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Tough times for the Awakenings -- crisis or opportunity?
Like most people who follow Iraq, I've been watching the mounting tensions surrounding the Awakenings and the uptick in violence with some concern. I don't think that we're seeing the "great unravelling" quite yet, nor that we're yet seeing a return to higher levels of violence, insurgency and civil war. But the increased violence and the growing chorus of complaints about the failures of political accommodation should be a cautionary note to the Iraqi government and to the major political players that time is running out to make the crucial political power-sharing agreements necessary before American troop withdrawals pick up their pace.
The arrest of a leading Awakenings figure by Iraqi Security Forces which led to a highly-publicized military standoff a few weeks ago is only one instance of a wider pattern. Tensions surrounding that arrest were exacerbated by an inflammatory blizzard of statements by Maliki and others warning that the Awakenings had been infilitrated by Baathists and al-Qaeda. A series of attacks by unknown groups have added to the tension. It all adds up to a general sense of apprehension, with members of the Awakenings worried about their future and many others worried that the security situation may be on the brink.
The situation is extremely murky, and it's hard to really know anything with confidence. What I've been seeing in the Iraqi and Arab media, and hearing from the people I've spoken with, is a wide range of competing interpretations and arguments over everything from the identity of the attackers (al-Qaeda? rival Awakenings groups? Shi'a militias looking to stir things up?) to the intentions of the Iraqi government (eliminate the Awakenings? weed out the 'bad elements' within them? force the U.S. to take sides, and test the U.S. implementation of the SOFA?). The high level of uncertainty and confusion is itself a significant point -- the impact of fear and uncertainty on strategic calculations should never be underestimated.
Given all that uncertainty, it would be unwise to offer a confident assessment of what's really going on. But the emerging crisis surrounding the Awakenings and the uptick in violence do both seem to be primarily driven by the continuing refusal of Maliki and the Iraqi government to make meaningful political accommodations and their decision to move against at least some of the Awakenings groups at a convenient moment.
The official moves against the Awakenings look like salami tactics, divide and rule rather than a full-scale assault. Maliki, as in the past, seems quite happy to work with parts of the Anbar Awakenings (talk of a political deal with Ahmed Abu Risha is in the air again) even as he moves against Awakenings elsewhere. Maliki's government sees very clearly how fragmented, mutually mistrustful and competitive the Awakenings are. They are likely gambling that this fragmentation creates such intense coordination problems that they can take out a few of their most dangerous potential enemies here and there without triggering a widespread Sunni uprising. Watching the reaction of the various Awakenings thus far -- as some protested angrily but others cheered -- suggests that they are right. It's a dangerous game, though. The question would be whether there is some tipping point, at which a large number of uncoordinated and self-interested small groups suddenly switch sides (as arguably happened in the other direction in the spring of 2007).
It would not take a revolt en masse for a change in the status of the Awakenings to have an effect on security. In a recent interview with al-Arabiya, Salah al-Mutlaq warned that the government's failure to deliver on its promises of security and civil jobs to the Awakenings and the arrest of a number of Awakenings leaders were spreading fear and uncertainty through their ranks. Members who aren't getting paid, see their leaders targeted, and see diminishing prospects of future payoffs could begin to fade away. They could stop performing their local security functions, allowing violent groups easier access to areas which had been off-limits for the last year or two. Or some could return to violent action in an individual capacity -- and even if only 10% went that route, that could put 10,000 hardened fighters back into play (in addition to people recently released from the prisons, another issue which factors in here).
The crackdown on the Awakenings has regional implications as well, particularly with the ever-skeptical Saudis who have generally supported the Awakenings movements. The Arab press has taken careful note of their reversal of fortunes, which Adel al-Bayati in al-Quds al-Arabi calls Maliki's coup against the Awakenings. Tareq al-Homayed, editor of the Saudi daily al-Sharq al-Awsat (which usually reflects official Saudi thinking), complains bitterly today that recent events have made his warnings from last August about the coming betrayal of the Awakenings come true. The Awakenings were not bearing arms against the Iraqi state, argues Homayed, but rather were protecting the Iraqi state against al-Qaeda and assisting its stabilization ahead of the American withdrawal. But, he warns, narrow, sectarian perspectives in Baghdad are winning out over the Iraqi national interest with potentially devastating consequences.
This reflects a theme which extends beyond the Saudi sphere. Most Arab writers (for example, the Kuwaiti Shamlan Issa in al-Ittihad yesterday) point the finger at the continuing lack of progress on political accommodation and national unity -- which for them, generally means the accommodation of Sunni interests and the integration of the Awakenings. The "resistance camp" paper al-Quds al-Arabi has been covering the "coup against the Awakenings" as closely as have the Saudi-owned media (though with a bit more schadenfreude). Many of them are reading the crackdown on the Awakenings through as unmasking the "true Shia sectarianism" of Maliki's government -- reinforcing their pre-existing, deep skepticism about the new Iraq.
I'm obviously worried about all of this. I've been warning about the potential for trouble with the Awakenings project for a long time, and it would be easy to say that those predictions are now coming due. But I think it's way too early for that -- there is still time for these troubles to demonstrate the costs of political failure and to become the spur to the needed political action.
That's why it's really important that the United States not now begin to hedge on its commitment to the drawdown of its forces in the face of this uptick in violence. It is in moments like this that the credibility of commitments is made or broken. Thus far, the signals have been very good -- consistent, clear, and tightly linked to continuing pressure on political progress. President Obama reportedly pushed hard on the political accommodation front during his stopover in Baghdad last week, and General Odierno did very well to emphasize on CNN yesterday that the U.S. is firmly committed to removing its troops by the end of 2011. Maliki and everyone need to take deep breath and strike power sharing deals before things go south, and understand that they will pay consequences if they don't.


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We are very used to think that the Low-Cost rates are the solution to travel and save money at the time but the real rate sometimes is not the one that they show us. Sometimes we have to use our glasses and understand how to calculate the real rate of the Low-Cost tickets.
Let me show how to estimate the real price of one Ticket that I saw the last week.
Barcelona-Milan 10 €
Transport from the city to the airport 12 Euros x 4 = 48. So we have 58 including the price of the ticket
Bag registration 20 + 58 = 78
Online registration (we have to do this registration before the departure and then in the return) 15 x 2 = 30 + 78 = 108 and this is the real final price!
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Workers in the informal economy clean houses, collect refuse, park cars, drive taxis, sell food on the street and sew garments in their homes. In construction and agriculture, they seek out jobs as day laborers. At worksites, in factories, and even in schools, they are temporary or contract employees, hired over and over, always short-term. Informal employment is irregular and unreported.
Workers in the informal economy often have no single employer, no contract, no set wage and no health care, pension or other benefits that formally employed workers enjoy. Informal work exists in every country. It supports and is often the very foundation of the formal economy. Women and migrant workers make up a disproportionate share of informal workers.
Because unions are the primary promoters of worker rights and social protections worldwide, their support for informal workers is crucial. By supporting informal workers' efforts to join together to make positive change, unions enable these workers to build power and gain an economic and political voice. Working together on common goals, workers in the formal and informal economy help ensure that all work is fair, secure, and protected.
International standards recognize the plight of informal economy workers. The International Labor Organization (ILO)'s 2002 resolution, "Decent Work and the Informal Economy," calls on member states to treat the goal of decent work as an equal aspiration for all working people, formal and informal workers alike, and for governments to create conditions for all workers to achieve decent work and a decent life in conditions of dignity and equality. The ILO "Decent Work for Domestic Workers" standard (Convention 189) requires governments that ratify it to ensure that domestic workers are covered by the ILO core labor standards.
The Solidarity Center is part of a broad-based movement to raise awareness about the informal economy. Working with union partners and other allied groups around the world, the Solidarity Center helps empower workers in the informal economy to stand up for their rights and raise their living standards.
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As presented by Kent State Junior, Kendall Lewis at Welcome Back Shabbat, August 29, 2014.
Shoftim (Judges)
Shabbat Shalom, my name is Kendall Lewis. I am a fashion design major and an art history minor student.
This week's parsha, Shoftim –which means judges- is about rules, rulers, regulations and justice: basically a constitution. Moses address the Israelites to appoint judges, mind the words of the prophets, define a king, mind the laws of war, and deal with unsolved murders and people seeking refuge of manslaughter, obviously, it's a lot to take in. Reviewing the parsha I could see a lot of parallels within our country's democratic system- democratic being the key word. It's quite amazing that even in the time of Moses that in governmental affairs, justice is pivotal to a well-governed society.
This summer I got the opportunity to study abroad in Italy. There, I visited the city of Siena, which is known for a horse race called the Palio (which is uber crazy fun to watch) and their city's history of government. In the central palazzo there is a fresco (a painting) that is called the Allegory of Good and Bad Government. The fresco shows Siena in two scenes: one, which is the effect of good government on the city and one, which is the effect of bad government on the city. In the good government scene it is clear that the town is in a peaceful state showing symbolism of justice and community. The good government leads to the notion of the liberal arts and sciences, which, in turn, makes a good society. The bad government scene is totally the opposite. It shows self-interest before community that leads to an unjust government, and, in turn, a foul society.
Since I am into art history, when I read this parsha I thought of the fresco in Siena because it relates perfectly and visually to the topics in the parsha (since you can't see the fresco I advise you all to look it up, it's pretty sweet). In the beginning of the parsha it states that the Israelites appoint officials and judges from their tribes to govern with justice and impartiality, which are crucial foundations for a democratic society even today. For example, the portion talks about there must be a testimony of two or more witnesses for a person to be found guilty- again this is justice. Also, the parsha talks about setting aside cites for refuges of "accidental manslaughter"- this states impartiality.
In conclusion, this week's Torah portion offers a type of constitution that promotes justice: Justice in its rulers, laws, and Torah. In the Torah, justice comes from divine decree, in out society it comes from our constitution by the people. Either way, just as the fresco depicted, a healthy society needs justice, whether it is for civil rights, human rights, animal rights, victims of racial prejudice, homophobia, ageism, sexism, etc. Also, justice was important in biblical times and is still apart of Judaism these many, many years later. Thank you and good Shabbos.
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Kendall Shmuel de Perrier Lewis is a returning fashion design major and also an art history minor student. He has worked at the Kent State University Museum for three years as a student assistant, helping with exhibitions and management of the museum's collection. He hopes to study abroad again and revist Israel in the near future.
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Shabbat Shalom! My name is Sophia Witt, and I am an engagement fellow here at Hillel at Kent State. This is my junior year as a performance major.
This weeks Torah portion is from Deuteronomy, Re'eh. In this portion, Moses speaks of God blessing and cursing us. What does this mean to us? Many things. Here at Hillel, we are accepting of everyone, Jews, Non-Jews, Religious and Non-religious people. Regardless of what you believe in, or don't believe in, we ALL have set backs in life, which seem like a struggle, but at other times we find ourselves blessed.
I was blessed with the opportunity to visit Israel on Birthright with Hillel. However, going into Israel, I felt very unprepared as a "Jew." What does being Jewish even mean? I felt cursed…Why didn't I belong, and what did G-d even mean to me? Being in Israel, however changed me. I felt spiritually awakened and finally felt like G-d spoke to me. I have acquired a passion to do for Israel. By definition, "Israel" means to struggle or challenge power and above forces. It was OK for me to question myself, and even G-d. It is okay to not "feel" Jewish enough – it means you are doing Judaism right! Being Jewish doesn't mean you are religious, it means you are wanted, and belong. In Israel, an IDF soldier told me that Israel is my HOME. I belonged there. It took me to be away from home for me to realize that "HOME" is not a house. It is belonging. I by definition am Jewish, regardless of how I feel. G-d has rewarded me with guidance and assurance of this. I encourage all of you to "Israel" and challenge yourself. Whether you believe in G-d, or you believe in Culture alone, the ups and downs of life are all obstacles. How you handle them builds character and shows chutzpah. Thank you, and Shabbat Shalom!
Sophia Witt is a Junior Global Communications major with a minor in Jewish Studies. She is an engagement fellow of Hillel at Kent State University, and is a volunteer with the Jewish Federation of Greater Cleveland. She is part of several organizations on campus including, Hillel, Achoti, Ahavat Israel, SALSA, and Republicans on Campus. Sophia looks forward to this academic school year, and hopes to help get students involved in Kent and Hillel life!
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W.P. Carey Foundation Announces $30 Million Gift to University of Maryland School of Law
Today the W. P. Carey Foundation announced a gift of $30 million to the University of Maryland School of Law. The gift is the largest in the School's history, one of the top 10 largest gifts to any law school, public or private, and one of the largest in the history of the University System of Maryland.
The gift will enable the School of Law to strengthen its programs, with a special emphasis on faculty support, and increase the School's endowment. In addition to the gift, the University of Maryland has committed to raise $15 million to support the School of Law.
W. P. Carey Foundation founder William Polk Carey said, "This gift represents the Carey family's educational and philanthropic legacy in the great state of Maryland and helps us honor family members who dedicated their lives and careers to education, to civic duty, and many to the legal profession itself. It is our hope that with this gift, the University of Maryland School of Law will continue its tradition of graduating students who make a special contribution to the business world - like my grandfather and his brother did."
The School of Law will be named the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law after W. P. Carey's grandfather who was a graduate of the law school (Class of 1880) and co-founder of what is now the largest law firm in the world: DLA Piper (formerly Carey, Piper and Hall). The firm's current chairman is also an alumnus of the University of Maryland School of Law, Frank Burch (Class of 1974). Additionally, Francis King Carey's older brother James Carey was a graduate of the law school (Class of 1875), as was his son Francis J. Carey (Class of 1912).
The theme of honoring School of Law alumni resonated throughout the celebration ceremony in the School's packed atrium. Among the speakers were Governor Martin O'Malley (Class of 1988) and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake ('95) and guests included Congressman Elijah Cummings (Class of '76), former Senator Joseph Tydings ('53), 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Andre Davis (Class of '78), and Tony and Eleanor Carey (Class of '73).
O'Malley, who presented William and Frank Carey with a proclamation, said, "With gifts totaling $100 million overall to support education at all levels in Maryland, the Carey family has shown remarkable support for not only the University of Maryland, but also for the education system in general throughout the years. This gift helps to strengthen our state's global reputation in the competitive field of higher education."
William E. Kirwan, PhD, chancellor of the University System of Maryland, expressed his thanks, as did University President Jay A. Perman, MD. "I want the Careys to know that this is the first naming of a School on this, the University of Marylandýs founding campus," said Perman. "When I assumed the presidency, I announced an audacious "some would say unattainable" goal, that each of our outstanding professional schools would attract a transformative gift worthy of naming the school. So here we are. Thank you W. P. Carey Foundation."
In addition to this gift, the Foundation has given $50 million dollars to Arizona State University, where the W. P. Carey School of Business is located, and $50 million to the Johns Hopkins University, where the Carey Business School is located (named after W. P. Carey's great-great-great-grandfather). This makes W. P. Carey the only individual in the country who has two business schools and one law school named after one family.
Overall, W. P. Carey and the Foundation will have given more than $150 million in support of education worldwide to honor his family's long and storied legacy in education, for their commitment to education and civic duty, particularly in the state of Maryland. In addition to Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland, other Maryland schools the Foundation has gifted include the Gilman School, founded by Anne Galbraith Carey, the Baltimore School for the Arts, the Bryn Mawr School, and the Calvert School.
"This extraordinary gift will support the school's dedication to providing a world-class education," said University of Maryland School of Law Dean Phoebe A. Haddon, JD, LLM. "Our program has a rising national reputation for excellence and it is our hope that this gift will engage and strengthen the School of Law and the University System of Maryland overall as we continue to graduate the best and brightest students."
The University of Maryland School of Law is the third oldest law school in the country and is located on the University's founding campus in Baltimore. The University will celebrate the 200th anniversary of its chartering in 2012. Four of the School of Law's specialty areas are ranked in the top 10 nationally by U.S. News & World Report: Health Care Law (No. 3), Clinical Law (No. 6), Environmental Law (No. 7), and Trial Advocacy (No. 8). Its part-time program is ranked in the top 10 as well at No. 8. The law school established one of the first clinical programs in the country (more than 40 years ago) and is one of the only law schools to have international clinics located on site, in-country.
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Barcelona Day 3: Badoer fastest, Hakkinen returns
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30 November 2006 – On Thursday Ferrari test driver Luca Badoer was the fastest man at Circuit de Catalunya. But all eyes were on two-times F1 world champion Mika Hakkinen who returned in an official F1 event after five years.
Thursday was the third and for most teams the final day of testing in Spain this week. The gathered media at Circuit de Catalunya were all around McLaren's pitbox at 09.00 to watch the Finn complete his first laps.
Hakkinen started relaxed with a couple of installation run. As the day progressed he kept improving his lap times. Hakkinen completed a total of 79 laps. His fastest lap was set at 1.19.340, three seconds slower than Badoer.
At BMW Sauber Timo Glock replaced Nick Heidfeld and completed his first laps for the BMW Sauber team. At Williams their test driver Narain Karthikeyan took over from Alexander Wurz.
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Subsistence Fishery
Alaska Administrative Code, Chapter 2 provides for subsistence harvest of scallops in state waters of Southeast Alaska, Prince William Sound, Cook Inlet, Kodiak Area, Alaska Peninsula-Aleutian Island Area, and the Bering Sea Area. Bag limits and seasons are generally more liberal and gear requirements less restrictive than for personal use or sport fisheries. Unlike personal use fishery catch, which may be shared only with immediate family members, subsistence fishery catch may be shared with all members of the community.
Commercial Fishery
Scallops are captured using standard New Bedford style scallop dredges that are on average 15 feet wide and weigh about 2,600 pounds. The frame provides a rigid, fixed dredge opening to which a steel ring bag (consisting of 4-inch rings linked together) is attached to collect the scallops as the dredge is towed. In response to an influx of vessels from the east coast, a vessel moratorium was implemented in state waters in 1997; eight vessels currently hold vessel-based entry permits. In a further effort to increase economic efficiency, permit holders created a scallop fishing cooperative in 2000. Some cooperative members opted to remove their boats from the fishery and arranged for their shares to be caught by other members of the cooperative, providing the remaining vessels with additional fishing opportunity. In recent seasons, only four vessels on average have participated in the fishery. This fleet of 70 to 120-ft vessels each has a crew of eight to twelve, who shuck and freeze the scallops onboard the vessels. Most of the scallops produced are marketed directly by the cooperative. Except in the Cook Inlet area, all commercial scallop fishing vessels are required to carry trained observers.
Personal Use Fishery
There are personal use scallop fisheries around the state of Alaska. A sports fishing license is required for participation. There is no closed season, but permits are required in some areas while bag and possession limits are established for others.


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Crash in Red Bluff blocks Highway 99
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A car crash slowed westbound traffic through Red Bluff Sunday around 9:15 a.m.
It happened just outside the CAL FIRE parking lot at Antelope Boulevard and Mulberry Avenue.
Red Bluff Police said the 78-year-old female driver of a Chevy sedan was heading east on Antelope Boulevard (Highway 99) when she didn't see the pickup truck driven by a 51-year-old man.
The sedan turned into the pickup, causing the crash.
Both cars had to be towed. Both drivers refused medical treatment.
Traffic was slowed for about 30 minutes for CAL FIRE to clear the roadway.
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Tiger Woods best days are all behind him according to young Irish golfing ace Rory McIlroy. Now the former world champion will have a struggle to return to the top of the sport's world rankings, McIlroy contends.
Currently Woods is ranked at 49th - his lowest ranking since the days when he was a novice in 1996.
'We saw the best of Tiger in 2000 and 2001. I don't think golf can be played any better than that,' McIlroy told the BBC this week.
'He didn't even need to play that well to win tournaments - he won the US Open by 15 shots, the Open by eight - so I think we've seen the best of him but that's not to say to he won't win again. But (getting back to number one) will be difficult for him because the fields are so much deeper.
He set the benchmark and that's where we're all trying to get to. I don't think anybody has got there yet but we're getting closer. It will be a tough ask for him to get back there.'
McIlroy made his comments on the day he signed a new sponsorship deal with European banking giant Santander, underlining his new status as one of sport's most marketable names.
At just 22 McIlroy, ranked third in the world, has only played six tournaments since his major US Open win but back-to-back third-place finishes bode well for him ahead of next week's Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland.
Like Woods McIlroy told the BBC he is completely focused on winning major victories. 'I want to give myself a good chance in all four majors. If I was sat down here next year and hadn't won one I'd be disappointed. It would be an opportunity missed.'
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Columbia, SC (December 23, 2013) --- A Columbia area resident was arrested today for three counts of forgery relating to her 2009, 2010, and 2011 individual income tax returns.
Officials from the SC Department of Revenue charged April Eigner with one count of forgery less than $5,000 and two counts of forgery less than $10,000.
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If convicted of the charges, Eigner, 28, could face fines up to 25 years in jail. Eigner is being held at the Alvin S. Glenn Detention Center pending a bond hearing.
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Went to Boise Code Camp this weekend and it was great!
There were some really good sessions and good discussions on Agile, Scrum and domain specific languages.
I think events like these are important because they help us to zoom out a little and see what kinds of things other people are doing in our field and what companies around us are interested in high quality software.
Code camps are also a great place to get some experience doing presentations and share what you are working on. Networking opportunities abound.
I presented two talks this weekend. I am posting the links to those here.
The first presentation I did was on Pair Programming.
You can find the presentation on Prezi here.
We also did a live pair programming session, which I thought went pretty well. We ran into some of the issues that often come up with pair programming, like being afraid to tell someone you don't like their method name.
The second presentation I did was on Creating an Internal DSL for Automated Functional Testing.
You can find the presentation on Slideshare here.
We went over how to go about creating a good automation framework which fills in the gaps between the business language and technical language.
Thanks to everyone who attended.
Automated UI Testing Framework… A Real Example
Michael Feathers recently blogged a very interesting topic he titled "UI Test Automation Tools are Snake Oil". This seems to have stirred up again the very controversial topic of automated UI testing. I had previously posted about the pro's and con's of using a recording tool versus creating a framework. Now I wanted to expand a little more on using a framework by giving a concrete example of a framework I have written and am using to actually write good automated UI tests that are not fragile.
The project
The project I am working on is mostly written in Java. It is a case management system which workers use to enter applicants' information and then run their eligibility to qualify them for benefits. The basic use of the system is to create a new case, create people on the case with their information: income, relationships etc, and then run the eligibility and save the results. One other important piece here I want to mention before I get flamed about technology choices is that the product was a legacy product and only supported on IE.
The tools
Based on most of the developers being versed in Java and the system requiring IE, I chose to use Watij for the framework. Watij is basically a framework built on top of IE that directly interacts with the browser through the DOM through the COM interface. When you are testing in Watij you are actually interacting with the browser, but since you are going through the com layer instead of clicking directly through the screens you are able to hide the browser window and run tests with the machine locked. I also used JUnit as the test driver to execute the tests since it is easy to run from eclipse and can easily be run from an ant build to report the results and run on the build server.
The framework
The basic idea behind this framework is that I wanted to make it so a non programmer could write the tests and maintain the tests without having to know much about Java or Watij. Even though Watij happens to be being used behind the scenes, I wanted the person writing the test scripts to only need to have domain knowledge of the application. With that in mind, here is a picture of the stack.
You can see in the diagram that I show a technology and how you interact with it. IE uses HTML and CSS, Watij is built on top of IE and lets you work against the DOM. My application framework is build on top of Watij and lets you work with domain specific concepts such as a specific screen, work flows and navigation. The test scripts are written against the domain specific application framework.
Using this type of a framework, most tests can be written in as few a 5 lines of code. Here is an example of a test:
@Before public void SetUp() { this.caseNumber = CaseCreator.createCase( IBESDate.currentMonth(), false, false, People.ADULT_MALE_1.onPrograms( Program.MEDICAID ) ); } @Test public void taskCanBeSelected() { Tasks.addTask( TaskType.RECEIVED_458, IBESDate.monthsInFuture( 3 ) ); WorkQueue.search( TaskType.RECEIVED_458, IBESDate.monthsInFuture( 3 ), IBESDate.monthsInFuture( 3 ) ); Assert.assertTrue( WorkQueue.searchResultsHasCase( this.caseNumber ) ); }
Now this isn't going to make much sense to most people who read it, and I actually consider that a good thing. If you looked at the screens in the application it would make much more sense. Someone writing these tests only needs to know about the screens and they can figure out how to do something. There is actually a large amount of things going on in the background when you run this test. It will create a complete case, add the person to the case, then click through a task workflow to add a specific task, then it will go through another workflow to search by the task to see that it was added. There are probably about 20-25 different screen that this test ends up going through with these very few and simple lines of code.
The secret behind these kinds of a simple UI automation tests is abstraction. The framework is designed to essentially be a domain specific language. By abstracting away anything that has to do with the browser, html and even the dom, I am able to present a simple and stable interface for the tester to do exactly what they want and not know about all the other technology going on behind the wheel. Think about how complex a motor vehicle is, yet how simple the interface to the user is. I see many automation strategies that require the person writing the test scripts to know about all nuances of browsers and html.
What about change?
Most automation strategies break down when encountering UI changes. I welcome UI changes. Go ahead and change the UI, it won't break all my tests, it will break one specific place in the framework that knows about what kind of things are on a particular screen. With this framework it is very easy to fix a broken UI in one place and all the tests will work again. Contrast this to many of the automation scenarios you have seen where a single renaming of a button requires 50 tests to be reworked. All of the Watij interaction is in one namespace called "UI". All of the screens use UI to interact with Watij, so that I could even swap out Watij for another browser automation framework.
Back to the snake oil
I do have to say I agree with many of the points Michael made in his post, but I have seen them overcome. A tool is never going to be a magic bullet. Yet at the same time we should not run away from UI automation. We just need to correctly apply the same principles we apply to create good abstractions in our source code to our automation code.
Automated Functional Tests: Record or Program?
Recently, I've been devoting some time to building out a framework using Watij with the goal to be able to easily write automated functional tests for backlog items for the application I am working on. There are many factors in the technology choice, but one of the most prominent of questions about doing automation seems to be around whether or not to use a tool that records test scripts vs using a WatiX or similar library and rolling your own framework. Let me put a little caveat here, since I know this will come up. If you use a recoding tool and then you use its internal language to build a framework that is actually reusable and makes it so you don't have to re-record every time you create a new test, I would count that as programming vs recording. When I say recording, I mean mostly just recording and plugging in variables.
Let's looks at the pro's and con's:
+ Very fast to get started, you can have a working test right from the get go.
+ Anyone can do it. Just requires a little training in the tool, but not much technical knowledge needed.
+ Easy execution of tests, usually integration with test case management systems, defect systems, etc.
- Speed of test creation doesn't really increase as test library increases.
- Lots of pointing and clicking to create the tests each time.
- Fragile: if a screen changes it can break many tests which each have to be changed.
- Expensive, most of the recoding tools are very expensive.
- Heavy installation, most of the tools require thick clients to use, installed on any machine recording or running them.
+ As your library increases in size, test case creation becomes very rapid.
+ Developers are more likely to participate since it is a programming type activity.
+ Can abstract screen changes from functions it order to protect against change. (If one screen changes you are more likely to only need to update the framework in one spot, not change every single test.)
+ Low cost, as in free, solution. (Besides development cost)
+ Can run on any machine that has Ruby, .NET Framework, or Java depending on framework used.
– Takes at least some development expertise to build the initial framework.
– Requires more training to understand how to use.
– Initial creation of test cases takes a long time.
The patterns of pro's and con's here closely resembles the pattern of pro's and con's for doing unit testing or test driven development. Higher cost initially, but over time large amount of savings. Programming seems to be a clear winner over recording, in my opinion.
Next time I'll take a look at how to implement a good framework for automated functional testing using a tool like Watij, Watin, or Watir.
Updated, here is the post that looks at the action implementation of the framework.
Difficult Watij Problem That Wasn't Really A Watij Problem
Don't you hate it when you spend a large amount of time dealing with a problem only to find out what you thought was the issue really wasn't the issue after all? I spent a significant amount of time today trying to find out why I couldn't access a link that I can see on a web page and in the DOM when using the IE DevToolBar. I thought it was a problem with the automated testing framework I use, Watij. But, it turns out what I thought was a Watij problem really wasn't.
I was trying to write an automated acceptance test to verify that a birth date could not be made null.
Pop quiz, what's wrong with this HTML?
<!-- This is a comment --!>
It turns out that IE can recognize that "–!>" is intended to be the end of a comment even though it should be:
<!-- This is a comment -->
Unfortunately, Watij is not as forgiving and does not recognize the intention behind this mistake. In fact, Watij treats the comment as not ending, and the rest of the page as a comment.
So, the lesson behind this, is that if you are using a WatiX framework and can't see a link or image on a page, be sure to check and make sure you have well formed comments. Better yet, anytime you come across something similar, make sure all your html is well formed.


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Eminem Till I Collapse Lyrics
Last updated: 02/13/2013 10:04:27 AM
(feat. Nate Dogg)
'Cause sometimes you feel tired,
feel weak, and when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up.
But you gotta search within you, you gotta find that inner strength
and just pull that shit out of you and get that motivation to not give up
and not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face and collapse.
[B/W Intro:]
Yo left, yo left, yo left right left
Yo left, yo left, yo left right left
Yo left, yo left, yo left right left
Yo left, yo left, yo left right left
[Verse #1:]
Till I collapse I'm spilling these raps long as you feel em
Till the day that I drop you'll never say that I'm not killing them
Cause when I am not then I am stop pinning them
And I am not hip-hop and I'm just not Eminem.
Subliminal thoughts when I'm stop sending them women are caught in webs spin and hauk venom
Adrenaline shots of penicillin could not get the illing to stop.
Amoxacilin is just not real enough.
The criminal cop killing hip-hop filling minimal swap to cop millions of Pac listeners.
Your coming with me, feel it or not you're gonna fear it like I showed you the spirit of god lives in us.
You hear it a lot, lyrics the shock is it a miracle or am I just a product of pop fizzing up.
For shizzle my whizzle this is the plot listen up you bizzles forgot slizzle does not give a fuck.
[Chorus - NateDogg]
Till the roof comes off, till the lights go out
Till my legs give out, can't shut my mouth.
Till the smoke clears out - am I high? Perhaps
I'ma rip this shit till my bone collapse.
Till the roof comes off, till the lights go out
Till my legs give out, can't shut my mouth.
Till the smoke clears out and my high burn out
I'ma rip this shit till my bone collapse.
[Verse #2:]
Music is like magic there's a certain feeling you get when your real
and you spit and people are feeling your shit.
This is your moment and every single minute you spend trying to hold onto it
cause you may never get it again.
So while you're in it try to get as much shit as you can
and when your run is over just admit when its at its end.
Cause I'm at the end of my wits with half this shit that gets in.
I got a list here's the order of my list that it's in.
It goes, Reggie, Jay-Z, Tupac and Biggie, Andre from Outcast, Jada, Kurupt, Nas and then me.
But in this industry I'm the cause of a lot of envy, so when I'm not put on this list the shit does not offend me.
That's why you see me walk around like nothing's bothering me.
Even though half you people got a fucking problem with me.
You hate it but you know respect you've got to give me
The press's wet dream like Bobby and Whitney. Nate hit me.
[Chorus - NateDogg]
[Verse #3:]
Soon as a verse starts I eat it at MC's heart
what is he thinking? How not to go against me? Smart.
And its absurd how people hang on every word.
I'll probably never get the props I feel I ever deserve
But I'll never be served my spot is forever reserved
If I ever leave earth that would be the death of me first.
Cause in my heart of hearts I know nothing could ever be worse.
That's why I'm clever when I put together every verse
My thoughts are sporadic, I act like I'm an addict
I rap like I'm addicted to smack like I'm Kim Mathers.
But I don't want to go forth and back in constant battles
The fact is I would rather sit back and bomb some rappers.
So this is like a full blown attack I'm launching at them
The track is on some battling raps who want some static
Cause I don't really think that the fact that I'm Slim matters
A plaque of platinum status is whack if I'm not the baddest.
[Chorus - NateDogg]
[Eminem & Natedogg Echo:]
Until the roof
The roof comes off
Until my legs
give out from underneath me
I will not fall,
I will stand tall,
Feels like no one could beat me.
Thanks to Ace001 for submitting Till I Collapse Lyrics.
Real rap | Reviewer: Lane Blake | 2/9/13
Eminem is by far THE best rapper on the face of this planet. Listen to the lyrics, look at the history of his life, and omfg its magic cuz now you can enjoy AND understand his music!
listen very closely to what i have to say. | Reviewer: redecho129 | 5/9/12
listen very closely. eminem is different than he was back in the day. and yeah. i liked his music back then too. but it's changed. HES changed. hes getting older and older and his hate for the world has decreased throughout the years. he's off drugs now so0 of course he'll act very different than he used to. he still is the best of the best and he will stay on top for a very long time.
rhis song is the shit | Reviewer: anthony | 10/3/11
eminem is surelly the best and will till he dies he has proved him self over and over again idk why peeps r a bunch off ass holes but they shoud listen to his lyrics i bet not alot of those fools coud put there feelings into wicked rap verses and this guy does anf to be onest i i wusnt a big rap fan but i listned to em and i jus loved it and go eminem!!!!! hope he raps till he drops!!!!!!!!
love u em | Reviewer: mazzi | 4/30/11
Em did good by his fans with his new album he kicked the habit and is getting back on track, however he shouldn't turn into a carricature of slim or eminem. Lets just pray to god that he stays true to his roots and his hardcore Fans who use his music to escape from shit. Peace em love and respect u more than anyone.
Emin3m 4 life.... deep in my heart.... forever | Reviewer: Akil | 3/14/11
Those are just some of the few titles I could put up, even though I have millions to say. Many artists have put up songs that are catchy and makes us wanna sing along with it. But few, no, very few, are able to put up songs that describes life, the hard side of it and comes up with solution to it, and at the same time, of course, makes them catchy at the same time. Eminem has done just that. Believe me guys, Slim has seen life. Believe and take seriously whatever he says, that is, what he wants us to believe. Eminem, in my opinion, is a gaurdian angel to me, a person who just reached out to me through his songs, that made me open my eyes, look at everything from a different angle and made me never to give up on anything. Eminem for life. And I really mean it. There are four, whom I respect and love; God, Mom, Dad and Eminem.
These lyrics are sick | Reviewer: Mwaluwa | 3/7/11
If this is not the definition of sick then the hospital you people went to was full of amateur doctors. Drugs or no drugs, Eminem still delivers like a woman giving birth to triplets, he is hard!!!!!
Rap? or is it talk? | Reviewer: Jake Smith | 3/7/11
Eminem is one of the best rappers,in my view he is the only good one worht listening too, some of his songs are debatable in my view such as stay awake, just lose it, king hustle and hello are juts a few, thats when he is slim shady,which in my view sucks,his best songs in my view are mocking bird, you don't know Ft 50cent, cashaba etc, gone again,not afraid and toy soldiers. why do people put him down alot man, like he went through hell and back quite a bit,and his new CD Recovery is one of the best i have heard.
people understand him | Reviewer: Anonymous | 2/28/11
Eminem sure is one of the best rappers and people are giving him shit because his new album isn't apparently the same as the old ones. He just got off drug addiction and if you listen to his lyrics in his songs in the album he talks about himself on drugs while making them and his last two albums are in his trash. In recovery he's off drugs and trying to help other people who feel like they are in a dark place with his music, if you buy recovery it will say so in it to. So all you giving shit to him keep the opinions to yourself and I bet if he makes a new album it will be less depressing and more like his old albums
Behave | Reviewer: Jack | 2/28/11
Em is still cold, 'We made you' and 'Not afraid' his only newer songs to be any good? Nah, if people actually listened to Relapse you'd realise it is one coollld album. Tracks such as '3AM, 'Stay wide awake' and 'Underground' not to forget 'My darling'. Fair enough Recovery wasn't all that but there are a few goodens that show Em at his best, lyrically he's just as creative. He's just grown up, guys knockin 40. Obviously his older stuff is unbeatable, doesn't mean his new stuff is rubbish though. 'The sauce' probably one of his best, his send out for Benzino was ill. Marshall Mathers > God.
Eminem is up there with other legendary figures in Hip Hop | Reviewer: Richmond | 2/25/11
I feel that Eminem is one of the greatest rappers, His new album is nothing compared to his earlier albums. When he first started off he had his own style in his music that no other rapper brought with them and that's what makes him a great artist. His verse was very inspirational and he put his mind and thoughts into his verses and you can really feel what he is talking about. The Eminem from the late 90's and early 2000's seems to be gone and replaced with a new rapper that follows the same path that all rappers now seem to follow. Eminem should not follow fame but he should rap the way he used to when he put his heart and thoughts into his music. I guess the fame of Hollywood has taken a toll of him. Just listen to Eminem's song "Say Goodbye to Hollywood" read his lyrics closely and you will understand why he raps the way he does now. "In that song he states that if he could go back he never would have rapped, and he sold his soul to the devil and he can never get it back"(actual verse) He also stated that "all he wanted was to give his daughter the life he never had". I'm only fourteen and I'm surprised some people with more intelligence then I have could have did not grasp something like this earlier.
Stick to the past, Eminem... | Reviewer: WFB | 2/23/11
I think that people have forgotton the real and better eminem. His older albums suchas 'The Eminem Show' and 'The Marshall Mathers lp' are eminem at his best. He raps about whats true to him and didn't follow the popstar theme of just 'love'. He took a contreversial route and for that i respect him. However, in his lastest album 'Recovery', he has become something he fought before. My favourites of Marshalls songs consist of songs suchas 'Stan' ; 'Without Me' ; 'White America' ; ''Till I Collapse' and my absolute favourite 'Lose Yourself'. His only new song I like is 'We Made You' and 'Not Afraid'. Stick to the past and Marshall is a great rapper who stands true for his beliefs.
eminem is always the best | Reviewer: golnaz | 1/10/11
you people are wrong how can he rap just lik his past when his emotions his thought and feelings are alot diffrent from that time i say he is the best cause he sings about thing that he realy feels in that certain time he raps about his owne feelings and it doesnt matter if u like his emotion or not.
Eminem, please... | Reviewer: Guest | 12/8/10
Marshall was the best MC because his songs had meaning and his flow came straight from the soul. Now he's an over-produced and glamorized popstar.
The day he loses his roots is the day his songs will no longer have any meaning.
His old songs like Till I Collapse and Mockingbird meant something. Now his songs are filled with gratuitous swearing and popstar choruses from rubbish singers like Rihanna.
I'd never wish addiction upon anyone, but Eminem was at his prime in his first few albums when he was under the influence. He needs to go back to that place emotionally, and find his inner rapper ruining self.
Eminem2 | Reviewer: LolT-eezy | 7/29/10
Yeah he sure relates to the shitty lifestyle now days, I bet its pretty shitty driving top of the line cars and having a mansion. He needs to start rapping how he used to, not this shit like the song We Made You... that song really changed my outlook on him from good to 50 cent.
wow | Reviewer: Anonymous | 12/8/09 | Reviewer: AaronnJamess | 7/16/10
You Have No idea what your talking about , how could you say that the only reason why 2 pac's remix was good was because he had eminems back up . 2 pac is one of the best rappers out there , but i do favour eminem these days he's just gotta make more songs like he used to because the way he raps now isnt as good as his old raps with more swearing and more meaning.


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When Carmaig de Forest performed at the Roots Café in December, he looked like a high-school science teacher. A slim man with thinning brown hair and a well-worn face, he wore a dark tie and a white shirt, a shiny dark blazer, and thick amber-frame glasses. And he played the ukulele, the four-string instrument that resembles the result of a science experiment called "The Incredible Shrinking Guitar."
De Forest, though, didn't play the ukulele in the sweet Hawaiian style of all those beach movies; he played it with the choppy rhythm of an Elvis Costello or Johnny Ramone but moved up an octave. He sang "Leavin' It All to You" in the deadpan, nasal snarl of Lou Reed with the same sort of streetwise wordplay:
There's an uptown lover with a downtown dad
There's a parrot, there's a kitchen sink
There's a rock shaped like a bow tie
There's a cherry-lemon-flavored drink
There's an asphalt court, there's a plywood fort
There's a pistol, there's a tube of glue
C'mon, baby, take a walk with me
I'm leavin' it all to you
Spitting out syllables as quickly as the rapid-fire plink-plink-plink of his uke, de Forest seemed to be saying, Here it is, all the detritus of Western civilization. You can have it; I'm out of here.
Well, he's out of California at least. De Forest moved last year from San Francisco to Baltimore to join a local alternative-cabaret scene that boasts such acts as the Diana Froley 3, Anne Watts and Boister, the Tinklers, Radiant Pig, the Pupils, and more. It's a scene that is far more active and vital than anyone outside Maryland realizes, but it may be getting more notice now that it has been joined by de Forest, one of the genre's top figures.
After all, de Forest's 1987 debut album, I Shall Be Released, was produced by Big Star and Box Tops alumnus Alex Chilton and broke into the college-radio top 100. His 1992 single, "George Bush Lies," was released by Bob Mould's Singles Only label. De Forest's 1994 disc, DeathGrooveLoveParty, featured members of the Violent Femmes and the dBs. And his latest album, El Camino Real (St. Francis), was produced by Bob Wiseman of Canada's Blue Rodeo and features Ben Vaughn.
De Forest came here for love ("Diana Froley brought me here," he confesses, explaining that their friendship blossomed into a romance after she recorded one of his songs, "Talk to Jim," for her Lauraville album, after which "either she had to move west or I hadto move east"), but he's enthusiastic about the artistic community that he's joined. He hopes to play here often between his tours and looks forward to collaborating with local musicians.
"I had lived in California all my life and was ready to try something new," he says. "San Francisco is a very expensive place to live, and it skews the substance-to-pretension ratio the wrong way. Plus, I'd always liked Baltimore. I first came here in 1998 to do a show at the 14-Karat Cabaret, and a monologist and a dance act were on the same bill. That eclecticism appealed to me. Plus, it's a cheap place to live."
Alternative cabaret takes the classic cabaret format of midcentury Berlin, Paris, and Manhattan and retains its minimalist instrumentation, its intimate setting, and its roots in art song and vaudeville, while cracking open the polished style to incorporate the irreverent humor, twitchy rhythms, and the surrealism of garage rock.
"I wouldn't call myself a cabaret artist," de Forest says warily. "But cabaret is certainly one arena where my work fits. It's a pleasure for me to work in a small room where people are playing close attention. I love to work in that environment, but I'm just as happy to play at the Vancouver Folk [Music] Festival before thousands of people or at a rock club with all those people pressed right up against the stage.
"But I will say this," he continues. "A common element that Diana, the Tinklers, Radiant Pig, myself, and the others all share is a real understanding that irony and sincerity aren't mutually exclusive. A lot of people in folk music or rock music don't get that, and either they're sickeningly sincere or they're smart asses without substance. In this scene, you can have something to say, and that something can be funny and serious, tender and mean, at the same time. Our music is hard to pin down, so that's why people call us alternative cabaret."
De Forest's roots are in the theater. As a student at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he thought he wanted to be a stage actor and director, but a directing workshop led by Spalding Gray in 1978 changed de Forest's life.
"Spalding was just breaking away at that point from being an actor," de Forest recalls. "He was looking at his own life as a way of finding texts, and he encouraged us to create theatrical material from our own lives. I realized I didn't have a knack for playing a character and what I really wanted to do was to create work based on my own experiences. Once I realized I could be myself onstage, I wanted to perform."
De Forest started out doing performance art and environmental pieces before finding his own niche. "Because I was in love with rock 'n' roll and because the whole punk thing was breaking at the time, it made sense to move in that direction," he says. "Elvis Costello was a big eye-opener for me. Like many young men, I had rock 'n' roll dreams."
There was only one problem. The only instrument he knew how to play was the ukulele. He had bought one for $12 to play in his dorm. With just four strings and a narrow neck, it's an easy instrument to learn, but it's not exactly the stuff of rock 'n' roll dreams.
De Forest gave it a shot anyway and found its simplicity strengthened his songs. "The ukulele is so minimal," he says. "You're just scratching out the barest harmonic accompaniment. It forces me as a writer to make sure that every word counts, that the melody is strong. Because if there's something that would make you cringe, you hear it right away--there's nothing to cover it up."
So it was that de Forest found himself armed only with his tiny uke as the opening act for the Ramones at San Francisco's Kabuki Club in the early '80s. He endured the predictable taunts and abuse of the skeptical crowd but eventually won many of them over by playing his ukulele as hard as the Ramones played their instruments. It went so well that he was invited back the following year when the Ramones returned.
Through it all, de Forest honed a style that suggested what Jonathan Richman might sound like if he ever adopted an adult persona. Or what They Might Be Giants might sound like if they played a ukulele like a punk-rock guitar. Or what Spalding Gray might sound like if backed by the Talking Heads. He recently recorded his fourth full-length album in the Yukon with singer-songwriter-cellist Kim Barlow and producer Bob Hamilton. Baltimore's Serious Records, run by Froley, plans to release it this fall.
"When you're doing underground music, it doesn't always pay the bills," he says. "In San Francisco, New York, and even Los Angeles--where I lived for many years--there's a kind of resentment toward people who are still struggling to get their work heard or seen, and that affects the quality of people's work. It's really easy to become bitter if you see people who are less talented than you get a break. But that's a trap, because you become a real whiner.
"Here I don't notice a lot of that," he says. "I see people happy to be doing their creative work. Baltimore has a good substance-to-pretension ratio."
Carmaig de Forest plays the 14-Karat Cabaret Feb. 15 with Cameron Wolf, Audrey Chen, and Robert Darlington.


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D10 Conveying Systems
All elevator specifications shall be reviewed and approved by Auburn University's Elevator Consultant; however, this in no way alleviates the designer from any responsibility for the design of the elevator system.
Elevator phone service specifications shall be reviewed and approved by the AU Office of Information Technology.
Warranty period to be one year to coincide with General Contractor's warranty.
Elevators to comply with ANSI A17.1 and ADA/ADAG.
Comply with Alabama Department of Labor laws that regulate elevators. Designer shall specify that the Contractor is to pay all fees and to coordinate the inspection of the elevator system with the State Elevator Inspector. City of Auburn is not involved in elevator regulation on the Auburn University Campus.
Elevator certifications shall be witnessed by the University Fire Protection Engineer.
If there is an attic assume that the elevator will service the attic.
Elevator rooms shall be sprinkled and equipped with shut trip devices.
To keep University elevator equipment in peak running environment, all new and renovated elevators shall have air conditioning and humidity controls in the control cabinets or equipment rooms. Shaft ways exposed to exterior environment (i.e. parking garages) shall be provided with humidity control to prevent water condensation on rails and operating mechanisms.
For passenger elevators, the elevator speed shall be no less than 150 FPM. For freight elevators, the speed is to be determined according to project needs.
Provide Automatic Fireman's Recall System; in general, operation shall comply with attached Elevator Recall/Shutdown Matrix for sprinklered and non-sprinklered buildings.
Provide directional indicator lantern lights in hoist way opening jamb at each floor and car position indicator at main entry levels.
Elevator cab lighting to be provide fluorescent T-8 lamps with electronic ballasts or as approved by the University.
Coordinate floor name convention with Auburn University.
Provide all special diagnostic equipment, meters or monitors manuals needed to trouble shoot or repair elevators to the University. Proprietary equipment, computer hardware and software, shall not be used. Provide all user and service codes for all diagnostic equipment with instructions.
Submit a bound Service Manual for the installed elevator system. Manual is to include complete operating and maintenance instructions, catalog of parts and recommended parts inventory, purchasing source listing for major critical components, three complete sets of final wiring diagrams, trouble shooting guides, and emergency information.
Provide key locks for independent service, fire service inspection, emergency stop, and fan. (Four [4] keys for each lock.) All locks shall accommodate Auburn University's standard keying system.
Provide for administrative building key access to elevator equipment rooms. Program requirements will usually apply and restrict access to equipment rooms.
Provide 2 copies of "design certificates" to the University.
All elevator controls shall be of a non-proprietary type.
Elevator control logic for hydraulic elevators to be microprocessor control logic. The Contractor must provide in the service manual a ladder diagram and a relay wiring diagram showing all relays, devices, limits and switches. The wiring diagram is to have wiring labels and terminal numbers noting connections. Elevator controls to be non-proprietary in design.
Elevator control logic for electric traction elevators to be independent or component control logic. All elevator specs to be reviewed by Auburn's elevator consultant.
Hydraulic elevators to be equipped with a PVC cylinder sleeve.
Elevator control room shall not be near classrooms or sound sensitive areas.
Elevator Permits
Permit shall be paid for out of project that installs elevator.
Permits shall be applied for in advance of completion to avoid any unnecessary delays in the permitting process.
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