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Testing is a crucial part of maintaining a code base, but not all tests validate what they're testing for. Flaky tests—tests that fail sometimes but not always—are a universal problem, particularly in UI testing. In this blog post, we will discuss a new and simple approach we have taken to solve this problem. In particular, we found that a large fraction of most test code is setting up the conditions to test the actual business-logic we are interested in, and consequently a lot of the flakiness is due to errors in this setup phase. However, these errors don't tell us anything about whether the primary test condition succeeded or failed, and so rather than marking the test as failing, we should mark it as "unable to reach test condition."
We've operationalized this insight using 2 simple techniques:
- We developed a simple way to designate the relevant parts of a test as the actual business logic being tested.
- We modified our test framework behavior to treat failures outside these critical sections differently—as "unable to test," rather than "failure".
This has led to a significant reduction in flakiness, in turn reducing maintenance time and increasing code test coverage and developers' trust in the testing process.
End-to-end tests are a powerful tool for verifying product correctness, by testing end-user functionality directly. Unlike unit tests (their better-known counterparts), which test individual components in isolation, E2E tests provide the closest approximation to the production environment, and their success is the best guarantee for sane functionality in the real world. E2E tests are relatively easy to write, as they require only knowledge of the product's expected behavior and don't require (almost) any knowledge of the implementation. Well-written E2E tests reflect and describe the application behavior better than any existing spec, and they allow us to undertake significant code refactoring by providing a safety net that the product continues to behave as expected.
At Dropbox, we use Selenium WebDriver for web E2E testing. Selenium sends commands to a web browser which simulate user interactions on a website. This allows the developer to verify a specific E2E functionality on the website. In Dropbox's case, this includes actions such as adding, removing, or sharing a file; authentication flows; and user management. A typical test will describe a sequence of actions taken by a user in order to perform a certain operation, followed by a verification to ensure success. These actions can include navigating to pages, mouse clicks, or sending key strokes. Verifications are usually done by assertions of specific attributes of a web page that prove the success of the operation, such as success notifications or updates to the UI.
For example, let's say we want to test whether a user can successfully share a file. An E2E test for that might specify a sequence of actions such as:
- Pick a file
- Click the "Share button" next to the file
- Specify the email address of a person to share with
- Click "Share"
The test would then check to see if the notification of a successful share was displayed.
(While the solution for flaky tests we will describe in this post can be applied to any testing framework, we will focus on Selenium tests, as that is where we have found the most use for it.)
Analyzing an E2E test
In order to better understand the problem of flaky tests and our solution for them, let's look at a real E2E test: verifying that a Dropbox Team Admin can delete a Dropbox "group" (Dropbox teams can assign their users to groups). Here is an animated gif of screenshots depicting the process of creating a group, adding a users to it, and then deleting the group:
The code to test this flow might look something like this:
def test_delete_group():
# setup group and add member to it
GROUP_NAME = 'test group'
creator = setup_team() # api operation; no screen interaction
create_group_through_admin_console(creator, GROUP_NAME)
team_member_email = get_other_team_member_email([creator.email])
# Delete the group
# Check that it no longer shows up
group_row = get_group_row_info_by_name(GROUP_NAME)
assert group_row is None
There's a lot happening here, but most of it is setup—we're creating a test team, creating a group within that team, adding members to it, and only then do we actually do the main purpose of the test: deleting the group and checking to make sure that it got deleted. Errors anywhere prior to that last step don't tell us anything about whether the
delete_group() functionality is correct or not.
Furthermore, for this particular function (and many others that we would want to test), the amount of code executed during setup is much larger than the pieces being tested, and so if bugs were distributed evenly, we would expect failures of this test case to more likely be caused by irrelevant things rather than the delete functionality itself.
How do we deal with this issue, and in a general way?
The anatomy of a test
Let's take a step back and think about tests in general. A test is an experiment that aims to validate proper functionality of the system by demonstrating that an expected outcome occurs when a particular factor is manipulated. You can think of it like this:
if A exists:
Perform action X on A
Verify that the output is O
In our case of
is a group
group deleted
Conventionally, the outputs of a test are either
success or
failure, based on whether any part of the test causes an error. But what happens if there's an error even before we get to the test condition of
if A exists ?
Let's look at an analogous situation: imagine an experiment to test if lightning transmits electricity. To do this, we'll measure the current through a metal rod placed on top of a tall building during a storm. However, if lightning never strikes the rod, we cannot conclude either that lightning does or does not transmit electricity, since the conditions for the experiment weren't satisfied.
We call this result
fail to verify, leaving us with the following possibilities for the outcome of a test:
fail to verify
Adding semantics to tests
To implement this logic into our tests, we have to do two things:
- Designate "the relevant part" of the tests
- Modify the testing framework to use this designation to return our 3 different outcomes.
For the first step, we introduce a simple semantic addition to designate parts of a test as "under test." In python (our primary language), this can be implemented as a context manager which we call
under_test. This is used for the critical sections of code and wraps raised exceptions as
UnderTestFailure. Here's how
test_delete_group looks with this new code construct (new code is bolded):
def test_delete_group(self):
# setup group and add member to it
GROUP_NAME = 'test group'
creator = setup_team() # api operation; no screen interaction
create_group_through_admin_console(creator, GROUP_NAME)
team_member_email = get_other_team_member_email([creator.email])
with under_test():
# Delete the group
# Check that it no longer shows up
group_row = get_group_row_info_by_name(GROUP_NAME)
assert group_row is None
For the second step, let's look at before and after versions of how our tests are evaluated.
run_test(test_function, *args, **kwargs)
except Exception as e:
return Result.FAILURE
return Result.SUCCESS
run_test(test_function, *args, **kwargs)
except Exception as e:
if isinstance(e, UnderTestFailure):
return Result.FAILURE
return Result.FAIL_TO_VERIFY
return Result.SUCCESS
Note that the changes in the test code are extremely minimal: the critical section has just been placed inside a
with under_test() block, and the rest of the code remains the same. However, this has a big impact on failures. The original code had 7 significant lines of code in the test, of which the new version moved 2 into the critical section. If we assume failures are evenly distributed across lines of code, then 5/7 of the errors in the original code would have actually been irrelevant to the functionality we are testing. And in practice, some of the setup code (such as
setup_team()) is way more complex, thus often resulting in an order of magnitude reduction in the number of failures that fall inside the critical section!
Success and failure scenarios
How does this simple change affect various scenarios? Let's take a look at some common patterns:
# This is a test that passes.
# Test output: success
def test_pass(self):
with under_test()
assert True
# This test fails before validating business logic.
# Test output: fail_to_verify
def test_skip(self):
assert False
with under_test()
# This test fails while validating business logic.
# Test output: failure
def test_fail(self):
with under_test()
assert False
# This test fails while validating business logic (multiple under_test blocks)
# Test output: failure
def test_fail_2(self):
with under_test()
with under_test()
assert False
Real failures in skipped tests
Our methodology is very effective with flakiness but we've introduced the possibility of missing some real bugs. In particular, consider this example:
def test_skip(self):
assert False # real consistent bug
with under_test()
The bug in the non
under_test() section will not be discovered by this test since the test gets marked as
fail to verify. But this is true only locally—when we consider the entire test suite, we would hope that another test would include the bug from this test, inside an
under_test() section, so that the bug is actually caught and eventually fixed. Thus, we must follow a new rule: every piece of code that is no longer inside the
under_test() block must be covered with its own dedicated test where it is
In our
test_delete_group example from above, the non-critical setup pieces such as team and group creation are, in fact, tested in other tests dedicated to those operations, such as
In order to best utilize tests, we run them as part of an automated deployment environment. Understanding the deployment process is crucial for understanding the environmental effects of flaky tests, and how the changes described above help remediate these effects.
Dropbox uses Continuous Integration (CI) across the organization. For each codebase, engineers commit code to the same mainline branch. Each commit (also called "build" at Dropbox) kicks off a suite of tests. Generally speaking, as a software organization grows, CI and well-written test suites are the first line of defense for automatically maintaining product quality. They document and enforce what the expected behavior of code is, which prevents one engineer (who may not know or regularly interact with everyone who commits code) from unknowingly mucking up another's work—or from regressing their own features, for that matter.
We went into some detail on our CI system in previous blog posts: Accelerating Iteration Velocity on Dropbox's Desktop Client, Part 1 and Part 2. Here we will briefly review a few pieces that are relevant to us right now.
Our test and build coordinator is a Dropbox open source project called Changes, which has an interface for each test suite that looks this:
Each bar represents a commit, in reverse chronological order. The result could be totally-passing (green) or have at least one test failure (red), with occasional system errors (black). The time it took to run the job is represented by the height of the bar. The test suite being run is quite extensive, and includes both unit tests as well as E2E tests. Thus, it runs on a separate cluster of machines, and currently takes tens of minutes to run.
At first, the workflow at Dropbox to add a new commit to the mainline branch was as follows:
- Ensure that the commit passes unit tests, which run on the developer's machine.
- These run quite fast (under a few minutes, and often in a few seconds)
- Add the build to the main branch
- Changes would then run the full test suite on that build, eventually marking it as green or red.
However, we started to get cascading failures increasingly often with this system: notice the sequence of red builds on the left and right sides of the above screenshot. This happened because if one build had an error and thus failed the test suite, the next several would most likely fail as well, since in the time it took to run the full test suite, several other commits would have been added to the mainline branch, all of which include the failing code from the first build.
So we added an intermediate stage in the commit process: a "Commit Queue" (CQ). After passing unit tests, new commits now first have to go through the CQ, which runs the same suite of tests as on the main branch. Only builds that pass the CQ are submitted to the main branch, where they are again tested. This prevents cascading failures on the main branch, since each build has already been tested before being added. In the example above, the first bad build would have never been added to the mainline branch, since it would have been caught by the CQ. All subsequent builds would have gone through just fine (assuming they didn't contain bugs of their own).
Flaky tests and the Commit Queue
Flakiness is the most common problem with E2E tests. What is so bad about flaky tests? Flaky tests are useless because they don't provide a reliable signal on the particular code being tested. However, things get worse in the context of our Commit Queue (CQ), since a red build blocks engineers from landing code to the mainline, even if their code was fine, but a flaky test falsely marked the build as bad. Excessive flakiness can cause engineers to start losing faith in the entire CI process and starting pushing red builds anyways, in the hope that the build was red just due to flaky tests.
In part, flakiness is a logical price for trying to simulate a production environment that has a lot of indeterministic variants, in contrast to unit tests that run in a sterile mocked environment. For example, in the production environment, a delay of a few seconds with an occurrence rate of once per million per operation might be tolerable. However, in our CI system, if we have 10,000 tests, each composed of 10 operations, this might result in a red build 10% of the time. This is not just specific to us; Google reports that 1.5% of all test runs report a "flaky" result.
In our CQ, we try to discover flaky tests by rerunning failing tests and seeing if they succeed on rerun after failure. In the old system, if a test failed on retry, we would mark the test (and build) as truly failed; whereas if it succeeded on retry, we mark the test as flaky and wouldn't include its results in evaluating the success of the build as a whole. We then moved the test into a quarantine, meaning it would not be evaluated on any future CQ builds, until the test was fixed by its author.
In practice, fixing flaky tests would often take quite a while, since by definition they contain issues that only surface occasionally. And for the entire duration of repair, our test coverage was reduced. Furthermore, we found a fairly high rate of these tests remaining flaky after a "fix"—25% by some internal estimates. Over time, the quarantine would grow quite large, as engineers struggled to fix flaky tests fast enough to keep up with the discovery of new flaky tests.
With the new
under_test framework, only failures that are raised
under_test() result in
Failure and block the commit queue. Failures outside the critical sections now return
fail_to_verify and are skipped, meaning that they do not block the commit queue. There is no longer a quarantine; all future builds run all tests, including those previously returned
fail_to_verify. Of course, tests which frequently return this error are marked and investigated to try to fix permanently, but now there is no urgency to do so right away.
Quantifying errors in the Commit Queue
What happens when we run an entire test suite? Let's say we have 10,000 tests, 0.1% of which fail due to real bugs in the code. In addition, let's assume a 1.5% rate of flakiness in the other tests. Due to the time it takes to fix flaky tests and their cascading failures in the old approach, we might have as many as 10% of tests in quarantine at one time. Finally, let's assume that only 10% of test code is inside an
under_test() critical section.
Let's see what happens when we run this test suite through both old and new approaches:
quarantine approach
under_test approach
|Total tests
|Tests in quarantine
|Tests resulting in
fail due to real bugs
|9,000 x 0.001 = 9
|10,000 x 0.001 = 10
|Tests resulting in
fail due to flakiness
|9,000 x 0.015 = 135
|10,000 x (0.015 x 0.1) = 15
|Tests resulting in
fail to verify
|10,000 x (0.015 x 0.9) = 135
|Tests resulting in
|9,000 – 9 – 135 = 8,856
|10,000 – 10 – 15 – 135 = 9,840
Notice that with the new approach, we not only reduced the number of failures due to flakiness (from 135 to 15), we also increased both our test coverage in successful cases (from 8,856 to 9,840) and the number of real bugs caught!
By introducing a framework of less than 20 lines of code, we expanded our testing outcomes to include a new
fail_to_verify result. We could then remove the "quarantine" for flaky tests from our continuous integration system, resulting in an improvement in all test metrics. In particular, we reduced flakiness by more than 90% from our test suite, transforming it from a lethal disease into a chronic—but treatable—condition. We hope this approach will prove useful to others.


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Day: November 15, 2014
Leader of the Pack (Business Philosophy) – Be a Leader
I wish she were on WordPress =( Nila Latimore
Tell The World I'm Coming Home
I got the crazy ass idea to eat a 18 inch pizza all by myself yesterday. I can be greedy but this felt different. I have never wanted to eat an entire pizza like that. I don't think it was me that was hungry but maybe someone or something that had this craving this and chose to use me to fulfill this hunger. I hope it's happy! I get 5 lbs and your craving has been satisfied.

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A closer look at Manchester City's record-equalling 14-match unbeaten run
Manchester City equalled the Premier League's record winning run of 14 games by beating Manchester United 2-1 on Sunday.
Here, Press Association Sport breaks down the games and the statistics involved in their streak, which moved them level with Arsenal's achievement in 2002 (the end of the 2001-02 season and the start of 2002-03).
Bournemouth 1 Manchester City 2, August 26
Raheem Sterling's late goal proved decisive after Gabriel Jesus had cancelled out Charlie Daniels' stunner. The wild celebrations earned Sterling a second yellow card, but his late contributions were to become a recurring theme.
Manchester City 5 Liverpool 0, September 9
Sergio Aguero put City ahead before Liverpool's Sadio Mane was sent off for catching goalkeeper Ederson with a high boot. Jesus and Leroy Sane then both scored twice in an emphatic win.
Watford 0 Manchester City 6, September 16
Aguero's hat-trick, goals from Jesus and Nicolas Otamendi and a late Sterling penalty helped City go one better the following week.
Manchester City 5 Crystal Palace 0, September 23
Struggling Palace held out almost until half-time but Sane's goal opened the floodgates. Sterling, twice, Aguero and Fabian Delph scored in the second period.
Chelsea 0 Manchester City 1, September 30
Chelsea at least slowed City's free-scoring form but they were beaten by a 67th-minute goal from their former player Kevin De Bruyne.
Manchester City 7 Stoke 2, October 14
Pep Guardiola's side returned from the international break with a bang. They were three up inside half an hour through Jesus, Sterling and David Silva and, although Mame Diouf's strike and a Kyle Walker own goal brought Stoke back into it, Jesus' second settled City and Fernandinho, Sane and Bernardo Silva added to the score.
Manchester City 3 Burnley 0, October 21
Aguero's first-half penalty and goals in the final 20 minutes from Otamendi and Sane kept the run going.
West Brom 2 Manchester City 3, October 28
Sane's goal was cancelled out by Jay Rodriguez but Fernandinho and Sterling restored City's lead and Matt Phillips' late goal was mere consolation.
Manchester City 3 Arsenal 1, November 5
De Bruyne and an Aguero penalty put City in control and, although Alexandre Lacazette pulled one back, Jesus made the game safe.
Leicester 0 Manchester City 2, November 18
The damage was done in a five-minute period straddling half-time, with Jesus and De Bruyne on the scoresheet.
Huddersfield 1 Manchester City 2, November 26
Otamendi's own goal on the stroke of half-time put Town in front but Aguero scored from the spot early in the second half and Sterling, who had won the penalty, scored a freakish 84th-minute winner after Jesus' shot was parried on to him by keeper Jonas Lossl.
Manchester City 2 Southampton 1, November 29
Sterling left it even later this time, curling home a brilliant winner deep in stoppage time after De Bruyne's opener was cancelled out by Oriol Romeu.
Manchester City 2 West Ham 1, December 3
City's character was on show again after Angelo Ogbonna put the Hammers ahead. Otamendi levelled and David Silva volleyed the 83rd-minute winner.
Manchester United 1 Manchester City 2, December 10
City were deserved winners of the Manchester derby, outplaying United for most of the game. David Silva put them ahead in the 43rd minute but the lead was short-lived as Marcus Rashford levelled on the stroke of half-time. Otamendi was gifted the winner, though, in the 54th minute and they saw it out with ease.
:: City have scored 45 goals in the 14 games, conceding just 10.
:: In their four games in September they scored 17 without reply.
:: Ten different players have scored for City during their winning run, with all bar Delph and Bernardo Silva scoring multiple goals - even defender Otamendi has four.
:: Aguero, Jesus and Sterling have contributed eight goals apiece.


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The Government has finally revealed its Facilities Management (FM) Services agreement along with a list of approved suppliers – some think it will be 'challenging,' while others worry that it may be difficult for smaller businesses to access.
The Crown Commercial Service has published the details of its Total #Facilities Management agreement for procuring services. It has also revealed an extensive list of suppliers including major FM companies such as ISS, Amey, Bilfinger, Carillion, Compass, Interserve, Mitie, OCS and Sodexo, among others, who will deliver the different kinds of facilities services under 'lots.'
Apparently, data collected from both the public and private sectors has revealed that at least 10% savings can be achieved year-on-year if FM work is outsourced. However, due to the skills shortage in the construction industry, coupled with cuts in spending for the public sector, utilizing the unique skill-sets of #cosmetic repair specialists such as Plastic Surgeon can both speed up the delivery of FM work, as well as greatly reduce costs. The average saving is £3 for every £1 spent when choosing to repair rather than replace damaged construction materials.
Wendy Sutherland, director of consultancy Ramsay Todd Ltd and deputy chair of the BIFM's procurement special interest group, was spot on when she said that a joined up approach to procurement across Government Departments would reduce the need to spend taxpayers' money on numerous OJEU procedures. Which fits in nicely with Plastic Surgeon's damage and repair reporting system offering, whereby FM managers can identify every repair from start to finish via online reporting and, importantly, where savings can be made through changing practices.
The agreement offers three levels – or lots – but it is the second that could see our repair services at Plastic Surgeon really stand out: Lot 2 covers Hard Facilities Management and consists of a multi-supplier lot incorporating a range of hard services including maintenance and building fabric repairs, mechanical and electrical services and landscaping.
At Plastic Surgeon we think that this new agreement has a lot going for it; but only if these large contractors offer opportunities for elements of the service to be sub-contracted to smaller organizations throughout the lifetime of this framework agreement.


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All the latest on the 2009 Champions League Final from the Estadio Olimpico in the eternal city, complete with regular updates.
Fans of Barcelona and Manchester United mingling freely in a trouble free atmosphere all over town. Six Manchester United fans hospitalized with sunburn, 27 moved on from 2000 year old amphitheatre, the Colosseum acting under the mistaken belief that it was the venue for the match.
Female Barcelona fan refused entry to Saint Peter's Basilica on the grounds that she was just too damned hot!
Black market tickets available at vastly inflated prices. Manchester United supporter swaps brand new Vespa scooter for ticket. Scooter didn't belong to him. Last seen disappearing into crowds with ticket laughing like a drain.
Barcelona fans 'disappointed' by the Pantheon because of large hole in roof which will let the rain in.
Walking Tour operators selling Dan Brown - Angels and Demons tours report that business is slow.
Beer sales up 23%
No sign as yet of notorious Roma Ultras. United and Barca fans can't be arsed with such stupidity.
Everybody looking forward to a great match.
Updates throughout the day as they come in.
Update: Goals from Samuel Eto'o and Lionel Messi take the trophy back to Catalunya. United fans have no complaints. The best team won.
Barcelona 2 Manchester United 0
Signing off: Skoob.


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By: Oberst Von Berauscht (Two Beers) –
Alvin C. York is a Tennessee farmer with drinking problems who is struggling to make a living for himself and his family. After a series of events force him to reconsider his life, finally ending in a major religious conversion, York becomes a God-fearing man. But the First World War looms on the horizon, and York wants nothing to do with it. Failing to have his conscientious objector status approved, York enters the military somewhat begrudgingly, but with knowledge of the duty he must perform. Distinguishing himself in battle, York becomes highly decorated for his heroism, and is made even more of a celebrity for his earnestness and refusal to allow his War experiences to be exploited.
A Toast
Legendary Director Howard Hawkes won his only directing Oscar for this film, and his eye for visual splendor is evident at every angle. Hawkes spends more than an hour of the film's 2-hour runtime focusing on Alvin York as a young man, and the pivotal moments of his life prior to the war. This allows time to build for the audience to get to know him as a person, not just as the war hero he would later become. Hawkes uses these moments to paint York with a broad brush as the quintessential America everyman, warts and all. By not deifying York, Hawkes makes his character one that can be easily identified with, which is simultaneously a good dramatic decision, and a good political decision (considering the fact that this film was meant to move audiences to support the U.S. entrance into WWII).
Actor Gary Cooper perfectly encapsulates this everyman persona, with his plainspoken demeanor and rugged charm, but also in the fondness for vice and propensity for fighting which characterize him early on. Supporting performances from such stellar character performers as Walter Brennan help guide the story along, and give it the credibility it needs to sell itself to the audience. Brennan is dependable as the Reverend Pile, who serves as the moral compass of the film. Credit for the most fascinating performance, however, must go to Margaret Wycherly as Mother York, the matriarch of the York family, and Alvin's beloved mother. Her stoney face masks a deep longing to see her son clean himself up. Only in brief, fleeting moments does she allow her emotion to come out, and when it happens, it is heartbreaking. Wycherly would go on to play the celebrated role of Ma Jarrett alongside James Cagney in the Gangster Epic White Heat.
Beer Two
The film's biggest flaw is in occasional overly preachy moments. I'm not talking about the religious elements, those are actually quite reigned in and well conveyed. It is blatantly obvious that this film was made for the singular purpose of getting America to enter WWII. Not that this was a bad aim, if there is any war with righteous reasons to exist, is must be WWII. However, political preachiness does not translate to dramatic momentum, and severely dates the film in the era which it was made. You almost wonder at times if Gary Cooper will break the 4th wall, look at the camera, and demand that the viewer buy war bonds.
Sergeant York largely overcomes the pitfalls of Propaganda filmmaking while managing to be a singular, accomplished work of motion picture cinema.
Drinking Game
Take a Drink: any time they call him "Alvin"
Take a Drink: for jingoistic proselytizing
Drink a Shot: for each bible reference
Drink a Double-Shot: when York's past experiences pay off when doing some killin'


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Dear ADCO,
If Homeless Self-Help Employment Program, Inc. (HoSHEP) does not fundraise, it's because we have seen it happen so many times, that an association which began with a strong commitment to social action, witnesses its focus drift from helping others to helping self. In the beginning, they devote 100% of their time to solving people's problems, repairing wrongs, curing social ills, and helping others. As time passes and money flows in, they end up devoting only 10 to 25% of their time to the reason why they began social action in the first place. And worse, they discover that money has accustomed them to a lifestyle they cannot sustain unless they have funds. As a result, funds, funding, and funding sources become the central tenet, not advocacy or helping others. The frenzy to make money, more and more money, is what deprives others, especially the weak, of the bare minimum necessary for their survival. It's one thing to see this attitude prevail in the corporate world; when it becomes endemic in the advocacy circles, then there is ground for pessimism.
Capital cannot be the solution to the problems it creates, and greed cannot solve the ills greed brings forth.
HoSHEP advocates for the homeless, but perhaps most importantly, HoSHEP advocates for a turnaround in social action thinking.
HoSHEP's message as far as this attitude is concerned is: "Do the work and do not worry about funding. If what you do is useful to others, a Jennifer Dohrn, or many Jennifer Dohrn will call you one day and urge you to initiate contact with ADCO, or any other funding source willing to honor a late husband who was one of its directors by making a donation to her favorite charity. "I have chosen you," she'll shout cheerfully. All the help HoSHEP has received in its five years of existence came that way, not in writing grant proposals.
When W. Haywood Burns asked us how he could help HoSHEP, we told him: "Give us some of your time, man." He was surprised, for he thought we would ask for money. When after Haywood's death Jennifer Dohrn asked us the same question, we gave her the same answer.
If you really listen to homeless people, you hear the only (real) complaint they have: "You never saw my face." If you really want to donate something to HoSHEP, give us some of your time, so that you may look at a homeless person to see his face. This is what you will see: The exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt to Israel can be equated to a state of wandering and homelessness. When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tables of the testimony in his hand, he did not know that the skin of his face shone... (Exodus 29); and when Aaron and all the people of Israel saw Moses, behold, the skin of his face shone... (Exodus 30). Yes, there is a mystery in the face of a homeless person, a mystery that sees only those who really look to really see.
Stay strong
Nouk Bassomb, Director
James Terrell, Outreach
Haja Worley
Ed Myers
John Jones
There is a requirement that members of the executive branch and the directors must have had a homeless experience, that is, they must be or must have been homeless. The heavy weights sit on the Advisory Board.
Nefertari Ahmose
Cynthia Nibberlink
Jennifer Dohrn
Norman Cohen
Marc Greenberg
Roshi Bernie Glassman


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94% More On-Topic Traffic, 25% Increase in Newsletter Reads, and Measurable Member-Value Metrics
About Tampa Downtown Partnership
The Tampa Downtown Partnership is a private, not-for-profit 501(c)(6)organization. Its membership is comprised of companies, organizations and individuals sharing the common goal of advancing downtown Tampa.
They serve as the steward of downtown Tampa, cultivating public and private partnerships, and encouraging downtown's physical and economic development. As a proactive leadership organization, they act as an advocate for the downtown community.
Tampa Downtown Partnership needed an appealing website that provided an online experience promoting all that Tampa's downtown has to offer. The client needed the ability to update in real-time and wanted to increase site visits and referrals to downtown offerings.
The goal of the new website was to position the Tampa Downtown Partnership as the premier "Go-To" provider of downtown Tampa information (events, news, dining, shopping, etc.) and the hub for downtown businesses to promote themselves.
Bayshore Solutions partnered with the Tampa Downtown Partnership to create an inviting and dynamic website that builds brand awareness to Downtown Tampa while delivering relevant news, events, and happenings in the greater Downtown Tampa Area. This included the implementation of Bayshore Solutions' Content Management System WebModules, jQuery Slide Show integration, Events, and My Itinerary Builder application with a complete Interactive Map of downtown Tampa and Best Places to Park.
Bayshore Solutions focused our efforts on bringing more visitors to the Tampa Downtown Partnership's website. This consisted, in part, of analyzing traffic patterns and measuring effectiveness and resourcefulness of the new site through a multi-channel Internet Marketing Strategy.
Tampa Downtown Partnership: Tampa Downtown Partnership and Bayshore Solutions received a 2012 Gold Hermes Award for its mobile website design.
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Today the archive series 'Deep Black Subway Beauty' begins in Susan Wayland Club. This latex series belongs to one of my absolute photo sets. Why? The photos provide an interesting, sombre mood, at the same time they emit, however, also so much energy and strength. Therein I wear a latex catsuit and corset of the German label Blackstyle, a combination which is incredibly enticing or? And I always wanted to go down once in the subsoil. And the location, an old closed coal mine could not be more suitable for it. A lot of fun with this archive series! *sweet kisses*
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Maurice You looking so hot and thrilling sexy! No matter whether blonde or black you have the latex X-factor!February 15th, 2015
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wolfxomg Those long gloves under the catsuit are a real steal, with the tight stiletto metal boots, nice tight rubber !!February 08th, 2017
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To wear latex in the hot summer sun, is a little but also brilliant challenge if you ask me. On the one hand it feels totally brilliantly if the sunrays shining through the latex and how they warm up ... Story
That's not the typical Catwoman dress which you know from the Batman movies. Anyway, on the shooting day I simply felt like Catwoman. Normally, I prefer the combination of black latex as kind of ... Story


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In a bad game between two losing teams on Sunday in Tampa, the Buccaneers proved a much better team than the Bills.
Tampa Bay jumped out to an early lead when Bobby Rainey ran for an 80-yard touchdown on the second play of the game, and the Buccaneers never looked back. It was 14-3 at the end of the first quarter and 24-3 at halftime, and the Bucs cruised to an easy 27-6 win in the second half.
Despite an absolutely dreadful start to the season, the Buccaneers are now playing competitive football. Today's win improves them to 4-9 on the season, and 4-1 in their last five games. This late run of winning may be enough to save Greg Schiano's job.
But not all is well with the Buccaneers. Rookie quarterback Mike Glennon, who has shown so much promise this season, had a rough day. One of the most important questions facing the Bucs in the offseason will be whether Glennon is their franchise quarterback of the future, and his performance today did nothing to answer that question.
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Except with 10g if you use sorted hash clusters. Might also be true with IOT's but I am rushing out the door.
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I was in Slovenia last month and, of course, visited the Brezovica enclave. Your maps and pictures are fine. I parked the car and then walked across the small exclave of Croatia. No one was around to talk to. But I noticed that the car parked in the large house that sits in the center of the exclave had Slovenian plates. I guess no one pays attention to who owns this piece of land.
My question to you is: How did this exclave of Croatia come about? Did the Croats and the Slovenians use different measuring tools? Did they have too much to drink the morning of the measuring? The border between the two countries is as crazy as can be. Perhaps following small streams? Still, it's hard to imagine how a triangular piece of land in Slovenia is claimed by Croatia.


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As I mentioned in my latest post, I even don't understand why the world economy crashed several months ago. The question was surrounding my mind for many days, so I couldn't help to start looking for an answer.
If you know me a little, you should be aware I'm an excessively curious guy. I must be honest; this subject is really complex and broad… I had to expend hours and hours reading large boring articles, and nevertheless I just could understand too few. So, I can't blame you if you get bored too.
So, here we go… let me show the results of my research. My starting point was some news headlines from the last months:
- http://www.globalissues.org/article/768/global-financial-crisis
- http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/08/news/international/world_crisis/index.htm
- http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/usa-2008-the-great-depression-803095.html
- http://www.lehman.com/
I want to remark some concepts from those articles. Quoting Wikipedia as usual:
– Stock: In business and finance, a share (also referred to as equity share) of stock means a share of ownership in a corporation (company).
In my words: A little piece of a company translated into a piece of paper similar to a bill.
– Stock market: is a private or public market for the trading of company stock and derivatives of company stock at an agreed price
In my words: A place where you can buy and sell stocks
– Broker: A broker-dealer is a company or other organization that trades securities for its own account or on behalf of its customers.
In my words: Someone authorized to buy and sell stocks
– Investment banking: Investment banks profit from companies and governments by raising money through issuing and selling securities in the capital markets (both equity and bond), as well as providing advice on transactions such as mergers and acquisitions.
In my words: The art of making money buying stocks and re-selling them adding some bucks to the initial cost. This transactions can include to buy and sell whole companies.
Of course, I could put a pretty endless list of terms above about financial stuff, but I want to keep things simple so far as I can. Believe me, this issue is really messy.
Ok, now that we got the basics, next question: How is defined the price of any stock? Well, here is where fun starts. The price is not constant at all because it depends on many factors:
- Stability of the stock market
- Current financial states of the company
- Sales Projections
- Others variables
Now, imagine you are a broker with a handful of stocks of the Company X. If the business goes bad, maybe you should sale your stocks, because your current price is falling and you don't wanna lose money. But, if business goes well, maybe you should wait a while, then your initial price start to get up which means profits for you! When to sell? when to buy? that's the key of everything.
As result of this model, the value of companies stocks change every moment. Brokers buy and sale stocks all the time while the market is open. Some people get rich and some other get poor. That's the game… like in a roller coaster, you can get up or down in any moment.
Have you ever watched the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on TV? All those guys with elegant ties screaming together and pointing with his hands to another guys? Well, they are playing the game.
So, let's try to understand what happens when economy crashes:
As far as I understand, around the world every some years occurs a phenomenon called "Economic Bubbles". Let's quote Wikipedia again: "trade in high volumes at prices that are considerably at variance with intrinsic values"
So clear! Isn't it? Ok, in my words: A bubble occurs when for some reason that I don't get yet, brokers start to sale and buy stocks using very high prices, assuming that companies they represent, are going to have a great year.
It looks like everybody get excited and start to buy stocks and more stocks, even asking for loans to pay them.
People bet their money expecting to get rich but then, companies production/sales are not so good, so stocks prices fall quickly and everyone starts to lose his investments. If you paid eight bucks for a stock, then now it's worth five, so you lost three bucks. In a bad week, your stock could be worth cents at Friday!
Now, imagine that a lot of companies are having the same problem… how many money can disappear in one day? millions and millions of dollars! It's like a domino effect.
The Dot-com bubble is one of the clearest examples of this situation. I could keep writing about this for the eternity, but I don't want to bore you with this.
The truth is I even don't understand why the world works in this "funny" way, the stock exchange model and all that weird way of playing with fortunes. I mean, where does all the money go when a bubble explodes?
For me, it looks like the Monopoly board game mixed with a lottery but using real money. Absolutely senseless! But, please, don't blame me, I'm just 18. Now I see why I picked up Computer Science and not Economics :S Oh! yes, Computers and the Internet are my territory! my place!
Now I got a better idea about the world crisis. What I don't know is: either should I feel better for that or scared? Is the world a "big casino" where few players bet the global fate? You tell me…
Have a nice day friends and watch your money! Chores time… 😉
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September 27, 2016
Student Highlight: USC Student Body President, Edwin Saucedo
It's Natalie Guevara and I'm excited to start working with our blog. While coming up with topic ideas, I thought of common questions we get from prospective students and one of my favorites is always: what's it like to be a student at USC? And although I'm an alumna of the university and had my own great experiences…I really want you to hear from current students with a bigger range of majors/involvement/background/etc. So rather than hear about all the cool things I have to say (many of you get enough of that), I'll find current students to tell you about their experiences. For our first installment, we have Edwin Saucedo, the Student Body President for the Undergraduate Student Government. He is originally from South Gate, CA and is set to graduate this coming May 2017. Check out what he had to say.(read more)


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One more addition to the "Me" section: I am not trying to speak over your head, and I do not intend to become the next Mahatma Gandhi with this blog. Overall, I would just like to have a genuine writing experience that benefits both me and all of you guys. Please-comment, respond, ask me questions, treat this as if a revival of an Ancient Greek Forum for crying out loud! As I have said in the paragraph at the top of this page, all that is required of you is an unstoppable willingness, no, unquenchable willingness, to think. There is something in my heart that tells me there is a bit of that virtue in everyone.
So now, we shall delve into the mechanics of this blog. Here's how it works: I read. I live my live. I write about any philosophical meaning I can extract from these unfathomable sources usually every other weekend. At periods of intense reading, I might post weekly; in periods when a novel is getting incredibly boring or I lost the book itself (with me, anything's possible,) there may be a post every three weeks. That, hopefully, will not transpire frequently.
If you look to the side of the page, you will see that my display name is "Uomo di Speranza." In Italian, this means "Man of Hope"-a virtue that I think, next to love, is the most imperative to a life of the human experience and one that I wish is in all of your hearts. I decided to begin this blog on Thanksgiving Day of 2010, and for that there is a reason: because that was the day when I gave thanks for all of the great experiences that I had been blessed with. And simultaneously on that day, I wished to begin another.


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Jill Scott's 5th album, Woman, finds Jill Scot discovering the multidimensional nature of being a woman. The album opens with Jill Scott spitting a spoken word called 'Wild Cookie.' This spoken word piece opens the eardrums to step into Jill's ever-changing world. Woman is 16 filled tracks that discuss topics of independence, like her track 'Run Run Run.' It explores the super human nature of women and how women are superheroes and there is nothing the woman cannot do. It also hits on the topic of the blatant wage disparity that women have in comparison to men. Scott shows us that the women goes above and beyond and is the support system of the man all while taking care of business. Scott transitions form the fast-paced Run Run Run to the sexy 'Lighthouse.' Jill Scott belts out, "I am his shelter, you're safe from harm…lay your burdens down." Jill Scott's Woman is important, because she speaks on not only topics of independence and protection of men, but she shows the side of women being hurt by the man. Jill's first single from the album 'Fool's Gold' exclaims, "I was living a dream believing things that just ain't true." Chasing after something and someone who did not have the best intentions for you.
Jill Scott always creates a complete body of work, and Woman keeps up with Jill Scott's previous four albums of creating a body of work that tells a story. From the first track to the end, Jill paints us images with her poetic flows that glide across the imagination. With tracks such as ''Cruisin,' Jill Scott invites you into her world of freeing your mind and finding that inner peace. The production and lyrics forces you to get lost in the music and experience Jill's world.
Woman is jam packed with the blues, country, soul, and even some funk. The super funky track 'Coming To You,' mixes horns, drums, Jill's dominant vocals, that takes you back to the days of "feel good" music. Scott ends the album with her only track with a feature with Chicago-native BJ the Chicago Kid entitled 'Beautiful Love.' Jill Scott and BJ The Chicago Kid's voices are milk in honey and combined create a soothing and sensual sound that sits above the clouds, makes you feel high, and you never want to come back down.
Woman, Jill Scott's 5th studio album truly encapsulates its title. It embodies the ever changing nature of a woman, and the perils and triumphs women face. Jill Scott always lets the listener know where she is in life. With her transparent lyrics and vulnerable sounds, Woman embraces all of Jill Scott, not leaving out a single dimension, and all 16 tracks together complete this body of work, and completes Jill Scott's message about her as a woman, while still leaving just enough to keep us wanting more.


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Zucchini and Hominy Soup
Quick Facts
Servings: 8
Prep Time: 10 min.
Cook Time: 60 min.
Total: 1 hr. 10 min.
This is a vegetarian version of posole, a dish traditionally containing pork made by Pueblo Indians and Hispanics for feast days and special celebrations.
- 2 Tbs olive oil
- 1 onion, diced
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 4 zucchini, sliced
- 1 cup peeled and chopped mild green chile peppers
- 6 cups vegetable broth
- 4 cups cooked yellow hominy or 2 16-ounce (455g) cans
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- Sauté the onion and garlic in oil for 3 to 5 minutes. Add zucchini and green chiles and cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, another 5 minutes.
- Add remaining ingredients and simmer, covered, over low heat for 45 minutes
Nutrition Facts
Calories 189
Calories from Fat 52 (28%)
(9%)Total Fat 6g
(5%)Saturated Fat 1g
Polyunsaturated Fat 1g
Monounsaturated Fat 3g
(1%)Cholesterol 2mg
(36%)Sodium 862mg
(18%)Potassium 631mg
Total Carbohydrate 30g
(19%)Dietary Fiber 5g
Sugars 7g
Sugar Alcohols 0g
(12%)Protein 6g
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Nutrition facts are calculated by a food expert using nutritional values provided by the USDA for common products used as recipe ingredients. Actual nutritional values may differ depending on the amounts or products used and can be affected by cooking methods.
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Buffy Sainte-Marie, the Canadian Cree folk-music icon and activist, headlines this year's imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, a celebration of indigenous culture and talent kicking off in Toronto this week. She spoke to The Globe recently about songs, soldiers and castles made of sand.
You're closing this year's imagineNATIVE Film and Media Arts Festival with a concert. What can your audience expect from you?
It's a mix of things people expect and things that will really surprise people. My audiences usually ask for Up Where We Belong, Until It's Time for You to Go and Universal Soldier. But we'll do stuff from our new album, Running for the Drum, which is pow-wow rock, featuring my band. It isn't new to aboriginal audiences, but maybe it is to other people. It's really up tempo, with a real power to the words.
Do you think your audience sees Universal Soldier in contemporary terms, or is it a song that connects them to another era?
I think people get it immediately that the song is still relevant. If people discovered me in the sixties, they might look at Universal Soldier as a song that was important to their youth. If they discovered me during my Sesame Street years in the seventies, they may never have heard of the song because it was blacklisted by then.
Certainly, it's an important song. But it does seem like an odd one to call out as a song request, like it's a pop hit or something.
Well, most people might not know about Until It's Time For You to Go, even though they've heard it. They probably heard it by Elvis Presley or Barbra Streisand or Neil Diamond or Bobby Darin or somebody.
Likewise, they might not know you wrote Up Where We Belong. They might not know you wrote Universal Soldier, for that matter.
A lot of people think Donovan wrote Universal Soldier. I did a concert with him four or five months ago in London. He only does his own songs, except for two of mine. So it's easy to see how that confusion would arise.
As long as you get the royalties, right?
[Laughs.] For Universal Soldier I didn't, because I gave away the publishing for $1 when I first got to Greenwich Village. Ten years later I bought it back for 25 grand. Show business is a tricky ladder.
What do you think of today's youth activism and their reactions to war?
A lot of people are so dependent upon the corporate reality. We don't go to college for the same reasons we used to – for a general education and to learn about the world and to gain the skills needed to participate in the world. Now people go to college for a meal ticket, and a place to stand in line of some plantation owner who kind of rules their lives from then on.
Which is a dangerous thing, obviously.
Yes. I think we're so co-opted by the money interests, who I think have a huge responsibility for war. The average person doesn't think very much about who's responsible for war.
Your song Universal Soldier suggests we're all responsible, right?
It spells that out pretty clearly. It's a song about individual responsibility for the world we live in. But there's so much money in war. If somebody's going to write a new song about the war, have them write about war being such a racket.
Reading your bio, I see descriptions like a "spellbinding performer" and "audacious attitude," which I think translates to "swagger" today. What kind of adjectives do you prefer when describing yourself?
I don't know. I just think of myself as very fortunate. I feel as though I'm an overgrown kid. I had the same skills as other kindergarten kids, except as an adult I've managed to hold onto them. I think that's something that resonates with people.
Certainly your old Sesame Street fans would get that.
I have a PhD in fine arts, but I never took any music lessons. I make it up, the same as any kid does. I've held onto the same kind of skills that every child uses when you take them to the beach. They use their imaginations. They make castles in the sand. The skills are the natural gifts that the Creator gives us all. The lucky ones become artists, and the very lucky ones get to become professional artists. It's an incredible privilege.
This interview has been condensed and edited.
The Beat featuring Buffy Sainte-Marie plays Toronto's Phoenix Concert Theatre on Oct. 22.
A note about imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival
Typically the most hip and with-it of Toronto's smaller film festivals, imagineNATIVE, which runs from Wednesday to Sunday and showcases indigenous media from Canada and abroad, is increasingly becoming not really a film festival at all, but a pan-media experience.
For instance, an atmospheric audio-only collage by British Columbia writer and performer Janet Rogers, of the Six Nations of the Grand River, will run within a program of experimental short films Thursday. Similarly, Inuk artist Joey Shaw has a soundscape piece as part of another shorts program Saturday focusing specifically on how it feels to straddle native and non-native worlds.
There's no shortage of regular feature films, including Wednesday's opening gala film On the Ice, about two friends in an isolated Alaskan town entangled in a deceitful secret. The film won the prize for best first feature at the last Berlin International Film Festival.
Another highlight is the screening Friday and Saturday of the acclaimed Samson & Delilah, about two youths in the isolated Australian outback and which won the Camera D'Or prize at Cannes in 2009, plus a screening of the documentary about the making of the film.
Yet it's all the gallery installations by indigenous artists, photo exhibits and music by native performers (including Buffy Sainte-Marie performing Saturday at the Phoenix Concert Theatre) than turns imagineNATIVE into more than a festival, but a scene.
See www.imaginenative.org for details, or the program guide available at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, where the films will be shown.
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Heavy rain brought more flooding and road disruptions to Lancashire at the weekend.
And the Met Office has issued a yellow alert because downpours are expected to return tomorrow.
Police and highways officials reported a host of minor accidents on the M6 as torrential rain made driving conditions hazardous on Saturday.
The A6 at Cabus, near Garstang, was closed for some time overnight owing to flooding but reopened yesterday morning.
Firefighters were called out to several incidents of flooding around the county.
In Little Lane, Longridge, near Preston, they pumped out water from six terraced houses after being alerted at 11.30pm.
Residents reported water coming up under their floorboards and rising. Firefighters from Preston used a portable pump to remove it amid concerns that electrical circuits may be affected.
Crews were also called to homes in Hill Road, Penwortham, near Preston, and Woodplumpton Road, Preston.
In Chorley Road, Walton-le-Dale, floodwater entered the kitchen of a restaurant.
Firefighters used a portable pump to pump out the water.
In Bare Lane, Morecambe, floods affected the cellar of a public house.
The Met Office said further spells of heavy rain were likely to affect parts of Wales and North West England at times during today and tomorrow.
There is the risk of localised flooding.
Meanwhile, members of Preston's Muslim community across the city have rallied to offer support and supplies to Cumbrian flood victims.
Mosque members and Preston Muslim Society joined forces to take donations of food, clothing, bedding and money to flood-stricken Cumbria.
Volunteer Ismail Deedat, said: "Children from one of the mosques in Preston did a collection of toys and raised £1,200 cash. The children also made cards filled with messages for the victims."


text: Homepage chevron_rightBlogchevron_right Post Our Northwest Terse Newton exposed as work in progress Monday, February 8, 2016by Jon Osterberg Perhaps my Seattle perspective is too biased to give Cam Newton a fair shake. I'm still not pleased at his showboat antics while ousting my beloved Seahawks from the playoffs last month. But last night, Newton exposed himself as a poor loser following his Carolina Panthers' loss to the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl 50. There's an old adage that says a person's true character shines through during adversity. Lots of people wear the solid-character veneer in good times, but fewer can step up and walk the walk when hardship arrives. Newton demonstrated that in spades during his post-Super Bowl interview. The gifted man who had been all struts and smiles while throwing, running, and dabbing his way through a 17-2 season appeared downright petulant at the microphone. Half-hidden behind his pulled-up hoodie, Newton to me seemed sullen, curt, and unwilling to answer tough questions. Now, I know the man had a tough job, facing the spotlight on a giant global stage following enormous disappointment. But he didn't man up to the challenge. Not in a mature way, like Russell Wilson and Pete Carroll did last year. Or Peyton Manning the year before. Was their disappointment any less palpable than Newton's? During the game I pondered, why do I dislike Newton? Yes, he's arrogant, a showoff who taunts his opponents, a "Hey, look at me!" poser in love with cameras. But so was one of my favorite sports heroes, Muhammad Ali. Yet with Ali, there was something lovable about his antics. You knew most of it was for show, to sell tickets. And when Ali lost, rare as it was, he did so with much more grace. Here's hoping the Super Bowl humbling cultivates some grace in Newton. I'm skeptical but want to be wrong. His undeniable talent will command the sport's world's attention, and scrutiny, for years to come. Share on social media 1