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Discovery and development of technology at the nanoscale has resulted in materials and devices that have had a tremendous impact in many fields and industries, such as computer science, telecommunications, biotechnology, drug discovery, molecular diagnostics, sensing, and the environment, among others. While these advances have, undoubtedly, had a positive impact on the wellbeing of our planet and humankind, there are still many challenges for which there are no viable solutions.
Nanotechnology is posed to be crucial in addressing current global challenges, such as the need for more effective vaccines, point-of-care-diagnostics, medical devices, new targeted nanotherapeutics, as well as environmental sensing, remediation, and sustainability, by employing nature-inspired and "bottom-up" approaches. In that regard, the University of Miami's Dr. JT Macdonald Foundation Biomedical Nanotechnology Institute aims to address global challenges by creating innovative solutions harnessed from the expertise and multidisciplinary work of our talented faculty, students, and staff across all UM Schools and Colleges.
Our state-of-the-art Nanofabrication Facility with its ISO-100 and ISO-1000 clean rooms equipped with instrumentation for the precise fabrication and characterization of materials and devices at the nano- and micro-scale, serves as the primary source of this type of manufacturing for South Florida's academic institutions and high-tech industry.


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November 01, 2019 | in Studio Time
One of our favorite things to do at Juxtapoz is to visit an artist in their studio. We love to see the process of works being made, the half-finished moments where an artist is near a breakthrough. We also just love to see where the magic happens, the creative space that artists use to make their work. Recently, we hung out with Bay Area artist, Kristin Farr, and watched her make the work you see above. We. Love. Process.
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SOPHIA is the IoT platform created by Biesse in collaboration with Accenture which enables its customers to access a wide range of services to streamline and rationalise their work management processes.
Biesse supports its customers, offering technological connectivity, sharing of expertise, professional consulting services, training and ongoing assistance.
SOPHIA helps to prevent problems that could damage customer production. Biesse takes proactive steps to contact customers, reducing machine stoppages and inefficient wasted time.
Biesse service can monitor the machine's performance, generating reports in real time about what needs to be done to address any issues.
The entire Biesse worldwide service network is interconnected and can access the SOPHIA web portal, which means quick, incisive reactions and resolutions for customers all over the world.
Software distribution is very simple and user-friendly. It takes place via a dedicated function called Software Manager, that sends the specific software package directly to the machines in protected mode.
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The platform allows a spare parts purchase cart to be automatically compiled after the monitoring of the machine component status and the notification of the need for intervention. The customer can choose whether or not to confirm the order.
If necessary, the customer can create a video connection via the app to facilitate communication, allowing Biesse Service to actually see what the customer is filming.


The St. Maximus Parish Library has books, periodicals, CDs and videos available for checkout. The library is managed by Pamela Ward. Questions and inquiries can be sent to library@stmaximus.org.
A special collection is taken up for the library occassionally and donations of books are also welcome. A link the to library's wishlist at Amazon.com can be found here - wishlist.
All lists open as pdf documents.


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5 Free VPNs That Unblock Youtube
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We live in an incredible world of technology and communication. It seems absurd that some popular sites like YouTube are not available in certain places. This is where a VPN comes in.
Our private and secure VPN connections open up the flow of information and access to pages that may be blocked or censored at your location. Are you going abroad for a short time? Do you live in a country where censorship cuts off access? A VPN can change your online experience.
YouTube, is the leading service for the upload and streaming of videos from across the internet. At any given point of time, there are millions of users on Youtube – be it to watch or to upload viewable content. Yet, Youtube still remains blocked by some places in the world. How can you get around that? Here are 5 Free VPNs That Unblock Youtube and enjoy the videos:
ExpressVPN as its name suggests offers great speed and efficiency while at the same time giving users access to content across the globe. This VPN can be used to unblock Netflix and for torrenting content.
Compatible with PC, Mac, phones and tablets, VYprVPN is a unique service that provides you complete security online and keeps your pc away from hackers. Allowing immediate links to servers across the world, this secure VPN has a fast stream and download speed while ensuring that your actions cannot be traced back to you. A reliable service, it has a free 3-day trial versions after which the basic plan costs $4.98 for the first month.
Tunnel Bear
Been hearing about online hackers in the use and slightly afraid? Tunnelbear is the perfect solution to keep you safe. Based in the USA, this VPN gives you access to information and websites from other countries which your home country does not give – Facebook, Gmail, Netflix and more. Tunnelbear lets users download up to 500mb of data for free each month, getting an additional 1GB download limit if you tweet about TunnelBear's services. Beyond that, they cost $4.99 per month if paid yearly.
Hide.Me
This service is based in Malaysia and is excellent for a secure protection for your equipment while accessing content from across the world. It also helps to hide your online activities for complete confidentiality. It offers a free USA VPN where you can transfer up to 2GB of data through the secure tunnel. For a larger data size, Hide.Me offers a premium package for $11.67 a month.
WindscribeVPN
With the threat of online threats growing, Winscribe VPN services to protect user privacy, keeping them from being tagged or followed by advertisers and marketers who would like to keep tabs on you. They also keep your computer secure while giving you access to global content. This VPN has a free plan which is usable on one device only, with access to content from 8 different countries. Download capacity is also limited. For a limitless download of content from 30+ countries, they have a plan at $9 a month.


If Stretching the City were a person, it would be a born and bred Londoner. Founded in 2010 with weekly community yoga classes in London's Angel and corporate yoga classes in Victoria, Holborn and the City, before long we had wellbeing classes and workshops taking place in every London borough.
So, why head up the M1 to set up a business when you have a thriving one in your home town? Well, firstly – there was demand. Without any advertising, we were being approached by Manchester based clients and were soon teaching yoga to UK construction giant Kier and delivering wellbeing workshops to leading law firm, Field Fisher.
And business is booming in Manchester. 2018 ONS data showed the number of companies based in Manchester has risen by 58% between 2014-2018, with companies such as E-Commerce giant, Booking.com still to move in to their Manchester offices.
We started to recruit a team of Manchester wellbeing teachers in 2018 and having scoured the wellbeing scene of the North West, are proud to be working with an all-star line up of Manchester's best yoga and Pilates teachers, nutritionists, massage therapists, mindfulness teachers, mental health professionals and coaches. Head over to our Team page to meet them.
As one of my favourite Mancunians once said, 'Manchester has everything except a beach' (Ian Brown). It may still lack a coastline, but we're thrilled it now has Stretching the City!
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Quentin Sirjacq – Piano Memories – SCHOLE INC.
Memories of a journey, entrust one's body to the melodies of a piano, will lead you to the bottom of the heart where the sense of beauty lies.
It is a masterpiece of piano album by Quentin Sirjacq, a French composer and pianist. This second album recorded during his visit to Japan in 2012 will be released from SCHOLE. After the debut album "La Chombre Claire" released, he has succeeded in touring Japan as a solo pianist, and collaborated and composed with various musicians. Furthermore, Quentin Sirjacq works energetically as a composer, such as various works for documentary, radio program, etc., and compositions for a French movie "BRIGHT DAYS AHEAD (LES BEAUX JOURS)" (this soundtrack is released from SCHOLE) released in 2013.
This masterpiece certainly represents the history of Quentin Sirjacq and the piano; the sharpened emotional piano touch fused with the elements of French impressionism and his classical roots which appear in his own various work, combines beautifully with the elements influenced from the contemporary music and minimalism studies in United States. The electronic sound which generate more depth from the music, were added by Steve Arguelles, a jazz drummer based in Paris, a contemporary musician, sound producer etc.
It was recorded with Akira Kosemura as a co-producer, and Hiroshi Iguchi as a recording engineer. The artwork created from the recorded piano data is by Shin Kikuchi. The emotional imagined sceneries before putting into words are composed one after the next, as the artist say, he try to create the sound what spring from his internal, without any determination of the image or motif. It's notable that his creativity and absolute performance skills make it possible.


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parallel english: aiming technique when using sidespin where the cue is placed parallel to the line of aim for a center-ball hit (with no sidespin) resulting in no compensation for CB deflection (e.g., for shots where swerve is expected to cancel the effects of squirt and throw, resulting in no net CB deflection, or where the amount of resulting pocket cheat is acceptable).
Some people instead interpret "parallel english" to mean: Based on experience, instinct, and/or intuition, place the cue in the desired stroking direction, with the tip already at the position needed to created the amount of sidespin desired, and with the cue already pointing in the direction necessary to compensate for squirt, swerve, and throw. In other words, don't line up center-ball first and then use a pivoting method (like BHE, FHE, or some combination) or a swooping stroke to arrive at the necessary line of aim to use the amount of sidespin desired. This is how pretty much all pros and great players aim when using english; although, this should not be called "parallel english" unless the cue is in fact parallel to the aiming line of the CB at address.
Regardless of how you determine the necessary stroking line of the cue when applying english, even if completely intuitively, the cue must be pointed in a certain direction for given shot to send the OB into the center of the pocket. For example, with a short distance between the CB and OB and/or with a firm shot, BHE (with an appropriate bridge length) will give you a good line of aim. If you use true parallel english with a shot like this instead, it will be way off (especially for larger amounts of sidespin). An alternative to BHE is to aim intuitively and bring the cue into the necessary line of aim with no pivot, but if you don't have the cue in the same direction created by the BHE approach, you won't pocket the shot (unless the pocket is close and/or large and can be cheated significantly).


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'Diff'rent Strokes': Todd Bridges is now the last living member of the core cast
With the death of actress Charlotte Rae on Sunday, Todd Bridges is now the last surviving original member of the "Diff'rent Strokes" cast. We look back at the lives and deaths of the show's other stars.
'Diff'rent Strokes': Todd Bridges is now the last living member of the core cast With the death of actress Charlotte Rae on Sunday, Todd Bridges is now the last surviving original member of the "Diff'rent Strokes" cast. We look back at the lives and deaths of the show's other stars. Check out this story on USATODAY.com: https://usat.ly/2OO9BbR
Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY Published 2:19 p.m. ET Aug. 6, 2018 | Updated 10:47 a.m. ET Aug. 7, 2018
Charlotte Rae's comedic career spanned six decades with appearances on multiple shows. Here are the facts of her life. USA TODAY
Muhammad Ali paid a visit to "Diff'rent Strokes" in 1979.(Photo: NBC via Getty Images)
With the death of actress Charlotte Rae on Sunday, Todd Bridges is now the last surviving original member of the "Diff'rent Strokes" cast.
if you don't remember her role on the groundbreaking NBC sitcom, Rae played Edna Garrett, the housekeeper for the Drummond family, who adopted the sons of his African-American maid after her death. Midway through the second season of "Diff'rent Strokes," Mrs. Garrett got a new job as a housemother at Eastland School for Girls, the boarding school attended by Kimberly Drummond (Dana Plato) and her character was spun off into "The Facts of Life."
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Here's a look back at the each of the cast members:
Todd Bridges, 51
Todd Bridges, seen here at the 2007 TV Land Awards, has been sober for over 25 years. (Photo: Gus Ruelas/AP)
Though all three of the child actors from "Diff'rent Strokes" had problems after the show ended in 1986, Bridges' appeared to be the most serious at the time. Within three years, he was using and selling crack cocaine and methamphetamine, partly to numb himself from the memory of being molested by his former publicist.
In 1989, the 24-year-old Bridges was accused of shooting a drug dealer eight times, leading to two trials, the first for attempted murder and the second for assault with a firearm. By August 1990, he was acquitted of both crimes, thanks to attorney Johnnie Cohran, who would become famous for his work defending O.J. Simpson.
Bridges wasn't out of the woods yet.
In his 2010 memoir "Killing Willis," Bridges wrote that when he was pulled over on his way from buying drugs in December 1992, he considered committing suicide by cop.
Todd Bridges spent much of the early 1990s in court, including two trials for an attempted murder case. (Photo: MARK TERRILL, Associated Press)
"I was worn out. It'd been a long time coming. I'd been using and dealing on and off for six years, and even though I'd been trying to get my act cleaned up, it clearly wasn't working," he wrote. "I decided to give the cops what I knew they wanted, the chance to say they'd taken down Todd Bridges, the former child star turned drug dealer, whether they got me with bullets or with bars."
He was arrested again, but this time, a judge who happened to be a former addict himself, sent him to prison for 90 days – in hopes that stay would prompt him to make the decision to get clean once and for all.
Bridges has now been sober for more than 25 years.
In 2016, during an appearance on "The Dr. Oz Show," Bridges said he is no longer afraid to discuss his past and explained that he was no longer the man who once considered suicide by cop: "I love life now. Life is the best thing in the world."
Conrad Bain (1923-2013)
The men of "Diff'rent Strokes" reunited at the 2003 TV Land Awards, about four years after the death of co-star Dana Plato. (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
After "Diff'rent Strokes" was canceled, Bain, who played Park Avenue patriarch Philip Drummond appeared in the film "Postcards From the Edge" (1990). In 1996, he made his final TV appearance, reprising the Drummond role in another iconic black sitcom, "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."
For Bridges, Bain's death in January 2013 was the hardest of all: "Conrad was more like my father than my real father," he told Dr. Oz in 2016. "Conrad was the guy who did things with me, took me fishing, talked to me about life."
He said that even when he was at his worst, Bain stayed in contact and came to visit him, adding, "I talked to him all the way up to the day before he died, actually."
Gary Coleman (1968-2010)
Arnold (Gary Coleman) faces off with Mr. T in a 1983 episode of "Diff'rent Strokes." (Photo: AP)
The actor behind wisecracking Arnold Jackson, best known for his catchphrase, "Whatchu talkin' 'bout Willis?," was earning $100,000 an episode at the show's peak but had little to show for it thanks to financial mismanagement by his parents and their advisers.
According to Bridges' memoir, the Colemans also made their son work long hours on the sitcom and numerous side projects even though he had a chronic kidney disease that, combined with his medications, limited his height to 4-foot-8.
The police were called regarding at least two fights between Gary Coleman and wife Shannon Price, seen here during a 2008 visit to NBC's "Today" show. (Photo: RICHARD DREW/ AP)
In 1989, he successfully sued them and won back $1.3 million. But it was too little, too late and within 10 years, he was working as a security guard and had to file for bankruptcy protection.
At that point, he was in the headlines more for legal problems than new projects. In 1998, he was charged with assaulting an autograph seeker. From 2007 to the end of his life, he was involved in a string of altercations, including two with his estranged wife, Shannon Price. He died May 28, 2010, at age 42.
Dana Plato (1964-1999)
"Diff'rent Strokes" child-actors: Gary Coleman, left, Todd Bridges and Dana Plato, as seen in 1982. (Photo: NBC)
At her mother's direction, Plato gave up a promising career as a junior figure skater to take on the role of Kimberly Drummond, the biological daughter of Conrad Bain's character. While on the show, she began experimenting with pot, cocaine and alcohol, suffering an overdose at age 14. She became pregnant in 1983 and the following year, she married boyfriend Lanny Lambert and gave birth to a son, Tyler Edward Lambert. (Plato and Lambert divorced in 1990 and she lost custody.)
In 1984, producers subsequently wrote her out of "Diff'rent Strokes," worried about the effect her personal life would have on their wholesome family comedy. She returned as a recurring guest star in the show's final two seasons.
Like Coleman, Plato lost much of her income from the show to unscrupulous financial managers. Increasingly desperate for money, she posed for Playboy and took roles in B movies before moving to Las Vegas, where she worked at a dry-cleaning shop.
In 1991, she was arrested after she used a pellet gun to hold up a video-store clerk, who promptly told 911 that the business had been "robbed by the girl who played Kimberly on 'Diff'rent Strokes.' " The following year, she was also arrested for forging a prescription.
Plato gave showbiz another shot towards the end of her life. The soft-core pornography got more press but she also broke ground by becoming the first actor to star in a video game.
She died of a drug overdose (later ruled a suicide) on May 8, 1999, one day after she professed to be clean during an interview with Howard Stern. Eleven years later, almost to the day of Plato's death, her son committed suicide.
Remembering Charlotte Rae: 1926- 2018
Charlotte Rae, who played a substitute mom to the kids on "Diff'Rent Strokes" and its spinoff "The Facts of Life" in the 1980s, died Sunday at age 92. RICHARD SHOTWELL, Invision/AP
Although a cause of death was not announced, Rae, seen here at a Tony Awards party in 2001, announced last year that she had been diagnosed with bone cancer after being treated previously for pancreatic cancer. FREDERICK M. BROWN, Getty Images
Rae, born in 1926, got her start on Broadway, appearing in 1952's "Three Wishes for Jamie," 1954's "The Threepenny Opera" and 1965's "Pickwick." GIULIO MARCOCCHI, Getty Images
But she'll always be best known as the housemother to the girls of Eastland, a fictional boarding school in "Facts of Life," a spinoff of "Diff'rent Strokes." KEVIN WINTER, Getty Images
She's pictured here (right) in an Oct. 24, 1979 episode of "Diff'rent Strokes," in which she played the Drummond family's housekeeper, Edna Garrett. NBC via Getty Images
The "Diff'rent Strokes" season 1 finale teased Rae's iconic role as Eastland housemother. NBC via Getty Images
Over 30 years later: Rae poses with some of her "Facts of Life" co-stars in 2011. Left to right: Geri Jewell, Cloris Leachman, Nancy McKeon and Lisa Whelchel. LARRY BUSACCA, Getty Images
"Facts of Life" landed Rae an Emmy Award nomination as best actress in a comedy in 1982. She's pictured here (center) with co-stars Kim Fields and Geri Jewell, accepting the Pop Culture Award at the TV Land Awards in 2011. LARRY BUSACCA, Getty Images
Late last week, reports of a "The Facts of Life" reboot surfaced from Entertainment Weekly and Deadline. The show was reportedly in the early stages of development at Sony Pictures TV. Here, Rae smiles with co-star Lisa Whelchel at a "Facts of Life" Reunion at the Universal Studios Backlot in 2016. ALBERTO E. RODRIGUEZ, Getty Images
Rae poses in 2004 with "Seinfeld" actor Jason Alexander and veteran actor Charles Durnin. FREDERICK M. BROWN, Getty Images
Rae is pictured with co-star Mindy Cohn at the Paley Center for Media's "Facts of Life" 35th Anniversary Reunion in 2014. FREDERICK M. BROWN, Getty Images
After "Facts of Life" ended its run in 1988, Rae returned to her roots in theater, appearing in "Driving Miss Daisy" and "Into the Woods." STEPHEN SHUGERMAN, Getty Images
More recently, she made television appearances on "ER," "Pretty Little Liars" and "Girl Meets World." ARAYA DIAZ, Getty Images
Her final film credit came in 2015, opposite Meryl Streep in the movie "Ricki and the Flash." ASTRID STAWIARZ, Getty Images
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I'm happy to announce that Mozilla and Sauce Labs will be holding the San Francisco Selenium Meetup here at Mozilla's HQ in downtown Mountain View, CA, on May 11, 6:30 pm.
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Here's the official Meetup.com page: http://www.meetup.com/seleniumsanfrancisco/events/17238077//. Please RSVP there, so we know how many to expect; thanks!
"We're thrilled to announce that, hot on the heels of his CSS locators talk at the Selenium Conference, Santiago Suarez Ordonez, the Sauce Ninja and Selenium committer, will be the speaker of our next meetup on May 11th at Mozilla.
Santiago, or 'Santi', will give some insight into why you should say NO to XPath, and instead use CCS locators to make your tests more readable, faster, and realiable.
He gave an abridged version of this talk in the Track B of the Selenium Conference and it proved to be widly popular, so he'll be extending it and alse sharing some cool tools that will help you transition from XPath to CSS.
Thanks to our friends at Mozilla for offering to co-host this meetup. See you all in a few weeks!
Mozilla are proud supporters/users of and contributors to, Selenium, and are really looking forward to the opportunity to learn and also exchange ideas and tips with the community!
I gave a talk at the London Selenium Meetup back in November of last year, and presented there on "How Mozilla Uses Selenium"; it's been four months since, and I've been wanting to give an update on what we've done since then, where we're going, and how we're going to get there, so here goes.
It's easiest for me to talk about progress and challenges per-project, so with that, let's talk about AMO. Our inaugural tests gave and still give us a _ton_ of coverage; the problem we're now facing is two-fold: we're now seeing more frequent 500 Internal Server Errors on our staging box (which we'll address hopefully soon after we ship Firefox 4), and it's in fact a problem tickled by tests (though through no fault of their own) that do quite a bit of looping over a lot of data (https://addons.allizom.org/en-US/firefox/extensions/bookmarks/?sort=created, for instance). Looking at our commit logs, you can see we're skipping certain add-ons, adding timeouts, adding retries, etc. -- we're spending a lot of time fixing classes of tests, rather than individual tests, really (mostly because the individual tests are huge). We've even imported the Python module urllib, and check for server status before launching our tests, as well as sprinkling setTimeout(120000) in an attempt to ameliorate the server down/timeout issues.
Where are we now? What have we done, since?
Some of our current test suites, particularly in AMO, take over an hour to run (again, they're thorough, I'm not faulting them for that); that's simply too long to wait for a test to finish. Coupled with the fact that they're prone to suffering staging-server failures, too, that's a lot of time to wait for a green.
Moving forward, based on David's style guide and test templates, we'll be writing tests in the "new" Page Object Model approach; I say "new" because it's quite well-known in the Selenium world (thanks, Wade!) The tests, as David has himself started them, live here: https://github.com/AutomatedTester/Addon-Tests. These same new tests also use pytest, and can (and do) execute tests in parallel, resulting in much-faster completion time.
I should mention, as well, that the ever-awesome Dave Hunt has centralized our Selenium Grid config in github, which will help us stabilize that going forward.
Hugely inspired (with a healthy sense of anxiety, as in "how do we get there?") by James Socol's "The future of SUMO development" post, along with our weekly releases in AMO, SUMO and Mozilla.com, we recognize we too obviously need to be a lot more nimble. That means we've got to spend less time fixing our tests ("now, where do I find the locator for this element, again?", "where in this huge test is _my_ add-on failing?", etc.), and more time writing new ones, and finessing/making more robust, the ones we have.
We certainly have a long, long way to go, and not enough resources at present to get there anytime soon, but we're working on it, and this summer, in particular, should prove to be a very fruitful time (watershed moment, in fact).
"Write your tests to only test a single tiny bit of functionality.
in the world won't save you from long-running tests, because a single test can't be parallelized.
The best written tests we've seen generally run in under 10 seconds."
In general, I agree with that; there are real-world cases, though, where longer, "endurance" or "longevity" tests, as I've heard them referred to, are necessary, or just plain helpful.
As such an example, we recently migrated our Firefox Support website (SUMO) from our San Jose datacenter to a much better build-out, infrastructure-wise, in our new Phoenix datacenter. Because we have a pretty good (though certainly not comprehensive) set of non-volatile tests we run in production pre/during/post-push, we simple edited our /etc/HOSTS files on our Grid environments to point to the staged SUMO instance in Phoenix, and ran our tests, tagged with "prod," against that host while load-balancers, master and slave DBs, etc. were configured and enabled.
Our tests kept passing -- logins were working, search was eventually fine (thought we had to re-configure Sphinx a few times), Knowledge Base articles were zippier than ever, etc.
We didn't, apparently, do enough manual testing around one thing, though: sessions. Yes, account-creation was fine, logins were working, posting was fine, etc., through manual testing, but one thing we noticed and eventually figured out was that user sessions weren't being maintained for more than, I think, 15 seconds, sporadically; other times, it was fine.
In our postmortem, we noticed that our Selenium tests -- while testing each piece of functionality just fine, weren't set up to verify and assert that user sessions lasted for a certain length of time, since each was designed to be small, independent, and of course, because they're Selenium, get completely new sessions for each test, every time tearDown() gets called.
The beauty of Selenium is that, unlike unittest or other frameworks which use mock browsers rather than the real thing, it offers true end-to-end and environment testing, for which Vishal wrote test_forum_post_on_prod to ensure that future roll-outs (as well as sessions in general in production) are being maintained properly. This time, the seemingly arbitrary session limit was 15 seconds, but his new test, even on a fast production cluster, should run closer to a minute, giving us more confidence that sessions are maintained.
Again, this doesn't negate the "just the essentials for each function" test approach wisely advocated by Sean and others, it just offers an additional viewpoint and use-case for how Selenium might be used; we rely on our production smoketest/sanity suites for our largest projects, for good reason -- and now we have another one: we know that users' sessions are doing fine at a push of the button, and continuously, in our Hudson (soon to be Jenkins) runs.
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Determine the prevalence of a threat over time or test remediation or eradication efforts. You can select individual or multiple observables and the date range for your search from a security incident. Results are included in the Security Incident Observables related list.
The Sightings Search capability has a workflow, Security Operations Integration - Sightings Search workflow, that executes the sightings search. This workflow accepts a list of observables, finds any implementing capabilities, creates the queries based on Sightings Search Configurations, and executes the searches based on the configured workflow.
Note: An active implementation must be configured. Sightings Search supports Elasticsearch, Splunk, McAfee ESM, HPE ArcSight Logger, and QRadar incident enrichment. If no implementations are available, capability actions, such as Run Sightings Search, are not displayed in product menus.
Click the Show IoC related link.
Select the observables you want to perform a sightings search on.
Click Run Sightings Search in the Actions on selected rows... drop-down menu.
The Run Sightings Search dialog box opens.
Note: Values entered in the dialog box overwrite capability configuration values for this run.
Choose the number of days or a date range to search for data.
Last The number of hours or days prior to the creation of the incident to search.
The default is 7 days. The limit is 99 hours or days.
The date and time the incident was opened.
The date and time seven days prior to the opening of the incident.
Note: Last is the number of hours or days prior to the creation of the incident to search. The default is 7 days. The limit is 99 hours or days.
A Sightings Search record is created. Aggregate and associated sightings data are displayed in the security incident under the Sightings Search Results and Sightings Search Details tabs.
Note: Sightings search results data can be shared with Trusted Security Circles, with the exception of raw data in the case of implementations configured to include raw data.
Number The identifier for the sightings search.
Observable count Number of observables searched for by query.
Internal sightings Count of internal sightings.
Matched configuration items Count of configuration items that matched an existing record in your cmdb for each observable found in your environment.
Start date range Time to start looking for sightings.
End date range Time to stop looking for sightings.
Updated Date and time of the last modification.
Note: If the implementation used for the sightings search is configured to include raw data, and at least one sighting is found, an attachment containing raw data samples appears at the top of the security incident.
Sighting search The identifier for the sightings search.
Observable Observable searched for by query.
Observable type Type of observable searched for by query.
Internal sightings Aggregated count of internal sightings.


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Fact Check: Congress' 2018 TS poll manifesto being shared with misleading claims
By Misha RajaniPublished on 14 Jan 2022 3:41 AM GMT
Hyderabad: A Republic TV news bulletin claiming that the Congress has announced that if it wins the elections in Telangana, it will launch hospitals where only Muslims would be treated is going viral on social media.
The bulletin claims that Congress has sworn in its manifesto that Hindus and other religious groups like Sikhs and Buddhists will not be treated in these government hospitals and only Muslim doctors would be given special consideration for jobs.
Republic TV's editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami says, "The Congress had decided in its manifesto in Telangana that there must be hospitals in which only Muslims are admitted. So, if you are a Hindu, Sikh or a Buddhist, you cannot be admitted to an only-Muslim hospital and unless you are a Muslim then no doctor will see you. And regardless of what your condition is - whether you are in an emergency situation or not - if you are a Hindu then you will be told to get out of the hospital. That's the Congress party's plan… Only Muslim youth should get special consideration in jobs."
Fact Check:
Claim 1: Hospitals only for Muslims.
The Republic TV video is not recent. It is from 11 December 2018. Arnab Goswami is talking about Telangana Congress' election manifesto for the 2018 Telangana Assembly elections that was released on 27 November 2018.
In the manifesto, Congress had announced that it would set up special finance corporations for the advancement of Minorities - Muslims, Christians, and other minority groups. However, in a statement issued under the Muslim Minority Finance Corporation, Congress had announced that minorities would mostly set up government hospitals in the areas. This promise to all minorities, along with points under the Muslim Minority Finance Corporation in the manifesto, was misreported by many news organizations as government hospitals being built only for Muslims. Nowhere in the manifesto did Congress announce that it would build special government hospitals only for Muslims.
Clearly, the claim is false.
Claim 2: Free power supply to only mosques and churches.
The manifesto states that free power will be supplied to temples, mosques, churches, and other places of worship in the state (Page 21).
Home minister Amit Shah once said that the Congress party had announced in its manifesto that it would provide free electricity to mosques, churches, and other places of worship except Hindu temples in the state. The Telangana Congress Party had tweeted on 2 December 2018 stating that the comments made by Mr. Shah were completely untrue. "Congress ideology is inclusive. Our manifesto covers BCs, SCs, STs and other minorities equally. Please read our manifesto in full before spreading fake news," the Telangana Congress had tweeted.
Claim 3: Imams of mosques will be given extra Rs. 6,000. Temple priests won't receive it.
The manifesto says, "Pujaris working in 643 temples will be given salaries on par with state government staff. Pujaris and staff will also get accident insurance and health cards." It further says, "Honorarium will be given to pastors and fathers on par with pujarais of temples and imams/moazan of mosques." (Page 54 and 89)
Claim 4: Scholarship of Rs. 20 lakh will be given to poor Muslim (minority) student for 'overseas education'.
The manifesto proposes Rs. 25 lakh assistance for students belonging to SC, ST, Minorities, OBC and other economically weaker sections for pursuing overseas education. (Page 35)
Claim 5: Residential schools for Muslims
The manifesto states that special residential schools will be established for girls belonging to minority communities (Page 53) but also includes provisions for visually-challenged people, tribal communities, and other minorities.
Claim 6: Action against religious discrimination.
According to the manifesto, "All kinds of discrimination on religious grounds in giving jobs in both public and private sectors will be stopped." (Page 53)
The provision in the manifesto does not refer only to Muslims. "Strict action will be taken against those who refuse jobs in the private sector to anyone on the basis of his/her religion," the manifesto states and mentions no specific religion.
Claim 7: Rs. 5 lakh will be given to Muslims for the construction of houses.
The manifesto states, "Eligible minorities will be given Rs. 5 lakh financial assistance for construction of own house." (Page 52)
Moreover, it also states, "For SC, ST families, Rs. 6 lakh will be given for the construction of their own house." (Page 12)
The party has also pledged the assistance of Rs. 5 lakh to eligible people for the construction of houses on their own land and Rs. 2 lakh assistance for construction of another room or other facilities to the beneficiaries of the Indiramma Housing Scheme.
Claim Review : Congress has announced in its election manifesto that if the party wins in Telangana, it will create hospitals only for Muslims.
Claimed By : Social Media Users
Fact Check : False
Misha Rajani
Misha Rajani is a Fact Checker at NewsMeter. She is currently pursuing her Master's degree in Mass Communication and Journalism from St. Francis College for Women. She has written a thesis on " Role of social media in highlighting injustice". Apart from pursuing a career in news writing, Misha is also skilled in graphic designing. You can follow Misha on Twitter @misharajani00


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Removing the Roadblock to Continuous Performance Testing
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While functional testing has become widely accepted as a core part of the CI/CD process, performance testing tends to lag behind. But it doesn't have to.
May 13th, 2021 12:00pm by Wolfgang Platz
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You can't afford to have a new feature, update, or bug fix bring you two steps forward and three steps back. The new functionality must work flawlessly — and it can't disrupt the pre-existing functionality that users have come to rely on. This is why you need continuous performance testing.
Unfortunately, it's all too easy to break something when different teams are evolving different components built on many different architectures, at different speeds, all in parallel. But users and stakeholders don't care that delivering good software is hard. A software failure is now a business failure, and any type of problem affects operational efficiency, customer or employee satisfaction, revenue and competitive advantage.
Continuous Testing, Partly
Most organizations are doing a fairly good job exposing the most glaring functional issues by integrating essential tests into the continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline. They rely on "smoke tests" to check that the application won't flat out crash and burn if it progresses through the delivery pipeline. This includes unit tests plus a select set of functional tests that step through critical use cases from the perspective of the end user. The smoke tests are typically supplemented by a somewhat broader set of tests, providing peace of mind that core functionality still produces the expected results. These sanity tests aren't practical to execute with every build, but they can usually be run overnight.
With the combination of continuous smoke tests and regular sanity tests, you usually get adequate warning if functionality is fundamentally broken. But what about performance issues? Why not check for them as well? After all, if users get frustrated by delays and leave your application before completing a process, it doesn't really matter if the process could have produced the correct result in the end. It didn't, because the users never made it that far.
However, while functional testing has become widely accepted as a core part of the CI/CD process, performance testing tends to lag behind. It's a late-cycle activity, as it's been for years, ever since waterfall development cycles. From a quality perspective, this doesn't make any sense. Both functional correctness and performance characteristics like scalability, responsiveness, and availability are vital signs. It's like continuously monitoring an ICU hospital patient's pulse but checking his respiration rate only once a week.
Why hasn't the progress we've made in one area of testing been carried over to the other?
Performance Testing and Functional Testing
At the root of the problem is the fact that functional tests and performance tests are fundamentally different. Even if you want to test the same core set of use cases that your smoke tests cover, you typically need to create, and maintain, a totally different set of tests for performance testing. These tests are written in a completely different way, using different tools, often by different people, to access the application in a distinctly different way.
UI-based smoke tests exercise the application just like a human would, simulating interactions with the controls on the screen. It's 100% from the user perspective. These tests can be created with UI testing tools that allow test automation to be created intuitively. Performance testing, however, is usually performed by accessing the application through the network layer. The process is much less intuitive. Moreover, the network layer is extremely volatile, and this volatility means that performance tests need attention and tuning for virtually every test run.
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Just developing a separate set of tests specifically for performance testing is not easy. But keeping them in sync with the evolving application is a never-ending chore. Most teams struggle to find the time and resources required to keep a tight suite of functional tests maintained. Keeping performance tests up to date is even harder. They're even more unstable than UI tests, which are infamous for their instability. They're also more tedious to update, since you're working "under the hood" at the technical protocol layer instead of at the intuitive UI layer. That's why performance tests are typically the domain of dedicated performance test engineers, who often operate performance testing as a shared service. Most sit outside of cross-functional Agile teams and aren't readily available for routine performance test maintenance.
Getting the core performance test scripts updated at the end of each sprint is already a stretch for the vast majority of teams. Actually getting them updated for in-sprint execution? That rarely happens.
One Test Definition, Infinite Possibilities
But just imagine what you could achieve if your performance tests didn't lag so far behind.
A developer checks in an incremental change, then the functional test runs. If that test succeeds, you can assume two things. One, the corresponding application functionality works as expected for a single user. Two, that functional test has been properly maintained, which means it could be run under load for performance testing, if only functional tests could be reused for performance testing.
The corresponding performance test then executes. The team knows immediately if the latest changes negatively impact the user experience in terms of functionality or performance. They don't need to wait weeks or even months for performance test engineers to alert them that one of potentially hundreds or thousands of changes caused a performance problem. They don't have to waste all sorts of time hunting down the source of the problem and trying to unravel the issue days, weeks or even months after it was introduced. Plus, they can immediately stop that build from progressing along the delivery pipeline.
Well, good news. It's entirely feasible with a product called NeoLoad. NeoLoad was created by Neotys, and I'm super excited to welcome the product and the company to the Tricentis family.
NeoLoad takes functional tests and flips them into performance tests with just one click. That includes tests built with Selenium, Tricentis Tosca and other functional testing tools. This means that you don't need to maintain two separate sets of tests for performance testing and functional testing. Just keep your functional tests up to date, and you've got exactly what you need. No additional test creation or maintenance is required. With all the time and effort saved, performance testing within CI/CD suddenly becomes feasible.
With this approach, performance specialists are relieved from creating basic performance tests. Instead, they can focus on examining any issues found and completing more advanced performance engineering, creating sophisticated workload models, profiling to fine-tune the application and so on.
Getting performance testing from your existing functional tests is quite the value-add. It's a lot like tagging along when a close friend is visiting his native country. You don't need to worry about extra planning and preparation. You don't even need to learn a new language. You can just benefit from being along for the ride.
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2nd West Nile case confirmed as samples in greenbelt come back positive
Posted: Jul 24, 2018 / 07:21 PM CDT / Updated: Jul 1, 2019 / 09:57 AM CDT
File- In this Aug. 16, 2012 file photo, mosquitos are sorted at the Dallas County mosquito lab in Dallas. A cooler-than-normal spring has slowed the breeding season for mosquitoes, but experts warn this doesn't mean that Texans should let down their guard when it comes to protecting themselves from the West Nile virus. (AP Photo/LM […]
AUSTIN (KXAN) — A second human case of West Nile Virus has been confirmed in Austin, the city's public health department said Tuesday.
The case is a more serious form of the illness known as West Nile Neuroinvasive disease. Austin Public Health says, in addition to the second case, two mosquito sample pools from traps set in the Barton Creek Greenbelt area have tested positive for West Nile.
The city's first human case this year was confirmed last week.
The health department says most people who are infected with the virus do not show any signs or symptoms, but if symptoms develop, you should seek medical attention.
Symptoms begin with fever, headache, tiredness, body aches, an occasional skin rash on the trunk of your body and swollen lymph glands.
Family who lost 13-year-old son fights for West Nile vaccine funding
While the illness can be as short as a few days, even healthy people have reported being sick for several weeks, the department said.
People who are over the age of 50 face the most significant risk for developing the severe form of the disease after being infected.
"It's important to remember that West Nile is endemic in our environment- in other words- it's here to stay," Austin Public Health said, making it important that everyone help reduce the mosquito population by preventing them from breeding.
Drain any containers outside your home such as flower pots and children's toys (mosquitoes can breed in as little as a teaspoon of water).
Fix outdoor pipes and leaky faucets
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If you can't make it to Sundance, don't fret, there will be ample opportunity to see "Restrepo," the new documentary about U.S. troops in Afghanistan.
Sebastian Junger, author of "The Perfect Storm" and Vanity Fair photographer Tim Hetherington spent a year documenting life with the Second Platoon in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, a notoriously dangerous Taliban and Al Qaeda stronghold. When PFC Juan Restrepo was killed in combat, his fellow soldiers named their outpost in his honor.
"This is an entirely experiential film: our cameras never leave the valley, we don't interview generals or diplomats," Junger and Hetherington wrote on the film's website. "Our goal is to make you feel as though you have just done a 90-minute deployment. This is war, full stop."
Junger's time in Afghanistan was also the source of his upcoming "War."
The film is part of the Sundance film festival's opening night gala and will air on National Geographic in the fall. They're still looking for theatrical distribution.


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U.S. House passes legislation to crack down on voter suppression
By: Robin Bravender Capital-Star Washington Bureau - December 6, 2019 4:59 pm
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House passed legislation on Friday that would give the federal government broader authority to police voting rights violations across the country.
The bill, a top priority for House Democrats, passed by a vote of 228-187, with just one Republican — U.S. Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-1st District, — breaking GOP ranks to vote for the measure. U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright, D-8th District, was marked as not voting, according to an official House roll call.
The vote "is the most important non-violent instrument or tool we have in a democratic society and people should be able to use it, all of our citizens," Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., said ahead of the vote. "There are forces in America today trying to take us back to another time and another place. But with the passage of this bill, we're not going back, we're going forward."
Friday's vote came as House Democrats hope to show they can continue to legislate even as they barrel ahead with an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump. But like most of their top priorities this Congress, the voting rights bill faces steep Republican opposition and is likely to go nowhere in the GOP-led Senate.
Still, supporters of the bill hope to put political pressure on senators, and the legislation could be teed up again after a power shift in Congress or the White House.
"We should not let it languish in the Senate's legislative graveyard," U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the lead sponsor of the Senate version of the bill said Friday at a news conference. "Bring it to a vote, see if anybody would actually stand up and vote no." Leahy's bill has 43 Democratic and two independent co-sponsors.
The legislation, titled the Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2019, comes in response to a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court decision in the case Shelby County v. Holder.
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The court "effectively struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by a 5-to-4 vote, freeing nine states, mostly in the South, to change their election laws without advance federal approval," The New York Times wrote at the time.
Critics of the ruling say it has led to an uptick in voter suppression across the country and made it more difficult to enforce fair access to the ballot box.
"As soon as that decision was released, we began to see in state after state a torrent of voter suppression," House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer, D-Md., said Friday.
The legislation that passed by the House, spearheaded by Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., would set new criteria for determining which areas have had a recent history of voter discrimination and therefore must get federal approval before making changes to their voting practices.
If enacted, the legislation would require 11 states to require federal approval for changes to state voting laws, according to its sponsors. The 11 states are: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia.
House Republican opponents of the bill warned that the legislation would unnecessarily limit state and local control over voting.
"Full protections are afforded under the current federal law for all those with valid claims of discrimination in voting," said Rep. Doug Collins, R-Ga. He called the legislation a "partisan bill … to prevent states from running their own state and local elections."
Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) said her home state "really has suffered under the Supreme Court decision of 2013. After that ruling, then-Governor Scott Walker — someone I've been fighting since 1990 to prevent him from acting an onerous voter ID law — he prevailed in 2016."
Moore cited a University of Wisconsin-Madison study showing that between 12,000 and 23,000 registered voters in Madison and Milwaukee were deterred from voting by the voter ID law. Trump won the state by fewer than 23,000 votes. "It's important and imperative that we restore enforcement of the Voting Rights Act," Moore said.
U.S. Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-4th District, a "yes" on the bill, wrote on Twitter that she supported it because it [stops] the most egregious voter suppression tactics & move us closer to restoring the Voting Rights Act to its full strength."
Nothing in our democracy is more sacred than the right to vote.
I just voted in favor of #HR4 – the Voting Rights Advancement Act – to stop the most egregious voter suppression tactics & move us closer to restoring the Voting Rights Act to its full strength.#RestoreTheVote pic.twitter.com/fx4kK7fYH0
— Congresswoman Madeleine Dean (@RepDean) December 6, 2019
U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans, D-3rd District, the only Pennsylvania member of the Congressional Black Caucus, was a "yes" vote on the bill. He wrote on Twitter Friday that the bill "finally restore[s] the full strength of the Voting Rights Act, after a 2013 Supreme Court decision gutted it, unleashing a flood of voter suppression laws."
Today, the House passed the Voting Rights Advancement Act to #RestoreTheVote!
This bill would finally restore the full strength of the Voting Rights Act, after a 2013 Supreme Court decision gutted it, unleashing a flood of voter suppression laws. pic.twitter.com/OnLFC9SQYd
— Congressman Dwight Evans (@RepDwightEvans) December 6, 2019
Leahy warned that voter suppression is "alive and well today. … Maybe the water cannons and clubs and police dogs may have been replaced, but they're replaced by bogus ID requirements, the purging of voter rolls, the changing of voter places. The tactics may have evolved, but the goal, don't forget the goal: state sponsored systematic disenfranchisement. It remains the same."
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A while back I wrote a blog post about taking care of the way you present your brand online before you start an email outreach campaign. In this one, I wanted to build on that idea. I prepared a little guide for you on strengthening your brand by working hard on your social media profiles.
List building is the outreach phase when we should learn as much as we can about our prospects so that we know what to put in our cold email copy. But what if we don't know what type of information to look for besides simple facts, such as company name, size, the number of employees, etc.? How to structure the research process to squeeze out the most of it?
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Most cold email senders craft their campaigns with a view to acquiring new business relations. They commit all their efforts to planning a new cold email campaign. They spend a long time on precise targeting, perfecting their email copy and taking care of impeccable deliverability.
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Despite turmoil, UK succeeds with smoking strategy
CAPHRAOctober 16, 2022
"The most comprehensive review of vaping risks to date confirms the United Kingdom is backing the right horse when it comes to smoking cessation," says Nancy Loucas, Executive Coordinator of CAPHRA (Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates).
Commissioned by the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities, the research was conducted at King's College London. It found that vaping poses 'a small fraction of the health risks of smoking'. It also concluded the use of vaping products rather than smoking leads to a 'substantial reduction' in exposure to toxicants that promote cancer, lung disease, and cardiovascular disease.
"The UK has adopted a progressive public health strategy, known as Tobacco Harm Reduction (THR), and it's working. Smoking is fast becoming less popular in the UK, with vaping now responsible for tens of thousands of ex-smokers each year," says Ms Loucas.
CAPHRA says, significantly, Cancer Research UK's executive director of policy, Dr Ian Walker, believes the latest report highlights a growing body of research. He says, 'showing that e-cigarettes are far less harmful than smoking and can help people who smoke to stop'.
One of the report's authors, Dr Debbie Robson, went even further, saying 'helping people switch from smoking to vaping should be considered a priority if the Government is to achieve a smoke-free 2030 in England.'
"Every year smoking causes around 55,000 cancer deaths in the UK. That's why Cancer Research UK supports balanced, evidence-based regulation on e-cigarettes from the UK government. It's all about maximising the chances of people quitting smoking, while minimising the risk of uptake from non-smokers and young people," says Ms Loucas.
Titled 'Nicotine Vaping In England: 2022 Evidence Update', the King's College report has also gained support from the UK's Action on Smoking and Health (ASH). Its chief executive Deborah Arnott has reiterated 'the evidence is clear that vaping poses a small fraction of the risk of smoking'.
Recently, ASH released a report showing a 'vaping revolution' in Britain over the past decade. The report, based on ASH's annual Smokefree GB survey of more than 13,000 adults, confirmed that the main reason vapers use e-cigarettes is to quit smoking and prevent them from returning to the deadly habit.
The ASH survey goes a long way to quash constant scaremongering internationally that vaping is an onramp to smoking, not an offramp, with over 90% of UK vapers ex-smokers or current smokers
"Almost everyone vaping is doing so to keep off smoking or reduce it, and all the data proves the success of the UK's THR approach. Cancer Research UK and ASH support it as a considerably safer alternative to smoking. Now, the UK's latest independent scientific report also concludes vaping is nowhere near as risky – not even close.
"The UK is living proof that if you provide adult smokers with reasonable access to vaping products, they will switch, thrive, and survive. While the UK's political and economic happenings may not be the envy of the world, their success at crunching cancer-causing smoking is to be admired," says Nancy Loucas.
The Right2Switch petition urging the WHO to respect consumer rights and end its lies against vaping has now been signed by over 10,000 people. It can be viewed and signed at https://change.org/v4v-petition
Boasting nearly 15,000 testimonials, CAPHRA is calling on those who've quit cigarettes through smoke-free nicotine alternatives to tell their story on www.righttovape.org
The Fifth Asia Harm Reduction Forum (AHRF 2022) will take place on 28 October. For further information and to register for free, THR supporters and vaping advocates from all around the world are encouraged to visit: http://www.asiaharmreductionforum.online/
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Well since I am unemployed again, I guess it's time to see if I can dig out poor mort. Well after I dig out the house from all the snow we have had lately.
It's been that way for six months! My last job left me no time to play, I feel so dirty!!!
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   final private int row; // final (non-static) means it can't be updated once
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   // create a MazeCoord with the given row and column
   public MazeCoord(int row, int col) {
      this.row = row;
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   // get the row of this MazeCoord
   public int getRow() { return row; }

   // get the col of this MazeCoord;
   public int getCol() { return col; }

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Why when I try to run this in my Eclipse, the console prompts me stack over flow?
Can any one tell me the reason?

A: getPath() is calling itself, which causes an infinite chain of calls, that ends when the stack overflows. A correct recursive method must have a stopping condition.

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Use your ISA allowance by the end of the month, or lose it
Alan Oscroft | Saturday, 11th March, 2017
An ISA is a boon to any investor. For the current year we can stash away cash or shares up to £15,240, and not pay a penny in tax on any share price appreciation or interest, and pay no further tax on dividends.
This year's allowance runs out on 5 April, and anything you don't use will be lost — you can't carry anything unused over from one year to the next.
But the very next day you'll have a whole new allowance to use, I hear you say. Most people don't have a spare £15,240 to invest every year anyway — and if you're young, you'll probably be earning more money in the future and better able to use up your allowance then, won't you?
Get in early
All that might be true, but every extra pound that you can invest in your ISA now can compound up to a very tasty sum in another few decades time. A pound invested early in your life can be worth far more than a pound invested later.
I'd recommend shares instead of cash every time, so how well are you likely to do in the stock market?
Since this time last year, the FTSE 100 has gained an impressive 19% in share price rises and has paid out around 3% in dividends. That's a total return of 22%, and a full ISA allowance of £15,240 invested in a FTSE 100 tracker a year ago would now be worth £18,593.
You'd be sitting on a profit of £3,353 (less management charges, which are very low these days), and if you'd only invested half of your allowance you'd only have half the profit at £1,676. That much is obvious, but here's what might surprise you… how much do you think those two sums would be worth in another 40 years?
You're very unlikely to get 22% per year in the long term, but something like 6% per year in total returns is certainly feasible. So, if you took that £3,353 profit, invested it at an average return of 6% per year (some years will do much better, some will lose money) and reinvested your dividends, you'd end up with… £34,490.
The £1,676 first-year profit you'd given up by only using half of your allowance would have actually cost you £17,245 in lost gains in the long run. That's quite a difference.
Make the most of time
To show how early investments are so important, let's suppose you're just setting out on your working career and you're able to invest the whole £15,240 allowance in your ISA every year… but you decide to do that for only the first five years (for some reason that I can't imagine).
On a modest total return of that 6% per year, which is probably a reasonable expectation over a long period, you'd have £88,676 at the end of five years. If you then didn't add an extra penny to the pot until the end of a 40-year working life, it would still have compounded to nearly £682,000 over the next 35 years.
Now, imagine a different approach where you decided to postpone your investing until later in life when you're earning more. How late could you leave it?
You'd have to start 22 years ahead of retirement day to achieve the same result. The first five years of a 40-year investing strategy are worth as much as the last 22.
So use your ISA now.
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