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Today, due to advances in the development of medical technologies, there are several new medical tests that have been introduced. You may be advised to do a new test for the very same symptoms for which you had probably been advised other ones last year, only for the sake of more precision. Sometimes, you may find this confusing. This section helps in guiding you on various lab tests and treatment procedures. Click on to find out what these treatments and procedures are, for which diseases they are advised, and what they indicate. Now, get in-depth information about all the possible types of treatments, procedures, and tests.
Our liver secretes a substance known as bile that is essential for the metabolism of fat. This bile contains a brownish yellow pigment known as bilirubin. This test estimates the amount of bilirubin in the blood. Bilirubin is produced during breakdown of red blood cells in the liver. Bilirubin is thrown out of the body through feces. In fact, it is what gives stool its natural brown color. This pigment circulates in the blood in direct as well as in indirect form.
Indirect bilirubin is the unconjugated form, which does not dissolve in water. It travels through the bloodstream to the liver, where it is converted into soluble bilirubin. Direct bilirubin is the conjugated form that is soluble in water. Jaundice, caused due to high bilirubin levels in the blood, is a condition in which the skin and whites of the eyes appear yellow. If there is too much bilirubin in the blood of a newborn baby, it may lead to brain damage, hearing loss, eye muscle disorders, and physical abnormalities.
The bilirubin test is performed to evaluate the functioning of the liver. Raised levels of bilirubin are usually indicative of liver diseases such as hepatitis or cirrhosis. Conditions in which rapid destruction of red blood cells is taking place (as in hemolytic anemia or hemolytic disease of newborns) can lead to an increase in the levels of unconjugated bilirubin. Blockage of the bile duct due to a gallstone or a tumor in the pancreas can also lead to the same. this is medically known as obstructive jaundice. Doing this test can help decide whether neonatal jaundice in an infant needs treatment or not, because if the problem is mild, it usually subsides on its own.
Adults are advised not to eat or drink for at least four hours prior to undergoing the test. Children generally do not require any special preparation before the test. In the case of infants, the blood sample is collected from the heel of the baby. The skin over the heel is cleaned at first with alcohol and then punctured using a sterile lancet. A few drops of blood are collected into a small tube. The area is then bandaged after collecting enough blood. Some pressure is applied over the punctured site to arrest bleeding quickly. The blood sample is collected from a vein in the case of grownups.
The normal values for the bilirubin test may vary from lab to lab, depending upon the equipment used and their calibration.In adults, the total bilirubin level ranges between 0.3 and 1.0 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL). While the level of direct bilirubin ranges between 0.1 and 0.3 mg/dL, that of indirect bilirubin ranges between 0.2 and 0.7 mg/dL. If there is increased production or decreased elimination of bilirubin, high levels of bilirubin are observed in the blood. Inflammation of the gallbladder, or cholecystitis, and certain inherited enzyme deficiencies may decrease the elimination of bilirubin. A prematurely born baby may have an immature liver that cannot eliminate bilirubin properly. So, such a baby has greater chances of developing jaundice as compared to a full term baby.
Following blood collection, a small bruise may develop at the heel of the infant. Babies with bleeding disorders may continue to bleed for longer. Adults could be at risk of developing the complications that are generally associated with any blood test. Caffeine may lower bilirubin levels and thereby alter the accuracy of the test. Avoiding food for a long period of time (fasting) normally increases the level of indirect bilirubin. In rare cases, inflammation of the vein, known as phlebitis, may develop after collection of the blood sample.
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January 24th, 2009 by admin
Category: All Americans, D1, D2, D3 Tags: All Americans, Duke, Gettysburg, LeMoyne
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I thought it would be interesting to take a look at this years 2008 Lacrosse all Americans and see how the numbers correlate to the team's overall success. Not surprisingly the teams with the most all Americans in each division (Duke, LeMoyne, and Gettysburg) all had great seasons. However, none of those teams won the championship. Coincidentally the teams with the 2nd highest number of all Americans in each division won their respective championship - Syracuse, NY Tech, and Salisbury. So sometimes it's good to be #2.
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In the course of its program "History and Research", the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, Paris (Simone Veil, Chairwoman) is organizing public lectures.
In the course of the three following lectures he will discuss:
Philippe Burrin's lectures, in French, will each be held the amphitheater of the Collčge de France (11, place Marcelin-Berthelot, F-75005 Paris) at 6.00 pm.
A former student of Saul Friedländer, Philippe Burrin is Professor of Contemporary History at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales (Geneva University), where he teaches courses on History of International Relations in 19th and 20th centuries, on both World Wars, and on political ideas and movements (mostly dealing with extreme right groups).
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Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT [Osler-Rendu-Weber disease]) is a dominantly inherited disease characterized by multiple telangiectatic lesions or arteriovenous malformations that may rupture and bleed. Symptoms vary according to the location of the lesions, but the skin, nasal mucosa, gastrointestinal tract mucosa, and pulmonary, cerebral, or hepatic circulation are commonly affected.1 The prevalence of HHT in Europe is 14 to 16 persons per 100 000 and may be rising. Epistaxis is both an early and very common manifestation of HHT affecting most patients and is often recurrent, severe, and resistant to treatment.2 We report a simple, safe, and efficacious treatment for recurrent severe epistaxis in HHT.
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Break Up The Pirates!April 5, 2007 – 10:22 am by Ryan Phillips
So we're four days into the new baseball season and several things are clear: the Mets obviously took last year's NLCS loss to the Cardinals pretty hard, Ben Sheets and Felix Hernandez might live up to the hype, and the Pittsburgh Pirates might have a nice little club.
After knocking off the Astros 5-4 last night in Houston, the Pirates finished a three-game road sweep, in which they came from behind to win every game. It was their first three-game sweep in Houston since 1991. Coming off of their 14th straight losing season, this has to make Pittsburgh fans feel pretty darn good about themselves. The thing that kills us, is that the two catalysts for this sudden surge are two former Padres who McD and I miss terribly, Jason Bay and Xavier Nady.
McD's love for Jason Bay was chronicled in our Bloggers' Favorite Baseball Players post, and though we think Brian Giles is a decent dude and an OK player, we miss Jason and want him back. Can we get a "do-over" on that trade? Seriously, it pains us to look at Bay's stats.
Adding to this frustration is Nady's early emergence. After a storied career at Cal, where he broke tons of Pac-10 records, the Padres drafted and groomed Nady, only to have Bruce Bochy not play him when he reached the show – hey Bruce we miss you, no really we do. So Nady was eventually shipped to the Mets for Gold-Glover Mike Cameron, before being sent to Pittsburgh late last year. Now we love Cameron, but Nady is an example of a guy who we touted as the next big thing for years before not giving him a chance and moving him along. So basically he was Jason Bay part 2.
So far this season, Nady is hitting .333 with 2 HRs, 3 RBI, slugging .917 and has scored 4 runs. That includes a home run off of Brad Lidge to tie the game, with two outs in the ninth, on opening night (before Bay hit the game winning home run in the top of the 10th). Nady also had the eventual game-winning RBI in Tuesday's win as well.
As for Bay, all he's done since being traded to the Pirates in late 2003 is win the Rookie of the Year in 2004 and be a two time All-Star, ho-hum. But we're not bitter at all, because the Padres really didn't need his 32 HRs, 44 doubles, 101 RBI and .306 average in 2005, or his 35 HRs, 109 RBI and .286 average last year. No, we like our anemic offense, it has given us character. We feel we're better people because of it. We're not at all like obsessed ex-boyfriends who constantly check in on how they're doing and never get over it. And this year, when we win the N.L. West (screw the Dodgers, don't buy the hype) and get swept out of the playoffs, we'll totally be the bigger men and feel good for Jason and Xavier that they've moved on and are happy.


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CBNNews.com - JERUSALEM, Israel - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that Congress will not approve the $900 million in aid pledged to a Palestinian Authority (PA) unity government unless it agrees to recognize Israel's right to exist, renounce terrorism and accept previous Israeli-Palestinian agreements.
The three benchmarks proposed by the Quartet (United States, United Kingdom, United Nations and Russia) must be in place before substantive negotiations on the establishment of a Palestinian state can move forward.
Clinton reportedly clarified the U.S. position with PA President Mahmoud Abbas and other senior government officials.
The secretary of state's comments came days before a decision by the British parliament to open diplomatic talks with the Lebanese-based Hezbollah terror organization, which joined the Lebanese government in June 2008.
Both Hezbollah and Hamas are supported, funded and armed by Iran and Syria.
Earlier this week, British MP (minister of parliament) George Galloway led a delegation to the Gaza Strip to meet with Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh.
The British delegation donated 100 vehicles and thousands of dollars in aid to Hamas, whom Galloway called "the elected government of Palestine."
Meanwhile, delegations from Hamas and Fatah are conducting 10 days of meetings with Egyptian mediators to resolve their longstanding rivalries and form a unity coalition that would govern until elections in January 2010.
On Sunday, acting PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, whom Hamas considers a quasi puppet of the U.S. and Israel, announced his resignation to pave the way for the formation of a unity government.
Sources: Haaretz, The Jerusalem Post
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I will admit that Le Jean Moulin was my 2nd choice for lunch on this date. I had originally planned to visit L'Ourson Qui Boit because I had heard that the chef uses Japanese influences in his cooking. I'm kind of glad I did not make it to L'Ourson because Le Jean Moulin turned out to be spectacular.
The restaurant is located off the river, not too far from Le Bourse on a corner. It is a 2 floor structure, and tiny, like a jewelry box. When we arrived we were thankful to hear that they had a seat for us.
Small details suddenly jump out at you. The place mats are filled with words on eating and drinking. There's a champagne dispenser with a single Perrier Jouet flute. The door to the kitchen is automatic (kinda loved that). The kitchen, while not open, is still visible from the dining room. The kitchen looked tiny, but completely efficient, and the young team that prepared our dishes seemed completely in synch.
We ordered a half bottle of Lucien Thomas St. Veran Domaine de la Feuillarde 2010. Gorgeous wine. I can't wait to have another bottle.
The restaurant offered two lunch menus; one at 19.50€ (appetizer, entree) one at 24€ (appetizer, entree, dessert). We both opted for the two course and set to ordering.
We both started off with a gorgeous egg on a bed of cream sauce and cheese. I know my cholesterol went up a few hundred decibels, but it was worth it. Rich, delectable…EGGS SHOULD BE SERVED AT EVERY MEAL!
As if I had not done enough damage, I went for veal kidneys for my second course. I have to admit I preferred the kidneys at Le Garage, but the sauce here was spectacular. I had to fight myself not to eat my entire dish of mashed potatoes and the bread that was put on the table just to enjoy this delicious sauce.
The whole meal came to 68 euros, not bad for the high quality of food, delicious wine, and great service we received (keep in mind that France has no tipping…so when you compare this to NYC pricing, it is quite fair).
Le Jean Moulin is located at 22 Rue Gentil 69002 Lyon, France.


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Comedy On The Square invites you to come celebrate with comedy, magic, and surprises at the SF Actors Theater just steps from Union Square. Magic and More NYE is one of the few family-friendly events out there for New Year's Eve. The producers are very excited about the show this year – several performers represented SF at this years Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The show features a blend of magic and comedy, with Carnival Cruise headliner Fred Anderson, magicians Big Al Catraz (Edinburgh Fringe) and Adam Sachs, London-based storyteller Lynn Ruth Miller, as well as special surprise guests.


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CHARLESTON - The Cinnamon Challenge. The Salt and Ice Challenge. Harmless teenage trends or a more serious concern?
If your teen has not heard of these, there is a good chance they will now that school is back in session. Unfortunately, teenagers are especially vulnerable to the latest trends, and not all trends are as innocent as jeans which now come in multiple colors. When challenged by a schoolmate to try something new, adolescents may participate in an attempt to fit in with their peers. These "challenges" are often described as "just for fun" and "not illegal". The risks are either ignored, minimized, or considered to be part of the fun. When hospitalizations and/or permanent injury results, the fun stops. In the worst case, some "innocent" challenges, can be deadly.
As your teenager heads back to school, have you thought to talk to them about safety and peer pressure?
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3. Explain to them that you understand the pressure to fit in with their peers, but remind them that fitting in and popularity are not worth their health and safety. Remind them that a true friend would not require them to complete a dare as payment for friendship.
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I felt a smile stretch across my face as I grabbed the RPG-7 from atop the beam I was holding onto. Oh, you're going to do some damage my friend, I thought to myself. I dropped down and made my way to a column that held up a broken bridge. I climbed up. Once on top the second story remains, an enemy dashed out, gun in hand. She raised the butt of her gun and struck me. I then sprinted to the left, jumped off, and, while in mid-air, shot the rocket launcher. The ballistic hit, sending her toppling over the edge, lifeless, gone, no more. This is just an example of the myriad of set pieces that you'll walk away with from playing Uncharted 3's multiplayer. There is some excellent fun to be had there. However, is U3 perfect? Well, no, as many of those that play online could agree on, Naughty Dog, the developers behind the game, has some work that still needs to be done to really bring this game to fruition.
For one, the game has bugs, albeit tiny bugs. One technical issue, for instance, is environmental problems between you and the surroundings. An illustration of this is when, while playing the game, I was running away from a shotgun-toting enemy. I had out run him around some fallen pillars and hip-sized cement blocks. Feeling my heart thumping, I then noticed a trellis attached to a wall in front of me. If I climb this, I'm gone. I jumped toward the lattice, made contact, and jumped back to the ground. What? I could feel my eyes go wide as I smashed the X button again to get my character to clamber up the make-shift ladder. I heard a shot. Blood spurted out of my back. My character collapsed onto the floor, in front of the very ladder that could have saved his life. Is this the only glitch? No, another annoying problem is climbing recognition. Certain ledges on maps seem to not be accessible at times. Case in point, on Chateau, I was trying to get my character up the side of a dilapidated building that connected to a bridge. Once in grasp of the stone railing attached to the catwalk…nothing happened. I pressed the jump button over and over while holding the left control stick in the desired direction. All my character did was leap up, but not to the right to where the parapet was. If an assailant had been behind me, this could had lead another, "shottie in the back," moment. As a result, these technical-hiccups have capped off the amount of fun we could be having with the game.
The shooting is simply too strenuous to be accessible for newer and even older fans. The outrageous amount of bullets it takes to bring someone down in U3 is well known in the gaming world. For example, as of the newest patch, 1.09, it requires that the G-MAL (a weapon in the game) to get six shots in the enemy's body, or torso, in order to get a kill. Sounds easy enough. Now add enemies dashing and strafing. Not so easy. This coupled with the gun only coming in three round burst proves that you have to be quite the marksman to start putting points on the screen. This flies in the opposite route of pragmatic thought. Yes, I understand that games with one to two bullet deaths can become very rage inducing, but, come on. It takes six shots to an adversary wearing a snug t-shirt to down em'? Wow. To further this, the game's set sensitivity is…off. One of the first things that most accomplished gamers recommend on YouTube and gaming websites is to "lower the sensitivity" to "make aiming easier." If one doesn't do this, generally, you will be spraying everything with bullets except your antagonist. All-in-all, shooting can be a bit scary when starting the game and even after that.
Match making is a joke, at times. What do I mean by this? Often than not, your team will either have a majority of level 75s, the highest rank one can get, or the other team will have a majority of level 75s. If these pros are on your team, the game is fun, exciting, and empowering. This often leads to movement room to get a higher score than you may normally get. However, if they are not on your team, it may have side effects such as: reddened face, grinding teeth, feral grunts, and shouts over the microphone. Either way, it's not fair. What the game should be doing is, for instance, say they are four level 75s, take two, place 'em on one team, take the other two and place 'em on the other team. It's simple math. Yet, the game loves to bunch them up from time to time, making the ranking system much less effective.
No thanks to world bugs, muddled shooting mechanics, and a baffling match making system, Uncharted 3's multiplayer falls short of what it could have been. This, of course, leads to moments, whether short or long, where the individual of the game is brought out of flow, often times making the game too complicated. Succinctly, many do not come back for more. However, the game is still fun, and, moreover, there is still hope for these calamities. Uncharted 3's Metacritic score is a 92. Any company with a score like that knows hard work, and could apply that to a well-thought-out update, thus changing the game for the better. Here's hoping to just that. Cheers.
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Music: Adjunct Faculty
Emily Wertz is a versatile singer and teacher.
Most recently, she has been a featured soloist with The Williamsport Chamber
Choir and Orchestra, Juniata College Orchestra and Choral Union, Lycoming
College Chamber Choir, Essence of Joy Alumni Singers, and for the Pennsylvania
American Choral Directors Association. Ms. Wertz has performed opera
roles such as Laetitia in The Old Maid and the Thief, Gretel in Hansel
and Gretel, and Lucy in The Telephone. She has also taken part in
music theatre productions, most recently playing Amalia Balash in She Loves
Me. She can be seen demonstrating music theatre vocal technique on
Mary Saunders' instructional DVD, Bel Canto/Can Belto: Teaching Woman to
Sing Musical Theatre. Ms. Wertz holds a Professional Performance
Certificate, Master of Music in voice performance and pedagogy and a Bachelor
of Science degree in music education, all from Penn State. Ms. Wertz is
also an active choral conductor and singer. In 2010 she was one of two
recipients of the Kegerreis Scholarship given by the American Choral Directors
Association. Prior to pursuing her master's degree, she taught in
the public schools. Ms. Wertz is a member of the National Association of
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Here's a message to all Southern California kids interested in attending prestigious academic colleges on the East Coast: Give sports a try.
Santa Clarita Valley athletes are starting to figure out the secret formula for acceptance into the coveted Ivy League schools and others with high academic reputations.
Good grades and high test scores don't hurt, but students like Golden Valley's Alec Schlossman and Saugus' Megan Dawe have an ace in the hole.
Schlossman — who is entering his third year as a varsity outside hitter for the Grizzlies' volleyball team — committed on Oct. 31 to Harvard University, where he'll likely begin playing next fall.
"Everyone there is exceptional at something, and you look at most people and that's academics and they are these genius students," Schlossman said. "For me, it's sports."
Earlier this month, Dawe verbally committed to New York University to play basketball.
She's headed into her senior season at Saugus, where she averaged 15 points, 8.9 rebounds and 52 blocked shots last season as a junior for the Centurions
"I'm really excited about it," Dawe said. "It's kind of been going back-and-forth looking at all the colleges. It's an overwhelming process so I'm really happy to finally make a decision."
At schools like Harvard and NYU, maintaining a high GPA often isn't enough to distinguish one applicant from another, given the reputation and exclusivity of the universities.
Then again, the exclusivity is part of the appeal.
"We've noticed a lot of West Coast kids have interest in moving east, and I think a reason for that is a lot of the high academic schools are on the East Coast," said NYU women's basketball head coach Stefano Trompeo.
With that in mind, coaches like Trompeo have to recruit players carefully, keeping in mind that athletic recruits have to go through the same rigorous application process any student would have to, including teacher and counselor recommendations as well as personal essays.
Neither school offers athletic scholarships, so athletes aren't necessarily given any kind of preferential treatment.
"It's a very, very competitive university to get admitted to ... My first question to (coaches) is, 'Who could possibly get into NYU?'" Trompeo said.
Like any other athletic program though, both schools recruit players they believe will help them win, and players like Schlossman choose schools based on how it will help him in the future.
"I could have stayed in Southern California and played somewhere where I'm familiar, but the biggest thing for me is I'll probably come back to Southern California after I'm done with college anyway, so why not just try something else for these four years?" Schlossman said.
And thanks to his 4.28 weighted GPA and his dynamic skills on the volleyball court, he's landed at one of the country's most prestigious universities.
Schlossman said he also visited the campuses of NYU and Princeton University, but he was ultimately won over by the facilities at Harvard.
"I never would have thought an Ivy League school would be in the picture," the senior said.
Dawe, on the other hand, said her decision-making process was more focused. NYU is the only school she's applying to or has visited.
"I like the idea of not having the typical college campus and having it be right in the middle of the city," Dawe said of NYU, "which is really the exact opposite of Santa Clarita."
The NYU women's basketball team is a member of NCAA Division III and competes in the University Athletic Association conference. The team finished 12-13 overall and 6-8 in conference last year.
Before even considering Dawe as a possible candidate to play at NYU, Trompeo made sure she had the grades and the dedication for a school of that caliber.
At that point, he was able to evaluate her athletic abilities.
"For us, our model is basically the opposite of 95 percent of other coaches at our level or even at division I," Trompeo said of his recruiting tactics.
However, the Saugus senior power forward is working just as hard at maintaining her GPA, which currently stands at a weighted 4.53.
"I want my education to stand above basketball and so I was never really going after the big (Division I school), not that I could play in the big DI, honestly," Dawe said. "But I really wanted the academics to be a bigger part of it."
At Harvard, Schlossman will be playing for a Division I men's volleyball program. Most of his matches will be played against teams in the Eastern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association, among other East Coast schools.
For the next four years, these athletes have a chance to play at the next level of their respective sport.
Beyond that, the future looks even brighter.


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(PG-13, 2012, 149 minutes)
Steven Spielberg spent so many years planning his long-in-the-making biopic of Abraham Lincoln that he said he was ready for a big letdown. But that's not the way the project turned out. Daniel Day-Lewis, in his Oscar-winning role, portrays the 16th president in Tony Kushner's adaptation of Doris Kearns Goodwin's book, "Team of Rivals," which chronicles Lincoln's time in office between 1861 and 1865. During that period, he dealt with personal demons and politics during the Civil War. The acting in the firm is superb. Sally Field excels as Mary Todd Lincoln, the president's wife, and others in the cast include Tommy Lee Jones, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, James Spader and John Hawkes. Field and Jones were nominated for Academy Awards. Day-Lewis, who delivers Lincoln's high-pitched, reedy voice, steals the show, as he shows the president in so many roles: commander-in-chief, horse-trading politician, frustrated husband and enthusiastic storyteller. Spielberg is at his best as he crafts a compelling little story within the big story of the war.
Extras: Interviews, commentary
"Parental Guidance"
(PG, 2012, 104 minutes)
The schmaltz is piled on thick, and the comedy is broad. But there's something touching about how hard Billy Crystal and Bette Midler hustle to peddle the threadbare material that makes "Parental Guidance" a pretty decent film.
As "the other grandparents" who are given a golden opportunity to bond with their seldom-seen grandchildren, Billy and Bette work double-time to deliver the goods. Crystal is Artie Decker, who has just lost his longtime gig as "De Voice of the Fresno Grizzlies," a minor league baseball team. Already despondent, he's not exactly jumping for joy over the news that he and his wife Diane (Midler) have been recruited to baby-sit their daughter Alice's (Marisa Tomei) three kids. As expected, uptight Alice's no-sugar-allowed helicopter parenting clashes mightily with Artie and Diane's old-school approach to child-rearing. Fortunately, old pro Crystal comes armed with an arsenal of rim-shot-ready rejoinders that hit the mark more than they miss. It's also nice to see Midler strutting her stuff.
Extras: Deleted scenes
"A Royal Affair"
(R, 2012, 137 minutes)
This film, which takes place in the late 18th century, is a tragic romance, a tale of idealism, usurped power and reform ahead of its time, of palace intrigues, madness and forbidden love. And aside from the odd detail here and there, it's mostly true.
In the 1760s, young Princess Caroline (Alicia Vikander) has been groomed in Britain to marry handsome King Christian VII of Denmark. She's heard he loves the arts. She arrives only to learn she has been misinformed. Christian (Mikkel Boe Folsgaard) is bratty, temperamental and immature -- an insecure, rude tantrum-tossing fop given to giggling fits. When the king sets off on a long tour of Europe, Caroline is given some peace. And the king, thanks to the machinations of some exiled nobles who want a friendly voice to wrangle them back onto the court, is given a new physician. The film's sluggish pace allows us to savor the performances, the meticulous sense of place and time, and the dread that builds in the back of the viewer's mind.
Extras: None
"Killing Them Softly"
(R, 2012, 100 minutes)
This gritty, riveting nuts-and-bolts-of-murder tale vividly illustrates what it is that these much-glamorized thugs do, and the gruesome, agonizing fate of their victims. The mob lawyer (Richard Jenkins) arranging all this mayhem tries to minimize the death toll, calling one target "a nice guy." Cynical contract killer Jackie (Brad Pitt) informs him, "They're all nice guys." At a mob-protected underground poker game that Markie (Ray Liotta) ran, there's a history of the games being robbed. Johnny the Squirrel (Vincent Curatola) figures a way to pull another heist and let Markie take the fall. Of course, getting ex-con Frankie (Scoot McNairy) and Frankie's Aussie-junky pal Russell (Ben Mendelsohn) to do the deed wasn't the smartest move. That's why Jackie's been called. That, and because everybody's favorite local hit man (Sam Shepard) is sick. Pitt dials Jackie down a few notches, keeping the guy as realistic as the movie around him. The film benefits from superb acting and a strong script.
Extras: Interviews, commentary
"To the Arctic"
(G, 2012, 40 minutes)
This story of polar bears and climate change follows the customary mama and cubs survival drama pattern, amping up the sentimentality with a soundtrack of Paul McCartney love songs. The 3-D IMAX images by cinematographer Florian Schultz are jaw-dropping. Meryl Streep's narration, sounding at times like a lecture, nevertheless drives home the message that the Arctic, warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet, has become so inhospitable to its inhabitants that male polar bears turn to eating their own young. The mother polar bear, Streep instructs, "will die to save her cubs but is powerless to protect their habitat." The long summers, melting glaciers and thinner ice pack make the mother's job all the tougher, particularly when male bears, deprived of prime hunting by the shifts in climate, target her frolicking 7-month-olds. That suspenseful sequence is balanced by tender moments involving the sibling cubs as well as newborn caribou. There are no grisly scenes, but we do see bloodstained ice after an attack.
Extras: Interviews
Our pick
"There Will Be Blood"
(R, 2007, 158 minutes)
If Daniel Day-Lewis isn't the finest actor of his generation, then somebody please show me who is.
The 55-year-old British superstar became the first person to win three best-actor Academy Awards when he took home the Oscar for "Lincoln."
Day-Lewis is now etched on the Mount Rushmore of greatest male character actors of all-time, right beside Robert De Niro, Marlon Brando, Laurence Olivier and Dustin Hoffman.
Sandwiched in between his first and third Oscar wins for "My Left Foot" and "Lincoln" is what I consider the best performance of his career: as a ferocious turn-of-the-century oilman in 2007's "There Will Be Blood."
Day-Lewis is brilliant in this Paul Thomas Anderson masterpiece, giving us an intimate look at a complex man fueled by greed and power.
He puts on an acting clinic while redefining screen presence. Robert Elswit's Oscar-winning cinematography gives each shot a postcard feel, while Paul Dano, as a local faith-healer, is the perfect balance to Day-Lewis' menace.


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"In a Monday night appearance on NFL Network's Total Access, Jones-Drew said that the Jaguars should have gone in another direction in round one. "I just feel like what we needed as an offense wasn't a new quarterback, we just needed another year amongst each other because we had a lot of new players come in," Jones-Drew said. "You see a team like the Patriots or the Steelers or the Colts, those guys [have] been in the same system for the 10, 12 years together, and so that's what we're trying to grow right now.""
Maurice Jones-Drew has never been a harsh guy, but he's also never been afraid to speak his mind. To that point, I admire the way he approached this situation. He excluded a couple of notable things in his statement. He didn't throw Blaine Gabbert under the bus as "the quarterback of the future," and he didn't come out and say that the Jaguars should have drafted defenders for obvious reasons.
As for his actual statement, I disagree and agree at the same time. The Jaguars offense, and defense for that matter, do need more time together. This is still one of the youngest teams in the NFL, and the longer they are together, the more effective that unit will become. On that point, I completely agree with Jones-Drew.
I disagree that it wasn't time to take a quarterback. David Garrard isn't a young guy, and I think that it'll make the transition much smoother if the guy taking over has been in the system for a year or two. I fully expect David Garrard to be the starting quarterback for every meaningful game (barring injury of course), and I also fully expect Blaine Gabbert to get some game time when games aren't on the line (i.e. blowouts and any meaningless late season games).
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Safe Boating Week, as designated by the National Safe Boating Council, begins this weekend. The real push for recreational boating occurs on the three-day Memorial Day weekend and continues through the summer.
Boating safety is an important issue in Texas. The state ranks sixth behind Florida, Minnesota, Michigan, California and Wisconsin in the number of registered power boats, but Texas ranks third in boating accidents and fatalities.
Cody Jones, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's point man on boating safety, said 2012 boating accident numbers were down but not by much.
"In 2012, Texas had 162 reportable accidents, down from 197 the year before," said Jones. "Also, Texas had a slight decline in fatalities from 37 in 2011 to 32 in 2012. Injuries were down from 105 in 2011 to 104 last year."
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The only life jacket requirement for boaters 13 or older is there must be a Coast Guard certified life jacket aboard the craft for every boater. That doesn't mean they have to wear the life jacket, which has aptly been called the seat belt of the water.
According to the U.S. Coast Guard's analysis of 2011 boating fatalities, 84 percent of the drowning victims were not wearing a life jacket. Modern life jackets, aka Personal Flotation Devices or PFDs, have never been more comfortable or more effective.
Boating is a recreational sport often conducted by a group of friends in the hot sun. Boating and drinking alcohol seems interconnected, but make sure there's a designated driver who does not drink. BUI is just as serious as DUI, and you can pay a stiff fine and lose your driver's license for as long as 180 days (first offender) if convicted of BUI.
Being weather-wise has never been easier, thanks to computers, smart phones and weather links that show live radar and hourly forecasts. Inexpensive weather radios will continually update forecasts for a specific area.
Jones' final two tips can be combined. Keep proper safety equipment aboard and know when and how to use it. You can best learn what you need and how to use it by taking a boater education course. Any boater born on or after Sept. 1, 1993, must complete a boater education course to operate a personal watercraft or a boat with a horsepower rating of more than 15 horsepower.
Most Texas boaters have never taken an education course and many of them have no idea who has the right-of-way when an oncoming vessel gets too close for comfort or what safety equipment is needed aboard their boat.
The top five lakes for boating accidents last
year are all near urban areas and are crowded by boaters. Details about Texas boating laws are
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2011 U.S. Coast Guard boating accident statistics
1. Lake Travis (10 accidents), 2. Lake Conroe (8 accidents)
3. Cedar Creek Lake, Canyon Lake and Buffalo Springs with six each
Accident type, Number, Deaths
1. Collision with recreational vessel, 1,002, 40
2. Flooding/swamping, 501, 89
3. Collision with a fixed object, 460, 58
4. Skier mishap, 436, 14
5. Falls overboard, 359, 205
Factor, Number, Deaths
1. Operator inattention, 583, 58
2. Improper lookout, 514, 31
3. Operator inexperience, 364, 43
4. Excessive speed, 349, 28
5. Machinery failure, 319, 18
6. Alcohol use, 296, 125
7. Hazardous waters, 258, 88
8. Weather, 235, 54
9. Rules of the road, 214, 6
10. Force of wave/wake, 201, 6
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A 52-year-old Jersey City man has been charged with stabbing his 23-year-old girlfriend multiple times in the face with a key on Thursday while drunk driving in a van with their young children in the back seat, officials said yesterday.
Juan T. Irizarry, 52, of Webster Avenue at Griffith Street, was arrested Downtown about 6 p.m. and charged with aggravated assault and two weapons offenses, reports said.
At 5:46 p.m. police received a report of a man assaulting a woman who was screaming for help in a van traveling on Baldwin Avenue toward Pavonia Avenue, according to reports.
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She told police she and Irizarry had an argument that escalated before he began stabbing her in the face while he was driving at Thorne Street and Summit Avenue, reports said. During the incident, the couple's 3-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter were in the back seat, reports said.
The victim said the assault ended when she jumped out of the van, according to reports.
Irizarry was arrested when the van was spotted near School 5 at Merseles and Fourth streets, and the children were found inside "disheveled and very scared, crying, and also soaked with water or sweat," reports said.
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Investigators photographed blood spatters throughout the van and also took pictures of the victim's wounds, reports said.
Irizarry was additionally issued numerous motor vehicle summonses, according to reports.


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Then, the "remove duplication" phase forces one to examine code for latent abstractions that one could express via virtual methods and other techniques that naturally make code more extendable. This is the "reuse" that the OO hype of the 1980s screamed about.
Think about what you want to do.
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Write just enough code to pass the test (and pass all your previous tests).
Run and watch all of the tests pass. (The test-runner, if you're using JUnit, etc., shows the "Green Bar"). If it doesn't pass, you did something wrong, fix it now since it's got to be something you just wrote.
If you have any duplicate logic, or inexpressive code, refactor to remove duplication and increase expressiveness -- this includes reducing coupling and increasing cohesion.
Run the tests again, you should still have the Green Bar. If you get the Red Bar, then you made a mistake in your refactoring. Fix it now and re-run.
Repeat the steps above until you can't find any more tests that drive writing new code.
Please note that first item is by far the most difficult, followed by the second item. But if you can't do those, you probably shouldn't start writing any code. The rest of the list is really pretty easy, but the first two are critical.
Uh, item 1 is what your
keeps screaming about, and item 2 is just item 1 stated inside-out. They are all easy, especially in this order.
There is a big step between hearing the words of an
and understanding the meaning. Translating a business statement into technical language can be a difficult job and one should respect that difficulty. Item 2 recognizes that testing the code often requires exposing some things not necessarily required by the end user. There is a step to go beyond what the user needs to what the test will need.
An example of TDD in action in a simple challenge - to write a programme that produces the correct answers to the game "
": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHTep2zQVAc
I use code to find patterns that I am interested in. I can imagine many possible solutions to programming problems but some are a lot better than others. Rather than use my brain to model the computer in high resolution, I use the computer itself to do the modeling and all I need is to start coding somewhere, make incremental changes and follow what turns out to be interesting. Most of this kind of code is thrown away so why would I want to make it bullet proof up front? If I was creating a UI for a piece of code, I would create many versions until I zeroed in on the one I like. Test first is great if you know exactly the best way to program an explicitly defined program but I rarely get that kind of explicit definition and even if I did, how would I know that technique "best fits" that problem? I would know that if I had coded something very like it before but if I had, then I would just take the code I wrote before and make modifications to it. Creating tests that proves the code works is very hard, except in the simple cases and those probably don't need a test in any case. Tests should be created for code that is a "keeper" which, in my case, is only a small fraction of the code I write.
How do you write a test for something that is constantly changing and you don't know what it's shape or structure will look like?
Systems created using
s might just be better designed than traditional systems. But they all certainly would support
while using them better than our current set of systems.
But because so danged many of them were not, we are a little blind to what we could have available on the shelf.
A list of ways that test-first programming can affect design:
Re-use is good. Test first code is born with two clients, not one. This makes adding a third client twice as easy.
Refactoring test-first code results in equally tested code, permitting more aggressive refactorings (
). Cruft is not allowed, and code is generally in better shape to accept more refactorings.
When paying attention during all of the little steps, you may discover patterns in your code.
Test code is easy to write. It's usually a couple calls to the server object, then a list of assertions. Writing the easy code first makes writing the hard code easy.
may be incremented in, not added all of a bunch up front.
Test-first code is written Interface first. You think of the simplest interface that can show function.
Code tends to be less coupled. Effective unit tests only test one thing. To do this you have to move the irrelevant portions out of the way (e.g.,
s). This forces out what might be a poor design choice.
s stand as canonical & tested documentation for objects' usage. Developers read them, and do what they do in production code to the same objects. This keeps projects annealed and on track.
When the developer has to write tests for what he is going to do, he is far less likely to add extraneous capabilities. This really puts a damper on developer driven scope creep.
Test First Design forces you to really think about what you are going to do. It gets you away from "It seemed like a good idea at the time" programming.
- This sure isn't a page for irresponsible people.
Is any programming activity for irresponsible people?
Nope. the problem is:
They don't know!
I have been working my way through Kent's TDD book for a while now, and applying the principles quite rigorously. I am a real dullard sometimes, because it takes me a horribly long time to understand even simple stuff. I had probably been applying TDD for more than a week before I realized why it works so well (at least for me). There are three parts to this:
The tests (obviously) help find bugs in the application code, and the micro-steps taken with TDD mean that any "bugs" are in the very code I have just been writing and hence which still has a relevant mental model in my small brain
By doing the absolutely simplest thing in the application code in order to get each test to run, I often have small
s, where I see that I am writing such overly concrete code (i.e. just enough to get the tests to work) that the tests (even though they run) cannot possibly be adequate to cover the "real" requirements. So to justify writing more abstract application code, I need to add more test cases that demand that abstraction, and this forces me to explore the requirement further. Therefore, the application code actually helps me debug the tests. That is, since the tests are the specification, feedback from the application code helps me debug the specification.
As I have these "aha!" moments (mentioned in 2 above) I follow Kent's practice of adding them to the
. It took my stupid head quite some time to realize that the TODO list is actually a list of Micro-Stories, which I constantly prioritize (since I am the customer at this level). Following
's insight that Stories are promises to have a conversation with the customer, I see, then, that the Micro-Stories in the TODO list are a promise to have a conversation with myself (and, here is the weird bit) to have a conversation with the code (since it gives me feedback - it tells me things - and TDD tunes me in to listening to the code).
Test Driven Development
(TDD) by
A Book,
Mailing list:
Test Driven Development
(TDD) by DavidAstels
another book
that one danger of
is that developers may
take that step that you take. I.e. developers may stay with overly concrete code that satisfies the tests but not the "real" requirements.
To look at it another way, I have always felt that it was dangerous to approach design with (only) particular test cases in mind, since its usually necessary to think about boundary cases, and other unusual cases.
How does XP address that danger? By encouraging developers to write sufficiently comprehensive tests? Or by relying on developers to take that step which you mention, which is saying, "OK, this actually passes my tests, but its not really adequate for the real world because....".
XP addresses that danger with
. When obvious boundary cases are overlooked by the programmer driving the keyboard, the programmer acting as navigator points out the oversight. This is an excellent example of a case where a single practice is, by itself, insufficient to reasonably guarantee success but, in combination with a complementary practice, provides excellent results.
is a cool way to program source code. XP extends
to all scales of the project. One tests the entire project by frequently releasing it and collecting feedback.
Q: What "real" requirements can you not test?
Those requirements which are not stated.
Requirements which require highly specialized, unaffordable, or non-existent support hardware to test. E.g., with hardware such as the Intellasys SEAforth chips, it's possible to generate pulses on an I/O pin as narrow as 6ns under software control. To
these pulses, you need an oscilloscope with a bandwidth no less than 166MHz, and to make sure their waveform is accurate, you need a bandwidth no less than 500MHz, with 1GHz strongly preferred. However, at 1GHz bandwidths, you're looking at
expensive sampling oscilloscopes. Thus, if you cannot afford this kind of hardware, you pretty much have to take it on faith things are OK. Then, you need some means of feeding this waveform data back to the test framework PC (which may or may not be the PC running the actual test), which adds to the cost.
TDD cannot automatically fix algorithms; neither can any other technique. Where rigorous testing helps is ensuring that the details of your algorithm remain the same even if you refactor or add features. A test case can easily check _too_ much, and fail even if the production code would have worked. For example, suppose one step of an algorithm returns an array. A test could fail if that array is not sorted, even if the algorithm does not require the array, at that juncture, to be sorted.
This is a
thing; it makes you stop, revert your change, and try again.
Note: here is the link to the pdf file on the yahoo groups area:
I found this unexpectedly awkward to locate by searching, so I thought I'd drop the link in here. --
I've sometimes been an advocate of test driven development, but my enthusiasm has dropped after I've noticed that
goes heavily against prototyping. I prefer a style of coding where the division of responsibility between units and the interfaces live a lot in the beginning of the development cycle, and writing a test for those before the actual code is written will seriously hinder the speed of development and almost certainly end testing the wrong thing.
Agreed. Please see my blog entry about adapting TDD for mere mortals at
Assuming you're not shipping the prototype, there's nothing particularly in conflict. The prototype is in itself a sort of design test. The trouble with prototypes is that they have this habit of becoming the product...
[RE: prototypes becoming "the" product. Arrg.. I agree.
No reason for it to happen. TDD makes rewriting slops as clean code absurdly easy
Design is a lot more difficult than implementing a design. But
s explicitly require one to define the design before making it work.
There are other problems, too. Like OO methodology, the difficulties which test driven development helps with are sometimes caused by itself. Every extra line of code adds to the complexity of the program, and tests slow down serious refactoring. This is most apparent in hard-to-test things like GUI's, databases and web applications, which sometimes get restructured to allow for testing and get complicated a lot. --
goes heavily against prototyping? Strange, I haven't found that to be true, myself. Closer to the opposite, in fact - I start with a very thin shell of a ProtoType
, and as I make progress it fills in with real features. I wonder how what you actually do differs from what I actually do.
Strongly agree. A big side benefit of
that doesn't get enough attention is how it rearranges your thinking. Instead of thinking "oh I'll need these accessors on these classes, etc" you think in terms of use cases. And you end up with *exactly* what you need, nothing more and nothing less.
I find I have a huge increase in speed in all areas of development when I
. I honestly believe that anyone who doesn't experience this is either busy knocking down
s, isn't doing it right, or hasn't really given it a chance.
TDDing GUIs is quite frustrating. It may be a lot easier if there were a GUI toolkit available that has been TDDed itself, from the ground up. Anyone interested in such a TDDedGuiFramework project?
You mean like
? --
:-) No, I mean a toolkit for standalone clients (or maybe a hybrid one, people have been experimenting with this already). Something like SWT, but a lot more intuitive :-)
Note that some TDDers abuse
s. Dynamic mock systems like
can make this too easy. A TDD design should be sufficiently decoupled that its native object work fine as stubs and test resources. They help to test other objects without runaway dependencies. One should mock the few remaining things which are too hard to adapt to testing, such as random numbers or filesystem errors.
Some of us disagree with that view, see
for an alternative.
I'd like to revisit a comment that
made above:
It seems to me that one danger of
is that developers may _not_ take that step that you take. I.e. developers may stay with overly concrete code that satisfies the tests but not the "real" requirements.
The principles of TDD can be applied quite well to analysis and design, also. There's a tutorial on Test-driven Analysis & Design at
which neatly introduces the ideas.
What about extended the principles of TDD beyond testing, analysis, and design. How about using the principles also on user documentation? This idea is described in Purpose Driven Development (PDD) at
"Roman Numerals" is often held up as a good sample project to learn TDD. I know TDD but I'm bad at math, so I tried the project, and put its results here:
<shameless plug> Up to date info on tools and practices at
I found GNU/Unix command line option parsing to be a good TDD exercise as well. My results here:
(3.5Mb download; 4.7Mb unpacked)
of the
is one way to practice
. Organic Testing is an
s methodology that share resemblance to both
. Like
, they are run by the developers whenever they want (before check-in). Unlike
, only the framework for the test is provided by the programmers, while the actual data of the test is given by
. In Organic testing like
s, in each run the whole software (or a whole module) is activated. --
Another reference: article "Improving Application Quality Using Test-Driven Development" from Methods & Tools
But what about SecureDesign
? SecurityAsAnAfterthought
is a bad idea and it seems that test-driven development (and a number of other agile processes, though perhaps not all) has a bad habit of ignoring security except as test cases, which isn't always the best way to approach the problem.
Hmmmm. Seems to me that TDD deals with security (as well as things like performance) just like any other functional requirement. You have a story (or task) explicitly stating what functionality is needed (e.g., user needs 2 passwords to login, which are stored in an LDAP server; or algorithm needs to perform 5000 calculations per second). You then write tests that will verify functionality. And then you write the functionality itself.
And unlike traditional development, you now have regression tests to make sure that this functionality never gets broken. (i.e., if, due to subsequent coding, the security code gets broken, or the algorithm performance drops off, you'll have a broken test to alert you of that.)
One of the reasons that security is hard is that security is not just a piece of functionality. Okay, there are things like passwords which are security features, but the rest of the code also has to not have security holes, which are NegativeRequirements
; ie, code must not do X.
This is obvious in the case of 'must not overflow buffer', which TDD does address, but is less obvious in things like 'component X should not be able to affect component Y'. How do you test that? (I probably read this in 'Security Engineering', by Ross Anderson, which is now free on the web).
-- AlexBurr
In the case of "Component A must not affect Component B", how would you evaluate this
test-driven development? If you can't formally define this requirement, then TDD is no better or worse than hoping for the best. (One answer in this case may be rule-based formal validation of the system, which is easy enough to plug into a TDD framework.)
-- JevonWright
Some interesting info on test driven development from E. Dijkstra:
(above is from
Bit Torrent founder (Bram) uses test driven development, and thinks Formal methods suck:
IEEE Software will publish a special issue on Test-Driven Development in July 2007. For more information, see
Found this useful illustration of TDD in .NET (Flash screen cast)
I can't help to mention the awesomeness of
in Python. Not only do you get TDD, but you get code documentation for free, as it integrates
into every Module, Class, and Method. I'd like to see TDD really integrated tightly into programming environments.
are accessed via a built-in help() function and encourage a friendly development community.
goes further, encouraging smart design of tests within the
themselves in ways that simultaneously teach the User what your method and class is supposed to do. Ideally, Interpreted environments should integrate a test() built-in. Then,
could be removed and built into the interpreter environment with it`s companion function "help()". This would allow the "add a test, get it to fail, and write code to pass" cycle to attain a most friendly goal of
. --
BDD (Behavior Driven Development) is a form of TDD (Test Driven Development) where the tests are specified through definition of desired Behaviors, as opposed to writing tests in code (the same code language used for the product). The BDD camp says that you use natural language to describe desired behaviour, and employ testing tools which translate the natural language behaviour specification into tests which validate the product code. This approach recognizes and attempts to address a couple of challenges with testing which I elaborate upon below.
See 'Cucumber' (
) as one example of a BDD test toolkit.
One strategy with BDD is that you employ test (SDT) developers with much different skills than your product (SDE) developers. You can thereby segregate SDT and SDE developers by skills. Another strategy is that your developers use different tools for product development from test development. This suggests that you use people with different skills (less product intensive skills, btw), to write tests (or the same folks using different skills). But when you choose TDD or BDD as a methodology practice, you need to consider (answer) the questions exposed below.
Building test code to automate the testing of your product code produces a regression problem. You want to avoid placing 'faith' in the production code, and ensure that the code has been tested (verified), but now you have moved your 'faith' into the test code.
This regression problem is a challenge with testing, where you must provide tests which cover the requirements and features of your product, so you have moved (regressed) the problem of (potential) defects in the development into a problem with (potential) defects in the test code. You have now written more code (probably in the same language), but possibly replicated or moved the defect into test code. You are still placing faith, but now in your test code, rather than in your production code.
One strategy is to use SDT's to develop tests, and SDE's to develop products. This can help catch misunderstandings in requirements (win), but only increases the amount of code written, and thus the potential number of defects, adding personnel to develop these tests, and thus adding costs. And you now have a recruiting and motivation problem. You must staff SDE's to build products and SDT's to build tests.
However, we can consider that by using different personnel, defects are statistically less likely to align between product code and test code, because we assume that the SDE's and SDT's are independent. We assume a stochastically independent defect generation (SDE's and SDT's are different people). Thus we expect them to generate defects in different places.
But are these activities stochastically independent? We are relying upon this independence. But agile asks that one agile team combine developers writing production code and developers writing test code. So the same (hard) problems are viewed by the same team, and the same conceptual issues are tackled in code by the same pool of developers. Using different developers to write product and test code gains little practical independence, as developers (SDE or SDT) have essentially the same training and experience.
Consider the strategy that you require different training and experience from SDE and SDT. This regains some missing independence. But unless all developers (SDE and SDT) have essentially the same training, capabilities, and skills, they cannot perform interchangeably on an agile team. And developers undertake extensive training. And now you must separate developers by skill and role. Now you face the choice whether to use more skilled developers to write the product, or to write the tests? Using less skilled developers to write the product impairs your product. Using less skilled developers to write your tests means that you impair your tests. This reduces to a Faustian choice, do you effectively subvert your testing and quality process, or do you sacrifice your product development?
Revisit the recruiting and motivation problem. Suppose you decide to staff SDT's to build tests and SDE's to build products. You have introduced stratification and competition into your development team. Are you going to get equally qualified candidates for both SDE and SDT? Even with the different requirements? Assume that most developers want to advance their careers, and gain recognition and rewards, and become the best developers they can become.
Which path will the best and the brightest want to pursue? Consider that Google hires less than 1% of applicants (lots of people want to work there, so they must want to pursue the 'best' career path). Joel Spolsky (co-founder, Fog Creek Software) writes a blog on software development, (
), says that you should hire people who are "Smart, and Get Things Done".
Can you effectively use the same people writing both product code and test code? And gain the stochastic independence testing needs? Can you use people with different training and skills, and have them independently build tests? And not sacrifice product development on the altar of quality?
The BDD camp says that you use natural language to describe desired behaviour, which would employ developers with much different skills, and thereby segregate developers by skills. This suggests that you use people with different skills (less product intensive skills, btw), to write tests. This has been exposed as a suspect strategy, but assuming you choose TDD or BDD as a methodology practice, anyway. How do you achieve the best results?
TDD in general and
in particular are firmly grounded in
. I find a useful parallel between a written
document and BDD Feature / Story Narrative.
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Christopher Sas
Very interesting and informative! Two thumbs up!
Lily Chung
Pray for me. God is calling me to live a life of prayer, poverty, obedience, and He is calling me to live out "Carmel" = "God's Garden" where His People will know and worship HIM. Jesus, please help me to embark on this journey and let me become smaller and smallest, and YOU become greater and greatest! Give me chances to lay down my life to give YOU Glory and tend 777 GOD's gardens. For the bible taught me that GOD called this the year of the jubilee! Glory to GOD in the highest!
Jeanette Marquez
Certainly, God would welcome another Lily into His garden.The source of your question and answer are one in the same. Blended into the garden one does not disappear but strengthens the field that bows freely to the heavens.
Jim H.
Please pray for me. I am married with a child and am feeling a strong pull to the Discalced Carmelites – third order. This video has brought me to tears. Wow.
Beautiful video. Thank you so much.
I am a Third Order OCarm since 1989, very difficult to express my joy as a Carmelite. I am home. Thanks be to God.


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The small population of captive Spix's macaws (Cyanopsitta spixii) that the Loro Parque Fundacion has, have been transferred to a new breeding center in La Vera, near Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain. The Loro Parque Fundacion, based in Spain, is a non-profit organization committed to the conservation of parrots, including the Spix's macaw, and their habitats.
To protect the endangered macaws, the breeding center has plenty of security, which includes a 24-hour on-site crew and security guards with dogs patrolling nightly. The breeding center is surrounded by a wall and fence, with barbed-wire inside amongst a natural defense perimeter of spiny trees, plants and bushes. Closed-circuit cameras monitor the perimeter.
A team of avian veterinarians, veterinary technicians, laboratory technicians, curators and keepers has been assigned for the welfare and care of these endangered macaws. The Spix's macaws are checked everyday, with facilities set aside for allowing close observation and providing treatment to the birds if necessary. The aviaries undergo a strict daily cleaning, food bowls are washed twice daily and enclosures are cleaned weekly. For biosecurity reasons, new Spix's macaws are quarantined for 40 days before they are allowed in the facility and only authorized personnel are allowed on the grounds. Personnel go through a strict cleaning regiment, such as showering and then changing into special clean clothes and bathing their feet in an antiseptic.
Spix's macaws are extinct in the wild.
As for the endangered macaws, the outlook is good for the 2008 year for the foundation. "We are waiting to pair-up our breeding female with a male due to arrive soon from the Association for the Conservation of Threatened parrots in Germany," said Dr. David Waugh, the director of Loro Parque Fundacion. "This female normally breeds towards the end of the year, so we hope for success in 2008."
"We also have a much younger pair, which is beginning to approach sexual maturity. Both birds are showing all the correct behaviors inside the nest box, so this is another good sign," added Waugh.
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