Augh why can't I remember his username, the guy who does the goon art books? The Paranormal one was up just a few days ago. I think this thread almost on its own could pull off a good Slender Man book, between the pictures and the stories.
To preface things slightly, I grew up in an old Italian neighborhood. Many of our neighbors were fresh off the boat or were first/second generation American born which meant for those of us later born to be in an environment where the couple down the block are sneaking raising chickens, nearly every woman over 50 going around in the obligatory black dress, and enough whispered talk of signs and omens and whatnot.
It makes for interesting life experience when as a kid you can remember everyone flying into serious abject terror that a black bird flew into the house because it's a sign that someone's going to die soon and then as a teen when Grandma's in near hysterics screaming 'it's a Sign!', running for the rosary because she cracked open an egg that ended up having a bloody yolk and all you can think is 'God I can't wait until I'm old enough to get my own place away from here...'.
Most of my Mom's side of the family lived either in the neighborhood or in the ones just around it. My maternal Grandma was from a typical sizeable 20s era family, five sisters, two brothers surviving and two girls and a boy who died while very young. When I was on maternity leave and due to complication was assigned bed rest, I got a wild hair going on about working on a family genealogy because I was bored to all hell and one can only watch so much talk shows.
I figured to start on Mom's side since they were all really close and at the price of sifting through rambling while sitting on plastic covered furniture surrounded by dusty capodimonte, it was something to do.
Lot of it was family stories I'd long heard before like the time some strange guy tried to grab my grand-aunt Ro as a kid while she was playing in the yard. Great-Grandpa and his brothers chased the guy off with bats. It left her with a pretty wicked scar and when she had kids of her own, she watched them all like a hawk.
I tried to find out more about the siblings who died, but all anyone would say was they were really young when it happened and when the family was out in the country. I did try to get some death certificates but those were apparently lost in a move or flood and hadn't been microfiched.
Also around this time my grand-aunt Liz's alzheimer's had progressed pretty bad and her daughter was the one taking care of her at home. Anyone who's been around that knows it's rough, so I'd volunteer to sit in for a few hours so my cousin could get a break. Overall I didn't mind it and half the time my grand-aunt would think I was my Mother who'd passed on some years previous. I'd humour her since it wasn't worth causing a commotion.
One of the nights, she was more talkative than usual. Talking quite a lot of the old days and in particular her son Mikey. He died when he was five. My mom had been there playing with him, she was three at the time. What I'd been told was it was some lung problem and he just keeled over, but some of the things my grand-aunt said that night got me wondering.
Thinking I was my Mom, she said she was happy that at least 'He' didn't get me like he got Mikey and tried to get Ro. It made no sense so I tried to question carefully. Where they were living at the time had a thicket abutting the yard, and my grand-aunt had been watching the kids playing out back from the kitchen window. The man was well dressed, and she couldn't see his face well. She hadn't been worried at first since he didn't look like a bum or a gypsy. But as he came out of the woods, my Mom ran to the house and Mikey ran to him. They had the thicket cut down not long after. She was still sad that they had to have a closed casket funeral for him.
I would've tried to dig out more but my cousin came home.
I ended up putting the genealogy thing on the backburner once I had my son. Since I was still on maternity leave and we were still in the middle of clearing out stuff to make more room, I started on that. Most of it was stuff from my Mom and Grandma that we just boxed up to deal with later after they passed. A good chunk of it had been water damaged or mouse nibbled so other than flipping through book pages since we'll use anything as a bookmark, I was throwing a good chunk out.
Not sure why I paused on it, but it was one of those old diaries that my Mom tended to pick up and just write poetry and doodle in. It was pretty tore up, fountain pens and water don't mix well. One page drew my attention. It had a large blurred blot on it and most of the poetry there was illegible. Something about cold woods, something pale clad in darkness reaching.
At the time I chalked it up to Mom being Goth before it came into vogue and went on with the cleaning up.
But...reading around, it gets me to thinking.
An old story told about me was I somehow managed to get out of the locked house and was found wandering around outside as a toddler in diaper until one of the neighbors brought me in and called my Mom. Talking with her years later, she said it looked like I was running away from a man in a black suit and had a cut on my arm. I'd also been wearing a sleeper that they never found, and I do have a faded scar on my arm that I don't remember how I might've gotten hurt.
I think at this point, I'm going to chalk this up with the bloody yolk signs, black bird omens and howling dogs are ill tidings. I don't think I want to think any further.
But then, the other day talking with my ex-husband, he said our son asked if he could cut down the tree near his window since it was scaring him at night like it was reaching in for him. I told him it'd be a great idea to cut it down...and to keep an eye out of anyone odd he might see.
There's no way it'll still be cool by the time I finish, but Slenderman fits almost too well into a novella project I've been concocting and planning to start within the next few weeks (about inventing a ghost story and giving it an incidental 'life' that way, and becoming haunted by it). I'll probably lift some parts of him for this project, so I guess I'm sort of writing a largeish size Slenderman piece?
If there's still a thread where he's receiving any attention when this thing's done, I'll post it.
edit: I don't need to say 'sort of' quite so often.
I hope that everyone who has posted in this thread dies horribly, because I'm scared shitless!
I don't know why but Slender Man is abso-loving-lutely everywhere I look. Right now I got the curtains down and the lights on and playing every happy pop song you can think of loud so I don't hear all these scary sounds that weren't there before.
And if it wasn't enough that I stress myself up, my dog helps me a good bit to; She barks a lot when she hears something on the street and is always very happy when she hears someone just outside the door. So when reading about Slender Man my doggy got on her feet and started barking like crazy! Obviously that scared me even more, but the worst part was when she stopped and went to the door with her tail wagging... And the only sound I heard were the loving wind in the loving trees! I'm not joking when I say that I literally trembled with fear!
I hate you all. But I will kill you if you don't make more.
Oh, man, some of that was really, really creepy. Nice work.
thanks! any other comments? i think i'm going to lean towards a professor beginning to see links between disasters/murders with the slender man, deciding to investigate the emergence of a strange cultural myth... but it turns out it's becoming more real than he ever imagined. that's a really lovely way of phrasing it but yeah.
don't know whether i want to link it to GOVERNMENT CONSPIRACY yet but i might because that's fun as gently caress.
You think you have it bad? Try being the mother of a two year old who's all of a sudden taken to stopping in the middle of the room, looking up towards the ceiling, and saying "Hi."
I should never have drawn that picture.
class doodles... mid-transformation? partial true form? can we ever really know?
Welp. I'll be seeing this in my nightmares.
can we ever really know?
As I said to a friend of mine earlier: Slender Man is wherever and whatever it deems necessary at the moment.
If it decides that that particular form is required (for whatever alien purposes it requires said form FOR), so be it.
That's why some of the images we've pieced together have more pronounced tentacles, whereas others are just a tall man. It also explains his height differences perfectly. Sometimes he simply needs to be taller.
J: WE DIDN'T KILL NED, drat IT! WE DIDN'T loving DO IT! I DIDN'T KILL MY FRIEND!
J: IT DID IT! IT MADE US DO IT! WE DIDN'T WANT TO! IT MADE US DO IT! IT MADE US!
Was rereading this thread and this post reminded me of this story I read on CNN today about the "horror-rapper."
Hope it is not related.
I found this in my grandmother's basement and had to scan it as soon as I could. Perhaps this explains her night terrors.
I was reading this thread and the marble hornets thing and decided to make this for the wave invite/nomination thread. It can still have a happy home here right?
Nice work! This actually reminds me of the originals more than most of the recent 'sightings'.
So I went back to my grandma's house the other day to clear out more stuff and I found an iPhone on the ground. Being the nice guy I am, I went looking for the "Mom" entry so I could get the phone back to its owner.
Whenever I tried to open up the contacts list or recent call log, the phone shut off dead. It didn't show the spinning "I'm turning off!" `logo or anything; it just shut off. Since I know some of the people around town, I thought to check the pictures. This was the only one.
I know it's just a bad low-light cell phone picture, probably from a wedding or something, but this stupid Slender Man crap has me seeing him everywhere. Between the other day and this, I'm getting pretty creeped out.
I was hesitant about posting this but here goes.
A week ago I was riding my mountain bike down a trail when I must have blacked out. I never do that. The next thing I knew, I was lying on the ground tangled in the bushes. I must have hit a tree or rock or something and wrecked - my front tire was completely tacoed. Anyway, I got scraped up pretty good.
Thought I was healing well until I noticed something.
I've been lurking through this thread, and I have to say, it's among the scariest things I've read in a while. I legitimately had trouble sleeping last night despite knowing Slender Man isn't real at all. Thanks guys.
Our team met with 25-year-old Martina Gomez on the morning of October 1, 2009, at the insistence of her mother. Mrs. Gomez reported an alarming increase in the severity and duration of her daughter's panic attacks and paranoia, and received a referral to us from Cobalt Valley Medical Center outside of Houston.
Our team included an American Sign Language expert, as Martina Gomez lacks verbal ability due to an accident suffered on her 18th birthday. For personal reasons, Mrs. Gomez declined our offer to videotape the session.
For ease of analysis by Hagersall Center faculty, Ms. Gomez's sign language is formatted as verbal speech.
STAFF: Tell us a bit about what happened to your throat, why you can't speak.
MG: I was 17 years old. I used to sing. It happened not long after school let out for summer, when I was planning to go out with my girlfriends and some boys to a party at a motel a few miles away.
STAFF: The official cause listed on your medical sheet says a fall outside a motel room damaged your throat.
MG: That isn't how it started.
STAFF: You never mentioned this to the doctors? You never wrote it out in your account of the incident.
MG: I couldn't write it. Until now, thinking about it made my heart race and I felt like I would die. I felt like I would die, you see?
STAFF: Explain what happened, then. Take your time.
MG: It happened to my grandmother, too. She died when she was 18. My mother was an orphan as a baby. I didn't believe it when I first read her journals, while I was recovering at home. She was murdered.
STAFF: You've mentioned this before, according to your history. Medical records show your grandmother suffered a massive stroke resulting from a malformed artery. She died naturally.
MG: No. You're wrong. It doesn't murder like you think it does. It takes what's inside you and feeds. The same thing came to me. I saw him at the motel, standing in the dark at the end of the row of rooms. He followed me home. He followed me everywhere for weeks.
STAFF: A person did this to you?
STAFF: Is that his name?
At this point, Ms. Gomez suffered a panic attack of such severity that even senior researchers on our team expressed concern that she would require immediate transfer to a regional medical center. Our diagnostic machines were of no help, as they recorded Ms. Gomez as lacking any blood pressure. Further transcribing was halted due to the tremor in Ms. Gomez's hands.
MG: It was nothing, you see? His tiny body, he had on a black suit and a white shirt, but it didn't even look human. He was too thin. You looked down and couldn't tell where his legs ended, they just faded away. And his arms, so long, almost down to the floor, just blowing back and forth like they were empty sleeves! I told my friends but they didn't see! They said I was too nervous about partying with boys!
STAFF: How tall would you say this man was? Six feet? Seven feet?
Ms. Gomez pointed from the floor to the ceiling, a span of nine and a half feet. We asked our ASL volunteer to confirm she'd heard the question properly. Ms. Gomez again insisted the man was at least nine feet tall.
MG: Grandma's journal, she wrote about him. He followed her for weeks. Only children can see him, only young people. He just stood there and looked at me, but he had no eyes! His face was white like paper, and his head leaned off to one side. He just kept looking at me, with his arms blowing like they were!
Further investigation was interrupted as Ms. Gomez jumped from her chair and moved quickly to the corner of the room, where she curled into a tight ball. She let out a piercing scream, which her mother later confirmed was the first sound she'd made in 7 years. One of our junior researchers became so unnerved by the sound of her scream that he requested and received a medical leave of one week.
MG: When I went out to smoke a cigarette I walked out by the soda machine. When I looked up from lighting the cigarette, he was there! He was an inch from my face! He had no mouth but I felt his breath! I could feel those sleeves running up the backs of my legs!
Ms. Gomez began to shake, prompting our staff to restrain her.
MG: I tried to scream for my friends but nothing came out! All I could feel was the breath on me, it was so thick I could hardly breathe. It was blocking out the air from my lungs! I felt those arms grab me, and then everything went black.
STAFF: According to the police report, your friends found you an hour later in the same area, unconscious. Is that correct?
STAFF: It says here you nearly drowned on your own blood on the way to the hospital, that your larynx was crushed and required two years of major surgery.
STAFF: But if this slender man kills young people, why were you left alive? You said he murders young people.
MG: The motel party. It was my birthday party. I'd turned 18 a few minutes before I went out. That cigarette was going to be my first.
At this point in our conversation, Ms. Gomez's mother grew upset and withdrew her daughter from the study. Further access to Ms. Gomez has been blocked, leaving us no choice but to close the file on this case pending further case studies.
Uhhh, I won a 2,080 pound rock.
I painted this a few days ago. for some reason I'm not so afraid anymore.
What is there to see? pavement worn down? I don't get it. I've been looking at it for two whole minutes and I still can't see anything.
Don't wanna be your man, just wanna play with you.
I know but you could have run with my post to scare some people I guess. Welp.
My grandfather remembers his short time at the orphanage. The bleak skies and the chill winds blowing up the hill from the sea, he told me he never once felt warm. There was never any wood for the stoves. There wasn't enough blankets for the chidren. At night they would fight to get a blanket each, friends would share one but the weaker kids would shiver and cry through the night.
My grandfather would spend many hours in the surrounding woods, tracking animals, watching the birds and learning their calls. All too often he would return late for lessons and the Matron would beat him with a bamboo cane. He didn't care. The lessons were ordeals and he would rather be outdoors.
One Autumn evening, as he approached the building, he knew he was late as he could see the lamps lit in the window. But could hear no chatter of the children, or the Matron's boorish voice barking orders. The orphanage was silent.
He crept in the side door, and made his way down the corridor to the main hall where meals and lessons were held.
He opened the door to see the tables set, bowls of thin oatmeal and pieces of bread untouched throughout the hall. The Matron and the cook lay on the floor, their bodies twisted grotesquely.
He ran outside, gasping in panic. Through the dim evening light, almost out of view, he saw movement towards the edge of the woods.
It was a procession of children, in single file, marching perfectly together into the trees.
Leading the procession was a figure, a thin outline in black. Too tall to be a person. It looked like a performer on stilts, but stilts didn't move like that, twisting and serpentine. It didn't look real.
The figure disappeared into the woods and the children followed.
My Grandfather ran, not stopping until dawn.
I knew one day I would find the orphanage to see it for myself. When I was ready.
I'll admit it. I slept with the light on last night. I'm 24 years old for crying out loud. Then I had dreams about slender man just standing there, watching me sleep. The worst part is that my room is a mezzanine, and he's on the other side of the dividing wall, from which is about a 5 metre drop.
I stayed up until five in the morning reading this thread fascinated and absolutely terrified by the slender man. The next day at work the combination of lost sleep and emotional stress gave me a massive migraine during which I lost the ability to speak properly - a temporary dysphasia.
That's right - the slender man broke my mind. Good job, goons.
This makes the psychiatrist in me giggle like a madman.
First you can't speak, then you can't scream. When you can no longer fight it, this is when he takes over. Your bones will stretch, your mouth will vanish, and then, from the seed of primordial fear that has been growing in your brain, a new mind will replace whatever you have left of consciousness you can hang on to. His violence will become your violence. Your ears will only hear the symphony of slaughter and cries of all past victims. Your hands will move towards kids and other frail victims around you. Their neck, so short, will be an affront to your new perfect body. You will break their bones, stretch their flesh, drain their blood, so that they to become perfect like you.
You will laugh at the many questions that filled your mind about what you are now. Your previous life will seem ignorant. What is the Slenderman? You now know the answer: The Slenderman is you.
I've got a bone to pick.
Why are these on my computer? I didn't draw them or save them. Why?
I haven't written in a VERY long time, but I was inspired by this. it's also the first time i've written in first person, so it's more than a little choppy. this story is going to be a lot longer hopefully. tips appreciated.
My name is Raymond Bates, but if you are reading this, you already know that. You know that because the only persons who will read this report are the psychological and nursing staff at the Greater Miami County Mental Rehabilitation Institute, and... well... the men who study what drove me here. You already know I was an Adjunct Professor of Parapsychology at the Tulane University Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory. You know I am 34 years of age, white, atheist, an alcoholic, and you probably know that I got an 800 on the verbal SATs, and a perfect on the LSATS too, but I decided to grad school in Parapsychology for reasons you will never understand. All of this is listed in my extended medical report, and all of this is completely irrelevant to the story you are about to read, the story that I was ordered to write, the story that I will – well. The story that an orderly will eventually have to transcribe, because by the end of this story, the only way you'll be able to get me to talk will be by strapping me to a board and torturing me. I know this because... I can see things now. I can see things I never wanted to see. I can see that the world will never be the same for me and that everything that comes into contact with me will never be the same, either.
You'll see. I'll tell you. But to tell you what happened on October 8th, I will have to tell you the story of the year before that.
It was August, 2008, and I was doing research on extrasensory perception and paranormal manifestation phenomena. Tulane didn't take the EARL program very seriously. In fact, other than Professor Stewart and four unpaid interns, I was the EARL program. We coordinated with a similar program at Princeton before it got shut down the year before due to lack of funding. Retrospectively, it is a miracle that Tulane even kept a professor of my discipline around – it's exceptionally hard to find students willing to take a parapsychology major in this day and age, and discipline has really been in decline since the 70's. Now, the weird thing was, all the other students I had gone to grad with, and most of the professors I had learned with, had all dropped out of contact in some way or another. There was a running joke in the small circles that kept in contact with one another that they all had to be being bought out by the government, for their ghost warfare lab at DoD. No one took this seriously, but I can't think of that anymore without wanting to scream.
Don't get me wrong. I don't think the federal government has a ghost warfare lab. That's... well, it's inane, and no one took the idea as anything more than a lame joke, the kind of thing people giggled politely at at parties, or made sly references to in periodicals, without really finding it funny or amusing... but there was this undercurrent of suspicion, and real fear, as to why our colleagues had dropped off the face of the planet, why no one had heard from them or their loved ones, why their relations hung up the phone at the first mention of parapsychology or engineering anomalies or phenomena classification research.
At the time, we assumed it was shame, shame at a profession which the real world had never taken seriously, and had less of a use for every passing day, and they merely wanted to be cut off from their embarrassment, their chagrin, their thorough discredit, their... well... hate.
And, in a way, this was thoroughly understandable. The extrasensory perception segment of my research was a joke even in paranormal research circles. Have you ever seen Ghostbusters? (I'm going to state here and now, that in my profession, this was considered the pinnacle of modern filmmaking.) There's a scene in the beginning where Professor Venkman – he's this ghost hunter – is holding notecards backwards at a cute undergrad, and asking her to guess what's on the other side, and of course she gets it wrong but he won't admit it, saying she has all this psychic talent, and with the obvious intent of sleeping with her – well, that's what I did, sometimes six hours in a row, except there wasn't any cute female undergrads. There was a specific brand of student which would volunteer for that kind of research, and they were usually male, greasy, and thoroughly unpleasant to be around for more than five minutes. One guy kept on seeing demonic symbology on the back of cards for about a half an hour until I nearly physically punched him - it was ink blots, you know, not a seance or a Necronomicon masturbation marathon or something.
I'm sorry, I need a minute. Just a minute. I'm trying to focus on explaining what I did, before what happened, and... god. God. I'm sorry. Let me, let me refocus here.
You have to realize New Orleans had its share of 'ghost' sightings. None of them ever amounted to anything. We didn't get significant, I mean statistically significant, results in six years of research. It was a miracle Stewart and I weren't sacked after the first, but it was New Orleans, and there was always a demand for a class on the mythology of New Orleans, or an elective in basic parapsychological studies, or what-not, and the university tolerated us beyond the point of tenure, and that was that.
We do sound kind of pathetic, and... well... we were. Once, twice a month, chasing after ghosts, half the time it was pranks, the other half a scared housewife, never once something conclusive, occasionally a glimpse of something unreal, but never anything we could prove or even observe beyond the plausibility of a hoax. So we mostly occupied ourselves writing cultural histories of mythology, some research into the fields related to our actually scientifically-derived equipment – even though we were dreadfully unqualified, and any contributions laughable – and a few times a month, we got to live, really get out of our shell, do what we really wanted to do – it sounds so loving stupid now – hunt ghosts.
Hop in our early-90s van full of obsolete, old equipment, pay for our own gas, drive to the location, and get to work.
So, now, when a paranormal manifestation appeared – hopefully we would be ready to move in, set up a perimeter, you know, seal off access, interview the witness, and hopefully ask local law enforcement out of the area, that kind of thing – and then we could get to work. Set up our equipment – we had technical experience, could set up the monitoring equipment, video feeds, etc, you know, all within ten-fifteen minutes – and we could have spectroscopic scanners, EMF meters – that's electro-magnetic field, subtle variations in the earth's natural magnetic field, we could triangulate movement with a proper network, I'll be layman from now on – ion and geiger counters, sub-solution nets, subsonic sound monitoring, the works, but in reality all of this equipment was late 80s, maybe early 90s at best, a lot of it off Ebay, we were really running a lovely operation. More like a hobby than a career.
We had some interesting cases. A poltergeist moving desks in broad daylight in a school. Screeching in a nearly-abandoned theater at night. Once we had an abandoned nightclub, needed to be renovated, right off Bourbon Street, which the new owner kept insisting was bleeding from the walls, which we got some bizarre readings off of, but never – I mean never – did we have a case where there wasn't a 'rational' explanation.
It was August 18th, 2008, when it all changed forever, that call I will never forget, that Stewart wouldn't either until the night he died.
Woke up at 5:22am. Had dream about a deeply wooded ravine. I was falling down toward's it's bottom, but not falling at the same time. I was able to percieve and place my foot or a hand at the right place at the right time to maintain momentum but not injure myself. It's the closest I've come to flying in a dream. Vivid dreams were part of the side effects of the medication, and my journal has been testament to this.
Work went by as usual in the coffee shop's juice bar. We've had less customers as of late, but with fall coming quickly, it's to be expected. Lindsay said that we'll cut back on orders and focus on hot drinks within the next week. At the park I shared my sandwich crusts with the birds. Saw a strange black one with a white crest on it's chest with a central black spot, and the rest of him black. Much like a magpie, but much larger. Was eating what looked like a smaller bird, and it watched me the entire time with it's eye. I don't know why it struck me as such, but it felt like it was just in making such a claim.
My math class is trying my patience. Even moreso with my dysnumeria, but dealing with a class of 300 and a single teacher as a speck at a podium, it's not exactly easy to be focused. Jeremy sat next to me again. I could swear he couldn't take his eyes off me. He's kind of cute, but in a endearing little brother sort of way.
Took my pill at 9pm. Already feeling light headed. I'm going to go lie down now.
October 09 will be a great day. Bookmarked.
The above is quoted from page 16, posted on June 20. Just figured I'd bring it to the newest page as a sort of reminder, seeing as its a day away.
So... anybody plan on taking this and doing anything interesting?
*edit* Tips for MUAHHA THE FRENCH: Keep being awesome. I'm loving the tone of it so far, including the train-of-thought story interuptions.
Saw the videos right before I had to go to bed, got to be the most unnerving thing I've seen in a really long time, had to wake up every five minutes to check that my door wasn't open, woke up early exhausted and drew this.
whoah! I think this is my favorite painting so far.
I can only draw cute things, but he's still a-watching.


MID-ARGYLL: An adult Little Gull at the head of Loch Gilp mid-afternoon today (Jim Dickson).
TIREE: Still 3 Ring-necked Ducks back at Loch a' Phuill with 1m Pochard and 1 Coot. Also 2 Coot at Loch Bhasapol (John Bowler).


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#### According to
The Catalogue of Life, 3rd January 2011

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HERALD CITIZEN
Authors explore Greineder murder case
On Halloween morning in 1999, Mabel Greineder was savagely murdered along a wooded trail in the well-heeled community of Wellesley. As the shock following the brutal slaying slowly subsided, the community was further shaken when the focus of the investigation turned to her husband, Dirk Greineder, a prominent allergist and family man who was soon revealed to be leading a secret, double life involving prostitutes, pornography, and trysts solicited through the Internet.
Marty Foley and Tom Farmer, the authors of "A Murder in Wellesley" will talk about the case and their book at the Peabody Institute Library on Thursday, Oct. 2, at 7 p.m.
The booktakes the reader far beyond the headlines and national news coverage spawned by "May" Greineder's killing and tells the untold story of the meticulous investigation led by Foley, the lead State Police detective on the case, from the morning of the murder through the affirmation of Dirk Greineder's conviction in 2010.
Farmer is a former award-winning Boston newspaper reporter and editor. While a reporter at the Boston Herald, Farmer covered the entire Dirk Greineder murder case and was also honored for being among a team of journalists who first reported key details about the Sept. 11 hijackers in the immediate hours following the 2001 terrorist attacks. During his 20-year journalism career Farmer contributed to the Boston Herald, Boston Globe, Lynn Daily Item and Gloucester Daily Times. He currently works in Boston as a corporate communications professional.
Foley spent more than 24 years with the Massachusetts State Police where he retired in 2007 with the rank of detective lieutenant. During his law enforcement career, Foley worked as a uniformed trooper and longtime detective for the Massachusetts Attorney General and Norfolk County District Attorney Homicide Unit. On September 11, 2001, Foley's investigative expertise resulted in his transfer to the elite State Police Fire and Explosion Investigation Section, where he later became the unit's commander. He now works in the public sector for a defense contractor.
If you plan to attend the Oct. 2 talk, please register at
978-774-0554 or danverslibrary.org.

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JFK Assassination 50 years later and Richard Matheson's 'Duel'
Dennis Weaver in Steven Spielberg's "Duel," written by Richard Matheson
One of the great writers for "The Twilight Zone," Richard Matheson, passed away this year. As we observe that fateful date in Dallas, November 22, 1963, I think of how one man created art out of the processing of his emotions from that event. You might find this to be a surprise but "Duel," the short story about a man fighting for his life against a demonic semi-trailer truck, that went on to become Steven Spielberg's first major movie, has its origins in the Kennedy assassination. It's not a direct link. It's more based on a significantly deep dark feeling of despair and dread.
Matheson and a friend were out playing a game of golf when they got news of the assassination that day. As they were driving home, a semi truck was tailgating them and ran them off the road. Instantly, a story was born. As Matheson explains, in an interview you can view here, "It sounds gruesome but often a writer will go through some awful experience and then write something based on that experience."
There is much said about how America lost its innocence on November 22, 1963. That's not to say that America was innocent to begin with. But, on that day, something broke. The hopes and dreams pinned to one particular man were lost. On that day, suddenly, the lights went out and we were in pitch black. It would be a very dark path ahead. What Matheson is wrestling with in "Duel" is coming to grips with something so irrational, so surreal.
Indirectly, Matheson is asking the sort of questions anyone would have asked after the assassination: How could something like this happen? Why would someone do this? Who would do this? The tragic event in Dallas is replaced in Matheson's story by a deranged killer in a semi truck. And the fact that the killer lurks out of view refers to the mystery that, even today, is attached to the assassination.
The main character has a wonderfully symbolic name. He's just, Mann. And the trucker out to kill him also has the apt name of, Keller, so close to, killer. It's towards the end of the story that Mann sees that name, Keller, on the trucker's cab. It provides some relief, just as having any name, like Lee Harvey Oswald, seems to provide some comfort from the unknown. But, much in the way that Oswald is, even today, shrouded in mystery, so the name of Keller is of little help in solving the mystery that Mann confronts. Why has this trucker targeted him?
In this excerpt from "Duel," we get a taste of Mann's dreadful situation and the eerie similarity between Mann, a vulnerable driver in his old economy car, and a president in a motorcade:
You never know, he thought. You just never know. You drift along, year after year, presuming certain values to be fixed; like being able to drive on a public thoroughfare without somebody trying to murder you. You come to depend on that sort of thing. Then something occurs and all bets are off. One shocking incident and all the years of logic and acceptance are displaced and, suddenly, the jungle is in front of you again. Man, part animal, part angel. Where had he come across that phrase? He shivered.
By 1971, when "Duel" was broadcast as a television movie, America was still quite haunted by the assassination and dogged by all that had happened since. There is much said about how the tumultuous '60s began on November 22, 1963 and would only come to an end after another disturbing event, August 9, 1974, the resignation of President Nixon brought on my the Watergate scandal. America in 1971 was in the very thick of the '60s under that timetable, with no end in sight to the war in Vietnam.
Uncertainty ruled the day. It was a tumultuous era mired in a fog of confusion and recrimination. It is this uneasy feeling, that seemed without end, that can be both specific and universal, that Matheson taps into in this story.
For those who tuned in to view the TV movie version of "Duel," many may have just tuned in for a tightly written horror movie but many may have also picked up on how this particular horror movie seemed to be just right for the times. Mann, in the end, gets to slay his Goliath but it leaves him empty and without answers.
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4 responses to "JFK Assassination 50 years later and Richard Matheson's 'Duel'"
Wendy Brydge
This is a great post, Henry. I'm a huge fan of the movie "Duel" but I had no idea of the story behind the story. In fact, I didn't even know that Richard Matheson was the genius who penned it. So much more interesting now to know how it came about. You've made me want to rewatch the film and really appreciate the small nuances I missed before.
And your conclusion is spot on. Mann got his revenge (so to speak), but as you said, it didn't feel like much of a victory. Much in the same way capturing and learning the identity of Kennedy's assassin provided some closure, but it certainly didn't feel like anybody won. It didn't change the fact that Kennedy was dead.
Very nicely written.
Thanks so much, Wendy. I really appreciate your feedback!
Well done, Henry. "Duel" is a rarity, something that worked beautifully as a short story and also as an adapted screenplay. Like Spielberg's later "Jaws" and Hitchcock's "The Birds", it perfectly captures that fear that strikes when the ordinary becomes twisted without warning.
It's remarkable how talented writers such as Matheson could mine simple experiences such as this and turn them into riveting stories. He did it on The Twilight Zone repeatedly, as did Rod Serling himself, and he does it here in a gripping tale that's more frightening than any conventional bogeyman. We might be able to avoid Jason Voorhees up at Camp Crystal Lake, but how do we avoid driving? Flying? Walking to work?
"Duel" is a film that fits its time, yes, but it still works very effectively today, as does The Twilight Zone. Good writing always stands the test of time. Kudos for the good writing you've done here as well, Henry.
I really appreciate your comments! Yes, it's remarkable how Duel, a product of its time, is also quite timeless.


Seven years after his directorial debut with 2009's A Single Man, noted fashion designer Tom Ford returns to movies with 2016's Nocturnal Animals. Susan Morrow (Amy Adams) works as an art curator and suffers through an unfulfilling marriage to husband Hutton (Armie Hammer).
Susan's past revisits her when her ex-husband Edward Sheffield (Jake Gyllenhaal) sends her a copy of his new novel. Edward dedicates the book to Susan, a notion that seems provocative when she realizes the story offers a tale of violence and revenge.
While we follow the ways Susan deals with this, we also trace the narrative of the novel itself. Entitled Nocturnal Animals - natch – Susan sees elements of her own life in Edward's fiction.
That "story within a story" construct threatens to swamp the movie with its own cleverness, especially because of the ways in which it seems to reflect the "real" characters of Susan and Edward. In a serious bit of on-the-nose casting, Animals uses Gyllenhaal as both Edward and "Tony Hastings", the protagonist in the novel.
The film also features Isla Fisher as Tony's wife Laura, another piece of telegraphed casting. While Fisher and Adams aren't clones, they clearly resemble each other, so Fisher's presence provides an obvious link between the "fictional" Laura and the "real" Susan.
Does any of this go anywhere other than Gimmicktown? Not really. The entire "story within a story" subplot feels forced and gratuitous at best, especially because the sides fail to connect in a particularly obvious manner.
Edward's novel features a family terrorized by some hicks in remote west Texas. It has more in common with Deliverance than the chilly neo-noir elements that influence Susan's story.
In the end, Animals manages to tie together all these elements, but not in a satisfying manner. This feels like a story where Ford came up with an ending and then retrofitted everything else to get to that point.
This might work if all the "everything else" managed to work, but little of the story goes anywhere. Susan's "present day" pieces feel underdeveloped, and the reflections on her past don't offer a whole lot of depth either, partly because Ford embraces easy clichés in terms of the characters.
The moments that focus on "Tony" and Edward's book threaten to provide actual entertainment, but they also lack much merit. The novel in the movie just feels by-the-numbers and without anything new or fresh.
Again, that happens because Ford attempts to shoehorn narrative elements into his final conception. He wants the entire film to reflect on Susan and her life – logic or coherence be damned.
Animals strikes me as a compilation of plot/character fragments crammed together. I get the impression Ford had a few story ideas that he couldn't flesh out to feature length so he combined them into this film.
This worked great for the medley on the Beatles' Abbey Road, but it flops in this movie The end result leaves us with a mix of unsatisfying and underdeveloped components that rely on the viewer's imagination to flesh them out. Animals feels like a half-baked gimmick film that fails to coalesce into anything substantial.
Nocturnal Animals appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 2.40:1 on this Blu-ray Disc. Across the board, the transferred looked pretty good.
In terms of colors, Animals reflected Hollywood's modern fascination with orange and teal. As tedious as that has become, the colors looked fine within the design parameters. In addition, blacks were dark and tight, while low-light shots were decent; some could be a bit dense, but they weren't bad. This was a generally positive presentation.
As for the DTS-HD MA 5.1 soundtrack of Animals, it lacked a ton of ambition. The soundfield focused on music and ambience, though it opened up a bit on occasion – in particular, scenes on the road boasted a little breadth. Nothing especially memorable occurred, though.
Audio quality was fine. Speech seemed natural and concise, without edginess or other issues. Music offered good clarity and range, and effects worked well enough. They didn't have much to do, but they appeared reasonably accurate. All of this ended up as a perfectly satisfactory soundtrack for a character-driven movie.
The Making of Nocturnal Animals runs 11 minutes, 18 seconds and provides notes from writer/director Tom Ford, director of photography Seamus McGarvey, costume designer Arianne Phillips, producer Robert Salerno, and actors Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Isla Fisher, Ellie Bamber, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Armie Hammer, and Michael Sheen. The show looks at story and characters, cast and performances, cinematography and visual design. "Making" adds some decent information but never becomes especially fulfilling.
The disc opens with ads for The Zookeeper's Wife, Loving, Frank & Lola, Desierto, The Edge of Seventeen, Bleed For This and A Monster Calls. Previews adds promos for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Closed Circuit, The American, Hanna, The Place Beyond the Pines, and Promised Land. No trailer for Animals appears here.
A second disc presents a DVD copy of Animals. It includes the same extras as the Blu-ray.
With its attempts to meld a variety of tales, Nocturnal Animals comes with ambitions it can't fulfill. The movie lacks purpose and tends to use its various narratives as a gimmick. The Blu-ray provides generally positive picture and audio but it lacks substantial bonus materials. The film turns into a slow, shallow experience.


abeserminji created D57677: [mips][micromips] Fix values in .gcc_except_table for -fPIC.
abeserminji committed rL352385: [test-suite] Fix stdthreadbug when building static.
abeserminji committed rT352385: [test-suite] Fix stdthreadbug when building static.
abeserminji closed D52878: [test-suite] Add flags for stdthreadbug.cpp when building static.
abeserminji committed rL352370: [mips] Support for +abs2008 attribute.
abeserminji closed D35983: [mips] Introducing option -mabs=[legacy/2008].
abeserminji updated the diff for D35983: [mips] Introducing option -mabs=[legacy/2008].
Rebased and updated the patch. Now it seems like the past issues are gone.
abeserminji abandoned D56836: [mips] Include whole lpthread when using both -pthread and -static.
Agreed on this solution D52878.
abeserminji updated the diff for D52878: [test-suite] Add flags for stdthreadbug.cpp when building static.
abeserminji added a comment to D56836: [mips] Include whole lpthread when using both -pthread and -static.
I am not sure if -static option passed as --cflag to lnt runtest enters the LDFLAGS. I guess it doesn't.
But if there is a way to check which options are passed as --cflags, we might be able to add -Wl, -whole-archive -lpthread -Wl -no-whole-archive only in case when static is used.
That would be my preferable option in this situation, but I couldn't find any clues on how to do that.
abeserminji added a comment to D52878: [test-suite] Add flags for stdthreadbug.cpp when building static.
abeserminji created D56836: [mips] Include whole lpthread when using both -pthread and -static.
abeserminji committed rL351059: [mips] Optimize shifts for types larger than GPR size (mips2/mips3).
abeserminji closed D56320: [mips] Optimize shifts for types larger than GPR size (mips2/mips3).
abeserminji updated the diff for D56320: [mips] Optimize shifts for types larger than GPR size (mips2/mips3).
abeserminji closed D55323: [mips][micrompis] Emit 16bit NOPs by default.
Closing manually because of typo in the commit message.
abeserminji committed rL350733: [mips][micrompis] Emit 16bit NOPs by default.
abeserminji created D56320: [mips] Optimize shifts for types larger than GPR size (mips2/mips3).
abeserminji created D55323: [mips][micrompis] Emit 16bit NOPs by default.
abeserminji added a comment to D52010: RegAllocFast: Rewrite and improve.
abeserminji committed rL346302: [mips][msa] Fix msa_[st/ld] offset check.
abeserminji committed rC346302: [mips][msa] Fix msa_[st/ld] offset check.
abeserminji closed D54038: [mips][msa] Fix msa_[st/ld] offset check.
abeserminji committed rC346124: [mips][msa] Fix broken test.
abeserminji committed rL346124: [mips][msa] Fix broken test.
abeserminji closed D53984: [mips] Fix broken MSA test.
abeserminji created D54038: [mips][msa] Fix msa_[st/ld] offset check.
abeserminji added a child revision for D53984: [mips] Fix broken MSA test: D54038: [mips][msa] Fix msa_[st/ld] offset check.
abeserminji created D53984: [mips] Fix broken MSA test.
abeserminji committed rL345830: [mips][micromips] Fix JmpLink to TargetExternalSymbol.
abeserminji closed D53366: [mips][micromips] Add pattern for JmpLink to TargetExternalSymbol.
abeserminji updated the diff for D53366: [mips][micromips] Add pattern for JmpLink to TargetExternalSymbol.
abeserminji added inline comments to D53366: [mips][micromips] Add pattern for JmpLink to TargetExternalSymbol.
abeserminji created D53366: [mips][micromips] Add pattern for JmpLink to TargetExternalSymbol.
abeserminji committed rL344591: [mips][micromips] Fix how values in .gcc_except_table are calculated.
abeserminji closed D52985: [mips][micromips] Fix how values in .gcc_except_table are calculated.
abeserminji committed rL344516: [mips][micromips] Fix overlaping FDEs error.
abeserminji committed rL344515: [mips][micromips] Revert "Fix overlaping FDEs error".
[mips][micromips] Revert "Fix overlaping FDEs error"
abeserminji committed rL344511: [mips][micromips] Fix overlaping FDEs error.
abeserminji closed D52987: [mips][micromips] Fix overlaping FDEs error.
abeserminji added inline comments to D52878: [test-suite] Add flags for stdthreadbug.cpp when building static.
abeserminji updated the diff for D52985: [mips][micromips] Fix how values in .gcc_except_table are calculated.
Removed class forward declaration from MCExpr.cpp. It is not needed.
Test fixed. I have one other patch in progress which affects this test, and forgot to remove it before the submission.
abeserminji created D52987: [mips][micromips] Fix overlaping FDEs error.
abeserminji created D52985: [mips][micromips] Fix how values in .gcc_except_table are calculated.
abeserminji created D52878: [test-suite] Add flags for stdthreadbug.cpp when building static.
abeserminji accepted D50615: [mips] Fix microMIPS unconditional branch offset handling.
abeserminji accepted D50613: [mips] Involves microMIPS's jump in the analyzable branch set.
abeserminji committed rL340920: [mips] Add missing instructions.
abeserminji closed D50437: [mips] Implement pll.ps, plu.ps and some of the missing cvt.* instructions.
abeserminji updated the diff for D50437: [mips] Implement pll.ps, plu.ps and some of the missing cvt.* instructions.
Fix predicates and update tests.
Removed instruction definitions for FP32, which would, by the statement in the instruction manual, cause an unpredictable results.
abeserminji planned changes to D50437: [mips] Implement pll.ps, plu.ps and some of the missing cvt.* instructions.
The result of this instruction is UNPREDICTABLE if the processor is executing in the FR=0 32-bit FPU register model; it is predictable if executing on a 64-bit FPU in the FR=1 mode, but not with FR=0, and not on a 32-bit FPU.
Which makes some of the definitions in the patch wrong. Should fix that.
abeserminji created D50437: [mips] Implement pll.ps, plu.ps and some of the missing cvt.* instructions.
abeserminji committed rL339126: [mips] Handle branch expansion corner cases.
abeserminji closed D48019: [mips] Handle branch expansion corner cases.
abeserminji committed rT338581: [mips] Fix compile options for tramp3d-v4 test.
abeserminji committed rL338581: [mips] Fix compile options for tramp3d-v4 test.
abeserminji closed D49487: [mips] Fix compile options for tramp3d-v4 test.
abeserminji updated the diff for D49487: [mips] Fix compile options for tramp3d-v4 test.
abeserminji committed rT338515: Make Misc-C++-EH test to compiple with -static.
abeserminji committed rL338515: Make Misc-C++-EH test to compiple with -static.
abeserminji closed D49538: Add -pthread to LDFLAGS.
abeserminji updated the diff for D49538: Add -pthread to LDFLAGS.
abeserminji abandoned D43238: Add types to HwMode.
No need for this, now when D43283 is closed.
abeserminji abandoned D43283: Variable register class using HwMode.
I guess there is no need to keep this alive any longer.
abeserminji accepted D49533: [mips] Move out the WrapperPat declaration from the NotInMicroMips predicate.
abeserminji created D49538: Add -pthread to LDFLAGS.
abeserminji added inline comments to D49487: [mips] Fix compile options for tramp3d-v4 test.
abeserminji created D49487: [mips] Fix compile options for tramp3d-v4 test.
abeserminji added inline comments to D48019: [mips] Handle branch expansion corner cases.
abeserminji updated the diff for D48019: [mips] Handle branch expansion corner cases.
abeserminji accepted D17036: [mips] Addition of the [d]rem and [d]remu instructions.
abeserminji committed rL336328: [mips] Fix atomic operations at O0, v3.
abeserminji closed D31287: [mips] Fix atomic operations at O0, v3.
abeserminji added a comment to D17036: [mips] Addition of the [d]rem and [d]remu instructions.
abeserminji added reviewers for D48019: [mips] Handle branch expansion corner cases: smaksimovic, atanasyan.
abeserminji accepted D48320: [mips] Mark microMIPS64 as being unsupported..
abeserminji committed rL334490: [mips] Extend LONG_BRANCH_LUi/ADDiu with extra parameter.
abeserminji closed D47941: [mips] Add additional parameter to LONG_BRANCH_LUi/ADDiu pseudo instructions.
abeserminji committed rL334419: [mips] Fix spill slot for mips3, n64 abi.
abeserminji closed D47938: [mips] Fix spill slot for mips3, n64 abi.
abeserminji updated the diff for D47941: [mips] Add additional parameter to LONG_BRANCH_LUi/ADDiu pseudo instructions.
abeserminji updated the diff for D47938: [mips] Fix spill slot for mips3, n64 abi.
abeserminji updated the summary of D47938: [mips] Fix spill slot for mips3, n64 abi.
abeserminji created D48019: [mips] Handle branch expansion corner cases.
abeserminji updated the summary of D47941: [mips] Add additional parameter to LONG_BRANCH_LUi/ADDiu pseudo instructions.
abeserminji created D47941: [mips] Add additional parameter to LONG_BRANCH_LUi/ADDiu pseudo instructions.
abeserminji created D47938: [mips] Fix spill slot for mips3, n64 abi.
abeserminji updated the diff for D46641: [mips] Merge MipsLongBranch and MipsHazardSchedule passes.
Updated the patch, so that buildbots do not fail.
abeserminji committed rL332977: [mips] Merge MipsLongBranch and MipsHazardSchedule passes.


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Q: release Selenium chromedriver.exe from memory I set up a python code to run Selenium chromedriver.exe. At the end of the run I have browser.close() to close the instance. (browser = webdriver.Chrome()) I believe it should release chromedriver.exe from memory (I'm on Windows 7). However after each run there is one chromedriver.exe instance remain in the memory. I hope there is a way I can write something in python to kill the chromedriver.exe process. Obviously browser.close() doesn't do the work. Thanks.

A: per the Selenium API, you really should call browser.quit() as this method will close all windows and kills the process. You should still use browser.quit().
However:  At my workplace, we've noticed a huge problem when trying to execute chromedriver tests in the Java platform, where the chromedriver.exe actually still exists even after using browser.quit().  To counter this, we created a batch file similar to this one below, that just forces closed the processes.
kill_chromedriver.bat
@echo off
rem   just kills stray local chromedriver.exe instances.
rem   useful if you are trying to clean your project, and your ide is complaining.

taskkill /im chromedriver.exe /f

Since chromedriver.exe is not a huge program and does not consume much memory, you shouldn't have to run this every time, but only when it presents a problem. For example when running Project->Clean in Eclipse.

A: It's kinda strange but it works for me. I had the similar issue, after some digging I found that there was still a UI action going on in the browser (URL loading or so), when I hit WebDriver.Quit().
The solution for me (altough very nasty) was to add a Sleep() of 3 seconds before calling Quit().

A: This answer is how to properly dispose of the driver in C#
If you want to use a 'proper' mechanism that should be used to 'tidy up' after running ChromeDriver you should use IWebDriver.Dispose();

Performs application-defined tasks associated with freeing, releasing, or resetting unmanaged resources.
(Inherited from IDisposable.)
I usually implement IDisposable on class that is dealing with IWebDriver
public class WebDriverController : IDisposable
{
    public IWebDriver Driver;

    public void Dispose()
    {
        this.Driver.Dispose();
    }
}

and use it like:
using (var controller = new WebDriverController())
{
    //code goes here
}

Hope this saves you some time

A: Kill Multiple Processes From the Command Line
The first thing you'll need to do is open up a command prompt, and then use the taskkill command with the following syntax:
taskkill /F /IM <processname.exe> /T

These parameters will forcibly kill any process matching the name of the executable that you specify. For instance, to kill all iexplore.exe processes, we'd use:
taskkill /F /IM iexplore.exe

A: browser.close() will close only the current chrome window.
browser.quit() should close all of the open windows, then exit webdriver.

A: So, you can use the following:
driver.close()

Close the browser (emulates hitting the close button)
driver.quit()

Quit the browser (emulates selecting the quit option)
driver.dispose()

Exit the browser (tries to close every tab, then quit)
However, if you are STILL running into issues with hanging instances (as I was), you might want to also kill the instance. In order to do that, you need the PID of the chrome instance.
import os
import signal
driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get(('http://stackoverflow.com'))

def get_pid(passdriver):
    chromepid = int(driver.service.process.pid)
    return (chromepid)

def kill_chrome(thepid)
    try:
        os.kill(pid, signal.SIGTERM)
        return 1
    except:
        return 0

print ("Loaded thing, now I'mah kill it!")
try:
    driver.close()
    driver.quit()
    driver.dispose()
except:
    pass

kill_chrome(chromepid)

If there's a chrome instance leftover after that, I'll eat my hat. :(

A: Code c#
using System.Diagnostics;

using System.Management;

public void KillProcessAndChildren(string p_name)
{
    ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher
    ("Select * From Win32_Process Where Name = '"+ p_name +"'");
    ManagementObjectCollection moc = searcher.Get();
    foreach (ManagementObject mo in moc)
    {
        try
        {
            KillProcessAndChildren(Convert.ToInt32(mo["ProcessID"]));
        }
        catch (ArgumentException)
        {
            break;
        }
    }
}

and this function
public void KillProcessAndChildren(int pid)
    {
    ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher
    ("Select * From Win32_Process Where ParentProcessID=" + pid);
    ManagementObjectCollection moc = searcher.Get();
    foreach (ManagementObject mo in moc)
    {
        try
        {
            KillProcessAndChildren(Convert.ToInt32(mo["ProcessID"]));
        }
        catch
        {
            break;
        }
    }

    try
    {
        Process proc = Process.GetProcessById(pid);
        proc.Kill();
    }
    catch (ArgumentException)
    {
        // Process already exited.
    }
}

Calling
try
{
    KillProcessAndChildren("chromedriver.exe");
}
catch
{

}

A: You should apply close before than quit
driver.close()
driver.quit()

A: I had the same issue when running it in Python and I had to manually run 'killall' command to kill all processes. However when I implemented the driver using the Python context management protocol all processes were gone. It seems that Python interpreter does a really good job of cleaning things up.
Here is the implementation:
class Browser:
    def __enter__(self):
        self.options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
        self.options.add_argument('headless')
        self.driver = webdriver.Chrome(chrome_options=self.options)
        return self

    def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb):
        self.driver.close()
        self.driver.quit()

And the usage:
with Browser() as browser:
    browser.navigate_to_page()

A: Theoretically, calling browser.Quit will close all browser tabs and kill the process.
However, in my case I was not able to do that - since I running multiple tests in parallel, I didn't wanted to one test to close windows to others. Therefore, when my tests finish running, there are still many "chromedriver.exe" processes left running.
In order to overcome that, I wrote a simple cleanup code (C#):
Process[] chromeDriverProcesses =  Process.GetProcessesByName("chromedriver");

foreach(var chromeDriverProcess in chromeDriverProcesses)
{
    chromeDriverProcess.Kill();
}

A: Python code:
try:
    # do my automated tasks
except:
    pass
finally:
    driver.close()
    driver.quit()

A: //Calling close and then quit will kill the driver running process.

driver.close();

driver.quit();

A: I had success when using driver.close() before driver.quit(). I was previously only using driver.quit().

A: I know this is somewhat of an old question, but I thought I'd share what worked for me. I was having problems with Eclipse -- it wouldn't kill the processes, and so I had a bunch of phantom processes hanging around after testing the code using the Eclipse runner.
My solution was to run Eclipse as administrator. That fixed it for me. Seems that Windows wasn't permitting Eclipse to close the process it spawned.

A: I have looked at all the responses and tested them all. I pretty much compiled them all into one as a 'Safety closure'. This in C#
Note: you can change the param from IModule app to that of the actual driver.
public class WebDriverCleaner
{

    public static void CloseWebDriver(IModule app)
    {
        try
        {
            if (app?.GetDriver() != null)
            {
                app.GetDriver().Close();
                Thread.Sleep(3000); // Gives time for everything to close before quiting
                app.GetDriver().Quit();
                app.GetDriver().Dispose();
                KillProcessAndChildren("chromedriver.exe"); // One more to make sure we get rid of them chromedrivers.
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            Console.WriteLine(e);
            throw;
        }
    }

    public static void KillProcessAndChildren(string p_name)
    {
        ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher
            ("Select * From Win32_Process Where Name = '" + p_name + "'");

        ManagementObjectCollection moc = searcher.Get();
        foreach (ManagementObject mo in moc)
        {
            try
            {
                KillProcessAndChildren(Convert.ToInt32(mo["ProcessID"]));
            }
            catch (ArgumentException)
            {
                break;
            }
        }

    }

    public static void KillProcessAndChildren(int pid)
    {
        ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher("Select * From Win32_Process Where ParentProcessID=" + pid);
        ManagementObjectCollection moc = searcher.Get();

        foreach (ManagementObject mo in moc)
        {
            try
            {
                KillProcessAndChildren(Convert.ToInt32(mo["ProcessID"]));
            }
            catch
            {
                break;
            }
        }

        try
        {
            Process proc = Process.GetProcessById(pid);
            proc.Kill();
        }
        catch (ArgumentException)
        {
            // Process already exited.
        }
    }

}

A: This work with python for me
import os

os.system('cmd /k "taskkill /F /IM chromedriver.exe /T"')

os.system('cmd /k "taskkill /F /IM chrome.exe /T"')

A: I have this issue. I suspect its due to the version of Serenity BDD and Selenium. The chromedriver process never releases until the entire test suite finishes. There are only 97 tests, but having 97 processes eat up the memory of a server that hasn't much resources may be having an affect on the performance.
To address I did 2 things (this is specific to windows).

*

*before each test (annotated with @Before) get the process id (PID) of the chromedriver process with:
List<Integer> pids = new ArrayList<Integer>();
String out;
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("tasklist /FI \"IMAGENAME eq chromedriver.exe*\"");
BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
while ((out = input.readLine()) != null) {
    String[] items = StringUtils.split(out, " ");
    if (items.length > 1 && StringUtils.isNumeric(items[1])) {
        pids.add(NumberUtils.toInt(items[1]));
    }
}

*after each test (annotated with @After) kill the PID with:
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("taskkill /F /PID " + pid);

A: I came here initially thinking surely this would have been answered/resolved but after reading all the answers I was a bit surprised no one tried to call all three methods together:
try
{
    blah
}
catch
{
    blah
}
finally
{
    driver.Close(); // Close the chrome window
    driver.Quit(); // Close the console app that was used to kick off the chrome window
    driver.Dispose(); // Close the chromedriver.exe
}

I was only here to look for answers and didn't intend to provide one. So the above solution is based on my experience only. I was using chrome driver in a C# console app and I was able to clean up the lingering processes only after calling all three methods together.

A: For Ubuntu/Linux users: -
 the command is either pkill or killall . pkill is generally recommended, since on some systems, killall will actually kill all processes.

A: I have used the below in nightwatch.js in afterEach hooks.
afterEach: function(browser, done) {
    // performing an async operation
    setTimeout(function() {
        // finished async duties
        done();
        browser.closeWindow();
        browser.end();
    }, 200);
}

.closeWindow() just simply closes the window. (But wont work for multiple windows opened).
Whereas .end() ends all the remaining chrome processes.

A: I am using Protractor with directConnect. Disabling the "--no-sandbox" option fixed the issue for me.
// Capabilities to be passed to the webdriver instance.
capabilities: {
  'directConnect': true,
  'browserName': 'chrome',
  chromeOptions: {
      args: [
        //"--headless",
        //"--hide-scrollbars",
        "--disable-software-rasterizer",
        '--disable-dev-shm-usage',
        //"--no-sandbox",
        "incognito",
        "--disable-gpu",
        "--window-size=1920x1080"]
  }
},

A: *

*Make Sure You get the Driver instance as Singleton

*then Apply at end

*driver.close()

*driver.quit()

Note: Now if we see task manager you will not find any driver or chrome process still hanging

A: Observed on version 3.141.0:
If you initialize your ChromeDriver with just ChromeOptions, quit() will not close out chromedriver.exe.
ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(chromeOptions);
// .. do stuff ..
driver.quit()

If you create and pass in a ChromeDriverService, quit() will close chromedriver.exe out correctly.
ChromeDriverService driverService = ChromeDriverService.CreateDefaultService();
ChromeOptions chromeOptions = new ChromeOptions();
ChromeDriver driver = new ChromeDriver(driverService, chromeOptions);
// .. do stuff ..
driver.quit()

A: I simply use in every test a method tearDown() as following and I have no problem at all.
@AfterTest
public void tearDown() {
    driver.quit();
    driver = null;
}

After quitting the driver instance clear it from the cache by driver = null
Hope the answer the question

A: There is another way which is working only for windows, but now it is deprecated. it works for previous selenium releases (it works on 3.11.0 version).
import org.openqa.selenium.os.WindowsUtils;

 WindowsUtils.killByName("chromedriver.exe") // any process name you want

A: So, nothing worked for me. What I ended up doing was setting a unique ID on my addArguments to launch chromedriver, then when I want to quit I do something like this:
opts.addArguments(...args, 'custompid' + randomId());

Then to make sure it quits:
await this.driver.close()
await this.driver.quit()

spawn(`kill $(ps aux | grep ${RANDOM_PID_HERE} | grep -v "grep" | awk '{print $2}')`).on('error', e => { /* ignores when grep returns empty */ })

Ugly af, but it's the only thing that worked for my case.

A: just use this two ways:

*

*open console and run this: taskkill /F /IM chromedriver.exe /T for kill all chrome processes

*after how your test is complete you should driver.Dispose, not Close and also not Quit, just Dispose it.

Good Luck.

A: Please try this tested codes:
ChromeDriverService driverService = ChromeDriverService.createDefaultService();
ChromeDriver chrome = new ChromeDriver(driverService, chromeOptions);
//
// code
//
//
chrome.close();
chrome.quit();
driverService.close();

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Aqua News Aqua Security Named Winner in 2019-20 Cloud Awards
International Cloud Computing Awards Program Announces Shortlist
BOSTON – January 30, 2020 – Aqua Security, the leading platform provider for securing container-based, serverless and cloud native applications, announced today it has been declared the winner of the Security Innovation of the Year award this week in the international Cloud Computing Awards program, The Cloud Awards.
Since 2011, The Cloud Awards program has sought excellence in cloud computing, showcasing finalists and winners spanning the entire globe. The Security Innovation of the Year award recognizes the company the judges feel has developed "a genuinely innovative approach to cloud security."
Aqua Security offers the market's most mature and capable platform for securing container-based and cloud-native applications from development to production, accelerating container and serverless adoption and bridging the gap between DevOps and IT security.
The Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform (CSP) provides full lifecycle security from the CI/CD pipeline to runtime production environments. It is the industry's most comprehensive solution for securing applications using containers and serverless functions, on any platform, "on-prem" or on public clouds including AWS, Azure and Google, among others. Organizations across all markets gain end-to-end visibility and protect their applications against attacks.
"Traditional security tools cannot handle the velocity, scale, and dynamic networking capabilities of containers and serverless infrastructure," said Dror Davidoff, CEO, Aqua Security. "Container adoption rates are surging, and deploying the Aqua CSP delivers full lifecycle security for these modern architectures."
Head of Operations for the Cloud Awards, James Williams, said: "Aqua Security is a deserving winner in this year's Cloud Awards program, not merely showing a dedication and commitment to excellence, but one fuelled by an unmatched passion for innovation. It's never been clearer to see how intelligent use of cloud technologies has made so much more possible in business."
Hundreds of organizations entered the Cloud Awards, with entries coming from across the globe, covering the Americas, Australia, Europe and the Middle East. View the full shortlist here:
https://www.cloud-awards.com/cloud-computing-awards/.
Aqua secures cloud-native applications at more than a hundred Global 1000 customers across the financial services, technology, retail, media, government, healthcare, telecom, and travel industries, including the world's largest banks, insurance companies, retailers, media, and technology companies. To learn more, visit Aqua Security's website, and follow the latest developments on the Aqua Blog, on Twitter: @AquaSecTeam, and on LinkedIn.
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The Cloud Awards is an international program which recognizes and honors industry leaders, innovators and organizational transformation in cloud computing. The awards are open to large, small, established and start-up organizations from across the entire globe, with an aim to find and celebrate the pioneers who will shape the future of the Cloud as we move into 2020 and beyond. The Cloud Awards currently offers two awards programs, the Cloud Computing Awards and the Software-as-a-Service Awards.
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Aqua Security helps enterprises secure their cloud native, container-based and serverless applications from development to production. Aqua bridges the gap between DevOps and security, promoting business agility and accelerating digital transformation. Aqua's Cloud Native Security Platform provides full visibility and security automation across the entire application lifecycle, using a modern zero-touch approach to detect and prevent threats while simplifying regulatory compliance. Aqua customers include some of the world's largest financial services, software development, internet, media, hospitality and retail companies, with implementations across the globe spanning a broad range of cloud providers and on-premise technologies. For more information, visit www.aquasec.com or follow us on twitter.com/AquaSecTeam


FishEye is on the move in many different areas. The Maynard office is entering the home stretch of a major buildout and expansion which includes a laboratory capable of supporting classified projects. The RTTK application is being increasingly utilized on a variety of platforms across domains. The award of Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contracts is enabling expanded RTTK capability. Our internship program, along with a few strategic hires, has brought FishEye an infusion of great young talent. With the award of two programs, FishEye's presence in Huntsville, Alabama is poised to grow significantly. We've established a foothold in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Looking forward, FishEye has a number of proposals that are pending award. Should these awards be decided in our favor, these programs will provide stability and growth into the foreseeable future.
This array of activities is not a random set of activities but, instead, is driven by FishEye's Strategic Business Plan (SBP). The SBP was developed two years ago and is reviewed and updated periodically. The higher-level items (Mission, Vision, Goals) can be viewed on the FishEye public website. Every decision that FishEye makes is now viewed through the prism of the SBP. What's not visible on the public website are lower-level metrics that feed into the higher-level goals. These metrics are related to growing FishEye's real-time dominance while increasing employee satisfaction. Although our Maynard-based team may question how working in a construction zone over several months aligns with employee satisfaction, we are taking the long view.
We look forward to a continued focus on strategic growth and increased employee satisfaction.
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I was an intern for FishEye this past summer. After the internship, I went back to UMass Amherst for one semester to complete my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science. I started working full time for FishEye at the Maynard office in early February.
Working on: I am currently working on adding features/enhancements onto RTTK.
Working on: I just started working on an X Band Radar. I worked at BAE Systems for 7 years before joining Fisheye. My background is real-time embedded software. My objectives are to get experience with new projects and software development practices, tools and languages.
I have a passion for aviation and military technology, and I am at my best when I understand the project as a whole, not just the software. I like to incorporate best practices from outside the program and adopt the use of new tools.
What I Am Working On: I am currently working on QEWR doing Signal Processing Software. I am implementing new detection algorithm upgrades and working on updating unit testing and formal qualification testing (FQT).
Innovative Approaches To Work: Before working in Marlborough, I worked at the home office in Maynard where I got to discover a tool called Ball Aerospace COSMOS. It is a new way of implementing regression testing and provides a flexible, easy to design interface to embedded software applications. I am a big supporter of this product and I am always advocating to use it in future projects.
Personal Stuff: I'm a big golfer, I love discovering new breweries, and I'm always looking to get outside and ride my bike.
Working on: RTTK Graphical User Interface, focusing on data visualization using the D3.js library.
Innovation: I've done a lot with D3 to push beyond what I thought was possible, but I don't have any particular innovative strategies besides trying different things, failing, and learning from those failures. Persistence is key, but also taking a break to return with a fresh perspective helps.
Q& A with Bill S.
What are the advantages of FishEye's RTTK next generation MetaLog & MetaGen resulting from FishEye's investment in the core of RTTK over the last year?
The latest Metalog offers a well-defined API which allows Metalog generation from our customers' executable programs. For example, Mark H. and Jim S. have created Metalog entries from Java and more recently, from run-time metadata checks from DDS. This means that the metalog supports datatypes for publishing that have been generated during run-time.
MetaGen uses the same Metalog API, and has been tested to support "nested" classes up to 10 layers deep, as well as variable length arrays. Although such variable length arrays are available, we would prefer not to use them because it slows down performance. The biggest advantage MetaGen offers over the offering in 2015 is that can extract metadata at run time.
How does the process of using RTTK MetaLog & MetaGen compare with traditional methods?
In all projects I have worked on, data collection records (DCRs) or logical recording identifiers (LRIDS) have been hand-crafted and tested early in the development cycle. They are fixed because tools and other support software would need to change if the DCRs did. Typically, the DCRS are "flat" c-struct like classes. They typically consist of only primitive types, and are inherently fixed length. Usually the DCR is placed into a memory buffer using in-place new (or memcpy), and this memory is written to a binary file, requiring later transformation of the data to the target format (such as Matlab files).
What is innovative about how RTTK does it?
While RTTK works faster with fixed length types, we offer nesting on-the-fly MetaLog generation simplifying the process when structures change. These capabilities provide a more fluid recording experience. An HDF5 publisher provides SWMR (single write multiple reader) allowing customers to literally analyze data while their system is running.
What new and cool capabilities are you working on?
RTTK now allows TCP communication of a JSON representation of FDAs during system run-time. We have built this interface to enable real-time data visualization. We've created scatter plots using time as the x-axis and a user selected field as the y-axis. These plots dynamically update as new data arrives.
Another exciting capability of RTTK leverages data directly from recorded application data (FDA's) to perform IF, THEN checks. So, if an FDA indicates a negative centigrade temperature, the real-time data value checking may assert an alert FDA, indicating the freezing temperature in Fahrenheit. While these boolean logic capabilities already exist with RTTK, the real excitement comes from leveraging new machine learning algorithms to classify and make decisions that trigger the logic in real-time.
In short, we can perform real-time visualization from a running system, we can verify the value of individual fields within recorded FDAs in real-time and assert new or delete an FDA as a result. We are working on real-time classification and decision making based on time series extracted from recorded FDAs.
Q & A with Jim S.
Can you describe what you did on the FishEye Real-Time Platform (RTTK) project?
I help provide data capture for a simulation framework written in Java.
I continued work originally started by Mark H. by enhancing and improving the Java interface to RTTK. Mark was successful in getting the project going, but I enhanced the interface with support for complex datatypes and more robust safeguards. FishEye's implementation allows the simulator developer to record all fields of a Java object with a single line of code.
Why was there a need for the Java interface?
Our customer requested the ability to log extensive amounts of Java data with the same simplicity we enjoy with C++.
By its very design, Java attempts to "hide" the details of its inner workings in order to make things "easier" for the normal developer. Unlike C++, Java objects are scattered around heap memory, and their locations are in a constant state of flux due to "garbage collection" which runs at random times. Acquiring and dealing with this "hidden" information through introspection (such as addresses, types, and lengths) at times felt like fighting city hall while herding cats. The simulator also wanted to log extremely complex variable length data types, which until recently RTTK could not support.
Can you explain the differences between the Java and C++ interfaces?
Both the Java and C++ interfaces aim to be as simple as possible for the end user. One line of code is all that is needed to record an object. In the Java interface, that one line of code is able to both collect metadata defining the structure and collect the application data. However, the inner workings are completely different.
The C++ interface simply requires a pointer and a length, and records a block of data. Traditionally, it has focused on fixed length data.
The Java interface has to hunt down memory addresses for each field scattered throughout memory (a deep copy). Depending on what is being recorded, these addresses often point to other arrays of addresses, which point to addresses on a third level, which must then be dereferenced. Each field must be fetched and assembled in a single block prior to each record call.
Armed with a highlighter and a high pain tolerance, we ascertained the memory layouts of the most common Java object types. For example, recording a 3D Matrix of floats consists of 7 separate "SubObjects", all in different locations. (See diagram below.) Each of the 7 pieces (top section of image) must be located and concatenated into a single block (bottom part of image) to be recorded with RTTK. Because addresses can change at any time, the address chain has to be re-traced with every record call. In addition, Java makes extensive use of variable length types, which means we need to create a table with every record call specifying where each field begins and ends in the buffer we pass to RTTK.
What were the end benefits that RTTK interface contributed to the project?
The RTTK interface allows Java developers to record all data in an object with a single line of code. In the past, the simulator developer team had to write custom routines to log data to text files. These routines had to be updated anytime the structure changed. By performing the introspection and recording to HDF5 on the fly, we allow the user to record objects with much less development cost, upkeep, and hassle than what was ever traditionally possible.
What new & cool capabilities are you working on?
We recently started work on a radar front end simulator. The simulator software runs on many (10s) of embedded computer systems, each simulating radar beam steering drivers. The simulation is controlled by a master computer. Since each embedded board has no local storage, we are advancing RTTK's distributed recording capability. This will allow us to ship data from each embedded board to the master computer where the data will be recorded.
Ted Selig, Marc Brown and Jim S. attended the Connext Conference May 16-17, 2018 to exchange technology plans as well as learn how others are using DDS. FishEye is expanding its product integration with DDS.
Many of FishEye's customers use DDS for interprocess communication and network connections on real-time and embedded systems.
RTI is a market leader in DDS technology. DDS, is the only open standard for messaging that supports the unique needs of both enterprise and real-time systems.
FishEye's Real-Time Platform (RTTK) product roadmap includes an integration with DDS for real-time publish and subscribe of DDS messages. The RTTK+DDS integration automates and simplifies high-performance HDF5 archives for DDS data. It also opens real-time machine learning analytics of DDS resident data.
Peter M. and Ben C. traveled to Sasebo, Japan for a working cruise to Singapore for a maintenance overhaul, March 12 – April 2.
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First SpaceX, and now Amazon. The online retail giant plans to send 3,236 satellites into low earth orbit in a bid to beam internet to humans on the ground.
The guys over at GeekWire uncovered filings for the project (codenamed Kuiper), after which Amazon confirmed that it exists and they are working on it. The satellites are intended for the areas where about 95 percent of the population lives.
Its efforts don't match up to SpaceX's Starlink though. That one is in the process of (eventually) sending up 12,000 internet satellites. You're gonna have to step it up, eh Amazon?
Kruiper, I mean Kuiper?
"Project Kuiper is a new initiative to launch a constellation of low earth orbit satellites that will provide low-latency, high-speed broadband connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world," an Amazon spokesperson told GeekWire. "This is a long-term project that envisions serving tens of millions of people who lack basic access to broadband internet. We look forward to partnering on this initiative with companies that share this common vision."
'Lacking basic access to broadband internet' is a pretty great explanation of the current South African internet situation. If Amazon founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos is feeling more giving than usual, South Africa may not be overlooked by this project.
In November, Amazon said it would build 12 ground stations around the world to transmit data to and from satellites, offering a hint at grander space ambitions. Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin is helping Telesat deploy that company's network of internet-connected satellites with the heavy-lift New Glenn rocket. When New Glenn is ready, that is.
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Amazon's not the first tech giant to promise internet for all via sky gadgets, though. Facebook voiced similar plans that have yet to come to fruition, and Google made a big song and dance about it's similarly shelved Project Loon.
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Q: How to sort an array which is created by joining two different arrays in javascript I am creating an array of results which is formed by joining the arrays from two different requests. The results have "Places" and "Addresses". I am separating "Places" and "Addresses" and showing them up but I wanted to display places first and then address. Can any one please help. below is my code -
        let results_html = [];

        results_places = ['
placePlaces
']
        results_addresses = ['
homeAddresses
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        if (predictions && predictions.length) {
          // debugger;
          if (predictions[0].types.join().indexOf("postal_code")!=-1 || predictions[0].types.join().indexOf("locality")!=-1) {

            results_html.push(results_places);

          } else if(predictions[0].types.join().indexOf("health")!=-1|| predictions[0].types.join().indexOf("hospital")!=-1 || predictions[0].types.join().indexOf("route")!=-1 || predictions[0].types.join().indexOf("premise")!=-1 || predictions[0].types.join().indexOf("street_address")!=-1) {

            results_html.push(results_addresses);

          }

          predictions.forEach(function (prediction) {
            results_html.push(`

                                    ${prediction.description}
`);

          });
        }

        if (predictions2) {

          if (predictions2[0].types.join().indexOf("postal_code")!=-1 || predictions2[0].types.join().indexOf("locality")!=-1) {

            results_html.push(results_places);

          } else if(predictions2[0].types.join().indexOf("health")!=-1|| predictions2[0].types.join().indexOf("hospital")!=-1 || predictions2[0].types.join().indexOf("route")!=-1 || predictions2[0].types.join().indexOf("premise")!=-1 || predictions2[0].types.join().indexOf("street_address")!=-1) {

            results_html.push(results_addresses);

          }

          predictions2.forEach(function (prediction) {
            results_html.push(`

                                    ${prediction.description}
`);
           });
        }

        autocomplete_results.innerHTML = results_html.join("");

Here is the current output -

A: I have looked into your code just edit this line to
let displaySuggestions = function (predictions2, predictions)

here is jsfiddle