Ken Lenyse did a fantastic job of hosting the Birthday Party for Kyle and Iara. His place looked great, there was a copious supply of food and booze and all had a grand time. Ken's selection of the movie "Big Trouble" was perfect as it was hilarious and fun to watch. Ken's large bed sheet movie screen made the actors seem like they were walking amongst you. He does have to get a bigger place though as his movie theater was packed to the brim. Iara's birthday is March 26th and Kyle's is the 28th. Happy Birthday Kyle and Iara. Thanks Ken for another fun, social and entertaining evening. Thanks also to Kyle and Ginny for their help.


For small businesses, SEO — and specifically link building — can seem like an intimidating endeavor.
"It's certainly possible to do white hat link building. Usually, it's called being excellent. Right…take Search Engine Land, you broke off from your old site, you started fresh. And yet, now…Search Engine Land is known as one of the most authoritative places to go on the web. You didn't cheat, you didn't take shortcuts — you went right up the middle and you earned it, with sweat. That's the best way to do white-hat link building in my experience — sweat, plus creativity helps a lot."
While this quote stresses the need for quality and diligence in link building, it also points out that it is possible to implement successfully. Cutts is talking about link building because links remain at the core of Google's search algorithm — and link building is still the best way to improve visibility within search.
Although it takes work, you need to be building links in 2014.
Along with hard work, effective link building is all about choosing the appropriate strategy. Business owners have a lot on their plates and can't risk wasting time pursuing fruitless link building strategies. As Matt Cutts said, there are no shortcuts, and you must invest in proven strategies to build the types of links that will stand the test of time and help your business.
Local link building can be very effective for all types of businesses — but especially for smaller businesses that have a greater potential for local customers. Local link building is a great tactic because there a number of different strategies to choose from and they are all fairly easy to implement. Here are ten local link building strategies that work for small businesses.
The first place you should start as a small business is with local directories as well as review sites.
Local directories are exactly what they sound like — directories that are specific to your location and. These are typically rather easy and straightforward links that are often there for the taking.
When pursuing local directory links it is important to keep the "local" portion at the forefront of your mind. These local directories can be especially useful if they focus on your specific niche as well.
Links on large, general directories that aren't geo-specific will provide little value, and in some cases can get you into trouble. However, national directories that feature local pages can be useful — if you place your link on the relevant page.
Along with local directories, reviews sites should also be a focus early in your link building project. Not only do reviews from these sites help with local SEO, they also can provide you with worthwhile links. However, getting quality reviews isn't easy and increasing your number of reviews will take some work as well.
There are a number of review sites and relevant directories out there that can provide you with a link relatively easily.
Another great place to find local link building opportunities is with local partnerships.
If you already have partnerships with other companies that have websites, you should certainly leverage these partnerships for a link. However, it may be necessary to create some new partnerships in order to build some new links.
This is a "preferred vendors" page on a wedding/event center's website that lists other businesses that are regularly associated with weddings or other events. As you can see, these listings also include links!
Local suppliers are another option for potential partnerships. Leverage the relationship you already have with your suppliers to build some valuable links.
Finally, you could partner with a local online publication or blog that is specific/closely related to your industry. Establish a partnership where you contribute a regular column and ask for a link on the publication's site. If you don't want to contribute regularly, perhaps you could become a sponsor and get a link that way — which brings us to our next link building strategy.
Local sponsorships offer a plethora of link building possibilities as well.
This example shows sponsors of a local charity event. Along with charity events, it's also often possible to sponsor an entire local charity.
Sponsorships can provide a great way to increase brand exposure/recognition, and they can also lead to some solid links.
Another effective local link building strategy for small businesses is to host a giveaway or contest.
If you are running a giveaway promotion you can encourage that participants link back to your site to show others where they can sign up. For contests, you can release an announcement post on your site that lists the winners — giving them something to link back to.
The most important aspect of giveaways and contests is ensuring you promote them in the right places so you can get your target audience involved. A great way to do this is to reach out to local community websites and let them know you are running the contest/giveaway.
Offering local scholarships or local college employee discounts can be a great strategy for building some .edu links from local colleges.
As you can see in the image above, this .edu site is linking out to business sites like AirFilterBuy.com and Storage.com. If the colleges you are targeting have pages like this on their sites, there is a good chance you can get a link there.
Another option is to offer employee discounts to those same local colleges. Again, do your research first and make sure there are some local schools that have pages with links to local companies offering discounts. Once you find a school that has one of these pages, reach out and notify them of your discount and get a link. Not only will this strategy bring you links, but you will also be helping your local community and adding value — which can be a great way to build your local presence and reputation.
When reaching out to college websites it is important to ensure you have the most relevant contact info. Typically colleges have a lot of different departments and employees, so make sure you are contacting the most appropriate person to increase your chances of successfully building a link.
These kinds of links can be very valuable as .edu domains typically have a lot of trust and authority from the types of link neighborhoods they reside in.
Another strategy that can lead to links from .edu sites is to create a jobs page on your own site.
Create a page that lists open positions/internships at your business and then notify local colleges that the page exists. It is likely these schools will link back to your page as colleges generally like to see their alumni land jobs.
Along with colleges you can also contact (and get links from) local job posting sites or community websites with job listings.
Not only will this strategy bring you inbound links, it could also bring you some bright new talent.
Badging can be a great local link building strategy if you have already established your company as an authority within the community.
Your badge must provide value and have real meaning. Recognition is important in badging and the site you are giving the badge to should truly deserve recognition.
When running a badging campaign, it is important to make sure the badge is relevant to your site and centers on the activities of the prospective linking site. Again, you must be an actual authority so the badge has meaning within the local community.
Providing testimonials is one of the most straightforward local link building strategies there is.
At the end of Eric Ward's testimonial there is a link back to his site so users can see who he is.
The list goes on and on. This strategy can be especially effective for small businesses because there are a number of interactions made regularly through the process of doing business that can easily be turned into testimonials and links.
Another effective link building strategy for small businesses is local resource creation.
Local guides – restaurants, bars, museums, etc.
Local events calendar – activities, festivals, local sporting events, etc.
Local map – tourist attractions, free Wi-Fi locations, pet-friendly hotels, etc.
Resource list – community organizations, local heads of government, local charities, etc.
Creating these resources is usually pretty easy and simple, and they can really help you build some great links. However, as with many of the other local strategies I've described, it is important to do the necessary research beforehand to ensure your resource will be well-received. By identifying where content gaps exist for your local community you can increase the likelihood that your resource will be effective.
Finally, as a small business you can leverage many of the relationships you already have within the community to build some valuable links.
For one, some of your most loyal customers may have their own websites and there's a good chance you could get a link there. Simply reach out to these people and ask if they would be willing to include you on a local resources page (if they have one).
As a local business you are sure to have a number of great relationships within the local community. Many of these relationships can be leveraged to produce great local links for your company's site. However, you should always put your relationship first and consider how it will be affected — no link is worth tarnishing a relationship.
So there you have it, ten local link building strategies that work for small businesses. Link building can seem daunting at first, but there are proven strategies (like those listed above) that you can implement to get results.
Although link building is often hard work, links remain significant within search and link building remains essential to your business' online visibility.
Andrew Dennis is a Content Marketing Specialist at Page One Power, a relevancy-first link building firm located in Boise, Idaho. He is also a regular contributor to Biznology and the link building blog Linkarati. Andrew graduated from the University of Idaho and is therefore a lifelong Vandals fan. You can engage with him on Twitter. His last article for SEMrush was "Why Links Should be a Long-term Investment."
Even seasoned SEOs still don't seem to get it: there is one over-arching thing Google tries to excel at: the best ONE search result for the user's search question. If they could ascertain that, then most results (SERPs) would contain one or ten links at the most. So when Cutts says guest posting is dead he means those posts that were done to game the SERPs. So they want to get a higher listing in the SERPs than -based on their content answering Google's most pressing question above- they deserve. And Google then tries to purge that erroneous result from the list and "restore" order. This leads to algorithm changes that then end in a lot of "stranded investments" in time and money in "obsolete" link building and other SEO activities. But we can all see, where Google is headed: finding that elusive ONE (or few) answer(s) to the searchers' questions. If we don't bother at all (!) about SEO in the dated sense but focus only (!) on the content, we might not get quick results but.… if my reasoning is right, like with Shakespeare who prevails where hundreds of his contemporary "competitors" have waned into oblivion, you will see your OLD content rise a little in rankings each time Google closed another SEO "loophole".
You're welcome Lisa, glad you found the post useful!


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Justin Timberlake's Stunning New Video Took 200 People, Weeks of Planning, and One Single Shot
Director Arturo Perez Jr. of La Blogothèque explains how he made the "Say Something" video.
By Matt Miller
In November of last year, Justin Timberlake reached out to La Blogothèque, a Paris-based collection of filmmakers best known for Take Away shows—or live single shot videos of musicians performing in candid situations. Launched about a decade ago, some of their most recognizable work has involved Arcade Fire crammed in an elevator playing "Neon Bible," The National performing "Start a War" around a dinner table, and St. Vincent lying on a bed singing "Marry Me." For most of the decade, these videos have been reserved for indie or emerging artists, who have gone on to international acclaim. But when Timberlake called La Blogothèque to direct his upcoming video for "Say Something," it marked the most expensive, ambitious, and mainstream project in the collective's history.
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"It could have been a gigantic disaster," says Arturo Perez Jr., the La Blogothèque director who pulled off the video after weeks of obsessive planning. "A lot of the times, when you're working with such a big artist, there's so much to lose. And to his credit, he wanted to be vulnerable."
When Timberlake approached the filmmaker, he knew he wanted a La Blogothèque-style video—meaning a truly live, single-shot experience. "When I hear this song, it's the inner voice-over inside of our heads," Perez says. So Perez devoured the new song, and came up with a plan to recreate its complex internal dialogue. He and his team picked a location: the famous Bradbury Building in Los Angeles (which most famously served as a setting in Blade Runner) with elevators, balconies, and stairs that personified the labyrinth of "Say Something."
It took two weeks of pre-production before shooting started. "I walked the Bradbury Building for two and a half days—just walking through it like a crazy person. We walked and walked and talked about it," Perez says. "What we didn't want to happen was for this to just be a Justin Timberlake one-take video gag. We've been doing this for a while, and we don't get high off of doing a one-take video. We get high off of creating poetry."
"We don't get high off of doing a one-take video. We get high off of creating poetry."
The team discussed trying to do it in multiple cuts, but they ultimately decided against it. "We wanted to let this be an experience—live in it," Perez says. So, when it came to the day of shooting, they had gathered a 200-person crew—including 17 musicians and a 60-person choir—to record the video and audio live in one single take. They started at about 11 a.m., rehearsed a few times—including moments when the elevators wouldn't work—but only had a 10-minute window to record at night when they could capture a deep blue light in the sky through a window.
And they pulled it off in a single take.
"I'm not joking when I tell you that this is the first and only take that we did in the night time," Perez said. "This is motherfucking Justin Timberlake. That guy is a pro. And Chris Stapleton was such a good guy. I don't know if he knew exactly what was going on, but that guy is a performer, so he just settled back and did it."
It's important to note that this isn't just video synched up with a studio-recorded track. This was an entirely live performance—video and audio. "That was a reverb challenge," Perez says. "The building was all steel. To even do the wireless transmission was a mathematical feat. We had to record so many instruments in so many different places."
The result is an almost unbelievable video that the casual viewer might think was done using simple filmmaking tricks. Timberlake walks through rooms and hallways, up a ladder. The camera pans to Stapleton on the other side of the side of the building before the two finally come together in a hallway joined by an entire choir. And it was all happening in the moment—a style of filmmaking that is not only difficult, but one that Perez hopes inspires a new type of experience of music videos.
"We truly believe that the next generation of great videos will be done live," Perez says. "We're over just seeing pretty images on the screen. Let's go one level deeper."
Matt Miller Culture Editor Matt is the Culture Editor at Esquire where he covers music, movies, books, and TV—with an emphasis on all things Star Wars, Marvel, and Game of Thrones.
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Housatonic Valley Regional High School to use hybrid model when school starts in September
Ian Strever, principal of Housatonic Valley Regional High School in Falls Village. RA archives
FALLS VILLAGE — When Housatonic Valley Regional High School opens for students Sept. 8, it will be operating on a hybrid model.
During a Zoom presentation this week, Principal Ian Strever said the leadership team believes this to be the best option at this time.
In-person classes will be held four days a week. Students will be divided into two cohorts, with 50% attending Monday and Tuesday and the other 50% Thursday and Friday. Wednesdays will be for students to meet virtually with teachers, professional development for staff and an opportunity for a thorough cleaning of the building. Some students may be in both cohorts if they are identified as needing to be in school daily. Enrollment is 315.
For just this year, the school will follow a block schedule.
"This limits the opportunity for transmission and movement around the building," Strever said. "It also allows those students who don't have first-block classes to show up later."
Masks must be worn at all times, unless there is an excuse from a health provider. There will be an isolation room for anyone showing symptoms before being picked up. There will be extra protection for classes when materials are shared, and only students and staff will be allowed in the building. No visitors will be allowed.
On the days students are not in school, they will be expected to follow up with independent learning, Strever said.
Region 1's plan was submitted to the state Department of Education and accepted. The plan was worked on by a wide cross-section of the community, who came up with three guiding principles: safeguarding the health and safety of students and staff; allowing students the opportunity to return to school full-time, and monitoring of students and staff. If necessary, classes will be canceled to contain the spread of COVID-19.
Strever said all students will have access to devices at home and school. Google Classroom will be used by all.
Parent, staff and student surveys where sent out before state guidelines became more defined. The parent survey received 80 responses, with 75% saying they'd send their children back to school. They also were queried about whether their children would take the bus to school and 35 said yes. Masks on buses will be a requirement. Seats will be assigned, social distancing observed, and buses will be cleaned and sanitized daily.
Many accommodations will be made in the cafeteria, which will have partitions, only six people at each long table and likely three lunch periods.
Many staff in the survey had concerns about returning and Strever said accommodations will be made for those who don't think they can. Child care is an issue for some and use of physical materials is a question on many minds.
Students in the survey said they were worried about COVID-19 exposure, but also expressed a need to be with their peers.
Strever said new surveys will be going out.
In case of in-school transmission of the virus, Strever said the school is requesting assistance from parents.
"If a student exhibits symptoms, they need to stay home," Strever said. "There will be no gold stars for perfect attendance. We want to err on the side of caution."
If it's determined there is a case of the virus, the school will be closed for two to five days to conduct an extensive cleaning. Torrington Area Health District then would be consulted on how to proceed.
"The leadership team thinks the hybrid method is the safe and secure way to start," Strever said.
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The former La Vada Apartments, site of a stag party in 1947, via Google Street View.
April 10, 1947: Police raided the ballroom of the La Vada Apartments, 249 E. Vernon, arresting 126 men who had paid $1 for admission to a stag party.
The paper said 126 men were arrested on charges of shooting dice and three women were arrested on charges of selling liquor without a license.
The men were fined $5 to $10 and given two-day suspended sentences.
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"Preferred complexion"? Aka beautiful, I guess.
I suspect the Sentinel was alluding to the infamous "paper bag test" for skin color. Those who were lighter than a brown paper bag were hired; anyone darker was turned down.
I've got a family member on the list! Sadly, all the people who knew him are dead. Thanks for these posts.


why are old recordings events still shown if they have been overwritten?
I am not sure if this is still happening because I just re installed and have not filled up the drive yet. But I remember previously when an event was no longer able to be played, the event still appeared in the event browser.
What is the point of listing the event, if there are no recordings for it that can be played? When you would try to play the event all of the options would be null.


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Q: Read "data.message" from Bundle In the GCM server example, I can send the "data" with a payload:
collapse_key=score_update&time_to_live=108&delay_while_idle=1&data.score=4x8&data.time=15:16.2342&registration_id=42

If I send without a payload, just data=some_text, on the client side, I can read it with
Bundle extras = intent.getExtras();
//...
s = extras.getString('data');

How do I read it if I have a payload? s = extras.getString('data.score'); doesn't work.
Edit: Never mind. The answer was very clear on the GCM server imlementation website, I just didn't see it because of my nose:

For instance, "data":{"score":"3x1"} would result in an intent extra
  named score whose value is the string 3x1.

so, I have to read  s = extras.getString('score');, without the data..

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Partia Socjaldemokratyczna (, PSD) – portugalska partia centrowo-prawicowa, reprezentująca nurty chadecki, konserwatywno-liberalny i konserwatywny, członek Europejskiej Partii Ludowej. Ugrupowanie rządziło lub współrządziło Portugalią w latach 1979–1995 i 2002–2005. Od 21 czerwca 2011 partia, w wyniku wygranych wyborów do kolejnych w 2015 roku ponownie była ugrupowaniem współrządzącym. Współtworzyła centroprawicowy pierwszy rząd Pedra Passosa Coelho.

Podstawowe fakty
Nazwa ugrupowania jest myląca i nie odnosi się do ideologii socjaldemokracji. Ugrupowanie zostało założone jako centrolewicowe, obecnie jest to partia centroprawicowa. W 1996 opuściło Międzynarodówkę Liberalną, a od końca lat 90. jego przedstawiciele w Parlamencie Europejskim zasiadają w Europejskiej Partii Ludowej (wcześniej PSD należała do Partii Europejskich Liberałów, Demokratów i Reformatorów). Członek PSD i były premier z jej ramienia José Manuel Durão Barroso w latach 2004–2014 był przewodniczącym Komisji Europejskiej. Partia wydaje własny tygodnik "Povo Livre" (Wolny Lud). Pierwszy numer gazety ukazał się 13 sierpnia 1974.

Historia

U źródeł
PSD powstała po rewolucji goździków 6 maja 1974, kiedy to Francisco Sá Carneiro, Francisco Pinto Balsemão i Joaquim Magalhães Mota publicznie ogłosili utworzenie ugrupowania nazywanego wówczas PPD – Ludowa Partia Demokratyczna (port. Partido Popular Democrático, PPD). Pierwsze spotkanie członków PPD miało miejsce w Pavilhão dos Desportos (Salonie Sportu) w Lizbonie 25 października 1974, a miesiąc później odbył się pierwszy oficjalny kongres partyjny. 17 stycznia 1975 6,3 tys. podpisów wysłano do Sądu Najwyższego w celu zarejestrowania partii, co zostało uczynione 8 dni później.

W rządzie i w opozycji
PSD brała udział w wielu gabinetach, które rządziły Portugalią po rozpoczęciu procesu transformacji. W tym czasie powstawały instytucje demokratyczne. W 1979 PSD utworzyła koalicję wyborczą wraz z Centrum Socjalno-Demokratycznym i innymi mniejszymi partiami znaną jako Sojusz Demokratyczny (AD). AD zwyciężyła w wyborach parlamentarnych w końcu 1979, a lider PSD Francisco Sá Carneiro został premierem. Koalicja zwiększyła swój stan posiadania w parlamencie w wyniku przyspieszonych wyborów w 1980, ale pasmo sukcesów zakończyła śmierć premiera Sá Carneiro w katastrofie lotniczej 4 grudnia 1980. Francisco Pinto Balsemão przejął przywództwo zarówno w PSD, jak i w AD, zostając także premierem. Nie miał jednak charyzmy swojego poprzednika i nie potrafił przyciągnąć do partii masowego poparcia.

AD zostało rozwiązane w 1983, a w wyborach parlamentarnych w tym roku PSD przegrała z Partią Socjalistyczną. Jednak socjalistom brakowało sporo głosów do osiągnięcia większości, uformowali więc wielką koalicję znaną jako Blok Centrowy, w skład której weszła także PSD. Wielu prawicowych członków partii włączając w to Aníbala Cavaco Silvę sprzeciwiało się takiej polityce kierownictwa. Kiedy więc Cavaco Silva został liderem partii 2 lipca 1985 wyprowadził PSD z koalicji z socjalistami.

Partia odniosła zwycięstwo w wyborach z 1985, jednak nie uzyskała bezwzględnej większości głosów. Pomimo tego Cavaco Silva został premierem. Zmniejszenie podatków przez jego rząd i liberalizacja gospodarcza zapewniły Portugalii kilka lat wzrostu ekonomicznego. Przedterminowe wybory, które odbyły się w 1987, zapewniły PSD zwycięstwo. Partia uzyskała 50.2% głosów, co przełożyło się na 148 miejsc w parlamencie (na 250). Po raz pierwszy jedna partia portugalska uzyskała większość bezwzględną w wyborach parlamentarnych i dzięki temu mogła samodzielnie sprawować rządy. Kolejne wybory w 1991 PSD wygrała prawie tak samo łatwo, jednak rosnące bezrobocie spowodowało spadek popularności Cavaco Silvy. Partia przegrała wybory w 1995 i 1999, oddając na 7 lat ster rządów socjalistom.

Powrót do władzy miał miejsce w 2002, jednak zwycięstwo nie okazało się zupełnym, ponieważ partia musiała dobrać sobie koalicjanta – została nim Partia Ludowa. Barroso został premierem, jednak po dwóch latach zrezygnował z tej funkcji aby objąć stanowisko szefa Komisji Europejskiej. Jego miejsce zajął Pedro Santana Lopes.

Podczas wyborów z 20 lutego 2005 Santana Lopes poprowadził partię do największej klęski od czasu 1983. PSD utraciła 12% głosów, zdobywając tylko 72 mandaty, a tracąc 30. Jej rywalka Partia Socjalistyczna uzyskała absolutną większość parlamentarną. Od 2006 poparcie dla PSD zaczyna wzrastać: w wyborach prezydenckich jej były przewodniczący Aníbal Cavaco Silva odniósł zwycięstwo w pierwszej turze. W wyborach do Parlamentu Europejskiego z 2009 partia zajęła pierwsze miejsce wygrywając w większości regionów i zdobywając w skali całego kraju nieco ponad milion głosów i 31,71%, co zapewniło jej 8 mandatów w Strasburgu. W wyniku wyborów z 2011 PSD – po sześciu latach spędzonych w opozycji – powróciła do władzy. Jej działacze współtworzą pierwszy rząd Pedra Passosa Coelho.

Poparcie

Liderzy
 Francisco Sá Carneiro (1974–1978, 1978–1980)
 António Sousa Franco (1978)
 José Menéres Pimentel (1978)
 Francisco Pinto Balsemão (1981–1983)
 Nuno Rodrigues dos Santos (1983–1984)
 Carlos Mota Pinto (1984–1985)
 Aníbal Cavaco Silva (1985–1995)
 Fernando Nogueira (1995–1996)
 Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (1996–1999)
 José Manuel Durão Barroso (1999–2004)
 Pedro Santana Lopes (2004–2005)
 Luís Marques Mendes (2005–2007)
 Luís Filipe Menezes (2007–2008)
 Manuela Ferreira Leite (2008–2010)
 Pedro Passos Coelho (2010–2018)
 Rui Rio (od 2018)

Premierzy
 Francisco Sá Carneiro (1979-1980)
 Francisco Pinto Balsemão (1981–1983)
 Aníbal Cavaco Silva (1985–1995)
 José Manuel Durão Barroso (2002–2004)
 Pedro Santana Lopes (2004–2005)
 Pedro Passos Coelho (2011–2015)

Prezydenci
 Aníbal Cavaco Silva (2006–2016)
 Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (od 2016)

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
 Strona oficjalna partii

Partie chrześcijańsko-demokratyczne
Partie i ugrupowania w Portugalii

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    db_class=SqliteExtDatabase,
    timeout=0.1)

CLOSURE_EXTENSION = os.environ.get('CLOSURE_EXTENSION')

# test aggregate.
class WeightedAverage(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.total_weight = 0.0
        self.total_ct = 0.0

    def step(self, value, wt=None):
        wt = wt or 1.0
        self.total_weight += wt
        self.total_ct += wt * value

    def finalize(self):
        if self.total_weight != 0.0:
            return self.total_ct / self.total_weight
        return 0.0

# test collations
def _cmp(l, r):
    if l < r:
        return -1
    elif r < l:
        return 1
    return 0

def collate_reverse(s1, s2):
    return -_cmp(s1, s2)

@ext_db.collation()
def collate_case_insensitive(s1, s2):
    return _cmp(s1.lower(), s2.lower())

# test function
def title_case(s):
    return s.title()

@ext_db.func()
def rstrip(s, n):
    return s.rstrip(n)

# register test aggregates / collations / functions
ext_db.register_aggregate(WeightedAverage, 'weighted_avg', 1)
ext_db.register_aggregate(WeightedAverage, 'weighted_avg2', 2)
ext_db.register_collation(collate_reverse)
ext_db.register_function(title_case)

class BaseExtModel(Model):
    class Meta:
        database = ext_db

class Post(BaseExtModel):
    message = TextField()

class FTSPost(Post, FTSModel):
    """Automatically managed and populated via the Post model."""
    pass

class FTSDoc(FTSModel):
    """Manually managed and populated using queries."""
    message = TextField()
    class Meta:
        database = ext_db

class ManagedDoc(FTSModel):
    message = TextField()
    class Meta:
        database = ext_db

class MultiColumn(FTSModel):
    c1 = CharField(default='')
    c2 = CharField(default='')
    c3 = CharField(default='')
    c4 = IntegerField()

    class Meta:
        database = ext_db

class Values(BaseExtModel):
    klass = IntegerField()
    value = FloatField()
    weight = FloatField()

class RowIDModel(BaseExtModel):
    rowid = RowIDField()
    data = IntegerField()

class TestVirtualModel(VirtualModel):
    _extension = 'test_ext'
    class Meta:
        database = ext_db
        options = {
            'foo': 'bar',
            'baze': 'nugget'}
        primary_key = False

class TestVirtualModelChild(TestVirtualModel):
    pass

class SqliteExtTestCase(PeeweeTestCase):
    messages = [
        ('A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in '
         'nothing.'),
        ('All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will '
         'certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and '
         'desired.'),
        ('Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your '
         'strength lies.'),
        ('Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason '
         'to believe.'),
        ('Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things '
         'that are not at hand.')]
    values = [
        ('aaaaa bbbbb ccccc ddddd', 'aaaaa ccccc', 'zzzzz zzzzz', 1),
        ('bbbbb ccccc ddddd eeeee', 'bbbbb', 'zzzzz', 2),
        ('ccccc ccccc ddddd fffff', 'ccccc', 'yyyyy', 3),
        ('ddddd', 'ccccc', 'xxxxx', 4)]

    def setUp(self):
        super(SqliteExtTestCase, self).setUp()
        FTSDoc.drop_table(True)
        ManagedDoc.drop_table(True)
        FTSPost.drop_table(True)
        Post.drop_table(True)
        MultiColumn.drop_table(True)
        Values.drop_table(True)
        Values.create_table()
        MultiColumn.create_table(tokenize='porter')
        Post.create_table()
        FTSPost.create_table(tokenize='porter', content=Post)
        ManagedDoc.create_table(tokenize='porter', content=Post.message)
        FTSDoc.create_table(tokenize='porter')

    def test_virtual_model_options(self):
        compiler = ext_db.compiler()
        sql, params = compiler.create_table(TestVirtualModel)
        self.assertEqual(sql, (
            'CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE "testvirtualmodel" USING test_ext '
            '(baze=nugget, foo=bar)'))
        self.assertEqual(params, [])

        sql, params = compiler.create_table(TestVirtualModelChild)
        self.assertEqual(sql, (
            'CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE "testvirtualmodelchild" USING test_ext '
            '("id" INTEGER NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, baze=nugget, foo=bar)'))
        self.assertEqual(params, [])

        test_options = {'baze': 'nugz', 'huey': 'mickey'}
        sql, params = compiler.create_table(
            TestVirtualModel,
            options=test_options)
        self.assertEqual(sql, (
            'CREATE VIRTUAL TABLE "testvirtualmodel" USING test_ext '
            '(baze=nugz, foo=bar, huey=mickey)'))
        self.assertEqual(params, [])

    def test_pk_autoincrement(self):
        class AutoInc(Model):
            id = PrimaryKeyAutoIncrementField()
            foo = CharField()

        compiler = ext_db.compiler()
        sql, params = compiler.create_table(AutoInc)
        self.assertEqual(
            sql,
            'CREATE TABLE "autoinc" '
            '("id" INTEGER NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT, '
            '"foo" VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL)')

    def assertMessages(self, query, indices):
        self.assertEqual([x.message for x in query], [
            self.messages[i] for i in indices])

    def test_fts_manual(self):
        messages = [FTSDoc.create(message=msg) for msg in self.messages]

        q = FTSDoc.select().where(FTSDoc.match('believe')).order_by(FTSDoc.id)
        self.assertMessages(q, [0, 3])

        q = FTSDoc.search('believe')
        self.assertMessages(q, [3, 0])

        q = FTSDoc.search('things')
        self.assertEqual([(x.message, x.score) for x in q], [
            (self.messages[4], 2.0 / 3),
            (self.messages[2], 1.0 / 3),
        ])

    def test_fts_delete_row(self):
        posts = [Post.create(message=message) for message in self.messages]
        FTSPost.rebuild()
        query = (FTSPost
                 .select(FTSPost, FTSPost.rank().alias('score'))
                 .where(FTSPost.match('believe'))
                 .order_by(FTSPost.id))
        self.assertMessages(query, [0, 3])

        fts_posts = FTSPost.select().order_by(FTSPost.id)
        for fts_post in fts_posts:
            self.assertEqual(fts_post.delete_instance(), 1)

        for post in posts:
            self.assertEqual(
                (FTSPost.delete()
                 .where(FTSPost.message == post.message).execute()),
                1)

        # None of the deletes went through. This is because the table is
        # managed.
        self.assertEqual(FTSPost.select().count(), 5)

        fts_docs = [FTSDoc.create(message=message)
                    for message in self.messages]
        self.assertEqual(FTSDoc.select().count(), 5)

        for fts_doc in fts_docs:
            self.assertEqual(FTSDoc.delete().where(
                FTSDoc.message == fts_doc.message).execute(),
                1)

        self.assertEqual(FTSDoc.select().count(), 0)

    def _create_multi_column(self):
        for c1, c2, c3, c4 in self.values:
            MultiColumn.create(c1=c1, c2=c2, c3=c3, c4=c4)

    def test_fts_multi_column(self):
        def assertResults(term, expected):
            results = [
                (x.c4, round(x.score, 2))
                for x in MultiColumn.search(term)]
            self.assertEqual(results, expected)

        self._create_multi_column()

        # `bbbbb` appears two times in `c1`, one time in `c2`.
        assertResults('bbbbb', [
            (2, 1.5),  # 1/2 + 1/1
            (1, 0.5),  # 1/2
        ])

        # `ccccc` appears four times in `c1`, three times in `c2`.
        assertResults('ccccc', [
            (3, .83),  # 2/4 + 1/3
            (1, .58), # 1/4 + 1/3
            (4, .33), # 1/3
            (2, .25), # 1/4
        ])

        # `zzzzz` appears three times in c3.
        assertResults('zzzzz', [
            (1, .67),
            (2, .33),
        ])

        self.assertEqual(
            [x.score for x in MultiColumn.search('ddddd')],
            [.25, .25, .25, .25])

    def test_bm25(self):
        def assertResults(term, col_idx, expected):
            query = MultiColumn.search_bm25(term, MultiColumn.c1)
            self.assertEqual(
                [(mc.c4, round(mc.score, 2)) for mc in query],
                expected)

        self._create_multi_column()
        MultiColumn.create(c1='aaaaa fffff', c4=5)

        assertResults('aaaaa', 1, [
            (5, 0.39),
            (1, 0.3),
        ])
        assertResults('fffff', 1, [
            (5, 0.39),
            (3, 0.3),
        ])
        assertResults('eeeee', 1, [
            (2, 0.97),
        ])

        # No column specified, use the first text field.
        query = MultiColumn.search_bm25('fffff')
        self.assertEqual([(mc.c4, round(mc.score, 2)) for mc in query], [
            (5, 0.39),
            (3, 0.3),
        ])

        # Use helpers.
        query = (MultiColumn
                 .select(
                     MultiColumn.c4,
                     MultiColumn.bm25(MultiColumn.c1).alias('score'))
                 .where(MultiColumn.match('aaaaa'))
                 .order_by(SQL('score').desc()))
        self.assertEqual([(mc.c4, round(mc.score, 2)) for mc in query], [
            (5, 0.39),
            (1, 0.3),
        ])

    def test_bm25_alt_corpus(self):
        for message in self.messages:
            FTSDoc.create(message=message)

        def assertResults(term, expected):
            query = FTSDoc.search_bm25(term)
            cleaned = [
                (round(doc.score, 2), ' '.join(doc.message.split()[:2]))
                for doc in query]
            self.assertEqual(cleaned, expected)

        assertResults('things', [
            (0.45, 'Faith has'),
            (0.36, 'Be faithful'),
        ])

        # Indeterminate order since all are 0.0. All phrases contain the word
        # faith, so there is no meaningful score.
        results = [x.score for x in FTSDoc.search_bm25('faith')]
        self.assertEqual(results, [0., 0., 0., 0., 0.])

    def _test_fts_auto(self, ModelClass):
        posts = []
        for message in self.messages:
            posts.append(Post.create(message=message))

        # Nothing matches, index is not built.
        pq = ModelClass.select().where(ModelClass.match('faith'))
        self.assertEqual(list(pq), [])

        ModelClass.rebuild()
        ModelClass.optimize()

        # it will stem faithful -> faith b/c we use the porter tokenizer
        pq = (ModelClass
              .select()
              .where(ModelClass.match('faith'))
              .order_by(ModelClass.id))
        self.assertMessages(pq, range(len(self.messages)))

        pq = (ModelClass
              .select()
              .where(ModelClass.match('believe'))
              .order_by(ModelClass.id))
        self.assertMessages(pq, [0, 3])

        pq = (ModelClass
              .select()
              .where(ModelClass.match('thin*'))
              .order_by(ModelClass.id))
        self.assertMessages(pq, [2, 4])

        pq = (ModelClass
              .select()
              .where(ModelClass.match('"it is"'))
              .order_by(ModelClass.id))
        self.assertMessages(pq, [2, 3])

        pq = ModelClass.search('things')
        self.assertEqual([(x.message, x.score) for x in pq], [
            (self.messages[4], 2.0 / 3),
            (self.messages[2], 1.0 / 3),
        ])

        pq = (ModelClass
              .select(Rank(ModelClass))
              .where(ModelClass.match('faithful'))
              .tuples())
        self.assertEqual([x[0] for x in pq], [.2] * 5)

        pq = (ModelClass
              .search('faithful')
              .dicts())
        self.assertEqual([x['score'] for x in pq], [.2] * 5)

    def test_fts_auto_model(self):
        self._test_fts_auto(FTSPost)

    def test_fts_auto_field(self):
        self._test_fts_auto(ManagedDoc)

    def test_custom_agg(self):
        data = (
            (1, 3.4, 1.0),
            (1, 6.4, 2.3),
            (1, 4.3, 0.9),
            (2, 3.4, 1.4),
            (3, 2.7, 1.1),
            (3, 2.5, 1.1),
        )
        for klass, value, wt in data:
            Values.create(klass=klass, value=value, weight=wt)

        vq = (Values
              .select(
                  Values.klass,
                  fn.weighted_avg(Values.value).alias('wtavg'),
                  fn.avg(Values.value).alias('avg'))
              .group_by(Values.klass))
        q_data = [(v.klass, v.wtavg, v.avg) for v in vq]
        self.assertEqual(q_data, [
            (1, 4.7, 4.7),
            (2, 3.4, 3.4),
            (3, 2.6, 2.6),
        ])

        vq = (Values
              .select(
                  Values.klass,
                  fn.weighted_avg2(Values.value, Values.weight).alias('wtavg'),
                  fn.avg(Values.value).alias('avg'))
              .group_by(Values.klass))
        q_data = [(v.klass, str(v.wtavg)[:4], v.avg) for v in vq]
        self.assertEqual(q_data, [
            (1, '5.23', 4.7),
            (2, '3.4', 3.4),
            (3, '2.6', 2.6),
        ])

    def test_custom_collation(self):
        for i in [1, 4, 3, 5, 2]:
            Post.create(message='p%d' % i)

        pq = Post.select().order_by(Clause(Post.message, SQL('collate collate_reverse')))
        self.assertEqual([p.message for p in pq], ['p5', 'p4', 'p3', 'p2', 'p1'])

    def test_collation_decorator(self):
        posts = [Post.create(message=m) for m in ['aaa', 'Aab', 'ccc', 'Bba', 'BbB']]
        pq = Post.select().order_by(collate_case_insensitive.collation(Post.message))
        self.assertEqual([p.message for p in pq], [
            'aaa',
            'Aab',
            'Bba',
            'BbB',
            'ccc',
        ])

    def test_custom_function(self):
        p1 = Post.create(message='this is a test')
        p2 = Post.create(message='another TEST')

        sq = Post.select().where(fn.title_case(Post.message) == 'This Is A Test')
        self.assertEqual(list(sq), [p1])

        sq = Post.select(fn.title_case(Post.message)).tuples()
        self.assertEqual([x[0] for x in sq], [
            'This Is A Test',
            'Another Test',
        ])

    def test_function_decorator(self):
        [Post.create(message=m) for m in ['testing', 'chatting  ', '  foo']]
        pq = Post.select(fn.rstrip(Post.message, 'ing')).order_by(Post.id)
        self.assertEqual([x[0] for x in pq.tuples()], [
            'test', 'chatting  ', '  foo'])

        pq = Post.select(fn.rstrip(Post.message, ' ')).order_by(Post.id)
        self.assertEqual([x[0] for x in pq.tuples()], [
            'testing', 'chatting', '  foo'])

    def test_granular_transaction(self):
        conn = ext_db.get_conn()

        def test_locked_dbw(isolation_level):
            with ext_db.granular_transaction(isolation_level):
                Post.create(message='p1')  # Will not be saved.
                conn2 = ext_db._connect(ext_db.database, **ext_db.connect_kwargs)
                conn2.execute('insert into post (message) values (?);', ('x1',))
        self.assertRaises(sqlite3.OperationalError, test_locked_dbw, 'exclusive')
        self.assertRaises(sqlite3.OperationalError, test_locked_dbw, 'immediate')
        self.assertRaises(sqlite3.OperationalError, test_locked_dbw, 'deferred')

        def test_locked_dbr(isolation_level):
            with ext_db.granular_transaction(isolation_level):
                Post.create(message='p2')
                conn2 = ext_db._connect(ext_db.database, **ext_db.connect_kwargs)
                res = conn2.execute('select message from post')
                return res.fetchall()

        # no read-only stuff with exclusive locks
        self.assertRaises(sqlite3.OperationalError, test_locked_dbr, 'exclusive')

        # ok to do readonly w/immediate and deferred (p2 is saved twice)
        self.assertEqual(test_locked_dbr('immediate'), [])
        self.assertEqual(test_locked_dbr('deferred'), [('p2',)])

        # test everything by hand, by setting the default connection to
        # 'exclusive' and turning off autocommit behavior
        ext_db.set_autocommit(False)
        conn.isolation_level = 'exclusive'
        Post.create(message='p3')  # uncommitted

        # now, open a second connection w/exclusive and try to read, it will
        # be locked
        conn2 = ext_db._connect(ext_db.database, **ext_db.connect_kwargs)
        conn2.isolation_level = 'exclusive'
        self.assertRaises(sqlite3.OperationalError, conn2.execute, 'select * from post')

        # rollback the first connection's transaction, releasing the exclusive lock
        conn.rollback()
        ext_db.set_autocommit(True)

        with ext_db.granular_transaction('deferred'):
            Post.create(message='p4')

        res = conn2.execute('select message from post order by message;')
        self.assertEqual([x[0] for x in res.fetchall()], [
            'p2', 'p2', 'p4'])

class TestRowIDField(ModelTestCase):
    requires = [RowIDModel]

    def test_model_meta(self):
        self.assertEqual(RowIDModel._meta.get_field_names(), ['data'])
        self.assertEqual(RowIDModel._meta.primary_key.name, 'rowid')
        self.assertTrue(RowIDModel._meta.auto_increment)

    def test_rowid_field(self):
        r1 = RowIDModel.create(data=10)
        self.assertEqual(r1.rowid, 1)
        self.assertEqual(r1.data, 10)

        r2 = RowIDModel.create(data=20)
        self.assertEqual(r2.rowid, 2)
        self.assertEqual(r2.data, 20)

        query = RowIDModel.select().where(RowIDModel.rowid == 2)
        sql, params = query.sql()
        self.assertEqual(sql, (
            'SELECT "t1"."data" '
            'FROM "rowidmodel" AS t1 '
            'WHERE ("t1"."rowid" = ?)'))
        self.assertEqual(params, [2])
        r_db = query.get()
        self.assertEqual(r_db.rowid, None)
        self.assertEqual(r_db.data, 20)

        r_db2 = query.select(RowIDModel.rowid, RowIDModel.data).get()
        self.assertEqual(r_db2.rowid, 2)
        self.assertEqual(r_db2.data, 20)

class TestTransitiveClosure(PeeweeTestCase):
    def test_model_factory(self):
        class Category(BaseExtModel):
            name = CharField()
            parent = ForeignKeyField('self', null=True)

        Closure = ClosureTable(Category)
        self.assertEqual(Closure._extension, 'transitive_closure')
        self.assertEqual(Closure._meta.columns, {})
        self.assertEqual(Closure._meta.fields, {})
        self.assertFalse(Closure._meta.primary_key)
        self.assertEqual(Closure._meta.options, {
            'idcolumn': 'id',
            'parentcolumn': 'parent_id',
            'tablename': 'category',
        })

        class Alt(BaseExtModel):
            pk = PrimaryKeyField()
            ref = ForeignKeyField('self', null=True)

        Closure = ClosureTable(Alt)
        self.assertEqual(Closure._meta.columns, {})
        self.assertEqual(Closure._meta.fields, {})
        self.assertFalse(Closure._meta.primary_key)
        self.assertEqual(Closure._meta.options, {
            'idcolumn': 'pk',
            'parentcolumn': 'ref_id',
            'tablename': 'alt',
        })

        class NoForeignKey(BaseExtModel):
            pass
        self.assertRaises(ValueError, ClosureTable, NoForeignKey)

@skip_if(lambda: not CLOSURE_EXTENSION)
class TestTransitiveClosureIntegration(PeeweeTestCase):
    tree = {
        'books': [
            {'fiction': [
                {'scifi': [
                    {'hard scifi': []},
                    {'dystopian': []}]},
                {'westerns': []},
                {'classics': []},
            ]},
            {'non-fiction': [
                {'biographies': []},
                {'essays': []},
            ]},
        ]
    }

    def setUp(self):
        super(TestTransitiveClosureIntegration, self).setUp()
        ext_db.load_extension(CLOSURE_EXTENSION.rstrip('.so'))
        ext_db.close()

    def tearDown(self):
        super(TestTransitiveClosureIntegration, self).tearDown()
        ext_db.unload_extension(CLOSURE_EXTENSION.rstrip('.so'))

    def initialize_models(self):
        class Category(BaseExtModel):
            name = CharField()
            parent = ForeignKeyField('self', null=True)
            @classmethod
            def g(cls, name):
                return cls.get(cls.name == name)

        Closure = ClosureTable(Category)
        ext_db.drop_tables([Category, Closure], True)
        ext_db.create_tables([Category, Closure])

        def build_tree(nodes, parent=None):
            for name, subnodes in nodes.items():
                category = Category.create(name=name, parent=parent)
                if subnodes:
                    for subnode in subnodes:
                        build_tree(subnode, category)

        build_tree(self.tree)
        return Category, Closure

    def assertNodes(self, query, *expected):
        self.assertEqual(
            set([category.name for category in query]),
            set(expected))

    def test_build_tree(self):
        Category, Closure = self.initialize_models()
        self.assertEqual(Category.select().count(), 10)

    def test_descendants(self):
        Category, Closure = self.initialize_models()
        books = Category.g('books')
        self.assertNodes(
            Closure.descendants(books),
            'fiction', 'scifi', 'hard scifi', 'dystopian',
            'westerns', 'classics', 'non-fiction', 'biographies', 'essays')

        self.assertNodes(Closure.descendants(books, 0), 'books')
        self.assertNodes(
            Closure.descendants(books, 1), 'fiction', 'non-fiction')
        self.assertNodes(
            Closure.descendants(books, 2),
            'scifi', 'westerns', 'classics', 'biographies', 'essays')
        self.assertNodes(
            Closure.descendants(books, 3), 'hard scifi', 'dystopian')

        fiction = Category.g('fiction')
        self.assertNodes(
            Closure.descendants(fiction),
            'scifi', 'hard scifi', 'dystopian', 'westerns', 'classics')
        self.assertNodes(
            Closure.descendants(fiction, 1),
            'scifi', 'westerns', 'classics')
        self.assertNodes(
            Closure.descendants(fiction, 2), 'hard scifi', 'dystopian')

        self.assertNodes(
            Closure.descendants(Category.g('scifi')),
            'hard scifi', 'dystopian')
        self.assertNodes(
            Closure.descendants(Category.g('scifi'), include_node=True),
            'scifi', 'hard scifi', 'dystopian')
        self.assertNodes(Closure.descendants(Category.g('hard scifi'), 1))

    def test_ancestors(self):
        Category, Closure = self.initialize_models()

        hard_scifi = Category.g('hard scifi')
        self.assertNodes(
            Closure.ancestors(hard_scifi),
            'scifi', 'fiction', 'books')
        self.assertNodes(
            Closure.ancestors(hard_scifi, include_node=True),
            'hard scifi', 'scifi', 'fiction', 'books')
        self.assertNodes(Closure.ancestors(hard_scifi, 2), 'fiction')
        self.assertNodes(Closure.ancestors(hard_scifi, 3), 'books')

        non_fiction = Category.g('non-fiction')
        self.assertNodes(Closure.ancestors(non_fiction), 'books')
        self.assertNodes(Closure.ancestors(non_fiction, include_node=True),
                         'non-fiction', 'books')
        self.assertNodes(Closure.ancestors(non_fiction, 1), 'books')

        books = Category.g('books')
        self.assertNodes(Closure.ancestors(books, include_node=True),
                         'books')
        self.assertNodes(Closure.ancestors(books))
        self.assertNodes(Closure.ancestors(books, 1))

    def test_siblings(self):
        Category, Closure = self.initialize_models()

        self.assertNodes(
            Closure.siblings(Category.g('hard scifi')), 'dystopian')
        self.assertNodes(
            Closure.siblings(Category.g('hard scifi'), include_node=True),
            'hard scifi', 'dystopian')
        self.assertNodes(
            Closure.siblings(Category.g('classics')), 'scifi', 'westerns')
        self.assertNodes(
            Closure.siblings(Category.g('classics'), include_node=True),
            'scifi', 'westerns', 'classics')
        self.assertNodes(
            Closure.siblings(Category.g('fiction')), 'non-fiction')

    def test_tree_changes(self):
        Category, Closure = self.initialize_models()
        books = Category.g('books')
        fiction = Category.g('fiction')
        dystopian = Category.g('dystopian')
        essays = Category.g('essays')
        new_root = Category.create(name='products')
        Category.create(name='magazines', parent=new_root)
        books.parent = new_root
        books.save()
        dystopian.delete_instance()
        essays.parent = books
        essays.save()
        Category.create(name='rants', parent=essays)
        Category.create(name='poetry', parent=books)

        query = (Category
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                 .join(Closure, on=(Category.id == Closure.id))
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Valmiera is the city of outstanding athletes, known far beyond the Latvian borders. Jānis Kaufmanis known as Kauča won the Latvia and Estonia basketball league, as well as the Estonian championship and Estonian Cup titles in 2021.
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Jānis Daliņš (1904-1978) was a famous Latvian race walker. He won a silver medal at the 1932 Olympic games in Los Angeles, becoming the first Latvian to win an Olympic medal under the Latvian flag. Valmiera track and field stadium is named after him.
Māris Štrombergs (born March 10, 1987) won the first ever Olympic gold medal in BMX cycling at the 2008 Summer games in Beijing. The one and only BMX athlete who has won two consecutive Olympic gold medals for Men.
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Dairis Bertāns led Latvia to a bronze medal at the 2007 FIBA U18 European Championship in Madrid. It was the first ever youth medal for the Latvian men. The shooting guard registered a 53,6% accuracy from the three point line in Euroleague, while playing for Olimpia Milano. Captain of the national team. Made it to the NBA and played for the New Orleans Pelicans.
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Dāvis Bertāns (born November 12, 1992) is probably the best ever Latvian three point shooter. Younger brother of Dairis was selected with the 42nd pick in the 2011 NBA draft by the Indiana Pacers. Represented the San Antonio Spurs for three seasons (2016-2019). On July 6, 2019, Bertāns was traded to Washington Wizards. Signed the second biggest contract in Latvian sports history on November 21, 2020 – a five year, $80 million deal with the Wizards.
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The FBI collects crime data from cities and counties all across America. They tabulate reported crimes and print annual publications called the Uniformed Crime Report or UCR. One must consider however not all victims call the police to report a crime. Nor does government collect all crimes such as identity theft or cybercrime.
The heart of the FBI data are offenses known to law enforcement. These offenses are generally captured in crime reports by the police and entered into a records management system (RMS). That data is sent to the FBI for inclusion into the FBI annual UCR report. You will note there are two important parts to FBI reporting: violent crime and property crime. Another report important to me is the Law Enforcement Officer Killed and Assaulted or LEOKA.
Some people are tempted to rank cities and compare one location to another. Alarm companies are famous for ranking cities to sell alarm systems. The FBI warns against ranking and gives advice on the proper use of crime data. Not ranking makes sense. Cities that are a county seat, business center, home to a large university, possess attractions such as an amusement park and other tourist attractions, and host the county jail will naturally have more crime because of more people. There is currently no method to calculate daily population as opposed to inhabitants. That does not mean however that crime cannot be reduced.
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3. Mail this completed application, your essay and writing sample by May 25, 2012, to KCABJ, P.O. Box 32744, Kansas City, Mo. 64111.
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Speakers and story ideas for the students to pursue are being lined up. Contact KCABJ President Glenn Rice if you want to get involved at grice@kcstar.com.
Robyn said that this year Myron Fears at KPRS-FM has offered the academy the use of his classroom at Penn Valley, which has two recording studios. KCTV, Channel 5 will provide studio space for the students to do their TV broadcast.
KCABJ sponsored a membership drive mixer downtown at the AMC Marque downtown to attract new members. 2011 KCABJ academy graduate and scholarship winner Lauren Clay won the registration to the National Association of Black Journalists convention in New Orleans, which was offered during the mixer.
KCABJ also received donations during the gathering.
The National Association of Black Journalists convention approaches fast. It will be June 20-24 in New Orleans.
Several KCABJ members plan to attend the convention and jobs fair. The NABJ convention will be separate from the UNITY Convention this year for the first time because of a dispute over representation and finances between the two organizations.
The Association of Opinion Journalists is seeking applications. For more information go to http://www.opinionjournalists.org/contest. The deadline is June 1.
The 36th Annual Summer Institute for Intercultural Communication will be at Reed College in Portland, Ore. For more information go to http://www.intercultural.org.
KCABJ picked up renewing members at the mixer. An accounting will follow in the next newsletter.
Candice Price reports that she received a resolution from the Missouri House of Representatives for services she has helped provide to urban youths through an annual fishing derby. The seventh annual derby was held in May.


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Beautiful Scars Opening Up New Avenues Of Art For Tom Wilson
October 5, 2018 October 6, 2018 by Jason MacNeil
For several years in his career musician, Tom Wilson was best known as lead singer for Canadian rock group Junkhouse. But these days Wilson has a house full of creative ideas, outlets and passions. And none of them could be deemed junk. Not by a long shot.
Wilson's latest project was a 2017 critically acclaimed memoir entitled Beautiful Scars: Steeltown Secrets, Mohawk Skywalkers and The Road Home. It's a book shedding light on Wilson's discovery of his Mohawk ancestry after finding out his was adopted, part of the Sixties Scoop where Indigenous children were taken from their birth parents and communities and put up for adoption.
"Before I started writing the book — before Random House approached me to write the book — I'd been talking about my new found adoption, my lifetime secret," Wilson says. "I had been talking about it at concerts and in public. And every night people would be saying, 'I have a story, your story is like my story.' Bikers crying in the lobbies of theatres in Winnipeg and people saying, 'You know I grew up thinking my sister was my sister but I found out only recently that my sister turns out to be my mother.'"
The artist, currently on a Beautiful Scars: A Literacy Recital tour featuring stories and songs (which hits Toronto's Hugh's Room Oct. 7), says he welcomed the chance to tell his story outside the confines of the traditional song structure.
"It's funny I was talking to my friend Alan Doyle (Great Big Sea singer) out in Newfoundland this summer," he says. "I was saying we've been writing songs and we've been putting our stories into three verses and a chorus our entire lives. It's like driving a little Fiat for groceries.
"When you get the luxury of having 70,000 words to tell a story it's almost like getting behind the wheel of a Cadillac suddenly and the road is wider and the journey is longer. There was something about it that I found completely enjoyable."
Wilson adds he infused the book with poetry in order to bring "colour" to it to avoid it being "clinical." He also says he saw little differences in the creative process compared to music or his paintings.
"I paint and I have an exhibition opening in November and I don't really consider myself a painter, I just use paint," he says. "I'm not a guitar player but I happen to use a guitar to write songs. And I don't really consider myself a writer, it just seems that I've used enough words to be put into a book. That was a process that I seemed to find enjoyable and when you find that you're enjoying yourself the job is not a job anymore."
As mentioned, Wilson teased fans in September during Hamilton's Supercrawl by opening up his art studio space for fans to see what he was working on. Those works entitled Mohawk Warriors In Oil will be showcased at the Art Gallery of Burlington beginning Nov. 30.
"It's going to be an exhibit that travels Canada," he says. "It's a formal exhibit not in a private gallery but in a public gallery which is where I wanted my art to go. I didn't feel that I wanted it to necessarily to have a price tag on it while it was showing. I decided to write stories from the book in paintings that I created of Mohawk warriors, Mohawk hunters and Mohawk chiefs.
And as if that wasn't enough, Wilson has two albums on the horizon. One is entitled Symphonic Scars which is a live recording he did with the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra earlier this year. Meanwhile in early January Wilson will release a new studio album under the moniker Lee Harvey Osmond, an album whose material is inspired by material found in Beautiful Scars.
Other things he's working on include a theatrical one-man play version of Beautiful Scars which will be work-shopped in November. This is in addition to another book he's contracted to write for Random House.
"The creative process is all-encompassing, it doesn't matter if I'm painting or speaking in public or writing a book or writing music or performing music," he says. "It's all part of the creative energy that I have to access in order to find any kind of happiness in this world, you know. So they're all different fish swimming up the same stream.
"My interest as an artist or as a man who wants to be an artist is to just continue communicating with people."
Here are Tom Wilson's Ontario Tour Dates:
Oct 7: Toronto, ON (Hugh's Room)
Oct. 20: Waterford, ON (Old Town Hall)
Oct. 27: Ottawa, ON (Ottawa International Writer Festival)
Nov. 1: Owen Sound, ON (Heartwood Concert Hall)
Nov. 2: Orillia, ON (St. Paul's Centre)
Nov. 3: Sudbury, ON (Wordstock 2018)
Nov. 10: Ajax, ON (St. Francis Centre)
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Acts as an USB interface converter for your analog video sources.
Easy to use video editing software, make your own multimedia movie file, and video mail through the Internet.
High Speed up to 30 frames per second at CIF resolution (352 x 288 pixels) Adjustable Frame rate and size to suit your application.
I've connected this to my laptop to show just how compact this USB Video Adapter really is. Take it with you on vacation, to the office for your video conference, or use it when the whole family has gathered around the house. With a total length of about 48 inches (4 ft.) this unit can be wrapped up to into a small package as seen above and taken anywhere. Let the world become your digital video playground.
At $49.98 this is a great deal and well worth it to start your video library collection. You get 100% satisfaction and a money back guarantee.
The initial splash screen is your navigation to installing all drivers and software to work with the USB video adapter.
This screen shot is the first when installing the program Video Works on the USB Video Adapter CD-ROM.
Video Works Splash install screen. The screens from here on out are typical license agreement and install messages. When you purchase the USB Video Adapter the manual also have a screen shot for every step of the way.
If your interested in seeing a sample of the movie(MPG) that was taken using the USB Video Adapter you can download the ZIP file by clicking here and view it in Windows Media Player or other compatible player.
If I had more than two thumbs I would put them up. I am very excited about this product, what better way to keep track of the daily lives of your children than video and then transferring that onto CD-ROM without taking something apart, and have it last forever. I actually called the owner of the product to tell him how excited I was about this video adapter. The install was so easy in every aspect of the process from driver installing to the actual operation of the adapter. I hooked up a five year old JVC compact VHS cam corder to the video adapter through the RCA Jack, at this point I had the Video Works Program up and running getting prepared for the movie. As soon as the camera powered up I could see what was going on through the preview window of the program. The clarity was great and no delay that I could see between the movement of the camera and the movement on the computer screen. Basically you click to set the type of video you want meaning, single capture, consecutive frames or movie. If a movie is what you selected, you can tell the program how many seconds to record and do what you want from there. Obviously putting everything away when your done is simple, quick and clean.
You don't have to be a Computer Genius to set this up, it really takes very little effort other than plugging the USB connector into the computer and installing software. Since it's a plug and play device, you don't have to worry about the computer recognizing the adapter, the computer see's it before you can comeback to look at the screen.
It's my opinion that this is a superb USB product and I'm happy to lend my testimonial to it.
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