text: Image gallery for Sitefinity : a better one! by User Not Found Jul 23, 2007 Bob, Sitefinity team lead, spent yet another weekend productively and created a simple image gallery control for Sitefinity, based on Lytebox. In this short post I'll explain the basics of control and obviously provide you with a link for download. So before I get into explaining the control itself I suggest you download it from here. Installation Extract the LyteboxControl.zip file Copy the App_Code/ExtensionsConverter.cs to the App_Code folder in your site Upload the UserControls/Lytebox.ascx control to your Sitefinity website through Page Editor Copy UserControls/Lytebox folder to the UserControls folder located in the root folder of your website Using the control Before you do anything with the control, make sure you have a folder in your website with several images. If you don't have one, go to file manager create a folder and upload the images you want to be displayed in your gallery. Once you are done with that, go to a page where you want the Image gallery to be (or create a new page for that purpose) and drag the Image gallery control you've uploaded during the installation part. Click on edit to set up the properties. Here are the descriptions of most important properties : ImageFolder - determines the folder that contains the images to be displayed in the gallery. It uses the Telerik.Cms.Web.UI.UrlEditorWrapper so you can simply navigate to the folder you want to and click I'm done button. ThumbnailFolder - determines the folder where thumbnails for images should be automatically created. You don't really need to modify this property. ThumbnailSize - determines the size of a thumbnail. Make sure that if you change this property, you'll also need to modify following selector in ~/UserControls/Lytebox/lytebox.css : .thumbnails li{float:left;width:110px;height:100px;margin:6px;text-align:left} (it is located at the end of the css file). DisplayMode - determines the display mode of gallery. There are three different modes : Slideshow - displays a number of images as a slideshow. Images change after a period of time Grouped - similar to slideshow mode, except that user has to click next/prev buttons to move through a gallery Single - basically opens a original size image after user has clicked on the thumbnail Extensions - determines which files inside of a selected ImageFolder should be displayed in a gallery. Summary Pretty useful control and extremely easy to implement thanks to Bob. If you have any questions, please leave a comment. Email to a friend Show oldest on top Show newest on top 20 comments Leave a comment Seth Cleaver Jul 25, 2007 Hi, Excellent guys just what I was after and started building myself. I was using the CSSlightbox which was the basis for the lytebox but even easier. Cheers, Peter Jul 25, 2007 Hi, Great job. Thanks very much. Seth Cleaver Jul 26, 2007 Hi, I made a few small tweaks to this which I though I might share just to add a little extra to Bob's great work. The "Click to enlarge" you can see on the image example in the post above doesn't make much sense cause you can't enlarge the image any further once you click the thumbnail. The "Click to enlarge" line is meant to be an area in Lytebox for a caption for the image being displayed. If you use meaningful file names on your images you can add the following tweak to manipulate this line a little: At the top of the code behind I added: public string Caption { get { String s = (string)ViewState["Caption"]; return ((s == null) ? "Image Caption" : s); } set { ViewState["Caption"] = value; } } Which gave me a field named "Caption" in the edit dialog box of the control. In the Reapeat1_ItemDataBound in the code behind do the following: Change: string name = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(info.Name); if (text != null) text.Text = name; To: link.ToolTip = Caption; string name = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(info.Name); if (text != null) { text.Text = name; link.ToolTip += ": " + name; } This will display the caption you assign and the name of the file minus the extension in the Caption area of the lytebox like this: "Our European Holiday: Ostrog Monastery" Hope that helps! seth Jul 26, 2007 Sorry didn't realise that the would become one big clump of text. Ivan Jul 26, 2007 Hi Seth, no need to apologize for the big clump of text. Our bad, we'll fix that soon. Thanks for the tip. Peter Jul 29, 2007 Hi for alls, I have few problems. Could you help-me please. After add Lytebox to my page I don't have a good presentation of Lytebox. Alls files are in good place and Usercontrols are ok, but no slideshow, no image in boxes after click. firstname.lastname@example.com. Peter Jul 29, 2007 And Lyteframe how to make? Daniel Plomp Jul 31, 2007 Hi all, I've installed the Lytebox but have some problems. I did assign a folder for my original photos and one for the thumbnails, which is a subfolder in my 'root' folder. Makes sence? When I open my site for the first time, the photos are there, and the Lytebox function works. But when I hit refresh, the thumbnails are created again, and that happens everytime there is a postback. Also, the thumbnails are created in the root, and not inside the Thumbnails folder. What am I doing wrong? Ben Alexandra Aug 02, 2007 Wow, I love it! I've been looking for a gallery for ages with no luck. Didn't want to recreate the wheel, so I'm psyched for this. I posted a request with the features I wanted ( http://www.sitefinity.com/support/forums/support-forum-thread/b1043S-mcgte.aspx ) and although this doesn't have all of them, it's a GREAT start and puts me a long way toward what I'm looking for. I've looked at Lytebox before and was always impressed, so I'm psyched to use it. I made a little tweak to the code behind so I can post images with underscores and it removes them and replaces them with spaces in the titles, and so while viewing the images you see the image title instead of "click to enlarge." I changed Line 155 From: string name = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(info.Name); if (text != null) text.Text = name; To: string name = Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(info.Name); if (text != null) { text.Text = name.Replace("_"," "); link.ToolTip = name.Replace("_", " "); } Super easy and works GREAT. Thanks sooooo much Ben Trevor Park Aug 02, 2007 So I tried to implement the Image Gallery and it worked great. I even had it working in a couple minutes. As soon as I added it to a page there was no problem until I tried to access the page from the pages section. I get a pop-up saying the operation was aborted. I can preview the page just fine without any trouble, the error only occurs when I click on the page in the pages section. Has anyone else come across this problem? I'm pretty sure it is the control because I recreated the page without putting the control onto the page and the error does not occur. Otherwise it works perfectly for me. Any thoughts? Josef Rogovsky Aug 10, 2007 Hi Guys, I've been able to reproduce the same problem that Trevor reports. Anyone else? Any suggestions for a fix? Vagelis Sep 11, 2007 Hi, I followed all instructions described here and it works ok except the time I press save on page with this control. I get an error that IE cannot load te page I 'm saving and displays "operation aborted". When I press refresh control is there and on preview it works ok as also on edit. But anytime I press save I get the same error. Has anyone find a solution on this? Best regards Vagelis Ritika Dec 04, 2007 This works great. But how wld u create a page.. which has all the galleries in it..and then clicking on one of the, will take you to the images in that gallery. That is use it not to creat a single large gallery, but to create multiple smaller galleries. Ritika Dec 04, 2007 This works great. But how wld u create a page.. which has all the galleries in it..and then clicking on one of the, will take you to the images in that gallery. That is use it not to creat a single large gallery, but to create multiple smaller galleries. Alex Apr 20, 2008 Hi, thanks a lot for this tool - when we're trying to assing the image-folder the "Select Page Tool" opens - we now inserted the path manually. Do you have any clue how we could fix this? Also we would like to display the selected image above the thumbnails on the same page - something ajax-like... ; ) Unfortunately we're bloody beginner when it comes to programming in asp.net so propably you may give us a hint?! Thanks a lot, Alex Keith Waldron Dec 22, 2009 Can anyone make a recomendation as to where is the best (or proper) place to override or change some of the style settings for the Lytebox? Particularly, I have 2 issues: 1 - the lytebox popup displays over the top menu bar, and the menu bar items show through over the image/lytebox. 2 - I would like to change the size of the thumbnails, and override the built in UL styles. Recommendations anyone? Jaymie Apr 05, 2011 sounds good, but does this work for SiteFinity 4? gonzalo donoso Jun 28, 2011 Work for sitefinity 3.7 SE? Thnaks Erin Jul 31, 2011 Have tried it in 3.7. Web.UI didn't work for me, but you can just throw in the file path rather than browsing for it. Amine Feb 29, 2012 How can we add it to SF 4.4 ? 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In the spring we have baseball games three times a week, and in the fall there will be football games. I become chauffeur, cheer captain, assistant coach, personal trainer, and which ever other hat I must wear to keep our kids together. I find my days filled with driving the kids to games, yelling from the bleachers, coaching from the sidelines, batting practice in the back yard, and organizer extraordinaire to keep it all together. The calendar on my phone becomes my life line telling me when the next game or practice is.
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FTC sees gain in high court pay-for-delay rule
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) says that a June Supreme Court decision finding so-called pay-for-delay patent dispute settlements not inherently anticompetitive has put the agency in a stronger position to protect consumers from such settlements.
Testifying before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee, FTC chairwoman Edith Ramirez said the issue is one of the commission's top priorities and that the FTC "remains united today in its determination to end these illegal pay-for-delay agreements."
Ramirez said the Supreme Court decision was a victory for FTC because it rejected the "scope of patent" test some courts had used that virtually immunized pay-for-delay settlements from antitrust scrutiny. Rather, she said, "the Supreme Court ruled that pay-for-delay agreements are appropriately subject to rule-of-reason scrutiny, the standard applied in most antitrust actions."The commission told senators it will continue to pursue pay-for-delay cases now in litigation and seek appropriate relief for consumers; monitor private lawsuits alleging pay-for-delay agreements; investigate pending pay-for-delay matters; examine new settlements that companies file with the agency and investigate those that raise anticompetitive concerns; and issue regular reports on drug settlements filed with the FTC.


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capacity scheduler web ui bar graphs for used capacity wrong ------------------------------------------------------------ Key: MAPREDUCE-3816 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MAPREDUCE-3816 Project: Hadoop Map/Reduce Issue Type: Bug Components: mrv2 Affects Versions: 0.23.0 Reporter: Thomas Graves Assignee: Thomas Graves Priority: Critical The capacity scheduler web ui has bar graphs showing the capacity/used capacity/max capacity for each queue. The used capacity it is showing is actually the % of its parents queue it is using, which doesn't make sense on the bar graphs when compared to the capacity and max capacity of that particular queue. The bar graphs should be using utilization so that the user can see that its using x% or the y% allocated to that queue. I will attach some screen shots showing the issue. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira
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In Sunday's interview with George Stephanopoulos, McCain denied that he didn't look at Obama. He said he looked at him many times. He said that accusation was "foolishness".
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BreakingNews 16/3/17 - Buhari orders payment of Paris Club refunds to states
[ Masterweb Reports: Isiaka Wakili reports ] - President Muhammadu Buhari has directed Finance Minister Kemi Adeosun and Central Bank of Nigeria Governor Godwin Emefiele to act appropriately and with dispatch in releasing the second tranche of the London-Paris Club refunds to the states in order to ease their financial hardships.
It came as he said he barred governors from visiting him during his ill health in the UK because he didn't want government to move to London.
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The announcement to release the next tranche of the London-Paris Club refunds came at the National Economic Council meeting chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and attended by state governors.
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Related: Hippeas Organic Chickpea Puffs Joins Starbuck's Assortment of Grab & Go Snacks
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Livio Bisterzo has worked for more than seven years in the natural foods industry. Before he joined Green Pack Brands, he worked in Alvaro Group and Little Miracle Drinks. Livio Bisterzo founded Green Pack Brands with a primary objective of manufacturing drinks and snacks that are healthy and nutritious to customers.


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Sleep# – send your computer to sleep after VLC playback
Do you use your computer for playback of films, streamed TV etc. before going to sleep?
In these cases, your computers sleep functionality is suspended whilst the video is in playback.
Sleep# sends your computer to sleep after the playback of full-screen video, providing Windows has been idle for a predefined amount of time.
There is a grace period at the end of the full-screen video before sending your computer to sleep, allowing you to interrupt the process should you still be awake.
For this to work, after the video has played back, the video player should leave full-screen. VLC media player does this, as does BBC iPlayer among others. Please let me know your experiences – does it work for you?
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Archive 2006
12/22/2006 - 5 new Products to delight our Customers - A good start in the New Year
For the ranges Blow Room, Carding and Ring Spinning Rieter Parts offer you on a broad front innovations for your existing machinery park. more
11/29/2006 - Successful CITME 2006 - Exhibitions 2007
Rieter Textile Systems rate their participation in the CITME 2006 as a success. The products for the local market met with great interest. For 2007, Rieter will concentrate on the... more
11/15/2006 - The first industrial SPUNjet® line is running
In 2005, HydroSpun Nonwoven GmbH (Germany) acquired an industrial SPUNjet® line from Rieter Perfojet. This machine is the latest development from Rieter and is able to produce new... more
11/10/2006 - Kazakh Students visit Rieter
Students from Kazakhstan visited Switzerland to increase their knowledge of textile technology and also to get to know the country and its inhabitants. Contact with the Kazakh... more
11/04/2006 - Rieter - Rotor spinning technology development leader
Continuous further development of the rotor spinning machine R 40 is contributing to its unique and outstanding position in the market. The latest success is the very long rotor... more
10/27/2006 - TOPclean - the effective drafting system extractor
TOPclean is a retrofit for Rieter drawframes, which improves dust extraction from the web. more
10/17/2006 - Successful start of Rieter into CITME 2006
Today CITME 2006 opened the door in Beijing. Rieter is present with a booth in the Swiss pavilion hall 5. Many customers visited the event and also the Rieter booth. Enclosed are... more
10/12/2006 - Rieter donates RSB drawframe to Sekolah Tinggi Teknologi Tekstil (STTT) in Indonesia
Rieter Spun Yarn Systems handed over an RSB autoleveler drawframe to the STTT College of Textile Technology in Indonesia on September 19. The formal presentation to the Principal... more
09/27/2006 - Rieter Award Week 2006
The Rieter Award Week offered a comprehensive program for the winners 2006. Beside visits to Rieter Textile Systems in Winterthur the program included trips to Lucerne and... more
09/20/2006 - Rieter Award 2006
Rieter Textile Systems bestowed the Rieter Award 2006 on Arwa Wahhoud, Germany, Balaji Malaisrinivasan, India, Ashok Kumar Kundu, India, Saleem Iqbal Khan, Pakistan and Al Muhamed... more


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July 18th, 2012 by WCBC Radio
Traffic changes are in store for West Side drivers later this week. On Thursday, Cumberland Street will be paved with one lane traffic for most of the day. Feeder streets from Carroll to Lee Streets will be closed for a time. On Friday, Lee Street will be reduced to one lane traffic with Magruder Street closed from Wallace to Lee Street.


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Growing your own food is a political act because it contasts with the way most people get their food which is through huge food supply chains that basically involve earth destroying practices. Especially when we're talking about perishable food: Fresh fruit and vegetables, small livestock products like eggs, and meat from chickens. This type of food uses far more embodied energy through pesticides, through fertilizers and transport miles (transport miles often in refridgerated trucks), much higher wastage because of the perishable nature. The requirements for cosmetically perfect food means there's huge wastage. So this end of the food production system compared with the production of staple grains which people are less likely to grow in gardens. So recognising that that perishable food is enormously destructive in the way it's produced, when we grow it in the garden we bypass virtually all of those systems. And at the same time we are becoming, to a degree, autonomous. And political independence and the ability to engage in society in a lot of ways is to do with from what position of autonomy do we stand. And if we stand totally dependent on a one or two or three day food supply chain we don't really have any position of political autonomy. So I think there's many different ways. The other way we can see it is that a lot of the supply of the food we can grow in the garden is also grown in ways that exploits other people. So we're also disconnecting from systems of unjust exploitation of other people.
I see soil as the foundation of future human wellbeing. As the evidence of history suggests that civilisations in a lot of ways have gone down most commonly, most importantly, because of the degradation of soil. Some of that is due to gross loss of soil through erosion and we certainly have those processes continuing in our farmlands. And that's of course another important reason for gardening because gardening is generally a soil maintaining and building process, but there's also very important issues in relation to soil mineral balance and people's health, and this is not... it's sort of understood as a sort of generalised given statement, but it's not well understood in the medical profession and the nutritional status of foods is a very contentious area where we can have foods that appear to be reasonably healthy plants and vary in their mineral nutrient contents by two orders of magnitude.
Now the plant can actually sort of cope with this, but animals, especially animals at the end of the food chain like human omnivores with large brains have this very fine tolerance for lack of minerals. And to some extent our current food production systems that bring food from many many different places, many many different soil types, in spite of the degredation of soil and bad soil management practices and declining mineral content in food, we're getting a mix of imbalances as a result of that process, and one of the hazards of localisation of food supplies, which must be faced, is that we will tend to, again, like in the past, get a particular sweep of mineral imbalances which, historically, in quite recent times, used to show up in things like thyroid problems in areas that were deficient in iodene and these types of things.
So trying to not just maintain soil fertility, but to build both higher fertility and balance of mineral nutrients is incredibly important. The processes for doing this are, on the one hand very simple at a garden level. At a farming scale they are much more complex, but they are also still the greatest mysteries in science.
There's huge contraversy and debate about what is the best way to do this in any particular circumstance and I think we've got a situation where a lot of the conventional approaches to plant nutrition that have been sold through agricultural science teaching are gradually being discarded without the acknowledgement that they were actually technically flawed. But what is replacing them in terms of organic methods and the scientific foundation behind those is not a clear simple picture. And the success of a particular organic farmer in improving and maintaining soil fertility doesn't necessarily translate to another situation. So it's in some ways a difficult message to give about the importance of soil because there's not necessarily a simple recipe.
We do know that returning all plant and animal wastes to the soil, and allowing soil life to thrive, the microbes of both fungal-based microbes and bacterial-based and that a balance between these is a huge part of healthy soils. And that we know also that return of organic matter is critical to the structural health of soils. Soil that is fluffy and soft and elevated, that if we walk on it that it's like a matress sinking under our feet, rather than concrete. So a lot of the properties of soil that lead to healthy plants are actually to do with these physical properties, but these physical properties are completely intertwined with both the chemistry and the biology.
In many cases, some of what used to be our best agricultural soils are still at a state where they are relatively high in fertility, but that fertility is unbalanced and the life in the soil is almost gone, so we almost have a dead situation. But sometimes just allowing rotations of pasture or plant materials to just mulch onto the soil, the cessation of cultivation, resting, fallowing its land, often results in an amazing revival. So there's both cases where we can "let nature happen", give it a rest, and it actualy recovers, but at the other end of the spectrum we have places where the underlying geology is a constraint on what nature can do, and those are the sort of places that people were always were low population density, where people tended to be graziers and pasturalists and forest farmers, not farmers of intensive arable cultivation, and where there was a need to eat many different foods and particularly animal foods to get the balance of mineral nutrition and in some of these environments, with modern understandings, with mineral supplements, with trace elements we can sometimes potentially overcome those limits. But there's always this tension in soil husbandry between the idea of: "let nature do its job" and "give nature the mineral material to allow it to lift to a new height" and I don't think we've resolved that one in a simple way, but it's where we have to put our focus, is the soil.MODIFYING FOOD HABITS
Our food habits, I suppose, are as unsustainable as our food production systems. And it could be argued that they are actually more the driver to the unsustainability of agriculture than what is happening at the production end.
Most dramatically is the demand for constant steady supply of out of season fresh produce, because this requires enormous manipulation of the growing environment through greenhouses and other methods, and most particularly long distance transport, including between northern and southern hemisphere flips because of course the southern hemisphere is producing in opposite sync to the northern hemisphere. So these complimentarities between different regions of course existed in the past in areas of high mountain regions where foods grown up the mountains could be brought down to cities very close that effectively were in a different climate zone, but of course now we have this global system to do this and it's really in my lifetime that that has largely come about. So although we've had an industrialised society for many generations, we've only really had this industrially mediated perishable food supply system for really one generation.
But there's other elements going back... More generations are being used to eating more highly processed carbohydrates, concentrated sugars, all sorts of things that we're well aware of that have health limitations, but those agricultural industries that supply that have become these vast destructive monocultures that need to produce more wheat in the world and more sugar and more rice, when in fact, in the past, take rice for example, in Japan, in the past people ate millet, sorghum, buckwheat, and other grains which were better for health than just eating rice, but also would grow on other types of land. And there's complimentarity, and there's a revival, a movement to revive these grains as part of the organic living permaculture.
But this redesign of our food habits is quite a challenging one because it doesn't really work very well by trying to do it through moral imperitive. Or if it's done under forced circumstances people have a strong negative memory of those things. We know in Australia about older people not wanting to eat rabbit, because they remember it as the food that they ate during the great depression. Sometimes these associations with certain food as a result of these terrible experiences, what we need to do is, to the extent possible, is to change these food habits ahead of the necessity and seeing these things as actually positive. And in a lot of ways, what is desirable food, what is positive and what's negative is a completely culturally mediated psycho-social process. It's like with fermented foods. What is an acceptable fermented food and what is a bad food is actually not something that can be scientifically said: Yes, that's good to eat and that's not. And that will vary in the cultural context.
So humans are extraordinarily adaptable in this realm and we've obviously adapted to an industrial diet very easily, but it is more difficult to go to the supermart where there might be 25,000 food items, even if a huge proportion of them are produced from the same industrial ingredients, to a food garden or local sources of supply where there's actually a lot less. So I say with some irony that the garden of Eden doesn't really stack up very well compared to the supermart, but I also say as someone who lives from food gardens that we don't produce all our own food, but we don't buy any fruit and vegetables, that that living with the seasons is extraordinarily special process. To have the first strawberry of the season, the first tomatoe, is special in a way that's not possible if you've bought two tomatoes from the supermart each week. So by something being seasonally scarce it's actually raising the special nature of it.
Similarly we don't regard things that come from some distance as necessarily something that we would completely avoid. Like where we live we are in a temperate climate and we don't grow coffee, but we regard organic coffee which comes to us from northern New South Wales, from 2000kms away, as a special thing. So there's nothing wrong with the idea of desirability in some special rare high cost thing as long as it's celebrated as a luxury thing and doesn't degenerate into a constant need. And of course, beyond constant need to an addictive necessity. And a lot of our food habits are really at that level of addictive necessity.
Some of the processes certainly we can learn a lot from the issues of pharmacological addiction. The drug metaphor, both in our food and other habits, is a very powerful one to understand behaviour. Like, people joke about being addicted to shopping or addicted to television, but they often don't think these addictions are really serious addictions. But if we took a pharmacological approach we could say, well, to see how serious the addiction is one needs to withdraw the supply and see what behaviour follows. And that's the test of how severe an addiction is. So whether it's to some regular intake of highly varied out of seasonal food, or whether it's the process of actually going shopping, or some other behaviour, in society, if everyone is doing this all the time a veil of normality hangs around these things and the mutual agreement between the addicts is that everything is okay. But of course we can only test that by what is our behaviour when those things are not available.OIL ADDICTION AND PERMACULTURE
The use of oil and seeing it as an addictive process, at the personal level and the societal level, I think is a very useful one. And it does also give some insight into perhaps why society didn't do somehting about this issue earlier than we are seeing now, maybe, with the actual peaking of supply. And I would put that in the historical context of the wave of the environmental thinking which gave rise to permaculture in the 1970's.
To some extent the seminal work was really the Club of Rome's limits to growth report in 1972, which perhaps would not have been so influential inspite of its eminent authors and great publicity around it at the time, but would not be so influential if it wasn't for it following the first oil crisis of the Yom Kippur war in 1973 which really almost, like, illustrated the sensitivity of society to oil prices and supply.
And then the second oil shock in 1979, which came a year after Permaculture One was published. So this context in the mid 1970's was one where there was this huge interest in sustainable alternatives, in passive solar design, in energy efficiency, in bicycling and public transport, in new ways of communal living, are many things that in some ways are regarded as part of alternative living "hippy" ideas that didn't really go anywhere.
And this sort of rewriting of history is actually part of the 1980's shift where in fact this idea of resource limits, which was proposed in the Club of Rome's limits to growth report and was illustrated by these, admittedly, politically-created energy crises seemed to go away, but permaculture from the beginning was really based on this view that we really have to redevelop systems of dependence on renewable resourses and primarily the renewable resources of soil, plants and animals with renewable technologies providing a complimentary role rather than the primary role.
Now, I suppose, inevitably some of this can be classed as a romantic return to the past but it was really a very serious design system for this energy change. Now since that time during the 80's and the 90's a lot of permaculture activism has inevitably worked within a social context where food has been the cheapest it has been in human history relative to wages, electricity and fuel costs have in many cases fallen relative to real wages, so many of the other reasons for permaculture strategies like community gardens and city farms, to take one example, it was the social values and other environmental values that became the points of arguing for or proposing these things rather than food security. So permaculture, like a lot of other environmental strategies has had to work within this environment where the really fundamental, if you like, "survival reasons" for doing some of these things didn't really seem to have any credibility.
Now that's not been the case in the third world where permaculture projects are arguably much more effective and large scale and more predominant than in the rich world are. One example I give is the very "cool" permaculture idea of creating a living fence. Actually an old idea that existed in the layed hedge rows of England of using plants as a barrier to animals. Well, we have a ready supply of steel and fencing materials actually this is really quite complicated and time consuming, but in an African village if cows eat every blade of grass and there's nowhere food can be grown and someone brings in some plant material which a living fence can be grown by putting stakes of wood in the groung, then this is a breakthrough technology of enormous significance. But in a world where fencing materials are abundant, why bother with something like a living fence, so there's many of the permaculture strategies are laboured in this condition where it hasn't been necessary to do these things.
And that's been the issue of "why grow your own food?" when food is the cheapest it's been in history relative to wages, but that's perhaps why in the struggle to try and find what are some of the solutions to the oil peak and decline that, in a way, some of those permaculture strategies are directly designed for that.
This problem of how the reduction in energy will play out especially in relation to food supply is enormously complex and it's one I've thought about for almost thirty years, and constantly new information, new insights add bits to that picutre, but I think inherently we are dealing with unpredictable systems. Not just because we don't have enough information about what is going on, we are dealing with points of chaotic change and mergents of new possibilities and the backwash of environmental, social, psycho-social debt, if you like, which we've pushed away with the power of energy and resource use. We've pushed these problems away and these problems are coming back that have been accumulating. And we don't know exactly how those are going to play out. I mentioned before about the whole issue of health and our fragility in terms of mineral supply and mineral nutrition and our concerns abut health that can feedback very quickly if there's interruption in the food supply chain.
Perhaps one of the main things is the dependence on gas for the making of fertilisers, especially nitrogen fertilizer and I think people who don't understand agriculture... Trying to understand the power of taking nitrogen gas out of the air, which of couse is enormously abundant, but virtually inert and breaking it and reforming it to form the basic chemicals which provide nitrogen fertilisers, that this is enormously energy intensive. And it's a huge part of the productivity of modern agriculture is linked to this. So I think that's one of the obvious issues that's going to play out, which will certainly lead to rises in the costs of these things.
Some of the positive things that can come from that is the low input and organic ways of farming for the first time start to become competitive, not because there's a premium for organic produce, but because of the lower exposure to input costs. So that the more self-reliant the farm is in its own fertility cycle the more it is able to continue producing at a lower cost structure in a world of greater energy costs. The other factor of course is the localisation of what I mentioned before where home food gardening disconnects this chain of supply. So that means locally produced food, again, has a competitive advantage against large scale global supply. So some of the things that have been extremely difficult in the past thirty years to argue in terms of reform of agriculture and food supply along ecological lines actually may happen without anyone even thinking it's a good idea. So there's an enormous number of positives that can come from this process, but I think it's unlikely to be a smooth transition even in the best of circumstances and I think it's inevitable that people will look back on the time where they could just go down to the shop and get this huge list of things of whatever they chose, but I suppose there's also what I spoke about: the joy of reconnecting with a local and seasonal food supply that could become more positive outcomes.
I think on the dark-side if we look on a large scale it's hard not to be pessimistic about: Are we going to see the world's grain supply which is dependent, and in the immediate term will continue to be dependent, on fossil fuel to plough land as an absolute minimum, if not supply nitrogen fertiliser. But the supply of the world's grain from large scale agricultural surplus of that to export, is that going to go to feed people or is that going to go into these hideous systems of intensive livestock husbandry of feedlot beef production? And I think we could see a repeat perhaps of the Irish famine story where the Irish were exporting shiploads of food to Britain while people in Ireland were starving after the onset of the potato blight. So the possibility of human quality food in grain, especially sort of wheat and corn and other oil seeds could be fed to intensive livestock systems, which we know is an incredible waste of resources, it's an obscen use of resources, at the same time these countries don't have enough grain to feed their people. Now I would hope that in a world market of rising prices that those countries would be able to outbid the corporations wanting a grain supply to feed to a cow to make hamburgers, but I don't think that's particularly clear how that will play out. It doesn't seem to appear that we can rely on sensible and humane public policy to effectively shut down these industries now because they... I mean I don't think they can be effectively reformed, I mean they are founded on fundamentally false premises, so, of course this doesn't mean that meat production is not a sustainable part of the land use in the future, but of course animals need to be raised on natural pasture with low inputs and those inputs need to be reserved for the arable land producing food, staples and oil seeds, for people.
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Everyone Thinks Yu Darvish Will Be Posted This Winter and Other Bullets
Surprise: there's plenty more to discuss about the Cubs' almost-definitely-soon-to-be-GM-or-maybe-President-well-Dude-we-just-don't-know, Theo Epstein, later this morning. For now, the rest of what's going on in the Cubs' world…
- Sigh. So, the Cardinals won the NLCS last night, and have empowered Cardinals fans to be intolerable douches for at least another two years. A World Series victory extends that another two years. You can't get here quickly enough, Mr. Epstein. Oh, have a mentioned that I love the Texas Rangers? Love 'em. I will do lines off of Josh Hamilton's forearms if they sweep the Cardinals (except not really, because that would be kind of insensitive).
- Increasingly, pundits are becoming convinced that Japanese pitcher Yu Darvish will be posted this Winter, and, if some team ponies up, will be a MLB pitcher come 2012. I previously wrote a bit on Darvish and wondered whether the Cubs should go after him if he becomes available. My conclusion at the time: kick the tires, and if his cost averages out to $10 to $13 million per year, you've really got to think hard about it. If Darvish is posted, and the new sheriff is in town, I do expect the Cubs to at least see what's what. He's 25, has ace potential, and those guys don't just become available every year. On the other hand, he's thrown a crazy amount of innings in his young life, and Japanese stars don't always translate here in the States. It's a tough call, and that's why, as is usually the case, it comes down to the money.
- Some of the Cubs' top prospect continue to tear it up in the Arizona Fall League. Chris Carpenter struck out five of the six batters he faced on Saturday (Sunday was an off-day), Junior Lake went 3-5 with a homer, and DJ LeMahieu also went 3-5. For the season, Lake has a .333/.400/.639 line with three homers (tied for second in the league) and seven stolen bases (leads the league). Josh Vitters' line is .405/.425/.649, good for the 11th best OPS in the league (yeah, it's a crazy offensive league), but he's got more at bats than anyone ahead of him.
- AFL schadenfreude? Bryce Harper is currently hitting .111/.172/.185. I doubt he's blowing too many kisses these days.
- From another Winter league, Bryan LaHair is destroying the Venezuelan Winter League to the tune of a 1.482 OPS and a league-leading four homers.
- Despite reports to the contrary, Richard Justice says the Astros' sale is not all sewn up. Justice believes MLB remains uncomfortable with prospective owner Jim Crane's past, including allegations of racism and sexism. In case you wonder why I keep bringing up the Astros' sale, it remains, perhaps, the only vehicle by which MLB can accomplish realignment, which would have a directly beneficial impact on the Cubs. So, like, this is a big deal. The owners' meetings are in mid-November, and Crane's agreement to purchase the Astros expires November 30.


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Universal Laptop Chargers – best invention since sliced bread
Published 14 June 2015
Sliced bread was amazing – back in the 1920s. Before they had laptops, there wasn't much to amuse oneself with. Except for the wonders of how bread could be bought sliced, each slice with perfect thickness.
In our modern times, we take amazing inventions for granted, like a laptop computer. A laptop has been essential to my life, both work and personal. I think if I add up all the hours a day I'm on my laptop, it is a scary number. Some days, when I'm working late, I'm probably on my laptop for more hours than I spend sleeping.
So when I can't use my laptop, there is a minor crisis. Emails get unsent. Word documents go untyped. And one of the nightmare scenarios, is of course, if your laptop charger dies. Or goes walkies on you in the office or coffee shop. I lost a laptop charger recently, and it wasn't pretty. Trying to find a replacement laptop charger – with the right plug head for my laptop model – that was painful.
That's why something like a universal laptop charger is the best invention since sliced bread. There is a really good quality model sold by Imperial Gadgets – its compatible with loads of laptops, and I'd be surprised if they don't have the right head for your particular laptop model. Rather than spend hours trying to find the exact spare part on Dell's archaic spare parts website, or taking a risk on some knock-off from China on eBay, I've discovered that the easiest way is to get a universal laptop charger, with special delivery, and voila. It's there with you as soon as the next working day.


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Currently thinking this may be a Walther Mary trinket set pot, Frank. Though the lid varies from that shown in the 1937 catalogue, the body pattern matches. It's also frequently seen with what appear to be Walther Mary candlesticks.
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Short, experimental, non-horror Amnesia story created as a part of student project for Faculty of Dramatic Arts (Belgrade). The goal was to create a game that can be completed in 15 minutes or less and still tell a story. We decided to go for a poetic approach and put the player in familiar Brennenburg enviroment but kept it abstract to differentiate from classic Amnesia levels. First version of the mod was written in Serbian language titled " Bekstvo od dnevnog svetla" and later we decided to translate it to English so our non-Serbian speaking friends could try it, therefore downloads are available in both languages with separate archives and folders.
The storyline is deep, but level design is boring and the cs is around 5 minutes long. It's good, but could have been so much better.
6/10 - Decent
I liked the "story" of this quite a bit, it was very interesting.
I wanted to play it again afterwards which would have been great if only there was more substance here.
The music suited the story, even if it was on loop.
The level design, however was just plain dull. I had no interest in the levels themselves. It would have added to the experience if the levels were awesome but whatever.
It was too short for my tastes. It would have been an even more amazing experience for me had it continued along with the happenings of this "story"
That's it for me.
You had a good sense of art, especially in the notes.
Interesting and different custom story. Great job with creating relaxed and mysterious atmosphere.
This was just horrible, did you set the piano music to be playing from ONE angle? That just gave me a headache!
this was a nice custom story but was to short
A nice try, and of course I realise it was just a student project not a semi-pro creation.
But I found myself unable to give more than three points because the level design was unimaginative, and the areas that were dark, I found so dark I had to crank up the gamma to save myself traipsing around looking for tiny objects on the floor. The rooms were a little uninspired; even using the game's foundations as non-horror, I expected more of the game's features and props to be used for a little atmosphere rather than big square rooms with very little in them (aside from the bedroom, which was nicely done).
If this mod were worked on, and perhaps expanded to about an hour's gameplay with different areas and ideas then I'd definitely play it, and would probably rate higher.
wow that was actually pretty good
nice mod
I really liked it. Mainly as its not like the other mods. Very creative. Only downfall is its to short.
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Wewelsburg Castle was built between 1603 and 1609 in Weser Renaissance
style as a supplementary residence for the Prince Bishops of Paderborn.
The triangular castle, which is located in the village of Wewelsburg
(Büren) in the district of Paderborn, stands high on a rock overlooking
the Alme Valley.
Wewelsburg district museum includes three permanent exhibitions:
The Historical Museum of the Prince Bishopric of Paderborn is located in the South- and East Wing of Wewelsburg Castle. It presents the history of Paderborn Land from the time of the first settlement to secularisation in 1802. read more
The contemporary history section Wewelsburg 1933-1945 Memorial Museum with its exhibition "Ideology and Terror of the SS" is located in the former guardhouse in the castle forecourt. It shows in a detailed local history as well as in a general overview both "faces" of the Nazi-"Schutzstaffel": the ideological "Weltanschauung" and the daily reality of forced labour, concentration camp crimes and mass murder. read more
Regularly, Wewelsburg District Museum presents special exhibitions. Please find here all information about current and former special exhibitions! read more
The West Wing of Wewelsburg Castle accomodates a Youth Hostel (Tel. 0049- (0) 2955 / 6155). Wewelsburg District Museum is supported by the District of Paderborn.


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Part of the Abair Family
My brother who passed away a few years ago was really into this genealogy thing. He collected Abair stuff on his computer dating back to the 15 or 16 hundreds. I have all that stuff on a cd in a program called family tree. Not sure what to do with it all. I know there is a way to convert it but am at a total loss on how.
My grandfather was clement abair and I remember a Horatio abair in the list if that helps. A big chunk of my reletives live in berlington VT.
So if anyone can help me I would love to contribute the info my brother collected.
Mike A
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The dynamism of the companies - large multinationals or SMEs - is at the origin of the competitiveness and the innovation of the sector.
Over a period of decades, the sector's operators have accumulated a wealth of knowledge and experience, never ceasing to pursue higher standards of safety and security. The European LPG industry is committed to putting the sum total of its expertise at the service of European decision-makers and society as a whole.
This expertise is also reflected in the industry's proven capacity for technical innovation. Notable examples include the development of new light-weight metal and/or composite cylinders and the development of telemetry (remote management systems), both of which constitute significant improvements in terms of safety, and facility of use. As outlined in the industry Roadmap, European LPG operators are committed to continuing the pursuit of excellence through innovation.
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Who should register with the Pag-IBIG Fund as members?
With the signing of Republic Act No. 9679, membership to the Fund shall be mandatory for the following:
- a. All employees, workers, professionals, officers and companies who are compulsorily covered by the SSS and GSIS
- b. Uniformed members of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, the Bureau of Fire Protection, the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology, and the Philippine National Police;
- c. Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs)
- d. Filipinos employed by foreign-based employers, whether deployed locally or abroad.
Membership to the Fund is also open to the following:
- a. Non-working spouses of Pag-IBIG members;
- b. Filipino employees of foreign government or international organization, or their wholly-owned instrumentality based in the Philippines, in the absence of an administrative agreement with the Fund;
- c. Employees of an employer who is granted a waiver or suspension of coverage by the Fund under RA 9679;
- d. Leaders and members of religious groups;
- e. A member separated from employment, local or abroad, or ceased to be self-employed but would like to continue paying his/her personal contribution;
- f. Public officials or employees who are not covered by the GSIS such as barangay officials; and
- g. Filipinos naturalized in other countries.
How much is the monthly contribution?
The contribution rates for all mandatorily-covered members, including OFWs, are as follows:
The maximum monthly compensation used in computing the employee contributions is currently set at P5,000. This means that the maximum member contribution and employer counterpart per month are both currently P100.
What are the benefits of Pag-IBIG Membership?
The Fund offers its members the following benefits:
- Savings
- Short Term Loans
- Access to Housing Programs
What is the Provident Savings Program?
The Pag-IBIG provident savings program is a fast, easy and affordable way for a member to save for his future needs. ember to save for his future needs.
The contributions that a member makes together with the employer counterpart are credited to his Total Accumulated Value (TAV). A member contributing two percent of his monthly compensation doubles his savings immediately with the addition of the employer counterpart contribution. Meanwhile, a member contributing one percent of his monthly compensation triples his savings as the employer counterpart remains at two percent.
Aside from being fully guaranteed by the national government, members' contributions are deducted from the gross income prior to computation of the income tax.
Members' savings earn annual dividends that are also tax-free. The dividend rate varies depending on the net income of the Fund at yearend.
When can a member withdraw his savings?
A member may withdraw his TAV or savings after 20 years of membership with the Fund and after having made a total of 240 monthly contributions.
A member may also withdraw his savings under any of the following valid grounds:
a. Retirement
• Early retirement at age 45
• Optional retirement at age 60
• Mandatory retirement at age 65
b. Permanent departure from the country
c. Permanent or total physical disability
d. Insanity
e. Termination from service by reason of health
f. Death of the member
g. Optional withdrawal at 10 or 15 continuous years of membership
- A member who registered under RA7742 may be allowed to withdraw his TAV after 10 or 15 years of continuous membership.
- A member who registered under RA9679 may be allowed to withdraw his TAV after 15 years of continuous membership.
h. Other causes as may be provided by the Board of Trustees
What Short-Term Loans are available to the member?
Pag-IBIG Fund's Short-term loan programs are meant to provide assistance to its members, provided they are active and have made at least 24 monthly contributions.
There are two short-term loan programs that a member may avail of when the need arises. The Multi-Purpose Loan Program was designed to help finance members' immediate medical, educational or livelihood needs; minor home improvement, purchase of appliance and furniture, and other related needs.
Meanwhile, the Calamity Loan Program is extended to members who have been affected by a recent calamity, as proven by a declaration of calamity in their area of residence.
What Housing Programs are available for members?
An eligible member may avail of a housing loan under either the End-User Financing Program or the Magaang Pabahay, Disenteng Buhay Program.
Under the End-User Financing Program, a member may avail of a loan to finance any of the following (Circular 247):
- a. Purchase of a fully developed lot not exceeding one 1,000 square meters, which should be within a residential area;
- b. Purchase of a residential house and lot, townhouse or condominium unit, inclusive of a parking slot. The unit may be:
• Old or brand new;
• A property mortgaged with the Fund; or
• An acquired asset, which is disposed of through sealed public bidding, negotiated sale, or the Rent-to-Own Program.
- c. Construction or completion of a residential unit on a lot owned by the member;
- d. Home improvement, i.e. any alteration in an existing residential unit intended by a homeowner to be a permanent integral part of the property, which will enhance its durability and material value;
- e. Refinancing of an existing mortgage with an institution acceptable to the Fund, provided that:
• The loan is not in default within the 12 months prior to the date of application;
• The said loan has a repayment history of at two years with the original mortgagee
- f. Combination of loan purposes, which shall be limited to the following:
• Purchase of a fully developed lot not exceeding 1,000square meters and construction of a residential unit thereon;
• Purchase of a residential unit, whether old or new, with home improvement;
• Refinancing of an existing mortgage with home improvement;
• Refinancing of an existing mortgage, specifically a lot loan, with construction of a residential unit thereon.
Under the Magaang Pabahay, Disenteng Buhay Program, a qualified member may purchase an acquired asset of the Fund either in cash or through a housing loan at very reasonable prices. A buyer who purchases an acquired asset in cash is entitled to a 20% discount on the property's sales price, while a buyer who purchases through a housing loan is entitled to a 15% discount on the property's sales price.
Who are eligible to avail of a housing loan under the End-User Financing Program?
To qualify for a Pag-IBIG housing loan, a member must satisfy the following requirements:
- a. Must be a member under the Pag-IBIG I for at least 24 months, as evidenced by the remittance of at least 24 monthly contributions at the time of loan application.
- b. Not more than 65 years old at the date of loan application and must be insurable; provided further that he is not more than 70 years old at loan maturity;
- c. Has the legal capacity to acquire and encumber real property;
- d. Has passed satisfactory background/credit and employment/business checks conducted by the developer and the Pag-IBIG Fund;
- e. Has no outstanding Pag-IBIG housing loan, either as a principal borrower or co- borrower;
- f. Has not availed of a Pag-IBIG housing loan that was foreclosed, cancelled, bought back due to default, or subjected to dacion en pago, which shall include cases where the borrower is no longer interested to pursue the loan and surrenders the property;
- g. May have an outstanding Pag-IBIG multi-purpose loan but which is updated in payments at the time of loan application. A member whose multi-purpose loan is in arrears shall be required to pay his arrears over the counter to update his account.
Source: http://www.pagibigfund.gov.ph
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