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This specification provides guidelines for Web authoring tool developers. Its purpose is two-fold: to assist developers in designing authoring tools that produce accessible Web content and to assist developers in creating an accessible authoring interface.
Authoring tools can enable, encourage, and assist users ("authors") in the creation of accessible Web content through prompts, alerts, checking and repair functions, help files and automated tools. It is as important that all people be able to author content as it is for all people to have access to it. The tools used to create this information, therefore, must also be accessible. Implementation of these guidelines will contribute to the proliferation of Web content that can be read by a broader range of readers and authoring tools that can be used by a broader range of authors in a wider range of contexts with more devices.
This document is part of a series of accessibility documents published by the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI).
This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. The latest status of this document series is maintained at the W3C.
This is a Public Working Draft of a document which will supersede the W3C Recommendation Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 [ATAG10]. It has been made available for review by W3C Members and other interested parties, in accordance with W3C Process. It is not endorsed by the W3C or its Members. It is inappropriate to refer to this document other than as a "work in progress".
This document has been produced by the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AUWG) as part of the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). The goals of the Working Group are discussed in the AUWG charter.
The Working Group maintains a list of patent disclosures and issues related to ATAG 2.0.
A list of current W3C Recommendations and other technical documents including Working Drafts and Notes can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR/. The AUWG is part of the WAI Technical Activity.
This draft refers to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) for specification of accessible content and refers non-normatively to the Techniques for Authoring Tool Accessibility [ATAG20]. The working group has provided a reference called ATAG 2.0 References to WCAG [ WCAG-REFS] mapping the ATAG checkpoints to WCAG 1.0 and the January 2003 draft of WCAG 2.0, currently a W3C Working Draft.
The AUWG expects the ATAG 2.0 to be backwards-compatible with ATAG 1.0, or at most to make only minor changes in requirements. Before this document reaches last call, the Working Group will publish a detailed analysis of the differences in requirements.
The working group maintains an ATAG 2.0 Issues List.
Please send comments about this document to the public mailing list: email@example.com (public archives). Please note that this document may contain typographical errors. It was published as soon as possible since review of the content itself is important, although noting typographical errors is also helpful.
For information about the current activities of the working group, please refer to the AUWG home page. This page includes an explanation of the inter-relation of each document as well as minutes and previous drafts.
Everyone should have the ability to create and access Web content.
Authoring tools are pivotal in achieving this principle. The accessibility of authoring tools determines who can create Web content and the output of authoring tools determines who can access Web content.
The guidelines set forth in this document will benefit people regardless of disability. This includes people who need to use their eyes for another task and are unable to view a screen, people in environments where the use of sound is not practical, and people who use small mobile devices with small screens, no keyboard, or no mouse.
The guidelines promote the following goals:
The accessibility of authoring tools is defined primarily by existing specifications for accessible software. The accessibility of authoring tool output is defined by the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG).
This document contains four guidelines that reflect the goals of accessible authoring tool design:
Each guideline includes:
Each checkpoint is intended to be sufficiently specific to be verifiable, while being sufficiently general to allow developers the freedom to use the most appropriate strategies to satisfy it. The checkpoints specify requirements for meeting the guidelines. Each checkpoint includes:
A separate document, entitled "Techniques for Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 2.0" [ATAG20], provides suggestions and examples of how to achieve the recommendations in this document. Another document [ATAG20-CHECKLIST] lists all checkpoints, ordered by priority, for convenient reference.
Each checkpoint in the specification has been assigned one of the following priority levels to indicate the importance of the checkpoint in satisfying the guidelines:
Note: The choice of priority level for each checkpoint is based on the assumption that the author is a competent, but not necessarily expert, user of the authoring tool, and that the author has little or no knowledge of accessibility. For example, the author is not expected to have read all of the documentation, but is expected to know how to turn to the documentation for assistance.
An ATAG conformance claim for an authoring tool must indicate which of the following conformance levels has been met:
In the above, "meeting the checkpoints" means satisfying all of the success criteria associated with that particular checkpoint.
For the purposes of ATAG 2.0 conformance claims, tools may be bundled together (e.g. a markup editor and a evaluation and repair tool or a multimedia editor with a custom plug-in), however, this has two important consequences:
Satisfying certain success criteria may involve usability issues and as such may require integrating aspects of usability testing.
Conformance Icons: There are currently no conformance icons available for this draft specification. If it becomes a Recommendation, it is expected that there will be conformance icons like those available for ATAG 1.0.
From the standpoint of accessibility, Web authoring is a process that may involve one or more tools in parallel or in sequence. In order to ensure that the Web content produced as a result of a Web authoring process is accessible, developers and purchasers should choose tools that are either ATAG 2.0 conformant or ATAG 2.0-"Friendly". ATAG-"Friendly" tools are tools which, although they do not conform with ATAG, are also very unlikely to degrade the accessibility of Web content. For example, an ATAG-friendly tool is one that converts the URI locations in a Web page from absolute to relative prior to publishing.
In some cases, strategic ordering of the tools in a Web authoring process may increase the likelihood of producing accessible content. For example, a markup editor that does not conform to ATAG might be used before an ATAG conformant evaluation and repair tool. While this is, of course, preferable to not addressing accessibility at all, the original markup tool is still considered ATAG non-conformant. Considering the markup editor and evaluation and repair tool together is possible, but due to the low likelihood of proper integration between the tools, the result is unlikely to be a high level of ATAG conformance.
This guideline requires that the design of all aspects of the authoring tool, including the user interface, installation procedure, documentation, and help files, must be accessible. This entails following the all applicable accessibility guidelines (Checkpoint 1.1) as well as other considerations specific to authoring interfaces.
Rationale: If the authoring tool interface does not follow these conventions, the author who depends upon the techniques associated with the conventions is not likely to be able to use the tool.
Techniques: Implementation Techniques for Checkpoint 1.1, Evaluation Techniques for Checkpoint 1.1
Success Criteria:
Note: This is proposed
The special nature of authoring interfaces dictates several other accessible user interface design considerations. The checkpoint requirements for this section include ensuring accessible editing of all properties (Checkpoint 1.2), allowing the editor display preferences to be changed independently of the markup (Checkpoint 1.3), making the use of document structure for navigation and editing (Checkpoint 1.4), and providing an effective searching mechanism (Checkpoint 1.5).
Rationale: Element or object properties displayed and edited through graphic means are not accessible to authors using screen readers, Braille displays or screen enhancers. The explicit property value should be accessible to those technologies which read text and support authors editing text.
Techniques: Implementation Techniques for Checkpoint 1.2, Evaluation Techniques for Checkpoint 1.2
Success Criteria:
Rationale: Authors may require a set of display
preferences to view and control the document that is different from
the desired default
display style for the published document (e.g. a particular text-background combination that differs from the published version).
Techniques: Implementation Techniques for Checkpoint 1.3, Evaluation Techniques for Checkpoint 1.3
Success Criteria:
Efficient authoring requires that the author be able to move quickly to arbitrary locations in the content and, once there, make modifications beyond character-by-character edits. This is usually best accomplished by making use of any explicit structure that may have been encoded with hierarchy-based markup. When explicit structure is unavailable, the implicit structure in the visual look and layout of content may sometimes be used.
Techniques: Implementation Techniques for Checkpoint 1.4, Evaluation Techniques for Checkpoint 1.4
Success Criteria: (updated 22 July)
Rationale: Search functions facilitate author navigation of content as it is being authored by allowing the author to move focus quickly to arbitrary points in the content. Including the capability to search within text equivalents of rendered non-text content increases the accessibility of the search function.
Techniques: Implementation Techniques for Checkpoint 1.5, Evaluation Techniques for Checkpoint 1.5
Success Criteria: (updated 22 July)
Note: This is proposed text.
This guideline requires that authoring tools [@@] generate standard markup and support accessible authoring practices. Meeting these requirements is an essential pre-requisite to meeting [@@] the higher level functions required in the next guideline.
Note: This is proposed text.
Tools conformant [@@] with standards enable [@@] content to be rendered more reliably by more user agents, including assistive technologies used by people with disabilities. The checkpoint requirements for this section include ensuring valid markup (Checkpoint 2.1) and using formats that have been formulated to enable accessible content (Checkpoint 2.2).
Rationale: Following language specifications is the most basic requirement for accessible content production. When content is valid, it is easier to check and correct accessibility errors and user agents are better able to render the content properly and personalize the content to the needs of individual users' devices.
Techniques: Implementation Techniques for Checkpoint 2.1, Evaluation Techniques for Checkpoint 2.1
Success Criteria: (updated 22 July)
Rationale: WCAG-conformant formats are most likely to support accessibility. Where multiple formats are supported, those that enable the creation of WCAG-conformant content should be given priority. [@@]
Techniques: Implementation Techniques for Checkpoint 2.2, Evaluation Techniques for Checkpoint 2.2
Success Criteria:
Note: This is proposed text.
Web content produced by an authoring tool is most likely to be accessible, if the content is created in accordance with the requirements of WCAG and preserved in that state throughout the authoring process. The checkpoint requirements for this section include ensuring the probability [@@] of accessible content production (Checkpoint 2.3), preserving accessible or unknown content (Checkpoint 2.4 and 2.7), automatically generating accessible content (Checkpoint 2.5), and including accessible pre-authored content (Checkpoint 2.6).
Rationale: If it is at least possible for the author to produce accessible content, then well-informed authors will [@@] be able to work around any accessibility short-comings in the [@@] authoring tool.
Techniques: Implementation Techniques for Checkpoint 2.3, Evaluation Techniques for Checkpoint 2.3
Success Criteria: (updated 22 July)
Rationale: Authors will be discouraged from adding accessibility information if it is discarded during conversions (i.e. taking content encoded in one markup language and re-encoding it in another) or transformations (i.e. modifying the encoding of content without changing the markup language).
Techniques: Implementation Techniques for Checkpoint 2.4, Evaluation Techniques for Checkpoint 2.4
Success Criteria: (updated 22 July)
Rationale: Authoring tools that automatically generate content that does not conform to WCAG are an obvious source of accessibility problems.
Techniques: Implementation Techniques for Checkpoint 2.5, Evaluation Techniques for Checkpoint 2.5
Success Criteria: (updated 22 July)
Rationale: Pre-authored content (e.g. templates, images, videos, etc.) is often included with authoring tools for the convenience of the author. Ensuring that pre-authored content is WCAG conformant increases that convenience by ensuring that authors can use any of the content without concern for the accessibility implications and relieving subsequent authors from having to compose their own version of alternative content.
Techniques: Implementation Techniques for Checkpoint 2.6, Evaluation Techniques for Checkpoint 2.6
Success Criteria: (updated 22 July)
Rationale: Markup that is not recognized by an authoring tool may have been added to enhance accessibility. Also, newer XML-based languages, such as XHTML 1.1, allow authors to include multiple languages in a single document, via namespaces. In the future, documents may contain metadata, including accessibility information, in another namespace. Authoring tools must not remove or change [@@] this information when it is encountered.
Techniques: Implementation Techniques for Checkpoint 2.7, Evaluation Techniques for Checkpoint 2.7
Success Criteria: (updated 22 July)
Most authoring tools provide the author with at least some measure of control over the produced content. This control may extend to the level of markup coding (e.g. authoring "by hand") or it may be limited to higher-level content, such as page layout and text content (e.g. WYSIWYG editing). In either case, the intervention of the author has the potential to effect the accessibility of content, either positively, if the author is purposefully following accessibility guidelines, or negatively, if the author is not. In order to manage these effects, authoring tools should support the author by guiding them to follow accessibility authoring practices as they produce that content that involves an element of human judgment or creativity, providing automated or semi-automated checking and correction facilities and by providing high quality accessibility-related documentation.
Note: This is proposed text.
Conformance with accessibility authoring practices is an authoring constraint, analogous to producing valid code or grammatical text. Since the role of any authoring tools is to facilitate satisfaction of authoring constraints, it is natural that tools should include features to facilitate the process of creating accessible content. The checkpoint requirements for this section include prompting and assisting the author to create accessible content, especially for information that cannot be generated automatically, such as descriptions of graphics (Checkpoint 3.1), checking for accessibility problems (Checkpoint 3.2), and assisting in the repair of accessibility problems (Checkpoint 3.3).
Implementation Note: All functions added to support accessible authoring should be flexible enough to take into account different authoring styles. When authors can configure accessibility features to support their regular work patterns, they will be more likely to feel comfortable with their use and be more receptive to interventions from the tool. For example, some authors may prefer to be alerted to accessibility problems when they occur, whereas others may prefer to perform a check at the end of an editing session.
Rationale: Appropriate assistance should increase the likelihood that typical authors will create WCAG-conformant content. Different tool developers will accomplish this goal in ways that are appropriate to their products, processes and authors.
Techniques: Implementation Techniques for Checkpoint 3.1, Evaluation Techniques for Checkpoint 3.1
Success Criteria: (updated 22 July)
Rationale: Authors may not notice or be able to identify accessibility problems.
Techniques: Techniques for checkpoint 3.2, Evaluation Techniques for Checkpoint 3.2.
Success Criteria: (updated 22 July)
Rationale: Assistance may expedite the task of correcting some authors' accessibility problems, while other authors may be unable to correct accessibility problems without this help.
Techniques: Techniques for checkpoint 3.3, Evaluation Techniques for Checkpoint 3.3
Success Criteria: (updated 22 July)
Note: This is proposed
When guiding the author towards the creation of accessible content, several specific factors should must be considered. The checkpoint requirements for this section include taking care not to automatically include inappropriate equivalent alternatives (Checkpoint 3.4), providing automated means for managing equivalent alternatives (Checkpoint 3.5), and providing accessibility status summaries (Checkpoint 3.6).
Rationale: Improperly generated alternatives can create accessibility problems and interfere with accessibility checking.
Techniques: Implementation Techniques for Checkpoint 3.4, Evaluation Techniques for Checkpoint 3.4
Success Criteria: (updated 22 July)
Rationale: Simplifying the initial production and later reuse of alternative equivalents will encourage authors to use them more frequently. In addition, such an alternative equivalent management system will facilitate meeting the requirements of Checkpoint 3.4.
Techniques: Implementation Techniques for Checkpoint 3.5, Evaluation Techniques for Checkpoint 3.5
Success Criteria: (updated 22 July)
Rationale: This summary will prompt the author to: improve the accessibility status; keep track of problems; and monitor progress.
Techniques: Techniques for checkpoint 3.6, Evaluation Techniques for Checkpoint 3.6.
Success Criteria: (updated 22 July)
Note: This is proposed
Because authors are likely to differ widely in their familiarity with Web content accessibility issues, the help and documentation of the authoring tool must address several types of use. The checkpoint requirements for this section include documenting accessible content promoting features (Checkpoint 3.7), ensuring that accessibility solutions are modeled in the documentation and help(Checkpoint 3.8), and including suggested workflow instructions for using the tool to produce accessible content (Checkpoint 3.9).
Rationale: Without documention of the features that promote accessibility (e.g. prompts for alternates, code validators, accessibility checkers, etc.) authors may not find or use them.
Techniques: Techniques for checkpoint 3.7, Evaluation Techniques for Checkpoint 3.7.
Success Criteria: (updated 22 July)
Rationale: If authors must look somewhere special for information on accessible authoring practices, they may be unlikely to make the effort. Familiarity with these practices will be promoted by their integration.
Techniques: Implementation Techniques for Checkpoint 3.8, Evaluation Techniques for Checkpoint 3.8
Success Criteria: (updated 22 July)
Rationale: Authors will be more likely to use features that promote accessibility if they understand when and how to use them.
Techniques: Techniques for checkpoint 3.9, Evaluation Techniques for Checkpoint 3.9
Success Criteria: (updated 22 July)
Note: This is proposed
This guideline requires that authoring tools must promote accessible authoring practices within the tool as well as smoothly integrate any functions added to meet the other requirements in this document. The checkpoint requirements for this section include ensuring the availability of accessibility-related functions (Checkpoint 4.1), ensuring the priority for accessible means of completing for an authoring tasks (Checkpoint 4.2) and ensuring that accessibility-related functions fit into the overall look and feel of the tool (Checkpoint 4.3).
Rationale: Authors are most likely to use the first and easiest options.
Techniques: Implementation Techniques for Checkpoint 4.2, Evaluation Techniques for Checkpoint 4.2
Success Criteria: (updated 22 July)
Rationale: If the features that support accessible authoring are difficult to find and activate, they are less likely to be used. Ideally, these features should be turned on by default.
Techniques: Implementation Techniques for Checkpoint 4.1, Evaluation Techniques for Checkpoint 4.1
Success Criteria:
Rationale: Accessible design as an afterthought or separate process is much more onerous and therefore costly than when accessibility is considered from the start. If the authoring tool supports a workflow in which the author considers accessibility before and/or during the authoring process it is more likely that accessible authoring practices will become a common practice.
Success Criteria:
Rationale: Most authors are reluctant to use features that depart from the conventions of a tool.
Techniques: Implementation Techniques for Checkpoint 4.3, Evaluation Techniques for Checkpoint 4.3
Success Criteria: (updated 22 July)
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database, properties of a particular element may include values of
the entry, and acceptable data types for that entry.
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Many thanks to the following people who have contributed through review and comment: Giorgio Brajnik, Daniel Dardailler, Katie Haritos-Shea, Phill Jenkins, Len Kasday, Marjolein Katsma, William Loughborough, Liddy Nevile, Matthias Müller-Prove, Graham Oliver, Chris Ridpath, Gregory Rosmaita, Heather Swayne, Carlos Velasco.
This document would not have been possible without the work of those who contributed to The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0
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Midday shooting claims life of 19-year-old
Victim's Name:Christopher Camack, 19
Location killed: 3246 Albion St.
Investigative agency: Denver Police Department
Date killed: Sept. 11, 2009
Cause of Death: Shot
Suspect: None identified
It seemed like just another hot summer afternoon.
Christopher Camack returned home from school and went around back to enter his house at 3246 Albion St.
But that day, Sept. 11, 2009, at about 2:30 p.m., Camack was worried about something that had just happened.
Someone had threatened to kill him.
An acquaintance, whose identity is not revealed because he is a witness, didn't pay close attention to what the carefree 19-year-old was saying because he often joked and rapped under his breath. He just seemed too calm.
"He just blew it off, thinking he was exaggerating," said Camack's mother, Marlene Dominguez.


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Hi JB318. Glad to see you on Advogato.
I need better diary entries. Perhaps doing more hacking would help. Discovered EveryBuddy. I may have to work on something like this with Wojtek, as he is also interested in instant messaging.
I know Latin. I seem not to be the only one.
Who knew bowling was so much fun? Went bowling with Stefan, Lauren, and Simon last night. The world of bowling is not ready for me. I actually broke 40 points in two of the games :) Actually, by the end of the last game, I was getting pretty good. Threw a bunch of spares and strikes to finish the night off. Will have to do that again some time. U-571 followed, which was also quite good.
Other than that, my life is quite boring. Got all A's on my report card for the first time. Did a good job speaking about Helix Code to the YHSLUG. Linux Journal also finally printed my article, which I am not really sure I like that much anymore...
Oh dear
This morning sucked. My dad felt that it would a good thing to stay up until after 3AM, and keep me up with him. He had the TV in the kitchen on so loud that I could literally tell he was watching the British Grand Prix. Then he decided to go downstairs and use the loudest IBM clicky keyboard in the house. So I slept late, since my mom was going to pull me out of school for a TB test anyway.
I hate needles. I cried, as usual
So finally, school with the new haircut. Approval was overwhelming. A few people laughed at me, but almost everyone seemed to like it. Basically, it's made me realize how shitty people thought my old one was. I think Stefan described it as a "goober haircut".
My dongles arrived, no thanks to UPS
So I migrated most of my stuff to the new laptop, including GTicker. Of course, it didn't want to work on the laptop. So I tried commenting out three lines of code, and it seemed to work. Uncommented them and it worked fine. It didn't work with or without those lines for Dan Mueth, and it seemed to work just fine without any messing from Jacob. Weirdness. So then I fixed a bug where you would get valid XML, but not valid RDF. Now, I basically need to make the config dialog less dumb. I don't know what I was thinking, putting one entry for host, and one for filename. I should have just had one for URL, and that is what I am going to do. So, it should be finished tomorrow, including documentation.
More boringness
This weekend was basically the highlight of my spring break. Alex decided that he needed cookware, a blender, a VCR, and maybe a TV. So we decided to go to the mall. The first mall we went to didn't have a Sears, so we decided to split. We were there for about 10 minutes, but they still charged us for parking. Bastards.
So we headed to Tyson's. After browsing the cookware section of J.C Penny for an eternity or two, Alex just said "Screw it, I'm going to buy it online." Alex also decided to be silly and buy a $70 "watering can". Silly Alex. Then I introduced him to Orange Julius, or a generic derivation thereof. Thankfully, he had some sense left, and loved it. We ended up having two each, actually. Yummy
So then there was not much left, except to stop by the CD store. Thankfully, they had the Spaceballs DVD out on the shelf early, so I snatched that immediatley. It has provided me with much amusement since. Then, at last, we were off to our final destination: Eddie Baurer. nym apparently loves cashmere socks, so I wanted to see what the fuss was all about. But of course, they do not stock them :(
The rest of the weekend was basically spent struggling with GTicker, which is now in a decent state. It is almost documented, and very configurable now. Use It(TM).
Ahh, much better
I (finally) did my income taxes for the first time this year. Even though Andover didn't withhold, I only ended up paying $241. Next year I should get a refund, as Helix is withholding. Doing taxes didn't actually seem so bad, though I did have TurboTax to help me through the process. Of course, this is assuming my e-file application was accepted...
I finally bought myself a new laptop. A Sony VAIO PCG-505TR. Only a Pentium MMX 300 with 64MB, but that should be fine for light hacking and mailreading on the road. Thankfully, it has better battery life than my last laptop (VAIO Z505SX, which will soon be my sister's). It says 3-6 hours with the supplied double-capacity battery, but I tried it last night and only got 2:54. Still, better than the 12 minutes I was getting before. Maybe I'll get a quad-capacity battery :)
So, SlashApp. Soon to be renamed GTicker. I finally got that configuration dialog working. Now all that's left is to get it working with different panel orientations. Seeing as how I saw some documentation on that earlier today, it shouldn't be too hard. I was even able to stay off IRC for most of the time :)
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When people first started using Foursquare and Facebook to "check-in" (at the gym, at the library, at their own homes), I was baffled. Why would you want everyone -- perhaps even strangers -- knowing where you were? Now, I sort of get it (because I do use Foursquare to get coupons and it's fun to wrack up points). But does that mean I would ever want to "check-in" ... in bed??? Uh, no thanks! When and where I'm going for an O is my BF's and my biz, no one else's -- especially not an entire social network's!
But there are people who feel differently. Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest recently distributed 55K condoms with scannable QR-codes (barcodes). The idea is that you can scan the code on the condom wrapper with your smartphone and report the location of where you're having sex to wheredidyouwearit.com. It's supposed to be like "Foursquare for people who don't want STDs."
Yes -- to clarify and paraphrase a Twitter trend -- this is real life.
As wacky and counterintuitive as it seems -- uh, doesn't checking in take the intimacy out of "getting intimate"??? -- it's caught on. People have already checked in from 48 states and six continents. Wow! The site also offers the option of rating the quality of your sexual encounter on a five-point scale (it starts at "Things can only improve from here" to "Ah-maz-ing -- Rainbows exploded and mountains trembled!").
I gotta say, I'm a little sad that something like this actually exists. To me, checking in after (or geeze, during?!) sex takes the idea of "social networking" too far. And how much of a turn-on is it really to look over and see your partner busily scanning his condoms? Also, couldn't this also backfire when some scumbag uses it to brag about the hook-up? Clearly, I would be completely opposed to the concept if it wasn't for just one thing ... If it means more people are having safe sex, well, then -- more power to 'em!
And how's this for the icing: You can also check out an interactive map that pinpoints exactly where (down to the city and state at least) people are safely getting frisky. To some, this might be TMI ... To others, well, it's kinda hot, I guess. At the very least to know so many people are having sex -- safely!
What do you think about "checking in" when you have sex?


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Xavier breaks away from Wake Forest 68-53
CINCINNATI (AP) — Matt Stainbrook scored a season-high 21 points and grabbed 10 rebounds as the Xavier Musketeers rolled to a 68-53 victory over Wake Forest on Saturday.
James Farr added 13 points and Semaj Christon finished with 12 for the Musketeers, who led by as many as 22 points while holding the Demon Deacons to their lowest point total of the season. Wake Forest set the previous low in a 59-51 win over North Carolina-Greensboro in its last game on December 21.
Codi Miller-McIntyre led the Demon Deacons with 11 points and Coron Williams added 10 — all in the first half.
Stainbrook's double-double was his third of the season. Before a crowd of 10,064, the Musketeers finished their non-conference schedule with a 10-3 record, their best since going 11-2 in the 2008-2009 season, and will take a five-game winning streak into their first Big East Conference opener, which is scheduled for noon Tuesday against St. John's at Xavier.
The Demon Deacons (10-3) saw their winning streak snapped at four games in their last non-conference game of the season. They are scheduled to open Atlantic Coast Conference play on January 5 at home against No. 19 North Carolina.
The first game for both teams since December 21 was the fourth of a 10-year series between the two schools honoring the late Skip Prosser, who coached Xavier before taking the Wake Forest job. He died of a heart attack at the age of 56 in 2007.
After five ties and eight lead changes, Xavier ended the first half on a 20-3 run, holding the Demon Deacons without a field goal for the last 9:30 of the half. Christon started the run with a 3-pointer, giving the Musketeers a 25-24 lead, and scored eight points during the Xavier surge.
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What is the incentive to mine in an education-related blockchain project? : As I explained in the technology section of this guide, mining is the process in which new blocks in the blockchain are created and validated. Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin award coin to those who solve the necessary cryptographic puzzle to create a new block. This is the incentive for throwing the massive amount of computational power at the problem. Will education-related projects follow this model? Will they utilize third-party platforms, like Ethereum, to build their projects? What does it mean to build financial incentives into these new educational models? And what are the implications of relying on third party platforms for what some are arguing is going to be "the future" of identity management and legal paperwork?What is the incentive to mine in an education-related blockchain project?
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The MIT men's volleyball team earned its highest national ranking in the program's history on Tuesday, moving up to ninth in the CSTV/AVCA Division III Men's Coaches Poll. That evening, the Engineers posted a 30-17, 30-18, 30-23 sweep over NECVA foe Lasell College.Tech improvedto 12-0 overall and 9-0 in conference play, matching itstotal wins in both categories from last season.
In two games, Rob McAndrew tallied 10 kills and two aces. His two assisted blocks now ranks him second all-time in MIT's career category, raising his total to 143. Praveen Pamidimukkala notched nine kills and three assisted blocks while Michelangelo Raimondi finished with eight kills, five digs, and two aces. Alex Borschow and Bob Aspell each posted four assisted blocks with Aspell contributing a pair of aces. Ryan Dean collected a team-high six digs while Jordan Wan registered 26 assists, five digs, one solo block, and three assisted blocks. Wan's performance moved him to second all-time in career assists, amassing 1,574 helpers in just over two seasons of play. He needs 143 assists to tie the record of 1,717 set by Hao Hu last year.


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Monday, January 30, 2012
My MoP Wish List - Part 2: Release and Moonkin Issues
Here is part 2 of my MoP wish list, and most of it will focus on the things I would like to see for the Moonkin play style, but the first item is an exception.
So, lets get started.
A 2012 2Q or 3Q Release:
Oh god do I hope for a late 2Q or early Q3 release of Mists of Pandaria. I am really not sure I can keep playing Dragon Soul for 10 more months. I don't think anyone would oppose an earlier quicker release of the new expansion, but from what I've seen a lot of players are clearly skeptical of Blizzards ability to do so.
Yes, according to the spreadsheet that was leaked a couple of years ago, the planned release time frame for MoP was 2Q 2012, but lets be honest. Blizzard has been saying for years that they would like to release patches and new expansions more quickly, yet it still took them 2 years to release WotLK after TBC, and it took them 2 years to release Cata after WotLK. We also have yet to hear about Mop Alpha and Diablo 3 is way behind schedule.
That said, I'm optimistic. MoP shouldn't have some of the challenges that previous expansions had like completely reworking the old world and judging from the amount of information that has already been released, it seems like Mop is already farther along then most would expect before Alpha testing. That said, if we don't hear about alpha testing soon, I think we are looking at another holiday release.
A Simpler Moonkin:
During the WotLK expansion, we Moonkin complained and complained about Eclipse and the general state of Moonkin DPS, and the funny thing is part of me looks back on that time with envy. To be fair, I'm sure my some of my hindsight is tinted with rose colored glasses. The old model had very real and very big problems, but it wasn't the complicated mess that we have to day where players have to make choices on the fly with limited information.
The current moonkin DPS model is way to complicated in my opinion and I don't find it to be that fun. As far as I know, no other spec is expected to make the number of judgement calls we have to make just to do average DPS. What other class has to clip their DoTs frequently to make sure they are fully buffed? Which other spec, has to decided if it's better to cast a cooldown based Nuke now or later?
The good news is that according to the information already released about MoP, things should be improving. From what I can tell the changes that have been proposed so far, hit the mark of what we need. The changes to out DoTs will simplify them, but won't make them mindless and the change to Starfall ends the debate of when to cast it.
There are still things that need to be addressed but I like the way Blizzard is headed.
A Real Movement DPS Solution:
I have to give Blizzard credit for trying, but I think everyone would agree that the first attempt was a failure. At it's peak, Lunar Shower was used more as a Nuke then a movement DPS solution, and now at the end of Cataclysm it is almost universally ignored. Blizzard has said they want to revamp Lunar Shower for MoP, but the question I have is into what?
Here's the problem as I see it. All movement is very disruptive to casting and has a significant impact on DPS, because all movement will interrupt your cast. This is particularly bad for Moonkin since Starfire has the longest cast time of all the core nukes from all five caster DPS classes (yes, I know pyroblast is longer, but it's not really a spammed nuke from what I understand). This means that on average Moonkins will lose more casting time due to movement then other caster classes because our Nukes more time to cast on average. On top of that, our core DPS mechanic Eclipse is based upon us completing our casts. Therefore movement also means that we will transition between Eclipses more slowly again reducing out DPS in multiple ways. To be clear, having to move is bad for all DPS specs, but from what I can tell, Moonkins are one of the hardest hit when movement occurs.
The other half of the problem is that most movement isn't persistent and only lasts a few seconds at most. As a result, the solutions I've seen Blizzard implement so far have been a bit underwhelming. Take Lunar Shower for example, for it to have it's full impact it needs to be fully stacked which would take 3 seconds at the absolute minimum, and most movement would be over before it's fully stacked. The other example is the Shaman spell Spiritwalker's Grace that allows Ele's to cast while moving for 15 seconds. It's definitely, a nice thing to have for those long preplanned repositioning movements, but with a 2 minute cooldown, it has less of an impact on the short and spontaneous movements, that tend to be more of the norm in my experience.
As I'm sure you can tell, I'm not happy with either of the solutions above, but to be honest I don't have a great suggestion either. One idea I have liked, (but can't remember where I heard it) was what if they allowed casters to cast while moving but at a slower rate. For example if you start casting a 3 second spell but move for one second during the middle it would take 4 seconds in stead of 3, because that middle second took twice as long. It sounds like a very interesting idea, but I'm sure the technology needed to do something like that would be very complicated, and possibly prohibitive.
A Moonkin Execute:
How many of you have been in this situation? You're fighting a boss, and doing a respectable DPS. You take a quick look at the DPS meters and lets say for arguments sake you are number 5 in a 25man raid. Then, we get to the end of the encounter with just 25% health left on the boss and by the end of the encounter you're 10th instead of 5th. Does this sound familiar to anyone else?
DPS can be very hard to judge mid-fight especially when you have a mechanic like eclipse that by definition makes your DPS streaky, but I'm tired of getting trashed in the "execute phase" of a fight. Moonkin need some sort of ability or buff that allows us to do ramped up DPS at the end of a fight just like most of the other DPS specs in the game. That said, it needs to be done with care, so that we aren't once again crippled by complexity.
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I´m tired of being so locked by eclipse.
Never liked the mechanic since it was made.
We are crippled compared to every single dps, until we hit eclipse. That is easier said then done especially in small scale pvp.
In boss fights where you burn all you have at the start to maximize the raid dps it really sucks I have to wait on eclipse before I can start consider doing damage.
What we really lack is a good on demand burst ability and as you said a finisher.
The burst we seem to be getting something tough now if current calculator goes somewhat live.
But aside from the damage perspective we also really lack something to increase our survival. All speccs has something to push in an "oh shit" momemt except for maybe shamans.
Heart of the wild could arguably be said to be such button for us but I would not really want to label it as that since it will be against melee damage only.
- January 30, 2012 at 6:19 PM
SC2: Heart of the Swarm after D3 too I imagine.
Certain in fact.
Perhaps HotS and MoP won't be too far apart. I'd say both are far more along than we may expect purely because blizz prolly always wanted to have d3 released by now. So they are all having a bit of bonus time.
- January 30, 2012 at 8:31 PM
I realise you don't PvP, but this is an aspect of balance druid that is most in need of repair and that should fairly be on the wish list for MoP.
Even the previous bastion of druid PvP (resto) is badly in need of help, but boomers, the perennial PvP joke, are still even worse than resto.
In short:
- boomkin lack an immunity equivalent (dispersion, ice block, bubble);
- they rely on DoTs but have no dispel protection;
- they are denied survivability buffs on the grounds of their (ineffective) healing capacity despite that healing being worse in many cases than pure DPS classes (DKs, warriors, rogues, warlock drains, mage evocation) who in addition to self heals have other avoidance mechanics (vanish, blink, teleport, plate armour and AMS);
- they have a 1 minute cooldown on interrupt (solar beam) compared with 8-22s for other classes.
It is fair to say that granting a Balance druid all of these changes would massively overpower it, and so it needs to be done sensibly.
However the bottom line is that Blizzard's "cautious" approach to granting Boomkins PvP power has left them a standing joke of a PvP spec for many seasons (arguably the entire game, except for a 3 day window when Starfall was massively OP - quickly hotfixed though).
Surely you must eventually get to the point where Blizzard should be prepared to risk erring on the upside, and making the spec viable.
- January 30, 2012 at 9:47 PM
Warlocks are getting a talent in MoP called Kil'Jaden's Guile (I believe is the name) that does the cast while moving thing. Honestly I don't see why this isn't more widely implemented. A lot of other rpg's and mmo's have shown the benefits of moving while casting. It has even been done on a few fights with no serious repercussions.
- January 31, 2012 at 1:18 AM
For the movement problem, maybe they could do something like "When the caster is moving before finishing a cast, a counter tracks seconds that passes (up to x) and allow the caster to reduce the cast time of their next casts by 50% of the counter ( or y %, kind of numbers that they can adjust to balance it), with a minimum of z secs of cast time." ?
It will be interesting to check how things will turn out in the release of Mop.
- January 31, 2012 at 7:20 AM
"The changes to out DoTs will simplify them, but won't make them mindless and the change to Starfire, ends the debate of when to cast it."
I assume you meant to say Starfall? Doesn't really make much sense otherwise.
- January 31, 2012 at 9:48 AM
- Graylo said...
I'm not sure how much the other titles would delay MoP from being released. Obviously they wouldn't want to release them right on top of each other since they would fight for attention and DL bandwith, but I bet the development teams are mostly separate. With that in mind I think the biggest delay will always come from them not being able to get done what they want to get done in the amount of time they want to get it done in. If you had asked me two months ago, if we would hear out the MoP alpha by now I would have said yes, which makes me think we will be seeing MoP later then expected. If that is the case it will be really interesting to see what happens to WoW subcription numbers over the next year. There are already a lot of guilds that have finished DS and many that are really close as well.
I really think blizzard can't go a year without new content this time, or they will pay a big price for it.
Good points.
I knew I heard that idea somewhere. Thanks for pointing it out.
I still have some doubts about how possible it is tech wise since this is a MoP idea, and won't necessarily go live, but it's good to know that the people at blizzard at least think it's possible.
You are correct, and I have corrected the post. Thanks for the help.
- January 31, 2012 at 10:06 AM
The fact that Boomkin have been so bad at PvP since more or less forever, is a big kick in the rear for pve Boomkins since PvP was the chief reason that Lunar Shower was changed to increase eclipse power which was a significant loss.
To 'fix' the eclipse problem, I see no reason why the transition phases between eclipses couldn't just be removed. So effectively, you would just move straight into lunar from solar and vice versa. Ofcourse, this would effectively mean the end of eclipse as a buff as you would just have it permanently. Mastery would then become eclipse to some extent. It would also increase the weight of mastery as it would be effective at any point during the rotation so a reduction to bring it in line would be required. Eclipse could then be replaced with a propper dps cooldown - maybe something like Owlkin Frenzy that provides a flat 10% damage increase for say 20 sec on a 3 minute cooldown.
- January 31, 2012 at 8:23 PM
The simplest way would be if moving would not interrupt the spell at all, but freezes it, continuing when you stop moving.
For the small spontanous moves you mentioned it would mean only loosing the second you run 3 paces, for the long movement phases every caster should probably have a spiritwalk equivalent.
- February 1, 2012 at 6:04 AM
- Evoshroom said...
Why not just let us cast Wrath and Starfire while moving? Both fire mages and ele shaman have this ability for some of their attacks. I like the idea of a moving version of the spell taking longer or even better hitting slightly less hard.
Also, to the person who said Boomkins suck in PvP, they only suck in 2v2 and 3v3. In 5s and RBGs they are very good. That being said, they definitely need some PvP-oriented buffs and fixes. Honestly, being able to cast while moving would be a great fix for PvP viability.
- February 1, 2012 at 7:20 AM
- Graylo said...
Lunar Shower wasn't primarily changed for PvP. PvP might have had something to do with it, but LS was changed because blizzard didn't want people hanging out in Solar spamming sunfire and shuffling from left to right to keep LS's stack up. I don't know if that was done in PvP as well but it was extremely common in PvE.
As far as your Eclipse idea goes, I think it's interesting, but not sure if I like it. It would maintain the goal of using both Wrath and Starfire, but it guts how eclipse interacts with the rest of our abilities.
- February 1, 2012 at 8:47 AM
With regards to Spiritwalker's Grace, we (elementals) don't use it unless we have a prolonged movement period where we would have to cast Lava Burst (Eg: Morchok) or have to maintain heavy aoe on adds while moving (Eg: Yorsahj).
Take a look at Unleashed Lightning. It allows us to cast Lighting Bolt (our primary nuke) on the move. Due to how our glyhs work out in the dps contribution, we forfeit the 4% damage glyph to LB.
Someone suggested Owlkin Frenzy becoming a dps cooldown. Their suggestion is very much in line with Elemental Mastery. (15% damage plus 20% haste for 15s) It's a 3 minute CD, but talents and gear bring it down to 75-90s.
- February 1, 2012 at 10:28 AM
Disclaimer: I'm a newbie-moonkin (and just returning to the game, not played since BC)...
First off, remember the tools that you DO have: A pair of ranged AoE interrupts, two different AoE snares, a great AoE emergency heal, and Cyclone (which can be an interrupt of sorts, escape mechanism, or temporary emergency CC).
My suggestions:
- First off, the Balance tree is a mess. Is there any other tree in the game where the 26-30 point talents are simply either not wanted or a small piece of utility? Maybe roll Sunfire into the Base Balance stuff, and replace Lunar Shower with some kind of straight-up DPS increase?
- Substantially buff Force of Nature. It's ridiculous how good my Enhancement Shaman's Feral Spirits are compared to these guys - the dogs stun things, heal me a ton, do a crapload of damage, and make cool growling and barking noises. They can actually Growl (for threat). They have a shorter cooldown (with the same duration). Shall I go on?
I'd personally recommend giving the Treants some kind of "heal when they hit", either a "smart heal" (lowest % friendly within X yards) or just a small AoE heal (like a temporary Healing Stream Totem). Reduce the cooldown to two minutes as well, of course.
- Buff Barkskin. Again comparing to my Shaman - Shamanistic Rage is 30% (i.e. > 25%), plus the Shaman clears off bad magic when you hit it (glyphed).
- One other small tweak might be to allow casting Rejuv without breaking Owl. This gives you something useful to do while in motion (more useful than MF spam, at least). Letting Rejuv trigger NG might be kind of nice at times too.
Wow, that turned into a TL;DR, but hopefully there are a couple decent ideas in that mess someplace :)
- February 1, 2012 at 12:19 PM
- Sabnock said...
My main concern is about the design of the Pandaria's druid in which we are forced to play hybrid and when they do a choose like this, it's very hard to them to change their minds.
Hybridization, for them, is the solution of the main problem "my spec is not viable in this context", so in order to fix pve/pvp issue for all 4 combination, they simply give us an useless tool. It's "useless" not because the entire concept of playing hybrid is garbage, but for the simple reason that if I want to play a caster dps as moonkin, I don't want are forced to heal, for example. A second deepler reason is that they don't want mandatory class, so I assume that they will not design all fights to have a druid, or more, that will switching into a crippled healer in order to pass a difficult phase.
I don't ever hope that all specs will be viable in all context (when I complaying some lacks usually some guildmate says that it's normal that you can't do a great dps with balance in pvp, for example, cause if you want to do pvp you have to play feral, as if every spec have only one purpose and I have to use my selfcontrol to avoid to chocke to death him), but even if they can make every spec viable in only one context each I would be happy.
Sorry for the wall of text and a probably very bad english.
- February 1, 2012 at 1:17 PM
You might want to check the talent changes in MoP... most of what you said becomes moot one way or another.
Also, regarding Barkskin, remember that Moonkin have innate damage reduction, unlike Shamans.
- February 1, 2012 at 1:56 PM
One of my biggest pet peaves is that Natures Grasp with the 3 charges is literally useless in pvp. I remember the day when this was implemented and thought it would be so great, but when every class can slow you, stun you, pull you back etc, the root gets your enemy and your enemy gets a stuck in place chicken to skewer till death. We simply cant get away and I thought that was the point of it, but it doesn't work like that. The root from Natures Grasp needs to be a different color than normal roots and it needs to completely make us chickens immune to being stopped for 5 seconds so we can have a chance to get away. Just make it useful and I'd be happy.
- February 1, 2012 at 9:52 PM
I usually play feral, but in the previous couple of tiers I enjoyed going Moonkin on a few fights.
However I believe DS has really illustrated the fact that the enjoyment factor of Moonkin in those early tiers was more a result of fight mechanics that anything great about the spec.
Whereas previously I had fun playing moonkin, now I just find it a bit soul destroying.
Single target boss fights as a moonkin has to be one of the most boring things in WoW. Not to mention the fact you can go through a perfect rotation and still have awful dps.
In previous tiers multi-dotting and shrooms made moonkins dps godly, but now not even that can't save us.
If you want to get a real feel of how much moonkins are getting screwed, play a fire mage. Fire mages have good dps on single target bosses with a very interesting and exciting rotation. On fights with adds they really come alive and its very exciting to play. The satisfaction of spreading ignites and combustion is something that makes the spec so great to play.
I feel moonkins will never know this level of satisfaction. Your more likely to get that sinking feeling when you realise you are going to be out of solar eclipse when all the adds spawn. Or those frustrating 3 GCD you spend on mushrooms only to realise the adds have moved.
And how about that part of the fight when you really need to burn the boss.... every other class pots, hits a CD and goes to town. Moonkins pot then.....do exactly the same thing they did before.
Anyway, I won't be touching my Moonkin again until MoP.
- February 11, 2012 at 9:12 AM
i agree, mushrooms have been the joke spell of cataclysm and could have been really cool but just weren't implemented properly. they're too slow to cast in battle and place properly when things move alot and the casters have to move alot as well, they end up being better in a situation where you cast them before battle and then trigger them later, but the whole placement issue during battle makes them useless and clumsy in my opinion.
i know this has been mentioned on many moonkin forums in the past, but i'd have liked to see mushrooms used differently, like maybe be able to cast them on players/mobs and have different triggers, for instance, cast a mushroom on someone in pvp and instead of having just one trigger, you could have different triggers, one trigger that explodes them to do direct damage, another trigger that would spread the slowdown on the ground, and another trigger that would cause a DoT poison, and another trigger that would be a HoT to heal us as long as we were within 20 yards of the enemey target...
i also like the idea of making Owlkin Frenzy a castable cooldown instead of a random proc like it is now, would be so much better...
and natures grasp should not have 3 stacks of roots, it should be called natures storm and have 3 charges of cyclone instead...
also, would be nice to reduce the cooldown on solar beam by 10 to 15 seconds so we can use it just a tad more often...
could be cool to have barkskin disarm any melee attackers for 20 seconds in addition to the damage reduction, that could help in pvp for those "locked in place next to a rooted enemy" situations we always find ourselves in...
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New South Wales Police have arrested MP Craig Thomson on fraud charges after Victoria Police issued a warrant for his arrest.
Craig Thomson's lawyer Chris McArdle says his client maintains he has done nothing wrong.
He criticised Opposition Leader Tony Abbot for comments he made to the media following Craig Thompson's arrest.
"I think the alternative Prime Minister of Australia is an idiot," says Chris McArdle.
Chris McArdle also criticised the police, saying he has learned key facts about the arrest from the media.
"The police were more interested in talking to the press than they were in talking to our client," says Mr McArdle.
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