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package com.example.ward.view;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.content.Context;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.database.Cursor;
import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.BitmapFactory;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.provider.MediaStore;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.view.Window;
import android.view.WindowManager;
import android.widget.AdapterView;
import android.widget.AdapterView.OnItemClickListener;
import android.widget.BaseAdapter;
import android.widget.GridView;
import android.widget.ImageView;

import com.example.ward.R;

public class ImageBrowser extends Activity implements OnItemClickListener{

	private GridView sdcardImages;
	private ImageAdapter imageAdapter;
	//	private Display display;
	public static int imagePosition;
	public static Uri[] uriArray;

	@Override
	protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub
		super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

		requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_INDETERMINATE_PROGRESS);
		//影藏顶部程序名称 写在setContentView(R.layout.gallery_1);之前,不然报错
		requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_NO_TITLE);
		setContentView(R.layout.gallery_1);
		//影藏顶部电量等图标
		getWindow().setFlags(WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN,
				WindowManager.LayoutParams.FLAG_FULLSCREEN);
		setContentView(R.layout.imagebrowser_sdcard);
//		display = ((WindowManager) getSystemService(Context.WINDOW_SERVICE)).getDefaultDisplay();
		initView();
		//显示标题栏的进度圈
		setProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility(true);
		loadImages();
	}

	private void initView() {
		sdcardImages = (GridView) findViewById(R.id.sdcard);
		//设置图片显示的列数
//		sdcardImages.setNumColumns(display.getWidth() / 95);
//		//By default, children are clipped to the padding of the ViewGroup
//		sdcardImages.setClipToPadding(false);

		sdcardImages.setNumColumns(3);
		sdcardImages.setClipToPadding(true);
		//设置监听
		sdcardImages.setOnItemClickListener(ImageBrowser.this);
		//构造函数  参数相当于(this)
		imageAdapter = new ImageAdapter(getApplicationContext());
		//为图片添加适配器
		sdcardImages.setAdapter(imageAdapter);
	}

	private void loadImages() {
		//得到横屏时临时存储的数据
		final Object data = getLastNonConfigurationInstance();
		if (data == null) {//如果没有数据则从新加载
			new LoadImagesFromSDCard().execute();
		}else {
			final LoadedImage[] photos = (LoadedImage[]) data;
			if (photos.length == 0) {
				new LoadImagesFromSDCard().execute();
			}
			for (LoadedImage photo : photos) {
				addImage(photo);
			}
		}
	}

	private void addImage(LoadedImage... value) {
		for (LoadedImage image : value) {
			//把图片添加到适配器里面,以便调整图片的属性
			imageAdapter.addPhoto(image);
			imageAdapter.notifyDataSetChanged();
		}
	}
////当横屏时:得到竖屏时临时存储的数据
//	@Override
//	public Object onRetainNonConfigurationInstance() {
//		final GridView grid = sdcardImages;
//		final int count = grid.getChildCount();//这里是竖屏时已经加载的图片数量
//		final LoadedImage[] list = new LoadedImage[count];
//
//		for (int i = 0; i < count; i++) {
//			final ImageView v = (ImageView) grid.getChildAt(i);
//			//得到先前的位图
//			list[i] = new LoadedImage(
//					((BitmapDrawable) v.getDrawable()).getBitmap());
//		}
//		return list;
//	}
	/*读取sdcard上的图片*/

	class LoadImagesFromSDCard extends AsyncTask<Object, LoadedImage, Object> {

		@Override
		protected Object doInBackground(Object... params) {
			Bitmap bitmap = null;//old Bitmap (位图)
			Bitmap newBitmap = null;//new Bitmap
			Uri uri = null;
			//想要的返回值所在的列
			String[] projection = { MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails._ID};
			//图片信息存储在 android.provider.MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails数据库
			//快速查询数据库中的图片对应存放路劲
			Cursor cursor = managedQuery(
					MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,
					projection, //List of columns to return :想要他返回的列
					null, // Return all rows
					null,
					null);
			int columnIndex = cursor.getColumnIndexOrThrow(MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails._ID);
			uriArray = new Uri[cursor.getCount()];//把图片路径放在数组中
			int i=0;
			while(cursor.moveToNext()&&i<cursor.getCount())
			{   //移到指定的位置,遍历数据库
				cursor.moveToPosition(i);
				uri = Uri.withAppendedPath(MediaStore.Images.Thumbnails.EXTERNAL_CONTENT_URI,cursor.getInt(columnIndex)+"");
				uriArray[i]=uri;
				try {
					bitmap = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(getContentResolver().openInputStream(uri));
					if (bitmap != null) {
						//将原来的位图转换成新的位图
						newBitmap = Bitmap.createScaledBitmap(bitmap,80, 80,true);
						bitmap.recycle();//释放内存
						if (newBitmap != null) {
							publishProgress(new LoadedImage(newBitmap));
						}
					}
				} catch (IOException e) {}
				i++;
			}
			cursor.close();//关闭数据库
			return null;
		}
		@Override
		public void onProgressUpdate(LoadedImage... value) {
			addImage(value);
		}
		//当加载完时停止标题栏的进度圈
		@Override
		protected void onPostExecute(Object result) {
			setProgressBarIndeterminateVisibility(false);
		}
	}

	class ImageAdapter extends BaseAdapter {

		private Context mContext;
		private ArrayList<LoadedImage> photos = new ArrayList<LoadedImage>();

		public ImageAdapter(Context context) {
			mContext = context;
		}
		//把图片添加到数组
		public void addPhoto(LoadedImage photo) {
			photos.add(photo);
		}
		//得到图片数量
		public int getCount() {
			return photos.size();
		}

		public Object getItem(int position) {
			return photos.get(position);
		}

		public long getItemId(int position) {
			return position;
		}

		public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
			final ImageView imageView;
			if (convertView == null) {
				imageView = new ImageView(mContext);
			} else {
				imageView = (ImageView) convertView;
			}
			imageView.setScaleType(ImageView.ScaleType.FIT_CENTER);
			imageView.setPadding(1, 1, 1, 1);//控制图片距离窗口的位置
			imageView.setImageBitmap(photos.get(position).getBitmap());
			return imageView;
		}
	}

	private static class LoadedImage {
		Bitmap mBitmap;

		LoadedImage(Bitmap bitmap) {
			mBitmap = bitmap;
		}

		public Bitmap getBitmap() {
			return mBitmap;
		}
	}
	//图片点击监听
	@Override
	public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View v, int position, long id) {
//		//把图片位置赋给静态变量imagePosition,方便后面调用
//		imagePosition=position;
//		//跳转到大图浏览
//		Intent intent = new Intent();
//		intent.setClass(ImageBrowser.this, Gallery1.class);
//		startActivity(intent);
	}

}


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File created: 5/26/2021 In control: Public Service & Transportation Committee
Title: To authorize the Director of Public Service to enter into agreements with and provide funding to the Ohio Department of Transportation relative to the Safety Upgrades - Hamilton Rd. Safety Improvements project; to authorize the expenditure of up to $34,000.00 from the Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($34,000.00)
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 1372-2021 Accounting Codes
This ordinance authorizes the Director of Public Service to enter into agreements with and provide funding to the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) relative to the Safety Upgrades - Hamilton Rd. Safety Improvements project, also known as FRA-70-21.33, PID 109014.
Administered by ODOT, the aforementioned project, which currently is in development, encompasses safety upgrades at the interchange of I-70 and Hamilton Road. Planned improvements include: widening the Hamilton Road ramp to I-70 eastbound to two lanes; realigning the I-70 east entrance and exit ramps at the SR 317/Hamilton Road intersection; removing the I-70 east to SR 317 NB connector and the connector to Hilton Corporate Drive; and upgrading the traffic signal at that location.
ODOT recently agreed, at the behest of the Department of Public Service, to install additional interconnect conduits within the project limits, necessitating design revisions that will be incorporated into the Stage 3 plans for the project. The cost of the additional design and engineering services is presently estimated to be $34,000.00.
2. FISCAL IMPACT
Funding in the amount of $34,000.00 is available within the Street Construction Maintenance and Repair Fund within the Department of Public Service to support the local share of estimated design costs.
3. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION
Emergency action is requested to facilitate the execution of requisite agreements with ODOT as soon as reasonably practicable in order to maintain the project schedule established by ODOT and to promote highway safety.
To authorize the Director of Public Service to enter into agreements with and provide funding to the Ohio Department of Transportation relative to the Safety Upgrades - Hamilton Rd. Safety Improvements project; to authorize the expenditure of up to $34,000.00 from the Street Construction, Maintenance and Repair Fund; and to declare an emergency. ($34,000.00)
WHEREAS, the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) is administering the Safety Upgrades - Hamilton Rd. Safety Improvements project, also known as FRA-70-21.33, PID 109014; and
WHEREAS, Stage 3 plans have been developed for the aforementioned project, which is located within the Columbus corporate boundaries and will encompass various safety upgrades at the interchange of I-70 and Hamilton Road; and
WHEREAS, ODOT recently agreed, at the behest of the Department of Public Service, to install additional interconnect conduits as part of that project, necessitating design revisions that will be incorporated in the Stage 3 plans; and
WHEREAS, the Department of Public Service agrees to assume and bear one hundred percent (100%) of the cost of those revisions, presently estimated to be $34,000.00; and
WHEREAS, this legislation authorizes the Director of Public Service to enter into agreements with and to provide funding to ODOT for that purpose; and
WHEREAS, an emergency exists in the usual daily operation of the Department of Public Service in that it is immediately necessary to authorize the Director to enter into agreements with ODOT as soon as reasonably practicable in order to maintain the schedule established by ODOT and to promote highway safety, thereby preserving the public health, peace, property, safety and welfare; now, therefore,
SECTION 1. That the Director of Public Service be and hereby is authorized to enter into agreements with the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT) and to make payment to ODOT relative to the Safety Upgrades - Hamilton Rd. Safety Improvements project, also known as FRA-70-21.33, PID 109014.
SECTION 2. That the expenditure of $34,000.00, or so much thereof as may be needed, is hereby authorized in Fund 2265 (Street Construction Maintenance and Repair Fund), Dept-Div 5913 (Division of Traffic Management), in Object Class 06 (Capital Outlay) per the accounting codes in the attachment to this ordinance.
SECTION 4. That the funds necessary to carry out the purpose of this ordinance are hereby deemed appropriated, and the City Auditor shall establish such accounting codes as necessary.
SECTION 5. That the City Auditor is hereby authorized to transfer the unencumbered balance in a project account to the unallocated balance account within the same fund upon receipt of certification by the Director of the Department administering said project that the project has been completed and the monies are no longer required for said project.
SECTION 6. That for the reasons stated in the preamble hereto, which is hereby made a part hereof, this ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency measure and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the mayor, or ten days after passage if the mayor neither approves nor vetoes the same.

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Klipsch RF-82 review
These towering speakers display plenty of muscle, but are found wanting when it comes to sonic subtlety Tested at £858.00
By What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi? Verdict
A big, boisterous speaker that needs to show a bit more restraint to compete with the class-leaders
A huge speaker for the cash
forthcoming sound
hefty bass delivery
Lack subtlety
hint of hardness in the midrange and treble
bass notes could have greater precision
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There's no doubting that you get plenty for your money with Klipsch's RF-82 floorstanders.
Each 30kg tower measures 111cm tall and 41cm deep, and once up and running they hit you with an immensely robust sound. Those 8in copper-coloured Cerametallic woofers generate a huge amount of bass weight, so they need much room to breathe if the lows aren't to overpower the presentation.
The more dynamic tracks on The Dark Knight OST, such as Like A Dog Chasing Cars, hit you with the force of a head-on collision with Batman's Tumbler.
This spirited delivery will liven up even the dullest of listening rooms. The speakers unearth much detail and the horn-loaded tweeter ensures high frequencies have as much of an impact as those lower down the range.
Slight hardness in vocals
It's a shame then, that the RF-82s have chinks in their armour. Those sizeable bass notes lack definition and tautness.
The subtle shifts in tone during Lilly Allen's It's Not Fair aren't quite as apparent when listening through the RF-82s as they are when heard through the class-leaders at this price.
The same track also exposes colouration and brightness in the midrange and treble. Where the best rivals have no qualms reproducing Allen's sweet-sounding vocals, the RF-82s replace the purity of her voice with a distracting hardness.
The RF-82s' muscular showing will undoubtedly impress during a short listen, but over time you'll be craving the kind of subtlety and refinement that can be gained elsewhere at this price.
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London: Hogarth Press, 1939. First Edition. A fine copy in a dust jacket with minute wear and tear. This collection of six pieces, including "Sally Bowles," published earlier in a separate edition, was the basis for "Cabaret." Connally 100; "Berlin under the emergent Nazis provided a stiffening of tragedy shown here in his moving story 'The Nowaks,' in the two remarkable Berlin diaries, with 'Sally Bowles' for comic relief." A last glimpse at a dying world that disappeared into vandalism, chaos and ultimate destruction. Very scarce in this condition.


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Categorized | Criminal Justice
Posted on 16 April 2009. Tags: campaign, cps, home office, libby brooks, negligence, rape, sexual offences, vernon coaker
"It is a national disgrace that in 2009 rape almost always goes unpunished" writes Libby Brooks in the 'Guardian'. "This is about systemic, institutionalised negligence. If you are raped, the likelihood is that the police won't help you, and the CPS won't help you. If you unusually achieve a trial, the prosecution won't help you and the judge won't help you".
The statistics of rape are difficult to pin down. The British Crime Survey in 2000 calculated that 754,000 women had been raped at least once, 61,000 in the previous year. The group Campaign to End Rape estimated that in 2001 there were 190,000 serious sex assaults and 47,000 rape or attempted rape victims. As all figures are considered to be underestimated the incidence is staggering. The great majority of victims never report their attack, and of those that do only 25% will make it to court because the obstacles for a complainant remain enormous. In 2003/04 there were 12,354 recorded offences of rape. The persistently low conviction rate is just over 6%.
So embarrassing has been the failure to deal effectively with rape cases that the Home Office this week announced a series of new measures. An additional £1.8m is to be provided to set up more sexual assault referral centres, which "play a vital role in providing care and support for victims, while also giving investigators the best chance to build a successful case. They provide victims with immediate medical help, counselling, forensic examinations and the opportunity to give evidence anonymously, all in one location". There will be training for police officers on what to do when a rape is first reported. Victims will meet with a specially trained officer within an hour of reporting the crime. There will be additional help for police and prosecutors investigating rape cases, to ensure that crimes are solved and attackers are punished. Targets will be set for rape investigations, and a Rape Performance Group set up, charged with quarterly monitoring and assessment of police and the Crown Prosecution Service's handling of rape cases.
Introducing the new initiative, Home Office Minister Vernon Coaker called sexual assault cases "uniquely difficult crimes to investigate". In a clearly coordinated move the CPS last month published a revised 'Policy for Prosecuting Cases of Rape' detailing all the steps (and difficulties) of such cases. It concludes with the not exactly resounding commitment "to playing our part in improving the way that rape cases are dealt with in the criminal justice system. We want victims to have confidence in the way in which we review and progress cases". But campaigners are not impressed. According to Libby Brooks, Britain has some of the best sex crimes legislation in Europe, but a police service that won't enforce it, a judiciary that refuses to apply it and a government that gives it insufficient priority.
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This weekend I watched "The Campaign" starring Will Ferrell (as Cam Brady) and Zach Galifianakis (as Marty Huggins). Although I wouldn't see it again, it successfully parodied America's campaign process. Cam dished out an original batch of Bushisms (each one punctuated by America! Jesus! Freedom!), and Marty peppered his stump speeches with the rhetoric of a God-fearin', gun-totin' guy-next-door. They exemplified your average red-state baby-kisser.
In one scene, a crew of campaign advisors descends upon Marty's home to give it — and Marty's entire family — a makeover. The Mrs. gets a Katie Couric hairdo, the fireplace mantel gets a portrait of an eagle, and Marty gets lessons in platform and spin. The subtle message: If you want to be a lawmaker, you need money, good looks, and big promises.
These are the unwritten rules that govern our nation's political arena; the rules American kids unwittingly soak up throughout their lives. So is it any wonder that when I ran for student council in first grade, I wore Zubaz and vowed to fill all the drinking fountains with pop? No, it's not. Sure, I had a fundamental misunderstanding of how drinking fountains worked, but then again, many real elected officials have a fundamental misunderstanding of taxes, marriage vows, etc.
Unfortunately, I didn't win — a girl named Amy did (her mom happened to be the PTO president). Which reminds me: If you want to win, you also need clout.
Unfazed, I ran for office nine more times during my school years. If you want to know how those elections turned out, you'll have to tune in for the rest of the week.
Clout versus soda pop…I would have voted for you if you would have included no more veggies for hot lunches.


Pink Cloud Beauty Co. Aim to inspire self-confidence, re-define industry beauty standards & encourage girls to celebrate girls. We get so consumed with make-up, spending hours in the hairdressers and not to mention the manis and pedis. It's all too easy to forget that what we put into our bodies is just as, if not more, important than the things that make up our endless beauty routines. That's why we're committed to making the best beauty supplements around – designed specifically for hair, skin and nails.
Pink Cloud tasked us to create a package of content including lifestyle photography and video. Shooting in a stunning location in Saddleworth while working with influencer Chloe Lockley, we created a set of deliverables including product photography and product video. The end result is beautiful eye-catching social first content.
The Fraggell team are just brilliant. They worked fast and made the whole process of creating content so easy.


This legend stems from true rock & roll genetics. The story goes that a dude by the name of Chemdog bought some weed at a Grateful Dead '91 concert. The strain he bought was called Dog Bud, because it made you roll around like a dog.
Chemdog decided to purchase some more and got the herb shipped to America's East Coast. Upon arrival, he discovered 13 seeds inside. The breeding process led to the development of "ChemDawg '91," which in turn led to the creation of Chem Dawg.
This classic strain is 60% indica and 40% sativa. The fuel and chemical scents, mixed with citrus, pine, and sour fruit aromas exude the essence of this powerhouse. THC concentration can reach an impressive 24%, which is quite insane. Novice tokers must take caution and begin with a single puff.
Chem Dawg is a strain that likes a mediterranean climate and does very well in a greenhouse as well. It has a flowering time of 65–70 days and will reward you with a nice yield of very potent buds.


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Nevada judge orders prosecutors to deliver execution warrant
Image by Las Vegas Review-Journal/YouTube screencap.
Scott Dozier's days may be numbered unless he tries to stop the clock on death
by Anne Cox
July 19, 2017 at 5:28 PM July 19, 2017 at 5:28 PM
If Scott Dozier is executed in Nevada, he will get what he wants, according to a defense attorney, Scott Coffee. On Tuesday, prosecutors were ordered by District Judge Jennifer Togliatti to pen and deliver an execution warrant by next week. The state's law mandates that after the judge signs the order, convicted killer Dozier must be executed after 60 days but not in excess of 90 days. Dozier might be executed by the end of October.
Brooke Keast, spokeswoman for Nevada's Department of Corrections, said the execution can happen if corrections officials are court-ordered to "make it happen." Keast didn't explain how the state can carry out an execution warrant in light of earlier reports that the ability to attain the necessary recipe for the Lethal Injection protocol proved futile.
Dozier has been on death row almost 10 years – post his murder conviction. On October 31, 2016, he wrote the judge and requested that the process affecting his appeal be terminated and conveyed that he wanted to "be put to death."
Mental evaluation finds 'no grounds' to interfere with killer's death wish
To be certain that the murderer fully grasped the request he penned, Togliatti ordered a psychiatric evaluation. The outcome was a 13-page evaluation by a doctor who wrote there is "no grounds," such as mental, psychological, or health, to conflict with the condemned killer's choice to be executed.
The killer wasn't in court on Tuesday when Togliatti read from the evaluation report but is expected to be present at a hearing on July 27, which is when the judge could sign his execution warrant.
His expressed goal, he told Togliatti earlier in the year, is to be executed "first and foremost."
On Tuesday, Tom Ericsson, the killer's attorney, told Togliatti that his client's stance still stands. Contrary to his lawyer's direction and counsel, Dozier is firm about waiving his appellate rights. He described his client as "quite adamant" about his position on the subject.
Condemned man murdered and mutilated victim
Dozier landed himself on death row following a four-week trial December 2017 for murdering and, then, mutilating 22-year-old, Arizonan Jeremiah Miller at the (now) closed La Concha Motel. He also robbed his victim of $12,000 that Miller took with him from Phoenix to Las Vegas to buy materials that were needed to make methamphetamine.
The killer cut up Miller's torso into two pieces – discovered in a suitcase and in a trash bin at an apartment complex April 2002. The victim's head, lower legs, and lower arms were never found.
In Arizona 2005, he was convicted and received 22 years in prison for second-degree murder. He shot to death a man, age 27, then, stuffed the man's body in a plastic container. He dumped the man's body near Phoenix in the desert.
Killer made the call to halt appeals
His attorney Ericsson informed the judge that Dozier wanted the right to go ahead with post-conviction appeals if Nevada was not able to execute him. In less than a month, he stopped his appeals after prison authorities announced that they received no response to 247 requests sent when the state searched for, at least, one of the drugs used in its lethal injection protocol.
Since Nevada's Legislature reinstated capital punishment in 1977, 12 inmates have been executed. Eleven of those executed voluntarily stopped appeals. Coffee is a defense attorney who has dealt with approximately 20 capital punishment cases in 15 years. As well, he analyzes death penalty cases in the United States. He is anticipating that there will be some type of intervention.
Killer could change mind about his execution
Dozier could change his mind and appeal to try stopping his execution up until the eleventh hour prior to when the death sentence is exacted. Another way it may be halted is by a third party, without a direct tie to the case like the American Civil Liberties Union, trying to intervene by filing a legal challenge.
If his client is executed, Dozier's lawyer said, it's not because Nevada wanted it. It will be because it's what Dozier wants. If his client is put to death, Coffee said it isn't anything other than "state-assisted suicide."
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ArcGIS applications, ArcGIS Pro and ArcMap, as well as ArcGIS Server have a memory-based workspace where output feature classes, tables, and raster datasets can be written: the in_memory workspace. The in_memory workspace can be used as an alternative to writing output to files, or file and enterprise geodatabases. Writing to the in_memory workspace is often significantly faster, but not always. Data written to the in_memory workspace is temporary and will be lost when the application is closed, making in_memory ideal for intermediate data created from model and Python script tools.
To write to the in-memory workspace, specify an output dataset path beginning with in_memory, for example, in_memory/outputParcels.
The in_memory workspace does not support geodatabase elements such as subtypes, domains, representations, topologies, geometric networks, network datasets, or feature datasets.
ArcGIS Pro is a 64-bit, multithreaded application. Any 64-bit software program can leverage more RAM than a 32-bit software application, which limits each application to 3 GB of RAM. Running single geoprocessing tools one at a time from either the Geoprocessing pane or the Python window does not make good use of the in_memory workspace; in fact, doing so might incur a performance cost. Because ArcGIS Pro is a multithreaded application, it can leverage multiple CPUs to perform more than one task at a time. A geoprocessing operation that writes to the in_memory workspace holds the result of that operation in a particular piece of memory that is not available to other threads. The output must be persisted to disk (in a folder or geodatabase) so all threads can act upon the output. If you write the output from a single geoprocessing operation to in_memory, the output is created there and copied to a geodatabase before being displayed in the application. As previously stated, the in_memory workspace should only be used for creating intermediate data within models and scripts. A model or script tool will execute in a single thread and have access to the same in_memory workspace; a series of chained tools will generally perform faster than a series of tools reading and writing from disk.
When using the in_memory workspace, you may want to delete any intermediate data as soon as possible to free up system memory. The Delete tool can be used to delete data in the in_memory workspace. Individual datasets can be deleted, or the entire workspace can be deleted to clear all the workspace contents. The empty in_memory workspace will continue to be available for further use.
When creating models, tools are connected through input and output parameters. Data that is the output of one tool and used as the input for further processing in another tool is generally referred to as intermediate data. Writing intermediate outputs to the in_memory workspace may reduce the overall execution time of your model when used in ArcGIS Pro. An added benefit of constructing a model that uses the in_memory workspace is that when shared as a web tool to ArcGIS Enterprise, it will continue to use the in_memory workspace when executed on the server.
Outputs defined as parameters are added to the map by default when a model is executed as a tool. These outputs can be written to the in_memory workspace; however, they will be converted to a feature class in a local geodatabase when the tool executes. Instead of creating output in the in_memory workspace and ultimately having it converted into a feature class, you may want to write model parameters to your %scratchGDB% or another full path on disk so the conversion happens only once.
You cannot use the Add to Display parameter option when writing to in_memory. Geoprocessing output must be written to disk or a geodatabase to be displayed in the map.
Using the in_memory workspace with Python script tools gives you the same benefits as using model tools. Writing intermediate data to the in_memory workspace will generally be faster compared to writing output to disk. The following example creates intermediate datasets in the in_memory workspace for the Buffer and Erase tools. The FinalOutput from the Dissolve tool creates a feature class in the Habitat geodatabase as defined in the workspace setting.


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Restaurants are one of Chicago's top tourist attractions. The city has a thriving restaurant scene featuring some of the world's top chefs.
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Q: How to allow user key in first character alphabet/numeric and the rest must numeric? Hi i have a field that allows only alphabet or numeric in First character, and the rest only allow numeric only, and no allow symbols/space etc.
how to make the jquery/code?

A: Very simple regex:
/^[a-z0-9]\d*$/

A: Elaborating Jack answer little bit and convert to working snippet.

$('#yourid').on("keyup", function() {
  let val = $(this).val();
  let reg = /^[a-z0-9]\d*$/
  let newval = val.replace(reg, '');
  if (!val.match(reg)) {
    $(this).val(''); // clear the field if pattern don't match.
  }

});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input type='text' id='yourid' />

How above regex work.

^ asserts position at start of the string
Match a single character present in the list below [a-z0-9]
a-z a single character in the range between a  and z (case sensitive)
0-9 a single character in the range between 0 and 9 (case sensitive)
\d* matches a digit (equal to [0-9])* Quantifier — Matches between zero and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed
$ asserts position at the end of the string, or before the line
terminator right at the end of the string (if any)

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Bourbon, Beards, and Bibles - i.e. the Sojourn pastor's conference and Ronnie's hipster festivities there.
Is Wayne Grudem the Brett Favre of politics?
In the spirit of the previously popular #FirstSevenJobs, what were our early jobs?
What exactly is an Evangelical Free church?
Happy Rant #108 - A Political Extravaganza: How Can Christians Defend Donald Trump?
In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted, Barnabas, and Ronnie go a different direction than usual. Instead of bouncing from topic to topic they hone in on this debacle of an election America is facing.
How in the name of all that is good can anyone defend Donald Trump?
In this episode of The Happy Rant Ronnie returns from his pilgrimages and quests to hoping Ted and Barnabas for a riveting discussion of important and timely topics.
Should we be our children's friends and buddies? Should parents be a "parent, not a friend"? Is there middle ground?
In this episode of The Happy Rant Ted and Barnabas discuss a number of pressing topics while Ronnie tries to find himself in the Alleghenies or some such place.
We received some rather scathing criticism via email this week. What is the best way to respond to such shots fired?


Frankly, I was a little shocked at the response to my recent column about yuppy cars. People are really touchy on the subject of cars. Strangers would accost me and say that their cars are not now, nor ever have been, yuppy automobiles.
For a while I felt like an automotive Joe McCarthy. Better to call people communists than to call their cars yupmobiles.
At a social event last weekend several well-dressed people approached me and asked that their cars be cleared of the Y smear. One woman was upset that I called her clunky Volvo a yuppy car.
"It's just an appliance," she said. Yes, said I with a McCarthylike sneer, but so is a Cuisinart.
BMW owners were admirably less defensive about their choice of wheels. Typical was one owner who said, "Sure, BMWs are bought by yuppies, but I was country before country was cool." The country he's talking about is Bavaria. Several BMW owners said that the larger, more expensive BMWs were for those who already had made it, and the little BMWs were for all those young social climbers. Makes sense to me.
However, most readers drew no distinctions among the BMW-owning classes. They're ready to stick a scarlet Y on BMW emblems everywhere.
John Rutherford of Orlando writes: "The only car more quintessentially yuppy than a BMW is a stretch BMW."
Don't worry, it hasn't been invented.
Shelley Safian of Orlando tells BMW owners to wake up and smell the French roast: "If you own a BMW and are between the ages of 25 and 44, there's no getting around it . . . you are a yuppy!"
Safian includes an ad for G.D. Ritzy's restaurants that says: "Your daughter is going to Europe for spring break. You just became a two BMW family. And you're still eating ordinary fast food?"
A two BMW family? Eating fast food? The only fast food in that family would be in the trunk on the trip back from Goodings.
"BMWs damn sure are yupmobiles!" writes Ron Lancaster of Orlando. "Virtually all cars that speak German, with the exception of the less expensive VWs, are yuppy wheels."
I like a reader who quotes from Thorstein Veblen's The Theory of the Leisure Class, and that's what Lancaster does, with saving brevity. Veblen was writing before the advent of yuppies, but he had them cold. For example: "Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure."
Just change "gentleman of leisure" to "workaholic who dines out frequently."
Some expert opinion comes from Bob Rader of Rader's Relics in Winter Park, a dealer in valuable cars. The BMW, says Rader, is "the yuppiest of them all." Volvo and Audi follow closely, while the formerly eccentric Saab "finds yuppiedom thrust upon it."
Rader bemoans what one could call the process of yupward automobility: "Apparently, to qualify a car has to first have a reputation as an unpretentious, businesslike, performance-oriented conveyance. Once yuppydom falls upon it, though, what was once unpretentious and 'out' becomes 'in.' " I think what car enthusiast Rader is getting at is that the BMW is not responsible for its social fate. It's no more to blame for being a yuppy conveyance than the poor, dumb arugula is to blame for being a yuppy foodstuff.
Therefore take pity on drivers of BMWs. There is a possibility that they bought the car as a mere $25,000 conveyance to get from Point A to Sabal Point very quickly, not as a symbol.
Happily, Lee Silbert changes the subject from yuppies and BMWs and sends in a taxonomy of vehicles driven by a group Silbert calls "YAPs," for "young, apathetic plebeians." This is a group I can get behind. In fact, I find myself behind them on the highway all the time.
According to Silbert, YAP cars include any Dodge/Chrysler/Plymouth from 1968 to 1980, El Caminos, any vehicle with attractive matte gray primer, American station wagons, old Corollas, Subarus, Datsuns and Hondas, vans with or without murals, and any car with Hefty trash bags in place of windows.
"I could go on and on," Silbert concludes. "But I'd like to eat dinner now."
Good sense of priorities. You are what you drive. You are what you eat. I'll take the latter.


I started working on genes; I cloned the second human gene that was ever cloned back in 1976. I actually started my PhD in 1972 working with recombinant DNA. In Edinburgh with Ed Southern and Peter Walker, so that's where I did my PhD. I mean there was nothing known about DNA essentially my entire university career I had six lectures on eukaryotic DNA, mammalian DNA. We knew nothing about it. Edinburgh in those days knew a lot about DNA using their association and that I was in the right place at the right time for recombinant DNA, and did a lot of work on that using that approach and teaching. We had to teach the world that it was worth doing.
So there were a small number of people who started doing that work and spread the techniques and spread the word through other scientists that this way that thing were going to happen in the future. And that was a very exciting time. And it's culminated twenty-five years later in sequencing the whole of the human genome that would have been absolutely inconceivable twenty-five years ago it was science fiction. It was unbelievably difficult to sequence DNA when we started. And then that's just changed and it's now unbelievably easy to sequence DNA. The game has just completely changed.


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China's leaders have no solutions
November 13, 2012 by ISO editor
by Charlie Hore
The 18th congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) closes in Beijing this week. Its main purpose was to demonstrate an orderly transition of power at the heart of China's ruling class.
Under Mao Zedong such meetings were rare—just two took place between 1949 and 1969. Leadership and policy issues were settled by brute force.
The post-Mao leadership has been determined to establish clear rules for settling disputes and changing personnel. These include CCP congresses every five years and compulsory retirement from central leadership posts at 70 years old.
The Congress brings together CCP members from across China, supposedly to represent all the organisation's members. Apparently some need more representation than others. This year six of China's 100 billionaires are in attendance, but just 26 migrant workers out of 200 million. [Read more…]
Filed Under: International, World
Obama victory: We don't want "four more-of-the-same years"
The following is an editorial piece that appeared at SocialistWorker.org in the US.
Barack Obama has won re-election, thanks to a strong turnout by the Democratic Party's core supporters in every place the president needed to win.
Obama was only barely ahead of Mitt Romney in the national popular vote as this article was being written, with more ballots still to be counted.
How the 1 Percent conjured a monster storm
Chris Williams, author of Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis, examines the man-made factors contributing to the disaster of Hurricane Sandy.
"If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections, and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind. If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquility of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved; Caesar would have spared his country; America would have been discovered more gradually; and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed."
— Dr. Victor Frankenstein, in Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley
Manhattan deluged by flooding as Hurricane Sandy strikes
THERE IS little doubt that freakish and unnaturally assembled storms are a taste of what the future holds under an economic system that has "interfered with the tranquility of domestic affections" and galvanized the forces of nature into a fury of clashing dislocations as we pump ever-more heat-trapping gases into our atmosphere and industrial filth into our lungs. [Read more…]
Filed Under: Enviroment, International, World
What's wrong with lesser evilism
Those who advocate a vote for the "lesser evil" hope to defeat the "greater evil" of the right wing–but they enable the Democrats to shift further right themselves.
DOES BARACK Obama deserve your vote? That's the question people on the left should be asking as Election Day approaches.
When you consider Obama's record after four years in office–a multi-trillion-dollar bailout of Wall Street, the continuing "war on terror," more civil liberties shredded, the Employee Free Choice Act abandoned, deportations on the rise, a deepening assault on public schools–the answer has to be no. The list of broken promises and betrayed hopes goes on and on, outweighing anything that could be described as progress.
Filed Under: International, More Topics, Uncategorized, World
Against Austerity: from Athens to Aotearoa
There's a stupid joke doing the rounds on the internet that says a German and a Greek are drinking at the bar. The Greek walks out, leaving the German to pay the bill. A more accurate joke would put a German, a Greek and a banker in the bar. The banker drinks the bar dry, trashes the place, then mugs the German and the Greek. This is the reality of austerity.


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Taking Your Feelings To Work / June 14, 2011 by Anne Kreamer
WHEN I graduated from college in 1977, the world was still neatly divided into two spheres: work and everything else. Work was supposed to be a hyperrational realm of logic, filled with timetables, organizational charts and returns on investment. It was only outside of work that emotions — so dangerously ill-defined and unpredictable — were supposed to emerge.
Anne Kreamer says that "home life, with all its messy, complicated emotional currents, has become inextricably and undeniably woven into the workplace."
But from the first day of my first real job, as an administrative assistant at the Park Avenue headquarters of a commercial bank that is now defunct, I realized that emotions were simmering everywhere in the workplace.
My desk, on the hushed, deep-pile-carpeted executive floor, was a few feet opposite the restroom doors. (Clearly, I was lowest in the pecking order.) Every few days, one of the three executive women on my half of the floor would rush into the restroom and, after a little too long, re-emerge with the remnants of a good cry still visible on her splotchy face. I also watched men dash into the men's room and leave a few minutes later, tight-lipped and ashen.
Even as a 21-year-old workplace neophyte, I realized that emotion is a force that underlies all of our behavior. For my book, "It's Always Personal: Emotion in the New Workplace," I spent two years exploring Americans' attitudes toward emotion at work today, and my findings suggest this amended version of Descartes's famous line: I think and feel, therefore I am.
In the old days — pre-Internet, pre-cellphones — it was a lot easier to believe "work equals rational" and "home equals emotional." But now that work and home life constantly bleed into each other, that distinction has become anachronistic and probably self-defeating. People text and e-mail their friends and family members throughout the workday, and they receive messages from colleagues and clients on nights and weekends and during vacations.
The membranes between private life and work, especially office work, have always been porous, but today employers and employees expect accessibility and accountability pretty much round-the-clock. And whereas old-school office memos and business letters generally weren't expected to be friendly or candid — that is, human — business e-mails most definitely are.
Conversely, what used to be considered private behavior can instantly reverberate at work through social networking. People fire off e-mails late at night, only to regret their tone and intent in the cold light of day. Facebook friends from work can stumble upon wild and crazy pictures from a bachelorette party. Tweets and anonymous mobile video uploads can instantly broadcast unflattering emotional displays by surly customer service employees or misbehaving C.E.O.'s.
The conventional wisdom used to be that we brought home the emotions we couldn't express at work — snapping (or worse) at blameless partners and children. That is still true, but what's new is that home life, with all its messy, complicated emotional currents, has become inextricably and undeniably woven into the workplace.
The rulebook for modern office etiquette has yet to be codified. How do we avoid hurting one another's feelings if everything is supposed to be rational, yet also transparent and accessible? How can others understand the emotion behind what we're trying to say in an e-mail if no one takes the time to read beyond the subject line and the first sentence?
And the more we relegate communication to the electronic realm, the greater our longing for face-to-face contact. Our new "flat" organizational structures at work might seem to promote a more hang-loose level of emotional expression. But, if anything, flatter organizations tend to require even higher levels of emotional competency and effort in order to navigate amorphous command structures.
NO one is sure where the lines are anymore. Should we high-five an underling? Is it cool to make jokes with the boss? What if we overhear the man in the next cubicle crying?
Clear rules for this new working world simply don't exist. But one thing is certain. The Millennials, a generation raised with the 24/7 naked emotional transparency of texting and social networking, is now entering the work force by the millions each year. As they replace old-schoolers born in the 1940s and '50s, there is no turning back to a compartmentalized world.
I like to imagine that if men and women were to express more emotion routinely and easily at work — jokes, warmth, sadness, anger, tears, joy, all of it — then as a people we might not feel so chronically anxious and overwhelmed. By denying the range of emotional expressiveness intrinsic and appropriate to the workplace, we find ourselves at a loss for how to handle this brave new boundary-less world.
Overtly acknowledging how and in what measure anger, anxiety, fear and pleasure color and shape our working lives can help us manage those emotions and use them to our benefit, both at work and at home.
E-mail: preoccupations@nytimes.com.
risk, work and emotion 24/7, emotion, it's always personal, life balance, work December 13, 2016


Every Tuesday for the last 3 months I have shared a face of beauty–those who have put the beauty of God on display in my life.
There have been dear friends, the Pope, LOVE in the face of evil, and even my dog.
I wish I could share with you ALL the faces of those who display the beauty of God in my life. So many, who dare greatly to serve Him and reveal His love and grace to the world. But I know you see them, because they are all around you in your life too.
I'm turning right, she's going left.
I was writing my farewell blog post of yesterday, and she had just written her very FIRST blog post. We both wrote about the less-traveled road.
This was no accidental, meant to be brushed off, "hey watch where you are going" collision of the shoulders. As I read the comment she wrote on my post and then read her blog, I knew God wanted me to stop and look her in the face. See who she was. Hear her story. Listen to her voice.
We're turning in different directions, but we each have a baton to pass to the other. Mine is encouragement for her as she starts her writing journey. She passes me the courage, along with the spirit of youthful faith, that will sustain me when I start to feel too old for such a change!
Take a look at the beautiful face of Arika.
She sings for the Lord. Writes of her journey. Smiles. Puts God's beauty on display.
To walk her less traveled path.
Stop for a moment today. See her. Listen to her sing.
And encourage all whose shoulders you bump into, who are daring greatly to walk into the beauty of the road less traveled.
And dare greatly to walk your own.
Keep on sharing the beauty! Keep on sharing the love!
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Wow!!! Thank you so much for this!!! It is an honor! And I am sad to see u go so soon, but I am more excited for what you have coming next! I am sure it is something amazing and our meeting yesterday was for a reason! God has a beautiful plan for us both!!


Recently, a cyber-attack known as WannaCry took hostage hundreds of thousands of public and private Microsoft computers around the world. Computers were affected in more than 150 countries, making this the largest recorded ransomware attack. This virus is a form of ransomware, which encrypts files until a monetary ransom is paid. Often, these ransoms will double after a certain period of time and if they are not paid within the set time, all of the files will remain encrypted. Once the ransom is paid, a key is provided that will unlock the files. In this case, the requested ransom was around $300.
Victims of these attacks include a healthcare company in Britain, where patients had to be turned away from more than 36 hospitals, doctor's offices, and ambulance companies. Thankfully, patient data was not compromised during this attack. In Russia, the Interior Ministry's computers were frozen. In the United States, FedEx became a target.
These types of attacks are usually triggered by malicious attachments in emails that are designed to mimic legitimate sources. Microsoft was aware of this vulnerability and had released software updates to protect customers from these types of attacks. However, many people have outdated software which allowed them to remain vulnerable. It has yet to be reported the total amount victims paid.
It is rumored that the strategy of this attack is rooted in the N.S.A. because of the comments made when the plans were posted online previous to the attack. A group who identifies itself as the "Shadow Brokers" claimed that the numerous hacking tools they posted online were stolen from the U.S. Government. These tools targeted firewalls, anti-virus programs, and Microsoft products. This is especially concerning because the N.S.A. is taxpayer funded. The N.S.A. has denied this allegation but some sources claim that former officials have suggested the content looks similar to other N.S.A. documents.
The United States has used cyber-attacks against other governments in the past and it is known that they have classified information on these types of vulnerabilities. Former President Obama's administration developed a process to determine which of these vulnerabilities should be kept in a classified setting and which ones should be reported to the companies so they can be fixed.
Our team strives to provide prompt, cloud based updates to our customers so that their software is always up to date. We also employ both network security and email filtration measures in order to further reduce the risks of these types of attacks. If you are curious about how we have helped protect other companies or are ready to trust us with your technical security, contact us today to get started.


No, this is not about test prep booklets and cramming. This is about considering the whole child, and how we take care of physical and emotional needs while testing the intellectual limits.
On MCAS testing days, students are invited to start their day in the gym. They have relay races while listening to up beat music, and having their peers and teachers cheer them on. Not only does this get the blood pumping, and increase oxygen flow to the brain, it also helps students feel good about themselves. It was impossible to capture in a picture the power of starting the day this way (though we tried). We do think this can improve our MCAS scores, but perhaps more importantly, we believe that it creates an environment on these high-pressure days where students feel they can be successful.


U.S. Cellular® is committed to enhancing the use of diverse businesses by proactively developing relationships with minority, women, veteran, service disabled veteran, disabled, members of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) community, disadvantaged and local businesses within our supply chain.
Supplier diversity is a core value and behavior of our Dynamic Organization and is a strategic business imperative to the economic growth and expansion of our business. U.S. Cellular also encourages subcontracting opportunities for diverse businesses.
U.S. Cellular is committed to building a strong Supplier Diversity Program. The foundation of our program consists of internal and external deliverables to help ensure program success for all U.S. Cellular stakeholders.
Social Responsibility - Pride ourselves on serving our customers, businesses and communities in our service territories. We know that there is more than a good way to do business — there's a right way.
Innovation & Diversity of Thought - Diverse businesses should be viewed as valued and strategic partners that bring distinct skills, different perspectives and innovative ideas to make us more competitive in the marketplace.
Economic Impact - Foster awareness, enhance collaboration and provide support to diverse businesses and their respective communities while making an impact in cost savings and sales generation through improved supplier diversity performance.
Qualified suppliers are required to submit quarterly results measuring progress toward your diversity goal. These results will be reviewed during your supplier performance/quality reviews. Annual plans and quarterly results should be submitted to our Purchasing department.


The focus of Whiting-Turner is to provide general construction management services for projects on any scale (large and small). Our mission is to build on our reputation for integrity, excellence, experience, and leadership to provide these general construction services. We are always looking to continuously improve what we do, exceed client expectations, and maintain our dedication to the highest moral principles.
Why did you decide to join The Whiting-Turner Contracting Company?
I decided to join Whiting-Turner mostly because of how well their employees are challenged and encouraged to achieve career goals. In addition to this, when I graduated from college at Ohio State University back in 2008, the recession was right in its prime. There was little to no work in Ohio, where I am from, and Whiting-Turner happened to have an opening. That says a lot about a company that is still able to hire during a recession.
The most important lesson I have learned is never to get comfortable. This is when certain opportunities can be lost. It's always good to seek different opportunities, get yourself in situations that you may not be familiar with, join networking organizations, meet new people, get more education, etc. Always stay active in business and in life. It's only going to make you better. Regarding working with clients, they enjoy seeing managers looking to improve schedules, deliver work under budgets, and deliver items with the utmost attention to detail.
This ties into the second question I answered. I graduated from my undergrad in 2008 from Ohio State University right in the middle of the recession. Whiting-Turner had an opportunity available and I took it. It has been one of the best decisions of life. I was able to meet my now wife here, further my education and obtain an MBA from the University of Baltimore, get opportunities in running interesting projects for Whiting-Turner, etc. It has been a very good choice in my life.
Overall, we have seen the Baltimore construction market slow down, especially compared to Washington, DC, which seems like it is booming. This has been a factor on where a lot of the work we are bidding is south of Baltimore in and around DC. We are hopeful as a company that more construction opportunities become available in and around Baltimore. The Opportunity Zone program may be able to facilitate this process.
I honestly don't think I would. If anything, I would've tried to do some sort of study abroad during college to be able to experience a different country and culture for longer than a week-long vacation. That said, I've always wanted to get into construction since I was a young kid. As I grew older, I became more interested in architecture, engineering, and business, and construction management was a great opportunity to combine those areas since I see and deal with much of that every day. Also, as far a coming out to Maryland from Ohio, I wouldn't change that for anything. I was able to meet my wife here and begin growing a family, while working for an exceptional institution in Whiting-Turner.
My grandmother's favorite is merengue, so I would go with that.
Miércoles (Wednesday)… It's a fun word to say.
Café con leche y azúcar or black?
I always drink my coffee with one splenda and one creamer. If I'm drinking black coffee, you know I must be in a stressful situation.


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Q: How to apply depth test to diffuse lighting? I've been fiddling my way through vulkan, and have tried out some basic diffuse lighting, which only takes into account the surface normals. On the side of the model facing the light, things look fine -

On the opposite side of the model though, there's a part of the model which is shaded like it is illuminated even though it shouldn't be-

I know this happens because I'm only considering the surface normals and the shader doesn't care where the vertex is as long as its normal is towards the light, but how do I fix it? I feel like I need a way to do a depth test to figure out whether a part of the model should be lighted or not. How would I go about doing this if that is the case? What should I be doing if otherwise?

A: Sounds like you want to implement shadows.
A standard way is shadow mapping. You render the scene from the point of the light and only keep the depth buffer. You then pass that depth buffer as a texture to the fragment shader and sample that based on where the point is in the world and compare the sampled depth with the distance to the light.
However there are various caveats with this technique. Most common ones being shadow acne where quantization error leads to fragments self shadowing resulting in speckled lighting, you can fix that by adding a small offset to the depth. The next one is peter panning, where that offset you added previously leads to light bleedthrough where a thin wall meets a floor, you fix that by not having walls thin enough that the offset goes through them.


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# Hashing

- [Introduction](#introduction)
- [Basic Usage](#basic-usage)

## Introduction

The Laravel `Hash` [facade](/docs/{{version}}/facades) provides secure Bcrypt hashing for storing user passwords. If you are using the `AuthController` controller that is included with your Laravel application, it will automatically use Bcrypt for registration and authentication.

Bcrypt is a great choice for hashing passwords because its "work factor" is adjustable, which means that the time it takes to generate a hash can be increased as hardware power increases.

## Basic Usage

You may hash a password by calling the `make` method on the `Hash` facade:

    <?php

    namespace App\Http\Controllers;

    use Hash;
    use App\User;
    use Illuminate\Http\Request;
    use App\Http\Controllers\Controller;

    class UserController extends Controller
    {
        /**
         * Update the password for the user.
         *
         * @param  Request  $request
         * @param  int  $id
         * @return Response
         */
        public function updatePassword(Request $request, $id)
        {
            $user = User::findOrFail($id);

            // Validate the new password length...

            $user->fill([
                'password' => Hash::make($request->newPassword)
            ])->save();
        }
    }

Alternatively, you may also use the global `bcrypt` helper function:

    bcrypt('plain-text');

#### Verifying A Password Against A Hash

The `check` method allows you to verify that a given plain-text string corresponds to a given hash. However, if you are using the `AuthController` [included with Laravel](/docs/{{version}}/authentication), you will probably not need to use this directly, as the included authentication controller automatically calls this method:

    if (Hash::check('plain-text', $hashedPassword)) {
        // The passwords match...
    }

#### Checking If A Password Needs To Be Rehashed

The `needsRehash` function allows you to determine if the work factor used by the hasher has changed since the password was hashed:

    if (Hash::needsRehash($hashed)) {
        $hashed = Hash::make('plain-text');
    }

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Oregon, IL - (815) 732-7272
Byron, IL - (815) 234-2631
Stillman Valley, IL - (815) 645-2727
Pre-Needs
Stillman Valley, IL
John L. Reinke - 95
John L. Reinke, age 95, died Mon., March 16, 2015 at the Serenity Home and Hospice in Oregon. He was born June 2, 1919 near Rochelle, IL on the family farm the son of John and Anna (Ludwig) Reinke. He graduated from Rochelle High School in 1937. He farmed in Lafayette Township until retiring in 1987. He was also employed by the Ashton School District as a mechanic and bus driver for 20 years. He served as Supervisor of Lafayette Twp. for 20 years. 75 years ago at church he met his bride Goldie Eppler and they where married on Sept. 24, 1939 at the Emmanuel Lutheran Church at Paynes Point. Music was an important part of John's life. As a kid he took violin lessons. He also played the harmonica, guitar, accordion, piano and organ. He sang in the church choir for many years. He also sang at weddings and funerals too numerous to count. John was a lifelong member of the Emmanuel Lutheran Church at Paynes Point. He was baptized there and active in the church until the year before his death. He taught Sunday school, served on Council and the cemetery board along with various other positions. If there was any activity at the church, you could count on John and Goldie taking part. John learned to fly in his 20's, he enjoyed giving rides and loved to "Buzz" his friends in his small planes. He and Goldie made trips to Florida, Michigan and several trips to Nebraska. His last flight was near his 90th birthday. He was predeceased by his parents and sister Mina Clemmons. Survived by his wife of 75 years Goldie of Rochelle, son Dave (Lou) Reinke of Rochelle, daughters; Lois Olson of Prosser, Washington, and Ruth (Vic) Wiley of Bloomington, 10 grandchildren, many great grandchildren and great great grandchildren. Funeral service will be 10:00 am, Friday, Mar. 20, 2015 at the Emmanuel Lutheran Church at Paynes Point with the Rev. Andrew Kayes pastor of the church officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Visitation will be from 5-7 pm, Thursday evening at the Farrell-Holland-Gale Funeral Home, 110 S. 7th St., Oregon, Illinois. A memorial fund is established for the Serenity Home and Hospice.
Visitation:
5-7 pm, Thursday, March 19, 2015 at the Farrell-Holland-Gale Funeral Home, 110 S. 7th Street in Oregon, Illinois
10:00 am, Friday, March 20, 2015 at the Emmanuel Lutheran Church at Paynes Point, Illinois
View John L. Reinke's Guestbook
Sharon A. Wagner, 76
George A. Wrasse, 92
Beverly R. Schoff, 80
Diane C. Breedlove, 66
Doris E. Olsen, 82
Byron IL
Kathy Lynn Colbert, 63
Oregon, Illinois
Robert E. Bennett, 95
Leaf River
Richard N. Cain, 84
Grace P. Henley, 93
Janice M. James, 81
Sandra Kay Drake, 77
Virgil L. Rocke, 84
Donna Jean Boes, 72
Byron, Illinois
Steven T. Hawley, 61
Davis Junction
Shirley L. Arbogast, 59
Nancy L. Schumacher, 78
Francis I. "Fran" Hogan, 88
Charles E. Heng, 92
Farrell-Holland-Gale
506 West Merchant Street
Byron, IL 61010
136 West Roosevelt Road
Stillman Valley, IL 61084


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Nothing is ever as bad as it seems. So either instance you mention is a bad situation. It can affect people differently, and sometimes not at all. Somehow by giving me a list, one that is relatively tame compared to some of the Wishes I have seen over the years, it lost power to me. This style of game play is slower, but more immersive. In my opinion, this can build confidence in their followers to have faith in you, in order to be able to.
At the time, there was one homeless education liaison for all 100 schools in the district — and she was only assigned at one-quarter time. Correlative conjunctions are always found in pairs. You should be able to apply your sentence-building skills to the task of building paragraphs. Although most of my High School was done in the Dominican Republic I still consider it to be the best time of my life. These programs help schools to accommodate more students at one time, since winter graduates leaving the school make room in the dorms and classrooms for more matriculated freshmen. But the good news is, after a few months of getting to know the school, spring freshmen are practically indistinguishable from fall freshmen.
But you are making it sound as if we didn't have a life outside the books, which is hardly the case, lol. As always, context is everything. I have not done so myself, but I am told that creating a proper encounter in the 3. Under McKinney-Vento, these children have the right to get help with basic school supplies, even uniforms and shoes. It's just that our life didn't revolve around university activities. Second Legions of public schools are succeeding while others flounder These successful schools are altering fundamentals that were for so long untouchable, by insisting on great teachers, more class time and higher standards We now know that it is possible to teach every kid, even poor kids with wretched home lives, to read, write and do math and science at respectable levels Great teachers lead to successful children Third The third novelty is in Washington, where a Democratic President is standing up to his party's most dysfunctional long-term romantic interest, the teachers' unions.
Pride is alright if it improves the own self-perception. But this is not key to my answer, which is to answer with the name of your school, plus other information appropriate to the context. One of the things we were told to look for during campus visits is how many students and others are wearing school gear - tshirts, hats, hoodies, etc. I'd walk to the pasture with my father, take the shovel he offers me, and dig with him, shoulder-to-shoulder, a hole big enough to put all eighteen dead goats under three or four feet of orange clay. Some people look to their grades, level of completion, or what school they attended. But school spirit can also be generated in other ways, and we have seen that on several campuses. The last thing that bothers me about 3.
A verb phrase always contains a helping verb. There are also non-government schools, called private schools. The student union had been shut down, and the sports teams were unknowns. These kids face obstacles that would crush many adults. Many spring freshmen find that joining extracurriculars is a helpful way to meet new people and make new friends, so it may help to do a little research of the different student organizations at your college of choice as a spring freshman.
In 3e and pathfinder, they give you a list of what it does. You're nice, sometimes, smart, most of the times. They go to class, they go home or to their dorm, and that's it. An institution where higher education is taught, is commonly called a university college or university. Realizing that now, on this day we graduate. None of them gave all of what we needed to know or was too short or too long. Justice, in my opinion, is simply doing the right thing at all times, so that individuals and society, as a whole, are impacted and influenced.
Every time I would come to school, I would be ready to learn more and more every day. While on the other hand, Anthony Bourdain loves all food, and can definitely appreciate the quality. A hero is someone who can display audacity when confronted with a difficult. Then, we return home, and I sit in the living room next to my mother, tell her she can sleep now. But you are making it sound as if we didn't have a life outside the books, which is hardly the case, lol. This is a reality for many parents living in developing countries across the globe.


This compact and fast (F2.8) zoom is designed for APS-C size sensors. The lens is equipped with Sigma's Hyper-Sonic Motor (HSM) which provides for fast and quiet autofocusing. The lens has no provision for screw-drive autofocus. The lens focuses down to 11" (28cm).
This lens is identical to the earlier Sigma 17-50mm F2.8 EX DC OS HSM except for the removal of in-lens optical stabilization.
It's well built, feels like a premium lens.
The AF is fast, accurate and almost soundless.
IQ is great and it's sharp.
Manual focus might be tricky due to short focus ring rotation distance.
I like this lens more than the Tamron 17-50.
I bought them as kit replacement. I shot with them about 1000 photos. I don't have luck. With K200D I had back focus and with K3 II I was problem with correct sharpening. It was not what I expected. Sometimes my camera place sharpeness further or nearer than I was expected. With 77 limited and 100 WR from Pentax I don't have this issue. After sold my buyer was happy and he don't have any problem. I see tested images from him and it was all rights.
Weight is the most noticable cons of the lens. It is a huge. In compatition with 77 limited or my macro 100WR lens it is make difference. After longer use you can feel weight. Big plus is excellent AF. It was working fast and it is the most silence. When screw driver in 77 make noticable noise you can take photos without making attention to yourselfs.
I use them for wide angle "macro". With Live View it was pleasure. Longer end it was quite nice for portrait. 2.8 stop is fully usefull. Only 77 limited is more sharpness. In comparision to standard kit II version is only better, but I want quick shift on this zoom to make them more operatable.
Switches small, not enought useful for me. I don't use it often. If you can buy in shop this model working well with you camera is good offer for this price. You should be aware, because some models has front or backfocus problem. Sometimes is not easy to correct via service. It is why I get them 7/10.
I have had this lens for over a year, purchased used, and feel comfortable posting a recommendation here after hundreds of shots. It is my "go-to" lens, paired with a K-S2 for general travel and street-photography, including low-light sunrise and sunset landscapes up to the 50mm range, but particularly when I need a bit of width . The more I have used it, the more I have appreciated its sharpness, versatility, and handling.
Photo's are sharp, end-to-end; colors are excellent. As a non-pro enthusiast, for the money I get so close to what I would consider near-pro output that I could not be more pleased. This seems fairly consistent with the feedback from other posts here. Wish it were WR but can't have it all--with a rain hood have used on many hikes, wet and dusty conditions--no problems.
A great upgrade and highly recommended!
This is a great lens to replace the kit. Almost the same focal lengths but with a constant f2.8, much better build quality and much better photo quality.
Sharpness: 10 - This lens is extremely sharp across the entire focal range.
Aberrations: 9 - I cannot notice any aberrations with my naked eye. When zooming in during post-processing I can notice a tiny bit so it's not prefect but close.
Bokeh; 9 - Beautiful and smooth bokeh. Since this is a fast lens it is easy to achieve the effect and looks very good.
and a bit more smooth, sure, but this lens AF is just as good as most any other lens on my K3ii.
Handling: 10 - The build quality is very sturdy and feels very well build when holding it. It is a bit on the bulky side which is most noticeable when changing out this lens.
Value: 10 - Overall this is a great lens that can easily be found for under $400 which I think makes it an amazing value.
I've owned the Tamron 17-50mm f/2.8 lens for quite a few years and it's my only other experience with a fast standard zoom on digital. I've always been pretty happy with the Tamron but longed for something better built and with quiet AF, so when I saw a copy of this Sigma for sale locally at a reasonable price I had to try it out and decided to buy. I prefer primes to zooms but a fast standard zoom is just so useful a lens to have that it's something I'd never want to be without.
I haven't owned the lens for long but used it a bit around christmas and on a recent trip to Italy it was my main lens, used 90% of the time, which always helps to get to know a new lens.
The lens is very well built. Compared to the Tamron, it's more solid (significantly bigger & heavier too) but the difference in build quality is clear, and that's something I appreciate. Unless you really need to minimise size and weight in such a lens, I'd say it's worth it to go for the Sigma.
Sharpness is excellent in the centre at all apertures, even wide open. At the corners you need to stop down to f/8 (or maybe even f/11) to get best results, though they never reach the sharpness levels of the centre, at least at the widest focal lengths. I may be being picky here - I've pixel-peeped the corners to check how they are but at normal display sizes they are absolutely nothing to worry about.
What has really impressed me with this lens' optical capabilities are the rich colours and contrast that photos have - they're probably as good as those from the DA limited (or other high quality modern primes). Blues especially seem to come out very well.
I've seen occasional flare even when using the hood but I had read about that before buying and it's not as bad as I had been expecting from the comments I've read. I've seen much, much worse on other lenses and overall I'd say it does pretty well in this regard.
The almost silent auto focus really is nice to have. In terms of accuracy I'd say it's slightly better than the Tamron, but only very slightly. It has the occasional slight mis-focus but that happens with all my lenses and I attribute it to the camera. The quiet AF is a luxury - nice to have but with no effect on the photos. This is my only K-mount lens with an inbuilt lens motor.
Overall, I'd say I'm very happy with the lens. It could be sharper in the corners, it could be a bit more resistant to flare and if it zoomed in the same direction as all my other lenses then that would be great, but these are relatively minor complaints. Compared to the Tamron I'd say it's optically on the same level. The Tamron might even have a slight edge with better sharpness in the corners and better flare resistance. In other aspects the Sigma is better - the AF motor, slightly more accurate AF, a slight advantage in colour and contrast, much better build quality. However, the size and weight differences are considerable and for those who like their equipment to be light, the Sigma may not be for you.
Update: I should mention that I have had a lot of problems with erratic exposure using this lens - either over or under exposure. On my trip to Italy I ended up using five-shot bracketing and deleting the four excess photos after choosing the best exposed one. I need to play around with some other exposure modes to see if the lens works better with them, but I'd recommend bracketing or using manual exposure and always shooting RAW when using this lens.
This really is a superb all-round lens which is very nearly as close to perfect for general use as it's possible to get.
I'll finish off with some sample images which I hope convey the results that this lens can achieve. The first three images were taken wide open.
Really like this lens. Good walk around, quiet focus, Great colors.
It went back to Sigma for repair to AF, came back good as new. They were vague on repair but I suspect part came loose inside. Erratic focus with no adjustment.
Only complaint......Cheapest lens cap I've ever seen.
This is my "go-to" lens for my K-5. Worth every penny paid. One of my very best lenses. For most travel ventures I take this lens along with the DA*50-135mm f/2.8 along with my Tamron 1.4x TC and I am covered for most anything I photograph.
I was very satisfied with my Pentax DA16-45, but started thinking that having a similar range zoom with an f2.8 aperture would help with some indoor shots, so I began looking around, and noticed this Sigma.
This lens is noticeably sharper than the Pentax to the point that you have to soften almost every shot in Lightroom or other post processing software. The contrast is also higher than the Pentax, and the colors are not Pentax colors.
Not really something to complain about, but you should be aware of this before buying this lens.
On the pro side, the auto focus is accurate and silent, this lens' best virtue.
On the con side, it is heavy.
I think it is an excellent all-around, walk-around lens, because of its range and the silent auto focus.
I recommend this lens highly.
Great lens. Replaced my 15mm Limited (17 has been wide enough for my needs in the end) and my 18-50 in one go. Sharp, silent and accurate focusing (needed -4 adjustment on K-S2 but spot on since then), nice rendering including at f2.8, plastic but solidly built - sometimes a little heavy - and feels like a quality product. Standard petal hood does its job. A little coma and some fringing at the wide end but that is easy to remove.
The f2.8 on this lens is for convenience and basic background separation - the bokeh on this lens is actually fairly unsatisfying and probably this lens' weakest point.
My DA 16-45mm F4 was my 'go to' lens as it is a particularly good example but this is in another league.
Cons: Big, Heavy, bokeh is a bit busy.
This was my first "High End" lens. Its an amazing lens at that. The colors it produces are very accurate and lend themselves well to post processing either in camera or later with Photoshop or similar. It focuses fast and is very quiet, it does not hunt much if at all.
It is a big heavy lens. Its not a lens that I would consider a good walk around lens just due to the size and weight. However, when I know that I need to get the shot and won't have time for trial and error, or I have the opportunity to stage the shot properly prior to taking the picture this is my go to lens.
I personally feel the bokeh is a bit busy, however, its not horrible by any stretch, and hasn't caused me to "miss" a shot yet.
Overall this is a stellar lens and I highly recommend it.
A very good all-around lens. 17 mm gives extra wide coverage. 2,8 all the way is quite bright. Feels well built. Very good value for money.
Not weather sealed. The front lens seems to attract more dust than usually.
I shoot RAW and use the auto-correction in Photoshop CS6. Makes no big change but makes straight lines straight.
I have used the Sigma 18-50 2,8 for the last decade and lately on he K5. I felt that combination was good enough for me and quite handy. Then the K5 broke down and i upgraded. The K3II is a wee bit bigger than the K5 and a bit heavier. The Sigma 17-50 is bigger and heavier than the 18-50. Together, I find that the combination feels substantially bigger and heavier to lug around and looks less discreet. The extra wide angle is a benefit and the technical picture quality has improved, a plus when it comes to rotating and cropping a shot.
All in all, this is now my standard set-up. A technical improvement but at substantial cost in size and lack of discretion.
This is a fantastic quality lens for the price.
Picture quality is very good, it beats my Pentax DA21 for IQ and sharpness.
It gives great results. Surprisingly good at 2.8 even at 17mm but especially good at 50mm. Best at 5.6.
Auto focus is quiet and accurate.
It is big and heavy. If you are used to primes or the lighter Pentax lenses you are going to notice it. I use mine for travel so it can be a burden, but some people like the weight as a stabilizer.
Mine is a lose fit on my K30; there is a little play at the joint.
Overeall a great lens that I would highly recommend for the price. However, it is big and heavy which means I often end up leaving it at home.
Second sample taken at 17mm f2.8, iso1600, 15secs . Edge crop showing coma.


John A. Martin & Associates, Inc. JAMA's Work on Broad Museum Veil Honored by NCSEA - John A. Martin & Associates, Inc.
The National Council of Structural Engineers Associations (NCSEA) has honored JAMA's design for the Broad Museum's exterior "Veil" with a 2017 Excellence in Structural Engineering Award! The veil at Los Angeles' Broad Museum is a structural exoskeleton that drapes over the building's interior. As the defining feature of this world-class institution, this porous yet absorptive screen made of 2,500 fiberglass reinforced concrete (FRC) panels and 650 tons of steel forms a 3-D series of open cellular components that channels light into public spaces and galleries and activates connections between the museum and the surrounding Downtown streetscape. Congratulations to Partner Steven C. Ball on the honor.


Our Luxurious 'Moss Stitch Shawl Cape' with sleeves and pockets is super trendy.
Fashionable and versatile this shawl cape is a true classic wardrobe essential.
This shawl is perfect for taller women or anyone who would love a shawl with a generous length.
Available in the stunning colours Grape, Grey and Rata.
Please note the model in the images is wearing the colour 'Grey'. The model is NZ/AUS Size 8, and is 172cm tall.
Rata - great colour. Very comfortable & easy to wear. Heaps of good comments. Sometimes it is too hot!


This coat is defined by its flattering hourglass shape.
Made from a substantial Italian wool-blend and has a smart double-breasted front with peak lapels and flap pockets.
The full lining ensures a comfortable fit.
Wear yours over everything from jeans to dresses.
Fully lined (60% acetate, 40% viscose).
Our model wears a UK 10/EU 38/US 8 and is 175m/5'9" tall.
The InAvati muse is prepared for anything that comes her way. Her coat is more than just a piece of clothing; it redefines a modern staple, working for her, and with her. Not one to settle for anything less than perfection, her coat must not just complement her personal style, it should also provide utmost comfort. With almost twenty years in the fashion business and production under our belt, we launched InAvati with a simple mission: to create something we couldn't currently find. That is, well-designed and flawlessly crafted coats for every climate, and any occasion. We believe that attention to detail makes all the difference. Discover a coat that feels right today, and will do so for seasons to come.


The professional, flexible team qualified in dog sitting.
Years of experience with the canine nature.
Dogs are accommodated in a home environment, not in cages.
Care on an individual basis.
A very limited number of dogs (1 or 2 if they know each other).
Minimally 3 long walks a day (length and distance according to dog's shape and health, we take dogs jogging as well).
Beautiful calm locations with a lot of parks.
Basic knowledge of the veterinary discipline.
Insurance which covers potential health damage, property damage.
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To make sure that your dog will be happy in our "hotel for dogs" please check references from other customers.
Dogs must behave well, they should be used to people and dogs because all my employees have their own dog. Dogs must be capable of walking down and up the stairs. Dogs must set an example, do not destroy anything at home beside toys and be used to walk outside. If your dog is medium or large breed dog it should have basic training. It is better for us if your dog is used to public transport or car. We are not accepting dogs which are aggressive. If your dog is taking any medicine we are going to give it to them.


TWO PEDIGREES OF AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT ATRIOVENTRICULAR CANAL DEFECT (AVCD): EXCLUSION FROM THE CRITICAL REGION ON 8p.
TWO PEDIGREES OF AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT ATRIOVENTRICULAR CANAL DEFECT (AVCD): EXCLUSION FROM THE CRITICAL REGION ON 8p. / AMATI F.; MARI A.; MINGARELLI R.; M. GENNARELLI; DI GIGLIO M.C.; GIANNOTTI A.; MARINO B.; NOVELLI G.; DALLAPICCOLA B.. - In: AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS. - ISSN 0148-7299. - 57(1995), pp. 483-488.
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