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Q: Avoiding Ambiguous handler methods mapped for HTTP path With Regex I have to similar controllers ONe get by Id and the other get By name
both using PathVariables I read an article where it explained and how to resolve by using regex but it seems not to work properly
 @GetMapping(value = "/trucks/{truckId:[0-9]+}")
    @ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.FOUND)
    @ResponseBody
    public final TruckDto getTruckId(@PathVariable(value = "truckId")
                                         final String truckId) {

        LOGGER.debug("test: truckId({})", truckId);
        Truck truck = truckService.getTruckById(Integer.parseInt(truckId));
        return mappingService.map(truck, TruckDto.class);
    }

    /**
     * @return Truck with an average.
     */
    @ResponseStatus(HttpStatus.FOUND)
    @ResponseBody
    @GetMapping(value = "/trucks/{truckCode:[a-zA-Z0-9]+}")
    public final TruckWithAvgPetrolDto getTruckByTruckCode(@PathVariable(value = "truckCode")
                                                     final String truckCode) {

        LOGGER.debug("test: getTruckByTruckCode({})", truckCode);

        TruckWithAvgDto truck = truckService.getTruckByTruckCode(truckCode);

        return mappingService.map(truck, TruckWithAvgPetrolDto.class);
    }

WIthout putting regex both of fail my test but after putting regex the method getTruckByTruckCode that accepts numbers and letters pass but get by truckId still gives the error ambigous handler method , Am i missing something or why isnt it working

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"Botrytis in wine grapes in Western Australia" by Diana Fisher, Colin Gordon et al.
Botrytis, causal agent Botrytis cinerea, is a fungal disease of grapevines that is commonly referred to as Botrytis bunch rot or grey mould. Botrytis is most prevalent where warm, wet conditions are frequent, but symptoms can occur in cool, wet weather and high humidity. All grape varieties are susceptible. Varieties most at risk are those with berries that are thin-skinned and/or have tight bunches.
Some white wine grape varieties infected with Botrytis may decay, in certain conditions to produce noble rot . Wine produced from these infected bunches produce unique aromatic characters with high residual sugar and are usually sold as dessert wines.
Fisher, D, Gordon, C, and Wood, P. (2002), Botrytis in wine grapes in Western Australia. Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia, Perth. Bulletin 4523.


the swedes play rough... too bad the Germans threw away their style... for obvious reasons.
So is it a draw the most favourable result in SWE vs KOR that we should hope for due to the corner that Germany put itself in ?
Fosberg is awesome. There, I said it!
Bayernbazi wrote: So is it a draw the most favourable result in SWE vs KOR that we should hope for due to the corner that Germany put itself in ?
I think it's the least favourable result.
If South Korea win, Germany could technically still qualify even with a loss against Sweden.
ramsej84 wrote: the swedes play rough... too bad the Germans threw away their style... for obvious reasons.
If this game ends in a draw, under the right circumstances Germany might get away with 4 points (draw for Sweden who lose to Mexico, or draw vs South Korea and higher goal difference than Sweden).
If someone wins today, Germany probably need to win both games, unless Mexico beat today's winner.
In any case winning both games should put Germany through. However, with a winner today it's possible that 3 teams will end with 6 points, so goal difference is important.
In any case winning both games should put Germany through.
Well you're saying the same thing.
Didn't realise you meant 3 points but don't think so anyway.
If today ends in a draw... Germany win one game and lose another. Best case scenario it's goal difference vs Mexico.
Someone wins today. Germany beat the winner and lose the other game. Best case scenario this also requires goal difference, and is probably harder than the first case.
Germany just needs to win both games period.
FCBayernMunchen wrote: Didn't realise you meant 3 points but don't think so anyway.
What do you mean you don't think so?
In such a scenario Germany would progress with 3 points. It's a best case scenario.
On the other hand, if the current match ends in a win for either team, Germany could *THEORETICALLY* get eliminated even if they win 10-0 against Sweden and 10-0 against South Korea. This would be the worst case scenario.
But those aren't the only results were those points are possible. In both cases it is possible to get eliminated or qualify on goal difference. I don't think there's much difference.
If Sweden win, Germany might only need 3 points to progress. Or they may also fail to qualify with 2 wins.


Samsung kicked off its first Developer Conference in San Francisco today, and the Korean tech juggernaut is eager to show just how much it cares about the devs building apps and services for its hardware ecosystem. And really, what better way to prove it than to unleash five (yes, five) brand-new SDKs for those developers to sink their teeth into?
As you can imagine, there's plenty to dig into here, but some of these development toolsets are more straightforward than others. Samsung's revamped Mobile SDK, for instance, consolidates a handful of existing Samsung mobile dev tools so coders and engineers can more easily create apps that take advantage of the company's S Pen, gesture controls, and audio features (to name just a few). And the Smart TV 5.0 SDK does exactly what it promises, allowing developers to build apps for Samsung's connected televisions, with a big focus on optimizing those apps for the company's 2014 class of displays.
And considering the general market zeal for devices that connect and interact with each other, it should surprise absolutely no one that Samsung is trying to drive home the value of its vast portfolio of gadgetry by giving devs a way to make all of it play nice together. Consider its new Multiscreen SDK, which packs APIs that should ultimately allow users to quickly sync up smartphones and screens for simple media sharing across displays — GigaOm's Janko Roettgers has a great take on it here.
Built on top of that is a Multiscreen Gaming SDK which Samsung developed in tandem with Unity. It'll allow developers to craft games that functionally turn Samsung smartphones into consoles that output all the action to (what else) a connected Samsung TV. Throw in a new Knox SDK meant to help developers build secure, enterprise-friendly apps that can silo work information from personal data and you've got a pretty well-rounded slew of tools for coders and entrepreneurs.
Now the general thrust of these releases is to get people more invested into Samsung's hardware web, and naturally the most prominent vector is Samsung's huge portfolio of smartphones. You can't really overstate the importance of smart software to Samsung's mobile strategy. In a market where nearly every OEM is trying to push the limits of hardware innovation in parallel, fleshing out the all-important software user experience is crucial to gaining an edge over a pack of hungry competitors.
And like it or not, Samsung is damned good at loading up its devices with software. Some (myself included) would argue, though, that the company has a tendency to go overboard. There's a distinct subsection of the Android community that prefers their Android builds to be as clean and as free of cruft as possible, but there are plenty of others who love to lord their whiz-bang features over others. But it has become clearer than ever that Samsung is using its mobile gadgetry as a Trojan Horse to make developers aware of and get them excited about the full breadth of Samsung's hardware. Now the big question is how many developers will rise to Samsung's challenge.


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Beautiful presentation of the series done by this important Mexican artist done from 1990-1991. Show began in the Fall of 1991, but the catalogue was not available until February 1992.


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Q: Magento. Unable to rewrite Address model I am trying to rewrite Magento Address Model but I'm going crazy with this. My config.xml rewrite section looks like this
<models>
    <customer>
         <rewrite>
             <customer>MyNam_MyMod_Model_Customer</customer>
             <address>MyNam_MyMod_Customer_Model_Address</address>
         </rewrite>
    </customer>
</models>

and my class looks like:
require_once 'Mage/Customer/Model/Address.php';
class MyNam_MyMod_Customer_Model_Address extends Mage_Customer_Model_Address
{

public function validate() {
    parent::validate();
}
}

When I load address form I get the following error: Call to a member function getId() on a non-object in /var/www/magento/app/code/core/Mage/Customer/Block/Address/Edit.php on line 53
I noticed that edit block is unable to load customer/address model
Can anyone help me?

A: i hope  in class address MyNam_MyMod_Customer_Model_Address ,i should be  MyNam_MyMod_Model_Address
<models>
    <customer>
         <rewrite>
             <customer>MyNam_MyMod_Model_Customer</customer>
             <address>MyNam_MyMod_Model_Address</address>
         </rewrite>
    </customer>
</models>

let me know, if you have any issue...

A: First of all remove the line require_once 'Mage/Customer/Model/Address.php';
You don't need this because classes are loaded automatically.
The rest of your code looks correct. Did you clear your var/cache folder?


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2021+ Ford F-150 Ownership Lounge
2021+ Ford F-150 Versus The Competition
The Ford Maverick Will Have A Spare Tire Under Its Bed
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Ford is coming out with a compact pickup truck that will sit under the Ranger in Ford's lineup.
Ford Authority recently discovered that it will have a spare tire under its bed like a traditional pickup should. The Maverick will share the same platform as the new Bronco Sport.
The Ford Maverick Will Have A Spare Tire Mounted Underneath Its Bed
The Ford Maverick will have a spare tire mounted underneath its bed, another traditional truck-like feature for the forthcoming compact unibody pickup.
fordauthority.com
Despite The Blue Oval's best efforts to conceal the fact, we can confirm that the Ford Maverick is indeed a pickup, even though the prototypes we've spied recently are made to look like an SUV/crossover via a bed cap and some clever camo. That means that the forthcoming model also sports a host of truck-like features, including a spare tire mounted underneath its bed.
The spare tire location is notable, since this is a unibody pickup. However, there's really no other place to logically mount the spare tire on a truck, whether it utilizes unibody construction like the Maverick or a more traditional body-on-frame configuration.
It's also worth noting that the Ford Bronco Sport, with which the Maverick shares the same Ford C2 platform and styling details, does not have a spare tire mounted underneath the vehicle. Rather, it's located under the load floor in the rear cargo area.
Though it's a compact unibody pickup that's smaller and lower to the ground than the mid-size Ford Ranger, the Ford Maverick does feature a few truck-like details. They include a sliding rear window, as Ford Authority exclusively reported, in addition to a fairly conventional suspension system. The prototypes we've seen so far also have rather strange exhaust routing, but that could change when the pickup reaches production.
The Maverick is expected to be offered with either Ford's 1.5L EcoBoost Dragon three-cylinder or an optional 2.0L EcoBoost inline-four, both of which are expected to be paired with FoMoCo's new 8-speed automatic transmission. It's currently unclear, but a naturally-aspirated four-cylinder is also a possibility. The compact pickup will come in front-wheel-drive configuration, but all-wheel-drive will also be available.
The Maverick will be offered as a four-door / Super Crew body style out of the gate. Production of the new model will take place at the Ford Hermosillo Assembly Plant in Mexico, which also happens to be the birthplace of the new Bronco Sport. Expect a launch in mid-2021 as a 2022 model.
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Yesterday I wrote a post about my adventures in Nashville. Today, I'm writing about what you really want to know more on, some of the writing activities I partook of. Wait, that's a poorly constructed sentence, with that dangling participle. Today, I'm writing about the writing activities about which you want to learn more. Technically correct, but a bit high-faluting. Well, let's just get to it.
To refresh your memory, I travel to Nashville twice a year, in September and January, to participate in the certificate writing program sponsored by Middle Tennessee State University, the Writer's Loft. It's a program modeled on the brief-residency MFAs that are so popular now, and in the words of the Loft's founder, Roy Burkhead, it's "MFA lite." (By the way, Roy's editing a cool literary magazine that I contribute to called 2nd and Church–check it out.)The program offers weekend orientations during which students hear lectures and workshops on all aspects of writing, and meet with their mentors after which, students go forth and do what they should be doing–write.
This year, I presented a lecture at the Loft on Scene and Structure, a variation on one of the sessions of my Get Your Novel Written Now class. It was an information dense hour and a half, let me just say, so much so that I feared my student's heads might explode. They graciously refrained from allowing this to happen, however. I also sat in on a variety of other presentations, two in particular that I want to highlight here.
Writer Jennifer Chesak spoke on freelance writing and got me all inspired about it again. She went through the basics of getting started, establishing relationships with editors, and so on. Jennifer recommends starting with querying on small articles that would go in the news sections at the front of magazines and working your way up. When I graduated from journalism school a gazillion years ago, I got married and had babies right away and so working at a newspaper was something that never happened for me. But I did begin free-lancing and did it off and on for years, until I went back to school for my MFA and began doing more teaching and coaching. But listening to Jennifer made me want to have another go at it, so I'm now on the lookout for ideas.
Jennifer has also begun an innovative publishing company that intrigues me. It's called Wandering in the Words Press and here's how it works: it's submission-based, so you submit your work and go through a vetting process. When Jennifer selects your novel or memoir for publication, you pay her for the editing process, either upfront, or through your royalties. She not only edits, but creates you a website, and assists with marketing. And the royalties are good–50%. This is a very similar arrangement to my publisher, Vagabondage, though I didn't pay any fees to them for editing or anything else. What I like about it is that you get all the benefits of indie publishing but there's still some quality control, which is often lacking in self publishing. It's worth checking out.
This was my ode to the bee that appeared in my Portland bathroom at 4 AM as I was getting ready to catch my plane to Nashville. What I liked about the Haiku writing was the idea that you could play around with it as a warm-up to writing. Or when you're blocked, or don't know what to write but want to write something.
So that was what I learned in Nashville. But I also want to give a shout-out to the Living Writer's Collective, this amazing group of writers in Spring Hill, about a half-hour away from Nashville (in which direction, I'm still not entirely certain). I had the great good fortune to speak to them on Thursday night before the Loft orientation began and I loved it. What a great group of writers–not a wanna-be in the bunch. All of them, as far as I could tell, were actually engaged in the work of putting words on the page. They were a friendly and welcoming group, also, and if you live in the area, check them out. Thanks, guys, for having me!
And I think that is quite enough from me for the moment. What have you learned of heard or read about writing lately? Comment, please.
The top image is one I took on the Vanderbilt campus, which is serving as a stand-in for MTSU. They are two very different beasts, but oh well.
I snitched the Vagabondage Press image for the website.
The bee is by Mordac.


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Madison, WI – July 17, 2014. After a two game sweep of the Green Bay Bullfrogs, the Madison Mallards (10-5, 28-20) return home to the "Duck Pond" to face the Willmar Stingers (9-6, 31-14) in a doubleheader beginning at 4:30 pm. Games one and two will be seven innings each, and gates open at 4:00 pm for game one.
On the mound for game one of the twinbill is Mallards southpaw Rob McDonnell (Illinois). McDonnell holds a respectable 3.31 ERA in 35.1 innings of work and is tied for the team lead in strikeouts with 31. He carries a 4-2 record in his eight appearances, and in his last start McDonnell tossed six complete innings, giving up three runs on four hits while striking out five in a 3-1 loss to the Wisconsin Rapids Rafters.
He will face Stingers starter A.J. Puckett, a 6'4", 185-pound freshman out of Pepperdine University. The righty has appeared in five games for the Stingers and holds a 2.41 ERA with 19 strikeouts and eight walks in 18.1 innings of work.
His last start he pitched five innings, giving up two runs on six hits in a 8-5 loss to the St. Cloud Rox.
In game two, Mallards starter and Northwoods League All-Star Sterling Sharp (Eastern Michigan) is slated to square off against Stingers hurler Brady Anderson (Florida Gulf Coast). Sharp has started eight games for the Mallards this summer and holds a 3.16 ERA with 30 strikeouts. He pitched 2.2 innings in his last start, allowing two earned runs on three hits in a 6-5 loss to the Wisconsin Rapids Rafters.
Anderson, a 6'0", 180-pound righty is 3-2 on the year in five starts and holds a 1.89 ERA. His last appearance, he tossed one scoreless inning, earning a save against the Waterloo Bucks in a 5-3 victory.
Last night, Mallards first baseman and Northwoods League All-Star Pete Alonso (Florida) hit a two run shot in the seventh inning to help the Mallards over the Bullfrogs by a score of 6-3.
Alonso's home run broke a 3-3 tie to put the Mallards up 5-3. He finished 2-for-4 with three RBI and one run. Center fielder Alex Bacon (North Florida) added another run in the eighth on a sacrifice fly to bring the score to 6-3.
Mallards left fielder Tyler Allen (Virginia) and third baseman Tony Butler (Virginia) both had one RBI in the fourth inning to aid the Mallards offensive effort.
Northwoods League All-Star pitcher Christian Taugner (Brown) went 5.2 innings, allowing three runs on six hits while striking out two for the Mallards. The win went to Mallards reliever Nate Hoffmann (Madison College), who tossed one scoreless inning in relief to receive his first win of the year.
Mallards closer and Northwoods League All-Star Tim Black (Central Michigan) came on in the ninth and recorded his Northwoods League leading 15th save of the year.
The Mallards now sit in second place, one game behind the Lakeshore Chinooks in the second half Northwoods League South Division Standings.
The Mallards stay to the "Duck Pond" tomorrow to play a doubleheader against the Stingers at 4:30 pm. Friday is Karate Night with a Pepsi Kung Fu Maynard Bobblehead Giveaway. It is also Dashelito's Hot Sauce Appreciation Night.
Mallards single game tickets are on-sale now. To purchase tickets, log on to MallardsBaseball.com, call 608-246-4277, or stop by the Mallards ticket office.
The Madison Mallards are a member of the finest developmental league for elite college baseball players, the Northwoods League. Playing its 21st season of summer collegiate baseball, the Northwoods League is the largest organized baseball league in the world with 18 teams, drawing significantly more fans, in a friendly ballpark experience, than any league of its kind. A valuable training ground for coaches, umpires and front office staff, more than 115 Northwoods League players have advanced to Major League Baseball, including Cy Young Award winner Max Scherzer (DET) and MLB All-Stars Chris Sale (CWS), Jordan Zimmermann (WAS), Curtis Granderson (NYM), Allen Craig (STL) and Ben Zobrist (TB). All league games are viewable live the Northwoods League YouTube channel. For more information, visit MallardsBaseball.com.


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If you're cutting cable, that means you're most likely going to use streaming services as cable TV alternatives to watch your shows, so you'll need a solid Internet connection. Most streaming services work fine with the lowest tier (10 Mb), preventing buffering while you stream content, but a higher-speed service (25 Mb) will perform even better. Check the offerings with your Internet provider.
Well we did it. Cut the cable. Installed a Clearstream 2V Antenna HD antenna on the roof, side of chimney, The antenna hooked into the old Time warner box so it goes to all 8 rooms where there is a cable outlet. Ended up with about 40 Digital HD stations, some duplicates I will need to delete. Picture as good as if not better than Time Warner / Spectrum. Turns out our neighborhood is in a good spot for over the air tv reception. We are using Playstation Vue, (nothing to do with playstation games) as an online streaming app for all the same channels we had with time warner, such as AMC, TNT, SyFy, HBO, etc. along with Netflix and Amazon Prime. We have more channels now that we had with TWC at over $150 per month less what TWC was charging us. Playstation Vue app has a built in cloud recorder with unlimited use for recording to the cloud, your favorite shows, and fast forward, etc. We did purchase a Tivo Roamio OTA to record the channels off the antenna. So we can save our favorites and skip through commercials. Okay, it gave us one more remote to deal with because we now just switch between Live tv and internet tv. But for a savings of $150 mo, I can live with it.
This is pretty cool, especially if you are an AT&T member. If you're an AT&T Mobility customer, DIRECTV will pick up the tab for data to help you achieve all your binge-worthy goals. Data Free TV means you won't use your AT&T mobile data for watching DIRECTV NOW or FreeVIEW in the App. This means that you can watch Direct TV From ANYWHERE for free if you are an AT&T member. (Think long car trips mommas!)
Amazon has already taken steps toward this idea. Its customers can subscribe to different content providers through Amazon Video Channels, including traditional television providers like HBO and Showtime as well as streaming content providers like Britbox and IndiePix Unlimited, then view them all through Amazon Prime Video. Individual accounts and payments are still required, but the notion of one killer app or portal that allows access to everything is such an enticing idea that it's difficult to imagine that companies aren't already discussing the possibility. And Xfinity's deals with Netflix and Amazon suggest that even guarded companies with a strong proprietary interest in their original content are willing to come on board.
It's really not that big of a shock that a major TV provider has inconsistent customer service at best. We pitted DIRECTV and DISH against each other in the customer service department, and DISH falls short on the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI1). From our experience, you can expect longer hold times with DISH's customer service department.
K.C. That's a great way to save money, especially if you aren't much of a TV watcher. I don't personally watch much TV, but the shows my wife and I watch tend to be on cable – often the Travel Channel, Food Network, Discover, History, ESPN, and The Disney Channel for our little one. That said, I don't think we would be heartbroken to cut the cord and go without – just as long as I can keep my fast internet connection! 😉
If you (and your significant other) are comfortable with a larger, more industrial design, the $100 ClearStream 2 is an indoor/outdoor antenna that boasts a 50-mile range. The benefit of the more powerful Clearstream 2 is that I could place it anywhere in the room and pull in 70 channels, ranging from the major networks to PBS affiliates and local Spanish and Chinese language broadcasts.
You can also find many television shows on Youtube.com. The video sharing site is not actually intended for television shows, but many people take the time to record and upload their favorite television series. You will have to watch more than one video to get a complete episode, but they're typically labeled with the name of the show, the episode number, and then "video 1" or "video 2", so you can piece together the various videos you need to watch to see the whole show. While a little inconvenient, if the goal is to save money, even Youtube.com is a good option for cutting your $60 or $130 cable bill!
I find the best option to be their "Live a Little" package. It is priced at $35 per month and contains Fox News, CNN, Nickelodeon, MSNBC, Hallmark Channel, ESPN, Disney, HGTV, USA, ID, TNT, Food, TBS, History, Discovery, Disney Jr, TV Land, Nick Jr, AMC, FX, FXX, Bravo, Lifetime, A&E, Animal Planet, BBC America, Bloomberg, BET, Cartoon Network, CMT, CNBC, Comedy Central, Disney XD, E!, ESPN2, Fox Business, FS1, Galavision, HLN, MTV, MTV2, Paramount Network, Syfy, TCM, TLC, Univision, VH1, and more
Some broadcasters have elected to embrace the concept of cord-cutting by establishing subscription-based over-the-top content offerings of their own, such as HBO Now.[22][23] Alongside the 2014 launch of CBS All Access, Les Moonves stated that there was a "very strong possibility" Showtime would also offer an OTT service—a plan which would be realized in June 2015.[24][25][26] On March 31, 2016, Canadian sports channel Sportsnet (owned by media and telecom conglomerate Rogers Communications) announced an OTT service offering its four regional feeds and two main national channels.[27]
My question on "cutting the cord" is how do I do this when I have 4 tv's in my house? I understand that I might have to purchase 4 wireless antenna's, and that's no big deal as I know I can get a good one for about $40, so that's $160 total. Can 1 antenna be purchased and connect it to my wireless router to work for all 4 tv's? And what if I purchase Playstation Vue, how do I or can I make that work for 4 tv's? And what about purchasing a dvr to record 4-5 shows at once, is this possible?
Initial installation may be more expensive with satellite service than initial installation with cable TV. Satellite dishes can be costly, so if your plan doesn't include a satellite dish and installation, you can end up paying a good deal extra for these services. However, a lot of companies will include a satellite dish and installation for no extra cost, so just be sure to read the fine print.
However, if you're a more casual sports fan or a supporter of an out-of-market team, cord cutting is still a worthwhile option. Sling TV—assuming it can hold up under the strain of future events—will give you ESPN and ESPN 2 in addition to a handful of basic cable channels for $20 a month, and for another $5 you can get even more sports options, including ESPN U, ESPNEWS, and the SEC Network. Add in an indoor TV antenna and you'll also have access to network sports.
Req. compatible device and Fios TV. Content restrictions may apply. Out-of-Home Use: Fios Multi-Room DVR Enhanced or Premium Service required to stream DVR recordings. Four DVR same-recording stream at a time. Verizon Wireless Data-Free Streaming: Req. postpay 4G LTE service. Non-streaming activity (e.g., app downloads, starting/restarting the app, going off airplane mode and transitioning from Wi-Fi to 4G LTE) will incur data charges (approx. 1-5 MB per instance). For Verizon Unlimited customers, app data usage will be counted, not billed.
While I've listed a few major streaming apps supported by each device, there are other apps available for these devices like Crackle TV, M-Go, Crunchy Roll, etc. I could write for weeks on every available app on these devices. While I personally feel Roku is the best streaming device available today, here is a look at the top options on the market.
Top-rated HDTV indoor antennas include the window-mountable Moho Leaf Metro ($17, above) or the tower-like Terk Omni ($60), both non-amplified antennas that plug directly into a TV tuner. Outdoors, you could try the roof-mountable Antennas Direct ClearStream 2Max or 4Max models, with 60- and 70-mile ranges, respectively. Other antenna makers include 1byOne and View TV.
Sling TV is one of the better value options out there, because you can get a lot of the most popular channels for only $25 a month. However, if you're a binge-watcher, you'll love Hulu with Live TV's huge on-demand library, which currently has 10 full seasons of Adventure Time (aww yeah homies!). YouTube TV is great, but it may not be available in your area just yet.
The best way to pick the right TV package is to first set your budget. Next, ask yourself which channels you'd like to be included in your package. Most providers offer a similar set of core channels for every plan. With each plan upgrade, the provider adds either more HD or premium channels to justify the added cost. Some of these channels may be foreign networks that you can't normally get in the U.S. or even commercial-free movie channels. None of us want our favorite movie to be interrupted by an annoying commercial break. Most providers also offer access to On-Demand libraries filled with hundreds or even thousands of titles for you to enjoy at any time. Make sure to check out the free perks included in your chosen package. For example, Spectrum gives its subscribers free HD channels on some of its plans. Premium packages from Spectrum also include movie channels like HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, TMC, and STARZ, as well as the NFL Network and NFL Redzone at no extra cost. Now that's what we call a deal!
It wasn't until 2015, when Ergen introduced Sling TV, that the floodgates truly opened. Sling TV is a so-called "skinny bundle," giving online subscribers the option to buy just a few channels and pay a much lower monthly fee—in this case, about a fourth of the average cable bill. Since its arrival, at least six more online TV services have entered the market.
Dependability and other quality issues related to the streaming Internet TV services are all over the board. Internet speed, type of Internet connection (wired vs. wireless), and platform (game console vs. computer vs. other devices) are among the things to consider. I chose PlayStation Vue because it has the widest choice of channels at a price I couldn't pass up. Its feature set is considered by many to be superior to the alternatives. Buffering of streaming content is more noticeable on certain platforms, with Roku often cited as one of the worst. When considering how much you'll save over traditional cable/satellite, you need to factor in the cost of Internet service. That wasn't an issue for me. As a heavy computer user, I would have Internet access to pay for anyway, regardless of my TV usage. If you have a family with several members using your Internet connection all at the same time, streaming TV service performance will take a hit, as it requires a fair amount of horsepower. If more than one person in the home is watching PS Vue at the same time, they each need to be on a different platform, with some exceptions. Sony's PS Vue website explains those limitations in more detail.
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Q: File duplicates at upload with ftp_put() in php So the situation is that lets say "client" changed their ftp server and I have a script that uploads stuff on their server via ftp_put(). I think they have different permissions now on their ftp server when I upload the files. Uploading behaves really weirdly with their new server, it duplicates some files about 5 times, others it doesn't duplicate at all. Keep in mind the same script worked correctly on their old server.
I noticed from the screenshot they sent me, that there's only read and write permissions on their server now. It used to have delete permission also. When I tried to upload files to our own server, and took away deleting permissions, everything stopped working.
So my thought is that, this is the issue maybe since logs showed, I might be totally wrong here, ftp_put() tries to delete files before it uploads them to a server to avoid duplicates. Is that correct and is there workaround to that?
The function itself what sends the files is really easy:
function send_to_ftp($ftp_server, $ftp_username, $ftp_password, $fileName,

    $subFolder = "n/") {

        $ftp_conn = ftp_connect($ftp_server);
        if (!$ftp_conn) return false;
        $login = ftp_login($ftp_conn, $ftp_username, $ftp_password);
        $reciver_path = $subFolder . end(explode('/', $fileName));
        $local_folder = $fileName;
        return (ftp_put($ftp_conn, $reciver_path, $local_folder, FTP_ASCII));
        //ftp_close($ftp_conn);
    }

A: It is missing in the documentation on php.net but is mentioned in a comment.
ftp_put tries to overwrite the existing file, and this is why you have issues with the permissions. The doubleing might be, without reading the source code of the php ftp_put function, that the overwrite really is a delete and upload, or that you are running the function multiple times.
I recommend checking if the file already exists before trying to upload it (regardless, checking files are less costly in network traffic then uploading a full sized file).
Use ftp_nlist to get the content in the target path and see if it exists.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.ftp-nlist.php
If you need to upload already existing file you need to look over your permissions with the owner of the server.


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I would like to start this review by saying that this book was absolutely beautiful. The pages were decorated beautiful, each part in the book had a beautifully drawn beast that is mentioned in the screenplay. The cover is so original and beautifully decorated. I fell in love with the appearance of this book instantly!
This screenplay is set 50 years before the Harry Potter book series, even having said this, there was a lot of references made that links to the Harry Potter series, Albus Dumbledore was even mentioned and I jumped for joy at the mention of him!
I just want to say that when I watched this at the cinemas, I was hit by nostalgia when the theme song from Harry Potter played, I got all excited!
I was nervous about reading this because I knew it was not going to be dealing with the story of Harry Potter, so I wasn't sure of it was going to spark my interests, but it really did. After reading the screenplay I had to go watch this at the cinemas and I saw it in 3D, and let me say that this was just absolutely amazing! I wanted to go and see it a second time in 3D because the creatures just jumped out and the screen, and having the creatures be so beautiful and magical making you want to have one yourself it was just amazing!!
I'll have to say, I was so excited to see how the creatures would look in the movie, because they sounded so amazing in the screenplay, I loved the niffler in the screenplay and to see how they made the niffler look in the movie I fell in love with it instantly, the niffler was my favourite creature in this movie! If these actually existed I would be over the moon! Such a cute beautiful creature!
I loved this little guy, I thought it was the cutest thing that Newt carried this green little creature around in his pocket. I will admit I almost cried when Newt was pretending to trade him for information.
I can see how this can be made in to four movies and this makes me very happy!! Let's be serious, who wouldn't want more from J.K. Rowling when it comes to the wizarding world!
I loved the plot, however I felt there could be more mention of Grindelwald and that there could have been more added to the ending when Grindelwald got caught out. I felt more explanation on who he was could have been given, especially for people who have not read or seen the Harry Potter series before.
I have to say, that I know a lot of people were hesitant to read or see this after reading Cursed Child, but I'll have to say, just go read it/see it! I doubt you will regret it, especially if you're a fan of seeing magical creatures and/or of Harry Potter! Its a beautiful movie/screenplay, and deals with so many emotions that you can't help but feel a connection with the characters!
I'd give this screenplay/movie 5 stars! Definitely watch/read this again! Loved it!!!
What were your thoughts on this? Did you read the screenplay? Watch it at the movies? or both?


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The problem is that no one says anything to the kid. Their wouldnt be a problem, if that kid was just told to move away, when this stuff happens. In many cases, it is also kids behind the counter, Who doesnt know how to react.
You did the right think, just a couple of minutes late, It is totally fine to let the kids now when they are being rude and jerks to other people, how else would they learn?
It is not enough to tell him that other people are waiting in line. Tell him to move! you can add the explanation that other people are waiting behind him, but he needs to know that he cant block the line, Especially if it is a kid.
Yeah in many cases that is true but the woman (department manager) was behind the register and she was probably mid 40's to 50. I think she should know better than to allow that. The people behind me were making VERY loud sighs, hisses and huff's before I ever said anything, so I wasn't the only one.
And to AntiDelluvian (or whatever) I posted this because I wanted to hear others opinions if this was out of line, really no other reason. Seeing the reaction I was amazed at how personally he took it and I wanted to see if others thought what I did was rude or uncalled for.
OP is just too Alpha for you. It's ok beta boy. Let the men do the work. You just sit back in the back of the pack with the wimins and chidrins.
He and his wife had a hospital appointment today, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and his dad died a couple of weeks ago so he is trying to hold it all together for the family you know. Anyway on the way back from the hospital he nips into the shops to pick up a few bits for his mum, some cakes for breaking the bad news, its busy as usual and he is feeling harassed pretty emotional about the news not paying much attention. He's at the till and this total jerk starts shouting at him, in front of everyone "there are people behind you you know" and shouting at him like he is some stupid kid...... So he gets back to the car and now he is angry so snaps at his wife whose just been diagnosed with cancer. Then in front of her as he is trying to keep it together its the straw that breaks the camels back and he just breaks down crying so now he wants to meet up for me for a few beers to vent. poor guy.
Now I am not saying that the above is true all I am saying is that you don't know what kind crap is going on in that poor guys life OP. This kid could have been on the way back from his mothers funeral or just had some awful news, then you humiliated him in front of everyone because you got a little impatient. Personally if it was me I would have just offered to give the poor guy a hand or just ignored it, gave him a smile, let him carry on.
No need to be a d!ck just for the sake of it you know.
That is awesome OP. My wife gets so embarrased at me. I shouted at some parents in wally world about their vile, inhuman offspring banging into my stuff. Peeps looked at me shocked but I dont care. I had the balls to say what they were only thinking.
Assign these people a carer while in public i say.
I hate the lottery people that decide to buy a million lottery tickets first thing in the morning while everyone is in route to work.
Yes, so do the clerks. I know a clerk pretty well and he says that is the worst. People come in and wand 50 tickets with specific #'s. I thought they had a scan-tron for that, but he said they don't it has to be done by hand. I think he is missing something in his register. His english is VERY hard to understand (he is Indian) so maybe he missed that part when they gave him the console/register. Do you know if there are slips you can fill out with all your pre-picked numbers that the register reads?
A friend of mine is autistic, for example- he always forgets to say thank you, to waitresses when we eat somewhere, and many times they give him (SNIP) for stuff like that, i always feel like i have to explain the whole world why he did or did not do something.
It´s crazy how small things like that can have a huge negative effect on how "normal" people treat people that have issues like this.
No wonder he struggles about even leaving his house.
I did think about the OCD thing. The damn receipts are close to 4ft long these days (with 3ft of coupons and ad's). I'm not saying it isn't possible buy I don't think that was the problem. Even if it is, a person with OCD can learn to slide down 2 ft to allow other customers to check out. We aren't here to wait on people with OCD, but thanks for assuming I'm oblivious to that. AND even if he has OCD, it is parents job to make him aware of what to do in situations such as that. Maybe he will know now, ever think of that?
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Cor i Orquestra Simfònica del Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona
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Tristan Peter Seiffert
Isolde Deborah Voigt
Brangäne Michaela Schuster
Kurwenal Bo Skovhus
König Marke Kwangchul Youn
Melot Norbert Ernst
Ein junger Seemann Francisco Vas
Ein Hirt Francisco Vas
Steuermann Manel Esteve Madrid
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Barcelona has a well deserved reputation for its long Wagner tradition, beginning with its the famous world premiere of Parsifal outside of Bayreuth. All opera lovers recognize that Wagner is of paramount importance to the genre and that for many of them Tristan und Isolde is the most important Wagner work of all. When we consider that Tristan had its premiere at the Liceu in the 1899–1900 season and that in the 110 years since then, this opera has been performed there during 42 seasons (43 with the present one) it is clear that few other theatres – if any – outside of Germany, have such an impressive track record.
This time Tristan returns to Barcelona from Los Angeles in a surprising production by the American Thor Steingraber. It's surprising because the Liceu has been presenting lots of modern and minimalist productions in recent years, while this one is quite the opposite. The production is 23 years old, having been offered several times in California during this period, the last of them about a year ago, and is certainly as 'traditional' a production as any. Its main attraction are the sets and costumes by the English designer David Hockney, who provides a classic and attractive staging with particularly good use of colour. Act I takes place in the boat – something almost 'original' these days – while Act II is set in an attractive forest, next to King Mark's castle. Finally, act III takes place on a cliff top at Kareol. For any who has forgotten lately how to be faithful to the Tristan libretto this production is a good helpful reminder: there is no change of time, the action takes place in the middle ages with appropriate and attractive costumes and good lighting rounds off this classical production. Thor Steingraber's stage directions is wholly appropriate to this classical and traditional conception, although oddly it does feel somehow short of passion.
The musical direction was in the hands of Liceu's former music director, Sebastian Weigle, who was more than competent as always, but who offered a uneven reading overall. He was fine in the first Act, while the wonderful Act II felt short of inspiration and rather anodyne although matters did improve for ActIII. In general, I found this a perfectly correct and effective reading rather than a truly brilliant one, but it was also significantly better than the other Wagner operas in this theatre, conducted by Maestor Weigle in recent last years. Actually, the orchestra offered a much better performance than their average, as if they were fully aware of the importance of Wagner to this theatre.
American soprano Deborah Voigt has been one of most outstanding sopranos since the 90s of course having become
a Wagner voice of the first order and she still offers a compelling figure on stage, perfectly credible in a character as the Irish Princess. Her voice has changed a little and perhaps not entirely for the better. In the middle register the sound is still beautiful and well handled, albeit without some of the opulence from of a few years ago, but her upper range has lost some of its harmonics and today it is slightly tight and offers a less attractive sound. She was at her best in the "Liebestod", sung with excellent taste and emotion and there is no doubt at all that she is still great artist, though not quite the exceptional soprano of some years ago.
German tenor Peter Seiffert made a Tristan of beautiful voice and is always a fine singer, despite some difficulties in the last act. As all Wagnerites will know, the difficulties in singing Tristan are not only about tessitura, but also of having to struggle against a big orchestra. The length of the role too is demanding, particularly in the third Act, where Wagner seems committed to postpone the arrival of Isolde to prolong the hero's agony – both physical and vocal. So, as often happens when a good tenor sings rather than barks the role, Peter Seiffert was cautious in the second Act always singing with great taste and beauty. This does not necessarily overcome the last Act's vocal challenges of course.
The Korean bass Kwangchul Youn was a good King Marke. He has a noble voice and an elegant line, but he lacks the power of his colleagues René Pape or Matti Salminen. The last time I saw him in this same character was more than three years ago and then I found his voice more powerful than now.
German mezzo soprano Michaela Schuster was an excellent Brangaene. She is a fine interpreter and her voice is quite nicely controlled in the middle, while at the top it offers an excessive vibrato. The character of course, as with Micaëla or Liù, is always a gift for any singer and Ms Schuster made the most of it.
Norwegian baritone Bo Skovhus was a very convincing Kurwenal in all aspects. His clear voice suits this noble character excellently and he was always a very compelling performer.
In the secondary roles we had the reliable Norbert Ernst as Melot, although I still prefer a baritone in the character and st his usual level of quality Francisco Vas was the Shepherd. Finally, Manel Esteve Madrid was a completely suitable Steurmann.
This was the first performance in a run of 11 and there was a full house. The final reception was very warm for all artists, who had cheers in large good doses and Sebastian Weigle and the orchestra were also applauded warmly. Finally, director Thor Steingraber was received without any booing at all, which today is real news.
José M Irurzun | Gran Teatre del Liceu de Barcelona. 23. 1.2010
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Q: Grails Connections behaving very differently in Integration test We have a custom data source that extends BasicDataSource.  We have overridden the getConnection method which does a couple things inside of it.  When we run the webapp outside of testing, when we call a service from a controller it will grab a new connection and use that connection until the service is done.  All is well.  However, inside an integration test, the connection appears to be grabbed before the test even calls the controller.  Flow below
Regular Run:
call controller -> controller calls service method ->  connection is grabbed -> service method is run and returns to controller
Integration Test:
connection is grabbed -> call controller from test -> controller calls service method ->  service method is run and returns to controller
Needless to say, this is giving us problems as having the correct connection is very important for our app.  Thoughts?
Edit:  Still getting significant issues with this.  We've reached a point where we have to avoid creating integration tests, or do some manual connection switching (which defeats half the point of the tests)
DataSource.groovy
dataSource {
pooled = true
dialect="org.hibernate.dialect.OracleDialect"
properties {
    maxActive = 50
    maxIdle = 10
    initialSize = 10
    minEvictableIdleTimeMillis = 1800000
    timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis = 1800000
    maxWait = 10000
    testWhileIdle = true
    numTestsPerEvictionRun = 3
    testOnBorrow = true
}

}
hibernate {
cache.use_second_level_cache = true
cache.use_query_cache = true
cache.provider_class = 'net.sf.ehcache.hibernate.EhCacheProvider'
}

A: This is not a final Answer, however I believe this is an explanation of what is going on:

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*Running as Web app: your Service class has a transactionManager which has a sessionFactory, which gets the connection! So in this case, assuming that you Service is 'transactional=true' all methods that you call in your services will have a 'Session.beginTransaction()' in the beginning of the method(there is a Grails`s Proxy to do that, when you set 'transactional=true'), which will call all that stack until getConnection().

*Running as Integration Test: as Grails doesnt commit your DB changes, it always rollback them! I believe that when you are starting your Integration test, grails is creating a transaction right away! so it will be able to rollback it afterwards!(which make totally sense right!), you can confirm that taking a look at the class org.codehaus.groovy.grails.test.support.GrailsTestInterceptor. The method init() is called before your services in your integration test. So that`s why getConnection() is being called before everything!
Suggestion:
You can try setting your integration test class as 'transaction=false' and see if getConnection() doesn't get call in the beginning!
Go to Transactions section in here to see more!
Just dont forget that in your test you will have to rollback your transaction! if your set transaction=false.


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WRITING OUR STORY
It is awe-inspiring to see the story of mankind being written. Of course, there are those who think it already has been written. Humanity and all of nature, it would seem to them, are merely acting out their roles to fulfill the script.
But consider for a moment that the Author may have launched His endeavor not with a specific plot in mind but with certain characters or character types in mind. Might He not then have put them together in an infinitely complex setting and given them exceptional freedom to direct their own story? The Author would cast His vision before these characters in several ways. The vision would be shaped by His theme, and this would be based on His purpose in creating, but the individual characters would choose on their own to follow or ignore or reject that vision, theme, and purpose. Thus, the characters would advance the Author's purpose by their relative cooperation and understanding of the vision cast before them. Some, by their ignorance or rejection of the guidance, would make themselves foils against which the theme is established and clarified by contrast.
Allowing characters to take part in the development of their story would, in fact, make them not only characters but real persons in relationship with their Author, who is real. It would give life to their existence and meaning to their life.
So let it be. And so it is. So I believe.
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Vegetable Oil Industry Could Be Revolutionized by Engineering Leaves
News Dec 18, 2020 | Original story from University of Missouri
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Since antiquity, cultures around the world have been extracting vegetable oil from plants to use as food and fuel. Some vegetable oils have important health benefits, including lowering cholesterol levels and decreasing the risk of cardiovascular disease.
But there's a problem: Vegetable oils are traditionally extracted from fruits or seeds, and the extraction process often leads to the rest of the plant being discarded in the process. Now, Jay Thelen, a professor of biochemistry at the University of Missouri, has found a way to boost the production of triacylglycerol -- the main component of vegetable oil -- in plant leaves, a technique that could allow producers to harvest oil from large, leafy plants that also have other uses. Sorghum, for example -- a global source of grain prized for its drought-resistant qualities -- could serve a dual role as a source of vegetable oil, creating a more efficient and valuable crop.
Thelen and Yajin Ye, a postdoctoral fellow in Thelen's lab at MU, used the gene editing tool CRISPR to "knock out" a family of genes they have found to be responsible for regulating fatty acid production in the leaves of Arabidopsis, a plant regularly used by researchers to study plant biochemistry. The results were recently published in the prestigious journal Nature Communications.
"We know that plants synthesize fatty acids when provided light," said Thelen, who has dual appointments in the College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources and the Bond Life Sciences Center. "This study taught us that there are three proteins that restrain this process in leaves, and that we can turn off their cognate genes using CRISPR. That frees up the plant to produce higher amounts of triacylglycerol in the leaves rather than just the seed."
Thelen said this method could lead to greater and cheaper production of vegetable oils, and the possibility of dual uses for leafy crops like sorghum and soybeans could place less of a burden on making a higher-oil seed. That burden often has undesirable consequences -- including a decrease in protein, which is the principal commodity in soybean seeds. His lab is now in the process of further testing the method on crops to confirm its viability.
A hunger for research
If anyone seemed prepared to make this discovery, it was Jay Thelen. Hailing from the small town of Seward, Nebraska, Thelen has been seriously pursuing science research since high school more than three decades ago, when he found himself in the classroom of Jim Landon, a nationally renowned science teacher with an unorthodox style.
"We got out of the classroom and did ecological experiments on nature reserves," Thelen said. "We went hiking, assisted with invasive species studies and even helped out on prehistoric digs. We uncovered mastodon bones. It was really impactful stuff."
Landon took Thelen under his wing, arranging for him to participate in university-caliber research at the University of Nebraska during the summer and -- once in a while -- on weekends during the school year. Landon, now in his seventies and enjoying retirement in the state of Washington, remembers his former student clearly.
"Jay was a great kid; very inquisitive," Landon said. "I remember when he was chosen to present his research at the 40th International Science and Engineering Fair in Pittsburgh in 1989. Only a handful of students from Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma were selected, and I can still see him standing up there and doing his presentation. In high school, when the athletes sometimes get all the glory, it was great to see Jay take the initiative to do research and even better to see that initiative rewarded."
Teacher and student have gone on to separate career paths, but they still talk once in a while, reflecting the impact each had on the other. Thelen credits Landon for sparking his fascination with science, while Landon speaks lavishly of how students like Thelen have fueled his passion for teaching throughout his career.
"It just amazes me what the kids I've taught have gone on to accomplish," Landon said. "For Jay's research to be published in a journal as prestigious as Nature Communications, it just makes me so proud."
Despite his success, Thelen has no plans to slow down when it comes to the research that drives his love of science.
"For me, understanding how plant metabolism is regulated is an itch that needs to be scratched," Thelen said. "Plants are the original 'green' factories for food, chemical feedstock and fuel production. Discovering new metabolic constraints and leveraging these findings to help us adapt to a warming planet -- that's something that motivates me, and there's still much more to be done."
Reference: Ye Y, Nikovics K, To A, et al. Docking of acetyl-CoA carboxylase to the plastid envelope membrane attenuates fatty acid production in plants. Nat Commun. 2020;11(6191). doi:10.1038/s41467-020-20014-5
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St.Kitts-Nevis is listed among 5 Caribbean countries with the lowest unemployment rates. While Joblessness continues to be a major problem in the Caribbean St.Kitts-Nevis along with 4 other countries were listed among those where the Joblessness situation is at it's lowest. The list of 5 Caribbean countriesl with the lowest unemployment is topped by Cuba with a low 2% Unemployment rate. Followed by the Cayman Islands and Trinidad and Tobago with 4% and St.Kitts-Nevis with 4.9% unemployment rate. Jamaica was number 5 with a 9.3% Unemployment rate.
The economic policies of the new Dr.Timothy Harris led Team UNITY Government Over the last two years has led to St.Kitts-Nevis recording it's highest ever Wage Bill and Employment numbers with more person being employed than at any other time in the country's history.
The St Kitts and Nevis Social Security Board confirmed 2016 and 2017 as the years with the highest number of Kittitians and Nevisians employed in the Federation – an achievement that goes hand in hand with the country's growing economy.
Figures from the Board show that national employment stood at 24,539 jobs in 2016, up from 24,308 in the previous year –a record-breaker for the country.
The record breaking employment numbers are expected to continue to grow in 2018 with the commencement of a number of major capital and other projects including the construction of a 2n Cruise Pier, East Bus Terminal, Roads Rehabilitation, Old Road Bay reconstruction along with foreign investment tourism related projects such as the Ritz Carlton Hotel and the Six Senses-St.Kitts all of which which are scheduled to begin construction by September 2018.
In addition to the expected projects to begin shortly the Team UNITY Government's emphasis on Small and Medium sized business development has resulted in ballooning employment rate and lowering unemployed numbers. Over 400 new businesses have been established within the last 3 years mainly through the government's Fresh Start Loan initiative where loans are made available to young entrepreneurs at easy concessionary terms and conditions. This has seen an explosion of the Small Business sector in St.Kitts-Nevis. This has added significantly to the country's employment situation. At the current upward trend of employment in St.Kitts-Nevis the country can very well eclipse Cuba as having the lowest unemployment in the Caribbean.


If you are thinking about obtaining your broker's license, The Real Estate Business School will help you create the curriculum you need to complete those requirements.
You will be required to have 4 years active experience out of the past five years whether you are in-state applying for your broker's license or out-of-state.
You will need to have the equivalent of 900 clock hours 270 in "core" hours* and 630 in "related" hours).
You will also need to obtain 3600 points by various listing, leasing and sales activities to qualify.
Once your Broker Application and application fee is submitted to TREC, you will have one year to take all the necessary education requirements, submit your transaction affidavit (for the 3600 points) and pass your Broker's examination. If you do not complete this process, you will need to re-apply and re-submit your application fee.
If you have a four-year degree from an accredited college or university in the United States, the Texas Real Estate Commission will award you 630 clock hours of "related" credit; therefore, with a four-year degree you will only need to acquire at total of 270 clock hours in "core" credit. All courses you took to obtain your salesperson's license and your SAE renewal hours will all count toward the 270 hours of "core" credit. MCE credits only count as "elective" credit toward your Broker's license.
If you do not have a four-year degree but you have some college hours, you will need to estimate what percentage of a four-year degree you have and then estimate the number of "clock" hours you will most likely receive. For example, if you have an associates degree (2 year degree), then you can estimate that you will receive approximately 300-315 hours of credit toward your broker's license 630 ÷ 2= 315.
OR if you have a year of college, you can estimate that you will receive approximately 150 -160 hours credit 630 ÷ 4 = 157.5 hours.
Of course, it will be necessary for you to submit a Broker's Application to the Texas Real Estate Commission and the application fee to find out exactly how many hours they will award, but your estimate can be helpful for you to determine if you can complete the necessary requirements in the one year time-frame.
Certain types of transactions are worth a certain number of points and the applicant is required to use the forms adopted by reference in the rule to summarize the transactions. For example, a closed purchase or sale of a single family home (residential) is worth 300 points, while a closed purchase or sale of an apartment complex with five of more units (commercial) is worth 450 points.
An applicant may continue to gain experience after an application has been submitted until such time that the applicant meets the total number required but before the applicant may take the qualifying examination. The applicant has up to one year after an application if filed to complete all requirements, and must meet experience and education requirements before the applicant can take the licensing examination. Experience earned after the application is submitted is to be reported on a different form adopted by reference in the rule.
If an applicant is unable to obtain sufficient documentation and/or the signature of the sponsoring broker, the applicant is required to use an affidavit adopted by reference in the rule to describe the applicant's efforts to obtain the documentation and/or signatures.
In addition, the applicant is required to provide two additional affidavits each signed by a different individual familiar with the applicant's circumstances and attesting to the applicant's efforts to obtain the appropriate documentation. Lastly, the rule gives the commission the discretion to request additional documentation, rely on the documentation provided under the new rule, or utilize any other information provided by the applicant to determine whether the applicant has sufficient experience as required by the Act.
An additional 630 classroom hours in related courses acceptable to the Commission.
You can receive Core course credit again for a course, even if you took the course before, if you have not taken the course in the past two years.
Submit your broker application to the Texas Real Estate Commission with the application fee along with your college transcript and any course certificates for courses that are not already on the TREC website.
If you do not meet the educational requirements at the time of application, TREC will notify you as to what you are lacking and you will have one year to obtain the necessary education hours, meet the 3600 in points toward the experience requirement and take and pass the Broker's State examination.
If fingerprints were submitted for a Texas sales agent license, fingerprints do not need to be resubmitted but the $27.00 fee is required to obtain a background check.
License examinations are administered by Pearson VUE, a testing service company. Once the complete application is received and processed and education is satisfied, you will be notified of eligibility to sit for the examination. The exam eligibility notification will have instructions for contacting the exam administrator and obtaining a copy of the Candidate Handbook to register for the exam. The Candidate Handbook contains information about the examination, study material, and instructions for making an exam reservation. Two forms of current signature identification are required for admission to a testing site. The name on the identification must match the name on the application for a license. You must pass the examination within one year after the date the application is filed with TREC.
You must show proof of the Broker's license from the State you are coming from.
If you want to use credit from your real estate courses in the state you are coming from, (i.e. agency, principles, contracts, etc.), you must provide a course description of each course.
You must provide a written history of your real estate education.
You must take the required TREC Brokerage course #0711.
Once your application is processed by TREC and you have received notification that you meet the education and experience requirements you will need to be fingerprinted and instructed on how to set up your Broker State Exam with the Pearson Vue testing center.


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Q: How can I serialize a nested m2m field to self with django-rest-framework? I have a User model that has a m2m relation to itself called friends and I'm trying to serialize it to see and update the pk's of users that are in the relation.
models.py
class User(AbstractBaseUser, PermissionsMixin):
    email = models.EmailField('Email', max_length=254, unique=True)
    name = models.CharField('Full Name', max_length=35, unique=True, null=False, blank=False)

    friends = models.ManyToManyField("User", related_name='user_friends', blank=True)

serializers.py
class UserSerializer(serializers.HyperlinkedModelSerializer):
    password = serializers.CharField(
        write_only=True,
        required=False,
        help_text='Leave empty if no change needed',
        style={'input_type': 'password', 'placeholder': 'Password'}
    ) #  for setting the password

    class Meta:
        model = User
        fields = ('pk', 'email', 'name', 'friends', 'password')

    def create(self, validated_data):
        validated_data['password'] = make_password(validated_data.get('password'))
        return super(UserSerializer, self).create(validated_data)

When I go to my API I see the following:
{
    "user": {
        "pk": 1,
        "email": "user@gmail.com",
        "name": "User",
        "friends": [
            "http://localhost:8000/user_detailAPI/2/"
        ],
    }
}

but I would like for the serializer to display each friend in a list in a manner like this:
{
    "user": {
        "pk": 1,
        "email": "user@gmail.com",
        "name": "User",
        "friends": [
            2
        ],
    }
}

Plus if you could let me know how I would be able to add an object to friends field using POST or PUT request it would be nice because I am new to django-rest-framework and I feel like this is an important problem.

A: So looks like there is no real way to do that rigth now but there is a workaround which is bascially:

*

*Removing m2m field from user model.

*Creating a helper table called something like FriendRelationship with 2 Foreign Keys to user model.

*Getting the friends data from the helper table.

This works as there is no m2m relations present and data is easy to extract.


It's about more than wood fired oven aesthetics!
This is a question that we are frequently asked by our customers, often because they feel the aesthetics of a wood fired oven look better without a chimney and don't necessarily understand the function that the chimney performs.
Here at Valoriani, we always consider our ovens to be working in harmony with nature – partly because they have DEFRA accreditation, to be operated in any Smokeless Zone, but also because the whole process of cooking within them is a very natural one.
Man has cooked with fire for thousands of years and the process of combustion, when lighting a fire, relies on the interaction between hot and cold air. No matter which fuel you use, there are three ingredients within the combustion of it – fuel, air (oxygen) and heat. The fuel reacts with the oxygen to release energy.
When burning wood, the combustion flue gases that are produced are much hotter than the outside air and are also less dense. The higher pressure outside a chimney can be seen as a driving force that moves the air needed for combustion into the zone in which we wish combustion to occur, before then drawing the flue gases up and out of the chimney. This is known as the 'natural draught' (or draft) process, with the draft being the pressure difference between the hot and cold air. The hotter the gases in the chimney, compared to the air outside, the stronger the draught.
Without a chimney to produce this draught effect within a wood fired oven, the smoke finds another outlet, which is the door/opening of the oven. This means that flames dangerously flick outwards and smoke is expelled into the face of the chef. Staining will occur around the oven's mouth and the combustion within the oven will not be complete, which causes more acrid smoke and an unpleasant atmosphere. Your food can be tainted by the smoke and your pizzas will probably be blackened and unpleasant to taste. This is not what you want from a wood fired pizza oven.


We are nextReality, or just two college students making a game in a dorm room. Our goal is to create games that push the medium forward, or at least let players experience something completely new, be it a crazy new game mechanic or a hand drawn world. Our names are Ryan Sligh and Loic Ferdinandi. Welcome to the Next Reality.


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DealBook | Notable in Their Absence From Davos
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Notable in Their Absence From Davos
By Andrew Ross Sorkin
January 20, 2014 8:15 pm January 20, 2014 8:15 pm
Preparing for the World Economic Forum meeting opening Wednesday in Davos, Switzerland.Credit Jean-Christophe Bott/European Pressphoto Agency
The annual parade of boldface names at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, is always striking. This year's attendees at the meeting, which begins Wednesday, will include Japan's prime minister, Shinzo Abe; the billionaire Bill Gates; JPMorgan Chase's chief executive, Jamie Dimon; and the movie star-philanthropist Matt Damon.
But just as notable are the luminaries who consistently avoid Davos, despite repeated invitations.
The billionaire Warren E. Buffett has never attended. Neither has Timothy D. Cook, chief executive of Apple, the world's largest company by market value. (His predecessor, Steve Jobs, never went, either.) The founders of Google, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, stopped going a couple of years ago, as did Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's chairman. Both companies do send other executives, though.
The leaders of General Electric and IBM, Jeffrey R. Immelt and Virginia M. Rometty, are not attendees either. "I don't go to Davos and places like that," Mr. Immelt once said dismissively.
The World Economic Forum, for which the cost of membership and a ticket to the annual meeting is more than $70,000, is both admired and derided as a velvet-rope club for the 1 percent of the 1 percent. The mayor of London, Boris Johnson, once attended Davos only to dismiss it as "a constellation of egos involved in massive mutual orgies of adulation."
Whatever their reasons for staying away, the leaders of some of the largest and most transformative companies are demonstrating, with their absence, the difficulty of convening a global conversation with all the main stakeholders. Given that one of the themes this year is how to address economic inequality, it would be helpful to have the world's largest employers participate in that discussion, not to mention a sampling of rank-and-file workers, who never receive an invitation.
Over the last few weeks, I called more than a dozen A-list names (or their handlers) who either regularly go to Davos or who make a point of staying away. I was intrigued by the reasons some people turn down an invitation coveted by so many others.
Those who attend said most frequently that they did so less for the high-minded panel discussions and more for the sheer efficiency of meeting with so many peers, clients, regulators and politicians at one time. "It would take me an entire year, and I don't know how many flights, to see the number of people I can in three days at Davos," one top bank chief executive told me, speaking on the condition of anonymity because Davos attendance can be a polarizing issue.
In the avoider camp is Mohamed A. El-Erian, the chief of Pimco, one of the largest bond investors in the world, and someone who given his background would seem like the perfect Davos man — an Egyptian-raised, Oxford-educated global investor. He has rejected repeated invitations to Davos, skeptical of the value of speed-dating with so many clients in the Alps.
"For me, it has been and remains an issue of efficient time management," he told me in an email. "Our general preference is for more focused and less rushed meetings." Mr. El-Erian is so anti-Davos he once wrote an article for a magazine distributed at the forum called "Why I Won't Go to Davos."
"Over the years, and in the context of an increasingly unsettled and uncertain world," Mr. El-Erian wrote, "Davos has not had much impact."
Mr. El-Erian's rival, Laurence D. Fink, the chairman of BlackRock, which manages more than $4 trillion, had been a skeptic, too — until this year. With such a large global business, he has become almost a head of state himself or, more precisely, as important as the head of a central bank, judging by the panel he is speaking on. Mr. Fink is the only business executive on an economic panel that includes Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank; Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England; Haruhiko Kuroda, governor of the Bank of Japan; Wolfgang Schäuble, the German finance minister; and Christine Lagarde, managing director of the International Monetary Fund.
Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, senior associate dean of the Yale School of Management, who counts many Davos attendees as former students of his executive management program, said that many C.E.O.'s attended every couple of years to "meet new heads of state." But he said many executives "complain that significant decision-makers are too diluted in number by the tidal waves of aspiring consultants and other wannabes." (Mr. Sonnenfeld does not attend.)
Others don't go simply for practical reasons. "It's inconvenient to get to. There's a lot of friction. It's cold. There are a lot of people there. The logistics of just going down the street can be very daunting," John Kao, chairman of the Institute for Large Scale Innovation and a longtime attendee, told Bloomberg News last year.
To be sure, this year's event will not lack for big names. Prime Minister David Cameron of Britain will be there, as will President Enrique Peña Nieto of Mexico. So will Jacob J. Lew, the United States Treasury secretary.
The progress they make — or try to make — may be praiseworthy. But at a time when globalization has so transformed business and economics, and at an event that bills itself as drawing the top stakeholders, it easy to understand why it is so difficult to make progress on the big issues when so many key people are not in the room.
A version of this article appears in print on 01/21/2014, on page B1 of the NewYork edition with the headline: Notable in Their Absence From Davos.
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In a unanimous decision yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that courts can no longer usurp a clear contractual delegation of arbitrability.
The Case – Henry Schein, Inc., et al. v. Archer & White Sales, Inc.
Schein involved a dispute over whether the arbitration clause in an equipment distribution contract applied to a conflict concerning federal and state antitrust law violations.
The parties' agreement indicated that any dispute arising under or related to the contract – except for actions seeking injunctive relief or over intellectual property – would be resolved by arbitration in accordance with the rules of the American Arbitration Association (AAA).
After Archer & White sued, Schein asked the trial court to refer the matter to arbitration per the contract's dispute clause. Archer & White objected, arguing the case was not subject to arbitration because it was seeking injunctive relief in addition to damages. Consequently, a secondary conflict arose between the parties over whether the antitrust suit should be subject to arbitration or be litigated in a judicial forum and who should make that determination, an arbitrator or the court.
Stein argued the contract indicated the rules of the AAA applied and under such rules arbitrators determine arbitrability while Archer & White maintained the court should make the decision because Schein's basis for arbitration was "wholly groundless." The trial court and ultimately the Fifth Circuit agreed with Archer & White.
Archer & White's argument was based on Fifth Circuit precedent that created an exception to the Federal Arbitration Act requiring arbitrators to decide arbitrability. The exception, which other Courts of Appeals have also followed, provided that even when a contract clearly delegates the question of arbitrability to an arbitrator, courts should nevertheless make this threshold determination when the argument for arbitration is "wholly groundless." Other Courts of Appeals had not carved out this exception. Thus, in order to resolve a split between the appellate courts, the Supreme Court ruled that this exception is inconsistent with the Federal Arbitration Act and when an agreement clearly delegates arbitrability to an arbitrator, courts may not override the contract.
In disputes where a contract provision for arbitration exists, the question of who determines whether the dispute is subject to arbitration is clear after Schein. It is the arbitrator if the contract has a clear delegation of such authority. As the Court points out, though, issues may nevertheless arise around whether the contract in fact delegates arbitrability, which, it says is a decision for the courts to make. Accordingly, to mitigate litigation (and therefore costs) around arbitrability, parties should carefully consider who they want deciding the threshold matter of whether the dispute is subject to arbitration and then provide for such clearly in the agreement.


A phone with Material design is the best application to make calls! This app allows you to substitute your old and boring phone. The app is made in the same style as a standard phone Android 5 (Lollipop) and even better!
With the help of this application your access to contacts, calls and groups can be convenient, fast and pleasant. All app's elements are sorted as comfortably as possible, that's why you can use it with one hand, and you do not need to reach for the screen top to make an important call.
The phone with Material design is the best app among existing analogues. You can easily edit existing contacts or create new ones, and beautiful stylish design makes app usage leasant (there are about 40 themes, both with light and dark design, built in the app).
With this app you can change the format of name displaying («First name», «Last name» or «Last name», «First name»). There is a possibility to edit screen default settings (Speed Dial; Recent; Contacts; Phone), also many extra settings, that make use of the app more convenient.
The app is a great decision for those who want to experience an unbelievable convenience of a new phone interface with Material design, but do not have a smartphone with the newest version Android Lollipop.


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            bool bExpPenalty;
            bool bExpReward;
            bool bItemLoot;
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            struct _base_fld *pItemFld;
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