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Baseball for SaraLogic Grid puzzles come with a handy interactive grid that will help you solve the puzzle based on the given clues.
Sara loves baseball, so for her birthday her family gave her tickets for this weekend's major league baseball game. She went with a friend, the weather was hot and sunny, but she had good seats with a great view of the game. Both teams played very well, with some exceptional hits and plays. Determine the full names of four of the players, the position each played, and each player's best hit of the game.
1. Alec played the center field position. Sam Crisp didn't get the grand slam.
2. Brad, whose last name wasn't Reach, didn't play the 1st base position.
3. The player who got a double wasn't the player who played the 3rd base position.
4. Mr. Ember didn't play in the center field position, but he did get a single hit.
5. Mr. Mann got a triple. Will, whose last name wasn't Mann, didn't get a single.
6. The player in the catcher position got the grand slam.
AnswerAlec Mann: center field, triple
Brad Ember: 3rd base, single
Sam Crisp: 1st base, double
Will Reach: catcher, grand slam
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With pearls about life, business and women, this rundown of Dickens gold will leave you, like Oliver, wanting more.
Charles John Huffam Dickens was quite the man. For what he lost in hair follicles, he more than made up for in facial hair - oh, and he wasn't that bad of a writer, either. With Dickens' classic tales as adored now as they were in his native 19th century, virtually all of them have since made their way to the stage, TV or cinema screen. Safe to assume, then, that he had a brain in him (though had he of mastered eternal life he'd be absolutely minted from movie rights).
So, whether you're in need of advice on love, life, religion business or even trifles - Mr. Dickens is suitably prepared to inspire you. Take it away, Chaz...
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2 bedroom bungalow for saleKingshill Gardens, Kingshill Gardens, Bristol, BS48 2SS
Property Description
Key features
- House Manager
- Parking spaces
- Retirement Properties for the Young at Heart
- 24 hour emergency Careline system
- Landscaped gardens
Full description
Kingshill Gardens comprises of 31 bungalows and 13 apartments arranged over 2 floors. The House Manager can be contacted from various points within each property in the case of an emergency. For periods when the House Manager is off duty there is a 24 hour emergency Careline response system. Each property comprises an entrance hall, lounge, kitchen, two bedrooms and a bathroom. It is a condition of purchase that residents be over the age of 55 years.
A bin cupboard is located outside the front door which leads to:
Emergency pull cord. Access to loft space. Night storage heater. Doors leading to: lounge, kitchen, both bedrooms and bathroom.
LOUNGE with front aspect
Electric fire with surround. Power points including TV aerial and telephone. Emergency pull cord. Two ceiling light points. Two night storage heaters.
KITCHEN with window
Fitted with a range of wall and base units with work tops, incorporating a sink with drainer. Electric cooker, refrigerator and washing machine. Emergency pull cord. Wall heater. Power points. Door to rear garden with patio area.Door to garden with paved area, lawn and flower beds.
Fitted wardrobe. Emergency pull cord. Night storage heater. Power points including TV point and telephone point.
Emergency pull cord. Night storage heater. Power points. Airing cupboard with shelving housing hot water tank.
BATHROOM with window
Partly tiled and fitted with walk-in shower cubicle. WC and pedestal wash hand basin. Wall mounted heater. Emergency pull cord.
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Backpacker Prizes Worth Over £800!
- By: Sarah Matthews
- Published: 14 August 2012
- Tags: competitions
We have some amazing prizes worth over £800 for one lucky backpacker. Some are essentials and some are unique extras that will all be useful when exploring the world.
If you haven't already, and would like to enter the competition, head over to our Facebook page to enter, this competition is sure to make you excited for your impending travels! You can also check out Essential Travel's '7 Wonders of the World' for the best backpacker locations across the globe and who knows, you might just add a few new places to your âonce in a lifetime tripâ!
This competition is now closed.
About the Prizes
Rucksack from Ellis Brigham
Ellis Brigham is a family owned Mountain sports retailer, selling the world's best brands and amazing products. They are supplying the winner with an awesome versatile rucksack that can be used for exploring a new city or when you up the tempo and hit the outdoor trails. The AirZone back system provides maximum airflow to keep your back cool, while other features include zip entry allowing easy access, and a front stash pocket capable of securing a helmet, ice axe/walking pole attachment system, reflective feature, and rain cover. A handy rucksack for the different elements you may encounter on your trip. Visit the Ellis Brigham online store.
2 places for an outdoor first aid course from CRT Medical
CRT Medical is giving away 2 places for the UK Mountain First Aid Course worth up to £296! It was created to be a highly practical training package that really prepares people for emergencies. The CRT team are passionate about medicine and education, and all have an extensive background in pre-hospital care. The course is held in Mid Wales, accommodation and food is provided as part of the course, all you will need to bring is a sleeping bag. Prepare yourself for some intense but fun training, weâve been promised that by the end of the first day you will be capable of dealing with a face down spine casualty who is unconscious while wearing a heavy rucksack and a full face helmet!
You even get to take home a three year certificate. The course offer is valid till August 31st 2013. To take a look at the other courses, visit CRT Medical online.
Luxury travel towel from Safari Quip
Made from a unique fabric that is extremely soft to touch, these travel towels can absorb 9 times their own weight in water and dry 8 times faster than a beach towel â these are perfect for travelling, trekking or beach use. So if you're on the move these are a must have, taking up very little room and weighing next to nothing, these are any traveller's best friend.
SafariQuip are an independent specialist business that have been selling gear to travellers since 1982. The owners and their staff are travellers themselves and have an extensive range of products and their website Safari Quip is a must visit for any backpacker.
Underwater camera case from Overboard
Overboard is a specialist company in waterproof bags and cases. They have an extensive range of products that will keep all your gear, equipment and gadgets protected from sand, dirt, dust and water. This waterproof camera case means you can take amazing pictures from underwater and keep your camera protected from sand and dust, helping to turn your travels into memories. Itâs even got space for a zoom lens which allows you to get really creative with your snaps. Check out their website â and some useful youtube videoâs about these awesome products!
Travel-size toiletries from Ickle Bockles
Ickle Bockles specializes in travel size toiletries, which are airline compliant and really handy when travelling light, not to mention beautifully packaged! They are generously giving the winner loads of toiletries to take away with them! A handy, folding toothbrush and toothpaste, waterless sani-stick, anti-bacterial hand wipes, soap leaves, compact mirror, lip balm, and gel filled eye mask. You'll also get convenient travel size bottles which you can fill and re-fill with your own product, the handy writable labels insure you donât apply sunscreen to your hair instead of conditioner. They have also supplied a fantastic range of different shower gels, shampoo and conditioner in amazing flavours. Thanks Ickle Bockles.
Genuine leather journal from Oh So Cherished
Oh So Cherished has a passion for paper and you can tell by all their beautifully designed products which are manufactured in Britain. Oh So Cherished has a huge range of gorgeous gift books for special occasions. Alongside their own collection they also stock designer gift stationery, travel journals and a handsome range of FairTrade sari journals to name but a few. Look out for their new collection, check them out online.
Travellers card game from Backpacker Card Game
A fantastic pocket-sized game for 2 to 6 players, and just like travelling, itâs fun, exciting, fast changing and very addictive. Experience all the fun and unpredictability of travelling the world, as you try to outwit your opponents to be the player who returns home with the most photos. Visit different countries, enjoy beaches, trekking, wildlife and culture, meet other travellers and get good and bad advice, whilst trying to avoid getting sick or missing your plane. Itâs just as good as really going travelling and the perfect tool to make friends and keep entertained on your trip! Visit the Backpacker Card Game website here.
Insect Repellent from Donât Bite Me!
Beat the biting bugs with Donât Bite Me! patches, these amazing patches harness the powerful effect of Vitamin B1. Insects hate the smell, and because of itâs transdermal delivery which circulates through the blood, which is then released through the pores, it creates a barrier where most biting insects wonât come near you! Luckily the smell is barely noticeable to humans. One patch works for up to 36 hours and is waterproof so no need to reapply after swimming. Donât Bite Me! patches are generously giving the winner 20 patches, so you will be sure to stay clear of insect bites on your travels. Read up more about this innovative product here.
Head torch, money belt, toilet kit, sunscreen and insect repellant from Purple Turtle
Purple Turtle stocks a huge range of products for backpackers and travellers - the little things that can stop a challenge from becoming an ordeal, whilst still leaving the adventure intact. There are plenty of websites that deal with the hardware and gadgets for the roughie toughies, but not so many that cater for the meek and mild as well. To see their huge range of products visit their online store here.
Waterproof beach safe, security travel door alarm & world time travel clock from Go Planet Go
Go Planet Go has been selling travel accessories and travel related items online to thousands of customers for over 7 years. Go Planet Go has kindly donated beach safe pouches, which protect your valuables from water, sand and snow. Keep your room key, money, credit cards and mobile phone safe no matter what conditions you encounter. A security travel door alarm is a good companion when visiting foreign places and allows you to sleep soundly. Just hang it on the inside of your door and place the activation trip under the door, when opened the trigger will sound, scaring off anyone trying to enter! The world travel alarm clock, has some cool features, it has the standard alarm â which should only be used for catching planes and getting to awesome activities on time! Itâs got a changeable time zone feature which will adjust the time to your new destination, a torch on the end, and did we mention that there is a built in temperature function that displays in either Fahrenheit or Celsius â really handy. Check out their website for more unique gadgets.
Travel insurance from Essential Travel
Essential Travel is giving away 6 months, worldwide backpacker insurance to make sure that the winner is covered on their gap year. Nothing can ruin a long planned trip more than being caught out without insurance, you are travelling the world, anything could happen! Essential Travel have developed a specific backpacker insurance policy. Get a quote now - we even offer wintersports coverage!get a quote â more blog posts


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Evelyn Venable
No. 46 in a series of 50 from Player's Navy Cut Cigarettes
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 18th, 1914, Evelyn Venable comes of a literary family, her grandfather being a famous author and poet, and her father a well-known Shakespearean authority. She made her professional debut in a local performance of Dear Brutus, and in 1932 appeared in Cyrano de Bergerac. Then came the role of Ophelia in Hamlet, and her work in this led to her present film contract. She was first seen on the screen in Cradle Song; her more recent films are David Harum (with Will Rogers), Death Takes a Holiday and Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch.


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On a related theme, the report reasserts that though Windows remains the most dominant OS, Microsoft's empire is slowly eroding. Net Applications found that 91.78% of computers and hybrids run some form of Windows. The product line's share hasn't been above 92% since July 2012 and hasn't been above 93% since July 2011. The various versions of OS X, meanwhile, accounted for less than 6% of users in July 2011 but now account for more than 7%. Such shifts do not amount to a major power realignment, but their sustained duration, along with Apple's market-beating performance throughout the PC slump, suggest that Windows is doing little to improve Microsoft's industry influence.
If the world were still focused only on PCs, Microsoft would have nothing to worry about. But analysts expect tablets to outsell traditional PCs for the foreseeable future.
Even if Microsoft remains the preferred OS for desktop users, the company will need to make strides in the mobile market if Windows is to maintain its overall industry clout.
Microsoft will almost certainly remain a powerhouse no matter what happens, but it's one thing to be the industry's sole superpower, and quite another to be one of several. With Google, Apple, Samsung and others all more firmly established among tablet-minded consumers, the overall OS landscape -- including the loyalties of developers -- is in motion.
Indeed, even Windows 7 speaks to the increasingly fragmented market. As mentioned, Microsoft's most popular OS stands to gain even more ground as Windows XP is retired. But XP claimed more than 80% of the market at its peak. Windows 7 is unlikely to reach this number, not only because its current share is so much less than 80% but also, to a lesser extent, because some XP machines will be replaced with Macs, Chromebooks, or Android or iOS devices.
Windows 8's struggles also speak to this fragmentation, and to how it affects assessments of a given OS's performance. Win8 has amassed much less than the 12% market share Windows 7 had snared through the same point in its release cycle, but the number of active PCs in the world has also increased over time. This increase inflates the extent to which newer Windows versions appear to trail their predecessors. For Windows 7 to improve on Windows XP's market share, the newer OS will need to sell substantially more licenses. Likewise, Windows 8 would have needed to outperform Windows 7 just to achieve the same market penetration.
All in all, the new numbers leave Windows 8's prospects more or less where they were before: reliant on both new devices with next-generation Intel chips, and Windows Blue, a major OS update expected by this fall. If the new offerings are a hit, Windows 8's early missteps could soon be forgotten. But if Win8 adoption continues to be slow through the end of the year, Microsoft will face more criticism than ever.


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Rossi: Pens sticking to power-play plan
Kris Letang expects to play better in Game 2, but that might not mean much when it comes to how the Penguins work their power play. That is because the power-play plan never changed during a Stanley Cup playoffs opening win against Columbus on Wednesday night.
"It's something we've done all year — switch off our point guys," defenseman Paul Martin said Friday after he and Letang practiced on a second power-play unit at Consol Energy Center.
Matt Niskanen was on the top power play. That look — him on the right point opposite center Evgeni Malkin — is one of "three and maybe four" the Penguins planned to use against Columbus, coach Dan Bylsma said.
The Penguins once envisioned Letang as the power-play quarterback heir to Sergei Gonchar, who ran the man-advantage attack from 2005-10. This regular season, however, they routinely rotated Letang and Martin on the right point on the top unit when both players were healthy — an occurrence in only 22 games — and Niskanen became a regular in that spot in the second half.
Niskanen and Letang provided a right-handed shot option. Regular power-play forwards — Malkin, Sidney Crosby, James Neal and Chris Kunitz — each are left-handed shots.
Later in Game 1, Bylsma used Niskanen and Martin on the points, moving Malkin up, after a short-handed goal by Columbus center Derek MacKenzie early in the second period. Letang said MacKenzie's scoring chance was partially set up because of a bad bounce the puck took when he tried to control it on his stick blade.
The Penguins' power play scored twice in Game 1, bringing its man-advantage total to seven in six games dating to the regular season.
A particular dynamic that proves challenging for opponents is that the Penguins' power play does not use a lot of set plays — even off offensive-zone faceoffs.
"We have no set play, really," Niskanen said. "Some teams have a sequence for how they want to move the puck. With us, sometimes Sid will set up something on his own, but even that is rare.
"We don't even have a spot where to be on the ice until we get possession."
The power play works best, Niskanen and Martin said, when a couple of quick passes turn into shots. Often, those come from the points — hence the different power-play looks.
Niskanen's slap shot is hard. Letang's half-slapper is a quick release. Martin has Gonchar's knack for getting the puck through traffic. Malkin can blow a puck past a goalie, but also deke a penalty killer then find an open shooter.
The Penguins believe all of those elements make their power play, ranked No. 1 in the regular season, work. Their playoff plan was always to work all of those elements in.
Rob Rossi is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.com or via Twitter @RobRossi_Trib.


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Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Harrington, Rosemary Michele Author's Email Address firstname.lastname@example.com URN etd-04032009-103923 Title Rejecting the Epistolary Woman: Modern Female Protagonists in Mariama Bâ's Une si longue lettre and Ying Chen's Les lettres chinoises Degree Master of Arts (M.A.) Department French Studies Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Katharine Jensen Committee Chair Jack Yeager Committee Member Rosemary Peters Committee Member Keywords
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- francophone
- female protagonist
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Date of Defense 2008-10-22 Availability unrestricted AbstractOne of the most interesting thematic elements of the male-authored epistolary texts of the 18th century is what Katharine Ann Jensen refers to as the "Epistolary Woman": "Seduced, betrayed, and suffering, this woman writes letter after letter of anguished and masochistic lament to the man who has left her behind" (Jensen 1). Jensen notes a pattern of this portrayal in texts such as Lettres portugaises and also in the letter-writing manuals written by men of the period. Epistolary Woman stems from masculine efforts to limit and define women's writing as highly emotional, and in turn, Epistolary Woman is "a male creation" designed to marginalize women (Jensen 2). This creation compensated for the shift in gender power roles that was occurring in salon culture, where women had cultivated power and influence.
The Epistolary Woman trope appears in its most vividly obsessive portrait as Gulleragues's Portuguese Nun, Mariane. Mariane's abandonment in the text's series of unanswered letters creates a portrait of amorous despair and suffering. These themes of betrayal found in the letters of Epistolary Woman also have marked the works of two modern Francophone authors: Mariama Bâ and Ying Chen. In Bâ's Une si longue lettre and Chen's Les lettres chinoises, the authors develop female characters that are initially defined by the absence of the man they love from their lives. As francophone women, Bâ and Chen possess a clear knowledge of French literary history and in turn, the manner in which to create works that promote change within the parameters that the male Epistolary Woman text has come to represent. I will therefore examine Une si longue lettre and Les lettres chinoises as modern representations of the classic epistolary narratives of suffering, amorous women and also as re-evaluations that eventually serve to advocate a more realistic and (at times) more feminist portrayal of a new Epistolary Woman.
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Kuan announce March tour dates
If you watch the audience at a Kuan gig, something unusual happens to the socially diverse crowd that tends to make up their fan base. The punk rockers, prog rockers, hipsters, b-boys and metalheads all react in about the sameway: they start by nodding their heads. Then they sway a little. Then, they do whatever the word 'dance' means to each of them. They smile.
When one thinks of post-rock, post-punk, or avant-garde jazz, a word that does not often come to mind is joy. But that is Kuan's music. It's their joy, but it never fails to infect the audience. Brett Nagafuchi loses himself in his exultant, wicked drumming. Chip Heck collapses to the stage floor, shit-eating grin on his face as he alternates between shredding and coaxing strange ambient squeals from his pedals. Bryan Wright's bass undergirds and warms the thunder, stepping with a lightness his bobbing, peaceful frame belies. Paul Larkowski's lead guitar guides the ensemble with the gentleness and power of the best soloists in rock or jazz, tying what threatens at any one moment to explode into a beautiful mess together into a tight groove, the very thing you wanted to hear, but didn't know until you heard it.
Kuan is a Buddhist term. It translates as "wordless contemplation." But it is clear that lyricless as they are, Kuan's songs speak to their audiences. There is an urban legend that says when John Coltrane would perform one of his trademark hour-long solos while with the Miles Davis Quintet, someone once asked Miles "Why'd you let him play so long?" Miles's reply: "He wasn't finished saying what he had to say."
All veterans of Dayton's post-rock, punk and jazz scenes, Kuan formed originally as a three-piece, adding Wright in 2008. The quartet's post-rock, punk and jazz-influenced heavy groove has been compared by critics to Tortoise, June of 44, Do Make Say Think, and Fugazi. The Dayton-based band claims all of these, as well as Miles Davis, John and Alice Coltrane and Aphex Twin as influences. They attract fans from across the genres. Now gearing up for a second tour, they're preparing a vegetable-oil-powered van to reduce the high carbon footprint of touring.
Kuan Tour Dates
Mar 5 - Southgate House-Parlour - Newport, KY
Mar 6 - Rock Room - Pittsburgh, PA
Mar 8 - Chanti Loft - Ithaca, NY
Mar 9 - Trash Bar - Brooklyn, NY
Mar 10 - O'Brien's - Boston, MA
Mar 11 - The Khyber - Philadelphia, PA
Mar 12 - The Velvet Lounge - Washington, DC
Mar 19 - Baba Budans - Cincinnati, OH
Mar 26 - Chip's Basement - Dayton, OH
Apr 10 - Blind Bob's - Dayton, OHApr 23 - Reggie's - Chicago, IL
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Cononley Parish Council has objected to outline plans to build 15 new homes in the village.
Farmer John Teal is seeking permission to build a mix of 15 two-storey terraced and detached houses on a field at Meadow Lane.
The proposed development would be accessed by a newly adoptable cul-de-sac with a private driveway.
Although the parish council was generally supportive of building homes in that part of the village, they objected to this scheme, which is on land opposite the former Pear Tree Farm.
Coun Lois Brown, chairman of Cononley Parish Council, said: "The council felt the development would have too large an impact on a number of houses in the area.
"It also feels the access is insufficient and unsafe, and increased traffic would make it a dangerous place for children walking home from school and pedestrians accessing the train station."


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Ligue 1 footballers have become in recent times, cheap imports for Premier Leagues. One man who is quietly beginning to be linked with English clubs is Etienne Capoue.
South-west French side, Toulouse has 24-year-old Capoue who is a genuine talent already that appears to be more than a mere trivial rumor, which tends to arise from an inform player on the continent. He is the club's star midfielder having lost Mohammed Sissoko to Newcastle in January.
He's responded to criticism from French manager Didier Deschamps in recent months by putting in consistently strong performances. Capoue impressed me very much vs Nice on Saturday night. He's now scored three goals in the past two games, but it must be stressed that one of Capoue's main strengths is his ability to sit in the midfield. Discipline is clearly something on his mind throughout the game, as he often recognises that it is best to stay deep rather than push forward unnecessarily. He sits as the deepest player in the Touluse midfielder, acting as not only a initiator for attacks but also another important and useful tool; he is able to find space and pick simple passes from tight areas when the heat is on. Simple is a good adjective to describe his playing style. However, there is still more to him that just that. He has the aptness to pick a pass that requires vision that can move and change the tempo.
His dribbling ability was also been surprisingly impressive. It wasn't something that I expected giving the fact that he is quite built. Due to his size, he doesn't have a great amount of pace but his sudden change in speeds proves very handy. This combined with quick feet can result in some swift turns and intricate, cutting runs.
His defense comes from more than just positioning. There's controlled aggression and power. At 6'2, he is able to win plenty in the air. Combined with the help of Adrien Rabiot, is a very strong midfield. Against Nice, Capoue showed all these traits. It's easy to see why he's playing for France with both defensive and attacking capabilities. Capoue muscled a defender out of the way before receiving a quick one-two, to then pull of a neat chip over the Nice goalkeeper for their second goal. At the start of the second half, he did seemed out of the game, but the midfield battle had certainly died down. His performance at the end of the game was one cannot forget. Calm, composed, simple, diverse yet strong and combative. If I had one criticism, it was that he doesn't use his left foot enough, but that's perhaps pedantic.
So which clubs would be interested in the French man? Or maybe a better question currently is, who would he suit?
Well Arsenal have already been linked with him, and we know that Arsene Wenger is not afraid to dip into the French market. One factor that Arsenal have really missed in recent years is leadership. Capoue seems to show that. I saw Capoue frequently giving tips to teammates. Toulouse lost the Nice game, which was honestly, rather frantic, hot-blooded, eventful and exciting. However, Capoue really stood out. I recall myself many times going "Capoue again!" after a successful slide tackle, use of strength or simple piece of play that changed the outlook of a move.
I'm sure clubs have examined him with their scouts and have a much deeper insight into his demeanor. He seems more of a hardworking, mature footballer from my viewings to that of other players. Yann M'Villa was strongly linked with a Premier League move earlier this year, but moved to Rubin Kazan — the reason other than money, is that apparently he wasn't professional enough.
Personally, i would compare Capoue with Alex Song. Song, now with Barcelona, was used by Arsenal as a holding midfielder. However, he failed to 'hold' as the role states enough; he was at times clumsy too. Capoue seems more controlled in a challenge and together in the position.
Currently, Capoue looks very decent. It'll be interesting to return to the topic in the future. For now, I have hit my word limit.
Stowe Gregory is an English featured Soccer and Sports writer for RantSports.com. Follow him or tweet on Twitter @stowegregory. Or add to circles on Google +


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While shooting pictures for our new book on lions (www.africanlions.co.za) at Tswalu Kalahari Game Reserve (www.tswalu.com) we found some lions patrolling the fence line. We placed our GoPro action camera in their path hoping to catch some good footage of them as they came past. Little did we know that one lioness would take a liking to the camera and cart it off into the bush! We got the camera back, thank heavens and some interesting footage to boot!
The book we are photographing and writing is a large format book with masses of information about lions, their cultural significance and how they figured in the lives of the early hunters. We also look at the conservation issues and scenarios for their survival. There are, however many that can't afford to buy books and as a result don't have access to the information in them. We want to try to address that and to this end we wold like to produce a children's version of the book to give away free of charge to underprivileged children. This costs money and so we are searching for a sponsor for the children's books. If you or any one you know would be interested in being involved please contact us.
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It's been requested/discussed so many times in various issue queues. Drupal needs a WYSIWYG editor in core, since so many users consider it a key feature missing (either compared to what they are used from other CMSs or that's what they expect when they first instal Drupal). Most people are aware that there is a way to achieve this feature, but what they want is an 'official' out-of-the-box solution.
Even if this gets either 'wontfixed' or 'postponed' (like for ever), at least we'll have a place to point people to each time this question comes up elsewhere. This issue will serve as an answer to people wondering if it will ever happen - not how. So...
Note/plea: this is not a place to start flaming over which particular solution is best, but rather a discussion over if this should happen or not. Once that is decided, we'll see what we'll choose to go with (based on features, looks, well-maintenance, popular demand - I don't know). So please, for the love of God if you must, then head over here instead for such comments:
- Comparison of Drupal WYSIWYG Editors
- Wysiwyg @ groups.drupal.org
- Which editor (if any) do you use for your Drupal site(s) (poll)
- Wysiwyg project & its issue queue
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- March, 2011, There is an initiative that mentions that Dries intended/wished to include a WYSIWYG editor in core for Drupal 7 (was #3 in his top-10 priorities list). This however did not happen.
- March, 2011: quicksketch started a sandbox WYSIWYG in Core project.
This project is a branch of Drupal 8 whose purpose is to bundle a WYSIWYG editor into core. This project is a branch of Drupal core (rather than a branch of the existing WYSIWYG module) because the approach used in this sandbox integrates tightly into the Filtering system.
quicksketch also states:
The most central concept we need to develop is the idea of filtering not only output but on input as well...
- If you can help with coding, then head here: #1094094: WYSIWYG in core: Call for volunteers!.
- If you want to be informed when something is available for testing (in drupal core 8.x-dev), then subscribe here: #1242386: WYSIWYG in core: Status/initial release (a.k.a: "Are we there yet?").
- June 2011: the HTML 5 Initiative group dropped the idea of adding contenteditable support in core from their Phase 2:
Decided to remove the contenteditable WYSIWYG bullet from Phase 2. It'd be a huge undertaking, not really an HTML5 issue, and one that should really be its own separate initiative.
- August 2011: quicksketch initiated a session on WYSIWYG in core at DrupalCon London:
This session is going to be a discussion more than a demo of proposed code. We'll take a look at what solutions other systems (namely WordPress) have included to deal with rich text editing, and we'll identify the central problems with building similar functionality into Drupal.
Ultimately, the solution currently being pursued will be an overhaul of the "Filter" module (which currently is only designed for filtering on output), and replacing it with a new module that controls not only filtering on output but also on input, making it possible to provided a true WYSIWYG (or at least a lot closer than anything we have today).
Comment #1Jaypan CreditAttribution: Jaypan commented
I think it would be a good thing to have one ship with core, as long as it wasn't a required module and could be replaced with something else. Kind of like how we ship themes with Drupal.
Comment #2mcrittenden CreditAttribution: mcrittenden commented
I don't think there's much of a possibility of this happening. The main blockade that I see is just that Drupal content is so flexible and diverse. You can use markdown, BBCode, textile, plain HTML, plain text, limit the allowable HTML tags, allow all HTML, strip JS, don't strip JS, convert issue numbers to links (ala Drupal.org), convert twitter style @usernames to links, convert blahblah to a flash video of a slideshow of images from xxx folder using blahblah background music, etc., and each of those could conceivably be different from node-to-node or textarea-to-textarea.
So for a WYSIWYG editor to be included in core, it would either have to:
1) Be flexible enough to contend with all of those (which is impossible), OR...
2) We would rely on all that magic to happen on display rather than on entry/edit, so people could enter whatever they wanted in the WYSIWYG and Drupal would hack it to bits when being displayed. This is more or less the current state, which works well enough because people installed WYSIWYGs themselves and (hopefully) know what they're getting into when they do that, but for it to be part of core seems like a usability issue waiting to happen. OR...
3) We would have to tell people "either use this with the default input formats or turn it off" which sort of ruins the point of having one in the first place.
Another issue is that there isn't a single WYSIWYG editor that has been more or less accepted as the standard for the Drupal community, so deciding on one will be near impossible as everyone has their own favorite for different reasons. Therefore, we would most likely be stuck rolling our own (which is a HUGE amount of work) or at least significantly altering an existing one (which is still a ton of work), and the fact that Drupal's been around for forever and this has always been an unsolved issue makes me think that this is work that no one wants to be doing.
That said, I would love for it to work out, if for no other reason than people seem to think the lack thereof is holding Drupal back. So subscribe.
Comment #3kevinquillen CreditAttribution: kevinquillen commented
Why would it have to solve every scenario? I don't think its unreasonable to ship with a basic texteditor out of the box for folks who aren't savvy enough (OR don't understand why Drupal comes without an editor, like Wordpress). It just needs to be simple, and support basic HTML formatting. If they are looking for more flexibility, it can point them to the appropriate section of drupal.org for more robust WYSIWYGs.
The other option would be to enhance the Drupal core experience. For example, if no text editor is installed, underneath the textarea of a node add/edit form it could say "How can I format my text like in my word processor software?" (or something friendly) which links to an internal help page which explains and links them to all the text editors on Drupal.org to find the one of their liking.
I wouldn't go so far to say that "most people" would know to come back to drupal.org, -or- that Drupal has modules. There are tons of people out there just trying to run a website, and don't know what a CMS is, or that they are extendable. Moms, dads, grandmoms, day traders, teachers, students, etc. Being developers and/or tech savvy we overlook things like this, but in my opinion, the lack of an RTE (or internal directions to obtain one) is one of the first obstacles the average person gives out on and tries something else, like Wordpress.
Comment #4btopro CreditAttribution: btopro commented
install profile like now in D7 the basic vs. clean install. Basic install has wyziwig editor turned on by default.
As for which to include, maybe see if any of them would like to cross promote usage the way jquery does. jquery uses drupal, drupal uses jquery kind of thing. A lot of the text editors provide additional commercial support so having a free-bee go along for the ride doesn't sound bad from their perspective either.
Comment #5Valkyri9 CreditAttribution: Valkyri9 commented
I agree a that basic WYSIWYG editor should be included, but not enabled by default - this should fall under the category of optional functionality like the Book module. My primary reason for supporting this idea is that for many new Drupal users getting WYSIWYG installed and working as expected is not an easy-to-grok process, and there can be several pitfalls along the way. Simplifying this for new users (and experienced users who are setting up a basic site for someone) could only be a good thing.
Comment #6daggar CreditAttribution: daggar commented
I agree with Jay Matwichuk and Valkyri9. There are several good reasons why a WYSIWYG won't be able to cover all eventualities, but there are numerous core modules that don't work for every case. An easily-activated WYSIWYG would make adoption vastly easier for new users.
On top of that, a core WYSIWYG module programmers with a baseline for WYSIWYG interaction. The inclusion of it would encourage programmers to consider it in their projects; its presence alone could expand the scope of drupal-WYSIWYG integration.
That said, Mcrittenden's point about choosing which WYSIWYG is valid. Making a drupal-custom editor is probably not realistic, and customizing an external one is difficult as well. Compromises might be necessary, but I thik it's worthwhile. To many clients and users, the content-editing pane is the face of the entire application.
Furthermore, I realize that Wordpress is a different product, but it shouldn't be ignored that Wordpress is (often painfully) extended beyond its original scope mostly on the strength of its editing pane. The fact that their integral WYSIWYG is such a large draw for that product is worth considering and is applicable to Drupal. If a WYSIWYG can make people stretch blog software out to enterprise scale, imagine what a boost it could give for a package that can handle enterprise applications out of the box.
Comment #7kevinquillen CreditAttribution: kevinquillen commented
Why not make WYSIWYG module part of the core then, and in D8, build the functionality to download the editor from the interface into sites/libraries and activate it?
I think part of the trouble for the average person is figuring out how to get a module in to activate a text editor, then actually doing it (provide they have FTP access, right permissions, etc). That's a big reason why Wordpress succeeds for the average user, because that end of it is just provided- and in most cases, suits just well.
Power users like us can easily disable WYSIWYG, and use something else if we want post-install.
Comment #8Fannon CreditAttribution: Fannon commented
Absolutely agree on that!
Comment #9Fannon CreditAttribution: Fannon commented
If i compare Drupal to Wordpress or Joomla the first thing coming in my mind is that WYSIWYG in Drupal is a pain.
If you want a really smart solution that works great for non techy Users, you have to install a lot of modules, wrestle with configurations and still - it won't get as comfortable or intuitive as Wordpress. Joomla got no WYSIWYG too, but there are modules like "JCE" that are VERY easy to install and are out of the box more comfortable and user-friendly (and i guess powerful too!) than anything you could do with Drupal right now. (And you'll spend much time on it)
The second big thing are Image-Gallerys. But that's another thread ;)
Comment #10btopro CreditAttribution: btopro commented
but kevin, if the average user knows how to install a wyzwig editor how will I keep getting paid to turn it on ;)? What I'd like to see is that an install profile goes out to d.o. and downloads the modules it needs and a "basic" profile comes with a wyziwig editor by default. Part of the issue with moving wyziwig to core is that:
1. core wants to get smaller (esp after the bloat in 7)
2. then someone has to maintain formatting and all those other wonderful issues in a core distro when those updates could happen a lot faster as it's own project (theoretically).
I'd love to see some kind of install profile area that's like jquery UIs click checkboxes and it builds out the package. That'd be incredibly powerful toward this end.
Comment #11eaton CreditAttribution: eaton commented
Although I've voted strongly against wysiwyg editors in the past, it's a very, VERY common requirement and it's something that is tremendously frustrating to set up in Drupal properly. It requires threading the needle of installing a Drupal module (or two), installing a JS library, configuring both of those correctly, then configuring your input filters to match the settings the editor is using to ensure there's no mismatch between the two.
- An underlying API that allows textareas to be flagged as wysiwyg-OK
- a way of specifying what library should be used on those fields (ala the current contrib wysiwyg module)
- and a known baseline wysiwyg editor or markup helper in core to serve as a reliable standard UI tool
That sounds like a sound approach. Have a pre-configured setup for the editor ship as part of the Standard Profile, and leave it turned off and unconfigured for the minimal profile.
The devil is in the details: what wysiwyg editor would suit a majority of Drupal sites, and how can it be used as a default without disrupting the 20% that need something different? Wysiwyg module has already been ironing out some of these questions and is probably the single best place to look for answers at the moment.
Comment #13Jaypan CreditAttribution: Jaypan commented
I personally disagree with WYSIWYG being the way to go, at least as it was the last time I looked at it. It's a great module for what it does, but it's got it's issues as well - one of them being bloat. Most sites only need one editor, and it provides the ability to add many. If you are only using one, it's overkill. The other problem is that it doesn't allow for editor specific settings (or at least it didn't last time I played with it - maybe that's been improved on in the last year). Sometimes it's good to be able to configure very specific settings on the editor, and other editors may not have that setting.
If these two issues can be overcome however, by streamlining the module as much as possible, and adding the ability to do per-editor configuration specific to that editor, then I think it could be the way to go.
Comment #15kevinquillen CreditAttribution: kevinquillen commented
The best part about WYSIWYG module is controlling the toolbar through the UI without editing the config.js manually, which can be wiped out depending on how you maintain your editor files during an update. That is why I recently switched back to WYSIWYG from CKEditor module.
Comment #16jeffwidman CreditAttribution: jeffwidman commented
Personally, I'd vote for something simple like CKEditor module added to the core distribution, but not deeply integrated into the core.
Just have the module turned on by default, so it's really simple for non-tech n00bs trying to get started with Drupal.
I understand the idea of WYSIWYG API module, but it isn't as cleanly integrated as CKEditor module. By abstracting, you gain flexibility, but lose power with any individual editor (jack of all trades, master of none.)
For those with more tech chops, it's trivial to disable CKEditor, and replace with WYSIWYG API + editor of their choice.
Ultimately this isn't the "power-user-happy" solution, but it is the "easily accessible to n00bs" version, and doesn't hurt the flexibility for power users.
Comment #17Scott J CreditAttribution: Scott J commented
Did anyone mention that quicksketch has started playing with this at http://drupal.org/community-initiatives/drupal-core/wysiwyg ?
Comment #18franz CreditAttribution: franz commented
Comment #19Hanno CreditAttribution: Hanno commented
+1 for wysiwyg as a standard feature. Is it possible to integrate the wysiwyg module in the core filter module?
Comment #20kevinquillen CreditAttribution: kevinquillen commented
I would think Drupal would be best suited to have an editor that was 'made for Drupal' and completely integrated with the system for best performance. Lots of editors out there put too much junk out in the markup. Sure, we can rely on HTML Purifier etc to 'hide' it- but that feels like a cop out.
I don't want to make anyone sore by saying this, but I think that Wordpresses out of the box WYSIWYG is killer. Great media management, not a lot of junk markup, has all the buttons most people need, and is intuitive. In my head thats what I think Drupal should come standard with, and would be able to be switched off in favor of other setups for power users.
Comment #21eaton CreditAttribution: eaton commented
FYI: the WordPress Wysiwyg editor is just TinyMCE, pre-configured to work with the features it supports and skinned to look good in its administration section.
Comment #24quicksketch CreditAttribution: quicksketch commented
Is it possible to integrate the wysiwyg module in the core filter module?
Yes, that's the intention of my sandbox (http://drupal.org/sandbox/quicksketch/1088256). The most central concept we need to develop is the idea of filtering not only output but on input as well. I'd really encourage users to participate in the sandbox if they're interested in contributing. We're a long ways off from patches in the core queue.
Comment #24.0quicksketch CreditAttribution: quicksketch commented
...updated issue's summary after Scott Jackson's mention of the initiative in post #17
Comment #25Hanno CreditAttribution: Hanno commented
@quicksketch great initiative
The html5 initiative group thought of implementing a html5 contenteditable WYSIWYG in core. Would implementing contenteditable WYSIWYG be the way forward?
Decided to remove the contenteditable WYSIWYG bullet from Phase 2. It'd be a huge undertaking, not really an HTML5 issue, and one that should really be its own separate initiative. (http://groups.drupal.org/node/157334)
Comment #26bryancasler CreditAttribution: bryancasler commented
Comment #27Hanno CreditAttribution: Hanno commented
Good to know that quicksketch initiated a session on wysiwyg in core at DrupalCon London:
This session is going to be a discussion more than a demo of proposed code. We'll take a look at what solutions other systems (namely WordPress) have included to deal with rich text editing, and we'll identify the central problems with building similar functionality into Drupal.
Ultimately, the solution currently being pursued will be an overhaul of the "Filter" module (which currently is only designed for filtering on output), and replacing it with a new module that controls not only filtering on output but also on input, making it possible to provided a true WYSIWYG (or at least a lot closer than anything we have today).
Comment #28sun CreditAttribution: sun commented
There's a full range of very hard technical challenges involved with this. I wonder how people come to think that they could "quickly solve these" in a core sandbox, entirely ignoring the already existing discussions on the topics?
It would be a huge mistake to invent a new, untested, unproven, and half-baked solution in core. A clear recipe for failure.
Second, Filter module requires absolutely no changes for this, and neither does anything else in core. That proposal about changing Filter module to also filter on input is completely off and invalid. It means that people do not understand the problem space.
Third, whenever you intend to include something in core, you need to ensure that it is going to be actively maintained afterwards. The amount and diversity of technical/code contributions to this campaign (as well as Wysiwyg module) are close to zero, which contradicts that goal in the first place. If people would actually put code behind their nice wishes, then we could already have an in-production testing ground for the stuff you intend to do. There are open issues for all of the unresolved challenges, but guess what.
Comment #30amaree CreditAttribution: amaree commented
assuming the choice would be to see what people are using and compile that research into a statistical analysis and also then to look into to the statistics of there technical pros and cons etc and then put a report together on which one to go with? sounds hard but would not take that long as someone who has done that before in online communities i would not mind providing the time to do it or perform an analysis (researchers love to research ;)
coding one from scratch is a mammoth job and why reinvent the wheel? there are so many projects out there we need to see what would be the best fit for Drupal core/modules technically wise and also modules as there are various modules out there like IMCE etc etc etc anyways just food for thought?
Comment #31kevinquillen CreditAttribution: kevinquillen commented
I like the idea of Filter (or some other module) cleaning the input so the output is more predictable.
Comment #32Fannon CreditAttribution: Fannon commented
My problem with the WYSIWYG API module is that it is very complex and flexible, but not very accustomized to Drupal itself. For example some very simple Things are not easy and require custom coding:
-> The font-size, background from the editor is often not very identical with the style of the site itself. So its not very WYSIWYG and you have to put some effort into it to come closer. And doing that is often not very intuitive.
-> Its not easy to make h2, h3 etc styles in TinyMCE. It really makes div.h2 which is not really what I want and from structural perspective this is a big foul.
-> Also I miss some more Drupal-specific integration. Pagebreak is really the only thing in this direction.
Anyone seen JCE Editor for Joomla? This is a great example how it can be done. But i'm not sure a project like this makes sense to be in core.
Also I cant think of a single usecase where its really useful to have many different editors. Usually you choose one and stick with it, and this seems to work in every other CMS too. This way you can focus on one thing and make this really great. Drupal tends to loose itself in its flexibility sometimes ;)
Just my 2 cents
Comment #33Everett Zufelt CreditAttribution: Everett Zufelt commented
I like the idea. It * must * be easily plugable w/ other libraries and must have rol / user based permissions to toggle availability.
Whichever editor is chosen must have a UI that is WCAG 2.0 AA compliant and must allow users to produce markup that is also WCAG 2.0 AA compliant.
Comment #34laura s CreditAttribution: laura s commented
+1 for keeping wysiwyg in an install profile, ideally out of core. If we get that far and can make install profiles as easy to download and install as Drupal core, that would be great so core could avoid having things like this tossed into it. wysiwyg serves a rather narrow use case. My question is what is to be gained by shoving such a heavy thing into core. The JS and browser worlds are evolving much more quickly than core.
Comment #35Everett Zufelt CreditAttribution: Everett Zufelt commented
I agree with Laura, only if install profiles are:
1. Easily discoverable on d.o
2. Well documented features (clear language) and module list
3. As easy to install as drupal core
4. Have dedicated maintainers, including receiving the sme priority for security and bug fixes as core
Comment #37mgifford CreditAttribution: mgifford commented
Mostly following up from @Hanno in #27
Just posting some related links:
#1094094: WYSIWYG in core: Call for volunteers!
#1259750: Compare accessibility of candidate WYSIWYGs
Comment #38droplet CreditAttribution: droplet commented
Comment #39indigetal CreditAttribution: indigetal commented
FYI: the WordPress Wysiwyg editor is just TinyMCE, pre-configured to work with the features it supports and skinned to look good in its administration section.
Really, if that's the case how do I get the html tab in TinyMCE? Wordpress definitely isn't using IMCE for image uploads and I'd love to learn how to configure this all in Drupal to be exactly the same because it all just works in Wordpress. I'm for either D8 shipping with some form of basic wysiwyg editor already installed and working properly or a much easier process for installing and configuring a wysiwyg editor. Call me a n00b but I've been having a harder time with properly configuring a wysiwyg to work properly than I had with learning how to configure views. Basically, thee most basic feature expected of a modern CMS is one of the hardest features to get up and running in Drupal.
Comment #40kevinquillen CreditAttribution: kevinquillen commented
Wordpress standardized on its WYSIWYG which allowed them to tightly integrate media control into it. Drupal remained flexible so you could use what you want.. but as you said, can be tricky.
Comment #41quicksketch CreditAttribution: quicksketch commented
Really, if that's the case how do I get the html tab in TinyMCE?
WordPress actually includes not only TinyMCE but another JavaScript based editor for plain-text HTML editing also.
Comment #42mgifford CreditAttribution: mgifford commented
Certainly there are lots of accessibility concerns with this choice, but really it's a matter of reviewing the choice made by this group & http://drupal.org/project/spark
Comment #43nod_ CreditAttribution: nod_ commented
Comment #44chrisschaub CreditAttribution: chrisschaub commented
There are many, many contrib modules that try to solve problems related to lack of a coherent wysiwyg strategy in core (imce is a noteable example, media, plupload etc). If an wysiwyg editor was in core, then the filters for rich text would work out of the box, line breaks issues, image upload and handling within rich media could work out of the box, insert audo / video too. Think of all of the hacky modules that try to insert media into content, and sort of work. A core wysiwyg solution would give module developers a default editor that they could code for, a target that needs to work with their module that requires rich text abilities; just check out the panels / wysiwyg / lazyload issues here http://drupal.org/node/356480 to see what I mean about integration issues.
I like how the wysiwyg module switches editors based upon the input filter. That said, I'm a plain text guy, hate rich text. But I've not yet met a client / user of Drupal yet who agrees with me. :) And I think you're going to see Drupal getting knocked down on this compared to other systems. Maybe this is because Drupal is really just an application dev framework with a little cms thrown in. Whereas Wordpress is mostly a cms that has a little application dev abilities. I only say this because most core releases completely break / enhance application stuff like the form api etc, but cms features like rich text, images, audio, video seem to get very little attention in comparison.
So, if Drupal was pitched as an application dev framework then I'd be ok with wysiwyg and media stuff in contrib. If it's a true cms, then it needs to be in core, imo.
Comment #45Wim Leers CreditAttribution: Wim Leers commented
Given the excitement around Spark's in-place editing and WYSIWYG, it seems plausible (though definitely not certain) that the Aloha Editor WYSIWYG will make it into core. It even has @sun's approval!
Comment #46webchick CreditAttribution: webchick commented
Tagging with Spark.
Comment #47webchick CreditAttribution: webchick commented
Incidentally, there are 65 days left before feature freeze, and 45 people subscribed to this issue who presumably want to see this happen. :) If so, #1782838: WYSIWYG in core: round one — filter types is step 1. Reviews needed.
Comment #48webchick CreditAttribution: webchick commented
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Also, shipping a CMS in 2013 without a WYSIWYG editor out-of-the-box would pretty much be the death knell of Drupal. Raising to a critical feature.
Comment #49Bojhan CreditAttribution: Bojhan commented
So I don't really get what this issue is about, is to discuss whether we want it or not? If we wish to escalate it to critical, it should have something actionable behind it?
Comment #50falcon03 CreditAttribution: falcon03 commented
Hi webchick,
honestly, I ate a bit wysiwyg editors, especially from my blind user perspective. I am really concerned about including a wysiwyg into core because I am really afraid of having an inaccessible editor in core.
Among blind users there is the idea (that I agree with) that Drupal is one of the most, if not the most, accessible cms out-of-the-box.
So, I think that we should strongly consider this issue:
Unfortunately, from my initial tests, Aloa seems the less accessible candidate....
I would vote up for CkEditor, but at this time I have some accessibility issue also with this editor...
I'll write a more detailed report on my tests as soon as possible...
Comment #51chrisschaub CreditAttribution: chrisschaub commented
Agreed @webchick. If it doesn't ship with a wysiwyg editor in core, then the line has been drawn by the core team -- it's an application framework, not a true cms. Just my opinion, but I've been building many sites with drupal since 4.x and this is the most major pain next to media handling for simple cms tasks.
Comment #52webchick CreditAttribution: webchick commented
falcon03: Accessibility remains one of our paramount priorities. It would be wonderful if you were to work with the Aloha Editor team upstream https://github.com/alohaeditor/Aloha-Editor to provide a detailed accessibility review of their work. You can try it out by downloading the 2.x version of Aloha module http://drupal.org/project/aloha (read the README.txt though because it's a little tricky).
Comment #53falcon03 CreditAttribution: falcon03 commented
Hi Webchick,
I tried to install aloa 8.x-2.x-dev in my test environment following the readme.txt instructions, but I am not able to download any admin_icons release (required by aloa)... Could you help me please?
However, I checked out this demo:
and, if it is correct, it seems there is a ton of work to make it accessible.
Comment #54webchick CreditAttribution: webchick commented
Oopsie. Thanks for that. I've created -dev release nodes for the 7.x and 8.x versions of admin_icons, so they should be available within ~12 hours.
Comment #55falcon03 CreditAttribution: falcon03 commented
Hi Webchick,
well, I downloaded the 8.x-dev release of admin_icons (it has not appeared on drupal.org/project/admin_icons yet, but I found it using Google)...
Things are better than I thought, but there are some important accessibility issues. After a quick (very quick) review:
- After inserting a link I cannot know that it has been inserted correctly, unless I reach it in the text;
- Keyboard navigation seems a bit unpredictable ("format" and "insert" links are not always reached using the "tab" key, but they should be);
- I found no way to insert headings and...I think this is a critical issue!
- If possible, I would like to convert "format" and "insert" links (and related buttons) into the equivalent components used by CKEditor, so that a blind user "sees" a structure similar to a menu bar (at least using Voiceover and Mac OS X).
However, there are more issues that I would like to be fixed before drupal 8 release; unfortunately I am not experienced at all with javascript, so I cannot help fixing them. :(
The main concern from my perspective is the replaced "body" field; a way or another I was able to use it, but I don't know if it is really and completely accessible...
Maybe we should start a discussion on the accessibility group... What do you think about it?
And, finally, what is the best way to report these (and other) issues to Aloha developers, in your opinion?
Comment #56Wim Leers CreditAttribution: Wim Leers commented
#55: please see #1747930: contenteditable is not accessible to screen-readers for the existing accessibility issues. There are many known accessibility issues, but we're already working closely with the Aloha Editor guys to fix them :) Please follow that issue, and you will then automatically be notified once there is progress, and thus things you can review. Please stick around — we need all the accessibility feedback we can get!
Comment #57toddgee CreditAttribution: toddgee commented
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I appreciate the work going on in this thread -- it is certainly an interesting read. just one quick point:
I think the big win with WordPress is not its inclusion of TinyMCE, but whatever was done to add the 'Upload/Insert' button above the (default wordpress) editor window. (see this demo page user/pw:admin/demo123)
It's the image and file management that has caused the most pain for the users of the sites I've created. (I've created many sites for community groups comprised of (generally not-super-computer-savvy) people who just want to write pages and not think too much about it. It's hard to convince them to let me use Drupal when many of them have seen how easy it is to add images in wordpress.
thanks again, tod
Comment #57.0toddgee CreditAttribution: toddgee commented
...updated with latest related news.
Comment #58webchick CreditAttribution: webchick commented
|» Closed (duplicate)
See http://buytaert.net/from-aloha-to-ckeditor and #1260052: Candidate WYSIWYG editors for background discussion.
This is now a duplicate of #1878344: Add CKEditor JS library to core.


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Heartland will be permitted to have a drive-thru at the Dunkin Donuts. Where that will be, however, is not known at this time, D'Loss said.
Heartland owns all of the Dunkin Donuts in western Pennsylvania.
Also, it appears as though the Dunkin Donuts, to be built at the former North Star Chevrolet site, will now have 46 parking spaces. It will be a 7,000-square-foot retail center.
This will leave enough room for three more establishments, said Mayor Jack Kobistek. It still is not clear what other businesses will be recruited to go there, he said.
During the fall, D'Loss hinted that council was working to bring in a well-known retail establishment, perhaps a restaurant, to fill one of the slots at that site.
Whatever happens, Dunkin Donuts will not be open until sometime next year, at the earliest.
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In an interview with Samar on her TV show "Samar Wal Rijal Wa Lakin" (Samar and Men... But), Kinda admitted that she refuses to play the role of a woman dressed in a Niqab (an Islamic headress which covers the face and sometimes eyes), as her personal beliefs go against it.
The actress admitted that she refuses to play the role of a woman who locks herself inside a Niqab and isolates herself away from the world. She believes that God created us with freewill and it isn't necessary to hide our faces away.
The liberalist demanded that religion is kept out of things, as people should be judged based on their acts and not on whether they're Muslim or Christian.
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Reed Krakoff Pre-Fall 2012
Pre-fall is by and large a runway-free season. That might sound anticlimactic to some, but for designers it's a special opportunity to show their clothes in the comfort of their own spaces. "With pre-fall everything needs to stand on its own," says Reed Krakoff. "It's about clothes that evoke an emotional reaction, clothes that you fall in love with piece by piece, not necessary a full look." As the man credited for turning Coach into a multimillion-dollar brand, Krakoff understands the stand-alone pulling power of a single item more than most. Seeing the clipped shearling vests, python coats, and hand-painted tweed pants up close on the racks, one gets the feeling that he's applying those smarts to his ready-to-wear line. It helps that the sports-luxe silhouettes that launched the label two years ago have been streamlined over the past couple of seasons. And, whether collaged with sheer silk chiffon or soft black leather, there's a cashmere sweater here for almost every climate; if you include the evening-appropriate metallic knits, there's one for every occasion as well.
Strong separates aside, there were some great styling lessons to be learned from this collection. Besides his ever-expanding roster of structured totes, portfolio-style clutches, sleek knee-high boots, and ankle-strap pumps, a new winning accessory has emerged this time around: the leather glove. Spun in rotating python strips to the elbow or cropped in black napa at the wrist, it's pretty chic motivation to cover up now, or later.


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Paul Babeu, Embattled Pinal County Sheriff, Struggles to Remain a Relevant Political Figure
Earlier this month, the L.A. Times reported that "federal agents stopped the main target of the ill-fated Operation Fast and Furious in May 2010" but released him after questioning and "he disappeared back into Mexico, and the program went on to spiral out of control."
It was a stunning revelation, and one that everyone would have expected embattled Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu to weigh in on -- given that blasting the Obama Administration over the blundered Operation Fast and Furious had become a hallmark of his political stumping.
So, the go-to guy on all things Fast and Furious made an appearance on CNN? Fox News? NRANews.com?
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Or on anything else -- except, of course, his recent troubles over apparently threatening his Mexican gay lover.
It's a curious silence considering his friends at Fox News dubbed him "Famed Arizona Sheriff and "Fast & Furious" Critic" last year during an interview.
But in a clever move to make it look like the embattled sheriff still is a relevant political figure, Team Babeu put up a CNN video from September 2011 on his official Pinal County Sheriff's Office website. It just sits there without any reference to a date, or any explanation.
(And, an official county website seems like an odd place for the video, which is right above local news about stuff like the PCSO K-9 unit at a public event. Did Team Babeu mean to post the video on his official county website? Or was it intended for his campaign website?)
Despite dozens of appearances on national television, namely Fox News, in 2010 and 2011, it doesn't look like that network, or any others, want to have him back to share his views about Operation Fast and Furious. Or anything else... except you know what.
At least not since New Times first reported that you know what -- that Babeu's ex-boyfriend, a Mexican national with questionable immigration status, accused the sheriff and his attorney of threatening him with deportation.
Or since New Times and other media outlets exposed details of physical and sexual abuse that took place a Massachusetts boarding school, including during the time Babeu served as its executive director and headmaster.
Or since Babeu's sister, Lucy, and students from DeSisto School spoke publicly about an alleged relationship that Babeu had with a 17-year-old boy from the school.
Instead, Babeu posted a comment about the latest Fast and Furious news on his campaign website on March 20, and then he tweeted about it. But, it doesn't look like he got any traction.
Meanwhile, Congressman Paul Gosar, running against Babeu for a seat in Arizona's über-conservative Fourth Congressional District, made an appearance on NRANews.com -- and Babeu used to be a regular on that show.
In all fairness, Babeu has continued speaking publicly about the botched operation. In fact, he spoke on Wednesday about it to the measly Yuma County Republican Women's Club (how the mighty fall). He was the keynote speaker for their gathering at the dusty desert burg's Desert Hills Golf Course.
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NFL players rely on all sorts of methods for dealing with the type of cold weather the Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks are expected to face in the Super Bowl.
Even if there's no snow or rain on Sunday in New York, which is what has been forecast, the highest temperature is tipped to be 3 degrees, with the opening kick-off set for 6.30pm (10.30am Monday, Melbourne time) it could be around minus 7 degrees by the time the big game comes to an end.
So how will the Broncos and Seahawks thwart the cold?
Seahawks back-up quarterback Tarvaris Jackson recalled asking teammates for advice about handling the temperature during his NFL debut as a rookie with the Minnesota Vikings. The game was at Chicago in December 2006, and the wind chill was one.
''A lot of the guys were like, 'When it gets that cold, there's nothing you can do','' Jackson said.
Here are five things certain players swear by - and others say they'll avoid - while trying to brace themselves:
Both sidelines will have 23 metres of heated benches that can be turned up to a desired temperature - up to 32 degrees hotter than the air, the NFL said.
Denver safety Michael Huff will seek out a spot: ''Once you're in the game and running around, the adrenaline's flowing, you're fine. When you come to the sideline is when you really know it's cold outside. So I use the heated benches.''
Seattle centre Max Unger will stay away: ''I try not to get too warm on the sideline. It's kind of a happy medium. You can sit on the heated benches, but I don't like it to be too much of a shock when you get back out there on the field.''
Essentially space heaters, they are placed along each sideline when it gets cold. Players often can be seen huddling around, getting a bit of warm air.
Seattle defensive end Cliff Avril loves them: ''We'll be fine, as long as we have … those heaters out there.''
Denver tight end Jacob Tamme sees no need: ''I'm really a no-heater guy.''
There's always the option of wearing a long-sleeved shirt under the uniform jersey, but few players go that route.
Avril was one who said he might do that.
Denver safety Duke Ihenacho was among many who said they definitely wouldn't, no matter how cold it gets: ''I feel like having sleeves is like wearing a sweater. Makes me feel too heavy.''
By rubbing Vaseline or Warm Skin - a kind of cream - or both on their arms, players create what they call ''insulators'' that fill pores and brace them against wind.
Broncos safety David Bruton finds another benefit, too: ''When it's cold and your skin's dry, [you get] a scrape on the helmet, next thing you know, you're bleeding profusely.
''Just because your skin is so dry, it's easier to get cut. That lotion helps.''
His teammate, kick returner Trindon Holliday, disagrees: ''I don't use those kinds of things. [The key is] basically just keeping your mind off the cold.''
Denver's Tamme offered another, less out-of-the-ordinary, way to combat the cold.
''A lot of jumping jacks,'' Tamme said. ''That's my remedy. Kind of my go-to on the sideline.''


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I have some dissapointment in 2.0, not just with the version of wordpress, but everything surrounding the release.
The new site seems to be a triumph of style over substance. I'm finding it harder to use, and many things seem to be broken. Links all over the place seem to be broken, there sections are somewhat unclear, and the roll-out seemed as if the important thing was to get the new design up rather than to maintian the functionality through the transition.
As far as 2.0 itself, it seems that again, style won over substance. It's all very pretty, but (at least some parts are) harder to use. The inline uploading seems very, very broken to me. It's not at all intuitive, and give users less control than they used to have rather than more. Reading the release post in the blog, I was excited that with minimal effort, I could post images in a simple enough manner to use WP for my photos as well as my writing, but instead, I found confusion and I have yet to be able to link an image to a page. Instead, I get 404's.
Don't get me wrong, I love WordPress and think it's a fantastic app, but I feel like getting 2.0 out was more important than getting 2.0 right. Maybe I'm alone in this, but I feel like in order to make it as simple as possible for new users, we've sacrificed some of the quality that drew the people who devote so much time to it in the first place.
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Think you know Shakespeare? Think again… Was a real skull used in the first performance of Hamlet? Were Shakespeare's plays Elizabethan blockbusters? How much do we really know about the playwright's life? And what of his notorious relationship with his wife?
Exploring and exploding 30 popular myths about the great playwright, this illuminating new book evaluates all the evidence to show how historical material - or its absence - can be interpreted and misinterpreted, and what this reveals about our own personal investment in the stories we tell.
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Potter's scholarship and breadth of reference is informative and extensive. The book spends more time on detailed critical considerations of the works, including the poems, than on the life but brings contemporary lenses to both. Unfortunately, the narrator emphasizes all the academic qualities of the prose with an overly enunciated, staccato reading that sounds just short of robotic, except when he is reading from the works, when his phrasing, remarkably, often becomes smooth and coherent. Quotes, too, are in a range of arbitrary accents that distract. He appears to have no acquaintance with the period at all, which results in pronunciations - shire rhyming with fire, Henslowe with now, Navarre in three syllables, etc.- that can only be generously called not standard. And "roman a clef" as "Roman ah cleff" is simply hilarious. The production is poor. You will learn more about Shkspr. You will work hard to do so.
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Hi everyone, you may have seen my last topic on this but it got removed so i am bringing it back I have a freebuild server (no mobs) and pvp is turned off for now we are building our shopping district and building all kinds of cool stuff we currently have 4 admins and 2 moderators and we are looking for staff we are running a bunch of plugins including wool spawner if you like to make sprites we have a shop plugin and myhome soon we will have our own ventrilo server if you would like to chat with some of us with your voice :)
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REDDITCH Council has today served notice on a group of travellers who have set up camp in Hunt End, after they failed to vacate the land on an agreed date.
Residents living near Hunt End Lane informed the Advertiser that they had remained "tolerate and patient" initially, but when the first agreed date passed, and instead of moving on, more horses and vehicles settled onto the area's verges, their patience grew thinner.
The travellers moved to the site on about November 2, and after discussions with Redditch Council, spokesman for the travellers, Mr Delaney, agreed they vacate on November 12.
But as that date came and went, and residents became increasingly frustrated with new horses and 4x4 vehicles arriving, and the "mess" being caused, Redditch Council decided that legal action had to be taken
Sue Hanley, executive director for leisure, environment & community services, said: "We have been working closely with Mr Delaney and residents to find a solution that works for everyone in this very sensitive situation.
"Mr Delaney understands the area is council-owned land and is also a nature reserve and that he cannot remain there. It was agreed on November 5 that Mr Delaney would vacate the site on November 12 and we identified alternative sites to move to.
"Unfortunately, Mr Delaney has since reneged on this agreement, leaving us with no choice but to put the matter on a legal footing.
"On November 14 we served notice on Mr Delaney advising him that he has 48 hours to vacate the land. Unfortunately, due to a backlog at Redditch Magistrates' Court, the earliest we are currently expecting to be able to enforce this notice would be Friday, November 23.
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Chuck and Sarah are heading down the aisle in the season finale, but 'that doesn't mean everyone will survive until the 'I Do's',' series co-creator Chris Fedak teases.
There is indeed a wedding for Chuck and Sarah in the season finale of "Chuck". TV Guide has got its hand on a photo from the May 16 episode, revealing the CIA agent wearing a white wedding gown and looking hopeful.
Despite the attempted nuptials, co-creator Chris Fedak claims nothing is that certain on "Chuck". He says, "The wedding has been something we've been building up to, but this being Chuck, that doesn't mean everyone will survive until the 'I Do's'."
"Chuck Versus the Cliffhanger", which will be the season 4 finale, is set to air on Monday, May 16. Timothy Dalton will return as Alexei Volkoff.
NBC has not picked up the show for a new season. But Fedak has teased what could be seen should there is another season for "Chuck". "I would love to be able to tell the story of a Chuck baby," he stated.
*UPDATE (May 2, 2011 01:30 A.M. ET): Before the season finale, "Chuck" will return on May 9 with "Chuck Versus the Last Details". A preview to the episode reveals that Chuck's mother (guest star Linda Hamilton) may not be able to make it to his wedding as Vivian Volkoff threatens to kidnap one of his family members.


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IRVING, Texas -- Seventy-one existing ExxonMobil Tigermarket c-stores in Nashville and Memphis, Tenn. will be revamped to the flagship On-the-Run brand by the middle of 2006, the company reported.
"The conversion of Tigermarkets in Nashville and Memphis demonstrates our commitment to On-the-Run convenience store brand. This change reflects the tremendous customer acceptance of the On-the-Run offering," said Mark Shores, U.S. retail sales director for ExxonMobil Fuels Marketing.
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Greenalls Padgate St Oswalds 2 Garswood United 1
VICTORY against the table toppers sets up Greenalls for this weekend's cup showdown.
Two goals from Robbie Hanley put paid to Garswood United, the Cheshire Football League Division One Leaders.
Greenalls will be in confident mood for their Guardian Cup semi final against Eagle Sports on Saturday.
Manager Dave Bush was pleased with a first win in three attempts against Garswood this season.
He said: "The workrate of the players was fantastic, they're a very fit bunch of lads and they made that count.
"Saturday is a big game for both sides, but if we can produce a performance like we did against Garswood, we will give ourselves a good chance"
Greenalls were without key players Craig Hoyland and Lee Vaughan for the clash, giving Danny Topping a chance to play his last game for the club before emigrating to Australia.
Hanley gave Greenalls a half-time lead with a neat lob over the onrushing keeper.
Lloyd Dean stabbed home to equalise for Garswood three minutes after the restart.
Hanley got his second to seal the win on 62 minutes after a Gareth Johns shot rebounded off the post directly into his path.
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Flip-floppin' Away: The Parallel Perils of Peres 1984 and Romney 2012
A well-executed campaign of scorn and ridicule can demolish even the most promising politician's electoral hopes.
You probably haven't heard of Yosef (Sefi) Rivlin, the 65-year-old actor and comedian who almost singlehandedly changed the course of Israeli history, not once but twice. By poking devastating fun at then Labor Party leader Shimon Peres' change of heart on several central issues of the day, Rivlin undermined both Peres' public persona and Labor's chances of winning the 1981 and 1984 Israeli elections.
In televised campaign spots etched in Israel's collective memory as "Shimon Peres, Ken Velo (Yes and No)" the right-leaning Rivlin cruelly mimicked Peres answering "yes" and "no" to a series of questions ranging from the serious to the ridiculous, from the construction of new settlements to the sugar in his tea.
Despite the economic recession and widespread disillusionment with the Likud leadership in both elections, Peres lost the 1981 elections to Menachem Begin and only barely achieved parity with the lackluster Yitzhak Shamir in 1984. In both cases, most analysts agree, Rivlin's effective deflation of Peres' public image may have moved just enough votes to make all the difference in the world.
"Flip-flops are important when they reinforce a larger narrative about a candidate's negative attribute," according to Kevin Madden, a top aide to Romney during the 2008 presidential campaign, as he was then quoted in the New York Times.
Peres the politician was saddled with such a "larger narrative" by virtue of his long decades in politics, his metamorphosis from a 1970's hawk to a 1980's dove, and, lest we forget, his lethal depiction by the late Yitzhak Rabin in his 1979 autobiography as an "indefatigable conniver".
Mitt Romney is similarly burdened by the "larger narrative" that his former adviser referred to, for his travels within a short decade from the liberal politics of Massachusetts, where he declared himself "a moderate with progressive views" to the current Republican Party in which he felt it necessary to declare his "severe" conservative credentials.
In fact, Romney's wide-ranging change of policies from left to right on issues such as taxes, abortions and gun control were already being used against him successfully in the 2008 Republican campaign. In one televised debate, McCain said pointedly, "I haven't changed my positions because of different offices I may be running for," and in another he looked directly at Romney and said with faux admiration "I agree. You ARE the candidate of change," and the audience burst out laughing.
As could clearly be seen in recent days in his tax-is-penalty-is-tax contortions regarding the Supreme Court's ruling on the Affordable Care Act – Obamacare - Romney is struggling to come up with a coherent strategy that will not only keep his ideological base at bay but also deprive the Democrats of valuable fodder for their upcoming campaign.
Romney's problem, of course, is that he was governor of Massachusetts only recently, when the Internet and news networks were already busy 24/7 recording everything and anything that spoke or moved, so that for far too many policy statements that Romney makes on the 2012 campaign trail, his opponents can produce a video clip from yesteryear in which he says exactly the opposite.
Further complicating Romney's predicament is his own form of "double jeopardy": While continuing to placate his restless "ideological base" he must also shed some of the excess conservatism he put on during the Republican primaries in order to now appeal to more centrist and moderate voters.
Romney's anguish was painfully evident in his acrobatic appearance before the Latino Coalition last month, in which he tried to "walk with, but feel without" - as a legendary Israeli bra commercial once put it, to wit - to try to win over Hispanic voters without reneging on any of his previous statements which so infuriated them.
Voters, generally speaking, have low expectations of most politicians and have therefore developed a high level of tolerance for a fair amount of ideological flexibility, turnarounds and about-faces.
The clear and present danger for Romney, as it was for John Kerry in the 2004 campaign, as it was for Peres in 1981 and 1984, is that their reputation for zigzagging or flip-flopping or "kenvelo-ing", as we might say in Israel, will cross a red line, reach a critical mass and henceforth be permanently embedded in the way the public perceives them.
From there, the road to the sort of general scorn and ridicule that can destroy a campaign will be short, especially in Romney's case, if the Democrats find the right type of Rivlin-like comedian to make it all seem so completely ridiculous and absolutely hilarious.
It goes without saying that a candidate who is not taken seriously by independent "floating" voters will have a hard time getting elected, either as prime minister of Israel or as president of the United States. As Satan noted in Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger: "Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand."
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iPhone 4 Burns Man's Hand After Exploding
February 17, 2011
We all know the iPhone can get pretty hot sometimes, but an exploding one? This is something that does not happen regularly. If you look back at previous generations of iPhones it has happened occasionally. Fortunately, for most iPhone users, the device doesn't get any hotter than a laptop battery. Boy Genius Report has reported that an iPhone 4 belonging to Omar Huartas allegedly blew up while his wife was holding it. Apparently, while his wife held the device, the iPhone became extremely hot and the battery began to swell. The back cover then came apart and caught fire. Huartas' wife dropped the phone on the table where it left burn marks. In the midst of this fiasco, Huartas burned his hand. BGR details that in an effort to reach Steve Jobs, he tweeted his incident on Twitter:
In a tweet to @ceoSteveJobs, a parody account on Twitter that Mr. Huertas may have thought to be real, Huertas writes, 'my name omar huertas your iphone 4 blew up in my wife hand battery i spoke with apple i need something done loss data kids pic.Huertas was able to get a replacement iPhone and he created a video of this interesting tale. We are very glad the two of them are OK.