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Berlusconi lawyers seek to delay sex-for-hire case
MILAN (AP) — Silvio Berlusconi's judicial woes weighed on Italy's political future on Monday as prosecutors requested an accelerated trial of the former premier on corruption charges and judges in his sex-for-hire trial ordered a medical visit to certify his ailments.
The judicial jockeying comes at a politically sensitive time for Italy, as it seeks to form a stable government following inconclusive national elections on Feb. 24-25.
Democratic Party leader Pier Luigi Bersani, whose forces finished first in the lower house vote, has ruled out an alliance with Berlusconi's center-right coalition, which finished second. But Bersani's options are limited as comic-turned-political leader Beppe Grillo, whose movement finished third, refuses to align with any major party. Talks will begin March 20, after Parliament convenes Friday and votes in leaders of both houses.
Berlusconi has been seeking to have two Milan trials postponed due to an eye condition for which he has been hospitalized since Friday. Judges in Berlusconi's tax fraud appeal continued with Saturday's hearing after court-appointed doctors said his ailments were not severe enough to keep him from court.
But another Milan court on Monday granted the motion to delay the hearing in the sex-for-hire trial after ordering a new medical visit to verify the severity of his ailments. Berlusconi's lawyers submitted three medical certificates, citing the eye inflammation and a heart problem, to support the new delay.
Prosecutor Ilda Boccassini had been scheduled to wrap up her closing arguments in the trial in which Berlusconi, 76, is charged with having paid for sex with an underage Moroccan teen and using his influence to cover it up. They were put off until March 18.
Giovanni Orsina, a professor of political science professor at Rome's LUISS university, said the intensifying judicial attention on Berlusconi at such a delicate movement has negative consequences on the political process "whatever you think of whose fault it is."
The situation makes it even more difficult for Bersani to consider any sort of political agreement with the center-right, while further polarizing Berlusconi supporters who see him as a persecuted figure, Orsina said.
Berlusconi has long complained that he is the target of a judicial campaign, citing many trials mostly in Milan and mostly related to his business dealings.
He was convicted in October of tax fraud related to the purchase of the rights to air Hollywood movies on his television networks. Prosecutors in the appeals trial are seeking to uphold the four-year sentence, which includes a five-year ban on public office. A verdict is due in coming weeks in both the appeal case and the sensational sex-for-hire trial.
Angelino Alfano, the head of Berlusconi's People of Freedom Party, has said the pressure to conclude the cases is "an attempt to eliminate Silvio Berlusconi by judicial means, having failed by electoral or democratic measures."
Alfano led a contingent of a few dozen newly elected center-right lawmakers to the courthouse in Milan on Monday to protest the treatment of Berlusconi. They sang the Italian anthem outside, entered the building and then left after a short time.
The head of the magistrate's association, Rodolfo Sabelli, told Sky News 24 television that there was no effort to accelerate the trials, noting that the cases were all in various stages.
"The magistrates' goal is not political and the legitimization of the magistrate does not depend on consensus but on the professionalism and credibility that derives from respect for the law," he said.
Berlusconi also faces new accusations in Naples that he paid a then-senator €3 million ($3.9 million) to defect to his party, helping to bring down a government led by Romano Prodi 2008. Prosecutors are seeking an accelerated trial that skips the preliminary hearing stage because they believe they have overwhelming evidence.
After being questioned by prosecutors in Rome, the former lawmaker, Sergio De Gregorio, told reporters he had "the courage" to acknowledge taking an under-the-table payment. He said he had taken a €2 million payment for a foundation and that that another €1 million had been deposited in the coffers of a political movement representing Italians who reside abroad. But he insisted he joined Berlusconi's party because of differences with Prodi' policies, not because of the money.
"The Prodi government would have fallen anyway," De Gregorio said. "Maybe we gave a little help" to its demise, he said.
In yet another case, Berlusconi was convicted in Milan last week of breach of confidentiality for the illegal publication of wiretapped conversations related to a bank takeover attempt by a newspaper he owns. The court sentenced him to one year in jail, though it did not issue an order on carrying out the sentence. In Italy, it is rare for anyone to be put behind bars pending a possible appeal except in the case of very serious crimes like murder.

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Finding the best Microphone
This article has been updated for Learn To Play Day, 31st March 2012
Microphones can be quite overwhelming to buy online, so we want to help making the process easier for you. Whether you want to learn about the types of microphones there are and how you should mic up a drum kit, or whether you're looking to buy microphones for your large ensemble.
First, a little about microphones. Microphones are basically simple devices designed to do one thing: convert sound waves in the air to their electrical equivalent. One of the first questions you may encounter is, "Do you want a dynamic or condenser microphone?"
These are the two most popular types of microphones in the world.
Dynamic microphones are typically inexpensive and rugged, with fairly low sensitivity. In layman's terms, this means they are good for handheld or "close-miked" applications. Dynamics are commonly used for solo vocalists and on drum kits.
- Condenser microphones, on the other hand, are typically (but not always) much more sensitive than dynamics. Make a good quality condenser microphone your first choice for miking ensembles, or other applications where the microphone will be placed at a distance (> 2 ft.) from the sound source. Condensers are typically used for recording orchestras, choirs, and in other applications where you wish to capture the sound of the ensemble, versus individual sounds.
Large ensembles (band, orchestra, choir)
Use a stereo microphone setup to most accurately capture the sound of a large ensemble. Stereo recording is not as complicated as it sounds.
For simplicity sake, we'll use the most basic type of stereo microphone techniques, the X-Y pattern. Use two microphones of the same model with the two mic capsules placed as close as possible, and facing each other at an angle ranging from 90 – 135 degrees, depending on the size of the sound source. (see above). For a wider coverage area, the larger angles should be used. The X-Y pattern results in good stereo separation and excellent mono compatibility.
A second, somewhat simpler way to record in stereo uses what is known as a "single-point" stereo microphone, such as the Shure VP88. The VP88 has a single microphone housing that contains two microphone elements, electrically combined to produce a stereo output. The advantage to this type of microphone is simplicity; put the microphone on a stand and point it at what you want to record. When recording a large ensemble, you may choose to use more than two microphones to adequately cover each section. A technique known as "area" coverage uses multiple microphones to cover small sections of the ensemble. Using a choir as an example, use one microphone for each 6-9 foot wide section, and aim the microphone capsule towards the last row. Microphones should be placed 2-3 feet in front of the first row of the choir (see right). The same technique can be applied to concert band or orchestra, by using one microphone per section.
Recommended Equipment/ Suggested Models:
- 2 cardioid-pattern condenser microphones such as AKG C1000s, sE 2200A MKII
- Microphone stand(s)
- Shure A27M – an accessory that allows you to mount two microphones on one stand.
- Microphone cables with XLR connectors
- Stereo microphone mixer with at least 2 microphone inputs
- Cables to connect mixer to recording device
Microphones for small ensembles (jazz combos, string quartet, vocal jazz groups)
The stereo techniques described above can also be successfully applied to smaller ensembles, but to achieve a more "pop" sound, use multiple close microphones, generally one per instrument. Detailed below are some simple techniques for getting good sounds for a variety of instruments or vocals.
Recommended Equipment/Suggested Models:
- Vocal microphone (Shure Beta 58A, Shure SM58, Shure PG58)
- Guitar amplifier microphone (Shure SM57, Shure PG57)
- Drum microphones (Samson 7-piece Drum Mic Set, Shure SM57, two Shure PG81 or Shure SM81)
- Piano microphone (Shure PG81, Shure SM86
- Woodwinds (Shure SM57, Shure PG57)
- Brass (Shure SM57, Shure PG57)
- Microphone stands
- Microphone cables with XLR connectors
- Microphone mixer with enough inputs to handle the desired number of microphones
- Recording device (see next section)
- Cables to connect mixer to recording device
Try using a handheld style (although mounted on a stand to reduce handling noise) dynamic microphone, such as the SM58 or Beta 58A. Place the microphone roughly 3-4 inches away, and pointed somewhere between the nose and mouth. If possible, try to isolate the vocalist from any unwanted sounds – in another room would be ideal (see right).
Electric Guitar Amplifier
Use a Shure SM57 microphone roughly 1-4 inches from the loudspeaker, pointed toward the center of the speaker cone (see figure 4).
While seemingly complex (see below), you can achieve a relatively decent drum sound with only four microphones:
- Kick Drum – Place a Shure PG52 inside the drum, approximately 1-6 inches from the beater head.
- Snare Drum – Use an Shure SM57 to mike the top head, placed at a 45 degree angle.
- Toms and cymbals – Use a pair of condenser microphones suspended over the drum kit, either spaced apart or using one of the stereo microphone techniques described earlier.
If you have a limited number of microphones, use the following chart:
|Number of Microphones
|Use an "overhead"
|Kick drum and overhead
|Kick drum, snare, and overhead
|Kick drum, snare, and two overheads
For a grand or baby grand, place a Shure PG86 or se 2200a roughly 12 inches above the middle strings, and 8 inches from the hammers. The lid should be at full stick to allow enough clearance for the microphone. For an upright, place a similar microphone just over the open top, above the treble strings (see above).
Use an Shure SM57 placed a few inches above the bell and aimed at the sound holes
A miniature condenser microphone (Shure Beta 98H/C) clipped to the instrument and aimed into the bell yields good, up-front sound quality with great isolation. Alternatively, a dynamic microphone on a stand (Shure SM57) 1 to 2 feet in front of the bell provides similar results, but is slightly more cumbersome. The closer the microphone, the brighter the sound.
The techniques and concepts introduced here only scratch the surface of what can be accomplished with some basic audio equipment. Feel free to experiment and
develop your own techniques, just remember a few key points:
- Use only as many microphones as necessary.
- Keep the microphones as close as possible to the sound source.
- When powering up the sound system, turn amplifiers on LAST and off FIRST.
- Overhead and boundary microphones will never sound like a lavalier.
- If it sounds good, it is good!


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There is a big debate going on in this country on the size of the budget and the national debt. Each service will be taking a hard look at what programs to cut.
There is a big debate going on in this country on the size of the budget and the national debt. Each service will be taking a hard look at what programs to cut. Already due to cuts caused by the sequester, we've seen air show participation cut, travel cut, civilian furloughs and, recently, the standdown of 17 combat squadrons in order to conserve flying hours for those units about to deploy and those in combat zones.
The Department of Defense can only reduce the overhead costs of administration, maintenance and medical by cutting into warfighting capabilities. We have a national debt standing at nearly $12 trillion dollars and growing every day, and it's expected to be $21 trillion dollars by the end of this decade. We all have to make tough choices but we have to make smart ones as we drawdown the military and our forces.
What programs do we cut or cancel? We fly tankers more than 50 years old. How much longer can we delay replacing them? Our fighters are on average 25 years old and are reaching the end of their life cycles. How much longer can we expect our men and women to fly aircraft that may break up in flight? Can we really afford to shortchange our nation's defense?
Defense spending seems high, considering we've been fighting two wars and supporting an all-volunteer force. But defense spending is still only roughly 4 percent of Gross Domestic Product. It was at 35 percent during World War II and 9 percent during the Cold War.
Defense spending reigned during the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. In 1970, total defense spending was 8.1 percent of our GDP — more than twice the 3.8 percent spent on the big three entitlement programs, but starting in 1971 entitlement spending surpassed defense and today stands at over 13 percent of GDP.
Entitlement spending is on the road to absorbing more of the federal budget as the baby boom generation retires and ages. The result is that, eventually, this will crowd out defense spending and limit what the government can provide in military and economic growth.
At the end of the Cold War in 1991, recapitalization funds were taken to pay for a peace dividend. New equipment planned and programmed were eventually bought in small numbers while other programs were delayed. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan further delayed recapitalization to the point that perhaps not long from now the U.S. may undergo disarmament by default — something none of our enemies could accomplish.
One of the primary responsibilities of Congress, according to the U.S. Constitution, Section 8, is to "provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States." Unless Congress reins in spending it will find itself unable to live up to its responsibilities under the Constitution and we will find our military a hollow force when we'll need it the most.
Mike Emig is Florida State/Region president of the Air Force Association and lives in Ocala.


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10 Holiday Ornaments To Keep Up After The Holidays
I love giving and receiving Christmas ornaments as gifts, but I hate packing them up once the holidays are over. Here are some pretty ones I wouldn't mind having on display after January 1st:
1 Floating Feather Ornaments Set, $36 for a set of 7 small ornaments from Roost
2 Set of Four Lace Icicle Ornaments, $20 from DillyPad
3 Terrarium Ornament, $20 from Natural Woodland
4 Succulent Ornament, $19 from Flora Grubb
5 Hand Blown Glass Bird Nest, $38 from bluejays ⁺ bumblebees
6 Paper Star Urchin, $20 from kissa design
7 Selenite Icicle Ornament, $4 from Roost
8 Hermit Crab Friendly Shell n' Plant, $11 from Tortoise Loves Donkey
9 Natural Star Himmeli Mobile, $55 from AMradio
10 Stag Silhouette Needlepoint Christmas Ornament, $19 from Modern Needleworks
Related Posts:
• How To: Use Ornaments After the Holidays
• Post-Holiday Tip: Use Wine Boxes to Store Ornaments
• Are There Any Eco-Friendly Christmas Tree Options?
• Make Molded Bird Seed Ornaments On The Cheap
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A Food Gal Giveaway: Two Seats at A Special Tomato and Wine Pairing Dinner in Los Gatos
Two of my favorite places in Los Gatos are joining for one night to celebrate "Fruits of the Vine," a salute to summer heirloom tomatoes and stellar wines.
Sept. 15, the owners of Enoteca La Storia wine bar will be supplying copious amounts of their 25 varieties of home-grown, organic tomatoes to Restaurant James Randall for a vine-to-table five-course feast.
Chef Ross Hanson's menu will include dishes such as Dungeness crab croquettes with tomato relish; tomato braised beef with creamy polenta and Pecorino; and roasted tomato and peach shortcake.
The 6 p.m. dinner is $95 per person, which includes wine pairings. Tax and gratuity are not included.
Advance ticket purchase is required.
Contest: One lucky Food Gal reader will get a chance to attend the dinner with a guest — for free (though a tip for the servers would be appreciated, I'm sure). Entries, limited to those who can make it to Los Gatos on the evening of Sept. 15, will be accepted through midnight PST Sept. 8. Winner will be announced Sept. 10.
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What's great about my community?
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Seeing as this is my first blog post, I will start with a short introduction so that we can get to know ourselves a little better. My name is Christopher Onoka and I am a 19 year old Kenyan currently studying civil engineering in Germany. I love basketball and I am a proud foodie.
So now let's get down to business. Over the course of the next 6 months I am going to upload a blog post weekly, talking about a wide range of topics that all have to do with the youth. Discourse is encouraged through comments and I am really looking forward to reading your opinions and experiences on the topic at hand. I hope that this will not only be an outlet for my thoughts, but will afford me the opportunity to learn and to hear about your personal feelings and thoughts. Let the journey begin!
For my first blog post I want to start on a positive note. We all have the same feelings of nationalistic and community pride whereby everyone thinks that their country/ community is the best and greatest. But what makes your community great?
Thinking about Kenya, for me it would have to be the attitude of the people. Kenyans have a sunny and warm disposition that is unparalleled worldwide. Combined with the relaxed pace of life, this makes it a great place to live. Of course this is just my personal opinion and depending on whom you ask you will get a different answer.
One could also approach the question scientifically and throw around the fact that Africa's economy in general (and Kenya's in particular) is one of the highest growing worldwide, but to be honest this is rarely felt by the common mwananchi on the street. He will only notice slight fluctuations such as those of the cost of fuel, rent, public transportation and foodstuffs but the fact that the economy is growing is lost on him.
But to me, this doesn't make a country great. Great is something that goes beyond good. No matter how obvious the previous sentence sounded, think about it for a moment. For me, a country can't be great simply because the economy is excellent. For greatness, you need the intangibles, the small things. The warm attitude and resilience of Kenya is what makes it for me great.


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The benefits of "unbalanced" media coverage
Since I am interested in how the media operates, I regularly go to the annual Susie Gharib Distinguished Lectureship series sponsored by the English Department at Case where they invite journalists to talk about their work.
It is always interesting to listen to journalists from the big newspapers such as the Washington Post describe how they work. One thing that always strikes me is how confident they are that the media and journalism in the US is far superior to that in other countries. They seem to accept this as an unquestioned truth.
Two years ago, two journalists from the Washington Post (a husband and wife team) described how they were in Iraq just prior to the US attack on that country, and he somewhat disdainfully spoke of the practices of their British journalistic counterparts. During the questions, I asked them why they thought they were superior. The husband replied that the US editors seemed to exercise much more oversight to make sure about getting the facts just right than the British newspapers. But if that was so, I said, how was it that the US media completely failed to discover the fact that the case being made at that time for Iraq having weapons of mass destruction was totally bogus. The US mainstream media pretty much accepted the administration's arguments largely uncritically, whereas the supposedly inferior media in many other parts of the world were very skeptical.
He became very defensive and said that this was just one case where the US media dropped the ball but that in general it was much better than the rest of the world. He said unlike much of the world's press, the US media was "objective" and "unbiased" in its coverage. My response was that this massive failure in what was the biggest story that any of them was likely to ever cover, and one that had momentous consequences, could not be dismissed as a mere aberration but pointed to a fundamental problem in the way that the media operates here.
Last year, Pulitzer prize winningWashington Post journalist Dana Priest (who won for her story on the secret prisons operated by the CIA to hold prisoners in foreign countries) was here and during the question time someone else brought up the deficiencies of the coverage leading up to the Iraq war, and brought up some examples of what he felt were stories that the US media missed.
Priest replied that the media did cover them. But the questioner persisted saying that saying something once was not enough in the face of repeated false assertions to the contrary by the Bush administration. He asked why the journalists did not periodically (say every week or month or so) keep raising the same issues again so as to act as an effective counter to the misleading propaganda pushed by the White House. She replied that they could not do so because that would imply that the journalists were pushing an agenda. She said that they had to be "objective" and "impartial."
This exchange clearly highlights the fundamental problem. Priest was right that if you look carefully in the US media, you can probably find some journalist somewhere who did ask the right questions and did report on the facts of almost any issue. She is also right that many US reporters, especially those in the quality media, think that they should strive for some kind of impartiality and objectivity in their reporting.
But the key question is not the validity of some abstract ideal of journalism. The real question is what kind of system will end up with the general public having a good sense of the truth. And I think that a strong case can be made that partisan journalism is more likely to deliver the goods.
I grew up in Sri Lanka with partisan journalism. My father subscribed to three daily morning papers and two evening papers. These papers were much slimmer than the papers in the US, with far fewer ads and feature articles, and a greater percentage devoted to news and political commentary. The political affiliations of the papers were quite clear. There were the government-controlled papers, those that were sympathetic to each of the main political parties, plus those that were run by private entrepreneurs (kind of like Rupert Murdoch) who had their own agenda of using their newspapers as clout to further their business or political interests. There were also smaller circulation papers that had their own political leanings, representing trade unions and smaller political parties.
Everyone knew the partisan leanings of each paper. These were not secrets and readers factored them in when reading the news. So what kind of journalism was produced by this system?
What happened is that the newspapers, whatever the leanings, could not publish outright falsehoods. Newspapers rarely made flat out untrue statements because those are easily refuted by the other newspapers and there existed libel laws to prevent that, as well as a Press Council which could investigate charges of serious distortions What the newspapers did do was downplay the negative news about the people they favored and highlight their successes, while doing the opposite for the people they opposed. They would give wide coverage to political events of their side and to the speeches of the people they favored while downplaying those of their opponents.
They also used biased language. It was not unusual to see a photo of someone they disliked in an unflattering pose accompanied by a snide caption. You would never see such things in the US press and whenever I go back to Sri Lanka, it is always a bit of a jolt initially to see such blatant editorializing mixed in with the "hard" news.
As a reader, it was not hard to figure out what was going on. If one paper made a major allegation, and the other paper did not deny it but tried to ignore it or downplay it, the chances are that the story was credible. If a story was serious, a paper could keep harping on it day after day, making sure that it was not forgotten or buried, and forcing the people concerned to respond to it in one way or another.
Since it was clear to everyone what each paper's agenda was, there was no point in really trying to hide it under cover of neutrality.
Of course this kind of media required the reader to do some of the intellectual heavy lifting, to read multiple sources, factor in their biases, and infer the real facts of the case. If you read only one newspaper, you were definitely missing important information. So people became adept at news interpretation and filtering.
This kind of partisan journalism is, I think, the norm in most countries. England's newspapers are like this to some extent and so are the French. The US is unusual in its big media feeling that they have to be "neutral" and "objective" and "unbiased."
Next: Is the US media actually unbiased? And how did it get to value "neutrality"?
TrackbacksTrackback URL for this entry is: http://blog.case.edu/singham/mt-tb.cgi/9430 The consequences of having media monopolies
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Mano, I know you're not that big a fan of movies, but you might want to check out All the President's Men. It's the excellently filmed story about the Washington Post reporters who covered the Watergate scandal, so I'm reminded of it by your recent posts on journalism. These days, the movie really makes one think about how far journalistic integrity has fallen in this country, compared to what it could and should be.
I had seen that film and it is a good one. But I am preparing a post that suggests that that kind of thing can only occur when there is an elite consensus for it. By the time Woodward and Bernstein got going, there was a general feeling that Nixon had to go and this gave W-B the room to do what they did.
By the way, I am a HUGE fan of movies. What gave you the idea I wasn't?
I wonder if the current emphasis on objectivity and 'neutral' reporting is in fact a direct result of years and years of propaganda against the press, calling it "The Liberal Media" - now a household phrase, repeated so often it must be true?
The media didn't seem that liberal to me in high school when I was told with assurity by my teachers that it was... and so this 'objectivity' may in part be a defense mechanism, as the media try hard to remove the "liberal" taint from their image.
That said, I also worried during the election that it seemed pictures of George Bush, an unattractive , almost goofy looking man as far as I can tell, were cherry-picked to make him look almost handsome, whereas Kerry was often depicted mid-sentence, his mouth skewed oddly, or looking tired and haggard. I noted this often, and was quite incensed by it, being a Kerry supporter. So I wonder if we really do have 'objectivity' at all...
That said, the idea of a "partisan" media frightens me. It seems un-american... why can't the press be free, objective, AND properly informative? Or would that reflect the "liberal bias" of reality too much?
I don't know what gave me that impression. Some comment in your Lagaan or V for Vendetta posts, but going back to see what it was, I can't seem to find it again. Anyway, I'm glad you're preparing a post on the subject, and will look forward to reading it.
You're absolutely right that the way in which the media is "unbiased" -- "There are Exactly Two sides, and we will Weight them Equally!" -- is in fact a kind of bias, and a particularly pernicious one. But I do not think we as a nation have the character for your plan to work. We already have partisan journalism: it's called the blogosphere. I enjoy the blogs I read, including yours, but most of them are echo chambers. If you spend much time on a blog written by and populated with people who have vastly different political orientations, you will likely be A) ignored or B) called a troll and driven off.
Wondering if you have more facts or info about your statement regarding partisan journalism in Europe for my research paper.
I am afraid that I do not have the actual ownership data of the newspapers. My impressions come from visiting England, Australia, and New Zealand and reading the newspapers there and also seeing the descriptions given to French and German newspapers.
Sorry about that and good luck with your research.


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Morgan's Addie Jensen threw a two-hitter on Friday, striking out 17 batters in the process.
"She threw nine pitches in the first inning, striking out the side," said GCHS assistant coach Carrie Valdes.
"She has a great riser that was hard for us to hit," added GCHS head coach Brook Shumway.
Jensen pitched only part of the game the next day, and Grand went on to win that contest. Freshman Tia Shumway was the winning pitcher for the Lady Devils.
"We hit a lot better the second day," said coach Shumway, who noted that Grand's junior varsity team won handily on both days.
More than two-dozen girls are on this year's softball roster, the majority of whom are underclassmen. Among the team's handful of seniors are first baseman Jessica Valdes, and outfielders Tymberly Fredericks, Alena Geiser and Chelsey Day.
The juniors on the squad include returning players Caitlin Pfnister, Cammy Beeman and Kesley Backus, in addition to newcomer Sadie Hansen.
The team has several underclassmen who are expected to see varsity playing time, including pitchers Rhiannon Bohannon and Tia Shumway.
Besides Bohannon, the other sophomores on the team include Kennedi Patterson, Kylie Haycock, Madi Jones and Michelle Lopez.
In addition to Tia Shumway, the other freshmen on the team include Alexa Pierce, Anissa Geiser, Delanee Olsen, Ellie Kelly, Krystal Beck, Michelle Valdes, Molly McKinnon and Rylee Pruitt.
This coming weekend, the Lady Devils are traveling to St. George to play in an invitational tournament at Snow Canyon High School on March 14 and 15. Grand's varsity and junior varsity teams are scheduled to play two games each on both days, Friday and Saturday.
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The French philosopher and social thinker, Albert Camus, often spoke and wrote about the absurdity of life. He had difficulty reconciling man's awareness of his own mortality and his hope of life everlasting.
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Used 2009 Audi A4 Review
Edmunds expert review
The redesigned 2009 Audi A4 sedan and Avant wagon boast more space, better driving dynamics and more gadgets. They're worth a look for shoppers desiring good looks and sharp handling.
What's new for 2009
Vehicle overview
Despite being a longtime top seller in Europe, the Audi A4 has historically trailed a distant 3rd behind those other German automakers' compact luxury sedans in the North American market. The folks in Ingolstadt are hoping to change all that with the newly redesigned 2009 Audi A4.
The new A4 sedan is nearly 5 inches longer and 2 inches wider than the previous model, which yields more headroom, more shoulder room and an additional 1.4 inches of rear knee room, as well as class-leading trunk space. Also new on the A4 this year is a pair of direct-injection engines -- the standard 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder and an available 3.2-liter V6 (sedan only). The 2009 A4 additionally offers a plethora of techno-gadgets, including radar-based adaptive cruise control, a new park distance control system and revised controls for Audi's Multi Media Interface (MMI) system.
Driving enthusiasts will appreciate that the drivetrain's AWD layout has been adjusted to improve weight balance for better handling. In addition, the optional Drive Select system permits the driver to adjust ride compliance, steering effort and shift response -- there are three different preset modes as well as a personalized mode where you can mix and match settings.
Of course, the 2009 Audi A4 faces stiff competition, such as the more engaging BMW 3 Series, the affordably priced Infiniti G37 and the solidly built Mercedes-Benz C-Class. Since the convertible A4 is a carry-over from the previous generation, we'd definitely hold out for the upcoming A4-based A5 and S5 convertibles. But for those in search of a good-looking and sharp-handling compact luxury sedan or wagon with AWD and the latest technology features, the 2009 Audi A4 is a solid choice.
Trim levels & features
The 2009 Audi A4 is a four-door compact luxury vehicle available in three body styles: sedan, convertible (Cabriolet) and wagon (Avant). The base A4 trim level is the sedan-only 2.0T FrontTrak, which comes with front-wheel drive and a continuously variable transmission (CVT). Next up is the AWD 2.0T Quattro, which is available in all three body styles. The 3.2 Quattro trim is limited to the sedan and convertible. Note that the convertible's standard and optional features are listed separately below due to its previous-generation platform and equipment roster.
Standard features on sedans and wagons are clustered into three packages -- Premium, Premium Plus and Prestige -- that can be specified across the lineup except for the base Premium package, which is unavailable with the 3.2-liter Quattro. Premium models include 17-inch wheels, foglamps, a sunroof, air-conditioning, power front seats, leather upholstery, cruise control, a split-folding rear seat, Audi's MMI system and a 10-speaker CD audio system with a subwoofer, satellite radio and an auxiliary audio jack.
The Premium Plus adds bi-xenon headlamps, LED daytime running lights, auto-dimming side and rearview mirrors, Bluetooth phone connectivity, three-zone automatic climate control, heated front seats, an iPod jack and a six-CD changer. The Prestige rolls on 18-inch wheels and adds rear park distance control, keyless ignition and entry, a lane-change warning system and an upgraded 14-speaker Bang & Olufsen sound system.
The optional Sport package firms up handling (the S-line package for Prestige models is essentially an upscale Sport package). Other options include a navigation system with a back-up camera, adaptive cruise control, the Drive Select adjustable suspension system, rear-seat side airbags and a choice of wood trims.
The 2009 Audi A4 Cabriolet 2.0T comes standard with 17-inch wheels, an automatic soft top, power front seats, dual-zone automatic climate control and a 10-speaker audio system with a six-CD/MP3 changer. The 3.2 model adds 18-inch wheels and heated front seats. Major options include adaptive bi-xenon headlights, a navigation system, the last-generation MMI system and upgraded Bose speakers.
Performance & mpg
Two updated engines make their debut in the 2009 Audi A4 sedans and convertibles. The turbocharged 2.0-liter inline-4 in 2.0T models makes 211 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque. The 3.2-liter V6 boosts output to 265 hp but cuts torque to 243 lb-ft. The corresponding engines in the Cabriolet make 200 hp/207 lb-ft and 255 hp/243 lb-ft, respectively. Front-wheel drive is standard on the base A4 2.0T sedan and Cabriolet 2.0T; both are equipped with a continuously variable transmission. The 2.0T Quattro sedan comes standard with a six-speed manual, and its optional six-speed conventional automatic with manual control is mandatory on all other A4 models.
At our test track, the A4 3.2 Quattro sedan made it from zero to 60 mph in 6.9 seconds -- not a competitive performance for this class. The news is better for the A4 2.0T Quattro sedan, which ran from zero to 60 mph in a respectable 6.5 seconds with the automatic. EPA estimated fuel economy for the automatic-equipped 2.0T Quattro sedan is 21 mpg city/27 mpg highway and 23 mpg combined. Going with the V6 drops those numbers to 17/26/20, but the base front-drive A4 2.0T manages an impressive 23/30/25. Convertible fuel economy is comparable.
All 2009 Audi A4s come standard with antilock brakes, traction control, stability control, front-seat side airbags and full-length side curtain airbags (except Cabriolets). Rear-seat-mounted side airbags are available as an option for the sedan and wagon. In government crash testing, the A4 garnered perfect five-star scores for both front and side impacts. Likewise, in Insurance Institute for Highway Safety crash tests, the A4 without the optional rear-seat airbags nonetheless earned perfect ratings of "Good" in both frontal offset and side impact crash testing. The carry-over A4 Cabriolet received the best rating of "Good" in the frontal-offset test, but the second-worst rating of "Marginal" in side impact testing.
The 2009 Audi A4's handling is remarkably neutral, a testament to its more balanced weight distribution compared to the previous model, as well as its available rear-biased Quattro AWD system. It won't win any drag races, however, even with the new direct-injection engines -- the V6's performance is particularly disappointing. That said, acceleration is smooth, and shifts from the six-speed automatic transmission are consistent.
The Audi Drive Select system -- which allows the driver to control ride compliance, steering effort and transmission responsiveness -- is an interesting concept, but it's pricy and can be finicky to use. Most shoppers will find the A4's standard (or Sport-packaged) suspension, steering and transmission calibrations perfectly adequate.
The build quality of the new A4's cabin mostly lives up to Audi's enviable reputation in this area. Smooth leather surfaces and plentiful soft-touch dashboard material impart an upscale feel, though some peripheral plastics are a bit lackluster. Small touches, like ambient lighting for passengers underneath the driver seat, add to the premium feel.
For 2009, Audi has relocated its MMI controls aft of the gearshift on sedans and wagons equipped with the navigation system, which makes them easier to access. However, the controls remain on the dash for the Cabriolet and navigation-less sedans and wagons. Other controls, such as those on the center stack and steering wheel, are generally intuitive and well laid out, though accessing certain features can be an exercise in frustration -- adjusting something as simple as the fan speed, for example, is a two-step process. An electromechanical parking brake eliminates the need to yank up on a traditional lever and saves space on the center console. The convertible's aging interior looks outdated by comparison but is still well-constructed and boasts high-quality materials. Trunk space in the sedan is an impressive 16.9 cubic feet. The drop top's trunk is smaller but still remarkable for its class at 13.4 cubic feet.
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GRENOBLE — 13 March 2012 — On 24 April, SEMI Europe will host a workshop "Beyond 300mm: Packaging Challenges and Opportunities for 450mm Wafers and Panel Scale Solutions" which will offer both perspectives and answers to the complex wafer-size transition issue facing the semiconductor industry. The workshop covers the core topics of packaging of 450mm wafers and panel scale solutions.
Much of the discussion will include a front-end view of a 450mm wafer introduction which will create new challenges for assembly and packaging. Key issues include: What new challenges will emerge related to the packaging of 450mm wafers? Are the issues already addressed by today's back-end players? Are disruptive technologies expected? Are there opportunities for new entrants? What is the situation in terms of standards? The workshop will be one of the most complete public discussions to date addressing these open questions. Executives from Entegris, CNSE Albany and SOITEC will deliver presentations. A panel discussion with representatives of EVG, SET, RECIF Technologies and CEA-LETI will allow attendees to interact with experts on the domain.
The second part of the workshop involves selecting panel scale packages. As a normal evolution of packaging to help in reducing cost, speakers will give their thoughts and share latest results on large scale packages. Issues include: What is the situation today in terms of development and maturity? Can large size be fabricated with high throughput and good yields? Speakers in this session will talk about technologies such as fan-out wafer-level packages on rectangular rebuilt wafers, embedded die in laminate, glass carrier with and without vertical vias enabling 2.5D integration. Executives from YOLE, ASE, STATS ChipPAC and AT&S will present their views.
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Treasuries erased losses after Republican House Speaker John Boehner said "no substantive progress" has been made in talks to avert the so-called fiscal cliff, boosting demand for haven assets.
Government debt fell earlier today on speculation lawmakers were making progress in budget talks to avoid automatic spending cuts and tax increases. The Treasury will sell $29 billion of seven-year notes today after demand rose at an auction of five- year debt yesterday. The Federal Reserve is acquiring as much as $17.2 billion in six Treasury purchases this week, including a purchase of $4.74 billion today.
"The market is focused on utterances from people in Congress on one side of this debate or the other," said Ray Remy, head of fixed income in New York at Daiwa Capital Markets America Inc., one of 21 primary dealers that trade directly with the Fed. "Boehner tempered those statements by saying he will do everything to not go over the cliff."
The yield on the benchmark 10-year note dropped one basis point, or 0.01 percentage point, to 1.62 percent at 12:01 p.m. in New York, according to Bloomberg Bond Trader prices. The 1.625 percent note due in November 2022 added 3/32, or 94 cents per $1,000 face amount, to 100 2/32. The yield reached 1.64 percent earlier today. It dropped to 1.60 percent yesterday, the lowest since Nov. 19.
Debt Returns
Treasuries have returned 2.7 percent this year, after gaining 9.8 percent in 2011, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch indexes. The securities returned 0.6 percent this month, according to the indexes.
The difference between the yields on two and 10-year notes, the so-called yield curve, widened to 1.38 percentage points after reaching 1.34 percentage points yesterday, the most narrow in almost two weeks.
Volatility in Treasuries rose yesterday from five year lows. Bank of America Merrill Lynch's MOVE index, which measures price swings based on options, increased to 52.3 basis points from 51.7 basis points the previous day, the lowest level since May 2007. It hit a 2012 high of 95.4 basis points on June 15. Volatility climbed to 264.6 basis points in October 2008 as the financial crisis intensified.
Treasury trading volume rose yesterday to the most in three weeks. About $281.5 billion changed hands, the most since Nov. 7, after trading below the 2012 daily average of $240 billion for almost a week, according to ICAP Plc, the largest inter- dealer broker of U.S. government debt.
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Indra Nooyi, PepsiCo chairman and CEO, will share her expertise in managing a worldwide brand portfolio at the next Carlson School of Management "1st Tuesday Speaker Series" on May 7 at 11:30 a.m. at McNamara Alumni Center.
Nooyi has directed PepsiCo's global strategy for more than a decade, and recently led its acquisition of Tropicana and merger with Quaker Oats. The international food and beverage corporation is comprised of 22 beloved brands, from Pepsi to Frito-Lay, that generate more than $65 billion annually. In 2012, she was named one of Forbes's 100 Most Powerful Women, alongside Michelle Obama, Melinda Gates, and Oprah.
Nooyi holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta, and a master's degree in Public and Private Management from Yale University.
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Career Objective: To obtain a challenging and satisfying position much like that currently held by Hugh Hefner.
There's no point in denying it 90 percent of American men want to be Hugh Hefner, and the other 10 percent really enjoy his articles. But when we tune in to "The Girls Next Door" on E!, we can't help but admire his taste in loungewear - of course, that's after we admire the many uses of silicone in today's plebeian society. Still, aside from bloggers and househusbands, who gets to wear pajamas all day, every day? If we've said it once we've said it almost three times a day since we turned 13, "God bless you, Hugh Hefner."
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Code is the Culprit! Always?
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Multiple reasons can be quoted for the failure of software projects. Some projects fail because of bad requirements, others due to cost and schedule overrun and few simply due to bad management. If we do a root cause analysis, would all of the failed projects lead to bad code as the main culprit? Always?
Uncle Bob strongly believes that the cost of bad code is too high to make a project fail. According to him,
I do know of projects that have failed because of the code. Indeed, I know of companies that have failed because of the code.
According to Bob, the reasoning is simple. If the cost to maintain the code exceeds the project budget then the project fails and if the cost exceeds the company budget then the company fails. Taking the other extreme Bob suggested that if the cost of code is close to zero then no project would fail.
Why is it that projects fail due to bad requirements, bad management, bad schedules, and bad budgets? They fail because the cost of error is huge. Why is the cost of error huge? Because the cost of the code is so horribly large. If code cost nothing to produce, the cost of error would be close to zero.
However, not everyone agrees with this idea.
When this question was posted on twitter, most people agreed that business issues were the leading causes of project failure. Alex Chaffee suggested, that bad management and bad requirements cannot be outdone by good code
If you have bad requirements and bad management then even free, instant code can't save your business. If you could instantly deploy a flawless version of a useless product that nobody wanted, and then kept rapidly iterating more horrible versions of that crappy product, then you would still eventually run out of money and time and reputation, and your project or business would still fail.
Likewise, James Iry mentioned that bad code is just one of the reasons that a project could fail. According to him,
Free code certainly enables a company to more rapidly iterate, but if it just iterates through bad ideas, or good ideas that it can't sell due to bad marketing, or it sells well but creates an overly heavy cost structure in facilities or management or whatever then the company will eventually fail.
Michael Dubakov suggested that projects fail if they do not provide the right solution. He mentioned that if the code is clean, it would be easy to re-factor it to get to the right solution but it does not imply that good code is the right solution. Michael suggested,
You can create an absolutely beautiful architecture with the cleanest code in the world. You may have 100% test coverage, complete separation of concerns, flat hierarchies and methods without boolean arguments. You may have all that beauty, but still fail miserably if the program does not solve user's problems efficiently.
Michael Norton, added that almost all project failure root cause analysis would lead to people. According to Michael,
If a project failed because it solved the wrong problem, the project failed because the people involved misunderstood the problem. If a project failed because of poor quality code (and some do), it failed because the people involved consorted to write code poorly.
Thus, though nobody undermined the importance of clean code, however not everyone agreed that bad code is solely responsible for failure of a project. What are your thoughts?
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Of course due to the people involved
xin du
Its not always code
Osman Syed Meer
Bad code is a symptom of a failing project
Jerven Bolleman
In any case you can have successful project and company with bad code e.g. have a look at Microsoft ;)
Contracts are not based on codes, they are based on requirements....
sevgi korkmaz
In software development projects :
Scope is the requirements. You should understand, identify, track, and satisfy the requirements (ofcourse within the budget and schedule)
If requirements are not clearly understood, identified and tracked, your project will fail before the coding phase…. no matter how good or bad your code is/will be.
If your requirements are set, handled successfully, satisfying those requirements will be the next step. And if your product doesn't satisfy the requirements it will fail too. Bad coding may be just one of the reasons for this failure. Other reasons may be lack of management ( risk, time, quality, people, cost, etc.)
Reasons of bad coding may be:
Insufficient domain know-how
Learning the tools/libraries/language while coding
Using wrong architecture
Reducing the quality of the code to stay within the schedule,
Reducing the quality of the code to stay within the budget,
So we can't just say code is the culprit
Pointless debate
Jerome St-Pierre
It is obvious that addressing the wrong problems (jumping over the bridge) can lead to project failure. This is simply obvious. There is no need to write a dissertation about it! I also can't imagine how this would happen with iterative and incremental development because the wrong path would be quickly visible. Of course, some projects might fail because of such reasons, but I can only imagine this happening in very dumb organizations.
On the other hand, I think the reason why there are so much jobs in our industry is because of the huge amount of rotten code that must be maintained. This is not obvious since it still goes on.
Uncle Bob has been repeating the same story over and over, but it seems like it still need to be repeated some more. Professionals who care about their craft are still an exception out there.
Usually not
James Watson
Q. How does really good code fail?
A. When it solves the wrong problem or addresses the wrong need.
Determining the requirements is the most important part a software project. Don't assume I am talking about waterfall. This determination can be made by implementing a system and then refining it until it meets the requirements. Bad code is a major issue but the reality is that it doesn't really matter how good the code is if it doesn't meet the needs of it's users and you need to know what those needs are in order to have a hope of meeting them.
In my experience the biggest problem I face is a lack of clear requirements. This isn't just isolated to new work either. I often am faced with code that pretty obviously doesn't do what it should but lacks any documentation of what it should do. We can only be reactive in such situations and this leads to constant fixes that often break other things that need to be fixed breaking yet other things etc.
I don't understand
Jerome St-Pierre
If everything breaks when changing the code to meet the requirements, this means a lack of unit tests, decoupling and cohesion in the code.
Re: I don't understand
James Watson
How the cost of a misunderstanding of the requirements can be so big when the code is lean and simple? The simpler the code is the cheaper it will be to embrace change. Using small iterations and customer feedback, how can any project go so wrong?
You aren't done until the application meets the requirements. If you are talking about how you get to completion, I don't disagree. If you are suggesting that you can ship a product that doesn't do what is needed and that's OK because you can easily change it, you are really talking about a second attempt because you have already failed. You can keep repeating this process but you are unlikely to successfully complete a working product until you actually know what it needs to do.
Also, you are vastly oversimplifying the issue. I'm not sure if that;s intentional. If you write a really great application that does 2 things (wrong) and what was needed was something that does 12 things (right), you are really far from success. Another factor that is missing from this is time. How long do you have to meander around trying to happen to fulfill unknown requirements?
If everything breaks when changing the code to meet the requirements, this means a lack of unit tests, decoupling and cohesion in the code.
You are missing the point. I'm not talking about crashes or other 'first year of professional coding' issues. I'm talking about breaking functionality. If you have an application that does X when a certain range of values Y is input and it's reported to be wrong for some subset of Y, is it wrong for all Y? Who knows? Do you change it to do Z for all Y or just some? If it's the latter, which ones? The range might be millions of values. The person who discovered the error might now how a change to the behavior will affect other downstream consumers of the data (which you may or may not know exist.) All you know is what the code does today. Which parts are right, which parts are wrong and which parts are sometimes right and sometimes wrong are unknowns. There's so much code out there that doesn't work properly and nobody even knows because they accept whatever it does as correct and it 'passes it's unit tests'.
In a lot of ways, good requirements are often more valuable than working software. They are also much harder to come by. Case in point, DOS was created by a developer who merely had the manual for another operating system.
Re: I don't understand
Mr Magoo
Perhaps a lot of fallacy though?
Projects fail for a wide variety of reasons. RESEARCH (rather than opinion) has suggested that a great amount of the time it is a project management/management failure.
Random refs with further refs embedded:
However I would add that code is not independent of the rest of the project! I have seen great teams reduced to producing bad code due to poor management and decisions. Bad architects (not producing code themselves so not part of the coding cycle) are also a killer. Of course poor requirements and coders also. Poor operational deployment or disaster. Poor sales and marketing strategy. Even poor customers as well. (heaven forbid we ever admit that!)
But that pretty much covers the entire field now...
Even if a project fails because of "bad code" it STILL does not mean that the code was the ultimate culprit. (5 whys anyone?) Some projects have already failed before a line of code is written due to unrealistic expectations/budget or the impending doom of the company.
Of course you could fallaciously argue that bad PM always leads to bad code and thus the theory is right etc etc. (Which the author appears to do in the last paragraph)
Not only would I argue (as others above have) that this is not always the case, I would add that your theory is now worthless and would demand an explanation of how such a shallow correlation is at all useful in actually solving the problem.
The author begins the article quite sensibly and makes a very valid point about the importance of code and maintainability etc but the conclusion is ridiculous. Possibly on purpose, but nonetheless ridiculous for it.
I would add a final point about some of the above posts inventing "perfect world" scenarios where developers are in a terrible company with slack requirements and somehow writing perfect code. Or other border cases to try and disprove this "theory".
What we should be interested in here is examples that commonly occur in the real world. Logic is not your friend here because as I said initially the coders are not independent of the rest of the project. We need to find trends, common problems and solutions for such. Inventing outliers is not going to help with that in the main.
In the example above what I have found personally is that bad requirements and bad PM lead to disheartened devs cutting corners and losing ownership of the project. Of course the best devs leave first leaving the rest to struggle on...etc etc. We all have seen it I am sure.
Re: I don't understand
James Watson
I would add a final point about some of the above posts inventing "perfect world" scenarios where developers are in a terrible company with slack requirements and somehow writing perfect code. Or other border cases to try and disprove this "theory".
If you are talking about my posts, these are not inventions. What I am describing in my posts is the norm based on more than a decade of experience. You are far more likely to find a development team with good unit tests and regression tests than one with good requirements. Where I work now, we've spent at least as much (time and/or money) on unusable software as we have on working software. It's generally not because the software contains bugs but that it fails to meet the needs of the organization. This is for both custom and off-the-shelf software.
I have actually seen software that did not (and could not) work because it was so poorly written but it's the exception. Of course, in all of those cases, the requirements were not available so there was no way to fix it without going back to the beginning.
P.S. As a note of caution to those that you can just continually code and test and get to the correct solution without respect to time: I used to work for a company that had a $11 million contract with a government agency. They coded and tested and coded and tested and coded and tested etc. and then one day their key-cards didn't work. People lost their jobs. My employer was successfully sued by the agency for $350 million dollars and no longer exists as a independent entity.
Re: I don't understand
Mr Magoo
In the case of "unusable" software were people using it or was it a failure?
If not a failed scenario then things were not as bad as they could have been. I am talking about failed projects not struggling or imperfect ones.
I would like to hear more about the project you mentioned that did fail. Why? :)
None of this happens without people
Michael Norton
As a craftsman, I am a strong proponent of excellent quality code along with good practices, strong relationships, and community. I agree that bad code is a common cause of project death. I also agree that poor requirements, poor management, misunderstood market opportunities, and many other factors can be direct or indirect causes to the failure of a software project.
My point was, and is, that behind all of these decisions and actions are people.
Re: I don't understand
James Watson
Question then: In the example you are talking about with great code and poor requirements did the project fail?
Yes. That was the whole point. I believe I actually stated that right off the bat.
In the case of "unusable" software were people using it or was it a failure?
Are you seriously asking me whether people are using unusable software? If people were using it, it couldn't be unusable. The word 'unusable' means 'can't be used'. It's shelfware. Is that more clear?
I would like to hear more about the project you mentioned that did fail. Why? :)
The project failed to do what the agency needed to do within the timeline required. I wasn't personally involved with the project (it was a 10,000+ employee company) but I did know that the agency locked the development team out of the building while the team was still working. I don't know whether the requirements were good or not and I don't know the quality of the developers. The point is that one of the big problems with this industry is that we tend to lose focus on the point of the software.
Outside of your own team, no one cares whether your unit tests pass or whether you use stories or use cases. No one cares about your code coverage. What people care about is whether the software does what they need it do do and when they get it. All of this other stuff are just ideas about how we might accomplish that. No one cares whether your code is well written or not. The idea that requirements don't matter because the code is so clean is the height of self-delusion.
Re: I don't understand
Mr Magoo
Are you seriously asking me whether people are using unusable software?
If I had a dollar for every time someone said a system currently being used was "unusable" then I would be rich. So yes I am. Hyperbolic statements are very common don't you know. :)
The point is that one of the big problems with this industry is that we tend to lose focus on the point of the software.
I am in total agreement with this. In fact I don't disagree with almost all of your points. In fact I think I started by saying that there others have pointed out correctly that such cases exist! Case in point: your example was most likely a failure of project management (i.e. time lines and/or over promising to the customer) and this is very typical. In fact research states that this is the most common cause. (as I also said)
My original point was not that you were wrong but that when talking about solutions to the whole industry a single case (invented or otherwise) does not matter in of itself. What matters is what the (researched) common causes of failure are and then of course the range of possible solutions. Even one person's experience over a decade of experience is not really enough and mine is not either.
Its like the difference between the way you would correctly talk about social psychology and discussing your personal experience with patients. (For examples of mistakes with this, see Freud!)
So the correct way to debunk this argument is not to say I have a case (or cases) that does not fit your theory. Obviously when dealing with populations there are always outliers. It is to provide research that in fact the theory does not cover a significant amount of the population. (60, 70, 80%, etc)
The idea that requirements don't matter because the code is so clean is the height of self-delusion.
I totally agree. With the obvious caveat that terrible code usually leads to terrible software that does not meet user expectations. And as I said, code and its quality is not independent of the rest of the project! Terrible code may betray a terribly managed or designed project!
Re: I don't understand
James Watson
The idea that requirements don't matter because the code is so clean is the height of self-delusion.
I totally agree. With the obvious caveat that terrible code usually leads to terrible software that does not meet user expectations. And as I said, code and its quality is not independent of the rest of the project! Terrible code may betray a terribly managed or designed project!
I think it's clear we are not in disagreement. I just want to clarify that I think having good requirements (how ever you may come by them) is the most important factor in project success. But I don't want to imply that it's the only important factor. You need good requirements and good people. Good coding is probably the second most important factor. Good project management is probably the third. I say probably because I hardly ever see good requirements so it's hard to say where things break down beyond that failure.
Saying you only need good requirements or only need good coding is no more sensible than saying you only need gasoline or only need tires to get a car going (obviously there are more things but humor me.) But if I could have only one, I'd pick requirements. When a capable development team is found, they can still be can used.
My anecdotes were also meant only to help illustrate the general principle. They are not proof in an of themselves.
One last note is that often coding teams are able to create something successful in the end even without clear requirements. The reason is that they are discovering the requirements as they go. In a nutshell, I think this industry needs to stop blaming coders for our high failure rate and start examining our management practices. My experience is that, on average, programmers are better than the results that are produced. This is a gross oversimplification but the upshot is: software projects fail because of poor management, not poor coding.
Missing The Point?
Jason Gorman
System that are configured also fail, altough the coding cost is 0.
Marcel Sorger
or complex operational projects like a directory service
or even data warehouses that do ETL,
all of those projects can fail without a single line of code written.
With projects, one part of the problem is the complexity of the technology.
The technology department (represented by the architect) may have no requirements, but that still leaves the other stakeholders, business and users (and sometimes different departments, governments, accountants, etc.) that can't unite on requirements.
These are political issues that need to be resolved by the project leader. Consequently the project leader being the representative of the business, the business requirements are usually most important.
A project is doomed to fail if project management is not able to decide what is required of the project.
If the top messes up, the shit will roll downhill.


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