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Cheltenham to stay as four-day festival
Updated / Monday, 17 Oct 2022 14:37
The Cheltenham Festival took place over three days until the programme was expanded in 2005
The Jockey Club has announced the Cheltenham Festival will remain a four-day fixture.
The continued success of the Prestbury Park showpiece meant speculation had been rife the meeting would become a five-day event from 2024 onwards.
However, following extensive consultation and analysis into the best way forward, it has been decided to keep the current format in place.
"At the Jockey Club we care deeply about the long-term future of our sport and its role in society. That's a mission that enables us to think differently when making decisions," said Ian Renton, who runs Cheltenham as managing director of the Jockey Club's west region.
"While we explored the financial benefits and an opportunity to reach new audiences, we also found a number of counterpoints to this. For example, it is clear that it would be challenging from a turf management perspective, without further work on the track, and on balance we still feel 28 races over four days is the right format.
"This research allows us to do much more than simply answer the question of whether extending the Festival is the right thing to do. We will now evaluate all the insight with a view to improving our facilities, investing in new on-course activations and giving our fanbase, participants, owners and other stakeholders the best possible experience at Cheltenham Racecourse.
"We are extremely grateful to everyone who has taken part in this process and have welcomed the opportunity to listen to racehorse owners, participants, Jockey Club colleagues, the local community, our partners, loyal racing fans and many others with a passion for our sport and the Festival."
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The Trip as Mourning Comedy
Brad Weismann
Womanising: The 20th Cinema Ritrovato
Kaleidoscope of the B-film Director: Edgar G. Ulmer: Detour on Poverty Row edited by Gary D. Rhodes
Woyzeck (Werner Herzog, 1979)
Porky's Duck Hunt
Porky's Duck Hunt (1937 USA 7 mins)
Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Warner Bros. Prod: Leon Schlesinger Dir: Fred (Tex) Avery Anim: Virgil Ross, Robert Cannon, Robert Clampett (uncredited) Mus Dir: Carl W. Stalling Voice: Mel Blanc (Porky, Daffy), Billy Bletcher (Upstairs Neighbour, Bass Fish)
Cast: Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, "Rin-Tin-Tin"
Even icons have to start somewhere.
Just as film divas of flesh and blood began their careers with humble bit parts, so did that of that temperamental, greedy, cynical waterfowl, Daffy Duck. And the unassuming cartoon short in which he first appears, Porky's Duck Hunt, is significant not only as his debut, but as the launching point for the snappy, smart-ass tone that would separate Warner Bros.' cartoons from its competitors, and keep their work relevant and resonant today.
American animators in the 1930s were a scruffy, itinerant bunch. Most bounced around from studio to studio, serving apprenticeships in the cartoon production houses of such figures as Walt Disney, Walter Lantz (best known as the home of Woody Woodpecker), the Fleischer Brothers (Betty Boop, Koko the Clown), and Disney's once and future partner, Ub Iwerks. Serendipitously, an irreverent and rowdy crew came together at Leon Schlesinger Productions, in a ramshackle, bug-infested back-lot bungalow that later earned the affectionate sobriquet of "Termite Terrace" (1).
For a time this group included such leading lights as Chuck Jones, Frank Tashlin, Robert McKimson, and Bob Clampett, all working under the loose supervision and raucous inspiration of Fred "Tex" Avery (who lost the vision in one eye during an office paper-clip fight!). The team enjoyed that most happy of fates to be found inside any corporate structure – they were largely ignored. Left to their own devices, they began gradually and collectively to shrug off the nominally logical, linear, kid-oriented whimsies that emerged from other rivals' drawing boards.
In terms of structure, Porky's Duck Hunt uses elements of both the "hunted-outsmarts-hunted" paradigm that dominated "Warner Bros. cartoons" (although that studio ultimately owned the characters, Schlesinger was, in essence, an independent contractor until Warners bought him out in 1944) until its demise, and the hodgepodge "riffing" technique that was in common use up to that point. This latter "attack" would take a generic subject (the city, hunting, hospitals) and wring all the gags the creators could out of it.
The opening of Porky's Duck Hunt has a Pickwickian resonance to it. To the jaunty musical strains of "A-Hunting We Will Go", the camera pans right across an assembly of objects – a manual on "How to Duck Hunt", and several empty boxes labelled One Sure Fire Shotgun, One Wear-Well Hunting Suit, Assorted Duck Decoys, and 25 Shells. We then find our hero, Porky, admiring himself in a full-length mirror in his otherwise tumbledown apartment.
Porky was one of the last of the studio's harmlessly "cute" leading characters. His toddler-like appearance, clumsiness, and gentle disposition marks him as a figure geared to appeal to preliterates. Even his stutter contributes to the pity the audience may have felt for him. Joe Dougherty, Porky's original voice, was genuinely afflicted with one, and in this film, Mel Blanc "plays" Porky for the first time, retaining the character's distinctive speech impediment.
Poor Porky is all thumbs – he frightens his pet dog, and then accidentally blasts a hole in his ceiling. This prompts a knock at his door, and a punch in his face, from his upstairs neighbour, who displays the buckshot hole in his pants as he turns to go back upstairs.
The scene quickly shifts to the wild, as Porky cautions his dog to "be very, very quiet" – foreshadowing Elmer Fudd's lisping catchphrase in his appearances with Bugs Bunny (and sometimes Daffy Duck). The gags, good, bad and indifferent, begin to flow. A single duck flies overhead, prompting a phalanx of hidden hunters to emerge, blasting away – and missing. A dog-headed, cross-eyed hunter (the soundtrack dredges up "I Only Have Eyes for You" – Carl Stalling's nimble manipulation of pop tunes is displayed here) brings down a brace of airplanes.
Finally, Daffy enters the picture, landing amid a raft of decoys and quacking. Porky winks at the camera – not the first time the fourth wall will be broken here. He wades out under the surface of the lake and pops up, getting the drop on Daffy. The duck cringes but remains in place patiently, so that the joke will play out (the gun squirts a harmless stream of water). Already we are in new territory. This is vaudeville, not naturalism. Avery and company seem to have an unstoppable need to transcend the conventions of the medium. To mockingly play to the audience is the most effective way to get that audience to subvert its expectations, a tendency that only grows as the years pass at Termite Terrace (and reaching a peak in the early to mid-1940s). Now we are complicit with the animators – and now there's a reason for adults to keep an eye on the screen as well.
More tangential joking breaks up the flow of the narrative. Daffy alighting on an unlikely floating barrel of booze leads to its blasting, transitioning to a chorus of drunken fish crooning "On Moonlight Bay" in close harmony. Later, a hand holding a sign will point out "This is an electric eel, folks", right before Daffy swallows it and lights up – a contemptuous deflation of a bad joke.
Daffy's first speech erupts from another interruption. Porky downs Daffy, his dog makes like a retriever ("Go g-g-get him, R-R-R-Rin-Tin-Tin!" exclaims the ecstatic swine). When the two animals return, it is Daffy who has rescued the unconscious pooch. Quickly, he whips out a sheaf of paper and cries, "Hey, that wasn't in the script!"
Daffy replies, "Don't let it worry you, skipper – I'm just a crazy darn-fool duck! HOO-HOO! HOO-HOO!" And away he goes, strutting, flipping and bouncing away across the surface of the lake. Clearly, after this, anything goes. Although Daffy was destined to change from pure zany to disgruntled egotist, the foundation of the basic driving conflict in Warners animation shorts is here. Hunter and hunted, predator and prey – only the damned quarry won't cooperate! The Elmer/Bugs, Tweety/Sylvester, Road Runner/Coyote dynamic is established. (In fact, a loose remake of this film made the following year, Porky's Hare Hunt, gives us a rabbit that, two years later, will crystallise into the Bugs Bunny we know and love.)
Later in the film, Porky again draws a bead on Daffy. The gun won't fire. Tsk-tsking, Daffy takes the gun from Porky, fixes it, and returns it. "It's just me again!" Daffy announces. "HOO-HOO! HOO-HOO!" Even the target's assistance can't facilitate his demise.
The seeds of the transition of Porky from leading man to sidekick is in that exchange. Daffy's relentless putdowns and humiliation of Porky, as well as his grandstanding, turns Porky into a comic foil – a role he would play to perfection in such outings as Chuck Jones' Drip-Along Daffy (1951), Deduce, You Say (1956) and Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century (1951). Only in his few appearances as the disgruntled owner of a nervous, mute Sylvester (Jones' Scaredy Cat, 1948, Claws for Alarm, 1954, Jumpin' Jupiter, 1955), or as the unwilling master of the little-remembered but strongly conceived Charlie Dog (Jones' Little Orphan Airedale, 1947, The Awful Orphan, 1949) will he get to re-exercise any kind of dominance.
As Porky's Duck Hunt plays out, the padding becomes more apparent. Porky's shooting a hole in his boat prompts Joe Penner to rise from the water, delivering his then-familiar catchphrase "Wanna buy a duck?" (2) Porky jackhammers himself into the ground with the force of his firing. Finally, Porky's dog swallows his duck call and begins to hiccup-quack, and the two flee for home, pursued by shot and shell.
Porky returns home. Continuity is completely abandoned – it bears no resemblance to the apartment Porky left at the beginning of the cartoon. Outside his window, a flock of ducks led by Daffy display themselves, in spite, as a shooting-gallery menagerie. Porky aims, but his final impotence is underscored when he discovers, "D-d-d-d-doggone it! No more bullets!" He throws the gun to the ground – and of course, we get a reprise of a blast through the ceiling, and the neighbour's angry retaliation.
All in all, the introduction of Daffy, as well as the full debut of Blanc (the defining voice talent of his generation) and the intimations of the "license" to come, all make this short a groundbreaking effort.
Camera Three: The Boys from Termite Terrace, CBS-TV documentary, 1975, passim.
Joe Penner (nee Josef Pinter), 1904-1941, was an American vaudeville and radio comic who enjoyed a brief but spectacularly large burst of fame during the years 1933 and 1934. His famous non sequiturs "Wanna buy a duck?" and "Oh, you NAS-ty man!", as well as his nyuck-nyuck laugh, made him the first comedy star of the radio era. See his entry on The Internet Movie Database.
Welcome to Issue 36 of our journal!
Brad Weismann is a staff member of the Boulder International Film Festival, as well as a writer and editor.
The Wild Party (Dorothy Arzner, 1929)
Luke Aspell

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John Boston | Frankenstein at 201: May it Be a Book in the Bible
John Boston
I can picture my father at 9, an athletic, simple farm boy, sweet, shy, misplaced. He was always embarrassed to smile, though he did so perfectly. In a blink, he's an old man. I remember his face that day, so animated, so filled with laughter. He recalled seeing the movie, "Frankenstein," in 1931.
Dad always kept that slight Polish accent, so genuine and down to earth. He described how he and his older brother Tony hiked 5 miles into the village to watch it. They ran ALL the way home — in the dark — afterward. Mind you, this wasn't through paved paseos or lit city streets. They ran through the dark forest that surrounded his mother's farm, high-stepping it barefoot over fallen trees and splashing through brooks.
It's hard to find a child not jaded in 2019. We expose them to tens of thousands of grisly visions, beatings, murders, sex, horror, gore. "Frankenstein" must have been such a trauma to a young and innocent soul. My goodness. A scant 10 years later, my father was 19, immersed in a real-life monster movie: World War II.
This marks the 201st anniversary of when a teenage intellectual, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, published one of the greatest stories ever written: "Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus."
What a family lineage. Her father was the political philosopher, William Godwin. Her husband was the fabled poet, Percy Shelley. Her mother was Mary Wollstonecraft, the author, philosopher and early women's right's advocate.
For two centuries, her "Frankenstein" has never been out of print — yet. Today, no one owns the rights. It's public domain. The book has been made into uncountable movies and TV shows. Even Mel Brooks in homage created one of the all-time greatest comedies:"Young Frankenstein."
Her father described Mary at 15 as: "singularly bold, somewhat imperious, and active of mind. Her desire of knowledge is great, and her perseverance in everything she undertakes almost invincible."
Frankenstein should be in the Bible. And Talmud. And Koran. It should be mandatory reading in every high school. Of course, it won't. It contains wisdom, spirituality and a cautionary myth: We make our own demons. They end up terrorizing us and ultimately destroying us.
It doesn't get any more real than that.
The future author of "Frankenstein" fell in love with her future husband when Percy was 21 and she, 16. They would rendezvous at her mother's grave (her mom died from a childbirth infection). Percy, a radical, was essentially banished from his wealthy family for his "social justice" views and the couple, now with a child, frequently had to hide from bill collectors.
There are all manner of courses and criticisms, dealing with the imagery and themes of "Frankenstein." And, point of fact, the title is NOT the monster. Frankenstein is the doctor who creates the beast.
From that is the lesson all children — all adults for that matter — need desperately to learn, especially in these hostile climes.
We start first with an innocent idea. We feed it with thoughts. Like Dr. Frankenstein, we collect parts from the dead to build that very thing and give it life. Once alive, it follows us, seeks us out, torments us and then destroys our lives.
Right, Left or Center, we've all had that experience. Someone says something. We take that statement and it can be true as Scripture, Math or Fact or dumber than a bag of White House correspondents. We chew on it, form it, help it grow. There's no such thing as a small imposition. This well-fed entity gets bigger and bigger. Soon it is the hairy and well-muscled grievance, with legs and arms wrapped around us, gnawing on our head. We blindly lash out.
And the beast owns us.
It could be the commentator on MSNBC or Fox News, your husband, the woman who cuts you off in traffic, the imbecile on the Internet who swears Godzilla is real and just ate Tokyo.
Back to Mel Brooks?
Dr. Frankenstein's inept and comic assistant Igor is sent to come back with a brain. What is the name on the glass Mason jar housing the noodle?
Abnormal.
Or, as Igor reads it: "A.B. Normal…"
Dear heavens me. Most of us spend the better parts of days creating not dreams, but daydreams, built from an abnormal brain. Bad things happen. We howl and blame others.
If I were king of the world, I'd make sure "Frankenstein" was taught in schools.
By good teachers.
I'd add two more horror stories to the curriculum. First, "The Wolfman." It's the tale of the monster who doesn't want to be a monster, but can't help himself.
Then, there's "Dracula." It's about the devil only having the power to convince you to surrender your soul and life's blood.
There is a profound — profound — common sense in these three fables, applicable in our daily lives.
Happy 201st birthday, dear, tormented Dr. Frankenstein. On my list of Things To Do, I shall try, today, to not make any monsters.
John Boston is a local writer.
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here we go - all lined up and ready for the machine. my old friend used to say - "those who aren't busy being born are busy dying"... i think i'll be "bringing it all back home" with me this afternoon. (are you catching all these dylan references?"
anyway - i'm on the attack - time to restock.
that is such a good idea to hang them on a clothesline!


Much of the fintech world believes that blockchain technology will revolutionize how the financial services industry operates. Of course, some of the current iterations of the technology —bitcoin, among them — are criticized for their slow speed and high energy consumption. These qualities would seem to make the prospect of blockchain shaping the future of finance far from inevitable.
Blockchain supporters, on the other hand, maintain that the technology is still in its infancy, that its shortcoming will be addressed, and that it's just a matter of time before one of its applications takes hold and has a truly transformative impact. Carl Wegner, who serves as managing director and head of Asia for the blockchain technology developer R3, recently spoke with us about the progress he and his firm have made as well as where he anticipates blockchain heading in both the near and far term.
Larry Cao, CFA: Tell us about R3 and your work in the blockchain area.
Carl Wegner: R3 started out in 2015 as a consortium of 42 institutions. It has now grown to a network of more than 200 financial institutions, regulators, and technology companies, all working together to explore and develop blockchain technology for businesses.
We just completed our funding round last year and more than 40 member banks and technology companies have invested in us. Our board structure is very global with one third of our revenue and investment stream flowing from Asia, one third from Europe, and one third from the USA. It is easy to say that R3 is one of the biggest global blockchain initiatives and we are working on several central bank digital currency projects with regulators in Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Thailand.
We started out doing projects where each would have five to 10 financial institutions working on a specific area to learn about blockchain technology. These areas include insurance, trade finance, payments, digital assets, KYC [know your customer], etc. As we went through the process, we realized that while blockchain has tremendous potential in the unpermissioned world, financial services requires a permissioned blockchain. Hence, we built Corda, a permissioned blockchain platform on which technology providers are building solutions for different areas.
When we do a project, very often half of the people involved are from the technical side and the other half are business people. We have quite a few members leveraging this education to future-proof their IT decisions and investments. It is also valuable for the business people to understand how this new technology is going to change their use of data and how to deal with KYC and customer privacy in the future.
As a global blockchain initiative, we continue to work on educating and working with our partners who are building on our platform while helping central banks and regulators learn about the challenges and opportunities with this new technology.
You listed a number of areas where you see applications being developed. Could you highlight some that are really promising?
Blockchain in trade finance is looking extremely promising. In the last month, we had ING and HSBC talking about a trade finance deal they did with Cargill. They completed a live trade finance transaction using Corda that involved a bulk shipment of soybeans from Argentina, through Geneva's trading arm of Cargill, to Malaysia, through Cargill's Singapore subsidiary as the purchaser. A letter of credit was issued using Corda by HSBC to ING.
Conventional exchanges for paper-based documentation related to letters of credit usually take between five to 10 days. This exchange was done in 24 hours.
What was the timeline for these projects?
There are three-month projects dubbed incubator projects, which eventually go into a commercial product and we have several ongoing. Marco Polo recently announced an open account trade finance platform that started out as a pilot. There was also an announcement recently from Guardtime and Ernst & Young about building their pilot for marine insurance based on Corda. We also have a company that is trading physical gold in Canada with the regulator's approval.
There is quite a lot of stuff going on, however, it takes baby steps to change financial infrastructure. Anything built now has to work with legacy systems for the next couple of years as more and more functionalities are built. Savings in terms of reconciliation and database costs are going to be incredible.
Can you elaborate on blockchain's cost advantage?
For example, I understand that Deutsche Bank globally has over 14,000 platforms with APIs [application programming interfaces] built among them. It has been estimated that in general, about 15% to 20% of the bank's costs go to their IT budget. How much of that goes to regulatory reporting? If a regulator had a node on the blockchain along with whomever they are regulating, you would not have to do another regulator report again. The regulators would have a window to see what they are allowed to see in real time. They would be more efficient as well because they would not have to sort through massive amounts of data.
What makes blockchain particularly suitable for such tasks?
Blockchain is a distributed ledger. A blockchain or a distributed ledger is valuable when you have different databases for regulatory, national border, and commercial reasons that cannot be shared. For example, in Taiwan, you would have a health card, which is a chip card. It has your medical history on it. When you go to the doctor and they prescribe you your medicine, you then go to a central counter to take a number to pay for your fee. It will be a fairly inexpensive because you are co-paying only your portion. Then you would wait in line and pick up your medicine when your number comes up on a screen. The reason why you have all these steps is because there are different databases managing this information. If those databases could overlap, then instead of having to put an invoice in for you to make a payment, it will automatically debit your bank account for $6 and take the $34 from the insurance company to be paid directly to the hospital. It is all in one ledger. It would know your phone number. Therefore, it will just SMS you that the medicine is ready when the database from the hospital indicates the medicine is ready for pickup. The AIA insurance company, a member of ours, said that potentially up to 75% of their back-office costs could go away by not having to re-key in data or to have paper-managed information keyed into separate databases.
Does the data need to be replicated to establish trust on blockchain?
Blockchain traditionally offers a type of consensus mechanism where you broadcast information out to the world and no one can lie because you tell everyone what you did. When we built Corda we recognized that this model doesn't work for financial services because, for one, there is not possible to have HSBC be aware of every transaction that JPMorgan and Citibank does daily. Secondly, if you had a database that included every bank globally, there would be over 11,000 banks sharing data. If every bank had to maintain a database that contained every other bank's data, it would be immense. That is one of the reasons that traditional broadcasting blockchain does not work for financial services. It would be too expensive to maintain, unwieldy and too slow for high-speed FX transactions, for instance, as 50% of the banks would have to approve every transaction before it was completed.
Corda is actually a system where consensus is done on a peer-to-peer basis, where only members of the transaction get to see it. It is much quicker if you do not have to distribute it out to 11,000-plus financial institution users. It is a permissioned network.
How is data verified on a permissioned network?
With Corda, we have what we call a configurable consensus. In our system, consensus is configurable based on the security needed in the transaction. An intra- branch payment does not need as many parties contacted as for a cross-border FX transaction. Thus, it can be configured to what the entities find acceptable and what the regulators are comfortable with. Since the information is shared in a smaller group, it also moves much faster.
Think about reconciliation. HSBC buys a stock that Citi sells. It takes T+2 because both of them have the data in their database but the custodian bank has to go double-check with each one of them. With a shared database, they would be looking at the same data so there is no need for reconciliation. Whichever party started the transaction is entering their part of the transaction. They do not have to duplicate the information because they are looking at the same thing. The verification of that transaction comes from using the same database. They could use what is called a notary, which is a verification engine. It could be hardware, software, or even a third party like a regulator. You do not have to use a broadcast network to all banks globally for every transaction. There would be at most four to five entities touching each transaction: two banks, a notary group, and a regulator.
Blockchain is often criticized for its speed, energy consumption, and consensus mechanism. Your thoughts?
Public blockchain is one way of verifying data by broadcasting it out to everyone. If you have to broadcast to everyone — say, 50% of the participants — 2,500 of the 5,000 blockchain miners have to verify it. That is going to be too slow for FX transactions. As I mentioned before, the costs for maintaining the same database for the whole global banking system will also be exorbitant. It just does not make sense. Private blockchain is a way of sharing databases for mutualization of costs and speed.
This also seems to resolve the business system issue, but there is always a concern that you need to sign everyone up for trade finance, to, for example, make the system work. It is impossible to have everyone sign up from the beginning. As you expand, the hurdle is high because people use different systems and they have low incentives to switch.
You cannot have a perfect storm with everyone joining at once. A technology decision we made in Corda is to build in interoperability between solutions. If someone builds an open account trade finance application, they might just focus on that. There will be others focusing on FX transaction, KYC, and other components that a bank needs to fully service a trade transaction. Any components built on the Corda platform will be able to interact directly and therefore the value of the sum of the components will bring the extensive benefits to automating trade finance. This will not be able to happen at once, but it's a process that is already happening on Corda as we see the trade finance ecosystem services growing and more services being added monthly.
Thanks so much for sharing your work with us.
Ru Ng contributed to the compilation of this interview note.
Indeed replication of same data us hassle. With DLT the problem is solved. R3 is also working on clearing and settlement systems backed by blockchain…… As mentioned in a reply, it is not a storm that will wipe out, it will take time like the digital era of 90s, but today the world is far from that point.
I would urge every finance professional to find out his use case via this tech…..
The thing that is really working sounds more like a protocol for people to digitally sign and share data with each other than a "blockchain". It sounds like it is called "blockchain" because it is hip.
It may be a thorny problem because there are high costs for each player in the system to adopt any new protocols and processes, but it doesn't seem like radically new technology.


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Q: IO.Directory.CreateDirectory() error I'm installing an ASP.NET application (which works ok in local server) in a shared hosting and I get an exception in this point:
IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(the_path)

The exception is:

Error Request for the permission of type 'System.Security.Permissions.FileIOPermission, mscorlib, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089' failed.

The folder has (or should have) correct write permissions and in the hosting they don't say much, and, as I see here it could be related with MediumTrust environment...
Any ideas on how to face this? One solution could be (didn't try yet) place writable folders within virutal path directories, this is actually a security issue for my files, as they are actually exposed to anyone knowing the path.

A: Your webhost has restricted .Net's ability to write to disk.
You can either ask them to change that, or write within your virtual directory and use Web.config to prevent public HTTP access.

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I'm installing an ASP.NET application (which works ok in local server) in a shared hosting a

Shared Hosting typically runs in medium trust, so they don't give you permission to write to the file system outside of your application's directory. the_path needs to be inside of the root of your web application, and you must have write access to the file system.
You should contact your hosting provider to determine if you have writes to the file system.

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Welcome to the World of S.A.M.
The process of making a drawing machine. A project by Victor Jean Meunier & Mark Webster.
An icon font from GitHub, free to use in your web projects.
A new platform by Kyle McDonald to develop an ongoing dialogue about how artists make money.
A site by Rodrigo Medina to learn Grasshopper.
A web app that lets you create clickable prototypes for smartphone apps from images in your dropbox.
A tutorial by Nick Hardeman on preparing your openFrameworks applications to sell them in the Mac App Store.
Metapolator turns any existing typeface into an intelligent type family system, so you can express yourself through its dials and sliders.
A short book about digital art by Matt Pearson.
A prototyping tool for animation and interaction on desktop and mobile. Framer can help you to quickly build interactions and animations. Built for designers and integrates with Photoshop. Great alternative to Quartz Composer, Flash or Keynote.
A useful app for editing text to make it more readable when you are writing.


You must recharge your iPhone from time to time. If your iPhone acts up in any way, the first thing you should try is to give its battery a full recharge.
Plug the iPhone's dock connector-to-USB cable into one of the USB ports on your computer, rather than into a USB port on your keyboard, monitor, or USB hub. The USB ports on your computer supply more power than the other ports.
You can use the included USB power adapter to recharge your iPhone from an AC outlet rather than from a computer.


(JTA) – Argentina will export more kosher frozen beef to Israel, following an official visit of the country's vice-president.
Gabriela Michetti on Sunday completed an official visit to Israel with an economic team of vice-ministers to turn the good relations between both countries "to concrete economic improvements," she told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting last week.
The first improvement was announced during the visit: Israel extended the expiration of frozen Argentine beef from 45 to 85 days, opening a new market of Argentinean kosher meat at Israeli supermarkets. Meat accounts for 63 per cent of Argentinean export to Israel.
"We have excellent ties, also with the Jewish community of Argentina. We are also trying to leverage the economic issues. We want to deepen these ties so that bilateral trade and investments will grow. We mainly need to realize this view, that everything is done via actions, trade, investments and the market," Michetti told Netanyahu during their meeting.
Netanyahu replied "This is me! Mercado, Mercado, Mercado," using the correct Spanish word for market.
The Argentine vice-president spent Shabbat in Jerusalem and visited the Western Wall.
The visit aimed to promote trade and investment included a seminar with 150 Israeli businessman organized by the Israel Export Institute, and also meetings with start-ups, such as Rewalk, which create tools to help disabled. She also visited Beit Issie Shapiro, which cares for children with disabilities. Michetti was injured in a car accident in 1994 which left her wheelchair-bound. On Sunday she learned more about Israeli technologies to help the disabled during a visit to Alyn Hospital.
The Argentinean delegation was surprised by the passion for soccer of Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, who is a former president of the Beitar Jerusalem soccer club. On Wednesday in Jerusalem he told Michetti that he went to see World Cup in 1978 in Argentina and that he is a big fan of Argentinean soccer stars Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi. "We need to learn from Argentina, we in Israel are doing everything well, except playing soccer" Rivlin said.


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La cicoria all'acqua o otrantina è una verdura facente parte della famiglia della cicoria.

Morfologia

Presenta caratteri botanici molto simili a quelli della catalogna. Da quest'ultima però si differenzia per le dimensioni dello scapo fiorale (più alto, di diametro inferiore, più cavo e con le pareti di minor spessore).

Ciclo colturale
Il ciclo colturale è primaverile estivo. La raccolta, che generalmente inizia in maggio e si protrae per tutta l'estate, viene effettuata recidendo lo scapo fiorale al di sopra della corona di foglie. Successivamente al taglio la pianta emette delle protuberanze ("figghiuli"o "scattuni" in     dialetto leccese) le quali vengono regolarmente recise e forniscono la produzione per alcuni mesi.
Questa particolare tipologia di cicoria, anche se è possibile mangiarla cruda, viene consumata prevalentemente cotta (lessata) condita con olio di oliva.

Riconoscimenti
La regione Puglia ha inserito la cicoria all'acqua nell'elenco dei prodotti agroalimentari tradizionali italiani col nome di cicoria all'acqua, cicoria otrantina

PSR Puglia
La regione Puglia, all'interno del suo P.S.R. (Programma di Sviluppo Rurale) 2007-2013, ha inserito la cicoria all'acqua nell'allegato 8 della Misura 214 - Azione 3 "Tutela della biodiversità" come specie a rischio di erosione genetica.

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Ortaggi da foglia

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Scobicia est un genre de coléoptères de la famille des Bostrichidés. Il compte une dizaine d'espèces.

Espèces
Ces 11 espèces appartiennent au genre Scobicia :

  Lesne, 1907
 Scobicia barbata (Wollaston, 1860)
 Scobicia barbifrons (Wollaston, 1864)
  (Horn, 1878)
  (Villa & Villa, 1835)
  (LeConte, 1860)
 Scobicia ficicola (Wollaston, 1865)
  Fisher, 1950
 Scobicia monticola Fisher, 1950
 Scobicia pustulata (Fabricius, 1801)
  (Horn, 1878)

Références

Bibliographie complémentaires

Liens externes

Bostrichidae
Genre de Coléoptères (nom scientifique)


I didn't know that about the buidling but, I always admired it's gilded top.
I heard that same story about the building, and it does remind one of a Champagne bottle when you see it from a distance. It's as good a story as any.


Good fishing partners are hard to find and many teams do not finish the year together. It is important to remember, your success or failure is dependent upon your ability to fish together and communicate openly. Trust is another factor that must be in the team makeup. If you cannot trust the individual with your fishing secrets, you most likely will not be compatible or successful. Once you decide on a potential partner, get a copy of the Official Rules for the trail you want to fish. Both of you must read and understand the rules and schedule commitment you are about to agree to.
All tournament rules are not the same, read them carefully! If you are new to the state, the state may have requirements you are not familiar with. If the trail rule states the dead fish penalty is .20 lbs, and the state rule says the penalty is greater. The state rule prevails. Some trails allow substitute partners, others do not, and someplace limitations in the sub rule. Again all Tournaments Rules are not the same. Read them carefully and contact the Trail Director for clarification, if you have any doubt or questions. Do not take someone else's word. Most rules have been established based experience and are necessary to ensure the integrity of the trail. They are important and you should know them. Read the Rules.
Signing an entry form commits you and your partner to the tournament, releases the director from liability, and is verification that you have read, understand and agree to follow the rules. Ensure your partner reads and understands the rules. Discuss them to ensure you agree on their meaning and purpose. Disqualification for rule violation is common. When a written protest is presented to the director, he or she becomes Judge and Jury. Read the Rules.
The Trail Director should be happy to answer questions, provide you a written copy of rules and entry forms, as well as provide discussion and clarification on any rule or subject related to the trail. If the director is unwilling to do so or fails to respond to your email or phone calls, find another trail. Good luck and good fishing.
So You Want To Turn Pro?
Many people would like to compete on the tournament trails, and would do very well, even win large sums of money. The first thing you have to ask yourself is, "do I have what it takes"? I will try to outline below some of the roadblocks and requirements to answer your questions.
Well to start with, you need angling know-how. A good understanding of the lifestyle and habitat of the fish you want to catch, including feeding and mating habits. Then, you have to think like a fish! These are just a few of the prerequisites you will need before "stepping up to the plate". I began fishing in London, England at the age of six on the banks of the river Thames. Ten years later, I was competing in local tournaments or matches against some of the best in the country. Using the oldest cliche' of all " I was hooked". By the age of twenty, I was fishing in championship competition in different lakes, rivers and streams, all over Europe.
As most tournament anglers already know and what future tournament anglers will quickly learn. Sponsors are what can help make an angler a champion. Don't get me wrong, having a sponsor is not going to make you an instantly better angler. They will however make it possible for you to compete in the extremely expensive world of professional bass fishing. Just don't fall into a long term agreement that is going to greatly benefit your sponsor and only enable you to wear a cool looking patch on your shirt and have a few free lures in your box.


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4 Ways to Mitigate Cyber Risk as Hackers Target COVID Researchers
Written by Brian Thomas May 22, 2020
As the U.S. biomedical community rushes to combat COVID-19, the FBI announced last week that, in a bid to win the race for a vaccine or cure, state-sponsored Chinese hackers are targeting U.S. researchers in an attempt to "obtain valuable intellectual property and public health data related to vaccines, treatments, and testing."
China is not alone in its nefarious intelligence-gathering efforts. On May 8th, Reuters reported that Iran-linked hackers had targeted Gilead Sciences, makers of the promising antiviral drug remdesivir.
In light of these attacks, the bioscience community must step up its cyber vigilance. It only takes a misconfigured piece of software, an open access port, or an insecure remote office network for a hacker to gain entry to systems that store scientific research, intellectual property, and the personal data of subjects involved in clinical trials.
Here are four key measures that security leaders can take to mitigate risk as their organizations race to develop vaccines.
1. Visualize risk across all digital assets
The global effort to beat COVID-19 is using technology at scale in ways never seen before. The number of digital touchpoints that scientists, researchers, government agencies, and others interact with day-to-day is growing exponentially — as is the attack surface. This puts tremendous pressure on security leaders who don't have a handle on the risk hidden across digital assets in the cloud or across geographies, subsidiaries, and their remote workforces.
Yet organizations often lack visibility into the inventory of critical assets that comprise these complex ecosystems, such as connected medical devices, applications, and cloud infrastructure. They may also lack insight into the level of risk associated with each asset, not realizing when a piece of software needs an update or runs a high risk of being breached. Only with this understanding can organizations make strategic decisions about prioritizing their remediation efforts and moving their cybersecurity programs forward. BitSight Attack Surface Analytics provides that understanding. It can help security teams overcome the challenges of detecting and managing unknown cyber risk hiding throughout their expanding digital ecosystem.
2. Discover risk in remote environments
The number of workers now working remotely has risen sharply since the pandemic began. Yet these environments pose significant cyber risk. A BitSight study found that home and remote offices have alarming security issues that could put upstream company networks and data at risk of compromise.
Security teams can address the challenges created by this massive shift to remote work with BitSight Work From Home - Remote Office. This solution empowers organizations to easily and effectively identify vulnerabilities and infections on IP addresses associated with remote operating environments, such as residential IPs. With these insights, unknown security issues across remote endpoints can be quickly discovered on a continuous basis for efficient remediation.
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3. Continuously monitor third parties for risk
Pharmaceutical and bioscience companies are increasingly relying on third parties, which means the security of intellectual data or patient data may also be in a vendor's hands. While the use of third-parties is necessary to help companies remain agile, share information, and speed time to market, it can introduce additional risk, as data breaches that originate in the vulnerable systems of third parties are increasingly used as part of a larger supply chain attack to gain access to the victim's strategic partners and/or customers.
This exposes those on the front lines of COVID-19 treatment and therapies to regulatory and reputational risk. To mitigate this vulnerability, partners need to be carefully yet expeditiously vetted to ensure they're not bringing unwanted risk into the organization.
An effective way of exposing risk in the supply chain — quickly and without the complexity of traditional risk assessments — is to rate and continuously monitor vendors' risk levels using BitSight Security Ratings. Security ratings are a data-driven, objective, and dynamic measure of security performance that make it easier than ever for organizations to achieve visibility into a vendor's inherent risk. Unlike a point-in-time snapshot, security ratings are updated daily, so organizations can easily track how their vendors' security postures are changing over time.
4. Don't forget the basics
Studies show that about 95% of cybersecurity breaches can be prevented with basic security hygiene. This means ensuring that software is patched in a timely manner, systems are updated, open ports are closed, and data is consistently backed up. And, because cybersecurity is no longer the sole responsibility of IT and security teams, users should be educated on typical cyber threat behaviors and how to avoid falling victim to them.
Cybersecurity must go beyond "detect and respond"
Right now, the race to find a cure or treatment for COVID-19 is the science community's Holy Grail. More than 200 clinical trials have been launched and nearly all other research has ground to a halt as scientists worldwide come together to focus on a singular topic.
Hackers will continue to meddle with these efforts, placing pressure on already stretched security leaders to go beyond conventional detect and respond approaches to cyber threats. Instead, they must revisit basic cybersecurity hygiene practices and find proven and efficient ways to continuously discover and manage risk exposure — across the extended attack surface and third-party ecosystem. Only then can remediation be prioritized, and life-saving science innovation assured.
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Alabama's GOP attorney general's race 'most competitive,' experts say – Taking Alabama Back!
Alabama's crowded gubernatorial race will be the most watched political campaign ahead of the June 5 primaries. But for pure political intrigue, it's the Republican contest for attorney general that rivets the early attention.


Nowadays, everywhere you click you will realize that someone is talking about cannabidol. It is basically a chemical compound that is derived from the cannabis plant. The online retailers usually market the extract as some kind of remedy for so many ailments. Most people buying it are the celebrities and they attest to the fact that it comes with healing powers. Aside from possessing healing powers, CBD products are usually used as supplements and beauty products as well.
CBD is extremely non psychoactive in as much as cannabis could be used to make marijuana. It is vital to take note of the fact that CBD is non psychoactive and therefore it can never make one high. However, consumers should understand that there are very many things that doctors still do not know about CBD products and their effects before trying it. The following article seeks to educate people on the benefits of the CBD products to the human body.
The very first benefit that comes with the use of CBD products is that they help to reduce the seizures in epilepsy. You ought to be aware of the fact that you could simply reduce the onset childhood epileptic seizures by the use of CBD products. When purchasing CBD products, always ascertain that they are in the right quantity.
Secondly, CBD products help so much when it comes to relieving chronic pains. The fact that CBD products helps to relieve chronic pain is so far its best advantage. CBD products are known to help so much when it comes to relieving joint pain and any other type of inflammatory pains. The good thing is that CBD products help to relieve pain without causing any side effects. In fact, CBD products help to cure arthritis in human beings. Even those suffering from sclerosis could use CBD products to relieve the pain.
The other benefit of CBD products is the fact that they help to reduce anxiety and depression. If you are the kind of person experiencing any forms of anxiety and depression, ensure that you use CBD products to take it down a notch.
The reason as to why CBD products are able to reduce anxiety and depression is because they have a certain ability to activate the brain receptors that help to regulate one's moods, sleep and appetite. It is important to always remember that using too much CBD products or too little will not get you the kind of results that you will need. If you want to experience the benefits of the CBD products, ensure that you use them in the right amounts now. With the benefits that come with the use of the CBD products, you would know that their popularity is for a good reason. If you would want to find the right CBD products, you should ensure that you buy from the right company.


I am pleased to announce that DNN Platform 7.3.4 has been released. The 7.3.4 release is a stabilization release. DNN 7.3.4 is a smaller maintenance release than normal and is focused on addressing the most serious platform issues. It is expected that this will be the final platform release prior to DNN 7.4.0 which is expected to be released in January 2015. Once again the community has provided a number of significant fixes for this release. I look forward to increasing this level of participation coming in future releases.
You can find all of the issues resolved in this release in our issue tracker. Download 7.3.4 from the DotNetNuke Downloads page.
Recently there has been a lot of discussion in the community around DNN Spam registrations and methods and processes to prevent or fix the issues that are associated with them. I've been debating on if/when I should actually write about this given that there is an Official DNN Software response on the issue, as well as many other community comments. Well, when I had a server go down and guess what it was because of this very issue so I think its time to give my quick perspective and recommended action points for those of you that are running a DNN site. These recommendations apply for ALL DNN versions!
If possible, set your registration mode to "none" if you don't need public registration. This is a great first defense. If this isn't possible, then go with the next best step and that is to create a custom registration page. If you do this, though make sure that you follow the instructions in the next step.
One of the recommended "stop gap" items that DNN Corporation recommends for those that cannot set registration to "none" is to set a filter in IIS for request filtering. I STRONGLY recommend this solution and am rolling this out to ALL DNN sites that I manage or have any control over that need to allow user registration. This will prevent the most basic backdoor used by these scripters which should at least help limit things a bit.
This is the key, the above changes are quick & easy, but it is the investigation that is key. I'm writing this post because of the investigation and resolution that I had to do tonight while on vacation. I had a server that went down, with a clients database that grew from 45mb to almost 1gb in 7 days, had a user count grow from 2 users to 197,000 users in that same 7 day period. All of this happened silently, without stressing server resources, without setting off any DDOS alerts or anything. How did it become an issue today? The site owner tried to make a change and then it fell on its face.
So, given that this can be a silent threat to your site, what do you need to look for, and what actions can you take to fix? Lets look at these next.
Do you have impacted Users?
If you are lucky, your site will not have any impacted users and you can stop here. However, if you go to "Admin" -> "User Accounts" and see that you have 50,000 users when you should only have 10 you have some work to do. This is the fastest way to look at things and identify what is going on. If you have rogue users you will need to do two things to truly 'clean' your installation from these user accounts.
The first step in resolution is to get rid of the users that are impacting the site. How you accomplish this is going to vary a bit. If you have 5, 10, 20 SPAM users, just manually use the DNN delete features, but make sure to note the User Id value for each user. If you have a lot of users, for example in my case more than 100K users to remove, you are going to want to investigate a scripting solution.
I will not post direct SQL here as you NEED to be a user with proper SQL knowledge to do this, but you can do this VERY fast and very clean within DNN. Simply set all of the users that you need to remove to "Deleted" in the database, then use the "Remove Deleted Users." Now, this process of having DNN remove the users might need to be repeated as there is a 30 second timeout on DNN database queries. In my case it took 10 attempts to remove all.
This is one area that is not often remembered by administrators with fake accounts. Each user that is created in more current versions of DNN have a folder created for them inside of the users folder within DNN. You will want ot go in and delete all of these folders from the filesystem. Then once that is completed you will want to go to "Admin" -> "File Manager" and sync the filesystem. This is imperative as more entries in the folders and permissions table will slow down areas of the site that interact with these tables.
We need to see what the final fix is for this issue, but in the meantime we need to be vigilant and keep our own sites as protected as possible. Given the nature of this issue I am being a bit vague in recommendations as the exact solution isn't going to be the same for all users and sites.
Now you'll be able to add Google maps to posts. Post might have the primary post map, and with tokens you'll be able to include a limiteless quantity of maps to content articles. Maps may be very easily created and edited by way of the in-built Map editor.
Within this blog I'll clarify How you can insert new google maps into DotNetNuke 7.3. Google has up-to-date Google maps to new UI and features.
So will start with Google maps very first.
Click the Google applications on right top facet of one's browser. Open up Google maps appplication.
You will be landed to New Google maps. Type your address or location in the search box. For instance i have added Madame Tussaud Newyork.
Once your location is targeted on google maps.Click on setting at the right bottom side of the map and select share and embed maps.
A modal popup will look on the display with Share hyperlink and Embed map alternative. By this you are able to possess the link in the map to provide to any hyperlinks if required else we can select to embed the map into your site or application. Also you'll be able to shorten the URL if necessary .
Given that we need to embed google maps into DNN we are going to choose Embed maps alternative. After you click on embed maps option you'll have a smaller sized see of maps you've selected i.e in my scenario Madame Tussauds The big apple with ratings, reviews, bigger map choice and obtain directions. You can even bookmark if necessary.
OK once you have got map on Embed maps. Now you can choose the size of the map required based on your requirement. Google offers small, medium, large and custom size.
We can change the size of the maps by using custom size.Google maps also provides option to preview your custom size by clicking on preview option.A new window will be popped out for preview.
For now we will be using Medium as our map size. Will select medium size and copy the iframe provided.
Once iframe is copied will now login to our DNN (DotnetNuke). Add username and password and login to DNN.
Once DNN is logged in. To place our Google maps on our site we need to add a HTML module to our site. This can be added by navigating to Modules > Add New Module > Selecting Common from the Drop down.
Once common option is selected from drop down options will be narrowed to HTML. Drag the HTML module to your selected pane in my case i am adding module to Content Panel.
Now we have added HTML module to our Content panel. We need to edit content inside our HTML module. This can be completed by clicking on pencil icon existing on the HTML module. In the event you dont have pencil icon navigate to Edit page choice on proper leading corner in the DNN control panel. After pencil icon is clicked click on on edit content.
Once you select Edit Content. A modal popup will appear with all editing option. Initally the editr will be in Design mode change the mode to HTML. This can done just by clicking on HTML option just below the editor.
Once you selected HTML mode. Paste the iframe we copied from Google maps to the HTML editor in DNN. After pasting the iframe to DNN editor save the module by clicking on save button.
Thats it Google maps will be embeded on your DNN page in a following way.
Hope you liked my tutorial.
DotNetNuke is a widely adopted open source platform for building web sites and web applications with a Content Management System build on .NET. WebMatrix is a free tool that allows you to create, customize, and publish webpages. It gives a number of different ways that you can create websites. One of the features is providing existing open sources applications such as DotNetNuke, as well as WordPress, Joomla, DotNetNuke or Umbraco. In this tutorial, you will see how quick and easy it is to get your DotNetNuke application up and running! And show how to install, configure and publish a DotNetNuke application with WebMatrix.
If you do not already have WebMatrix, it can be downloaded for free at www.microsoft.com/web/webmatrix.
We will now choose the "DotNetNuke Community Edition" icon to install the application. You can give your application a name or keep the default name.
You will be prompted to select a database. Select "SQL Server" and make sure the "Windows Integrated Authentication" radio button is selected and click Next.
You will be prompted to install DotNetNuke. To do this you must click the "I Accept" button.
Now we wait while DotNetNuke is installed. This make take up to a couple minutes.
Once the installation is complete we will get a confirmation.
Clicking the "OK" button will take us to our WebMatrix workspace with the DotNetNuke application loaded.
To configure our DotNetNuke application, we will use the Installation Wizard. To run our installation wizard, click the "Run" button on the Menu Ribbon. Note: make sure you run the root folder of the application. Running our application will open the DotNetNuke Installation Wizard. Here we will have three different options for installation: custom, typical and auto. For this article, we will use the typical installation.
To successfully install our DotNetNuke application, we must first pass a permissions check. The installation wizard will notify you if you passed the check or not.
After we pass the permissions check, we must enter our database information. In this example we'll use a SQL Server 2005/2008 (Express) File.
Once the database connection is created, the installation wizard will install the database for you. The installation of the database can take quite a few minutes.
Once the database installation is complete, a confirmation message will appear at the bottom of the window. The "next" button will once again be enabled. We must click "next" in order to continue with the installation wizard.
We now will have to create a Host account. Fill in the form and hit the "next" button. It is a good idea to write this information down.
Once your installation is complete you will be able to access your portal and log in.
In order to customize our application, we now need to login to our site as an admin. You should have been automatically logged in when your site was created. Once you are logged in as an admin you will have access to more features that allow you to customize your page. A tool bar will be present at the top of the screen.
We can add a new page to our site by adding the required information of name, what template, and where to insert the page to our application.
Mouse over the Pages link at the top and click the "Add" link which will show us a form where we can fill out information about our page.
After filling out the information, select "Add Page" so that we are directed to where we can add content to the page. Do so by clicking on the "Edit Content" link. This will cause an edit box to appear where you can add text and images with styling options that code the HTML for you (if you are in the "design" tab).
Once we are done customizing our site, we can publish our application. There are several companies that are offering free WebMatrix hosting. You can find this information under the Publish icon on the ribbon or by clicking the link on your WebMatrix workspace.
And We created our DotNetNuke application.
This is a single that threw me for a long time, nevertheless the remedy is actually quite simple. Easy sufficient that i really don't understand why there is not much more documentation on it.
Here's the scenario: You've got a module with two, or maybe more, achievable interfaces depending on the web page the module is additional to. The view handle features a blank important area and you cannot have copy crucial fields, blank or in any other case. How can you power the non-blank module control to point out around the page with out further coding?
The answer: make use of the module definitions.
You've developed a custom made DotNetNuke module.
You have at the very least two module controls in that module.
You've got a DotNetNuke set up to check on as well as the custom module is installed.
Now stick to these actions to show multiple view controls.
Click the "Add Definition" link next the "Select Definition" drop down.
On the new screen fill in the information to create the new definition and click "Create Definition". In this case I'm calling it "Definition 2″, but you'll want to make your definition names descriptive, or whatever meets your naming convention needs.
Now you'll have a fresh new module definition to fill out just like the default definition.
You can now add new module controls to the definition. Click the "Add Module Control" link and fill out the form as a new View control by leaving the "Key" field blank. Fill in the title field, select the source and leave the Type as "View".
Update the definition and navigate to the web page in which you would like to incorporate the module. Incorporate the module towards the webpage. In the event you had already additional the module you'll require to delete it and incorporate it once again or else DotNetNuke will not operate the code to add all of the see controls. Once you incorporate the module you ought to see each check out handle you produced a definition for look around the page as being a individual module occasion. In the event you do not, return and verify you accomplished the steps properly.
At this time whatever check out controls you really don't want to look on the web page, merely delete that instance from the module.
The Visual Studio Starter Kit enables you to create a compiled DotNetNuke module that can be much more compact, more quickly, and hide your supply code from prying eyes. The subsequent instructions can get you started and well in your approach to creating compiled DotNetNuke Modules.
Select Web from the Installed Templates. I use of VB.Net, but they are available in C# too.
Pick DotNetNuke Compile Module from your Project Type list.
Enter the path for your DotNetNuke installation. Your project will be installed within the current set up within the DesktopModules folder and also the dll will likely be place in the bin folder.
Visual Studio will load up the venture within the Solution Explorer and open the Documentation.html in the editor. You're not however ready to set up the module so don't keep to the DotNetNuke documentation but.
In the Solution Explorer right click on My Project and select Open.
Within the Application tab delete the entry in Root Namespace except if this is your only module, otherwise you will not be sharing code with other modules. I have a undertaking that spans numerous modules and i want them all inside the identical identify space. So, I delete the basis Namespace entry to ensure that I am able to put within the appropriate namespace from the code driving. (Edit regarding Root Namespace; in C# you do not need to clear the namespace, but in VB.Net you are doing).
Switch towards the Compile tab. Verify the Build output path and make sure its pointing towards the proper bin folder. Now simply click the Advance Compile Option on the button of the tab. Around the dialogue make certain the target framework is correct. You'll see the environment on the base of the dialogue. At this point the dialogue will immediately near.
Switch to the References tab. You should see a reference to DotNetNuke.Library version 0.0.0.0. Remove it.
Nonetheless around the References tab, now click the Add button. Inside the Add Reference dialogue switch to the Browse tab and navigate for the DotNetNuke set up bin folder. Choose the DotNetNuke.dll, DotNetNuke.Web.dll, as well as the Telerik.Web.UI.dll. Should you do not hold the Telerik.Web.UI.dll then you definitely should not be making use of those controls and you also will not want the dll. Click Okay. These references are necessary to obtain access to the DotNetNuke methods and properties. In any other case you are code powering will be crammed with inexperienced and blue underlines, missing references, and, oh yeah, it won't compile. Sort of defeats the aim, proper?
Save the Project Properties and close it.
Inside the Solution Explorer increase the Components folder and open up the ModuleNameController.vb (or .cs) file. Check the Namespace declaration and you'll see that it states "YourCompany". Change this to your customized namespace identifier and after that do the identical in each of the code powering documents. You will also need to change it inside the .ascx files because they'll be reference the namespace inside the handle declaration at the best of the webpage.
At this point you can Build your project and you will see the new dll in your DotNetNuke install bin folder.
Now follow the instructions in the documentation.html to install the module in DotNetNuke. Once the module is installed you don't really need the documentation folder, or it's files. I usually delete it.
Obtaining up and operating with all the templates is really pretty straightforward, but you must stick to some really certain measures, not subsequent the measures tends to make it hard for anyone else in order to assist you as you can configure issues any number of ways that might cause difficulties.
This really is 1 from the most significant steps from the procedure, the templates are configured to operate in a site You'll find a couple of assets for placing up your environment. The crucial thing for your new release of the templates is you need to have DotNetNuke 7.3 operating at dnndev.me, unless of course needless to say you modify the templates your self, but that's outside of the scope of this weblog post.
Installation in the templates is pretty simple, you'll find numerous techniques to complete this, select one in the a few choices beneath and carry out the actions outlined for the option you decide on. You simply have to do one of those choices, not all three.
Download the VSIX file via the Obtain website link.
Double click the downloaded file to install the templates.
Choose possibly DotNetNuke C# Compiled Module, DotNetNuke VB.Net Compiled Module, DotNetNuke 7 C# DAL2 Compiled Module or DotNetNuke 7 VB.Net DAL2 Compiled Module for the project template.
In certain cases Visual Studio will change the DesktopModules folder in into a Digital Listing, this will cause problems with your DNNDEV.me environment, load IIS Supervisor (start>run>INETMGR) and take away the Virtual Directory if it appears as a single there.
Once you create your project in Visual Studio 2012 the module will exist within the c:\websites\dnndev.me\desktopmodules\MyModule folder, but it is not technically installed and registered with DotNetNuke. To complete that you need to execute the follow steps.
Develop your Project in DEBUG mode.
Modify to Release mode and build again.
Login to your improvement website within a browser, using a HOST/SuperUser account.
Browse to your c:\websites\dnndev.me\desktopmodules\MyModule\Install\ choose either the INSTALL or SOURCE package to upload.
Location your module on a page (I usually produce a fresh webpage for each module in my development environment for tests reasons).
To install your module in production you'll keep to the same actions as installing it inside your improvement environment, other than you will nearly Never utilize the Source package of the module in creation, it just is not essential.
So I lastly received the 7.0 (7.3) templates out the door, what is subsequent? Reworking the DNNTaskManager module which i created a module advancement tutorial for back in 2011. The program is to actually rewrite that module from the ground up utilizing DNN seven.0, in a few distinct iterations. 1) Utilizing the unique DAL design in DotNetNuke, 2) Using the new DAL2 template, 3) Utilizing ContentItems in DotNetNuke 7. Keep tuned to my weblogs to learn more as those tutorials are produced.
Certainly one of the commonest queries which i get by way of the community forums on this website, or via e-mail is "How does one get your websites to operate so fast". Although not excellent, my web sites normally operate somewhat more quickly than your typical DotNetNuke 7.3 websites. Formerly I have stored the exact particulars of my changes to myself, nevertheless, with a litle encouragement from the neighborhood I've chose to share the full context of the changes that i make into a default DotNetNuke set up to acquire better baseline performance, as well as added products that i do to aid when i actually want that "boost".
To begin with I want to begin out by declaring that a great deal in the details that's shown listed here could be located in previous website postings. Posts this sort of as DotNetNuke Host Options Explained, DotNetNuke Scheduler Explained, DotNetNuke Overall performance Options Defined, and straightforward DotNetNuke Performance Enhancements. Are good beginning factors for a few of the element driving my recommended adjustments.
The subsequent changes are merely the configurations that i have found for being the very best "baseline" configurations. Consideration is required in regards to the web site setup, update frequency, traffic, hosting environment and users to ensure that you have the correct set up for your particular atmosphere. I'll talk about the options section by segment, merely noting the modifications which can be created. Remember to reference the specific "Detail" doc for more information.
DISCLAIMER: Adhere to these suggestions as a manual only, I am not responsible for any results of employing these adjustments.
The first place I pay a visit to may be the Host Options page. There are a selection of key updates and adjustments required on this segment. Again, only changes are noted right here.
On this area I change the "Module Caching Method" to Memory. the "Performance Setting" to HeavyCaching. As well as the "Compression Setting" to GZip Compression.
They are the commonest Host Options adjustments which i total. Based within the website I'll make a couple of other little edits.
The largest alter that i make right here would be to modify the "SearchEngineScheduler" task to run normally as soon as every 12/24 several hours. This reduces a big load around the server.
From a DotNetNuke configuration alter which is all that I modify. Overall these adjustments typically outcome in extremely noticable efficiency advancements, but often times it just isn't adequate to maintain the web sites operating as smooth as possible. So according to the specific situation I have numerous other things which i function with.
As a lot of people which have utilized DotNetNuke have identified the EventLog table could become a very troublesome hinderance within the performance facet of a web site. Enabling the Event Log Buffer helps reduce the consequences of the huge EventLog, nonetheless, the most effective policy is always to thoroughly clean the EventLog on a normal foundation.
I try this one of two methods. By myself sites I have an SSIS package deal inside of SQL Server that truncates the desk each 24 hrs. On customer web sites I make use of my Scheduled SQL Employment module to keep a seven working day rolling historical past of the EventLog information. The key here is the fact that we must keep the occasion log tiny.
The next item of thought is actually a multi-part thought. I target on finding CSS primarily based pores and skin layouts that use 3rd party menu parts this sort of as Telerik and Css NavMenu. With a straightforward pores and skin modify to sites I've seen webpage load occasions which have decreased by more than 50%.
Discovering an excellent designer that creates well laid-out skins with 3rd get together menu suppliers is a crucial overall performance enhancement, a minimum of in the page. I've NOT benchmarked these numbers although because DNN 4.six.2, so the core menu company might have much better performance.
Like a last stage, if I actually need to get the most performance out of a website I will often lean towards Snapsis PageBlaster as being a good alternative. I at present use PageBlaster on this website only and also have had really excellent luck with it, though when configuring the module you have to be cautious to test all functionality very first. This was another change that after applied I seen really noticeable efficiency advancements.
With all the introduction of the DDRMenu to DotNetNuke, we've experienced much more manage above what is rendered from the menu. This has authorized for a a lot more semantic menu and custom made styling for easy menus to mega menus. There are numerous methods to create the template that the DDR makes use of but we'll be using the token primarily based templating because it is quite easy.
Notice: this isn't a tutorial on DDRMenu, just how to apply Bootstrap.
Add the classes nav and nav-pills to the outer ul. Individually, I favor the simplicity in the Simple tablets nav that bootstrap gives. This appears to be the easiest to override with my own custom design and style as I have a tendency to use more flat UI's in my style.
Include the category "dropdown" for the list merchandise if it's youngsters using the [?NODE] examination.
Add the category "active" for the listing product whether it is selected utilizing the [?SELECTED] examination.
Add a caret to the merchandise if it's a baby item.
"pull-right" to drift the menu to the correct side, if you so desire.
Note: making use of this process will disable a menu merchandise which has children. In order that this is a click to open up motion. This can be to make things function much better for contact units.
DotNetNuke is a Web-content management platform for those who use the Microsoft ASP.NET framework. Based on your company needs, whatever version of DNN you choose, it will be a significant cost saving venture over other options. Installing DotNetNuke is not a task well-suited for beginners to this sort of website framework. If you are familiar with websites, databases, and ASP.NET, you can use these instructions to learn how to install DotNetNuke.
Check the DotNetNuke installation requirements before getting started. To install DotNetNuke, you need a database with either Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 or SQL Express. If you have an older version of DotNetNuke 5.2 or earlier, you can use SQL Server 2000. You should also have a Microsoft IIS (Internet Information Services) with version 5 or higher, and the Microsoft .NET 3.5 SP1 framework. This service pack is available through the Windows Update feature.
Download the latest version of DotNetNuke to your computer, and unzip the file.
Use the FTP software of your choice to connect to your website, and upload the installation files into the directory of your choice. If necessary, create the directory where you want to install DotNetNuke on your server.
Select the folder where DotNetNuke is located. Click "Properties," choose the "Security" tab, and add the necessary user permissions. Use either the local ASP.NET service (for Windows 2000 and XP) or the local Network Service account (for Windows 2003, Vista, 2008, or 7). You should have permission to modify the folder.
Open the IIS server console. Go to "Start" > "Run" > INETMGR. Click on the "websites" node, and select the "Default website" node.
Right click on the DotNetNuke folder. Click "Convert to Application." If this option is not available, select "Properties" and add the application.
Install DotNetNuke with SQL Express.
Open your web browser, and go to: http://yoursite.com/dotnetnuke.
Walk through the installation wizard as presented on the screen. The database information should already be configured, and you should not need to change it.
Look for the default login information for the "host" and "admin" users, which is shown when installation is complete.
Log in immediately, and change the passwords to protect against hacking.
Install DotNetNuke with SQL Server 2005/2008 for your database server.
Open SQL Management Studio, and connect to your database server.
Walk through the installation wizard as presented on the screen.
Create a new database by expanding the server node, then the databases node, and filling in necessary values for all the database properties.
Set up the SQL user and security account, and choose the appropriate integrated-security or user-security setting under the "server/security" node.
Walk through the installation wizard as presented on the screen. Choose SQL 2000/2005/2008, and follow the security steps according to the option chosen in the previous steps. Test the database connection.
Finish the installation wizard, and look for the default login information for the "host" and "admin" users.
Log in, and immediately change the passwords for those accounts to protect against a hack.
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Acer Aspire 5552 review: Acer Aspire 5552
Niall Magennis
March 15, 2011 10:08 a.m. PT
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The Good Extremely low price; good performance for the money; sturdy build quality.
The Bad Only one integrated speaker; display's vertical viewing angles aren't great.
The Bottom Line The 15.6-inch Acer Aspire 5552 is one of the cheapest laptops around, so its relatively decent performance and sturdy construction come as a very pleasant surprise.
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If there's one thing Acer's laptop line-up isn't short of, it's budget models. The latest one to grace our laboratory is the Aspire 5552. It can be snapped up for the paltry sum of £300 from Laptops Direct. That's as cheap as most netbooks, yet the 15.6-inch 5552 offers a larger screen, faster processor and DVD writer.
The 5552 is virtually indistinguishable from Acer's other budget laptops, such as the Aspire 5336. You get none of the fancy chrome touches or glossy finishes that you'll find on the company's higher-end models. Instead, the chassis is made entirely from matte black plastic. On the plus side, the matte finish should be more scratch-resistant than the glossy paint jobs on more expensive laptops, and a hint of interest is added by the dimpled pattern stamped into the lid and wrist rest.
Thankfully, this model also manages to avoid the flimsy feel that often affects budget machines. While it doesn't exactly look a million dollars, it feels like it's been built to last and that's perhaps more important in a budget machine such as this.
Perhaps understandably, given the laptop's low price tag, it doesn't offer a plethora of ports. There's no PC Card slot or Bluetooth support and it also lacks eSATA and FireWire ports. Nevertheless, the basics are covered off by three USB sockets, as well as both VGA and HDMI outputs. The laptop also offers 802.11n Wi-Fi, and an Ethernet socket if you'd prefer to use a wired connection.
The hard drive isn't massive, but the 250GB of storage that it offers should be enough for most users. There's also a dual-layer DVD writer, tucked into the right-hand side of the chassis, that can always be used to back up files from the hard drive, should you run low on space.
The screen is fairly disappointing. Its resolution of 1,366x768 pixels is to be expected at this price point, but its vertical viewing angles are rather tight, so you'll often find yourself adjusting the screen to try to get colours to look more even. Nevertheless, LED backlighting ensures that the screen looks quite bright.
Annoyingly, the 5552 makes do with a single speaker on the top left of the chassis. Its audio is very tinny and, because it's on its lonesome, you won't get stereo sound unless you use headphones or connect the laptop to an external set of PC speakers.
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