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Who will be undisputed cruiserweight World Champion?
Ten years after his two-minute victory against Hastings Rasani, Tony Bellew is set to shake Manchester Arena in what he's called the final fight of his career. With a nearly eleven year-long career, and only 2 out of his 33 fights definitively lost, Bellew's goal is to become the undisputed cruiserweight World Champion, a title that is currently held by opponent Oleksandr Usyk.
An undisputed cruiserweight World Champion needs to hold a number of premium boxing titles simultaneously. From 1920 to 1963, these titles were only the ones held by the New York State Athletic Commission and the World Boxing Association (then known as the National Boxing Association), however Bellew has a bigger fight ahead of him as undisputed boxing champions in 2018 need to hold titles by the World Boxing Association, World Boxing Council, International Boxing Federation, and World Boxing Organisation.
At four years his junior, Oleksandr Usyk is the first boxer in history to win all four major world championships in the cruiserweight weight class. The last time all four titles were held simultaneously was in the welterweight division, by Norwegian boxer Cecilia Braekhus, in 2014.
Usyk's accolades are nothing to sniff at: at only 31, he is already an Olympic gold medallist, a gold-medal European Champion, and a World Champion gold medallist. At 26 Usyk had signed with the Klitschko brothers to fight professionally in the cruiserweight division making his debut by pulverising Felipe Romero in 2013.
Usyk continued to rise up the ranks, gaining the first of his world titles in 2016 by defeating undefeated Polish boxer Krzysztof Głowacki after 12 rounds. Głowacki, with 26 bouts under his belt and 0 losses, landed just 76 of his 278 shots, and the fight was called at 2:53 with a unanimous victory in Usyk's favour.
Usyk won the other three titles during the inaugural World Boxing Super series, competing against eight other boxers to win the titles, the Muhammed Ali trophy, and US$10 million in winnings.
Although experienced, Usyk's skill really shines through when he's on the defensive. While fast and energetic, Usyk takes time to adjust to the pace and speed to a fight, and many of his bouts are characterised by a slow beginning, and then a torrential violence, usually leading to a TKO. Usyk specialises in diffusing fights, letting this opponent become a greater and greater threat, sloppy in his confidence, until he is stopped in place by one of Usyk's devastating punches.
This said, Tony Bellew is not a competitor to take lightly. He doesn't have Usyk's accolades – Tony Bellow doesn't have an Olympic gold medal, or four World Championship titles. But what he lacks for in glory, Bellew makes up in experience. Usyk's raw power and formidable talent is something to consider, however Bellew has only been beaten twice in his career, and has won his last five fights, usually with a complete TKO.
What Bellew does well is timing, something that Usyk has historically suffered with (his battle against Mchunu, for example, was categorised by esoteric timing). Bellew waits to strike, and when he does, he hits hard and heavy, sending his opponents reeling. In his last five fights, Bellew has thrown off his opponents with the first punch, and while the fight typically lasts for longer, Bellew always wins out in the end. He drops his opponents immediately, and while they're struggling to recover, paces himself to strike them down while they're already flagging.
It also isn't the first time that Bellew has been the underdog. When fighting for the Commonwealth championship against Ovill McKenzie, Bellew was knocked down twice within seconds of the start, and still managed to win. Bellew also won a victory against Bolonti for a WBC silver title despite being injured and defeated former world title challenger Matesusz Masternak for the European championship.
With it being the last fight before he retires, Bellew is sure to break out all of the stops to make sure he walks away with not only the four titles, but also the acclaimed 'The Ring' title, and lineal cruiserweight titles.
Check out Mr Green's odds for the match. It's widely agreed that if Bellew doesn't drop Usyk, Usyk will drop Bellew. Who will do it first?
If Bellew wins over Usyk – as Bellew believes he will – then he'll become only the fourth person in history to be the undisputed cruiserweight champion, following O'Neill Bell, Evander Holyfield, and Oleksandr Usyk. It's an honour that neither boxer is taking lightly, and come fight day on November 10th, sparks are sure to fly as Usyk and Bellew work to make their mark on cruiserweight boxing history.
Join Mr Green today and place your bets as it is anybody's match. With some of the best odds on the market, maybe it will be you who goes home the undisputed CASH World Champion!
https://www.boxingscene.com/usyk-vs-bellew-play-november-10-london–131076
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleksandr_Usyk#Undisputed_cruiserweight_champion
https://www.bbc.com/sport/boxing/46086026
https://sport.mrgreen.com/en-GB/event/1004987627
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Boxing_Super_Series
https://www.quora.com/How-do-the-boxing-skill-sets-and-styles-of-both-Oleksandr-Usyk-and-Vasyl-Lomachenko-generally-differ
https://sundaypuncher.com/living-up-to-the-hype-oleksandr-usyk-2162e33ed7db
https://hannibalboxing.com/control-over-chaos-oleksandr-usyk-king-of-the-cruiserweights/
https://www.skysports.com/boxing/news/12183/11497428/usyk-vs-bellew-tony-bellew-explains-how-he-can-overcome-oleksandr-usyks-amateur-style
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Bellew
http://boxrec.com/en/boxer/425328
http://fightnights.com/boxer-2950
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Rotorua's Sam Osborne wins silver at Cross Triathlon World Championships in Denmark
Rotorua's Sam Osborne on his way to a silver medal at the Cross Triathlon World Championships in Denmark. Photo / Supplied
By: David Beck
Multimedia sports journalist
david.beck@nzme.co.nz
2018 just keeps getting better for Sam Osborne.
On the back of winning a second consecutive Xterra Asia-Pacific title last month, the Rotorua athlete finished second at the Cross Triathlon World Championships on Tuesday.
Osborne called it his "biggest result ever".
"It's the biggest performance I've ever managed to put together in my career. A world championship medal is not something that comes by easily, there has been so much work put into a race like this and to see all that pay off with the silver is an incredible feeling."
He finished the race in 2h 7m 51s, just 1m 47s behind four-time world champion Ruben Ruzafa, of Spain, and 48s ahead of Frenchman Brice Daubord.
"I had a good swim, in a race like this it's not often you get a clean start but it seemed I hardly had a hand laid on me for a good 200m. I exited the water in second, had a very clean transition and took the front of the race.
"It was about one-third of the way through the lap I had Ruben Ruzafa bridge across, I managed to ride with him for a while but I made a couple of mistakes and a guy as classy as Ruben on the mountain bike really makes you pay for those. Eventually, I couldn't close the gap back to him.
"By the end of the first lap I had 2017 Xterra world champ Brad Weiss join me and we stayed as two for the rest of the bike working together to try to keep the gap as small as possible to Ruben."
A strong runner, Osborne had another good transition off the bike, picking up another 10s on Ruzafa, and went for broke on the run.
"I took the run out super hard and set about trying to bridge on up to Ruben. The gap was falling, the closest split I got was 55s but as the run went on the legs were starting to feel like they were ready to cramp and the gap started to go out the other way.
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"Ruben is one classy guy, he's won four ITU Cross Tri and three Xterra world titles, one of the legends of the sport. I think I played my cards very well, tactically I didn't burn any unnecessary matches and tried to play the race out to my strengths. If I was to race it again I don't think I would play any different of a hand, Ruben was just incredibly strong."
It was Osborne's third time competing at the Cross Triathlon World Championships, the last being Australia in 2016 where he finished seventh.
"It's one of those races you think about a lot when you're out training and I guess it's this sort of dream that motivates me so much to get the work done. There can be a lot of lonely miles, not everyone enjoys training in the cold or rain or doing all the intensity across all three disciplines."
There is little time for rest as Osborne plans to race Xterra Czech Republic tomorrow.

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Sonic Drive-In is a cult-favorite fast-food destination nationwide, particularly beloved for its variety of customizable soft drinks and footlong chili cheese coneys. While every Sonic location boasts staple menu items and seasonal favorites, the company is franchise-based, allowing owners from various parts of the country to create unique Sonic experiences for their customers.
I worked at a Northern California Sonic Drive-In location for three years as my very first job. I was a roller-skating carhop, which was a unique experience considering that many Sonic locations have done away with skating servers altogether due to safety or efficiency concerns. During my time as a carhop, I learned lots about the menu, culture, and secret hacks of the franchise. So grab yourself a cherry limeade and read on for insider tips at your favorite drive-in.
Like I mentioned above, whether or not carhops skate to customers varies by franchise location. Because I was part of the opening crew at my store, I was lucky to be trained by some of Sonic corporate's best skating carhops — they did tricks, carried heavily laden trays like they were nothing, and helped the new servers learn the ropes. However, not every skating carhop gets this same treatment . . . carhops hired after me were expected to know their way around a pair of roller skates and were not given special skate training for their new, eight-wheeled lifestyle. In short: be kind, and don't laugh if your carhop skates slowly or wobbles a bit while delivering your food.
Many Sonic locations have a dedicated onion ring crew member, who slices fresh onions and hand-breads them in Sonic's special onion ring batter recipe. So yep, your favorite treat is fresh and handmade, and you can rest assured that hungry staff inside the restaurant are envying your order of piping-hot onion rings.
. . . and so can you! Sonic's famous pebble-shaped ice is a hot commodity, and many customers come to buy bags of it for themselves. My Sonic location sold 10-pound bags for under $5, and yes, the carhops had to skate and deliver them.
Many Sonic customers don't realize that their carhops rely on the kindness of guests for a large chunk of their take-home pay. While many locations pay carhops minimum wage, the carhops are technically considered tipped staff, and in some states that means they may earn less than minimum wage under the expectation that tips will supplement the difference. So if your carhop is a total gem or does a cool trick on their skates while delivering your slush and tots, toss a buck or two their way — it might make a huge difference in what they go home with at the end of the night.
One of Sonic's best offerings, in my opinion, is its tiny packages of "french fry sauce" — and I'm not talking ketchup. Sonic addicts go crazy for fry sauce, and it's no surprise why; the condiment is a Midwestern staple and nostalgic for many, not to mention tasty as hell. If you're nowhere near a Sonic location, you can DIY your own version of the sauce with a combination of ketchup, mayonnaise, onion powder, and a splash of pickle juice.
If anyone at Sonic knows the best options out of the 168,000+ drink combinations, it's the carhop crew. Often, it's these carhops who are making the drinks, experimenting with flavors in their spare time, and sipping on their own day in and day out. So if you're stumped while staring at the massive drink and ice cream menu, flag down a carhop and ask what their favorite is! Mine is definitely the caramel-banana milkshake or a coconut limeade, but answers will always vary by Sonic crew member.
The bestseller at my Sonic location and many others was consistently strawberry limeade, a refreshing staple on every franchise's menu. If you don't have a local Sonic Drive-In, you can make your own by squeezing fresh lime juice over muddled strawberries and strawberry juice, then topping with Sprite.


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GVSU economist: Marginal growth returns in West Michigan
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GRAND RAPIDS — After last month's dip, the pace of the West Michigan industrial economy returned to a very modest growth rate, said Brian G. Long, director of Supply Management Research in Grand Valley State University's Seidman College of Business.
Long surveyed local business leaders and his findings below are based on data collected during the last two weeks of August.
The survey's index of business improvement (new orders) recovered to +3, up from -13. The production index bounced up to +9, from -15. The index of purchases flipped back to +2 from -6 and the employment index edged to +1 from -1.
Long called the trade war with China a two-edged sword. "The news media has highlighted the impact on farmers, which has resulted in falling prices for corn, soybeans, pork and other agricultural exports," he said. "Many West Michigan industrial firms have come to rely on a wide range of industrial commodities subject to new tariffs that are driving up prices."
Long said initially, many Chinese exporters were willing to accept lower prices in orders to retain the business relationship. "Both buyers and sellers believed the governments of both countries would soon reach an agreement, but that was 18 months ago, and now the rhetoric has turned pessimistic," he said.
The world economy continues to slow, and the U.S. will eventually be drawn into the slowdown, Long said.
"The world political situation is a mess. The impending U.K. 'hard' Brexit could destabilize both the British and the European economies. Italy, France and Germany are dealing with populist uprisings. And, the U.S. is starting to focus on a major election that is still 14 months away, ignoring other problems," he said.
The Institute for Supply Management survey is a monthly survey of business conditions that includes 45 purchasing managers in the greater Grand Rapids area and 25 in Kalamazoo. The respondents are from the region's major industrial manufacturers, distributors and industrial service organizations. It is patterned after a nationwide survey conducted by the Institute for Supply Management. Each month, the respondents are asked to rate eight factors as "same," "up" or "down."
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Q: mySQL subquery with limits error I have two section with games and I have a problem. When is game in the first section I don't want show her again in the Second section.
For show games in First Section I'm using:
SELECT *,platform.platformName FROM games
JOIN platform ON(platform.PlatformID=games.GamePlatform)
WHERE GameDate <= NOW() AND GameSlide = 0
GROUP BY GameName
HAVING 1
ORDER BY `games`.`GameDate` DESC LIMIT 8

For show Games in Second Section:
SELECT *,platform.platformName
FROM games
JOIN platform ON(platform.PlatformID=games.GamePlatform)
WHERE platform.PlatformID = 2 AND GameSlide = 0
GROUP BY GameName
HAVING 1
order by rand(dayofyear(CURRENT_DATE))
LIMIT 8

I tried to make subquery like this:
SELECT *,platform.platformName
FROM games
JOIN platform ON(platform.PlatformID=games.GamePlatform)
WHERE games.GameID
NOT IN(
       SELECT GameID
       FROM games
       WHERE GameDate <= NOW() AND GameSlide = 0
       GROUP BY GameName
       HAVING 1
       ORDER BY `games`.`GameDate` DESC LIMIT 8
      ) AND platform.PlatformID = 2 AND GameSlide = 0
GROUP BY GameName
HAVING 1
order by rand(dayofyear(CURRENT_DATE)) LIMIT 8

But MySQL call error : #1235 - This version of MariaDB doesn't yet support 'LIMIT & IN/ALL/ANY/SOME subquery'
Can you help me please?
I'm sorry for my English. I tried my best.

A: I already done it. I make a new View with the select.
CREATE VIEW Novinky AS SELECT games.GameID FROM games WHERE games.GameDate <= NOW() AND games.GameSlide = 0 GROUP BY games.GameName HAVING 1 ORDER BY `games`.`GameDate` DESC LIMIT 8

And then use NOT IN with SELECT from View:
SELECT *,platform.platformName FROM games JOIN platform ON(platform.PlatformID=games.GamePlatform) WHERE GameID NOT IN (SELECT * FROM novinky) AND platform.PlatformID = 2 AND GameSlide = 0 GROUP BY GameName HAVING 1 order by rand(dayofyear(CURRENT_DATE)) LIMIT 8

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package metric

import (
	"github.com/astaxie/beego"
	"os"
	"testing"
	"time"
)

func TestInstanceName(t *testing.T) {
	beego.AppConfig.Set("rpcaddr", "a")
	beego.AppConfig.Set("rpcport", "b")
	i := InstanceName()
	if i != "a:b" {
		t.Fatalf("TestInstanceName failed")
	}
	// case: initialize only one time
	beego.AppConfig.Set("httpaddr", "c")
	beego.AppConfig.Set("httpaddr", "d")
	i = InstanceName()
	if i != "a:b" {
		t.Fatalf("TestInstanceName failed")
	}
}

func TestPeriod(t *testing.T) {
	if getPeriod() != 30*time.Second {
		t.Fatalf("TestPeriod failed")
	}
	os.Setenv("METRICS_INTERVAL", time.Millisecond.String())
	if getPeriod() != 30*time.Second {
		t.Fatalf("TestPeriod failed")
	}
	os.Setenv("METRICS_INTERVAL", "err")
	if getPeriod() != 30*time.Second {
		t.Fatalf("TestPeriod failed")
	}
	os.Setenv("METRICS_INTERVAL", time.Second.String())
	if getPeriod() != time.Second {
		t.Fatalf("TestPeriod failed")
	}
}

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In part 1 in the series (read it here) I presented Selenium, a widely known tool for browser test automation.
Starting with Selenium 2, the most important components from the suite are Selenium WebDriver and Selenium Grid. In part 1 I showed how easy is to setup a testing grid with multiple OS and browsers. Now in part 2 I will show how to leverage WebDriver API to create and execute tests.
WebDriver is based on different 'drivers', understood as components to interact as close as possible with each different browser, may it be an automation interface or a browser extension.
In addition to that, WebDriver API is probably cleaner, simpler to use.
With all of that in mind, both communities decided to merge efforts.
Our playground will consist of a simple web application built with JSP, JSTL, Spring Framework/MVC and Hibernate. The IDE in use is Eclipse Indigo SR1 with SpringSource plug-ins and other stuff installed. Apache Maven 2 is used for build automation and dependency management.
This artifact contains the WebDriver API for Java, along with Selenium 1 API for backwards compatibility. This API exists for other languages as C#, Ruby or Python as well.
Each test will follow a similar process: connect to the hub, tell it where the target application is, what browser to use and the actual test commands. As a best practice I recommend that both the hub connection information and the target application location are configurable and externally provided. If not, the test code or test configuration (i.e. a properties file) should be updated if the hub or the test server changes. Moreover, it is critical for a successful deployment of a test suite across the team and continuous integration to provide these settings externally.
Next step to write the tests is to decide in which browsers each test will run. Election can be as detailed as needed. You can just decide on the browser family or be precise and request and specific browser version in a certain operating system. Either the case, when the test reaches the hub, it will find an available node with the requested capabilities and delegate the test execution to it.
To do that, just leverage the org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities class or even better its factory methods.
In many situations it is desirable that the same test is executed in different browsers and OS mixes. If that is the case, it is a best practice to reuse the test code and provide the browser as a parameter. It is also a best practice to use different test methods for each browser. Thus, in case of test error or failure, you will have immediate feedback on which is browser where the test failed.
The four test methods, one for a different browser family, is effectively reusing the same test code inside the testCodesCrud() method. The browser is passed as a parameter to the test.
Next step in the test code is to instantiate a WebDriver to contact with the hub, ask for a browser and initiate the test commands by accessing the application under test in the URL where it is available. It is best practice to always close the driver, for example using a finally block to do that. Closing the driver will, among other things, close the browser process in the remote node.
Although the WebDriver API is rich, most of the times the test code will just find elements and interact with them using simple methods as sendKeys() or click(). Elements on a page can be located by name, id, class, tag or XPath expression.
For the rest of the test code I just combined what is shown before to verify that new Codes entities can be added, updated and deleted, and each time the listed values are consistent.
In this post I've shown how to write and execute browser tests using Selenium WebDriver and Selenium Grid. Test execution is distributed across nodes in the grid, depending on the available browsers while results are collated by the hub process. Test is launched from Eclipse IDE and results are shown in JUnit view, as with any other regular unit test.
In part 3 (read it here), I will show how to execute the Selenium test just created under Continuous Integration using Maven, Cargo and Jenkins and how to get insights on the code coverage for those tests with Sonar and JaCoCo.
Here the apprach is discueed on execution for multiple browser on 1 machine/1 os..
How can we achieve distribution and execution of test cases across different virtual machines for same browser(of different versions) ??
There's nothing really different to do. If you have VM 1 with IE 6, and VM 2 with IE 7, just register both VMs ensuring you add version information to the node command. Then, on execution, just run the test twice, specifying the desired browser version. Use the setVersion() method for that.
and how can we distribute the cases on the browsers accessed on the VMs simultaneously?
This is done automatically by the hub, depending on which browsers (and versions) are registered (no matter in which local, remote or virtual node they are) and available at a given point of time (i.e. another test suite is being executed and making use of the browsers).
So if I run a test suite of about 90 cases and i register 2 VMs for the same browser and version(i.e. IE9 Win7) and run the command for execution twice,will those 90 test cases be automatically distributed on the 2 VMs?
They should, all the running cases would be distributed across available VMs. Take also in consideration that when you register a browser a maximum number of concurrent sessions is set (5 by default, if I remember right), so potentially you may have multiple tests running simultaneously in the same VM, based on your configuration.
am using Selenium webdriver and selenium 2.19 jar to distrivbute the execution of tets cases on multiple machine for a particulra browser.
1. Launched IE browser on different VMs by listing the VMs as nodes to the Hub at different ports. Have verified the different port connection from Grid Console.
2. Pointed my local framework to Hub and started the execution through maven command on the local machine which hits the "hub" through the code.
The changes which I do to point my local to hub is.
Along with this I set version and platform.
Here in different methods, I explcitly pass versions and platform as parameters. and I expect it to redirect to the respective listener.
Is it that I just need to use only 1 method in this class to distribute the test cases or should I not pass versions and platform as parameters, because I want the execution to happen in all the machine.
Say if I have test suite of 100 test cases, I want each VM to execute 25 TCs simultaneoulsy.
I am not sure if it is the connection issue from my local to the hub.
FF works well with distributed testing on only 1 VM with multiple browsers.
I am facing this issues only for IE. So actually my question is, if the code which I have shared has any loophole which I am not able to find out, because somehow it is not connecting to all the listeners at once.
I have used multithreading in case of parallel browser testing for 1 VM but I am not sure ,is the same multithreading approach will work for multiple VMs as well.
Please suggest if you have any resolutions. I am not very proficient with Selenium webdriver and dont have much idea on this.
After reading this (I also read your post in Selenium Users list) I suggest trying to simplify the test code as much as possible to discard the problem is there. I mean, work directly with Capabilities interface and check if the error persists. I also suggest trying to simplify hub and nodes configuration, strip browser config string at the minimum (just browser name and version, platform is implicit for IE), and use the "-role hub" and "-role node" switches as shown in these posts. I've never have this kind of issue with grid hub not able to detect registered browsers, or to be precise, where I've had it is because browser config string and Capabilities info in the test code were not compatible.
any help is much appreciated..thanks i advance..
does selenium grid works for latest browsers ?
Except for some issues with the latest Firefox and Selenium 2.16, no other issues that I can remember – IE 8-9, Chrome 19-21, Opera 11 and Android 3 are all working well. I have pending to check how it goes with Android 4 browser and Opera 12, and re-check with latest Firefox and the latest Selenium.
is it re queried "j son" file for running scripts in web driver using selenium grid ? what is the need of json file ?
I know you can use a Json file to configure nodes, but apart from that, nothing else that I know of.
Could u please explain about JSON file how could we registering nodes with JSON ?
I got lost in how the tests mentioned above execute in parallel without using something like TestNG. If you can point out what I am missing here, thanks!
Focusing on the second one, if for example developer A, developer B and CI server are running build processes at the same time, the Grid hub will execute tests in parallel, according to the browsers registered and available. It is important to configure the number of concurrent browsers allowed in each node and fine tune settings depending on the team build needs and resources available.
Thank you for this article it has been very helpful.
I am a novice programmer and have started just by creating and running my tests locally using Junit. I want to now extend them to various VM's using RemoteWebDriver. This is my first crack at using Selenium and JUnit so I'm struggling with the best way to design and structure my tests. E.g.
This is how my tests are each individually structured now in Junit (I will set the Hub and Host/URI parameters in an external config file later for reusability.
). Let's say I also have a LoginFailTest and a LogoutTest in Junit so I can see the individual test results for each test case.
So after I've configured the Selenium grid I need to setup a class that will run all of my test cases on the various grid nodes Similar to what you have done here. What is the best way for me to repurpose or use these JUnit test classes for use with RemoteWebDriver as you are doing? Is it possible to run multiple JUnit tests from another Junit class? Is it possible to pass a webdriver object from one JUnit test class and have another accept it as an argument?
The more research I do the more questions I have and I don't feel like I'm getting anywhere. If I need to completely re-structure the way I'm writing my test cases I'd rather do it now before I get too far ahead of myself.
As you can see I am no master programmer. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Hi, thanks for your previous article it resolved my issues in launching hub…..it was soo nice….
I would be thankful to you……..
I was trying to run the automation scripts using Selenium Grid(Hub & Node ), and i have a scenario of to Press Enter so using KeyBoardUtility senkeys. But this Action of KeyPress is performing in the Hub machine from where we are running the scripts, instead of doing it in Node machine. Do anybody have an idea to overcome this issue.
Hi, I've never faced this situation before. I guess that sendkey command is in your script so it should be done on each node as with any other command e.g. send text, right? Have you tried in Selenium forum? Maybe is a known bug.
yeah sendKeys is part of my script , its mainly to handle the POPUP coming in my flow. Is there any location i mean website to post this query.
Thank you doers for your great article. Could you please share above code as a full package?
I am trying to setup 1 hub – multiple nodes (nodes at different machines) configuration.Everything is fine except there is no guarantee on which node particular browser will be launched. I am using selenium 2.32 jar with java. Can I distinguish nodes using some property like node port? I tried setting '-port xxxx' in node cmd but its not useful.
Let me know if you want any more info.
We have secure browswer. How will I test the secure browser with selenium? any advice..I am new in the selenium and I want to go develop Selenium and Java.
Hi. What do you mean exactly by "secure browser" in the context of test automation?
In our case, we have almost 200 [ independent ] test case to execute on FF which takes 10-12 hours to execute all. How I can use Hub which will run cases in parallel to reduce execution time. With the example discussed above running same test on different Browser.
Can you suggest me good idea ?
If you have multiple test nodes with Firefox browser installed (and registered, so the Hub knows), you should get your tests run in parallel across nodes in the grid. Be aware that for this to work, tests have to be prepared to run in parallel.
If I needed to do that I would have two test methods, one per browser, and I would reuse as much logic as possible with private methods. However I would not recommend to add browser-specific logic or switches inside the test logic itself. Keep that in the public test method to improve reusability and maintainability going forward.
"Error forwarding a new session cannot find : Capabilities" .
Well the error message is not so clear, but it is likely that in your grid there is no compatible browser the tests you are running.


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Bill Bratton and the Ideology of Data: NYC and the Future of Policing
Ingrid Burrington
New York City Compstat weekly crime data, 11/18-24/13
The disappointment and outrage at Bill de Blasio's appointment of Bill Bratton as NYPD Police Commissioner isn't just about stop-and-frisk. It isn't just about Bratton's profiteering in the private security industry. It's also about data--how governments think about data, how they use (and misuse) data, and what happens when that data means more to governments than the human beings and lives it's supposed to represent.
The great promise of data-driven policy (in cities, in advertising, in online dating) is that it's neutral. Numbers and algorithms don't lie, so decisions made through collecting data are going to be the best ones. While the idea of data as an instrument of state legibility deserves its own essay, the contemporary perfection and normalization of it really comes back to Bratton and to CompStat, the program for decreasing crime through data-driven analysis that Bratton implemented in 1994 as Police Commissioner during the Guiliani administration.
CompStat was, for a long time, credited with dramatically decreasing crime in New York City in the 1990s. Its model has been appropriated by police departments, city agencies, and even entire state governments throughout the country, including Los Angeles, Austin, and San Francisco (Bratton often played a direct role in implementing the program in other cities, either as an employee of the department as in LA or as a consultant). CitiStat, the version of CompStat implemented in Baltimore (depicted as "ComStat" on The Wire), later became the model for StateStat, the data-driven program implemented for the entire state of Maryland. It's even implicated in the burgeoning open data industry, as seen in the software company Socrata's GovStat tool.


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#include "builtin.h"

#include "perf.h"

#include "util/cache.h"
#include <subcmd/parse-options.h>
#include "util/util.h"
#include "util/debug.h"

static const char * const config_usage[] = {
	"perf config [options]",
	NULL
};

enum actions {
	ACTION_LIST = 1
} actions;

static struct option config_options[] = {
	OPT_SET_UINT('l', "list", &actions,
		     "show current config variables", ACTION_LIST),
	OPT_END()
};

static int show_config(const char *key, const char *value,
		       void *cb __maybe_unused)
{
	if (value)
		printf("%s=%s\n", key, value);
	else
		printf("%s\n", key);

	return 0;
}

int cmd_config(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix __maybe_unused)
{
	int ret = 0;

	argc = parse_options(argc, argv, config_options, config_usage,
			     PARSE_OPT_STOP_AT_NON_OPTION);

	switch (actions) {
	case ACTION_LIST:
		if (argc) {
			pr_err("Error: takes no arguments\n");
			parse_options_usage(config_usage, config_options, "l", 1);
		} else {
			ret = perf_config(show_config, NULL);
			if (ret < 0)
				pr_err("Nothing configured, "
				       "please check your ~/.perfconfig file\n");
		}
		break;
	default:
		usage_with_options(config_usage, config_options);
	}

	return ret;
}


So far, we covered data challenges and process challenges in the context of promotional forecasts. In this post, the last of the series, we cover the very notion of quantitative optimization when considering promotions. Indeed, the choice of the methodological framework that is used to produce the promotion forecasts and measure their quantitative performance is critically important and yet usually (almost) completely dismissed.
As the old saying goes, there is no optimization without measurement. Yet, in case of promotions, what are you actually measuring?
The most advance predictive statistics remain rather dumb in the sense that it's nothing but the minimization of some mathematical error function. As a consequence, if the error function is not deeply aligned with the business, there is no improvement possible, because the measure of the improvement itself is off.
It doesn't matter to be able to move faster as long you don't even know if you're moving in the right direction.
inventory costs money; however, compared to permanent inventory, it can cost more money if the goods are not usually sold in the store, because any left-over after the end of the promotion will clutter the shelves.
promotions are an opportunity to increase your market shares, but typically at the expense of the retailer's margin; a key profitability driver is the stickiness of the impulse given to customers.
promotions are negotiated rather than merely planned; a better negotiation with the supplier can yield more profits than a better planning.
All those forces need to be accounted for quantitatively; and here lies the great difficulty: nobody wants to be quantitatively responsible for a process as erratic and uncertain as promotions. Yet, without quantitative accountability, it's unclear whether a given promotion creates any value, and if it does, what can be improved for the next round.
A quantitative assessment requires a somewhat holistic measure, starting with the negotiation with the supplier, and ending with the far reaching consequences of imperfect inventory allocation at the store level.
Holistic measurements, while being desirable, are typically out of reach for most retail organizations that rely on median forecasts to produce the promotion planning. Indeed, median forecasts are implicitly equivalent to minimizing the Mean Absolute Error (MAE), which without being wrong, remains the archetype of the metric strictly agnostic of all economic forces in presence.
But how could improving the MAE be wrong? As usual, statistics are deceptive. Let's consider a relatively erratic promoted item to be sold in 100 stores. The stores are assumed to be similar, and the item has 1⁄3 chances of facing a demand of 6 units, and 2⁄3 of facing a demand of zero unit. The best median forecast is here zero units. Indeed, 2 units per store would not be the best median forecast, but the best mean forecasts, that is, the forecast that minimizes the MSE (Mean Square Error). Obviously, forecasting a zero demand across all stores is buggy. Here, this example illustrates how MAE can extensively mismatch business forces. MSE show similar dysfunctions in other situations. There is no free lunch, you can't get a metric that is both ignorant of business and aligned with the business.
In the upper 90% best case, how many stores will face a stock-out before the end of the promotion?
In the lower 10% worst case, how many stores will be left with more than 2 months of inventory?
The design of the promotion can be decomposed as a risk analysis, integrating economic forces, sitting on top of quantile forecasts. From a practical viewpoint, the method has the considerable advantage of preserving a forecast strictly decoupled from the risk analysis, with is an immense simplification as far the statistical analysis is concerned.
While a quantitative risk analysis already outperforms a plain median forecast, it remains relatively limited by design in its capacity to reflect the supplier negotiation forces.
Indeed, a retailer could be tempted to regenerate the promotion forecasts many time, varying the promotional conditions to reflect the scenarios negotiated with the supplier, however such a usage of the forecasting system would lead to significant overfitting.
Simply put, if a forecasting system is repeatedly used to seek the maximization of a function built on top of the forecasts, i.e. finding the best promotional plan considering the forecasted demand, then, the most extreme value produced by the system is very likely to be a statistical fluke.
Thus, instead the optimization process needs to be integrated into the system, analyzing at once both the demand elasticity and the supplier varying conditions, i.e. the bigger the deal, the more favorable the supplier conditions.
Obviously, designing such a system is vastly more complicated than plain median promotion forecasting system. However, not striving to implement such a system in any large retail network can be seen as a streetlight effect.
A policeman sees a drunk man searching for something under a streetlight and asks what the drunk has lost. He says he lost his keys and they both look under the streetlight together. After a few minutes the policeman asks if he is sure he lost them here, and the drunk replies, no, that he lost them in the park. The policeman asks why he is searching here, and the drunk replies, "this is where the light is".
The packaged technology of Lokad offers limited support to handle promotions, but this is an area that we address extensively with several large retailers, albeit in a more ad hoc fashion. Don't hesitate to contact us, we can help.


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Woman burned in fire
Published 12:00 am Monday, October 15, 2007
MURFREESBORO – A Scott Street resident remains hospitalized in Chapel Hill after being pulled from her burning home here Friday morning.
Murfreesboro Fire Chief Bryant Cook reported that Virginia Brown was flown to the North Carolina Jaycee Burn Center at UNC Hospital where she remains undergoing treatments.
Brown was home alone at the time the fire was called in at 9:16 a.m.
"There was heavy smoke at the residence when we arrived," Cook said. "With information that a person may be inside the home, we used a thermal imaging camera. That device was worth its weight in gold because we were able to locate the victim and pull her to safety."
Cook said Murfreesboro firemen Billy Helms and Bill Harrison entered the residence. They located Brown, who was overcome by smoke, lying on the floor approximately 10 feet inside the front door.
Murfreesboro responded with three units and approximately nine firefighters. The Winton Fire Department was summoned for mutual aid. They sent two units and six men to the scene.
Cook reported the residence suffered heavy damage to two rooms and smoke damage throughout the remainder of the home.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
Cook thanked the Winton firemen and the Murfreesboro Police Department for their assistance.
'Eyes, ears' deter crime


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Q: what is a singleton class? Can it help me running single instance of a class for two related services? This might sound complex but i will ask anyway:
I am running a service A which uses class X. I want to start another service B which uses classes A besides new classes.
Service A is already running. I do a hot deployment of Service B.
Here is the real question - Will Service B use the same instance of class X or a separate instance. How can singleton class help me here?

A: Each Service will run in it's own operating System (OS) Process space, and each process space has it's own class instances.  A "singleton" class is normally coded using static fields in a class, which would be local to the process space the code was running in, so no, they will not share singletons.  Each will get  it's own instance.
You can do what you are trying to do, however, using some external shared synchronization process, (for example, exposing a singleton over whatever the java equivilent is to .Net Remoting (or WCF) - a network exposed endpoint which is coded to use a Singleton, and have both your services "connect to" and use that remotely accessible Singleton)

A: I'm not familiar with the details of how Java Web services are run, but if they are both running in the same VM then I think the classes would be shared across all applications in the VM and static fields would therefore be shared. Since the Singleton pattern is usually accomplished by attaching a single instance to a static member, the Singleton would be shared.
This based on: The Clean Code Talks - "Global State and Singletons"
You should be able to test it out by writing two simple Web services. One that does something to the singleton, such as set a flag, and another that checks for it.


text:
Q: Why does the data-binding polyfill in Polymer not work within
A: So after some digging, I found a discussion of the problem on the polymer github page: https://github.com/Polymer/polymer/issues/270.
Basically, this is an unsupported feature in the ShadowDOMPolyfill for the time being, and the authors are unsure whether or not they will implement this functionality for performance reasons. The programmer assigned to the issue suggests the following workaround:
<style>
      div {
        border: 1px solid black;
        width: {{width}}px;
      }
      /* polyfill specific rule */
      /* @polyfill-rule
        @host[id={{id}}] div {
          border: 1px solid black;
          width: {{width}}px;
        }
      */
</style>

...

<script type="text/javascript">
Polymer('x-foo', {

        ...

        registerCallback: function(declaration) {
          // add shimmedStyles to this instance
          if (window.ShadowDOMPolyfill) {
            var content = declaration.templateContent();
            content.insertBefore(content.shimmedStyle, content.firstChild);
          }
        }
      });
</script>

For whatever reason, my own implementation of this method failed. In lieu of this, I wrote a workaround that, while being a little ugly, works quite well in unsupported browsers:
<script type="text/javascript">
    (function() {
        Polymer('impress-slide', {
            entrance: 'bounceIn',
            exit: 'fadeOutRightBig',
            animation: "",

            animateIn: function() {
                this.animation = this.entrance;
                // Fallback for polyfill
                if (window.ShadowDOMPolyfill &&
                    ((this.style.animationName != this.entrance) ||
                    (this.style.webkitAnimationName != this.entrance))) {
                        this.style.webkitAnimation =
                        this.style.animation = this.entrance + " 1s both";
                }
            },
            animateOut: function() {
                this.animation = this.entrance;
                // Fallback for polyfill
                if (window.ShadowDOMPolyfill &&
                    ((this.style.animationName != this.exit) ||
                    (this.style.webkitAnimationName != this.exit))) {
                        this.style.webkitAnimation =
                        this.style.animation = this.exit;
                }
            },

            ready: function() {

            }
        })
    })();
</script>

Essentially, these modifications test the browser for the presence of the polyfill and for the incorrect assignment of the animation style properties. If these are found, the function will manually apply them to the slide using inline insertion (e.g. this.style.animation = this.entrance + " 1s both";).
The downsides of this approach are that it exposes the inner workings of the element to the end user in the event of the polyfill, undermining the goal of encapsulation within the custom element. However, under normal circumstances within a supported browser, the element will transition as expected, with the encapsulation intact.


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Nissan to invest $900 million on new assembly plant in China: Nikkei
Japan's Nissan Motor Co will spend around $900 million to build a new auto assembly plant in China that will increase production capacity in the company by 30 percent, the Nikkei newspaper reported on Monday.
Nissan, which operates in China through a joint venture with Dongfeng Motor Group Co Ltd, is in final stages of talks with its Chinese partner to build a new plant in Wuhan in Hubei province, the Nikkei reported without citing sources.
The investment in Wuhan, which totals 100 billion yen ($905 million), is expected to have an annual production capacity of 200,000 to 300,000 cars a year, the Nikkei reported.
New production lines will be added to a Dongfeng plant in Changzhou in Jiangsu province, which will increase capacity by about 120,000 passenger cars a year, a spokesman from Nissan told Reuters in response to questions about the Nikkei's story.
In addition to Changzhou, Nissan is exploring the possibility of expanding production capacity in China, but no further details can be confirmed, the spokesman said.


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Red Day event nets over $12k, 10,000 pounds of food
by The AV Times Staff • May 12, 2013
Palmdale Mayor Jim Ledford presents a certificate of appreciation to Jessica Wood, while Westside School Superintendent Regina Rossall and SAVES's Patricia Morales look on.
PALMDALE – Keller Williams Realty, in conjunction with the City of Palmdale and the Antelope Valley Mall, announced the results of their recent Red Day events.
Between their food drive and Red Day Walk, Keller Williams raised $12,645 in cash and over 10,000 pounds of food for local charities, including South Antelope Valley Emergency Services (SAVES), Grace Resources, the WAVE Foundation, the American Cancer Society, and the local Keller Williams AV Cares.
Palmdale Mayor Jim Ledford presented certificates of appreciation to the Antelope Valley Mall, Scott Word from Waypoint Homes, Troy Hoeft of Direct Path Loans, Dawn Zirbel of First American Home Warranty, Yvonne Zeballos of Lawyers Title, Shanna Roskilly of OnTrack Escrow, and Jessica Wood from Old Republic Home Protection for their sponsorship and donations.
Keller Williams associates help load over 10,000 pounds of food for transport to SAVES and Grace Resources.
Ledford and Larry Burkey of Keller Williams also thanked the Westside School District for organizing their student body of 10,000 to help raise over 8,000 pounds of food.
"Keller Williams took this to another level this year," said Palmdale Mayor Jim Ledford. "They really engaged the community to come together for a great cause for the entire Antelope Valley."
RED Day (Renew, Energize and Donate) is an initiative dedicated to celebrating Keller Williams Realty's year-round commitment to improving its local communities.
Each year, on the second Thursday in May, tens of thousands of associates from across the United States and Canada participate in a wide range of projects, devoting their time to renewing and energizing aspects of the neighborhoods in which they serve.
For more information on Red Day, contact Anusha Paramesvaran at Keller Williams at 661-816-6287.
(Information via press release from the City of Palmdale.)
Filed Under: Palmdale
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Today, Planned Parenthood filed a new lawsuit to protect Arkansas women's access to safe, legal abortion. Planned Parenthood asked a federal court to block a law that would end access to two out of the three abortion-providing health centers in the state if it goes into effect as scheduled on January 1, 2016. The law would impose severe and medically unnecessary restrictions on medication abortion, a very safe method of abortion early in pregnancy. Because Planned Parenthood of the Heartland only provides medication abortion in Arkansas and would not be able to do so under the burdensome requirements of this law, the law severely limits abortion access for women in Arkansas, forcing women to travel to the sole remaining abortion provider in the state or travel out of state to find care – if they can access it at all.
Women in the United States have been safely and effectively using medication abortion for over a decade. In fact, nearly one in four women seeking an abortion will have a medication abortion if it is an available option for her. Data shows that medication abortion is one of the safest medical procedures today. In the exceedingly rare case of an emergency, providers have protocols in place to protect patient safety. Medication abortion gives a woman the option of a more private and what may feel like a less invasive method of ending a pregnancy, in a setting in which she feels most comfortable.
"As a physician who has practiced medicine in this community for many years, I've devoted my life to protecting the health and well-being of my patients. The bottom line is that abortion is very safe, and these restrictions will hurt women by shutting down access to safe medical care," said Dr. Stephanie Ho, Planned Parenthood of the Heartland's provider in Arkansas.
"It's clear this law is part of a broader agenda to end access to safe, legal abortion entirely – and that's what it would do for women outside of Little Rock. At Planned Parenthood, we will not back down and we will not shut our doors – which is why we are taking the state of Arkansas to court," said Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
The law would force medication abortion providers to follow the inferior, outdated and less effective protocol described on the FDA's final printed labeling ("FPL") for one of the pills used in medication abortion. This protocol reflects research from almost 20 years ago. The way drugs are administered often evolves after the FDA approves a drug for use. The medical community often prescribes medicines for different uses and in different doses based on new research and their experience. The evidence-based regimen for medication abortion – the regimen used by the vast majority of medication abortion providers today, including Planned Parenthood physicians in Arkansas – is more effective and safer for patients than the FPL regimen. In new guidelines on medication abortion issued in March 2014, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and Society of Family Planning write point-blank that: "evidence-based protocols for medical abortion are superior to the FDA-approved regimen."
The Arkansas law also requires physicians that provide medication abortions to maintain a contract with another physician who has specific privileges at a hospital. Planned Parenthood's suit asserts that this provision is difficult to meet for many reasons, including that it limits eligible backup providers to a very narrow scope of medical practitioners. Because Planned Parenthood cannot meet this requirement, despite months of attempting to find a physician with the required privileges willing to enter into a contract with it, this provision, if it goes into effect, will prevent Planned Parenthood' health centers from providing medication abortion.
Medical experts, including the AMA and ACOG, oppose laws requiring abortion providers to have privileges at a hospital, writing that: "Abortion is a very safe procedure, and complications requiring hospital admission are extremely rare.
Planned Parenthood health centers have rigorous standards and training for staff as well as emergency plans in place because women's safety is our first priority. At the federal and state levels, there are multiple agencies that oversee and regulate Planned Parenthood and other health care providers. Planned Parenthood health centers go through an accreditation process with rigorous standards, regular review and inspections, and ongoing training. And we don't stop there: We constantly evaluate new research in the field, new recommendations from medical associations, new technologies, and feedback from patients, experts and regulators to continue improving our practices.
For patients' safety, providers already have plans in place in case of an emergency. Hospitalization due to an abortion is rare. In the extremely unlikely event that a patient experiences a serious complication from an abortion and requires hospital-based care, the high-quality, experienced physicians and nurses who work at Planned Parenthood and other health centers providing abortion have detailed systems in place to ensure that a patient gets care quickly from a nearby hospital.
The law would deprive many women entirely of the option of medication abortion — a safe, private and non-invasive method of ending a pregnancy. Because Planned Parenthood of the Heartland only provides medication abortion and would not be able to do so under the burdensome requirements of this law, in effect, the law severely limits abortion access for women in Arkansas, forcing women to travel long distances to find safe, legal, essential abortion care – if a woman can access it at all.
Having a contract with a provider with admitting privileges does not increase patient safety. This requirement is difficult to meet for many reasons, including that this law limits eligible backup providers to a very narrow scope of medical practitioners. Arkansas law also deters providers from creating formal contracts with abortion providers by consistently creating laws that punish those who support a woman's right to access safe, legal abortion – e.g. the law that recently went into effect barring organizations and providers who refer to Planned Parenthood from receiving state and federal pass-through funding.
Abortions, including medication abortions, are very safe medical procedures. In those rare cases when complications do occur from a medication abortion, they are similar to those that may occur from a miscarriage, which emergency room and other physicians are qualified and experienced to treat.
American women have been safely and legally using medication abortion for more than 15 years. In fact, one in four women decides on this method if it is an option. And medical studies have shown that medication abortion is an extremely safe procedure.
When you think about it, these restrictions are written by politicians, not medical experts. The AMA and ACOG oppose laws like this because they pose a risk to women's health by reducing timely access to safe and legal abortion, especially in places where providers are already limited.
We all want to protect patient safety — this law doesn't do that. The AMA and ACOG oppose laws like this because such laws pose a risk to women's health by reducing timely access to safe and legal abortion. This law creates delays in access to care, especially in places where providers of safe and legal abortion are already limited. The provision requiring medication abortion to be provided under the outdated regimen that appears on the drug's label forces physicians to practice outdated medicine that in fact increases risks to patients.
Planned Parenthood has two health centers in Arkansas, located in Little Rock and Fayetteville. In a single year, Planned Parenthood health centers in Arkansas provide approximately 4,400 patients high-quality reproductive health services including well-woman exams, lifesaving cancer screenings, testing and treatment for sexually transmitted infections, HIV testing and risk reduction counseling, a full range of FDA-approved birth control methods, pregnancy testing and options counseling, and other preventive health services.
Planned Parenthood of the Heartland (PPHeartland) has served women and men of all ages since the 1930s. Today the organization offers a full range of quality reproductive health care services to residents in Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska and eastern Oklahoma through 18 health centers and Education Resource Centers in Des Moines, Lincoln and Omaha.


The inspirational Ali Campbell from Dorset, found an ulcer in her mouth at the start of 2017. When it turned out that it was mouth cancer she embarked on an incredible journey which has so far taken many twists and turns.
Here, in her own powerful words, she explains the emotional, physical and even financial impact that mouth cancer has had on her life.
"It started with a simple ulcer in January 2017. It was on the top left roof of my mouth, naturally I went to the chemist and bought bonjela and took advice from my crochet pupils; "put an aspirin on it", "it works for my son" etc., but it wasn't going away.
"On the 15 February, I phoned my doctor. I thought that all I would need was a simple course of antibiotics, but she sounded concerned. She wanted to see me straight away. 15 minutes later the "C" word was first mentioned. "Just to be sure", she said calmly. I was going to be fast tracked to the Maxillofacial (Max Fax) Department at Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester.
"When I got home I had to tell me soulmate and husband, Ian. When I mentioned cancer having to be ruled out, I had a lump in my throat and I had to turn away as tears welled. He was very supportive and matter of fact. There and then the phone rang.
"It was Max Fax. They had an appointment cancellation the next day that I could have. 'Oh my word', this was fate. So, I went on the 16 and was referred to have a biopsy "just to be sure". Yep, those words again.
"On the 1 March I had my biopsy, which was very painful once the local had worn off, on the 17 I went for the results.
"Yes, it was cancer of the oral cavity and a big op was planned. Ian and I both had a little "wobble" whilst waiting for the head and neck nurse to talk to us, but we smiled, and my positive mental attitude kicked in from that point forward.
"Due to the fact the operation would be 12 hours, it took a while to arrange, but the NHS did well, getting me mentally and practically prepared, e.g. getting a peg (feeding tube fitted). In I went on the 27 April.
"After four days in a medically induced coma, I decided that I had best get up and get on with life, so I did.
"My op involved taking skin and bone from my left shoulder and after cutting the cancer out of the top left of my mouth, reconstructing my mouth and jaw. I was nil by mouth for eight weeks and lost over three stone.
"Finally I had the bikini body I had always wanted!!.
"I was supposed to stay for 30 days in hospital, but despite the amazing view of Brownsea Island, I managed to escape, much to the disgust of my surgeons, all four of them. I assured them that seeing and being with my dogs, my ducks, chickens, bunnies and cows was what was best for my recovery!
"I had promised to go and see my surgeons every week, it was then that I was told that the cancer had "kissed" my bone. I would need six weeks (every day) of RADICAL Radiotherapy. I had to have a head mask made, and being claustrophobic, that was a lot worse for me than the op itself!
"One of the biggest problems with getting cancer is the financial aspect of it. I lost my job, I was a self-employed crochet teacher and designer for books and magazines.
"My husband is also self-employed and the hour journey to Poole Hospital was taking its toll on our finances.
"After contacting MacMillan for help, which I didn't get from them, my internet research led me to the Dorset Cancer Care Foundation (www.dccf.co.uk). I had never heard of them before, but I saw on their "website that you could apply for a grant, so I had nothing to lose and I went for it.
"About a week later I had a cheque in my hands for £360, enough to pay for my petrol there and back for the six weeks. However, something else wonderful happened.
"A lot of my friends volunteered to drive me for my "zapping" sessions, and even though I explained that I could give them the £10 I got from the DCCF, they didn't want it, so I set up a "Just Giving" page and gave the money back to the DCCF.
"Word got around and soon I had raised £1,300 for them!!
"Once my radiotherapy sessions had finished, although I still had my positive mental attitude with me, the zapping had taken its toll.
"I had a long recovery ahead of me and when I went to see the oncologist six weeks later, he was happy that the zapping had done what it was meant to do, but the side effects were not great. What I thought in the summer was my recovery going well, I had taken a huge step backwards.
"I forgot to mention about the hair loss! I didn't know that it was going to happen. One night my husband noticed it and said "oh you've got a little bald patch on the back of your head". When I looked properly it was worse than a little bald patch. It was very "tufty", so my friend shaved it off for me.
"Smiling on, I had more visits to the dentist at the hospital, as well as the surgeons, physio, speech therapists and dieticians!
"I had a "hole" develop in the skin flap in the roof of my mouth, one of the side effects, the radio waves had shrunk my flap!! The made me a splint to wear. I hated it.
"My mouth got so sore that after two weeks I was nearly in tears. Fortunately, I had another visit due at the hospital and my splint was shaved and re moulded to make it more comfortable. Fortunately, it is and I am wearing it almost all day.
"The next day, that's today in fact (29 November 2017) the head and neck nurse phoned me about the results of a blood test that I had several weeks ago. I told her what the surgeons had said, I passed on the good news, but nurse 'Doom and Gloom' said that the can't be certain of that without a scan and that she would look into it!!


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A little more than a 'staycation'
Writer Alastair Humphreys coined the term 'microadventure' to promote the idea that a meaningful experience, like sleeping under the stars, doesn't have to involve spending money or a long travel time.
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By Jayme Moye
There are many reasons people don't incorporate adventure into their lives. It takes time, money, expertise, and equipment to do things like scale the world's tallest mountains, traverse its deepest canyons, and navigate its many waters.
But it doesn't have to be that way, says Alastair Humphreys, a travel writer and National Geographic Adventurer of the Year. In 2011, he set out to dispel the myth that an adventure needs to be an epic odyssey. Mr. Humphreys coined the term "microadventure" to spread his philosophy that one doesn't have to travel far or spend a lot of money – or any money at all – to have a meaningful experience. His classic example of a microadventure is a family sleeping outside in the backyard under a starry summer sky. "Without a tent, there's a definite feeling of wildness," says Humphreys, who lives in a village outside London.
The concept took off. A search for #microadventure on Twitter yields multiple posts daily, and on Instagram there are thousands of photos from microadventurers satisfying their wanderlust by climbing trees, canoeing, cycling, trail running, or backpacking.
"Had ... an amazing #microadventure with my buddies last night," tweeted southdownsmtbskills. The 45-year-old Brit, known as Jim Barrows in the real world, hitched a sleeping bag to the handlebars of his mountain bike and, along with four friends, rode 12 miles to Rackham, England, after work, where they camped for the night.
Microadventures are also making gains in the United States. Boulder, Colo., resident Lauren Rains was so inspired after reading Humphreys's travel blogs last year that she tried a notable microadventure of her own: She rode her longboard 30 miles from Boulder to Denver.
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Meanwhile, Humphreys spent 2013 engaged in various types of microadventures. His book, "Microadventures," will be available in June. His favorite experience might not even quite merit the special label, but he counts it among his adventures. "A full moon comes up at the same time as the sun sets, which is a very convenient time for a walk," Humphreys says. "I walked a few hours from my home to a rural train station, and then took the train back. It was absolutely beautiful."
Humphreys advocates a unique type of microadventure that he calls an arbitrary journey – similar to what Ms. Rains did longboarding from Boulder to Denver. It's a journey that matters only to the person taking it. In Humphreys's case, he spent an afternoon biking from the house his father grew up in to his mother's childhood home.
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Q: Does C support optional null parameters? In Python, I'm used to things like
def send_command(command, modifier = None):

and then the modifier argument is optional, and the absence of the argument can be differentiated from an argument of 0.  Is there similar functionality in C?  I'm inexperienced with C, and Googling, but can't find a clear statement of how to use optional parameters in C.  It seems you can assign them similarly, like this:
void send_command(uint8_t command, uint8_t modifier = 0) {

so the second argument is optional and defaults to 0 if not used?  (Edit: No, this is invalid C anyway)
But can the function distinguish between send_command(SOMETHING) and send_command(SOMETHING, 0)?  Ideally, the second parameter could be any uint8 value, including 0.
Maybe NULL is different from 0?
void send_command(uint8_t command, uint8_t modifier = NULL) {

A: As others have said, C does not have optional parameters.
As for the difference between NULL and 0, there isn't much of one.

A: As others said C doesn't support default arguments of functions directly. But there are ways to do this with macros. P99 has convenient "meta"-macros that make this feature relatively easy to specify. As an example to avoid to repeatedly have to specify the second argument of the pthread_mutex_init function:
P99_PROTOTYPE(int, pthread_mutex_init, pthread_mutex_t*, pthread_mutexattr_t const*);
#define pthread_mutex_init(...) P99_CALL_DEFARG(pthread_mutex_init, 2, __VA_ARGS__)
P99_DECLARE_DEFARG(pthread_mutex_init, , (pthread_mutexattr_t*)0);

and straight forward to use afterwards
pthread_mutex_init(&my_mutex);

The semantic of evaluation of the default argument here is the same as for C++, that is the evaluation context of the default argument is the context of the declaration. There is also the possibility to specify this in a way that the context of evaluation is the context of the macro invocation.

A: C does not support optional parameters. Nor does it support function overloading which can often be used to similar effect.

A: Optional parameters are possible in C99 with variadic macros:
#define JUST3(a, b, c, ...) (a), (b), (c)
#define FUNC(...) func(JUST3(__VA_ARGS__, 0, 0))

Now FUNC(x) expands to func((x), (0), (0)), FUNC(x,y) expands to func((x), (y), (0)), etc.

A: The C Programming Language has no optional parameters. C++ does, but "the mother of many modern programming languages" C does not...


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Smithtown, NY – We've already experienced the first snowstorm of the New Year, and with record cold temperatures in the next few days, now is the time to plan accordingly for the harsh winter weather. The snow and cold aren't just harmful to people, they can also be hazardous for your pets. The Guide Dog Foundation recommends the following tips to keep your pets safe.
Don't leave your pet outside in the cold for long periods of time. Be attentive to your pet's body temperature, and limit its time outdoors. Cats and dogs may have fur coats but they aren't equipped to be out in freezing temperatures for long periods of time.
Keep your pet warm, dry and away from drafts. Tiles and uncarpeted areas may become extremely cold, so make sure to place blankets and pads on floors in these areas.
Your pet needs a well-groomed coat to keep properly insulated. Short- or coarse-haired animals may get extra cold, so consider a sweater or coat as long as it does not impede the use of a collar or leash. Long-haired animals should have excess hair around the toes and foot pads trimmed to ease snow removal and cleaning.
Towel or blow-dry your pet if it gets wet from rain or snow. It is important to clean and dry its paws, too. This helps avoid tiny cuts and cracked pads. A little petroleum jelly may soften the pads and prevent further cracking.
If you need to go outside during the storm, limit exposure and make sure your dog is on a leash and wearing an ID tag. During heavy snowfall, dogs can lose their scent and become lost. More dogs get lost during winter than any other time of year.
Don't leave your pet alone in a car without proper precautions. If the engine is off, the temperature in the car will get too cold.
Antifreeze, which often collects on driveways and roadways, is highly poisonous. Although it smells and tastes good to your pet, it can be lethal.
Rock salt, used to melt ice on sidewalks, may irritate footpads. Be sure to rinse your pet's feet after a walk with a warm, damp cloth or towel and be sure to dry them off afterwards.
Provide plenty of fresh water. Your pet is just as likely to get dehydrated in the winter as in the summer.
Frostbite is a winter hazard. To prevent frostbite on your animal's ears, tail and feet, don't leave your pet outdoors for too long.
Be very careful of supplemental heat sources. Fireplaces and portable heaters can severely burn your pet. Make sure all fireplaces have screens, and keep portable heaters out of reach.
Animals can be more susceptible to illness in the winter. Take your pet to a veterinarian if you see any suspicious symptoms.
Winter does not necessarily mean the end of bug season. Likewise, winter does not mean you should stop giving heartworm, flea, and tick preventatives to your cherished companions.
If your pet encounters any health issues due to the information provided above, please contact your veterinarian for further instructions.


Fundraiser by Emily E Hogstad : Song of the Lark European Coverage!
Song of the Lark European Coverage!
I'm following the Minnesota Orchestra on its 2016 European tour, going to its shows in Lahti, Amsterdam, and Copenhagen!
I'll be traveling from August 18 to August 30, taking the same flights as the orchestra and staying in the same hotels, to guarantee an up-close-and-personal perspective.
Every step of the way, I intend to bring the European tour experience to my readers using words, pictures, videos, and social media.
I know how many people want to go on this tour to celebrate the resurrection of their orchestra, but can't. So I want to bring all the excitement to you as a way of saying thank-you for all you've done for this magnificent ensemble.
If you want to help, toss a few bills in the hat and accept my SINCEREST thanks!
Guys, I'm so excited and thrilled and honored to be doing this. I really, really, REALLY hope you enjoy, and I'll catch you on the road!
You go and have fun now!


Ranui was a kauri passenger launch of 45ft. It capsized returning to Tauranga with a party of campers and fishermen from Mayor Island and was wrecked in tempestuous seas at North Rock, Mount Maunganui on 28 December 1950. Nineteen holiday makers and three crew drowned. The sole survivor was nineteen-year-old Phillip H. G. Smith of Tauranga. The launch had been in service only a few weeks. Court found the disaster was the result of an exceptionally high wave which capsized the Ranui when well into the channel at the entrance to Tauranga Harbour.


Our Mercy Project, which supports widows, is going well. We are trying to set an example for people who don't care about this less-fortunate group. And the widows are happy and have learned to pray.
Through this we are able to help 40 older and single people in our community. Some of them received the love of the Lord for themselves.
Some of the challenges we've seen in this project are that there are still some families who are not open to us. Sometimes when we went to distribute goods to widows, some people from the village started throwing stones at the house where we were visiting.


Due to the partial government shutdown, there has been a lot of recent news and attention about impacts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known locally as CalFresh.
The San Francisco Human Services Agency (HSA) is working to inform CalFresh households about plans to issue benefits for February earlier than usual.
Due to the prolonged federal government shutdown, most current recipients and eligible applicants of CalFresh will receive monthly nutrition benefits for February earlier than usual.
Beginning Wednesday, January 16, most CalFresh clients will begin receiving their February benefits on Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) cards. Benefits usually go out at the beginning of each month.
CalFresh recipients who see February benefits loaded onto EBT cards early should understand that no additional benefits will be provided for February 2019.
Households are advised to plan their food budgets wisely, and to be judicious in spending February benefits to ensure that the funds will last and serve their needs through the end of the month.
New CalFresh applications continue to be accepted and processed, and expedited services are available, as usual.
Although we remain hopeful that lawmakers will come to an agreement to end the partial government shutdown quickly, there is a chance it could continue past the end of February. HSA is awaiting state and federal guidance on the availability of CalFresh benefits in March.
HSA is closely monitoring the situation in Washington, D.C., and working with partners at the state to ensure that CalFresh benefits remain available, without interruption, to the greatest extent possible.


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IDC to Provide Expert Guidance on Artificial Intelligence at 'Ai Everything 2019' in Dubai
Dubai – Global ICT research and consultancy services firm International Data Corporation (IDC) is delighted to announce that it will be participating in the upcoming 'Ai Everything 2019' summit as the event's official Knowledge Partner. Taking place at Dubai World Trade Centre from April 30 to May 1, IDC will be present throughout the event at Stand No. AIE031 to provide expert guidance to IT and business decision makers on fine-tuning their artificial intelligence (AI) strategies and creating resource allocation plans for investments in analytics, AI, and information management.
Running under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President & Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, and hosted by the UAE's National Program for Artificial Intelligence, 'Ai Everything 2019' promises to be the year's most empowering AI summit for
governments, businesses, social enterprises, and the creative economy. The UAE Strategy for Artificial Intelligence envisions the country becoming a world leader in AI by 2031, and this event represents a culmination of efforts to promote global initiatives, collaborations, partnerships, and breakthroughs in the field of AI.
As developments in this field continue to gather pace, IDC predicts that by 2022, 75% of IT operations will have been supplanted by AI or analytics-driven automation, resulting in operational expenditure (OPEX) savings of over 25%. And by 2024, IDC expects AI-enabled human-computer interfaces and business process automation to have replaced a third of today's screen-based business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) applications.
"Investments in AI are being driven by the promise, opportunity, and excitement of a new wave of automation that not only drives inefficiency out of processes but also augments human intelligence and capability," says Ranjit Rajan, IDC's associate vice president of research for the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa. "However, investment in AI will be moderated by a shortage of algorithm training data, outdated legal frameworks, shortage of analytics staff, behavioral biases, and insufficient attention to analytic orientation and data literacy."
Rajan will expand on these challenges at 'Ai Everything 2019' as he participates in an exclusive panel discussion exploring the theme of 'Man, Machines, and Municipality' at 3.15pm on April 30. Visit IDC at Stand No. AIE031 to receive your complimentary copy of 'IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Analytics and Artificial Intelligence 2019 Predictions', a dedicated thought-leadership report that examines how AI is changing the way people live, work, and play.
IDC's respected industry analysts will be present throughout the event. To arrange a one-to-one meeting, please contact Sheila Manek at smanek@idc.com or on +971 4 446 3154. You can also keep up to date on all the latest news about IDC's participation at 'Ai Everything 2019' by using the hashtag #IDCAiEverything.
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Leah is a health promoter and a registered nurse, who has been giving private instruction to both healthy and sick people for the past twenty years. Her main areas of expertise are: cardiac patient rehabilitation, Type 2 diabetes, and all the risk factors for cardiovascular diseases.
Leah gained most of her experience through eighteen years of work at Macabi Health Services as a health promoter and a nurse at the Cardiac Institution in Haifa, Israel. In addition, Leah spent five years at a specialized institution for the rehabilitation of people post heart attack. Leah is also licensed as a registered nurse through the state of Massachusetts.
In addition to her work in the field of conventional medicine, Leah has learned several holistic healing methods, including Reiki and Kinesiology. The mind-body connection is intertwined in her work with clients and is featured prominently in her book Thou Shalt Not Diet, which was published in Israel toward the end of 2009. Her practice and writings combine both conventional and holistic medicine, which she believes are powerful approaches for helping people to lead healthier lives.
Leah currently sees clients for individual instruction at her private clinic. In addition, she conducts healthy living workshops.
Leah is married, and mother of five. She lives in Haifa, Israel.
Every health professional who deals with health promotion knows that one of the most difficult challenges of the job is persuading clients to make behavioral changes. This challenge is, in fact, the essence of Leah's work. She has set success in this challenge as her goal and mission. Over the years, Leah has developed a unique instruction method, in terms of the contents and the manner in which they are delivered. Thankfully, most of her clients have, indeed, made behavioral changes following their instruction sessions with Leah.
In her book Thou Shalt Not Diet, Leah has put into writing what she does face-to-face with her clients and has learned from her vast experience. Thou Shalt Not Diet is written as an individual guidance session with each reader.
Following the success of her book, Leah has been invited to become a member of The Israeli Forum for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases. She plays an active role in the educational work that the forum leads in the community in order to reduce the risks of cardiovascular diseases.
In addition, since the publication of her book, Leah has been invited to lecture in a variety of settings such as hospitals, community centers, schools, seminars, homes for the elderly, and more. She has been interviewed several times for various Israeli radio shows, as well as for the Israeli TV's Channel One news.
Leah sees her book as an important mission she has been blessed with. Thankfully, her mission is succeeding. Since the book's publication, Leah has received feedback from hundreds of people across Israel who read the book and felt the need to call her and tell her about the various changes they have made in their lives thanks to her book. Several readers have called Leah simply to say, "Thank you."


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