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The rough terrain problem was solved by incorporating a fully active suspension system in the landing gear. This also allows for short landing using the Dominator Stop & Drop landing method. You simply stop at about 2 feet over the ground and drop. This eliminates ground roll on rough terrain. The short takeoff for the 582 or 618 single Dominator is accomplished by a hydraulic pre-rotator allowing a 10' to 30' takeoff roll or 1 1/2 times the rotor length. The average gyro takes 300 to 400 ft for takeoff. Don't try the Stop & Drop method with other type gyros because you will surely do damage to the machine and probably yourself.
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Overall I'm actually really annoyed at how piss-poor the retail stores have handled the line. Even though there's mostly rehashes this year, I've seen minimal effort to support (and profit) from one of the biggest DVD launches ever. It's pathetic to the point of embarrassment.
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Nick Cannon is "in a lot of pain" but good spirits while recovering from what his wife Mariah Carey called a "mild kidney failure."
"As always, he's in good spirits considering the situation," Carey told People on Wednesday.
The pop diva said "the situation is not easy" given Cannon's pain but that his condition was stable.
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"We are hopeful that he'll be 100 percent as soon as possible," she told People. "We really appreciate everybody's love and support."
Canon, 31, later tweeted that he was being transferred from an Aspen, Colorado hospital to one in Los Angeles.
"Thank you all for all your love, prayers and concern. You know me ... I will be a'ight," the television personality wrote.
Hours earlier, Carey had posted a photo of her cuddling with Canon in his hospital bed. She posted on her official web site that "we're trying to be as festive as possible under the circumstances but please keep Nick in your thoughts because this is very painful."
"This is us in the hospital - role reversal," she wrote. "Last year it was me attached to the machines (after having dembabies [twins Moroccan and Monroe]) and Nick was there with me through it, and now here we are."
Carey asked her fans to "please keep us and our family in your prayers."
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Is software engineering still relevant?
For the July/August issue of IEEE Software, Tom DeMarco, a principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild, wrote a "Viewpoints" essay entitled "Software Engineering: An Idea Whose Time Has Come and Gone?" It's a well-written piece which essentially repudiates all his earlier work supporting software engineering. And why? The short answer is economics and cost/benefit analysis. His earlier work promoted the idea that you can't manage what you can't measure so software metrics are good. He now says that software metrics cost too much time and money. Ultimately, his essay plays to two popular programming and management fads:
Team programming. which eliminates entire layers of mid-level management and their associated costs, is good.
Incremental programming practices (e.g. agile development, extreme programming, etc.) are good.
He presents his arguments, not as recommendations for software development, but as a way to manage software development. He makes the following statements:
"Can I really be saying that it's OK to run projects without control or with relatively little control? Almost. I'm suggesting that first we need to select projects where precise control won't matter so much. Then we need to reduce our expectations for exactly how much we're going to be able to control them, no matter how assiduously we apply ourselves to control."
"So, how do you manage a project without controlling it? Well, you manage the people and control the time and money. You say to your team leads, for example, 'I have a finish date in mind, and I'm not even going to share it with you. When I come in one day and tell you the project will end in one week, you have to be ready to package up and deliver what you've got as the final product.'"
"Consistency and predictability are still desirable, but they haven't ever been the most important things."
Wow – I wish I had the luxury of working in his world! I spent most of my career working in industrial embedded systems. In my world, software/firmware's functionality was often preordained by industry or international standards or mandated by law. I rarely had the luxury of incremental programming – it all had to work as specified, otherwise there would be no product. And if the code I produced wasn't "consistent and predictable", bad things happened: people could die, vast millions of hard dollars could be lost, irreparable environmental disasters could result. Granted that these fads are primarily artifacts of desktop business application programming where failures may, at most, cost some soft dollars and some embarrassment. Still, that doesn't mean they're not worthwhile goals even there.
There was an excellent book which went largely unnoticed a wile back, Scott Adams' The Dilbert Principle. While most marginalized it as a humor book, it had a serious message. A watershed moment in management history was the publication of The Peter Principle which stated the now well-known idea that in a hierarchy, individuals will be promoted to their level of incompetence, where they will remain. Ultimately the organization will be filled with people who are incompetent to do their jobs. The immediate aftermath of The Peter Principle was the rush to acquire MBA degrees and replace these "incompetent" managers with trained professionals. The Dilbert Principle pointed out the fallacy – in the old order, everyone in the organization was at some point in their career competent to do something. In the new order, the only proven management competency was the ability to earn an MBA.
Nowhere is this truer than in engineering. When I first entered the field (before the publication of The Peter Principle), most engineering departments had mid-level technical managers. In addition to managing, they were the technical gurus who assigned projects, built teams, and were responsible for their group's budget and schedule performance. Then, almost overnight, they were gone as a budget-cutting move. Now, teams were constituted on a largely ad hoc basis by managers with far less technical insight, senior engioneers with minimal management experience, and/or even HR personnel. But when failures began to mount, no one ever thought to question the structural changes that preceded them. After all, these were all changes instigated by trained MBA professionals.
OK, enough ranting… What's my take on the subject of software engineering?
Software is unique. It's the only engineering discipline where the thought process becomes the product with little intermediate translation. Still, it is engineering and you ignore that at your peril! As with any other engineering field, poorly practiced, it can lead to disaster – even if only financial disaster.
So what differentiates software engineering from simple programming? The inherent answer is discipline – the discipline that is required of all engineering fields. In practice, this translates to rigorous design and testing. As DeMarco noted, metrics can be a source of contention, but if you only use one metric, then use modified complexity (like cyclomatic complexity, but with each switch statement counted as only a single path) as a predictor of maintainability. Most importantly, take the time to actually design your project before you actually start coding it. When insufficiencies are detected, don't hack code, but go back to the design. Change the design and the code will follow. Any time I see a project where the design time is significantly less than 40-50% of the total development time, I smell a potential disaster. Likewise, when I see software staff cave into clueless management demands to look busy and start coding without a design in place, disaster is usually sure to follow. It's just that simple – and just that difficult.
Software engineering isn't an idea whose time has passed, but one which is even more essential as we forget the lessons that brought it about in the first place.


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Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
The vacationing Chipmunks and Chipettes are turning a luxury cruise liner into their personal playground, until they become 'chipwrecked' on a remote island. As the 'Munks and Chipettes try various schemes to find their way home, they accidentally discover their new turf is not as deserted as it seems.
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The Breadmaking Museum in the historical salt storehouse in Ulm was founded by the entrepreneur Willy Eiselen in 1955 as the first bread museum in the world.
It features a collection of 14,000 objects which document the history of bread, its importance to mankind and its manufacturing process. The exhibits explore the history of bread-making technology and the equipment used, models of all kinds of baked goods and the diverse relationship between bread and art – including why we still to this day use the phrase 'breadless arts'.
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Sam and I have been friends -- albeit cyber, unfortunately -- for about two years. I have always appreciated no, let's be frank, I've always been in awe of her sophisticated approach to entertaining and the ease with which she seems to whip up chef worthy marvels in her kitchen. I love to hear about her travels, her discoveries, what's for dinner. . .
When you visit her at My Carolina Kitchen, you'll understand.
That's why I asked her if she would be so kind as to offer some beautiful -- and delicious -- hostess gifts. As you can see, we can learn from her divine inspiration below.
No one wants to go to a dinner party empty handed, but choosing a hostess gift can be challenging. The two choices that immediately come to mind are of course wine and flowers. I always keep a nice bottle of wine tucked away "just in case" a dinner invitation is extended at the last minute. It's always easy to pick up flowers on the way.
However, I have a problem with taking flowers to someone sans a vase. Pourquoi you ask. I don't like to put the hostess in a position of having to search for a vase while she's greeting guests. In fact sending flowers the day before the party, or the day after is the rule in France. So I keep a spare vase to use for such an occasion. It's an all purpose kind of vase that will hold almost any bouquet. Problem solved.
What if you would like to be more creative with your hostess gift and give something special, perhaps something you've made yourself? Here are a few ideas. For the recipe, just click the name.
Do you have an invitation to someone's house who is entertaining house guests? Take a jar of homemade breakfast granola. You'll be doing them a great favor – their guests can make their own breakfast in the morning.
Seasoned salt will please absolutely everyone. This seasoned salt with rosemary is simple to make and uses only two ingredients – sea salt and rosemary. If you can find French grey sea salt, by all means use it. Grey sea salt has been hand harvested from the clay bottoms of the French Atlantic sea marshes each summer since the seventh century. How's that for being around for a while?
Are you going to someone's home who loves martinis? Take a jar of blue cheese stuffed olives along with some Southern cheese straws. Stuff the olives yourself or pick up an assortment at an olive bar.
If you're coming to my house, bring an interesting bottle of flavored vinegar. I am an avid collector of vinegars and embarrassed to tell you how many I have on my shelf. One more will always make me happy. Raspberry would be a nice choice.
For your friends who are bakers, take some homemade lemon curd. Maybe they'll bring you a slice of their tart when they make it.
How about a jar of your Italian grandmother's spaghetti sauce made from her recipe that's been handed down through your family for generations. No Italian grandmother? No problem: neither do I. Mario Batali's recipe for marinara sauce has never let me down.
I would like to say that there is absolutely nothing wrong with buying something and making it pretty. There's no rule that says you have to make everything yourself. For example, tie a fancy silk ribbon around a really good slice of cheese from your favorite cheese shop and present it with pride along with a bottle of nice wine.
For someone who loves to read, gift wrap a book. Here I've used brown mailing paper and a dried hydrangea. My absolute favorite book to give is Lydia Cassett Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman. Inspired by five Mary Cassatt paintings of Cassatt's older sister Lydia (who is dying of Bright's disease), the book gives you insight into Lydia's thoughts on how she feels about modeling for the paintings for Mary in Paris in the late 1870s. The five paintings, beautifully reproduced, appear at intervals in the book along with fascinating real-life figures that include Renoir and Degas.
So there you have it – some ideas for hostess gifts. You'll never go empty handed to a dinner party again.
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Barack Obama is a great man, but frankly I voted for him because he's hot.
Perfect face, perfect bod, great hands.
Whenever it comes to serious matters—such as choosing a president—my advice is to go shallow. And, people, Crabmommy knows what she's talking about. Just look at my voting record: every time I have voted for a president, said president has become a hero of international proportion. Witness the presidential elections that—through fate's strange hand—are the only two elections I have voted in:
1. 1994, South Africa: for Nelson Mandela
2. 2008, USA: for Barack Obama
Not to overly estimate the power that is Crabmommy, but I think the results above prove that I am onto something: whenever Crabmommy votes, great things happen. Because evidently I am able to see what makes a great leader.
Here, for the first time ever, I'm happy to lift the veil on the voting booth and share with you the oh-so-simple secret behind my spot-on picks! Friends, my one and only criterion for predicting great presidents: appearance. True, both of the above men exhibited impressive track records of service, humanitarianism, idealism, intellectual heft, and so forth, but when it comes to the actual voting process I set everything aside for simplicity's sake and go on looks alone. Physical-merits-based voting: it works every time.
Nelson Mandela: He may have been old when I voted him in as South Africa's first democratically elected president, but he was still hot. In South Africa this is a pretty widely accepted fact even for white people (except perhaps by those who still long for apartheid, and there are a few of those left). Mr. Mandela has a great physique: he is tall and well-built (as a young man he was a boxer). He has high cheekbones, and is basically all-around h-o-t. See, even here as an old chap, he remains beautiful:Not so P.W. Botha, another famous former president of my native country:Aside from the fact that the man above is a ghastly racist, he's plum not sexy—a superb, picture-perfect example of how NOT to vote in presidential elections.
Moving on to the USA, no one could fairly say that Bush is ugly. He has nice cheekbones and a decent nose. But the famously tiny too-close-together eyes seal the deal. And the mouth is loose (see left). I do understand that sometimes politicians are captured on film while talking, but one can still make hard aesthetic choices by analyzing motion shots. After all, here's Barack (at right) doing much the same as G.W. is doing, only he looks hot while the other does not. Who's going to go down in history as the better president? I don't think we need time to tell us: we have the photos, and the answer is clear.
I hope you've learned something today, dear reader. And that going forward, like me, you will continue to vote with your eyes. Imagine a world where we all picked leaders based on looks alone! A world where this guy— —and this guy—
...and similarly atrocious leaders would be vanquished from the pages of history! Let us dream of that beautiful possibility, my friends, even as we give thanks for the exquisite reality we are currently enjoying in the USA. p.s. New posts this week at the bloglet, as always. Please to visit the corporate sponsor of your Crabmommy?!
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Barack Obama: Looks Matter
Barack Obama is a great man, but frankly I voted for him because he's hot.
Posted by Crabmommy at 8:53 AM
Labels: Crabmom, obama inauguration
18 comments:
- Karen Stead Baigrie said...
I am always struck at how true it is that goodness radiates a beauty of its own (high cheekbones help!) and that evil, greedy, nasty people kind of get uglier as they go along. (Case in point your old apartheid walrus.) Lets hope our new president manages to keep political evil at bay, so he can to radiate through 2 fabulous terms.
- January 21, 2009 at 11:11 AM
- Alexis said...
Let's not forget about how hot his wife is, though. Haven't seen such a smokin' first lady since Jackie O.
- January 21, 2009 at 12:02 PM
- Charlotte said...
I have a complete Obama crush, but it's rapidly developing into a couple crush. They are plain fabulous.
And I agree with you, Nelson was hot too.
- January 21, 2009 at 10:29 PM
- RK said...
Hah hah, PW vs Mandela. Bklynmom, of course PW was also known as the Great Crocodile, following a cartoon of him I think.
I've been relatively indifferent to your elections, apart from the comedy provided by Ms Palin (how I miss her). Also, naturally sceptic, I avoided the Obama mania. But then I read that he's a (former) smoker, that he once did some blow, that he was seen with a copy of a Walcott book in his hand and that, by god, he even writes (wrote) poetry. In fact, I think his 'Pop' (google it) is a far better poem than the Alexander inaugural underwhelment.
- January 21, 2009 at 10:52 PM
- Page Posse said...
Just FYI You do know that your blog still come up as.... Crabmommy: Auction Benefit Week for Carol and Stephanie It's been awhile since the auction. Again Just FYI
- January 22, 2009 at 7:47 AM
- crabmommy said...
alexis--smokin' indeed.
rk--he still smokes. he has not quit!
- January 22, 2009 at 8:10 AM
I think it is true, Obama's looks probably did help him win the election.
- January 22, 2009 at 11:59 AM
- crabmommy said...
page...what do you mean it still comes up with that title?
Maybe it's just on yr comp...lie a cache issue or s-thing? Pls tell me! gracias!
rk, I agree--alexander poem underwhelming. Some nice spots but it should have been astonishing throughout.
- January 22, 2009 at 12:44 PM
You had me, right up until GWB. He may have been ineffective, but he isn't an unattractive man. IMO!
OK, I lied, I don't think Mandala is even remotely good looking.
- January 23, 2009 at 9:32 AM
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- January 23, 2009 at 10:04 AM
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- January 23, 2009 at 5:23 PM
- Bluegrass Pundit said...
Where is the liberal outrage when Obama kills civilians?
President Bush was criticized for attacks against Al Qeada that sometimes killed civilians. Even candidate Barack Obama was critical. Will liberals now start calling Barack Obama a murderer? I suspect they will just look the other way.
- January 24, 2009 at 7:25 AM
- AnnDeO said...
Oh I agree... I was in Washington for the inauguration and it was unbelievable. So nice to see so many happy hopeful people. Goodbye Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, and Bush!
- January 24, 2009 at 8:15 AM
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- January 24, 2009 at 10:14 AM
- Me said...
I am a proud Obama mama!! He is hot! I have a huge crush!! That smile!!!
- January 26, 2009 at 6:30 AM
Totally - no more evil unattractive leaders!!!
- February 3, 2009 at 3:36 AM
- tonypark said...
Obama's ears, though, are so big that all I can focus on when I see him speak (now that I am in hotel where there is TV) is them.
I find Jacob Zuma quite unattractive, although an enterprising roadside artisan at Hazyview has carved a very fetching likeness of him, avec trademark microphone.
OK, Jacob isn't actually the president (yet), but everyone thinks he is and those who know he isn't (like me) can never remember or pronounce the real Prez's name.
Come back Nelson, or at least send Morgan Freeman (who, himself, made a very nice US president in one of those meteor disaster movies).
- February 4, 2009 at 10:19 AM
- wendy said...
The Obamas are really good looking and seem really cool.
Your posts are such great examples of how to blog well =)
- March 11, 2010 at 6:50 AM


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DENVER—Illegal immigrants attending Colorado high schools are waiting to see if this is the year the Legislature allows them to attend state universities at tuition rates that are higher than those for in-state students but lower than out-of-state levels.
Both parties have defeated the bill in the past. This year, passage is likely in the Senate, led by Democrats, but uncertain in the House, controlled by Republicans. But a Republican House lawmaker of Mexican descent who has been discussing the legislation with Democrats could influence its passage.
This is the sixth time state lawmakers have tried to make college more affordable to illegal immigrants, who don't qualify for the less-expensive in-state tuition. Out-of-state tuition can be up to five times higher, and supporters said that's an obstacle many college-bound illegal immigrants raised in the U.S. can't overcome.
"When you have a 9th grader or a 10th grader or an 8th grader who realizes they have no prospects for long-term success, they lose hope," said Democratic Sen. Michael Johnston, a sponsor of the legislation.
Opponents argue that state funds should not subsidize the tuition of illegal immigrants. Over the years, supporters have modified their proposal to placate opponents.
Last year, Democratic lawmakers proposed taking out a state stipend, so illegal immigrants would pay a slightly higher rate than in-state students. The legislation still failed. This year, in addition to taking away the stipend, the proposal gives colleges the ability to opt out of creating what would be a third tuition category.
For example, an illegal immigrant student attending the University of Colorado at Boulder would pay about $9,500 annually, compared with an estimated $7,700 for in-state tuition and about $28,850 for out of state. To qualify, students must have graduated from a state high school after attending at least three years. They must also sign an affidavit saying they are seeking, or will seek, legal status.
"Even though our kids are going to be paying substantially more than their in-state colleagues, it still gives them a chance at access they wouldn't have otherwise," Johnston said.
A hearing on the bill, introduced last week, is yet to be scheduled.
Johnston said an estimated 300 to 500 students would benefit from the bill, and colleges could take in $2 million in tuition revenue as a result.
Thirteen states—including Texas, California, Illinois and Connecticut—have passed legislation granting in-state tuition for immigrant students, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Republican Rep. Robert Ramirez, who was among those who voted to defeat the legislation in the House last year, has been working with Democrats on the bill. Although he has yet to sign on in support, Ramirez said he might support the legislation if it ensures no state general fund money goes to the students. He said he's working on amendments to the bill but would not discuss them.
Some opponents of the bill argue it would encourage illegal immigration, which supporters dismiss.
"I don't buy that. Not with this bill. If that was the case, Texas and these other states would've been flooded by now," said Ramirez, who sits on the House Education Committee that will hear the bill first if it passes the Senate.
Ramirez has said he has been pressured to vote for the bill because of his Hispanic heritage. His father moved to the U.S. from the Mexican city of Chapala, Jalisco, and Ramirez said his path to citizenship was a long, difficult and expensive process.
"I'm pretty proud of my heritage, I'm very proud to be Hispanic but this is about what's right for the state of Colorado," he said.


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SEATTLE—More than 1,500 students participated in Sodexo's fourth Food Trends Expo at 3,800-student Seattle Pacific University. Lara Seng, district marketing manager for Sodexo at the university, says the expo provided an opportunity directly hear from students.
"Each semester we go to a different university and invite chefs from all over the country to come in and prepare more than 70 recipes for students to try," Seng said. "It's a great way for the students to let us know what they like best. Then we feature those menu items the following semester on our campus dining menus across the country. So it's a great way for us to be on trend, and the students have a great day tasting everything."
The expo was set up like a grocery store tasting, only on a gargantuan scale, according to Seng.
"We had about 22 different stations set up with a different group of chefs working each one," Seng said. "Each station had at least two and sometimes up to five or six different items. The students just went around at their leisure and tried whatever they wanted and then they marked off what they thought of that particular menu item on a ballot, which we then tabulated by the end of the day. The recipes came from Sodexo chefs and then we worked with our vendor partners on the different products that would go into the recipes. There were more than 30 chefs present at the expo."
In conjunction with the expo, Sodexo released a menu for 2009 that compared current food trends to those from 20 years ago. Some of the trends from 1989 included fruit and cottage cheese plates, chicken nuggets, turkey tetrazzini and chicken chop suey. Compare those to current trends of locally grown fruits and veggies, crispy garlic-ginger chicken wings, mac and five cheeses and Vietnamese pho and it's easy to see the appeal of the Food Trends Expo. The top foods tasted at SPU's expo included roasted Asian chicken salad on flatbread, sautéed swiss chard with balsamic flatbread pizza, chicken and cheese flautas and funnel cake fries. The menu items will be integrated into campus menus starting next fall with an icon denoting them as items that were voted on by students.
"It's a really great way to show our commitment to customer insight—because how much more direct can you get?" said Monica Zimmer, director of public relations for Sodexo. "It's not just research from somewhere. We prepared it for them, they tasted it and they told us what they liked. It's really fun, but it's really a commitment to customer satisfaction."
To drive student participation, Seng said she worked with students to do some marketing on Facebook. She also created posters and table tents so they could get as many students as possible at the expo.
"A normal Friday at lunch was about 900, and we had 1,500 students come in during the three-hour period," Seng said. "We really dramatically increased participation. I even heard students talking about getting out of class so they could come to the tasting."


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During the third week of February, 1973, Townes Van Zandt's sixth album, 'The Late Great',shipped out of United Artists Records' five warehouses across the country. The austere, black-and-white gatefold sleeve was embellished with two photos and a little over one hundred words, its minimalism foretelling the content. Townes' music hadn't always been so perfectly framed, nor had he so successfully balanced light and dark. The arrangements on his earlier LPs had sometimes been prettified or overwrought, but this time the backing was more in keeping with the tenor of his music. The album's title was a joke that probably alluded to the fact that Townes had nearly overshot the runway several times. The front cover still-life was framed by Gothic type as if it were a funeral invitation. The back cover photo was the polar opposite; Townes was alive and buzzed. Poppy Records boss Kevin Eggers said that he came up with the title to generate a little interest. Most people didn't know Townes was alive; perhaps they'd take notice if they thought he was dead.
All the words expended on Pancho And Lefty have compounded more than unraveled its enigma. In concert, Townes would preface it with a story longer than the song itself of how he wrote it in a motel after devotees of Billy Graham and the Guru Maharaji had taken every hotel room in Dallas. Was it set in the past or present? Were Pancho and Lefty men or metaphors? Cosmic Butch Cassidys? Perhaps even Townes wasn't sure. Jack Clement, who'd dubbed trumpets on Johnny Cash's Ring Of Fire, added mariachi horns to one verse and strings to another. Neither was obtrusive, although Townes claimed that they went on without his say-so. Eggers wanted drums on the track but Townes refused. Emmylou Harris - a latter-day songcatcher, ferreting out obscure songs just as folklorists sought them in the mountains - recorded Pancho And Lefty in 1977. Six years later, it became a #1 country hit for the duo of Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard. Since then hundreds of performers have recorded it, most recently the duo of Elizabeth Cook and Jason Isbell. Detail hounds note that the original 45 rendered the title as Poncho & Lefty and the original LP as 'Pauncho & Lefty,' Spanish clearly not being the first, second, or third language of anyone at Poppy Records.
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The East Georgia State College Lady Bobcats got their first conference win of the season with a 61-44 final over Atlanta Metro.
The Lady Bobcats got the win because of strong defensive play, as they actually had more turnovers (21-14) and took 12 less shots (65-53), but because they were able to force tough shots, they were able to get the win. They shot so much better (52 percent compared to 26.2 percent) that they were able to get away with it. If they shoot like that consistently, this is a team that will be hard to beat.
The game ball definitely had to go to Keamoney Locke as she scored 22 points and grabbed an incredible 18 rebounds while also adding an assist. She dominated down low and was the focal point behind the win.
She didn't do it alone though as Paris Baker scored seven points, seven assists, four rebounds, five steals, and a block, putting together perhaps her best all-around effort of the season.
Sameria Butts had a good all-around game as well, scoring six points with four rebounds, three assists, and two steals.
Chasity Mullins had a huge game off the bench, scoring 16 points with three rebounds, three steals, and one assist.
The Bobcats next game will be at home against conference foe Georgia Highlands. This game will give the Lady Bobcats a chance to go to .500 overall and in the conference before Christmas break. IF they do so, they'll be in a good position to make a postseason run when it's all said and done.


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Anatomy of a Software Development Role: Functional Analyst
One of the most important tool to know how to use is a word processing program. An FA may need to know how to use a word processing program at a more advanced level that others on the development team. The FA might need to create templates, develop large documents, and clearly convey requirements in a written format. The FA will need to understand the use of styles in the word processing program to support consistent formatting throughout the document. The role also needs to know how to create indexes and tables of contents so that the documents they produce can be useful reference documents as well as a readable introduction to the problem.
Another tool that the FA might need to understand and use is a spreadsheet tool. They must be comfortable collecting, organizing, and combining a variety of lists including mapping requirements to the design feature points created by the architect and the development leads. They must further then help to map requirements to the testing scripts created by the quality assurance role. An understanding of how to manipulate data in a spreadsheet facilitates all of these mappings.
The last tool I'll mention that is in the toolbox is a drawing program, such as Microsoft Visio, which allows for the definition of use cases, process flows, and other diagrams that would be nearly impossible to express in words alone. The ability to use the program to accurately depict a wide variety of complex ideas is essential to crossing the chasm between the SME's knowledge of the problem and the ability for the software development team to solve the problem. The generally accepted practice for diagramming is becoming UML (Unified Markup Language). UML allows you to describe relationships, states, and other common requirements that are best expressed in a graphical way in a standardized way.
Where's the role heading anyway?
There was once a time when people predicted that everyone would be able to write their own software. They would sit down at a computer and just tell it what they wanted. The computer would write the program from this dialog and thus developers in their current incarnation would no longer be a necessity. This vision is all but gone from the heads of most practitioners. As more became known about what people wanted to do with computer and the rate of growth of their demand it became clear that there would always be increasingly more complex problems to solve.
A part of that realization is the realization that our ability to accurately describe the problem determines the ability for the problem to be solved. Most people are incapable of clearly and precisely articulating - to the level necessary -- the problems that they're trying to solve. This is a problem that is getting larger and not smaller.
This is the very problem that the functional analyst role has been created to solve. The functional analyst's goal is to refine the understanding and communication from the subject matter experts and convert that into the clear, precise vision necessary to create a solution. Because of the growing need to automate in order to be competitive and because of the increasing difficulty for clearly articulating true business needs, the functional analyst's role is more important now than it ever has been.
Standing Out in the Crowd
One way to stand out from the crowd as a FA is to become adept at dealing with differing opinions and conflict. The ability to gather a room full of disagreeable people and getting them to agree is a skill that is difficult to master but one which will show its value relatively clearly. Disagreements about what the problem really is - is common between SMEs. Sometimes SMEs are able to work the problems out amongst themselves. When they can't, it is a powerful FA who can jump in and work through the problem.
Another way to stand out from the crowd is to develop requirements documents that are clear, precise, concise, and meaningful. The ability to develop requirements documents that are clearly understood by the entire software development team is rare even in a role where the primary purpose is to develop requirements documents.
A FA will also stand out when they show that they are keen to listening rather than more focused on presenting solutions. It is not the job of the FA to provide the solution, but rather to document and connect the requirements. SME will recognize a functional analyst that is more interested in hearing from them on what the requirements are, rather than one that presumes to know the answers already. By listening to the SMEs and by taking note of what is being said, an FA can build relationships that can help them in the future.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
As with any role there will be good with the bad and then there will be the really ugly. The functional analyst has the opportunity to set the software development process on the right path by carefully controlling how the process gets off the ground. There are the key points for the role:
- Good: Key role in the definition of the solution. Being at the start of the process the FA has the greatest opportunity of any member of the software development team, to get the project started in a way that will create the best solution.
- Good: Interaction with everyone An FA has the greatest opportunity to interact with everyone on a project. This includes people on the development team as well as people outside the development team. Often this can include higher-level people within an organization. Such exposure to can be great for building a positive reputation and a strong career.
- Bad: Not all SMEs are created equal The quality of SMEs that a FA must work with will vary greatly. Some SMEs will make the FA role easy and others will make the FA want to commit acts of violence.
- Ugly: Conflict For most FAs conflict will be a normal consequence of daily work. This can get downright ugly at times - resembling a session of the Taiwanese congress.
- Ugly: All fingers often point to the FA. If the FA does their job, then everything should work out. If something is found to be missing from the solution, then the FA is often the role that is blamed first.
The Functional Analyst can be described as the "bridge across troubled waters." Their role is to bring together two very different perspectives. This process is done through conflict management, listening, and clearly communicating. The true armor that the FA has against the slings and arrows that will likely be thrown at them is the armor that they build in the development of a rock solid requirements document that accurately captures and communicates the vision of the SMEs and removes areas of potential misunderstanding by illuminating the dark crevices of detail that hide in everyone's vision of a solution.
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For ice-climber and Suunto ambassador, Matthias Scherer, winter is naturally a busy time. Recently, Matthias made a trip to Norway, where over the past few years, he's gone in search of the ultimate ice lines. And this time, tucked away in the Fjords of the West Coast, he found just what he was looking for.
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"Ice climbing, like alpinism is always a quest. A quest for the ultimate ice line," says the German climber.
It's that quest which lead Matthias back to Norway – a place where he had tried twice in vain to scale the lines buried deep within in the Fjords near Bergen. He was forced to retreat on both occasions due to bad conditions.
"This time we checked the temperatures via the internet and decided to give it a go during the beginning of February. We knew that we had to be prepared both mentally and physically to face this big adventure."
A little clip of Matthias climbing in his home ground of Cogne, Italy in January.
Arriving in Norway, his 'adventure' started almost immediately when a snowstorm blocked all the roads on his way in. And when the expedition finally commenced, Matthias and his crew were faced with crossing a waist-deep river of freezing water before reaching their line.
"The climb up 'Fjåene Fossen' proved to be, as expected, an epic battle: bad ice quality and lots of water and snow pouring down on us. After several hours we reached the top of the line in a raging storm," he says.
But for Matthias, achieving one objective only leads to the next, on the way down they discovered another awesome-looking line.
"Two days later in an even heavier storm, we reached the top of that line. We named it 'Stormbringer'."
On Pattinaggio © Matthias Scherer
You'd think that after his Norwegian excursion, Matthias would kick back for a few days. Wrong. The climber has been busy climbing lines on his home turf of Cogne, Italy, as well as another trip back to Norway to climb in Rjukan. He's already looking forward to going back next year.
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Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety (Advocates) released its first "Roadmap to State Highway Safety Laws: A Report on States in the Passing Lane, in the Slow Lane and Stopped on the Shoulder" that found many dangerous gaps in a patchwork quilt of state highway safety laws that are contributing to the rise in U.S. highway deaths and injuries.
The report details where the 50 states and the District of Columbia "pass or fail" on 16 proven-effective highway safety laws in the four categories of adult occupant protection, child passenger safety, teen driving and impaired driving.
The report found that no state has all 16 laws in place. There are only a few states, such as California, North Carolina and Washington that are in the "passing lane" because they have most of the laws plus a primary enforcement seat belt law. There are more states "stopped on the shoulder," such as Alaska, Minnesota, Mississippi, Ohio, Rhode Island and Wyoming, because they have the weakest adult occupant protection laws and have big gaps in their drunk driving, teen driving and child passenger safety laws. And, most states are crowded in the "slow lane" because they lack most of the 16 lifesaving traffic laws.
With the majority of state legislatures opening their 2004 sessions this month, Advocates sent the report to the nation's Governors and urged them to enact legislation this year to ensure that all 16 laws are uniformly in effect across the nation.
Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death to Americans ages 2 to 33. In 2002 alone, 6.3 million traffic crashes resulted in 42,815 deaths and 3 million injuries, representing a 12-year high. Highway crashes cost U.S. taxpayers and the economy $230 billion annually, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
While numerous lifesaving laws have been passed by states over the years, "unfortunately, there is still a vast, unfinished public health and safety agenda, including enactment of primary enforcement seat belt, impaired driving, all-rider motorcycle helmet use, booster seat and teen driving laws," said Judith Lee Stone, President of Advocates. "Without these laws being uniformly applied as a foundation for an aggressive traffic enforcement program, states will struggle to reverse the rising tide of highway deaths and injuries."
The report found "a patchwork quilt" of state traffic safety laws across the nation with gaping holes in need of repair. For example, 30 states do not have a primary enforcement seat belt law, 31 states do not require all motorcycle riders to wear a helmet, 16 states have dangerous gaps in their child restraint laws, 28 states need booster seat laws, and no state protects new teen drivers with an optimal graduated driver licensing (GDL) program. Additionally, many impaired driving laws are missing in numerous states throughout the nation.
"In contrast, every person flying on every airplane, in every state, is subject to the same uniform safety laws and regulations set by the federal government," said Jacqueline Gillan, vice president of Advocates. "This uniformity has been the foundation for achieving an exemplary aviation safety record in the U.S. Were this the case for motor vehicle travel, and nearly every state had the same essential traffic safety laws, thousands of deaths and millions of injuries could be prevented. This report shows that we are a long way from achieving this goal."
Advocates' report divides the 16 model laws into four issue categories. In each category, states are listed alphabetically in one of three sections: Good, Average and Poor. Placement in one of the three sections was based solely on whether or not a state has adopted a law as defined in the report, and not on any evaluation of a state's highway safety education-enforcement program or on fatality rates. The four issue sections and corresponding laws are:
1. Adult Occupant Protection (2 laws): a primary enforcement seat belt law and an all-rider motorcycle helmet law.
2. Child Passenger Safety (2 laws): a child restraint law with no gaps and a child booster seat law.
3. Teen Driving—Optimal Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) Program Provisions (4 laws): Learner's Stage – 6-Month Holding Period and 30-50 Hours Supervised Driving Intermediate Stage – Nighttime Driving Restriction and Passenger Restriction
4. Impaired Driving (8 laws): .08 Percent BAC per se, repeat offender, open container, high blood-alcohol content (BAC), mandatory BAC testing for drivers killed in fatal crashes, mandatory BAC testing for drivers who survive fatal crashes, sobriety checkpoints, and child endangerment laws.
"Drunk driving and motorcycle deaths are up, the number of teen drivers killed in crashes has increased and more than half of car occupants killed in crashes are not buckled up," said Advocates' President Stone. "These crashes cost Americans an estimated $230 billion annually in property and productivity loss, medical and emergency bills and other related costs."
Advocates ( http://www.saferoads.org ) is a unique alliance of insurance companies and consumer, health, safety and law enforcement organizations that work together to advance state and national highway and vehicle safety policy.
Stephen W. Hargarten, MD, MPH, a member of the Advocates' board who is Chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine and Director of The Injury Research Center, Medical College of Wisconsin, pointed out that "with the stroke of a pen, governors and legislators can save more lives when a law is enacted than I and my emergency medicine colleagues can in our entire careers."
Advocates' Vice President Gillan added that the U.S. is "facing a major and costly public health epidemic on our highways. Just as we vaccinate against the flu and other diseases, there is a public policy vaccine: proven effective laws that are ready to be implemented across the nation."
One such measure is a primary enforcement seat belt law that requires anyone riding in a motor vehicle, as defined by state law, to buckle up or face a fine. No other citation need be issued first in order to write such a ticket. More than 50 percent of those people killed in motor vehicle crashes in 2002 were not protected by a seat belt. Thirty states still do not have a primary enforcement seat belt law, including Tennessee.
"If Tennessee had a primary enforcement seat belt law, many more teens and adults would buckle up," said Kristen Appleby, whose brother Michael, age 16, was killed in November 2001 when he was not wearing his seat belt and was ejected from his SUV. "My family is convinced that if our state had primary enforcement, Michael would have known that he should wear his seat belt and he would still be here with us today."
An all-rider motorcycle helmet law protects riders from death or serious injury by requiring helmet use, no matter what age, on every ride. For the fifth consecutive year, motorcycle deaths climbed, to a total of 3,244 in 2002—a 50 percent increase since 1997.
Only 10 states (AL, CA, GA, MD, MI, NJ, NY, NC, OR, WA) and DC have both a primary enforcement seat belt law and an all-rider motorcycle helmet law. 30 states do not have a primary enforcement seat belt law. 31 states do not have an all-rider motorcycle helmet use law. 21 states have neither law on their books.
Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death and disability of American teenagers. Deaths of young drivers (ages 16-20) increased by more than 5 percent in 2002 compared to 2001 – a total of 3,723 deaths. An optimal graduated driver licensing (GDL) program provides for a 6-month holding period, 30-50 hours supervised driving, and nighttime driving and teenage passenger restrictions.
The report found that no state has an optimal graduated driver licensing (GDL) program. Eleven states and the District of Columbia (DC) have three of the four necessary provisions that make an optimal GDL program, 15 states have two of the four optimal provisions, 16 states have one of the four optimal provisions, and 8 states have no optimal provisions in their GDL program.
Advocates considers a child restraint law with no gaps to be one where all passengers up to age 16 must be secured in either a child restraint or a seat belt, regardless of seating position. Many states have gaps in their laws that exempt children seated in the back seat or in out-of-state vehicles. A state is considered to have no gaps only if all children up to age 16 are covered in every seating position and there are no exemptions.
Because all children should be in age and size appropriate restraint systems, Advocates considers a booster seat law one that explicitly requires children to graduate to a belt- positioning booster seat when too large for a conventional car seat and too small for an adult seat belt. Booster seats raise a child off the vehicle seat in order to improve the fit of lap and shoulder belts across the lower (pelvis) and upper body (chest) of the child. Only 15 states and DC have enacted both a child restraint law with no gaps and a child booster seat law.
In 2002, alcohol-related deaths rose for the second year in a row to a total of 17,419. Only 10 states have enacted all eight key anti-drunk driving measures featured in the report.
"At a time when most Governors and state legislatures are facing major budget deficits and difficult budget choices, passing these 16 laws will save lives and save dollars," Advocates' President Stone said. "We all pay the price of states having weak highway safety laws. That is why this report is a call to action for states to act swiftly. Without such action, Congress should step in to bring down the tragic and preventable death toll."
The complete report can be found on the Advocates Web site: http://www.saferoads.org.
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Being ever vigilant about the right to free speech, our eyes were drawn to two particular stories in the news this week.
One involves the veteran rock 'n' roll guitarist Ted Nugent, whose name ordinarily would not appear in this space. Although we still enjoy a recording of "Baby, Please Don't Go" that he made way back in his days with the Amboy Dukes, a band whose performances at the Orpheum Theater in the early '70s left many of our classmates prematurely deaf, we're not huge fans.
An avid outdoorsman and one of the few outspokenly conservative performers in the rock 'n' roll field, Nugent gave a rather fiery speech last weekend at a meeting of the National Rifle Association. In a long rant about the Obama administration, Nugent went so far as to say "We need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off," and he predicted that he would soon be "dead or in jail" if Obama were re-elected.
There's no denying that the language about chopping heads off was overwrought, as one might expect from the self-proclaimed "Motor City Wild Man," but the prediction he offered seems a little less paranoid after Nugent received a visit from the Secret Service. No arrest was made nor any charges filed, and Nugent later described the interrogation as a "good, solid, professional meeting concluding that I have never made any threats of violence toward anyone," but there's still something unsettling about the news that an American citizen is forced to explain his public remarks to law enforcement officials. Perhaps it was just a hyper-sensitivity to threats on the part of the Secret Service, which is no doubt eager to demonstrate that it's doing something other than consorting with prostitutes, but we suspect that if it had happened to one of the countless entertainers that made similarly outrageous statements during the Bush administration it would be considered a deliberate attempt to deter criticism.
Far more frightening was the speech given Thursday by Rep. Nancy Pelosi, leader of the House Democrats, wherein she endorsed amending the First Amendment to allow for regulation of political speech. Still fuming about the Citizens United decision that upheld the free speech rights of people who have joined together as corporations, Pelosi said her party has "a clear agenda in this regard: Disclose, reform the system reducing the role of money in campaigns, and amend the Constitution to rid it of this ability for special interests to use secret, unlimited, huge amounts of money flowing to campaigns."
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CHICAGO — Two Badgers were named the best at their positions in the All-Big Ten Conference football awards.
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Senior running back Montee Ball was named the Ameche-Dayne Running Back of the Year for the second-consecutive season.
Ball became the NCAA's all-time touchdown leader with his 79th career touchdown against Penn State on Saturday.
The senior finished conference play with a league-best 1,168 rushing yards, averaging 146.0 rushing yards per game, and 15 touchdowns.
Ball earned the inaugural award, which is named for former Badgers — and Heisman Trophy winners — Alan Ameche and Ron Dayne, after tying the NCAA record with 39 touchdowns in 2011.
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Ball and Pedersen, together with five teammates, also earned first-team All-Big Ten honors, tying Ohio State for most first-team selections in the league with seven.
Last year, UW had a school-record nine first-team selections. Prior to that, the last time that Wisconsin has as many as seven first-team All-Big Ten selection was 1999.
Ball, junior wide receiver Jared Abbrederis and senior left tackle Rick Wagner earned consensus first team honors.
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Red Sox - 100 000 000 - 1 6 0 Athletics - 140 001 00x - 6 6 0Daisuke Matsuzaka (1-4-5-2-0, 28) faced only nine batters in his fifth start of the season. Six of those nine Athletics reached base, and five of them scored. After the game, the Globe reported that Matsuzaka had told the team he could pitch despite a sore muscle on the right side of his neck. He had been unable to throw a bullpen session before the start.
Clayton Mortensen (5-2-1-2-2, 71) was outstanding in long relief, but the Boston bats could not break through against either Jarrod Parker (6.2-6-1-3-3, 103) and Sean Doolittle (a perfect 2.1 innings).
The night started on a good note. Daniel Nava began the game with a double to right, and he scored on Dustin Pedroia's single to right. Seven pitches in, and Boston led 1-0. After that, however, only three Red Sox runners made it to second base.
There were hints of possible rallies in the fourth and seventh innings. In the fourth, Adrian Gonzalez extended his hitting streak to 13 games with a one-out single, and Cody Ross walked. But two ground balls led to two fielder's choices.
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Dice allowed a two-out solo homer to Josh Reddick in the first that tied the score at 1-1. He faced five batters in the second and retired none of them. Sean Smith doubled to deep left-center (the ball was catchable, glancing off Kalish's glove), Derek Norris walked, and Brandon Moss hit a three-run dong to right-center. Brandon Inge singled and Chad Pennington walked.
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The first trailer for the zombie love story Warm Bodies has been released. Directed by Jonathan Levine (50/50), the film stars Nicholas Hoult as "R" a zombie who falls in love with Julie (Teresa Palmer) and starts to act more human than zombie. This trailer is incredibly charming, promising some really fun performances from the whole cast. I'm also encouraged by how fresh this looks, which is saying something given the saturation of the undead across every media platform nowadays. Levine's 50/50 was a fantastic mix of humor and heart, and it looks like he might have successfully struck a similar tone with a cast full of zombies.
Hit the jump to watch the trailer. The film also stars Rob Corddry, John Malkovich, Dave Franco, and Analeigh Tipton. Warm Bodies opens on February 1st, 2013.
Zombies love people, especially their brains. But R (Nicholas Hoult) is different. He's alive inside, unlike the hundreds of other grunting, drooling undead—all victims of a recent plague that drove the remaining survivors into a heavily guarded city. Now the Zombies roam about an airport terminal, searching for human prey and living in fear of the vicious Boneys, the next undead incarnation.
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After a few close calls with the Boneys, and with her father mounting an armed search for her, Julie realizes she can't hide forever. So she sneaks back home, leaving R broken-hearted. Desperate to see her, R decides to comb his hair, stand a little straighter, and impersonate a human long enough to get past the city guards. If only he can prove to the humans that Zombies can change, maybe R and Julie's love might stand a chance. But with the rampaging Boneys heading toward the city and Julie's father intent on killing R and his Zombie friends, the stage is set for an all-out battle between the living and the undead.
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Specialized software automates the installation of patches.
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Jim Richardson, a network consultant with CPI Solutions in Camarillo, Calif., got his introduction to patch management while he was employed at Dole Foods. The patch management project there, he says, revolved around Microsoft's SMS because it started after "we got hit pretty hard by one of the Windows Internet worms." Microsoft's product worked well there, and he continues to recommend it in his consulting work, "but there was a lot of trial and error to get the system to be finely tuned."Systems administrators need to concentrate on minimizing the network congestion and downtime from system reboots that can accompany patch distribution, he says.
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