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After nearly 18 months of blown deadlines, layoffs, receding earnings and a declining user base it all comes down to Wednesday for Research in Motion. During a press event in New York City, RIM will show off the near-final version of BlackBerry 10, an overhauled, touch-centric version of the BlackBerry OS.
The company will also introduce the first two BlackBerry 10 devices at the event. One device is expected to be a traditional BlackBerry device with a physical keyboard; the other will be a touchscreen device primed to compete with the iPhone and Android and Windows Phone devices.
RIM hopes that the event will signal a new start for BlackBerry. Once the must-have smartphone brand, BlackBerry has steadily declined in popularity since the iPhone debuted in 2007, followed soon after by Google's Android platform.
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BlackBerry in November accounted for 7.3 percent of smartphone users in the U.S., according to the most recent numbers from metrics firm comScore. That's a massive drop from January 2010, when comScore said 43 percent of American smartphone fans were using RIM handsets.
RIM has a long way to go if it hopes to regain the top spot in the hearts of American smartphone users. The reality is that RIM's best shot right now is a comfortable third place position behind Android, which has 53.7 percent of the market, and iOS, which controls 35 percent.
On the bright side, RIM has managed to maintain user and media interest in BlackBerry 10 for several months as users look for a viable third alternative to Android and iOS. Could Wednesday turn RIM's smartphone fortunes around?
To find out, you can follow all the action Wednesday with the PCWorld/Techhive live blog of the event starting at 10 a.m. Eastern/7 a.m. Pacific.
Until then, here's a preview of what to expect and what some of the latest rumors have pegged for BlackBerry 10.
BlackBerry 10 basics
BlackBerry 10 is the first version of RIM's smartphone platform designed for touch devices; previous versions, such as BlackBerry 7, were optimized for non-touch handsets with physical keyboards. The new platform is a combination of BlackBerry's own technology and elements from QNX, a software company RIM acquired in 2010.
Perhaps the most noticeable feature of the new OS is its Flow interface, which uses a card-like metaphor for fast app switching. BlackBerry 10 is also taking a cue from Windows Phone with a new feature called BlackBerry Hub. Similar to how Windows Phone centralizes data in one spot with its People and Pictures hubs, BlackBerry Hub lets you view e-mail, SMS, BlackBerry Messenger, and social networking updates inside one universal inbox.
Other nice additions to BlackBerry 10 include an adaptive software keyboard that adjusts to your typing style over time and a predictive word suggestion feature that can add words to your messages with a quick gesture. There is also a new camera that offers features such as composite photos that snap several images in quick succession so you can merge them into one idealized photo. A great tool for, say, creating a group photo that doesn't have anyone caught mid-blink. Windows Phone 8 offers a similar feature called Smart Group Shot.
BlackBerry 10 will also have some new enterprise features including Balance, which creates two "personas" on a BlackBerry device, one for work and one for personal use.
Rumored device
One rumored device expected Wednesday is the Z10, a 4G BlackBerry 10 device featuring a 4.2-inch display with 1280-by-768 resolution, a 1.5GHz processor, an 8 megapixel rear-facing camera, and 16GB of onboard storage. RIM plans to roll out at least six BlackBerry 10 devices in 2013 at various price ranges, according to an earlier report from Fierce Wireless.
Movies, music and apps
You can't win the smartphone wars with just nice phones and a snazzy new OS; you also need content for people to load onto their device. RIM has been busy beefing up its app store for BlackBerry 10 with a number of developer events encouraging app makers to port their programs to the OS. RIM's app store is expected to debut with about 70,000 BlackBerry 10 apps.
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The company also recently renamed BlackBerry App World to BlackBerry World, in a nod to the fact that the smartphone vendor will also offer music and movies in addition to apps. RIM said Monday that BlackBerry World will include an "extensive catalog of songs as well as movies and TV shows." It's not clear just what the BlackBerry entertainment catalog will look like, but RIM says it will have video content from major studios, broadcasters and independent producers such as 20th Century Fox, ABC, CBS, Lionsgate, MGM, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures, Starz, Walt Disney and Warner Bros.
RIM and its U.S. carrier partners have yet to officially announce rollout dates for BlackBerry 10, but RIM's new smartphones are expected to be available on all major American carriers in 2013. The four carriers pretty much confirmed to Reuters earlier in January they would carry BlackBerry 10. What's not clear is which networks will carry the first two devices and when other carriers will follow suit.
The latest rumors claim the Z10 will show up on Verizon first, according to Twitter user evleaks, an oft-cited source of tech leaks.
February release?
The first BlackBerry 10 phone, expected to be the Z10, will be available in February, according to a Bloomberg report. A February release date isn't much of a stretch considering there are only two full days left in January. But it's not clear how deep into the second month of the year BlackBerry fans will have to wait. It could be a while, given that the software is still not in its final build.
PCWorld/Techhive will be live blogging RIM's BB10 event Wednesday starting at 10 a.m. Eastern/7 a.m. Pacific, with hands-on reports, first impressions, and lots of analysis to follow.
This story, "RIM's BlackBerry 10 launch: A rundown of what to expect" was originally published by TechHive.


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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A preliminary autopsy found that David "Kidd" Kraddick, the popular host of syndicated radio and TV shows, had an enlarged heart and blocked arteries that probably led to an irregular heartbeat, a Louisiana coroner's office said Monday.
Kraddick, 53, became ill during his Kidd's Kids charity golf tournament Saturday outside New Orleans, then collapsed while being driven to an emergency room, said Dr. Granville Morse, a deputy coroner in the Jefferson Parish Coroner's Office.
Doctors at the nearby Ochsner (OX-ner) Medical Center campus — a five-minute drive from the country club where the tournament was held — "did really just a heroic effort to resuscitate him," Morse said. "They really pulled out the stops. Unfortunately, they couldn't get him back."
He said the autopsy is not final because toxicology tests are not back, but Kraddick's heart was enlarged by cardiac disease, and three coronary arteries ranged from 40 to 80 percent blocked. Those conditions can lead to an irregular heartbeat and collapse, Morse said.
"We can't prove that (happened) because he didn't have a cardiac monitor on when he collapsed," Morse said.
More than 300 people attended the tournament, which raised at least $18,000 to send chronically ill and physically challenged children to Disney World, publicist Ladd Biro said Monday.
Kraddick's program, "Kidd Kraddick in the Morning," was based in Dallas and syndicated by YEA Networks to more than 75 Top 40 and Hot AC radio stations nationwide, Biro said. He said the radio program also is transmitted globally on American Forces Radio Network, and its cast also is seen weeknights on the nationally syndicated TV show "Dish Nation."

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Axl Rose loses Guitar Hero suit - Report
Court tosses out Guns N' Roses frontman's 2010 lawsuit against Activision, which claimed publisher duped him.
Court tosses out Guns N' Roses frontman's 2010 lawsuit against Activision, which claimed publisher duped him.
Guns N' Roses frontman claims Activision offered him a dedicated game featuring music from 2008 Chinese Democracy album to resolve Guitar Hero III issues.
Rhythm game minted $830.9 million--but Call of Duty: Black Ops is closing fast with $787.4 million; Wii Fit, Modern Warfare 2, and Rock Band also make top 10.
Analysts disagree on whether Activision could have done things differently to keep rhythm series viable, but expect Tony Hawk to make an eventual return.
Activision confirms that downloadable content pipeline will dry up after this month.
Once-mighty rhythm franchise's latest installment canned; DJ Hero discontinued; United Front's open-world game also given the chop; no new skateboarding game in 2011; Activision's global workforce being culled by 7%.
Guns N' Roses frontman taking publisher to court over virtual Slash, Velvet Revolver songs included in the game.
Activision shake-up continues with closure of studio behind Blast Works, Guitar Hero ports, trimming of California QA team; 88 positions impacted.
Controller pack-in reigns supreme on console as Nintendo releases separate top 10 US sales lists for first, third party games; Mario Kart Wii and Wii Fit take silver and bronze.
Original Guitar Hero shop named as the latest casualty in publisher's sweeping cuts; Van Halen developer also shuttered.
Wii Remote pack-in leads list of all-time titles; Guitar Hero III, GTA: San Andreas, Modern Warfare 2, Wii Fit, Mario Kart Wii, Call of Duty 4, Madden NFL 07, COD: ...
Draft of Digital Economy measure proposes exceptions for games situated in athletics, rhythm, religion genres.
Nintendo's Wii Remote pack-in and Activision's guitar-based rocker cap NPD's top 10 US bestsellers from Jan. 2000 to Aug. 2009; San Andreas, Call of Duty 4, Wii Fit also make ...
Activision looking to translate its rhythm game, war action series into small- and big-screen properties, claims the Hollywood Reporter; concert tour also a possibility.
Rhythm franchise only third series to top lifetime-sales milestone; COD4 sales hit 13 million; World Tour, Lich King top multiplatform, PC charts for quarter; MMORPG revenues more than $100 million ...
Activision confirms previously rumoured Heroes arriving this autumn, alongside Van Halen; full Greatest Hits/Smash Hits setlist revealed; first shot of turntable controller inside.
With Guitar Hero: Aerosmith and Guitar Hero: Metallica already out, and Guitar Hero: Van Halen widely rumored, the search is on for the next big musical act to get its ...
Megapublisher's USPTO filing might be first sign of new competitor for Konami's Karaoke Revolution and Sony's SingStar series.
Source: UK game-info site Eurogamer.What we heard: During a February 11 earnings call, Activision Publishing president and CEO Mike Griffith talked about the year's Guitar Hero titles. Those included Guitar ...
Federal judge denies claim by Guitar maker alleging that instruments for Activision's rhythm franchise violated 1999 patent.
Activision touts 2007 game as first multiplatform console game to rack up nine digits in worldwide retail sales; series boasts 21 million song downloads.
Sci-fi RTS trial due out February 5; Windows 7 beta begins this week; 10 billion hours of "gaming and socializing" clocked on Xbox Live.
Microsoft dubs Bungie's sci-fi FPS as most-played online Xbox 360 game; Castle Crashers crowned Arcade champ.
Legendary designer tells press round table about the theory behind and the practice of the last of the "big four" nontraditional games for Nintendo's console.
Microsoft's most recent round of price cuts for the Xbox 360 yielded results for the gamemaker. Following on from the cross-SKU cuts that saw the Arcade model drop to $199, ...
Metallica's ninth album thrashes onto Activision Blizzard's Legends of Rock this Friday for $18; World Tour confirmed for October.
Nintendo's Mario Kart holds onto the number-one position, while Dr Kawashima's Brain Training marks a record-breaking 80th week in the top 10.
Record company CEO says licensing fees paid to the music industry by game companies are "far too small."
Aptly titled "Virtuoso Pack" includes tracks from longtime G3 festival anchors, former Guns 'n' Roses lead Buckethead.
Variety reports publishing giant has signed "key folks" from Blizzard Entertainment, Infinity Ward, and Neversoft to new long-term deals; announces two-for-one stock split.
Level 70 Elite Tauren Chieftain's BlizzCon 2005 metal ode to World of Warcraft fishmen available as free download for Activision's rhythm game June 26.
Rockstar's open-world gangster drama on the 360 fends off Mario Kart and newcomer Wii Fit to top software charts as industry hits $1.12 billion in total revenue for May; PS2 ...
Grand Theft Auto and Madden NFL franchises dominate industry-tracking group's top 10 list of all-time domestic sales leaders through April.
Tiki Games' shooter joins free Guitar Hero III version of God of War II theme in Sony's weekly online store update.
Megapublisher snaps up Shawn Fanning's online community for gamers.
Rockstar's latest sells 2.85M, pushing total industry growth in April to 47 percent.
Activision execs tell analysts it's two weeks away from revealing a "significant innovation" for its billion-dollar rhythm franchise; Nintendo bundling handheld with first portable edition.
Guitar Hero III, Call of Duty 4 boost publisher's year-long sales 92 percent; $602.5 million in Q4 revenues nearly doubles prior year's.
Brit trio gets three-song pack on Thursday; more Fall Out Boy and Yeah Yeah Yeahs set for Rock Band.
Merging publishers cut ties with gaming-industry trade group and confirm absence from annual E3 Media & Business Summit.
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In New York City MSM With Rectal Bacterial Infection, One in 15 Gets HIV Yearly
This article was reported by the Westside Gazette (Broward County, Fla.).
An article in Westside Gazette reported a study on New York City men who have sex with men (MSM) with rectal bacterial infections and HIV infection. According to the study, one in 15 MSM with rectal chlamydia or gonorrhea was diagnosed with HIV infection in a year, compared to one in 40 MSM who did not have rectal chlamydia or gonorrhea.
Researchers studied HIV-negative MSM presenting at New York City sexually transmitted infection (STI) clinics who were or were not diagnosed with rectal chlamydia or rectal gonorrhea from January 2008 to March 2010. Of 276 HIV-negative MSM with rectal chlamydia or gonorrhea, 31 were diagnosed with HIV, including 14 who were diagnosed by medical personnel outside of the clinic. Of 276 HIV-negative MSM attending the same STI clinics and who did not have rectal chlamydia or gonorrhea, 12 were diagnosed with HIV at follow-up. The annual HIV incidence was 6.67 percent in the group with rectal bacterial infection and 2.53 percent in the group without.
The sole factor that raised the risk of HIV in MSM with rectal bacterial infection was black race, which increased the risk five times. The researchers concluded that identifying and treating rectal infections may prevent HIV transmission, as rectal infections increase an individual's susceptibility to HIV. Also, rectal infections are indicators of behavioral risk and may identify patients who can benefit from intensive risk reduction counseling and other methods of reducing HIV transmission risk.
The full report, "HIV Incidence Among Men With and Those Without Sexually Transmitted Rectal Infections: Estimates From Matching Against an HIV Case Registry," was published by the journal Clinical infectious Diseases (2013; 57(8):1203-1209).
This information was reprinted from kff.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives, and sign up for email delivery. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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Feb. 11: Police took a report of theft from a residence; the case remains under investigation. Police assisted with an investigation into identity theft.
Feb. 12: A report was taken of a billfold lost on Feb. 8.
Wednesday: Police opened an investigation on an inoperable vehicle violation in the city.
Thursday: A citation was issued for a habitual barking dog.
Friday: Police arrested a subject on a Herington Municipal Court warrant. A subject was arrested for aggravated assault, contributing to a child's misconduct, aggravated endangerment of a child, and disorderly conduct.


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Bengals quarterback Jason Campbell emerged from the preseason opener with an injured arm, which means the Bengals need some more depth at the position.
They've gotten it, by signing quarterback Tyler Wilson.
A fourth-round pick of the Raiders who was cut before the 2013 season and passed through waivers, Wilson spent much of his rookie season on the Oakland practice squad. After two weeks on the active roster, Wilson once again passed through waivers and returned to the practice squad.
The Titans eventually came calling, adding Wilson for the last two weeks of the year. Wilson recently got a pink slip in Tennessee, and then passed through waivers for a third time.
Wilson joins Andy Dalton, A.J. McCarron, Campbell, and Matt Scott on the 90-man roster.


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Each filepath is relative to the directory or JAR file containing the MANIFEST.MF file. For details, see the Java EE specification.
For a calling web component, add the client JAR file under the WEB-INF/lib directory.
If you need to package the client JAR with both the EJB and web components, set delegate="true" in the class-loader element of the sun-web.xml file.
This changes the Web class loader so that it follows the standard class loader delegation model and delegates to its parent before attempting to load a class itself.
For most applications, packaging the client JAR file with the calling EJB component is sufficient. You do not need to package the client JAR file with both the EJB and web components unless the web component is directly calling the EJB component in the dependent application.
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The calling EJB or web component must specify in its sun-ejb-jar.xml or sun-web.xml file the JNDI name of the EJB component in the dependent application. Using an ejb-link mapping does not work when the EJB component being called resides in another application.
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GeorgiaInfo is the online almanac for the state of Georgia. It is valuable as a ready reference resource for all things Georgia and is rich in information to support the K-12 Georgia studies curriculum. It provides historical and current information on Georgia's economy, geography, government, military, people, sports, tourism, wildlife, and more. GeorgiaInfo also offers current and historical maps as well as city and county information with statistics, courthouse pictures, historical markers, and more. Two popular features are This Day in Georgia History and This Day in Georgia Civil War History.
GeorgiaInfo is part of the Digital Library of Georgia and is hosted by GALILEO and the University of Georgia Libraries. GeorgiaInfo was created in 1996 by Ed Jackson, and with the assistance of Charles Pou, it was hosted by the Carl Vinson Institute of Government from its inception until 2008, when the site became a part of the Digital Library of Georgia and GALILEO, the state's virtual library.
The development of GeorgiaInfo was motivated by the conviction that such information, now readily accessible online, could help citizens and public officials make better-informed decisions that improve the quality of life in their communities.
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Hugh Jackman has opened up about his painful battle to have children with his wife Deborra-Lee Furness, revealing the actress suffered several devastating miscarriages before they decided to adopt.
The star has always spoken candidly about the couple's decision to adopt their two children, son Oscar, 12, and daughter Ava, 7, after failing to conceive.
However, he has now talked about the couple's long struggle with unsuccessful in vitro fertilisation treatments, urging other couples to talk more openly about the trauma they suffer along the way.
He tells TV host Katie Couric, "Biologically obviously we tried and it was not happening for us and it is a difficult time. We did IVF and Deb had a couple of miscarriages. I'll never forget it, the miscarriage thing – it happens to one in three pregnancies, but it's very, very rarely talked about. It's almost secretive, so I hope Deb doesn't mind me bringing it up now… It's a good thing to talk about it. It's more common, and it is tough. There's a grieving that you have to go through."
Jackman insists the pain of the failed treatments disappeared as soon as he held his son for the first time, adding, "You can't prepare for that moment. Nothing can prepare you. You can't even explain how incredible it is and that avalanche of emotion that comes and how it opens up your heart, how it frustrates you, how it angers you, how everything is just all the sudden how alive you are as a parent."


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Crazy Zauberball sock (well, the tube part -- I'm still working up the courage to snip the yarn for the afterthought heels), I put the finishing touches on some baby knits.
First, a long-neglected baby cardigan:
- a Doctor Who shawlette pattern from the latest Knitty
- IKEA's urban-planning scheme
- I'm not sure if I love this or loathe it:
Cute kitten, even if this guy isn't using fresh-squeezed limes for his margaritas.
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- Bridget Jones's Diary
- Music & Lyrics
- Love Actually
If only I'd had the stamina to muscle through Sense and Sensibility, too!


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Pallets and RFID
Some end users putting RFID and pallets to work to track work-in-process and finished goods in their facilities and supply chains
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During Modern's November's pallet Webcast, one attendee asked about the future of RFID and pallets.
Mark White, our pallet expert, argued that pallets and RFID make sense for tracking product within the four walls of a facility or across a closed loop supply chain—that is a supply chain that is controlled by a manufacturer—but not for tracking cartons across an open loop supply chain, with a number of unrelated players, like the retail supply chain. What's more, he offered, attaching an RFID tag to a wooden pallet is a recipe for disaster, given how pallets are often handled. "One of my colleagues once said that putting an RFID tag on a pallet is like putting a license plate on a car in a demotion derby," White said. "There are probably better ways to track a carton than to put an antenna on a pallet that is subject to damage pretty easily. It makes more sense to track the carton."
While tagging wooden pallets is not prevalent, there are efforts in the industry today to bring pallets and RFID together in some innovative ways. Here are three examples.
Security and visibility: Airdex (http://www.airdex.com) manufactures a lightweight foam pallet used for high-value products that ship by air, including computers and pharmaceuticals. One of the advantages of a foam pallet is that it is mostly air, which means the materials used to make the pallet don't interfere with the transmission of an RF signal, as can happen with a wood pallet. And since it's a molded product, the pallet can be manufactured with an RFID tag as part of the construction, rather than being applied later, as is the case with a wooden pallet.
According to Vance Seagle, Airdex's president, the company became interested in adding RFID, sensor or GPS capabilities to its pallet after a company specializing in freight security approached them. "Their client shipped a very high value cargo by truck that was being hijacked," says Seagle. "There was a transponder in the truck that alerted them to when it stopped longer than anticipated, but by the time they could respond, the cargo had been stripped and they couldn't catch the thieves." With some kind of an active RFID tag, they believed they could get the cargo back if the thieves moved the product on a pallet. "They asked us to mold a pallet with a transponder that would be completely stealth," Seagle says. "The pallet we came up with has been shipped all over the world and it performs well." Seagle adds that one of the biggest proponents of the technology is the insurance companies that insure freight shipments.
Since then, Airdex has worked in partnership with AT&T and US GlobalSat, a company that makes a very small GPS transponders, and a mobile billing company to develop a pallet with GPS and sensor capabilities. The target end users including the U.S. military – and that's about all Seagle can say, makers of apparel or other products that are easily counterfeited and industries, like pharma or food, that ship temperature-sensitive products. "If you're shipping a serum or vaccine, the temperature has to be maintained in a very close range," says Seagle. "Right now, they can check a sensor when the product arrives to see if it went out of range during delivery. With a real-time device, they could be alerted during transit if something happens. If a critical shipment has just been damaged, they can immediately order new medicine."
The next step is to develop a tag that can not only provide X and Y coordinates for tracking but also with Z coordinates for a three dimensional view of an area. That would provide much more precise tracking of items, like containers at the port that may be buried deep in a stack. "The pressure is on for total asset visibility," says Seagle. "There are so many assets in transit all the time, that having total visibility is a real tool for some industries."
Tracking work-in-process and maintenance: Like Airdex, Green Line Armor (http://www.greenlinearmor.com) produces an alternative to the traditional wooden and plastic pallet. In this case, a very heavy duty hybrid pallet: the wooden components are much heavier than a traditional wooden pallet and they are screwed together instead of nailed; the lead deck boards—the ones most susceptible to lift truck damage—are made from heavy duty plastic. It's so heavy duty that Green Line Armor sells it with a limited 10-year warranty, according to company president Eric Renteria.
Manufacturers are the most likely end users, and Green Line Armor has targeted the canned goods industry, manufacturers of heavy equipment and products and the automotive industry. The company's biggest customer has 2,000 pallets that are used to handle work-in-process in its factories and then to store finished goods in the warehouse.
From the start, Green Line Armor designed a compartment in the plastic lead boards to hold an RFID tag. It then installs a passive RFID tag on the lead boards on both sides of the pallet. That way it gets a solid read no matter how the pallet is oriented. The tag has a 12-digit identification number that identifies the pallet when connected to a database on the back end. Green Line Armor uses that information for warranty purposes.
"We know when the pallet was manufactured, where it was built and the lot codes of the raw materials that went into the pallet," says Renteria. "The last part is important to pharmaceutical and food industry companies that may have to track all of the raw materials associated with their products." The data also tells Green Line Armor who originally purchased the pallet and how much time is left on the warranty. "We'll know if you weren't the original owner of the pallet," Renteria says.
When Green Line Armor's largest customer learned about the RFID tag, it asked the company to create another special compartment in the plastic boards to accommodate an active RFID tag they used in their operations. Each RFID tag has the ability to communicate its location to other RFID tags and ultimately to an inventory tracking system on the manufacturing floor and in the finished goods storage area. "With the click of a mouse, the customer can take a physical inventory and know where their WIP and finished goods are stored," says Renteria. "That information is available to their locations all over the world."
Driving warehouse operations: iGPS (http://www.igps.net) also relies on RFID to manage its pool of roughly 15 million plastic rental pallets, according to Jack Sparn, CIO. An EPC Gen II passive RFID tag—the tag that was originally developed for tracking cartons and pallets in the retail supply chain—is embedded in each of the pallets four corners to ensure a read regardless of how the pallet is oriented. For its own tracking, tracing and billing purposes, iGPS scans the tag when a pallet leaves one of its depots for a customer location; it's scanned again when it leaves a customer's manufacturing plant, typically when it leaves the palletizer for the shipping dock; it's scanned a third time when it arrives back at an iGPS depot and is put back in inventory.
"Our database has a record of every single scan of every pallet since the first pallet was manufactured, and we can track them throughout their life," says Sparn. "If we couldn't track and track our pallets, we couldn't accurately bill for each use, nor could we identify where our assets are located for our asset recovery teams."
At least one iGPS customer is using the RFID tag to enable its automated warehousing processes. After a load is palletized and stretchwrapped, a license plate bar code label that carries the product information is automatically applied to the load. When the bar code label and the RFID pallet tag are scanned, the load is tied to the pallet in the manufacturer's warehouse management system. When it comes time for putaway, the pallet is picked up and the RFID tag is scanned by a reader mounted on an automatic guided vehicle (AGV). Based on that read, the warehouse management system (WMS) directs the AGV to a putaway location in the warehouse. Likewise, when it comes time to fill an order with that pallet, the WMS sends the AGV to the putaway location to retrieve the pallet. The AGV reads the RFID tag again to confirm that it is pulling the correct pallet and then automatically loads it onto a trailer for delivery. "The only time an operator is involved is when there is an exception to be processed," says Sparn. "They have been using the system for 18 months and are literally getting 100% accurate reads."
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Why do they have a Gay Pride parade? What about Hetero Pride? Where's our parade?
Every other parade is an hetero parade. I still must be careful not to hold hands nor kiss and cuddle in public my significant other because he has the same gender as myself. The Gay Pride is the one event, once every year, when we can try and make up for 363 days of semi-hiding by being as open and in-your-face as possible about our sexual identity. Plus it's a great way to meet to try and make new friends w/o the risk of rejection or worse.


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In an interesting essay posted on The Hairpin, Dolores P., a woman who's training to become an abortion provider, explains what it's like to walk past protesters on your way to work, and the hardships her patients go through to get medical treatment. She decided she wanted to help women terminate their pregnancies after having an abortion herself, and learning that there are fewer than 2,000 abortion providers in the U.S. and the number is declining. She writes:
I went into healthcare in general because of a bunch of shitty gynecologists growing up who told me, for instance, that "when you" (me) "have sex with so many people" (I, like, halved the real number) "so young" (18) that "none of them care about you" (me). I figured the most direct way to ensure that there wasn't a total asshole at the bottom of the table was to do it myself.
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More posi Barn Nova reviews:
"The album feels dense, but at only 42 minutes is actually blissfully brief, and I think a lot of listeners will find themselves coming back to this record for as long as they long for warm summer evenings on cold winter nights." - PopMatters
"It's a killer, it's a Masterpiece Killer." - Strangeglue
October 16, 2009
Dusted reviews Barn Nova: ""The herb and the everyone's-an-artist spirit remain, but -- thankfully -- it's encapsulated in an appreciation for the last 40 years of rebellious music." Read more.
October 9, 2009
Arthur Magazine posted up the opening track on Barn Nova here.
Largehearted Boy has another here.
October 1, 2009
Raven Sings the Blues has two free samples off Barn Nova. Go get 'em.
July 29, 2009
MV+EE get a mention in this nice musing on Neil Young's citizenship by Alexandra Molotkow over at The Walrus Magazine's The Haulout blog. Read it here then google "honey slides" for the 15-minute meal recipe Rachel Ray is sleeping on.
Parasites and Sycophants disseminate some Barn Nova info here.
Electronic Voice Phenomenon are already stoked for Oct. 13th's Barn Nova: "Chances are--and we like to speak for everybody because that's what webzines do--you will find that your collection won't be complete without Barn Nova. Rightfully so." Read more.
July 27, 2009
Waylon Hatchet: "Barn Nova marks the return of 'Spectrasound,' MV's production technique that places tones dancing all around the stereo sound field: it has to be heard to be believed. This effect is all the more impressive that the majority of it was created recording live, rather than conjured through studio post-production during mixing. Especially potent on the A side-ending stomp 'Summer Magic' where Erika's economical leads go head-to-head with J's on a particularly mind-blowing live-in-studio effort; It brings to mind the vibe of 'Green Blues', 'Mother Of Thousands' and even an electric 'Moon Jook' with matured songwriting." Read more.
June 9, 2009
Some nice live footage of MV+EE's recent Casbah show surfaced on YouTube courtesy of Ayal Senior. Check it out in the multimedia column.
June 23, 2008
Underground Bee has some nice shots from MV+EE's show at the Empty Bottle. Have a look here.
May 23, 2008
Delusions of Adequacy reviews Gettin' Gone: "Matt Valentine and Erika Elder, along with their backing band, have crafted a raw, sweet, and at times poignant record." read it here
February 27, 2008
More on Gettin' Gone
Parasites and Sycophants: "In truth, Getting Gone is desert driving music, whether that be literal or psychic."
Teh Surf: "Put it on and let it roll and roll and roll."
Check out cool photo from the Trowbridge show at Rotten Meats.
January 15, 2008
More good words for Gettin' Gone...
From Bryon Hayes at Foxy Digitalis: "...a true Americana that is rooted solely in good vibes...It seems that MV and EE are steering their ship away from astral folk territory and entering country-rock waters. Of course, they haven't abandoned their roots, but have traversed further down the creative path, and are exploring musical ideas that seem natural." get at it here
Dusted Magazine's Ethan Covey writes "Ultimately, Gettin' Gone's greatest achievement is that it's a '70s record that couldn't have been made 30 years ago, needing instead the nourishment of decades of fellow travellers' tunes. It's an adult rock 'n' roll record about getting high, finding love, playing music and living the country life." more here
Harp Magazine: "Soaring pedal steels and meaty slabs of electric guitar create a broad aesthetic that is instantly evocative of America and its varied geographical landscapes." read it here
Gettin' Gone graced some year end lists for 2007:
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Much obliged Hype Machine.
Lovely praises of MV + EE and the Golden Road's Gettin' Gone.
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Greetings! I'm a refugee from the world of Linux, and I've been using PC-BSD for over a year now. I know that PC-BSD has some bad points, but on the whole I'm happy with it. I recently acquired a newer computer, a Dell Dimension 4550 series desktop. It may be an older model, but it's newer and in better condition than the one it replaced. PC-BSD installed on this beast without any problem… except for the sound card. The system claims it's unable to use it, though according to the diagnostics, it knows the card is in there.
The card is a Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live, PCI model. Windows XP can use the card without a problem, so I'm pretty sure the card's hardware is stable. I've also read that the SB-Live series is supported by BSD, so I should be able to get the thing working, perhaps after some kicking and screaming. I plan to try the following, in order:
1. Go through the process of manually configuring a sound card, according to the FreeBSD handbook.
2. Find out what driver set PC-BSD is using and try to override it.
3. Look into an OSS port (I really hope it doesn't come to this…)
4. Acquire a different sound card that I know to be supported. I really hope it doesn't come to this! But for all I know the current sound card may have a proprietary chip that prevents it from working in anything other than Windows (Winmodem syndrome).
PC-BSD uses KDE. I tried to play a sound file from a different window manager and it still didn't work. So at the very least I can rule out KDE as the problem. That would have been too easy.
Another possibility is a PCI add-on card I put in there. It's a USB/Firewire bridge card, which I put into an empty PCI slot. The system handled it without a problem, though I'm now wondering if it has created a memory problem on the PCI bridge. If this card is the problem, it won't be for long, as I've determined that it's not going to be necessary after all. It's going to be pulled the next time I open the case.
Can anyone think of anything else I should try? For that matter, has anyone in here ever tried to use BSD on this model of computer? PC-BSD seems happy with it… it just can't talk yet. I hope to eventually resolve this, because the sound issue is now the only thing stopping me from making BSD my primary operating system. (I need Windows XP for gaming, but nothing else.)
Thanks in advance,
You can find general instructions for setting up your sound card here:
The second post has a script which detects your sound card, save it to your hard drive and run it as root.
If that doesn't work, please post the output from the following commands to provide more information about your system:
# dmesg # pciconf -lv
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
PC-BSD does both oss and sound card detection (through a database).
You should probably try the snd_emu10k1 driver before you start throwing pasta at the problem. Refer to thread in CS's post for how to load it.
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Most SB LIve! cards from Dells are not emu10k1 cards: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_B...ve.21_Dell_OEM
They use the emu10k1x chip instead, which is not supported by the native FreeBSD drivers. If that's the chip you have, you will have to use OSS from ports or another sound card.
Anyway, I have the package install of the OSS port running as I write this. Hopefully after a reboot it will work OK. Or at the very least I'll be able to detect the card. I really don't want to go looking for a replacement sound card... though I will if I must.
Well, that settles that. OSS didn't work. BSD appears to be detecting the card, but won't load it, and no driver file - including OSS - works. It looks like I'll have to yank this sound card in favor of another one.
Will a standard, off-the-shelf, commercially packaged Sound Blaster 5.1 card work in FreeBSD? Even an X-Fi one? I ask because X-Fi cards seem to be the norm on the market these days.
What about a card that uses EAX? (Rocketfish, for example.) I didn't see EAX in the loader.conf file, so I'm skeptical.
In short, I'm not going to buy a new sound card unless it works in FreeBSD. Can anyone suggest one? Hopefully one that won't break my budget?
Sorry, I didn't know Dell made OEM versions... no wonder my old hand me down SB Live Value! was so ultra-crappy >_>
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X-Fi cards do not have drivers in the base system. EAX is a sound API, not a particular type of chipset.
I am surprised that the emu10k1x chipset didn't work with OSS. What is the output of 'ossdetect' ?
At any rate, I pulled the sound card and replaced it with an inexpensive one from Staples. It's a Diamond board, using I believe a CMI chipset. Whatever the case, using the various tests and procedures mentioned earlier in this thread, I was able to get this card working in BSD, and Windows XP adjusted fairly quickly as well. The funny thing is though, at least according to the system diagnostic, BSD is using two driver modules to control this card: one modules for WAV output, and another for MP3 and OOG. Strange, but it appears to be working well, so I'm not going to tinker any further.
Thanks to everyone in this thread who responded. You've all been a great help!
What system diagnostics are you referring to?
I let it save a diagnostic report to a text file, which I later examined. The gist of the messages was that the BSD kernel had a sound driver installed, but that the hardware wasn't one it could work with. I tried a variety of drivers, but none worked. When you mentioned that Dell sometimes uses proprietary chips on some of their hardware, I did some more digging. I eventually concluded that this particular series of SB cards was among the ones to have proprietary chips. Pulling and replacing the card ultimately fixed everything. Both of my operating systems are talking normally.
I know just enough about the "guts" of BSD to be dangerous. I'm slowly learning the ins and outs of the world of the Daemon, but I still tend to err on the side of caution.
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The Donut Whole is part donut store, part coffeehouse, but also includes a small art gallery and stage. The art changes each month with Final Friday and they have different bands perform on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday evenings. This is not your typical donut shop and in turn they do not serve your typical donuts. According to their website, all of their donuts are made from scratch using locally sourced ingredients. I guarantee that Krispy Kreme cannot claim this, in fact their batter is made in North Carolina. The Donut Whole also offers over twenty-five varieties of cake donuts each day. Phil and I have visited the Donut Whole once or twice before but we seem to hit it after a large crowd and several types of donuts are missing. This time though I hit the jackpot.
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CSS is VisualDecember 04, 2003
Quite a high-threshold discussion happening on fellow Canadian Jeremy Shield's weblog.
Nothing really too new here, except for the observation that, with everyone's help of course, we've more or less made it impossible to argue that CSS design is inherently ugly.
…tableless design transforms the web into a library and less of a visual spectacle…
This is an interesting point, since, yeah actually —
that's exactly what's happening. And it's good, remarkably good, for this to happen. Not only are table-less sites not boring, they're accessible. Keep in mind that all CSS Zen Garden examples validate to WAI AAA-level accessibility, although the individual designs can be more and less accessible depending on techniques used. Not only are they accessible, search engines love them. The Zen Garden is insanely high in Google thanks in part to well marked-up content. Not only are they search engine optimized, but they are, contrary to what you say, far less bandwidth hungry than tables. The average conversion of a site from tables to CSS-based chops the HTML file size roughly in half, reduces the number of server requests necessary, and generally reduces the number of images needed. All for the same design.
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Firstly, I've got to say that I have never seen better designs with tables than with CSS. The Zen Garden is quite a phenomenal example of what can be achieved - and I think pretty much any vision a designer has can be achieved with CSS.
The only problem I have with the Zen Garden is that it states to be WAI AAA when it isn't. I don't think it matters that it isn't AAA, it just shouldn't have such a claim.
The WAI guidelines are flawed and the CSS Zen Garden is highly accessible, but to state compliance with a certain standard it must meet those guidelines whether they are flawed or not.
The Zen Garden does pass through Bobby but Bobby is not very clever and a lot of the WAI guidelines can not be tested by an automatic validator such as that.
Just quickly browsing through the WAI checklist (http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/full-checklist.html ), the Zen Garden doesn't comply with the following Priority 3 checkpoint:
"10.5 … include non-link, *printable* characters … between adjacent links."
It also doesn't necessarily pass these Priority 2 checkpoints:
"2.2 Ensure that foreground and background color combinations provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having color deficits or when viewed on a black and white screen." which is dependent on the CSS of each design
"3.4 Use relative rather than absolute units in markup language attribute values and style sheet property values." and some designs certainly use absolute units.
I want to say again that I love the CSS Zen Garden. But the main point of the site is not to highlight accessibility issues - it certainly can't accommodate the WAI guidelines without a few minor changes and strict rules for the contributors. Although it *is* accessible, it can't claim to be WAI AA, let alone AAA. Unfortunately.
Oy, it never ends. There's always something else. Nothing personal Patrick, but nitpicks drive me crazy, and if I catered to every single one I'd end up taking the whole damn thing down.
10.5 was written in 1999 to cater to older screenreaders that then tripped up on adjacent links. It's just about 2004. I'd imagine this to be an obsolete rule.
Assuming all designs have to be WAI-compatible is black and white thinking. I believe that if a site has one stylesheet that meets 2.2 and 3.4, then all others can use light grey text on light grey backgrounds, and 7px fonts for all I care, and still pass WAI.
I'm surprised you missed FIR, while we're at it. That's probably the biggest stumbling block.
I didn't mean to 'nitpick', but should you not comply with something if you explicitly state you meet that standard?
I'm not saying it *has* to be WAI compatible, as you say, I am saying that it simply *isn't* WAI AAA. A page with such a statement should comply - you can't just have one compliant page and claim that for the whole site.
By your logic I could use font tags in most of my HTML pages and put a big 'valid XHTML1.1' tag on them. This clearly isn't right. If we want to promote standards and accessibility we can't pick and choose which bits of the standards we like. That misses the whole point.
Okay, since you're walking the straight and narrow, suppose I take the notice off.
How do I communicate the degree of accessibility the Zen Garden accomodates? I can't change the text at this point.
"Here boss, look at this site. Accessible design doesn't have to be ugly."
"Nice. But how is that more accessible than our site?"
"Uh… well, just take my word for it."
If they even get that far, which most won't.
Is the hit to awareness worth the purity in this case? Nothing else will make as big an impact as one-click validation.
I apologise if I have caused any ill-feeling. It was certainly not my intention - I thought it was a valid point. Maybe I am unnecessarily taking the hard line.
I do see your point.
'WAI AAA' is wrong but if such a statement can be exploited to deceive for the greater good, then yes, the accessibility awareness is more important than the purity. Although there is the side effect of confusing those new to accessibility when a well respected web design resource contradicts the guidelines it claims to adhere to.
If a designer were to choose to be hard line and accurate in such a situation though, they could link to their own accessibility statement, claim 'Bobby compliance' or simply something more vague such as just 'WAI'.
I would have to agree that the accessibility rules are outdated.
I mentioned this once before, but here goes. The guideline for making every form input have a default value when the page loads is next to impossible for web applications, especially when editing old sets of data. If a field was left blank when a set of data was created, shouldn't that be reflected later? It would make accessibility worse rather than better by causing confusion. You'd have to put an explanation to the tune of, "Fields which were left blank before have been filled with default text to comply with accessibility points. Please delete this text to return the values to their actual states." Ridiculous.
The point I'm making is that the accessibility rules weren't written with much of the future in mind. A lot of them were written to smooth things out for buggy browsers. The rule above is for old browsers which do not display empty text fields. This in mind, the current rules expect us in a lot of cases to make sites accessible to inaccessible user agents. In my opinion, if a user agent is inaccessible (a form rendering bug that bad would definitely mark it inaccessible), it's the problem of the developer to fix, not the web designer.
Just another quick, extreme example. Let's say a browser had a bug that caused pages without a DOCTYPE at the top to completely fall apart. Would they put that in the accessibility rules? "Until user agents are fixed to correct this, omit the document's DOCTYPE." Of course not.
I may sound unsympathetic to the end user who's using said browsers, but since when do you see deaf people listening to books on tape? If a piece of software breaks something so badly for the user, it's kind of their responsibility to change their software.
This has all been an elaborate scheme to justify my own omissions in my application of the accessibility standards. :)
I would say that accessibility comes in three parts.
1. The underlying site html structure accessibility.
2. The css accessibility.
3. The scripting accessibility.
With 2 or 3 turned off the site should be accessible. So we might be able to call that WAI-AAA-1. Next level the site with 3 turned off is WAI-AAA-1.1 then highest level WAI-AAA-1.1.1. :)
or maybe we just put a little banner graphics that have different combinations like:
WAI Level A AA AAA
Javascript X
Each technology takes care of displaying it's own level of accessibility and that way if you swap a compliant CSS file for a non-compliant or less compliant style - the style sheet itself lets the user know. Likewise with script.
I think, as stated before, so much of accessibility is about the user agent and the technology on the users end as much as it is about the HTML/CSS. We could very easily code some vanilla HTML/CSS/Scripting to be compliant in IE5 but what about IE2/3, SpyGlass Mosaic, WAP enabled cellphones, non-WAP cellphones, Windows CE IE, or someones homebrew aural browser that recognizes only HTML 3.2 and chokes on HTML4 tags and XHTML.
So in that way the WAI and Section 508 are a lot like interpretive dance. Some people are good at interpretting and it looks pretty and some people will try to interpret a little too far and leave others scratching their head.
I'd say at the base level zengarden is on the money, interpretively. With some of the CSS it remains so, with some of the CSS it doesn't. It still retains the ability to revert to an accessible state - which does fit within the guidelines - because it's the CONTENT that needs to remain accessible. So if I have 50 pages with the same content on it and each page formatted and catering to a specific accessibility issue haven't I technically fullfilled the guidelines. Couldn't a person with a particular accessibility issue cycle through some of the options on CSSZengarden and find at least one or more that fit their needs and kept the content readable?
I agree with Dris entirely. Esp. on the part where he says that the Accessibility rules are not written with the future in mind, not as well as they should have, anyway.
Another thing I want to point out is that in w3m (a basic text browser on unix) the CSS Zen Garden works flawlessly (with each design, as the CSS is omitted). I browsed the Garden in w3m which is grey/white text on black backgrounds, and it worked fine.
I know Patrick's post was a nuanced response and was more indicating agreement than disagreement, but I still think it worth pointing out that when he quotes from Section 3.4:
"Use relative rather than absolute units"
he only quotes *part* of that section. In one of Dave's earlier discussions here, I already pointed out that the Guidelines also *explicity* mention accessible designs that use absolute units:
�If absolute units are used, validate that the rendered content is usable.�
Yep: "If absolute units are used…" So you can.
And, so far as that goes, I sincerely hope that the Nielsenites are also taking the trouble to check that their "content is usable".
The point gets a bit laboured. But it is an important one, because so many designers like and use absolute units, and I really don't think the accessibility movement wants to go alienating designers on the basis of a *partial* reading of the WCAG.
Zeldman says it eloquently:
Seeing how the Zen Garden is accesible with a black/white non graphical browser, it is safe to asume that the Zen Garden is indeed as accesible as it needs to be.
Throughout this argument, I've found that the general consensus is that the current WAI requirements are rather outdated and allthough very much backwards compatible, they aren't really forward looking.
So, instead of debating whether it's right to ignore sections of the WAI, wouldn't it be more constructive to edit the WAI. Make it more forwards-compatible, and throwing out the ancient-compatible parts?
On a side note about using relative messurements:
The only time when it really matters is with the height of
horizontal navigation. That is the most commen mistake made with current sites, anyway.
Likewise, the width of vertical menu's is also an issue, with it's height coming in third.
Just try some websites using Mozilla/Safari and then zooming the text up quite a bit. You'd be surprised as how often it brakes up the page.
"Then your choices are all geared around the content and not anything about you. "
Don't forget that content has it's own identity, and that this identity hooks into our appeals and or our own prefered "Then your choices are all geared around the content and not anything about you. "
I can't subscribe to this point of view. Don't forget that content has it's own identity, and that this identity hooks into our appeals and or our own preferred or projected image of ourselves. Content itself doesn't do anything, it is us that makes the choice. We select the content that we believe that fits into our own identity, however real or unreal that identity may be.
A good website would reflect a certain identity of which the content is a part of. The choice of the user is tied into there own identity and that of the site itself. So if you chose a particular content then it has everything to do with the you because you identify yourself with that site and it's content.
This has always been the case and is not something that will happen in the future because it happens everyday and is all around us. Marketing and Public Relations is not just some fad and so what I've mentioned isn't anything new.
If ever we would want a giant aggregation of information it will have to be devoid of any context and identity. This will, in my view, never happen, and nor should it.
Yes my Zen Garden entry in one that breaks when text-zooming especially when viewed in MOSe mode, and I beleive I'm not the only one but I'll stick to lambasting my own work for the moment. For example I use absolute units. Also the design itself is pretty poor when it's come to usability. Colours and typography are complicated and text can be difficult to view. Navigation is also tricky because I make use of a homemade rollover effect.
Although such issues as accessibility and usability should be inclusive when building any webpage I chose not to reiterate my design to some level of compliance in these areas. In retrospect I do have some concern in being slightly flippant when it came to accessibility and usability.
The main point was to show off what CSS can do and this is the main priority of the Zen Garden. Any flaws should be not taken lightly but lets not forget the beauty of the Zen Garden, weeds and all.
Egor, my comments about relative units are not so much about using them in design sites, but sites where information is the main point of the website should focus on making it scalable.
Which actually does bring me to your CZG design Egor, as it has massive waste of screen-estate. But I guess that's a main part of the design. Still, it's a really nice design and the rollover effect is really well thought out.
I think I wasn't perfectly clear with "At a basic level you have two choices for �what type of person are you� - Child - Adult. Then your choices are all geared around the content and not anything about you. "
Simply we agree on the matter.
Basically what I meant is that content in a library is categorized first by the type of person that would be using it (identity) and then secondly by a generalized category (fiction/non-fiction/reference) and then further categorized. So the content categorization doesn't carry identity with it except to the point of the child/adult identity.
As you stated content has an identity and that identity isn't something that you could categorize in the same way that you categorize library content.
For example I love science, poetry, cooking, art, and bad sci-fi movies. I could go into the library and decide to pluck out 50 books on those subjects. Most of them would be unappealling either for lack of good writing style, not enough imagery, too broad of subject matter, too narrow of subject matter, disorganized, etc. Maybe there are a couple that I find appealling because I can identify with the content, it resonates with my personality. But it's not just the content, it's also the visual aspect of that content.
So now we have the web and instead of identifying my likes dislikes maybe I can identify myself by a name that others use for my kind. Suddenly I'm opened up to a whole broad range of content that the previous system of categorization wasn't able to identify. But today people are aggregating that content into blogs and newsites. Being a visually geared person I can then use CSS to style the content in a manner that befits me.
Oh but Dave what's more keen on accessibility than a library - the ramps, the large type/braille/audio books.
We can come full circle on this topic. :)
I think the original topic is correct in that the web does become more like a library. Notice how many sites are carrying the same content via RSS/XML feeds and aggregating them. Then they style them to look a certain way.
It's kind of like being a kid and having a story book. The story books all had the same stories "Snow White", "Swan Princess", etc. And for the most part all the words were the same but I had my favorite book that had beautiful artwork along with the stories. The web can and is becoming something similar to that.
The benefit for the web is that the user has a lot more control over the library of information and how it can be presented. This means the audience can be much broader for a piece of information.
For example the team I work with has begun to collect all their technical information into XML format. They can then take that information and shoot it out to a non-technical format of summary information for the suits, or show it as a technical reference for developers, or mangle it into high level technical diagrams for the sysadmins and architects. The library of information is all there but the presentation method and styling is geared toward the specific audience.
Like today you go into a library looking for a book on farming. At a basic level you have two choices for "what type of person are you" - Child - Adult. Then your choices are all geared around the content and not anything about you. Maybe as the web attempts to engage people we'll have information directed and categorized in relation to the type of user. Or styled visually based on their needs/whims.
Then someday we'll have the encyclopedia interconnectica, where someone just does a giant aggregation and categorization of all information on the internet.
Triple A is _not_ possible, but I think Joe Clark has told us that before. Especially in CSSZG it is impossible, since there are too many different designs, where some have used px units which is against the specification.
Although it is debatable if that is a valid point of the specification, you can't claim to be valid. As much as my website shouldn't claim 'valid CSS3' :-), but 'well-formed CSS'.
I didn't know it had been suggested that it wasn't possible, Anne; but that may well be true, depending on how the guidelines are interpreted, at any rate. (On px-sizing, see my earlier post above.)
But, of course, web design isn't different from any other activity in life. Joe Clark has certainly pointed out that once I have colours at all, I'm unable to *guarantee* that those colours will not cause a problem for someone. But the guidelines advise me to use different font-sizes and different colours to aid reading comprehension for sighted viewers, which is good advice … and I have to do something.
I'm sure conflicts could actually arise between the recommendations made in different sections of the WCAG, though I've never specifically looked to see if they do. But again there is nothing new here. There are, for example, possible conflicts between the first and fourteenth amendments of the U.S. Constitution, as is shown here:
Philosophically, my view is that rules are actually an attempt to codify existing practises. People, particularly in modern Western societies, sometimes fail to see this and imagine that the situation is the other way round. But once you understand how the rules arose, you realize that what you actually have in a set of rules is a "digest" or "abridgment" of existing best practises. Guideline is the right word: what you have in a guideline is a useful guide, not something that can cover all concrete situations and not something to be taken more seriously than is warranted.
Off topic, I know, but your Zen Garden entry #064 doesn't validate, btw.
I can definitely see where using pixels to size a container might be problematic, and the WCAG guidelines definitely encourage the use of ems and percentages, but doesn�t the CSS 2.1 spec http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#length-units indicate that pixels are a relative unit of measure?
I agree with Patrick. Don't claim WCAG 1.0 Triple-AAA compliance unless you're, like, actually Triple-AAA compliant.
Triple-AAA is not easy to do. Let's not spread the wrong message by saying that all that's needed is CSS-based layout and suddenly you've solved all your accessibility problems.
The CSS Zen Garden is a masterpiece, and I use it in my Web Accessibility Techniques class as an example of the power of CSS to produce accessible designs. But please avoid the claims which can't be supported. It's great WITHOUT needing to claim AAA.
The same point is made here:
And the guy says, "… With this in mind, .px may be the most portable unit of measure across devices." However, *currently* he prefers ems for fonts … because Microsoft's current browser handles px-sized fonts inadequately.
But I suspect that the WCAG don't mean "relative" in that sense, and the terminology seems confused as the keywords, which behave in most ways like px, are called absolute-size keywords:
Maybe I'm missing something.
By my reading, the guidelines are less interested in what is relative to the viewing device - and this is why they sidestep around pixel-sizing. I think the guidelines imply that their framers prefer (but don't insist) that an author use units relative to *any setting that a user is likely to change* (e.g., width of a window).
I think they think this gives the user more choice and more control, but I think they're wrong.
For most of us, if Microsoft replaced their browser, px would look like the obvious choice. But not for Todd Fahrner, nor I suspect for WAI, because … well:
I think it's a brilliant essay, but it is written totally in l'esprit de geometrie not in l'esprit de finesse.
I really can't set "my preference" in the browser settings, because there "size" means the height of the font, although fonts have width, too. And even "height" is something of an abstraction, because different fonts have different aspect ratios:
Yes, OK, I'll take 16px Times. No, thank you, I don't want 16px Verdana. So "my preference" matches my preference *some* of the time, and some of the time it doesn't. And this is even before we start asking more concrete questions about the amount of text on a page and the particular page layout, etc.
I think WAI wants to lighten up a bit, but what do I know. :-)
I apologize for the interruption, but…
Looks like they're at it again: http://www.zensmile.com/
View source on that zensmile site, it's table based. Looks like the point of the Garden was missed by this individual. Ha!
Wouldn't a lot of this discussion be much better on the WAI pulic mailing list? As fun as it is to have discussions about the shortcomings and difficulties of the guidelines here, it's pretty unlikely that this discussion will be fruitful in the sense that it won't change the next versions of the guidelines to better serve the needs of the web/design community. For example, would it be possible to mark out a subset of the spec that can be automatically validated for a particular site and produce a compliance badge relating just to this subset?
jgraham - partially moved. I'd have mentioned this earlier, but I guess I posted to the wrong list the first time.
(10.5 is the only issue I deem a limiting factor; as explained above, font size and colour combinations are on a per-design basis, and since there are so many to choose from, I don't believe it's as relevant)
I happened to ask Gez Lemon of Juicy Studio ( http://www.juicystudio.com/ ) about this recently. I asked if I was right in thinking that the requirement for more than whitespace between links related to a bug in some versions of JAWS. I also asked: "if someone does that [uses list markup] do they need to hide this CSS -
#navigation ul {
� �padding: 0;
� �margin: 0;
� �list-style-type: none;
� �}
- from JAWS using the @import hack?
He said: "I'm not familiar with versions of JAWS earlier than 4.51, so you may be correct. I've tested your CSS through the link element with JAWS 4.51, and it announces, "bullet" before reading the link phrase."


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Long lauded in the list of benefits in living in Canada is the so–called "free healthcare" we enjoy. Any dissertation on how 'free' or even 'useful' it currently is will be left as an exercise for the reader, but here's why I bring it up.
The Province of British Columbia is overhauling their system, and long story short you have to register your income with them by April 31st, 2003. As in Thursday. I know this because our benefits provider at the day job has just informed us. We were given a URL and a phone number, both of which enable us to register. Given that it's crunch time, you'd expect both to be busy, right?
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what's also funny is there isn't a 31st day in april. the 30th is the last day of this month ;)
Not in my world, man… not in my world.
Further investigation seems to reveal that May 1st isn't a deadline, per se, rather an initialization date. Seemingly everyone is still covered afterward, so it begs the question — why the rush? Wires are crossing somewhere.
I am also a BC boy. I am currently ignoring this call to re-register. I suppose it helps that, at 30, I'm still enjoying perfect health. I pay the premiums, but I'm in no hurry to file any more info.
Also, the Liberal gov't recently sent me a request for more info pertaining to PST. I am a small business person, and now they want to collect, among other things, my GST number. They claim that they are "improving the system"– and it will translate to making things easier for me. What a fraud!
It seems to me an obvious assumption that they want to collect GST data to cross-referece against their PST data to make sure that no one is cheating somehow. Which is fine– I understand how Big Gov't = Big Brother. But hey, I collect PST from all of my clients on their behalf, and submit it every 4 months on time to advoid penalty. I resent having to fill out another form by another deadline and surrendering my private information while being told that it is to help me! Ha.
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