SAMMY Hunter continues to add to his season of accolades and was recently recognised as one of the top prep basketball players in Canada.
Currently, in his final season at BC Christian Prep in British Columbia, Canada, Hunter was named to the roster for the BioSteel All-Canadian Game.
This season, Hunter averaged 27 points, eight rebounds and three assists per game for the Panthers. According to the organisation, "the All Canadian Basketball Games feature the top 24 male and female Canadian high school basketball players who are either Canadian-born or enrolled in a Canadian institution.
The BioSteel All Canadian Games are an NBA sanctioned event, drawing representation from over 90 per cent of NBA teams.
Hunter committed to join the Ole Miss Rebels basketball programme for the Fall 2019 campaign as he makes his transition to NCAA Division I basketball.
He decided on the Rebels between his final three of the Oklahoma Sooners and Kansas State Wildcats. He was the third Bahamian to join Ole Miss basketball within the last year. Franco Miller Jr signed with Ole Miss in the 2018 class.
The women's basketball programme is also headed by Yolett McPhee-McCuin. She then went on to sign Valerie Nesbitt to the 2019 class.
Hunter verbally committed to head coach Kermit Davis and joins a talented incoming class for the 2019 season that already includes Antavion Collum, Rodney Howard and Bryce Williams. At the Bahamas Basketball Federation's Summer of Thunder, Hunter finished with 19 points and eight rebounds against Notre Dame and followed with 18 points and five rebounds against North Carolina.
Hunter also competed at home last November with BC Prep at the Caribbean Tip-Off Classic, where he averaged 33 points and 8.3 rebounds per game. He also made his senior men's national team debut in July at the Central American and Caribbean Games in Barranquilla, Colombia.
At the junior national team level, Hunter was also a member of the 2016 CBC Under-16 Championship team when he averaged 12 points and 5.5 rebounds per game and the 2017 Centrobasket U-17 Championship team when he averaged 14.6 points and 6.8 rebounds per game.


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Q: Horizontal UICollectionView's cell's content cut from top in iPhoneX I have one screen which contains two UICollectionView, top most is for menu/options and bottom one for showing content for selected cell from top UICollectionView. I have designed entire screen in storyboard using auto-layout and constraints.
Now my UI looks perfect in all devices except iPhoneX.
In iPhoneX top most UICollectionView looks good. But the UICollectionView which is beneath top most UICollectionView is not showing content properly. UICollectionView is on right/proper position but its cell's (UICollectionViewCell) content cut from top.
For debug purpose I have coloured different views with different colours and attached below.
Here Yellow coloured view is background/container view of two UICollectionView, red coloured view is top most UICollectionView and purple coloured view is container view which contains all the controls of UICollectionViewCell.

Below is the debug hierarchy view of UICollectioView and UICollectionViewCell

Below is the Debug hierarchy view of UIView which is cut from top inside UICollectioViewCell

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We all desire to be lucky, to have fate be on our side. I remember as a child searching for a 4-leaf clover in the yard, thinking that it would change my life. I never did find one -- only ever got the normal 3 leafed clover.
The spells cast by Warlocks can be for both good and evil. It depends on the desired outcome of the Warlock. We have a piece that had a spell cast upon it years ago by a Warlock looking to bring good fortune to the world. He knew he would have to fight off other warlocks and witches if he tried to make everyone have luck and success so he decided to embody the fortune within 5 lockets that hold a 4-leaf clover; 1 of which we were able to obtain.
The spell will begin to resonate its powers once you wear it for 7 days and 7 nights. The Warlock believed in the gifts going to someone who desired a change in their life.
This piece holds the Warlock's spell of Prosperity within it. The Warlock will bestow you with gifts that will help you to flourish, thrive, succeed, and gain good fortune. Prosperity often encompasses wealth but also includes others factors which are independent of wealth to varying degrees, such as happiness and health.
Once the luck starts to flourish about you, your life will start to take a turn for the better and all other aspects will "magically" seem to fall into place.
Hurry, because today is your lucky day!!


The ACC is investigating rampant financial abuse worth billions of Kwacha at the Rural Electrification Authority (REA). This follows revelations from Auditor General who has just completed a 30-day audit of the institution. Earlier this year some concerned REA employees sent a confidential dossier to President Michael Sata cataloguing many abuses at REA by the CEO Wilfred Serenje (now fired), including general theft by public servant, nepotism, corruption and victimisation. There are so many government agencies that exist just to waste public money.
The ACC recently arrested two government officers for corruption and abuse of office involving K1.5 billion meant for rehabilitation of Livingstone Central Prison. Mwala Katundu a quantity surveyor has been arrested for certifying that works at the Livingstone Central Prison were fully done when in fact not. The other is Emmanuel Nguni an Assistant Director of Monitoring and Evaluation who received funds in exchange of awarding the contract. Both are at the Ministry of Works and Supply. The duo are remanded in custody and have denied the charge and will appear in court soon.


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Светла́на Евге́ньевна Ме́льникова (12 ноября 1955, Южно-Сахалинск) — российский музейный и общественный деятель, заслуженный работник культуры РФ (2004), член Российского комитета ИКОМ. Директор Государственного историко-археологического музея-заповедника «Херсонес Таврический» (2016—2018), в 17 июня 2010 — 17 июня 2016 и с 11 декабря 2018 года по 23 апреля 2021 года — генеральный директор Владимиро-Суздальского музея-заповедника. С 8 октября 2021 по 5 июля 2022 года Генеральный директор — «Псково-Изборского объединённого музея-заповедника». С 5 июля 2022 года — генеральный директор Псковского музея-заповедника.

Биография
Родилась и провела детство в Южно-Сахалинске.

В 1978 году окончила Владимирский государственный педагогический институт по специальности английский и немецкий языки, и с 1 сентября того же года начала работать экскурсоводом во Владимиро-Суздальском музее-заповеднике.

В 1997 году С. Е. Мельникова была назначена на должность заместителя генерального директора по экскурсионно-массовой работе. С. Е. Мельникова представляла российские музеи на целом ряде престижных международных музейных форумов (Греция, Италия, США и др.). Как отмечается на сайте Владимир-Суздальского музея-заповедника, «Многие годы Светлана Евгеньевна достойно представляет Владимиро-Суздальский музей-заповедник в ИКОМ России. Прекрасное владение английским языком позволяет ей свободно общаться с зарубежными коллегами и выступать с докладами на международных конференциях».

17 июня 2010 года назначена на пост генерального директора Владимиро-Суздальского музея-заповедника. Руководившая музеем несколько десятков лет Алиса Аксёнова стала его президентом. 30 июня в Палатах перед коллективом музея-заповедника оба руководителя были представлены в новых должностях.

17 августа 2011 года на встрече с главой Владимирской и Суздальской епархии архиепископом Евлогием (Смирновым) договорилась о совместном использовании Богородице-Рождественского собора в Суздале, в ходе которого еженедельно, по четвергам, там будут совершаться молебны святителю Арсению Элассонскому без ограничения доступа в собор туристов. Было достигнуто соглашение, что епархия и музей будут совместно ходатайствовать перед Министерством культуры о выделении средств на реставрацию живописи в соборе. Также было решено выработать совместное обращение о том, что в ближайшие 3-4 года икона Боголюбской Божией Матери будет находиться на реставрации.

17 июня 2016 года уволена с должности директора Владимиро-Суздальского музея-заповедника в связи с истечением срока контракта.

С той поры Мельникова ждала нового предложения от Минкульта и оно поступило. 29 июня приказом Министерства Культуры России она была назначена на должность директора Государственного историко-археологического музея-заповедника «Херсонес Таврический» со вступлением в должность с 30 июня 2016 года. 30 июня в Византийском зале музея-заповедника первый заместитель министра культуры Владимир Аристархов представил нового директора музея.

20 ноября 2018 года Светлана Евгеньевна, в соответствии с Указом Президента России, включена в новый состав Совета при Президенте по культуре и искусству.

10 декабря 2018 года приказом Министерства культуры РФ вновь назначена Генеральным директором Владимиро-Суздальского музея-заповедника, которым руководила до этого в 2010—2016 годах. Вернувшись на пост руководителя Владимиро-Суздальского музея-заповедника, она озвучила 8 первоочередных задач:

 Собрать профессиональный и творческий коллектив для активизации научной деятельности в ВСМЗ;
 Восстановить пользовавшийся огромной популярностью Детский музейный центр;
 Открыть Музей хрусталя в мае 2019 года с обновлёнными экспозициями;
 Договориться с Русской православной церковью о совместном использовании храмов;
 Восстановить усадьбу Храповицкого «Муромцево», которая по мысли Мельниковой является самым значимым проектом ВСМЗ, который может изменить его суть;
 Совместный проект с музеем «Херсонес Таврический» под названием «От Владимира к Владимиру»;
 Разработать концепцию развития ВСМЗ;
 Восстановить репутацию музея, который понёс имиджевые потери за время управления им командой Игоря Конышева.

Уволена 22 апреля 2021 года ушла с поста гендиректора Владимиро-Суздальского музея-заповедника. Договор с ней досрочно расторгло Министерство культуры РФ. Как сообщил начальник отдела ВСМЗ по связям с общественностью и СМИ Николай Полидовец, об этом руководителю ВСМЗ сообщили сегодня, утром 23 апреля. Ее вызвали в Москву и вручили приказ о расторжении контракта. Для коллектива музея такое решение стало полной неожиданностью.

8 октября 2021 года назначена руководителем Псково-Изборского объединённого музея-заповедника. 5 июля 2022 года сообщила, что Псково-Изборский объединённый музей-заповедник был разделён на Псковский музей-заповедник и Изборский музей-заповедник, при этом Светалана Мельникова осталась руководить Псковским музеем-заповедником.

Награды
 Заслуженный работник культуры Российской Федерации (4 марта 2004) — за заслуги в области культуры и многолетнюю плодотворную работу
 медаль Святого Благоверного князя Андрея Боголюбского I степени (Владимирская и Суздальская епархия РПЦ; 6 июля 2011)
 Орден святой благоверной Великой княгини Московской Евдокии (Русская православная церковь; 19 ноября 2013 — «за усердие во благо Церкви и Отечества»)
 Нагрудный знак РФ «За вклад в российскую культуру» (2016, Министерство культуры Российской Федерации)

Примечания

Ссылки
 интервью
 «Технический прогресс без культуры — это путь в тупик». Интервью с С. Мельниковой, 09.12.2010
 «Наследие святого Андрея Боголюбского». Интервью с С. Мельниковой // «Русская народная линия», 24.06.2011
 Интервью ГТРК Владимир (май 2013)

Музейные работники Владимирской области
Персоналии по алфавиту
Учёные по алфавиту
Директора музея-заповедника «Херсонес Таврический»
Члены Совета при Президенте РФ по культуре и искусству

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The Plum Line Opinion
Four big takeaways from Michael Cohen's explosive testimony
By Greg Sargent
Greg Sargent
Opinion writer covering national politics
Opinion writer
The opening testimony that Michael Cohen will offer to Congress on Wednesday has been released. Here's the short version:
The guy who functioned as President Trump's personal lawyer and fixer for a decade will allege that Trump committed crimes while in office, spewed disgusting racist comments with abandon, engaged in extensive personal and financial grift, directed subordinates to carry out his dirty work in the language of a mob boss, and was excited to hear that a hostile foreign power was sabotaging our democracy on his behalf.
Let me repeat that all this is coming from Trump's own former personal lawyer and fixer.
Here are four key takeaways from Cohen's testimony, which could change when he delivers it:
Cohen says Trump had illicit help getting elected president, in two ways. Cohen alleges that in July of 2016, Trump held a phone call with longtime adviser Roger Stone, in which Stone informed him that a WikiLeaks dump of Hillary Clinton emails was coming, to which Trump said something like: "Wouldn't that be great."
Remember, it was known at the time that Russian hackers were behind the WikiLeaks email dumps. Whether all this amounts to a criminal conspiracy with Russian interference (I don't expect indictments, for whatever that's worth) will be revealed soon enough by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
But this adds more grist to what we already know constitutes the big picture here: A foreign power sabotaged our democracy to help Trump get elected president, and Trump and his top advisers eagerly reaped the gains from this or, worse, actively tried to conspire with it.
Separately, Cohen says he will present evidence that Trump personally reimbursed him for the hush-money payments to Stormy Daniels, which appears to constitute participation in a criminal violation of campaign finance law. Whether Trump will face legal liability for this remains to be seen — he may face indictment after leaving office.
But again, this confirms the big picture: Cohen engaged in criminal activity, allegedly at Trump's direction, to help Trump defraud the voters en route to the White House, denying them information about large campaign finance expenditures designed to cover up alleged affairs.
Cohen suggests Trump knew Cohen was lying to Congress on his behalf. Cohen originally pleaded guilty to lying to Congress by claiming talks over a Trump project in Moscow ended in January 2016, when in fact they continued until at least June of that year, deep into the GOP primaries. In his opening testimony, Cohen says this:
You need to know that Mr. Trump's personal lawyers reviewed and edited my statement to Congress about the timing of the Moscow Tower negotiations before I gave it.
We don't know which lawyers Cohen is talking about, and it's unclear how much those lawyers might have known about the Moscow project talks. But, crucially, it's hard to imagine that Trump himself was kept out of this particular loop. Indeed, Cohen addresses this point:
Mr. Trump had made clear to me, through his personal statements to me that we both knew were false and through his lies to the country, that he wanted me to lie. And he made it clear to me because his personal attorneys reviewed my statement before I gave it to Congress.
Cohen, in effect, is saying that he understood Trump to be directing him to lie to Congress, by virtue of the fact that his personal attorneys signed off on the statement doing that. Remember, this happened in August 2017 — that is, while Trump was president.
Cohen reveals how Trump gets his subordinates to do his dirty work. In his opening testimony, Cohen explains the nuances of how Trump got him to do this as follows:
Mr. Trump did not directly tell me to lie to Congress. That's not how he operates.
In conversations we had during the campaign, at the same time I was actively negotiating in Russia for him, he would look me in the eye and tell me there's no business in Russia and then go out and lie to the American people by saying the same thing.
In his way, he was telling me to lie.
What's being described here is mob-boss-style communication — that is, the mode of communication adopted by someone who knows he's ordering his subordinates to falsify his conduct, but wants to preserve plausible deniability. After all, Cohen himself was not just engaged in negotiating the project; he also kept Trump apprised of it. Note, importantly, that Cohen claims Trump was more involved than we thought:
There were at least a half-dozen times between the Iowa Caucus in January 2016 and the end of June when he would ask me "How's it going in Russia?" — referring to the Moscow Tower project.
Even though they're discussing the project, Trump is also allegedly looking him in the eye and telling him that this isn't happening. If so, this was plainly intended as a command, from boss to subordinate, to lie about it.
BuzzFeed's scoop about Cohen and Trump is partly vindicated. Recently, BuzzFeed reported that Cohen said Trump "directed" him to lie to Congress about the Moscow project, and that Cohen told the special counsel that Trump "personally instructed him to lie" (to whom is not stated at this point in the story) to "obscure Trump's involvement" in it.
Mueller's office issued a circumspect response to the BuzzFeed report, saying that its "description of specific statements" and characterization of "testimony obtained by this office" are "not accurate."
As noted above, Cohen addresses this point by saying Trump did not directly do this, but nonetheless did so through an implicit command that he lie about the project generally, and more specifically to Congress (as Cohen understood it) through his attorneys when they signed off on his statement.
This confirms important aspects of BuzzFeed's story: Cohen does suggest Trump "directed" him to lie to Congress, via his implicit directive and through his attorneys. And, given that this directive really is basically a command, it's undeniable that Cohen is saying Trump generally told him to lie about the project. The murkiness of the special counsel's response leaves plenty of room for this account to be largely correct.
The vagueness of all this, of course, is the whole point: The very reason for adopting the mode of communication Cohen claims Trump employed is precisely to obscure the chain of command-to-conduct.
At bottom, all this adds grist to the big picture here, which is that we already know Trump engaged in extensive wrongdoing and extremely serious misconduct on multiple fronts. We're just waiting at this point to learn the full details, and whether — or, more optimistically, how — Trump will be held accountable for it.
Update: I edited the section on the Wikileaks dump to more accurately reflect Cohen's testimony.
Greg Sargent: New Michael Cohen testimony may undermine Trump's spin on Mueller
David Byler: The really scandalous part of Michael Cohen's poll-fixing efforts
Paul Waldman: Michael Cohen is about to sing, and Trump is in big trouble
Greg Sargent Greg Sargent writes The Plum Line blog. He joined The Post in 2010, after stints at Talking Points Memo, New York Magazine and the New York Observer. Follow

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Get a yard
by Tony Carr in Ball Control and Footwork, Practice plans
Improving your players' skill levels could give them the ability to beat an opponent in tight areas. The theme is "getting a yard" and encourages players to realise that a yard of space is all that is needed to score or create a goal.
What this session is about
Improving skill levels.
Beating a defender in tight areas.
Scoring goals.
All players on the pitch must constantly develop their 1v1 skills in order to be able to beat their opponent.
Players must ensure they are "explosive" in 1v1 situations by completing a quick skill and then accelerating away from their opponent.
Once a skill is completed, the player quickly uses the space created in order to shoot at goal or make a decisive pass to a team mate.
Game Situation
7-10 minutes 10-15 minutes 15-20 minutes 25-30 minutes 7-10 minutes
What you get your players to do
Mark out an area and put an equal number of players at opposite corners, as shown in the top picture.
The first defender (D) passes the ball across the square to the attacking player (A).
The attacker tries to dribble through one of the white gate goals near the defenders to score a goal.
The attacker can do this by completing a quick skill to beat the defender and then dribble to the left or right.
If the defender wins the ball, he tries to dribble through one of the grey cone goals to score a goal.
The defender and attacker then rotate roles.
A defender (D) passes to an attacker (A) who tries to score in a white cone goal. The defender tries to score in a grey cone goal.
The defenders wait near the penalty spot in the 18-yard area and take turns to defend.
The attackers split into two groups and wait on the edge of the area, as shown in the middle picture.
To start, the goalkeeper throws the ball out to one of the attacker.
Immediately, one of the defenders goes to create a 1v1 against the attacker.
The attacker must stay on his side of the pitch (i.e. to the left or right of the penalty spot) and try to beat the defender to score past the keeper in the big goal.
If the defender wins possession, he is free to score by passing into the mini goal on that side.
The keeper throws the ball to an attacker. The attacker tries to score past the keeper and the defender can score in a mini goal.
Split your squad into two teams and play two small-sided games with normal rules such as regular throw-ins, corners, offside, etc. but each game has different restrictions:
Game 1 – One player on each team marks a player on the opponent's team. The players are only allowed to tackle the player they are marking. This rule constantly creates 1v1 situations in the game and raises the competitive nature of the 1v1 duel.
Game 2 – All players can mark and tackle all players in the game.
The team that scores most goals at the end of each game wins.
In one of the games, have a rule that states only one person is allowed to tackle one particular opponent. This forces 1v1 situations.
What to call out
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Most of us have little idea what funeral directors actually offer because it is natural to avoid thinking about death. In fact, professionals like Evans Funeral Chapel and Cremation Services are actually in the business of help the bereaved heal, honoring lost lives and creating custom solutions to fit clients' tastes and budgets. Funeral Directors in Forest Hill offer a wide range of cremation and burial options as well a pre-planning services.
Pre-arrangements are becoming popular among those who want to spare their families the burdens of funeral planning. As a result, clients of every age consult funeral directors in order to design and pay for their own arrangements. They are offered the chance to choose cremation or burial and provide detailed instructions that professionals will carry out to the letter. Clients can pay for their arrangements at the time they sign contracts, which eliminates burdensome future funeral expenses and decisions.
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The little understood funeral industry is actually made up of caring professionals who help clients solve problems. They offer economical pre-planning options that remove future burdens as well as a range of plans that honor clients wishes. Professionals are also willing to accommodate any final wishes and often conduct non-traditional services.


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Q: Find out the size of a .tar.gz archive in the terminal without unpacking I have a 32GB .tar.gz archive and I'd like to know the size of the files if I unpack this compressed archive. I'd like to avoid unpacking the archive first and than use e.g. du.
Is it also possible to find out the size of the contained files without unpacking the compressed archive (on a Linux and/or MacOSX system)?
For another archive I know, that it also contains .tar.gz files. Is it also possible to calculate the size of the unpacked archives that are contained within an archive? (for example by setting a level to which the "unpacking" should be simulated?)

A: Sure.  Just use -tv to list the contents with their sizes.  E.g.
% tar -tvzf sometools2.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- madler/admin   3442 2005-02-27 21:40 pngdat.c
-rw-r--r-- madler/admin  24938 2005-02-27 21:39 infgen.c

If you want to add up the sizes (like du), you can use awk:
% tar -tvzf sometools2.tar.gz|awk '{ s += $3 } END { print s }'
28380

For an imbedded .tar.gz file, you would need to do those individually when you find them by sending them to stdout with -O:
% tar -tvzf imbed.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- madler/staff    505 2012-02-12 00:06 lucas.c
-rw-r--r-- madler/staff  27913 2005-03-20 11:10 lzwtry.c
-rw-r--r-- madler/staff   8314 2005-02-27 21:42 sometools2.tar.gz
% tar -xOzf imbed.tar.gz sometools2.tar.gz | tar -tvzf - | awk '{ s += $3 } END { print s }'
28380

You can write a script to find those in the -tv output and then extract them, and even do it recursively.  I will leave that as an exercise for the reader.
Note, these options are for GNU tar, which is what is on both Linux and Mac OS X.  The options for BSD tar may be different.

A: First, you should know that the .tar.gz suffix means it's a compressed tar file. tar is just a means of packing multiple files and directories into one file. It does not have any compression by default. This is where gzip comes in. It's a tool for compressing a single file. Hence the aforementioned suffix means it's a compressed bundle of files and/or directories.
If you want to see the compression rates for each file in a zipped tar bundle, see the answer by Mark Adler.
If you are only interested in the whole zipped file (or bundle), the correct way of determining the unpacked size is:
gunzip -l ${file}

Example output:
$ gunzip -l syslog.1.gz
     compressed        uncompressed  ratio uncompressed_name
        4465670            33295551  86.6% syslog.1

The compressed and uncompressed numbers show bytes. Ergo my syslog.1 file would be about 32 MB uncompressed.

A: I don't know how to do something like this on the terminal (AFAIK it is not possible). But most programming libs for extracting archives also allow to query content information (e.g. tree, size of content) without extracting the whole compressed contents.
So you could create a command line tool with any programming language that will fit your needs and then call it from the command line.


When you run a business, the security of your property and its stock is one of your top concerns. The best way of protecting your business is by establishing a relationship with a commercial locksmith that you know you can count on.
Establishing a relationship with a locksmith is therefore necessary to protect your business and promptly seek help should anything go wrong.
So, what factors should you look at when it comes to choosing a go-to commercial locksmith?
If you're simply looking for an emergency locksmith to have just in case, the search should be fairly easy. If you have more specialised needs, however, like wanting security cameras or reinforced windows, you will need to find a more highly skilled locksmith. Your needs will also differ depending on whether you run a small family-owned business, or are a franchisee of a massive retail chain.
The locksmith you choose should also be able to provide 24/7 service, so that you can get immediate help before you have to open for business, therefore minimising any potential ross in revenue.
You need to be sure that the locksmith you choose lives up to their word. Your business's security rests on this company, after all.
There are a few ways to verify the reputation of a commercial locksmith company. First, check to see that they are a member of the Master Locksmiths Association. Next, read through reviews on various websites and see what the general consensus is. It's even better if you can find reviews left by other business owners, or can reach out to your network and see which companies they would recommend for locksmith services.
It's imperative to make sure that the locksmith you consider is actually based in your local area. This means that if you ever need emergency call-out services, they will be able to arrive promptly. Many locksmiths claim to serve a plethora of suburbs, but always double check to see if they can actually arrive at your location within 15 minutes.
Similarly, it's not only important to check whether a locksmith operates in your local area, but also that they have a physical location. Many locksmiths only operate on a mobile basis, and don't have a physical location. To truly be local to your area, a locksmith should have a brick-and-mortar store. This also means that they will have a large range of equipment and tools at their disposal in case you want security cameras, keypads and more. Finally, you'll also have peace of mind that all your queries will be taken care of from a central location, which can't be guaranteed with chain operations that employ various mobile locksmith contractors.
When you contact these locksmiths, make sure to ask for a general idea of how much their various services cost, and whether they charge extra for after-hours or emergency call-outs. For example, how much do the prices differ between a call-out at midday as opposed to in the middle of the night, or on a public holiday? This will help you work out whether their services will fit into your budget, and not be stung by surprise charges after an emergency call-out.
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Vivo V 17 Pro: Two Much
Bangalore, October 7 2019: Just as pop-up cameras become the flavour of the season, Vivo, has launched the world's first smart phone with two pop-up cameras. The Vivo V17Pro comes with a 32 MP + 8 MP dual pop-up selfie camera, with special night mode algorithms and a super wide-angle lens to capture more people in your groupfie. The 48 MP primary camera is supported by a 13 MP telephoto, an 8 MP wide-angle and macro lens, and a 2 MP bokeh camera. To tick all the boxes of the millennial phone bucket list, the V17Pro comes with a glass back design inspired by astronomical elements, and AI-based fingerprint scanning.
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Heyward On Poor Second-Half Run Defense: 'They Used Pace As A Factor'
By AJ Alany
Posted on December 4, 2022 at 4:50 pm
The Pittsburgh Steelers are coming off an impressive win and solid outings on both sides of the ball. Going up against one of the most run-heavy teams in the NFL, the defense held their own, only allowing one touchdown and keeping the Atlanta Falcons under their rushing average. However, the Falcons had success running the ball in the second half, almost surmounting a comeback from the Steelers' 13-point lead. When asked about this, star defensive end Cameron Heyward delved into the team's defensive performance during a post-game interview on the team's YouTube channel.
"It's a different type of team," Heyward said when asked about the Falcons' second half rushing success. "Usually when you go up more than 7 points, they go to throwing the ball. But you gotta give them credit, they stuck to their plan. They used pace as a factor, which is something that we'll have to continue to improve on. It just comes down to tackling and not surrendering touchdowns. I know we surrendered one at the end of the third, but only getting them three points was critical to us winning the game."
The Falcons indeed have a run-first identity. Coming into this game, they ran the ball over 51% of the time, which was the highest rate in the NFL. In the first half, the Steelers were prepared for this, holding them to a mere 31 rushing yards on six carries. The Steelers front forced two negative plays, and took away what the Falcons do best en route to holding them to six first half points.
The Steelers went into the second half with a 16-6 lead, and were expecting the Falcons to pass the ball. As Heyward said, however, the Falcons did not abandon their identity. Indeed, they ran for over 100 yards in the second half, and cut the Steelers' lead to three points. However, it was ultimately not enough, and the Steelers came away with the victory.
In the big picture, giving up rushing yards while up double digits is not the worst thing in the world. The Steelers' run defense, which ranked in the top six coming into this game, held up well with all things considered. As Heyward went on to mention, the team kept the Falcons out of the end zone on all but one drive, which is ultimately why they won the game. Had the Steelers' run defense given the Falcons' rushing attack momentum in the first half, we may be looking at a different outcome.
All in all, this was an impressive game by the Steelers' defense. This is a unit that has had its ups and downs, but run defense is something they have undeniably done well. After ranking dead last in run defense last season, this looks like a completely different unit in the trenches. As they prepare to face another run-heavy offense in their AFC North rival Baltimore Ravens next week, they will need another strong defensive effort in the trenches.
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Matthew McConaughey was recently at Jimmy Kimmel Live with Snoop Dogg promoting their new movie "The Beach Bum" and he got pretty naughty.
In the movie, Matthew plays a guy named "Moondog" who, among other things, is a marijuana enthusiast. So Jimmy Kimmel sent Matthew (dressed as Moondog) out onto Hollywood Boulevard to offer people a variety of cannabis-infused food items which were really just regular food items. The result was hilarious!


JayDee started a thread with an interactive choose-your-own adventure! It's really cool (unlike anything else from the RPG Subforum). You should check it out!
Got ya! It was totally April Fools!
I don't even own a cat!
Decided to make it a legit thread instead of a blog. Enjoy!
You might want to turn the volume up a little. Sorry for that!
So, you think OWF is dead?
But are you got-an-autograph-from-Nemo-cool? I don't think so.
You basically can't buy anything from Amazon in Poland if you don't have a credit/debit card, but even if you do, it only accepts just a few types of them.
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Chapman: Why Elizabeth Warren is not so electable
By Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune
The most important consideration for Democratic primary voters this year is not which candidate would make the best president, because the worst of their candidates would be a gargantuan improvement over Donald Trump. The most important consideration is which one gives them the best chance of beating Trump. Everything else is a distraction.
Elizabeth Warren presents herself as the most electable contender in the field. "I'm the only person who will be on the debate stage who's beaten a popular incumbent Republican anytime in the last 25 years," she boasted recently in Davenport, Iowa. "In other words, I know how to fight, I know how to win, and that's what I plan to do."
But Warren's record is not exactly one of slaying dragons. It's more one of trapping mice. Massachusetts Democrats lose to Republicans about as often as the Harlem Globetrotters succumb to the Washington Generals.
The state has more than three times as many registered Democrats as Republicans. There is not a single Republican in its congressional delegation.
Democrats have controlled both houses of the state legislature since 1959, often with supermajorities. In statewide elections, it takes considerable incompetence for a Democrat to lose, and even that may not be enough.
Take that race Warren cites. In 2012, she challenged Scott Brown, a Republican who had won a special election to fill the vacancy left by the death of Ted Kennedy. Brown got 52% of the vote in a low-turnout contest in January 2010. At the time, Congress was debating Barack Obama's health insurance plan, which a majority of Bay State voters opposed. Brown's victory was, to a large extent, a fluke.
Two years later, he lost to Warren, but her victory was nothing to brag about. In a strong Democratic year, in a heavily Democratic state, she got 53.7% of the vote.
Compare that with Obama, who got 60.8% of the vote — even though his opponent was a former governor of Massachusetts named Mitt Romney. Or compare it with Massachusetts' other senator, Democrat Ed Markey, whose worst showing in his three races was 54.8%. In her home stadium, Warren has been an underperformer.
Speaking of her home state, Democrats should make a sober assessment of history before nominating someone from there. They tried it in 1988 with Michael Dukakis, who lost to George H.W. Bush, and they tried in 2004 with John Kerry, who lost to George W. Bush. The GOP tried it in 2012 with Romney.
No one has been elected from the Bay State since John F. Kennedy, 60 years ago. (The elder Bush was born there, but he was no more identified with Massachusetts than Abraham Lincoln was with Kentucky.)
There's a reason for this losing record: Massachusetts is an ideological outlier. A 2019 Gallup Poll found that of the 50 states, it has the highest share of people who identify themselves as liberals (35%) and the lowest share of self-described conservatives (21%).
That's roughly the inverse of the national electorate, which is 37% conservative and 24% liberal. It's also roughly the inverse of the Great Lakes swing states -- Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin -- that delivered victory to Trump.
Warren, if anything, leans even further left than the state she represents. The website Voteview, which tracks every roll-call vote, has rated her the most liberal member of Congress for the entire time she has been there. Based on her voting record, the website FiveThirtyEight's Harry Enten concludes she is "far to the left of Obama."
By his calculations, Warren would the most liberal nominee since 1972, when George McGovern got a pathetic 37% of the vote and carried a single state. You can guess which one.
If Democrats want someone with demonstrably broader appeal, there is Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, a state far closer to the national ideological norm. In her three Senate races, her vote shares were 58%, 65% and 60%. In 2012, she ran more than 12 points ahead of Obama, which means that more than 300,000 people who voted for Romney also voted for her.
In 2016, Hillary Clinton won just nine of the state's 87 counties, though that was enough to carry Minnesota. In 2018, Klobuchar won 51 of them, including most of those that Trump had carried.
Democratic voters, who have grown more liberal, may be tempted to nominate Warren because of her indelibly liberal positions. Democratic voters intent on their most critical goal expelling Trump -- should look elsewhere.
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Michael Baker International Promotes Two Transportation Lead
CHICAGO, Sept. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Michael Baker International, a global leader in engineering, planning and consulting services celebrating 80 Years of Making a Difference, announced today that Steve Gravlin, P.E., P.S., has been promoted to Vice President and Office Executive in Detroit, Michigan, and Sue Barker, P.E., has been promoted to Vice President and Office Executive in Madison, Wisconsin, as the firm looks to expand client relationships and drive growth in the Great Lakes Region.
"I am confident the expertise Steve and Sue bring to their leadership roles will help us accelerate growth and deliver project excellence for our clients throughout the region," said Kent Zinn, Regional Director of Michael Baker's Great Lakes Region. "They will remain trusted advisors to clients and colleagues alike in their expanded roles, as we continue to demonstrate how We Make a Difference for the communities we serve."
Steve Gravlin, P.E., P.S., is a seasoned transportation infrastructure professional with more than 30 years of experience providing superior client service, project/program management, staff development, strategic planning and innovative contracting. For the past three years, Mr. Gravlin has managed Michael Baker's first Michigan office, where he successfully partnered with team members from across the Region to grow the office's service offerings and drive business in the Detroit Metro area and across the state. Prior to joining Michael Baker, he supervised teams working on transportation projects with design budgets of $10 million and construction budgets between $400 million to $1.3 billion per year. His expertise includes both Design-Build and P3 contracting, and ranges from bridge design and complete streets/urban arterial design to green infrastructure, hydraulics and climate change mitigation. Mr. Gravlin holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Michigan.
Sue Barker, P.E., has more than 30 years of industry experience in large-scale transportation projects, with an emphasis on transportation planning, rural and urban roadway design, construction management and public involvement. Ms. Barker has a comprehensive understanding of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) facilities development process and has successfully managed roadway design projects on local roadway systems, as well as State and U.S. highways. Most recently, she served as Office Manager of Michael Baker's Madison office, where she successful directed and led the office in support of several high-profile WisDOT projects throughout the state. She also previously served as a Project Manager in the firm's Madison office where she provided engineering design and oversight for projects ranging in type, size and complexity. Ms. Barker earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
About Michael Baker International
Michael Baker International, celebrating 80 Years of Making a Difference, is a leading provider of engineering and consulting services, including design, planning, architectural, environmental, construction and program management. The company provides its comprehensive range of services and solutions to support U.S. federal, state, and municipal governments, foreign allied governments, and a wide range of commercial clients. Michael Baker's more than 3,000 employees across nearly 100 locations are committed to a culture of innovation, collaboration and technological advancement to help solve challenges for clients and communities throughout the country. To learn more, visit www.mbakerintl.com.
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MyrGorod is the first mobile city to accommodate homeless kittens and cats in an urban environment.
Myrgorod will be exhibited every month in any convenient building and district, be it a shopping, entertainment or sports center. It will not be a problem to install this mobile complex, where cats and kittens will feel comfortable and safe and will be able to find a family. For cats, special protected places will be equipped so that the animals do not run away and they can communicate with them. The town will also be surrounded by a high safety fence. We hope to find like-minded people here who will help realize our dream. Those who love and worry for homeless animals understand that the most important thing in life for them is to find a family and a house. We decided to shorten this difficult path in search of a loving family and only thanks to your help, Myrgorod will be able to open the doors for all homeless cats and cats. Now, wishing to have an animal, it will be enough to get to MyrGorod in your area and choose a kitten, communicating with him in a cozy and warm atmosphere. Every child who does not have the opportunity to play with the kitten at home can get to the fairy-tale city of cats and communicate with fluffy residents. We want our project for everyone, be it children or adults, helped to open their hearts, feel themselves truly alive.
In addition to the important meaningful goal of providing an opportunity for homeless animals to find a family, it is also important to make it clear to the residents of the city how our presence in the life of furry friends is necessary and how much we need them !!! Help to animals is not some kind of utopia, but an absolutely real opportunity for kittens and cats to find a family and a house.
It is no secret to anyone that animals sometimes melt even the coldest hearts. Let these nice creatures show you and your children a real life without falsehood, where for the kindness, care and affection will be answered the same, sincerely and honestly. We were all taught that the strong must help the weak, so let us adhere to this truth.
The life activity of the "MyrGorod" project will have a positive impact on the culture as a whole and after touching the mission of the project, the heart of each family will help to increase love around the world. And homeless animals will have a chance to find a reliable home.
Murlandia Art is organized and conducted Charity Fund "Myrgrad" to help the animals (with the support of International competition of children's and youth creativity "Transformation") with the aim of realizing creative potential in children and youth, as well as for the preservation and promotion of cordial relations to homeless animals, creating the circle (environment) for the development and exchange of experience in the field of homeless animals.


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TAKE IT WITH YOU: Gene Pearson's masks and other ceramic creations can be found in collections across the globe. Now, the celebrated Jamaican sculptor/artist has widened his reach and diversified his brand to include fashion. Introducing "Art on Fashion" by Gene Pearson. The line includes stylish wardrobe and travel items emblazoned with crisp images of Pearson designs. Ladies-who-lunch might opt for a modal scarf (bearing his 2-colour mask, the green mask or the natural head) or a chic tote bag (showing off his teapot). Party girls might favour his "Face on the Rocks" and "Face Palm" sleeveless tops. As for the guys, you'll turn heads in the unisex tee brought to life by Pearson's "Pink Faces" and "Collage 1". Christmas is upon us so why not treat mommy dearest to a "Bag of Masks" statement bag or a "2 Colour Mask" foldaway tote? For the full catalogue, log on to shopvida.com/collections/gene-pearson or visit genepearsonstudio.com.
NATURAL BEAUTY: Craig Phang Sang should publicly exhibit his work more often. He'd attract patrons by the hundreds. The seasoned photographer, who's been honing his craft for decades, has a knack for capturing the most breathtaking images with his lens. All black and white. All stunning in form and function. They make ideal collectors' items and holiday gifts. His enormous portfolio was a major attraction at last Sunday's Liguanea Art Festival, drawing festivalgoers who loaded his guestbook with comments expressing awe at his discerning eye. The Asian-Jamaican's pieces range from landscapes and portraits to idyllic Jamaican scenery and Mother Nature in all her regal glory. View his galleries and make your purchases at craigphangsangphotography.com.


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Dan Patrick was the only state senator "who voted against the Veteran Entrepreneurship Program, a program that assists veterans in successfully starting up their own businesses."
— Leticia Van de Putte on Friday, June 27th, 2014 in her speech to the Texas Democratic Party state convention
Dan Patrick was sole senator to oppose veterans program for entreprenuership
By W. Gardner Selby on Thursday, July 3rd, 2014 at 10:00 a.m.
Democrat Leticia Van de Putte told her party's state convention her Republican opponent for lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, is so out of step, he stood alone against a program to help veterans.
Van de Putte, of San Antonio, and Patrick, of Houston, both are members of the 31-member Texas Senate.
In her speech, Van de Putte declared she's watched Patrick's Senate votes. "I mean," Van de Putte said, "Dan was the only vote, the only one in the entire Senate who voted against the Veteran Entrepreneurship Program, a program that assists veterans in successfully starting up their own businesses. That's not putting Texas first."
We wondered about this program and whether Patrick indeed was alone in opposition among the senators.
On Van de Putte's behalf, Manny Garcia, a Texas Democratic Party spokesman, pointed out by email that according to the state's Senate Journal, which tracks Senate actions, Patrick voted April 18, 2013, against approval of a proposal related to the creation of the veteran entrepreneur program by the Texas Veterans Commission. According to the journal, Patrick asked to be recorded as voting against even taking up Senate Bill 1476. Patrick then voted against preliminary and final approval of the measure, according to the entry, which advanced to the House by a 29-1 margin; one senator was absent, according to the journal.
To our inquiry, Patrick's campaign manager, Logan Spence, emailed us that Patrick voted against the proposal "because it expanded the state's bureaucracy with a new function that would be more efficiently absorbed in a different agency." Separately, the non-partisan House Research Organization said in its May 2013 description of the proposal that opponents considered the legislation "unnecessary because it would spend state dollars for assistance already offered by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Patrick wasn't the only legislator to oppose the measure.
According to legislative records, Rep. Matt Schaefer, R-Tyler, was the "no" vote on the proposal when it cleared the House Committee on Military & Veterans Affairs by 7-1. And on May 14, 2013, five House members asked to be recorded as voting against preliminary approval of the legislation, according to the House Journal. House members gave their final approval by 125-19, the journal shows, but afterward, five members reported intentions to vote "no" even though they were recorded as voting "yes."
The proposal, signed into law by Gov. Rick Perry, required the Texas Veterans Commission to establish the "veteran entrepreneur program to perform outreach functions to improve veteran entrepreneurs' and business owners' awareness of federal and state benefits and services," according to an analysis by the Texas Senate Research Center.
The effort, which relied on lawmakers ponying up funding, was projected to cost more than $210,000 a year, according to the legislation's fiscal note. By email, commission spokesman Duncan McGhee told us the program fielded about $257,000 in funding for the two budget years starting September 2013. Since the law took effect, he said, it has helped nearly 1,300 veterans "toward entrepreneurship." Day to day, he said by phone, three staff people organize seminars around the state and give one-on-one business advice to veterans.
Van de Putte said Patrick was the only senator to vote against the Veteran Entrepreneurship Program.
Ten-hut! We rate this claim as True.
Published: Thursday, July 3rd, 2014 at 10:00 a.m.
Researched by: W. Gardner Selby
Edited by: Debra Davis
Subjects: Veterans
Email, Emmanuel Garcia, communications director, Texas Democratic Party
Publication, Texas Senate Journal, April 18, 2013 (accessed June 30, 2014)
Document, "Bill Analysis, S.B. 1476," Texas Senate Research Center, July 24, 2013 (accessed June 30, 2014)
Document, "Fiscal Note, SB 1476," Legislative Budget Board, March 19, 2013 (accessed June 30, 2014)
Report, "Daily Floor Report," House Research Organization, May 14, 2013 (accessed July 2, 2014)
Emails (excerpted) and telephone interview, Duncan McGhee, program manager, Veteran Entrepreneur Program, Texas Veterans Commission, June 30 and July 2, 2014
Email (excerpted), Logan Spence, campaign manager, Dan Patrick for Lieutenant Governor, July 2, 2014


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Second-grade students at North Carolina magnet school given "white privilege" handout as outraged parents fume
JD Heyes
(Natural News) During his nationally syndicated program on Thursday, talk radio legend Rush Limbaugh argued that the Marxist Left has so infiltrated our public school system, polluting it with filth, perversion, and masochistic curriculum designed to further our cultural rot that it should be dismantled (figuratively) and rebuilt from the ground up.
After reading about what some second-grade students in North Carolina are being taught about race, it's hard to disagree with him.
As reported by The Washington Times, eight-year-olds attending Hunter Magnet Elementary were sent home one day last month with a handout teaching them about "white privilege" in what appears to be the latest effort to sow permanent division among future generations of Americans.
The handout is labeled, "Step 3: (Begin to) Understand the Concept of White Privilege," and it lists 'statistics' that purport to show there are a disproportionate number of white people in government, the media, and the entertainment industry — without additional explanation or context. The handout's source sounds even more dubious: It used 2016-2017 data from an article titled, "No, I Won't Stop Saying 'White Supremacy,'" by Robin DiAngelo, an admitted white person who apparently has a guilt problem for some reason.
Needless to say, parents were outraged, and rightfully so.
"I think the message itself is inappropriate because, yes, there is racism out there, and they need to learn about it, but let the parents do that," said Amber Pabon in an interviewwith ABC affiliate WTVD. "Because like I said, if she's teaching him the way she knows, it could be completely different from the way I know. And me being part of the black community, I know different from how the white community sees it."
The Times reported that a note posted at the top of the handout said it was part of an initiative by the PTA to generate "awareness and empathy to create a safe and equitable Hunter Community."
But anyone with an IQ above room temperature — and who isn't a blatant partisan — knows better than that. This is nothing more than the latest Left-wing effort to stir up racial tensions as part of a political agenda of control, period. Eight-year-old kids don't, under 99.9 percent of circumstances, know anything about "racism" — until they're taught how to be racists. And that's just what this handout does, it teaches minorities to hate white people solely through disingenuous association with statistical majorities in certain fields that don't have anything to do with racial requirements. (Related: White Privilege is a hoax, taught to children in corrupt school systems.)
For example, the handout doesn't say that more politicians are white because white people are simply more interested in getting into politics. It does say that in heavy minority districts minority candidates win a majority of races. And it doesn't say that there are no laws or racial requirements to run for office. Eight-year-olds are just force-fed this garbage intentionally out of context because the goal isn't "awareness" it's division, it's political power, it's the advancement of a destructive, mean, nasty, and authoritarian ideology.
Notice that sports were left off of the list of occupations mentioned in the handout. The little Stalins who produced this handout couldn't use professional football or basketball as examples of "white privilege" because both of those sports — which provide players with fantastic salaries and incredible opportunities — are dominated by black athletes, and that doesn't fit the narrative.
This kind of stuff is not educational, it's not productive, and it's not conducive to long-term social and civil stability — it's divisive, it is harmful to our culture, and furthermore, those two effects are intentional.
Rush Limbaugh is right. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, to the extent she has the president's backing and the authority to do so, should nuke the current public school structure and rebuild it from the ground up, with an eye towards keeping this kind of harmful "curriculum" out.
See more academic lunacy at CampusInsanity.com.
J.D. Heyes is a senior writer for NaturalNews.com and NewsTarget.com, as well as editor of The National Sentinel.
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Genelo II Genúnio (; ) foi um nobre armênio (nacarar) do final do  e começo do VI. Era senhor dos Genúnios em 505 e foi mencionado no Livro das Cartas (Girk T'lt'ots).

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Q: return facebook javascript api sdk response in function placing a fb js sdk api login call in a function and returning it's response.
I am breaking down different features into functions and was wondering how I can return the response this facebook call generates to be used elsewhere.
function facebook_login()
{
    FB.login(function(response) {
       // handle the response
       console.log('in facebook_login function');
       console.dir(response.authResponse);
       return response;
    }, {scope: 'publish_actions', return_scopes: true});
}

var response_from_facebook_login_function = facebook_login();

A: Ajax is async, so you need to use a callback function. Try this:
function facebook_login(call_back){
//etc
console.dir(response.authResponse);
call_back(response);
//etc

facebook_login(saveResponse);

function saveResponse(response){
    var response_from_facebook_login_function=response;
}


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Q: Django MultipleChoiceField does not preserve order of selected values I have a Django ModelForm which exposes a multiple choice field corresponding to a many-to-many relation through a model which holds order of selection (a list of documents) as an extra attribute. At the front-end, the field is displayed as two multiple select fields similar to that in admin, one to list available choices and the other holds the selected elements.
The form can be saved with the correct selection of elements but they are always in the order of the original order of choices, not the selection. The browser sends the selection in correct order, but order in form.cleaned_data['documents'] is always the order in original order of choices.
How can I make the MultipleChoiceField respect the order of elements selected?
Thanks.

A: There is no simple way. You either need to override the clean method of the MultipleChoiceField or, as you mentioned in your comment, use the getlist to re-order them manually. It probably depends how often in your code do you need to do it.
The clean method of MultipleChoiceField creates a QuerySet that you are receiving, by filtering an object list through the IN operator like this, so the order is given by the database:
qs = self.queryset.filter(**{'%s__in' % key: value})

You can inherit from ModelMultipleChoiceField:
class OrderedModelMultipleChoiceField(ModelMultipleChoiceField):
    def clean(self, value):
        qs = super(OrderedModelMultipleChoiceField, self).clean(value)
        return sorted(qs, lambda a,b: sorted(qs, key=lambda x:value.index(x.pk)))

The drawback is that the returned value is no longer a QuerySet but an ordinary list.

A: To return an ordered QuerySet when overriding the clean method you could also do this:
class OrderedModelMultipleChoiceField(ModelMultipleChoiceField):
    def clean(self, value):
        qs = super(OrderedModelMultipleChoiceField, self).clean(value)
        clauses = ' '.join(['WHEN id=%s THEN %s' % (pk, i) for i, pk in enumerate(value)])
        return qs.filter(pk__in=value).extra(
            select={'ordering': 'CASE %s END' % clauses},
            order_by=('ordering',)
        )

A: I did it via a Widget. The benefit of it is, it will sort properly in different languages:
class SortedSelectMultiple(SelectMultiple):

def render_options(self, selected_choices):
    self.choices = sorted(self.choices)
    self.choices.sort(key=lambda x: x[1])
    return super(SortedSelectMultiple, self).render_options(selected_choices)

A: I am able to maintain the order of the selection using following way:
class OrderedModelMultipleChoiceField(models.ModelMultipleChoiceField):

    def clean(self, value):
        qs = super(OrderedModelMultipleChoiceField, self).clean(value)
        preserved = Case(*[When(pk=pk, then=pos) for pos, pk in enumerate(value)])
        return qs.filter(pk__in=value).order_by(preserved)

Note: I am using Django 2.2


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Committee praises NASA's planetary science program but raises some concerns
by Jeff Foust — August 14, 2018
While NASA is proceeding with studies of a Europa lander mission, a National Academies committee concluded the proposed mission, not a top priority in the latest decadal survey, "should be vetted within the decadal survey process." Credit: NASA/JPL
WASHINGTON — NASA has done a good job implementing the recommendations of its latest planetary science decadal survey despite past budget problems, but needs to improve some programs, a recent report concluded.
The midterm assessment of the 2011 planetary science decadal survey, prepared by a National Academies committee and published Aug. 7, found that NASA was able to make progress on both flagship and smaller missions recommended by the survey even with funding cuts in the early years of the decade.
"The committee concluded that despite significant cuts to the Planetary Science Division's budget early in this decade, NASA has made impressive progress at meeting the decadal survey's goals," the committee noted in its final report, a reference to a nearly 20 percent cut in planetary science funding in 2013 to less than $1.3 billion. Its budget has subsequently risen significantly, to $2.2 billion in 2018.
The progress includes work on two flagship-class missions prioritized in the report, a Mars rover mission to cache samples for later return to Earth and a spacecraft to orbit Jupiter's icy moon Europa. Those concepts have become the Mars 2020 and Europa Clipper missions, respectively, after undergoing redesigns to reduce their projected budgets from the decadal report.
The committee, though, did note concerns about the potential cost of Europa Clipper, a multi-billion-dollar mission. "NASA should continue to closely monitor the cost and schedule associated with the Europa Clipper to ensure that it remains executable" without affecting other missions, the committee recommended. "If the [lifecycle cost] exceeds this range, NASA should de-scope the mission."
The committee was more skeptical about a third flagship-class mission in the early stages of development, a Europa lander mission. The mission has enjoyed funding well above any administration requests largely due to the advocacy of Rep. John Culberson (R-Texas), who chairs the House appropriations subcommittee that funds NASA and is the most prominent congressional supporter of the mission.
A Europa lander, the committee noted, was not prioritized in the latest decadal survey, which called it a "far term" mission that did not receive a detailed cost and technical assessment at the time. "The midterm committee, although it lacks an official cost estimate, believes the mission cost to be in the multiple billions of dollars range," it concluded.
"Given its cost and its potential impact on the rest of the planetary science program, the committee concluded that the mission should be vetted within the decadal survey process," the report stated.
The committee also raised concerns about the future of Mars exploration. NASA's only Mars exploration under development is Mars 2020, although the agency has started studies of a so-called "lean" sample return architecture announced last August. That would require two more missions, one to collect the cached samples and launch them into Mars orbit, and another to collect the sample canister in Mars orbit and return it to Earth.
The committee concluded NASA should continue to study that Mars sample return architecture, but argued that with no other missions on the books, the sample return missions could be vulnerable to failures of existing Mars orbits that serve as communications relays. No other Mars science missions are under development as well.
"There is a risk that ongoing and soon-to-be landed assets on Mars will be left without telecommunications support because of the aging orbiters. The system is fragile and aging," the committee stated. "There is currently no vision for a program beyond sample return, either for scientific investigation or to prepare for future human exploration."
The committee recommended that NASA create a Mars Exploration Program (MEP) "architecture, strategic plan, management structure, partnerships (including commercial partnerships), and budget that address the science goals for Mars exploration" outlined in the decadal survey. "This approach of managing the MEP as a program, rather than just as a series of missions, enables science optimization at the architectural level."
Another recommendation of the committee was to increase the cadence of the Discovery and New Frontiers programs of low- and medium-cost competitively selected planetary science missions. Budget cuts earlier in the decade affected the pace of competitions in both programs, and NASA has struggled to catch up even with increased funding in recent years.
The committee concluded that, to meet the mission cadence recommended in the decadal survey, NASA select three missions in upcoming competitions expected to take place in 2019 and 2021. NASA selected two missions, Lucy and Psyche, in its previous Discovery competition that concluded in January 2017.
The report also offered advice for the next decadal survey in the planetary sciences, which will likely begin by mid-2020 for publication in the spring of 2022. That survey will need to take into account both new science objectives, particularly in astrobiology, as well as new technologies and capabilities, such as smallsats.
The committee in particular recommended that NASA sponsor 8 to 10 concept studies of missions for potential consideration in the next decadal survey. That includes revisiting a previous study of an "ice giants" mission to Uranus and/or Neptune, citing different scientific objectives in a 2017 study versus those outlined in the decadal survey as well as concerns that "the scientific payload proposed in the study carries significant risk of failing to make the measurements" outlined in the decadal.
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As I have written about in the past, I enjoy the late afternoon watching the sun go down behind my studio, and meditating every evening, however, the flies have been "bugging me" and invading my nirvana.
I have citronella candles to keep the mosquitoes away and I do believe I hear tiny laughter coming from the flies as they seem to take over my space. I discussed this with a friend of mine who suggested creating a fly trap. It's a Ball mason jar with quarter-inch holes drilled in the top, then cat food and cane syrup are placed in the jar. It was absolutely amazing.
I did this and could not believe the results hundreds of flies have stepped into my "web." I started thinking what a diabolical but soothing effect it had on me as I watched them give into their lust for this delicious formula in the jar.
This led me to reminisce about my childhood when I would watch one of my father's many aquariums and exotic fish for hours. I concluded that I enjoyed watching the flies in the jar every bit as much, perhaps even more. Was this a sign of senility or old age, or are my standards low as well as flexible?
For whatever the reason I shall continue to enjoy my soothing twisted past time, and I have somehow learned to forgive myself.
When I'm not catching flies, I'm painting. Catch me in front of the easel creating things like these pieces here. Most of them are sold but some are still available.
Take Private Art Lessons This Summer!
Just a heads up for anyone interested in taking private lessons. I will be teaching private lessons this summer through the month of July and August.
Students may bring a photo of something they would like to paint, or perhaps a lesson on location painting "plein air." Lessons will be $100 each. Anyone who has ever entertained the thought of learning how to paint, or someone that's a seasoned artist wishing to increase their skills in front of an easel, please consider taking a lesson.
These lessons would also make a fine gift item for an aspiring artist one may know. For more information click the link provided below. Lessons sessions will be on a first come first serve basis.
Each lesson will be held at my studio in Meridian, Mississippi in a beautiful bucolic set area in the comfort of a modern air-conditioned studio.
Click the link directly below to signup for lessons today.
I am often asked by many students for advice. Many of them want to know how to make a living as an artist or a student that may be considering going into art full-time wants to know what they should do. My recommendation is to head to business school for a couple of years and learn computer skills to the max. There are many artist that are sophomoric at best that I see making a great living because of their knowledge of marketing.
This has always been the Achille's heel of many artists. We live in the creative side of the brain, not the analytical or mathematical side, and we pay the price dearly. This is also true of many musicians and almost anyone trying to make a living in the arts.
I remember way back to the times when you walk into a gallery with three or four of your paintings and strike a deal with the gallery owner. This deal would typically be a 70/30 split, 70% for the artist and 30% for the gallery. Those days are long gone though! Believe it or not, I've seen 40% even 50% and some New York galleries up to 90% in commissions. But today is a different day…Now the American artist is facing a revolution if you will.
Well, believe it or not, a great number of galleries today will purchase paintings from China, South America, and Eastern Europe. They do it for as low as $100 and bring them back to the United States. They then sell them for $1,000 or more.
Of course, they do so with the very little chance of the collector ever finding out who the artist truly is. The reputation has been left a mystery and determining whether or not this is a wise investment is very difficult. These paintings are seldom signed, and most likely the products of sweatshops that create art by the yard. It's the truth of the matter and it needs to be said, so I'm letting it be known.
Now, if you're an artist that happens to show in one of these galleries you might be in a tough spot. If there's a decorator or a collector looking for something and your painting is on the wall for a 50% split right next to it a painting from China (which brings the gallery 90% gross), which painting do you think they're more likely to push?
This is much to the chagrin of the American artist trying to make a living. Being able to buy art online through thousands of different sites, a lot of decorators and collectors make the decision to purchase online rather than go through a gallery at what they believe is a better price.
Having been a gallery owner for 40 years, I know that side of it, but I'm also an artist that has been making a living as such for a very long time. This is one of the difficulties of being an artist in 2017.
My good friend is an art wholesaler travels the world buying paintings and bringing them to the United States. He sells them to different commercial galleries. Now, he also is faced with galleries going around him and directly to dealers from China, Russia, and Eastern Europe. They sell the paintings at somewhat of a "wholesale" price directly to the galleries.
So as you can see, it's a vicious cycle and unless one knows how to massage the Internet, use it to its max, then it's easy to get left in the dust. It's a given that an artist must reinvent themselves just to stay ahead of the fray, and feel like we are growing. However, the correlation between how to find an artist, idnetifying how much talent an artist has, and how successful financially one is, are like comparing apples and oranges. One has very little to do with the other unfortunately.
If you're looking to take on the full-time role of a living artist making a good living in 2017, then make sure your Internet and business knowledge is up to snuff!
Fly Fisherman Painting and No More 5″ x 7″ Paintings!?!
I've been creating pieces like Old Miller Place and Spring Hillside, as well as many others for quite some time. But I'm starting to get back to the larger pieces and I'm really enjoying it. Sure, it takes much more time and effort, but I love doing it.
Another thing I love to do is go fly fishing. While I don't get to do it as often as I'd like. I still thoroughly enjoy it. Given that spring is here and summer is around the corner, I had to release this fly fishing painting.
It's a 20″ x 24″ oil on canvas that I spent a long time creating. The piece is $1,200 and it's now available for purchase on the site. The trees took quite some time to capture.
One last thing, I've got a favor to ask. I'm looking for topics to publish articles on that are related to both collecting and creating art. If there are any topics that you'd like me to cover please reply to the email with your thoughts.
I'd love to cover topics of interest should you have any. I'm not here to simply paint. I want to improve your relationship with fine art in general.
Here's a video of me creating an Old Man painting from start to finish. The speed is 2000 times the normal speed. I did this for demonstration purposes to show both collectors and students what typically goes on throughout the process.
Of course, the entire process varies in terms of time and details depending on the piece. However, this should give you an idea as to what typically takes place. Special thanks to my friend Alan Sands for creating and editing the video.
If you're interested in purchasing one of the pieces within the Old Man Series, please feel free to check them out here. Additionally, the Flash Sales event is currently taking place through 4/30. Get 50% off any painting by applying the coupon code "SPRING" at checkout. Due to demand, availability within this series is limited. Click the image below to see all the available pieces!
Mother's Day Sale 50% OFF Every Original Painting!
I hope you're having a great start to the new week. If you've been following me on social media, then you've probably seen the videos that I've been posting of the painting, inventory updating and packaging of pieces for the SPRING sitewide flash sale.
The sale is well underway with 50% EVERYTHING online. All you need to do is apply the coupon code "SPRING" during the checkout process.
Today I wanted to take some time to share some info on a few specific pieces.
The piece below is titled, "Bonita Trees" and it's a 20″ x 16″ piece that I did on location. The piece is a new release that's part of "The Collection" launch. If you click on the image you'll see the full piece and notice how green the foliage was at the time. The wind was perfect as was the natural light with the sun slightly beaming through the trees.
This is "One Golden Hour" and it's a 24″ x 30″ oil on canvas. This took a great deal of time to paint with lots of detail being captured as the sunset took place from afar. You really need to click on the piece to see the full scene. I remember the exact day that I painted this piece as the sky was unforgettable.
This is titled "One Golden Hour" it's a 24 x 30 oil on canvas the price is $2400.
If you're a Breaking Bad fan then you might like this piece. I've been told by many people that it subconsiously reminds them of a younger version of Tuco's Uncle from the Award Winning TV Series Breaking Bad. I spent a lot of time focusing on using thick short brush strokes to really make this piece pop. Those short bold brush strokes are one of the things that I'm most known for with regards to the Old Man Series. This is a 16″ x 20″ oil on panel.
Another Old Man Series piece that stands out is the "Old Man Study Impasto Painting." I've been told that this piece looks like the AMC TV character Hershel Greene. If you know who this is, then no explanation needed I guess. It took weeks for this piece to dry due to the thickness of the paint used. The purposely completed the piece with white space left on the canvas to make it look as though it formed out of the blue.
Last but not least, I wanted to share some info on the "Banks of the Pearl." I headed to Columbia, MS one morning, came across this scene and couldn't help myself but capture it best as I could. There was very interesting flora in the foreground and I needed to paint it right there. This is a 10″ x 12″ oil on panel.
If anyone has any questions about any other pieces, please feel free to email me. The sale take place through 4/30. Special thanks to all the collectors that have recently purchased pieces. Aside from one one piece in the final stages of the drying process, they're all being professionally packaged and will go out within the next 1-2 business days.
I speak with my nephew every morning. We talk about a lot of things.
Most recently, I spoke with him and he mentioned that he'd already worked out for nearly two hours prior to our call.
I asked him why and he said that it was just how he likes to start the day. If I recall, he said it was his way of chasing a pot of gold. He does it before anything else.
I thought to myself, I sometimes like to get up in the morning and capture that morning gold coming up in the far.
It's a 5″ x 7″ oil on panel that's now available for $100 for a limited time only.
Also, I've got another piece on sale that's a larger and looser piece. It's a middle road abstract-ish landscape that I painted a while back. I attacked the canvas quickly to give it that look and feel.


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A flight with Freycinet Air is a must if you are a photographer. Alternatively if climbing isn't your thing it saves the effort required to see Wineglass Bay. Pilots are experienced and very knowledgeable about the area. The new plane accommodates up to 5 passengers. Recommended!!


Recent changes in coronary heart disease mortality in Australia, the USA and in the UK (England and Wales were compared. Sharp declines in mortality dating from 1966 in Australia and from 1968 in the USA in both sexes contrast with a persistent increase in men in England and Wales until 1972 (after which a slight fall occurred) and a consistent slight fall in women since 1950. Changes in 3 major risk factors (hypertension, cigarette smoking and diet) in the 3 countries were investigated to determine to what extent such changes might correlate with the different patterns of mortality. There was a progressive and similar fall in mortality due to hypertension in both sexes in all 3 countries since 1950. There was a rise in cigarette smoking in all 3 countries from 1947 followed by a fall in the USA from 1963 and a more recent fall in men in Australia. There was a leveling off of smoking in the UK in middle-aged and older men but not in women where smoking rates increased from 1950. There was a progressive slight fall in overall coronary heart disease mortality (although there is evidence of a recent rise in younger women). Changes in dietary constituents (meat, eggs, milk and cheese, butter or margarine) were examined by reference to aggregate consumption data. In Australia and the USA increases in vegetable fat consumption occurred since 1950 with a reduction in animal fat in Australia but not in the USA. In the UK increases in vegetable fat were not observed while there was some increase in animal fat. The different patterns of coronary heart disease mortality in the 3 countries correlate to some extent with changes in diet and cigarette smoking.


A man convicted of murdering an off-duty county police captain during an attempted robbery in 2004 was sentenced to death Thursday.
Miguel Magallon, 26, was convicted July 24 of first-degree murder and attempted robbery of Michael Sparkes, 53, a veteran law enforcement officer who was confronted while riding his bicycle and then shot with a military-style assault rifle shortly after 5:30 a.m. on Aug. 10, 2004, at Redondo Beach and Avalon boulevards in the Rosewood area near Compton.
In accepting the jury's recommendation of death, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Kathleen Kennedy rejected a defense motion for a new trial or to reduce the sentence from death to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Sparkes was shot nine times in two bursts from the assault rifle, but managed to fire 16 rounds from a 9 mm Beretta handgun that he carried with his badge in his fanny pack while riding his bicycle. Magallon was hit by one bullet.
Sparkes, who had been with the county police department for 30 years, died at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, where he had supervised the hospital's security force. He was married and had a son who was 7 at the time.
Jurors found true the special circumstance allegations of murder during an attempted robbery and murder during a drive-by shooting but deadlocked on a third special circumstance allegation that Sparkes was intentionally killed while engaged in the performance of his law enforcement duties.
Jurors also found true an allegation that Magallon had personally and intentionally discharged a rifle in the commission of the crime and that the crime was committed for the benefit of a criminal street gang.
Four days later, jurors recommended the death sentence.
Magallon's next-door neighbor, Orvis Anthony, pleaded guilty Sept. 18 to first-degree murder and was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison. Authorities said he drove the car used in the shooting.


People through the generations have created items with their hands using the supplies found around them. On this trip through the past Junior Rangers will explore some of these techniques and create a little bit of history to take home. For ages 7-12.


This lecture is not called New Places to Travel, but rather New Ways to Travel.
By that I mean new ways to think about travel. Because how you view travel is how you will travel.
It also means looking at what travel can come to mean in your life, how you and your tastes and income can be at home with travel, and the many ways technology and demographics have changed travel in the past 10 years – and will change it even more in the next decade mainly for the better, but sometimes not.
Most of all, this is about how you can use travel to create a richer life. If a week on the beach every winter does that for you, terrific. But there's a world of other possibilities out there that I urge you to explore.
They're summed up in the words of Cheryl Strayed who at 26 thought she'd lost everything. Her mother's sudden death from cancer tore her family apart. Her marriage crumbled. She started taking drugs. With nothing to lose, she made a wild decision: to hike eleven hundred miles, from the Mojave Desert into Washington State, and to do it alone.
She then decided to write about her bizarre quest in a memoir entitled WILD. That book went on to sell 10 million copies worldwide and became a hit movie.
My wife and I did something similar in 1992 We hiked a thousand miles of the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Washington, DC. Different reasons, but the same effect. Travel has changed our lives and, in many ways, driven them. In fact, that trip was one of main reasons she IS my wife, but that's a story for another day.
That said, after the next hour, I hope that the same affliction strikes you.


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		<button class="btn" type="button" onclick=";document.id('batch-access').value='';document.id('batch-language-id').value='';" data-dismiss="modal">
			<?php echo JText::_('JCANCEL'); ?>
		</button>
		<button class="btn btn-primary" type="submit" onclick="Joomla.submitbutton('contact.batch');">
			<?php echo JText::_('JGLOBAL_BATCH_PROCESS'); ?>
		</button>

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub