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This is actually quite momentous, and something I've been musing about (how it would work) for a while. High def *video* capture – NOT CGI, not a 3d model, but something that you can experience in virtual reality space as if you were standing there in the real world.
This is a critical shift, eliminating the need for the artificial creation of worlds/experience. Can you interact with it (touch anything)? Probably not. But it will come.
I knew there were companies working on taking moving pictures and interpolating the 3D models out of them (required to move around things, and have them shift as you move your POV), am finally seeing some of it coming to fruition. I'm not actually sure that is the case here (that it's not just smart faking of 3d perspective), but in order to develop a world where you can interact with things they need to have physical definition – otherwise you won't be able to touch them, pick them up etc. So you need to not only record a scene, but interpolate the depth of objects and spaces, map that to a wireframe (3d talk for…an object) AND THEN give the user (visitor?!) the ability to move around the scene. That is a *lot* of computing power.
The road is long and steep to get this to be in market, but can you imagine what will happen when this technology is merged with all those 360 camera captures out there? You can literally experience or relive what someone else is doing. Literally travel the world without leaving your comfy Barca Lounger.
Now we only need some smart company to start engineering "Smell-O-Vision" so you can really experience what it's like to walk around Jaipur (I only pick on Jaipur because I've been and can say, you don't want Smell-O-Vision).
The interesting bit about this isn't that there are realistic created 3d VR experiences, but that creating them just got one step closer to being easier – and more real. Creating an immersive experience in VR isn't as easy as it sounds; you know that suspension of disbelief you have to have while watching a movie? And how when one thing is off – say a science fact (umm, maybe that's just me lol) – you are immediately pulled out of the experience? VR has that even worse. We have a lifetime of experiences in the real world to check against, so any tiny little thing that's off when you're there – say, a shadow not being right – and you'll be pulled out of the realism. Being able to use 360 footage to do it goes a long way to solving those kinds of problems.
I have a friend who is about to leave the city he's lived in for 20 years, to move to New Zealand. It's a long distance and he probably won't get back to there often – but with this, he could create his own 360 video, and after he moves relive his favorite walks as if he were there, whenever he feels like it. And some day, he can be joined by his long distance daughter virtually, and they can walk together.
Isn't that a wonderful way VR will add to people's lives?


I am an editor of a very active book series (Studies in Diversity Linguistics) myself, but I continue to write reviews for journals. However, I get more requests than I can handle, so I have introduced a principled policy, based on a journal's approximation of best practice.
As more and more scientists are becoming aware, the situation of scientific publishing is currently a disaster. To a large extent, "publications" are behind a paywall (so they are not really public), and even when they are open access, authors have to pay (APCs), and private publishing giants like Springer or Wiley are extracting huge amounts of money from science budgets, largely because they monopolize the brands.
The only solution to this terrible situation is that academics take publishing back into their own hands, as we have done with Language Science Press, and as many colleagues have done who have invested efforts into platinum OA journals. This is what I call best practice publishing in linguistics.
But given the problems with funding platinum journals, it is clear that transition to best practice publishing cannot occur immediately. But one cost factor can be eliminated if academic linguists, in particular journal editors, work together: the cost of adapting text style to different style requirements. There is no reason why different journals should have different text-style rules, so ideally all linguistics journals should converge on a single discipline-wide text style.
If a journal that is not a platinum journal (and either works with a paywall or with APCs) helps to reach this goal by making a serious effort to help with unifying style rules, then I regard it as approximating best practice.


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Imphal, Mar 14 (ANI): Manipur Assembly protem Speaker Sorokhaibam Rajen Singh administers the oath of office to state Chief Minister-designate N Biren Singh as the Member of the 12th State Legislative Assembly during the swearing-in ceremony, at the Assembly Hall, in Imphal on Monday. (ANI Photo)
Imphal, March 14 (IANS) In all, 59 members, including Chief Minister N. Biren Singh, on Monday took oath as members of the 12th Manipur Assembly for which elections were held on February 28 and March 5 and results were declared on March 10.
Protem Speaker Sorokhaibam Rajen Singh administered the oath to the newly elected members.
The ruling BJP retained power for the second consecutive term and for the first time in Manipur the saffron party got the absolute majority on its own by winning 32 seats in the 60-member house.
BJP's erstwhile ally National People's Party secured seven seats while Janata Dal (United) won six seats, the Congress and the Naga People Front bagged five seats each, Kuki People's Alliance, a newly floated tribal based party, managed two seats and three Independent candidates also got elected to the Assembly.
For the first time in the electoral and parliamentary history of Manipur, five women members were also elected, including three of BJP and two NPP. The NPF, JD (U) and an independent member announced to support the BJP government.
Biren Singh on Friday resigned from his post and the Governor asked him to continue in his office until the new government takes charge.
There is no confirmation yet as to when the next Chief Minister would be chosen, or when the new BJP-led government would assume office. Before the elections, the BJP had informally declared that Singh will be the party's chief ministerial face and will head the next government.
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Willie Mays Aikens (born October 14, 1954) is a former Major League Baseball first baseman. He had established himself as one of the top sluggers in the game before drugs derailed his career. In 1994, Aikens was sentenced to twenty years in prison on four counts of crack cocaine distribution and one count of use of a firearm during drug trafficking. He was released on June 4, 2008 after changes in federal drug laws, and is sometimes cited as an example of the results of mandatory minimum sentencing in drug-related crimes.
Aikens grew up in poverty in the Bruce Hill community of Seneca, South Carolina. He was a standout athlete in baseball, football and basketball at Seneca High School, and attended historically black South Carolina State University on a baseball and football scholarship.
When S.C. State dropped baseball after Aikens' freshman year, Willie McNeil, Aikens' high school baseball coach, helped him catch on with a semi-pro summer baseball league in Baltimore, Maryland. While playing in Baltimore, he caught the eye of California Angels scout Walter Youse and was drafted by the Angels with the number two overall pick in the January 1975 Amateur draft.
MLB career
Aikens soon emerged as one of the top sluggers in California's farm system, slugging a league leading thirty home runs and driving in 117 runs for the El Paso Diablos in 1976. He debuted with the Angels in 1977, however, after batting an unimpressive .230 with no home runs mostly as a pinch hitter and designated hitter, he was returned to the minors.
He received a second call to the majors that September, but fared even worse, collecting just four hits in thirty at-bats. Aikens returned to his slugging ways in 1978, batting .326 with 29 home runs and 110 runs batted in for the Pacific Coast League's Salt Lake City Gulls. He returned to the majors in 1979, assuming DH duties and replacing Rod Carew at first base in June and July while the future hall of famer was out with a thumb injury. He batted .280 with 21 home runs and 81 RBIs his rookie season. That Winter, he and Rance Mulliniks were traded to the Kansas City Royals for Al Cowens, Todd Cruz and a player to be named later.
Aikens inherited the first base job upon his arrival in Kansas City despite not being a very good fielder (he committed a league leading twelve errors in 1980). He finished second to George Brett on his team in both home runs and RBIs with twenty and 98, respectively. The Royals won their division by fourteen games to face the New York Yankees in the American League Championship Series for the third time in four years. After having come up short in 1976, 1977 & 1978, the Royals swept the Yankees in three games in the 1980 American League Championship Series to face the Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series. Aikens hit two home runs in game one (his 26th birthday) and game four of the 1980 World Series.
He was, until Chase Utley accomplished the same feat in 2009, the only player in World Series history to hit two home runs in the same game twice during the same World Series. He also collected the game-winning RBI in the tenth inning of game three, the Royals' first-ever win of a World Series game. Aikens hit .400 for the series, however, the Royals lost the World Series in six games. Aikens led the Royals in both home runs and RBIs in the strike shortened 1981 season. His Royals returned to the post season, but were swept by the Oakland Athletics in the 1981 American League Division Series. For his part Aikens batted .333 (three for nine) and also reached base three times via base on balls.
However, he failed to score or drive in any runs. He batted over .300 for the first time in his career in 1983, only to see his career rapidly began to decline afterwards. Toward the end of the 1983 season, Aikens and several of his Royals teammates were questioned by U.S. Attorney Jim Marquez in connection with a federal cocaine probe. Following the season, Aikens, Jerry Martin and Willie Wilson pleaded guilty to attempting to purchase cocaine, while former teammate Vida Blue pleaded guilty to possession of three grams of cocaine. Aikens, Blue, Martin and Wilson were all sentenced to three months in prison.
Shortly after Aikens' November 17 sentencing, he was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays for designated hitter Jorge Orta. Aikens was originally suspended by Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn for a year. Following a May 15, 1984 review, he was reinstated, and joined his Toronto teammates in Minnesota the next day. In 93 games, Aikens hit eleven home runs and drove in just 26.
The Jays released Aikens a month into the 1985 season, and resigned him to a minor league contract. Despite a healthy .311 batting average and sixteen home runs with the Syracuse Chiefs, he never returned to the majors. He played four games for the New York Mets' triple A affiliate, the Tidewater Tides in 1986 before heading to Mexico to join the Mexican Pacific League's Yaquis de Obregón. Aikens played for six years in the Mexican League, where he was regularly among the league's top hitters.
Aikens' 21 home runs in 1979 was tops among MLB rookies, and he received a league leading twelve intentional walks in 1981. His 129 OPS+ is the fourth highest in Royals history behind Danny Tartabull, George Brett & John Mayberry. He hit a home run in his final major league at bat on April 27, 1985.
Aikens was called to testify in the Pittsburgh drug trials of Curtis Strong as his major league career was winding down. His legal problems continued after his retirement, culminating in his being found guilty of selling fifty grams of crack cocaine to an undercover police officer and sentenced to twenty years and eight months in prison. Aikens had developed a heavy cocaine habit and, by his own admission, was constantly using the drug from 1991 to 1994. Supposedly, a former lover tipped off the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department that Aikens was selling narcotics at his home. Consequently, in December 1993, the police put Aikens' condominium under surveillance. The police observed numerous individuals entering Aikens' home and then exiting after a brief stay.
On December 8, 1993, an undercover police officer named Ginger Locke approached Aikens standing in the garage of his condominium and asked for directions. After Aikens gave Locke directions, he told her that he was listed in the phone book and asked her to call him sometime. Locke called Aikens numerous times in order to establish a rapport with him. On January 18, 1994, Locke called Aikens and told him that she had loaned her car to a friend, and that the friend had been caught with some "stuff," referring to crack cocaine, in the car. Locke's story initiated a discussion about narcotics. Eventually, Aikens let Locke know that he could get her "all the stuff" she wanted.
Later that day, Locke drove to Aikens' home and asked him if she could buy an "eight ball," i.e. an eighth of an ounce of cocaine. Aikens asked Locke if she wanted her cocaine "hard," (crack form), or "soft," (powder form). She replied that she wanted it "hard." Aikens pointed to some crack cocaine sitting on an ottoman in his den and indicated that he did not have a full "eight ball" of crack on hand. He told Locke that he would have to make some more.
Using equipment which he kept in his den, Aikens quickly proceeded to make crack by mixing powder cocaine with baking soda in a glass beaker, pouring water on it, heating it with a hand-held torch, baking it in a microwave, and then rinsing it with cold water. Aikens weighed some of the crack that he had made, along with some of the crack which he already possessed, on a dial-a-gram scale, and sold it to Locke for $200. On January 24, 1994, Locke visited Aikens' home to buy more cocaine. Aikens had Locke drive him to his supplier's Kansas City home, where he used Locke's money to purchase powder cocaine. On the way back to Aikens' home, Aikens had Locke stop at stores where he could buy beakers and baking powder.
When Aikens and Locke returned to Aikens' home, Aikens converted the powder cocaine into crack, and he sold the crack to Locke. On January 28 and February 23 of 1994, Locke returned to Aikens' home and arranged to buy more crack. On each occasion, Aikens called a supplier and had Locke accompany him while he obtained powder cocaine.
On each occasion, Aikens converted the powder into crack upon returning to his home and sold the crack cocaine to Locke. In total, Aikens ending up selling about 2.2 ounces to the undercover cop. He was arrested on March 2, 1994, and after a March 17 mistrial, a grand jury indicted Aikens on four charges of crack cocaine distribution in violation of 21 U.S.C on March 25. Because of the tougher federal guidelines for crack, he was sentenced as if he had sold fifteen pounds of powder cocaine. He received the maximum sentence of fifteen years and eight months, and received an additional five years because he allegedly had a loaded gun in the room where the drugs were sold.
Aikens served his prison sentence in a United States Penitentiary located in Atlanta, Georgia, and was scheduled to be released in 2012. He was released on June 4, 2008, three months after congress approved new guidelines in the federal drug laws and made them retroactive. Hal McRae, the only former Royals teammate with whom Aikens corresponded with while in prison, set Aikens up with a job in road construction, working in manholes.
Since his release, Aikens has spoken at schools about his experiences and to the Royals' young players, always hoping to return to baseball. In November 2008, apologized to Royals fans and the people of Kansas City in the Kansas City Star. On February 1, 2011, the Royals announced that they had hired Aikens as a minor league coach who will be based at the franchise's complex at Surprise, Arizona. The employment was delayed when his wife, Sara, suffered a stroke, believed to have been a complication of lupus. Aikens has three daughters: Nicole and Sarita with Sara, and Lucia from a previous relationship.
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Digital tech is one of the fastest growing areas in sports stadium management. Especially in 2020, because all renovations and remodelling works in stadiums both technological and architectural plans play an important role. There are two goals, redefining the way of enjoying a live event and attracting a bigger audience for the live experience of a game. It's an opportunity to embrace "avid fans" and its potential benefits for clubs.
"Avid fans" are those fans with a greater devotion and loyalty for a team than the average fan. They are also a group of fans that, after having tried out the new technologies in the stadium, they are much more likely to attend the event, instead of watching it broadcast. They are also more willing to buy the team's erchandising and subscribe to the club's services. Technology plays a central role in their lives and they look for new developments such as augmented reality, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence in sports. The Cap Gemini consulting firm defined their profile in a study published earlier this year as mostly male, urban, and focused on football, American football, tennis, and basketball. They follow the news and results of their teams on their smartphones, and they devote a lot of their time to social media to interact with other fans. This makes them true influencers capable of occupying all the stands on match days. Thus, making it important for clubs to build up to their expectations.
But these fans do not represent the same number over the other fans around the world. In the Asian market, pioneer in implementing technologies in stadiums, they are more than 75%. In the United States, they are only 50%, and the percentage is even lower in Europe. However, a big increase is expected due to the pandemic and the new 5G. The pandemic has speeded up a change of habits and the adoption of the use of technology, and 5G has allowed high speed connections for a large audience. This was proven by the recent reopening of the Tottenham Hotspur stadium in the UK, where its free Wi-Fi makes it possible for 65% of its 62,000 spectators to connect simultaneously without losing the video signal quality. They can watch game plays on demand or related content while they enjoy the event and share their experience on social media.
Sharing the passion for the game and the team is one of the three areas of interest in which the stadiums are evolving, and which will define the sports venues of the future. The other two areas are waiting time reduction and an improved service for the stands. Their implementation involves the use of five technological applications: AR (Augmented Reality), VR (Virtual Reality), AI (Artificial Intelligence), IoT (Internet of Things) and 5G.
Liverpool's new Anfield will be one of the first to apply Artificial Intelligence in stand management. Employing security cameras, and thus, the Internet of Things (IoT), social distancing and the movement of masses in the stadium will be analysed by means of AI. Now it will be used to facilitate the reduced attendance due to the coronavirus restrictions. In the future it will be used to reduce the waiting times, queues and allow the fan to find the fastest way to their seat, shop or restaurant in the stadium.
A similar approach is being carried out by Barcelona Supercomputing Center in collaboration with FC Barcelona as part of the "Horizon 2020" EU programme. One of its goals is to model the attendees' natural movements in the future Espai Barça, including the Camp Nou and the sports city around it. According to the attendees' movements, a model will be created which will allow to plan events, make changes in real time, find the ticket office and other facilities or services available on both matchday and non-matchday, improving accessibility, visibility and the fan experience as a whole.
One of the most requested improvements by fans is to being able to stay more time on the stands. 75% of fans would like to take less time in order to get their food and drinks. This is a very important aspect as it is important not only to have them satisfied but also reduce waiting times as that will increase their expenditure in the stadium. Developments in this field have started to emerge, as SeatServe. It uses a SaaS solution (software as a service) for stadiums that allows both the direct in-seat delivery and the reception in a collecting point. Fans can use this service through an app, which can also be integrated within a club, league or stadium app. It is not so different from traditional food delivery apps, in this case it is focused to enhance and optimise the food court in the stadium.
Similar digital services are being used in US stadiums, allowing people to exchange a seat for a better one if possible. During the minutes before the start of an event, the stadium's computer system informs attendee of the opportunity to upgrade their seat by paying a small amount and sending them a link for the online payment. The price is usually lower than the one from the ticket box, which allows to optimise the ticketing of the stadium. This is done by offering an unsold seat at a lower price and earning more money with the one already sold.
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Hi, our crew leader is inactive and we all are bloked from our activity. He hasn't been logged in for a long time.. so we need another leader if this is possible, because nobody takes notice of it. We don't have the chance to perform in the game, to progress so I think I can revive the crew. I'm waiting for an answer. Cheers!
In this case you'll need to wait till after the weekend, so it can be discussed.
@adryaneg7 Unfortunately we will not make you crewleader, for the reason that the current leader has payed bc's to create the crew and he might decide later to become active again.
@adryaneg7 If you want to leave the crew, then you can do that by going to the crewpage, memberlist.
If you have left the crew, then you can create your own crew or join a new crew.
This Academy was created by a group of players in 2014, 3 years before BC's appears so no BC was used. But it will be no problem for us to give back the leadership to MareleAlb if he becames active again and if he decides to continue in Revolutionists Academy.
@adryaneg7 Still you can't take the leadership away from someone and even when there where no BC's back then he still needed to have tickets to create the crew.
He has payed to own the crew , so we are not going to take the leadership away from him.


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Su-ngai Kolok in Changwat Narathiwat with it's 42,776 inhabitants is located in Thailand about 543 mi (or 874 km) south of Bangkok, the country's capital.
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The 300 Years Mosque (Thai: มัสยิด 300 ปี) (also known as Al-Hussein Mosque or Talo Mano Mosque) is located in Ban Talo Mano, Tambon Subo Sawo. It is 25 kilometres from the city of Narathiwat, Thailand. Wan Hussein Az-Sanawi, who migrated from Ban Sano Yanya in Pattani Province, built the mosque in 1624. It was originally roofed with palm leaves, which later were replaced with fired clay tiles. The mosque is composed of two buildings connecting with each other.
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package destiny738.tistory.com.validation;

import java.util.regex.Pattern;

import android.content.Context;
import android.content.res.TypedArray;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;
import android.text.InputType;
import android.text.Layout;
import android.text.StaticLayout;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.View.OnFocusChangeListener;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.PopupWindow;
import android.widget.TextView;
/**
 * ValidationEditText.java
 *
 * This is custom EditText view.
 * It can validate input value and If the input value is unvalidated, then caution to user.
 * Also, this editText view use a unique error icon and background of input box.
 * Moreover, it have a custom pop-up which can be seen to call showError().
 * It is easy to change pop-up layout.
 *
 * This use OnFocusChangeListener. And validation is occurred when it lose focus.
 */
public class ValidationEditText extends EditText implements OnFocusChangeListener{

	// remember scale of display for converting from px to dp.
	private final float scale = getResources().getDisplayMetrics().density;
	TypedArray attrArray;

	// to declare for notifying error message
	private String errorMessage;
	private Drawable errorIcon;
	private PopupWindow popup;

	// scale of error icon
	private int iconWidth;
	private int iconHeight;

	// error-popup background
	private int errorBackground;
	private int errorFontSize;
	private int errorFontColor;

	// pop-up position (user input)
	private int popupTop;
	private int popupLeft;

	// validation type
	private String validationType;

	// to declare variables for saving validation information
	private String REGEX;			// regular expression
	private int MINLENGTH;			// minimum length.
	private int MAXLENGTH;			// maximum length
	// I think information of lengths is not useful because of regular expression can covered length of string.

	// to declare flags
	private boolean regFlag;		// whether validate patterns or not
	private boolean lengthFlag;		// whether validate length or not
	private boolean showFlag;		// to check conflict each validation (length and regular expression)

	/** constructor */
	public ValidationEditText(Context context){
		super(context);
		// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
		initValidationEditText();
	}
	public ValidationEditText(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
		super(context, attrs);
		// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
		attrArray = context.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs,R.styleable.destiny);
		initValidationEditText();
	}
	public ValidationEditText(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyle) {
		super(context, attrs, defStyle);
		// TODO Auto-generated constructor stub
		attrArray = context.obtainStyledAttributes(attrs,R.styleable.destiny, defStyle, 0);
		initValidationEditText();
	}

	/**
	 * initValidationeditText()
	 *
	 * To get the attributes and to apply your applications. (To set the initial status on EditText.)
	 * Reset the flags.
	 */
	private void initValidationEditText(){
		int attrMinLength = MINLENGTH = 0;
		int attrMaxLength = MAXLENGTH = Integer.MAX_VALUE;

		if ( attrArray != null ){
			iconHeight = attrArray.getDimensionPixelSize(R.styleable.destiny_errorIconHeightSize, 20);
			iconWidth = attrArray.getDimensionPixelSize(R.styleable.destiny_errorIconWidthSize, 20);
			iconHeight = pixelToDpi(iconHeight);
			iconWidth = pixelToDpi(iconWidth);
			errorIcon = getResources().getDrawable(attrArray.getResourceId(R.styleable.destiny_errorIcon, R.drawable.caution_icon));
			errorIcon.setBounds(0,0,iconWidth, iconHeight);

			errorMessage = attrArray.getString(R.styleable.destiny_errorMessage);
			if ( errorMessage == null ) errorMessage = "Invalidated input";
			errorBackground = attrArray.getResourceId(R.styleable.destiny_errorBackground, R.drawable.popup_background);
			errorFontSize = attrArray.getInt(R.styleable.destiny_errorFontSize, 12);
			errorFontColor = attrArray.getColor(R.styleable.destiny_errorFontColor, Color.BLACK);

			popupTop = attrArray.getDimensionPixelSize(R.styleable.destiny_popupTop, -4);
			popupLeft = attrArray.getDimensionPixelOffset(R.styleable.destiny_popupLeft, 0);

			validationType = attrArray.getString(R.styleable.destiny_validationType);

			attrMaxLength = attrArray.getInteger(R.styleable.destiny_validationMaxLength, Integer.MAX_VALUE);
			attrMinLength = attrArray.getInteger(R.styleable.destiny_validationMinLength, 0);

			attrArray.recycle();
		}else{
			iconHeight = 20;
			iconWidth = 20;
			errorIcon = getResources().getDrawable(R.drawable.caution_icon);
			errorIcon.setBounds(0,0,iconWidth,iconHeight);

			errorMessage = "Invalidated input";
			errorFontSize = 12;
			errorFontColor = Color.BLACK;
		}

		regFlag = false;
		lengthFlag = false;
		showFlag = false;

		if ( validationType != null ){
			if ( validationType.equals("email") ){
				setRegex(ValidationType.VALIDATION_EMAIL);
			}else if ( validationType.equals("number") ){
				setRegex(ValidationType.VALIDATION_NUMBER);
			}else if ( validationType.endsWith("url") ){
				setRegex(ValidationType.VALIDATION_URL);
			}else{
				Log.e("destiny738.tistory.com.validation","You can not select that validation type");
				Log.e("destiny738.tistory.com.validation","You can not select that validation type");
				Log.e("destiny738.tistory.com.validation","You can not select that validation type");
			}
		}

		if ( attrMinLength > 0 ) setMinLength(attrMinLength);
		if ( attrMaxLength <= Integer.MAX_VALUE ) setMaxLength(attrMaxLength);

		setOnFocusChangeListener(this);
	}

	/**
	 * onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus)
	 *
	 * This listener is called when focus of view is changed.
	 *
	 * Method do follow these step.
	 * 1. check the change of focus which is form focus to unfocus.
	 * 2. check flags.
	 * 3. According to flags, it validate input data.
	 */
	@Override
	public void onFocusChange(View v, boolean hasFocus) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		// lost focus
		if ( !hasFocus ){
			String input = this.getText().toString();		// save input data
			// regulation check
			if ( regFlag && !showFlag){
				if ( !Pattern.matches(REGEX, input) && !input.equals("") ){
					showError();
					showFlag = true;
				}else{
					resetError();
				}
			}
			// length check
			if ( lengthFlag && !showFlag ){
				if ( (input.length() < MINLENGTH && input.length() > 0) || (input.length() > MAXLENGTH) ){
					showError();
				}else{
					resetError();
				}
			}
			showFlag = false;
		}
	}

	/**
	 * showError()
	 *
	 * showError() is called when user input is not validated.
	 * It make pop-up window and view error icon.
	 */
	private void showError(){
		// pop-up null check and when pop-up is null then make new pop-up
		if ( popup == null ){
			// to set the view(TextView) of pop-up attributes(background, text size and color...).
			TextView err = new TextView(getContext());
			err.setTextColor(errorFontColor);
			err.setBackgroundResource(errorBackground);
			err.setTextSize(errorFontSize);
			// to make new pop-up using err view-layout.
			popup = new PopupWindow(err, (int) (200 * scale + 0.5f), (int) (50*scale+0.5f));
			popup.setFocusable(false);
			popup.setInputMethodMode(PopupWindow.INPUT_METHOD_NEEDED);
		}

		// get the content view of new pop-up window.
		TextView tv = (TextView) popup.getContentView();
		setPopUpSize(popup, errorMessage, tv);

		tv.setText(errorMessage);
		// set the position and set the icon of error
		popup.showAsDropDown(this, getPositionX(), getPositionY());
		setCompoundDrawables(null, null, errorIcon, null);
	}

	/**
	 * resetError()
	 *
	 * resetError() is called when user input is validated.
	 * It remove pop-up window and error icon.
	 */
	private void resetError(){
		// remove error icon
		setError(null);
		setCompoundDrawables(null, null, null, null);
		// remove pop-up
		if ( popup != null && popup.isShowing() ){
			popup.dismiss();
		}
	}

	/**
	 * setPopUpSize()
	 * @param pop  pop-up
	 * @param text message
	 * @param tv   textView in pop-up
	 *
	 * setPopUpSize() is set to the pop-up message's size.
	 */
	private void setPopUpSize(PopupWindow pop, CharSequence text, TextView tv) {
		int width = tv.getPaddingLeft() + tv.getPaddingRight();
		int height = tv.getPaddingTop() + tv.getPaddingBottom();

		int maxWidth = getWidth() - width;

		Layout l = new StaticLayout(text, tv.getPaint(), maxWidth, Layout.Alignment.ALIGN_NORMAL, 1, 0, true);
		float max = 0;
		for (int i = 0; i < l.getLineCount(); i++) {
			max = Math.max(max, l.getLineWidth(i));
		}

		pop.setWidth(width + (int) Math.ceil(max));
		pop.setHeight(height + l.getHeight());
	}

	/**
	 * getPositionX()
	 * @return left of pop-up message's layout
	 *
	 * getPositionX() return pop-up x-position.
	 */
	private int getPositionX() {
		return getWidth() - popup.getWidth() - getPaddingRight() / 2 + popupLeft;
	}

	/**
	 * getPositionY()
	 * @return top of pop-up message's layout
	 *
	 * getPositionY() return pop-up y-position.
	 */
	private int getPositionY() {
		return popupTop;
	}

	/**
	 * setRegex()
	 * @param validationType Input type. Static variable of ValidationType.java.
	 *
	 * To set the patterns for regulation from ValidationRegularString.java.
	 * To change Regular validation flag(regFlag) true.
	 * If you add some case then write with both class ValidationRegularString and ValidationType.
	 */
	public void setRegex(int validationType) {
		switch(validationType){
			case ValidationType.VALIDATION_EMAIL:
				REGEX = ValidationRegularString.EMAIL;
				setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_EMAIL_ADDRESS);
				break;
			case ValidationType.VALIDATION_URL:
				REGEX = ValidationRegularString.URL;
				setInputType(InputType.TYPE_TEXT_VARIATION_URI);
				break;
			case ValidationType.VALIDATION_NUMBER:
				REGEX = ValidationRegularString.NUMBER;
				setInputType(InputType.TYPE_CLASS_NUMBER);
				break;
		}
		regFlag = true;
	}

	/**
	 * setMinLength()
	 * @param length minimum length of string.
	 *
	 * To set the minimum length of input string.
	 * To set the validation length(lengthFlag) true.
	 * If you to set the wrong number(larger than max-length) it is not act and just tell you using log.
	 */
	public void setMinLength(int length) {
		if ( length > MAXLENGTH ){
			myLog("Programmer!! You input wrong number. Reset the MinLength");
		}else{
			MINLENGTH = length;
			lengthFlag = true;
		}
	}

	/**
	 * setMaxLength()
	 * @param length maximum length of string.
	 *
	 * To set the maximum length of input string.
	 * To set the validation length(lengthFlag) true.
	 * If you to set the wrong number(smaller than min-length) it is not act and just tell you using log.
	 */
	public void setMaxLength(int length){
		if ( length < MINLENGTH ){
			myLog("Programmer!! You input wrong number. Reset the MaxLength");
		}else{
			MAXLENGTH = length;
			lengthFlag = true;
		}
	}

	/**
	 * setMessage()
	 * @param message error message.
	 *
	 * To set the message which is showed when user input is not validated.
	 */
	public void setMessage(String message) {
		errorMessage = message;
	}

	private int pixelToDpi(int number){
		return (int) (number * scale + 0.5f);
	}

	/* for debug */
	private static final String TAG = "DEBUG";
	void myLog(String input){
		Log.d(TAG,input);
	}
}

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Karachi: Islami Jamiat Talba (IJT), a student organisation, on Wednesday alleged that the sale of narcotics at the Karachi University campus had become an order of the day and demanded immediate remedial steps to stem the illegal activity.
IJT KU chapter nazim Hafiz Muhammad Bilal, while addressing a press conference at Karachi Press Club (KPC), disclosed that alcohol and other narcotics were being sold at the campus despite the presence of security agencies personnel. He said a canteen that was closed for selling alcohol near the Zoology Department had been reopened, while no action was taken as yet against the wrongdoers.
Bilal regretted that different drugs were being sold in the university in presence of security agencies who are still not galvanised into action against miscreants. He said different people, who are not varsity employees, have occupied land and houses at the campus. He said house allotment committee had announced in a meeting that these illegal occupations would be vacated in a week; however, practically no action was taken against these influential people.
He said that IJT has conducted a survey in the campus in which 7500 people, including students, teachers and employees took part. Sharing the results of the survey, he said only 69.3% people showed interest in academic and literary programs, while 96% students said they took part in any campaign to solve the campus problems.
Bilal said according to the survey result, the top most issues of the KU campus were shortage of transport buses, unhygienic canteens, security, and corruption in university offices.


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Q: Too large negative exponential number returns 0 but not -Infinity. Can someone explain this? This is a strange behaviour.
1e-325
=> 0

but
1e+325
=> Infinity

and
-100...(decimal 1e-325 value)
=> -Infinity

A: The value 1e-325 is a positive number. It's very, very close to zero. It's equal to 1 / 1e+325 (well, conceptually equal). The value 1e+325 is positive, and so is 1.

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A Quick Look at Mrk 1216 (2019-06-03)
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Chandra X-ray Image of
NGC 3079, Full Field
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(19 Jul 01)
NGC 3079:
Superwind Sculpts Filamentary Features
Credit: NASA/CXC/STScI/U.North Carolina/G.Cecil
Chandra's X-ray image (blue) has been combined with Hubble's optical image (red and green) to compose this stunning and revealing picture of the spiral galaxy NGC 3079. Towering filaments consisting of warm (about ten thousand degrees Celsius) and hot (about ten million degrees Celsius) gas blend to create the bright horseshoe-shaped feature near the center.
The correlation of the warm and hot filaments suggests that they were both formed as a superwind of gas -- rushing out from the central regions of the galaxy -- carved a cavity in the cool gas of disk galactic disk. The superwind stripped fragments of gas off the walls of the cavity, stretched them into long filaments, and heated them. The full extent of the superwind shows up as a fainter conical cloud of X-ray emission surrounding the filaments.
A superwind, such as the one in NGC 3079 originates in the center of the galaxy, either from activity generated by a central supermassive black hole, or by a burst of supernova activity. Superwinds are thought to play a key role in the evolution of galaxies by regulating the formation of new stars, and by dispersing heavy elements to the outer parts of the galaxy and beyond. These latest Chandra data indicate that astronomers may be seriously underestimating the mass lost in superwinds and therefore their influence within and around the host galaxy.
Fast Facts for NGC 3079:
Credit NASA/CXC/STScI/U.North Carolina/G.Cecil
Scale Full field is 1.25 x 3 arcmin; Inset box is .5 arcmin per side
Category Normal Galaxies & Starburst Galaxies
Coordinates (J2000) RA 10h 01m 57.80s | Dec +55° 40´ 47.10"
Constellation Ursa Major
Observation Dates March 07, 2001
Observation Time 7 hours
Obs. IDs 2038
Color Code X-ray (blue), Optical (red & green)
Distance Estimate 55 million light years
Operated for NASA by SAO
Revised: August 13, 2018


It's clear for me what a native English speaker understand when I say: "I've burnt myself!". But it isn't clear what does it feel or understand if I say: I burnt myself!, maybe: I deliberately tried to kill myself by spilling petrol to my body and let it burn?
You'd use "I've burnt myself" when it happened recently, i.e. you maybe still wear a bandage or it still hurts.
"I burnt myself" would mean that it happened a certain time ago already, so maybe only a scar can still be seen or/and it doesn't hurt anymore.
to say "I've burnt myself!" has only the meaning that you have physically burned yourself. It doesn't give any indication as to why or how you've done so. It's simply a statement.


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DC's National Cannabis Festival Will Be Weed-Free
Written by Dean Essner
| Published on April 19, 2016
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On Saturday at RFK Stadium's festival grounds, hip hop group De La Soul and DC go-go act Backyard Band will unite with local activists and vendors to promote a pro-marijuana agenda. But even with weed legal in the District, the National Cannabis Festival, which comes a few days after the DC council voted to ban private pot clubs, carries a buzz-killing decree: no actual cannabis will be allowed on the premises.
For festival organizer Caroline Phillips, the rule reflects the fragility of the cannabis destigmatization movement. DC's current law for marijuana possession stipulates that any 21-year-old can keep a small amount of it as long as it's never used or exposed in a public space, and complying with that regulation on Saturday would demonstrate pot activists' patience and civility.
"We need to honor the work of these advocacy groups," says Phillips. "Doing anything illegal might set back their work by a decade."
This careful approach means the National Cannabis Festival is mostly about supporting the idea of weed. You won't be able to buy any marijuana or marijuana products on Saturday, but you can purchase a scent-proof handbag from AnnaBis or a hemp-seed infused can of Cannabis Energy Drink. And if you're looking to cultivate a private garden at home, which is legal in DC, Adams Morgan hydroponics company Wash Hydro will be giving out nutrient samples as well as information on how to grow your own cannabis plants.
Phillips' cautious attitude led her to consider changing the event's title, fearing it was too provocative. But she ultimately decided that any name other than National Cannabis Festival would trivialize its cause. "DC is home to festivals for every special interest group," says Phillips. "We have the National Book Festival. We have the Folklife Festival. We have countless beer and wine festivals. We could hide behind a more abstract name or we could not be ashamed of the work we're trying to do."
While Phillips may be able to control the festival's staff and items for sale, she knows she may not be able to control its audience. "I would challenge almost anyone to let me know a concert they've been to in the past decade or so where they haven't at some point noticed cannabis in the air," she says.
To keep on-site marijuana consumption to a minimum, she's brought in a security team of "evangelists," local marijuana advocates whose job it is to politely remind pot users that the pro-cannabis fight is on their behalf.
"We're all going to be on our toes a little bit that day," says Phillips. "If we see someone who looks like they're about to blatantly break the law, we'll approach and hand them one of our DC law cards and say, 'Hey, just so you know, DC law says you can't consume cannabis in public. You need to be careful.'"
Despite Saturday's risks, though, Phillips is just encouraged by the fact that the National Cannabis Festival is happening in the first place. The event began with no funding whatsoever ("It literally started as an idea on a piece of paper," she says), and hit a snag early on after Facebook forced her and her team to take down ads for the festival. But Phillips eventually managed to raise $21,000 on Indiegogo, which she feels she was able to do thanks to the strength and dedication of DC's cannabis community.
"We believe the laws are going to make progress," she says. "But for us to come together while we're still pushing for this change, to show members of Congress and to show naysayers the power of our community, we think that's important."
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I'm in the process of designing a timesheet, and need to work out how to get Foxit PDF to automatically calculate and add the total no. of hours worked on a given date.
I've been to several JS sites to look at possible solutions, but so far I've run into 'syntax error' issues whenever I have tried to import them.
I have found that computing and recording the values of the time worked is best done in minutes and then using a custom format to convert computed minutes to the H:MM format. This will make the weekly total easier to compute.
For forms that have repetitive rows I would use the hierarchical naming convention for the field names. This will allow one to compute the row number from the field in which there is a calculation based on the target field's name.
The "Final Total" is just the sum of each line total.
OK, in this case the actual date is filled in manually for each line, so I'm not sure if it is that important. I only need to calculate the no. of hours worked, minus any time taken for lunch.
I am a complete ignoramus when it comes to JS, so I have no doubt I am doing something wrong somewhere. Sorry for trying the patience of people, but I suspect this is a bit of a 'holy grail' for forms like this, so I'm keen to see if it can be sorted.
I have searched around on other PDF forums and tried a couple of different script formats, as well as some (very amateurish) attempts to fix it myself, with no real progress.
You have the have the fields proper name. I used hierarchical field names so I would not have to created 2 different scripts, one for the first row and another for all the other rows. This approach also allows me to create the first row and calculation and then just create multiple copies of the first row and the scripts will self adjust for each row. Most custom JavaScirpts cannot just be cut and pasted without some editing for the situation.


I received this wooden tool chest as a bonus for buying some old furniture from an out-of-business machine shop. It was sitting around for a while and I didn't know what to do with it. I had the idea that it would be cool for something and, in full pack-rat mentality, I'd hung on to it for several years.
A fair amount of my recent projects have been what you might call stupidly-attentive-to-detail. I've usually obsessed about having every wire cut to length and soldered perfectly. I have delayed a project while I waited for that one perfect $2.00 part to arrive in the mail. I realized this was queuing up my project list and creating quite a bit of frustration. I was actually not getting any enjoyment from side projects. So, I decided to have a little hack project and get something running in a single evening.
As I work on more electronics projects I have had a genuine need of a bench-top power supply. A lot of the projects I've worked on in the past were for the sake of doing the project. I didn't have much to show or use again after I was done. I wanted to build something that I could hang onto. So I decided to hack together a simple 5 / 12 VDC power supply.
After a quick survey of my parts bins, I had everything I needed that couldn't be bought in one trip to Radio Shack. I had the box, a PC power supply, PC fan grill, 120 VAC plug, soldering iron, hole saw. I rode to Radio Shack and picked up the remaining: wire terminals, switch, and blue LED PC fan! In a few hours I was able to hack a working power supply together.
The craftsmanship is pretty crude. I had to cut the AC plug hole with a jig saw. The pictures show how badly the hole saw tore up the case. The wiring is definitely not pretty. But it works and that's all I wanted. I had fun building it and having to MacGyver it.
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We consider the linear wave equation and the linear Schrodinger equation outside a compact, strictly convex obstacle in Rd with smooth boundary. In dimension d=3 we show that the linear wave flow and the linear Schrodinger flow satisfy the dispersive estimates as in R3. For d \geq 4, if the obstacle is a ball, we show that there exists points where the dispersive estimates fail for both wave and Schrodinger equations.
This talk is part of the Geometric Analysis and Partial Differential Equations seminar series.


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Scenes of Whitby
14. A few nautical matters, the Scoresbys and Captain James Cook in Whitby
Whitby: Heading down the bottom end of Flowergate to the Custom House on Pier Road
Whitby: The old 'round corned' Custom House near the west side-east side swing bridge.
Whitby: Near Whitby Harbour is a sculpture by Kevin Storch celebrating Whitby's maritime heritage including the important contributions of Captain Sir William Scoresby senior and his son. They were scientists, explorers and successful whaling captains. They sailed and charted the artic oceans laying the foundations for future polar exploration. William Scoresby junior experimented to improve the effectiveness of compasses and Scoresby senior invented the barrel shaped crow's in 1807.
Whitby: The Scoresby chair in St Mary's Church. While the Revd. William Scoresby was sailing the clipper "Royal Charter" to test compasses in an iron ship, it was wrecked off Anglesey in 1859. A chair was carved from the wreckage and presented to St Mary's Church in 1922.
Whitby: The statue of James Cook and the whalebone arch high up on West Cliff where he looks down on the ships passing to and fro.
Whitby: The house in Grape Lane, just on the east side of the wing bridge, is dated M. D. S. 1688 and houses the Captain Cook Memorial Museum
A visit by pupils from Castleton Community Primary School, a good example of using local amenities with the help of the friendly museum staff.
The Lifeboat
Whitby: The RNLI lifeboat moored in the lower harbour.
Whitby: The Whitby RNLI Lifeboat Museum - please donate to the RNLI
Pictures of North Yorkshire, England
docspics photos images © Dr Phil Brown
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MapleStory 2 is a charming game filled with adventure and wonder at every corner. Playing as your own character, you can choose to follow an assortment of different quests and take on a wide range of dangerous enemies. Since the game is an MMO, you can always experience the fun with friends anytime you want. That said, one question some players might have is how to add friends in MapleStory 2.
The process is actually fairly simple once you know how to do it. On the main screen in your game, you should notice a row of icons located at the bottom right side of the screen. There are little blocks that you can interact with, each offering different options and menus in MapleStory 2. When you are adding your pals, look for the little blue box beside the house and the icon that looks like a brown box. The little blue icon pretty much acts like your social tab, so hover your mouse over it and you will be greeted with a series of options. Click the Friends tab to pull up a new menu on your screen that should have four different tabs: Online, Friends, Requests, and Blocked.
You'll want to click the Friends tab, which should bring up all of your pals in MapleStory 2. From there, check the upper right side of your screen and click "Add Friend." Simply type in the person's username and even send them a little note if you want to. On the other hand, if you have gotten a request from your friend, simply tap the Request tab to pull up any pending invitations in MapleStory 2.
Alternatively, if you want to quickly pull up the Friends menu, just press the U key. For more tips and tricks on MapleStory 2, make sure to search for Twinfinite.