Don't get disturbed by the big words…..when we talk about strategies for real estate investment, all that is under consideration is the different ways we can invest in buying plots or homes. Real estate investment is all about finding a suitable property, buying it, dealing with the ownership formalities and then renting or selling it for profit purposes. It's a great way to attain financial freedom and earn some extra coins for a rainy day.
Real estate is capital intensive as properties cost quite a bit and is a little difficult to dispose of in a hurry, but is a solid asset all the same that usually multiplies in value, when managed properly. It involves home loans, cash flows from rent, EMI payments and a host of other factors that need to be properly managed. Most cases of property investment failures have to do with improper understanding and management of the investment, resulting in negative cash flow or shortage of liquid funds to keep the investment viable; such a scenario may also result in loss of profit as well as investment.
For this reason, it's important that we have strategies before going in for real estate investments. However, there is no one particular strategy that guarantees success, so you need to find out first which strategy would be most suitable to your own peculiar particular needs.
This is most common type of investment strategy, practiced by the bi as well as small-time players. It involves buying the property for the purpose of holding it for a long period of time. Even if you are going to be using it for rental purposes in the interim period of waiting for capital gain, it is still going to be known as 'buy and hold' type of investment.
This type of strategy doesn't require too much knowledge of renovations and repairs or maintenance and is pretty much simple to execute.
This form of investment involves buying a run-down property, fixing it up and then selling it with a profit. This type of strategy is practiced by professional real estate investors who renovate the building in as short a time as possible, sell it off with a handsome profit and proceed to do another fix and flip. But you need to have a good team of workers and a little experience to be successful in this type of ventures.
There is more risk and capital involved here, but what actually happens here is that an experienced investor buys a parcel of land, develops it and makes multiple housing units and sells them off at a great profit.
This is the easiest method and involves purchasing land and leaving it increase in value. You don't get any income from it on a regular basis, but do get great capital growth at the end of the day.
Depending on your circumstances, you can choose the strategy that fits your needs.


So, I'm in the final leg of thesis work on my MA, working on last revisions and all that rigmarole. However, I do have some recommendations for those out there looking for something to watch, read, or listen to that they might had missed the first time around. Nothing ground breaking, but these are some of the series and songs that I have been really taken in by lately. Now, some of these are available on Netflix or iTunes, others require a bit of creativity to get, and yet others you will have to purchase, because that's what the artistic teams and artists deserve. Check it out, and if there is something that had really caught your attention or imagination in the past while that you think needs more attention, leave a comment.
I realize that aside from my conference reflection more than a year ago and my piece of Mononoke-hime, I have done very little to give anyone a sense of my academic background. Certainly, I am a 'historian-in-training', an academic at heart, and a creative mess. However, that really doesn't open the floor up for discussion, as it leave too much to the wind. What have I worked on and researched in the past? How have I engaged with cultural history on a level of serious academic contemplation? What topics draw my interest. Well, as a start to this new week, I thought I world provide a list of titles of papers I have completed. Some, which are sort, I have thought of posting to my blog at one point (as I did the Mononoke piece); others I have presented at conferences, or thought of submitting them for possible publication.
Below I have divided them by area (History, Religious Studies, English Literature, Theatre, and then Misc.), but they are in no chronological order. While I will likely not share the entirety of the work, I am more than willing to talk about the process of research and writing, and of course discussion centring around the topics themselves.


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Devlin hoping for strong showing at GP3 Season Finale
After what has felt like an age, GP3 roars back into action for the final time this weekend (23rd – 25th November). Taking to the Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi, Devlin DeFrancesco is looking to end his season on a high.
Road Atlanta
2018 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship
Devlin DeFrancesco to Rejoin JDC Motorsports as part of Motul Petit Le Mans Line up
After a hugely successful debut SportsCar outing earlier this year at the 56th Rolex 24 at Daytona , Devlin will be re-joining the JDC Motorsport team as the head to Georgia for the final round of the 2018 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (10th – 13th October).
Promising pace and great battles for Devlin in Russia
Despite never having visited the track before, Devlin's demonstrated his ever-improving form as the GP3 series hit Sochi, Russia for its penultimate round.
New challenge for Devlin as GP3 heads to Sochi
With only two rounds left of the 2018 GP3 Series season remaining, MP Motorsport's Devlin DeFrancesco is keen to maximise the remaining driving time, looking to end the year on a high with points to boot.
Autodromo Nazionale Monza
Devlin delivers promising pace at Monza despite challenging conditions
It was a promising weekend for Devlin DeFrancesco, as the GP3 series headed to the infamous Autodromo Nazionale Monza. Located just north of Milan, dubbed the 'Temple of Speed' due to it's high speed straights and gruelling long right-hand turns it provides the perfect recipe for on-track battles with ample overtaking opportunities.
Spa-Francochamps
Promising pace yet mechanical woes at Spa
Devlin DeFrancesco showed promise this weekend during the GP3 round at the infamous Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium, but bad luck ultimately meant that his strong turn of pace went unrewarded.
Points a-spa-rations for Devlin
After a long summer break, GP3 returns this weekend at the world-famous Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Belgium, with MP Motorsport's Devlin DeFrancesco eager to get the second half of his season underway.
Hungaroring
Devlin withdraws from Hungarian GP3 round with Illness
Devlin DeFrancesco will miss this weekend's GP3 round at the Hungaroring after falling ill.
Hungry for Hungaroring Success
After an intense double-header to start to his GP3 campaign, the ever hungry Devlin DeFrancesco will head to the Hungaroring this weekend for the next round of the highly competitive GP3 series.
Experience gained for Devlin DeFrancesco at Silverstone
Returning to Silverstone, the scene of some of his best past results, Devlin DeFrancesco gained more invaluable experience in one of the most highly regarded junior categories this weekend.
Shooting for a strong weekend at Silverstone
With barely time to catch his breath, Devlin heads to Silverstone (UK) for the fourth round of the 2018 GP3 series this weekend (6th - 8th July), and his first double header weekend since 2016, after a promising start to his campaign in Austria last weekend.
Strong Start for Devlin DeFrancesco in GP3
With no testing under his belt and no experience of the GP3 cars, Devlin DeFrancesco was thrown in at the deep end this weekend for the third round of the GP3 Series at the Red Bull Ring, but the Canadian-Italian held his own superbly.

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High yielder. Very sativa in structure. Pungent. Wife says kind of smells like cat pee. I think it's just skunky.
Lanky branches that need support. Long buds. Pungent. Was fine with being fed every watering although I did alternate from time to time. Not very bubblegum tasting right now. Might be more AK47 leaning. Skunky smell. Did not require extra cal/mag.
Thanks a bunch folks. This was my biggest harvest yet.
Sweedish chef :joy:. I have missed your grows, but i watched it now and you have done a great jobb. Nice harvest and i will follow your next grows.


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Biografia
Galahad è nato nella capitale del Qatar, a Doha. Suo padre era impiegato nelle forze armate del Qatar e fu rilasciato come parte di un accordo con gli americani dopo la conclusione della guerra del Golfo. All'età di 4 anni, Galahad si trasferì in Inghilterra con i suoi genitori (entrambi provenienti dallo Yemen) per poi stabilirsi a Sheffield. All'età di 13 anni ha iniziato pugilato con l'allenatore Brendan Ingle.

Il suo ring name è stato scelto dall'allenatore Brendan Ingle dal personaggio interpretato da Elvis Presley nel film Pugno proibito (1962).

Carriera pugilistica
Galahad decise di iniziare boxe per tenersi lontano dalla strada e per non seguire le orme dei fratelli che finirono in prigione perché coinvolti in scontri tra gang. Dopo aver deciso di iniziare a frequentare la palestra locale per diventare più grosso notò un ring da boxe, dopo aver effettuato della shadowboxing decise di voler diventare un pugile. Dopo aver incontrato il suo idolo Naseem Hamed, e avergli confessato di voler diventare un campione, gli fu riferito dallo stesso che avrebbe dovuto allenarsi nella palestra di Brendan Ingle, e quindi dopo aver girato un'ora in macchina con la madre, Galahad trovò la palestra.

Galahad ha fatto il debutto da professionista il 5 settembre 2009 al Colosseum di Watford, in Inghilterra, nel quale ha sconfitto Delroy Spencer ai punti.

Il secondo match da professionista ha avuto luogo al Leisure Centre a Altrincham, in Inghilterra, il 3 ottobre 2009 dove ha sconfitto Pavels Senkovs ai punti dopo 4 round.

Ha poi vinto il suo primo incontro per KO il 21 maggio 2010 sconfiggendo Dougie Curran, nel secondo round.

Galahad ha conquistato un record di 10-0 prima di sconfiggere Jason Booth con decisione unanime il 18 febbraio 2012 per ottenere il suo primo titolo WBC International Super-Bantamweight Championship

Galahad ha difeso il titolo una volta contro Josh Wale (incontro vinto per KO tecnico) dopo aver lasciato la cintura.

Galahad ottenne altre due vittorie, sconfiggendo prima Ivan Ruiz e poi Isaac Nettey entrambi per TKO conquistando così un incontro valido il titolo BBBofC il quale ha vinto contro James Dickens sempre per TKO. Successivamente avrebbe poi lasciato anche questo titolo.

Il 22 marzo 2014, Galahad ha vinto il campionato europeo supergallo con una decisione unanime dopo dodici round contro Sergio Prado.

Il 10 maggio 2014, Galahad ha vinto il titolo vacante della categoria supergallo del Commonwealth battendo Fred Mundraby per TKO dopo il round 4.

Galahad ha affrontato Adeilson Dos Santos il 20 settembre 2014 presso la Ponds Forge Arena per il campionato IBF World Youth Super-Bantamweight. Gallahad ha controllato il combattimento, con colpi veloci, ganci e combinazioni inviando Dos Santos a tappeto nel primo round e nel decimo round. Galahad vinse l'incontro con decisione non unanime.

Nell'ottobre 2014 Galahad ha lasciato il titolo europeo per conquistare il titolo mondiale.

Nel maggio 2015, Galahad è stato bandito per 2 anni dopo un test antidroga fallito. È risultato positivo alla sostanza vietata stanozolol, uno steroide anabolizzante. Cerca di difendersi dicendo che suo fratello ha messo gli steroidi nel suo shake proteico dopo che Galahad si è rifiutato di dargli del denaro, e ha presentato appello contro la condanna, ma è stato respinto dall'antidoping inglese e il divieto è stato confermato, e aveva valenza dal 20 settembre 2014.

Galahad ha fatto il suo ritorno al pugilato il 30 aprile 2016 con una vittoria per TKO contro Simas Volosinas al DW Stadium di Wigan, Inghilterra. Questo fu per Galahad il primo incontro non valevole per un titolo dal 2013.

Galahad ha vinto il suo primo titolo dal suo ritorno il 15 luglio 2017, vincendo il titolo vacante IBF Inter-Continental.

Note

Collegamenti esterni

Casi di doping nel pugilato

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Reforming the Haitian educational system is a challenge. But by focusing on the country's rich culture, customs and community, it is possible to make a difference, says the founder of a leadership development organization for teacher-leaders in Haiti.
Nedgine Paul, born in Haiti, was raised in the United States, but her parents made sure she grew up understanding and feeling proud of her Haitian culture.
As an adult, she has chosen to return to the country of her birth to found Anseye Pou Ayiti, a nonprofit dedicated to improving the quality of teaching and learning in Haiti's schools by offering a two-year training fellowship for young leaders as primary school teachers.
Anseye Pou Ayiti's method stresses Haitian culture, customs and community, and has the ambitious goal of serving as a model and resource for what is possible and therefore influencing a reform of the nation's educational system.
It's a difficult task. The public school system is in such poor shape that almost 90 percent of the country's schools are private, with little accountability or consistency. Children are primarily taught in French -- not Creole, most of the children's native tongue -- and the system is based on a colonial model of rote memorization and testing.
The Haitian republic has a proud revolutionary history -- it was founded in 1804 after the enslaved people revolted, resulting in the most successful slave rebellion in history -- but too often it is viewed only through the lens of need, Paul said. In addition, the educational system has ignored -- or even disdained -- local culture. Paul wants to change that.
Anseye Pou Ayiti -- roughly translated as "teach for Haiti" -- recruits current teachers or young professionals interested in becoming teachers for two-year fellowships in which they are placed in rural, underserved primary schools and receive intensive coaching and professional development. The three-year-old nonprofit works in five communities, and aims in five years to have 250 teacher-leader graduates who have impacted 16,000 kids in at least 75 schools across the country.
Before co-founding the organization, Paul worked for Partners In Health, Achievement First and the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut. She has a bachelor's degree from Yale College and an Ed.M. in international education policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
In 2014, she was named among the top global social innovators by Echoing Green. She was selected for the 2016 Forbes list of "30 Under 30" social entrepreneurs and was named a 2016 Praxis Fellow.
An Episcopalian motivated by her Christian faith to pursue this work, Paul also has been named a 2016 Episcopal Church Foundation Fellow.
Paul spoke to Faith & Leadership via Skype from Haiti about her ambitious goals for Anseye Pou Ayiti. The following is an edited transcript.
Q: You could have stayed in the United States and made your life and your career doing something a lot easier than what you're doing now. What is your motivation for working in Haiti?
No. 1 is my faith, very honestly. I believe in what is unseen, and I believe in community. All of my definitions of respect and equity and justice are tied into what I learned from the Bible and what I learned from church. I believe that that mustard seed can grow into something so much bigger.
I will forever be indebted to my parents for helping me not to forget where I came from. It's where I was born, but also [it's what I learned about] the roots of our revolutionary past and what was once global leadership, in terms of Haiti's ability to show what was possible.
I would be so grateful if just one part of our movement and one part of our organization has a few people saying, "We didn't know that was possible, but you helped us understand that this is possible for kids, for our country, and for any other countries who are struggling to show that education equity is possible." So that's what keeps me going.
Q: For people who don't know much about the Haitian educational system, what's the issue you are addressing?
Unfortunately, the school system right now is failing [children] in three ways. One, teaching methodologies are outdated and ineffective. So you have a system still very much tied to this outdated system of rote memorization and passing tests, with very little critical thinking, inquiry, problem solving skills, let alone culturally responsive pedagogy.
This sector is probably one of the last remaining vestiges of our colonial past. We're super proud of everything we did to free ourselves from that system, and yet the school system is still very much tied to that.
The second is that there's very little leadership and capacity building happening in schools.
And then the third piece is accountability. After the earthquake in 2010, there were so many different efforts -- people have always wanted to help, [but] the challenge is they're siloed. Not enough coordination of efforts, and not knowing what works, because very little data is being used to prove what is truly having a transformative impact on students' outcomes.
Q: You emphasize Haitian culture, customs and community. Why is that important, and how does it work in practice?
So I tried to ask, "What has been Haiti at its best? What has led us to not only be revolutionary and freedom fighters but also to truly have success as a people?" And it always came back to leveraging the assets of what's local.
And so it's part of the model to have children understand that to be a proud and active citizen of your nation, you have to know who you are and what your identity looks like. And so a lot of civics and citizenship building is incorporated into our methodology and classrooms.
That's the why. The how -- I'll start with culture.
One of the biggest things is our native language. We want our kids to be bilingual, if not trilingual, but to value and start with Creole. And so we've been doing a lot of work to implement that in our curriculum. This approach is supported by long-standing research that proves that starting in one's mother tongue only accelerates one's ability to learn another language, and learn it well.
The other thing about culture is that kids are learning and growing up beautifully in Haitian homes, but when they get to school, it's as if they've entered into a 19th-century classroom.
And it's unacceptable, because that's a wall between how they're raised as Haitian children in homes versus how they're told to be Haitian students in the classroom. And so we're trying to break down that wall, because it's possible to instill pride of culture and customs in the way learning is carried out in classrooms. We think it's very powerful, for instance, to incorporate a game that children play at home in a way they're learning math, or to incorporate Haitian proverbs and riddles and folk stories in the way they learn social studies and history.
And that, according to our data, has accelerated children's growth and learning dramatically.
And then the third piece is about community. For too long, we've seen a really destructive pattern of kids thinking about "me, me, me," instead of "us." And so what we're trying to do in our classrooms is re-integrate collaborative learning, sharing, small group work and collective leadership.
So if there's a problem in my classroom, let's get together and have a committee of students fix it. If there's something going on in our community, how can I use your strengths and my strengths to make it better together?
Q: Is your work faith-based?
Being raised by an Episcopal priest and being very rooted in my faith, from a young age I started to realize that faith was not just words but actions. I believe truly that Jesus was a social justice warrior.
And so that has infused my definition of equity and justice and respect. And so it will probably come as no surprise that a lot of the core values of our organization are just that.
By no design of our own, but I think by God's great plans, every one of our inaugural fellowship members and staff were believers, actually. That is not a selection criterion and definitely not a requirement, but it's been really powerful to see how Christian leadership, church-based and community leadership has beautifully set up the roots of this movement.
And the other thing I should mention is that many churches right now operate schools in the most difficult and rural parts of our country; in our 30-plus schools, more than half of them are church-affiliated.
I think I'm speaking on behalf of many members of our community -- we have an image that exists beyond what's here on earth. So it's been really powerful to be able to unite ourselves around faith and belief that something's better and something's bigger and brighter.
Q: And what does your early assessment show you about what's working or not working about your concept?
I think in terms of what's working is the three C's -- culture, customs and community. It takes hold of people in ways that we underestimated.
The other thing that's been really powerful for us is peer learning. A lot of people were skeptical that we would find staff in the country.
And it's been so beautiful to have teachers who have been in the classroom for three to five years joined by those who are just entering into their careers, because we've accelerated each other's learning based on strengths and weaknesses they both bring to the table.
And then we started to realize that we won't be successful unless the ethos and the principles and the civics and citizenship we're building among our teachers do not just trickle down but truly become activated and catalyzed by students.
And so we have incredible anecdotes -- of second-graders leading school reform projects and fourth-graders pooling money so that they can have supplies for their schools.
In many ways, our students will be the leaders who lead us forward even before the teachers, and that's an important piece of our work.
One thing that has been difficult is that leadership is broken in many places in Haiti. And so you can try to improve it and inform it at the classroom and school level, but then you have the politics that are everywhere in the country.
And so the big question becomes: How do you walk before you run? How do you do what you do really, really well, without being distracted or discouraged by some of the bigger ecosystem challenges that we face?
Q: So what's your goal as you expand and you scale your project?
Our scale is depth. How deep can you go so that the leader you've invested in is equipped to do so much in his or her community, and the impact of that person is sustainable?
How do we equip students so it will carry them, not just through fourth grade or fifth or sixth grade, but through secondary school and through university?
Q: What success have you had with your teachers?
During the two years of our fellowship program, we're preparing them to play different roles in society as education advocates.
Some of them are becoming school directors. Some of them are staying in the classroom and teaching peers on the weekends -- for instance, leading community development projects alongside members of the community.
We have some of our teachers who are teaching full time and then every week run a weekly radio program to spread the news and answer questions about true education equity so all kids get quality in their schooling.
So those are some of those examples, but overall, it's about Anseye Pou Ayiti figuring out like-minded partners in the country who want to help us create career pathways for our graduates in education.
One of the things that we love about partnership and community building is that we already have many partners who are waiting for our alumni graduates so that they can become teacher coaches, spreading the approach of Anseye Pou Ayiti across an even greater number of schools across the country.
We believe our graduates are uniquely equipped and trained to help their peers.
What we're trying to do with our movement is not just have an anecdote about what is possible but build a framework and structures and systems so that we can replicate it.
We're in it for the long haul. Community building, capacity building, local development -- it doesn't happen in two, three years. And so we're just so grateful that people have stuck with us from the very beginning and understand that our horizon is not two or three years, but it's 20, 25 years.


Posted on Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 at 7:00 pm.
As a community, one of the important aspects/benefits is the exchange of knowledge. Topic Dinners is brought to you by the Taiwanese American Professionals – San Francisco (TAP-SF) Professional Committee. No hired experts, no lectures, just conversation over food. Some of us are more well-versed in issues than others, so the more we help each other, the stronger we become as a community. Let us know if there is a topic that interests you!
This month's event focuses on Patent and Intellectual Property Law. Intellectual property law has always been an important topic in tech-focused Bay Area. With major acquisitions, lawsuits, and court decisions centered around patents recently, the field is full of activity and controversy. Come join your fellow TAP members to discuss the latest issues and trends in IP/Patent law.
1. There have been major patent acquisitions recently (Facebook buying AOL patents for $500M, Google acquires Motorola for patents). What role should patents play in a businesses' strategy?
2. There have also been prominent patent infringement suits in the courts recently – Yahoo suing Facebook, Oracle suing Apple. Were they justified in doing so?
3. What is the healthy balance between patent law protecting IP but also encouraging innovation? What are ways to improve our existing patent law structure?


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Recognized as one of the top dealmakers in New York City, Robert Dvorin has earned the highest honors in his field, and the utmost respect from his clients. His exemplary track record working with developers, investors, international and local buyers and sellers, as well as commercial clients, has commanded countless awards as a NYC sales leader. Most recently, Robert has ranked #91 out of over 1 million real estate professionals nation-wide by the Wall Street Journal in 2016.
In his illustrious career, Robert has sold in excess of $1 billion in property, representing private investments, international funds and developers with consistent success. Robert has marketed and sold apartments and townhouses of all varieties, from large properties in top buildings on Central Park West to downtown lofts and numerous condo and coop sales of all sizes city-wide. A few of these sales include properties at 15 Central Park West, 157 West 57th Street; 56 Leonard Street and 153 Franklin Street in TriBeCa; 88 Bedford Street and 13 Leroy Street in the West Village. In addition to marketing apartments and townhouses Robert also specializes in multi-family and commercial properties such as 39 Lispenard Street, 326-332 Canal Street as well as Walgreens locations in North Carolina, Minnesota and New York that were triple net leased properties. His ground-up development expertise that spans from planning and consulting to innovative marketing, unit design and layout, to the actual sell-out of the property has made him highly sought after by the most prominent developer clients. Robert's in-depth knowledge and opinions on the condition of the residential real estate market, as well as current trends have resulted in repeated appearances on CBS Living Large and LXTV's Open House NYC. Robert has also appeared extensively in print media including The New York Times, The Real Deal, and The Wall Street Journal.
Robert knows what today's buyers are looking for, and helps developers to deliver on their needs while achieving the utmost return on value. Every client appreciates his honest and practical opinions, vast knowledge of the market's current offerings, ability to analyze current and upcoming trends, and his on-target pricing, marketing and negotiation strategies that gets deals done.
In serving the residential market, Robert continues to represent sellers and buyers of high-end luxury properties. He is a trusted expert who is supported by a talented team of professionals consisting of residential specialists, international buyer and seller specialists, commercial and hospitality acquisition team specialists, and property management specialists with strong international representation. A visionary businessman since his pre-teens when he founded a sports memorabilia and trading card company, Robert has an innate ingenuity and drive to succeed that has strengthened over time. Originally from Providence, RI, he moved to New York to attend NYU's Stern School of Business where he earned his undergraduate degree. Robert is now a die-hard New Yorker, devoted husband, and proud father of three daughters .


Boston, Massachusetts; May 26, 2016 — GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc.) today announced the opening of its new Boston office, supporting the company's continued growth in the region and extending the firm's long-term commitment here. GLG, the world's leading platform for professional learning and expertise, continues to grow in revenue, activity, and headcount, including in the Northeast region. The new location keeps GLG in the heart of Boston's financial district and allows the firm to expand its local footprint over the course of the long-term lease.
GLG's new Boston space is in the Winhall Companies' Two Liberty Square building, just off Post Office Square. While increasing space efficiency, the office will allow GLG to grow its Boston headcount by more than 20 percent. GLG opened its first office in Boston in 2002.
"Boston has always been home to leading innovators across industries and the academy, so it's fertile ground for our learning mission," added Darin Clemente, who leads the GLG Boston office as Head of Regional Business Development for North American Financial Services clients.
The new GLG Boston office is located at 2 Liberty Square, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02109.


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          <artifactId>apache-rat-plugin</artifactId>
          <configuration>
            <excludes combine.children="append">
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              <artifactId>maven-invoker-plugin</artifactId>
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Q: Pump events from another thread than the Event Dispatching Thread in Swing In my application, some process that is started in AWT's Event Dispatching Thread (EDT) may be interrupted under particular circumstances. Then it waits for input from the user. Alas, as the process is located in the EDT, the whole application freezes and the user is unable to relaunch the process, thus creating a deadlock. Is there any way to interrupt the EDT and lauch a new event pump from another thread ? Then the user would be able to interact with the UI.
What I am trying to do looks more or less like opening a modal dialog, except that I don't want a dialog because my component is complex. I'd rather display it right inside my root pane. So I had a look at how it's done in java.awt.Dialog, and had a pretty good understanding of it, but the most important classes that are used (EventDispatchThread, SequencedEvent, ...) are protected and therefore inaccessible for me.

Thank you all for your answers.
I'll be more specific. I am actually working on an application which embeds a homegrown scripting language. I am developing a debugger for this language. The debugger (as all debuggers) would stop the script execution whenever a breakpoint is met. The scripted processes can be triggered from many places (including from the EDT) in the code so taking the the process out of the EDT is not an option. I'd like the debugger UI to be embedded in the application (in a side pane to be precise). So when a breakpoint is met I would need the current thread (possibly the EDT, not to say mainly) to be interrupted and at least the debugger's UI should still be responsive. Also I am developing atop of the JDK 1.4 so no way to use JDK7 alas.
What I am currently doing is opening a JDialog with the debugger embedded. It all works fine but as I said I am not fully satisfied by this solution because I would really want my debugger to be embedded right in my main window.

A: If you are using JDK7, you can use the SecondaryLoop interface. An instance of this interface can be created through the EventQueue.createSecondaryLoop method
There was an informative blog post with an example but the server seems to be offline for the moment.
A small edit as I am still not fully sure I understand your question.
If you want to wait for user input from a worker thread, you can use the SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait method and use a blocking method (e.g. show a JOptionPane to retrieve user input). Due to the invokeAndWait your worker thread will be stopped until the Runnable on the EDT is processed. If you use a blocking method on the EDT to retrieve the user input that Runnable will only be finished when the user has provided his/her input

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Helikon–OperaHelikon–Operaunder Dmitry Bertman
Congratulations with the Iolanta's premiere
Today is a very important day for our theatre. From now on one more masterpiece of P. I. Tchaikovsky has appeared in the Helikon-opera's repertoire.
"Nano-opera" has announced the names of participants!
IV International competition for young opera directors "Nano-opera" has announced the names of participants! From over one hundred people, who have sent the applications, only 13 are admitted to the competition. We are thankful to everybody, who have sent the applications and we hope to meet you in 2021, when the anniversary 5th "Nano-opera"!
"Helikon-opera" and Deutsche Oper am Rhein have signed the cooperation agreement
On April 7 "Helikon-opera" and Deutsche Oper am Rhein have signed the cooperation agreement. In the framework of the "Russian seasons" in October 2019 our theatre will go on tour to Germany. In Düsseldorf and Duisburg the helikonians will present the gala-concert "From Russia with love".
The theatre day Helikon-opera has celebrated by the amazing premiere of the "Orlando, Orlando"!
From March 27 to 31 the premiere of "Orlando, Orlando" performance based on music of G. Handel and Gabriel Prokofiev took place in the Helikon-opera. Congratulations to our soloists, actors, everybody who helped us to fell in love to the baroque music, who gifted us these emotions, these feelings, these thoughts and experience!
"Helikon-opera" and "Cesvir" (Centro Economia e Sviluppo Italo-Russo) have signed the cooperation agreement
On March 26 the ceremony of signing the cooperation agreement between Moscow musical theatre "Helikon-opera" and "Cesvir" (Centro Economia e Sviluppo Italo-Russo) took place in the "Helikon-opera".
«Helikon» will present the theatrical gala-concert "The legends of the Moscow opera" in Cannes (France)
On the 13th of March the Helikon-opera actors will perform in Palace of Festivals and Conferences (Cannes, France) with the theatrical gala-concert "The legends of the Moscow opera".
The "Helikon-opera" theatre will move on tour to Vienna!
From 21 to 22 of February in Vienna in the Theater an der Wien the heliconians will present the "pearls" of the opera art, the masterpieces of the great P.I. Tchaikovsky: "Mazeppa", "Undina" and "Iolanta".
We present the members of the media jury of the "Nano-opera" competition in the 2019!
Young directors are also evaluated by a media jury consisting of the country's leading music critics, representatives of radio and television.
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Q: Can I build an abstract visitor using a typelist? So I have an abstract class that is the base of any visitor that using a collection of objects:
class visitor
{
  virtual void visit(foo) = 0;
  virtual void visit(bar) = 0;
  virtual void visit(baz) = 0;
  virtual void visit(quux) = 0;
};

But I also have all of these types saved in a boost::mpl::list:
using type_list = boost::mpl::list<
  foo,
  bar,
  baz,
  quux
>;

It seems like a shame to have to update the visitor class whenever I add a new type... is there any way I can generate the visitor class automatically by passing it the type_list?
std::enable_if and boost::mpl::find seems to be the way to go, but I can't template virtual methods can I?

A: You can't variadic template virtual methods, but you can template base classes:
template<class T> class singleVisitorBase { virtual void visit(T) = 0; };

template<class list> class visitor;
template<class... Ts> class visitor<boost::mpl::list<Ts...>>
    : singleVisitorBase<Ts>... {};

Another approach is to use recursive inheritance:
template<class list> class visitor;
template<> class visitor<boost::mpl::list<>> {};
template<class T, class... Ts> class visitor<boost::mpl::list<T, Ts...>>
    : singleVisitorBase<T>, visitor<boost::mpl::list<Ts...>> {};

However, I prefer single-level multiple inheritance as it produces cleaner type hierarchies that are easier to inspect in a debugger.
In either of these cases there is some space overhead as visitor will contain n vtable pointers into its vtable, to allow for cast-to-base-type. An alternative with less space overhead but significant compile time overhead is to use Boost.Preprocessor to generate an n-length class body via BOOST_PP_REPEAT:
template<class list, std::size_t N> class visitorImpl;
#define VISITOR_MAX 32
#define VISITOR_VISIT(z,I,_) \
    virtual void visit(typename boost::mpl::at<list, I>::type) = 0;
#define VISITOR_CLASS(z,N,_) \
template<class list>         \
class visitorImpl<list, N>   \
{                            \
    BOOST_PP_REPEAT(N, VISITOR_VISIT, ) \
};
BOOST_PP_REPEAT(VISITOR_MAX, VISITOR_CLASS, )
template<class list> using visitor
    = visitorImpl<list, typename boost::mpl::size<list>::type::value>;


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Q: AWS CloudFormation: Writing a Lambda function to verify domain ownership for ACM Certificates I am creating an ACM Cert in CloudFormation.  Based on this documentation, AWS sends out an email to the addresses registered in WHOIS.
The docs for CloudFormation say:

Important
When you use the AWS::CertificateManager::Certificate
  resource in an AWS CloudFormation stack, the stack will remain in the
  CREATE_IN_PROGRESS state and any further stack operations will be
  delayed until you act upon the instructions in the certificate
  validation email.

Usually for similar things, like creating and accepting a VPC peering connection in multiple accounts, or enabling SNS Topic subscriptions that are created in CFN, I write a lambda function as a Custom Resource to handle that.
What would be the API calls needed to verify domain ownership?  Can this even be done in a Lambda function?
Chances are the emails will go to the IT Manager, but it would be nice to have that automated.

A: There is no API call to verify domain ownership as this need to verified with Email on your whois records.
You can also automate it this way. Change the technical contact email address of whois records to an ses domain email address.
SES Email --> S3 Bucket (Trigger) --> Lambda (Confirm with the link in the content of email).
You need to revert your email address back to your inbox, incase of any email need to be delivered for Technical contact relating to your domain or subdomain.
Documentation on domain verification:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/acm/latest/userguide/gs-acm-validate.html
Thx !

A: This repo aws-cfn-acm contains a CloudFormation template including a Lambda function that works in a similar way to your requirements.
The Lambda function automates the certificate validation by the DNS method, not the EMAIL method you are using. It requires the domain name related to the certificate must be hosted in name.com. name.com provides an API service that the Lambda functions can leverage on. It should be easy to extend to support other DNS service providers.
The template is using the inline Lambda function, the code is not easy to read, here's a well-formatted version of the Lambda function.


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import java.security.Principal;

public class Employee implements Principal {

	private String name;
	private String password;
	private EmployeeRole role;

	public Employee(String name, String password, EmployeeRole role) {
		this.name = name;
		this.password = password;
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	}

	public boolean isPasswordValid(String password) {
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The goal of subject is to teach students to work independently on a given topic in professional groups. This style of teaching is very desirable especially with regard to future employment, which is usually required to address the independence of the technical problem. Students will be able to mutual coordination in the challenge of work and cooperation among colleagues in a working group with a progressive roles diversification. These requirements on the student belongs to the category of soft-skills and they can contribute to obtain better possition in employment market.It is important preparation for the thesis elaboration and the student's professional career. Students are able to solve a given part of technic subject, but in cooperation of the process solutions and networking solutions to the partial results with the team.
Bachelor project is independent work of students commonly solved in the 3-5man team in laboratory work by 2 hours per week. The theme of this bachelor project depends on the student's technical orientation and mutual agreement between students and teacher. Projects topics are offered by teachers. Bachelor project is the culmination of the protocols results from the previous subjects and provides an overall interconnection of individual parts, and successfully implemented the project results by a group of students.
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From all of us here at OpTruth, and our member veterans all across the country, we want to say thanks to everyone who donated in support of OpTruth's new ad campaign. You can see your contributions at work on the Federal Page of Tuesday's Washington Post. That put the ad's message, which calls on the President and Congress to immediately step up in support of America's newest Veterans, squarely in front of the policy makers in Washington.
We hope to run this ad in other newspapers all over the country, so if you haven't had the opportunity yet to donate, it's not too late! The contribution process is quick and easy, so please consider making a donation today to help keep the ball rolling.
This week, the President and Congress are faced with a choice to stand either with or against our Veterans. The Bush Administration recently admitted that they miscalculated the health care costs for Veterans of the War on Terror by at least $1 billion this year and $3 billion next year. That means four-out-of-five returning Veterans could be turned away from care at the V.A.
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This ad calls on President Bush, in no uncertain terms, to provide the leadership needed to ensure that America's promise to Support the Troops isn't broken. It also demands that Congress pass the Senate's version of an emergency spending bill to cover this year's $1-billion shortfall, and next year's $3-billion budget gap.
$12,000 will buy one, quarter-page ad in The Washington Post on an unspecified day. For $25,000, we get to pick a date when the ad is guaranteed to run, and given the timely nature of this issue, that could be crucial. But our goal is really to raise enough by Friday to run the ad as a full page this week: $95,000.
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Reidy's Home of Music is a large musical instrument retailer based in Blackburn, Lancashire.

A family-run business, Reidy's Home of Music opened in 1922 and specialised in selling sheet music and musical instruments. It has since gone on to become one of the largest online music stores in the world and an iconic name in the Lancashire area. In the 1960s, in a meeting held above the Blackburn music store the decision was made to name a local music group "The Four Pennies", after "Penny Street", the street Reidy's was situated on, until 2013, when it relocated. Reidy's now stocks a wide range of musical instruments from multiple manufacturers, most notably, Fender and Yamaha.

Relocation
In September 2013, Reidy's Home of Music celebrated its 90th anniversary with the official unveiling of its brand new 6,500 square foot store on Nab Lane, just off Feilden St, Blackburn. Here they expanded their guitar and piano departments, and dispensed with their CD and vinyl records departments. They introduced the Reidy's Live Stage, a permanent sound stage designed to showcase local bands and regular talent competitions, however it has also played host to well-established artists such as Wilko Johnson.

Internet store
In 2001 Reidy's opened its internet store, which specialises in selling keyboards, pianos, amps and guitars among other musical instruments worldwide. It currently stocks over 30,000 items, including over 4,000 guitars and over 1,000 keyboards, making it one of the largest online music stores in the world.

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Console Games News Xbox ONE
Talking Tunic with its Creator Andrew Shouldice
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Since its debut during the Xbox E3 2018 Briefing, players have been patiently waiting for the launch of Tunic, an action-adventure gameabout a tiny fox in a big world. We look forward to the day we can explore the mysterious island and its secrets, but in the meantime, we caught up with the creator of Tunic, Andrew Shouldice, about the game's E3 2018 debut, updates on development, and the inspirations behind the game.
Q: The last time we had a chance to go hands-on with Tunic, it was E3 2018. Can you give us an update on the game on what features you've been working on since then?
A: It's a secret!
Ok ok, here's a peek. Day-to-day, I'm working on a pretty diverse set of things: making boss fights, building new areas, modelling environmental details, fine-tuning feel — there's always something to do. Now more than ever, production is an enormous concrete to-do list, rather than a set of vague questions.
In the past few years, Tunic has more solidly figured out what its overall shape is. I've always known that it's a game about exploration, combat, and secrets, but exactly how that forms into a cohesive whole is a complex problem to solve. In retrospect, the structure hasn't changed too much, but my confidence in the details has crystalized.
Q: Take us back to what it felt like to see Tunic appear during the Xbox E3 2018 Briefing. Did you know your game was going to get such a prominent spot during the show?
A: We knew the trailer was going to be featured in the press conference, but we didn't know when it was going to show up. We were sitting in the Microsoft Theatre, and every time the screen went black between trailers, we tensed up, not knowing if this was the moment or not. It was heart-pounding, but in a good way. Seeing the trailer up there, representing so much work and anxiety — not just on the trailer, but the game itself — was pretty amazing. It was one of those "hhhhuh, I guess this is really happening" moments.
What I also didn't know was that Phil Spencer himself was going to segue out of the trailer and mention my hometown of Halifax, Nova Scotia. That was a real cherry-on-top.
Q: What struck us during our time with the game were the similarities to another tunic wearing hero – all good comparisons in our book. What other inspirations are you drawing from in the creation for your hero and world?
A: Tunic wears a lot of its influences on its sleeve, for sure. A lot of people mention The Legend of Zelda series, and there's definitely a through line there. If I were to compare Tunic to a Zelda game though, it would be, more than any other, the very first one. I have a soft spot for games where you're given very little direction aside from "go find the treasure, it's out there somewhere" — games where uncovering secrets feels like you really found something, as opposed to just getting to "Chapter 4: In Which The Protagonist Finds The Secret".
It's hard to be absolutely sure where each part of the game came from, but I can name a few things I've actively admired while trying to get things right while making Tunic. The feeling of dodging through an attack and being perfectly positioned to land your own hits, from Bloodborne. The sublime, perfect isometry of Monument Valley. The mystifying, ever-present text of FEZ. The sprawling yet intricately connected world of Dark Souls. The imposing and boxlike villains in The Secret of Kells. The ruined world of a powerful civilization, from Nausicaä and Laputa. The dumbfounding and world-spanning riddles of La Mulana and Myst.
If Tunic manages to synthesize all these and can give people at least a fraction of those feelings, I'll be happy.
Q: As a game designer, how do you like to balance the diversity of combat vs. exploration vs. puzzle solving? Do you think you've struck that "perfect" balance here with Tunic? Why or why not?
A: It's tricky! I'm not going to boast that anything is "perfect," but pacing is something we spend a lot of time thinking about.
I'm actually not the biggest puzzle room fan, at least not in this kind of game, and at least not in the traditional sense. Maybe I'm overly cynical, but I raise an eyebrow at the idea that someone would lock their treasures away with a block-pushing puzzle. Don't get me wrong, I love a good Sokoban game, but seeing one passed off as a security system feels a bit like busy work made for Me The Player, not a plausible part of the world.
That's not to say there aren't problems to figure out in Tunic — they just take on a different form. I'd rather people ask "wait, how do I get there?" or "I wonder what this was for".
Q: When can we look forward to playing Tunic again? Do you have a target launch date you're aiming for or is it more of a "When it's done, it's done" release?
A: No official launch date yet. 🙂
Thanks to Andrew Shouldice for taking the time to share these exciting updates about Tunic. For the latest news on the upcoming title, stay tuned here on Xbox Wire.
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An eight week consultation starts today (August 28) to hear the public's views on a series of proposed cost-saving and future growth measures to make the County's household recycling centres (local tips) affordable for the future.
The ten centres are well used and extremely popular, however, the County Council is having to reduce costs across all its services as funding reductions in the public sector continue to bite.
National figures show that in comparison with other areas, Buckinghamshire has a much higher number of sites serving its population. In addition, centres currently take certain waste like rubble, soil, plasterboard and car tyres for free where other Councils make a variety of disposal charges.
Buckinghamshire County Council Cabinet Member for Planning and Environment, Bill Chapple OBE said the review was a 'reluctant but necessary step'.
He said: "We have an extremely tough budget to meet from April 2019 onwards and this means facing up to some difficult decisions. There definitely needs to be changes, but my overall aim is to retain a service that still works for the majority of people going forward.
"Looking at all the data available, the responses to our user surveys and what other councils do, and bearing in mind the views of residents at four focus groups we held in July, there are some preferred options that we are setting out in the consultation. Realistically, without these, we're not going to get anywhere near our financial savings target.
"For example, there is a proposal to permanently close at least one site, with the preferred option being Bledlow. We are also including other proposals for closing two sites, Bledlow and Burnham, and to bring in selected weekday closures on days when the sites at Burnham, Chesham and Aylesbury (Rabans Lane) are less used.
"We're also proposing to introduce charging at all sites for specific waste that we don't legally have to accept for free. I completely understand that people don't like being faced with extra charges, however, I have taken into account the fact that less than a third of waste falls into this category, so the charges won't affect everyone and it also brings us into line with what other councils do.
The Council also plans to extend the operation of reuse shops (currently at Aston Clinton and High Wycombe and run by South Bucks Hospice) so more can be recycled and sold with the money going to charity.
The consultation runs until midnight on Monday, October 22. Access to the online survey and supporting information is available at www.buckscc.gov.uk/hrc-review A series of drop-in events is also planned in local libraries so people can find out more details about the proposals.
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World Photos - North America
Cuba 2017.04
Havana - Cuba April 2017 Tour
In April we traveled to Cuba (Havana - pop 2.1 million, Cienfuegos - pop 150,000, and Trinidad - pop 15,000) on a Cultural Exchange with the Grand Circle Foundation. It really was a cultural experience. Besides the travel we met individually wth 6-8 entrepreneurs creating capitalist companies alongside the socialist system of Cuba. Throughout this commentary, I am borrowing occasionally from thoughts written by Bob Totten, a new friend and fellow traveler. We met with artists, sculpters, musicians, farmers, dancers, architects, trade unionists, fishermen, residents of a senior center, and kids and teachers at a day care center. We found it safe, the food was good, the weather was good. People were welcoming often stopping us on the street, "Where are you from? What are you doing here? What do you think of Cuba?" Our Spanish came back considerably making these less than rhetorical questions.
So we were on a Cultural Exchange - but by the end I began to suspect that it was carefully designed to show us only the best of Cuba. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but we saw a carefully filtered view of the country, one that omitted showing us a dark underbelly of the country.
Jaimanitas
Hemmingway is (was?) a big deal in Cuba. It was here he wrote The Old Man and the Sea. He lived in the country for 20 years (we visited his house). And there are artifacts of his time here, like this mural commemorating and encounter between Hemingway and Castro in this village some 50 years ago.


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Q: Facebook OG Meta with Angular and Node I am trying to get my angular / node application to render dynamic Open graph meta content.
I have been trying to follow this tutorial http://www.codewarmer.com/posts/1394433236-configuring-angularjs-nodejs-for-search-bots#!
I am having some problems with phantom working with node, my issue seems to be similar to this Error message when using PhantomJS, breaks at random intervals
except that my error does not happen at random intervals, it happens all the time.
EDIT: Here is my code
In my server.js I require a module i created based on the above tut called PhantomHandler.js and it is called like so.
var crawler = require('./modules/PhantomHandler');

This is what PhantomHandler.js looks like:
    var phantom = require('phantom');
var models = require('../models');

mongoose = require('mongoose');
Snapshot = models.Snapshot;

url = require('url');
var baseUrl = 'my url';

function crawlSite(idx, arr, page, callback) {
    crawlUrl(arr[idx], page, function(data) {
        data.links.forEach(function(link) {
            if (arr.indexOf(link) < 0)
                arr.push(link);
        });
        Snapshot.upsert(data);

        if (++idx === arr.length)
            callback();
        else
            crawlSite(idx, arr, page, callback);
    });
}

function startPhantom(cb) {
    phantom.create(function(ph) {
        phInstance = ph;
        ph.createPage(function(page) {
            phPage = page;
            cb(ph, page);
        });
    });
}

function crawlUrl(path, page, cb) {
    uri = url.resolve(baseUrl, path);

    page.open(uri, function(status) {
        var evaluateCb = function(result) {
            result.path = path;
            cb(result);
        };
        //Timeout 2000ms seems pretty enough for majority ajax apps
        setTimeout(function() {
            if (status == 'success')
                page.evaluate(function() {
                    var linkTags = document.querySelectorAll('a:not([rel="nofollow"])');
                    var links = [];
                    for (var i = 0, ln; ln = linkTags[i]; i++)
                        links.push(ln.getAttribute('href'));

                    return {
                        'links': links,
                        'html': document.documentElement.outerHTML
                    };
                }, evaluateCb);
        }, 2000);
    });
}

exports.crawlAll = function(callback) {
    startPhantom(function(ph, page) {
        crawlSite(0, ['/'], page, function() {
            ph.exit();
            callback();
        });
    });
};

exports.crawlOne = function(path, callback) {
    startPhantom(function(ph, page) {
        crawlUrl(path, page, function(data) {
            Snapshot.upsert(data);
            ph.exit();
            callback();
        });
    });
};

When i run this code my exact error is:
    phantom stderr: 'phantomjs' is not recognized as an internal or exte
,
operable program or batch file.

assert.js:92
  throw new assert.AssertionError({
        ^
AssertionError: abnormal phantomjs exit code: 1
    at Console.assert (console.js:102:23)
    at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (path to node modules\node_modules\phantom\phantom.js:150:28)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:98:17)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:809:12)

My question: Is this the best easiest way to go about getting angular to play nicely with Facebook OG? If it is can anyone else confirm if they have managed to get this technique to work with out phantom throwing an assertion error as described above.
It seems like this should be a relatively common job and I am surprised that I haven't found a nice straight forward tutorial on how to get this to work, unless i just haven't looked properly :s
Thanks

A: Okay,
Because my question was essentially "What is the best way to get angular and node to respond to Facebook with the correct page meta". I am now in a position to post my answer to this.

*

*As stated above I think that using the phantom.js method described above requires phantom to be installed and to run as a separate process on the node.js server. (Can anyone confirm or deny this?)

*For my situation I just wanted a user to be able to post a link from the site onto Facebook and for Facebook to return a nice looking link using open graph meta.
With that in mind I decided to skip the phantom.js step from the solution in the tutorial above. Instead I rolled some code which essentially saves an HTML snippet into the DB when a user hits a page. The HTML snippet just contains the meta tags I need for Facebook. I then use the last part of the above tutorial to direct Facebook bots to my saved HTML snippet.
It seems to work pretty well.


> >> I'm curious why virtualbox has gained so much inertia so quickly.
> >> related to it, I have almost zero confidence in it being reliable.
> > 4) It is not from Red Hat.
> 5) Free as in beer Windows guest driver binaries?
> guest drivers unless you're a RHEL customer.


Spy Harder: Agents, catfights, valentines and splits.
New Timeslot: Traditionally, Fridays are where Fox sci-fi shows go to die—but Fringe already has a sizable built-in audience that'll (theoretically) follow it anywhere. Besides, The X-Files did just fine there … 15 years ago—and Scully and Mulder weren't competing for the same eyeballs against a show like The CW's Supernatural. The good news: In its Friday debut on Jan. 21, Fringe brought over the entirety of its Thursday crowd; if those numbers hold, Fringe just might succeed where (cue Peter Griffin voice) Dark Angel, Firefly, Fastlane, Wonderfalls, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Dollhouse, The Good Guys and so many others failed miserably. The bad news: Supernatural isn't a rerun tonight.
The Movie Event of 2011: At least, that's how Syfy is pitching it—and who can argue with a mutated-critter flick featuring a throwdown catfight between '80s teen-pop starlettes Debbie Gibson and Tiffany(!), both of whom contributed a new song(!!) to the soundtrack? Gibson plays a loony animal-rights activist who steals genetically modified-and-growing pythons from a lab and sets them free in the swamp; Tiffany plays a loonier local sheriff whose fiance is eaten by said pythons and, after uttering the soon-to-be-immortal line, "We're gonna need a bigger gator!", feeds super-steroids to alligators to even up the food chain. Hysterical Acting!, winking '80s references ("I don't hear anything … I think we're alone now," Tiffany deadpans), mid-budget CGI and dozens of dismembered rednecks ensue. Sadly (spoiler), Deb and Tiff won't be able to appear in Mega Python vs. Gatoroid 2—Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, however, should be available by then.
A jaded television reporter (Jennifer Love Hewitt) stumbles upon the story of an old lady (Betty White, as per TV law) who's waited for her missing-in-action World War II pilot husband to show up at the train station every Valentine's Day for 67 years. This leads the reporter to begin a search for the missing husband, as well as start up a romance with the old lady's son, even though she's already sorta-involved with a news photographer who happens to be out of town. Lesson: Love never dies, and TV news reporters are easy.
Dear Chuck writers: Either split up Chuck (Zachary Levi) and Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski), or just kill Sarah (note the name of the show). Everything else is still working in Season 4—hell, even Jeffster haven't worn out their welcome yet—but the spy-couple angle is beyond played, as evidenced by the demise of NBC's Undercovers (remember that?) and the boyfriend body count on The CW's Nikita (at least her break-ups are quick, easy and cleaned up by a tactical team). Dump Sarah or kill her on the Valentine's Day episode next month—The Only TV Column That Matters™ is nothing if not sentimental.


It's "Alive" meets "Before Sunrise"!
"The Mountain Between Us" is one of those movies that's impossible to watch without imagining the elevator pitch that got the project off the ground (yes, it was adapted from a Charles Martin novel of the same name, but someone still had to sell Hollywood on the idea). "It's 'The Grey' meets 'The English Patient'!" "It's 'Alive' meets 'Before Sunrise'!" "It's 'Cast Away,' but if Tom Hanks was a little horny for Wilson!" Amusingly billed as a "romance-disaster" on the film's Wikipedia page, Hany Abu-Assad's dreary but diverting high-altitude epic is a "will they or won't they?" flirtation superimposed onto a classic story of survival. It's fantastically unrealistic stuff from the first minute to the last (and there are far too many minutes between them), but Idris Elba and Kate Winslet generate enough heat to keep the frostbite at bay, and Mandy Walker's stunning location cinematography ensures that the film looks considerably more authentic than it feels.
The first sign that "The Mountain Between Us" might be a little light-headed comes before the film even goes above sea level. A rugged and reckless photojournalist named Alex Martin (Winslet) bounds into an airport somewhere out West, eager to get back to New York City for her wedding the next day. And if it sounds like she's cutting it a little close, wait until you meet Dr. Ben Bass (Elba), a neurosurgeon who's racing back to Manhattan in order to operate on a 10-year-old boy. Even if the forecast didn't call for a massive storm — one that grounds all outgoing commercial flights — a responsible doctor would probably not choose to fly in the night before a major procedure (and Ben is a responsible doctor, his prudent nature a sharp contrast to Alex's relative impulsiveness).
But Alex has a bright idea, and she shares that idea with Ben because… well, it's not entirely clear why she shares it with Ben. Maybe she wants to split the cost? Or could it be that there's something else that makes the imminent bride want to spend the day with an obscenely handsome stranger? Either way, she ropes him into chartering a plane to Denver, and away they go.
A Dutch-Palestinian director whose previous features include the politically supercharged "Paradise Now" and the inspirational singing competition drama "The Idol," Abu-Assad is both a fire-starter and a classicist, and his glossiest project to date finds him compromising on each of his strengths in order to play into them both. The crash sequence, which arrives just a few minutes into the film, is telling proof that he's unsure of how gruesome his movie should be. The dread building up to the disaster is effectively nauseating, as Abu-Assad plants the camera in the cabin of the tiny private airplane and waits for the inevitable. The immediacy of this approach does a good job of foregrounding the characters (even the dopey pilot, who's played by Beau Bridges and memorable only for the incredible golden labrador who serves as his navigator), but the calamity itself is shot with the dreamy politeness of a snow globe that's been gently turned upside down. It doesn't look fun, per se, but Kate Winslet has survived worse.
Working from a Chris Weitz and J. Mills Goodloe script that's as wildly uneven as the terrain on which it takes place, Abu-Assad's inability to balance the raw against the romantic only grows more frustrating as the story continues. "The Mountain Between Us" wants to convey that its odd couple is on the brink of death, but it also needs to sell us on the idea that Ben and Alex might not mind being stuck together. The closer they come to freezing to death, the hotter they get for each other. Unfortunately, one of the drawbacks of shooting atop the 11,000-foot peaks of British Columbia's Purcell Mountains is that the scenery is too vividly freezing for the drama to thaw into anything real.
Alex has a badly broken leg and Ben is bruised all over, but not even hypothermia can make these characters as weak as their writing. Alex is an extrovert with a world that's waiting for her back home, while Ben is a reserved man with a buried secret and an arsenal of MacGyver-like skills; that's really the only tension between them. She wants to hobble her way back down to civilization, while he wants to wait to be rescued inside the busted fuselage. The only time they feel like a believable couple is when they bicker over the right strategy (the nameless dog — such a good boy — serving as the child that galvanizes their makeshift family).
Elba and Winslet are so naturally magnetic that it's easy to ignore the dramatic entropy of their brief encounter and project a deeper set of desires onto their characters; it's easy to pretend that Ben didn't actually just say "I need to occupy my amygdala" when he's trying to excuse his "Candy Crush" habit (the accent helps), or ignore the fact that Alex is as very smart woman who does exclusively stupid things. Small doses of dark humor help keep things steady as our heroes make their way downhill, but it's not enough to distract us from the notion that the real mountain between them… was love.
"The heart is nothing but a muscle," Ben declares, but sometimes — he learns — you need its strength to survive. Maudlin and majestic in equal measure, "The Mountain Between Us" suffers the same paralyzing indecision that afflicts Alex and Ben: It can't figure out if it wants to live, or if it just wants to make it out alive, and that makes it overstretched third act into the trying ordeal of all. Abu-Assad knows that a little risk can go a long way, but every choice feels like a matter of life or death when you're standing on top of the world.
"The Mountain Between Us" opens in theaters on October 6.


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Rae Sremmurd Team Up With Nicki Minaj & Young Thug On "Throw Sum Mo": Listen
Bianca Gracie @BiancaEnRogue | December 9, 2014 6:22 am
Rae Sremmurd On 'Fallon': Watch
The rap duo perform their two hits on the late night show.
Rae Sremmurd are proving that they are no two-hit wonder! The Mississippi-bred rap duo have called on Nicki Minaj and Young Thug for their new song, "Throw Sum Mo." The bubbling uptempo is ready for the club, as the rappers talk about strippers, throwing dollar bills and big booties (duh). It is an infectious tune that will sound good in your car's subwoofers as well as your next turn-up party!
"Throw Sum Mo" follows the duo's breakthrough tracks "No Flex Zone" and "No Type." Look out for Rae Sremmurd's debut album, SremmLife, on January 6 via Ear Drummer/Interscope. Check out their new song, as well as the LP tracklisting after the jump!
Nicki Minaj Is Glam For 'Vogue Italia'
SremmLife Tracklisting
1. "Lit Like Bic"
2. "Unlock the Swag" (feat. Jace of Two-9)
3. "No Flex Zone"
4. "My X"
5. "This Could Be Us"
6. "Come Get Her"
7. "Up Like Trump"
8. "Throw Sum Mo" (feat. Nicki Minaj & Young Thug)
9. "Yno" (feat. Big Sean)
10. "No Type"
11. "Safe Sex Pay Checks"
Get an eyeful of even more pop music coverage, from artist interviews to exclusive performances, on Idolator's YouTube channel.
Tags: Nicki Minaj, Rae Sremmurd, Young Thug


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Here's what you need to know about the trouble with taxes this year
What was a personal finance issue is now a political football, too. We break it down.
Here's what you need to know about the trouble with taxes this year What was a personal finance issue is now a political football, too. We break it down. Check out this story on news-leader.com: https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/politics/2019/02/24/missouri-taxes-explained-2019-tax-season/2951010002/
Austin Huguelet, Springfield News-Leader Published 11:45 a.m. CT Feb. 24, 2019
JEFFERSON CITY — The 2019 tax season is off to a rough start in the Show-Me State.
Missouri's top tax collector, Department of Revenue Director Joel Walters, has been apologizing for the last two weeks about an error in the state's withholding tables his department said in September could contribute to lower refunds or increased bills for some filers.
Missouri taxpayers are starting to see those changes and calling their representatives in Jefferson City about it.
And those representatives are going after Walters for failing to communicate with taxpayers. Oh, and now the governor is calling that "political grandstanding."
It's a bit of a mess. Let's break it down.
Joel Walters is director of the Missouri Department of Revenue (Photo: Missouri DOR)
As Walters has said over and over to lawmakers, the whole problem began with changes in federal tax law.
The $1.5 trillion tax cut passed last year by President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans made it so many people will pay less in overall taxes from paycheck to paycheck, especially if they're well-off.
But it also complicated things in early 2018, when the IRS updated rules for taking taxes out of paychecks.
And in July, the Government Accountability Office said that if taxpayers didn't adjust their withholding, the IRS's update would have more of them withholding too little and fewer people withholding too much. Translation: fewer refunds and more bills.
MORE: Springfield's largest teacher union endorses $168 million school bond issue
Changes to the standard deduction and various tax credits also stand to complicate things depending on the individual filer.
So while the state's error on its withholding tables didn't help matters, it's not clear it's the chief cause of anyone's woes.
Walters said the change the department made amounted to $3 per paycheck for someone making $30,000 per year in a brief interview this week.
The Department has provided tables simulating possible scenarios factoring in all changes.
In one, a married couple making a total of $100,000 and each claiming one dependent goes from a refund of $516 in 2017 to $57 in 2018.
In another, a single filer with no dependents that made $36,000 goes from a $53 refund in 2017 to a $58 invoice in 2018.
New websites offer transparency: How much do state workers make? How are your taxes spent?
What are lawmakers doing about it?
House Minority Leader Crystal Quade, D-Springfield, has filed bills that would extend the deadline to pay state tax bills for two months and waive penalties and fines for those who enter into payment agreements with the Department of Revenue.
It's not clear whether they'll go anywhere. Neither has received a committee assignment.
House Republican leaders also formed a committee, led by Rep. Robert Ross, R-Yukon, to look into the state's withholding error and the Department of Revenue's response.
MORE: Nixa rep looks to close primaries, require voters to choose a side
For the last two Wednesdays, Walters has come in and answered questions, and lawmakers have extracted apologies and some information.
They've also chastised him for what they consider an enormous failure to communicate.
They noted a September news release announcing the department had corrected the error offered no indication of the magnitude of the problem. They've pointed out the department's social media messages to some 2,000 Twitter followers and less than 1,000 Facebook likes aren't likely reaching all 3.6 million Missouri taxpayers.
Gov. Mike Parson (Photo: Andrew Jansen/News-Leader)
And they've apparently irked Gov. Mike Parson.
When asked Thursday about the ongoing hearings, he told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch his office had worked with the department to correct the problem and "focus on solutions, not political grandstanding."
That, in turn, prompted House leaders to fire back.
"It is unfortunate that the executive branch is confusing grandstanding with standing up for the taxpayers," Ross said in a statement.
And to Dave Robertson, a political science professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, there's not much reason for either side to back down on an issue that could stick around for a while.
MORE: As Missouri drafts its first medical marijuana rules, a forum will come to Springfield
Representatives, he said, are effectively inoculating themselves from constituent anger by going after Walters.
"You don't get the opportunity to stand and be self-righteous for your constituents every day," he said, "and they're getting a chance to do that in the place where it hits people most — in their pocketbooks."
Parson, on the other hand, is Walters' boss and has to bear in mind that Democrats can use the issue against him if he runs for a full term in 2020. Robertson said that while Parson can't do anything now about the department's error, he might be able to avoid being tied to the issue by trying to persuade the public that the legislature is "making a mountain out of a molehill."
Try using the IRS's Paycheck Checkup calculator to see if your withholding should be adjusted. (Photo: GETTY IMAGES)
You can check the IRS's Paycheck Checkup calculator at irs.gov/paycheck-checkup and see how much you should be withholding. The Missouri Department of Revenue has a similar calculator on its website at mytax.mo.gov/rptp/portal/home/withholding-calculator.
There are also ways to get help with filing.
The Springfield-Greene County Library system maintains a website at thelibrary.org/taxes answering questions including where and when to get free tax help.
The Department of Revenue has set up a dedicated hotline offering assistance at 573-522-0967.
There is also a state tax assistance center at 149 Park Central Square, Room 328B, which has free print copies of Missouri tax forms.
Missouri State University and other organizations also help people making less than $55,000 per year fill out their forms; appointments can be set by calling 211 or 417-720-2000.
And any household that earned $66,000 or less in 2018 can also file both federal and state returns through MyFreeTaxes.com, a collaboration between United Way and H&R Block.
Missouri taxpayers who end up owing the state money can also set up installment plans online at dor.mo.gov/cacs/. The IRS offers a similar application at https://www.irs.gov/payments/online-payment-agreement-application.
News-Leader reporter Gregory Holman contributed to this report.
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Q: link causes line spacing issue in IE I have a paragraph of text. If the text is longer than the set length a link "read more" is added on the end. The problem I have in IE is that it forces the line that the link is on to separate from the line above making it look odd. IT only happens in IE.
Here is the link to where it is happening: http://www.melfordschoolofmotoring.co.uk/test.php
What am i missing to stop the extra margin at the top of the line with the link in it?
if(mysql_num_rows($query)>0){
        //There are testimonials to retrieve from Database
        while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($query)){
            $test = htmlentities($row['test']);
            $firstname = htmlentities($row['fn']);
            $surname = htmlentities($row['sn']);
            $date = date('d/m/Y',strtotime($row['date']));
            $form_test = '';

            if(strlen($test) > 180){
                $form_test .= substr($test,0,181);
                $form_test .= '...read more';
            }else if(strlen($test)<180){
                $form_test .= $test;
            }
            echo '
';
            echo '
'.$form_test.'
';
            echo '

by '. $firstname .' '. $surname .' '. $date .'

';
            echo '
';
        }
    }else{
        //There aren't any testimonials in Database
        echo '
There are currently no testimonials to display.
';
    }

    .text_module_test{
border:1px solid #6a77fa;
background-color:#e1e4fe;
padding:10px;
margin:20px 0 0 0;
width:350px;
min-height:90px;
text-align:justify;
overflow:hidden;
}
.text_module_test p{
margin:0;
}
.text_module_test a:link, .text_module_test a:visited{
font-size:12px;
padding:0;
margin:0;
text-decoration:none;
color:#777caa;
}
.text_module_test a:hover{
color:#000;
font-size:12px;
padding:0;
margin:0;
}
.test{
padding:5px;
margin:0 20px 0 0;
width:340px;
height:10px;
text-align:right;
}
.test p{
font-size:10px;
margin: 0;
}

A: Looks like this is due to line-height: 34px; for .menu_item a:link, a:visited in menu.css. Add line-height: 100%; for .text_module_test a:link, .text_module_test a:visited in style.css to override this rule.