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Due to concerns about COVID-19, AAUP office has transitioned to telework. Please contact staff by email.
June 15, 2013
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Washington, DC—Writers Jacqueline Rabe Thomas, Keith Phaneuf, and Mark Pazniokas of the Connecticut Mirror and Janese Silvey, formerly of the Columbia Daily Tribune, are this year's recipients of the Iris Molotsky Award for Excellence in Coverage of Higher Education, given annually by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). The AAUP's purpose in giving this award is to recognize exceptional journalism and to encourage thoughtful, in-depth coverage of issues that are critical to faculty and higher education. The judges felt that this year's shared award represented an acknowledgment that these two series represent the best kind of tough-minded, public-good journalism, an achievement that is especially notable given the limited resources of newspapers today.
The Mirror's series "Double-Digit Raise Goes to Top Higher Education Official" ran from October 8 to November 28, 2012. As a result of the hard work and perseverance of the Mirror reporters, the state was forced to hire an interim higher education president and lawmakers on the higher education committee vowed to reduce the governor's control over higher education, in part by decreasing the number of members the governor can appoint to the board of regents. About the series, Connecticut Mirror editor Jenifer Frank commented, "It's hard not to believe that officials at all levels of government, at least subconsciously, believe that a diminished press gives them carte blanche to act as they want. I'm certain that Connecticut's higher ed officials were shocked when they realized how aggressively our reporters were investigating their actions. In thirty years as an editor, I have never taken so many calls from officials complaining about reporters who have the audacity to question them. It should make every remaining journalist intent on following every plausible lead—chances are good that a story awaits."
Janese Silvey's "Closure and Reopening of the University of Missouri Press" ran from May 24 to November 27, 2012. Silvey's persistence in getting to the truth of how the closure was effected, who was behind it, and who stood to gain from it resulted in more than thirty articles published in the Columbia Daily Tribune in 2012. The media coverage drew national attention to the administration's actions all summer, leading to a reversal of the decision to close the press and the rehiring of its senior editors. Perhaps just as important, the closure and reopening of the University of Missouri Press has opened a nationwide conversation about the dissemination of scholarly findings, the definition of shared governance in decisions about auxiliary units, and administrative transparency. "Covering the failed attempt to close the University of Missouri Press was really a roller-coaster ride," Silvey commented. "At times, it appeared the Save the Missouri Press campaign was a lost cause. Some questioned why I continued to report on it when the decision to shut down the UM Press had apparently been finalized. But the authors, publishers, book distributors and readers cared too deeply to let the UM Press—or the story—die. Because the Save the Missouri Press supporters were so active, the story continued to have a life—and ultimately those actions saved the press."
The series are available below in .pdf format.
Beryl Benderly won the 2011 Molotsky award for "The Real Science Gap." Her articles have appeared in Miller-McCune, Scientific American, Scientific American Mind, Prism, Science, Slate, Smithsonian, and the New York Times, among many other prominent publications. In addition, Benderly is the author of eight books, has appeared on CNN and the Today Show, and has taught science and health writing.
Dane S. Claussen is an independent scholar, author of Anti-intellectualism in American Media, and former editor of Journalism and Mass Communication Educator. Until December 2010, he was chair of faculty and professor at Point Park University's School of Communication.
Cat Warren has been a reporter for several newspapers across the United States, including the Hartford Courant. In 1995, she joined the faculty at North Carolina State, where she has taught a wide range of courses in journalism and media and in gender studies. In addition to being the former editor of Academe, she publishes in journalistic venues as well as in academic ones—on media criticism, cultural studies, and issues in higher education.
The mission of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) is to advance academic freedom and shared governance, to define fundamental professional values and standards for higher education, and to ensure higher education's contribution to the common good. Founded in 1915, the AAUP has helped to shape American higher education by developing the standards and procedures that maintain quality in education and academic freedom in this country's colleges and universities. The AAUP is a nonprofit professional association headquartered in Washington, DC.


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While looking at old videos regarding computers and the coming of the low cost microprocessors that emerged in the 1970's I came across an old six part TV series called 'The Mighty Micro' presented by the late computer scientist Christopher Evans. In this program DR Evans talks about what he predicts the future will be like with the Microprocessor revolution. Automation, business use, home use, education etc.
It's quite fascinating. I think on episode three he shows an approximation of an iPad, or at the very least, a Kindle device to read a book, and this is from a programme produced in 1979!
Some of his other predictions are quite accurate as well, like debit/credit cards with chips embedded to debit the account holders account at point of purchase. He does talk about a cashless society as well, but inaccurately predicts this happening sometime in the 90's. Well, it's 2019 and while we have become less attached to cash, we're still not cashless, I'm nearly there though.
I'm going to see if I can get hold of the book. I love these computer technology predictions from the past.
The Mighty Micro
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Excellent! Will have a look at those as I love that stuff too
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Thanks for that, I'd completely forgotten about that show. Saw bits of it at the time, it's fun to go back and watch them in hindsight, see how close they were for their predictions, and fun to see what was considered amazing tech at the time.
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I will be watching that later on!
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New York entertainer and comedian, Queenzflip learned the hard way that Bajans do not play.
He teamed up with New York-based radio personality DLife of FRPtv to prank Caribbean Soca Queen, Alison Hinds while on her way to a studio interview with FRPtv.
Queenzflip, who earlier this month played a similar prank on Jamaican dancehall artiste Mr Vegas, shared a video on his Instagram account this afternoon with the caption:
"So I pranked the #SocaQueen @alisonhinds with the help of @realdlife , BUT SHE BUSTED MY BLASTED NOSE!!!…1st Hit – was on the neck chin area. Then I turned around and the 2nd & 3rd hit was in the nose smh lol … BUT SHE WAS A GOOD SPORT SHE STARTED TO SMILE AT THE END & I did say sorry and we are now good."
He also posted another video clip showing what happened after they got out of the car and he was explaining that it was a prank.
"You busted my nose, man!" he told Hinds.
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The video clip of the prank showed Hinds in the backseat of a vehicle, while Queenzflip posed as an Uber driver. He asked Hinds if he could play some music while they drove, saying:
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as Agent under her mother's General Power of Attorney. Her mother is now unable to handle any of her affairs. She does not have the capacity to make a Will which she never got around to doing.
Can her daughter make a Will for her mother? Quite simply the power of attorney would not allow the daughter to make a Will for her mother. Only the person making the Will can have one created for them. If her mother still had capacity to make the Will but was unable to sign the Will, then many jurisdictions permit proxy signatures -- someone signing for the testator.
Therefore, though the daughter could provide a proxy signature, she could not handle the whole thing, from development to execution. That would effectively make the document her Will, and not her mother's.
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The London Borough of Tower Hamlets has finally appointed a
communications chief after 18 months of turmoil.
The council's PR team has been leaderless since the end of 1999 and this
year it was almost disbanded with communications set to be
Now the council has pledged a stable future for its PR team and
appointed London Borough of Haringey head of communications Siobhan
Crozier to lead its PR.
The decision to take on Crozier, who has been at Haringey for five
years, follows a communications review by agency Renaissance earlier
this year.
The Renaissance team successfully persuaded councillors not only to keep
its in-house PR but to strengthen it. Director Lorraine Langham said:
'There has been a lot of thinking going on, a time for reflection. This
is a fresh start for Tower Hamlets. The council realises the importance
of communications.'
Crozier, who joins within the next three months, will manage a
restructured 19-strong team and report to CEO Eleanor Kelly.
Head of operational services Gary Watson has been co-ordinating PR in
the interim.
The council is looking to fill seven vacancies, including a head of
The PR problems at Tower Hamlets, home to the Canary Wharf development,
began in 1998 when councillors scrapped the head of communications role,
leading to the redundancy of the postholder Tony O'Regan, who now runs
A head of PR and media role was created but O'Regan's replacement Peter
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An attempt to recruit a rebranded role of marketing and communications
head last year was unsuccessful.
Crozier is optimistic the council has now created a long-term PR
function: 'Tower Hamlets doesn't have a bad reputation, just a low
profile and that needs to change.'


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The Mishna in Avot (6:6) says that "anyone who repeats a saying in the name of the one who said it brings redemption to the world". When we quote a person we ensure the continuation of tradition.
A discussion in the Talmud about the tzitz, the headplate that the Kohen Gadol wore while serving in the Temple (Beit Hamikdash), and on which the words Kodesh la'Hashem ( Holy to G-d) were inscribed, highlights the importance of tradition. According to a Braita (Shabbat 63):
1. The Tzitz was a golden plate the width of two fingers which was a band crossing the forehead from ear to ear.
2. 'Kodesh la'Hashem' was written on it in two lines – 'Hashem' was written on top [on the left], 'Kodesh' and the letter 'Lamed' were written on bottom [on the right. R. Tam, cited by Rishonim – 'Kodesh' and 'Lamed' were on top [on the left], 'Hashem' was on bottom, on the right].
3. R. Eliezer b'Rebbi Yosi said that he saw the headband in the treasure-house of Rome – 'Kodesh la'Hashem' was written in one line. (Rambam – Chachamim agree that it is Kosher in one line; Me'iri – Chachamim did not accept R. Eliezer's testimony as eyewitness testimony does not negate the Sages' tradition, even though some of the greatest of the Sages testified, "I saw it in Rome and 'Kodesh La Hashem' was written on it on one line," [still, an eyewitness] does not disprove that which was known to them".(Beit Habechirah L'Rabbeinu HaMeiri, Tractate Shabbos 63b).
This debate is remarkable because the Rabbis chose to disagree with Rav Elazar in spite of the clear-cut evidence that he presented. Rav Elazar when in Rome was given the opportunity to enter the Emperor's storehouse (see Tractate Meeilla 17a-b). In the storehouse, Rav Elazar saw the tzitz, which had been looted by the Romans from the previous Beit Hamikdash, and saw that the words Kodesh la'Hashem were written on one line! How could the Rabbis disagree with such compelling evidence, and furthermore, how could the Rambam rule in accordance with the Rabbis over Rav Elazar?
One possible answer is based on the writings of Rav Eliyahu Dessler in Michtav Me'Eliyahu (vol. 4, pgs. 56-57). He notes that the authors of the Talmud were exceedingly meticulous when citing the original author of a Halacha, one example being Nedarim 8b, where Rav Shimon quotes a Halacha in the name of Rav Yitzchak who was quoting Rav Chiya Aricha who quoted Rav Zeira who quoted Rav Elazar who quoted Rav Chanina who quoted Rav Miyasha who quoted Rebbe Yehuda bar Ilay! The reason for such precision, Rabbi Dessler explains, is to emphasize the importance of mesorah (tradition), the Torah's chain of Halachic tradition. Laws were passed from generation to generation, bestowing authority on them. Any law that lacks authenticity cannot be considered a law. Rabbi Dessler explains that even though we might know how things were done in previous generations, if we do not have a direct chain of teachers that pass the laws on to the students, that knowledge loses its status as part of the Oral Law. The Rabbis are subsequently forced to utilize the methods of textual analysis available to them in order to compose a "new law" in Torah Sh'bal Peh (Oral Law). The visual proof of Rav Elazar can only be secondary to the systematic methods contained in Torah Sh'bal Peh. The Rambam recognized that a break in the mesorah had occurred and, acknowledging that Rav Elazar indeed had found a tzitz inscribed in one line, he nevertheless decided that the tzitz's words should preferably be written on two lines in accordance with majority rule, the view of the Rabbis. There may be many explanations for what Rav Elazar saw. It could well be that the tzitz he saw was mistakenly written. Indeed, it is interesting to note that the menorah described ob the Arch of Titus in Rome was not of the design used in the Beit Hamikdash
Our discussion about the tzitz clearly highlights the saying quote above (Mishna Avot 6:6). By conveying the Torah Sh'bal Peh in a clear and authentic way, we are able to ensure that all of our laws will remain a part of the oral code in future.
In addition, the story of the Jews redemption from Haman is also connected with this same saying. Mordechai, cousin of Queen Esther, overhears a plot to King Ahasuerus' life. He warns Esther who in turn repeats it to the King in the name of Mordechai, and the would-be assassins Bigtan and Teresh are caught. The incident was then recorded in the King's diary. Years later, just as Haman is about to approach the King during the night to obtain permission to hang his mortal enemy, Mordechai, Ahasuerus cannot fall sleep. He calls to have his royal chronicles read to him and the same incident – demonstrating Mordechai's loyalty – was read to him. Ahasuerus realizes that Mordechai, not Haman, is the King's true faithful servant. This becomes a crucial turning point in the Shushan saga, and the tide begins to turn against Haman and in favor of the Jews.
The Geulah came about because Esther originally conveyed the information of the plot against Ahasuerus' life in the name of Mordechai and did not try to achieve the credit for herself. In a very indirect fashion there is a link between an idea in Parshat Tezaveh and Megillat Esther which are often read during the same week.


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Design and Development of Gerotor Pump using CFD analysis
Modern day automotive research is focused on reducing cost of new vehicle without compromising the quality. So it is imperative that an automotive supplier makes use of advanced evaluation methods to develop new products.
Internal combustion engine is the heart of a vehicle and its performance depends on its subsystems. For higher engine efficiency , lubrication plays a vital role. Without proper lubrication, engine components may damage and lead to poor performance.
To pursuit consistent output from the engine, design engineers face many challenges in designing the subsystems. One of the challenges is to design proper lubrication system, especially the oil pump. In modern vehicle, the generated rotor (Gerotor) oil pump drives the lubrication system to next level in order to meet the latest trend of engine design.
The Gerotor pump is an internal gear type-rotary positive displacement pump. It takes power from engine crankshaft. Now a days it is widely used in automotives for oil and fuel supply because of its unique working capabilities, simplicity , flexibility in design and ease of manufacturing.
Significant amount of money and time are spent for developing such pump by means of experimental and analytical techniques. In order to minimize the duration for developing such a product, numerical techniques like CFD plays a crucial role, since it helps simulate the actual physics to study the results with less dependency on experimental test setups
Now let's look into the approach used to automate the pump analysis using CFD, to imulate flow through Gerotor oil pump to attain the flow requirements of the engine.
Fluid Domain preparation strategy
As the first step of CFD analysis, raw 3D CAD model needs to be pre-processed. Fluid flow path from the CAD model has to be extracted with acceptable accuracy. This should be studied thoroughly and modified considering the constraints of meshing and solver activities. For example, to run CFD analysis of a Gerotor pump, narrow chamfers and corners in the model has to be simplified to improve the mesh quality without compromising with the flow physics.
Meshing Strategy
Tetrahedral mesh are used for the ports (static zones) of the pump. Pure Hexahedral elements are used to generate structured mesh of rotor core (refer fig. 02, 03) for the fluid flowing gap between inner and outer gear teeth.
To simulate transient CFD analysis of the Gerotor pump, interfaces are formed to simulate sliding effect of the rotor inside the port cavity. UDF (user defined function program) is used to move the nodes of hexahedral elements of the rotor core to simulate the uneven rotation of inner gear and outer gear
For pre-processing, Ansys ICEM-CFD can be used for generating tetrahedral and hexahedral mesh.
Solution Method Solver Setting
Transient analysis is carried out in this case to capture time based variation in the performance parameters. Pressure based constant model is used since oil behaves like an incompressible fluid under observatory operating conditions. For simplicity, temperature of the oil is assumed constant.
To model turbulence, k-e model with standard wall function is used. PISO velocity coupling with PRESTO algorithm for pressure is used for quick convergence. To model cavitation and to evaluate suction time, multiphase model is preferred with liquid and vapour mixture fluid properties. To solve the case, Ansys FLUENT CFD tool was used.
Boundary Conditions
Pertaining to boundary conditions, inlet and outlet were kept under atmospheric conditions with the speed of inner rotor in rpm taken into consideration.
Pump Performance Prediction
CFD analysis helps to validate critical performance parameters namely flow rate, pressure head and shaft torque required at different operating conditions.
To generate performance curve of the pump, power and efficiency parameters can be numerically calculated using observed values of torque required by inner rotor and flow rate of the pump, which can be further validated with experimental data.
Model Validation
CFD simulation can be used to study the performance of different pump designs, under various operating conditions. Such prediction helps the designers to pick the best performing model from the bunch of analyzed models even without making prototypes and going through tedious time and money consuming conventional procedures.
NPSH and Flow Rate Prediction
From the CFD results, NPSH (Net positive suction Head) can be predicted (refer fig. 06). Reliability of the results has been verified by comparing with the experimental data.
Leakage and Shaft Torque
Simulation of Gerotor pump helps predicting torque, cavitation, pressure acting on the seal and forces on the shaft. Pure hexahedral mesh shown in Figure. 02 is used to capture rotor core in a Gerotor pump to predict volumetric results like flow rate and prediction of leakage with better accuracy.
Under different operating conditions, considering different speeds and pressures, key performance parameters namely leakage and shaft power are also investigated. Tip-to-tip clearance and leakage paths (refer fig. 05) which will have impact on volumetric efficiency of the pump can also be studied.
In Gerotor pumps, flow rate is directly proportional to pump speed. But as speed increases, cavitation may arise. CFD simulation can be used to identify threshold pump speed at which cavitation starts to limit the loss in flow rate.
Suction Time Prediction
We can also use CFD simulation to find the time taken to suck the oil from the oil sump inlet to the delivery point outlet (refer fig. 09). The case is setup using multiphase model. Results with suction flow animation that can help engineer to develop optimized model.
Challenges faced
- Maintaining the micron range of clearances between the rotating parts.
- Capturing the physics between rotors with collapsible mesh and solving using UDF's (user define functions).
- Accurate modeling is required to capture the gaps in assembly in order to predict the accurate volumetric efficiency.
- To provide acceptable mesh, density is critical within the gaps.
Hence it is proposed to design, develop a Gerotor oil pump using CFD techniques. The CFD model is useful for concept considerations in an early stage of product development. The model can be easily integrated with the other associated hydraulic systems to the pump. The key performance parameter of Gerotor pump like mass flow rate and outlet pressure with respect to speed can be easily predicted with acceptable accuracy. From the above study, complex pumps like Gerotor can be developed as per Industrial Standards.


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Fears raised about impact of Exmouth seafront development on Jurassic Coast
PUBLISHED: 14:55 09 August 2017 | UPDATED: 14:55 09 August 2017
Protestors against plans to redevelop Exmouth seafront have warned that the World Heritage Site (WHS) status of the nearby Jurassic Coast could be affected.
Save Exmouth Seafront (SES) says that plans by East Devon District Council (EDDC) for a watersports centre, developed by Grenadier Estates, at Queen's Drive, could harm the setting of the WHS, which begins at Orcombe Point around a mile to the east.
In response, EDDC said there have always been a mix of uses of the seafront, which is not itself part of the WHS.
SES says its fears are based on correspondence with Malcolm Hart, emeritus professor of micropalaeontology at Plymouth University and vice-chair of the science and conservation advisory group of the WHS.
Professor Hart told the Journal: "I raised the issue that - perhaps - developments in Exmouth could be deemed to damage the view from the WHS, though - of course - with a town already in place, it is different to the views of open sea at the other end of the site.
"At the present time one has no idea as to how UNESCO would react. One really is in uncharted waters when it comes to perceptions of what does, or does not, damage a site."
Sam Scriven, of the Jurassic Coast Trust, said it had not been formally consulted, but added: "It is true that the new buildings will be visible from Orcombe Point, and that they might have an impact on the setting of the World Heritage Site.
"However, the extent of that impact is unclear and we will need to assess the plans in detail before making a judgement."
An SES spokesperson said: "SES now urges both EDDC and its preferred developer Grenadier Estates to re-consider the building of a watersports centre, for such a development risks destroying the vista from Orcombe Point and threatens the entire existence of the WHS."
An EDDC spokesperson said: "It is important to understand that Exmouth seafront is not part of the WHS. This starts at Orcombe Point.
"There have always been a mix of uses on Exmouth seafront, some of which are less attractive than others and our commitment has always been to improve the attractiveness of the area."
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- Sean Hannity has encouraged the president to release a classified memo that Republicans say exposes an anti-Trump conspiracy at the FBI and the Department of Justice, The Daily Beast reported.
- Hannity has publicly pressed for the release of the memo, which suggests that law-enforcement officials misled a judge in seeking a warrant to surveil a former Trump campaign adviser.
- Hannity denied The Daily Beast's report, calling it "fake news."
Sean Hannity, the right-wing Fox News personality, has had regular private conversations with President Donald Trump about a classified memo that Republicans say exposes an anti-Trump conspiracy at the FBI and the Department of Justice (DOJ), according to three sources with knowledge of their conversations who spoke to The Daily Beast.
Hannity has consistently pressed for the public release of the four-page memo, written by Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee, on his show, and Trump has reportedly referenced several of Hannity's #ReleaseTheMemo segments in conversations with the cable host.
The memo, which suggests that FBI and DOJ officials misled a judge in seeking a warrant to extend secret surveillance of a former Trump campaign adviser, has sparked widespread controversy. Democrats who have read the document say its contents are misleading.
Both the FBI and DOJ strongly oppose releasing the memo, saying there are significant inaccuracies and the potential for classified information to be compromised.
The Washington Post reported on Friday that Trump was easily convinced by his advisers and Republican lawmakers to release the memo, despite the White House's concerns that it would precipitate a showdown between the president and the intelligence community, including the FBI director, Christopher Wray, who has asked the president to prevent the memo's release.
Hannity denied The Daily Beast's report, which was based on interviews with two White House staffers and one outside adviser.
"A total lie, Fake news. Phony 'anonymous sources'. Amazing how the left wing media just makes Sh&)(: up," Hannity wrote on Twitter.
Hannity has called the alleged corruption within the FBI "the biggest political scandal in American history" and suggested on his Wednesday night show that he had inside information about the memo's contents. The radio and TV host has long acted as an informal adviser to the president, who is also a personal friend.
"There's so much more coming, I wish I could share it with you now," he said.
Brennan Weiss contributed to this report.
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On Friday, a group of 54 African countries, including Egypt,demanded that U.S. President Donald Trump apologize for his alleged denunciation of immigration from "shithole" nations.
It was reported that Trump demanded to know why the United States should accept immigrants from "shithole countries", after lawmakers raised the issue of protection for immigrants from African nations, Haiti and El Salvador.
In a series of tweets on Friday morning, Trump insisted that, "this was not the language used." But a U.S. senator attendingthe meeting said the president repeatedly called the countries "shitholes."
After his comments, a group of African ambassadors to the United Nations held an emergency session, lasting for four hours, toconsiderTrump's remarks.They stated that they were "concerned at the continuing and growing trend from the U.S. administration toward Africa and people of African descent to denigrate the continent and people of color."
The African ambassadors expressed their solidarity with the people of Haiti and other countries that wereaddressed in Trump's comments; they also expressed their appreciation forthe American citizens who condemned these statements.
Spokeswoman EbbaKalondo was quoted as saying: "Given the historical reality of how many Africans arrived in the United States as slaves, [PresidentTrump's] statement flies in the face of all accepted behavior and practice," according to the Independent.
"This is particularly surprising as the United States of America remains a global example of how migration gave birth to a nation built on strong values of diversity and opportunity," She continued.
Both Botswana and Senegal have called on their U.S. ambassadors to express their "displeasure" with Trump's "racist" statements. Haiti, Cuba and Venezuela also condemned Trump's statements.


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Planning and Managing Orchards for Hobby and Business
Tree fruit are an important component of the agricultural and homeowner landscape. Planting and management of apple and other tree fruit orchards is a rewarding hobby and business, but you cannot simply plant trees and expect good fruit. There's a lot that goes into successful orcharding!
This course trains beginning tree fruit growers in fundamental concepts in orchard planning and management. Content will include site selection and management, rootstock and cultivar selection, orchard systems, pest management, nutrient management, and harvest considerations for commercial orchards tailored to the northeast U.S.
Target Audience
All levels – The course is for beginning tree fruit growers, or experienced growers seeking a refresher on basic concepts in orchard management. The topics covered will be specific to orchard systems and may not be appropriate for all climatic zones.
Course Objectives
At the completion of this course, you will:
- Understand of the basics of tree fruit production, harvesting, and marketing
- Have information sources to develop an orchard planting and management plan
The bulk of the course happens on your own time, with discussions, readings, and assignments in Teachable, our virtual classroom. To add to the experience, webinars will be woven into the online interface of the course to allow you to meet on a weekly basis to learn from outside presenters and ask questions to address your farm issues in real time. If you miss one, they are always recorded and posted for later viewing. Access details will be posted in Teachable once you have registered and logged in.
Webinar Schedule
Wed Jan 13, 2021 from 6:30-8pm Eastern, and every Wed after that until the final webinar on Wed Feb 17. All webinars will be recorded and shared for later viewing.
Your Instructor
Anna Wallis was formerly the regional fruit specialist in Northeastern NY for Cornell
Cooperative Extension, working as part of the Eastern NY Commercial
Horticulture Program. She works with apple and grape growers in the cold
climate of upstate NY—a great place to grow Honeycrisp and McIntosh
apples, and cold climate grapes. She holds a Master's Degree in Plant
Science from the University of Maryland, and is currently pursuing her PhD at Cornell.
As Tree Fruit Specialist for the Eastern NY Commercial Horticulture Team, Michael Basedow covers the Lake Champlain and Upper Hudson Valley regions and is housed in the CCE Clinton office. Michael has a B.S. in Plant Sciences/Horticulture from Cornell and a M.S. in Horticulture from Penn State University. Michael comes to CCE from PSU Extension, where he served as a tree fruit extension educator developing and delivering fruit extension programs, including specialized programs for beginning and young farmer audiences. Michael also has extensive tree fruit field and applied research experience with apple growers, including a stint at the Hudson Valley Lab as an undergraduate at Cornell.


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Aglaophenia longiramosa Fraser, 1945a
Calder, Dale R. & Choong, Henry H. C., 2018, Names of hydroids (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) established by Charles McLean Fraser (1872 - 1946), excluding those from Allan Hancock Expeditions, Zootaxa 4487 (1), pp. 1-83: 58-59
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Aglaophenia longiramosa Fraser, 1945a
Aglaophenia allmani Nutting, 1900: 100 , pl. 22, figs. 2, 3 [replacement name for Aglaophenia ramosa Αllman, 1877, not A. ramosa ( Busk, 1852) ].
Aglaophenia longiramosa Fraser, 1945a: 22 , figs. 2a –c.
Macrorhynchia allmani .— Cairns et al., 1991: 29.
Holotype. USNM 43463: USA, Florida, Gulf of Mexico off Panama City, R/V Pelican Sta. 142-5, 29°58'N, 86°03'W, 0 4 March 1939, one colony with many detached hydrocladia, ca. 12 cm high, in very good condition, without gonophores, labelled " type "; ethanol.
Paratype. BCPM 976-00788-001: USA, Alabama, off Mobile Bay, 29°58'N, 88°03'W (corrected to 29°58'N, 86°03'W), 16 fm (29 m), one colony fragment, 7 cm high, in rather poor condition, without gonothecae; dry (but see Remarks below).
Type locality. USA, Florida: R/V Pelican Sta. 142-5, Gulf of Mexico off Panama City, 29°58'N, 86°03'W; " U.S. N.M. 43463" ( Fraser 1945a).
Current status. Invalid.
Remarks. Fraser (1945a) designated material at the NMNH ( USNM 43463) as the " type " of Aglaophenia longiramosa . That collection was thereby fixed as the name-bearing type of the species. It is currently listed as syntype material in the online database of the NMNH, but the single colony in the collection constitutes a holotype. A specimen of the species in the Fraser Hydroid Collection at the RBCM ( BCPM 976-00788-001), from the same location, was not fixed as a name-bearing type. The hydroid, now dry, is a paratype ( ICZN Art. 72.1.3).
In the original description of Aglaophenia longiramosa by Fraser (1945a), and in a record of the species in the Fraser Hydroid Collection at the RBCM ( BCPM 976-00788-001) by Arai (1977), locality data are given as Pelican Sta. 142-5, 29°58'N, 88°03'W, 16 fm (29 m). In being in the Gulf of Mexico off Mobile BayGoogleMaps , Alabama, that does not coincide with location data accompanying the holotype ( USNM 43463View Materials) in the NMNH online database. The latter, centroid latitude 29.9667, longitude -86.05 (29°58'N, 86°03'W), Gulf of Mexico off Panama City, Florida, is accepted here as being correct. Additional supportive evidence is provided by location data on a label with the specimen (29°58'N, 86°03'W)GoogleMaps . It is likely that the discrepancy is due to a typographical error in the longitude record (88°03'W instead of 86°03'W).
Another sample of the species at the NMNH ( USNM 70027), from a station off the coast of southern South Carolina, was not mentioned in the original description of the species and is not type material. While Fraser (1947a) reported A. longiramosa only from off northern Georgia, a geographically equivalent location, it does not accord with the type locality of A. longiramosa .
Bogle (1975) and Calder (1997) regarded Aglaophenia longiramosa as probably conspecific with Macrorhynchia allmani ( Nutting, 1900) . The binomen M. allmani is a replacement name for Aglaophenia ramosa Allman, 1877 , a junior secondary homonym of A. ramosa ( Busk, 1852) . Although secondary homonymy no longer exists, with the junior name now assigned to Macrorhynchia Kirchenpauer, 1872 , the name M. allmani is nevertheless valid under the Code ( ICZN Art. 59.3) (see Calder 1997: 65).
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.
Aglaophenia longiramosa Fraser, 1945a
|Calder, Dale R. & Choong, Henry H. C. 2018
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Kourtney Kardashian and Sofia Richie reportedly fighting over who spends Christmas holidays with Scott Disick
Scott Disick may be in the middle of a Christmas crisis, for both Kourtney Kardashian and Sofia Richie are fighting over spending the holidays with him
Scott Disick might be in a state of complete jeopardy, as he has to decide whether he wants to spend his upcoming Christmas holiday celebrations with his ex-girlfriend Kourtney Kardashian or his current girlfriend Sofia Ritchie and his three kids.
Sofia, as per multiple reports, was apparently left feeling extremely hurt and neglected after seeing Scott spend his Thanksgiving holiday with his ex Kourtney and their three kids. But with Christmas and New Year coming up just around the corner, Scott wants to avoid hurting Sofia as much as possible.
However, the 'KUWTK' star also does not want to damage his current rapport with Kourtney in any way, so this year, he has taken a firm stance for girlfriend Sofia and to that end, an insider at Hollywood Life has claimed that Scott has "made it clear that he would love to bring Sofia to the annual [KarJenner] Christmas Eve party."
"Last year he wasn't able to bring her as his plus one and it was hard on him," the source revealed to the media outlet. "He didn't enjoy having to feel divided. The party is at [Kim Kardashian's] house and she has no issue with him dating Sofia."
The reality star further feels he's "found a little loophole to scoring Sofia an invite," and he's crossing his fingers that Kim will give the thumbs-up sign for him to bring Sofia along. However, an inside source close to the Kar-Jenner family noted that it's "unlikely" that Kim would give Scott permission to bring Sofia without asking Kourtney first, "but Scott's been trying".
On the other hand, a second insider is now claiming that Kourtney has no intentions of spending the holiday season with Sofia. "Kourtney has discussed holiday plans with Scott and made him aware how much it would mean to her and the kids to celebrate together with their whole family."
The source added, "Kourtney understands that Scott may feel torn when it comes to splitting his time with Sofia, and with their family, but Kourtney feels the kids' needs should always come first."
"Kourtney really hopes Scott makes what she believes is the right decision in her eyes," the second source said, adding, "and spends the holidays as a family. Scott has mentioned bringing Sofia along to celebrate with them, but Kourtney doesn't know if she's ready to make a big step like that just yet."
We now know what Scott and Kourtney want their holiday plans to be like, but what does Sofia want? "Sofia wants to steal Scott away from Kourtney for a romantic trip during the holidays," a source close to her said to the media outlet. "Sofia wants to spend quality time alone with Scott after Christmas and during New Year."
"She [Sofia] does not want to lose Scott to Kourtney," the source said, adding, "and give his ex more time to take and post more pics of them together. Sofia is even open to bringing Scott's kids along for a ski vacation or maybe somewhere tropical, as long as Kourtney is not involved."
Scott may go along with Sofia's plans, as apparently, the reality star is "very impressed by how Sofia hasn't lashed out or isn't trying to stir up drama in ways you'd expect — and it has made him even more attracted to her. If Kourtney was trying to tear them apart, she has not succeeded."
The only way to find out if Scott gets his wish fulfilled or not is to watch out for some of those brightly lit up Christmas pictures of the Kardashians.


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Workhorse Adds SD-10 Screen Drying Cabinet
Includes industrial filter, 120-volt heater, and more.
March 10, 2017
Workhorse Products now offers the SD-10 screen drying cabinet, designed to speed drying time while reducing pinholes caused by contaminants. Features include an industrial filter, 222-CFM output blower, adjustable pressurized or circular airflow, 1200-F heater, and temperature controller with a digital readout that displays both the set and actual internal temperatures. The cabinet is designed to hold up to 10 screens ranging from 20 x 24 in. to 25 x 36 in. with adjustable rack space.
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What it will cost you if you neglect your vehicle
With the increasing costs of car repairs it is easy to turn a blind eye on problems that your car is experiencing. You must be aware of the signs that your car is displaying or it will one way or another cause you real trouble and end up costing you in the end. The sooner you take action the less it will cost you in the long run.
Failing to address your car's problems could be result in -
More Serious Damage
A small leak can turn into a major one. Not checking fluids could cause the engine to seize etc.
If your car is not operating at optimum you are endangering yourself and others. For example, if you feel your brakes working differently and you decide to ignore it, it could eventually lead to brake failiure.
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One fault can lead to another if it is not taken care of as soon as possible.
We will be blogging about car maintenance, car tips and new car products so please check back soon.


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Green Hell
Rating SummaryBased on 17 critic reviews
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Developer: Creepy Jar
Genres: Survival, Simulation
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Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Aside from the plot, I'd say most of what held my attention about Green Hell was how dazzlingly beautiful and technically impressive it was, but the more traditional survival elements are all solid enough that I look forward to playing more.
The Games Machine
Green Hell is a wild and spectacular indie survival because there is so much to do and a lot to risk at every step. It has intriguing mechanics, solid gameplay and extreme realism that blend well with the deadly Amazonian context, forcing the player to engage himself to not dying every 15 minutes. Some minor bugs and technical issues cannot ruin one of the most exciting experiences on the survival scene.
Review in Italian | Read full review
If games like The Forest were up your alley, I do recommend giving Green Hell a shot. However, if you're easily frustrated by obscure deaths vs trial and error, I'd recommend starting out at the easier difficulty so you can enjoy what it has to offer without needing to wrestle in frustration.
One of the best survival game experiences since The Forest. Beautiful, immersive and scary, Green Hell is a little masterpiece. The Amazonian jungle is impeccably transcribed, and the game, hard, beautiful, scary and punishing is a real breath of fresh air in the survival genre.
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Al Lord from The Kevin Lord Memorial Foundation presented at cheque for $3,000 to Matthews House Hospice at Matthews House Hospice's annual golf tournament on September 12.
"We were very proud to have chosen Matthews House Hospice and the Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada as the two major organizations to support again this year along with other various worthy causes," said Mr. Lord. "It has only been with the great support that we continue to receive from friends and family over the past 12 years with our foundation's fundraising effort from our annual golf tournament that we are able to give back in memory of our son by keeping to our motto, 'A Helping Hand In Helping Others.'"
Pictured above, Al Lord and staff of Matthews House Hospice from left, Brenda Pufek, Andrea Roylance, Margo Cooney, Lord, Steve Aelick, Kim Woodland, Marv Chantler.
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BTS is known for their hairstyle looks and colours, for example, red, purple, orange, and many more! Let's take a moment to explore the many hair colours members of BTS have tried out before!
Black- J-Hope
Black- Jimin
Black- Jin
Black- Jungkook
Black- Rap Monster
Black- Suga
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Blonde- V
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Brown- J-Hope
Brown- Jimin
Brown- Jin
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Green- Jin
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Phil Aldridge created his first theatre show, The Carpenters Story, and thanks to its success formed The Illegal Eagles in 1997.
Now established as the world's official No.1 Eagles tribute, the Illegal Eagles have been delighting audiences for 20 years, capturing the emotion of Don Henley's vocal deliveries. One things for sure…there is nothing Desperado about this show as you head back to the Hotel California.
Classic hits from The Eagles include Take It Easy, Witchy Woman, Heartache Tonight, Best Of My Love, One Of These Nights, Lyin'Eyes, Take It To The Limit, New Kid In Town, Hotel California, Life In The Fast Lane and many more. The Illegal Eagles show takes you through the musical history of The Eagles and we interviewed Phil ahead of his flying visit to Potters in May 2020...
Can you tell us about your role in the Illegal Eagles?
The band was started in 1996 after I saw the Eagles Hell Freezes Over tour, where the band united for the first time in 14 years. I was devastated when I saw the last concert at Wembley Stadium and I couldn't believe that this was the last time that I would hear the Eagles play live, so I began to assemble a band dedicated to celebrating the Eagles music in concert. I required the talent of the best rock musicians on the scene and knew some of the best musicians from my experience in the industry. We had 37 vocal rehearsals before we even picked up the instruments. We have been going for over 20 years and it has now turned into a much bigger production, so I am mainly the producer now, but still sometimes take to the stage to perform as a drummer. I have to make sure that the show sounds right, as it's a complicated sound system, the logistics happen and that the film footage at the back of the set is showing. There's around six or seven of us in the band with four lead guitarists and one bass guitarist, and all five provide lead vocals.
Have you always been a fan of the Eagles?
Yes, I remember in my later school years playing piano to Desperado and singing along to it with my friends, which was in the days before iPads.
Have you ever met any of the Eagles?
No, but I have seen them live. A journalist friend of mine met Joe Walsh and told them about us, and apparently Joe wondered how we managed to perform with so few people on stage.
What's your favourite Eagles song?
Peaceful Easy Feeling as it makes me feel happy. It's just a great song and the arrangement is incredible.
Do you try and impersonate the Eagles through their look and mannerisms?
No, it's a pure celebration of the music and we try to be accurate in that. We are British rock musicians so we are different to them, but we try and capture their essence. Many people wouldn't necessarily know what Don Henley or the other members looked like anyway.
What's your career highlight?
With the Carpenters Story we were performing at the London Palladium and had booked half an orchestra with violins and harps to accompany us. It was that realisation when we were rehearsing before going on and seeing the venue empty, knowing we were going to be performing later.
What instruments do you play?
Drums, piano and orchestra percussion.
How well do you all get on?
Like any band over the years we've had issues, but now we have the most brilliant strong line-up.
Have you toured the world with the band?
Yes, we went to Russia last year and have been to Malaysia, Bangkok, Singapore and Europe. I love Asia and all the culture that you soak up with a visit there.
What is the atmosphere like at your shows?
The audience are all fans of the music, and there's so much fun and excitement. The experience starts 20 minutes before the show and we will be at Potters all day on the day we're performing. We love to meet the fans too, so will try and arrange something before or after the show.
Have you ever been to the Hotel California?
I've been to California as I was best man at the wedding of one of our former guitarists Geoff. I have stayed at a Hotel California in Torquay.
Is there a band that you'd like to pay tribute to next?
I'd like to do something with Billy Joel or around New York music.
Here are 10 of the biggest Eagles hits…
- Hotel California – it won the 1977 Grammy Award for Record of the Year
- Take It Easy – the song was the Eagles debut single
- Take it to the Limit
- Lyin' Eyes – it won the 1975 Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a duo or group
- Best of My Love – it gave the Eagles their first No.1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart in 1975
- Heartache Tonight
- Desperado – never formally released as a single, it remains a favourite of Eagles fans to this day
- The Long Run
- Already Gone – only a handful of hits not written by any member of the Eagles
- Life in the Fast Lane – this song saw the group leaving some of their country tendencies behind.


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What's Worth Watching: Frontline, This Is Us, The Middle, NCIS and more for Tuesday, January 17
Frontline (9/8c, PBS, check local listings at pbs.org): In gripping and grim detail over two nights (concluding Wednesday), PBS's signature public-affairs program dissects the polarization and disaffection with government that has led the country to the events of this week, when the ultimate outsider will take the oath of office. In "Divided States of America," Frontline stalwart Michael Kirk reaches back to President Obama's first presidential campaign and first term—the bailout, the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the rise of the Tea Party—to depict a climate of intransigent Washington gridlock and angry anti-elite groundswell that found its first champion in Sarah Palin. Her challenge to the establishment rocked the GOP and, the program argues, manifested in the improbable rise of Donald Trump. Watch, listen, learn, and ponder where we go from here.
This Is Us (9/8c, NBC): This winning family drama takes us back to "the big day," with the impending birth of the triplets causing great stress for Rebecca (Mandy Moore) and Jack (Milo Ventimiglia). It's not a walk in the park for a grieving Dr. K (Gerald McRaney), either—and we even get some insight into the firefighter responsible for bringing baby Randall to the hospital.
Comedy Tonight: Among the sitcom highlights, Axl (Charlie McDermott) freaks on ABC's The Middle (8/7c) when he realizes he hasn't sent out job resumes with only four months until graduation. Just as world-changing, Brick (Atticus Shaffer) gets an ultimatum from weirdo girlfriend Cindy (Casey Burke) that if he doesn't cut down on his compulsive reading, she'll dump him. … Louis is in for it on ABC's Fresh Off the Boat (9/8c) when he wins a "Small Businessman of the Year" award and forgets to thank wife Jessica (Constance Wu) during his speech. … Coming out was easy compared to telling the parents you now have a steady boyfriend, as Kenny (Noah Galvin) learns on ABC's The Real O'Neals (9:30/8:30c). … Netflix takes a new approach to stand-up comedy in Neal Brennan's 3 Mics (streaming Tuesday), during which the comedian uses three different microphones to deliver three forms of humor: the traditional stand-up, the one-liner and the more dramatic confessional monologue. … truTV's Billy on the Street (10:30/9:30c) enlists Keegan-Michael Key to "Name 10 Gay People" and navigate another of Billy Eichner's signature obstacle courses, while a man on the street plays "Walking Dead or Talking Dead?" The fun never stops on this show.
Inside Tuesday TV: Gibbs (Mark Harmon) goes undercover using his former alias to infiltrate an anti-government militia on CBS's NCIS (8/7c). … The CW's No Tomorrow airs its season, and possibly series, finale (9/8c) in which Xavier (Joshua Sasse) learns that his apocalyptic asteroid theory has been validated. How will that impact (so to speak) his relationship with Evie (Tori Anderson)? … Snark alert, as TV Land adapts the podcast and Funny or Die web series Throwing Shade into a weekly series, with hosts Erin Gibson and Bryan Safi reacting to events of the day, from the sublime to the ridiculous—as if there's a distinction anymore.


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In this article, What is Service Virtualization, and How Can It Benefit Developers I discussed how beneficial is to use concepts of service virtualization during development and how it is critical to enable shift-left and Continuous Testing practices. However, one thing is to be aware of the benefits, the other thing is to get all of that into the daily practice within your development teams. In this blog post we would like to focus on how development teams can seamlessly leverage the concept of service virtualization and integration it with Blazemeter and its Mock Services capability there.
Developer Friendly Testing Tools
Developers can be very picky about the tools they want to use. Typically, tools that developers like to use on a daily basis are oriented to stuff that could be expressed via code performed from IDE, or command-line, or accessed via some API. (I speak as someone with more than 10 years in software engineering and architect roles)
Developers are also affected by external factors and constraints – with one of the strongest factors being the architecture of the application that developers are dealing with. If it is a legacy monolith, then the toolchain that the dev team is working on in that project would strongly differ from the team that is dealing with modern and recent stuff focused on microservices, containers, Kubernetes and so on.
Another important factor which influences developers and the tools they use are organizational policies that may define alignment of dev teams around a specific toolchain, tech stack and process – I can simply call it as technical culture of the organization.
Putting all of the above aspects together – i.e. from individual preferences to options enforced by organizational policies – you can ask 10 different developers and you may get 10 different responses based on preferences for different tools, depending on what they previously used, or based on their specific function within the organisation, etc.
Service Virtualization Tools for Developers
That is why we have focused our Service Virtualization (SV) "for developers" efforts around a variety of choices. These include CodeSV to SV-as-Code libraries, APIs to command-line interfaces or IDE plug-ins, and Jenkins pipelines to Docker containers. We want to give developers a choice of tools to fit their needs and also their individual preferences. In this blog post, I will focus on "the purest developer-friendly" SV tool we have in our portfolio – CodeSV.
What is CodeSV?
CodeSV is a regular Java library that could be added to your project as a Maven or Gradle dependency (or as a plain .jar file library if you would prefer this way). It provides two key functionalities:
- Fluent API to easily define your virtual service
CodeSV API is designed in a way that helps you to define your virtual services in code as you type. By using the Builder pattern, you can effectively leverage the IDE power of code-completion to define your virtual service in seconds, and without the need to check documentation after every single method. Everything is self-explanatory, and in addition, the IDE code completion provides auto suggestion capabilities.
I will demonstrate this with an example below. Let's build up a very simple virtual service and explain what I am doing.
First I have to declare what type of request I want to return a virtualized response. In this case, I want to virtualize the response of a GET HTTP request. Clearly, following the same pattern, I can do the same with
forPost() for POST request, etc.
Next, a GET HTTP request pointing to where. As you can see below, I am interested in GETs coming to
myhost.com AOI endpoint for user accounts.
Now I have defined what I am interested in, or what to match, but what about the response?
Ok, this looks promising – from matching of the request I have moved my attention to what I want to return. But what am I going to return?
It is an HTTP 200 message. Would you like to add any text content there?
forGet("myhost.com/api/users").doReturn(okMessage().withStringBody("Hello from virtual service);
And that's it! For any GET HTTP request coming to
myhost.com/api/users I am going to return HTTP 200 with "Hello from virtual service" response. Our first virtual service is here – it is as simple as that. With all of the help from IDE and auto-completion features I can define this in less than 10 seconds (and believe me, I am not a fast typer at all). Putting this to my test code, anytime my application triggers GET to
myhost.com/api/users the virtualized response is returned.
Ok, this example was easy and somewhat artificial. But keep reading, we are going to virtualize something real.
- In-process virtualization engine
CodeSV implementation uses an approach we call "in-process" virtualization. This way CodeSV can virtualize responses over-the-wire without the need to reconfigure application your are testing to point to any special CodeSV endpoint for virtual responses. You just define what you want to virtualize, run your test and everything happens automatically. It does not matter whether you run your test from your IDE or whether the test is checked in to repository and being executed by some CI pipeline.
Our first virtualization exercise
Right, let's take a look at a real use-case. But before we will deep dive into the code, let me first introduce what application we are going to implement and test.
Getting familiar with the demo application
Let's imagine we are developing a slick web banking application called Digital Bank. Such an application will be built around various (micro-)services but it will also have some external 3rd party dependencies. In our case, I would like my Digital Bank application to provide ATM search functionality.
Note: The good news is that this Digital Bank demo application is open-source and is available for your experiments so you can follow this blog post and try all of the actions by yourself – feel free to check its Java source code https://github.com/asburymr/Digital-Bank and Docker distribution: https://hub.docker.com/r/asburymr/digitalbank. You can follow this blog post and try all of the actions by yourself.
In the screenshots below, you can see the home screen of the Digital Bank application and the ATM search functionality available there.
After clicking on magnifier icon on the top, I can enter zip of area I am interested in…
And I see available ATMs in this area…
The little secret is that the ATM search functionality in our Digital Bank application is using 3rd party service instead using anything developed from scratch. In our example we use synapsefi.com – it searches for the ATMs within a radius of the area provided by the zip code. My application just sends request to this 3rd party API, gets results in response and displays them nicely in its user interface.
The ATM search API is pretty easy to be used – it runs over https and with query parameter zip I specify in which area I am interested in and I get the available ATMs in response. All of that I did here (feel free to use any API client, in my case it is a command-line wget) – the following command stores response into file with JSON content:
$ wget https://uat-api.synapsefi.com/v3.1/nodes/atms?zip=94203 { "atms": [ { "atmLocation": { "address": { "city": "San Francisco", "country": "USA", "postalCode": "94114", "state": "CA", "street": "443 Castro Street" }, "coordinates": { "latitude": 37.761746, "longitude": -122.435024 }, "id": "818850", "isAvailable24Hours": true, "isDepositAvailable": true, "isHandicappedAccessible": false, "isOffPremise": false, "isSeasonal": false, "languageType": null, "locationDescription": "US BANK CASTRO", "logoName": "PAS", "name": "U.S. Bank Castro" }, "distance": 0.4101105159902258 }, { "atmLocation": ... } ], "atms_count": 4, "error_code": "0", "http_code": "200", "limit": 20, "page": 1, "page_count": 1, "success": true }
But back to our Digital Bank application. Its architecture is pretty simple. It is a Spring Boot web application with Javascript front-end. For our needs it is enough to know that there is
SearchService class in
io.demo.bank.service package and instance of this class is responsible for the ATM search functionality – it builds a HTTP request to the 3rd party API, gets back the response, converts it to domain objects (list of
AtmLocation entities) and return to the caller.
How to deal with dependencies on 3rd party service during development and testing?
The setup described above is great for what we would like to showcase as the value of service virtualization. We have our application that depends on another service, in this case on a 3rd party service that is out of our control. What is more – we are not only showing data coming from the 3rd party service – we are doing conversions between formats (from JSON to our domain model), and also our application shows it in our tailored UI with icons, status/error messages and so on.
Now, let's assess our options for integration testing of our application and the Synapsefi API which is behind our ATM search functionality. We could hard-code the zip code and do the assertions to define expected test results we are getting from the real service. However, how can we make our test stable if we do integrate with an API that returns data that may change over time? In our case the data are not subject to be changed every minute or even second, like in the case of for example weather forecast, stock exchange or traffic information,… – but still it can change as the new ATMs are being added or moved to different locations. In our test we would like to use some immutable case and not rely on results that may change.
Also, we are getting a "correct" response – Synapsefi API just works and returns data we would expect for a particular location. But what about figuring out how our application would behave if it will encounter some corner or edge case data – does it handle them properly or would these cases break the UI? What if the response from the 3rd party API is timing out or taking too long to respond due to network issues? Will our application recover and try it again, or just show some cryptic timeout exception in the UI? What if the 3rd party API will not be available temporarily – will our app fail gracefully or will it freeze? Will it also paralyze our testing? (Most likely it will…). And what if the 3rd party API will return some empty data because their data provider cannot deliver them – could our app recover and display some user-friendly error? There are many "what ifs" and remember we are just talking about a very simple use-case.
In theory, we can create some hard-coded mock implementation (that will just cover all "what ifs" cases from above) but this takes time, does not scale and it is simply hardcoded for a single service and single use-case. And we have to realize we are talking about very simple scenario here – imagine that our app has more dependencies that could be much more complex.
The solution to these issues is to use the service virtualization approach that helps to easily describe how the dependency should be virtualized, and do it in a flexible, reusable and scalable way. This way we are able to define tests that will really prove whether our integration with 3rd API is ready for any eventual case that may happen.
Time for action with CodeSV
Let's wrap up our intro blog post with our very first definition of a virtual service for Synapsefi API. We will define a simple test that will test the integration between our application and the 3rd party API. This way we will get a robust test that ensures our application correctly interprets ATM location response and results.
In the
AtmLocationSearchTest class (
io.demo.bank.test.junit.search package) let's define
positiveResultTest() test.
@Test public void positiveResultTest() throws Exception { List<AtmLocation> results = searchService.searchATMLocations("94203"); assertTrue(results.size() == 2); }
This test initiates the ATM search flow for the 94203 zip code. It retrieves results from Synapsefi API. It then asserts whether the number of ATMs is equal to the expected number. This test is fine, except the fact that Synapsefi API could return various results over the time.
To fix this, we can virtualize Synapsefi API directly in the test method using CodeSV, as you can see below. First, we will add the following lines to the beginning of the test.
forGet("https://uat-api.synapsefi.com:443/v3.1/nodes/atms") .matchesQuery("zip", "94203") .usingHttps( withSecureProtocol("TLS") .keystorePath(KEYSTORE_PATH) .keystorePassword(KEYSTORE_PASSWORD) .keyPassword(KEYSTORE_PASSWORD) ) .doReturn(okMessage().withJsonBody(POSITIVE_RESULTS_OK));
There is a definition of the virtual service written directly in the code. It defines that for any GET HTTP request pointing to Synapsefi path that the test is going to hit, the service is going to return OK response with JSON body containing the response string literal defined in
POSITIVE_RESULTS_OK format. You may notice
usingHttps() method that indicates the virtual service should support https connections.
Now, anytime when this test runs, it will hit the virtual service provisioned in process (note the test, or the application respectively, still believes it is connecting to the real Synapsefi service). The virtual response returns 2 ATMs found – the same as our assertion is expecting. Therefore, we can test whether our application implementation, and especially response handling of Synapsefi response, is correctly implemented.
To try out CodeSV for yourself click here, or watch this online video.
Petr Vlasek
Petr works as Product Owner at Broadcom with focus on Continuous Testing products and solutions. In past he worked in architect and product roles in areas of workload automation, application security and blockchain research. His current passion is finding of innovative ways how to take Continuous Testing solutions to the next level and make them developer-friendly.


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This does not happen due to a dearth of tools, it's simply because there are few key steps that developers need to keep in mind before building the first app. Do you know why many mobile apps fail, it's due to the wrong selection of beta testers. In addition to this, beta testing is something no one should ignore. And one of the main ways you can avoid stress when moving is to, actually, leave plenty of time for any task. While most businesses fall into this category, enlisting the professional services of a freight forwarding company can ensure an efficient end-to-end process that saves considerable time and money. Being a reliable mobile app developer, you cannot fall for such a basic app failure trap. Covering these aforementioned essentials or putting them in place post-launch — will help you build long-term value for your app and for your users. I there are several apps featuring no glitch, just at par with what you call perfection but fails to lure the users while some apps lack in terms of development, deployment and even marketing.
So, here are some time management hacks that will help you stay organized when moving. According to the latest stats maximum number of time is spent on smartphones and internet for exploring events nearby, gather news and get day-to-day alerts. The first thing that you need is an effective plan to get started. All you need to do is get in touch with a moving company which will make your relocation look much easier. 1. Experience of the company – Since the demand for these services is growing, you can find several players in the market. As customer volumes expand as businesses grow, the additional customer numbers demand more and more consignments to be delivered, be it on a domestic or international level. You're not alone – the demand for these highly versatile and durable shutters is extremely high, making PVC plantation shutters one of the most popular types of blinds and shutters.
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I have been doing longer rides as of late but when this Saturday rolled along we decided to spend it together and just do something different. A food truck rally was discussed. Going to a Rowdies game was discussed, but in the end we decided to check out a local train museum Where as the panhandle and eastern seaboard of Florida were always well populated, the center and west coast owes a great debt to the railroads. Frankly, without the rails, most of Florida would still be cattle land and swamps.
The Robert W. Willaford Railroad Museum is open to the public at no cost and sits in the historic downtown area of Plant City. In all honestly it's small, but packed with train and railroad memorabilia, mostly from one private collector. What is truly amazing to me is that nearly all of the equipment and other memorabilia, was at one time actually used on the railroads. In other words, the caboose was not a replica, but one of only 7 left in the country and here I was climbing around in like a little boy with a big smile on my face.
I've often wondered what the caboose was like in side, and it contained everything that you would need for a comfortable trip, desks, beds, bathroom, a stove and sink. Even a simple refrigerator. A RV on rails.
Speaking of being on rails. I've no idea if Honda actually made this or if it was somehow converted to a particular task.
|Sue collects old cases and luggage, so her eyes lit up
|The detail on some of the artwork was amazing. Notice the watch and ring for example.
Sue and I had decided to drive up instead of taking the bike and I'm glad we did. Summer in Florida tends to be sunny, hot and humid. After looking over a bit more of the museum we decided to cross the street to visit the Whistle Stop Cafe, famed for their 5 cent cherry smash (or cherry syrup in seltzer). It was surprisingly light and refreshing and the rest of the meal was just delightful. Homemade soup and bread which left us licking the bowls and wanting more.


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One brand will be remembered from Super Bowl XLVII and it isn't due to Super Bowl Commercials.
Yes, last night was Super Bowl XLVII, and an interesting one at that. It was fun seeing the 49ers come back after being down 20+ points in the first half. The half-time show comes on and Beyoncé looked great (well if you like to watch her shake her body). Sadly she was lip syncing the songs or at least it looked that way. Now, I am not a huge sports fan and honestly, I could not care who won last night. I did watch most of the game at a friends house though and the one thing I found most interesting though was I was not overly impressed with the commercials. Isn't this the big day for all ads? Were these big ads overshadowed? Hmmm…
Over the last few years, Brandwise promoted a few commercials we thought were good. Nothing really grabbed me this year. The one thing that did grab me was the fact that the Super Bowl was in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans. Sadly after Beyoncé's performance all the lights went out. Then some of them came back on, well half of them. So we were ready to get back to the game and found we were unable to do so due to issues with the lights.
Wow if you paid all that money for your tickets and had to sit in the dark for a bit and then your half of the stadium was kind of dark… you might get pretty pissed off. You might even wonder who is at fault for such a thing? Well I had a quick flashback to Katrina and everyone living in the Superdome, and the following horrors that went with it. Scary thought right? Yeah! Then I flashed back to the beginning of the game or at least where I started watching the game and remembered the Superdome roof with the Mercedes-Benz logo on it.
Now I am not sure if anyone at the game last night thought about or blamed Mercedes-Benz for this 34 minute power outage or not, but they are the first people who came to my mind. Think about this…
- how much money is spent to get the super bowl in your city?
- how much money is actually spent putting on the super bowl?
- how much money does it cost to power the lights in a stadium like this?
- how many people are watching the game?
- how much did spectators pay to get tickets, food and drinks at the game?
- why was there no redundant power supply or backup generators to cover the most popular US sporting event each year?
- after the disaster of Katrina, why wasn't this handled better?
- and lastly, what does it cost to get your brand name tied to the stadium?
Ok, we are talking about a lot of money for all the above questions. Here is the REAL branding question… who's name is most known from last nights event? Is it the teams? Is it Beyoncé? Is it one of the commercial advertisers? OR IS IT Mercedes-Benz?
How do you think this affects the Mercedes-Benz brand? Does this make you trust their products or is this a chink in their armor? Ok, granted this may not be Mercedes-Benz's fault, but they are the most prominent name tied to the stadium and there is a good chance some people will blame them and think this is what can be expected from a foreign car company (even if it is merged with Chrysler to form DaimlerChrysler AG until 2007). Anyhow, the real culprit is the Entergy Corporation, it was their equipment. I am not sure if anyone heard anything about Entergy though since their name isn't on the stadium as is Mercedes-Benz.
So what do you think? Who will take the fall for this? Will it be Mercedes-Benz? Does that fact that they brand the Superdome hinder their brand? Does it make you think differently about who you partner up with? How quickly can a perfect reputation be soiled by something like this? What are your thoughts on how this affected the Mercedes-Benz brand?
Has this silly incident changed the Super Bowl? I got tired and quit watching the game and I'd bet the same was true for others. The 49ers did have a change of heart coming back after an hour or more of break until the lights were back on. Has this changed the outcome of the game even if the 49ers still lost? Would the Ravens have stomped them into the ground and kept their 21+ lead and just add to it in the last half had they played right after halftime? Who knows, but there certainly will be some people looking to cash in on this problem. Share your thoughts below. How did this make you feel? Had you thought about Mercedes-Benz when things first happened? That is the power of branding, both good and bad.


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MOVIE REVIEWThree-and-a-half out of Five Kernels
"The Good Dinosaur" may have the same heartfelt emotion as so many other Pixar films, but isn't quite as strong as some others in the studios' lineup.
"The Good Dinosaur" imagines a world where the dinosaurs weren't wiped out by a giant asteroid, but rather continue to live and add their marks to the world. This is where we meet little Arlo (voiced by Raymond Ochoa), who lives with his family before a series of mistakes separates him from his family and he becomes lost.
Out in the big, wide world all alone, Arlo must learn to face his fears. Along the way, he befriends the most unlikely of creatures: a human boy.
The initial story doesn't sound that much different than "Land Before Time," or even the dinosaur version of "Finding Nemo," but the end product feels much different. It's part "The Lion King" with some "Ice Age" thrown in, a dash of "Brother Bear" and a smidge of "An American Tail: Fievel Goes West," all mixed together to create an end product that at times feels familiar, but doesn't fail to entertain.
It helps that Arlo and his little "critter" are two of the cutest additions to the Pixar universe. Arlo's fear and inexperience make him both endearing and relatable, despite the fact he's a dinosaur. The boy's animal-like behavior creates more than enough laughs and his dirty, unkempt look make him adorable. And both have the benefit of having large, full eyes that are not only cute and expressive, but where the emotion of their characters emanates.
"The Good Dinosaur" also profits from a strong vocal cast. Finding actors and actresses who can convincingly voice a megaton Apatosaurus or T-Rex and make you believe the voice belongs is a tough job, but Pixar pulls it off thanks to talents like Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand and Sam Elliot, who voice their characters and make you believe in them. Ochoa also gives a strong performance as the timid, sometimes voice-cracking Arlo, proving that animation only does so much to give characters the emotion they so desperately need.
And true to Pixar fashion, the movie hits just about every emotion there is. I don't think Pixar is capable of producing a film that doesn't leave its audience in tears.
As always, Pixar also sets a new bar in the world of animation. There are times where it's hard to believe that what you're seeing is computer-made. In one scene, Arlo stands up from a river and the way the water drips off his scaly skin somehow looks real.
"The Good Dinosaur" will certainly entertain younger audiences, but older audiences should also be able to find some enjoyment as well, perhaps for different reasons. "The Good Dinosaur" also has some valuable lessons on fear, family and love that should resonate with all ages, and therein lies the true heart of film. The themes pull gently on the heartstrings, leaving you with a smile on your face — and if you're like me, a tear in your eye.


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First, a disclaimer: I'm not sure I am a "creative" myself. Sure, I have moments of creativity, but I know folks with much more creativity than I'll ever have.
But, for sure, my musician persona and pastoral responsibility requires me to maintain a few disciplines so that real work and ministry can happen. I'm sure I'm not alone in this.
So, here they are – three things I try to do (not always successfully) to make sure progress is being made through my day.
- Reverse Calendar Engineering
This is more than making a "To Do" list, but it starts there. This is a list that has things arranged in priority, but not necessarily by importance. The priority is arranged like this: the first item is the most important thing I do not want to do that often requires the least amount of creativity. This ensures my first energy is spent on the assignment I would be the most likely to avoid because it doesn't interest me. The item I'm most interested in and most excited about is at the end of the list making it the reward for finishing the rest.
I accomplish more if I knock out the assignments I'm dreading that require no creativity first and then press toward the ones I can't wait to get started that will get my creative juices flowing.
- Visuals That Motivate
The most important feature of my workspace is not a desk or even a computer — it's a white board with plenty of dry erase markers. Assignments, projects, and pending decisions are all arranged on the board so I see them all a hundred times a day.
Right now the screen saver on my computer is the preliminary cover art for a book I need to finish in the next three months. Every time I log on the book cover is staring at me, and I'm jolted back into the reality that I've got a book to write.
- Check Marks, Draw-Through lines, and the Eraser
To most creative people, our "next" idea is the best one and most urgent. Creative people are notorious for not completing tasks and quite often will move on to something new and different before completing the idea from last week that was going to save the world. Every football fan knows a 99-yard drive means nothing if you don't put the ball in the end zone.
Finish the task. Put a check mark by it or a line through it. Or, if your last great idea is proving not to be worth it, get it off the board, and stop spending any time on it.
Closing Thought
In 1 Chronicles 25:8 we find the musicians described as "trained and skillful." Absolutely, we want to be skilled in our work. But, we also need to develop disciplines that train us to work well.
Don't settle for the excuse, "I can't help it. That's just the way I am." God can help all of us develop a few disciplines to use our skill for His glory in the places where we serve.
Ask the Lord to help you grow in this area of your life. It's a prayer I have prayed many times.
Mike Harland is the Director of LifeWay Worship. When he's not directing 30+ employees, you'll find him leading worship at various churches around the country, writing/arranging worship songs and/or, writing his next book. In his spare time, he loves playing basketball and spending time with his family. Mike can be found on Twitter @MikeHarlandLW and on facebook.com/Mike.Harland.37.


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As New Zealand's largest dedicated provider of Microsoft-based solutions, Intergen is the world's first SharePoint Elite partner.
The SharePoint Elite Partner Initiative is a new initiative that recognises staff skills and depth of experience. Working with an Elite-Certified organisation assures a partner with skills and expertise demonstrated to the highest degree through operational excellence and ongoing training for staff.
The Elite initiative certified SharePoint partners in four key areas separated into two streams: the technical stream, encompassing the disciplines of infrastructure and development; and the business stream that covers the disciplines of knowledge management and end user engagement. Intergen has successfully met the requirements to be recognised as a SharePoint Elite Business Partner and is currently working through the process of meeting the requirements of the technical stream.
Wayne Forgesson, Intergen's Director of Marketing, says: "Our SharePoint Elite qualification is great news on a number of fronts. Not only does it recognise our capability and experience with SharePoint but it also recognises the significance of SharePoint in the Microsoft world, and the huge and varied value it can deliver in the hands of the experts."
Darryl Burling, SharePoint Product Manager for Microsoft New Zealand, says "This is a huge achievement for Intergen and a boost for their credibility among SharePoint customers. This goes to show that once again New Zealand is leading the way in technical capabilities, as evidenced by Intergen's completion of this extremely challenging process."
Qualification as an Elite partner involves rigorous training and examinations, devised by Microsoft New Zealand alongside some of the world's best SharePoint training organisations. It also requires a demonstration of a proven methodology and real-world experience, backed up by customer feedback.
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