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Call me a hipster but I think the decadence started before it was cool to say so.
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You aren't at all alone in it. It has long since been my view that these things defy basic biology, as much as some factions refuse to let that fact be known to the public. It is rather amusing though, when it comes up among "intellectuals" and those same points about biology and reproduction come up, stumping folks that should be the exemplar for all higher brain function.


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Detained Human Rights Lawyer Forced to Choose Counsel From Judiciary's Approved "List"
Iranian human rights lawyer Mohammad Najafi is facing eight charges for daring to speak up about a client he believes was killed in custody.
Security Agents Create "Climate of Fear" Around Local Prosecutor's Office
Mohammad Najafi, a human rights lawyer who is facing years in prison in Iran for arguing that his client was killed while in police custody, has been denied access to counsel of his choice based on a controversial clause in the country's Criminal Procedures Regulations.
"In response to our inquiries regarding Mr. Najafi's case, we have been told that we are not on the judiciary's list of authorized lawyers," attorney Payam Derafshan told the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI) on March 10, 2018.
"The judicial authorities showed me a list of seven lawyers who have been approved to take these cases in Markazi Province," he added. "Now we are requesting that the Parliament investigate why, out of thousands of licensed lawyers, only seven have received approval?"
Derafshan also told CHRI that security forces have been trying to pressure and intimidate the local prosecutor in the case.
"The security forces were in civilian clothes and it was hard to tell if they were working for the Intelligence Ministry or other security agencies," he said. "They would stand back so that they would not be noticed but these agents are told to hang around and see what's going on."
"They created a climate of fear by circling the [prosecutor's] office in their cars," he added. "When we got there, the prosecutor quickly locked his office and left. His assistant was being timid, too."
Continued Derafshan: "The assistant prosecutor had previously told us that he's not happy to see Najafi in prison and he would have released him if it was in his power."
"We believe these judicial authorities should resign rather than become part of an unlawful process," he added. "Of course, we are hoping that Shazand's judiciary chief will succeed in his talks with other officials in resolving Mr. Najafi's case."
In February 2018, Derafshan told CHRI that he and fellow attorney Arash Keykhosravi were also going to be arrested by the Intelligence Ministry's office in Shazand, near Arak in Markazi Province, for giving legal counsel to Najafi, "but the [Intelligence] Ministry in Tehran told us they had blocked it."
Detained For Doing His Job, Denied Access to Counsel
Najafi has been detained in Arak since January 15, 2018. He is facing eight charges for accusing the police of trying to cover up the cause of death of Vahid Heydari, a young man who died in custody after being arrested during protests in the city in late December 2017.
In an interview with CHRI in January 2018, Najafi said that Heydari, 22, was beaten before he died at the 12th Police Station in Arak before his death later that month. The authorities claimed that Heydari was a drug addict who committed suicide.
"I believe that this young man did not take his own life," Najafi said. "This young man was a protester. They arrested him and then they beat and killed him. Now they want to destroy his reputation."
Iranian officials have also claimed that two other detainees killed themselves in state custody between January and February 2018. Calls for independent investigations by UN officials and human rights organizations have gone unheeded in Iran.
Najafi has been denied access to counsel of his choice based on the Note to Article 48 of Iran's Constitution.
In January 2018, the judiciary issued lists to branch offices in several cities of approved lawyers exclusively allowed to represent people accused of national security crimes.
Iran's Constitution sets no limits or conditions on the right to legal counsel.
Article 35 states, "Both parties to a lawsuit have the right in all courts of law to select an attorney, and if they are unable to do so, arrangements must be made to provide them with legal counsel."
According to Article 48 of Iran's Criminal Procedures Regulations, people have the right to ask for and have a meeting with a lawyer as soon as they are detained.
However, the "Note to Article 48" makes exceptions: "In cases of crimes against internal or external security…during the investigation phase, the parties to the dispute are to select their attorneys from a list approved by the head of the judiciary."
Derafshan said that he and nine other prominent lawyers including Nasrin Sotoudeh and Mohammad Moghimi appeared at the judicial branch in the city of Shazand, near Arak, on March 7 to show their solidarity with Najafi.
We had discussions with the highest judicial official in the province and told him he should treat this case with greater care," Derafshan told CHRI. "Why is it that drug-related convicts and criminals are able to get out of prison on bail for the [Persian] new year (March 21, 2018) but Mr. Najafi has to stay in prison?"
In addition to Najafi, five civil rights activities were arrested in Shazand on January 15: Ali Bagheri, Kian Sadeghi, Abbas Safari, Gholamreza Ghasemi and Behzad Alibakhshi.
According to Derafshan, all of them remain in detention except for Safari, who was released on bail at an unknown date.
Iran Rights Lawyer: Judicial Process is a "Means to Settle
Detained Lawyer of Iranian Instagram Star Tortured, Bit Off Tongue
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This is an article I wrote about the film (with a few minor edits) for the late and much lamented movie magazine Verite.Deep in my heart I do not weep
How Pride trumps cynicism
Early in Pride – a film about organised LBGT support of a Welsh community during the long industrial action called by the National Union of Mineworkers in 1984 – Mark Ashton (Ben Schnetzer) the de-facto leader of a gay activist group is questioned as to why they would want to support working-class miners, commonly seen as rigidly normative in sexuality and gender roles by their sub-culture. Ashton responds "Who hates the miners? Thatcher, the police, and the tabloid press. Does that sound familiar?" concluding that about the only enemy they don't share is Mary Whitehouse – and that's probably only a matter of time. The dialogue is snappy and comic, fitting the breezy tone of Pride's early scenes, but it also gets to the heart of film's real theme, how apparently disparate communities find common ground, build relationships, and create unity.
Beginning from a macroscopic viewpoint focussed on the activists and set in and around their HQ, the LGBT bookshop Gay's the Word, the audience enters the world of 1984 through the character of Joe (George MacKay) a 20-year-old ingénue on the fringes of the gay scene (and thus not legal under the laws of the day). Joe – nicked named 'Bromley' due to his outward appearance of suburban conformity.
Gradually other characters are introduced… there is a clearly conscious artistic decision to keep the mining community remote. Initially the strike is seen only as background details, on television and in newspaper headlines. Despite raising funds (the old fashioned way, on the street with a slogan and a bucket for change) attempts to make contact with the Union are rebuffed. Frustrated by the red-tape and disinterest coming from official channels Ashton decides to go straight to the source and begins calling local miner's groups directly, due to a dodgy telephone connection (which obscures the full meaning of the group's name LGSM – Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners) contact is finally made. Keeping the characters and action restricted to the (mostly) young and urban gay characters set up a classic culture clash comedy.
With the unexpected arrival in London of local miner's leader Dai Donovan (Paddy Considine) to accept their collection money, the vista of the film widens dramatically. Director Matthew Warchus and screenwriter Stephen Beresford have set up the illusion of a binary opposition between the apparent vibrancy of gay cultural life and the urban environs in which it thrives, and a grey and unforgiving rural and 'straight' mining community.
The beauty of Warchus and Beresfords' film is in the movement from this macroscopic point of view to a microscopic one. Under scrutiny what appear to be two culturally and ideologically monolithic groups — one sexually and socially progressive, one steeped in tradition and a rigid social order — is exploded into a multitude of individuals. Each is deftly characterised by a combination of smart writing and a very talented cast of actors all of whom are given their moment to shine, and all of whom seize the opportunity.
Despite the urban environment they have settled in, many of the core gay characters have regional voices: Ashton is Northern Irish, LGSM co-founder Mike Jackson (Joseph Gilgun) is from the Midlands; brash lesbian Steph (Faye Marsey) hails from the North of England; perhaps most affecting is the character of Gethin (Andrew Scott). The manager of Gay's the Word, Gethin is a native of Ryhl in North Wales, but has entered a self-imposed exile due to unresolved personal issues. His story presents a personal narrative that will be familiar to many LGBT people from a rural background. A narrative expressed in the song Smalltown Boy by Bronski Beat (which features on the film's excellent collection of contemporary music).
While not entirely comprised of regional immigrants to London – Joe is suburban, and Gethin's lover Jonathan (Dominic West) and Jeff (Freddie Fox playing a variation on his performance as Marilyn from Boy George biopic Worried About The Boy) have RP accents – these characters are grouped by the way the mainstream of eighties British political culture defines their sexualities as 'other' and by their own choice to create an alternative community.
In contrast, the Welsh miners and their families are a community bound together by geography and class. The lack of social mobility among the working class community is striking. A moving speech on the miner's relationship with the coal seam is given by town elder Cliff (Bill Nighy, excellent in quite an uncharacteristic role). This soliloquy acknowledges that it is the coal that binds the people together, but also that the pit takes as much as it gives (Cliff lost a brother in an industrial accident).
You may object that the experience of a LGBT person in a rural community in this period would be quite different to the urban experience. As has been noted in 1984 the age of consent for homosexual men was still unequal with that for heterosexuals. When homosexuality was decriminalised in 1967, the age of consent for gay men was set at 21, as opposed to 16 for heterosexuals. An equal age of consent did not become law until 2001 (2009 in Northern Ireland). This is just one of the reasons that many LGBT people would feel unable or unwilling to be open regarding their sexuality. Something acknowledged in the film when Donovan remarks upon meeting Ashton and his group for the first time of "you're the first gays I've ever met." "That you know of" is his reply.
Pride is not embarrassed to go for big crowd pleasing moments and big emotions, among a copious collection of highlights Considine rips your heart out early with an unexpectedly moving and gracious address to an ambivalent audience in a gay nightclub. The scene is later mirrored when the gay activists arrive in Wales and Ashton nervously gives a rather less considered speech involving a Judy Garland joke. Initial hostilities thaw during a barnstorming set-piece in which Dominic West brings disco to the valleys. Imelda Staunton has a ball in a gay BDSM club ("Sorry girls, this is men only", "Don't be silly love, we've come all the way from Powys"). This bold approach is also exemplified by Christopher Nightingale's big brassy score which begins small but builds and builds toward the film's triumphant finale. Perhaps the most affecting moment involves the resolution of personal issues that caused Gethin to flee his homeland. Among a uniformly strong cast, Andrew Scott turns his relatively small amount of screen time into an acting masterclass.
Clearly a continuation of a lineage comic dramas finding rich material among the social and cultural groups marginalised by the economic and social policies of Thatcherism (Letter to Brezhnev, My Beautiful Laundrette, Brassed Off, The Full Monty, and Billy Elliot among them) Pride may be the most ambitious. An incredible amount is packed into its two hours, but it never feels overstuffed.
Recognising that equality does not mean conformity 'queer' politics are represented as a spectrum, rather than a homogenous clump. While this aspect of the film, and the title Pride itself foreground a gay rights story, the struggle of the mining village as just as central to the plot. A variety of gender, cultural and class issues are threaded through the plot but all are deftly sketched rather than laboured. In one quietly impactful scene, as the strike continues into winter, the severity of the miners' plight is demonstrated by a round of bingo where the prize is a can of corned beef.
Amongst the enjoyable bombast of this film, it would be a great shame if its subtleties were missed. Whilst the film is very funny indeed, and there are many big comic set-pieces to enjoy. Dark shadows lurk throughout. Chief among these is its presentation of the AIDS crisis which in 1984 was about to break into the public consciousness in a big way. The film seems to acknowledge and play with the reduced impact and concern around HIV and AIDS in 2014 (at least in the affluent west). HIV and AIDS are barely mentioned for the film's first hour. When it suddenly surfaces as an issue, it is chilling and is acknowledged in a very powerful way.
Pride refuses to be a victim narrative. Despite AIDS, despite homophobia, despite the unavoidable fact that the miners' strike was lost and the sort of rural community depicted in the film was devastated by the economics of Thatcherism, the film builds and swells into an absolute fanfare of celebration and triumph. In the accompanying press notes Warchus describes coming to the realisation during editing that he had made 'a classic romantic comedy… but the relationship isn't between individuals, but between two groups, or communities. And they are driven not by romantic love but compassion. I think it reminds us of the idea of society, that there is of course such a thing after all.'
In compressing a complicated and unfamiliar story featuring a large ensemble cast (there are 75 speaking parts), there are a few areas open to criticism. The comic characterisation of some lesbian characters as rigidly politically correct is a disappointingly conventional gag. Whilst Beresford's characterisations are almost all exemplars of quality screenwriting. He does feel the need to provide a villain in the form of a duplicitous village committee member who cannot overcome her own prejudices. Although the character is allowed some depth it comes rather too late in events and she is too much a curtain-twitching plot device. These are very minor concerns and the quality of the screenplay is particularly impressive given it is the writer's first screen credit.
Director Warchus has an extensive and impressive career in the theatre (including the musical Matilda) but only one previous film directing credit (a largely forgotten 1999 thriller Sympactico), however he and cinematographer Tat Radcliffe make great efforts to ensure this feels like a movie and avoids the televisual feel that can afflict British mainstream films. Even in the lower key of the early scenes the camera is moving and reframing, and the editing is dynamic. As the action moves to Wales the film opens up with sweeping aerial vistas worthy of a western.
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Q: python: ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 2) data from excell I want to take data from excel and plot 2D kernel density estimate in python, but it says "ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 2)". how to fix it? following the coding:
# libraries
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from scipy.stats import kde
import pandas as pd

# create data
x = pd.read_excel(r'C:\Users\Ezra\Desktop\montex.xlsx')
y = pd.read_excel(r'C:\Users\Ezra\Desktop\montey.xlsx')

# Evaluate a gaussian kde on a regular grid of nbins x nbins over data extents
nbins=500
k = kde.gaussian_kde([x,y])
xi, yi = pd.mgrid[x.min():x.max():nbins*100j, y.min():y.max():nbins*100j]
zi = k(pd.vstack([xi.flatten(), yi.flatten()]))

# Make the plot
plt.pcolormesh(xi, yi, zi.reshape(xi.shape), shading='auto')
plt.show()

# Change color palette
plt.pcolormesh(xi, yi, zi.reshape(xi.shape), shading='auto', cmap=plt.cm.Greens_r)
plt.show()

A: When you're getting an error from your code, it would help to pose the actual traceback, especially the part that indicates which line of your sample code is causing the error.
When you call a function that returns multiple values, you can "unpack" it into individual variables.  ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 2) means that you called a function that only returns a single value, but you tried to unpack the return value into two variables.
For example, consider this little python script:
def returns_1_val():
    return 'one'

def returns_2_vals():
    return 'one', 'two'

print(returns_2_vals())

# Unpack the return value.
x,y = returns_2_vals()
print('x', x)
print('y', y)

print(returns_1_val())

# This next call fails.  We're "expecting" Python to unpack 2 values into
# x and y, but it fails because the function only returned one value.
x,y = returns_1_val()

When you run it:
('one', 'two')
x one
y two
one
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "unpack_err.py", line 11, in <module>
    x,y = returns_1_val()
ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 2)

The more general error message makes it a little more clear.  For example, if you try to call x,y,z = return_2_vals(), you'll get

ValueError: not enough values to unpack (expected 3, got 2)

A: I dont think the answer of Tom Bryan is correct. Your error says: ""ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 2)" which is the opposite example given by Tom.
Tom says "ValueError: too many values to unpack (expected 2) means that you called a function that only returns a single value". I think this is wrong, what it means is that you called a function that returns more than 2 values. Your function is probably trying to assign more than 2 values to only 2 variables.

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You have to set limit in tag. As exemple, in Portal, go to HMI tags folder, then select a tag, goto properties --> range. You can set a constant or tag as limit. Numeric entry doesn't have limit, tag does.
Hi, I use PID_Compact instruction to control a MM440 drive speed. I would like to set a min output value of this instruction as I can do with S7-300 serie. Please don't tell me I can use min drive speed...I know that! I want to have a min speed set in pid instruction. Pid config screen seems the place to do that but when I enter a value greater than 0 in Advanced settings -> Output value limits, I got a red X and portal says Enter a value between -100.0 and 0.0 I can't beleive we can't do that simple thing! Any idea? The only workaround I've found is to write my min speed to my output tag if it is less than min speed. It works but PID take a long time to react when it increase the speed from 0. i.e. output tag is set at 50%(min speed) nothing is changed while pid increase speed from 0 to 50%.
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Dreamers: Chipotle Founder Steve Ells
Margaret Heffernan
Gina Levay
As founder of Chipotle Mexican Grill, Steve Ells has never come across advice he couldn't ignore, conventional wisdom he couldn't flout, a rule he couldn't break.
"I was always quite rebellious and did things my own way," recalls Ells. "Friends said Mexican food is cheap-you can't charge $5 for a burrito. But I said this is real food, the highest-quality food. Friends said you can't have an open kitchen, but I wanted the restaurant to be like a dinner party, where everyone's in the kitchen watching what's going on. They said people have to order their meal by number. But I said no, you have to go through the line and select your ingredients. And everyone gave me grief over the name: Nobody'll be able to pronounce it!"
Ells opened his first Chipotle (pronounced chi-'poat-lay) in Denver 15 years ago. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, he had long dreamed of running his own gourmet restaurant but needed to generate fast cash. He figured he'd open a taqueria and reinvent traditional Mexican food-lighten it up, make it sexier.
"I wanted layers of bold flavors that had nuance and depth, not just hot, not just spicy: cumin, cilantro, cloves, fresh oregano, lemon, and lime," says Ells. "It looked, smelled, and tasted different from traditional fast food. And it didn't take long before there was a line of people waiting to get in! So I thought, Maybe I'll open just one more."
Ells's father, an executive in the pharmaceutical industry, invested $85,000 in the first restaurant. The second was funded with the profits and the third with a Small Business Administration loan. By the time Ells had a dozen restaurants, he'd given up on the idea of a single high-end one. He got the money for expansion from a surprising source, McDonald's, first as a minority investor and then three years later as the majority shareholder.
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Excuse me, how can I get to the Capital Indoor Stadium?
Well, take the No.111 bus to Baishiqiao.It'll take you right there.
Everybody in our institute goes in for sports and nearly everyone is good at some sport or other.
Do you know how many gold medals Chinese sports delegation won at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1984?
Yes, I know they won 15 gold medals and were ranked fourth in the gold medal tally.
Are you going to the Sports Museum?
Yes, I want to visit the exhibition of China Sports & Olympic.
Can you tell me the meaning of this Emblem?
Do you know where the match took place?
Yes, it took place at the Workers' Indoor Arena.
Do you know that there's going to be a football match tomorrow?
Yes,thanks.My friend told me a few minutes ago.
Let's go to the Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium.


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The Syrian Virtual University (SVU) () is a Syrian educational institution established by the Syrian Ministry of Higher Education. It provides virtual education (using the Internet) to students from around the world. It was established on 2 September 2002 and is the first virtual education institution in the region, and as of 2006, remains the only one. The goals of the SVU include offering education to those who want to learn but cannot afford to do so by going to a "brick and mortar" university. It is headquartered at the Ministry of Higher Education building, Damascus. Students can study online, but they should make exams in one of  the centres accredited by the University inside and outside Syria.

Academic programs
SVU provides bachelor programs - master programs - training courses.

Domestic Programs
All domestic programs are provided in Arabic (except for the English HND), some courses are taught in English. Originally, all domestic SVU programs were related to Computer Science, but two new programs in Economics were added in 2007. There is currently a total of six domestic degree programs.

2-year Undergraduate Programs
 HND stands for the Higher National Diploma in Computing and Business Applications. It is offered in English and Arabic. The duration of study is two years. HND is available in two versions, one taught in Arabic and another in English.

5-year Undergraduate Programs
 ITE (Information Technology Engineering) program aims to prepare IT engineers in general, and specifically IT engineers specialized in Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, or Computer Systems and Networks, and possessing the basic knowledge and skills in these engineering sciences. This is done by providing an appropriate environment for the application of modern teaching methods that motivate the student to collect, analyze, set up and generate solutions, and be able to innovate and modernize; and to provide students through this environment with the necessary theoretical and practical knowledge needed by information engineers.

 ISE (deprecated) is a credit-based BSc program in Information Systems Engineering. The content is very much that of a traditional Computer Science degree, but offered online. The student has to take a number of "core courses" and then a number of "specialized courses" with the aid of a career planner. There are currently (as of 2008) four core specialization areas: Software Application Development, Multimedia Systems, Networking and Operating Systems, and Intelligent Systems. It is possible to choose an emphasis within a core specialization area. A student must complete requirements in one or more specialization areas to graduate. The duration of study is (typically) five years.

Undergraduate Programs:
 BAIT is a program leading to a Bachelor degree in Information Technology.
 BSCE is a Bachelor in Economics, with three possible branches: Business Administration, Banking and Finance, and Marketing. Duration of study is four years.
 BL is a Bachelor in law, with several specializations, including criminal and constitutional law.
BMC is a Bachelor in Mass Communication, this program seeks to fulfill its message by providing distinguished academic services in the field of media qualification in Syria.
EDUC is a Bachelor in Educational Habilitation Diploma
TIC is Technological Institute of Computer, A certified assistant qualification in the field of software and information systems.

Postgraduate Programs
 MBA degree. The Duration is two years. The total tuition cost is around $3500.
 Academic master's degree in Technology Management, with an emphasis on technology transfer, development through technology and application of new technologies in businesses, industries and societies.
 Master in Quality (MIQ). The Duration is two years. The total tuition cost is around $3500.
 Master in Building Information Modeling and Management (BIMM)
 Master in Technology Management (PMTM)
 Master in web technology (MWT).
 Master in Web Sciences (MWS)
 Master in Business Administration (MBA)
 Master in Medical Education (MedE)
 Master Degree in Integration of Technology in Education (MITE)
 Master Degree in International Humanitarian Law (MHL)
 Master Degree in Bio Informatics (BIS)
 Master Degree in Integrated Management of Natural Resources (IMNR)

 Doctoral Program

Controversy and Acceptance

Internet Access
Now that students have a wide choice of affordable internet connections that can accommodate the e-learning software requirements, starting as low as US$10 a month, students can use 3G Internet anywhere in Syria via the mobile phone network or they can register for ADSL service which has become openly available from US$30/month.

While today not a problem, one of the issues which the SVU faced during its launch phase was the lack of a proper broad-band Internet infrastructure in Syria. This can be viewed as a strategic problem, as it hinders potential students. Faced with the terrible performance of the teleconferencing software on Dial-Up (the only available option at the time), the university created a number of telecenters (at great expense) in different Syrian governorates so that students who lacked broadband Internet (virtually all of them) could attend their lessons comfortably. With the introduction of ADSL and ISDN in 2004, it was hoped that the severity of the problem would be ameliorated. Unfortunately, the situation has not improved much: up to the end of 2007, ADSL was not yet available to students and the general public. Subscriptions were fewer than 5000 throughout Syria as the cost for any potential adopter was too high (the actual going rate for an ADSL line was almost $1000, due to unavailability and very great demand by internet cafes). ISDN, while difficult to attain in many areas, is more publicly available than ADSL, and thus is the only option for many Syrian SVU students who wish to attend lessons from their homes. Most Syrian SVU students attend their lessons from a local telecenter.
However, starting from 2011; ADSL in Syria costs much less than previously (4M ADSL Subscription costs approximately 4$ which permits a student to attend classes). Now you can connect to ADSL from almost every home in any area. This greatly benefited the university, demonstrated by the fact that it's one of the main 5 universities in Syria now.

External links
The Syrian Virtual University Website (Arabic, French, and English)

Virtual
Syrian educational websites
Educational institutions established in 2002
2002 establishments in Syria

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As a guide to price on 12/2/2011 I paid $77.50 for one so I guess $50 including post would be reasonable.
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Q: Page Source is not reflecting the changes after submitting a form through selenium I have created a script which will fill the form and submit it.
the website then displays the results.
once i open chrome using selenium, i get the driver.page_source and it gives the correct html output of the initial state.
If i use the driver.page_source after submitting the form,i am only getting the source of the initial state again, that is: no change is reflected even though there is a change in the html.
Question: How do i get the HTML output of the page with changes after submitting the form?
Thanks for the help in advance!
ps: i'm new so yeah..
EDIT:
I found the answer, it was working fine all the while, but the web page hadn't fully loaded yet and hence i was still getting the old source code, so i just made the driver wait before extracting the new source.
thank you!

A: You can pass Selenium's current page to the scrapy Selector and use usual css and/or xpath selectors to get data from it:
sel_response = Selector(text=driver.page_source.encode('utf-8'))
sel_response.css(<your_css_selector>).extract()

A: Once you submit the form before you pull out the page_source to check for the change, it is worth to mention that though the WebClient may have achieved 'document.readyState' equal to "complete" at a certain stage and Selenium gets back the control of program execution, that doesn't guarantees that all the associated Javascript and Ajax Calls on the new page have completed. Until and unless the Javascript and Ajax Calls associated with the DOM Tree gets completed the page is not completely rendered you may not be able to track the intended changes.
An ideal way to check for changes would be to induce WebDriverWait in-conjunction with expected_conditions clause set as title_contains as follows :
driver.find_element_by_xpath("xpath_of_element_changes_page").click()
WebDriverWait(browser, 10).until(EC.title_contains(("full_or_partial_text_of_the_new_page_title")))
source = driver.page_source

Note : While Page Title resides within the <head> tag of the HTML DOM a better solution would be to induce WebDriverWait for the visibility of an element which will be present in all situations within the <body> tag of the DOM Tree as follows :
driver.find_element_by_xpath("xpath_of_element_changes_page").click()
WebDriverWait(driver, 20).until(EC.visibility_of_element_located((By.ID, "id_of_element_present_in_all_situation")))
source = driver.page_source


SOLID AGENCY-This Statement serves to notify the public that Dancehall Recording Artist O'Neil Bryant more popularly known as Elephant Man has resolved his outstanding Tax Obligations following discussions with the Tax Authorities which has subsequently lifted the travel band placed on him by Immigration Officials at the Island Airports. Elephant Man who is scheduled to depart Jamaica on Friday afternoon (March 26) for a 2 week TOUR of Europe stated "I want to assure my European fans that I am looking forward to performing for them and this incident was merely a minor setback".
Elephant Man who is booked to perform at venues in Switzerland, France, Germany and Holland will return to Jamaica in mid April.


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The photos are printed in a thin canvas. The printed panels are sewn to form a leporello with front and back.
Leonor Antunes uses as a departing point three gold coins minted in Brazil in 1785, 1787 and 1790 under Queen Maria I. Then she photographs a gold mine still in use, Mine of the Passage, and Brazil wood, known as other "gold from Brazil" in the 18th Century by the Portuguese colonial rulers.


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Figurative definition: anything or anyone we value, love, cherish, prized, or have a deep affection for.
Someone we treasure we treat with loving kindness holding them in the highest regard. We show great respect to those we cherish and exhibit compassion. "She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue" (Proverbs 31:26). We are careful not to let anger overtake us, but keep our hearts with all diligence in accordance with the Word of God. "Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you" (Ephesians 4:31-32).
We share the Gospel with those we hold dear and teach them about Christ and His great mercy towards us. With an unconditional love, that only our Lord can give, we show deep affection to those we highly value. "For this is the message that you have heard from the beginning, that we should love one another" (I John 3:11). Someone we treasure we remember them in their special moments, and their changing seasons of life.
Someone we love we encourage by exalting the Savior, "Oh, magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together!" (Psalm 34:3). By expounding the Scriptures, "All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness," (2 Timothy 3:16). And, edifying those that are of the household of faith "So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith" (Galatians 6:10).
Lord, thank You for Christ, our treasure.


(Ignore the drive that is shown on that page, not same as yours but it doesn't matter).
If the drive does not show a letter, try assigning one. If the drive did not show up in Computer, It would probably need to be formatted but first try recovery software. If nothing is found, try a quick format (does not overwrite anything) and then try recovery tools again. Recuva is often recommended here and there are probably others people will mention.


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3 Steps to Getting Kids Outdoors
Katherine Martinko
Katherine Martinko is a writer and expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto.
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Thrift & Minimalism
We know kids need to spend more time outside, but how does a parent go about making that happen?
Children spend half the amount of time playing outdoors that their parents did. Whereas older generations spent an average of 8.2 hours playing outside when they were young, kids nowadays spend just over four hours a week outside. This is an enormous decrease, driven by a number of factors that include parental fear of traffic and 'stranger danger', the lure of technology in the form of social media and online games, and a wealth of engaging indoor activities.
Being indoors is not necessarily bad, as it can lead kids to develop valuable reading skills, learn musical instruments and languages, and participate in organized sports; but when that indoor time takes over kids' lives and makes outdoor playtime virtually nonexistent, it becomes a serious matter.
An article called 'Are Kids Extinct in the Wild?' suggests a three-part solution to getting kids outside. This includes:
1. Set sensible indoor boundaries
2. Make the outdoors fun again
3. Safely relax
This is a good, simple way of breaking it down and worth reviewing, though we've said it many times on TreeHugger.
Let's look at the first point. Sensible indoor boundaries are a necessity in order to break the frightening social media addictions that parents, educators, and psychologists are beginning to witness in many children and adolescents. The past decade has been a 'Wild West' of technological innovation; children born in the late '90s and early 2000s have been part of an enormous unofficial experiment, the first to grow up in a world where they carry a planet's worth of information in their pockets and are expected to know how to balance it with real life. It's not going well, hence the need for better boundaries.
Parents have a responsibility to set firm limits, using phone and Internet settings, as well as hashing out device contracts with older kids and setting strict rules for younger ones. For example, one could say 'no devices during the school week', 'a 15-minute daily limit on the iPad,' or 'no screen time till you've spent an hour outside.' Once technology is off-limits, kids will seek alternative forms of entertainment, hopefully outdoors.
The second point -- make the outdoors fun again -- is important, too. For years I wished my kids could entertain themselves better outside, but they don't. They often beg me to join them or say they don't know what to do. Until I read Linda Åkeson McGurk's book, There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather, I thought I was doing something wrong; but no, she had the same problem.
I realized then that when kids are small it's really OK to be the driving force behind getting them outside. It takes commitment and stubbornness, but if the parent absolutely insists on taking a child for walks in the forests, visits to the park, arranging outdoor playdates and beachcombing expeditions, then that love for nature will develop organically. But it does take parental initiative, like it or not, especially when those kids are small. Much like teaching them to eat vegetables, and trying over and over again no matter their reaction, getting kids outside on a daily basis must come from the parent.
© K Martinko -- My kids and I like poking around in the forest near our house, even if we only have a short window of opportunity.
Finally, safely relax is a reminder that many of the dangers parents fret about are quite pointless. The world is safer now than ever; kidnapping is statistically negligible. Traffic is a real concern, but kids age 4 and up (of course, this is a generalization since every kid is different) are smart enough to learn rules about staying off the road. Eliminating all risk, however, should never be the goal. Play is a way for kids "to make mistakes within well-defined parameters," which is far preferable to making those mistakes in real, adult life.
Children have the right to be outside every single day. It will make them happier, healthier, stronger, more focused, more agile, smarter. It will give them a friend, a sense of companionship, a place where they can always go and feel comforted. It will teach them to respect the planet and want to protect it. The absolute best time to initiate this relationship between child and nature is now, when they are young, so why not start today?
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How Author Richard Louv Gets Kids Outside
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Could You Get Your Kids Outside for 1,000 Hours This Year?
Why Outdoor Education for Kids Matters
11 Barriers That Prevent Kids From Playing Outside
5 Ways to Get Kids Into Nature Photography
How Much Screen Time Is Too Much for Kids?
6 Ways in Which Parents Hinder Kids' Playtime
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Welcome to Your Kid's First Summer of Total Freedom
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