On November 11 every year, China celebrates Singles Day (光棍节). It was invented in the 90's by a group of college students at Nanjing University as a day where single young people could celebrate together.
Today, it is now one of the most anticipated events for online retailers around the world thanks to Jack Ma, founder of the Alibaba Group, who transformed it into a nationwide retail phenomenon with the first Singles Day online sale in 2009. In a span of 24 hours, e-retailers offer steep discounts and low shipping rates to boost sales.
China's Singles Day is a far larger event than Black Friday and Cyber Monday in the U.S., according to Fortune. In 2015, sales from Singles Day (91.2 billion yuan) surpassed the total sales from Black Friday and Thanksgiving in the same year. This may not come as a surprise, given China's large population size, rising disposable income and booming e-commerce market.
Last year, Alibaba experienced more than 32% growth in sales, establishing a new sales record with 102 billion yuan sales at 8pm (4 hours before the event ended).
Singles Day is becoming more international and is expected to become a global event over the years. Alibaba's Singles Day countdown gala last year featured appearances from international stars such as David and Victoria Beckham, Kobe Bryant and One Republic.
In addition, several international brands have joined in the Singles Day hype to reach out to Chinese consumers, including Apple, Nike, Burberry and Zara. In fact, 27% of purchases in 2016 were made from international brands or merchants, according to Forbes. Singles Day sales are also becoming more international – customers from Singles Day last year hailed from 235 different countries.
This presents a huge opportunity for e-retailers in Singapore who can also tap in on the shopping frenzy this coming Singles Day. Some companies, such as Lazada, Zalora and Shangri-La Hotels, have already jumped onto the bandwagon by offering discounts during this period.


I read this article and found it very interesting, thought it might be something for you. The article is called Social Style: My Favorite And My Best On Instagram and is located at https://www.californiahomedesign.com/trending/2015/08/07/social-style-my-favorite-and-my-best-instagram/.
What do you do when you love acting, but you just happen to be an outstanding painter? You follow Jenny Andrews Anderson, the woman behind MFAMB :: My Favorite And My Best on Instagram. Jenny, who is not only the founder of The Whole World Theatre Company in Atlanta, is also world-class IG poster. Her paintings, both finished florals and in-progress pretties, are constantly on display for the world to see (and comment on or double tap or screenshot). Start scrolling and give your eyes a treat.
Lover of the abstract? You'll find it here. Jellyfish pieces with toung-in-cheek captions like "don't get stung?" on her feed too. We're into the pretty pansies that are currently on display. These pieces are a living room must-have.
The artsy mama-of-one shows off her darling little daughter who's just as stunning as her mother's work. And she snaps her rough and tumble pooch from time to time.
It's refreshing to peek at Jenny's world, learn her favorites, and see her bests. This world of hers is filled with fresh-faced selfies, her idea of treasure (paint, paint, and more paint), landscape photos here and there, and the pleasantries of her profession.
Go like her photos, love her account, and add her to your list of favorites.


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When Your Employees Post Passwords Online
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Storing passwords in plaintext online is never a good idea, but it's remarkable how many companies have employees who are doing just that using online collaboration tools like Trello.com. Last week, KrebsOnSecurity notified a host of companies that employees were using Trello to share passwords for sensitive internal resources. Among those put at risk by such activity included an insurance firm, a state government agency and ride-hailing service Uber.com.
By default, Trello boards for both enterprise and personal use are set to either private (requires a password to view the content) or team-visible only (approved members of the collaboration team can view).
But that doesn't stop individual Trello users from manually sharing personal boards that include proprietary employer data, information that may be indexed by search engines and available to anyone with a Web browser. And unfortunately for organizations, far too many employees are posting sensitive internal passwords and other resources on their own personal Trello boards that are left open and exposed online.
A personal Trello board created by an Uber employee included passwords that might have exposed sensitive internal company operations.
KrebsOnSecurity spent the past week using Google to discover unprotected personal Trello boards that listed employer passwords and other sensitive data. Pictured above was a personal board set up by some Uber developers in the company's Asia-Pacific region, which included passwords needed to view a host of internal Google Documents and images.
Uber spokesperson Melanie Ensign said the Trello board in question was made private shortly after being notified by this publication, among others.
"We had a handful of members in random parts of the world who didn't realize they were openly sharing this information," Ensign said. "We've reached out to these teams to remind people that these things need to happen behind internal resources. Employee awareness is an ongoing challenge, but so far we haven't found any user data on any of the exposed boards. We may have dodged a bullet here, and it definitely could have been worse."
Ensign said the initial report about the exposed board came through the company's bug bounty program, and that the person who reported it would receive at least the minimum bounty amount — $500 — for reporting the incident (Uber hasn't yet decided whether the award should be higher for this incident).
The Uber employees who created the board "used their work email to open a public board that they weren't supposed to," Ensign said. "They didn't go through our enterprise account to create that. We first found out about it through our bug bounty program, and while it's not technically a vulnerability in our products, it's certainly something that we would pay for anyway. In this case, we got multiple reports about the same thing, but we always pay the first report we get."
Of course, not every company has a bug bounty program to incentivize the discovery and private reporting of internal resources that may be inadvertently exposed online.
Screenshots that KrebsOnSecurity took of many far more shocking examples of employees posting dozens of passwords for sensitive internal resources are not pictured here because the affected parties still have not responded to alerts provided by this author.
Trello is one of many online collaboration tools made by Atlassian Corporation PLC, a technology company based in Sydney, Australia. Trello co-founder Michael Pryor said Trello boards are set to private by default and must be manually changed to public by the user.
"We strive to make sure public boards are being created intentionally and have built in safeguards to confirm the intention of a user before they make a board publicly visible," Pryor said. "Additionally, visibility settings are displayed persistently on the top of every board."
If a board is Team Visible it means any members of that team can view, join, and edit cards. If a board is Private, only members of that specific board can see it. If a board is Public, anyone with the link to the board can see it.
Interestingly, updates made to Trello's privacy policy over the past weekend may make it easier for companies to locate personal boards created by employees and pull them behind company resources.
A Trello spokesperson said the privacy changes were made to bring the company's policies in line with new EU privacy laws that come into enforcement later this month. But they also clarify that Trello's enterprise features allow the enterprise admins to control the security and permissions around a work account an employee may have created before the enterprise product was purchased.
Uber spokesperson Ensign called the changes welcome.
"As a result companies will have more security control over Trello boards created by current/former employees and contractors, so we're happy to see the change," she said.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/05/when-your-employees-post-passwords-online/
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Wyspa koralowa – wyspa będąca wynurzoną częścią rafy koralowej.

Wiele wysp koralowych należy do typu atoli z laguną w środku, ale wyspy koralowe mogą też reprezentować wynurzone fragmenty bariery koralowej, pozbawione laguny.

Ze względu na to, że rafy koralowe rozwijają się wyłącznie w morzach ciepłych, wyspy koralowe spotyka się w obszarach równikowych i podzwrotnikowych.

Do bardziej znanych wysp koralowych należą wyspy archipelagu Bahamy, a także:
 Jarvis
 Niue
 Baker
 Howland
 Kiritimati
 Pemba.

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Portfolio Archives: New vehicles
New Jinbei H2
New vehiclesBy bridge_taxi May 8, 2018
The 16-seater Jinbei H2 is built strong for business. Based 100% on tried-and-tested Toyota technology, the H2 will take you and your passengers to work and home safely and comfortably. This vehicle is a pleasure to drive and gives you great value for money with guaranteed reliable after-sales service. Some of its standard features include ABS with EBD, brake assist, central locking, a radio with USB port, power steering and front air-conditioning.
The 14-seater Jinbei H1 is known for its quality, safety, affordability and after-sales services. This 2.3l vehicle is supported by a large dealer network, which offers friendly support and reliable services. The Jinbei H1 is known for its low running costs and comes with a free service plan and a 100 000 factory warranty.
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New Foton View CS2
New vehiclesBy bridge_taxi March 21, 2014
The Foton View is a 16-seater mini-bus that is produced by Foton in China. The Foton is driven by a petrol engine, with a capacity of 2.4l. It features power steering, a radio with a USB connection, driver's airbag, and Anti-lock Beaking System (ABS) and Electronic Brake Distribution (EBD). The vehicle comes with a 2 year/200 000km warranty and has service intervals of 10 000km.
New Golden Dragon Ikhumbi
As the first Chinese-manufactured minibus-taxi to be imported into South Africa in 2006, the Golden Dragon Ikhumbi has a proven track-record in the country. This 2.2l petrol engined vehicle has an impressive array of features, including a CD player with MP3 and USB connectivity, remote controlled central locking and electric side-view mirrors with integrated LED indicator lights.
New vehiclesBy bridge_taxi March 19, 2014 Leave a comment
The Joylong minibus taxi is our luxury model vehicle. Newly imported into South Africa, this vehicle has an international track record of reliable service. The Joylong is the "next level taxi" and provides the ultimate combination of operational efficiency to the operator and comfort to passengers.


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Susanne Stephanie Kasperczyk (born 1 August 1985) is a German football defender, currently playing for Bayer Leverkusen in the Bundesliga. She has also played for Brauweiler Pulheim, SG Essen-Schönebeck and 1. FC Köln.

As an Under-19 international she played the 2002 U-19 World Championship and the 2002 and 2004 U-19 European Championships, winning the 2002 Euro.

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1985 births
Living people
German women's footballers
Women's association football forwards
People from Eschweiler
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Full Visual Inspection of CCU - interior and exterior. Load Test. NDT of critical areas. Colour coding and tagging.
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We're thrilled to announce our upcoming event in celebration of women! The Healing | Exhaling | Reflecting (H.E.R.) Hike aims to bring women together for a moment of reflection. We would like to encourage our fellow sisters to embrace the journey their on and take a moment to appreciate how far they've come. So often we focus on moving forward or on how far we have to go. This time, we want to take a moment to celebrate how far God has brought us.
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Hosted by the formidable Zandile "Zahr" Mqwathi, a drama therapist trainee, we want to get your endorphins kicking with the hike, followed by a lovely picnic and conversation about life and how far we've come.
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Should you encounter any issues with purchasing your tickets please do not hesitate to contact us.
Sonia is a young black African woman (bAw) wholly in love with Jesus Christ and trying to make a difference in this world with and for Him. She is a daughter, sister, friend, colleague, confidant, cheerleader and a Life Coach (amongst other things).


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Agenda and draft minutes
Thursday, 4th July, 2019 10.00 am
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Venue: Kaposvar Room - Guildhall, Bath. View directions
Contact: Sean O'Neill 01225 395090
EMERGENCY EVACUATION PROCEDURE
The Chair will draw attention to the emergency evacuation procedure as set out under Note 5 on the previous page.
The Democratic Services Officer advised the meeting of the procedure.
APOLOGIES FOR ABSENCE AND SUBSTITUTIONS
Apologies were received from Cllr Sue Craig, for whom Cllr Ryan Wills substituted.
At this point in the meeting declarations of interest are received from Members in any of the agenda items under consideration at the meeting. Members are asked to indicate:
(a) The agenda item number in which they have an interest to declare.
(b) The nature of their interest.
(c) Whether their interest is a disclosable pecuniary interest or an other interest, (as defined in Part 2, A and B of the Code of Conduct and Rules for Registration of Interests)
Any Member who needs to clarify any matters relating to the declaration of interests is recommended to seek advice from the Council's Monitoring Officeror a member of his staff before the meeting to expedite dealing with the item during the meeting.
TO ANNOUNCE ANY URGENT BUSINESS AGREED BY THE CHAIR
There was none.
MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING: 6 JUNE 2019 PDF 65 KB
These were approved as a correct record and signed by the Chair.
LICENSING PROCEDURE
The Chair will, if required, explain the licensing procedure.
Licensing Act Application Flow Chart , item 19. PDF 65 KB
Licensing act new or var procedure , item 19. PDF 104 KB
The Chair drew attention to the procedure to be followed for the next item of business.
APPLICATION FOR A PREMISES LICENCE FOR MUZZY KEBAB, PITCH 30 ORANGE GROVE, BATH BA1 1LP PDF 5 MB
Applicant: Mehmet Yilmaz
The applicant confirmed that he understood the procedure to be followed for the hearing.
The Senior Public Protection Officer presented the report.
The applicant stated his case. He said that he would like to extend his business opportunities by being able to offer food to people who go out in the evening. Asked by the Chair why he thought that his operation would not conflict with the licensing objectives, he said that he had been in the business for eighteen years. He had worked for four years in Bristol city centre and knew how to deal with difficult and drunk customers. Asked by a Member about cleaning the area around the pitch, he replied that he would clean the area every day after close of business. He confirmed that he would use signage on the van to encourage customers to keep noise down and be mindful of residents, and he had a very quiet generator. He was not seeking authorisation for Late Night Refreshment on Fridays and Saturdays. On these days, which he said were by far his busiest, he would trade for the hours specified in the Street Trading Licence for the pitch, which was first granted in 2002.
Following an adjournment the Sub-Committee RESOLVED to grant the application.
Decision and reasons
Members have determined an application for a new Premises Licence for Muzzy Kebab, Pitch 30, Orange Grove, Bath, BA1 1LP. In doing so, they have taken into consideration the Licensing Act 2003, Statutory Guidance, the Council's Policy, Human Rights Act 1998 and case law.
Members are aware that the proper approach under the Licensing Act is to be reluctant to regulate in the absence of evidence and must only do what is appropriate and proportionate in the promotion of the licensing objectives based on information put before them. Members noted that an application must be considered on its own merits.
The Applicant
The applicant indicated in his application that the premises licence is sought in relation to his mobile catering unit which will sell hot take away food and soft drinks. As he wishes to provide late night refreshment from 2300 to 0300 Monday to Thursday inclusive and from 2300 to 0100 on Sunday, he seeks a premises licence.
The application provided that there would be no alcohol sold from the premises, signs would be prominently displayed requesting customers refrain from making excessive noise; all packaging would be paper or card; all drinks would be sold in aluminium cans or plastic cups; a litter bin would be provided for use by customers; and the area adjacent to the unit would be regularly cleaned.
Mr Yilmaz explained to Members that he has 18 years' experience of this kind of work and has 4 years' experience of such in Bristol City Centre trading from 6pm to 6am. He explained to members that he feels able to deal with any noisy customers and that he would tidy any litter from around the pitch every day that ... view the full minutes text for item 20.


Do you value your team, do you know your team's strengths and weaknesses and do you encourage innovations and contributions?
Do you have a product or service that your customers want and at a price they can afford and is it evaluated and updated?
Do you have a process that delivers quality, encourages improvement and is consistently replicated?
Do you encourage reliable performance and maintain your best practices?
Does your business provide a memorable product, a system for telling your story and something that your customers believe-in and recommend?
Have you developed a pricing strategy and do you have proceeds to reinvest in the business, update support systems and reward your team?
Do you communicate regularly with your entire team and does your business organization operate with a sense of urgency, commitment and excitement?
I can't tell you how many times companies want to rush to the solution when they are faced with an operational challenge or sales/marketing issue.
A learned man once said that.... if he had only one hour to solve a problem he would spend the first 55 minutes framing the elements of the problem and the last 5 minutes on solving it.
The point being that having a team in place that actually understands how to examine the challenges, will frequently lessen the time and process that it takes to come up with an effective and innovative solution.
Don't wait to build that kind of business team.
A Performance Executive and Strategic Leader critical in establishing strong and sustainable bottom-line improvements within existing markets through decisive leadership, creative influence, and definitive action. Documented record of analyzing complex situations, challenges, and products; then executing innovative, competitive, and profitable results. High performance planner, team builder and organization mentor. Seasoned executive who has worked in small to medium sized companies with experience in developing turnaround programs and new stimulation campaigns.
Working with a 4-person team, established an internal market research program, collaborated with engineering on technical capabilities and limitations, drafted a comprehensive product development chart of possibilities, and identified new and critical feature sets. Refined the feature set and developed a more realistic rollout schedule, authored a new business plan, championed a more appealing break-even ROI model, increased the potential revenue stream, and identified an extended target market.
ØSlashed start-up costs by 50% and launched a new rollout path projecting more than 40% profit margins two years earlier than originally projected.
Led 6 direct reports and 30 indirect reports in researching customer attraction methods; customer loyalty programs; and existing customer service programs, establishing the organization's first-ever customer feedback study. Identified critical operational and delivery issues, major flaws, complaints, and visit patterns in the original working model. Created a major product expansion program to diversify product offerings. Re-designed the website storefront featuring more product offerings and vendor advertising. Pioneered online programs and direct call center solicitation marketing programs.
ØSaved more than 25% on rollout costs and drove measurable traffic increases by more than 500%, resulting in higher per visit purchase averages by 21%.
Collaborated with internal and external teams to develop a technology systems integration plan for the business office / ticket department and game planning and analysis and talent recruiting departments; launched a five-year plan for the selection, design, and build-out of a new Headquarters Campus; and optimized public relations and marketing efforts.
ØEstablished a new and refined Quality Control tracking system with triple the report capacity.
ØConverted the Ticket Office to real-time transactions and reporting, reducing ongoing costs by 66% and improving customer service by 500%.
ØTripled recruiting report productivity in half the time at one-third the cost.
ØCompleted the new state-of-the-art $20 million Headquarters Campus, slashing $5 million from the initial design costs.
ØPositioned the organization to capture the highest-ranked team product sales in the NFL, securing sponsorships that saved $100,000+ in business costs annually.
Partnered with a 4-person team to develop an Organizational and General Manager blueprint for rollout activities across international time zones and directed the staffing and orientation program with sensitivity to international cultures, customs, and expectations. Created financial projections, established pre-season training camps in multiple locations, and negotiated key sponsorships.
ØPlanned and launched the first-ever international league that became NFL Europe.
ØNegotiated travel sponsorship programs that generated $5 million in advertising revenues and provided significant league operational cost savings of over $3,000,000.
With a 3-person team, began the research to identify new methods for gaining visibility, joined forces with an outside PR firm to create an aggressive media campaign, and initiated the documentation of critical "above-and-beyond" performances in customer service. Expanded the existing informational website to an interactive site; negotiated a 30% reduction in production costs for creating the organization's first-ever infomercial; and negotiated with a PR firm for the timely placement of major corporate success stories.
ØCreated visibility that led to targeted business leads and a 25% increase in business in the first year.
Reached out to dissatisfied employees to build trust and identify issues. Pioneered an incentive and rewards program, rewarded high-level performers with leadership roles, created a new group division to stimulate new business, expanded specialty offerings and travel packages, and implemented a customer feedback program.
ØTurned an unprofitable first quarter into profitability, capturing a 10% growth in business in year one, a 20% increase in year two with a simultaneous 500% increase in travel package sales.
ØSlashed start-up costs by 50% and launched a new roll-out path projecting more than 40% profit margins two years earlier than originally projected.
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Key player in developing new business operations tactics. Provided strategic support to business process and new search evaluation. Led expanded review of consultative interview process before identifying executive personality traits and position requirements. 25% time savings in review process. Provided insight into overall business process analysis and enhanced business plan development.
Dallas Cowboys Football Club, Inc.
Member of the National Football League and premier professional sports and entertainment organization.
Led Internationally acclaimed organization on all business and operational fronts. Point person on daily business operations, new programs planning, sales/marketing, technology, HR, and communications. Negotiated and signed major player and business services contracts. Implemented cutting-edge technology applications saving over $250,000. Directed negotiations for over 30% annual operational savings, led the way for innovative marketing contracts worth over $100,000 annually. Developed a comprehensive program to market the brand, products, and entertainment programs to the public. Helped lead a record setting corporate newspaper in America to an all-time subscribers total of over 100,000. Revolutionized customer excellence programs with new follow-up procedures. Developed unique and professional brand which led to "America's Team" label and highest valuation of a sports franchise networth. Project manager on research, design, buildout and operation of 30 acre state-of-the-art headquarters campus.
A multifaceted travel agency with corporate, leisure, group and specialty travel departments.
Senior Executive who was brought in to stimulate agency growth and expansion. Significantly expanded the leisure, group, and specialty travel offerings. Increased new revenues by over 20% in two-year period. Brought new technology into organization to track billing and front office. Created a new business team plan and opened new business branches throughout Dallas.
National Football League subscribes for a feasibility study and launches a new spring football league of 12 Teams that operates in the US, Canada and Europe and which eventually becomes NFL Europe.
Structured critical country evaluation and city selection project , developed a new league operating plan, created marketing master, international team travel plan, communications planning, talent selection draft program, created major media 2-day league kickoff program and planned international league schedules, including TV and special events planning.
Consultative and executive placement for both specific and general business operations and offer interim solutions to a department or company.
Consultative business operations analyst for company requests to potentially replace or supplement an going busines effort or fullfill specialty project development work. Position required a thorough understanding of the current business process, identifying the existing culture, developing a list of talent skills needed, creating position goals and evaluating the team environment. Follow-up and managing of process from candidate presentation through hiring and project fulfillment.
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Civitella Alfedena is een gemeente in de Italiaanse provincie L'Aquila (regio Abruzzen) en telt 304 inwoners (31-12-2004). De oppervlakte bedraagt 29,5 km², de bevolkingsdichtheid is 10 inwoners per km².

Demografie
Civitella Alfedena telt ongeveer 145 huishoudens. Het aantal inwoners daalde in de periode 1991-2001 met 6,4% volgens cijfers uit de tienjaarlijkse volkstellingen van ISTAT.

Geografie
Civitella Alfedena grenst aan de volgende gemeenten: Barrea, Opi, Scanno, Settefrati (FR), Villetta Barrea.

Gemeente in L'Aquila


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Q: EntityManager returns NullPointerException when persisting When I persist a "Joueur" (cf my class below), I get a NullPointerException, but I don't know why
em.persist(new Joueur("pseudo", "mdp", "mail"));

This is my class "Joueur" :
@Entity
@NamedQueries({
@NamedQuery(name = "trouverParMail", query = "SELECT * FROM Joueur j WHERE j.mail = :mail")})
public class Joueur implements Serializable {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

private String pseudo;
private String mdp;
private String mail;
private Integer nbParties;
private Integer nbPartiesGagnees;

public Joueur() {
}

public Joueur(String pseudo, String mdp, String mail)
{
    this.pseudo = pseudo;
    this.mdp = mdp;
    this.mail = mail;

    this.nbParties = 0;
    this.nbPartiesGagnees = 0;
}

@Id
public String getPseudo()
{
    return pseudo;
}

public String getMdp()
{
    return mdp;
}

public String getMail()
{
    return mail;
}

public Integer getNbParties()
{
    return nbParties;
}

public Integer getNbPartieGagnees()
{
    return nbPartiesGagnees;
}

public void setPseudo(String pseudo) {
    this.pseudo = pseudo;
}

public void setMdp(String mdp) {
    this.mdp = mdp;
}

public void setMail(String mail) {
    this.mail = mail;
}

public void setNbParties(Integer nbParties)
{
    this.nbParties = nbParties;
}

public void setNbPartiesGagnees(Integer nbPartiesGagnees)
{
    this.nbPartiesGagnees = nbPartiesGagnees;
}

}
and the error stack :
java.lang.NullPointerException
at login.LoginBean.inscription(LoginBean.java:46)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.glassfish.ejb.security.application.EJBSecurityManager.runMethod(EJBSecurityManager.java:1052)
at org.glassfish.ejb.security.application.EJBSecurityManager.invoke(EJBSecurityManager.java:1124)
at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.invokeBeanMethod(BaseContainer.java:5388)
at com.sun.ejb.EjbInvocation.invokeBeanMethod(EjbInvocation.java:619)
at com.sun.ejb.containers.interceptors.AroundInvokeChainImpl.invokeNext(InterceptorManager.java:800)
at com.sun.ejb.EjbInvocation.proceed(EjbInvocation.java:571)
at com.sun.ejb.containers.interceptors.SystemInterceptorProxy.doAround(SystemInterceptorProxy.java:162)
at com.sun.ejb.containers.interceptors.SystemInterceptorProxy.aroundInvoke(SystemInterceptorProxy.java:144)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at com.sun.ejb.containers.interceptors.AroundInvokeInterceptor.intercept(InterceptorManager.java:861)
at com.sun.ejb.containers.interceptors.AroundInvokeChainImpl.invokeNext(InterceptorManager.java:800)
at com.sun.ejb.containers.interceptors.InterceptorManager.intercept(InterceptorManager.java:370)
at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.__intercept(BaseContainer.java:5360)
at com.sun.ejb.containers.BaseContainer.intercept(BaseContainer.java:5348)
at com.sun.ejb.containers.EJBObjectInvocationHandler.invoke(EJBObjectInvocationHandler.java:206)
at com.sun.ejb.containers.EJBObjectInvocationHandlerDelegate.invoke(EJBObjectInvocationHandlerDelegate.java:79)
at $Proxy255.inscription(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.presentation.rmi.StubInvocationHandlerImpl.privateInvoke(StubInvocationHandlerImpl.java:241)
at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.presentation.rmi.StubInvocationHandlerImpl.invoke(StubInvocationHandlerImpl.java:152)
at com.sun.corba.ee.impl.presentation.rmi.codegen.CodegenStubBase.invoke(CodegenStubBase.java:227)
at login.__LoginRemote_Remote_DynamicStub.inscription(login/__LoginRemote_Remote_DynamicStub.java)
at login._LoginRemote_Wrapper.inscription(login/_LoginRemote_Wrapper.java)
at org.apache.jsp.inscription_jsp._jspService(inscription_jsp.java from :95)
at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:111)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:770)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:403)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:473)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:377)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:770)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.service(StandardWrapper.java:1542)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:281)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:175)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.doInvoke(StandardPipeline.java:655)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:595)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:161)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.doService(CoyoteAdapter.java:331)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:231)
at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper$AdapterCallable.call(ContainerMapper.java:317)
at com.sun.enterprise.v3.services.impl.ContainerMapper.service(ContainerMapper.java:195)
at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.invokeAdapter(ProcessorTask.java:849)
at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.doProcess(ProcessorTask.java:746)
at com.sun.grizzly.http.ProcessorTask.process(ProcessorTask.java:1045)
at com.sun.grizzly.http.DefaultProtocolFilter.execute(DefaultProtocolFilter.java:228)
at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.executeProtocolFilter(DefaultProtocolChain.java:137)
at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.execute(DefaultProtocolChain.java:104)
at com.sun.grizzly.DefaultProtocolChain.execute(DefaultProtocolChain.java:90)
at com.sun.grizzly.http.HttpProtocolChain.execute(HttpProtocolChain.java:79)
at com.sun.grizzly.ProtocolChainContextTask.doCall(ProtocolChainContextTask.java:54)
at com.sun.grizzly.SelectionKeyContextTask.call(SelectionKeyContextTask.java:59)
at com.sun.grizzly.ContextTask.run(ContextTask.java:71)
at com.sun.grizzly.util.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.doWork(AbstractThreadPool.java:532)
at com.sun.grizzly.util.AbstractThreadPool$Worker.run(AbstractThreadPool.java:513)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:680)

Do you know where is the error ? Tkx

A: According description you gave, origin of NullPointerException is in this line:
em.persist(new Joueur("pseudo", "mdp", "mail"));

Only possible cause is that em is null. Likely reason for it being null is that LoginBean failed to inject EntityManager. If so, maybe LoginBean is not container managed component? Maybe you forgot @Stateless annotation?
If this didn't answered to your question, you have to share more details:

*

*How do you obtain reference to entity manager?

*Does it work in some other class?

*How does code for LoginBean look like?

A: This is an Architectural problem with your Application.
Check the Log-Files.

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Topic: Failure - "Awesome 80s Music Video Collection Vol.2"
Re: Failure - "Awesome 80s Music Video Collection Vol.2"
I second for the feature to split by chapter when extracting to MKV. This is the one of the most useful features when I copy music DVDs and TV series DVDs. At the moment I do this manually and it is extremely tedious.
I downloaded and tried the latest version of MakeMKV (1.7.0) on this problematic DVD, but it still fails right at the end. I've attached the necessary debug files.
Thanks, that is good to hear. Any indication of when the next update will be released?
Failure - "Awesome 80s Music Video Collection Vol.2"


Fairyhouse Racecourse is one of the premier National Hunt tracks in Ireland. Located 23km north of Dublin in County Meath, the first recorded race meeting took place there in 1848. Nowadays, it hosts 20 meetings over the course of the year, with both Flat and National Hunt racing taking place there.
The highlight of the Fairyhouse calendar is the three-day Easter Festival, with the main event unquestionably being the Irish Grand National. First run in 1870, arguably the most memorable winner of it in recent decades was the legendary Desert Orchid, who carried top weight to victory in the 1990 renewal of the race.
Mind, a Fairyhouse card that is beginning to rival the Easter Festival in terms of prestige is the Hatton's Grace Hurdle meeting which takes place in December. It host three Grade 1 races and has proven to be one of the highest-class days of pre-Christmas National Hunt racing anywhere in Ireland and Great Britain.
The sole Group race on the Flat at Fairyhouse is the Group 3 Brownstown Stakes in July and it has been won by future Group 1 winners such as Emulous and Fiesolana in recent years.
A wide, galloping and square-shaped course that is a mile and six furlongs in length and right-handed. The straight is three furlongs long and is slightly uphill.
Fairyhouse is quite a level track that while it is fair in the main, it generally suits horses that have to pace to race prominently. The draw isn't something I ever found myself getting too worked up about at Fairyhouse. Mind, over the shorter trips, a low draw can be a real problem for a hold-up horse, as they race quite right to the rail in the straight and hard-luck stories are never too far away.
A wide, galloping, square right-handed track, a mile and three quarters in extent. There is a steady climb on the side away from the stands before a steady descent in the back straight. The three-furlong home straight is slightly uphill but the track is not a testing one and favours no particular type of horse. There are eleven fences to a circuit, and a run-in of around a furlong.
A lovely big galloping track. There are rarely any hard-luck stories at Fairyhouse, you can come from any position and it's an easy enough track to ride. The fences there are some of the stiffest around and wouldn't be very forgiving to a chancy novice.


The BlueHour Do-It-Yourself blog series features handy and simple tips for photographers of all ability levels about getting the most out of your equipment.
So, you're improving as a photographer, maybe having graduated from the entry level D-SLR with one or two kit lenses that somebody told you was a good deal, and you've reached a point where your gear is getting good enough to let you grow as an artist and a hobbyist. You've got the right camera, enough lenses to keep you busy wherever you go, and you've even proven to yourself that a sturdy ball head tripod was a worthwhile investment. And perhaps you've even gotten a little bored with the basics, and are looking to "spice up" your relationship with your camera a little bit. So where do you go from here?
Here are my 5 favorite simple things that any improving photographer should consider adding to their kit. This is really less of a DIY and more of a BIY (Buy-it-Yourself) - because the one thing we photographers love almost as much as taking pictures is buying stuff!
If you've been trying to make your landscape images with flowing water look more artistic, then you might want to start experimenting with longer exposure times. Taking pictures of waterfalls or crashing ocean waves with shutter speeds over half a second will give you that "wispy" or "silky" or "cotton candy" (feel free to insert any modifier that conveys a soft, fluffy texture) look that is commonly seen in fine art natural landscape images. Your knowledge of the exposure triangle tells you that the way to force a longer shutter speed is to use a small aperture (high f-stop number) and a low ISO. Working in dim light conditions helps make shutter speeds slower, but sometimes the ambient light level is still just too high, and your shutter speed can't get long enough to give you the wispiness you want.
Enter the Filter. A neutral density, or ND, filter is like putting a pair of sunglasses on your lens - it screws onto the front threads of your lens and reduces the amount of light that enters your camera. Reducing incoming light has the same effect as shooting in dimmer conditions: shutter speeds are longer by necessity. ND filters can be purchased in different levels of density (in which case you should really own several different ones), or as a variable ND filter which allows you to choose the level of density.
A shot like this is made possible by reducing incoming light enough to give a sufficiently long shutter speed for softening the motion of water - usually half a second to 5 seconds is about right.
A variable ND filter is a special type of neutral density filter that lets you choose how much density, or darkness, you want by simply twisting the ring. Just make sure you choose one that matches the size of your lens' filter thread.
When you're attempting these long exposure images, you should be aware that your camera needs to remain perfectly still and stable, or else your image will be blurry. That's right, not "silky," not "wispy." Just blurry. The only thing that should be moving is the water. So, in addition to that stable tripod you invested in, the next most important thing to maintaining stability is to take a shot without touching the camera at all (which would introduce camera shake). A remote shutter release allows you to do just that. And while shutter releases are available in both wired and wireless models, I would say that in 2018, wireless is still not to be trusted. It's great when it works, but then when it inexplicably stops working, as all wireless connections do, you'll be cursing yourself when your shots are lagging or worse, not firing at all. Get a trustworthy wired remote control.
When timing is critical and you need to quickly and smoothly trigger a shot without jolting your camera, only a cable shutter release can get the job done.
Wired remote releases come in varying levels of complexity. Mine, shown here, comes with a built-in timer, but a simpler one would look like this. Just make sure you get the correct release for your model of camera.
This type of bracket, rightfully shaped like the letter "L," mounts to the bottom of your camera where your tripod socket is, and adds a quick release plate to both the bottom and left side of your camera (as you look at it from the back). What this means is that you can switch between taking pictures in the horizontal (landscape) orientation to the vertical (portrait) orientation while maintaining the same composition and without having to adjust your tripod head. You'd simply unclamp your camera from the horizontal position and re-clamp it in the vertical position. This way, all the hard work you did in leveling and composing your horizontal shot is preserved in the vertical shot, saving you time and annoyance. The caveat to using L-brackets is that they aren't compatible with all tripod clamps - only the Arca Swiss type, which are easy to find.
A typical L-bracket is nothing fancy, but it makes your life a lot easier if you like to switch back and forth between shooting horizontal and vertical images. Every camera's body is different, and thus the bracket must be purchased specifically for your camera model.
Check out the benefits of an L- bracket.
Used in the horizontal position (1), the bracket behaves like an ordinary tripod plate.
Turned on its end (2), the bracket gives you the ability to take vertical (portrait) images while maintaining the same composition, without having to adjust.
Non-bracket users have to make vertical images using the tripod head's vertical feature (3), which shifts the composition down and to the right, and requires re-leveling the camera.
Have you ever tried to take pictures of the sunset and found that it was almost impossible to get a shot that looks like what you see with your naked eye? Either the sky looked great, and the foreground was completely dark, or the ground looked fine and the sky was completely blown out. This is a result of your camera's inability to deal with high contrast situations. It'll be awhile before a consumer camera can handle extreme brights and darks in the same scene as well as our own eyes can - so until then, we need to either edit our sunset photos in Photoshop to make them look like what we saw, or we need to control the contrast using a graduated neutral density filter.
This is different from a regular neural density filter in that the graduated filter, or grad, is darkened only at the top, and gently fades to clear towards the middle. It is square, so you will not screw it onto your lens, but instead are free to position it as you wish, holding it in front of your lens with either your hand, or a dedicated filter holder apparatus. You would look through the viewfinder while positioning the darkest part of the filter over the brightest part of the scene (usually the bright sky where the sun is setting). This reduces the overall contrast of the scene as your camera sees it, creating an exposure that is easier for it to handle.
A typical graduated ND filter is darkest on the top, and gets clearer towards the middle. This helps to darken the brightest part of your contrasty image, which is usually the sky, and creates a more gentle image for your camera to digest. Grads are available in a variety of different sizes, densities, and levels of gradation.
People have wondered how I could have made this shot in a single capture, while preserving detail in both the bright sky and the dark foreground. A graduated ND filter reduced the brightness of the sky creating a less "extreme" image that is easier for the camera to handle.
Video features are included in literally every digital camera manufactured today, from entry level to professional, so it would be a shame not to at least dabble in video. Even if you don't have the intention or skills to crank out broadcast-quality footage, you can still have fun creating little clips that you can share on social media or compile into a three-minute film of your vacation.
Time to eat my words (just a little). As much as I've been harping on you to get a ball tripod head for your landscape photography, this type of head is actually terrible for video if you want to make any smooth, graceful movements with your camera like pans and tilts. Try it, and you'll see it what I mean. The footage will be so rocky you'll want to vomit. Ball heads excel at quickly being loosened and tightened into any position - not at transitioning smoothly between positions. For that, you need a video head. This looks a lot more like the tilt-swivel heads that crown the cheap-o camcorder tripods sitting in our parents' basements, but they are much better built and have a fluid capsule inside to create resistance, which is what allows you to perform those gradual, sweeping motions that are necessary for great video.
A smooth, consistent motion from bottom to top or side to side would be impossible without a special tripod head designed just for this purpose.
A tripod head made just for video looks like a higher quality version of the bad tripod head I told you to throw away. But this one has a fluid capsule inside to dampen movements and allow for smooth pans and tilts.
Feel free to comment or write us at info@bluehourboston.com if you have any questions or would like further recommendations.


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VoIP phone systems are rapidly replacing packet-switched telephone network (PSTN) phone systems due to their significant cost savings and flexibility. PhoneBlade is made specifically for connecting VoIP phone systems directly into the WheatNet-IP audio network without telephone hybrids or other interfaces.
PhoneBlade includes all the major VoIP phone codecs, including G.711, G.722, G.729 and many others for high-quality voice contributions on multiple platforms.


When one of my best friends from college invited me to join a local health club, my first thought was that I'm just too busy and don't have the time. But then I quickly discovered that getting into a 'fitness" routine actually creates more productive time in the day by giving me that extra boost of energy and motivation. There's also more of an incentive now to watch calories and eat healthier foods. On top of that, I'm continually making lots of new, like-minded friends.
Now, with two young daughters, I realize that I have become somewhat of a role-model in their lives. The recommended recipes, activities, exercises, questions and answers on this blog are based on my own personal experiences, and those of my friends, supplemented with the expert knowledge and advice that we continue to find from numerous professionals in this field. The number of helpful tips and techniques to stay fit and healthy is expanding every day, so this blog is dedicated to everyone who is eager to learn more about staying healthy, happy and productive in their daily lives.
Please leave your comments and share this blog with friends. Any suggestions you may have for expanding and improving this blog are, of course, welcome and greatly appreciated!


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From the Ground Up may refer to:
From the Ground Up (Shady Bard album)
From the Ground Up (Antigone Rising album)
From the Ground Up (Collective Soul EP)
From the Ground Up (The Roots EP)
From the Ground Up with Debbie Travis, a Canadian television series
"From the Ground Up" (song), a song by Dan + Shay
From the Ground Up, a song by Sleeping At Last
 From the Ground Up (film) 1921 American film directed by E. Mason Hopper


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Collaborators at the National Theatre "It's man versus monster Mikhail..."
John Hodge's new play "Collaborators" is currently running in the Cottesloe at London's National Theatre. It is very difficult to get a ticket but I finally managed it earlier this week and am very glad that I persevered.
The play shows the once officially "banned" writer Mikhail Bulgakov struggle with a request that he write a play about Stalin's younger days to mark the dictator's 60th birthday. Bulgakov, played by Alex Jennings, is plagued by nightmares about being chased by Stalin - demonstrated in an extremely funny and almost slapstick opening where the dream is played out, and expects a knock at the door in the middle of the night as did many writers and artists during this time. When the knock eventually comes and the NKVD (secret police) agent arrives, it is to inform him he will be writing the play for Stalin's birthday rather than to incarcerate him in Lubyanka.
We see Bulgakov's initial resistance to the task, refusing to co-operate with a regime he opposes. Early scenes show him as a principled liberal, devastated by the banning of his play "Moliere" which shows the great French writer dying as a result of "the King's displeasure" - a clear reference to state censorship and persecution of those who oppose the regime. And it is his desire to see his works produced that eventually proves his undoing. Offered the opportunity to be "unbanned" in return for writing a tributary play to the young Stalin, he agrees to co-operate, but finds that he can't write anything. Stalin offers him a compromise, that he himself will write the play in Bulgakov's name if Bulgakov agrees to deal with Stalin's "paperwork" and sign "JS" against instructions against the Five Year Plan and production of steel, coal and other goods.
As the play develops, we see Bulgakov showered with luxuries unavailable to the vast majority of Soviet citizens - real coffee, good food, his dress improves and he suddenly has access to good health care in contrast to the early scenes where he is told he will die from his condition, that there is no cure and that he will die soon.
Bulgakov is drawn in, co-operates, finds it amusing at first but when things eventually turn nasty, with the round-up of former Soviet heroes such as Kamenev and Bukharin, he starts to worry. Interestingly, Stalin refers to Kamenev as "Rozenfeld" during their discussions - the second time in a week that I have come across this particular case of Soviet anti-semitism (see here). He thinks he can prevent the descending reign of terror by suggesting "further enquiries" rather than allowing trials to go ahead but to his horror this leads to mass arrests, deportations and worse - including the disappearance of his erstwhile liberal and petty bourgeois lodgers.
Bulgakov's former admirers slip away as they hear him parroting the phrases of the NKVD and of Stalin, explaining away the early excesses referred to in the play in return for having his own works performed. Bulgakov's co-operation and developing closeness with Stalin replays the Faustian story of making a pact with the devil, and like Faust it ends badly, with Bulgakov realising his errors too late and then dying anyway due to the illness referred to at the beginning of the play.
Simon Russell Beale excelled in the role of Stalin, combining understated humour with an almost unspoken menace that turns to physical violence at the end of the evening. Early on, he plays the character as a simple, Georgian, still making references to his religious training, speaking romantically of his early days as an agitator in the Caucasus, but slowly revealing his true character and his evil genius. The arch manipulator, he flatters Bulgakov "I am your number one fan", playing on the writer's vanity and eventually flooring him physically but more devastatingly with the speech "Killing my enemies is easy. The challenge is to change the way they think, to control their minds. And I think I controlled yours pretty well. In years to come, I'll be able to say: Bulgakov? Yeah we even trained him. He gave up. He saw the light. We broke him, we can break anybody. It's man versus monster Mikhail. And the monster always wins..."
Mark Addy in the role of Vladimir, the NKVD man was also magnificent. Bullying and cajoling, getting the job done, demonstrating alternately his worldliness and his insecurity and inferiority complex in relation to the intellectuals, he came over for me, strangely, as perhaps the most human character in the play. Strange because he was clearly brutal, ambitious and greedy but human in that his buying into the regime was more honest than that of Bulgakov. The lesser educated man thoroughly understood the rules and consequences of Soviet life and how to play them much better than the famous writer.
In real life, Bulgakov did write a play about Stalin and had a difficult and volatile relationship with the Soviet regime. Graduating as a doctor in Kiev in 1916, he quickly gave up medicine to concentrate on writing, but many of his works were banned with some not being published until decades after his death. By 1930, he had become so frustrated that he took the daring step of writing to Stalin asking to be allowed to emigrate. Stalin telephoned him personally and offered to arrange a job for him at the Moscow Arts Theatre instead. He worked theatre with theatrical giant Stanislavsky, with whom he also had a volatile relationship, produced several plays and his acknowledged masterpiece, the novel "The Master and Margarita". This did not make its first appearance until 1966 due to the persistence of his widow, Elena, although even then only parts of it were published, eventually surfacing in a complete version in 1973.
He contracted a fatal illness in 1939 and died in 1940.
I have to confess to only having read one Bulgakov novel - "Black Snow", and that quite recently. Despite being a bit of a Russophile, at least culturally, I have mixed feelings about Russian novels. Apart from the fact that many are scattered with casual (or not so casual) anti-semitism, lots of them are, well..long. I have reached the age where an 800 pager can seem very daunting. I still have lots of books I want to read. Time is precious.
Black Snow isn't terribly long, but it is interesting. It is a thinly disguised attack on Stanislavsky and some of the other leading lights of the Moscow Art Theatre where Bulgakov worked during the 1930's. The book begins with an attempt at suicide and ends with the revelation that the narrator is already dead having made a further, successful attempt at ending it all.
This relatively short and often amusing novel, which is unfinished, was written at the very end of his life in the late 1930's, just 20 years or so after the establishment of the Soviet Union and in much the same way as "Collaborators" does, it shows that despite the alleged worker's paradise there was still a very clear class structure in Russian society, based on patronage and co-operating with the regime.
"Collaborators" is set to transfer to the larger Olivier Theatre at the National on April 30th and several performances are already sold out.
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Government body: Electrical Development Division. State Electricity Commission of Victoria
Year Of Publication/Manufacture: undated c 1940
Publisher/Manufacturer: State Electricity Commission of Victoria
Description Of Item: Illustrated paper wrappers, centre stapled, 20 pages. Two sections Part 1 Light and Vision, Part 2 Electricity on the farm
Historical Significance: The booklet was produced by the goverment owned State Electricity Commission of Victoria for promotional purposes. It was aimed for children aged 12 to 16 years as the second lesson on the subject of electricity and as preparation for the Commission's senior programme of visual education. The first 11 pages, Part 1, deal with the function of the eye, factors in seeing (size, brightness, contrast, time), why people lose good eyesight, how we see objects and colours, principles of lighting, types of lighting and examples of good and bad lighting. The sections on lighting are surprisingly sophisticated. It may be derivative of a similar booklet (Seeing: a guide to the best use and care of the eyes. (Cat No 1448)
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WordPress 5.1 will feature a new parameter for register_taxonomy(), 'meta_box_sanitize_cb', which increases flexibility when using core UI for custom taxonomies.
Custom taxonomies can specify which metabox UI they'd like to use in the Classic Editor by providing a meta_box_cb parameter when registering their taxonomies. This meant, for example, that a hierarchical taxonomy can choose to use the post_tags_meta_box() UI instead of post_categories_meta_box(), which is the default. Prior to 5.1, this customization wasn't fully functional; while the UI could be swapped out in this way, the data submitted when saving posts was always processed according to whether the taxonomy was registered as hierarchical. This led to scenarios where custom taxonomy values weren't properly parsed when saving a post.
The POST controller logic that was previously hardcoded in edit_post() has been abstracted into the new taxonomy_meta_box_sanitize_cb_checkboxes()and taxonomy_meta_box_sanitize_cb_input()functions.
WP will try to select an appropriate _sanitize_ callback based on the meta_box_cbassociated with the taxonomy. This will fix the underlying bug for existing taxonomies.
Developers who need more control over the processing of their metabox data can provide a custom meta_box_sanitize_cb when registering their taxonomies.
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In WordPress 5.1, the new human_readable_duration function will be introduced. This function accepts a duration in hours, minutes and seconds and returns a "human readable" string appropriate for screen readers.
The function takes a string representing a time duration, with hours, minutes and seconds separated by a : (colon). For example, calling human_readable_duration( '3:10' ); will return 3 minutes, 10 seconds. Minutes and seconds are required. For 10 seconds, the call would be human_readable_duration( '0:10' );.
Improved time duration accessibility in the media library using the human_readable_duration() function.
Update (2019-03-04): The fatal error protection mechanism explained here has been pulled out of the 5.1 release as it had several flaws critical enough to postpone the feature. A new path to address the issues is underway via #46130 and is intended to be released as part of WordPress 5.2.
Update (2019-01-21): A few critical naming changes have been made regarding the fatal error protection since the post was originally published. Most importantly, the drop-in to override the new shutdown handler is now called fatal-error-handler.php, and the class to override is called WP_Fatal_Error_Handler. Furthermore, a new WP_DISABLE_FATAL_ERROR_HANDLER constant allows entirely disabling the feature via wp-config.php. The rest of the post is also updated to use these new terms, however you might need to update your code if you built anything based on the previous information. For a history of what exactly has changed since the original post date, please refer to the umbrella ticket #44458.
WordPress 5.1 will start showing notices to administrators of sites that run on long outdated PHP versions. This part of the Servehappy and more globally Site Health projects paves the way to a more secure and performant web and, more specifically to WordPress, to a bump of the minimum required PHP version.
The current threshold for which PHP versions to display the notice will be anything below 5.6. While the lowest PHP version still receiving security updates is currently 7.1, the idea is to not go all the way there at the beginning to limit the support load. PHP 5.6 is the intended version to bump WordPress requirements to, and from then the threshold for the PHP notice will increase granularly, with the goal to over time catch up with the actual PHP version progress. The threshold is managed via a new Servehappy API endpoint on wordpress.org, so the version numbers can be modified independently of a WordPress release.
For further background information on these changes, please refer to the respective tickets #41191 and #45686.
To help the process of recovering errors that result from updating the PHP version, a mechanism has been implemented to detect fatal errors and, in certain designated areas of WordPress, recover from them. While updating PHP is mostly fairly straightforward and popular plugins and themes are typically maintained well, not necessarily all extensions are compatible with the latest PHP versions yet. So unfortunately there might be cases where a plugin or theme causes the WordPress site to no longer be accessible after the PHP update by causing a fatal error.
With the so-called WSOD protection (white-screen-of-death protection), WordPress will recognize when a fatal error occurs and which plugin or theme is causing it. When accessing the admin backend, the respective extension will be paused, allowing users to still log in to their site so that they can (at least temporarily) fix the problem. Once the extension is known to be fixed, it can be resumed from the backend. While this does not necessarily make updating PHP easier, it lowers the burden of possibly running into the case where you are completely locked out of your site when you do not have access to the codebase.
Extensions are only paused in the admin backend and a few other areas while for example the frontend stays unaffected, and thus broken. Since it is impossible to predict which functionality the broken extension is responsible for, it would be dangerous to have it disabled in the frontend. It is more clear to a user accessing the site to see a message that it is currently not accessible rather than, without notice, no longer having access to a certain part of the key functionality. In the frontend, a message that the site is currently inaccessible will be displayed via a regular wp_die() call, with a link to the admin backend. Sites that would like to modify this output can use a new php-error.php drop-in that should send the necessary HTTP header as well as the output.
For sites that prefer to alter this behavior or sites that would like to omit the WSOD protection altogether, it is possible to add a new drop-in file fatal-error-handler.php. That file should declare a custom shutdown handler class for treating fatal errors that extends the default WP_Fatal_Error_Handler, and then return the instance of it to use. The default class's functionality is split into distinct methods so that it is easy to reuse and override as granularly as necessary in a child class. The functionality can also be disabled entirely if that is preferred, via a new constant WP_DISABLE_FATAL_ERROR_HANDLER or, more dynamically, a corresponding wp_fatal_error_handler_enabled filter.
For further background information on these changes, please refer to #44458.
When browsing plugins to install, WordPress 5.1 will display a warning for those plugins that require a higher PHP version than the one currently active. While that screen previously already included such information about WordPress version compatibility, it now does the same for PHP. Furthermore, for both of these potential issues, WordPress will now enforce these requirements, disabling the button to install such plugins.
This is only a first step in enforcing version requirements of plugins and themes. In a future WordPress version, these restrictions will expand also to updating or activating plugins and eventually cover themes as well.
For further background information on these changes, please refer to #43986.
In WordPress 5.1 the admin table pagination links have had their CSS styling modified.
This CSS change improves the color contrast ratio for better accessibility and improves consistency across the admin screens. The pagination links are now styled like the standard WordPress buttons. By default, they have a lighter background color. The background color will no longer change to blue on hover and focus.
Plugins and themes should not be affected by this change unless they are re-using the .tablenav and .tablenav-pages CSS classes. All plugin and theme developers should verify that this change does not affect them.
Edit: On January 14, 2019, the Good and Bad Practices section was added to show both correct and incorrect code examples.
Starting in WordPress 5.1, if register_rest_route() is not called on the rest_api_init action hook, a "doing it wrong" notice will be triggered. This notice is being added in an effort to encourage best practices when registering REST API endpoints.
First, let's look at what happens when WordPress loads to set up the REST API and explore a few reasons why this pattern is beneficial.
WordPress does its best to ensure that the REST API is only loaded when a REST request is being performed. To do this, the rest_api_loaded() function is run on the parse_request action and checks for a value in the rest_route query argument. This argument is populated with a value when the Rewrite API matches a WordPress REST API URL. When a value is present, the rest_get_server() function is called to instantiate the WP_REST_Server class, store it for use across WordPress, and to run the rest_api_init action hook.
When register_rest_route() is called, it invokes rest_get_server() to retrieve the global WP_REST_Server instance created in the bootstrap process. But, if the instance has not been set up yet, it is instantiated then and the rest_api_init action hook is run. This means that every function added to the rest_api_init hook will fire at that time. This could result in a large performance hit.
For example, say register_rest_route() is called on the init action, or, just called in a theme's functions.php file. The REST API server would be set up for every WordPress request, even those that are not actually aimed at the REST API.
If register_rest_route() is called too early, it's also possible that endpoints will go missing and never be registered. This happens when other plugins are not given the chance to register their rest_api_init hooks.
For example, say register_rest_route() is called directly in an mu-plugin file. This will cause the REST API to be set up before regular plugins are run, so their rest_api_init hooks will not be registered.
Let's look at a few code examples and detail why they are good or bad.
In this example, register_rest_route() is called directly in a file without being attached to an action hook. This means the function will be called as soon as the file is loaded by WordPress. All of the potential issues detailed above are possible, and a _doing_it_wrong() notice will be triggered.
In this example, register_rest_route() is correctly placed inside of a function that is added to the rest_api_init action hook. It will only execute when the rest_api_init action hook is executed. The potential issues detailed above are avoided, and no _doing_it_wrong() notice is triggered.
All plugins and themes should double check that their REST API endpoints are being registered correctly using the rest_api_init action hook. This best practice is also mentioned in the Routes and Endpoints section of the REST API Handbook. If this was a resource used when developing, chances are you won't have to change anything!
Because some unit tests require custom endpoints to exist, it is not uncommon for a test method to call register_rest_route() directly. If a test method calls the function before rest_api_init, a previously passing test method may now fail. This can be fixed in two ways.
The first way is to use rest_get_server() to create the WP_Rest_Server instance for your tests. Since rest_api_init is run within that function, this will prevent the notice. This approach can be seen in the Tests_REST_Server class. The wp_rest_server_class filter still allows you to replace the default WP_Rest_Server class with your own for testing purposes with this method.
The second way is to call do_action( 'rest_api_init' ); directly in your test method or setUp() method. This method is for scenarios where complete control is needed over the REST server setup process. This can approach can be seen in the Tests_REST_API class.
You can read more information about this change in the ticket on Trac.


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