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Q: How to modify PHP array keys I have some basic data coming from a csv upload, the table is formatted like so:

Cost 1
Cost 2
Cost 3

5
12
5

1
13
9

9
0
1

The data saves to the database and using array_chunk I have an array that looks like this (I will need to loop through these later)
array(
  [0] => Array
      (
          [Cost 1] => 5
      )
  [1] => Array
      (
          [Cost 2] => 12
      )
  [2] => Array
      (
          [Cost 3] => 3
      )
   )

I want to modify the array to read the keys as values instead, so the final array would look like this with the column title saving in every instance:
array(
  [0] => Array
      (
          [cost] => Cost 1
          [demand] => 5
      )
  [1] => Array
      (
          [cost] => Cost 2
          [demand] => 12
      )
  [2] => Array
      (
          [cost] => Cost 3
          [demand] => 3
      )
   )

I know I can use array_keys and array_values to target each, but can't quite get my head around how I'd use that to create the above.

A: This script work for you
I first iterate the array with foreach and then in each element use the array_keys and array_values for give the keys and values and because that is just one row in the element I use the [0]
<?php

$array = [
    [
        "Cost 1" => 5
    ],
    [
        "Cost 2" => 12
    ],
    [
        "Cost 3" => 3
    ],
];

$formattedArray = [];
foreach($array as $element) {
    $formattedArray[] = [
        "cost" => array_keys($element)[0],
        "demand" => array_values($element)[0],
    ];
}

print_r($formattedArray);

output
Array
(
    [0] => Array
        (
            [cost] => Cost 1
            [demand] => 5
        )

    [1] => Array
        (
            [cost] => Cost 2
            [demand] => 12
        )

    [2] => Array
        (
            [cost] => Cost 3
            [demand] => 3
        )
)

A: $newCostArray=[];
foreach($costArray as $index => $carr) {
  $newCostArray[$index]=[];
  foreach($carr as $key => $val) {
     echo "$key = $val<br>";
     $newCostArray[$index]['cost']=$key;
     $newCostArray[$index]['demand']=$val;
  }
}

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By EPRS Admin / January 31, 2019
Figure 18 – Timeline of the 2021 to 2027 MFF
Timeline of the 2021 to 2027 MFF
In December 2018, the European Council discussed the details of the next MFF for the first time, welcoming the intensive preparatory work carried out by the Council in 2018. In addition to a progress report, the Austrian presidency produced a draft negotiating box, a technical tool that lists issues to be addressed and related options with a view to facilitating an agreement. EU leaders invited the Romanian presidency to continue this technical work and develop an orientation for the negotiations during the first semester of 2019, setting the objective to reach an agreement in the European Council in autumn 2019.
The December 2018 conclusions of the European Council mean that the ambitious timeline initially proposed by the Commission and supported by the European Parliament in its resolutions will not be met. In its contribution ahead of the summit, the Commission acknowledged progress made on the negotiations so far, but already outlined an updated timeline. The document urged leaders to reach agreement on the MFF in October 2019 and to work closely with Parliament, recalling the negative impact that a delayed adoption would have on the implementation of future programmes.
According to some observers, the new timeline with an agreement planned for autumn 2019 (see Figure 18) may prove equally difficult. Such analyses point not only to the various challenging issues on which an agreement has to be reached (e.g. size of the budget, spending priorities and conditionality linked to the rule of law), but also to possible institutional delays, since decisions on five key EU appointments have to be made in the second half of 2019.
The unanimity requirement for the adoption of the MFF regulation in the Council remains an important challenge for such a broad proposal, with groups of Member States traditionally reported to have differing views on various elements. In addition, some analysts argue that the new background characterising the negotiations for the post-2020 period could trigger cleavages within traditional coalitions. The European Parliament has called on the European Council to make the process smoother, by activating the passerelle clause of the Treaty, which would allow the Council to act by qualified majority in this domain.
EPRS Admin
European Parliamentary Research Service

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Q: AWS RDS MariaDB consumed 300GB on simple alter table for no reason We have MariaDB in AWS RDS on r5.large instance. We have 4 instances and each instance has about 350GB of storage used. Each instance has almost 2000 different databases, the migration tries to run on all of them, but the alghoritm executes the migration one by one.
The table we are altering is actually quite small - it usually has hundreds of rows per database.
For some strange reason, when we run this migration the AWS RDS MariaDB consumes all the storage we have, as we have autoscaled storage the value of it jumped from 350GB to ~650GB and still it was not enough. Also the consumption of such enormous data was extremely quick (1-2 minutes based on monitoring). Then it was stopped just because AWS refused to give us more space such quickly and there was no storage left.
It happened on all 4 instances.
This is the alter table we used
ALTER TABLE `item_place`
    ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS `deleted_at` datetime NULL,
    ALGORITHM=NOCOPY, LOCK=NONE;

ALTER TABLE `item_place`
    ADD INDEX IF NOT EXISTS `deleted_at` (`deleted_at`),
    ALGORITHM=NOCOPY, LOCK=NONE;

We did not see anything unusual. Also we have TEST databases with same migrations and nothing happened there. They are much smaller though (5GB), but we did not see even small drop in storage space when the migration was executed there.
We did not find anything special in logs.

A: we had the same problem. Upgrade MariaDB version from 10.3.8 to 10.5.8 solved the issue.


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Firefighters said the fire started in a lower level apartment.
Firefighters helped one woman escape the fire from a third floor balcony.


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Exclusive: Sources tell Trump's former White House ethics attorney Cassidy Hutchinson to give misleading testimony to Jan 6 committee
The January 6 committee made a startling claim Monday that there was evidence that a Trump-backed lawyer had urged a key witness to mislead the committee about the details they remembered.
Although the committee refused to reveal the individuals' identities, CNN learned that Stefan Passantino, the top ethics attorney at the Trump White House, was the attorney who advised his then client, former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, to tell the committee that he was his. Sources familiar with the committee's work told CNN he did not remember the details he made.
Trump's Save America political action committee funded Passantino and his law firm Elections LLC, including representing Hutchinson, other sources told CNN. The committee report notes that the attorney did not tell his client who was paying for legal services.
Over the summer, Hutchinson appeared as a blockbuster witness for the committee, providing key insights into Trump's mood and actions that led to the January 6 attack on the US Capitol. Hutchinson left Passantino before his public statement and hired a new attorney.
When asked about the pressure on Hutchinson after Monday's hearing, Committee member Representative Zoe Lofgren told CNN: "When she remembers something, she was advised to say she doesn't remember. So this is pretty serious stuff."
The incident is just one of several instances where the committee has accused members of Trump's orbit of trying to obstruct the panel's investigation.
Two sources familiar with the situation told CNN that Hutchinson had discussed the incident with the Justice Department. CNN previously reported that Hutchinson cooperated with the Justice Department's January 6 investigation after he became a key public witness in the House investigation.
CNN reached out to the Justice Department for comment.
Passantino was not charged with a crime. House said investigators never reached out to him for an interview.
In a statement to CNN, Passantino said he did not advise Hutchinson to mislead the committee. "I have represented Ms. Hutchinson with dignity, ethics, and fully consistent with her sole interests which she has communicated to me. I believed that Ms. Hutchinson was honest and cooperative with the Committee during the few interview sessions I represented her.
Passantino pointed out that it is not unusual for people to change lawyers "because their interests or strategies have changed", according to a statement. He also said that political committees sometimes cover customer fees "at the customer's request."
In response to the accusation that he shared his testimony with other lawyers and the press, although the delegation told him not to do so, he said, "The external correspondence made on behalf of Ms. Hutchinson when I was her lawyer was made with her statement. authority."
On Tuesday, Passantino's professional biography was removed from the website of a Midwest-based law firm of which he is a partner, and Passantino admitted in a statement that he was on leave from the firm "due to a distraction from this topic." That firm, Michael Best & Friedrich LLP, said on Tuesday that it was not involved and that Hutchinson was not a customer.
Passantino said he remains a partner in Elections LLC.
The House January 6 committee said it was concerned about potential witness tampering during hearings over the summer. CNN reported that the witness was Hutchinson.
The committee summary noted that the panel was "aware of the numerous efforts President Trump has made to contact Elected Committee witnesses. The Ministry of Justice is aware of at least one of these conditions."
Then, in the executive summary of the final report on Monday, the committee reconsidered the matter while handing over the investigation to the Justice Department.
According to the report, "the lawyer advised the witness that in certain circumstances the witness could tell the Committee that he remembered the facts but did not remember the facts."
According to the synopsis, "When the witness expressed concerns to his lawyer about this approach," the lawyer said, "they don't know what you know. [witness]. They don't know that you can remember some of these. So it's perfectly acceptable to say 'I don't remember'."
"The lawyer instructed his client on a specific issue that would illuminate President Trump: 'No, no, no, no, no. We don't want to go there. "We don't want to talk about that," the report said.
At the Committee's final public hearing, Lofgren said: "The witness believed this was an effort to influence his testimony, and we are concerned that these efforts may be a strategy to prevent the Committee from finding the truth."
Lawyers must adhere to comprehensive codes of ethics as part of their profession, including avoiding conflicts of interest that could endanger their ability to represent a client. According to legal ethics experts, a lawyer's misdirection of a client's statement that is not entirely correct can be seen as a potential obstruction to an investigation.
Elections LLC, the other Trump attorneys formed after Passantino and Trump left the White House, received regular payments from Save America PAC and other Trump-backed groups, according to FEC filings. For legal advice, Save America PAC distributions to the firm total more than $150,000 in 2021 and nearly $275,000 in 2022. The firm has also worked on major Republican congressional campaigns.
This year, Trump's Save America PAC made payments to several law firms that represented witnesses in the January 6 and Mar-a-Lago investigation. Legal experts and professional code say that a problem arises only if the lawyer does not comply with his client's wishes.
In its summary Monday, the committee cited several other examples of "evidence suggesting specific efforts to hinder" its work. They noted that, along with Trump's efforts to contact some witnesses, there were numerous Secret Service agents hiring private attorneys rather than agency-provided lawyers to represent them for free. According to the committee, a Secret Service driver's lawyer admitted to writing notes about what was said to the driver while testifying.
The committee also said it believes some witnesses, such as Trump's former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany and the former president's daughter, Ivanka Trump, were not as "outspoken or direct" as others.
The report also said the committee believed that White House staffer Anthony Ornato "gave testimony consistent with the miscalculation" in a book written by Mark Meadows, downplaying Trump's request to go to the Capitol on January 6.
The committee said it plans to release transcripts that will shed more light on witness testimony they find questionable.
In its summary Monday, the committee gave several other examples of "evidence suggesting specific efforts to hinder" its work. They noted that, along with Trump's efforts to contact some witnesses, there were numerous Secret Service agents hiring private attorneys rather than agency-provided lawyers to represent them for free. According to the committee, a Secret Service driver's lawyer admitted to writing notes about what was said to the driver while testifying.
This story has been updated with other examples of potential blocking identified by the committee.
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ArchitectureLos Angeles
The Abandoned Town of Surfridge Next to LAX Airport
chris torres
Photo by Chris Torres
The May 2012 issue of Travel and Leisure magazine named LAX the 2nd worst airport in the United States. LAX took the lowest scores in almost all categories ranging from check-in to cleanliness to staff communication, revealing no surprises to those who frequent the airport. However, the one category that LAX ranked lowest that I find most interesting is 'location'. It is a peculiar question to pose in a city as decentralized as Los Angeles, for how would one begin to chose which part of Los Angeles should be most connected to its airport. Despite multiple attempts to relocate LAX, it is clear that the airport will be a permanent social, economic and political fixture of the Westside of Los Angeles. In addition to these more fluid forces, LAX continues to have a strong spatial impact on the city. This impact on the space surrounding LAX has created voids in the urban fabric at a scale that is truly one of landscape, superseding the building lot, block and even neighborhood. This tour will bring you to two moments where the edge of urbanization and vacant urban space meet. To the casual tourist this edge condition greatly contributes to the lackluster experience of the airports location, however to others this same space reveals a unique insight into the spatial implications of development and the fantastical outcomes of urbanization.
A main entrance to the neighborhood formerly known as Surfridge
As the post WWII commercial boom of aviation forced LAX to expand, it soon began to rub up against long existing neighborhoods. Beginning in 1965 to 1979, LAX relocated 2000 residents and demolished over 800 homes on 430 acres of oceanfront land known as the neighborhood of Surfridge. The expansion of three runways put the flight path directly on top of Surfridge which was enough for the city of Los Angeles to practice eminent domain and acquire the property. For nearly 40 years the streets of Surfridge have sat empty with only crumbling foundations, rusting street signs and old streetlamps that until recently used to still come on at night.
Surfridge occupies the full west and northern edge of LAX The rolling hills of Surfridge are mowed year-round and maintained as a butterfly sanctuary.
Many drought-tolerant species have survived, planted decades ago as specimen trees for single family residences.
The 2004 closure of 98th Street Elementary School signaled a milestone in the removal of residents of an area to the east of LAX near the 405 freeway known as Manchester Square. This 150 acre neighborhood cost the city of Los Angeles $485 million dollars to acquire as part of former mayor James Hahn's vision to create an off-site check-in zone for the airport. The project has been put indefinitely on hold.
Curb-cuts and exotic trees mark the lots where houses recently stood
Manchester Square is bordered by the 405 freeway, rental car lots and light industrial zones of LAX
The lack of residents has created a safe haven for people living in RV where informal colonies have emerged; sometimes up to 40 RVs park here semi-permanently
Also in 2004, the LAX Master Plan regarding the future development of LAX was approved by the City of Los Angeles. Under the Specific Plan Amendment Study (SPAS), potential alternatives to the projects previously analyzed as part of the LAX Master Plan Program are listed, which required further evaluation prior to implementation. These projects are therefore called "Yellow Light Projects"  and are currently under 75-day public review. Of the nine alternatives, five incorporate Manchester Square (as "Off-Airport parking" or "Ground Transportation Center"); Surfridge shall remain abandoned, it seems.
Next, check out 10 of Downtown Los Angeles' Most Architectural Sites.
Tags : city spotlightLAXUrban Explorationurban renewal
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Control of light for plants, behind window, depending on hour and sunlight with ESP8266

What it does:
Keeps the light level for my plants (behind the window) during the winter time (and not only).
The "standard day" is from 6:00 to 22:00.

How it works:
Measures the sunlight, during the "standard day" and if it is not enough it lights up the local LED.

Each 15 minutes it synchronises the time with a google server.

Some parts of this project are inspired by, or shameless copied, from:
  - https://github.com/GeoNomad   the GoogleTime.lua (Copyright (c) 2015 Peter Jennings benlo.com)
  - https://github.com/squix78/ESP8266-lua-nightlight (Copyright (c) 2014 squix78)

The board used for this project is ESP8266-12, from AliExpress (http://www.aliexpress.com/item/ESP8266-serial-WIFI-industrial-grade-stable-version-of-the-test-plate-full-Total-IO-extraction/32242633472.html), as development board. It is already equiped with an LDR (photoresistor) connected on ADC pin, with LEDs connected on all GPIO pins. It also comes with a batteries holder attached (for 3 AA). I removed it and I soldered a connector that match my stuff.

On the board is mounted an RGB LED. It looks like the three GPIOs to RGB LED allow some current to pass and lighting up all three colors. Because I measure the quantity of light I had to get rid off all sources of light near the LDR. For this reason in the config file are some lines of code to deal with this and shut off the RGB LED(s).

I hope I'll soon be able to put some more details about this project (pictures and LED lighting device).

Let me know if there are questions.

Meanwhile you can take a look at my other "application in action" for the very same board at Thingspeak (https://thingspeak.com/channels/15699).

Also over there it is a Radiation channel that is measuring the radiation level around my home. After Fukushima nobody knows what else might be ... (https://thingspeak.com/channels/9892).

(15Mar2015)
I added a new version of the file googletime.lua, named googletime_TS.lua, that sends three parameters to ThinkSpeak.

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Home » News » Green Energy Investments Drop in First Half of 2019: Report
Green Energy Investments Drop in First Half of 2019: Report
By Ayush Verma/ Updated On Fri, Jul 12th, 2019
According to a new report, the global investments in green energy projects in the first half of 2019 were $117.6 billion, a drop of 14 percent from the 2018 figure.
The first half of 2019 saw a 39 percent drop in green energy investments in the world's biggest market, China, to $28.8 billion, the lowest figure for any half-year period since 2013, according to the latest figures from BloombergNEF (BNEF).
The plunge in activity in China, as the country shifts this year away from government-set tariffs to auctions for new wind and solar capacity, also depressed the 1H 2019 global investment figure – to $117.6 billion, down 14 percent compared to the first half of 2018.
Justin Wu, head of Asia-Pacific for BNEF, said, "The slowdown in investment in China is real, but the figures for first-half 2019 probably overstate its severity. We expect a nationwide solar auction happening now to lead to a rush of new PV project financings. We could also see several big deals in offshore wind in the second half."
While on the other end of the spectrum of global clean energy investment in the period was the financing of multibillion-dollar projects in two relatively new markets – a solar thermal and photovoltaic complex in Dubai, at 950 MW and $4.2 billion, and two offshore wind arrays in the sea off Taiwan, at 640 MW and 900 MW and an estimated combined cost of $5.7 billion.
Jenny Chase, head of solar analysis for BNEF, said, "Al Maktoum IV is an unusual one in combining three different types of solar – the thermal technologies of parabolic trough and tower, with conventional PV – but it is also a strong signal of the appetite for solar electricity on the part of both Middle Eastern countries and international financiers."
The Dubai deal in late March, for the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum IV project, is the biggest financing ever seen in the solar sector. It involves $2.6 billion of debt from 10 Chinese, Gulf and Western banks, plus $1.6 billion of equity from Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA), Saudi-based developer ACWA Power and equity partner Silk Road Fund of China.
The two Taiwanese offshore wind projects, Wpd Yunlin Yunneng and Ørsted Greater Changhua, involve European developers, investors and banks, as well as local players. Offshore wind activity is broadening its geographical focus, from Europe's North Sea and China's coastline, toward new markets such as Taiwan, the U.S. East Coast, India and Vietnam.
BNEF's figures for clean energy investment in the first half of 2019 show mixed fortunes for the world's major markets. The "big three" of China, the U.S. and Europe all showed falls, but while the drop in the U.S. was a modest 6 percent at $23.6 billion and that in Europe was 4 percent at $22.2 billion, China took the biggest hit with its 39 percent setback.
Breaking global clean energy investment down by type of transaction, asset finance of utility-scale generation projects such as wind farms and solar parks was down 24% at $85.6 billion, due in large part to the China factor. Financing of small-scale solar systems of less than 1 MW was up 32% at $23.7 billion in the first half of this year.
Investment in specialist clean energy companies via public markets was 37% higher at $5.6 billion, helped by two big equity raisings for electric vehicle makers – an $863 million secondary issue for Tesla, and a $650 million convertible issue for China-based NIO.
Tags: BNEF, Drop, Finance, green energy, Green Energy Investments Drop, International, investments, market research, Renewable Energy
Ayush Verma
Ayush is a staff writer at saurenergy.com and writes on renewable energy with a special focus on solar and wind. Prior to this, as an engineering graduate trying to find his niche in the energy journalism segment, he worked as a correspondent for iamrenew.com.


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DHS Secretary Signs Memos Empowering Authorities to More Aggressively Detain and Deport Immigrants
Monique Judge
Filed to: NewsFiled to: News
immigration policies
deporting immigrants
detaining immigrants
Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly (Molly Riley/Getty Images)
New guidelines that empower federal authorities to more aggressively detain and deport undocumented immigrants inside the United States and at the border were signed off on by Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly and released Tuesday.
NPR reports that the new rules align with the executive orders President Donald Trump issued in late January, calling for increased border security and stricter enforcement of immigration laws.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters, "Those people who are in this country and pose a threat to our public safety, or have committed a crime, will be the first to go. And we will be aggressively making sure that occurs. That is what the priority is."
The new rules would call for the Department of Homeland Security to greatly expand the number of immigrants who are prioritized for removal to include any person who is in the country illegally who may have committed a crime but not been charged, who has "abused any program related to receipt of public benefits," or whom an immigration officer deems a risk to public safety or national security.
Because the rules are written so broadly, immigrant-rights advocates say that they make anyone in the country illegally a target for deportation, and that could affect as many as 8 to 11 million people.
"In my many years of practicing immigration law, I have not seen a mass-deportation blueprint like this one," Maria Elena Hincapie, the executive director of the National Immigration Law Center, said.
"This means an undocumented mother ... who has been living in the United States for over 10 years and has a U.S. citizen child she's nursing would now also be considered a priority," Hincapie said.
"Today's memos offer a guide from Trump to enact his mass deportation agenda which he talked about during the campaign trail," Hincapie added. "But [the memos] actually are even more extreme than his rhetoric."
From NPR:
While the new policies call for a "surge" in the deployment of immigration judges and other personnel, DHS officials said the agency is not planning mass deportations and that many of the new policies would take time to implement.
"We don't need a sense of panic necessarily in these communities," one DHS official said in a conference call with reporters.
Homeland Security officials said the policies would not affect Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama administration program that offered protection from deportation for so-called Dreamers who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
The DHS wants to expand the use of so-called expedited removal, in which migrants do not appear before an immigration judge before being deported. Under the Obama administration, those expedited deportations had been limited to those in the country for two weeks or less, and within 100 miles of the border. DHS officials say they could seek to expand the use of expedited removal all over the country, for immigrants who have been in the U.S. for up to two years. Those rules have not yet been finalized.
NPR reports that the policies call for an expansion of the federal program that enlists the help of state and local police to help enforce immigration laws, but that partnership has come under fire by critics who allege that it has led to racial profiling. This proved true in Maricopa County, Ariz., where, in 2011, the federal government ended its agreement with then-Sheriff Joe Arpaio after the Justice Department found that officers in that county unlawfully stopped and detained Latinos.
Meanwhile, DHS said Tuesday that the program is a "highly successful force multiplier," that local officers go through extensive training and that racial profiling would not be tolerated.
Read more at NPR.
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Q: Yeoman is not installing/updating latest version of generator with github I am working on with generator-jekyllrb and it uses grunt. When i run grunt command in the terminal it gives those errors.
Gruntfile.js
  line 63  col 24  Strings must use singlequote.
  line 64  col 21  Strings must use singlequote.
  line 65  col 34  Strings must use singlequote.
  line 74  col 42  Strings must use singlequote.
  line 91  col 24  Strings must use singlequote.
  line 92  col 21  Strings must use singlequote.
  line 93  col 34  Strings must use singlequote.

✖ 7 problems

It gives error because of double quotes at these lines in my Gruntfile.js file.
...
options: {
          server: {
            baseDir: [
              ".jekyll",
              ".tmp",
              "<%= yeoman.app %>"
...

But when i check the jekyllrb's github page, it can be seen that this problem is solved and Gruntfile.js is committed with lines with single quoted.
Gruntfile.js   Replace double quotes with single quotes in Gruntfile.js    a year ago
I tried to remove/reinstall and update jekyllrb,neither works. It still downloads jekylrrb with double quoted one.

A: In .jshintrc, you can change
"quotmark": "single",

to
"quotmark": "double",

See jshint doc http://jshint.com/docs/options/


The new Code edition is here!
The new edition of the NC Building Code (all editions except Electrical) go into mandatory enforcement on January 1, 2019. At that time, all plans submitted must reference the new Code edition (2018) and be appropriately stamped by the design professional. We also cannot allow any quick permits off of plans referencing the old Code edition after that date.
We are currently in a transition period with the new Code, and you may certainly begin turning in plans referencing it before January 1st.
Please note: Creating an account will enable forms to be prefilled with your name.
Visit ePermits for the Contractor Access portal. You can create and pay for your single-trade permits. A permits specialist will issue your permit and attach the PDF to your permit. Call (919) 249-3418 with any questions.
Please note: COMMERCIAL permit applications have to be reviewed by our Planning Dept. prior to permit issuance. You may fax your applications to the Permits Dept. at (919) 249-3407 and we will forward the application to the Planning Dept. and contact you when the application has been approved.
You can pay for permits, check permit information and inspection results via the ePermits Contractor Access Portal. Registration is required in order to get inspection and/or permit results. If you have not accessed the website before, please view the ePermits instructions.
The air barrier required in concealed areas will be inspected during rough-in inspection. Any code deficiencies found related to the insulation/air barriers will be corrected and may required the removal of tubs, showers, etc.
All lintels that are required to be bolted to the framing for support shall not be covered by any exterior wall covering before approval. The bolted lintels will be inspected during the rough-in inspection.
For Concealed Insulation and Brick or Stone Veneer Inspections the effective date for the above are for framing inspections on or after September 5th NOT the date the permit was issued.
These inspections will only be performed upon request by the contractor. If you want to schedule these inspections the Conditional Utility Request form must be completed and on file at the Permits desk.
These inspections will not be scheduled unless the applicable inspections listed above the conditional inspections on the permit card have been approved.
The Conditional Power and Mechanical Inspections will be based on the date the permit is issued. Conditional Power and Mechanical inspections are optional for permits issued on or after September 5, 2016.
Effective April 1, 2013, North Carolina General Assembly Session Law 2012-158 requires all permit applicants to include information of the property owner's designated Lien Agent obtained from liensnc.com with the building permit application.
We are committed to providing the best service possible by way of prompt and courteous responses to the needs of those requiring the services of our inspection division. Our commitment extends to continually expanding our technical knowledge and to the modification of our procedures to best serve the building community and the citizens of the Town of Apex.


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Q: Image Processing on GPU- sucessive shaders for filters - FBO I'm currently trying to implement in OpenGL image processing algorithms.
I would like to successively use several shaders in order to perform several filters (Sobel Gaussian,...).
I understood that to do this I had to render to texture thanks to a FBO. I read a lot of things about that, and wrote a code. But I'm not getting the result I expected.
For the moment, I'm just trying to use two shaders. So, I have an original image which is the input of my first shader. Then, I want to render the output of the shader to a texture which will then be the input of my second shader (ping-pong technique). And finally, I want to display the output of the second shader.
But as result, I'm getting the original image.
My code is the following:
/******************** Shaders Function *******************************/
void setupShaders(char *vert, char *frag, GLuint p) {
GLuint v, f;
char *vs = NULL,*fs = NULL;
v = glCreateShader(GL_VERTEX_SHADER);
f = glCreateShader(GL_FRAGMENT_SHADER);
vs = textFileRead(vert);
fs = textFileRead(frag);
const char * ff = fs;
const char * vv = vs;
glShaderSource(v, 1, &vv, NULL);
glShaderSource(f, 1, &ff, NULL);
free(vs);free(fs);
glCompileShader(v);
glCompileShader(f);
p = glCreateProgram();
glAttachShader(p,f);
glAttachShader(p,v);
glLinkProgram(p);
glUseProgram(p);
}
/******************** Texture Function ***********************************/
void setupTexture(void) {
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_S, GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_WRAP_T, GL_CLAMP_TO_EDGE);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MAG_FILTER, GL_NEAREST);
glTexParameteri(GL_TEXTURE_2D, GL_TEXTURE_MIN_FILTER, GL_NEAREST);
}
/******************** Quad Drawing Function ******************************/
void ShaderDraw(void){
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glTexCoord2f(0.0, 0.0); glVertex3f(0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
glTexCoord2f(0.0, 1.0); glVertex3f(0.0, height, 0.0);
glTexCoord2f(1.0, 1.0); glVertex3f(width, height, 0.0);
glTexCoord2f(1.0, 0.0); glVertex3f(width, height, 0.0);
glEnd();
}

/******************** Initialization Function ***************************/
void init(void)
{
//Checking GLSL
glewInit();
if (glewIsSupported("GL_VERSION_2_0"))
printf("Ready for OpenGL 2.0\n");
else {
printf("OpenGL 2.0 not supported\n");
exit(1);
}

// Init
glClearColor (0.0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0);
glShadeModel(GL_FLAT);
glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST);
}
/******************** Display Function **********************************/
void display(void)
{
glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT | GL_DEPTH_BUFFER_BIT);

glTexEnvf(GL_TEXTURE_ENV, GL_TEXTURE_ENV_MODE, GL_DECAL);

glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glTexCoord2f(0.0, 0.0); glVertex3f(-4.0, -4.0, 0.0);
glTexCoord2f(0.0, 1.0); glVertex3f(-4.0, 4.0, 0.0);
glTexCoord2f(1.0, 1.0); glVertex3f(4.0, 4.0, 0.0);
glTexCoord2f(1.0, 0.0); glVertex3f(4.0, -4.0, 0.0);
glEnd();

glFlush();
glDisable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
}
/******************** Reshape Function *********************************/
void reshape(int w, int h)
{
glViewport(0, 0, (GLsizei) w, (GLsizei) h);
glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glLoadIdentity();
gluPerspective(60.0, (GLfloat) w/(GLfloat) h, 1.0, 100.0);
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glLoadIdentity();
glTranslatef(0.0, 0.0, -7.0);
}
/******************** Main Function *************************************/
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
// Glut Initialisation
glutInit(&argc, argv);
glutInitDisplayMode(GLUT_SINGLE | GLUT_RGB | GLUT_DEPTH);
// Window Generation
glutInitWindowSize(1000,800);
glutInitWindowPosition(100, 100);
glutCreateWindow("Night Vision");

// Initialisation Function
init();

// Downloading Image
data = cLoadBitmap("lena.bmp", &height, &width);
checkGLErrors ("Downloading Image");

int read_tex = 0;
int write_tex = 1;

// Generating Texture
glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);
glGenTextures(2, texImg);
// Init Texture0
glActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE0);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texImg[read_tex]);
setupTexture();
glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGBA, width, height, 0, GL_RGBA, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, data);
checkGLErrors ("InitTexture0");
// Init Texture1
glActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE1);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texImg[write_tex]);
setupTexture();
glTexImage2D(GL_TEXTURE_2D, 0, GL_RGBA, width, height, 0, GL_RGBA, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, NULL);
checkGLErrors ("InitTexture1");

// Setup Framebuffer Object
GLuint fb;
glGenFramebuffersEXT(1, &fb);
glBindFramebufferEXT(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_EXT, fb);
checkGLErrors ("Framebuffer->fb");

GLenum att_point[] = {GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT0_EXT, GL_COLOR_ATTACHMENT1_EXT};
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texImg[read_tex]);
glFramebufferTexture2DEXT(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_EXT, att_point[read_tex], GL_TEXTURE_2D, texImg[read_tex], 0);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D, texImg[write_tex]);
glFramebufferTexture2DEXT(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_EXT, att_point[write_tex], GL_TEXTURE_2D, texImg[write_tex], 0);
checkFramebufferStatus();

//set the write texture as output buffer for the shader
glDrawBuffer(att_point[write_tex]);

// create, init and enable the shader
setupShaders("filter.vert", "sobel_filter_3.frag", p1);
checkGLErrors ("Shaders 1");
// attach the input texture(read texture) to the first texture unit
glActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE0);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D,texImg[read_tex]);
GLuint texLoc;
texLoc = glGetUniformLocation(p1,"tex");
glUniform1i(texLoc, 0);
// draw a square with the texture on it so to perform the computation
ShaderDraw();

// swap the buffers
read_tex = 1;
write_tex = 0;

// Delete program 1
glDeleteProgram(p1);

// set the write texture as output buffer for the shader
glDrawBuffer(att_point[write_tex]);
// create, init and enable the shaders
setupShaders("filter.vert", "gaussian7.frag", p2);
checkGLErrors ("Shaders 2");
// attach the input texture(read texture) to the first texture unit
glActiveTexture(GL_TEXTURE0);
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D,texImg[read_tex]);
texLoc = glGetUniformLocation(p2,"tex");
glUniform1i(texLoc, 0);
// draw a square with the texture on it so to perform the computation
ShaderDraw();

// Delete program 2 & disable the FBO
glDeleteProgram(p2);
glBindFramebufferEXT(GL_FRAMEBUFFER_EXT, 0);
glUseProgram(0);

// Bind the texture to display
glBindTexture(GL_TEXTURE_2D,texImg[0]);

// Glut Functions: Display, Reshape, Keyboard
glutDisplayFunc(display);
glutReshapeFunc(reshape);
glutKeyboardFunc(keyboard);
// Calling Main
glutMainLoop();
return 0;
}

Does someone have an idea of what is wrong???

A: You are trying to simultaneously use the FBO as render source and render target. Afaik you cannot do that - if you want to use a texture bound to an FBO as render source, you need to unbind the FBO (either by calling glBindFramebufferEXT (GL_FRAMEBUFFER_EXT, 0); or by binding another FBO).
It looks like you are trying to save memory that way by using your start texture as the FBO's color buffer there. I am not sure whether this is possible as well.
So you may want try to create two FBOs, each with a single color buffer, and swap the entire FBOs, and start with rendering your texture to the first FBO. Also, don't use your start texture as a color buffer for an FBO, but create a separate color buffer for each FBO instead.
You also don't need to bind a texture to a texture unit before attaching it to an FBO.


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How to Cite: Athapattu, P., 2021. Walking the Talk: Reimagining Primary Health Care after COVID-19. Sri Lankan Journal of Medical Administration, 22(1), p.5. DOI: http://doi.org/10.4038/sljma.v22i1.5352
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The Cloud Storage of Medical Records Presents a Number of Risks
July 3, 2014 by Robert Liles
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(July 3, 2014): The growing trend of storing all kinds of data in the cloud comes with benefits and risks. However, when it comes to storing medical records in to the cloud, patient privacy becomes a special concern. With a properly implemented cloud storage system, hospitals can share information far more efficiently. Prescriptions and test results are immediately available between hospital departments and floors that previously had ineffective communication networks. This way, tasks can be processed more quickly and performance and overall patient health are improved. Another benefit of storing medical records in the cloud is that doctors are not tied to their offices to look up patient information, as they can pull up medical records remotely. Also, when a patient moves to a new doctor, their files can be transferred with far less hassle. Finally, cloud computing has proven cost-effective for patients and healthcare providers, as the patients do not have to pay twice for the same test when they go to different doctors and medical offices.
I. Risks Encountered When Relying on Cloud Storage of Medical Records:
While storing medical records digitally on the cloud may offer great promise for increasing the efficiency of the health care system, the cloud is not necessarily as secure as other forms of storage. Data security and privacy of health information are major obstacles. If a medical provider loses control of patient data, privacy could be endangered. The basic rules for how the American medical industry handles private data are in the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH). Many argue however that just because something is HIPAA and HITECH compliant does not necessarily mean it is secure.
The headline for a year-long Washington Post examination released in December 2012 called the health care sector "vulnerable to hackers." A computer scientist and technical director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University, was quoted as saying, "I have never seen an industry with more gaping security holes." In 2012, Eastern European hackers broke into Utah's state health records database, gaining access to personal information on 780,000 patients including some 280,000 social security numbers.
Like so many other problems, medical privacy in the cloud often comes down to human error. Encrypted data is only safe if the required passwords are well protected, and that requires well-trained and conscientious employees. There have been several instances where employees maliciously stole data before leaving a company or absent-mindedly put data at risk by storing files on mobile devices that become lost or stolen. A couple of years ago, a contractor for a University hospital lost a laptop with medical records of more than 34,000 patients. Last fall, a stolen unencrypted laptop from a California hospital exposed medical records of 250,000 patients.
Physicians and their staff are not the only ones who could be at fault. Employees of other companies using the same cloud service could also make a mistake, cause a data breach, or even intentionally steal or sell information stored on the cloud. A virus or other malicious program could potentially spread from one client's office to the cloud server, and from there to other offices.
Finally, if a medical provider closes his practice, medical records stored on the cloud could be lost or at risk. If the provider does not keep a local backup, vital information may be compromised.
II. Final Remarks:
It is critically important for health care providers choosing to store medical records in the cloud to implement policies and training requirements to protect the privacy of patients. Providers should go beyond the requirements of HIPAA and HITECH to ensure adequate measures are taken to avoid being hacked, to prevent and fix human errors, and to keep up with technological advancements and threats.
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Then one night, as I closed my eyes

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The physics of non-isothermal spreading followed by phase change, unlike that for isothermal spreading, isstill a mystery. We focus on the dynamic and thermal characteristics of liquid drop's spreading and their subsequent arrest due to freezing. Spreading of liquid is recorded and the evolution of liquid spread diameter and liquid-solid contact angle are measured from the recordings of the Drop Shape Analyzer (DSA100) machine (Figure 1). After the initiation of solidification at the basal plane, the liquid drops pinned to the substrate showing fixed footprints and contact angles. A physical hypothesis using scaling analysis is provided to explain the relationship between the arrested base diameter and solidification contact angle (Figure 2) with respect to Stefan number. The Stefan number is described as the ratio of sensible to latent heat in a phase change process. The experimental observations of solidified drops on a cold substrates corroborate the derived physical theory.
This effort will result in empirical measurement of thermal properties of supercritical fluids within a well-defined, simplified experiment. These detailed measurements will supply benchmark data to the scientific community, and establish promising candidates for use in a supercritical energy storage system. In order to design the components of a thermal system operating at supercritical conditions, the behavior of supercritical fluids needs to be well understood. The objective is to find the thermal properties of various fluids in their supercritical state, which will be determine through high pressure and high temperature laboratory testing and analytical analysis. Both the thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity of fluids will be obtained by using the hotwire method. This effort will provide useful information for the design of the system components, as well as for the selection of a viable fluid candidate with suitable properties and heat transfer characteristics applicable to high temperature, high pressure thermal energy storage.


Well found Mumu… I got a little shock there on following the link. Yes The Sun and Doves is for sale and it has been since February. But then so is Funky Munky; The Castle; Dark Horse; Black Sheep; George Canning (notionally). The Cambria is new and so not on the market - their time will come because it's a Punch lease and although I've not had time to introduce myself to them and find out how they are faring I certainly know from experience is that they are working very hard and not earning anywhere near enough and hoping for a bright future - such is the pubco model. The Bear is free of tie and so their overheads are lower and they can stock whatever products they want and buy them at competitive prices but its out on a limb geographically and Olly has a hard climb ahead of him. Red Star is shut (possibly having been sold on to someone foolish enough to take it) Hermits I keep missing the chance to speak with Brendan properly so never know what he's up to, and Silver Buckle - well who knows what is going on there? Perhaps Alan Dale does? The Grove is owned by Youngs and is a managed pub - i.e. the brewery owns the building and pays the people who work there. And you could place a safe bet they are losing money. If they weren't a big company it would be on the market as well. That leaves pretty much the Joiners Arms. Oh and The Old Dispensary. Both have changed hands a couple of times fairly recently and I can guarantee - without knowing anything of detail about their business - that they are struggling.
So where does that put The Sun and Doves and me and Nicky - my long term business partner?
The pub is on the market because of a rent review which is more than three years overdue. The case has been through review, arbitration, to High Court, back to arbitration and is now in some surreal Pirates of the Caribbean limbo awaiting a final decision by the arbitrator who strangely is called 'Solomon'. If at any time in the last three years the review had been set at what my freeholder (the pubco) wants to get we would have been bankrupted very quickly because the business cannot afford the rent they want. And, by the way, Nicky and I are on subsistence wages. We don't drive Jags. We are no hair shirt masochists either.
The pub has been on the market since before the bottom completely fell out of the market because selling it is the only possible way I can afford to pay the back rent owed, and S&NPE's fees, if the arbitrator finds in S&NPE's favour. Of course the back rent owed and the potential fees liability is increasing every day. It feels quite stressful at times. Like the potential combined bill if I don't win the rent review is well over 100K.
If I 'win' the rent review it will have cost 45K the business can't afford - money we could have spent improving what we do - and in the end it all seems like a monumental waste of time and enercy. And this explanation isn't half of the reality.
No one is going to buy the lease and its being on the market is academic.


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UN Syria envoy meets Lavrov in Moscow ahead of peace talks resumption
AFP , Tuesday 5 Apr 2016
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, and Staffan de Mistura, UN Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for Syria, enter a hall for talks in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, April 5, 2016 (Photo: AP)
Syria rebel group downs warplane, captures pilot
Merkel to open new Syrian refugee centre in Turkey: PM
Syria peace talks to resume on April 11: UN
The United Nations envoy on Syria, Staffan de Mistura, met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow Tuesday as he looked to lay the groundwork for peace talks expected to resume next week.
The visit came as the UN said the talks will likely restart in Geneva on April 11, but that regime negotiators would only arrive several days later, after the completion of parliamentary elections in the country.
"I plan to go to other locations, Tehran, Damascus, Ankara, Riyadh, in order to prepare better, but it's really important to start here in Moscow," de Mistura said at the start of the meeting.
"Moscow has been instrumental to what can be seen as the real momentum in the political solution."
Russian forces intervened in Syria last year in support of long-time ally, President Bashar al-Assad. Russia's support has helped Assad's regime make major advances, including recapturing the ancient city of Palmyra from Islamic State group militants (IS).
The last round of peace talks broke up on March 24, without making any concrete advances towards a political solution to the country's devastating five-year war.
Assad's fate remaining a major sticking point, with the opposition demanding he leave power before any transitional government is agreed.
The regime says the president's future is not up for discussion.
Lavrov said it was very important to make sure that the opposing sides had "completed their homework" ahead of the next round of talks and reiterated calls for direct negotiations to start as soon as possible.
De Mistura has so far been leading indirect talks, meaning that the regime and opposition have so far not met face-to-face.
Before the previous round of talks were suspended, President Bashar al-Assad's representatives said they would not return to Geneva until after the elections on April 13.
The UN does not recognise Syria's upcoming vote and is trying to strike a peace deal that would see fresh general elections, with opposition candidates included, held within 18 months.


Cadaster department has established in 2014 in faculty of Geomatics and Cadaster due to lack of cadastral professional in our country. Syllabus and Curriculum of the mentioned department is under process and it will be completed soon. This department will be started officially according to Kabul Polytechnic University (KPU) strategic plan. This department will educate cadastral professional who can serve in the field of Land and property ownership in all over the country.


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package com.widsoft.jerry;

import org.springframework.context.annotation.Bean;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Configuration;
import org.thymeleaf.spring3.SpringTemplateEngine;
import org.thymeleaf.spring3.view.ThymeleafViewResolver;
import org.thymeleaf.templateresolver.ServletContextTemplateResolver;

@Configuration
public class ThymeleafConfig
{
    @Bean
    public ServletContextTemplateResolver templateResolver()
    {
        ServletContextTemplateResolver resolver = new ServletContextTemplateResolver();
        resolver.setPrefix("/WEB-INF/templates/");
        resolver.setSuffix(".html");
        resolver.setTemplateMode("HTML5");
        resolver.setOrder(1);

        resolver.setCacheable(false);

        return resolver;
    }

    @Bean
    public SpringTemplateEngine templateEngine()
    {
        SpringTemplateEngine engine = new SpringTemplateEngine();
        engine.setTemplateResolver(templateResolver());
        return engine;
    }

    @Bean
    public ThymeleafViewResolver thymeleafViewResolver()
    {
        ThymeleafViewResolver resolver = new ThymeleafViewResolver();
        resolver.setTemplateEngine(templateEngine());

        return resolver;
    }
}


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Q: Rewrite url to sub domain in NGINX I currently have a image being outputted by server side PHP at a url like this:
domain.com/m/image.jpg
I'd like to have this image viewable at the url:
i.domain.com/image.jpg
Is this possible in the nginx conf?
Note: I currently have my "i" subdomain remapped to a /images/ folder.
Also I'm currently serving static images like the following:
http://i.domain.com/simage.jpg (thumb)
http://i.domain.com/image.jpg (medium)
http://i.domain.com/oimage.jpg (full quality)

Here's my domain.conf file: http://pastebin.com/BBWUJFxu
Also within nginx.conf I have this for the subdomain currently:
    #setup subdomain i.domain.com
server {
    server_name i.domain.com;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/i.domain.com.access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/i.domain.com.error.log;

    root /var/www/domain.com/html/images;
    index index.php index.html index.htm;

    location / {
        #change this to a 404 img file .jpg
        try_files $uri $uri/ /notfound.jpg;

        rewrite  "/s([A-Za-z0-9.]+)?" /small/$1 break;
        rewrite  "/o([A-Za-z0-9.]+)?" /orig/$1 break;
        rewrite  "/([A-Za-z0-9.]+)?" /medium/$1 break;

    }

    location = / {
        rewrite ^ http://domain.com permanent;
    }

}

The third rewrite is the one I'm looking to replace with my non static served image file, any idea how to go about this?

A: Update 2:
Ok, so the actual files are in /images/size/image.jpg and not actually /m/, /m/ is just a psuedo directory.
Given that, I think it should be as simple as:
server {
    server_name i.domain.com;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/i.domain.com.access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/i.domain.com.error.log;

    root /var/www/domain.com/html/images;

    location / {
        rewrite  /s([A-Za-z0-9.]+)? /small/$1 break;
        rewrite  /o([A-Za-z0-9.]+)? /orig/$1 break;
        rewrite  /([A-Za-z0-9.]+)? /medium/$1 break;

        #change this to a 404 img file .jpg
        try_files $uri $uri/ /notfound.jpg;
    }

    location = / {
        rewrite ^ http://domain.com permanent;
    }

}

But not 100% sure on it. Give that a shot and see. I moved the try below, as it was trying the files, which did not exist, first and then erroring out.

UPDATE
Since you are trying to just pass it through to a script, we need to capture that and pass it through to the script. I changed the root, since you are doing a "psuedo" images directory and we will need access to the image processing script.
Ok, since there is no PHP script in the middle (mis-read on my part) then the below should do what you want it to.
#setup subdomain i.domain.com
server {
    server_name i.domain.com;
    access_log /var/log/nginx/i.domain.com.access.log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/i.domain.com.error.log;

    root /var/www/domain.com/html;

    location ~* \.jpg {  # add more extensions if you need to
        #change this to a 404 img file .jpg
        try_files $uri $uri/ /m/$uri /m/notfound.jpg;

        #get the main part working first
        #rewrite  "/s([A-Za-z0-9.]+)?" /small/$1 break;
        #rewrite  "/o([A-Za-z0-9.]+)?" /orig/$1 break;
        #rewrite  "/([A-Za-z0-9.]+)?" /medium/$1 break;

    }

    location = / {
        rewrite ^ http://domain.com permanent;
    }

}

If that works, I am not sure how to go about doing the rewrites for the small / orig / medium (as I am not sure about the logic needed), but hopefully you can get it working.

In your domain conf, you just need to add a location for /m
location /m {
    rewrite ^/m/(.*)$ http://i.domain.com/$1 permanent;
}

Should do it, pending any minor mistakes.


"...signs of renewed interest in the bespoke deals could be the latest signal that the wider market is waking up once more [to deals backed by intellectual property]."
"This is one area in which fortune really could favour the brave. I will be watching with interest. Just as long as none of my pension pot goes anywhere near any deal."
The blogger, disappointed with the apparent distressed sale of Ocean Tomo's IP auction business (see link here) because he saw the organisation as promoting confidence in IP (and future royalties) as a stand alone asset capable of being bought and sold, hopes there is truth to the FT article. His own experience, is that bad economic times force companies to look harder at ways of using and explaining their IP and the actual/potential revenue that can come from the IP. If those risks and rewards can be be better understood (eg though educational blogs like these and the [now forced] attention of owners of that IP) and better explained, perhaps more deals will come to fruition.


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Barbara Canepa (Genua, 19 januari 1969) is een Italiaanse stripauteur. Samen met Alessandro Barbucci creëerde zij het populaire magazine W.I.T.C.H. en ook de stripreeks Sky Doll.

Barbara Canepa's vader was zeeman en overleed toen zijn dochter vijf was. Canepa studeerde architectuur en werkte bij de Disney animatiestudio. Daar ontmoette ze Alessandro Barbucci met wie ze een koppel vormde. In 1997 creëerden beiden W.I.T.C.H., dat een groot succes kende en waarvan wereldwijd meer dan 50 miljoen exemplaren werden verkocht. Samen met Canepa maakte Barbucci ook de sciencefictionstrip Sky Doll. Als koppel gingen Barbucci en Canepa uit elkaar maar ze bleven samenwerken. Canepa werkte ook samen met andere tekenaars, zoals Anna Merli. Ze leerden elkaar kennen bij Disney en maakten samen de strip END.

Sinds 2003 woont en werkt Canepa in Frankrijk.

Italiaans stripauteur


The first ever Graduation Day for the first three batches of the Axis Bank Young Bankers program, in association with Manipal Global Education Services, was held at the Manipal Academy of Banking Campus, Bangalore on the 6th of December. Present at the occasion were Ms. Shikha Sharma, MD & CEO, Axis Bank and Mr. S. Vaitheeswaran, MD & CEO, Manipal Global Education and other senior leadership members of both organizations.
Speaking on the occasion, Ms Shikha Sharma, MD & CEO, Axis Bank, said "Congratulations on choosing a sector that is as exciting, as it is pivotal to our economy, for choosing a powerful and unique education program that makes you job ready as well as life ready and for choosing one of the fastest growing banks to start your careers." As a parting message to the Young Bankers, Ms. Shikha urged them to keep alive their passion for whatever they do and a hunger for learning, in order to excel in an industry that is dynamic and rapidly changing.
Adding to this, Mr. S. Vaitheeswaran, MD and CEO, Manipal Global Education Services, said "The aim of this programme is to train young graduates on the nuances of banking and equip them with the requisite skills and competencies to make them productive from day one. In a sector that is witnessing rapid changes and development, banking aptitude alone will not suffice for productivity. It is training programmes such as ABYB that help harness the potential of employees and keep them abreast of the changing needs and requirements of the banking sector, to deliver tangible benefits to the bank."
The Axis Bank Young Bankers (ABYB) Program is an endeavor by Axis Bank in association with Manipal Global Education to nurture young industry professionals by imparting domain expertise and skill sets in the field of Banking. The objective is to create a talent pool of young bankers by equipping graduates with necessary banking knowledge, skills and inculcating in them, values core to Axis Bank. Around 362 graduates received their Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Services at the Graduation Day event. A total number of 27 top achievers across the three batches were bestowed with the honour by Ms. Shikha Sharma, MD & CEO, Axis Bank.
Axis Bank has entered into a tie-up with Manipal Global Education to create the Axis Bank Young Bankers (ABYB) program to offer Post Graduate Diplomas in Banking Services (PGDBS) and a guaranteed job with Axis Bank on successful completion.
With its 2,225 domestic branches (including extension counters) and 11,796 ATMs across the country, as on 30th September 2013, the network of Axis Bank spreads across 1,502 cities and towns, enabling the Bank to reach out to a large cross-section of customers with an array of products and services. The Bank also has overseas offices in UK, Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Colombo, Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
The Bank's website www.axisbank.com offers comprehensive details about its products and services.
Manipal Global Education Services is the leading India-headquartered International provider of high-quality higher education services. Its ambit includes a wide range of higher education services to institutions in India, corporate training programmes in partnership with leading enterprises, vocational training across a number of sectors, as well as technology-driven services in areas such as testing and education delivery. It is also the dedicated service provider/operator of university campuses in Malaysia, Antigua in the Caribbean, Dubai and Nepal. It services and supports over 300,000 students currently, many of them through its award-winning technology platform, EduNxtT.


We welcome enthusiastically each opportunity to receive a new member into the Church through baptism. To arrange a baptism of an infant at the Parish of the Visitation and St. Raymond contact Deacon Lawrence Connelly. At St. Andrew's, contact Fr. Murphy. Parish staff will meet with parents prior to scheduling a baptism. Each baptism is scheduled independently. The baptism may be at a parish Mass where the whole congregation can take part or at another time convenient for family and the minister.
If an adult is interested in baptism please see our posting about the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults.
The Sacrament of Penance is typically received for the first time by children in grace 2, although arrangements can readily be made for the sacrament for children at higher grade levels as well. Preparation is done through your parish's Christian Formation classes, and by parents who are guided through the process by parish staff. Christian Formation Directors can offer you full information. If special help is needed you are welcome to contact the pastor.
The great grace of the Sacrament of the Eucharist is typically first shared with children late in the second grade year. Preparation for this sacrament is also done in our Religious Education classes and by the child's parents. Phone either Christian Formation Director or Fr. Murphy to talk about details.
In both parish communities Confirmation is usually received toward the end of grade 9. Regular participation in Christian Formation classes through grades 8 and 9 is required. Prior participation is also expected. Parents are engaged in the formation of their children for this sacrament. Information is available from our Christian Formation Directors.
Arrangements for marriage are always to be made at least 6 months prior to the ceremony. To assure you have reserved the date and time you wish, please contact the pastor well in advance. No weddings are scheduled until after a couple has met with a priest or deacon. Preparation will include meetings with the pastor or parish deacon and participation in the Pre Cana sessions offered within the Diocese of Ogdensburg.
The Sacrament of the Sick is shared with baptized Catholics who are seriously ill, with people prior to surgery, and with those advanced in years who suffer from the burdens of age. We welcome the opportunity to share this sacrament and arrangements can always be made even on short notice. To set up a time for this sacrament please phone the parish office. If the situation involves an emergency please make that clear when you phone.