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A Long Winded History Of A Half Century of Living in Dodge City
Jeff Dodge is too busy for fame. He's multitalented. He knows music, videography, sound engineering, computers and history. With the latest technology he streams a monthly, live TV show from his home office. He makes movies, short films, music videos, produces bands and he recently recorded a 33 song triple concept album. There are more projects in the wings. Jeff's always up to something.
Another project, in production.
I've written other posts about him but I couldn't let this significant birthday go without acknowledging his work. Participating in his show, The Peasant Revolution Band Variety Hour, gives me an opportunity to experience any number of interesting Portland characters, musicians and performers. I only have to leave the house once a month for this. Hanging out with Jeff means a whirlwind of ideas, costumes, fun, craziness and the occasional technical difficulty. The suits he wears as the show's host are hilarious. It's great to know someone with so much going on. I contribute what I can and the rest of the time I live vicariously through his exploits and I don't end up exhausted.
After a half century, I am curious about what keeps Jeff going. I thought it would be fun to see where he's been and hear tales from his associates. I started with members of the Peasant Revolution Band who appear as the house band on the show. I didn't know how Jeff put the band together. Curtis Worsely, aka The Commander, explained that Jeff "was the one who gave me my name. That was a big leg up in my career." They've had an on and off again musical relationship that goes back 30 years to the days of one of Jeff's early bands The Bolsheviks. The Commander appreciates how Jeff has always welcomed him in after telling me he joined the Peasant Revolution Band when he moved back to Portland. He described Jeff as a "historical encyclopedia of information."
photo by Echo Narcissist (Courtesy of Darge productions)
Bassist Steve Cebula goes back with Jeff to their days at Central Catholic High School. Steve was a rocker in pleather when Jeff was hanging out with a punk rocker named Tom Nims and sporting a "Travis Bickle" look. These were different circles. They got to know each other in Jazz and Stage Prep Bands and played Cream songs with the Pep Band at football and basketball games. Steve had a front row seat to watch a band teacher trying to keep Jeff in line. I discovered Steve wasn't in the Middle Fingers but joined Jeff's next band Pink Milk, a name that could have been inspired by Cream. Both band names were controversial at the school. All these years later Steve, the consummate sideman, tells tales of Jeff being a tyrant in the recording studio. I wanted to believe he's joking from his vivid description of Jeff Dodge in a "one more take" fervor. "Mannequin parts get thrown against the wall—well, one part but it's heavy," Steve said.
In 2013, Jeff organized a Badfinger Tribute Benefit Show for Scott Peterson who had been through a health crisis. Rich Reece sat in on drums. Meeting Jeff, he could see the years of work experience that went into coordinating the event. "Everyone else would have given up," Rich said considering the logistics of organizing 30 different musicians to perform for two hours. "One of Jeff's big talents," he pointed out, "is to just keep going. He doesn't stop."
It was Phil Jefferson who inspired me to seek out testimonials. He spoke highly of his experience working with Jeff who recorded and played on his flute centric album Madness of Crowds. He explained that Jeff lives for spontaneity and going into studio sessions fresh not knowing what he'll be playing. "We didn't know where it was going to go," Phil said before offering a comment that explained Jeff's people person persona. "He wants to be around as many people as he can. That's his thing."
When houses in her neighborhood were being demolished at an alarming rate, Jordi Leeb decided to make a film about the situation and the impact it had on her and her neighbors. Being a first time filmmaker, she called on Jeff. Jeff took the lead with some assistance from me. Jordi experienced Jeff's business side finding him to be professional, methodical and patient. "I never felt judged or talked down to. He laid everything out and it was so helpful for me to understand all of the steps. He was eager and excited about my project. He made the whole experience approachable for me," she said. Jeff's efforts earned him Jordi's respect and their collaboration resulted in the film "Diary of a Street."
Robert Pardington is also known as Bobby Caesar. I always saw him as an archenemy of Jeff's because, as legend has it, he left the Peasant Revolution Band to go solo. He later showed up to battle Jeff in the movie WNYCee New York. Robert met Jeff through high school friends and later roomed with him in the "infamous White House" in Eugene in the early 90's. Robert admires Jeff's openness. "He always included everyone, frat types, stoners, nerds," he said. Robert is in awe of Jeff's musical brilliance, phenomenal ear and their Meerkat brotherhood.
On location. photo by Echo Narcissist (Courtesy of Darge productions)
Clint Sargent meet Jeff in 1988 at Western Oregon University in Monmouth. Since then they've played music together and partnered to make a cable access TV show and feature length movies. Clint praised Jeff's prolific nature. "I have never known anyone with so many visions going at once. There seems to be no end to his ideas that flow non stop."
The stories Jeff shared in a frenetic phone call set the scene. He remembered seeing the puppeteers Sid & Marty Kroft on TV giving career advice, "If you want to make sure you keep control of your content in this society, keep your name on it," one of them said. Jeff took note giving birth to the Jeff Dodge brand. Somewhere in the middle of playing Plastic Man with his sisters a character named Julio would be involved. Julio was resourceful and had a local connection everywhere he went. Jeff aspired to these qualities that have inspired his modus operandi. It adds up to him being fearless. He let's everybody in the pool resulting in either Busby Berkeley choreography or everybody drowning.
A half century is something to consider. "The winds of age are upon me," Jeff says quoting a line from one of the movies about his alter ego Jeff Steele. (I know, Jeff Steele and the Lost Civilization of NyoNuc from 2004.) Still, there is time for new beginnings and even old dreams. Jeff hasn't given up on the one where he owns and operates a historical amusement park. With Portland being the creative place that it is, there could be thousands of Jeff Dodge types out there. I'm talking about catalysts who create scenes of fun loving havoc. And most everyone is too busy creating to know what anybody else is up to. Clint Sargent described what Jeff does as "unmatched entertainment" and that makes all the difference.
Behind the scenes of Jeff Steele and The Children of the Doomed photo by Echo Narcissist (Courtesy of Darge Productions)
Post Script: The Dodge City from the title is not a nickname anyone ever had for Jeff. Hanging out with him has always felt like visiting another world of his making. I refer to it as Dodge City.
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2014 Name Of The Year: Bulltron And Sithole Regionals, Round 1
We'll be posting NOTY previews over at Deadspin, which also will man the voting machine. If you didn't get here from there, please go there and vote.
The 2014 Name of the Year tournament kicks off today in the quadrants named after Assumption Bulltron, crowned the first-ever Name of the Decade, and Godfrey Sithole, the 1985 Name of the Year champion.
The top seed in this year's Sithole Regional is Dr. Loki Skylizard, a cardiothoracic surgeon from New Jersey. If this name seems artificial, that's because it is--our top-seeded doctor was not born Loki Skylizard. Instead, the source who emailed us his name tells us that his parents let him and his sister change their own names around age eight or nine. Loki went with exactly the sort of name you would expect a nine year old boy to go with, and it stuck. He's been Loki Skylizard ever since.
Should name changes be allowed in the Name of the Year tournament? Some people feel as if a great name is a great name, no matter how long it has been legally bound to the man or woman who carries it. Others believe that a great name can only come from birth, that a mother must look her baby boy in the eye and choose to name him Alpacino or Taco or Hitler. To those onomastic truthers, a great name is a lifelong responsibility created by a birth certificate and cannot be created through an impulsive trip to the courthouse.
Name of the Year readers have historically fallen into the first camp. In 2008, they chose Spaceman Africa, who changed his name, as their champion. The High Committee, which selected its own champion from 2007-11, preferred a more traditional choice in Destiny Frankenstein, who did not. That said, the High Committee has been tempted by name changes as well. One of our four regionals, the Dragonwagon Regional, is named after a woman who was born Ellen Zolotow.
For this year's tournament, we have tried to make both sides of this argument happy. We passed over several outrageous name changes such as New York's Godzilla Gorilla Pimp Hunter and Wisconsin's Beezow Doo-doo Zoppity-Bop-Bop, but we took a shine to Loki. He stuck with his childhood decision all the way through med school, keeps it to this day, and has caused thousands of patients to hear the terrifying phrase "Dr. Skylizard will see you now." His is a name change we can get behind, and so we've made him our number one seed.
The rest of the field gets the benefit of the doubt. We know all of these names are real, legal names, but we cannot conclusively prove they are all given names. Let's hope that there are no other name changes among our field. If there are, they can't possibly hold a candle to the good doctor Skylizard.
SITHOLE MATCHUPS
#1 Dr. Loki Skylizard, a cardiothoracic surgeon, vs. #16 Remco Obertop, vice president of an investment company.
#8 Sedan Angry, the appellant in a Florida court case, vs. #9 Sterling Lovelady, a Florida State University offensive lineman (and therefore a national champion!)
#5 Wolfgang Grape, author of The Bayeux Tapestry (a book about it, not the tapestry itself) vs. #12 Orion Creamer, retro fridge designer.
#13 Bibb Strench, a D.C. lawyer. [the 4-seed requested to be removed from the tourney, so Bibb gets a bye.]
#6 Jazzmar Clax, UConn Huskies fullback, vs. #11 Ingo Findenegg, a German plankton researcher.
#3 Shamus Beaglehole, an English soccer player, vs. #14 Wubbo Ockels, a physicist, TED talker, and the first Dutchman in space.
#7 Ignatius Babbage-Hockey, the young son of a man named Joe Hockey, vs. #10 Diesel Daigle, the young son of former softball star Jennie Finch.
#2 Jetsy Extrano, a Venezuelan minor league baseball player, vs. #15 Jetta Disco, spokeswoman for the US coast guard.
#1 Curvacous Bass vs. #16 Denver Beanland.
Ms. Bass, a Georgian who passed away in 2011, is one of the prohibitive favorites heading into this year's tournament. That said, Name of the Year seeding is an inexact science, and upsets are common across the board. This matchup's potential giant slayer is Mr. Beanland, anAustralian politician. Call him Beanland from Queensland.
#8 Mingus Mapps vs. #9 Harlene Freezer
The first of our 8-9 matchups is an onomastic take on the rivalry between Boston and New York. Mr. Mapps is a political scientist at Brandeis University and colleague of Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, while Ms. Freezer is a board member of BAFTA in New York whose name evokes the love child of two Batman villains.
#5 Chubacca Hung vs. #12 C'Mon Wingo
Ms. Hung is part of a new wave of Hongkongers with unique English names "such as Hillbilly, Rainbow, Onion and Chlorophyll." She gets bonus points for using an alternate spelling that wouldn't be out of place as a bad translation in Backstroke of the West. Her opponent, Ms. Wingo, is a Dallas detective whose name, per our information, is pronounced like "Simone".
#4 Dr. Diddo Diddens vs. #13 Che Cockatoo-Collins
Mr. Diddens, a French soft matter scientist, is the first of four doctors on our ballot. His opponent is Mr. Cockatoo-Collins, an Australian Rules Footballer who will look to catch some of the magic that propelled fellow AFL standout Steele Sidebottom to the 2010 Name of the Year crown. It's DDD vs. CCC, and only one can advance.
#6 Genghis Cohen vs. #11 Erby Ferby
The Bulltron's six-seed sounds like a character from a Woody Allen movie, but he is actually a Los Angeles businessman. His opponent is a Memphis man who was accused of stabbing his daughter's boyfriend last year.
#3 Bullabeck Ringblong vs. #14 Vanthana Xayarath
Mr. Ringblong is serving life in prison for murder, while Ms. Xayarath is a Florida woman who heard a ship collide with a bridge. She described the accident as "Just a big old loud crash," and she'll try to crash our tournament with a major upset.
#7 Radiance Ham vs. #10 DeQuarium Lumpkin
Radiance Ham, middle name Monet, was one of the Houston Press' strangest names of 2010, joining the likes of Dominique Sneeze and Serge LaBean. Her opponent, DeQuarium Lumpkin, hails from Tennessee, where he recently graduated from high school.
#2 Bufus Dewberry vs. #15 Bernie Wagenblast
Mr. Dewberry, a Georgia resident and the husband of Alpha, has the higher seed in this matchup. Mr. Wagenblast, however, has a much larger profile as one of the voices of the New York City subway. His powerful voice matches his booming name, but he'll need to cull votes from Woodlawn to Crown Heights to pull off the massive upset.
We'll be back later this week with the Sithole Regional. Until then, vote vote vote!
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Singapore GP: Preview - Force India
The team has now had a run of four good results. Has that been satisfying for you?
Vijay Mallya, Chairman and Team Principal: Absolutely, that's what this team needed. We were hoping for double points finishes in these races, but nevertheless one car has scored points. Whether it's luck I don't know, but whenever there is a first lap incident Force India is inevitably involved in some way or another! But Paul was eighth at Monza and it is great to leave Europe and go to the flyaway races in sixth position, as we have now overtaken Sauber. That was our objective in Monza and we achieved it.
You wanted the car to be competitive on all types of tracks in 2011 and clearly that is the case now…
VM: The technical direction we all agreed on at the factory was to build a car for all circuits. This year's car probably has more downforce than ever before, and therefore less straight-line speed. However we went well at Spa and Monza, and now we're going to tracks that require more downforce, which we have. So we're looking to continue this good performance for the remainder of the year.
We now travel to Singapore - is it a race you enjoy?
VM: Yes, it's a great event in an exciting location and I still believe racing at night adds some extra sparkle. Also, we should not forget there is a big Indian community in Singapore so it would be great to continue our strong run of results there.
Finally, the FIA's Charlie Whiting inspected the Indian Grand Prix venue recently. Are you pleased with progress?
VM: Absolutely, without a doubt. Charlie Whiting's track inspection report is very flattering. I was exceptionally proud to read his report. He said that everything is done to a very high standard and he has asserted that there is no reason why the track should not be fully ready by the race. As far as the promoters of the track are concerned, they say we can race there tomorrow.
Adrian, is Singapore a race you enjoy?
Adrian Sutil: It is quite an interesting circuit. Perhaps not my favourite, but there are some challenging corners and over the years I've grown to like it more and more. Plus, I always enjoy the challenge of street circuits.
Will the track play to the car's strengths?
AS: The low downforce configuration of Monza did not really work that well for us so Singapore should be better. It's the opposite of how it was before: we are now more competitive on downforce circuits, so we should be quite strong. With a good strategy I think anything is possible there.
The team has had four strong points finisher in a row - it has been a good European campaign hasn't it?
AS: Yes, but I think we were lucky in Monza because a few cars retired in front of Paul. Then again, we were due some luck! We overtook Sauber in the championship, which is good, and we need to build on that and get some breathing space.
Paul, you were eighth last time out - a good result for your first visit to Monza…
Paul di Resta: I don't think we could have achieved any more, to be honest. I think that's where our performance level was. We struggled in general with the car's performance and we were fighting all the way, so picking up four points was a great result. There were a lot of different approaches going on in that race with some teams concentrating more on race pace than qualifying. It shows you can never underestimate any team.
Singapore will be a totally new track for you to learn. Have you done anything special to prepare?
PdR: Just the usual stuff really, working on the simulator and looking at on-board videos. I was there last year watching and walked the track, so I know the layout. But it's true that Singapore is probably going to be one of the more difficult tracks to get up to speed on because it's such a long lap. Also, with any street circuit you need to build up your confidence over the weekend.
Do you like street tracks in general?
PdR: I definitely enjoy the challenge and you have to take a slightly different approach to them. It's all about having as much time in the car so that you can push right to the limits of the track. We will also need to keep any eye on the weather because any rain storms could hamper things. I just hope we get some dry weather while I learn the track.
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Chilton in action for Force India
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Q: What is the use of spring.net? We are developing an application using Silverlight and WCF Services. Is using Spring.Net is beneficial for us?

A: >> "Is using Spring.Net is beneficial for us?"
I think the spirit of your question is really geared more towards questioning the benefit of using an IoC/DI framework versus manually managing dependencies as needed. My response will focus more on the why and why not of IoC/DI and not so much on which specific framework to use.
As Martin Fowler mentioned at a recent conference, DI allows you to separate configuration from usage. For me, thinking about DI in the light of configuration and usage as separate concerns is a great way to start asking the right questions. Is there a need for your application to have multiple configurations for your dependencies? Does your app need the ability to modify behavior by configuration? Keep in mind, this means that dependencies are resolved at runtime and typically require an XML configuration file which is nice because changes can be made without requiring a recompile of the assembly. Personally, I'm not a fan of XML-based configuration of dependencies as they end up being consumed as "magic strings". So there's the danger of introducing runtime errors if you end up misspelling a class name, etc. But if you need the ability to configure on-the-fly, this is probably the best solution today.
On the other hand, there are DI frameworks like Ninject and StructureMap that allow fluent in-code dependency definitions. You lose the ability to change definitions on-the-fly, but you get the added benefit of compile time validations, which I prefer. If all you want from a DI framework is to resolve dependencies then you could eliminate XML-based frameworks from the equation.
From a Silverlight perspective, DI can be used in various ways. The most obvious is to define the relationship of Views to ViewModels. Going deeper, however, you can define validation, and RIA context dependencies, etc. Having all of the dependencies defined in a configuration class keeps the code free from needing to know how to get/create instances and instead focus on usage. Don't forget that the container can manage the lifetime of each object instance based on your config. So if you need to share an instance of a type (e.g. Singleton, ManagedThread, etc.), this is supported by declaring the lifetime scope of each type registered with the container.
I just realized at this point I'm ranting and I apologize. Hope this helps!

A: Personally i'd recommend using either Castle or Unity as i've had great success with both and found them both, while different, excellent IOC frameworks.
Besides the IOC component they also provide other nifty tools (AOP in Castle, Interface interception in Unity, for example) which you will no doubt find a use for in the future, and having an IOC framework in place from the start is ALWAYS a hell of a lot easier than trying to retrofit it.
It's incredibly easy to setup and configure, although personally i'm not a huge fan of the XML config way of doing things as some of those config files can turn into a total nightmare. A lot of people will tell you that it's only worth doing if you intend to swap components in and out, but why not just do that anyway IN CASE you decide you need to do that later. it's better to have it and not use it, than not have it and need it. If you're worried about perf hit i've seen on many blog posts around the web people comparing the various IOC frameworks for their speed and unless you're creating brain surgery robots or the US Missile defence platform it won't be an issue.

A: A DI Framework might be of use if you want to change big chunks of your application without having to rewrite your constructors. For example, you might want to use a comet streaming service that you will expose through an interface, and later decide that you'd rather use a dedicated messenging system such as MQ or RendezVous. You will then write an adapter to Mq that respects the common facade and just change the spring config to use the Mq implementation rather than the Comet one.
But for the love of tony the pony, don't use Spring.Net to create your MVVM/MVP/MVC bindings for each and every view or you'll enter a world of pain.
DI is a great tool when used with parcimony, please don't end-up with 243 spring configuration files, for your devs' sanity.

A: Using an IOC container such as Spring.Net is beneficial as it will enable you to unit test parts of your UI by swapping in mocked or special test implementations of the applications interfaces.  In the long run, this should make your application more maintainable for future developers.

A: I think if you do more in the code rather than using the markup to do bindings etc. and have a BAL/DAL DI can help there because it can inject the correct business component reference (as one example).  DI has many other practical advantages, but then you have to do more in code and less in markup.

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Q: Android studio emulator shows only "android" I tried launching Emulator in android studio, but the emulator never started. It just shows "android" on the screen of the emulator window. I'm using windows OS. I also tried USB debugging but even the running device did not show. I have installed necessary drivers required for USB debugging, I'm using Xperia E dual phone.
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package robotutils.filters;

import org.apache.commons.math3.linear.RealMatrix;

/**
 * An extension of the Kalman filter that allows for the motion models to be
 * approximated linearized around the current state using sigma points.
 *
 * Note that directly using the "set" accessors to the model and observation
 * matrices will have no effect, as these matrices are now generated via the
 * provided linearization functions.
 *
 * @author Prasanna Velagapudi <pkv@cs.cmu.edu>
 */
public class UnscentedKalmanFilter extends ExtendedKalmanFilter {

    /**
     * Constructs an extended Kalman filter with no default motion and
     * observation models.
     * @param x the initial state estimate.
     * @param P the initial state covariance.
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    public UnscentedKalmanFilter(RealMatrix x, RealMatrix P) {
        super(x, P);
    }

    @Override
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        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported yet.");
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    @Override
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        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported yet.");
    }

    @Override
    protected RealMatrix B(RealMatrix x) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported yet.");
    }

    @Override
    protected RealMatrix H(RealMatrix x) {
        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported yet.");
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    @Override
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        throw new UnsupportedOperationException("Not supported yet.");
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Q: Python3 ConnectionRefusedError selenium.webdriver.Remote on Ubuntu Server from selenium import webdriver
url = "http://localhost:4444/wd/hub"
cap = {'browserName': 'chrome'}
driver = webdriver.Remote(command_executor=url, desired_capabilities=cap)

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Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 156, in _new_conn
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File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/util/connection.py", line 84, in create_connection
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self.send(msg)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.8/http/client.py", line 946, in send
self.connect()

  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 184, in connect
conn = self._new_conn()

  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connection.py", line 168, in _new_conn
raise NewConnectionError(

urllib3.exceptions.NewConnectionError: <urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7f6377a9f8e0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "test.py", line 89, in <module>
test_some.testMethod()

File "test.py", line 21, in testMethod
driver = webdriver.Remote(command_executor=selenium_url, desired_capabilities=caps)

File "/home/vl/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 157, in __init__
self.start_session(capabilities, browser_profile)

File "/home/vl/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 252, in start_session
response = self.execute(Command.NEW_SESSION, parameters)

File "/home/vl/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/webdriver.py", line 319, in execute
response = self.command_executor.execute(driver_command, params)

File "/home/vl/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/remote_connection.py", line 374, in execute
return self._request(command_info[0], url, body=data)

File "/home/vl/.local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/selenium/webdriver/remote/remote_connection.py", line 402, in _request
resp = http.request(method, url, body=body, headers=headers)

File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/request.py", line 79, in request
return self.request_encode_body(

File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/request.py", line 171, in request_encode_body
return self.urlopen(method, url, **extra_kw)

 File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/poolmanager.py", line 330, in urlopen
response = conn.urlopen(method, u.request_uri, **kw)

File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 747, in urlopen
return self.urlopen(

File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 747, in urlopen
return self.urlopen(

File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 747, in urlopen
return self.urlopen(

File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/connectionpool.py", line 719, in urlopen
retries = retries.increment(

File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/urllib3/util/retry.py", line 436, in increment

raise MaxRetryError(_pool, url, error or ResponseError(cause))

urllib3.exceptions.MaxRetryError: HTTPConnectionPool(host='localhost', port=4444): Max retries exceeded with url: /wd/hub/session (Caused by NewConnectionError('<urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7f6377a9f8e0>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused'))

i have Chrome on Ubuntu Server
further idea is to open the link, after a while exit the window / browser
is it possible to run it successfully?
or are there other libraries to solve this problem?
I do not know what else to write so that I can post this question here :/

A: ConnectionRefusedError: [Errno 111] Connection refused is showing that your script is unable to access the remote Selenium server.
In order to use a remote web driver, selenium server should be running on that remote Ubuntu server, and chrome driver executable file should be available in the $PATH. You can read further about it here
So, make sure:

*

*You have downloaded the chrome driver from the official site and placed it in the $PATH

*You have downloaded the Selenium server from the official site and have it running on the remote Ubuntu server. You can simply start the Selenium server like this:

java -jar selenium-server-standalone-3.XXX.XX.jar

Selenium server by default binds to all available network interfaces with a default base URL wd/hub as you have shown in the code snippet:
url = "http://[HOST]:4444/wd/hub"

If you are going to use your script on the same server where the Selenium server is running, localhost should be alright. But if you are going to use it from a remote location you need to provide the correct IP/domain of the Selenium server.
I would suggest If you intend to use your script locally on a Linux server machine (non-GUI environment), you can utilize the headless mode of Chrome/Firefox to achieve the same thing. You can use the headless option like this:
from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options

options = Options()
options.add_argument("--headless")

driver = webdriver.Chrome()
driver.get('https://google.com.pk')
print(driver.page_source.encode("utf-8"))
driver.quit()