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Q: Convert modelform dropdown field into textfield What I want to do is when a user want to edit, he/she should be able to see the PlotID in textfield format not dropdown format, because for right now the Plot_ID field is displayed as dropdown not textfield.
What I want to do is when a user want to edit, he/she should be able to see the PlotID in textfield format not dropdown format, because for right now the Plot_ID field is displayed as dropdown not textfield.
My model.py:
class Farm(models.Model):
    farmID = models.CharField('farmID',primary_key=True, max_length=20)
    fieldsize = models.FloatField('Field Size (hactre)')

class Plot(models.Model):
    farm = models.ForeignKey(Farm,verbose_name='FarmID')
    plotID = models.CharField('PlotID',max_length=50)

class PlotManagement(models.Model):
    farm = models.ForeignKey(Farm,verbose_name='FieldID')
    plotID = models.ForeignKey(Plot,verbose_name='PlotID')

My form.py
class PlotManagementForm(forms.ModelForm):

    class Meta:
        model=PlotManagement
        exclude=('enteredpersonel',)
    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(PlotManagementForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.fields['farm'].widget.attrs['class'] = 'form-control'
        self.fields['plotID'].widget.attrs['class'] = 'form-control'

my template.html:

    {{ plotmanagementform.farm.errors }}
    Farmer:

    {{ plotmanagementform.farm }}

{{ plotmanagementform.plotID.errors }}
Plot ID:

{{ plotmanagementform.plotID }}

A: You can change the widget of the PlotId field to a TextInput like this:
self.fields['plotID'].widget = TextInput()
You will have to import TextInput from django.forms.widgets . Or perhaps a NumberInput() would be more appropriate here.
But as mentioned in comments, doing this is not a good idea. It's not a good idea to make a primary or foreign key ID editable because your database and relations can easily go out of sync if you make a mistake.


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Alex Rodriguez's suspension has been reduced from it's original 211 games down to 1 full season (162 games) plus the playoffs, according to ESPN New York. MLB originally suspended A-Rod in August for his involvement in the BioGensis scandal, but was allowed to play while he appealed.
According to ESPN, 12 other players were handed suspensions, but the longest after A-Rods was Ryan Braun, who got 65 games. ESPN is reporting that Rodriguez will contest the decision. He released a statement saying the ruling by arbitor Frederic Horowitz "inconsistent" and based on "false and wholly unreliable testimony," according to ESPN.
"The number of games sadly comes as no surprise, as the deck has been stacked against me from day one," Rodriguez said in his statement. "This is one man's decision, that was not put before a fair and impartial jury, does not involve me having failed a single drug test, is at odds with the facts and is inconsistent with the terms of the Joint Drug Agreement and the Basic Agreement, and relies on testimony and documents that would never have been allowed in any court in the United States because they are false and wholly unreliable.
"This injustice is MLB's first step toward abolishing guaranteed contracts in the 2016 bargaining round, instituting lifetime bans for single violations of drug policy, and further insulating its corrupt investigative program from any variety defense by accused players, or any variety of objective review.
Rodriguez went on to maintain that he has not used PED's and he will continue to fight the ruling in his statement according to ESPN.
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Born in 1999, I was amongst the first of a new generation in Northern Ireland. A generation born after the Good Friday Agreement. A generation that was hoped to be free from the violence that had maimed, traumatised and killed so many. Was that hope fulfilled?
When my mum returned to Northern Ireland in March 1998, after living in England for a few years, she hoped that the Good Friday Agreement would give her the life she had "over there". It didn't live up to her expectations. I always remember the answer she gave when I asked her if she thought the Troubles would ever start up again: "They never ended".
Early in life I suppose you don't really notice what's going on, it's what you grow up around and what becomes the norm. Combine that with literally having a child's understanding of things means that you usually don't realise what's going on. That's exactly the situation I was in on the 3rd of September, 2005. My first bomb-scare. It was probably the first time I had any experience with this country's problems. I had no idea what was going on, all I remember is the police announcement. I suppose "suspect device" doesn't mean anything to a 5 year old. The bombscare is a sort of Northern Irish tradition, they become a nuisance that is just part of life. However, there's still the fear that maybe it's more than just a threat. I didn't even realise it was a bomb-scare until a bit later on in life. Funnily enough, I found a forum archive a while back which had some Republicans discussing whether or not it was a valid target. Whether or not it should have been a real bomb. Strange how small the world is at times.
Yet before this had even happened, I was already acquainted with this country's tainted history. There are photos of a very young me with Ian Paisley. Indeed, I can vaguely recall my granda getting me up onto bar tables to get me to say "Never, Never, Never!". Before going back to my orange juice, unaware of what it even meant. I'll always remember my granda's lesson on voting: "Vote DUP, if not, UUP, if not, TUV". Why? I asked, "Keep the Shinners out". That was 11 years ago, some things never change, do they?
Although the violence has largely decreased, it still remains. Every week we look at BBC News on our phones, flick through the Belfast Telegraph or see our MLAs share the same kind of story on Facebook.
Every week we see something along the lines of "Teenager shot in paramilitary attack", we see local politicians coming out with the usual "We strongly condemn this attack and violence has no place in our community". Occasionally we still see bomb alerts, we see "suspect devices" and controlled explosions. Even the PSNI dealt with it in their advertising campaign a few years ago (We are Mothers). At times it feels as if we risk another lapse into the same levels of violence in the past, and I am not alone in that. I fear that we may very easily end up in the same situation as 20 odd years ago. All it can take is one attack and the whole Northern Irish peace could unravel like a loose thread. After all, WW1 was sparked by one man, a gun and 2 bullets.
Whilst the Good Friday Agreement supposedly also returned us to normality and British army operations ended in 2007, Northern Ireland is still very much a world apart from the rest of the UK. Remember the 2011 London riots? Remember the uproar over Boris Johnson's water cannons? Then look at Belfast, there's plenty of videos of riots on YouTube when the PSNI used them. It doesn't stop there though. Almost all PSNI officers carry pistols with them when on patrol, compare that to England, where most police don't have firearms."Hot Fuzz" would have been a lot shorter if they did. My English friends were surprised to hear my casual mention of armoured cars, some having mixed reactions of "Has anything happened?" or "Guess that makes sense, yeah". Sometimes it's hard to see the peace process as a success when so many people seem ready for conflict. It's harder still when you realise that the number of Peace walls has increased since the Good Friday Agreement.
As young Northern Irish people leave the country in droves, heading to England, Scotland or Wales for University or perhaps for life, how can you argue that the Good Friday Agreement has been a success? Many have always said, Ireland's greatest export is it's youth. Many of my friends have either already left, or plan on leaving. I too considered it, it's not hard to see why you should. Why stay in some backwards province, ran by a government that (when it exists) cares too much about stirring the pot of sectarianism, or ignoring public opinion, than actually doing something? Yet, all the while, Northern Ireland seems to be content with itself. Our wee… Country/Province/Administrative Hell. We cope by laughing at it, shows like "Give My Head Peace" and "The Blame Game" show that. The more recent, and very popular, "Derry Girls" is another prime example.
However, living with the peace brought by Good Friday, as tenuous as it may be at times, has allowed us to begin to fight for other things. The struggle for marriage-equality and reproductive rights has now taken an important position in the future of this country. Without the Good Friday Agreement, I doubt such feats could be achieved. In 1991, 100 people marched in Belfast Pride. In 2013 that number had hit 50,000 and continues to grow. The Good Friday Agreement meant more than just an end to a sectarian armed struggle. It opened up the opportunity for the new, progressive struggles that we are accustomed to.


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By Andy Crump | June 10, 2015 | 6:00pm
Movies Reviews Jurassic World
Jurassic World marks the fourth entry in its paleontological franchise, but it's probably more important as the second chapter in the story of Chris Pratt's unexpected ascent to movie stardom. Pratt, seemingly born to make a career out of playing lovable doofuses, made his goofy tenor work for him in last year's Guardians of the Galaxy. With Jurassic World, he's shed that skin almost entirely in favor of aping the hard-jawed macho men of the 1950s B-movie canon. That transformation lends the film inevitability: As if brand recognition didn't give Jurassic World enough of a box office edge, the image of Pratt riding a motorcycle side by side a quartet of raptors should be more than enough to sell Colin Trevorrow's picture to today's crowds.
That scene, and others like it, let Jurassic World function as a suitably thrilling roller-coaster ride. Unsurprisingly, they don't add up to a particularly good movie, but Trevorrow has enough diversions stored up his sleeve that the film's inconsistencies and overarching sloppiness almost don't matter. Unlike many of his competitors in the still-young 2015 summer blockbuster season, Trevorrow (Safety Not Guaranteed) understands how important it is not to hold out on the entertainment. After introducing Judy Greer in her second thankless role of the year (after Tomorrowland) and shoving its two child principals, Ty Simpkins and Nick Robinson, off to Isla Nublar for some up-close-and-personal dinosaur time, Trevorrow more or less gets things underway posthaste.
Here, we finally get to see John Hammond's loopy vision of a dino theme park brought to fruition. He's dead, of course, so Jurassic World's funding comes from rakish, eccentric billionaire Simon Masrani (Irrfan Khan), to whom Hammond entrusted the care of his dream. Masrani, in turn, has entrusted the park's operation to manager Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard), whose two nephews, Gray (Simpkins) and Zach (Robinson), are on their way to the resort for a vacation getaway and ostensible time with their distant, workaholic aunt. Their trip takes a turn for the toothy when the park's upcoming attraction, a genetically altered behemoth blended from a slurry of undisclosed DNA strands, breaks free of its pen and starts wreaking bloody havoc across the island, because nobody in these movies learns from past mistakes. If only Claire had bothered consulting Pratt's character sooner.
Pratt plays Owen Grady, a scruffy, vaguely ex-military man who trains raptors for the park and its corporate masters. His initial machismo mists Jurassic World's script with the scent of regressive gender politics. Nobody knows better than Owen, including Claire, who at first appears resigned to playing second fiddle to Pratt's man-in-charge. How refreshing that Jurassic World dissects its decidedly sexist tropes not long after introducing them: Claire refuses Owen's gentlemanly gestures and saves his bacon repeatedly, all the while outrunning thunder lizards in her high heels. (Star-Lord couldn't pull off that feat.) Pratt and Howard make a fun duo, and together Trevorrow has them pick apart misogynist clichés before they walk off into the sunset almost as equals. (A subplot involving Claire's unrealized motherhood threatens to undermine her badassery and builds to nothing.)
That's not all the film has on its mind, either. Early on, Trevorrow takes referential potshots at contemporary blockbusting and audience expectations, but stops just short of literally winking at his viewers. Escapist attractions need to be bigger and louder; they need to have more teeth. (They also need to look good. Despite the thorns Trevorrow has for tentpoles, the production values here are on par with the average summer popcorn extravaganza, right down to the CG indulgence and bad color grading.) The subversions and meta-commentary don't necessarily make Jurassic World a smarter film. They do, however, at least make it thoughtful, even if its IQ ultimately falls right in line with that of a dumbbell. Vincent D'Onofrio appears as Jurassic World's head of security who dreams of using dinosaurs in combat against Amurrica's enemies. B.D. Wong reprises his role as the scientist responsible for bringing the dinos to life by using outrageously misguided animal elements to close genome gaps.
It's a bad sign when a Jimmy Fallon cameo makes more sense than the motivations of supporting cast members. If Jurassic World remains willfully dopey, at least it knows how to have a good time; it's harebrained but never boring, and unlike the last two sequels, it has a proper if overstated reverence for Steven Spielberg's original classic. Spectacles don't always have to be bright—they can't all be Mad Max: Fury Road—but they at least have to be fun. Maybe the next Jurassic flick can take a crack at looking handsome, too.
Director: Colin Trevorrow
Writers: Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Derek Connolly, Colin Trevorrow
Starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Irrfan Khan, Omar Sy, B.D. Wong, Jake Johnson, Lauren Lapkus, Judy Greer
Boston-based critic Andy Crump has been writing online about film since 2009, and has been scribbling for Paste Magazine since 2013. He also contributes to Screen Rant, Movie Mezzanine, and Badass Digest. You can follow him on Twitter. He is composed of roughly 65 percent Vermont craft brews.
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Human rights activists' meeting with Chechnya's leader cancelled: Kommersant reports that the planned visit to Chechnya of members of the Presidential Human Rights Council for meeting with the Chechen leadership was cancelled on Wednesday after it became known that Chechnya's acting head Ramzan Kadyrov was against participation in the meeting of head of the Committee to Prevent Torture Igor Kalyapin. (Kommersant; see also 'blogs monitoring')
Blogs monitoring
'Isn't Chechnya Russia?' by Gennady Gudkov, politician writing on Ekho Moskvy
The author responds to the news about the recent failed visit of members of the Presidential Human Rights Council to Chechnya. Gudkov draws other numerous examples of lawlessness, Chechen leader Kadyrov's personal rule and absence of federal power in the region. All of this is part of a trend whereby Chechnya is moving away from Russia – not territorially, but in terms of lifestyle, moral norms, laws and rules. In conclusion, Gudkov envisages a day when key Russian power structures, including Putin's presidential administration, will once come to audit multi-billion federal subsidies only to be told that "we cannot guarantee your security, because Chechnya is not Russia".
http://echo.msk.ru/blog/gudkov/1776108-echo/
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Chechnya oil and gas assets: The Russian government prepared draft orders on the transfer of Checheneftechimprom assets from the federal government to Chechnya. Part of assets of Checheneftechimprom will be transferred to Rosneftegaz. (Kommersant)
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Unemployment and salary falls: Although official unemployment in Russia is about 1 million people (5.9% of the labour force), but the real number of unemployed, according to trade union, is more than 4 million. According to the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, the situation on the labour market in many regions is much worse than the average statistic figures. For instance, in the Yaroslavl region the unemployment figure is twice as much, in the Nenets Autonomous region hidden unemployment is three times higher, and the real salary in Chechnya and Ingushetia declined by 20-22% since 2014. (Izvestia, NG)
Human Rights Council meeting failed to mention Chechnya: Presidential Council for Human Rights held meeting in Pyatigorsk yesterday. The meeting was dedicated to the results of the 10-day inspection trip through several regions of the North Caucasian Federal District. According to the chairman of the Council Mikhail Fedotov, the main goal of the mission to establish contacts with the heads of the regions was achieved. It was suggested to set up a system of public control over the human rights situation in the Northern Caucasus District. Meanwhile, observers note that the story on why the group failed to meet with the Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov was missing from the report. It was earlier reported that Ramzan Kadyrov refused to meet human rights officials over his complicated relations with one member of the delegation Mr. Igor Kalyapin, the chairman of the anti-torture Committee. (Kommersant)
'Kadyrov bridge', Mannerheim plague appear in St. Petersburg: The St. Petersburg city authorities have decided to name one of the city's bridges after Chechnya's first president Akhmat Kadyrov. Earlier this month, a rally was held in St. Petersburg to protest against naming the bridge after Kadyrov. Media also report on a controversy around the opening of a memorial plaque dedicated to Finnish military leader Mannerheim was unveiled in St. Petersburg. Human rights activist Oleg Orlov, cited by Vedomosti, says in a comment that the opening of Mannerheim's plaque and the 'Kadyrov bridge' make a "schizophrenic impression." (Gazeta.ru, Kommersant, KP, MK, RG, Vedomosti)
North Caucasus: Kommersant provides the results of a survey by government-affiliated VTSIOM, which reflect the moods of the youth in the North Caucasus. The survey revealed high appreciation of President Putin's activity. At the same time, attitudes towards regional authorities differ. E.g. 99% of young people in Chechnya are satisfied with the work of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. (Kommersant)
Medvedchuk interview with Novaya Gazeta
'I agree with Putin: Donbass is the territory of Ukraine'
The Ukrainian politician who plays an important role in the Minsk process and is known for being the author of an idea of 'federalism' in Ukraine gave his assessment of the current situation in implementing the Minsk agreements. He states that the key problem for fulfilling the agreements is a lack of political resources in Ukraine and notes that more power for Poroshenko may be a way out, because "democracy is not the best form of government for carrying out reform". In response to a question regarding renewed fighting in Donbass, Medvedchuk stressed that people of Lugansk and Donetsk are not very keen to return to Ukraine, therefore politicians are ought to convince them in non-violent ways. He also expects that many people will not qualify for amnesty. The politician praised Yeltsin's regional policies and praised Chechnya as "one of the most progressive regions of the Russian Federation".
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United Russia approves lists of candidates at Duma elections: A congress of the ruling United Russia party on Monday approved the party's lists of candidates at the 18 September Duma elections. The party is nominating 607 candidates [400 candidates on the party lists and 207 in single-mandate constituencies], including the first deputy head of the Presidential Administration Volodin, Crimean prosecutor Poklonskaya, Airborne Troops Commander Shamanov and some other well-known personalities. Nineteen heads of Russians regions, including Chechnya's acting head Kadyrov, Moscow mayor Sobyanin, Dagestani head Abdulatipov, St. Petersburg governor Poltavchenko, Ingushetia's head Yevkurov, Crimea's de facto head Aksyonov and others, have been included in the lists. The federal part of the list of candidates includes only Prime Minister, United Russia leader Medvedev. The congress also approved the party's election program. Speaking at the congress, President Putin called United Russia a leading political force and stressed the need for the party not to lose people's confidence. Expert Konstantin Kalachev told Vedomosti that the presence of Volodin in the list of United Russia's candidates indicates that both Medvedev and Volodin will keep their posts after the elections. (Gazeta.ru, Izvestia, Kommersant, NG, RBK, RG, Vedomosti; Rossiya 1, Channel One; see also editorial lines)
Chechnya's business ombudsman to run for head of Chechnya: Reportedly, Chechnya's business ombudsman Idris Usmanov plans to run in gubernatorial elections in Chechnya in September as a representative of the Party of Growth led by Russian Business Ombudsman Boris Titov. RBK daily cites member of the Federation Council Ziyad Sabsabi, who said earlier that Chechnya's acting head Ramzan Kadyrov could get 98% of the vote in the elections. (RBK)
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Today I finally got around to proofread and implement Stevan's repr types spec, essentially recreating Parrot's PMC structures within our new VM, though with a saner interface design of leo's that I mentioned last week.
Currently, all the container types got their repr types, as well as a generic p6opaque for object attributes and a nil type for Larry's ::Class objects. Next up will be converting the current runtime's VTypes into their respective repr types: IO handles, Sockets, Threads, Processes, Rules, and maybe Perl5 SVs and Haskell Dynamics.


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The most common type of pituitary adenomas are prolactinomas.86 Prolactinomas account for approximately 40% of all pituitary adenomas.82 Table 16 lists the prevalence of prolactinomas. No incidence data were available.
Table 16. Prevalence of prolactinomas.
Abbreviations: UK, United Kingdom; n, number.
Studies have reported the reversal of hypogonadism in 44-62% of cases, usually within 6 months after starting treatment with dopamine agonists.88,89 Furthermore, a study reported the recovery of other hormonal axes following adenoma shrinkage.90 Hormonal re-evaluation should be performed to avoid unnecessary life-long hormone replacement.
Table 17 summarizes treatment outcomes associated with different therapeutic approaches.
Table 17. Treatment outcomes of hyperprolactinemia.
Abbreviations: SMR, standardized mortality rate; CVR, cardiac valve regurgitation; yr, year; n, number.


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Implants that sit in the body and reprogram a person's immune cells could be used to treat a range of infectious diseases and even cancer. In a trial on mice with an aggressive melanoma that usually kills within 25 days, the new treatment saved 90% of the group.
Because cancer cells originate within the body, the immune system usually leaves them alone. Therapies exist that involve removing immune cells from the body before priming them to attack malignant tissue and injecting them back into a patient.
Results are not encouraging, though – more than 90% of re-injected cells die before they can have any effect, says David Mooney of Harvard University.
Mooney and colleagues have now developed a technique that directs the immune system from within the body – a method that is more efficient and potentially cheaper too.
Their breakthrough involves implanting cylinders of an FDA-approved biodegradable polymer into the body. The implants release a particular variety of the cell-signalling molecules called cytokines – a sort of molecular perfume that is irresistible to a certain kind of immune-system messenger cell.
These dendritic cells are attracted into the pores of Mooney's implant, where they are exposed to antigens – the molecular signatures of the cancer, bacterium or virus being treated – and a danger-signal chemical derived from bacterial DNA.
This alert signal makes the dendritic cells flee to the nearest lymph node, where they meet up with the immune system's "killer" T-cells and program them to hunt down the invading cells.
In tests, the researchers implanted cylinders with a diameter of 8.5 millimetres into mice and two weeks later injected the animals with highly aggressive melanoma cells.
Mice implanted with 'blanks' – cylinders lacking any chemical additives – developed large tumours within 18 days and had to be euthanised. However, 90% of the mice given the full treatment were cured.
"There have not been any reports of the traditional [external] dendritic cell activation having survival rates at the levels we find with our materials for the cancer model we used," says Mooney.
The team thinks modified versions of the material could be effective against a range of cancers and infectious diseases. These might also help reprogram the immune system to combat autoimmune diseases such as type 1 diabetes, caused by immune cells destroying insulin-producing cells in the pancreas.


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Q: How can i show a simple instagram feed with the new api permissions I am trying to set up a instagram plugin on django cms to show my recent images on a homepage by the username set in the plugin. It seems you can no longer simply get public content from instagram. This is the current method im using with my sandbox account.
user_request = requests.get("https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/search?q=" + str(instance.username) + "&access_token=" + settings.INSTAGRAM_ACCESS_TOKEN)
user_id = user_request.json().values()[1][0]["id"]
r = requests.get("https://api.instagram.com/v1/users/"+ user_id +"/media/recent/?access_token=" + settings.INSTAGRAM_ACCESS_TOKEN + "&count=" + str(instance.limit))
recent_media = r.json()

The code above gets the username from the plugin model and makes a get request to the instagram api to get that user (i've heard this method doesn't always show the correct user as its just searching and getting the first user from a list).
Is this the right way to work with the instagram api and python, I was going to use python-instagram but that is no longer supported. The only other way i can think of doing it is authenticating the user on the site and using their access token which seems silly for what i need it for.
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Would removing the username field and adding access_token instead be a better method ? Then use "/users/self/media/recent" and rule out the query to search for a user by username.

A: Yes, the first results is not always the match, you have loop through all the search results and compare the username to your searched username, and then get id
Something like this:
var user_id = 0;
user_request.json().values()["data"].forEach(function(user){
    if(user.username == str(instance.username)){
        user_id = user["id"]
    }
});
if(user_id){
    // make api call
} else {
    // user not found
}

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Ah autumn. The evenings are crisp and slightly chilly. The days are mellow and pleasantly cool. The stores are just beginning to have Christmas sales and you can find a dash of pumpkin spice in just about every dish you eat. It is the perfect time of year to get creative when it comes to dating. If your creative juices aren't quite bubbling, here are 5 great dates ideas for autumn.
It is a little cliche, but there is a reason for that. Flying a kite is an excellent outdoor activity for a couple, because both people can work together, in close proximity, towards a simple but pleasant goal. Autumn days are just warm enough that you can probably get away with short sleeves or a light jacket at worst, making it a very casual affair.
If you don't own a kite or don't enjoy kite flying, any activity in a public park offers similar benefits. Go for a hike, climb some trees, find another couple and play four square, throw a disk around, or maybe just lie together and sunbathe if it is a nice warm day. On a warmer day you can even go to the beach, which will be mostly empty due to the time of year. The water is really only warm enough for a few hours around high noon, but that is long enough to take a dip. Probably the best part of all these dates is that you won't face summer crowds, so you will have the location mostly to yourselves.
The countryside will be absolutely filled with bonfire parties come November 5th, but that doesn't mean that is the only day you can enjoy such festivities. Schedule one in early October, just for a change of pace. It is a great way to have fun, drink some beer, and enjoy some barbecue. As the night progresses, you are almost certain to be cuddling with your date, enjoying the heat of the bonfire, and enjoying light conversation. It is an ideal prelude to greater romance after the party ends.
There are lots of places in the UK that look absolutely stunning once the sun sets. However, by the time the sun drops in the summer, it is usually a little late to start a date. And, in the winter, the cold, and potentially the snow or ice, can be a problem. Autumn, however, is the perfect season for taking a long drive around the city, or in the countryside, and just admiring the nighttime view. You can even stop at various scenic overlooks and get out of your car for a bit. The air will be chilly, but not so cold to drive you back into your vehicle immediately.
By the time you read this, the harvest festivals in the UK will already be completed. However, this is a great idea to remember for next year. As celebrated in Britain, these festivals usually have a Christian connotation and are celebrated with hymns, prayers, and quite often a meal of fruits and vegetables. This doesn't mean you can't enjoy a festival if you aren't Christian. Many towns celebrate a non-religious variant that focuses primarily on community.
If you and your date are far enough along in your relationship that you can comfortably spend a night together alone in a hotel room, and you both have free time available, consider visiting another country. Most people take vacations during the spring and summer months and during holiday times. Autumn tends to have less travelling overall and definitely less vacations.
This can be a boon if you are looking for inexpensive travel. Hotel rooms and flights should, in general, be less expensive because you are travelling during the off-season. The money you save on travel and accommodation can then be spent to enjoy a longer vacation, on better services, on a gift for your date, or just be saved. And since autumn is a mild time of the year in terms of weather, you should be able to visit just about any country and have a pleasant vacation.
Best of all, because fewer people tend to go on vacations in the autumn months, getting approved for vacation days by your boss shouldn't be a struggle. You are much less likely to be competing with others for the days and your work likely has more than enough people to cover your break.


He was born in Ramos Mejía, Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1960. He studied both music and engineering (specialized in Information Technology later). He studied jazz guitar and harmony.
He makes monocanal videos, video-installations and video-actions since 1992. He also registered documentarily works of several plastics artists and made two videos in association with León Ferrari. His audiovisual works have strong connotations with Argentina's History and social matters.
He won some prizes like the First in Fine Arts National Contest (installations track year 2001) and the Subsidy for Artistic Production by Antorchas Foundation (2004).


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Bird keeps his watch
Political activist continues his mission to oust politician
By Tom Gascoyne
Don Bird, dressed here as a Founding Father, has kept on eye on state Sen. Jim Nielsen for the past four years, despite a temporary restraining order.
file photo by tom gascoyne
Last May, North State political activist Don Bird gave Assemblyman Dan Logue (R-Marysville) a letter requesting he introduce a bill that would require those running for elected office to prove they have lived in the district they seek to represent for "one full year."
This was hardly anything new on Bird's part—he began a mission four years ago to go after state Sen. Jim Nielsen, whom Bird accuses of living outside the district that Nielsen represents. The Republican senator says he and his family live in a double-wide mobile home in the Tehama County town of Gerber. Bird says Nielsen lives in a gated community in Woodland, which is about 15 miles northwest of Sacramento.
Three years ago, Nielsen took out a temporary restraining order on Bird over his repeated threats to make a citizen's arrest on the senator. That restraining order expires in September.
Now Bird's efforts to expose Nielsen have been revitalized with the conviction in January of state Sen. Roderick Wright in Los Angeles County on eight counts of perjury and voter fraud. The L.A. County District Attorney's Office said Wright claimed on his candidacy filings that he lived in an apartment in Inglewood, when in fact he lived in a large house in Baldwin Hills, outside the district. Wright's on a leave of absence while awaiting sentencing, which could include jail time.
For his part, Bird, who is 79 and lives in the town of Rancho Tehama, said Logue initially showed interest in pursuing the bill that he suggested, but in the end failed to introduce it. "I had everything there they wanted, but it turns out Logue didn't want this to go before any committee," Bird said. "They seem to like all the confusion about this residence issue."
Bird said that he and his sister went to Logue's office last May and talked with the assemblyman about the proposed bill.
"He gave us a verbal promise and a handshake that he would introduce it as long as I had it in there early," Bird said. "I didn't really expect it to go all the way to the governor. All I wanted him to do was attempt to put this on the legislative treadmill and get it moving."
Logue legislative aide Vance Jarrard confirmed that Bird had approached Logue about a bill.
"We looked into it and gave it a lot of consideration," Jarrard said, "but at the end of the day we just decided that we had other priorities we were working on, and we just weren't going to have the time or ability to move this forward."
Jarrard said Logue, who is termed out of office at the end of this year, has been more focused on matters of jobs and water. He said he's not sure about the assemblyman's concerns over an office-holder's residency.
"I can't say for certain he and I have ever spoken directly about that, but like I said, he did give the bill some consideration," Jarrard said. "He did not move it forward because it was a bad subject matter or anything like that. It just wasn't fitting into the priorities we were focusing on."
Bird said he was at the state Capitol when Sen. Wright's conviction made the news. In fact, he was featured in a Sacramento Bee story that mentioned his crusade against Nielsen.
"Bird has taken his complaints to the state Attorney General's Office, the Secretary of State's Office and a Tehama County grand jury, none of which has found any wrongdoing on Nielsen's part," the story said.
Nielsen, who could not be reached for comment by press time, told The Bee that he lives in Woodland while working in the Capitol, but "spends plenty of nights in Gerber, he said, taking care of his cats, tending his property or participating in events in the north end of the state."
Bird said he talked with the FBI about Nielsen while he was in Sacramento. At the time, the FBI was looking into a case involving state Sen. Ron Calderon (D-Montebello) in which he is accused of accepting thousands of dollars in bribes.
"Even though I filed a complaint back in 2009, they are going to look seriously into the case now," he said. "Mr. Nielsen is going to have a few people looking over his shoulders, I guarantee you that.
"Maybe someday I'll get a phone call from the FBI and hear they're going after Mr. Nielsen like they did Mr. Calderon. That is my hope. I've got a case of Southern Comfort sitting here in my cupboard just waiting for that day."
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Smart building systems with textiles
World Views | September 1, 2017 | By: Marie O'Mahony
Manufacturing processes that allow for flexible printed and embedded electronics are creating new opportunities for the textile sector in smart homes and intelligent buildings. Photo: Marie O'Mahony.
The Canadian Printable, Flexible, Wearable Electronics Symposium (CPES2017) was held on the outskirts of Toronto in May this year. Buildings, and smart buildings in particular, were a hot topic both in presentations and in the poster exhibition that accompanied the three-day event. Ronald Zimmer, president and CEO of the Continental Automated Buildings Association (CABA) set the scene with his keynote presentation on the connected home and intelligent buildings.
CABA is comprised of industry leaders with the mission to promote the use of integrated systems as well as home and building automation worldwide (though with a strong North American presence). By its nature, the organization attracts a broad range of stakeholders, with membership ranging from governments, associations and academic institutions to energy utilities, builders and manufacturers—and virtually every other industry involved in making smart buildings a reality. While much of the organization's work revolves around stakeholder interests, dissemination of information through lectures and highly focused reports reaches an even larger audience and starts conversations and speculation about future industry directions, such as the role of smart and advanced textiles in intelligent buildings.
Smart building basics
What are intelligent buildings and connected homes? Zimmer describes them succinctly as those that are equipped with some form of Building Automation System (BAS), controlled using a distributed computer network via Ethernet and wireless communication. The system has an impact on all aspects of the building, from heating and ventilation to security and fire systems. There are three drivers behind intelligent buildings, and they are linked: environmental benefit, user comfort and cost benefit.
More efficient use of energy is better for the environment as well as more cost-effective for users and residents. More responsive systems can tell when a room is occupied and provide necessary heat and lighting; the system can also tell whether there is one person or three hundred people present and adapt accordingly. It also makes it much more comfortable for the occupant, effectively providing a microclimate. Textiles, and smart textiles in particular, are an integral part of this vision for future living.
Going back to the early commercialization of smart materials and systems, textiles functioned mainly as a flexible conduit for the technologies—without being inherently smart themselves. In structural terms, earthquake and disaster monitoring was an important field of research and development, but is that still the case today? Zimmer comments on companies in California doing some great work in this respect, with detection devices that give two minutes' advance warning that is especially useful for utilities. But their ability to warn occupants of invisible risks is vital. Zimmer explains, "With kids increasingly sensitive to environmental issues such as mold, they can be contaminated through ventilation systems so that it is not noticed."
One of the benefits of incorporating sensors into textiles is that they are not visually intrusive and can blend with interior decoration. He gives the example of Georgia Tech's home of the future, in which sensors are incorporated into the carpet. In this way the elderly, for example, can be monitored for falls and location using geopositioning, but achieved in a much less invasive way than conventional camera surveillance.
According to Zimmer, health care is the big driver for the use of textiles in intelligent buildings: "With the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) we are now able to monitor non-technological objects such as pills, or check if there is water in the basement." Insurance companies, especially, are extremely interested in developments of this kind, and in the wider potential of IoT. "What we are seeing is a massive explosion of IoT as we move towards unconnected objects with multiple embedded sensors," says Zimmer. Sensors and connectivity are driving this trend in the intelligent building and smart home, with textiles in the form of curtains, carpets and wall coverings as ideal conduits. Unlike the situations in the early 1990s, the smart technology is now more fully embedded into the textile—the fabric itself can be the sensor.
No more sick buildings?
The key drivers in the sector, Zimmer says, are energy, wellness and comfort. Smart textiles provide a more aesthetic housing of the technology than black boxes or surveillance cameras. But one of the biggest hurdles is persuading architects and builders of the true value of intelligent buildings.
Where every dollar counts in buildings and their use, energy cost savings is a persuasive argument, as is higher employee productivity. If people enjoy working in a building, absenteeism goes down. We have seen the impact of bad buildings and people suffering from "sick building syndrome," so a building that makes people feel better and more comfortable will encourage them to stay.
As Zimmer puts it, "We believe that employee productivity is the route to go." He also sees no reason why we should not have zero-energy buildings; perhaps not with existing buildings, but for new construction it should be possible. In 2007, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) adopted the aspirational goals that all new residential construction in California will be zero net energy by 2020.
CABA does not have any textile manufacturers as members yet, but acknowledges that it is increasingly on the radar for a number of member companies for applications relating to aging, health and well-being—where wearables already have a natural and increasingly important role. Zimmer asserts that it may need government and insurance companies to forge through developments in the sector to draw together the different stakeholders.
There are broader advances in technology that are affecting building construction and beginning to converge with smart textiles in particular, notably Big Data and the IoT. Zimmer focuses on wearables and their role in intelligent buildings as a more effective means for humans and their environment to communicate more fluidly. In this sense, smart textiles for buildings cannot be considered in isolation; we need to adopt a more holistic view of technology and how each element is part of a much larger ecosystem.
When smart materials were first introduced to the commercial sector, they were referred to as "smart materials and systems." The "systems" part has been dropped over the years, possibly for convenience, but at the expense of accuracy. Smart homes and intelligent buildings in particular rely on systems, and there is a strong argument for bringing back the original descriptor in full to communicate the function and the great potential for these technologies in the built environment.
What's next for smart homes and intelligent buildings? According to Zimmer: "From my standpoint, I would like to see industry really embrace interoperability and open standards. Too often companies want to control the market to their benefit, so their system will not work with others. The consumer should never have to worry that they should not buy a device because it will not work with another. The automotive industry has worked this out; so can we."
Marie O'Mahony is an industry consultant, author and academic. She is the author of several books on advanced and smart textiles published by Thames and Hudson, and a visiting professor at the Royal College of Art (RCA), London.
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The Canadian Printable Electronics Industry Association (CPEIA) awarded its first Startup of the Year award at CPES2017 to NanoCnet Ltd., Waterloo, Ont., Canada, for its transparent conductive film that uses silver nanowires thin enough to be invisible to the human eye. The stable silver nanostructure, setting new standards for cost, durability and flexibility, makes it a promising option for thin solar cells, printed and flexible electronics, touch screens and smart windows.
Judges scored each of the four finalists based on the market potential of the product/application, the soundness of the business plan and the viability of the business to generate wealth and jobs for the Canadian economy. For more information on the winner and the other entries, visit www.cpeia-acei.ca.
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Facilis Descensus Averno
"The descent into Hell is easy." (Vergil, Aeneid VI.124)
The above Vergil epigraph is, of all things, the creed of Cassandra Clare's Shadowhunters — Nephilim warriors who fight demons unbeknownst to mundanes like you or me within her wildly popular series, The Mortal Instruments. It stresses that, essentially, it's really easy to go down the wrong path, even with the best of intentions. And, oh, has the descent been easy…for their adaptations.
The Mortal Instruments series has had it rough when it comes to adaptation. Back in 2013, they got a movie, something that the studio, I'm sure, hoped would spawn a franchise. As you can guess, it didn't really work out — mainly because The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones was a poor adaptation (with potential) that ultimately failed due to lazy writing that sought only to cash in upon the success of similar "teen film franchises" such as The Twilight Saga and The Hunger Games. But I don't want to talk about the City of Bones film because, very recently, The Mortal Instruments has gotten a mulligan. They've gotten a shot at adaptation redemption.
The newly-rebranded FREEFORM (formerly ABC FAMILY) has just completed airing its first season of Shadowhunters, a television series loosely based upon The Mortal Instruments novels; season 1 drew predominantly from the first novel, City of Bones. Now, as this is a television series as opposed to a feature film, there are far more minutes of material to sift through, and trying to cover all the adaptive aspects of this show would take far too long. So, what I'm going to do is focus in on only two specific adaptive changes — a positive and a negative — that I noticed within the show's first season because, while I am, admittedly, unlikely to continue further watching the series, Shadowhunters did manage to pull out some adaptive changes that I found interesting, whether or not I think they always succeeded.
SPOILER WARNING: The following post may contain spoilers for certain elements related to The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare as well as Season 1 of Shadowhunters. You have been warned.
Let's start with the first and (oftentimes) biggest thing fans care about: casting. While media professionals like myself might give more weight to announcements of a studio, showrunner(s), or director(s), a visually-dominant medium is going to put a lot of promotion towards announcing its casting, and fans almost always have something to say when casts are announced for adaptive projects. On the whole, I'm pleased with the casting for Shadowhunters, especially given that I, in all honesty, recognized almost none of the main cast.
There was, however, one casting choice that not only inflamed no small amount of controversy amidst book fans, but was one that I found to be the most inspired: Isaiah Mustafa as Luke Garroway (nee Lucian Graymark). Luke is described in City of Bones as:
"He was dressed in his usual uniform: old jeans, a flannel shirt, and a bent pair of gold-rimmed spectacles that sat askew on the bridge of his nose…his eyes, very blue behind the glasses, rested on her with a look of firm affection." (City of Bones, 22-23)
Sure, I'll grant that Isaiah Mustafa doesn't look like an physical embodiment of this exact description, but Luke's physical appearance has never "informed" his character — essentially, what he looked like has never been vital to his storyline. It is, however, important that he's a werewolf.
Much like how J.K. Rowling's wizarding world pre-The Battle of Hogwarts suffered from a deep-rooted and insidious systemic prejudice against non-wizards, so too does the Shadowhunter world. Anyone who is not a Shadowhunter is considered lesser, with Downworlders (vampires, werewolves, fae, warlocks), oftentimes equated with demons in terms of the degree of distaste and distrust with which they are held by Shadowhunters. Even Luke, despite having once been a Shadowhunter before being turned, is treated horribly upon being bitten. His sister shuns him, and his own parabatai (and eventual series antagonist), Valentine Morgenstern, does the following:
Valentine dragged me down the steps and into the woods with him. He told me that he ought to kill me himself, but seeing me then, he could not bring himself to do it. He gave me a kindjal dagger that had once belonged to his father. He said I should do the honorable thing and end my own life. He kissed the dagger when he handed it to me, and went back inside the manor house, and barred the door. (City of Bones, 393)
Ouch. No love lost between friends there.
So, why do I think casting Isaiah Mustafa was such an inspired choice? Because it actually doubles down upon and emphasizes the inherent prejudice of the Shadowhunters society. Valentine's rage at Luke, and the overall view by other Shadowhunters of Luke as inferiour post-bite is compounded upon by what can only be described as everyday racism. And, oh
yeah, that bit of controversy I mentioned? As you've probably guessed: it was racism. To think that we live in a world where colour-blind casting happens on the Broadway stage all the time — think Hamilton, Les Miserables, and even The Phantom of the Opera, all of which are adapted from a source material — and yet the moment this is applied to the screen…uproar.
Yes, I'm shaking my head because, yes, I think it's ridiculous. Luke got adapted for the screen in more than just appearance: in Shadowhunters, he's now a police detective, not a bookseller. Not only does this make him more proactive in spotting crimes potentially committed by demons (or other Downworlders), but he gets to put his werewolf senses to good use. In a way, he's still using preternatural powers to help mundanes without their knowledge; he's still behaving like a Shadowhunter. Through his actions, he's fighting back against the systemic prejudice of his old life and proving that it doesn't matter what he is or what he looks like, because he's still going to save your ass.
Shadowhunters has a wonderfully diverse cast, and I especially applaud that, where certain physical attributes were important — i.e. Clary's red hair and Jace's own golden locks — they remained in place. And as for the rest? Capture the spirit of the character. That's more important than their skin colour.
Okay, so that's an adaptive change that I think worked really well in Shadowhunters' favour. But this doesn't mean that all the changes worked — because they didn't. There's one in particular I want to harp upon, because it not only fails on an adaptive level, but also within the show's own in-world logic. With that in mind, let's talk about the Institute.
The New York Institute, the primary setting for The Mortal Instruments, is described in City of Bones as a lonely place:
The Institute was huge, a vast cavernous space that looked less like it had been designed according to a floor plan and more like it had been naturally hollowed out of rock by the passage of water and years. Through half-open doors Clary glimpsed countless identical small rooms, each with a stripped bed, a nightstand, and a large wooden wardrobe standing open…
"…we can house up to two hundred people here."
"But most of these rooms are empty."
"People come and go. Nobody stays for long. Usually it's just us — Alec, Isabelle, Max, their parents — and me [Jace] and Hodge." (City of Bones, 63)
Furthermore, there are only four people who dwell within its walls: the Lightwood siblings, Alec and Izzy, Jace Wayland, and Hodge Starkweather. There is also a cat, Church, but let's just focus on the humans for this discussion. The lack of people within the Institute is important for two main reasons: first it emphasizes just how few Shadowhunters there are.
Part of the driving force behind Valentine's formation of The Circle and eventual attempt at open rebellion was based around a need to increase the number of Shadowhunters to fight demons. The bloodlines were dying out, and the number of Nephilim were dwindling. Sure, at the end of the day, Valentine ended up being nothing more than a racist megalomaniac, but that part of his plan was (and still is) a genuine concern for Shadowhunters.
Secondly, the relative emptiness of the Institute lent itself credibility to the idea that Alec, Izzy, and Jace (along with, later, Clary) could frequently leave on rogue missions. Hodge cannot physically leave the Institute — his punishment for his participation in The Circle — so who, then, is left to enforce any sort of rules? Who is there to hold these teenagers truly accountable for their actions? Yes, stories like these require a certain suspension of disbelief, but the emptiness of the Institute helps to ground some of the urban-fantasy in realism.
The New York Institute of Shadowhunters is a bustling, technologically-advanced space, filled practically to the brim with people. On a surface level, I see the visual appeal of filling the Institute: it gives scope to the Shadowhunter world, and lends credence to the idea that "there is a world hidden within our own." I can believe that there is a secret war happening in the shadows between Nephilim and demons when I see a set up like that — it's the classic "awe" factor.
Except, when you look a little harder, the idea of the busy Institute actually undermines a lot of the show's own logic.
Seeing the show's version of the New York Institute, it doesn't look like the Shadowhunters are suffering a numbers shortage; if that many people are in the New York Institute alone, then this is a big crowd. The NY Institute forms a visual standard not only for all the other Institutes around the globe, but the entire hidden Shadowhunter home-country of Idris, that is said to be nestled somewhere in Europe. As a result, Valentine's formation of The Circle makes little sense, coming across as less covert and manipulative as it did in the novels. In the show, he's nothing more than a racist megalomaniac whom the The Clave (political entity of the Shadowhunters) should have stopped a long time ago — a mad dog that should have been put down at the first sign of a foaming mouth.
Furthermore, with that many people — adults, even — in the Institute at all times, how could Alec, Izzy, and Jace (and, later, Clary and Simon) possibly routinely sneak out and go rogue without anyone saying something to them? Without anyone seeming even to notice? The main five's plotline and investigations are dependent upon a degree of autonomy that can only be achieved in a space where adult supervision is either absent or, as with Hodge, somehow impaired. That's not present in Shadowhunters. In expanding the world and giving it a sense of population density, the showrunners/writing team actually ended up undermining their own logic.
In the end, adaptation is difficult, and I expect things to shift and change in order to adapt one medium to another. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. The descent, after all, is easy.
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