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Why Use Test Driven Development (TDD)?
Why the need to change to TDD. Talk about what TDD is. Talk about the expectations of TDD.
Legacy applications has constant impediments. Agility and adaptability. Reduces defects which reduces necessary support resources.
Did NOT over- engineer. Not here to write code; you're here to ship products. Automated unit tests sounds great in principle; but we need to cut things out. Customers don't care if there are no automated unit tests.
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Case studies have shown that TDD decreases defect density between 40% to 90%. However, there was an increase in development time but only by 15% to 35%. TDD improves code quality and structure making future changes easier. IBM, Microsoft, and North Carolina State University Case Study IBM, Microsoft, and North Carolina State University Case Study Maria Siniaalto (2006)
Test driven development is where the developer writes an automated unit test before writing the code to make that unit test pass.
You get immediate feedback if your code works or doesn't work. You will have a suite of regression tests. You will have clear use cases in how the methods should be called. Forces you to know your requirements before you begin writing the code.
Hard to write tests correctly. If not done correctly (as in tests are too tightly coupled to implementation) then those tests need to be changed frequently. Can't write unit tests with badly structured code. (As in no layers)
Save time by not in constant debug mode and stepping in and out of code. Visual feedback that all changes have not broken existing parts of the application without having to debug all of the possible parts.
Expect requirements to change. Changing requirements are managed by adopting an incremental approach and paying increased attention to design to accommodate change. Apply more rigor, rather than less, to avoid costly and unnecessary rework. Know why you're testing. Recognize that there are two distinct forms of testing, one to build correct software (debugging) and another to show that the software built is correct (verification). These two forms of testing require two very different approaches.
Elimate errors before testing. Better yet, deploy techniques that make it difficult to introduce errors in the first place. Testing is the second most expensive way of finding errors in the first place. The most expensive way is to let your customers find them for you. Write software that is easy to verify. If you don't, verification and validation (including testing) can take up to 60% of the total effort. Coding typically takes only 10%. Even doubling the effort on coding will be worthwhile if it reduces the burden of verification by as little as 20%.
Develop incrementally. Make very small changes, incrementally. After each change, verify that the updated system behaves according to its updated specification. Making small changes makes the software much easier to verify. Some aspects of software development are just plain hard. There is no silver bullet. Don't expect any tool or method to make everything easy. The best tools and methods take care of the easy problems, allowing you to focus on the difficult problems.
Software is not useful by itself. The executable software is only part of the picture. It is of no use without user manuals, business processes, design documentation, well-commented source code, and test cases. These should be produced as an intrinsic part of the development, not added at the end. In particular, recognize that design documentation serves two distinct purposes: To allow the developers to get from a set of requirements to an implementation. Much of this type of documentation outlives its usefulness after implementation. To allow the maintainers to understand how the implementation satisfies the requirements. A document aimed at maintainers is much shorter, cheaper to produce and more useful than a traditional design document.
Mocking frameworks are essentially a requirement for automated unit testing. There are a few that are available for free. Teleriks' Just Mock Moq Increase efficiency with Ncrunch www.ncrunch.net
Not afraid to make changes. Not worried about breaking existing code. Loss of code ownership by an individual since anyone can participate in making changes without breaking existing features.
It's hard and it takes patience because the learning curve is steep. There will be more hurdles and obstacles. Technical debt will eventually fade away and customers will notice the difference in quality and efficiency. You'll get 40% to 90% less phone calls at midnight.
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"Our show is not based on life of veteran actor Madhubala and has nothing to do with her. Once you will see the show, you will realise it yourself," says Dhami.
To this, Dsena says, "Our show is actually a tribute to the 100 years of Indian cinema. It will give audiences a glimpse into different sides of the lives of Bollywood stars — their challenges, hardships and also the struggles of everyone including technicians and junior artists who're involved in the making of a megastar.
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An asteroid may come uncomfortably close to Earth in 2036 and the United Nations should assume responsibility for a space mission to deflect it, a group of astronauts, engineers and scientists said.
The 20-million-tonne asteroid could be heading the way towards Kamchatkans and Venezuelans. Californians have even more reason to worry the asteroid is more likely to hit the Pacific Ocean, triggering a tsunami that could devastate the west coast of North America.
Calculations show it would strike somewhere along a narrow track that stretches eastward from Siberia to the west coast of Africa. Astronomers are monitoring the asteroid named Apophis, which has a 1 in 45,000 chance of striking Earth on April 13, 2036.
Although the odds of an impact by this particular asteroid are low, a recent congressional mandate for Nasa to upgrade its tracking of near-Earth asteroids is expected to uncover hundreds, if not thousands of threatening space rocks in the near future, former astronaut Rusty Schweickart said.
"It's not just Apophis we're looking at. Every country is at risk. We need a set of general principles to deal with this issue," Schweickart, a member of the Apollo 9 crew that orbited the Earth in March 1969, told an American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in San Francisco.
Schweickart plans to present an update next week to the UN Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space on plans to develop a blueprint for a global response to an asteroid threat.
The Association of Space Explorers, a group of former astronauts and cosmonauts, intends to host a series of high-level workshops this year to flesh out the plan and will make a formal proposal to the UN in 2009, he said.
The favoured approach to dealing with a potentially deadly space rock is to dispatch a spacecraft that would use gravity to alter the asteroid's course so it no longer threatens Earth, said astronaut Ed Lu, a veteran of the International Space Station.
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Fremont (Calif.) PD's officer Todd Young, 39, is recovering, after a second surgery and an outpouring of support from northern California law enforcement officers who have donated blood and delivered hand-written cards, the San Jose Mercury News reports.
Authorities believe Young was critically wounded on Friday by Andrew Barrientos, 20, of Union City, who shot him twice in the pelvic area, after the officer tried to arrest the suspect during a gang task force investigation.
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This first mint julep recipe is the most common I have come across.
It would be hard to make a julep recipe without fresh mint - frozen or dried wouldn't work.
Each recipe will serve one person.
If you want more, then you could make them in a jug - just multiply the quantities in the recipe.
Take one Collins glass (a largeish tumbler)
Put the sugar into the glass - stir in the water until the sugar dissolves.
Bruise the mint leaves with your fingers and add to the glass - allow to steep.
Put some crushed ice into the bottom of the glass.
Fill up the glass with more crushed ice.
Pour the bourbon over and stir.
Serve with a straw you can garnish with a mint leaf if you like.
Original Mint Julep
As above - make the sugar into a syrup or dissolve with a little club soda.
Add the bruised mint leaves - this will release the oils and scent.
Top up the glass with ice and pour over the bourbon.
Top up with club soda - another mint leaf if you like and serve.
Southern Mint Julep
Make as above, but with the mixture being bourbon and southern comfort - would imagine this would be really potent!
Club soda is plain carbonated water for those outside the US
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The school year is winding down at Campbellsville Independent Schools, and so is the search for a new superintendent.
Following a rather short meeting of the CIS Board of Education Monday evening, in which board members spent roughly 10 minutes in executive session, board chair Pat Hall said the board plans to have the district's new superintendent in place by the next regular meeting, scheduled for Monday, May 8 at 6 p.m. at the district office.
"By May 8, we will have a superintendent in place," Hall said.
Straight-line winds came through Campbellsville Tuesday night, causing damage to a few local businesses along E. Broadway Street and knocking down a few trees and power lines in other places.
Ronnie Dooley, public information coordinator for Taylor County Emergency Management, said the winds came through just before 7 p.m. Tuesday, causing significant damage at Fiesta Mexico restaurant on E. Broadway.
The Campbellsville Main Street group is planning a monthly cleanup day for downtown Main Street.
At a recent CMS meeting, Niki Marineau highlighted how the program, titled "Downtown and Dirty," will work. The group plans to get different groups involved, such as Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and students from Campbellsville University.
The first cleanup day will be Monday, April 24, at about 10 a.m., and the group is planning on it lasting about an hour.
The St. Baldrick's Color to Conquer 5K Run/Walk is coming up, and organizer Donna Wise said she is excited for the event.
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The run/walk will take place this Sunday, April 23, beginning at 2:30 p.m. EDT, at the Pittman Creek Trail in Campbellsville.
At a Campbellsville/Taylor County Chamber of Commerce luncheon, Kentucky Treasurer Allison Ball (R) said she thinks of herself as a "watchdog" for the state's finances.
"When I was campaigning, I kept talking about a watchdog on spending," said Ball. "The treasurer is the chief financial officer of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. All the money goes through me. My job is to be that watchdog, making sure the money goes where it's supposed to go."
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Melissa Pourheydarian, owner of Paint and Party, said the place is unique for a number of reasons, but mostly because it provides an atmosphere that is open to everybody.
Planners for this year's Plow Day and Spring Festival are planning to build on the success of the first one.
"In short, we are planning for a bigger turn-out this year both in plow teams and people," said George Kolbenschlag of the Homeplace, one of the organizers. "I can say for certain we do have more activities, food vendors and arts and crafts coming than last year."
The 2017 regular session of the Kentucky General Assembly ended after months of work that led to passage of over 130 bills that will impact most areas of Kentucky life, from public education to the fight against drug abuse.
Most new laws – those that come from legislation that don't contain emergency clauses or different specified effective dates – will go into effect in late June.
A partial list of bills approved this year by the General Assembly include measures on the following topics:
The city will undertake a $4.3 million project to fix a sludge problem at the Campbellsville Water Treatment Plant, which the city hopes to fund via the automatic 3-percent increase in water and sewer rates that the Council approved in 2015.
Council member David Nunery said the debt service would be $171,544 a year, and the Council need not take any action for the increase to take place at the beginning of the new fiscal year.
Work on the Taylor County Volunteer Fire Station is on schedule to be finished on time, Taylor County Judge/Executive Eddie Rogers said at a Taylor County Fiscal Court meeting.
But at Tuesday night's meeting, Rogers and magistrates were undecided about what to do about a required retention pond that they said could be a potential drowning risk.
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My bantam golden laced Cochin went in to molt recently. She was kind of moping around at first, but we just thought it was a hard molt. When she didn't get better we brought her inside and tried to figure out what was wrong with her. We checked her eyes and her pupils didn't react to light so we decided she was blind, which so far appears to be very accurate. She seems to still be able to see colour but not shapes (she can recognize bright food but can't see hands and runs of tables). We started giving her eye drops, but it didn't seem to affect her very much. Then she started to turn white, the base of her feathers is white. The feather part is white. Basically her under-feathering is totally white. We thought she might have genetic nutritional deficits, which would explain losing colour in her feathers and her deteriorating eyesight, but nothing else seems to be affected. Recently a friend told me that this was happening all over the state (WA state), and that someone who did a necropsy thought it was a more virulent form of Mareks. I've heard of ocular mareks, and her pupils are sort of strange but I can't find white feathers as a symptom and the Cochin doesn't seem to have any of the other symptoms. She walks fine when she wants to, though being blind means she sometimes would rather sit on her heating pad. Her feathers look fine other than being white, and I haven't seen any scabs.
Molting chicken went blind and is now turning white.
Could you post pictures of her eyes? I don't know what is going on with her feathers, but sometimes chickens will feather out differently after a molt. Some breeds don't look like they will end up until the first or second molt. My millefleur bantam this year became much whiter after her molt this fall.
There can be many causes of blindness in chickens besides Mareks disease. Infections, high ammonia levels in the coop air, vitamin A deficiency, avian encephalomyelitis (AE,) fowl pox in the eyes, and cataracts are some of the causes. Here are some good articles to read about eye disorders:
I agree with everything Eggcessive has stated.
I would add that Mareks can effect the feather follicles creating oddities, but usually it is odd growths and bumps, not the feather itself turning white, to my knowledge.
One thing that can cause odd feather regrowth is fenbendazole, which is a wormer, generally sold as Panacur or Safeguard for pigs. Many like to use it for chickens, off label. It can cause weird feather regrowth if it is used during molt.
And, I concur that many chickens change somewhat after the first juvenile or early adult molt, but you won't see a black hen go white unless something is wrong....typically with vitamin/mineral deficiencies.
I'd follow up on the links given by Eggessive to see if there is a deficiency linked with blindness and color loss. I know Vitamin A deficiency can cause trembling, blindness, and paleness.
If anyone is interested or has this problem with there birds:
It turns out she has a common genetic defect, found most famously in a strain of chickens bred for disease testing but also naturally. This defect is a genetic linking of uveitis, which causes blindness and loss of colour in the pupil, and an autoimmune disease causing melanin (the coloring that causes the black colour in feathers and skin) to be lost similar to the human disease (which is actually why they bred the experimental strain).
I hope this helps other people who have this problem.


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SANTA CLARA (AP) - The San Francisco 49ers have signed linebacker Ray-Ray Armstrong to a one-year contract extension that takes him through next season.
EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) - The San Jose Sharks continue to show why they're the NHL's top road team.
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) - Madison Bumgarner pitched three innings in his second appearance of the spring and the San Francisco Giants beat the Cincinnati Reds 16-7 on Tuesday night.
MESA, Ariz. (AP) - Delino DeShields tripled, singled and drove in two runs as the Texas Rangers beat the Oakland Athletics 10-3 Tuesday.
MOSCOW (AP) - The drug at the center of Maria Sharapova's doping case, regularly given to Soviet troops in the 1980s to boost their stamina while fighting in Afghanistan, is normally prescribed for medical use for periods of four to six weeks.
MOSCOW (AP) - Nike and other sponsors swiftly distanced themselves from Maria Sharapova on Tuesday after the world's highest-earning female athlete outed herself as a longtime user of a recently banned drug.
NEW YORK (AP) - A Florida-based soccer consultant and match agent who was once licensed by FIFA pleaded guilty to money laundering and wire fraud conspiracy in a New York City court Tuesday, admitting that he paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to secure media and marketing contracts.
DETROIT (AP) - Calvin Johnson, one the most spectacular receivers in NFL history, retired from the Detroit Lions on Tuesday and rekindled memories of the way superstar running back Barry Sanders quietly stepped away from football.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - The Jacksonville Jaguars took the first step - a huge one - in rebuilding their defense Tuesday.
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Maria Sharapova's tennis career and Olympic hopes are in jeopardy, and she claims it's all because she failed to click on a link in an email that would have told her to stop taking meldonium.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) - In a conference where Jim Harbaugh's star power and Urban Meyer's national-title pedigree dominate the news, Illinois has become an afterthought and the headlines lately have been about the coaches who've been fired or accused of misbehavior.
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PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) - Rickie Fowler didn't care about pretty. He cared about winning.
OAKLAND (AP) - Golden State Warriors center JaVale McGee fired back at Shaquille O'Neal via Twitter after the former star-turned TNT analyst posted on his ...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Russell Westbrook scored 17 points in his 28th triple-double of the season, and his new teammates fit in seamlessly as the Oklahoma ...
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) - Ryan Palmer has reason to believe that better days are ahead, with his golf game and at home.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - The good news for NASCAR is that all signs indicate Dale Earnhardt Jr. has a legitimate shot to win the Daytona ...
MESA, Ariz. (AP) - A change in his catching stance has Josh Phegley feeling fine and ready to resume his role as part of the Oakland ...
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Denny Hamlin didn't need a Toyota teammate to grab another win at Daytona International Speedway.
OAKLAND (AP) - Zaza Pachulia holds his own during competitive games of poker on the airplane alongside Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson - they call it the ...
OAKLAND (AP) - Stephen Curry scored 17 of his 35 points in a 3-point flurry over the final 3:37 of the third quarter, and the ...
SACRAMENTO (AP) - Playing behind All-Star DeMarcus Cousins the past two years, Willie Cauley-Stein has been patiently waiting for his chance with the Sacramento Kings.
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You only had to look at Richie Myler, trying hard to stay cheerful at the Wembley walkabout yesterday, to know that the overnight rumours were true and that the scrum-half had been left out of Warrington's Challenge Cup final side.
The game's most expensive teenager was the man to miss out when Tony Smith named a team containing his two specialist hookers, Jon Clarke and Micky Higham, plus last year's man of the match, Michael Monaghan, who has played there most of the season.
"It's not an easy job and it's not a pleasurable job," said Smith of telling Myler the bad news. "He's had a terrific year and has been very good for us, but he handled it with a lot of maturity. He was gutted, but he's pushed past it and he will have a lot of big games in the future."
This decision is a big call from Smith and it means that he is voluntarily depriving himself of real pace in midfield; the others have much to offer, but they don't have that.
Perhaps the writing was on the wall for Myler at the semi-final stage, when he was shunted to the bench and played only a peripheral role in the defeat of the Catalan Dragons. "Teams have been targeting him," Smith said then and he said it again yesterday. The outcome is that he has gone for grit and durability.
Clarke and Higham have returned triumphantly from injuries recently: Clarke missed last year's final with a broken ankle, while Higham was a surprise late inclusion after a torn biceps. One player's heartbreak is always another's opportunity.
Danny McGuire knows what it is like to be left out of a Cup final side, having been omitted by Leeds in 2003 after virtually winning the semi-final for them. He overcame that bitter disappointment to become a fixture in the side and now, at 27, he is something of an elder statesman of half-back play, alongside such precocious talents as Sam Tomkins, Kyle Eastmond and Myler, whose absence today deprives McGuire of the chance to make a point. "I lost my England place in the Four Nations and I'd like to think I could rise to the challenge of winning it back," he said.
McGuire has never been in better form. Age and experience have enabled him to read his moment to strike better than ever, while he has lost none of his old pace. His coach, Brian McClennan, has described him as the best he has ever seen at timing his support run – and that is the sort of thing that has won plenty of Cup finals.
McClennan, as is his wont, is guarding his cards much more closely than Smith. That means we will not know for certain who will be on the right wing until an hour before kick-off, although the body language yesterday suggested it will be Lee Smith rather than Scott Donald.
That leaves the issue of which forward will miss out. Through the week, that has seemed to be between Greg Eastwood and Ian Kirke, but the whisper from the Leeds camp yesterday was that Ali Lauitiiti could be struggling with injury.
One theory that McClennan did rule out was that the famously tough Jamie Peacock might make a miracle recovery from his busted knee and play. Peacock has travelled and was walking without sticks yesterday, but even he cannot play a Challenge Cup final on one knee.
That leaves Leeds looking a fraction light up front, but both sides, in their subtly different ways, have so much attacking ambition that it is almost impossible to imagine it being a dull final.
It is fitting that the Rugby League should this week be commemorating the Wigan-Hull final 25 years ago that many still consider to be the best that Wembley has ever seen. Not often since that spectacular in 1985 has a final been anticipated as keenly as this. If it is merely a good final, the code will be disappointed.
Buderus, for one, is braced for a bruising day. "I'd really love to win this one," said Leeds' hooker. "It would be a dream but the reality is, it's going to be a tough, tough gig."
Probable line-ups
Leeds / Warrington
Brent Webb 1 Richard Mathers
Lee Smith 2 Chris Hicks
Brett Delaney 3 Matt King
Keith Senior 4 Ryan Atkins
Ryan Hall 5 Chris Riley
Danny McGuire 6 Lee Briers
Rob Burrow 7 M Monaghan
Kylie Leuluai 8 Adrian Morley (c)
Danny Buderus 9 Jon Clarke
Ryan Bailey 10 Garreth Carvell
J Jones-Buchanan 11 Louis Anderson
Carl Ablett 12 Ben Westwood
Kevin Sinfield (c) 13 Ben Harrison
Leeds substitutes M Diskin, I Kirke, G Eastwood, C Clarkson
Warrington substitutes M Higham, V Anderson, P Wood, D Solomona
Referee Richard Silverwood (Mirfield)
TV: BBC 1, kick-off 2.30pm.
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Our scholarships provide financial aid for students, scholars and Chinese language teachers worldwide to proceed to a Master's degree in Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (MTCSOL) in Chinese universities.
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Chinese Corner - Introduction to Chinese traditional costume - 13 April 2017
Visit to CDU by Delegation from Anhui Province China led by Mrs Hua Jianhui, Vice Chairman of Anhui Provincial People's Congress - 11 April 2017
3.一学年研修生 2017年9月入学,资助期限为11个月。不录取2017年1月1日后仍在华学习的留学生。
4.一学期研修生奖学金 2017年9月或2018年3月入学,资助期限为5个月。不录取有来华留学经历者。
5.3 向孔子学院(课堂)注册学员团组(限10-15人)提供"汉语言+中国家庭体验"学习实践课程。
6. 南亚师资班 汉办师资处面向孟加拉、尼泊尔、巴基斯坦、斯里兰卡、阿富汗、马尔代夫、印度等7国申请者,专门设立南亚师资班项目,详见附录。
2017/2018 Hainan University-Confucius Institute Scholarship Program
I . Supporting Categories
Scholarship for One-Academic-Year Students
Scholarship for One-Semester Students
II. Scholarship Eligibility
The Application is open to applicants who have non-Chinese citizenship, between 16 and 35 years old, in good health. (Applicants currently working in a Chinese language teaching position must be under 45 years old.)
Scholarship for One-Academic-Year Students
Provides a scholarship for 11 months starting from September 2017. The scholarship is unavailable for students who were studying in China after January 1st 2017.This scholarship
supports international students and scholars who aspire to devote themselves to Chinese translation, interpreting and Sinologic research. Applicant should have a minimum score of 180 in HSK Test (Level 4), and reach an intermediate level in HSKK test.
Scholarship for One-Semester Students
Provides a scholarship for 5 months from September 2017 or March 2018. The scholarship is unavailable for students who have previously studied in China. Applicant should have a minimum score of 210 in HSK (Level 3), and have HSKK grades.
III. Scholarship Coverage
- The full Confucius Institute Scholarship covers: tuition fee, accommodation fee, comprehensive medical insurance and provides a monthly stipend.
- The partial Confucius Institute Scholarship covers: tuition fee, accommodation fee, and comprehensive medical insurance.
- Tuition fee: Hainan University will cover the cost of the tuition for scholarship holders.Hainan University will also cover the cost of one of the Chinese language proficiency tests (HSK/HSKK).
- Accommodation fee: Hainan University provides scholarship holders with a free dormitory room. For those who live off campus (with the permission from Hainan University) are entitled to a monthly or quarterly accommodation allowance from Hainan University. The allowance criteria are RMB700 per person on monthly basis.
- Monthly Stipend: A living allowance is granted by Hainan University on a monthly basis. The allowance per person is: RMB 2,500 per month.
- Comprehensive medical insurance is purchased by Hainan University in accordance with relevant regulations regarding international students as stipulated by the Ministry of Education of China. The insurance fee is RMB800/year, RMB 400/semester per person.
IV. Application Documents
Recommending institutions and Hainan University will examine the completeness, validity and accuracy of applicant's name, nationality and permanent address on the passport. If the following documents are not in Chinese or English, notarized documents must be provided.
1. Confucius Institute Scholarship Application Form
2. A scanned copy of the passport photo page. Applicants under the age of 18 shall submit relevant documents of entrusted legal guardians in China.
3. A valid copy of the HSK, HSKK certificate (test are valid for 2 years).
4. Recommendation letter signed by the head of the recommending institutions. (Please provide objective comments on the applicant, including whether the applicant is a student of Confucius Institute or another identity. Chinese language teachers shall submit an employment verification letter and a reference letter provided by the institutes they work for.)
5. Certification of the highest education diploma attained (or proof of expected graduation date), and an official transcript.
6. A photocopy of the Foreigner Physical Examination Form.
V. Application Procedure
For the application: please log on to the Confucius Institute Scholarships website (http://cis.chinese.cn) to register, check the recommendation and accepting institutions, complete the Confucius Institute Scholarships Application Form online, and upload the scanned copies of relevant supporting documents. Applicant should pay attention to the results of the application. Applicants who have obtained the scholarship should:
- Confirm with the Office for International Students' Admissions & Scholarships Program, College of International Cultural Exchange, Hainan University about the procedures for studying in China.
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Website: www.hainu.edu.cn/guojiwenhua
Confucius Institute and Humpty Doo Primary School Jointly Celebrate 2017 Harmony Day - 31 March 2017
Chinese Corner - Introduction to Chinese movie - 17 March 2017
Chinese students and staff welcome party - 16 March 2017
Chinese Corner - Happy Year of the Rooster and Lantern Festival - 10 Feb 2017
Confucius Institute heralds the year of the rooster
By Leanne Miles
Friends of Charles Darwin University gathered this month to sing, dance and play games as part of Chinese New Year celebrations to signify the beginning of the year of the rooster.
The Darwin community joined the celebrations at Casuarina campus, which were co-hosted by the Confucius Institute at CDU and the Australia China Friendship Society.
The event included dance performances, traditional Chinese food, games and cultural activities such as paper cutting and calligraphy.
Confucius Institute co-Director Professor Martin Jarvis said the event was a great opportunity for the community to celebrate and learn about Chinese language and culture.
"The Confucius Institute at CDU has become an important hub for engagement with Chinese culture over the past four years," Professor Jarvis said. "CDU's recognition of the cultural importance of the Chinese New Year festival has become very significant as we develop a closer relationship with our Chinese partner universities."
The Chinese co-Director of the Confucius Institute, Associate Professor Hua Wang, said the rooster was one of 12 zodiac signs on the Chinese lunar calendar.
"The pronunciation is similar to Chinese words representing opportunity and being energetic," Mr Wang said.
"It is also well known that the rooster helps people to know that the morning has arrived and to make the most of each day."
He said celebrations were held by Chinese people in the hope of a prosperous year ahead.
"Through the Confucius Institute we hope to develop closer relationships and understanding with the community and local business," he said.
He said the institute would hold a range of programs and cultural activities throughout the year including Chinese traditional art, music, film, language programs and Tai Chi to engage with the community.
For more information about upcoming events visit W: cdu.edu.au/confucius-institute.
Haikou calligrapher Mr Chuanfang Li held calligraphy exhibition in Darwin 17-18 November
Tourism Professor Dr Zibin Song from Hainan University visited Darwin 07-12 November
Chinese Corner - The wonderful Xinjiang - 16 November 2016
Chinese Corner - Beautiful Mount Huang Shan - 14 October 2016
2016 "Confucius Institute Day" Celebration - 25 September 2016
Chinese Corner - 2016 Mid-Autumn Festival Celebration - 16 September 2016
Confucius Institute and Kormilda College Jointly Celebrate 2016 Mid-Autumn Festival - 12 September 2016
Confucius Institute at Charles Darwin University showcased colourful Chinese cultural activities at the 2016 CDU Open Day - 21 August 2016
Chinese Corner - Beautiful Hainan International Tourism Island - 12 August 2016
"Discover China" - Chinese language program introduction at CDU - 11 August 2016
"Chinese Dream Belongs to Both China and the World" –talk by Professor Yang Yunsheng from Hainan University
The talk discussed the background and connotations of the Chinese Dream, the international reactions of Chinese Dream and how China could contribute to build a community of common destiny for mankind.
The Chinese Dream was put forward by Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China on 29 November 2012 when he visited the National Museum of China . The connotations of Chinese Dream are: the country becoming rich and strong, the nation becoming revival and the people becoming happy. The specific goals of Chinese Dream are to achieve the "Two 100s": China will become a moderately prosperous society in all respects by the year 2021, the 100th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party. China will become a moderately developed country by about 2049, the 100th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Chinese delegates join Confucius Institute talks
By katie Weiss
A group of Chinese university delegates have travelled to Darwin to strengthen ties with their academic counterparts at Charles Darwin University.
CDU Vice-Chancellor Professor Simon Maddocks welcomed the nine delegates from Anhui Normal University and Hainan University, who also attended the 7th Confucius Institute Board Meeting at Casuarina campus.
Professor Maddocks was the Chair of the Board during the meeting, and both vice presidents of the two Chinese universities were among the visiting delegates.
During the two-day trip, delegates also met with staff from various areas at CDU, including Faculty of Engineering, Health, Science and the Environment Professor Sue Carthew, Head of the School of Creative Arts and Humanities Professor Brian Mooney, Pro Vice-Chancellor – Academic Professor Martin Carroll and education lecturer Dr Jon Mason.
Delegates also travelled to the CDU Waterfront campus and met with Deputy Head of the Business School Dr Aggie Wegner.
The two Chinese universities are partner universities with CDU and its Confucius Institute.
Chinese Corner -10 June 2016
Dragon Boat Festival Celebrations at Confucius Institute -09 June 2016
Visit strengthens relations
By Leanne Miles
Charles Darwin University Vice-Chancellor Professor Simon Maddocks recently welcomed the Minister Counsellor for Education at the Chinese Embassy in Australia, Mr Xu Xiao, during his visit to the university's Confucius Institute.
Confucius Institute Chinese Director Wang Hua said the visit by Mr Xu aimed to strengthen relations with the Northern Territory Government and expand linkages across the education sector.
While in Darwin, Mr Xu also visited Woodroffe Primary School to discuss the school's participation in the Confucius Classroom Program.
"The CDU Confucius Institute currently has three off-campus Chinese language teaching points with a total of about 600 students at Larrakeyah Primary School, Leanyer Primary School and Nakara Primary School," Mr Wang said.
"The Confucius Classroom Program is very popular all over the world, with more than 1000 Confucius Classrooms established in about 134 countries. We are hoping to establish the program in the Northern Territory."
The Minister Counsellor also met with representatives from the Department of Education to discuss partnership and collaboration opportunities including the teaching of Chinese language in NT schools, development of the CDU Confucius Institute and avenues for school participation in the Confucius Classroom program.
The Confucius Institute at Charles Darwin University was established in 2011 as a partnership between CDU, Hainan University and Anhui Normal University.
Primary and middle schools interested in language programs at the CDU Confucius Institute should contact Joey Zhou on T: 8946 7677 or E: email@example.com.
Monthly Chinese Corner - 06 May 2016
The theme for this month is "Chinese traditional musical instruments".
Flute Recital by Maggie Wu Jing, visiting scholar from Anhui Normal University on 30 April 2016
-Jointly present by the School of Creative Arts & Humanities and Confucius Institute at Charles Darwin University with associate artists Chen Hui (Piano) and Janusz Kwasny (Flute)
Confucius Institute at Charles Darwin University launched 2016 Chinese Corner
Confucius Institute at Charles Darwin University jointly held the first Chinese Corner with School of Creative Arts and Humanities on Friday 01 April, which marked the Chinese Corner activities of this year has been launched successfully.
In the first, the new Chinese Director of Confucius Institute Mr Hua Wang expressed the warmest welcome to all attendees. After that, he introduced Confucius Institute Scholarships programs and he encouraged students to work hard to study Chinese and to apply the Scholarships in future. He pointed out that the monthly Chinese Corner is a very important platform for students to practice Chinese and exchange experiences during the Chinese study. He hoped students make good use of the platform and constantly improve their level of Chinese.
Chinese Lecturers from the School of Creative Arts and Humanities Ms Aihong Yu and Ms Jialiang Dong were invited to be the host of this Chinese Corner. Total about 30 students have attended this event including some university students who selected Chinese as their credit unit. In a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere, students shared their interesting experience in learning Chinese and their understanding of Chinese culture.
Monthly Chinese Corner - 01 April 2016
The theme for this month is "Meet new friends".
Date: Friday 01 April 2016, 5.30pm-6.30pm
Location: Confucius Institute meeting room, level 4, orange 2, Casuarina Campus.
You are welcome to bring your family and friend with you.
For RSVP, please reply by Wednesday 30th, March
Confucius Institute at Charles Darwin University fully launch Chinese language teaching at Leanyer Primary School
Confucius Institute Directors, Professor Martin Jarvis and Associate Professor Hua Wang visited Leanyer Primary School on 23rd March, 2016. During the meeting, Confucius Institute agreed to fully support Chinese language teaching in Leanyer Primary school in April 2016.
Leanyer Primary school is the third Chinese language teaching point of Confucius Institute after Nakara Primary school and Larrakeyah Primary school, with more than 500 students in 21 classes. The Principal Anne Tonkin said the Chinese language teaching has welcomed by students and teachers, and she hoped to open different levels of Chinese teaching to students in different grades.
Confucius Institute at Charles Darwin University held 2016 Chinese staff and students welcome party
On March 18, Confucius Institute of Charles Darwin University held a Chinese staff and students welcome party on campus, about 60 attendants participated in the event, including representatives from the Office of International Services of the University.
At first, Hua Wang, Chinese Director of Confucius Institute at Charles Darwin University made a cordial greeting to welcome all the teachers and students. Then, Jan Mo, the Deputy Director of International Services gave an introduction of the Darwin city and the development of Charles Darwin University. He also expressed gratitude towards the new Chinese Director for holding this event on behalf of the school. After that, Audrey Ko, the board member of Confucius Institute, made a wonderful speech which vividly depicted how Confucius Institute was set up at Charles Darwin University and how Confucius Institute was developed in the global scope as well as showed a sincere supportive attitude to the new Chinese Director.
At the welcome party, as a Hainanese, Chinese Director Hua Wang, has proudly introduced the Hainan International Tourism Island as well as Hainan University. In addition, he provided dedicated introduction about Confucius Institute projects, such as Chinese language teaching, cultural activities, R&D and scholarship projects. He invited all Chinese teachers and students to take part in and jointly promote the development of the Confucius Institute.
In the end, Wu Jing, a visiting scholar from Anhui Normal University, offered all attendants a classic flute playing – singing the night among fishing boats. Along with the melodious and pleasant music, this welcome party ended smoothly.
Welcome event to Chinese students and teaching staff
Date: Friday 18th, Mar 2016, 4pm-5pm
Location: Confucius Institute conference room, level 4, orange 2, Casuarina Campus.
For RSVP, please reply firstname.lastname@example.com by Wednesday 16th, Mar 2016.
Accounting MOOC launch shows who's counting
Chinese and Australian delegates recently gathered in Canberra to celebrate the launch of Charles Darwin University's first bilingual Massive Open Online Course (MOOC).
The accounting MOOC, entitled "Who's Counting: An interactive introduction to everyday accounting", is offered in full English and partly in Chinese (Mandarin) and is free to access online until mid-May.
CDU Vice-Chancellor Professor Simon Maddocks cut the ribbon during the event with special guests, Australia's Federal Minister for Tourism and International Education, Senator the Hon. Richard Colbeck, and Chinese Embassy Minister-Counsellor for Education Xu Xiao.
Pro Vice-Chancellor Academic Professor Martin Carroll said the course was developed by the CDU Business School in collaboration with Anhui Normal University's Economics and Business School in China. He said this demonstrated CDU's growing partnership with its close neighbour.
Associate Professor in Accounting Wendy James said the course was structured to give people a taste of accounting in a fun and innovative way with the flexibility to complete it when and where they wanted.
"The course is an introduction to accounting and includes films, music and interactive exercises covering the three modules of basic accounting, financial accounting and management accounting," Dr James said.
The course was built by the CDU Innovative Media Production Studio and people who successfully complete two of its three modules will receive a certificate of completion.
To enrol in the CDU Accounting MOOC "Who's Counting?" visit W: cdu.edu.au/moocs/accounting
New Year brings new Confucius Institute Co-Director
By Leanne Miles
The new Chinese Co-Director of Charles Darwin University's Confucius Institute has arrived from Hainan University, bringing well wishes for the Year of the Monkey.
Mr Wang Hua will work with CDU Confucius Institute Co-Director Professor Martin Jarvis to head the institute, which is a partnership between CDU and the Anhui Normal and Hainan universities in China that is designed to build cultural ties within the community.
Named after the Chinese educator and philosopher, the institute was opened in 2012, with a focus on teaching Chinese language and culture through innovative new media and creative arts technologies.
Mr Wang arrived this month with his family from Haikou in Hainan Province to take up residence for three years in Darwin, replacing former Chinese Co-Director Mr Donghe Liu, from Anhui Normal University.
He said he was excited to join the institute in Darwin and hoped to provide further opportunities for the NT community to learn about Chinese language and culture, and promote academic and cross-cultural exchanges for CDU staff and students with Chinese partner universities.
"The world is getting smaller; it is easier to travel and people want to learn and experience different cultures," Mr Wang said. "The aim of the Confucius Institute is to enhance friendship and understanding within our universities and communities by offering opportunities to engage and share through cultural exchange."
He said the institute would hold a range of programs and cultural activities throughout the year including Chinese traditional art, music, film, language programs and Tai Chi to engage with the community.
Mr Wang said he also hoped to engage the business community by offering courses in Chinese language and culture.
"We hope to talk to local companies to find out what their requirements are, so we can provide them with more training opportunities and services," he said.
Mr Wang also said he hoped to establish a Confucius Institute Alumni Association and invited all alumni or anyone interested in the Confucius Institute to become involved in the range of programs on offer throughout the year.


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| Jellybeans-steh chapter 1 . 1/20/2009
laughed my pants off!
I want to dream about a fairy axel... Ravishing dear Roxas...
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| The mental patient chapter 1 . 1/19/2009
lolz...I dont know about axel actually being a fairy...but if you continued this itd be awesome!...and if you dont oh wells...actually now that I think about it Axel wouldnt look half bad in a tutu...or leaves
| Insanecat6 chapter 1 . 1/19/2009
Heheh. That was cute. And I very much enjoyed imagining what kind of dream Roxas' could be having about a fairy Axel. And no, you pervert, that's not what I meant. Although that would be entertaining, too... Anyway, it was good. Even if it didn't really go anywhere. Don't desperately feel the need for you to expand on this right now but if you didI am sure that I would read and enjoy it. Love to you for the fic. Bye.
| FinalFallenFantasy chapter 1 . 1/19/2009
OMG I love you! This is so cute! Pleaspleaseplease develop! Gawd, that feeling of boredom but not wanting to do anything is so irritating, particularly if it's cold, cos then you can't even go out. Without freezing your ass off. Like now. It's freezing! Aw, Axel is so funny And Roxas is adorable... hmm, what /could/ he have been dreaming, I wonder...?


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A growing concern in the healthcare industry is the need for more doctors in rural areas. About one-fourth of the population lives in an area that is designated as rural; however, only about ten percent of doctors practice medicine in areas designated as rural. This leads to an alarmingly high patient to doctor ratio, which can cause a multitude of problems. The most obvious problem is that doctors in these areas are quickly becoming overworked and are being forced to spend less time visiting with each patient in an attempt to see more patients per day. Unfortunately, this leads to a decrease in the quality of healthcare provided to patients in a rural setting.
There are numerous studies that show the discrepancy in the quality of healthcare in rural areas when compared to other areas of the country that are more heavily populated. One study found that, although only one-third of all motor vehicle accidents occurred on rural roads, over two-thirds of the deaths caused by motor vehicle accidents occurred on rural roads. Why are more people dying in rural car accidents when compared to similar accidents across the country? The answer is access to healthcare. After the accident, the response time is much longer for health professionals in a rural setting. This is due to the lack of hospitals near rural areas. This trend does not only apply to motor vehicle accidents, but rather, it applies to any accident where the victim is in need of immediate medical attention. Studies have also shown that hypertension, alcohol abuse, and suicide rates are also much higher in rural areas compared to other areas of the United States.
It will be very interesting to see how President Obama, with the help of the Affordable Care Act, will address these rural healthcare concerns. In the past, President Obama has spent much of his time addressing urban healthcare concerns. Unfortunately, in spending so much time and money on urban healthcare he has neglected the areas of the country that need healthcare the most. It is no secret that urban areas have gotten more attention compared to rural areas due to their higher minority population. What the President has failed to recognize is that urban areas are not suffering from the same physician shortages that rural areas are. There is growing concern that his signature piece of legislation, the Affordable Care Act, is only going to add to the physician shortage problem. This is because most people, including myself, believe that the Affordable Care Act will increase the regulations for doctors, as well as decrease their pay. Many aspiring doctors will simply choose to pursue other careers, rather then spend the best years of their lives in school only to graduate with huge amounts of debt.
One can only hope that President Obama will become aware of, not only the looming physician shortage, but also the shortage of physicians in rural areas of the country. If not, people in rural areas will continue to see their quality of healthcare, along with their quality of life, diminish even further.


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London, May 16 (ANI): Older brother of British No.1 Andy Murray, Jamie, will be teaming up with Laura Robson in the mixed doubles at Wimbledon this year.
Jamie, who is a doubles specialist, revealed his mixed doubles partner during the Sport Industry Awards 2010 on Thursday in Battersea, London.
Murray hopes that he and Robson can replicate the form he showed with Jelena Jankovic in 2007 when the pair took home the mixed doubles title at the All England Club.
"I'm looking forward to playing with Laura at Wimbledon. She's a really good young player and I think we can form a great team together," News of the World quoted Jamie, as saying. e is also hoping that 2010 will be a big year for brother Andy.
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New Realisms: 1957-1962: Object Strategies Between Readymade and Spectacle
By Julia Robinson, Editor
The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2010
300 pp., illus. 50 b/w., 250 col. Trade, $44.95
Reviewed by Stephen Petersen
This catalogue for a major exhibition (at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid) makes a strong case for rethinking, repositioning, and ultimately redeeming the fraught term "New Realism" in postwar art history. It argues as well for the inclusion into the art historical canon of works, falling chronologically somewhere between the emergence of Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol—and far messier than either's—that have received scant scholarly attention relative to their historical import. Strategies developed by an international array of artists in a few short years set the stage for everything from pop to performance, conceptualism to land art, institutional critique to installation and new media. The 200+ works in the show, by some 30 artists, among them Jean Tinguely, Robert Whitman, and George Brecht, are diverse, provocative, frequently difficult to categorize and, in their ephemerality, oftentimes hard to collect and preserve.
As the book's introduction by the exhibition's organizer Julia Robinson makes clear, the idea of new realism, although almost self-evident as a counter-trend to abstract expressionism, has long been a problematic one. As a translation of the French term "Nouveau Réalisme," it shares that movement's lack of programmatic coherence. And if the 1962 exhibit at Sidney Janis Gallery, "New Realism," marked the triumphal emergence of American pop art (Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, etc.), it also, as Robinson shows, led to the shunting aside of the European variants and precedents, featured in the show but critically dismissed and even mocked in the American press.
Still, "new realism" may be a most apt term to describe the freewheeling proliferation of object-based artistic interventions at the dawn of the 1960s, not only Nouveau Réalisme but also happenings and proto-Fluxus events. Robinson uses the plural, "new realisms," broadly to refer to this international range of performative practices that recast the Duchampian readymade as commodity, display, and spectacle. This was, she argues, a critical moment in history, when one dominant mode of artistic production and dissemination (abstract paintings, supported by an increasingly official modern art establishment) gave way both to a new aesthetic (assemblage, happenings, installations) and to alternative exhibition venues, notably the upstart galleries of Iris Clert in Paris and Anita Reuben and Martha Jackson in New York—significantly, all three run by women. With a subtle understanding of the emerging international art world, Robinson traces a common thread linking Yves Klein's Void of 1958 and Claes Oldenburg's Store of a few years later. Eschewing national bias and a monographic approach, her larger project is an important contribution to a field often characterized by one or both.
A set of three scholarly essays offers new insights into the presentational strategies and theoretical underpinnings of the Nouveau Réalistes, an occasional group of artists, mostly French, assembled and promoted by critic Pierre Restany. Critically maligned but commercially successful, Nouveau Réalisme has lately begun to get the serious treatment in Anglo-American scholarship that it deserves (see Meredith Malone's excellent 2006 dissertation, "Nouveau Réalisme: Performative Exhibition Strategies and the Everyday in Post-WWII France," University of Pennsylvania). In this volume, Hannah Feldman, Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen, and Ágnes Berecz each focus on a little-known aspect of the group. Especially welcome is Berecz's nuanced deconstruction of the critic-impresario Restany's rhetoric, its aims in France and abroad, and its problematic reception in a transatlantic context.
Also, reprinted here is a large portion of Benjamin H. D. Buchloh's 1971 essay, "Formalism and Historicity," that essentially launched the field and defined the terms of postwar European art history in the United States. In a new introduction Buchloh acknowledges that the dichotomy he originally proposed between American formalism and European "historicity" or dialectical materialism, as well as the oppositional status he accorded certain Europeans in contrast to their history-blind counterparts, may no longer hold in a global art market that readily absorbs every opposition. The essay as edited here to focus on late 1950s and early 1960s work, however, remains prescient in its bold departure from linear narratives of postwar art. (One exception: Buchloh's offhand dismissal of Yves Klein's importance for future artists, which the catalogue's editor tries diplomatically to qualify, appears increasingly to have been proved wrong.)
Despite their fresh inclusions, the book's texts have notable lacunae. Christo is well represented in the expansive exhibit but not discussed in the rather narrowly targeted essays. Ditto Yayoi Kusama, Piero Manzoni, Daniel Spoerri, and others. More to the point, the innovative 1962 exhibit "Dylaby" (Dynamic Labyrinth) at the Stedelijk Museum in 1962 was a watershed event not only in the short saga of New Realism but in the larger and still unfolding history of interactive installation art. While appearing in the catalogue illustrations (and one of its seven individually-designed galleries, Martial Raysse's Beach, covered in depth in Butterfield-Rosen's essay), "Dylaby" merited its own chapter, or at least greater attention.
Clearly, the essays tended to go for depth of analysis while the exhibit tried also to make a case for breadth, attempting to recover something of the era's "international diversity still too often reduced," as Robinson rightly puts it. At the back of the catalogue, a chronology compiled by Billy Klüver, Julie Martin, and Hedi Sorger features numerous artists and activities beyond those appearing in the show, such as those of the German group Zero. But other figures to whom the term "new realisms" surely applies, including the entire West-coast contingent of American assemblage artists or any number of contemporaries active in Asia and South America, do not come into play here. To point this out is not so much to criticize (with its 30 artists, the show offers an abundance of revelations) but merely to observe the extent of the phenomenon, something that confirms Robinson's basic thesis. Rarely if ever have five years seen the nature of art so completely transformed, and in so many places. Pluralism and post-modernism followed.


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