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Must read: How to Connect with Vendors for Your Multivendor Ecommerce Store ?
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For example, in certain developing nations, cash on delivery is the primary mode of payment, whereas, in developed nations, credit cards and debit cards are accepted.

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Noel Wurst: Hello, this is Noel Wurst, with Skytap, and I am interviewing Rob Myers today. Rob Myers is an Agile coach and instructor and also the founder of the Agile institute. How are you doing today Rob?
Rob Myers: Good. How are you?
Noel Wurst: Great, doing great. I interviewed Rob about a year ago, and I was excited to get to interview him again. I’m going to be talking about test-driven development today and how it relates to enterprise software development as well.
What I think is really funny is that when I look online to learn more about TDD—it is incredibly simple, or it sounds incredibly simple. You write a test that fails, you write the code that passes that test, refactor it incrementally, and then repeat. What’s funny is that you also see people talking about about why it’s so difficult. I was curious as to why is it such a simple thing to do, yet why is it so difficult to do it sometimes?
Rob Myers: Yeah. Interesting question. There is a couple of things that come to mind that are probably making it more challenging for people. One of them is that it is a discipline. It requires a lot of care and attention, so to speak. I think that what we have to see with any discipline, our human nature comes into it and we want to take the easy route, right? The only way that we can discover that TDD is the easy route is to work on it for at least a month, that’s one of the things that I think happens is that people get discouraged before their thirty days are over, before it’s become a habit before they have seen that there is some kind of long term benefit.
Now, by long-term benefit, that varies, too. I have seen situations where benefits to the organization are tremendous but they don’t occur for maybe four to six months. Then I have seen cases where developers discover that the test-driven development is very valuable to them within hours. It varies.
Noel Wurst: Wow. I guess that’s a testament to Agile’s track record as far as success goes because people do always want the easy way out yet there is really nothing all that easy about Agile.
Rob Myers: Right. I think in the long run, it’s actually easier, but what it does is it takes the stresses of the crunch that usually happened at the end of the cycle of building a software release and spreads it out over time. You are effectively working harder at the very beginning of a release than you normally would because you are waiting for other people to do other things and now you are working on everything the same way you will be at the end in a continuous fashion where we find is that when we look back, it’s actually been a much easier release.
Rob Myers: The other thing that I think is a really big challenge, is that I find that I teach a lot of test-driven development courses and people are really excited about that and at the end of their course, they’ll come up to me and say, “This is just wonderful stuff. It’s too bad we can’t use it, because we have three million lines of legacy C# code,” or something like that.
So, the legacy code problem is probably the other thing that’s impeding them. And it’s not the case like some people would like to say, that you can just do TDD on your new behaviors and leave your old behaviors alone. Software doesn’t work that way, right? It intertwines, so you have to do some sort of characterization testing on your legacy code and maintain that in a strategic way.
Noel Wurst: Speaking about intertwining, we are all big fans of continuous integration here, and I was curious as to with the kind of like that fast nature an incremental approach of TDD, is it easily I guess introduced alongside other Agile practices like continuous integration?
Rob Myers: Yeah. In fact, I would have to say that test-driven development and continuous integration go hand-in-hand to the point where if you don’t have continuous integration then you are pretty much doing test-driven development on your own.
It’s not all that strong, especially if you are working on a team, and then continuous integration without some kind of safety net or tests created by a test-driven development, or tests that run that fast, then continuous integration is really ineffective, right? What you are doing? You are just dumping stuff into repository and it compiles, great. If it doesn’t pass the tests, then it’s not good and if your tests don’t run fast, you’ll not integrate as often.
Noel Wurst: Right. You mentioned earlier, as far as some issues dealing with legacy code— How about using TDD on enterprise level projects? Is there anything overly beneficial to using TDD in that kind of development.
Rob Myers: I think so. There are a number of different things when people talk about enterprise software that come up for a test-driven development environment. One of the things I think that they are saying is “our software is very complex, our software is very large.” What test-driven development does, is it it forces you to think in small steps, but also to leave behind something that checks to make sure that investment that you’ve made in a small bit of software is still good. It’s actually easier to expand the abilities of your software using something like test-driven development than it would be otherwise. That’s one aspect.
One of the other aspects is that, again, going back to the legacy code problem, a lot of enterprise applications have a lot of legacy stuff that’s embedded in weird places like hard to test places like database-stored procedures, for example, and you end up with the whole legacy code problem that’s slowing you down.
Now, you can’t really suggest that test-driven development should be able to solve problems that it isn’t designed to solve. It’s really effective when you are building a new product, or when you are building new features. If you could start all over again, great, or if you are starting all over again or otherwise you are doing characterization testing.
Noel Wurst: Right. I know it’s good in those incremental approaches, and at the beginning, so obviously it deals a lot with unit testing. Are there some other types of testing that TDD can be used with as well?
Rob Myers: Yeah. Test-driven development comes from two of the original extreme programming practices that were called “test first” and “merciless refactoring.” And, in fact, there are people out there who will refer to test-driven development as “test first” to make sure that they are clear about when you are writing the tests.
And then what can happen fairly quickly … I can’t recall a time … maybe 1998 was the last time when I thought about or talked about extreme programming without the idea of doing acceptance testing. You can do acceptance test-driven development using a lot of the new tools as well, where you write the acceptance test, also known as story testing or sort of the BDD. The behavior-driven development number is strange and anamorphous. People argue about what it means, what’s under the umbrella, and I don’t know if we want to get into that discussion, but me, I say, “Okay I’m going to just distinguish between TDD and acceptance testing,” in that case.
Acceptance testing is one of those things, and also James Shore, author of “Art of Agile” had this comment about what he called focused integration tests which is essentially making sure that when you are actually doing integration with something like a database that you are testing in a focused way, so that you can actually use that database in the appropriate way. Doing simple crud tests and maybe testing your behaviors, and your code around how it interacts with that.
Noel Wurst: Finally, just as we are talking about test-driven development, let’s maybe talk a little bit about who is actually using it, who is actually putting it into play. I found a debate online about whether testers or developers should be the one writing the unit tests in TDD and I saw someone say that people shouldn’t forget what the D stands for, “development.” They said, “this is the developer’s job, plus it helps them focus on writing better and cleaner code.
But then on the other hand, people who are referencing the benefits of collaboration say that testers should be involved in writing those tests. I was curious whether you thought it should be one or the other, or both, and if you do think it’s the developer’s job what’s something that testers could be doing during that time that would be a good use of their time?
Rob Myers: Wow. Yeah. You are putting me on the stop here and we could probably have a whole conversation.
Noel Wurst: Yeah, about five questions inside that last one!
What he means by that is, “testers do testing things.” I’ll talk a little bit more about that in a minute, but, developers are using test-driven development to craft their code and the testing is a very important secondary effect of that, right? When the test passes it becomes a test, and, effectively, what they are doing there is they’re really, it’s a thinking process.
They are expressing what it is that their code is supposed to do, and therefore, they are getting instant feedback about when it is working, and then they can set it aside and move on to something else. There is a whole thought process that goes into test-driven development from a developer’s standpoint.
Now, having them pair with somebody who is a tester—I can see how that’d be a very valuable at some levels to make a developer a better tester, and to make a tester see what kind of tests, and to have some confidence in the unit testing.
There is something that is very interesting that’s occurred to me over time and it occurred to me when I learned about one of the testing techniques known as “pairwise testing” that professional testers use. What it is, is that if you’ve got a complex system and you’ve got, let’s say you have two variables, and the variations for each of those variables, maybe one of them is 1 to 10 and the other one is A to Z, right?
You’ve got, I don’t know how many combinations of possible combinations you have there, but what you do with pairwise testing is there is some sort of mathematical way that you chose which of the pairs you are going to test, and, it gives you a 98% confidence level that you’ve tested all of the code paths. That’s really neat.
The problem is that, it’s speeding you up because you are not testing all the combinations. The problem is that, from a unit testing stand point, from a developer stand point, what I’d actually like them to encourage is to break the dependencies between those two independently varying variables in such a way that their unit testing the alphabet over here, and their unit testing the numbers, or whatever they are, right, and therefore they are breaking the combinations up, so there are no combinatorial explosions.
Noel Wurst: No. I was just going to ask you, I didn’t hear what you said at the very beginning, is that something that you are seeing currently being done or something that you’ve come up with recently or thought about recently, and you’re envisioning that this could be really beneficial in the future?
Rob Myers: I think people have been doing it, when they are doing test-driven development, and they are doing it conscientiously and mindfully, I think they are going to discover … they are probably not really doing it consciously but they are probably discovering that their objects are small and concise and very cohesive about what they do. And good objects are easy to unit test, and bad objects are not. And if you just take that feedback of, “it’s hard for me to write this test, maybe something is wrong here,” what you end up with is a very nice design that’s easily testable and everything is testable.
I think it’s just more of a looking back on what we’ve been doing over whatever 15 years. I think that we’ve been doing that when we do it well, and it’s a good thing for people to think about. It’s something I teach in my courses. I talk about this very thing because it’s important for them to realize that the minute that they are testing two objects instead of one, there is a combination that could happen and it could blow up in their face. They need to make things very small.
Noel Wurst: Oh wow. That’s really fascinating.
Rob Myers: The reason why I actually had to start thinking about that was because I ran into some clients who, there is the old school of thought that developers shouldn’t test their own code. They should write the code and then a tester tests it. There is an old joke, and it’s actually, coming from a developer background, it’s sort of a self-effacing joke, but it actually has some truth to it. The joke is that if a developer was going to build a bridge and was then going to test the bridge—he would wait until a nice sunny day, drive a single car down the middle, and call it good.
Now, there is some truth to that, but what you have to recognize, is the reason why the developer doesn’t want to test the edges is that he doesn’t want it to break. He is already done building it. Right? Now, if you give a developer the opportunity to say, “what kinds of things would you like to have tested in your code?” They will come up with an immense number of things, and they’ll be very comprehensive about it. What we are doing is we are actually giving them a game that they can play with the code where they are testing it and building it all along. They are actually encouraged to come up with whatever tests they think of. That breaks the joke.
We as testers, and to get back to your question, that leaves testers with other things to do like building acceptance test-driven development, story testing sometimes and also, one of the things that I definitely don’t want to discourage, or belittle, is that testers need to have the time to do exploratory testing.
It’s so important and sometimes it gets missed when people talk about Agile testing, but it’s there in Agile testing. You need to have the time to do exploratory testing, which is manual but not scripted, right? There is a session but you are not just pointing and clicking based on a script. The computer can do that. It’s thinking.
Noel Wurst: Right. That’s really cool. I think that was a great way to wrap it up and thank you again for speaking with me today.
Noel Wurst: Everybody, this Noel Wurst, with Skytap, and I have been speaking with Rob Myers who is an Agile coach and trainer, and also the founder of the Agile institute. We should do one of these yearly or so, to check up on TDD and see who is using it more and more, and see if you can track any trends on whether it’s developers or testers or both.
Rob Myers: Sure. Where it’s going.
Noel Wurst: Right. Thanks so much.
Rob Myers: Take care. Bye.


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The Gentleman Crafter: The Dylusional Box!
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Today was great at 6.30am, a little cloudy but bright, Kurt picked me up at 7.30am and off we went with one dive location in mind and one goal to obtain, our first U-boat wreck dive; might not be the best in the world to go looking for, but isn’t the worst. UB 128 just off Castle beach at Falmouth it was, and after reading Mark Milburn’s Guide to a few wrecks and dives around Falmouth Kurt was confident we would find it.
We arrived to find the street almost empty, well worth an early dive time. Kitting up by the car Kurt got chatting about how interesting it was reading about UB-128 on the net and how much info there was, I had a look later and found that it only did 2 tours, sank a 1 7,400 tonne ship in that time and was captained by one Wilhelm Canaris, as well as where it was made, that it was a type III and a few other things on uboat.net. It also showed that there are 5 or 6 U-boat wrecks in the bay and around Pendennis so we now have a mission to find them all.
As I was swimming away from the shore I saw Kurt going off to the side, when I asked him why he wasn’t 90 degrees to the shore he said he was to the marks in the location guide; I took the pic above and then swam over to join him so we were going in the same direction. After a minute or so as I was looking down to see the sea bed I saw the cleared area we had been told to watch out for and then the unmistakeable shape of part of the hull came into view, I glanced over to Kurt and shouted I was right on top of it as he was about 10m away from me and excited at finding our first wreck we signaled to go down and slowly let the air out of our BC’s.
I had brought my camera along, and Kurt his gopro as you will see shortly with his short edited video. It was so intriguing to look at the different parts of what was left of the pressure hull, kind of like a rib cage lain out on the sea bed. The amount of life that had decided it was going to be home was amazing, there was a huge wrasse inside that was too difficult to photograph and many smaller fish, shrimp, bryazoa, hydroids and many more. Below are a few pictures I took, I will return to get clearer shots of the overall hull at a slightly later date.
It was an amazing dive, we both had 15l tanks and as it had been hot lately I was wearing my 5/4 Excel wetsuit again, yes a wetsuit here in UK waters twice in one summer. We were both examining things around the wreck, Kurt saw the window affect of the structure and the last shot is amazing I think, looks a bit like my fish tank (without the fish in this case).
OK so then we were just pottering about as you do, looking into the holes, taking pics of fish and the like, when all of a sudden I saw a very tiny but familiar shape speed past me to my left, I followed it with my gaze and suddenly stopped dead, it was a tiny cuttlefish, not very old yet it had full control over its chromatophores and one instant it was almost impossible to see as it was the same colour of the sand, then a black line waved from the back to the front and back and suddenly it was gone again. I turned to face curt and raised 2 fingers in horns and wiggled the others like the tentacles of the cuttlefish and Kurt nodded, I pointed to where it was last and we both slowly moved nearer, me with my arms outstretched with the camera to try and get a shot. That was when it just went black and suddenly appeared in front of us, I managed to get 3 shots but it moved so fast that the camera had problems focusing on it, the background looks crisp though and this was the best shot I feel I got of it.
As it was my first cuttlefish in 2 years I was over the moon that our first U-boat wreck dive had been such a success, finding it and seeing so many awesome things, I can’t wait till we find all the others.
Saw this strange anemone, was a few of them around buried in the sand near the wreck as well as snakelocks and an even stranger red one.
We had some fun with the gopro for a bit and took some other photos of interesting things, I managed to catch this rare specimen.
Yet it managed to wrestle the camera out of my hands and when I hunted it down and got home found it had taken this.
Kurt had a lot of footage from the gopro and while we were playing around Kurt suddenly tapped my shoulder pointing at a clump of seaweed, at first I couldn’t see what he was pointing at but then it came into view.
He decided we couldn’t see him, or that we weren’t a threat and came out of his hiding place, so Kurt and I followed, carefully trying not to spook him too much and it was a good 5 minutes so can imagine how many photos I have of this beautiful Red Gurnard, a few more are below.
We had been in the water for about 45 minutes now and had hit 8m or so, I was starting to get a little chilly in my arms, obviously from the wetsuit as it kept flushing but I saw these 2 little goby and they were performing a dance around the same piece of seaweed and up the slope so I stopped a moment and they were oblivious to me as I gently rested my camera on the top of the slope to catch them and got this cool photo.
With that shot in hand I signaled to Kurt I was getting too cold so we gently made our way to the surface and on the surface swim back to the beach we couldn’t stop talking about the Gurnard, but we weren’t sure what it was at the time. It was another awesome dive and with our teas poured it was time to de-kit, it was then that Kurt noticed his knife was missing and we spent a bit of time hunting for it but couldn’t so if anyone finds a folding blade dive knife, black and silver between the shore and around UB-128 can they send me a message and one of us will come and collect it.
Here is the video that Kurt made of our latest dive, I hope you enjoy it as much as we did.
The great guides by Mark Milburn gave us our first successful wreck dive, and after we had our burger at Iguana Grill just round the corner from the beach we headed home.
In the middle of this sweltering hot July, Keith from Kernow Divers came up with the idea of running a scuba diving club day BBQ, as well as clearing a few skills for some members Rescue courses. Swanpool was chosen for ease of parking, great beach, cafe and the bay having an abundance of life.
Jason brought the Trout along and quite a few club members turned up (too many to list), some with their partners and it was an interesting start to the day.
Yet I should really start at the beginning, we had arranged to meet at 10am as I was going to be the unconscious diver for the Rescue course skills and it was planned to get it done early and out of the way so we could enjoy the day. As it had been a hot night, about 30C in my bedroom with the windows open and fan on I hadn’t slept very well and woke late, starting a morning at home of calamity on top of calamity. I finally got going at about 10.30 and was praying to Poseidon for clear traffic, which it was apart from one holiday maker with their caravan who insisted driving at 40mph on 60mph roads with no other traffic around but no where to overtake thanks to the bends and junctions in the road. Then all the traffic lights around Truro were against me, last time Poseidon gets any prayers of mine as the god of the sea and my faith is now going to the great spaghetti monster.
When I got there at about 11.20 there was already a couple in the water and Keith was running through some of the skills with the guys doing the Rescue course and with the number of people there I wasn’t actually needed in the end anyway so I donned my gear to join other divers and ended up following Keith and the others around on the surface taking some pics, was a great sight seeing a female duck and her brood enjoying a paddle around the bay but when they headed for the beach to get out there was too many people moving in to see and she turned them around and took them out on the rocks. I did manage to get reasonably close to get the one sneaky photo.
It was really nice floating around on the surface and snapping things, should have just put my mask and snorkel on and had some fun but me being me didn’t think that way, was worth it for the practice with the camera though, as you can see from my duck pic that I haven’t got the arms outstretched and level technique sorted, even in millpond conditions.
Keith demonstrating recovering an unconscious diver from the bottom, what isn’t seen in this photo are the DM’s and Instructors that were with him helping the Rescue divers go through all this in the water. Everyone that was on the course successfully completed all the skills, only a couple of people had to repeat a skill, with everyone working together and Keith’s clear instruction they understood their mistakes and at mid day Keith called time for lunch, great timing as always because I am sure the quiver across the surface of the bay was everyone’s stomachs. We also now have 8 Rescue divers in the club to go with the 8 DM’s and 8 Instructors.
After lunch some of the club members went off on the Trout to a reef that was a little further to swim than anyone wanted to in the heat, leaving 4 of us to dive around the bay and we decided for a change that we would go straight out to the Eel Grass beds and we were lucky as Clare Marshall, one of our resident Marine Biologists was with us.
With the bay only getting to about 7 or 8m at high tide, it is a very shallow dive site but there are plenty of things to see if you go left or right along the rocky reefs; yet not knowing about the Eel Grass would make you miss the whole little ecosystem that exists in the middle out across the sand. It was good diving with Paul as he knew where the bed was and it wasn’t long before we found it.
Small clumps of Eel Grass, as can be seen in the pic above top right were in front of us as far as the eye could see and with a good 10-12m vis at least, as we moved forward it was clear this spread over a vast area. We only got to a max depth of around 3.2m as the tide was on its way out and the water temperature was a beautiful 16C, part of the reason I was only wearing my 5/4 Excel wetsuit that I normally wear surfing.
We spotted a strange crab that Paul hadn’t seen before and as Clare and Mat had gone to the left and we had gone to the middle we couldn’t ask her what it was.
The pieces sticking up were part of its mouth and not something it had added like other crabs for camouflage, I was amazed at how many Bi-Valves were in the sand which I think were Ensis ensis (Razor clam) or something similair, literally everywhere and as we swam over they closed up and buried themselves slightly deeper. The reason I liked them so much was the way they reminded me of the Sarlacc pit in Return of the Jedi and I could just see little things getting caught under the jaws.
Paul and I were having a great time and to be honest I was examining the beds and often forgot to take a photo of what I had seen, it was a bit worrying to see so many Echiichthys vipera (Lesser Weever) fish though that would suddenly come shooting out of the sand and swim off a few metres and re-bury themselves, I managed to capture one shot of a rather large one but they were very quick.
The look on Paul’s face was priceless when we spotted a couple of happy crabs.
Yet trying not to disturb them I moved in for a shot, the male seemed to think I was there to take his place and he danced around the bed trying to hide his prize female from me.
It was such a fun dive that I wasn’t paying much attention to the battery on my camera, Paul came over to me and tapped me on the shoulder pointing at something that looked a little strange to me (no not my reflection in a mirror) and as I moved in closer could see it was some slug like creature, I went to take a shot and my screen was black so i started to panic thinking I had a flood and killed my camera but it was bone dry. Paul wrote on his board that it was a Sea Hare, I was gutted as I hadn’t seen one before. We carried on looking around for a few more minutes and I just couldn’t get back into it, I looked at my air and still had 120 bar left, this was 45 minutes into the dive so I signaled Paul a T and made the gesture of drinking, his first response was to tell me his air, I shook my head and made it clear we should have a break for a tea as we had plenty of air left for another dive, he still had 140 bar.
After a break and a great cuppa from the cafe it was decided to go look for a lobster or 2, we had a rough idea where one was and it wasn’t any deeper than 2m around the reef. What started out being a 20 min dive turned into another 42 min one and I still had 60 bar left when I came out. It was amazing around the kelp bed to the right of the beach, plenty of life and we did find the lobster but he didn’t want to come out of his cave. I hadn’t taken my camera as I hadn’t changed the battery, with no fresh water till i got home I wasn’t going to open it up.
It must have been around 18.30-19.00 when Paul and I were sorting our kit out in the car park and everyone else had left, it was a great scuba diving club day even though we didn’t break out the BBQ’s and if anyone in Cornwall wants to dive more regularly I can highly recommend Kernow Divers because for £10 membership, free shore dives and only a donation toward fuel for the club boat you couldn’t ask for a better bunch of people from all walks of life to dive with.

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Still looking for something to play after all of this week’s open beta announcements? Well, if combat on the seas is your thing then head on over to the World of Warships site and get started as open beta is now live. This is a global open beta and those of you that purchased pre-order packages will have them on your account when you log in. If you used your pre-order package during closed beta you’ll have a new one waiting for you as well.
World of Warships sails into open beta with over 80 US and Japanese warships, the addition of the Soviet and UK nations, and a signal flag customization system. These flags are more than just cosmetic though as they can provide you with buffs earned through gameplay. On the content side of things, 10 maps are waiting to be conquered by teams in both the PvP and PvE modes.
Ready to set sail? Visit the World of Warships site to download the game.
I was waiting for this a long time! It looks pretty awesome!

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Cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's bloc wins the Iraq election.
He's a long-time adversary of the U.S. who also opposes Iranian influence in Iraq.
So how do Iraqi’s feel about him winning?
Jasim Al-Dujaili is an engineer and says, " Moqtada al-Sadr should actually meet the promises he declared, to dismiss the corruption. Al-Sadr should bring Iraq back to the Arab homeland and keep away from sectarianism and useless debates which politicians were using during their electoral campaigns. "
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Local resident Salar Akozi says, "The election results in Kurdistan region disappointed us due to the falsifications that took place in Kurdistan by a certain party."
His coalition electoral list captured 54 parliamentary seats.

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Firstly we discuss the new “parental leave” provisions relevant to fathers, adoptive parents and commissioning parents in surrogacy agreements.
Next we look at the new National Minimum Wage and the different hourly rates applicable to various categories of employee.
Finally we’ll address new provisions relating to strikes, lockouts and picketing.
Buying into a residential estate can be a great way of acquiring a safe and secure “dream home” for you and your family. Choose wisely and you also gain a valuable asset.
You can either buy an existing house in the estate or you can buy a vacant stand on a “plot-and-plan” or “buy-to-build” basis. The latter gives you both added flexibility and (again, if you choose wisely) greater value.
Just be aware upfront of the building clause in your contract – be sure that you will be able to develop your plot by whatever deadline is imposed on you. A recent High Court decision illustrates the risk and the financial cost of not complying.
Corruption hurts us all in both our business and our private lives. Even those of us who aren’t the direct victims of tender fraud or bribery requests lose out from the general loss of confidence and investment in the country.
So we can all take heart from two recent Supreme Court of Appeal decisions relating to corrupt politicians and businesses in the Northern Cape. In the first case, long “minimum sentence” terms of direct imprisonment were confirmed, and in the second the deceased estate of another politician who died during the course of her criminal trial was ordered to pay over her ill-gotten proceeds to the state.
Property development can be a profitable business, but it also carries substantial risks. One of those is cash flow problems – get your projections wrong and you could face serious financial trouble.
So it’s important you know of the recent SCA decision about a R1.9m income tax assessment levied by SARS on a developer which had sold plots in one tax year but was paid only during the next tax year when the transfers took place. Was it justified in declaring the income only in the second tax year?
The Court’s decision has serious cash flow implications for developers in a similar position.

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For the last while, I’ve started my mornings with what some may consider an odd routine. I take a three minute, ice cold shower as soon as I wake up.
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The coolest thing is, routines can change your life fairly quickly.
Like when I first discovered Amazon FBA and was able to turn it into a full-time income. And now, today, make more money working fewer hours than ever and live the lifestyle I always wanted.
So to encourage you to adopt a new routine, I’ve put together a complete Amazon training package with seven incredible bonuses for you. And, in keeping with routines, I also am including lifetime membership to my Amazon seller bookkeeping course for a limited time as well. All, at a price much than most others are charging for similar content.
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Within the U.S. it can be prohibited to cultivate hemp for commercial purposes, even though the 2014 Farm Bill was passed. Approved reasons to growing hemp has limitations to pilot programs just for research needs. Even though hemp corps have finally been planted in these states as Minnesota, West Virginia and Kentucky for the first time over the past half century. So Usa hemp cultivation features a long path to take before it is able to meet current domestic demand.
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The primary goal of static testing is code testing passively, that is the code is not running. This includes walk-throughs, code reviews, and syntax checking. The source code is reviewed looking for known insecure practices, libraries, functions, or other know SDKs/APIs vulnerabilities. Dynamic testing is concerned with testing the code while it is executing. Typically, this will uncover implementation flaws.
This involves building automation scripts or tools that simulate activities normally performed by applications. Typically, the goal is to establish expected normal behavior while performing the various transactions. We have automated synthetic transactions to run periodically to ensure applications are still performing as expected. Additionally, we have used these types of transactions to ensure patched systems perform accordingly before deployment.
We have several years of experience with various challenges of testing software from multiple angles. We have addressed numerous testing levels. The software testing levels of Unit Testing, Installation Testing, Integration Testing, Regression Testing, and Acceptance Testing serve as guidelines to accomplish our testing goals.
Fuzzing, also known as fuzz testing, is a type of black box testing. We have used this method to submit random, malformed data inputs to applications to determine if they will crash. It has been our experience that applications that crash due to random or malformed data are vulnerable to buffer overflow attacks. We typically automate repeated random input strings that affect the command line switches, and other application inputs.


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Waterford have declined to comment on the scale of the suspensions imposed on two of their players in the wake of last week’s brawl at the end of the league win over Cork City with the club opting to take some time to weigh up its options after Stanley Aborah and Bastien Hery received bans of six and four matches respectively.
Cork City will not be appealing the four-match suspension imposed on Steven Beattie or the three-match one Garry Buckley received. All four players are automatically ruled out of their clubs’ games on Friday evening and any appeals would be aimed at the additional elements of the punishment imposed after a disciplinary meeting at Abbotstown earlier in the week.
Both of the managers involved, John Caulfield and Alan Reynolds, will miss one game, next week, in the dugout.
Graham Burke, meanwhile, has been named as the Airtricity/Soccer Writers’ Association of Ireland Player of the Month for March. The 24-year-old midfielder, who beat off competition from the likes of Gary Rogers, Kieran Sadlier and Courtney Duffus, had a fairly spectacular month with a string of strong performances and six goals to his name, four of them in the 6-1 defeat of Derry City.
“It’s my first award so I’m delighted,” said the Dubliner. “I’m thrilled to get this.
“Overall, it’s been a bit up and down for us so far this season. We had a slow start but we’ve been on a good run of form since, bar one or two results.


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Since essential oils are extracted from different plants, the oils carry the healing properties of the plant itself. They are known to help improve physical, emotional and spiritual well-being.
There are various ways in which you can enjoy the benefits of essential oils.
Please consult with your health care provider before applying oils to skin or ingesting oil.
PDQ Integrative, a. (2017). Aromatherapy and Essential Oils (PDQ®). [online] PubMed Health. Available at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0032645/ [Accessed 23 Jun. 2017].
Worwood, V. (2012). Aromatherapy for the Healthy Child. New World Library.
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"Sit on it and I'll take your picture." She said.
than to actually sit on the blistering reptile.
I sat on the old boy like I knew what I was doing. I did not. Scorched my wrist, my ankle and my pretty, white pants. So much for new found friendship. I suppose, if I hadn't acted like I knew what I was doing she might have tried to help.
That's Jennie Capezza, the smart one on the left; a native Floridian who knew what would happen to a metal alligator in the piping hot sun. She attended my class in April 2015 at the National Catholic Educational Association Conference in Orlando (NCEA). Honestly, I don't remember meeting her back then but I will never forget the day that she contacted me the following June.
My name is Jennie Capezza. I am the Director of Campus Ministry at John Carroll High School in Fort Pierce, FL. I attended one of your dynamic sessions at the recent NCEA conference in Orlando. I love listening to your CD as I drive around town! I am inquiring about the possibility of you leading our faculty retreat on Tuesday, August 11 in Fort Pierce, FL. I would love to share your message with our faculty prior to returning to school in the Fall. Please respond with your availability and monetary cost. Thank you for your prayerful consideration.
I’m thrilled to hear that you are available. I am in the process of communicating with my administrator about budget and expectations for that day and will be able to confirm with you at the beginning of next week. Can you tentatively hold that date for me until I get approval?
I would like to share a little bit about myself and the great impact you had on my life at the NCEA conference.
During my first day at the NCEA conference in Orlando, I attended a couple High School/English sessions and felt like a fish out of water. I was disappointed and had an overwhelming feeling like I had been misplaced. But I held on to my faith in God’s plan; His timing and placement has always been perfect in my life. Well, God delivered once again when He guided me to your session. As soon as I walked in, I felt at home as you were passing out doughnuts and welcoming everyone. I didn’t talk very much, but I took it ALL in. I felt connected to your beautiful, simple message of God’s love and plan for us. The Holy Spirit was stirring in me, and I had an overwhelming feeling that I needed to communicate my feelings of inadequacy as a high school English teacher with my administrator. Well, I communicated that I could no longer to be an English teacher. I felt lost for a couple weeks, not knowing if I would return to elementary school or just work at Starbuck’s for a couple years. Luckily, I was offered the Director of Campus Ministry position last week, and I am thrilled. But, I honestly feel like I would not have had the courage to say something if I wouldn’t have experienced God’s message through you. So… thank you! Just wanted to bear witness to the fruits of your labor!!
Jennie started her new job in June. She emailed me on June 4th. The stories of faith and inspiration which were to follow would not have come to be if it hadn't been for Jennie's willingness to reach out and share. She had no fear. She felt led to my class where God was truly the one waiting for her. She risked her career by telling her boss she could no longer continue in her current position. When offered her new role she did not hesitate and when she started her new job, the first thing she did was reach out, kitty corner, all the way across the country to ask if I might consider leading their faculty retreat.
I am humbled by my role in any of this. It is by God's grace that I have found the ability to share the gifts He has given me. No one could have predicted the outcome of Jennie's faithfulness and she is just getting started. I am a willing participant and an awestruck witness to God's work. He knows I'll go anywhere and I will do anything for Him... even if it means unwittingly sitting on a metal alligator in the hot Florida sun.
John Carroll Catholic High School Faculty Retreat, August 11, 2015.
You will be forever in my heart.

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Mash-up: The Last Word | What I think About When I Think About Writing.
A friend commented, wondering if I was planning on combining the two; but as it turned out, he misread my status. He saw P.D. James, the crime writer, instead of M.R. James, the celebrated ghost story writer.
This got me thinking of literary mash-ups. Most of us are aware of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. So what could I come up with if I combined P.D. James with H.P. Lovecraft.
How about Shroud for a Reanimator: A Dunwich Mystery, featuring Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his trusty sidekick, Sergeant Cthulhu?
Could you suggest a better mash-up?
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I LOVE the new banner. A clean, mean writing machine!
Been thinking about this one. Still thinking, but…..
Bridget Jones’ Dracula comes to mind. And Five Go To Hanging Rock.

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Historic ambience meets modern equipment. Or how we say it: Still making history.
ALL IN ONE. THE CONGRESS SUITS NEARLY ANY EVENT. SYMPOSIA, EXHIBITIONS, BALLS, CONCERTS ... AND QUITE NATURALLY CONGRESSES.
Graz is one of the Top 100 congress cities in the world. This is not least due to the Congress, an event location right at the city center and equally good equipment. Up to 2.300 guests find place in 19 rooms whose sizes range from 44 to 640 square meters. For smaller conventions, big conferences and everything in between. Inside the congress medical experts and technicians meet, but also artists from different genres.
Because the Stefanie Hall is a historic showpiece with superior acoustics, orchestras and solo musicians set their music free at regular concerts. By the way, its name comes from Princess Stephanie who together with Crown Prince Rudolf has been a guest since the 1885 opening. Since then, a lot has changed. The Congress has been faithfully rebuilt and modernized until it became what it is now: a superlative event location.
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Which event location in Graz has an imperial successor to the throne with spouse as a guest? Congress Graz has. 120 years ago as the Stefaniesaal was opened, the heirs to the throne came and were moved by the outstanding acoustics which have affected thousands and guests thereafter.
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Also the dancing aspect doesn´t come to short. The Congress Graz is the location for some highlights of the Graz ball season for example the Genussball. “Il Ballo di Casanova” and the Tuntenball.
Besides the enterteinment the 19 rooms of Congress Graz are heavily used for brainwork. The desity of congress days per year is high, all topic areas are represented and the international audience keeps beautiful memories of the location and the surroundings like the heart of the old town in their heads.
As member of the following national and international agreements the management of Congress Graz cultivates a regular exchange of experiences to be able to provide its clients an even higher standard.
An exclusive Catering team cares for the creature comforts of guests in Congress Graz at congresses, galas, balls and standing receptions. Snacks, beverages, buffet or flying fingerfood – an appropriate offer suits your imaginations and budget. The Congress Graz with its historic halls offers a venerable scenery to get pampered with culinaric delicacies.
At first glance you encounter a historic ambience. At second glance you see how the house is usefully stacked with modern event equipment. Completely inconspicious but everything there what a successful event needs.
The 19 differently sized rooms in Congress Graz make it possible to hold events of many sizes and types.
From symposia to exhibitions, galas to balls or concerts these rooms can be used for nearly anything.
All together 2.900m² area is usable with the biggest room being the Stefaniesaal, which convinces with its unique concert acoustics as a popular place for musical performances of any kind.


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With the explosive growth of data, thousands upon thousands servers are contained in data centers. Hence, node failure is unavoidable and it generally brings effects on the performance of the whole data center. On the other hand, data centers with vast nodes will cause plenty of energy consumption. Many existing task scheduling techniques can effectively reduce the power consumption in data centers by considering heat recirculation. However, traditional techniques barely take the situation of node failure into account. This paper proposes an airflow-based failure model for data centers by leveraging heat recirculation. In this model, the spatial distribution and time distribution of failure nodes are considered. Furthermore, the Genetic algorithm (GA) and Simulated Annealing algorithm (SA) are implemented to evaluate the proposed failure model. Because the position of failures has a significant impact on the heat recirculation and the energy consumption of data centers, failure nodes with different positions are analyzed and evaluated. The experimental results demonstrate that the energy consumption of data centers can be significantly reduced by using the GA and SA algorithms for task scheduling based on proposed failure model.
This work is supported by the NSFC (no.61572232), in part by the Science and Technology Planning Project of Guangzhou (no. 201802010028, and no. 201802010058), in part by the Science and Technology Planning Project of Nansha (no. 2017CX006), and in part by the Open Research Fund of Key Laboratory of Computer System and Architecture, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant CARCH201705.


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Between Amazon Retail and third-party Marketplace sellers, Amazon made about $120 billion in sales in the U.S. last year. The vast majority of those sales occurred through third-party sellers.
But the reality is that your products are going to get onto Amazon whether you want them to be there or not.
And your competitors are already selling there anyway.
A brand needs to control its pricing.
To control pricing, you need to control distribution.
And if you are ignoring Amazon or the unauthorized sellers ripping off your product, then you have lost control of distribution.
In this session, James walks you through what to do next and why all of this matters, both on Amazon and beyond into your brick and mortar sales, your wholesale channel and more.
Brands send them nasty letters to cease and desist, but rarely find that strategy to convince them to stop selling the product.
They all have legal representation and they know how to play the game of what’s known as first sale doctrine.
You can structure your trademark so that it’s not just the name of your brand, but it’s actually how the product is handled—how it gets moved from retailer to consumer.
If you can show that there is potentially a trademark issue, you can get a court to rule in your favor and be able to overcome first sale doctrine as a legitimate means by which an unauthorized seller can sell your products on the Marketplace.
Managing trademark and continuing to police it is a cost of doing business. You have to put the right kind of online reseller policy in place, and it has to include anti-diversion language that says resellers or retailers don’t have the right to sell the product to unauthorized resellers.
The simple reality is that almost no brands in the world have complete control of distribution. They sell to retailers or distributors and their incentives do not align perfectly with the incentives of the channel.
As a brand, what you want to do is sell a lot of product and protect brand equity, but the retailer or distributor only cares about selling a lot of product.
They don’t really care about the long-term value of your brand and whether you can get the premium pricing you want because you’re a brand rather than a generic product.
You have to figure out how to motivate your channel to do what you want to do, which is to sell your product at higher prices than a generic.
Your goal should be to keep your channel clean enough that you can either take back the Buy Box on Amazon yourself or at least ensure that your designated reseller owns the Buy Box most of the time.
Your pricing gets stabilized on Amazon and it’s much more consistent with your pricing on every other non-Amazon channel. And if you have consistent pricing online and offline, it’s a lot easier to recruit more brick-and-mortar retailers to sell your product.
We often think about Amazon as a place to sell products, but it’s also a place where companies advertise their products and get indexed on Google, so I like to separate the sales part from the branding part.
If you’re a brand who plans on being around for a long time and understand that you will never have 100% control of your distribution, you need to consider that Amazon is a massive website where all of the listings get indexed on Google.
They get indexed so high—typically number one or number two on SEO and pay-per-click (when Amazon was still bidding on Google ads)—that you end up in a situation where even if your Amazon content isn’t very good, it’ll still going to get indexed really high and you’ll basically have poor quality content at the top of Google’s search results.
It’s a free program where, as a U.S.-registered trademarked brand, you can get Amazon to allow you to submit content and have it locked down.
There are 400 million products in Amazon’s catalog. The 400-millionth-and-first product that you put in the catalog isn’t going to get noticed right away.
Nobody cares about it except for you.
Amazon doesn’t care about it, Amazon’s customers don’t care about it, and your competitors don’t even care about it.
If you want to sell on Amazon, you have to consider how you’re going to drive traffic to your listings. Are you going to do paid advertising on Amazon or Facebook? Are you going to email customers to let them know you’re on Amazon?
You may be spending a lot of money to drive traffic to your website today, but I guarantee that Amazon is more efficient at driving the same amount of traffic to their website, so you will have to continue to outspend Amazon.
Amazon doesn’t care about your product because they’ve got 10 other products like it and they’re going to get the sale of one of those 10 items.
You have to consider whether you want to get a small piece of a huge pie or get 100% of a really small pie on your own website.
The customers on Amazon don’t buy the same proportion of products the way they do on your website.
And it can be a self-fulfilling prophecy. If you put one or two products on Amazon, you’re probably not investing the time and money it takes to see success. You were dabbling on a site with 400 million other products when you needed to be hard-core focused on driving traffic to those products on Amazon.
Remember that there are more than two million sellers on Amazon already.
Even if you take just the top 1% of those sellers, that’s 20,000 sellers that know how to play the game.
Most of them know how to go to Asia and source anything they want, so when you come along with your new widget, the reality is that the quality of your product isn’t as important as your ability to drive traffic to your products.
These 20,000 sellers will school you any day of the week on whatever widget you sell, so you need to figure out how to be good enough to compete with the top 1% of sellers who could easily recreate your product and bypass patent, design, or trademark to create something close enough that customers on Amazon would see their version of the product and buy it before they would buy yours because you’re only spending $100 a month to drive 20 people to the listing.
If you’ve taken the approach of, “I have my own website and I’ve got two or three retailers so I’m good to go,” the longer you ignore the fact that Amazon is here to stay, that people are actively looking at your products to figure out how to build cheaper versions, and that they know how to market it better than you do.
Or they’ll find some overseas distributor that you don’t really have tight control of and they’ll get them to reimport the product.
Now Amazon Retail has first-party product and you didn’t even sell it to them. You’re not even part of the conversation with them.
Essentially, the hybrid model gives your business more flexibility so I recommend this approach to get the most out of Amazon.
If you’re in this for the long haul, you need to think about Amazon as a communication channel, a sales channel, and an advertising channel. It’s truly all three.
Think of Amazon as a place to lock down your content and get the word out about your products to a lot of customers, and start having serious conversations about how you’re controlling distribution.


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If you’re an experienced online marketer, you may never have considered working with brick and mortar type businesses, but after reading this you might rethink your position.
Second, it’s great money FAST.
Third, you don’t actually need to do any of the work yourself, since you can outsource everything.
The hard part? Getting clients. At least, it tends to be hard for most marketers trying to run a marketing business for offline clients.
But I’m going to show you how to get all the clients you want, using three easy techniques.
All three of the techniques center on one thing – offering a FREE 20 minute consultation about why their website isn’t getting them enough customers, and how to fix it.
Think about it – how many business want more customers? Nearly all of them.
How many businesses would like those customers to find them on the internet and then walk in the door, ready to buy? Nearly all of them.
And how many businesses would like someone to tell them why their website is doing such a lousy job of getting new customers, and how they can fix it?
So your offer is going to be a free 20 minute consultation on why their website isn’t getting them business and how it can be fixed. Totally free, no obligation, no nothing beyond you honestly and earnestly helping them.
There are two keys to your offer – first, it’s only 20 minutes. Most business owners are happy to find 20 minutes to have an expert look over their site and give them some helpful advice.
Second, you are going in without expectation of self-profit. Your entire motive is to help them. And when you think like this, it will show. They’ll let their guard down and have a real conversation with you.
And more often than not, they’ll also hire you to do the work for them.
Posting on Craigslist or a comparable website if you’re outside of the U.S. Of the three methods, this one tends to get the lowest response. Yet the appointments you do get – perhaps 1 to 2 per week – will very often result in a sale. However, if you scale this up and post in numerous cities, this method alone can be enough to keep you busy. You’ll just have to conduct your appointments via Skype or phone. Be sure to find ways to post that don’t conflict with Craigslist rules, since they can sometimes get a little cranky if you post the same ad in multiple cities.
Create cards that you leave in strategic places. First, create your cards. They could be brochures, or they can be oversized business cards. Spend plenty of time getting your wording just right. Next, scout your locations. You want to find places where business owners have down time – for example, accountants, suppliers, repair shops, computer shops, etc. Mark each card with a code so you can give a commission to the business where your new customer found your card. Done correctly, this will yield several appointments per week.
Email business owners directly. You can generally find their email address on their website, or you’ll find a ‘contact me’ form. Either way, let them know you’ve been studying their website. You’ve discovered 3 things they could be doing to bring in a whole lot more customers, and you’d be happy to stop by and show them what those things are.
And finally, because you go in with no expectation of self-profit, business owners will feel completely confident in recommending you to other business owners.
This will be a natural outcome of your business model, but it’s not the one to rely on. Some months you’ll get several referrals, and other months you might not get any.
So when they come, be thankful, be happy, and by all means go out of your way to show appreciation to the person who referred the new business owner to you.


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