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State tournament article progress
June 23rd, 2022| Written by: Staff writer

 

 

Four months and a week after the 2022 state championships and the Louisiana Wrestling News's article on the 2022 LHSAA State Wrestling Championships is still not published for general viewing.  (Actually, much of it is but the reader simply does not know how to access it.)  I have broken the process down into aspects that allows the reader to see the status of the process.  Initially I started at "Cover pages written" but looked at the checkmarks and saw how pathetic that looked after four months had passed.  So, I added some other aspects to make myself feel better.

Most of you know that a lot of the time involves the fact that my vision no longer allows me to spend six hours at a time in front of a computer screen.  Additionally, well, I do have other things to do re the apartment tri-plex I own, the house in which my mother, daughter and myself reside, placating a very jealous feline and the like.  I would also like to say that I very much appreciate the patience indicated by the fact that nobody has complained or even asked about the time it is taking.  I choose to attribute that to understanding rather than a lack of caring any longer.  Perhaps when it is finished it will come as a nice surprise.  That is my "silver lining."

I have also reformatted it a little.  In the past I struggled to find 42 ways to say, "This kid won," which is a webpages headline, but I did not add a lead story.  I went into a seeding synopsis without indicating who won, despite that right above the synopsis is a photograph of the placers (when available).  Was I thinking you would not notice that and be surprised when you got to the photos of the finals?  So, I am adding a lead paragraph, and also have tried to find out a little about some of the wrestlers in the individual rounds matches of which I have photos.  Did they meet during the season or last season?  Was an upset really an upset or something that might have been expected.  Does Richie Clementi really smile all through a match? 

My daughter Camille has also been proofing my first text drafts and I will ask her to proof them online as well, after I have emended them based on her suggestions.  She will make sure I do not offend young men like Spencer Lanosga, whom I will have to write about for two more years, who is much stronger than me and twice my size, and on whom any wily wrestling moves of mine will certainly lead to my vast personal discomfort.

I wish I could give you a date, but I fear I cannot, yet.  Little red checkmarks will keep filling the empty boxes, though, and that will at least give you an indication that work is progressing.

Please also know that when I work on the computer I use the "Alt-Shift-Print Screen" settings, which gives MS Word a black background with white text.  MS Word has a better spelling and grammar editor that MS Expression, the HTML editor that I use that Microsoft has all but disowned.  However, the contrast change does not work on background images, such as the gray newsprint image I use on LWN pages.  It gives me white text on the light gray background, and I can just barely read that.  So, I have opted to use a green background color, such as the one in this article, which enables me to read the text.  Some state article pages may be published that way, initially, but I will try to amend that.  In the future, though, I will be discontinuing the use of the grey newsprint background in favor of a background color that enables me to use white text.  If you want to capture a screenshot of a page but do not want to use a lot of ink should you print it, do two things.  First, copy the text from the website into Word, highlight it and make it black.  Then, use MS Paint to change the background color of the page to white.  Everyone should have access to MS Paint or something similar.  I think my toothbrush has MS Paint as a standard option.  After changing the background, reinsert the text. 

Please know, again, that I sincerely appreciate your patience re this issue.

"Time" ranking are from shortest (1) to longest (5).  Time estimates are in parentheses for actions that have yet to be performed.

  Time Main
Cover		 D1
Cover		 D2
Cover		 D3
Cover		 D1
106		 D1
113		 D1
120		 D1
126		 D1
132		 D1
138		 D1
145		 D1
152		 D1
160		 D1
170		 D1
182		 D1
195		 D1
220		 D1
285		 D2
106		 D2
113		 D2
120		 D2
126		 D2
132		 D2
138		 D2
145		 D2
152		 D2
160		 D2
170		 D2
182		 D2
195		 D2
220		 D2
285		 D3
106		 D3
113		 D3
120		 D3
126		 D3
132		 D3
138		 D3
145		 D3
152		 D3
160		 D3
170		 D3
182		 D3
195		 D3
220		 D3
285
Website pages built 3
Website links checked 1                                                                                          
Photos sorted by days 2                                                                                    
Photos sorted by covers, podiums
divisions, weight classes, rounds and matches		 5
Photos eliminated with MS Photos 3
Photos edited with Photoscape 5
Photos manipulated with
TopazLabs A.I. Sharperner		 3
Cover page written 1                                                                                        
Photos added to weight class pages 2                              
Text written and added to weight class pages 4                              
Camille's proofing incorporated ? (2)                                                                                            
Format revisions made 2                                                                                      
Online proofing (MGM and MCT) ? (2)                                                                                            

 

 

 

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