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6 About To Break: Insanely Great New Tech, Coming To Macworld
By Staff Writer • 8:01 am, March 18, 2014
6 About to Break finalist Petcube.
We're pleased to bring you the finalists in the 6 About to Break contest that SF New Tech and Macworld held to find the next big thing in Apple-related tech.
The finalists demonstrate just how the Cupertino company inspires people to think different, spanning the gamut from wearables and facial recognition software to the well-entertained pet.
Cult of Mac is chuffed to be a media partner; our own Leander Kahney will be on the panel of judges when the demos battle it out at Macworld/iWorld's Second Stage on March 27 from 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm. You'll be able to see and test them all out, too.
Want to come? We've got passes to give away – stayed tuned to Twitter and Facebook for more…
Is Your Apple-Related Startup Insanely Great? Win A Showcase Spot At Macworld!
By Staff Writer • 5:19 am, March 3, 2014
Far from the tree?
Is your iPhone app, awesome iPad case, or other Apple-related service so insanely great you know it'll be the next big thing? Show it off to thousands of potential customers, journalists and investors at Macworld/iWorld by winning a spot in SF New Tech's awesome "6 About to Break" event.
Cult of Mac is chuffed to be a media partner for the contest — we'll be helping judge the best new apps, accessories, software and utilities tied to the Cupertino company, in the eternal quest for the next big thing.
Get a move on, though: The deadline for submissions is 5 p.m. PST on Monday, March 3.
It's free to enter and qualified entries include any newly released software, iOS applications, iPhone or iPad accessories, or Apple utilities launched in the past year. Winners will be announced Wednesday, March 12.
The six-pack stars of startup goodness get to showcase their wares at Macworld/iWorld 2014 with a 5-minute live demo plus a 5-minute Q&A in front of a live audience. Winners also receive a free kiosk at Macworld, free hosting from Rackspace and Kendo UI and Icenium full product licenses plus support from Telerik.
6 About To Break contest by SF New Tech

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Beautiful lightweight wrap/scarf made from our fabulous Cotton/Cashmere Blend. This can be worn over the shoulders as a light wrap for cooler evenings or as a scarf for added warmth around the neck. Coordinates perfectly with the Essence Tee Pocket with matching detail micro stripe pocket. Available in Navy and Chalk Micro Stripe and Grey and Chalk Micro Stripe.


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Tessarithys neoecobius är en mångfotingart som beskrevs av Hoffman 1990. Tessarithys neoecobius ingår i släktet Tessarithys och familjen Chelodesmidae. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.

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Rethinking Israeli Space
Periphery and Identity
Erez Tzfadia
Published May 23, 2011 by Routledge
Published April 25, 2011 by Routledge
Rethinking Israeli Space: Periphery and Identity
Book Description Table of Contents Author(s)
This book sheds light on the production of Israeli space and the politics of Jewish and Arab cities. The authors' postcolonial approach deals with the notion of periphery and peripherality, covering issues of spatial protest, urban policy and urban planning.
Discussing periphery as a political, social and spatial phenomenon and both a product and a process manufactured by power mechanisms, the authors show how the state, the regime of citizenship, the capitalist logic, and the logic of ethnonationalism have all resulted in ethno-class division and stratification, which have been shaped by spatial policy. Rather than using the term periphery to describe an economic, geographical and social situation in which disadvantaged communities are located, this critical examination addresses the traditionally passive dimension of this term suggest that the reality of peripheral communities and spaces is rather more conflicted and controversial.
The multidisciplinary approach taken by this book means it will be a valuable contribution to the fields of planning theory, political science and public policy, urban sociology, critical geography and Middle East studies.
Introduction 1. Nationalism, Identity and the Production of a Periphery 2. Periphery, Architecture and Diasporic Sense of Place 3. Frontier in the Core: Russian Migrants in a Jewish-Arab 'Mixed City' 4. Labour Migration and the Urban Geographies of the Periphery 5. The Production of Global\Peripheral Agricultural Landscape 6. Revisiting Multiculturalism in the City 7. Recognition, Land Allocation and the Periphery. Conclusions: In-between Periphery and Frontier
Erez Tzfadia is a senior lecturer in Public Policy and Administration at Sapir College in Israel. He received his PhD in Geography at Ben-Gurion University in Israel in 2002 and was a Lady Davis postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University in 2003. His research focuses on the role of nationalism and neoliberalism in spatial arenas and on social structures.
Haim Yacobi is a senior lecturer at the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University and a Marie Curie Researcher at Cambridge University. The main issues that stand in the core of his writings that have been published in different academic journals deal with the production of urban space, social justice, the politics of identity, migration, globalization and urban planning.
Routledge Advances in Middle East and Islamic Studies
Planning - Human Geography
Middle East Geography
Middle East Society


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Оле́г Оле́гович Крьоќа (* 1987) — український спортсмен, борець греко-римського стилю.

З життєпису
Боротьбою почав займатися у віці 5 років. Переїхав з Дніпропетровська до Маріуполя після закінчення 10 класів. Вихованець дитячо-юнацької спортивної школи олімпійського резерву «Олімпік» СК «Азовмаш». Багаторазовий переможець першості України серед юнаків, чемпіон Кубку України серед молоді. Вперше виграв Чемпіонат України, перебуваючи в 9-му класі — на тренуваннях його помітив Геннадій Узун, після того ще 11 разів підтверджував звання.

Чемпіон першості Європи серед юнаків у ваговій категорії до 100 кг.

На Олімпіаді-2008 вибув зі змагань у кваліфікації.

Примітки

Джерела

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Уродженці Дніпра
Українські борці греко-римського стилю
Українські учасники літніх Олімпійських ігор 2008


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**SimpleTweet** is an android app that allows a user to view his Twitter timeline and post a new tweet. The app utilizes [Twitter REST API](https://dev.twitter.com/rest/public).

Time spent: **40** hours spent in total

## User Stories

The following **required** functionality is completed:

* [x]	User can **sign in to Twitter** using OAuth login
* [x]	User can **view tweets from their home timeline**
  * [x] User is displayed the username, name, and body for each tweet
  * [x] User is displayed the [relative timestamp](https://gist.github.com/nesquena/f786232f5ef72f6e10a7) for each tweet "8m", "7h"
* [x] User can **compose and post a new tweet**
  * [x] User can click a "Compose" icon in the Action Bar on the top right
  * [x] User can then enter a new tweet and post this to twitter
  * [x] User is taken back to home timeline with **new tweet visible** in timeline
  * [x] Newly created tweet should be manually inserted into the timeline and not rely on a full refresh
* [x] User can switch between Timeline and Mention views using tabs
  * [x] User can view their home timeline tweets.
  * [x] User can view the recent mentions of their username.
  * [x] User can compose tweets.
* [x] User can navigate to view their own profile
  * [x] User can see picture, tagline, # of followers, # of following, and tweets on their profile.
  * [x] The users/verify_credentials endpoint can be used to access this information.
* [x] User can click on the profile image in any tweet to see another user's profile.
  * [x] User can see picture, tagline, # of followers, # of following, and tweets of clicked user.
  * [x] Profile view should include that user's timeline

The following **optional** features are implemented:

* [x] User can **see a counter with total number of characters left for tweet** on compose tweet page
* [x] User can **pull down to refresh tweets timeline**
* [x] User is using **"Twitter branded" colors and styles**
* [x] User can search for tweets matching a particular query and see results.
* [x] User sees an **indeterminate progress indicator** when any background or network task is happening
* [x] User can **select "reply" from detail view to respond to a tweet**
  * [x] User that wrote the original tweet is **automatically "@" replied in compose**
* [x] User can tap a tweet to **open a detailed tweet view**
  * [x] User can **take favorite (and unfavorite) or reweet** actions on a tweet
* [x] User can **see embedded image media within a tweet** on list or detail view.

The following **bonus** features are implemented:

* [ ] User can view more tweets as they scroll with infinite pagination
* [x] Compose tweet functionality is build using modal overlay
* [x] Use Parcelable instead of Serializable using the popular [Parceler library](http://guides.codepath.com/android/Using-Parceler).
* [x] Replace all icon drawables and other static image assets with [vector drawables](http://guides.codepath.com/android/Drawables#vector-drawables) where appropriate.
* [ ] User can **click a link within a tweet body** on tweet details view. The click will launch the web browser with relevant page opened.
* [x] User can view following / followers list through any profile they view.
* [x] User can see embedded image media within the tweet detail view
* [ ] Use the popular ButterKnife annotation library to reduce view boilerplate.
* [ ] On the Twitter timeline, leverage the [CoordinatorLayout](http://guides.codepath.com/android/Handling-Scrolls-with-CoordinatorLayout#responding-to-scroll-events) to apply scrolling behavior that [hides / shows the toolbar](http://guides.codepath.com/android/Using-the-App-ToolBar#reacting-to-scroll).
* [ ] User can **open the twitter app offline and see last loaded tweets**. Persisted in SQLite tweets are refreshed on every application launch. While "live data" is displayed when app can get it from Twitter API, it is also saved for use in offline mode.

The following **additional** features are implemented:

* [x] User can unretweet using the same retweet button in either the timeline or detial view
* [x] Favorite and rewteet buttons change color when such actions are taken or have been previously taken
* [x] Button statuses are up to date in both the detail view (modal) and timeline regardless of where the button was pressed
* [x] When replying to a tweet the user's cursor is automatically set after the @username required
* [x] Favorite count and retweet count are displayed next to buttons and change colors appropriately depending on state
* [x] Profile pages contain the user's profile banner as well as profile image
* [x] Created a TabLayout within the profile activity to view a user's tweets, followers, and friends
* [x] Users can delete their own tweets via the home timeline by longpressing them
* [x] Users can search for other users

## Video Walkthrough

Here's a walkthrough of implemented user stories:

## Notes

Describe any challenges encountered while building the app.

## Open-source libraries used

- [Android Async HTTP](https://github.com/loopj/android-async-http) - Simple asynchronous HTTP requests with JSON parsing
- [Glide](https://github.com/bumptech/glide) - Image loading and caching library for Android

## License

    Copyright [2017] [Vincent Viego]

    Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
    you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
    You may obtain a copy of the License at

        http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

    Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
    distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
    WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
    See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
    limitations under the License.

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June E. Dombrouski
June E. Dombrouski, aged 95 of Irons, passed away peacefully at her home on March 25, 2020. June was born on June 29, 1924 at her family's home south of Baldwin in the community of Marlborough. She was the daughter of Ralph and Nellie (Leaird) Cecil. June attended White Cloud Public Schools and graduated with the class of 1943. An Easter dance was June and her future husband Frank's first date. They danced together that day, married on February 12, 1944, and continued to dance together beautifully for 65 years until Frank preceded her in death on April 1, 2009. June was also preceded in death by her daughter Anne, her granddaughter Jessica, her brother Donald and her sisters Mary and Ernestine. June and Frank farmed in Ravenna before moving to Belding where they both worked for Gibson Manufacturing. June was proud to say that one of the air conditioners from her shop and signed by her and her co-workers was placed in the Sears Tower in Chicago. After retirement they moved to their home on Big Bass Lake in Irons and were active members of St. Bernard Catholic Church. June was well known for her blueberry, apple and pumpkin pies. Her Christmas fudge was desired by many! She enjoyed playing pinochle and bingo with friends, belonged to Peacock Senior Center and most recently was a member of St. Ann Catholic Church in Baldwin. She contributed regularly to a charity that provided therapeutic craft kits for disabled veterans. June's greatest joy was found in the presence of her family. She will be greatly missed by her children Charon Phipps of Muskegon, Janet Dombrouski of Irons, Diane (Ron) Whitney of Irons, Frank (Colleen) Dombrouski Jr. of Belding and Mark (Sally) Ro of Hudsonville, 10 grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and 1 great, great-grandchild, her brother Albert Cecil of Tulsa, Oklahoma and many nieces, nephews and friends. Due to gathering restrictions, the Funeral Mass will be celebrated for June at 1:00 pm on Saturday, July 25th a St. Catherine's Catholic Church in Ravenna. A Memorial Mass will also be held for June later this year at St. Ann Catholic Church in Baldwin. Burial will aslso take place at St. Catherine's Cemetery in Ravenna. Those who wish to remember June with a memorial donation are asked to consider Hospice of Michigan.
June E. Dombrouski, aged 95 of Irons, passed away peacefully at her home on March 25, 2020. June was born on June 29, 1924 at her family's home south of Baldwin in the community of Marlborough. She was the daughter of Ralph and Nellie (Leaird)... View Obituary & Service Information
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Feature high ceilings and gleaming original timber floorboards, renovated kitchen with dishwasher, gas cooking and reverse cycle air-conditioning to keep cool in summer.
Large bedroom, combined modern bathroom laundry and an appealing communal courtyard garden area.
The property has the option of being furnished with white goods included.
Located only minutes' walk to the popular Wray Avenue coffee strip, Fremantle hub and on the bus route.


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No witch hunting in name of fighting corruption: PM
Edited By Odishatv Bureau Published By Odishatv Bureau On Apr 21, 2012 - 12:43 PM
New Delhi: Fighting the charge of policy paralysis in Government, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today asked civil servants to show "boldness" in decision making, assuring them there will be "no witch hunting" in the name of fighting corruption.
Addressing them on the Civil Services Day here, Singh asked the bureaucrats to fight the tendency of not taking decisions because of the fear that things might go wrong and they might be penalised for that. "It should be our endeavour that there is no witch hunting in the name of fighting corruption. It is our government`s commitment to put in place a system and create an environment in which our civil servants are encouraged to be decisive, and no one is harassed for bonafide mistakes of errors of judgement," the Prime Minister said.
Singh, however, also noted there is a growing perception, right or wrong, that the moral fibre of civil servants and public servants in general is not as as strong as it used to some decades back and that the civil servants are now more likely to succumb to extraneous pressures in their work. "These perceptions might be exaggerated but I do think that there is a grain of truth in them," he said.
While maintaining that the decisions that civil servants take must be fair and objective in nature, he made it clear that the government stands committed to protecting honest and well meaning civil servants who might have made genuine errors in their work.
"…We cannot have a bureaucracy which is hundred percent risk averse. In fact we should encourage boldness in decision making, provided that the decisions are well considered and as per the law of the land. A civil servant who does not take decisions might always be safe, but at the end of the day he or she would have contributed nothing to our society and to our country," the Prime Minister said.
Singh also chose the occasion to stress that the Centre has made "substantial progress" in the last one year towards strengthening the legislative framework and revamping the country`s administrative practices to enable it to fight the menace of corruption in public life better.
Maintaining there is a need to be honest in admitting our failures and our deficiencies, the Prime Minister said that the decisions that the civil servants take must be fair and objective in nature, based on sound evidence and deep analysis and designed to serve the best interests of the country. "Their judgement and advice should not be affected by the nature and colour of the political leadership. If this does not happen, the impartiality and fairness of the decision making processes in public administration would get compromised and the quality of our output would be sub-optimal…this is a vigil that the civil servants must maintain constantly," he said.
Noting that there is a growing perception in the public that the attributes of objectivity in work have been diluted, Singh said he leaves it to the civil servants to ponder to what extent this perception is true and what they can collectively do to remove it from the public mind.
Congratulating the award winning civil servants on the occasion, he also said that several civil servants in the country have been shining examples of probity and integrity, working selflessly for the public good.
The Prime Minister also urged the bureaucrats to redouble their efforts to keep pace with the new technology and to new ways of doing things, saying it is generally felt that the civil services have somewhat lagged behind in. Singh also chose the occasion to impress upon the bureaucrats the necessity of inclusive growth, saying the country`s growth would not have much meaning if "we fail in building a truly inclusive society and country".
Speaking on the first theme of the programme `Security for the Marginalized: Vision for a Caring India`, Singh said, "Indeed, without inclusion, social and economic, the very sustainability of our growth processes comes under question." He said that as the country enters the twelfth plan period, there is a need to redouble the efforts for building a society and country in which the fruits of development are shared by each and every citizen.
Eight persons killed in separate road mishaps across Odisha


The game is for Windows, it does not work on Mac, or on mobiles/tablets.
Make sure the account you use to install the game with has Administrator privileges.
Step 1 – Identifying whether you have a 32 or 64 bit system.
Click the Start button, right click Computer and press Properties.
A box will come up. Under System it should tell you whether you're on 32 or 64 bit.
Remembering which you have is important as it determines where you install your game.
When installing any files for OnlineBangers, be sure to ammend this if needed.
Download/Save the OnlineBangers Part 1 install file.
Run/open the install file, preferably 'as administrator' by right clicking on it, and follow the instructions by hitting next.
Remember to ammend the install directory path if needed.
Download/Save the OnlineBangers Update1-9 install file. It contains the mod and the updates.
Same again, run the install file, preferably 'as administrator', and follow the instructions by hitting next.
For this, you'll need to go into where the game is installed.
depending on wether you're on 32 or 64bit.
Right click the relevant one, Send to – Desktop, to create a shortcut.
Next, find the file called _Skinpack Swapper. Right click it, hit properties.
In the Compatibility tab, make sure 'Run this program as administrator' is ticked (this won't show if you're on Windows XP).
Right click _Skinpack Swapper, Send to – Desktop, to create a shortcut.
For Windows XP and below users, that's it, you can play the game!
If you're on Windows Vista, 7, 8 or later, you'll need to change a few more settings to make things run better.
Right click on the 'NASCAR Heat' folder and go to Properties.
Then go onto 'Security' and click 'Edit'. Now click each user account and make sure you are 'Allowed' full control of the folder by ticking the relevant boxes for each account.
Click Apply, then Ok. Then click Apply then Ok again, and make sure 'Apply changes to this folder, subfolders and files' is checked on the dialogue box.
Now go into the NASCAR Heat folder, and right click on NASCAR Heat.exe (the icon with the chequered flag) and go to Properties.
Under 'Compatibility', Tick 'Run this program in compatibility mode', and set it to Windows XP (Doesnt matter what Service Pack).
Tick 'run this program as an administrator' too.
Press ok/apply, then do exactly the same for NHeat.exe.
That's it! You're ready to play the game.


Belonging to the Boraginaceae family, this annual or biennial plant measures between 20 and 60 cm. It has a stem with soft hairs which bears flowers in a funnel. Originating from Europe, it is nicknamed viper's bugloss because its flowers resemble a viper's open jaw. It is common in the Mediterranean region on wasteland and in hedgerows.
Echium was widely used against inflammatory fevers, pneumonia and eruptive diseases like measles, smallpox and scarlet fever.
Viper's bugloss possesses protective, antiradical and softening properties. Rich in Omega-3 fatty acid and stearidonic acid, it is used as an emollient on sensitive and irritated skins and produces a sensation of comfort and soothing.


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Home Injury Negligence Injury Due to Negligence
Injury Due to Negligence
The occurrences of various forms of personal injury, and under various circumstances, can be responded to through the filing of civil lawsuits in the American legal system, allowing affected individuals to recover damages from the people they feel to be responsible for their plight.
These cases can be responded to through either an intentional tort or the claim of negligence. Through the latter, the defendant accused of negligence is not claimed to have willed the suffering of injury or distress by the plaintiff, but to have failed to carry out a responsibility to prevent such ill-effects from being felt. Many personal injury lawsuits take this form, such as include occurrences of medical negligence, in which the accused individuals failed to adequately provide for the care of their patient.
Negligence torts thus may not be as rigorous as intentional ones, since cases falling into that category require the court to make judgments about the defendant's thinking. Lawsuits such as medical negligence, on the other hand, are essentially focused on the resulting injuries. That being said, proving the liability of someone for negligence in an American court does require the plaintiff to show that certain factors are present in the case.
The first consideration taken into account in a negligence case is whether the defendant had a responsibility to provide for the safety of others in a certain way. This factor can be easily demonstrated in, for instance, a medical negligence case, in which the physicians and assisting medical staff have a well-understood duty to provide for the health of the patient. The second determination to be made is whether the defendant then failed to carry out that duty.
Again, in a medical negligence case this could be shown if the physician or the hospital did not attend to the sanitary conditions of the instruments or operating space. Though people who fail to live up to these considerations might be generally considered unfit for their profession, for the failure of duty to specifically pertain to the case being tried it must be shown that this particular failure led to plaintiff suffering the personal injury.
If a case such as medical negligence is proven in court, it is likely to have a substantially adverse effect on the ability of the defendant to carry out he or his chosen profession. Torts of negligence are not, however, conceived of as methods for punishment, but rather as a means of holding people to the obligation to provide for the consequences of their actions and to relieve the financial burden often faced by the injured. In this regard, torts of negligence are considered compensatory rather than punitive legal measures.
In addition to medical negligence, other common forms of negligence which are alleged and addressed under civil law include the failure of building owners to provide for the safety of visitors and residents and the negligence of employers in allowing specific activities or general working conditions to create an unsafe environment which threatens the security and well-being of their employees.


We're excited to announce that you can now hide and archive projects from the sidebar.
Hide projects you aren't working on to reduce clutter on your personal sidebar. Once you have completed a project, a project admin can archive the project to hide it from all users. After your projects have been hidden or archived, they will continue to remain accessible and searchable.
Open the Benchling notebook to check it out!
To hide a project: Right click on the project folder and select "Hide" which will launch the Hide Project Modal. From here you can select which projects you want to hide.
To archive a project: Right click on the project folder, select "Settings" which will launch the Project Settings Modal, then select "Archive this project".
We've also spruced up the Project Settings Modal to make it even easier to manage collaborators, add a project description, and much more!
We hope you enjoy these improvements. As always, please let us know if you have any questions or feedback!


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Q: 'List object has no attribute' when querying 3 tables in database I'm running a query and filtering results on 3 tables.
I wrote the function below to perform this query, it looked like this:
def bookshelf():
     your_user = db.session.query(User).filter_by(email=session['email']).first().uid
     your_books = db.session.query(user_book).filter_by(uid=your_user).all()
     name_books = db.session.query(Book).filter_by(bid=your_books.bid).all()
     return name_books

*

*The variable your_user gets from the table user the id of the user who is logged in;

*The variable your_books gets from the table user_books all the books added by the logged in user;

*The variable name_books should get from the table books all the data of the books filtered by the id of the books (bid).

The problem occurs when I try to filter using your_books.bid, the console returns:

AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'bid'

These are the tables cited above:
user_book = db.Table('user_book',
                     db.Column('uid', db.Integer, db.ForeignKey('user.uid'), primary_key=True),
                     db.Column('bid', db.Text, db.ForeignKey('book.bid'), primary_key=True),
                     db.Column('date_added', db.DateTime(timezone=True), server_default=db.func.now())
                     )

class User(db.Model):
    __tablename__ = 'user'

    uid = db.Column(db.Integer, primary_key=True)
    email = db.Column(db.String(25), nullable=False)
    hash = db.Column(db.String(), nullable=False)
    first_name = db.Column(db.String(30), nullable=True)
    last_name = db.Column(db.String(80), nullable=True)
    books = db.relationship('Book', secondary=user_book)

class Book(db.Model):
    __tablename__ = 'book'

    bid = db.Column(db.Text, primary_key=True)
    title = db.Column(db.Text, nullable=False)
    authors = db.Column(db.Text, nullable=False)
    thumbnail = db.Column(db.Text, nullable=True)
    users = db.relationship('User', secondary=user_book)

I also tried to do something like your_books = db.session.query(user_book.bid) but I got the same error message.
I also found this answer: Sqlalchemy single query for multiple rows from one column in one table, but I couldn't apply it.
What am I missing?

A: As I understand it, and following some of the logic, you want to show the books, right? So instead of query(User), use query(Book). Then you can do the .join()as instructed in the comments.
def bookshelf():
    your_user = db.session.query(User).filter_by(email=session['email']).first().uid
    your_books = db.session.query(Book).join(user_book).filter_by(uid=your_user).all()
    return your_books

If you have any questions, let me know and I'll clarify.

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As the saying goes, 'Defense wins Championships' and there is no shortage of people who would agree with such a statement.
Great teams are built on a productive offence and a solid defense; with these two ingredients coming together, you have the makings of a team capable of challenging for a championship. This is certainly the case with the Belfast Trojans.
The Trojans have established themselves as being the most dominant team in recent Irish football. The reigning Shamrock Bowl champions consist of a team made of up quality and quantity, often dispatching teams with a flurry of running and aerial assaults on offence, complemented by an organised and well disciplined defense that opposing teams struggle to cope with. The Belfast side once again find themselves attacking the summit SBC North Conference with a 4-0 record this season and show no intentions of letting up anytime soon.
Having firstly defeated the Carrickfergus Knights, the Trojans followed that up by securing victory in both clashes with the Craigavon Cowboys and on the road at the West Dublin Rhinos. The likes of QB James McKelvey, RB Dave Colvin and WR David Richardson can be found sitting atop of the scoring charts on a weekly basis and when a team is consistently able to put points on the board, it's no surprise that the offence will be in the limelight.
However, what about the defense? So often overshadowed by an offence's performance it is easy to forget the contribution made from a defensive perspective. When an offence is struggling, they must know they can rely on their defense to step up and rally the team. That kind of trust in your teammates ability has flourished throughout the Trojans squad this year. So, as the offence continues to make waves, what kind of impact is the defense making on the other side of the ball?
The Trojans have conceded only 19 points from their opening four games this year, including two shutouts against fierce rivals, Craigavon Cowboys. Linebacker trio Neil Graham, Connor Whitla and Chris Weir have racked up in excess of 70 tackles between them, an impressive total in just four outings. The defense have also found the end zone on two occasions this term, courtesy of touchdowns from Rick Duffield and Jon-Erik Talvio. On top of that, the pressure caused to opposition quarterbacks has lead to multiple sacks this season, so it's no surprise that this defense is to reckoned with.
So what is it that makes the Trojan's defense one of the most complete and dominant units in the league? Linebacker, Connor Whitla shares his views.
"I would say that, while on paper our defence has performed well, recording two shut-outs in three games, we are never content with our performance. The emphasis week in, week out is always on improvement, both personally and as a team. I think it has been this mentality that has allowed our defence to really step up." – Connor Whitla.
As Whitla explains, the team's mentality is to perform to the maximum of ones own ability and to not rest on their laurels. A defense striving on being the best and recognizing there is always room to improve.
The Trojans are at the half way mark of their season; but with games against Trinity College and last years finalists the Dublin Rebels on the horizon, the defense will be expecting each individual player to make a significant contribution.
The unit has performed well thus far, but maintain there is another level that they can reach. The team has benefited from increased competition over the years, spurring the growth of players for the future. As the Trojans prepare for their game against the equally undefeated Trinity College this weekend, Whitla gives us his views on his own personal goals for this season.
The Trojans are once again showing that they have the strength and quality within their squad, capable of extending their recent run of success. The Belfast side will be aiming to prove they are a team to be reckoned with as they strive towards another Shamrock Bowl triumph. The Trojans welcome Trinity College to Deramore Park this weekend, hoping to continue their good run of form; the kind of form that this defence will have no intentions of relinquishing.


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Resist "Prayer Shaming" This Thanksgiving
Clemente Lisi
Friends: It happens every year. Thanks to the many of you who responded yesterday because we're about halfway there now. But the campaign only really gets started when people really grasp that this site only exists because of the generosity of readers. One reader wrote me yesterday to say that it seems TCT is in jeopardy at the end of every year. And of course that's true because – forgive the repetition (he confessed he doesn't come here every day) – we don't sit on an endowment and don't have Washington or New York deep pockets supporting our work. In a way, that's a good thing because, whatever uncertainties we face from year to year, it also means we have to work hard every day to be worthy of your interest and support. I believe we've done a good job not only with the regular columns, but in bringing you things like the daily reports from Rome on the 2013 conclave, the two Synods on the Family, the pope in the Americas, and other special events. There are more coming in 2018, and we'll be there. In the meantime, I still need more of you to step up with donations of $100 or more to get us to our goal. But whatever you can afford is quite welcome and – be assured – will always be carefully put to the best possible uses. Give. Please. Today. – Robert Royal
Thanksgiving and prayer are intimately linked. While the holiday – just a week away now – has its roots in Protestant England (the very first Thanksgiving in 1621 was held by the Pilgrims who fled Europe seeking religious freedom), Americans of all faiths have since embraced this uniquely American holiday of giving thanks to God.
You wouldn't know this from how the mainstream media has generally chosen to cover it in recent years. Thanksgiving has lost its religious meaning – many people don't offer a prayer before addressing the turkey – and has been replaced with a focus on football games and Black Friday shopping. Christmas, unfortunately, has also become less about Jesus and more about consumerism. It's part of a larger trend whereby our society becomes gradually secularized, even on explicitly religious holidays. And prayer, so central to the lives of millions of Americans, is invisible to those who deliver the news to you each day.
The primary reason is that there's no room for piety in an America where the far Left – with complicity from the press – seeks to reengineer our country's traditions and morals. It's been shown beyond all doubt that the MSM are largely agnostic – even anti-religious – and favor political correctness. Try an experiment: Scan your local newspaper or watch the TV news; you'd think Thanksgiving was about people looking for deals at the mall. Yes, there is the occasional feel-good story about food drives, but those have more to do with charity than prayer.
The coverage ignoring the true meaning of Thanksgiving (and the religious life of so many everyday Americans) is due to the dangerous trend by media outlets of "prayer shaming." If you admit to praying on social media, then you are ridiculed. Emma Green, writing for The Atlantic, first coined the phrase "praying shaming" in 2015: "Democrats care about doing something and taking action while Republicans waste time offering meaningless prayers. These two reactions, policy-making and praying, are portrayed as mutually exclusive, coming from totally contrasting worldviews." Mainstream news outlets such as Slate, Esquire, and the Huffington Post have all run articles giving "prayer shaming" a thumbs up.
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The issue came to the forefront in the aftermath of the San Bernardino shootings in 2015 and again recently following the Las Vegas massacre. Several Republican presidential candidates – including Ted Cruz, Lindsey Graham, and Rand Paul – offered "thoughts and prayers." The New York Daily News ran a front-page headline that encapsulated the anti-prayer mood: "God Isn't Fixing This." Below that was: "As latest batch of innocent Americans are left lying in pools of blood, cowards who could truly end gun scourge continue to hide behind meaningless platitudes."
Mature believers know, however, that God isn't there simply to fix things. God has given all of us free will to choose right and wrong. The Bible teaches Christians to pray as an act of praise and obedience. It is how we communicate with the Lord. People who have replaced God with self-centeredness and self-help books see things differently. They think Christians believe in a God who is like a genie, there to grant wishes to believers.
People in positions of power in media organizations have a different take: they see prayer as an excuse for inaction. People who resist even stricter gun control measures while also praying for peace in a time of tragedy, must be hypocrites – uncaring, ignorant fools who offer just talk in times of distress. Left-wing orthodoxy considers praying an empty gesture to hide behind. Because it's the state that is most important to our everyday lives, not religion. Government is almighty, not God.
The mainstream press largely adheres to that notion. This country's major news divisions do stories every day taking the side of people they deem as needing to be promoted. Members of the LGBTQ community, for example, are a protected, even a celebrated, class. Negativity towards adherents of Islam, especially after a terror attack, is not to be tolerated. For the media, "trans" people need to be defended – and we can all use any bathroom we choose.
Disagree with any of this and you are a bigot. Muslims can be devout – but not Christians. Argue that Muslims should do more to stop religious zealots in their midst, then you are an Islamaphobe.
This is all behavior the media deem as "bullying." Express such views and you'll also be tagged as a bigot. The San Bernardino shooting was committed by two Muslims – husband-and-wife attackers inspired by ISIS – but there was no mention of them on that now-famous Daily News front page. People praying for peace have become the problem, not those committing crimes.
The same can be said for believing Catholics. You tweet out your "thoughts and prayers" following a tragedy (while also supporting the Second Amendment), then there is something wrong with you.
The people in the newsrooms now believe that they are the arbiters of which parts of the Constitution should be defended. The First Amendment right to a free press is rightly celebrated (because it protects their jobs). But the section on religious freedom is not – is sometimes even characterized as a cover for "bigotry." The Second Amendment right to bear arms legally is also a no-go, another part of the Constitution many journalists ignore, because they believe guns are the root of all evil.
They don't want to hear about your "thoughts and prayers."
Here's one way to take action: pray that your local newspaper and TV station don't engage in prayer shaming the next time there's a massacre. If they do, boycott that station or cancel your newspaper subscription. That's one call to action that will have an impact.
After all, our freedom to pray is a right we should defend – and be thankful for – when we gather around the Thanksgiving table.
Clemente Lisi is an Assistant Professor of Journalism at The King's College in New York City. He has nearly twenty years experience as both a reporter and editor at media institutions such as the New York Post, ABC News, and the New York Daily News.
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This was a vote to pass H.R. 1301 (115th) in the House.
H.R. 1301 reflects the final, bicameral agreement on fiscal year 2017 Department of Defense spending.
If enacted, H.R. 1301 would result in discretionary budget authority of $577.9 billion. The agreement includes savings of $1.155 billion from lower-than-expected fuel costs, $157 million due to favorable economic conditions, and $4.76 billion is savings from rescissions of unused prior-year funding.


When the Lovehart family receive a mega-massive delivery, there's only one thing it can be.
An elephant of course! A gentle giant named Fudge has come to live with them - he can be a friend for their pet orang-utan, Batpants.
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Running back James Conner said he expects to play Sunday, but JuJu Smith-Schuster's status is more unclear.
The Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver is listed as questionable for the AFC North showdown against the Baltimore Ravens after doing the "bare minimum" in Friday's practice.
"Just trying to get the plays down and make sure I know what I'm doing," Smith-Schuster said of his practice involvement.
Offensive coordinator Randy Fichtner said the Pro Bowler injured his toe — the same toe hurt in the season opener against the New England Patriots — early in Monday night's game, but Fichtner predicted Smith-Schuster would play Sunday.
"I don't have any feeling that he wouldn't be back with us," Fichtner said Thursday. "He gutted it out, and I was really proud of him."
Playing with the injured toe, Smith-Schuster registered just 15 receiving yards against the Cincinnati Bengals, his lowest total in a regular-season game in which he had at least one reception.
Conner, who injured his ankle against the Bengals, participated in Friday's final practice and expects to be ready to go Sunday.
"Just got to rest it a couple days and be smart," Conner said of his ankle. "Calmed down a little bit. I was able to practice today, feel good. I got some good mental reps in, physical reps."
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Big American Phone Providers Are Being Sued Over Your Location Data. Here's Why You Should Be Concerned
By Andrew Braun – Posted on May 14, 2019 May 13, 2019 in Internet
At this point if the news that your phone company has been selling customer location data to bounty hunters surprises you, you may need to catch up on the last few years of privacy revelations. If you're just generally suspicious of places that collect your data, congratulations on being right (again). AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon are currently being sued for selling customer location data to third parties known as data brokers, who then sell the data to other people with an interest in finding you – especially the "kinda-sorta" officials like bail bondsmen and bounty hunters.
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The Maryland-based ZLaw Firm filed a class action suit against the four big US mobile providers on May 2nd, 2019. They're suing in the names of the company's customers who were affected. Essentially, their lawsuit accuses these companies of providing access to real-time location data to companies that shouldn't have had access. The suit covers a roughly four-year period from 2015 through 2019, though that doesn't necessarily mean the activity was limited by these years.
You may or may not be at peace with knowing the NSA can track you whenever they want, but it's even creepier when you discover that some guy with a taser and a laptop can also do it. That's exactly what Vice's Motherboard, responsible for breaking this story, did: paid $300 to a bounty hunter to locate their phone, which he did by taking advantage of a chain of data services and brokers passing along the data from the phone company.
Since it's a class action lawsuit, affected individuals may be entitled to compensation, though more details on this will be forthcoming. The real goal here, however, is to get the big phone companies to stop selling sensitive customer information – or at least to be more careful with it.
What exactly has been going on?
Back in 2018 there was another scandal where it came out that Securus, a prison technology company, was giving low-level law enforcement officers access to the location of pretty much every phone on all of the major carriers. That level of surveillance usually requires a warrant in the US, but Securus was using an intermediary company called LocationSmart, which pretty much anyone could sign up for, even on a free trial account, to get access to the location of most cell phones being used in the U.S.
Generally, the data in question here isn't your GPS data – it's your approximate location as determined by the strength of different cell tower signals, which is something phone companies really need in order to provide service. However, some of the data available to bounty hunters was occasionally from GPS, meaning they could get your location down to a few meters.
A lot of other stuff happened around the 2018 location issue (including Securus being hacked, meaning access to their real-time tracking tools could have been in anyone's hands for a while), but the reason it's important to this story is that every carrier involved promised to fix these sorts of loopholes and stop giving sensitive data to sketchy third parties. That apparently hasn't been going so well, since Motherboard was actually able to identify the general path the data took.
Here's how the process seems to have been working:
A data aggregator (Zumigo, in this case) buys customer data from a telecom company. They then use this data for any number of things, including fraud prevention and possibly marketing.
Zumigo then sells off your data to other services, including, in this case, a company called Microbilt, which uses the access it buys from Zumigo to sell services, like background or credit check, or tracking people who might break their bail. Microbilt actually maintains price lists for services like these.
Whoever is using the service, like bounty hunters or landlords, pays for your cell phone data and gets to use it.
If all that seems a little Byzantine, it is, but though your data is bouncing through a lot of different companies, it's all coming straight from the phone provider at the center. If they close off access to third parties who are misusing this data, there won't be a problem anymore – but it seems like they aren't.
Related: 5 Reasons You Might Actually Want to Give Google Your Location Data
Bounty hunters aren't out to get me, why should I worry?
Okay, you're not Han Solo, and your location data probably isn't being pulled by anyone in particular, even though you did shoot first. There have been cases, though, of people with access to these tools using them for more off-the-clock activities, such as tracking girlfriends. That's not something that's likely to affect the general public, but the fact remains that we now have tools that allow certain people to find you pretty much anywhere, whether it's a potential employer checking how often you visit a psychiatrist or a marketing company trying to build a better profile on you.
It's not just tracking individual movements, either: location data that is gathered and analyzed in bulk can help identify trends in how people move. When anonymously gathered and properly used, this type of data can be very helpful in designing better systems, but when it's firehosed out without much consideration as to whose hands it ends up in, it's a breach of trust and just generally a bad idea.
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Recycling and Composting at UMass Amherst: Getting Smarter About Waste
Colleges and universities have always been a wellspring for innovation and the University of Massachusetts Amherst has been a stand-out among them. As social and economic concern has grown over how we manufacture, consume, and discard products, UMass Amherst has brought its intellectual and educational firepower to bear on issues such as recycling, composting, and sustainability.
It all began in 2007 when the president of the five-campus UMass system signed the American College and University Presidents' Climate Commitment. In response, UMass Amherst established an Environmental Performance Advisory Committee (EPAC) that developed the campus' first Climate Action Plan, which was released in 2010. Two years later, the plan was revised by the Chancellor's Sustainability Committee, formerly EPAC. The revised plan reflected campus accomplishments and presented a comprehensive blueprint for future sustainability efforts across all aspects of the campus. Climate Action Plan 2.0 helped establish metrics and sustainable goals for the campus.
Subsequently, undergraduates and graduate students campaigned to encourage a more environmentally friendly and ecologically sound approach to campus operations, including the hiring of Ezra Small as the school's first Campus Sustainability Manager in Facilities & Campus Services. Today are more than a dozen employees focused on sustainability and working in a variety of positions, including, their communications, residential life, the library, and physical plant operations.
Recycling and composting: turning trash into treasure
In 2013, UMass started the Sustainability Innovation & Engagement Fund. Fifty thousand dollars were given as a competitive small grant open to students, faculty, and staff. Over a dozen projects were funded, including the New 2 U Waste Program with the support of the Post Land Action Network which was started as a similar pilot program two years prior at the University of New Hampshire.
As a major public university, UMass Amherst has one of the largest residential programs in the country, with over 13,500 students living on campus. Every spring, as part of New 2 U, students collect all the cleaning products, kitchen utensils, clothing, and furniture left behind by departing resident students. Items are stored in trailers and buildings over the summer then, come fall, a one-day tag sale is held for incoming students to furnish their dormitories with the reclaimed items. In 2016, $11,000 were netted from the sale and earmarked to go back into the sustainability program — revenue generated from almost 20 tons of clothing collected and 10 tons of cast-off products that were redirected from going to a landfill.
And that's not all. As part of its recycling and composting initiatives, UMass is promoting student-led, centralized outdoor composting. The university is now composting over 1,500 tons of biodegradable waste annually on campus. As the largest waste stream on campus, this consists of approximately 500 tons of non-food compostable to-go items such as packaging "clamshells", cups, napkins, and other paper products coming out of UMass's retail dining facilities. The other 1,000 tons consists of pre-consumer kitchen food scraps and post-consumer food waste.
What makes this kind of sustainability program so exciting is not just the immediate environmental benefit but the larger, long-term effort to fundamentally change how products are manufactured and consumed in this country and across the globe. UMass is helping lead the charge in a growing effort to create a highly-sustainable, circular economy one that evolves from the current "take, make, and dispose" model to a restorative and regenerative one that minimizes energy consumption and maximizes recycled production feedstocks.
As a result of its campus-wide, integrated energy-efficiency and recycling achievements, UMass has earned the distinction of becoming one of only 121 campuses nationwide to earn a Gold rating from the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating SystemTM (STARS), a transparent, self-reporting framework for colleges and universities to measure their sustainability performance.
STARS is intended to engage the full spectrum of secondary educational institutions, from community colleges to research universities — establishing more-modest goals for institutions that are taking first steps toward sustainability while setting more demanding, long-term sustainability goals for already high-achieving institutions.
There is no question that sustainability is key for creating a brighter, healthier future. As an educational incubator for tomorrow's innovators, UMass is committed to growing its sustainability efforts and fostering innovation across a broader landscape of opportunity. Perhaps Campus Sustainability Manager Ezra Small said it best, "UMass Amherst's goal is to be the university where sustainability principles can be incorporated into fields such as landscape, regional planning, and the built environment, but also the destination of choice for top students wanting to enter the field of sustainability."
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Patriots Analysis
NFL's new playoff format makes the top seed much more valuable, and the numbers prove it
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By Bernd Buchmasser@BerndBuchmasser Apr 1, 2020, 6:00am EDT
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"Get the number one seed."
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On Tuesday, the NFL's 32 franchises voted to adapt a new postseason format. Beginning this season, 14 instead of 12 teams will advance from the regular season to the playoffs with one extra team added to the equation as a seventh seed in each of the conferences. Accordingly, the league also needed to change the general matchup system of its tournament with seven instead of six teams involved on each side.
In broad terms, those changes look as follows:
Only the two conference's top seeds will enjoy first-round byes moving forward.
The second seeds will have to play on wild card weekend, hosting the seventh seeds.
Needless to say that this new system makes the coveted number one seed even more desirable. Not only will it still get to face the worst-seeded team left standing after the wild card round and have home field advantage throughout the playoffs, it will also enters the tournament off with an additional week of rest. The two-seed, meanwhile, no longer has that luxury which in turn makes for a drastic difference between the two.
How big is the change in value between seeds one and two under this new format? According to Chase Stuart of Football Perspective, who simulated 32,000 postseason runs, the top seed now has a 52.5% chance of making the Super Bowl compared to 47.5% under the previous 12-team format. The second seed, on the other hand, saw its odds of winning the conference and making the Super Bowl decrease from 30% all the way down to 18.8%.
In full, the numbers look as follows:
Super Bowl chances per seed (pre-change vs post-change)
Chance of making Super Bowl (pre-change)
Chance of making Super Bowl (post-change)
1 47.5% 52.5% 5.0%
2 30.0% 18.8% -11.2%
4 4.9% 6.3% 1.4%
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As can be seen, the numbers confirm the belief that adding a seventh team to the equation and in turn stripping the two-seed of its first-round playoff bye week makes the path to the Super Bowl a much easier one for the team that finished the regular season with the best record. Yes, it does make the rest of the field much more open — at least from a statistical perspective — but at the cost of the top seeds being in a much better position as well.
So, what does this mean for the New England Patriots? As we discussed when the idea of expanding the playoff field was first proposed, the Patriots would have had a tougher road to the Super Bowl in numerous years: they would have earned a first-round bye only seven instead of twelve times going back to the divisional realignment of 2002, and would have had to play four postseason games en route to their 2004 and 2018 championships.
That said, the Patriots also would have made the postseason as the seventh seed during the 2009 season — the last year that saw quarterback Tom Brady not start the majority of the team's games during a season.
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