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Tame your Shoe Collection with these Organization Products
There is nothing worse than running late in the morning and not being able to find the right pair of shoes. But if your shoe collection was organized and stored properly, you would never have that problem again.
How to choose
The shoe organizer you select depends on how many pairs of shoes you have. Some people keep their collection to three or four pairs. For these people, a simple shoe rack in the bottom of the closet may suffice. Still others, who divide their shoes by the seasons, will need larger systems to keep their shoes properly organized.
There are other benefits than simply keeping your shoes organized. Some products actually encase your shoes and will keep them from getting dusty. This is especially important if the shoes are suede. Other organizers are open and let the air get to your shoes, even when they are not in use. This is nice, especially for your athletic shoes. And in some climates, the humidity can really give your leather shoes problems. Better to store them properly.
Some people simply hang onto the shoe boxes their shoes come in. While the box keeps them dust free, you cannot see through cardboard and you may forget what the shoe looks like or what you own. It's far better to use a set of 12 clear plastic shoe boxes. They stack nicely and let you see your choices at a glance. Each box measures 13¾ inches long by 8¼ inches wide and 4¾ inches tall.
Another dust-free solution is an under-the-bed bag. It's clear, so you can see the shoes, but zips closed to keep up to 16 pairs of shoes from getting dusty or moist. Dividers within the bag keep the shoes from landing in a heap. At just 6 inches tall, the bag fits under most beds. When you want a specific pair, simply pull on the rope handle and pull out the bag from under the bed. This system is especially good for those who separate their shoes by season. In the winter time, why take up space in your closet for sandals and open-toed shoes. Likewise, in the summer time, why keep out your snow boots? This vinyl sack measures 40 inches wide by 24 inches tall.
Boot organizers
It is one thing to store shoes away, but what can you do about your boots - other than throwing them in the corner of your closet? Now there is a shoe and boot valet that can be tucked into a closet or left to stand alone that will keep your footwear tidy and under control. The valet features six rows of shelving to store up to 18 pairs of shoes, as well as six boot poles on which to store three pairs of boots. At just 22 inches wide and 59½ inches tall, this vertical valet will easily fit in small spaces.
If boots are your biggest concern, try the freestanding boot organizer. This steel-framed storage unit features pockets that can be adjusted to hand your tall, mid-calf and short boots. You move the pockets around to fit your needs. It holds up to six tall pairs of boots. If you shorten the pockets to store shorter boots, you can use the leftover space for shoes. This attractive system is nice enough to leave out in the hall or mud room to collect boots as people come in. It measures 41½ inches high by 23 inches wide and 15 inches deep.
Speaking of mud rooms, try a system of bins in that room to collect boots, hats and gloves and other items as people come in from the cold or the rain. Each mud room bin has three angled cubbies. Stack one bin on top of the other to find the right system for your household. The bins are made of melamine particle board, so they are sturdy enough to take the wear and tear. Each bin is 15½ inches wide by 11½ inches tall and 9½ inches deep. Some assembly is required.
If you have run out of closet space, consider an over-the-door shoe rack that can hold up to 24 pairs of shoes. This white resin rack has a nonslip pad to keep it from scratching the door and nonslip coated steel bars on which you can hang your shoes. No assembly is required. It measures 53 inches tall by 21 inches wide. It sticks out about 8 inches from the door. There are also smaller racks that hold up to 18 pairs of shoes.
As you can see, there is no reason to keep a messy pile of shoes in the bottom of your closet - or kicked under your bed. Analyze your shoe collection and see which system will work best for you.
Justin Karmie - About Author:
Justin Karmie is a freelance writer who writes about home maintenance topics and products for shoe organizers.
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Personally when it comes to the books star wars utterly rapes star trek books, trek books are horribly written, but when it comes to games...both have their crappy and awesome games.
Frankly lets be honest as much as I used to love all of star trek it utterly stinks, no decent games have come out in like...a decade the the new movies suck I'm sick of the kirk era hate him even though I named my son James tiberius burk but that was for the old kirk not the new kirk, star wars hasn't done anything amazing in years either but at least it has some awesome games on all consoles including the N64 which star trek does not.
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Solar Storms
I have to stick solar flares in here because this is where I started getting interested in the "conspiracy theory". I wondered why the government wasn't telling us about the potential threat of solar flares (they peak in 2012). Why they weren't actively working on protecting our infrastructure. Well, take a look at these videos and see what you think.
I'm not advocating Jesse Ventura's point of view, but I do like his no-nonsense style, and I do think his video is accurate. The interview with Michio Kaku, a world renown astro-physists, is an eye openner. Attack of the Sun is really well done. All the rest of the videos are good and worth looking at.
What other people are saying:
|The following video is by the History Channel. It is very well done and I think gives a good explanation of what we might expect if the solar activity is on the high side. Solar storm a serious threat around 2012, [9:00]
What NASA is saying:
What NASA was saying
|I love the narrators voice, he is so calm, even when he is explaining that we might be in real trouble if the solar flare activity is severe. Nasa talks about solar storm in 2010-2011, [5:00]
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2005 NFC East Football Preview
The Eagles once again appear to be the top team in the NFC for 2005, however, I wouldn't look for them to win 13 games this season due to the fact that each of the other teams in the NFC East should improve this year. A look at the Eagles schedule for 2005 reveals the fact that Philly will face the league's third easiest schedule when considering the Eagles 2005 opponents combined for a 118-146 straight up record last season.
One would expect that with the Eagles posting a straight up record of 54-20 over the past four seasons that they would eventually have a bad draft due to having to choose from the draft leftovers, however, that has not been the case as the Eagles once again had a pretty good draft which is a testament to just how good HC Andy Reid is with regard to being able to wheel and deal in the draft as well as his ability to pick talent.
The Eagles weren't all that active in the free agent market but were able to snag a quality backup QB in Mike McMahon from Detroit who became expendable when the Lions picked up QB Jeff Garcia. It should be no surprise that the Lions picked up Garcia when considering that Garcia was Detroit HC Steve Mariucci's QB when both were in San Francisco.
Cowboy HC Bill Parcells used free agency to bring in RB Anthony Thomas to backup Julius Jones and also snagged QB Drew Bledsoe to run his offense for 2005, however, Parcells main focus during the off season was to fix what ailed his defense which allowed 406 points in 2004. Parcells appears to have been successful with a quality draft head lined by picking up DE Demarcus Ware, DE Marcus Spears and LB Kevin Burnett with his top three selections in the draft.
Overall Parcells had an excellent draft and used six of his eight draft selections on defensive players which should serve to shore up a shaky pass rush which allowed opposing QB's time to toss 31 TD's last year. The Giants threw last season away by using QB Eli Manning under center earlier than they probably should have, however, the playing experience gained in 2004 should serve Manning well this season and especially since QB Kurt Warner is now in Arizona which means that Manning will not be looking over this shoulder.
The Giants only had four draft choices which was the fewest amount in franchise history, however, they were able to pick up CB Corey Webster out of LSU in the second round, Webster should have been a top 10 or top 15 pick but fell to the Giants with the overall 43rd pick in the draft due to injuries sustained in College, the G-Men used free agency to bring in QB Tim Hasselbeck to back up Manning and signed a go-to WR in former Steeler Plaxico Burress for Manning to play catch with.
By not addressing glaring needs on offense Washington appears set to bring up the rear in the NFC East for 2005, last year Skin HC Joe Gibbs brought in former Jag QB Mark Brunell to run his offense, however in the nine games Brunell started last year he only completed 49.79% of his passes and at seasons end finished with a QB rating of 63.90.
In contrast QB Patrick Ramsey started seven games in 2004 and completed 62.13% of his tosses which was good enough to post a QB rating of 74.8, the Skins used their second draft selection on QB Jason Campbell out of Auburn which was probably a bit of a reach as Campbell will need lots of work, however, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that Patrick Ramsey will be the starting QB for 2005.
Regardless of whether the Skins decide to go with either Mark Brunell or Patrick Ramsey at QB for 2005, Washington still needs to fix their offensive line play which was atrocious to say the least and was the main reason for the Skins averaging a meager 15 points scored per contest last year.
The Skin defense appeared set to be the bright spot for this team once again in 2005, however, the arrest of safety Sean Taylor on gun charges, the free agent loss of CB Fred Smoot and the off season ankle injury/stress fracture to top draft choice CB Carlos Rogers leaves that open to debate.
In closing the Eagles posted an overall mark of 15-4 straight up and 12-7 ATS last year, I fully expect to see the public back these Eagles in most outings in 2005, however, a check of last season shows that 3 of the Eagles 4 straight up losses occurred against AFC teams and 4 of the Eagles 7 spread losses came against the AFC.
A check of the past three seasons reveals the fact that Philly has only lost a total of 14 games in this time frame, however, 7 of those 14 losses came at the hands of AFC teams, and to think that in the past three years these Eagles only played AFC teams a total of 13 times!!
This of course leads me to believe that 2005 road games at Kansas City and at Denver might very well be prime spots to go against Philly and especially if the Eagles are installed as road favorites when considering that the Eagles have gone 4-9 ATS overall against AFC teams over the past three seasons, in road games (not counting the SB) against AFC teams during this same time span Philly posted a mark of 2-4 ATS.
I would be careful in picking my spots with regard to Dallas, New York, and Washington this season until after the fourth game of the year because of the QB situation at each location, with that being said keep an eye on the Cowboys who could very well end up being the surprise team in this division as well as in the NFC this year if QB Drew Bledsoe can remain healthy and the Dallas defense shapes up like I think they will.
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Because Sociology is so diverse and accommodates a very broad variety of substantive, theoretical, and methodological orientations, it is best to use basic and somewhat broad guidelines rather than detailed criteria with respect to the development and expectations concerning the senior honors thesis. Toward that end, a student interested in doing an honors thesis in sociology is expected to meet the following guidelines.
In addition to any and all requirements of the Honors Program, a student planning to do an honors thesis in sociology is expected to satisfy the following:
A. Prior to the end of the spring semester of the junior year, the student:
1. Should discuss thesis ideas with relevant faculty members and secure the cooperation of at least one regular faculty member who will serve as the primary reader and adviser.
2. In conjunction with the faculty adviser, a clear research focus needs to be identified to the point that there are clear and explicit research questions that will subsequently structure the thesis project. Identification of a general modus operandi for the project (i.e., what sort of primary and/or secondary data collection and/or analysis to be undertaken) is also expected.
3. In conjunction with the faculty adviser, a summer reading program should be devised to inform the student about theories, methods, and prior research in the area so that the student is in a position to commence active work on the thesis project at the beginning of the senior year.
B. At the very beginning of the senior year, the student and major adviser need to establish a "contract" that minimally consists of a:
1. Thesis prospectus that includes:
a. A clear statement of the thesis topic;
b. An articulation of the central (and derivative) research question(s);
c. Provision of a brief abstract that identifies critical theoretical, methodological, and empirical antecedents); and
d. A clear indication of the research strategy, methodology, and analytical techniques to be employed.
2. A proposed and agreed upon task schedule for the two semesters (e.g., Sept-Oct - complete literature review, Sept. secure second reader, ... ).
3. A brief statement of the modus operandi of student-thesis adviser consultation that outlines the mutually agreed upon expectations regarding minimal frequency and form of communication.
This "contract" accompanied by a completed course sign-up form must be submitted to and approved by the chair of the department (or designated surrogate) prior to enrollment. The chair has the prerogative to withhold approval (hence enrollment) and remand the "contract" back to the student and faculty mentor for revision.
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IX Atelier is a leading international team of architects based in Beijing, China. Resulting of a collaboration between InkMason and Xin project, IX Atelier responds to the need of excellence in both design and project management.
The project started when IX atelier's team decided to set up an office in Beijing. Our architects established and confirmed full project requirements through interviews with the team members. The new office had to be about flexibility, functionality and sustainability.
After considering a range of locations, the management team recommended Tuanjiehu, near to Sanlitun and just minutes away from the business center of Guomao. The building management and the adequate floor area of the location responded to flexibility requirement for IX atelier's plan.
The project included succinct interventions to become a working space of light, air and transparency. Although the office would specifically house architects, the architects designed a multipurpose working space that simply and clearly honors the rudiments of work: vast work surfaces, massive natural light, fresh air, generous storage, and clearly individuated workstations that add up to a coherent, palpable group.
During the design development and construction documentation stages, our design and management team developed conceptual design that IX atelier approved into detailed plans, elevations, and perspective drawings, complemented by colour boards, material samples and details of furniture and fittings.
To ameliorate the practicality of the agency, our interior design team proposed to introduce a meeting room designed with glass separation walls, can be used as exhibition area, meeting room and product presentation. The community area integrates as well facilities to encourage interaction between employees: a kitchen and a large counter made of corian to provide catering.
IX atelier wants to cultivate an energized and inspiring workplace in relation to feng shui principles. We suggested to balance the positive energy by using dark timber woods for the north side and bright materials with lighting for the south side of the workspace.To contribute to sustainable design, we integrated recyclable materials as strand board for wall panels and second hand lamps provided by local suppliers.
The ancient Chinese Character "Mason", which forms part of InkMason company logo as their core value represents a set of craftsman tools one can carry on his back inside a basket. To experience this embodiment of one's life and experience, visitors and employees can see in display a collection of wood tools, original furniture and clocks. The space succeeds now as an open, collaborative working lab for creative design.


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DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) – A shed full of salt is a rare sight these days.
"We are headed for one of the biggest winters ODOT has ever had," says ODOT spokesperson Steve Faulkner.
The Ohio Department of Transportation is one of the few places that is not short of salt at this point.
That's because it ordered 25,000 tons more.
Faulkner says it builds an extra cushion into its contracts, but even went above that amount this year.
"We look at previous winters and we look at averages and we order salt for an above average winter," Faulkner says. "We've had that this winter."
By ordering extra, ODOT had to pay nearly $30.00 more per ton of salt than it did at the start of the winter.
The total cost was just more than $2 million.
We wanted to know what kind of impact that will have on the budget.
"I think what we'd look at is this is going to be a costly winter," Faulkner says. "We look at how we can direct the money to the safety of our maintenance of our roadways during this winter time and see where that leaves us at the end of the winter."
Faulkner believes the added salt will be enough to get the state through the winter.


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I am trying to use the Code Filter to highlight PHP code with rich text is enabled in CKEditor.
I toggle off rich text, put in the PHP code
print "Hello, world!";
and wrap it in between the < code > tags.
It works - after submit the code is nicely highlighted.
However, when I then edit the page, with rich text enabled in CKEditor, the code is not visible at all.
When I toggle off rich text, I see that the code has changed as follows:
print "Hello, world!";
- Code Filter is the first filter that runs.
- I've battled with this in 6.x-2.4, now tried also in latest 6.x-2.x-dev, but the issue has not gone away.
Comment #1TwoD CreditAttribution: TwoD commented
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This happens because CKEditor does not escape PHP code or the code tags by default. There's currently no easy way for Wysiwyg to pass the required setting to CKEditor because it needs to be in the form of a regular expression, which is a datatype not supported by JSON.
There is a way around it though, by making Wysiwyg tell CKEditor to also load a custom configuration file, in which this regular expression can be defined.
You'll need to create a small Drupal module, like so:
name = CKEditor settings override
description = Makes CKEditor load a custom config file via Wysiwyg module
dependencies[] = wysiwyg
core = 6.x
core = 6.x to
core = 7.x if you are using D7.
* Implements hook_wysiwyg_editor_settings_alter().
function cke_php_wysiwyg_editor_settings_alter(&$settings, $context) {
if ($context['profile']->editor == 'ckeditor') {
$settings['customConfig'] = base_path() . drupal_get_path('module', 'cke_php') . '/ckeditor.config.js';
CKEDITOR.editorConfig = function(config) {
config.protectedSource.push(/<\?[\s\S]*?\?>/g); // PHP Code
config.protectedSource.push(/<code>[\s\S]*?<\/code>/gi); // Code tags
More details about these settings can be found in the CKEditor config docs.
Enable the module and CKEditor should now pick up the new config file, along with the protectedSource settings.
I wrote this out of memory, so there might be typos etc.
UPDATE: Disable the Teaser Break plugin. It will turn the PHP tag into an HTML comment. Follow #510552: Invalid XHTML: missing trailing slashes, absolute urls and uppercase tags to know when this no longer happens.
Btw, it won't matter which filters are running on the server, the clientside editors have no connection to them.
Comment #3TwoD CreditAttribution: TwoD commented
Ideally, I'd like to be able to add escape-patterns like the ones above directly in the GUI, but we can't pass regular expressions via JSON, and we don't have the ability to customize the editor profile GUI for each editor yet. (It's options/widgets match those that were supported when this module only worked with TinyMCE, which is less than ideal for other editors.) I am putting as much time as I can into solving #313497: Allow configuration of advanced editor settings, which isn't much at this point but I am nearing a usable patch. That patch will allow full GUI/form customization per editor [and its plugins], as well as better handling of regular expressions and callbacks as setting values.
In essence, I'd like to hit the root cause of these custom-settings-problems with the biggest sledge I've got, instead of poking at it one setting at a time.
Comment #4mrconnerton CreditAttribution: mrconnerton commented
In the mean time, #1 works very well.
Comment #5aiphes CreditAttribution: aiphes commented
i've the same trouble...wysiwyg seem to replace
<? by
<!--? , trying differents editors tinymce, ckeditor ; same issue...if i do that disabling editor => no change...so how can i add php code with wysiwyg ?
go to try codeprotect plugin for tinymce...but how to add plugin to tinymce via wysiwyg ?
Comment #6TwoD CreditAttribution: TwoD commented
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@aiphes, note that it's not Wysiwyg itself which turns PHP tags into comments but the editors. This is because most editors are not designed to handle PHP (it's not very WYSIWYG-like by nature).
If the editors have settings you can change or plugins to activate to work around some problems with PHP tags in content, you can create a small Drupal module to do this. In the case of CKEditor, create a small Drupal module by following the instructions in #1.
For TinyMCE, we need to implement another hook as the code we need lives in a separate plugin. There is no need to modify any of TinyMCE's or Wysiwyg's files for this. Instead, create these files:
name = TinyMCE CodeProtect plugin
description = A wrapper for using the TinyMCE CodeProtect plugin via Wysiwyg module
core = 6.x
dependencies[] = wysiwyg
Note: Change
6.x to
7.x if you're using Drupal 7.
function tinymce_cp_wysiwyg_plugin($editor, $version) {
$plugins = array();
switch ($editor) {
case 'tinymce':
if ($version > 3) {
$plugins['codeprotect'] = array(
'title' => t('CodeProtect'),
'url' => 'http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2859676&group_id=103281&atid=738747',
'buttons' => array(
'codeprotect' => t('CodeProtect'),
'load' => TRUE,
'internal' => TRUE,
return $plugins;
Extract all the plugin files from http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=2859676&group_id=103281&... to sites/all/libraries/tinymce/jscripts/tiny_mce/plugins/codeprotect.
Enable the new "TinyMCE CodeProtect plugin" module in Drupal as usual. You might need to clear the Drupal caches.
Go to the Wysiwyg settings and enable the new "CodeProtect" button for the editor profile you need it in.
Note: Disable the Teaser Break plugin, it converts the contents to a DOM tree and back to a string to do its thing, in this process the browser will most likely change your PHP tags to HTML comments. Follow #510552: Invalid XHTML: missing trailing slashes, absolute urls and uppercase tags to know when that is fixed and Teaser Break will no longer do this.
Comment #7aiphes CreditAttribution: aiphes commented
if i enable this custom module + tinymce.inc modified => editor disappear
so i think i must choose between these solutions...yours seem to be better,so i will test it later and give you results
Comment #8zopa CreditAttribution: zopa commented
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hi there -- @TwoD, i tried implementing the wee module you suggested but i'm still not able to escape the "!--" from php tags in my wysiwyg (using ckeditor) with either rich text enabled or disabled... am i missing something? i'm trying to use a php function, views_embed_view(), to embed a view inline within the body of a node that will have content above and below the view input by the wysiwyg...
Comment #9TwoD CreditAttribution: TwoD commented
Did you use the three files from #1?
Do you have the Teaser Break module enabled? If so, try disabling it. The contents are passed to it after they've been fetched from CKEditor. It is known to mess up some markup, especially if used in IE. Plugins provided by other Drupal modules may also have this effect, so try disabling them all and see if php tags stays escaped when saving the node.
Comment #10zopa CreditAttribution: zopa commented
hi - thanks for your quick reply -- i'm just now getting back to this issue which i'm still having -- still using your 3 files from #1 -- i disabled Teaser Break but still can't get the php to read properly -- i have a million modules installed -- not sure i can isolate this issue by disabling them one by one... if you have any other thoughts or suggestions, i am much obliged...
Comment #11TwoD CreditAttribution: TwoD commented
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Could you provide a simple sample of what the markup you want should look like, and what it actually looks like after you've put it in the editor and clicked "Disable rich-text"?
Comment #12zopa CreditAttribution: zopa commented
hi again -- if you go look at http://www.msbstore.org/drupal/TheLINK and scroll down a little ways, you'll see the php block code doing nothing -- it's a simple view embed -- if i disable rich-text the page breaks out of its template and it still doesn't read the php -- what am i doing wrong?
Comment #13TwoD CreditAttribution: TwoD commented
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@aiphes, I've updated #6 with more accurate instructions on how to make the TinyMCE plugin work. You must move it to TinyMCE's internal plugins folder and change the module code to reflect that (set
'internal' => TRUE;). The plugin has hardcoded paths to some of TinyMCE's own files inside its popup code, making it difficult to use from another folder.
Also disable the Teaser Break plugin, since it passes the content through the browsers functions, which makes it change the PHP tags into comments.
Comment #14TwoD CreditAttribution: TwoD commented
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I'll close this as a duplicate of #525776: Add support for (keeping) PHP code in HTML editors, please follow that issue for updates and info on if Wysiwyg will support this on its own.
Comment #15zopa CreditAttribution: zopa commented
but i'm using CKEditor -- and your files from #1, not TinyMCE... and teaser break plugin is disabled... does your module only work when rich-text is disabled? because disabling rich-text ruins the template, not to mention that even when i do disable rich-text, the page still doesn't render the php code...
Comment #16aiphes CreditAttribution: aiphes commented
@TwoD : thanks for advise , i go to change the plugins of Tinymce and see if php work as desired
EDIT: finally choosing the codeprotect plugin in buttons after enabling custom module break editor display,if uncheck the button plugin, editor appear...
wrong path in codeprotect folder...now it's ok
Comment #17TwoD CreditAttribution: TwoD commented
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@zopa, I'm sorry, that was meant for @aiphes. I've corrected the post and I have updated #1 as well. The code for CKEditor was missing a call to
base_path() so the custom config file didn't get loaded correctly, and the directive to escape PHP tags did not get into the editor.
Comment #18zopa CreditAttribution: zopa commented
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@TwoD: thanks! base_path() was the missing link... here's another Q for you -- is it possible to use API functions and other PHP snippets within the wysiwyg? i want to embed a view using php but calling functions like views_get_view or views_embed_view from within the wysiwyg doesn't seem to be working...
Comment #19Cameron Tod CreditAttribution: Cameron Tod commented
I am the maintainer of Code Filter module. Thanks to TwoD's excellent instructions, I have created a module that implements the code in #1 for compatibility with CKEditor.
Give it a shot and see if it helps.
Comment #20Morn CreditAttribution: Morn commented
Module from #19 works also for CKEDITOR Version 4.0
Comment #21sassafrass CreditAttribution: sassafrass commented
I am using TinyMCE and #6 works for me. Thanks TwoD!!
Comment #22orjantorang CreditAttribution: orjantorang commented
Comment #23duckgoesoink CreditAttribution: duckgoesoink commented
I'm new to Drupal (longtime WordPress themer), and am struggling to get
<code> tags working with Ckeditor and the WYWIWYG module. I'm making a tutorial website and need to be able to display HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, etc on the front-end.
I've installed the Code Filter module, and the Code Filter WYSIWYG module, but things still get all screwed up -
<ul> or
<?php /* stuff */ ?> don't display properly. The front-end markup is all funky: the
<code> tags don't contain the code, and the other tags aren't closed properly.
If anyone could help me on this I would be very grateful :-)
Comment #24roynilanjan CreditAttribution: roynilanjan commented
Anything for Drpupal-8?
Comment #25roynilanjan CreditAttribution: roynilanjan commented
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Comment #26steinmb CreditAttribution: steinmb as a volunteer commented
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Nothing to review. Pls. create a separate issue.
Comment #27roynilanjan CreditAttribution: roynilanjan commented
Probably this is good to have reopen this one for 8.x branch! OK still no branch 8.x


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MEP challenges Welsh and UK Governments to follow EU lead
Plaid Cymru MEP and President, Jill Evans, has renewed calls for a Robin Hood Tax to alleviate the financial burden on ordinary working families. Ms Evans' comments came ahead of a vote at the European Parliament in Strasbourg this week to introduce a Financial Transaction Tax (popularly referred to as the Robin Hood tax) which could generate up to €65 billion a year.
Ms Evans commented,
"Reckless speculation and risky banking practices have landed the people of Wales with a huge deficit burden. The ordinary Welsh family did not cause the current crisis. This tax would help the recovery of our economy. It is only fair that the financial sector now helps to repay the debt."
Ms Evans continued,
"Plaid Cymru leader, Leanne Wood AM, has challenged the Welsh Government to provide an alternative to the austerity measures from London and to support a Financial Transaction Tax."
"I will be voting in favour of introducing the new tax in Strasbourg tomorrow, as it will be the first step towards a fairer tax system which will greatly benefit the people of Wales."


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So here we are on the verge of another mid-summer classic and my poor Mets find themselves 6 1/2 games out of first place with three teams to catch, and that's the good news. The bad news is that we're 6 1/2 games back in the wild card race with nine teams to catch. Geez…
It's so easy to point fingers and pick out all the things that went wrong in the first half, but why spend any more energy on that when we've documented those issues countless times in the last two months?
I'll tell you why, it's because you gotta get these things off your chest. You just can't keep bottling up all those bad feelings inside of you, it's just not healthy.
So I encourage all of you to get all that negative energy out of you, that way we can start the second half with a clean, new slate.
Here is a list of last minute gripes I need to get out of my system. I promise that I'll try not to fall back on them once the second half begins. But for now, you're just going to have to deal with it.
My Final First Half Swings And Misses
Are you guys thrilled with the new David Wright? Was I the only Met fan who would sigh every time Gary Cohen reminded us that Wright was leading the league in batting? Is it wrong of me to admit that I wish Wright was batting 20 points lower and had 20 more homers? The homerun derby reminded me of this David Wright. (pictured above) Am I the only one who wishes we had the 2006 version of Wright instead of this new and improved David Wright we have now?
All of you know by now, my feelings on how the Mets have handled player injuries over the last few years. I am seriously having concerns about the true health status of Carlos Beltran. Something smells bad about this bone bruise, and I was shocked about a couple of things I read about Beltran in the last two days. You may recall that picture of Beltran being taken after he returned to play against the Pirates after missing a few games from a cortisone shot the Mets gave him for that bone bruise, which has now overtaken El Duque's bunion as the the weirdest Mets injury in recent memory.
Today I read, that after all the time Beltran has already missed, he has now been seen wearing a knee brace for the first time since he went on the DL. Shouldn't he be getting better and not worse? On Sunday, the Daily News reported the following,
A source with ties to the Mets indicated that Beltran is extremely upset that he played for a month with a bone bruise after receiving a cortisone shot. The bone bruise ultimately doubled in size because of a lack of adequate rest, according to the center fielder.
Even if Delgado and Reyes return, it seems like a stretch to think we could win this thing without Beltran playing centerfield and batting third.
Besides a great burger and fries, comfortable seats with more leg room, and a great new look, I'm really disappointed with Citi Field. We've already documented and lamented the fact that Citi Field is not MetsMerized enough. We've also cried about the lack of long balls, the stupid Domino's logo, the name itself, etc. But for crying out loud, after all the hoopla about bringing the homerun apple back, Tatis hits a homer and the stupid red orb doesn't even work?
I couldn't even care less about the damned thing, it's just not that important, but it's just another one of those things that makes us look like a second rate baseball operation. It takes 2 1/.2 minutes for it to recharge? Really? We send three men to the moon forty years ago, but we can't get a stupid over-sized apple to rise two feet in less than 2 1/2 minutes? Nobody even considered the possibility of the Mets hitting back to back homeruns?
The Wilpons are always making us look like a ship of fools. I really wish the team was in the hands of an owner who loved the Mets and all their history, and was also smarter than a fifth grader.
That wasn't so bad right? Just a few last minute gripes so that I can go into the Braves series 110% Mets Merized.
Note: I don't know who sketched that Mr. Met cartoon, but whoever you are thanks. I am however responsible for the left side of the graphic. I just wanted to acknowledge the person who created the better half.


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The researchers have calculated that this means, for example, that if the Midwest state of Michigan, where 9 of the 14 congressmen and women are Republican, became as liberal as Vermont, where two-thirds voted for Obama, people would be expected to drink an extra two gallons of beer a year. This follows a study in Russia that concluded that Socialists were more likely to imbibe frequently than those on the right. Explanations offered for these findings range from liberals seeing alcohol as part of an openness that also includes drugs and sex (yeah, baby) to the simple concept of them having more faith in the state to care for them when the fun stops.
On a serious note; Dr Yakolev was keen to stress that these findings do not indicate that liberals drink more than conservatives in absolute terms. Nor does it transpose directly onto UK politics as, apart from famous drunks such as Winston Churchill, the statistics tell a slightly different story. According to Public Health England, it's Labour strongholds such as Tyneside, Liverpool and South Yorkshire that have the fewest people engaging in increasingly risky drinking. While Conservative heartlands such as North Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire and the Surrey commuter belt towns boast the highest concentration. Of course, this may simply be down to economics: certainly the capitalist wage-slave system holds me back. Or tries to.
Anyway, whatever your political persuasion, let's raise a glass (and two fingers) to Dryanuary.
Written at Brewdog Manchester and fueled by Gigantic IPA


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DZ BANK upgraded Merck (ETR:MRK) to Buy in a statement released earlier today.
- Updated: October 17, 2016
DZ BANK has upgraded Merck (ETR:MRK) to Buy in a report released on 10/18/2016.
Yesterday Merck (ETR:MRK) traded -0.59% lower at 97.08EUR. Merck's 50-day moving average is 62.56EUR and its 200-day moving average is 58.70EUR. The last stock price is up 5.86% relative to the two hundred day average, compared with the S&P 500 Index which has decreased -0.01% over the same time. 12,204,208 shares of the stock were exchanged, up from an average trading volume of 10,128,900
Recent Performance Chart
Merck has price-earnings ratio of 34.09 with a one year low of 47.97EUR and a one year high of 64.86EUR and has a total market value of 0 EUR.
A total of 20 brokerages have issued a ratings update on Merck. 2 brokers rating the stock a strong buy, 7 brokers rating the company a buy, thirteen analysts rating the company a hold, zero firms rating the stock a underperform, and finally 0 firms rating the stock a sell with a consensus target price of 61.60EUR.
Brief Synopsis About Merck (ETR:MRK)
Merck KGaA is a Germany-based company engaged in the pharmaceutical industry. The Company diversifies its activities into four business divisions: Merck Serono; Consumer Health; Merck Millipore, and Performance Materials. Within the Merck Serono division, the Company focuses on therapeutic areas and prescription drugs of chemical and biotechnological origin. The Consumer Health division comprises the over-the-counter products for preventive health care and self-treatment of minor ailments. The Merck Serono and Consumer Health divisions form together the Company's Pharmaceutical business sector. The Merck Millipore division comprises the activities of the Millipore Corporation. The Performance Materials division consists mainly of the Liquid Crystals and Pigments & Cosmetics business units. The Company operates through numerous subsidiaries, including Peer+ BV, AZ Electronic Materials (AZ) and Ormet Circuits Inc., a material supplier for the semiconductor industry.
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Ten Walls – Sparta / Blue Orphan
Sounds like Ten Walls is ready to take over the world yet again with this new ode to summer. As you'd expect lots of horns and incredible goose bump inducing melodies combine to make another incredible track. And whats even better… because its coming out on his BOSO Lab label first there's no ridiculous major label waiting times to get hold of the track. Ten Walls – Sparta EP will be out beginning of May.


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On the heels of him teasing he'll run for President (which went over like a lead balloon when he was booed at the CPAC Conference a couple weeks back), word has it that Donald Trump is also looking into buying a significant portion of the New York Mets.
Fantastic. I can just imagine…
"Listen, dis is gonna be a classy ballclub and a classy stadium. I'm gonna class up da joint. Dip some gloves in gold, replace da stripes on da uniforms with gold, solid gold bases all around da park. Real classy. Den declare bankruptcy, den come back, den declare bankruptcy again. It's gonna be a great, classy baseball season. YAW FIRED!"
I say go for it. What's the worst that can happen? It's the Mets. The blew a chance to get into the playoffs in back to back seasons, have an owner being sued for literally a billion dollars for being in bed with Bernie Madoff, and most importantly, they are the New York Mets.
Mets fans: "bring it on."


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text: Paul Parrish After 15 years in the world of advertising where he worked at IPC Magazines, The Independent and The Big Issue, Paul changed career and moved to the not-for-profit sector. He subsequently worked with Cancer Research UK as their Senior Corporate Partnerships Manager. Between 2005 and 2012 he was the Fundraising and Marketing Director for a Hertfordshire hospice before joining Aspire as Fundraising and Marketing Director. A committed fundraiser, he is a firm believer in developing relationships between the charity and its supporters and not just asking for support without proper consideration. You will always receive a hearty thank you from Aspire As well as managing fundraising and marketing for Aspire, Paul also believes he should lead by example and is personally committed to raising money for charity. Since 2007 he has raised over £64,000 through a series of ever longer endurance triathlons. In September 2014 he became the oldest person to complete the Arch to Arc, the world's hardest triathlon, becoming the sixth fastest person to do so and raising over £24,000 for Aspire. A father of three children, Paul fits his busy training schedule around work, going to gigs and eating out whenever anyone else is prepared to pay.Email Paul.


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Time's Child
by Rebecca Ore
Cover Artist: John Picacio
Review by Sam Lubell
Eos Paperback ISBN/ITEM#: 0380792524
Date: 01 February, 2007 List Price $14.95 Amazon US / Amazon UK / Show Official Info /
Benedetta had an interesting life, and then an even more interesting afterlife. An assistant with her husband's gunnery crew in Lombardy in the late 1400s who knew Leonardo da Vinci, she wakes up from being wounded and finds herself in Purgatory. But why, she wonders, does the angel there have a scab on a finger? Ivar drowned off the coast of Iceland to find himself in Valhalla. But why would someone who drowned be given the reward for those fallen in battle and why, he wonders, does the All-Knowing Odin, not know his name. Jonah, a computer hacker from our time, thinks he's a Matrix-style computer simulation. In reality, all three have been brought forward in time to a future earth that is recovering from a massive plague. With Jonah's help, Benedetta escapes the Archives and finds lawyers willing to argue that the Archives have no right to imprison the people they rescue.
That's when things begin to become complicated. This future did not invent the time machine themselves but were given it from a future further up the timeline. And there are multiple futures competing to become real by changing the past. At the urging of some of these futures, the three from the past decide to group together and steal the time machine so they could choose who from the past would be saved. But then they get conflicting requests, one telling them not to bring in any of the Knights Templar and one telling them to rescue whom you can of the Knights Templar. Ultimately, they have to decide who they can trust and what future they want to create.
Time's Child succeeds on many levels. The glimpses into Benedetta's past and her dealings with Leonardo da Vinci are fascinating. (Ore should consider writing a historical.) There are parallels to the future as Philadelphia, New York and other American cities have become independent city-states like those Benedetta knew in Italy. And Benedetta, Ivan, and Jonah are three very different -- but real -- characters. I did think they adjusted to being in the future a little too easily; this is explained for Benedetta as being the influence of Leonardo but Ivan also seems to adjust very quickly.
Readers should ignore the description on the back of the book that makes it sound like a de Camp time travel adventure novel. There's certainly some action here and scheming and betraying. But the focus of the novel is more on how having the power to choose who gets saved affects the characters and on the effects on society of bringing people from the past. This makes Time's Child especially well suited for readers who enjoy some philosophy or social theorizing with their fiction.
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Would you want your doughnuts delivered by a scary clown?
Scary clowns are all the rage following the success of the film "It". Hurts Donuts capitalized on the increased popularity by offering a creepy clown to deliver donuts and scare the jeepers out of your friends and co-workers. The delivery fee for Hurts Donuts is normally $5, but for an extra $5 people were greeted with the special delivery.
However, the company has denied any relationship between their delivery service and the film adaptation of Stephen King's "It". Hurts Donut co-owner Kas Clegg explained to Guide Live, "We always try to keep up with the trends, and clowns are trending right now. It's fall, and it's getting close to Halloween, so we just wanted to spice it up a little bit and do a super fun delivery."
And super fun they are -- at least for the people watching the freaked out foodies on social media. Both the Springfield, Missouri and Frisco, Texas locations are getting thousands of views on their Facebook videos.
The promotion was limited to September 25th and 26th, so if a scary clown approaches you with donuts-- RUN! No matter how good the donuts look.
Watch the video to scare the sprinkles out of you.


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There are four feature articles in this issue of the DAISY Planet. I was inspired to write the first article DAISY Working Groups: Delivering the 'Goods' by the incredible response to recent 'Calls for Participation' in new or 'reborn' groups. The collaborative efforts of DAISY Members and Friends began in the 1990's. Our Working Groups have not only "delivered the goods" they have forged solid relationships within our membership and resulted in long lasting friendships between some of the Working Group members. Your contributions have made and continue to make a positive difference in the lives of millions of people – keep up the good work!
Techshare India 2014 & the New Delhi World Book Fair relays the highlights of both of these recent events. Again, thanks go to Prashant Verma for providing the notes and image files.
I have included the article New European Standard on Accessibility Requirements for ICT Products & Services because even though it does not focus specifically on accessible reading materials, tools or publishing, these documents set out accessibility requirements that can be applied to a wide range of products and services related to ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) products and services. I believe it will be of particular interest to those of you who live in Europe but also think that others may find it useful.
The final article IBM Standardizes on EPUB is brief but illustrates the extent to which the mainstream world is waking up to the importance of making publications (and information generally) accessible.
Moving on to Jim Fruchterman's blog Accessibility Excitement in Geneva posted February 19. This is an "in-depth report" on the two day meeting he had attended in Geneva the previous week – the ninth meeting of the Stakeholders' Platform. (Information about the Stakeholders is available on the WIPO VISION IP web page.) His report contains details about the outcome and insights into how the results came to pass. For those who have not been following some of the developments around the Marrakesh Treaty, TIGAR (Trusted Intermediary Global Accessible Resources) and international copyright issues, Jim begins his report with a section headed "The context" which provides some background and sets the stage. One reason for the meeting was that the Stakeholders' Platform and TIGAR project timelines were close to an end and a "successor project" was needed. The "Accessible Book Consortium" (ABC) was proposed. I will not even attempt to summarize this report but do want to let you know this: "The stakeholders were able to come to an agreement on establishing the Accessible Book Consortium: its structure and activities." Please take a few minutes to read Jim's "Beneblog" and find out what "ABC" is all about.
In the Virginia Tech TEDx video Creating Interfaces, Creating Experiences Chelsea Cook talks about 'touching the stars' – she is a university physics major. "…It's easy when you have the right tool…Any concept, any idea, any action can be achieved if the correct interfaces for the job are developed, if you think about the right tools. Keep the word "impossible" out of your vocabulary…" Chelsea was a student in the NFB STEM programs and is now a mentor and instructor in those programs. She is an inspiring young scientist and the video is absolutely worth catching.
In another TED video Rupal Patel: Synthetic voices, as unique as fingerprints, Dr. Patel shares her work to engineer unique voices for people who are voiceless. This video is informative, interesting and moving. Although this does not deal with accessible information as our community often thinks of it, it definitely deals with communication and making voice communication possible and unique.
Several times a year I include a Letter to Editor in the DAISY Planet. The letter this month is from Bart Simons and I was pleased to learn that the changes we made in the ordering of the newsletter columns and the index improved the reading experience for him. It was also wonderful that we could quickly implement the suggestion he made in that note to me. If there is something that we can do to improve your reading experience with the DAISY Planet, please let me know – your suggestions are most welcome.
The story this month is about an architect, an architect who also happens to be blind. Chris Downey's story is presented in a "Question & Answer" format and will be published in two parts. Chris has an incredibly positive outlook on life and has been able to survive the economic downturn in the US while at the same time dealing with losing his vision. I have truly enjoyed talking with Chris over the past several months and I am sure you will enjoy reading his story. Part 2 will be published with the March issue of the DAISY Planet. Thank you Chris for taking time away from your demanding schedule to share your story with us.
Thanks to everyone who has written to me with ideas, articles and suggestions for this issue of the DAISY Planet. Your input helps me keep our community up to date on what is going on in the world of information, access and publishing. DAISY stories provide insight into the lives of people we might not otherwise have ever come to know. You can reach me by email (you will have my address if you receive the DAISY Planet email notice) or you can use the DAISY Contact Us Form (DAISY Planet Newsletter Category).
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The following links are to new or recently updated DAISY Products and Services from our Members and Friends. Marketplace entries also appear on our home page.
• From the PRWeb press release Helicon Books Paves the Way for High End Digital Books Technology in Hebrew and Arabic: "Helicon Books' main focus is introducing today's advanced technology to publishers and developing the Hebrew and Arabic languages in digital books." Helicon Books was established in 2012 and joined the IDPF to be involved in the developments in the standard and contribute to the promotion of technologies for non-Roman languages such as Arabic and Hebrew. Today Helicon Books EPUB3 Reader has many users worldwide, particularly in Israel. EPUB 3 fully supports right to left reading.
• The article MathML Forges On: The standard for mathematical content in publishing work flows, technical writing, and math software by Peter Krautzberger provides an informative overview of the state of MathML and highlights its importance for accessible math content: "One of the great advantages of MathML is accessibility. Accessibility today is not just about low vision and blindness but everything from physical to learning disabilities. Most of all, it improves content for all users. With MathML, mathematical content becomes native—searchable, re-usable, copy&paste-able, and can take part in dynamic content. Simply put: it does anything we've come to expect from text on the web."
DAISY Working Groups bring together experts from the Consortium's membership and other invited experts to find solutions, document requirements, and develop standards and tools to support the work of the DAISY community in its efforts to provide accessible reading materials to people who have a reading disability. These groups which forge paths for moving forward include representatives from around the world, leaders in their fields of expertise.
A few examples of previously established DAISY Working Groups are:
Since the beginning of 2014 there have been three Calls for Participation for DAISY Consortium Working Groups: Transition to Inclusive EPUB 3 Ecosystem (TIES), DAISY Online Delivery (revision), and Reading System Methodology (which has since been merged into the TIES project).
Version 1 of the DAISY Online Delivery Protocol reached Recommendation Status in May 2010. Portions of the Specification have been implemented by some DAISY Member organizations and a number of DAISY Friends have added support for the protocol to their reading systems and/or developed new players which support it. DAISY Member organizations and Friends have expressed an interest in an update to this Specification with consistency in implementation at the top of the wish list, closely followed by new enhancements.
Immediate tasks for the Working Group will be to establish working group leadership and to determine the scope of work to be done.
HumanWare will host an informal DAISY Online Delivery update roundtable meeting at CSUN on Thursday, March 20th from 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. in the HumanWare Private Suite. DAISY Members and Friends who are interested can RSVP using the online registration form by the end of business day Wednesday, March 5.
"DAISY Consortium's experts have led the ground breaking advancement of embedding accessibility features in the main stream EPUB 3 specifications. This advancement has opened tremendous opportunities for inclusive publishing, and has the potential to lead us to an era in which all the published materials are born accessible." [Transition to Inclusive EPUB 3 Ecosystem Project Charter]
The outline of the plan for 2014-15, milestones, priorities, resources and dependencies & risks are clearly laid out in the charter. There will be three separate groups within the TIES project: production processes, publisher relations, and reading systems.
DAISY Member organizations and Friends which have had team members participating in DAISY Working Groups are in many cases well ahead of many others in terms of production and/or delivery. The people who have been Working Group members have had opportunities to exchange ideas, learn new concepts, influence the direction and outcome of DAISY projects, and further develop their own skills. The work of the DAISY Consortium has benefitted greatly from this involvement.
Working Group Procedures are outlined in section 3 of the document Intellectual Property Policy, Licensing, and Working Group Process which was approved by the Consortium's Board of Directors in February 2008.
Thank you for your ongoing participation in DAISY Consortium Working Groups, for bringing your expertise to the table and contributing to the evolution of accessible publishing.
Techshare India, which is held every two years, is India's premier accessibility and assistive technology conference and exhibition. This year the conference was organized by BarrierBreak Technologies (a subsidiary of
Net Systems Informatics) in partnership with National
Centre for Promotion of Employment for Disabled People (NCPEDP) and the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB). The event was held in New Delhi, February 13 – 14.
Presentations were held under four "verticals": Education, Employability, Accessible Technology, and, Laws, Policies & Standards, all under the theme: Innovate — Adapt — Evolve. An exhibition highlighting accessibility and assistive technology catering to all disabilities was held at the same venue. An Inclusive Science Lab and an Inclusive Library put up by BarrierBreak Technologies were key attractions.
Mr. Avneesh Singh, Ms. Rachana Singh, Mr. Rohit Tandon and Mr. Prashant Verma who are Members of DAISY Consortium Technical Development and Support Team worked the booth which was shared by the DAISY Consortium and DAISY Forum of India. Bookshare and Saksham also shared a booth. Ms. Kristina Pappas, International Program Manager with Bookshare, informed the visitors about Bookshare's initiatives in India with the Bookshare Outreach & Training Consultants for North and South India.
Neil Heslop and Robin Spink of RNIB, one of the DAISY Consortium founding Members, were among the key speakers. The DAISY Consortium made two key presentations on the second day of the conference. Mr. Avneesh Singh, spoke on the topic "Universal Design: Embedding accessibility in mainstream publishing".
In the second presentation Avneesh Singh, Prashant Verma and Rachana Singh demonstrated production and playback tools for DAISY and EPUB 3. The participants were very interested in the presentations and asked many questions which were answered by the DAISY staff team. The booth at the exhibition was useful in raising awareness regarding the most accessible way to read and publish. The information provided was directed at both the users and organizations which provide services and support for people who have a disability.
DAISY Consortium Friends Shinano Kenshi Co., Ltd. and HIMS were present to demonstrate their latest products. Shinano Kenshi introduced the PLEXTALK Vachak, a portable DAISY player with Hindi TTS specially developed for the Indian market. In addition to DAISY 2.02 and DAISY 3 support this reader and recording device also supports MP3, WAV (PCM), several text formats and Text to Speech for both Hindi and English. It has been chosen by the National Institute for the Visually Handicapped (NIVH), a nodal agency of the Government of India, to be distributed free of cost to persons who are blind and who are in low income group families. The first 1000 units will be supplied to NIVH in the near future. PLEXTALK Vachak will be officially launched early in the coming quarter through their branch company, Shinano Kenshi India ABV.
New Delhi World Book Fair (NDWBF) is India's oldest book fair. First held in 1972, it is a biennial event that takes place in early February and is organized by the National Book Trust of India (NBT). The Fair is held at Pragati Maidan, a venue for large exhibitions and conventions; it is New Delhi's largest exhibition centre. NDWBF is now a major calendar event in the publishing world in Asia, attracting international participation. With more than 1,300 Indian and 25 international exhibitors, and 1 million visitors, the venue provides unparalleled opportunities for business promotion for the publication industry. The Guest Country at the event this year was Poland which was well represented by the Polish delegation.
At present a great many Indian publishers are largely still 'in the print medium'; however they are faced with the explosion of electronic devices in the hands of readers and are evaluating whether or how to move into the realm of digital publishing.
The DAISY Consortium partnered with XRCVC, Saksham and DAISY Forum of India to use this event to reach out to publishers and introduce them to the benefits of adopting inclusive publishing. A large exhibition space was secured for the Antarchakshu™ experience zone along with an exhibition of the latest reading and writing technologies for people who have a print disability.
Antarchakshu, 'the Eye Within', is a simulated environment intended to provide people who do not have a print disability with an insight into the worlds of those who have a visual or other print disabilities. The Antarchakshu experience was followed by a guided tour and demonstration of assistive technologies for people who have a print disability. DAISY books were included in the demonstration. Many participants were astonished by the experience which was followed by a debriefing intended to break down misconceptions about limitations and barriers as well as the capabilities of persons with disabilities.
The DAISY Consortium team members used this opportunity to interact with the leading publishers. Key people from publishing companies were invited to go through the Antarchakshu simulation experience. The DAISY team then discussed eBook publishing and any plans they have. The benefits of the EPUB 3 standard and Unicode fonts were presented.
During this week-long event the DAISY team – Dipendra Manocha, Avneesh Singh, Prashant Verma, Rachana Singh and Rohit Tandon – took turns interacting with the publishers and demonstrating EPUB 3 features and accessibility on different devices.
The team had discussions with more than 80 publishers and some government officials, helping to increase awareness for the need for built-in accessibility. Although most of the publishers are still producing print, these interactions introduced and reinforced accessible e-publishing as an opportunity for business expansion. Some publishers already publishing digital content expressed interest in making their eBooks accessible; some also requested additional information that would help them to make their publications accessible.
Thanks go to Prashant Verma for providing the notes and image files for this article.
ETSI, the European Telecommunications Standards Institute, has very recently announced a new European Standard on accessibility requirements for Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) products and services.
"It is intended in particular for use by public authorities and other public sector bodies during procurement, to ensure that websites, software, digital devices are more accessible – so they may be used by persons with a wide range of abilities." [ETSI Announcement, February 19]
'Accessibility requirements suitable for public procurement of ICT products and services in Europe' (EN 301 549) was produced by CEN and CENELEC and ETSI. Developed by an international team of experts, with the participation of the ICT industry and organizations representing consumers, people with disabilities and older persons, it is the first European Standard for accessible ICT.
A series of three Technical Reports (TR 101 550, TR 101 551 and TR 101 552) compliment the standard:
"Together, these documents set out accessibility requirements that can be applied to a wide range of products and services related to ICT, including computers, smartphones and other digital devices, ticketing machines, websites and emails. The aim is to ensure that ICT products and services are accessible either directly or through compatibility with assistive technologies such as text-to-speech, so that everyone can access information and use services that are being delivered electronically."
This new European Standard is complemented by these three Technical Reports (TR 101 550, TR 101 551 and TR 101 552). However the Standard is supported by Technical Reports 550 and 551. At the present time links to the Standard and these two Reports are included in the list of available documents on the ETSI website/Human Factors. Technical Report 552 will be published and included in the set of links in the near future.
Numerous additional documents are also listed on this page. The documents are in PDF format and are accessible. The Standard is currently available in English and over the coming six months it will also be published in various languages in 33 European countries.
The accessibility requirements identified in these documents are consistent with other global accessibility requirements.
This standard is comprehensive. For example, section 4, clause 4.2, "Functional performance statements", describes performance requirements for use by individuals who may have a wide range of possible usage requirements or abilities. Various levels of vision, hearing, physical and cognitive requirements are identified with brief notes as to how the various clauses can be met. (Learning abilities are covered under 4.2.10 "Usage with limited cognition".)
Although the accessibility requirements in the standard are defined in a form suitable for use in public procurement, they are not limited to that purpose. They may be used in other contexts, for example, as guidance for procurement in the private sector.
This standard addresses the accessibility requirements for ICT products and services in a clear and comprehensive manner, and it could potentially be used as a starting point in countries where a standard addressing these requirements does not yet exist.
CEN, CENELEC and ETSI are officially recognized by the European Union as European Standardization Organizations.
In the February 13 press release the IDPF (International Digital Publishing Forum) and IBM announced a collaboration to develop a white paper highlighting lessons learned from IBM's recent decision to support EPUB as the company's primary packaged portable document format.
"Increased client demand for mobile solutions, accessibility through the cloud, and the transformational opportunities…are the key drivers for IBM's move to the next-generation portable document format. By standardizing on EPUB, IBM is also extending its leadership in accessibility and delivering a richer user experience and engagement."
IBM has also recently joined the Readium Foundation which was formed a year ago to develop technology which will accelerate the adoption of EPUB 3 and the Open Web Platform by the global digital publishing industry. Readium.org is a non-profit membership organization.
Accessibility and other EPUB features will redefine what we know as textbooks by expanding its utility to all students, including those with speech, hearing or vision challenges, to ensure they have the same opportunities to gain skills and training to compete in the 21st-century workforce…By having digital content available on mobile devices of their choice, we can create more engagement from students, while also helping teachers teach in the digital world that students live and play. [Michael D. King, Vice President, Global Education Industry for IBM, February 13 press release]
Accessibility of electronic books is essential for ensuring access to information, education, employment, and entertainment for people with disabilities…W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) works to ensure that accessibility support is built into all W3C standards, allowing flexible support for a broad range of disabilities. W3C welcomes IDPF and IBM's commitment to expanded implementation of these W3C technologies through EPUB 3, and their efforts to promote equal access to digital books. [George Kerscher, Secretary General for the DAISY Consortium, and President of the IDPF/ IBM EPUB Adoption Quote Sheet]
Additional information is provided in the Press Release; further quotes in support of this move by IBM are given in the Quote Sheet.
Hello Lynn,
The new order of articles in the newsletter makes much more sense to me. Thanks for that.
Could you please ask your webmaster to include lang="en" in the HTML element of the newsletter web page. There is already xml:lang="en" but not all screen readers including JAWS support this. That's why you need to add the lang="en" as well. This is OK for the www.daisy.org website but not for the newsletter pages.
What this does is force the screen reader into English. For English speakers this is not relevant because their default language is English but my screen reader is by default not set to English. If this attribute is added, I will no longer need to manually switch to English before reading the newsletter.
Bart Simons,
Brussels, Belgium
Editor's Note: lang="en" has been added to the Planet newsletter template. As all issues are generated through the same template, it should apply to issues already published as well as all future issues. Bart has since said that it now works perfectly for him and also said "Thanks for addressing this so quickly and accurately."
Given all the discussion on e-book accessibility, I want to bring an interesting issue into the discussion. Many textbooks today are not always written to be narrated, but are written to be read silently. When they are read aloud, it can sometimes sound strange.
Given this, I think that authors, along with textbook publishers, should think about how to write a textbook that can be read well both silently and out loud.
I also want to address another issue that is common in education. If a blind/visually impaired student needs to access supplemental material, they may need to buy the book. I believe that if an e-book is created with accessibility in mind, the student could use it, get the access code for the web site or whatever, and find ways, through the site, to download all supplemental materials, so they can save paper and gain many other benefits.
I know that with many texts from Learning Ally, the textbooks are recorded, but you need an access code to get to the web site for the book and other online materials. As a result, you need to buy the textbook through your college or university bookstore. Yet you're probably not going to use it after the term you need it for, so you need to take it back to the bookstore when you're done with it. The paper textbooks are a bit of a strain on the environment, and since the world is moving to digital, it's time to find a good, accessible, electronic solution. If none exists, one may be thought up, but I haven't seen it.
All that being said, I think these are issues to be discussed in education: how to write textbooks optimized for narration, and how to facilitate access by blind/visually impaired students to supplementary materials while saving the environment.
I'm hoping these issues are being discussed. If they're not, I think they could be, and the time is right to start the discussion.
Tina H.,
Hello Tina,
Thank you so much for your thoughts on accessible textbooks and digital publishing.
There are publishers, in the US and other places in the world considering the issue of accessibility. I believe strongly that in the future a significant percentage of published content will be accessible directly from publishers. There are phrases that the DAISY Consortium and some of our Members use: "Born digital" and "Inclusive publishing" for example. Please have a look at the DAISY Consortium's Slideshare page. I agree whole heartedly that publishing digitally will save paper and thus benefit the environment.
About the narration point, how someone reacts to the 'voice' and delivery can be simply a matter of opinion. The main issue is, 'is the content accessible', can the student readily get the information. With content produced with synthetic speech some of the issues that may exist with human narrated content can be reduced or eliminated. However other issues such as interpretation of graphics or appropriate inflection can be introduced.
The issue for publishers is that their publications be accessible, not that they be optimized for narration. Different authors have different writing styles; it would be impossible to get authors to change the way they write, and optimization for narration would have more to do with the writing than the publishing. As synthetic speech improves (and it has improved greatly over the past 10 years) the need for human narrated accessible publications will decrease. And, as more and more publishers produce content that is accessible right 'out of the box', the role of organizations which now provide accessible content will change.
You have raised several other issues Tina, including the fact that an access code is required to download materials from the Learning Ally website. I am quite sure that this is true for most providers of accessible content. This is necessary – they must ensure that the material they provide is used only by qualified individuals. Password access is one way of doing this.
The problem with supplemental materials is a different issue. Students need to advocate for themselves with the college or university.
Regarding your point "…it's time to find a good, accessible, electronic solution. If none exists, one may be thought up, but I haven't seen it." There are "good, accessible, electronic" solutions. DAISY formatted content and accessible EPUB 3 are both good solutions. The DAISY Standard has been used around the world for more than a decade. EPUB 3 is more recent but is being picked up by publishers worldwide. Common Word and PDF documents, if produced properly, are accessible. There are solutions, people just have to implement them.
The more people who advocate for accessible content, the more people who advocate with their government to ratify the WIPO Marrakesh Treaty, the closer we will be to equality in education, employment and lifelong learning.
• The February 12 press release, CRPD 2013 Progress Report…, demonstrates the need to incorporate accessible technology and multi-stakeholder partnerships. "The Global Initiative for Inclusive Information and Communication Technologies (G3ict) and Disabled People's International (DPI) announced the release of a new report on benchmarking progress in making Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) accessible in compliance with the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)." Key findings were presented in New Delhi at Techshare India 2014.
• The Call for Presentations on Applications, New Services and Case Studies for the 2014 M-Enabling Global Summit is open until March 21. The Summit will take place June 9-10 in Washington, DC.
• YouDescribe is a new tool that allows volunteer sighted describers to take a YouTube video and create an audio description soundtrack – it is free. Information about YouDescribe and a link to download the tool is available on the Media Access Australia website.
• George Kerscher, Secretary General of the DAISY Consortium and President of the IDPF (International Digital Publishing Forum) will be a keynote speaker Montana Tech XLI 2014 which will take place March 27-28 in Butte Montana, USA.
• The WIPO website has been redesigned. A search for "Marrakesh treaty" on the site will bring up 435 results. (WIPO is the World Intellectual Property Organization.)
• Benetech's Blog The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use by Jim Fruchterman, January 17, looks at "how critical a balanced copyright law is for technology innovation".
• The YouTube video How can you use an iPhone if you Can't See? does an excellent job of explaining & demonstrating how someone unable to view the iPhone screen uses it. Appcessible.net, a company that evaluates apps for accessibility has developed the video.
• A list of Dolphin online learning events includes sessions on Guide, SuperNova, SaySo and more. All are available at no cost. Dates, times and links for registration are listed.
• The February 6 demo, "Victor Reader Stream 2nd update V4.3 – online radio demo" is in the series of audio demonstrations and information at iSee – How to use Apple Products from an Accessibility Perspective. Additional information about using the Stream, including getting the updated version is also provided.
• HumanWare Victor Stream audio testimonials explain how and why the Stream works for them, plus user reviews and comments on the newest release of the Stream version 4.3 appear in a recent HumanWare newsletter.
• On September 9 the NFB Jernigan Institute will once again co-host another Web Accessibility Training Day with the Maryland Technology Assistance Program. General sessions will take place in the morning, and a technical track and a policy track will be held in the afternoon. The event will be held at the NFB Jernigan Institute at 200 E. Wells Street, Jernigan Place, Baltimore, MD. Details are provided on the NFB (National Federation of the Blind) website page about the training day.
• Two new Obi articles have been added to DAISYpedia:
Obi: Features for efficient audio book editing, and
Obi: Merge Projects feature improves large audio book recording.
• The slides for MathML Cloud presented this month at EDUPUB 2 by Gerardo Capiel (VP of Engineering at Benetech) contain useful information including MathML authoring tools and a video demonstration of MathML rendered with synthetic speech. The slides are available on Slideshare; there is also a link on the page to download the PowerPoint slides. Learn more about MathML Cloud and making math accessible on the Benetech website.
• EPUBTest.org includes a test suite of 20 EPUB 3 books that can be used to test the performance of eBook apps and reading systems. It is also home to the EPUB 3 Support Grid, a reference tool that evaluates which enhancements and features of EPUB 3 render correctly on commonly used devices, apps, and reading systems. EPUBTest is a joint project of the BISG (Book Industry Study Group), the DAISY Consortium and the IDPF. The test suite samples can be downloaded at no cost.
• @longdesc Specification Moves to Full W3C Recommendation: HTML5 Image Description Extension on the W3C website. The new property for providing descriptions for images and other elements, aria-describedat, continues on its development track in ARIA 1.1, currently a first public working draft.
• NVDA 2014.1rc2 was released February 25. It is a release candidate – unless critical issues are found, it will be identical to the final 2014.1 release.
• From How-To Geek this month:
° What's the Best Antivirus and How Do I Choose One?
° 4 Hidden Window Management Tricks on the Windows Desktop
° The article Do You Know What Sites & Apps Have Access to Your Google Account? explains how to get to the account permissions page with the list of permissions assigned to apps and sites, and how to change the settings.
° How to Find the Fastest ISP in Your Area


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Glenn Logan writes for A Sea of Blue about the importance of Saturday's Kentucky-Louisville matchup, especially with regards to how it might effect seedings for the two schools once the NCAA Tournament rolls around.
In his piece, Glenn makes the argument that both UK and U of L have failed to this point to earn a high-quality non-conference win, and both schools play in "relatively weak" conferences, which lessen the chances of getting impressive wins.
But is that true?
Unfortunately for both teams, they play (at least this year) in relatively weak basketball conferences with what now looks like few opportunities to play top ranked foes in their conference schedule. For Louisville, right now it looks like only the Memphis Tigers, whom they will play twice, will be there. It is also possible that the Connecticut Huskies may be in the top 25 as well, and Cincinnati could also possibly wind up there for a short time, even though that doesn't look all that likely.
Kentucky is faced with a similarly difficult situation, since only the Florida Gators and Missouri Tigers appear in a position to be ranked, although LSU has received a random vote or two and could wind up making the grade at some point in the season.
The bottom line is that both teams need this win pretty badly. While there doesn't seem to be a dominant team in college basketball this season, #1 seeds with only one or two top 25 wins seem somewhat unlikely to me. This game has become very important for NCAA seeding purposes.
But if you look at the Sagarin ratings, Louisville and Kentucky each have chances at conference wins that could help their respective cases come Selection Sunday.
Right now, Sagarin ranks the American Athletic Conference as the sixth-best league in college basketball, followed by the SEC at No. 7.
Both conferences have five schools with teams currently ranked in the Top 50 by Sagarin's computer. That means that there are at least four chances for each school to earn a decent conference victory. In fact, Louisville has more chances to achieve that considering the ACC is playing a home-and-home conference schedule where the SEC is not.
Here is a look at how many top 50 Sagarin teams are in each conference:
- 14. Duke
- 15. Syracuse
- 21. Florida State
- 22. Pittsburgh
- 31. North Carolina
- 33. Virginia
- 44. Clemson
Big 10 (7)
- 5. Ohio State
- 6. Wisconsin
- 7. Iowa
- 8. Michigan State
- 23. Michigan
- 40. Minnesota
- 42. Illinois
Pac-12 (6)
- 1. Arizona
- 12. Oregon
- 25. Colorado
- 34. Arizona State
- 48. Stanford
Big 12 (6)
- 2. Oklahoma State
- 4. Iowa State
- 9. Kansas
- 37. Baylor
- 45. Oklahoma
- 50. Texas
- 16. Kentucky
- 17. Florida
- 26. Arkansas
- 41. Missouri
American Athletic (5)
- 10. Louisville
- 20. Memphis
- 28. Cincinnati
- 30. Connecticut
Big East (4)
- 3. Villanova
- 19. Creighton
- 38. Georgetown
- 49. Marquette
Atlantic 10 (3)
- 13. UMass
- 36. Saint Louis
Mountain West (3)
- 18. San Diego State
- 46. Boise State
- 47. New Mexico
West Coast (2)
- 24. Gonzaga
Ivy (1)
- 32. Harvard
- 11. Wichita State
Photo of Louisville's Russ Smith vs. FIU by Lynne Sladky/AP
Related links
- Video: Seth Greenberg breaks down UK-U of L
- UK basketball individual game-by-game stats in Excel
- Follow John Clay on Twitter