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by Dheeraj Khanna
This post is a continuation of (and final part) Customized multifield richtext editor 2 part series. In this post I will be covering the below mentioned customizations under Part 2 below.
- I am using CRXDE Lite and CQ 5.6.1 for this article
- Save your work as often as you make ANY change.
- Please refer to "Configure the rich text editor" for more information on list of plugins and features available in CQ.
- Part 2 of this article is build upon common rte configuration that I created in Customized multifield richtext editor – Part 1.
List of Customizations:
I divided this article into 2 part series. Below is the list of items that will be covered in each part.
PART -1 (these topics were covered in Customized multifield richtext editor – Part 1)
- Create a multi richText field,
- Common rte configuration – build once use often
- Customize default plugins
- remove default plugins
- restrict features in default plugins
- Activate a (non-default) Plugin,
- adding your own special character,
- Adding default (OOB) special characters back.
PART -2 (these are the things covered in this article)
5. Use css styles in your rte (Using externalStyleSheet with rte),
6. Add formatting,
7. Make "plaintext" as default Paste Mode an strip extra HTML on paste.
8. Remove default p tag in rte (limited scope)
5. Use css styles in your rte
Any style can be applied to a specific string that has been selected by the user in a rich text editor. Styles are based on CSS classes. When you select a string and apply a style to that it encloses the selected portion of text within span tags using the class attribute to reference the CSS class. Also, i am using a
strikethrough as an example for this as there is no plugin that gives you this feature. For example:
Strikethrough Text Goes Here
a.) Enable styles plugin (dropdown) for rich text editor
First thing that we need to do is enable the styles drop down for your rich text editor by activating the styles plugin. Lets do it:
1. Traverse to your rteconfig/rtePlugins node (/apps/blog/components/content/rteconfig/rtePlugins) and create a child node of type 'nt:unstructured' and name it 'styles'.
2. Create a property called 'features' of type String under 'styles'.
3. To enable features for the 'styles' enter the value as "*" for the 'features' property. Save.
4. Now go back to your content page and refresh it. You should see a styles drop down from the 'styles' plugin. However, as there are no default styles it will be deactivated (empty/[None]).
b.) Create css file and add styles to it
We also need a css file with required styes. These styles will be applied to the selected text when the author selects a string (text) in rich text editor and then selects a style from dropdown. Now we will create a css file and add required styles to it. I like to manage my css in client lib local to the component. We will walk through all the steps for creating the css, adding required styles and the reference it from the styles plugin. Lets start:
1. Traverse to your component node (/apps/blog/components/content/demo) and create a child node of type 'cq:ClientLibraryFolder' and name it 'clientlib'.
2. Create a folder under 'clientlib' and name it 'css'.
3. Create a file under 'css' folder and name it 'static.css'
4. Open your static.css and paste the below code in it. Save.
span.strikethrough { text-decoration:line-through; } #CQrte span.strikethrough { text-decoration:line-through; }
1. The span.strikethrough is for your content page. You would need to include your clientlib in your page template for this style to be applied.
2. #CQrte span.strikethrough will apply to the actual rich text editor in your component. Without this you will not see the strike through in your rich text editor.
c.) Referencing your style sheets.
In Part 1 of this article we created a fieldConfig under our component dialog at a path similar to /apps/blog/components/content/demo/dialog/items/items/title/items/title/fieldConfig.
1. Traverse to your components fieldConfig node and create a new property for fieldConfig with name as 'externalStyleSheets' and value as the path to the static.css that we created in last few steps .
d.) Adding css style classes to 'styles' plugin dropdown.
Next we will create the required class under the styles plugin so that it is available in the 'styles' plugin dropdown.
1. Traverse to your rteconfig/rtePlugins/styles node (/apps/blog/components/content/rteconfig/rtePlugins/styles) and create a child node of type 'cq:WidgetCollection' and name it 'styles' (yes the name is same as parent node's name).
2. Create a child node under this 'styles' node (from step 1 above – /apps/blog/components/content/rteconfig/rtePlugins/styles/styles): type of child node 'nt:unstructured' and name it 'strikethrough'
3. Create following properties for this 'strikethrough' node:
Property 1:
name: cssName
value: strikethrough
Property 2:
name: text
value: StrikeThrough
4. Now go back to your content page and refresh it. Open the component and select a string in your rich text editor. Click on your styles plugin dropdown in your rich text editor and you should see 'StrikeThrough' as one of the values available in your drop down list.
5. A view of the rich text editor after StrikeThrough style applied to the 'test' text.
6. Add Formatting
Now we will enable and customize the format options in rich text editor. Paragraph formats determine a type for the paragraph by assigning the correct block tag. The author can select and assign them using the Format selector. All text entered is placed within a block tag.
a.) Enabling the Format plugin
CQ has an OOB Format plugin the can be used to provide some basic formatting options. First we will look at how to enable this plugin and later we will customise it to add our own formats.
1. Traverse to your rteconfig/rtePlugins node (/apps/blog/components/content/rteconfig/rtePlugins) and create a child node of type 'nt:unstructured' and name it 'paraformat'.
2. Create a property called 'features' of type String under 'styles'.
3. To enable features for the 'styles' enter the value as "*" for the 'features' property. Save.
4. Now go back to your content page and refresh it. You should see a Format drop down from the 'paraformat' plugin. The drop down for the Format has the default OOB options included in it. You can select text from your rte and the format will get applied to the entire block of text.
b.) Customize the Format plugin to add other formats (h4)
Next we will add some paragraph formats to our Formats dropdown. I will be using h4 for my example.
- The default formats (
,
,
 and
) will be removed if you define custom formats (as specified above).
- As
 is the default format you must recreate this format.
- The same applies to any formats that have already been used in existing content.
1. Traverse to your rteconfig/rtePlugins/paraformat node (/apps/blog/components/content/rteconfig/rtePlugins/paraformat) and create a child node of type 'cq:WidgetCollection' and name it 'format'.
2. Create a child node under this 'format' node (from step 1 above – /apps/blog/components/content/rteconfig/rtePlugins/paraformat/format): type of child node 'nt:unstructured' and name it 'h4'.
3. To this node, add the property to define the block tag used.
Name: tag
Type: String
Value: h4
4. For same node add another property, for descriptive text to appear in the drop-down list.
Name: description
Type: String
Value: Heading 4
5. Now go back to your content page and refresh it. Although you cannot really see it but you should see a Format drop down with Heading 4 as one of the options in it. We will have to create another node for the p tag under the formats node (sibling of h4) before this works.
Note: Repeat the steps 1 to 5 from above and create a p tag (description as Paragraph) and refresh your content page. You should be able to see Paragraph and Heading 4 as the 2 options now. Go ahead and select a text and apply heading 4 to test it.
7. Make "plaintext" as default Paste Mode and strip extra HTML on paste.
The default paste mode in a rich text editor is "wordhtml". Which means that when an author copy/pastes content into the rich text editor using Ctrl + V key or the main paste button the Word-compatible HTML pasting is done (this should suffice for most use cases, as it will keep most of the formatting, but removes unsuitable tags and attributes.
In my scenario the users wanted to change the default paste mode to "plaintext" ( see below for a list of possible values) and strip and extra HTML tags which the author might have copied form the source.
Valid values are:
- "browser" – use browser's paste implementation (should usually not be used, as this may introduce unwanted markup or markup that could cause the RichText component to crash);
- "plaintext" – for plain text inserts;
- "wordhtml" – for Word-compatible HTML pasting (this should suffice for most use cases, as it will keep most of the formatting, but removes unsuitable tags and attributes.
The default copy and paste options are part of the 'edit' plugin in rich text editor and to over write the default paste option we need to include this plugin in our rteconfig/rtePlugins node as explained in Customized multifield richtext editor – Part 1.
Once you have the 'edit' plugin enabled with default options follow the below steps for making 'plaintext' as the default paste option and stripping off extra HTML tags.
1. Traverse to your rteconfig/rtePlugins/edit node (/apps/blog/components/content/rteconfig/rtePlugins/edit).
2. Create the blow list of properties for the edit node:
a. Create a property called 'features' of type String[] (multi) for 'edit' node. Leave the value as empty/blank for this property.
b. Create a property called 'defaultPasteMode' of type String for 'edit' node. Enter the value as 'plaintext' for this property.
c. Create a property called 'stripHtmlTags' of type Boolean for 'edit' node. Enter the value as 'true' for this property.
Note: The "crazy" test that I am showing below might not be a real world scenario but I just want to show the working code.
Open Any website and copy some come (with formatting) content from the webpage as in below screen shot. Now Copy this formatted text.
Paste this content into your rich text editor and you should see the results of formatting being removed form your pasted text.
8. Remove default p tag in rte (limited scope)
Note: I have removed the Format plugin for purpose of my demonstration in this topic.
Not sure if you have noticed but when an author types in anything inside the rich text editor (even if you are in the HTML Editor mode) it gets encapsulated by a P tag. I came across a situation in which the requirement was to get rid of the default p tag so the rendering engine consuming the content does not have to parse it out. Please note that you will still get a bunch of P tags when you have a line break. This is how I got it working.
1. Traverse to your components 'fieldConfig' (/apps/blog/components/content/demo/dialog/items/items/title/items/title/fieldConfig) node and create a new property for 'fieldConfig' with name as 'removeSingleParagraphContainter', type as Boolean and value as true. Save.
2. No go back to your content page and refresh it. Add a single line of text while in RichText mode and then toggle between SourceEdit mode and Rich Text mode. You should not see the P tags wrapping your line of content.


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Kilroy's Samba Pa Ti Moves Into The Lead In Miami
7 March 2011
Miami, Fla. - The first day of racing at the 2011 Melges 32 Miami Championship, hosted by Coconut Grove Sailing Club, sponsored by Melges Performance Sailboats was filled with plenty of thrills, three races and three different race winners. Topping the leader board is John Kilroy on Samba Pa Ti (Nathan Wilmot, tactician) with a three point lead. In second overall, no stranger to Series success is Lanfranco Cirillo on Fantastica (Vasco Vascotto, tactician) and in third, Ryan DeVos on Volpe (Ed Baird, tactician).
The first race of the day delivered the harshest of conditions. Wind speeds of 18-20 and very gnarly seas took its toll as the race committee struggled to set the line. Once set, the fleet anxiously got off clean as the breeze was pumping full on at 20+ knots. Around the top mark in first was Japanese charterer and first time helmsman Makoto Uematsu (Tony Rey, tactician) on Yasha Samurai, followed by the very Italian Lanfranco Cirillo on Fantastica in second and Dalton DeVos' Delta in third. Making great strides in the first race, and taking full advantage of great breeze and pure pressure was Bob Hughes on Heartbreaker (Joe Ganldsfield, tactician). Hughes put Cirillo to the test, but Cirillo's tactician Vasco Vascotto outsmarted to take the win. Hughes was second, followed by D. DeVos in third.
For race two of the day, gorgeous conditions prevailed, and the monster sea conditions began to tame. This time, John Kilroy's Samba Pa Ti poured on the speed to win race two. "It was a pretty good day for us." said Nathan Wilmot, tactician aboard Samba Pa Ti. "The boat seemed really fast, crew work was good. It's going to be another great year in the Melges 32." Vincenzo Onorato'sMascalzone Latino pulled up for second place and in third, was Jason Carroll on Argo (Charlie Ogletree, tactician).
"It is so nice to see everyone here, and really, you can't ask for better than this." said Kilroy, post racing. "We are very excited to welcome everyone at the beer party tomorrow. It will be amazing. I think everyone will be quite excited about the entertainment we have planned."
The final race of the day featured a nice win by the young, and eager Ryan DeVos on Volpe. DeVos led from start to finish, holding off a heavy-duty assault from Kilroy and Rod Jabin on Ramrod (Chris Larson, tactician). "This was really fun. In the first race, the breeze was really blowing and we got a fifth. Which was pretty nice. We mainly just focused on going fast." said DeVos. Race three confirmed that winning in the Melges 32 class is no easy task. For America's Cup Challenger Onorato, race three was dissappointing to say the least. As if being called OCS at the start wasn't enough, on the first downwind run, Onorato limped around the course with no spinnaker after destroying the two he had declared. Kilroy claimed second and Jabin was third.
"Today's racing was a real testament to our builder. Considering the conditions, these boats are really great." said John Taylor, North American Fleet President and owner of Ninkasi. "People did really well today. I think it shows just how far this fleet has really progressed since it was first introduced."
Saturday's forecast calls for a more civilized approach to sailing. A pleasant 80+ degrees and breeze in the 14-18 knots range - again, it should be another perfect day of sailing. Three points separate first from third and the DeVos' are tied with 17 point a piece. Tune in for some great conversation on Facebook at the official page for the Melges 32.
The Melges 32 class is the most popular sportboat in the world, and through the process of earning its reputation as an incredible, fun, fast competitive sportboat, it has also caught the attention of sailing's younger generation, perhaps the next generation. Ryan DeVos (20) on Volpe, his younger cousin Dalton (17) on Delta, and just recently, Jason Michas (19) on Zetiana are among the forming a league of young guns helming in the Melges 32 class. The Melges 32 class is already populated by some of the world's most exceptional amateur helmsmen, who have chosen to surround themselves with only the best sailors in the world. Now, the experience diversifies as these aspiring young sailors can be found taking a hold the tiller on a regular basis. "I love this boat, it's a great boat," explained Ryan DeVos, who just celebrated his birthday last Monday, and happens to be the class' reigning National Champion. "The Melges 32 is easy enough that you can jump into it, and do well, or a least do your best at it. It took us a little while to get up to speed, but it's starting to come together for sure."
Miami Championship Entry List (Owner/Tactician)
1.) Samba Pa Ti, John Kilroy/Nathan Wilmot; 4-1-2 = 7
2.) Fantastica, Lanfranco Cirillo/Vasco Vascotto; 1-4-5 = 10
3.) Volpe, Ryan DeVos/Ed Baird; 5-11-1 = 17
4.) Delta, Dalton DeVos/Terry Hutchinson; 3-6-8 = 17
5.) roXanne, Kip Meadows/Andy Horton; 8-7-4 = 19
6.) Full Throttle, John Porter/Jonathan McKee; 10-5-7 = 22
7.) Ramrod, Rod Jabin/Chris Larson; 13-10-3 = 26
8.) Heartbreaker, Bob Hughes/Joe Glandfield; 2-12-13 = 27
9.) Mascalzone Latino, Vincenzo Onorato/Francesco Bruni; 6-2-10 = 28
10.) Argo, Jason Carroll/Charlie Ogletree; 15-3-10 = 28
View Full Results
View The Full Crew List
Official Event Website
View Photo Gallery
Race reports, interviews and photo galleries will be posted each day at the official website of theInternational Melges 32 Class Association (IM32CA). If you are unable to attend 2011 Miami Championship, stay in touch by subscribing to the IM32CA RSS Feed. Friend the fleet on Facebook, follow it on Twitter and subscribe to the Official Melges 32 YouTube Channel.

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Premier RV Adding to Consignment Inventory
April 9, 2013 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Premier RV Adding to Consignment Inventory
In a continuing sign of economic recovery, Junction City, Ore.-based Premier RV Services is expanding its consignment sales division's pre-owned motorcoach inventory and will also consider purchase of well maintained, pre-owned high-end motorhomes.
According to a press release, Premier RV Services works directly with individual RV owners across the nation. "We specialize in Country Coach and Monaco, but consign a select few other brands of high-end motorcoaches," said Louie Courtemanche, co-owner of Premier RV Services. "Consignment coach sales have been brisk so we need to restock the showroom. Premier RV Services is proud of its reputation among the motorcoach owners community for the manner in which we handle the coach consignment process and the client's purchase experience."
Courtemanche reported sales were up 56% year-over-year in 2012 and that the increase had continued into the first quarter.
"Premier-offered coaches are consigned with us primarily by friends we've made over the last 20-plus years in the industry and we don't take the decision to consign a coach with Premier lightly," he said.
In addition to consignment sales, the company also has several acres of indoor, climate-controlled storage.
Gary Obermire, co-owner noted, "We felt it was important to offer a good storage solution when people are not using their homes on wheels. While coaches are stored with us, most RV owners take advantage of our full service center and get things taken care of on their coach. That way not a minute of their leisure time is consumed by down-time getting the coach maintained or serviced."
Premier's service division offers full service, house and chassis, paint and body work and electrical repair.
For more information, contact Courtemanche at (541) 953-6729, Obermire at (541) 554-3997 or visit www.PremierRVServices.com.


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Automakers are lining up behind the new Energy Bill that's working its way through congress. They've seen the writing on the wall and, all things considered, got a fairly good deal considering the prevailing sentiment regarding car emissions and foreign oil. Chrysler CEO Robert Nardelli congratulated Congress and pledged that the company would rise to meet the higher CAFE standards. Full statement below:
Statement from Robert Nardelli, Chairman and CEO, Chrysler LLC, Regarding New, Nationwide U.S. Fuel Economy Standards:
"We commend the Congress for passing an energy bill today and we fully support it being signed into law. Chrysler is committed to meeting the fuel economy standards of the bill and doing our part to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and our country's reliance on foreign oil. We continue to devote significant resources to develop quality, fuel efficient products that our customers expect. This year alone, we offer six vehicles that get 28 miles per gallon or better, and more are on the way." [Source: Chrysler]


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"Whenever you do a thing," said Thomas Jefferson, "act as if all the world were watching." That is a critical leadership lesson for managers and business leaders (and one that Anthony Weiner clearly has yet to learn).
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And in today's digital world, often all the world IS watching. Current events don't let us forget this, and we're suddenly aware of how much our concepts of privacy have changed in recent years. Even putting aside possible surveillance, most of us leave a constant trail of data in the wake of our everyday lives. Through social media, we've grown accustomed to broadcasting details of what we're reading, where we're going, what we're doing, who we're with, even what we're eating.
But you also generate data every time you buy something with plastic, download an e-book, visit an ATM, send or read an e-mail or text, make a call, log on to a website, or just turn on your cell phone and carry it with you. Maybe you're comfortable with that, maybe not, but you have to go pretty far off the grid to avoid it.
There are questions that often are an unspoken subtext to these thoughts and discussions: How aligned are my public and private lives? How important is integrity to me?
We all deserve, and expect, an appropriate degree of privacy at home and work. And we all have things we'd rather keep to ourselves. But if there are areas of your life where the possibility of discovery leaves you feeling queasy—especially if you're in a leadership position—this might be a good moment to ask yourself what integrity calls you to do.
Are there "Business Practices" that you wouldn't want your family to know about? Are there significant amounts of money or time going to things that are contrary to your values? Neglect of important responsibilities? Any of these might mean that it's time for some serious work in changing your path.
On the other hand, it may be your public perception that needs adjustment. Leaders sometimes force themselves to conform to an image of what they think people expect. If your employees or colleagues know an entirely different you than your friends or family, maybe it's time for them to begin seeing the "real you."
Remember these four things about INTEGRITY.
No. 1: People follow people of integrity.
No. 2: Leaders and companies with integrity have fewer crises than those without.
No. 3: People don't often quit on organizations, but they do quit on people.
No. 4: A person of integrity knows the right thing, says the right thing, and does the right thing.
Know who you are and what you believe in. Be consistent. If you make a mistake, take responsibility for it. When you align your public and private selves, your behavior and your values, when you're being fueled by integrity rather than drained by a balancing act, that's when you can be most effective as a leader—whether anyone is watching or not.
Jeremy Kingsley is a professional speaker, best-selling author, and the President of OneLife Leadership. Jeremy holds bachelors and masters degrees from Columbia International University. He is the author of four books, his latest is titled: Inspired People Produce Results (McGraw Hill 2013). Jeremy lives in Columbia, South Carolina with his wife and two sons.


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The world's biggest new pop star is a little bit country, a little bit rock & roll and all control freak. What's behind her drive for success?
ON A BRIGHT SUNDAY AFTERNOON in Los Angeles, Taylor Swift is on good behavior, as usual. In high school, she had a 4.0 average; when she was home-schooled during her junior and senior years, she finished both years of course work in 12 months. She has never changed her hair color, won't engage in any remotely dangerous type of physical activity and bites her nails to the quick. At 19 years old, she says she has never had a cigarette. She says she has never had a drop of alcohol. "I have no interest in drinking," she says, her blue eyes focused and intent beneath kohl liner and liberally applied eye shadow. "I always want to be responsible for the things I say and do." Then she adds, "Also, I would have a problem lying to my parents about that." Swift has gotten far playing Little Miss Perfect — not only was her second album, Fearless, at Number One for eight weeks this winter, but she's enjoyed numerous perks, like a 10-day stay at the West Coast home of her childhood idols, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw, which is where she is today. The couple, who befriended Swift in Nashville, offered the use of their house while she is in L.A. appearing on an episode of her favorite show, CSI. The fact that Swift's first hit single is called "Tim McGraw" — a wistful, gimmicky ballad about a separated couple who recall each other by their favorite McGraw song — is a clue to her feelings about them. "I love Tim and Faith," she says, dashing about the house, which is utterly enormous, filled with gilt crosses and life-size Grecian statues, and worth about $14 million (Eddie Murphy is a neighbor, in a house "the size of a country," says Swift). "I think I like the bright colors in here better than the lighter ones," she says, critiquing the rooms, which seem to go on endlessly, like galleries in a museum. "I don't know. I go back and forth. You know when you walk into a furniture store, and you're like, 'Oh, that's how I'm going to decorate my house,' and then the next one you're like, 'No, that's going to be the way I decorate my house'?" She giggles. "I think when I do it, I'm going to be so indecisive."
Swift lives at home with her parents in a suburb outside of Nashville, in a big house overlooking a lake. The family was wealthy before she became a star — both of Swift's parents have had careers in finance, which makes them particularly good advisers, and they aren't interested in their daughter's cash. One of them usually travels with her, and her father, a kind and friendly stockbroker, has just arrived, a stack of business documents in tow. Swift seems to have three gears — giggly and dorky; worrying about boys and pouring that emotion into song; and insanely driven, hyper self-controlled perfectionism — and, as she embarks on a wholesome afternoon activity, the third aspect of her personality comes into play. In Hill and McGraw's white-marble kitchen, she attacks the task of baking mocha chocolate-chip cookies with a single-mindedness rarely seen outside a graduate-level chemistry class, measuring and sifting and whipping with sharp, expert movements, while her father keeps up a patter about her career.
It takes superhuman strength for a teenager to listen to her father talk at length about her personal life, and even Swift — the goodiest goody-goody in the nation — struggles to remain polite. She's constantly worried about saying something that could be construed as offensive to her fans, and even swats away a question about her political preferences before conceding that she supports the president: "I've never seen this country so happy about a political decision in my entire time of being alive," she says. "I'm so glad this was my first election." Her eyes dart around like a cornered cat as her dad runs on about the tour bus on which she travels with her mom: "We call it the 'Estrogen Express,'" he says. "That's not what we call it," counters Swift. Then her dad talks about the treadmill he got for her, because she didn't want to deal with signing autographs at the gym. "That's not why!" yelps Swift. "I just don't want to look nasty and sweaty when people are taking pictures of me."
But these are momentary distractions in an otherwise pleasant afternoon. Within 45 minutes, Swift produces two dozen perfect, chewy cookies, which she offers around with a glass bottle of milk. Suddenly, she squints at the jar, and shrieks a little: eggnog. She scours the fridge but comes up empty-handed, irritated by the foolishness of her mother, whom she surmises was shopping absent-mindedly. This cannot be. Snack time is ruined. Then she blinks rapidly and composes herself.
"I didn't do that," she says, shaking her head firmly. "Mom did that."
SWIFT LIKES TO DO EVERYTHING the right way, and most of the time that means she likes to do everything herself. She may be a five-foot-11-inch blonde, but she does not have the carefree soul that usually goes along with that physiognomy, and her back is starting to hunch a little from stress. Swift writes or co-writes all of her songs: She's been a working songwriter since the age of 13, when she landed a development deal with RCA Records. "Taylor earned the respect of the big writers in Nashville," says Big and Rich's John Rich, a hot Nashville producer. "You can hear great pop sensibilities in her writing as well as great storytelling, which is the trademark of old-school country song-crafting." At 14, Swift walked away from RCA's offer of another one-year contract — "I didn't want to be somewhere where they were sure that they kind of wanted me maybe," she deadpans — and put herself on the open market. She received interest from major labels but held out for Scott Borchetta, a well-regarded executive at Universal who left the company to start his own label, Big Machine Records. "I base a lot of decisions on my gut, and going with an independent label was a good one," she says. "I thought, 'What's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? What's been done a million times?'" Says Borchetta, "Taylor and I made an aggressive deal on the back end." He chuckles. "I've written her some very big checks," he says.
Swift has sold 6 million of her first and second albums, making her the bestselling artist of 2008. Now she is preparing to launch her first headlining arena tour of 52 cities in April (a date at the Staples Center in L.A. sold out in two minutes). She's benefited from a broad demographic appeal: The "Taylor Nation" ranges from country to indie-music fans to the Disney generation, particularly the good girls. Her impeccably crafted songs easily translate to pop radio, and Swift is clearly taken with the notion of crossing over, though she's nervous about alienating her core audience. "You can't forget who brought you to the party, and that's country radio," she insists. She's very savvy: It was her decision to sing "Fifteen," her song about the innocence of that age, with Miley Cyrus at the Grammys. "I think it's cool, because when she was 15 she had a lot of things going on," says Swift. "Lessons learned." (This is how savvy she is: When she was starting out in music, she used her spare time to paint canvases -- "I'm interested in Jackson Pollock's kind of art, where art is beautiful but it's nothing and yet it's incredible" — which she then sent to country-radio managers as gifts.)
For all her high-minded business acumen, as an artist Swift is primarily interested in the emotional life of 15-year-olds: the time of dances and dates with guys you don't like, humiliating crying jags about guys who don't like you, and those few transcendent experiences when a girl's and a boy's feelings finally line up. You can't go anywhere without your best friend. You still tell your mom everything. Real sexuality hasn't kicked in yet. Swift won't reveal anything on that topic herself. "I feel like whatever you say about whether you do or don't, it makes people picture you naked," she says, self-assuredly. "And as much as possible, I'm going to avoid that. It's self-preservation, really."
Self-preservation is one of Swift's favorite phrases, and she uses it in reference to both her professional and personal lives. She wants to have a long career, not get tossed away like most teen stars. "I've not seen many people work as hard as Taylor," says Kellie Pickler, a good friend. "She's a very competitive girl, and those people go far." Along with the Jonas Brothers and a gaggle of young Disney stars like her pals Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez and Demi Lovato, she's part of a backlash against the pantyless TMZ culture of earlier this decade, which proved to be a career-killer for Lindsay Lohan and her clique. Swift admits that she was fascinated by girls like Paris Hilton when she was younger — in a rare moment of prurience, she notes that her high school football team was named the Commandos, then laughs wryly — but says that she never thought the gossip about these women was true. "You should never judge a person until you know the full story," she explains, matter-of-factly.
Swift is certain she would never let herself get caught up in such shenanigans. "When you lose someone's trust, it's lost, and there are a lot of people out there who are counting on me right now," Swift says. She cocks her head. "Rebellion is what you make of it," she says. "When you've been on a tour bus for two months straight, and then you get in your car and drive wherever you want, that can feel rebellious."
IF face, it must be tattooed on, because it never drops during hours of press on a recent weekday in New York, a day that includes mind-numbing patter on Sirius XM and Clear Channel, a voiceover for a new style show on MTV and a sickeningly saccharine luncheon for her L.e.i. sundress line sold at Walmart. It's a tour de force: Swift engages easily with the teen-fashion journalists following her around, bantering about blow-dryers and bachelorette parties; then, she's gracious to the misshapen radio hosts, calling everyone by their names and administering warm hugs by the dozen. But there's a moment, at the Walmart luncheon, when she gets a little testy with a young fan--Swift asks the fan where she's from, and when the girl answers, "New Jersey," Swift makes fun of her accent -- but this is literally the only sin against a human she commits during a 10-hour day in which she's barely fed, never stops smiling and signs hundreds of autographs with a pink Sharpie pen.
This politesse is part of Swift's character, a way of treating others taught by her loving family. Her parents intentionally raised their kids in the country, on a Christmas-tree farm with a grape arbor and seven horses, in eastern Pennsylvania, while Swift's father commuted to work. "I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head," says Swift. But her parents also prized success in the real world: They even gave her an androgynous name, on the assumption that she would later climb the corporate ladder. "My mom thought it was cool that if you got a business card that said 'Taylor' you wouldn't know if it was a guy or a girl," says Swift. "She wanted me to be a business person in a business world."
Swift rode horses competitively as a child, but her main hobby was making up fairy tales and singing the songs from Disney movies by heart. At six, she discovered a LeAnn Rimes record, which she began to listen to compulsively. "All I wanted to hear from then on was country," she says. "I loved the amazing female country artists of the Nineties — Faith, Shania, the Dixie Chicks — each with an incredible sound and standing for incredible things." She began to act in a children's musical-theater company but found that she preferred the cast parties, which featured a karaoke machine, to the stage. "Singing country music on that karaoke machine was my favorite thing in the world," she says. As is the Swift-ian way, even at 11 she was determined to "pursue other venues" where she could perform, and soon found the Pat Garrett Roadhouse, which had a weekly karaoke contest. "I sang every single week for a year and a half until I won," she says. Her prize: opening for Charlie Daniels at 10:30 a.m.; he played at 8:30 at night.
Newly emboldened, Swift began to perform the national anthem at local sports games, and even landed a gig with her favorite team, the Philadelphia 76ers. But tragedy soon befell our young songstress. It seems that her classmates did not agree that country music was cool. "Anything that makes you different in middle school makes you weird," she says. "My friends turned into the girls who would stand in the corner and make fun of me." She was abandoned at the lunch table. She was accused of possessing frizzy hair. She tried to fit in by joining teams but proved to be horrible at every sport. Then redemption came in the form of a 12-string guitar. "When I picked up the guitar, I could not stop," she says. "I would literally play until my fingers bled — my mom had to tape them up, and you can imagine how popular that made me: 'Look at her fingers, so weird.'" She takes a deep breath. "But for the first time, I could sit in class and those girls could say anything they wanted about me, because after school I was going to go home and write a song about it."
This is Swift's tale of triumph, and she likes to tell it a lot when she's interviewed. It sounds canned, in a way — who hasn't been made fun of in middle school? — but she's managed to keep the feelings raw, and access to them is part of her appeal. The sun is starting to set as Swift heads downtown, near the World Trade Center site, to play a live acoustic set on the radio station Z100 for about 50 "Caller 100s" — a group that happens to be almost exclusively plain, primly dressed girls between 12 and 17. The fans listen raptly as Swift chats about bad-hair days and ex-boyfriends. They hold up their camera phones, sometimes with a Sidekick in the other hand. Swift keeps insisting that they sing along with her, and at first they're shy, but soon the scene resembles a teenage-girl "Kumbaya" session, all the alienation and hurt that they feel in their real lives melting away, replaced by a deep sense of peace. "Taylor is so down-to-earth," gushes Darlane Shala, a ninth-grader from Manhattan. "She's just such a good person."
Afterward, Swift takes more photos with the girls and looks at her fan letters. The girls write about feeling like outsiders, about getting ostracized by girlfriends over misunderstandings with boys, about hating girls who make fun of other girls and not understanding why some people enjoy being so cruel. "When I first discovered your music a few years ago, something in me opened up," says a meticulously crafted two-page letter from a high school sophomore, who included a picture of herself at the beach. "I had been feeling upset, and you told me that I'm not alone," she continues. "Your lyrics mean the world to me, and I swear they are the narration of my life." She adds that Swift has given her a path for the future: "I wish more than anything that I could change a teenager's perspective," she writes, "the way you have done for me."
THIS IS SWIFT'S PRIMARY hope for her music: She wants to help adolescent girls everywhere feel better about themselves, and in the process heal her younger self. "In school, I loved reading To Kill a Mockingbird, and I'm very interested in any writing from a child's perspective," she says. At high school in Henderson, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville — her parents agreed to move when she landed her RCA contract, at the beginning of her freshman year — Swift's interest in country music was obviously considered normal, but she still wasn't popular. She may be pretty now, and she eventually might have abused the power that comes with being a beautiful senior girl, but when she left high school, at 16, she was still a gangly sophomore. "There were queen bees and attendants, and I was maybe the friend of one of the attendants," she says. "I was the girl who didn't get invited to parties, but if I did happen to go, you know, no one would throw a bottle at my head."
In a way, Swift's emotional state seems to be stuck at the time when she left school. She says that she has only a half-dozen friends now — "and that's a lot for me" — and she talks constantly about her best friend, Abigail, a competitive swimmer and freshman at Kansas State, with a new nose ring and a new pet snake, doubtlessly having many experiences that Swift may not be ready for. In fact, Swift is a very young 19-year-old. "I feel like Miley, Selena and Demi are my age," she says at one point, acknowledging the fast-paced lives of her Los Angeles-based contemporaries. "It's crazy, I always forget that they're 16."
And in her love life, Swift admits to being mighty inexperienced. She says that she's had her heart broken, but she's not sure if she's ever really been in love. She had a boyfriend her freshman year, a senior hockey player: "We weren't an It couple," she drawls. But there really haven't been many guys since then except for Joe Jonas, who famously broke up with her over the phone for another girl. Swift wrote a song on her second album, called "Forever & Always," about Jonas, then filmed a MySpace video with a Joe Jonas doll, during which she remarks, "This one even comes with a phone so it can break up with other dolls!" Jonas later insinuated that she hung up on him. "I did not hang up on him," she says now, then mouths, "Omigod."
The illogic of love is unsettling to Swift, who has a hard time understanding it with her supremely rational mind. Music, for her, is a way of expressing feelings that are largely repressed or absent. She maintains that marriage is something she would "only do if I find the person I absolutely can't live without" and "it's not my ultimate goal in life." In fact, the first two singles on Fearless — "Love Story" and "White Horse" — are about a guy that she considered dating but never even kissed. Many of her songs are not about her own personal experiences with love — about half are inspired by her friends' relationships. "I'm fascinated by love rather than the principle of 'Oh, does this guy like me?'" she says. "I love love. I love studying it and watching it. I love thinking about how we treat each other, and the crazy way that one person can feel one thing and another can feel totally different," she says. "It just doesn't take much for me to be inspired to write a song about a person, but I'm much more likely to write that song than do anything about it. You know, self-preservation."
A COUPLE OF weeks ago, Swift started four days of rehearsal at a studio on the outskirts of Nashville for her upcoming tour. She picks the alfalfa sprouts out of a sandwich — Swift avoids vegetables, hates sushi and in general gravitates away from anything healthy — and straps on her guitar, strumming as she gives her tour manager instructions on the set list. As much as she engages in good-natured banter with her band, she's clearly in charge of this show: With a faintly sex-kitten stage presence--punctuated by many pumps of her very long arms in the air — she cues fiddle licks, restages a number and shuffles the orchestration in a mash-up. Then she stops. "Omigod," she giggles. "For 'Love Story,' the stage is going to become a church, and I'm going to get into a white dress." She bites her lip. "There's so many cool sets," she says later. "We're going to have a giant castle!"
After rehearsal, she returns to her parents' home, which is set on a promontory over Old Hickory Lake. "In the summer, people fish off the dock," says Swift, then deadpans, "More people now. Apparently, there are more fish now." The mantle of their living room is crammed with bulky glass awards, and posters of Swift line the hallways; a large sitting room is devoted to racks of clothes that Swift has worn in performance or public, with a sign affixed that reads, "Please go through: Keep or give to Goodwill." Her younger brother Austin, a 16-year-old lacrosse player and academic overachiever, has moved into a room on the garage level, doubtless to have some space away from the Taylor Nation, but Swift still lives in her childhood bedroom.
It's a small room, decorated almost exclusively in pink and purple. Her closet is itty-bitty, with clothes organized in neat rows above her shoes and a drawer of padded bras. Any sign of her life as a superstar has been scrubbed, with the exception of a postcard from Reba McEntire. She rifles around in her armoire — careful not to show its contents, which she considers too messy for guests — and pulls out a cardboard box of colored wax, which she used to seal envelopes. "I wrote my Valentine's Day cards yesterday," she says, holding up a thick stack. "It's not going to be a big shindig for me. I didn't have that one person." She smiles. "So I had to write 30."
It's almost 8 p.m., and Swift is planning to work on her set lists for a few hours tonight, but first she needs a Frappuccino. She hasn't started her car, a champagne-colored Lexus, in a couple of months — her brother has to jump-start it — and when she finally pulls out onto the road, she seems a little less perfect. She's an unsure, semi-reckless driver, hitting the brake too hard, pointing the car this way and that at various intersections like she's tacking a boat. She screams, "Five-oh!" as she spots a cop, then pulls into a drive-through Starbucks. "I've been in three accidents, but none of them were my fault," she wails.
Soon she comes to a stop, pointing to an expanse of lawn. "This summer, the guy from the 'Fifteen' song came back into Abigail's life," she says. "He got me to bring her here, and while we were on the way he texted her, 'We need to talk.' "When they arrived, the guy was standing in the center of this field in a big heart made of candles, holding a bunch of roses. "It was so romantic," she says, smiling dreamily. "I love that kind of stuff." Then she starts pulling away. "You know, I totally burned a CD for him to play that night, because he wouldn't have known Abigail's favorite songs otherwise," she says, tapping the steering wheel. "And as usual, I had to clean up the mess the next day." She sighs. "But that's OK," she says. "I didn't mind."


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Watson Named Player of the Month
Rio Grande Valley Vipers point guard and DraftExpress blogger C.J. Watson has been named the D-League performer of the month for December. In his first D-League season, Watson has averages of 25.4 points, 5.1 rebounds, and 5.2 assists per game while shooting 51.4% from the field. The 23 year-old point guard has the Vipers at 9-5 on the season, while leading the team in both scoring assists. Watson currently ranks atop our call-up list, and has been closely followed by a number of NBA scouts this season. The Vipers rely on him to run their offense, gearing their sets around pick and rolls where he can either score or dish the ball to one of his shooters on the wing. A graduate of Tennessee, Watson played overseas last season, before joining the Charlotte Bobcats for training camp in October. The Vipers selected him 5th overall in the 2007 D-League draft. There are rumors that he may get a callup from the Golden State Warriors sometime soon.
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Hmmm... interesting. I am really excited to see what they decide to do with Pietrus, Mbenga, Kosta, and now this guy. Interesting times, man. Good find.
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he probably has a few feelers right now. warriors being one of em im sure. sometimes you can catch lightening in a bottle with these guys. i remember will bynum. bust. azubuike really is a nice player tho. maybe this PG can hookup with us and flourish in our style of play backing up BD.
I found this written about him. It talks about his strenghts and weaknesses. I hope they can get him, based on what I have heard. He sounds pretty good.
A year removed from college, C.J. Watson is coming off a difficult rookie season in Europe, where he bounced around between Italy and Greece and never really found his rhythm, which isn't a huge surprise considering that he's a bit of an acquired taste. He did have a terrific summer league showing with San Antonio, particularly in the Rocky Mountain Revue. Watson is a 6-2 combo guard, leaning more towards the point guard position. He's just an average athlete, but is exceptionally smart and crafty, possessing a beautiful perimeter stroke and a high basketball IQ. He gets in the passing lanes well, and is getting better and better at creating his own shot and setting up teammates. Expect him to be one of the first players off the board tonight, as he's a perfect example of what the D-League is all about, and might even warrant a call-up at some point this season.
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thanks for the good info.. sounds kind of like a monta ellis type, but not quite the athlete but better bbIQ. thats fine with me, the more talent the better.
ChronicallyInclined wrote:Thats fine with me, the more talent the better.
My thing is, "The more depth, the better." If we can get a guy to spell Baron, at least for some minutes, until we can get a perminant solution, he would really really help the team. If we can get him and he can get Baron ten minutes of rest a game, he would be my new favorite player.
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Who knows we pick up 'Diamond' on D- league...
dubsfan1 wrote:how can he get called up when he belongs to the Cavs
i thought you can only call up your own guys?
(players from Bakersfield Jam)
That's right. If he belongs to the Cavs, only they can call him up to the NBA.
Any team in the NBDL has 12 players on its roster. You can call any player not sent down by a NBA team or any player you've sent down.
For those who havnt heard, we have indeed signed him up.


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HOWTO: Disable or Enable Gnome Session Startup Applications from Command Line
- As usual I am not responsible for you screwing up your install by using these instructions the wrong way! -
So I looked around, and just couldn't find out how to do this without using the GUI (Which by the way is SYSTEM->PREFERENCES->SESSIONS)
It looks like by default session startup options are located in the following directories:
and then every user can have their own autostart options located in
(the above translates to: /home/<username>/.config/autostart/ )
So if you want to disable a startup option from command line you would just open a terminal window and remove or as I perfer - rename - the startup options corrisponding .desktop file. For example, to disable the check for new hardware on every login for every user - you could do this:
- Open a terminal window
- do the following:
This will rename the jockey-gtk.desktop file (which is the New Hardware Detection Application in Ubuntu) to jockey-gtk.orig - which will disable it from starting up for all users when they login. Which was something I needed to do on a current project.Code:sudo mv /etc/xdg/autostart/jockey-gtk.desktop /etc/xdg/autostart/jockey-gtk.orig
Anyway - I looked around, and I found methods for disabling startup services using the "sysv-rc-conf" package, but it was much harder to find any information about how to disable Gnome Session Startup applications without using the GUI - which was not an option for me in this case.
Hope this helps others!
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Talk:Network Time Protocol daemon
hwclock daemon
According to this post in the forum, the hwclock daemon is not necessary anymore thanks to systemd, so I'm willing to update this page unless someone have a objection. Tae (talk) 20:53, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
- I'm removing the the hwclock daemon warning. The forum post linked above, Daemons_List, and
pgrep hwclockor
ls /usr/lib/systemd/system/on my own system indicate that there is no reason to disable a hwclock daemon. ChariotOfFire (talk) 10:37, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
Canonical usage
I find this article quite confusing. My use case is simply that I want to make sure my machine time is sync'd. I'd suggest that at (or near) the top of the article (before the section on setting up a server) you have info on the canonical approach for this. The part where this is at the moment is quite bad.
What's the canonical approach daemon or no daemon?
Once selected, what's all the warnings about hwclock. Again, canonical. If hwclock needs to be turned off, just state that, not in RED! Hope those comments help the article??? Also there are references to rc.conf...shouldn't this be deprecated? Up front, on top, the systemd approach probably.
-- Ftravers (talk) 13:50, 14 February 2013
New structure?
In ArchWiki talk:Reports#User:Idomeneo1, User:Idomeneo1 has requested a structure that deals with autostarting methods regardless of the daemon or oneshot usage of ntpd. In User:Kynikos/ntpd I've drafted a possible structure that I don't necessarily support, but that will be useful to give some tangible material for a more constructive discussion. Share here your opinions and possibly alternative proposals, or arguments in support of the current structure. -- Kynikos (talk) 13:33, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
- The command line start doesn't have a logical heading of its own, and consists instead of two subheadings, smushed with "Running in a chroot".
- An intuitive structure would be something like "Autostart at boot" "Autostart at network connection" "Command line start"
- Following jstjohn's post, it seems that the daemon should be given pride of place (with a note about the current bug).
- Also Ftravers makes a good point about moving all this "Usage" business to the top of the article, as something like "Setup".
- Idomeneo1 (talk) 14:20, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
- I think you are proposing the following scheme (let's call it A):
Autostart at boot As a daemon Without daemon Autostart at network connection Netctl NetworkManager Wicd Command line start As a daemon Without daemon
- instead of the following scheme, which (more or less) reflects the current scheme (let's call it B):
Using without daemon Command line start Autostart at boot Netctl Wicd Running as a daemon Command line start Autostart at boot NetworkManager
- There are some minor issues with A, some current sections do not fit into this scheme or would have to be duplicated, but let's pass over it. The biggest problem is that A does not reflect the fundamental difference between "Running as daemon" and "Running as
ntpd -q" (more info below) in the "Autostart at network connection"; and the description for this difference would have to be duplicated for the other sections. On the other hand, B does not have this problem "by design". Moreover, titles "Using without daemon/Command line start" and "Running as a daemon/Command line start" do not have duplicate content, the instructions in these sections are very different.
- I must disagree with [1], in my opinion there is a fundamental difference between "Running as daemon" and "Running as
ntpd -q". Programmatically the difference is obvious, but it matters greatly even for users. Running as a daemon allows to synchronize the time much more frequently (according to Time the period is 11 minutes), allows to decrease the system clock drift (see Time#Time_skew), and possibly more that did not come to mind at the moment. By design, running
ntpd -qwill cause ntpd to set the time once and immediately exit. This has the consequence that the time is synchronized only when the system is started, or a network connection (re)established. In the end, the time will be synchronized only a few times per day/week, depending on how often the users reboot/loose network connection. Note that you need more than one synchronization cycle to actually get a "precise" time, even when using the
-gflag. Unless the users have a very precise hardware clock, the system clock drift might be too big for some applications.
- I think that Time is a prerequisite for this page, but it is linked only from the "See also" section. This page might indeed need some expansion, but I don't think that the example A is the right way.
- -- Lahwaacz (talk) 17:50, 20 February 2014 (UTC)
- I think you are proposing the following scheme (let's call it A):
- - "fundamental difference between "Running as daemon" and "Running as ntpd -q""
- The fundamental difference, as you give it, is the explanation why the daemon should be preferred over the one-shot, not why we should subordinate the applications to 2 variations of ntpd, one of which, as you point out, is the recommended default, and the other a flagged once-through.
- - "B does not have this problem "by design""
- You would have to duplicate everything in B! All these apps can run ntpd as daemon or as one-shot, presumably NetworkManager too. Yet you assigned them, apprarently arbitrarily, to daemon or one-shot.
- - "Time ... is linked only from the "See also" section"
- Time is linked in the very first sentence, in totally normal Wiki fashion. I am not opposed to linking it more often, but that was another inaccurate representation of what is going on with this page.
- Idomeneo1 (talk) 00:12, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
- I should have explained my proposed structure more succintly like you've done, I'll remedy now:
Usage As a daemon Check correct synchronization Running in a chroot Without daemon Autostarting systemd Daemon Synchronize once per boot Netctl Wicd NetworkManager
- In my view this structure allows avoiding any duplication of information, because the difference between the daemon/no-daemon uses can be all explained generically in the Usage section (answering Lahwaacz's post above), and then just appropriately linked from the examples in the Autostarting subsections. This also should answer Idomeneo1's request for neutrality in connection manager cases (yes, I've put the daemon section first as I agree it's the one to be considered most basic). For example the Wicd section could be:
- Executing ntpd once after successful connection of Wicd can be achieved by creating a script in the appropriate postconnect directory. The following example uses ntpd #without a daemon:
- "Running in a chroot" could be moved to the bottom of the article for slimming "Usage" down, however IMO it is a particular "usage" of ntpd.
- The "Usage" section aims to explain how to use the ntpd command, nothing less nothing more. Since all the methods in the subsections of "Autostarting" end up using the ntpd command through non-ntp-specific applications, they're not part of the "usage" of ntpd, and they don't belong under "Usage". In other words, "Autostarting"'s goal is to explain how to have the ntpd command launched automatically after some particular events; theoretically it could also link to Autostarting.
- -- Kynikos (talk) 15:55, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
- Well, I just don't like putting solutions using different methods into the same section, but with proper linking... why not?
- Note that implementing the three remaining solutions is rather trivial, you just replace
ntpd -qwith
systemctl start ntpdetc. But then there is the caveat "ntpd should still be running when the network is down if the hwclock daemon is disabled, so you should not use this" in Network Time Protocol daemon#NetworkManager. I guess it just confirms that the word "hook" has an implied meaning: "hack"...
- My compromise proposal would be to merge "systemd" section in the Kynikos' example into "Usage" and rename "Autostarting" to "Tips and tricks" (<rant>or just "Hacks"...</rant>).
- -- Lahwaacz (talk) 17:59, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
- @Kynikos - Ach OK, now I see - a usage section would obviously cover the command line, so it doesn't need any subheadings of its own. The structure is fine.
- In the network managers, the one-shot flags should be removed from the default instructions, and leave it up to the users if they want to run it one-shot for some reason.
- Do the server instructions need to come before the client instructions (which most people will consult the Wiki for)?
- A lot more updating needs to be done, too.
- @Lahwaacz
- "ntpd should still be running when the network is down if the hwclock daemon is disabled, so you should not use this"
- Have you disabled your "hwclock daemon"? Is this factual, current information, or are you just trying to make points quoting from a problematic article.
- Idomeneo1 (talk) 19:38, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
- He is not trying to make points, but explaining why he wants to rename the "Autostarting". Good you find yourself in Kynikos' structure, Idomeneo1. Adding your both suggestions, and another, one might come up with something like:
Installation (stays same:) Configuration Configuring_connection_to_NTP_servers (stays same) Configuring_your_own_NTP_server (stays same) Running in a chroot (May be moved here because it is a matter of configuring how the daemon is -or should be- run) Usage Without daemon (or "Console" or "Manually"; I would move the cli first, simply because it introduces options, be it "-q" or "hwclock" or ...) Check correct synchronization (this is explaining a cli option as it is written currently, even though it needs a "systemctl start ntpd" first to make sense) systemd (as per proposal by Lahwaacz; just changing header. Hint: For systems with frequent a one-shot may be enough; JstJohn's argument from the other talk) Daemon Non-Daemon (="Synchronize once per boot") Autostarting (or "tips & tricks", "Networking autostart hacks" or "Autostarting with network". Note at the top about "-q or not" as per Idomeneo1's suggestion) Netctl Wicd NetworkManager See also (stays same)
- --Indigo (talk) 20:37, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
- Indigo, have you disabled your "hwclock daemon"?
- Idomeneo1 (talk) 21:55, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
- Yes, it's funny. But you mix #hwclock daemon and #New structure?. You have further comments to the structure? --Indigo (talk) 00:05, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
- Commenting Indigo's proposal:
- +1 for moving "Running in a chroot" under "Configuration".
- Honestly I still don't like "systemd" under "Usage" because:
- enabling the systemd service is not compatible with the connection manager methods (i.e. it's alternative to them and vice versa)
- the systemd service ends up launching the ntpd command itself, so, despite being part of the ntp package, it's still an "accessory" and not a "core" usage feature of the ntpd command
- To me "Without daemon" and "Console" or "Manually" are not synonyms, in fact ntpd forks by default (except with the -n flag) and runs "without daemon" only with the -q flag; for example ntpd.service launches it with "-g -u ntp:ntp -p /run/ntpd.pid". Of course all this is true unless we have different definitions of "daemon" and "without daemon".
- We may even consider generalizing the Wicd and netctl sections like it's already been done to NetworkManager, which simply links to NetworkManager#Network_services_with_NetworkManager_dispatcher, i.e. Wicd may link to Wicd#Scripts for details, and in netctl we may add a section mentioning ExecUpPost and ExecDownPre and then link there too. Probably all these sections should better be also mentioned from Autostarting.
- -- Kynikos (talk) 03:22, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
- I'm convinced, thanks. One further comment to your original structure above: If we move systemd into "Autostarting" (or "Starting the daemon"), we might in fact find the "Usage" does not need subsections at all. It could just explain (as you do above) how (a) "ntpd" starts without options, (b) mention "-q" along with hwclock, then maybe (c) other options used in the "Autostarting" examples, and (d) end with mentioning ntpq invocation (maybe even as a tip only). Maybe the "Usage" section in itself like this would _not_ be too long anyway (so that it requires subsections), but that would show along the lines. edit: added "_not_" --Indigo (talk) 10:41, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
- @Indigo: actually, I meant to merge (not move) the "systemd" section into "Usage", meaning that the section headings would not be preserved and the daemon/non-daemon distinction would be done only once:
Installation (stays same) Configuration Configuring_connection_to_NTP_servers (stays same) Configuring_your_own_NTP_server (stays same) Running in a chroot (May be moved here because it is a matter of configuring how the daemon is -or should be- run) Usage As a daemon (describe both "ntpd" and "systemctl start ntpd" startup methods, advantages over "Without daemon") Check correct synchronization (this '''needs''' the daemon running, so please don't put it under "Without daemon") Without daemon (describe the "-q" flag, advantages over "As a daemon", custom service file for systemd startup) Networking autostart hacks Netctl NetworkManager Wicd
- Just one more comment on the post that followed:
- - "enabling the systemd service is not compatible with the connection manager methods" - @Kynikos: it should be enough to put something like "disable the
ntpdservice" (or maybe elaborate further) at the beginning of the "Autostarting"/"Networking autostart hacks". In fact, networkmanager-dispatcher-ntpd is using the
systemctl start/stop ntpd.servicecommand(s), so the user should be aware of how
ntpd.serviceworks - especially when implementing similar solutions for netctl/wicd.
- My suggestion obviously contradicts with your definition of what to put into "Usage". I just wanted to clarify my suggestion (sorry for not being specific right away); if it is declined, I'll accept your definition.
- -- Lahwaacz (talk) 17:53, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
- Trying to find a compromise to all the observations made since my last post ("Installation" and "Configuration" are agreed upon so I'll omit them):
Usage As a daemon (describe both "ntpd" and "systemctl start ntpd" startup methods (but not "enable"), advantages over "Without daemon") Check correct synchronization Without daemon (describe the "-q" flag, advantages over "As a daemon", custom service file for systemd startup) Autostarting At boot (systemd) (mention "systemctl enable ntpd" and describe "Synchronize once per boot" here) At network connection Netctl NetworkManager Wicd
- @Indigo: I think subsections of Usage will be handy as targets for links from other sections.
- @Idomeneo1: ok for distinguishing "At boot" and "At network connection"
- @Lahwaacz: you're right, we can talk about the service in "As a daemon", but still the reminder to enable it should better be put under Autostarting ("At boot (systemd)") for clearer comparison with the other autostarting methods. Well done looking into how networkmanager-dispatcher-ntpd works, it will be useful to mention that in the article.
- I've also restored "Synchronize once per boot" under "At boot (systemd)".
- -- Kynikos (talk) 06:18, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
- As I understand it, both
ntp-once.service(currently in Network_Time_Protocol_daemon#Synchronize_once_per_boot) would be described under "Usage", but the instructions to enable them would be given under "Autostarting"? -- Lahwaacz (talk) 07:32, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
- As I understand it, both
- Having
ntp-once.serviceserve as an Usage example might be ok but, as your question already implies, creates problems without duplication. Plus your point about the NM-dispatcher gives another reason that having a mention of the two services would be superfluous in Usage for some readers, because what they need depends on "Autostarting" method chosen. I'm +1 to moving all service files into "Autostarting" and just explain ntpd invocation (a,b,c,d) and the advantages in the Usage daemon/Without subsections and link down. --Indigo (talk) 10:53, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
- Having


text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - Please help me, need some advice... Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Please help me, need some advice... Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Health and Fitness View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message kian vasseghiJoined: 11 Mar 2005Posts: 9 Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 10:22 am Post subject: Please help me, need some advice... Can someone please give me some advice. What is the best way to lose weight and stay healthy Back to top AlvaroJoined: 24 Mar 2005Posts: 26Location: Spain Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 10:34 am Post subject: Practising cycling and having a good diet, with variety of food._________________Solo hay una forma de saber si un hombre es honesto: preguntárselo. 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Diamonds are forever,
They won't leave in the night,
Have no fear that they might...desert me
Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)
Throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe,
(Diamonds are forever)
The Roc is still alive every time I rhyme
For ever ever, for ever ever, ever ever, ever ever, ever ever, ever ever, ever ever
Good mornin' this ain't vietnam still
Still people lose hands, legs,
Arms for real little was known
From sierra leone. And how we
Connect to the diamonds we on
When I speak of the diamonds in
The song I ain't talkin bout the ones that
Be glown I'm talkin bout rock-a-fella my home,
My chain these are conflict diamonds
Is they jacob? Don't lie to me man
See you're part of this and keep shining
How when I know what a bood diamond is
Though it's thousand of miles away
Sierra leone connect to what we go
Through the day over here is the drug trade
We die from drugs. Overthere they die from what we
Buy from drugs the diomands, the chains, the bracelets, the charmses
I thought my I jesus piece was harmless until
I see a picture of a shorty armless
And here's the conflict it's in a black person's
Soul to rock that gold spend your whole life
Trying to get that ice all upon a run you look so
Nice how can something so wrong make me feel so
Right, right, before I beat myself up like ike
You could still throw your rock-a-fella dime
Of the night because
Diamonds are forever (forever, forever)
Throw your diamonds in the sky if you feel the vibe,
(Diamonds are forever)
The Roc is still alive every time I rhyme
For ever ever, for ever ever, ever ever, ever ever, ever ever, ever ever, ever ever
[Verse 2:]
People askin me is I'm gon give my
Chain back that'll be the same day I give
The game back you know the next questions are yo
Where dame at this tracks the indian dance to bring our reign back
What's up with you and jay man? Are
Ya'll okay man
[Jay-z verse]
Yup I got it from here yay damn
The chain remains the game
Is in tack. The name is mine
I'll take blame for that. The pressures
On but guess who ain't gone on crack. Haha
Pardon me I had to laugh at that
How can you falter? When you the rock of jubalta
I had to get of the boat so I could walk
On watah this ain't no atou this is nothin to me
Difficult takes a day impossible takes a week
I do this in my sleep I sold kilo's of coke
I'm guessing I can sell cd's
I'm not a buisness man I'm a buisness, man
Let me handle my buisness damn kanyea you got me free way
To foxy wy clef teara marie pd watch me
Bleak could be one hit away his whole
As long as I'm alive he's a millionaire
But even if I die he's in my will's somewhere
So he could just kick back and chill
Somewhere (oh yeah) he won't even have the write rhymes
The dynasty like my money last three life times
Shelly basey, hasn't been doing practicing what I've been sayin practicly my whole career,
The diamond is foreva I've been mining this foreva
Now the louis vuton dons back it couldn't be better
People lined up to see the titanic sinkin
Stead we rose from the ash like a phoenix
You waitin for the end of the dynasty sign
It would seem like forever yes a mighty long time
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Illinois MATSE 280 Introduction to Engineering Materials, Lecture 6: Diffusion in Solids
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Diffusion in Solids
- How does diffusion occur?
- How can the rate of diffusion be predicted forsome simple cases?
- How does diffusion depend on structure and temperature
- Diffusion- Steady and Non-Steady State
- Simple Diffusion
- Inter-diffusion
- Self-diffusion
- Substitution-diffusion
- Diffusion Mechanisms
- Processing using Diffusion
- Modeling rate of diffusion
- Steady-state Diffusion
- Example: Chemical Protection Clothing
- Example: Diffusion in steel plate
- Example: Diffusion of radioactive atoms
- Where can we use Fick's Law?
- Non-Steady-State Diffusion
- Example: Non-Steady-State Diffusion
- Example: Processing
- Diffusion Analysis
- Diffusion and Temperature
- Example: Comparing Diffuse in Fe
- Connecting Holes, Diffusion, and Stress
- Other Types of Diffusion (Beside Atomic)
- Inter-diffusion (diffusion couples)
- Kirkendall Effect: What if DA > DB?
- Diffusion in Compounds: Ionic Conductors
- Ionic Conduction: related to fuel cells
- Example: solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC)
- Ceramic Compounds: Al2O3
- Summary: Structure and Diffusion
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This is Annie. When she first came to us as a rescue she was in pretty rough shape.
A few trips to the vet and lots of love later she was able to be her lovely self.
Sadly, after too few years we lost Annie recently.
To honour her I sewed this little paper pieced quilt (finished size 10"x12") to hang on the wall of my sewing room. Annie was always a wonderful companion there and is sorely missed.
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2 Unlimited Success At Audi Hamilton Island Race Week
27 August 2012
By Tracey Walters & Lisa Ratcliff - The predominately Tasmanian team onboard Greg Prescott's Melges 32, 2 Unlimited, convincingly took out the first round in the Melges 32 Asia Pacific Cup Series, and won the 12 race Melges 32 division at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week.
It was three times lucky for Prescott who was also declared winner of the Audi Final Drive Challenge at Saturday night's trophy presentation, netting Prescott a $45,000 prize – a superb Audi A1 Ambition compact car.
It is the most valuable prize offered for any Australian sailing event this year.
To win the stylish 'Misano Red' premium car from Audi, yacht owners and crews combined their best sailing skills with those of being a consistently skilful driver at the wheel of a blisteringly-quick Audi R8 sports coupe on Wednesday's layday. Darren 'Twirler' Jones, tactician on 2 Unlimited, drove the R8 on Prescott's behalf.
Prescott's crew claimed the title of first place overall in the 12 race series at Audi Hamilton Island Race Week with 12 points, an astonishing 21 points clear of Angus Reid's Maxstar from the Canberra Yacht Club in second place. 2 Unlimited's result was the equal lowest from all monohull divisions racing in the light air Whitsunday regatta.
Noel Leigh Smith's Melges 32, Desperado, from Sandringham Yacht Club placed third, three points behind Maxstar. Great teamwork and dedication by the 2 Unlimited crew, consisting of five Tasmanians; Greg Prescott (skipper) Darren 'Twirler' Jones (tactician), Malcolm Parker, Oliver Nicholas, Mark Jeffery, James Corrie, Andrew Hudson and Justin Cook. A veteran of 27 Sydney Hobarts, Prescott said, 'It's good to see the Tasmanians come up here and have a win.'
After making the most of Saturday night's series-end celebrations, Prescott commented, 'The regatta just got better and better for us,' referring to the exciting surprise, winning the Audi A1. 'Twirler' put his hand up to drive the Audi on the layday and fortunately his success as tactician on the racecourse also applied on the specially-designed gymkhana course at Hamilton Island aiport. His consistent driving skills combined with a win in the Melges 32 division gave 2 Unlimited a one in twelve chance of taking home the keys to the Audi A1. Prescott was equally as pleased with the presentation of the regatta's Gun Boat Trophy, 'it's not normally given to little guys like us' he commented.
This was the first Audi Hamilton Island Race Week for the Melges 32, 2 Unlimited. Looking back over the series Prescott recalled, 'day one was a passage race, then eight windward/leeward races for the M32 Cup Series followed by three more passage races. It was like sailing two regattas. 'The passage races were light with lots of corners and we were sailing through a large fleet but they gave the Melges 32 fleet a chance to compress and mix up the results. Just because we won the windward / leeward series there was no guarantee for the passages race series.'
Saturday's Molles Island Race was a 23 nautical mile passage race around North Molle, Daydream and South Molle Islands. On the race Gus Reid, skipper of Maxstar, commented, 'After four hours of racing only ten seconds separated the Melges 32s from second to fifth place.
'2 Unlimited went into the shoreline at Daydream and came out on an escalator, stepping away from everyone. It was an amazing race, whales breaching around us and heavy fog making visibility difficult.'
Pleased with their second place overall Reid warned, 'The team on 2 Unlimited had lots of pace but are not unbeatable. We'll be focusing on preparation and then they won't have it all their own way.'
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The last day of early voting Thursday, May 1, in advance of the May 6 Shelby County primaries finds Democratic partisans questioning each other and faulting election procedures. Meanwhile, Republican partisans have been relatively quiet.
Early voting in advance of the May 6 election day for Shelby County primaries ends Thursday at 21 locations across Shelby County.
(Daily News File/Lance Murphey)
The contrast reflects the early voter turnout so far in the Republican and Democratic primaries.
Through Tuesday, April 29, 69.3 percent of early voters cast their ballots in the Democratic primary, with the remaining 30.7 percent voting in the Republican primary. The May ballot doesn't include any general election contests.
During early voting for the same election cycle four years ago, 59 percent of early voters cast ballots in the Democratic primary and 41 percent in the Republican primary.
The difference reflects the outcome of the 2010 elections, during which Republicans swept every countywide race in the general election. Many of those incumbents aren't facing opposition in their primaries this year.
Republicans have three hard-fought primaries for seats on the newly restructured Shelby County Commission and a one-on-one primary contest to choose their nominee for Shelby County assessor.
Through Tuesday, 13,079 people – 2.5 percent of the county's 533,720 registered voters – had voted early.
In 2010, early voting turnout was more than twice that: 31,029 residents, 5.2 percent of the county's nearly 600,000 registered voters at the time.
Meanwhile, after a debate earlier in the primary campaign season about party loyalty among Democrats, party leaders are now debating the arrival of several different "Democratic" ballots with endorsements being handed to voters at the early voting sites.
The ballots are an institution in Memphis politics.
But local Democratic Party Chairman Bryan Carson is complaining that some of them are "rogue ballots."
"These unofficial ballots are not a reliable, valid or sanctioned voting guide," Carson said. "Voters should avoid using these rogue ballots as a basis for making voting decisions."
–Bryan Carson Chairman, Shelby County Democratic Party
Both local parties have struggled with ballots made to look like official party endorsements in primaries, when neither party takes a formal stand in contested primary races.
But Carson went further, taking on those who put out the sample ballots and charge candidates to be listed.
Carson's statement called them a "profit-making venture."
"These individuals are not necessarily concerned with who the best candidates are," the statement continues, "but which candidates can afford to pay to be on their ballots."
The city's political tradition is rich with such ballots, with their organizers defending the practice of charging candidates as necessary to print the ballots and pay campaign workers to distribute them outside voting locations.
The use of paid campaign workers instead of volunteers is another perennial point of debate among local partisans.
Some Democrats faulted nine days of early voting only at the Shelby County Election Commission's Downtown office for the low turnout, with some more specifically blaming the majority-Republican Election Commission for the longer period of single-site voting than four years ago.
But early voting turnout in the Democratic primary was at 75 percent before the expansion to the satellite voting sites, when the percentage of those voting in the Republican primary began to rise.
Election administrator Rich Holden said when he was a Republican election commissioner and Democrats were the majority on the body, Democrats were adamant about keeping the site at the 157 Poplar Ave. location, even though the Election Commission offices moved a block away and then its headquarters moved to Shelby Farms Park.
The commission will discuss a more central location for the next early voting period in advance of the August elections. Tennessee law no longer requires Election Commission offices be the central early voting site.
Memphis-branch NAACP leaders encouraged a higher voter turnout, and Executive Director Madeleine Taylor also complained Tuesday about the single polling location for most of the early voting period, as well as maps for the new single-member Shelby County Commission districts on the Election Commission website that include no street detail to tell boundaries.
"These may represent small, inconsequential changes. However, they are important when the consequence is to suppress the vote and discourage people from voting," she said. "First, there was photo voter identification, then unannounced precinct changes, voter machine errors and a lack of diverse representation in the polling places."
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Foie Gras Terrine
Jesse Schenker | Yield: 24
Jesse Schenker, of Recette in Manhattan, understands that good ingredients need little adornment. This torchon is a case-in-point, requiring two ingredients only: fresh Hudson Valley foie gras and salt.
- 4 whole lobes Hudson Valley Grade A Duck Foie Gras, about 1 1/2 to 2 lbs each
- 1 tablespoon Coarse sea salt or kosher salt
- Rinse foie gras and pat dry. Dice foie gras into 1" x 1" pieces, removing any fat and veins. Spread foie gras out on tray and season with kosher salt. In a cast iron skillet, pan sear foie gras over high heat until dark on all sides, about 1 minute per side. Remove from heat and let rest in a separate pan until cool enough to handle.
- Line a terrine mold with plastic saran wrap, leaving enough plastic wrap to later fold over. Assemble foie gras in terrine making sure to leave no gaps or spaces, layering until the terrine is completely full. Fold plastic over the top and close with the fitted lid. Apply 3 – 5 pounds of weight and put in the refrigerator overnight to set up, at least 6 hours. After terrine is set up, remove from mold and the plastic saran wrap.
- To Serve: Slice with hot knife and season with salt. Serve with toast or bread and mustard.


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Drivers, please look twice.
Pedestrians, please do the same.
School is out for the summer, meaning more and more kids will be on the streets, and sidewalks, on foot, on bicycles, on skateboards and other means of transportation, in far greater numbers during all hours of the day. More adults, too.
For kids in particular, the excitement of summer is a proven distraction as they make their way around.
However, the fact is, kids don't always follow the rules in getting from point A to point B.
As an example, we present - without further comment - the above photo, taken Thursday at 3:05 p.m. at 12th and May streets, at the newly closed crosswalk.
(The new signalized crosswalk is 150 feet down the street; see page A5 for a photo.)
Examples of camps and other controlled ways for kids to get out and have fun, safely and under supervision, will presented in the Kaleidoscope section on June 22.
Also, if you're interested in having a say in a variety of safety matters connected to transportation, consider attending the June 20 City of Hood River hearing on the Transportation Safety Plan (details on page A1).
After all, no matter what the signs might say, everyone deserves a safe and happy summer.
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As per the movie thread, let us know what you just read and what you thought or if you would recommend it or not. Proper title and author would probably be useful and maybe also a quick plot outline / summary if you want.
To kick it off I just read Steve Jobs' Biography by Walter Isaacson. Found the book a bit hard to get through (its quite long) but it was still a good read. Has some very interesting insights into Steve and Apple, sure sounds like some of his personality traits were on the fringe. Guess they have to be to do what he did. I liked that the book showed both the good and bad sides of Steve and tried to paint an honest picture of him.
I'd recommend you read it if you have any interest in Steve Jobs or Apple but expect to take a while to chew through it. For me..7.5/10