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Part 2
Adding Camel
In this part we will introduce Camel so we start by adding Camel to our pom.xml:
That's it, only one dependency for now.
Synchronize IDE
If you continue from part 1, remember to update your editor project settings since we have introduce new .jar files. For instance IDEA has a feature to synchronize with Maven projects.
Now we turn towards our webservice endpoint implementation where we want to let Camel have a go at the input we receive. As Camel is very non invasive its basically a .jar file then we can just grap Camel but creating a new instance of DefaultCamelContext
that is the hearth of Camel its context.
In fact we create a constructor in our webservice and add this code:
Logging the "Hello World"
Here at first we want Camel to log the givenName and familyName parameters we receive, so we add the LogComponent
with the key log. And we must start Camel before its ready to act.
Component Documentation
Then we change the code in the method that is invoked by Apache CXF when a webservice request arrives. We get the name and let Camel have a go at it in the new method we create sendToCamel:
Next is the Camel code. At first it looks like there are many code lines to do a simple task of logging the name - yes it is. But later you will in fact realize this is one of Camels true power. Its concise API. Hint: The same code can be used for any component in Camel.
Okay there are code comments in the code block above that should explain what is happening. We run the code by invoking our unit test with maven mvn test
, and we should get this log line:
Write to file - easy with the same code style
Okay that isn't to impressive, Camel can log Well I promised that the above code style can be used for any component, so let's store the payload in a file. We do this by adding the file component to the Camel context
And then we let camel write the payload to the file after we have logged, by creating a new method sendToCamelFile. We want to store the payload in filename with the incident id so we need this parameter also:
And then the code that is 99% identical. We have change the URI configuration when we create the endpoint as we pass in configuration parameters to the file component.
And then we need to set the output filename and this is done by adding a special header to the exchange. That's the only difference:
After running our unit test again with mvn test
we have a output file in the target folder:
Fully java based configuration of endpoints
In the file example above the configuration was URI based. What if you want 100% java setter based style, well this is of course also possible. We just need to cast to the component specific endpoint and then we have all the setters available:
That's it. Now we have used the setters to configure the FileEndpoint
that it should store the file in the folder target/subfolder. Of course Camel now stores the file in the subfolder.
Lessons learned
Okay I wanted to demonstrate how you can be in 100% control of the configuration and usage of Camel based on plain Java code with no hidden magic or special XML or other configuration files. Just add the camel-core.jar and you are ready to go.
You must have noticed that the code for sending a message to a given endpoint is the same for both the log and file, in fact any Camel endpoint. You as the client shouldn't bother with component specific code such as file stuff for file components, jms stuff for JMS messaging etc. This is what the Message Endpoint EIP pattern is all about and Camel solves this very very nice - a key pattern in Camel.
Reducing code lines
Now that you have been introduced to Camel and one of its masterpiece patterns solved elegantly with the Message Endpoint its time to give productive and show a solution in fewer code lines, in fact we can get it down to 5, 4, 3, 2 .. yes only 1 line of code.
The key is the ProducerTemplate that is a Spring'ish xxxTemplate based producer. Meaning that it has methods to send messages to any Camel endpoints. First of all we need to get hold of such a template and this is done from the CamelContext
Now we can use template for sending payloads to any endpoint in Camel. So all the logging gabble can be reduced to:
And the same goes for the file, but we must also send the header to instruct what the output filename should be:
Reducing even more code lines
Well we got the Camel code down to 1-2 lines for sending the message to the component that does all the heavy work of wring the message to a file etc. But we still got 5 lines to initialize Camel.
This can also be reduced. All the standard components in Camel is auto discovered on-the-fly so we can remove these code lines and we are down to 3 lines.
Component auto discovery
When an endpoint is requested with a scheme that Camel hasn't seen before it will try to look for it in the classpath. It will do so by looking for special Camel component marker files that reside in the folder META-INF/services/org/apache/camel/component
. If there are files in this folder it will read them as the filename is the scheme part of the URL. For instance the log component is defined in this file META-INF/services/org/apache/component/log
and its content is:
The class property defines the component implementation.
Tip: End-users can create their 3rd party components using the same technique and have them been auto discovered on-the-fly.
Okay back to the 3 code lines:
Later will we see how we can reduce this to ... in fact 0 java code lines. But the 3 lines will do for now.
Message Translation
Okay lets head back to the over goal of the integration. Looking at the EIP diagrams at the introduction page we need to be able to translate the incoming webservice to an email. Doing so we need to create the email body. When doing the message translation we could put up our sleeves and do it manually in pure java with a StringBuilder such as:
But as always it is a hardcoded template for the mail body and the code gets kinda ugly if the mail message has to be a bit more advanced. But of course it just works out-of-the-box with just classes already in the JDK.
Lets use a template language instead such as Apache Velocity. As Camel have a component for Velocity integration we will use this component. Looking at the Component List overview we can see that camel-velocity component uses the artifactId camel-velocity so therefore we need to add this to the pom.xml
And now we have a Spring conflict as Apache CXF is dependent on Spring 2.0.8 and camel-velocity is dependent on Spring 2.5.5. To remedy this we could wrestle with the pom.xml with excludes settings in the dependencies or just bring in another dependency camel-spring:
In fact camel-spring is such a vital part of Camel that you will end up using it in nearly all situations - we will look into how well Camel is seamless integration with Spring in part 3. For now its just another dependency.
We create the mail body with the Velocity template and create the file src/main/resources/MailBody.vm
. The content in the MailBody.vm file is:
Letting Camel creating the mail body and storing it as a file is as easy as the following 3 code lines:
What is impressive is that we can just pass in our POJO object we got from Apache CXF to Velocity and it will be able to generate the mail body with this object in its context. Thus we don't need to prepare anything before we let Velocity loose and generate our mail body. Notice that the template method returns a object with out response. This object contains the mail body as a String object. We can cast to String if needed.
If we run our unit test with mvn test
we can in fact see that Camel has produced the file and we can type its content:
First part of the solution
What we have seen here is actually what it takes to build the first part of the integration flow. Receiving a request from a webservice, transform it to a mail body and store it to a file, and return an OK response to the webservice. All possible within 10 lines of code. So lets wrap it up here is what it takes:
Okay I missed by one, its in fact only 9 lines of java code and 2 fields.
End of part 2
I know this is a bit different introduction to Camel to how you can start using it in your projects just as a plain java .jar framework that isn't invasive at all. I took you through the coding parts that requires 6 - 10 lines to send a message to an endpoint, buts it's important to show the Message Endpoint EIP pattern in action and how its implemented in Camel. Yes of course Camel also has to one liners that you can use, and will use in your projects for sending messages to endpoints. This part has been about good old plain java, nothing fancy with Spring, XML files, auto discovery, OGSi or other new technologies. I wanted to demonstrate the basic building blocks in Camel and how its setup in pure god old fashioned Java. There are plenty of eye catcher examples with one liners that does more than you can imagine - we will come there in the later parts.
Okay part 3 is about building the last pieces of the solution and now it gets interesting since we have to wrestle with the event driven consumer.
Brew a cup of coffee, tug the kids and kiss the wife, for now we will have us some fun with the Camel. See you in part 3.


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Saturday, May 11, 2013
Rain, Rain, Go Away
The Raining Waterfall
We've been out for a full 7 days and it has rained for 6. At first, we were just happy it wasn't
snow. Then the rain started to dampen our spirits a little bit. After 6 days,
we were just plain sick and tired of all the wet.
We had heard about a waterfall in an area called, The
Grayson Highlands. You might not believe us, but it was the perfect place to be
on a rainy day. We pretended the raindrops were simply coming from the spray of
the waterfall and we forgot all about the actual rain for a while (even though
we were still standing in it). After climbing to the top and looking out over
the loud stream of water, the rain began to come down somethin' fierce. We decided we better find some
Wild Ponies
That same day, the rain turned off for a spell while we
hiked a hilly section of the Grayson Highlands. As we came to the top of a
rise, we were met by a herd of wild ponies. Now, I don't know if you knew
this, but ponies are not baby horses. Newborn horses are called foals (colts
for males/fillies for females), young horses are called yearlings, and a pony
is a miniature horse (we done learnt all this in an upper-division college
course: My Little Ponies 301).
Since these ponies were considered wild, they don't get haircuts
like most other horses you may have seen. Their manes were long and covered
their eyes. Their bodies were uncombed and kinda shaggy. They didn't even have
jobs! They just roamed the hills all day eating and writing existential pony
poetry. Here's one we heard:
Do I like to eat thistles?
Do I like to eat sticks and dead leaves?
Do I like to eat granola?
Justin really liked naming the ponies. There was Biter (he
liked to bite), Sleepyface (he liked to sleep), and Nibbles (I reckon I don't
recall what Nibbles did). Then there was also Rainbow Dash, Snuzzle, Firefly,
and Sundance. Don't ask me where he came up with those…
The Wright Kids
The other day we met up with a family of kid musicians. Sage
was the eldest and she played fiddle and mandolin. Baruch played guitar and
banjo. Levi played bass (and could also eat his body weight in banana pudding).
Selah was the singer for the group. Well, they all sang. They all sang REALLY
well--and you wouldn't believe how incredibly they played. We couldn't even keep up!
They were really young (compared to us) and when we asked
them how they got to be so good at their age, they said, "Practice." I guess
we'd better go get our lesson books out again and keep practicing. Maybe one
day we'll be half as good as they are. Here's a picture of them:
From left to right it goes: Justin, Sage, Selah, Levi,
Baruch, and Joe
Well, we gotta run. Joe left his tent open and it's starting to rain again. Catch ya later!
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GMAT question - At its simplest, proponents of a longer copyright te... - Review
Type: Critical Reasoning
At its simplest, proponents of a longer copyright term argue that the additional potential revenue stream will act as an incentive and encourage the production of additional creative works.
Which of the following, if true, casts most doubt on the conclusion of this argument?
- With the advent of the internet infringement of copyright is likely to increase in future.
- Consumers benefit from the management of creative works by copyright owners and their agents, which term extension would facilitate further still.
- Many copyright creators make decisions using purely 'rational' criteria such as how much revenue it will generate for them.
- Consumers demand and enjoy copyrighted works as much if not more than works in the public domain.
- Additional incentive that would be created by a term extension is miniscule when the value of that extension is brought into present dollars.
Identify the type of question
The questions asks you to identify the answer which 'if true, casts most doubt on the conclusion of this argument?'
This means that we are looking for an answer which will weaken the argument.
Identify the argument
The argument in the first line says that copyright extension will increase financial rewards for creative authors, and therefore more creative works will be produced.
Anticipate the answer
Try to anticipate the answer, what would weaken this argument?
We need to weaken the link between the premise that copyright extension would increase the financial rewards for creative authors and the conclusion that will mean that more creative works are produced.
We could do this by suggesting that the increase in rewards would not be significant or by suggesting that authors would not be influenced by money.
A quick scan through the answers suggests that E would fulfill this criteria because it says that the increase in money for authors would not be significant.
Process of elimination
To be sure of the answer we use a process of elimination.
- Answer A
- This answer suggests that there will be increased copyright infringement in future which could be interpreted to mean that financial rewards will not increase much but there are other interpretations so this should be eliminated.
- Answer B
- This answer is irrelevant because it suggests that copyright extensions would benefit consumers but does not have any bearing on whether more works would be created. Therefore B can be eliminated.
- Answer C
- This answer strengthens the argument because it suggests that authors will be influenced by financial rewards and so can be eliminated.
- Answer D
- This answer is irrelevant because again it does not address the creation of new works.
- Answer E
- This answer seriously weakens the argument by suggesting that the increase in financial rewards will be negligible.
All the answers except E have been eliminated and E seriously weakens the argument, therefore E is the correct answer.


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The Australian dollar's current strength could shave about 1 percentage point off growth, according to Capital Economics, as non-resources exports lose their competitive edge.
Chief economist for Australia Paul Dales says that even the Aussie's current level "poses a serious threat to the economic outlook".
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The local unit jumped about 1 per cent overnight, to US74.85¢, after the price of iron ore leapt a record 18.6 per cent to $US63.74 a metric tonne. It later eased on worse-than-expected Chinese trade data.
The initial surge, on speculation about Chinese steel production, wrong-footed a range of analysts, who said the metal's recent rally would soon run out of steam.
The Aussie dollar, too, was expected to ease once iron ore turned down.
However, the commodity's continued recovery, along with surprisingly strong growth in fourth-quarter gross domestic product last year, low global interest rates and doubts about the pace of the US Federal Reserve's nascent monetary tightening have converged to push the Aussie to eight-month highs.
A gathering chorus of economists say the Reserve Bank of Australia could soon resume talking down the currency, or even consider its first cut in the cash rate since May last year.
However, current market pricing has pushed back bets on such a reduction to next February.
Goldman Sachs Asset Management's head of fixed income for Asia-Pacific Philip Moffitt last year predicted the current bounce in the Aussie to US75¢, based mainly on bets the Fed would be slow to lift rates.
Despite Australia's strong fourth-quarter GDP data, he is also still forecasting another cash rate cut this year.
"The market response to the GDP was, 'oh, rate cuts are now off the table'," he said on Tuesday.
"I don't think that's right at all.
"We're getting to the point – let's call it US75¢ – where you have to start looking for the RBA to start mentioning the currency again, and that will be the first step towards the next rate cut."
Mr Dales agrees a higher dollar could set back the readjustment of the Australian economy towards a wider range of non-resources exports.
"The level of the currency is a big deal for an open economy like Australia and is especially important at the moment for two reasons," he said.
"First, with interest rates at a record low, a weaker exchange rate is arguably a more effective way to boost economic growth and inflation than further interest rate cuts.
"Second, the 25 per cent weakening in the dollar on a trade-weighted basis since 2013 has played a large role in supporting GDP growth."
He calculates that the Aussie's decline, in line with commodity price falls, since 2013 has added an average 0.7 percentage points to annual growth in GDP.
Non-resource net exports – after subtracting imports – accounted for 0.9 percentage points of Australia's surprise fourth-quarter surge in GDP, to 3 per cent year-on-year.
All this could be undone, however, if the Aussie continued to firm, although the improvement in national income from the higher iron ore price would help offset the hit to non-resource exports.
"If other things remained the same, the annual rate of GDP growth would fall from 3 per cent at the end of last year to just 1 per cent by the end of this year," Mr Dales said.


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Every once in a while I go through the bulging notebooks on the bookshelf and dream. These books are where I file my "someday" projects, projects that I collect but rarely knit. I have similar files on my computer in copious folders, categorized and labeled. Someday, they may be used, someday.
Recently, one of the projects actually made it out of the notebook - an Aran knit stocking "An Aran Christmas for Him and Her," Knit 'N Style (December 2007)
The yarn is 100% wool which I reclaimed from a thrift shop sweater several years ago.
Even though I rarely knit cables, I enjoyed knitting this project. In fact, after finishing "His" stocking, I cast on the "Hers." The cuff is more lacy on Hers and the inside of the cables is also lacy.
The finished stocking is large - an 8 inch long foot, and 20 inch long leg.
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Peters leads every lap for Truck triumph at Bristol
August 23, 2012, NASCAR Wire Service, NASCAR.com
BRISTOL, Tenn. -- Timothy Peters ran to a wire-to-wire victory in Wednesday night's UNOH 200 at Bristol Motor Speedway, snatching back sole possession of the points lead in the Camping World Truck Series. Peters, who started second, jumped to the lead past pole-sitter Cale Gale at the drop of the green flag and led every lap to roar to his second victory of the season and fifth of his career. The effort broke a tie atop the standings with top rookie Ty Dillon, who ran out of gas while running in the top five on the final restart and finished 21st. Parker Kligerman, Peters' Red Horse Racing teammate, matched a career-best in second with Ross Chastain third in his best finish in the Truck Series. Joey Coulter and Brendan Gaughan completed the top five. Video: Final Laps | Victory Lane | Post-Race Reactions Peters became the first driver to lead from green to checkered since Ron Hornaday paced all 225 laps at Louisville Motor Speedway on July 12, 1997. The 1-2 Red Horse Racing finish also gave team owner Tom DeLoach a fitting present for his 65th birthday. "What an awesome feeling," Peters said in Victory Lane. " ... I just thank the good Lord for being with me and letting me win two in one year. We're working really hard, all the guys in the shop. The sky's the limit right now." Peters withstood intense pressure on a handful of late-race restarts, most frequently from Brad Keselowski, the only driver racing in all three NASCAR national series this weekend. But the pressure from the Sprint Cup star subsided on the only attempt at a green-white-checkered finish that extended the race four laps past its scheduled 200-lap distance. Kligerman slipped past Keselowski, his team owner until last week, on a restart with seven laps to go when the yellow flag flew for a final time for Gale's heavy crash on the backstretch. That gave Peters a buffer in the form of a teammate starting alongside for the final restart. "It's my bad for getting a bad restart," said Kligerman, making just his second start for Red Horse. "I consider myself a lot better restarter than that, so I'll be beating myself up for the rest of the week, but congratulations to him. They've helped us so much." The lengthy clean-up for Gale's wreck and ensuing overtime finish spelled doom for Keselowski and Dillon, who lined up third and fourth, respectively, for the final two-lap sprint. Keselowski's truck was the first to stall out; Dillon's sputtered to a near-stop moments later as Peters sailed away. "I don't know -- really confusing. I should have had a good three or four laps of fuel left," said Keselowski, who finished 25th in a quest for his first Truck Series victory. "I don't know. Something happened, and we'll have to go back and figure out what it was. We had a pretty good day going." The race was the first for a NASCAR national series on Bristol's reconfigured .533-mile oval. Track officials opted to grind the top groove of progressive banking ground down with the desired effect of making the action closer. It was, eventually, after the first 81 laps were run without a caution period -- the longest green-flag run to start a Truck Series race in more than seven years. Peters boosted his points lead to 17 points over James Buescher, who finished seventh Wednesday. Dillon faded from his tie for the lead to third, 25 points off the top.UNOH 200
Pos. Driver Make 2. Parker Kligerman Toyota 3. Ross Chastain Toyota 4. Joey Coulter Chevrolet 5. Brendan Gaughan Chevrolet Notes-n-Nuggets
• Timothy Peters earned his fifth Truck Series victory in his 131st start. • This is Timothy Peters' second victory of 2012, joining James Buescher as the only repeat winner this season. • This is Timothy Peters' first victory at Bristol in his eighth start. His previous best finish was fifth last year. • Timothy Peters is the 12th different driver to win at Bristol in 15 races. Four of Peters' five Truck Series wins have been on short tracks. • This is the seventh time a driver has led every lap in a race. The last was Ron Hornaday at Louisville in July 1997. • Timothy Peters becomes the second driver to lead every lap in a race at Bristol, joining Ron Hornaday, who did it in June 1997. • Timothy Peters is the third driver to lead every lap in a race in the Truck Series joining Mike Skinner (three times) and Ron Hornaday (three times). • Red Horse Racing scored its ninth Truck Series victory, fourth of 2012 and first at Bristol. • Red Horse Racing finished 1-2 for the second time this season (Daytona). • Toyota scored its fifth victory of 2012 and sixth at Bristol. • Parker Kligerman (second) tied his best career finish. • Ross Chastain (third) earned his best career finish in his 18th start. • Joey Coulter (fourth) has six top-10 finishes in the past seven races. • Brendan Gaughan (fifth) notched his third consecutive top-five finish and third top-five at Bristol. • Ryan Blaney finished sixth in his Truck Series debut. • Ty Dillon (21st) suffered the worst finish in his career.


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"Once, dragons and men coexisted. They shared a peace forged in wisdom, a peace that lasted many generations. All that was lost when mankind disrupted this balance in a sudden onslaught. Man fought dragon is a savage war that shook the foundations of their world. This war was called The Scouring. Defeated and humbled, dragons vanished from the realm. In time, man rebuilt and spread his dominion across the land and on the islands beyond. A millennium has passed since those dark days ended."
—The Opening of Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade
The Scouring is the name given to the great war between humans and Dragons, a thousand years before the events of Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade. Its cause was further explained in Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade.
Before the war, mankind and the dragonkin lived in peace until humanity declared war on the dragons. In order to gain the upper hand against the numerous humans, the dragons requested the aid of the Divine Dragons, but when they refused to take part, the dragons captured the Divine Dragon girl Idunn and transformed her into the Demon Dragon, destroying her soul and giving her the ability to spawn War Dragons. Around this time a series of elemental imbalances started to occur in the world and these imbalances were blamed on the dragons, although Jahn claims that it was actually the tremendous power of Divine Weapons wielded by the Eight Heroes which had caused it. Due to the fact that these imbalances forced the dragons to seal their power into Dragonstones, the war ended with the victory of the humans and the retreat of the dragons through the Dragon's Gate.
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Camelford Poor Law Union was officially formed on 1st February 1837. Its operation was overseen by an elected Board of Guardians, 22 in number, representing its 14 constituent parishes as listed below (figures in brackets indicate numbers of Guardians if more than one):
Cornwall: Advent, St Breward (2), St Clether, Davidstow, Forrabury, St Juliot, Lesneweth, Lanteglos with Camelford (3), Michaelstow, Minster (2), Otterham, St Teath (2), Tintagel with Bossiney (3), Trevalga.
The population falling within the Union at the 1831 census had been 6,943 with parishes ranging in size from Lesnewth (population 127) to Lanteglos/Camelford (1,359). The average annual poor-rate expenditure for the period 1834-36 had been £2,865 or 8s.3d. per head of the population.
The Camelford Union workhouse was built in 1858 to the west of Camelford. It was a small establishment, accommodating up to 80 inmates, and costing £1,200 to construct. Its location and layout are shown on the 1881 map below.
The workhouse buildings consisted of two parallel two-storey blocks, linked by a single-storey axial block, plus a small isolation hospital at the north-west corner of the site.
The site appears to have been sold off soon after the official end of the workhouse system in 1930. The surviving workhouse buildings have been converted into residential accommodation.
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- Cornwall Record Office, Old County Hall, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 3AY. Relatively few records survive — holdings include Guardians' minute books (1879-1930); etc.
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Welcome to the wildlife page.
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Comments for the Wildlife group are posted below this introduction to the work of the wildlife group.
Our formal 'Victorian' park might not seem to provide much in the way of interesting habitat for wildlife. Yet we can boast of having over 175 mature trees comprising at least 32 different species. (If you open the 'Trees' tab at the top of the Main page, you can find out more about our park trees.)
Comments for the Wildlife group are posted below this introduction to the work of the wildlife group.
Over 14 years ago an earlier wildlife group planted stretches of hedge along Effingham Road and opposite St Bart's Church made up of a mix of native tree species and flowering shrubs which have now matured. These attract a variety of birds and insects by offering them a range of food as well as nesting and shelter sites.
We have been steadily improving on this existing biodiversity. In agreement with the Parks department, we have built a pond (2007) seeded a wildflower meadow (2009) and planted additional hawthorn and blackthorn saplings (2009.) We have (2010) persuaded the Parks department to replace their previous severe hedge-cutting regime and institute instead a much more wildlife friendly approach to the cutting and management of the mature hedges which will involve less frequent cuts and allow the plants to grow significantly thicker and higher. This has to be good news for many invertebrate species as well as hedge nesting birds and birds that just use the hedge as a food resource. A shady 'woodland' area between the edge of the depot and the meadow area has been partially planted with shade loving native species: wild garlic, red campion and native bluebells (2011). A further section of this shade area will be similarly planted in 2012.
In September 2012, three diseased cherry trees were cut down in the park. The trunks were placed in the lower corner between the depot and the shade area. As these slowly rot, they will become a rotting wood habitat, colonised, we hope, by various invertebrates and fungi that feed on and in the wood.
We organise regular morning birdwatch meetings on the third Sunday of the month, usually from September to June, to follow the changing bird populations during the year.
Photographs of the natural history of the park are regularly added to the website which record the natural wildlife and seasonal changes taking place in the park.
The south facing slope below the Bowling Green was cleared (April 2011) of the small ash trees that had seeded themselves here. Also partial clearance and serious pruning has been carried out on the gorse,bramble,Taveller's Joy (wild clematis) and cotoneaster shrubs that had come to dominate this area. In their place, a variety of herbaceous plants have been planted which should provide an attractive resource for insects looking for pollen and nectar.
The following plants form the main body of the planting on the slope:
If you would like to help in any way in developing the park as a more interesting and attractive place for wildlife, or just to be kept informed of any news and developments relating to the animals and plants of the park, then you are most welcome to join our group; please contact us through this website.
You can find out about nature reserves managed by Bristol City Council here.
Jo Corke and Simon Randolph.
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Here's an interesting web page that lists the most important tree species for associated invertebrates…Continue
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Wildflower seeds planted on 5th Dec 2015 supplied by Yellow Flag Wildflowers
Yellow Rattle 60g, Cowslip 10g, Corncockle 10g
General Purpose Wildflower Mix 110g contains:
Contains a good range of species found in a diverse range of habitat and soil types.
Mixture specification
(all percentages by seed weight)
80% meadow grass:20% Wild flower
BLACK KNAPWEED Centaurea nigra 0.7 % of mix
COMMON SORREL Rumex acetosa 1 % of mix
COMMON ST JOHN`S WORT Hypericum perforatum 0.5 % of mix
COWSLIP Primula veris 1.2 % of mix
CRESTED DOGSTAIL (grass) Cynosurus cristatus 40 % of mix
GREAT BURNET Sanguisorba officinalis 0.7 % of mix
HIGHLAND BENT (grass) Agrostis castellana 5 % of mix
LADY`S BEDSTRAW Galium verum 3.3 % of mix
MEADOW BUTTERCUP Ranunculus acris 3.8 % of mix
MUSK MALLOW Malva moschata 1 % of mix
OXEYE DAISY Leucanthemum vulgare 2.2 % of mix
RED CAMPION Silene dioica 2.2 % of mix
RED FESCUE (grass) Festuca rubra ssp. Commutata 10 % of mix
RED FESCUE (grass) Festuca rubra ssp. Pruinosa 25 % of mix
YARROW Achilla millefolium 1 % of mix
YELLOW RATTLE Rhinanthus minor 2.4 % of mix
This may be of interest to our group as its next (small and cheap) project, the construction of a couple of bee hotels as shown here:
The necessary DIY skills seem minimal!!
I will email the wildlife group to see if there is any interest.
List of plants added to the pond bank May 10th 2015
Wildlife Report for Feb 25th 2015 meeting.
1. The Effingham Road hedge has been laid. It does look a bit drastic, but we hope it will soon be an enhanced wildlife feature, and it should please the people who live in that bit of Effingham Road and who had complained about the hedge being too high.
2. The pond access improvement is now finished. We await the frogs return.
3. RHS parks Award. John to report – we have made an initial application pending the meeting's agreement to proceed.
4. Perennial Wildflower meadow. We have been told that our application for re-creating the meadow has been successful (but have not actually had the email yet) and are in consultation with Sarah Tyler's team at BCC; we think that the ground preparation will be done in-house by BCC. We will be organising the sowing of the seed ourselves, perhaps as a work-day.
5. The maintenance of herbaceous slope below the Bowling Green has been taken on by a Fosap member, Alison Griffies.
6. If you want to take on something similar, let us know. There are other bits looking for some TLC.
7. February's Bird Walk was led by Lois; A good number of people attended, and the list of sightings was appropriately longer.
Two Pipistrelle Bats feeding above the pond area on Wednesday evening. Hard to photograph in the fading light but I got a few silhouette-like shots against the sky.
great to see improvements re. pond- my grandson fell in last month!! Tim C
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition is once again returning to Bristol and will be open to visitors from Saturday 30 November to 23 February.
The touring exhibition is displayed at MShed - Bristol
New for this year, the touring photography competition in Bristol will be complemented with a display - Bristol wildlife - get wild about your city - celebrating the city's diverse and special wildlife.
It's Good News Week: after several months – years?- of submissions, applications and frustration we are pleased to announce that the three improvements we need have all been approved this month.
1. The improvement to the far side of the pond, which will entail some digging out of the bank to allow a safe route around the pond is being undertaken by Justin Smith, the BBC wildlife officer with his team of helpers. We do not have a date for this yet, but it should begin soon.
2. A team from Avon Wildlife Trust volunteers will do a major clearance of vegetation from the pond, which will enable us to deal with regular clearance more easily; this will be on January 6th and everyone is welcome to come along and cheer them on – you won't have to do any work yourself!
3. The repairs to the pond gate and the extension of the perimeter fence to include the several unfenced metres near Melita Road gate is due to be done on December 18th.
Thanks to all who have helped, encouraged and supported us in our grant applications for these works,
Jo and Simon.
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Aiken, Charlotte Rankin Millinery (1922)
Holt, Ardern Fancy dresses described; or, what to wear at fancy balls ([1896])
Conover, Isabel De Nyse Dressmaking made easy ([1919])
Field, Bradda Clothes that count and how to make them (1923)
Talbot, Anna Hedges Thrift clothing ([1918])
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Ellsworth, Evelyn Peters Textiles and costume design (1917)
Carens, Edith Marie Dressmaking self-taught in twenty complete lessons ([1911])
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Hill, Clare, fl. 1900 Millinery: theoretical and practical (1909)
The complete dressmaker, with simple directions for home millinery (1907)
Fuller, Mary E. Constructive sewing (1916)
Martin, Gene Allen, Mrs. Make your own hats (1921)
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And I said, "How I wish
We have something to do!"
excerpt from The Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
Luckily, there is something to do and it is something fun! We're going to practice skip counting with this easy DIY game inspired by The Cat in the Hat.
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Start by sketching a tall - and slightly crooked - hat on your white piece of paper. Take your inspiration from the pages of The Cat in the Hat. It doesn't have to be a perfect replica!
Cut out your hat and trace it on both the red and the blue pieces of paper. Cut out the red hat.
Your blue piece of paper is your puzzle board, so don't cut out that hat. Instead, trace your sketch with the black marker.
Add your stripes to your white and red hats. You will need 10 stripes on each hat. Use a ruler and compare the hats to make the stripes as similar as possible so you can alternate the colors. Cut apart each of your stripes.
Next, use your blue puzzle board to alternate the stripes on the hat. Starting at the top strip, write your numbers (skip counting by 10) in order from 10 through 100.
If you are worried about durability, run your puzzle board and puzzle pieces through a laminator.
Note: If you are making this game for a classroom, you will have enough stripes for 2 puzzles. You'll just need a 2nd sheet of blue paper to make another puzzle board.
How to play: The game play is super-easy. Just mix up the strips and have your child complete the puzzle by putting them in order. That's it!
This is a fun and simple way to practice counting by 10's. You can easily adapt this game for other skip counting sets, just change the number on the stripes.
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There are several ways you can make the neck strap for your bow-tie. Today I am going to show you how to make an adjustable strap using bow tie hardware. The hardware is not really easy to find. I searched my fabric stores and came up empty... searched online and didn't find much, but I finally found what i was looking for HERE, and I thought it was pretty reasonably priced. Shipping was fast and I am pleased with the product... so there you go!
Anyway, if your fabric store is better than mine or you happen to get your hands on some bow tie hardware, this is my fav method. easy on and off and adjustable for a good fit. Each hardware set has three pieces, a hook and eye, and a slide. You'll see how it works...
The hardware I have allows a 3/4" width for you fabric band. So I cut a piece of fabric 15x2.5 inches
(don't be like me, trim your selvage, please.)
Fold it in half length wise, right side together and sew (.5 inch seam allowance)
(again... don't be like me. Measure, pin, all that stuff my mom taught me how to do that I
I like to iron my seam open before turning it right side out.
Turn your long skinny tube right side out (I used a safety pin attached to one side, fed through the tube, and then pulled out the other side) Press.
I didn't put my seam right on the edge... though I would recommend right on the edge, or in the middle. This will be on the back side of the band... it probably doesn't matter, do what you like!
At this point your bow is made... but you haven't tacked down the center of the bow tie... so you can just feed this piece through the back.
Don't tack that in place yet! Okay... get your little hook...
You'll want to fold that raw edge under and... (um, please ignore my lovely crunchy dry cuticles.)
Sew in place. Your sewing machine may be lazy
(note that we are looking at the back side of that strap, and you can see 1 bar of the slide. On the front side you can see two of the bars) And then load the 'eye' piece on after that.
And then you will loop the strap around and go under the one bar of the slide a second time. (not really difficult to do, just difficult to photograph...) See the arrow pointing to the slide?
That short piece sticking up you are going to tuck the raw edge under and then sew it down... (again, awkward to photograph.)
Do you see the slide in there still? Note that you are just sewing the loop to itself, not through the rest of the band... you should be able to more the slide along the band to adjust the band size when you are done.
And then... you tack the bow to the band (a little off center closer to the hook side so you have plenty of adjusting room.) and...
Admire your lovely finished product: A fully adjustable, fully adorable bow tie for your favorite little man. YAY!
They are just so fun. Oh... and... try not to squeal out loud when you realize that cute black and white print bow tie is... what is that print??? Is that text? What th--
It's totally a MOO bow tie. Fabric remnant compliments of my MIL. I die. Serious cuteness and hilarity and genius all going on here in one tie. LOVE.
Anywho... hope you will give this bow tie method a try, it makes for a very nice, professional look. Let me know how yours turns out! :)


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Yep mines about that same size, order guys order it's gonna be epic. ( www.Facebook.com/castleofpower.com )
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Yep mines about that same size, order guys order it's gonna be epic. ( www.Facebook.com/castleofpower.com )
Seems like a really LONG way to go if that meter is accurate and we are really only at 2500. Looks like the goal then is 15,000 and I think it is pretty unrealistic that we'll actually hit that... unless of course we get a
We need to call on celebrities again... get Charlie Sheen to twitter that Castle Grayskull is WINNING!!!! :hmgrin:
I love that somebody actually created a foam model to show the scale. That was an awesome idea, and it gives you a much better idea than just 2D blueprints. Kudos HORSEMEN!
Well...I'll never own one, but I really hope this goes through and it gets made. I'm crossing my fingers, toes, and swords.
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i just KNOW that those ass clowns at digital river are going to charge me for 2 grayskulls because of this....
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When he pulled up that foam model, my eyes grew wide and my grin grew wider. I can't say the words on this forum. Friends, this has to happen. I know it was a cutout but I can see it...
TBH, I think it probably will go through. As was said earlier (or was it in another thread?), Mattel have probably already given it the green-light. The brand as a whole seems to be moving forward for the better (comics, other merchandise, movie looking like it may finally happen, which itself would re-launch the brand). No way would Mattel set something this big up, only for it to fail miserably (and embarrassingly). My guess is it will be another "2013 Subscription" episode. Scott will post about how it's struggling, then BAM! It went through at the last minute. I genuinely think that's what will happen. :skgrin:
I cannot wait for this! It's huge! Liking what I'm seeing so far. Still curious about the orb room as it doesn't look like anyone but Orko will fit. I can live with it though. So excited! Only thing that sucks is the over a year long wait.
I have sooo many plans for this thing. Gonna be buying lots of duplicate figures to use their accessories to decorate the castle. He-Man's hall of armor is a must for me. SCB (I think) posted a pic with all of Skelly's armor & weapons on the rack (which I have no idea what thread it was in, still learning my way around) and it was awesome. Totally doing that for He-Man!
Hmmm.... I'm wondering if anybody that could never afford the castle would be content with just a highly detailed, yet still 2D, foam 'front of Castle Grayskull' prop? Seriously! It could come with a foam base so it stands up, and it would be one helluva great looking back drop.
It would still be really cool!
The size looks great! Please let this thing happen! Just knowing that if this goes through we will get a Filmation Snake Mountain made me order it. I could also see this possibly getting vehicles back on the table. I know they are not the same sku but upper management may consider it again if they sold a playset. Just speculation though.
Regardless this Castle looks like it could be a fantastic addition if not the ultimate centerpiece of a MOTUC collection.
Who said we might get a Snake Mountain?
$121 freight for me to get this! Jeez
If this doesn't go ahead it will be the first time the fans actually dropped the ball IMO. Mattel have blamed us in the past for their MOTU failures but one cant reasonably ask for more than they have offered with the castle
I can understand 'not being able to afford it'... but man, Mattel has really done everything they can this time around.
From the 14 months to pay... to the $0 authorization price... to already having a foam display example to illustrate...
If people can't afford it, then that sucks... but Mattel gets props for this promotion :)
I also agree. When things have gone south for MOTU things in the past, fans have been unjustly blamed. If MOTUC Castle Grayskull doesn't get made, it will be 100% on us. I mean, sure, everyone would love to see something added here, tweaked there, but it's freaking Castle Grayskull! If that little bit of something is making you hold off, thinking a different or "better" one might come along, it won't. It's this Castle Grayskull or NO Castle Grayskull. Also, if Grayskull doesn't make it, the vehicle fans will most likely never see the Battle Ram...and it would also be a long-shot for us to see any of the diorama pieces Mattel has talked about (nothing's ever materialized, though).
This or nothing, folks.
I hope a lot of people who are on the fence regarding Castle Grayskull end up pre-ordering one. Remember how excited everyone was about the Ikon Hereos Castle Grayskull? The MOTUC one pretty much looks the same as it (the 2 sides, at least) and I don't recall a lot of back and forth regarding how it should look. I DID see a bit of talk about longer teeth, but that's an easy fix (as someone suggested, include optional long or short teeth).
If you really want a Castle Grayskull in your MOTUC collection, I really can't see how someone would pass this (possibly LAST) chance up. We were always told "maybe in a movie year" and everyone would sigh and be sad and campaign for it...well...it's finally here! Mattel listened guys and gals and put their best efforts into it. It's all up to us now. :)
The opening post of this thread has been updated with Scott's video. Please don't continuously post the video. thanks. :hmgrin:
Great video, Scott! If you haven't preordered one of these yet, you better do it! DO IT NOW!
I laughed out loud when TG knocked over Classics He-Man when he put foam Castle Grayskull on the table. :tjlol:
It was mentioned during the Q&A at NYCC. TNI reported it here.
If you want a Classics Snake Mountain in Filmation style the Castle must sell.
Guys we only have weeks left. Someone tweet this video to Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg!
TBH, I believe that was in response to a question a fan asked - and I don't put a lot of stock in it. Kind of like how whenever anyone makes a request for X-vehicle, he says, "Best way is to buy Wind Raider!" Kind of his stock answer - they could have very well asked for Crystal Castle or Fright Zone or Eternia Towers, whatever and would have gotten the same answer. And if they set their selling numbers high as they have with Grayskull, there is no way we would sell any of the other playsets nearly as much - Grayskull is going to be the most popular, hands down.
While I too would love a Filmation Snake Mountain (the original toy wasn't really a mountain to me - more of a cliff, LOL), I foresee that having even more issues than Grayskull has had. At least Grayskulls all pretty much have the same basic design, whereas there are quite a few disparate versions of Snake Mountain.
Just curious more than anything but why the change of heart from Mattel re: Castle Grayskull? We were constantly told that it'd only happen in a movie year or something along the lines.
I think it's great we're getting the opportunity like we are now and i'll be hoping till the last day of pre-orders that CG gets the green light!
If anyone has yet to pre-order one, this will go down as a nother U.S.S Flagg, super expemsive but will be one of the best toys ever created and will be highly saught after for years and years to come. Just as in vestment it is with.
Folks just order it now and get it over with


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Saturday, May 23, 2009
Grilled Corn-on-the-Cob
I love corn and I love it grilled then smothered with mayo, dusted with cayenne pepper and parmesan cheese. Soo good... Anyway, grilling corn is easy and the kids think using the husks as handles is cool. This is
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7 ears of corn-silks removed but husks left
sink full of water
Soak corn in water for 1 hour, this helps steam the corn and keeps husks from burning up. Cook over medium coals for 10-15 minutes. This is so good with anything else grilled.
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Hi Everyone!
I wanted to share that Posy Floral Designs has a couple of select dates open for 2017 and beyond!
I have really enjoyed designing up to 60 weddings a year through 2015, but it is now time for my family and I to take a break from flowers being our lives every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday! It is bittersweet but we know this is best for our family right now.
I am so thankful to SO MANY people who helped through the years. I couldn't have made it through without YOU! It makes me emotional thinking of the hours and time people devoted to our family to make this possible! Along with the laughs and tears of long nights into the morning hours to make the flowers just right!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
This is not a Goodbye from Flowers my friends :), it is a relaxation period to focus on the blessings I have been given.
For you Brides searching for a florist, feel free to email me and I can recommend some pretty awesome ladies that do floral design!
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I am so excited to blog this wedding featuring Mandy & Brad's special day!
It was such an honor meeting Mandy and creating a relationship with her at our meeting! She was so welcoming with her beautiful smile and sweet personality. She was such a joy to plan her flowers with and I was so excited to be her florist!
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I saw the Hero Arts 2013 Take N Make at Ellen Hutson - The Classroom so I thought I would join in. I used an old set that I had - Peeking Posies and I purchased Hero Arts cut files for this stamp set to use on my new Silhouette Cameo. Here is a picture of the stamp set:
I cut out all four images with the Cameo onto PTI white card stock, used my Stamp-a-majig to stamp the image onto the cutouts and then colored them in with Spectrum Noire markers. I then matted the images on black card stock with foam squares and then onto the card front.
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Rule 21 (related to Rule 13): As soon as you get the chance, just eject the warp core. You're going to have to do it soon or later anyway.
Rule 23: If there is part of an episode which could feature Troi's abilities as either counselor or empath, try substituting Guinan for Troi.
Rule 24 In event of a dangerous away mission, send all senior staff instead of a trained security team.
Rule 25: No Trek series will ever have more than three female series regulars. If the prospect even arises, the one with the smallest cup size must be sacked immediately
Rule 26: Holodeck safety locks are for display purposes only. All holodecks are designed to malfunction repeatedly.
Rule 30: Saving planet Earth instantly absolves you of all prior wrongdoings (including but not limited to: theft of a Starfleet vessel, disobeying direct orders, destruction of said Starfleet vessel, precipitating an intergalactic incident) Rule 31: Starfleet is allowed to hand out completely insane promotions to members of the Earth-saving club. Rule 32: The Temporal Prime Directive can and will be ignored in all instances where a feel-good ending is at stake.
Rule 35: Klingons/Romulans/Future San Fansisco/Saavik always looked like that. Andorian antennae always moved. Data's skin was always that shade of gold. Kirk's eyes have always been blue. Kirk's Enterprise was always the second one. Picard was bald at the academy. Stop asking quesions.
Rule 21b ...unless the Klingon commander wanted prisoners in which case all potential prisoners will be killed "accidentally".
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live rock pricing Today I called two LFS's who both were selling live rock for $9 a pound, I've seen it on craigslist and other sites forfor $3-4, but I'm concerned about buying it off craigslist. Is $9 standard and, would you buy live rock off craigslist? |
If it's just covered in coraline algae then $9/lb sounds good. I've seen $4-$5/lb but it's just base rock. Nothing special. If you can get pics of the rock on CL then you could make a better decision. Just make sure it's purple! |
my LFS has live rock for $6.99 a pound for the regular stuff and 7.99 a pound from their reef tank. both rocks have coraline algae all over them. and cheapest ive seen dry rock shipped to my area is about 2.50 a pound |
Sounds good, I will definetley check out the craigslist stuff a little more before I buy anything. |
I'm a little skeptical but what's your thought on this deal? PREMIUM DRY ROCK - 50 POUNDS WITH FREE SHIPPING - eBay (item 220458956331 end time Jul-30-09 23:22:19 PDT) |
scratch that I misread it thats dry rock not live rock |
You can still get dry rock and seed it with a few pieces of LR. I don't see why you wouldn't buy off craigslist, especially with that price. And I also don't see why it should be purple. Coraline grows everywhere. Just be sure it doesn't have aiptasia, because that sucks. |
My 180 was started with 75% dry rock from Marco Rocks The finest aquarium rock available, base rock, live rock, reef rock, marco rock, reef tank saltwater fish, live corals, Marco rocks, Fiji live rock, Tonga Live rock. It is 4 months later and you can't tell the original live rock from the dry rock. Everything is covered with life and coraline. I would order dry rock again without hesitation. |
ive gotten rock from established tanks for $1 a pound, sometimes free. join a local reefing club. |
Well ordering dry rock for sure would keep some money in my pocket to put towards a good skimmer, and if theres no difference after a few months I'm definetly going to consider it. |
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Is selenium the future of test automation? That leads us to yet another important question, what was the past of test automation? Well…,I was just kidding. There are numerous amazing test automation tools out there but none of them could takeover the field of test automation. Why? It's because, when you take a closer look at any testing project, the complexity increases so much that it takes a real tester with highly sophisticated testing practices and coding skills more than a mere tool to handle those situations. Yes, any tool no matter how good it is, cannot simply provide the foundation for a sound test automation framework. It is we, the "testers", who can do it! But how?
This article shows step-by-step how selenium with a hybrid of other tools and practices could be used by the tester to develop a highly maintainable, robust, sophisticated and sound test automation framework.
This article gives a 30-feet overview of how a test automation framework with selenium looks like.
Would you be interested to know how I can automate tests in just six weeks while others usually take over six months? I automate far faster and much cheaper than anyone else can do! Come on, my little secrets are so little.
Often in a testing project we tend to handle things in our own way that we see fit. The delicate test automation framework gets upset due to these gimmicks. Let me introduce you to the few main things that really counts during test automation:
Separation of test verification from test script
Even if you are new to automation you can easily get a hang of it as you follow the steps outlined. Let me illustrate these principles with a simple demo.
To execute the practical demonstration in this article we require the installation of JDK, Selenium Server, Selenium client driver for java, ant, TestNG, eclipse and TestNG plugin for eclipse.
For installation/setting up of Selenium, please refer the article "Selenium RC configuration for java – all in a nutshell".
In this demo I am using Ubuntu as platform. You could use your favorite platform for coding. So, let us walkthrough the steps for developing a robust and highly maintainable test automation framework with selenium.
Suppose we want to dress perfectly for the weather with a rain hat, a rain coat and an umbrella. Now let's develop a selenium test automation framework to test a very simple application that I have created called Weather Monster – "http://weathermonster.heroku.com/".
A configuration script contains the key value pair needed to setup the test environment. These values could be changed dynamically using a shell script.
Let's create a shell script to dynamically start the selenium server.
Create a new folder called "config" in the weatherMonster project and place the below shell script named config.sh in it.
#!/bin/bash cd ~/Documents/working/installable/selenium/jar\ files/ gnome-terminal --title="config" -x bash -c "java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.0rc2.jar" |
This shell script navigates to the folder path containing the selenium server jar file (Replace this path with respective path on your machine). It then opens a new GNOME-TERMINAL named config and runs the selenium server by execution of the command "java -jar selenium-server-standalone-2.0rc2.jar"
To grant execution privileges to the script use chmod command as below:
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Then run the script using the below command:
./config.sh |
We need to run this script each time before test suite execution to start the selenium server.
Right click the src folder and create a package named config. Right click the config package and create a java class called seleniumTest.java
Let's assign values to the environment variables such as host, port, browser and so on.
Since we do not want to hard code the test data and we would like to decouple test data from test execution let's assign the test data to the variables separately in the config folder and organize them as shown below:
package config; import com.thoughtworks.selenium.DefaultSelenium; import com.thoughtworks.selenium.HttpCommandProcessor; public class seleniumTest { /*Environment variables*/ public final String HOST = "localhost"; public final int PORT = 4444; public final String BROWSER = "firefox"; public final String BASE_URL = "http://weathermonster.heroku.com"; //To set the baseURL and server port public final HttpCommandProcessor PROC = new HttpCommandProcessor(HOST,PORT, BROWSER, BASE_URL); //To create a selenium object for passing as variable public final DefaultSelenium Selenium = new DefaultSelenium(PROC); /*Timeout*/ public final String TIMEOUT="60000"; /*Weather Monster home page*/ public final String HOME_MSG = "This is weathermonster, bringing you the weather"; public final String HOME_PAGETITLE = "Weather Monster"; } |
A module is a small independent script that represents AUT(Application Under Test). The most commonly used methods in the test case should be created as modules in separate folders that can be called and reused by many test cases. This increases the maintainability of the test suite. If there is a change, it needs to be applied only in one single place as opposed to all the places thus saving lots of time and cost.
Modularization also makes the test case easy-to-read and understand.
Consider the below test automation code. Can you understand it? It is a technical stack containing all the configuration details which is very hard to understand.
The test case should list the user actions not the technical details. This makes the test case customer-focused and easy-to-read. Now, let's move out all the technical stack from the test case to a separate module.
Right click the src folder and create a package named module. Right click the module package and create a java class called testInit.java.
Here we code all the technical details of starting selenium server for test initialization so that the actual test case is freed from these unnecessary details and can cover the main area to test.
package module; import com.thoughtworks.selenium.*; import org.testng.annotations.*; import config.*; public class testInit extends SeleneseTestBase { //Declare a new selenium test seleniumTest test = new seleniumTest(); @Test public void testSetup(DefaultSelenium selenium) { try { //Open, maximize and focus on the facebook page. Delete all cookies selenium.start(); selenium.open("/"); selenium.waitForPageToLoad(test.TIMEOUT); //Handles timeout exception selenium.windowMaximize(); selenium.windowFocus(); selenium.deleteAllVisibleCookies(); //Clear all session cookies before testing } catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } } |
Now that we already have modules for test setup and initialization, the writing of a selenium test case doesn't take much effort. All we need to do is just call these modules and reuse them in our test case. This allows us to focus more on the customer.
A good automation script should contain the actual code logic to perform and validate a business scenario.
Right click the src folder and create a package named testSuite. Right click the testSuite package and create a java class called weatherMonsterHome.java
package testSuite; /* Test case for weather monster home page*/ import module.*; import config.*; import org.testng.annotations.*; import com.thoughtworks.selenium.*; public class weatherMonsterHome extends SeleneseTestBase { //Declare a new selenium test seleniumTest test = new seleniumTest(); testInit setUp = new testInit(); @Test public void testWeatherMonster() { /*Test the home page of Weather Monster * Pass the expected message and page title of the home page as parameters */ setUp.testSetup(test.Selenium); weatherMonster(test.Selenium, test.HOME_MSG,test.HOME_PAGETITLE); } public void weatherMonster(DefaultSelenium Selenium, String strHomeMsg, String strExpectedHomePageTitle) { try { /*Verification of Weather Monster home page*/ assertTrue(Selenium.isTextPresent(strHomeMsg)); System.out.println("Message on the Weather Monster home page is displayed successfully"); assertEquals(Selenium.getTitle(),strExpectedHomePageTitle); System.out.println("Title of Weather Monster home page is correct"); } catch(Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } } |
This decoupling of test script from all the test execution details has made the test case a very easy-to-read list of user actions.
Ultimately the test structure is as below:
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RemoteTestNG starting
Message on the Weather Monster home page is displayed successfully
Title of Weather Monster home page is correct
PASSED: testWeatherMonster
We have missed out on a few little secrets of test automation like intelligent exception handling and data-driven testing. We shall get introduced to them in our next article, so stay tuned!
Feel free to ask any question or post comments.
Junit and TestNG differ in the core design. Junit is a unit testing framework while TestNG addresses testing at a higher level. This article discusses the three main differences between TestNG and Junit.
1. In Junit, one test case failure can cause a bunch of test cases to fail in the test suite. There is no option of skipping the set of dependent test cases. The dependent test cases are also reported as failures. For example, suppose there is a test case to test login and the next 10 test cases need to perform a transaction after login. If the login test case fails the other 10 test cases will also fail.
TestNG handles dependency between test cases. If one test case failure causes the failure of a group of test cases it skips that group and executes the rest of the test suite. The group that has dependency on the failed test cases is reported as skipped NOT failed.
2. In TestNG groups can be defined. Groups are specific subsets of the test suite. We can choose to run only specific subset of the testsuite say database related test cases instead of running the entire test suite. This can be done as below:
In the test case we define two groups DBTestcase and deprecated as below:
@Test(groups = {"DBTestcase", "deprecated"}) public void testMethod2() { } |
In TestNG.xml config file we write the below piece of code to include only database related test cases and exclude the deprecated ones.
<test name="Sample"> <groups> <run> <include name="DBTestcase" /> <exclude name="deprecated" /> </run> </groups> <classes> <class name="example1.Test1" /> </classes> </test> |
In Junit for a long time it was not possible to run a specific subset of the test cases. We can either run the entire suite or run each test case individually. Junit 4.8 introduced a new feature called "Categories" to overcome this limitation. However groups are much easier to configure in TestNG.
3. TestNG supports parameterization for objects. For example I can execute a single test case for multiple test data sets through the parameterization of DataProvider object. This makes the implementation of data driven testing more flexible in TestNG as below:
@DataProvider(name = "DP1") public String[][] testData() throws Exception { String[][] sdataArray = {{"james","moosecat$", "firstname.lastname@example.com","selenigr","selenigr1$", "firstname.lastname@example.com"}}; return sdataArray; } @Test (dataProvider = "DP1") public void evernoteSharing(String user1, String password1, String email1, String user2, String password2, String email2) { } |
In junit test data is not parameterized using a DataProvider hook. Data-driven testing is implemented differently and involves more coding.


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Rank, Tenure, and Reappointment Committee normally recommends to Academic Department Heads |
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Deadline for Academic Department Heads to call organizational meetings and request dossiers from all members of their academic departments who wish to be considered for tenure or promotion. |
November 1 |
Deadline for academic departments to empanel complete Rank, Tenure, and Reappointment Committees. |
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March 1: (Spring of Academic Year) |
Rank, Tenure, and Reappointment Committees make final written recommendations to Academic Department Heads with records of committee membership, attendance at final discussions and voting results. |
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Academic Department Heads make written recommendations to deans with supporting materials. |
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Deans make recommendations to Provost with supporting materials. |
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Departmental Objectives Conference April 1 - 15 |
Overall departmental objectives, derived from university and college objectives, are discussed and agreed upon by the Academic Department Head and the departmental faculty members to provide guidelines for the development of individual objectives. |
Individual Objectives Conference for Returning Faculty Member April 15 - 30 |
Faculty member submits written objectives for forthcoming year (May 1 - April 30) on Individual Objectives Sheet to the Academic Department Head; followed by a conference between the faculty member and head to negotiate and agree on the objectives. |
Individual Objectives Conference for New Faculty Members Sept. 15 - Oct. 15 |
Same as above. |
Review Individual Objectives (optional) Sept. 15 - Oct. 15 |
Individual objectives may be reviewed by faculty member and Head and, if necessary, modified. Faculty member may discuss progress to date. |
Individual Performance Evaluation March 1 – 16* |
Faculty member submits Individual Performance Report Form to Academic Department Head. The Head evaluates performance of routine responsibilities and individual objectives met, and assigns the faculty member a performance ranking. The faculty member has the right to request a meeting with the Head within one working week to discuss and/or respond in writing to the evaluation. |
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Two copies of EDO Individual Objectives Sheet, Individual Performance Report Form, Individual Evaluation Form, and any other supporting documentation, including the faculty member's written response to the evaluation, are submitted by the Academic Department Head to the Dean. |
April 20 |
Individual Objectives Sheet, Individual Performance Report Form, Individual Evaluation Form, and any other supporting documentation, including the faculty member's written response to the evaluation, are submitted by the Dean to the Provost (sent to Faculty Records) along with recommendations for "Exceeds Expectations" and "Distinguished" ratings. |
*EDO evaluation conferences of faculty members being considered for tenure or promotion and first year appointees, where possible, should be completed at least two weeks prior to departmental consideration for tenure/promotion or reappointment.