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Trump leaves lawmakers hanging on gun priorities
Originally published March 1, 2018 at 9:26 pm Updated March 2, 2018 at 6:05 pm
CATHERINE LUCEY
WASHINGTON (AP) — In his quest to tackle gun violence, President Donald Trump has ricocheted between calling for tougher laws and declaring his fealty to the Second Amendment's right to bear arms, leaving a trail of befuddled lawmakers and advocates in his wake.
One thing he still has not done: clearly outline his legislative priorities.
Washington's week closed Friday without further explanation from the president, the White House indicating that for now, at least, he is backing an incremental proposal on background checks and a bill that would provide new federal dollars to stem school violence.
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Just what Trump would like to see in the "beautiful" and "comprehensive" bill he called for earlier in the week remained unclear. That comment came at a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers Wednesday, which was quickly followed by a private session with the National Rifle Association on Thursday.
"Good (Great) meeting in the Oval Office tonight with the NRA!" Trump tweeted Thursday night.
He had outlined some of his preferences via Twitter earlier Thursday, saying that both good and bad ideas had come out of the bipartisan meeting. He said: "Background Checks a big part of conversation. Gun free zones are proven targets of killers. After many years, a Bill should emerge. Respect 2nd Amendment!"
Amid the confusion, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has shelved the gun debate for now, saying the Senate will turn next week to other measures.
Disagreement continues among legislators over the appropriate response after the Florida school shooting that left 17 dead. Republicans have largely backed away from stricter gun limits, while Democrats emboldened by Trump's rhetoric are pushing for ambitious action, including expanded background checks and even a politically risky ban on assault weapons.
As is often the case, the president has been an unreliable negotiator.
Sen. Chris Murphy, a Connecticut Democrat who is a leading advocate of tougher gun laws, predicted on Twitter: "The White House is going to bob and weave on guns. Accept it."
Still, he added, "Trump's instinct on this issue is not wrong — if his party doesn't get behind background checks soon, they're cooked in 2018 and 2020." And he argued that Trump's "willingness to buck the gun lobby in public, rule out the NRA agenda and talk up background checks, has changed this debate nationally."
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders said Friday that Trump supports a limited proposal from Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Murphy that would boost participation in the existing federal background check program, as well as a bill that would provide new federal grant funding to stem school violence.
Sanders said Trump had not signed on to a more sweeping background check bill that would require the review of firearm purchases online and at gun shows. The measure, from Sens. Pat Toomey, R-Pa., and Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., has found new momentum since it was first introduced after the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut that left 20 children dead.
Sanders sought to clarify Trump's comments earlier in the week expressing support for tougher background checks and interest in raising the minimum age to buy certain weapons. She said he was interested in improving background checks, but "not necessarily universal background checks." And she said that while Trump "conceptually" supports higher age requirements to purchase certain weapons, "he also knows there's not a lot of broad support for that."
The president also wants to use an executive order to bar the use of bump-stock devices that enable guns to fire like automatic weapons.
After Republican anxiety about Trump's comments seeming to express openness to tougher gun controls, the executive director of the NRA, Chris Cox, was positive about their Thursday night meeting. He tweeted that Trump and Vice President Mike Pence "support the Second Amendment, support strong due process and don't want gun control."
As part of Trump's efforts to consider various responses to gun violence, next week he plans to host members of the video game industry. He has repeatedly referenced the violence in movies and video games during conversations about guns and school safety since the Florida shooting.
Sanders said invitations started going out Thursday, and event details were being finalized. The Entertainment Software Association, a trade group that represents the video game industry, said Friday the group and its members had not been invited.
Nicole Hockley, who lost a child at Sandy Hook, has attended two White House meetings with Trump and said she remained optimistic.
"By listening to President Trump's words I do feel he is committed to finding a way forward and he is committed to putting a plan together," she said. "I don't know what the content will be."
Associated Press reporters Lisa Mascaro and Matthew Daly contributed to this report.


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New report details inequities for women in eastern Connecticut
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[Excerpt from The Day (New London)]
New London — A recently released report commissioned by the Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut details inequities faced by women in New London and Windham counties in the realms of economic security, education, health and well-being, and leadership.
The median full-time income in eastern Connecticut is $46,000 for women and $56,000 for men. While women make up 76 percent of K-12 public school educators nationwide, only 11 of the 41 public school superintendents in the region are women. In 2015, women in the region made up 24 percent of offenders in family violence incidents but 71 percent of victims.
"Equity is not about advancing women at the cost of men," said Maryam Elahi, president of the Community Foundation. "But when you think about equity, it's really about understanding that when women have the same opportunities as men, the family and the community prosper."
The report was released on Feb. 8 at EASTCONN, a regional educational service center in Hampton. A second release event was held Thursday evening at the Garde Arts Center.
The 26-page report was compiled by DataHaven, with data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Connecticut Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, DataHaven's Community Wellbeing Survey and more.
The report showed disparities not only by gender but also by race: The average full-time female worker makes 81 cents for every dollar made by her male counterpart, but black and Latina women make 61 and 53 cents, respectively, for every white male dollar. One in five black women and one in four Latina women in New London and Windham counties lack a high school diploma, compared to one in 10 white women.
The report concluded with recommendations, such as encouraging experiential STEM education in primary and secondary grades, protecting funding for domestic violence shelters and increasing access to treatment for opioid addiction.
"It's not just that we're documenting where women lag, but we're saying: This is what will make a difference in moving women forward," Elahi said.
The keynote speaker at Thursday's event was Frances Padilla, president of the Universal Health Care Foundation.
She said that as Americans, "We believe in the Constitution, but we also believe that people need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, and sometimes people don't have bootstraps."
The report stated that the labor force participation rate in eastern Connecticut is 85 percent for men and 78 percent for women.
Also talking about health care was Susan Yolen, vice president of public policy and advocacy for Planned Parenthood of Southern New England. She noted that the Community Foundation's Women & Girls Funds support Planned Parenthood's teen peer education program Students Teaching About Responsible Sexuality.
The Community Foundation has four Women & Girls Funds: Southeast Area, Windham Area, Norwich Area and Northeast Area. They were respectively founded in 1999, 2004, 2006 and 2013. On March 8, International Women's Day, the Community Foundation is going to keep the conversation going by holding an event in Norwich, with an expert for each of the main areas of the report.
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Transparency, regulation, solid trading platforms, and a good reputation despite being a fairly young broker. InvestMarkets also offers a few "quality of life" features to its clients, such as trading education, live chat support, and lots of educational materials; yes, you could say that these are standard features, but unfortunately not all brokers offer them.
It can't all be sunshine and rainbows, right? Well, to open the most basic account at InvestMarkets you will need to make a $250 investment and the higher accounts have some prohibitive requirements, at least for the common folk: $25K, $100K and $250K. Sorry but I don't have that kind of money and ThatSucks!
The owning company is regulated by the Belize Financial Services Commission, which is not a prominent regulator, nowhere near the likes of ASIC, CySEC or the British FCA. But the fact remains that we are dealing with a regulated broker and as you probably know by now, some regulation is better than no regulation.
Usually, if a broker is scamming the customers, the Internet is raging about it and the horror stories quickly make their way to the surface. However, InvestMarkets enjoys an overall positive reputation, and for all it's worth, we consider them a legit broker. That being said, always remember that dealing with money requires the utmost caution, which applies to all brokers, not only InvestMarkets.
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InvestMarkets is a new and regulated broker that offers Contracts For Difference (CFD) on various asset classes, including FX, Crypto, indices and stocks. It was launched in mid-2020 and it is operated by Arvis Capital Limited, a Belize investment firm, authorised and regulated by the International Financial Services Commission of Belize with license number 000307/166. The payment agent for Arvis Capital Limited is Toumpaka Limited, a company located in Cyprus and registered with number HE405187.
If you are looking for a solid trading partner and you have at least $250 to invest, then InvestMarkets is worth a detailed look. The broker is user friendly, with a well-structured website and easy to access information, translated in enough languages to give them a global presence.
The available trading platforms are Scipio (web-based) and Meta Trader 4 (downloadable client). Both of them offer all the necessary tools for technical analysis and advanced orders but of course, the MT4 platform has more features and is more suited for advanced traders. On the other hand, the web-based platform doesn't require any installation, thus it can be accessed from any computer with an internet connection.
The account types are a bit on the expensive side: the lowest account – called Basic – requires a $250 investment, followed by the Gold account, which jumps to $25,000, the Platinum ($100,000) and VIP ($250,000). There's a huge 100x difference between the lowest account and the next, so I don't think that a lot of people will invest that high, especially because the advantages of a higher-tier account are not very appealing: the only perk you get is a lower spread (which is still very high). The basic account comes with a 3.2 pip spread for EUR/USD (floating, so it can get even bigger) but if you invest $25,000 for a Gold account, that spread will become… 2.9 pips. Well, I'm not investing $25K just to get a 0.3 pip discount.
InvestMarkets seems to tick all the boxes or at least some of the ones that count the most. They are regulated and have a good reputation, but the account structure needs some work. Or at least they should try to lower the spreads for the major pairs. That being said, if you are not a high volume trader, a high spread will not be a deal-breaker.
Arvis Capital Limited is located at Unit 303, No. 16 Cor., Hutson and Eyre Streets, Blake Building, Belize City, Belize. Toumpaka Limited has a registered address at Kolonakiou 25, ZAVOS KOLONAKIOU CENTER, BLK B, Flat 102, Linopetra, 4103 Limassol, Cyprus. InvestMarkets can be contacted at phone +27 10 753 1177 and email [email protected]
As we've already mentioned, InvestMarkets has a good reputation and we didn't find any major complaints. On ForexPeaceArmy they are rated over 4 stars out of 5, which is quite a lot; on Trustpilot they have a 4.2 rating, which again is a very good score.
At the time of writing there are no warnings or fines issued to this broker. As always, we will keep on monitoring and update our review if anything changes.
The processing time is 24 business hours but up to 5 business days will pass until the funds will reach your account. The methods are credit/debit cards, e-wallets (Skrill, Neteller, etc.) and wires. There is no minimum for cards and e-wallets but wire transfers have a minimum of 120 USD or 100 EUR. For the Basic account you will only have 1 withdrawal free of charge, while the more expensive account will offer a few free or charge withdrawals every month.
Trading Central (TC) analysis, insights and market predictions are available on the trading platform, which is quite a nice addition because TC have been around for a long while and are considered among the most reliable in the business. Other than that we can mention TipRanks, webinars and an Economic Calendar.
The website is available in 6 languages (English, Russian, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Arabic), with easy to access information and reliable trading platforms. Demo accounts and mobile platforms are available but unfortunately US traders are not accepted.
The available markets are currencies, cryptocurrencies, commodities, stocks, indices and ETFs, which all add up to over 100 tradable instruments. The spreads are high, with 3.2 pips for EUR/USD for the Basic account (spreads are floating and can change depending on market conditions). Leverage goes up to 1:500 but European clients can only use 1:30 as per Mifid regulations.
Deposits can be made via the three major methods: cards, wires and a lot of e-wallets (Skrill, Neteller, Jeton, Webmoney, etc.). E-wallet availability may depend on client's location. Withdrawals can be made via the same methods, with relatively fast processing times. The minimum deposit is $250 and there is no minimum amount for withdrawals made via cards and e-wallets. The wire minimum withdrawal is 120 USD or 100 EUR.
Card withdrawals incur a 3.5% fee, wire transfers come with a 30 USD/EUR charge and e-wallet fees go up to 3.5% depending on the wallet used by the client. After a month without trading/deposits/withdrawals, the broker may charge an inactivity fee which is equivalent to 80 EUR according to their General Fees document. Support is available via live chat, phone and email.
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Coin Locker Girl (차이나타운) – ★★★☆☆
Coin Locker Girl (차이나타운)
Abandoned by her biological mother in a coin locker in Seoul, a baby girl is discovered by a passing vagabond and brought up on the streets by the homeless community. Named 'Il-yeong' after the number '10' compartment in which she was discovered, the youngster shows remarkable resilience to her situation, a trait which proves useful when a corrupt cop abducts and sells her to a criminal organisation headed by sinister matriarch Mama (Kim Hye-soo (김혜수). Years later, Il-yeong (Kim Go-eun (김고은) has grown to become an enforcer and debt-collector for the organisation based in the seedy underbelly of Chinatown. Yet when Il-yeong is forced to collect a payment from kind-hearted Seok-hyeon she becomes conflicted, leading to a violently catastrophic showdown with those she has come to regard as family.
In Chinatown, Il-yeong collects debts for criminal matriarch 'Mom'
Visually attractive and featuring a mesmerising performance by Kim Hye-soo, Coin Locker Girl – or the more pertinent Korean title Chinatown – is a narratively lacking yet impressive directorial debut by Han Jun-hee.
Director Han wonderfully employs colour to startling effect throughout the crime drama, utilising stunning shades of green in conveying the eerie, mysterious, and threatening world dominated by intense mob boss Mom, yet he also keeps the film grounded through the use of monotone shades of brown in conveying the drab existence his protagonists lead. In conjunction with skewed camera angles that generate surreal intensity, Coin Locker Girl is quite the stylised urban fable. The film is also a particularly refreshing break from the overabundance of testosterone in cinema, featuring two strong central females leads who are more than capable of emerging victorious over their male counterparts.
Where Coin Locker Girl falters however is primarily due to the weak narrative. While competent, and certainly a big step up from director Han's writing duties on disappointing thriller Gifted Hands, the crime drama simply lacks the impetus required to make the events compelling. The film is often referred to as 'A Bittersweet Life with women' due to the very similar narrative structure, yet whereas director Kim Ji-woon spent time developing his central character's foibles and making him someone audiences could emotionally invest in, the same cannot be said for Il-yeong's trajectory due to a host of logic lapses and superfluous scenes involving underdeveloped supporting roles, a rival gang, as well as contrived motivations designed purely for plot progression. Il-yeong's story, while interesting, doesn't resonate as it should and as such ironically villainess Mama steals the limelight.
Mama is an intense, deadly force to be reckoned with
As underworld matriarch Mama, Kim Hye-soo is fascinating. Her transformative performance is easily a career highlight for the venerated actress, who exchanges the feminine glamour for which she is renown for a dowdy, masculine charisma with ease. Combined with her often disturbingly intense stares and danger-filled silences, Kim is wholly believable as a ruthless Chinatown kingpin. Every time Mama appears onscreen she dominates the proceedings, providing sorely needed suspense and compulsion to the narrative and is by far the most intriguing character within the film.
Kim Go-eun, however, has been completely miscast as gang enforcer/debt collector Il-yeong. While she is undoubtedly a charismatic actress, as exemplified in A Muse, Kim's perfectly white and unblemished face in conjunction with her waif-like physique simply don't convey the required gravitas the role requires and stands in stark contrast to the efforts employed by Kim Hye-soo. Though not a fault of her making, Kim Go-eun – as well as love interest Park Bo-geum – also falls victim to the oddities within the script and while she performs admirably, it's difficult to emotionally invest in her journey.
Narrative peculiarities also particularly effect the supporting cast. Jo Bok-rae (C'est Si Bon) is criminally underused as corrupt cop Tak and he, along with the other male roles, seem to be present purely to engage in violent scenes that ironically tend to force Il-yeong to the sidelines. As adopted sister Song, Lee Soo-kyeong is present merely to be attractive although a scene in which she stabs herself in the arm with heroin, rather than injecting it into her veins, is quite laughable and destroys sympathy for the wayward antagonist. As the supporting roles are so underdeveloped, it is always a relief when Mama returns to the screen for she is the driving force behind Coin Locker Girl and the reason it's an engaging viewing experience.
Il-yeong begins her quest for revenge
Coin Locker Girl is a visually impressive debut by writer/direcor Han Jun-jee, who employs striking colours and skewed camera angles to generate the intensity of the criminal underworld in Chinatown. Narratively however the crime drama is weak, yet the film is saved by a fascinatingly transformative performance by Kim Hye-soo who brings palpable gravitas to the role and provides the necessary compulsion to make Coin Locker Girl an entertaining effort.
C'est Si Bon (쎄시봉) – ★★☆☆☆
C'est si bon (쎄시봉)
Twin Folio, the legendary '60s duo that emerged from Seoul music cafe C'est Si Bon, is due to be the subject of a television show. Yet when music producer Lee Jang-hee, the man responsible for their creation, is quizzed about the rumour of an original third member, he begins to reminisce about the era. Back in the '60s, C'est Si Bon was the hottest place in the city to listen to folk song competitions. With his silky voice Yun Hyeong-ju (Kang Ha-neul (강하늘) was the star of the cafe, until newcomer Song Chang-sik (Jo Bok-rae (조복래) instigates a rivalry. With their clashing egos a duo would be impossible, and as such Jang-hee (Jin Goo (진구) enlists talented country boy Oh Gun-tae (Jeong Woo (정우) to make a trio. Their inability to work together changes when beautiful aspiring actress Min Ja-yeong (Han Hyo-joo (한효주) enters the club, inspiring them to collaborate and become one of the most successful bands of the era.
The original trio learn to collaberate due to their muse Ja-yeong
C'est Si Bon is something of a love letter to the vibrant music scene of 1960s/70s Seoul, one that attempts to capture the spirit of the era through the story of the renowned cafe. Generally it succeeds, particularly in the opening act as there is much enjoyment to be had in witnessing the titular music arena being introduced, the band coming together and egos clashing. The C'est Si Bon cafe is a wonderfully charismatic and dynamic place due to some quite lovely set and costume design, helmed competently by director Kim Hyeon-Seok (김현석) who is likely hoping for the same success as his prior romantic endeavour Cyrano Agency.
Yet following an enjoyable 30 minutes, the film eschews the fun and vitality of the music scene to descend into a cliched romantic tale. As the members of the band all fall in love with Ja-yeong and attempt to out-perform each other to win her affection, the story moves away from the enjoyment of the band's origins to become a standard rom-com. To be fair to Han Hyo-joo, she is absolutely stunning throughout and has rarely looked better, however due to the focus applied to her as the muse of so many admirers, C'est Si Bon consistently feels like a vanity project for the actress. Ironically however, as Ja-yeong tends to use and manipulate the men in her life as they constantly try to impress her, the result is an attractive but not a particularly likeable lead female protagonist which significantly lessens the romantic appeal.
Ja-yeong is the muse of seemingly everyone at music cafe C'est Si Bon
Recently in Korean cinema a greater number of films are being produced with older audiences in mind which is welcome news for diversity, and C'est Si Bon fits neatly within the paradigm. Yet the film also perpetuates the disturbing trend of romanticising Korea's totalitarian past. Curfews, police brutality and authoritarianism, and even scenes of intimidation reminiscent of prelude to torture, feature within the narrative. However due to the romantic-comedy contrivances of the film such issues are presented as nostalgia, alarmingly either employed for humour or simply glossed over.
Things change from bad to worse for C'est Si Bon in the final act through the inclusion of scenes set in America, years after the rise and fall of the famous cafe. Apart from feeling acutely tacked on and frankly dull, the sequences are unintentionally, and quite literally, laughable. For instance, during highly emotional scenes between veteran actors Kim Hee-ae and Kim Yoon-seok are some incredibly poorly timed interludes by bad American actors that simply destroy all tension and instead generate laughter. As such, C'est Si Bon ends on a sour note, despite the initial enjoyment and promise displayed in the first act.
Years after the rise and fall of the cafe, Geun-tae performs in America
C'est Si Bon is a love letter to the vibrant music scene that existed in Korea in the 1960s, with a particularly enjoyable first act that introduces the styles and catchy music of the era, as well as the formation of the band Twin Folio. Yet director Kim Hyeon-seok's film oddly eschews such promise by later descending into bland rom-com cliches and romanticising Korea's totalitarian past, before ending with an unintentionally funny and quite poor finale.


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Home#LegacyWatchUniversity in Crisis: Affirmative Action Students Excluded from the Right to Education [OPINION]
University in Crisis: Affirmative Action Students Excluded from the Right to Education [OPINION]
By Aline Galdino • Translation by Felicity Clarke • April 20, 2017
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In the favela where I live, the government spends thousands of reais for the Military Police to come in with war tanks and heavy weaponry. Who cares if stray bullets kill innocent people?
At my university, the dean wants the semester to last just two months due to lack of funding. Who cares if students learn anything?
Welcome to post-Olympics Rio de Janeiro.
I study at the Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ). It's the fifth best public university in Brazil and has more than 30,000 students. Last year, UERJ began being affected by spending cuts made to finance the Olympics: the academic year started after five months without classes and our semester ended with many classes canceled due to protests.
Rio de Janeiro's state government declared bankruptcy at the end of last year. This meant the necessary funding for UERJ's maintenance and payment for university workers wasn't transferred. Students haven't received scholarships, professors and contracted staff haven't been paid and problems with cleaning, security and elevators have worsened.
At the beginning of this year, after an unresolved conflict between the state governor and university dean's office, there was no surprise when term time approached and we learned that UERJ would grind to a halt once again. First, the dean's office announced that classes would be postponed for one week. Then they were postponed for two more. Each week the length of time before classes were expected to return was extended.
A solution emerged one month later: the governor would privatize the state water utility CEDAE, thus providing a loan guarantee to pay off debts with the public sector and allowing UERJ to resume classes.
A month after the privatization was approved by the State Legislative Assembly (ALERJ), however, the dean's office still hadn't announced anything about the start of the semester. Tired of waiting, some of my university friends started new jobs, others went on vacation, others requested a transfer to a private university where they'd have to start again and pay a monthly fee but at least they'd have an expected graduation date.
After five months of strike, a further three months of the dean's office postponing classes and a month after the privatization of CEDAE, we unexpectedly received notice one Thursday that classes would resume the following Monday.
What about the students that had already started working? Miss a semester or quit their new job? And those that planned to go on vacation, or to start at another university? Miss a semester or lose the money they'd invested?
The worst part is not knowing if the semester will really start: visiting campus this week I was confronted with the same structural problems.
The stipend payments are still delayed and the university restaurant where you can get cheap meals is closed. The issue of professors' and other staff's wages remains unresolved. In terms of contracted services, the bathrooms and elevators still need repair and maintenance.
I was inside UERJ, but it was another UERJ, comprised of students who have the privilege of attending classes despite the resource crisis, who don't depend on financial assistance.
Our university was the first institution in Brazil to implement affirmative action. I'm not ashamed to say that I got into UERJ through this system. I'm proud to be the second person in my family, after my brother, to go to university despite studying in Rio's inadequate public school system and having various difficulties at home.
Nonetheless, with this forced return to school it is us, affirmative action students, who are being excluded from the right to education. Without our scholarships and with transport subsidies canceled, we're being denied our right to attend class.
"Because I want to see black, indigenous and poor people having access to free and high quality higher education"
Faced with this situation, I went home extremely frustrated: in what country, at what university is a student informed out of nowhere that the semester will begin in four days time? What about his or her plans, or job? In what country, at what university are classes only open to those students who don't depend on financial assistance (which is delayed and remains so)? In what country, at what university does the dean's office allow an institution to operate when it is totally without resources for maintenance or staff wages?
On Tuesday night I got my answer on seeing the university calendar released by the dean's office: in seven months we'll have three semesters of two months each with a little time off in between. It's as if our university has become a supplementary education center where all you need to do is learn the basics, memorize facts and pass the exam.
A university that follows this route doesn't create intellectuals or produce knowledge. All it does is issue diplomas.
I now realize that none of this has anything to do with my education and never has: it's about political negotiations between the dean's office and the governor, the money lost on the Olympics, and how Rio de Janeiro and Brazil can improve their image in the media after so many problems in all spheres of society.
And so I remembered where I live: in post-Olympics Rio de Janeiro, where the police are financed to implement a policy which keeps killing my neighbors, where politicians have money to give to their friends in the form of work contracts and cabinet positions, and where the university doesn't have resources for education.
Aline Galdino is a university student. She studies Computer Science at UERJ and lives in Complexo da Maré.
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Fifteen people gathered in the driveway outside my apartment building as Dad and I approached, many of them screaming at each other, while two policemen seemed content to stand there and watch. I wasn't sure what to do. Walk through the crowd to get to my door? Join the group to find out what was going on? Leave? One of my neighbors saw the two of us wavering and beckoned us forward, clearing a path to the entrance. We rushed into the building and climbed the stairs to my floor, then leaned over the outside balcony to see more of what was going on below. The people fighting seemed agitated, but not violent, and I was surprised that the policemen were bothering to hang around. I wasn't especially surprised, though, that the fracas was taking place—things had been tense in the apartment complex all week. Clearly, the tension had boiled over.
Two—or maybe three?—of the families in my building were renovating their apartments at the same time, and the noise and disruption were annoying those of us who weren't. From eight in the morning until eight (and sometimes later) at night, the sound of hammering filled the air, while drills seemed to make the entire building vibrate. The driveway outside was filled with chunks of concrete that needed to be hauled away, as cinderblock and rebar stood ready to be carried inside by the line of workmen who shuffled up and down the stairs all day. Clearly, renovations here didn't just mean a new coat of paint and different tiles on the floors; these families seemed to be dismantling and reconstructing the building around me.
My apartment community dates, I estimate, to the 1940s or '50s; it's a cement-block complex with little character and none of the architectural details people might imagine when I say I live in the French Concession. These apartments were likely doled out as danwei (work-unit) housing and provided to employees a low monthly rent during the Mao era. I know that officially, my apartment is leased by the grandparents of Bathrobe Guy, whom I assume were the original recipients of the housing assignment; when they decided to move away, the family fixed up the apartment and began renting it out for extra income. Most of my neighbors are elderly, and have probably been residing in this complex for decades.
So renovation here can mean a couple of different things: maybe the apartment-dwellers have decided to upgrade their home, sublet it to newcomers (or foreigners), and move; or perhaps their financial situations are such that they can afford to make over their apartment from top to bottom. In both cases, renovation is an outward sign of economic and social change—but one that not all who live here have experienced.
This can cause tempers to fray, especially because all of us are affected by the chaos of renovation. Latent tensions between longtime neighbors explode in the face of rubble and racket. The fight that brought policemen to my driveway had actually begun late the previous evening, when two workmen began knocking down a low wall in the driveway behind the building. As best as I can tell, one of the neighbors thought it was her wall, or at the very least disagreed with the other resident's decision to demolish a wall that she shared. The two screamed at each other late into the night, then apparently picked up the argument again in the morning, escalating it to a point where a dozen other neighbors were drawn in and the police had to be called.
As I write this two weeks later, the building is silent and peace reigns once again—though for how long, I wonder. Construction materials still litter the driveway outside the door, and it doesn't seem that the work is over.
I was cold, I was lost, and I was cranky.
My crankiness stemmed in part from the intense cold, but even more from the feeling that I shouldn't have been lost; I'd walked north on Di'anmen Outer Street a hundred times or more and turned right at Mao'er Hutong almost every time, heading to study at my favorite coffee shop in the heart of an old Beijing alleyway neighborhood. But those hundred trips had been in 2005, and while the street now looked vaguely familiar, nothing really seemed the same. I walked up and down Di'anmen Outer Street, searching in vain for the entrance to the hutong that I had once known so well.
I finally asked someone for help, and she pointed me toward the next intersection, where construction cranes loomed over a pathway created between sheets of plastic and corrugated metal that fenced off the construction site. This, it turned out, was Mao'er Hutong; I had walked past it twice, disoriented by the change and not helped by the lack of a sign marking the narrow street.
Once I passed through the construction zone and began walking down the hutong, memories flooded back. There were the small convenience stores that sold bottled drinks, ice cream, and miscellaneous dry goods. There was the house with a sign on its door politely refusing unknown callers. And, finally, I turned a corner and there was Xiao Xin's Café, where I spent endless afternoons drinking diet Cokes and memorizing Chinese characters. It was still the same.
And yet it wasn't. Despite the traces of the hutong I remembered, much of the neighborhood had changed during the intervening seven years. Most notably, the south side of Mao'er Hutong had been partially demolished, the old-style courtyard houses replaced by what I call "luxury hutongs": new construction that is meant to resemble the old, but with improved amenities and higher price tags. Other tourists and I slid across the icy, uneven cobblestones lining the streets of the new development (who thought cobblestones in Beijing were a good idea?) and took pictures of the gray brick houses, their color a few shades darker than the bleak winter sky.
The demolition of old hutongs in central Beijing attracts both supporters and detractors. Those in favor point to the lack of amenities (such as bathrooms) in traditional hutong housing and argue that residents would really rather live in new apartments. Those who wish to preserve the hutongs lament the loss of Beijing's architectural heritage, its neighborhoods, and its sense of history.1 Not surprisingly (for a historian), I fall into the preservationist camp; I'd like to see older hutongs renovated and made more comfortable for their residents, and I hate the cookie-cutter California-subdivision feel of the new luxury hutong construction.
But I know that the other aspect of Beijing's ongoing saga of urban change that bothers me—less as a historian than as a person who once lived here—is the intense feeling of disorientation I experienced during my search for Mao'er Hutong. I knew exactly where I was, yet I was completely lost; I'd hoped for a walk down memory lane, only to find it under construction.
Hari wanted me to see his old school. He asked his mother for directions. "What, have you forgotten?" I asked, and he said, "No, it's just that when I was a kid there were no roads or paths here. I get confused sometimes. There were hardly any buildings" (India Becoming, p. 145).
When we arrived in Qingdao a couple of days later, I was amazed to find a city that makes Beijing and Shanghai feel complete—settled—in comparison. Qingdao is awash in change: construction sites abound and cranes dot the skyline. Dad and I rode in taxis that jounced over rutted roads awaiting repaving, while workmen dug deep ditches to install sewer lines. On our trip out to the airport, we saw the future home of the Qingdao North Railway Station. And at regular intervals throughout the city, green plastic tarps imprinted with "Qingdao Metro" box off large sections of sidewalk and roadway, protecting the work sites of Qingdao's first subway line, scheduled to open in 2014.
All of this construction comes as Qingdao, like other second-tier Chinese cities, seeks to remake itself. Tourists enjoy its beaches in the summer, and beer from the Tsingtao Brewery flows all over the world, but Qingdao hopes to attract high-tech industry and become a center of R&D for multi-national corporations, not just domestic firms like Haier and Hisense (which already have their headquarters in the city). The result: more skyscrapers.
I understand city officials' desire to expand the city's economy, especially because tourism is a seasonal industry and winter is definitely not Qingdao's season. But I also wonder how this construction boom, and the hoped-for expansion of high-tech industry, will affect Qingdao's much-hyped status as one of China's "most livable" cities. I expect the subway will be an improvement—Qingdao has few cyclists on its narrow and hilly streets, and our taxis and buses frequently got stuck in traffic jams. I am less certain that it needs more bland skyscrapers and high-rise apartment towers.
I am especially doubtful on this point because as Dad and I passed newly completed buildings, we noted time and again how many of their units stood empty. This is not uncommon in China, where the real estate market is plagued with problems and a significant portion of high-end housing stock goes unoccupied. I knew this, but I was nevertheless startled to see such a large-scale example of the impulse toward over-building that I'd previously read about. When the dust has settled and the construction frenzy is over, will Qingdao remain among China's most livable cities? Or are developers ripping at the fabric of urban life in a vain hope that "If you build it, they will come" might eventually prove true?
Really enjoyed this!! Reminds me of everywhere here in the US—overbuild, overbuild and overbuild.
We got back to quiet Florida last night and haven't heard from your Mom in a while although I know that she has been up to her ears.


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MNC Book Report: two works by Katharine Briggs
I'm falling a bit behind on reporting my research, so I'll cover these two books in one post. They really belong together, anyway.
The one I read first was The Fairies in Tradition and Literature. It's a good focus on British Isles fairy-lore (as distinct from fairy-tales), and Briggs is pretty good about flagging the region a given detail belongs to, for which I am very grateful; I'm specifically after English fairy-lore here, as opposed to the much more well-known Scottish and Irish and even Welsh materials, so it's good to know where I should be drawing my mental boundaries.
This book is organized mostly by issues, with chapters like "The Host of the Dead," "Fairy Plants," "Changelings and Midwives," and so on. The big benefit for me is that this gave me the perfect way to think about recurrent tropes in fairy-lore, and how I want to reinterpret them for the purposes of my own work. I have certain ideas now, for example, about why exactly fairies were so fond of certain human foods, and what it is about gifts of clothing that seems to piss off brownies.
The second book is British Folk-Tales and Legends, and it makes a good companion to the first. Redacted from a longer version called The Dictionary of British Folk-Tales and Legends, it's basically a collection of primary sources (sometimes simplified or summarized, sometimes given in their entirety, dialect and all), organized once again into categories. A bunch of the sections I skipped entirely, like "Fables and Exempla" or "Jocular Tales," but there are categories for black dogs, bogies, devils, dragons, fairies, ghosts, and giants, all of which are quite handy. And a great many of the stories in here are referenced in the other book, so it's nice to have it on hand for cross-referencing. Bonus points to Briggs for having the right attitude about her categories: they're there to help the reader find what they're looking for, but she acknowledges where appropriate the difficulty of distinguishing one type of story from another, and the ways in which they continually muddle up one's boundaries.
I've got one more Briggs book coming my way, The Anatomy of Puck, which should specifically focus on the fairy-lore of Shakespeare's time. With that, I should be more or less set with my fairy research, except for one out-of-print book that costs something like eighty dollars for a used copy, which I will probably check out from the IU library at some point.
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United States of America, Plaintiff-appellee, v. Edward Thaddeus Perry, Defendant-appellant, 340 F.3d 1216 (11th Cir. 2003)
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit - 340 F.3d 1216 (11th Cir. 2003) August 5, 2003
Richard Crane, Nashville, TN, for Defendant-Appellant.
Charles A. Kandt, Mobile, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellee.
Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.
Before ANDERSON, BLACK and RONEY, Circuit Judges.
PER CURIAM:
Edward Thaddeus Perry appeals his 106-month sentence for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine, and possession with intent to distribute cocaine, in violation of 21 U.S.C. §§ 841(a) (1) and 846. Perry makes two arguments as to his sentence: (1) there was insufficient evidence to support a two-level aggravated role enhancement under U.S.S.G. § 3B1.1(c); and (2) the district court erred by denying his request for a minimal or minor role reduction under U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2. We affirm as to the enhancement, but vacate and remand for further consideration of his request for a minimal or minor role reduction.
"If a defendant was an organizer, leader, manager, or supervisor of the criminal activity, his offense level may be increased by two." United States v. Phillips, 287 F.3d 1053, 1058 (11th Cir. 2002). " [T]he assertion of control or influence over only one individual is enough to support a § 3B1.1(c) enhancement." Id. (internal citation and quotation omitted). "In distinguishing a leadership role, the district court should consider `the exercise of decision making authority, the nature of participation in the commission of the offense, the recruitment of accomplices, the claimed right to a larger share of the fruits of the crime, the degree of participation in planning or organizing the offense, the nature and scope of the illegal activity, and the degree of control and authority exercised over others.'" Id. (quoting U.S.S.G. § 3B1.1, cmt. (n. 4)).
Here, the record reveals that Perry (1) actively recruited two individuals to transport drugs, (2) arranged one of those recruited individuals to transport cocaine, (3) directly paid at least one of those individuals for transporting cocaine, and (4) was, in turn, paid for his recruitment and supervision of individuals in that drug conspiracy. The district court did not clearly err in assessing Perry an aggravated role enhancement under § 3B1.1(c). See Phillips, 287 F.3d at 1058.
Perry argues that he is entitled to a minimal or minor role reduction under U.S.S.G. § 3B1.2, citing facts contrasting his role with other participants of the drug conspiracy. See, e.g., United States v. Boyd, 291 F.3d 1274, 1277 (11th Cir. 2002) (noting that the district court "must measure the defendant's role against the relevant conduct for which she was held accountable at sentencing ... [and] may also measure the defendant's role against the other participants ... in that relevant conduct," quoting United States v. De Varon, 175 F.3d 930, 945 (11th Cir. 1999)).
In response to this argument, the government, without citation of authority, analysis, or reasoning simply says:
These are not two separate issues, but rather one issue.... If there was no error in awarding the two-level enhancement for leadership, then it is axiomatic that Perry did not have a minor role in the offense.... Therefore, the United States will address only the issue of whether the district court erred in awarding Perry the two-level enhancement for leadership.
Inexplicably, the government's brief neither cites nor comments upon the two cases from the circuits found to have addressed such a proposition, which both hold to a contrary position, and which were cited in both the initial and reply briefs of the defendant.
In United States v. Tsai, 954 F.2d 155 (3d Cir. 1992), the Third Circuit, considering the defendant's argument that aggravating and mitigating roles in the offense — as defined by the Guidelines — can "coexist," addressed the government's argument that this was a "logical inconsistency" by holding:
The district court apparently assumed that because it had (properly) found that there could be an upward adjustment for the offense, there could be no downward adjustment for less than average culpability. This assumption is incorrect. Nothing in the Guidelines or in the enabling legislation, the Sentencing Reform Act, 18 U.S.C. §§ 3551 to 3585 (1988), compels that conclusion.
954 F.2d at 167. Although it had affirmed the two level upward adjustment because the defendant was a manager or supervisor, the Tsai court remanded to the district court for consideration of whether the defendant was entitled to a downward adjustment. The government did not appeal that decision.
Likewise, in a case where the Seventh Circuit held that the downward adjustment was clearly erroneous, it adhered to the Third Circuit's ruling:
[T]hough the government goes too far in arguing that there can never be a situation in which a defendant could receive both a punishment bonus for being a manager or supervisor and a punishment discount for being a minor participant. Section 3B1.2 does not say that a manager or supervisor cannot be a minor participant; all that is required is that be less culpable than most of the other participants.
United States v. Jackson, 207 F.3d 910 (7th Cir. 2000), rev'd in part on other grounds, 531 U.S. 953, 121 S. Ct. 376, 148 L. Ed. 2d 290 (2000); but see United States v. Conley, 156 F.3d 78 (1st Cir. 1998) ("Because an upward adjustment for a managerial role is fundamentally inconsistent with according the same individual, in respect to the same offense, a downward adjustment for a minor or minimal role, the district court did not err in failing to grant the appellant's motion for reduction.").
This Court has not addressed whether the Eleventh Circuit should differ from the other circuits as to these holdings, nor do we intend to without reasoned argument from the government as to whether they are or are not a correct interpretation of the Sentencing Guidelines. It may well be that the district court followed a contrary view, sub silentio, without full consideration of the issue. Intimating no view as to either issue, however, we therefore vacate the sentence and remand to the district court for consideration of both the legal and factual issues concerning the defendant's request for a minimal or minor role reduction. Needless to say, the district court is free to determine, if it so finds, that the defendant would not be entitled to the minimal or minor role reduction even if the enhancement for an aggravated role did not foreclose such a downward reduction, and thus pretermit a decision on that legal issue.
AFFIRMED IN PART, VACATED, AND REMANDED FOR FURTHER CONSIDERATION.
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Willpower is a curious thing. It is like a huge elephant that needs to be tamed. Sometimes it can, and sometimes it can't. Does willpower actually work when it comes to losing weight? Let's face it, if it did, there would be no diets, no overeating, no remorse. But on the flipside, diets don't work either and they do require a certain amount of willpower. Hmmm… it's quite a dilemma.
So let's take a look at this conundrum and find the best route to weight loss success.
Diets are like a false/positive solution. They give you the impression of a certain amount of control by telling you exactly what to do. However, diets usually take you out of your comfort zone into some weirdly exotic land of temporary residence. That's because, no matter how great something appears to be at the start, the mind and the body will always slide back to the familiar. So while everybody can have some success with most any weight loss program, studies show that 98% of the time, you will always slide back to your familiar routine; the one that got you to your weight gain in the first place.
Now lets' take a look at willpower, the wayward elephant. Imagine you are responsible for riding and steering this big animal around everywhere you go. You are small, and the elephant is large and powerful. While you could be successful part of the time, you would eventually tire from having to physically control such a heavy load. There is only so much strength and energy that you would be able to exert. It is the same with willpower. Some days you can be strong, other days you are too tired to bother so you let yourself be dragged behind in the entrails of candy wrappers and bread crusts.
So how do we get around diets and willpower? It's simple; with preparation, a plan and parameters.
Instead of a diet, have a plan. How do you plan on eating today? What do you plan to have for lunch? Plans are….. planned. It is advanced thinking which is not reactionary. Planning also allows you to stay within your comfort zone.
Preparation will trump willpower every time. When you are prepared with healthy foods and snacks, there is no battle. The choice is clear. It is only when you find yourself unprepared that you are forced to control your urge to grab an unhealthy option. The elephant rises.
When you plan within certain parameters; for example, "I will always choose fruit for snacks", then you will have unlimited choices within those parameters. The feelings of deprivation will disappear. The elephant can relax.
Success comes from stretching your comfort zone, preparing for success and limiting feelings of deprivation. You can lose weight without exhausting your willpower, and losing yourself in the process. Remember, change happens a little at a time, and like the gait of an elephant it is slow and steady, but very powerful.
Leave a comment below about how you plan on being successful with your weight loss this week. Tell me about your plan, your preparations and your parameters.


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The All progressives Congress, APC, has appointed Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers state, the Director General of its presidential campaign organization.
The appointment of Mr. Amaechi was contained in a statement by the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Lai Mohammed, on Thursday in Abuja.
In a statement issued in Lagos on Thursday by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed, the party said the announcement followed the hugely successful convention at which its presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, was democratically elected, and the follow-up successful choice of his running mate, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, SAN.
"With a presidential candidate that has rekindled the hopes of the citizenry and revived their belief in democratic ideals, we believe we must also choose a running mate that will complement the sterling qualities of the presidential candidate. We must confess that the choice was a tough one, considering the array of eminently-qualified and outstanding candidates that we had to choose from.
"Yes, we were spoilt for choice but, in the end, we picked as running mate a man whose pedigree, nationally, sub-regionally, regionally and globally, attests to the fact that our party, the APC, is a repository of high quality leadership materials, and that our country, Nigeria, has no shortage of the very best human resources", it said.
"Our presidential running mate is an award-winning professor of law, a legal luminary, a gentleman, a much-sought-after public speaker, a tested administrator, an author and a man of great ecclesiastical standing.
"Educated in Nigeria and the UK, Prof. Osinbajo is a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, who has served in many organizations and professional bodies in Nigeria, West Africa, Africa and the United Nations. He has authored or edited over a dozen publications, has taught and practised law at the high levels, and has served on the Editorial Boards of learned publications and non-legal publications, in addition to publishing many articles in learned journals.
"Now that we have presented Nigerians with the best possible choices for the exalted positions of President and Vice President, we expect that citizens, who have been yearning for quality leadership, will use their voting power to put Nigeria firmly on the path of greatness. A country seeking to be among the greats in the comity of nations cannot afford to have a mediocre leadership", the party said.
congratulations port Harcourt cow boy,dey want u to fund their campaign cos they knw ur capable, remember u never pay civil servants salaries. for two months noe,keep waisting rivers monies on pipe dreams,posterity will judge u.


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Meeting the parents is a pretty big milestone to hit in a relationship, and Lili Reinhart has taken Cole Sprouse home to meet hers for the Thanksgiving holiday.
The Riverdale actor took to her Instagram Stories to share cute snaps of herself and Cole enjoying the festivities, surrounded by autumn-coloured leaves. American rom com vibes everywhere.
In one of the snaps posted to Instagram, you can see Cole looking sweet as hell staring lovingly at one of Lili's pet dogs. It's a 'We wish someone would look at us the way…' meme just waiting to happen.
And in another shot there's another dog, because why not? Clearly he felt left out of the fun and who are we to stop pets from also enjoying the holidays.
Lili also shared some family moments online of her dad cooking them breakfast and making Thanksgiving cookies with her goddaughter, Adeline.
It looks as though their relationship is just going from strength to strength, but let's be real here, any relationship that involves two people constantly trolling each other online has to last. It just has to.
This is the romance the world deserves.


The Japanese government is urging residents who live between 20 and 30 kilometers from crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to voluntarily evacuate the region, citing the difficulties of daily life there and the possibility of more radiation leaks.
Prior to this, people in these areas had been advised to stay indoors.
The measure is being seen as a sign that there is little chance the crisis at the power plant will ease anytime soon.
Although Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano has emphasized that current radiation levels around the plant do not require immediate evacuation, he said notices have been delivered to municipal governments in the region on what to do in the event of a mandatory evacuation order.
With the lack of business and logistics, people's lives are becoming increasingly difficult within the 20 to 30 km radius, and we cannot rule out the possibility that more radioactive material might leak and an evacuation order be issued, he said.
Based on this situation, municipalities need to expedite their living support and voluntary evacuation of residents, as well as prepare for a scenario in which an immediate evacuation order is issued.
Meanwhile, the New York Times reported that residents have already been quietly departing the area around Fukushima, even without an order from Tokyo.
"What we've been finding is that in that area life has become quite difficult," Noriyuki Shikata, deputy cabinet secretary for Prime Minister Naoto Kan, told the Times.
The recent news that the reactor vessel of the No. 3 unit at Fukushima might be damaged will likely speed up the exodus, although Kan has avoided saying that a mandatory evacuation order is imminent.
Kan also apologized to the businesses and farmers in the Fukushima area whose lives and jobs have been endangered by the plant.


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Экстракт простаты — вещество полипептидной природы, экстракт из ткани предстательной железы бычков, достигших половой зрелости. Входит в состав лекарственных препаратов, которые используют для лечения заболеваний предстательной железы. Выпускается в форме суппозиториев и лиофилизата для приготовления раствора для внутримышечного введения, таблетки

Фармакологические свойства
Обладает органотропным действием на предстательную железу человека. Способствует уменьшению отёка, застоя секрета, лейкоцитарной инфильтрации предстательной железы, нормализует секреторную функцию эпителиальных клеток. Оказывает противовоспалительное действие, обладает антиагрегатной деятельностью, препятствует образованию тромбоза венул в предстательной железе

История

В середине 80-х годов в научно-исследовательской лаборатории Военно-медицинской Академии им. С. М. Кирова из предстательной железы крупного рогатого скота был выделен комплекс щелочных пептидов — экстракт простаты. Полученное вещество назвали «Просталин».

Экстракт был рекомендован к клиническому применению в 1992 году под торговым названием «Простатилен» . Первым производителем препарата был МБНПК «Цитомед» (Санкт-Петербург). Позже техническая документация к препарату была передана ряду производителей в странах СНГ, где его стали выпускать и под другими торговыми названиями.

Клиническое применение
Клинические исследования, проводившиеся на базе ФГБУ «НИИАГ им. Д. О. Отта» СЗО РАМН, показали, что применение «Простатилена» в комплексной терапии эректильной дисфункции и репродуктивных нарушений у мужчин молодого возраста способствует снижению болевого синдрома, восстановлению привычной частоты мочеиспускания, усилению полового влечения, нормализации микроциркуляции и венозного оттока в предстательной железе, а также улучшению показателей эякулята (увеличение количества и подвижности сперматозоидов). Но данные исследования были проведены на малой выборке пациентов (32чел) и на базе одного лечебного заведения. Кроме того, не соблюдался принцип двойного слепого рандомизированного исследования. Поэтому данные результаты не являются статистически значимыми и не соответствуют современным принципам доказательной медицины.

Показания к применению
 Хронический простатит
 Состояния после оперативных вмешательств на предстательной железе
 Доброкачественная гиперплазия предстательной железы

Противопоказания
Гиперчувствительность к компонентам препарата

Примечания

Лекарственные средства по алфавиту

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Q: Using Casper to log-in a page with Javascript generated content I'm trying to use casper to log-in to http://insider.espn.go.com/insider/pickcenter/.
Now issue is that when you click log-in button, a AngularJS generated fileds - username and password appear.
I have put WaitForSelector to wait for this pop-up. But it always exits saying " Timeout expired"
Here's my script. Please help.
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var casper = require("casper").create();

function getLinks() {
    var links = document.querySelectorAll('a');
    return Array.prototype.map.call(links, function(e) {
        return e.getAttribute('href');
    });
}
casper.on('page.loaded', function() {
    this.echo('page title is ' + this.getTitle());
});
casper.start('http://insider.espn.go.com/insider/pickcenter/', function() {
    // search for 'casperjs' from google form
    this.emit('page.loaded');
    casper.capture('test1.png');
    this.click('#ins_signin');

});
casper.wait(5000,function(){
    casper.capture('test2.png')
});
casper.wait(5000,function(){
    casper.capture('test3.png')
});
casper.waitForSelector(".ng-scope", function() {
    this.echo('Login Modal Active!');
    casper.capture('test4.png');
    //this.capture('screenshotofmodal.png', { top: 0, left:0, width:1000, height:  4000});

 });

casper.then(function() {
this.fill('input[id="username"]', { q: 'removed' }, true);
    this.fill('input[id="passwordfield"]', { q: 'removed' }, true);

});
casper.then(function() {

    this.click('#submitBtn');
});
casper.then(function() {
    // aggregate results for the 'phantomjs' search
    links = links.concat(this.evaluate(getLinks));
});

casper.run(function() {
    // echo results in some pretty fashion
    this.echo(links.length + ' links found:');
    this.echo(' - ' + links.join('\n - ')).exit();
});

A: First, before clicking, I would add a check to validate the the button is loaded. After, I would anchor the sign up form on a unique selector. After looking quickly on the page, when you click sign in, the email input has a class "ng-touched" which only appears after clicking on sign up. What I would try would look like this :
casper.start('http://insider.espn.go.com/insider/pickcenter/', function() {
    // search for 'casperjs' from google form
    this.emit('page.loaded');
    casper.capture('test1.png');
});
casper.waitForSelector("#ins_signin",function then(){
    this.click("#ins_signin");
}, function onTimeOut(){
    this.capture('waitSignInFail.png');
}, 5000);

casper.waitForSelector(".ng-touched", function then() {
    this.echo('Login Modal Active!');
    casper.capture('weHaveSignInForm.png');
}, function onTimeOut(){
    this.capture('signInFormFail.png');
}, 5000);

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Discussion in 'Model X: User Interface' started by Hibiscus, Aug 2, 2018.
I would like to be aggressively warned (visual and sound) when I want to change line and the car detect and approaching car either on the right or left side. The only warning (silent visual), I get is on the instrument driver screen and it appears only when the approaching car is very close (Blind spot). Is it possible to get a more aggressive warning much sooner?
I keep my rear camera on at all times so that I can see approaching vehicles. It's not the same as an audio cue or a flashing light in your outside mirrors, but it helps.
How about you just turn your head and check your blind spot like every other driver on the planet rather than blindly merging and hoping a loud sound will stop you.
or more so adapt to the side mirrors setting that eliminates blind spots. in short, since your rearview mirror already sees behind you. tilt your side mirrors out until you dont see the sides of the car. this moves them out far enough to see cars at all times either in rear view or side mirrors.
I had a loaner with AP1 years ago that had great blind spot warning.. what happened?
I would imagine that improvements may be made in future iterations in order to alert the driver more to hazards. However, these assist features are really supposed to assist, not replace your driving skills.
I spend my free time volunteering for a large advanced driving association, coaching people on how to improve their driving. While part of the coaching includes knowing and using the available options such as blind-spot assist on your vehicle to help your drive, that doesn't preclude doing the shoulder-checks that could save a cyclist's life.
Likewise those who come to us with automatic cars, still have to demonstrate that they have control of the vehicle and can use all the available options (hill-start, descent control, manual modes etc) at their disposal in an appropriate manner to the situation in which they find themselves.
If it came down to it, I would much rather that every single driver took an advanced driving course, than that cars did more and more for us, as people often mistakenly believe that the technology abrogates their responsibility for driving skilfully.
I have an AP1 MX and would not consider the blind spot warning "great." But, that said, I consider the car's sensors as only secondary assistance to the primary method of turning my head and checking mirrors.
And while you're at it, you might as well get a proper car that has a combustion engine and a hand crank to start.
Yes, proper driving is important, but technology moves on, and Tesla is missing an assist feature that has been the norm for a decade already (at least in German cars of a similar price) that should be relatively easy for them to implement.
I love Tesla as much as the next person, but the apologists over the blind spot warning gets old.
The lectures on mirror position or turning your head gets old.
This is simply a safety aid / driver assist feature that will help prevent accidents in the event that the driver of the car isn't 100% perfect over their lifetime. Obviously if you have perfect mirrors and never make a mistake when you check your blind spot then you have no use for this particular aid. For the rest of us, there is fortunately a technical solution to this problem that Tesla is egregiously behind the times on.
Tesla thought they could solve it with ultrasonic sensors - they were wrong. Now I assume they think they can solve it with the cameras since they didn't include real blind spot detection in AP2 hardware - hopefully they will, but as of today they have not.
Reliance of technology in the event of failure and then not having a backup of setting your mirrors properly and/or looking over your shoulder would lead to more accidents.
Not sure who you are arguing with.
Proper mirrors + shoulder check + blind spot warning > no blind spot warning.
Well there is no blind spot warning yet in these cars so hard to be disappointed by something that doesn't exist.
Well, they'd better fix that before FSD, eh?
Meanwhile, it would be nice to not be 10 years behind other manufacturers when it comes to the basics in this vehicle class.
Effective blind spot recognition, massaging seats, and a lack of phantom braking would be oh so extra spiffy indeed.
The fact is that the S does have a big blind spot caused by the C pillars. While I make do with rear view mirrors that are tilted pretty far out [the proper way to adjust them] It would be nice to have electronic warnings at least as good as other cars. I leave plenty of room once I've passed another car and don't pull back in from the passing lane until I can see the car that I've passed in my rear view mirror.
Audi has fielded a very good blind-spot warning system for years using acoustic sensors on the rear of the vehicle and yellow lights on the inboard side of the external mirrors for driver alerts. It's disappointing that Tesla hasn't come up with something equivalent.
It's actually very easy to be disappointed when your other car does have an effective blind spot warning! It is a feature that very much exists outside of the Tesla bubble. I'm also disappointed in the lack of a 360 surround camera view.
I was referring to the fact OP said they were disappointed with the performance of blind spot warning in Tesla's (the title of the post). You can't be disappointed in the performance, because there is no performance. It doesn't exist.
My wife was surprised the 360 view isn't there since she has it in her XC90.


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