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Risk Analysis in Software Testing cu James Bach

Meetup-ul din octombrie 2016 de la Tabara de Testare Cluj a fost unul special: content owner a fost James Bach care a tinut o prezentare despre Risk Analysis in Software Testing.

In pregatirea pentru cursurile pe care le tine pentru testeri, James a incercat cu participantii un exercitiu privind riscurile, analiza lor si implicatiile pe care le au in testare. James si participantiiau cautat i dei de test pentru o masina autonoma de nivel 4, apoi au comparat notitele. Ce a iesit? Va lasam sa descoperiti singuri:

Autumn Camp 2014

TdT Cluj pune la cale un weekend testăresc la munte:

Unde? În inima munților Apuseni, la pensiunea Carpathia.

Când? În weekendul 26-28 septembrie, de vineri după amiaza/seara până duminică după amiază.

Ce vom face? Sâmbătă vom avea sesiuni back to basics, iar duminică sesiuni de performance testing; un laptop îți va fi necesar. În plus, vom avea jocuri, activități sportive, saună, party.

Cât? 275 lei ne costă cazarea și masa pentru vineri seara, sâmbătă și duminică.

Ce e de făcut? Renunțăm pentru aceasta ediție la RSVP-ul din Meetup și facem înscrierile printr-un formular, până pe 7 septembrie. Apoi, până pe 10 septembrie facem selecția participanților, în funcție de răspunsurile furnizate în formularul de înscriere. Mai departe, participanții vor avea drept termen limită 15 septembrie ca ultima zi în care să facă plata și să ne trimită dovada acesteia.

Noi revenim cu detalii în curând. Voi puteți veni cu întrebări în secțiunea de comentarii.

Tester and PM: The two way road with Anca Rarău at TdT Cluj

On the first Wednesday of each month it’s tradition for the testing community from Cluj to gather around for intense testing related discussions followed by more chilling discussions involving beers. Or tea.

On July 2nd, we invited Anca Rarău, Senior Project Manager, at TdT Cluj to discuss about the interaction between the project manager and the tester. Quite a new approach for the members of the community, that lately have been wandering between automation frameworks, security testing tools, occasionally going back to the basics of testing, to eventually return to cool or fresh testing techniques and methods.

Why would we even consider such a topic? Personally, I was convinced by its value a little time ago, within an internal event, when Anca has made her case on how should we, PMs and testers, help each other. So I invited her to continue her research on a larger group of testers having various backgrounds, experiences and a reputation of critical thinkers.

The topic was divided into two sections. First, Anca presented the qualities of a good enough tester and, furthermore, ones that an excellent tester should have, as per her perspective. Then the focus changed and the testers answered the same questions with respect to the project manager role. The second section was even more pragmatic, as we went through the most important project management knowledge areas to stress on the ways the tester could and should help the project manager. And for the equilibrium in the universe, we ended with the ways we would like to be helped by the project manager.

If, at first, the agenda predicted some common sense discussions, the more we got into the subject the better we realized how helpful it was to have such a nice structured memento from a PM. For more than 2 hours, we went with Anca through 5 slides of expectations and action items and countless examples: some from her, with how-to’s or how-not-to’s, some from the participants on how-should-I or what-is-the-best-approach. Looking over the feedback we received, Anca was really appreciated for the real live situations she based her arguments upon, for the steadiness she stated her opinions and handled the most skeptical participants. (More feedback, kudos, pictures and follow up discussions are available for the group members on Meetup.)

As we checked the 27th local Meetup, we proudly achieved another goal we had, of inviting more non-testers talking with our testers. And we are ready to return the invitation to our peers’ communities, just drop a line. In the meanwhile, we are preparing for a cooler, summer adequate meetup, involving beer. Or iced tea.

Simon says to wisely test security

Ce se întâmplă când pui în aceeași propoziție Tabăra de Testare și OWASP? Se întâmplă un webinar cu însuși Simon Bennetts. Simon și-mai-cum? Simon Bennetts, acel membru al Mozilla Security Team și al OWASP, lead al unor proiecte ca Zed Attack Proxy sau Bodge It Store. Da, da, chiar el… Cu sprijinul mozillienilor, miercurea trecută l-am avut în calitate de content owner la cea de-a 20-a ediție a Taberei din Cluj.

Pentru prima întâlnire cu membrii comunității de testare din Cluj, Simon a pregătit un conținut adecvat pentru profilul cel mai des întâlnit printre participanții TdT, respectiv pentru testerul care în mod uzual verifică funcționalitățile unei aplicații. Iar asta pentru că el crede că tot mai mulți specialiști din IT ar trebui să cunoască această nișă a testării securității aplicațiilor. Cu atât mai mult cu cât transferul de abilități de la testarea funcționalității la testarea securității ar fi unul orizontal: dacă în primul caz, noi, testerii, ne comportăm ca utilizatori aflați în cazuri limită sau dincolo de traiectoria predefinită, în testarea securității trebuie să ne transpunem în rolul atacatorului care, la fel, exersează căi atipice pentru a „sparge” aplicația. Așadar, dispunem de un mindset potrivit. Ceea ce însă diferă este specificul testelor (sau mai bine zis, al atacurilor), care pot fi tehnice sau logice. Cât de tehnice sau logice am văzut mai departe, când Simon ne-a trecut prin fiecare dintre cele zece cele mai critice riscuri privind securitatea aplicațiilor web, evaluate în cadrul proiectului OWASP Top Ten. Și oh, da, ce teren de joacă vast pentru un tester de securitate!

Dar stați să vedeți ce jucării are… Simon ne-a arătat câteva dintre funcționalitățile pe care le are ZAP, insistând pe ideea că, pentru a nu încălca legea, este foarte important să îl folosim pe aplicații pe care avem voie să le testăm. Putem începe cu cele în mod deliberat vulnerabile, cum este Bodge It Store, magazinul online în care Simon ne-a arătat, printre altele, cum putem cumpăra produse într-o cantitate… negativă. Totuși, ni s-a exemplificat și de ce trebuie să fim cumpătați în privința tool-urilor automate, de ce e important să verificăm și manual o aplicație și de ce să nu uităm că în testarea securității nu există panacee.

Mulțumiți să fi avut o prezentare introductivă așa faină, cu demo și tot ce ne trebuie, l-am bombardat pe Simon cu întrebări preț de vreo 20 de minute, probabil având în gând prima întrebare ridicată de colegul nostru, Robin: When do we start?

Selenium Webdriver with Thucydides: In Gods we trust*, everything else we test!

O fi miercurea cea mai productivă zi pentru angajați? Poate o fi, dar sigur în prima miercuri din lună în Cluj-Napoca are loc o nouă întâlnire a Taberei de Testare. Pentru cei de-ai locului, cea mai recentă ediție a fost a… 18-a, una despre Selenium Webdriver cu Thu… Thucy… Thucydides.

Prin lentilele mele venetice, întâlnirea s-a văzut drept una matură și familiară, cu foc în sobă și chestii frumos colorate: fotolii de puf în jurul mesei și exemple de rapoarte de testare automată proiectate pe perete.

Vlad Voicu și Gabi Kis au demonstrat într-o manieră fluidă cum această combinație de Webdriver cu Thucydides răspunde nevoilor de integrare și raportare, folosind experiențele proprii și proiectându-le în scenariile propuse de participanți. Iar dacă Vlad ne-a explicat tare simpatic cum e cu proiectul, paginile și pașii, cum că As much as Java can do, you can do, Gabi ne-a cucerit cu un demo data driven, un fel de salată de fructe, cu savoare Junit, căutând merele în dicționarul Wiktionary.org și amestecând nițel portocalele cu afinele, așa, de dragul testului care pică.

Spre final, ni s-a desenat și explicat un model de automatizare a procesului de testare care folosește Jenkins și care integrează foarte elegant niște puncte de control între mediile de development și cele de testare.

Per ansamblu, vă spun că am avut parte de o prezentare interactivă, care a suscitat interesul inițiaților, dacă ne luăm după numeroasele intervenții de tip What if …? și Cum faci … asta?. Pentru autodidacții care nu sunt expuși explicit proiectelor de testare automată s-au enumerat „proiecțele” ale prietenilor unor prieteni care să ilustreze cu ce putem începe să exersăm cu framework-uri de automation. Doar să nu uităm să fim atenți la ce update-uri se fac în timp ce înregistrăm testele, cine știe ce server mai cade extenuat. Just saying 😉

In final, vă urez să aveți rapoarte de testare faine!

*Thucydides has been dubbed the father of “scientific history” because of his strict standards of evidence-gathering and analysis in terms of cause and effect without reference to intervention by the gods, as outlined in his introduction to his work – Wikipedia.

Autumn Camp 6-8.Sept.2013 – Tabara de Testare Cluj

Tabara de Testare > 6-8 septembrie 2013 > Muntele Baisoara, Romania
#TdTCamp #TabaraDeTestare #TdTCluj #TdT #SoftwareTestingCamp

Cand am sarbatorit un an de meetup-uri la Cluj, am scris o poezie:

A year has passed, can’t say ‘gone by’.
We’ve learned, we’ve changed, stayed side by side.
Through sunny days and winter snow
We fought for our right to grow.
QA, software, gadgets, we like,
Made Cluj & Silicon Valley alike.

Si am facut o promisiune de a organiza o adevarata tabara de testare.
Am vrut sa fie o surpriza pentru toata lumea si prin angajamentul public sa nu mai avem cale de-ntoarcere.
Eniko Csokasi m-a sunat intr-o seara si printre ideile pentru tortul aniversar mi-a pus si intrebarea: ‘Iuliana, organizam tabara de testare?’
Si uite asa a inceput totul.

Unde-s doi puterea creste?  Unde-s cinci totu-nfloreste!

It’s time for a real Testing camp!

Impreuna cu Ru Cindrea, Oana Casapu si Alex Rotaru am muncit pentru acest eveniment.

Cred ca am avut toti concedii foarte interesante anul acesta; care mai de care cautand o unda de semnal pentru inca un telefon, inca un e-mail 🙂

MacBook @ the country side

Vacation time is study time

Am descoperit ce bine se incadreaza in peisajul de la tara un MacBook si ca poate imparti aceeasi masa cu un Android.

Viata la tara … cu Xcode si Instruments
I’d do it again!

Multumesc Oana si Alex pentru MacBook!

Ru a venit din Finlanda nu doar la atelierul din 6-8 septembrie, ci si la unele intalniri organizatorice.

In the end, we’ve all mixed business with pleasure (i.e. holiday time)

Participantii au fost si ei ingaduitori si rabdatori si le multumesc din nou pentru cooperare, rabdare si atitudinea pozitiva!

Si acum, cateva cuvinte despre cum a fost in tabara:

A fost un weekend foarte frumos! O noua confirmare a faptului ca impreuna putem realiza mai usor ceea ce ne propunem, un anume scop comun, chiar daca are mai multe nuante.

Startul in forta cu setup-ul a fost un energizant super. Atatea cabluri, laptop-uri, Mac-uri, miniMac-uri, parole, conturi, intrebari si solutii (plus un meci de fotbal) pe mp ne-a mobilizat si incantat.

Munca in echipa a fost atat de naturala! Din curiozitate sau din placerea de a ajuta.
Fiecare succes elibera o parere care se transforma in solutie pentru altcineva.
Fiind atatea device-uri, unele detalii trebuiau adaptate. Astfel, am intrevazut deja ce dimensiune are mobile testing (&development) pentru ca mai tarziu sa aflam si de Android fragmentation.

Cu ajutorul lui Ru Cindrea, am scris si teste pentru Android si am aflat de bug-uri interesante in legatura cu detalii carora le acordam o prioritate scazuta incat uneori uitam de ele complet. Oare cate astfel de detalii am putea descoperi in ceea ce facem zi de zi? Ce ni se pare ceva atat de banal incat sa poata fi trecut cu vederea?

Eniko Csokasi ne-a provocat sa invatam cum putem lucra cu Instruments si script-uri JavaScript pentru iOS si ce presupune development-ul pentru produse Apple.

Ne-am prins urechile in modificarea testelor pentru iOS, dar asta nu ne-a facut decat sa comunicam si mai mult.
Si daca nu au fost intrebari de la unii, au fost de la altii si mereu aparea cel putin o provocare din vecini.

Am descoperit si Firefox OS prin intermediul lui Ioana Chiorean si Florin Strugariu.
Informatiile despre comunitatea si proiectele Mozilla au oferit baza unor posibile oportunitati de dezvoltare pentru noi intr-un cadru international.

Am invatat si ne-am reamintit o abordare pentru crearea unui test strategy.
Pentru implementare am folosit principiul Mind Maps si tool-ul XMind. Si am descoperit cat potential are aceasta abordare si pentru proiecte inafara testarii software.

Oana Casapu ne-a fotografiat in ipostazele noastre creative si a fost coordonatorul administrativ ceea ce a insemnat enorm pentru desfasurarea activitatilor noastre ‘testaresti’. Ne-a provocat la debriefing, un exercitiu foarte util, doar ca mie nu imi place sa il fac ‘live’. (Tocmai de aceia e un exercitiu bun pentru mine? 🙂 )

Alex Rotaru a avut, ca de obicei, o prezenta foarte energica, cu intrebari si alternative si voie buna.
Ajuns devreme la locul evenimentului s-a si ‘luptat’ cu amenajarea salii.
Ajunsi mai repede la fata locului au fost si Ru (venita tocmai din Finlanda pentru aceste workshop-uri), Costin Ion si Marius Ioana (veniti tocmai din Bucuresti) care i-au dat o mana de ajutor lui Alex.

Am primit toti tricouri ‘Tabara de Testare’ cu sprijinul Altom Consulting. Eu cu siguranta am sa il port si cu alte ocazii.

Sper sa ii revad pe participantii din aceasta tabara si la alte evenimente #TdT organizate de @Tabara de Testare. M-am bucurat sa cunosc alti testeri din Cluj si Bucuresti si sa descopar oameni cu diverse interese si idei. As putea spune si din Iasi, dar Simina Rendler tocmai s-a mutat la Cluj 🙂

Ne-am tinut cuvantul si am facut si sport dimineata de la 7:30.

Sambata dimineata am alergat aproximativ 3.5km, iar duminica am avut un antrenament variat pe terenul de sport al pensiunii.
Setul de activitati sportive propuse de Eniko ne-a cam lucrat toti muschii.
Ma bucur ca am facut aceasta activitate, deci se poate si ce-ar fi sa ne continuam diminetile asa? (chiar daca nu impreuna:)

Weekend-ul a fost foarte incarcat, nu prea a fost timp de relaxare, dar tot ne-am gasit energia sa si petrecem sambata noaptea.
Eu n-am mai dansat de foarte mult timp, asa ca a fost super!
Ada Coste m-a invatat o noua miscare de dans – trebuie s-o mai exersez.

Jocul de biliard este cam solicitant cand de abia putem distinge culorile bilelor… We need a re-match, Dorel Natea! 🙂

Sper ca in viitor sa fiu si mai cooperanta, mai relaxata, mai pozitiva si mai vorbareata la debriefing, sa ascult mai mult si sa ii cunosc pe ceilalti mai bine.

Cu drag,

.Iuliana Silvasan

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Setup - how it's done @ Tabara de Testare

Setup – how it’s done!
Tabara de Testare Cluj > Autumn Camp > 6-8.sept.2013

Work in Progress @ Tabara de Testare

Work in Progress @ Tabara de Testare Cluj > Autumn Camp > 6-8.sept.2013

Setup = How it's done

Setup – how it’s done @ Tabara de Testare – Autumn Camp > 6-8.sept.2013

Networking @ Tabara de Testare

Networking @ Tabara de Testare Cluj – Autumn Camp > 6-8.sept.2013

Team Spirit

The team @ Tabara de Testare Cluj – Autumn Camp 6-8.sept.2013
(photo by Denis Rendler)

TdT Cluj – Workshop #1 – Webdriver and Python with mozillawebqa

We had the first longer workshop organised by TdT Cluj, and it was really fun and useful! 27 people (3 instructors, 1 person responsible that we had all we needed, 1 PR  and 22 students) spent more than 6 hours to learn how to write tests with Selenium Webdriver and Python for a Mozilla website, and I personally would have continued if the time we had reserved the room for hadn’t been limited.

People started to arrive around 11:30 and we had some tea and coffee until 12:00 when Alex Lakatos started with a short presentation of the mozillawebqa team. Then, Bebe (aka Florin Strugariu) took control of the event :-).

The workshop had three phases:

  • The setup of the test environment. Something that should have been like a walk in the park, as we already had installed some of the tools, turned out to be a real software project :). We had lots of configurations – Win 7 and Win 8 (one even on a tablet – you should see the picture with the Windows tablet and the Apple keyboard and mouse! As Ioana said, could it have got more hipsterish than that? :-D), MacBooks and Linux machines, different IDEs (Aptana of pyCharm) and even someone with a custom version of Firefox – which revealed many problems. After more than one hour and a half everybody had the setup running:
    • github client installed
    • github project forked and cloned: https://github.com/mozilla/remo-tests/
    • python virtual environment created and working – I personally struggled with this as I had too many versions of python installed on my laptop, the default being 3.1, and the virtual environment didn’t like that too much
    • python dependences installed in the virtual environment – that turned out to be quite challenging too as the internet connection wasn’t ready for so many people downloading all at once
    • IDEs configured
    • we were able to run the two existing tests from the repository.

During this period Bebe, Alex and Alin – our instructors 😀 – moved from one person to the other to solve everybody’s problems. I think they handled this really well, especially as there were so many of us, and only three of them.

  • The next step for Bebe was to show us how they write tests at Mozilla. He was writing the tests and sharing his screen on the projector, and the rest of us followed along. Together with Alin (and Alex) they answered questions, helped people debug if something didn’t work or presented us some of the practices used by their team. We implemented two tests:
    • one for going to the Events page of the website, and looking for an element on the page
    • one for searching an event (entering “test” in the search field) and verifying the number of results returned (in our case we had 1 result).

Eniko had a really nice comment on the meetup page, that it was great to see us working as teams: people were talking and helping each other, debugging failures and trying to understand why something wasn’t working. It was so nice, that we didn’t even feel when time flew. If it wasn’t for the pizza and a small incident in one of the other rooms, most probably we wouldn’t have stopped until the end.

  • Once the new tests were running, we moved to the next phase of the workshop: writing tests for the tickets opened on github. Unfortunately it was already late, and we had less than an hour for that, so I guess only few were able to finish theirs.

My takeaways from this workshop are:

  • we start to be a real community! People feel comfortable asking for help, and offering help even if they meet for the first time
  • open source projects are a great opportunity for people to learn new things and do that in a way that others can benefit from their work
  • we should have a follow-up for this workshop; now that many of us have the setup running, and know the basics on how it works, we should spend more time on writing tests
  • Windows 8 tablets are real computers, if one can install the setup for test automation and run tests from one! 😀

P.S. you can check the photos and follow-up comments for this meetup here: http://www.meetup.com/Tabara-de-Testare-Cluj/events/107519592/

P.P.S. thanks to Ioana, our PR :-D, more photos can be found here: https://reps.mozilla.org/e/webqa-selenium-workshop/

TdT Cluj Monthly Meetup #11 – Testing Clinic

One challenge I see in organising Tabara de Testare is finding testers that want to share / present their stories. This is something that we struggle with quite often in Cluj, and I know that the other chapters are in a similar situation.

We came up with the following solution for the meetup organised in Cluj: if for a particular month we’re not able to find testers that want to present, we’re having a Testing Clinic, where every participant can come with their own testing / managing / scripting / teaching problem and discuss it with the other attendees.

We had two meetups with this format, and I think they turned out pretty OK as everybody who shared a problem left with some ideas (I saw them writing things down :-D).

I’d like to share with you my impressions and the things I remember from the second Testing Clinic, the one we had this month.

To give you some ideas about how it happened, we were 28 testers, we arranged the chairs in a circle / oval so that we have eye contact with each other, and we waited for someone to break the ice and start with a problem.

(For the sake of confidentiality, I won’t use the real name of the testers or the company they work for.)

Problem #1: “I need to make a demo for a possible client, about automating testing for their mobile application (iOS), but I don’t have the code for the app. Does any of you know any tool that can be used for a case like this?”

This is when the discussion began:

  • somebody said that they could look at Sikuli – http://www.sikuli.org/
  • others asked why they need to have a real demo, as they don’t have the app, and not go with some mockups?
  • others asked why they don’t ask for the code; if they want to make a demo, wouldn’t it make more sense to have a real demo and use the tools they will most probably be using during the project?

Problem #2: “I work on a medical software project, we have no automated scripts but I would like to start implementing some. One of the problems I have is that the management is afraid of doing test automation as they don’t know how it will impact our FDA and ISO certifications. How could I present this to the management?”

  • I shared a story from a medical software project I worked on, where I developed a tool that helped us verify some of the requirements (FDA requires that every requirement of the application needs to be covered by a test). In my case, I had to write a requirements document for my tool, and one other colleague to write a test plan and test my tool. This was required by FDA for the type of medical software that we were building, so I suggested that she checks FDA requirements for their project to see if they need to validate the automation tool.

Problem #3: “I have two teams of testers, team1 works on a mature project, is very organised and everything works fine; team 2 works on a startup project, they don’t use documentation to test, but follow developers instructions and then they do ad-hoc testing and don’t keep track of what they test. Team 2 have trouble giving status reports about their work, and also don’t test some important features asked by the client. For the moment the client is happy with what we deliver, the project manager is also happy, but I’m afraid that in 6 months when the project will be more complex, everything will fall apart. How can I sell the approach used by team 1 to the project manager from project 2?”. We asked some clarifying questions, and understood that he was the test manager for both teams.

  • this was the most discussed problem of the evening; after several questions, we were able to break the problem in two:
    • the testers from team 2 were not motivated to do a good job, and they didn’t want to improve their testing (as long as the client is happy, why should we change anything?)
    • the PM for project 2 was overwriting all the decisions taken by the test manager. The development process, so also the testing process, had been defined by the PM, and she was not willing to change anything
  • several solutions have been suggested for the “PM problem”:
    • go and meet the PM, to have a better relationship with her
    • if you think the quality of the product will suffer in the long run, escalate the problem to the PM’s boss
    • present the reports in such a way that the PM will understand that the testing team is not doing a good job (they don’t cover all the requirements, which causes patch delivery; if this will continue, and the product will grow, it’ll be hard to keep track of things)
    • implement changes and don’t tell the PM; use the results to show her the benefits
    • let the team fail once, and then use the results to show the PM what can happen if the testers are left by themselves (they used 2 weeks sprints, they were in an early stage of the product so it’s better to fail now than in 6 months)
  • several solutions have been suggested for the “team problem”:
    • make a documentation reading session, something like a book club where they could go through the user stories
    • find someone within the team that has the same values as you, and that is willing to help you improve the team’s work
    • go and work with them side by side; spend more time with this team to win their trust
    • go out for beer / dinner with the team, to get closer to them
    • when evaluating the testers, give them negative feedback and decrease their salary; if this won’t wake them up, they might leave the company which in long run might be beneficial
  • one of the testers asked how could he be sure that the approach used by team 1 will work for team 2; after all, they are two different teams, working on two different projects, with different PMs and different clients… His answer was that experience shows that team 1’s approach worked well so far, even on other projects, so from his point of view it will also work on this project.

Problem #4: “I noticed that some of the tests and test data I use on different projects (for example: valid addresses for every EU country, tests for using a Mastercard Card). How can I handle all this test data to be able to search through it if I need it on future projects?”.

After asking some clarifying questions, we found out that she doesn’t always remember that she previously tested a similar feature / project or had to use this kind of data, and she would like to have an easy way to search through her documents. Plus the other team members could benefit from her work.

  • one solution was to have all the documents put in a source control system, add tags or descriptions for each file, and then interrogate the SCM to see if something similar can be located. One downside of this approach would be that, depending on how you organise your test data, some files might have lots of tags. Another one is that people need to install SCM clients to access the data.
  • another solution was to have a wiki and enter the details there. As she wanted to search for text, wikis are very good for doing that, and they are also much nicer to use than SCMs (you only need a browser, and you don’t need to be a developer to understand how they work). Plus you can attach any type of files if needed…
    • a tester shared a story where he was bombed with questions from his fellow testers, so he decided to build a wiki and put the things he knew there. Even if he did that, his colleagues still preferred to come directly to him for information, so they come up with an idea to give incentives to people to use the wiki more: they added a Google Analytics account for every page, and the authors will get a bonus at the end of the month based on the number of views their pages had. Another good aspect, from his point of view, was that this way they could see which computers, and thus testers, use the wiki, and which don’t. I found this approach a little too much for me, as people might abuse of such a system, but he said that it has been working OK for them so far.

Problem #5: “I work remotely with a team from Finland, formed of an experienced test lead and several developers. I am the only tester in the office that works on this project. The remote team is not very communicative, moreover they have a culture for not disturbing people with too many questions. Even if they reply to my emails, I sometimes feel the need to talk to somebody about my work, but I don’t have who to talk to as I don’t want to bother the remote team too much, and the local team is too busy. What can I do in this case?”.

  • communicate more with the test lead – they do talk, but the test lead works on another project too, so she’s quite busy…
  • attend team’s meetings – because the developers don’t feel comfortable talking in English, they don’t do that. The test lead attends the meetings and sends her the meeting notes. The developers reply to emails / chat, but when it comes to spoken English they don’t have too much practice.
  • go there and meet the team – the team works remotely most of the time, so when she visited their office, most of them weren’t there. For example, she thinks she communicates better with one of the guys because she has had the chance to meet him.
  • find and use focusing – defocusing techniques to not feel bored.
  • find someone in the office you could talk to; I said that I find it hard to believe that everybody is so busy that she has nobody to talk to.

We had 4 testers that presented 5 problems within the 2.5 hours of the meetup, lots of new testers joining the conversation and presenting their ideas. I would like to thank the ones that dared to share their problems. I also want to thank the testers that joined the conversation and offered solutions.

At the end of this article I’d like to stress that this kind of format will not ensure that you’ll implement the ideas presented by the other participants, and that it’s up to you what you do with all this information. But I think it can be a great way to build an interactive discussion, and get input from testers working in different contexts.

P.S. the evening ended with 8 of us going for a drink and food, and discussing about strange customs from marriage, funeral and baptising ceremonies until midnight, which was a lot of fun 😀


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I am one happy Gmail user and I hate Microsoft’s Hotmail.

I don’t really remember the reason I registered with them, but the thing is I haven’t been using it lately at all. But the other day my mom, who sighed up as Microsoft’s Trade Partner in Kazakhstan asked me to subscribe her company for Action Pack. And sure enough, they didn’t make it easy on you. You just CAN’T access their subscription page unless 1) you have a LiveID 2) LiveID has to have a .hotmail email account associated with it! After two weeks of back and forth email communication with their reps in Kazakstan, Russia and the States, I finally was able to access their well hidden Action Pack subscription page. And of course to get them to talk to me and to sign in, i HAD to use their so-called LiveID and receive their emails in my hotmail account.

Now I just want to never see that hotmail page again, so i went to the options and tried to forward all the mail to Gmail (which does an amazing job at filtering all the junk while hotmail’s inbox was piled up to the top). But no way Microsoft will let you leave! Not only they tell you to “at least once every 120 days so that your account doesn’t get deleted” but look at this:

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Rob Jasienski has been in the construction/service business for more than 23 years. His breath of experience expands the general construction area which includes supervisory and management positions. Originally from Hamilton, New Jersey, Rob moved to Florida in 2006. After working for a local home builder, he decided to return to school to earn an HVAC certification. In 2009, Rob attended Allied Career Training (ACT) in Dothan, Alabama where he earned his certification. Rob is committed to always providing value and outstanding customer service.

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Coolabi, Chapman backer reveals £40m fund

A British financial firm that has invested kids TV properties Poppy Cat and The Clangers has launched a £40 million (US$61 million) fund the UK’s creative industries. Edge Investment has launched the Edge Creative Enterprise Fund, with support from the British government. This will look to invest in “high growth” companies in the creative industries […]

DreamWorks buys Chapman TV library

DreamWorks has bought the Chapman Entertainment library giving it kids series Fifi and the Flowertots, Roary the Racing Car and Raa Raa the Noisy Lion to feed into its catalogue. The titles will sit alongside those from Classic Media, which DreamWorks acquired last year for US$155 million. They will be sold via what was the […]

Former Chapman production chief joins Sixteen South

The former director of production and development at the now defunct Chapman Entertainment has resurfaced at Northern Irish children’s prodco Sixteen South, TBI has learned. Emily Whinnet (below) has become the Driftwood Bay producer’s head of development, where she will lead its development team and oversee its slate. She has a specific brief to develop […]

Greg Lynn plans innovative digital approach for post-Chapman series

The former managing director of Chapman Entertainment, Greg Lynn, has told TBI of the unique digital-first approach he is taking with his first preschool series since leaving the Roary the Racing Car producer. Lynn’s production company Adrenalynn has partnered with Technicolor Digital Productions on the 52x10mins Airside Andy, a stop motion/CGI preschooler about an enthusiastic airport […]

Coolabi hires Val Fry as sales boss

Producer and rights management firm Coolabi has hired Valerie Fry as director of sales. Fry, who has previously worked for Chapman Entertainment, Celador and Gullane, will report to Coolabi chief executive Jeremy Banks. In the newly created director of sales role she will oversee sales and commercial exploitation of Coolabi’s portfolio of properties, which include […]


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VMDedup: Memory De-duplication in Hypervisor

Shaikh, F., Yao, F., Gupta I., Campbell, R.

IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E '14). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, USA, 379-384, 2014.

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Virtualization techniques are widely used in cloud computing environments today. Such environments are installed with a large number of similar virtual instances sharing the same physical infrastructure. In this paper, we focus on the memory usage optimization across virtual machines by automatically de-duplicating the memory on per-page basis. Our approach maintains a single copy of the duplicated pages in physical memory using copy-on-write mechanism. Unlike some existing strategies, which are intended only for applications and need user configuration, VMDedup provides an automatic memory de-duplication support within the hypervisor to achieve benefits across operating system code, data as well as application binaries. We have implemented a prototype of this system within the Xen hypervisor to support both para-virtualized and fully-virtualized instances of operating systems.

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God’s Image (QUICK DRAMA)

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This Quick Drama teaches that God wants to make us into the image of His Son, Jesus.  We often think that we should do the work, but God is the only One who can successfully and permanently change us.  Even though God wants to change us, He loves us like we are today.  He also loves us too much to leave us that way.  (This Quick Drama was inspired by God’s Chisel, written by The Skit Guys.  It’s an excellent drama that you can find at http://www.skitguys.com/store/detail/188/.  I wrote this one to appeal more to kids, but the original is the best.)

Children, youth, adults

o    Tool belt
o    Assorted tools to fill the tool belt
o    Hammer
o    Chisel (metal is preferred for the sound it makes)
o    Hand mirror

o    Practice the script.

Brad:      [Enters with a mirror is his hand.  He is admiring himself in the mirror.  He also has a heavily loaded tool belt and is using one of the tools to “polish” himself and make himself look even better.] Oh, darling! You….look….mahhhhh-velous!

GOD:    [Appears] Hey, Brad!  Whatcha doing?

Brad:     [Embarrassed] Oh, uh… [Remembers mirror in his hand, looks at it briefly and then hides it behind his back]  Nothing, really.

GOD:    So, did you like what you saw?

Brad:     Uh, well…yeah!  Yeah!  I guess I did!  Is there anything wrong with that?

GOD:    Who did you see when you looked in the mirror?

Brad:    Well, me, of course!

GOD:    That’s the problem.  You see, Brad, what you’re supposed to is the image of my Son, Jesus.

Brad:     Oh.  [Realizes his error]  But I don’t know how to do that.

GOD:     That’s okay.  In fact, it’s why I’m here.  [Pulls out a hammer and chisel from Brad’s tool belt]

Brad:     What are you going to do with those?

GOD:    These are my shaping tools.  With them, I will chip away anything that doesn’t look my Son.

Brad:     Okay, will it hurt?

GOD:    Sometimes.  You’ve added a lot of stuff that wasn’t in my original design, and it’s got to come off.

Brad:    Okay, but make it fast, please.

GOD:    [Chisels loudly] You’ve been unkind to your brothers and sisters a lot lately.

Brad:    Owww!  I know.  [Hangs head}

GOD:    [Chisels loudly] And you’ve been stuffing your bad feelings deep down inside.

Brad:     Owww!  But what else can I do with them?  No one listens to me!

GOD:    I do.  [Chisels loudly]  You’ve shown disrespect to both your parents and your teachers.

Brad:     Owww!  Wait!  Can we stop?  This really hurts!

GOD:     We can take a break, but you should know that these areas grow bigger when you don’t let me work on them.

Brad:     God, what’s the use?  I’m never going to be like Jesus.  He’s perfect, and I’m…I’m…I’m just messed up.  I can’t be fixed.

GOD:    Brad, what do you think I see when I look at you?

Brad:    A disappointment.

GOD:    Not at all!  You know what I see?  My masterpiece!  My glorious creation!  My beautiful, wonderful child!  I’ve never made a piece of junk, and I never will.  I only make masterpieces.

Brad:     [Looking down at his feet and shuffling them on the ground]  But I sin, God!  I mess up!  I do things I’m not supposed to do!

GOD:    Brad, you can never be a disappointment to me, because my expectations for change in your life aren’t based on your efforts.  I’m the one who is responsible for changing you.  All you have to do is surrender.  Trust me to do my work.  I’ll take care of the rest.

Brad:    Oh, God, that sounds great, and I want it to be true, but it seems too easy.

GOD:    Oh, I never said it was going to be easy.  Simple maybe, but it’s almost never easy.  Trusting me takes lots of practice.  Every day, you’re going to want to try to take the tools back in your hands and change yourself, but you’ve got to let me do the work.

Brad:     Okay, Lord.  Can we take it one day at a time, though?

GOD:    Of course, Brad.  Ready for some more chiseling?

Brad:    Uh, would tomorrow be okay?  I’m a little chiseled out.

GOD:    Sure, Brad.  Tomorrow.  [Both Exit]

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REO project-team is working on the numerical simulation of biological flows and cardiac electrophysiology. Its main objectives are:

  • the modeling of blood flow in large vessels, air flow in the respiratory tract, and the cardiac electrophysiology
  • the design and the analysis of efficient and robust numerical methods for these problems
  • the development of numerical software to help for medical decisions and the improvement of existing medical devices

The team is bi-located at the Inria Research Center of Paris and the Jacques-Louis Lions laboratory of Sorbonne Université. It is made of about 20 people, including 8 permanent researchers (5 from Inria, 1 from CNRS, 2 assistant-professors from Sorbonne Université)

Research themes

Direct and inverse modeling and computational methods for

  • fluid-structure interaction problems: interaction blood / arteries or cardiac valves
  • cardiac electrophysiology and electromechanical coupling
  • aerosol deposition in the respiratory tract

Keywords: Scientific computing, Numerical analysis, Computational biomechanics , Cardiovascular system , Cardiac electrophysiology, Respiratory system , Fluid-structure interaction

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About Team Fastrax Parachute Demonstration Team

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Team Fastrax™ is the most ambitious professional parachute demonstration team in the world. The team roster has more than forty active members, with a culmination of more than 175,000 skydives. A Team Fastrax™ demonstration skydive typically consists of a member exiting an aircraft over a large crowd such as an airshow or major sports event. The member then descends to a precise landing, thrilling the spectators.

Since the inception of the Team Fastrax™ Professional Skydiving Parachute Demonstration Team in 2002, we have performed thousands of exhibition skydives. Team Fastrax™ has performed at every entertainment venue imaginable, as far away as Moscow, Russia and Normandy, France. We perform veteran skydives and are approved to jump in highly-restricted airspace. We’re also the only parachute demo team to have performed over Ground Zero on 9/11, the Pentagon, Independence Hall, and over the Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Our parachute team jumps at balloon festivals, air shows, NASCAR, Indy Race League, and Formula One. We have even performed at symphony performances, golf courses, amusement parks, tennis courts and veteran support events. The team has also performed at various sports venues such as Major League Baseball, the National Football League, and Major League Soccer. We’ve also performed at NCAA baseball, football and lacrosse, high school sporting events and others. We sometimes dress in mascot costumes and franchise uniforms when needed.

Our skydive demonstration performances can be seen in movies and commercials. Our stunt team has even performed stunts for television shows. We know that the breadth and depth of exhibition skydiving venues is deep and wide and we have not seen it all. Sometimes people surprise us with new and unusual venues, so surprise us. Reach out to Team Fastrax™ today to learn more about America’s Skydiving Team performing a skydiving demo for you.

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courage for the journey – dangerous refugees

boarding the train to Slovenia
a tent city in the western Balkans
early morning volunteer hours

The guards are frightening.

I imagine how it all looks from the eyes of a Syrian child who has run from ISIS, or through the eyes of the tumbling stomach of an Afghani girl who has hidden her shaking vulnerability behind flimsy doors in fear of Taliban soldiers.

Here in Europe, the guards wear black. Their face masks are black too, covering all but the eyes as she walks through mazes formed by the position of cattle fences.

I look at the one train track that leads into the camp, so reminiscent of another camp in Poland, where people entered and never left. How similar the idea of controlling people can become, even when this camp is helping a flow of humanity.

I flip back the rough material of a tent that can house 1500 people by stacking them in bunk beds 4 high. There is an efficiency here – one tent can accommodate one train of passengers.

But, we do not call them passengers, do we?

We call them refugees while we wonder if the better word is terrorist. And, we judge whether they should have fled their country or stayed to fight. And we divide their trauma into the categories of refugee of war or refugee of economy, as if we somehow understand how those two realities would feel.

You will have to forgive the rawness of my words. I am fresh from the camp this morning. The comforts of my beautiful Christmas tree, my warm and carpeted home, my candles, my strong European coffee, and my sleeping cherubs have not yet re-anesthetized me to the pain of the rest of the world. I can still feel yesterday’s cold bite through my 5 layers of clothes.

Good day,’ I sing in a cheerful chirp as I make eye contact with the guard. The black mask covering his face make his eyes the sole clues to his mood. I am walking the wrong way through a maze of cattle stalls and people, refugees. My destination is a kiosk that sells steamy hot chocolate to warm the freezing soul on a journey.

At the kiosk, I grab my hot cup and thankfully wrap my gloved fingers around its momentary comfort. A  family refugee has gotten out of line to grab some cigarettes and hot coffee. She is not covered. She is smoking. Her pre-teen kids are waiting around the edges as teens do. We make eye contact, as mothers do.

I have an Arabic word-arsenal of exactly 10 phrases, all of which are pathetically mispronounced. I try anyway.

Hello“, I greet her in Arabic.

Her face breaks into a smile and she sets into verbal tirade of Arabic that I cannot follow.

No. No.” I stop her with a sheepish little laugh. I do not speak Arabic. Only English.

No Arabic?” she asks in Arabic.

No, just English.” I say in English.

English?” she says in Arabic.

Yes, only English.” I say in English.

Her daughter moves to her side and I look at her with hopeful eyes.

Do you speak English?” I ask.

“No English.” she answers with a shrug in Arabic.

So our eyes pause through the steam of my chocolate and her cigarette. We are around the same age, I would guess. Mothers with children. A refugee mother with an economic dependent and a western mother with a child.

We have no common language.

We are from vastly different worlds.

We will never see each other again.

To try and find each other amidst the cold, and the cattle gates, and the guards, and the chaos, and the steam, and the conflict, and the politics, and the fear, and the controversy, and the different faiths or no faith, and the probability that she is a terrorist and I am an infidel

is pointless.

Syria?” I ask.

She nods. “Aleppo.”

God bless you.” I butcher the Arabic phrase but she understands anyway and smiles. I have it written phonetically in my teal notebook like this:  /all-AH — MAR-kon/ God bless you.

I watch her eyes take in the kiosk and the train and the people refugees shuffling past her in this gray place called the western Balkans.

Aleppo…” she says, shaking her head sadly. “No Aleppo.” she states with sadness in heavily accented English. And then, her hand makes a wide arch that spreads the smoke of the cigarette tucked into her fingers. She completes the arch with a small, tragic burst of ‘boom‘ that is an exhale. The smoke of her cigarette hangs in the air above the boom.

Yes, I nod my head. “I know” and then I repeat her ‘boom‘. The gust of my breath mingles there in the air with hers – the only tangible evidence that our worlds have ever collided.

Suddenly the guard fires a command to get moving as he opens the cattle gate. She smiles, grabs my shoulders, pulls me close like a good friend and kisses each freezing cheek before she slips back into the line of people refugees that is already moving.

“Have a good journey” I call out in Arabic. I have been working on that phrase since September. My tongue still gets tangled in its web of terrifying consonant and vowel combinations.

As she comes up to the barking guard with only the eyes and the mask, she looks back and smiles and waves. She has heard my last words and somehow she has understood.

In spite of our different worlds. Our different languages. Our different … everything.

We have found each other and for a moment we are good friends: two mothers a refugee mother and a western mother on a journey with our children asylum seeking dependents and children.

And for a moment, just one tiny exhale of a second, a different kingdom has broken through and there is peace in our world.

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  1. Thank you for your words and pictures. I will continue to pray for you and all the families, beautiful people who have been forced to be “refugees.” God sees people, even when we don’t Thank you for all you do and God bless you all.

  2. God bless you and your dear family as you share the love of God with those He feels the pain through you. The Lord has gifted with you with a talent for writing. I felt like I was there and it challenges me to pray with more of a personal connection now. Blessings in Christ! Your box mate in college, Bret:)

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I have used this phone for some time and before I say anything big (or small) about it, I want to say this: Not once has it lagged. I am serious! This phone is pretty fast! And not only me, everyone who has one says the same. Well here is the full review of the Samsung Galaxy Core:

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Samsung Galaxy Core

I listed the Core 2 on my list of Best Phones Under 20K back in November. Remember? Back then, I said that the RAM might be a disadvantage. But from using it, I have changed my mind. The 768MB RAM performs. The phone has a 1.2Ghz Quad Core Processor. I am serious, it is decent and fast. Maybe because it runs Android 4.4.2 KitKat? Some processes that normally ‘hang’ on other phones I’ve used were pretty fluid here. I didn’t try gaming Asphalt 8 though.

The 4.5 inch phone looks and feels good on the hand. For those who love the Note 4 design, well this may be called a poor (but decent) copy. The fake silver-coloured, metal-like band from the S5 has also been used round the phone. This part of the phone scratches and loses colour. It makes the phone ugly after some time. Plus, I have not seen any good cases/flips for this particular phone. So if you have it, you have to always ensure you don’t hit it on surfaces or scratch the sides.

The back of the phone has the fake leather-like plastic. It doesn’t scratch easily. Doesn’t make the phone feel premium at all.  Someone told me he thought he’d bought a “fake china phone” when he first held it. And another said people have been asking him if that’s the Note 3! LOL! The position of the camera however kills all the “joy” of the phone.

The back camera is 5MP. Truth be told, this camera is awful. It doesn’t even compare to Galaxy Trend Plus‘ camera yet both are 5MP. Images are off. The colours are off. It is just a camera. I had the same problem with the Tecno F6.

The front camera is a huge FAIL. You take a selfie using this phone and you won’t even see yourself. Okay, I’ve exaggerated there. You may see some tiny bits of your face. You’ll need imagination to properly recognise yourself. That’s how bad the front camera is. I’d have shown you a sample here, but the picture would probably be termed as ‘Worst Selfie Ever’ forever.

You get 4GB storage on-board which is not enough. However you can expand storage with an external memory card.

It is a dual phone but both SIM card slots demand micro SIMs. You’ll therefore have to cut both your cards (if you don’t have the micro SIMs). Here’s the difference between Normal, Micro and Nano SIM:Sim cards explained

The display is not bad. Meaning it is still not impressive. The screen resolution is 480 x 800 pixels thus rendering a pixel density of 207 Pixels Per Inch. If you have used a 720p or 1080p phone this will look almost awful to your eyes. This is not to say the display is bad. It can do. Viewing your phone outdoors is however a big problem.

The F6 is also a Quad Core Phone. It has better specs than the Galaxy Core 2 but it has a lot of problems. The biggest problem being that it overheats. I mean literally boils in your hands! This isn’t the case with the Galaxy Core 2 however. No matter how far you push the phone, all you’ll get is some slight warmth near the camera. Not the scathing heat from the F6.

Finally, the battery is 2000mAh. Impressively, this battery pushes you through the day. It endures really well compared to other 2000mAh I have used. I’m not saying the battery life is awesome. It is just good.

If you love sizeable phones that just fit in your hands and you don’t want to spend a lot of money, this is the phone for you. It was previously going at Ksh. 18,000 but currently it ranges between Ksh. 11,500 and Ksh. 14,000.

The Core 2 has a successor, the Core Prime which beefs up the specs here for a much better performance. Read about the Galaxy Core Prime here.

What do you think? Is it worth the price? You can also check out my list of Best Phones Under 10K if you’re looking for something cheaper.

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Good comment on Parallels versus VMWare Fusion OS X emulation

Nice discussion around an update announcement: VMware Fusion Updated to version 1.1.1 - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW). I really do need to install the copy of Fusion I bought, but I use Win2K so little that it's at the bottom of my to do list. I'm still on an early version of Parallels.

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Award-Winning Healthcare App Updating Paper Questionnaires To Smartphone Age

Via Star Tribune

“A group of doctors in St. Paul has been cutting down on unneeded urological surgeries by considering answers on questionnaires patients fill out about their pain.

The Fairview HealthEast Kidney Stone Institute considers the process part of a shared decision making process, but replicating those kinds of results elsewhere is difficult. The paper questionnaires used at the institute are clunky for the patient and cannot be uploaded to electronic health record (EHR) systems.”

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1. Real-time surveillance: When you are away from the camera, you can watch real-time video recordings online.
2. Alarm: When an moving object is detected within the camera’s recording range, the camera will start recording and send an alert to APP on mobile.
3. MicroSD card storage: When microSD card is inserted, the camera will automatically store surveillance video. An 8G microSD card can store up to 2 days recording, an 128G microSD card can store up to one month of recording.
4. Loop recording: When the memory is full, the latest video recording will overwrite the earliest video recordings.

5. Motion detect.
6. How to play the video: The recordings saved on microSD card can be watched on computer with a card reader or directly watch on mobile phone. The recordings saved on Cloud storage can be downloaded and watch directly on mobile phone.
7. No built-in battery, simply connected to power source to achieve long time working and it needs 5V/1A Voltage to activate.
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Do you wonder why your house gets dusty so fast?

Do you have something like this in your attic?

Do you feel like your house is always dusty, in spite of how much you vacuum and clean? Have you tried all the tricks – HEPA vacuum cleaners, air cleaners, taking your shoes off before coming in the house, washing the dog…. all to no avail?

Chances are good that you’re being plagued by a leaky duct and air handling system.

When you have leaks in your ducts (virtually all duct are leaky) dust from the attic gets sucked into the ducts and distributed throughout the house. Even if you have an excellent filtration system on your air handler, the dust can be sucked in from places that don’t get filtered, and blown into your home, usually leaving fine gray dust everywhere.

Before you call in a heating/cooling (HVAC) contractor, there are a few steps that you can take yourself.

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Teela Hart

Surviving Domestic Violence

Beat Me

We are fast approaching the end of Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month.  The hurt in this young lady’s eyes is clear, however, she found her voice and I would like to share it with you.  The video brought tears to my eyes as I listened to her sing about her own personal hell and her desire to prevent this tragedy from being cycled to her baby girl.

Chantell finds her voice.

Author: Teela Hart

I am a mother, daughter, sister and domestic violence survivor.

7 thoughts on “Beat Me

  1. Thank you for sharing this Teela. I already sent it to Twitter and it’s going on my FB page. I was crying before it was over. *hugs*

  2. Thanks Teela for sharing this.

  3. Thank You for bringing awareness, that sadly is prevalent!

  4. You sing beautifully ❤

    I would love to know you more,any way how we can stay in touch? 😀

    Keep it up 🙂

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Businesses are reconsidering the value of traditional locations for their data center assets. Large CSPs and content providers driven by cost evolution and competitive forces are now asking themselves if purchasing high density core or prime wholesale data center space is still an effective investment of resources.

There’s wisdom in this line of business thinking. Why should CSPs and content providers accept the high costs and rigid control of traditional data center environments? And why pay the premium price for large deployments in major metropolitan areas when land outside these areas is abundant and affordable?

Through experience with core data centers, many of the businesses asking themselves these questions have gained an understanding of the margin models, cost implications, and the technical capacities such as cooling which are required for an effective data center environment. Armed with this understanding, they are also realizing they can utilize new connectivity technologies and methods to leverage an edge data center.

Companies can also leverage edge data centers to maintain the reliable and low-latency connectivity needed to serve mission-critical applications from the cloud. By putting data and application deployments in regionalized or edge data centers these companies can utilize fiber that extends back to their both their headquarters as well as key facilities in core markets. For this cloud strategy to work, a robust fiber network is required both for connectivity between the enterprise and the edge data center, as well as between the edge data center and facilities in core markets.

Enabled by Dark Fiber

Shifting workloads to edge environments requires dark fiber to enable secure and reliable connectivity between the enterprise’s data center and third-party data centers. Leveraging dark fiber reduces a company’s high-density data center footprint and replaces it with an increased footprint in edge data centers.

Dark fiber and deployment to hybrid cloud environments is an evolution of data center networking. Data centers no longer must be located in large metro areas. Performance is enabled by connectivity between edge data centers, enterprise data centers, and core data centers.

FiberLight’s Network

Taking advantage of the shift into localized, regional data centers also requires an optical network with metro reach to connect with abundant and affordable enterprise data center locations.

FiberLight owns and manages over 1,700,000 miles of fiber in markets including Atlanta, Houston, and Miami, as well as Washington, D.C., and Ashburn, Virginia, where capacity is quickly filling up and driving substantial price increases. We continue to invest and can “edge out” and expand our reach to connect businesses seeking to reduce costs. Other network operators are not as well-positioned by their dark fiber networks to edge out with their customers.

As seen in the D.C. and Ashburn areas, the trend of enterprises taking greater control of their data center environments to deal with rising costs will continue in metro markets across the U.S. As the digital transformation of business continues, dark fiber will become an increasingly vital element of enterprise data center strategy.


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America Movil

Telcel gets a slim win

Mexico’s largest operator has prevailed in a court case that reverses a ruling made four years ago preventing it charging its rivals for termination services.

Televisa closes Iucasell stake sale, acquires Telecable

Mexican broadcaster Grupo Televisa has acquired telco firm Telecable, the trading name of Cablevision Red, for MXN3 billion. Coinciding with the acquisition, the conglomerate also announced the closing of the sale of its 50% stake in Iucasell to the operator’s other owner Grupo Salinas.

Telekom Austria raises almost €1 billion through share sale

Telekom Austria has announced it has completed a capital increase through issuing 221.5 million new shares, bringing the total to 664.5 million. Managing to raise €997 million in net proceeds in the process, the Austrian incumbent almost reached its original target of €1 billion.

AT&T to acquire Mexico’s Iusacell

AT&T has announced it has agreed to acquire Iusacell from Grupo Salinas for $2.5 billion, including the mobile operator’s debt, all wireless properties and its 8.6 million subscribers. However, the transaction will only take place once Grupo Salinas has finalised its purchase of 50% of Iusacell that it currently doesn’t own.

Altice bids for Portugal Telecom

France-based cable group Altice has made an official bid to acquire the Portuguese assets of Portugal Telecom (PT) from Brazilian Oi for €7.03 billion. The assets in question include the Portuguese incumbent’s business excluding African operations, its Rioforte debt securities, Oi treasury shares and PT’s financing vehicles.

SoftBank eyeing up América Móvil wireless assets – report

SoftBank is considering buying the wireless assets of Carlos Slim-owned América Móvil, according to a report. Apparently the Japanese tech giant has asked US subsidiary firm Sprint’s CEO Marcelo Claure to gather information on the business up for sale on its behalf.

Telecom Italia and AT&T both mull LatAm acquisitions

Telecom Italia is said to be weighing up the possibility of buying Brazilian telco Oi in a bid to strengthen its local arm TIM Brazil) position in the South American market, where it looks likely to get squeezed if Telefónica’s purchase of GVT goes through as planned.

América Móvil announces asset sale to placate Mexican regulators

Mexican telco giant América Móvil has announced it will dispose of a bunch of its Mexican assets in order reduce its overall share of the Mexican mobile market, and thus avoid special regulatory restriction that have come into effect on the back of new laws.

AT&T flogs America Movil stake

US carrier AT&T has offloaded an 8.27 per cent stake, worth around $5.6bn, in Latin American operation America Movil, as it seeks to fund its acquisition of DirecTV. The America Movil shares were snapped up by the company’s billionaire owner, Carlos Slim, via his holding company Inmobiliaria Carso.

Telekom Austria, America Movil create international fibre net

Telekom Austria Group and América Móvil on Friday unveiled a deal that proposes to create one of the world’s largest fibre networks, with a joint footprint with 200 Points of Presence (PoP) within 47 countries, through the interconnection of networks offering voice, roaming, data and mobile services.

Telekom Austria reports Q1 profit drop

Telekom_Austria_logoTelekom Austria, the Austrian incumbent of which America Movil’s Carlos Slim is currently attempting to gain full control, has reported a year on year decline of 26.5 per cent in net profit for the first quarter of 2014. Group revenues for the firm, which has operations in a number of Central and Eastern European markets, were down seven per cent to €975.9m, yielding profit of €40.8m.

Telekom Austria parts with CFO after America Movil conflict

Operator group Telekom Austria has parted ways with group chief financial officer Hans Tschuden. His exit appears to be over a conflict with the operator’s Works Council concerning Latin American operator group America Movil, which recently increased its shareholding in the firm.

Telekom Austria CEO foresees increased foreign investment in Europe

The CEO of Telekom Austria, Hannes Ametsreiter, has told that he expects to see increased investment in the European telecom sector and that some European telcos might see their headquarters shift outside of the region as a result. Telekom Austria is itself part owned by Mexican billionaire and America Movil CEO Carlos Slim, who is reportedly keen to take full ownership of the Austrian incumbent.

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Alan Maskell

Senior Packaging Engineer

After graduating in Food Technology, Alan has worked for more than 30 years in the Food Packaging Industry. Previous employers include Carnaud Metalbox, Huhtamaki, and Uniq Prepared Foods but for the last 7 years he has run his own consultancy business working with packaging and technology companies, and brand owners.In addition Alan co-founded Aegg Creative packaging, a premium food packaging business based in the UK. He is now co-inventor on a number of newer Tempra patents.


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Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA) — Marine Research Grants

The Marine Research Grant (MARG) program enables young scientists in WIOMSA member states to turn their ideas into research projects, and to present research results at regional and international fora. The member states are Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Mozambique, Reunion, Seychelles, South Africa, and Tanzania.  MARG I makes grants for research in the applicant’s home country; MARG II supports research external to the applicant’s home country; and MARG III offers travel grants. Applications may be submitted at any time. Link

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Miranda v. Arizona

Studying the Miranda v. Arizona case, or interested in learning more? We break down the summary, brief, key players, facts and outcomes for you on TestMax.

Miranda v. Arizona Summary

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a man convicted on the basis of a confession that was elicited during the course of Arizona police interrogations which were conducted without warnings of the right to an attorney—warnings which are required to be provided to ensure preservation of the Fifth Amendment’s “privilege against self-incrimination”.

Key Players in Miranda v. Arizona

  • 1Appellant: Ernesto Miranda, who was questioned about and confessed to a crime in police custody without being informed of his right to have an attorney present while communicating with police.
  • 2Appellee: The State of Arizona and, specifically, the Phoenix Police Department, who detained, questioned, and elicited a confession from Miranda without warning him that he had a right to have an attorney present during questioning.

Miranda v. Arizona Brief

The central theme of this case was Miranda warnings and the protections against self-incrimination included in the Fifth Amendment.

Miranda v. Arizona Facts

Miranda was questioned in police custody in Arizona without being given a warning that he had a right to have an attorney present during questioning and that he had a right to remain silent while in police custody. The Phoenix police arrested Miranda at his house and then took him into custody at the station. While in custody, Miranda, who was described as being severely mentally disturbed and whose home country did not use English as its primary language, was questioned by police in the “interrogation room” for two hours by a pair of officers. At no time did the officers tell him that he had the right to have an attorney present. While in custody, Miranda confessed to a crime and signed a written confession with a printed paragraph at the top of the document stating that his confession was voluntary and that Miranda drafted it having “full knowledge of his legal rights” as well as an “understanding that any statement” he made may be used against him. Miranda was subsequently convicted of kidnapping and rape after a trial in which the written confession was allowed to be used as evidence against him. In that same trial, testimony of the interrogating officers which confirmed Miranda’s oral confession was also admitted into evidence. Key to the Supreme Court of Arizona’s finding that the elicitation of Miranda’s confession and the use of his confession at trial were not unconstitutional was the fact that no request for counsel was made by Miranda. Miranda appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court from the Arizona Supreme Court decision.

The Miranda v. Arizona Decision

The outcome of this case was the overturning of Miranda’s conviction based on the finding that Miranda was not given appropriate warnings of his right to an attorney prior to questioning by the police and his ensuing confession. The Court found that the “privilege against self-incrimination” included in the Fifth Amendment was not preserved for Miranda because of this failure to warn Miranda. The Court’s basic ruling was that, in order to use statements gathered from a custodial interrogation as evidence in a trial, a prosecutor must “demonstrate the use of procedural safeguards effective to secure the privilege against self-incrimination”. The Court went on to state that the specific requirements for those safeguards include the following: a warning of the right to remain silent, a warning that anything the suspect says may be used against him, and a warning that the suspect has a right to an attorney. It described how waiver of those rights is allowed if such waiver is voluntary, knowing, and intelligent. Silence does not constitute waiver. The Court noted that, during interrogation, once the suspect asks for an attorney, any present questioning must cease. The Court went on to state that if a suspect refuses to be questioned at all, the police must not question him and, if the suspect asks for an attorney after he begins to speak, questioning must then stop.

The Court warned that warnings of rights must be given “at the outset” of questioning to protect defendants against the typically coercive elements of the standard interrogation environment. The Court expressed particular concern with failure to warn a suspect of his rights in the particular situation of “incommunicado interrogation of individuals in a police-dominated atmosphere” and with interrogation techniques and strategies which are designed to elicit, sometimes false, confessions without actual coercion. In discussing such circumstances, the Court acknowledged that, in Miranda’s case, his statement was not actually “involuntary” as it would likely be in an incommunicado and highly coercive environment. The Court described how there must be evidence of some actual “undertaking” by police to preserve the privilege against self-incrimination because many interrogation environments are characterized by intimidation, overt or otherwise.

The Court also held that government interest in questioning potential criminals is not of greater importance than upholding the privilege against self-incrimination.

Key Takeaways for Law Students

  • 1If there is no evidence available of a suspect having been given appropriate Miranda warnings, the courts will neither presume that a suspect has been properly informed of his rights nor conclude that the privilege against self-incrimination has been protected.
  • 2Even if a suspect who is in custody does not ask for an attorney, she must be advised of her right to request counsel or her right to have counsel present during questioning to avoid self-incrimination.
  • 3To waive the right to an attorney, a suspect must give a “knowing and intelligent waiver” of his rights. Signing a confession statement that acknowledges legal rights in general does not constitute such waiver.


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Mohamad Amrul Bin Jamaludin

Curricular Vitae

Mr. Mohamad Amrul Bin Jamaludin is one of the graduates of International Islamic University Malaysia who graduated the Bachelor of Law degree with honors.

He started his career in legal practice by reading in the chamber of Messrs. Manjit Singh Suchdev Mohammad Radzi & Partners in May, 2001. He was called to the Bar in April 2002. During that period he was exposed to various type of banking litigation where he mastered his knowledge in banking and procedural laws.

He was later on invited and joined Messrs. Shahinuddin & Ranjit as their legal assistant in April, 2002. He then joined Messrs. T.S Khoo & Partners in December, 2003 and in April, 2005 joined Messrs. Azlan Shah Shaikh & Rashidi and finally joined Messrs Ahmad Rasyid Ismail & Co. as a legal assistant.

He is experience in handling and conducting of all type of suits relating to loan recovery matters as well as matters relating to execution of judgment and enforcement of the Court order. In banking litigation, he has experience handling and conducting cases of Hire Purchase, Personal Loan, Term Loan, Revolving Term Loan, and Housing Loan.

He has handled and conducted cases in general litigation of Defamations, General Negligence as well as cases of which involves marriage and divorce, probate etc. He has also handled and conducted contractual civil cases of Construction Contract, Corporate Debts Recovery, Goods sold and Delivered, Late Delivery, Retail Debts Recovery and Services Rendered.

From his past experience, he has handled and succeeded in several hearings of summary judgment, striking out, setting aside, full trial etc. He also experience in handling and conducting other general and specific execution or recovery proceedings of winding-up, bankruptcy, distress, foreclosure, Judgment Debtors Summons, seizure and sale. While handling and conducting the above, he has also exposed himself to various appeal proceedings, from leave to appeal, appeal from Subordinate Court to High Court, appeal from Registrar to the Judge in Chamber, appeal to the Court of Appeal.

He has joined in this firm in May, 2006 as a legal assistant of the firm and left a year later.


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Welcome to Bangs, Texas

Where is Bangs, Texas?

Bangs, Texas is located at Latitude 31.714522 and Longitude -99.130484. Bangs is in the Central (GMT -06:00) time zone. Telephone area codes in Bangs include 325. This hometown does use daylight savings time.

Bangs, Texas is situated in Brown County. Brown County has an average elevation of 1342 feet.

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Bangs, Texas Zip Codes

Bangs, Texas 76823
Postal Station Type: Post Office
Latitude: 31.710587   Longitude: -99.149868
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