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Take away Rörö and you have Hyppeln that would be the island furthest away from Lilla Varholmen. Quoted as being one of the "Northern islands", Hyppeln as the distinction of being one of 3 islands that is unique.
Comparable to Källö-Knippla, Hyppeln is quite small but has a fair amount to see. The ferry drops you off in the centre and you will immediately spot the small convenience store and probably the restaurant which is further to the left.
If you take a walk to the north of this area, then you will see most of the island homes that link you up with the nature trail. This nature trail loops around the northern part of the island and will eventually lead you to the only swimming area. Along the way, you will have to be careful as the trail is very rocky and is sometimes hard to negotiate.
The swimming area itself is well looked after and fairly large taking into consideration that Hyppeln is quite small. It is easy to take a swim here and the seabed is fairly smooth allowing you to take a break here.
The nature trail will eventually lead you back to the harbour area again where you can rest your feet on the benches provided.
Hyppeln is not really an island to spend a day on but is worth a visit if you are in the area of Burö on Hälsö and fancy a ferry trip to somewhere different.
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Disciplines: Political Science, Sociology
Theory of Austrian social scientist Friedrich A Hayek (1899-1992).
Social order is not deliberately created but arises out of the natural selection of those institutions and values and practices which are effective, so that a traditional framework develops over time within which individuals may operate securely.
F A Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty (London, 1982)


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Re: Perl best practices fanatismby Anonymous Monk
|on Jul 04, 2009 at 04:53 UTC ( #777171=note: print w/replies, xml )
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I have to agree with the charge of fanaticism. Too many people think that PBP is the Bible, IMHO. It explains everything to them.
I have been in interviews where if my answer to a question deviated slightly from something in PBP, my answer was deemed completely wrong. Why was it wrong? Because PBP said it was (according to the interviewer)! When I pointed out TIMTOWTDI, the interviewer looked lost. In other words, it seemed that their Perl knowledge was strictly limited to PBP.
Now replace "PBP" with the "Holy Bible" in the previous paragraph and you will get my drift. One thing I have learned in interviews is to keep things simple if you suspect you know more than the interviewer. Otherwise, some people will dismiss you as a blasphemous heathen who doesn't know
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Nick Le Mesurier reviews Northanger Abbey, presented by Heartbreak Productions in Jephson Gardens, Leamington
Less a play within a play than a parody of a parody, Heartbreak's Northanger Abbey is a witty if sometimes slightly strained adaptation of Jane Austen's classic spoof.
The premise for this adventure into Gothic Romance is Jane Austen's Writers Group, consisting of such luminaries as William Wordsworth, Mary Shelly, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, plus lesser known figures Bertie Masterson, writer of ghastly novels, and Thomas Moore, unsung poet. Together they cook up the story of Catherine Morland (Samantha Moorhouse), who enters fashionable Georgian society with a head full of Gothic novels. Under the tutelage of Mrs Allen (Benjamin Baeza) and the irrepressible Isabella Thorpe (Georgina Scott), Catherine falls for the dashingly handsome Henry Tilney (David John Hubball), but suffers the unwanted attentions of Isabella's ne'er do well brother John (Matthew Cooper). The story leads, of course, to Northanger Abbey, General Tilney's (Benjamin Bruckshaw) stately pile which, while it doesn't hold the Gothic secrets Catherine expects, holds others of a more uplifting kind.
Dani Carbery's comic adaptation steers just this side of mockery, and for the most part manages to balance the melodrama with the satire. The cast take up many different roles, and as ever Heartbreak's stage craft and use of audience participation is exemplary. There were times the play dwelt too much on the social scene in Regency Bath, and I was glad when we got to Northanger Abbey, where the real action began. The performance received a strong thumbs' up from the audience, helping to get Heartbreak's massive summer tour off to a fine start.
* Northanger Abbey continues tonight (Thursday June 15) at Jephson Gardens before touring the country. Visit www.heartbreakproductions.co.uk to book or for more information.


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This CSR discusses the classification of a reader service card enclosed in a Periodicals publication.
A reader service card is a card with a series of numbers printed on it that relates to text about products published in copies of a Periodicals requester publication. If a reader wants to receive information pertaining to particular products, he/she circles the appropriate numbers and mails the card. A question has been raised as to whether reader service cards may be inserted loose in bound Periodicals publications and whether the information on such cards constitutes advertising or nonadvertising matter.
Reader service cards must be bound in copies of bound Periodicals publications. They may not be enclosed loose in those copies.
Domestic Mail Manual (DMM) 18.104.22.168, provides that the term "advertising" includes all material for the publication of which a valuable consideration is paid, accepted, or promised; that calls attention to something for the purpose of getting people to buy it, sell it, seek it, or support it.
DMM 184.108.40.206 also states that if an advertising rate is charged for the publication of reading matter or other material, such material shall be deemed to be "advertising". Articles, items, and notices in the form of reading matter inserted in accordance with a custom or understanding that textual matter is to be inserted for the advertiser or his products in the publication in which a display advertisement appears, are deemed to be "advertising". If a newspaper or periodical advertises its own services or issues, or any other business of the publisher, whether in the form of display advertising or editorial or reading matter, this is deemed to be "advertising".
DMM 188.8.131.52 provides that receipts and orders for subscriptions are permissible enclosures in Periodicals publications and may be inserted loose or bound into each copy. These "permissible enclosures" should not be counted as either advertising or nonadvertising matter. Postage for such enclosures is based solely upon the added weight to the publication resulting from the inclusion of such cards or envelopes.
DMM 22.214.171.124 does not serve as the authority for enclosing loose reader service cards or combination subscription/reader service cards in copies of a bound publication mailed at Periodicals prices.
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If a reader service card has advertising and nonadvertising matter printed thereon, the whole card should be considered to be advertising matter. If a reader service card contains information for ordering a subscription to the Periodicals publication in which it is enclosed, that incidental
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Protein crepes filled with lemon creme and topped with a fresh blueberry compote! YUM
- 0.68 cup Blueberries
- 1/4 serving (serving = 1 cup) Blue Diamond Almond Breeze Unsweetened Vanilla Milk
- 1 serving (serving = 1/2 cup) Quaker Quick Oats
- 2 serving (serving = 3 tbsp) All Whites 100% Liquid Egg Whites
- 1 serving (serving = 1 container) Dannon Oikos Traditional Greek Yogurt - Lemon Meringue
- Blend oats into flour-like consistency
- Mix oats with egg whites and almond milk
- Pour 1/2 of batter into preheated pan while swirling pan to make sure it reaches edges. Let cook for about 30 seconds and flip. Do this with second half of batter as well.
- When crepes are finished fill with yogurt and plate. You can either fold them as shown in the picture, or roll them up!
- Top with blueberry compote by microwaving about 1/2 of blueberries for 30 seconds and then stirring in remaining blueberries when finished.
- Top with remaining yogurt (if there is any) and devour! I hope you enjoy 🙂
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A responsively designed online shopping website for this Bath based start-up enterprise selling packages of vintage designer sewing patterns and fabrics.
The logo designed in two size formats and four colour-ways to apply to the website each season.
Product item detail page and workshop blog page as seen at iPad and mobile size screen widths. The website was based on a WordPress platform with a WooCommerce shopping engine.


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Avid Collector buying single cans and whole collections
I'm a Collector first and foremost
Most of the time I close deals through the mail, so trust is key. I usually send a deposit, have you send me the can for review and complete the deal that way you get some money in hand first and I get to see the can before I complete the final payment. I'm retired Air Force, and currently work at the U.S. Army War College located in Carlise, PA and a member of the BCCA board of directors, so I can't cut out on you.
My goal is to pay a fair price and find cans for my collection, friends collections and extras for trade when possible. At Beer Can Exchange, we go the extra mile to treat you fairly if selling and give you a great deal if buying.
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In my capacity as Beer Can Exchange I travel to can shows every month so I have a very good idea of what the current prices of cans are. There is a lot of factors that affect value including:
Common Beer Cans of little to no value.
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Looking for a Book To Learn About Kayaking...Fast?
Keep your eyes open for excellent new kayaking book.
Basic Kayaking, an innovative kayak instruction book co-written by Nantahala Outdoor Center's paddling school director Wayne Dickert, a former Olympian and 10-time qualifier for the U.S. Canoe and Kayak team, hit bookstores this summer. Dickert began instructing boaters at the NOC in 1986 and later introduced the innovative Rapid Progressions boating clinic, which guarantees that students learn important skills.
Wayne's 96-page, spiral-bound book, Basic Kayaking (only $13.57) is filled with step-by-step photographs, illustrations and text detailing gear choices, basic water reading and paddling instruction from the most basic of lesson - picking up a boat correctly - to more complex lessons like learning to surf waves.


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8th Youth Leadership Development Camp
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Camp Master: Cẩm Vân Nguyễn, Austin TX
Number of Camper: 200
Keynote Speaker
Mr. Pham, Xuan Quang, Author, Entrepreneur, Former CEO of MyDrugRep.com, Former Marine Pilot.
Quang X. Pham is the author of the forthcoming memoir, A SENSE OF DUTY: MY FATHER, MY AMERICAN JOURNEY (Ballantine Books; April 12, 2005.) At the age of ten, he came to the United States with his mother and sisters during the fall of Saigon. His father, a South Vietnamese Air Force pilot, was incarcerated for more than twelve years in communist reeducation camps.
After graduating from UCLA and completing Marine Corps Officer Candidate School, Quang served as a helicopter pilot in Operation Desert Storm. A year later he deployed on the USS Tarawa with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit to the Persian Gulf, and flew U.N. personnel into Somalia. After the Marines he was an Executive with QTC Medical Services and CEO of Lathian Systems, a pharmaceutical sales company he founded.
Quang lives in Orange County, California, with his wife Shannon. He has given many speeches and has appeared on numerous radio and television shows for entrepreneurial excellence, post-9/11 interviews, and reflections on Vietnam. He volunteers his time on the boards of charitable organizations and has received a number of awards. He is also exploring opportunities for his next company and writing a book about the drug industry. Visit his web site at www.asenseofduty.com.


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In the hope that I might inspire others to do the same, I've created a few screencasts showing some of the cool things I worked on in the last quarter. I've tried to keep them all short, and they're all available in HD so no need to squint to see details.
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Adding Mozmill tests to the Selenium IDE build system
Back in April I blogged about the Mozmill tests I'd written to test Selenium IDE. I followed up in June with a blog post covering how to run these tests. The natural progression is to add these tests into the existing Selenium IDE build environment, which is run using Atlassian's continuous integration server, Bamboo.
At Mozilla, we want to run the Mozmill tests for the released versions of add-ons against the latest builds of Firefox. This is to determine any regressions in Firefox that will potentially cause issues for the add-on authors. It also gives the add-on authors an early warning if there is a potential compatibility issue with an upcoming release of Firefox. We currently run these tests on a schedule, but will soon be looking to move to a continuous integration solution ourselves. You can see the results of these daily tests on our dashboard.
The add-on authors (Selenium in this case) are typically more interested to know if the latest build of their add-on is functioning in the current version of Firefox, to give them confidence to release bug fixes and new features without regressions. As the Selenium project already uses continuous integration, adding the Mozmill test step to this is a great step towards achieving the same within Mozilla, and immediately benefits the add-on author.
The Selenium IDE project plan in Bamboo has three stages: Build, Test, and Package. I'm going to focus on the Test stage in this blog post, as the other stages are very specific to Selenium. If you're reading this and you develop a Firefox add-on then you should be able to apply the following to your project without too much tweaking.
There are just two prerequisites for running these tests:
- Python: The automation scripts are written in Python, so this is required.
- Mercurial: You must have the Python modules for Mercurial installed, as this is the source code management tool that the automation scripts and tests are using.
There are several tasks to complete for the Tests build. Below I list these tasks, with an explanation and configuration steps for each.
Clone mozmill-tests
Because we're wanting to run the tests against a specific build of the add-on rather than the latest release, we need to clone the mozmill-tests repository and override the addons.ini file with the location of our target add-on. This is simply a Mercurial task, as follows:
hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/qa/mozmill-tests
Note that if you have Mercurial set up as an executable in your continuous integration server then you may not need the 'hg' part of this command, as it will be substituted based on the agent running the command.
Switch branch
By default the mozmill-tests repository will be set to the default branch. This is paired with the mozilla-central branch of Firefox, and therefore is relevant only when running tests against the very latest nightly builds of Firefox. As we're interested in testing against the latest release, we switch to the mozmill-release branch.
hg checkout mozilla-release
You will need to make sure this command is run within the directory of the cloned mozmill-tests repository, which by default will be simply mozmill-tests.
Create addon.ini
The addon.ini file tells the script where to download/install the add-on from. If you didn't create your own then it would likely be downloaded from addons.mozilla.org or the add-on author's preferred download location for the latest release. The file is essentially an ini file, with locations for linux, mac, and windows. If your continuous integration server provides a link to latest artifacts then you can add this, or you can use some sort of artifact sharing such as there is in Bamboo. The following commands create a suitable addon.ini for Selenium IDE.
echo "[download]" > firstname.lastname@example.com/addon.ini
echo "linux=file://${bamboo.build.working.directory}/selenium-ide.xpi" >> firstname.lastname@example.com/addon.ini
echo "mac=file://${bamboo.build.working.directory}/selenium-ide.xpi" >> firstname.lastname@example.com/addon.ini
echo "win=file://${bamboo.build.working.directory}/selenium-ide.xpi" >> email@example.com/addon.ini
If you're using Jenkins, then the Copy Artifact Plugin could be useful for sharing artifacts between builds.
Commit addon.ini
It's necessary to commit the replacement addon.ini file so that it is included when the local repository is cloned when running the tests.
hg commit -m 'Specify latest build of addon.'
Note: It really doesn't matter what you put for the commit message here as this commit is not preserved between builds.
Download latest Firefox release
Rather than having to make sure your build agent always has the latest version of Firefox installed, there's a handy script that can download this for you. This is a Python script, and therefore needs to be set up to use the Python executable.
./download.py --directory=latest-release --platform=mac --type=release --version=latest
Substitute the value of the platform for whatever platform your build agent is running. The latest release of Firefox will be downloaded to the latest-release directory. Note that the version value of 'latest' is relying on a symlink on Mozilla's FTP server, that points to the directory of the latest released version number.
Run Mozmill tests
You can now run the script that executes the Mozmill tests.
./testrun_addons.py --junit=results.xml --logfile=results.log --repository=mozmill-tests --firstname.lastname@example.com --with-untrusted latest-release
Here's an explanation of the command line options:
- The junit command line option determines where the results will be stored. The JUnit report format is one supported by many continuous integration servers, and often provides some nice reporting and visualizations of the results. This destination filename is substituted with a counter for each file created, for example results.xml will be results_0.xml.
- Adding the logfile is optional, however this can be a useful build artifact if you have failures.
- As we're using a locally modified repository, we need to specify the location of this using the repository command line option. The default location will be mozmill-tests.
- We need to set the target add-on using the target-addon option. This must match the directory beneath tests/addons, which in the case of Selenium IDE is firstname.lastname@example.com.
- The with-untrusted flag is necessary if the add-on is not hosted at addons.mozilla.org. Any add-on hosted by Mozilla will be implicitly trusted. As Selenium IDE is not currently hosted by Mozilla, this flag is necessary.
- Finally, the path to the Firefox binary is needed. It's possible to simply point to a directory that contains a downloaded copy of Firefox, so we just use latest-release as that's where our download task was told to put Firefox.
Parse test results
As mentioned above, a lot of continuous integration servers support results in JUnit report format, so your final task may be to specify the location of these files. If you used the example given above, then you will specify these using results*.xml.
The Bamboo instance for Selenium is publically viewable, so you can see the results of recent builds for Selenium IDE, and the report for the latest build. You can also see the results on the Mozmill archive dashboard. The Selenium IDE project is built whenever a change is committed to the core or dependent code sections of the repository. It can also be triggered manually.
Unfortunately the Selenium build hardware is experiencing stability issues at the time of writing this, meaning that there is not always a suitable build agent for the Mozmill tests.
Known issues
Currently there is an issue with the Mozmill automation script, in that it will exit without an error code even when tests have failed. Fortunately, the continuous integration servers that I've been working with update the build success based on the JUnit reports. If this wasn't the case then builds with failing tests would be incorrectly reported as successful. We have a bug 626712 on file for this issue, and it will hopefully be resolved soon.
Running the Selenium IDE Mozmill tests
A short while ago I posted about the Mozmill tests I've created for Selenium IDE, however I didn't cover how you can run these tests yourself. Currently I run these manually as needed to ensure that the nightly Firefox builds have not regressed or introduced changes in any areas that the addon depends on. We ultimately intend this to be a scheduled job.
I also have added a job on the Selenium continuous integration server that runs the tests against a released version of Firefox. In the future this will test the latest build of Selenium IDE, and will run every time the addon is built.
In order to run the Selenium IDE tests you will need to have Mercurial and Mozmill installed, which you can do simply by using pip install mercurial mozmill. Once you have these you can clone the mozmill-automation repository, using the following command:
hg clone http://hg.mozilla.org/qa/mozmill-automation
Then from the repository directory run the following:
./testrun_addons.py --report=http://mozmill-crowd.brasstacks.mozilla.com/db/ --email@example.com --with-untrusted /Applications/Firefox.app
Reports will be sent to our dashboard as specified by the --report parameter, and available to see here.
The --target-addons parameter specifies that we only want to run the Selenium IDE tests, and not all of the addons tests we have, and the --with-untrusted parameter is required because Selenium IDE is not listed on addons.mozilla.org and is therefore 'untrusted'.
The final parameter is the version of Firefox you want to run the tests against. These tests can currently be run against Nightly (7.0), Aurora (6.0), Beta (5.0), as well as the current releases (4.0, 3.6, and 3.5).
Below is a short screencast demonstrating how to run the tests:
With the recent release of Selenium IDE 1.0.11, I was able to push some new tests. These check a few more commands, and brings the total number of tests up to 40. If you're interested in helping out and you have any questions, then you can either get in touch with me directly, ask in the #selenium IRC channel on Freenode, or post a message to the selenium-developers Google group.
Testing Selenium IDE with Mozmill
Mozmill tests can be written for any Gecko based application, and can therefore be used to test Firefox extensions (add-ons). Since October I have been working on a new suite of tests for the Selenium IDE extension in the hope that we will be able to discover any regressions in new versions of either the add-on or in Firefox itself. Another reason for creating the suite is to demonstrate the ease of which such tests can be written and to encourage add-on developers to create test suites themselves.
Once tests have been created they can be checked into the Mozmill Tests repository. We will soon be running these on a daily basis against nightly Firefox builds and making reports available on our public dashboard.
The Selenium IDE tests currently comprise of three major parts:
- The shared module (selenium.js) abstracts the tests from the location of elements, provides centralised methods for common tasks, and exposes properties based on the UI.
- The checks helper module (checks.js) provides methods for common assertions to avoid duplication across tests.
- The tests themselves.
There are currently just 20, which basically executes Selenium commands and check that they pass or fail as expected. Below is a guide to construct one of these tests if you weren't using the shared module or checks helper module. The test verifies that the assertText command executes and passes as expected.
First, we open Selenium IDE using the Tools menu item:
controller = Utils.handleWindow("type", "global:selenium-ide", undefined, false);
Then we clear the current contents of the Base URL field by selecting all of the text in it and hitting the delete key, and then type in our test data. You will notice here a reference to the
getElement method, which allows us to gather all locators in a single location for less duplication, and much simpler test maintenance:
var baseURL = this.getElement({type: "baseURL"});
var cmdKey = Utils.getEntity(this.getDtds(), "selectAllCmd.key");
controller.keypress(baseURL, cmdKey, {accelKey: true});
controller.keypress(baseURL, 'VK_DELETE', {});
controller.type(baseURL, "chrome://selenium-ide/");
Now we add three new commands to our Selenium test case by selecting the next available row and typing into the various fields:
var commands = this.getElement({type: "commands"});
var command = this.getElement({type: "command_action"});
var target = this.getElement({type: "command_target"});
var value = this.getElement({type: "command_value"});
Widgets.clickTreeCell(controller, commands, commands.getNode().view.rowCount - 1, 0, {});
controller.type(command, "open");
controller.type(target, "/content/tests/functional/aut/search.html");
Widgets.clickTreeCell(controller, commands, commands.getNode().view.rowCount - 1, 0, {});
controller.type(command, "assertText");
controller.type(target, "link=link with onclick attribute");
controller.type(value, "link with onclick attribute");
Widgets.clickTreeCell(controller, commands, commands.getNode().view.rowCount - 1, 0, {});
controller.type(command, "echo");
controller.type(target, "final command");
With our commands in place, we click the toolbar button to execute the test and wait for the test to complete:
var playTest = this.getElement({type: "button_playTest"});
controller.waitFor(function () {
return !playTest.getNode().disabled;
}, "Play test button is enabled");
Now that the test has run, we check that the suite progress indicator has the 'success' class:
var suiteProgressIndicator = this.getElement({type: "suiteProgress_indicator"});
controller.assert(function () {
return suiteProgressIndicator.getNode().className === "success";
}, "Suite progress indicator is green");
We also check that the run counts are correct. The total number of tests run should be 1, and the number of failed tests should be 0:
controller.assertValue(this.getElement({type: "suiteProgress_runCount"}), "1");
controller.assertValue(this.getElement({type: "suiteProgress_failureCount"}), "0");
Now we check that there are no errors in the log console:
var logErrors = this.getElements({type: "log_errors"});
controller.assert(function () {
return logErrors.length === 0;
}, "No error messages present - got '" + logErrors.length +"', expected '" + 0 + "'");
Because the command we are testing should pass, we also check that the final command was executed:
var logInfo = this.getElements({type: "log_info"};
var finalLogInfoMessage = logInfo[logInfo.length-1].getNode().textContent;
var re = new RegExp("^\\[info] (.*)");
controller.assert(function () {
return re.exec(finalLogInfoMessage)[1] === "echo: final command";
}, "Final command was executed, got '" + re.exec(finalLogInfoMessage)[1] +"' expected 'echo: final command'");
Finally, we close Selenium IDE:
mozmill.utils.waitFor(function () {
return !mozmill.utils.getWindowByType("global:selenium-ide");
}, "Selenium IDE has been closed.");
controller = null;
As there are a lot of things here that will be shared across several tests, you can see that there would be a lot of duplicated code. This is the reason we abstract the useful user interface interactions into the shared module and the useful checks into a helper module. A nice side-effect of this is the test becoming much more readable. Below is the same test as above but calling out to the additional modules:
var selenium = require("../../../lib/selenium");
var checks = require("../../../lib/checks");
function setupModule(module) {
controller = mozmill.getBrowserController();
sm = new selenium.SeleniumManager();
function teardownModule(module) {
function testAssertTextCommandPasses() {
sm.baseURL = "chrome://selenium-ide/";
sm.addCommand({action: "open",
target: "/content/tests/functional/aut/search.html"});
sm.addCommand({action: "assertText",
target: "link=link with onclick attribute",
value: "link with onclick attribute"});
sm.addCommand({action: "echo",
target: "final command"});
sm.controller.assert(function () {
return sm.finalLogInfoMessage === "echo: final command";
}, "Final command was executed, got '" + sm.finalLogInfoMessage +"' expected 'echo: final command'");
As mentioned, there are currently only 20 automated tests for Selenium IDE, and we need more! If you're interested in helping out and you have any questions, then you can either get in touch with me directly, ask in the #selenium IRC channel on Freenode, or post a message to the selenium-developers Google group.
Automated Firefox tests with add-ons installed
Mozmill has a feature that allows the tester to install an add-on during the test run. Until recently this was only used by one of our automated testruns, which was for specifically testing the installed add-on rather than Firefox.
With the recent development on the endurance tests project, it has been necessary to take more advantage of this feature. A bug was reported where if Adblock Plus – our most popular add-on – is installed memory usage increased rapidly when navigating a web page, and none of the memory was being released. To start investigating this I created a very basic (and specific) test for the site mentioned in the bug report, and then simply hacked something together based on the existing add-ons test run. A short time later, the need to run the endurance tests with multiple add-ons installed came up, so I hacked some more to get that in place too. Rather than keep these hacks around, it made sense to allow testers to specify add-ons to be installed during any of our testruns, so I started to work on the necessary patches.
As a result, testers can now run any of our automation scripts with one or more add-ons installed by simply specifying the addons command line parameter. To install multiple add-ons simply repeat the parameter. The argument can either be a path on your machine, or a web/ftp server. In the latter case the add-on will be downloaded to a temporary location before the testrun and removed at the end. The latest version of Mozmill (1.5.2) also now disables the compatibility check, meaning that we can run tests with add-ons that are not marked as compatible with the version of Firefox in use.
An example of running the endurance tests with two add-ons installed:
./testrun_endurance.py --addons=https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/latest/748/addon-748-latest.xpi --addons=/Users/dave/Downloads/noscript.xpi --delay=1000 --iterations=10 /Applications/Firefox.app/


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Local Ulster Unionist councillors have queried why no local DUP representative attended last Thursday's Southern Health Trust crisis meeting on cuts.
Cllrs Arnold Hatch and Julie Flaherty spoke out on the proposed cuts to the local health service asking where was the £1billion funding promised by the DUP and Conservative Party.
Speaking as Trusts across Northern Ireland have been told to slash £70m from their budget, Alderman Hatch asked why no one from the DUP attended the 'Extraordinary' meeting at the Southern Health Trust's Headquarters in Craigavon on Thursday.
Alderman Hatch said: "The questions have to be asked, where were the DUP and where is the £1billion?"
"That funding if it had been forthcoming could have avoided these cuts. Was the £1 billion dependent on the Assembly being up and running or not? We are getting two different answers from the DUP," he said.
Cllr Flaherty, who attended the meeting, queried why attendees were only given the 'Savings Plan - Consultation' document on arrival at the meeting.
She said: "£6.4 million of 'savings' as they refer to it as. Otherwise known as "cuts". That is the bottom line. No discussion. That will be down to the consultation period.
"I left with the document and more questions than answers. Very little detail on impact to you and me...but be assured there will be.
"If a health minister was in place this could well be avoided. Some of these issues could absolutely be alleviated if a functioning Executive was in place.
"What we must ask ourselves is "what is more important to you? Achieving these 'savings' or pursuing the much hailed transformation plans or tackling spiralling waiting times? All three outcomes cannot be achieved at the same time!
Julie said, "I owe a great debt of thanks to the local health trust. The experience I had with my late son will stay with me forever. The level of care and kindness we received as a family was second to none. I cannot accept this level of short term thinking and disregard for the staff and patients this will undoubtedly affect."
Alderman Hatch added: "This process of so called CONSULTATION is a farce. I don't think the proposals have been thought through properly.
"For example, one of the proposals was to remove the voucher scheme from over 50 Pharmacies and deliver incontinence products, walking aids etc, directly from Belfast through the Business Services Organisation (BSO) who would buy in bulk and deliver directly to the patient. No detail was given. Are they planning to farm this out to the private sector?"
"How would a delivery agent from Belfast deliver to Craigavon more cheaply than a pharmacist from the area who normally delivers for nothing.
"I await the answer."
DUP MLA Carla Lockhart said she was not aware the meeting was taking place.
DUP MP for Upper Bann said: "It is disappointing to see the Ulster Unionist Party turn their focus on the DUP once again whilst ignoring the real problem surrounding these proposed cuts. Following our agreement with the Conservative Party the DUP has secured £1.5 billion of funding which will benefit everyone in Northern Ireland.
"Within that package there is money for both mental health and to address waiting list pressures. However, the largest amount for health is to deliver the much-needed reform process which can tackle the root cause of problems rather than continue to treat the symptoms.
"The DUP wants to see an Executive restored immediately so the people of Northern Ireland can have a Health Minister at their desk doing the job they have been elected to do. It is Sinn Fein who are blocking the restoration of devolution but unfortunately once again the UUP appear to see more mileage in attacking unionists.
"We are all suffering the consequences of Sinn Fein's failure to bring forward a budget before they collapsed Stormont and now health service reform is being stymied. DUP representatives, including myself are meeting with the Permanent Secretary of the Department of Health this week to discuss all of the pressures our health service is facing.
"I want to see not only the DUP, but all parties playing their part where it actually counts – in the Assembly chamber and around the Executive table. We can all register our opposition to these proposed cuts, but that is absolutely meaningless unless you are prepared to do something about it. The DUP will join the Ulster Unionist Party and any other party that will restore devolution immediately to help the public. The challenge goes out to Sinn Fein whether they care about the health of our people more than their own narrow agenda. I hope the UUP will join me in issuing that challenge."
Speaking on Monday, Mrs Lockhart also condemned the health cuts and blamed the crisis on Sinn Fein.
Mrs Lockhart said: "The DUP are ready, willing and able to form an Executive and until that happens cuts of this nature are inevitable as the Trust seeks to live within its means. It is not the fault of the Trust that these cuts are taking place but the issue remains that owing to Sinn Fein's belligerence we have no functioning Executive and Assembly to mitigate these cuts. We cannot speak highly enough of our health professionals who work in a challenging arena with high pressure and stress. They still deliver a top class service for us all.
"It is disappointing but not surprising once again to see the UUP attack fellow Unionist and not focus their attention on Sinn Fein who have no interest in delivering for the whole community but only a section of it. The people of Upper Bann have their verdict on the UUP, and their attacks prior to the Westminster election, on the 8th June.
"These cuts affect people from all sides of the community and certainly the most vulnerable and in need.
"The DUP, in their negotiations with the Conservative Party, secured additional funding for several keys areas. Mental Health was the area identified as being under funded and this money will be forthcoming with or without a functioning Executive.
"This money was not to bail out a crisis of Sinn Fein's making and cannot be used for this. I along with my DUP colleagues am due to meet the Southern Trust Health Chief in the coming days to discuss the proposed cuts."


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Apparently, that post struck a nerve, since it quickly became one of my most read posts of all time. I received a few emails as well, and I asked one reader's permission to post her email. She (and I) would love to hear your thoughts on the issues she raises:
I have been wondering about something that maybe you can give me your thoughts on (do you reply to emails like this?) or maybe blog about. I work in full-time collegiate ministry with an international organization. Sometimes when people (mostly extroverts, probably) start talking to me about passion and what they are passionate about, it strikes me in a way that makes me feel awful as if maybe I'm just not passionate about anything. They'll talk about "Jesus is my passion" or being "passionate about the Gospel," etc, etc. I feel like I hear this word and see their expressions and think that I cannot imitate them in how they feel. Then I take it as a huge red flag. But I wonder if I'm just not as excitable as a really expressive extrovert, and if that is okay. I'm in full time mission work, so maybe I am passionate, but my passion expresses itself differently. Thoughts on this idea of "being passionate" and how that is expressed? Just the phrase makes me feel tired.


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Second Lawsuit Challenges Closed Immigration Hearings
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on March 6, 2002, filed a second lawsuit challenging the government's September 21, 2001 policy and practice of closing immigration hearings to the public and the press. The first suit was filed January 29 in the Eastern District of Michigan, this one was filed in the District of New Jersey. In each case the plaintiffs are news organizations, and the defendants are Attorney General John Ashcroft and Chief Immigration Judge Michael Creppy.
Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, Michael Creppy, the Chief Immigration Judge, e-mailed a memorandum to all immigration judges. It advised them of new procedures implemented by the Attorney General: "Those procedures require us to hold the hearings individually, to close the hearing to the public, and to avoid discussing the case or otherwise disclosing any information about the case to anyone outside the Immigration Court." In a democratic nation that has always prized openness in administrative and judicial proceedings, this new rule was a shocker. The caption of the Creppy memorandum is "Instructions for cases involving additional security." The big problem for the aliens and their families, and for the press and the cause of civil liberties, is that, in practice, a great many immigration cases have suddenly been deemed to "involve additional security" and to require closure. Exceptions to this iron rule are hard to come by.
On December 7, 2001, William Glaberson wrote an article for the New York Times entitled "Closed Immigration Hearings Criticized as Prejudicial." On Judge Creppy's memorandum, Glaberson writes: "His action is provoking complaints that even as the country debates secret military tribunals, the administration has already closed an entire category of legal cases without giving critics a chance to challenge the order's constitutionality." Nadine K. Wettstein, legal director of the American Immigration Law Foundation, put it this way: "I appreciate that there's a lot of concern about the military tribunals, but it's speculative. But this is happening right now, and it's happening all over the country."
The ACLU complaint says this of Judge Creppy's memorandum: "The Creppy Memo requires closure in all cases selected by the Attorney General. It does not allow for an individualized determination of the reasons for closure in a particular case, nor does it allow for an individualized determination as to whether measures other than closure would serve the government's interests." The complaint alleges a First Amendment right to attend removal proceedings, and that the Creppy Memo violates that right "because it is not narrowly tailored to further a compelling interest in closure." The complaint further alleges violation of 8 C.F.R. 3.27, the regulation requiring that removal proceedings be open to the public unless the immigration judge orders closure "for the purpose of protecting witnesses, parties, or the public interest."
That regulation, indeed, sounds very different from the absolutism of the Creppy Memo. The Relief requested includes "A preliminary and permanent injunction prohibiting Defendants from closing any immigration proceedings in the absence of case-specific findings demonstrating that closure is narrowly tailored to serve a compelling government interest." The relief requested sounds eminently fair and sensible to me, and I hope that the sitting federal judge finds it so. David A. Martin, a former general counsel of the INS, made this important criticism of the new policy and practice of closure: "The rule of law operates best in public."
About The Author
Carl R. Baldwin graduated from Columbia University Law School in 1980, and became a member of the New York State Bar a year later. He worked for three years with the New York City Law Department, and then entered solo practice in immigration law, which he has continued to the present. His work with clients has included asylum applications, deportation defense, visa processing, adjustment of status, and naturalization. He has also worked to implement special laws, such as the 1986 "amnesty" (The Immigration Reform and Control Act), and the 1998 Haitian reform act (The Haitian Refugee Immigration Fairness Act). Mr. Baldwin is the author of Immigration News Monthly. He can be rached by e-mail at email@example.com.
He has written a book on immigration law, called "Immigration Questions and Answers," 1997, Allworth Press, 10 East 23rd Street, New York, NY 10010 (212) 777-8395. The book, which contains essential background information about how the immigration law works, can be ordered in both an English Edition and a Spanish version from www.amazon.com


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WASHINGTON — By the time he woke up Wednesday morning, President Obama had made up his mind.
During the 36 frenetic hours since he had been handed an article from the coming issue of Rolling Stone ominously headlined "The Runaway General," the president weighed the consequences of cashiering Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, whose contemptuous comments about senior officials had ignited a firestorm.
Mr. Obama, aides say, consulted with advisers — some, like Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, who warned of the dangers of replacing General McChrystal, others, like his political advisers, who thought he had to go. He reached out for advice to a soldier-statesman, Colin L. Powell. He identified a possible successor to lead the war in Afghanistan.
And then, finally, the president ended General McChrystal's command in a meeting that lasted only 20 minutes. According to one aide, the general apologized, offered his resignation and did not lobby for his job.
After a seesaw debate among White House officials, "there was a basic meeting of the minds," said Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff and a major player in the deliberations. "This was not good for the mission, the military and morale," Mr. Emanuel said.
Mr. Obama has forced out officials before, including the director of national intelligence, Dennis C. Blair; the White House counsel, Gregory Craig; even General McChrystal's predecessor, Gen. David D. McKiernan.Continue reading the main story
But this is the highest profile sacking of his presidency. The time between Mr. Obama's first reading of the Rolling Stone article and his decision to accept General McChrystal's resignation offers an insight into the president's decision-making process under intense stress: He appears deliberative and open to debate, but in the end, is coldly decisive.
In a subsequent meeting with his Afghan war council, Mr. Obama delivered a tongue-lashing, instructing his advisers to stop bickering among themselves.
"The president said he didn't want to see pettiness; that this was not about personalities or reputations — it's about our men and women in uniform," said a senior administration official, who like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity in offering an account of the last two days.
The drama began on Monday afternoon, when Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., who was flying home from Illinois to Andrews Air Force Base, took an unsettling call from General McChrystal.
The phone connection was scratchy, and the conversation lasted barely two minutes. General McChrystal told the vice president there was an article coming out that he would not like. Baffled, Mr. Biden asked his staff to investigate, and when he landed, aides handed him the article.
After digesting it back at his residence in Washington, Mr. Biden put in a call to Mr. Obama at 7:30 that evening. Hours earlier, the White House had itself gotten wind of the article, and a young press aide named Tommy Vietor distributed copies to all the top officials in Mr. Obama's national security circle.
The press secretary, Robert Gibbs, walked a copy of it to the president in the private quarters. After scanning the first few paragraphs — a sarcastic, profanity-laced description of General McChrystal's disgust at having to dine with a French minister to brief him about the war — Mr. Obama had read enough, a senior administration official said. He ordered his political and national security aides to convene immediately in the Oval Office.
It was already clear then, this official said, that General McChrystal might not survive. Mr. Obama was leaning toward dismissing him, another administration official said, though he said the president was willing to wait until the general explained his actions, and those of his aides.
At the Oval Office meeting on Monday, Mr. Obama asked that General McChrystal be summoned home from Kabul. Before leaving Afghanistan, the general held an already scheduled meeting with Susan E. Rice, the United Nations ambassador, who was visiting with other United Nations diplomats.
In a one-on-one meeting on Tuesday, Mr. Gates, who had pushed to make General McChrystal the commander in Afghanistan, pleaded with Mr. Obama to hear him out, an official said. Mr. Gates warned that removing the commander would be hugely disruptive. He worried in particular about "continuity, momentum, and relations with allies," said a senior official, who was involved in the meetings.
Still, even as Mr. Gates advocated for General McChrystal, the Pentagon began drawing up a list of potential replacements. Mr. Obama, this official said, was immediately drawn to the idea of turning to Gen. David H. Petraeus — an architect of the counterinsurgency strategy, a politically skilled commander and a replacement who would address Mr. Gates's concerns.
As it happened, General Petraeus was close at hand. That day, he had traveled to a secret site in Northern Virginia to convene a meeting of the Counterterrorism Executive Council, a group of military and intelligence officials who gather regularly to discuss operations.
General Petraeus was not offered the job until he walked into the White House on Wednesday, soon after the president's meeting with General McChrystal, a senior aide said.
On Tuesday, while General McChrystal was making the 14-hour flight to Washington, the White House was involved in a whirl of meetings about his fate. Along with Mr. Gates, aides say, four other senior officials were influential: Vice President Biden; the national security adviser, Gen. James L. Jones; the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Adm. Mike Mullen; and Mr. Emanuel.
Mr. Emanuel's opinion and that of other advisers swung back and forth, a senior official said. Mr. Obama seemed inclined toward dismissing the general, but heard out the debate. By Tuesday night, officials said, they ended up hoping that the general would simply resign.
Meanwhile, General McChrystal was busy placing calls to apologize to people who were belittled in the article. One of those he called was Senator John Kerry, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
"He was very respectful and apologetic, and I think, obviously understood he'd made a mistake and he wasn't making any excuses," Mr. Kerry said in an interview, noting that General McChrystal made no case for keeping his job. "He was being pretty direct and upfront."
The general had some high-profile defenders, including President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan. But in the end, Mr. Obama decided that he had to go.
After meeting with General McChrystal, he held a 40-minute meeting with General Petraeus and a broader session with his war council and then stepped into the Rose Garden to explain his decision to the American public.
"He likes Stan and thinks Stan is a good man, a good general and a good soldier," Mr. Emanuel said. "But as he said in his statement, this is bigger than any one person."Continue reading the main story


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I saw this recipe in one of Martha Stewart's cookies book. I love to bake and I feel a sense of calm when I bake. My kids love baked goods and there is a constant demand from them to bake some thing. They start by scrolling through the baking books and choose the cookie/cake that they would like to eat. Most of the time I follow the recipe given in the book, but if I'm in a creative mood I change the recipe by adding or removing some of the ingredients based on what I have in my pantry. I'm giving my variations of the recipe. The rugelach was very tasty with the light and airy puff pastry on the outside and not too sweet yet nutritious date filling in the inside. My family loved the unique taste and I'm sure you'll love it too.
Peppridge Farm Puff pastry sheet —1/2 of 17.3oz package (1 sheet), If you don't get puff pastry see options below for other alternatives.
Fresh bread crumbs from soft white bread — 1 cup
Date and Strawberry filling –see below for recipe
1. Thaw the puff pastry sheets on the counter for 40 mins.
2. Preheat oven to 350F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Keep aside.
3. Divide the bread crumbs in to 2. One half will be used in the rugelach and the other one is used in the filling.
4. Roll the puff pastry sheet lightly with a rolling pin. Add the date & Strawberry filling in the center and spread it on the sheet, leaving a 2 inch space from the outside for rolling.
4. Now add the bread crumbs on top of the filling. With a pizza wheel (pizza cutter) cut the sheet in to 4 from top to bottom vertically and left to right horizontally. Now with the intersection as the center cut in between the four squares in to thin triangles.
5. Roll each triangles from outside towards the center. Place the rugelach on the baking sheet.
6. Bake it for 15-20 mins till the outside of the rugelach turns golden brown. Store it in an airtight container and enjoy the rugelach with your family and friends.
Date Filling
Dates –1 cup
Sugar –1/4 cup
Strawberry Jam –3 Tbsp
Half and Half (Alternatively you can use whole milk) —1/4 cup
Bread crumbs –1/2 cup
1. Microwave dates with half and half for 2 to 3 minutes until dates become soft. Sometimes half and half might curdle, its ok.
2. In a blender, make a paste of dates with half and half. Combine this paste with strawberry jam and bread crumbs. Adjust the crumbs so that the consistency of the filling is not watery but spreadable.
1. If you don't get puff pastry then you can make your own cream cheese dough. (Taken from Martha Stewarts book). You need
1 cup (2 sticks) of cold unsalted butter, cut in to 1 inch-pieces
8 ounces cream cheese at room temperature
1/2 tsp coarse salt
2 cups if all purpose flour and more for work surface.
–Mix butter, cream cheese, and salt in a bowl with hands until crunchy. Add flour and mix until combined. Turn out onto a lightly floured surface and divide in to half. Shape each half into a disk, wrap in plastic. Refrigerate until cold, 4 hours or up to overnight.
–Roll one disk in to 1/8 inch thick. Cut out a 12-inch circle or rectangle and follow the procedure as with puff pastry above except the timing will be about 30-40mins depending upon your oven.
2. Stir together 3 Tbsp of sugar and 1/2 tsp of ground cinnammon in a small bowl. After you roll the rugelach with the filling and place in the baking sheet brush them with beaten egg (alternatively you can brush with milk), and sprinkle them with cinnamon-sugar mixture. Continue the baking process as given above.
3. You can referigerate the unbaked rugelach ahead of time and bake it just before your guests arrive or when you are ready to serve.
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What is the term for removing browned bits of food from a hot pan using wine or other liquid?
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Job Information
United Technologies Corporation Technician in Singapore, Singapore
Job ID: 01373907
City: Singapore
State: Central Singapore
Country: Singapore
Category: Operations
Job Type: Full Time
Date Posted:
61 Seletar Aerospace View, Singapore
Repair/ overhaul aero-engine components by benching, blasting, brazing, blending, polishing, welding, machining or using other required mechanical skills
Follow established procedures and guidelines to form a variety of simple, manual tasks that form part of a production process, manufacture products according to production specifications and schedules, volume, cost, and wastage targets, and quality standards
Support and participate in the EH&S programs and activities within the company
To report on all incidents (injuries, illnesses, near misses, spills, etc.), hazardous conditions, and emergencies to his/her supervisor
Responsible for performing an assessment of the risk of his/her activities, taking corrective and preventive actions
To comply with EH&S regulations/policies/programs/rules and use personal protective equipment (PPE)
To participate in audits and inspections as and when required
Attend EH&S training programs and takes personal responsibility for the safety
Member of the EH&S committee
To provide a quality product that satisfies our customers' needs and expectations the first time, every time!
Emphasizing a total quality management process that provides accuracy, and strict compliance with agency regulations and customer requirements, giving the highest degree of confidence; understanding that meeting the requirements of the next employee in the workflow process is just as important as meeting the needs of the external customer.
Improving the systems of production to generate continuing quality and productivity improvements with full accountability and responsibility.
Perform my responsibilities in compliance with the UTC Code of Ethics.
Support the Continuous Improvement programs and ACE activities within the company
GCE 'O' Level, NITEC and Diploma in Precision/Aerospace/Mechanical Engineering, etc.
Training will be provided
Willing to work on rotating shifts
United Technologies Corporation is An Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age or any other federally protected class.
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Foreign Secretary S Jaishankar said today that the Kansas shooting, in which an Indian engineer was killed, should be treated as an "individual act" and the American society was very much against it.
Jaishankar, who along with the Commerce Secretary Rita Teotia, held a series of meetings with top officials of the Trump's administration and Congressional leaders, said the tragic incident in Kansas featured in many of their discussions.
"What we heard from very high-level, Cabinet level that we should regard this as an act of an individual. Two, the American justice system was at work, it could bring the perpetrators of this act to justice. It is being prosecuted as a hate crime," Jaishankar said.
"What we have seen in the last few days, whether it is White House statement, or President's reference to it in his address to the Congress or what the (House) Speaker said after he met us…almost everybody we met, even people perhaps whose responsibility did not directly deal with this, we heard expressions of deep sorrow, deep regret and a sense of that we should really treat this as an individual act. And the American system and the American society was very much against it," he said.
The incident, which is being investigated as a hate crime by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), has sent shockwaves among the Indian-American across the country.
Members of the community met Kansas Governor Sam Brownback seeking his assurance in protection of Indian-Americans in the State.
Several Indian-Americans from in and around Washington DC and its suburb gathered at Dupont Circle in the national capital to hold a candle light vigil in memory of Indian engineer Srinivas Kuchibhotla, 32, who was shot dead in Kansas City last week.
"Every tragedy brings us Americans closer. We as a nation have always risen from adversities and we stand together this evening to make sure that we don't lose another American to hate or violence. It does not matter what your race, religion or colour is. We all bleed the same," said Indian-American Republican leader from Virginia Puneet Ahluwalia.
Utsav Chakrabarti of the World Hindu Council said the tragic incident shows the need for an honest discourse at grassroots level about the fact that radical Islam is a religious ideology, not a "racial identity", because continued normalisation of the latter, perpetuates such heinous and barbaric hate crimes against "people of colour" including Hindus and Sikhs.
"Srinu would have been 33, six days from now on March 9, had he not fallen victim to blind hate on that dark and deadly night of February 3 in Kansas. A gentle Hindu life cut short because of bigotry," said Ahmar Khan in his remarks.


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Thank you to those readers who provided feedback on my attempt a video embedding. I can see the video on our laptop but the plug-in isn't supported on the Android Tablet. That's a mystery to me as the tablet will run almost all video formats. I'm going to continue experimenting but for those readers who couldn't view the video I've pasted a link below which will hopefully work!
I went for a 20km circular walk this afternoon picking a rural route to the south-east of our mooring at Marsworth.
It was a clockwise walk with the return via the canal towpath. I wanted to explore the lake to the north of the canal thinking it might be part of the Tring reservoir system.
The edges don't look as well formed as the reservoirs on the opposite side of the canal so it's either newer or a flooded former quarry. There's a second body of water slight south which is still being quarried so that solves my query.
There is a high ridgeline to the south of this quarry marked on the map as Pitstone Hill. When I reached to top I realised I'd been here before. Only last time the hill and countryside was covered in snow.
Off to the north a solitary windmill stands in a field.
It's Pitstone Windmill and dates back to 1627. The windmill is believed to be the oldest in Britain. The mill ceased operating in 1902 after being seriously damaged in a storm.
My route took me in the opposite direction and I very quickly entered an area of clever horses and ponies.
These are the first horses and ponies I've come upon that can read!
The route took me southwest and up into an area of woodland. I started to see more and more walkers before entering a clearing where there was a high stone column with a viewing platform at the top.
There was a fee to climb up the column and then I realised I'd entered a National Trust estate via the back door. However it was the writing above the entrance to the column which particularly caught my eye.
"In honour of Francis Third Duke of Bridgewater Father of Inland Navigation 1832"
Well that was a surprise. The Bridgewater Canal is miles away near Manchester. So why is the column here? This is the Aldridge Estate, owned by the National Trust. The land belonged to the church until Henry VIII seized it during the Reformation. Thomas Egerton, chancellor to Elizabeth I, bought the estate in 1604. The Egerton's are an old British aristocratic family. Branches include:
- Barons Ellesmere
- Viscounts Brackney
- Earls of Bridgewater
- Dukes of Bridgewater
- Earls of Ellesmere
- Duke of Sunderland
Francis Egerton was the Third Duke of Bridgewater. So that's the connection. However he had nothing to do with the nearby Grand Junction Canal.
From here the walk was southwest with valley views through the woodland towards the west and the canal.
Eventually I arrived at Dudswell Bottom Lock where I turned north and walked the towpath back to Waiouru.
By the time I reached the old Bulbourne Workshops my feet were starting to feel as if they had a good workout.


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Facebook has killed Facebook Lite, its barebone web interface designed for the people plagued with slow Internet connections. The unfortunate announcement came in a brief post on the company's own Facebook fan page:
Thanks to everyone who tried out Facebook Lite. We're no longer supporting it, but learned a lot from the test of a slimmed-down site. If you used Lite, you'll now be taken to the main Facebook.com site.
The news will no doubt disappoint those who prefer simplicity and speed over the full feature set of the main Facebook web interface. Others who accessed Facebook Lite on sub-par netbooks could also hate the announcement. Finally, the move might caught beginners by surprise because Facebook Lite lacked a steep learning curve and had therefore been a great service for finding their way around the most popular social networking site on the web.
Facebook Lite launched last August as a stripped-down version of the full-blown Facebook web interface. The social networking giant pitched the Lite at the time as a replacement service for the people in India, Russia, and China, who deemed the full web interface too slow due to sluggish Internet speeds in their countries.
However, some industry watchers observed that the Lite represented Facebook's attempt to bank on the popularity of micro-blogging services, namely Twitter. Instead, the company has pushed forward the new controls that allow greater privacy granularity on a per-post basis, including posting to the web at large.
Read more in a Facebook wall post


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July 5, 2016 -- There is some good news regarding the potential health effects of gadolinium-based contrast agents (GBCAs). Canadian researchers found no association between GBCAs for MRI scans and parkinsonism in a study published in the July 5 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The retrospective study of nearly a quarter-million patients over 10 years revealed essentially no difference in the incidence of the disorder between patients who were given at least one dose of a GBCA and those who underwent GBCA-free MRI scans (JAMA, July 5, 2016, Vol. 316:1, pp. 96-98).
"That being said, there are other symptoms that people attributed to gadolinium, which we could not study," said lead author Dr. Blayne Welk, an assistant professor of surgery at Western University in London, Ontario. "More detailed clinical studies into those symptoms may be warranted, but I think overall this is very reassuring that we did not find a signal for parkinsonism in patents exposed to gadolinium."
GBCA retention
The debate over the clinical safety of gadolinium-based contrast agents has been rekindled, as several recent studies reported finding minute traces of gadolinium deposits in the brains of people who received the contrast agent many years previously. Following publication of the papers, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in August of 2015 opened its own investigation into the safety of GBCAs.
"Among radiologists, there has been an ongoing dialogue about retained gadolinium in the brain," Welk told AuntMinnie.com. "There have been a few good studies over the past couple of years demonstrating that. Then the FDA released its notice about brain deposits about a year ago. At that point, there were no assessments of any clinical impact from the gadolinium deposits."
The concerns about gadolinium retention include the region of the brain known as the substantia nigra, which is associated with Parkinson's disease and directs voluntary signals to the globus pallidi. The globus pallidi are where neurotoxic effects have been detected when gadolinium is administered to humans. Damage to the globus pallidi could induce parkinsonian symptoms.
To determine a potential link between GBCAs and parkinsonism, Welk and colleagues utilized the vast resource of multiple administrative patient databases in Ontario.
"The nice thing about being in Ontario is the universal healthcare system, which insures everyone in the population," he said. "So we can get quite a good look at what is going on in terms of health outcomes."
Patient records
The researchers singled out all patients older than 66 years who had an initial MRI scan between April 2003 and March 2013. The study excluded patients whose initial MRI scans were of the brain or spinal cord, as well as those with prior parkinsonism or who had undergone neurosurgery.
They identified 246,557 patients (median age, 73 years) who underwent at least one MRI exam. That total included 99,739 patients (40%) who had received at least one dose of gadolinium, while 2,244 (3%) had received GBCAs at least four times.
Welk and colleagues then compared patients who underwent gadolinium-enhanced MRI scans with those whose MRI scans did not include gadolinium contrast. The results for the patient groups were almost identical.
For example, the incidence of parkinsonism among non-GBCA MRI patients was 1.16%, compared with 1.17% for those who were given gadolinium-based contrast. Most interestingly, the incidence of parkinsonism among patients with one to three gadolinium exposures (3.17%) was more than in patients who received four or more doses of GBCAs (2.56%).
"The patient population that is most at risk for gadolinium brain deposits is those who have had more than four doses of [gadolinium-based] contrast," Welk said. "That [finding] is very reassuring that we are not missing a small signal here, and it fits with the conclusion that there is probably not a relationship with gadolinium doses and parkinsonism."
What's next?
The next round of research could explore different patient populations, such as people younger than 65 years, to see how gadolinium might affect them, Welk said.
"It could be that it takes 20 or 30 years to have an effect," he speculated. "Maybe we are not seeing that in the patients we chose, so investigating a [younger] population in the future might be an interesting area."
He added that there may be other patients who are more predisposed to gadolinium toxicity. Identifying those individuals could be an area for future research.
In the meantime, radiologists and clinicians likely will continue to follow FDA recommendations to determine if a case warrants a GBCA-enhanced MRI scan or an alternative option, Welk said.
"In most situations, the clinical value of the MRI with gadolinium probably outweighs the hypothetical risk that is associated with gadolinium brain deposits," he said. "Hopefully, further research will shed more light on this in the future."


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for the Scousers - you'll never walk alone tune
Sign on, sign on, With a pen in your hand, Cos you'll never get a job, You'll never get a job...
Classic Wolves anthem, not the full version though.
Tuneful number we sing. Makes a good ringtone.d Wolverhampton ringtone.
When your black country needs you... Can't do as a ringtone as file is too big. May take a while to download. Good work.
Great Wolves ringtone.
Good ringtone material
Old classic
When the Wolves Go Marching In Chant
I wanna be in that number


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The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., "Over the Teacups," 1891
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness. ~Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
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Barça put in a sublime performance to take their fourth European Cup by beating Manchester United 3-1 at Wembley tonight . Pedro, Messi and Villa were on target to ensure the team repeated the 1992 Wembley success.
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By Ely Portillo via The Charlotte Observer
When Florida-based Ram Realty Services sold the Design Center of the Carolinas for $42.7 million earlier this week, the company hung on to three acres of property around the South End center's buildings.
Now, Ram Realty CEO Casey Cummings says the firm is focused on building a new, mixed-use development on the site, much of which is currently occupied by surface parking lots.
"Surface parking lots are really a waste of a valuable resource" in a dense, urban corridor, Cummings said. The land is along Camden Street, between Worthington Avenue and West Boulevard.
Asana Partners, the Charlotte-based company that bought the Design Center buildings, plans to convert much of the square footage to new shops and restaurants. Combined with the new Ram Realty development and other ongoing projects nearby, that whole stretch of South End will soon look much different.
Cummings, the Ram Realty CEO, said he hopes to start construction on the new mixed-use development in the second half of 2017. The details aren't finalized, but a previously announced 150-room hotel developed in partnership with West Elm will be a key component of the project.
"We're now turning to that," Cummings said.
One reason the development is possible now: A new, 520-space parking deck for the Design Center is scheduled for completion in January. The parking deck was included in Asana's purchase. That will free up the surface parking lots owned by Ram Realty, as well as provide additional parking for future development.
Cummings said the new development will include up to 300 units of multifamily housing, likely built in phases. The development will include a smaller amount of retail, perhaps 20,000 square feet, including a restaurant integrated into the hotel.
The office portion of the development will include "design-oriented" space and possibly some co-working locations, Cummings said. He pointed to 1616 Center, the five-story office building a block away by Beacon Partners, as a similar example of what his firm is trying to do.
"We're likely going to do something of that scale, but more integrated into the mixed-use environment rather than a free-standing office building," said Cummings.
He said Ram Realty will make sure the new development is integrated well with the existing historic structures and nearby mills of South End.
"In 50 years, it will look like it's always been there," said Cummings. The company is looking for more multifamily and mixed-use opportunities in Charlotte.
The Design Center used to be the Nebel Knitting Mill, which opened in 1927. The facility closed for good in 1989, and sat vacant until Tony Pressley of MECA acquired it in 1996 and turned it into creative office space.
"Development of The Design Center of the Carolinas was a labor of love for the entire MECA team and a catalyst for development in South End," said Rob Pressley, president of Coldwell Banker Commercial MECA. Ram Realty bought the facility in 2007.
Now, Cummings said, the buildings are ready for their next phase.
"It's really time for them to have another life," he said.