Roberto Mazzoni has authored several successful books in the field of technology.
Roberto Mazzoni begins his career as an author very early in life by writing his first book in 1986, when the personal computer had just arrived in the offices of a few selected companies in Italy and when it was quite difficult to find an Italian publisher willing and able to publish books proposed by new authors. His first book was a full exploration of the fledgling personal word processing technology which then allowed, for the first time in history, the production of documents by electronic means which were both affordable and relatively easy to use.
It was immediately a success, selling well above the average of the time and maintaining a good level of sales also in the four following years, which was quite unusual in a market where products and books become obsolete in just a few months. In 1987 he produced two other successful books on computer technology which paved the way for his career as a journalist in such a field.


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Etymology & Historical Origin of the Baby Name Ben
Ben is most commonly considered a short form of Benjamin. Benjamin is a Hebrew name borne from the Bible; he was the youngest son of Jacob's 12 boys. His mother, Rachel, died giving birth to him in Genesis 35:18. "And as her soul was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin." The name "benoni" translates to "son of my sorrow" – but Jacob did not want his last son to bear such an ill-omened name stemming from his mother's death, so he called him "Benyamin" instead. The likely Hebrew translation of Benjamin is "son of the south" since the child was Jacob's only son born in Canaan, south of Mesopotamia. However, "yamim" is also thought to be a translation of the word "years" in Hebrew, bringing another variant to the name's root etymology as "son of my old age" referring to the fact that Benjamin was Jacob's last child born to him when he was an old man. Interestingly, in the Middle Ages (5th-15th centuries), the name was often given to boys whose mothers had died in childbirth. Today, it no longer bears such ill-fated associations, and is used widely used among all English-speakers, Jews and Christians alike. Aside from Ben's obvious association with Benjamin from the Bible, Ben could also be considered a short form of any masculine name starting with the "Ben" prefix such as Benedict, Bennett, Benson or Bentley (Ben is even used as a short form for Reuben). As a stand-alone independently given name Ben has seen success in his own right. This short little one syllable three-lettered name is quite popular in Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland. It is also a Top 100 name in England and Austria.
All About the Baby Name – Ben
OF THE BOY NAME BEN
The Three energy is powerful and enthusiastic. These personalities are cheerful, full of self-expression, and often quite emotional. They have an artistic flair and "gift-of-gab" that makes them natural entertainers. Their joyfulness bubbles over, and their infectious exuberance draws a crowd. The Three personality is like a child - forever young and full of delight. They are charming, witty, and generally happy people. The Three personality lives in the "now" and has a spontaneous nature. Threes seem to live with a bright and seemingly unbreakable aura that attracts others to them. In turn, they are deeply loyal and loving to their friends and family. Luck also has a tendency to favor number Threes.
As an independently given name Ben dates way back over 150 years. At the turn of the 20th century, in the year 1900, Ben was the 73rd most popular boy's name in the country (and Benjamin was the 56th). Since the turn of the 20th century, however, and into the 21st, Ben has been on a slow and steady decline. Benjamin, on the other hand, has held fast to a Top 100 position. In other words, American parents prefer the traditional name Benjamin rather than simply "Ben" as a legally given first name. Indeed, most of the Bens we're familiar with today in popular culture (e.g., Ben Affleck, Ben Harper, Ben Stiller) were all born Benjamin. Our Federal Reserve Chairman, however, was born just Ben Bernanke. Names like Alex vs. Alexander, Sam vs. Samuel and Max vs. Maximilian are much more colloquial and informal. They are snappy one-syllable nicknames that work well as stand-alone first names. But traditional parents will opt for their longer versions. Some people find names like Mike, Ben, Sam and Max a little too common and ordinary but most people would agree they are solid name choices. The only thing we strongly suggest is don't pick the name Ben for your son if your last name happens to be Dover (a little Bart Simpson joke for you).
ON BEN
Son of the south; son of my old age
OF BEN
Cultural References to the Baby Name – Ben
OF THE BABY NAME BEN
Ari Ben Canaan is the Zionist hero of Leon Uris' 1958 novel, Exodus, which was made into an award-winning 1960 film of the same name, starring Paul Newman. Ari is dedicated to the cause of a homeland for the Jews, the establishment of the State of Israel, and he commandeers a ship to take more than 600 Jewish Holocaust survivors from refugee camps in Cyprus to Palestine. The character of Ari is said to be based on the true-life story of Yossi Harel, who was responsible for the immigration of thousands of Jews. Ari is described as a handsome and courageous young man who is absolutely devoted to the Jewish freedom movement, having already lost many family and loved ones to the ravages of war. He uses intelligence and cunning in his clandestine dealings - the story of Jewish liberation, however rocky, is due in large part to his courage. He also gets the girl, but then again, he's Paul Newman, after all.
ON THE BABY NAME BEN
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Johan van Heemskerk (født 1597 i Amsterdam, død 1656 samme sted) var en hollandsk forfatter.

Efter at have rejst udenlands i nogle år nedsatte han sig som advokat i Haag. Han fik senere job som advokat i Det Nederlandske Ostindiske Kompagni, og blev i den egenskab sendt til England for at løse en strid, som var udbrudt mellem de to lande. Derefter blev han medlem af Højesteret i Amsterdam.

Han har skrevet en række værker af meget blandet indhold, hvoraf det bekendteste er: Inlijdinghe tot het ontwerp van eene Batavische Arcadia (1637, 10. Udg. 1871).

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Categorie: Iranian
Was Iranian Missile Operator Tricked Into Shooting Down The Ukrainian Airlines Plane?
Posted by NL-ABon 14 januari 2020 in Iranian, Missile
Iranian Messages Behind Attacking US Bases in Iraq and the Consequences – Global Research
Posted by EN-AGon 9 januari 2020 in Iranian, Messages
Just after midnight local time today, Iranian ballistic missiles "Fateh 313" hit two military bases in Iraq that host a significant concentration of US forces, along with other allies. The Iranian direct hit was the retaliation for the US assassination of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds brigade Sardar Qassem Soleimani and his companions, killed by a US drone at Baghdad airport last week. The Iranian retaliation carries several strategic messages to the Middle East for this year 2020 and for many years to come. What are these messages? What will come of Iran's open attack on the most powerful country in the world?
A high-ranking Iranian official contacted the Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi after midnight to inform him that Iran had decided to retaliate for the assassination of its General. Iran said it would hit a concentration of US forces in Iraq, without hitting any Iraqi forces.
Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi – according to well-informed sources in Baghdad – answered that "this act may carry devastating results on the Middle East: Iraq refuses to become the theatre for a US-Iran war". The Iranian official replied: "Those who began this cycle of violence are the US, not Iran; the decision has been taken."
Prime Minister Abdel Mahdi informed the US forces of the Iranian decision. US declared a state of emergency and alerted all US bases in Iraq and the region in advance of the attack.
Iran bombed the most significant US military base in Iraq, Ayn al-Assad, where just in the last two days, the US command had gathered the largest number of forces. Many US bases, particularly in Shia controlled areas and around Baghdad, were evacuated in the last days for security reason towards Ayn al-Assad, a base that holds anti-nuclear shelters. Ayn al-Assad is located in the desert of al-Anbar, close to the Iraqi-Syrian borders. This is the same base from which the drones which assassinated Sardar Soleimani and his companions at Baghdad airport took off. Iran also bombed another US base in Erbil, Kurdistan.
Iran copied the style used by the Americans in communicating its decision. On the 30th of December 2019,
US Assassination Of Top Iranian Military Official May Ignite World War
Posted by EN-ABon 3 januari 2020 in assassination, Iranian
The US has admitted to assassinating Iran's most beloved military leader, General Qassem Soleimani, in a drone strike which seems very likely to ignite a full-scale war. Six others are also reported killed, including Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
According to the Pentagon, Trump personally ordered the assassination. I'll keep following this hugely important story and will probably be writing a lot about it as it unfolds. I encourage everyone who values peace and humanity to follow it as well.
"Spoke to a very knowledgeable person about what Iran's response to Soleimani's assassination might be," The Quincy Institute's Trita Parsi tweeted regarding this developing story. "This would be the equivalent of Iran assassinating Petreus or Mattis, I argued. No, he responded, this is much bigger than that."
Pentagon out with a statement on the airstrike.
"This strike was aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans. The United States will continue to take all necessary action to protect our people and our interests wherever they are around the world." pic.twitter.com/W1L8ymqScd
— Grace Segers (@Grace_Segers) January 3, 2020
"Most Americans won't understand the gravity of this," tweeted journalist Rania Khalek. "Qasem Soleimani is head of the Iranian IRGC's elite Quds Force, which conducts operations outside of Iran in both Iraq and Syria. He was credited with helping turn the tide in both countries against Al-Qaeda and ISIS."
"This is very serious," Khalek added. "The US essentially declared war on Iran by assassinating its most revered military figure in Iraq. And by also killing the head of the PMF, the US created more enemies in Iraq. There will be regional retaliation. It's unlikely it can be prevented."
"If true, It is not an understatement to say this could change the entire Middle East," tweeted Rising's Saagar Enjeti.
"There's going to be that war now that people have been pushing for since tanking the Iran Deal," tweeted The Intercept's Murtaza Mohammad Hussain.
"If this is true, the US has effectively declared war on Iran, which has established militarily ties with Russia and China. It's not hyperbole to say this could start WW3.
Senior Iranian MP Slams Russia for Keeping Syria S-300s Air Defenses Inactive During Israeli Strikes
Posted by EN-AGon 27 januari 2019 in Iranian, Senior
Weeks ago the Russian news agency TASS cited sources claiming the Syrian missile crews had still not completed their training
A senior Iranian lawmaker has strongly criticized Russia for deactivating its S-300 missile defence system deployed in Syria during the recent Israeli airstrikes on what Tel Aviv claims were Iranian positions in the Arab country.
Chairman of the Iranian Parliament's National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Heshmatollah Falahatpishe says that had the systems operated properly, Israel could not easily carry out its airstrikes on Syria.
In an interview with IRNA, the lawmaker said Russia's move to deactivate its S-300 missile system in Syria during Israeli airstrikes is susceptible to serious criticisms.
"It seems there is a type of correlation between the Zionist regime's airstrikes and Russia's deactivation of defensive systems deployed in Syria," he said.
He further noted that following the Israeli airstrikes, he arrived immediately at the scene of the attack and found out that the reports on the casualties of the air raid released by Israel were totally wrong.
He described the reports as bluffs and added the Zionist regime is seeking to hamper the process of restoring peace and stability to Syria through conducting the airstrikes on the country.
"They want to provoke Iran into making certain reactions to create new challenges in Syria," he concluded.
Israel targeted an airport in southeastern Damascus in Syria leaving a number of people dead and wounded on Monday. Russia said Syria's air defences shot down more than 30 cruise missiles and guided bombs during Israel's aerial attacks.
Israel claimed in a statement that the main targets of the attacks were Iranian forces. According to the statement, Iranian forces are operating in Syrian territory and launched a surface-to-surface rocket from Syrian territory aimed at the northern occupied Golan Heights.
"In response to the attack, during the night (Israeli military) fighter jets struck Iranian Quds Forces military targets in Syria in addition to Syrian aerial defence batteries," it said.
Iran says its military presence in Syria is totally advisory and is aimed at helping Syrian government to cleanse the country of foreign-backed terrorists.
Influential Iranian Academic Explains Iran's Geopolitical Rationale – Another Great On-the-Ground Report from Pepe Escobar
Posted by EN-ABon 2 juni 2018 in Influential, Iranian
A crucial question has been consuming policymakers in Iran, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon: Does the Trump administration have a strategic plan for the Middle East or not?
Few are more apt to answer than Saadallah Zarei, dean of the Institute of Strategic Studies Andishe Sazan-e Noor in Tehran. Zarei, a soft-spoken, extremely discreet man I met in Mashhad a few days ago, happens to be not only one of Iran's top strategic analysts but also a key brain behind the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Qods Force commander Gen. Qasem Soleimani – the ultimate bête noire outside the Beltway.
Iranians hold anti-US placards and shout slogans during a rally after Friday prayers in the capital Tehran on May 11, 2018, after President Trump withdrew the US from a nuclear accord signed in 2015. Photo: AFP
So US strategists could do worse than paying attention to Zarei.
While the US "owns 37 fixed military bases and almost 70 movable bases in the Middle East", Zarei said, "We do not observe specific and exact strategies."
He stressed his perplexity with "contradictory behavior related to the Shi'ite population. America's behavior in terms of the Shi'ite population of Bahrain and their rights, the Zaydi Shi'ite population in Yemen and Kashmir and also the Shi'ite population in Lebanon, which is 35% of the total population, is not specified and nobody knows how the Americans think about Shi'ites and how they act."
Zarei also notes that "America does not have a specific policy about the democracies of Turkey and Iran. There is not any specific strategy about democracy in Iraq and Lebanon too. America talks about democracy as an American value and tries to generalize it, but in this region, we see that the best friends of the US are countries where there is no election in their political systems."
The bottom line, according to Zarei, is that "the US strategy is not coherent in the Middle East. I think this is the main reason for the failure of American policies in this region."
Saadallah Zarei. Photo: provided
Enter the Hazaras
Now zoom in from the macro-analysis to the micro-view on the ground. Compare Zarei to Komeil,


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Q: Rails select all users from table where I'm trying to select all users from a join table and I can't get the query right.
My Models are User and Goal, which are joined by Participations. I need to list all users from Participations where the goal id = x.
@participants = User.joins(:participations).where(goal_id: @goal.parent_id)

This is not correct, because I get no such column: users.goal_id:. I can't figure out how to select all the users from the join table.
I can use @participants = @goal.participants when I'm not trying to use the goal parent id for some reason. When I do this here, I get a Couldn't find Goal without an ID error. I'm cool with a solution to either of these issues.
if @goal.parent_id?
  @parent_goal = Goal.find(params[@goal.parent_id])
  @participants = @parent_goal.participants
else
  @participants = @goal.participants
end

Goal.rb
  has_many :participations, dependent: :destroy
  has_many :participants, :through => :participations, :source => :user

User.rb
  has_many :participations, dependent: :destroy
  has_many :participant_goals, through: :participations, :source => :goal

Participation.rb
  belongs_to :user
  belongs_to :goal

A: goal_id column is present in participations table so you need to use following query
@participants = User.joins(:participations).where('participations.goal_id = ?', @goal.parent_id)

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Morkalla is a locality in the Sunraysia region of Victoria, situated at the farthest west point on the Redcliffs-Meringur Road. It is about 31 km south-east of Yamba in South Australia and 9 km west of Karween, and is 11 km due south of the Sturt Highway.

After World War I, the area was opened up to soldier settlers. To support them, the railway was extended to Morkalla in 1931. Passenger facilities at Morkalla were removed in 1939, and the line was closed in 1964, having only been used on a seasonal basis for a number of years, to transport the wheat harvest.

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The Government Information Awareness (GIA) project was an initiative of the MIT Media Lab, designed "to provide American citizens with digital tools for participating in the democratic process."

The GIA initiative was inspired by the Total Information Awareness project of the US government's Information Awareness Office, and was predicated on the premise that citizens have a right to maintain information on the government - similar to what information the government maintains on the citizens.

History
The project was announced via a press release on the MIT Media Center website, dated July 2, 2003.  The press release affirmed that the project would be "unveiled" on July 4.  Wired magazine ran an article covering the project, dated July 4, 2003.

The designer of the site, graduate student Ryan McKinley, developed the site under the direction of Christopher Csikszentmihályi, Fukutake Assistant Professor in the Media Lab's Computer Culture group.  McKinley explained the purpose of the site by saying "Democracy requires an informed public," and "Our goal is develop a technology which empowers citizens to form their own intelligence agency; to gather, sort and act on information they gather about the government."

In his review of the project at java.net, Alex Rupp described the project's "Civilian Intelligence Agency" idea of performing espionage on its own government as "a chapter right out a Neal Stephenson novel."

The MIT GIA project has been cited as an influence by officials working on Open Government projects in the United Kingdom.

Functionality
GIA was designed to tap into the Collective Intelligence of the American citizenry, allowing anyone to "submit information, judge credibility and make connections."  The database allowed anyone to contribute anonymously, but with a feature to contact the government member in question, to facilitate the opportunity for confirmation or denial.

GIA allowed people to "explore data, track events, find patterns and build profiles related to specific government officials or political issues."  Information was readily available on topics from campaign finance and corporate ties, religious affiliation, and educational background, to real-time notifications when a given government official would be appearing on television.

In his Hacking Congress column at xml.com, Paul Ford referred to the GIA initiative as an "attempt to map the government."

Current Status
As of December 2013, the website URL for GIA no longer resolves via DNS and the site is unavailable.

See also
 ADVISE
 Carnivore, FBI US digital interception program
 Combat Zones That See, or CTS, a project to link up all security cameras citywide and "track everything that moves".
 Communications Assistance For Law Enforcement Act
 ECHELON, NSA worldwide digital interception program
 Information Processing Technology Office
 Intellipedia, a collection of wikis used by the U.S. intelligence community to "connect the dots" between pieces of intelligence
 MALINTENT—similar program to HumanID
 Mass surveillance
 Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange
 PRISM
 Sousveillance, undersight, and inverse surveillance
 Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulations
 TALON (database)

References

External links
 https://web.archive.org/web/20040328162726/http://opengov.media.mit.edu/ (Wayback Machine snapshot)
 http://yro.slashdot.org/story/03/07/04/1313222/government-information-awareness

Open government in the United States


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It is important that your information to be displayed so that readers can connect with it. People will be able to search out your home page or your home website when you use the most relevant keywords or keyword phrases. Not only that but you don't want to make a giant list of phrases and hope to attempt to catch all of them. On page factor mistakes can really be avoided as long as you have the right knowledge to implement each day.
In fact, it's in your best interest to simply aim at the upper limit but not allow yourself to go past it because going past it is just a huge waste of time. This is one page that usually is safe. Usually, the first page will not have this problem. This article has been all about SEO, but there are other ways to gain the benefits of search marketing without doing any SEO.
But you will see it and so that means people do not know about it. Make sure you don't do this. Doing site building and marketing can be done in a variety of ways including article syndication and content marketing, two things that worked very well in regard to getting traffic.
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Q: Appium server will not start from Eclipse through Java on a Mac When I try to start my Appium server from eclipse with Java, I get the failure message "org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Connection refused"
I've been puzzling over this and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Any help would be appreciated
Here is the console log:
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
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[INFO] Building TestngCucumberBoilerPlate 0.0.1-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.7:resources (default-resources) @ TestngCucumberBoilerPlate ---
[WARNING] File encoding has not been set, using platform encoding UTF-8, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (UTF-8 actually) to copy filtered resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] skip non existing resourceDirectory /Users/<redacted>/Documents/BlueprintTestngCucumber/src/main/resources
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:3.2:compile (default-compile) @ TestngCucumberBoilerPlate ---
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-resources-plugin:2.7:testResources (default-testResources) @ TestngCucumberBoilerPlate ---
[WARNING] File encoding has not been set, using platform encoding UTF-8, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[WARNING] Using platform encoding (UTF-8 actually) to copy filtered resources, i.e. build is platform dependent!
[INFO] Copying 6 resources
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-compiler-plugin:3.2:testCompile (default-testCompile) @ TestngCucumberBoilerPlate ---
[INFO] Nothing to compile - all classes are up to date
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-surefire-plugin:2.18.1:test (default-test) @ TestngCucumberBoilerPlate ---
[INFO] Surefire report directory: /Users/<redacted>/Documents/BlueprintTestngCucumber/target/surefire-reports

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Running TestSuite
entered start server
commands given
Attempting to start server
Appium server started.
capabilities Set.
cucumberrunner.takescreenshot
Tests run: 5, Failures: 3, Errors: 0, Skipped: 2, Time elapsed: 6.01 sec <<< FAILURE! - in TestSuite
setUp(main.CucumberRunner)  Time elapsed: 5.702 sec  <<< FAILURE!
org.openqa.selenium.WebDriverException: Connection refused
Build info: version: '3.5.2', revision: '10229a9', time: '2017-08-21T17:29:55.15Z'
System info: host: '<redacted>-0046.local', ip: 'fe80:0:0:0:1048:a7a5:ee69:6124%en0', os.name: 'Mac OS X', os.arch: 'x86_64', os.version: '10.13.4', java.version: '1.8.0_77'
Driver info: driver.version: AppiumDriver
    at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
    at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:350)
    at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:206)
    at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:188)
    at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:392)
    at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:589)
    at org.apache.http.conn.socket.PlainConnectionSocketFactory.connectSocket(PlainConnectionSocketFactory.java:75)
    at org.apache.http.impl.conn.DefaultHttpClientConnectionOperator.connect(DefaultHttpClientConnectionOperator.java:142)
    at org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.connect(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java:359)
    at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.establishRoute(MainClientExec.java:381)
    at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.MainClientExec.execute(MainClientExec.java:237)
    at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.ProtocolExec.execute(ProtocolExec.java:185)
    at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RetryExec.execute(RetryExec.java:89)
    at org.apache.http.impl.execchain.RedirectExec.execute(RedirectExec.java:111)
    at org.apache.http.impl.client.InternalHttpClient.doExecute(InternalHttpClient.java:185)
    at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:72)
    at org.apache.http.impl.client.CloseableHttpClient.execute(CloseableHttpClient.java:56)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.internal.ApacheHttpClient.fallBackExecute(ApacheHttpClient.java:139)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.internal.ApacheHttpClient.execute(ApacheHttpClient.java:87)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:337)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:136)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:142)
    at io.appium.java_client.remote.AppiumCommandExecutor.execute(AppiumCommandExecutor.java:89)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:641)
    at io.appium.java_client.DefaultGenericMobileDriver.execute(DefaultGenericMobileDriver.java:42)
    at io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver.execute(AppiumDriver.java:1)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:254)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:236)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:137)
    at io.appium.java_client.DefaultGenericMobileDriver.<init>(DefaultGenericMobileDriver.java:38)
    at io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver.<init>(AppiumDriver.java:83)
    at io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver.<init>(AppiumDriver.java:93)
    at main.CucumberRunner.setUp(CucumberRunner.java:231)

takeScreenshot(main.CucumberRunner)  Time elapsed: 0.002 sec  <<< FAILURE!
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
    at main.CucumberRunner.takeScreenshot(CucumberRunner.java:300)

quit(main.CucumberRunner)  Time elapsed: 0.021 sec  <<< FAILURE!
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
    at main.CucumberRunner.quit(CucumberRunner.java:336)

Results :

Failed tests:
  CucumberRunner.quit:336 NullPointer
  CucumberRunner.setUp:231 » WebDriver Connection refused
Build info: version: '...
  CucumberRunner.takeScreenshot:300 NullPointer

Tests run: 5, Failures: 3, Errors: 0, Skipped: 2

[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 10.736 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2018-07-13T13:00:57-04:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 29M/1206M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin:2.18.1:test (default-test) on project TestngCucumberBoilerPlate: There are test failures.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] Please refer to /Users/<redacted>/Documents/BlueprintTestngCucumber/target/surefire-reports for the individual test results.
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]
[ERROR]
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR]
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/MojoFailureException

Here is my code for Appium server class. I get the error whenever I do start server, then try to connect to the server.
public class AppiumServer {
public void startServer() {
    System.out.println("entered start server");
    CommandLine command = new CommandLine(
            "/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node/bin/node");
    command.addArgument(
            "/Applications/Appium.app/Contents/Resources/node_modules/appium/bin/appium.js",
            false);
    command.addArgument("--address", false);
    //command.addArgument("http://localhost:");
    command.addArgument("127.0.0.1");
    command.addArgument("--port", false);
    command.addArgument("4723");
    command.addArgument("--full-reset", false);
    System.out.println("commands given");
    DefaultExecuteResultHandler resultHandler = new DefaultExecuteResultHandler();

    DefaultExecutor executor = new DefaultExecutor();
    executor.setExitValue(1);
    System.out.println("Attempting to start server");
    try {
        executor.execute(command, resultHandler);

        Thread.sleep(5000);
        System.out.println("Appium server started.");
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

public void stopServer() {
    String[] command = { "/usr/bin/killall", "-KILL", "node" };
    try {
        Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command);
        System.out.println("Appium server stopped.");
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

}
Here is the calling class, up until the point of failure. This class successfully connects if I start the server manually by opening Appium. I'm pretty sure the server isn't starting when I try to start it through eclipse.
public static AppiumServer server = new AppiumServer();
@BeforeSuite
public void setUp() throws MalformedURLException {

System.out.println("Before suite started.");

server.startServer();

DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
    // Set ios deviceName desired capability. Set your device name.
    capabilities.setCapability("deviceName", "My iPhone");
    // Set BROWSER_NAME desired capability. It's iOSin our case here.
    capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, "iOS");
    // Set iOS VERSION desired capability. Set your mobile device's OS version.
    capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.VERSION, "11.2.6");
    // Set iOS platformName desired capability. It's Android in our case here.
    capabilities.setCapability("noReset", false);
    capabilities.setCapability("platformName", "iOS");
    //capabilities.setCapability("platformVersion", "7.1.1");
    // Set your application's appPackage if you are using any other app.
    capabilities.setCapability("xcodeSigningId", "iPhone Developer");
    capabilities.setCapability("appActivity", "com.<redacted>.<redacted>.<redacted>");
    // It will launch app in iOS device.
    capabilities.setCapability("udid", "<redacted>");
    capabilities.setCapability("xcodeOrgId", "<redacted>");
    capabilities.setCapability("automationName", "XCUITest");
    capabilities.setCapability("bundleId", "com.<redacted>.<redacted>");
    System.out.println("capabilities Set.");

    driver = new AppiumDriver(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"), capabilities);
    System.out.println("connection suceeded");

A: There are several possible solutions:
Connection refused means the Appium server cannot handle the incoming request due to some reasons.
1.check possible local issues
Check that there isn't already started same process, or process with same port.
2. Think as server-based
or simply don't run Appium each time You try to test, open server and leave it as server supposed to behave, running all of the time, and handle requests when is needed.
In start I've also tried this method, by running server programmatically, but it is really not necessary, it is slower, need maintenance, and You have to it start always.
My opinion is this is time-consuming, and not necessary. Start it from command line/console, there are various ways to do it, node.js, shell script , Appium server IDE.
here is simplest command (from mac) appium --address 127.0.0.1 --port 4723
3. possible solution via AppiumDriverLocalService
AndroidDriver<MobileElement> driver=null;
AppiumDriverLocalService service=null;

service = AppiumDriverLocalService.buildDefaultService();

DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability("platormName", "Android");
capabilities.setCapability("deviceName", "yourAppUdid");
capabilities.setCapability("appPackage","YourAppPackage");
capabilities.setCapability("appActivity","yourAppActivity");

(or IOS)
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
// Set ios deviceName desired capability. Set your device name.
capabilities.setCapability("deviceName", "My iPhone");
// Set BROWSER_NAME desired capability. It's iOSin our case here.
capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, "iOS");
// Set iOS VERSION desired capability. Set your mobile device's OS version.
capabilities.setCapability(CapabilityType.VERSION, "11.2.6");
// Set iOS platformName desired capability. It's Android in our case here.
capabilities.setCapability("noReset", false);
capabilities.setCapability("platformName", "iOS");
//capabilities.setCapability("platformVersion", "7.1.1");
// Set your application's appPackage if you are using any other app.
capabilities.setCapability("xcodeSigningId", "iPhone Developer");
capabilities.setCapability("appActivity", "com.<redacted>.<redacted>.<redacted>");
// It will launch app in iOS device.
capabilities.setCapability("udid", "<redacted>");
capabilities.setCapability("xcodeOrgId", "<redacted>");
capabilities.setCapability("automationName", "XCUITest");
capabilities.setCapability("bundleId", "com.<redacted>.<redacted>");
System.out.println("capabilities Set.");

service.start();

driver = new AndroidDriver<MobileElement>(service, capabilities);

Note : If you are using appium version 1.5.3 or greater then you have to set APPIUM_BINARY_PATH in environmental variable.
e.g. APPIUM_BINARY_PATH=...\node_modules\appium\build\lib\main.js
Hope this helps,


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namespace Google.Cloud.Bigtable.Admin.V2.Snippets
{
    // [START bigtableadmin_v2_generated_BigtableTableAdmin_ListSnapshots_async_flattened]
    using Google.Api.Gax;
    using Google.Cloud.Bigtable.Admin.V2;
    using System;
    using System.Linq;
    using System.Threading.Tasks;

    public sealed partial class GeneratedBigtableTableAdminClientSnippets
    {
        /// <summary>Snippet for ListSnapshotsAsync</summary>
        /// <remarks>
        /// This snippet has been automatically generated for illustrative purposes only.
        /// It may require modifications to work in your environment.
        /// </remarks>
        public async Task ListSnapshotsAsync()
        {
            // Create client
            BigtableTableAdminClient bigtableTableAdminClient = await BigtableTableAdminClient.CreateAsync();
            // Initialize request argument(s)
            string parent = "projects/[PROJECT]/instances/[INSTANCE]/clusters/[CLUSTER]";
            // Make the request
            PagedAsyncEnumerable<ListSnapshotsResponse, Snapshot> response = bigtableTableAdminClient.ListSnapshotsAsync(parent);

            // Iterate over all response items, lazily performing RPCs as required
            await response.ForEachAsync((Snapshot item) =>
            {
                // Do something with each item
                Console.WriteLine(item);
            });

            // Or iterate over pages (of server-defined size), performing one RPC per page
            await response.AsRawResponses().ForEachAsync((ListSnapshotsResponse page) =>
            {
                // Do something with each page of items
                Console.WriteLine("A page of results:");
                foreach (Snapshot item in page)
                {
                    // Do something with each item
                    Console.WriteLine(item);
                }
            });

            // Or retrieve a single page of known size (unless it's the final page), performing as many RPCs as required
            int pageSize = 10;
            Page<Snapshot> singlePage = await response.ReadPageAsync(pageSize);
            // Do something with the page of items
            Console.WriteLine($"A page of {pageSize} results (unless it's the final page):");
            foreach (Snapshot item in singlePage)
            {
                // Do something with each item
                Console.WriteLine(item);
            }
            // Store the pageToken, for when the next page is required.
            string nextPageToken = singlePage.NextPageToken;
        }
    }
    // [END bigtableadmin_v2_generated_BigtableTableAdmin_ListSnapshots_async_flattened]
}

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I read this for news from all telugu news papers. It's a goto place for news. However, I am unable to download my books which I bought over years. It says download limit reached. I have been changing and upgrading my phones so obviously I installed this app in multiple devices And read books in multiple devices. If you don't allow downloads.. This is not fair. Please help. You would get 5 stars from me if you can help me on time.
I was 650th user to download Newshunt. It was a miraculous app of that time. Just having access of newspaper in my Nokia mobile was amazing. Now as per trends even videos and lot of amazing stuff available. but my humble request to your team is, please never degrade the quality of Words over Videos. there are many , who still prefers reading over watching. Because reading is traditional and is actually the way. hope you got what I wanted to say. kudos team. Love you all.
I really like this app and using since 4-5 year, but now days I'm getting some fake news and some selective news about political affairs on dailyhunt. i thought to uninstall but wanted to give a review and a chance to correct it. I request you to take the corrective action on this, if i found one fake news than how can i believe on others or on dailyhunt. Rest is everything good. Thanks..
I was using this apps more than 3 year year or of, but since one month it stop it notification, working when I tried to reinstall again. getting message as my mobile device 'MI redmi Y1' whenever I have to read the news that time it is not not working like scrolling up and scorlling so please check it out this app issue.
App is good but some publishers are givig fake news/ poor content. You should also implement dislike button on every post so users can rate them. this could give you better results to keep your app healthy. i already blocked many publishers but there are so many more fake publishers out there. Please improve.
varied kinds of news from all quarters are given appreciably well and they are timely and useful. Though there are some spelling and grammatical mistakes, only rarely, in general , presentations are praiseworthy. Thank you.
I was waiting for this years. Last year I contacted Manorama and their software company to make an application to read news in malayalam but never responded. Thanks for this great software. Even without ad. Wow!! Keep up the good quality I strongly recommend this application to any one who like to read news in desi language.
Great support from technical team to get notifications in my phone. Previously I didn't get any news notifications, but once I follow up with support team they resolved my issue. Appreciate the great support.
As it is an app for news i guess news should be posted faster than other platforms because it's digital, else everything is very good in this app.All the categories to choose, interests and dislikes everything is good.
As I started living on this app from newshunt, when they started this app.. but now a days some ads are adding up which divert the mind in between.. anyway thanks for the news you collect and produce..
I really like this app because every time I refreshed it, I get the updated content. I regularly read it. This is the source cause of which I keep updated myself with current news.
Updates the news quickly nice job ! But one thing I must encourage the team to short the news according to the best media provider rather than from local media. What if, an user can read the important topics of the country/world from best reporter without much scrolling. Amazing ! right ?
Dear users, This is to inform you that the app has been made an ad-based model and hence subscription has been completely removed. Usage of the app is totally FREE henceforth.
Thx for adding Assam and NE in location but i don't get complete news from assam & NE in your app.Whenever i search for local news it always says - no news.How can it be,if guwahati plus,pratidin,assam tribune,sentinel are flooded with news from all parts of Assam & NE,how can your app says no news.So strange u added nepali as app language not assamese.Assam is one of the state of india and assamese is language but nepali may be spoken in india but nepal is not our country state.Shame on u guys.
Works again thank you !
My favorite indian newspapers are alive again ! Especially Deccan herald ! Really good concept and nicely done. Thanks much for making it ad based instead of subscription ! And the ads are non-intusive too, thanks !!!
A must have and a very Good app for all Telugu news papers.. Improved a lot in last few updates and a quick turnaround for fixes. Keep up guys !!!
A must app for all Indians living outside India..
This news app has all Indian language's major news papers, with lot of category news.
It's a very good app. Recently, after installing the ios6 it stopped working. It opens up but content is not loaded. I hope the developers fix this very soon. Thanks!
If you want to read news in your language sitting any part of world, then this is the app you should install. Don't ask for fancy GUI, otherwise really nice app. But atleast should support landscape read view.
I found this the best app to read Malayalam newspapers. It crashes once in a while, but still a very useful app.
If your are having problem after upgrading, remove and reinstall application. It worked for me.
Beautifully designed app that collates all important news from major newspapers. Good coverage of local news in India. Highly recommended!
Many newspapers in one place. I think presently only support for India and Bangladesh! Nice user layout! No adds. My opinion is to go for it!
Great app,supports multiple languages from different regions in India. I read Telugu and english papers every morning on News hunt. Thanks for providing this app.
I love this app. You can read in your native language and choice of choosing content.
It's one of the coolest app for getting instantly information about our surroundings, But give better than this.
Great app. Solves the flash player problem to read indian news papers. Hope the developers are working on new enhancements.
Good app to get the news in your Indian language or English.
Perfect news app for regional and national news.
Please roll out an update for a better UI and possibly more english newspapers.
A must have app..I am andhra pradesh(Telugu)..satisfied with telugu news papers updates..very nice..keep upgrading & updating..
Now restored back to awesome normal state . Nice job fixing issues in no time.
Would really appreciate if its optimized for ipad, however iphone users should find it useful.
One stop reading for regional language papers... suggestion can you add famous Marathi paper "Maharashtra Times" in the list?
Read top Indian newspapers free.
Provides quite a few newspapers in regional languages such as hindi gujarati malayalam etc.
Very nice app with latest news update.
The best app for Indian news... Very recent and regularly updated...thx for a great app!!!!!
Up to the point, no beating around the bush!
A good collection of news paper. It works smooth.
Awesome app for news covering all news papers..
This is the best indian news app.
Please have a fix for the app with IOS 6.
With support for so many lingos, this app is wonderful.
Quality of the application is so good.
Super app. 5 star rating ..
Nice layout. All the best for next version.
Very nice to read all newspapers in one app!!!
Nice App. Latest news. Keep it up.
coolest indian news app ever!! dont miss it!!
Aug 21, 2013 by B. J. P.
Best app for i phone.
Not working in os6.need to fix.
Not working with OS6,need to fix .


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Fergie: If City beat us, they deserve to win the league
The destiny of the Premier League title will be firmly in Manchester City's hands if they beat leaders Manchester United at home on Monday, United manager Alex Ferguson has said.
United hold a three-point advantage going into the highly-anticipated showdown but a win for City would put them top on goal difference with two matches to play.
"I think City probably would win it," Ferguson told the club's website on Sunday. "Yes. I think, with two games left, they'd have a great chance."
After Monday's clash, defending champions United face Swansea City at home before completing their season at Sunderland.
City's penultimate game is at Newcastle United, who are chasing a Champions Leagueplace, before Roberto Mancini's side meet relegation-threatened Queen Park Rangers at home on the final day of the season on May 13.
United were eight points ahead of City in mid-April but defeat at Wigan Athletic and a 4-4 draw at home to Everton last weekend when they let slip a 4-2 lead have put their cross-town rivals back in the title frame.
Ferguson said he was pondering "two or three options" in team selection to face City, who have won three in a row.
"I just know what we want to do in the game. We've got enough experience and pace in the team, enough good footballers and determination," Ferguson added.
"I think we'll be alright in that respect. The game could be decided by anything, I hope it's not by a bad decision, that's for sure.
"There's focus on both teams to make it a good game. It's important as we're representing the city all over the world. (Uefa president) Michel Platini is making an effort to come to the game. It creates a certain occasion and we want to represent ourselves the right way."
Flourishing partnership
Mancini said the pressure was all on United.
"We don't have any pressure because we don't have anything to lose," he said.
"For them, I think a draw would be a good result…but I don't think they have this mentality. Like us, it's difficult for us to play for a draw, we want to win always also when we play against a better team than us, like in this moment, like against United."
Volatile striker Mario Balotelli is available again after suspension but Mancini is unlikely to break up the flourishing partnership between Sergio Aguero and ex-United man Carlos Tevez, whose return from exile has coincided with City's revival.
Mancini said that he would likely sell the ill-disciplined Balotelli at the end of the campaign following his red card in a 1-0 defeat against Arsenal on April 8.
Asked if he could trust fellow Italian Balotelli for such a high-octane game on Monday, Mancini, with a smile on his face, replied: "I think this game, yes, only this game." — Reuters


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Canberra's Emily Tapp has suffered another heartbreaking moment in her career, after crashing out of the PTWC paratriathlon some five years after she was forced to withdraw from competing in Rio due to injury. As fellow Australian Lauren Parker crossed the line for silver on Sunday morning, Tapp was receiving medical attention after she crashed into a barrier during the opening stages of the bike leg, rendering her bike unridable. It was the second Paralympic heartbreak for the 30-year-old debutant. She was selected to compete in Rio but was forced to withdraw weeks out from the 2016 event as her skin grafts - which she needed after suffering third-degree burns from a gas heater in the lead up - did not heal correctly. Tokyo subsequently became Tapp's debutant Paralympics, after a five-year wait, as she looked to add to her two world championships and a Commonwealth Games silver medal. On the water, Canberra's Nikki Ayers and her PR3 mixed coxed four team finished fourth in the final, despite not being able to train together since May. They were hoping to go one better than their fourth place finish at the 2019 World Championships but they crossed the line in the same position. Four-time Paralympian Kathryn Ross and her PR2 mixed double sculls partner Simon Albury suffered an upsetting blow on Saturday, after they did not qualify for the medal final after a speedy repechage race knocked them out. They crossed the line in third in their repechage, with a time of eight minutes and 12 seconds, to record the third fasted time in the event. MORE IN CANBERRA SPORT: The winner of the other repechage race, Ukraine, rowed five seconds slower than the Australians and qualified for the final. However, only the top two teams from each repechage race progresses. Similarly Ross and Albury's time in the repechage would have sealed them gold in the final on Sunday, with Great Britain taking home gold in eight minutes and 38 seconds. Outside of the water, University of Canberra student Sarah Walsh finished seventh in the T64 long jump on Saturday. Despite not medalling as the reigning 2019 World Championship bronze medallist, she said competing in her second Paralympics was the best. Canberra's next Paralympic medal hopes lie on the athletics track with AIS athlete Madison de Rozario and Angie Ballard in the 800 metres final at 8pm on Sunday.
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Emily Tapp suffers heartbreaking bike crash in Tokyo paratriathlon
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Paratriathlete Emily Tapp suffered more heartbreak, after crashing in Tokyo during the bike leg of the event on Sunday morning. Picture: Getty
Canberra's Emily Tapp has suffered another heartbreaking moment in her career, after crashing out of the PTWC paratriathlon some five years after she was forced to withdraw from competing in Rio due to injury.
As fellow Australian Lauren Parker crossed the line for silver on Sunday morning, Tapp was receiving medical attention after she crashed into a barrier during the opening stages of the bike leg, rendering her bike unridable.
It was the second Paralympic heartbreak for the 30-year-old debutant. She was selected to compete in Rio but was forced to withdraw weeks out from the 2016 event as her skin grafts - which she needed after suffering third-degree burns from a gas heater in the lead up - did not heal correctly.
Tokyo subsequently became Tapp's debutant Paralympics, after a five-year wait, as she looked to add to her two world championships and a Commonwealth Games silver medal.
Unfortunate ending for Aussie Emily Tapp who is forced to abandon the race because of a bike accident 😢
We hope Emily is ok 💚💛#Tokyo2020 | #Paralympicspic.twitter.com/nuseeRLVj7
— 7Sport (@7Sport) August 28, 2021
On the water, Canberra's Nikki Ayers and her PR3 mixed coxed four team finished fourth in the final, despite not being able to train together since May.
They were hoping to go one better than their fourth place finish at the 2019 World Championships but they crossed the line in the same position.
Four-time Paralympian Kathryn Ross and her PR2 mixed double sculls partner Simon Albury suffered an upsetting blow on Saturday, after they did not qualify for the medal final after a speedy repechage race knocked them out.
They crossed the line in third in their repechage, with a time of eight minutes and 12 seconds, to record the third fasted time in the event.
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The winner of the other repechage race, Ukraine, rowed five seconds slower than the Australians and qualified for the final. However, only the top two teams from each repechage race progresses.
Similarly Ross and Albury's time in the repechage would have sealed them gold in the final on Sunday, with Great Britain taking home gold in eight minutes and 38 seconds.
Outside of the water, University of Canberra student Sarah Walsh finished seventh in the T64 long jump on Saturday. Despite not medalling as the reigning 2019 World Championship bronze medallist, she said competing in her second Paralympics was the best.
Canberra's next Paralympic medal hopes lie on the athletics track with AIS athlete Madison de Rozario and Angie Ballard in the 800 metres final at 8pm on Sunday.
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What do you do if you're a Christian priest or minister who no longer believes in God? Most likely you are afraid to confide in anyone, you don't want to hurt those in your family and your congregation, and you have no other training.
This entry was posted in Belief and tagged clergy on 3 December 2013 by Chris Watkins.
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson calls on fellow atheists to show respect, compassion and understanding towards believers.
The context is the relationship between education and belief in a personal god. This belief declines from around 90% among the general public to 7% among elite scientists – small, but still a significant minority of top scientists who believe in some kind of personal god who can intervene in the world.
So here's my problem, here's my concern: When you're educated and you understand how physics works, and you're mathematically literate, and you understand data, and you understand experiment, and you go up to someone who doesn't have that training, and they're religious, and you ask them "Why are you you religious, you're believing in invisible things that influence your life, what's wrong with you?", that's unfair.
It's not only unfair, it's disrespectful, for the following reason: until that number [the 7% of elite scientists who believe in a personal god] is zero, you've got nothing to say to the general public. These are scientists among us in the National Academy of Sciences who are religious and pray to a personal god and I know some of them. And you're fighting the public for their religious beliefs?
Figure that one out first, because maybe there's an asymptote. Maybe you can't change everybody. Maybe that's telling us something. Maybe there's something in the brain wiring that positively prevents some people from ever being an atheist.
How far to take this? I think Tyson himself demonstrates a great balance in his public life, speaking clearly and openly, with humor and respect.
This entry was posted in Belief, Communication and tagged atheism, communication, respect, science communication on 8 October 2013 by Chris Watkins.


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He'd made thousands of dollars on a single trade the night before, and was feeling lucky. It seemed safe. Adam had investigated the coin's development team on LinkedIn, and watched a video of its CEO laying out a roadmap for the coin's future. A newswire piece published on Yahoo touted DeTrade's technology as advanced enough to disrupt cryptocurrency.
Bitcoin is very much back in the zeitgeist. But while for many people Bitcoin is synonymous with cryptocurrency, it's not what crypto traders like Adam are interested in. Beneath Bitcoin and Ethereum, the second-best-known currency, is a strange underworld of different cryptocurrencies. Called altcoins or, sometimes, "shitcoins," these are essentially penny-stock cryptocurrencies. And they're crazy.
Bitcoin tripled its value recently, but many altcoins explode 30, 40 or 50 times over within days. The most famous is Dogecoin, which recently shot up past 10 cents thanks to a potent combination of Reddit and Elon Musk , but there are thousands of altcoins, forming an Indiana Jones-esque Cave of Crypto Wonders. The spoils can be life-changing, but there are traps around each corner. Fortunes can be made and lost in seconds. Cons and fraudsters are everywhere, with traders vulnerable to scams at each step of the process.
Case in point: Adam's foray into DeTrade. The touted technology behind it wasn't real. Nothing about the project was. It was a scam. Those behind it, operating in the unregulated world of crypto, vanished. Adam got into cryptocurrency last September. When we spoke, it felt like he'd crammed years of trading into two months. Adam had seen some tempestuous trading in the weeks prior to DeTrade. He met people in Telegram groups, and was able to track their trades using apps that follow a user's wallet -- a common practice within cryptocurrency circles.
The community is enthusiastic, but there's a small problem. Right now cryptocurrencies don't really do anything. Late saw Bitcoin explode. Investing in a stock means ascertaining its value -- based on factors like competition, risks and, above all, profit generation -- and then putting money into ones that are undervalued. If other investors follow you, the stock rises, giving you an opportunity to take profit.
Speculation is naturally part of this: The Dot-com Bubble was all about pouring money into "pre-profit" companies in the hopes they'd make money someday. Cryptocurrency, however, takes speculation into the stratosphere. For the most part, cryptocurrency is pure speculation. People are investing in technology that produces nothing, and as yet has little or no practical application. That's a little under 15 times the price of an Apple share. Doge, a coin marketed after the internet slang for "dog," doubled in value in January after a pornstar tweeted about it.
After the price settled, it then rocketed once more when Reddit wanted to make it the GameStop of cryptocurrency. David Gerard is one such skeptic.
His most recent focuses on Libra , Facebook's ill-fated attempt at digital currency. All of this is about the psychology of get-rich-quick schemes. In his years working as an IT systems administrator, Gerard's job has been to examine new technology and discern what's useful and what's not. Cryptocurrency, he told me, is not. This is the allure of "shitcoins. That's no exaggeration. Cryptocurrencies are mined using powerful computers, and many enterprising types put together farms of computers used solely for the purpose of mining Bitcoin.
As a result, Bitcoin is responsible for more energy consumption than Switzerland. Gerard says the only thing you can do with Bitcoin is buy it and sell it. He's even harsher on altcoins. Even by the standards of Bitcoin, altcoins are useless," he said. This is precisely what makes them so fascinating.
Seemingly, all they can do is get internet punters to bet on their success. But this enables average people to become rich. That Meme coin I mentioned before? Crypto Spider -- who, like most people in the cryptocurrency community, goes by a pseudonym -- has made millions with altcoins. In cryptocurrency, you can follow someone's portfolio if you have their wallet number, so the community was able to watch this challenge play out in real time.
Like Adam, Crypto Spider has no background in finance or trading. He lists college courses in game theory, basic algorithmics and some economics as useful to his crypto exploits -- but in essence he's a self-taught amateur.
He declined to tell me his specific age, only that he was "20ish" when he first got into cryptocurrency in He admits he was attracted by the "pretty numbers," by seeing coins magnify in value 30, 40 and 50 times within a short period.
He was enthusiastic enough to start a university club around cryptocurrencies, and how they'd be used in the future. Crypto Spider says cryptocurrency will play a "major part in the future of finance," and speaks with the passion of a believer. He breathlessly transitions from how cryptocurrency is a part of the internet's evolution to the possible use cases of blockchain , the technology behind Bitcoin, in the next 10 years.
But despite his enthusiasm, I couldn't help but notice how chunks of what he said echoed Gerard. Cryptocurrencies are mined using powerful computers. More emissions are produced by global Bitcoin miners than by the entire country of Switzerland.
For one thing, he looks back at all the projects he was excited about in and realizes most were almost entirely vaporware, technology that's advertised but never delivered.
Gerard calls the cryptocurrency community a pool of scammers. Spider notes that people often invest in altcoins they know don't have a function, because there's enough hype around the project to make money. I somehow was able to game all the other people. He first approached cryptocurrnecy trading with the mentality of, "I'm young, I'm dumb, I can lose all my money and it'll be OK.
Again though, it reminded me of something Gerard said: "If you're rich enough that your money is your own problem, fine. If you know zero is a number your investment could go to, fine. People really are getting ripped off. Difficult to regulate and subsisting largely on hype, cryptocurrencies are particularly prone to scams.
Those are two of the biggest instances of crypto-fraud. But millions of dollars are scammed from cryptocurrency markets every day in less dramatic ways.
Coins are suddenly discontinued, with owners taking all the money with them in what the community calls "rug pulls. Other times, entire cryptocurrency exchanges -- which sell coins like a stock exchange sells stocks -- vanish. A lot of people are taking on pseudonyms, because they're almost all money grabs. Coming into wider use in recent years, deepfakes are mostly used for pornographic purposes , but as the DeTrade scam shows, deepfakes can also be used in financial scams. OneCoin founder Ruja Ignatova at an event for the "revolutionary" cryptocurrency.
Ignatova disappeared around the time OneCoin was discovered to be a fraud: The cryptocurrency the company sold didn't actually exist. Ignatova has yet to be found. Gerard says he's never seen a deepfake used as part of a scam before. Crypto Spider says he's seen it just once. Deepfake technology "is being democratized, and that may not be a good thing," said Julie Inman-Grant.
Ironically, it's blockchain, the behind-the-scenes technology, that could be the solution to the burgeoning deepfake problem. In cryptocurrency, the blockchain is an unalterable ledger that tracks every transaction. Once it's on the ledger, it can't be altered. That same technology can be used to track anything -- like the creation and distribution of a video, from studio to iPhone screen. There are already startups working toward this, like Truepic. When I asked about blockchain's ability to neutralize deepfakes, Inman-Grant wasn't entirely optimistic.
For skeptics, a higher peak just means a more precipitous fall. That means less of the "pretty numbers" Crypto Spider was attracted to, but hopefully fewer scams.
For Adam, DeTrade actually had a happy ending. One aggrieved victim of the scam analyzed the metadata of the deepfake, which he used to track down the perpetrators. After some naming and shaming across Telegram, the money was returned. Daniel Van Boom April 13 It was a Saturday morning in December and Adam was feeling bold.
Heirs of Pablo Picasso, the famed 20th-century Spanish artist, are vaulting into 21st-century commerce by selling 1, digital art pieces of one of his ceramic works that has never before seen publicly riding a fad for crypto assets that have taken the art and financial worlds by storm. For an exclusive interview before the formal launch this week, Picasso's granddaughter, Marina Picasso, and her son Florian Picasso opened up their apartment - which is swimming in works from their illustrious ancestor - in an upscale Geneva neighborhood. There they offered up a glimpse, however tantalizingly slim, of the piece behind what they're billing as an unprecedented fusion of old-school fine art and digital assets. They're looking to cash in on and ride a wave of interest in non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, which have netted millions for far-less-known artists and been criticized by some as environmentally costly get rich schemes. In economics jargon, a fungible token is an asset that can be exchanged on a one-for-one basis.
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By Rowan Hooper. I think this is close to being a national scandal. Look at these beauties! Peacock spiders are stunning, with courtship displays to match anything in a David Attenborough documentary. The one above was only named while we were writing up this piece. With this species, there are now 38 peacock spiders that have been formally named, and Otto says there are at least 25 more waiting to be officially named and described. Otto is a mite biologist at the Australian Department of Agriculture in Sydney, but peacock spiders have become his passion. He predicts that the spiders will soon become as iconic for Australian wildlife as kangaroos and koalas. Even for arachnophobes, it would be difficult not to find these spiders cute. The two most recently discovered, from south-east Queensland, are Maratus sceletus , nicknamed Skeletorus above , and Maratus jactatus , which goes by the nickname Sparklemuffin below.
A fake Bitcoin scam using the stars of Ireland's Dragon's Den to dupe victims into parting with their cash has been uncovered. The scam purports to offer a new way of trading cryptocurrency for the average person - through a platform called BitCoin Trader. A webpage advertising BitCoin Trader claims it is the work of two friends who appeared on the Dragon's Den and got several of the stars interested in investing. Instead, the cybercriminals behind the scheme will simply take your money and your financial details. According to the fake website collecting payments, the BitCoin Trader platform is an "automated bitcoin trading platform" that lets "the average person the opportunity to cash in on the bitcoin boom.
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Speaking at an event closing a week-long promotion of bitcoin in El Salvador, Bukele said the city planned in the eastern region of La Union would get geothermal power from a volcano and not levy any taxes except for a value added tax VAT. Half of the VAT levied would be used to fund the bonds issued to build the city, and the other half would pay for services such as garbage collection, Bukele said, estimating the public infrastructure would cost around , bitcoins. El Salvador in September became the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. Although Bukele is a popular president, opinion polls show Salvadorans are skeptical about his love of bitcoin, and its bumpy introduction has fueled protests against the government. Likening his plan to cities founded by Alexander the Great, Bukele said Bitcoin City would be circular, with an airport, residential and commercial areas, and feature a central plaza designed to look like a bitcoin symbol from the air. El Salvador plans to issue the initial bonds in , Bukele said, suggesting it would be in 60 days time.
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Today I am really excited to announce the publication of our framework for mobile and multi-channel reporting, sponsored by OpinionLab. You can download the report freely from the OpinionLab web site in trade for your name and email address.
This paper builds on our "Truth About Mobile Analytics" paper we published with our friends at Nedstat last year and focuses on both measurement in mobile applications and, more importantly, a cross-channel measurement framework built around interactions, engagement, and consumer-generated feedback.
Interactions occur in every channel, digital or not. Online and on mobile sites we call these "visits" (although that is a made up word for interactions); in mobile apps the interaction starts when you click the icon and ends when you click "close"; in SMS it starts when you receive the message; on the phone it starts when you dial, and in stores interactions start when you walk up to an employee.
Engagement is simply "more valuable" interactions. Regardless of your particular belief about the definition of engagement, we all know it when we see it. Online it happens after some number of minutes, or clicks, or sessions, or whatever; in mobile apps it happens when you've clicked enough buttons; on SMS it happens when you respond to the message; on the phone it starts when you begin a conversation, and the same is true in a physical store. We say engagement is "more valuable" because without engagement, value is unlikely to manifest.
Positive Feedback happens when you do a really, really good job. Measuring feedback is a critical "miss" for far too many organizations. Apples "app store" and the value of the star-rating system has essentially proven that there are massive financial differences associated with positive and negative experiences … but most companies still make the mistake of ignoring qualitative feedback altogether.
These three incredibly simple metrics can be applied to every one of your channels, your sub-channels, and your sub-sub-channels (if you like.) When applied you can create an apples to apples comparison between your web, mobile web, mobile apps, video, social, etc. efforts.
Then you can apply cost data, and you're really in business.
I don't want to say much more than that but I would really, really encourage you all to download and read this free white paper. When we put something like this out — something we believe has the power to really transform the way everyone thinks about the metrics they use to run their business, and something that has the potential to force dashboards everywhere to be scrapped and started over — we'd really like your collective feedback.
Thanks to Mark, Rick, Rand, and the entire team at OpinionLab for sponsoring this work. If you're the one person reading my blog that hasn't seen their application in action, head on over to their site and have a look.
1. The Canalys Global Smartphone Sales by OS data can be misleading when brands are considering which platforms they should fully support with mobile applications. An interesting view is to look at the usage of apps by OS rather than market share. Not surprisingly, iPhone and Android users have significantly higher levels of app usage, while Symbian and Blackberry have very little. According to a Nielson Q209 study, Symbian had 37% market share with only 1% of the users downloading apps. Conversely, iPhone had 27% market share with 39% downloading apps (seems low today). One could conclude iPhone's market share for "app usage" is 10X greater than Symbian's. Our research suggests iPhone and Android are "must haves," Blackberry and Symbian are "nice-to-haves," (these may move up depending on upcoming browser and OS updates). The remainder represents such a small portion of the market they are not worth the effort and expense – the ROI will not be there. Another point to consider is HTML5 based mobile browsers are poised to change the entire mobile web landscape and will affect apps and measurement in a very positive manner.
2. Frankly, you lost me with your logic as to why traditional web analytics doesn't work in the mobile measurement space. You start by making the case that large portions of phones are not trackable, which I agree. There a lot of phones in the world that do not support apps, do not support capabilities of modern browsers, and may have limited SMS/MMS capabilities. I don't see how your proposed measurement framework solves this problem. At the end of the day, the users of these phones are not really doing anything of value from a measurement perspective (unless you are the carrier) so it is irrelevant as part of the argument.
3. I generally agree traditional web analytics metrics are not appropriate for tracking some of these emerging channels, especially measuring within the channel. When looking at universal metrics across channels, interaction and engagement should be on top of everyone's list. The trick, as you have pointed out, is defining meaning of these metrics mean within the context of each channel to ensure the data actually has meaning in the end. Very soon, web analytics as we know it will truly be "web analytics" by providing rational and meaningful views across all the digital touch points. We are currently doing a lot of innovation in this space and believe the niche analytics providers and the mass-market website analytics providers will rapidly see their value propositions eroded in the modern world of digital marketing.
4. I love your suggestion around adding a cost and revenue dimension to the metrics – yes, this is the most important context of the data for executives. I would advocate reaching agreement on the value of the specific interactions and engagements. Preferably, this is estimated contribution rather than revenue (call me old school, but it still drives me crazy that most digital marketers use Revenue synonymously with Return). If you can reach agreement on value and cost, then measuring Return on Digital Investment is a simple calculation away. Now that is some goodness when it comes to making sense of your mobile efforts!
I look forward to your reply or dicussing in person soon.
Casey: Thanks for your comment and sorry for the delay responding! You make some great points, to be sure, and I look forward to continuing the discussion perhaps this week at Web Analytics Wednesday here in Portland.
I think the most radical thing we are proposing isn't really that radical at all … calling visits "Interactions" is pretty benign, especially since someone else ** made up ** all the words we used in the first place, right? And it's not like any of the various standardization efforts have had ** any impact ** on the ecosystem. So why not use an appropriate and colloquial term for the thing you are actually trying to describe, huh?
Nothing wrong with that, but it is a very (very, very) small number of companies out there today that have a directly comparable framework for their digital investments.
Anyway, thanks for the comment and see you this week!


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