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Above, Senior White House Adviser Stephen Miller. (Art source: Hatewatch at Southern Poverty Law Center)
AOC: Stephen Miller 'must resign' after leak of his white nationalist emails, xenophobic rants
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), also known as AOC, has called on Senior White House Adviser Stephen Miller to resign immediately amid reports that he regularly pushed white nationalist talking points and xenophobic rants in a series of leaked emails sent in the months before the 2016 presidential election.
In addition, the Huffington Post reported this week, Miller "bemoaned opposition to Confederate symbols following a mass shooting in a black church in South Carolina and embraced immigration policies once lauded by Adolf Hitler."
The Southern Poverty Law Center published an investigation from its Hatewatch blog on November 14 after reviewing more than 900 messages that Miller sent to the conservative news outlet Breitbart from March 2015 through June 2016.
More than 80% of the emails related to "or appear on threads relating to the subjects of race or immigration," the group found, and many sought to promote far-right extremist ideas and anti-immigration messaging.
But despite the fact that Miller sent the messages before the election, @AOC tweeted on Tuesday that the trove of uncovered emails should bring the White House aide's immediate resignation.
"Stephen Miller, Trump's architect of mass human rights abuses at the border (including child separation & detention camps w/ child fatalities) has been exposed as a bonafide white nationalist," the lawmaker wrote Tuesday night on Twitter. "He's still at the White House shaping US immigration policy."
She added, "Miller must resign. Now."
The Trump administration refused to discuss the SPLC's investigation on Tuesday. White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said she had not seen the report but called the SPLC an "utterly-discredited, long-debunked far-left smear organization" in a statement to HuffPost.
She added that the nonprofit group, which regularly defends civil liberties and shines a light on hate groups, was "beneath public discussion."
Hatewatch said Tuesday that many of Miller's emails were centered on race and immigration, calling his perspective "repetitious" and highly focused on "ending nonwhite immigration to the United States." They were given to the news outlet by a former Breitbart editor, Katie McHugh, who said they "clearly illustrate his beliefs, which until now have not been made explicit and known to the American people."
Miller has been the architect of many of President Donald Trump's hard-line immigration efforts and one of the administration's most vocal defenders.
"Americans should be terrified by the casual way that Stephen Miller, who has enormous influence in the White House, shares racist content and speaks the language of white nationalists in emails to people he apparently considered fellow travelers," Michael Edison Hayden, an investigative reporter at Hatewatch, said in a statement Tuesday.
Read the full investigation at the SPLC.
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Envoy to Ukraine William Taylor. (Photo source: YouTube screen grab)
Taylor ties Trump directly to Ukraine quid pro quo
It was a shakedown, pure and simple. There were audible gasps in the room on October 22, when the top U.S. envoy to Ukraine told House impeachment investigators that President Donald Trump sought to withhold $400 million in critical military aid to Ukraine—and to refuse a White House meeting with the country's president, Volodymyr Zelensky—unless he pursued politically motivated investigations into Trump's rivals.
The diplomat, William Taylor, painted a damaging portrait of events that directly tied Trump to a quid pro quo with Ukraine, according to his prepared remarks obtained by Politico and his responses to questions as described by sources in the room for the closed-door testimony.
Indeed, the 50-year veteran of government service "systematically dismantled Trump's repeated denials that he sought to leverage American military and diplomatic might to coerce an ally into a coordinated campaign to damage his potential 2020 rival," Politico reported.
Trump himself and his congressional allies did not attempt on Tuesday to dispute the substance of Taylor's claims, which were based on copious notes. Instead, White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham attacked Taylor personally, saying he was part of a band of "radical unelected bureaucrats waging war on the Constitution."
In his opening statement, Taylor said Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, told him that "everything" — including military assistance to Ukraine and a meeting between Trump and the Ukrainian leader — was contingent on the Ukrainians publicly announcing investigations into Trump's political opponents. He told impeachment investigators that a White House budget official said on a secure phone call in July that Trump had personally directed that the military aid be withheld.
"It is a rancorous story about whistle-blowers, Mr. Giuliani, side channels, quid pro quos, corruption and interference in elections," Taylor said according to Politico, referring to Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who was deeply involved in the shadow effort.
Taylor also testified that Sondland said Trump personally told him that he wanted Ukraine to "state publicly" that it would open such probes, before the U.S. would release the aid, which is viewed as critical for combating Russia's aggression in the region.
"The body language of the people hearing it was, 'holy s—' — seriously," Representative Harley Rouda (D-California), a member of the House Oversight and Reform Committee, told Politico in reference to Taylor's opening statement.
Representative Stephen Lynch (D-Massachusetts), a senior member of the Oversight panel, characterized the testimony as a "sea change" that "could accelerate" the impeachment inquiry..
Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the president's lead defender in the room, was tight-lipped as he emerged from the closed-door deposition for a lunch break. He praised what he described as GOP lawyers' effective questioning of Taylor but declined to say whether it yielded exculpatory information.
Research contact: @politico
This entry was posted in Politics and tagged $400 million in critical aid, Ambassador to EU Gordon Sondland, Congressional impeachment inquiry, Investigation of Joe Biden and Hunter Biden, Meeting in White House, Personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, Quid pro quo, Rep. Harley Rouda (D-CA), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), Testimony, Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, US envoy to Ukraine William Taylor, US President Donald Trump, White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham on October 23, 2019 by Poll-Vaulter.


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Since Windows is the most widely used Operating system across the world, the issues faced by the users are also too varied. Some users come up with a desktop issue, or some find themselves with a network issue. But, all the issues can fix in one way or the other. One of such issues that have been widely reported by the users is the GeForce experience not Working issue in Windows 10 Operating System. Thus, this article is dedicated to the solutions and fixes of the NVIDIA GeForce experience won't open issue.
GeForce Experience is just a supplementary program or application to the widely used GTX Graphics Card. It has been provided to the users as it helps in the regular and timely updation of the drivers, helps to share of experiences regarding gaming among friends and peer groups and also provides optimal settings for a gaming program.
are the ones that have been listed below.
2. No Driver installed for the installed version of GeForce.
Knowing the causes always helps in selecting the method that fixes the problem and also saves time which is next to money.
Fixing the GeForce experience won't start error in window 10 is not a herculean task. It just involves a few ways which hit directly at the sources of the issue. Thus, the methods which we have discussed below will surely solve the issue.
1. Open the Run command by using the key combination of Windows Key + R.
2. Type of services.msc to open the Service Window.
3. In the Service Window, find out GeForce Experience Service.
4. Right Click on the icon and select the restart option. In some cases, the restart option replaces by the start option. Thus, make the choices accordingly.
5. Restart the application to check for the issues.
Having enabled or re-enabled the GeForce experience service, the GeForce experience won't start issue will be solved. If it persists, then try one the methods discussed below and that might resolve the issue.
1. Open the Run Command by pressing the Windows Key and R key together.
2. Type in devmgmt.msc for opening the Device Management Window.
3. If you have the driver installed, select Display Adapters and then click on GeForce.
4. Uninstall the GeForce driver.
5. Now, open the official website of GeForce and download the latest version of the driver.
6. Install the new driver and then restart the computer.
Following the above method will solve the issue if the driver had caused it. But if there was something else behind the error, look at the other ways to fix it.
1. To continue with latest driver software, you need to update the Operating System. It recommends as it will save you from a number of other issues as well.
2. To continue with the obsolete operating system, you need to uninstall the driver and install an obsolete version. It will work as an instant solution with a short-term fix.
Thus, it is your choice to which of the above methods you use to get the GeForce experience won't open error.
Not using hardware which is compatible with the program is also a significant cause of the errors like the GeForce experience won't open error. To maintain the stability of the computer system and also to keep up the good health of the computer, we should use only the compatible hardware and software. To fix the error, check if the RAM is as required, the graphics card is as needed and other such things. Having done this, there is no chance that you will face the GeForce experience won't open error again.
Sometimes, Antivirus software creates problems for the other operations in your computer system and also affects the performance of some applications of which NVIDIA GeForce Experience is one.
So you can choose to temporarily disable them in your Windows computer and then run GeForce Experience in your system.
1. Download the latest available version of GeForce Experience from its official website.
2. Now, you need to Uninstall NVIDIA GeForce Experience from your PC. To do that, navigate to Control Panel>>Programs and Features & find NVIDIA GeForce Experience from the list. Click Uninstall to remove it completely from your computer.
3. Restart your computer now and install the latest files for GeForce Experience in your PC.
4. Now run the latest installed version of GeForce Experience and check if you're facing GeForce Experience won't open error or not.
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The student body at Deep Springs discussed admitting women last fall. First year student Bennett Bergman says it's made him think hard about what it means to be in a community, how to contribute to one, and how to make it better.
A view of the dorm and the boardinghouse at Deep Springs College. Students keep strange hours, and so do their classes. It's rare that the whole campus is asleep.
Deep Springs sits in California's high desert. A current student body of 28 men runs a cattle ranch and an alfalfa farm, as well, as a mostly organic garden.
First-year student Rhys Dubin is part of the committee considering health issues raised by the admission of women. "This isn't the start of sexual activity at Deep Springs. Things like that happen." He says the process of going co-ed is making the school safer and healthier for everyone.
All Deep Springs students take part in labor, from ranching duties, to farming, to cooking, cleaning, or working in the dairy.
Twice a day during term 5, second-year student Zack Stout milked 3 cows in the dairy, each of which was named before he got to the valley
Eamon Heberlein says at first, he wanted to preserve an all-male education. Now, though, his original feelings are outweighed by "a sense of obligation."
Molly Peterson | The Madeleine Brand Show | June 12, 2012
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One of the hardest colleges to get into in the country is in California's high desert. It's also one of the most unusual. Students leave Deep Springs College at the end of two years, often for diplomas at an Ivy League school. Along the way, they run a cattle farm and an alfalfa ranch.
The first time I got to Deep Springs was after the dinner bell on a spring night in 2003. I drove up the last bit of dirt road, under the sign, and onto the circular sand-gravel path that surrounds what is now a soccer field. If it were a quad, if it were your quad, at your university, maybe you'd have students playing on that patch of luscious green, too.
My sister used to teach there, hundreds of miles from LA, east off of highway 395. Katie made up names for the final, twisty road over the Westgard pass to the ranch that she drove so often. That's another thing: Just getting to Deep Springs requires commitment. Staying there for two years requires a dedication to living intensely and thinking very hard about pretty much everything.
Now this school, nearly a century old, is approaching perhaps the biggest change it will ever make: Admitting women.
Deep Springs Professor Jennifer Rapp leads a handful of students to the art studio, by the light of a small lantern and the cold starry sky.
"Wooo…" says Bennett Bergman, before the lights flip on. The long skinny fluorescents are an institutional buzzkill. "What about, is there enough light if we turn off this nasty fluorescent thing," Rapp says. Students agree. They gather in near dark around low boxes, topped with the lantern, candles, a knife, a stick, and a book of symbols.
The poem they dig into is "The Third Hour of the Night," written by Frank Bidart. Its themes are creation and destruction.
Even the gods cannot
end death. In this universe anybody can kill anybody
with a stick. What the gods gave me
is their gift, the power to bury within each
creature the hour it ceases.
Everyone knows I have powers but not such power.
If they knew I would be so famous
they would kill me.
I tell you because your tongue is stone.
If the gods ever give you words, one night in
sleep you will wake to find me above you.
A bearded student starts talking. "It seems at times Bidart deplores the visible twin, and maybe this language is too strong," he says. Rapp murmurs encouragement. The student continues. "It's the reification of the invisible or essential twin…"
"On Making" is the name of this literature course in which the students also make physical objects of their own, and share them with the class, to think about what making means.
"So, this won't sound like a diatonic scale that you'd hear from a piano right now," second year student Cory Myers says. He bonks the wood, from which a sound emerges, not quite hollow, still in development. "In the long run that will be a true chromatic scale."
Myers unveils a marimba he's working on, assembled from the college's scrap wood. Which, as he says, is basically "an instrument I don't play, using a set of skills I don't have," he stops, joining in the laughter with others. "Would you do it any other way, Cory?" Jennifer Rapp says. "No," Myers says, to another peal of erupting group laughter.
Lucien Lucius Nunn made Deep Springs College differently, and academics are only part of his plan to mold young men into leaders at this desert school.
In the deed of trust, Nunn wrote, in part: "The purpose for which the property hereby conveyed shall be used by said trustees is to provide for the education of promising young men, in a manner emphasizing the need and opportunity for unselfish service, and uplifting mankind from materialism to idealism, to a life in harmony with the creator, in the conduct of which educational work of democratic self government by the students themselves shall be a feature, as is now the case at Deep Springs."
It's 4:41 a.m. A cat that seems to live in the student dorm meows, strangely, with a strangled sound. And finally, out of the dorm, comes Zack Stout. His eyes red behind glasses, an hour of sleep under his belt, he has rolled out of bed into a sweatshirt and jacket. So begins the morning dairy run.
A second part of Nunn's educational plan is work. Every guy owes four hours of labor a day. Stout's is in the dairy, rinsing out a bucket, soaping up the cows' udders, milking them, in turn, in rhythm with the other dairy man.
Other students work in the garden, herd cattle, cook, farm, clean. Stout milks three cows twice daily, all of them named before he got here. "Sarah is the most gentle and kind and generally cooperative. Lilith seems like kind of a diva. I don't really know why," he adds, as an aside. "And Ruth is generally disgruntled and unhappy with us."
Dairy men put milk on the boardinghouse table. One of the last things they do on the morning run is share it with the rest of the community: the pigs.
Students have extraordinary power over their education here, under a principle L.L. Nunn called self-governance. It's up to them to decide where they room and if they can have pets. Students choose the class catalog. For years, they've banned leaving the valley during term and outlawed drugs and alcohol.
They deliberate, deeply, about everything that matters to them in this valley. So even though their opinions about coeducation are just that, it's not surprising that the student body, Stout included, has pondered what would happen if Deep Springs admitted women.
He pauses a minute or so before he answers my question on the subject. I'm forced to accustom myself to his rhythms; it's as though the hum of a machine in the background grows louder. "Probably the thing I value most about this place is that it's a supportive community. You become comfortable expressing yourself spontaneously in a variety of ways. You can be a lot of things here and you don't have to worry about how much sex appeal you have," he says. Another, smaller pause. "One of the things I worry about and with the transition to co-education is the open variety we have to so many different ways of being here could be lost."
The conversation about coeducation in the Deep Springs community at large came to a head last fall when the college's board of trustees approved plans to admit women by a 10 to 2 vote.
One of the ten was second year student Ben Shaver, who says his choice to come to Deep Springs "was motivated by a sense that a lot of higher education is aimless."
This place is not. "Here there is a pretty explicit sense of purpose that the education is geared toward a life of service," he says. "That's something we talk about pretty regularly, and amongst ourselves take fairly seriously."
Shaver and Cory Myers, the other student trustee, emphasize that letting women in isn't a rejection of their single sex education. Shaver grew up in boarding school and did five years in the military before here. They both tell me that they've talked about going co-ed so much, they can't help but empathize with the side they're not taking. But Myers and Shaver each says his duty as a trustee is to the school's success.
"If we're supposed to be training people for lives of service, it's hard to do that in a model that's so different from the outside world," Shaver says, describing one here "that's in a lot of ways ignoring half of that world."
They're already leaders at Deep Springs, that other half of the world. A woman manages the ranch operations. Several women teach. Trustee Kinch Hoekstra says he values their example.
'There are women who are smarter than these students," he says. He's not kidding. "There are women who are better trained, academically and intellectually. There are women who are just plain tougher."
But he's one of two trustees who voted against letting women in. Hoekstra says L.L. Nunn was clear about educating men for lives of service. That's not illegal. It's not impossible. Thus it should continue.
"As a trustee I feel the case is extremely clear cut," he says, adding with a dry laugh, "I find it frustrating that others don't share this perception of clarity."
When Hoekstra studied at Deep Springs in the early 1980s, his student body debated coeducation, too. "It's been a hot topic since the sixties at least," he says. "I think it's a very interesting question I've engaged in myself since 1982 to ask whether DS would be better if it were coeducational."
Then, Hoekstra says, he would have admitted women. Now, he says he's duty bound by Nunn's original words. "It just seems to me the trustees exceeded their authority in taking up the question in those terms."
He points to the deed of trust, printed in the Gray Book all students have, and to an essay in a section called "The Purpose."
He likes these words in particular: "Deep Springs is not conventional in its methods. And any attempt to introduce conventional methods or any radical change would destroy its usefulness all together," Hoekstra reads.
"I worry that the trustees of Deep Springs have done precisely this sort of thing, which is to introduce conventional methods in a way that would radically change the institution," says Hoekstra.
Dissenting trustees are opposing the school's plans to admit women. In papers filed with Inyo County court, one of the people Hoekstra mentions is my sister Katie, who was at Deep Springs in 2003, and again for several years in 2006.
We talk on Skype. "I taught feminism, I taught poetry workshop, I taught American romanticism and transcendentalism," Katie ticks off. I remind her that on my first visit there, she argued very passionately in favor of the college's all-male nature.
"Well, l'm sure I did that," she admits. But Katie says she doesn't think that way anymore. Instead she cried, with joy, when she learned about the board's decision by email. "I felt elated and relieved that this institution in which I had worked for so long was opening its doors to my gender after such a long time," she says.
Trustees say hundreds of people affiliated with the college weighed in about admitting women, in meetings, emails, letters. My sister did not. "I had great faith in the board and in the student community and in the community of alums to go through a process and figure out what they wanted for another generation of Deep Springers," she says.
These current students have faith in their system, too. Half of them will have packed up and moved on by the time a judge hears the legal dispute over going co-ed in July. That includes second year Eamon Heberlein, who says he first preferred strongly the preservation of the intimate bonds of brotherhood he's benefited from. "That said, when the vote came, those issues were outweighed by a sense of obligation," he says. "A sense of feeling the change on the horizon."
Now the student body is at work on practical, logistical questions, like where women would sleep, and, says first year Rhys Dubin, how women would change the college's policies on sexual health. "We're very isolated, and we have to deal with birth control, things like that, that are just necessities in any coed environment."
I know what you're thinking. Dubin knows what you're thinking. His classmates know what we're all thinking. He's earnest, yes; not that earnest. But for him, this isn't about sex.
"You know, this isn't the start of sexual activity at Deep Springs. Things like that happen," he scoffs, a little, in my direction. "In a lot of ways it's been good to not only think about radical changes that need to be made but also just ways in which we can make this a basically safer and healthier environment for all those who are involved, whether it stays single sex or it broadens to a co-ed environment."
Deep Springs President David Neidorf and Chair of the Board of Trustees Dave Hitz sent out a message in early June. The college is accepting applications from women for the fall of 2013, even while the legal dispute of which Hoekstra is a part continues. The college's founding trust controls about $2.5 million of the school's $17 million in investments. Hitz and Neidorf write that Deep Springs simply does not plan to spend that money running the school for the time being. The dispute over the trust and its millions continues in Inyo County court next month.
With a new student body every two years; the institution's memory is short. At present its keepers are mostly 20-year-olds who sing together while washing up in the boarding house after meals. Loud songs. Absurd songs. Justin Bieber songs.
"Baby, baby, baby oh…like baby baby baby ohhh," they sing, cracking themselves up.
Younger students here now, like Rhys Dubin, will be gone in a year. With women or not, the songs of a future student body will be their own.
But each student through this valley takes responsibility for this college and for how to serve L.L. Nunn's education ideals. For Deep Springers, learning about a life of service doesn't end when school does, and leading a life of service isn't something they wait to start.
L.L. Nunn asked students why they came into the wilderness. And he wrote this, one of my favorite things: The desert has a deep personality. It has a voice. Great leaders in all ages from Moses to Roosevelt have sought the desert and heard its voice. You can hear it if you listen.
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Home 2021 AFL Players | All Players Jordan De Goey De Goey to attend court hearing virtually
De Goey to attend court hearing virtually
The 25-year-old is set to face a New York court on December 8.
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MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - APRIL 10: Jordan De Goey of the Magpies looks dejected after losing the round four AFL match between the Collingwood Magpies and the Greater Western Sydney Giants at Melbourne Cricket Ground on April 10, 2021 in Melbourne, Australia. (Photo by Quinn Rooney/Getty Images)
Jordan De Goey will return to Australia and face a New York City court via video link as he looks to dispute charges arising from a nightclub incident.
De Goey and friend Luke Dyson claim that the alleged assault on a fellow patron at the Dream nightclub was in self-defence after the complainant pushed past them in a bid to steal drinks from the duos booth.
The Herald-Sun has reported that De Goey will be permitted to attend his court hearing via Zoom link, with the pair set to deny they groped a female friend of the man De Goey allegedly pushed.
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 26: Jordan De Goey of the Magpies kicks during the round 4 AFL match between Greater Western Sydney Giants and Collingwood Magpies at GIANTS Stadium on June 26, 2020 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by Ryan Pierse/Getty Images)
Tony Sheahan's report goes on to say that members of De Goey's camp had confirmed the news to him that the Collingwood player would be returning to Australia soon.
"The 25-year-old's return was confirmed to Sheahan Ink by members of the De Goey entourage who let slip the inked up ball magnet may also have found time to nip into Las Vegas for some R&R while still on American soil," Sheahan wrote.
De Goey has been stood down by Collingwood for what list manager Graham Wright says is for a string of off-field incidents in recent years, not just this isolated incident.
"That behaviour over a period of time has found us in a situation where we felt it was the right thing to do for the football club to stand him down three or four weeks ago," Wright told 3AW recently.
"It's a concern, and a concern that he's found himself in a situation where the absolute best scenario for him is he's been in New York and got into a barroom fight that's seen him arrested, regardless of what happens with the court case.
"We're really disappointed in it, we've obviously stood him down until we get face-to-face with him and see where the court case goes and what's happening with that.
"We're in that sort of holding pattern at the moment."
Since being charged by the New York Police Department, De Goey returned to California where he's been training with Johnny Louch at the W Training Facility.
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OSU football: Malcolm Rodriguez announces positive COVID-19 test
by Jacob Unruh
Published: Sun, June 14, 2020 4:19 PM Updated: Sun, June 14, 2020 4:21 PM
STILLWATER — Linebacker Malcolm Rodriguez is the second known Oklahoma State football player to test positive for COVID-19.
Rodriguez, a Wagoner native, announced on Sunday that he had tested positive after returning to campus earlier this month. He said on his Twitter page that he is asymptomatic.
Rodriguez is the second OSU linebacker to announce a positive test, joining Amen Ogbongbemiga.
OSU football players began returning on June 1, with testing for all players, coaches and staff members two weeks ahead of voluntary workouts. Cowboys senior associate athletic director Kevin Klintworth tweeted that the university tested more than 150 people that day, "with 3 asymptomatic positives. All by (student-athletes). Positives were expected and the plan for that scenario has been activated. We will be as forthcoming as possible on the covid issues."
It's unclear if Rodriguez is one of those three positive tests, but he's stressing caution.
"This message goes to urge that even though you may not exhibit symptoms, you may still be a carrier per the guidelines of the CDC," Rodriguez wrote. "Please continue to use extreme caution when presenting yourself to any group gatherings that exist beyond the confines of your own home and surroundings.
"Covid 19 is not a hoax and still exists. Be safe, be well and best wishes."
Freshmen have yet to report to campus. They were scheduled to report the first week of June, but after the positive tests were delayed.
Oklahoma State's Malcolm Rodriguez (20) waits for a play during the college football game between the Oklahoma State Cowboys and the McNeese State Cowboys at Boone Pickens Stadium in Stillwater, Okla., Saturday, Sept. 7, 2019. [Sarah Phipps/The Oklahoman]
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CS Training Manuals
This document is an amalgamation of the 11 Community Sites training manuals.
They are organised in increasing order of speciality, A to K.
The text of each corresponds exactly to one of the CS manuals - well nearly as we have respected site limitations and stayed within the standard formatting techniques.
Hyperlinks (underlined) are provided in the index and throughout the document. For manuals C and H, where there are no hyperlinks, just click on the principal link and then scroll down.
Click here to roll-up the Index.
A. QUICK START TUTORIAL
Accessing the site
Creating a page
Publishing a page
Creating a new category
B. ADDING MULTIMEDIA
Uploading clips from your own computer
Linking to a clip hosted on another site
Paste code from another site
C. EXTRA FEATURES FOR IMAGES
Links from an image to a website address
Links from an image to a bigger version of the image
Hide an image on the page (but display it as the main menu icon)
Add an 'image map' to the image
Position an image on the page in relation to the text
D. SUB-HEADINGS, LINKS AND LISTS
Sub-headings
Links within the site
Bullet and numbered lists
E. ADDING A MAP TO A PAGE
Removing a map
F. CREATING AND APPLYING FLAGS
Create a new category and check its reference
Create a flag
Apply the flag to the new category
Publish pages into the new category
Creating sub-categories of flagged categories (optional)
G. CREATING PAGES ABOUT EVENTS
Getting a list of newly submitted events
Publishing an event
Removing an event
H. EDITING THE HOME PAGE
Project strapline
Lefthand menu
Welcome title and text
'See what's new' listing
I. CREATING AND EDITING CATEGORIES
Edit an existing category
J. CREATING AND PLACING ADVERTS
Create an advert
Place the advert where you want it to appear
K. MANAGING USERS OF THE WEBSITE
Editing a user
Creating a user
Down Up Index A. QUICK START TUTORIAL
These instructions provide a quick introduction to:
Down Up Index A1. ACCESSING THE SITE
The site can be accessed and edited from any computer connected to the internet.
In the address bar at the top of your browser, type in the address of the website.
You should then see the home page of the website. If the site has not yet been launched, you may need to enter a special username and password to reach the home page (this is not the same as the personal username and password you use when editing the site).
Down Up Index A2: CREATING A PAGE
To create a new page, you need to log in.
On the home page, go to the log-in panel. Enter your username and password, and then click on the Log in button.
In place of the log in panel, you should now see a message saying: Hi! What would you like to do?
Click on the button marked My pages
You should see a screen with the heading My pages.
Click on the button marked Add a page at the right of the screen.
You should now see a screen headed Add Title.
Type the title.
Type the sub-title.
By default, your name is entered as the author. Edit this if necessary.
Click on the button marked Next.
You should now see a screen headed Add Words.
Click inside the text entry box.
Type or copy-and-paste the text into the text box.
Notice that you can format the text using the buttons for bold or italic.
If you want to add a link, first highlight the text you want to link from, then click on the Create link button (it has a picture of the world and a chain on it).
When you've finished, click on the button marked Next.
You should now see a screen headed Add Photos.
Click the Browse button. A box will appear with the heading Choose file.
The box is displaying the files on your own computer. Locate the image you want to add to the page.
Highlight the image and click on the Open button. The box headed Choose file will disappear.
Click on the button marked Upload this image. There will be a pause while the photo uploads from your computer to the website. Then a small-scale version of the photo should appear under the heading Photos on this page.
Click on the photo. You should see a box for entering a caption and a credit.
Type in the caption.
Type in the credit.
Click on the button marked Done.
The heading Add a new photo should reappear on the left.
Repeat steps 1-8 if you want to add another photo.
Preview the page
You should now see a screen headed Preview your page. Your new page should appear below this.
To the right of the heading Preview your page, there are three rectangular graphics. These icons represent different layouts you can choose for the page.
The left-hand icon should be highlighted in red. This is the layout that you are currently previewing. In this layout, the text and images are side-by-side.
Click on the middle of the three icons. The layout of your page should change. The pictures are now underneath the text, and are displayed in a bigger size.
Click on the right-hand icon. The layout of your page should change again. The pictures are still underneath the text, but they are displayed as thumbnails. This is the layout for a 'picture gallery.
Click on the left-hand icon to return to the layout for text and images side-by-side.
Notice that you can go back and alter the words, photos or title of the draft page by clicking on the tabs above the heading Preview your page.
Click on the button marked Finally, save your work.
Save the page
You should now see a screen headed Save your contribution.
There are three buttons, marked Save draft for later, Save and submit and Save and continue.
You would use Save draft for later if you wanted to log back in a few days later and finish working on the page.
You would use Save and continue if you wanted to save the page and carry on working on it immediately
Click on the button marked Save and submit. This submits the page for publication, and takes you back to the screen headed My Pages.
You should now be back at the screen headed My Pages.
Your new page is now listed under the heading Submitted for publication.
Click on the tab marked Log out. This is near the middle of the screen, just above the heading My Pages.
A small box will appear asking you to confirm you want to log out. Click on OK. You should return to the home page of the site.
Down Up Index A3: PUBLISHING A PAGE
Log in as an editor
To publish a new page, you need to be an editor of the website. The administrator of the site can make any contributor into an editor simply by ticking a box on a list of users.
Assuming that you have now been made an editor, we'll now see how to publish the new page that you have just created.
On the home page, go to the log-in panel. Log in with your user name and password.
Click on the button marked Edit the site. You should now see a screen with the heading My pages.
Editors need to see at a glance what pages have been recently submitted. The new page you have just created should be listed below the heading Submitted for publication.
Click on the link marked (Edit) next to the new page. This takes you to the Add title screen (that is, the first of the screens which you worked through to create the page).
Publish the new page
Look at the tabs above the heading Add title. As well as the familiar tabs you could use to edit the page (e.g. Add words), there is a new tab marked Publish. This only appears when you are an editor.
Click on the tab marked Publish. You should go to a screen headed Publish the contribution.
The first field allows you to add keywords to the page which would be invisible to visitors of the site. You can usually ignore this field, as search engines like Google now restrict their searching to the visible text. The only occasion on which you might use a keyword is if the main topic of the page is for some reason not mentioned on the page itself (e.g. a page about bicycles which for some reason doesn't include the word 'bicycle'.) If you do want to add keywords, separate them by commas.
Below the keywords box, there is a list of the current categories in the site. Click on one of the categories. It should become highlighted in blue.
Scroll down the page and click on the Publish button.
You should return to the screen headed My Pages. There are now no pages listed under the heading Submitted for publication, because you have just published the only page that was pending.
Go back to the home page of the site by clicking on the tab marked Back to site. Your new page has been published and should appear under the heading See what's new on the home page.
Down Up Index A4: CREATING A NEW CATEGORY
You have just published your new page in one of the existing categories on the site. You're now going to create a new category and move your new page into that.
Start at the home page of the site.
You should still be logged in, so on the left-hand menu you should be able to see a heading saying: 'Hi! What do you want to do?'
Underneath this heading, click on the button marked Edit the site. This takes you to the screen headed My Pages.
Editors can create, edit and delete categories at any time.
Click on the tab marked Categories. This is just above the heading My Pages.
Click on the button called New category.
You'll come to the first of a series of tabs where you can create the new category. All you will do in this tutorial is to give the category a title, and then publish it.
Type in a title for the new category on the first tab.
Go to the tab marked Publish.
Now choose where you want to put the new category. For example, if you want the new category to appear inside the 'About us' section of the site, select 'About us' from the list of categories. You can make the new category appear in more than one parent category by holding down the Control key (on a PC) and selecting more than one category from the list.
You can see there are other fields; for example, a field for hiding the category from the site navigation. Ignore these for now.
At the very bottom of the page, click on the button marked Publish.
You should go back to the list of categories. Your new category will appear in the list.
Click on the Back to site tab.
Check your new category
Let's quickly check that your new category has been created properly.
Click on the link to the 'Site map' in the footer bar at the bottom of the screen.
You should be able to see your new category listed. (If you can't see it immediately, you may need to expand the view of the lower levels of the sitemap by clicking on the + buttons.)
Move your new page into your new category
Finally, we'll move your new page into your new category. To do this, you simply re-publish the page.
You are still logged in, so you should be able to see a heading saying: 'Hi What do you want to do?' Click on the button marked Add/edit pages. This takes you to the screen headed My Pages.
You now need to find your new page. At the right-hand side of the screen you should see the heading Select pages. Below this there are a set of drop-down lists giving you different ways to search for particular pages.
Select the drop-down list labelled By category. Select the category in which your page is currently published. A list of the pages in this category should appear at the left of the screen.
Your page should be in the list of pages. Click on the (Edit) link next to it. This takes you to the Add title screen for the page.
Click on the tab marked Publish.
In the list of categories, find your new category. Click on the name of the new category. It should become highlighted in blue.
Click on the button marked Re-publish. This should take you back to the My pages screen.
Check that your new page is now in your new category
And finally check that your new page is now in your new category.
Click on the link to the 'site map' at the bottom of the screen.
Click on the link to your new category.
You should be able to see your new page listed inside your new category.
AND NOW?
That's the end
You have learnt how to create and edit pages and categories. Those are the most common tasks that website editors need to carry out.
Down Up Index B: ADDING MULTIMEDIA
These instructions provide guidance on adding multimedia clips to the website. It covers:
Pasting code from another site (e.g. YouTube)
Down Up Index B1. UPLOADING CLIPS FROM YOUR OWN COMPUTER
Create a new page in the usual way, by clicking on the Add a page button. Assuming that multimedia has been enabled for your user level (e.g. it is sometimes only enabled for editors or administrators), you should see an Add multimedia tab.
To upload a new audio or video clip from your computer:
The box is displaying the files on your own computer. Locate the multimedia clip you want to add to the page.
Highlight the clip and click on the Open button. The box headed Choose file will disappear.
Click on the button marked Upload this clip. There will be a pause while the clip uploads from your computer to the website. Then the clip should appear under the heading Clips on this page.
Adding related text and images to the clip
Click on the edit link next to the clip. You can now enter the following text related to the clip, plus an image (the image is relevant to audio clips only).
Title (e.g. Memories of the 1987 Great Storm)
Short description of the content (e.g. Interview with John Smith)
Transcript (NB if you want to add a short introduction about the interview, you should do that via the Add words tab; this field should only be used for the transcript)
Image (NB This image will appear immediately above the play bar for the audio, so is usually a photo of the speaker, or some other image that is closely related to the clip. Other images that might illustrate the audio clip can be added via the Add photos tab as usual.)
Down Up Index B2. LINKING TO A CLIP HOSTED ON ANOTHER SITE
You can import a clip that is hosted on another site (with permission) in the same way that you can import an image that is hosted on another site. Enter the full address of the clip (including http://). Note that the address of the clip should end with the filename of the clip (for example, it should end with .mp3). This is not the same as the address of the web page on which the clip appears.
After entering the address, click on the Link this clip button. You can then add details about the clip as described in 'Adding related text and images to the clip' above.
Down Up Index B3. PASTE CODE FROM ANOTHER SITE
Some websites, such as YouTube, allow users to embed video clips hosted on YouTube on other websites. To make this happen, YouTube provides a bit of code which needs to be pasted into the other website.
After pasting the code, click on the Add this code button. You can then add details about the clip as described in 'Adding related text and images to the clip' above.
Down Up Index C: EXTRA FEATURES FOR IMAGES
These guidelines tell you how to use the advanced features that are available for positioning images and creating links from images.
The options described below do not appear to ordinary contributors to the site. They only appear to editors and administrators (or to administrators only, depending on how the site has been set up).
You will see these advanced features when you are editing an image on the Add image tab, and click on the thumbnail of the image to edit it. The options appears beneath the boxes for adding a caption and credit to an image.
Link from an image to a website address
Click in the box labelled Link to this address
Enter the full website address (including http://)
Click on Done.
The link is not active when you preview the page, but will work when you publish the page.
Link from an image to a bigger version of the image
Select an option from the box labelled Add a link to this version of the image
The options are: Original - the image that was originally uploaded to the site, which might be any size and is often very big Fullsize the biggest scaled version of the image, that appears in a photo gallery, for example Scaled a smaller scaled version of the image, that usually appears alongside text
Hide an image on the page (but display it as the menu icon)
This option allows you to include an image that will not be displayed on the page itself, but will appear as the menu icon for that page. This is useful when the automatic cropping feature for producing menu icons based on the first image displayed on the page produces an unwanted result.
Using image editing software, create a thumbnail image for the menu icon that is cropped exactly as you want it. The dimensions of the icons are 100px by 100px.
Upload this thumbnail image in the usual way.
Make sure the thumbnail image is the first image on the page. Use the Move buttons if it is not the first image.
Check the box labelled Hide this image on the page?
The image will not appear on the page, but will appear as the menu icon when the page is published.
Add an 'image map' to the image
Image maps are snippets of HTML code that allow you to specify that when a user clicks on a particular part of an image, the user goes to a particular web page. They are often used for maps or diagrams. 'Image map software' is freely available for download on the web.
Use image map software to generate the HTML code that links areas of an selected image to particular website address. When you do this, use '$name' for the name attribute of the image map.
Upload the image to the website.
Click on the image to edit it.
Paste the HTML code generated by the image map software into the box labelled Image map code.
The image map links will work when the page is published.
This option allows you to position an image on the page in relation to a particular sentence or paragraph of text. This is done by giving the image a 'token' name which is then inserted into the text as a marker for where the image should appear. To distinguish these 'token' names from ordinary text, they should always begin with unusual characters; for example: '$myimage' or '***myimage***'.
Upload the image in the usual way.
Type a token name of your choice into the box labelled Replace this token.
Select the size of image you wish to appear from the drop-down list.
Choose how you want the image to be aligned relative to the paragraph of text that follows it by choosing an option from the drop-down list.
Go to the Add words tab and type the token name (including the dollar sign) at the point in the text where you would like the image to appear.
Go to the Preview tab to check that the image is displaying as you wish.
Down Up Index D: SUB-HEADINGS, LINKS AND LISTS
These instructions provide guidance on using the text editing box to:
Create sub-headings
Add links to pages within the site
Create bullet and numbered lists
Down Up Index D1. SUB-HEADINGS
For extended passages of text, add sub-headings. To do this:
Type a sub-heading above a paragraph of text. A phrase from the text often works well as the sub-heading.
Make sure there is a paragraph space before and after the sub-heading (to achieve this, press Return).
Select the sub-heading.
Click on the downward-pointing arrow next to the word Normal at the top of the text entry box on the Add words tab. Select Sub-heading.
The sub-heading will change appearance, but will not be styled correctly in the Add words box. To see it as it will appear in the final page, go to the Preview tab.
Down Up Index D2. LINKS WITHIN THE SITE
Where the text mentions topics that are covered elsewhere on the website, create a hyperlink to the relevant page or category. To do this:
Open another copy of the website in a new browser window
Browse to the page or category you want to link to
Copy the part of the address that comes after the 'slash' that ends the main site root. For example, for this page http://www.SITE.org.uk/page_id__5588.aspx copy only the following part of the address page_id__5588.aspx
Go back to Add words screen and select the word or phrase you want to link from.
Click on the Create link button (a picture of the world with a chain over it)
Paste the address into the URL field
Click on OK
Down Up Index D3. BULLET AND NUMBERED LISTS
To create a bullet or numbered list:
Type out each item of the list, separating each item from the next item by a paragraph return.
Highlight the entire list.
Select the relevant button for bullet or numbered list.
If you are getting into trouble with a list, it's often easiest to start by getting rid of any existing formatting. Do this by using the backspace key to delete all the spacing between items in the list. For example:
ApplesPearsOranges
Then add the paragraph returns:
Then highlight the list and select the relevant button for a numbered or bullet list:
Down Up Index E: ADDING A MAP TO PAGE
These guidelines tell you how to add a map to a page. The guidelines cover:
Down Up Index E1. ADDING A MAP
Create or edit a page in the usual way. If maps have been enabled on the site, and have been made available to your level of user (for example, to editors, if you are an editor) you will see an Add map tab.
On the Add map tab, you will see a small Google street map, centred on a default location. To centre the map on a chosen location, type the name of the place into the search box, including the name of the town or city.
If the place isn't marked accurately, click on the map to move the marker. Scroll and zoom the map itself to get the view you want.
Add a caption to the map if you wish.
Once you have marked a place as just described, you can move on to the Preview tab and the map will appear automatically on the page.
Down Up Index E2. MAP SETTINGS
Note that most of the following settings only appear to editors of the site, not to contributors.
Show the map on the page
Leave this at the default setting of 'yes' unless you want to hide the map. (A map will always appear once you have activated it by editing the map in any way.) This setting appears to all users of the site.
This allows you to choose whether you wish to display the zoom/scroll buttons and the buttons that allow users to switch between the street map view and the aerial view. You can check the results of this setting on the Preview tab (which reflects the appearance of the map once the page is published). This setting only appears to editors of the site.
Allow dragging
This option controls whether website visitors can drag on the map to change the area that is displayed once the page is published. (Any changes a website visitor makes are only temporary and won't be seen by any other website visitor.) This setting only appears to editors of the site.
Show marker
The option allows you to show or hide the marker that indicates the exact location of the place specified in the search box on the map. This setting only appears to editors of the site.
Down Up Index E3. REMOVING A MAP
To remove a map from a page go to the setting marked 'Show the map on the page' and choose 'No.'
Down Up Index F: CREATING AND APPLYING FLAGS
These guidelines tell you how to create and apply flags to particular pages within the site. A 'flag' is a visual indicator (usually a small graphic) that shows that a page is,for example,'child-friendly' or a 'pick of the site'.
If you want to use flags on the site, follow the steps below. Each step is described in more detail in the sections that follow. The example assumes you're creating a flag for 'child- friendly' pages.
Create a new category called 'Child-friendly'. If you wish, it's possible to hide this category from the main navigation of the site so that users can only get to it via the flag.
Create a flag. This involves uploading a small graphic, giving the flag the same name as the new category, and then applying the flag to the new category.
Publish any pages which you want to be marked with the flag into the new 'child-friendly' category, in addition to publishing the pages into any other categories of the site in which you want them to appear.
There are instructions on how to follow these steps below.
Down Up Index F1. CREATE A NEW CATEGORY AND CHECK ITS REFERENCE
Create a new category and give it the same name you wish to give to your new flag. If you'd like this 'flag' category to remain hidden from the normal site navigation, then on the Publish tab publish the category into the Top Level and tick the box marked 'Hide from the site navigation?'.
The new category should then be listed in the LH column of the categories tab. Click on it as if to edit it and make a note of the reference number of the category. You can find this out from the address bar.
For example, if the address bar says: http://www.SITE.co.uk/categoryedit_edit__106.aspx, then the reference number is 106. Having made a note of the reference number, exit back to the categories tab without saving.
Down Up Index F2. CREATE A FLAG
Having created the flag category, the next step is to create the flag itself.
Go to the Flags tab and click on New.
In the form that appears:
Add the rollover text to identify the flag (e.g. Child-friendly)
Upload the icon for the flag (usually a very small graphic)
Add the reference number of the master category (106, in the example above)
Enter an order number if you have more than one flag on the site. This will mean that, when a page is marked with more than one flag, you can determine which order the flags will appear in. For example, if you've got two flags already, and you want the mini-icon for this new flag to appear after the two flags, type the number 3.
3. Click on Save.
Down Up Index F3. APPLY THE FLAG TO THE NEW CATEGORY
Go back to the Categories tab and edit the new category you've just created.
On the Publish tab, select your new flag from the drop-down list.
Click on Republish.
Down Up Index F4. PUBLISH PAGES INTO THE NEW CATEGORY
You can now publish any pages which you want to be marked with the flag into the new category, in addition to publishing the pages into any other categories of the site in which you want them to appear.
For example, if you want a page to be published into a category of the site called 'Places', but you also want that page to be marked with the 'Child-friendly' flag, then publish the page into both the Places category and the Child-friendly category.
Down Up Index F5. CREATING SUB-CATEGORIES OF FLAGGED CATEGORIES (OPTIONAL)
It is possible, though unusual, that you might want to sub-divide a flagged category. For example, you might want to create two sub-categories within the 'Child-friendly' category one for 'Older children' and one for 'Younger children'. You would like pages published into either of these sub-categories to be marked with the 'Child-friendly' flag.
To achieve this, create the 'Older children' and 'Younger children' categories in the usual way. When you get to the Publish tab, place the categories inside the 'Child-friendly' category and choose the 'Child-friendly' flag from the drop-down list.
If you publish pages into either of these sub-categories, the pages will now be flagged with the 'child-friendly' flag. If the user clicks on the flag, they will still be routed to the 'Child-friendly' category, but will then see the two sub-categories of 'Older children' and 'Younger children' within that category.
Down Up Index G: CREATING PAGES ABOUT EVENTS
These guidelines tell you how to create pages about events from information submitted by users through the events form.
Down Up Index G1. GETTING A LIST OF NEWLY-SUBMITTED EVENTS
When users complete the events form, a notification e-mail is automatically sent out to alert the website editors that an event has been submitted. The information contained in the form is also submitted to the site, creating a pending page which you need to retrieve, subedit and publish.
To do this:
Go to the Pages tab.
On the right-hand side, under the heading 'Select pages', choose 'By status' and then 'Submitted via custom forms'. You'll now see a list of any events that have been submitted to the site but not yet published.
Down Up Index G2. PUBLISHING AN EVENT
To publish an event, click on the 'Convert to Page' link next to the event. This will convert the event information into a submitted page, and take you to the title tab in order to start editing the page.
Sub-edit the page and publish it in the usual way. Note that:
You may want to add a map showing where the event is taking place.
Users who submit events are required to give an e-mail address so that they can be contacted by the site editors if necessary. This contact information will be contained in the events information. If the person who has submitted the event does not want the contact details to be published on the site, you will see a note to that effect,for example: 'Please do not publish my contact information on the website'. In this case, remove the contact details from the page (you could move them to the Notes box on the Save tab for reference).
The event should be published in the Events category. After publishing the event, you may need to change the order of the pages listed in that category so that the events are listed in chronological order.
Down Up Index G3. REMOVING AN EVENT
If you don't want to convert a newly-submitted event into a page (for example, because you know it is a 'test' event), click on the 'Remove' link next to the event.
After the event has been converted into a page, it is possible to delete the page in the usual way (via the Delete button on the Publish tab.)
Down Up Index H: EDITING THE HOME PAGE
These guidelines tell you how to edit the home page of the website. This facility is only available to administrators of the site.
The elements of the home page are as follows:
Project strapline (text in breadcrumb bar under logo)
Left-hand menu
'See what's new' listing
Quick links (to right of welcome title and text) There are instructions on how to alter all these elements below.
This is usually agreed as part of the initial design of the site and should not need to be changed.
If you do need to change it, you can do this by updating the text string called 'sHeaderHomeTitle' on the Text tab.
The main menu (usually on the left-hand side of the site) reflects the top-level categories of the site.
To edit the menu, you need to edit the top-level categories themselves via the Categories tab. To change the order of the top-level categories, go to the Categories tab and:
Click on the website name at the top of the list of categories.
Go to the Organise tab (which may be the first tab you are taken to by default)
Use the Move up and Move down buttons the change the order of the categories
Go to the Publish tab
Click on Re-publish
Log into the website and go to the tab marked Home. Edit the home page as follows.
Edit the text in the boxes labelled Welcome title and Welcome text body.
Click on Update.
New pages will appear at the top of this list automatically when they are published and will remain here until they are replaced by newer pages.
By default, the number of pages that appears here is 3. However, you can change this on the Settings tab. To do this:
Find the setting marked: 'Number of new items to display on home page'
Change the number
Scroll down and click on the Save button.
These are the links that appear just to the right of the welcome text. They are usually useful links for newcomers to the site under a heading such as 'First time?'.
Creating the Quick links is a two-stage process. First, you create them as adverts in the normal way (see the 'adverts' handout). You then select the relevant advert to display on the home page using the Home tab.
So follow these steps:
Create or edit the advert in the usual way. Remember that images for adverts do not scale automatically. This is because the size of adverts can be different according to where they appear on the site. On the home page, the advert size for 'quick links' is usually 100px by 100px.
Go to the Home tab.
Use the Quick link boxes to select the relevant advert.
Down Up Index I: CREATING AND EDITING CATEGORIES
These guidelines tell you how to create, edit and delete categories. Usually, this functionality is available only to editors of the site.
Down Up Index I1. CREATE A NEW CATEGORY
Log in and go to the Categories tab.
Click on the New category button. This will take you to the first of a set of tabs for creating the new category.
Work through the tabs as described below.
Add category information
Title: All categories should have a title.
Short description (optional): Write a short description to help website visitors decide whether to select this category.
Introduction (optional): The introduction will appear after visitors have selected the category, above the pages which are listed in this category.
Add graphics
Icon: The icon will appear next to the category title, when website visitors are deciding whether to select this category. Icons are automatically resized.
Banner: The banner will appear above the list of pages in the category. Banners are not automatically resized, so you need to make the banner images the correct size for the design of your site before uploading them.
Here you can preview how the category menu will appear.
As you're creating a new category, no pages have yet been published into the category, so the preview will only show the category title, banner and introduction.
If more than one category layout has been created for your website, you can select which layout you want by choosing from a drop-down list.
Hide from site navigation: If you tick this box, the category and all its content will not appear on the menus or the sitemap, so will be hidden from casual users of the site. This means you can hide new categories until you have published pages into them. However, this is not suitable for long-term use or confidential content, because the categories might still be found and indexed by Google and other search engines.
Choose the categories into which to place this category: For example, if you want the new category to appear inside the 'About us' section of the site, select 'About us' from the list of categories. You can make the new category appear in more than one parent category by holding down the Control key (on a PC) and selecting more than one category from the list.
Choose the adverts to display within the category: If any adverts have been created for your site (see separate instructions re adverts), you will see them listed here. If you select an advert, it will appear throughout the category. You can select more than one advert by holding down the Control key (on a PC).
Language code: If the title, subtitle or introduction of the category are in a language other than English, you can select the correct language code for displaying the foreign characters. The default language code which appears will be based on the language setting of the computer you are currently using.
Publish or delete: When you publish a category, it will immediately appear on the site (unless you have hidden it from site navigation).
Down Up Index I2. EDIT AN EXISTING CATEGORY
Click on the existing category you want to edit. This will take you to the first of a set of tabs for editing the category.
Most of the tabs are described above (see 'Creating a new category'). Other tabs you may see are as follows:
Here you can choose the order in which you wish pages and sub-categories to appear in this category. This tab will only appear when there is more than one page or sub-category in the category (otherwise there is nothing to organise!).
The default setting is usually for pages and sub-categories to be ordered alphabetically by title.
The other available options are:
Order by sub-title, then title
Order by title, then sub-title
Order by the date on which the page was added
The 'custom' option allows you to define an exact order in which you wish pages and sub-categories to appear.
Add commentary
Here you can add a short comment about each page in the category.
The comment will appear at the top of the page when it is viewed within this category (but not when the page is viewed within another category, if it is published in more than one category).
This feature allows you to make a selection of pages within the site and comment on them (like a 'pick of the site').
Down Up Index I3. DELETE A CATEGORY
When you delete a category, you can choose what should happen to any pages that are already published in that category. They can be:
Unpublished (this returns them to the 'submitted for publication' state)
Moved up into the parent category of the category you are deleting
Deleted as well
Check for broken links
Before deleting a category and the pages within it, you should check whether this will break any links in the site. Links that have been created automatically (like putting the category on a menu or the sitemap) will be removed automatically. However, if any links have been created manually using the 'link' feature in the Add Words tab, these need to be removed.
To check whether there are any links to the page or category you are about to delete:
Browse to the page or category in question.
If you are logged in, you will see a small message at the foot of the page saying 'Search for links to this page' or 'Search for links to this category'. (The message doesn't appear to normal users of the site).
Click on this message.
You will see a list of any pages that contain links to the page or category you are about to delete
Visit these pages and remove the links
You can then go ahead and delete the category and pages as described below.
To delete a category:
Click on the existing category you want to delete. This will take you to the first of a set of tabs for editing the category.
Go to the Publish tab.
Click on the Delete button.
If the category contains any pages, you will see a message asking whether you wish these pages to be
Moved into the parent category of the category you are deleting
If a page is in more than one category, it will not be deleted unless all the categories in which the page appears are deleted.
When you have made and confirmed this choice, the category will be permanently deleted. There is no way to undo this, so when you are deleting a category, do so carefully to make sure that you select the right category.
Down Up Index J: CREATING AND PLACING ADVERTS
These guidelines tell you how to create and place adverts on a CommunitySites website. This is usually a job for the website administrator.
This is a two-step process:
Create the advert on the advert tab.
Place the advert where you want it to appear within the site.
Down Up Index J1. CREATE THE ADVERT
Go to the Adverts tab. You'll probably only have access to this if you are the administrator of the website.
Click on the New button to create a new advert.
Under the heading 'How do you want to create your advert?', select one of the two methods described below.
Copy and paste code
This is used if you want to include an advert from Amazon or Google. These websites allow you to generate adverts which you can include on your site. They do this by giving you some HTML source code to paste into your site. After you have followed the instructions provided on the Amazon or Google site to create this code:
Type a short description of your advert into the Short description box (this is only for your own reference)
Paste the code into the Source code box.
Click on Save.
Use custom text and image
This is used if you want to create your own advert, perhaps for a local supplier/sponsor or simply to promote a particular section of the website. To do this:
Type a title for the advert
Type a subtitle for the advert
Provide a link address for the advert (this could be a link to a page in the site)
Provide an image for the advert (this doesn't resize automatically, so make it the right dimensions in the first place)
Down Up Index J2. PLACE THE ADVERT WHERE YOU WANT IT TO APPEAR
You can make an advert appear throughout the site, or throughout a particular category of the site, or only on a particular page.
To make an advert appear throughout the site
Go to the Categories tab
Select the name of the site (at the top of the list of categories)
Highlight the chosen advert from the list of adverts (hold down the Ctrl key to select more than one advert)
Click on the Update button.
The advert will now appear throughout the site except in categories or pages where you have chosen to display other adverts.
To make an advert appear throughout a particular category
The advert will now appear throughout the category except on pages where you have chosen to display other adverts.
To make an advert appear on a particular page
Highlight the chosen advert from the list of adverts
Click on the Re-publish button (or Publish if it is a new page).
Down Up Index K: MANAGING USERS OF THE WEBSITE
These guidelines tell you how to manage the users on a CommunitySites website. This is a job for the website administrator. The guidelines cover:
Down Up Index K1. EDITING A USER
User details are normally created when by new users when they register on the site. To edit these details:
Click on the Edit the Site button to go to the control panel
Click on the Users tab.
Select the user you want to edit form the list on the LH side.
Edit the user's details. You can alter the following fields:
User name (but normally you would leave this unchanged)
Password (type in a new password if the user has forgotten the old password)
First name/last name (self-explanatory!)
E-mail address (self-explanatory)
Profile (you can ignore this unless your site is set up with a contributor's area)
Profile language (you can ignore this unless your site is set up with a contributor's area)
Receive messages (you can ignore this unless your site has messaging functionality)
Notify by e-mail (you can ignore this unless your site has messaging functionality)
Editor (check this box if you want to make the user an editor)
Administrator (check this box if you want to make the user an administrator)
6. Click on update
Down Up Index K2. DELETING A USER
So long as there are no pages or comments created by the user on the site, you can delete a user by clicking on the Delete button at the bottom of the user profile. However, if there are any pages or comments in existence, the delete button won't appear (this is to stop pages suddenly being 'orphaned' in the database).
If you still want to delete the user, you first need to find any pages or comments created by the user and delete them. To do this, locate the relevant pages or comments by using the 'By user' selection box on the RH side of the Comments tab and Pages tab.
Down Up Index K3. CREATING A USER
You can create a new user by clicking on the New user button on the RH side of the Users tab. You only need to do this in exceptional circumstances, as users usually register their own username and password.
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Seventy percent say the economy is in poor shape and many are feeling financial effects of the coronavirus pandemic, according to the May 2020 AP-NORC Poll. And when restrictions lift, few plan to engage in activities that draw a crowd.
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As all 50 states start to re-engage sectors of their economy, most Americans continue to say the national economy is in poor condition and many are feeling financial effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
When restrictions are lifted, reconnecting with friends and family, getting a haircut, and shopping for fun are at the top of many people's agenda. But many are apprehensive about re-engaging in activities that draw a crowd, like attending movies, concerts, or sporting events, using public transportation, or even going out to bars and restaurants.
People's post shutdown plans depend on what they did before the outbreak. Overall, 38% say they would attend religious services. But among people who attended services at least once a month before the coronavirus outbreak, 67% say they would return to their church, synagogue, or mosque if restrictions were lifted. Fifty-two percent of those who ate out at least once a month before the outbreak say they expect to head to a restaurant or bar.
Still, even among those that regularly engaged in activities that draw a crowd, like sporting events, concerts and movies, or using public transportation, fewer than half plan to return to them in the short term once restrictions are lifted.
The public's outlook on the U.S. economy which has declined dramatically in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, appears to have leveled off. Twenty-nine percent describe the national economy as good, the same as in April, though down from 67% in January.
Trump's handling of the economy has always compared favorably with his overall job performance, and his handling of other issues. While that remains the case, his approval rating on the economy has dropped to its lowest level in months.
Many Americans are starting to feel the effects of the economic downturn and report facing economic pressures with lost wages and trouble meeting financial obligations as a result of the pandemic.
Because of the coronavirus outbreak, 49% of Americans say they or someone in their household has lost wages either through being laid-off, having a wage or salary reduction, working fewer hours, or having unpaid time off. And 25% report that they have been unable to pay a credit card bill, make a housing payment, or pay some other type of bill. The number of people who lost wages or have trouble meeting financial obligations is not significantly different from last month.
Less affluent Americans are facing more economic pressure. Those with annual household incomes under $50,000 are more likely to say they are falling behind with bills.
Of those who say they or someone in their household has been laid off, 30% do not expect that person to get their job back, and 65% think there is a chance of going back. Five percent say the laid off person is already back at work.
Still, 66% say their household's financial situation is good, and 37% expect their personal finances will improve or stay the same in the coming year.
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Bill Simmons: Zion Williamson Is Over 300 Pounds, Per Reliable Source
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Zion Williamson has been everything everyone has expected and more in the first dozen games of his career. He's averaging 22.8 points and 7.2 rebounds in 28 minutes per contest and generally looks like the strongest, most athletic guy on the floor more often than not.
One of the very few negative talking points about Williamson that has followed him to the NBA is the matter of his weight. Williamson has the athleticism of a guard and the weight of a center packed into a power forward's body. Nobody fits the freak of nature label quite like Williamson, so the fact that he was listed at 6'7" and 285 pounds heading into the draft isn't nearly the concern it would be for other, less freakish players. Still, after missing half of his rookie campaign with knee issues, it will remain a hot topic when discussing the exciting rookie's future.
Bill Simmons and Ryen Russillo touched upon Williamson in the latest BS Podcast released on Monday. While talking about how fun it would be for the Pelicans to make the playoffs and face off against the Lakers in the first round, Simmons said he heard from a "reliable source" that Williamson is currently over 300 pounds (timestamp at 1:46:30).
For Williamson to be doing what he's doing at over 300 pounds would be nothing less than otherworldly. But, with the caveat that I am not a doctor, weighing in at over 300 pounds doesn't seem like a recipe for long-term health. Boban Marjanovic is the heaviest non-two-way player in the NBA with a listed weight of 291, and he's nine inches taller than Williamson.
Even only 12 games into his career, health seems to be the only factor that would prevent Williamson from reaching his full potential. Hopefully it doesn't get in the way.