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|By Rafiq Elmansy
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|April 15, 2009 07:15 PM EDT
Have you tried to prepare yourself for PMP certification or exam? If so, then you share with me the opinion that most of the PMP books and guides are remarkable of hundreds of pages that are full of hard to understand complex sentences that leave you by the end of studying day dizzy and could hardly get couple of information to remember.
Most of these books need you to understand the writer concept before starting to understand the PMP concepts itself. Andrew Stellman and Jennifer Greene approach in their Head First PMP book is considered a jump in writing about PMP. The new approach that supports each concept with illustration makes it easy for you to understand the PMP concepts and materials in short sentences and easy to understand concept.
The Head First PMP covers the PMBOK guide principles and certification objectives. But in Fact, it provides you an understanding to the full picture of the PM process and let you go beyond just tough concepts. And I think this is the best advantage you can get from this book.
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By Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene
Publisher: Oreilly
URL: http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596102340/index.html
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The 6 Most (Certifiably) Insane Tales of Rock Star Behavior
#3. Serge Gainsbourg Sings About Incest... With His Daughter
Legendary (to French people) pop singer Serge Gainsbourg was never any stranger to odd behavio(u)r. But the line between strange and crazy is a fine one. Take, for example, the time he appeared with Whitney Houston on what amounted to the European version of The View and said, and we quote, "I want to fuck you." Strange? Sure. Crazy? No, it was 1985, who didn't want to nail Whitney Houston in 1985?
No, the Whitney incident was downright boring compared to Gainsbourg's single "Lemon Incest." There is nothing inherently strange about singing about incest, we suppose. Aerosmith had a huge hit that was about incest ("Janie's Got A Gun"). But it's not like anyone thought any differently about Steven Tyler because of the song.
OK, bad example
But to sing about incest with Joe Perry on lead guitar is one thing. To sing about it with your daughter on co-lead vocals, that's some whole other shit altogether.
And that's exactly what Gainsbourg did on "Lemon Incest," a duet with his quite young daughter Charlotte. It's at this point that our European readers will scold us for being "dumb Americans" who "misunderstood" the song. And hey, that may be. Or maybe Europeans just have hotter kids than we do. Whatever the case, it's hard to read these lyrics without getting a bit of the heebie jeebies:
The love that we will never together,
Is the most beautiful, the most violent, the purest, the most intoxicating,
Exquisite outline, delicious child, my flesh and my blood,
Oh my baby my soul,
Incest lemon, lemon incest
But surely, seeing the video for the song will dispel any misunderstandings about the meaning of the song, right? What father doesn't croon about incest over sleazy electronic music while laying shirtless in bed with his kid? In a perfect world, fucking all of them.
#2. Whitney Houston Gets the Christmas Spirit... By Joining a Cult
Speaking of Whitney ...
It takes a lot to out-crazy Bobby Brown. But time and again, Whitney rises to the occasion. In a stunt that Bobby couldn't dream up in a hundred crack-filled years, Houston traveled to Israel in 2003 to spend time with a cult group known as the Black Hebrews. Her reasoning for the trip? To find inspiration for her upcoming Christmas album.
Hanging out with Jews to get inspired for Christmas? Hey, why the hell not? But the group, on the surface just a run-of-the-mill religious group, is purported by some to be more like a cult. Given their unorthodox policies of polygamy (men are allowed seven wives) and, much more ominously, strict vegetarianism, it's not much of a stretch.
"Crack is vegetarian, right?"
According to some former members, the group believes so heavily in discipline that, not only have children died while being beaten by their parents, but adults are also beaten for failing to abide by the laws of the group's settlement. Adults who have fallen ill due to the strict diet imposed on them have refused medical attention due to their refusal to visit "heathen doctors" in Europe and American.
Needless to say, Houston was sold. By the time she left, Whitney was referring to Israel as "my land." And Bobby was probably on the hunt for six more wives. What a bunch of lucky ladies!
#1. Phil Spector Kidnaps The Ramones
Legendary producer and songwriter Phil Spector is one of those guys who is batshit insane, but you'd never know it from his calm, reassuring exterior.
You can't judge a book by its cover.
The above photo is what he looked like when he showed up to his trial for murder charges, looking as sane as possible to impress the jury. Anyway, what is so surprising is how successful he managed to become while spewing the crazy on damn near everyone around him.
Like the time he put a loaded gun to Leonard Cohen's head. Or that one time when he fired a shot in the studio while he was working with John Lennon. Or all of the other times he allegedly pulled guns on the artists he worked with. But if one incident takes the cake over all of them, it would be the time when Phil allegedly held The Ramones at gunpoint, while working on their End of the Century album.
According to bassist Dee Dee Ramone, while in the studio Phil pulled Joey Ramone away for a private meeting. Dee Dee went off in search of the pair, at which point he says Spector emerged at the top of a staircase, waving a pistol around.
After Dee Dee objected to, you know, having a gun pulled on him and shit, he told Phil he was leaving. That he did this instead of, say, diving behind a piece of furniture while screaming, indicates that the sight of Spector with a gun wasn't all that uncommon.
At that point, Spector allegedly pointed the gun at Dee Dee's chest and motioned for the rest of the band to return to the piano room. Then, with the band captive in the locked room, he sat at a piano and made the band listen to him sing "Baby, I Love You."
Until 4:30 in the morning.
But on the bright side, at least nobody got shot in the face!
When not writing for Cracked, Adam can be found rocking insanely hard at ScenicAnemia.com
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text: Here is a new version of an old figure from the Pac Man game series. As you know there are four ghosts that chase Pac-Man around and all four of them are different colors. Here is "how to draw Clyde", step by step from the Ghostly Adventures series that is now airing on Disney XD. This version of Clyde makes him look a little aloof and goofy. Drawing Clyde will be extremely easy because all you are doing is making a circle. Have fun with this tut and look out for more coming your way.


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Tom Rothman
The Blockbuster
Fox Filmed Entertainment Chairman and CEO Tom Rothman '80 is an expert of the highest order when it comes to the art of producing Hollywood hits.
One could imagine a far worse sentence than having to spend a month at Hollywood's glitzy Chateau Marmont—the hotel where James Dean auditioned for Rebel Without A Cause, and where everyone from Greta Garbo to F. Scott Fitzgerald has graced the guestbooks. "Well, not really," says Tom Rothman '80. "Not when you're having a major life crisis about wanting to go home." It was 1986, and Rothman—then a 32-year-old partner at Frankfurt, Garbus, Klein & Selz in New York City—had just moved to Tinseltown to become a producer for Columbia Pictures. "For a month I thought: 'What the hell have I done?'" he admits. "But I stuck it out." Now, 23 years later, Rothman practically runs this town.
As chairman and CEO of Fox Filmed Entertainment, he oversees every movie and television show the company creates. Since he joined Fox in 2000, the movie studio has seen its most profitable decade—cranking out hits such as Ice Age, X-Men, and the top grossing movie of all time: Titanic. In his office, Rothman still keeps a life jacket from that movie signed by director James Cameron. "It says: 'To Tom—from a fellow survivor,'" Rothman notes, citing the arduous filming process. "Believe me: We didn't think we were going to survive."
Under his watch, Fox films have been nominated for more than 100 Academy Awards and have earned more than $22 billion. The number of zeros in production budgets is greater now, but "the basic unknowable alchemy of what makes some movies great and others not," he says, is the same as it was when he was a young attorney trying to secure funding for independent directors in his spare time. Some of those filmmakers—Spike Lee and Jim Jarmusch, for instance—have since risen to great heights in the industry. They, like Cameron, came to rely on Rothman's peculiar mastery of a fundamental Hollywood principal: "The fault line that has always riven the movie business, from when the first reel cranked, is the push and pull between the creative and the commercial," he says. "And that 'San Andreas Fault' runs right through the middle of my office."
To that end, Rothman credits his Columbia Law School education for getting him through the inevitable tremors. "You tend to go from problem to problem," he says, "and they tend to be tricky, because if they had black-and-white solutions, there are 3,000 very competent people who work here who would have solved it before it comes to you."
These days, Rothman is often recognized as host of Fox Legacy on the Fox Movie Channel. That Rothman is able to be both executive and TV personality, he says, is attributable to the same passion that made him choose Hollywood over Wall Street. "I've loved movies my whole life," he says. "I happen to be one of those very fortunate people whose vocation and avocation are the same."


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I've found (as have others), that for some analytic functions, a Padé approximant of it has an infinite convergence radius, whereas its associated Taylor series has a finite convergence radius. $f(x)=\sqrt{1+x^2}$ appears to be one such function. My questions are:
1) Is there any function where the Taylor series has the largest convergence radius of all associated Padé approximants? If so, is the Taylor series radius strictly larger, or only equal to the convergence radius of other Padé approximants (i.e. excluding the Taylor series itself)?
2) If not, is there any function that is analytic everywhere, and yet for which there is no (limit of) Padé approximant(s) that has an infinite convergence radius?
It would be both very cool and very useful if there is always a (limit of) Padé approximant(s) that has an infinite convergence radius for any function that is analytic everywhere, though I haven't the slightest how one checks/analyzes convergence of Padé approximants if the degrees of numerator and denominator both approach infinity. :)
One extra question, if there is always such a Padé approximant:
3) Is there always a numerically stable method of computing this approximant up to a finite order?


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I have a new Lenovo Thinkpad with an Intel SSD. I want to set up full disk encryption with pre-authentication boot. From reading I see there is a Guided Setup with Encryption option on the alternate CD installer. If I select this and follow the prompts, will I be all set? Are there any specific partitions or anything I need to create? Are there any special things I need to do before, during, or after installation because I'm installing on an SSD and not on an HDD?
The Thinkpad came preinstalled with Windows 7. I will be installing Natty Narwhal on the whole disk. I will not be dual-booting.


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Yet another plane left Riyadh today headed for Tirana in Albania to help the Kosovar refugees, carrying 13 tons of relief materials including medical equipment.
Yesterday, Chairman of the Saudi Joint Committee for the Relief of Kosovo Dr. Abdulrahman Ibn Abdulaziz Al-Suweilem, who is also head of the Saudi Arabian Red Crescent Society, announced that he had carried out an inspection tour of the Saudi teams working in the field in Albania and in Kosovo itself, and approved the budget of the health care strategy in effect. Current health projects include rebuilding clinics in Kosovo, providing training for medical personnel, equipping hospitals, and creating job opportunities for Kosovar returnees.
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