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Finding a home can be a daunting task. With so many locations, so many sellers, so many policies and regulations, it can feel like attempting to strike the lottery. Well, you don't have to settle for anything that comes along; neither does it have to feel like looking for the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. You can get the home that you've been dreaming of if you do one simple thing: First, find a reliable real estate property agent.

Wait, before you laugh off this advice, consider that this is not as hard as you may think-after all, you are not trying to find a reliable lawyer or politician! Finding a reliable property agent is not that difficult and I will show you how to do this. Don't underestimate how helpful a reliable real estate property agent can be in locating your dream home within your budget.

Knowing a good real estate property agent will do for your home concerns what knowing a good medical professional will do for your health concerns. Their expertise will provide assurance and dependable advice. So, how do you find a reliable and trustworthy agent? What do you look out for?

There are several ways to find a real estate property agent, like looking up the yellow pages, getting a referral from a friend, or doing a search on the internet. However, finding a reliable one requires you to look out for certain characteristics when speaking with a potential agent. The most important thing to look out for is a sense that this person is committed to representing your best interests. An agent working for you is supposed to put his expertise in search and negotiation to ensure that you get a reasonable (or better) deal with sellers.

When speaking with a potential agent, ask about how they determine the value of a property. Get an idea of how they conduct their services. Make sure that they are not receiving commission from a vendor to push a particular property to you. Your real estate property agent should be representing and working for your best interests only. After all, you have hired them and their commission will eventually come from you once you are satisfied with their services. They should be able to provide you with suitable properties that match your preferences and requests within a reasonable timeframe, like within a day or two. They should also be able to negotiate the purchase price on your behalf in a favourable way.

A reliable agent will save you time, money and effort. With his networks and contacts, he should be able to acquire several reasonable properties for you to choose from. This saves you the time and effort without having to look through the newspapers, property listings, visiting sellers and their agents, and driving around to various open house viewings. A reliable agent's experience in the industry, emotional detachment from the purchase which allows for clear analytical comparisons, and their confidence in price negotiation add up to being a valuable ally in your search for your dream home.

So, if you are thinking of looking for your dream home, start the process by looking for a reliable agent with the tips I have given you. They will save you the hassle and stress. If you look hard for a reliable agent, you will find a reliable agent that would look hard for your dream home.

One final piece of advice: use only ONE real estate property agent when you have found one that you are comfortable with and can rely on. Having several property agents representing you and running around town may lead to a confusing or potentially embarrassing situation.

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These days, the 'green' label gets thrown around a lot. There's no end to the list of things advertised as less harmful for the environment than their traditional counterparts. Far from following the trend, the housing industry has long been ahead of the curve. Residential development continues to sit at the forefront of this commitment to green building, with alternative insulation materials going mainstream, solar panels popping up on rooftops across the country, and water-saving technology becoming the norm. But while these additions and renovations can be great, many eco-minded homebuyers don't realize just how efficient and environmentally friendly it can be to live in multi-unit buildings. Luxury condos are green by their very nature!

The Benefits of Population Density

The more that a single structural element, utility, or appliance can be shared, the more efficient it is. In a luxury condo, a shared wall does what two separate walls would in houses. That translates to half as much building material to construct the wall, whether it's wood, brick, concrete, etc. It's also common for utilities to be centralized in a condominium complex, meaning that the hot water heater serves multiple units, a far more efficient use of energy than heating multiple small water heaters. The same holds true for air-conditioning and heating, which benefit from scaling up and serving multiple residences. By combining these functions that would need to be replicated at each individual home, multi-unit homes maximize efficient use of building materials and electricity.

Space to Breathe

On the other side of the equation, minimizing sprawl by sharing structures and appliances leaves more room on the property for outdoor features. Luxury condominiums have a much smaller footprint, on a per-unit basis, than individual homes. This means that the grounds can be larger and more luxurious, with water features and even small community gardens that would not be possible on many small lots.

The Cutting Edge

While luxury condos are, by their very nature, environmentally friendly, developers are increasingly using multi-unit residential construction to push the boundaries of green living. This is owed, at least in part, to the overwhelmingly green values and trends displayed by young, hip urbanites. Young professionals have shown especially significant interest in the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification for buildings. LEED certification encourages developers to incorporate alternative energy sources like solar panels for electricity or hot water. Another LEED innovation is the use of so-called grey water systems to recycle sink and drain water into the landscape. This water-saving technology is especially popular in the arid West, where drought has forced cities in California and Arizona to mandate cuts in public water.

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With most of us AS400 developers working with huge volumes of XML data in our interfaces between applications on our AS400 systems and between other systems, or with data coming from interfaces to web services running on other platforms or systems, we hit the problem of finding a way to store this data in our db2/400 database. As of now, DB2/400 doesn't allow us to store or manipulate XML documents natively in the database (although this is earmarked for i5/os V7R1).

 

This is a simple issue to solve when we are accessing the database from java using jdbc and can manipulate CLOBS, but if we are using RPG to access the database, we are restricted in our access to the AS400 database and CLOBS. Another issue is the record length on a db2 file is restricted to just under 32K.

 

We can store large amounts of data in the database, in the form of LOBs(Large Objects). The type we can use for our XML storage purposes is the CLOB, which can hold character data including XML.

 

We can use embedded SQL in our RPG programs to put our XML data into a database clob fields, but we have some difficulties. We can store up to 2Gb of data in a CLOB. RPG has a field size maximum of 64K on V5R4 (16M on V6R1), but there is not an easy of getting our 64K of data in an RPG field into a database CLOB.

 

The example below, based on one from Scott Klement, shows how you can get data from your AS400 RPG field into the CLOB.

 

The X/Open SQL Call Level Interface is a standard for direct access the a systems SQL Engine without a precompile, we will use this by calling the SQL CLI apis from RPG rather than using embedded SQL. It allows access to SQL functions directly through procedure calls to a service program provided by DB2 on the AS400. Using the SQL Call Level Interface procedure calls allows you to prepare SQL statements, execute SQL statements, fetch rows of data, and even do advanced functions such as accessing the catalogs, and binding program variables to output columns.

 

So using the CLI, we can bypass the limitation of AS400 embedded SQL, and pass our 64K of data as a host variable using a pointer. An example that shows how to update a CLOB using this method is shown below:

 

/include *libl/qtxtsrc,MGSQLCLI_H

 

************************************************************************

* updateClob - Update Clob

************************************************************************

P updateClob B Export

D updateClob pi 10i 0

d Id 10i 0 const

d msg 65535A const

 

D id s 10s 0

D ptr s *

D rc s 10i 0

D msgLen s 10i 0

D msgSize s 10i 0

D env s like(SQLHENV) inz(SQL_NULL_HENV)

d xmsg s 65535A

/Free

 

xmsg = msg;

 

// Create an SQL environment & connection handle

SQLAllocEnv(env);

SQLSetEnvAttrI(env:SQL_ATTR_OUTPUT_NTS:

SQL_FALSE:%size(SQLINTEGER) );

SQLSetEnvAttrI(env: SQL_ATTR_ENVHNDL_COUNTER

:SQL_TRUE: %size(SQLINTEGER) );

SQLAllocConnect(env: conn);

 

// Set Naming Format

SQLSetConnectAttrI(conn: SQL_ATTR_DBC_SYS_NAMING

:SQL_TRUE: %size(SQLINTEGER) );

 

// Set Commitment Level to *CHG

SQLSetConnectAttrI(conn: SQL_ATTR_COMMIT

:SQL_COMMIT_CHG: %size(SQLINTEGER) );

 

// Connect to Database

SQLConnect(conn:'*LOCAL':SQL_NTS:*NULL

:SQL_NTS:*NULL:SQL_NTS );

 

// Create an SQL statement

SQLAllocStmt(conn: stmt );

rc = SQLPrepare(stmt

: 'UPDATE FILE SET mymsg =? WHERE myid =?'

: SQL_NTS );

 

// Assign statement parameters

ptr = %addr(xmsg);

msgLen = %len(xmsg);

msgSize = %size(xmsg);

rc = SQLBindParam(stmt:1:SQL_CLOB:SQL_CLOB:msgSize

:0:ptr:msgLen);

 

rc = SQLBindParam(stmt:2:SQL_NUMERIC:SQL_NUMERIC

:%len(id):%decpos(id): %addr(id):0);

 

// Execute Statement

rc = SQLExecute(stmt);

 

// Free up SQL Resources

SQLFreeStmt( stmt: SQL_DROP );

 

cleanup();

return rc;

 

/End-Free

p E

*+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

* Cleanup(): Deallocate/Disconnect SQL CLI handles

*+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

P cleanup B

D cleanup pi

/free

if (stmt SQL_NULL_HSTMT);

SQLFreeStmt( stmt: SQL_DROP );

stmt = SQL_NULL_HSTMT;

endif;

 

if (conn SQL_NULL_HDBC);

SQLDisconnect( conn );

SQLFreeConnect( conn );

conn = SQL_NULL_HDBC;

endif;

/End-Free

p E

 

So using the example above it should be fairly straight forward for a developer to updating an AS400 db2 CLOB from a 64K RPG Variable using the SQL Call Level Interface.

 

 

In the period that we live in, PCs assume a noteworthy part in our lives. The web is utilized regular for different things, for example, purchasing garments, diversions and other distinctive frill. A few people really telecommute and bring home the bacon utilizing the web. Poker is an overall diversion, along these lines, looking at the situation objectively, poker settled on a standout amongst other choices by joining the web. Poker is popular to the point that there is a plausibility that in each nation of the world there are homes with individuals playing poker right this moment, and the lion's share of these individuals are playing online poker.

Playing online poker is genuinely basic on the off chance that you have fundamental PC abilities. In the event that you don't know essential PC aptitudes, don't stress, all you have to know is the manner by which turn on your PC, deal with a mouse, open the web page, sort "play poker online" in the pursuit box, press enter and pick which ever webpage you lean toward.

Online poker destinations have many diversions you can play. Why? Initially it was one diversion; throughout the years distinctive styles of poker have been made because of the tremendous ubiquity poker has far and wide. On the off chance that you approach the web, at that point you have all the distinctive assortments of poker in the tips of your finger. On the off chance that you like poker and you are an apprentice maybe you have a few inquiries in regards to the tenets, systems, or possibly you simply need to know a portion of the historical backdrop of poker; the web likewise has several articles filled to tidy with data that will take hours to peruse totally. (You can never read every one of the articles in regards to poker in light of the fact that new articles are transferred ordinary!)

Innovation makes our lives less demanding, and PCs with web get to are a piece of this innovation. In this way on the off chance that you are fully informed regarding innovation and you cherish playing poker, online poker rooms are a little bit of paradise accessible in your home. What is additionally cool about online poker is that there are free online poker rooms and pokers rooms were you can put an offer and win cash! The absolute most prominent poker diversions are Texas hold'em, five-card draw, seven-card stud, Razz, Omaha high, Chinese poker, insane pineapple, deuce-to-seven, and twofold slump Texas hold'em.

Online poker is the quickest and simplest approach to play poker. You can never get exhausted of it. The best piece of online poker is that with each style of poker you play, the officers principles of that specific amusement can more often than not be situated in a similar webpage, or the website will have a reference website where you can go and read the primary things you have to think about the style you played.

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