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/* This script is designed to be called from a HTML form.
 * It expects $user, $password, $table, $where, and $commitsize
 * to be passed in from the form.  The script then deletes
 * the selected rows using the ROWID and commits after each
 * set of $commitsize rows. (Use with care, there is no rollback)
 */
$conn = oci_connect($user, $password);
$stmt = oci_parse($conn, "select rowid from $table $where");
$rowid = oci_new_descriptor($conn, OCI_D_ROWID);
oci_define_by_name($stmt, "ROWID", $rowid);
oci_execute($stmt);
while (oci_fetch($stmt)) {
    $nrows = oci_num_rows($stmt);
    $delete = oci_parse($conn, "delete from $table where ROWID = :rid");
    oci_bind_by_name($delete, ":rid", $rowid, -1, OCI_B_ROWID);
    oci_execute($delete);
    echo "$nrows\n";
    if (($nrows % $commitsize) == 0) {
        oci_commit($conn);
    }
}
$nrows = oci_num_rows($stmt);
echo "$nrows deleted...\n";
oci_free_statement($stmt);
oci_close($conn);
?>
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     * ...
     */
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<?php
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     }
     $lob->free();
     oci_free_statement($stmt);
     oci_close($conn);
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?>
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/* Calling PL/SQL stored procedures which contain clobs as input
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 *
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 *   KEY                            NUMBER(38)              IN
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$conn = oci_connect($user, $password);
$stmt = oci_parse($conn, "begin save_data(:key, :data); end;");
$clob = oci_new_descriptor($conn, OCI_D_LOB);
oci_bind_by_name($stmt, ':key', $key);
oci_bind_by_name($stmt, ':data', $clob, -1, OCI_B_CLOB);
$clob->write($data);
oci_execute($stmt, OCI_DEFAULT);
oci_commit($conn);
$clob->free();
oci_free_statement($stmt);
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Pictures From A Revolution: Susan Meiselas
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Gianvito and Meiselas
The second installment of this season's Flaherty NYC series, Systems and Layers focused on the work of Susan Meiselas and her 1991 documentary film, Pictures From A Revolution. While embedded as a photojournalist in the Nicaraguan insurrection during the late 1970s, Meiselas captured thousands of images as violence and political unrest escalated throughout the region. Her photographs earned tremendous recognition for providing journalistic coverage of a conflict otherwise invisible to foreign press, and became important visual aids for The New York Times and London Times. Ten years after these powerful photographs traveled across the globe in her book Nicaragua, June 1978 to July 1979, Meiselas returned to Nicaragua in search of the personal stories behind the images. In Pictures From A Revolution, Meiselas is joined by Alfred Guzzetti and Richard Rogers as she retraces her steps through history in attempts to illuminate the personal contexts beneath this visual storytelling. The film was screened on 16mm film, courtesy of Harvard Film Archive.
Following the screening, Meiselas was present for a discussion moderated by filmmaker, curator and critic, John Gianvito (2003 Flaherty Seminar Programmer and Former Board Trustee). During the discussion, Gianvito alluded to some particularly scathing criticism of her 2008 exhibition at The International Center For Photography: Susan Meiselas: In History, where New York Times art critic Ken Johnson accuses Pictures From A Revolution of seeming "at once admirable and self-serving." Gianvito cites this as a complete misreading, remarking that Meiselas' narrative presence bestows dignity to both sides of the conflict as she guides us through the film. In response, Meiselas reflected on the role that she played in the film as a conduit, or bridge between the photographs, the film, and the elapsed time between them. Her subjective memories of the events she photographed served as a critical tool in connecting the people in those images to their story; without that self-reference, those connections and their personal historical contexts would have been lost.
16mm print
Pictures From A Revolution was selected by Flaherty NYC programmers David Dinnell and Ted Kennedy as part of the Systems and Layers series. Dinnell and Kennedy write, "[Systems and Layers] presents films and videos that depict and embody systems of power and ruptures where these systems become visible. The nature of observing and being observed; life within a surveillance state; individual testimony and collective memory; and the role of the artifact as evidence within suppressed histories." Meiselas' work offers a window into the complex ways we reimagine both personal and political histories through the image. History and meanings evolve, even as the visual evidence remains the same; we are in a constant state of reinterpretation. As Meiselas suggests at the closing of the film, "photographs stop time, but for people, time doesn't stop."
-Jamie Cogar
Join us Monday, November 3 at 7:00pm for Reflections, where Sergei Loznitsa will be present for a post screening discussion.
Pictures From a Revolution
Directors: Susan Meiselas, Alfred Guzzetti, Richard Rogers
(USA/Nicaragua, 1991, 90min, 16mm)
Award-winning photojournalist Susan Meiselas will be present for a discussion moderated by filmmaker, curator and critic John Gianvito.
No one captured more powerfully the suffering, sacrifice and finally celebration that accompanied the Sandinista victory than Susan Meiselas, the award-winning photojournalist who covered the Revolution for The New York Times and London Times. In Pictures from a Revolution, Meiselas returns to Nicaragua a decade later with co-directors Richard P. Rogers and Alfred Guzzetti to track down the people — guerrillas, Socistas and bystanders — pictured in her original photographs. The people share their feelings about how their lives have changed, for the better and for worse, in the years since the conflict, and recall the circumstances surrounding those moments of their lives captured by Meiselas' camera.
16mm print courtesy of Harvard Film Archive
Susan Meiselas
Susan Meiselas (b.1948) is an American documentary photographer and has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1976. She studied anthropology at Sarah Lawrence and has an MA in visual education from Harvard University. Her coverage of the conflict in Nicaragua earned her a medal for outstanding reportage from the Overseas Press Club in 1979. In 1982 she was named Photojournalist of the Year by the Association of Magazine Photographers and received the Leica Award for Excellence. She received the Engelhard Award from the Institute of Contemporary Art (1985); the Hasselblad Foundation Photography prize (1994); the Cornell Capa Infinity Award (2005) and was awarded the Harvard Arts Medal (2011). In 1992, she was named a MacArthur Fellow.
Meiselas has had one-woman exhibitions in Paris, Madrid, Amsterdam, London, Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York, and her work is included in collections around the world. She is the author of Carnival Strippers, Nicaragua: 1978-79, Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History, Pandora's Box, Encounters with the Dani, and In History. She co-edited El Salvador: Work of Thirty Photographers and Chile from Within. She has co-directed two films, Living at Risk: The Story of a Nicaraguan Family and Pictures from a Revolution with Richard P. Rogers and Alfred Guzzetti.
"Best known for her work covering the political upheavals in Central America in the 1970s and '80s, Meiselas's process has evolved in radical and challenging ways as she has grappled with pivotal questions about her relationship to her subjects, the use and circulation of her images in the media, and the relationship of images to history and memory. Her insistent engagement with these concerns has positioned her as a leading voice in the debate on contemporary documentary practice."
– International Center of Photography
John Gianvito (Former Flaherty Board Member & 2003 Flaherty Seminar Programmer) is a filmmaker, curator, and critic. His films include the feature films The Flower of Pain (1983); Address Unknown (1985); The Mad Songs of Fernanda Hussein (2001), winner of multiple awards including being cited as one of the top ten films of the year by critics in The Chicago Reader, The Boston Phoenix, and Film Comment magazine; and Vapor Trail (Clark) (2010).
His 2007 documentary, Profit motive and the whispering wind received considerable acclaim and multiple awards including "Best Experimental Film of the Year" by the National Society of Film Critics and Grand Prize for Documentary Feature at the Belfort EntreVues Film Festival. In 2010, the magazine "Time Out (New York)" voted Profit motive #45 in a critics' poll of the 50 Greatest Documentaries of All Time.
John Gianvito has had retrospectives of his work at the VIENNALE Film Festival in Austria, I Mille Occhi Festival in Trieste, Italy and the Cinema du Reel Festival in Paris, France. He is the editor of the book Andrei Tarkovsky: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi). In 2012, Gianvito's latest film, the collectively-made Far From Afghanistan, received its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland and its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
He has taught film production and film history at the University of Massachusetts/Boston, Rhode Island School of Design, and Boston University, and was film curator for 5 years at the Harvard Film Archive. In 2001 he was made a Chevalier in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Ministry of Culture. Since 2003, he has taught at Emerson College in Boston, MA, where he is an Associate Professor.
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This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

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Currency Wars: Gambling With Other Peoples� Money
By: Axel G. Merk, Merk Investments
-- Posted Thursday, 19 April 2012 | | Disqus
If running out of your own money wasn�t bad enough, policy makers are increasingly spending other peoples� money to bail their country out. At the upcoming G-20 meeting, finance ministers from around the world will contemplate an increase to the resources of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). At stake for politicians is whether they can continue to do what they know best � to play politics. In contrast, at stake for investors may be whether currencies will retain their function as a store of value.
Let�s highlight Spain, as the country may be the key to understanding how dynamics may play out. Last November, Spaniards voted for change by electing conservative Prime Minister Rajoy, handing him an absolute majority in parliament, displacing the previous, socialist government. The election may cause former British Prime Minister Thatcher to change her view, that socialism is doomed to fail, as ultimately you run out of other people�s money. It doesn�t take a socialist to run out of money. In the case of Spain, if you run out of your own people�s money, there may always be other peoples� money.
One of the major concerns is Spain's regional government debt. Spain consists of 17 autonomous regions, whose total debt almost doubled in the past three years, due to economic recession and a housing market collapse. In many ways, Spain reflects a microcosm of how the Eurozone as a whole is structured:
Spanish regions have the power to issue public debt. The central government has little ability to interfere with regional government spending and is prohibited by Spanish law to bailout regional governments.
While regions enjoy high autonomy on spending, the central government retains effective control over regional government revenue.
Spain has its own peripheral problems: the most indebted region, Catalonia, recorded 20.7% debt-to-regional-GDP ratio and 3.6% deficit-to-GDP ratio in 2011. Its 10-year bond yield recently breached 10%, far beyond the yield on 10-year Spanish government bonds, which yield around 6%. In 2011, the total debt of 17 regional governments rose to �140 billion, accounting for 13.1% of Spain's GDP. This number is up from 6.7% by 2008.
Spanish law forbids the central government from rescuing regional governments (in much the same way that the Maastricht Treaty prohibits bailouts of EU countries). In practice, the central government appears to have implicitly helped Valencia, Spain�s 2nd most indebted region, with a �123 million loan repayment to Deutsche Bank.
More broadly known are Spain�s banking woes. Unlike much of Europe, a housing boom propelled much of Spain�s recent growth, causing Spain�s regional banks, in particular, to become overly exposed to the mortgage sector. Spain�s banks are very dependent on liquidity provided by the European Central Bank (ECB). The recent 3 year long-term refinancing operation (LTRO) by the ECB at first took pressure of the Spanish banking system, but has since been seen more critically, as Spain�s banks may be using the liquidity to buy Spanish government debt, thus increasing inter-dependency and potentially making nationalization of Spanish banks (read: the Spanish government taking on the obligations of its banks) more, rather than less likely.
The tensions between Spanish regions and its national government are nothing new. And that�s really the main lesson here: it�s business as usual in Spain! As of late, Rajoy�s government appears to be reining in regional control over budgets in earnest. However, Spaniards are used to eternal debates on where subsidies should come from, how to stop regions from spending, and � conversely - how to find ways around restrictions. In brief, Spaniards are pros at this battle. Not surprisingly, when there�s a threat of market headwinds, Rajoy is publicly committing to reform. The moment the pressure abates, it appears those promises are forgotten. Spain is proof that the only language policy makers may be listening to is that of the bond market.
As painful as it is, volatile markets are necessary to keep policy makers focused. Whenever Spanish bonds come under pressure, Spain moves further from talk and closer to action, with respect to implementation of more austerity measures, as well as the pursuit of structural reforms. Spain � like so many developed countries � has rigid bureaucracies aimed at protecting the old (companies and employees) at the cost of preventing the new, stifling innovation and fostering massive youth unemployment. Structural reform is politically painful. What is striking about Spain is that it has an enviable position of a government with an absolute majority. Yet, even such a seemingly strong government is dragging its feet in implementing reform. In the process, political support is eroding, thus making it increasingly difficult to pursue reforms as the economic environment worsens.
Politicians always appear to consider the cost of acting versus the cost of inaction. As long as more money is lined up: be that from the central government for the regions; be that from a European stability fund for the government; or be it from the IMF, incentives for reforms are taken away. In many ways, Catalonia should be getting the message that its budget is unsustainable, but with help on the way from Madrid, the region may continue its bad habits.
As Europeans have convinced themselves that they have done plenty of the heavy lifting, the next stop is the IMF, where member countries are expected to pledge billions more. The critics may be forgiven for pointing out that Europe could be doing more before tapping into purses of other, less affluent countries. Unfortunately, politicians treat this as politics rather than a serious debate about money. The good news here may be that we don�t think this is a European problem. The bad news is that this is a global problem. Spain is not unique. In the U.S., we have many of the same challenges, but we have a bond market that has allowed policy makers to get away with spending ever more money. Different from the Eurozone, the U.S. has a significant current account deficit. As such, should the bond market impose austerity on U.S. policy makers, it may have far more negative implications on the U.S. dollar than it has had on the Euro to date.
In the meantime, as policy makers around the world continue to hope for the best, but plan for the worst, expect monetary policy to be most accommodating: the U.S., Eurozone, UK and Japan all have eased in some form or another in recent months. Beneficiaries in the medium term may be precious metals and commodity currencies. For now, those currencies have been held back by a generally somber mood about global growth. What has done well � and we expect will continue to do well � are the currencies of countries that realize such policies will foster inflationary pressures. Singapore should be praised in this context, as the Singapore Monetary Authority tightened monetary policy last week, allowing the Singapore Dollar to appreciate. Those countries that can afford to are taking note that all this easy money may have significant side effects and are taking action to combat it. However, such countries are few and far between. We have long argued that there may not be such a thing anymore as a safe asset and investors may want to take a diversified approach to something as mundane as cash.
Please click here to register for the Merk Webinar: Quarter 1 Update on the Economy and Currencies which will take place on Thursday, April 19th at 4:15pm ET / 1:15pm PT. Please also subscribe to Merk Insights by clicking here to be informed as we analyze the global dynamics playing out. We manage the Merk Funds, including the Merk Hard Currency Fund. To learn more about the Funds, please visit www.merkfunds.com.
Manager of the Merk Hard Currency Fund, Asian Currency Fund, Absolute Return Currency Fund, and Currency Enhanced U.S. Equity Fund, www.merkfunds.com
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Axel Merk Axel Merk is Manager of the Merk Hard Currency Fund
The Merk Hard Currency Fund is a no-load mutual fund that invests in a basket of hard currencies from countries with strong monetary policies assembled to protect against the depreciation of the U.S. dollar relative to other currencies. The Fund may serve as a valuable diversification component as it seeks to protect against a decline in the dollar while potentially mitigating stock market, credit and interest risks�with the ease of investing in a mutual fund.
The Fund may be appropriate for you if you are pursuing a long-term goal with a hard currency component to your portfolio; are willing to tolerate the risks associated with investments in foreign currencies; or are looking for a way to potentially mitigate downside risk in or profit from a secular bear market. For more information on the Fund and to download a prospectus, please visit www.merkfund.com.
Investors should consider the investment objectives, risks and charges and expenses of the Merk Hard Currency Fund carefully before investing. This and other information is in the prospectus, a copy of which may be obtained by visiting the Fund's website at www.merkfund.com or calling 866-MERK FUND. Please read the prospectus carefully before you invest.
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Data discovery within large archives is a key issue for modern astronomy: multi-source, multi-wavelength, multi-instrument and large-scale verifications need proper data discovery tools for filtering the very large datasets of observations available nowadays. The Virtual Observatory and file format standards have contributed to allow data discovery at the metadata level, where the filtering is circumscribed to what was explicitly annotated at the observation, calibration or data reduction stages. The next step is to perform data discovery at the content level, where content descriptors are automatically gathered from the observations to perform content-aware search. In a very general sense, this corresponds to automatically generate catalogs from large and diverse datasets. In this work, we consider the public spectroscopic data products from ALMA (fits cubes), and we apply the fast Region of Interest Seek and Extraction algorithm (RoiSE) to obtain content-descriptors of the spatial forms, positions, intensities and wavelengths of the source emissions. Despite the efficiency of the algorithm, it is impractical to process all the data in a batch/sequential manner. Then, the problem was to decide the tools and architecture to use for the task distribution across the datacenter. Between the several distributed/parallel computing alternatives, we selected the Dask packages to build the distributed pipeline that we outline in this paper, mainly because the current RoiSE implementation is written in Python. The main challenge of this pipeline is the diversity of data products: different resolutions, signal-to-noise ratios, densities, morphologies, imaging parameters, etc. Therefore, we include an adaptive parameter tuning mechanism to cope with this diversity. Finally, we present an example of content-aware data discovery over the obtained database.


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package com.unionpaysmart.data.sdk.model.risk.response;

import java.util.List;

/**
 * 街道交易统计字段
 *
 * @author Nie Xiongding
 * @since 2015年3月4日 上午9:19:10
 */
public class Road {
    private int roadLevelTransCount; // 定位到街道的交易次数
    private int hotelTransCount; // 定位到街道的酒店交易次数
    private String roadName; // 街道名称
    private List<Address> address; // 详细地址交易统计,请见下面Address

    /**
     * @return roadLevelTransCount
     */
    public int getRoadLevelTransCount() {
        return roadLevelTransCount;
    }

    /**
     * @param roadLevelTransCount
     *     定位到街道的交易次数
     */
    public void setRoadLevelTransCount(int roadLevelTransCount) {
        this.roadLevelTransCount = roadLevelTransCount;
    }

    /**
     * @return hotelTransCount
     */
    public int getHotelTransCount() {
        return hotelTransCount;
    }

    /**
     * @param hotelTransCount
     *     定位到街道的酒店交易次数
     */
    public void setHotelTransCount(int hotelTransCount) {
        this.hotelTransCount = hotelTransCount;
    }

    /**
     * @return roadName
     */
    public String getRoadName() {
        return roadName;
    }

    /**
     * @param roadName
     *     街道名称
     */
    public void setRoadName(String roadName) {
        this.roadName = roadName;
    }

    /**
     * @return address
     */
    public List<Address> getAddress() {
        return address;
    }

    /**
     * @param address
     *     详细地址交易统计,请见下面Address
     */
    public void setAddress(List<Address> address) {
        this.address = address;
    }
}


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Russian Cyber Attacks Identified on Singapore Summit
Figures from F5 Labs report 88% of malicious traffic originated in Russia and targeted VoIP Phones and IoT devices
Chris Fernando Send an email June 25, 2018
Cybersecurity researchers at F5 Networks have released a report which identifies a series of cyber-attacks targeting Singapore on 11th June 2018 and 12th June 2018. It's no secret that Russia has been launching a steady barrage of coordinated cyber-attacks against the US as many sanctions have been issued against Russian officials and businesses since the 2016 Presidential election. Beyond official sanctions, the US-Cert issued an alert in April regarding Russia maintaining persistent access to small office and home office routers warning of widespread espionage.
Specifically, 88% of malicious traffic originated in Russia and targeted VoIP Phones (the kind found in many hotels) and IoT devices.
Russia accounted for 88% of the attacks against Singapore on 12th June 2018
The attacks were primarily reconnaissance scans—looking for vulnerable systems–from a single Russian IP address (188.246.234.60), followed by actual attacks that came from both Russia and Brazil.
The top attacked target was a protocol known as SIP 5060, which is used by IP phones to transmit communications in clear text.
The number two attacked port was telnet, consistent with IoT device attacks that could be within proximity to targets of interest.
Other ports attacked include Port 7457, the same target used by the Mirai botnet and Annie to target ISP managed routers.
About the attack:
SIP is an IP phone protocol, 5060 is specifically the non-encrypted port.
It is unusual to see port 5060 as a top attack destination port.
F5 assessment is that the attackers were trying to gain access to insecure phones or perhaps the VoIP server.
Telnet is the most commonly attacked remote administration port by IoT attackers.
F5 reports that it is very likely the attackers were looking for any IoT device they could compromise that could provide them access to targets of interest where they could then spy on communications and collect data.
Port 7457 is used by ISPs to remotely manage their routers. This protocol is targeted by Mirai and Annie, a Mirai spin-off that caused millions of dollars of damage to European ISPs in late 2016.
If any devices in Singapore had this port open and were protected with default admin credentials, it is likely the attackers gained access and could see any traffic through those devices, collecting data, redirecting traffic, etc. in what's known as a "Man in the Middle" attack.
Port 8291 was recently attacked by Hajime, the vigilante thingbot created to PDoS devices that would otherwise be infected by Mirai. If any devices in Singapore were listening on this port and protected with vendor default credentials, it is likely the attackers could have gained access.
"It is unclear what the attackers were after with the SIP attacks, nor if they were successful. F5 will continue to analyze the attack data and update this story as we make new discoveries. F5 does not have evidence directly tying this attacking activity to nation-state sponsored attacks, however it is common knowledge that the Russian government has many contractors within Russia carrying out their bidding, and that a successful attack on a target of interest would make its way through to the Kremlin," the company said in a press statement.
In regards to mitigating the threat of these types of attacks, which in this case is the internet of things devices and databases directly touching the internet, F5 advises to always:
protect remote administration to any device on your network with a firewall, VPN, or restrict to a specified management network, NEVER allow open communication to the entire internet.
always change vendor default administration credentials
stay up to date with any security patches released by the manufacturer
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Il Friedrichstadt-Palast è un teatro per varietà costruito nel 1984 con una moderna tecnologia di palcoscenico nel centralissimo quartiere di Berlin Mitte.

Primo edificio
La storia del Friedrichstadt-Palast nasce con la sala di un vecchio mercato al coperto situato a circa 200 metri a sud-ovest rispetto alla locazione odierna, l'indirizzo ufficiale era Am Zirkus 1.

Nel 1873 l'edificio venne convertito in un'arena da circo con 5.000 posti a sedere. Nei decenni successivi il circo di Salamonsky, Renz e Schumann vi ha allietato i berlinesi con le sue performance.

Nel 1910 la sala del mercato venne convertita in una ampia arena e Max Reinhardt vi inscenò le prime rappresentazioni teatrali. Reinhardt decise poi di adattare l'edificio al nuovo uso e il compito della ricostruzione venne affidato al rinomato architetto Hans Poelzig. L'edificio aveva un palcoscenico ribaltabile di 18 metri di diametro e un proscenio semovibile. Inoltre disponeva anche di un moderno sistema di luci e di effetti tecnologici.

Nel 1924 il nuovo direttore Erik Charell inscena moderne riviste di varietà e porta su quel palcoscenico stelle come i Comedian Harmonists o La Jana. Durante l'era nazista il teatro venne ribattezzato Teatro del Popolo. Vi si tenevano delle operette tardoborghesi.

L'edificio è stato soggetto agli inizi del 1945 a diversi attacchi aerei. Dopo la fine della guerra fu l'artista Marion Spadoni a riaprire il teatro nel maggio del 1945. Esso venne chiamato Palast Varieté e contava 3.500 posti a sedere. Fu una compagnia di bambini ad inaugurarne il palcoscenico.

Nel 1949 la città di Berlino Est riacquistò la gestione del teatro, restituendogli anche il suo nome originale Friedrichstadtpalast.

Il 29 febbraio 1980 l'edificio venne chiuso a causa di grossi cedimenti delle fondamenta e a problemi di statica delle colonne portanti. Dopo il trasferimento della compagnia nel nuovo edificio nel 1985 venne quasi immediatamente avviata la demolizione del palazzo della veneranda età di ben 120 anni.

Il teatro oggi

Il 27 aprile 1984 il nuovo Friedrichstadt-Palast ha aperto i suoi battenti. È largo 80 metri, lungo 110 metri e comprende uno spazio costruito di 195.000 metri cubi.

La vasta sala del Friedrichstadt-Palast viene usata regolarmente come spazio per le rappresentazioni e contiene 1.895 posti a sedere. Il suo palcoscenico di 2.854 metri quadrati è il più grande al mondo. L'ampio arco del proscenio, con un'ampiezza di 24 metri, è il più grande d'Europa.

Nel 2020 venne posto sotto vincolo monumentale (Denkmalschutz).

Note

Bibliografia

Testi di approfondimento

Voci correlate
 Architettura della Repubblica Democratica Tedesca

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni
Sito ufficiale – www.palast.berlin/it

DFEs + theater + in + Berlin Museum of Architecture of the TU-Berlin

Friedrichstraße
Architetture di Mitte
Architetture postmoderne
Architettura della Repubblica Democratica Tedesca
Teatri di Berlino
Teatro in Germania

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All the prettiest Victorian era embellishments are featured in this round table that is destined to make a big impact among traditional surroundings. It is ultimately serviceable for accommodating lamps, framed photographs and collectibles, but it is the design itself that will capture the eye first. Cabriole legs and serpentine upper supports are wrapped in rattan fibers and are divided by a center shelf. This shapely profile also includes two finish choices. Scroll work and open helix trim are ornate enhancements matched with braided edging around the solid surface top. Inspired by earlier works from the renowned Heywood-Wakefield company, this rattan table is a natural beauty designed for today's living spaces.


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Q: Explain syntax of =@ I'm following a PHP/AJAX tutorial on form validation. (I'm new to php!).
Could someone explain the syntax of this line:
<?=@$_REQUEST['username']?>

The context is the value attribute of an input field.
I know how $_REQUEST works. I just don't get the <?=@ part. I understand <? can be used in lieu of <?php (but isn't always supported!) and <?=$variable?> is special syntax for echoing variables. What does the @ symbol do?
Thanks.
Links:
Form validation tutorial
Explanation for special syntax

A: <?= ?> is the short echo syntax. <?=$var?> is equivalent to <?php echo $var; ?>.
From the PHP manual:

echo also has a shortcut syntax, where you can immediately follow the opening tag with an equals sign. Prior to PHP 5.4.0, this short syntax only works with the short_open_tag configuration setting enabled.

@ is the error suppression operator. When prepended to an expression in PHP, any error messages that might be generated by that expression will be ignored.
In short, <?=@$_REQUEST['username']?> will try to print out the value of $_REQUEST['username'] (without ouputting any errors). It's not a good practice and shouldn't be used in your code. If you don't want to display the errors, turn off display_errors in your php.ini configuration and log them instead.

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Creating an article marketing campaign is not hard, if you go about it in a systematic way. A lot of people think that just churning out articles about your product is enough to get you the attention your business needs, but this will not produce the kind of results you want. But if you plan your article marketing campaign properly, you will have a very powerful marketing tool at your disposal. What kind of writer are you - will you be able to write in way that interests people and ensure the article offers them some value? If you have doubts about your writing skills its better to pay a professional to do your writing for you - the article quality will be taken as an indicator of product quality and a badly written one will drive away potential customers.
The next stage in your article marketing campaign is to have a bank of articles ready in advance - writing them only when you need to post them usually means working in a rush and the quality of what you, or the writer you hire, produce will suffer. Decide on what aspect of your product you want to highlight in your campaign -sending out 10 different articles on 10 different aspects of your product in 10 days will never get you the attention you need.
Spend time getting an understanding of how the market perceives the aspect of our product that you will be writing about so that you can modify your focus to enhance the positive impressions and counter the negative ones. Because you are focusing your article marketing campaign on one aspect of your product at a time, you need to ensure that your articles follow a logical sequence so that the overall impression created is one where the reader feels he has gained something by reading them.
You can do this by looking for FAQs about one aspect of the product and supplying answers - having questions answered always gives the reader a feeling of getting value. Remember that article marketing is not selling - you are not going to succeed is you try and directly sell your products in your articles. What you are doing is marketing - creating an interest and desire for the product in the mind of the reader: selling it to him is the next stage. But you are not writing articles for charity, so you can simply mention that you are selling the product or if the format permits, put in a line or two about yourself as the writer, inviting people who want to know more to contact you.
Don't expect miracle results but after a few weeks if your website does not register a significant increase in the number of hits it receives, you should think of changing the focus of your article marketing campaign.
What will the future of business outsourcing be like? Will outsourcing continue to be one of the top business trends in the next 10 years?
As more and more companies rely on business outsourcing nowadays, there are still a good number of corporations who are a bit apprehensive if this business trend will continue to develop and improve in the coming years.
According to Mohanbir Sawhney, one of BusinessWeek's 25 most influential people in e-business, the future of e-business can be likened to an hourglass, the blue-collar jobs at the bottom and the white-collar jobs on the top getting hit the most. Shawhney explained that more people would rather work as a skilled worker in a developed country than stay in their homeland and earn just enough money for the daily needs of their family. Sawhney further adds that as India and China resort to more skill-oriented outsourcing, the questions that the United States would increasingly need to ask is: why should a software guy with the same qualifications be paid more in the US, when there is a similar guy in India willing to do the same job at one-fourth the cost.
London-based independent market analysis firm Data monitor made a research report on outsourcing showing the lessons learned from the past issues of outsourcing and what will drive its success going forward. According to the report, outsourcing is continuously expanding its geographic scope and increasing its vertical reach. Datamonitor added that best-shoring is considered the best strategy for an outsourcing business. This shows that more companies are choosing to outsource specific company functions to locations best suited to perform them. This way, the investor would save on the cost of sourcing the work domestically, and at the same time, could further remove the implacability of using only one offshore location.
The globalisation of the workforce will continue to surface and there will be a push that will increase the quality of outsourcing skills set.
A special report by BusinessWeek claims that management challenges will become more pressing as the increase in global salaries dissipate the easy cost gains from offshore outsourcing. Furthermore, it stated that the successful companies in the future will be those that would be able to take advantage of the global talent to transform themselves and their industries, while at the same time, providing jobs for everyone.
All business owners should be aware of what email marketing solutions are available and of how they can help to improve their business. There are some great benefits that are offered by email marketing solutions and which can be incredibly helpful. Email marketing solutions are relied on more today than ever before. You want to make sure that you find a company that you can trust in and which is going to have everything to offer that you are looking for.
Fortunately there are quite a few different email marketing solutions organizations that are available and which you can consider here. There is the Net Atlantic Company for one which is one of the top companies of its kind and which is really worth looking into more if you are trying to find a company that is going to help you with your email marketing and which has a lot to offer. They offer a full suite of email marketing tools that you can take advantage of and which can be used for all types of businesses. They will walk you through the entire process which makes it a lot easier and more convenient for you.
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Make sure that you find a company that works for you. These are just a few of the best examples of what is available to you and which companies offer you what you need here. You want a company that you are going to be able to trust in and which is going to keep things easy especially if you are new to the whole thing. Email marketing solutions can be extremely beneficial for a business but only when done properly.
A social bookmarking site helps internet users store and rank articles, websites and videos. The site helps people that operate programs related to affiliate marketing direct important traffic to their sites and advertise their businesses. There are numerous social bookmarking sites on the internet. All of them cater to distinct kinds of internet users. You may join any that you want free of charge. Alternatively, you can start your own social bookmarking site. Having a site of your own allows you to brand yourself as an authority on a particular niche.
It also permits you to offer news and information on distinct topics from different location in the world to other internet users. You can do this in two ways. Hiring a qualified programmer or doing it yourself is one. Hiring a programmer is good because he/she already knows what to do. Nevertheless, it is costly. With these few instruction, you could set up your personal social bookmarking website.
The first step to starting your own social bookmarking site is conducting market research. By carrying out quick online research, you may be able to ascertain the articles, blogs and websites that are not only the most bookmarked but also the highest ranking. This will allow you to learn more about what people are interested in. You could then pick a niche that you are keen on focusing on and develop your website around it. The next step involves getting a proper domain name. You have a selection of international and localized domain names.
If you want your site to be international, it is best you choose an international domain name. You could then pick the site host provider at this particular point. There are many website hosting providers online. It is crucial that you pick one who is experienced. This person has a wonderful reputation and he has been in the web hosting industry for a protracted amount of time. Make sure that you ask them to provide a list of referees. In addition, select one that charges sensible fees.
There are platforms on the internet that allows you to create your own social bookmarking sites. Pligg is one example of the platforms. You could download it at no cost. It is incredibly easy to use letting you design personal themes. You can also use scripts such as MarkIt to set up your own social bookmarking site. The script allows you to not only build your own site but also share, categorize and save other favorite sites.
Online auctions are a great way to find what you are looking for, and at a great price to boot. Thousands of people around the world go onto online auction sites to buy things, but you have to realize that the online auction law is quite lenient. It is wise to take time and learn about the law legal information first. Auction sites today are working hard to enforce new stricter laws.
Because the online auction law is so lacking, there are more con artists than ever before who are going through these sites to try and make a quick buck. There are more scammers than ever who are heading to auction sites and trying to con people into scams, especially since there are practically no laws guarding them against this. For people who are scrambling to auction sites trying to find a great deal on something, it is really up to them to take the time and make sure they are dealing with a legitimate seller. You can see what buyers had to say about each seller so you can get a better idea on whether or not they are going to be worth dealing with.
They could be lying about what they have to offer or they may actually have those items but be overcharging. This is called feedback on eBay and while other sites are quite detailed with information as well, eBay truly stands out from the crowd for being most serious about it and making sure that they do everything they can to keep scammers off their site. EBay works hard to ensure that only good sellers remain on their site and these reviews help that a lot. You may think that you have found a great deal but then when you check things out you may see that you are actually getting ripped off.
If you ever find anything an on auction site you should find out the actual retail value of the item before buying it. One of the biggest scams that con artists on online auction sites pull is charging too much for an item but making it sound like you are getting a great deal. It can be hard thinking that you cannot trust anyone through these sites but that is basically the way you need to go about things if you want to make sure you do not get taken advantage of. Remember, scam artists are people who take time to ensure that their offer seems legit when they are really scamming you out of your money.
It is important to not get overly caught up in the auction process. Once you find something you like and you bid on it for the first time, it can be hard to get caught up in the excitement of a bidding war. A lot of scammers will actually even bid on their own item after someone has started bidding, just to get that person to end up paying more money. The online auction law may not be enough to stop a lot of people from trying to take advantage, but at least with this knowledge you will be better armed and more aware of what is lurking out there.
For people who were not able or were unwilling to meet others in the real world - for whatever reasons - online dating sites used to be the only option available to them. These sites do a good job and have brought together millions of people who would otherwise have been alone. But today these online dating services are facing stiff competition from the mushrooming social networking sites. Facebook, MySpace and other such sites today have millions of members who are looking to extend their range of contacts and friendships and also looking for dates.
Because of the fact that these social networking sites have huge memberships of people of all ages, interests and from all locations it may appear that dating on a social network is easier than on a dedicated site. But it is the very size and complex membership structure of these sites that can make dating on a social network difficult. The members of social sites are there for a variety of reasons, often just to make new friends or re-establish contact with those they knew earlier but have lost touch with. Many members may say that there are interested in dating, but their seriousness is open to question - often it is just said to keep their options open and not as a priority. As a matter of fact, even those who join with dating as their main aim often find that they are able to establish other levels and types of relationships and dating often becomes a low priority, despite what their profiles may say.
Anyone joining a social network for the purposes of dating must be aware of the problems he or she will face. Firstly there is the issue of finding the right person among the millions of members, search tools notwithstanding. Even if a possible date is found and contact established, it may turn out that the person is no longer on the site for dating but has found other interests.
But a dedicated dating site will have only members who are looking for dates so while the possibilities may be less, the chances of success are higher. While finding the right person may still not be easy and there are problems like misleading profiles and predators to contend with, at least you can be reasonably sure that the person you are in touch with has joined the site for the same reason as you have - to find a date. For this reason, the search for a date on an online dating site is likely to be more successful. Many dating sites offer the best of both worlds by allowing links to social networks so that people are able to find out more about potential dates.
Writing a sales letter can be a real challenge to write. You are basically trying to promote yourself and your business with your sales letter and one of the most common questions people ask is whether one page is long enough for an effective sales letter. A sales letter is used to reach out to potential customers and make them interested in what you have to offer. Is there an appropriate length it should be, is a one page sales letter enough?
The length of a sales letter will vary from one situation to the next but you can make one page enough if you write it well. There is the question then of whether a one page sales letter is long enough. One page can be long enough to produce an effective sales letter but all bases must still be covered. As long as it is written properly, a one page sales letter can be more than enough.
If you aren't even interested by your headline then you can bet your readers are not going to be. You need to start off by figuring out a good headline for the letter. When there is an effective title used, a one page letter can sometimes even be a better idea than a longer sales letter. This should lead the letter into the body where you need to use your sales pitch.
Use this time to show readers why they are reading the letter and what you have to offer them. People need a clear, concise vision of what you are offering and why they should pay attention to your business when there are a million more like it out there. The body of a sales letter is where you should be giving your sales pitch and of course with only one page you do not have much space to get this done. One of the hardest parts of writing a one page sales letter is that it can so hard to bring it to a close.
You usually need at least a paragraph or two to tie everything up so there are no loose ends and readers are not left confused and unsure what to do. There should be no loose ends, no readers wondering just what the point of the letter was and what they are supposed to do now. This way you have a sales letter that is pretty much completely written for you and all you have to worry about is filling in the blanks. Write it to the best of your ability and your profit will improve tenfold.
For any person who is interested in getting started with a work from home position, this is a wonderful opportunity. For many people it is easier, more enjoyable and much more convenient. Especially if you are a parent who has children at home and you do not want to put them in daycare, this is a great opportunity. The number ten spot goes to the position of a franchise owner.
Being a franchise owner can obviously be quite financially rewarding but many of these jobs are nothing more than scams. Far too often eager people get taken advantage of and end up owing money rather than making it. The last thing you want to do is waste your time so if you do go applying for these jobs just use caution and common sense. Writer/editor is the number nine of the top work from home jobs and this comes as no surprise.
Companies are always looking to hire writers and editors whether it is for web content, recipe writing, children's book editing or any other purpose. Teacher is the eighth top work at home job and this job shows just how much technology has changed the world we live in today. Never before would we have imagined a teacher being able to teach a class full of students completely over the computer and now it is true. Or you may want to get into the travel and tourism field and become a travel agent as this falls into the seventh spot on the list.
Or you may be interested in becoming a tech support specialist, which is basically someone that people call when they are having troubles with something like a cell phone. Or you could be something similar, a call center representative who also answers phones only this is for customer service rather than technical support for fixing technical difficulties. Web designing jobs can be very lucrative and also a lot of fun, and coming in at number four. Three is the translator, a position that can be used for a number of different purposes.
There are a number of jobs a translator would be required for, everything from translating documents to giving language lessons to foreign exchange students. Medical transcriptionists work hard and this demanding job is number two on the top 10 work from home jobs list. Topping the list is the virtual assistant position. If you have the skills required to fill this position you should have no trouble finding a job and can make quite a decent living with this as your career.
Blogging has taken over as a medium to share information and opinions, it has also become a way to make money when done right. However to make money on any blog you will need visitors, when you are a new blogger you need blogging tips that will help you to attract visitors. Generating enough visitors to your blog is also essential, without visitors you will not be able to benefit from the blogging tips to make money. Making partnerships with other bloggers is also one of the important blogging tips when you are trying to promote your blog.
Establishing yourself in the blogging world is difficult, but one of the best blogging tips that you will hear is to make sure that the writing and content of your site is good. Google AdSense is one of the most popular ways and is frequently cited in blogging tips as a great way to make money with your blog. Using text based ads alone is not a good idea, ads that incorporate images are more attractive, using a combination of text and image based ads is a good idea when trying to make money. Pictures are worth a thousand words, so when possible you should have good pictures on your website related to your blog posts to keep the visuals interesting.
Having a good bio page can attract readers' just as much as good content; one of the invaluable blogging tips to practice is having an attractive bio page. Have someone else with a popular blog put you on his or her blog roll; this will help to direct traffic towards your own blog. If your blog is specific to businesses or places in your area you may want to approach local businesses about buying advertising space on your blog. You should also link to other blogs, make sure to do this with blogs that are of a similar size to your own and you will soon be noticed.
Joining a social networking website of some kind is also a great way to gain more readers, make your presence felt in an online community of some kind and you will have people interested in your blog. One of the top blogging tips is to keep your costs down as much as possible; a hosting fee and some advertising fees are all the costs you should be paying. Word of mouth and links from other blogs are also important in attracting new visitors so build relationships with other bloggers. Overall a good blog will be able to attract readers one you have made your blog and web presence as visible as possible.
Establishing blogs and sites will require accurate information on how to create them to perform optimally. Many are the factors that need to be considered when putting them together. One of the most important is the content you want to share. Another crucial factor is the manner in which that information is displayed on your blog. It will all centre on the designs that are chosen for the blog layout or site. The blog templates are crucial and they can make or break your efforts. It is wise to take time and consider the kind of template you want to have for your blog.
Blog templates will be in plenty because different publishing tools make this possible. Do not let the different options escape you because you can choose templates that will please you and your audience as the right outlook. The following are top pointers that you need to consider so as to choose excellent blog templates. First, you need to communicate the right massage with your appearance. Brand the template and give it a personality that will say what you are about regarding your blog and this will yield greatly.
What you want your blog to do for readers is important and many want to influence people. The templates will have different impacts and all people want huge impacts. Do not forget what your blog is about and the templates should be in a position to reflect this. Those who go for templates that have dull colors will often have an impression of boredom for their blogs. Find ways to make your blog scream as readers go through it. You also need to choose a template that will come with certain graphics that will entertain readers even before they get to the content.
Templates for your blog must show or reflect the nature of business you are in. In other words, brightly colored templates may not imply serious business. Looking at other blogs will go a long way in helping you choose the right template for your blog. Always consider the products you are offering to your audience. For trust and credibility to be proven you need to ensure that your services and products are in line with templates. There are so many other aspects to consider and with the above tips and guides, you should find a template that will please your audience for successful blogging.


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Homeless More Likely to Die After Heart Attack
THURSDAY, Oct. 22, 2020 (HealthDay News) -- Homeless people are three times more likely to die after a heart attack than other patients, a new study finds.
"Our study shows a dramatically higher rate of mortality after heart attacks in people experiencing homelessness compared to non-homeless patients," said researcher Dr. Samantha Liauw of the University of Toronto. "More research is needed to discover the reasons for this disparity in outcomes so that the chances of survival can be improved in this vulnerable population."
Liauw and her colleagues compared more than 2,800 heart attack patients admitted to a Toronto hospital between 2008 and 2017. Of those, 75 were homeless.
Among homeless patients, 19% died in the hospital, compared with 6% of others. Homeless patients were younger than others and more likely to be men.
Eighty-four percent of homeless patients smoked compared to half of patients who were not homeless. Rates of high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes were similar between the groups.
Also, more homeless patients suffered from mental conditions. They were more likely than others to abuse alcohol and drugs and were more likely to suffer a serious complication of heart attack called cardiogenic shock that occurs when the heart cannot supply enough blood and oxygen to the brain and other vital organs. They were more likely than other patients to go into cardiac arrest.
Both groups received medications, testing and stents, but the rate of stenting was lower in the homeless (80% versus 90% in non-homeless patients).
The findings were scheduled to be presented Wednesday at a virtual meeting of the 2020 Canadian Cardiovascular Congress.
"The elevated risk at a younger age could be related to chronic stress from being homeless, higher rates of smoking, poverty, and unreliable access to healthy food. Lack of trust in the medical system, poor access to health care for chronic conditions and slower receipt of emergency therapies may also have contributed," Liauw said in a news release from the European Society of Cardiology, which will participate in the meeting.
Although both patient groups received timely treatment, she suspects the symptom start time listed for homeless people may be inaccurate, resulting in a longer gap before therapy began.
"This illustrates that we need new methods to study this disadvantaged part of society," Liauw said.
Findings presented at meetings are considered preliminary until they're published in a peer-reviewed journal.
For more on heart attack, visit the American Heart Association.
SOURCE: European Society of Cardiology, news release, Oct. 21, 2020
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"Permission to assume the Defense of Guam Mission," echoed through the Coral Reef Fitness Center, here, as Capt. Joshua Geis, commander, Company D, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 25th Inf. Division, accepted his new duty as commander of the security force for Task Force Talon (TFT), 94th Army Air and Missile Defense Command.
For Soldiers defending the skies over Guam, those same skies recently became the enemy as Typhoon Dolphin pounded the island of Guam on May 15 with sustained 100 mph winds and gusts of up to 125 mph.


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'Zoom bombers' shout 'Jews to the ovens' at online launch of book on the Holocaust in Italy
By	Cnaan Liphshiz	 January 15, 2021 12:00 pm
A family takes part in a Zoom shiva. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
(JTA) — "Zoom bombers" in Italy crashed the online launch of a book about the Holocaust and shouted anti-Semitic abuse, including "Jews, we'll burn you in ovens."
The Jan. 10 incident on the videoconferencing platform came during the presentation of a book titled "The Generation of the Desert" by Lia Tagliacozzo, a Jewish author who was born to Holocaust survivors, La Republica reported.
"A group of organized people entered en masse the Zoom meeting of the presentation, while my mother was talking," one of Tagliacozzo's children, Sara, wrote. "They started shouting 'Jews in the ovens, the Nazis are back, we will burn you all, you must all die,' and they had Hitler portraits and swastikas as their personal photos."
The Zoom bombing phenomenon became increasingly common in 2020, as many in-person encounters were replaced with online events due to emergency measures connected to the COVID-19 pandemic. Among the bombers are anti-Semitic groups that target Jewish events.
In July, a virtual prayer session that included several Dallas-area synagogues was Zoom bombed by intruders shouting "Kill all Jews, bomb Israel." In March, a synagogue in Connecticut reported being Zoom bombed with anti-Semitic messages during their Shabbat services.
The Anti-Defamation League recorded at least 11 anti-Semitic Zoom bombings in the United States and Canada in March and April alone alone.
Lia Tagliacozzo said she was shocked by the incident, telling La Republica that "The Nazis again entered my family's home, like in 1943."


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See Inside The Quin
Walker's Point newest apartment building welcoming residents.
By Jeramey Jannene	- Jan 11th, 2019 03:10 pm
The Quin in Walker's Point. Photo by Jeramey Jannene.
In a little over a year, a long-vacant Walker's Point lot went from afterthought to asset.
Linden Street Partners has transformed the site at 324 S. 2nd St. into a 70-unit apartment building known as The Quin. The building's name is a Latin homage to its location in the former Fifth Ward (in the old Latin language the number five is "quinque").
Apartments in the L-shaped building are a mix of studio, one and two bedroom units. Fifty-six parking spaces are included in the building. Tenants will find a variety of amenities including an outdoor deck, dog walk, indoor clubhouse and on-site gym.
A 1,088-square-foot commercial stall is available for lease on the building's first floor. The space, located along both S. 2nd St. and W. Florida St., has been listed for lease through MLG.
The five-story building was designed by RINKA. Altius Building Company led the general contracting. Linden, RINKA and Altius are now all working together on the building's sister project, The Yards, located kitty-corner from The Quin on W. Oregon St. Construction has just started on that project.
An open house was held for the project in November, but if you're in the market for a new home, a leasing agent from Founders 3 would love to take you on a personal tour. The leasing site currently touts the first month of rent for free.
Want a quick, virtual tour? Take a look at our photos.


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Q: Handle exception if parsing large xlsx file in perl I want to show pop up if script is not able to parse large xlsx file.
my $parser = Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX->new;
my $workbook = $parser->parse("file.xlsx");

My perl cgi page got blank, if I submitted large xlsx file.
Here I need to handle if below parse function is not success then will add javascript in catch/finally method to pop up like "invalid file".
my $workbook = $parser->parse("file.xlsx");

A: This is covered in the documentation:

parse($filename, $formatter)
The Parser parse() method returns a "Workbook" object.

my $parser   = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel->new();
my $workbook = $parser->parse('Book1.xls');

If an error occurs parse() returns undef. In general, programs should
contain a test for failed parsing as follows:

my $parser   = Spreadsheet::ParseExcel->new();
my $workbook = $parser->parse('Book1.xls');
if ( !defined $workbook ) {
    die $parser->error(), ".\n";
}

The documentation for the module that you use, Spreadsheet::ParseXLSX points to the main module Spreadsheet::ParseExcel for documentation:

This module is an adaptor for Spreadsheet::ParseExcel that reads XLSX files. For documentation about the various data that you can retrieve from these classes, please see Spreadsheet::ParseExcel, Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Workbook, Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Worksheet, and Spreadsheet::ParseExcel::Cell.

A: This is often how one handles dies in functions:
eval {   # try block
    my $workbook = $parser->parse("file.xlsx");
    # ...other operations
};

if($@) { # catch
    print "$@";   # print the message
}


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Dracula's links to the north-east remembered as iconic Bram Stoker novel celebrates 125th anniversary
It's the iconic gothic horror's 125th anniversary this year and the north-east played a crucial part in inspiring Bram Stoker's literary classic.
Christopher Lee, perhaps the most famous man to have portrayed Dracula (Image: Getty Images)
Count Dracula is unquestionably the king of vampires.
Countless books, films and television programmes have been inspired by not just the most famous vampire ever created but arguably one of the greatest literary characters of all-time.
And the north-east has been proudly staking its claim as the true heart of the Bram Stoker classic as it celebrates 125 years since its publication.
Slains Castle, close to Cruden Bay, is believed to have inspired Dracula's castle, particularly a unique octagonal shaped room described in the book, which Slains also boasts.
Stoker, born and raised in Ireland, began writing Dracula – which was published in 1897 - while staying at the nearby Kilmarnock Arms Hotel, with his signatures from its guestbook in 1894 and 1895 surviving to this day.
It is believed Stoker visited Cruden Bay regularly for 17 years in the 19th century.
Now in ruins, the castle is best admired from nearby and should not be entered due to safety reasons.
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On Thursday, Aberdeenshire Council unveiled a new information panel at Kilmarnock Arms detailing Bram Stoker's ties to the area.
Stoker's signatures helped trace his visits to the Kilmarnock Arms. He later moved to two different cottages in the village, Crooked Lum Cottage and Hilton Cottage, which belonged to the hotel.
While at Hilton, Stoker had a view from the garden of the imposing Slains, at the seat of the Hays of Erroll.
Stoker would sit in there every day and write at a small table with the castle in sight. It is no surprise that the influences around him would make it onto some of the most famous pages in literature.
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Shortly afterwards, he wrote "The Mystery of the Sea" - about a visitor to a village drawn into a supernatural mystery - with his Gothic vampire tale published three years later using Cruden Bay as its setting.
Scotland is said to have played a crucial role in the creation of the classic story.
There is no doubt other towns and cities helped inspire Stoker but the north-east's contribution to the classic tale cannot be underestimated.
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namespace OpenCloud\DNS\Collection;

use OpenCloud\Common\Collection\PaginatedIterator;

class DnsIterator extends PaginatedIterator
{
    const MARKER = 'offset';

    public function updateMarkerToCurrent()
    {
        $this->currentMarker = $this->key();
    }

    protected function shouldAppend()
    {
        if (!$this->currentMarker) {
            return false;
        }

        if ($this->position > $this->getOption('limit.page') && $this->getOption('limit.page') % $this->position == 0) {
            return true;
        }

        if ($this->currentMarker % $this->getOption('limit.page') == 0) {
            return true;
        }

        return false;
    }

}


The above shows the application collaborator graph. The letter (S/R) in the corner designates object lifetime; either Singleton or Request scope. Now, just to be clear, there is nothing wrong with having a single instance of a class. The problem arises only when the singleton is available through a global "instance" variable as in Singleton.getInstance().
Now, in order to have a testable codebase we have to make sure that we don't mix the object construction with application logic. So all of the above objects should rarely call the new operator (value objects are OK). Instead each of the objects above would declare its collaborators in the constructor. AuthenticatorPage would ask for ChargePage and Authenticator. ChargePage would ask for CreditCardProcessor and UserRepository. And so on. We have moved the problem of construction elsewhere.
The problem of "how do I ensure that I only have one of something" is nicely sidestepped. You instantiate only a single ApplicationFactory in your main, and as a result, you only instantiate a single instance of all of your singletons.
Now the factories become largely a series of object creations. Totally boring stuff, so boring a computer could generate the code. Simply look at the constructor and recursively instantiate whatever the constructor wants. Wait, a computer can generate it! Its called PicoContainer or GUICE! So you don't actually have to write the factories.
Thanks for this article. I'm allegedly an experienced developer but I was fuzzy in my understanding of this and you've helped me out tremendously. Nice job!
How would you answer the question of whether database connection pools should only be instantiated once, hence be a singleton? Or any kind of pool like a thread pool object pool, etc.
What tool did you use to make those diagrams btw? I'm looking for a decent tool for making various diagrams for my code.
How exactly does the HTTP request get a reference to RequestFactory?
Very nice article… Thanks a lot for the excellent explanation.
It's fine if I use the ApplicationFactory to get my object references, but I can easily break the singleton lifetime and instantiate a new Database, OfflineQueue, CreditCardProcessor and CreditCard myself, no ?
No, because you must not use 'new' operators in your business objects (everything is not a factory). But you can use 'new' in tests.
I am going to echo the issue brought up by Michael, and point out that the servlet will still need to access a global variable (or a singleton) to get the instance of RequestFactory.
For clarity's sake you should indicate this, since you cannot create the servlet via a modified constructor that takes a RequestFactory object. So the overriding design principal, as stated, is broken at this one point in favor of a simpler approach.
you may look at http://misko.hevery.com/2009/04/08/how-to-do-everything-wrong-with-servlets/ to see why servlets are a problem.
It glosses over how the servlet gets the reference to the RequestFactory. I only mention this because if someone comes to this post and is learning why they shouldn't use singletons for everything, they will get stuck wondering how to jump through that final hoop.
Now, while I personally don't like using servlets, there is a way to give them a dynamic context by using an synchronized initialization servlet that puts an Application instance into the ServletContext. This Application object would hold / provide all of the application necessary configurable objects (offline queue, authenticator, requestFactory, etc).
For testing, the instance of the Application object can be changed with a different class that provides a different implementation, so you would have your TestApplication instance to replace your ProductionApplication instance.
This still doesn't make code that is embedded inside servlets easy to unit test though, since you still need the servlet container.
I have never used the design I have just mentioned, so I am not sure if it has serious problems or not, but it would be easier to refactor to if someone is migrating an existing Servlet based application (easy enough that it seems like a free way to remove singleton dependencies that would be easier than replacing an existing apps use of servlets all together).
If you write focused tests and remove duplication mercilessly, then the code to instantiate collaborators will naturally move up the call stack to the entry point of the application, completely removing the need for singletons. The entry point becomes Miško's Application Factory.
I can't quite get how this is the case from the example presented. As @Trevor hypothesized, I'm a bit confused on the last step.
Is it because you needn't pass Database, for example, to AuthenticatorPage so it can pass it on to Authenticator? Instead the application startup gives these dependencies to the Factory which injects them behind the scenes when AuthPage requests an instance of Authenticator?
If so, won't it be the case that you'll be passing the Factory instance around everywhere? How is that any better?


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Laura Woodin is passionate about helping leaders and organizations engage and inspire the people who matter to their success. During her tenure with two science-focused Fortune 500 companies, Laura collaborated with global, multi-disciplinary teams to deliver proactive stakeholder engagement strategies that advanced the companies' objectives.
In her global role as Science Media Director at AstraZeneca, Laura identified and created thought-leadership opportunities to communicate the organization's science and partnering strategy. She supported senior leaders in high-profile media interviews and speaking engagements, while building relationships with top tier and trade media and effectively using social media channels to highlight the company's small and large molecule research. She also led communications for the launch of the company's first orphan drug and supported U.S. product teams in the respiratory, neuroscience and oncology therapeutic areas. As a member of the corporate team, Laura led executive engagement, public policy and crisis communications efforts, including working on product liability litigation.
As part of the global Engineering function at DuPont, Laura counseled senior leaders and built internal communications channels to improve employee engagement. She also contributed to the company's focus on STEM education through speaking engagements for leaders and social media campaigns, and served in a crisis communications capacity on behalf of company sites in Delaware.
Laura holds a bachelor's degree in Communications and an MBA from the University of Delaware. She has worked in both the United States and United Kingdom.
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Several months before his passing, a celebration commemorating the 50th anniversary of his ordination was held at Zion Church.
A Festschrift written in his honor was released, titled:Lutheranism, Legacy and Future: Essays in Honor of Eric W. Gritsch.
We were blessed with that final party to honor him to his face as our teacher, mentor, friend and example.


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