Clean the eggplants, thinly slice them and sprinkle with salt; allow to rest for an hour. Mix flour with a pinch of salt, three tablespoons of oil and enough warm water to make a soft dough. Leave the dough to rest for half an hour wrapped in a dish towel. Dice the meat and brown for a few minutes in a little oil with a pinch of salt. Hard-boil the eggs, peel and cut into quarters. The zucchini must be topped, cut into thin disks, dipped in flour and deep-fried in oil. The eggplants must be deep-fried in the same way. The small maccheroni must be cooked "al dente" in boiling salted water, while the dough needs to be rolled out into two sheets of a different size. Using the larger sheet line a greased oven dish; on top of the dough sheet put a layer of maccheroni, and on top of that a layer of fried zucchini and eggplants, mixed with hard-boiled eggs, thin slices of mozzarella and diced meat. Pour the sauce on top and sprinkle with grated Pecorino. Finally top with the second sheet of dough. Seal together the edges by folding them together. Prick the top of the pie with a fork. Bake in a hot oven (400°F), for about half an hour.


Heartland Outdoors Forum | Mock Scrapes?
I purchased Tink's Scrape Bomb | Scrape Dripper w/ Mock Scrape Starter and Pre-Rut Finisher last year. I wanted to create mock scrapes this year. Anyone ever create mock scrapes? Are they effective? Has anyone taken a deer hunting over a mock scrape? Tink's recommends using mock scrape starter in late August and pre-rut finisher later during rut time. Any tips?
I really like Peter Fiduccia, great info!
I hunted over a natural primary scrape on private land in Clinton, IL last year and it was amazing! So many does and bucks of all sizes visited the primary scrape area. I must find a natural primary scrape area at Mackinaw it's worth the footwork!!!


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Q: IllegalArgumentException: Service not registered: I have multiple activities in my app, every activity calls bindservice and unbindservice to fetch data. In the first activity bindservice and unbindservice work fine. In the second activity (which reuses the same service) bind service method works fine, but unbindservice method gives exception:
IllegalArgumentException: Service not registered:

Please help.

A: Multiple clients can connect to the service at once. However, the system calls your service's onBind() method to retrieve the IBinder only when the first client binds. The system then delivers the same IBinder to any additional clients that bind, without calling onBind() again.
http://developer.android.com/guide/components/bound-services.html
Multiple components can bind to the service at once, but when all of them unbind, the service is destroyed.
So,please check if you have kill the service at first time.
May be pass the IBind to every activity much more better.Because it just return only one.

A: NikkyD's question is very good and it helped find the cause of this exception in my case. To anyone out there experiencing the same problem, make sure that your bindService call and unbindService call are done against the same context. Hope it helps.

A: Why do we get this error?
Sometimes we get this error when in an Activity unbindService() gets called before bindService()

A common example
is when we bindService in onCreate() and unbindService in onPause() or onStop() of Activity.
How to avoid?
Case 1: When you want to interact with the service only when the Activity is visible then follow this order.

bindService() in onStart() and unbindService() in onStop()

Case 2: When you want to interact with service even the Activity is in Background then

bindService() in onCreate() and unbindService() in onDestroy()

A: I had this problem with an old API. (Android 2.2)
I got this error when I called this method: (from the billing tutorial)
@Override
    public void onDestroy() {
       super.onDestroy();
       try {
           if (mHelper != null) mHelper.dispose();
           mHelper = null;
       }catch (IllegalArgumentException e){
           Log.d("TMA Billing Android 2.2","Error: "+e.getMessage());
           mHelper = null;
       }

    }

As you can see, I surrounded it with Try Catch and now it is working with no problem on Android 2.2.

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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 28, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Levine Leichtman Capital Partners ("LLCP") has acquired SK AeroSafety (the "Company") from SK FireSafety, a portfolio company of Paris-based Apax Partners. The Company's management team, headed by CEO Chris Wright, will invest alongside LLCP.
SK AeroSafety specializes in the inspection, testing, maintenance and repair of critical passenger safety equipment found on all commercial and private aircraft worldwide. Examples of equipment serviced by the Company include life vests, fire extinguishers, oxygen masks, oxygen cylinders, evacuation slides and life rafts. SK AeroSafety supports a diversified and global customer base of over 700 airlines, component service providers, maintenance and repair organizations (MRO) and OEMs, and has locations in The Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States, Malaysia and Dubai. The Company holds key certifications and accreditations from its OEMs, MROs, customers and key global aviation regulators, including the FAA and EASA.
Regarding the investment, Chris Wright commented, "We are very excited about this next step in the development of our Company. We look forward to continuing to grow the business both through further acquisitions as well as by expanding our service offering at our existing locations. We remain highly committed to supporting our customers and will continue to strive for excellence and sustainable growth through superior service, quality and commitment."
Wright added, "We believe we have found an excellent partner in LLCP. We greatly value LLCP's experience in the aerospace industry and its strong track record as a value-added partner. We believe LLCP's global network and their local presence in our core markets (The Netherlands, United Kingdom and United States) will be a critical driver of our future growth."
According to Wouter Snoeijers, Managing Director of LLCP, "We are thrilled to partner with Chris Wright, Robert Sims, Ben te Beek and the SK team and look forward to working with them to achieve their mission. We are proud to invest in a Company that enables millions of passengers to fly safely every year and we look forward to supporting its continued growth and success."
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Q: How do I change the difficulty on a save file? Long story short, I started a new game on Hard (after installing the game and playing it for the first time in my life), quit the game, started it again, loaded my save (still saying hard), tried saving again, and the file says that the difficulty is "Normal". I overwrite it, open the save terminal again, and it still says "Normal".
I'm now on chapter 3, and all previous saves were on the "Normal" difficulty? So, how do I crank it up? (Also, it's on Steam)

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I've been playing Dead Space on hard, but suddenly it decided to change to easy... seems I stumbled over the continue glitch! Anyway, I've found a way how to change back to your original difficulty.
Start hex workshop and open up your savegame, after you made a backup (folder: users\xxxx\Documents\Electronic Arts\Dead Space). Rightclick, select GoTo and enter 00001062. Change the text to the difficulty you would like to have. This will probably only change the label on the save, therefore go to line 00002061 and change the number after diff to: 0 for easy, 1 for normal, 2 for hard. Save
I hope this helps people that run in this problem...

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Spiritual energies Do not manifest in many people. When they do, they can be either a blessing or a curse, depending on how the bearer perceives it.
This is because many times the vibrations could become difficult to understand and manage, therefore becoming confusing and sometimes even scaring the person.
It is important for such people to not get negatively affected by their intuitiveness and the way it picks on thoughts and expressions, which aren't even easily describable.
In order to do this, they should look at the positive aspects of being a spiritual empath and how to use their powers towards building a more empowered life. We will discuss some such steps below.
When looking at new places to reside in, these powers could especially come in handy. People who are intuitive by nature pick up bad vibes which could be hard to perceive by the others. They always know which place would require the least amount of spiritual cleansing in order to make it happily habitable.
Many people are emotionally needy, meaning that they always have this innate desire to discuss themselves and always tend to veer any conversation towards them.
We get to know about their tendencies very quick, and for an intuitive person it is the alarm that makes them put up barricades to protect their energies. There will be a change in the body language too. Intuitive people are always careful about who they let close to themselves.
Their compassion makes them helpful during such times. An intuitive person, who is spiritually aware, knows that death is natural and nothing to be feared or grieved over. They use their love to bring comfort and strength in such scenarios.
Intuitively bright people have the inbuilt ability to detect lies and shams. Telling them lies or trying to hoodwink them in any manner can never be successful, as they can see through it immediately. However, being compassionate in nature, they will also understand why the person needed to lie.
Intuitive people sense when spirits are present in their vicinity. This power within lets them feel when a place is haunted by a supernatural entity. However, it is nothing to be feared, as they should simply surround themselves with white energy and try and not engage with it much.
Many times we take simple signs presented by the Universe to be more than what they are. This could lead to misinterpretations and thus misjudgments in life.
Intuitives have special powers within them which connects them to the source of the signs. It acts as a powerful reminder and also steers them in the right direction.
People with intuitive powers will always be able to see the path with the least resistance. Theirs will be a high level overview and this comes in handy while taking important decisions.
Such people can clearly see when a couple is or isn't romantically compatible for the long run. While it's a very helpful power, it could also turn very problematic. Sometimes when two people aren't romantically compatible and still are giving it a try, its best for others to just step back and let things run its course. For who knows, it could be the correct path.
Intuitive people will know which food provides the best nourishment to their bodies and will stay away from those which are toxic and unhealthy to them. They will instinctively know which food type to prefer for their body's betterment.
Like they are good at understanding the signs of the Universe, intuitive people are also good at the meanings of dreams. This also means that they are able to pick up when a dream has a deeper meaning within and when it is just a simple dream, not to be taken very seriously.
Intuitive people are blessed with these powers which might seem a bit overwhelming at times. But with patience it can be controlled and used for the betterment of their lives and of those around them.


After a week off because of baseball, we sit down with Indy star Anthony Greene. He's fresh off his appearance on WWE TV and is about to make an appearance at Synergy Wrestling's show & fanfest this Saturday in Manville, NJ.
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Police were told Fenech had dirt on Macbridge, secret company with China connection
Secret Dubai company Macbridge, or 'Malta And China Bridge', is secret conduit for money from government-financed projects
5 July 2020, 12:00pm
by Saviour Balzan
Ready for business: the Muscat administration's deep ties to Chinese business interests, photographed here after the sale of a stake in Enemalta to Shanghai Power Electric, were revealed in the Egrant report by a proposal for a Malta-China company that would be controlled by a secret offshore company in the BVI. The mysterious Macbridge, police investigators believe, stands for 'Malta And China Bridge'
The secret offshore company Macbridge was acting as another conduit for moneys from government-financed projects, the Tumas magnate Yorgen Fenech told police when arrested in November 2019.
Fenech, accused of being the mastermind in the Caruana Galizia assassination, told police he was ready to reveal details of the mysterious Macbridge company, which along with his own 17 Black, was to serve as the "main target clients" from whom banks could expect payments to flow into Keith Schembri's and Konrad Mizzi's secret Panama companies Tillgate and Hearnville.
He said he knew the reason it was set up, as well as the ownership of the company.
MaltaToday was told that police investigators understand that Macbridge is an acronym that stands for 'Malta And China Bridge', a fact that could tie in into the Muscat administration's deep ties with the Chinese on energy matters.
Indeed, the Egrant inquiry report had brought to light an entity that was to be controlled by a secret company in the British Virgin Islands, to run a public-private partnership called "MACHIN Project" – an entity for the promotion of China-Malta investment.
The project was discovered in emails from 2014 between Keith Schembri and Konrad Mizzi, in relation to an email from Cheng Chen of Shanghai Electric Power, which owns a large chunk of Enemalta.
In Chen's redacted email cited in the report, he speaks about a meeting with Mizzi, Schembri and Nexia BT's boss Brian Tonna "to finalise [a] business model (…) energy-related topics, real estate, tourism (…)meeting with Maltese experts to understand the potential as off-shore investment hub for Chinese (…).
The plan was to use the MACHIN project as the Maltese government's representative investment promotion agency in China, as well as an emigration agency setup in China.
And further communication showed that "the cooperative mechanism shall be set with a certain person named Sai" – possibly Sai Mizzi Liang, Konrad Mizzi's wife. Mizzi has previously said that his wife was never approached to work on the discarded proposal.
The report identifies Chen as a client of Nexia BT, who is himself the owner of a BVI company called Torbridge Services Inc set up by Nexia BT, which had opened a bank account in the shuttered Pilatus Bank.
MaltaToday last week reported one witness saying that ministers were faced with a catch-22 on what to do with the suggestion that Fenech held the key to greater corruption cases, if he was granted a pardon. "The corruption being alleged hit right at the heart of Muscat's administration. At that point, there was no clear idea of what kind of corruption Fenech was alleging and how far it went. Pardoning Fenech days after he had been arrested was unthinkable, and outside the rage in the streets was palpable. To some people inside Cabinet, it would have meant opening a Pandora's box to bring down the government."
The Labour government is still plagued by Joseph Muscat's insistence to retain Keith Schembri by his side when his chief of staff had to admit knowledge of the secret company 17 Black and Macbridge, as "potential clients" for his business group. He never named the owners, and insisted the Dubai companies never became clients of his business group.
Revelations on Macbridge were not mentioned by the police to the cabinet meeting held on 28 November of last year. Fenech's request was made in the presence of his lawyer, the former Commissioner of Police Lawrence Cutajar, deputy Attorney General Philip Galea Farrugia, and police inspectors Keith Arnaud and Keith Zahra.
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The term "trans" simply describes the chemical makeup of a fatty acid. Beef, pork, lamb, butter, and milk naturally have small amounts of trans fatty acids. Naturally occurring trans fatty acids have different, potentially beneficial, health effects, from man-made trans fats. They don't have the same cholesterol-raising effects.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) - The Nevada death-row inmate due to die on Wednesday by a lethal combination of drugs never before used in the U.S. has said over and over that he wants his sentence carried out and he doesn't care if it's painful.
Scott Raymond Dozier's execution was postponed last November over concerns that the untried drug regimen could leave him suffocating and conscious but unable to move.
He repeated his desire to die during a brief telephone interview Sunday with the Las Vegas Review-Journal .
Dozier is a twice-convicted killer for drug-trade mutilation slayings in 2002 in Phoenix and Las Vegas.
He suspended his court appeals, making him one of about 10 percent of inmates who have volunteered to die nationwide since 1977.
His execution would be Nevada's first since 2006.


I often get asked to talk about a 'typical sign' and how we build them. The answer is most signs we build aren't typical. But they do follow a pattern. I decided to do a small series of posts on a more 'normal' kind of sign - the kind most sign shops might tackle. I'll cover it from start to finish.
This sign was for a chiropractor. He has just refurbished his building and wanted a new monument sign out front. The building was a historic farm house and looked pretty good. I based the first design on the photograph he provided.
The rock work on the bottom of the sign was to be faux stone so I went to my supplier's website and downloaded the picture of the rock. I photoshopped this onto the drawing to illustrate how it would look.
My client liked my first design but decided he would rather have the chiropractor's symbol instead of the building picture. I found the vectors for that logo online.
The second design was approved by my client.
I designed the sign cutting files in EnRoute. The sign face was cut from 1.5" Precision Board which would be laminated to an additional six layers of 1" thick Precision Board. My client wanted a chunky sign!
Once the board was cut I fitted the 4" x 4" steel tubing into the cutouts and tacked up the frame.
I then finished the welding and added the base plates. I had asked my client to pour a concrete pad six inches below the finished grade where the sign was going. This would allow us to simply lift the sign into position, drill some holes in the concrete, pound in some anchor bolts and tighten the nuts to do a quick and simple install. The stand would also allow me to work on the sign safely in the shop. Note the vertical bar which fit into the middle layer of the sign. This bar is the structure for lifting the sign. I welded a threaded nut to the top into which I twisted an anchor bolt. This was removed when the sign was placed onsite.
I then glued and screwed the layers of the sign together. Note how the one part urethane glue tends to bubble out as it cures. This can be wiped up as it squeezes out but we have a little different approach.
For the next stage we use an air powered die grinder to purposely add texture to the sides and back of the sign. This step also gets rid of that pesky glue. For some reason I timed how long it took me to do the texturing with the die grinder... it was thirteen minutes. I should note that when the good doctor came to approve his sign he walked around the sign admiring it. He ran his hand over the texture on the car and sides of the sign and asked me if I had done that by hand. I nodded. He then said 'It must have taken a LONG TIME!' I smiled and told him he had no idea how long it had taken me. He then happily wrote me the check, feeling good about the value I had put into the project.
The screw holes were filled in with epoxy putty... no sanding required as it blended into all that texture.
I then welded up a pencil rod frame. The wire lath would attach to this framework.
The galvanized lath comes in three weights... we use the medium weight. It is cut to size with the snips and a pair of end cutters is used to twist the rebar tie wire to fasten on the lath. The wire is bent into a hook and then inserted through the lath to hook around the pencil rod. It is then pulled back through the lath and twisted and cut flush with the surface. This job takes practice to get good and fast.


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Caring for orphans and vulnerable children in Uganda has evolved greatly over the past 5 or so years. Initially it consisted solely of residential care but has now changed to better reflect the needs of each child. The focus at all times is to provide family-based care wherever possible.
Childcare provided by the project now includes residential care, resettlement care, foster care and adoption.
Temporary Care is provided at the Children's Home in Namugongo – this caters for the short-term needs of children who may have been lost, abandoned or trafficked. It provides a safe place for the children to stay until family members are traced. Once family members are located, Victory Child Care Project social workers work with the police to reunify these children with their families.
Education is at the heart of everything we do, whether it be the formal education of children, education of income generating grant recipients, health education, or parenting education.
Healthcare in Uganda is not a free service, and so as well as looking after the health of the children at Victory Child Care Project, we also provide emergency financial support for children within the local community.
Our Keeping Girls in School project provides vulnerable girls with reusable sanitary towels and underwear, helping to keep them in school.
We support the education of children in the local community, and provide this service as part of our community strengthening/preventative abandonment campaign.
Over the years, buildings have been built according to the needs of Victory Child Care Project, which include the recent building of a new block for older children, and a block for receiving children needing temporary care. There is also an ongoing maintenance plan, ensuring that the children and staff's needs at Victory Child Care Project are constantly met.
Finance has also been provided to support other Ugandan projects with building work.


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From: The Australian, 7th July, 2018 __ written by Matt Chambers. Owen Hegarty calls it mining private equity with a soul. After a flurry of deals in the past year buying unloved assets from the majors, the Australian mining luminary, best known for building Oxiana Resources into a $6 billion miner during the China boom, has succeeded where former Xstrata boss Mick Davis couldn't.


What is Project Based Instruction?
Utilizing the Four Cs"— critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity, ~ PBI is a student-centered pedagogy where students acquire a deeper content knowledge through active exploration of real-world challenges and problems.
At the Buck Institute for Education (BIE), our highest priority is to help teachers prepare students for successful lives. We do this by showing teachers how to use Project Based Learning in all grade levels and subject areas. As a mission-driven nonprofit organization, BIE creates, gathers, and shares high-quality PBL instructional practices and products and provides highly effective services to teachers, schools, and districts.


A Thorough Examination inspection is similar to an MOT for your car. It is a legal requirement that is carried out periodically on all trucks with forks.
Thorough Examinations carried out by Toyota are accredited by the CFTS (Consolidated Fork Truck Services) and comply to both LOLER 98 and PUWER 98 regulations. To comply to LOLER 98 all lifting parts of the truck are checked including chains, hydraulic systems and masts. To comply to PUWER 98 regulations all other parts of the truck are checked including seat restraints, steering and braking.
The responsibility for obtaining this report of Thorough Examination lies with you, the user of the truck (whether you own, lease or hire it). The only exception may be for a truck operating under a short-term contract of less than a year, in which case the hiring company should provide you with a copy of the current report of Thorough Examination.


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Launched in 2008 by the United States Pharmacopeial Convention (USP), General Chapter 797 is, in part, a response to the history of deaths and injuries attributed to contaminated pharmaceuticals.
From the deaths of four patients in Nebraska in 1990 to an FDA announced recall by U.S. Compounding, Inc. of sterile compounded products in 2015, a Timeline of Sterile Compounding Events reveals reason for concern, and action.
USP <797> puts forth standards for the practice of compounding sterile preparations. The goal is to ensure that all patients receive sterile, safe, and error-free pharmaceutical compounds during treatment.
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Now appearing in bus shelters around Toronto, it's MINI Canada's latest poster. I thought you'd get a kick out of the message.
Makes you kind of hungry, doesn't it?
gotta love MINI, who else would connect breakfast and aggressive driving?


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Rodeo Cowboy: Fred E.H. Alvord, Rodeo, and Living the Western Life, 1898-1964
Fred Alvord was born in 1898 on a ranch outside Baird, Callahan County Texas. Growing up on the Alvord Ranch taught Fred Alvord self discipline and the basics of working cattle and horses.
In 1919 Alvord entered his first rodeo and found that he was good enough to win money and encouraged him to make rodeo his career. In 1924 Alvord sailed across the Atlantic Ocean with Tex Austin's rodeo show, bound for Wembley Park in London.
Alvord worked for Colonel W.T. Johnson's World's Championship rodeo in the late 1920s and on into the 1930s. Later he worked for Everett Colborn after Colborn bought Johnson's rodeo. During those years, Alvord worked as arena secretary and competed in the rodeos. He worked all the big shows and won many saddles and buckles during that time.
In the years that followed, Alvord purchased various businesses and properties associated with the stockyards and rodeo. By the 1960s he was working for Six Flags Over Texas, still involved in livestock and western shows for the public.
Expected Release Date: Fall 2020
SKU: 643950456876 Category: New Documentaries in Production
This documentary film traces the life of rodeo cowboy Fred E.H. Alvord's in Texas and on the rodeo trail. Alvord was born in Callahan County, just outside of Baird, Texas in 1898. He grew up on a ranch where he learned to work livestock and develop as a cowboy. Alvord began his rodeo career in 1919, placing first in many rodeos in bareback riding, steer wrestling, and bull riding. In 1924 he sailed across the Atlantic with Tex Austin's rodeo show, bound for Wembley Park's in London. Along the way, Alvord worked in many of the big rodeos produced by Colonel W.T. Johnson and later, Everett Colborn's World Championship Rodeos. He was a pioneer rodeo cowboy and businessman and his life and career spanned the first six decades of the twentieth century. This is his story.
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Growing Up Air Force
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Q: Performance of F# code terrible This is my very first F# programme.  I thought I would implement Conway's Game of Life as a first exercise.
Please help me understand why the following code has such terrible performance.
let GetNeighbours (p : int, w : int, h : int) : seq<int> =
    let (f1, f2, f3, f4) = (p > w, p % w <> 1, p % w <> 0, p < w * (h - 1))
    [
    (p - w - 1, f1 && f2);
    (p - w, f1);
    (p - w + 1, f1 && f3);
    (p - 1, f2);
    (p + 1, f3);
    (p + w - 1, f4 && f2);
    (p + w, f4);
    (p + w + 1, f4 && f3)
    ]
    |> List.filter (fun (s, t) -> t)
    |> List.map (fun (s, t) -> s)
    |> Seq.cast

let rec Evolve (B : seq<int>, S : seq<int>, CC : seq<int>, g : int) : unit =
    let w = 10
    let h = 10
    let OutputStr = (sprintf "Generation %d:  %A" g CC) // LINE_MARKER_1
    printfn "%s" OutputStr
    let CCN = CC |> Seq.map (fun s -> (s, GetNeighbours (s, w, h)))
    let Survivors =
        CCN
        |> Seq.map (fun (s, t) -> (s, t |> Seq.map (fun u -> (CC |> Seq.exists (fun v -> u = v)))))
        |> Seq.map (fun (s, t) -> (s, t |> Seq.filter (fun u -> u)))
        |> Seq.map (fun (s, t) -> (s, Seq.length t))
        |> Seq.filter (fun (s, t) -> (S |> Seq.exists (fun u -> t = u)))
        |> Seq.map (fun (s, t) -> s)
    let NewBorns =
        CCN
        |> Seq.map (fun (s, t) -> t)
        |> Seq.concat
        |> Seq.filter (fun s -> not (CC |> Seq.exists (fun t -> t = s)))
        |> Seq.groupBy (fun s -> s)
        |> Seq.map (fun (s, t) -> (s, Seq.length t))
        |> Seq.filter (fun (s, t) -> B |> Seq.exists (fun u -> u = t))
        |> Seq.map (fun (s, t) -> s)
    let NC = Seq.append Survivors NewBorns
    let SWt = new System.Threading.SpinWait ()
    SWt.SpinOnce ()
    if System.Console.KeyAvailable then
        match (System.Console.ReadKey ()).Key with
        | System.ConsoleKey.Q -> ()
        | _ -> Evolve (B, S, NC, (g + 1))
    else
        Evolve (B, S, NC, (g + 1))

let B = [3]
let S = [2; 3]
let IC = [4; 13; 14]
let g = 0
Evolve (B, S, IC, g)

The first five iterations, i.e. generations 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, happen without a problem.  Then, after a brief pause of about 100 milliseconds, generation 5 is completed.  But after that, the programme hangs at the line marked "LINE_MARKER_1," as revealed by breakpoints Visual Studio.  It never reaches the printfn line.
The strange thing is, already by generation 2, the CC sequence in the function Evolve has already stabilised to the sequence [4; 13; 14; 3] so I see no reason why generation 6 should fail to evolve.
I understand that it is generally considered opprobrious to paste large segments of code and ask for help in debugging, but I don't know how to reduce this to a minimum working example.  Any pointers that would help me debug would be gratefully acknowledged.
Thanks in advance for your help.
EDIT
I really believe that anyone wishing to help me may pretty much ignore the GetNeighbours function.  I included it only for the sake of completeness.

A: The simplest way to fix your performance is by using Seq.cache:
let GetNeighbours (p : int, w : int, h : int) : seq<int> =
    let (f1, f2, f3, f4) = (p > w, p % w <> 1, p % w <> 0, p < w * (h - 1))
    [
    (p - w - 1, f1 && f2);
    (p - w, f1);
    (p - w + 1, f1 && f3);
    (p - 1, f2);
    (p + 1, f3);
    (p + w - 1, f4 && f2);
    (p + w, f4);
    (p + w + 1, f4 && f3)
    ]
    |> List.filter (fun (s, t) -> t)
    |> List.map (fun (s, t) -> s)
    :> seq<_> // <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< MINOR EDIT, avoid boxing

let rec Evolve (B : seq<int>, S : seq<int>, CC : seq<int>, g : int) : unit =
    let w = 10
    let h = 10
    let OutputStr = (sprintf "Generation %d:  %A" g CC) // LINE_MARKER_1
    printfn "%s" OutputStr
    let CCN =
        CC
        |> Seq.map (fun s -> (s, GetNeighbours (s, w, h)))
        |> Seq.cache // <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< EDIT
    let Survivors =
        CCN
        |> Seq.map (fun (s, t) -> (s, t |> Seq.map (fun u -> (CC |> Seq.exists (fun v -> u = v)))))
        |> Seq.map (fun (s, t) -> (s, t |> Seq.filter (fun u -> u)))
        |> Seq.map (fun (s, t) -> (s, Seq.length t))
        |> Seq.filter (fun (s, t) -> (S |> Seq.exists (fun u -> t = u)))
        |> Seq.map (fun (s, t) -> s)
    let NewBorns =
        CCN
        |> Seq.map (fun (s, t) -> t)
        |> Seq.concat
        |> Seq.filter (fun s -> not (CC |> Seq.exists (fun t -> t = s)))
        |> Seq.groupBy (fun s -> s)
        |> Seq.map (fun (s, t) -> (s, Seq.length t))
        |> Seq.filter (fun (s, t) -> B |> Seq.exists (fun u -> u = t))
        |> Seq.map (fun (s, t) -> s)
    let NC =
        Seq.append Survivors NewBorns
        |> Seq.cache // <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< EDIT
    let SWt = new System.Threading.SpinWait ()
    SWt.SpinOnce ()
    if System.Console.KeyAvailable then
        match (System.Console.ReadKey ()).Key with
        | System.ConsoleKey.Q -> ()
        | _ -> Evolve (B, S, NC, (g + 1))
    else
        Evolve (B, S, NC, (g + 1))

let B = [3]
let S = [2; 3]
let IC = [4; 13; 14]
let g = 0
Evolve (B, S, IC, g)

The big problem is not using Seq per se, the problem is using it correctly. By default sequences are not lazy, instead they define computations that are re-evaluated on every traversal. This means that unless you do something about it (such as Seq.cache), re-evaluating the sequence may screw up the algorithmic complexity of your program.
Your original program has exponential complexity. To see that, note that it doubles the number of traversed elements with each iteration.
Also note that with your style of programming using Seq operators followed by Seq.cache has a small advantage over using List or Array operators: this avoids allocating intermediate data structures, which reduces GC pressure and may speed things up a bit.

A: See comments and all, but this code runs like hell - with both List.* and some other smaller optimisations:
let GetNeighbours p w h =
    let (f1, f2, f3, f4) = p > w, p % w <> 1, p % w <> 0, p < w * (h - 1)
    [
        p - w - 1, f1 && f2
        p - w, f1
        p - w + 1, f1 && f3
        p - 1, f2
        p + 1, f3
        p + w - 1, f4 && f2
        p + w, f4
        p + w + 1, f4 && f3
    ]
    |> List.choose (fun (s, t) -> if t then Some s else None)

let rec Evolve B S CC g =
    let w = 10
    let h = 10
    let OutputStr = sprintf "Generation %d:  %A" g CC // LINE_MARKER_1
    printfn "%s" OutputStr
    let CCN = CC |> List.map (fun s -> s, GetNeighbours s w h)
    let Survivors =
        CCN
        |> List.choose (fun (s, t) ->
            let t =
                t
                |> List.filter (fun u -> CC |> List.exists ((=) u))
                |> List.length
            if S |> List.exists ((=) t) then
                Some s
            else None)
    let NewBorns =
        CCN
        |> List.collect snd
        |> List.filter (not << fun s -> CC |> List.exists ((=) s))
        |> Seq.countBy id
        |> List.ofSeq
        |> List.choose (fun (s, t) ->
            if B |> List.exists ((=) t) then
                Some s
            else None)
    let NC = List.append Survivors NewBorns
    let SWt = new System.Threading.SpinWait()
    SWt.SpinOnce()
    if System.Console.KeyAvailable then
        match (System.Console.ReadKey()).Key with
        | System.ConsoleKey.Q -> ()
        | _ -> Evolve B S NC (g + 1)
    else
        Evolve B S NC (g + 1)

let B = [3]
let S = [2; 3]
let IC = [4; 13; 14]
let g = 0
Evolve B S IC g

A: Just thought I would add a simple answer, in case other beginners like me run into the same problem.
As advised by Ramon Snir, ildjarn and pad above, I changed the Seq.X calls to List.X.  I had to add a simple extra casting step to account for the fact that List does not have groupBy, but having done that, the code now runs like a charm!
Thanks a lot.

A: One of the most amazing characteristics of the ML family of languages is that short code is often fast code and this applies to F# too.
Compare your implementation with the much faster one I blogged here:
let count (a: _ [,]) x y =
  let m, n = a.GetLength 0, a.GetLength 1
  let mutable c = 0
  for x=x-1 to x+1 do
    for y=y-1 to y+1 do
      if x>=0 && x<m && y>=0 && y<n && a.[x, y] then
        c <- c + 1
  if a.[x, y] then c-1 else c

let rule (a: _ [,]) x y =
  match a.[x, y], count a x y with
  | true, (2 | 3) | false, 3 -> true
  | _ -> false


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Justia Dockets & Filings Seventh Circuit Indiana Southern District COOPER v. CELLCO PARTNERSHIP Filing 89
COOPER v. CELLCO PARTNERSHIP
ORDER ON MOTIONS TO SEAL: This cause is before the Court on motions to seal filed by both Plaintiff and Defendant. [Filing Nos. 52, 64.] Filing No. 52 is granted in part and denied in part, and Filing No.64 remains under advisement pending the parties' supplemental filing (see Order for additional information). Signed by Magistrate Judge Tim A. Baker on 9/28/2015. (SWM)
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF INDIANA INDIANAPOLIS DIVISION THOMAS E. COOPER, Plaintiff, vs. CELLCO PARTNERSHIP doing business as VERIZON WIRELESS, Defendant. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) No. 1:13-cv-01741-WTL-TAB ORDER ON MOTIONS TO SEAL This cause is before the Court on motions to seal filed by both Plaintiff and Defendant. [Filing Nos. 52, 64.] Given that it is Defendant that presumably seeks to maintain under seal the documents implicated by these motions, the Court will focus this order primarily on Defendant's motion to seal. Defendant's motion generally seeks to maintain under seal the names of some of Defendant's customers as well as the names of some of Defendant's employees who are used for comparison purposes in Defendant's motion for summary judgment. The law is well established that, except for certain personal identifiers, any request to maintain information under seal must be supported by good cause. While the parties apparently agree in this case that the information should remain sealed, the Court disagrees. The Court sees nothing particularly sensitive about the identities of some of Defendant's customers or its employees. In many ways, the allegations of wrongful termination in this case mirror similar allegations in countless other discrimination cases. Likewise, the purported confidentiality of some of the sensitive information contained in the summary judgment briefing is similar to the type of information that is routinely discussed in publicly filed summary judgment briefs in other discrimination cases. The Court does not doubt that Defendant would rather not disclose its customers' identities, particularly in this case where the evidence addresses, for example, the manner in which some of these accounts were handled. Nor does the Court dispute that Defendant would prefer not to identify by name non-party certain employees who, for example, allegedly had performance deficiencies that could have impacted Defendant's customers. But Defendant's preference for secrecy (and Plaintiff's willingness to not rock the boat in this regard) do not constitute good cause. This is a public forum; what occurs here, and the rationale for the Court's decisions, is presumptively public. This should come as no surprise to the parties. Indeed, in granting the motion for protective order filed at the outset of the case, the Court added language to clarify that any request to seal a document must be made by way of a separate motion supported by good cause. The Court then specifically stated, "The undersigned rarely grants motions to seal except when required by rule." [Filing No. 22, at ECF p. 10.] Thus, for the most part Defendant's motion must be denied. However, a small portion of the documents Defendant seeks to seal include dates of birth. Such information is properly sealed pursuant to Fed. R. Civ. P. 5.2(a). Accordingly, Defendant's motion to seal [Filing No. 52] is granted with respect to the documents identified in Filing No. 61. Thus, filing No. 61 shall remain under seal. However, the Clerk shall, after waiting 14 days as required by Local Rule 5-11(a), unseal Filing Nos. 53-60. Also pending before the Court is Plaintiff's motion to seal. [Filing No. 64.] In light of the ruling above, it should be apparent to the parties that Plaintiff's motion is not well taken. 2 Presumably Plaintiff filed this motion not because Plaintiff wanted to have certain documents remain under seal, but rather because Defendant was asserting confidentiality with respect to certain information in these documents. The Court will keep Filing No. 64 under advisement, and gives the parties 14 days to make a supplemental filing identifying which documents, if any, associated with Filing No. 64 the parties believe should be properly maintained under seal in light of this entry and consistent with the standards for sealed filings in the Seventh Circuit. Accordingly, as set forth above, Filing No. 52 is granted in part and denied in part, and Filing No.64 remains under advisement pending the parties' supplemental filing. Date: 9/28/2015 ___________________________ Tim A. Baker U.S. Magistrate Judge Southern District of Indiana Distribution: Julia E. Dimick ALERDING CASTOR HEWITT LLP jdimick@alerdingcastor.com Michael J. Alerding ALERDING CASTOR LLP malerding@alerdingcastor.com Bonnie L. Martin OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH, SMOAK & STEWART bonnie.martin@odnss.com Matthew J. Kelley OGLETREE, DEAKINS, NASH, SMOAK & STEWART matthew.kelley@ogletreedeakins.com 3


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Das 200-km-Rennen von Brainerd 1981, auch Pepsi Grand Prix (Camel GT), Brainerd International Raceway, fand am 14. Juni dieses Jahres auf dem Brainerd International Raceway statt. Das Rennen war der elfte Lauf der IMSA-GTP-Serie 1981.

Das Rennen

Klaus Ludwig unterbrach mit seinem Erfolg die Siegesserie von Brian Redman, der die letzten drei GTX-Wertungsläufe, das 100-Meilen-Rennen von Laguna Seca, das 200-Meilen-Rennen von Lime Rock sowie das 200-Meilen-Rennen von Mid-Ohio, auf seinem Lola T600 für sich entschieden hatte und hier nicht am Start war.

Ludwig fuhr einen Ford Mustang, der von einem 1,7-Liter-4-Zylinder-Reihenmotor mit Turbolader, dessen Block aus dem Ford Capri stammte, angetrieben wurde. Aufgebaut wurde das Silhouettenfahrzeug bei Zakspeed in Deutschland. Den Renneinsatz wickelte Roush Racing ab.

Das Rennen gewann Ludwig mit einem Vorsprung von fast einer Minute auf John Fitzpatrick im Porsche 935K3/80.

Ergebnisse

Schlussklassement

Nur in der Meldeliste

Zu diesem Rennen sind keine weiteren Meldungen bekannt.

Klassensieger

Renndaten

 Gemeldet: 31
 Gestartet: 31
 Gewertet: 18
 Rennklassen: 3
 Zuschauer: unbekannt
 Wetter am Renntag: unbekannt
 Streckenlänge: 4,828 km
 Fahrzeit des Siegerteams: 1:08:44,106 Stunden
 Gesamtrunden des Siegerteams: 42
 Gesamtdistanz des Siegerteams: 202,777 km
 Siegerschnitt: 177,007 km/h
 Pole Position: John Paul junior – Lola T600 (#8) – 1:47,518 – 161,655 km/h
 Schnellste Rennrunde: John Paul junior – Lola T600 (#8) – 1:34,170 – 184,569 km/h
 Rennserie: 11. Lauf zur IMSA-GTP-Serie 1981

Literatur

 J. A. Martin und Ken Welles: Prototypes – the History of the IMSA GTP Series. Bull Publishing, Phoenix 2000, ISBN 1-893618-01-3.

Weblinks

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The Denudation Of The Exoneration: Part 8
In part 8, Sayyid Imam continues to hammer al-Qaeda for bringing disaster to the Middle East and for the hypocrisy of its leaders. He puts forward the odd claim that AQ lied to the U.S. about WMD in Iraq and about AQ ties with Iraq to push the U.S. to invade observes that Iran and Syria have been the primary beneficiaries of AQ's antics in Iraq notes what any observer of the region already knows but rarely says: bashing the U.S. and Israel and talking about the Palestinian issue is great PR offers an excellent explanation as to why AQ will not get a foothold in the Palestinian territories claims that Bin Laden gave Saudi donations for jihad to Nawaz Sharif in support of his candidacy against Benazir Bhutto Continuing… Z claims that only the mujahids have thrawted the plans of the U.S. That's like Gamal Abdel Nasser's slogan after the
Will McCants November 28, 2008
In today's installment, Sayyid Imam begins section three of his rebuttal in which he surveys the rhetorical tricks Zawahiri employs to misguide his readers. Imam continues to portray Zawahiri as the student of Bin Laden, the inverse of the common description of their relationship. To this end, Imam says that Zawahiri has adopted UBL's obsession with oil. The inversion may be pure invention, but it's worth thinking about. Continuing…. In the first section, I demonstrated that Zawahiri is a liar, making him unfit to give religious opinions. In the second section, I showed how he distorts the Sharia to justify mass murder. He should call his book The Justification rather than The Exoneration. In this third section, I will expose the deceptions Z uses. Z asks around one hundred questions in the Exoneration but does not offer any answer. He does this to confuse the reader, leaving him in a thick
As with Wednesday's installment, Sayyid Imam saves the good stuff for last. He obliquely chides Mullah Omar for not turning over Bin Laden to the U.S. Imam also discloses that Bin Laden was plotting with Pakistani intelligence before 9/11 without the permission of Mullah Omar and alleges that he worked with ISI head Gen. Mahmud Ahmed. Finally, Imam reveals that Zawahiri did not know of the 9/11 attacks until after they happened. In all, the picture he paints of Zawahiri is of a man very peripheral to al-Qaeda operations until after 9/11. At the beginning of today's installment, Sayyid Imam rebuts several of the principles underpinning the "school of al-Qaeda" and reprises the argument of his last book that even though jihad is a duty, there are conditions that must be met before it can be undertaken. My paraphrastic translation follows: Muslims are the cause of their own problems,
Here's a paraphrastic translation of the second installment published today. I promise, it's worth reading to the climactic end: As I said yesterday, the testimony and hadith transmissions of a liar are not acceptable in Islamic law or in the religious sciences. So Zawahiri's religious pronouncement's in the Exoneration should be rejected. [Sayyid Imam goes on to quote medieval scholars in support of his position.] Before I get into Zawahiri's jurisprudential mistakes, I want to say that this is not merely about the errors of one man on some jurisprudential issues. It is the attempt to establish a corrupt, wayward school (madhhab) to justify excess in shedding blood. I will detail how this school was established, examine its fundamentals, and refute them. This corrupt school has been called by some, "the al-Qaeda concept." 1. How was the school of al-Qaeda established for excess in shedding blood? The school emerged in
Zawahiri's Black Day
All the usual suspects have said smart things about the Zawahiri statement (pick through them here), so I won't summarize his message. But I do disagree with two things I read. First is ZS Justus's statement that too much is being made of Zawahiri's "house negro" epithet against Obama at the expense of his more significant statements about Afghanistan. Second is Abu Muqawama's claim that Zawahiri's racial epithet won't be effective. Here's my take: Zawahiri strongly believes that African-American Muslims are disaffected and thus receptive to al-Qaeda propaganda in ways that other American Muslims are not. (One suspects that Adam Gadahn convinced him of this.) That is why he spent the better part of an hour-long interview last year talking about Malcolm X and the oppression of blacks in the U.S. And that is why he is bringing it up again now and using such charged language. According to
Al-Masry al-Youm has begun its serial publication of Sayyid Imam's new book, The Denudation of the Exoneration. Since Media Shack won't be covering it in depth, I'll be posting summaries of it here as it comes out. I'll also .pdf the webpage so readers of Arabic won't have to go scratching around for it later. The first installment begins with "The Lies of Zawahiri," so you know it's going to be good. Highlights are the revelation that Zawahiri was a Sudanese agent in the early '90s and Sayyid Imam's call to a mubahala. As you'll see, it's hard not to believe that Sayyid Imam relishes the chance he's been given to put his finger in Zawahiri's eye. Here is a summary: Zawahiri repeatedly says I wrote the Document [the Tarshid] under the supervision of the U.S. and the Jews. He is a liar and I call him to a mubahala.
Shumukh's Prebuttal Of Sayyid Imam
The Egyptian newspaper, Al-Masri al-Youm, announced last week that Sayyid Imam will publish a rebuttal of Zawahiri's Tabri'a (Exoneration), which itself was a rebuttal of Sayyid Imam's Tarshid–a text that caused a great stir last year because the author criticized his former colleague, Zawahiri, for being an unrealistic revolutionary. Since Rob at Media Shack is probably going to cover the book's serial publication (the release begins this Tuesday), I'll focus on Jihadi reaction to the text as it is released. (Incidentally, Imam's new book is entitled, Denudation of the Exoneration.) Today we have a prebuttal of the work posted to the Shumukh forum, followed by comments. The author of the prebuttal, Ayman, employs several lines of attack: Sayyid Imam's earlier books were too extreme in their formulation of laws for jihad. He is a flip-flopper. Why should we trust what a flip-flopper says? If he really understands Islam,
Zawahiri the XO
The US military has given CNN letters that Zawahiri wrote in March 2008 to senior al-Qaeda commanders in Iraq (hat tip SK). Much of the content has been filtered through an MNFI spokesman so it's hard to use CNN's summary to assess al-Qaeda's fortunes in Iraq. Nevertheless, since the summary fits with the bleak picture that has been emerging these past few months, it's worth noting. I've rearranged the information for ease of reference: Zawahiri letter to al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Ayyub al-Masri, March 2008. Letter was captured in April during U.S. op that killed AQI Information Minister Abu Nizar. Abu Nizar was an intermediary between Masri and AQ Central. The letter was found on Abu Nizar's person. Leadership: Masri too isolated to keep watch of his operatives. Zawahiri questions Masri's ability to lead AQI. Poor Communication with AQ Central: Zawahiri concerned that he is not getting regular updates
Will McCants September 11, 2008
Sahab Releases Full Zawahiri Message in English
A few days ago, ARY (a Pakistani network) ran an extremely truncated version of a lengthy audio tape of Zawahiri addressing Pakistanis in English. Yesterday, Sahab (the media production arm of al-Qaeda) released the full audio recording online (open the .pdf below for links). Here are the interesting bits: Zawahiri says at the beginning that he wants to address Pakistanis in Urdu, but he can't speak the language. He is speaking English to communicate with them, even though it is the language of the enemy. Zawahiri's attachment to Pakistan began in his childhood. His grandfather was the first to translate the poetry of Muhammad Iqbal into Arabic. Musharraf is a tool of the U.S. Pakistan made a "strategic blunder' when it allowed the U.S. to install Hamid Karzai in Afghanistan since Karzai is friendly to India. Now, Pakistan has no "strategic depth" in the mountains of Afghanistan, which would be
Will McCants August 17, 2008
New Issues of Two Jihadi Journals
Issue 28 of Sada al-Jihad is out. Articles include, "Hamas Responds Negatively to the Invitation of Shaykh Ayman al-Zawahiri" and "The Intellectual Pollution of the Followers of the Salafi-Jihadi Method." A new journal, Qadaya Jihadiyya (Jihadi Issues), has also be released. The production quality is better than most of the Jihadi journals and the articles look interesting. There is a "Strategic Issues" section, reminding me of Abu `Ubayd al-Qurashi's column in the Ansar journal. It has two articles: "The Islamic State of Iraq and Early Signs of American Failure" and "Regional Alliances and the Path of Jihad." Another section, "Thoughts of a Mujahid," has the memoir of someone who attended the al-Faruq training camp. Document (Arabic): 8-8-08-faloja-issue-28-of-sada-al-jihad Document (Arabic): 8-12-08-faloja-issue-1-of-qadaya-jihadiyya


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Q: Parameterize clause optional fields WHERE clause I have a Node JS project with Typescript in which I am including database queries in BigQuery.
The function is to generate a JSON object with the search fields and values to pass them to the query and return all the records that match those fields.
This is the object:
let dataObj = {
  "host": "192.168,AS101",
  "code": "001,025",
  "country": "Colombia"
}

This is the query:
SELECT *
  FROM TABLE_TEST
  WHERE hostName in ('${dataObj.host}') and codeData in (${dataObj.code}) and countryName in ('${dataObj.country}')

My problem: all the fields of the object are optional, how can I add or remove fields inside the WHERE?
EXAMPLE:
New JSON object:
let dataObj = {
  "host": "192.168,AS101",
  "country": "Colombia"
}

This is the query that would have to be performed:
SELECT *
  FROM TABLE_TEST
  WHERE hostName in ('${dataObj.host}') and countryName in ('${dataObj.country}')

Upgrade:
The fields of the JSON object are not named the same as the fields of the tables so I need to change their names, this is what I currently do:
function formatName(key: string) {
  if (key == 'host') {
    return 'hostName'
  } else if (key == 'code') {
    return 'codeData'
  } else if (key == 'country') {
    return 'countryName'
  } else {
    return false
  }
}

let sql = " SELECT * FROM MYTABLE WHERE true ";
Object.entries(dataObj).map(
  (entri) => (sql = `${sql} AND ${formatName(entri[0])} in ("${entri[1]}")`)
);

The data of each key when included in the where clause cannot go "192.168,AS101", but it would have to be "192.168","AS101" so that the query picks it up correctly. This is what I have done but the query does not catch it:
let newData = {
  "host": dataObj.host.split(','),
  "code": dataObj.code.split(','),
  "country": dataObj.country.split(',')
}

let sql = " SELECT * FROM MYTABLE WHERE true ";
    Object.entries(dataObj).map(
      (entri) => (sql = `${sql} AND ${entri[0]} in ("${entri[1]}")`)
    );

A: I'm using in this case the famous WHERE 1=1 trick
const dataObj = {
    host: "192.168,AS101",
    code: "001,025",
    country: "Colombia",
  };

  let sql = " SELECT * FROM MYTABLE WHERE 1=1 ";
  Object.entries(dataObj).map(
    (entri) => (sql = `${sql} AND ${entri[0]} in (${entri[1]})`)
  );
  console.log(sql); <-- SELECT * FROM MYTABLE WHERE 1=1  AND host in (192.168,AS101) AND code in (001,025) AND country in (Colombia)

const dataObj = {
    host: "192.168,AS101",
  };

  let sql = " SELECT * FROM MYTABLE WHERE 1=1 ";
  Object.entries(dataObj).map(
    (entri) => (sql = `${sql} AND ${entri[0]} in (${entri[1]})`)
  );
  console.log(sql); <-- SELECT * FROM MYTABLE WHERE 1=1  AND host in (192.168,AS101)


Abstract In many cases, development of insulin resistance has been linked to obesity and may contribute to mechanism of aging. The role of diet, irrespective of degree of obesity, in modulating insulin resistance and development of age degeneration disease remains uncertain. Lowered blood glucose levels are commonly associated with diet restriction (DR), which is an intervention shown to successfully retard aging and age associated disease. The effects of DR on blood glucose and insulin resistance were measured in yellow obese (Avy/A), lean black (a/a) mice and in another common inbred strain (B6C3F1) (at three different ages). The yellow obese mice become diabetic as a result of an insulin receptor defect which is not clearly understood. Insulin responses and radioinsulin binding were assayed in yellow obese and lean black mice fed either ad libitum (AL) or DR diets (YAL, BAL, YDR and YAL, respectively) at four different circadian intervals. The B6C3F1 controls were fed either AL (CAL) or DR (CDR) and measures were made at six circadian stages and three different ages. Within 23 days, DR produced a significant loss in body weight and a time-dependent 22–55% reduction in basal blood glucose levels in the yellow obese mice. Additionally, exogenous insulin produced circadian stage dependent (at the time of food intake) reductions in blood glucose in the YDR animals that were not present in YAL animals. 125I-Insulin binding in liver was increased nearly 2-fold in YDR and BDR mice during the time of day that animals were active and eating. 125I-Insulin binding was two-fold-higher in CDR mice at 4, 12 and >24 months of age. Binding decreased as a function of age in both the CAL and CDR animals. However, even in the >24 month group the CDR animals were found to have levels of binding that were as high as those found in younger CAL liver. The mechanism of action appears to be through resolution of insulin resistance by modulating an insulin receptor defect.
Copyright: Copyright 2000 American Aging Association, Inc.
Marchand-Brustel, Y. , Rochet, N. , Grémeaux, T. , Marot, I. , Obberghen, E.
Boozer, C. N. , Mayer, J.


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A Glimpse Into The Future Of Renewable Energy In California
Author:Jessica Lillian Source:Solar Industry Click:444 Publish time:2013/3/4 10:09:46
California's solar market - the U.S.' largest - now stands at the edge of a new era. Although the PV portion of the California Solar Initiative (CSI) - the state's primary incentive program for customer-sited solar generation - has all but wound down, industry advocates are optimistic that other drivers, including the state's aggressive renewable portfolio standard (RPS), will help keep the market moving forward.
The end of the $2.2 billion CSI program "marks a new phase of solar market maturity, with low- and middle-income households now driving solar energy's growth in California," wrote advocacy group Vote Solar in a recent press release.
With nearly all rebate money now exhausted, the CSI has grown the solar market in California by leaps and bounds. According to Vote Solar, Californians have installed more than 140,000 solar projects - totaling nearly 1.5 GW - to date.
Equally importantly, the average pre-incentive price for a CSI-assisted solar array has dropped from $9.48/W at its most expensive point to $6.10/W today - a reduction of more than 35%.
"The wind-down of the CSI is demonstrating the great success of policy design in that costs have come down so much that installations are being done now with zero subsidy," Ted Ko, associate executive director of the Clean Coalition, tells Solar Industry.
But in the midst of these accomplishments, more work remains to be done. "The future of customer-sited solar will depend on how fast we can craft the successor to net metering," Ko says.
Specifically, the Clean Coalition is advocating for a revamped version of a wholesale distributed-generation (DG) model, where the "full costs and value of DG are considered and the consumption of electricity is clearly separated from the production," he explains.
An energy blueprint
Ko and his colleagues at the Clean Coalition, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based group focused on fostering a transition to local energy systems, were among the stakeholders that presented their views to the California Energy Commission (CEC) as part of the CEC's preparation of its 2012 Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR).
The final IEPR, which was released earlier this month, incorporated nearly all of the Clean Coalition's recommendations, Ko says. Although the ultimate role and importance of the IEPR varies depending on the views of the state's government and energy regulators, it can serve as a powerful policy-guiding tool.
Fortunately, Gov. Jerry Brown, D-Calif., who has historically pushed for pro-solar policies, was "highly engaged" in the IEPR preparation process and is likely to hold the final document in high regard, Ko notes.
The IEPR incorporates full forecasts of energy supply and demand, as well as discussion of the state's most crucial energy issues, including renewable energy integration. "These forecasts and assessments form the basis for long-range energy policies and planning to guide the future of California's energy system," the CEC explains in the IEPR.
Covering myriad energy issues, from natural gas pipeline safety to electrical infrastructure needs to nuclear capacity replacements, the document gives supportive - but realistic - treatment to California's ongoing renewable energy transition, outlining both problems and solutions.
Overall, the goal is to "advance a renewable-centric generating portfolio that minimizes cost and risk while maximizing economic, social and environmental benefits," the report says.
The CEC's recommendations for achieving this delicate balance, described in depth in Chapter 5, titled "Renewable Action Plan," include five key strategies:
- Identifying suitable geographic zones within the state for developing DG renewable energy projects (through a comprehensive planning process that coordinates utility distribution planning with local governments' land-use planning);
- Recalculating the "true" costs and benefits of renewable energy by incorporating integration costs, creating levelized cost of generation evaluations that use more accurate assumptions, and adopting "changes to procurement practices for utility-scale generation and DG to develop a higher-value portfolio," among other measures;
- Reducing licensing, planning, transmission and interconnection costs by better preparing the grid to accept increased levels of DG, developing a more integrated planning process, and, for PV specifically, implementing new grid-reliability and control capabilities for inverters;
- Promoting in-state investment and job creation through renewable energy by improving strategic workforce training, providing local employment hubs with assistance, and collaborating with labor groups and employment agencies for development of best practices for clean energy employment; and
- Encouraging continued renewable energy research and development (R&D) and financing, in order to continue to lower system costs, improve system operability and encourage the creation of new technologies.
Given California's budgetary constraints and the overall state of the U.S. economy, finding funding for all of these initiatives, naturally, can be a tricky process.
"The reality is that California's public sector alone cannot provide enough funding for the long-term investments needed to reach the state's renewable energy goals for 2020 and beyond," the report notes.
The benefits of deploying increased amounts of solar and other forms of renewable energy are nonetheless expected to outweigh the costs. Quantifying some of these benefits can be difficult, but "decision makers should not delay moving forward with clean energy policies because benefits and costs aren't fully quantified," the report stresses. "The focus should be on quantifying renewable benefits that have limited uncertainty."
Ko also believes the state will be well served by transitioning to an electric grid characterized by clean local energy and smart grid technologies.
"We strongly urge all of the California agencies and the legislature to heed the IEPR's call for more proactive long-term planning - setting policy and making decisions today that don't lock us in to an outdated centralized generation model," he says.
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Underground Rustlers is a 1941 American Western film directed by S. Roy Luby. The film is the eleventh in Monogram Pictures' "Range Busters" series, and it stars Ray "Crash" Corrigan as Crash, John "Dusty" King as Dusty and Max "Alibi" Terhune as Alibi, with Gwen Gaze, Robert Blair and Forrest Taylor. It's also known as Bullets and Bullion (US review title).

Cast
Ray Corrigan as "Crash" Corrigan
John "Dusty" King as "Dusty" King
Max Terhune as "Alibi" Terhune
Elmer as Elmer, Alibi's Dummy
Gwen Gaze as Irene Bently
Robert Blair as Martin Ford
Forrest Taylor as Jim Bently
Tom London as Henchman Tom Harris
Steve Clark as Henchman Jake Smith
Bud Osborne as Sheriff

Soundtrack
 John "Dusty" King "Following the Trail" (Written by Jean George)
 John "Dusty" King - "Sweetheart of the Range" (Written by Harry Tobias, Roy Ingraham and Mickey Ford)

See also
The Range Busters series:

 The Range Busters (1940)
 Trailing Double Trouble (1940)
 West of Pinto Basin (1940)
 Trail of the Silver Spurs (1941)
 The Kid's Last Ride (1941)
 Tumbledown Ranch in Arizona (1941)
 Wrangler's Roost (1941)
 Fugitive Valley (1941)
 Saddle Mountain Roundup (1941)
 Tonto Basin Outlaws (1941)
 Underground Rustlers (1941)
 Thunder River Feud (1942)
 Rock River Renegades (1942)
 Boot Hill Bandits (1942)
 Texas Trouble Shooters (1942)
 Arizona Stage Coach (1942)
 Texas to Bataan (1942)
 Trail Riders (1942)
 Two Fisted Justice (1943)
 Haunted Ranch (1943)
 Land of Hunted Men (1943)
 Cowboy Commandos (1943)
 Black Market Rustlers (1943)
 Bullets and Saddles (1943)

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1941 films
1941 Western (genre) films
1940s English-language films
American black-and-white films
Monogram Pictures films
American Western (genre) films
Films directed by S. Roy Luby
Range Busters
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The study, The State of Enterprise Wearable Adoption, focused on the IT or business decision makers in 201 companies with 500 to more than 5,000 employees, and from a range of industries. The industrial enterprise sector was the focus of the study, with government, non-profit, education, professional services, media, hospitality, health care and financial services industries excluded since those areas do not have a direct use for wearables relevant to the study. The 93% of companies interested in wearables are split across almost every industry included, with manufacturing and life sciences "very big" and transportation and retail smaller than anticipated, Ballard said.
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Routers are attractive to hackers because they operate outside the perimeter of firewalls, anti-virus, behavioral detection software and other security tools that organizations use to safeguard data traffic. Until now, they were considered vulnerable to sustained denial-of-service attacks using barrages of millions of packets of data, but not outright takeover. "If you own (seize control of) the router, you own the data of all the companies and government organizations that sit behind that router," FireEye Chief Executive Dave DeWalt told Reuters of his company's discovery. "This is the ultimate spying tool, the ultimate corporate espionage tool, the ultimate cybercrime tool," DeWalt said.
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What's Wrong with the Mainframe?
Despite its technical and economic superiority to distributed platforms, a surprising number of industry voices still contextualize the mainframe as a "legacy" platform from which enterprises need to migrate their core applications if they are to succeed in the digital economy. This makes no sense. First of all, why would any organization migrate its most critical applications from a supremely reliable, secure, scalable and secure platform to a relatively risky and expensive one? And why would any CIO allocate limited resources to a low- or negative-ROI migration project when so many other urgent imperatives clamor for his or her limited IT resources? The answer is that there is no reason. That's why analysts like Gartner are reporting minimal migration activity—and why 88% of CIOs assert that their mainframes will run existing and even net new workloads for at least another decade.
For many of us, the concepts of customer engagement and customer resource management (CRM) are murky at best. We understand the general idea, and we appreciate the results when customers are happy and buying, but the mechanics of how those sales are accomplished are lost to us. And, for the most part, that is okay, because we don't really need to know how it all comes together. However, if you're a salesperson, the tools provided by applications like Microsoft Dynamics CRM are vital to your success. Without those tools, sales are not made, revenues are not realized, commissions are not calculated, and people don't earn a living. With that being said, for an enterprise of any size operating in today's highly competitive environment, a well-designed CRM solution is required for any sort of success.
All data monetization efforts require that data is ultimately used to drive actions or decisions that solve a problem for an end consumer. This fundamental requirement is where most businesses fail when attempting to monetize data because the typical approach is "How can we sell data to increase our revenues?" which assumes that the value is the sale of the data itself. In order to successfully monetize data, organizations must flip this approach and start with the end in mind. The questions should be "What problem can our data solve?" and "How valuable would it be to the end consumer if these problems were solved?" It is important to note that "end consumer" does not always mean customer either. Monetized data solutions can be for internal end consumers as well.