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from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait # available since 2.4.0
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC # available since 2.26.0
from selenium.common.exceptions import TimeoutException, NoSuchElementException, ElementNotVisibleException
import common_classes, jsonHelper, timeHelper, time, re, articleUtil, imageUtil

#find chart highlights
#.fa.fa-star
#.fa-ul.row-awards li text matching to 'Biggest gain in streams'
#
#
#
#find top 3 songs
#.row-primary
#	.fa.fa-li.fa-signal(one search) or .fa-ul.row-awards>li (more than 5 search and require string match for each)
#	find chart highlights && Biggest gain in streams
#
#	.row-watch>a
#	if it has no video, delete it
#	capture the video URL
#
#	.this-week
#	rank
#	.row-title>h2
#	song title
#
#	.row-title>h3>a
#	singer name

browser = webdriver.Firefox()

browser.get('http://www.people.com/people/news/')

#find the first 15 rows
rowElements = []

# allow top 5 items to be in the listing
divider = 5
MIN_RANKING = 4
MIN_COMMENT = 20/divider
COMMENT_NUM_CRITERIA = 50/divider
WAIT_SECONDS = 3

popular = None

findTopStoryOnly = False

articles = []
rows = []

try:
	topStory = WebDriverWait(browser, 20).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.XPATH,"//div[@id = 'top-story']//a[@title][@href]")))
	a = common_classes.Article(topStory.get_attribute("href"))
	a.title = topStory.get_attribute("title")
	if len(a.url) > 2 and len(a.title) > 2:
		rows.append(a)
		findTopStoryOnly = True
except Exception as e :
	print "Exception: top story %s" % e

try:
	if findTopStoryOnly == False:
		popular = WebDriverWait(browser, 20).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.ID,"most-shared")))
except Exception:
	print "Exception: most shared"
	browser.quit()
	sys.exit()

try:
	if findTopStoryOnly == False:
		rowElements = popular.find_elements_by_css_selector('.text>h4>a')[:3]
	#rowElements = WebDriverWait(browser, 20).until(EC.presence_of_all_elements_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR,".text>h4>a")))[:5]
except Exception as e:
	print "Exception: failure in ROW ELEMENTS"
	browser.quit()
	sys.exit()

if findTopStoryOnly == False:
	for row in rowElements[:]:
		a = common_classes.Article(row.get_attribute("href"))
		a.title = row.text.strip()
		if len(a.url) > 2 and len(a.title) > 2:
			rows.append(a)

isFirstPage = True

for index in range(len(rows)):

	print "BEGINNING TO SEARCH"
	# href = row.get_attribute("href")
	# title = row.text
	# print "TITLE: %s HREF: %s" % (title, href)

	# if len(href) < 5 or len(title) < 3:
	# 	print "CONTINUE\nTitle: %s\nHref: %s" % (title, href)
	# 	continue
	a = rows[index]
	browser.get(a.url)
	if isFirstPage == False:
		time.sleep(WAIT_SECONDS)
	isFirstPage = False

	try:
		frame = WebDriverWait(browser, 30).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.CSS_SELECTOR,"iframe#dsq-2")))
		browser.switch_to.frame(frame)

	except Exception:
		print "#################### EXCEPTION fail to switch iframe"
		continue

	try:
		##xpath
        ##//a[@data-nav="conversation"]
        ##".dropdown-toggle"
		WebDriverWait(browser, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//a[@data-nav='conversation'][@data-toggle='dropdown']"))).click()
	except Exception:
		print "############# EXCEPTION //a[@data-nav='conversation']"
		browser.switch_to.default_content();
		continue

	try:
		WebDriverWait(browser, 20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH,"//a[@data-sort='popular']"))).click()
	except Exception as e:
		print "################### EXCEPTION a[@data-sort='popular']"
		browser.switch_to.default_content();
		continue

    ##a data-role="username"

	topCommentNumber = 0

	try:
		text = WebDriverWait(browser, 20).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR,".updatable.count"))).text

		if isinstance(text, basestring) and len(text) > 0:
			try:
				topCommentNumber = int(text)
			except Exception as e:

				print "############# EXCEPTION fail to convert ot number"

	except Exception as e:
		print "#######################EXCEPTION Comment Number"

	if topCommentNumber < MIN_COMMENT:
		print "CONTINUE: can't meet top comment number requirement %s < %s" % (topCommentNumber, MIN_COMMENT)
		browser.switch_to.default_content();
		continue

	comNum = 0
    ##.comment-count

	try:
		text = WebDriverWait(browser, 30).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR,".comment-count"))).text

		print "Time Text %s" % text

		if isinstance(text, basestring) and len(text) > 0:

			numText = re.search( r'^\d+\S', text)

			print "numText: %s" % numText.group()
			try:

				comNum = int(numText.group())

			except Exception:
				print "**************EXCEPTION comment Number"

	except Exception as e:
		print "############################# EXCEPTION comment count %s" % e

	if comNum < COMMENT_NUM_CRITERIA:
		print "CONTINUE: can't meet the comment number requirement %s < %s" % (comNum, COMMENT_NUM_CRITERIA)
		browser.switch_to.default_content();
		continue

	topComment = ''

	try:
		firstComment = WebDriverWait(browser, 5).until(EC.presence_of_element_located((By.CSS_SELECTOR,".post-message")))
		elms = firstComment.find_elements_by_css_selector('p')

		for elm in elms[:]:
			topComment = topComment + ' ' + elm.text

	except Exception as e:
		print "NoSuchElementException /TimeoutException .content__dateline>time"
		browser.switch_to.default_content();
		continue

	topComment = re.sub(r'\\', "",topComment.strip())

	topComment = articleUtil.truncatedStringForRow(topComment)

	if len (topComment) > 10:
		browser.switch_to.default_content();
		print "top comment"
		# #mainPhoto .image>img
		# #slider img
		a.numComments = comNum
		a.topComment = topComment
		a.age = 0
		a.topCommentNum = topCommentNumber
		a.tag = 'enews'

		isSuccess = imageUtil.imageProcedure(browser, a.title, cssXpaths=[common_classes.CSSXPATH("#mainPhoto .image>img", "src", "css"),common_classes.CSSXPATH("#slider img", "src", "css") ])
		print(isSuccess)
		a.img = imageUtil.imageTitlePathJPG(a.title)
		print("imageURL {0}".format(a.img))
		if isSuccess and len(a.img) > 2:
			articles.append(a)

	#browser.switch_to.default_content();

jsonHelper.writeToFile(timeHelper.APP_TIMESTAMP(),articles,"people", 1)
browser.quit()


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PLANS FOR WHERE YOU LIVE?
Planning Disaster is concerned that the changes will allow developers to push through major projects that could have a catastrophic impact on communities, the countryside and the wider environment. It is calling on the Government to rethink the Planning White Paper and introduce a planning system which allows people an effective say in how their area is developed.
The spoof application coincides with the release of a map  that has been produced by Planning Disaster. The online map highlighting the location of new developments in the East Midlands that could be forced through if the Government gets its way over changes to the planning system is being launched today (3 August). The map includes information on new nuclear power stations, incinerators, airports and roads. It was designed to help people find out how changes to the planning system could affect their area.
The interactive map, which can be viewed at www.planningdisaster.co.uk, allows individuals to zoom down into maps or satellite pictures of the East Midlands to identify the exact location of potential developments including: expansion of Nottingham Airport – there are plans to quadruple freight traffic and double the number of commercial destinations offered; road widening including widening of the M1 between Junction 21 and 30 in Nottinghamshire.
The Planning Disaster Coalition has made it easy for the public to make their voice heard in the Government consultation. All they need to do is send the Government an email via www.planningdisaster.co.uk. The deadline is 17th August.
 Planning Disaster's member groups represent over five million members. The Planning Disaster Coalition's members include, Airport Watch, CPRE, Friends of The Earth, The Grasslands Trust, The National Trust, nef (The New Economics Foundation), the Ramblers' Association, the RSPB, Transport 2000, UKRIGS, The Wildlife Trusts, and The Woodland Trust.


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Occupy Seattle plans to occupy Black Friday in Seattle
KNKX Public Radio | By Vanessa Romo
Published November 23, 2011 at 9:50 AM PST
Erin Hennessey
KPLU
A Christmas credit card promotion on Seattle streets on black Friday in 2007. Occupy Seattle protesters say they want to join the festivities not disrupt the activities.
If you're a local chances are you'll find yourself at Westlake Park on the day after Thanksgiving – given that it's Seattle's epicenter for everything Holiday related. There's the Macy's Parade, the carousel and the tree lighting ceremony.
And this year, Occupy Seattle wants to take part in the festivities.
That's got some people worrying, that much like the Grinch or Ebenezer Scrooge, Occupiers plan to disrupt some of the city's favorite annual traditions .
'Family friendly affair'
But Joanna Wright, one of the organizers of Friday's Occupy Black Friday events said emphatically, "Not at all!"
In fact, it'll be a "fully family friendly affair" she said. Some of the activities planned for the public include a series of speakers, several arts and craft tents for kids and their parents and a community square dance.
In other words, it's not so much a protest demonstration as it is holiday fair.
"It's partly encouraging people to buy less or buy nothing," said Wright. "It's also encouraging us to think about this shopping season in a different way. If you are going to spend your money this holiday season spend it at local independent businesses and support our local economy rather than the big box stores."
Support for Occupy's 'buy local' message
Kate Joncas is president of the Downtown Seattle Association, one of the groups responsible for the Winter Wonderland. She said most of the surrounding businesses are in agreement with Occupy's "buy local" message.
"About 85% of the businesses in Downtown are locally owned, so that works for us. And for us Nordstrom and Starbucks are both local companies so we get almost everybody covered," she said.
Earlier this week, both Joncas and Wright met with the Seattle Parks Department to make sure the day's plans go off smoothly. JoncJon
"We've been doing this for 30 years, right through WTO and all the things after that. And it's always been a great, safe family place so we're well prepared and we have added security so I think it's going to be just fine," Joncas said.
All the Occupy Sponsored activities are scheduled between noon and 5 pm.
Last year about 25,000 people attended the parade and tree lighting ceremony.
Downtown Seattle's Holidays in the City
Occupy Seattle's official plans for Black Friday
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A culinary school provides hands on training and a simulated work-like environment to prepare students with the skills, techniques and professionalism to achieve life long career goals. The center offers courses in hotel operations and commercial cooking and catering. The school enjoys a fairly steady enrollment due to their work with government assistance programs to help provide veterans and the disabled with the skills to achieve and maintain a rewarding career.
The success of the culinary school's programs with their current government assistance clientele encouraged them to extend their program offerings for general enrollment. The center believed they could expand the impact of their programs by allowing more people the opportunity to learn and grow in the hospitality field. With a goal of increasing new student enrollment by 10 – 15 students per session, the school turned to Advance 360 because of our reputation for excellence, credibility of our expertise and data, and our team infrastructure to fully support and monitor their digital marketing efforts.
The Advance 360 digital team worked closely with the client to identify the types of student prospects to target and the most relevant geographies to reach them. With two locations in the New York metropolitan area, the digital team focused on the 5 boroughs of New York and developed a multi-channel strategy to connect with the optimal audience including Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Facebook Lead Generation, and Display Remessaging. As the campaigns became established, the strategy was expanded to include Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and TrueView Video.
SEM (paid search) campaign to drive leads and conversions. The Advance 360 search team developed an exhaustive list of relevant search terms/keywords to connect with potential students with an interest in hospitality, cooking and culinary education. Naturally, with the vast number of general consumer searches for cooking-related topics, the search team also implemented an extensive list of negative keywords such as bakery, demonstration and celebrity chef names, for example, to maximize the search budget and prevent budget loss due to incompatible appearances on search result pages.
Facebook Lead Generation ads extend brand awareness with a call to action. Facebook lead ads were targeted to Veterans to inform them of the government assistance programs as well as recent high school students who are just starting to think about a career path, and people specifically interested in a culinary career. Lead generation ads delivered prospect information immediately to the client's email and CRM.
Display Remessaging ads reinforce the brand message and offer to recent website visitors. Among potential students that came to the school's website via organic or paid marketing efforts to learn more about their programs, visitors that did not convert were served additional digital display messaging to keep the client top of mind and encourage conversion.
SEO (organic search) expertise strengthens client's website to improve organic rankings on search pages. The search team reviewed the client's website and updated existing titles and descriptions with optimized content. They created a unique page for Veterans with fresh content and optimized images. The team also reworked and optimized their Google Business listings and helped to get their blog page functioning.
TrueView Video can provide the most engaging level of messaging to connect with an audience. What better way to highlight the school's facilities, meet faculty, glimpse classes in action and hear from satisfied graduates to make a lasting impression on prospective students?
Search & Facebook campaigns drove a high number of actionable leads to the client.
TrueView Video campaign garnered a 56% view rate which is over 2X the industry standard.


Hardly any task is more arduous than putting together a professional resume, but it's unlikely that you will ever get a serious job without one.
Whenever you receive a job offer or apply for a job on your own, you will almost always be required to present a resume. However, don't wait until a resume is required to develop one. Because a resume is a reflection of your professional self, much thought and preparation should go into it so that possible employers can get a picture of the very best you.
Below is a checklist that will make writing your resume a breeze and help ensure that it is the best it can be.
Is it your own? No resume is completely original; they are all similar in some way. It's fine to model yours from a template, but make sure it is not a direct copy.
Does it have design? A resume is not just putting words on paper. It still must have some sort of style with clearly defined sections, parallel white space, bullet points, and lines so that a possible employer will find its appearance appropriate and inviting to read. However, do not use any photos, clipart or colored backgrounds.
Is your resume as brief as possible? Most employers give resumes a quick look over at first screening (no longer than 15-seconds to a minute), so unless you have serious past experience in an area, keep it short to make sure it gets read.
Is your text easy to read? It is best to use Times New Roman, Arial or some other Serif font, with the size being at 12 point. No more than two fonts or two sizes should be used together (e.g. headers are 14 point and in bold while non-headers are 12 point).
Are all margins equal? They should be no less than 1″ and no more than 1.5″.
Are you sending your resume via email or snail mail? More than likely it'll be sent via email, however, if it is the latter, make sure it is printed out on quality 8.5″ x 11″ stock paper with no blurred letters or faded ink. If it is more than one sheet, use a paper clip to keep everything together instead of staples or tape.
Have you included your contact information at the top of your resume? If someone wants to hire you, they need a way to let you know. Your contact information should include your name, address, phone number, email address, website (if you have one) and social accounts (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.). Business social media accounts are preferable. You might want to think twice about including personal social media profiles if you're not confident about the content that's on there.
Is your writing logical? Instead of being all over the place, your text should be clear, focused and objective. Educational degrees, major accomplishments, skills and/or competencies should be listed in a well-thought-out manner.
How creative is your resume? When listing previous work experience, use descriptive job titles instead of actual job titles (e.g. "Head Hamburger Flipper" instead of "McDonald's cook").
Does it include an ample amount of industry buzzwords or keywords? These are words that are specific to a particular industry and can communicate to a possible employer that you have numerous skills and qualifications. For example, if a company is looking for a marketing manager, it will scan resumes for those that include keywords such as digital marketing, SEO, Google Analytics, and social media marketing. If your resume doesn't include these keywords, you are less likely to be found, since often times the resume scanning is done via software.
Does it make use of numbers? Your resume is more likely to stand out and impress a potential employer if you are numerically specific about your achievements, as opposed to generalizing (e.g. "increased annual revenue by $10,000" instead of "increased annual revenue").
Is your resume more professional than it is personal? Leave out any personal information that is irrelevant or any potentially discriminatory information that could cause possible employers to not hire you. Such information that should be excluded, for example, is your age, race, gender, religion, or marital status.
Is your resume mistake-free? Spell check and grammar check it at least twice.
Has someone else proofread your resume for you? It is helpful to have a close family member or good friend/coworker check for typos, spelling mistakes, grammar errors, and inconsistencies.
Are you using acronyms or abbreviations? Don't assume that a possible employer knows your personal jargon, or that of a previous company you've worked for. Spell everything out, including the titles of degrees (e.g. "Bachelor of Science" instead of "B.S.").
Is it complete? If it is applicable to the position you are applying for, make sure all work that you have done is highlighted. This includes volunteer work, community service, school honors, work awards, certifications, licenses, professional affiliations and memberships, and publications.
Is your resume divided into sections? Having clearly delineated sections for your educational accomplishments, previous work experience, skills, awards, etc., will make it easy to read. Each section should be clearly labeled and ordered in such a way that your strongest credentials are at the top.
Is previous work experience listed in reverse chronological order? This means your most recent (last) job should be listed first instead of the first company that you worked for.
Does your resume include your career goal(s)? A career objective should be placed near the top of your resume. This is a short statement that sums up your experience, skills, and training under a section usually called "Career Summary" or "Qualifications Summary." While this objective and the entire resume should be written in a first-person voice, avoid using personal pronouns such as "I," "me," "my," etc.
Is it targeted? A general resume that fits a variety of industries is less likely to be effective. It should instead be targeted toward one or two specific industries that you are seeking a career in. If you are making a career change, your resume should reflect this and show how your experience and skills from one industry will translate into another industry.
Do you have a professional portfolio of work to share? If you are seeking a career as a graphic designer or photographer, this may be particularly helpful. An employer may be interested in reviewing work that you have already done. Including a statement near the end of your resume that lets them know you already have a portfolio of work is likely to pique their interest. If it is an online portfolio, include a non-hyperlinked link to it.
Have you considered having your resume critiqued via Reddit? Reddit is a social news aggregation, web content rating, and discussion website. You can register to be a community member (if you're not one already) and post your resume to have others review it. Reddit recommends that you do this anonymously by removing the contact information from your resume.
Can Product Hunt help? Product Hunt is a website that curates the latest mobile apps, websites, and technology products that everyone's talking about. When you search for "resume," a good number of tools come up that you can use to quickly build or improve your resume, such as Strikingly, which generates an instant resume from your LinkedIn profile.
Does your resume need a professional independent analysis? You can submit your resume to TopResume, get it evaluated by a resume expert, and receive suggestions for improvements within three days. If you're not super confident in your writing skills, resume writing services are also available.


How Old is La Brava in Boku no Hero Academia?
So Boku No Hero Academia's new arc has been going for a while. And the newest threat, Gentle Criminal is pretty damn cool. I wanna discuss that.
I can't help but feel for love-sick girls such a La Brava, mostly because I can't imagine being so devoted and (emotionally) invested in a person.
We have Batman in universe already, please don't make another one.
Boku No Hero Academia Manga chapter 146 read ONLINE!
I honestly couldn't have thought of a better way to end their arc.
My Hero Academia Chapter 178 Live Reaction/Review: LA BRAVA'S QUIRK AND PAST!
Boku no Hero Academia #178: Una Mujer Llamada "La Brava"
Update: Just to clarify, since I've seen some discourse, when I mentioned the lack of character and petty goals. I had to put those words in abbreviations.


We will answer each of these questions step-by-step. First, however, we need to set up what an aggregate demand and aggregate supply diagram looks like.
Instead of "price" on the Y-axis, we have "price-level".
Instead of "quantity" on the X-axis, we have "Real GDP", a measure of the size of the economy.
We will use the diagram below as a base case and show how events in the economy influence the price level and Real GDP.
If the consumer expects a recession then they will not spend as much money today as to "save for a rainy day". Thus if spending has decreased, then our aggregate demand must decrease. An aggregate demand decrease is shown as a shift to the left of the aggregate demand curve, as shown below. Note that this has caused both Real GDP to decrease as well as the price level. Thus expectations of future recessions act to lower economic growth and are deflationary in nature.
If foreign income rises, then we would expect that foreigners would spend more money - both in their home country and in ours. Thus we should see a rise in foreign spending and exports, which raises the aggregate demand curve. This is shown in our diagram as a shift to the right. This shift in the aggregate demand curve causes Real GDP to rise as well as the price level.
If foreign price levels fall, then foreign goods become cheaper. We should expect that consumers in our country are now more likely to buy foreign goods and less likely to buy domestic made products. Thus the aggregate demand curve must fall, which is shown as a shift to the left. Note that a fall in foreign price levels also causes a fall in domestic price levels (as shown) as well as a fall in Real GDP, according to this Keynesian framework.
This is where the Keynesian framework differs radically from others. Under this framework, this increase in government spending is an increase in aggregate demand, as the government is now demanding more goods and services. So we should see Real GDP rise as well as the price level.
This is generally all that is expected in a 1st-year college answer. There are larger issues here, though, such as how is the government paying for these expenditures (higher taxes? deficit spending?) and how much government spending chases away private spending. Both those are issues typically beyond the scope of a question such as this.
If the cost of hiring workers has gone up, then companies will not want to hire as many workers. Thus we should expect to see the aggregate supply shrink, which is shown as a shift to the left. When the aggregate supply gets smaller, we see a reduction in Real GDP as well as an increase in the price level. Note that the expectation of future inflation has caused the price level to increase today. Thus if consumers expect inflation tomorrow, they will end up seeing it today.
A rise in firm productivity is shown as a shift of the aggregate supply curve to the right. Not surprisingly, this causes a rise in Real GDP. Note that it also causes a fall in the price level.
Now you should be able to answer aggregate supply and aggregate demand questions on a test or exam. Good luck!
How Will You Score on the Arguments Section of the LSAT?


Rinse and drain black beans in a large strainer. Place into a large mixing bowl.
Mince onion and garlic cloves. In a small saucepan, heat 1/8 cup water. Cook 1/2 yellow onion (keep other half for the salsa), 2 garlic cloves, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1 teaspoon cumin powder over medium heat. Cook until onion mixture becomes translucent. Pour onion mixture into black bean bowl. Mash the contents while adding ¼ cup tortilla mix until mixture is combined. Heat 1T butter over medium heat in a large sauté pan. Roll out 16 cakes and place into pan. Sauté for approximately 2 minutes on each side. Best served warm.
Peel and dice peaches and mango. In a small bowl, combine peaches, mango, ½ onion, 1 garlic clove, and 1 T cilantro. Cover with lime zest and juice.


Yay for getting orientation info!
I still haven't gotten mine -- maybe it'll come today. Does it tell you what section you're in?
Oh nono... I just got an email saying that the orientation info has been sent and another that said "Hey you can see your scholarship info on MyU or Onestop!"
another that said "Hey you can see your scholarship info on MyU or Onestop!"
I got that one too, but apparently there actually is no information there for me to discover yet. Go figure.
If anyone can help a brother out finding an apartment for me and my wife. Moving around Aug. 18th or so, want to live in Uptown or Northeast (or near the west bank campus, if need be).
If anyone has come across apartments that they've liked, but weren't quite right or whatnot, I'd appreciate some leads. Been checking Craigslist and other resources, but it's slow going and I won't get a chance to visit before signing the lease.
I found rent.com extremely helpful. Rent.com has pictures and contact info for properties...and they'll give you a $100 gift card if you do sign a lease for a place you find on the site.
So is anyone else planning to sign up for one of the Pre-Orientation projects with MJF?
Anyone know what the Logan Park area of Northeast Minn. is like? I might have a lead there.
I signed up today. When they asked me to rank choices for projects, I put down some week 1 projects and some week 2 projects. I am not sure if they'll assign me projects for both weeks or not. I thought the projects from Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services and the Indian Child Law Welfare Center sounded the most interesting and law-related. The email made it sound like there would be a mad rush to sign up though, so I'm not sure what I'll end up with.
What are these projects you guys are referring to? I haven't received any information on anything like it.


Protesters cover their face after the police use tear gas during a demonstration near the U.S. embassy in Cairo on September 14, 2012.
(Beirut) – Egyptian police and military officers have arrested and detained over 300 children during protests in Cairo over the past year, in some cases beating or torturing them, Human Rights Watch said today. Frequently, these children were illegally jailed with adult prisoners, tried in adult courts, and denied their rights to counsel and notification of their families.
Human Rights Watch found strong evidence that police and military officers beat many of the children and in some cases subjected them to treatment amounting to torture. Children told Human Rights Watch, their parents and lawyers that police and military officers kicked them, beat them with rifle butts, hit them with batons, and subjected them to electric shocks.
The arrests and treatment of detained children violated Egyptian and international law.
President Mohamed Morsy took a positive step when he issued a decree on October 9, 2012, granting amnesty for "crimes linked to the January 25 revolution," which should end prosecutions of many children arrested in these incidents. The pardon extends only to the end of June, however, and does not include those arrested at the September protests.The next step should be to investigate abuse of protesters in state custody, making abuse cases involving children a priority, and prosecuting officers found responsible.
During demonstrations from September 11 to16 in front of the US embassy in Cairo in response to an online film considered offensive to Islam, police and central security officers arrested at least 136 children from various areas in central Cairo, according to arrest data collected by civil society organizations. It was the largest number of arrests of children linked to a specific protest in the past year.
Police or Central Security Force officers beat many of the children during the arrests, witnesses and victims told Human Rights Watch. Officials sent most of the children to adult prisons and adult courts, even though Egypt's child protection law requires authorities to refer juvenile offenders to child courts and separate them from adult detainees.
The beatings of children arrested during the September embassy protests reflect a repeated police practice over the last year of abusing child protesters, Human Rights Watch found. Through interviews with children released from detention, lawyers, and activists, Human Rights Watch documented rights violations during arrests and detention linked to five major protests over a 10-month period: anti-government protests in November 2011 on Mohammed Mahmoud street in downtown Cairo, in December near the cabinet building, in February 2012 in front of the Interior Ministry, in May at the Defense Ministry in the Abbasiya neighborhood, and then at protests against the US government in September at the US Embassy.
Human Rights Watch conducted detailed interviews with parents or relatives of 12 children arrested by police, military police, and central security officers in February or September. Human Rights Watch also interviewed seven lawyers associated with five civil society groups defending children arrested in connection with the five protests, one social worker, and three children released from detention, in addition to reviewing media articles and consulting child rights and juvenile justice activists.
The evidence gathered by Human Rights Watch from interviews with lawyers and relatives of the arrested children suggest that police consistently carried out widespread arrests in response to large civil disturbances. According to local civil society groups, authorities arrested at least 311 children in connection with these protests.
Lawyers from the Egyptian Foundation for the Advancement of Childhood Conditions, a child protection nongovernmental organization, told Human Rights Watch that they interviewed children arrested in connection with the December 2011 protests against the cabinet, who told them that men in civilian clothing and military police arrested and detained them in Egypt's parliament building and kicked, punched, and beat them there with batons and metal pipes. Several of the children told lawyers and family members that police arrested them on downtown streets although they had not participated in protests.
The mother of Ahmed Mohsen, a 16-year-old boy detained during February protests in front of the Interior Ministry, said that her son was arrested as he worked shining shoes in downtown Cairo. When she visited him at the Abdeen prosecution unit, he told her that the police had abused him in custody.
Lawyers and other parents whom Human Rights Watch interviewed said that several children arrested in February faced similar types of abuse.
After protests in September in front of the US Embassy, Human Rights Watch interviewed two mothers who said that police arrested their sons, sixteen- and seventeen-year-old cousins, and two of their friends around the same age while they were on their way to a birthday gathering. They face the same charges as the other child defendants charged in connection with the protest: assaulting public officials in the course of their duty, attacking facilities, disrupting traffic, unlawful public gathering, and use of violence.
Nearly 20 percent of those arrested in connection with the 5 protests were under 18, based on arrest data collected by lawyers working on these cases, although it is unclear what percentage of the total number of protesters were under 18. Authorities sent the arrested children before adult prosecutors, tried them before adult courts, and held them alongside adult prisoners, instead of referring them to the juvenile justice system, the lawyers, parents, and children told Human Rights Watch.
While police and security officers recorded the ages of children arrested in these incidents, according to lawyers and children interviewed, they did not separate children from adults in detention, nor did they refer their cases to child courts.
Authorities have detained children in the same cells as adults at local police stations, including the Abdeen, Qasr al-Nil, Sayyida Zeinab, al-Wayli, and al-Gala'a stations, Human Rights Watch found. They have routinely failed to inform families of the children's whereabouts, and in several cases have given families looking for their children incorrect information about their child's location or their rights to visit.
In many cases, police interrogated children before they had access to a lawyer, according to interrogation records viewed by Human Rights Watch and interviews with lawyers representing children in these cases.
Egypt's Child Law (Law No.12 of 1996 as amended by Law No.126 of 2008) requires issues concerning children who are accused of a crime to be handled exclusively by the Child Court, and sets criminal penalties for police or public officers who detain children with adult prisoners.


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Threat to car sales from no-deal Brexit
Thursday, July 26, 2018 - 06:30 AM
By Pádraig Hoare
A no-deal Brexit scenario would add further pressure to car sales which are already seeing a huge rise in imports from the UK due to the fall in sterling.
That is according to foreign exchange firm Fexco, who said Irish car dealers increased their spending on vehicles imported from the UK by a fifth during the first half of 2018 compared with the same time in 2017.
Fexco head of dealing, David Lamb said: "A no-deal Brexit would likely see a significant weakening in sterling, potentially back towards last year's highs.
"That's going to make UK goods, including cars, cheaper for people in Ireland and so could mean we see an increase in this trend of Irish car dealers importing from the UK."
Sterling weakened to beyond 93p against the euro in August last year, the lowest level since 2009.
Spending on UK imports by Irish car dealers and individuals combined rose 14% in the first six months of 2018 compared to the same period last year.
Compared to the six months before the Brexit vote, the combined spend of individual motorists and Irish car dealers is up by two thirds, Fexco said.
Figures from the Society of the Irish Motor Industry (SIMI) show 49,971 used cars were imported from the UK in the first half of 2018, a 12% increase on the same period last year — while they are up 64% from the months before the 2016 referendum.
Mr Lamb said that sterling could rise in the coming weeks with the UK widely expected to raise interest rates in August.
"That means Irish buyers planning to import a car from the UK may want to lock in the current favourable exchange rate by using a forward contract," he said.
The increase of cars imported from the UK has also put the personal contract plan (PCP) market into focus.
Central Bank economists have warned of the potential for some PCP cars to enter negative equity as second-hand values are dragged down by the influx of UK cars.
Banks are exposed to the €1.5bn PCP car market if prices in the second-hand market were to dive further, a report from the watchdog's Martina Sherman, Tiernan Heffernan, and Bryan Cullen said earlier this year.
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for the first time distinctly declared, that the tithes, which had been declared to be "holy unto the Lord," were appropriated by him to the support of his ministers the Levites, to whom the further direction is given to make a similar contribution for their superiors, to that which the people made for them; that is, to give to the priests a tenth part of their tithes.* In addition to what has been already said upon the subject, it is obvious to remark, that the rich revenues of the Priests and Levites would have an effect to give them respectability in the people's view, and the consequent influence, which it was important to the general well-being that they should possess, besides securing that influence in favor of existing institutions, from which personally they derived so much advantage. Again, the decree that the ministers of the sanctuary should "have no inheritance among the children of Israel," tended manifestly to secure their attention to their proper duties, from which the care of landed property, might they hold it, would be likely to seduce them; while their dispersion in small settlements of their own, throughout the tribes, made them a universal bond of union to the state, and afforded opportunity for the instructions of the Law, which was their charge, to be promptly enforced, wherever occasion might call for them.t
* Numb. xviii. 21 - 32. See pp. 322, 323. † This chapter, relating to the support of the priesthood, well connects itself (1) with the two next preceding, in which events are recorded establishing the rank of Aaron and his associates. — " They may be joined" (2); 119;, quasi, they may be Levited; a paronomasia on the name 95.--"A stranger shall not come nigh unto you" (4); no other person shall interfere.— "That there be no wrath any more " (5); compare Numb. xvi. — With 8-11, compare p. 255, note ; with 12, 13, compare xv. 1-21; with 14 - 18, Lev. xxvii. 1-13, 26, 27; and with 21 - 24, Lev. xxvii. 30-33. — "The best of the oil" &c. (12); literally, the fat; a metaphor in common use, similar, as Geddes well suggests, to our expression, the cream of a thing. — " A covenant of salt" (19); a thing agreed upon,
The nineteenth chapter prescribes a new ritual for the cleansing of impurities, contracted through the presence of dead bodies. On the one hand, it was the policy of the Law to procure their speedy interment; both with a view to the general health and comfort, and also, it is probable, as a discouragement to the superstitious Egyptian practice of embalming. * And this object would be well secured by regulations subjecting a person, who approached a corse, to the serious inconvenience of seclusion from society for some days after, and the observance of a set ceremonial in order to his restoration. Under such a liability, every one would be interested to see that a body was soon buried, whether it was peculiarly his own charge, or might merely expose him to accidental defilement. On the other hand, it is not unlikely, that the regulation previously prescribed,t had proved, upon the short experiment, so burdensome as to have occasioned complaint; and that, its object being served in attracting serious attention to the subject, it now admitted of being relaxed, without injury. Accordingly, provision is made for the purification of the numbers, who, day by day, in such a multitude, must have been defiled by the occurrence of some death near them, without so much as the aid of a priest. The ashes of a heifer, immolated without the camp, with certain carefully specified formalities, are directed to be thrown into water, which water is to be kept, in order to be sprinkled by any "clean person" upon whatever person or thing has been defiled by the presence of a body, of part of a body, or of a grave. This
for perpetuity. See p. 242, note 11. — Verses 27, 30; your tribute to the priests, paid from the tribute of others, shall correspond to the tribute, which others, from their own threshing-floors and wine-presses, pay to you. "Pollute" (32); make common by withholding from the due sacred use, that of contribution to the priests. * See Ex. xiii.-19.
† Numb. v. 1-4.
being done on the third, and again on the seventh day after a defilement, it was then considered to be removed. It is reasonable to suppose, that, to meet the numerous occasions, which must have been constantly arising in remote parts, a quantity of water, thus prepared, was sent into the different quarters of the encampment.
The last five chapters, on which we have remarked, are without a date in the text. The contents of the last four are assigned, by a note in the margin of our English Bibles, to a period half way between the Exodus and the invasion. This, however, is done without authority ; nor, though it is true we cannot disprove the hypothesis, is there any probability in its favor. On the contrary, the movement to which the sixteenth and seventeenth chapters relate, is one which it is far most natural to refer to a period when the national institutions were recent; the arrangement prescribed in the eighteenth, for a tribute from the Levites to the priests, had such an important relation to the economy of the ecclesiastical estate, that it seems impossible not to ascribe it to a very early time; † and the inconvenience, resulting from a preceding law, which I have suggested that the law in the nineteenth chapter was designed to remove, was so oppressive, as to create a strong probability, that it was not permitted to remain long in force. On the whole, I cannot hesitate to understand, that the actual
* It may safely be presumed that the precise directions respecting the "red heifer" had reference to some existing practices and opinions; but it is in vain to attempt to explain all the particulars of the ritual. A quantity of learning, collected with a view to their illustration, and successfully, as to some parts, may be seen in Spencer, "De Legibus" &c., lib. 2, cap. 15.
† Verse 22 may be thought to furnish a confirmation of this argument. " Neither must the children of Israel henceforth come nigh the Tabernacle of the Congregation." This is language, which it is not natural to suppose was used a score of years after the Levites had entered on their charge.
series of events is pursued by Moses, without a pause, from the place which records his entrance on his mission, to the end of the nineteenth chapter of the book before us.
And I suggest, in conclusion of this part of the history, that the prominent transactions, which it relates, are recorded in the order in which we might have supposed, that, under such an administration, they would be made to succeed each other. First, we have the deliverance of the nation from its bondage, (in other words, the creation of the commonwealth,) along with the institution of its great commemorative rite, the Passover. The people, separated and made one, next receives a compendious law for present use, comprehending, however, the great principles of ulterior legislation. Then elaborate institutions of worship are prescribed, having in view the education of the race for their great function, and laws are given in fuller detail, adapted to the promotion of all their prosperity. They are now an organized community, ready, in every thing except national character, to enter on their high destiny. But this is wanting; and till it shall be formed, they are doomed to remain under circumstances where no call for enterprise will exist, and where their obscurity will be their protection.
LECTURE XVI.
NUMBERS XX. 1.- XXVII. 23.
RETURN OF THE PEOPLE TO THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF CANAAN. –
Their CONDITION DURING THE INTERVAL OF THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS. - REASONS OF THE CHASM LEFT BY Moses IN THE RECORD. — SCARCITY, AND MIRACULOUS SUPPLY, OF WATER. — NEGOTIATION WITH THE EDOMITES FOR A PASSAGE THROUGH THEIR COUNTRY. - DEATH OF AARON. — SKIRMISH WITH THE SOUTHERN CANAANITES. CIRCUIT BY THE RED Sea.- PLAGUE OF " FIERY SERPENTS." — NEGOTIATION WITH THE AMORITES, AND CONQUEST OF THE TERRITORIES OF Simon AND OG. — APPLICATION OF BALAK, King of Moab, to BALAAM, AND HIS PROCEEDINGS THEREU POX.
DISORDERS AND PUNISHMENT OF THE PEOPLE AT Saittim. — CENSUS, AND ARRANGEMENT FOR The Division of CANAAN, — RULE FOR THE INHERITANCE OF PROPERTY IN LAND. — Moses' Vision OF CANAAN, AND CONSECRATION OF JOSHUA AS His SuccessoR.
More than thirty-seven years pass without a record, and we find the Israelites again at Kadesh Barnea, near the southern border of Canaan, the same place where their fathers, in the second year after leaving Egypt, had desisted from the project of an immediate invasion. What had been their condition meanwhile? They are probably often conceived of, as having been roving about in a compact mass; without employment, or object, except that of detention from Canaan; and miraculously supplied with all their food through the whole period, on account of the sterility of the tract which they were traversing. Each of these views I conceive to be destitute of proof, and in violation of probability.
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A: From my understanding the current way the compass works it is supposed to always use the "top" of the phone or "default orientation" for the correct reading. This could have been different on earlier versions of android. It is said it is then up to developers to compensate for the screen orientation to represent the true north with orientation changes. Same goes for the accelerometer the axis stay based off of default screen orientation (so for most phones portrait, but tablets most would be landscape).
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As students of all ages re-enter the classroom, we are mindful of Mike Rose's words: "A good education helps us make sense of the world and find our way in it." In our September newsletter, we welcome a bright new group of students, as well as a new faculty member, and we invite you to join our journey on the second Saturday of each month. Plus, our graduates offer wisdom for the road ahead. Read on!
Twenty-four new students and their kids filled the room at our recent Free Minds orientation; among them were a Guatemalan grandmother, a former writing workshop participant, a singer-songwriter, and a Hurricane Ike survivor, each with his or her own pathway into the classroom. After submitting applications, interviewing with Free Minds staff, and taking a reading assessment, students were selected from a pool of 80 applications based on a range of criteria including how Free Minds could help them reach their goals.
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"We live in a world saturated with images," says Dr. Janis Bergman-Carton, Free Minds' new professor of art history. "I t is important for everyone to learn and practice the visual acuity skills needed to read them critically." Bergman-Carton joins the faculty after 25 years of teaching at SMU, and brings art history to our curriculum for the first time. Her unit expands the rich humanities experience of the classroom and brings new dimensions to what students are already exploring. We will look at the art and architecture of Plato's ancient Greece, consider presentation of self in Renaissance self-portraits, and explore how contemporary photography shapes and reflects culture.
Bergman-Carton has been familiar with Free Minds since its founding and has cheered many classes at graduation, so joining the faculty was an easy decision. "I knew that if the opportunity arose to teach in the program, I would jump at it," she says. "There's nothing more exciting than a room full of students who know exactly why they're there and who can't get enough."
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Dr. Joe Sutherland is an entrepreneurial digital and analytics executive with extensive experience in strategy, technology, marketing, and operations. He is the Director and Head of Data Science at Search Discovery, where he leads groundbreaking data science initiatives for a diverse clientele of the most admired companies in the world. He has reliably demonstrated how to launch new digital businesses and deliver customer centric solutions via online, mobile, and social channels.
As a digital transformation expert, he focuses on the integration of data science and artificial intelligence into executable corporate strategies, and sponsors a culture of experimentation, innovation, and next-gen technology. His leadership style is clear, collegial, and common sense, and he uses it to build broad internal and external support for digital initiatives. He is a regular keynote speaker to executives and the public on data science and artificial intelligence.
His career has spanned numerous technical and operational roles within agency, startup, and corporate venues, including The White House during the Obama Administration. He was a founder at the artificial intelligence startup Peachtree AI, and an initial team member at the fintech startup Prattle, both of which successfully exited in 2019. Prior to that, he served as a freelance analytics consultant, running a single-shingle digital development shop called CLEVER Analytics from 2006. He has held research appointments at Johns Hopkins, Princeton, and Columbia.
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A great example of an organization walking the walk is Mentor Collective, an ed-tech startup in Boston that runs impactful mentorship programs for students who traditionally would not have the resources to navigate the jungle of higher education. We're leading digital transformation and insights generation in the education sector by deploying ongoing "voice-of-student" surveys in academia, which enables tracking outcomes and melt probability at a much higher frequency. This transformation has allowed us to deploy more than 15 randomized controlled trials studying the effect of educational interventions on student success—and we've shown a causally identified, positive effect for thousands of students (insights, not just data!).
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AWESOME PROJECT: Soccer pub spearheads local school's first girls' team
September 8, 2016 Awesome Project, Memphisioby
This is a good year for Sheffield High, in Memphis – the school is building its very first girls' soccer team. And about time! Memphis has a robust soccer community, with rec leagues up the wazoo for all ages, and the best soccer pub in the state of Tennessee situated right in the Cooper-Young neighborhood of the city. But while Sheffield has had a boy's team, there never seemed to be the resources for a girls' team. Sound unfair?
"It's just a lack of funding," explains Jamie Naylor, co-owner with her husband of Celtic Crossing Irish Pub and Restaurant, a haven for Memphis soccer fans. She is spearheading an ioby campaign to cover startup costs for the team – team fees, equipment, coaching and training, and field improvements. "There's such an imbalance. From what I understand, every sport gets a certain amount of money, and some sports get more money. There's still such a focus on football and basketball, at least here in Memphis."
[Celtic Crossing]
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One of the super cool lessons to learn from this campaign has to do with how the person with the lightbulb idea found the right person to bring it to life. It was a Teach For America Fellow at Sheffield, actually, who initially realized that the school should have a girls' soccer team; she did her homework, discovered that Celtic Crossing was the epicenter of the soccer community, and – though neither of Naylor's two young children are students at Sheffield – reached out to Naylor for help.
Naylor jumped on board, bringing the idea to her over-35 women's league, and immediately brainstorming with the larger community. Soon, her women's league was hosting equipment drives and dropping in on Sheffield High soccer practice sessions. At the pub, she's been asking her regulars to contribute, and they've been saying yes.
[The Sheffield girls' team practicing]
"My father got married when I was young," Naylor explains of her early start in the sport, "and I went from being an only child – you know, father-daughter – to having three stepbrothers. So it was kind of like 'you play sports with your brothers or you don't have anyone to play with.' But I was probably the most athletic, so it stuck with me." From an early age, she took the initiative when it came to soccer. "I remember kind of wanting to play and there was a group of girls that were practicing on a soccer field near where we lived," Naylor explains, "and I ran out to the coach and said 'hey, can I play?' And that's kind of how I went from just your traditional YMCA rec league to playing in the more competitive church league, and then the more competitive club leagues." It's exactly the go-get-it approach she's been taking to the Sheffield campaign.
[These soccer fans are helping support the Sheffield girls' love of the game]
The value of having a local business on board
Think you know die-hard sports fans? Try this on for size: it's not unusual to see 20 soccer fans gathered in Celtic Crossing at 7am, watching a night game being played overseas. "We're actually kind of known for our love of soccer," Naylor says of Celtic, which her husband opened eleven years ago. It's where they met, over fan-banter and beers. "We open up early for the English premiere League games. We consider ourselves not just the soccer bar of our neighborhood, but also the soccer bar of Tennessee. We definitely pride ourselves on being a soccer bar. I was laughing at my husband this weekend, because he's already thinking about the World Cup. He's like 'ok, when are the games? The World Cup is gonna be in Russia, so if it's a 7pm game in Russia then…' and I'm like 'that's two years from now!'"
Because Naylor and her husband have built such a loyal, trusting, and passionately soccer-oriented client base, they're in the perfect position to help raise money for Sheffield's team. "We being husband and wife owning the bar, when you come to Celtic, it's a very kind of neighborhood family environment. My husband and I have two children – a nine month old and an almost four year old. All of our regular customers are seeing them grow up. So they know that we're passionate about soccer, we're passionate about Memphis, about our neighborhood, and that we do a lot for the community, and so we wouldn't ask if it wasn't important to us. It seems like working hard on our business pays off when we can do stuff like this."
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The Imperfect Primary: Oddities, Biases, and Strengths of U.S. Presidential Nomination Politics, Third Edition
Barbara Norrander
Government and Public Policy, School of
The complex and ever-changing rules governing American presidential nomination contests are continuously up for criticism, but there is little to no consensus on exactly what the problems are or on how to fix them. The evolving system is hardly rational because it was never carefully planned. So, how are we to make sense of the myriad complexities in the primary process and how it affects the general election and calls for change? In this thoroughly updated third edition of The Imperfect Primary, political scientist Barbara Norrander explores how presidential candidates are nominated and how that process bridges to the general election campaign; discusses past and current proposals for reform; and examines the possibility for more practical, incremental changes to the electoral rules. Norrander reminds us to be careful what we wish for - reforming the presidential nomination process is as complex as the current system. Through the modeling of empirical research to demonstrate how questions of biases can be systematically addressed, students can better see the advantages, disadvantages, and potential for unintended consequences in a whole host of reform proposals. New to the Third Edition Fully updated through the 2016 elections with an eye toward 2020. Tracks the changing role of key primary features, including superdelegates, political action committees, debates, rule changes, open and closed primaries, caucuses, and the electoral calendar. Includes new discussions of the impact of multicandidate contests and "The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Social Media." Continues the discussion of Electoral College challenges and reforms.
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Norrander, B. (2019). The Imperfect Primary: Oddities, Biases, and Strengths of U.S. Presidential Nomination Politics, Third Edition. Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429296376
The Imperfect Primary : Oddities, Biases, and Strengths of U.S. Presidential Nomination Politics, Third Edition. / Norrander, Barbara.
Taylor and Francis, 2019. 202 p.
Norrander, B 2019, The Imperfect Primary: Oddities, Biases, and Strengths of U.S. Presidential Nomination Politics, Third Edition. Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429296376
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