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Q: Select rows with most similar set of attributes I have a PostgreSQL 8.3.4 DB to keep information about photo taggings.
First off, my table definitions:
create table photos (
   id integer
 , user_id integer
 , primary key (id, user_id)
);

create table tags (
   photo_id integer
 , user_id integer
 , tag text
 , primary key (user_id, photo_id, tag)
);

What I'm trying to do + simple example:
I am trying to return all the photos that have at least k other photos with at least j common tags.
I. e., if Photo X has these tags (info field in the tags table):
gold
clock
family

And photo Y has the next tags:
gold
sun
family
flower

X and Y have 2 tags in common. For k = 1 and j = 2 X and Y will be returned.
What I have tried
    SELECT tags1.user_id , users.name, tags1.photo_id
    FROM users, tags tags1, tags tags2
    WHERE ((tags1.info = tags2.info) AND (tags1.photo_id != tags2.photo_id)
    AND (users.id = tags1.user_id))
    GROUP BY tags1.user_id, tags1.photo_id, tags2.user_id, tags2.photo_id, users.name
    HAVING ((count(tags1.info) = <j>) and (count(*) >= <k>))
    ORDER BY user_id asc, photo_id asc

My failed results:
When I tried to run it on those tables:
photos
photo_id       user_id
   0             0
   1             0
   2             0
   20            1
   23            1
   10            3

tags
photo_id     user_id       tag
   0           0            Car
   0           0            Bridge
   0           0            Sky
   20          1            Car
   20          1            Bridge
   10          3            Sky

The result for k = 1 and j = 1:
Expected:
|   user_id    |  User Name   |   photo_id   |
| 0            | Bob          | 0            |
| 1            | Ben          | 20           |
| 3            | Lev          | 10           |

Actual:
|   user_id    |  User Name   |   photo_id   |
| 0            | Bob          | 0            |
| 3            | Lev          | 10           |

For k = 2 and j = 1:
Expected:
|   user_id    |  User Name   |   photo_id   |
| 0            | Bob          | 0            |

Actual: empty result.
For j = 2 and k = 2:
Expected: empty result.
Actual:
|   user_id    |  User Name   |   Photo ID   |
| 0            | Bob          | 0            |
| 1            | Ben          | 20           |

How to solve this properly?

A: Working with your current design, this uses only basic SQL features and should work for Postgres 8.3, too (untested):
SELECT *
FROM   photos p
WHERE (
   SELECT count(*) >= 1  -- k other photos
   FROM  (
      SELECT 1
      FROM   tags t1
      JOIN   tags t2 USING (tag)
      WHERE  t1.photo_id =  p.id
      AND    t1.user_id  =  p.user_id
      AND   (t2.photo_id <> p.id OR
             t2.user_id  <> p.user_id)
      GROUP  BY t2.photo_id, t2.user_id
      HAVING count(*) >= 1  -- j common tags
      ) t1
   );

Or:
SELECT *
FROM  (
   SELECT id, user_id
   FROM  (
      SELECT t1.photo_id AS id, t1.user_id
      FROM   tags t1
      JOIN   tags t2 USING (tag)
      WHERE (t2.photo_id <> t1.photo_id OR
             t2.user_id  <> t1.user_id)
      GROUP  BY t1.photo_id, t1.user_id, t2.photo_id, t2.user_id
      HAVING count(*) >= 1    -- j common tags
      ) sub1
   GROUP  BY 1, 2
   HAVING count(*) >= 1  -- k other photos
   ) sub2
JOIN   photos p USING (id, user_id);

In Postgres 9.3 or later you could use a correlated subquery with a LATERAL join ...
The above are probably even faster than my first query:
SELECT *
FROM  (
   SELECT photo_id, user_id
   FROM   tags t
   GROUP  BY 1, 2
   HAVING (
      SELECT count(*) >= 1
      FROM  (
         SELECT photo_id, user_id
         FROM   tags
         WHERE  tag = ANY(array_agg(t.tag))
         AND   (photo_id <> t.photo_id OR
                user_id  <> t.user_id)
         GROUP  BY 1, 2
         HAVING count(*) >= 2
         ) t1
      )
   ) t
JOIN photos p ON p.id = t.photo_id
             AND p.user_id = t.user_id;

SQL Fiddle showing both on Postgres 9.3.
The 1st query just needs the right basic indexes.
For the 2nd, I would build a materialized view with integer arrays, install the intarray module, a GIN index on the integer array column for better performance ...
Related:

*

*Order result by count of common array elements
Proper design
It would be much more efficient to have a single column serial PK for photos and only store IDs of tags per photo ...:
CREATE TABLE  photo (
   photo_id serial PRIMARY KEY
 , user_id  int NOT NULL
);

CREATE TABLE  tag (
   tag_id serial PRIMARY KEY
 , tag    text UNIQUE NOT NULL
);

CREATE TABLE  photo_tag (
   photo_id int REFERENCES (photo)
 , tag_id   int REFERENCES (tag)
 , PRIMARY KEY (photo_id, tag_id)
);

Would make the query much simpler and faster, too.

*

*How to implement a many-to-many relationship in PostgreSQL?

A: If I understood you correctly, you want to calculate similarity between all photos of all users by common tags.
I think you need this:
SELECT
    A.user_id,
    A.photo_id,
    B.user_id,
    B.photo_id,
    (
        SELECT COUNT(*)
            FROM
                tags TA
                JOIN tags TB ON TA.tag = TB.tag
            WHERE
                A.user_id = TA.user_id
                AND A.photo_id = TA.photo_id
                AND B.user_id = TB.user_id
                AND B.photo_id = TB.photo_id
    ) AS common_tags
FROM
    users A
    ,users B
WHERE
    -- Exclude results to self
    A.user_id <> B.User_id
    AND A.photo_id <> B.photo_id

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This implies that he complains about all the quotes ascribed to him – including that he had carried out illegal instructions from the then Minister of Water and Sanitation, Nomvula Mokonyane.
He emphasises that he has never received any unlawful instructions from the Minister, and adds that the journalist was well-informed about the issue at hand (which made his reportage of this matter even worse, he argues).
Legodi adds that the reportage has unnecessarily damaged his dignity and reputation, as well as those of Mokonyane.
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MARK COLVIN: A fair trade campaigner says the Federal Government's approach to free trade deals could allow foreign multinationals to sue the federal and state governments.
The Coalition has overturned Labor's blanket ban on investor state dispute settlement provisions. It says each trade deal will be considered on a case by case basis.
The Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network says the provisions have the potential to undermine Australia's sovereignty.
But the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry has welcomed news that they're back at the negotiating table.
Simon Lauder reports.
SIMON LAUDER: In 2011 the Labor government ruled out supporting investor state dispute settlement, or ISDS, provisions in free trade deals. Now they could be back on the table, as negotiations over the world's biggest trade deal continue.
The convenor of the Australian Fair Trade and Investment Network, Dr Patricia Ranald, is worried the Coalition Government will be leaving the door open for Australian governments to be sued by foreign companies which believe their investment is harmed by federal or state laws.
PATRICIA RANALD: I think that ISDS is a real threat to the ability of the Australian Government to make democratic laws and to have them enforced by our courts. So it is a threat to both democracy and sovereignty. I don't think that foreign investors should have the right to challenge and seek damages for legitimate health, environment or other public interest legislation.
SIMON LAUDER: Even if it gives Australian companies the same right in return?
PATRICIA RANALD: Yes.
SIMON LAUDER: A similar provision under an investment deal between Hong Kong and Australia is being used by the tobacco company, Philip Morris, which is taking action against Australia over its plain packaging laws for cigarettes.
Dr Ranald says state regulation of coal seam gas mining could also be targeted.
PATRICIA RANALD: If ISDS were in place it's quite possible that a mining company could sue the New South Wales Government over environmental regulation of coal seam gas mining or any other state government that introduced either a review or new legislation.
The other area of danger is the pharmaceutical benefits scheme. There's no guarantee that cases wouldn't be taken against decisions in the PBS.
SIMON LAUDER: On Sunday the new Trade Minister Andrew Robb will leave for an APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) meeting in Indonesia, where trade ministers are likely to discuss progress on the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, a multinational trade deal involving 12 countries.
In a statement, Mr Robb confirms that the blanket ban on ISDS provisions is gone and says the Government will now consider them on a case by case basis. Dr Ranald believes the US will push Australia on the issue.
PATRICIA RANALD: As far as we know, the US is still insisting on it.
SIMON LAUDER: Australian companies though would also be able to take advantage of it wouldn't they?
PATRICIA RANALD: Yes, but Australian companies very seldom take this route.
SIMON LAUDER: The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry supports the Federal Government's decision to consider dispute settlement clauses and says they are already in many existing agreements.
BRYAN CLARK: It's not a matter of the right to sue. It's an issue of how do you get a dispute sorted out. And that sort of dispute settlement may well be much more commercially attractive than expensive and protracted efforts through local court systems who may or may not be fully independent of the government.
SIMON LAUDER: The chamber's director of trade and international affairs, Bryan Clark, says ISDS provisions also allow Australian companies to defend their interests offshore.
BRYAN CLARK: The last government should have had a return to the previous, what we understand is bipartisan position, of case by case consideration of inclusion of investor state dispute settlement provisions.
SIMON LAUDER: What damage do you believe was done by Labor's blanket ban on ISDS provisions?
BRYAN CLARK: Well it undermines in our view the negotiating positions that Australia had taken into a number of the FTA (free trade agreements) negotiations and resulted in stalling or slowing a number of those negotiations which has clearly led them to some disadvantage to Australian industries against other countries that have been able to complete FTAs against those same nations, such as Korea for example.
SIMON LAUDER: The Trade Minister Andrew Robb says it's premature to discuss what position the Government will eventually take.
MARK COLVIN: Simon Lauder.
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Reflecting on the Year: Pros Share their Thoughts on 2021 and 2022
takeaways from 2021
There's not much time left in 2021, but there is still an opportunity to reflect on the year.
This certainly wasn't a dull year. 2021 marks the second year of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, which created a number of challenges with the labor market and the supply chain. There were also significant weather events like the winter storm that hit Texas and Hurricane Ida making landfall on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
As for NALP, we added a new volunteer location during the 25th Renewal & Remembrance and announced our new annual event, ELEVATE, taking place on Sept. 18-21, 2022. We caught up with a handful of our members for their thoughts on the year and what they plan to focus on in 2022.
Educate the Customer
Joe Markell, LIC, owner of Sunrise Landscape + Design, says they've gone through a lot of changes this year but they are trying to grow and get more stability. He says they've focused on educating the customer on what it takes to do the work and understand the value of the work they do.
"As I look back it's been a refocus on business and trying to be more proactive and more professional," Markell says. "I've always tried to stay professional and really be above. I think that's one thing that hurts our industry sometimes is professionalism. It is a business and you need to treat it as such. Let people know we're just not a couple of guys in a pickup truck. We're providing real value."
Increase Industry Awareness
Chris Joyce, president of The Joyce Companies, based in Marstons Mills, Massachusetts, says recruiting has been one of their biggest challenges this year.
"We need to get people interested in our industry," Joyce says. "We need to get people interested in choosing this industry as a professional because we're struggling and if it doesn't improve, we have a long road ahead of us."
Take Pride in the Industry
Miles Kuperus, Jr., LIC, owner of Farmside Landscape & Design in Sussex, New Jersey, agrees their number one issue this year has been labor but he's grateful for the dynamite staff they do have.
He encourages his peers to keep building relationships and doing their best as great opportunities happen. He says it's a privilege to work in the industry.
"Be proud of the industry that we're in," Kuperus says. "The beautiful environment and the stewardship, I feel it's the best profession you can the most gratitude of working with God's creation."
Be Mindful of Mental Health
Loriena Harrington, LIC, owner of Beautiful Blooms LLC, based in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, says this year it has been the most challenging, yet rewarding year she's ever gone through.
"It was challenging completely because of the staffing situation across the country," Harrington says. "Rewarding because the team that we did have was excellent. The clients were very understanding because we communicated and because the media got the word out that America is short-staffed."
She says it's important to do frequent check-ins with your staff and be real and acknowledge when things aren't rosy.
"Something that I think all business owners need to be more mindful of is our mental health," Harrington says. "I think that's getting talked about more from our employees to ourselves. We just need to have that conversation more often."
Take Care of Your Team
Paul Fraynd, LIC, co-owner of Sun Valley Landscaping, based in Omaha, Nebraska, says he's never experienced a time when there's been so much demand. He says it's a very difficult year for both internal and external reasons. His main takeaway for the year is you have to take care of your team.
"Whether that's updating their hourly rates of pay, or making sure they have all the proper resources, or are working for the right type of clients, having everybody full engaged and accountable is just going back to the basics of taking care of your team and building a strong culture to get through tougher situations," Fraynd says.
Next year Sun Valley plans to help their people be their best at work by bringing on a navigator. This is a person who is available to their staff in person once a month, and anytime via phone, email, text or Zoom.
"Their whole job is to help people be physically and emotionally available at work so that may be 'help me find a car,' 'help me with my debt situation,' 'help me navigate a government agency,'" Fraynd says.
He says often people need help outside of work and it affects them at work.
"What we want to do is have happy people that work for us," Fraynd says.
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Nathan and Louis Thompson: Brothers in arms…
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Nathan and his younger brother Louis are two of Swindon Town's brightest young prospects. With the younger Thompson emerging as a first team regular this season, Ron Smith takes a brief look back at their careers at the County Ground…
With 81 appearances under his belt Nathan Thompson eventually emerged from the shadows of Paul Caddis to pretty much retain the right full back / wing back position for the past two seasons. Thompson the elder made his debut as a substitute in the 2-0 JPT victory over Torquay United on 5th October 2010 and had to bide his time – and wait for Paul Caddis to be ostracised – before impressing Paolo Di Canio and us with his frenetic attacking runs and equally impressive backtracking and well-timed lunges to regain possession – he was awarded the 2012/13 Swindon Town Player of the Season.
The 23 year old Nathan has more recently had to contend in the brightest young prospect stakes with the rising stock of his younger brother Louis, who has made 33 of his total 38 appearances this season. After the 19 year old Louis made his debut in the FA Cup fourth round defeat at Leicester in January 2012 he too needed to wait before regular first team football. Four cameo appearances in 2012/13 provided impressive glimpses of what was to follow. The first being a substitute in the 0-2 home defeat to Macclesfield in which he scored an unlucky own goal, yet was roundly praised for his efforts by Di Canio for his chasing of the ball and 'desire to tackle'. Only a few days later there was surprise with Louis was named in the starting XI in the goalless draw with Sheffield United.
With the brothers proclaiming "this where I want to be" and signing two-year contract extensions last summer, in the case of Nathan to warn off potential suitors in the Championship, 2013/14 was destined to be a key season in their fledging careers.
As the season has developed it has been a year of transition for Nathan Thompson. He's struggled to find consistency and his position has frequently been targeted by opponents as an area in which to focus their counter attacks. He's needed to adapt as the backline has morphed from a line of four to a three or five and Nathan has contended with playing as a right-back, a wing-back or in a back three. These factors seem to have affected his game and as a result we've not been treated to the excitement of the daring last-ditch tackles of last season and mazy attacking runs into the opponent's box. Waiting in the wings has been another youngster in Jack Barthram, but generally Nathan has retained his starting position and recently secured the captain's armband. Despite heaping responsibility on his shoulders he's coped well, providing the true test of his potential and how he can mature as a player.
As Nathan's ability may have found his level, the emergence of his younger sibling as an integral part of Mark Cooper's plans is as much about the necessities of cost-cutting providing the youngster with an earlier than expected role in the first team. Clearly that trust and hard work for Louis has paid off, beating his own season target of ten to 15 games and scoring twice so far in successive home games. The midfielder has learned quickly, key to this has been the vast improvement in his discipline of position and general reading of the game – perhaps expected given the playing experience. Add to this a solid judgement of when to attack and carry the ball forwards has provided a key central outlet of quick attacks from midfield in recent games; including a nice toe-punt when you need one…
Despite an indifferent but still successful season for the eldest brother, in my eyes Louis clearly has the greater potential to play at a higher level and for longer. He has been thrust into a promotion chasing team and held his own, displacing Tottenham loanees and experienced professionals. He's younger than Nathan by four years and has picked up a positional discipline already that his brother is still struggling to control against his desire to attack.
Both are key players for Mark Cooper and providing they remain in 2014/15 they will be part of a nucleus of a young side that we hope will grow from their essential experiences. It's been a pleasure watching both develop before us as there is nothing better than real home-grown talent.
What are your views on the Thompson brothers and their short careers at Swindon? Which one has the greatest potential to succeed? Please comment below…
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Dj Popskull is a young DJ residing in Netherland, Amsterdam. He starts getting interested in music when he was at a young age. At the age of 10/16 he starts listening to lots of dancehall, reggae music and many more. At the age of 19, DJ Popskull starts mixing on his own and also sharing it with the people all over the world. DJ Popskull is also a music promoter, he promotes musics worldwide.


I have probably moderated around 100+ events for the Churchill Club over the last couple of years, and have realised that I now have a bit of experience moderating panels, which can be hard to come by. Although I believe I have nothing on Narelle Kennedy of the Australian Business Foundation, who is by far the best moderator I have ever seen because of her ability to run a panel at a break neck pace and keep the panellists honest, I have some thoughts I wanted to share on how to be a successful moderator.
Before the event. Do some research on the panellists and the topic so you don't look like a fool on stage. Have enough questions prepared to move things along if the audience Q&A is a bit slow. Have either an agenda for the event to travel along, or a list of points that you feel you need to have covered. Also, make sure that the panellists are fully briefed on the mechanics and the objective of the event. I have also found, after suffering some considerable pain, that its an excellent idea to have the panellists reconfirm their attendance the week of the event.
I got given a pack of promotional pens the other day from one of my clients. 50% of them disintegrated on use. I had a friend sit in my lounge last Friday, pull out a promotional pen he had been given a week before to find it had run out of ink.
2.	Consequently damage your brand.
3.	Normally get thrown in the bin within a week.
Just because websites such as Alibaba have come on online and allow virtually anyone to become a supplier of promotional items, doesn't mean you should buy cheap rubbish.
I have in my possession a mechanical pencil that was given to me when I joined a German company called Vossloh-Schwabe around 20 years ago. The pencil has an octagonal profile, was machined from aluminium and as is anodised black. You could punch holes in bricks with it – admittedly I am not sure why you would want to do this, but it sounds cool.
The point is that you keep quality promotional products for a long time. Cheap t-shirts get used as rags, quality t-shirts get worn until they die. Cheap folios and bags get thrown out the same day, expensive ones get used for years. Cheap backpacks go in the bin, quality units get used for storage of my kayaking gear on top of the bookcase in my study. And as already mentioned – cheap pens don't last a week and just irritate everyone.
Next time you sign off on a marketing spend, don't get seduced by large quantities of cheap promotional products. Its the same as throwing money in the bin. Buy less, buy quality.
The friend who sat in my lounge also relayed a disturbing story. He sat at a round table with a group of ten local CEOs a week before. They were each given a pad of paper and a promotional pen to take notes with. Not a pen at the table actually worked. They, the group of CEOs, discussed the matter and ridiculed the company supplying the promotional pens. Not a desired outcome!
About 10 minutes into the trip to Eildon Dam for a picnic lunch on Sunday, we realised we hadn't put the Sat Nav in the car. Bugger. Its not that the map book doesn't work, its just that we feel the Sat Nav is a higher authority – i.e. we don't argue when the Satnav tells us the route. But "No matter" we thought, its sure to be well sign posted, which also helps avoid arguments. One of the thing's my wife and I have noticed is that when you are in tourist mode, you see all the tourist signs that help you get about. The same signs that are completely invisible when you are not in tourist mode.
This got me thinking about signs as part of a marketing plan. What should be on them and what makes a good one. So I googled "basics of sign design", and found heaps of interesting tips such as not crowding the sign, fonts and colours to use, and thinking about whether it will be exposed to weather or not. Unfortunately there was almost nothing about deciding which content I should put on a sign, despite the fact they have been around since the Egyptians were building the pyramids.
So because I like to have conceptual frameworks for structuring my thinking, and wanting a signage plan for the Churchill Club, I came up with the following thoughts on sign content. There are three basic types of signs that we can create separately or combine.
Information signs form the backbone of any customer experience. Online its the button that says "purchase tickets here". Offline they say "Push Here", "Staff Only" or "Queue Here" etc. Its probably a good idea to role play as a customer, to figure out what you need. Try roles playing both the dumbest and smartest customers you can think of to determine how to stop embarrassing mistakes but without offending anyone.
Its said that nobody ever buys from a billboard. That's true, but when they lookup options online or in the yellow pages, they say "hey, I've heard of that group" When deciding where to eat – they want to know your restaurant does Thai, or Indian or something without actually going inside, and online they want to know who you are and what you do without having to read pages of your website. Figure out where you're potential customers are looking (just ask them), and place your branding signs there to give your business mind-share with potential customers.
At least four times a week I picking up a menu to decide what I want to have. I may have already chosen Indian food, put the menu gives me the specific offers. Online its pretty much the same thing. When deciding to purchase, most people want a hard offer put in front of them that they can either accept of reject. The pricing also needs to be upfront so they don't feel they have been scammed.
So what does this mean for the Churchill Club? Well online we are pretty good, but offline there appears to be a problem. We already have a number of banner branding signs, but we are missing some information and offering signs. A common problem is that when an unexpected guest or two turns up without booking, its likely we can fit them in. However neither the ticket price or how to buy one is obvious. It relies on me greeting guests and telling them. This can lead to an embarrassing moment when those wanting a last minute ticket find the price a bit steep. The solution of course is a sign next to the entrance with "last minute ticket prices", and information on how to buy them. The other common problem is when new guests arrive, they are unsure of where our function room is. A temporary "Churchill Club upstairs" sign needs to be put downstairs.
But back to the start of the story. So on the way back from Eildon, we managed to stop in and have a drink with friends at the Badger Creek Camp ground, which wasn't actually in our map book. We found it just by following the signs.
Whats in it for the Elite?
I've been thinking about two sided markets a lot lately. Two sided markets are where two distinct customer groups are serviced by the same provider and the existence both customer groups provides value to the other. Eg Computer Games. Computer Game Developers need lots of consumers with a platform for them to be able to invest in game development, and, consumers with the platform need lots Game Developers to produce Games, for them to want to purchase the platform.
Conceptually this isn't that hard. But what I have been trying to understand is the luxury goods market. Is it two sided? General consumers, where the sales and profits are, aspire to own the products because they value their "exclusivity" and the psychology of owning something that the likes of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie own.
What I don't get is what's in it for the "elite" that are the ambassadors for the luxury goods. I understand sponsorship deals like Tiger Woods recommending golf shoes. Sponsorships make up the majority of his income. But what happens when the sponsorship value is non-existent or immaterial? Certainly Brad Pitt doesn't aspire to be Brad Pitt, and the sponsorship value is nothing compared to what he makes from one movie. Plenty of the elite also pay for their own goods.
Because this has been bugging me, I have designed a Churchill Club event for this Thursday to get people to talk on the subject. Note : Most Churchill Club events have a topic I want answered at their core.
My suspicion is that there is clear value to the "elite" in owning luxury goods, its just not obvious to me. When it does become obvious, I'm wondering where else the business model can be applied?


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Q: Read RSS Feed from sites and Display HTML content from it using C# I am looking for a suitable way to read and display RSS Feed from the below showed websites :-
http://feeds.feedburner.com/zerohedge/feed
http://www.nirmaltv.com/feed/
Below is the code that I used for reading RSS Feed from the above web sites.
  public virtual IList<NewsFeedItem> ParseRss(string url)
  {
    try
    {
        XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(url);

        var entries = from item in doc.Root.Descendants().First(i => i.Name.LocalName == "channel").Elements().Where(i => i.Name.LocalName == "item")
                      select new NewsFeedItem
                      {
                          Content = item.Elements().First(i => i.Name.LocalName == "description").Value,
                          Link = item.Elements().First(i => i.Name.LocalName == "link").Value,
                          PublishDate = ParseDate(item.Elements().First(i => i.Name.LocalName == "pubDate").Value),
                          Title = item.Elements().First(i => i.Name.LocalName == "title").Value
                      };
        return entries.ToList();
    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        return new List<NewsFeedItem>();
    }
}

private DateTime ParseDate(string date)
{
    DateTime result;
    if (DateTime.TryParse(date, out result))
        return result;
    else
        return DateTime.MinValue;
}

public class NewsFeedItem
{
 public string Link { get; set; }
 public string Title { get; set; }
 public string Content { get; set; }
 public DateTime PublishDate { get; set; }

  public NewsFeedItem()
  {
    Link = string.Empty;
    Title = string.Empty;
    Content = string.Empty;
    PublishDate = DateTime.Today;
  }
}

And this code is used in the load event of a WPF Window. This WPF application has a Window, which contains a List box. I am trying to show the RSS feed into the WPF list box [or please suggest any other best control to display the RSS feed].
 private void Window_Loaded(object sender, RoutedEventArgs e)
    {
        Application.Current.Dispatcher.Invoke((Action)delegate {
        Window parser = new Window ();
        var items = parser.ParseRss(Url);
        lstbox.ItemsSource = items;
        });
    }

When I do the "parsing of these websites" using the ParseRss method, i am getting HTML formatted string (which means the string starts with paragraph tag or a href tag etc).
I want to display corresponding web page or web content as per the HTML formatted string in the list box.
 How this is possible ?
the XAML window is ;
    <ListBox x:Name="lstbox" Height="300" Width="500"
             ScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility="Visible" Margin="3">
    <ListBox.ItemTemplate>
        <DataTemplate>
            <Border BorderBrush="Green" BorderThickness="1" Margin="3" CornerRadius="5" Height="260" Width="500">
                <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">
                    <TextBlock Background="DarkGray" Foreground="AntiqueWhite" FontSize="16" FontWeight="Bold" Text="{Binding Title}" />
                    <TextBlock Margin="3" Text="{Binding Link}" />
                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding Content}" TextWrapping="Wrap" />
                    <TextBlock Text="{Binding PublishDate}" />
                </StackPanel>
            </Border>
        </DataTemplate>
    </ListBox.ItemTemplate>
</ListBox>

Thanks in advance.

A: Try following xml linq.  I looks like description and encoded are the same.  See code below
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Data;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Linq;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        const string URL = "http://www.nirmaltv.com/feed/";
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {

            XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(URL);
            XElement channel = doc.Root;
            XNamespace ns = channel.GetDefaultNamespace();
            XNamespace nsContent = channel.GetNamespaceOfPrefix("content");
            XNamespace nsRDF = channel.GetNamespaceOfPrefix("rdf");

            List<Item> items = doc.Descendants(ns + "item").Select(x => new Item()
            {
                title = (string)x.Element(ns + "title"),
                link = (string)x.Element(ns + "link"),
                comments = (string)x.Element(ns + "comments"),
                pubDate = (DateTime)x.Element(ns + "pubDate"),
                category = (string)x.Element(ns + "category"),
                guid = (string)x.Element(ns + "guid"),
                description = (string)x.Element(ns + "description"),
                encoded = (string)x.Element(nsContent + "encoded"),
                sequence = (string)x.Element(nsRDF + "Seq"),
            }).ToList();
        }
    }
    public class Item
    {
        public string title { get; set; }
        public string link { get; set; }
        public string comments { get; set; }
        public DateTime  pubDate { get; set; }
        public string category { get; set; }
        public string guid { get; set; }
        public string description { get; set; }
        public string encoded { get; set; }
        public string sequence { get; set; }
    }
}


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Byrd v. Goord
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State of Washington v. Wanrow
State of Washington v. Wanrow is a lawsuit that challenged the murder conviction of Yvonne Swan Wanrow on the grounds of a woman's right to self-defense against harm to herself or her child. Yvonne...
Puerto Rican Subversives List
"Puerto Rican Subversives List" refers to the work CCR did with the Instituto Puertorriqueño de Derechos Civilies, an organization founded by José Antonio "Abi" Lugo, a former CCR attorney, and other...
Palestine Information Office v. Shultz (amicus)
Palestine Information Office v. Shultz is a case in which the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed an amicus brief, opposing the closure of the Palestine Information Office in Washington, D.C.
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The earlier you find out about problems in your code, the less impact they have and the less it costs to remediate them. Therefore, it's helpful to move testing activities earlier in the software development lifecycle—shifting it left in the process timeline. This article explores the shift-left methodology and how you can approach shifting left in your organization.
"Shift left" is one of the latest buzz terms in software testing. Movements like agile and DevOps recommend that testers shift left, but what does that mean, exactly? Here's how one tester became a believer in the shift-left movement; how he got his team's developers, analysts, designers, and managers on board; and how his entire organization has benefited from the shift.


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In the last post, I took a close look at the Strait of Messina, particularly the narrowest point between the eastern tip of Sicily, and the western tip of Calabria in Italy; the city of Messina, a major port andthe third-largest city in Sicily; then across to Mount Etna, one of the most active volcanos in the world; and ended at Catania, a city on the Sicilian coast that lies at the foot of Mount Etna.
From Sicily, the alignment I am tracking crosses over the island Republic of Malta, in the vicinity of its capital, Valletta…
…and located in the Southeastern Region of the main island…
… one of the five regions of Malta…
…between the Marsamxett Harbort and the Grand Harbor.
Marsamxett Harbor is described as a natural harbor generally more dedicated to leisure use than the Grand Harbor…
…and is bounded to the north by Dragut Point and Tigne Point…
…where we find Fort Tigne…
…said to have been built by the Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John between 1793 and 1795 and claimed to be one of the oldest polygonal forts in the world.
We are told the Order of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John ruled Malta from the time when the Emperor Charles V (who was also King Charles II of Sicily) gave the islands of Malta and Gozo to the Order in 1530, as well as Tripoli in Libya, until the time the Order surrendered to Napoleon when the French landed in Malta in 1798.
Known usually by the shorter Order of St. John, the Maltese Cross was said to have been officially adopted by the Order in 1126.
And today's Order of St. John was chartered by Queen Victoria in 1888 as a British Royal Order of Chivalry.
Interesting to note that I have found two different portraits of Charles V, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire between 1500 and 1558, each having similar facial structure and tilts of the chin, and wearing similar clothing.
Manoel Island is a small island in Marsamxett Harbor, situated close to Tigne Point…
…and the location of Fort Manoel…
…said to have been built in the 1720s by the Portuguese 66th-Grand Master of the Knights of Malta, Antonio Manoel de Vilhena.
We are told the British military took over the fort in 1800, and renamed it HMS Phoenicia, who used it until 1964…relatively recently.
Manoel Island is connected to the town of Gzira, in Malta's Central Region, by a bridge…
…where we find an Orpheum Theater, said to have been built in 1932.
There are two points I would like to make about this finding.
This is the first point.
Orpheus was a musician and poet in Ancient Greek legend, said to have had the ability to charm all living things, and even stones, with his music.
In the course of my research, I found numerous early theaters called "Orpheums," like the one in Gzira in Malta, including the Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles, California…
…the Orpheum Theater in Boston, Massachusetts…
…in Memphis, Tennessee…
…and in Phoenix, Arizona.
What, exactly, caused us to go to sleep, and forget who we are, and what we were? How has the false information we have been taught in school been reinforced?
Why would this be important to whoever was responsible for removing the ancient advanced civilization from our collective awareness to begin with?
The second point that I would like to make about the Orpheum Theater in Gzira is its street-corner style of architecture…that I have found worldwide, like in Merida, Mexico in the top middle; Juarez, Mexico, on the top right; and on the bottom left, in Kherson, Ukraine; bottom middle, Summerside in Prince Edward Island; and on the bottom right, in Conakry, the capital of the African country of Guinea.
Fort St. Elmo stands on the seaward shore of the peninsula that divides Marsamxett Harbor from the Grand Harbor…
…and said to have been built in its present form as a star fort in the 1550s.
It was the target of aerial bombardment on the first day Malta became involved in the conflict of World War II.
Fort St. Elmo is situated in the middle at the entrance to the two main harbors, between Fort Tigne at the entrance to the Marsamxett Harbor, and Fort Ricasoli at the entrance of the Grand Harbor.
Fort Ricasoli was said to have been built by the Order of St. John between 1670 and 1698.
Fort Ricasoli was said to have seen use during the French invasion of Malta, led by Napoleon himself, in 1798, which was part of the Mediterranean Campaign in the War of the Second Coalition of the French Revolutionary Wars.
After the British Royal Navy destroyed the French Mediterranean fleet at the Battle of the Nile on August 1st, 1798, the British were able to initiate a blockade of Malta, assisted by an uprising of the native Maltese against French rule. The blockade effectively ended the French Occupation of Malta in 1800, and replaced it with British Protectorate, returning control of the central Mediterranean to Great Britain.
Malta held the status of British Protectorate for 164-years, until it gained its independence from Britain in 1964.
Though Fort Ricasoli, like Fort St. Elmo, was bombarded during World War II and parts of it destroyed, today the fort remains largely intact.
It is used as a filming location…and tank-cleaning facility for the Malta Drydocks, treating liquid waste from ships arriving in the Grand Harbor, removing oil and other chemicals prior to releasing the waste into the sea.
These are the pair of lighthouses, one at Fort St. Elmo and the other at Fort Ricasoli, located on man-made breakwaters at the entrance to the Grand Harbor.
The Maltese language is spoken in the islands, in addition to English and Italian.
Maltese is related to Arabic, but written in the Latin alphabet.
The Maltese word for a lighthouse is "fanal."
Back on Kefalonia in the Ionian Islands of western Greece, I found a lighthouse at a place called "Fanari Point."
I looked up the Arabic word for lighthouse, and apparently it is al-Manarah, similar in sound to Fanari, as well as the same word for minaret in Arabic.
There are two more forts along the shore of the Mediterranean Sea next to Fort Ricasoli.
The first is Fort Rinella, described as a Victorian battery.
It was said to have been built by the British between 1878 and 1886.
Fort St. Rocco is found just a short distance down the Mediterranean coast from Fort Rinella.
It is described as a polygonal fort, and as part of a complex of shore batteries built by the British to defend the coast east of the mouth of Grand Harbor between the 1870s and 1900.
These three forts are part of Kalkara…
…described as a village on Kalkara Creek, which is shown in this photo…
Here's another view of Kalkara.
We are told that the name Kalkara derives from the Latin word for lime, "Calce," and that the village developed as a small fishing community around the sheltered inlet of Kalkara Creek.
Some historians believe, we are told, this was one of the first places in Malta to be inhabited by people who came from the nearby island of Sicily.
I can make, at the very least, a circumstantial case here.
I did not include it in the last post, but I read information saying that Catania in Sicily…
…was a colony of Chalchis, and could also be spelled as Kalkis, an ancient city on the Greek Island of Euboea in the Aegean Sea.
At one time, the island of Euboea was known by another name…Negroponte, and I marked the location of Chalchis on what we are told was a 1620 map.
…and part of what was known as the Kingdom, or Realm, of the Morea, which was the official name of the Peloponnese Peninsula of southern Greece…until the 19th-century.
Not only that, we are told the Romans referred to the coastal areas of southern Italy and Sicily as Magna Graecia, or "Great Greece" because these regions were extensively populated by what were called Greek settlers, starting in the 8th-century BC…
…and Malta lies between Sicily and the country of Tunisia in North Africa.
All of these places are relatively close to each other.
How big of a stretch is to see all of these places connected to the same ancient advanced civilization, other than we haven't been taught about it?
Places and names have been changed and obscured instead of being taught about it. Why?
Let's see what other secrets Malta has to reveal!
Moving from a short distance west from Kalkara, we come to Birgu, also known as the "Victorious City"…
…and described as the oldest of an area in Malta referred to as "The Three Cities" – three fortified cities in very close proximity to each other, which also includes Senglea and Cospicua.
The city occupies a promonory of land in the Grand Harbor, with Fort Saint Angelo at the head…
…and the city of Cospicua at the base.
Fort San Angelo served as the base of the Order of St. John, and we are told the de facto capital of Malta between 1530 and 1571…
…and the British garrisoned the fort between 1800 and 1979.
We are told the date of its original construction is unknown, but has large ashlar blocks, the finest stonemasonry unit…
…and an Egyptian pink granite column at the top of the fort inside a chapel.
Fort San Salvatore is also in Birgu…
…said to have been built in 1724 on one of the bastions of the Cottonera Lines.
It was said to have been used as a Prisoner-of-War Camp during the Greek War of Independence between 1821 and 1830, as well as during World War I; and during World War II, as a kerosene depot and internment camp, which were used to imprison large groups of people, without charges, or the intent to file charges.
The Cottonera Lines were said to be a line of what are called fortifications in Conspicua and Birgu that were constructed in the 17th- and 18th-centuries to form the outer defenses of the Three Cities…
…and built around an earlier line of fortifications known as the Santa Margherita Lines.
Before leaving Birgu for the neighboring city of Senglea, I would like to point a place that caught my attention on Google Earth.
I noticed the Inquisitor's Palace, and as it turns out, this was the seat of the Inquisition in Malta between 1574 and 1798, which was the first year Napoleon's forces occupied Malta. It has been the National Museum of Ethnography since 1966, with permanent displays on Malta's religious traditions as consolidated by the Inquisition.
The arrows are pointing to the building's windows that are not level with the steep street beside it, which is a classic indicator for mud flood evidence.
The Inquisitor's Palace was said to have been originally constructed as a courthouse in the 1530s.
The Inquisition was a group of institutions within the Catholic Church with a stated aim of combating heresy, defined as the formal denial of the orthodox beliefs of the church, which is defined as the adherence to correct or accepted creeds in religion.
It started with the French Inquisition in the 1200s in France, which over a period of about 20-years saw the Cathar Crusade and the genocide of the gnostic Cathars, which had been labelled as an heretical sect.
The Inquisitor's Palace became the headquarters of the Inquisition in Malta in 1574, serving as tribunal and prison, as well as the palace of the Inquisitor.
So we are taught that all of this is normal and matter of fact in history in school, like there is nothing out of the ordinary or wrong about the Inquisition…which was, by its very nature, violating basic Human Rights and dignity, including torture in the name of Christianity just for having dissenting views?
And the Office of the Inquisition it is still in existence to this day?
Only it is now called the "Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith."
The city of Senglea is a fortified city as well, we are told, and is also known as the "Civitas Invicta" or "Unconquered City."
We are told there weren't any buildings here until 1311, at which time St. Julian's Church, or Chapel, was built, said to have been the first building constructed on what later became Senglea.
Then in 1552, we are told, the foundation stone was laid for Fort St. Michael, and its construction was said to have been completed in 1553.
Then construction of the walled town of what at the time was known as St. Julian's Island in the decade following the completion of Fort St. Michael, subsequently became known as Senglea…
…in honor of the Grand Master Claude de la Sengle, of the Order of Malta, for giving St. Julian's Island its city status.
The Gardjola Gardens are located within the bastions of Fort St. Michael, also credited to Claude de la Sengle…
…and named for what is called the "Guard Tower" – "Il-Gardjola" – which has various symbols sculpted on it, such as an eye, ear, and crane bird, said to represent guardianship and observance protecting Maltese shores.
Now I am going to start a walking tour around the walls of Valletta…
…starting at the Triton Fountain, just outside the main City Gate of Valletta.
What exactly is a Triton?
For one, in mythology, Triton was the son of Poseidon, the god of the sea, and Amphitrite, a sea goddess and Queen of the Sea.
Triton's lower-half was that of a fish, and his top-half was that of a human.
We are told that at some time during the Greek and Roman eras, triton became a generic term for a mer-person in art and literature.
So some connections of interest to me from what I have found in my own research are, first, that in the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, between the Philippines and south China's Island of Hainan, we find an Amphitrite Group and a Triton Island…
…and that Poseidon's Golden Palace was said to have been at Aegae, on the large Greek island of Euboea in the Aegean Sea, mentioned previously in this post in relationship to the city of Kalkala on the other side of the Grand Harbor from Valletta.
Aegae was said to be located on the west coast of Euboea, north of Chalcis, and said to have been located near the modern town of Politika Kafkala…
And there were sculptures of tritons, or mer-people, in the Amenano Fountain back in Catania in Sicily from the last post.
What is the meaning of the tritons?
Could they really have existed at one time?
How are they connected to these places?
Perhaps they still exist today as mer-people, who remain mostly hidden away, and were not mythical as we are taught to believe.
The Triton Fountain is located in front of the main city gate of Valletta.
This was the main city gate of Valletta, called the King's Gate, circa 1871.
It was said to have been designed by Lt. Colonel Francis Ringler Thomson, about whom I can find no biographical information, in 1853…and this gate was demolished in 1964.
This is what we find at the main city gate today.
Directly upon entering Valletta, immediately to the right is what remains of the city's Royal Opera House, though the site was developed into an open air theater which opened in August of 2013.
The Royal Opera Theater was said to have been designed by the English architect Edward Middleton Barry in 1866…
…and with windows and columns that are not level with the sloping street beside it, like what we saw back at the Inquisitor's Palace.
Then, only 76-years later, it took a direct hit in April of 1942 from German Air Force bombers, and was almost completely destroyed.
Making a right turn after entering the city through the gate, onto Pope Pius V Street, we come to the Church of Our Lady of Victories, or La Vittoria…
…said to have had its foundation stone laid in 1566, and built to commemorate the Victory of the Knights of the Order of St. John and the Maltese over Ottoman invaders in 1565.
Directly across from La Vittoria Church is the St. James Bastion, where the two places dove-tail with each other in shape.
It was said to be one of the first bulwarks to be completed after the initiation of the construction of the fortified city in 1566.
The St. James Bastion forms one of the four important and massive bulwarks, and was carved largely out of bedrock.
The Sphinx on the Giza Plateau of Egypt was also carved from bedrock.
The bastion is said to contain to low "batteries" in its flanks, each protected by a massive rounded orillion.
The next place we come to continuing around to the right from the main city gate are the Upper Barrakka Gardens.
Check out the height and depth of the stone work seen here!
The Upper Barrakka Gardens are located on the upper tier of the St. Peter and Paul Bastion, and are a public garden…
…offering a panoramic view of the Grand Harbor.
It is the highest point of the city walls.
The gardens are linked to the Valletta Ditch and the nearby Lascaris Wharf by the Barrakka Lift, which was said to have first been constructed in 1905, closed in 1973, and dismantled in 1983…
…then a new lift was inaugurated in 2012.
This is the Fort Lacaris Battery, said to have been built by the British in 1854, and connected to the Peter & Paul Bastion that the Upper Barrakka Gardens are located at the top of…
…and this is a view of the Lacaris Bastion Gardjola, or Guard Tower, like what we saw earlier at Fort St. Michael in Senglea.
Before I move further along the city's wall, I would like to show you the Auberge de Castille, which is directly across from the Upper Barrakka Gardens.
It was said to have been built in the 1740s on the highest point in Valletta…
…and has been the Office of the Prime Minister of Malta since 1972.
Getting back to the city's wall, the Victoria Gate, the main entrance to the city from the Grand Harbor area, is situated next to the Lacaris Bastion.
It was said to have been built by the British in 1885, and named after Queen Victoria.
It is the only surviving gate within the fortifications of Malta, as all of the other gates, like the main city gate as I mentioned previously, were demolished between the 18th- and 19th-centuries.
The St. Barbara Bastion comes next, and is situated in the historic center of Valletta…
…and boasts of magnificent views of the Grand Harbor and the Three Cities.
Noteworthy churches near the St. Barbara Bastion are the Church of St. Paul's Shipwreck, said to have been completed in 1582, is directly across the street from it…
…and said to be one of the oldest churches in Valletta.
St. Paul the Apostle is considered to be the spiritual father of the Maltese, and his shipwreck is described in the New Testament, in the Book of Acts Chapter 28, verse 1, where St. Luke wrote: "Once safely on shore, we found out the island was called Melita (Malta)."
Across the street on the other side of the Church of St. Paul's Shipwreck, we find St. John's Co-Cathedral.
It was said to have been commissioned by the then Grand Master of the Order of St. John, Jean de la Cassiere; built by the Order between 1572 and 1577; and dedicated to St. John the Baptist.
The interior of the church is considered to be one of the finest examples of high Baroque architecture in Europe.
The Grand Master's Palace in Valletta is located close to the St. John Co-Cathedral…
…and was said to have been built the 16th- and 18th-centuries for the Grand Master of the Order of St. John, who was the ruler of Malta. It currently houses the offices of the President of Malta.
Going back to the city wall, the next place I am going to take a look at are the Lower Barrakka Gardens, which is twinned with the Upper Barrakka Gardens…
…offering a view of the Grand Harbor and its breakwater.
There is what is described as a neoclassical temple in the Lower Barrakka Gardens, said to have been constructed in 1810…
….as a monument to Sir Alexander Ball, a British admiral who was the first Civil Commissioner of Malta.
Located adjacent to the Lower Barrakka Gardens is the Siege Bell of Malta on the St. Christopher Bastion.
This is a view of the Siege Bell War Memorial from the Lower Barrakka Gardens.
This view catches my attention because I find buildings framed perfectly by arches around the world, like this view of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican…
…of the Debre Libanos Monastery in Ethiopia…
…of the Hungarian Parliament from the Fisherman's Bastion in Budapest, Hungary…
…of the Ecole Militaire through the arches of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France…
…of the Victoria Tower at the Houses of Parliament in London, England…
…and at the University of Oxford in Oxford, England.
The Siege Bell War Memorial was said to have been erected in 1992 to honor the 7,000 people who lost their lives in the World War II Siege of Malta between 1940 and 1943.
Between the Siege Bell War Memorial on St. Christopher's Bastion and St. Lazarus Bastion, we find the Sacra Infermeria.
The Sacra Infermeria, or Holy Infirmary, was said to have been built as a hospital by the Order of St. John, and one of the leading hospitals in Europe until the 18th-century.
Today is the Mediterranean Conference Center, and used for banquets, exhibitions, international conventions, and theatrical shows.
Next along the wall, we come to the St. John, also known as Abercrombie's, Bastion, the entrance to Fort St. Elmo discussed earlier in this post…
…then we come to Ball's Bastion in the upper part of Fort St. Elmo…
…and it is next to St. Gregory's Bastion.
St. Gregory's Bastion is in close proximity to the Jews' Sally Port.
We are told the history of the Jews in Malta can be traced back to 62 AD. The Jews' Sally Port is a gate where free Jews were said to have entered the city.
Next we come to the St. Sebastian Bastion…
…which is in close proximity to the Auberg de Baviere.
The Auberge de Bauviere was said to have been built as the Palazzo Carneiro in 1696, and was the residence of the Grand Master Marc'Antonio Zondadari in the early 18th-century.
Next we come to the St. Salvatore Bastion and the nearby…
…St. Paul's Anglican Cathedral, also known as St. Paul's Pro-Cathedral, one of three cathedrals of the Anglican Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe, and said to have been built between 1839 and 1844.
Moving along, we come to St. Andrew's Bastion…
…a popular wedding venue in today's day and age.
The Biaggio Steps are directly across from St. Andrew's Bastion, and which are described as run-down.
Next we come to St. Michael's Bastion…
…where apparently there used to be several windmills overlooking Marsamxett Harbor…
… but the only reminder of this is a nearby street named "Windmill Street."
The place I would like to look at around the city walls of Valletta, before returning to the main city gate, are the Hastings Gardens.
The Hasting Gardens are a public garden on top of St. John's Bastion and St. Michael's Bastion, located to the immediate west of the west of the city gate.
Three more things to look at before departing the relatively small islands of the Republic of Malta in the the Mediterranean Sea, before heading out from here.
The first is bringing the megalithic Tarxien temples to your attention, located a short distance south of Valletta.
There is a significant megalithic presence in Malta. The Tarxien Temples are just one example of many in Malta.
The temples' large stone blocks were discovered in 1914 by a farmer ploughing a field, and excavation was begun immediately by the director of the National Museum after the report of the finding was made.
So apparently the temple complex was completely buried underground. We have come to see places being completely buried as a natural occurrence over the passage of time, but was this really the case?
The Tarxien temple complex has rich and intricate stonework decorated with spiral designs and other patterns, and was dated to 3,150 BC.
The second is speculation about the Knights' Templar themselves.
Given that Valletta appears to be a veritable Disney World of stone masonry, and that the Maltese Cross and the Templar Cross are virtually identical, I am thinking that Malta was at the very least a major Templar Center, if not the main headquarters of the Templars.
I do seriously question what we are told about who the original Templars were, also known as the Order of the Temple of Solomon.
We are told it was Catholic military order recognized in 1139 AD by Pope Innocent II's papal bull Omne Datum Optimum.
I personally think there is a lot of information missing from the historical record about who the Templars really were, and about what their actual historical association with the Temple of Solomon was.
Were they actually Moorish Master Masons?
Whatever the Truth was about the original Templars, information is simply not available in the written historical record to make a connection directly to the Moors, and a connection in turn with the Temple of Solomon and the Lost Tribes of Israel.
Lastly, I have stated in previous posts my belief that I think places on the Earth, like Valletta in this example, with numerous star forts concentrated in close proximity, were significant power centers for the energy system of the planetary grid, and that star forts represented the definition of battery meaning "a device that produces electricity that may have several primary or secondary cells arranged in parallel or series, as well as a battery source of energy which provides a push, or a voltage, of energy to get the current flowing in a circuit…"
…and were not originally military in nature as we are led to believe in our current historical narrative, like the Lacaris Battery we saw earlier in this post.
Like the many star forts I found that were bombarded in World War I's Gallipoli Campaign in the Strait of Dardenelles in Turkey when I was looking at the Aegean Sea, the star-city of Valletta, and its surrounding star forts and star cities, appear to have been deliberately targeted for bombardment during the Siege of Malta between 1940 and 1942 in what was called the "Mediterranean 'Theater' of World War II."
I wonder why the word theater, defined as a building or area used for dramatic performances, also used as a term to describe an area in which important military events are occurring.
In the next post, I am going to be crossing from Valletta in Malta over to Sousse, a city located on Tunisia's Mediterranean coast in North Africa.
Author Michelle GibsonPosted on March 16, 2020 March 27, 2020 Tags Ancient Civilization, Hidden History, Moorish, Mud Flood
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Q: Install Navicat for MySQL on Linux Ubuntu 12.04 How do I install Navicat on Ubuntu Desktop 12.04?
I have just configured a new Ubuntu 12.04.  Because I'm not so familiar with the command line, I prefer to use Ubuntu Desktop so that I can have a GUI.  Now I need to install a front-end to connect with MySQL.
I prefer to use Navicat in a MAC environment, so I was hoping to install Navicat on the Ubuntu machine.  I downloaded a Linux copy of Navicat for MySQL from here:
http://www.navicat.com/download/navicat-for-mysql
The problem I am having is that I don't know how to install the program after it has been downloaded.  There is a navicat.exe file in the navicat folder, but that seems to be for a DOS/Windows environment.
I just can't figure out how to install Navicat onto Ubuntu Desktop 12.04.  Anyone have any ideas?  Thanks.

A: Yes, there is indeed a navicat.exe file there.
Unfortunately they're basically just shipping a windows and wine setup, the start_navicat script should fire it up for you.  You might need to open a terminal, navigate to that directory and then run ./start_navicat as I suspect the system won't recognise it as a shell script.
There's no installation, afaik, beyond un-taring in a convenient location, but if you're after it on your start menu you could manually create an entry for that script.

A: if you are a trival version ,you can do this:
#root ./navicat/bin/start_navicat


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Q: Angular final release/version 2.0.1 page reload/refresh issue I have tried LocationStrategy in app.module.ts file with below code
    import { LocationStrategy, HashLocationStrategy } from '@angular/common';

    @NgModule({
        imports: [
            ...
        ],
        declarations: [
            ...
        ],
        bootstrap: [...],
        providers: [
            { provide: LocationStrategy, useClass: HashLocationStrategy }
        ]
    })

In app.component.ts file i have added below code
import {Location} from '@angular/common';

   export class AppComponent {
    constructor(location: Location) {
        location.go(location.path());
    }
}

But unable to identify while navigating to other page or on same page if I refresh page or press f5 page is not reloading instead its giving 404 page not found error.Can you please tell me solution for this.

A: I have got same issue in my angular app with php after lots of solution found through goolge i tried this one- its working fine for me .
just put a .htaccess file in your root and add following code-
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.html [QSA,L]
</IfModule>