Deployment leverages Amazon Web Services (AWS) Internet of Things services to achieve the scale, availability, and security required in business-critical IoT systems.
The agreement allows the customer to dynamically manage content across large fleets of devices, ensure device compliance, and manage software updates, all at high frequency and at scale. The firm will replace its existing mobile device management (MDM) solution that lacked the necessary scale, flexibility, and configurability with the Bsquare DataV Manage application and will utilize Amazon Web Services (AWS) IoT services, including AWS IoT Core and AWS IoT Device Management.
"An increasing percentage of our customers, especially manufacturers of connected devices, want to be able to on-board, manage, and update very large numbers of devices, but they lack the software development resources needed to build and evolve their own solutions," said Dirk Didascalou, Vice President, Internet of Things, Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Bsquare DataV Manage provides comprehensive IoT device and content management capabilities that enable organizations to effectively manage connected assets from a centralized location, including automated provisioning and software, content, and configuration updates. The Fortune 100 firm selected DataV for its full range of IoT device management capabilities, its ability to provide the services necessary to fully integrate the solution into existing systems, and the fact that the solution leveraged the scale, security and availability of AWS IoT services.
DataV Manage is part of the DataV IoT SaaS solution that enables industrial organizations, such as those in manufacturing, transportation, and oil and gas industries, to use data generated by connected devices to make smarter operational decisions.


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Q: How to exec code after res.send() in express server at Firebase cloudFunctions I'm building an express server using the cloud functions, but I facing a problem with res.send().
In a common express server I can exec some code after res.send() but at my express server using the Firebase cloudFunctions res.send() closes my connection and I can't exec anything after that.
Here is what I need to do:
In my server I have an endpoint to receive some data from Slack api dialog, and after that Slack Api is waiting for a empty response res.send(), so I need to send it.
But I also need to save that data in my DB, and send a message in slack to my user "Your post was saved!"
So what my endpoint does:
async function myEndpoint(req, res) {
    await savePayload(req.payload);
    await sendUserMessage(req.payload);
    res.send('');
}

But sometimes res.send() takes to long to start running and I get an error on slack, so I would like to do something like:
async function myEndpoint(req, res) {
    res.send('');
    await savePayload(req.payload);
    await sendUserMessage(req.payload);
}

But as I said, after res.send('') my connection is closed and the next lines doesn't run. Do you know how can I work around that ?

A: HTTP functions immediately terminate execution once the response is completed -- this is fundamental architecture for Cloud Functions, so there is no way around it. You will need to either:

*

*Optimize your code paths such that the empty response is always sent under the deadline, or

*Trigger a background function execution that will do the work asynchronously, then respond. This could be done by e.g. writing to Cloud Firestore or sending a Pub/Sub message

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Geta (Publius, or Lucius, Septimius Geta Augustus; 7 March 189 -26 December 211), was a Roman emperor who ruled with his father Septimius Severus and his older brother Caracalla from 209, when he was named Augustus like his brother who had held the title since 198. Severus died in 211, and although he intended for his sons to rule together, they proved incapable of sharing power culminating with the murder of Geta in December of that year.
Geta was the younger son of Septimius Severus by his second wife Julia Domna. Geta was born in Rome, at a time when his father was only a provincial governor at the service of Emperor Commodus.
Conflicts between Geta and Caracalla were constant and often required the mediation of their mother. To appease his younger son, Septimius Severus gave Geta the title of Augustus in 209.
During the campaign against the Britons in the early 3rd century CE, imperial propaganda promoted the image of a happy family that shared the responsibilities of rule. Septimius Severus entrusted Julia Domna with the role of counsellor, Caracalla acted as the emperor's second in command, and administrative and bureaucratic duties were Geta's responsibility. In reality, however, the rivalry and antipathy between the brothers did not abate.
When Septimius Severus died in Eboracum in early 211, Caracalla and Geta were proclaimed joint emperors and returned to Rome.
Their joint rule was a failure. Later sources speculated that the brothers wished to split the empire in two halves. By the end of 211, the situation had become unbearable. Caracalla tried unsuccessfully to murder Geta during the festival of Saturnalia. Finally, on the 19th of December, Caracalla had his mother arrange a peace meeting with his brother in his mother's apartments, and then had him murdered in her arms by centurions.
Following Geta's assassination, Caracalla ordered his brother's name to be removed from all inscriptions. The now sole emperor also took the opportunity to get rid of his political enemies, on grounds of conspiracy. Cassius Dio stated that around 20,000 men and women were killed or proscribed during this time.
Very few marble portraits attributable to Geta survive to date, presumably due to the very thorough damnatio memoriae which resulted in the erasing of his images. However Roman coins with his image are plentiful, and can reflect how his father Septimius Severus and later Geta himself wanted him to be seen by the Roman people (and especially the Roman military).
Images of Geta and his older brother Caracalla cannot be well distinguished until the death of the father. Both sons were supposed to be presented as equally suitable heirs to the throne, showing thus more "depth" to the dynasty.
On his coins, Caracalla, who became Augustus in 197, was shown with a wreath of laurels, while Geta remained bareheaded until he himself became Augustus in 209. Between 209 and their father's death in February 211, both brothers were shown as equally mature young men with a short full beard, ready to take over the empire. Between the death of Septimus Severus and the assassination of Geta, Caracalla's portraits did not change, while Geta was depicted with a long beard with hanging hairs much like his father, a strong indication of Geta's efforts to be seen as the "true" successor of his father.


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Lea Michele gushes about Cory Monteith in heartbreaking interview before his death
by Francesca Menato	Published on 25 July 2013
Lea Michele was holidaying in Mexico with Cory Monteith before he flew to Canada where he later tragically died. An interview with the actress has now emerged from just days before her boyfriend's death. It makes for a heartbreaking read as she gushes over him as both her partner and co-star.
A heartbreaking interview with Lea Michele gushing over her boyfriend Cory Monteith has emerged.
The chat took place just days before the 31-year-old actor's tragic death in Vancouver.
As the couple were taking in the sun in Mexico, Lea had a shoot and interview with the country's Marie Clare magazine.
The 26-year-old Glee star told the mag, in no uncertain terms, just how much she loved and adored her boyfriend of two years.
She said: "He is the best person I know, he has made my life so incredible, and I am so thankful for him and not only to have him as a partner but also as a co-worker.
"It is important to have someone that supports you and encourages you, someone that makes you feel that you are unstoppable, that you can do anything in the world because you have him."
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Lea Michele reveals Cory Monteith's last words to her in new song
Cory Monteith's death is still an open wound for all those who knew him, and for none more so than his girlfriend Lea Michele. Her debut album, Louder, released today, and her emotional lyrics and soulful singing may just bring you to tears. Lea has revealed that her song "If You Say So," is in fact based on the very last words Cory Monteith said to her before his death.
She continued: "It's more interesting having a relationship with someone you work with because we get more attention because we play boyfriend and girlfriend on the show and we are also in real life."
The pair were so close that Cory even visited Lea on set of the shoot, which took place on 7th July.
The happy couple enjoyed lunch together and the magazine's editor Ariadne Grant said: "He showed up in great spirits.
"They were very nice and obviously happy and in love."
She added: "We are very disrupted by the unfortunate and untimely events. Our thoughts are with Lea."
Just days later, on 13th July, the man most famous for playing Finn Hudson in Glee was found dead in his hotel room.
It was later revealed he'd "died of a mixed drug toxicity, involving heroin and alcohol".
Since Cory's passing, Lea has remained close to his family in making arrangements for the funeral.
A statement in People magazine read: "Lea is deeply grateful for all the love and support she's received from family, friends, and fans.
"She has been grieving alongside his family and making appropriate arrangements with them.
"They are supporting each other as they endure this profound loss together."
It concluded: "We continue to ask the media to respect the privacy of Lea and Cory's family."
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Thousands Audition for 'Porn Stars' Reality Show
More than a thousand plus South African citizens have registered to audition for a reality show called Porn Stars, according to Independent Online. The controversial show is being produced by Tongelong Productions, Hustler's local adult movie producer. There will be one female and one male winner, each of whom will be cast in a Hustler production slated for the end of 2011.
Auditions begin next week at the Penthouse store in Woodmead, before moving to Bloemfontein, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town and Durban. Participants, who must be over 18 and in possession of a certificate proving they are STD free, can choose between five categories: toy or masturbation, lesbian, anal, oral and straight sex. The audition is open to anyone, regardless of race, sexual orientation or size, and can choose between five categories: toy or masturbation, lesbian, anal, oral and straight sex said producer Donovan van Wyngaard.
"Basically those coming to audition will be put through a thing called a 'couch test,' which is used in Hollywood pornography auditions," he added. "Participants will have to perform sexual acts, and judging from their performance, we will decide who will go through."
Local celebrity GiGi, the owner of a Johannesburg strip club called Lollipop Lounge and winner of the reality show Survivor South Africa, will be one of the judges, along with Afrikaans writer Yolanda Barnard and Hustler's Adam Gordon. A local soap star, Gert van Schalkwyk, has signed on to host the show.
In addition to the roles in the Hustler movie, which comes with a R5,000 payday, the winners will also receive a contract ensuring one film role every six weeks for the next year, said van Wyngaard, who added that the turnout took everyone by surprise.
"We never anticipated such a great response," he said. "To be honest, it took us by surprise that such a large number of people would be interested in the show, but we are extremely pleased."
Dominic Ford's So you think you can Fuck Annnounces Second Season
The very Entertaining and very Erotic web series "So you Think You Can Fuck" announced today that there will be a second "Season". No word if Matthew Rush will be returning as the host or who the guest judges will be.
The next cycle is scheduled to film over the summer months. "All are welcome to apply. We are certainly looking for people who want to get a foot in the industry and who have never worked on film before," Mr. Ford said. "But we are also looking for established stars who would like to compete. There will be lots of great prizes this year that both new and existing stars will love."
Check out the Promo from last season.
Gay N.K.o.t.B Jordan Knight New Single
After pop star Tiffiany outed Knight on Bravo as the guy she dated from New Kids on the Block "who became gay later", Knight officially came out on his blog.
Knight said he doesn't blame Tiffany at all for that slip-up and added:
"I have never been outed by anyone but myself! I did so nearly twenty years ago. I never knew that I would have to do it all over again publicly just because I reunited with NKOTB! I have lived my life very openly and have never hidden the fact that I am gay!
"Apparently the pre requisite to being a gay public figure is to appear on the cover of a magazine with the caption 'I am gay'. I apologize for not doing so if this is what was expected! My belief is that you live your life by example, and not by a caption on a magazine! If there ever has been any confusion about my sexuality, then you are someone that doesn't even know me!"
His new single "Let's go Higher" was written by Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" writer Colby O'Donis
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Damn, the Das Beer Boot guys is fucking hot.
Another Gay Porn Star goes Pop
Gay Porn Star Carsten Andersson has released "Fun" which is already a big hit in Taiwan. Carsten started is porn career as Ashton Sorenson in Wet Palms and has done web series from Jet Set Men and can be seen in Lucas Entertainment's "Trapped in the Game" where he flip flop fucked with Aaron Mark.
He says "Without my porn past, I'd be just another boy with a song out, Porn has made people take notice."
Just don't liken his sound or image to Lady Gaga because Carsten is not impressed. "Most things I see from her seem copied from artists of the past."
Check out all you ever wanted to know about Carsten Andersson in this video like " A signing session in Milan had to be interrupted after he got attacked by a 40yo "Admirer".
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Anti-Gay Pastor Treats Children to Public Masturbation
Who doesn't like dinner and a show, I am sure that the children pulled up a seat and got out their juice boxes to watch.
Christian fundamentalist pastor Reverend Grant Storms has been arrested for masturbating in a public park in front of children. The pastor is well known for his campaigns against the gay New Orleans' Southern Decadence festival.
Storms told deputies that he was merely having lunch at Lafreniere Park, 3000 Downs Blvd., in his van when he decided to relieve himself using a bottle instead of using the restroom, an incident report said. But two witnesses said they say Storms through the open windows of his van masturbating himself while watching children on the playground.
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Tupac Shakur embodied the 1990s gangsta-rap aesthetic. Photo: Getty
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At just 25 years old, American rapper and actor Tupac Amaru Shakur was considered one of the most influential artists of his time.
Better known by his stage name 2Pac, or his alias Makeveli, Tupac was praised for casting a light on systemic inequality and social issues in his music.
On this day in 1996, an unexpected and tragic event shocked his fans around the world.
Tupac Shakur attending a fundraiser event in 1994. Photo: Getty
Tupac was visiting the party and gambling capital of Las Vegas, Nevada, to celebrate his business partner Tracy Danielle Robinson's birthday.
Earlier that evening, he attended the Bruce Seldon v Mike Tyson boxing match with rap industry businessman Suge Knight at the MGM Grand hotel and casino.
Afterward in the lobby, one of the men in their group spotted Orlando 'Baby Lane' Anderson, an apparent member of rival gang the Southside Compton Crips.
In the 1990s, the East Coast-West Coast rivalry was a serious – and often bloody – feud between rappers on either side of the US.
Baby Lane's gang was based in the east coast in California, while Tupac belonged to the west coast.
In the lobby, tensions boiled over after the man in Tupac's entourage accused Baby Lane of trying to snatch his Death Row Records medallion neck chain in a shopping mall some time earlier.
CCTV shows Tupac's group fighting Baby Lane.
In 1995, Tupac Shakur was convicted for the sexual abuse of a female fan in New York. Photo: Getty
Tupac later stopped by his hotel room before heading with Knight to his Death Row nightclub, Club 662, in a black BMW 750iL sedan, as part of a larger convoy.
It was nearing midnight when the car pulled up to a stop light. A white Cadillac sedan pulled up to the passenger side – and a mystery occupant rapidly fired bullets into the car.
Tupac was hit four times – once in the arm, once in the thigh, and twice in the chest. One bullet entered his right lung.
Tupac Shakur performing live in New York in 1993. Photo: Getty
He was taken to hospital where he was heavily sedated, put on life support and then put under an induced coma.
But it wasn't enough to save him.
Six days later, the rapper died from his wounds.
The following day, in a bizarre farewell ritual, members of the Outlawz gang recalled a line in his song Black Jesus and smoked some of his body's ashes after mixing them with marijuana.
Tupac Shakur performing live in Chicago, 1994. Photo: Getty
To this day, no one has been convicted of Tupac's murder, thanks to a mix of botched police investigations and inconclusive evidence.
In 2002, investigative journalist Chuck Philips reported in the Los Angeles Times that Baby Lane, the Southside Compton Crip who was attacked by Tupac's entourage after the boxing match, had fired the fatal gunshots, but that Las Vegas police only briefly interviewed him once, before he died in an unrelated shooting.
Rapper Christopher 'Biggie Smalls' Wallace, also known as The Notorious B.I.G., was also a suspect, as well as several others within New York City's criminal underworld.
A wall dedicated to the memory of Tupac Shakur in 2016, Los Angeles, California. Photo: Getty
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/** @module TimelineView */
define(['jquery', 'streamhub-sdk/view', 'text!streamhub-timeline/main.css'], function($, View, css) {
	/**
	 * TimelineView is a view that uses streamhub data to populate a horizontail timeline.
	 * It can optionally operate on just a given date range, embed meta content in a specified
	 * child element of the item's bodyHtml, and can be passed an onClick event handler.
	 * @alias module:TimelineView
	 * @constructor
	 * @param {Object.<string, *>} opts A set of options to configure this instance.
	 * @param {Date} opts.startDate The start date to filter added events by.
	 * @param {Date} opts.endDate The end date to filter added events by.
	 * @param {string} opts.metaElement The selector of an element inside the bodyHtml of each
	          content.
	 *        item that contains the meta data for this content item.
	 * @param {function} opts.onClick An event handler to attach to each event dot.
	 * @param {string} opts.className The css class name that this object will apply to it's
	          holding element (default 'hub-TimelineView').
	 */
	var TimelineView = function(opts) {
		opts = opts || {};
	    View.call(this, opts);
	    this.$el = $(this.el);
	    this.$el.addClass(opts.className || "hub-TimelineView");
	    this.$el.hide();
	    this.startDate = opts.startDate || new Date(0);
	    this.endDate = opts.endDate || new Date(Math.pow(10,15));
	    this.metaElement = opts.metaElement;
	    this.onClick = opts.onClick;

        this.includeCss = opts.includeCss == false ? false : true;
        // Include CSS
        if (this.includeCss) {
            $('<style></style>').text(css).prependTo('head');
        }

	    this.render();
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	$.extend(TimelineView.prototype, View.prototype);

    /**
     * Renders a TimelineView. Creates a couple of holding html elements, then shows the timeline.
     */
    TimelineView.prototype.render = function () {
    	var listHolder = $(document.createElement('div'));
    	listHolder.addClass('events');

    	this.listEl = $(document.createElement('ul'));

    	listHolder.append(this.listEl);
    	this.$el.append($(document.createElement('div')).addClass('line-bg'));
    	this.$el.append(listHolder);

        this.$el.fadeIn();
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	 * for this.add events. If a metaElement was specified on creation, the element's contents
	 * will be parsed as json, and "eventType" and "eventImportant" will be parsed out
	 * and placed as data attributes on the event dot, useful for styling.
	 * @param {Object} item A piece of content that was streamed to this view from Streamhub.
	 * @return {Object} The $html element that was inserted.
	 * @protected
	 */
	TimelineView.prototype.add = function (item) {
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	    }

		var itemMetaEl = $('<div>' + item.body + '</div>').find(this.metaElement);
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		try { itemMeta = JSON.parse(itemMetaEl.text()) || {}; } catch (ex) {}

	    var left = ((createdAt - this.startDate) / (this.endDate - this.startDate)) * 100;

	    var itemEl = $(document.createElement('li'));
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	    itemEl.css('left', left + '%');
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	    if (itemMeta['eventType']) {
	    	itemEl.attr('data-hub-event-type', itemMeta['eventType']);
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	    var itemDescEl = $(document.createElement('div'));
	    var contentView = this.createContentView(item);
	    contentView.render();
	    itemDescEl.append($(contentView.el));
	    itemDescEl.addClass('event-desc');
	    itemEl.append(itemDescEl);
	    itemEl.mouseenter(function() { itemDescEl.addClass('visible-event-desc'); });
	    itemEl.mouseleave(function() { itemDescEl.removeClass('visible-event-desc'); });
	    itemEl.click(this.onClick);

	    this.listEl.append(itemEl);
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	    return itemEl;
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	    months = ['Jan','Feb','Mar','Apr','May',
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	    } else {
	        // TODO: Show year when appropriate
	        return "{day} {month}"
	        .replace("{day}", d.getDate())
	        .replace("{month}", months[monthN]);
	    }
	    function _12hourTime (date) {
	        var f24 = d.getHours(),
	            f12 = f24 % 12,
	            ret = ""+f12,
	            minutes = d.getMinutes(),
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	        if (f12===0) f12 = '12';
	        if (minutes<=9) minutes = "0"+minutes;
	        if (f24 >= 12) ampm = 'p';
	        return "{hour}:{min}{ampm}"
	            .replace("{hour}", f12)
	            .replace("{min}", minutes)
	            .replace("{ampm}", ampm);
	    }
	    function _dateIsToday (date) {
	        var today = new Date();
	        return (date.getDate()==today.getDate() &&
	                date.getMonth()==today.getMonth() &&
	                date.getFullYear()==today.getFullYear());
	    }
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	return TimelineView;
});

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The Industrial Revolution brought new technologies and increases in commerce. East Yorkshire was well placed to take advantage of these improvements to productivity and wealth. Whaling became the major industry in Hull after the various wars of the period made importation of oil difficult and costly. Agriculture continued to be the main business of the rest of the county.
One of the great commercial features of the Georgian period is the expansion of the canal network. Canals were built to link Driffield to the River Hull and Market Weighton to the Humber, while Beverley Beck was improved with a lock. Drainage schemes also made much more land commercially viable. All this helped to ship the region's goods to other parts of the country, and through Hull to the Baltic and the countries bordering the North Sea.
The region was the birthplace of a number of scientific notaries. Marmaduke Tunstall was born at Burton Constable and became a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London at the age of twenty-one. Later in the period, Bishop Burton born entomologist William Spence and Reighton born naturalist Hugh Edwin Strickland made their marks in their respective fields.


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It's a game I have been playing the last few weeks, sizing up men and women, kids in middle school and up, and trying to figure out if they are potential readers of my book.
But Kristina Meece snuck under my radar.
It wasn't that she didn't appear like she could enjoy a coming-of-age story about a group of kids whose lives were changed through our journey to a state basketball championship. As she approached our table Saturday in the Peoria Convention Center Exhibition Hall in her Gibson City-Melvin Sibley High School hoodie, she looked the part of any spectator mom.
But she was certainly not the stereotypical sports parent. She called her son Alex "a fourth-quarter warrior," one of those kids (like me my senior year, who usually only came in once the game was already decided). And when she started tearing up, it had nothing to do with basketball.
She didn't even identify herself as the parent of a player on the team until I asked.
Nope, the role Meece talked about is her job as team bus driver. Actually, the bus driver for several teams at the school of about 340 students, in a town of about 3,400.
"I had no clue about sports when I got married 25 years ago," she laughed. "But from the first time you see them get on the bus and then to say our team made it to state, I love to see their growth until the end of the season. …"
She stopped to dab her eyes.
"I don't say 'Good luck,'" she said. "I tell them 'Enjoy the moment.'"
I wondered what it was that really got her, and then she told me that she had first driven this same group of boys who would later Saturday finish third in the 2A state tournament, as a middle school team.
"They were so cute," she said. "I just appreciate the honor they've given me to drive them."
Meece talked about empowering the young women at her school as well, and flashed the GCMS girls' basketball t-shirt she was wearing under her sweatshirt to show her devotion.
"I don't think I can ever give up bus driving," she said, "because to see these kids become men and women of integrity, well, I am just so grateful at the end of the season."
It sounded like it would make a great book.
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Target boycott petition surpasses a million signatures
Boycotting trans-friendly businesses? You'll have to avoid more than just Target
Travis M. Andrews
Features writer covering the Internet, culture and the ways we live now
May 3, 2016 at 10:01 a.m. UTC
An online petition sponsored by the American Family Association to boycott Target continues to attract signatures.
The petition, which launched on April 20 in response to Target's statement that transgender individuals can use the bathroom and fitting room that corresponds with their gender identities, has surpassed a million signatures. As of Tuesday morning, it had more than 1,155,000 signatures.
Target: Customers welcome in fitting rooms, bathrooms corresponding with 'gender identity'
"We believe that everyone — every team member, every guest, and every community — deserves to be protected from discrimination, and treated equally," Target's statement read. "Consistent with this belief, Target supports the federal Equality Act, which provides protections to LGBT individuals, and opposes action that enables discrimination."
'A danger to wives and daughters': Petition to boycott Target over transgender-inclusive bathrooms claims growing support
In the clip below, Sandy Rios, director of government affairs for the American Family Association, tells Breitbart Daily news: "I think there's no question that when you say that there are no barriers in the bathroom and that if men or women feel like they are men or women, the [opposite] of however they are equipped, and you have no restrictions, the net effect will be that people will not be stopped. We've already had people testing this, going into Targets and men trying to go into bathrooms. There is absolutely no barrier."
While there is no evidence of American Family Association-affiliated men entering women's restrooms in Target, YouTube has filled with videos of men going into Targets and protesting the policy.
The boycott has affected Target, USA Today reported. Before the statement about use of its bathrooms, 42 percent of people said they would consider the retail giant, according to data compiled by YouGov BrandIndex, a research company focused on brand perception. After it released the statement, that number dropped to 38 percent, a shift YouGov chief executive Ted Marzilli called "significant."
One Target employee, who wished to remain anonymous, told WFTS in Tampa Bay that he's worried about the boycott's potential effects on the company's staff.
"I'm worried that it will cost jobs. I'm wondering if they care about families or they care about families of team members that lose their jobs," he said.
Melissa Arnoff, on the other hand, doesn't see cause for worry. The senior vice president at crisis communications firm Levick told USA Today that she didn't think the boycott will hurt Target in the long run. In fact, it could actually help the brand as it upholds its self-curated identity.
"I don't think they stand to lose much at all," Arnoff said. "This isn't unusual for them. It's actually very true to who they say they are as a brand. I think the people who shop there loyally know that."
Editor's note: The original headline on this story said that AFA "claims to be sending men into women's restrooms." The organization says it is not making such a claim and is not sending men into women's restrooms.


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Researching the Wild West – some examples on film
Following the publication of my latest Western novel, "Wood, Iron, and Blood", I've had a few questions from readers about how I'm able to find so much historical material in my research. The simple answer is, there's a lot of it out there. If you find a few sources and follow them, they lead you to others, until before you know it you've got far more information than you can actually use.
I thought I'd illustrate the depth of material available through three video clips. All are interesting and informative, and I recommend you take the time to watch them at your leisure. Remember, nothing you see or hear below is faked or "Hollywood-ized": it's as it really was, way back then.
They built them tough in those days!
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That they did. And there are lots of documents available from a variety of sources including monographs, period newspapers, and other things.
Celia Hayes says:
There's a richness of sources and information out there – everything from old memoirs and letters, to reenactors demonstrating stuff — like using a scythe to cut hay or grain by hand. I spent a day at a museum in North San Diego County in the weaver's barn, having various looms and techniques demonstrated to me. A couple of days, talking to reenactors, and of course, there are miles, and miles and miles of books … practically all of which I had on my shelves when I did my first Western adventure.
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I remember doing a paper on the Pony Express in high school, and was surprised to find out it only ran for a year or so. 1860-61 IIRC.
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One of my great-great-grandfathers was a Captain with the US Army, and he was sent to a fort about 20 miles south of what were the beginnings of Dodge City, Kansas, in 1847, where he was Adjutant to the commander of the fort. He wrote a diary about the winter of 1847-1848, when the officers and men and a group of Pawnee Indians were snowed in at the fort. The roads, such as they were at the time, were impassable due to the heavy accumulation of snow, and they later turned to mud and were still impassable. His comment about that winter was that it was the most boring time in his life – there was nothing to do – for three months. He ended up moving to Liberty, Missouri, where he took up the practice of law, and in 1855, formed a pro-slavery militia. Some of the members at that time included Frank James, Jesse's older brother (Jesse joined in 1861), Cole Younger and his brother, and William Quantrill, amongst others. They raided the Liberty Arsenal twice, once in 1855, once in 1861, five days before Fort Sumter. And they engaged in the bloody fighting along the Kansas Territory-Missouri border. In 1861, he was commissioned as a Colonel in the Confederate States Army. Other ancestors of mine came to Kansas in the 1870s, lived in a sod house, and had quite an adventurous lifestyle, women and children who were able to shoot rifles did so to run off attacking Indians. One of them wrote an autobiographical story of those times in 1920, which I have. I suppose I should scan it and put it out on the Net, the typescript runs to about 150 pages. So the people then had to be pretty tough, men, women, and children…
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I have been watching the Paramount+ series 1993 with some interest.
Story is about a wagon train in, obviously, 1883 starting out from Texas and heading to Oregon. Premium cable so a bit more graphic and violent than they let them get away with on network TV, but they do seem to have done their due diligence and get most stuff period correct.
Only two gripes so far with five episodes in are early on when the leading character was fighting off a bandit attack it appeared that he fired three shots from a double barreled shotgun, though I suppose it was conceivable that he reloaded off camera.
And setting it in 1883, I have to wonder why take four months, countless dangers and hardships, great risks and several deaths when the transcontinental railroad finished linking up back in 1869. Back when finished a first class ticket would cost $135 and take nine days from Omaha to San Francisco. Steerage class half that, but freight charges for your belongings would likely be a significant expense.
@streamfortyseven *Please* scan it and somehow get it into the sights of all those young'uns who have time for political correctness. They can do a diversity study on it or something.
The rest of us will have a rollicking good read.
Curious that the prequel series to Yellowstone is set in the year that it is … There were a number of long-trail cattle drives from Texas to Montana and the northern ranges, mostly to establish and stock new ranches there. Many such ranches involved foreign and eastern investors who lost their shirts when a horrific bad winter cleared the ranges of cattle. The western cattle-raising market had gone boom and bust two years before.
An extended wagon-train journey of the sort that seems to be described in 1883 was a bit more typical thirty and forty years previously, and from east to west, rather than from south to north. By then, the railways had pretty much covered the west, and even if you had to ship your household goods by freight, I do wonder if the purchase of wagons, draft animals and sufficient supplies to make an overland journey lasting months wouldn't mount up to more.
I'll have to check out the series, though – but it sounds more like one of those entertainment series where all of the trans-Mississippi west and the last half of the 19th century are all just one big indistinct blur, with no differentiation over decades and sub-regions.
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These are the best (and worst) airports to sleep in
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Sleeping in airports is never fun. (iStock)
If you're sleeping at the airport, chances are something went very wrong with your travel plans.
Whether you were late for an international flight, missed a connection or maybe your plane got held up in another city with bad weather. Whatever the reason, if you're forced to sleep in public, airports aren't usually the best place to rest up.
But there's uncomfortable and then there's just plain awful. And there are some really, really bad airports out there.
That's according to a new survey conducted Sleeping in Airports (and common sense).
The worst of the worst, according to the survey, is the Jeddah King Abdulaziz International Airport in Saudi Arabia. Passengers complained about the lack of seating and tight, crowded atmosphere. And if desperate times called for desperate measures…well, the floor at the airport is both cold and dirty-- not exactly the most posh place to catch some zzz's.
Over in Europe, you could potentially get wet at the Pisa Galilei Airport in Italy. That's because it's actually closed between midnight and 4 a.m. So if you get in super early, you might be forced out into the open– where, if you fall asleep, you could wind up getting sprayed by the site's sprinkler system.
Pisa Airport allowing to spend waiting time outside in nature. Coupled with short distances & good infrastructure to reach it pic.twitter.com/Aq17DlH2p1
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Unfortunately, it doesn't fare much better at airports in other parts of the country. Don't expect to get any quality rest at the Venice Marco Polo International Airport. The airport, ranked as the fifth worst to sleep in, is known for nosy police officers demanding proof of airline tickets. That hasn't stopped a contingent of homeless people, however, from resting with the ranks of flyers.
Have you slept in one of the worst airports in the world?
Here are the top 15 worst airports to sleep in:
1. Jeddah King Abdulaziz International Airport, Saudi Arabia (JED)
2. London Luton International Airport, United Kingdom (LTN)
3. Reykjavik-Keflavik International Airport, Iceland (KEF)
4. Pisa Galileo Galilei International Airport, Italy (PSA)
5. Venice Marco Polo International Airport, Italy (VCE)
6. New York City La Guardia International, USA (LGA)
7. Kathmandu Tribhuvan International Airport, Nepal (KTM)
8. Honolulu International Airport, USA (HNL)
9. Rome Ciampino-G.B. Pastine International Airport, Italy (CIA)
10. Berlin Schoenefeld International Airport, Germany (SXF)
11. London Stansted Airport, United Kingdom (STN)
12. Brussels South Charleroi Airport, Belgium (CRL)
13. Paris Beauvais–Tillé Airport, France (BVA)
14. Eindhoven Airport, Netherlands (EIN)
15. Manila Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Philippines (MNL)
And these are the top 15 best:
1. Singapore Changi International Airport, Singapore (SIN)
2. Seoul Incheon International Airport, South Korea (ICN)
3. Tallinn Lennart Meri Airport, Estonia (TLL)
4. Tokyo Haneda Airport, Japan (HND)
5. Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, Finland (HEL)
6. Taipei Taoyuan International Airport, Taiwan (TPE)
7. Osaka Kansai International Airport, Japan (KIX)
8. Munich Airport, Germany (MUC)
9. Vancouver International Airport, Canada (YVR)
10. Vienna International Airport, Austria (VIE)
11. Porto Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport, Portugal (OPO)
12. Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport, USA (MSP)
13. New Delhi Indira Gandhi International Airport, India (DEL)
14. Doha Hamad International Airport, Qatar (DOH)
15. Zürich Airport, Switzerland (ZRH)
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The 6 Most Bizarre Safe For Work Fetishes
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The Internet has been a miracle for sex fetishists, not just because of the availability of porn in their specific category, but because of how it has broadened everybody's horizons. No matter how weird your turn-ons are, there is always somebody out there into weirder shit.
And as we've pointed out before, there are some people who enjoy fetishes so far removed from the concept of sex that they don't bear to be mentioned together in the same sentence. These are fully clothed, non-sexual images and videos that still serve as wank material for vast audiences of otherwise normal people. So here's a tribute to those who get off on ...
Girls Stuck in Quicksand
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This is a perfect example of a nearly "safe for work" fetish -- it requires no nudity or sex, and it in fact involves a situation in which sex would be utterly impossible. It's people who get aroused at the sight of fully clothed women sinking in quicksand:
Via Yahoo Groups
Often conveyed with top-of-the-line Photoshops.
A cursory search online would reveal tons of sites dedicated to compiling clips from various sources of girls drowning in quicksand, and then there are the niche video sites dedicated to providing original content (there probably is a booming industry in quicksand pit installation these days). On those sites, elaborate storylines are created to justify how these lovely ladies came to be trapped in the unforgiving, bottomless pit of certain-yet-sexy death.
Via Deviantart.com
It starts with the cable guy showing up to fix her box and ends with him pulling her to safety with a length of co-ax.
So ... maybe the quicksand thing triggers some "damsel in distress" response in the brain's boner cortex? If there's anything lonely Internet tough guys love, it's sitting behind their keyboards visualizing all the many ways they would totally jump in and save the unfortunate lady fake drowning in a boggy marsh. But the fact that they're jerking off to the "trapped and terrified" part, rather than the sexy rescue, really puts a darker spin on the whole thing. We'd prefer not to think any more about it.
We prefer our mud with a lot more "wrestle."
Although we should note how many people on YouTube keep asking if the women in the quicksand actually drowned in the videos.
Sample YouTube Comment:
close your eyes and let your mind do the rest
Girls Licking Doorknobs
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Japan's perversity is one of the longest running jokes on the Internet, but the explanation behind it is fairly straightforward: Japanese porn censorship laws are some of the most draconian out there, and they simply force people to be more creative about what they masturbate to. And, as anybody with a porn addiction can tell you, in order to keep things fresh, you have to get a bit weird. Japan, always on the cutting edge of innovation, simply took this idea and ran with it all the way to Planet Dick Tentacle, which brings us to these images of girls licking doorknobs.
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Let my love open the door.
Now, let's be clear: Men (and presumably some women) get turned on by the sight of females licking anything. The curse of being a woman is knowing that you can't eat an ice cream cone or a banana in public without several nearby males achieving a state of semi-arousal. But ... doorknobs? You don't have to be a germaphobe to know that these are the filthiest surfaces in your entire house, the toilet included. Is that the turn-on here? That the women are made to lick something crawling with more bacteria than a Taco Bell? Is it just supposed to be degrading?
But again, absolutely no nudity of any kind is involved in the doorknob fetish, although they do mix it up from time to time: There are images of girls in glasses licking doorknobs, girls in school uniforms licking doorknobs surrounded by candy, and so on.
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Oh, like you've never gotten funky fresh on a pile of tennis balls.
The trend is a fairly big deal in Japan, even getting featured on national television. The closest we can figure is that the audience is imagining the woman kneeling down to perform oral sex on a robot, who has shoved his metal dick through the door.
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Robots have all the fun.
Here's a slideshow featuring a nice variety of doorknob lickers, although some of these women seem reluctant to fully commit (there seem to be a lot of closed mouths and tongues that are almost touching the knob, glancing off screen as if to say, "Really?").
WTF serously,,, Why am I HARD from that!
Inflatable Rubber Suits
Remember the scene in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory where Violet Beauregarde eats some forbidden candy and blows up like a balloon? And then they have to just roll her out of the room? Well, apparently some people can't watch that scene without becoming inexplicably aroused.
This fetish is pretty similar to balloon fetishes, or maybe it's the opposite, because instead of popping the balloon, you are the balloon.
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You can't see the boner, but you know it's there.
Researchers have yet to determine what exactly it is about inflatable rubber suits getting filled with air that turns people on, but we have to admit that putting one of those on and just bouncing around would be fun as hell. It'd be kind of like the animals in this video:
The suits are often double-layered and designed in such a way that the outer layer gets filled with air and expands, while the second suit compresses and squeezes against the unfortunate (or fortunate, we guess) person enclosed within. So maybe that's it? It's like a full-body air massage? Either way, thanks to the Internet, we know there are a whole bunch of people who are into it:
We can't imagine why the Gimp never made it into the regular Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon lineup.
And since there is no fetish that can't be made more alarming with the addition of furries, sure enough there are inflatable suits made to look like cows, raccoons, and even dragons.
We literally can't figure out what all of those body parts are supposed to be.
Inflatable suits are quite expensive, but the guys on this forum are helpful enough to provide DIY tips on how to build your very own personal sex blimp. Now, if one of these springs a leak, do you go zipping around the room making that farting sound?
The tail doesn't inflate?
Nose-Picking, Snot-Eating, Sneezing
Nasophiles, as scientists choose to call them, are turned on by the sight, shape, and (bizarrely enough) thought of making love (somehow) to noses.
We know we should be grossed out, but we can't help but laugh at the thought of nasal, congested moaning.
There are basically two groups of nose enthusiasts. The first is those who are turned on by the shapes and sizes of noses and nostrils. This group gets off on watching weird videos of human noses transforming into noses of animals and other weird objects, and of fondling noses. Like this:
The second group gets turned on by watching people sneezing or picking and/or eating snot out of their noses. Here, let's let one enthusiast describe it in his own words:
"Ever since I can remember I have been turned on by seeing/watching a girl or woman pick their nose. It started sometime in my teens. I would see the occasional lady in a car or a girl at school pick and I would get a quick erection.
"As I grew older I thought it would be great to marry a lovely woman that picked her nose. I remember when I was dating my wife, I caught one of her roommates picking her nose. I thought, Wow, if my girlfriend would only pick. Well, we ended up getting married, and it finally happened. It was on a Sunday afternoon and we were taking a nap. She woke up before me and started to read a book. I woke up and didn't move but opened an eye and looked over and there she was picking away! It gave me an instant erection."
"Who needs the strip club? I get all the action I want right here."
And then there are the sneeze aficionados. For them, the unrestrained release of energy that occurs during a sneeze, as well as the facial expression that goes with it, turns them on to no end. Oddly, this is the one that's easiest to get -- the involuntary spasm and release of fluid is physiologically like a mini orgasm (and sneezes do trigger orgasms in some women -- Google it!).
It certainly would make a head cold more entertaining.
Sneeze fetishists are a truly picky bunch, so not every type of sneeze will do. Some prefer the dry sneezes triggered by allergies, while others are turned on exclusively by the heavy sneeze associated with a cold. According to some, the sensation right before the act of sneezing is almost like foreplay, grabbing the tissue is likened to taking out your condom, and the act of cleaning yourself up after the sneeze is absolutely like cleaning up after sex.
kan u keep makin these bekuz they r sooo much better than havin to skip from vid to vid thnx
So there appears to be a whole range of fetishes based entirely on things that would kill the mood for someone else -- somebody blowing gross snot out of their nose, dying horribly in the jungle, etc. It's like that's the point -- how crazily removed these things are from traditional turn-ons. For instance, when you think of knitting or wool, you picture grandmothers in rocking chairs making adorable hats and sweaters for their grandchildren. And sure enough, there are guys who find that unspeakably erotic.
Hannesgrebin.com
Footie pajamas are not as erotic as you seem to think they are.
The wool fetish community is a close-knit one (ha!), and they prefer to call themselves "woolies." Woolies are really big on the quality of the fabric used to knit the wool. It cannot be just any wool off the streets -- nothing but the best will do. But that makes sense if you're encasing your entire goddamned body in it:
Hope you get turned on by static cling.
The fetish can range from women just preferring to wear turtleneck sweaters to people being completely encased in wool outfits to people who practice "mummification," which is where they will completely wrap themselves -- particularly their heads -- in wool blankets. Which you'd think would make it somewhat difficult to breathe and live and so on, but since when has that stopped anybody?
And in case you're wondering, yes, you can find "wool condoms" that helpfully note that they cannot be used as a form of birth control. What? Why not?
i can understand loving wool but wouldnt that get hot?
Human Furniture
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This fetish is known as forniphilia, and it involves tying up your significant other and using them as a piece of furniture for hours on end. Pretty straightforward, really.
Via Tumblr
There's no way that can be good for your back.
On one hand, we totally get role-playing -- half of the people you know have probably played a nice round of "sexy firefighter rescues sexy French maid" as a prelude to vigorous porking. And lots of people enjoy role play that involves submission or domination, 50 Shades-style. But it seems like the role-playing lacks some of the thrill when one of the partners is playing the role of an inanimate object.
Via Blogspot
"Now sit by me and read a book for, like, an hour ... yeah ... that's HOT."
But maybe that's part of it -- it's a form of bondage and/or S&M where people "punish" their mate by making them pose for long periods of time as things like coat racks or even ironing boards. (Helpful hint from a forniphiliac: Set your iron to the "low" setting if you want your slave to get a warm massage, or to "max" if you're sadistic.) Here is an account of someone who enjoys being human furniture (spelling and grammar corrected):
"Being human furniture at a party for ladies can be quite amusing. I once was a chair on all fours and the ladies used me as their seat. It is not very hard, even if two ladies sit on my back, but in this position, which is quite convenient, I could watch the whole party and all the ladies, although I mostly could see only their legs and feet.
"A little more uncomfortable is being a footstool under the table because in this position I could see nothing but feet. A series of women were placing their feet on my back and even my neck, and some wanted to have their feet kissed. I only could see feet and not the person. But it is a nice kick, and women seem to love it."
I wish I could be the one to get kicked like that.
Related Reading: We've been depraved sickos for a while. Did you know tentacle rape dates back to the 18th century? And if you think quicksand is an impractical fetish, wait'll you see car-fucking. Some fetishes make a surprising amount of sense, though: obsessing over feet is most common during massive STD outbreaks.
Nobody has an owl fetish, because owls are incredibly dumb.


S. J. Watson makes his powerful debut with this compelling, fast-paced psychological thriller, reminiscent of Shutter Island and Memento, in which an amnesiac who, following a mysterious accident, cannot remember her past or form new memories, desperately tries to uncover the truth about who she is—and who she can trust.
I stared at my computer screen for what seemed to be hours, although I'm sure it was just minutes, as I tried to think how I felt about this novel. I wasn't sure what to expect when I first started reading it. I knew that it was some kind of psychological thriller, but the premise of the main character having an amnesiatic condition whereby she awoke every morning with no memory of her past made me think of the sweet romantic comedy of Fifty First Dates. But this was definitely NOT a romantic comedy. So please don't associate this novel to that movie.
Christine awakes every morning in bed with a man. She has no idea who this man is. She goes to the bathroom and sees photographs all over the wall of her with said man. Her husband? Hmmm. As we get into Christine's head we see her go from confusion to submission to paranoia. What is the truth and what isn't? A doctor who was seeing Christine without her husband's knowledge (what's with that?) suggests that she keep a journal and write in it every day, but she must hide the journal so that her husband doesn't find it. Then he calls her each morning and tells her where she has hidden the journal. What legitimate doctor would do that?
I guess I liked reading Before I Go To Sleep because I continued reading it, although halfway through it seemed to get repetitive and didn't make a lot of sense, but toward the end I had a difficult time putting it down. Then it ended... and I kind of wished I HAD put it down.
There were certainly some twists, but it was predictable. I liked it, but I didn't. It was definitely not a feel-good book. But psychological thrillers generally aren't.
I'll finish writing this review and then I'm going back to bed. Perhaps I'll awake in the morning and forget that I read it.


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Elm Street, Westfield Mass
May 31, 2015 by Derek Strahan
Elm Street in Westfield, around 1892. Image from Picturesque Hampden (1892)
Elm Street in 2015:
When the first photo was taken, Westfield was a significant industrial center, with factories that made everything from buggy whips (hence the city's nickname as the "Whip City") to organs, and as a result the town had a fairly prosperous downtown. In the years since the first photo was taken, the town has become a city, most of the factories have closed, and much of the city's commercial activity has left the downtown area. However, many of the historic commercial blocks from the 19th century survive today, and the city has been making an effort to revitalize the downtown area, including a complete renovation of the town green and the rotary that surrounds it, part of which can be seen here in the 2015 photo.
The most prominent building in both photos is the commercial block to the right, at the corner of Elm and Main Streets. Known as the Morrissey Block, it was built in 1842 as a boarding house, and by the time the first photo was taken it was operated as the Westfield House Hotel. After the hotel closed, the second floor was used as the Westfield District Court in the early part of the 20th century, and today the historic building is used for a variety of commercial and office spaces.
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Just in time for the summer boating and fishing season, Magellan MapSend Lakes USA software, by Thales, is even easier to purchase and download onto Magellan handheld GPS receivers. Now www.magellangps.com provides mariners and fishermen with direct access to ready-to-use regional maps of Fishing Hot Spots and Lakemaster detail for popular U.S. lakes in the North, South and West with fast and simple downloads from the Magellan online store.
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"The key to a great GPS navigation experience is the ability to marry elegant and robust devices with relevant and flexible map data and content," said Christian Bubenheim, vice president and general manager of Thales' consumer business. "Not only will we continue to provide flexible solutions with outstanding content and devices, but we plan to make it more easily accessible to more audiences who have yet to discover the full potential of GPS."
MapSend Lakes USA can be purchased and downloaded by visiting the Maps and Software page within the Products section of the Magellan online store at http://www.magellangps.com/en/products/software.asp. Additional Magellan MapSend software is available today for CD purchase online, and will be available for download in the upcoming months. The family of Magellan MapSend solutions includes Magellan BlueNav™, MapSend DirectRoute™, MapSend Topo 3D USA, MapSend Topo Canada plus other international titles to provide complete solutions for a variety of outdoor recreation and navigation needs.
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Q: View didn't return an HttpResponse object. It returned None instaed I'm using Django 1.11 and I'm trying to improve an existing code which let to export data to an Excel file. There are 2 cases :

*

*File contains less than 70.000 rows. In this way, user can directly download the generated output file.

*File contains more than 70.000 rows. In this case, the file is written in the media folder.
I'm getting an issue with the second part.
The file is well-written in the Media folder, but I don't find a way to provide an HttpResponse object.
In my HTML template, I have this link :

In my view, I have this file :
class ExportAPP(View):

    def export_xls(self, model=""):
        app_label = 'app'

        # create a workbook in memory
        output = io.BytesIO()

        book = Workbook(output, {'constant_memory': True})
        sheet = book.add_worksheet('Page 1')
        # Sheet header, first row
        row_num = 0

        #Part which fill the file, adjust columns etc ..
        ...

        book.close()

        if len(rows) < 70000:
            # construct response
            output.seek(0)
            name = 'Obsolete' if obsolete else ''
            name += str(model._meta.verbose_name_plural)
            response = HttpResponse(output.read(),
                                content_type="application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet")
            response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="' + name + '.xlsx"'
            return response

        #The interesting part
        else:
            print('Export contains more than 70.000 entries')
            output.seek(0)
            name = 'Obsolete' if obsolete else ''
            name += str(model._meta.verbose_name_plural)

            name = name + "_" + str(datetime.now().strftime("%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M_%s")) + '.xlsx'
            file = default_storage.save(name, output)

I'm getting this issue :
The view app.views.export.export_xls didn't return an HttpResponse object. It returned None instead.
I would like to return the same template page but I don't find a way to do that.

A: You code is reaching else statement. You are not returning any response in else statement. It should be like this
else:
    print('Export contains more than 70.000 entries')
    output.seek(0)
    name = 'Obsolete' if obsolete else ''
    name += str(model._meta.verbose_name_plural)

    name = name + "_" + str(datetime.now().strftime("%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M_%s")) + '.xlsx'
    file = default_storage.save(name, output)
    return HttpResponseRedirect('/')

A: You should return something here, some page or code 200, or, maybe redirect to some page (return HttpResponseRedirect('/thanks/')):
else:
            print('Export contains more than 70.000 entries')
            output.seek(0)
            name = 'Obsolete' if obsolete else ''
            name += str(model._meta.verbose_name_plural)

            name = name + "_" + str(datetime.now().strftime("%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M_%s")) + '.xlsx'
            file = default_storage.save(name, output)


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