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    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

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    5 hours ago, Muda69 said:

    Thank you for all you do DK.  What exactly changed with this shiny new version?

     

    Here's the documentation they provided:

     

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    Good news! Version 4.4.0 of Invision Community is now available. 
     

    Major New Features / Enhancements

    • Post Before Registering
    • Animated GIFs
    • AdminCP Notification Center
    • New Email Features:
      • Email Statistics
      • Email Advertisements
      • Unfollow Without Logging In
    • SEO Improvements:
      • Improved pagination with page number now in path (rather than query string) and unique page titles for paginated pages.
      • Improved use of canonical tags.
      • Improved handling of empty containers and profiles to reduce soft 404s.
      • Improved JSON-LD markup, adding @id tags and fixing URLs for comments.
      • Removed page output hidden by JavaScript.
    • Performance Improvements:
      • Added Lazy Loading for images, which will speed up page rendering.
      • Added HTTP/2 support with prefetch/preload.
      • Added support for Brotli compression.
      • Improved default profile photos to use inline SVGs rather than generated images, which will speed up page rendering.
      • Improved browser caching of pages served by the guest page cache, which will reduce the number of requests reaching the server.
      • Improved handing of session data for guests to reduce database reads for guests.
      • Optimized images to reduce file size for faster page rendering.
      • Other minor performance improvements to reduce database queries and fix unnecessary code execution.
    • Commerce Store Filters allow customers to filter products by price, review, stock, or custom admin-defined filters.

    Core

    • Added setting to display user group formatting in more areas (see 6 New Micro Features).
    • Added less intrusive browser notification prompt in Notifications menu (see 6 New Micro Features).
    • Added ability to show sidebar blocks to only certain types of devices (see 6 New Micro Features).
    • Added ability for club owners to reorder the navigation tabs (see 6 New Micro Features).
    • Added ability for announcements to be linked to an URL or be a title only (see 6 New Micro Features), improved consistency in how announcements are shown in different areas.
    • Improved UI for entering time intervals in AdminCP settings (see 6 New Micro Features).
    • Added a new Icons & Logos section in the AdminCP which allows providing logos for use when sharing links from the community, adding the community as a home screen app on a mobile device (along with additional settings for a PWA manifest to control certain aspects the community’s behaviour when used in this way), and in Safari’s favourites menus and pinned tabs on macOS.
    • Added a new UI for attachments, showing a box with some information about the file, rather than a plain line (see Turbo charging loading speeds).

    Commerce

    • Braintree Gateway including support for PayPal (with recurring payments), Venmo, and cards. Deprecates some PayPal features.
    • Added ability to target bulk mails to members who have spent certain amounts.
    • Added sidebar widgets for best sellers, latest products, product reviews and a featured product.

    New Server Requirements: PHP 7.1.0 or higher required (7.3.x now supported). MySQL 5.5.3 or higher requires (5.6.2 recommended).

    Removed Features

    • Removed EmojiOne-style emojis due to licensing issues.
    • Removed Gravatar support due to privacy concerns and performance issues.
    • Removed password hashes when downloading a member list from the AdminCP. This is for security, to reduce the ease of obtaining sensitive data if the AdminCP is ever compromised.
    • Removed the name of the content (e.g. topic) from the “Next Unread” link which could consume significant server resources on large communities.

     

    Unprofessional workplace email

    in Out of Bound Forum

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    This was breifly mentioned in passing the other day.

    Example below: Is this really what we have reduced ourselves to? It really doesn't take much to do so much better.

     

    ----------------------------------------------

    REMINDER

     

    FOR ALL WORK HOURS  - TIME SHEETS FOR FULL TIME, PART TIME , WORKSTUDY, INTERNS

     

    IF YOU HAVE TAKEN TIME OFF - ADMINISTRATION AND FULL TIME FACULTY

     

    NO REPORTING - ADJUNCT

     

    YOU MUST ENTER YOU TIME FOR 2/4/2019 to 2/17/2019 IN IVYTIME (ELECTRONIC PAYROLL) BY 5 PM TODAY.

    YOU MUST HIT SUBMIT FOR THE TIME SHEET TO PROCESS AND THE SUPERVISOR TO APPROVE AND TO BE PAID..

     

    IF YOU DO NOT SUBMIT ON THE TIME SHEET YOU WILL NOT BE PAID….

     

     

    Kathy ****

    Ivy Tech Community College *********

    **** Accountant

     

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    My High School Alma Mater Is For Sale

    in The Indiana High School Football Forum

    Posted

    31 minutes ago, jfries said:

    A school my wife worked at in north east Ohio sold PSLs to fund their multi million dollar stadium. The stadium cost the taxpayers $0.  I think the cost was like $1500 a seat. Very nice facility. Had field turf installed, which at the time was not common in Ohio (early 2000s). I think they since sold the naming rights to the stadium too. 

    That wouldn't be in Stark County, would it?

    Memes - Abandon all hope - Ye who enter....

    in Out of Bound Forum

    Posted

    1 hour ago, Muda69 said:

    I have a co-worker WHO USES NOTHING BUT CAPITAL LETTERS IN ALL THEIR EMAIL CORRESPONDENCE, EVEN USING PRETTY COLORS FROM TIME TO TIME.  It's annoying, but they won't change their ways.  Something about being ex-military..................

     

    Computers have greatly changed mechanics too and at a quicker pace than any other time in history.

    Memes - Abandon all hope - Ye who enter....

    in Out of Bound Forum

    Posted

    7 minutes ago, Wabash82 said:

    https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/309281/do-capitalization-and-punctuation-fall-under-the-category-of-grammar

    This seems like an odd place to get into a serious discussion on these topics. Those opinions in the provided link are not anything I haven't seen before, I happen to be on the other side of the fence though. I will admit there isn't really a "correct" answer. Many people consider mechanics to be part of the broad topic of grammar also. In which case saying something is a part of mechanics is also saying it is a part of grammar in general.  Some consider the overall topic of punctuation a part of mechanics while others do not.  

    The opinion represented in the provided link usually stems from an argument along the lines of this: It doesn't matter whether the first letter of a sentence is capitalized or not so far as the meaning of the sentence, Which I concede is pretty accurate.  Based on that the conclusion drawn is the one that therefore capitalization is not grammatical in the sense clarity. In fact, in the spoken language we wouldn't know if a capital letter was present or not.  But the silly joke I provided does clearly show in the written language how a couple capital letters can make a big difference in the connotation of the two sentences. This and other examples like it form the other side of the argument that capitals can and do provide clarity and enhance or provide meaning and thus must also be a category of grammar.

    The rules for things like capitalization have changed just in my lifetime let alone over many more generations. In fact, they are changing today. I read an interesting article on that topic not too long ago. 

    I recently finished a book I was writing for my lodge on its history as it approaches its 200th anniversary. I compiled several past histories, the oldest was written in the 1850s. I transcribed each as is, but after doing so and reading them over a few times I decided to take liberties with the original works and updated a number of things such as capitalization, punctuation and even some basic word structure to match current conventions. I tried to stay true to the original with my edits while easing the readability for the audience. I cited them as transcribed and noted the types of alterations I made and left the reader the locations of the original works if they are interested.  My point is in language things are constantly changing and as they change disagreements exist even among the experts in the field. 

     

    I prefer teaching in my field, mathematics. One might think you would not have the above issue with a topic like math but that would be far from the truth.

     

    This is one University's English Dept.'s list of the subtopics of grammar, but another's list could, may, and most likely will vary. 

    Syntax and Sentence Structure	
Comma Splices, Run-ons, and Fragments	
Subject-Verb Agreement	
Verbs	
Verb Tense	
Nouns and Pronouns	
Preposition Usage	
Articles	
Commonly Confused Words	
General Punctuation	
Comma Usage	
Semicolon and Colon Usage	
Possessives	
Hyphens and Dashes	
Quotation Marks	
Parenthesis and Ellipses	
Mechanics

     

     

    ...BACK TO THE FUNNIES NOW 

    Memes - Abandon all hope - Ye who enter....

    in Out of Bound Forum

    Posted

    39 minutes ago, Wabash82 said:

    I don't think there was such a time. But the words as written (and punctuated) on the sign are not grammatically incorrect -- they make out an intelligible statement in "correct" English grammar. (Indeed, that is precisely what makes the sign funny/ironic).  But the words don't convey the meaning that the person (presumably) intended because of a punctuation problem (misplacement of the exclamation point.) 

    I don't disagree that the error is one of punctuation, but punctuation is a subset of grammar, thus it is also a grammatical error as stated. Grammar is "the whole system and structure of a language or of languages in general". It includes many subtopics. 

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