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One of the things that has contributed greatly to my growth as a genealogist has been reading professional genealogical journals. The tendency when you begin genealogy is to think that if the article isn't specifically on your family or your location, that it isn't relevant. Oh contraire! What dawned on me after many years was that you read the journals to learn about new resources and new methodology–it doesn't matter really what the subject matter itself is. You read to get a better sense of the professional genealogist's though process. When I finally got that through my thick skull, I was off and running and learning in leaps and bounds.
For those of us researching enslaved ancestors, we know this is some of the most difficult research the field will ever see, for a multitude of reasons. I have a collection of slavery-related journal articles I've gathered through the years that have helped me over some pretty big stumbling blocks. I'd like to share the list with you and encourage you to order copies and add them to your own collection of research "tools". I walk through several of these articles as case studies in my genealogy class.
I tend to favor National Genealogical Society (NGS) Quarterly, but it's not the only game in town. There are also publications like The American Genealogist, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register and state journals like The Virginia Genealogist. Find one (or a few that you like) and preferably can subscribe to. I also subscribe to historical journals, like the Maryland Historical Magazine, since that is one of my research states. Let me point out that these are scholarly journals, not for the faint of heart but for those who are looking to take their skills to the next level.
There are a couple of different ways you can get copies of these articles. If you are a member of NGS, you can download PDF files of NGS Quarterly from their website from 2002-present. Your regional National Archives or State Archives are likely to own a collection and you could copy them if so. You could also download the PERSI form from the Allen County Library and order the copies from them to be delivered to your home for a copying fee.
I consider these articles to be a part of my arsenal, and the brilliance of the authors continually amaze me. I hope you read a few–if you do, let me know which one(s) were your favorite and why.
African-American/Slave/Slavery-Related NGS Articles
- Curtis Brasfield, "To My Daughter and the Heirs of her Body: Slave Passages as Illustrated by the Latham-Smithwick Family," NGS Quarterly 81 (December 1993): 270-282.
- Rudena Kramer Mallory, "An African-American Odyssey through Multiple Surnames: Mortons, Tapps, and Englishes of Kansas and Missouri," NGS Quarterly 85 (March 1997)25-38.
- Curtis Brasfield, "Tracing Slave Ancestors: Batchelor, Bradley, Branch and Wright of Desha County, Arkansas," NGS Quarterly 92 (March 2004): 6-30.
- Ruth Randall, "An Interracial Suit for Inheritance: Clues to Probable Paternity for a Georgia Freedmen, Henry Clay Heard Sherman," NGS Quarterly 89 (June 2001): 85-97.
- Ruth Randall, "Family Lore and Effects of Slavery on the Black Psyche: Rosa Grammar's Choice," NGS Quarterly 97 (June 2009): 85-96
- Gary B. Mills, "Can Researchers 'Prove' the 'Unproveable'? A Selective Bibliography of Efforts to Genealogically Document Children of Master-Slave Relationships," NGS Quarterly 89 (September 2001): 234-237.
- Douglas Shipley, "Teaming Oral History with Documentary Research: The Enslaved Austins of Missouri's Little Dixie," NGS Quarterly 90 (June 2002): 111-135.
- Del E. Jupiter, "Matilda Madrid: One Woman's Tale of Bondage and Freedom," NGS Quarterly 91 (March 2003): 41-59
- Christopher A. Nordmann, "Jumping Over the Broomstick: Resources for Documenting Slave Marriages," NGS Quarterly 91 (September 2003): 196-216.
- Gary B. Mills, "Tracing Free People of Color in the Antebellum South: Methods, Sources and Perspectives," NGS Quarterly 78 (December 1990): 262-278
- Del E. Jupiter, "From Augustina to Ester: Analyzing a Slave Household for Child-Parent Relationships," NGS Quarterly 85 (December 1997): 245-275.
- Elizabeth Shown Mills, "Which Marie Louise is 'Mariotte'? Sorting Slaves with Common Names," NGS Quarterly 94 (September 2006): 183-204.
- C. Bernard Ruffin III, "In Search of the Unappreciated Past: The Ruffin-Cornick Family of Virginia," NGS Quarterly 81 (June 1993): 126-138.
- Katherine E. Flynn, "Jane Johnson, Found! But Is She 'Hannah Crafts'? The Search for the Author of The Bondwoman's Narrative," NGS Quarterly 90 (September 2002): 165-190.
- Donna R. Mills, "Racheal 'Fanny' Devereaux/Martin of Alabama and Florida, A Free Woman of Color," The American Genealogist 70 (January 1995): 37-41.
- Ruth Randall, "A Family for Suzanne," NGS Quarterly 95 (December 2007): 281-302
- Cameron Allen, "Lucinda Depp and Her Descendants: A Freed Black Family of Virginia and Ohio," The Genealogist 17 (Spring 2003): 3-36.
- Johni Cerny, "From Maria to Bill Cosby: A Case Study in Tracing Black Slave Ancestry," NGS Quarterly 75 (March 1987): 5-14.
- Rachel Mills Lennon, "Mother, Thy Name is Mystery! Finding the Slave Who Bore Philomene Daurat," NGS Quarterly 88 (September 2000): 201-224.
- Elizabeth Shown Mills, "Documenting a Slave's Birth, Parentage and Origins: Marie Therese Coincoin, 1742-1816: A Test of Oral History", NGS Quarterly 96 (December 2008); 245-266.
- Daniela Moneta, "Virginia Pughs and North Carolina Wests: A Genetic Link from Slavery in Kentucky," NGS Quarterly 97 (September 2009): 179-194.
My favorites are the articles by Ruth Randall, Curtis Brasfield and any of the Mills clan. This list is by no means all-inclusive, and if you know about some I haven't included but should, please do submit them via comments.
We should all be working towards the goal of possibly publishing our own research in one of these esteemed journals. That's one of my personal goals.
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1-What does not move is dead.What has speed,and mobilty has more possibilities,more life...quickness creates luck.
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If in doubt, post in the Nest since that generally gets more eyeballs.
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Stick to your forum page. Leave the nest alone, that way anyone who wants to listen or read your opinions can go there directly.
Post in the nest. Forums are at their best when there are differing opinions flying around. As for long analysis and articles, I agree that you should keep them in your separate forum.
I think Kibner hit the nail on the head so to speak. Admittedly I would rather you post in the nest because I view it much more and would like to see your take, but I suppose I can kick myself in the rear and click one or two more times, haha. I can also understand why the more in depth stuff would go in the GerryV section.
As long as you're posting were good!
Is there a "get lost" option?
I would rather have you post in the nest. Its good stuff.
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Post in the nest. I like reading your stuff and anyone who doesn't like it has no reason to read it.
I would prefer the Nest. I always check the Nest first when I go to this site, and a lot of people only check that. More people will end up reading it if it's in the Nest, including myself. It's always good stuff, I would like to read more.
Seems that Gamebreaker is still dealing with the fact that he was potty trained at gun point...don't read my stuff if not interested..i won't be offended.
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This season Munster recruited former Baby Boks captain CJ Stander (20), Leinster added highly-rated second-row Quinn Roux (20) and Connacht signed centre Danie Poolman (21), who scored a try on his starting debut last weekend. Contacts in the Irish media suggest more raids are planned in the Irish summer.
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Meyer has always spoken highly of Richardt Strauss, cousin of Springbok hooker Adriaan, and indeed lamented his decision to leave in 2009. He said he understood Strauss's decision and would never criticise a player for wanting to play at the very highest level.
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Lakewood's Randy Anaya (left) and Archbishop Murphy's Tyler Sproul vie for the ball during Wednesday's game at Lakewood High School. Lakewood won 2-1 in a shootout.
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Archbishop Murphy's Brady Henderson (center) heads the ball between Lakewood's Luke McKeenan (left) and George Eustice in front of the Cougars' goal during the first half of their game Wednesday night. Lakewood won 2-1 in a shootout.
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Lakewood's Jacob Lizzarraga (left) fights Archbishop Murphy's Joshua Bartley for possession during their game Wednesday at Lakewood High School. Lakewood won 2-1 in a shootout.
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Archbishop Murphy's Jalen Crisler drives downfield past Lakewood's Randy Anaya during their game Wednesday at Lakewood High School. Lakewood won 2-1 in a shootout.
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Archbishop Murphy's Joshua Bartley receives an elbow to the stomach from Lakewood's Jacob Mack during the second half of their game Wednesday night at Lakewood High School. Lakewood won 2-1 in a shootout.
But rather than get down on himself, he decided to make up for it. The Lakewood goalkeeper blocked one kick and watched three teammates make their shots as the Cougars prevailed 3-2 in the shootout to win the Cascade Conference match 2-1 at Lakewood High School.
"In practice, I'm always hitting the side net, just bragging about it kind of," Roe said with a smile. "Then I come up in the game like that -- and we have kind of a rough field, but no excuses on missing my PK -- but my teammates came up big for me. That's all I can ask for. I've got to thank them.
"I'm trained to save, not shoot."
It was the Wildcats' first loss of the season and the Cougars' first victory over Archbishop Murphy in four years. The last time Lakewood defeated the Wildcats was four years ago at home.
In a shootout.
"We don't like them. We'll just take them," Lakewood head coach Bryce Barker said of the Cougars' shootouts with Archbishop Murphy.
Lakewood's Evan Thorpe tied the score 1-1 Wednesday with a goal in the 71st minute. The two teams then battled back and forth through the rest of regulation and two five-minute overtime periods with neither being able to score. After Roe's miss in the shootout, Thorpe, Randy Anaya and Ricky Rosales made their attempts to clinch the victory for Lakewood.
The win was especially sweet for Roe, who went to Archbishop Murphy his freshman year, but then moved to Lakewood (6-2 league, 6-2-2 overall), where he's played the past three years. He knows a few players on Murphy's current team and said there was a little friendly smack talking before the game.
"It feels pretty good. I've been losing to them my high school career. Every time," Roe said. "It feels pretty good to come back and take down (one of the top teams) in the state. It means a lot in front of the home fans."
Barker is thrilled to have Roe at Lakewood and said the senior goalkeeper put a lot of work in during the offseason to improve. Roe also has played center defensive back and midfield for the Cougars this season.
"He's been a big leader for us," Barker said. "He's a big leading factor in a lot of our low-scoring games and our shutouts. If you look back at the stats last year, I think we gave up the third-most goals in the league. ... At that Cedarcrest game (on Monday), we came in with 341 minutes without giving up a goal, and that's a far departure from where we were at last year."
Wildcats' senior Jalen Crisler, who along with Gabe Astone accounted for Archbishop Murphy's shootout goals, gave Archbishop Murphy (7-1, 8-1-1) a 1-0 lead in the 48th minute. He shot a free kick just outside the penalty box past Roe. The Wildcats controlled possession in the first half, outshooting Lakewood 10-0, and in the first part of the second half before the Cougars were able to rally late.
"We were shortening the game, taking it minute by minute, play by play," Barker said. "We wanted to try to slow down their attack and get as much possession as we could in the first half. Murphy's full of extremely talented players and trying to get any possession back from them is incredibly difficult. It wasn't the prettiest first half in the world, but we got that 0-0 score line going in (to halftime)."
The early Archbishop Murphy goal in the second half put a bit more pressure on Lakewood, but Barker was confident in his team's ability to respond late.
They didn't disappoint him.
"Our team's been pretty resilient. We've gone real late with a lot of the teams with tight scores," Barker said. "It's kind of been the trend of our games -- defending, defending like our lives depend on it till we get to that final bit of the game and then see if we get an opportunity."
It was the first league loss for Wildcats' head coach Mike Bartley, who is in his second year coaching Archbishop Murphy.
"It feels great. We've been looking forward to a game like this," Barker said. "We haven't gotten a chance to compete with them real hard for at least three years now. We knew them coming here would be a great opportunity for us to put our best foot forward and kind of make that next step. Protect the home field. This was a big one circled."
Roe, who saved almost 20 shot attempts, celebrated with the Lakewood fans who ran onto the field after the game. After all the diving and celebrating, he was understandably exhausted.
"I'm pretty tired," Roe said. "... But in my high school soccer moments this is up there. This is definitely the biggest win in my high school career."
At Lakewood H.S.
Goals–Jalen Crisler (Archbishop Murphy), Evan Thorpe (Lakewood). Goalkeepers–Archbishop Murphy: Jeff Scavotto. Lakewood: Sam Roe. Records–Archbishop Murphy 7-1 league, 8-1-1 overall. Lakewood 6-2, 6-2-2.
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Results vs. Catawba College (2007-04-17 17:00:00)
April 17, 2007
|Softball Takes One of Three at Catawba
|Tuesday, 17 April 2007
|SALISBURY, NC -- Pfeiffer earned a win in completion of a halted game, but Catawba took both ends of the scheduled doubleheader in softball action on Tuesday afternoon at Whitley Field. The Falcons won 6-1 and Catawba took the final two decisions 6-1 and 2-0. The wins improve Catawba to 41-17, while Pfeiffer is now 25-25.
In the conclusion of the halted game, neither team produced a baserunner, picking up the game with Pfeiffer leading 6-1 in the top of the sixth.
The Falcons had scored three unearned runs in the first inning with Jessica Culler delivering a key two-run single. Cassidy, who scored on of those runs, also scored in the third and fifth innings. Culler, Cassidy and Martina Bullard each had two hits for Pfeiffer. Chelsea Morton had the win on the mound, tossing all seven innings and allowing just eight hits with no walks and four strikeouts.
Game One
In the scheduled doubleheader, Catawba broke open a scoreless game in the fourth inning of the first game. Jacqueline White led off with a double and Kathryn Geouge reached on a one-out error. Ryann Baker followed with a two-run single to give the Lady Indians the early lead.
Geouge singled home a run in the fifth then Pfeiffer got on the board in the sixth, scoring an unearned run on Jaimee Cassidy's sacrifice fly. Catawba would add three insurance runs in the its sixth.
Catawba collected 11 hits in the win, two each by Whitesides, Geouge and Baker. Lindsay Ettinger improved to 22-8 with the win on the mound. Pfeiffer had 10 hits, but hit into doubleplays to end each of the first three innings. Stephanie Bethea and Tiffany Allen each had two hits for the Falcons.
Game Two
The Lady Indians had just six hits in game two, but four came in the two-run second inning. Hampton delivered a RBI single for the first run and Geouge drew a two-out walk for the final run.
Rachel Christian (Buckingham, VA) tossed a five-hit shutout for Catawba and improved to 16-8. Pfeiffer had runners and second and third in the fourth with one out, but the freshman got a fly out then a comebacker after a two-out walk to end the threat.


text: i agree with dub-ghord and cam separately. what i think is wrong is the bigger picture - limited shoes, raw denim, rare shirts/"big" small companies, etc etc. people are jumping on this because kids who are doing it are getting hyped up and dudes are feeling left out. it's amazing to see all these guys have multiple pairs of raw denim over the course of a few months, when before they were wearing cargos and old navy tees. it's the drastic change that's got me thinking... i'm absolutely not calling anyone out here, i just believe there's a big difference between following a trend and being a poseur.


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****, I watched the wrong game! Wish I could've replaced this one with the Magic game
0 turnovers in back to back games for both Davis & Rivers.
Davis had a ridiculously low turnover rate at Kentucky. The offense didn't flow through him, but he still was one of the few non point guards with an assist to turnover ratio greater than one.
I still think our best lineup this year will be Ryan Anderson & Austin Rivers (when Gordon plays) as the first two guys off the bench, but with significant playing time.
****, I watched the wrong game! Wish I could've replaced this one with the Magic game
I was at the game and the thing that I saw most and found important (preseason or not) is that guys were gelling really well. The chemistry was some of the best I've seen since this team's been here. Ball movement was beautiful and there was a confidence in the players that you could just feel. Anthony Davis was phenomenal. The reality of it all finally set in for me when I was at the arena seeing the AD, AR, EJ, Ryno, banners hanging up everywhere. I'm too excited! I feel like a kid on Christmas Eve.
"Its important to us to bring in good people, people who can fit in the locker room and people you want to root and cheer for. People that want to win. Were trying to build for the long haul. -Dell Demps
New Orleans Hornets have plenty to work on after 97-82 win over Charlotte Bobcats
http://www.nola.com/hornets/index.ss..._river_defaultWith eight preseason games, there's plenty of time for New Orleans Hornets Coach Monty Williams to figure out which pieces will work best in the upcoming NBA chess match of a regular season.
These first few exhibitions, such as Tuesday night's 97-82 win over the Charlotte Bobcats in New Orleans Arena, serve primarily as educational experimentation, an opportunity to gauge which of the many new faces on the Hornets roster this season will be in the regular rotation once the regular season begins on Halloween night at home against the San Antonio Spurs.
""We're going to see what we have these first few games, more focused on competing and execution and then maybe around game five or six, start to move toward a normal rotation," Williams said Tuesday night.
Much as he did in Sunday's 85-80 come-from-behind win over the Orlando Magic in Mexico City, Williams consistently swapped faces against the Bobcats, keeping his young players wondering if their on-court performances were the reason for the frequent substitutions, though rookie Anthony Davis played 30 minutes as the starting power forward and had 22 points and nine rebounds, while fellow Austin Rivers, logged 28 minutes and scored 13 points.
Center Robin Lopez had 18 points and 13 rebounds for the Hornets.
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What does everyone see in MKG? Would have gone T-Rob on that one..
I know by looking at his face that he absolutely hates losing.
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lopez, davis, rivers ryno played lights out, rivers and davis have 0 turnovers in 2 games
Robinson is a good playmaker but not a gamechanger on defense. Probably most similar to being a bit bigger Paul Millsap.
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Didn't watch the game, but by the sound of things we looked pretty good. By the time the players actually learn our system, we're gonna be contenders.
Who looked best, what combinations worked/ didn't work? Any good plays that y'all noticed?
"Every fight is a food fight when you're a cannibal."- Demetri Martin
Everyone looked good. More than a few breakdowns defensively, but that's correctable.
Chief though, like what I see!
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For anyone who was able to see the game...how did Austin do? What plays did he make that were fantastic and what plays could you point out that he needs some work?
I see he had the highest +/- on the team at +26
I also like this little tidbit from Nba.com
"Down 57-46 at halftime, the Hornets surged in front for good by opening the third quarter with a 12-0 run during which Davis and Rivers combining for seven points."
How was davis tonight guys???
Its amazing to see only 9 turnovers.. Remember last year turnovers was our biggest problem!
Miller hitting 3/4 threes so far this pre season tournament and brian roberts with 4 assists aswell.. this is some good stuff!
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Davis has telescopic arms.
I was at the game and everyone looked good. Rivers is fast and looked good, Anderson was hitting everything from behind the arc and one of the 3s he hit the net didn't move at all. Miller looked really good IMO. He looked great on defense and hit a couple of 3 point shots. Lopez was a beast. Vasquez looked good too. The team overall looked good and this was without Gordon and Smith playing. I know its only the preseason but watching this game has really excited about this season.
Really interesting to see them talking about the 'big' line-ups used, with Davis covering the SF defensively..
With four big men in the top-8 of our rotation, it's fairly likely that the big line-up will have to be used at times, particularly against teams like Memphis, Minnesota, Utah and the Lakers.
Could see Rivers playing 30mpg as a combo guard off the bench this season. Nice to read about the Rivers/Monty relationship, and then compare and contrast it with what happened with Dion Waiters and Byron Scott in the Cle/Mil game today.
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My team has recently transitioned from the traditional waterfall method to practicing Scrum. Being the QA lead, really the only tester on a small team, how can I get the process more aligned with agile? Right now, it seems as though we're just running a mini waterfall with development in one iteration, then testing in the next (NOT Agile!). After some discussion with programmers, I've come to find we have no Unit tests set up, so we really haven't even done any sort of TDD. We also have yet to implement any sort of automated testing. I'm lost as to where to even start with getting us on the right track.
In agile (Scrum) practices, where do I start with making Q&A (testing) more efficient if the team is transitioning from waterfall to agile?
What you have described so far is something I'd call 'scrummerfall', but given how it often turns out, could be spelled scrummerFAIL instead. I see several issues that need to be addressed. @Aruna covered several in their answer, which gets high marks from me. To what they have said I would add the following.
1) the team doesn't understand what 'DONE' means if things are not in a 'ready to ship' state (e.g. testing still needed, bugs found that require fixes, etc) at the end of the iteration.
2) There does not seem to be an emphasis on good 'craftsmanship' of the code, as evidenced by the lack of TDD and unit tests. In an iterative development environment you need a pretty robust set of automated tests both at the Unit and Integration/Acceptance level in order to be sure that the stuff that was built and working correctly in earlier iterations is not broken by work done in later iterations. If this testing is not automated, then the amount of regression testing needed at the end of each iteration grows larger and larger until it takes over the entire iteration and no work can be done. As a tester, you need enough time in each iteration to produce automated acceptance tests that can form part of a regression suite for use in following iterations.
3) (in a sense continued from #2) In sort iterations it is crucial to build in quality up front as there is not enough time to try and 'test in quality' during an iteration. I strongly think developers need to be doing some kind of 'test first' practice in order to be successful in the long run. I know of no other practice that can have as much impact in reducing the defect rate. BDD / ATDD (two terms for pretty much the same thing with a few minor differences) would be preferred, TDD otherwise. All of the *DD's are DESIGN/Development practices, designed to help the developer better understand what they are about to code by looking at the required behavior, as expressed by tests, FIRST before they write code. While unit tests are produced, they are NOT testing activities, and despite the name 'test' in the name, unit tests are the developer's responsibility.
4) They have not really integrated test into the team, and are basically still 'throwing stuff over the fence' at the end of an iteration, that means you are basically still working in separate silo's and not all part of one team. You need to be testing a story as soon as the developers think it's working, not after they finish a sprint.
5) If you are doing scrum without anyone on the team having had any kind of scrum related training (or prior experience on a highly performing team) then it's a recipe for failure, have management invest in at least ScrumMaster training for your SM, and I'd strongly recommend Product Owner training for the PO as well.
6) Everyone on the team needs to be clear on how test fits into things, to that end I'd recommend everyone on the team be tasked with reading two very good books that cover this a) Agile Testing by Crispin & Gregory b) Bridging the Communications Gap by Gojko Adzic
7) in terms of community, I'd strongly recommend checking out the Agile Testing section of the Skills Matter website where there's a wealth of good free into in the podcasts section. Also the Agile Testing group in Linked-In is a great place to talk with other agile testers.
If you are interested to find more, I have also written an article on "Making a successful transition to agile testing" at http://technologyandleadership.com/making-a-successful-transition-to-agile-testing/
Use your testing skills to help the team define each story more concretely. This shifts your contribution from one of strictly detecting problems to one where also help to prevent them.
As stories are being prepared for the next planning meeting, work with the product owner and developers to clarify the boundary of each feature. Use your well-developed boundary-probing and ambiguity-detection skills to ask "do you mean" questions, and posit "what if" scenarios. Help the team express their growing understanding with concrete, written examples.
It's great if you can automate these examples as automated acceptance tests. But even if you can't, they help the whole team to understand the feature better, to test their own understanding of the feature, and to mark progress during the iteration as the system satisfies more and more of the examples.
In this software development environment, testing should progress with the development.
The unit test part should be something that the programmers do, since they shouldn't give testers code that doesn't even run.
If your company has a more "cowboy" approach to programming, and just lets the programmer implement something based on a loose concept, you should have meetings with the programmers to find what boundaries they are intending on using.
I wrote an article sometime for the Agile record magazine (Lessons learnt in agile testing) specifically highlighting some pain points and the learnings we had while transitioning to agile. here is the link. hope it helps
http://agilerecord.com/agilerecord_04.pdf (page 73 – 76)
The core testing practice in agile pethods is automated testing, in order to always have a deliverable software, and to write these tests before coding the features. These are practices from XP and TDD.
Of course, if you are interested by testing in an agile context, you should take a look at Test Driven Development, if you haven't yet.


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NFL's Kluwe, gay marriage supporter, to speak at EvCC
The veteran player, who came out in defense of same-sex marriage, will speak at a graduation event.
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Punter Chris Kluwe was signed by the Seattle Seahawks in 2005 but released before the start of the season and picked up by the Minnesota Vikings. He was recently signed by the Oakland Raiders. Kluwe is scheduled to speak at Everett Community College on June 6.
His vociferous, sometimes profane defense of same-sex marriage last year brought him more national attention than his eight years in professional football.
Kluwe is the scheduled guest speaker at an Everett Community College event June 6 to celebrate the first two graduates from its newly established honors program.
Kluwe was invited to the event by Mark Kontulis, director of the college's honors program and a member of the chemistry department faculty.
"We were looking for somebody who was going to be inspirational to our students, who had something to say and someone we thought people would want to hear," Kontulis said.
Kontulis said as he began the search for a guest speaker last fall, he came across a New York Times profile of Kluwe.
It depicted a man of wide interests and abilities: someone who learned to play the violin by ear and plays in a rock band, loves sports, reads up to five books a week and doesn't hesitate to speak his mind.
"I was inspired by how he was defying a stereotype, inspiring a generation, really speaking out for what he believes and speaking out for what is fair," Kontulis said.
Kluwe came to national attention last year after a Maryland legislator fired off a letter to the owner of Baltimore Ravens football team. The letter criticized Brendon Ayanbadejo, a Ravens player, for supporting a state referendum establishing civil marriages for same sex couples.
Kluwe, infuriated, fired back. His online statement includes references to the First Amendment and the right of athletes to speak out on social issues. It also asserts that gay people should be allowed "the freedom to pursue happiness and all that entails."
"I can assure you that gay people getting married will have zero effect on your life," Kluwe wrote. "They won't come into your house and steal your children. ... They won't even overthrow the government in an orgy of hedonistic debauchery because all of a sudden they have the same legal rights as the other 90 percent of our population, rights like Social Security benefits, childcare tax credits, family and medical leave to take care of loved ones, and COBRA health care for spouses and children."
The letter also included some colorfully worded profanity.
Kontulis said that in October he sent word to the Vikings that he was trying to contact Kluwe to invite him to speak at the EvCC event.
Kontulis said he eventually got a call from Kluwe saying, "I'd be honored to come. This sounds like an awesome, fun thing to do."
Kluwe was cut from the Vikings earlier this month and signed with the Oakland Raiders last week.
Kluwe will speak at an event where EvCC's first two graduates from its honors program, Dennice Bryant and Tu "Julian" Le, will make presentations on their final projects. The event is open to the public.
EvCC started the honors program in 2011. Among other requirements, students must complete a five-credit culminating project.
Kluwe was asked to discuss "what it's like to stand up for what you believe in, in a world where that can be hard," Kontulis said.
There weren't any other guidelines for what Kluwe can -- and can't -- say, Kontulis said. "I think he recognizes levels of appropriateness."
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Kluwe to speak June 6: Punter Chris Kluwe, a long-time Minnesota Vikings punter who with the Oakland Raiders, will be the guest speaker at Everett Community College's celebration of its first graduates from the college's honors program. The event is scheduled from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. June 6 at the college's Henry M. Jackson Conference Center, 2000 Tower St. The event is open to the public.
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Sonja O Rego
Contact Information
(812) 855-6356
sorego [at] indiana [dot] edu (E-mail)
Business School
- Associate Professor of Accounting
- Deloitte Foundation Accounting Faculty Fellow
- Bloomington
- Ph.D., Accounting, University of Michigan, 1999
- M.A.E., Economics, University of Michigan, 1999
- M.B.A., Accounting and International Business, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1991
- B.S., Finance, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1989
Professional Experience
- Associate Professor, Indiana University, 2011-present
- Associate Professor, University of Iowa, 2007-2011
- Assistant Professor, University of Iowa, 1999-2007
- Doctoral Student, Research/Teaching Assistant, University of Michigan, 1995-1999
- Staff Tax Accountant, Arthur Andersen LLP, 1993-1995
- Corporate Income Tax Auditor, New York State Department of Tax & Finance, 1991-1993
Awards, Honors & Certifications
- Doctoral Student Association Faculty Distinguished Teaching Award, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University (May 2014)
- Deloitte Foundation Accounting Faculty Fellow, Kelley School of Business (2013-Present)
- Emerald 2013 Citations of Excellence Award for "Tax Reporting Aggressiveness and Its Relation to Aggressive Financial Reporting," with Mary Margaret Frank and Luann Lynch, in The Accounting Review, 2009
- Dean's Faculty Fellow, Kelley School of Business (2011-2013)
- ATA Tax Manuscript Award 2011, for "Tax Reporting Aggressiveness and Its Relation to Aggressive Financial Reporting," with Mary Margaret Frank and Luann Lynch, published in 2009, The Accounting Review 84 (2)
- Gilbert P. Maynard Excellence in Accounting Instruction Award (April 2006)
- Tippie College of Business Student's Choice for Faculty Excellence Award (Spring 2004)
- Tippie College of Business Dean's Teaching Award (Spring 2004)
- Gilbert P. Maynard Excellence in Accounting Instruction Award (April 2002)
- Certified Public Accountant, Illinois (inactive)
Professional Interests
Taxes and Business Strategy; Tax Avoidance; Accounting for Income Taxes; Earnings Management; Agency Theory; Corporate Finance
Selected Publications
Cazier, Richard, Sonja Rego, Xiaoli Tian, and Ryan Wilson (2014), "The Impact of Increased Disclosure Requirements and the Standardization of Accounting Practices on Earnings Management through the Reserve for Income Taxes," Review of Accounting Studies, forthcoming.
Rego, Sonja O., Brad Badertscher, and Sharon Katz (2013), "The Separation of Ownership and Control and Corporate Tax Avoidance," Journal of Accounting and Economics, 56(2-3): 228-250.
Rego, Sonja and Ryan Wilson (2012), "Equity Risk Incentives and Corporate Tax Aggressiveness," Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 50, No. 3, June, pp. 775-810.
Frank, Mary Margaret, Luann Lynch, and Sonja Rego (2009), "Tax Reporting Aggressiveness and Its Relation to Aggressive Financial Reporting," The Accounting Review, Vol. 84, No. 2, pp. 467-496.
Badertscher, Brad, John Phillips, Mort Pincus, and Sonja Rego (2009), "Earnings Management Strategies and the Trade-Off between Tax Benefits and Detection Risk: To Conform or Not to Conform," The Accounting Review, Vol. 84, No. 1, pp. 63-97.
Li, Haidan, Mort Pincus, and Sonja Rego (2008), "Market Reaction to Events Surrounding the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and Earnings Management," Journal of Law and Economics, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 111-134.
Frank, Mary Margaret and Sonja Rego (2006), "Do Managers Use the Valuation Allowance Account to Manage Earnings Around Certain Earnings Targets?," Journal of the American Taxation Association, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 43-65.
Phillips, John, Mort Pincus, Sonja Rego and Huishan Wan (2004), "Decomposing Deferred Tax Assets and Liabilities to Isolate Earnings Management Activity," Journal of the American Taxation Association, Vol. 26 (Supplement), pp. 43-66.
Phillips, John, Mort Pincus, and Sonja Rego (2003), "Earnings Management: New Evidence Based on Deferred Tax Expense," The Accounting Review, Vol. 78, No. 2, pp. 491-521.
Rego, Sonja (2003), "Tax Avoidance Activities of U.S. Multinational Corporations," Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 805-833.


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Fox News reports on the latest Democrat cover-up scandal. (H/T Dad)
The ATF agent who blew the whistle on Operation Fast and Furious has been denied permission to write a book on the botched anti-gun trafficking sting "because it would have a negative impact on morale," according to the very agency responsible for the scandal.
After first trying to stop the operation internally, ATF Agent John Dodson went to Congress and eventually the media following the death of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December 2010. Two guns found at the murder scene were sold through the ATF operation.
Dodson's book, titled "The Unarmed Truth," provides the first inside account of how the federal government permitted and helped sell some 2,000 guns to Mexican drug cartels, despite evidence the guns killed innocent people.
Dodson, who is working with publisher Simon & Schuster, submitted his manuscript to the department for review, per federal rules. However, it was denied.
Greg Serres, an ATF ethics official, told Dodson that any of his supervisors at any level could disapprove outside employment "for any reason."
[…]Dodson says "The Unarmed Truth" will come out in January, with or without the ATF's permission.
I hope this book sells a lot of copies.
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Channing Tatum (left) and Dwayne Johnson star in a "cascade of lunatic events," according to critic Robert Horton, in "G.I. Joe: Retaliation."
Jaimie Trueblood / Paramount Pictures Byung-Hun Lee might be wielding a magical sword n a scene from "G.I. Joe: Retaliation."
It turns out Patton's revolver is the smallest piece of weaponry seen in the film. There are many large guns, vehicles and possibly a magic sword or two (yes, there's ninja action along the way), making for a loud and overbearing experience.
The toy soldiers -- don't you dare call them dolls -- hatched by Hasbro in the 1960s and immortalized in comic books came to the blockbuster screen in 2009's "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra," a movie featuring then-rising star Channing Tatum. Having now risen enough to be above this kind of movie, the leading man of "Magic Mike" and "21 Jump Street" lends his presence here for a while and then hands things off to his co-star.
His co-star is Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. He is not above this kind of movie. The Rock plays Roadblock, who teams with some returning members of the G.I. Joe squad from the first film and a cadre of newcomers (notably Adrianne Palicki and D.J. Cotrona).
Their mission? Actually I'm not sure what the mission is, except at some point they realize that the U.S. president (Jonathan Pryce) is not the man elected to the job but a perfect duplicate.
Pryce, who carries the beaming aura of a man collecting a large payday, gets the movie's best one-liners, and there are a few good ones.
The film's cascade of lunatic events includes an appearance by a mystical trainer (I think that's what he is) played by hip-hop guru RZA, a face-off with the world's nuclear powers during which everybody activates their respective nuke arsenals, and a pretty good fight across mountaintops involving zip-lines and swords.
Also, halfway through, Bruce Willis shows up. Given Willis' history with these things, you'd be surprised if he didn't show up halfway through.
Director John M. Chu, who did a couple of the "Step Up" pictures, has the ability to bring a scene to life, even under circumstances as challenging as this. Some of the military action is passable, although the 3-D makes it tough to track what's happening in the faster-cut scenes.
There's lots of hardware, and it is relentless. On that score, the movie trumps "Battleship," but falls short of the gold standard offered by "Transformers: Dark of the Moon."
"G.I. Joe: Retaliation" has the advantage of sheer craziness, which lends a certain what-will-they-try-next? appeal while you're watching it.
There's a stab at setting up another sequel, and some of the villains remain unaccounted for, but the follow-up will depend on the box-office -- and whether Channing Tatum was actually the draw all along.
"G.I. Joe: Retaliation" 1 and 1/2 stars
Sequel to 2009's "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra," this time adding Dwayne Johnson to the militarized mix. This one gets by with a certain lunatic appeal, although much of the 3-D action is difficult to track, and the whole thing is swamped by weaponry very quickly. Channing Tatum is around for a while, and so is Bruce Willis.
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The exact impact of the new state budget on local schools will not be clear for another week or so, but some of those schools are already open, and teachers are trying to live with it.
Brooke Dillon, 28, is an intervention specialist and a former fifth-grade teacher who goes into third- through fifth-grade classes to help students individually when they are struggling.
She lives in Guilford County, but drives 45 minutes to teach at Eastlawn.
Kim Griffis, 41, is a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) specialist and instructional assistant, also called a teacher assistant.
Griffis is also in her senior year at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University pursuing her teaching degree.
Between them they have 13 years working in public schools.
For them, the issues in the current budget come down to a loss of teacher assistants and the strain it puts on a classroom teacher, job security for those assistants, increase in class size and the feeling their state does not appreciate the job they do.
On top of all that, they say, cuts year over year make North Carolina schools less attractive to good teachers coming out of colleges.
"I know some people who have thought about going into education who are not," Dillon said.
Griffis says she sees a change in her classmates who talk about teaching in other states.
"They're getting educated in North Carolina, but their choice is not to teach here," Griffis said.
The biggest hit locally will be the loss of teacher assistants. The exact number will not be available from the school district until more information comes from the state.
The legislature cut funding for assistants by more than a fifth with the idea they would still be available for kindergarten and first-grade classes. But in local schools, principals will have the option to use their remaining assistants to help where they are needed most.
Most have spread assistants out across different classrooms and grades through the average school day. Eastlawn Elementary, a year-round school open for two weeks now, took this approach.
"No teacher has an assistant all day," Griffis said. "Kindergarten through second grade they need them a lot more because the students are young. And third through fifth grade, they need the instructional assistants to help with instruction."
Griffis says she prefers the term instructional assistant because it reflects the fact that the assistants are teaching. Teacher assistants, she says, take small groups and guide them through difficult lessons and help keep order in a class of 18 or 20 students. They are especially important in classes with student who have special needs or behavioral problems.
"It's not a want, it's a need," Dillon said.
Griffis says the toughest part of being a teacher assistant is uncertainty. When the school year ends most teacher assistants do not know if they will have a job when summer break is over. Griffis knew she would be back at work because of her STEM specialty. But many do not find out until a week before school starts.
Uncertainty is something Dillon and Griffis talk about a lot. They say having their careers subject to political winds leaves them uncertain and disconnected from the larger issues outside of the classroom. Dillon says she did not follow the budget debate closely this spring because it was too stressful. But those issues creep in to her daily life.
"You don't know anything in public education," Dillon said. "All the sudden, you wake up and 'we're cutting this?'"
Aside from the practical problems this uncertainty brings is the feeling the state does not appreciate the work they are doing.
"It's always teaching (that is cut) because they know we'll keep doing it," Dillon said. "I think that's why they do it."
DENNIS RIDDELL, a first-term Republican representative from Alamance County, says this was not the budget anyone wanted, but the legislature was in a tough position with low revenues and high Medicaid costs.
"This is what I call a maintenance budget," Riddell said. "We're trying to maintain where we are."
"I've yet to talk to any special-interest group that likes this budget."
Riddell says there is actually $150 million more spending on education in this budget than there was in last year's.
"By no stretch of the imagination are we making cuts," Riddell said.
There are also no pay increases for teachers, which has been the case in five out of the past six years, and that one raise was 1.2 percent.
"The cost of living is going up, but our pay is not going up," Griffis said.
With the ongoing pay freeze North Carolina is sliding in the ranks of teacher pay among the states to the bottom five. The state's teacher pay is more than $10,000 below the national average, according to the National Education Association. That is how much Dillon gave up when she chose to teach in North Carolina over her home state Maryland.
"I could have made $10,000 more if I stayed in Maryland, and that was 10 years ago," Dillon said.
Griffis and Dillon are both true believers in their work and Eastlawn. They are relentlessly positive about teaching their students well.
It is the teaching students coming up who have not made the commitment yet they say they worry about.
"One day I know I'm not going to be able to teach," Griffis said. "Somebody's going to have to take my place."
Riddell says while the budget took from some places, it gave more to others. There is additional spending, about $18 million, Riddell said, for increased security in elementary schools.
And there is a $10 million program for opportunity scholarships, what most people outside the legislature call private-school vouchers. Riddell supports the measure and does not consider it a privatization of education, as critics call it, but a pilot program.
The scholarships, starting in 2014, would give $4,200 to students who qualify for free-or-reduced lunches to attend private schools, religious or otherwise.
Critics say that would not be enough to send a poor student to a private school, but Riddell says there are private schools, not top prep schools, with $5,000 or $6,000 tuition.
Riddell said he expects the scholarships to benefit perhaps 10,000 students across the state, but very few locally.
"I do not expect a big rush in Alamance County, because we are doing a great job," Riddell said. "There are urban areas where schools are just rotten. And kids deserve better."
"It's like the GI Bill," Riddell said. "It's fundamentally the same thing."
ONE AREA WHERE there seems to be agreement is on the cut to the pay raises teachers get when they get master's degrees, except for positions requiring master's or doctoral degrees.
Everyone seems to hate it.
Every other profession expects professional development, Dillon says. And teachers are spending money and taking on student loans to get their educations.
"You want to pay to continue their educations," Griffis said. "You want to encourage it."
Riddell says much the same thing.
"I think that was short-sighted," Riddell said. "Because the people pursuing a master's are showing the initiative to improve themselves, and that should be rewarded."
Griffis says she plans to go for her master's degree soon after she gets her bachelor's degree at NCA&T.
"People are asking, 'do you want to to do this?'" Griffis said.
Riddell said he, Rep. Stephen Ross, R-Alamance, and some others want to restore the $18.7-million master's supplement in the legislature's short session next year. If successful, Riddell thinks there would be no gap in that benefit since it will not expire until the 2014-15 school year.
Dillon got a master's degree from East Carolina University in elementary education in 2007. She got the pay increase for education, but her first year as a teacher was the first year of the salary freeze.
"I wouldn't do it if it weren't for this school or the kids," Dillon said. "We don't do it for the money."
Another area where there seems to be some agreement is in teacher tenure. The legislature ended teacher tenure in favor of four-year contracts with performance reviews and performance bonuses.
Having worked in another district before coming to Eastlawn, which restarts the tenure track, Dillon says it always seemed pretty far out of reach.
Dillon and Griffis agreed with Crystal Haith, media specialist at Eastlawn, when she said tenure was not the best way for teachers to have job security.
"As a professional, no other job is permanent if you've been doing it five years," Haith said. "If I'm doing my job, I'm not worried about it."
Griffis and Dillon say the bright spot has been the help Eastlawn has gotten from the community. They rattle off a list of local churches that help with school supplies, local companies that send volunteers to spend time with students and help out with fund raising.
Dillon is also a big fan of The Teachers Closet, run by Alamance Citizens for Education, which lets teachers to load up on supplies several times a year for only $25, so a little less comes out of their pockets.
"We couldn't do it without the community," Dillon said.


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ALTAMAHAW — Like riveting theater, an Ace Speedway points racing season that started in early April arrives at tonight's curtain-closing moment with a championship hanging in the balance.
Entering the two 30-lap events that will decide the Limited Late Models title, nothing separates Boo Boo Dalton and Jason Payne, who are tied atop the division standings.
Well, nothing except their responses to the following question.
So how does this chase for the championship end?
"I'm winning," Payne said. "I'm winning this championship. I won't wreck him, but I will win, I promise you. And he'd say the same the thing."
Not this time at least.
Same question to
So how does this chase for the championship end?
"I don't know. It's hard to say, man," he said. "Win or lose, we've come with a fight. But I sure hope we come out winning."
"We felt like the car was just getting worse and worse as it went on," he said. "But things have come back together. We found us a hot spot, and we're hitting it hard."
Meanwhile, Payne avoided a potentially disastrous situation two weeks ago when the engine in his No. 9 Ford expired during pre-race practice.
Thanks to Robert Turner's generosity and quick mechanical conversion work, Payne was able to drive Turner's Late Models car, which had been outfitted with the proper carburetor and tires for Limited Late Models standards.
And now, after a full 16-race season, a championship stage is set for tonight at Ace.
"It's what all the fans wanted to see," Payne said.