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James Sherwin-Smith
Lessons learned building a Top 50 club on 👋Clubhouse — in less than 8 weeks
My perspectives on what it takes to build a successful club from a standing start, and some lessons learned to share with others embarking on their own Clubhouse journey
In effect this is a quasi how-to guide for those who want to:
Build a better club on Clubhouse
Understand how notifications work on Clubhouse
Consider the pros and cons of building member vs follower counts
Get greater audience numbers into your rooms
[NB All @addresses below are Clubhouse handles that link to Twitter profiles where available – Clubhouse profiles are currently only accessible from within the app.]
Patrick (@PatrickSayers 🙌) applied for "Fintech & Payments 💰" club on 31-Dec-20 and the club was created two weeks later.
Neel @Fintech_nerd and I (@26Left) joined that first week as co-founders. We all "met" for the first time that week on Clubhouse. We've never actually met in real life — we live in Pittsburgh, San Francisco and the UK respectively.
But we quickly found we had a similar ethos for the club we wanted to build — a place for wide ranging, high quality, fintech and payments content for all. Given our different home locations, we knew we could cover multiple timezones and a good slew of topics, but we knew that to reach the full potential offered by the platform we would need help, so set about building the club with the help of an amazing founding Fintech & Payments team of volunteers.
As of today, the Fintech & Payments Club has over 26,000 members and followers, growing every day. All in less than 8 weeks. It has been an amazing experience, and we've made it work while all holding down full-time jobs (and in one case further studies). At one point in mid February we were growing at over 1,000 members & followers per day.
According to ClubhouseDB.com our Club ID is 10690 — which I believe means Fintech & Payments was the 10,690th Club created on Clubhouse (compare our ClubhouseDB URL on the first line of this paragraph with one of the biggest and earliest clubs for example). We're currently ranked ~50th by Members, ~500th by Followers, and ~250th across Both measures combined (see chart further down).
We run a mix of regular Fintech & Payments weekly events (shout out to @Samantha — "Women In Payments Power Hour", @MadisonL "Women in Fintech & Financial Services", and @Jasuja "#SundaySurgery") as well as some great keynote speakers and fireside chats most weekdays (early evening time in the UK).
[Please do subscribe to our Fintech & Payments Club Calendar for more great events — it will soon become apparent as to why.]
I would like to take this opportunity to say a massive THANK YOU to all the great speakers who have lent their names, voices and thoughts to what we're doing — there's too many to list. Also by gratitude and appreciation to @SophieGuibaud, @PaddyRamanathan and @OliviaSegsworth in particular for your contributions to the club.
So here's the twist. We have seen a 50% reduction in our audience size at regular weekly events and our combined member & follower growth is one third of what it was on the 21st February — see the yellow line in the chart below. Yes, we track this stuff — manually mostly but some unofficial tools have been springing up on the edges of a budding Clubhouse ecosystem, like ClubhouseDB.
Daily growth of members, followers and both by day (last 30 days)
This chart is what spurred me into studying how notifications work on the Clubhouse app. We're putting on great events, almost daily. And we're all volunteers. So I want our members and followers, who have chosen to join us on this amazing social experiment, to be able find our rooms, listen as a member of the audience, and share their question or perspective on a given topic by joining us on stage as a speaker.
And I want the team to know the work they're doing is making a difference — we are all giving up our valuable time after all.
Initially, I thought the cause of the drop-off in members & followers and audience numbers was due to a change that Clubhouse made to its notification algorithm. Now, I'm not so sure – read on to the end for my best guess at the answer.
The drop-off appeared to coincide with an update to the Clubhouse app / service — and others I spoke to at the time (some with massive clubs measured in the 100,000s of followers) reported similar effects suddenly impacting their clubs.
Whenever you change a policy (or its digital-first equivalent, an algorithm), there are going to be winners and losers. That's life, and I accept it. But it led me on a voyage of discovery that I thought would be helpful to share with others so they can build better clubs on Clubhouse and help them find their audience. No one wants to be the loser.
Most people find our rooms, and ultimately become a follower or member of a club because they received an app notification suggesting they join one of the event "rooms" we host on Clubhouse.
The discovery of a room is one of the most magical things about Clubhouse. It's ultimately what makes the whole experience a love letter to the power of serendipity.
Discovery is not a random process — far from it. My personal experience of the app I think is far from unique. Via Clubhouse, l have re-connected with long lost friends and former colleagues, learnt about a subject that had never caught my attention previously, and gained a whole new perspective on an issue I thought I understood — likely due to an interaction with someone on the other side of the world, that I have never met, and likely never will. It will blow your mind, trust me.
BUT — if you want to find a specific room via the app that you know is happening right now and you want to join… that can be difficult. Notifications are the best route to achieve this. So …
How do notifications on Clubhouse work?
I started out with the following key questions:
Which events create notifications? (this you can infer from the app interface and experience of the app from every day use)
How does the Clubhouse app decide which notifications you receive? (To quote Chris Smither "the best answer, you learnt a long time ago: I don't know." But I have a hypothesis regarding the Clubhouse algorithms that I am willing to share — and I'm open to feedback)
What user settings and club owner/admin actions further impact the notifications you receive? (Here lies the rub if you want to skip ahead.)
1. Which events create notifications?
In short, lots of different things. Broadly speaking the actions you take on the app, and the actions that others take on the app, will define what notifications you receive via a social media concept known as the social graph.
The social graph is effectively a relational database that describes the spider's web of connections between you as a user, the people who are following you (your Followers), the people you are Following, as well as the clubs where you are a Follower or a Member. Your self-declared Interests, chosen from a pre-determined list curated by Clubhouse, and the three chosen by the admins of the clubs you follow, are likely to have an impact also.
See the yellow box in the top right of the below diagram, and the four multi-coloured boxes on the left hand side that make up your social graph — as assembled by, you guessed it, algorithms.
2. How does the Clubhouse app decide which notifications you receive?
This is where things get a little complicated — and my views here are largely based off intuition, patchy data, my limited knowledge and experience. For the avoidance of doubt, I have no privileged or private access to the inside of the Clubhouse. These are just my thoughts, gleaned from being a semi-active user on Clubhouse and one of the founders of the Fintech & Payments club. [And I would really welcome any views that others can offer. Probably best to email me — James at the Fintech & Payments Club domain name.]
From what I can tell, event notifications get filtered in 6 different ways. The first four define what Clubhouse wants to send to you, the last two determine what you want to receive. See the diagram below.
Activity. I believe Clubhouse sends you notifications based on your activity levels within the app. If you're not on the app, they want you on the app — this is where on-device notifications help. And if you're on the app, but your activity levels are flagging, in-app notifications help keep your interest and you on the app for longer.
Behaviour. If you're not in a room, Clubhouse wants you to be in a room that holds your attention rather than roaming the halls. It's a bit like you're surfing the channels on the TV finding something to watch: your behaviour on the app will help train the algorithms — which rooms keep your attention, and which do not, resulting in you leaving the room and looking for something else.
Context: I think this for me cuts in different ways.
* First, where are you in your Clubhouse journey — to start with, Clubhouse wants you to find some engaging rooms that are perhaps more generic than niche. Over time as they learn your tastes and preferences from using the app, you should be getting more specific recommendations through your notification feeds.
* Second, I think Clubhouse might analyse which topics, and which people / rooms / clubs in particular, capture your interest, based on your audience and speaker activity. Armed with this information, I think they weight different identities in your social graph. If you spend a lot of time listening to Bobby talk about Aviation, the app should help you find Bobby and Aviation topics again.
* Third, I think Clubhouse analyses when you are active on the app and when you are busy doing other stuff elsewhere. If you're a shift worker who can or cannot listen in at certain times of the day for example, there's little point sending you invitations to join rooms that you can't (and previously have clearly ignored).
Frequency: I think there are global settings that Clubhouse apply to the frequency of notifications for two reasons.
* First, I think Clubhouse may use global settings to control the roll out of the app. As the social graph builds, and user adoption grows, more notification events will be triggered (more users x more followers/following x more clubs), and it gets to the point where people are getting over-saturated with notifications. This may risk people turning off notifications altogether — see grey box — which would be a coarse filter best avoided if possible.
* Second, I think Clubhouse may deliberately boost new clubs by giving them more than their fair share of notifications vs other clubs to help founding teams get adoption and establish new clubs. More, vibrant clubs is good for Clubhouse.
3. What user settings and club owner/admin actions further impact the notifications you receive?
The user settings are relatively easy to understand — see first diagram for the list of settings you can configure to suit your preferences. The impact of club owner actions however are less clear. Part of me is concerned that our use of off-Clubhouse tools, like a website and a public calendar, which means people can find our club events directly via a URL/hyperlink (see black box in the bottom right corner of the first diagram) is causing Clubhouse to generate fewer notifications for the benefit of our members and followers because we are doing more of the work ourselves, so they are instead pushing notifications to our potential audience members for the benefit of other clubs instead.
The other thing that we've done in the F&P club which I think is quite unusual, and may have reduced our fair share of notifications, is that we've actively invited all our followers to become members. For us as a founding team, we wanted our club to be open to all, and so membership is also available to all.
We're also grateful to our members, who are willing to share their membership badge/affiliation at the bottom of their profile — in effect a clickable advert for our club to attract new followers in the app. Every new follower of our club is invited to become a member — but they don't have to accept the invite if they want to remain a follower only. If they do accept the invite, they can nominate their contacts to join the club, in an effort to drive up the R number that measures viral growth and bring more members into the club. So perhaps the algorithms don't like this pro-member stance we've taken.
If the notification algorithm is based on high growth of followers, then we don't have that, by design. Our follower numbers have been fairly static at ~10,000 over the last few weeks as we invited everyone who followed our club to become a member if they wanted. In fact, for a time our follower numbers actually went down slightly (see red line 21/Feb) as we moved people from the Follower to Member column bit by bit — its a 3 click manual process per user.
What are the implications for Club founders, admins & moderators ?
Promote use of Ping To Room (PTR) via the (+) button with your audience — it appears to bypass the filters
Encourage your Followers to make use of the Bell notification ("Always notify me when X speaks")
Promote events outside of Clubhouse — e.g. social media, public calendars — I'd be surprised if this is causing a slow down in notifications given the app is on a sharp growth trajectory right now.
Create own event notification streams for your club — e.g. email list / SMS notifications — see FintechAndPayments.Club/register for example
In conclusion, I don't have a conclusive answer as to why our growth rates and audience figures have fallen back. In the spirit of the early days of any new digital tools, we will continue to experiment. And we will continue to bring great quality events to the stage on Clubhouse for the benefit of all our club Members and Followers, and anyone new just passing by.
Thanks for reading, and please leave any comments below, I'll do my best to respond!✌
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"Well, that was a very naughty thing to do, wasn't it, to think of killing little boys and girls and talk about it?"
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"On this recording, the pianist David Deveau gives a sensitive account of a fascinating solo piano transcription of Wagner's "Siegfried Idyll," originally written for chamber orchestra as a birthday gift for Cosima, Wagner's wife. The arrangement is by Josef Rubinstein, a devoted assistant to Wagner. It's a revelation to hear this sublime, intimate work played on the piano. The harmonic and contrapuntal intricacies come through with beautiful Read more transparency. The album also offers refined, accomplished performances of three Liszt works, including "Funérailles," and a well-chosen selection of seven capriccios and intermezzos by Brahms."
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Rev. Schultz came to this understanding more than 20 years ago, before he was a pastor, before he attended seminary and before mainstream society even began to understand who transgender people are.
He was a young person attending church when a transgender congregant decided to be open about who they are. That choice plunged the church into controversy—and for Rev. Schultz, it was a transformative moment in his faith journey.
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Title 1994 House Bill 2654. An Act Requiring Marinas, Yacht Clubs And Boat Yards To Make Certain Reports To Harbormasters.


There she is, Huggin' away!
Well, I guess you find something new out everyday huh? My family and I found out that she is very affectionate not just with humans, But with the railing outside of our apartment. She seems to like hugging everything in sight, as i've said before.
She is also somewhat of a ninja; As childish as that may sound. She likes to jump from wall to wall with just her back feet, Truly amazing!
Tuxedo cats are brilliant, I've fallen in love with turkey as if she were my own child. She has learned to yell at walls and sit on circular patterns on the floor. She likes greeting people at the door and giving you the good old butterfly kisses.
I've taught her a trick too! When i treat her to wet food, before giving it to her, i tell her, "Go to your water bowl" and she will hop on top of her water bowl until i give her the food. Sometimes she will sit up right and innocently meow with a sparkle in her eyes.
Oh she sounds like such a lovely cat. I shall feel fortunate if my newest addition, Rascal, turns out half as nice as Turkey. Our tabby died and so we now have Rascal. Take care of your Turkey.
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Some people think that cats - unlike dogs - can't learn any tricks. But they couldn't be more mistaken.
Thank you for the updates and lovely picture.


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As always, a raft of digital and cinema related deals were announced on the first day of ShowEast. Below are the key ones.
Digital cinema integrator AccessIT has announced a partnership with stereoscopic technology solutions provider Sensio to broadcast live 3D events, together with AccessIT's existing satellite partner IDC.
Access Integrated Technologies, Inc. ("AccessIT") (NasdaqGM:AIXD – News) announced today, CineLiveSM, a new proprietary product that will bring both 2-D and 3-D live content to movie theatres equipped with digital cinema. CineLive, the next step in leveraging the digital era to further enhance exhibition offerings, is a new set of hardware, developed exclusively for AccessIT by International Datacasting Corporation (Toronto:IDC.TO – News) and Sensio® Technologies Inc. (Sensio) (CDNX:SIO.V – News) which allows live 3-D and 2-D content to be converted from satellite feeds into theatrical entertainment.
What the press release takes a round about and convoluted way of saying is that Sensio has a technology for squeezing two high definition video streams (left eye, right eye) into one HD channel, so tat 3D events can be transmitted in real time over existing HD(TV) network, such as IDC's. This should be a boost for AccessIT's live events division, though as of yet they have not announced what events they have lined up, with rumours saying that Cirque de Solei might be one.
I'm sure AccessIT would have preferred to announce the complete signing of 4,000 screens at ShowEast, but you have to take what you are given and Krikorian it is.
A number of key exhibitors will be installing the first Dolby 3D Digital Cinema systems in locations throughout the world, including Carousel Cinemas, Cinema City, Cinetopia, Cobb Theatres, Kerasotes Theatres, Malco Theatres, Marcus Theatres, Maya Cinemas, Megaplex Theatres, Starlight Cinemas, Sundance Cinemas, Warren Theatres, Kinepolis Group of Belgium, and Supercines of Ecuador. Dolby plans to continue installing its solution on additional screens in time for Paramount Pictures' Beowulf, opening in several territories beginning November 16, 2007.
It must be an interesting re-boot for Dolby's efforts in this field as they pioneered the installation of digital 3D in cinemas two years ago for the first ever major digital stereoscopic title (Disney's 'Chicken Little') but back then using the RealD system, which they ae now directly competing against.
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The investent makes sense for providing bulb-to-screen products for cinema operators.
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In 2016, after 18 months of hard development, the leaders in Cine Film Transfer, Alive Studios proudly announced the launch of their 4K Film Scanner. Beta-testing has been ongoing since November 2015, and the results have been nothing short of brilliant. Pin-sharp quality, and images so real, you'll be watching a home movie from the 1960's and think we'd invented a time-machine!
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In 2019, we upgraded all our scanners by replacing the lenses with new Sony Pregius CMOS image sensors which have 12.37M-Effective Pixels. We also replaced the scanner lights with 3 x brighter LEDS. These upgrades have helped us realize even higher picture quality than ever before, particularly when working with dark, underexposed films.
What exactly is 4K or Ultra HD?
4K—now known officially as Ultra HD, is the next big step in HDTV resolution. An Ultra HD television as one that displays at least 8 million active pixels, with a lower resolution boundary of at least 3,840 by 2,160. It's a nice, even number, doubling the horizontal and vertical pixels offered by 1080p, which itself became the standard for high definition. Alive's 4K Scanner produces film with a resolution of 3840 x 2160.Collectively, the format was originally known as 4K, and while the CEA officially changed its designation to Ultra HD, the 4K label appears to be sticking.
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Alive's Ultra HD film scanner offers four times the resolution of standard 1080p (1,920-by-1,080-pixel).
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An interesting point about having your cine film in 4K, that may help you appreciate its importance to image quality is the fact that 4K is considered by the film-making community as being able to reproduce in pixel form the sort of resolution and 'finish' you get with 35mm film. So, although you may have shot in 8mm, 9.5mm or 16mm, this new technology brings us closer to giving you that cinematic 35mm look and feel. Interestingly, did you know that Super 16mm cine film has upto 2400 horizontal lines. Our 2K film scanner scans at 1556 lines, which are then output in HD which is 1080 lines. Our 4K film scanner scans at 2160 lines, So if you're wondering if 4K is worth it, the numbers don't lie. You may have even seen a "4K" logo in movie theatres lately, and if you've been to watch any of the major blockbusters like The Hobbit, you'll have seen the astounding picture quality. But even when watching movies on a home television, the difference is clear. While some regular viewers struggle to see the difference between 1080p and 720p, at least in smaller television sizes, it's much more obvious on 50-inch and larger TVs, and 4K is another significant jump still in terms of clarity and detail—especially since people are becoming more and more used to seemingly "perfect" resolution with today's Retina-style screens on mobile gadgets. (complimentary HD version provided too on all 4K Digital MPEG orders)
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Living in a small house can be as comfortable and comfortable as in a larger one. It has its advantages: it does not take much time to clean it or a large financial outlay in decorating and furnishing it. Below, we give you some tips for decorating small floors that will be very useful.
It is a reality that the houses of today are increasingly smaller. That your house has a few meters does not mean you have to give up having a practical and comfortable decoration. You just have to look for simple and practical solutions to get the most out of all the stays.
Apply the maximum "less is more". Avoid reloading furniture and objects on small floors as it will increase the feeling of overwhelm.
In the absence of space, relax for simplicity.
Do not place furniture and decorative accessories (luminaires …) too large for the space you have. Choose light furniture.
Distribute the environments and leave areas of passage.
The highest furniture is placed on the wall to let in light.
You may also be interested: 5 small Nordic style apartments to inspire us!
The tones that you choose to paint the walls will be one of the predominant factors when it comes to making a small space seem larger.
Opt for light tones and pastel colors to give light and spaciousness to the environment. Decántate for white, beige, pearl gray, raw .. and counter with small touches of color.
To give depth to the rooms paint a wall in a darker tone.
Paint the ceiling in a lighter shade than that of the walls to direct light towards it.
Keep in mind the type of lighting you will choose for each room in the house. Light tones reflect light, while dark tones absorb light. Halogen light is recommended as it helps to boost the amplitude of the spaces.
You should take into account the decorative style and furniture when choosing colors.
The pavement in light tones and with a medium format will help to visually expand the environment. The bright finishes will give a lot of light.
A practical resource is to use furniture that fulfills various functions.
A sofa that becomes a bed or has a storage space.
Beds with folding canapés or drawers.
Poufs that serve as an auxiliary and container table.
Extendable tables to accommodate more diners.
Modular or kit furniture is perfect for you to adapt to the decoration of small flats.
It will be an ally for the decoration of small flats.
Choose glazed walls. It is a magnificent resource to communicate rooms and that there is no visual impediment between them.
Bet on the sliding glass doors. You will get more space than with the folding ones. If you want to be intimate choose opaque crystals.
The glass furniture (tables …) will give a feeling of spaciousness.
Another safe bet is doors with mirrors.
They are essential complements to give life to the decoration of small apartments. If the upholstery of the sofa is old, change it for some covers in light colors; put some nice cushions and you will get to give joy to the living room or lounge. Do not forget the rugs, because with them you can separate environments and customize them. The curtains as light as possible, to let natural light through. Bet on cotton and linen in light colors.
They are essential for decorating small floors, as they reflect light and they manage to create a multiplying effect of space. A trick is to place the mirrors where the sunlight reflects.
In the salon give prominence placing it in a prominent place.
It is a very useful accessory for rooms with little natural lighting such as hallways and corridors.
A safe bet is doors with mirrors.
In small houses one of the most pressing problems is the lack of storage sites. So that Take advantage of the height is a great solution to take advantage of any corner or gap available. Vertical storage is essential for decorating small floors.
In this room of the house try to concentrate the storage area on a single wall. The distribution that best uses the space is the layout of the furniture in "U". Choose light colors for kitchen furniture. Add a folding table and stackable chairs.
Bet for the lightness in the toilets (suspended models). Change the bathtub for a shower that takes less. The coatings and pavements in small format will give visual amplitude. Take advantage of any nook to place shelves with towels and personal care products.
An orderly stay will seem wider since order is paramount. Help yourself with boxes, baskets, furniture and accessories with storage space. Over time we accumulate more and more things so it is advisable to do a general cleaning once or twice during the year.


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Animal death toll climbing from fires
Andrew Drummond
Published: Friday, 3 January 2020 3:37 AM GMT+11
Millions of animals including endangered species have been killed in recent bushfires. Credit: AAP
Millions of animals are dead and hundreds of thousands more will perish over coming days as a result of killer bushfires terrorising southeast Australia.
Native wildlife and agricultural livestock are among the fatalities, with already-endangered species at greater risk of extinction. The extent of the carnage may never be known.
"The fires will have killed millions of animals ... mammals, birds, reptiles," Wildlife Victoria boss Megan Davidson told AAP.
And the threat is not over, with wildlife rescue groups likely to be helpless in many instances.
"It is largely a job of euthanasing at this stage, both livestock and wildlife," Dr Davidson said.
"They are so severely burned that there is nothing better you can do than end their suffering."
In coming days more animals will die from starvation and heat stress as they battle to find food and shelter in their decimated habitat.
The nationally-endangered eastern bristlebird is one species of concern amid the fires which are straddling the NSW-Victorian border.
"There are only three populations in Australia and two are under threat," The University of Melbourne's Alan York said.
One of the small birds' habitats is near Jervis Bay on the NSW south coast and the other is Mallacoota in Victoria's East Gippsland, where fires forced people onto the beach to escape flames.
"It is a bird with very limited flight capabilities so it's very difficult for it to get out of the way of fire," Prof York said.
The eastern bristlebird's other habitat on the Gold Coast has also faced struggles in recent times but is not currently under threat from fire.
Despite the scale of destruction caused by the fires, both Prof York and Dr Davidson were hopeful that animal populations can recover.
"People get worried that species will become extinct but it's more about population size and they will return," he said.
"It is sometimes surprising how quickly things will recover - as soon as conditions are good again they can very rapidly breed up."
Professor Davidson said everyone can help animals that are not only suffering from fires but from years of drought.
"It's grim, but we don't want people to despair."
HOW TO HELP THIRSTY WILDLIFE
* Distribute containers of water outdoors, being sure to throw in some sticks and leaves so that insects have something to cling to
* Swimming pool owners should add "climb-out points" so animals don't drown
* Fruit tree owners should remove netting to share their produce
* When offering pellets and hay, be sure to spread the food out so that species have a lesser chance of being targeted by predators.


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Hi, when I use the Xamarin Forms Previewer in Visual Studio 2017 (15.6.7) my app is shown in 'dark' mode or style i.e. has a black background, text is white (or light gray) yet when I run the app on my phone again using VS the background is white, text dark.
Is there some setting I need to change to make the previewer the same as my phone?
Note this is the Android preview.
We have fixed this in an upcoming Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8 preview.
I would love to know more about your experiences with the Xamarin.Forms Previewer. Have you found it to meet your needs? If you could wave a magic wand and change one thing about it, what would you change?
I look forward to seeing the new version.
Change one thing? Make the display scrollable? I.e. if the xaml displayed extends the bottom of the screen, on a long input form for example, then allow the previewer to scroll down to view the rest of the input fields.
Just a thought. And thank you for asking for input! Do you (I assume you are involved in the dev of the previewer) have somewhere where I can watch for latest releases of the previewer? May be see what's coming up in dev?
Whilst I'm only developing one app at the moment, I can see myself developing others in the future. This App was a trial run with Xamarin and if it works out then I'll continue using Xamarin for other apps.
I know support for scrolling is something that has been discussed, but not sure what the roadmap looks like regarding this feature. I'm not directly involved with the team that builds the Xamarin.Forms Previewer, but I've forwarded this thread along so they can follow-up.
In version 15.9.6 there still doesn't seem to be a way to make the background color white, that I can find.


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Watch Black Sabbath performing Elvis' "Blue Suede Shoes"
Back in 2004, Black Sabbath released a great box set that featured a rare recording of a performance of "Blue Suede Shoes," a classic rock by Carl Perkins and immortalized by Elvis Presley.
The cover was recorded during rehearsals for a German TV show in the early 1970s. At the time of the release, Tony Iommi stated that the live version should never have been recorded. "That was just a test for the cameras – it was a joke, basically," the musician told Launch Radio Networks.
However, the band was shocked to realize that the momentum had not only been recorded by the cameras, but was also broadcast on the television channel:
We had just started playing the song, and Ozzy [Osbourne] had no idea of the lyrics. And of course, you can imagine the shock when we saw this going for the air? We thought, 'My God, what is this?', Because it was not meant to be transmitted. From there we think, 'Oh, it's just German TV. No one's going to see it anyway, you know? We hardly knew.
Although it was made by Carl Perkins in 1955, "Blue Suede Shoes" was immortalized in the voice of Elvis Presley. The singer even featured the track on three different occasions on television shows, and the single was a hit on the American charts.
Other artists who even recorded their own version of the track at that time were Buddy Holly and Eddie Cochran.
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A model of a Tornado fighter plane is tested by simulating the electromagnetic pulse created by dropping a nuclear bomb at altitude. At an institute near Bonn various kinds of weapons are subjected to tests which establish their vulnerability to the deployment of nuclear bombs. Fraunhofer Society is the largest research organization in Europe with 47 institutes, 7,600 employees and a budget of more than DM 1 billion. This scientific think tank may be consulted by any German company, whatever its size. The areas on which Fraunhofer concentrates are aligned with the latest market developments; they range from robotics to solar energy and from TV screens to the new generation of computers.
New materials for heat insulation are developed. Fraunhofer Society is the largest research organization in Europe with 47 institutes, 7,600 employees and a budget of more than 1 billion Deutsche Marks. This scientific think tank may be consulted by any German company, whatever its size. The areas on which Fraunhofer concentrates are aligned with the latest market developments; they range from robotics to solar energy and from TV screens to the new generation of computers.
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We finally had our gender reveal shoot a few days ago and today I'm SO excited to finally share with all of you what we're having (it's long over-due)!
We're having a BOY (as I'm sure you could tell by the photos)!!! Our little family couldn't be more excited but if I'm being honest, I'm a little nervous. I have three sisters and no brothers. I've been around girls my whole life so raising a boy is a little intimidating to me because it just feels so new. Drew is so excited he can hardly contain it! I can't wait to see him with our new little guy!
Congratulations Rach! So happy for you and you family! Can't wait to meet the little guy!
Congrats!!! Beautiful pictures!! Boys are great- I have 2 of them. They are so loving and lots of fun!! And they LOVE their mommies!!
Congratulations! How very exciting for you and your family! Having kids is intimidating because they really don't come with a manual. All we can do is what we think is best for our kids and give them all the love they need. You're going to do great just like with Isla. So excited for you!
Congratulations! And don't be nervous, I have a little son and when we found out we are having a boy I was nervous a little bit too, but I can see now having a little boy is the best thing in the world! Greetings from Prague ?
I bet. I cannot wait!!
Isla is going to have a brother! That is so sweet!!! Congratulations!
She will be the best big sister!!!
Thanks so much Jen!! We are super excited!
That's exciting. It's so fun having one of each and to see the boy/girl differences. Congrats!
Having a son is so amazing! I had a girl first as well, she's smart, fearless- and now driving! ? My son, is my cuddler, even as a teenager he loves to just hang out with us. There is a bond between a mother and son that is truly wonderful. You will have nothing to worry about! Yes, he may get scrapes and bruises. Play in the dirt. Even take flowers, from the neighbors yard (mine did that) to give to you! You will understand the saying "momma's boy" once you have him. Enjoy both of your children and the differences! They make you view the world,as hectic as it can be, completely differently! Congratulations to you all! ??????
Rachel, I'm so excited for you and your little family! I have a brother and the bond we share is like now other. Now you're going to have two incredible guys not only looking after you, but your sweet little Isla! Don't be nervous; you're going to do an amazing job with your little boy, just like you did with Isla so far!
How exciting! Congratulations! These pictures are so beautiful – such a lovely family!
Thanks Michaela :) We are super excited!
It's a boy! Congratulations! I could tell by the blue hydrangeas (which were a feature on my wedding cake lol). All the best. I'm sure you will do great with a little boy, and he will have a great dad.
Yay! Congrats to you guys! I guessed boy on your IG post ;) Such exciting times.
Haha a lot of people did ;) Thanks so much!
Congratulations Rachel you'll do fine. I have 2 boys of my own that are 16,14 and to be honest they were pretty easy. My daughter is 10 going on 21 and she's so emotional smh. But you and drew will do great trust. Xoxo P.S I enjoyed the q&a and I love you guys ??
I am so excited for you!!! Congrats!!!
Congratulations on your sweet boy! I have a little girl too and am currently pregnant with a little boy as well! It's safe to say that this girly girl is a little nervous about the change!
Oh yay!! So exciting! When are you due?
Congratulations on your newest addition! These photos are stunning. I can't believe how big Isla is getting. She is so adorable!
Congrats on having a boy! This is so exciting!
Wonderful news! Congrats! Dash and Isla will have a little brother!
I think they will love it!!
Congratulations Rach! How incredibly exciting. These pictures are absolutely gorgeous too! They remind me of the meadow in Twilight.
Ahhhh Rachel! Congratulations! You will have so much fun raising your little man, Drew must be SO excited! So happy for you and your sweet family!
Thank you so much Sarah-Beth!!!
I work in L&D and this year is truly the time for boys! Congrats that is so exciting!
It really is!!! haha thanks Holly!
So happy for you, congrats!!!!
OH MY GOODNESS!!! Congratulations!! I was hoping it would be a boy! That's so exciting. So happy for you!
Aww congratulations!! I think you will do perfectly fine with a boy! You seem to be a perfect mom!
Oh thank you Ann-Louise!! We will see!
So excited for your cute little family!! Can't wait to see the little guy in a few months!
Congratulations!! So happy for you and your beautiful blooming family!
Congratulations! So happy for you and your beautiful blooming family!!
Thanks Megan :) We are super excited!
Yay, congratulations! How exciting! We have two littles ones a boy and girl 20 months apart and it was so fun watching them grow up together like twins(they are 9&7 now) But we always call them our 'old little married couple' because they will bicker then find their way back to each other, snuggling on the couch! It's really the best, congrats again!
I have two sisters, no brothers – and a now 4-month old boy. I completely understand the nervousness and new territory. I felt the exact same way. So far it doesn't seem quite so different, but with only 4 months under my belt, I can't exactly speak to raising a 4 year old boy.
You'll do wonderfully I'm sure.
Oh thank you Theresa!! I bet your little boy is just so cute!
SO exciting that you're having a little boy! Congrats!
Congratulations! I too am a gal with three sisters and have a first-born daughter and second-born son. I was a bit scared of raising a son but I can assure you that your heart will experience a love and a bond like no other. My son is 21 now and he will readily admit he is a momas boy! PS. You are an amazing mom to Isla Rose and surely will be to you son!
Oh my gosh, we're like the same!! haha Thanks for taking the time to comment :) I'm secretly kind of excited to have a mama's boy!
Congratulations!!! That is so exciting!! I bet Drew is over the moon!
These photos area absolutely stunning! You are glowing!
Drew honestly couldn't be more excited!! I can't wait to see them interact together :) Thanks for the sweet comment!
Congrats! I grew up with a sister and had a little boy last July – it has been so much fun and so exciting having a little boy in the family!
Congratulations! What exciting news! Sending good thoughts from North Carolina!
Congrats! I only have a sister and felt the same way you are feeling when I found out we were having a boy. Then, I got so attached to idea of having a little guy that I couldn't imagine anything else! Baby boys are such a blessing and so much fun! Enjoy and congratulations to your family!
OMG…how exciting. My son is almost 10 and guess what we are having a GIRL!!! After 10 years we are finally getting our baby girl in the family!!! You will do great with a boy!!! Congrats!!
OH MY GOSH congratulations!!!!! Girls are SO fun (that's all I've ever known! haha) but that is amazing. I'm so excited for you!
Congratulations!!! My second was a boy and it is so fun…and so tiring. Seriously boys are into EVERYTHING!! My little boy Jackson is 1 year old and is so different than my little Hadley was. He is constantly ripping things out and all over the place. But he is so sweet. And seriously so beautiful. Haha boys are so pretty. I get asked constantly what HER name is and I'm like uh she's a boy. Ha ha. Congrats. That is so fun. One of each.
I had a little boy in December, and had the silly notion in mind that because I'm a girl and envisioned pink and gold everything, I would have a girl. I felt the same way, and had no clue what to do with a little boy, but he is absolutely the sweetest and now I can't imagine if he had been a girl. Finding cute clothes is a bit harder, but you'll be as great a mom to him as to Dasher and Isla!
It will definitely be a change but we are super excited for it!!
Oh thank you Ashleigh!! You are so sweet.
Congratulations Rachel! I´m so happy for you. You´ll love to have a baby boy…baby boys are mama´s boys and I love it.
Congrats! So happy for you guys! Ps – Love your new site!!!
Congratulations! We are having a boy too. Our first was a girl. How exciting for you and your family!
Sounds like you're in for an adventure! Wishing you all the best..
Oh wow! A boy! He will make the perfect addition to your beautiful family!
Such a simple and sweet gender reveal…the only way you could have topped this is if nature made blue peonies! ;) I have 2 boys and they love their mama like nobody's business!
He'll be your little prince.
Haha right?! That would've been amazing!
Congrats Rachel! I'm so happy for you and your family!!
Congrats, Rachel, Drew, and Isla!! I've been anxiously awaiting this post and I'm so excited for you two! My husband and I have two girls and his sister is pregnant with her FIFTH girl so we aren't used to having boys around our house either. Of course since I say that I'll probably have a boy next. Haha! I can't wait to see your little guy. XOXO God bless you!
So exciting! Congrats! Gorgeous photos and your dress is stunning!
Congratulations!! At least a boy will be a new challenge. Hope you all are doing well.
beautiful pics!! what color & foundation brand do you wear?
Congratulations!!! This is so amazing I am so happy for you and Drew! I cannot wait to see your handsome baby boy!
Congratulations!! I'm sure you'll be a great mother to both little kiddos, it'll all fall in place along the way and there's so many people with great knowledge out there that you can find great advice from.
Beautiful family photos! And congratulations on a baby boy!!
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Congratulations to you and your growing family! You're baby girl is going to love having a sibling!!
Thank you Meghan!! I know I really think Isla will love it.
Congratulations!! I have 2 girls, and my husband already had 2 girls from his previous marriage,e so I have no idea about boys either!! SO many females! You will love it! I cannot wait to watch your family grow, so wonderful!
Congrats! boys are so much fun! I have two girls and one baby boy that is three and he is the most adorable, loving and caring little boy!! You'll do great!!!! Good luck! Maybe now you'll have baby boy clothes to sale!!!
Thanks so much!! I bet he's the sweetest boy!
Congrats!..Perfection! Lil'boys are the best…I have 2 boys and 2 girls..most precious, God sent gift..being a Mom to both Genders! Good Luck…get the roller skates out! Non stop action about to happen Rachel!
Congratulations! We're in the same boat! A baby girl at home and a boy on the way in June! I agree, having a girl is easy, and the idea of a boy sounds hard! Even finding boy clothes has been a lot more difficult! The selection isn't as big! Have you found any good places to buy boy clothes? Congrats again!
This is my favorite gender reveal I've seen! So subtle but really beautiful. Congratulations!
Boys are so wonderful! Dressing them up is so fun, even though sometimes you have to look harder for great boy clothes. The fun energy they bring to a family is great and there is nothing better than a little mama's boy.
Congratulations!! Boys are the best :) i was nervous to have a boy too but seriously i am sooo glad for my boy! If i am an all boy mama i will be ok with that! My sweet mamas boy is constantly giving me hugs, holding my hand, and looks adorable in a bow tie. It will be so much fun!
Oh I love that, thanks for sharing!!
Congratulations! I am thrilled for you and your sweet family! What an exciting time! He will be one lucky little boy!
I'm the same way! I grew up with 2 sisters and had a boy and I was so nervous- but it'll be way easier than you think. I'm a firm believer that all boys are born as mama's boys so you'll love it. Congratulations!
I knew you were having a boy! I'm 34 weeks pregnant with mine (and my first) and I too grew up with no brothers, but the farther along I've gotten in pregnancy the more excited I've gotten about having a boy to change things up. And I'm like you, I can't wait to see my husband interact with him! As long as he's healthy that's all that matters ??
Congratulations! I absolutely love this gender reveal!
Congratulations!! You will love to be a mom from a boy! ?
Thanks Sofia :) I'm excited!!
Congrat!! How exciting! Isla is going to be such a great big sister to her little bro. I really love your dress too! Super cute photo shoot.
I am sooo happy for you!! Congrats!!! Having a brother is the greatest thing in the world. Even though my brother is four years younger than me, he still looks out for me and takes care of me like he was an older brother. I can't wait for Isla and him to be together!
Yay!! haha I'm glad I could finally share!
Welcome to the world or boys! Boys are the best!! I have two and they are so fun, energetic and easy to accessories ;). Congrats to you and Drew! ?
Congratulations! These photos are stunning.
Congrats, I'm so cuter for you. Boys are def very adventurous. But you will be great, and baby Isla will just have a blast with baby brother.
Oh I love that. Thanks Abby!!
I'm so happy for you guys!! It's ok to be nervous about having a boy but everything will be just fine, I'm sure you'll figure out. I guess you have some practice with Emily's baby boy.
You can really tell on Drew's face how excited he is.
You are so lucky because when you get pregnant you only get the extra weight on the bump. I have seen other women who are thin and once they get pregnant they struggle a lot with the extra weight going everywhere (arms, legs, etc) an example will be Kim Kardashian. I wonder which will be my case once I'm pregnant?
Congratulations! Now you've got the Millionaire Family! Isla will love having a little boy to play with and boss around. All the best for the rest of your pregnancy. Hope it goes fast for you.
Congrats!!! I have 3 girls so I wouldn't know what to tell you about boys but I am sure you will do great! It's amazing how natural everything comes the second you have a baby.
One question: would you mind telling me where you took these pictures? I have been looking for a place like this for my family pictures this year. TIA!
i had a little boy last july. was terrified! i was googling "how often are gender scans wrong" because i wanted it to be a girl so badly. but the instant he was born all the fear vanished. boys are just as sweet and wonderful as girls, you will fall in love with him and know exactly how to parent him (as much as one can know that, anyway, haha).
Oh that is so funny!!! After having Isla I thought I could easily do another girl, but I couldn't be more excited for a baby boy!
I love your blog. I was wondering if you could share where did you get your shoes. I know you can't see them in any of the pictures in your post, however, you can see them in the instagram picture of you and Drew.
Thanks for sharing and congrats on the baby!
Congrats on the little boy! My husband and I expecting our first baby in late July and we are having a boy also. My husband is just over the moon since he always wanted a boy first so if we have a little girl the second time around he can protect his little sister! Congrats again!
Congratulations to you, and your beautiful family!
First of all congratulations!! I hope you have a healthy easy pregnancy and a beautiful healthy baby! I wanted to tell you that I'm the oldest of 4 girls too! And my sisters and I all love your blog and Instagram pictures! You have amazing taste and I love that you are always so modestly dressed too! I have 2 boys and 3 girls and I was also super nervous to have a boy! But they are so adorable and fun. I hope u and your beautiful family have lots of joy and success in all you do.
Congratulations to you and your beautiful family. A baby is a blessing, especially when it's a beautiful baby boy!!!
Congratulations! Boys are sooooooooo much fun! Don't be nervous…you are a great Mom! So much goodness in these photos. …beautiful scenery, amazing dress, adorable Isla who always makes me smile and beautiful famiky. That pic of Drew and Isla laughing is just adorable! Love your pretty feminine style.
Isla's smiles in this are too cute! Ahhhh this is so adorable!! Congratulations!
I am so excited for you, Drew, and Isla! You're family is gorgeous and I can't wait to see it grow even further. Congratulations, mama!
How amazing, congratulations. I was as nervous. I've been around all girls, both my sister had girls, my first was a girl and when I had my boy the only one, from my side of the family a total shock. You will do just fine ? Congrats again, can't wait to see the pics..
Congratulations! You are glowing!! I have to say, I think my favorite picture is the one of Isla and her daddy where she is on his shoulders and they both have the biggest smiles!!! You can tell they love each other and are so happy! You are absolutely stunning, and I love your bouquet!! Congratulations on your sweet baby boy!!!
Isn't that pictures just adorable?!?! I love those two so much!!
Thank you so much! How lucky for you to have 3 boys!!
… Your concerns are fair!! I've got an older sister, and I had a girl… so I would be like… boys? What? Foreign? If I had a son! Haha! But you'll be great at it, surely!! And you have a loving husband by your side to help!
Haha seriously?! Thanks so much girl!
CONGRATS RACH!! So excited for you cant wait to see the little guy!!
How sweet! I have seen soooo many gender reveals that are so over the top!
I have a similar story. My mom was one of 3 girls, I am one of 3 girls, my sisters have all girls, and my first child was a girl. Number 2 was a boy and I felt so nervous! He is the absolute best thing to happen to us and it was a worry for nothing. Little boys hold their mama's heart forever. Congrats!
Congratulations!!!!! You little boy will be adorable!!! ?
LOVE this! Little boys are the best! Where is this location? I'm taking family pictures and would love to shoot here!
I knew it was going to be a boy!! Congratulations to you both! How exciting!! Beautiful photos!
Congratulations! You will love having a little boy. My son is 7 months old and such a mama's boy already. Just remember now Isla will always have someone to protect her even if he's younger!! ?
Oh I love that!! I'm kind of excited to have a mama's boy running around!
CONGRATULATIONS!! So exciting. You will be great with a boy just as you are with Isla.
Congratulations!!! Boys are so fun! ??
Congratulations Rachel!! You have such a beautiful growing family! You look absolutely stunning, as usual! Congratulations on your little boy!!
Congratulations!! I was from a family of all girls too. Both of my sisters had girls. I am the first in my family to have a boy. My kids: (Brooklyn who is 2 1/2 and Jayce is 16months) are 17months apart…I think close to how far apart Isla and your boy will be? Anyway it's wonderful. I've really bonded with him. Brooklyn is a great big sis as I'm sure Isla will be. She will still be too young to feel jealous and will LOVE her little brother!
Yes! They'll be about 16 months apart :) Thanks for sharing!! I'm really excited for this new adventure!
So exciting! I have 2 little sisters and most-likely, I will have all boys! Congrats!❤??
I was one of 2 girls growing up – no boys. I have 2 sons and a baby girl and LOVE my boys. Boys LOVE their mamas and are super fun and funny. Boys don't sweat the small stuff.
It is such a gift to be able to experience both a daughter and son as a mother.
Oh twins?!? How amazing! Thanks so much, we are super exciting!
Congratulations! This is so so exciting!
How exciting! I am one of three girls and had two daughters. I can imagine the excitement and wonder you have. Congratulations to you and your precious family!
So happy you Rach! But I must admit, I thought for sure you were going to have another girl! Don't be nervous, you will do just fine!
haha that is so true! I cannot wait. Thanks for sharing!!
Congratulations to you and the rest of you family! Little boys are so exciting. I have one myself, (now nine), and I have loved watching him grow up. I also have a daughter, (thirteen), who introduced me to your blog and is begging me to start a blog of her own. She really looks up to you and I am so glad she has a smart and classy role model. Congratulations again!
Congratulations!!!! You will Love having a boy!!!! So happy for you!
So happy for you. I have to brothers and they are so much fun to be with??
Oh good! I'm happy to hear that. I know Isla will just love him!!
Boys are amazing, so fun and loving! They love their mommies so much. They are protective and not to much drama! I have two boys, now 25 and 28! I love they to the moon and back, and I know they Love me lots! Congratulations, you are blessed!
That's what I'm most excited for, to have a little mama's boy! haha Thanks so much Rachael!
Congratulations from New Zealand, Rachel! Best wishes.
I have boy/girl 2 year old twins and a 2 month old son. The mother/son bond is amazing!! They always want the comfort of their mamas. Congrats!
Thank you Ana!! We are super excited!
Congrats to you and your family. Boys are endearing and loving to their mom, and they carry on the family name. ?


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Poll position: Trump and Biden running almost even in Georgia
Dave Williams Capitol Beat News Service
ATLANTA — Another poll shows President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden running neck and neck in Georgia.
A survey of 782 Georgia voters conducted Aug. 24-25 by Public Policy Polling, a North-Carolina based Democratic polling firm, found Biden holding a slim lead over Trump, 47% to 46%. However, that was well within the poll's margin of error of plus-or-minus 3.5%.
Biden's strong showing was largely due to his support among self-identified independent voters. He held a 26-point advantage among that group, 56% to 30%.
Other Georgia polls in recent weeks have shown similar results.
Broken down by age, Trump is dominating among older Georgia voters, while Biden leads among younger voters. Trump leads Biden 56% to 41% among voters over 65, while Biden is ahead among voters under the age of 45, 49% to 40%.
Biden holds a narrower lead of 46% to 40% among voters between 46 and 65.
With the coronavirus pandemic making many Georgians reluctant to stand in a voting line on Election Day, only 27% of voters surveyed said they plan to vote in person on Nov. 3. A small plurality of voters showed a preference for early voting over voting by mail, 35% to 30%.
The poll found a strong correlation between how voters plan to cast their ballot and their preferred candidate. Trump was the choice of 75% of voters who plan to vote on Election Day, while Biden scored 72% support among those planning to vote by mail.
Early voters were more evenly divided, with 53% supporting Trump and 46% favoring Biden.
Black voters are much more likely to vote by mail, according to the poll. While 45% of Black voters expressed a preference for mailing in their ballots, only 18% of white voters said they plan to vote by mail.
The poll was commissioned by Fair Fight, the voting rights group founded by Stacey Abrams after she lost the 2018 gubernatorial election to Brian Kemp.


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Q: Django admin queryset foreign key to user django-allauth I have an e-commerce development and I'm looking to send an email to the client from the admin site, I can´t the queryset correclty to do this. I have the following model:
models.py:
class Orden(models.Model):
    cliente = models.ForeignKey(
        User, on_delete=models.CASCADE, verbose_name='Usuario')
    productos = models.ManyToManyField(OrdenProducto)
    fecha_orden = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
    completada = models.BooleanField(default=False, null=True, blank=True)
    id_transaccion = models.CharField(max_length=20, null=True)
    correo_enviado = models.BooleanField(default=False, null=True, blank=True)
    datos_pedido = models.ForeignKey(
        'DatosPedido', on_delete=models.SET_NULL, blank=True, null=True)
    pago = models.ForeignKey(
        'Pago', on_delete=models.SET_NULL, blank=True, null=True)
    cupon = models.ForeignKey(
        'Cupon', on_delete=models.SET_NULL, blank=True, null=True)

    class Meta:
        verbose_name_plural = "Orden"

    def __str__(self):
        return self.cliente.username

cliente has a foreign key to the User model and I want to get the email address, I have tried many ways but I just can´t get it.
admin.py:
class OrdenAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ('cliente', 'completada', 'correo_enviado')
    actions = ['enviar_correo']

    def enviar_correo(self, request, queryset):
        queryset.update(correo_enviado=True)
        a = queryset.get(cliente=self.user.email)

        send_mail('test', 'test', 'xxxxxx@mail.com',
                  ['a], fail_silently=True)

A: You can try iterating the queryset to access the specific data in the rows.
Try the following code.
class OrdenAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ('cliente', 'completada', 'correo_enviado')
    actions = ['enviar_correo']

    def enviar_correo(self, request, queryset):
        queryset.update(correo_enviado=True)
        for obj in queryset:
            email = obj.cliente.email

        send_mail('test', 'test', email,
                  ['a], fail_silently=True)

I hope this code helps you

A: Unless you have extended the default user model or have created Your Own user model, django default user model does not have an email field.
So if you have extended or created Your Own model you can do
myordenobj.cliente.email

But if you're using the default user model and your username is an email then do.
myordenobj.cliente.username

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Steven is also the creator and creative force behind The French Playground - a thriving online community of French teachers and students. Through The French Playground, Steven and his team of language learning professionals, offer engaging French activities, games, lesson plans, and more.
Now, Steven is extending his widely recognized talent for creating exceptional French language learning activities and engaging lesson, by creating a full suite of pre-made authentic French activities, tasks, and challenges that will be exclusively available within the XpressLab Library.
By September 2017, XpressLab users will gain access to Steven's engaging and highly interactive content, pre-made and ready for instant import and sharing within XpressLab courses. These new learning resources are tailored to meet French curriculum expectations. Within each activity and learning module, students are required to demonstrate awareness, comprehension, understanding and metacognition. All resources can also be adapted to fit the model of all provincial, state and country curriculum expectations.
Each activity and learning module will be assigned a corresponding level in order to aid French teachers in choosing which activities and modules will be most appropriate for their French students. These XpressLab levels will include suggested grade levels, programs (i.e. Core, Immersion, Extended, Level), and CEFR levels and ACTFL proficiency levels. Once imported, learning activities and modules can be edited, if necessary, before making resources available to students.
To support this growth in our content offerings, our XpressLab team is working hard to further optimize the XpressLab Library. Improved and streamlined search functionality will help our French teachers and admin users quickly and easily locate the best content for their students.
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Really need to post more often.
Still trying to get back into writing and artwork more often but for some reason I find myself staring at the computer and wondering how to get the ideas out.
I have two new kittens (they were born on Yoda's 10th birthday) and they're kinda evil in how hard they play. Jolene is the grey girl, and her sister is Solaris. I was supposed to only have Jolene but the boyfriend of the girl I got them from was just going to dump Solaris off somewhere. I couldn't have that.
Taz's health is starting to fail, I don't expect the old man to be with me much longer. It's upsetting but he's near 21 years old and that's pretty damn ancient for even Pomeranians.
My niece Sam (my sister's oldest) is getting married in September and shocked me by actually asking that I'd be at the wedding. There may have been tears after I got the text.
Writing: you could just be mentally tired from all the work.
Taz: This breaks my heart so much.
Kittens: Should be lasting a bit longer.
Wedding invite: Glad she turned around and made overtures to you. Time...as Crichton says.


What's your biggest fear? You don't have to answer. Actually it doesn't even matter what your biggest fear is… It's all in your head anyway. No matter if you are afraid of heights, spiders, public speaking, sharks or you're claustrophobic, everything is just in your head. You are aware of that, you know it's not an actual danger or a life threatening situation, but you can't just help it being afraid.
Well, every excuse you have ever came up with to avoid: pursuing your dreams, going that extra mile and deliver something extraordinary, talking to the person that could help your idea or project come to life, getting our of your comfort zone, are all in your head. Just like your biggest fear, they're just a thought you know it's not actually a true threat. But, nevertheless you keep using that as an excuse.
All those excuses are just a mask of your fear of failure, to make a fool of yourself, to be judged by others as not worthy, a looser. But that's just in your head. You can't accomplish great things without ever failing. All successful people have failed, have been rejected and have struggled before getting to their biggest success. Edison made 1,000 unsuccessful attempts at inventing the light bulb, at his first show Seinfeld froze and was eventually jeered and booed off of the stage, during his lifetime, Van Gogh sold only one painting, Stephen King's first book, the iconic thriller Carrie, received 30 rejections. And the list can go on.
Everyone of them failed but they had something that many others didn't, the courage try again. They knew that, much like all our biggest fears, the fear of failure is just in our heads.
At the end of the day what scares me the most is the fear of failing… Failing to be true to myself.


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Tintale's Mothers Society
Meet with Motoom
Motoom plays the ukulele and melodica, and wants to starts singing more, too. She says that, "At home, there is not a lot to do," so her mother encourages her to head to the music school to play. Motoom's family sees how happy she is, and through that encouragement she feels she has the courage to perform and do well.
Before attending the school, her father had purchased a keyboard for her birthday but she never learned to play it; now she is proud to be learning music. She feels that music helps to train her mind to memorize easily, it has also taught her "to be less selfish and how to fight less with others." Motoom used to have a difficult time with her peers sometimes, and felt that they wouldn't want to play with her but now that she has an outlet, her friends enjoy being around her. Her goal is to teach people, she wants to earn a degree and get a good job.
"It gives value to my free time, it makes me concentrate on something and I'm really happy with it. I like when we play music and don't fight with each other. I like that we can form a band. I also like the art lesson with the foreign teachers. Sometimes we use our hands to communicate, because [the visiting teachers] cannot speak Thai well but they usually understand."
← Alan Eccel
Meet with Sarju →
Meet the Students
Instruments we teach
Learn Music
Argentina Bangladesh Brazil Ghana Mali Mexico Morocco Nepal Rwanda South Africa Thailand


4 boy's - 1 girls !
Afghan Specialty, Belgian Afghan Hound Club.
New litter 24 February 2018 !
2 boy's and 6 girls !
1Ex.Junior CAC - Junior BOB.
Owner ,handler : Jules Chapelle.
BOB and Group 10 and finisched today in style with Res.Best In Show.
Preston :Junior class 1Ex.Best Junior and Junior BEST IN SHOW !
Oop I did It. Intermediare class .3Ex.
Del Ghyryo had nice results. Bay class wins Pasja Del Ghyryo with Best Puppy. and Petrus was 3Vp.
Otis Del Ghyryo wins the junior class with J.CAC and Is now next to Dutch and German also Belgian Junior Champion.
Kuross was 2 in open class in strong competion.
Oops I Did It was 3 in Junior Class.
We want to thank you all for your good work and friendship !!
Our youngsters did very well.
winning her last J.CAC. and wins the Junior BOB to her brother Otis Del Ghyryo.,he won the Junior CAC.
Oops I Did It del Ghyryo ( MCh Ermes del Ghyryo & Kadjanin del Ghyryo ) : 1 U en Beste Jeugd.
Jeugd : 1 U . Benelux Junior Winner Nederland. Crufts qualificatie 2017.
En nu dus ook : Nederlands Junior Kampioen en Benelux Junior Kampioen.
Oops I did It del Ghyryo.
1U Junior Champion Luxembourg . Junior Benelux winner Luxembourg en Crufts Qualification 2017.
Thx Michaela Mühlemeyer for handling my crazy girl in the ring.
At the Int. Dog show Rotterdam 3-4 September 2016.
And Kuross Del Ghyryo won BOB.
Today J.Ch Otis Del Ghyryo wins the Junior CAC is now also Dutch Junior Champion.
after that he was awarded with the CAC and became BEST MALE !!
Owner of Otis. Ann De Rycke.
and last but not least ,"Paris" Eyes Gazing We'll Always Have Paris Wins the BEST OF BREED !!
Kuross del Ghyryo was awarded with the CAC-CACIB and BEST OF BREED !
perfectly handled by Mariëlla Van deMergel.
The Baby's .Preston The One And Only 3Vp and Pablo 4p.
O-Raiza 1Ex. and is now also BELGIAN JUNIOR CHAMPION .
Open Class. Kuross , 3Ex.
and finally the best for last ! "Paris" Eyes Gazing We'll Always Have Paris wins the CAC and BOS.


All artistic levels are welcome. Art workshops are designed for visitors 6 years old or older. Younger learners are welcome to attend and test out their coloring skills.
Visit our historic buildings, learn to draw under our beautiful oak trees, test your puzzle mastery skills, print a post card on an antique printing press, and more!
Bring your camera to tackle our photography challenge.
Art workshops designed for visitors 6 years old or older. Younger learners are welcome to attend and test out their coloring skills.
Bring a blanket and picnic under our live oak trees while sketching our historic buildings. Join in on our art workshops designed for visitors of all skills. Then visit our historic buildings and discover Florida's rural history. Art workshops are designed for visitors 6 years old or older. Younger learners are welcome to attend and test out their coloring skills. Don't forget to bring a camera to tackle our photography challenges.
General Pricing: $8 per person 4 years old and up, children 3 years old and younger will be admitted for free. A sketch book is included with each advance purchase paid admission.
Bring a picnic lunch to enjoy at our picnic area under our live oak trees. Please note there will not be a food service at this event.
Old-fashioned sodas and candy available for purchase in our General Store.