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Q: What universities have laid off tenured math faculty for financial reasons? When a math department lays off tenured staff, people cry out loud.
But, 10 years later, such memories are no longer popular discussion subjects, and so the information doesn't always spread.
Those who lived through it will of course remember. But will the younger get to know of the troubled past of a given university?
I would like to record incidents of universities laying off tenured math faculty for financial reasons. If you know of such an event, please write the name of the university, the year when it happened, and the number of tenured faculty that got laid off. Other relevant information, such whether or not there was a lawsuit, aggravating circumstances, etc. should also be included.
(This is a follow up on this discussion about the VU Amsterdam laying off people.)

A: Quoting from http://www.euro-math-soc.eu/node/3833, posted on May 29, 2013.

As result of a restructuring plan published two years ago, the Free University Amsterdam (VU) has now formally terminated the Geometry/Topology research programmes. The VU did not dismiss the members of the Geometry Section as originally planned, but the development has had serious consequences for several VU researchers:
    Tilman Bauer was allowed to stay on in his junior tenured position, relabelled as an "algebraist". However, he felt he could not continue working at the VU and he resigned from his position without having another job lined up. Fortunately, Tilman quickly got a position at KTH Stockholm. Jan Dijkstra was demoted from Professor to Lecturer. Jan has decided to leave the VU and The Netherlands later this year when he becomes eligible for early retirement. Dietrich Notbohm was demoted from Professor to Associate Professor on a temporary (5 years) contract.

A: A Google search of "tenured faculty layoffs" returns several instances in the US, in particular in the state of Florida, where layoffs of tenured faculty were planned. In a number of instances, e.g. Florida State University, these plans were rescinded after public brouhaha and legal fights.

A: Two tenured professors at the University of Uppsala, Oleg Viro and Burglind Joricke, were forced to resign in 2007. The reason seems to have been a disagreement with the rector of the University, Anders Hallberg, over an appointment of an applied maths professor. (As far as I know, there weren't financial reasons involved, but still I thought it might be worthwhile to mention this here.)
More details can be found here http://www.pdmi.ras.ru/~olegviro/Uppsala-8-2-2007.html

A: Since other answers mention cases which were not financially motivated, here is another one:
Gutkin v. University of Southern California (2002)
The document below concerns the complaint Eugene Gutkin filed in 2001 against University of Southern California, which dismissed him in 2000. He appealed the decision and sought damages, but lost the case. I will quote the paragraph describing the circumstances of his dismissal; the full text is here:
http://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/4th/101/967.html
"Gutkin's complaint alleged that he was a tenured professor of mathematics at the University. In the wake of a dispute over the University's requirement that Gutkin teach extra classes to "make up" for classes he had not been able to teach in the fall 1995 semester, the University initiated dismissal proceedings against Gutkin in October 1996. But Gutkin's dismissal hearing was not scheduled to take place until early December 1998, because, according to Gutkin, "[i]t took [the University] longer than anticipated to effectuate the deceptive alterations to the [faculty] [h]andbook" that would govern the "rigged [dismissal] procedures," and the University "dragged its feet." Gutkin further alleged that by December 1998, "[the University] had not finished its tampering, so the deceptively altered [h]andbook was not ready for posting on the Internet by the time of the scheduled hearing. . . . Consequently, [the University] unilaterally postponed the hearing until February 26, 1999."
The dismissal procedure outlined in the faculty handbook required a hearing before a panel of Gutkin's faculty peers. According to Gutkin, the panel selection process set out in the revised faculty handbook constituted a "charade of impartiality" that resulted in a "sham dismissal procedure." In March 1999, the faculty panel issued a recommendation to the president of the University that found that Gutkin had engaged in "serious neglect of duty," a ground for termination in the faculty handbook. The president of the University terminated Gutkin in March 2000 for "serious neglect of duty," as found by the faculty panel."

A: The maths department at Bangor university in Wales was closed in only the past 10 years. This was, if I recall rightly, because they scored relatively poorly on a national 'research quality' exercise, one that has since been redesigned somewhat (though perhaps not so much, as Jose points out in the comments, for mathematics).
I'm not sure about the number of staff, but at least two: Tim Porter and Ronnie Brown, both considered senior category theorists (among other things). (Edit by Tim: There were three members of staff Gareth Roberts, Chris Wensley and myself. Ronnie had retired normally a few years ago, but was still research active (very!).  The RAE was partially to blame, and its methodology was too open to highly subjective judgements, but the causes were ultimately a shortfall in funding for the overall system together with power struggles within and between universities. The replacement REF (see later comments) will use bibliometrics that are highly contentious and unproven.)
(Since this is CW, I invite Tim or Ronnie to freely edit this answer and supply more details)

A: It would be a mistake to get the impression from these answers that the phenomenon of tenured mathematicians being fired for dodgy political reasons is purely a new thing. For instance in the early 1950s (under McCarthyism) Oklahoma A&M instituted a loyalty oath; Ainsley Diamond, a quaker, refused to sign it and was fired and Nachman Aronszajn resigned in protest. Both moved to the University of Kansas.

A: In the early 30s, André Weil was fired from Aligarh Muslim University ostensibly for not cooperating in holding elections to the students' union.  Read his own account of the whole episode in his Souvenirs d'apprentissage.

A: In the late 1970s Yeshiva University in New York closed down its Math graduate program and fired a couple of tenured professors. I don't recall the details, but I remember that the matter came up before the Council of the AMS.

A: Going a little further down in history is pretty easy to find examples of great mathematicians being fired by political reasons like D. Egorov in 1929 for being "a sectarian" and defending the church or E. Noether in 1933.


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Question #2: Rav Mordechai, a fundraiser acquaintance of mine, asked me how to fulfill the mitzvah of hadlakas Ner Chanukah when he is out of town soliciting tzedakah until late in the evening.
Question #3: The Schwartz family is spending Shabbos Chanukah with friends on the other side of town. May they kindle the menorah at their friends' home on motzei Shabbos, or must they wait until they return home?
True, most of us will not be collecting funds all of Chanukah or flying to Japan. However, resolving these shaylos provides a good opportunity to explain the mitzvah of Ner Chanukah in greater depth. First, we will go through the basics of the mitzvah, and then we will examine the details that apply to travelers.
Every Jew must light Chanukah lights or have an agent kindle for him (see Rambam, Hilchos Chanukah 3:4). Many people do not know that the basic mitzvah requires kindling only one flame, whether oil or candle, for the entire household on each night of Chanukah, regardless of which night of Chanukah it is, and regardless of how many people live in one's house (Shabbos 21b). Kindling the additional lights is in order to observe the mitzvah according to the exemplary standard that the Gemara terms mehadrin min hamehadrin.
The second method Rav Zeira suggests is when the guest is a member of his own household, although he is not with them for Chanukah. In this case, he is automatically included when his family kindles, even though he is not home.
By the way, the guest can fulfill his mitzvah in a third way — by kindling his own menorah in his host's house. However, in this instance, if he wants to recite a bracha on his own kindling, he should decide that he is following this approach before his wife kindles (Mishnah Berurah 677:15). Otherwise, since he has already fulfilled his responsibility to perform the mitzvah through his wife's kindling in his house, his own kindling is unnecessary and a bracha recited before kindling them is levatalah, in vain.
What happens if the guest is in a different time zone from his family? Can the guest fulfill his mitzvah with his family's kindling even though he is in a different time zone?
The poskim who discuss this shaylah dispute whether one fulfills the mitzvah with his family's lighting if their lighting takes place at a time when there is no mitzvah to kindle Ner Chanukah in his time zone. According to many, an Israeli resident visiting the United States will not fulfill the mitzvah through his family's kindling and vice versa (Shu't Minchas Yitzchak 7:46; however, see Halichos Shelomoh Volume 2 pg. 261, that Rav Shelomoh Zalman Auerbach disagrees). Minchas Shelomoh II:56:2 s.v. ומ"מ (red edition) contends that you fulfill the mitzvah with your household; a guest has no household and therefore has his own mitzvah. Furthermore, there is no evidence that Rav Shelomoh Zalman held that you fulfill the mitzvah with your household when you are east of your family – it could be that he held this way only when you are west of the family, and thus they have fulfilled their chiyuv already and you never become chayov in the mitzvah. But where the individual is east of his family, and thus becomes chayov earlier, it could be that the halacha is different.
Nevertheless, someone traveling within the United States might fulfill his or her mitzvah through the kindling at home if the family kindles when people are still frequenting the streets in the city that he/she is visiting.
According to our analysis, if Shlomo Rabinowitz was flying from Chicago to New York instead of Japan, he could rely on the candle lighting in his house since the candles will be kindled at a time that he is obligated in Ner Chanukah. (We will discuss shortly whether he recites the bracha she'asah nissim upon arrival in New York.) However, if he is in Asia, it is unclear whether he can rely on his family's menorah since his family will kindle the lights at a time when he cannot perform the mitzvah.
WHAT IF SOMEONE HAS NO REAL RESIDENCE ON CHANUKAH?
Rashi (Shabbos 23a) cites the following case: Someone traveling by boat who is unable to light a menorah should recite the brachos of she'asah nissim and shehechiyanu (on the first night of Chanukah) when he sees a kindled menorah, even though he is not kindling himself. In other words, one recites the bracha of she'asah nissim in commemoration of the miracle of the lights and not for the actual mitzvah of kindling. Similarly, we recite the bracha shehechiyanu for seeing the lights of the menorah, not for fulfilling the mitzvah of kindling. However, in both instances one recites the bracha only on a menorah that fulfills the mitzvah, and not on a menorah lit in a shul or other public place. Kindling menorah in a shul or other public place is only a custom and does not fulfill the mitzvah (Shu't Rivosh #111).
However, we still need to explore whether an airplane has the same halacha as the boat discussed by Rashi. To explain the possible difference, we will first discuss a teshuvah authored by Rav Shalom Mordechai Shvadron, the famous Maharsham of Brezan, the posek of his generation (late 19th century – early 20th century Galicia) about kindling menorah while riding a train.
Rav Shimon Valtuch, the Rav of Leipzig, Germany, sent a shaylah to the Maharsham asking whether someone traveling by train should light his Chanukah menorah on board. The Maharsham ruled that since he has paid for the entire night, it is as if he rented a house to eat and sleep, and the obligations of Ner Chanukah apply on the train.
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A BOAT AND THE TRAIN?
But if so, why does Rashi rule that someone traveling by boat cannot fulfill the mitzvah of kindling Chanukah lights and instead recites the brachos of she'asah nissim and shehechiyanu on the lights he sees on shore. Why does the Maharsham give a different ruling concerning a train than Rashi ruled concerning someone traveling by boat? The Maharsham explains that Rashi's case involved an unroofed boat which cannot qualify as a house since it does not provide adequate shelter. This implies that someone spending Chanukah on a cruise ship or even on a yacht would have a mitzvah of kindling menorah on board.
The Maharsham considers whether the train is the same as a house even though it is constantly moving, and rules that this makes no difference. Thus, someone in a house trailer should kindle a menorah in its window, even if the trailer is on the move. However, it is unclear whether someone spending Chanukah night traveling in a car or truck should kindle Ner Chanukah there, since he has nowhere to sleep properly. Therefore, it might not be considered as lodging.
In addition, we should note that there is evidence that other authorities contemporaneous to the Maharsham did not accept his opinion, but felt that one fulfills the mitzvah only in a proper residence.
There are two common ways of traveling by train – either in a private compartment, or, more commonly, on a seat in a public compartment. Since the Maharsham seems to consider even the second case enough of a lodging to light, this implies that one's seat on a plane is also considered sufficient "lodging" to require kindling Chanukah lights on board.
Because of safety considerations, no one will permit you to kindle a menorah on an airplane. However, according to those opinions that one may fulfill the mitzvah of kindling Chanukah lights with a flashlight or an electric light (a subject we will iy"H discuss a different time), Shlomo Rabinowitz traveling to Japan in the middle of Chanukah has an interesting solution to his predicament. He can take a flashlight or other battery operated light onto the plane with him, turn it on for the purpose of fulfilling the mitzvah of Ner Chanukah, and leave it burning for half an hour. Although this is only one light, I noted above that one fulfills the mitzvah of Ner Chanukah by kindling only one light. (If practical, he could bring along a few flashlights and fulfill the mitzvah mehadrin min hamehadrin.) For those interested in following this approach, Rav Shelomoh Zalman Auerbach contends that it is preferable to fulfill the mitzvah of Ner Chanukah with a battery-operated light over other electric lights (Halichos Shelomoh Volume 2, pg. 283).
CAN HE KINDLE IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM?
Although kindling in the conference room may inform everyone that it is Chanukah, one does not fulfill the mitzvah with these lights, because one fulfills the mitzvah only in one's residence.
Does Shlomo Rabinowitz fulfill the mitzvah by kindling in his hotel room?
Yes, because the mitzvah of Ner Chanukah is fulfilled even in a place that is his home for only one night (Chovas Hadar, Ner Chanukah 2:9).
If people can see the lit menorah from outside, it is preferable to light in a window. If no one can see the menorah from outside, he should simply kindle the menorah on a table in his room.
WHEN MUST HE KINDLE THE MENORAH?
Ideally, he should kindle the menorah around nightfall wherever he is. However, if this is not practical, he may fulfill the mitzvah at any time that it is common to find people in the streets of the town that he is visiting. If he cannot return to his room until even later than this time, he should kindle the menorah without reciting the brachos. This is assuming he is traveling alone. If he is traveling with someone else who is Jewish, he can recite the brachos even late at night, provided that both of them are awake to witness the kindling (Teshuvos V'Hanhagos 2:215).
What about Rav Mordechai, our fund raiser? How does he fulfill the mitzvah of hadlakas Ner Chanukah while he solicits tzedakah the entire evening?
I suggested that he appoint an agent (a shaliach) at the place where he is sleeping to kindle the menorah on his behalf. Alternatively, he could acquire partial ownership in the oil of his host's menorah by paying him a token sum of money.
Where do I light menorah if I visit a friend for Chanukah dinner and I am not staying overnight?
Many people mistakenly think that one may fulfill the mitzvah by kindling the menorah at someone else's house while visiting. I know of people who invite guests to their house for menorah kindling and dinner. The problem is that one is required to kindle Chanukah lights at one's own house, and kindling at the friend's house does not fulfill the mitzvah. Therefore, the guest must kindle the Chanukah lights at his own house and then leave to join the festive meal (Taz 677:2; Mishnah Berurah 677:12).
Remember the Schwartz family that is spending Shabbos Chanukah with friends on the other side of town? Must they come home to kindle on motzei Shabbos, or can they kindle at the home where they were Shabbos guests?
If one spends Shabbos at someone's house, he may kindle the menorah there on Motzaei Shabbos (Tshuvos V'Hanhagos 1:391). Some poskim suggest that one remain near the menorah until it has burned for a half-hour (see Tshuvos V'Hanhagos 1:394).
The Gemara teaches that someone who kindles Ner Shabbos and Ner Chanukah will merit to have sons who are Talmidei Chachomim (Shabbos 23b, see Rashi). This is puzzling — since all observant Jews kindle these lights, why are there not many more Talmidei Chachomim? The Rishonim explain that this promise only applies to someone who observes the mitzvah carefully in all its details (Sod Hadlakas Ner Chanukah, authored by Rabbi Yitzchok, the son of the Raavad). So it is certainly worthwhile to thoroughly review the halachos of Chanukah lights before the wonderful days of Chanukah catch up with us.
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Rick Perry Under Investigation for Abuse of Texas Governor's Office
August 17, 2013 By Allen Clifton
Republicans are clearly no strangers to blackmail. Heck, Congressional Republicans have been trying to blackmail President Obama since he took office. So it should come as no surprise to see Texas Governor Rick Perry being investigated for possibly abusing his office when he tried to blackmail Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg after a DUI arrest this past April.
Lehmberg pled guilty and served half of a 45 day jail sentence, but refused to give in to calls from Republicans and Governor Perry to resign.
So what did Perry do? Well, he threatened to cut funding for the state's Public Integrity Unit, which Lehmberg resided over, if she didn't step down from her position.
Not only did he threaten this, he did so publicly.
She didn't step down, and in June Rick Perry vetoed $3.7 million in funding for the program. As a result of the budget cuts, the office was then forced to layoff 10 employees and drop 54 of its 400 active cases.
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NJ Gov. Christie Supports Kids' Access to Medical Marijuana
But lawmakers annoyed by insistence that pediatrician, psychiatrist OK treatments
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New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has expressed support for allowing chronically ill children to have easier access to medical marijuana, but he sent a bill on the issue back to the legislature for tweaks that would require two doctors to approve each prescription.
Christie agreed to allow state-approved dispensaries to grow more than three strains of the drug and produce edible forms of marijuana.
He opposed a part of the bill that would have dropped a requirement that both a psychiatrist and pediatrician sign off on a child's plan to use medical marijuana. A third doctor would need to give approval if one of the others were not registered to participate in the program, Fox reports..
If lawmakers approve the change, it will become law.
One of the bill's sponsors, Sen. Nick Scutari, told Fox he thought the psychiatric review was an unnecessary hurdle.
Via Fox News
New Jersey Bans Gay Conversion Therapy for Minors
It becomes the second state to prohibit the practice
A sign protesting gay conversion therapy at a demonstration in Wheaton, Ill. • Image: The Atlantic
The controversial practice of "conversion" therapy for gay youth has been banned in New Jersey, under a law signed Monday by Gov. Chris Christie.
New Jersey will now be the second state, after California, to prohibit services from licensed therapists that attempt to change the sexual orientation of minors.
Christie said he is against "government limiting parental choice on the care and treatment of their own children,'' but in this case sided with experts who say conversion therapy doesn't work and is damaging to youth.
The American Psychological Association says the practice can lead to depression, suicidal thoughts and substance abuse in teens.
Via USA TODAY
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Texas Gov. Rick Perry Seeks $100M From Obamacare Law He Opposes
'It's simply shameful,' one activist said about the move
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who is, shall we say, not exactly a huge fan of Obamacare, is in talks with the Obama administration to accept about $100 million for his state through the health law.
State officials are negotiating the terms for an optional Obamacare program that would fund increased services for care for the elderly and people with disabilities in their homes and communities, Politico reports.
Perry spokesman Josh Havens told Politico that the governor has wanted to provide more aid to people with disabilities.
"Long before Obamacare was forced on the American people, Texas was implementing policies to provide those with intellectual disabilities more community options to enable them to live more independent lives, at a lower cost to taxpayers," the statement read.
But Democrats have accused Perry of hypocrisy. READ MORE
Oklahoma Teens Killed Australian Because They Were 'Bored'
Australian leader calls for boycott of US to send a gun control message
Australian baseball player Christopher Lane, shot dead in Duncan, Oklahoma • AP
An Australian college baseball player was shot dead while he was out jogging during a visit to his girlfriend in Duncan, Oklahoma. The three suspects, aged 15, 16, and 17, shot Australian student Christopher Lane apparently at random. One of them confessed to the police that "we were bored and didn't have anything to do, so we decided to kill somebody."
While the US press didn't at first publicly identified the suspects, the Australian media isn't so circumspect and published names and images. Conservative outlets like Drudge and the Daily Caller then picked up on the fact that at least two of the three suspects were black and killed a white man, and are implying that there is a race-based moral lesson to be drawn. It might be more accurate to describe suspect Chancey Luna, accused of pulling the trigger, as mixed race since his mother is white.
Top Roger Ailes Adviser Fired and Escorted From Fox News Building
Brian Lewis and Roger Ailes
UPDATED: Brian Lewis, executive vp corporate communications, was ousted after an investigation found breach of contract and "issues relating to financial irregularities," the network says in a statement.
Brian Lewis, a Fox News Channel veteran executive considered the right-hand man to Roger Ailes, was working on his separation agreement Tuesday after having been fired and escorted from his office last month over what insiders are calling financial issues and other performance problems, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.
"After an extensive internal investigation of Brian Lewis' conduct by Fox News, it was determined that he should be terminated for cause, specifically for issues relating to financial irregularities, as well as for multiple, material and significant breaches of his employment contract," a company spokesperson said Tuesday. "He was terminated for cause on July 25."
Lewis, who had been a top executive since Ailes founded the powerful cable news network 17 years ago, was most recently executive vp corporate communications, overseeing public relations not only for Fox News but also the Fox Business Network, Fox Television Stations and 20th Television.
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package ezbake.intent.query.processor;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import ezbake.query.intents.FieldSort;
import ezbake.query.intents.MissingOrder;
import ezbake.query.intents.SortOrder;
import org.apache.thrift.TException;

import ezbake.base.thrift.EzSecurityToken;
import ezbake.configuration.EzConfiguration;
import ezbake.intent.query.utils.Conversions;
import ezbake.query.intents.BinaryPredicate;
import ezbake.query.intents.IntentType;
import ezbake.query.intents.Predicate;
import ezbake.query.intents.Query;

public class QueryGeneratorImpl implements QueryGenerator {

    private static final String SECUUID = "secuuid";

    private final InsService insService;
    private final SecurityStorage securityStorage;

    public QueryGeneratorImpl(final EzConfiguration configuration, SecurityStorage securityStorage) {
        if (configuration != null) {
            insService = new InsService(configuration);
        } else {
            insService = null;
        }

        this.securityStorage = securityStorage;
    }

    @Override
    public String generateSQLString(Query query, EzSecurityToken token) throws TException {
        String sqlString = generateMainSqlString(query, token);

        if (query.isSetPage()) {
            return generatePagingSQLString(query, sqlString);
        }
        return sqlString;
    }

    private String generateMainSqlString(Query query, EzSecurityToken token) throws TException {
        IntentType primaryTable = query.getPrimaryQuery().getIntent();

        List<String> appNames = new ArrayList<>();
        if (insService != null) {
            appNames = insService.getAppNames(primaryTable.name());

        } else {
            appNames.add("testapp");
        }

        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        int appSize = appNames.size();

        for (int i = 0; i < appSize; i++) {
            String tableName = appNames.get(i) + "_" + primaryTable.name();
            sb.append(generateSqlStringForTable(tableName, query, token));

            if (i < appSize - 1) {
                sb.append(" UNION ALL ");
            }
        }

        return sb.toString();
    }

    private String generatePagingSQLString(Query query, String sqlString) {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

        if (sqlString.contains("UNION ALL")) {
            // use a sub query
            sb.append("SELECT ");
            appendSelectColumns(sb, query);
            sb.append(" FROM (");
            sb.append(sqlString);
            sb.append(") t");
        } else {
            sb.append(sqlString);
        }

        sb.append(" ORDER BY ");

        if (query.isSetSortCriteria()) {
            List<FieldSort> sortCriterias = query.getSortCriteria();
            int sortCount = sortCriterias.size();
            for (int i = 0; i < sortCount; i++) {
                FieldSort sort = sortCriterias.get(i);
                sb.append(sort.getField());
                if (sort.isSetOrder() && sort.getOrder() == SortOrder.DESCENDING) {
                    sb.append(" DESC");
                } else {
                    sb.append(" ASC");
                }

                if (sort.isSetMissing() && sort.getMissing() == MissingOrder.FIRST) {
                    sb.append(" NULLS FIRST");
                } else {
                    sb.append(" NULLS LAST");
                }

                if (i < sortCount - 1) {
                    sb.append(", ");
                }
            }

        } else {
            // default to order by 1 column
            sb.append("1 ASC");
        }

        if (query.isSetPage()) {
            sb.append(" LIMIT ");
            sb.append(query.getPage().getPageSize());
            sb.append(" OFFSET ");
            sb.append(query.getPage().getOffset());
        }
        return sb.toString();
    }

    private void appendSelectColumns(StringBuilder sb, Query query) {
        int columnCount = query.getRequestedColumnsSize();
        for (int i = 0; i < columnCount; i++) {
            sb.append(query.getRequestedColumns().get(i));
            if (i < columnCount - 1) {
                sb.append(",");
            }
        }
    }

    private StringBuilder generateSqlStringForTable(String tableName, Query query, EzSecurityToken token) throws TException {
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder("SELECT ");
        appendSelectColumns(sb, query);
        sb.append(" FROM ");
        sb.append(tableName);

        if (query.getPrimaryQuery().isSetPredicates()) {
            sb.append(" WHERE ");

            int predicateCount = query.getPrimaryQuery().getPredicates().size();

            // ( col1 OR col2) AND (col3 OR col4)
            for (int i = 0; i < predicateCount; i++) {
                List<Predicate> orPredicates = query.getPrimaryQuery().getPredicates().get(i);

                constructOrClause(sb, orPredicates);

                if (i < predicateCount - 1) {
                    sb.append(" AND ");
                }
            }

            // append secuuid
            if (predicateCount > 0) {
                sb.append(" AND ");
            }
            sb.append(SECUUID + " = '");
            sb.append(securityStorage.storeToken(token));
            sb.append("'");
        } else {
            sb.append(" WHERE ");
            sb.append(SECUUID + " = '");
            sb.append(securityStorage.storeToken(token));
            sb.append("'");
        }

        return sb;
    }

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Monica Valentinelli's contribution to The Zombie Feed Vol. 1 is a visceral, irreverent, stream-of-consciousness narrative from the perspective of troubled Officer Mike Francis, a badge-carrying member of civilized society's last-stand response to a world gone mad. It's not the zombies Office Mike worries about–with a little fire, he can manage them–it's all the other nutcases left behind, the ones who hide behind their fancy gated mansions and pretend like nothing's changed. With them, you just never know what to expect, and that can be deadly. This is no quiet tale of love and loss: it's a story that cuts to the quick and reveals the rotten madness even the living try to hide. If you're brave enough, check out Monica's story, "Tomorrow's Precious Lambs" in The Zombie Feed Vol. 1!
Depends upon the story. If I'm writing on spec, I have to hear the story in my head otherwise the prose is robotic and stunted. If I'm writing "to" spec, on the other hand, I often work with the editor or project manager to make sure I'm fitting whatever voice they need for the publication. Then, I let that idea simmer for a bit before I start working on a draft. Longer stories like novels and novellas, on the other hand, I have to plot out regardless. Otherwise I wind up wasting precious time because I have no idea where Plot A begins and Plot D ends.
"Tomorrow's Precious Lambs" was interesting because I heard a song in my head before I sat down to write it. Wrote the song first, then the story. The process felt like I was writing a creepy refrain to a musical pastiche. I think this was the fastest story I've ever written and polished because it was just that clear in my head. Doesn't always happen that way, though I wish it would.
2. The Horror Question: Some writers claim that writing dark stories is easier than writing light ones. True or false for you, and why?
True! When I write in the dark, I focus on conflict and contrast. What isn't dark, as opposed to why the dark is so terrible. Why did the dark infiltrate into a normal world? Where did the dark come from? Those questions help me develop the world I want to tell my story in. Then I hone in on characterization. How does that character feel about the dark? What is their role in that world? Are they contributing to the dark, or are they fighting against it?
Monica Valentinelli is a professional author and game designer. Described as a "force of nature" by her peers, Monica has been published through Abstract Nova Press, Eden Studios, White Wolf Publishin, Apex Magazine and others. Her credits include: a short story entitled "Pie" in the award-winning Buried Tales of Pinebox, Texas anthology through 12 to Midnight and The Queen of Crows. For more information about Monica, visit www.mlvwrites.com .


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Stef W. Kight May 10, 2019
The Trump administration is making it much more difficult to seek asylum
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The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services asylum division has been asked to begin training Border Patrol agents to being conducting "credible fear" interviews — the first screening asylum seekers must pass before applying for asylum, the L.A. Times reports.
Why it matters: It's yet another bit of guidance intended to make the asylum process more difficult as the Trump administration struggles to process and detain record numbers of migrant families and children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. The White House has backed the plan, with Stephen Miller arguing that they will be tougher on migrants than asylum officers, NBC News has reported.
There are other ways the asylum process is becoming more difficult:
The waiting game: The Trump administration has capped the number of asylum claims they will accept each day at legal ports of entry. It's led to around 13,000 immigrants waiting along the border for their chance at asylum, the AP reports.
Asylum seekers are given numbers on plastic wristbands to mark their place in line, and some have waited months. But others sometimes decide they can't wait and attempt to cross the border illegally to submit their asylum claim.
One Honduran father and his 3 children are believed to have drowned after giving up on waiting and attempting to illegally cross into the U.S. via the Rio Grande, according to the AP.
Tougher questioning: Asylum officers have been told to be tougher on immigrants during the initial credible fear interview. Officers are now expected to provide detailed accounts for their asylum determinations and thoroughly question migrants' stories of why they fear returning to their home country.
Remain in Mexico: A recent federal court ruling allows immigration officials to force some asylum seekers to wait in Mexico until their asylum case is decided — which can take months.
The bottom line: Migrant adults, families and minors often fleeing poverty and violence are often being forced to wait months to claim asylum at legal ports of entry. And while most immigrants pass the initial credible fear interview, the median asylum grant rate for all immigration courts is just 11%, according to the Justice Department.
Go deeper: How the U.S. asylum process works


Basically, about a ton more traffic on the main BSB site. But I've also noticed more activity on the Twitter account (the Facebook page feeds into it), and some retweets of books for the other author I publish, so more visibility for her as well. No extra sales yet, but I didn't expect that after just one week. It takes awhile for efforts like this to be lucrative, and we haven't published anything new lately (as in, over a year – yikes!).
In any case, this is motivating to me. Seeing what she can do in just one week, with just one of our pages has been pretty enlightening. Could I do it myself? Sure. Will I, and do I want to? No, and no. Otherwise I wouldn't have let it sit neglected for so long. So I'm keeping her on, and am going to pay for some help in other areas as well for awhile. I think that with her managing the day-to-day promotion, and me working in other ways, we might just be able to pick book sales up.
One of the main things we need to do though is get some new releases out – as soon as possible. So getting in gear with the writing is paramount, and I also want to do some collections that I wanted to put together a long time ago, and never quite found the time for.
I've decided I'd like to have the option of retiring from my day job at roughly the same time my husband will hit retirement age…which is in 13 years (how's that for a nice lucky target?). In order to do that, I need to get some debt paid off, get some more solid investments going, and…I'd like to be at a point with my writing where it's making a passable monthly stipend. I have other potential income streams as well that would allow me to work part time to supplement my early retirement. But of course if I don't to where I need to be for whatever reason, I'll still have my day job. Nothing says I have to retire early, so I do have a security net. Not so important to others, perhaps, but very important to me.
In the interest of gauging where I started with my writing vs. where I need to be, I went back and read the openings of three of my first books. And you know what? While I can see where they could use improvement, they really aren't bad at all. They held my interest enough that I could easily have kept reading. I certainly think they're good enough to give someone a pleasant hour or two of entertainment. It's important to acknowledge this, because I've struggled a lot with feeling like I was a "bad writer" due to low sales for a good long while, but while I have plenty of room to improve, I still think those early books are good stories. And I think I've gotten better, and will continue to get better with hard work and practice.
What I'm saying is, for the first time in a long while, I have hope that I'll keep improving, and in the meantime, still entertain people while I'm learning. I'd lost that hope somewhere along the way. I'm happy to have it back.
In any case, a good investment, in more ways than one. And this weekend, I'll be making out a plan that will stretch out over the next 13 years, so I can work my way to where I want to be in my retirement years – as a full-time writer making decent money to tell stories.
Now back to writing. Because it always comes back to writing.


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🧠 🔮 Consciousness, AI & the future of the metaverse
The human brain feels like the final frontier in biology: a mysterious, squishy locus of incomplete theories and unanswered questions. But its riddles are beginning to unravel. Neuroscientists and philosophers are building a better picture of our brains, how they work and why we think and feel the way we do.
Anil Seth is one of the clearest, most engaging and most cited researchers on the workings of the brain. His work is an effort to answer some of science's hardest questions with huge implications across all fields of human endeavour: how do our brains give rise to consciousness?
Anil is the Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex, where he also runs the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science. He's the author of the new book, Being You: A New Science of Consciousness, which is getting rave reviews from all quarters. Anil also happens to be a member of Exponential View and a dear friend.
I had the pleasure of speaking to him on this week's podcast. He was absolutely captivating on consciousness research, the state of the art in neuroscience, and the problems a better understanding of the brain could soon start to solve.
You can listen to our discussion here, or read a transcript here.
One of the key ideas in consciousness science is the distinction between 'easy problems' and the 'hard problem,' a distinction first made in the '90s by legendary philosopher David Chalmers (whom I am looking forward to chatting with on the podcast in a few weeks). Easy problems deal with how the brain works: what are the mechanisms at play? The 'hard problem' is why consciousness should arise at all. Anil's research builds on this distinction.
"[I]nstead of addressing that hard problem head on, my approach... is to accept that consciousness exists. And instead of trying to explain how it's magicked out of mere mechanism, to break it up into its different parts and explain the properties of those different parts… And as we do that, this hard problem seems to lose its lustre of mystery a bit. We're doing what science always does, which is we're able to explain, predict and control the properties of a system. And there's no reason we can't do that when it comes to consciousness."
For Anil, understanding the how of the brain can help chip away at the why. Moreover, it can offer real-world solutions to other problems on the way. One example: how to treat people with severe brain traumas.
Patients who suffer serious head injuries often end up in a coma. As Anil explains, they might partially recover, and find themselves in a persistent vegetative state. A neurologist can diagnose such a state from the outside; patients go through sleep-wake cycles, but "there really doesn't seem to be anyone at home":
"There's no voluntary action. There's no response to command, or to questions. It seems like no consciousness is there and people are often treated that way... But what the science of consciousness is allowing clinicians to do now is to not just rely on external signs of consciousness, but to look inside the brain... [there is] a way of measuring the complexity of brain activity by basically perturbing the brain with a very strong, very brief electromagnetic pulse and then listening to the echo… this measure turns out to be quite a good approximate measure of how conscious somebody is."
What Anil is describing is somewhat akin – in simplified terms – to a 'consciousness meter.' The process, developed by scientists including Marcelo Massimini and Giulio Tononi, measures something called the Perturbation Complexity Index. And it can make a major difference in patients' lives. The measure…
"... gives quite a good indication of whether somebody is, in fact, conscious, even though they can't express it outwardly, or will recover at least some conscious awareness. If you track the trajectory of patients over time, you'll find people that score high on this Perturbation Complexity Index tend to be the ones that do better over time. This is a direct clinical application of focusing on the brain basis of consciousness."
Brains and the metaverse
Better knowledge of our brains could have broader, more commercial applications, too. Anil takes issue with the metaverse, arguing that we should focus on the world as it is, rather than on alternative realities. But he does note that a fuller understanding of consciousness could help developers bridge the gap between our world and the (as-yet) unconvincing experiences that make up the metaverse:
"[W]hen we understand the role of interactions in shaping experiences, we can design VR environments to be more engaging, less frustrating, more useful to the extent that they can be."
Our conversation ranged widely and explored whether an AI could ever become conscious; why Anil explains consciousness as a functional hallucination; and the potential impact consciousness science can have on the psychiatric profession.
But as Anil points out, understanding consciousness is important in and of itself:
"Who am I? What does it mean to be me? Why am I me and not you? What happens after I die? Understanding how experiences of the self and the world are constructed can help each of us understand our relationship with the rest of the world, with each other and with nature much, much better, at a deeper level, and I think that is sufficient reward."
You can listen to my brilliant conversation with Anil in full here.


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Q: Using object in API response I'm building a API that responds to GET requests. One field is a object and it needs to be repeated with data for as many times as the query returns.
Can anyone give me a example of how to use a object in a response with c#? Also the class need to be create?
Thanks in advance.
ADD:
so far I have a structure like:
public class root
{
public int model { get; set; }
public string lang { get; set; }
public part[] parts { get; set; }
}

public class part
{
public int id { get; set; }
public string name { get; set; }
public type part_types { get; set; }
}

public class type
{
public string url { get; set; }
public string desc { get; set; }
}

and the response coming back as
{ "model" : 4 , "lang" : "en_US", "parts" : [ { "id" : 1545, "name" : "Part 1", "part_types" : { "url" : "part.com/type1", "desc" : "has 6 bits" } } ] }
but I need it like
{ "model" : 4 , "lang" : "en_US", "parts" : [ { "id" : 1545, "name" : "Part 1", "part_types" : { "type 1" : { "url" : "part.com/type1", "desc" : "has 6 bits" }, "type 2" : { "url" : "part.com/type2", "desc" : "has 7 bits." } } } ] }
The part_type field is the object and I made a class called type. But I need to have one or many type and specify the name of the type eg "type 1" then have 2 more fields under it url and desc. As you can see above has 2 type, type 1 and type 2.
Can anyone help me where I am going wrong?

A: So, if I understand correctly, you want "part_types" to be able to have many parts? In your current code, a part_types object can only have one.
You need two things:
1. A data type that is a collection, and
2. A serializer that writes that data type the way you want.
So, for example, you can use a Dictionary (System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary).
public Dictionary<string,type> part_types { get; set; }

So, assuming you have created objects type1 and type2, you would write:
mypart.part_types = new Dictionary<string,type>();
mypart.part_types.Add("type 1", type1);
mypart.part_types.Add("type 2", type2);

Now what happens depends on the serializer. I typically use Json.NET, which works well and is free. I set up my objects like yours but using the dictionary, and I get:
{
  "model": 4,
  "lang": "en_US",
  "parts": [
    {
      "id": 1545,
      "name": "Part 1",
      "part_types": {
        "type 1": {
          "url": "part.com/type1",
          "desc": "has 6 bits"
        },
        "type 2": {
          "url": "part.com/type1",
          "desc": "has 6 bits"
        }
      }
    }
  ]
}

I think that's what you're looking for... HOWEVER, using the DataContractJsonSerializer (System.Runtime.Serialization.Json.DataContractJsonSerializer), I get this:
{
  "lang": "en_US",
  "model": 4,
  "parts": [
    {
      "id": 1545,
      "name": "Part 1",
      "part_types": [
        { "Key" : "type 1", "Value": {"desc":"has 6 bits","url":"part.com\/type1"} },
        { "Key" : "type 2", "Value": {"desc":"has 6 bits","url":"part.com\/type1"} }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

I'm not sure how the DataContractJsonSerializer handles other collections (e.g. Lists, KeyValuePairs, etc.) so if you're using it, you may need to experiment.

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Plot: At the age of 21, Tim discovers he can travel in time and change what happens and has happened in his own life. His decision to make his world a better place by getting a girlfriend turns out not to be as easy as you might think.
Release Date: Monday 3rd February 2014
Director(s): Richard Curtis
Cast: Rachel McAdams, Bill Nighy, Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie, Tom Hollander and Lindsay Duncan
BBFC Certificate: 12A
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
About Time is the film equivalent of a warm blanket while someone you love hugs you; it'll make you feel better about life, love and the world in general and for that reason alone Mr. Curtis deserves praise.
Posted January 27, 2014 by Alex Moss Editor
It's About Time Richard Curtis got back to his rom-comming ways. While he may have written Steven Spielberg's War Horse and given us The Boat That Rocked (known to US readers as Pirate Radio) it is not since 2003's Love Actually that Curtis has written and directed a fully-fledged romantic comedy. Considering his knack for being the king of the British rom-com, which normally sees a foppish haired protagonist (Hugh Grant) trying to win the heart of an out of his league American girl, Curtis' return to the genre is a very welcome one. About Time is no exception to his modus operandi with one very clever sci-fi-light twist.
The night after his 21st Birthday Tim (Domhnall Gleeson) is informed by his Dad (Bill Nighy) that the men of their family have the unique ability of being able to travel in time. Well, back in time specifically and only to a point in time they've been before, so no going back and "killing Hitler". As luck would have it Tim soon finds a use for this new power and that is to win the affections of the too cute to be true Mary (Rachel McAdams). But, while Tim's new ability allows him to shift aspects of his life in a way that suits him, he soon realises that sometimes all the time in the world can't make life perfect.
Time travel and romance have a mixed relationship. Ask Bill Murray and he'll tell you that time travel allowed him to woo Andy McDowell, make of that what you will. Ask Marty McFly how he feels about and he'll cringe at the memory of his mum hitting on him in Back To The Future. Rachel McAdams on the other hand has form in this area having been seduced by first Eric Bana in The Time Traveler's Wife and now by a gangly ginger fella in About Time.
All the Curtis traits are here; over-sentimental music, and I-Pod full of cheesy-pop, a tufty haired slightly odd sister, perfectly cut English accents that wouldn't be out of place on Made In Chelsea and of course a collection of eccentric supporting characters. It's so wonderfully a Richard Curtis film fans will relish it while haters will find nothing to convert them.
To call the film 'cute' would be an understatement. It's littered with postcard like moments of perfection; the perfect Cornwall summer house, the wedding in the pouring rain, Tom Hollander's cynical playwright and a love story so perfect you sometimes wonder if any friction is ever going to enter proceedings. In fact if About Time has a flaw it's that it is often too good to be true. At one point Tim encounters an old flame, in the shape of rising star of The Wolf Of Wall Street Margot Robbie, that he never quite sealed the deal with. She offers him another shot but, having just started to date McAdams' character he politely turns her down. It opens up an interesting dilemma that Curtis shies away from addressing which is; if you could go back in time, without anyone knowing to have your cake and gobble it all down, is it technically cheating?
Thankfully unlike much of Curtis' film work, but something always present in his television writing, About Time seems to have a strong message outside of it's overly purified love. And that's to live each day without regret and treasure what you have. It may seem corny on the surface but the honest truth is, in a time when people are always looking at what they don't have it's About Time someone reminded us to appreciate what we do.
McAdams brings her usual brand of breathy beauty to the role, never feeling out of place as the only American in the cast. Gleeson continues to be a British actor worth keeping an eye on. As Tim he feels nothing short of another Curtis screen alter-ego; utterly charming, bumbling and one of the nicest people ever committed to film. Of course, as is want with any work of Curtis, it is the supporting roles who often steal the show. Hollander is brilliant as the hostile Harry, Joshua McGuire proves a wonder clown with perfect timing but it is Bill Nighy you wish had more screen time. As Tim's dad he's both mentor and best friend. Never one to pass judgment or give direct instructions he's like a slightly drunk Obi Wan Kenobi, wise but without feeling the need to impart his wisdom unless it's asked for, and even then probably in a brilliantly dry and sarcastic manner.
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Lakes at Titan's south pole Cassini's RADAR instrument acquired its first swath across the southern polar region on 2 October 2007, reaching to within 18 degrees of the south pole. Within the swath are small, irregularly shaped, radar-dark blobs much like the features that are now being interpreted as lakes in the northern regions, as well as many other features that share similarities with ones seen in the northern polar region. The similarity between the poles suggests that the surface features in the polar region are driven by Titan's climate. NASA / JPL-Caltech
Original image data dated on or about 02 October 2007
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Now you can expand your Seiken Densetsu enemy knowledge to include Bees, Ducks, Various Living Objects and Tomato Men. Awesome. Also, I'd like to point out that THE HAND OF FATE from the Seiken Densetsu series now points out the newest additions to the list, since it is getting really big now. I've gotta come up with a better index for it.
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really high clock frequency or multiple cores and advanced techniques.
to introduce it now before we go into actual superscalars.
register j, you operate r when you put it into register k.
after write hazard, or read after write dependency.
sure this happens before that because you need the value here.
instruction here reads register one, and the next instruction writes register one.
Okay, that should be no problem. That sounds great.
problem, or could potentially be a problem.
you are going to write register one so nothing, nothing bad happens.
big bucket and try to pull out instructions.
possible even think of having happen on a simple sort of, in order processor core.
If you do right back to the register file from different stages.
long leniency operation, so it could be like a multiply, and this is like an add.
So, we're going to call that a write after write dependency.
wrong value. So, that's, that's pretty important.
That's called an output dependence. Okay.
read after read hazard? So, superscalar processors.
here of the clock per instruction, potentially below one.
performance by executing multiple instructions in parallel.
or clock per instruction, which is instructions per clock.
of CPI versus CPI, clocks per instruction equals one over instructions per clock.
iInterchangeably in this class. Okay.
So, what types of superscalar processors can we talk about?
order. Well, you don't have to do that.
roughly Pentium [inaudible] class processor.
Pentium Celeron, is a out of order, three wide superscalar.
So, it can execute three instructions at a time.
original Pentium came out, that was a two wide machine.
So, it could execute two instructions at one time and was in order.
So, you can think about these different, different notions.


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Cristina D'Avena è una raccolta in vinile, dell'omonima artista, pubblicata il 26 ottobre 2015.

Antefatti
L'uscita dell'album viene annunciata il 3 agosto 2015, sulla pagina Facebook dell'artista, per il 6 novembre dello stesso anno. In seguito l'uscita dell'album venne anticipata al 26 ottobre. Nello stesso giorno l'artista si registrò anche su Twitter.

Il vinile

L'opera distribuita da Artist Firts, comprende il vinile in 33 giri, un megaposter, i testi dei brani e foto inedite. Tramite pre-order è stato possibile ricevere una copia dell'album autografata. In tutte le copie è presente una dedica dell'artista a Samuele Teglia, grande fan, amico e collega, morto in un incidente stradale nello stesso anno. Una dell foto è stata quindi stampata con la dedica "A Samuele". In questo vinile, inoltre, alcune sigle della generazione 2000 sono state per la prima volta pubblicate su vinile e queste sono Principesse gemelle, Doraemon, All'arrembaggio! e Rossana.

Dopo la pubblicazione dell'album Cristina D'Avena con i tuoi amici in TV del 1987, questo è il primo album in picture disc.

Tracce

 LP: RTIPD 15001

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Produzione

 Paolo Paltrinieri – Produzione artistica e discografica per R.T.I. SpA
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 Tony De Palma – Realizzazione a cura della Divisione Musica R.T.I. SpA
 Andrea Fecchio – Realizzazione a cura della Divisione Musica R.T.I. SpA
 Massimo Palma – Direzione artistica e supervisione progetto per Crioma Srl
 Andrea Galgano – Direzione artistica e supervisione progetto per Crioma Srl
 Clarissa D'Avena – Ufficio stampa e promozione per Crioma Srl

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L'album ha avuto un buon riscontro dal pubblico della D'Avena. L'album si è classificato trentatreesimo ne la Superclassifica di Sorrisi e Canzoni e primo nella classifica del sito Music First nella prima settimana di vendite al terzo posto nella seconda settimana e al quinto nella terza settimana di febbraio. Nella classifica FIMI il disco è registrato alle trentesima posizione e non alla trentatreesima. Nonostante il disco fosse destinato alla sola vendita su internet, a partire dal 30 ottobre è divenuto disponibile anche nei negozi.

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Tractor Parade to kickoff Main Street DeFuniak Springs Farmers' Market
By Niceville March 1, 2021 Updated: March 2, 2021 No Comments2 Mins Read
The March 20 Tractor Parade will travel along Baldwin Avenue starting from S. 5th St. near Firestone Service Center. It begins at 10:00 a.m.
DEFUNIAK SPRINGS, Fla — Main Street DeFuniak Springs will kick off its 2021 Farmers' Market Season on Saturday, March 20, 2021, on Baldwin Avenue. In addition to the variety of vendors, the opening day will include a tractor parade with numerous rare and restored tractors. Patrons are invited to shop the market beginning at 8 a.m. and enjoy the parade beginning at 10 a.m.
Hosted weekly, the Main Street Farmers' Market is held every Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon. Vendors are set up on Baldwin Avenue between S. 8th St. and S. 7th St. Shoppers are invited to stroll the street while browsing local farmers, makers and bakers.
Vendors interested in participating should visit www.mainstreetdfs.org/farmers-market/ to download the application or for additional information.
Beginning at 10 a.m., the March 20 Tractor Parade will travel along Baldwin Avenue starting from S. 5th St. near Firestone Service Center. The parade of rare and restored tractors will travel west through the Main Street district and loop back to S. 7th St., where the tractors will be parked and on display until noon.
For more information on Main Street DeFuniak Springs events, merchants and development news, visit www.MainStreetDFS.org and follow @MainStreetDFS on Facebook and Instagram. To contact Main Street DeFuniak Springs, email Info@mainstreetdfs.org or call (850) 296-9051.
About Main Street DeFuniak Springs: Main Street DeFuniak Springs is a registered 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization based in DeFuniak Springs, Florida. Main Street DeFuniak Springs's mission is to preserve, protect, maintain, and improve the historic downtown district of DeFuniak Springs, Florida, and to increase community events and economic vitality to the downtown business district region. To find out more about what is going on along Main Street DeFuniak Springs and how you can help, please visit www.MainStreetDFS.org.
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Q: Download Google Drive file shared through Gmail API I have a Python script that downloads audio attachments and transcribes them. Many of the files it is sent however are large. Google turns these files greater than 25MB into Google Drive links instead of regular attachments.
(As an aside, I found a way to download the files through the Google Drive API but then had the awful trouble of removing them -- as they are not owned by me and result in lots of 403's.)
I'm simply wondering if there is a way I can download the attachment when it comes as a Google Drive link (without using the Drive API).
The method I am using now is taken from the official docs.
Any help is appreciated!


The 2018/2019 season may have only just begun, but Big White Ski Resort has 2020 in its sights: the resort is in the early stages of being considered as a host for a FIS World Cup Snowboard Cross event next season.
What happens when famed, online freestyle skiing forum, Newschoolers, and Snow Park Technologies team together to rank the best terrain parks in the Northwest? Big White's TELUS Park ranks in the top five!
From April 3-6, 2014, Big White Ski Resort along with BC Snowboard are hosting the 2014 Sport Chek Canadian Snowboard Cross National Championships at Big White's TELUS Park. Riders from across Canada as well as riders who have joined us internationally will compete in their own respective categories which include Junior FIS, Senior FIS, U14 and Para Snowboard.
It was an incredible week at Big White Ski Resort, where the Sport Chek Canadian Snowboard Cross Championships took place. This year's Canadian Championships held a strong contingent of competitors with some excellent racing by the next generation of Canadian Snowboardcross riders.
The second of two IPC Para-Snowboard World Cup went off yesterday under stellar conditions, providing the best riding available to the world-class athletes that made their way to Big White Ski Resort in Kelowna, BC.


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Former Texas State Trooper Charged with Sexual Assault While On Duty
Toni Gee
Toni Gee Published: March 24, 2021
Lee Ray Boykin Jr., TX Department of Justice
A former Texas State Trooper is said to have used his position to sexually assault two women in Houston while patrolling.
According to a news release from the United States Department of Justice, Lee Ray Boykin Jr. is alleged to have sexually assaulted two women on separate occasions while conducting traffic stops in Houston.
In August 2017, Boykin stopped a vehicle near an Express Inn in Houston. Boykin issued the driver a written warning, but investigators say it didn't stop there. He's accused of ordering the passenger of the car to get into his patrol vehicle, in which he drover her to a back parking lot near a dumpster. There, he threatened to take the victim to jail for an out-of-state warrant if she did not perform oral sex on him, according to the complaint. An affidavit states that the woman feared for her life and safety and obeyed Boykin's commands. Following the sex act, Boykin reportedly placed his hand on his weapon and ordered the victim to run.
Just days prior to that incident, another sexual assault is alleged with a similar MO. On Aug. 3, 2020, Boykin allegedly pulled up behind a vehicle parked at a Texaco gas station in Houston. He told the passenger she had outstanding warrants and said he was taking her to a substation, according to the charges. He then allegedly ordered her into his vehicle and drove her to the same back parking lot at which the other assault is said to have happened. The complaint alleges Boykin told her he knew what she did for a living and wanted some of it - meaning sex. Fearing Boykin, she complied with his demands and performed oral sex on him, according to the charges.
If convicted, he faces up to life in prison.
The Houston Police Department, Texas Rangers, and FBI are conducting the investigation. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Sebastian Edwards and Eun Kate Suh are prosecuting the case.
Authorities believe there may be other victims. Anyone with information about potential additional victims is asked to contact the FBI at 713-693-5000.
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Brutart - Wear My Skin
Taking what's darkest in doom and death metal with a hint of post-rock, but mangling them into one with a naivety of child. Eleven tracks of Wear my Skin, challenges the listener to journey through phases of anguish, despair and unadulterated rage. Brutart does not reject sophistication, but more often a direct, in-your-face, approach is taken. DIY crafted with sweat and beers. Read more >
Tomcat - Something's Coming On Wrong
Tomcat approached to the recording of Something's Coming On The Wrong in the manner of the 21st century - in the improvised studios and with the help of friends. A lot of help to them was producer Alex Volasko who worked on serious project in harder music for the first time. Album Something's Coming On Wrong is exactly what the title suggests - something is wrong. This "wrong" is not.. Read more >
Hellcrawler - Sandstorm Chronicles
Hellcrawler continue their perilous path in the post-apocalyptic world which they started in 2011 with the debut »Wastelands« and confirmed it two years later with »The End Of Humanity« released on 12'' vinyl in collaboration with the Australian band Wölfe. After some personal problems and line-up changes the band finally re-entered the Thunderdome Studios to record.. Read more >
Penitenziagite - Humanity Galore
Humanity Galore is the debut album from Slovenian death metal band Penitenziagite. Despite the fact that this is their first full length, Penitenziagite are not newcomers on the scene. The band was formed in 2004 and since then they have been refining and developing their style - not only in rehearsal room, but also in clubs and festivals. Their live shows became something every death metal fan.. Read more >
Noctiferia - Slovenska morbida
Originally released in 2006, Slovenska morbida is the 3rd and most experimental Noctiferia album. At that time Noctiferia progressed into industrial metal, full of different cultural influences including Slovenian national instruments and female vocals. The album was mixed at Sweden's The Abyss studio by Peter Tägtgren, which added massive sound to Noctiferia's creation. This.. Read more >
Dickless Tracy - Paroxysm Of Disgust
Paroxysm Of Disgust is the fourth album from Brežice death metal band Dickless Tracy. This album logically builds on a dark path along which started to walk his predecessor, Halls Of Sickness from 2009. Raw, dark and morbid death metal album consisting 11 songs (one of them is cover of the cult American band Impetigo) represents the current mental state of the band. Current line-up, which is.. Read more >
Noctiferia - Per Aspera
In 2002 it was time for second Noctiferia album that they entitled Per Aspera. This effort presented Noctiferia as mature death / black metal act and gained them worldwide attention. Per Aspera was critically well acclaimed and touring over Europe with bands like Marduk, Kataklysm, Immolation, Aborted and Malevolent Creation followed. Noctiferia achieved something almost impossible with the video.. Read more >


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Q: How can I get more verbose debugging information from hammerhead? I am running into an issue where my web code is invoking an ajax call to another endpoint on the same server that is not completing.  I can see in the server logs that the request is processed and the response is sent, but the network tool shows the response as not finished (stalled) even after several minutes.
I am looking for more details on what is happening in the proxy (perhaps it is waiting on more data from the server, etc).  But I cannot find any logging from the proxy to assist in debugging.
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I have noticed this happens on all proxy requests with isXhr set.

A: OK, so to answer the original question regarding verbose logging, there isn't any.  I had to sprinkle logging through the hammerhead code to get anything more meaningful than testcafe timing out on a selector.
Regarding the underlying issue (which would have been obvious long ago with decent proxy logging), I finally uncovered a node.js http module "Parse Error".  While the browsers are more forgiving, node's http module will barf on a Content-Length header along with 'Transfer-Encoding : chunked'.  Chunked encoding creats additional overhead and the Content-Length does not match the payload size any longer.
This would normally not have happened, but in our server implementation, the API calls are proxied and the far end headers were being passed on to the response leading to a collision in the headers.
Hopefully this will be useful for someone else.

A: You need to inspect the RequestPipeline module. It controls the procedures of sending the request, processing the response, and sending the modified response to the client.


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Кажимуха́н () — село у складі Ордабасинського району  Туркестанської області Казахстану. Входить до складу Кажимуканського сільського округу.

До 1999 року село називалось Ленінту, до 2001 — Зерделі.

Населення — 1697 осіб (2009; 1608 в 1999).

Примітки

Джерела

Посилання
 На Вікімапії

Населені пункти Ордабасинського району
Села Туркестанської області


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The Rajkot–Somnath Passenger is a Passenger train belonging to Western Railway zone that runs between  and . It is currently being operated with 59421/59423 train numbers on a daily basis.

Average speed and frequency

59421/Rajkot Somnath Passenger runs with an average speed of 37 km/hr and covers 190 km in 5h 10m.
59423/Somnath Rajkot Passenger runs with an average speed of 37 km/hr and covers 190 km in 5h 10m.

Route and halts

The important halts of the train are:

Coach composition

The train has standard ICF rakes with max speed of 110 kmph. The train consists of 11 coaches:

 9 General Unreserved
 2 Seating cum Luggage Rake

Traction

Both trains are hauled by a Ratlam Loco Shed-based WDM-3A diesel locomotive from Rajkot to Somnath and vice versa.

Rake sharing

The train shares its rake with 59423/59424 Rajkot–Veraval Passenger and 19569/19570 Rajkot–Veraval Express.

See also

 Veraval Junction railway station
 Rajkot Junction railway station
 Rajkot–Veraval Express
 Rajkot–Veraval Passenger

Notes

References

External links

 59423/Veraval–Somnath Passenger India Rail Info
 59424/Somnath–Veraval Passenger India Rail Info

Transport in Rajkot
Transport in Veraval
Rail transport in Gujarat
Slow and fast passenger trains in India


My name is Katarzyna Zala, or Kat for short. I live in New Jersey with my husband and two beautiful kids and am lucky to be a professional photographer .
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My word for 2012 is Abundance. Every month, as part of an online class with Ali Edwards, I receive a prompt -- that month's assignment. For January, we are exploring our word: "Name it. Claim it. Invite it. Define it."
There are 5 cards with specific prompts and 4 cards to use as we are called.
Where one puts each card in the holder is also up to individual choice.
Some of the other participants have specific colour schemes. I'm not sure if I do, tho I like how everything looks so nice with the Japanese origami paper. I have a feeling next month other colours will call to me and the album will end up a rainbow, or perhaps I should say an abundance of colours!
The cards in the next 2 photos were my favorite to make. On both cards, the printed words were done on my computer. I had to figure out how to fit the words on the cards and how to get the right color so they can be read but also act as a background for the stamped images. I'm not the daughter of an engineer for nothing. I liked the challenge!
I typed two sentences over & over again on this card. The first talks about how the superlatives of Love fill all space. The second sentence is "That is enough." One of the concepts I am exploring is "what is enough?" So this seemed a perfect background for my 2012 word.
I typed up all the synonyms of the words on my thesaurus card and ended with the sentence I used on the gray abundance card. I stamped the sunflower on white cardstock, added gold embossing powder, then cut it out and attached it to the card with a mounting square to give dimensionality.
Title Page attached to January prompts.
I was pretty obsessive about this month's assignment. It's funny cuz I didn't think it had to be perfect. It just had to look "right." So, I started out doing all the prompts in my own handwriting. It didn't look bad and generally I like my handwriting. But it didn't look spectacular and I really wanted this to shine.
I know better than to compare myself to other artists. Now knowing better and actually not comparing are of course two different things! Still I know my competitive side and work really hard not to be held hostage by her! So at least I finished version 1 before going to the class gallery to see what others had done. I saw how some people had used typefaces instead of handwriting and I thought this looked really good. So version 2 had all the prompts typed. Again, it didn't look bad, but it seemed a little too much the same (which is just a nice way of saying bor-ring). Version 3, which is what you see here is a combination of handwritten cards and typed cards. I also changed the card stock from stark white to a softer white, slightly thicker & textured paper. You should have heard my poor printer -- it did not like the soft white card stock -- and it sounded like an injured animal from Jurrasic Park. Version 3 also included re-writing one of the prompts. As I said, obsessive. But now, DONE! And I'm pleased. It is a nice beginning to my album.
Margie of Nihao, Cupcake is sponsoring this OLW blog hop. So you may have come here from Carmen's blog. I'm going to send you on to Kristina. Click here to see her word. Then she'll send you on to the next blog. I'll be out of town when this post appears and I don't know what sort of internet connection I will have. Which means I may not be able to get the list of participants added to this post ( it wasn't available when I left home) Please click here: Nihao, Cupcake.to see everyone. Bye and thanks for hopping by!
Beautiful! I know what you mean about the comparing to others - its hard not to, isn't?
Good word with your word!
Sorry, that should read: good job with your word!
Oh I love your word! So much potential. The embossed Sunflower is so beautiful. I really get the need to have something so important just right! Congrats on a great job!
GREAT word! I just LOVE how you did your typed cards with the soft typography on the background. It does look fabulous. I'm not worried about a color scheme at all. What will be, will be. :) Blessings as you find abundance this year!
Love your finished product! Beautiful colors and text.
your embellishment cards are just gorgeous!
Oh, I love this. I remember seeing it in the gallery and loving it then. I also love how you took detailed pictures of each card. Great idea. I wish I had done that. Wishing you abundance in the coming year.
Beautiful mini canvases and I love the bling details.
Great word! Beautiful color scheme.
"abundance" was my word last year - can't wait to see what it brings you this year!
beautiful color scheme!! looking forward to seeing more this year!
Lovely page! Love the details and the subtle sparkle.
I love the origami papers. Nice to have you join the Blog Hop.
Beautiful papers and I'm glad you are happy with the final product - they are lovely. Abundance is a lovely word, such a wonderful thing to be aware of.
Thanks for sharing...love your page!
your project has such an airy and feminine feel. it is lovely. and that is a great word.
Delightful post. I enjoyed reading about your process and the steps you took to accomplish your page. Very nicely done.
Marilee, I love how you've done your January page. Very lovely.


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Far Cry New Dawn shares a lot of great similarities with Far Cry 5, but it's the minor tweaks that allow it to stand as its own title.
God Eater 3 doesn't particularly do anything new and amazing for the hack-and-slash RPG genre – but what it does, it does really well. Despite the drags of the narrative, and extreme gripes with button bindings (and sometimes forgetting which buttons to press), God Eater 3 manages to keep you wanting more through combat, weapon upgrades and different battle tactics.
Underneath the extremely rough and laggy exterior, Fallout 76 has the makings of a great and entertaining game. To some, the damage may have already been done and the appeal may have already worn off, but with Bethesda's level of support, the game has potential to grow into something much more than it currently is.
Taking off the nostalgia goggles for a moment, Toys For Bob have done a brilliant job in revamping a classic trilogy of games. In updating the visuals and tweaking the controls, they've stayed true to the source material and crafted an experience so involving that you'd be forgiven for thinking this was a brand new game. Initial viewings had me concerned that they might not be able to live up to the hype; but on playing the game, for the briefest moment I was eight years old again – and I enjoyed every minute of it.
Despite all this, Valkyria Chronicles offers something better than the standard fare in the tactical RPG space. Where it lacks in the storytelling department and capturing the emotion of the narrative, it makes up for in the depth of gameplay that it offers; it is sure to keep tactical RPG fans happy. The game is only let down by the lengthy discussion scenes and slightly frustrating chance-based combat – a small price to pay for a deep gaming experience. Additionally, the game feels right at home on the Nintendo Switch; definitely something to consider while you wait for the next Fire Emblem.
Age of Empires: Definitive Edition does almost everything it sets out to do; it breathes new life into an absolute classic, and allows us to put on those rose-tinted glasses for another long campaign across the map, dominating through any means possible and constructing an empire very few could dream of. It still suffers from a few issues that the original did, but what more can you ask from a game that is older than half the people you play against online these days? It's definitely worth purchasing, if only for the nostalgia factor.
For all its flaws, Monster Hunter: World is a game that manages to balance the expectations of newcomers while not straying too far from its roots. It is clear Capcom have tried their best to make it as accessible as they can without breaking tradition. This might frustrate new players who are expecting to have their hand held throughout the beginning, but if a newbie like me can pick it up in no time then it shouldn't be too difficult for you. Long-time fans are sure to love the tweaks and changes that have taken place, and will feel right at home getting back to what they love – slaying monsters. It remains to be seen how the game will continue once the online sessions open properly, and how this adds an extra dimension to the gameplay. With so much to explore and ways to play to suit a lot of different styles, this is definitely worth jumping into.
Now is a better time than ever to jump in and experience the hype. If these games are the current limit to what the 3DS can offer, then one can only hope that the Switch does the franchise proud.
Despite the silly and over-the-top story, Fire Emblem Warriors takes aspects from both respective series and breathes new life into them – the elements of the Warriors series make perfect sense in the Fire Emblem world, and the features and mainstays of the Fire Emblem series bring a new depth to the Warriors franchise. While some may be put off by the fact that the game can be overly helpful, this is adjustable, and ultimately a really good addition to the musou game genre. A real gem for both Warriors and Fire Emblem fans alike.
Make no mistake – Gran Turismo Sport is fun to play and is a surprisingly fresh step (in a different direction) for the developers, but it feels like it comes at a cost for many reasons – the lack of variation in cars and manufacturers, the shallow depth in single-player (and even offline mode) campaigns, and even a lot of the tuning and adjustment features are missing from the game.
Capcom aren't going to be able to please everyone every time, but where this game makes strides in its fighting mechanics it lets down in many other facets; and while it is still a quality game to play, it leaves a lot to be desired. Don't let it sway you too much though – newcomers will find the game easily accessible and enjoy working out the best way to defeat opponents with a mix of combos and special attacks. Long-time fans of the series will take warmly to the changes that come with new techniques and will enjoy using characters they know and love, but may be left wondering what happened to the look and atmosphere of the previous games.
With a decent sized roster of characters and enough content in the game to keep even the pickiest of fans satisfied, Pokken Tournament DX is one of a growing list of worthy ports from the Wii U. With a fresh coat of paint splashed over the top, this fighting game is one for both Pokémon and Tekken fans alike; and while the combat depth and lack of hands-on training may throw off a few people, the game makes itself accessible for all those who are chasing a good fighting experience.
With the 3DS nearing the end of its lifespan, games like this are often left to the wayside; but for loyalists and those not quite ready to upgrade, Monster Hunter Stories is definitely a game worth picking up. With a fun battle system that doesn't rely on grinding to level up, and a bright and open world to explore, Monster Hunter Stories takes its namesake in a completely different and impressive direction.
Despite its flaws, Sonic Mania is the type of game that players can keep going back to over and over. It has the replayability of the classic Sonic games with minor modernisations for current day gamers, and is sure to appeal to old and new players alike. For a franchise that for a while seemed to flounder and suffer from subpar titles, it offers hope to fans that there will be more to return the series to its former glory.
Matterfall is the kind of game Housemarque does best – easy to learn, but a little harder to master. Achievement hunters will find themselves speedrunning and shooting through for the high score points, while other players will have loads of fun with the zero-G and Matter mechanics. Matterfall's quick and frantic gameplay won't be for everyone, but for those who really dig sci-fi and shooters, it is definitely a must-get.
Overall, Splatoon 2 is more of the same goodness that the original provides, with some graphical and gameplay improvements and additional game modes and maps. New players will find the game quite easy to adapt to without being out of their element, and experienced players will be able to dive straight in and get shooting.
At its core, Tekken 7 manages to prove that the series still has a place after 20 years, showing no signs of slowing down. Newcomers will find their way into the game quite easily, and experienced players will be able to jump back into it and find most of their favourite characters ready to go and familiar to play with.
While it won't be for everyone, Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia is a fun remake that showcases the history of the series with a brand new look. Seasoned fans of the games will find themselves slightly out of it with missing mechanics, but as the game's difficulty has been toned down since the original, it will appeal to more players. A fitting last instalment for the 3DS, the game is worth a look for those craving tactical RPG battles, or for long-running fans wanting to see the evolution of the series.
With its smooth and bright visuals, catchy soundtrack and easy gameplay, LocoRoco Remastered is a great way to unwind and play something a little less serious. Not much has changed in eleven years since its initial release, but that goes to show how simple and solid a game it was at the time of release. Prepare to get stuck with earworms over the soundtrack though!
Digimon World: Next Order excels with a fairly easy combat system and simple gameplay mechanics, but I was let down by the repetitiveness of the world and environments, as well as some pretty unresponsive controls (mostly in dialogue sitations). The nostalgia factor and the excitement of evolving my digital partners was what kept me playing, but the drawn-out travel methods and consistent grinding in training didn't impress me too much. Digimon World: Next Order is a bit of a mixed bag – die hard fans will likely love it, but newcomers may be turned away by some of the gameplay mechanics and extreme grinding.


Have you ever tried on several lipsticks at a time and your poor lips became so sore and dry? Well I have and it's a horrible feeling. I've got a way for you to try on all the makeup colors you'd like and not abuse your skin.
GlamST.com is a virtual makeup site that has just launched. It's really easy to use and they have a ton of makeup brands available like Dior, Benefits, Lancôme and lots more! I'm sure you'll find something you like.
All you have to do is upload your picture to their site and start picking out your foundation, concealer, lipstick etc. Everyone wants a second opinion so once you've chosen a look you like you can share it on Facebook and get the opinions of your friends on which look to go with. While you're there be sure to like the GlamST Facebook page.
Right now GlamST is offering early access to all of my readers so go check it out for yourself and let me know what you think.
I had a great time coming up with my own look but honestly I had a hard time getting my face lined up with the guides just right so my makeup application didn't come out the way I would have liked it. I did however have much better luck with the models GlamST provided.
I've heard so much about this program and it looks so awesome. I am going to have to try it for myself.
It really is fun to play around with. Just make sure you have a good forward facing picture so it will work well.


After posting about how much I love Sundays, I checked facebook and noticied that there was a fireside at BYU that night for the Brasilian community. Elder Richard G Scott had been invited to speak to them. And, yes, he does speak Portuguese. Anyway, I called my brother who also served his mission in Brasil and asked if he wanted to go. I also invited another friend, who doesn't speak Portuguese but went hoping to get the chance to shake Elder Scott's hand. The fireside was to be held in a large auditorium on BYU campus and by the time we got there (and we were about half an hour early) the whole place was packed! All the seats were taken and the people standing were jammed in. They had also opened another auditorium where the meeting would be broadcast but all the seats were taken there as well. So we just started wandering around trying to decide whether to stay and fight for a seat or just go home. As we opened the door to leave the building, we found ourselves face to face with Elder Scott on his way in. He said hi and asked how we were doing and then went on in. We just stood there and stared after him. It was pretty funny to us, especially since we didn't even stay to hear him to speak.
See the wicked prosper sometimes too! He he.
Hey I tagged you on my blog, so if you want to you should check it out and play too!