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Dallas, TX (Law Firm Newswire) September 23, 2016 – Under a final rule announced by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and effective in late August, 2016, certain family members of lawful permanent residents in addition to those of U.S. citizens will become eligible to apply for a waiver of inadmissibility while in the United States, and spend less time separated from their petitioning family members.
USCIS stated that the final rule is an expansion of the Provisional Waiver process that was established in 2013, with the goal of helping families stay unified. Initially, certain immediate relatives of U.S. citizens who are subject to inadmissibility because of their unlawful presence in the United States, and may apply for a Provisional Waiver of that impediment with USCIS before departing for their immigrant visa interviews abroad, based on the extreme hardship that would be suffered by their U.S. citizen parent or spouse if a waiver were not granted.
Under the new rule, as of August 29, 2016, all individuals statutorily eligible for a waiver of inadmissibility based on unlawful presence including the relatives of lawful permanent residents, may apply for a provisional waiver. Prior to the existence of the Provisional Waiver process, an immigrant visa applicant had to depart the United States, appear for his or her immigrant visa appointment at a U.S. Consular Post abroad, be found to be inadmissible, then apply for a waiver and wait for application adjudication abroad, resulting in lengthy separation from family members.
"By regulatorily expanding the persons who can apply for a Provisional Waiver to include all persons who are permitted by statute to apply, USCIS has made a sensible decision which will help families who apply to immigrate by reducing the time that family members are separated" said Stewart Rabinowitz, an immigration attorney with the Dallas firm of Rabinowitz & Rabinowitz, P.C.
To qualify for a Provisional Waiver, an individual must show that his or her lawful permanent resident or U.S. citizen parent or spouse would suffer "extreme hardship" if the individual is not permitted to return to the United States. USCIS said that it will provide additional guidance on how "extreme hardship" determinations are made and will make changes to the relevant waiver application.
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Scotland will be at full strength for its two-test rugby tour of Japan next month because it cannot afford to rest players.
Practically all of the 27-man squad named on Monday competed in the Rugby World Cup and Six Nations this season.
Coach Vern Cotter said Scotland didn't have great depth. And despite a full year of training and playing, including a three-month buildup for the World Cup, the potentially tired players needed to build their teamwork and experience.
At least the club season was over for Edinburgh players, while Glasgow was in the Pro12 semifinals next week.
The only two players not considered for the tour were centers Mark Bennett, who was trying to make the Britain sevens team for the Olympics, and Matt Scott, who recently returned from a lengthy layoff with a torn left elbow ligament. Scott was on standby if Alex Dunbar doesn't pass a fitness test on his knee, Cotter said.
Asked if he considered resting players, Cotter said, "No. We don't have a lot of depth really, and this group needs to play more rugby together, to have more test experience to become better.
"We have taken the (players' energy levels) into account. We know there has been a fair load put on these players."
If the tour had been of three tests, Cotter said their planning might have been different, but two tests let him pick a smaller squad.
Scotland, en route to the quarterfinals, was the only team to beat Japan at the Rugby World Cup. But that match was four days after Japan upended South Africa, while it was fresher Scotland's opener.
Scotland will play its first test in Japan on June 18 in Tokyo, followed a week later at Ajinomoto.


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Friday Night Book Club: Read an excerpt from Phumlani Pikoli's debut novel Born Freeloaders – hot off the press!
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Staying in this evening? Get comfortable with a glass of wine and Born Freeloaders, the highly anticipated first novel from Phumlani Pikoli.
Pikoli is a multidisciplinary artist whose writing has been described as 'a generational ode'. His first book, a collection of stories called The Fatuous State of Severity, was published by Pan Macmillan last year.
About Born Freeloaders
Born on the cusp of democracy, the crew of young friends in Born Freeloaders navigates a life of drinking, wild parties and other recklessness. The siblings at the centre of the novel, Nthabiseng and Xolani, have been raised in an upper middle-class family with connections to the political elite.
Nthabiseng is lauded by her peers as she whimsically goes through life, unable to form her own identity in a world that expects her to pick a side in the fractured classifications of race.
Xolani, not having known his late father, longs for acceptance from an uncle who sees him and his generation as the bitter fruit borne of a freedom he and countless others fought for. As the story moves across multiple spaces in the nation's capital over a weekend, Born Freeloaders captures a political and cultural moment in the city's and South Africa's history. Interwoven is an analogous tale of the country's colonisation and the consequences that follow.
And alongside the friends' uneasy awareness of their privilege is a heightened sense of discomfort at their inability to change the world they were born into.
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Uncle Zweli was Xolani's father's brother. He moved into the house when Nthabiseng was four and Xolani eight. He lived with their mother and Nthabiseng's father, Graham, for some time. On Uncle Zweli's arrival, Xolani believed he was seeing a ghost that had come to grant him his wishes. It was on an afternoon when he and his little sister had found some wood that the builders at the house had left out over the weekend. They had always wanted a treehouse, and their parents kept promising to build them one but never did. Ausi Linda had chased them outside to go play, while she cleaned the house. Their parents had left early and when the children realised that the building materials had been left lonely, they thought to keep them company.
While inspecting the wood and rumbling through some tools that they could use, they heard the gate opening, the car slowly driving down the winding driveway and parking in the carport next to the one that they had been preparing to build their house in. Their parents were first to exit, with smiles and hints at a surprise visitor. He stepped out of the car with small curls gelled to his head. On the sides of his face, his beard resembled lamb chops, with a smile that spread from one to the other. He shifted his weight onto one leg, took a drag of the cigarette held between his thumb, middle and index fingers, and looked at the pair whose work his arrival had interrupted.
Nthabiseng was puzzled by his sudden appearance. Xolani wasted no time, ran to him and leapt into his arms. Zweli caught the child who had screamed 'Daddy' at him in mid-air and held the excited little boy who had never met his father, swinging him around. His little sister found her brother's enthusiasm infectious and she too wanted to enjoy the moment Xoli was having with the stranger. She too was lifted into the stranger's arms and received kisses from him.
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Uncle Zweli always had a smile fixed on his face. He didn't sleep very much, the pair noticed; always up at odd hours of the night fixing himself cups of tea and heading outside to smoke his special cigarettes, that smelled sour to their noses. Inside, he smoked normal cigarettes. Over time they began to register a certain stiffness from their parents when they spoke about Uncle Zweli's special cigarettes and his ways after smoking one. He'd often ramble incoherently at the dinner table, or giggle to himself unexpectedly. Masechaba would often bring him back to the present moment with gentle interruptions. Before, everyone including Ausi Linda had laughed and joked about it. But increasingly the only adult who had continued to smile about the cigarettes was Uncle Zweli himself.
'My children without tongues,' Uncle Zweli would call the sibling pair.
'We have tongues!' Nthabiseng shouted at Uncle Zweli. He drained himself of a slow laughter at her petulance, took the children into the garden where he rolled himself a cigarette and told them a story as they all sat on the grass.
The Children without Tongues lived throughout the ages of humanity, stretching all the way back to the first people to leave the seas. In fact, they watched Fish emerge from water and turn into tree-climbing monkeys. They had helped with this transformation, in exchange for a promise that they in turn would be taught how to breathe underwater.
The Children trusted in the balance that governed the worlds of water and land. Without land, water could not exist as it served no purpose. And water could not exist where it was not needed. Water existed to give birth to land, as without water, land could not live. The sky had always made clear its capricious nature and The Children accepted its vacillations and their own restriction to the mountain tops.
When The Fish first surfaced with caution, seeking out the invisible presence of the air, it was to the great distaste of the ocean currents that sought to eternally cover The Fish and shield them from the air that sought to dry their scales. There were some Fish that submitted to the possessive nature of the currents. However, many of them continued in their efforts and it was into these turbulent waters that the fighting Fish released their eggs. The tiny Aquarians emerged from their bubbles with muscles that the school preceding them had been unable to develop.
As the passage of time eroded the rocks of the mountain, The Children found that the ground they inhabited had come closer to the ocean. The shortened distance gave them sight of the growing presence of silver beyond the edges of their shores. Mystery within arm's reach had always been cause for investigation, with cessation from material animation an accepted part of each Child's departure from home. Return belonged to those who left, and those who never left were never missed.
Some of The Children who had left returned home with tales of the new creatures being forged in the waters. Without hesitation, scores of Children lined the shores to investigate the waters from which they never drank. By the time they reached the shoreline – after a night's walk – the morning sun slowly slithered over the bodies of the strange silver-scaled souls washed ashore. The silver beings wriggled and sputtered. Their bodies thrashed on the wet sand with a savagery that defied the morning's serenity.
It was understood by The Children that these strangers to land needed to be thrown back into the froth from which they dribbled. A purely pity-laden instinct. The Fish that returned to the sea excreted eggs that hatched ashore. The creatures that emerged out of these eggs shrieked with a sonic nightmare born of lung and gill. The Children accepted that the years they had spent throwing The Fish back had made the strangers persevere and understood that The Fish desired to share the land.
The Children, therefore, anticipated that their own voyages beneath the surface of the water would be met with the same benevolence. The ear-piercing racket lulled into the temporal landscape, along with the land-incongruent features of The Fish. The Fish grew arms, then legs, before climbing trees. The phrase 'Like a fish in the tree' became a common reference for perseverance.
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Q: Why is my oscilloscope reading jittering, and how might I fix it? I've made a simple inverter circuit and I've read the voltage across the load resistor using a RIGOL DS1104 oscilloscope.  Here is the link to the screen capture.  I'm using a full-bridge inverter topology, I'm using an Arduino Uno for control, and I have no feedback control system yet in place.  I am filtering with a capacitor in parallel with the load resistor as well as an inductor in series with the combination of those two.
I'd like to know why my oscilloscope measurement jitters from side to side and how much of a problem that presents to the quality of my sine wave?  Thank you!

A: There is not a lot of information here, but when I see students with jittery sine waves on their oscilloscope screens it is almost always because they haven't set their trigger level well. If your scope has an "autosetup" try that for now (and learn how to set up an oscilloscope), but in general set the trigger near the zero-level of the scope. At the zero level the rate-of-change of the sine is maximum and the jitter in the display will be minimum.
Edit: Chris Stratton's comment is quite right.

A: Per sigmadelta, start by setting the trigger properly, first by trying the AUTOSETUP and see if that improves the display.
My guess is that you'll still see the signal amplitude vary from cycle to cycle, but at least it will trigger at the same point for each sweep. Once you've achieved that, you can determine why the sine wave isn't a constant amplitude. Hope this helps. Send more info if you can.

A: I'd guess that "I'm using an Arduino Uno for control" is your culprit. I notice that the amplitude of the output is varying noticeably. Since you say that there is no feedback, and assuming that the raw bridge voltage is remaining constant, I'd suggest that the period of the drive voltage is not constant, and varying the drive waveform is causing the output to vary.
Instead of looking at the output, try looking at the bridge drive waveform. If you see horizontal jitter there, that's your problem. And if that's true, then, "how to fix it" is straightforward: learn to do a better job of programming.

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D219A
This very early Dan Armstrong bass came up on the auction market in December 2011 with an initial asking price of $1,975. Comes with its original Ess & Ess case, printed 8" x 11" instruction pamphlet, and a number of extra bridges. Pickup was replaced with a newer Kent Armstrong unit as described below.
"Offered for sale is a very early 1969 Dan Armstrong Bass by Ampeg with original Ess & Ess hardshell case. Serial number D219A identifies it as the 119th bass of the original production run of 3,000. Besides the rare slotted-screw bridge, this bass also appears to have a unique design transition feature. The very first models had a larger pickup cavity to accommodate a chrome retainer plate screwed into the body. This bass has that larger pickup cavity, but instead of the front mounting plate, has the rear thumbscrew that became the standard method for mounting pickups. A wealth of information on the evolution of Dan Armstrong basses can be found on the authoritative www.danarmstrong.org website."
"Early Dan Armstrongs (as opposed to some reissues) featured a 30 1/2" short scale. The shorter neck makes for fast, easy fingering. You almost feel like you are playing a guitar. Yet, the powerful pickup (actually two single-coil stacked pickups) provides a rich, deep bass tone. The body is made of machined and polished clear acrylic, the same material marketed under the names Lucite and Plexiglas. Dan Armstrongs were commonly known as "see-through" guitars and basses when first introduced. The neck is quarter-sawn maple with a brazilian rosewood fingerboard. The headstock and pickguard are Formica. The earliest models, like this one, used Formica with a smooth surface. Later models had the same wood grain pattern but with a textured surface.Controls include one knob for Volume and another that blends the two single-coil stacked pickups. The blend control allows you to dial in a deep bass that moves to a clear trebly tone as you rotate the knob.The original pickup comes along with the bass, but it has been removed since only one of the coils worked. Dan Armstrong's son, Kent Armstrong, built a new replacement pickup at his shop in Vermont. It has internal components and dimensions that are identical to the original pickups. The only difference is that the original pickup is encased in a rubbery epoxy substance while the replacement is encased in hard epoxy and is a deeper brown. The bass with its new pickup is shown in the photo with the turquoise background.Save for the replacement pickup (remember, the original pickup is included) all parts are original."
"The tuner knobs are originals by Schaller. Later Dan Armstrong bass models used Grover tuners.The body is in excellent condition, with only fine "micro" scratches and several microscopic chips on the front right upper bout. These can hardly be felt, do not show up in photos, and can be easily removed. Luthier Bill Richardson of Studio Guitars in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is world renowned for his restoration work on Dan Armstrong instruments. For a very affordable fee, he restores Dan Armstrong acrylic bodies to like-new condition. This kind of work performed on Dan Armstrong guitars and basses does not impact their value, according to Dan Armstrong expert Mark Schnoor, who created and maintains the Dan Armstrong website at www.danarmstrong.org. There is also a slight semi-circular scratch on the Formica headstock faceplate, caused by a rotating string tip. It also does not show up in photographs."
"The bass comes with its original hardshell case, made by Ess & Ess. The case exterior is in rough condition, not unexpected for a 42-year-old instrument. Inside, some of the plush material is worn, but there are no tears. The case functions perfectly, but you probably would want to shelve it in favor of something more modern. Also included are four extra Rosewood bridges of varying heights that came with the bass, as well as the owner's manual, which was written on a typewriter and then mimeographed. Later basses came with professionally printed manuals.The bass is strung with light gauge (45-90) Rotosound flatwounds, designed for use on short-scale basses. The original Dan Armstrong basses also came with light-gauge flatwound strings. One thing about Dan Armstrong basses: despite the lighter gauge strings, you get a massive, deep bass tone. Traditional flatwounds are also kinder to frets, which on this model show very little wear."
"I will do my best to answer any questions about this bass. As I noted earlier, there is a wealth of information about Dan Armstrong see-through instruments at www.danarmstrong.com. This bass is scheduled to be included on that site because of its condition and the unique pickup cavity. Because this bass is a vintage piece, I will not break it down for shipping. Some countries have size limitations on mailed packages, and if your locale in on the exclusion list, these limitations might be why."
August 30, 2016 - D219A now comes up for sale in Chicago and is believed to have sold around the asking price of $1,495.
"The body on this Ampeg is in great shape, with very little wear to be found. The neck is glossy and smooth, with just a few small dings to be felt, while the headstock has a fair amount of edge wear. The strings are set up nicely with medium action, play great, and ring out clearly across the board. This Plexi bass is clearly a winner."


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Royal Roofing understands the important role trust plays in building a long-lasting and rewarding relationship between us and our Parrock-Farm domestic roofing clients. As a result, we have set out to build trust with our clients in Parrock-Farm through online forums, where they can fill in honest reviews about what they think of Royal Roofing. On Which Trusted Trader, Royal Roofing is a top ranked domestic roofing service. Our customers believe in the quality and benefits of our products and services, our dependability and our excellent customer service.
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We place customer satisfaction as a key part of our service at Royal RoofingOur customer-centred approach means your request are treated with utmost urgency.Our client interests come first because we consider them a key part of our business.Our services have a full insurance cover for clients in Parrock-Farm to protect their home from any unexpected occurrences.
A guiding watchword at Royal Roofing is quality. In Parrock-Farm, clients are guaranteed the best domestic roofing services with superior quality. We aim to provide satisfactory services for our customers and the best standards of domestic roofing they need. By providing high-quality roofing, Royal Roofing ensures its customers can feel safe and secure in their own homes. We have a well-trained team of specialist roofers who are competent at their jobs.
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City Council grants Hattiesburg companies tax breaks
Lici Beveridge
Hattiesburg American
Area Development Partnership officials presented investment and employment information to Hattiesburg City Council at its regular work session Monday to show why 14 companies would be a good fit for tax abatements.
Council members voted to approve the abatements for 13 of those companies at Tuesday's regular meeting. The 14th company's request for tax relief was tabled, but it is expected to be approved at the board's next meeting.
Mar-Jac Poultry's request was tabled until the additional information is disseminated, Ward 1 Councilman Jeffrey George said, but he doesn't foresee anything that would prevent council from approving the measure.
"We are just waiting on some more information to come in," he said.
Related:Hattiesburg works to improve Hub City Transit routes
Tax abatements are tax reductions given in exchange for a company's investment in economic development and job growth.
"At the end of the day, we are all in it together," ADP President Chad Newell said. "We're trying to help local companies grow and prosper and recruit new ones from around the world, create jobs, retain jobs, add capital investment and create opportunities for our citizens. That's what it's really all about."
The request is for city taxes only. School taxes will not be affected. The Forrest County Board of Supervisors already approved abatements for the same companies.
The ADP recommended abatements for 14 of the 15 companies that applied to be considered: Kohler Engines, Western Container, BP Rex Closures (Berry Plastics), Zeon Chemicals, Mar-Jac Poultry, Mississippi Tank, Wis Pak, SPG Holdings, Green Bay Converting, Sofidel of America, York International (Johnson Controls), Dirt Cheap Building Supplies, Excel Injection Molding and Channel Control Merchants.
Between them, the companies employ nearly 3,000 people.
Related:Building donation brings Hattiesburg one step closer to downtown community arts center
The 15th company was not named.
All told the companies have invested more than $78.5 million in the Pine Belt and are seeking just under $1.2 million in tax abatements, which includes $591,000 for Hattiesburg in the first year.
ADP officials request information and meet with company officials to determine whether to recommend the city and county consider granting tax abatements.
"We've done these tax exemptions in a very data-driven way the last several years," said Todd Jackson, ADP vice president of economic development.
"All of these companies have either increased employment or increased payroll."
The companies will still be obligated to pay some taxes. And they must pay the full amount for school taxes, so education funding will not suffer.
In addition to data collected by ADP, the city enlisted the help of Alex Pickle, co-founder of Local Impact Analytics, who offered data-driven insights on each of the companies.
He said he was there to present information to city officials, not to offer recommendations on whether the abatements should be approved.
Pickle also will be helping the city with its 2016 audit, to make sure Hattiesburg is meeting all the requirements and properly reporting information to the various required government agencies.
Related:Mayor Toby Barker wants Anthony Parker to continue as Hattiesburg's police chief
He said one of the new requirements implemented for 2016 is governments must list the tax abatement programs and show the value of those abatements.
"For our part, we see this change as important to providing more transparent government," Pickle said in an email. "That said, we also understand that to fully capture the effects of these programs, cities and counties should know both the costs and the benefits.
"By performing an economic impact analysis of the industrial expansion, we can capture a realistic view of the economic benefits to the area. Pairing the impact analysis with the new required disclosures will then provide decision-makers with a better understanding of their return on investment."
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text: Q: How to convert a Sparse Matrix to a Spark Dataframe in R I know that I can convert the Sparse Matrix to Dataframe and then convert it to a Spark Dataframe. However, my data is extremely large, that it fails to convert to a normal Dataframe. Hence I want to be able to directly convert the Sparse Matrix to a Spark Dataframe.


later: The Insight Institute School of Personal Analysis and Development, Worcester Park, Surrey, England.
During the late 1940s and 50s the Insight Institute ran a series of correspondence courses on psychic development subjects including the Tarot. The Institute also published a set of 'Authenticated' tarot cards which supposedly restored the 'correct' symbolic imagery. The correspondence course lessons, prepared after extensive research by Frank Lind, describes the origins of the tarot as 'Indian', introduced by gypsies who spoke Romany. This theory would have been current in the 1940s, although the Italian origin of tarot, or tarocchi, was already known.
The Institute was later renamed The Insight Institute School of Personal Analysis and Development. The principal of the Institute was Adrienne Arden, and the "Directors of Studies" were Richard Eden, Noel Jaquin, Colin Evans, Edward Whitman, Vera Crompton and Frank Lind, who subsequently published the correspondence course material under his own name as "How to Understand the Tarot". The tarot cards which originally accompanied the Insight Institute correspondence course are produced by silk screen printing in plain shades of pink and yellow, with green in the trump cards.
Above: Insight Institute Tarot Court Cards, first published in c.1948, based on fifteenth century Italian 'Minchiate' designs, coloured to look like folk art. The cards have square corners, whilst later editions have rounded corners. Each card has a 't' or tau printed at the top. The silk-screen printing process has left the ink raised on the cards: the print is often misaligned, but raised on the card and bleeding over in places. All images courtesy Alison Dunne.
Above: Insight Institute Tarot Trumps, first published in c.1948. The trumps are numbered with Roman figures and unnamed, and based largely on Tarot de Marseille designs, but with four cards apparently based on the Rider-Waite tarot of 1910. The back design shows an all-seeing eye in front of two capital Is, suggestive of psychic development or initiation. This appears to be the basis on which the pack was 'Authenticated'. The artisanal silk-screen printing process has left the ink raised on the cards. All images courtesy Alison Dunne.
Frank Lind probably carried out his "extensive research" at the British Museum in London, where he would have been able to view several antique specimens of Italian tarocchi packs, minchiate packs and playing cards, from which the Insight Institute court cards are derived, as well as Tarot de Marseille decks which are the inspiration for most of the trump cards in the Insight Institute pack. The remaining minor arcana, or numeral cards, are also based on early Italian designs. The meaning of the inscriptions of some trump cards is obscure. It is on this basis that the pack was 'Authenticated'. He would also have consulted the current literature on the subject, which would have included several theories concerning the origins of the tarot as well as theories concerning the occult significance of the trump cards. It also needs to be borne in mind that early books on playing card history tended to copy from each other and replicate the same errors and myths.
The cards and book were later re-published during the 1970s and also associated with Richard Gardner who continued to claim that the cards were 'Authentic English tarot cards'. Later editions of the cards have brighter shades of colour, and rounded corners.
• Article by Frank Lind on the Tarot, Prediction magazine, UK, March 1949.
• Insight Institute Tarot on Tarot Collector's Forum website.


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You are here: Mobility Beat Motoring Mitsubishi Model A Selected as Historic Car by JAHFA
MITSUBISHI MOTORS CORPORATION (MMC) announces that the Mitsubishi Model A, which gave origin to car building, has been selected by the Japan Automotive Hall of Fame* (JAHFA), a non-profit organization, as a Historic Car - one that has stamped a mark of excellence in Japanese automobile history.
Starting prototyping in summer 1917, Mitsubishi Model A was completed in November 1918 with a total of 22 cars manufactured by 1921. The car is the first Japanese series-production passenger car built and sold with a view to mass production. It is also acknowledged to be a car of significance in the Japanese automotive industry history.
Although there were few specialized automotive tools or machinery in those days, the first Mitsubishi Model A was built by hand using hammers and chisels. The wooden body was spray coated for protection, and the interior used luxury British woolen cloth. With no design drawings to work to, and with little knowledge of gasoline engines, car bodies or interiors, or any experience in production processes, Mitsubishi engineers overcame many difficulties and demonstrated that the domestic mass production of automobiles was possible.
The Mitsubishi Model A was designed at the Kobe Shipyard of Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Company; Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) today. MITSUBISHI MOTORS CORPORATION split from MHI in 1970.
A replica of the Mitsubishi Model A, recreated using document at that time, is exhibited at the Mitsubishi Auto Gallery in Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture.
* JAHFA: As a non-profit organization, JAHAF's mission is to praise the achievements of people who contributed to building and development of today's Japanese automotive industry as well as those who promoted the industry's science and culture. JAHFA inducts such people to its Hall of Fame to hand their achievements on to future generations.


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Mobile 'Legend Of Zelda' game rumored to be in development
Jordan Toney Published: May 15, 2017
Let's face it, when we're at home, we're playing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, but when we're out and about, we're playing Super Mario Run on our phones, but those two worlds are about to collide according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.
Check out when you might be playing The Legend Of Zelda on your phone below!
Read more: Nintendo will pay up to $20,000 if you can hack the Switch and 3DS
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is on track for a record-setting performance as it's being reported that it's selling better than Super Mario 64 for the Nintendo 64 which previously held the record for the best selling stand alone launch title, and now the popular Zelda series might be coming to smartphones according to a new report from the Wall Steet Journal.
WSJ reports that this Zelda mobile game would come after the release of Animal Crossing's mobile game. Nintendo revealed in a recent financial report that Animal Crossing wouldn't be released until 2018 writing, "To accommodate the releases and operation of these applications, we have revised the release schedule for Animal Crossing, which we had originally planned to release during this period. This title will be released during the next fiscal year."
Nintendo has currently released two mobile gaming apps with Super Mario Run and Fire Emblem Heroes. EuroGamer reported in March that Super Mario Run had been downloaded over "more than 78 million times." However, it was also reported that only around 4 million people bought the in-app purchase to unlock all 6 worlds. It costs $9.99 to unlock the entire Super Mario Run game.
Riding on the success of Pokémon Go, WSJ also reported that The Pokémon Company is in the planning stages of a new card game app. There hasn't been any other news regarding this card game app making us believe that it must be in the very early planning stages.
Would you play a mobile Zelda game? Let us know in the comments!
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"Nobody Wants to Be Alone" is a song written by Michael Masser and Kye Fleming, and recorded by American country music artist Crystal Gayle.  It was released in March 1985 as the first single and title track from the album Nobody Wants to Be Alone.  The song reached number 3 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks chart.

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I The Matches sono un gruppo pop punk statunitense formato nel 1997 ad Oakland da cantante/chitarrista Shawn Harris, dal batterista Matt Whalen e dal bassista Justin Sans Souci.

Hanno pubblicato tre album di studio sotto la Epitaph Records e due raccolte, prima di annunciare una pausa indefinita il 9 luglio 2009 sul proprio sito ufficiale, dovuta al desiderio di formare nuovi progetti musicali.

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Ultima formazione
 Shawn Harris – voce, chitarra
 Jonathan Devoto – chitarra, voce d'accompagnamento
 Dylan Rowe (dal 2008) - basso, voce d'accompagnamento
 Matt Whalen – batteria

Ex componenti
 Justin San Souci (1997 – 2008) - chitarra, voce d'accompagnamento
 Matt Esposito – chitarra, voce d'accompagnamento

Discografia

Album in studio
2003 - E. Von Dahl Killed the Locals
2006 - Decomposer
2008 - A Band in Hope

Raccolte
2005 - 3-Way Issue, Vol. 2
2008 - the Matches album 4, unreleased; graphics? title? or not needed?

DVD
2004 - Show Must Go Off, Vol. 14

Singoli
2006 - Chain Me Free
2006 - Papercut Skin
2007 - Salty Eyes
2008 - Wake the Sun
2008 - Yankee in a Chip Shop

Apparizioni in compilation
 A Santa Cause - It's a Punk Rock Christmas
 Warped Tour 2004 Tour Compilation
 Warped Tour 2005 Tour Compilation
 Punk-O-Rama Vol. 9
 Warped Tour 2006 Tour Compilation
 Punk-O-Rama Vol. 10
 Warped Tour 2007 Tour Compilation
 Warped Tour 2008 Tour Compilation

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Collegamenti esterni

Gruppi e musicisti della Epitaph Records


Former Australian, Aston Villa, Chelsea and Manchester United goalkeeper has decided to make a comeback.
He represented his country on twenty two occasions.
The once highest paid goalkeeper in the world was banned from football for nine months after he had failed a drugs test whilst playing at Chelsea. He was sacked immediately afterwards.
The thirty six year old Bosnich is back in his native Australia where he began his footballing career fifteen years ago with Sydney United.
He is currently on a two week trial with Central Coast Mariners.


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» Is Viv the Google Killer?
Is Viv the Google Killer?
/ By Mark Sceats
"Viv" is a next generation Artificial Intelligence virtual assistant that in the long term has the potential to seriously hurt Google. This may explain why Google – and Facebook – want to buy Viv.
Some are dubbing it "Son of Siri" because Viv has been developed by the team who originally created Siri back in 2009. Siri is the voice activated virtual assistant that was subsequently bought by Apple and incorporated into the iPhone.
Viv Labs claims to be on the verge of realizing an advanced form of Artificial Intelligence or AI that will be able to teach itself, giving it almost limitless capabilities. In time, they assert, Viv will be able to use personal preferences and a near-infinite web of connections to answer almost any query and perform almost any function.
A bold claim.
So what's it like in action? Yesterday we got a peak of Viv's capabilities for the first time. Viv effortlessly handled complex conversational commands that Siri, Google Now and Cortana can't cope with, such as "Will it be warmer than 70 degrees near the Golden Gate Bridge after 5PM the day after tomorrow?" Whilst that is impressive, the real game-changer is the integration with third party apps. The demonstration shows Viv send money to someone through Venmo, order flowers through Pro Flowers, drill down within search results, and book hotels.
Judge for yourself (and if you're impatient, jump to 1:15)
Google's stated mission is "to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." Clearly Google have been very successful in bringing order to the web for consumers with their search engine and, in the process Google has effectively become a gatekeeper to the web. This has enabled them to build an advertising platform that generates mind-boggling revenues – the bulk of Google's $66 billion revenue in 2014 came from AdWords.
So why could Viv become a threat to Google? Essentially it could provide a new channel that by-passes Google.
Viv is an open system that can side-step Google by plugging directly into numerous partner services which provide it with data. Apparently Viv's founders don't see it as just one product tied to a single mobile phone manufacturer. Instead they see it as a ubiquitous service that could be licensed to anyone that wants to incorporate Viv's AI into their product, such as TV manufacturers, car companies, and app developers.
Beyond licensing fees, where Viv could make money is by clipping the ticket. An example given by one of Viv Labs co-founders, Dag Kittlaus, is the online dating site Match.com which arranges 50,000 dates a day. What Match.com isn't able to do is say, 'Let me get you tickets for something. Would you like me to book a table? Do you want me to send Uber to pick her up? Do you want me to have flowers sent to the table?' According to Kittlaus Viv could provide all those services—in exchange for a cut of the transactions that resulted.
AI heralds the next big shift in computing — and digital commerce itself. Over the next five years, that transition will turn smartphones into virtual assistants with supercharged conversational capabilities, according to Julie Ask, an expert in mobile commerce at Forrester.
Clearly this is recognised by Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon. A huge arms race is underway with all investing heavily in artificial-intelligence. Viv Labs aren't the only ones to see AI providing the opportunity to become the ultimate intermediary between businesses and their customers.
Powered by artificial intelligence and unprecedented volumes of data, Viv could become the portal through which billions of people connect to every service and business on the Internet. It's a world in which you can order a taxi, make a restaurant reservation and buy movie tickets in one long unbroken conversation — no more typing, searching or even clicking.
If that materialises it could become Google's worst nightmare.
Of course, all the above is speculative and it will be interesting to see Viv in action next week. Whichever way things play out for Viv, there's no doubt the use of voice search and virtual assistants is growing dramatically. In 2014, voice assistant usage was negligible. Today, voice usage exceeds 15% of all search traffic according to Mindmeld.
Maybe in time we're likely to end up like Captain Kirk and interact with computers primarily by voice.
Ultimately the rise of AI is going to be a game changer and will introduce both new challenges and opportunities for businesses, publishers, advertisers and search practitioners.
About the Author Mark Sceats
Mark is a Partner and Senior Consultant at SureFire which he founded back in 2002. Prior to establishing SureFire he worked for KPMG Consulting. Today Mark heads up SEO, embracing the challenges that can come with complex website implementations. Outside of work, his interests beyond his family are running, snowsports, diving and fishing (badly).
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from resource_management.libraries.script.script import Script
from resource_management.libraries.resources.hdfs_resource import HdfsResource
from resource_management.libraries.functions import conf_select
from resource_management.libraries.functions import stack_select
from resource_management.libraries.functions.default import default

# server configurations
config = Script.get_config()

# hadoop default parameters
hadoop_home = '/usr/lib/hadoop'
hadoop_conf_dir = conf_select.get_hadoop_conf_dir()
hadoop_bin_dir = stack_select.get_hadoop_dir("bin")
java64_home = config['hostLevelParams']['java_home']
smokeuser = config['configurations']['cluster-env']['smokeuser']
hdfs_user = config['configurations']['hadoop-env']['hdfs_user']
hdfs_principal_name = config['configurations']['hadoop-env']['hdfs_principal_name']
hdfs_user_keytab = config['configurations']['hadoop-env']['hdfs_user_keytab']
security_enabled = config['configurations']['cluster-env']['security_enabled']

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Chris Wadsworth is a northern writer. She trained as an art teacher working in secondary schools in Yorkshire, County Durham, Dorset and the Isle of Wight. In 1986, after many years in exile in the South she moved to Cumbria, fell in love with a beautiful Georgian house in Cockermouth and became a Gallerist.
Over the last 25 years she has mounted many landmark exhibitions at Castlegate House in Cockermouth including L S Lowry, Sheila Fell, Winifred Nicholson, Mary Fedden, Barbara Rae, Elizabeth Frink and Percy Kelly and produced some exquisite catalogues and books.
Her greatest achievement has been tracking down the reclusive and retentive artist Percy Kelly, bringing him out of obscurity after his death in 1994 when his life's work was threatened with destruction, to the recognition he has today.
There will be more than 100 works - some which have never been on display before. In addition there will also be sketch books, school and college reports, letters and many other artefacts on display as well as films about the artist.
The venue for the exhibition has been carefully chosen for its relevance to Kelly. He went to Carlisle College of Art 1961 - 1965 as a mature student - part of which was housed in this building. He wanted to study printmaking and gained an NDD honours. The inaugural address by principal Tennant Moon was held in Tullie House as well as the life drawing classes. The printmaking departmen, referred to by the students as the NAAFI, was in a building near the city centre now demolished.
The exhibition will follow the development of Kelly's work from early 1930s to his death aged 73 in 1993 in Norfolk.
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Jul 9, 2014 at 12:01 AM Jul 9, 2014 at 6:15 PM
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) - Ford Motor Co. says it remains on track to make a profit in Europe next year despite the fragile economy.
DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) � Ford Motor Co. says it remains on track to make a profit in Europe next year despite the fragile economy.
Ford hasn't earned a pretax profit in Europe since 2010, and it lost $1.6 billion in the region last year. But Ford Europe president Stephen Odell said Tuesday that three plant closures and more than a dozen new products are helping reverse that.
Ford's sales are up 6.6 percent in Europe this year, outpacing the industry. Commercial vehicle sales rose 21 percent in June after Ford launched new vans, and Odell said Europe's first 500 Mustang sports cars sold out in 30 seconds.
Odell says the eurozone's high unemployment of around 12 percent inhibits the economic recovery there. He predicts a modest, slow recovery over four to five years.
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Patanjali on track to hit $1 billion sales in FY17 – The Economic Times
HARIDWAR: At Patanjali Ayurved's manufacturing facility in Haridwar, there is brisk activity as cartons of freshly made products are being loaded onto trucks to be dispatched to stores across India. With the financial year nearing a close, an official pointed explained, all hands are on the deck to help the company achieve its targeted turnover of Rs 5,000 crore this fiscal.For a manufacturing company set up about 10 years ago, achieving a Rs 5,000-crore turnover is not easy . However, for Patanjali Ayurved, which is breaking conventional marketing norms, sales are inching up month on month. Sources in the know believe Patanjali could have clocked monthly sales of around Rs 600-700 crore in January and February, which means Baba Ramdev's baby could become a billiondollar entity, with its annualized turnover expected to cross the Rs 7,000-crore mark before the end of fiscal 2017.
Which means, Patanjali could become the fifth largest FMCG company in the country, after Hindustan Unilever, ITC, Nestle India and Britannia Industries. This would bring it well ahead of traditional FMCG players like Dabur, Godrej Consumer Products and Marico.
In an exclusive interview to TOI at the company's headquarters, Acharya Balkrishna, MD, Patanjali Ayurved, said in the current fiscal, as of early-March, the company's turnover has already crossed Rs 4,500-crore and is cruising at a monthly rate of about Rs 500-550 crore. "Our target is to go be yond Rs 500 crore a month.Because we are also making plans for future expansion, we are moving in line with the target," he said.
"We may even reach Rs 600 crore a month mark -that will give us an annual turnover of approximately Rs 7,000 crore," said Balkrishna.
Even at the current level of Rs 4,500-crore turnover, Patanjali has paced ahead of oral care leader Colgate-Palmolive (India), challenging it which its `Dant Kanti' toothpaste.
Given that Patanjali has been grabbing eyeballs through its advertising, industry experts believe the company could soon even reach Rs 10,000 crore turnover, which would make it as big as ITC's non-tobacco FMCG sales.But Balkrishna said that would take time. "We have to plan, right from procurement of raw materials to processing to manufacturing and marketing. We work on a single channel right from the farmer to the end consumer and that is the real reason why our quality and costs are under control. There are very few companies in the world which may be following such a system," he said.
"We buy raw materials directly from the farmer. In other companies, raw material sourcing and marketing of products are done by different entities. So we don't have sudden peaks and troughs in growth, we plan a steady growth. It's not like a share market where one day there is growth and the other day a slump," Balkrishna said.
The rural market is another area where FMCG biggies could face a tough challenge from Patanjali's products, which are priced below regular brands because the company consciously operates on thin margins. "We are expanding our reach through tempos which can go deeper into rural markets. We will begin with 500-600 tempos and will gradually expand the network," said Balkrishna.
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Q: Set tracking for small caps fonts with microtype This is the exact same question as Microtype's tracking feature works with some fonts, not others. Only this time I'm trying to accomplish the same with a different font.
Bob Tennent has kindly converted the IM Fell English fonts into LaTeX fonts after I suggested it to him just a few days ago. But I can't figure out how to set tracking for its small caps font.
The accepted answer by @UlrikeFischer for how to do that with the Alegreya fonts is clearly tailored to that specific font family, and I don't know how to modify it for IM Fell English.
I'd appreciate if someone could show us how to do that, ideally with some explanations of the code so that I wouldn't have to ask again for the next font family I come across.
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A: Use the correct family name:
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\DeclareMicrotypeSet*[tracking]{imfellenglishsc}{font = */IMFELLEnglishSC-TLF/*/*/*}

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The family name can be deduced from the directory structure of the package distribution:
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Chorus plans to launch in May a proof of concept trial of direct broadcasting to consumers' homes over its fibre network, with guaranteed capacity sufficient to deliver programming in 4K or 8K.
It says the service will be delivered to consumers' TVs through a second port on the optical network terminal installed in homes, and will operate in parallel to any broadband service provided over the fibre.
Chorus says it expects the service will be of interest to local broadcasters looking for a way to provide their content to viewers without requiring an ISP partner or without developing an over the top application that runs over the public internet and therefore makes quality control more challenging.
Sky TV and Freeview have already flagged plans to participate in the trials.
Chorus CEO Kate McKenzie, said that, by 2022, New Zealand's fibre network would have greater coverage of the population than terrestrial broadcasting.
"As consumer demands for ever greater quality of video such as 4K, along with emerging technologies like multi-camera and interactive services, continue to grow, it's clear that traditional broadcasting technologies will be challenged to meet those demands long term," she said.
Chorus said it remained committed to providing congestion free broadband.
It has given no indication of what bandwidth will be used to deliver services, which areas the trial will run in, or when a commercial service might launch.
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Born in Czechoslovakia, Bohuslav Martinu moved countries (and continents) several times over the course of his life. He first travelled to France in order to pursue his musical studies before seeing to America during the Second World War. He later returned to Europe where he spent his final years in Switzerland.
A prolific composer, Martinu's abundant musical output traces his life journey.As he encountered new musical sounds and was exposed to new philosophies, Martinu used the compositional process to work through and digest these ideas before, as his writing matured, incorporating his findings more comfortably into a style uniquely his own.
This Serenade was written when Martinu was 61, and it neatly encapsulates the composer's musical development.The work is firmly rooted in the musical idioms of his homeland, but it is shot through with jazzy beats and innovative tone colours, while exercising the discipline of neo-classical elegance.Although rhythm is what gives the work its momentum, it is propelled in the direction of melody, with moments of great lyricism emerging out of his skilfully crafted musical landscape.


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NINE PRINCIPLES TO HELP HIGH POTENTIAL WOMEN LEADERS SOAR
By Jill Griffin
The evidence reveals a clear picture: the more women leaders an organization has, the healthier and more profitable it will be. For that to happen, the C-suite has to be proactive, not only clearing hurdles and aggressively opening doors but also encouraging high potential women to climb the career ladder.
Interviews with top women leaders from many walks of life yielded invaluable intelligence about how they reached their full professional potential. Their stories, while different from one other, illustrate common principles and themes about high-achieving women leaders.
For CEOs who are committed to bringing more women into top leadership, here are nine principles to encourage in high potentials.
Principle 1: Embrace And Encourage Special Gifts
Research shows time and again that a woman's brain is wired for emotional intelligence. This wiring makes women especially good at diplomacy, empathy and compromise, and it helps them be creative problem solvers. Encourage women to give these prized leadership skills a prominent place in their professional toolkit because, more than anything else, this behavior is the ticket to the top.
Principle 2: Don't Wait For Permission
People become leaders by internalizing a leadership identity and taking purposeful action. To lead, women must step out of their comfort zones without waiting for permission. It can feel uncomfortable to "take" leadership. Encourage high performers to feel the fear, step up and lead anyway.
Principle 3: Synchronize Vision And Values To Drive Change
Everyone has core values that influence feelings and drive priorities. But those core values aren't always clearly or even consciously established, so it's important to invest the time and energy to get clarity and ensure values are intentional, not simply soaked up from the surroundings.
Research shows that one of the competencies for senior leadership is the ability to create a vision for change, and the roadmap to accomplishing that vision will be driven by an individual's values system. The clearer leaders are about their values (and the more they lead with them) the better. That clarity will empower the women leaders in the organization to make good decisions rather than settling for choices that don't quite feel right.
Principle 4: Speak Up
"We [as women] believe we should wait until we are absolutely sure that we are ready for something before we ask for it," says Valerie Jarrett, long-time advisor to Barack Obama.
After a decade of hard work, a client pointed out to Jarrett that she was doing the work of her then-supervisor, explaining: "You need to be the boss. You need a promotion." Jarrett initially dismissed the advice, but her friend kept nudging her, and finally, Jarrett took the plunge. She remembers the experience of talking to her supervisor like it was yesterday: "I was so nervous, but I told him all the reasons I deserved it, and he very quickly just said, 'OK'."
Many years later Jarrett quizzed her former boss, now a close friend, about why he didn't voluntarily offer her the promotion. He'd been busy, he said, and hadn't thought of it. Jarrett describes the female fallacy this way: "We all assume there's a reason. We think, 'I'm not deserving. If I were, he'd recognize my talent.'"
Don't create a culture where employees — and especially women — feel they have to wait for recognition. Instead encourage them to speak up.
Principle 5: Leverage Meeting Time
Leveraging meetings can be key to being noticed and, ultimately, getting fast-tracked. In doing research for their book, Break Your Own Rules: How to Change the Patterns of Thinking That Block Women's Paths to Power, authors Jill Flynn, Kathryn Heath and Mary Davis Holt noted men tend to arrive early for meetings to get their choice of seats and to chat with colleagues. Participating in these informal advance conversations can help clarify the true purpose of a meeting, making it much easier to take an active part in the conversation. They are also prone to staying afterward to close off the discussion and talk about other top-of-mind issues. Men view these pre- and post-meeting moments as significant business-building opportunities and often use this time to test ideas and garner support.
In contrast, the authors revealed, women tend to arrive promptly for meetings, but not particularly early, so they miss the informal discussion that men find so important. Moreover, women are much less likely than men to linger after the meeting for more discussion. Instead, when the last agenda item is completed, women quickly depart for another meeting or return to their offices to address pressing matters.
The time before and after a meeting is critical for building alliances with attendees. In addition, these moments can be important to understanding what's really happening in a firm.
Principle 6: Prepare To Speak Spontaneously
Prior to any important presentation, it's critical to think through delicate matters and be judicious about when and how to share an issue. Communication is critical to perception, and encouraging public speaking training for high potential employees is worth the investment.
Principle 7: Be Politically Savvy
Office politics gets a bad rap, implying ruthlessness and manipulation. But John Eldred, a professor at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, says politics is simply how power gets worked out in an organization on a daily basis. Women should not fear "politics," but embrace the force and use it to drive their vision.
Principle 8: Learn From Setbacks And Failure
Learning how to "fail forward" is key to learning to lead. Before Vera Wang became the famous fashion designer she is today, she failed to make the 1968 US Olympic Figure Skating Team. Following that failure, she focused on a different goal and took a job as a Vogue assistant. Within a year, she was promoted to senior fashion editor at age twenty-three. Fifteen years of amazing creative work followed, but Wang was ultimately passed over for Vogue's editor-in-chief position. Again, she "failed forward" and became the quintessential fashion designer she is today.
It's ironic, but the uncertainty and grief that result from setbacks and deep failure can often inspire someone's best work. Moreover, failure teaches everyone to be humble and grounded, providing lessons to share with the team. Honesty and candor will be one of the most respected virtues any successful leader can possess — male or female.
Rule 9: Recruit Sponsors
A recent McKinsey study titled, "Unlocking the Full Potential of Women in the US Economy," looked at factors women cite as barriers to getting ahead. "Not having a sponsor to create opportunities" was one of those major obstacles.
Equipped with their senior status and huge network of influential contacts, sponsors carry a "professional flag" out into the world to help position and lobby for others. High potential individuals should have both men and women sponsors, but high-powered women can be especially fierce advocates for other women because they know how hard the climb is.
CEOs, your job is to make these nine principles part of the DNA of the company. It won't happen overnight, doing so will clear the runway for the future leaders to rise up and make their highest contribution.
Jill Griffin is a NYSE independent public board director, internationally-published Harvard "Working Knowledge" author and noted thought leader on leadership, customer loyalty and board governance. Her fifth book, available now, is Women Make Great Leaders: Real-World Lessons to Accelerate Your Climb
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As Exploratory is run more and more, the number of test cases generated will inevitably grow, whether the run was intended to find bugs or create regressions. Below we've shared some proven best practices for how to handle both bug-finding and test creation test cases after they've been logged.
One of the easiest ways to manage newly documented bug-finding test cases is to run these tests to verify the bugs. As all test cases are written with the expected result in mind, the entire folder should fail, verifying the bugs documented by each test case. If you have your run failure integrations in place, your team will automatically notified and can begin your bug triaging process seamlessly.
When bugs are identified, tagging and/or changing the title of test with a priority schema allows the results to be communicated efficiently across your team. By clearly identifying which bugs are more critical than others, you can provide your team with an order to follow when they address the bugs found by Exploratory.
A tempting thing to do after a bug-finding test case has be resolved is to delete the test case to eliminate 'extra' test cases. While this might be appropriate for lower priority or one-time bugs, we recommend keeping the more important and critical test cases to run as part of your regular regression. As these test cases are written with the expected result in mind, they can be run to ensure that such critical bugs are not recurring.
Organizing your test suites with a standard naming schema is a classic way to effectively manage your regression suite. Applying this to tests created through Exploratory, standardizing the titling scheme will help in incorporating these test cases into your larger regression suite. If you're unsure what naming scheme would make sense, check out our best practices on naming tests here.
As noted elsewhere, your Exploratory testing team will be comprised of the same 4 testers each time an Exploratory run is triggered. In the case of test-creation Exploratory, keeping the #Exploratory and numeric Exploratory run identification tag helps testers recognize in later test-creation runs which tests have already been written. This in turn would also help with regression suite bloat, saving you the time and trouble of sifting through repeated test cases later on.
Tagging exploratory generated test cases with the name of the feature is a simple way to bridge the gap between bug-finding and test-creation runs. Feature name tags can also be used to organize these tests in a smart-folder devoted specifically to the feature, making it easy to comprehensively test out a feature in Rainforest.
Whenever an Exploratory run is triggered, all tests produced during the run will be stored in a smart folder that takes on the title of the run. By standardizing the title of the runs - like "Exploratory - Feature" of "Bug-finding/Test Creation - Feature" - what happens is that the smart folders containing Exploratory results will be organized in the smart folder view, making sorting through results visually a breeze.
If you have any questions or would like to share your own best practices for organizing your Exploratory results, please let us know at support@rainforestapp.com!