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North Jersey gay priest disciplined by Newark archbishop unsure if he will fight...
A North Jersey gay priest who was suspended this week by the Newark Roman Catholic Archdiocese said on Friday that he may not challenge the decision, and that he will continue to take up the cause of gay Catholics. The Rev. Warren Hall wrote in...
North Jersey gay priest disciplined by Newark archbishop unsure if he will fight... A North Jersey gay priest who was suspended this week by the Newark Roman Catholic Archdiocese said on Friday that he may not challenge the decision, and that he will continue to take up the cause of gay Catholics. The Rev. Warren Hall wrote in... Check out this story on northjersey.com: http://northjersy.news/2eZTWoP
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Rev. Warren Hall(Photo: courtesy of warren hall)
A North Jersey gay priest who was suspended this week by the Newark Roman Catholic Archdiocese said on Friday that he may not challenge the decision, and that he will continue to take up the cause of gay Catholics.
The Rev. Warren Hall wrote in emails that he was ordered by Archbishop John J. Myers earlier this week to leave the Hoboken church where he has been living and to report to a retirement home for priests in Rutherford after he sided with the director of guidance at Paramus Catholic High School after her marriage to another woman became known to church officials.
Related: Priest suspended after supporting Paramus Catholic coach fired over same-sex marriage
He said that he has not yet decided what to do.
"Sadly, I have some serious thinking to do about my future in the Church," Hall wrote, adding that he was on a cruise ship on the way back to Miami and did not have reliable phone service. "I've given it a good 27 years and perhaps now it's time to take another path."
The suspension notice came after Hall expressed support for a woman who was fired by Paramus Catholic earlier this year for being in a same-sex marriage.
Related: Battle lines of church and state: Fired over same-sex marriage, educator sues Paramus Catholic
The woman, Kate Drumgoole, 33, of Bogota, has sued both the school and the Newark Archdiocese. A judge last week rejected a request by the school and the church to have the case dismissed.
Myers issued a statement on Wednesday supporting the firing of Drumgoole, saying her same-sex marriage could "create confusion and uncertainty in the moral formation" of students.
Related: Archbishop's statement supports Paramus Catholic administrator's firing
Hall, in his emails Friday, noted that Myers, 75, has reached retirement age and said that he hopes that Pope Francis, who has called for the church to be more open to people who are gay, appoints a replacement soon "before more harm is done."
Church officials, who acknowledged Hall's suspension on Thursday, have not provided a specific reason for it, saying it is a personnel matter. A spokesman for Myers, James Goodness, said only that priests are required to uphold the teachings of the church. He declined to say whether the suspension could be lifted. On Friday, Goodness declined to provide additional details about the suspension.
Last year, Hall was removed from his job as a Seton Hall University chaplain after he posted on social media his support for a group that advocates for people who are gay. He said he was told this week his continued support for such groups was the reason for the suspension. His support for Drumgoole, he said, also may have been a factor "given the timing."
Related: Priest at Seton Hall University says he was fired over support for gay marriage
"As a person who lost his job unjustly I felt an instant affinity to her when I read what happened," Hall wrote.
He said he did not have an opportunity to speak directly with Myers after he was removed from Seton Hall last year and that another church official told him about the suspension in a phone conversation on Tuesday and read a letter from Myers. In the letter, Hall said, Myers admonished him for continuing to be associated with "LGBT organizations" that the archbishop "sees as contrary to the Catholic Church."
Hall said he believes that one of those organizations was PFLAG, a group that supports the parents and friends of people who are gay. He has spoken to several chapters of the group and is scheduled to speak at a meeting of PFLAG of North Jersey on Thursday evening in Glen Ridge. He said he still plans to be there "if they will have me." The group said it expects him to speak as scheduled.
The priest wrote that he saw his removal from Seton Hall last year as "an opportunity" to "pick up the cause of LGBT Catholics." He announced at the time that he was gay, adding that he kept his priestly vow of celibacy.
He wrote on Friday that he always delivers the same message when he gives a speech to LGBT groups, telling Catholics who are gay to remain in the church and to "work for wider acceptance." He wrote that "God created us and therefore loves us and we have a place in the Catholic Church so we should not leave it but work toward understanding."
After he spoke to a PFLAG chapter in South Jersey last year, Hall wrote, the archbishop sent him letter saying he was "misleading the faithful." In Myers' letter this week, Hall said, the archbishop scolded him for his support of LGBT young people who attended a recent World Youth Day celebration with Pope Francis in Poland. "The Archbishop informs me in his letter that this group was not sanctioned by the church to be there," Hall wrote.
Hall wrote that Catholic lay people are ahead of the leadership when it comes to accepting gay people.
He said that he has not decided whether to challenge Myers' decision, and is considering his options. "The Archbishop felt that I should just remain silent on these issues," Hall wrote. "I disagree with him on that and it has cost me my priestly ministry."
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Q: Linq join 2 datatables that share a column and put result in new datatable I have the following datatables
table1:
+-----------+------+------+
| catalogid | name | snum |
+-----------+------+------+
|       353 | xx   |    4 |
|       364 | yy   |    3 |
|       882 | zz   |    3 |
|       224 | mm   |   71 |
|       999 | kk   |  321 |
|        74 | kk   |    4 |
|        54 | ii   |    5 |
|        11 | u    |    6 |
|        23 | yy   |    6 |
+-----------+------+------+

table2:
+-----------+----------+--------------+
| catalogid | numitems | ignoreditems |
+-----------+----------+--------------+
|       353 |        4 |            0 |
|       364 |       10 |            0 |
|       882 |        2 |            0 |
|       224 |        0 |            7 |
+-----------+----------+--------------+

Using LINQ I want to join them and copy the result to a new datatable. They both share catalogid, and in the result it should only display the records that their catalogid exist in table2
result:
+-----------+------+------+-----------+---------------+
| catalogid | name | snum | numitems  | ignoreditems  |
+-----------+------+------+-----------+---------------+
|       353 | xx   |    4 |         4 |             0 |
|       364 | yy   |    3 |        10 |             0 |
|       882 | zz   |    3 |         2 |             0 |
|       224 | mm   |   71 |         0 |             7 |
+-----------+------+------+-----------+---------------+

Here is my attempt but it's not working:
 Dim query = From a In oresult.AsEnumerable
             Group Join b In products.AsEnumerable
             On a.Field(Of Integer)("catalogid") Equals b.Field(Of Integer)("catalogid")
             Into Group
 query.copytodatatable

CopyToDatatable is not working, and I can't figure out why

A: CopyToDataRow only works on IEnumerables of DataRow. See this article at MSDN for an implementation of CopyToDataRow for arbitrary IEnumerables.

A: CopyToDataTable() only works when your query returns an IEnumerable<'DataRow>. In your query, you are returning an anonymous type. Anonymous types don't carry the extension method for CopyToDataTable().
You can create a table using the ConvertToDataTable extension listed below.  You'll have to convert it to VB.NET (there are converters out there if you google).
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Data;
using Common;

namespace TestConsole
{
    public class Linq_join_2_datatables_that_share_a_column_and_put_result_in_new_datatable
    {
        public class Table1
        {
            public int CatalogId { get; set; }
            public string Name { get; set; }
            public int SNum { get; set; }
        }

        public class Table2
        {
            public int CatalogId { get; set; }
            public int NumItems { get; set; }
            public int IgnoredItems { get; set; }
        }

        public static void Start()
        {
            DataTable table1 = new DataTable();
            table1.Columns.Add("catalogid", typeof(int));
            table1.Columns.Add("name", typeof(string));
            table1.Columns.Add("snum", typeof(int));
            DataRow row = table1.Rows.Add(353, "xx", 4);

            DataTable table2 = new DataTable();
            table2.Columns.Add("catalogid", typeof(int));
            table2.Columns.Add("numitems", typeof(int));
            table2.Columns.Add("ignoreditems", typeof(int));
            table2.Rows.Add(353, 4, 0);

            var query = (from t1 in table1.AsEnumerable()
                        join t2 in table2.AsEnumerable() on t1.Field<int>("catalogid") equals t2.Field<int>("catalogid")
                        select new
                        {
                            catalogid = t1.Field<int>("catalogid"),
                            name = t1.Field<string>("name"),
                            snum = t1.Field<int>("snum"),
                            numitems = t2.Field<int>("numitems"),
                            ignoreditems = t2.Field<int>("ignoreditems")
                        }).ToList();

            DataTable table3 = query.ConvertToDataTable();
        }
    }
}

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Data;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.Reflection;

namespace Common
{
    public static class DataTableExtensions
    {
        public static DataTable ConvertToDataTable<T>(this IList<T> data)
        {
            PropertyDescriptorCollection properties =
                TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(typeof(T));
            DataTable table = new DataTable();
            foreach (PropertyDescriptor prop in properties)
                table.Columns.Add(prop.Name, Nullable.GetUnderlyingType(prop.PropertyType) ?? prop.PropertyType);
            foreach (T item in data)
            {
                DataRow row = table.NewRow();
                foreach (PropertyDescriptor prop in properties)
                    row[prop.Name] = prop.GetValue(item) ?? DBNull.Value;
                table.Rows.Add(row);
            }
            table.AcceptChanges();
            return table;
        }

    }
}

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LAO cost-cutting, rising rent hitting Toronto's Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic hard, says director
Wednesday, July 03, 2019 @ 9:50 AM | By Terry Davidson
Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) has forsaken its "stated principle" of reducing the impact of budget cuts on "racialized" groups in its freezing of support to an Asian legal clinic now having to cut staff, curtail services and move due to rising rent, says the clinic's director.
This follows the June 24 announcement by downtown Toronto's Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic (CSALC) that it would file a formal appeal to the LAO after learning it will have its funding reduced and no longer get help for increases in "lease-related costs."
The cuts to the CSALC are a result of the LAO facing a 30 per cent funding reduction for its 2019-2020 fiscal year as part of sweeping cost-saving measures by Ontario's Progressive Conservative government.
In response, LAO announced the slashing of $14 million to its 73 legal aid clinics throughout the province, with clinics in Toronto the hardest hit.
The CSALC is facing a 1.2 per cent reduction and will not be provided "any in-year increases including lease-related costs," according to a recent news release from the clinic, which is on Dundas Street West, near University Avenue.
As part of its appeal to the LAO, the clinic has made a "special request" that it receive help to cover a substantial rent increase it will face when its lease expires on Sept. 30.
Avvy Go, Chinese and Southeast Asian Legal Clinic
CSALC director Avvy Go told The Lawyer's Daily that the clinic, which has been at its current location for more than 30 years, is looking for cheaper space, but acknowledged it will be hit with higher rent wherever it ends up in Toronto due to skyrocketing commercial rents in that city.
She also said that even though the clinic has expanded to serve clients from the Greater Toronto Area and throughout the province, it would need to remain in the city due to the majority of its clients being there.
Go said her clinic pays around $7,000 per month under the current lease. If it were to stay at the Dundas Street location after September, it will pay $11,300.
As a result, at least one staffer of the nine employed at the clinic will have to be let go, and various services may end up having to be reduced in some form.
The CSALC served around 2,700 clients last year, not including those the clinic provided with "public legal education," said Go.
According to its website, the clinic provides legal advice and referrals in areas including immigration, tenant's rights, employment standards, human rights and employment insurance.
"We've been trying to find a location with cheaper rent, but the reality is that in Toronto the rent just keeps going higher and higher every year," she said. "We have been in the same building since we started our clinic in 1987. We've had the current lease [for the last five years], but you can imagine five years ago the real estate market in Toronto was different from today."
Many of CSALC's clients come to the clinic due to language and cultural barriers they may face at standard legal aid clinics.
"Legal Aid Ontario, when they make the decision how to cut, they specifically mention that they are guided by a number of principles, including the principle that they aim to reduce the impact of the cuts on racialized groups, including Indigenous people and people of colour, and that was the guiding principle of how they wanted to cut, which is why originally we only got 1.2 per cent of the overall budget cut. But by refusing to pay the in-year increase, we are effectively getting a much higher percentage of cut, which goes against their own stated principle of reducing the impact on racialized groups."
LAO spokesperson Graeme Burk confirmed that "principles governing the … recent changes to the clinic funding system" includes the aim to "[r]educe impact on members of particularly disadvantaged communities," including those in racialized communities.
According to information from the LAO, its clinics face funding cuts from around one per cent to around 11 per cent, with the majority falling toward the lower end of the scale. The average "adjustment" to clinics in Toronto is six per cent, with the exception of its Parkdale clinic, which faces its own $1 million cutback.
He called Go's comments "unfair."
"The reduction to the CSALC budget was a modest 1.2 [per cent]," said Burk. "It is a completely unfair characterization to say that LAO did not live by its stated principle of minimizing impacts on racialized communities."
Burk called the CSALC's impending rent increase an "operational issue that has nothing to do with the most recent funding decisions" and something that "would present a problem in any fiscal environment."
"It would … be inaccurate to say that LAO is withdrawing help with an impending rent increase," he said. "The clinic had identified the increase was substantial and decided to explore other options. Indeed, we have met with CSALC and will continue to work with them to find an affordable solution."
Burk did confirm the LAO has stopped providing funding to its clinics for increases in rent, and that they are being encouraged to "hold off from any long-term leases that go beyond" March 31, 2020.
Go was asked about Premier Doug Ford's promise that nobody would go without legal aid as a result of the province's cuts.
"I'm telling the premier that it is simply not true that nobody will be out legal aid, because, for sure, once you start cutting staff, there will be clients that will not get service, and I will gladly refer all these clients to his office — and the new attorney general's office — and see how they could help them."
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Raise the estate tax exemption but don't eliminate it
Tarrant says he'd support efforts to raise the exemption but he opposes a total elimination of the estate tax. Tarrant says, "Five, ten million dollars or maybe it varies depending upon the worth of the business because that gets complex. But thereafter I don't have a problem with the estate tax and personally for what it's worth I don't believe you should leave kids tons of money. I don't think it helps them at all." Source: Bob Kinzel series of interviews on Vermont Public Radio Jun 12, 2006
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Tarrant says a new Congressional tax cut plan will bring additional revenue into the federal Treasury. Tarrant supports extending a rate reduction on capital gains and dividend income for another two years. Tarrant says the rate cuts have encouraged individuals to buy and sell stock and the result has been an increase in federal revenue: Tarrant says, "The capital gains tax rate reduction and the dividend tax rate reduction were hugely successful. It's clear that the capital gains and the dividend tax rate cuts worked. It generated a lot more tax revenue, a ton more tax revenue."
Tarrant says Sanders' belief that the plan will add to the national debt is dead wrong: Tarrant says, "Count up the money, you know. Count it up one dollar at a time. It is in the treasury now. There's no room for debate. It worked. The dollars are there. But Mr. Sanders is a broken record on this and he will never admit to having been wrong." Source: Bob Kinzel series of interviews on Vermont Public Radio Jun 11, 2006
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As he was a seafarer he could not resist visiting harbor bars where thunderstorms and waves from his stories are getting bigger with every new pint of draught beer or a shot of rum. Somehow he got stuck in the discussion about crossing the Atlantic and finally accepted a bet for 100 pounds sterling. The bet was about crossing the Big Pond in a small boat.
The morning after, still fighting the hangover, he managed to purchase a boat measuring as follows: Length – 20 feet, Breadth – 6 feet, Depth of Hold – 2 feet 10 inches. It means that he accepted a 100 pounds bet to cross the Atlantic in the boat that is 6.09 m long, 1.82 m wide and 0.86 m high above the water line. The boat once belonged to a whaling ship which was sunk the previous year in the Irish Sea. After refitting and provisioning the boat he decided to take off but some administrative work had to be done before leaving Liverpool.
Since Nikola Primorac was from Dubrovnik, which was under the Austro-Hungarian administration at a time, he spoke with Austrian ambassador asking to allow him navigation under the banner of St. Blasius, the patron of Dubrovnik Republic. After the ambassador declined his request, capt. Primorac decided to sail under a British banner, which was highly appreciated by both the public and the authorities.
The English newspaper published news claiming that it is "…an incredible brave and crazy adventure ever made that could turn into tragedy or triumph". As a proud patriot, capt. Nikola Primorac did not stager by ambassador's decline of putting a Dubrovnik banner so he named his boat "The City of Ragusa", as it is Dubrovnik's international (Italian) name. The only remaining thing to do was to find a crew for this crazy event. So capt. Primorac visited once again some of famous Liverpool harbor pubs in order to find either the inspiration how to solve his problem or the solution itself.
The solution was called sailor Buckley who was still completely drunk when "The City of Ragusa" left Liverpool harbor on June 2nd 1870, seen off by hundreds of thrilled spectators. Eyewitnesses used to rumor that the only sober character onboard that day was the dog Boswain. However, when Buckley got sober and realized what was going on, he bagged capt. Primorac to disembark him, promising that he would get a substitute sailor. Buckley left the boat in the Irish port of Queenstown and somehow persuaded a Dutch sailor E.R.W. Hayter to join capt. Primorac.
Anyway, capt. Primorac along with E.R.W. Hayter and loyal Boswain managed to cross the Big Pond and land in the port of New York after 92 days of struggling with the storms and high seas. Unfortunately the brave Boswain did not get a chance to 'mark a tree' on American soil…
Primorac's triumph in New York was crowned by an announcement of his intention to sail back the very same way. After 20 days of 'rest' in New York City and telling stories in harbor bars, capt. Nikola Primorac took off and arrived in Liverpool safe and sound after 33 days of navigation. Soon after his arrival Queen Victoria congratulated and awarded capt. Nikola Primorac and E.R.W. Gayter, while the "City of Ragusa" was exhibited in the Liverpool Museum until the end of the World War II.
Unfortunately, the boat was destroyed during the bombing at the end of the war but capt. Nikola Primorac remained in history of seafaring as the first to sail across the Atlantic in both directions in the smallest boat in the world.
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Belitung Island: Tourists can take a local boat to dive and snorkel around Gusong, Birong and Garuda Islands, a short distance from the mainland.
There is a trio of colourful, slightly evil looking cats hanging on the wall above my bed. They are painted in a traditional Indonesian art technique called batik.
They remind me of the time I got scammed.
Yogyakarta is probably Indonesia's second-most popular tourist spot, after Bali. It's an ancient city, surrounded by temples.
A colleague and I were there for work, and had some free time up our sleeves. We looked up the city's main attractions and found Jalan Malioboro, a 24-hour shopping street.
Not wanting to waste a second, we jumped in a taxi, and soon found ourselves in a souvenir paradise, with mountains of t-shirts, jewellery and handicrafts.
My friend wanted to buy some batik, which Yogyakarta is famous for. We ventured down one of the narrow alleys, getting lost in a swirl of colourful fabrics.
Within minutes, we were approached by a man with a broad grin who wanted to know where we were from.
He clapped delightedly. "All Blacks, very good!"
The nice man asked if we were looking for batik, and offered to show us the best stalls. Hot, tired, and overwhelmed, we decided to follow him.
He chatted non-stop as we wove through the market, pointing out the different qualities of fabric, and dismissing most of them as "too expensive".
"My friend is an artist, he receives money from government to teach batik," he told us.
"Come visit his gallery. I would like you to see real batik."
We hesitated for a moment, before agreeing. After all, it was a tourist area. He was probably a well-meaning tour guide, giving us a cultural experience.
We left the bustling market and followed him through dusty backstreets, stopping at an unmarked shack. The artist was waiting outside.
As promised, we were shown the wax and dye used to create batik. The artist held the fabric up to the light so we could admire the effect. We oohed and aahed and nodded politely.
Our tour guide brought over some ice-cold water bottles. "Free of charge," he said.
He also gave us a list of prices from A to Z, each corresponding with an artwork on display. He encouraged us to look around - "slowly, slowly. Take your time."
My friend and I felt we had better buy something. The cats caught my eye, and didn't seem too expensive - maybe $30? It's hard to tell when you're dealing with hundreds of thousands of rupiah.
The artist said I could buy another one for half price. "Present for your mother," he suggested.
I didn't have enough cash on me. No problem, our tour guide said. "I take you to cash machine."
Once again, I followed him. It was a couple of blocks away. I got out the money, and we returned to the gallery, where my friend was waiting anxiously.
It wasn't until I was handing over the wads of cash that alarm bells started ringing.
Later, when I did the conversion, I realised I had spent more than $100. By Indonesian standards, that's an obscene amount of money.
Back at the hotel, I looked up Jalan Malioboro again. "Beware of batik scam", one of the first posts said. Our experience was textbook. The batik we bought were more than likely screen-printed fakes, worthless pieces of cloth.
The main lessons I learned? They're painfully obvious, but in the heat of the moment, it can be easy to forget.
Always do your research. Be skeptical if someone is too helpful to be true. And know the damn currency conversion.
I know you're judging me. Don't worry, the cats on my wall are, too.
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Discussion in 'Books, Films, TV, Radio' started by Gage, Mar 12, 2006.
I've just finished 'Armageddon' by Max Hastings. I thought it was very good, learnt a lot about the war in the East. I think that it was harsh on the Allies conduct of the war in the West. Also learnt a lot about Holland in the last months of the war.
Reading at the moment (lent to me by a mate at work) 'Harlequin' by Bernard Cornwall. I'm only about 35 pages in, but so far, so good.
This week. I are mostly been reading: Last Laurels: The German Defence of Upper Silesia, January-May 1945 by George Gunter....Grim, grim, grim.... and a bit more grim..
I'll tell you when i've read it all, bit dry so far (this may be the translation)but seems authoratative. As for buying it I don't know if you're even in the Uk but it turned up in a Nottingham remaindered shop for £7, was astonished to see the official Amazon price, might be worth shopping around.
Just been reading this and loking at the pictures.
Full of really amazing photos from just before the 14-18 War until the Cyprus emergency in the late 50s.
Good WW2 section with some really good photos and fully informative captions.
I am reading My Part of the Sky by Bee beaumont. Very good book describing especially the part about the Battle of France.
Why do i suddenly feel so inferior here? I'm reading Thud! Not what you were looking for, i presume?
What do you think, Lee?
I've just started 'The Case for Israel' by Alan Dershowitz can't say much I'm only on page 9.
There are two books waiting in the wings both by Mark Zuehlke: 'The Liri Valley' and 'The Gothic Line' I'm waiting for the warm weather so I can sit in the garden and dream of Italy. Should get out more!
I've been dipping in:'The Destruction of the Axis Forces in Africa' Volume IV of the History of the Second World War by Major-General Playfair.
quote "warm weather so I can sit in the garden and dream of Italy."
Wouldn't siting in an ice cold rain filled slit trench give just a realistic picture of the Italian campaign?
To quote a D-Day Dodger I chatted to once "Sunny bloody Italy? Where?"
I will report back once I am further on.
Be nice to hear what you think as it's quite a while since I read it.
It didn't rain all the time in Italy or so I've been told and the times I've been there it was too hot especially in Sicily. My garden is just about right to enjoy a good book or two.
Have you see 'Whicker's War' DVD he seemed to have had a fine old time in the sun and wine drinking etc...! Still somebody has to take the photos.
Talking of DVDs have you also seen the one 'British Campaigns-Italy 1943-1945' a picture is worth a thousand words or so they say. There is one of the best films of the bombing of Monte Cassino I have seen.
Whicker's War, saw it on TV and got the book. Brilliant story.He really had it in for Mark Clark didn't he?
That other DVD sounds good.Can you PM me some details of who produces it etc I'lll get a copy.
Yes, I've had that lately too.


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I've been working with MarkLogic 7 features a lot recently. These centre around the concept of Subjects, Predicates and Objects - triples. Examples include 'Adam knows Wendy' or 'Wendy likes Cheese'.
As I was implementing MLJS Semantic widgets for MarkLogic 7 I found I needed to define some specific RDF Types and predicates in order to consistently link semantic subjects to documents. This page describes that effort, and scenarios around why these approaches were taken.
There are some predicates, or properties, that should stay in the content world, but some that could live in the triple world, or be migrated from relational to triples.
This document tries to summarise ones I have come across. I may create my own ontology for this information. This is a starter document for that ontology.
It can be useful to describe a MarkLogic Document semantically. This allows you to explicitly specify facts about the document rather than always embed facts within a document, and thus relate them to the document implicitly. Querying embedded facts with just SPARQL means that the fact they are contained within a document is never exposed. You need another way to do this.
In various widgets I have support for related documents using a MarkLogic Document RDF Type. Below are its available predicates/types.
These recommendations are personal notes and opinions. Please read them with an open mind and decide whether - in your scenario - it makes sense to follow them.
Conversely, only ever store triples in a document that should be replaced/updated every time the document is updated. Specifically, do NOT embed 'reference facts' that are not directly implied by the document. (i.e. don't 'enrich' your extracted facts within the document by adding wider facts around them) - to do so means you may inadvertantly blow away reference facts, or duplicate them across multiple documents.
Remember that a MarkLogic document can have multiple collections, whereas using the W3C graph store protocol you can only update or replace a named graph - thus if you want to store the fact once and have it part of 'multiple graph names' you are better of creating an XML document via XQuery/REST that contains sem:triples and adding it to multiple collections, rather than using the graph store protocol REST endpoint to save these facts twice - once against each collection. (As MarkLogic implements named graphs as collections, this works well - only issue being scalability as by default ML splits at around the 100 triples per doc mark).
I believe we should also take a look at PROV-O when it comes to asserting facts about how a named graph / triple was derived.
I would also like to see a MarkLogic specific extension to the REST graph store endpoint allowing multiple named graphs rather than the single one required by the W3C spec… I'll get around to documenting all this soon and them submit relevant RFEs as required and chat to Buxton et al.
The below is from an email I sent detailing where PROV-O may be of use to a customer of MarkLogic.
Lets say you do a document upload and it's converted to XHTML. As part of the conversion process you record info about the conversion and requesting user as triples within the XHTML document. This makes sense because they 'belong' to that rendering. If the rendering is updated, those facts should be updated. This is a good fit for embedded triples.
Let's say that it's a claim document instead. You know the client ID because it's been enriched in the doc, or provided by a user at some point. This is embedded within the doc - 'Document relates to Customer 1234'. In addition to doing this, separately you're pulling in facts (data) from a relational DB about Clients, Accounts and balances. This is pulled in to the triple store through RDB2RDF so exists only within the triple store, separately for the document. This makes sense because there could be many or no claim documents for a particular customer.
All fine… except it will never return any results, because the cts:term-query is restricting the documents that the triples are checked against. Because the account and balance facts exist external to a matching document, they will never be present, thus the above query will always return nothing.
The problem with this though is that you cannot hang other facts off of the URI. E.g. generated_by etc from PROV-O. This leaves us with having to use some sort of Entity class for MarkLogic documents. Indeed, if we do this and adopt the PROV-O relationships we find they are actually a very good fit. They support use cases of documents being updated over time, and altered as part of software processes. They can handle things like original documents, xhtml renderings, versions of documents, or alterations (E.g. enrichments) via external software agents.
Elsewhere in the triple store you have this customers record, accounts and balances.
Then you can take those URIs and do a document-query with your term query to get the relevant docs.
I think this use case will be a lot more common, searching through semantic information to arrive at content, rather than searching content to give a list of candidate facts to search. You'd never be quite sure you'd got all the relevant facts by restricting the sparql to results in particular documents. That potential gap in knowledge would worry me.
Of course the problem is that you may pull back hundreds of URIs and end up building a mammoth structured/cts search to search over them. I think a cts:sparql-doc-query() that expects ?docuri as a returned binding to give you a set of document URIs would be very, very powerful. I could then submit sparql as one query to my standard content search endpoint /v1/search within a structured query. So you can still do sparql against /v1/graphs/sparql but you also have the option of a combined query against /v1/search.
As it stands there is no way you can do a combined sparql and content search in a single hit via the REST API at the moment. You have to do it in two steps.
You also get other benefits from using PROV-O in that you can save facts about every document edit in the triple store (rather than just against the document) so that even if you weren't using DLS you could at least keep a record of who edited what, when, and how.


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BOKO HARAM INSURGENCY AND EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN BORNO STATE
Chrisantus Oden
Historically, Borno State, which was founded in 1976, initially comprised the present Borno and Yobe State. Prior to the advent of insurgency, it has been a relatively peaceful, multicultural and dynamic State in Nigeria. The State is fortunate to have human and natural resources, which have created many opportunities for its indigenes and other Nigerians to live in harmony. Borno State started experiencing the global trend of insurgency from 2009 (Adamu, 2014). Which led to the gruesome killings of innocent Nigerian citizens perpetrated by an insurgent group called Boko Haram (Adamu, 2014). Since 2009, they have disrupts educational system in Borno State with huge negative effect on basic education. The insurgent group dislikes children attending schools, and also committed criminal offences ranging from kidnaping of school pupils and attacking teachers in schools (Adeyemi, 2014). There is major destruction of school activities in the state. Recent past, they used under-age girls to carry out suicide bombing of major shopping mall, cinema halls and bus station. Moreso, Abduction of school children and the elderly were also common in their recent styles of mindless attack.
Geographically, according to Borno State Government (BSG, 2012) the State is the largest State in Nigeria in terms of land mass territory which covers 69,435 square kilometers, which is located in the north eastern corner of Nigeria. Educationally, the State is a center for education to all its international and national neighbors such as the northern part of Cameroun, the southern part of Chad and Republic of Niger. Many students from Adamawa, Gombe and Yobe State in Nigeria had also benefited from the State basic education program. The major tribe in Borno State is called "Kanuri" which constitute the higher hierarchy in the management of basic education in the state. Occupationally, majority of the people in Borno state are famers, fishermen and herdsmen but also send their children to the basic schools. The State is having a conventional university known as University of Maiduguri, a polytechnic, colleges of education, many senior secondary schools as well as many basic schools.
The Nigerian National Policy on Education (FGN, 2004) defined basic education as the type of education received at primary school level up to junior secondary school level.
According to the Universal Basic Education Commission, the objectives of the basic education are as follows:
a) Provision of scholarship to drop out of school children through the basic education programme.
b) Ensure the acquisition of the appropriate levels of literacy, manipulative and life skills (as well as the ethical, moral and civic values needed for laying the foundation for life-long learning.
c) Develop the entire citizens with a strong consciousness for education and a strong commitment to its education
d) Provide free, compulsory, universal basic education for every Nigerian students of school age group.
e) Reduce drastically, drop outrage from the formal school system through improved relevance and efficiency curriculum.
Universal Basic Education is the transmission of knowledge to all Nigerian society from generation to generation. It has two main components— Universal and Basic Education. Universal means a programme that is meant for all arms of the society such as the poor and the rich, the physically challenge and all the school dropouts people in Borno State. While Basic Education means the beginning of acquisition of desirable skill, knowledge and attitude in a formal school system. The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of insurgency on universal basic education in Borno State and make appropriate solution to the challenges of basic education in the State.
Since the inception of President Goodluck Jonathan administration in Nigeria, security challenges has become an issue in discourse hence Boko Haram.
Its philosophy stands for outright rejection of Western education, Western culture and modern science and advocates the propagation of strict adherence to Islam in its purest form. Boko Haram represents the vision and mission of a fundamentalist Islamic movement in Nigeria. The sect known as Jama'atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda'awati wal-Jihad (people committed to the propagation of the prophet's teachings and Jihad) seeks to Islamize Nigeria by whatever means at its disposal and at whatever human cost. So far the dastardly activities of this sect have been confined to churches, security operatives and public buildings in the Northern states and the Federal Capital Territory but now have shifted to schools especially in Brono, Yobe and Adamawa state of Northern Nigeria.
The atmosphere of insecurity currently pervading the nation is now worsened by the allegation of complicity among high-ranking security personnel, executive cabinet which president Good Luck Jonathan openly said Boko Haram have infiltrated his government.
The spate of bombing now is targeted at primary schools, secondary schools and tertiary institutions respectively; killing and maiming students, teachers, lecturers as well as burning school building at will which forced majority of schools to close down in the North especially Borno, Yobe and Adamawa state respectively.
The trend of insecurity in the country especially with activities of the dreaded Islamic sect popularly known as Boko Haram has become a major concern for every Nigerian. Significant stakeholders in the country have offered suggestions on the need to check the new security challenges posed by the dreaded Islamic sect in the country. While some suggested that amnesty be offered to the group; others called for collaboration with world leaders and international organizations as strategies to rid the country of Boko Haram terrorists. Some also suggested the need for strengthening of internal security to combat sect. It is against this background that this paper tends to stress the effect of Boko Haram Insurgency on education system especially in the Northern states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa state respectively. More of the Boko Haram Insurgency will be discussed with events and date in the next chapter.
1.2 Statement of Problem
Empathically, many schools in Borno State had experienced several attacks from the insurgent group; some basic schools especially in Baga towns in northern part of the State have been closed down for 2 years (BSMOE, 2015). The authors strongly stated that, insurgency should not be allowed to penetrate in to any nations, in a manner it penetrated in to Nigeria through Borno State. The problem could be traced when the Boko Haram group uses religion to set up rules in a community unnoticed, advance it with violence to the State level and metamorphous in to an insurgent group, and disturbed the peace of the State. The authors argued that, this could happen due to the negligence on the part of the then Borno State government, which served as a lesson to other countries in Africa.
More so, education in Borno State have been experiencing serious problem prior to the insurgency, there are shortage of classes for teaching and learning, shortage of instructional materials and teachers (NUT, 2007). This has indicated that basic school is under-funded by the State government. Lack of payment of teacher's salary which lead to frequent strike by basic school teachers are also concern to many families (NUT, 2008). Moreover, while the state is struggling to overcome the existing problems, insurgent came in as a bigger challenged to the State, which now posed as a threat to many parents, and children of school age in Borno State.
All these phenomenal, prompted the researcher to conduct this study and have a researchable solutions to the effect of this insurgency on education in Borno state. The outcomes of this study will be of considerable benefits to Nigerian students in the area of socio-cultural value on education, also serve as an insight for other countries to study the situation in Nigeria and avert any pre-insurgency activities in their Nations. More to the issue of the Boko Haram Insurgency, the educational system have not been able to grow or expand beyond its cost for the past decade rather foreign students have departed due to the insecurity
1.3 Aim and Objective of the Study
The aim of this research is to find out if the effects of the Boko Haram Insurgency on educational development of Boron State. With the following objectives.
1. Highlights the problem caused by the Insurgency to the development of education in Borno state.
2. Calls the attention of the government on the need and urgency for resolving the issue in Boron State
The following research question as constructed to guide and streamline this research work to is core importance.
1. Since the beginning of Boko Haram Insurgency in the state, has there been any school that is established?
2. Sir what has been thee population growth of your school after the Insurgency history came up in this state?
3. Based on the Boko Haram Insurgency in the state has the academic performance of your student dropped for any reason?
4. How free are the students and the staff of your school been in movement and functionality since the Insurgency Boko Haram came to place?
The researcher formulated two research hypothesis or assumption which will be tested using the chi-square data formula and a 0.5 percent error percent. The hypothesis will be accepted or rejected based on its significance effect.
Ho1 – There is no significant difference in educational development in the state from the previous years when the Boko Haram Insurgency has not come to place.
Ho2 – There is no significant difference in student performance and growth attendance among urban and rural schools in states that are prone to Boko Haram Insurgency in Boron State Nigeria
Ho3 – There is no significant difference in population growth of the student in respect to the Boko Haram Insurgency in the state.
The study covers the effects of Boko Haram Insurgency in Boron state to the educational Development in the state, among the schools was a coverage of 27 selected schools randomly selected. Also the study examines the relationship between the two variables Boko haram Insurgency and Educational Development.
There are numerous reasons why this research is useful, the research work would be of great importance to students and lectures in practice of how to carry out further research in the same area. It will help the government to solve some likely problems that might encounter in terms of development in Nigeria. Also, the research will act as a guide to the government in their quest to quell the problems associated with security, ethnic crisis and political or religious crisis in Nigeria.
1.8 Limitation of Study
During the course of performing/researching this project work, the researcher encountered a lot of challenges as well as opposition which ranges from financial constraints, time factor. This factors in their own ways, slowed down the speedy progress of this work that resulted to the researcher not being able to finish the research work on time as is required.
Also, within the area of study the researcher was faced with some other forms of constrains that contributed to the limitation of this researcher work, like accessibility to data, information and facts concerning the present study due to some reasons or the other, some not willing to give out information that it is to be within the workers.
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   1. What database models do you know?
     * Relational model
     * NoSQL

   2. Which are the main functions performed by a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS)?
     * Data Dictionary Management
     * Data Storage Management
     * Data Transformation and Presentation
     * Security Management
     * Multiuser Access Control
     * Backup and Recovery Management
     * Transaction Management

   3. Define what is "table" in database terms.
     A table is a collection of related data held in a structured format within a database. It consists of columns, and rows.

   4. Explain the difference between a primary and a foreign key.
     * Primary Key
      - Primary key uniquely identify a record in the table.
      - Primary Key can't accept null values.
      - By default, Primary key is clustered index and data in the database table is physically organized in the sequence of clustered index.
      - We can have only one Primary key in a table.
     * Foreign Key
      - Foreign key is a field in the table that is primary key in another table.
      - Foreign key can accept multiple null value.
      - Foreign key do not automatically create an index, clustered or non-clustered. You can manually create an index on foreign key.
      - We can have more than one foreign key in a table.

   5. Explain the different kinds of relationships between tables in relational databases.
      The differe types of relationships are:
       * One-to-Many Relationship
       * Many-to-Many Relationships
       * One-to-One Relationships

   6. When is a certain database schema normalized?
      It is normalized when we organize the columns (attributes) and tables (relations) of a relational database to reduce data redundancy and improve data integrity.

   7. What are the advantages of normalized databases?
       * Smaller database: By eliminating duplicate data, you will be able to reduce the overall size of the database.
       * Better performance:
        - Narrow tables: Having more fine-tuned tables allows your tables to have less columns and allows you to fit more records per data page.
        - Fewer indexes per table mean faster maintenance tasks such as index rebuilds.
        - Only join tables that you need.

   8. What are database integrity constraints and when are they used?
      Before one can start to implement the database tables, one must define the integrity constraints. Intergrity means something like 'be right' and consistent. The data in a database must be right and in good condition.
       * data types
       * primary / foreign keys
       * unique
       * allow null values

   9. Point out the pros and cons of using indexes in a database.
      Indexes provide fast search at the cost of slow inserts.
   10. What's the main purpose of the SQL language?
      Purpose of SQL Structured Query Language is to provide a Structured way by which one can Query information in database using a standard Language.
   11. What are transactions used for?
     A transaction symbolizes a unit of work performed within a database management system (or similar system) against a database, and treated in a coherent and reliable way independent of other transactions. A transaction generally represents any change in database. Transactions in a database environment have two main purposes:
       * To provide reliable units of work that allow correct recovery from failures and keep a database consistent even in cases of system failure, when execution stops (completely or partially) and many operations upon a database remain uncompleted, with unclear status.
       * To provide isolation between programs accessing a database concurrently. If this isolation is not provided, the programs' outcomes are possibly erroneous.

   12. What is a NoSQL database?
       A NoSQL database provides a mechanism for storage and retrieval of data which is modeled in means other than the tabular relations used in relational databases.

   13. Explain the classical non-relational data models.
       * key-value - hashtable, super fast, often used in memory bds
       * document - xml/ json/ bson - MongoDB (bson)- stores "documents"
       * wide-column - large scale, versioned data
       * graph - realtionships between data

   14. Give few examples of NoSQL databases and their pros and cons.
       * MondoDB
       * Redis
       * MarkLogic
       * Datastax

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Vertical pickets offer an added level of safety, especially for children and small pets. Our pre-assembled aluminum inserts meet the 4-inch sphere rule for spacing.
Horizontal pickets offer an aesthetic option while maintaining safety. These horizontal inserts run parallel to the topmost rail.
The ramp system will not impact your home's property value because it does not alter or add to the structure of the residence - no poured footers, no construction - just simple assembly.
Available in seven sizes ranging from 8" to 56", the adjustable stair provides an alternative access point, allowing for convenient entry for everyone that accesses the home. These stairs can also be used as a standalone option anywhere around your home.
Our manual gate provides additional safety at the top of the stairs or the beginning of a ramp run.
The 54" x 54" solid surface provides a safe and solid landing at the bottom of a ramp run. Ideal for use when a ramp ends in the grass or other soft surface. The landing pad eliminates the need for pouring a concrete pad.
This time-saving, 45 degree platform option allows for multi-dimensional angle changes and uses less space than traditional platforms. All handrail and surface options are available on the angle platform.
Offers customizable solutions to suit the functional and aesthetic requirements of your home. Available in three standard colors: Black, Tan, and Bronze.
My sister and I are in our late 60's & early 70's. We can now get our brother in and out of the house without killing him or ourselves. The ramp is wonderful and a blessing. We had to get him up and down 4 steep steps before the ramp was installed. The people who installed the ramp did excellent work and explained everything to us. Thank you so much.
I'm very happy with the pad and ramp. The guys were friendly and fast. It was a nice change.
They did an excellent job on the Pathway system. They were very professional & work very hard to do a good job. Yes, I will recommend your company to others. Now I feel more confident with handrail up. He can hold on. Thank you so much.
Ramp was easy to install, very strong, looks good. Parents love it.
It is a lot easier to leave the home with the security of the ramp. Our first outing will be to the doctor's office and lunch afterwards. Thanks to all who made this convenience possible. It will make life a lot more manageable.
Dairy Queen for a hot fudge Sunday. We feel safe now. We had no exit on this end of the house if a fire started at the other end. Thank you.
The ramp system makes entering and exiting the home hassle-free and allows me to be more independent. Thanks!
Now I can go to the store by myself so see you later.
We are so excited to have the ramp to finally get out of the house in the wheelchair. Jeremy did an excellent job! Very nice and professional.
I can now get my husband out of the house by myself. Before I had to have someone help me get him out.
I love the system, it is nice and safe and I'm sure I'll get much use of it. Men did excellent job of assembling it and it looks beautiful. Thank you so very much.
We love the EZ-ACCESS Pathway now my grandpa don't have to use the steps anymore and we don't have to worry about him falling.
The first place my husband went was to the driveway without assistance, just to get outside after one year on his own. It may not seem like much to someone without disabilities, but the smallest thing you can accomplish on your own is huge! My husband will no longer have to struggle with climbing the stairs on his knee (without one leg) and falling! Thank you EZ-ACCESS!
The ramp is very nice looking. Looks well constructed. The installer did a great job putting it in. He was also very nice and informative about use and care of ramp. Thank you.
Freedom to get out of the house for over 6 months being shut up in the house. Thank EZ-ACCESS for my Freedom and the VA Hospital.
Both the ramp and installer … have been an absolute blessing to my husband Roy, also our family. It has given my husband back some greatly missed independence and safety! He now can not only walk to our vehicle- access our front porch where he can watch and interact with our grandchildren – family- neighbors. Your help in all of this is greatly appreciated and we give all involved our heartfelt thanks!
Having a Pathway Modular System provides me an element of safety in an environment that had caused me numerous falls in the past. The first access was on April 25, 2014 when I was able to get in a car, go to the Pharmacy for medicine, gas station for gasoline, bank for deposits and grocery store for shopping. It was the first time out of my house since September 2013.
To whom it may concern, I want to thank you, as a veteran that has been in a wheelchair for about 6 years, this ramp has made a difference in how I get into my home. Your distributor was very helpful & prompt in getting it up. This will make my life a lot easier & quality of life will be better. Sincerely & Thank you.
Good product, has made entry and exit access very easy for our daughter.
The ramp makes our home look good. Instead of taking away from the landscaping, it adds to it. Our neighbors are amazed how nice it is. Thank you.
Make easier for getting in mobile home. Army vet, make life more easy. Thank you!
Getting in and out of home easily. Thank you.
Safety- I won't fall as easy. Thank you so much!
I am finally able to get out of my house after almost 4 years of being cooped up here and not able to get anywhere. The first place I want to go is shooting.
This gives my father a safety entrance and exit of his home. The two gentlemen that installed the ramp were absolutely wonderful and we are really grateful the VA of Butler chose EZ-ACCESS for the ramp and installation.
I love the ramp most because I can sit in my wheelchair and ride out of the house to car. Also, it provides a safety as I cannot walk and my wheelchair will not go through the other door to outside in case of fire.
I love the new ramp completely. Now, I can get out on my back porch any time I want to. The first place I plan to go is around my property! Where I used to walk, I can now ride! most of all, though I can get out of the house and go without hindrance, anywhere I want to go.
The ramp is great, and well put together. It is a lot of help to me.
This ramp allows me independence. I can move in and out of my house without the aid of my spouse. I roll out the door onto the ramp. I love it. Freedom!!
Outside! Much easier now to get in and out of house with my walkers and wheelchair as i can barely go up steps. This is much safer for me.
it was able to be installed in a single day. Grandfather loves it, and has given him freedom to get out of house by himself.
The safety of the ramp system is far better than the homemade wood ramp i had previous. I am able to enter and exit with ease and safety. First place i will go is for a ride around my neighborhood. Thanks.
The EZ-ACCESS Pathway Ramp is awesome! It will allow my husband, Ron, a Marine easier access to our backyard and the freedom to be mobile once again!
This ramp will help me so much. The installation was quick, clean, and better than I could hope for. Thanks so much.


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Q: Underbrace an equation with its result I have several formulas that are too long to fit into the \textwidth of my page. That's why I want them underbraced with the result-formulation beneath them. Something like this.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{mathtools}

\begin{document}

\begin{flalign*}
&\lefttext{\hspace{1cm}odd :} & \mathclap{\mathbf{Dark}\mathrm{[Bias]$-$}pix_\frac{n+1}{2}(x,y)} &&\\
&\lefttext{\hspace{1cm}even :} & \mathclap{\underbrace{ \dfrac{1}{2}\left(\mathbf{Dark}\mathrm{[Bias]}\text{-}pix_\frac{n}{2}(x,y) + \mathbf{Dark}\mathrm{[Bias]}\text{-}pix_{\frac{n}{2}+1}(x,y)\right)}_{= \text{Master-\textbf{Dark}[Bias]-}pix(x,y)}}
\end{flalign*}

\end{document}

My questions are the following two. How can I make the underbrace look as if it does not only refer to the longer one under which it is located? With a little vertical space this might be more clear. Sorry, everything is a bit complicated with the two \lefttext{} for each equation. And second how can I make the result line look like a part of the whole equation rather than just a small text explanation under some part of some equation? The problem is that it does not very much look like a whole equation.
If anyone has another solution for presenting long equations without ripping them apart I am grateful too.

A: Here's a solution that uses multline, to split your equation into multiple lines, combined with cases or with drcases depending on what you prefer most:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mathtools}

\begin{document}

\begin{multline*}
    \text{Master-\textbf{Dark}[Bias]-}pix(x,y) \\
    =
    \begin{cases}
        \mathbf{Dark}\mathrm{[Bias]}\text{-}pix_{\frac{n+1}{2}}(x,y) & \text{if $n$ is odd,} \\
        \dfrac{1}{2}\left(\mathbf{Dark}\mathrm{[Bias]}\text{-}pix_{\frac{n}{2}}(x,y) + \mathbf{Dark}\mathrm{[Bias]}\text{-}pix_{\frac{n}{2}+1}(x,y)\right) & \text{if $n$ is even.} \\
    \end{cases}
\end{multline*}

\begin{multline*}
    \text{Master-\textbf{Dark}[Bias]-}pix(x,y) \\
    =
    \begin{cases}
        \text{if $n$ is odd:} & \mathbf{Dark}\mathrm{[Bias]}\text{-}pix_\frac{n+1}{2}(x,y) \\
        \text{if $n$ is even:} & \dfrac{1}{2}\left(\mathbf{Dark}\mathrm{[Bias]}\text{-}pix_{\frac{n}{2}}(x,y) + \mathbf{Dark}\mathrm{[Bias]}\text{-}pix_{\frac{n}{2}+1}(x,y)\right) \\
    \end{cases}
\end{multline*}

\begin{multline*}
    \begin{drcases}
        \text{if $n$ is odd:} & \mathbf{Dark}\mathrm{[Bias]}\text{-}pix_{\frac{n+1}{2}}(x,y) \\
        \text{if $n$ is even:} & \dfrac{1}{2}\left(\mathbf{Dark}\mathrm{[Bias]}\text{-}pix_{\frac{n}{2}}(x,y) + \mathbf{Dark}\mathrm{[Bias]}\text{-}pix_{\frac{n}{2}+1}(x,y)\right) \\
    \end{drcases}  \\
    = \text{Master-\textbf{Dark}[Bias]-}pix(x,y)
\end{multline*}

\begin{multline*}
    \begin{drcases}
        \mathbf{Dark}\mathrm{[Bias]}\text{-}pix_{\frac{n+1}{2}}(x,y) & \text{if $n$ is odd,} \\
        \dfrac{1}{2}\left(\mathbf{Dark}\mathrm{[Bias]}\text{-}pix_{\frac{n}{2}}(x,y) + \mathbf{Dark}\mathrm{[Bias]}\text{-}pix_{\frac{n}{2}+1}(x,y)\right) & \text{if $n$ is even.} \\
    \end{drcases}  \\
    = \text{Master-\textbf{Dark}[Bias]-}pix(x,y)
\end{multline*}

\end{document}

Or the very same with abbreviation commands:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mathtools}

\newcommand\B{[\mathrm{Bias}]}
\newcommand\D{\mathbf{Dark}}

\begin{document}

\begin{multline*}
    \text{Master-\textbf{Dark}[Bias]-}pix(x,y) \\
    =
    \begin{cases}
        \D\B\text{-}pix_{\frac{n+1}{2}}(x,y) & \text{if $n$ is odd,} \\
        \dfrac{1}{2}\left(\D\B\text{-}pix_{\frac{n}{2}}(x,y) + \D\B\text{-}pix_{\frac{n}{2}+1}(x,y)\right) & \text{if $n$ is even.} \\
    \end{cases}
\end{multline*}

\begin{multline*}
    \text{Master-\textbf{Dark}[Bias]-}pix(x,y) \\
    =
    \begin{cases}
        \text{if $n$ is odd:} & \D\B\text{-}pix_{\frac{n+1}{2}}(x,y) \\
        \text{if $n$ is even:} & \dfrac{1}{2}\left(\D\B\text{-}pix_{\frac{n}{2}}(x,y) + \D\B\text{-}pix_{\frac{n}{2}+1}(x,y)\right) \\
    \end{cases}
\end{multline*}

\begin{multline*}
    \begin{drcases}
        \text{if $n$ is odd:} & \D\B\text{-}pix_{\frac{n+1}{2}}(x,y) \\
        \text{if $n$ is even:} & \dfrac{1}{2}\left(\D\B\text{-}pix_{\frac{n}{2}}(x,y) + \D\B\text{-}pix_{\frac{n}{2}+1}(x,y)\right) \\
    \end{drcases}  \\
    = \text{Master-\textbf{Dark}[Bias]-}pix(x,y)
\end{multline*}

\begin{multline*}
    \begin{drcases}
        \D\B\text{-}pix_{\frac{n+1}{2}}(x,y) & \text{if $n$ is odd,} \\
        \dfrac{1}{2}\left(\D\B\text{-}pix_{\frac{n}{2}}(x,y) + \D\B\text{-}pix_{\frac{n}{2}+1}(x,y)\right) & \text{if $n$ is even.} \\
    \end{drcases}  \\
    = \text{Master-\textbf{Dark}[Bias]-}pix(x,y)
\end{multline*}

\end{document}

EDIT: As to your request of having the formulae centered and using an underbrace:
Use \array to get something centered. Then put an \underbrace under the entire array:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{MnSymbol}

\newcommand\B{[\mathrm{Bias}]}
\newcommand\D{\mathbf{Dark}}

\begin{document}

\begin{equation*}
    \underbrace{
    \begin{array}{rc}
        \text{if $n$ is odd:} & \D\B\text{-}pix_{\frac{n+1}{2}}(x,y) \\
        \text{if $n$ is even:} & \dfrac{1}{2}\left(\D\B\text{-}pix_{\frac{n}{2}}(x,y) + \D\B\text{-}pix_{\frac{n}{2}+1}(x,y)\right)
    \end{array}
    }_{= \text{Master-\textbf{Dark}[Bias]-}pix(x,y)}
\end{equation*}

\end{document}