Temporary car insurance provides you with a short-term solution to your insurance needs, so you can avoid the cost of taking out a full twelve-month policy. As with all insurance policies, there are a few initial hurdles to cross. The minimum age is usually 21 and policies are normally reserved for drivers between that age and 75. As long as you don't have any serious convictions, you should be good to go.
There are all sorts of reasons for taking out a temporary insurance policy. Instead of adding your name to an existing policy, such as cover for your parent's car so you can move your kit to university or spend a weekend with friends in the country, a temporary policy will normally save you, and your parents, money. Motor trade insurance usually lasts between 1 and 28 days.
Motor trade insurance requires you to be completely honest with the insurer about what you want the vehicle for, before any cover can be provided. Certain restrictions apply to all policies. If you wreck your Mum's Mini, while taking part in the RAC rally in Wales without the insurer knowing, it is likely to be extremely embarrassing explaining to the insurance people why you were half way up a mountain near Abergavenny instead taking your trunk back to college – and then there is the question of buying Mum a brand-new car.
If you are using someone else's vehicle and you have their permission, you will need to provide the insurer with certain information. In addition to your personal details, you will need to give details of your driving licence, penalty points, and any previous claims, as well as giving the identity of the vehicle and the duration of the cover period. This can normally be done online or over the phone (www.quotemetoday.co.uk/motor-trade-insurance).
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The following are the prices for all apartments (double bed rooms and a separate living space with kitchenette). The prices are per day to a basic occupancy for 2. For each additional person in the apartment we charge € 10.00 per day. The final cleaning for the apartments 2 and 4 costs € 35,00, the final cleaning for the apartments 1 and 3 costs € 40,00, bread service, breakfast in the pension costs € 13.00, only dinner in the pension costs € 15.00.
Parking spaces are available (also underground parking), internet access can be found in the bar and terrace area, the use of the sauna (for 2 people) and the swimming pool, as well as loungers are included in the room prices, as well the apartment prices.
The apartment (43m² for 2-4 persons) is bright and inviting.
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Beginning on 1 January 2014, a local tax was introduced in South Tyrol/Südtirol. The revenue from this local tax will be used for the expansion and maintenance of infrastructure and services, as well as for the organization of cultural and sports events. The local tax will be levied at all lodging establishments, on a per-guest and per-overnight-stay basis and amounts € 1,50 (01.01.2018). Children and adolescents under 14 years of age are exempt from levy. The local tax is payable upon departure and is listed separately on the invoice.


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As Candler Park Conservancy works towards our exciting long-term Vision Plan, we are currently advancing specific initiatives to bring immediate improvements to the Park.
CLEARING THE COVES
Candler Park Conservancy is undertaking a year-long initiative to remove invasive, non-native plants from the wooded coves in the southeast corner of the Park between Callan Circle and the parking lot. This multi-faceted process involves extensive cutting and selective treatments to allow the native species to thrive and return the coves to their original beauty. This initiative is part of our commitment to preserving the natural aspects of the park and also allows us to pursue some of the secondary paths as outlined in our Vision Plan.
BIKE REPAIR STATION
Candler Park Conservancy and the PATH Foundation added a new Dero "Fixit" Bike Station to the northeast corner of the Park on the Stone Mountain Trail. The Fixit Station includes all of the tools necessary to perform basic bike repairs and maintenance, from changing a flat to adjusting brakes and derailleurs. The tools are securely attached to the stand with stainless steel cables and tamper-proof fasteners. Hanging the bike from the hanger arms allows the pedals and wheels to spin freely while making adjustments. This station benefits the many recreational and commuter cyclists who pass this point as it is a nexus for travel to Emory University, the Atlanta Beltline, Candler Park MARTA Station, Downtown, and Decatur in addition to students from Mary Lin Elementary and Paideia Schools.
PARK ENTRANCE LANDSCAPE IMPROVEMENTS
Candler Park Conservancy drove the design and installation of significant landscape improvements at the Park entrance from McLendon Avenue NE. We fully re-imagined what was formerly an overgrown and unkempt area with a view to creating a low maintenance but gorgeous gateway to Candler Park. After working with landscape designers and the City of Atlanta Department of Parks and Recreation, we developed and implemented a plan to beautify the park entrance using stone and local vegetation in a way that would thrive now and in the future. The before and after images here highlight the meaningful aesthetic impact of this effort.
In addition to major contributions of time and money from the Candler Park Conservancy and its amazing volunteers, this project was made possible by design work by Elise Cormier, a number of plants and bulbs from Intown Ace Hardware, as well as materials and labor from Chandler Hardscapes.
PARK ENTRANCE LIGHTING RESTORATION
Candler Park Conservancy led efforts to restore lighting at the entrance to the Park from McLendon Avenue NE with artist-created lanterns.
The park's entrance gates were originally designed and erected in 1932 by the firm of Edwards & Sayward (designers of the Candler Park golf clubhouse) with electric lights to accentuate the stone entrance. The original lights and fixtures had been vandalized sometime previous to 1980, with only the junction boxes and shards of the brackets remaining. The new design was inspired both by the work of the original architects (who did similar lights at Buttrick Hall at Agnes Scott College), as well as the fragments of the original lights remaining on the gates.
The bronze, solar powered lights installed by the Conservancy are the product of the hard work of multiple people including Candler Park Conservancy Board Member Amy Erwin and the Beltline artist and fabricator, Cash Barnes. We also thank CPNO and the Urban Design Commission for their support on this project. Funding for the design, creation and installation of these lights was provided by the Candler Park Conservancy and Park Pride.
PARK BEAUTIFICATION PROJECTS
Candler Park Conservancy has undertaken a number of volunteer-based workday projects to help beautify and brighten up Candler Park with landscape installation, mulching and weeding, as well as the removal of litter and refuse.
The project highlighted here involved installation of a variety of colorful plants around the Candler Park Pool and Pool House. The plants for this project were donated by Linley Branham with Constellation Energy.
SEEN OUR PLAN?

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With our own resources, we produce creative and high-quality production services. This means we don't hire third-party contractors. At Hightower, we are 100% responsible for our projects; this will maximise your expenses. We pride ourselves in producing probably the best quality videos and TV adverts in Kingston upon Thames. The following brands make up our clientele Santander, Maxell, Tesco, Aecom, Hitachi and SanDisk Visit our work page to see some of our award-winning TVC ads.


The nodes in a Presto cluster communicate over HTTP, and you can enable communication over HTTPS. QDS supports using SSL to encrypt communication within a Presto cluster; create a ticket with Qubole Support to enable this. Connecting to an SSL-enabled Presto Server without using Qubole describes how to connect to the Presto server from outside QDS and Authenticating Direct Connections to Engines describes how to authenticate direct connections to Presto from outside QDS.
Even when SSL is enabled, HTTP is still enabled on the master node which is only open to the QDS Control Plane. Qubole uses HTTP to provide you access to the Presto UI, Query Tracker, and Presto notebooks.
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The latest volley of North Korean ballistic missiles, one of which flew over northern Japan, has pushed tensions on the Korean peninsula to a perilous tipping point where war is no longer unimaginable. The real prospect of a military conflict between nuclear-armed North Korea and the US and its allies underscores the recent deterioration in Australia's security environment. It raises the question of whether our foreign policy is calibrated for the challenges ahead in a world that is becoming a far more dangerous and volatile place.
President Joko Widodo's forthcoming visit to Australia is an opportunity to reset relations with Indonesia after three years of remarkable turbulence, even by the volatile standards of the past.
Less than a week after an Indonesian warship clashed with a fleet of Chinese fishing vessels off the coast of the Natuna Islands, the symbolism was unmistakable.
Calibrated to take advantage of Japan's rapidly changing political and security landscape Foreign Minister Julie Bishop's call this week for a deeper, closer strategic and defence partnership with Japan is a water shed moment in the bilateral relationship which promises to deliver significant benefits for both countries, although it won't be risk free.
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Q: Split and parse only specific characters from string using python I am trying to split and parse characters from an column and submit the parsed data into different column .
First the unwanted data need to be removed from the string and after that it needs to be split and to be saved into different column by adding prefix 19 before the year.
Input:
Col1
U_a65839_Jan87Apr88
U_b98652_Feb88Apr88
V_C56478_mar89Apr89
Q_d15634_Apr90Apr91
S_e15336_may91Apr93
NaN

Output
Col2       Col3
Jan1987   Apr1988
Feb1987   Apr1988
mar1987   Apr1988
Apr1987   Apr1988
may1987   Apr1988
  NaN        NaN

Code Snippet, What I have been trying so far:
df = pd.read_excel(open(r'C:\Users\Desktop\data1.xlsx', 'rb'), sheet_name='sheet1')

df['Col1'] = df['Col1'].partition("_")[2]

Please Suggest how to Execute it .

A: Let's say you got
col_1 = [
    'U_a65839_Jan87Apr88',
    'U_b98652_Feb88Apr88',
    'V_C56478_mar89Apr89',
    'Q_d15634_Apr90Apr91',
    'S_e15336_May91Apr93',
    np.nan
]
df = pd.DataFrame({
    'Col1': col_1
})

you can
# remove unwanted data
df['Col1'] = df.Col1.str.replace(
    '.*_', '', regex=True
)
# split first part
df['Col2'] = df.Col1.str[:5]
# split second part
df['Col3'] = df.Col1.str[5:]
# add 19
df['Col2'] = df.Col2.replace({'(\d\d)': r'19\1'}, regex=True)
df['Col3'] = df.Col3.replace({'(\d\d)': r'19\1'}, regex=True)

that gives
         Col1     Col2     Col3
0  Jan87Apr88  Jan1987  Apr1988
1  Feb88Apr88  Feb1988  Apr1988
2  mar89Apr89  mar1989  Apr1989
3  Apr90Apr91  Apr1990  Apr1991
4  May91Apr93  May1991  Apr1993
5         NaN      NaN      NaN

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Can we still use the F-word?
Hi!™ You may have seen this article in Techcrunch at the end of the year claiming that F*book was trying to trademark the word "face". It seems they've got every right to try, in the US at least, according to the US Patent and Trademark Office's list of current and pending trademarks.
According to the USPTO, your face is dead, while Pottyface seems to be doing just fine. I'll bet that somewhere in Switzerland, David B. is feeling sick though. He abandoned his trademark in 2007. That said, I'm not convinced 600 million people would have signed up for ankle socks and shower shoes called Face.
Anyway, you can trademark a word you didn't make up yourself. But what is a trademark? According to this OECD working paper, just about any kind of sign can be a TM, including combinations of colours or sounds, if it is used to distinguish goods or services.
The Facebook bid isn't in fact as outrageous as it first seems since the protection would only cover social networking businesses that tried to cash in on the Facebook brand. However, it does raise questions about the value of intellectual property, what can and can't be protected, and whether protection is beneficial to society as a whole.
If intellectual property protection is weak, then technology that exploits an innovation will spread more quickly, boosting growth. At the same time, weak protection reduces the incentive to spend money on R&D.
As we mention in the Insights book on international trade, history provides some interesting examples to fuel the debate on the ideal level of intellectual property protection.
One of the most quoted ones is the light bulb. Joseph Swan patented a carbon filament lamp in England in 1878, and Thomas Edison patented essentially the same thing a year later in the US. At that time, there were no patent laws in the Netherlands, so in 1891 Royal Philips Electronics, as Philips was known at the time, could simply take the invention and turn it into the money spinner that would finance the firm's expansion and inventions of its own.
Ericsson did something similar in 1876: it reverse-engineered Bell's telephone, which he hadn't patented in Sweden.
However, in the mid-2000s a company that developed a genetic test for cancer wanted to keep complete control of the testing and the databanks built up while doing it.
The OECD Guidelines for the Licensing of Genetic Inventions came out strongly against this, saying that yes, intellectual property should be protected, but it should also be shared. Health benefits should not be restricted by patent protection. Likewise, strict privacy guidelines were defined to protect the rights of the public.


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For thousands of years many people in China have been observing the cycles and rhythms of the body and mind, and based upon the data gathered through those observations, have developed a collection of exercises designed to develop the psycho-physical energy centres known to exist. These exercises are known as 'external cultivated-energy' (外丹 – Wai Dan) and 'internal cultivated-energy' (內丹 – Nei Dan) techniques. One branch of this philosophical Daoist development can be found in the self-cultivation exercises of the neidan method known as 'building health and refining mind and body' (性命双修 - Xing Ming Shuang Xu), which serve as an exact Daoist law that must be correctly followed if it is to be effective.
It is important to understand that Chinese Daoism is a science that has existed for thousands of years, and which has been passed from one generation to the next without exception. The 'building health and refining mind and body' (xingming shuangxu) technique was not designed to be kept secret and used by a select few, but is rather intended for the use of the entire world. My great grandfather – Zhao Bichen (1860-1942) – was the 11th generation inheritor of the Dragon Gate (longmen) School of Daoism, and through his ingenuity the above technique was developed and refined. The vehicle he developed for transmitting the above teaching is the Qianfeng (thousand peaks) Xiantian (prenatal) School of Daoism. In his formative years he trained with at least 36 different masters before being accepted as a disciple of Masters Liao Ran (了然) and Liao Kong (了空) – who were recognised as the 10th generation descendants of the Dragon Gate School. From these two masters Zhao Bichen correctly learned all the Daoist law, and he recorded his findings in a book entitled 'The Secret Cultivation of Essential Nature and Eternal Life' (Xingming fajue mingzhi), which he subsequently passed on to the world.
Zhao Bichen (赵避尘) was also known as Zhao Jindiao (赵金鵰) and Zhao Shunyi (赵顺一), and his Daoist name was 'Yi Zi' (一子). He was the founding patriarch of the Qianfeng School. He was born in the 10th year of the reign of Qing Emperor Xianfeng (1860), in Yang Feng Town, which is situated in the Changping County of northwest Beijing. His father was called Zhao Yongkuan (赵永宽), and his birth-mother was called Meng Shengzhen (孟生贞). The Zhao family had three sons, the eldest of whom was called 'Xing Yi' (兴一), the next eldest was called 'Kui Yi' (魁一), and the youngest was called 'Shun Yi' (顺一) [i.e. Zhao Bichen]. From an early age, Zhao Bichen trained under the guidance of his uncle who was named 'Zhao Yongsheng' (赵永升), and was treated like a son.
At that time, the Zhao family were very poor and lacked influence in the world, and so Zhao Bichen could only attend three years of free schooling in the winter. In the first year of the reign of Qing Emperor Guangxu (1875), Zhao Bichen suffered from blood in his stools (i.e. very bad diarrhea). His grandmother took him from Yang Feng Town to 10 (Chinese) miles southwest of Qianfeng Mountain, where the 'Peach Garden Temple' (桃园观 – Tao Yuan Guan) resides (which is also known as 'Quiet Corner Temple' - 旮旯庵-Ga La Na). There, they requested entry to the temple to receive treatment from the renowned Daoist master called Liu Mingrui (刘名瑞). Liu was the lineage inheritor of Tan Chu Duan (谭处端), a master in the Namo School (南无派 – Na Mo Pai), as well as being the disciple of Liu Huayang (柳华阳). Thanks to Master Liu's knowledge of the Dao, Zhao Bichen fully recovered, and as a result, Liu granted Zhao the Daoist name of 'Great Enlightenment' (大悟 – Da Wu), and since that day, there was genuine affection between the two on the path of the Dao.
Zhao Bichen learned the law of energy centred self-cultivation (丹法 – Dan Fa) from Master Liu Yunpu (刘云普), together with martial arts, and once served as a bodyguard on a journey from Beijing to Ulan Bator in Mongolia. Around the beginning of the 16th year of the reign of the Qing Dynasty of Emperor Guangxu (1890), Zhao Bichen became a salt-tax official for the government. His general area of tax-collecting activity was along the route of the Beijing-Hangzhou canal. At this time, Zhao Bichen started to seek-out experts in Daoist self-cultivation, and learn from their instruction. This is how he acquired authentic knowledge and instruction in the art of Chinese health and longevity exercises.
These are the name of many of the masters that Zhao Bichen learned from at this time, there was Wu Chan (悟蟾), Zhu Baoxiang (朱宝祥), Guang Siye (广四爷), Peng Maochang (彭茂昌), Tan Zhiming (谭至明), Zhang Maode (张懋德) and many others of high Daoist attainment. In the 21st year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu (1895), on the 13th day of the 3rd lunar month, Zhao Bichen sought refuge from the world of dust, and one day followed the waterway to Huai'an (in Jiangsu province) and entered the Ch'an Buddhist Golden Mountain Temple (金山寺 – Jin Shan Si), situated there. This is where he met and studied with the two Ch'an masters named Liao Ran (了然) and Liao Kong (了空), who were also Daoist masters of the Wu Liu (伍柳) School. At this Ch'an Buddhist temple, Zhao Bichen trained diligently and was taught without exception, the entire path of the Wu Liu Daoist School.
During the 5th lunar month of the 9th year of the Republic of China (1920), the Patriarch Liao Kong visited Beijing. At this time, Zhao Bichen managed a salt-shop and lived in the Pingxi Fu area of the Changping District of Beijing. It was here that Master Liao Kong bestowed upon Zhao Bichen the Daoist transmission text entitled 'Divine-sky Duty Law Scroll' (天命法卷 – Tian Ming Fa Juan), with the instruction to break with old and outmoded traditions of secrecy and elitism, and make the Daoist teachings available to as wide an audience as possible. Zhao Bichen then established 10 laws of discipline, and formerly founded the 'Thousand Peaks Prenatal School' (千峰先天派 – Qian Feng Xian Tian Pai), as a Daoist refuge from the world of dust. On the 17th day of the 4th lunar month of the 17th year of the Republic of China, Zhao Bichen established a genealogy for the Qianfeng School, recording himself as the founding patriarch. This established the new tradition of teaching ancient Daoist teachings in an open manner, with Zhao Bichen as the acknowledged instigator of this lineage.
In the 22nd year of the Republic of China (1933), Zhao Bichen compiled his manual of Daoist self-cultivation entitled 'The Secret Cultivation of Essential Nature and Eternal Life' (性命法訣明旨 – Xing Ming Fa Jue Ming Zhi), and its printing and publication was funded by the latter Qing Dynasty Beijing Opera performance artists Guo Xianglin (果湘林) and his wife Madam Yu Suxia (余素霞). This book has become an enduring masterpiece, within which Zhao Bichen explains the complex Daoist path of self-cultivation in a clear and concise language that is accessible to all readers. He carefully describes the entire neidan path, and minutely explains every facet of the journey. What is of particular note, is that Zhao Bichen devised a 16 step approach – with each 'step' forming a complete chapter in the book, which also includes extensive anatomical diagrams. This clarity and organisation has been appreciated and made use of by many scholars and researchers who have studied and valued this book long after the passing of Zhao Bichen. In fact, Zhao Bichen and his late Qing Dynasty disciple named Dr Li Shirong (李士荣), experimented with each chapter, putting the instructions into practice, and recording their observations, findings and results in a scientific manner. Once all the instructions were verified as being physically and psychologically correct, Guo Xianglin drew the instructional diagrams following precise guidelines. This development was very important and ground-breaking, because it was the first time in history that modern (Western) science in the form of anatomy and physiology was used to explain traditional Chinese Daoist self-cultivation techniques.
Zhao Bichen wrote a commentary for the Daoist book entitled 'Three Character Law Summary Classic' (三字法诀经 – San Zi Fa Jue Jing). He personally wrote 'The Secret Cultivation of Essential Nature and Eternal Life' (性命法訣明旨 – Xing Ming Fa Jue Ming Zhi), the 'Clear Explanations of Hygiene and Physiology' (卫生生理学明指 – Wei Sheng Sheng Li Xue Ming Zhi), and the 'Inner Cultivation Secret Instruction' (内修秘要 – Nei Xiu Mi Yao), although the latter two books have not been widely published.
Sometime between the years 1928 to 1931 of the Republic of China, the old venerable Xinhai Revolutionary named Zhu Ziqiao (朱子桥), applied to the then Central Government, recommending that the founder of the Qianfeng School – Zhao Bichen – should be officially awarded a 'Teacher in Health and Longevity Science' (传授卫生性理学 – Chuan Shou Wei Sheng Xing Li Xue) certificate. Now it is common academic knowledge that Zhao Bichen – the founder of the Qianfeng School – openly taught everyone without any regard to social class, rank, or status – because as far as he was concerned, all people were equal. This approach has led to everyone being taught over-time, from high officials and dignitaries, down to the most humblest of people – no one has been turned away. In fact, at least 42 of these individuals received full Daoist lineage transmission within the Qianfeng School, whilst being given permission to teach others in their own right.
During the 29th year of the Republic of China (1940), Zhao Bichen withdrew from the world and prepared his mind and body for transformation. In 1942, he transcended the body whilst sat upright in the crossed-legged meditation posture. Zhao Bichen spent more than 60 years engaged in Daoist self-cultivation. In that time, he travelled the length and breadth of China (and suffered many hardships) whilst searching for highly qualified masters who possessed authentic Daoist knowledge. In that time he trained with around 36 masters representing various Daoist paths. In the end he realised Immortality, and because of this realisation, he was able to extensively teach others in a scientific manner and further the understanding of authentic Daoism not only in China, but also throughout the modern world.
Beijing Qianfeng Zhao Bichen Cultural Arts and Exchange Centre.


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have a revenue based loyalty program,. Its utterly weird that Four Seasons isnt rewarding loyal consumers who book directly via the companys official website, but that you can score free stays at Four Seasons hotels by booking via m or get very nice benefits at Four Seasons properties (as if you. Housed in a historic fin-de-siecle palace, the setting is one of Budapests best; on the banks of Pest by the Chain Bridge with views of the Danube and Buda beyond. Credit of 100USD* to spend on food beverage or spa (Where credit can be used varies by hotel). Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace, Budapest : from 334 per night, when this hotel first opened in 2004, one of the problems facing Four Seasons was how to embed the brands belief in service to a country that had recently been part of the Soviet.
In most cases, the Virtuoso rate is identical to the Best Available Rate (BAR) found on the official Four Seasons website, which is a flexible rate that can be cancelled without penalty. So when you book your holiday with Virtuoso, most of the time, you will be in touch with a Virtuoso travel agent and not make the booking online yourself. Its another particularly family-friendly hotel with a kids club and a young adult center as well as a dedicated family swimming pool. If you find a lower qualifying rate within 24 hours of making your reservation on the official Four Seasons website, Four Seasons will match the lower rate but you wont receive any additional discount (which is standard policy with most other hotel brands).
The only way to find quick-fix discounts and special offers at each Four Seasons hotel is in the offers section on each individual hotel page. So What Is The Promo Code For The Four Seasons Website. Once again, as explained above, youre leaving money on the table if you book a paid stay at a Four Seasons hotel that is a Virtuoso member via the hotel website and not via Virtuoso, because you cant receive Virtuoso benefits (such as breakfast, free. Four Seasons, in the Admiralteysky district, there are 183 rooms and 26 suites, kitted out with luxury-minded restraint rather than opulence, though. As mentioned above, Four Season does not have a loyalty program, so you may as well book the room via m instead of the official website so that you will get some of your money back in the end (by investing it towards free hotel. The mother country comes into its own at the spa; an update of the banya experience that covers four floors. When you own a Citi Prestige Card (USA citizens only) you can make use of the fourth night free benefit: when you book a four night stay at a Four Seasons property, you get reimbursed the cost of the fourth night, minus any taxes and. M, m, m, Hotelopia, Expedia, etc.) and show where you can book the cheapest room rate. I can only assume that this box on the Four Seasons website that says promo code may be related to senior, government, military, friends and family, residence club or hotel staff rates. Its the industrys leading network of luxury travel advisors, spanning over 26 countries and 9,000 travel advisors.
(Book direct and you dont get these benefits so why would you?). Disclosure: Our property, service and product reviews are sponsored by the proprietor or brand being appraised. While staying at, four Seasons Private Island Maldives at Voavah will set you back 49,000 per night - oh, all right it sleeps up to 14 and you get your own private yacht - most Four Seasons stays are reliably expensive.


Turning Tides is a project of Southend Association of Voluntary Services (SAVS) and carries out community-based projects in conjunction with partner organisations. Turning Tides promotes active citizenship and offers a range of activities for young people living in disadvantaged areas of Central Southend as well as supporting isolated older people living across the Borough. Turning Tides encourages involvement in social activities, volunteering, training and environmental projects. More details about the work we do can be found below. All Turning Tides staff are Community Safety Accredited by Essex Police.
OLDER PEOPLE — Folk Like Us project has been extremely fortunate to receive Lottery Funded for a further three years until the end of March 2021. Folk Like Us provides support and advice to people over the age of 65, living in the borough of Southend who are experiencing loneliness and isolation. These people are supported by Turning Tides Team Leaders and if required will be signposted to services who can assist them further. Folk Like Us has The Hub meeting area on the ground floor of SAVS, which gives a welcoming andcomfortable environment for older people who 'drop-in' asking for help and information. The Hub opens Monday to Friday 10am-2pm.
YOUNGER PEOPLE — Children from central Southend have Triple T's clubs to help inspire them and raise their aspirations with thanks to funding from BBC Children in Need. Funding provides weekly sessions for youngsters aged 8-13 years. Triple T clubs are run by a Turning Tides Team Leader and Assistant, along with a team of local volunteers and will give the youngsters the chance to try out new activities such as first aid, and learn more about the place they live through visits to and from the local fire station, coastguards and police station. We aim to give them the opportunity to broaden their outlook and achieve their full potential.
EARLY YEARS — A Better Start Southend (ABSS) has teamed up with SAVS to involve the local community in creating better services for Southend's children and families. The parent engagement element of A Better Start Southend, which is being delivered by Turning Tides, will work to introduce a range of ways that parents in Westborough, Victoria, Milton, Kursaal, West Shoebury and Shoeburyness wards can get involved. This will include parent led meetings, recruiting and training parent champions and developing a volunteer programme.
SAFER COMMUNITIES — Safe As Houses is a crime prevention initiative being delivered by Turning Tides and has been funded by the Police and Crime Commissioner for Essex. Working in partnership with Essex Police, a team of specially trained volunteers visit identified elderly people living in the borough of Southend giving advice on how to deal with doorstep and postal fraud and raising awareness and bogus callers and scams.
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Iowa Democrats and Republicans holding district conventions tomorrow
Friday, Apr 23 2010
This weekend, activists across Iowa have a chance to hear from their party's candidates for Congress, the Iowa legislature, and statewide offices. The Iowa Democratic Party is holding conventions in all five Congressional districts on Saturday, April 24. These events are open to the public as well as the media. In other words, you do not have to be a convention delegate or alternate to attend. Here's a list of Democratic convention locations and some scheduled speakers:
WHAT: 1st District Convention WHEN: 10:00AM WHERE: Northeast Iowa Community College 10250 Sundown Rd. Peosta, IA SPEAKERS: Senate Candidate Roxanne Conlin, Senate Candidate Tom Fiegen, Governor Chet Culver, Candidate for Secretary of Agriculture Francis Thicke, Congressman Bruce Braley
WHAT: 2nd District Convention WHEN:11:00 AM WHERE: Fairfield Arts and Convention Center 200 North Main St. Fairfield, IA SPEAKERS: Senate Candidate Roxanne Conlin, Governor Chet Culver, Candidate for Secretary of Agriculture Francis Thicke, Congressman Dave Loebsack, Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Michael Kiernan
WHAT: 3rd District Convention WHEN: 9:00 AM WHERE: Adventureland Inn 3200 Adventureland Dr. Altoona, IA SPEAKERS: Senator Tom Harkin, Senate Candidate Roxanne Conlin, Senate Candidate Tom Fiegen, Governor Chet Culver, Secretary of State Michael Mauro, Candidate for Secretary of Agriculture Francis Thicke, Congressman Leonard Boswell
WHAT: 4th District Convention WHEN: 10:00 AM WHERE: North Iowa Fairgrounds, Olson Building 3700 4th St. SW Mason City, IA SPEAKERS: Senate Candidate Tom Fiegen, Governor Chet Culver, Secretary of State Michael Mauro, Candidate for Congress Bill Maske
WHAT: 5th District Convention WHEN: 9:00 AM WHERE: Atlantic Middle School 1100 Linn St. Atlantic, IA SPEAKERS: Senator Tom Harkin, Senate Candidate Tom Fiegen, Governor Chet Culver, Secretary of State Michael Mauro, Candidate for Congress Matt Campbell, Candidate for Congress Mike Denklau, Iowa Democratic Party Chairman Michael Kiernan
The Republican Party of Iowa is holding conventions in the second, third and fifth districts this Saturday, and in the first and fourth districts on Saturday, May 1. (Click here for event details.) GOP conventions are open to the media but not the public.
The second and third district conventions will be well-attended because of the competitive GOP Congressional primaries. If no candidate wins at least 35 percent of the vote in the June 8 primary, district conventions will have to reconvene in June to select the nominee. Seven Republicans are running against Representative Leonard Boswell in the third district, and at least four of them are campaigning actively.
According to Republican blogger David Chung, there is "unprecedented" interest in the second district convention because of the four Republicans running against Representative Dave Loebsack. Chung writes, "For the first time in my memory, Linn County has filled [its] delegation. We have never actually had as many paid delegates as we were allotted." Chung considers it "likely" that a second district convention will need to reconvene to select Loebsack's opponent. Some other people following that race closely expect the contest to be decided on June 8, with only two candidates as serious contenders: Rob Gettemy and Mariannette Miller-Meeks. Gettemmy has the most cash on hand and the support of many influential Linn County Republicans as well as the National Republican Congressional Committee. The 2008 GOP nominee, Miller-Meeks, has spent the most time campaigning around the district. She has more cash on hand than either Steve Rathje or Chris Reed and is likely to do particularly well outside Linn County, where her three Republican rivals are based.
The district conventions will also elect members of the parties' State Central Committees. Former Republican SCC member Chung is seeking that position again and expects a "massive shakeup" on the committee, because "several current members have decided not to run" again.
UPDATE: I've been told that Thicke will be at the fourth district convention as well, and Senate candidate Bob Krause will be at some of these conventions too, but I don't have details.


Russia's air force will work with Turkey's to conduct joint airstrikes targeting Islamic State militants in Northern Syria, the Russian military announced today.
Russian Defense Ministry official Lieutenant-General Sergei Rudskoi announced in a televised comment that twelve Russian planes and eight Turkish jets have carried out strikes on the town of al-Bab — roughly 40 kilometers northeast of Aleppo.
In recent weeks Turkish ground forces are engaged in combat operations against Daesh in the vicinity of Al-Bab. Coalition air forces have also targeted Daesh sites near the town in recent days, according to coaliton spokesman Colonel John Dorrian. These strikes followed Turkish criticism of insufficient U.S. support for its ground offensive.
"These strikes were the result of continued cooperation with Turkey, and we saw a window of opportunity where it was in our mutual interests to get those targets destroyed," Dorrian said.
Coalition forces had struck four targets near al-Bab, where the US has supported Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and where Turkey has supported the Free Syrian Army (FSA) both fighting against a common foe, Daesh. On the other side, the Russians, are supporting the Syrian government forces, which are in conflict with SDF and FSA.
The joint Turkish-Russian operation conducted today was a major step that followed a memorandum of de-confliction signed between the two countries in Moscow last week.
The aircraft involved in the strikes on the Russian side included three four-aircraft formations of Su-24M, Su-25 strike fighters and Su-34 bombers. On the Turkish side the group included two formations of four F-16 and four F-4E Phantom 2000.
Russian sources said the combined air raid attacked 36 targets. Since there are no agreed protocols for air/air or air/ground cooperation between NATO and Russian air forces, it is not clear how the two forces coordinated these operations, if the attacks involved coordination with ground troops or were they restricted to air strikes in a 'free play' zone. According to Russian sources, based on the initial results, the joint effort has proved successful.
Rudskoi said it was the first time Russia and Turkey's air forces had teamed up in this way.
Russia and Turkey had been on opposing sides of the nearly six-year Syrian conflict, with Moscow backing Syrian president Bashar Assad while Ankara supported the rebels. The lowest point was in 2015 after a Turkish F-16 shot down a Russian Su-24 killing one of the crewmembers.
But in recent months, particularly after the failed coup in Turkey, the two countries have worked together, and will broker peace talks later this month in Kazakhstan aimed at finding a political solution to the war.


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WTO resumes negotiations on fishery subsidies
Asjadul Kibria | Published: September 27, 2017 19:08:01 | Updated: October 23, 2017 22:05:20
Photo: WTO
Disciplining the harmful subsidies on fishing will be an important deliverable agenda in the 11th ministerial conference (MC11) of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Member countries of the organisation have already reached an 'unofficial consensus' in this regard. In principle, they have agreed that limiting the harmful fishery subsidies is essential to protect the valuable fish resources globally. Now they are working to prepare a draft text to outline the rules and methods of containing the harmful fishery subsidies. It is likely that a text will be drafted and circulated before the MC11, scheduled to be held on December 10-13 this year in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina.
According to the latest study report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), fish has become the world's most traded food commodity and demand for fish is continuing to grow strongly.
Latest statistics of Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) showed that global production of fish reached 167 million tonnes in 2014 while human consumption stood at 146.3 million tonnes. Production of fish has increased by 3.2 per cent annually in the last five decades. The growth in fish production has been sustained by the rapid expansion of aquaculture and global aquaculture production has tripled, growing at an average annual rate of 8.3 per cent in the last three decades. In 2014, aquaculture constituted 44 per cent of world fish production, compared with 26 per cent in 1994.
The FAO report also revealed that fish is one of the highest value commodities in world trade and accounts for approximately 10 per cent of total world agricultural exports. Exports of fish as a proportion of total fishery production increased to 37 per cent in 2012 from 25 per cent in 1976. Developing countries are exporting more fish than the developed countries. Contribution of fish to the national economies of many developing countries is quite significant. Some of these countries provide different types and quantities of subsidies for fishing. In many cases, these subsidies promote unregulated and illegal fishing. This creates difficulties for other countries, especially small and poor ones, to preserve their fish stocks as well as maintain their market shares.
SDG LINK: Limiting fishery subsidies is a mandate endorsed by the Doha Development Agenda in 2001. It was reaffirmed in the Hong Kong ministerial conference in 2005. The core message of the mandate is: make a global rule to prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies that contribute to overcapacity and over-fishing. Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is ultimately trade distorting. Products from IUU fishing enter global market and undercut products from legal activities.
Goal-14 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by the United Nations in 2015, also clearly calls for curbing the IUU fishing. The SDG Target-14.6 states: "By 2020, prohibit certain forms of fisheries subsidies which contribute to overcapacity and over-fishing, eliminate subsidies that contribute to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and refrain from introducing new such subsidies, recognising that appropriate and effective special and differential treatment for developing and least developed countries should be an integral part of the World Trade Organization fisheries subsidies negotiation."
The call to formulate a global rule to regulate fishery subsidies through the WTO is a positive move. It will help to preserve the fish resources and restrict over fishing. Fish trading will also be disciplined.
Currently there are seven proposals under consideration to prepare the draft text. These proposals have been placed by 'Friends of Fishes' (a coalition of 10 developed and developing countries), LDCs (Least Developed Countries) and 10 other developed and developing countries. Some counties have placed common proposals with their respective groups but have also made independent proposals. For example, the United States has made a joint proposal with the 'Friends of Fishes' and has also placed another proposal independently. Again, some of the proposals have been tabled this year while some others are basically slightly revised versions of earlier ones.
A matrix has been developed to review the proposals smoothly. The proposals, in general, focus on definition of different types of fishery subsidies; method of disciplining these subsidies; special and differential treatment; notification, review and monitoring mechanism, etc.
A clear set of definitions, distinguishing positive subsidies from the negative ones, is very essential to reach any agreement on the issue of fishery subsidies.
A mini-ministerial meeting in the early October in Morocco will try to reach a consensus on the deliverables of the MC11. Fishery subsidies will be one of them. The Morocco meeting is expected to set the final tone of Buenos Aires conference.
IMPORTANCE FOR BANGLADESH: Disciplining fishery subsidies in the multilateral trade forum has immense importance for Bangladesh. Fisheries sector contributes around 4.0 per cent to the country's Gross Domestic Products (GDP) and 33 per cent to agriculture output. Fish is an important source of protein and supplement around 60 per cent of the animal protein intake in the country.
Currently, fishing activities in the country is not well regulated. It is estimated that around 18 million people are directly and indirectly engaged in fishing activities. Fish export from the country is gradually increasing.
Thus, it is very important for the country to conduct a detailed study on the probable implications of WTO mechanism to discipline fisheries subsidies.
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Marc Levy is a prominent journalist in Pennsylvania, working for the Associated Press.

In 2008, the political website PolitickerPA.com named him one of the "Most Powerful Political Reporters" in Pennsylvania.

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Estudiantes Football Club was a professional football club located in San Salvador, El Salvador that participated in Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño from 2007 to 2008. The club was founded in 1905 in Argentina.

The club played its home games at Estadio Cuscatlán, which is the largest stadium in El Salvador.

History
Estudiantes was a team founded by Fundación Educando a un Salvadoreño, otherwise known as FESA. It was created with the hope of helping develop young players and FESA scholarship holders into professional footballers. After only one season, Estudiantes sold their spot in the Segunda División to Once Lobos. They have since ceased operations.

Turín FESA
FESA then joined forces with Turín FC to form Turín FESA F.C.

Squad

Goalkeepers
  Agustín Silva
  Hilario Bernardo Navarro
  Nahuel Hernán Losada

Head coaches
 Raúl Antonio García (Clausura 2007-Apertura 2008)

Home stadium
 Estadio Cuscatlán

Year-by-year

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Defunct football clubs in El Salvador
Association football clubs disestablished in 2008
2007 establishments in El Salvador
2008 disestablishments in El Salvador


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Q: ValueError: Field 'bid' expected a number but got ' ' I am making an Auction website using Django. When is use Migrate command it gives an error "ValueError: Field 'bid' expected a number but got " ".
The code of the models.py file is:
    from django.contrib.auth.models import AbstractUser
from django.db import models
from django.db.models.base import Model
from django.db.models.deletion import CASCADE
from django.db.models.fields import CharField
from django.utils import timezone

class User(AbstractUser):
    pass

class Category(models.Model):
    category = models.CharField(max_length=64)

    def __str__(self):
        return f'{self.category}'

class AuctionListing(models.Model):
    item_name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
    item_image = models.ImageField(upload_to="products", null=True, blank=True)
    detail = models.TextField()
    price = models.IntegerField()
    last_bid = models.ForeignKey('Bid', on_delete=models.CASCADE, blank=True, null=True, related_name='lst')
    user = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name='publisher_listing', null=True, blank=True)
    watchers = models.ManyToManyField(User, blank=True, related_name='watched_list')
    pub_date = models.DateTimeField(null=True)
    deadline = models.DateTimeField(null=True)
    list_category = models.ForeignKey(Category, on_delete=models.CASCADE, null=True, related_name='sortion')
    closed = models.BooleanField(default=False)

    def __str__(self):
        return f'{self.item_name} - {self.price}'

class Bid(models.Model):
    p_bid = models.IntegerField()
    user = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=CASCADE)
    auction = models.ForeignKey(AuctionListing, on_delete=CASCADE)
    bid_date = models.DateTimeField(timezone.now)

    def __str__(self):
        return '%s' % (self.bid)

class Comment(models.Model):
    user = models.ForeignKey(User, on_delete=CASCADE)
    com = models.TextField()
    pub_date = models.DateField()
    com_item = models.ForeignKey(AuctionListing, on_delete=models.CASCADE, related_name='get_comment')

    def __str__(self):
        return f'{self.user} - {self.pub_date}'

The code of views.py is:

    from django.contrib.auth import authenticate, login, logout
    # from django.contrib.auth.decorators import login_required
    from django.db import IntegrityError
    from django.http import HttpResponse, HttpResponseRedirect
    from django.shortcuts import redirect, render
    from django.urls import reverse
    from django.forms import ModelForm

    from .models import *

    def index(request):
        active_list = AuctionListing.objects.all()
        return render(request, "auctions/index.html", {'active_list': active_list})

    def login_view(request):
        if request.method == "POST":

            # Attempt to sign user in
            username = request.POST["username"]
            password = request.POST["password"]
            user = authenticate(request, username=username, password=password)

            # Check if authentication successful
            if user is not None:
                login(request, user)
                return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse("index"))
            else:
                return render(request, "auctions/login.html", {
                    "message": "Invalid username and/or password."
                })
        else:
            return render(request, "auctions/login.html")

    def logout_view(request):
        logout(request)
        return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse("index"))

    def register(request):
        if request.method == "POST":
            username = request.POST["username"]
            email = request.POST["email"]

            # Ensure password matches confirmation
            password = request.POST["password"]
            confirmation = request.POST["confirmation"]
            if password != confirmation:
                return render(request, "auctions/register.html", {
                    "message": "Passwords must match."
                })

            # Attempt to create new user
            try:
                user = User.objects.create_user(username, email, password)
                user.save()
            except IntegrityError:
                return render(request, "auctions/register.html", {
                    "message": "Username already taken."
                })
            login(request, user)
            return HttpResponseRedirect(reverse("index"))
        else:
            return render(request, "auctions/register.html")

    class CreateForm(ModelForm):
        class Meta:
            model = AuctionListing
            fields = ['item_name', 'item_image', 'detail', 'price', 'pub_date', 'deadline', 'list_category']

    def create_listing(request):
        user = request.user
        if user.id is None:
            return redirect('login')

        if request.method == 'GET':
            context = {
                'form': CreateForm()
            }
            return render(request, 'auctions/create_listing.html', context)

        else:
            if request.method == 'POST':
                form = CreateForm(request.POST or None, request.FILES or None)
                if form.is_valid():
                    item_name = form.cleaned_data['item_name']
                    item_image = form.cleaned_data['item_image']
                    detail = form.cleaned_data['detail']
                    price = form.cleaned_data['price']
                    pub_date = form.cleaned_data['pub_date']
                    deadline = form.cleaned_data['deadline']
                    list_category = form.cleaned_data['list_category']

                    listing_created = AuctionListing.objects.create(
                        item_name = item_name,
                        item_image = item_image,
                        detail = detail,
                        price = price,
                        pub_date = pub_date,
                        deadline = deadline,
                        list_category = list_category,
                        user = request.user,
                    )
                    listing_created.save()
                    return redirect('index')

    def listing(request, pk):
        list = AuctionListing.objects.get(id=pk)
        return render(request, 'auctions/listing.html', {'list': list})

The code of urls.py is:
from django.urls import path
from django.contrib.auth import views as auth_views
from django.conf import settings
from django.conf.urls.static import static

from .views import *

urlpatterns = [
    path("", index, name="index"),
    path("login", login_view, name="login"),
    path("logout", logout_view, name="logout"),
    path("register", register, name="register"),
    path('create', create_listing, name='create_listing'),
    path('listings/<int:pk>', listing, name='listing')
    ]+static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)

The migrations file(auctions.0005_auto_20211019_1227) is:

# Generated by Django 3.1.7 on 2021-10-19 12:27

from django.db import migrations, models
import django.db.models.deletion

class Migration(migrations.Migration):

    dependencies = [
        ('auctions', '0004_auto_20211017_0907'),
    ]

    operations = [
        migrations.RemoveField(
            model_name='bid',
            name='bider',
        ),
        migrations.AddField(
            model_name='auctionlisting',
            name='closed',
            field=models.BooleanField(default=False),
        ),
        migrations.AddField(
            model_name='bid',
            name='bid',
            field=models.IntegerField(default=''),
        ),
        migrations.AlterField(
            model_name='auctionlisting',
            name='last_bid',
            field=models.ForeignKey(blank=True, null=True, on_delete=django.db.models.deletion.CASCADE, to='auctions.bid'),
        ),
        migrations.AlterField(
            model_name='auctionlisting',
            name='price',
            field=models.IntegerField(),
        ),
        migrations.AlterField(
            model_name='bid',
            name='bid_date',
            field=models.DateTimeField(),
        ),
    ]

    Operations to perform:
  Apply all migrations: admin, auctions, auth, contenttypes, sessions
Running migrations:
  Applying auctions.0005_auto_20211019_1227...Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/saif/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py", line 1774, in get_prep_value
    return int(value)
ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "manage.py", line 21, in <module>
    main()
  File "manage.py", line 17, in main
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)
  File "/home/saif/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 401, in execute_from_command_line
    utility.execute()
  File "/home/saif/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/management/__init__.py", line 395, in execute
    self.fetch_command(subcommand).run_from_argv(self.argv)
  File "/home/saif/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 330, in run_from_argv
    self.execute(*args, **cmd_options)
  File "/home/saif/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 371, in execute
    output = self.handle(*args, **options)
  File "/home/saif/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/management/base.py", line 85, in wrapped
    res = handle_func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/home/saif/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/core/management/commands/migrate.py", line 243, in handle
    post_migrate_state = executor.migrate(
  File "/home/saif/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/db/migrations/executor.py", line 117, in migrate
    state = self._migrate_all_forwards(state, plan, full_plan, fake=fake, fake_initial=fake_initial)
  File "/home/saif/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/db/migrations/executor.py", line 147, in _migrate_all_forwards
    state = self.apply_migration(state, migration, fake=fake, fake_initial=fake_initial)
  File "/home/saif/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/db/migrations/executor.py", line 227, in apply_migration
    state = migration.apply(state, schema_editor)
  File "/home/saif/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/db/migrations/migration.py", line 124, in apply
    operation.database_forwards(self.app_label, schema_editor, old_state, project_state)
  File "/home/saif/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/db/migrations/operations/fields.py", line 104, in database_forwards
    schema_editor.add_field(
  File "/home/saif/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/db/backends/sqlite3/schema.py", line 328, in add_field
    self._remake_table(model, create_field=field)
  File "/home/saif/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/db/backends/sqlite3/schema.py", line 189, in _remake_table
    self.effective_default(create_field)
  File "/home/saif/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/db/backends/base/schema.py", line 303, in effective_default
    return field.get_db_prep_save(self._effective_default(field), self.connection)
  File "/home/saif/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py", line 823, in get_db_prep_save
    return self.get_db_prep_value(value, connection=connection, prepared=False)
  File "/home/saif/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py", line 818, in get_db_prep_value
    value = self.get_prep_value(value)
  File "/home/saif/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/django/db/models/fields/__init__.py", line 1776, in get_prep_value
    raise e.__class__(
ValueError: Field 'bid' expected a number but got ''.

The bid model and field seem to be okay so I don't know where the problem is. Please help me with this problem. I will be thankful to you.

A: In your models.py replace the line
last_bid = models.ForeignKey('Bid', on_delete=models.CASCADE, blank=True,
null=True, related_name='lst')

with this
last_bid = models.ForeignKey(Bid, on_delete=models.CASCADE, blank=True,
null=True, related_name='lst')

You are typing Bid in string.
There is also one bug in your Bid class
def __str__(self):
    return '%s' % (self.bid)

replace it with
def __str__(self):
    return '%s' % str(self.p_bid)

Hope it works
Thank you


More monkeying around. I pretty much finished inking page two, but I am going to go back and fiddle with some things. I screwed up page one in that I added the balloons before I shrunk the art down to comic book size, so the edges of the balloons are too thin.
On this second page I started screwing around with tones, as you can see, but I'm not too sold on the idea. I have my original lineart scanned in so I think I'm going to go back and put in some tones by hand, with crosshatching and whatnot. Hopefully I won't ruin the art.
The perspective on the legs of the ship is disconcerting. The left leg in particular doesn't look right at all.
But I should have started off praising the majority of the drawings and the story and the layout. Good work.
Actually that ship pose is traced from a computer model so it is spot on.
That might be the case … but it still looks off, so the tracing is incorrect.
I've made a rough alteration to the drawing and the perspectives all match up now and it looks as it probably does in the computer model.
Don't take this as any sort of criticism. It isn't. It's just a simple error. We're all human. I'm certainly not dissing any other aspect of the comic. It's very excellent and you're doing a great job on it.
I'll definitely buy issues of SSZ when it is (hopefully) released.
Sorry man, that's not right. It may look right to you, but it ain't.


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Q: What would the position vs. time graph look like if the velocity vs. time graph was a curve? In my physics class we are learning about velocity vs. time graphs and position vs. time graphs for an object.  We have learned that if the object is moving with constant velocity (this would be a diagonal line on the position vs. time graph) that the velocity vs. time graph would be a horizontal line.  We have also learned that if the object is accelerating and is not moving with constant velocity (a curved position vs. time graph) that the velocity vs. time graph would be a diagonal line.  However, what would the graph of the Position vs. Time graph look like if the Velocity vs. Time graph was a curve?

A: Let's say the speed was described by a curve that is itself described by some function of time $v = f(t)$. If you know what the initial position $x_0$ is, then the curve of position vs. time would be described by
$$x(t) =x_0 +\int_0^t f(t')dt'$$
From a conceptual standpoint, you are calculating the total area below the curve $f(t)$ between the point where time is zero and some point $t$, adding the value of the initial position, and jotting down that value as the position of the system at time $t$. Doing this for all points in time give you the position curve. (Remember to count the areas below the speed equals zero axis as negative!)

A: For simplicity assume one dimensional motion and a relatively simple curve for the velocity against time graph.
The displacement $s$ between time $t= t_1$ and $t=t_2$  is the area under a velocity against time graph $  s = \int^{t_2}_{t_1}v \: dt$ as shown below.

The reverse process is that the gradient of a displacement against time graph $\frac{ds}{dt}$ is equal to the velocity $v$.


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The Best TV Episodes of 2012
GQ editors revisit the most gripping, gruesome, and straight-up hilarious hours of television you missed this year
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Mad Men—"The Other Woman"
Mad Men is about a lot of things, but it dwells on three subjects in particular: First of all, it's a long-form exploration of Sally Draper's future therapy sessions. (I'm serious. Think about it.) Second, it's a stark, unflattering portrait of the eternal lecherousness of men. For every seemingly glamorous (and flagrantly adulterous) hook-up, there's a pitiful, pathetic rejoinder: Don always ends up getting put in his place by his mistresses, Roger faces rejection by Joan as often as she humors him with hotel sex. And then Pete with the nanny, Lane making a pass at Joan, et cetera. Third, finally—and I'd argue that this is the piece that makes the show great—it's about the upward mobility of women.
Usually the show-runners are pretty subtle—they seduce you with the martinis and oysters, the bow-tied balls, the meticulous décor of Don's season 5 apartment. You're so enthralled that you barely taste the disgust as it goes down. But sometimes, just to make sure they're being clear, they just come out and say it. "The Other Woman" is the best—and least subtle—episode last year.
This kind of directness is something you have to earn. You earn it by methodically making your case season after season. When you're so subtle for five years, bluntness feels like catharsis. That Pete has the gall to ask Joan to whore herself out for the company; that the other partners, seemingly good men, agree; that Joan ultimately goes through with it: this is the natural extrapolation of the argument Mad Men has been making for years, the extent to which sexuality is linked to a woman's career, the extent to which the men are complicit in it. That great Jaguar tagline they come up with while all the other drama is going down—At last, something beautiful you can truly own—is the_ piece de resistence_ of a show with no shortage of metaphor. And like all great ad copy, it's only half the story. The other half is: at what cost?—M.B.
Boardwalk Empire—"Margate Sands"
The seeds for this were planted a year ago: For a show that's received mostly lukewarm critical reviews, Boardwalk Empire sure set off a divisive firestorm with its second-season climax, in which fan favorite and ascendant protagonist Jimmy Darmody was summarily ecuted, uttering what would become not only season 3's tagline but its central theme, "You can't be half a gangster." Well, Boardwalk sure went full gangster this season, with a tidal wave of bullets and blood begat by psychotic rival Gyp Rosetti, and a series of sudden deaths, from smooth-talking Irishman Owen Sleater to a young brat poised to become the next Jimmy, that made it truly feel like anyone was fair game. By the time we got to the balls-to-the-wall finale, every murderous possibility was still in play: Would Richard die a tragic death? Would Gyp get his, or survive to fight another season? In the end, those questions were answered as we the fans expected—nay, demanded—but the overarching lesson was clear: Boardwalk Empire has grown into the most unpredictable, ballsy show on television, and the bell now tolls for whomever it damn well pleases.—D.T.
Bob's Burgers—"God Rest Ye Merry Gentle-Mannequins"
We don't want to give away too much about this episode, so we'll just entice you with a few tidbiis:
Zach Galifinakis plays a supposed homeless man—actually, he lived in a storage unit—that's taken in by Bob and his family.
There's a "Cool Runnings" reference.
There is a sex shop-mannequin heist that involves vibrators and lube.
It's the most funny and sweetly endearing Christmas episode you'll watch this year.—K.S.
Girls - "Welcome to Bushwick"
In the first episode of Girls, Hannah Horvath (Lena Dunham) tells her financially numb parents that she wants to be "the voice of my generation," or, "_a _voice of my generation." Seven episodes later, she strung out that Millennial angst at the thematic center of her creation with something that every New York twenty-something can gravitate around: falling down the cartoon rabbit hole just past East Williamsburg will always end with a story to tell. And this is the episode that struck a blow to the _Sex and the City _chatter that succumbed Girls from the get-go: While the rich girl Carrie shopped for heels on Fifth Avenue, broke Hannah goes full neurotic inside a warehouse off Montrose Avenue. Jessa spits on two douchey hipsters' faces; Marnie trails her ex-boyfriend after breaking his heart; Shoshanna smokes crack; and, in the backseat of a cab, Hannah heads home smirking, squished in between her best friend and new boyfriend. Welcome to Bushwick? You're damn right.—J.S.
Justified—"Slaughterhouse"
Okay, so maybe I have a thing for big, bloody, loose-ends-tying season finales. But the season 3 finale of Justified showed off all that's right with the criminally underrated (because it's about a US Marshall, get it?) FX drama: the always-mystifying anti-anti-heroics of Walton Goggins's Boyd Crowder; lots of stylistic bloodshed; and the ongoing father-son conflicts of Arlo and Raylan Givens, demonstrating that the latter isn't always the square-jawed Wayne lookalike he presents to his enemies. And though carpetbagging gangster Robert Quarles wasn't quite a match for season 2's interfamily showdown with Raylan and Mags and the rest of the Bennett clan, to have his sociopathic antics ended by literal disarmament provided a guilty-pleasure bang to the slow burn of a well-crafted, well-acted, and often poignant crime drama.—D.T.
Homeland—"Q&A"
We're not arguing that the last half of this season, universally panned for its melodrama and STFU-incredulity, didn't leave something to be wanted. But bitch too much, and you might forget the flashes of genius that spark-plugged the second act. Carrie's maniacal smile in the Lebanese market. Her vindication when the (albeit ridiculously unearthed) suicide video is discovered. And this episode brought the same brain-chess magic that got us hooked in the first place.
Homeland is largely about the distance between the way we act and the way we feel, and no other scenes in the short history of the show bridge that gap more than the good-cop/bad-cop interrogations of "Q&A." Up until this point, we've seen flashbacks of broke-down Brody, and cracks here and there, but we've never seen him implode. Enter the magnetically cruel Agent Quinn, who pulls the POW apart, piece by piece, all over again. He's a guy who's used to delivering threats and used to getting answers. And then he snaps—in one of those perfect twists the writers mostly wisely dole out—and stabs Brody's hand. This is likely premeditation but possibly genuine rage, and we don't just get our first peek into Quinn's own dark-hearted psyche. Brody is pushed to a physical break. He cries. He's shocked. He's afraid. And, most importantly, he shows his cards. This honest reaction provokes Carrie as she takes her turn at the table.
The ensuing conversation, somehow psychological game and bare-all confessional at once, feels just as dangerous as any of the tick-tock devices. We've already seen the two of them physically undress each other, but there's something more compelling here. Like a game of mental strip poker, they inch closer and closer toward emotional nakedness. In the end, Carrie confesses her obsessive love and fantasies for a married man who's jeopardized her sanity, Brody his deep-rooted fear that he is a literal monster, a lonely one at that. For any viewer who's ever put aside the dice in a mind-fuck relationship, the realness of their nerves and emotions concretizes our suspicions that what the two of them have is real. It's a moment that also marked Homeland's lane-change onto Histrionic Boulevard, but, in my mind, the payoff of this episode was worth the sideshow car accident, the laughable pace-maker hacking, and all the maudlin impulses the most promising series on TV succumbed to.—A.R.
Louie—"Barney/Never"
The third season of Louis C.K.'s Emmy-winning series strayed somewhat from past setups. Instead of the usual two-part vignettes that almost never have anything to do with each other, and almost always make you uncomfortably cry of laughter, C.K. opted for longer, plot-driven episodes. "Barney/Never" was one of the few that remained, and it was the best episode this year. First, there are few things in this world more entertaining to watch than a grayed Robin Williams and a graying Louis C.K. talk shit about a recently deceased mutual "friend" who everyone, except the strippers he paid for, hated. Second, Louie playing babysitter for a kid who never hears the word "no" introduced to the lexicon the phrase "shit the tub." And third, the legendary Leon (human name: J.B. Smoove) from Curb Your Enthusiasm has a gravedigger cameo. You usually think of intricate, hour-long dramas when applying the Best Episode label, but this is a show that is by no means simply a comedy—we're looking at you, Parker Posey.—J.S.
_Archer—"_Crossing Over"
Like many animated comedies, Archer's brilliance isn't so much defined by storylines, so much as the sheer volume of memorable, LOL-worthy moments it manages to pack into a scant 23 minutes each week. So accordingly, the purpose of writing this isn't to single out "Crossing Over" as the strongest episode of the show's very strong third season, but rather to shame you for not having watched every episode already, you poor, deprived TV philistine. Anyhow, "Crossing Over" demonstrated the wisdom of putting the show's two best characters in close (oh-so perversely close) contact, with an epic drinking montage and the return of Cyborg Barry Dylan, to boot. Is that a recipe for an amazing episode, Other Barry? Why, yes, Other Barry, yes it is.—D.T.
New Girl—"Normal"
On New Girl, everyone constantly talks about how they used to be someone else: Winston (Lamorne Morris) used to be an inconsiderate, exceptional dick, before he lost his contract playing pro-basketball in Latvia, and came back chastened and hapless and wound up; Nick (Jake Johnson) used to be a law student, before he got his heart broken, before he started playing guitar in an alt-country ska band and gambling a lot, before he drove down to Mexico to try to enter a cock fight "as a person," and then came back Stripes-era Bill Murray; and Jess (Zooey Deschanel) used to be even more Jess-ish, before her boyfriend cheated on her and this show began. Schmidt, of course, used to be Fat Schmidt, given to giggles and germaphobia; then he lost 150 pounds of lard, possibly with semi-legal Bolivian diet pills, gained 20 pounds of muscle, memorized every page of Malcolm Gladwell and, gah, GQ, and honed himself into "a sexual snowflake" capable of describing his bedroom, convincingly, as "Darwin's jungle. Where open-minded people do weird things to each other." Schmidt (Max Greenfield) at first seemed like the show's Kramer—its clowning id—but he turns out to be another George Costanza, all excess need and insecurities and conniving schemes and coping mechanisms to keep them at bay. In one early episode, Schmidt strides out in his 'mono—you know, his mini-kimono—chanting, "Friday night! It's on! It's on and poppin'!" "What happened to you?" Nick responds, plaintively, head-shakingly, "You didn't used to be like this, Schmidt. You've gotten so much worse."
This is how all of us talked about ourselves in our twenties, even though we'd barely had time to become anyone, much less change from one person to another. This is the thing, the organizing insight, that made the show an actual show, instead of just some She & Them Zooey Deschanel vehicle, and it's the thing that sometimes even makes New Girl seem big and true and a little sad. Every great sitcom, which this could maybe become, has to have an organizing insight; Cheers was always about how you build and hold onto surrogate families, even if those surrogate families are composed of drunks and know-it-alls; Parks and Recreations, which is the only show on the air almost as good as Cheers, is devoted to, in the words of NPR's Linda Holmes, "its heart-swelling optimism about the capacity of human beings to do wonderful and kind things for each other." New Girl is a show about how we go from being dipshit, self-absorbed kids, which we're all so expert at, to becoming actual human beings, which is hard. It's a transition that tends to turn us all a little peculiar for a while, and the characters on the show keep getting odder, not cooler, more exposed and unmoored and prone to meltdown.
Probably the funniest episode this year was Normal, in season one, which introduced Jess's fancy new boyfriend Russell (played by either Dermot Mulroney or Dylan McDermott. Or Derbel McDillet) to the roommates' favorite game "True American." It is, according to Winston, "90% drinking and then it's got a loose Candy Land-like structure to it," but I can't try to explain the rules, except to say that the floor is molten lava and a lot of presidents' names get screamed out. And maybe it's more like Monopoly, in the sense that it never really ends, you eventually just can't stand it anymore. The rest of the episode they spend trying and failing to convince Russell that they're grown-ups too: starring at him for weirdly long periods, quizzing him on his sushi choices, pitching proposals from Nick's "idea notebook." This is the whole show, really, three boys and one girl in an apartment trying and failing and eventually, probably, some season, not too soon, because when it happens, all the hilarity and hysteria will deflate away like an old air mattress, becoming adults.—M.L.
Game of Thrones—"Blackwater" You've read enough praise about this one, so instead we talked to George R.R. Martin and show creators Dan Weiss and Martin Benioff about the making of the best, most spectacular hour of television this year. Read it here.
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Author Jackson, Shannon, 1967- author.
Title The Builders Association : performance and media in contemporary theater / Shannon Jackson and Marianne Weems.
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09.07.2004 Regional News
Sunyani lawyer and teacher finally appear in court
Sunyani July 9 (Regina Benneh) GNA - Nana Obiri-Boahen, a Sunyani-based legal practitioner and Frank Kusi, a teacher, on Friday finally appeared before a Sunyani Magistrate court to face two charges of abetment of crime and assault.
The case was, however, adjourned till July 22, this year after Mr. Akwasi Boakye, counsel for the two appealed for an adjournment "since the prosecutor was not in court when the case was called".
Mr. Charles Adjei Wilson, a circuit court judge at Awutu-Bereku in the Central region and who was presiding as a magistrate judge noted that the suspects were in court early even before the court resumed sitting and therefore agreed with counsel to adjourn the case.
The presiding judge on July 15 ordered a police investigator and a court clerk to once again serve summons to the suspects when they failed to make their first appearance on Monday, July 5.
This was after Deputy Superintendent of Police Alex Yartey Tawiah, the prosecutor, had asked for a bench warrant for the arrest of the suspects as the police investigator, Sergeant E.K. Addo said he delivered the summons to the suspects.
The judge was not convinced that the summons got to the suspects So he asked the police to send another summons and to ensure that the suspects were duly served to enable them to before the court on Friday.
DSP Tawiah had told the court that Madam Azumah Nsor, complainant in the case in the company of a witness, Madam Amina Awudu, went to the house of Nana Obiri-Boahen to collect 17 million cedis that Nana Boahen had allegedly collected from her for his services as counsel in a civil case at a high court in Sunyani.
The lawyer ordered the two to leave his house but Nsor refused insisting on the refund of the money.
DSP Tawiah said Nana Obiri-Boahen, who is an aspiring NPP parliamentary candidate for Sunyani East became offended and ordered Kusi to beat her, which he did mercilessly.
Madam Nsor reported the matter to the Sunyani district police, who issued a medical report to enable her to attend hospital and later arrested the two suspects.
DSP Tawiah said in his caution statement, Nana Obiri-Boahen denied having ordered Kusi to beat Madam Nsor but admitted that the complainant and the witness were in his house on that day and he ordered them to leave.
The prosecutor said Kusi in his caution statement admitted that he assaulted the complainant but explained that it was Madam Nsor, who first slapped him. He denied dragging her on the ground.


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