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6 People Who Took Overprotective Parenting Way Too Far
#3. Parents Are Babying Their Kids Through College, Job Interviews
There is apparently a new wave of parents who see no reason why their practice of hovering over their offspring should end when they move away to college. One parent, despite having a full-time job, schedules every hour of her college-age sons' lives, in addition to monitoring their personal email accounts and bank account balances. She obtains copies of every syllabus and emails them their homework assignments for every class, which they never miss because she gives them wake-up calls every morning. So we suppose it would be kind of like having a fancy personal assistant, only one that guarantees you will never have sex.
"Don't give me that look. You'll be asking me to do this when you're 25."
And it's unfair to write this off as the obsession of one overzealous parent -- hiring managers say they're running into applicants whose parents conducted the job search, as well as wrote and submitted the resume on their kid's behalf. Some of them then sit in on the interview itself and will actually attempt to negotiate salary and benefits on behalf of their children. For example, an HR manager received a call from the mother of an intern they had hired, informing her that her son deserved to be paid more because he was so talented. Not talented enough to negotiate his own salary, though, apparently.
Via Msu.edu
"Blew interviewer for job: 98.7 percent."
The situation has gotten so bad that some companies now expect and make provisions for parental meddling (they find themselves having to recruit the parents of prospective employees as much as the employees themselves). A few at least draw the line at not allowing parents to sit in on job interviews, and presumably you find similar restrictions at, say, strip clubs.
#2. New York Parents Hire Tutors to Help Kids Cheat
Professional tutors have always walked a fine line between empowering students to do better in school and actually doing the work for them. Wealthy parents in New York City have been caught hiring "tutors" to do just that -- complete their children's work for them. So concerned are they with being able to brag to their friends that Junior is attending Harvard that they couldn't care less if they literally buy his way in. Hey, the sooner the kids figure out how the real world works, the better.
One medical student tutored students from wealthy families and made over $150,000, which he used to put himself through school. He started off working for a standard tutoring agency, but the prospect of making tons of cash by doing unethical things like writing college entrance essays for students was too enticing to pass up. After all, if he didn't do it, someone else would. One mother, a college professor, hired him to "tutor" her son through high school. But once her son graduated and moved off to college, he promptly flunked out without his tutor's assistance.
"OK, honey, you're only 10 years behind everyone else. Let's get started."
This type of cheating isn't limited to the United States, either. The problem seems to be especially prevalent in China, where parents are so desperate for their children to succeed that they practically buy achievements for them. This presents a major problem for U.S. students who must compete with Chinese students for college admissions -- one research study shows that 50 percent of high school transcripts in China are falsified.
Via Craftkeys.com
Don't they know you can just buy a fake diploma off the Internet?
#1. Parents Spend Thousands on Popularity Classes
As crushing as it is for your kids to fail in the classroom or on the sports field, maybe nothing is worse than the sting of social rejection. But once again, there is no problem beyond the reach of intrusive parents willing to go the extra mile, which is why some of them are sending their little girls to coaches who will train them on how to be popular.
Via NY Times
For the record, these are the coaches.
Sunday Tollefson, author and sorority rush expert, says, "It's like speed dating meets interviewing meets beauty pageant meets upscale academic summer camp, complete with a counselor." Note the "beauty pageant" part of this equation. We suppose we should give her credit for being honest about the importance of looking good -- one study showed that sororities are much more likely to accept thin women as members than those who were less thin (note: not necessarily overweight).
Some parents will spend upwards of $8,000 to send their daughters to a two-week sorority prep school. There they will learn to minimize the chance that they will ever embarrass themselves socially or come to believe that getting an education is somehow more important than being pretty and liked.
"I'm sorry, I've been instructed not to speak."
Don't get us wrong -- being in a popular sorority is the ultimate in social networking, as sororities have their tentacles buried deep in the business world. While most sororities have GPA requirements, grades are hardly the most important thing on your resume when you have Kappa Kappa Gamma next to your name. Thanks, Mom!
For more ways parents can be really horrible, check out 8 Psychotic Overreactions by Adults at Youth Sporting Events and 5 Horrific Ways Bad Parents Turn Their Kids Into Good Money.
If you're pressed for time and just looking for a quick fix, then check out The 3 Manliest Things Ever Done by Werner Herzog (Or Anyone).


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I do need to estimate how much time do people spend on Stack Exchange sites on creative activities, like adding questions or answers, maybe even comments.
Probably there is a big correlation between the post size (including the number of reviews).
Still, from Data Explorer there is no way of getting this data. I can assume that Google Analytics could help here but still, I am not sure if you can get this information out of it, and also I do not have access to it.
Mainly, I could say that the time-effort could be estimated like this:
For questions: the time spend between pressing the ask question option and when the question is saved (that will have to extended if the question have multiple reviews, as it is comment to revise it few times even very soon after adding it).
For answers, I would say it is between when the page is accessed and when the answer is saved (same rule for revisions like before)
I am open to other alternatives, as long I can come out with some numbers that I can use. The best it would be if I can find a formula for estimating the time based on the size in bytes.


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My Ubuntu is 12.04.
I have just started learning Linux and Ubuntu in particular. To remember commands quicker, I'd like to decline GUI.
But there are some problems. I don't know where installed programs are to launch them.
For example, I have a pdf file. I know that there is a program to view such files. Should it be the case of GUI, I would just click on the pdf-file, and have a look that I use Document Viewer 3.4.0.
Then I would like to launch Firefox Web Browser. Even if I know it is installed, how to find the file to be launched using just CLI is a mystery to me.
Could you suggest me anything.


text: The 25 Worst Rapper Names of All Time #20. Tie: Snow, Vanilla Ice, Young Black Teenagers Everyone knows you're white, so why call further attention to it? At least Young Black Teenagers tried the irony route, although that might be even more pathetic. #19. Kidz in the Hall Now rap groups are taking their names from sketch comedy shows? What's next: Essenell? Mista Sho? These guys also get bonus sucking points for one of the MCs being named Naledge. #18. Dreddy Kruger Rappers' interaction with cinema should be limited to quoting blaxploitation, gangster and kung fu flicks. Naming yourself after a character from your favorite almost-spooky movie isn't doing a lot for your street cred. #17. Cunninlynguists "Get it? Hee, hee, hee!" The only way there could be an acceptable excuse for a name this corny would be if the group consists of junior high school students and your uncle after a few drinks. Judging from the above image, they're neither, and judging from the song we heard on their MySpace page, they're not terrible, which makes a name this bad all the more tragic. #16. Noreaga With an endless supply of infamous military leaders to choose from, this is who he picks-a CIA stooge who will probably live the rest of his life in prison. And it's not even spelled right. Is he worried the real Noriega will sue him for damages? Actually, that would be pretty awesome. Prev Page 2 of 5 Next Facebook Twitter


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The Car Toons Of Pete MillarWritten by on August 1, 2009 Remembering The Father Of Arin Cee And His Comic Strips For Car Guys
Images From The Millar Family Collection And The Source Interlink Archives
A year ago, Tales from the Strip: The Hot Rod Comics and Drag Racing Cartoons of Pete Millar opened at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. It was exciting to see the work of our favorite comic book artist hanging in a fancy gallery. Although he's best known for his drag racing comics, Pete Millar was also the creator of Arin Cee, Rod & Custom's cartoon mascot in the Fifties and Sixties.
Pete was born in Oakland, California in 1929. According to his wife, Orah Mae Millar, he was drawing from the time he was little and drag racing from the time he was in high school. He joined the service at 16 (his father signed papers allowing him to go). In the early Fifties he was hired as an engineer at Convair, where he met Orah Mae; they were married in 1954.
Pete was making a good living drawing technical illustrations for the aerospace industry, but really wanted to make it as a cartoonist. He pitched his idea for car-themed cartoons to Hot Rod Magazine. "Don't quit your day job," they told him. At R&C, editor Spence Murray told him, "You're hired." Millar's cartoons were used to dress up our tech articles. Arin Cee made his first appearance in 1955.
In 1959, Pete did what Hot Rod told him not to--he quit his day job and went into cartooning full time. He and partner Carl Kohler were contracted by Petersen Publishing to create a comic book about cars. Carl lasted one issue, but Pete produced CARtoons from his home for four years. In 1963, Petersen announced that they were taking over production of CARtoons; Pete could submit art to the new editor for consideration. Instead, he started another magazine, Drag Cartoons.
In addition to laughs, Drag Cartoons provided an inside look at drag racing. Pete--who raced throughout the Sixties--knew the sport and the racers, and filled his cartoons with real cars and real people. He took some satirical jabs, but never a cheap shot--and he was always funny. His jokes were helped by his skillful caricatures. With a few pen strokes, he could draw a face as recognizable as a photo. His daughter Robin told us that racers started avoiding Pete when he had a camera, so she became his undercover photographer. "His work was a documentary of drag racing in the Sixties," Orah Mae commented. "Many racers have told me that they bought the magazine to look for themselves. They felt that if they saw themselves in a Pete Millar cartoon, they knew they'd made it."
In 1968, Pete stopped drawing Drag Cartoons and moved to Europe with Orah Mae and their daughters, Robin, Debra, and April. They lived in Sweden and later in Spain, and camped their way through Finland, the Soviet Union, and several Eastern Bloc and Mediterranean countries. Pete paid the way by drawing cartoons for American magazines, picking up checks (if they showed up) at embassies wherever they went. During these years, he developed his fine art skills, making additional money selling oil paintings. For examples of Pete's more recent fine art sculptures, visit www.rodandcustommagazine.com.
After returning to the U.S. in 1971, Pete introduced a variation on Drag Cartoons called Drag Comics, printed in a color newspaper format. He became a successful illustrator and model builder for court trials, where his drawings and models were used to demonstrate traffic and industrial accidents.
Pete made a welcome comeback to drag racing at the 1993 NHRA California Hot Rod Reunion, and returned annually to sign autographs and sell collections of his well-loved comics. He continued to draw--never losing his sense of humor or his edge--until his death in 2003. At that year's Hot Rod Reunion, thousands of fans witnessed Bob Muravez's fuel dragster deploy its 'chutes at half-track, releasing the ashes of Pete Millar.
In the years since, Orah Mae and Robin Millar have continued to attend this and other vintage drag races, promoting Pete Millar's Drag Cartoons and CD collections of his work. Their booth is a magnet for lifelong fans who loved his cartoons, and racers who loved being the object of his humor.
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He really got to show off his skills with this detailed cutaway illustration of the R&C Dream Truck, published in the May 1958 issueIn the same issue as the Dream Truck drawing (below), he continued the cutaway theme and parodied himself by having Arin Cee perform his own "cutaway" on Pete's coupe.In addition to his skill as a cartoonist and a technical illustrator, Pete Millar was a talented painter. An artist he met while living in Sweden encouraged him to get involved in oil painting. This self portrait was done in 1969, during that time.A young Don "The Snake" Prudhomme and car owner Lou Baney were the recipient of the Millar treatment in this strip, from Drag Cartoons in 1968.In August 1961, R&C got a new look and a larger size. Pete must have been getting some encouragement to update ol' Arin Cee, judging by the conversation going on between the character and his creator.Many of Pete's cartoons involved competition between old time hot rods and modern musclecars. In this 1967 strip from Drag Cartoons, a roadster is blown apart in probably the most literal "exploded" view ever created.Sure enough, a younger hipper Arin Cee appeared in the newer, bigger R&C. This is from the August 1963 issue. Other artists would try drawing Arin Cee, but none of the other Arin's had the sparkle that Millar's did.Pete's extremely elaborate birds-eye-view" drawings were very popular. This one, for the cover of Drag Cartoons from March 1965, depicts real dragsters, including his own green Intruder (left center), plus 100 little sight gags.
The character in this 1967 Drag Cartoons strip may have been by inspired Big Willie Robinson, the famous LA street racer. Look at the detail in the front suspension.Early drag Racer Dick Kraft was respectfully ribbed in this strip published in the revived Drag Cartoons in 1999. Kraft seems to prefer drag racing the way he did it best.Pop `n' Rod appeared in Popular Hot Rodding in the early Seventies. Talking cat sidekicks were another favorite Millar device, and Pop (or is it Rod?) is similar to the cats Fomoco and Val Covers, who wisecracked their way through the pages of CARtoons and Drag Cartoons.


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When developing in Sharepoint I noticed you eventually end-up editing lots of XML files:
Package.Template.xmls etc.
Although VS is helpful with auto-completion, I don't really know what all elements represent so I'm looking for a complete reference. Could'n find one.
Where can I get the XML schema references for all types of XML I intercat with while developing SP solutions.
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Cooperation on energy security and climate protection
The increasing use of fossil fuels accelerates climate change, with grave consequences for many parts of the world.
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Football playoffs face legislative scrutiny
Published: Monday, March 4, 2013 at 10:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, March 4, 2013 at 10:24 a.m.
BATON ROUGE — The Legislature is looking into the Louisiana High School Athletic Association's decision to separate public school football playoffs from those held by other schools — including magnet and charter schools.
The Advocate reports that a special joint Senate-House committee will review the league's decision to scrap a system that has been in place for more than 90 years.
Principals voted 206-119 on Jan. 25 to have five football championships strictly for public school teams, with two other divisions for private and parochial schools, magnet, charter, laboratory schools and others.
They will include longtime powers John Curtis High School of River Ridge and Evangel Christian Academy of Shreveport.
Backers say private schools can recruit top players, getting an unfair advantage.
Opponents say the split stems from resentment over successful programs.
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I recently installed Xen (paravirtualization) on my Ubuntu 12.04 machine.
Ubuntu 12.04 worked excellently before, but afterwards, the trouble started.
The laptop crashed every time I closed down the screen.
Unsurprisingly, that resulted in file-system corruption.
Though the real trouble did not start until fsck complained about corruption and "repaired" it (I tried to abort it right away, but to no avail, Ubuntu wouldn't let me continue until I ran that damn more-trouble-than-worth program...).
The system run fine after a second restart (on the first restart, after some time, the file system switched to read-only for whatever reason...)
I afterward installed dist-upgrade (250 MB), to try to mitigate any trouble caused by corruption.
I restarted, it still worked fine.
I compiled bind9, latest version, compiling takes 15+ minutes, so I went to eat, meanwhile the laptop went into standby...
When I came back and tried to wake it, the screen remained black. Closing and opening the screen didn't help. As usual on the Xen kernel. So I switched off power, and on reboot, got the error message I am still fighting with right now:
Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 083)
Copyright (C) 1997 - 2000 Intel Corporation
For Atheros PCIE Ethernet Controller v18.104.22.168(05/18/10)
Check cable connection!
PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM.
No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key
The funny thing is, PXE Netboot is not enabled in my BIOS, so I shouldn't see this message.
Also, the BIOS boot-sequence is 1. USB stick - 2. HardDrive - 3. CD/DVD - 4. Network
I tried booting via the Ubuntu Live CD on a USB stick, and with that, I could access the data on my HardDrive, everything seems to still be there.
I ran the boot-repair tool, as recommended here
But that didn't help.
I still get the same error message on boot.
The good news is, the data seems to still be there...
Here is my boot-repair paste:
And that's it.
Anybody knows what I can do, short of copying down the data and reinstalling ?
To me it seems like Xen is in some strange boot state from the stand-by, and now tries to boot of PXE, which of course doesn't work, since there is nothing - fortunately.


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I've got a two-handled handheld capper. Twice, I've snapped the neck while trying to put the cap onto a bottle. Considering how few bottles I've actually capped, that's a failure rate of over 5%. Is there some technique I should be using to avoid this problem? New caps seem to require a great deal of force to apply.
We had this exact issue with our second capper, except our failure rate was approaching 10%.
We had been using twist off caps (that was what was available to us at the time) we switched to a stand capper and the failures were eliminated.
We have also switched to non-twist bottles and when we cap with a hand capper (we don't do this often now), but we haven't had a failure with non-twist.
I have a habit of breaking the handles off the two handed cappers. ;-) Quality construction there for sure. I have not had the pleasure of breaking bottles, yet. But what I switched to was the upright capper:
Works like a charm. I tend to push down and spin the bottle an then push again to get a nice circular pattern on top, which makes me fairly certain the caps are on. Also I don't have mine mounted anywhere (it has four screw holes in the bottom so it can be mounted to a table or bench), although that would make it even easier.
When using the two handled "red baron" capper, i prefer to use the weight of the capper to seat the cap without pushing down. When the handles are lowered, i try to use a slight lifting motion with the portion of my hands facing center.
I've only ever busted one bottle, and it was my first. On that bottle i was pushing down with quite a bit of force and sheared the neck off the bottle.
I've also had wider neck bottles that seem to not fit the red baron capper very well...i could see those have necks sheared as well.
I believe most commercial breweries that use glass bottles, accept a 2% breakage factor. I also believe that a glass bottle can only be used so many times before the glass becomes weak and requires melting and re-firing. The Red Barron caper has worked for me for about 3 years, and I've probably averaged about 2% broken bottles over that time (more when my friends use it!).
I haven't had any problems with using the manual hand capper but I've had a problem on occasion when I take the cap off and the top of the neck of the bottle breaks. I've had this happen on several occasions, maybe one or two bottles per case. I'm wondering if I'm putting to much pressure on capping some bottles.


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WARREN COUNTY, Ky. (WBKO) - Two people are dead after a crash on Nashville Road in Warren County.
It happened at about 3:00 Wednesday afternoon.
Officials say Michael Jernigan was driving south when he veered into the northbound lane, hitting Tara Ligon head-on.
Police say Jernigan was not wearing a seat belt and was air lifted to Vanderbilt Hospital. He later died because of his injuries.
Police say Ligon died at the scene and she was wearing a seat belt.
Authorities will spend the next few days investigating the crash through accident reconstruction.
"In order to understand what happened because right now we do not have any eyewitnesses we have two collision re-constructionists working with other units to reconstruct the scene and pinpoint exactly what happened," says Warren County Sheriff's Deputy Robert Boyden.
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my bad guys. Frank needed a light for his cigar.
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my bad guys. Frank needed a light for his cigar.
Lol if I was Watson I'd be shooting that layup
God I love Lance's swagger.
When this team is locked in they are unbeatable.
Bet a Bulls fan threw that lighter...
Don't ask Marvin Harrison what he did during the bye week. "Batman never told where the Bat Cave is," he explained.
Lancexplosion was on our side after all
David can play some damn awesome PnR D.
Nice pass by CJ and LANCEEEEE
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
Man it feels good for Lance to get that.
I'm gonna say this is where the second quarter pays off. Not saying it's true but it makes me feel better.
Guys, David West is no longer. Now only BAMF exists. 16 pts, 12 rebs, 3 stls.
I keep forgetting that we don't have George Hill. That's not an indictment against him, but this team is just freaking stacked. It's ridiculous.
Wow, what can I say? Back-to-back against a rested Chicago team and we're killing them.
I could really see Lance getting a 8-10mil/yr offer if he keeps up this level of play.
Props to Heisenberg for calling the Lanceplosion.
For being on the second night of a back to back, this is an extremely impressive finish.
This team has another gear that few will be able to keep up with.
and this is without 2 key players. holy....
OK time to bring the bench in.
hey, I'm just glad it went our way
Love the way the team put this one away.
We are getting EVERY offensive rebound.
Keep piling on, boys. I want that mental midget Rose to "remember this."
The Chicago Bulls message boards should be fun to visit right now
is it illegal for Frank to light a cigar in garbage time? who cares, I'll pitch in on the fine.
Sloan fouled intentionally for Roy to come off.
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
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If you follow news sites or blogs probably you are using some online service or a program to aggregate all the news into one more convenient point. This is doable thanks to RSS feed.
From wikipedia :
RSS (most commonly expanded as Really Simple Syndication) is a family of web feed formats used to publish frequently updated works—such as blog entries, news headlines, audio, and video—in a standardized format. An RSS document (which is called a "feed", "web feed", or "channel") includes full or summarized text, plus metadata such as publishing dates and authorship. Web feeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content automatically. They benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favored websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place.
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Ferry talks finances, repairs
September 5, 2013
MARTINS FERRY – City council updated financial plans and reviewed upcoming projects during the Wednesday meeting....
Seriously?! This is my biggest pet peeve. This is the second time in just a few weeks that I have seen a misspelling for Dix ADDITION. Why does this reporter insist on spelling it Edition? I grew up in Colerain and am quite familiar with the housing addition of which he is speaking. It's not rocket science - if writing is the way you make your living I would suggest at least getting your information and spelling of names/places correct.
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If someone hands you a prime number $p$, and an algebraic number $x$ inside the Hasse-Weil bound, is there a normalized newform (say of weight two) so that $a_p=x$, where $a_p$ is the $p$th Fourier coefficient?
Some Remarks. I parse the problem in the following way: Start with a totally real algebraic integer $\alpha$ such that every conjugate of $\alpha$ has absolute value at most $2 \sqrt{p}$. Then does there exist a normalized cuspidal Hecke eigenform $f$ of weight $2$ with $a_p = \alpha$?
First, here is a heuristic reason why one should expect this to be false. Suppose we ask a slightly stronger question, namely, that all the coefficients of $f$ are defined over the field $E = \mathbb{Q}(\alpha)$. Then, we are asking for the existence of an abelian variety of $\mathrm{GL}_2$-type with endomorphisms by (some order in) the ring $\mathcal{O}_E$. Such objects (ignoring issues of polarization) correspond to rational points on Shimura curves. But these curves, in general, will have large genus, and so there's no reason to expect that they have any rational points. It will probably be hard to prove anything this way, however.
A second heuristic is to ask the problem in different weights. For example, is there a weight $12$ normalized cuspidal eigenform $f$ of level co-prime to $p$ with $a_p = 0$? This sounds tricky. Maybe Serre even conjectured once that this never happened if $p$ was sufficiently large. Let's say he did. Are you going to contradict Serre?
Finally, let me show in a rather cheap way that the answer to the original question is "not always". Suppose that $\alpha = 2 \sqrt{p}$, which satisfies the Weil bounds. Suppose that $a_p = \alpha$, and let $\epsilon$ denote the nebentypus character of $f$. Then the characteristic polynomial of Frobenius is $$x^2 - 2 \sqrt{p} \cdot x + p \cdot \epsilon(p).$$ I claim that $\epsilon(p)$, which is a root of unity, is actually $1$. (This follows easily from the fact that the roots of this polynomial are Weil numbers and the triangle inequality.) In particular, the characteristic polynomial of Frobenius is actually $$x^2 - 2 \sqrt{p} \cdot x + p = (x - \sqrt{p})^2.$$ This doesn't happen! Losely speaking, one knows that the action of crystalline Frobenius is semi-simple on Abelian varieties, and yet the Eichler-Shimura relations implies that $(\mathrm{Frob}_p - \sqrt{p})^2 = 0$, which then implies that $\mathrm{Frob}_p = \sqrt{p}$ acts as a scalar, which contradicts how one knows Frobenius to interact with the Hodge Filtration --- all this is explained in (and is indeed the main point of) a paper of Coleman and Edixhoven from the groovy 90's.


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December 09, 2009
Lessons from Long Street
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Even the meanest sceptic (and at the end of a long year that was almost me) could not fail to be overwhelmed by the energy on Long Street this past weekend. I was lucky enough to be there on the evening of the World Cup Final Draw, which showed a pink-tinted, beautifully warm Cape Town at its best.
This is what I took home with me:
- Cape Town is definitely ready to welcome the world! The event was well controlled, well marketed and well attended. Hooray!
- Capetonians are Living it. Loving it. LOUDER!
- Capetonians love Charlize Theron (American accent or not, bokkie).
- David Beckham looks hot on screen but should have come down to Long Street to diski dance with us brothers and sisters – next time!
- Capetonians support Bafana Bafana in their hearts but are also mad about Brazil, the Netherlands, England and Italy.
- Green plastic toilets without lights are not good – if you are coming to a fan park at night, bring a torch, loo paper and hand sanitiser. If you are an entrepreneur, sell these packs to people in the queue.
- Nearby restaurants and bars would do well to get themselves a big screen for crowd-phobic followers and should also think about providing other entertainments for bored partners and foot-weary folks whose teams are losing badly!
- Makarabas are the fashion headwear item of 2010 – but I did see some interesting-looking ear-things.
- It's not true that Cape Town is a white elitist city – seeing is believing.
- Fan parks are sure to be choice pick-up zones next year – all that excitement seems to lead to plenty of flirting!
- Slogan t-shirts are all the rage – the best Cape Town ones are available at Cape Town Tourism's Burg Street Visitor Information Centre.
- Blowing a vuvuzela successfully requires practice and African-size lung capacity.
I just can't wait for June 2010 – wouldn't miss it for the world!


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It seems that, in my experience, getting us engineers to accurately estimate and determine tasks to be completed is like pulling teeth. Rather than just giving a swag estimate of 2-3 weeks or 3-6 months... what is the simplest way to define software schedules so they are not so painful to define? For instance, customer A wants a feature by 02/01/2011. How do you schedule time to implement this feature knowing that other bug fixes may be needed along the way and take up additional engineering time?
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If you are cranking out a project nearly identical to other projects you have done, using familiar tools and a familiar team, and you are given firm, written requirements, then it should be possible to make good estimate.
These are the conditions that painters, carpet installers, landscapers, etc., regularly experience. But it is not a good fit for many (or most) software projects.
We're often asked to estimate projects that use new tools, technologies, where requirements are changing,etc. This is more extrapolation into the unknown than interpolation over our past experiences. So it is natural that estimation will be more difficult.
According to my personal experience, it's exactly the opposite of what Pemdas said: with practice, I've just understood that it's totally impossible to estimate how much time a task will require. At the beginning of my career in software development, I often gave estimates like "45 days", "five weeks", etc., then tried very hard to finish in time. A few years after, I started to give less precise estimates like "approx. one month", "five to seven weeks", etc. Actually, I try either to not to give any estimate, or ask the customer to give her own estimate or deadline or I give an estimate as rough as possible.
Why is it so difficult to have an estimate? Because it's nearly impossible to know how the whole source code will be written before actually write it, and because your work depends on random things as other peoples work, your motivation, etc. Here's a more detailed list of the possible reasons:
What can you do?
A very similar question is "How long will it take to solve this crossword puzzle?"
You cannot answer that until you have had a look at it to see numerous things like:
Since there are usually several new things in a project (otherwise it would not be a project) you cannot tell how long time they will take to solve until you have had a very careful look at them. Perhaps even solve more or less or them, and then you are still not certain that there isn't a surprise or two where you didn't think of them.
Also there is a strong pressure to do it as cheaply as possible, hence as quickly as possible and the blame for a too low estimate does not go on the project manager pressurizing but the developer giving the estimate. It does not take many iterations for the developer to catch this, and learning to be VERY weary of giving out any absolute numbers.
Of course you can estimate how much time +-2 minutes it will take from your home to work. You know how to drive a car, you can evaluate the traffic, and some other external factors.
Tell me how much time it will take you to drive from London to Barcelona. Without any advanced GPS planning tools of course. Using the good old method like we still do in software estimation. Empirical estimation and predictions.
In software, it's worse:
That's why it's impossible to tell your customer what you will be able to ship for the 02/01/2011 with good accuracy, and forget about the 03/01/2011.
To address all those problems, I recommend you advanced estimation techniques such as Planning Poker (disclaimer: this is one of my website) and Iterative Development with Velocity calculation.
Software development is -- by definition -- an act of discovery and invention. It must always involve something unknown.
The only time everything related to software development is known is when the software is complete.
The only time there's no unknown technology or business feature is when it's a complete, packaged solution ready for download.
The reason we write new software is because we have a new feature or new technology or both. New means new -- unknown -- unpredictable.
Because software development must involve novelty, the development effort cannot be predicted.
Honestly, I think it just takes practice. If you write enough code eventually you should be "fairly" accurate. My first boss believed that this skill was important enough that he requested that I informally practice this on every feature/project that I implemented. After each project we reviewed the estimates and attempted to figure out where I went wrong. Eventually, you get the hang of it.
It's never easy. You just try to get better at it.
One advantage of breaking up your deliverable code into smaller pieces, is so clients get an understanding of what to expect and when to expect it. Now you have some sort of baseline for them to use as a reference.
If they have a strict definition of a feature that they need at a defined time, they need to know that additional resources have to be allocated to this request. They are taking a risk in the severity of the bugs that occur and how long they can go without them being fixed. When something major comes up, you go back to the client and force them into a decision. Do I fix the bug or make the deadline on the new feature? Give them enough information to make an informed decision.
Hopefully you have enough history of working together and have established yourself enough to be trusted. You can't expect them to fully understand the development process, but you can make them feel you are putting forth an honest effort and not taking advantage of their lack of knowledge.
Because we do the schedule too early. See Construx's article on doing a preliminary rough one, then better one later. Also if you don't track how you did on prior estimates, it is hard to get better. FogBugz does that [a customer of their free one, no other conflict of interest].
I have learned a lot from this book:
Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art
In short to get better estimation results we do this:
After work task is finished and our estimate was wrong we try to find reasons why. And we incorporate this knowledge into next estimation process. So far this is the best process I have used for estimation of bigger tasks. When I say task I mean jobs that take from about 50-500 hours.
Note: This really only applies to projects where you bill by the hour versus a fixed/flat rate.
I usually try to plan out my schedule so that it consists of essentially a bunch of SCRUM Sprints (whether using SCRUM or not). Up front when making the schedule I determine what the length each sprint will be and what the features will be for the project. Typically there are some features that have to be done first so I try to give a best estimate (not to be confused with optimistic) for those and any features that will be towards the end of the project will have generalized estimates. After mapping the features to sprints I try to add 1 to 2 sprints at the tail end of the project to account for features that slide right and for features that were overlooked in the original requirements gathering.
The key to this is that I make all of this transparent to the client upfront so they understand why the last two sprints are empty or sparsely populated. At least to this point the client's I've worked with have liked this since they know that there is some cushion in the schedule/financials since most of them are aware that SW estimates tend to be less than concrete. They are also aware that if we don't need the last sprint or so then those are hours that we don't bill. With the transparency in how the schedule is built and the regular feedback on how progress is going during the execution of the project every client that I've done this with has been extremely satisfied.
In addition to all the things named, I see these two things as some of the biggest problems. First you estimate the final date based on every devloper being available for the full 8 hours a day 5 days a week. This is incorrect and will virtually 100% guarantee that the end date is missed on any project that is not trivial. People take time off, attend company (or non-project-based) meetings , fight with HR over health insurance claims, take breaks, etc. Never assume more than a 6-hour availability per developer per day.
Next devlopers notoriously forget to estimate all the non-development tasks like meetings and emails concerning the project, deployment, QA support, UAT support, writing unit tests, research, documentation etc. Once we added these types of task to our estimation spreadsheet, our estimates got way better.
When it comes to time estimation for tasks which can take longer then a few hours I try my best to use this rules:
There's probably more rules than that, but I actually don't have a poster with this rules on my wall. I just formulated them now, but they come from my experience (so it may not work for you).
The only reliable way to schedule software development I can think of (but I haven't actually tried it) is Evidence Based Scheduling which is basically the Monte Carlo method used to count probability of a ship date based on historical records about tasks that you've accomplished before. It feels nice because it doesn't try to use any metrics other than estimated and actual time. However, it requires a lot of experience to split big tasks into smaller ones beforehand and you have to have a big set of historical data to make it work precise enough.
There are "known unknowns" and "unknown unknowns." :-)


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I'm reading Stein and Shakarchi and on p. 232, they have for $0 < \alpha < 2$, $z = x\in \mathbb{R}^{-}$ the negative real numbers, that $f'(z) = \alpha |x|^{\alpha-1} e^{i\pi(\alpha-1)}$, and I don't see how they get this, where $f(z) = z^\alpha$
I'm trying to figure out some rules for the complex derivative of $z^\alpha$, where $z, \alpha \in \mathbb{C}$. I don't think it's true in general that it should be $\alpha z^{\alpha - 1}$, as in the case for real functions.
Here's what I have so far. Given any branch of the logarithm, the derivative of $\log(z)$ is $1/z$ by the inverse function theorem. So we wish to compute the derivative of $z^\alpha = e^{\alpha \log z}$. By the chain rule, this is $$\frac{\alpha}{z} e^{\alpha \log z} = \frac{\alpha}{z} |z|^\alpha e^{\alpha i \arg \theta}.$$ Is this the most one can say about the derivative of $z^\alpha$, for arbitrary $z, \alpha$?
Also, they claim on p.231 that $z^\alpha = \alpha \int_0^z \zeta^{-\beta} \; d\zeta$, where $\alpha + \beta = 1$, and where the integral is taken along any path in the upper half-plane. They say "In fact, by continuity and Cauchy's theorem, we may take the path of integration to lie in the closure of the upper half-plane". I don't know what they mean by this last statement.


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When Gardner High School principal Donna Pierce suspended swim coach Don Lemieux three days before last month's state meet, she said it was done only to allow the athletes to participate.
According to Superintendent Carol Daring, Pierce had reached a compromise with the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association that gave Gardner athletes accused of breaking MIAA practice rules the OK to take part if the coach did not.
Lemieux allegedly allowed swimmers to skip high school practices but attend club practices the same day, a charge he denies. This would violate MIAA Rule 45, which applies to athletes, but not coaches.
Yesterday, MIAA spokesman Paul Wetzel said such an agreement was never made.
"We never told the school principal that she had to suspend the coach," Wetzel said, "or that suspending the coach would lessen any penalties against the swimmers.
"That was a school department decision, not an MIAA decision," Wetzel said. "They decided that was the best course of action to take."
Pierce informed Lemieux of his suspension on Feb. 16, three days before the state meet at Harvard University. Gardner had won the event in 16 of 19 seasons under Lemieux, including 15 straight titles from 1994-2008.
"(Pierce) told me (suspending me) was the only way the MIAA would allow my swimmers to compete," Lemieux said yesterday. "I asked if we could appeal the MIAA's decision, but she told me it was too late.
"They led me to believe that it was an MIAA decision when the MIAA is now saying it was not."
The day after Lemieux was suspended, Daring emailed city officials the news, but said it was Pierce's decision to suspend the coach.
Lemieux officially resigned the following week.
He said he thought he was doing the right thing at the time by abiding by the MIAA's suspension as delivered by Pierce. Assistant principal and acting athletic director Tim McCormick was also present at the meeting.
"The most important thing was that the kids were being allowed to swim," Lemieux said yesterday. "Now, to think, I could have been there with them. . . It's just not right."
With five of Gardner's eight swimmers boycotting the state meet in support of their coach, the Wildcats finished 24th out of 37 teams in Division 1.
Wetzel said MIAA assistant director Ned Doyle spoke with Pierce about alleged rules violations — as reported by a swimmer's family, which conducted its own investigation — but never gave her the option of suspending the coach instead of the athletes.
"That's not something we would do," Wetzel said.
Daring told the Gardner News on Wednesday a different story.
"The only way the athletes would be allowed to swim in the state meet was without their coach," Daring said of the agreement between Pierce and the MIAA. "That is the way they would allow her to send the children to participate in the state meet."
Daring told the Telegram & Gazette yesterday she was quoted accurately and that she supports her first-year principal.
"That's what (Pierce) told me," Daring said. "I'm sure she told me the truth. I stand by my principal."
Telephone and email messages left for Pierce yesterday were not returned.
MIAA Rule 45 states: "Bona fide members of a school team are precluded from missing a high school practice or competition in order to participate in a non-school athletic activity/event in any sport recognized by the MIAA."
Wetzel said yesterday that Pierce told the MIAA that the school's investigation into the alleged practice violations has not been completed and would be forwarded to the MIAA when it was.
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In the United States, most big national parks are surrounded by national forests. I know that you can do "dispersed camping" in the National Forest, but not the National Park, but other than that, why is there a distinction between the two?
There's a good description of the difference between the two on the National Parks website
The full version is at the link above, but in short :
National Forests are federally owned and protected land, but, unlike parks, they are not neccesarily designated and managed for public use in the same manner as a National Park. In many cases, National Forest land is in fact even leased for commercial purposes, including, for example, many vacation spots and ski resorts.


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5 Famous Quotes With Inspiring Origins (That Are Total BS)
People love famous quotations, because it's way easier to just copy and paste something that someone else already said than think up all those difficult thoughts yourself and translate them all the way into words. But be sure you know where these inspiring words actually came from. You might think you're quoting the careful eloquence of the Great Emancipator, when in reality you're rehashing the disjointed rants of the Ultimate Warrior. It happens more often than you'd think. For example ...
#5. Nelson Mandela's Spokespeople Are Sick and Tired of Everyone Attributing a Cheesy Self-Help Quote to Him
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Nelson Mandela sits right up there with Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. as one of the most important human rights campaigners of all time. It's no surprise that his inauguration speech has become so legendary:
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. ... As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
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So work that dress! Black and white can mix!
Hillary Clinton used the quote during her 1998 commencement speech at Howard University, and the movie Akeelah and the Bee turns to it for a lesson on empowerment, to name some famous examples. Yes, after a lifetime of fighting for racial equality, Mandela got up to that podium and relayed a message that was truly important to him. And it was basically: "You go, girl!"
But Really ...
Loath as we are to reveal Clinton's white belt in Google-fu, Nelson Mandela never uttered these words. The quote actually comes from a self-help book by Marianne Williamson called A Return to Love. Williamson, it turns out, is a new age guru whose brand of schmaltzy love-yourself advice earned her a place among Oprah's all-time favorite bullshitters. Attributing this quote to Mandela is like attributing a passage from The Secret to Gandhi.
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He did preach a good two-thirds of Eat, Pray, Love.
The misattribution of this quote is so frequent that the folks at the Nelson Mandela Foundation have included it in the FAQ about Mandela in a desperate attempt to keep themselves from tearing their handsome salt-and-pepper hair out. Even the South African Embassy in D.C. has had to waste their time clearing the confusion up a few times since Mandela's inauguration in '94.
We're sure Williamson doesn't mind all the free publicity that comes with the everlasting confusion. She once said, "As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people." Nice sentiment!
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And now she's got even more free publicity. A Return to Love, available on Amazon!
Mandela himself might not have shared it, though. When promoting the official book of Nelson Mandela quotes, the Nelson Mandela Foundation started out by saying, "Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela is one of the most quoted -- and misquoted -- people in the world. This is ironic given that for much of his adult life he could not be quoted at all."
That's the politest "Up yours, hippie" we've ever read.
#4. A Random Tweeter Somehow Becomes Martin Luther King Jr.
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After it was announced that Osama bin Laden had been killed in a raid by U.S. Marines, much of the nation, still stung by the atrocities of 9/11, took to the streets in celebration. But there were many on social media who rebuffed the trend by stoically quoting Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s words:
"I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy."
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Drink at Sully's wake, but celebrate his life, not his death.
The quote spread virally through social media, egged on by celebrities like Penn Jillette as a reminder that we shouldn't be so quick to celebrate the death of even a mass murderer, lest we become more like him.
But Really ...
You can make your own decision about whether these are wise words or not, but don't take it on the authority of Dr. King -- he never said them. It didn't take long for people familiar with MLK's work to suspect that this quote they'd never heard before might be bullshit. When it didn't turn up in even the most comprehensive collections of King's speeches, people started to wonder just who would be crazy enough to try to pass off a fake quote as the words of one of history's most famous, celebrated, and thoroughly documented figures.
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"His lies were so exquisite, I almost wept." -Oscar Wilde
Accusations turned pretty quick to Penn Jillette. Given that he was famous for debunking false facts as the host of the show Bullshit! most people figured that it was a stunt -- he made it up deliberately as some kind of ruse to show how myths spread. But the truth was far more mundane: Jillette did not mastermind the viral Internet hoax, and was even forced to admit that he was taken in by it himself, despite the fact that not falling for bullshit is basically his one job.
So where did it really come from? The words belonged to Jessica Dovey, a 24-year-old English teacher living in Tokyo. When she read about bin Laden's death and all the spiteful partying that came of it, she took to Facebook to express her discomfort with the celebratory mood in America, then followed it up with a legitimate Martin Luther King Jr. quote:
Soon enough, her comment was shared among her contacts. As it passed on, the character limitations on Twitter did away with those pesky quotation marks, then melded her words with the Martin Luther King Jr. quote. Finally, people stopped tweeting those useless last few sentences entirely. The ones that actually belonged to King. This whole stupid game of Internet telephone took less than a day.
You would think that the fake quote would disappear once bin Laden's death became old news, but as has become evident from the deaths of Moammar Gadhafi and most recently Margaret Thatcher, the quote will just keep getting dredged up each time a much maligned historical figure dies. And that's fine: It's a good quote. Just be sure to attribute it properly, even if "-Jessica from Facebook" seems a little less impressive than "-The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr."
#3. Timothy Leary's Hippie Followers Get Played by the Establishment
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Where You Think It's From:
Back in January 1967, hippies from all over America gathered in San Francisco for the Human Be-In, a day-long affair celebrating the ideals of the counterculture. It was there that hippie hero and notorious drug promoter Dr. Timothy Leary, a key speaker, urged his listeners to "turn on, tune in, drop out." The slogan caught on, perfectly encapsulating as it did the hippie search for a more authentic way of life -- one that rejected authority, shunned corporate culture, and made a home in the margins of conventional society. While taking lots and lots of drugs, but very few baths.
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Mud orgies aren't baths.
Leary went on to instruct them to "drop out of high school, drop out of college, drop out of graduate school." Nobody tells you that kind of thing, man! It's the kind of authentic, down-to-earth wisdom that only a guru like Leary has the heart to voice.
But Really ...
Two decades after unleashing the catchphrase into the soon-to-be undereducated and unemployable minds of hopeful young people, Leary admitted that he actually pinched the quote from his friend Marshall McLuhan, the ubermensch of advertising theory in the '60s.
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Suddenly, Mad Men's LSD episode makes sense.
McLuhan was a massively important media theorist who had an enormous influence on the advertising world, and he worked as a consultant for both IBM and General Motors. McLuhan coined such ubiquitous phrases as "the medium is the message" and "global village." McLuhan's thoughts were so far from the hippie spectrum that he didn't even believe that such a thing as marginalized outsiders existed (which is pretty much what Leary's followers were striving to be). Rather, he believed margins were manufactured by the reigning culture, and that personalities were completely controlled and manipulated by media.
Now, maybe a brilliant counterculture intellectual like Leary appropriated the slogan from another brilliant intellectual who didn't believe in the counterculture at all and used it as a rallying cry because he understood the irony. But it looks like some of his unemployed, drop-out acolytes failed to appreciate it.


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Restaurant City has just been updated! The theme this week as I am sure you can guess of the title of the blog, is Rock! Not as in the stone, but as in the music!
In addition to the new items that will be released on Thursday at midnight in the GMT timezone, we have also added some new things to the game this week, I hope you´ll the changes the team have made for you!
Do you find it difficult to know what friends on your friends list are new to the game? Are you finding it difficult to know who you have visited to get a first-visit-ingredient? Well, no more! You will now see a tag of New! for friends you have not visited before. This makes it easier to know who are new on your friendslist and who you need to visit to get a free ingredient!
The recipe sorting changed a few weeks back, now it has changed again! Tutorial recipes now displays first. It will then show you limited recipes sorted by expiry time. Then it will display the new recipes and finally the remainder of recipes are sorted by the order of when they were added to the game. I understand this is a bit confusing with all these changes, but we hope this latest tweak to the recipes will make it easier to use and easier to understand how the recipes are sorted!
You will also notice that the ingredient rarity calculation have changed. So, the ingredient rarity are now calculated based on the in-game scarcity as well as the approximate usage in dishes. You will also know that the Playfish Cash price for the ingredients are determined by the rarity rating, which means that the lower-rarity ingredients are the cheapest to buy.
- 5 stars: Cheese, Vanilla, Egg, Cream, Flour, Strawberry, Beef, Rice, Salad, Sugar, Milk, Potato (8 Playfish Cash)
- 4 stars: Pork, Garlic, Chocolate, Bayleaf, Coffee, Beans, Tea, Leaves, Water, Coriander, Tomato, Bread, Chili, Saffron, Wasabi (7 Playfish Cash)
- 3 stars: Chicken, Prawn, Lemon, Oregano, Mango, Ice Cream, Ginger, Basil, Lime, Sausage, Butter (6 Playfish Cash)
- 2 stars: Leek, Lobster, Onion, Ice, Pasta, Sweetcorn, Lamb, Peas, Tuna, Pomegranate, Mushroom, Noodles (5 Playfish Cash)
- 1 star: Tofu, Banana, Peach, Kiwi, Apple, Turkey, Pumpkin, Raisins, Carrot, Dragon, Fruit, Orange, Bacon, Pepperoni, Beans (4 Playfish Cash)
I mentioned in the forum before the weekend that new free gifts would "soon" become available. Some of you were asking what "soon" meant. Well, the free gifts are now here for you to send to your friends!
There are two different categories for the free gifts that you can send to friends: Employee Food or Decorative Items. The employee foods and Decorative item categories are self explanatory, so I won´t dwell on the details. And also, for each gift your friends accept, you will get a mystery item! So it´s an all-round good deal to send gifts! Note that the Decorative items are exclusive to the free gifts feature and that they cannot be purchased in the stores! You will see a full list of the items that are available to send as free gifts alongside the items that will appear on Thursdays! The twist is, you can start sending the decorative items for the Rock theme already today!
Note also that some of these gifts are level-gated that means that in order for you to send some of the free gifts, you need to be at a certain level.
This week there are also two new permanent additions to the recipes that you can learn. The Monster Burger for Main Course, which by the way uses no less that two beef, I am sure this burger is not for those picky eaters! And then there is the new Starter dish, the Mega Nachos.
From Wikipedia, about Nachos, there are many different variations for Nachos, but we hope we have captured the essence of it in Restaurant City!
Nachos are a popular corn-based food of Mexican origin associated with Tex-Mex cuisine that are can be either made quickly to serve as a snack or prepared with more ingredients to make a full meal. In their simplest form, nachos are simply tortilla chips or totopos covered in melted cheese. First created circa 1943 by Ignacio "Nacho" Anaya, the original nachos consisted of fried corn tortillas covered with melted cheddar cheese and pickled jalapeño peppers.
There are many big burgers in the world, but have a read about one burger that is definetely big:
In America the challenge to create the world's biggest burger is one that is taken very seriously indeed. It began with the imaginable 6 pounds of meat used to make the "Olde 96er" at Denny's Beer Barrel Pub in Clearfield, Pennsylvania. (…)
Since its launch on to the menu, the Olde 96er has drawn attention from all over the world. The pub itself challenges eaters to finish the burger within 3 hours to make it onto the Denny's wall of fame and receive the burger for free. Many challengers have tried to eat the burger within 3 hours and most have failed, including veteran competitive eating star Eric "Badlands" Booker.
Monster Burger (Main Course) Mega Nachos (Starter)
Is your avatar searching for his/her inner rock star? This week you can create a Restaurant that will help unleash the musical side of life! Music is a popular trend right now and you can with help of the ites that will be available at Midnight GMT on Thursday create the ultimate rock´n´roll themed restaurant!
As for the item releases, this means that if you are in London, you will get the items at Midnight on Thursdays, if you are in Los Angeles, you will get the items at 4pm on Wednesdays, if you are in New York, you will get the items at 7pm on Wednesdays and if you are in Hong Kong, you will get the items at 8am on Thursdays. These are all local converted times, to convert the time from where you live, you can use this timezone converter.
Okay, so for the inside of your restaurant this week there will be some great items available! You definitely need to check out the animated Stage Lights and the Stage Lights Column, these two items look fantastic on their own, but if you theme them up with the Rock Star Table (only available through free gift), the Drumset and the Electric Guitar, you are definitely at the starting point of creating something truly special!
And make sure you do not miss out on the Music Note or the DJ Stove. The DJ Stove will help your chefs cook their food 5% faster, while the Music Note will spawn music notes inside your restaurant, the more Music Notes you have, the more music notes will be spawned (no sound).
|Stage Lights
|Gig Speaker (only available through free gifts)
|Stage Crate (only available through free gifts)
|Guitar Chair
|Drum Table
|Cymbals (only
available through free gifts)
|Snare Drum (only available through free gifts)
|Bass Drum
|Electric Guitar
|Gig Microphone
|Dark Blue Wall
|Dark Blue Carpet
|Spiky Wall
|Stage Light Column
|Rock Star Table (only available through free gifts)
|Rock Star Chair (only available through free gifts)
|Bongo Drums (only available through free gifts)
|Gold Record
|White Wall Mounted Guitar
|Pink Wall Mounted Guitar (only available through free gifts)
|picture coming soon
|Stagelit Wall
|Music Note
|DJ Stove
For the outside of your restaurant this week we are banking on you being able to theme up these two fantastic roofs we will be adding with items that are already existing int he shops! I know that I am going to have great trouble whether to buy the Dueling Guitars or the Musical Roof, they both look absolutely fantastic! And make sure you check out the new Rock Banner as well as the Red Motorbike, they are must-haves!
|Musical Roof
|Dueling Guitars
|Red Motorbike
|Rock Banner
And I have one more thing I need to tell you about this week! You can now find missing wallets/purses in your friends restaurant when you help them out! You do not always find missing wallets/purses, but make sure you visit your friends in order to see if you can find any!
If you find a missing wallet/purse, you need to post a feed. The feed will be posted not on your wall, but on your friends wall. If your friend chooses to claim his/her missing wallet/purse they will receive 500 coins! And if they at that time chooses to give you a reward for finding the wallet/purse, they can post a feed to your wall where you can accept a 500 coins finders fee! But remember, only you and your friend who are posting the feeds on each others wall can accept the free coins, any other friends who click on the feed will not receive anything. So make sure you check your own profile for missing wallets/purses and finder-fee posts from now on!
Phew, that was a lot of information in one blog post! I hope you like the changes we have done to the game, we love getting feedback so make sure you post yours below! Have a fun-filled Restaurant City week!


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The summer of 1993 was the summer of radiation. I'd had a malignant lump removed from my breast. Even though the radiation only took a few minutes, the hour- and-a-half drive from our home made it take the better part of four hours out of our day. Obviously, this left me little time to be in my studio.
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It is a complicated and difficult process to get a visa from most countries of the world as an Iranian citizen. Now I want to know that visas of which countries are needed for this reason and is there any visas only to get to Antarctica then immediately come back home without staying in the other countries like a transit visa?
Depends where you are coming from, and how to get to that transit country. If you come by air, you can go form Australia or Chile. More people however seem to come by boat. Most boats leave from New Zealand, Argentina, Chile or Australia.
I would decide between those 4 depending where is the easiest to get a Visa, and then search for operators through those specific countries.
I would not assume that you can just transit through the country without a visa, since you will have to stop over at those places to get equipment, change from airplane to boat etc, so you will have to go through immigration. If you travel by plane only even you will have the same issue because most of the airplanes going there are cargo, research or military planes that do not work like normal passenger airplanes with a switch on the airport.
well, you need no visa for Antarctica itself as it doesn't belong to any country :)


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In learning about replication in SQL Server and having problems creating a subscription, I looked at the definition for sp_addsubscription. It calls sys.sp_MSrepl_getpublisherinfo, which I cannot find on the server. This stored procedure obviously exists, as it no errors occur regarding it not existing. Where does it live, and can its code be viewed?
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So after more research I found that sys.sp_MSrepl_getpublisherinfo lives in a database named mssqlsystemresource, which lives in Sql Server's binn folder. This database is invisible to SSMS, but you can copy and attach it as a different name to have full access. This process is described here:
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Jenn Brady learned that breast cancer doesn't just happen to women who are 40 and older. At 35 years old, with a young son and an active lifestyle, including dancing with a local ballet company, Brady learned she had the disease after her nurse suggested she receive a mammogram during her annual physical.
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"If there is anything I could tell women my age it would be, 'Don't think you are invincible,'" Brady said. "Get a mammogram at 35. Don't wait until you are 40 or 50."
Brady had no reason to believe she would have cancer based on her family history, but decided it would be good to have the test. A friend had recently been diagnosed with breast cancer, and Brady knew that doctors could monitor breast changes against that test in the future.
After being diagnosed on Feb. 20, 2009, Brady underwent a lumpectomy, chemotherapy and radiation at Moores Cancer Center with Dr. Richard Schwab. She had been treated at UC San Diego Health System for years and it was a natural fit for her to go to the only National Cancer Institute-designated cancer treatment center in the region. A surgery that examined seven surrounding lymph nodes found no indication the cancer had spread and her doctors determined she was at Stage I, the least deadly level.
Brady during cancer treatment
"When I was diagnosed, the very first thing I thought was, I want to see my son graduate from college and get married. I want to be a grandma. The thought of not being there was the worst, most terrible, awful thing imaginable," Brady said. "Every second I am with my son, I love it and the same thing goes for my amazing husband who I have been married to for 13 years. Being diagnosed with cancer amplified how valuable and precious life is 100 times."
She participated in clinical trials during her therapy, including one that allowed her to undergo chemotherapy in a shorter time span.
"I was so glad to participate in the study," Brady said. "It offered little risk to my health and I wanted to do anything I can to make sure other women can complete treatment as quickly as possible."
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Brady celebrated her third year without cancer on March 12, 2012 — what she calls her third cancer-free birthday.
The dancer performed in The Nutcracker in December with the California Ballet Company at the Civic Auditorium and this spring is preparing to perform in Cinderella.
"As therapy, I go to my ballet classes," Brady said. "When I am just bending my knees and stretching, I am so thankful that I can move, thankful I have my feet and hands and that I can hear the music. I treasure every moment that I can be doing what I love and that is dancing."
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LOS ANGELES � Phyllis Diller, the housewife turned humorist who aimed some of her sharpest barbs at herself, punctuating her jokes with her trademark cackle, died Monday morning in her Los Angeles home at age 95.
�She died peacefully in her sleep and with a smile on her face,� her longtime manager, Milton Suchin, told The Associated Press.
Diller, who suffered a near-fatal heart attack in 1999, was found by her son, Perry Diller. The cause of her death has not been released.
She was a staple of nightclubs and television from the 1950s � when female comics were rare � until her retirement in 2002. Diller built her stand-up act around the persona of the corner-cutting housewife (�I bury a lot of my ironing in the backyard�) with bizarre looks, a wardrobe to match (by �Omar of Omaha�) and a husband named �Fang.�
Wrote Time magazine in 1961: �Onstage comes something that, by its own description, looks like a sackful of doorknobs. With hair dyed by Alcoa, pipe-cleaner limbs and knees just missing one another when the feet are wide apart, this is not Princess Volupine. It is Phyllis Diller, the poor man�s Auntie Mame, only successful female among the New Wave comedians and one of the few women funny and tough enough to belt out a �standup� act of one-line gags.�
She inspired a generation of female comics, including Ellen DeGeneres and Whoopi Goldberg, who remembered Diller on Twitter on Monday.
�We lost a comedy legend today,� DeGeneres wrote. �Phyllis Diller was the queen of the one-liners. She was a pioneer.�
�A true original has died,� Goldberg wrote of Diller. �There was NO One like her, no 1 looked like her sounded like her. A FUNNY FUNNY.�
Diller described herself as �one of those life-of-the-party types,� in an interview with AP in 1965. �You�ll find them in every bridge club, at every country club. People invited me to parties only because they knew I would supply some laughs. They still do.�
She didn�t get into comedy until she was nearly 40, after her first husband, Sherwood Diller, prodded her for two years to give up a successful career as an advertising and radio writer. Through it all, she was also a busy mother.
�We had five kids at the time. I don�t how he thought we�d handle that,� she told the AP in 2006.
A Chicago Tribune columnist, describing her appearance at a nightspot there in 1958, noted she was from San Francisco, hailed her as �the weirdest, wildest yet� � and made sure to mention her five youngsters.
Her husband managed her career until the couple�s 25-year marriage fell apart in the 1960s. Shortly after her divorce, she married entertainer Warde Donovan, but they separated within months.
Through both marriages and other relationships, the foibles of �Fang� remained an integral part of her act.
�Fang is permanent in the act, of course,� she once said. �Don�t confuse him with my real husbands. They�re temporary.�
She also appeared in movies, including �Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number� and �Eight on the Lam� with Bob Hope.
In 1966-67, she was the star of an ABC sitcom about a society family trying to stave off bankruptcy, �The Pruitts of Southampton.� Gypsy Rose Lee played a nosy neighbor. In 1968, she was host of a short-lived variety series, �The Beautiful Phyllis Diller Show.�
But standup comedy was her first love, and when she broke into the business in 1956, it was a field she had largely to herself because female comics weren�t widely accepted then.
Although she could be serious during interviews, sooner or later, a joke would pop out, often as not followed by that outrageous �AH-HHAAAAAAAAAAAA-HA-HA-HA!� laugh.
�It�s my real laugh,� she once said. �It�s in the family. When I was a kid my father called me the laughing hyena.�
Her looks were a frequent topic, and she did everything she could to accentuate them � negatively. She wore outrageous fright wigs and deliberately shopped for stage shoes that made her legs look as skinny as possible.
�The older I get, the funnier I get,� she said in 1961. �Think what I�ll save in not having my face lifted.�
She felt different about plastic surgery later, though, and her face, and other body parts, underwent a remarkable transformation. Efforts to be beautiful became a mainstay of her act.
Commenting in 1995 about the repainting of the Hollywood sign, she cracked, �It took 300 gallons, almost as much as I put on every morning.� She said her home �used to be haunted, but the ghosts haven�t been back since the night I tried on all my wigs.�
She recovered from a 1999 heart attack with the help of a pacemaker, but finally retired in 2002, saying advancing age was making it too difficult for her to spend several weeks a year on the road.
�I have energy, but I don�t have lasting energy,� she told The Associated Press in 2006. �You have to know your limitations.�
After retiring from standup, Diller continued to take occasional small parts in movies and TV shows (�Family Guy�) and pursued painting as a serious hobby. She published her autobiography, Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse, in 2005. The 2006 film �Goodnight, We Love You� documented her career.
Her other books included �Phyllis Diller�s Housekeeping Hints� and �Phyllis Diller�s Marriage Manual.�
When she turned 90 in July 2007, she fractured a bone in her back and was forced to cancel a planned birthday appearance on �The Tonight Show With Jay Leno.� But it didn�t stop her from wisecracking: �I still take the pill `cause I don�t want any more grandchildren.�
Born Phyllis Driver in Lima, Ohio, she married Sherwood Diller right out of school (Bluffton College) and was a housewife for several years before getting outside work.
She was working as an advertising writer for a radio station when a comedy turn at San Francisco�s Purple Onion nightclub launched her toward stardom.
She made her network TV debut as a contestant on Groucho Marx�s game show, �You Bet Your Life.� (Diller, asked if she was married: �Yes, I�ve worn a wedding ring for 18 years.� Marx: �Really? Well, two more payments and it�ll be all yours.�)
She credited the self-help book, The Magic of Believing by Claude M. Bristol, with giving her the courage to enter the business. For decades, she would recommend it to aspiring entertainers, even buying it for them sometimes.
�Don�t get me wrong, though,� she said in a 1982 interview that threatened to turn serious. �I�m a comic. I don�t deal with problems when I�m working.�
�I want people to laugh.�
Associated Press writers John Rogers and Polly Anderson contributed to this report.


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Decade: 1950-1959
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Abstract Measure
Date: 1957
Creator: Bridges, Robert Miller
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The Analytical Development of the Trigonometric Functions
Date: 1951
Creator: Mackey, Pearl Cherrington
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Atmospheric Gusts and Their Effect on Aircraft
Date: August 1958
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Date: 1952
Creator: Bradford, James C.
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A Development of a Set of Functions Analogous to the Trigonometric and the Hyperbolic Functions
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Cant wait!!!!!!!1!1!!!!!!!11
Check out the track now.
Chantal doesn't owe anyone anything!
not looking good. holding my breath though.
ugh bummer... this weekend is when I'm taking the family to Savannah
More rain, no waves.
Not the first thing I wanted to hear today. How variable is hurricane forecasting from the rest of typical weather incidents? I'd think it's equally flaky. Not hanging my hat on anything false, but also leaving some optimism open.
The AVERAGE margin of error predicting a hurricane's path four days out is something like 200 miles. Obviously, things tighten a lot as it gets closer. This one always looked like it would turn though, the high near Bermuda will push it west even if it hugs the eastern coast of Florida
Trying to predict landfall is near impossible, I remember Hurricane Charley was headed right for the Tampa Bay area in 2004 and was suppose to be a direct hit with serious devastation, but at the last second it changed it's path and went a bit south of us around the Punta Gorda area as a Cat 4. Nobody saw that coming, It was a blessing to those in the Bay area, but a major disaster down south.
Hey DPS, you be careful if that storm comes a knockin'. Yo, how was your east side excursion? Get the info you needed? Anybody give you any problems? My uncle lives in Melbourne Beach. He drinks Old Milwaulkee non-alcohol all day. Man, he was once one of the country's premier drinkers. He never had any time for me, though. (Cue violin music).
Hey Atlantic0: Where you live now, partner? Maybe I didn't catch your present location from your "list." Claiming that east side pride, man.


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One of Bowling Green's biggest redevelopment projects may be in jeopardy, if the city doesn't come up with more funding to move forward.
The Circus Square project is the number one priority for the Downtown Redevelopment Authority.
The DRA's director told city commissioners last night that for it to stay that way, the city must find a way to invest millions into making the design a reality.
All but one piece of land inside the Circus Square block has been purchased, but it will take an estimated $4.7 million more to renovate this historic building into a welcome center and create the greenspace and pavilions that are part of the master plan.
The DRA says several developers want to invest in townhomes or hotels near the proposed development, but they won't move until the city commits to completing the project.
"Even though we've come relatively a long way in 2-3 years, it's getting to the point where now they want to see a plan and know that we're gonna have the funds to finish it," DRA Executive Director Cheryl Blaine said.
"We have already invested heavily. We have invested a lot of resources, we have gotten a lot of other government funding in this area. We would be foolish to stop now. Because if we stop, I'm not sure we'd ever get it going again," Mayor Elaine Walker said.
Walker says the city may look at issuing bonds to pay for the project, but will wait until the current budget-planning process is finished in mid-June. Walker says the zero-based budget approach has enabled city staff to find $500,000 in expenses to cut out of next year's budget.


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Schinzel-Giedion Syndrome is a very rare disorder with characteristic facial features, skeletal abnormalities, and obstruction of the tube that carries urine from the kidney to the bladder (ureter). This obstruction may lead to enlarged and damaged kidneys (hydronephrosis). Symptoms characteristic of Schinzel-Giedion syndrome also include excessive hair-growth (hypertrichosis), a flat midface (midface retraction), seizures, clubfeet, broad ribs, mental retardation, and short arms and legs.
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For additional information and assistance about rare disorders, please contact the National Organization for Rare Disorders at P.O. Box 1968, Danbury, CT 06813-1968; phone (203) 744-0100; web site www.rarediseases.org or email email@example.com
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