue that is attached by a specific blood vessel.
Bone/soft tissue flap - this type of flap is often used when bone and the overlying skin are moved to a new location.
Musculocutaneous flap (muscle and skin flap) - this type of flap is often used when the area to be covered needs more bulk and an increased blood supply. This type of flap is often used to rebuild a breast following a mastectomy.
Microvascular free flap - involves detaching and reattaching skin and blood vessels from one site of the body to another site. Microsurgery is used to attach the blood vessels.
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Split-thickness skin graft
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Donor location site will be chosen based on size, type, and pigment of skin needed
Full-thickness skin graft
Used to treat deep and large wounds or scars
Used when maximum skin elasticity is needed
Uses all layers (not only the surface layer) of skin from the donor site
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Born in New Orleans in the late 1920s, Nehemiah Atkinson was engaged by the sport of tennis at an early age. Despite the realities of racial barriers during those times, Atkinson did not let them discourage his love of the game, developing into a standout player who would go on to give lessons to hundreds of young players from all different ethnic backgrounds. He spent 23 years as a tennis instructor and supervisor for the New Orleans Recreation Department, retiring in 1995. He was also an active volunteer with the American Tennis Association and the established the Nehemiah Atkinson Scholarship Foundation.
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AUSTIN — The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department has contracted with Taylor Marine Construction, Inc. to make the first significant structural repairs to the Battleship TEXAS in more than 20 years. Today marks the 99th anniversary of the battleship's commissioning in 1912.
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A few weeks ago I published an article about an attack that hosted malware on a fast flux network of infected PCs and used a clever algorithm based on Twitter trends to generate four new hard-to-predict domain names every day.
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When most of us hear the phrase "summer camp," it brings to mind images of boys and girls roasting marshmallows around fires, paddling canoes and swimming in lakes, sleeping in bunk beds in spare, wood-framed cabins—in short, taking part in all those activities that have come to define camp life in the popular imagination. The fact that many of us never even went to camp when we were kids has little bearing on our ability to picture what it's all about: on TV, in the movies, in novels, plays and memoirs, the joys (and tribulations) of summer camp are somehow part of our collective memory.
In a special December 1959 issue on "The Good Life," meanwhile, LIFE magazine focused on what we might call summer camps for grownups: art colonies and workshops where college students and full-blown adults honed their artistic chops in the great outdoors. But take a look at the cultural figures in some of these pictures. How many of us would pass up the chance to take a photography course with Ansel Adams? Or study poetry with Robert Frost? Or learn about jazz from Percy Heath?
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Finally, below is a portrait of the great Alfred Eisenstaedt at a camp where "mohair weaving" was quite popular, wearing what looks to be a cross between a cossack's hat and a rather woolly dark wig. Yet more evidence, if any were needed, that when the spirit moved him, one of the most talented, insightful craftsmen of the 20th century could also be a deadpan, self-deprecating cut-up. Now there's a cultural lesson we can all take to heart.
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Flood peaks heading toward Chinchilla, Dalby and Condamine
UPDATE 1.10PM: With rainfall continuing in the upper Condamine River catchment area, moderate to major flooding is expected in Chinchilla and Dalby this evening, and Condamine later this week.
"Chinchilla's Charleys Creek is currently at 5.6 metres and continues to rise with predictions of moderate to major flooding late this afternoon. An evacuation centre is being opened in Chinchilla at the Cultural Centre in Heeney Street," Mayor Ray Brown said.
"Dalby's Myall Creek is currently at 2.41 metres and predicted to peak at up to 3.0 metres this afternoon causing moderate flooding to the town. Patrick Street Bridge is already cut, however the Charles Drew Bridge is expected to remain open.
"The Condamine River at Condamine is predicted to reach a major flood height of 8 metres at 10pm tonight with a possible peak of 12 metres expected by Thursday/Friday.
"As a comparison, in the 2011 floods Dalby's Myall Creek peaked at 3.74 metres, Chinchilla's Charleys Creek peaked at 7.8 metres and the Condamine River at Condamine peaked at 15.25 metres.
"Flood waters are receding in Jandowae and we are monitoring the flood situation in Warra.
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UPDATE: Western Downs Local Disaster Management Group met this morning to monitor the flood situation across the region with Chinchilla and Dalby the current focus.
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Bring up the word stress in a conversation and you'd better clear your schedule for the next hour.
A whopping 40 percent of American workers say their jobs are very or extremely stressful, according to the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health.
Of course, some jobs are more stressful than others. Job-search portal CareerCast has once again crunched the statistics and come up with its list of the 10 most stressful jobs in America.
"Not all jobs are created equal when it comes to stress levels," said Tony Lee, publisher of CareerCast.comand JobsRated.com."Probably the one thing that's overriding is the amount of control you have. People who have the least amount of control have the most amount of stress — they're reacting to whatever is happening around them."
Many of the most stressful jobs involved peril and significant hazard, whether it's coming into contact with hazardous materials or having other people's lives in your hands. In all, CareerCast used 11 criteria to come up with its list: travel, income outlook/growth potential, deadlines, working in the public eye, competitiveness, physical demands, environmental conditions, hazards encountered, own life at risk, life of another at risk, and meeting the public.
Think your job is on the list? Click ahead to read about the 10 most stressful jobs of 2012.
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Groton man's struggles fuel his drive to help others
Alfred Gardner wants to give something back before he dies.
The Groton 54-year-old was diagnosed with liver cancer in February. He spent much of his life as a drug addict, but he's been clean for almost two years. Now there is something he wants to do: "When I leave this earth, I want to know that I made a difference in somebody's life."
Friends raised $1,500 so he could do something nice for himself. Gardner bought a pair of slippers, visited his family in Chicago, and used the rest to start a fund to help recovering addicts.
John Haugabook, off-campus coordinator for Stonington Institute, said he's called Gardner eight or nine times to help people in recovery who need T-shirts, socks or other personal items.
"The fact that he's battling cancer, but he makes it his business to be of service to all people" is unique, said Haugabook, a deacon at Shiloh Baptist Church in New London. "That's just Alfred. Sometimes I've got to tell him, 'Slow down. Take care of yourself.'"
Gardner is being treated at Yale-New Haven Hospital. His relatives live far away, he said, but he found family through his work, at Serenity Lodge in Groton and at Shiloh, where he is a member.
"I have been helped so much," he said. "I want to leave something for people to say, 'He wasn't just a drug addict. He did something.' I want people to know somebody will help them."
Gardner has a criminal history, including arrests in Chicago, where he grew up, and a half-dozen larceny charges in Bristol, where he used to live.
Mark Weber, head of Serenity Recovering Living Centers Inc., said Gardner applied for Social Security disability due to his illness and a background check discovered an outstanding arrest warrant from 1997 in Chicago. According to the Cook County (Illinois) Criminal Court clerk's office, the warrant is for violation of probation for failure to appear in court.
It is unclear why the 16-year-old warrant remains in effect. But for the past two years, Alfred Gardner has been to trying to make things right in his life.
Raised himself
Gardner is the oldest of 12, but he didn't know that growing up. Until he was 16, he said, he didn't know his mother.
When he was 3, his father took him and his toddler sister to their grandmother's doorstep in Arkansas and left them there. Gardner's grandmother later moved into the projects in Chicago.
Then one day, Gardner said, a woman knocked on the door.
"I opened the door and she said, 'My name is Amanda, and I'm you're mother,'" he said. "'I didn't come here to take you from your grandmother. I just wanted you to know you had a mother.'"
Gardner said he asked her why she left him but never got an answer. He learned he had five siblings he'd never met, that his mother had married and lived in a nice house in the suburbs.
Gardner said his father had been an alcoholic, but recovered and moved in with his mother, Gardner's grandmother, in Chicago. Sometime after that, at age 16, Gardner said, he ran away.
"... I started drinking and doing drugs, hanging in clubs that would let me in, sleeping in parking garages," he said. "I would steal, I would go to the soup kitchen, I would do all of that. ... I raised myself on the streets of Chicago."
By age 24, he said, he was booking strippers in clubs, then taking their money as part of the arrangement. For seven years, he worked almost like a pimp, moving from city to city.
According to the Cook County Criminal Court, Gardner pleaded guilty in 1997 to burglary, a felony. He was fined and sentenced to 20 days in prison, but was given credit for time served and two years probation. The clerk's office also said Gardner faced an earlier misdemeanor charge in 1989 that was dismissed.
Gardner said that after he got out of jail, he went back on the street but found he couldn't do it anymore. He asked his father for help.
"I had enough of destroying other people's lives," Gardner said. "Everywhere I went, I would take another victim."
Restaurant job
Gardner's father sent him to Teen Challenge in Pennsylvania, a faith-based residential program for addicts. Gardner met his future wife there, married and moved with her to Bristol.
He said he stayed clean for many years. Then he lost his job, his medical insurance and a pain control program upon which he depended. He turned to illegal drugs, began stealing to support his habit and ultimately wound up on the streets.
"I was living in crack houses, in the shelter when I could get in, drinking all day and smoking crack all day," he said.
Connecticut court records show that Gardner pleaded guilty to a half-dozen misdemeanor larceny charges and one failure to appear charge in Bristol between March 2010 and February 2012. On March 29, 2012, Gardner was sentenced to 30 days in prison.
He said it was then that he straightened out his life. He realized the judge had given him a break, and he could do something to change.
He went through detox, to Stonington Institute, then to Serenity Lodge in Groton, where they told him he'd have to pay rent. In three days, he had a job.
Sherrie Segerstrom, kitchen manager of the Ninety Nine Restaurant in Groton, interviewed him.
"I hired him from my heart," she said. "I just wanted to give him another chance."
She said he worked hard. He washed dishes, cleaned and tried to cook, though he had trouble with that, she said.
But he was so helpful, she said, that she kept him even though everyone in the kitchen is supposed to cook.
"Everything he did, he did well," she said. "We didn't want to lose him. The entire staff just fell in love with him."
The restaurant offered him a job cleaning at night and washing dishes instead.
Undiagnosed pain
Gardner said he struggled with cooking, partly because he was tired and in pain all the time. He felt like there were knots in his stomach.
It had been bad for a while, he said. At first, he figured it was the drugs. Then he thought it was the detox. Then he decided it was his body's reaction to drug abuse, even though he'd stopped.
He kept working, but by the fall of 2012, he knew something was really wrong. He threw up. Sometimes, he coughed up blood.
A doctor in New London sent him for blood work, a CT scan and an ultrasound, and then to Yale. A stomach doctor at Yale found the tumor, Gardner said. "He said, 'Albert, I don't want to tell you this, but you have cancer. It's malignant, and it doesn't look good.'"
Gardner didn't quite grasp the gravity of it. He wanted to know, could they take it out? The doctor sent him to a colleague who deals with liver cancer. He took his sister and Weber, the head of Serenity Lodge, to the appointment.
The doctor told him they couldn't fix it; all they could do was "palliative care" to ease his suffering.
"So I asked them, 'What's that?'" Gardner said, then cried, recalling the story. The doctor told him he would die, he said.
In February, he took a letter from Yale to Segerstrom at the Ninety Nine Restaurant and resigned from his job.
Segerstrom said she read the first sentence and burst into tears. "It said, 'Please excuse Alfred from his duties to let him get his affairs in order ...'"
Memorial fund
Segerstrom said the staff was so upset they wanted to do something to help. They threw a benefit in his name and raised $1,500. Gardner had just started chemotherapy and was weak.
"People were just handing him money," Segerstrom said.
His co-workers gave him the money so he could do something on his bucket list, she said.
Instead, after the trip to Chicago to see his family, he set up the A.R. Gardner Memorial Fund at Webster Bank in Groton, to help people recovering from long periods of addiction. The bank confirmed that the fund is registered among its memorial funds, which means a donation can be made at any Webster branch, said Danielle Chandler, assistant manager of Webster's Long Hill branch. She said Gardner set up the fund with her, and discussed nonprofit status, but does not have it yet.
Gardner said he wants to help people by paying their initial one to two weeks' rent at a sober house, and providing clothing and basic provisions like toiletries. Gardner said he has two members for his board of directors but needs help applying for nonprofit status and handling finances.
Juan Torres, who owns two sober houses in New London, said the fund paid the initial rent for three people at his houses and also helped two others.
"Most people in his situation that I know of would never put the time and commitment that he does into helping other people," Torres said.
Jeff Wells, owner of Village Bake House in Groton, keeps a can out in his store for donations to the fund.
"I know he's been through a lot in his life," Wells said. "Instead of being someone who wallows in it and uses it as an excuse, he seems to be trying to help other people who find themselves in a bad situation, regardless of how they got there."
Gardner said he wants people who are struggling to know that it's not hopeless, and they can change their lives. "Everybody needs a chance. That's why I want to put my story out there, to let them know it's possible."
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