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What Channel is CNN on Optimum?
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Finnish Military Rejects China's Attempted Purchase of Arctic Airport
Finnish media recently reported that the city of Kemijärvi, located in Finland's northernmost Lapland region, after notifying the Finnish Defence Forces, rejected an offer a Chinese state agency made to buy or lease a local airport adjacent to a military zone.
The Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) reported on March 4 that the director of the Polar Research Institute of China (PRIC), the head of the polar research of China's State Oceanic Administration, and a military attaché from Chinese Embassy in Finland, led a delegation, and traveled to Kemijärvi in 2018 with a plan to buy the airport. The airport would be used for landing and take-off of Arctic research airplanes. The Chinese side did not rule out covering the costs of renovating and expanding the airport.
"Their intention was to conduct Arctic research on the polar ice cover. They would have needed a base for these operations in Kemijärvi. A large jet aircraft with different measuring equipment would have come there, and they would have flown to the North Pole, taken their measurements and flown back," explained Kemijärvi's Mayor Atte Rantanen.
The flight route would have also made observations possible over the Arctic Ocean and the Northeast Passage, which is an area of interest to both China and Russia.
The 3,000-nautical-mile-long Northeast Passage of the Arctic Route, sailing westward through the Bering Strait, passing through the Chukchi Sea along the northern waters of the Eurasian continent, through the Barents Sea to the vicinity of the North Cape of Norway, and finally arriving at various ports in Europe, is the shortest sea channel to connect China and Europe. From the perspective of maritime transport efficiency, the Arctic route is 12 to 15 days less than the traditional route, known as the "Golden Waterway."
The Kemijärvi municipal airport and airspace is adjacent to the Rovajärvi firing range, which the Finnish Defence Forces often use. After receiving the Chinese proposal, the city inquired about the response of the Defence Forces to the idea. "There was a clear view from the army that this type of activity could not be carried out there. It's too close to Rovajärvi," said Mayor Rantanen.
Anu Sallinen, a consultant with the Finnish Ministry of Defence, also told YLE that the idea to buy the Kemijärvi airport came to the Ministry three years ago. She noted that the property is unlikely to be sold to a foreign state-owned enterprise as it is next to a strategically important firing range. Moreover, such a proposal would be unrealistic given the 2020 EU legislation restricting foreign investment. China currently has Arctic research centers in Greenland, Iceland and Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, situated north of mainland Europe.
Source: Radio France International, March 5, 2021
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M&M to foray into aviation
Anand Mahindra, India's entrepreneur of the year, has set his sights on manufacturing passenger aircraft
People might recall that last September, Boeing said it expected the Asia Pacific region to be the world's largest aviation market by 2028, with about $1.2 trillion being spent on almost 9000 new planes over the next 20 years. Boeing said that strong demand for single aisle planes in China and India meant that about 5600 of these would be single aisle models.
Mr Mahindra, VC and managing director of M&M said that India's huge domestic market gave it a "tremendous home-base advantage" in building a scale business and that it was important for Indian business people to understand that it was the big domestic market "that allows us to become world-class players".
Mr Mahindra is conscious that it is a step-by-step process, going from a GA8 Airvan to a 10-seater, then to an 18-seater Nomad and on to regional jet. To speed up the process, three months ago Mahindra agreed to pay about $40 million for a controlling stake in two small Australian aviation companies, Gippsland Aeronautics and Melbourne-based component maker Aerostaff Australia.
While he recognised that it would take time, he joked that he hoped it will happen before he retired. He will be 55 next month.
Allaying any fears pertaining to the quality of its product owing to its relative inexperience in the sector, Mr. Mahindra said, "Look, we'll make a world-class product and we'll go where the markets are. Arguably, the biggest aircraft markets in the world in the next two decades are going to be China and India anyway."
The Mahindra group's businesses include financial services, automotive products, trade, retail and logistics, information technology and infrastructure development. It is one of the world's biggest tractor makers, with plants in India, China and the United States, and an assembly site in Brisbane, Australia. In Australia, it also sells the Mahindra Pik-Up, a light utility.
The Mahindra family and associates hold a stake of about 13 per cent in the main group company, Mahindra & Mahindra, which has a market capitalisation of $7bn.
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I was really looking forward to Watch_Dogs when it was first announced. I thought the concept of using data and information to deliver vigilante justice to arms dealers, human traffickers and other scum of the earth was super cool. It looked like it was going to be the first great game that would lead us into the next generation of videogames. I admit that I got caught up in the hype for it because I really wanted it to be as good as it looked. But when it came out, the critical consensus was a lot less enthusiastic. Not only was the E3 announcement not actually representative of the final game's graphical fidelity, but the gameplay didn't really live up to the massive amounts of hype. I still bought it, because I wanted to have an informed opinion on it. But upon playing it, I found that the game is an unfocused mess with a completely bizarre sense of morality.
Watch_Dogs is a strange and confusing game. On the one hand, it tries really hard to sell the power fantasy of being an elite hacker Batman who uses his power for the betterment of the city. But on the other hand, it absolutely fails to make any point about the nature of information and surveillance. But the real problem with the game lies in Aiden himself.
There's really no kind way of saying this. Aiden is a prick. He's mean, selfish, humorless, and just generally an unlikeable and unpleasant person. He lies to his friends, gets his family into trouble, and manipulates whoever he wants in order to get his way. And the absolute worst part about him is that he never gets punished for anything he does.
Aiden has about as much personality as the water fountain currently clipping through his face
A key mechanic of Watch_Dogs is the ability to hack into the phones of pedestrians and access their bank accounts, personal information, music libraries, calls and text conversations. This is supposed to make it feel like the people in the city are actual human beings with lives and backstories. You're supposed to feel bad when you steal from someone who works at a soup kitchen, or someone who recently got evicted. But the text can only take you so far. The game never actually punishes you for stealing from good people. No decrease in reputation, nobody telling you off, not even a little popup telling you "don't do that you jerk". It brings up the moral issue, but never actually takes a stance on it. Ultimately, there is no downside to stealing from good people because the game doesn't give you a reason to care.
But Watch_Dogs' biggest flaw lies with the way Aiden is presented. His entire motivation hinges on the fact that his niece was killed because of the people he was involved with in his exploits as a hacker. He promised his sister that he would stop, but instead goes on a wild goose chase to try and get revenge by continuing his hacking. This leads to his sister getting kidnapped as well, by Damien, an old hacker buddy of his. So instead of doing what he PROMISED to do, he kept going and got more of his family in trouble. And the worst part is that Damien treats his hostage better than Aiden treats his!
Aiden is a jerk and I don't like playing as him. But what's the most frustrating about Watch_Dogs is that it doesn't realize how bad of a person Aiden is. The game keeps trying to convince you that Aiden is cool. Aiden is cool in the same way that Frank Miller comics and Linkin Park are cool. He's bitter, cynical, angry, brooding, and wears a stupid coat. But the game keeps telling that he's a hero. His niece is dead and his sister's been kidnapped! But the more it gets brought up, the less it feels like a justification and more like an excuse. Every time Aiden complains that he's doing all of this for his niece, it sounds more and more desperate.
Aiden Pearce is not a hero. He isn't even an antihero. He's a twat with a gun and I hope he chokes on his own magic cellphone.
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Port and maritime, and health sectors tightened coordination against COVID-19
The port and maritime community together with the health sector have strengthened coordination and cooperation in the continuing efforts to help prevent the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) from entering the country through ports.
The Department of Health (DOH) and its local units have doubled their assistance to the ports. The agency had earlier deployed volunteer nurses in the Port of Cagayan de Oro (Baseport) who have been administering the thermo guns to both embarking and disembarking passengers since 13 February 2020, while the Provincial Health Office-Misamis Oriental turned-over three (3) thermo guns and three (3) forehead thermometers to the Port Management Office of Misamis Oriental-Cagayan de Oro on 21 February. One (1) additional thermo gun and one (1) forehead thermometer will be for the Port of Balingoan, Misamis Oriental, while the rest will be used in the Port of Cagayan de Oro. The Provincial Local Government of Misamis Oriental formally turned-over the items to the PMO in a ceremony on 24 February 2020 at the Provincial Capitol. The PMO was represented by Port Services Division Manager Ruby Maria O. Gumapon.
The City Health Office of Cagayan de Oro also pledged to provide an infrared scanner for the Baseport during the Port and Maritime Management Advisory Council (PMMAC) meeting on 20 February 2020.
The Baseport and Terminal Ports in Balingoan and Camiguin have designated areas for the health inspection of seagoing passengers manned by DOH personnel. The Local Government Unit of Camiguin spearheaded the deployment of DOH personnel in the Port of Benoni, Camiguin.
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The Philippine Ports Authority has also issued recently PPA Memorandum Circular 02-2020 on 12 February 2020 on the "Management Port Protocols in Response to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)", in conjunction with the Presidential directive, and relevant advisories from the Bureau of Quarantine (BOQ) and other government agencies. The said Memorandum Circular details the health protocols for ships that have called in any port in China and its Special Administrative Region (SAR), ship agents/vessel crew, receiving ports, among others, which are already being complied by PMO MO/C as applicable for ports under its jurisdiction. Face masks for all frontline personnel, thermo guns, hand sanitizers, and alcohol were provided in ports. Information materials were also posted in conspicuous places in the ports and in the Port Terminal Buildings (PTBs).
The PMO's Port Police Division has issued new Port Advisory/Bulletin/Announcement (PABA) on the lifting of travel ban to Taiwan amid COVID-19.
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DOH-10 reminded the stakeholders particularly the shipping lines and pilotage service providers that no boarding shall be made prior to the clearance from the BoQ Boarding Team, during the recent PMMAC meeting. Further, there must be Maritime Declaration of Health, crew list/passenger list (information on sick crew/passengers, information on crew/passengers travel history i.e. if they have been to China within the previous 14 days minimum) and other related documents before vessel arrival. The shipping lines and pilotage service providers committed to adhere to the health protocols issued by BOQ/DOH. Additionally, shipping lines will be providing hand sanitizers and alcohol in their respective ticketing outlets.
he Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA)-10 has also implemented Monitoring Report for onboard vessels, to ensure that vessels are compliant to the preventive measures against COVID-19 such as the provision of face masks, hand sanitizers and alcohol, and thermo gun for all onboard, among others. — by IMR Lam


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MySQL 5.6 speed improvements and how it affects PHP applications was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert on the episode 32 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented on the eventual adoption of the Zend Optimizer+ as the PHP code caching extension that may be shipping with PHP 5.5 as alternative to APC, the implications of this to the PHP community.
Listen to the podcast audio, or watch the podcast video, or read the podcast transcript to learn more about the details of these and other interesting topics.
Manuel Lemos: Hello, welcome to the Lately in PHP podcast. This is episode 32 and as always, finally, we have Ernani [chuckles] getting back to the Hangouts regularly. Hello, Ernani. How are you doing?
Ernani Joppert: Hello, Manuel. Glad to be here again. Hopefully, things will be smoother within the following months and hopefully I'll be available.
Ernani Joppert: Lots of great things to talk about.
Manuel Lemos: Well, this month, several important things happened or are about to happen. We are going to talk about each of them regularly.
I'm going to screenshare the first topic that we are going to comment here, which is precisely the release of PHP 5.4.11 and PHP 5.3.21.
There is not much to say about these releases, but we can just mention them because there is always people that want to follow the latest versions. I don't know if the font is large enough. I think it's already in the limit of the size to show you.
Well, there are not many things to say about these releases because they are mostly bug fixes, which basically means that these versions are stabilizing and the bugs that are being fixed are not really crucial, at least from what I can see here.
Other than that, just to mention these new releases for those that are interested to follow the latest version and eventually upgrade.
Also, there were a couple of new alpha releases of PHP 5.5.0 and, well, I don't even know the details of what may be have been changed that may be more important but just to people know about these releases.
A couple of alpha releases were done this month, one on January 10 and another, January 24. So they are following the regular schedule of having an alpha release every two weeks.
And this is great because there are plans to reach feature freeze to start the actual Beta testing of the final version of PHP 5.5 that according to the schedule, it should happen like in February 7.
I don't know if this Hangout will be published before that. It will depend on the speed of the transcribers that will be transcribing the audio of the podcast to text so we can publish the article.
Manuel Lemos: Anyway, things are coming at a good pace but there is a more important news regarding this release.
Eventually, PHP 5.5.0 will already include a new alternative for a cache engine because Zend, actually, Zeev Suraski from Zend, offered to open source the Optimizer+, which is an extension that used to be close source, they developed that extension at Zend.
Well, Zend Optimizer initially used to be just an optimization extension that would optimize the opcode generated by PHP. Then they evolved it.
I think the latest releases already include the caching engine itself that will actually speed up the execution... well, actually, not the execution but the overhead of compiling PHP into opcodes.
And they are offering this extension because, ideally, PHP should be shipping a caching extension. And APC would be the natural candidate, but according to Rasmus Lerdorf, APC is not yet in a state that can be considered stable, it has some bugs.
After all these years it has some bugs that they consider that can affect the stability of the caching engines. So the guys from Zend offered the Optimizer+. Well, for me, this seems to be great news because finally, PHP can ship a caching extension.
By the time we are recording this, this is not yet decided. There is a RFC to propose this to be included either in PHP or at least first be put in the PECL repository of extensions, to be considered by the community for now to test it and see which caching extension may be included in the later release of PHP, probably 5.6 or even 6.0. That probably will happen not this year, maybe next year.
Ernani, I don't know if you have been following these happenings. What are your thoughts about this?
Ernani Joppert: It should be a very straightforward as they mention here, it should be a straightforward situation, especially on the release of 5.5.
So hopefully, I've been reading it a bit before we would start the hanging out, so as far as I can understand, it has a more commercial appeal to APC and it requires less effort and it seems to be the right way of doing things. And it might conceive the initiative from Zend doing this. It's very nice to see that they are willing to open source Zend Optimizer.
Manuel Lemos: Right. There was a great debate. I think the debate still goes on as we are recording this podcast.
There are certain discussions precisely because some people claim that there are other caching extensions that are considered stable from other people, but some people are concerned that just because this extension is being proposed by Zend it should not get any privileges.
And, well, somebody else also claimed that whoever has developed other extensions can also submit an RFC to propose those other extensions if there is any interest.
And so far, it did not happen but in the end, what matters is the result of the votes of the RFC because, well, what can we say about this proposal is that some people like it, I think the generality of the people like the idea, but I'm not sure what will be the results of the votes.
I was trying to screenshare the actual RFC page here. And from what I understood, suggest voting options integrate Optimizer+ in PHP 5.5 and allow two months of delay for this release so it can be tested, the integration, if it's a couple of more months. So the final PHP 5.5 does not ship with bugs in this Optimizer+ extension.
The other option would be integrate Optimizer+ into PHP, but don't delay it for 5.4, 5.5. And the other option would be to not integrate Optimizer+ in PHP for now and just provide it as an optional component in PECL only.
Well, the outcome of this proposal is not yet decided. I think it will still have one week after the proposal was put there for discussion and then there will be one week for the votes. Well, the dates here that appear for the proposal is January 28, so there are still a few more days to go before the votes will be started.
In my opinion, this seems to be great because the story of APC is that there are not enough developers to go after the bugs, I mean, capable developers because it's not just a matter of fix bugs. First, we have to figure what are the reasons for the bugs to exist.
And I think this is being proposed for several years. It was supposed to be shipped with PHP 5.4 once it was decided that the original plan for PHP 6.0 was cancelled.
Ernani Joppert: I'm not sure what happened with the Turck MMCache extension.
Manuel Lemos: Yeah. Well, that's critical to ask though. Basically, to the Turck MMCache extension, I think the original developer got an offer from Zend, Dmitry Stogov. I think he still works in Zend and probably got even involved in this Optimizer+ extension. And he's still one of the core contributors to PHP itself. Although we don't see much commenting on the lists, I understand that he's an active developer there.
Anyway, one of the arguments that was claimed about preferring Optimizer+ to APC is that there are several other developers, not only the two Zend founders, Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans and as well Dmitry Stogov and Stas Malyshev. Stas used to work at Zend as well, although he is working at SugarCRM right now. He also has been the Release Manager of PHP 5.4.
Manuel Lemos: So all these people are very active and they know very well the code which is something that is very important because this specific kind of extension is not very trivial. You have to have a good in-depth knowledge about PHP and also how the actual opcode execution and caching can work.
Ernani Joppert: Yeah. And there were some benefits related with optimizers or cache, if it would mean, because it allows PHP applications to be obfuscated and then you can provide licenses.
Manuel Lemos: Yes, but I think that part was already separated. I think that was the role of the originals and optimizer extension that will also decode the PHP files encoded with the Zend encoder.
Manuel Lemos: Well, I'm not certain but I think that was a feature of Zend Optimizer, the original extension. But then I think they moved that part to the Zend guard extension.
Manuel Lemos: And Zend Optimizer+, I don't know if the original closed source extension would also decode, well I think I never used it. I'm not sure.
What I know is that when Facebook released their HipHop Compiler, I did some benchmarks test whether using Zend Optimizer, because the Zend Optimizer also has opcode optimization features, they try to resort to rewrite the opcodes to make the code eventually run faster if that would have any impact on the performance of PHP.
Well, in terms of the difference was minimal like not much more than 1% in terms of speed, at least when compared with the version of PHP that was available then but this I think it was in 2010 or is it 2011.
Well, there is an article in the site that I wrote about PHP compilers and it explains well. So the greatest benefit of Zend Optimizer will be certainly having a stable cache extension in PHP.
For me, the most important impact this will have is that many benchmarks that try to compare PHP with other languages, they always run PHP without the caching extension.
And that is not very fair because if you are serious with PHP in production, you use a caching extension and your PHP code will run faster. But if people are comparing benchmarks PHP with other languages, the results will be distorted, at least you compare it production environment.
Ernani Joppert: They optimize the I/O of the PHP interpreter, loading PHP files within the disc, right?
Manuel Lemos: Actually, they will skip the compilation step but will only happen the first time a skip is executed.
Manuel Lemos: Well, I think you can compare it with that somehow. If you execute the same query again, it will retrieve results from cache instead of going through the actual database to get the results. I think you can compare it because what happens when you use a caching extension in PHP, it just stores the results of the output compiler.
Ernani Joppert: Yeah, because basically, most languages, they have three steps, right? Sorry, I mean three here not four.
But in my idea, my overall idea of it, they have the parse phase where parse is the syntax, then the execution itself and then the fetch phase.
And it's basically the concept from Oracle, from MySQL, from any databases as well as any scripting language. And, yeah, I guess that this optimizer is the best optimization happens when we're talking about I/O where it reads the file from the disc which is not a very fast application. Now with SSD, it should be less problematic.
Manuel Lemos: Well, in practice, when using a caching extension, it does not even access the disc because it would compile, the opcodes will be just copied in memory.
Manuel Lemos: In some cases I think, they do not even copy from one memory space to the other. I think they just run it from where it is in memory because I think it uses shared memory.
Manuel Lemos: That makes it very, very fast. So when people claim that PHP is slow because it is interpreted, that's all rubbish. That's totally untrue, at least since the year 2000 when PHP 4 was introduced, the execution step is from memory, not interpreting the lines of PHP code.
Ernani Joppert: Right. And within 2000, there was a benefit from JSP compared to PHP because JSP would be compiled once and run through the whole deployment situation.
Manuel Lemos: Yes. I think you can compare it somehow because JSP is basically Java within HTML template.
Ernani Joppert: Yeah. Basically, JSP has a Jasper, which is a parser of the JSP, which then brings it into Java, so it's all Java in the end. And it will create a cache of it and the Java class and be loaded within the JVM.
So now, if you think the approach of PHP it puts into a memory or a memory space and if you don't change the file, it will be executing that specific block of memory or instructions right off the bat and it helps the performance.
And I'd say that this would be beneficial to applications similar as the WordPress or E-Commerce like Magento and other applications that they are mostly known such as SugarCRM and all these standard applications, let's put it this way.
And I believe that when we are talking about applications that require you to flush the cache, then it would make more sense like content management pieces which benefits from publish-subscribe situation where you have files. They are mostly static. Then you don't see much performance increase. But other than that, it's very beneficial.
Manuel Lemos: Right. Well, we've been using caching extensions for more than 10 years and finally seeing PHP eventually shipping with that built-in caching extension, just better late than never because I think PHP is getting heat because of the benchmarks that work around. We can see people claiming that the benchmarks are not favorable to PHP when they run it without the caching extension.
But as I was saying, the caching extension itself will not make PHP code run faster. It just skips the compilation step. There are even better ways to run PHP even faster that requires something that we already talked about here several times, which are JIT compilers like the one that Facebook is using and developing and maturing.
Having that built in PHP would be something, maybe for PHP 6, but that depends a lot on not just technology but also in politics because if we go to the discussion forums, the internal list, you can see there are all these people that object certain things and... politics.
Ernani Joppert: Yeah. And since we always talk about this in most of the episodes here, it may seem that we are touching their wound, but it's not the case here.
We are not against those rules. There are rules and they made it, so they have their own credits for it. But I think that people should start opening their minds. And the idea here is to try to benefit the whole thing.
But I know that there are a limited amount of people that are trusted and there should be an extra effort being done to accept other members that are willing to contribute.
Manuel Lemos: Right. That is a very complicated matter. We have already talked about it several times, but I am sure in the way, we'll still get back to that because it's always getting in the way - the politics.
Ernani Joppert: The idea here is just to make everybody aware that we are not trying to put a finger on their wound. By talking about it, we do.
Manuel Lemos: Not these fingers and not anything else.
But the idea is just to make sure that we as people that work with it would love to see more and more technically skilled people assisting the PHP core in order to make this improvement within the -- and not being just arguing and mocking people and, et cetera.
Ernani Joppert: In my opinion, it just shows up immaturity.
Manuel Lemos: Right. And that's something that we do not do. Maybe sometimes we express opinions that are different from other people, but we certainly take it very seriously because we know many thousands of people are watching this podcast that we record and anything that we could speak that would be not very serious would not be good for us.
Well, anyway, we talk a lot about this topic. This is very important but we need to move on to other topics.
Manuel Lemos: Another thing that did not yet happen, at least at the time they're recording but is expected to happen soon is the release of MySQL 5.6, at least the generally available release also known as GA.
Oracle posted a blog article, that I'm going to screenshare here, on which they summarized what is new in MySQL 5.6. And this is very interesting because when MySQL was sold to Oracle, people doubted that Oracle will take MySQL forward because in practice, is a competitor of the Oracle database engine and people always doubted that Oracle would allow MySQL to cannibalize their main database product.
So it is interesting to know that they are finally going for the regular schedule on which they'd be publishing the new version of MySQL with several interesting features.
I'm trying to increase the font to see if it can read better here. Well, anyway, there are some improvements. Some of the improvements are on the security level other than the performance, but I think the most noticeable difference is having NoSQL access to the InnoDB tables by the means of an API that is compatible with memcached.
So those that are not familiar with memcached, memcached is a server that stores key-value pairs. I mean, you can assign a value to a certain key and you can stored there. The memcached stores it in memory for faster access. This makes it ideal for storing, for instance, PHP session data in a cluster of servers.
When you have a site that is served by several servers, you could use memcached to share the common data and make it available for different Web servers that run PHP. The memcached, which is nothing specific of PHP, which is a product that makes this key-value pair storage available.
And what this has to do with MySQL 5.6 is that they are making it available as an API compatible with memcached to access data in the tables. I was trying to see an example how could you use NoSQL access but I'm not sure if I can find it in this article.
Well, basically, you use a table with a primary key that will be your key to access the data in the values that are stored in the NoSQL access to this table.
There are some graphs here and they show some performance graphics that demonstrate that using this memcached API to access these key-value pairs will be faster than using SQL because it will skip the step of compiling the SQL into a query plan that will retrieve the data from the database.
Ernani, I don't know if you have checked these new features of MySQL 5.6. What are your thoughts?
Ernani Joppert: I've had a brief read on it yesterday, since I do love MySQL and it makes me interesting to see Oracle's approach on it. And one of the two features that I like to see going on is the difference, the better performance with SSD, which is the future and we know about it. It should be used for most servers.
And they have an approach here. They explain the differences between spinning discs and as far as tape drives. And they have a support for smaller 4k and 8k page sizes so they fit the standard storage algorithm of the disc.
And they have very good explanation here between the differences of the discs. And another one is the portable .ibd which is the data file that will allow hot tables to be moved between SSDs in separate table spaces for the InnoDB log that can be then moved and the read-intensive I/O patterns as well. So that's nice to see here. It should be, really, that should be a boost comparison on performance.
And another thing that I will highlight the text here on my... and it's actually what we were talking about of the Zend Optimizer+. I think that MySQL has a better query execution time based off on the improved optimizer that they have.
So they re-factored their whole optimization that will benefit both query execution times as well as subqueries. And we all know that SQL is very nice on its own but subqueries are mostly required in complex systems. And having this being improved as well will allow it to get even better performance on this.
So I'd say that I'm looking forward for this release and I like to see the traditional thing. When talking about the memcached part, it's also nice to see that they are focusing as well on the, let's put it this way, the new fashion of concepting architecture. And it's nice to see that they are also doing the NoSQL folks because it's nice to see the better of two worlds.
And it seems that they changed also thread concurrency rules which may benefit concurrent threads also focusing on the core optimization. Lets put it this way, if you have multiple cores, you can benefit from this, so it's nice to see that they are also analyzing those things.
And, yeah, I would say that if we have working systems today based off on MySQL and then checking these big new improvements, it should benefit a lot the current applications as well as the future applications.
Manuel Lemos: Right. Well, I was trying to figure what will be exactly the planned release date but I could not find it anywhere.
Anyway, still talking about performance, there's an article here, I like to show it, by Ulf Wendel who is a PHP developer, and he was commenting on the claims that the queries could be 1.5 to 9 times faster with PHP and MySQL 5.6. So this guy questions these claims.
Well, from what I understood, I think the comparison is only valid for the cases on which they are querying key-value pairs. So when they say it's NoSQL, it's not exactly the same as MongoDB, it's just memcached interface for querying key-value pairs and that's what you get. You'll not get whole documents or objects like you get with MongoDB and others.
Ernani Joppert: I'd say memcached was the initial NoSQL engine and such as CouchDB, MongoDB, Redis, right?
Manuel Lemos: Right. But the NoSQL access that MySQL is offering has nothing to do with that. It's just querying key-value pairs.
Manuel Lemos: Because that's a very common use case like I mentioned, use of key-value pairs storage for storing PHP session data. And that is very important to use case because it's very common.
But there are differences. I don't think MySQL can be actually faster than memcached because MySQL implies some storage and at least in memcached it does not store any data in files.
There is another similar package that is sending... being used for storing key-value pairs called Redis that actually stores that data in persistent stores. So if the server goes down on this mission and dumped for some reason, when it gets back up the storage stays there and do not lose keys.
Manuel Lemos: Right. Basically a wrapper.
Ernani Joppert: Yeah. You can have direct access to the InnoDB storage by using the memcached API and instead of going the SQL way.
Manuel Lemos: Well, but in the end, it's not the same because as I mentioned, the data will be stored persistently unless you are using HEAP tables of MySQL to store the actual data for the key-value pairs that you are using, but this is another option.
Well, anyway, there'll be a lot more to say about this but we need to move on.
Manuel Lemos: And the next topic that I wanted to comment still related to MySQL is that now that Oracle is releasing MySQL 5.6, Fedora and openSUSE announced that will replace MySQL with MariaDB. MariaDB is a fork of MySQL done by, actually, one of the original creators of MySQL, Monty.
He was not happy with the fact that after he sold MySQL to Sun, Sun was sold to Oracle which would be one of the main rivals of MySQL. So he was a bit upset and created MariaDB which should be a fork. And he tries and actually managed to achieve the full compatibility, at least as far as possible to be running the same applications without compatibility issues.
I did not have time to verify that, but there is an article here that talks about the move of openSUSE and Fedora to move it and this is interesting. Well, from what I can read here, at least MariaDB will be compatible with MySQL 5.5.
They even have similar numbering as I see here. Actually, there is an article here talking about MariaDB 10 and MySQL 5.6. So we can see here. I was not aware of this plan, but it seems that... OK. Well, this is interesting that this news is happening. Well, we'll have to see what happens in the next version of MariaDB because this competition seems to me it's very interesting.
Ernani, did you ever tried MariaDB?
Ernani Joppert: No. Actually, I haven't even heard of it before. I've heard of another clone that I've been digging two years ago. But I haven't seen any changes so I gave it up and I've been using MySQL most of the time.
Manuel Lemos: Yes. I was opening a tab that had a page with an ad that was advertising something. I had to shut it down.
Ernani Joppert: Yes, it's the same with me. Funny.
Manuel Lemos: That's because you probably are opening the same pages.
Ernani Joppert: You got it. Exactly.
Ernani Joppert: Well, yeah. I am curious about this change on Fedora and... OK, I guess that it's worth the shot to have a different fork of MySQL, but in order to make this change, it requires a maturity. I'd say that it requires to have some subset of maturity and hopefully, they've reached it with MariaDB.
Manuel Lemos: Yes. Well, given it is from the original creator of MySQL, I'm sure it is very mature and probably, we don't even know if it's even more advanced. I mean, I'm sure there are differences but since it's all open source, I'm sure they keep watching each other and they will try to borrow parts of the code because it is all... the license is GPL.
And even to make it compatible, they probably are required to borrow parts of the code from each other. At least from MySQL to MariaDB, probably they have to do that.
Ernani Joppert: Yeah. Those kinds of thing are where they fall into those huge fights about open source. And fighting with Oracle can be somewhat problematic.
Manuel Lemos: Well, in reality it's not people fighting Oracle, it's people keeping up with the advancements of each other. They are not legally fighting. They are not bumping against each other.
Manuel Lemos: But trying to make something compatible.
Ernani Joppert: Yeah. Right now they are not fighting, but until you will see something like Android which was then allegedly use Java and we see some technology allegedly using MariaDB and then Oracle says, "Oh, but it uses then the property of Oracle," and then you see the kind of things stinking out of it. Hopefully, this won't happen.
Manuel Lemos: Right. I don't think that will happen because it's really open source. In the case of Android, that was not really open source.
And from what I understood, the law suite that Oracle imposed to Google, was about the use of concepts, not the use of code, concepts that were allegedly patented. And still in the courts it failed to pass the validity of those patents, I think.
Well, I'm not an expert on the subject to interpret this probably in the most accurate way, but that's the way I see it. Well, anyway, this is an interesting topic. There are probably much more to say about it, but we need to move on.
This time I'm going to move on talk about an article just briefly, it was published on the PHP Classes blog.
Ernani Joppert: So I'm clear on it, all patent discussions should be avoided here and there. It doesn't bring any future to anyone other than the fact the order and the lawsuit winner.
Manuel Lemos: Right [Chuckles]. We don't want to get sued for talking about that.
Manuel Lemos: So erase that part [Laughter].
Manuel Lemos: Well, anyway, as I was saying, there was an article from Zurmo developer named Ray Stoeckicht. I'm not sure if I'm pronouncing his name right in spite he's American, his surname is probably difficult for me to pronounce it correctly.
But, anyway, he wrote an article about Zurmo which is an open source CRM system written in PHP on which he used test-driven development. And this means several things not only test-based developments but also use continuous integration to keep testing things as they evolve.
And he published an interesting article here. We are just going to mention it briefly. And other than that, I like to take this chance to remind everybody that if you have an open source project that you would like to talk about, the PHP Classes site blog is open for you to publish it.
This is not, how would I say it, it's not a sponsored article despite Zurmo is a commercial company, this is an open source product that they wanted to talk about. They talk about their methods, they talk about the framework they used, they use, the Yii framework, and also the RedBeanPHP ORM. They explain why they used it.
And they also talk a bit about the CRM system itself. It is sort of an opportunity for them to talk about their product. They do not sell the product, they sell consultancy from what I understood. And this opportunity to talk about your open source projects is open to anybody not just these people.
If you, for some reason, you would like to talk about the commercial product, that will be a different story. That is also possible, but that would be subject to a sponsorship. And also articles having a disclaimer that when they are sponsored because they want to be transparent about it.
Well, that's practically all I have to say about it that is not something important. Ernani, I don't know if you want to comment anything about this Zurmo CRM system or you did not have much time to take a look at it?
Ernani Joppert: I didn't. I love those systems. I like working with it, but I haven't had the opportunity to do so. And it's nice to know that it's there and I should be doing my investigation in the future. And hopefully on the next episode, we can talk about it if we have the time to do so.
Manuel Lemos: Yeah. Well, it is not really important because it's not... it's just generally related to PHP. It's nothing about anything new.
Ernani Joppert: Right. But it's nice to see technology based off on PHP. And it's nice to standard the whereabouts of them as well. And it's nice to know that PHP can realize those things as well. And eventually, we may have an episode where we call some CRM providers to discuss the benefits of using PHP in such applications instead of other technology.
Manuel Lemos: Right. That's a possibility. We don't know yet if there will be an interest from those developers, but we can think of what it is there is interest.
Manuel Lemos: Well, anyway, we need to move on. We're reaching almost the end of the podcast but there is still time to talk about a few things related with the next section on which we comment the latest classes, objects published in the JS Classes site which is the PHP Classes site brother site.
This article talks about a component that was used to implement the animations that were used in all the pages of the systems of missions and levels also that were implemented.
And basically, this article talks a bit about using animations to get the attention of the users because sometimes you need to present any information that sometimes is a lot of information and it gets cluttered in the user interface and that the user doesn't know exactly what would be the most important information to talk about.
Let me try to show them here. For instance, in the user status page, I'm going to load it here so you might be seeing hopefully. You saw that several page elements appear in the page. You could see that there was this progress bar that you have seen it was animated also in this component.
Actually, there are two components involved but the main animation component was this one that I was talking about. You saw the progress bar advancing. Let me reload so you can take a look at it with greater attention.
You see the progress bar increases up to the current level and it shows 66% I have done so far in this level that I am on, and I have one mission to go, all these in a large font to get the attention of the user.
Then bellow, it appears a message that says, well, 11 users have completed this level so far. So I also need to move on and complete this missing mission to get to the next level. And the next mission, which is the one that is remaining, it's easier, next mission: publish innovative classes.
And it has drawn a circle, actually, an ellipse here that gets the user the attention of the actual mission that you need to do next. And I can click here, it expands the area a bit, and again, it draws a circle to the next message that I need to pay attention, which is to go to the mission briefing page.
And I'll go to the mission briefing page and it's the same thing. There are some messages here that appear.
Ernani Joppert: Yeah. That brings me to one question. Haven't you being involved into any innovative packages yourself?
Manuel Lemos: Well, that's a different story. The matter is that due to policy reasons, I do not nominate myself.
Manuel Lemos: ...subjective criteria. Well, anyway, I think you already got the idea these animations used here. I don't know if you noticed when it showed this message "13 other people have completed this mission," it does not start in 13. It starts in zero and goes 13 incrementally. Let me reload the page so you can see it again.
Ernani Joppert: Yeah, it seems to be counting up.
Manuel Lemos: Yeah. Well, it's sort to make it look like a video game on which it shows the score increasing gradually.
Ernani Joppert: You should also benefit from GIF files, but then it looks nice.
Ernani Joppert: It will be 1999, for sure.
Manuel Lemos: Well, GIF animations still have their uses. Some people use them to upload pictures that are actually animations to certain sites, but says it would not do, for instance, this circle here, the size is adjusted to the container message.
Ernani Joppert: I'd say animated GIFs are for 9GAG web sites and others.
Manuel Lemos: Yeah. Well, that's what I'm thinking.
Ernani Joppert: And pages under construction other than that.
Manuel Lemos: [Laughter] It's more or less like that. But as I was saying just to complete this part, GIF animations will not do because the size of this circle adapts to the size of this message.
Manuel Lemos: And it depends on the size of the font on the browser and it is not exactly the same on every browser. Well, it wouldn't work. And that's not just that. There are other effects that are available using this package. And this package is on JS Classes site for animations. Well, if you are interested in usable user interfaces, you can take a look at this.
Manuel Lemos: And now, we need to move on to the, actually, mentioning the Innovation Award that is finally getting started in JS Classes site. It was actually started this month of January and there was even an article about it. There is not much to say about this article, but it was published here just to tell a bit about the prizes and the sponsors and so on.
And there is here Packt Publishing that is giving away a book of choice from them. And there is also WebDev Publishing, which is the company of Michael Kimsal, the co-host of the JS Classes podcast. And he is the owner of the company that publishes JSMag. They are giving away a subscription of JSMag.
And then there is also O'Reilly that has been very supportive since the beginning. They organized many interesting events besides the books, they also publish it. So they will be giving away a ebook of choice from their extensive library.
Manuel Lemos: And now, we need to actually move on to an actually mention, some classes published in the JS Classes site.
This month, there are like 11 classes published there. Things are fluctuating a bit in terms of number of contributions, but it's a reasonable quantity for a site that is not as old as PHP Classes. And this month, we have a problem which is that I always avoid to comment on packages that are nominated to the Innovation Award.
You can see some of these packages already nominated. We need to avoid to talk about them at least this month. We can talk about them next month. The reason is just we do not want to influence the users that will vote on the award.
Well, given that, Ernani, which package do you think will be more interesting to comment this month?
Ernani Joppert: Right. I have already made my pick and the winner is, I mean, in my vote here, is the Form generator component. It's from Stephen Chapman.
Manuel Lemos: Well, see if you can increase your font a bit to be nicer.
Ernani Joppert: Let's see. That's it.
And the author is Stephen Chapman. He's from Australia. And it's very nice to see such component here.
Ernani Joppert: That deals with the DOM itself, right? It's nice to see DOM manipulation on the fly. I like to see those kinds of components.
Manuel Lemos: Yes, this is not exactly innovative component that's why it was not nominated, but it's always useful because you are always in need of components that can do things dynamically on the browser side, in this case, is to generate forms.
So, great that Stephen also contributed this and other components that he also sent. And other than that, what other components do you like to mention?
Ernani Joppert: Right. The next component if you guys are using YouTube's high quality or full HD resolution, you already realize by my Chrome's top bar here.
Manuel Lemos: Yeah, it's a bit fuzzy. I don't think people will be able to read it very well.
Ernani Joppert: Maybe it's in 1080p, they would be.
Manuel Lemos: Well, the problem is that Google Hangouts limits the recording to 360.
Manuel Lemos: We cannot do miracles, except for recording it outside of Google Hangouts.
Ernani Joppert: Oh, I see. Yeah, my next component is stpl. I guess it's an abbreviation of standard template and it basically implements a template engine based on replacing tags which is widely used in Express and jQuery, you have modules that those were use. But it's nice to see something new and something different.
Manuel Lemos: Well, there are a few, but there are countries that have more people from those countries. Well, it depends, some months more than others you have more contributors for certain countries, that's why.
Ernani Joppert: Right. Congratulations, very nice. I like what I see.
Manuel Lemos: Right. Well, on my part, I also would like to mention a couple of components. Let me screenshare here. One of them is Wunderground Weather API from Tom Schaefer from Germany.
He's a regular contributor of both PHP Classes and JS Classes site. He has sent quite a lot of components to the PHP Classes site and he continues to do so, so good to have him as contributor.
And he already sent other packages that maybe we can talk about in the future, but this month, we will just talk about this one.
This is an object that can retrieve information from the Wunderground API about weather of certain places, certain regions, or weather forecast, weather conditions and stuff. And he used JSONP protocol and it means that the requests are sent directly from the browser to the Wunderground API Web server.
And I suppose he used JSONP using a script tag that is added to the page precisely because I think AJAX, regular AJAX requests are limited to calls to the same domain, I think, if I'm not mistaken and the same domain of the page.
And it is interesting that with this component, you can retrieve weather information without going through your own server.
So as long as there is a connection between the browser machine and the Wunderground API servers, it will retrieve that information. So kudos to Tom for his contribution.
And the other component also I want to mention is, again, by Stephen Chapman from Australia, another one that it does the sort of those marquee elements, except that instead of scrolling horizontally, it scrolls vertically.
It's a slight variety of the same effect, but you may imagine this has its interests and many sites are using. You can do the same as in many other sites. You can drag the mouse over the elements that are being scrolled and it stops scrolling.
Ernani Joppert: But, please, don't make weird pop-ups with this component. You can use it.
Ernani Joppert: Don't make those blinking ads with it.
Manuel Lemos: Well, many sites are already blocking the pop-ups. I mean, many browsers are already blocking the pop-ups, but you might look around to use those floating page elements too, in relation to pop-ups.
Ernani Joppert: I don't know how, but I've been into web sites where not even the pop-up blockers work.
Ernani Joppert: No, but they know how to open a different page. I don't know how they do it, but they do it. And I've been into Googling some questions on technical situation when I opened just spawn three or four windows away, normally, web sites that have links for sharing the website.
Manuel Lemos: They probably emulate clicks on links that have the target window to make it open a new window. And I think in that case, the pop-up blockers will not work because they are not so sure if it is the user or some script.
Manuel Lemos: That's a guess. I'm not sure if that's the case.
Ernani Joppert: Yeah, it makes sense.
Manuel Lemos: Yeah. Well, anyway, next month we will hopefully start talking about the actual nominees of this month that we don't want to comment but they are up to four votes.
Manuel Lemos: And now, it's time to move on to the actual PHP Innovation Award now that we are reaching the end of this podcast, but we still have time to mention briefly some of the nominees. We don't have time to mention all, but I think we can mention a few.
Ernani, which nominees would you like to mention?
Manuel Lemos: It's not in PHP. I think it uses the Lua extension of PHP, but it does some things that are specific to sandbox the accesses.
Ernani Joppert: Yeah, exactly. So the thing is, joining both languages is a nice milestone at least by having just a Lua extension is not enough and having a sandbox environment where you can safely execute Lua script, then it's something else. And it represents security and the rules that can be specified so you can control your environment.
And I've seen lots of applications using Lua since Angry Birds because Lua is very oriented to callbacks as well as the action script. They are similar in syntax with slightly differences, but it's nice to see that there are the possibilities of Sandbox in your Lua environment working in PHP.
And my next vote goes... oh, sorry. Just to mention it's Christiaan Baartse from Netherlands and it's nice to see your effort here.
My next component which I picked for this episode is from Mikhail. I don't know his full name. He's from United States. He has provided already three packages. And this component was the winner, so congratulations to the winner. And it helps searching jobs on different job sites.
So if you are willing to extract information from several web sites, using this component. Please feel free. So just make sure that the license is shareware and despite that, if you need the functionality or if you're willing to use it, it's nice to see that you can do that with this component.
Manuel Lemos: Right. Let me double check here but from what I understood that that component is able to retrieve the feeds of jobs from different sites like Craigslist and Indeed and Monster. And I think this is specific to the United States. Right, it's right here.
I think maybe it can be adapted to work on other countries just to switch the feeds, probably.
Manuel Lemos: ...sending their packages, but actually, Alexander sent a quite advanced component in the sense that it even uses something that is relatively recent which is traits to implement testing features.
Basically, it is able to define the tests that a class is expected to perform by defining them in docblocks, in lines, comments and that's why it's called inline testing. And this is interesting.
Then you can use special... that are provided with the package throughout in the actual testing of the conditions of the tests and so on. So kudos to Alexander for his great contribution.
This kind of advanced components kind of raise the bar of the quality of the components sent to this site. I hope he continues to send more components of this level.
And the other component that I want to mention is Print Form PDF by Alexander Selifonov. This is a regular contributor from Russia. He's been sending many great components. So you'll get an idea, he has already sent 10 innovative components and he has been the winner twice.
And I think according to the system of missions and levels that I mentioned ever been implemented just recently, he's probably one of the authors that is more advanced because not many authors have been implementing so many innovative packages and even winning the award for two times.
Talking back to the actual component, this is a component that can create PDF documents, but using PDF templates. And it uses some code to parse the templates and insert some parameters, defined in XML package.
And this is a very interesting approach to the generation of PDF, so kudos to Alexander for his contribution.
Manuel Lemos: Well, with this package we practically ended our podcast. It was a great podcast. We talked about very interesting and important subjects for PHP and also MySQL.
Let's see what happens after this and we can continue to comment on those issues because they are still open. Let's see what happens with the Zend Optimizer+ adoption or not. Let's see also how MySQL from Oracle is being accepted versus MariaDB and if it will, in fact, will be faster.
So on my part, that is all for now. I don't know, Ernani, if you have any final remarks.
Ernani Joppert: No, I just wish to thank you everybody and if you have any comments please comment on. We are accepting suggestions. And thanks everyone for being here.
Manuel Lemos: Well, on my part, that is all for now. Bye.
Ernani Joppert: Thank you. Bye-bye.


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MANILA, November 22, 2018 --( ASIA TODAY )-- Habitat for Humanity marks 35 years of building and improving homes in the Asia-Pacific region with the announcement that it has served close to 4.8 million people this year. The figure is one of the highlights of Habitat for Humanity's 2018 annual report which shows how the leading housing nonprofit is addressing mounting needs for safe and decent shelter around the globe and in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Nursing Through the Prism of Childhood
Kathy LaTour
Extraordinary Healer®, Extraordinary Healers Vol. 12, Volume 12, Issue 1
An interview with Extraordinary Healer finalist, ELIZABETH DAVIS, B.S.N., RN, CPN.
Growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, Elizabeth Davis always knew that nurses and doctors at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital cared for critically ill youngsters. Today, the hospital is the only workplace she has ever known.
With five years' experience, Davis is a relatively new nurse, but her colleagues recognize her dogged determination to work for her patients and their families through a variety of councils, committees and projects. During a fellowship at St. Jude, for example, she explored better ways for children to communicate their nausea levels by using the Baxter Animated Retching Faces scale, an undertaking that reflects the values of a hospital committed to shared decision making.
"It is one of those things that (makes) you ask, 'How did we not think of this before?'" says Davis, 27. "It is not a yes or no but a scale the kids are living on every day. Zero means no nausea and 10 is serious nausea and vomiting."
After her project was finished and presented, it was implemented throughout the hospital, and Davis decided to stay in the fellowship role to mentor the nurses coming after her. "I helped the nurse who nominated me with her project, which looked at how nurses deal with fatigue while working," she says.
Davis recognizes that many outside the hospital setting who hear about her job conclude that they could not deal with the pain of children and their families.
Davis handles this tough situation by giving her patients the best days she can, no matter what those days are like. "I try to understand this through the prism of childhood," she says.
Due to her work, Davis understands what children are capable of, and, in her estimation, they do not get enough credit. For example, some parents hold back health information from their children, particularly when the news is bad.
"The kids know, and they want to protect their parents. Near the end of life, they will be so worried about how their parents will take it," Davis says. "They aren't scared. They tell me they are going home to see Jesus, and they are excited. I have seen kids who see angels and talk about their loved ones who have died before them."
The field of oncology seemed a natural fit for Davis from the first time she treated a patient. Since then, she has worked with patients from all over the world and looks forward to helping many more.
"The nurse who nominated me is the one I want to grow up and be," Davis says. "She has the same drive to improve care. She is incredibly involved on many hospital committees, and she is inspiring. She is so special and opens her heart to every patient and caregiver."
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A combination of rising property prices and stricter lending criteria has made it harder than ever to buy a home or an investment property. As a result, many buyers are pooling their resources and buying property with family. As with any contract however, it's important you go in with your eyes wide open. Here's what you need to know.
With property prices the highest they've ever been in most major cities around Australia and New Zealand, savvy buyers are teaming up with family to get a foot on the property ladder.
Buying now rather than having to wait 2 or 3 years to save the extra deposit needed.
Bigger buying capacity means more choice in terms of location (a better suburb, closer to work) and style of property (a house rather than a unit or apartment).
Lower financial commitments and more manageable repayments for your share of the loan.
Things can get messy as circumstances change – you might decide to sell up but your family want to hold onto the property.
Financial situations change too and you could end up having to manage the full loan repayments by yourself.
Seek professional advice – it's vital you talk to a solicitor or conveyancer before entering into a co-ownership agreement. That way you'll have a clear idea of how to protect yourself from financial risk.
Draw up a co-ownership agreement – sure, they might be family, but it's still a necessary procedure. Drawing up an agreement that outlines how costs are split, what happens if one party defaults, and what happens if the loan needs to be re-financed, will ensure everyone is on the same page and hopefully reduce any disagreements further down the line.
Have an exit strategy – part of your agreement should include details like how long you intend holding onto the property for, and what happens if one party wants to sell up.
Talk to your mortgage broker to ensure you get the best advice on how to structure your loan and who should be the borrowers and guarantors.
Remember, if joint ownership isn't the best option for you, there are still other ways your family can help. Talk to a Mortgage Express broker about using a personal loan or gift from family members or having a family member act as guarantor so you can buy a home or investment property.
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Renovating a rental property can be a costly exercise but making improvements to the property can yield a healthy return. To ensure you're maximizing your investment, it's important not to overcapitalize, to stick to your budget, and to use durable products and materials. If you are considering renovating your rental property, ask yourself these 3 questions first.
Investing in property can be financially rewarding, but it's just as easy to get it wrong. Bad tenants who don't pay their rent on time or cause damage to your property can be a serious drain on your finances. A property manager acts on your behalf as landlord, screening tenants, collecting rent, and inspecting your property. But that's not all they do. Here are 5 benefits of using a property manager.
It's no surprise that more and more astute investors are turning to property as a way to grow capital. Like all investments though, buying an investment property takes careful research so you know what you're getting into and what the pitfalls are to avoid. To help you stay on top of the property investment game, here are 3 common mistakes to avoid.
Financial year end is a busy and often stressful time for property investors, particularly if you own multiple properties. It's also the ideal time to take stock, assess your financial situation, and plan ahead for the next financial year. With the end of the financial year looming, we think it's also a good time to remind you of these 4 simple tax tips.
Cost is usually a major factor when it comes to any home renovations, and weighing up the cost versus return is an important part of your decision making. Whether you're looking to sell your home or just freshen it up, here are a few low cost projects that you can do yourself to revitalise your home and add value.


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1995 G 1h 21m Blu-ray / DVD
Cowboy-toy Woody feels threatened when overblown space ranger Buzz Lightyear arrives with a suitcase full of bells and whistles. But both dolls are lost when the family moves -- and finding their way home is only half the adventure.
Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Annie Potts, John Morris, Erik von Detten, Laurie Metcalf, R. Lee Ermey, Sarah Freeman, Penn Jillette
Children & Family, Family Animation, Family Adventures, Family Comedies
Feel-good, Imaginative
English: DTS 5.1 Surround, English: Dolby Digital 5.1, French: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, English: DVS - Descriptive Video Service
French, Spanish (Neutral)
English: DTS 5.1 HD, English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, French: Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish (Neutral): Dolby Digital 5.1, English: DVS - Descriptive Video Service
G - All ages admitted. Nothing that would offend parents for viewing by children.
Common Sense rating OK for kids 5+
Parents need to know that there is separation in the movie -- toys are separated from one another and from their owner (but if your kid made it to preschool without an issue, this should be fine). All of the dynamics behind sibling rivalry are here as well, so if your kids are going through that, this is a perfect movie to have them watch together. Kids may be scared by Andy's next-door neighbor Sid, who has a mean laugh and mutilates toys for fun -- but he does get a mild comeuppance. Really young kids may be confused by the toys being "real" here, especially when Buzz really thinks he's a star commander. Note: The 3-D version of the movie includes a couple of brief scenes that might spook the youngest viewers, like dinosaur Rex roaring, but otherwise the digital effects are played for laughs (or, as the green squeeze-toy aliens would say, "Oooh ... aaah").
Some tense/scary scenes with toys in peril. A boy mutilates toys and straps them to rockets. Potentially frightening images of "mutant" hybrid toys. In the 3-D version, a couple of other scenes can be briefly scary -- like when Rex roars.
Mild insults like "idiot" and "shut up."
Strong themes of loyalty, friendship, community, and teamwork. Toy characters go to great lengths to rescue their friend.
Several of the Toy Story characters are recognizable brands (like Barbie, Ken, and Mr. & Mrs. Potato Head). And beyond that, the Toy Story franchise has the potential for the most merchandising tie-ins of any kid-targeted movie series. Toys, action figures, books, party supplies, plush dolls, you name it -- Disney's Toy Story characters are everywhere, especially kid favorites Woody and Buzz Lightyear.


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'It's WAY colder this year,' some parade-goers declare.
As victims continue to be found and stranded people reached, it will take time to assess the consequences of their missed care or undertreatment.