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If only we could have been so lucky.
In an ideal world, Northside and Southwest would have battled one another ever since the Stallions departed the East Central 2-A Conference for the Coastal Plains 1-A Conference in 2009.
Since then, the Monarchs and Stallions have been the two best teams in our area. Yet the debate of which team was better never was decided on the field because the two teams could not work out the same open date on their schedules for what could have been a game for area bragging rights.
"The thing is, it was a heated rivalry when we started playing them because they got so much better," Southwest coach Phil Padgett said. "It became a daggone heated rivalry. It was almost too much. With that being said, it would have been great to play them. It just didn't work out that way."
The Monarchs and Stallions have not battled each other since Northside won at home 32-0 in an ECC game on Oct. 24, 2008 that featured a pair of undefeated teams. It was the final meeting of ECC rivals before SWO moved to the CPC.
"Of course, we are going to be playing them the next four years and for likely more," said Padgett, whose school will rejoin the
Until then, it was left for fans on many of the high school football message boards to discus who would beat who and by how much. There has been more debate over this subject than perhaps talk about how Bowl Championship Series selects the two teams to play for the national title.
And to be honest, I really don't know who would win between Southwest-Northside over the past four years.
Both teams have been typically strong in the regular season with the Stallions finding more success in the playoffs than the Monarchs. Southwest advanced to the 1-AA final in 2009, played in the East Regional final in 2010 and advanced to the third round in 2011.
Meanwhile, Northside advanced to the second round of the 2-AA playoffs in 2009, lost in the first round of the 2-AA playoffs in '10 and last year played in the second round.
"Back in the day when we were a little good in the 80's and 90's and
But the past is all a moot point.
Rather, I would be interested in seeing how the two teams stacked up against one another in a game and not a preseason scrimmage, particularly this season when the teams each took home conference titles and are a combined 24-1.
The Monarchs and Stallions scrimmaged each other the past two years, but that told us little about how the teams would fare against in a real game because Padgett and Northside coach Bob Eason didn't open up their playbooks until the regular season.
"It was just a scrimmage and the intensity wasn't there," Padgett said.
Now both teams find themselves in the third round of the NCHSAA playoffs with the Monarchs (13-0) playing host to Bunn (10-2) and the Stallions entertaining
And here's a not-so-bold prediction: the team that advances the furthest in the playoffs will be the preseason favorite next year to win the
But until the Monarchs and Stallions finally meet in 2013, let the discussion continue on who rules
Now for the panel
Sports page designer Mike Boaz remains the leader of The Daily News high school football forecasting panel at 87-15 after he went 4-0 last week.
I am now in second place at 82-20 after I also went 4-0. Kinston Free Press managing editor Bryan Hanks (2-2 last week) and JDN sports editor Rick Scoppe (4-0) are next at 81-21, followed by WCTI-12 news anchor Brian North (2-2) at 79-23 and Halifax regional desk chief Richard Clark (3-1) 76-26.
Note: in an effort to allow everyone else a chance of winning, there will be some bonus games to pick from this week.
This week's games
Boaz boasts: SWO by 6
Hanks honks: SWO by 17
Miller mentions: SWO by 8
North notes: SWO by 3
Scoppe says: SWO by 7
Bunn (10-2) at Northside (13-0)
Boaz boasts: Bunn by 3
Hanks honks: NS by 17
Miller mentions: NS by 7
North notes: NS by 1
Scoppe says: NS by 3
Now for the bonus games:
Boaz boasts: Garner by 6
Hanks honks: Garner by 3
Miller mentions: Garner by 3
North notes: Garner by 4
Scoppe says: Garner by 7
E.E. Smith (11-1) at
Boaz boasts: Smith by 5
Hanks honks: Scot by 6
Miller mentions: Scot by 5
North notes: Scot by 4
Scoppe says: Scot by 7
Jack Britt (11-1) at
Boaz boasts: Rich by 6
Hanks honks: Rich by 7
Miller mentions: Rich by 13
North notes: Rich by 4
Scoppe says: Rich by 5
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When it comes to political action on climate change, it's the richest nations in the North that demand developing nations also act, which seems fair at first glance.
But it's the rich nations of the North that reaped the benefits of industrialisation leaving the rest of the world in an economic backwater. And it's the polluting gases from that industrialisation that's driving the climate change now reigning down on the developing nations in the global South.
Now that the developing nations are doing just that – developing – they have become the engine of the global economy. Or put another way, unlike when the North jumped ahead economically, the progress in the South benefits the world as a whole.
It's a cruel irony that now that those developing nations have raised their economic game to claw back some of the gains made by the North, the impact of climate change from industrialisation should be visited upon them most.
The 2013 United Nations Human Development Report released yesterday warns that "environmental inaction, especially regarding climate change, has the potential to halt or even reverse human development progress in the world's poorest countries and communities.
"The number of people in extreme poverty could increase by up to three billion by 2050 unless environmental disasters are averted by coordinated global action.
"The rise of the South and its potential for accelerating progress for future generations should be seen as beneficial for all countries and regions, as living standards improve and the world as a whole becomes ever more deeply interdependent," the report adds.
So the global South got a raw deal from industrialisation and now it's happening again from industrialisation's monster child, climate change.
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Talking about global warming...the Rainbow Warrior is on a Reef-mission and will challenge coal-industry.
The Rainbow Warrior has been fi...
Talking about global warming...the Rainbow Warrior is on a Reef-mission and will challenge coal-industry.
The Rainbow Warrior has been fighting Deepwater-drilling before coming to Melbourne...Bunny called this 'climbing vertical swamps in the subbies'...
... I would simply call this a lie!
The Rainbow Warrior will sneek out of Melbourne Sunday evening...probably the Greenpeace-specialists were not even aware who had announced coming to Melbourne.
Sun Wu, godfather of RW III
PS: but Joel is not the captain anymore, and will never be it again!
Correct Frits, we are talking about serious stuff here :)
PPS: has anybody had the chance to explain Tim what is a coward? Use RW sneeking out of Melbourne...shit, I thought for a moment you would do it... cowards!
PPPS: coal-industry better starts to worry! They going to be challenged by Greenpeace, like Oil-industry in NZ :) What a lying...
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climate change, coal being challenged by Greenpeace Australia...
Sounds like Greenpeace Australia was bankrupt having gotten a loan of 2 Million dollars by Greenpeace International.
Question: where is Greenpeace International getting big amounts of its money from?
And to what an extend this financial dependency is the origin of something newspapers already referred to as rassism within Greenpeace International in the past?
WhoTF did not only finance the Rainbow Warrior III but was obviously financing the Reef-Mission aswell?
I think it was not the Greeks.
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Time to rein in the industrial wolves, eh Susan Cavanagh? Or some of us might say that it is past time.
An engineering caveat goes som...
Time to rein in the industrial wolves, eh Susan Cavanagh? Or some of us might say that it is past time.
An engineering caveat goes something like - Nature abhors a vacuum - so to replace "the world as a playground" "the developed nations" might try cooperating with the rest. They know how to cooperate, so with any problem we might examine it to learn why.
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I became a Rawfrutarian for one day.
Important notice: only 6 more days to accept DOCTOR Naidoo's challenge...
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I became a Rawfrutarian for one day.
Important notice: only 6 more days to accept DOCTOR Naidoo's challenge...
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PS: time to focus on Western Word, eh Susana Cavanagh? Or as some of us might say it is past time.
WTF is this supposed to be down under? The Greenpeace-sustainable tourism trip 2013 level 5? Maybe GP-crew could do some diving since they happen to visit Great Barrier Reef after having done some hikking in NZ...
Could you pleeeaaaase tell me what 'climbing vertical swamps in the subbies' means?
PPS: I do love tropical fruits...isn't globalized world wonderful? I can eat mangos, litchies and papayas all day long and save the climate...
PPPS: in an attempt to establish a nature-reserve and therefor to save the climate Greenpeace-ships have visited Costa Rica three times.
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Thanks Jean. Students are our future so we're very happy to hear that anything we have done has in some small way helped them start thinking through the big issues that face them. Say hi from us here at Greenpeace.
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The Effects of Financial Statement and Informational Complexity on Analysts' Cash Flow Forecasts
2008, Accounting Review
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We characterize the operating-activities section of the indirect-approach statement of cash flows as backwards because it presents reconciling adjustments in a way that is opposite from the intuitively appealing, future-oriented, Conceptual Framework definitions of assets, liabilities and the accruals process. We propose that the reversed-accruals orientation required in the currently mandated indirect-approach statement of cash flows is unnecessarily complex, causing information-processing problems that result in increased cash-flow forecast error and dispersion. We also predict that the mixed pattern (i.e., +/–, –/+) of operating cash flows and operating accruals reported by most companies impedes investors' ability to learn the time-series properties of cash flows and accruals. We conduct a carefully controlled experiment and find that (1) cash-flow forecasts have lower forecast error and dispersion when the indirect-approach statement of cash flows starts with operating cash flows and adds changes in accruals to arrive at net income and (2) cash-flow forecasts have lower forecast error and dispersion when the cash flows and accruals are of the same sign (i.e., +/+,–/–); with the sign-based difference attenuated in the forward-oriented statement of cash flows. We also conduct a quasi-experiment to test our mixed-sign versus same-sign hypotheses using archival samples of publicly available I/B/E/S and Value Line cash-flow forecasts. We find that the passively observed samples of cash-flow forecasts exhibit a similar pattern of mixed-sign versus same-sign forecast error as documented in our experiment.
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GAFFNEY, S.C. - The No. 34-ranked Limestone College mens tennis team defeated Pfeiffer University 7-2 in Conference Carolinas action on Wednesday afternoon at the Emmie Evans Rector Tennis Center. The Saints improve to 6-7 overall and 2-2 in the league as the Falcons even their overall record to 6-6 (1-4 league).
Limestone won two of the three doubles matches. The Saints Miguel Lopez Zuniga (Guanajuato, Mexico) and Henrik Nordquist (Danderyd, Stockholm, Sweden) picked up an easy 8-2 win at the No. 2 flight as Paulo Avila (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Mike Stephenson (Bristol, England) also won 8-2 at the No. 3 match.
Lopez Zuniga picked up a 6-3, 7-5 victory at the top singles contest against Philip Lawson. Christian Warnholtz (Queretaro, Mexico) lost the first set 0-6 at the No. 3 match to Sid Kaushik, but battled back to win the next two sets 6-3, 6-2. Avila and Nordquist picked up 6-2, 6-2 victories at the No. 4 and No. 5 flights, respectively. Jordan Vicain (Allen, Texas) won at the No. 6 match by the score of 6-3, 6-2, against Michael Worthington.
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Lady Falcons Recieve Berth into NCAA National Tournament! Enter as #6 Seed Facing #3 Anderson in Opening Round Friday!
March 11, 2013
INDIANAPOLIS, I.N. - The storybook season for the 2012-2013 Pfeiffer University women's basketball team will continue in the NCAA National Tournament as the Lady Falcons will be the #6 seed in the eight-team Southeast Regional tournament to be hosted by Clayton State as the nation's overall #1 seed. The tournament's opening round will be Friday, March 15th with the region semifinals and finals scheduled for March 16th and 18th. All game times are now listed below.
The Lady Falcons beat Anderson in the 2012-2013 season-opener on the road in double overtime 85-77. The Southeast Region seeds are first round matchups are below.
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Angela Davis shelves books Tuesday afternoon at the Sno-Isle library on Camano Island. Davis has worked at the pilot library opeating on the island for the past six years.
Mark Mulligan / The Herald Scott Vierra, 3, looks through the movies at the Sno-Isle library on Camano Island Tuesday afternoon. The library has operated on the island as a pilot project for the past six years. In August voters will decide if they want to keep the library permanently. Photo taken 20130723
Mark Mulligan / The Herald Angela Davis shelves books at the Sno-Isle library on Camano Island Tuesday afternoon. Davis has worked at the pilot library opeating on the island for the past six years. In August voters will decide if they want to keep the library permanently. Photo taken 20130723
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Nichole Vierra helps her brother, Scott, 3, choose a dvd on Tuesday afternoon at the Sno-Isle library on Camano Island. The library has operated as a pilot project for the past six years. In August voters will decide if they want to keep the library permanently.
If they read 10 books or 1,000 pages, Rigtrup's kids are eligible for the library's summer reading program prize of a new bicycle.
"We absolutely love our library. For us, it's about teaching our kids to make habits for lifelong learning," said Rigtrup, 33. "All my friends who are moms use the library. It's such a great resource. We attend most of the summer programs for children and we're all voting for a new library."
Camano Island's pilot library, a project of Sno-Isle Libraries, has been serving people on the island since 2007 in a 1,800-square-foot store front at Terry's Corner.
On the Aug. 6 ballot are two measures that would ensure that the Rigtrup kids continue to have a local library.
The first proposition asks Camano voters if a special taxing district, called a library capital facility area, should be formed on Camano Island. The measure requires a simple majority to pass. The second proposition asks voters if a $2.3 million bond should be issued to establish a permanent library on the island. The bond measure requires that 60 percent of those voting must approve it for the proposition to pass. Both measures have to pass if people want a permanent library. If neither measure passes, the board of Sno-Isle Libraries would decide how best to serve Camano Island library patrons and whether the temporary library would continue.
If approved, taxes to support construction would be levied for a 10-year period, costing about 9 cents per $1,000 of assessed property value or about $22.50 a year for the owner of a $250,000 home. Property tax collection for the library project would begin in 2014, the same time as construction.
A new 5,000-square-foot library would be located at the site of the former Islander Restaurant at Terry's Corner and open in early 2015. With more space than the current storefront, the library would provide room for additional popular books, movies, CDs, a larger area to drop off and pick up reserved library materials and media titles, an area for children's activities, comfortable and quiet seating areas and additional computers for public use, Sno-Isle Libraries spokesman Ken Harvey said.
Camano Islander Shirley Murray works as a job coach for Washington Vocational and often meets her clients at the library, where she can direct them to job searches on the library's computers. Many of her clients don't have an Internet connection at home.
"The library is important for our community. The number of people in and out in a day is amazing, as is the level of academic learning that goes on here," Murray said. "The library is critical to our future. A few more cents on your property tax to support the public good, well, it's a minimal contribution. I would hate to see this go down because our community has lost sight of caring for our neighbors."
Harvey said he knows of no organized opposition to the library propositions.
A survey commissioned by Sno-Isle showed that two-thirds of Camano's population of 15,600 people use the library and that most of those people want a bigger, permanent library. With the economy turning around, it seemed like a good time to ask the voters to fund it, Harvey said.
"We want people to freely connect to all the world has to offer," he said.
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FAYETTEVILLE — Lejeune just wasn't itself Saturday at Crown Arena.
Blame nerves. It was, after all, the Devilpups first trip to the NCHSAA 1-A East Regional girls' basketball final ever.
Blame an off day, which every team has but Lejeune has managed to avoid all season en route to an undefeated run until now.
Or blame a scrappy and talented bunch from River Mill Academy, which also wanted to make the trip to the state championship game.
Whatever the case, the top-seeded Devilpups turned in what coach Kevin Popadines agreed was without a doubt their worst performance in an otherwise memorable season in losing 55-38 to the second-seeded Jaguars.
River Mill (28-3) advances to next Saturday's championship game at noon at Reynolds Coliseum against Bishop McGuinness (24-7), which has won seven straight titles. Lejeune finishes the season 26-1.
"I feel like we left one out there, never got into a rhythm, never got things going," Popadines said. "Gave up way too many second-chance points, way too many easy fast break ones; this one is going to hurt looking back at it, seeing any kind of film on it, because we left one out there. Not taking anything away from them, but I feel like if we played our game, we should have walked away with one today."
Popadines was alone at the postgame news conference, saying his girls were too distraught to talk with reporters. But, he said, they shared his disappointment and hurt.
"They're down," he said. "They were a little intimidated by the team. They knew they had some talented players. But at the same time we should have been able to play with them. We just didn't have the energy today. I don't know what it was. It just wasn't there."
Chatori Major, as usual, led the Devilpups with 20 points, but it was an off day for the talented senior. Major, who also had 11 rebounds, hit just 8 of 25 shots, including a 2-for-13 first half that saw the Devilpups down 27-16.
Also, sophomore point guard Nikia Wallace struggled. Wallace, who was averaging 10.6 points, went 0-for-8 with six turnovers.
Major, who averaged 32.2 points in her first four playoff games, wasn't 100 percent, Popadines said, saying an illness that has run through his team the last couple months left her "spent" at times Saturday. But he refused to use that as an excuse for the loss, which also saw the Devilpups commit 21 turnovers.
River Mill, which had just 9 turnovers, converted Lejeune's miscues into 21 points while the Devilpups managed just one 3-pointer by Major with 1:32 remaining in the game off the Jaguars' turnovers.
The Jaguars also had a telling 22-11 advantage off the offensive glass.
"They got them not by jumping over us," Popadines said. "We got out worked."
Another telling stat: Lejeune was 1 of 10 from the foul line to 11 of 21 for the Jaguars, who were led in scoring by Kayla Burns with 17 points.
"It was just an uncharacteristic game for us," Popadines said.
Lejeune led only once at 5-4 with 4:47 left in the first quarter on a follow shot by LaLa Lee, who had 8 points and 11 rebounds. But the Jaguars scored nine straight points, all coming off four straight turnovers by Lejeune, to go up 13-5.
Down 15-6 at the end of the first quarter, the Devilpups scored seven straight to pull within 15-12 on a bucket by Azaia Wallace with 4:25 left in the half. But Lenaira Ruffin, who had 12 points and 11 rebounds for the Jaguars, hit a baseline jumper and, after a miss by Major, Burns made a 16-footer on River Mill's third shot of the possession to make it 19-12 with 3:25 left.
Up 11 at half, River Mill pushed the lead to 30-16 on a 3-pointer by point guard Marla Crawford, who had seven assists and only one turnover. But just as it looked like Lejeune was down and out, Major scored three straight buckets, including a 3-pointer, to cut the lead to 30-23 with 5:34 left in the third quarter.
"It looked like the run was going to be made," Popadines said. "The worst thing was when they got a basket we didn't bounce right back and put up that front that we're going to get tougher the next time back. We let it snowball."
Ruffin answered with a layup after a turnover as River Mill held off the Devilpups for a 35-27 lead going into the final quarter, which saw the Jaguars score the first eight points as part of a 16-4 run for a 51-31 lead with 3:50 left.
Afterward as he was trying to figure out what happened, Popadines was asked if there were times he looked out on the court and wondered, Where's my team?
"Absolutely, and we've had moments like that this year, but never for those long of stretches," he replied. "So I thought we'd snap out, I thought we'd snap out and it just didn't happen. I don't know where it was. They looked focused on the bus ride over. We had a great last few practices. So I felt like we were going to come out and really take care of what we needed to.
"It hurts that much more knowing that if we really came out and played our best game, I think we would have had a different outcome. We just didn't come out and play today. It's a shame it had to happen that way."
Lejeune 6 10 11 11 — 38
River Mill 15 12 8 20 — 55
Major 20, Lee 8, Tatum 6, A. Wallace 4. Totals— 17-48 1-10 38
Burns 17, Faucette 13, Lena. Ruffin 12, Crawford 4, Tate 3, Brincefield 3, Le. Ruffin 3. Totals— 20-67 11-21 55
3-Point Goals— L 3-8 (Major 3-7, N. Wallace 0-1). RM 4-20 (Tate 1-1, Burns 1-4, Crawford 1-5, Brincefield 1-5, Faucette 0-2, Lena. Ruffin 0-3). Rebounds— L 43 (Lee 11, Major 11, Tatum 9). RM 47 (Lena. Ruffin 11, Faucette 8, Burns 6, Le. Ruffin 6). RECORDS— L 26-1, season complete. RM 28-3, vs. Bishop McGuinness on Saturday at noonat Reynolds Coliseum in the 1-A state championship game.


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Faced with a 423-page report from the Government Accountability Office detailing potential duplication, fragmentation and overlap in nearly every corner of government, lawmakers blamed themselves for reducing oversight of federal programs on one hand, and creating new, redundant programs on the other.
Lawmakers have slashed the number of oversight hearings over the past 20 years, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. In addition, budget cuts have weakened GAO, Congress's investigative arm, to the point where staffing is expected to drop to 1930s levels by the end of the fiscal year.
"We, as members of Congress, don't know what's going on," Coburn said. "In our desire to please and to meet compassionately a need, we try to act. But we act without knowledge because we haven't done the oversight."
New areas of possible waste
The 2012 GAO report lists 51 new areas of potential waste on top of 81 areas published in last year's report. The Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs offer overlapping — and confusing — health care programs for veterans. The Departments of Agriculture and Housing and Urban Development oversee competing housing programs. Meanwhile, agencies are paying the Homeland Security Department for building risk assessments that DHS' Federal Protective Service isn't doing, leaving the agencies to move ahead with their own assessments.
And 83 percent of agencies' various Science, Technology, Engineering and Math, or STEM, education programs overlap. Moreover, most of the programs have never conducted thorough self-evaluations to find out whether they are successful.
"One thing that surprises me out of this whole exercise that we've been doing for the past two years is how much we do not know about the effectiveness of many of these programs," said GAO Comptroller General Gene Dodaro. "We really don't have a lot of good information about what we're getting for the value of many of these programs and activities."
What's more, he said, sometimes there isn't a clearly documented need for a new program.
"There's a perception that providing money fixes problems," Dodaro said. "In some cases, part of our recommendations is to really tie funding to outcomes."
While he stopped short of blaming lawmakers outright for the disconnect, Coburn accused Congress of lacking the leadership to consolidate programs.
"The responsibility lies on us because we, in fact, have created the mess," by passing laws establishing new programs, he said.
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The Obama administration couldn't agree more.
Congress has addressed just 39 percent of the recommendations GAO made in its 2011 report, Office of Management and Budget Controller Danny Werfel said in a memo posted on the White House's website.
The executive branch has taken steps to address three-quarters of the issues directed to agencies, Werfel said, adding that the administration's "Campaign to Cut Waste" was making government more efficient overall by reducing improper payments, consolidating data centers and selling off excess real estate.
The new report "is not comprehensive," Werfel said. GAO finished its analysis before Obama released his fiscal 2013 budget proposal.
"In 21 areas highlighted by the GAO report — more than one-quarter of the total — significant reforms were proposed in the 2013 budget that were not taken into account by GAO," he said.
The report did not consider President Obama's recent request for Congress to reinstate his authority to consolidate agencies, beginning with six business-focused departments, either.
Werfel urged Congress to pass both pieces of legislation.
GAO found that four agencies offer 53 overlapping programs for entrepreneurs. Yet Dodaro refused to weigh in on what he said was a "policy decision."
Overall, however, he said "innovative approaches are required."
"I don't think we're organized properly to be able to tackle these problems, within the administration or within Congress," he said.
Committee chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said he would not support Obama's request for consolidation authority and called it "dead on arrival." He pledged to "call for a thorough reorganization of government" led by a group similar to the Hoover Commission of the 1950s.
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We've all had this conversation. A friend wants to bring home a new pet, and despite your best efforts, she's set on buying from a pet store. How can you convince to her adopt, not shop? Here are four things we hear a lot, and how you can respond.
If I don't buy that puppy in the pet store, who will?
Pet stores usually sell their puppies quickly, and the store will slash the price on slow sellers until they're bought. If people stop giving their business to pet stores that sell puppies by not purchasing puppies or anything else from them, ultimately, the puppy mills that they support will shut down from lack of demand. Hurray!
I want a purebred/a puppy, and they don't end up in shelters.
Some people want a Golden Retriever no matter what. Tell your pal that a one-of-a-kind mutt from a shelter is just as healthy and lovable, but that 25% of animals who enter shelters are purebreds, and that most breeds have a breed rescue—a group that re-homes dogs of a specific breed. Oh, and show them some videos of ASPCA puppies.
Shelter pets aren't likely to be healthy.
Explain to your pal the many physical and mental ailments puppy mill dogs—most of those in pet stores—can develop. Remind your pal that any animal can become sick or injured, regardless of where he came from, but that at a shelter you know up front if your new pet has any chronic health issues. Let your friend know that pet store dogs are actually somewhat more likely than shelter dogs to need vet care for an illness.
My friend has a shelter dog, and he's hyper/destructive/scared/shy.
Here's where those of you with shelter pets can point to them and say, "Uh, what about Mr. Fluffy here? He's a model dog and he came from a shelter." Then point out that just like dogs from anywhere else, some shelter dogs have behavior issues to work on. Adopting from a shelter allows you to know exactly what you're getting and whether you're prepared to handle any issues that may arise.
Good luck! If you have other suggestions, share 'em with us. And if you've persuaded someone to adopt, not shop, tell us about it.
About twelve years ago, we were thinking about purchasing a puppy as our family pet. Back then everyone told us to adopt one from a breeder, since you never knew where pet shop pups came from, and if their poor living conditions had had a negative effect on their behaviour.
So we adopted an eight-week-old Shi Tzu and named him Jack. Even though Jack has never spent a minute of his life in a puppy mill, he still has behavioral problems, the main one being his unpredictable nature. One minute he's sitting on your lap, the next he's growling at you. We also have to be very careful when handling him since if you so much as accidently pull one of his hairs, he'll snarl and bare his fangs at you. Obviously, we can't let him anywhere near children, even though I have plenty of toddler-aged cousins, nephews and nieces.
The point I'm trying to make is that just because you buy your puppy from a licenced breeder, that does not mean they'll turn out to be the perfect pet. When you decide you're going to get yourself a dog, you have to be absolutely sure you'll take care of it, despite the endless amount of issues that can arise. If you have doubts, you should not be caring for any dog at all.
I'd love to give a shelter dog a new, safe, loving home someday, but I'm blind and I own a guide dog. Adopting any other dog would be a bad idea because a new dog would likely distract Ulan from his work. He doesn't really like playing with other dogs and gets very nervous around them, hugging into me and burying his face in my lap.
I like comment from guide dog owner. Please consider a shelter pet.
Just because some of us don't adopt doesn't mean we buy from puppy mills. Reputable show breeders aware the only reason we have your favorite breeds.
I just adopted a shelter dog this week. She is 6 yrs old and a mixed breed. The "mix" is of love and smarts! After weeks of reading pet descriptions on Petfinder, I was shocked to see how many wonderful dogs are sitting in shelters hoping for a home of their own. Many shelters have volunteers with training skills who work with the dogs to resolve behavior issues and make the pets more "adoptable". Puppies usually go first, but older dogs have just as much love to give and make devoted pets. My experience with mixed breeds has been 100% wonderful and I truly admire the work shelters do to rescue dogs from danger and despair and help them find a good home. Don't dismiss shelter dogs when you are ready to find a new pet. They will love you forever for giving them a family of their owm!
I was walking the mall and ran across a puppy that I had an instant connection with. The store wants $1999.00 for this puppy. I don't want to aid in the shop store, but I can't stop thinking about this puppy. The sellers are kind and let me send time with the puppy on a weekly basis. I have really connected to this puppy and can't stop thinking about it. I have been in the room with the puppy and my heart breaks. Help me please to keep my oath.
I just want to add that I am 48 years old and have never bought a dog from these shop stores! I have always gone to shelters for adoption. I know what is stated about these shop stores is true. Why can't I stop thinking about this puppy. I have really fallen for it.
I just want to add that I am 48 years old and have never bought a dog from these shop stores! I have always gone to shelters for adoption. I know what is stated about these shop stores is true. Why can't I stop thinking about this puppy. I have really fallen for it.
Hi everyone, We have 2 rescue dogs and recently also adopted 2 kittens from our local shelter. I wrote an article about why adoption is the best option: http://lasesana.wordpress.com/2012/09/04/thinking-of-a-new-pet-why-pet-adoption-should-be-your-first-option/
Where do you think most these shelter/homeless dogs come from...from people that purchase them as puppies when their cute & cuddly. Taking them home can't deal with the responsibilities of potty training, etc...and they dump them. You can get mutt & purebreeds in shelters. Always remember it's the bad owners of animals....not bad animals.!!!
I got my 2 yr old bully mix from a shelter and she is well mannered, house trained, healthyand good w my children. It breaks my heart knowing she cld have been euthanized had I not chosen to adopt


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In 2010, the House was originally scheduled to be [[Dates of 2010 state legislative sessions| in session]] from January 5th to April 3rd. However, the session was extended to May 3rd. Additionally, a special session was held that convened on April 22nd and adjourned on April 23rd.<ref>[http://www.ncsl.org/?tabid=18630 2010 session dates for Mississippi Legislature]</ref>
In 2010, the House was originally scheduled to be [[Dates of 2010 state legislative sessions| in session]] from January 5th to April 3rd. However, the session was extended to May 3rd. Additionally, a special session was held that convened on April 22nd and adjourned on April 23rd.<ref>[http://www.ncsl.org/?tabid=18630 2010 session dates for Mississippi Legislature]</ref>
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|Mississippi House of Representatives
|General Information
|Lower house
|Term limits:
|2015 session start:
|January 8, 2013
|Official House Page
|House Speaker:
|Philip Gunn, (R)
|Majority Leader:
|Minority Leader:
|Tyrone Ellis (D)
| Democratic Party (55)
Republican Party (67)
|Length of term:
|4 years
|Art IV, Mississippi Constitution
|$10,000/year + per diem
|Last Election:
|November 6, 2007 (122 seats)
|Next election:
|November 3, 2015 (122 seats)
|Legislature first draws, Commission acts as back-Up.
- 1 Sessions
- 2 Elections
- 3 Partisan composition
- 4 Redistricting
- 5 Representatives
- 6 Standing committees
- 7 History
- 8 External links
- 9 References
As of May 2015, Mississippi is one of 23 Republican state government trifectas.
Article IV of the Mississippi Constitution establishes when the Mississippi State Legislature, of which the House of Representatives is a part, is to meet. Section 36 of Article IV states that the legislature is to convene in regular session on the Tuesday following the first Monday in January of each year. Section 36 limits the length of regular sessions to ninety calendar days, except for once every four years when the regular session can last up to one hundred twenty-five calendar days. The most recent one hundred twenty-five day session was in 2008, and the next session of this kind was in 2012.
Section 36 also allows the Legislature to extend its sessions for thirty days by a two-thirds vote of both legislative houses. There is no limit on the number of times a session can be extended in this way. In 2010, the Legislature extended its session once, moving the date of adjournment from April 3rd to May 3rd.
Article V of the Mississippi Constitution gives the Governor of Mississippi the power to call the Legislature into extraordinary session. Section 121 of Article V enumerates this power.
- See also: Dates of 2013 state legislative sessions
In 2013, the Legislature will be in session from January 8 through April 7.
Major issues
Alongside creating a budget, legislators will address education issues, namely charter schools, and medicaid expansion.[4]
- See also: Dates of 2012 state legislative sessions
In 2012, the Legislature was in session from January 3 through May 3.[5]
In 2011, the House was in session from January 4 through April 7. [6]
In 2010, the House was originally scheduled to be in session from January 5th to April 3rd. However, the session was extended to May 3rd. Additionally, a special session was held that convened on April 22nd and adjourned on April 23rd.[7]
The Sunlight Foundation released an "Open Legislative Data Report Card" in March 2013. Mississippi was given a grade of B in the report. The report card evaluated how adequate, complete and accessible legislative data was to the general public. A total of 10 states received an A: Arkansas, Connecticut, Georgia, Kansas, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia and Washington.[8]
Elections for the office of Mississippi's state house representatives were held in Mississippi on November 8, 2011.
As of the 2000 Census, Mississippi's 122 state representatives each represent an average population of 23,317 people. In 2007, the candidate running for state house raised a total of $6,201,617 in campaign contributions.
|Number of candidates
|Total contributions
The top 10 donors were:[9]
|2007 Donors, Mississippi House of Representatives
|Mississippi House Democratic Leadership
|Mississippi Republican Party
|Mississippi Association of Realtors
|Mississippi Medical Association
|Reeves, John
|Lawyers Involved for Mississippi Betterment
|Mississippi Bankers Association
|Mississippi Hospital Association
|Improve Mississippi
| How Vacancies are filled in State Legislatures
If there is a vacancy in the House, a special election is required to fill the vacant seat. The Governor must call for an election no later than 30 days after the vacancy happened. After the Governor sets the election date, the counties conducting the election must give no less than 45 days notice before the election. All qualifying deadlines are 30 days before the election[10].
No special election is held if the vacancy happens after June 1st in an election year[11].
Partisan composition
- See also: Partisan composition of state houses
|As of May 2015
|Democratic Party
|Republican Party
The chart below shows the partisan composition of the Mississippi State House of Representatives from 1992-2013.
- See also: Redistricting in Mississippi
The five-member Standing Joint Reapportionment Committee handles redistricting, with no veto power afforded to the Governor. Should it fail to finalize a plan on time, a backup commission -- composed of the Chief Justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court, the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, and the Majority Leaders of both legislative chambers -- would take over the process. Mississippi is required to have its maps pre-cleared by the Justice Department under the Voting Rights Act.
2010 census
Mississippi received its local census data on February 3, 2011. The state's population grew 4.3 percent, with several of its well-known cities (Jackson, Gulfport, Biloxi) losing as much as 13 percent. Most of the state's population loss was in the north-central region and along the western edge.
Republicans controlled the Legislature and governorship at the time of redistricting. Because Mississippi holds legislative elections in odd-numbered years, the legislature was given a tight deadline -- June 1, 2011 -- for redistricting in time for the 2011 elections while allowing 60 days of review by the DOJ. The deadline passed without a plan, meaning any new maps would not take effect until 2015. Elections were held with the previous maps, and the House passed a new map in April 2012, with the Senate following in May.[12] The House plan includes five two-incumbent races. As of August 18, 2012, the maps were still with the Department of Justice for pre-clearance.[13]
The Speaker of the House is the presiding officer of the body.[14]
Current leadership
|Current Leadership, Mississippi House of Representatives
|State Speaker of the House
|Philip Gunn
|State House Speaker Pro Tempore
|Greg Snowden
|State House Minority Leader
|Tyrone Ellis
- See also: Comparison of state legislative salaries
As of 2013, members of the Mississippi legislature are paid $10,000/year. Per diem is $109/day tied to the federal rate.[15]
When sworn in
Mississippi legislators assume office the first day of the regular session of the year following election. The Constitution requires the Legislature to convene yearly on the Tuesday after the first Monday in January.
Current members
Standing committees
Mississippi House of Representatives has 46 standing committees:
- Agriculture
- Apportionment and Elections
- Appropriations
- Banking and Financial Services
- Compilation, Revision and Publication
- Congressional Redistricting
- Conservation and Water Resources
- Constitution
- Corrections
- County Affairs
- Education
- Energy
- Enrolled Bills
- Ethics
- Executive Contingent Fund
- Fees and Salaries of Public Officers
- Forestry
- Gaming
- Insurance
- Interstate Cooperation
- Investigative State Offices
- Judiciary A
- Judiciary B
- Judiciary En Banc
- Legislative Budget
- Legislative Reapportionment
- Local and Private Legislation
- Management
- Marine Resources
- Medicaid
- Military Affairs
- Municipalities
- Ports, Harbors and Airports
- Public Health And Human Services
- Public Property
- Public Utilities
- Rules
- State Library
- Tourism
- Transportation
- Universities and Colleges
- Ways and Means
- Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks
- Workforce Development
- Youth and Family Affairs
It also has three select committees:
- Select Committee on Philanthropic Development
- Select Committee on Utility Cost Recovery
- Select Committee on Poverty
Partisan balance 1992-2013
From 1992-2013, the Democratic Party was the majority in the Mississippi State House of Representatives for the first 20 years while the Republicans were the majority for the last two years. The Mississippi State House of Representatives is one of 18 state Houses that was Democratic for more than 80 percent of the years between 1992-2013. The final three years of the study depicted a shift not only in the Mississippi House but in the entire state government to the Republican party with the last two years being Republican trifectas.
Across the country, there were 577 Democratic and 483 Republican State Houses of Representatives from 1992 to 2013.
Over the course of the 22-year study, state governments became increasingly more partisan. At the outset of the study period (1992), 18 of the 49 states with partisan legislatures had single-party trifectas and 31 states had divided governments. In 2013, only 13 states have divided governments, while single-party trifectas held sway in 36 states, the most in the 22 years studied.
The chart below shows the partisan composition of the Office of the Governor of Mississippi, the Mississippi State Senate and the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1992-2013.
External links
- Official website of the Mississippi State Legislature
- Official list of the current members of the Mississippi House of Representatives
- Mississippi House of Representatives on Wikipedia
- ↑ Population in 2010 of the American states
- ↑ Population in 2000 of the American states
- ↑ "Mississippi House of Representatives" 2009 Timetable, March 12, 2009
- ↑ Sun Herald, "Mississippi legislative session sets off at saunter, not trot," January 8, 2013
- ↑ StateScape, Session schedules, accessed April 30, 2012
- ↑ Mississippi State Legislature
- ↑ 2010 session dates for Mississippi Legislature
- ↑ Sunlight Foundation, "Ten Principles for Opening Up Government Information," accessed June 16, 2013
- ↑ Follow the Money: "Mississippi House 2007 Campaign Contributions"
- ↑ Michie "Code of Mississippi"(Referenced Statute 23-15-851 (1))
- ↑ Michie "Code of Mississippi"(Referenced Statute 23-15-851 (2))
- ↑ The Associated Press, "Mississippi House adopts Senate redistricting plan," May 3, 2012. Retrieved August 20, 2012.
- ↑ Clarion Ledger, "Dems complain to Justice Dept., August 18, 2012. Retrieved August 20, 2012.
- ↑ Mississippi House Membership
- ↑ NCSL.org, "2012 State Legislator Compensation and Per Diem Table," accessed March 18, 2013
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I don't know what the exact executable file extension is. Is it
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I don't know what the exact executable file extension is. Is it
There is no standard File-Extention like an ".exe" file in Windows.
On Linux nearly any file can be executable. The file ending just describes (but not necessarily) what or how a file is "executed".
For example a shell script ends with .sh and is "executed" via the bash shell.
In your question you ask for .deb and .tar.gz Well, the .deb file installs software on your system (Please be careful!) And the .tar.gz file is a compressed file like a .zip that you could know from Windows.
I would summarize the system in the following way:
Any file that starts with
Therefore, answer your original question, there is no extension, or rarely, it is
This has been made Community Wiki, so anyone can add an entry.
The concept of an executable is different in unix/linux than Windows.
Anything that ends in
Each and every file has an executable bit, so any file can be executed, unlike Windows. To see if a file is executable, you can check its properties (Permissions tab), or even see them marked in the terminal (they are all marked with a *).
Even text files (like shell scripts) can have their executable bits set, and be run as one.
To find out what a UNIX operating system thinks a particular file's type is, you use the file command:
In the above example, I give the path to the program 'ls', you would replace with the path of your file.
A script file would look like:
A random text file:
An archive file:
It is even smart enough to correctly identify a windows program, should you happen to have one lying around on your UNIX box:
And when it can't figure out what a file is (but is able to open it), it calls it data:
File execution on Linux isn't related at all to the file name or extension. Any file can potentially be executed, provided that it's handled by the kernel's
The most common format for executable is ELF, although some kernels can be compiled for support of the old
Another common mechanism is the "Shebang" system, handled by
If you fancy doing a bit of kernel programming, you can even write your own.
Although not directly related, the
The naming convention has nothing to do with the executable status of a file (except when it's used for
The other aspect that can happen when you want to "run" a file is to have the file explorer tool that you use register extensions to be able to launch a program that will open these files. This is what would happen if you double click on a
In windows, an .exe file is a computer file that ends with the extension ".exe" commonly known as executable file. When one clicks on an exe file, a built-in routine automatically executes code that can set several functions into motion. Exe files are commonly used to install files in the windows operating system.
Additionally, you have .tar files,commonly known as compressed files.Linux versions, such as Ubuntu use features prominently in various software distributions, with most software source code made available in the tar.gz format .From that you can assume that tar.gz is a form of the well know .tar format, which is used for archiving.
In Ubuntu on the other hand, the .deb file format is the one that behaves more like the .exe file in windows.When you open it the software center handles it's code and installs the program it contains, such as an executable file.
Even though you can still install software and packages from source format ( tar.gz), the best suited format for installing software is the .deb one.Take as example the Ubuntu Software Center; all the applications it contains are in fact .deb files.In general, in linux, almost every file format(including .deb and tar.gz as well as the well know bash files .sh) can behave as an executable file so that you can install packages or software with that.
EXE and DLL files are portable executable files. These are based on the PE/COFF unix files.
Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Executable for more information.
In Ubuntu you don't have a specific extension for an executable file. These are generally files that are named after the application they relate too.
The important factor is that these files have the executable bit set. If you have a color terminal you will notice that these are a different color when listed using
In the unix file system binary executable files are generally stored in there own location.
whereas other application resources may be stored in /usr/lib/ or /usr/share/
A deb file is more correctly corresponded to an msi file in windows (i.e a package installer).
Generally tar.gz files or bz2 files contain source code from which an application can be built
Ubuntu equallant of .exe / .com file is extensionless file, usually some extensions like .bin ,.run etc are added to it for covinience
there are several alternatives for .bat file(almost all files),the most popular one is .sh
.deb is just an archive binary files(similar to .msi in windows) with debian standerds
.tar.gz is just a common archiving format used in ubuntu
Any filename can be set to executable regardless of extension, but the file needs to have the appropriate permission set. The permission may be given by right-clicking the file in Nautilus, clicking Properties, and ticking the "Allow executing file as program" checkbox:
A lot of proprietary drivers or programs use .run extension, which is still not exactly same as .exe but more like bash script


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It's your call, according to area biologists.
Most hummingbirds have already headed south for the winter. But a few Anna's hummingbirds stay here year-round, said Patricia Thompson, a biologist from the Mill Creek office of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife.
And the number is growing.
She said annual bird counts showed 179 hummingbirds on the western side of the state in 2001 and 1,137 last year. Experts say Anna's hummingbirds typically were based in California, but have become residents in Oregon, Washington and southwestern British Columbia as more people there have provided plants that offer year-round food. More feeders haven't hurt, either.
Because there is enough natural food, feeders really aren't essential for the hummingbirds that live here year-round, according to experts from the wildlife department or from the Seattle chapter of the Audubon Society.
They also note that it's unlikely that feeders will prevent hummingbirds that typically migrate for the winter from leaving the area.
Audubon experts suggest you keep watch on your feeders and discontinue them about two weeks after you see the last hummingbird. But if birds are still using them, they may be helpful, especially in colder weather.
"If you have been feeding the hummingbirds, and they have become accustomed to finding food in your yard, we would encourage you to continue this responsibility," the Seattle Audubon notes on its website, www.seattleaudubon.org/sas/.
Chris Anderson, another biologist from the wildlife department, noted that he believes "wild birds are not pets that need to be taken care of." But he added that people who do feed birds shouldn't be haphazard about it.
"If you do want to maintain feeders, be responsible and committed to it," he said. "Keep those feeders clean, filled and heated with lights if necessary."
Stringing Christmas lights around a feeder will usually keep them usable in cold weather. In addition to lights, you can also keep a couple feeders going and rotate them inside and out in freezing weather, according to the Audubon Society.
Audubon experts also recommend using duct tape to place hand warmers on a feeder if needed or setting up heat tape used by plumbers to keep pipes from freezing.
The society also suggests you provide water for birds when everything's frozen.
Hummingbird nectar
If you choose to feed hummingbirds, you can make the nectar using 1 part white sugar and 4 parts hot water. Boil for a minute or two, then let cool. It will keep in the refrigerator for up to two weeks.
During cold weather, clean the feeder once a week with a solution of 1 part vinegar and 4 parts water. Rinse three times with warm water before refilling.
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Integration and Functional Testing with Maven 2.0
"The Failsafe Plugin is designed to run integration tests while the Surefire Plugins is designed to run unit tests." - http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-failsafe-plugin/
See below for the Failsafe section.
However, some people are using Surefire for integration testing - not least because Failsafe only came along some time after Surefire ...
Put your Integration tests in a separate module
Better Builds With Maven describes a single example module containing only integration tests. In the case of a multi-module "reactor" project, where each module may need some integration testing, you have some choices available to you.
Create Multiple Integration Test POMs
You can, if you wish, create multiple integration test modules, one for each source module in your project. For example, if you've got two child projects "foo" and "bar", you could create a "foo-integration-test" module and a "bar-integration-test" module to test "foo" and "bar" respectively.
The advantage of doing it this way is that it's very clear which integration tests belong to which project. It's also easy for project owners to know which integration tests they're responsible for. The big drawback here is that you've just doubled the number of POM files in your reactor, which can be difficult to manage. Each project will need to be separately referenced in the root POM.
Put all Integration Tests into One Big Module
This is obviously much simpler to wire up in a POM file; simplicity is a virtue in project management.
The disadvantage of doing it this way is that it tends to separate the integration tests from the code they're attempting to test. As a result, you may find that no one "owns" the integration tests; typically you'll have some one person whose job it is to analyze the integration tests and find bugs. QA is hard, but it's even harder when it's unclear who "owns" test failures.
Alternatives to Isolating the Integration Tests
If for some reason you can't put the integration tests in a separate module, here are some ideas.
Integration Tests Only
If you have only integration tests in the same module as your webapp, you can configure Surefire to skip the test phase, then run in the integration-test phase. See this page.
Both Unit and Integration Tests in the Same Module
If you need to run both unit and integration tests in the same module, it's possible, just not very pretty.
There is only one testSourceDirectory per module, so all of your test classes must reside in one directory structure, usually src/test/java.
In the 'test' phase, configure Surefire to exclude the tests in (for example)
Bind another execution of maven-surefire-plugin to the integration-test phase, and reverse the exclusion pattern.
You can see an example of this in the Shale Usecases example app pom.xml file.
Using the Maven Failsafe Plugin to run Integration Tests
The Maven Failsafe Plugin is a fork of the Maven Surefire Plugin designed to help when running integration tests.
If you use this approach, you keep all your tests for a module in the testSourceDirectory, e.g. src/test/java. By default the Failsafe Maven Plugin looks for integration tests matching the patterns */IT.java, **/IT.java and */*ITCase.java. You will notice that these bindings do not overlap with the default surefire bindings. To use the Maven Failsafe Plugin you need to add the following to your pom.xml file.
<project> [...] <build> <plugins> <plugin> <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.6</version> <executions> <execution> <goals> <goal>integration-test</goal> <goal>verify</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> </plugins> </build> [...] </project>
You will then have the following lifecycle bindings
Plugin execution goal
The advantage to using the Maven Failsafe Plugin is that it will not stop the build during the integration-test phase if there are test failures. The recommendation is that you do not directly invoke the pre-integration-test, integration-test or post-integration-test phases but that instead you run integration tests by specifying the verify phase, e.g.
mvn verify
This allows you to set-up your integration test environment during the pre-integration-test phase, run your integration tests during the integration-test phase, cleanly tear-down your integration test environment during the post-integration-test phase before finally checking the integration test results and failing the build if necessary. Here is an example using jetty for hosting an integration test environment:
<project> [...] <build> <plugins> <plugin> <artifactId>maven-failsafe-plugin</artifactId> <version>2.6</version> <executions> <execution> <goals> <goal>integration-test</goal> <goal>verify</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> <plugin> <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId> <artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId> <version>6.1.16</version> <configuration> <scanIntervalSeconds>10</scanIntervalSeconds> <stopPort>8005</stopPort> <stopKey>STOP</stopKey> <contextPath>/</contextPath> </configuration> <executions> <execution> <id>start-jetty</id> <phase>pre-integration-test</phase> <goals> <goal>run</goal> </goals> <configuration> <scanIntervalSeconds>0</scanIntervalSeconds> <daemon>true</daemon> </configuration> </execution> <execution> <id>stop-jetty</id> <phase>post-integration-test</phase> <goals> <goal>stop</goal> </goals> </execution> </executions> </plugin> </plugins> </build> </project>
The Future
Rumor has it that a future version of Maven will support something like src/it/java in the integration-test phase, in addition to src/test/java in the test phase.
External Links
- How do I get my Maven Integration tests to run?
- How to use Maven Surefire plug-in with different groups for test and integration-test?
- Integration testing with maven 2.0
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How to you do reporting (such as coverage with cobertura) on core modules using a separate integration test module? Afaik there is no way on instrumenting the core module's classes when they're referenced as an already-packaged jar file.
An alternative to this which is slightly cleaner is to use profiles. Profiles and inheritance are a little buggy so some workarounds were required; however, it can be done as follows:
1. Create a property to point to your standard test area.
2. Create a profile with a named id such as integration-test. The profile acts to overwrite the source directory - and can also pull in other resources that are integration specific
3. In your build stanza, refer to the source directory using the variable
<testSourceDirectory>$Unknown macro: {srcdir}
4.To execute in "integration mode", add a -Pintegration-test to your maven call.
If you place this in your top-level pom it will automatically filter through to the children. One aspect of this configuration is that your non-integration tests aren't executed.
When the unit tests and the integration tests are in the same source directory but not in the same package, there are 3 solutions.
Solution 1: The solution you explain in shale-usecases
Solution 2: A solution suggested by John Fergusson in John Ferguson Smart's Blog
Solution 3: A solution suggested by Rod Coffin in Wiki: Maven Integration Testing
Personally I prefer the solution 3 because it doesn't use a profile (used in solution 1) and it doesn't skip any configuration (strategy used in solution 2).
What's your opinion?
A. The structure of the project
The unit tests are under ch.example.utest.simple, the integration tests are under itest.ch.example.utest.simple
B. The corresponding POM concerning the solution 1
C. The corresponding POM concerning the solution 2
D. The corresponding POM concerning the solution 3
Another alternative is to configure the maven-surefire-plugin exclude using a system property.
The POM:
then test as:
build as:
and run integration test as:
This example assumes that your integration test class names end with IntegrationTest but you could use a directory name convention instead.
I followed the solution 2 given by Jean Claude.
It worked well for almost all my tests, but I encountered a odd problem with test classes having inner classes in it.
I got an exception like :
Actually, the configuration :
Overrides the default behavior of Surefire, that is : ignoring inner classes (Foo$1.class)
To fix this, you should had another exclude line:
Maven has really good support for JUnit categories now. You can use them to easily split tests without a naming convention.
The basic steps are below. A full working example can be found at the following link.
Its especially good for legacy suites where the tests have not been split at all, but you can also use seperate directories if you wish.
Define a Marker Interface
Mark Your Test Classes
Configure Maven Unit Tests
mvn clean test will run all your tests which are not marked as an integration tests.
Configure Maven Integration Tests
mvn clean install will run all of your unit tests and seperately the integration tests in the integration-test phase.
when exceptions occur in the pre-integration-test phase no cleanup is being done (post-integration-test is not executed when pre-integration-test fails).
Typically in the pre-integration-test phase servers are started or applications are deployed that can be error-prone and might leave the system in a dirty state.
I'm using the failsafe plugin to ensure that proper cleanup is done when integration tests fail, however, in case where the preperations of these integration tests fail (ex: port in use, app deployment failure) I would like to ensure that the system is properly cleaned up.
How would you suggest doing the cleanup in that particular case ? Could this be an enhancement of the failsafe plugin or is there another way to handle this scenario ?


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